text: The Reading Experience https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/ By Daniel Green en-US 2014-11-27T14:17:53-06:00 Moved https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2014/11/moved.html New address for The Reading Experience: http://noggs.typepad.com/tre Daniel Green 2014-11-27T14:17:53-06:00 Behold the Man https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/08/behold-the-man.html The most important argument James Shapiro makes in his book Contested Will is not that the author of Shakespeare's plays and poems is William Shakespeare (the "Stratford man")--anyone who honestly examines both the evidence for Shakespeare's authorship and the evidence... Canonical Writers Daniel Green 2010-08-30T00:00:00-05:00 The Horizon of the Sentence https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/08/horizon.html (Continued from previous post) If in essays such as "Disappearance of the Word, Appearance of the World" and "The Political Economy of Poetry" (The New Sentence, 1987) Ron Silliman contends that New Criticism (presumably Silliman wants New Criticism to stand... Poetry Daniel Green 2010-08-23T08:02:11-05:00 Articulating a Poetics https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/08/articulating-a-poetics.html Ron Silliman begins The New Sentence (1987) with this unimpeachable claim: . . .if we look to that part of the world which is the poem, tracing the historical record of each critical attempt to articulate a poetics, a discursive... Poetry Daniel Green 2010-08-16T00:00:00-05:00 Forget Fiction https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/07/lee-siegel-recently-opined-thatfiction-has-now-become-a-museum-piece-genre-most-of-whose-practitioners-are-more-like-cripplin.html Lee Siegel recently opined that "fiction has now become a museum-piece genre most of whose practitioners are more like cripplingly self-conscious curators or theoreticians than writers. For better or for worse, the greatest storytellers of our time are the nonfiction... Art and Culture Narrative Nonfiction Saying Something Daniel Green 2010-07-26T15:26:56-05:00 Cosmopolitan https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/07/cosmopolitan.html In his part history of Bulgarian literature/part survey of the career of contemporary Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov, Dimiter Kenarov remarks that to appreciate Gospopdinov "one does not have to be Bulgarian, or to know the name of the Bulgarian president"... Translated Texts Daniel Green 2010-07-20T00:00:00-05:00 Time's Arrow https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/07/if-it-is-all-possible-to-call-a-novel-a-poets-novel-off-we-go-into-the-wild-blue-yonder-coffee-house-press-would-seem-lite.html If it is at all possible to call a novel a "poet's novel," Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder (Coffee House Press) would seem literally to be one. Its author, Travis Nichols, is currently an editor at the... Daniel Green 2010-07-06T00:00:00-05:00 Deep-Hearted https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/06/i-think-it-is-fair-to-say-that-although-particular-books-of-his-might-receive-a-few-less-than-effusive-endorsements-richard.html I think it is fair to say that, although particular books of his might receive a few less-than-effusive endorsements, Richard Russo is a highly regarded novelist among mainstream American book reviewers. Although Empire Falls seems to be the work that... Daniel Green 2010-06-28T00:00:00-05:00 Collective Individuality https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/06/collective-individuality.html The most problematic chapter of Art as Experience, in my opinion, is the last, Ch. 13, "Art and Civilization." It is an attempt to delineate the role of art and the aesthetic beyond the experience of the individual, its influence... John Dewey's *Art as Experience* Daniel Green 2010-06-22T00:00:00-05:00 Perfecting the Power to Perceive https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/06/perfecting-the-power-to-perceive.html John Dewey's conception of the role of criticism is quite straightforward and follows naturally from his conception of art: The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art; it is an auxiliary in the process, a... John Dewey's *Art as Experience* Daniel Green 2010-06-16T15:51:00-05:00 Pure Experience https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/06/pure-experience.html John Dewey perhaps articulates his notion of "art as experience" most straightforwardly near the beginning of the chapter devoted to art's "challenge to philosophy" (ch. XII): . . .esthetic experience is experience in its integrity. Had not the term "pure"... John Dewey's *Art as Experience* Daniel Green 2010-06-14T00:00:00-05:00 Mysterious Potencies https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/06/mysterious-potencies.html A more familiar, if not necessarily more precise, term for the faculty involved in the act of artistic creation John Dewey identifies as "intuition" is "imagination," the latter of which Dewey discusses immediately after introducing the former in Chapter XI... John Dewey's *Art as Experience* Daniel Green 2010-06-07T12:08:00-05:00 Experience of the Traditions https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/06/experience-of-the-traditions.html By and large, John Dewey's pragmatic philosophy did not really have much room for a preoccupation with history. Dewey most emphasized the possibility of "growth," the forward-looking realization of potential, whether in education, politics, or art. History might hold some... John Dewey's *Art as Experience* Daniel Green 2010-06-01T15:36:00-05:00 The New Equivocation https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/05/readers-familiar-with-rebecca-goldsteins-previous-fiction-would-no-doubt-find-that-36-arguments-for-the-existence-of-god-has.html Readers familiar with Rebecca Goldstein's previous fiction would no doubt find that 36 Arguments for the Existence of God has much in common with the earlier work. It concerns itself with the intellectual nexus formed by science-mathematics-philosophy, is set in... Daniel Green 2010-05-24T00:00:00-05:00 News of the Poetry World https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/05/news-of-the-poetry-world.html The Poetry Foundation's Harriet blog recently announced it is abandoning the "discussion model" to provide instead "a daily news feed with links and excerpts from other outlets around the world." This means that the site will no longer feature blog... Poetry Writing and Publishing Daniel Green 2010-05-19T00:00:00-05:00 Outside the Realm of Poetry https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/05/outside-the-realm-of-poetry.html David Biespiel is convinced that "America's poets are uniquely qualified to speak openly in the public square among diverse or divisive communities," despite their current "intractable and often disdainful disinterest in participating in the public political arena outside the realm... Poetry Saying Something Daniel Green 2010-05-17T00:00:00-05:00 Readers in the English-Speaking World https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/05/among-the-many-unsupportable-assertions-made-by-stephen-march-in-his-semi-infamous-2008-diatribe-against-alain-robbe-grillet.html Among the many unsupportable assertions made by Stephen Marche in his semi-infamous 2008 diatribe against Alain Robbe-Grillet was the following: The "new novel". . . as Robbe-Grillet defined and explained it in his famous 1963 essay, was high art at... Experimental Fiction Daniel Green 2010-05-10T00:00:00-05:00 Confusion and Turbulence https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/05/in-an-essay-defending-historical-fiction-allan-massie-concludes-that-----there-are-essentially-two-sorts-of-novel-the-open.html In an essay defending historical fiction, Allan Massie concludes that There are essentially two sorts of novel, the open and the closed, even if many straddle the frontier that divides them. The closed novel is self-sufficient, free of the influence... Historical Fiction Daniel Green 2010-05-03T00:00:00-05:00 Detecting a Wrongness https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/04/in-his-review-of-jonathan-lethems-chronic-city-hari-kunzru-maintains-that-what-separates-this-novel-from-the-postmodern-nove.html In his review of Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City, Hari Kunzru maintains that what separates this novel from the postmodern novels Lethem clearly admires is that "it's too good-humored to attain real satiric bite and is often content to drop a... Postmodernism Daniel Green 2010-04-27T00:00:00-05:00 Seeking Out Experts https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/04/in-a-recent-howard-kurtz-column-in-the-washington-post-about-the-disappearance-of-newspaper-critics-terry-teachout-is-quoted.html In a recent Howard Kurtz column in the Washington Post about the disappearance of newspaper critics, Terry Teachout is quoted as maintaining that "there will always be a place for literate, well-informed drama criticism about performances taking place in Chicago... Daniel Green 2010-04-22T00:00:00-05:00 Explain Yourself https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/04/perhaps-the-most-debilitating-limitation-of-the-book-review-at-least-as-practiced-in-american-newspapers-and-most-magazines.html Perhaps the most debilitating limitation of the book review, at least as practiced in American newspapers and most magazines, is that too often critical judgment is pronounced in the absence of articulated standards. Underlying assumptions about what makes for a... Book Reviewing Daniel Green 2010-04-19T00:00:00-05:00 Turning Pages https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/04/sven-birkerts-has-been-developing-a-critique-of-electronic-media-for-quite-a-long-time-publishing-the-gutenberg-elegies-in-1.html Sven Birkerts has been developing a critique of "electronic media" for quite a long time, publishing The Gutenberg Elegies in 1994, well before the rise of blogs, stand-alone news sites, and critical webzines, so his cyber skepticism is not to... Art and Culture Daniel Green 2010-04-12T00:00:00-05:00 Premises https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/04/readers-of-morris-dicksteins-newest-book-dancing-in-the-dark-a-cultural-history-of-the-great-depression-should-find-it-an.html Readers of Morris Dickstein's newest book, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, should find it an agreeable survey of the cultural expressions of the 1930s that reveals how the Depression years were portrayed and understood... Principles of Literary Criticism Daniel Green 2010-04-05T00:00:00-05:00 "Literature" https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/03/jonathan-mayhew-affirms-the-notion-that-poetry-aspires-to-the-condition-of-music-arguing-specifically-that-poetry-is-closer.html Jonathan Mayhew affirms the notion that poetry aspires to the condition of music, arguing specifically that "poetry is closer to music than it is to 'literature' as conventionally defined." Since Walter Pater's original assertion was that all art aspires to... Daniel Green 2010-03-30T00:00:00-05:00 Thinking https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/03/dg-myers-is-pretty-sure-that-plot-in-fiction-displays-how-the-greatest-novelists-think.html D.G. Myers is pretty sure that plot in fiction displays "how the greatest novelists think." I surely can't agree either that plot is always relevant to how the "greatest novelists" think, nor that it necesssarily has anything to do with... Daniel Green 2010-03-24T00:00:00-05:00 Subject-Matter https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/03/subjectmatter.html John Dewey's notion of "experience" in Art and Experience cannot be equated with what some aestheticians, following Kant, refer to as "contemplation": To define the emotional element of the process of perception merely as the pleasure taken in the action... John Dewey's *Art as Experience* Daniel Green 2010-03-22T00:00:00-05:00 A Sad Decline https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/03/a-sad-decline.html Lorrie Moore's first two books, the story collection Self-Help (1985) and the novel Anagrams (1986), introduced a writer possessing an appealing comic touch, lightly applied but not reducible to mere "humor," and a modest if still palpable impulse to formal... Daniel Green 2010-03-15T00:00:00-05:00 Only Change and No Urns? https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/03/while-reflecting-on-the-role-of-innovation-in-poetry-ron-silliman-pauses-to-offer-this-comment----i-have-written-before-tha.html While reflecting on the role of "innovation" in poetry, Ron Silliman pauses to offer this comment: I have written before that any history of poetry is inevitably a history of change in poetry, and that an inevitable consequence is that... Principles of Literary Criticism Daniel Green 2010-03-08T00:00:00-06:00 Going Truly Global https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/03/in-her-recent-consideration-of-dalkey-archives-anthology-best-european-fiction-2010-ruth-franklin-wonders----other-than-th.html In her recent consideration of Dalkey Archive's anthology, Best European Fiction 2010, Ruth Franklin wonders: Other than the language in which they write, is there anything that unites [writers such as Ha Jin, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, and Nathan Englander]—all... Translated Texts Daniel Green 2010-03-03T00:00:00-06:00 Sorrentino Review https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/03/sorrentino-review.html My review for The Quarterly Conversation of Gilbert Sorrentino's posthumously published The Abyss of Human Illusion is now available in the new issue, number 19. As usual, lots of other good stuff there too. Daniel Green 2010-03-01T00:00:00-06:00 What's Going On? https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/02/it-is-not-really-surprising-that-crime-fiction-would-be-a-genre-appealing-to-otherwise-serious-novelists-attempting-to-work-w.html It is not really surprising that crime fiction would be a genre appealing to otherwise "serious" novelists attempting to work with the conventions of a popular form adapted to the purposes of their own ostensibly non-genre work. Crime fiction portrays... Comedy in Literature Genre Fiction Daniel Green 2010-02-22T00:00:00-06:00 Afterthoughts https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/02/on-february-7-mark-athitakis-published-both-a-review-of-don-delillos-point-omega-and-a-blog-post-supplementing-that-review.html On February 7, Mark Athitakis published both a review of Don DeLillo's Point Omega and a blog post supplementing that review. The review (printed in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune) is a perfectly good review of its kind--the kind limited by the... Book Reviewing Daniel Green 2010-02-18T00:00:00-06:00 The Event of Truth https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/02/it-is-often-enough-asserted-that-aestheticvaluesare-really-ethical-ones-or-that-the-aesthetic-is-always-already-political-o.html It is often enough asserted that aesthetic values are "really" ethical ones, or that the aesthetic is "always already" political, or that aesthetic taste and judgment are necessarily secondary to some other consideration in a move that essentially amounts to... Daniel Green 2010-02-15T00:00:00-06:00 Rabbit's Run https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/02/rabbits-run.html Although I have read Rabbit, Run at least four times, I have read the other Rabbit books by John Updike only once. While I thought Rabbit is Rich was worth reading, the other two were tepid and lackluster, period pieces... Daniel Green 2010-02-08T00:00:00-06:00 Secondary Sources https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/02/secondary-sources-1.html I have posted to Secondary Sources a bibliography of interviews with contemporary writers available online. This list complements the previous list of online critical essays already posted to this "scholarly" sideblog. I have concentrated on substantial interviews that were conducted... Daniel Green 2010-02-03T00:00:00-06:00 Gratuitous https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/02/gratuitous.html Adam Kirsch means this to be a criticism of J.D. Salinger: The obsessive inventory of the family's apartment in "Franny and Zooey"—there are page-long lists, one of which includes "three radios (a 1927 Freshman, a 1932 Stromberg-Carlson, and a 1941... Daniel Green 2010-02-01T00:00:00-06:00 Rescuing Public Discourse https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/01/in-a-recent-essay-in-mother-jones-ted-genoways-blames-the-decline--both-in-numbers-and-in-influence--of-university-affiliate.html In a recent essay in Mother Jones, Ted Genoways blames the decline--both in numbers and in influence--of university-affiliated literary magazines not on the university administrators who are, as Genoways puts it, "off-loading" such magazines, nor or the editorial practices by... Writing and Publishing Daniel Green 2010-01-28T00:00:00-06:00 "I Wouldn't Explain" https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/01/a-debut-work-that-is-explicitly-identified-as-experimental--or-in-this-case-unique-and-innovative-as-the-books-back-cover-ha.html A debut work that is explicitly identified as experimental--or in this case "unique and innovative," as the book's back cover has it--seems a useful opportunity to consider what "experimental" appears to signify to young writers aspiring to produce fiction worthy... Experimental Fiction Daniel Green 2010-01-25T00:00:00-06:00 Out of the Ashes https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/01/as-part-of-critical-distance-the-online-journal-i-started-up-in-may-2009-but-which-i-have-since-discontinued-due-to-lack-of.html As part of Critical Distance, the online journal I started up in May 2009 but which I have since discontinued due to lack of interest, I compiled a bibliography of critical essays on a selected number of contemporary American writers... Daniel Green 2010-01-18T00:00:00-06:00 Performing Its Own Self https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/01/raymond-federman-was-generally-associated-with-those-american-writers-who-in-the-1960s-and-70s-began-writing-what-is-now-call.html Raymond Federman was generally associated with those American writers who in the 1960s and 70s began writing what is now called "metafiction," but there was always something about Federman's work that seemed different, its self-reflexivity even more radical and enacted... Experimental Fiction Daniel Green 2010-01-11T00:00:00-06:00 The Object in Esthetic Experience https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/01/the-object-in-esthetic-experience.html There has been much debate about whether the aesthetic qualities of a work of art--in some formulations, its "beauty"--can be considered intrinsic to the work or whether these are qualities imputed to the work according to our own individual, subjective... John Dewey's *Art as Experience* Daniel Green 2010-01-06T15:13:00-06:00 RIP https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2010/01/rip.html A little before Christmas, the film critic and scholar Robin Wood died. When I was a graduate student, I pursued film study as a secondary field of interest--I do have a few scholarly essays on film to my credit--and Robin... Daniel Green 2010-01-04T00:00:00-06:00 Furies https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2009/12/it-seems-to-me-that-almost-all-of-the-reviewers-who-found-fault-with-jonathan-littells-the-kindly-ones--some-of-the-quite-har.html It seems to me that almost all of the reviewers who found fault with Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones--some of them quite harshly--failed to take sufficiently into account the effects and implications of its origin in the first-person narration of... Point of View in Fiction Translated Texts Daniel Green 2009-12-21T00:00:00-06:00 Doing Something as a Reality https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2009/12/doing-something-as-a-reality.html In his book on the work of Ronald Sukenick and Raymond Federman (The Novel as Performance (1986)), Jerzy Kutnik comments: The rise of Action Painting, the Happening, The Living Theatre, John Cage's experimental music and Charles Olson's "projective verse," to... Experimental Fiction Daniel Green 2009-12-16T15:22:04-06:00 My Reading Year https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2009/12/my-reading-year.html Top five novels about flyfishing: Rainbow Trout, Run--An intensely wrought account of a fisherman who finds the old methods of flyfishing too confining and flails out at those who would prevent him from devising new strategies. The character of "Racoon"... Satirical Daniel Green 2009-12-08T17:09:20-06:00 Signature Elements https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2009/12/in-an-essay-on-flannery-oconnorforreligion-ethics-newsweekly-david-e-anderson-writes----revisiting-oconnor-after-five.html In an essay on Flannery O'Connor for Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, David E. Anderson writes: Revisiting O'Connor after five decades, it still remains difficult to find that Catholic sensibility she and many of her admiring critics insist permeates her work,... Style in Fiction Daniel Green 2009-12-02T00:00:00-06:00 The Didactic Embodiment of the Physical Book https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2009/11/although-i-agree-with-alan-kaufman-that-for-longer-works-the-paper-based-book-remains-a-perfectly-adequate-purveyor-of-text--.html Although I agree with Alan Kaufman that for longer works the paper-based book remains a perfectly adequate purveyor of text--I don't own a Kindle and still can see no reason why I should, given my habits as a reader--and that... Writing and Publishing Daniel Green 2009-11-23T00:00:00-06:00 Dashed to the Ground https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2009/11/among-those-american-writers-who-were-originally-identified-as-minimalists--.html Among those American writers who were originally identified as "minimalists," a group that would include Raymond Carver, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ann Beattie, and Tobias Wolff, Mary Robison may have been the most minimalist of them all--or, to use the word... Narrative Strategies Daniel Green 2009-11-16T00:00:00-06:00 Some Other Kind of Structure https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2009/11/according-to-the-financial-times.html According to the Financial Times, a study published in Psychological Science concludes that an encounter with surrealistic art "enhances the cognitive mechanisms that oversee implicit learning functions." The idea is that when you're exposed to a meaning threat - something... Experimental Fiction Daniel Green 2009-11-05T00:00:00-06:00 Self-Protection https://www.thereadingexperience.net/the_reading_experience/2009/11/a-post-at-onfiction-speculates-on-a-phenomenon-in-which-readers-sometimes-struggle-against-or-try-to-mitigate-the-effects-of.html A post at OnFiction speculates on a phenomenon in which "readers sometimes struggle against or try to mitigate the effects of reading the fictions in which they are engaged." Some readers say that they slow their reading before coming to... Saying Something Daniel Green 2009-11-02T00:00:00-06:00


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Like when you're the only kid in the neighborhood with a computer, I've become a money expert among my friends. Hey, it beats being the computer nerd.
Many of you reading this can probably relate. The topic of money is strange and unusual for many regular folks, and so they turn to experts for advice. But since the topic is taboo, guys with a decent knowledge get asked. Trust is more important for many people than getting the best answer.
The other day, I spent some time with a friend of a friend who was having money problems. To make a long story short, his expenses were just too high for his income. He needed to either cut his fixed expenses drastically or increase the amount of money he made.
I gave him some tips, like switching telecom companies to get cheap internet for six months, ditching his cell phone, and sending $100 per month to each of his creditors to keep them quiet no matter how many letters they send. I told him it was probably wise to let his life insurance lapse and put that money towards paying off his credit card debt. And so on. It was pretty basic stuff.
After this conversation, I started thinking more about the financial planning business. I posted some thoughts on the Twitter.
The big problem with the fee-only financial planning model is the people who most need the help can't afford to pay anything.
— Nelson! (@financialuproar) March 1, 2016
"Hey, I'm drowning in debt. What do I do?" "That'll be $1,000 please."
— Nelson! (@financialuproar) March 1, 2016
It's a conundrum, because the fee-only planners I know are smart and are usually worth every penny.
— Nelson! (@financialuproar) March 1, 2016
There maybe should be an option where somebody charges way less to help out people with the basics. But who wants to do that for $20/hr?
— Nelson! (@financialuproar) March 1, 2016
But coming up with this stuff is probably worth more than $20 per hour. And even then, how's somebody deep in debt supposed to pay?
— Nelson! (@financialuproar) March 1, 2016
I'm gonna be ALL OVER that 10,000 character limit on the Twitter when they inexplicably make that change. No more splitting my HOT TAKES into several different tweets like a chump.
The gist of my rant is this. I think we can all agree that fee-only financial planning is a much better solution than the standard model of an advisor takes a 1% trailer fee each year to sell you expensive mutual funds. Fee-only planners can offer unbiased advice, and they're not relentlessly pushing products. These are good features.
But there's one huge downfall, and that's the cost. For somebody with a $500,000 net worth, paying $1,000 or $1,500 annually for somebody to bounce ideas off of isn't such a prohibitive cost. But for my friend's friend with $48 in assets and $5,000 in liabilities, it's impossible. Even if he could come up with the cash (or if the planner would accept some sort of payment plan), the value he gets from the amount charged would end up with him feeling ripped off.
The people who most need financial planning simply can't afford it. They don't have the money to pay a planner out of pocket, and without the ability to invest no traditional financial advisor will talk to them.
So what's the solution? That's a good question.
Teaching financial literacy
I think the traditional method of "more education, stupid" is probably the worst approach we can possibly have.
Related: Sorry, more financial literacy doesn't work
Currently, basic personal finance education is taught in just about every Canadian high school, and has been for years. It's a simple concept that most kids pick up on. When I took personal finance education back in 2000, just about everybody in the class got higher than 80% on the test. It was a nice departure from a math class which usually involved functions and geometry.
Kids forget all sorts of stuff they learn in high school. I couldn't tell you crap about Canada's early years even though I spent an hour per day for many weeks learning it. Nor could I tell you anything about calculus, chemistry, or Corel Ventura, an actual program I learned how to use in 1999. There are a million other things I knew well enough to regurgitate for a test that I barely know exist today.
That's because as soon as we finish high school, we go from being generalists to specialists. Many students go off to college to study one thing they're interested in. Others go get jobs, which usually involve becoming quite good at one specific activity. Eventually, most of us settle into a world where we spend much of our time doing one thing over and over again.
In that type of world, how do we expect people to retain much knowledge of something that probably didn't really interest them back in high school anyway? It's been pushed out of their head in favor of the stuff that matters — at least to them. Something PF nerds constantly forget is the rest of the world isn't as interested in this stuff as we are.
And then the solution to that problem somehow becomes "teach more of it?"
That reminds me of the old joke about two Polish guys who were buying watermelons at the store for $1 each and then selling them for $1 each. The first one says "geez, we're not making any money." To which the second one responds "I know what we should do! We gotta sell MORE!"
Besides, the folks who push financial literacy education have the most to gain from it. I know several personal finance bloggers who secretly (or not-so-secretly) pine for the chance to teach this stuff to the next generation. They know that as experts, they'll be at least consulted on how to deal with the problem of teaching kids, which at worst enhances their credibility and ideally gets them an extra income source.
Asking a personal finance aficionado if we should expand financial education is like asking a barber if you need a haircut.
A new helping model
I am 100% convinced personal finance education in high school doesn't work — at least as well as we'd like. I think a similar course during one's last semester in university would be more effective, but I'm still not holding my breath. The fact is most folks will ignore personal finance education until they get to the point where they're screwed.
I'm not even convinced giving folks a generic course for free they can take when they hit rock bottom is a good solution. Firstly, there's lots of education out there in the form of blogs, books, and other sources of media, all for free. All you need to do is type a few words into Google.
The other thing is for whatever reason, people don't seem to think the same generic advice applies to them. If you don't believe me, check out the latest entries in any personal finance sub on Reddit. People ask the most generic crap there expecting a personalized answer. And for some reason, anonymous strangers try to give them one! For free! With only a thank you as a possible reward! And that doesn't even come 99% of the time!
God, you people are morons sometimes.
The average person doesn't want generic advice. They want specific advice catered to their personal situation because their problems are totally unique from their peers' who also spend more than they earn.
(This phenomenon is why I think traditional financial planners have nothing to fear from robo-advisors, by the way. Good luck getting a [perceived] personalized solution to your problems from a software program.)
And then we get back to the crux of the problem. People want personalized help, yet can't afford it — at least in their early years. But that's when people need help the most.
Compound interest is a powerful thing. Setting somebody up on a savings plan when they're 22 is infinitely more valuable than when they hit 42.
The easy solution is to say the government should do it. The government can hire a bunch of money experts, pay them $70,000 per year, and tell them they have one mandate — to give honest, unbiased financial advice to the unwashed masses.
But there are a few problems with that model. There's no incentive for success. If you have your sweet government job, who cares if anyone actually gets out of debt. You won't get fired. It's also expensive, and unnecessarily involves the government in something where it currently has very little oversight.
If you talk to the average politician, they're not losing sleep about the lack of financial literacy in Canada. They're a million times more worried about health care, education, public sector unions, and infrastructure. It seems like the government deals with personal finance in two ways — taxes and pensions.
There are already several debt consolidation companies operating in Canada, which tend to be non-profits. They lend the indebted person money at anywhere from 2-5% to get rid of their high interest debt, and then get paid back. Without backing those loans with serious collateral (i.e. a house), the default rate has to exceed any fees collected. That's what happens when you lend to people with demonstrated money problems.
The interest rate that would have to be charged on a for-profit model would be so high it wouldn't make sense for the clients to borrow. So much for that.
Another solution is to introduce the concept of a lifetime money coach. This person would help out on a gratis system for things like paying off debt, making it up on charges later for helping out with a more traditional fee-only planning business model.
But again, the drawbacks of that model are very obvious. There's a longevity factor. A 60-year old planner isn't going to commit to a lifetime relationship with someone in their 20s. And the chance of somebody showing up for the free stuff and never coming back is a very real problem too.
Perhaps planners will have to get innovative. Take somebody who holds multiple licenses in say insurance, mortgage brokering, and mutual funds. The planner takes the debt management business for nothing with the assumption that they'll be able to generate fees when the client gets a mortgage, life insurance, and then will charge a reasonable trailer fee on a basket of ETFs.
(Which, by the way, is clearly the direction the mutual fund industry is heading. Give it five years, tops, before a new generation of fund salesmen have modeled their business as live versions of robo-advisors. There's virtually no difference in selling ETFs compared to funds, and it's obvious fund companies will have to adapt or die. This is a legitimate threat to the fee-only model.)
The planner takes the risk of not getting paid later, but they know if they do a good job there will be tens of thousands in lifetime earnings in the future because they have multiple ways to get paid from the same client.
But again, that model is riddled with problems. It's unreasonable to expect somebody to stick with one planner forever. Those are a lot of different hats someone would be forced to wear. Again, there's the longevity factor. And finally, how do you market that to consumers who don't have a good relationship with money in the first place? Trust all my money issues to this one guy! He'll help you, we promise!
Good luck with that.
So? What do we do?
This is probably going to be a huge let-down after 1700 words, but I'm afraid I don't have an answer. Barring charity — whether that comes from the government or some rich guy — I don't see a model where a financial planner can get paid a reasonable amount for providing personalized service for the people who need help the most.
My idea is some sort of crowd-sourced model that's 100% online. A debtor goes and posts their problems in a forum. Well-meaning folks pore through all the details and together come up with a plan that helps the affected get out of debt and back on their feet. The debtor pays a small fee (say $50 to $100) some of which goes back to the people helping out and some of which goes to the website.
This model has many advantages. It's anonymous, a big plus since nobody likes admitting they're drowning in debt. People who already supply similar advice for free on places like Reddit could get paid a few bucks for their expertise. And the site could make money advertising other financial services. There are companies that will pay to get access to financial experts.
Some of my idea is built on charity, since there's no way we could pay even minimum wage to the folks providing the advice. But they'd feel good helping their fellow man and make a couple of bucks for something many already do for free anyway. There are hundreds of personal finance bloggers who don't make a nickel off their blogs. They write because they want to help.
If anybody has any other ideas, the comment section is all yours.


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I know the live-action adaptation of Disney BEAUTY AND THE BEAST does not come out in theaters until March 2017, but I need something to look forward to in 2017! I've found it. These photos and images are stunning and breathtakingly beautiful. Most importantly, it's a story about loving others for who they are and who are different from you. It's a tale as old as time, in fact. Disney films make my heart flutter.
So grab a snack, and let's take a look!
Images from Disney Beauty and the Beast
"Little town…it's a quiet village…" I love this photo of Emma Watson and Kevin Kline who star as Belle and Maurice. Their father/daughter relationship has always been a favorite storyline of mine.
I wondered how they were going to take on characters such as Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, Lumiere, and Plumette. I literally cannot wait!!
If there's a villain I hate to love, it's Gaston. It appears Luke Evans will not disappoint. No one live-actions like Gaston!
Whenever I see the replica of Beast's Castle in New Fantasyland at Walt Disney World, I always wonder what all the rooms would look like. Eating at Be Our Guest Restaurant gives us a sneak peek into some of the rooms. Now we get a different view in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, and it's gorgeous!
I die!! And where are my Downtown Abbey fans? When I heard Dan Stevens was cast as Beast, my inner fan girl freaked out! Swoon. I still wish Mary and Matthew had lived happily ever after, but I digress.
Emma Watson as Belle is perfectly cast. Intelligent, beautiful, headstrong, and compassionate, Belle can fend for herself, and so can Emma Watson.
Beauty and the Beast US Official Trailer
ETA: The newest trailer for Beauty and the Beast! It's incredible!!
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A bigger house, nicer car, better vacations: wanting more isn't always bad, but are we looking for satisfaction in all the wrong places? This series outlines exactly how rich most people are and how God wants us to respond to his blessings. It will put a fresh perspective on what being 'rich' really means and how we can honor God with the richness of our finances, time, and hearts.
Week 4: Rich Doers
Are we serving others to meet their needs, or to meet our need to be needed? What does it look like to be rich in good deeds?
Week 3: Rich Givers
Why am I rich? Why has God given me what He's given me? What does it mean to be rich in what matters most?
Week 2: The Deceitfulness of Riches
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Scuba diving in Calvin's Crack
Divers can enter this site through a small opening on the top of the reef at about 9m/30ft depth, where through the narrow fissure divers descend and swim towards the wall. Narrow at first, the "crack" looks more like a tunnel due to numerous overhangs seen along the way. At the end of this dive divers arrive to an exit located along the outer steep wall. The wall is pretty steep and drops deep down.
When to go
Diving in Honduras is possible all year round, though the rainy season lasts from July to January. Water temperature ranges from 25 to 29C/78-84F.
What to see
The wall is densely decorated with big colorful sponges, gorgonians, brain and thin-leaf coral. Schools of silverside fish can be spotted in the crack, as well as occasional seahorses that can be seen along the wall. Also seen around the site are numerous toad fish, barracuda, hunting jacks and permits.
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PUSSY GALORE (Buy CDs by this artist)
Feel Good About Your Body EP (Shove) 1985
1 Yr. Live [tape] (no label) 1986
Exiles on Main Street [tape] (no label) 1986
Groovy Hate Fuck (Shove) 1986
Groovy Hate Fuck (UK Vinyl Drip) 1987
Pussy Gold 5000 EP (Buy Our) 1987
Right Now! (Caroline) 1987
Sugarshit Sharp EP (Caroline) 1988
Dial M for Motherfucker (Caroline) 1989
Historia de la Musica Rock (Caroline) 1990
Corpse Love (Hut/Caroline) 1992
The aesthetic dilemma presented by intentionally offensive and/or consciously anti-musical groups is probably best settled by a critical rumble in the alley. There's certainly no rational way to discuss the potential merits of a record like this Washington, DC aim-to-offend quartet's four-song 7-inch debut (Feel Good About Your Body) or the eight-song 12-inch Groovy Hate Fuck, a raucous one-take no-rehearsal guitar-army tossoff. Setting the question of their atrocious non-musicianship aside, self-consciously puerile compositions like "Teen Pussy Power," "Cunt Tease" and "Dead Meat" are nothing more than smears of self-satisfied juvenilia. You're supposed to be repulsed by Pussy Galore, but that certainly doesn't make this pathetic effluvia worth hearing. Cheap thrills for vulgar sissies.
Relocating to New York and adding a fifth member, Jon Spencer and his crew issued two limited-edition cassettes at the end of 1986: an infamous home-brew version of Exile on Main St (in its entirety) and a live set called 1 Yr. Live.
With ex-Sonic Youth drummer-turned-metal-pounder Bob Bert in the lineup along with stalwarts Julia Cafritz (guitar, vocals), Neil Hagerty (guitar, vocals, organ) and Cristina (Martinez; guitar, organ), the five-song Pussy Gold 5000 12-inch displays improved not good, but better playing and sound. On the studio tracks, that is. The live "No Count" is as wretched as ever. It's still trash, but not quite as rank as before.
Following further personnel changes (Cristina defected to the Honeymoon Killers), Pussy Galore wound up a quartet: three guitarists (they've never had a bassist) and Bert. The full-length Right Now! album, co-produced (without credit) by the group, Steve Albini and Kramer, contains 19 songs of almost interesting garage raunch. The LP brings Pussy Galore into the realm of artistic consideration but reveals them as a fairly bad noise band. (The CD adds six previously released tracks.) The 1987 Groovy Hate Fuck album released on the Membranes' Vinyl Drip label is a compilation of the first three records.
Sugarshit Sharp continues Pussy Galore's journey further into the realm of Art; the A-side is a lengthy, sample-ridden cover of Einstürzende Neubaten's "Yu Gung," the most entertaining portions of which are the repeated interpolations of Public Enemy's Flavor Flav saying "Don't believe the hype." Indeed. Side Two contains five grunge tunes of a somewhat higher grade than usual.
The cover art of Dial M for Motherfucker looks like it comes straight from a '70s exploitation flick (an idea that would find its ultimate realization with the Velvet Monkeys' Rake, which features Cafritz); the album's sound is more flagrantly pretentious noise than fake garage. As the product of honest bourgeois artistry rather than arch posturing, it's the band's best album. Standouts include the lurching "Understand Me" and the one- joke "Dick Johnson." The CD includes the five songs from the B-side of Sugarshit Sharp.
On the other hand, cover art triumphs over content in Historia de la Musica Rock, an album done up to look precisely like one of those ultra-cheap Spanish "classic rock" compilations. (The cover photo is atrocious; the liner notes are all in Spanish; the list of other artists in "the series" includes the Rolling Stones, Blodwyn Pig, Murphy's Law and the Cro-Mags.) The record itself more under-rehearsed ersatz grunge played by a trio of Spencer, Hagerty and Bert is only intermittently entertaining.[Ira Robbins / Glenn Kenny]
See also Boss Hog, Honeymoon Killers, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Velvet Monkeys
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Wednesday was Trafalgar Day when we remembered the life and achievements of Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson and, in particular, his death at the Battle of Trafalgar.
The second brings us nearer home as we celebrate the birth of Captain James Cook, arguably our greatest navigator, surveyor and cartographer, on October 27, 1728.
Cook's life and exploits are commemorated here in Whitby at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum.
A question which is sometimes asked is: Was Captain Cook Religious?
It is prompted because of his close association with the Quakers through his master, Walker. In fact, there is little to indicate that Cook was a close adherent of any religion.
We know that he was baptised in the Parish Church of Marton, where he was born.
During his time in Whitby it is likely that he attended the Parish Church of St Mary, as this was normally required of apprentices.
He must also have been confirmed at some stage as it was a requirement of holding the King's Commision in Army or Navy.
Furthermore, King's Regulations required then, as now, that Divine Service be held on board His Majesty's Ships every Sunday while at sea, such worship being conducted by, or on the command of the Captain of the vessel.
Cook's logs and journals are amazingly silent on this matter, the only real reference being to the occasion when he required the ship's surgeon to read the service on his behalf. It would seem safe to assume that Cook sat lightly to organised religion – and that section of King's Regulations!
So what about the Quaker influence? There is no hint that Cook ever aligned himself formally with the Quakers, but it is not difficult to see the Quaker influence on Cook's character. He was known as a good officer with concern for the men under his command.
Although his rank required him to mete out punishment to any of his sailors who transgressed, it was recognised that he was more sparing of the cat'o'nine tails than many of his contemporaries.
He was also at pains to make sure that his men were as healthy as possible, introducing various hygiene practices, as well as making sure that their rations were as fresh as possible and included plenty of Vitamin C to ward off scurvy.
In his dealings with the many different indigenous peoples he came across during his exploration he was much gentler and fair-handed than many of his contemporaries and successors.
Seafarers are notoriously superstitious, and maybe Cook was no exception. Certainly he was against the presence of clergy on ships. This may have been due to the Quaker influence, which did not accept any form of ordained ministry, but more likely to the sailors' stuperstitions against clergy, based on the biblical story of Jonah.
Cook was a man of his time, the Age of Enlightenment, wanting to expand humankind's knowledge and understanding of the world. Consciously or not, some element of the Divine would have played a part in that.
So is that so different from what we experience today? We have an "Established Church", the same as that which existed in Cook's time. We have a number of "non-conformist" churches.
But all contribute to humankind's understanding of the world in which we live and, more importantly, to our understanding of the "Divine Providence" which created us and the world.
Many people today, like Cook, sit lightly to the influence of "God" in their lives, but like our modern seafarer, most would subscribe to the view that when things get really tough, then we turn to God.
And God is there for us whenever we turn to Him. This is part of the love which is God. No matter how much we ignore Him, He will never turn away from us.


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I guess we all still remember back in 2009 when David Caroll created his viral video about how United Airlines broke his guitar and refused to pay for it. That video generated 13.8 million views and it seems the airline industry learned a big lesson from that and have been doing a fair amount of viral videoing of their own. In fact, viral video marketing is rapidly eclipsing television as the most effective channel for travel marketing, especially for marketers targeting younger demographics, according to the latest Skift Report.
In the report, Skift.com, the travel intelligence and news company, says that for a largely commodified and opaque business, video marketing is more important for airlines than most travel-related businesses. As a result, airlines are among the most successful producers of video marketing in the travel business. Even the once boring in-flight safety video is asserting itself as a chance to define and differentiate the airline brand.
Here's a quick catch up of the most successful Airline Videos to date:
Turkish Airlines – Kobe vs Mese – 138.8 million views
WestJet -Christmas Miracle – 35.5 million views
Air New Zealand – An unexpected briefing – 11.5 million views
Virgin America – Safety Video – 8.8 million views
In the report, Rob Ciampa, CMO of Pixability, offers a key reason why video brand building matters to Airlines:
The Airline Industry is very commodified ….people shop for the lowest prices….but when we find fares that are pretty close, how do we choose? This is where brand matters! What is it about the brand, the aircraft, where they fly? What about the company's philosophy? This is where exciting, unique and sharable videos come into play.
The report also offers information on trends, stats, and tips on best practices for airline marketers using video with examples of the latest experiments in the industry with Vine and Instagram. It's probably essential reading if you're a front line marketer for an airline and maybe they won't make the same mistake as All Nippon Airways who have very recently apologized individually to customers who call to complain about racial stereotyping in their new television commercial that has gone viral with 600,000 in 4 weeks.
The Skift Report is available for a fee from here.


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Name: Connor Bouthot
Title: Business Development Representative
Where did you grow up? West Hartford & Avon, CT
Two truths & a lie:
1. I was #2 in the world in the NHL11 video game in 2010
2. I competed in and won multiple regional and national a cappella competitions from 2009-2015
3. I created three plastic prototypes of a dental product invention in 2015
Lie: #2. I sang a cappella and competed from 2009-2011, but we never won!
What have you learned in your time at BlueConic – about startups, about your role, about your team, about yourself?
A: I've learned a ton. It's important to grow with the company and know what is going on in all areas of the business to stay involved. But at the same time, it is just as important to stay focused on your job and your team's goals. I think balancing that is something that I have learned to do – as staying involved and up-to-date in those various parts of the company is something that really drives my passion for BlueConic.
What has challenged you the most? How did you deal (or are you dealing) with that challenge?
A: One of the biggest challenges is resisting the urge to sing along to every 90's summer jam that comes on the jukebox. I feel bad for the BlueCrew, but if you asked them how I'm handling this challenge, I'm not sure they'd say I was effectively controlling the urge to sing.
If you could change one thing about your time here so far, what would it be?
A: There isn't much I would change about my time at BlueConic. I might go back in time and tell myself to always trust in my abilities at every step of the way like my supervisors have. We are very lucky to have that kind of support.
My boss even supports photobombing my headshot
What's your advice to the newest members of the Crew (if you've been here) OR what was your acclimation to BlueConic like (for the newer folks)?
A: Come in every day and ask yourself "What can I do to help BlueConic today?" This attitude will help you succeed and become an integral part of our team. In doing this, you will find that BlueConic has much to give back to you as well.
Why are you at BlueConic – what was it about your interview that you remember and made you want to be here? What keeps you here?
A: I remember smiling and laughing so much that my face hurt after I left my interview. The energy and passion that Kevin, Cory, and Bart all brought was infectious and I knew immediately that this was the right company. It's that same passion that keeps me here.
In the near and middle term, what are you focused on? What would you like to do that you aren't or haven't been able to do?
A: I want to get to the point where I am exceeding, even doubling, the set expectations and quotas we are given in the long term. Short term, I try to get better on the phone every day, whether it is a first call or a closing call.
What would others be surprised to learn about BC/your job?
A: At one point not too long ago the sales team was just three of us…not including the Director of Business Development!
If you could switch roles with anyone else in the company for a day, whose job would you choose and why?
A: Bart, he probably has the hardest job here but does it with a smile
Sushi order:
A: 3 Maki Combo – Spicy Tuna, Spicy Salmon, and California
Favorite emoji:
Favorite sports team:
A: Bruins, of course!
Favorite quote/motto:
A: "Wherever you go, go with all your heart" – Confucius
Favored piece of furniture in the office:
A: My motorized desk is sweet.
What is something on your bucket list?
A: Be a part of an IPO
Favorite Spotify playlist at work:
A: I prefer Pandora's "Summer Hits of the 90's" playlist.
A: Bootz
What did you want to grow up to be when you were younger?
A: Professional hockey player or entrepreneur.
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Just because the wedding reception ends, it doesn't mean the party has to stop. Whether you're throwing a sophisticated sit-down brunch and want to hang with your loved ones through the day, or a formal twilight bash that begs to last through the wee hours of the morning, an after-party is never a bad idea for you and your loved ones to keep the fun going. Because this part of the big day is a lot less formal, you can do whatever your heart desires. It's a good way to reward the wedding party for a job well done, or continue to entertain out-of-town guests. Here, three different ways to make the best night of your life last a little bit longer.
Low-Key: If several more hours of open-bar boozing isn't in your budget, ask your wedding party to spread the word about an informal get-together near (or in) your host hotel. You won't be expected to pick up the tab, and guests won't have to travel far once they're ready for bed. Just be sure to give the hotel a heads-up several days in advance.
Moderate: Reserve a room at a bar, restaurant, or night club where your dance party can continue with a DJ or an iPod playlist. Pick a fun theme, like the '80s or techno, that might have been too much for the actual wedding. Order pizza or hire a food truck to satisfy late-night cravings.
Hardcore: If your venue allows, move your late-night revelers to a smaller space on the property. There, you can unveil a whole new party scene, complete with a DJ and midnight snacks like sliders, french fries, and boozy mini milkshakes. You can even ask your caterer to prepare a "survivor's breakfast" for the diehards who keep dancing until the very last call.
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WHS Daily Bulletin
Friday, September 4:
Lunch: Chicken & noodles or Chili cheese wrap, soft dinner roll, buttered peas, fresh fruit, sliced pears , ½ pint of milk
There will be a meeting in Coach Halford's room for anybody interested in girls' basketball that is not participating in a fall sport Friday morning at 7:50 AM
Art club meeting on Friday after school
7:00pm - Varsity Football vs Breese-Mater Dei Catholic (H)
Help support After Prom by purchasing a ticket for their annual fundraiser at the football game tonight! $20 tickets are eligible to win throughout both November and December giving you 61 chances to win. After Prom representatives will be located near the Sports Boosters Clothing Trailer. Go Bullets!
Saturday, September5:
Boys Varsity Soccer Four Corners Tournament @ Riverton – 8:00 AM & 9:30 AM
9:30 AM WHS vs. Taylorville
8:00 am - Cross Country @ Rochester High School – Bus leaves 6:15 AM
General Announcements:
Class Dues are collected every year by class sponsors in lieu of fundraisers. Money collected is used to pay for the Junior Class Prom and the Senior Trip. It is not collected in registration and should be paid directly to a class sponsor.
· Freshmen – Class of 2019 Class Dues – Pay $20 dues by October 1 to: Mr. Beard, Mr. Martens, Mrs. Whitten, Mrs. Beard
· Sophomores – Class of 2018 Class Dues – Pay $20 dues to: Mrs. Walsh
· Juniors – Class of 2017 Class Dues – Pay $20 dues to: Mrs. Sturgeon
What do you want to be when you grow up? The Medical Explorers Post 998 gives area high school students the opportunity to seriously explore this question before they finish high school. The program is open to any local high school students between the ages of 14 and 20 and meets one to two evenings a month from September through May. An introductory kick-off meeting for the 2015-2016 Medical Explorers program will be held Thursday, September 17th at 6 pm in the West Auditorium on the 2nd floor of the 801 North Rutledge building.
The Think Center in Springfield is offering 1:1 tutoring, ACT Boot Camps, & College Essay Writing sessions. Please visit www.think-center.com or call 217-960-0095 for details and pricing.
WHS Boys varsity scores yesterday were 166, Pleasant Plains-155, Illini Central -163, Heyworth-173. Record -8-3. Individual score were Tucker Hirsch-39,Eli Reevis-40,Josh Gray-42, Reese Perrine-45.
WHS boys golf beat Pleasant Plains and Riverton yesterday WHS scored a 190 to Plains score of 223. Individual scores were Tommy Sagins 42, Zach Buscher, Coldin Calvert 44, Coltin Ratliff 53.
Congratulations to the 2015-2016 Class Officers
President: Bill Spaniol
Vice President: Providence Andrews
Secretary: Dawson Higginbotham
Sophomore Class Officers:
President: Cara Buckley
Vice President: D.J. Mumaw
Secretary: Allison Mool
Treasurer: T.J. Ater
Junior Class Officers:
President: Adam Clark
Vice President: Matt Neale
Treasurer: Joe Roscetti
Secretary: Zach Buscher
Senior Class Officers:
President: Colton Weiss
Vice President: Cody Evans
Secretary: Kaylee Nichols
Treasurer: Abbey Galusha
Next Youth and Government meeting: Tuesday, September 8 from 6-7 p.m. in Ms. Faloon-Sullivan's room. We will be finalizing roles, so please be there!
Community Service Opportunities
· Sports Care is sponsoring the Williamsville Challenge in conjunction with the Williamsville Fall Festival on Saturday, September 12, 2015. Sports Care is looking for students who will help monitor each of the different events in the Williamsville Challenge for both the student (grades K-8) and adult (grades 9 and up). Volunteers will be needed from approximately 1:00-4:00 p.m. Please see Mr. Martens if you are interested or have any other questions.
· Lincoln Memorial Gardens is having their Indian Summer Festival on Saturday, October 10, 2015, and Sunday, October 11, 2015. Volunteers will most likely be helping in the Children's Area working with the crafts and games, and shifts are 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. both days. If anyone is interested, please see Mr. Martens.
· Capitol Radio Group is sponsoring Zoolie Ghoulie at Henson Robinson Zoo from 4:00-8:00 p.m. on Friday, October 23, 2015, and 1:00-5:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 24 and Sunday, October 25, 2015. Volunteers will be passing out candy in the safe trick-or-treating event inside the zoo gates or working in the carnival area. Volunteers are also encouraged—but not required—to dress in costumes if they can. If anyone is interested, please see Mr. Martens.
· Volunteers are being sought to assist with the Sherman Holiday Wonderland, which will be hosted at the Sherman Athletic Club on Sunday, November 15, 2015. Proceeds from the Sherman Holiday Wonderland are put toward the Sharon Miller Scholarship. Volunteers will be needed on Sunday, November 15, 2015, helping venders unload from 7:00-9:00 a.m. and working the Welcome Table from 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., and additional volunteers are needed on Saturday, November 14, 2015, to help set up from 7:00-8:30 p.m. If anyone is interested, please see Mr. Martens.


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Blue Iguana Recovery Program - Saving an Endangered Species
Saving and Endangered Speies
January 24, 2010
In addition to helping humans in need, charity also includes helping animals as well.
Obviously humans come first but, in wealthier societies like ours, we can also afford to help animals as well.
In addition to aiding abandoned and stray pets along with other, domestic and wild, animals in distress, help includes trying to save species that are faced with extinction.
The Blue Iguana found on Grand Cayman Island is one such sub-species that is unique and is endangered. These iguanas are found only on the the island of Gran Cayman in the Caribbean.
As recently as 2002 the numbers of Blue Iguanas in the wild had dwindled to a mere 10 to 25.
A Blue Iguana
Blue Iguana Recovery Program
However, thanks to the Blue Iguana Recovery Program run by the Cayman Islands National Trust, the number of Blue Iguanas living in the wild had increased to almost 300 thanks to their releases of young born in their captive breeding programs.
The National Trust is a statutory non-profit organization that relies on both public and private funds along with the efforts of volunteers in helping to advance its mission of preserving the natural and historic environment of the Cayman Islands.
Green Iguanas and Lesser Antillian Iguanas
Iguana's are a type of lizard that is native to the New World and is found in the tropics of Central America, South America and the Caribbean. In recent years iguanas can also be found in zoos, pet shops and homes in North America as well.
According to WikiPedia the genus Iguana is subdivided into two species, the common Green Iguana and the rarer Lesser Antillian Iguana.
The Green Iguana is found throughout their entire habitat including North America where they are popular pets. The Lesser Antillian Iguana is native to the Caribbean and are only found in the Caribbean area and in zoo breeding programs.
While endangered, the Lesser Antillian Iguanas are found in greater numbers than the Blue Iguana and their habitat extends over a number of islands in the Antillies group.
The Blue Iguana is actually a Lesser Antillian Iguana that has developed separately from the rest of the group which resulted in it having developed some different characteristics over time. However, it remains closely related to other Lesser Antillian Iguanas and interbreeds with them.
The Turtle Farm at Boatswains Beach
I was familiar with green iguanas having seen pictures of them as well as having seen a few in zoos.
Years ago, we actually owned one for a few weeks a number of years ago when my son saved his money and brought one as as pet. He soon lost interest in it and sold it to a friend.
But I had never heard of Blue Iguanas until my wife and I arrived in Grand Cayman on a recent cruise. Having heard about the Boatswains Beach Turtle Farm from friends on the ship, we made plans to visit it and, when we arrived discovered that, in addition to turtles, the farm included other tropical creatures.
A Blue Iguana Named Dalilah
Originally started in 1968 as Mariculture, Ltd. by a group of investors from the U.S. and the United Kingdom with the intention of breeding and raising turtles with the intent of selling the meat and other products to markets in North America and European.
However, changes in laws in the U.S and some other nations restricting the sale of turtle products resulted in Mariculture, Ltd. going out of business and being taken over by a German group that attempted to operate it as a non-profit conservation organization.
Again, the venture proved not to be viable financially and was eventually purchased by the Cayman Islands government and is now operated as a private non-profit company supplying turtle products for the local market and breeding additional turtles for release in order to build the wild population.
While turtles are still the primary focus of the Cayman Turtle Farm, Ltd. is still turtles, additional local wildlife were added including participating with the Cayman Islands National Trust Blue Iguana breeding program and it was here that we got to see a Blue Iguana.
The day we visited only one Blue Iguana, a female named Delilah, was on display. Because Blue Iguanas are very territorial and prefer to live a solitary life except when breeding, Delilah was in the display area alone as putting another Blue Iguana in with her would have resulted in a fight.
Thanks to Donors and Volunteers Blue Iguanas May Be Around for Future Generations
Thanks to the efforts of the Cayman Islands National Trust and organizations like the Cayman Turtle Farm at Boatswains Beach, along with the support of contributors and volunteers who assist the National Trust in this effort, the Blue Iguana is slowly making a comeback on Grand Cayman (the only place where it lives) and may not become extinct thereby allowing future generations to view and enjoy this manginficant creature.
ive seen tons of cayman iguanas in central america mostly in costa rica
Looks like you put a lot of work into this hub. Some good iguana photos. I didn't see any thing about a breading program. Is there one?
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I wish as a whole we took more care in saving what we have before it is gone and we miss it and wish we had cared. Animals are gifts we should care about. Thank you!
The iguanas are good-looking in a prehistoric way. Thanks for a very interesting hub.
Wow, the Blue Iguana is very nice looking, thanks for your hub, I agree that helping animals in need is a very worthwhile charitable activity. Thanks Chuck for your wisdom in this.
Very informative hub. The pictures are also very good. Thanks for the concern you have shown to the animals whose existence are in danger.
What a beautiful animal, there seems to be more and more animals that are disappearing due to humans reckless behavour...Great hub
I get new information here. We have to take care this animal. I never see it directly. I think iguana is cute animal.
Yes, very god hub on Iguanas. Id' like to see more efforts to preserve species, for one the polar bear but that is probably due to numnerous blunders by mankind oil spills, greenhouse gases and more, less fish for them to eat, and obviously the glaciers melting.
Great hub. My daughter and son-in-law were chased by an Iguana on their honeymoon!
Chuck, Good hub on iguanas and even the turtles. I have been to the Cayman Islands twice and it was really fun to visit and see them. We took the submarine down one time and you can see the turtles swimming all around with all the colorful fish. It is an interesting and beautiful place.
Great hub on Iguana. I have never seen such big Iguana over here in Singapore. I guess it is about time people start to think about all those endangered species and stop killing them.


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The Department of Psychology at Florida International University (FIU) is searching for an open-rank tenure track position in Cognitive Neuroscience and two non-tenure track full-time instructor positions (one with specific emphasis on Industrial/Organizational Psychology).
Candidates in all areas of Cognitive Neuroscience will be considered for the tenure track position, including human or animal (avian or rodent) neuroscience. Expertise using cutting-edge methodologies for research in Cognitive Neuroscience is expected (e.g., magnetic resonance imaging, near-infrared spectroscopy, electroencephalography, transcranial magnetic stimulation, confocal microscopy, optogenetics, Ca2+ imaging). The ideal candidate would complement the existing faculty in Cognitive Neuroscience, Legal Psychology, Clinical Science, Developmental Science, or Industrial/Organizational doctoral programs. Mid-rank and senior candidates must have a strong record of publications and substantial active federal grant funding. Early career candidates must have a demonstrated evidence of or very strong potential for extramural funding and a solid record of scholarship in refereed journals.
Currently, department faculty hold over $70 million in grants from federal agencies (e.g., NIMH, NICHD, NIDA, NIAAA, IES, NSF, DoJ), ranking 13th nationally on research and development expenditures according to the NSF Higher Education Research and Development Survey. Collaborative research is emphasized and many faculty share investigator status on grants. The department is closely affiliated with the Center for Children and Families (CCF) and the Center for Imaging Science (CIS). The CCF is an interdisciplinary Center and FIU Preeminent Program that focuses on research, education, and service in the area of child and adolescent mental health, with strong connections to the community and the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth largest District in the nation. In addition, the CCF has as an active, large on-campus mental health clinic for children and adolescents with a well-established staff supportive of evidence-based practice and clinical research and serving more than 3000 families annually in school-year and summer settings. The CCF houses a shared 64-channel EGI EEG system. The CIS includes a research-dedicated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facility that supports a 3T Siemens MAGNETOM Prisma and is equipped to run the Human Connectome Protocol. The department also has access to state-of-the-art animal care facilities for rodent, avian, and large animal research, as well as wet-lab and optical imaging equipment supporting researchers in behavioral neuroscience.
The instructor positions are for 9-month full-time, non-tenure track teaching faculty. Instructor positions are in-unit faculty positions that are benefits eligible and eligible for promotion opportunities that mirror those of tenure-track faculty. The department is a leader in pedagogical reform efforts and is focused on improving the quality of undergraduate instruction, particularly in gateway undergraduate courses that affect student success as measured by retention and on-time graduation. Teaching assignments will have an emphasis on both hybrid (i.e., blended) and online undergraduate instruction, based upon the candidate's area of teaching specialization. One of the two instructor positions will have an emphasis specifically on Industrial/Organization Psychology and will be expected to teach in a new master's program in Organizational Science. Candidates will be expected to perform departmental service as a full-time member of the department's faculty. A Ph.D. in psychology or a related area is required.
The department is strongly committed to a climate that embraces diversity and is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity of the academic community through research, teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, mentorship of graduate students and postdocs, and service. The department has 40 tenure-track faculty, 21 instructors and research/clinical faculty, more than 150 graduate students spread across five doctoral specialty programs and master's programs in professional counseling psychology and organizational science, 9 full-time undergraduate advisors, and over 4,000 undergraduate majors. The department is young and vibrant, with over 30 new hires in the past 5 years.
Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply to Job Opening IDs 515562 (Cognitive Neuroscience), 515474 (Industrial/Organizational Instructor), or 515483 (General Instructor) at facultycareers.fiu.edu and attach a CV, Teaching Statement, Research Statement, and Diversity Statement as a single pdf file. Candidates will be requested to provide names and contact information for at least three references who will be contacted upon as determined by the search committee. Applicants are also requested to send an electronic copy of their materials and names of 3 references to: the Chair of the Cognitive Neuroscience Search Committee, Anthony Dick, Ph.D. (email@example.com); Chair of the Industrial/Organizational Instructor Search Committee, Chockalingam Viswesvaran, Ph.D. (email@example.com); or Chair of the General Instructor Search Committee, Kristin Nichols-Lopez, Ph.D. (email@example.com).To receive full consideration, applications and required materials should be received by September 30, 2018. Review will continue until the position is filled.
FIU is a member of the State University System of Florida and an Equal Opportunity, Equal Access Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Florida International University is classified by Carnegie as a "R1: Doctoral Universities - Highest Research Activity" and recognized as a Carnegie Community Engaged University. It is a public research university with colleges and schools that offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in fields such as business, engineering, computer science, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU contributes almost $9 billion each year to the local economy and is ranked second in Florida in Forbes Magazine's "America's Best Employers" list. FIU graduates are consistently among the highest paid college graduates in Florida and are among the leaders of public and private organizations throughout South Florida. FIU is Worlds Ahead in finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission with multiple state-of-the-art research facilities including the Wall of Wind Research and Testing Facility, FIU's Medina Aquarius Program and the Advanced Materials Engineering Research Institute. FIU has awarded more than 220,000 degrees and enrolls more than 54,000 students in two campuses and centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell, FIU@I-75, the Miami Beach Urban Studios, and Tianjin, China. FIU also supports artistic and cultural engagement through its three museums: Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. FIU is a member of Conference USA and more than 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit www.fiu.edu.


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