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First they felt their reputations were stained by the financial meltdown. Now they're paying a price they protest is unfair.
Small bankers are complaining loudly that they had nothing to do with the excesses of big Wall Street firms, freewheeling deals in the mortgage market and risky investments that precipitated the economic crisis.
Still, in the meltdown's wake, community bankers find themselves under tighter scrutiny from federal regulators. They say the $700 billion financial bailout has favored large institutions. And they are upset about a special assessment the government wants to charge to shore up the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation fund, which failed banks are draining.
This all comes as the government, trying to stimulate the economy, pleading with banks - big and small - to lend, lend, lend.
"People on the street should be interested because community banks account for 45 percent of all small business loans," said Camden Fine, president of the Independent Community Bankers of America. "They really are the engines of Main Street, and if you have an overly aggressive and overly harsh examining atmosphere, then that causes the community banks to pull in their horns."
"Criticism of loan portfolios in community banks has become so harsh that community bankers say, 'I'll just stop making loans until this thunderstorm passes,'" he said.
Fine said small banks can turn to other revenue-making practices for a time and wait out the harsh examination environment.
The big bankers say banking examiners have become more prickly with them, too.
"We're hearing from Congress that we need to lend, and we're hearing from examiners to shore up the balance sheets," said Scott Talbott, senior vice president for government affairs at the Financial Services Roundtable, which represents large financial firms. "We are subject to incredible amounts of scrutiny."
Bank consultant Bert Ely said he sees a disconnect between Washington and the banks across America.
"The bankers are saying that they're getting criticized on a lot of loans and that the examiners have gotten tougher," Ely said. "Bankers are telling me that they are lending, but that a lot of the better borrowers don't want to borrow: that people are pulling back, projects are getting postponed, people don't want to buy a new car."
Some small banks did get involved in risky lending practice that led to their demise. Other small banks were too weak to survive the recession. Most of the 40-plus banks that have failed since January 2008 had less than $10 billion in assets. But Fine said they represent only a fraction of the country's 8,000 community banks.
He said more than $10b. of the $17.8b. in losses to the FDIC fund last year came from just one large bank - IndyMac in Pasadena, California. On the other hand, while Seattle-based Washington Mutual Inc. caused a loud thud in September when it became the largest US bank failure ever, it was taken over by JPMorgan Chase & Co. The deal was brokered by the FDIC and didn't cost the fund a dime.
What's really raised the ire of the community bankers, however, is the one-time, emergency assessment that all banks are being asked to pay to shore up the FDIC fund, which is struggling to back deposits in a rising number of failed institutions.
The FDIC board expects bank failures will cost the fund about $65b. through 2013. The law requires the insurance fund to be maintained at a certain minimum level of 1.15% of total insured deposits. Bank failures have sliced the amount in the deposit insurance fund to $18.9b. as of December 31, the lowest level since 1987. That compares with $52.4b. at the end of 2007.
"Why are community banks paying for the sins of Wall Street banks?" Dean Anderson, vice president of Lake Elmo Bank in Lake Elmo, Minnesota, wrote in one of thousands of protest letters the FDIC received over the assessment. "Some community banks will not survive this outrageous assessment. I know it will cost our institution almost $400,000 for this unbudgeted item.... The little guy is always the one who gets hammered and no one seems to care!"
Connie Rohde, vice president at Brenham National Bank in Brenham, Texas, wrote: "For years we community bankers have fiercely competed with the big guys for every deposit we could get to remain in business. These irresponsible banks were making the big profits, while we struggled to stay alive - honestly. And now you are demanding us to bail them out! Can you not feel our frustration?"
The new emergency premium, to be assessed on the 8,305 federally insured institutions on June 30, will be 20 cents for every $100 of their insured deposits. That compares with an average premium of 6.3 cents paid by banks and thrifts last year.
Fine said the problem with the FDIC assessment lies with how it's calculated. It's partly based on the amount of domestic deposits an institution needs insured.
Fine said more than 85% of the money that a community bank uses to conduct its business is from domestic deposits, while the percentage is much lower for larger banks.
"We're getting the short end of the stick," he said.
The assessment comes on top of an increase in regular premiums the FDIC charges institutions every year to insure regular accounts up to $250,000. Starting this month, the FDIC raised the regular insurance premiums to between 12 cents and 16 cents for every $100 in deposits, from a range of 12 cents to 14 cents.
Large banks don't like the proposed FDIC assessment either, but they say every bank, regardless of size, must pay to insure their deposits. They say large banks already are putting more in the pot because some of the fees from two new programs aimed at easing the financial crisis are being diverted into the FDIC fund. And they point out that more small banks than big banks are failing and draining the fund.
"There is a statutory requirement for the FDIC that says they have to treat all institutions of every size fairly. You can't disadvantage one over the other," said Diane Casey-Landry, chief operating officer of the American Bankers Association, which represents both big and little banks. "The reality is that the losses in banks that have been failing and the banks that are slated to fail and cost the deposit insurance fund going forward unfortunately are community banks."
The multibillion-dollar financial bailout is another touchy subject for the small bankers, who say the program has favored big financial institutions over smaller community banks. A majority of the bailout money is in just about 10% of the banks, but it was the bigger institutions that were the first priority for the program.
"Community banks weren't even allowed to try to get the money until about the first of the year," Fine said. "I knew community banks that had applications pending for two and three months that didn't hear anything."
Now, however, some community banks have decided not to apply, and some are even giving bailout money back.


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Heritage Festival
Aug. 3-5: The 31st annual Montcalm Heritage Festival is August 3-5 from 10 am to 4 pm daily at Montcalm Heritage Village on Montcalm Community College's Sidney campus. The three day celebration features historical displays, events, refreshments and music for all ages. Visit www.montcalm.edu/heritagefestival for more information. #30
Marshmallow Madness
Aug. 3,7: Think you can create a giant tower using just spaghetti noodles, tape, string and a marshmallow? This will be a team challenge with a prize awarded for the tallest structure.
For teens. Thursday, August 3, 6:30 pm – Spencer Township KDL Branch, 14960 Meddler Ave., Gowen and Monday, August 7, 1:30 pm – Nelson Township/Sand Lake KDL Branch, 88 Eighth St. #30
Family Fun Day at Metron
Aug. 4: Metron of Cedar Springs' annual Family Fun Day will be held on Friday, August 4th from 4 to 6 pm at 400 Jeffrey St. NE in Cedar Springs. Bring the entire family for games, food, entertainment, raffles and a balloon release. #30,31p
Community Picnic at Salisbury Park
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Summer Gospel Music Blowout
Aug. 5: This benefit to support 2nd Chance School will be held on Saturday, August 5th from 3 to 9 pm at 2nd Chance School, 810 – 17 Mile Rd., Cedar Springs. Music starts at 3 pm and will feature a new group each hour with Old Time Gospel Singers, Wayne Jarvie, Stroll Over Heaven, Northwoods Brothers, Traditional Country and Gospel Singers and North Country Band. There will be food, Chinese raffle, and 50-50 raffles. Come enjoy the music and support 2nd Chance. For information contact Mike Hubert 231-335-0726 or Harvey Becker 616-460-1318. #30,31b
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Pet Show at KDL
Aug. 8:Your pet is a star! Every critter's a winner in this unique show designed to put the spotlight on your furry, scaly or feathered friend. All acts must pre-register. 616-784-2007. Tuesday, August 8, at 10:30 am – Nelson Township/Sand Lake KDL Branch, 88 Eighth St. For more information visit www.kdl.org. #30
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88 comments:
- Donna said...
I am so glad you showed the bunny cutout card! I was thinking earlier I wanted to make some for Easter, but they look so small in the book! They are just the right size! Great idea, too, putting them on the envelope!
As always, thank you for sharing your creativity!
Blessings, Donna
- April 15, 2011 at 9:50 PM
- Debbie said...
thanks for this lovely card, I have this cart so I will be doing for card-lifting. It is so nice to actually see what the cut looks like you can not always tell by looking at the icon in the booklets
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- April 15, 2011 at 10:05 PM
- RachelTate said...
This card looks soo cute. I will be honored to scraplift it.
- April 15, 2011 at 10:06 PM
- Elsie said...
I love this card! I like the silouette affect of the bunnies and the colors as well. So cute!
- April 15, 2011 at 10:17 PM
- Sabina said...
wow great!
Greets Sabina
- April 15, 2011 at 10:56 PM
- Parcha said...
Lovely card! and very nice colors!
- April 16, 2011 at 1:39 AM
- Anonymous said...
LOVE this card, I think Im going to make one for my grandma and aunt! Thanks!
- April 16, 2011 at 1:42 AM
- Scattychick said...
I love the cut out idea I have never tried it I love the way following other's blogs can inspire you. TFS
- April 16, 2011 at 2:34 AM
- Ann Diehl said...
Very clever. Love all the different components to the card. And thanks for the chance to win!
- April 16, 2011 at 4:24 AM
- Fran said...
Really beautiful card. Your perfect pearls look like you used a store bought pearl. You are so talented.
- April 16, 2011 at 4:35 AM
- Janie said...
I love how you did this card and will probably scraplift the idea.
- April 16, 2011 at 4:51 AM
- Donna Lee said...
Always such adorable projects. Love these papers too.
- April 16, 2011 at 4:54 AM
- Kelly Massman said...
This is just too cute for words!
- April 16, 2011 at 4:59 AM
- Northwoodszoo said...
This card is so pretty. And I love your choice of colors.
- April 16, 2011 at 5:32 AM
- Shelley said...
Such a cute card! Love it! I was just wondering yesterday if there was a cart with a cross on it....gonna have to get that one! I improvised and did my own creation of a cross on my Easter treat baskets! They're on my blog......check them out! http://carleys-closet.blogspot.com
- April 16, 2011 at 6:09 AM
- Unknown said...
Adorable card!!! TFS!
- April 16, 2011 at 6:11 AM
- Marjorie said...
This card is absolutely adorable.
I am going to make one this morning. In fact I have several people that I know that would enjoy it so I think that I will do a production line. Thanks so much for the wonderful cut details. You are so creative. BIG HUGS TO YOU!
- April 16, 2011 at 6:13 AM
- Beverly said...
Fantastic Easter card. May have to scraplift - so glad I have these carts.
- April 16, 2011 at 6:27 AM
- Charlene said...
What a cute card! Thanks for sharing!
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- April 16, 2011 at 6:27 AM
- Crafting Katie said...
How cute is that! I love your card within a card idea, and I'm definitely going to have to check out the cards on the ACY year. So adorable!
- April 16, 2011 at 6:49 AM
- Angela said...
The teacher is gonna love this card. It's so warm and adorable. The bunny cutouts are perfect.
- April 16, 2011 at 7:32 AM
- Stacey Brucale said...
Super cute! Love it!
- April 16, 2011 at 7:37 AM
- Carissa said...
What a cute card. Who thought to layer a card within a card - genius!! Thanks for the giveaway - I love stickles and would love the liquid pearls too.
- April 16, 2011 at 7:56 AM
- Melissa said...
I LOVE this card and the "card inside a card" idea!!! Fabulous!! Thank you for yet another beautiful project!
- April 16, 2011 at 8:22 AM
- Sharka said...
Luv the card and the paper... BG is one of my absolute fav lines out there!!! :))
- April 16, 2011 at 9:02 AM
- Kathy Salido said...
ADORABLE card, love the colors you used.
- April 16, 2011 at 9:13 AM
- Luria said...
I thinks this is a super cute Easter Card not had to put together. TFs
- April 16, 2011 at 9:23 AM
- Preacher'sWife said...
I love that it cuts the bunnies right out! Cute, cute card!
- April 16, 2011 at 9:32 AM
- Cynthia Baldwin said...
Beautiful card! Love all the layers, as well as yout paper choices. (Hopscoth: perfect for a card with Easter bunnies!) Thanks so much for sharing!
- April 16, 2011 at 10:10 AM
- Cathy said...
I am so impressed! Your inside is actually as pretty as your outside! You really did a nice job and under an hour? Even more impressed.
- April 16, 2011 at 10:17 AM
- Kathleen said...
I LOVE this bunny cutout card. Love how you inserted a secondary card inside so that you could write a sentiment. So timely too, for the Easter season. TFS
Kathleen in NJ
- April 16, 2011 at 10:23 AM
- Star said...
It's beautiful! Just like everything you create. I think I may try making it tonight! Thanks Monique!
- April 16, 2011 at 1:12 PM
- blueskygirl said...
Thanks for the detailed instructions and sizes. Good to know 6 1/2 will fit in 5x7 envelope. I have ACY but have never used it. The card feature looks great.
Am really enjoying the daily projects on your post. Glad you are back to yourself!
I am not famaliar with liquid pearls. Do you just squeeze out a dot and it hardens?
- April 16, 2011 at 1:37 PM
- MimiKat said...
That cutouts actually looked like chocolate, what a cute design and more surprises inside.
- April 16, 2011 at 1:59 PM
- Heather R... mousemomma said...
I have this cart but have not used it yet. Now I am inspired to try it out. Thanks for sharing your creativity.
- April 16, 2011 at 2:15 PM
- Kristie Maynard said...
What a cute card. I love the bunnies! I love, too, that you have the cross inside to keep the meaning in Easter. TFS!
- April 16, 2011 at 2:17 PM
- kristyscraps said...
Such a beautiful card!
- April 16, 2011 at 2:28 PM
- Nanette said...
I hope Emily's teacher appreciates all your hard work. Beautiful card!
- April 16, 2011 at 2:32 PM
- gshrader said...
adorable easter card
- April 16, 2011 at 2:56 PM
- pameladixon said...
I need to make some Easter Cards and this is perfect. thank you
- April 16, 2011 at 4:08 PM
- majessie18 said...
Cute card!!
- April 16, 2011 at 5:06 PM
- Brenda said...
This is a very pretty card. Thanks for sharing it with us and for providing us an opportunity to win some goodies!
- April 16, 2011 at 5:38 PM
- JennyKozar said...
This is just beautiful Monique! Thank you so much for the idea.
- April 16, 2011 at 6:47 PM
- GrandmaAYW said...
Love all the layers in this card and it's a great example of adapting a design to do so much more.
- April 16, 2011 at 6:49 PM
- Mom2Fiveplus3 said...
the card is beautiful. Her teacher is going to love it.
- April 16, 2011 at 7:04 PM
- -mandy said...
I love A Child's Year cartridge. Thanks for the great Easter card idea!
- April 16, 2011 at 7:05 PM
- JANLYNN said...
Thanks for shareing the bunny cutout card from ACY. I was looking for an idea for toppers on treat bags for my grandsons Easter school parties. I needed something sweet but easy since I am not off work until Friday and the bags are needed for Thursday. It is so easy to forget those hidden cuts on the cartridges that are so perfect.
- April 16, 2011 at 7:58 PM
- Sukie said...
That cartridge is fabulous and you do the most beautiful projects with it. Your card is so cute as always!
- April 16, 2011 at 8:00 PM
- GlendaP said...
Thanks for this card and for the measurements. It is so cute and just in time... Your daughter's teacher is going to love it.
- April 16, 2011 at 8:17 PM
- Beth Anne in PA said...
I'll have to look up that cut on my Child's Year cart. You made it so cute, I can't resist! TFS
Beth Anne in PA
woody42997 at aol dot com
- April 16, 2011 at 8:38 PM
- Pamela Berry said...
1st time at your sight...how wonderfully amazing! Thanks so much for sharing your gifts and talents.
- April 16, 2011 at 8:53 PM
- ReGina said...
Very cute card! LOVE the bunnies!
- April 16, 2011 at 8:55 PM
- Scrapper said...
so thats how to make a card with a cut-out in the front. I should have thought of that!
- April 16, 2011 at 9:04 PM
- CathyinMN said...
Very nice Easter card! As always, you did a great job.
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- April 16, 2011 at 9:16 PM
- Aman said...
I love your card. Thank you for including detailed directions!
- April 16, 2011 at 10:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
I love it...and so will her teacher! I need to get that BG paper pack...my wishlist is never ending. TFS!
Carol aka cyimbugbitten
bugbitten at hotmail dot com
- April 16, 2011 at 10:52 PM
- Platinum Scraps said...
What a great tip for the card within a card.
- April 17, 2011 at 5:47 AM
- katieb'screativeendeavors said...
Good morning Monique-I love surfing your blog. I just found your free instructions for the in bloom kit-thankyou. I am going to adapt it for my topiary pictures from Disney World this spring.
Love your creativity and positive attitude.
I be walking for you as well as my other breast cancer warriors in our race for the cure this september!
- April 17, 2011 at 6:21 AM
- girlhuron said...
gorgeous card. . . the colors are beautiful and the bunny's!!!!
- April 17, 2011 at 7:30 AM
- paperkrafter4Life said...
this card is hopping cute, what a great idea and so glad you included the cross inside. Just ran across you blog, so happy I found it. I do cardmaking with senior citizens weekly, and am always looking for fresh ideas.
- April 17, 2011 at 7:38 AM
- Sandra Joy firstname.lastname@example.com said...
Love the idea of a card within a card. I'm going to try this!
- April 17, 2011 at 8:17 AM
- Katiebird said...
Love the vintage feel of this card-the font really does it! I just love the whole design! Kudos!
- April 17, 2011 at 8:37 AM
- Katiebird said...
Love the vintage feel of this card--the font and the rabbit image really are a great pair! Love the whole design! Kudos!
- April 17, 2011 at 8:38 AM
- marcia said...
clever card within a card idea, i'll have to try that with the cut outs. :)
- April 17, 2011 at 10:31 AM
- Mary Jean said...
love this card!! So cute!
- April 17, 2011 at 11:25 AM
- Jaren said...
As always your card is just adorable! Thanks for sharing!
- April 17, 2011 at 12:13 PM
- valerie said...
Great card and great idea with the inner card. Thanks for sharing!
- April 17, 2011 at 12:26 PM
- Queenie said...
Love the Bunny card. Also thanks for being willing to send out pearls if needed with a layout.
- April 17, 2011 at 7:00 PM
- 4kids4 said...
Great card...love those bunnies...ACY is such a fab cartridge! TFS!
~Sharon C.
- April 17, 2011 at 7:12 PM
- IRW Dana said...
Wonderful cards! Thanks for sharing. papermemories4u @ yahoo .com
- April 17, 2011 at 9:55 PM
- Just A Pac Rat said...
Beautiful cards again! Thanks for sharing your great talent with us.
- April 18, 2011 at 8:01 AM
- Vickie said...
WOW what a beautiful card. TFS
- April 18, 2011 at 12:06 PM
- Katherine said...
Really cute card Monique. Why do you do a card w/in a card rather than just attach the brown to the backside? Just curious.
- April 18, 2011 at 1:57 PM
- Nana Jo said...
Cute card - I'm going to have to try one.
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- April 18, 2011 at 10:16 PM
- Lakshmi said...
Love this Easter card. Inspired me to look more at my ACY cartridge.
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text: President Bush signed into law today a bill that will create a centralized position in the executive branch, appointed by the president, to head up the fight against piracy and intellectual property violations. The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act (PRO-IP) is backed strongly by the usuals—MPAA, RIAA, etc.—and yet faced some pushback from the Justice Department and the Bush administration itself as it made its way through the House and Senate. So what does it all mean? The cabinet position will give a single point of authority to a job now handled by a scattered handful of different agencies and committees. It also calls for increased strength to prosecute and punish IP offenders. A provision that hoisted the responsibility for civil (in addition to criminal) prosecutions for IP cases on the Justice Dept. had to be thrown out first, as it would have effectively gave the already over-burdened folks at the DoJ the added enjoyment of being the entertainment companies' civil trial lawyers. Also, interestingly, the Bush administration apparently forgot about their earlier weariness to politicize a position (by appointment) so closely related to dealings of the legislative branch and the judiciary—because avoiding that kind of thing has been this administration's hallmark, right? What it will mean day-to-day for us modern web users remains to be seen, but creating a czar worked so well for the war on drugs, why not try it again? [CNET]


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The oceans have long been a critical arena for international relations. Before there was air travel and instantaneous communication, people, goods, and ideas traveled the world by ship. For centuries a strong maritime presence—both military and commercial—has been essential for states with great power aspirations. Today, even with advances in technology, seaborne commerce remains the linchpin of the global economy. As the International Maritime Organization reports, "more than 90 percent of global trade is carried by sea." And beyond trade, a host of other issues, ranging from climate change and energy to defense and piracy, ensure that the oceans will hold considerable strategic interest well into the future.
In this Council Special Report, Scott G. Borgerson explores an important element of the maritime policy regime: the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. He examines the international negotiations that led to the convention, as well as the history of debates in the United States over whether to join it. He then analyzes the strategic importance of the oceans for U.S. foreign policy today. The report ultimately makes a strong case for the United States to accede to the Convention on the Law of the Sea, contending that doing so would benefit U.S. national security as well as America's economic and environmental interests. Among other things, the report argues, accession to the convention would secure rights for U.S. commercial and naval ships, boost the competitiveness of American firms in activities at sea, and increase U.S. influence in important policy decisions, such as adjudications of national claims to potentially resource-rich sections of the continental shelf.
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Scott Borgerson's CFR report The National Interest and the Law of the Sea succinctly outlines the costs of remaining outside and the benefits of joining the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. This report should be the first reading for those seeking to understand the arguments surrounding the treaty and how finally acceding to the convention is in our national security, economic, and environmental interests.
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Cable TV installer John Hoffmeister was strapped to a utility pole 30 feet in the air when his cell phone rang with the offer of a better job.
The energy company AREVA was calling to say that it would train Hoffmeister to repair nuclear reactors and at the same time send him to a community college in Lynchburg, Va., for an associate's degree. He'd draw his full salary while spending 10 weeks a year in two compressed semesters of classes that the company helped devise.
For Hoffmeister, 37—who had started college after high school but dropped out, and ended up installing home-security systems, delivering pizzas, and even working as a cattle hand—it was a perfect second chance.
"When you find out about a program like this where you can kind of turn back the hands of time and get, essentially, a scholarship, it works out amazing," said Hoffmeister, who received his associate's degree four years after starting in the program. It also served AREVA by helping fill a glaring need for trained employees that many companies say the nation's higher-education system isn't turning out with the skills, and at the speed, they need.
The AREVA collaboration with its hometown community college is an example of an approach that has come to be called "learn and earn," which the Obama administration and many higher education experts say the country needs to stay competitive: It offers more opportunities for working adults to earn a living, often supported by their employers, while they upgrade skills to take on specific, high-demand jobs.
Instead of just picking up stray credits and classes, older students like Hoffmeister are steered into carefully planned and structured programs that lead to degrees and certificates in particular fields in the shortest time possible.
Hospitals in Cincinnati, Ohio; Louisville, Ky., and elsewhere are providing higher-level training to prospective nurses and technicians they've already hired for lower-level jobs. Shipyard trainees in Newport News, Va., and newly minted jet mechanics and machinists in Seattle, too, are earning college credits while starting their careers, preparing them to advance to more sophisticated work.
Some of the biggest companies in America have joined the push to expand opportunities like this for low-income workers in dead-end jobs. Corporate Voices for Working Families, a non-profit business membership organization, has published case studies showcasing some of the best models like AREVA's.
Learn and Earn
This story is part of a series about workforce development and higher education.
Business-community college partnerships like these are getting a push from a little-known, $2 billion, U.S. Department of Labor initiative to improve career pathways at community colleges and address dismal graduation rates. While it sounds like common sense that everyone entering a community college would be enrolled in targeted, carefully focused programs of study, most students aren't. They wander in, take a few credits, and wander off again—a few because they land new jobs or promotions, but many because their educations were taking too much time or didn't seem to be getting them anywhere. Meanwhile, an estimated 3.7 million jobs remain vacant because employers say they can't find applicants with the right skills.
Only half of 62,000 students in community colleges in Washington State, for example, tracked over seven years by the Community College Research Center at Teachers College at Columbia University, passed at least three courses in a single field, and fewer than 30 percent earned certificates or degrees or transferred to four-year institutions.
But for those who found their ways into concentrated programs of study, the success rate approached 50 percent—especially if they did so right off the bat.
"All the data says the same thing: If you know where you're going, you're more likely to get there," said Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
The Labor Department's Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program is a remnant of the American Graduation Initiative, which President Barack Obama proposed early in his first term as part of efforts to regain by 2020 America's standing as the country with the highest proportion of college-educated people.
That remains a goal. But it's a tall order with 25 percent of teenagers dropping out of high school, according to the National Center for Education Statistics,and anemic community-college graduation rates that have helped sink the United States from first to 16th among developed countries in the proportion of its population with college and university degrees.
It's also why policymakers, educators, employers, and foundations are pushing to make community college courses more relevant to available jobs and speed up the journey to degrees and certificates.
Colleges including Central Virginia and Jefferson Community and Technical College in Louisville dovetail instruction to the needs of older, working students and the requirements of local businesses.
Norton Healthcare and other hospitals in Louisville are working with Jefferson to fill their ranks of medical lab technicians and therapists' assistants by sending them to specially designed evening classes at the college that help entry-level hospital workers advance into higher-paid, more demanding positions.
Gail Kuper, a receptionist in a Norton physicians' practice, jumped at the opportunity and is on her way to becoming a medical assistant with an associate's degree.
"What a mistake I made not going to college right out of high school, but I got married and had two kids. It just wasn't in the cards at the time," said the 43-year-old grandmother. Now she spends 15 hours in classes each week in addition to her day job.
In Cincinnati, a successful hospital-college partnership has propelled Carrie Martin from taking vital signs and administering shots in a clinic into the better-paid position of registered nurse. The Health Careers Collaborative that local hospitals launched with Cincinnati State Technical and Community College has become a national model. Cincinnati State and Jefferson are among 10 colleges that shared a $20 million U.S. Department of Labor grant last year to continue to expand pathways into high-demand medical professions.
It took Martin, who is 37, four years of evening classes, but she earned an associate's degree and her nurse's cap in 2010, then went on to get a bachelor's degree the next year. Now she's halfway through a master's program from which she will emerge as a nurse practitioner, making $60,000 to $70,000 a year to start, all while working full time at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Some learn and earn programs, like AREVA's, pay workers' salaries while they take classes. AREVA enrolls about 24 new technicians each year at Central Virginia, who take math, computer and general education classes while training at the company's Lynchburg facility or going on the road to maintain or repair nuclear power plants.
In Louisville, some 2,000 students at Jefferson and the University of Louisville are getting their full college tuition paid by working part-time on the midnight shift at UPS Worldport, the package delivery giant's huge facility at the Louisville International Airport. The college students and other workers unload 130 UPS jets that converge there each evening, feed the packages onto conveyor belts that sort them into the right bins, then load them back again.
UPS was having trouble finding reliable workers for the 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. shift before it began a $1 billion expansion of Worldport in 1999. Rather than risk losing one of the city's major employers, the state offered the company tax credits to cover half the cost of employees' community-college tuition, and a collaboration called Metropolitan College was born.
It's still an expensive proposition for UPS, but it has produced a dependable, highly productive and stable workforce, said Tom Volta, vice president for human resources. "People aren't moving packages in the wrong places and sending them off to destinations unknown," he said. The college students, added personnel manager Steve Oppel, "make the best employees because they have a lot more at stake. They don't want to jeopardize their job."
Since Metropolitan College's inception 12,000 UPS workers have availed themselves of free tuition to earn 3,000 degrees and 4,000 certificates.
Utility companies in Georgia and elsewhere, worried about a looming shortage of lineworkers among their aging workforce, have teamed up with community colleges to run "boot camps" that groom students for those critical jobs.
With help from an industry-sponsored organization called the Center for Energy Workforce Development, the utilities and colleges produced curriculum for an eight-week electrical lineworker training program that combines classroom instruction about working safely with electricity with outdoor practice climbs on utility poles. Students earn 12 college credits and first crack at jobs that pay $14 to $16 an hour.
The five enthusiastic students at the boot camp last summer at Georgia Piedmont Technical College outside Atlanta included a laid-off machinist, a laid-off metalworker, a house painter, an electrician and a yard worker, ages 21 to 31. Corey Willard, the youngest, quit his last job because "I wanted more of a career than cutting people's grass for $9 an hour." The oldest, machinist Kenny Minish, said, "I'm a believer. I always wanted to be a lineman and this was the perfect opportunity."
The Georgia Piedmont program "has been a godsend for us," said Victor Hurst, vice president of line services for Snapping Shoals Electric Membership Corporation. "We were just failing too often hiring straight off the street." And, he said, the college classes serve an additional purpose: letting the future lineworkers know they need to keep learning.
"The equipment, the technology they have to work with, changes and changes fast. It's getting hard for us to keep them abreast of the things they need to work on. They are constantly going to class," said Hurst. "Training is part of what you'll be doing in this business until the day you say, 'I'm ready to retire.'"
This story also appeared at NBCNews.com on February 7, 2013.


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Remember Remember the Fifth of November
Today, we are going to talk about Guy Fawkes' Night, or Bonfire Night. The event is held every year in the United Kingdom, on the evening of the fifth of November.
The annual commemoration is to remind us of the events of the 5th November 1605, when Guy Fawkes', who was a Catholic, was caught and arrested in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament, while guarding the gunpowder that was to be used to blow it up.


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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
E is for Elves
The term "elf" is used to describe those intelligent, humanoid beings who can claim descent from the inhabitants of Areon, the Eld. In the past, the Eld entered this world as conquerors. Their dominion was largely unchallenged for millennia, the first -- and perhaps only -- successful rebellion against their rule was led by the Hyperborean barbarians known as the Thulians. The Eldritch nobility retreated en masse back to the Red Planet in the face of the Thulian onslaught. Those Eld unable to return whence they came, in time, to be known as elves.
Though elves are, on average, shorter than Men, they display a wide diversity of sizes, which is in contrast to their Eldritch forebears, who are almost all small of stature. Physically, they are lithe and agile and tend to possess fair complexions and hair. Their faces are delicate and finely chiseled -- not unattractive by any means but nevertheless possessing an "alien" quality to them that many Men find disconcerting rather than alluring. Elven ears are slightly pointed.
The alien quality of elves is not limited to their appearance. Distant and haughty, they do not seem to possess emotions as Men do or, if they do, they are far less demonstrative about them. Because of their long lives -- immortal unless some mishap befalls them or they commit suicide out of boredom -- they are often slow to act, preferring to take weeks or even months to commit themselves to a course of action of any significance. Elves gently mock humans and even dwarves as "ephemerals," seeing them as impetuous and foolhardy children. Needless to say, this has not helped their reputation among Men, many of whom consider them little better than the Eld of old.
Like Men, Elves exist in two genders but they do not form pair bonds, let alone marry. Affection, love, and even lust appear to be unknown to them, despite tall tales and folk stories that tell of star-crossed romances between humans and elves. Consequently, there are no children among the elves, leading some to believe that they are a dying race unable to procreate. If this is so, one wonders how it is that their numbers have not dwindled to non-existence in the face of human prejudice in the years since the overthrow of the Eldritch Empire. It's popularly believed that elves kidnap human children and, through magic, make them their own, a belief that has done little to improve the lot of the race.
Elves are inherently magical. All members of the race possess the ability to cast spells, though their command of sorcery seems to be more limited than that of humans. This is true, even among the Eld, which likely explains why they have turned to demons to augment their power, a practice that, while uncommon, is not wholly unknown among the elves.
A minority of sages claim that many elven sites and structures are in fact older than those of Eldritch manufacture, arguing that it was not the elves who sprang from the Eld but the reverse. For their part, the elves have nothing to say on this matter, preferring to say as little as possible about their red-skinned relations. An even smaller minority of sages suggests that the elves may in fact be the descendants of the mysterious "Ancients" whose mighty works and artifacts predate even the Eldritch Empire, citing odd similarities between Ancient devices and those produced by the elves. Once again, the elves have little to say on the matter and few Men are willing to countenance the suggestion that the Ancients were anything but members of their own kind living in the distant past.
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How common or well-known are legends of the Eld and the Eldritch Empire in your setting? Well-known enough to be told in a tavern common room, or so obscure that only scholars of arcane lore would ever have heard of them?ReplyDelete
The Eld were overthrown almost 1000 years ago as of campaign present, so most stories about them take the form of folk tales and legends of dubious veracity. Real information about them is known primarily to scholars and those interested in arcane lore.ReplyDelete
I'm a bit confused on the size differences between elves and the Eld. This entry says "elves are, on average, shorter than men" but have a diversity of size in contrast to the Eld who were "almost all small of stature".ReplyDelete
Your 2008 entry on the Eld (which I stole and adapted for my own use admittedly...I was sick of drow) described them as: "Towering above their degenerate cousins at 6 feet tall (or more)"
Are the Eld taller but slighter in build than the standard elf (with less variety)?
I have no idea why this really matters but I like seeing descriptions of how people visualize monster/races/etc. in their settings.
When I wrote the Eld entry, I hadn't yet used them in play. Since then, I've revised my interpretations of them, making the Eld shorter than Men and elves closer to human height.ReplyDelete
Thanks James! Any particular reason for the revision or just personal fancy?ReplyDelete
Or, was it something ridiculous like the time one of our DMs insisted we all play gnomes/dwarves because that's all he brought for minatures that day? He insisted on "realism"...sigh...
Any particular reason for the revision or just personal fancy?ReplyDelete
Mostly because the Eld were created in a vacuum before the campaign officially started, whereas the portrayal of elves was the result of actual play. That necessitated modifying my presentation of both races and their relationship to one another somewhat. One of the advantages of my "just in time" style of world creation is that I can easily do this without much difficulty.
I would be interested in hearing more about the details and process of how the PCs and NPCs developed the portrayal of the elves.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 7, 2011 at 12:09 AM
" -- immortal unless some mishap befalls them or they commit suicide out of boredom --"; I find this part to be immensely creepy, and really adds to the alien feel of the Dwimmermount elves.ReplyDelete
@ Everett Jones: a creepier version of Tolkienian Elves who get tired of life.ReplyDelete
James, just wanted to say how much I'm enjoying this series and the additional looks at the Dwimmermount campaign from different angles and aspects. Looking forward to the rest of the alphabet!ReplyDelete
"a creepier version of Tolkienian Elves who get tired of life."ReplyDelete
Of course tolkienian elves who grew bored of Middle Earth had the possibility to sail to the Undying Lands. I doubt the Dwimmermount elves are anjoying the idea of a travel to Aeron...
I've been having a hard time of wrapping my head around elves as creatures (or at least potentially amoral manipulators) of Chaos. Now I get it. Thanks. :-)ReplyDelete


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Van Fraassen doesn't see the disagreement between realists and constructive empiricists as being about what we ought to believe. Instead, he sees the dispute as being about the proper aim of science. Here's one way he put the point:
Scientific realism and constructive empiricism are. as I understand them, not epistemologies but views of what science is. Both views characterize science as an activity with an aim - a point, a criterion of success - and construe (unqualified) acceptance of science as involving the belief that science meets that criterion. According to scientific realism the aim is truth (literally true theories about what things are like). Constructive empiricism sees the aim as not truth but empirical adequacy. [Analysis 58.3, 1998]
So scientific realism and constructive empiricism (as van Fraassen understands them) both need for there to be a purpose to science altogether - SCIENCE write large. As I intimate in my dcog paper, I don't think there is such a purpose. Even supposing that there is, however, it is not something that can be divined by a priori rumination. As van Fraassen admits, our account of what science is about must accommodate the actual history of science. It is a partly empirical enquiry responsible to evidence.
In this enquiry, the phenomena include historical documents and physical evidence. They probably also include the actual historical activities of scientists. Yet under no account is the aim or purpose of the activity itself among the phenomena. The aim of the activity is a posit, introduced as part of a philosophical-historical theory. Moreover, it is an unobservable posit.
Therefore, an agnostic (who declines to believe in the unobservable posits of even the most successful theories) must decline to believe in the aim of science. This follows regardless of what the aim of science is posited to be, so an agnostic must decline to be a constructive empiricist. This is a problem for van Fraassen, who thinks that agnosticism is a comfortable epistemic position for constructive empiricists. I see two possible replies.
First, he might stick to his agnostic guns. Refusing to believe in constructive empiricism, he still might accept it. That is, he could treat constructive empiricism as involving not a true theory about science but instead an empirically adequate one. This would involve some mental gymnastics, but being an agnostic already involves mental gymnastics. This meta move is only a small additional flourish.
Second, he might deny that the aim of science is a theoretical posit. Perhaps history is not a science. Perhaps discovering what what science is is not history. I don't see this line as terribly promising.
Van Fraassen has argued that we need a richer epistemology, one which allows for more than just binary beliefs or probabilistic degrees of belief. Moreover, he resists formal models of belief as direct representations of entities in the mind or brain. Yet he does seem to genuinely believe in states of opinion, "real epistemic attitudes, pointed to by traditional epistemology, which cannot be accommodated in the probabilist models we have developed so far" [ibid.].
As Sellars and Churchland convincingly argue, though, epistemic attitudes like this are not among the immediate phenomena of the world. We posit them as part of a (folk) psychological theory. An agnostic about scientific and folk scientific theories ought not to believe in beliefs.
Does van Fraassen acknowledge this anywhere? or is his psychological musing a personal matter rather than an announcement ex cathedra qua constructive empiricist?


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Techniques to Introduce Rats to Rats — Means – What, Exactly?
Can I just say, my heart goes thumpity-thump when I help rats learn to love each other?
Photo to the right: Pemy, black berkie, who has lost her sister, Dicey, goes on a shoulder ride with Tookie and Gulliver during several weeks of an introduction process.
"Method" is not about the gloves, it's about what happens between the rats
Gloves are just gloves! At the heart of what matters is how the rats relate to each other while the human wears the gloves, and, most critically, the human is responsible for how the rats relate to each other.
Connect with your own heart, and let's follow the heart of the method.
Through all of these steps, notice how minimizing stress, and maintaining calm, are at the heart of every action the human takes:
The Heart of Behavior Modification of Pet Rats.
- First, if the rats are leery or afraid of the gloves, help the rats acclimate to them. Gloves for introductions are "ho-hum" neutral to the rats.
- Use your gloved hands, with or without the length of one or both arms laid out between the rats such that the rats keep some distance from each other.
- Use your arm or gloved hand to gently divert the rats from each other if they begin to approach too close.
- What is "too close"? If you identify even small body language signs of stress, aggression, or fear, the rats have come too close to each other.
- With the proper distance, the rats stay calm and relaxed throughout the session. Use body language signs to determine that the distance is right.
- Keep sessions short – just a few minutes long.
- A great session will look like grass growing: Nothing much happening here! (Oh, but there is.)
- The rats watch each other watching each other as they move around and explore their environment.
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"things are just things", in
Bathtub, Carrier, Glove, Shirt, or Pouch: These Are Just Things and Not Techniques.
- Over time, gradually allow the rats to come a tiny bit closer to each other. The rats remain relaxed each time. How much time? Use the body language of the rats to answer this. For some rats, they might brush against each other in the same session and remain calm. For other rats, they may need to stay 2 feet apart for several days before they're allowed to move to 8 inches apart for 3 more days.
- Lots and lots of repetitions over many days, or weeks, for as long as it takes, with incremental new many baby steps.
- If one rat lunges to bite the other – which we work to prevent at all costs, but still might accidentally happen – wearing gloves provides the best safety option for both rats and humans.
What Is Important About Progressing the Rats?
There is no strict formula to "Do X, then Y, then Z". The behavioral science is to pair the two rats so that they remain calm and relaxed.
Watch the rats' body language to guage whether any activity would be good for these particular rats at this particular time.
End on a good note; If everything seems to be going excellently, you have lots of calm contact between the two rats, so that you decide to allow more contact, and then – OOPS – one rat tenses up, or crouches down, or gets poofy, this compromises the good work that you have done.
Stay alert! Just because the rats were great during one baby step, does not mean they will retain or maintain their nice behaviors in the next baby step. for your own peace of mind and safety for the rats, imagine you are starting completely over every time you add a new bit of stress, a new situation, or a new context.
The list of examples below shows how baby steps might progress. The METHOD is to pair the 2 rats in a variety of settings so that they are calm and relaxed with each other.
This list is very particular – it's for rats who like to be handled by you and who enjoy being with you. An entirely different set of activities would be needed for rats who are unsocialized or fearful of humans.
Any examples I give you are just a few of the hundreds you might try.
- If the rats are now calm when they meet on the neutral table, allow a few seconds of sniffing, but before tension can arise, gently divert them away from each other. Repeat many times.
- If the rats are now calm when they meet on the neutral table, bring them to a stop next to each other and stroke them together for a few seconds. This assumes both rats already enjoy being stroked by you. Release and divert them away from each other. Goal: the two rats relax next to each other briefly. Repeat many times.
- If both rats separately enjoy being brought into your arms, bring one of the rats onto your arms, and then the other, so that the rats lay side by side. Stroke them briefly and then release them away from each other. Repeat many times.
- If riding on your shoulder or in your arms (at chest level) is fun to both rats, bring the two rats onto your arms, walk 5 feet away, stroke them as you walk, and then return to the table and release them away from each other. Repeat many times. The body language you want to see is the rats focused on "out there" and "wow, walking is fun!", and not on each other.
- Extend the length of your walk with the two rats in your arms. Repeat many times.
- Allow one of the rats to move up to your shoulder for the walk. Continue holding the other rat. Repeat many times.
- Allow one rat to occupy each of your shoulders. Rest a hand on each rat so that you can assure they stay there. Walk 10 feet. Return to the table, bring them both down onto your arms, and release them away from each other.
- Rats love pouches; however, two rats who have not yet been fully introduced may become territorial. Any enclosed or even semi-enclosed thing – hammock, pouch, small box, large box, space pod, litter box, small cage, medium cage, or large cage, for example – is territory a rat owns. In this context, allow one of the rats into the pouch. Let the other rat sniff the opening. Switch rats. In this example the 2 rats are not allowed into the pouch together.
- Have the two rats in your arms or on your shoulders as you go for a walk. Bring the pouch opening to them and allow them both inside. As they enter, slide your gloved hand into the pouch between them. Set the pouch down on the table, stroke the 2 rats for a moment, and then gently maneuver one rat out, and then the other.
- Introduce a large open "box bottom", for example 14 inches by 24 inches, with sides only 2 inches high.
- I'll stop here, but as you can imagine the fun can go on and on, and in the end you have rats who are just living together peacefully, just like Pemy and her new buds Gulliver and Tookie. Woo hoo!
This is powerful stuff! The science of how the rats become more friendly with each other: In pairing the rats this way, over time, the scary thing – the other rat – becomes less scary. This progresses to neutral and then to friendly. Yay! (Note that other behavior modification interventions may be needed for a successful introduction between rats; this section on how to use gloves is only a part of the bigger picture.)
What should not happen:
- Be alert to insure that neither of the rats becomes scared, worried, or aggressive. Piloerection ("Poofy") should not happen.
- No rat remotely has an opportunity to hurt another.
- If you do use gloves and inadvertently one or more rats does react aggressively, this defeats the purpose of a good introduction, but at least the gloves provide the best option for safety until you can get back on track.
I hope this information proves useful. Watching two rats learn to love each other is a wonderful experience!
The science here is Desensitization and Counterconditioning, and for preventing injury, Management. Reference articles are available in the Links page on JoinRats:
Classical Conditioning – Basics!
Management (Environment, Antecedent Arrangements)
Other galleries on JoinRats related to this topic:
Aggressive Rat Behaviors During Introductions
Rat Introductions YouTube
Using Baby Steps to Introduce Rats to Rats
Major Rat Body Language – RattyRat
Normal Play Behavior in Rats – YouTube
"No Blood, No Foul"? Not True – Injury Can Occur
Are These Two Rats' Behaviors "Over the Top"?


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"Le Week-End" is a ruefully funny look at a long-term marriage. Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan set aside their tedious academic lives in England for a quick nip over to Paris. There he hopes to rekindle their amorous spark, but the vacation becomes a marathon of comic-romantic pathos to rival "Cyrano."
There is sadness in this movie, yet director Roger Michell's picturesque view of Paris, and Hanif Kureishi's humane, platitude-free screenplay leave you feeling unreasonably happy.
The pair are sophisticated tourists, seeking out old haunts that thrilled them on past visits. Flinging caution into the Seine, they take a grand hotel's presidential suite and dine at three-star restaurants.
Paucity of thrills
But this time, adolescent thrills are scarce. He's phobic about overspending (there's a serious reason for that). She is desperate for adventure, escapism and maybe escape from their relationship. As the less committed of the two, she holds the stronger cards. She may be bruisable but he is breakable.
'Le Week-End'
DIRECTED BY: Roger Michell
STARRING: Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan and Jeff Goldbum
RUNNING TIME: 93 minutes
She gets a perverse joy of setting every hurdle higher than the last. Soon they're running out on their dinner tabs and facing a hotel bill as high as the Eiffel Tower. Just at their moment of need they cross paths with Broadbent's old school chum Jeff Goldblum. Now a prominent intellectual, remarried to a gorgeous, pregnant young French woman, he represents every lost opportunity that bedevils them. He insists that they be guests of honor at a dinner party, where their frustrations go from sardonic to stratospheric.
Goldblum shines in this very Goldblum-y role. There's a hawklike alertness about his gaze from behind narrowed lids, a quickness of comprehension one jump ahead of everyone else's. Broadbent generates a discomfiting wit somewhere between laughter and wincing. Duncan, luminous, expresses the full human complexity of a middle-aged woman weary of her marital marathon.
The idea of the film, I think, is that to survive in a generations-long marriage you have to be either a person of exceptional sensitivity and intelligence or a holy simpleton.
The sublime finale, with all three actors re-creating a hokey-pokey dance from their favorite New Wave film, shows that even if you're going through the motions, you can do it with style and grace.
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Moderna hopes to offer updated COVID-19 booster for latest variant this fall
Moderna hopes to offer updated COVID-19 boosters in the fall that combine its original vaccine with protection against the omicron variant. On Tuesday, it reported a preliminary hint that such an approach might work.
Today's COVID-19 vaccines all are based on the original version of the coronavirus. But the virus continues to mutate, with the super-contagious omicron variant — and its siblings — the latest threat.
Before omicron came along, Moderna was studying a combination shot that added protection against an earlier variant named beta. Tuesday, the company said people given that beta-original vaccine combination produced more antibodies capable of fighting several variants — including omicron — than today's regular booster triggers.
While the antibody increase was modest, Moderna's goal is to produce a combination shot that specifically targets omicron. "These results really give us hope" that next step will work even better, said Dr. Jacqueline Miller, a Moderna vice president.
Tuesday's data was reported online and hasn't been vetted by independent experts.
RELATED: COVID-19 booster: Pfizer to seek extra shot for healthy kids 5 to 11
COVID-19 vaccines still are providing strong protection against severe disease, hospitalization and death, even against omicron. That variant is so different from the original coronavirus that it more easily slips past the immune system's defenses, although studies in the U.S. and elsewhere show an original booster dose strengthens protection. Some countries offer particularly vulnerable people a second booster; in the U.S., that's anyone 50 or older or those with a severely weakened immune system.
Health officials have made clear that giving boosters every few months isn't the answer to the mutating virus. They've begun deliberating how to decide if and when to change the vaccine recipe.
Just switching to a vaccine that targets the latest variant is risky, because the virus could mutate again. So Moderna and its rival Pfizer both are testing what scientists call "bivalent" shots — a mix of each company's original vaccine and an omicron-targeted version.
Why would Moderna's earlier, beta-targeted combo shot have any effect on omicron? It includes four mutations that both the beta variant and the newer omicron have in common, Miller said.
Now Moderna is testing a bivalent shot that better targets omicron — it includes 32 of that variant's mutations. Studies of two booster doses are underway in the U.S. and Britain; results are expected by late June.
RELATED: These major U.S. airlines are dropping mask requirements
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Run fast and run far, unless you're fearless. Unless you're courageous. I'm not, but I'd like to be.
Pearl Jaeger is seventeen and homeless after drugs, poverty, and addiction unraveled the life she shared with JJ, her formerly glamorous rock star mother.
This moment of happiness is fleeting; someone will take it from me.
When tragedy brings a chance to start over at an elite boarding school, she doesn't hesitate. Yet the only salvation comes from an art teacher as troubled as Pearl, and she faces the stark reality that what she thought she wanted isn't straightforward.
I trace the outline of my reflection in a window. I am no more than a replica of my mother. This is not the self-portrait I want to paint.
Through the friendships she forms at school—especially with Grant, a boy who shows Pearl what it means to trust and forgive—she begins to see a path not defined by her past. But when confronted with the decision to be courageous or to take the easy way forged by her mother's failures, which direction will Pearl choose?
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Episode 217 is all about Nanosaurus, a small herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic.
We also interview Tom Holtz, principal lecturer at the University of Maryland's Department of Geology and the Faculty Director of the Science and Global Change Program. His primary focus is theropods, especially tyrannosaurids. He has also written several books, including Dinosaurs: The Most Complete Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages and Jurassic World Dinosaur Field Guide. Follow him on Twitter or Facebook.
Big thanks to all our patrons! Your support means so much to us and keeps us going! If you're a dinosaur enthusiast, join our growing community on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/iknowdino.
You can listen to our free podcast, with all our episodes, on Apple Podcasts at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i-know-dino/id960976813?mt=2
In this episode, we discuss:News:
- Our first new dinosaur of 2019 is Adynomosaurus, the "weak shouldered" hadrosaur from Northeast Spain source
- Bob the 90% complete Triceratops from North Dakota is back on sale source
- In Mongolia, two men were arrested while trying to sell a dinosaur fossil after posting it on Facebook source
- Dinosaurs Take Flight: The Art of Archaeopteryx opened at Oregon's Museum of Natural and Cultural History source
- The American Museum of Natural History in New York has a new exhibit, T. rex: The Ultimate Predator opening on March 11 source
- The Natural History Museum in London and the Science Museum next door will have related exhibits opening in 2020 featuring dinosaurs source
- The app MyFossil allows you to upload fossil images from the field to compare and discuss findings and techniques source
- Tri-C, a community college in Cleveland, Ohio, has a new Triceratops mascot source
- The Atlantic has a fun gallery of "dinosaur statues of questionable accuracy" source
- Ornithischian that lived in the Late Jurassic in what is now Colorado (also Wyoming)
- Often illustrated as a "tiny dinosaur"
- Not much is known about it (mostly based on fossils that were later referred to Othnielosaurus)
- May have been 3-6.5 ft (1-2 m) long, though it's uncertain
- Herbivorous
- Described in 1877 by Othniel Charles Marsh
- Marsh named three species: Nanosaurus agilis, Nanosaurus victor, (named together) Nanosaurus rex (named later in the same year, 1877)
- Marsh also named the family Nanosauridae
- Later Nanosaurus became thought of as a hypsilophodontid, because it was small and somewhat looked like Hypsilophodon (instead of Nanosauridae)
- Type species is Nanosaurus agilis
- Name means "small or dwarf lizard"
- Supposedly Marsh liked studying small dinosaurs from the Morrison Formation because Cope and his team had trouble finding them
- Oramel Lucas, a school intendant, found Nanosaurus agilis (ilium, thigh bones, shin bones, fibula, dentary impressions)
- Marsh's description of Nanosaurus agilis was very short (no illustrations or even information on the locality where it was found, other than "Mesozoic deposits of the Rocky Mountains"), but he did say it was "the most diminutive dinosaur yet discovered"
- Possible that Marsh didn't describe the locality of Nanosaurus agilis because Oramel Lucas worked for Edward Drinker Cope. Supposedly Marsh's assistant Benjamin Mudge visited Lucas, who wasn't too happy with Cope. Mudge convinced Lucas that his arrangement with Cope was only for large fossils, and that he could sell his small fossils to anyone (so he sold Nanosaurus agilis)
- Marsh illustrated some of the Nanosaurus agilis fossils in 1894ish, and gave more descriptions, saying it was very bird-like and "about half as large as a domestic fowl"
- Nanosaurus victor was thought to be larger than Nanosaurus agilis (fox sized versus cat sized)
- Nanosaurus rex was a little bigger than Nanosaurus agilis
- Marsh later renamed Nanosaurus victor as Hallopus victor (1881)
- In 1970 Alick Walker found that Hallopus victor was actually small bipedal crocodylomorph
- Nanosaurus rex was known from a complete thigh bone
- In 1973, Peter Galton and Jim Jensen described a partial skeleton as Nanosaurus rex (no head, hands, or tail)
- In 1978, Peter Galton found that the rock with Nanosaurus agilis fossils had two right femora, which showed two animals were there. He found the smaller femur was Nanosaurus rex and the larger one Nanosaurus agilis
- Galton named a new family Fabrosauridae to include Nanosaurus agilis (primitive ornithischians)
- Galton made Nanosaurus rex the type species of the hypsilophodontid genus, Othnielia, so Nanosaurus rex became Othnielia rex (named in honor of Marsh)
- Not everyone agreed with Fabrosauridae existing
- In 2007 Galton suggested Nanosaurus agilis be possibly a basal ornithopod instead
- To sum up: only Nanosaurus agilis is a valid species (Nanosaurus rex is now Othnielia rex and Nanosaurus victor is now Hallopus victor)
Fun Fact: Much of Europe was under water throughout the Mesozoic which means we don't have many dinosaur fossils. However, Scandinavia and northwest Russia were out of the water for almost all of the Mesozoic and formed a pretty massive island in the Cretaceous. Unfortunately, the mountains there had already formed, and most of the rock is over a billion years old so we get very few dinosaurs from there as well.
This episode is brought to you in part by Indiana University Press. Their Life of the Past series is lavishly illustrated and meticulously documented to showcase the latest findings and most compelling interpretations in the ever-changing field of paleontology. Find their books at iupress.indiana.edu


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jQuery 1.8.3 Released
Woo hoo, Thanksgiving arrived early this year! jQuery 1.8.3 is available for download. You can get it here:
- http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.3.min.js (compressed, for production)
- http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.3.js (uncompressed, for debugging)
We've notified the Google and Microsoft CDNs as well; we trust they will endeavor to post these files tout de suite. The complete change log for jQuery 1.8.3 is below. It's a rather modest list, but we did nail a few important bugs and regressions.
The team is already hard at work on jQuery 1.9 and would like to squash as many bugs as possible. To report a problem, please post a bug report and be sure to include a test case from jsfiddle.net or jsbin.com. Also try our work-in-progress build at http://code.jquery.com/jquery-git.js to see if it's already fixed.
Many thanks to the patch contributors for this version; ye shall know them by their GitHub handles: gnarf37, timmywil, gibson042, rwldrn, joyvuu-dave, jaubourg, staabm, and sindresorhus. In addition, we thank all the community members who took the time to contribute quality bug reports with test cases. Your initial groundwork makes it possible for us to find and fix bugs.
jQuery 1.8.3 Change Log
- #12583: IE8 HTML bug (Chinese translation)
- #12635: jquery 1.8.2 fails ajax calls in IE9 because it assumes cross domain when default port is in ajax url
- #10943: JQuery 1.7.1 does not properly set tabindex property on cloned element in IE7
- #12690: Minimum JS File Contains non-ASCII Character
- #10227: $('body').show() does'nt work if body style is set to display:none
- #12537: element.css('filter') returns undefined in IE9
- #12665: Callbacks objects with "unique" flag will iterate over a function's methods when it is added a second time
- #8685: Animations should keep track of animation state in order to properly address stacked animations
- #12497: jQuery 1.8.1 transitions crashing android 2.3.4 browser
- #12837: All animations break after zooming a lightbox on the iPad
- #12643: Upgrade from 1.3.2 to 1.8.2 gives an Uncaught TypeError
- #12648: Can not correctly detect focus for DIVs with contenteditable in Chrome and Safari
- #12357: jQuery 1.8.0 Not parseable by XUL Runner Applications
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site: http://jquery.com/
versions: 1.8.3, 1.8.2, 1.8.1, 1.8.0, 1.7.2, 1.7.1, 1.7.0, 1.6.4, 1.6.3, 1.6.2, 1.6.1, 1.6.0, 1.5.2, 1.5.1, 1.5.0, 1.4.4, 1.4.3, 1.4.2, 1.4.1, 1.4.0, 1.3.2, 1.3.1, 1.3.0, 1.2.6, 1.2.3
note: 1.2.5 and 1.2.4 are not hosted due to their short and unstable lives in the wild.
I noticed your home page and the download page still provide jQuery 1.8.2 – will that be updated to 1.8.3 as well? I know there's download links in this post but not everyone would read the blog post. Are you waiting for the CDNs before you post the new version in general?
Congratulations. Will try that version in the next days.
It's always nice to see when new versions with features and bugfixes come up. But IMO think you should all invert some time on the plugins page. It's killing the comunity. 2 months with no commits. No official news. I don't think version 1.9 is more important than that.
Love jQuery! keep up the hard work
It seems like the overarching jQuery development team is spread a bit thin, not only having jQuery, but jQuery UI, and the somewhat more recent jQuery Mobile.
@Qcho – I agree that some kind of progress on the plugins site is really important at this point. It's been cast aside for quite some time now, though I also appreciate how busy the jQuery team is on their many projects. So, jQuery team, please shift some focus to the plugins site…
This is a very good news: a more stable version of jQuery is always appreciated. By the way, why the site says that jQuery minified is 32 KBytes? I downloaded it and it's 92 KB…
@System Crasher
That size is the gzipped and minified size. When you download the file and check the size that's only the minified size. If you enable gzipping on your webserver it will be compressed even further before a client machine downloads it.
Oh sorry, I didn't understand such detail! Thank you for your explanation.
Je suis satisfait de votre travail. Je suis un débutant en Jquery. J'ai besoin des tutorielles pour mieux approfondir mes connaissances.Pouvez vous m'aider?
Je suis également très satisfait de cette librairie de JavaScript. Pouvez-vous d'indiquer où télécharger la dernière version?
Version of this article in Polish language is available here: http://jquery-help.pl/post22.html#p22
Tutaj mzoecie przeczytac to samo w polskiej wersji j?zykowej.
Wow how did I miss this. I'll be updating the version used in all of web development sites to this newest version. Hopefully nothing breaks!
Would be really helpful if you updated the documentation page to include a link to the most current blog post about new releases from the sidebar. Right now, the sidebar still links to "What's new in 1.7" which is obviously WAY out of date. Can you update that link so it points to "What's new in 1.8" and also, to this blog post for specifics about the 1.8.3 release?
Also, FYI: I tried to sign up for the forums to ask this question, and the captcha isn't working, so there's no way to sign up.
i am getting error for this file..like semicolon missing..what to do now?
Plese confirm which version of JQuery will work perfectly in Opera Next Browser's? The reason when i tried it is not working, in the sense when i invoke the web service using Opera Next, it does not return the output to browser back. Please advice.
Thanks & Regards,
Suresh Kumar S
start with it
Will 1.8.3 help me for jQuery Mobile more?
I am getting below message since we upgraded our Jquery version from 1.3 to 1.8.3. Issue is onlu in IE8. Site works very well in IE9,Chrome,Fire Fox.
Stop running this script?
A script on this page is causing your web browser to run slowely.
If it continues to run,your computer might become unresponsive
Request your feedback on this issue. It seems that Jquery 1.8.3 is not all that good with Internet Explorer 8
Thanks & Regards,
Devendra Kumar
I tried jquery-1.8.1.min.js in my site along with bootstrap.The checkboxes and dropdowns are responding slowly.When I replace jquery-1.8.1.min.js with version 1.8.3 it is responding fine.Is there any bug in version 1.8.1 regarding checkboxes and dropdowns?
Congrats on the new version of jQuery. On an unrelated note I noticed the styling of the "leave a reply" box is broken at the bottom of this page. You may want to set the display property of the textarea to "block".
jQuery rocks
Could you please help me for getting the checkboxlist inside the dropdownlist?
How it is possible using JQuery-1.8.3
I want to download jquery library.But when i click the link it open a js file in the browser. Please help me . I am beginner .
How about efficiency…


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Spring has sprung again and while the warmer weather is definitely a welcome change, the return of itchy eyes and a constantly dripping nose may not be.
It's estimated that about 25 per cent of Canadians are affected by seasonal allergies.
This spring, try to avoid the discomfort by getting to the bottom of what is causing your allergies before they start. Here are five tips to help you get ahead of your symptoms:
- Check the pollen forecast: Be on top of this as it can change daily and really affect your symptoms. If you're planning on exercising, go to the gym or exercise inside on warm, windy days.
- When you are outside, protect yourself: Wear sunglasses or a hat – not only do they look good and block the sun, they also help keep pollen off your body and out of your eyes.
- Cover up when being active outside: If you are doing outdoor activities like cutting the lawn or gardening, consider wearing a mask or scarf to cover your nose and mouth.
- Protect yourself from pollen: We carry a lot of pollen into the home with us. Wash your bedding more frequently during spring, summer and fall; keep your windows closed and remember your pets can track pollen into the house, too.
- Find the right product: Speaking to your local Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacist can be your first line of defense. They can help assess your symptoms and recommend an over-the-counter medication or product. If this isn't enough to kick your symptoms, your pharmacist can write you a prescription for a medication in all provinces excluding British Columbia and Ontario. If your symptoms are more severe, pharmacists in B.C. and Ontario can work with your doctor to make sure you have the right treatment option for you.


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"The Shield" actor Michael Jace was charged Thursday with murder, accused of fatally shooting his wife in Los Angeles minutes after she returned home with their two young boys.
Jace, 51, was arrested early Tuesday after calling 911 Monday night and telling an operator that he shot his wife, according to police.
Jace's attorney, Jason Sias, spoke with reporters outside of court.
"We just want to express our deepest sympathies to the family," he said. "Our thoughs and prayers are with them."
Neighbors came out to court on Thursday to support Jace.
"He's just not an aggressive person at all," said Mark Robles, a neighbor, who taught Jace's sons, 8 and 5, jiu-jitsu. "That's why this seemed very out of character."
Robles' son, Alex, said he hoped Jace didn't do it.
"If he did do it, it is such a great loss for the boys," he said outside court.
Get Los Angeles's latest local news on crime, entertainment, weather, schools, COVID, cost of living and more. Here's your go-to source for today's LA news.
Jace is accused of killing April Jace, 40. Her body was found Monday night in the hallway of their home in the 5400 block of Brynhurst Avenue in Hyde Park, about 10 miles southwest of downtown LA. She had been shot multiple times in the upper body, police said. Neighbors heard arguing before gunfire and police said their boys were home at the time.
As Jace appeared in court, friends remembered April, a caring mother who worked at Biola University as a counselor in their financial aid office.
"In loving memory of our friend, inspiration, and the fastest female on The Trojan Masters Team, April Jace aka Sunshine," said one tribute on the
Trojans Masters Track Club Facebook page
. "We love you more than words can express. You were the example of LIFE!!!!!!"
Jace faced accusations of domestic violence in his previous marriage to Jennifer Bitterman. The couple divorced in 2002.
According to April Jace's Facebook page, the couple would have celebrated their 11th anniversary next month.
She had posted multiple photos of her children, her family, friends and an anniversary photo taken last year of her and Michael Jace sitting and smiling at a table with a caption that read, "Happy 10 year anniversary to us."
Michael Jace is best known for his role as LAPD Officer Julien Lowe in "The Shield."
He has also appeared in such films as "Forrest Gump," "Boogie Nights" and "Planet of the Apes."
Jace filed for bankruptcy in 2011, citing debts of more than $500,000.


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