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I'm pretty sure most of you feel as I do about the Miss America pageant: YAWN!
But that's not what I'm writing about. I'm writing about how dumb some of my fellow Americans are.
Nina Davuluri, a born-in-America Hindu with family roots in India, is being depicted in vicious posts and tweets as a Muslim, an Arab, and "probably a terrorist."
A lot of Americans view any male with dark skin wearing almost anything other than a hat as probably Muslim. After 9/11, many a Sikh was treated as a probable terrorist. Sikhism is a religion having nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. It's far more closely related to Hinduism. All Sikh men are expected to wear that headgear consisting of a cloth wrapped around their head which we often associate with India. Hindu men don't wear headgear as a rule, even if they are Muslim.
Davuluri was also criticized for her pride in her Indian heritage rather than her Americanism. Would these same idiots be so critical of a woman being proud of her English, Irish, French, or German ancestry? I don't think so.
How did we as a people become so dumb? Is it a function being citizens in the world's most powerful economy?
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Davuluri was also criticized for her pride in her Indian heritage rather than her Americanism. Would these same idiots be so critical of a woman being proud of her English, Irish, French, or German ancestry? I don't think so.
I think they would be critical. Not as many and maybe not as harsh, but they would definitely be critical that she is not 'Murican first and foreigner second. After all, remember 'Freedom Fries' and 'Liberty Poodles'?
How did we as a people become so dumb? Is it a function being citizens in the world's most powerful economy?
We as a people have always been dumb, we are just slowly getting smarter. National pride/patriotism and the like is nothing more than a slightly more sophisticated form of tribalism. It will go away in time, hopefully. But we have always been dumb. Think back 50 or so years ago, that girl wouldn't even be allowed to enter the competition, let alone win.
"become so dumb"? Why do you think the founding fathers came up with the electoral college? They thought the general population (of landowners, at the time) were too stupid to be trusted to choose the country's leader.
Thanks for that, Doug - I went to look up 'electoral college' - what an odd system!
Add to that the fact that in the US there is no provision for the public to propose laws through a referendum process and it's unlikely to be changed anytime soon.
You gotta love that electoral college--just in case the ruling class doesn't like how the popular vote is going--there's a failsafe.
It started when Nixon and Reagan both decided that the education system was overrated and started proselytizing for private schools, while slowly draining funding for public education. That's the interesting thing about public education, it is supposed to educate the public. But it can't do that on hopes and dreams alone.
Jeez you are just full of leftist bullshit talking points today.
Note that in inflation adjusted dollars education spending has gone up by a factor of twenty in the last seventy years. This cannot be explained entirely by population increase (unless the population of the US in 1940 was a mere 15 million--uh, no it wasn't). The Nixon administration FAR from "slowly draining funding" for public education shows some of the steepest increases and would probably have the highest percentage increase (since that steep rise comes off a lower baseline than, say the rise that started in 1982).
There is a small decline that started in 1978 (under Jimmy Carter) and ended in 1982 or 1983 (the first or second full years of the Reagan administration). I'd have to say that under Reagan Education spending greatly increased.
Of course we are woefully undereducated in the US [I surely won't argue with you there], but that is IN SPITE of huge expenditures, not because it's being starved of cash. We shovel cash into our educational system at a furious and growing rate, yet student achievement remains flat at best. Maybe there's more to it than how much money is spent. Maybe it's more a matter of how it is spent?
I'd say we could probably cut it in half, and if we change our educational methodologies and squander less on administrative overhead that adds no actual education, provide a better education. But the teachers' unions would scream bloody murder.
First off (and less importantly but I want to get this out of the way so it doesn't get forgotten), you are clearly addressing higher education (your two charts address government funding of higher ed), whereas I was thinking of K-12 education, traditionally completely paid for by the government. To some extent we are therefore talking at cross purposes here.
Second off and more importantly, mea culpa, I should not have relied on that piece of shit site--you were justified in calling me on that. I had to go all the way to page 6 of the search results to find any graph claiming to show what I was interested in, which was total government expenditures on education, adjusted for inflation, over time. Not just the US department of Education--education is primarily funded by states. I know that federal expenditures have generally been going up faster than state ones have as it takes on a larger percentage of K-12 funding, but I knew that showing THAT info would be grossly misleading. Also, not just colleges. I didn't look for "per pupil" but that would be even better.
I found (this morning) the National Center for Education Statistics but I can't seem to get it to produce such a graph either. However I did find a site that claims to have digested the data on NCES, and which produced this: http://educationnext.org/the-phony-funding-crisis/ (all caveats that should apply to the POS site from earlier, do apply here until it can be checked.) It's on a per-pupil basis, which should control for growing population, etc. Assuming for the remainder of this paragraph that the date here are in fact accurate, the shape of this curve matches the POS site fairly closely, even including the dip around the Carter/Reagan boundary layer. (Should we abbreviate that K-R to match K-T?)
It is, by the way, entirely possible that the POS site's data is correct. (The fact that a conservative site was willing to "admit" that there was a minor dip around the start of the Reagan administration suggests they were trying to be honest.) But I should not have relied on it.
Now here's my present speculation--based on my recollection graphs of overall spending that I have seen in the past, even though I can't find such a graph on a reliable site today. And I have to get to work so I am not going to be doing a ton of research right this moment. With all those qualifiers here we go, subject to change:
Perhaps we are both right. Perhaps government funding of higher education is indeed dropping because it is being squeezed out by burgeoning K-12 spending.
As for my earlier speculation that you compared to asshole extrusions, it was based on rapid increases in K-12 spending (as "shown" previously), flat to declining student achievement in spite of the increased spending (though I hear there is a recent upward trend that is encouraging). This suggested to me more and more money being flushed down a rathole and not actually improving results--since we had equivalent or even better results in the past with much less funding, we should be able to do the same today, with much less funding. If these are both true it implies that we're spending money stupidly in K-12 (which is what I was thinking of). But now that's called into question until I verify (or not) the trend in both of those graphs (the one from my original post and the one I pointed to in the post).
OK off to work. I am late as it is.
Our subject is public education, so we have no cross-purpose unless you unintentionally ignored that this includes public higher education. Government traditionally paid for most of this as well, but unlike in most other developed countries, it does not anymore. You provided this data yourself in the link to the CBS article. I illustrated it more clearly in the graphs I posted.
We are not shifting from unintentional ignorance to willful ignorance just to preserve your point, which was false.
I admit that what I had in mind was K-12, and you corrected me on that. The data you presented, nevertheless, ONLY addressed higher ed. So I think I can be forgiven for figuring you were thinking of only higher ed (since your rebuttal ONLY addressed it) whilst I was thinking of K-12. My fault here was in thinking only of K-12. I don't know why I had that blind spot as I responded, but it was not an intentional admission on my part. So please don't accuse me of being willfully ignorant on this basis. I will happily discuss BOTH K-12 and higher ed from this point forward.
And my point--which was that public education spending increases over time, IS NOT FALSE with regards to K-12 education. I now have data from a MUCH more reputable source:
The accompanying text states:
After adjustment for inflation, current expenditures per student in fall enrollment at public schools rose during the 1980s, remained stable during the first part of the 1990s, and then rose again. There was an increase of 37 percent from 1980–81 to 1990–91; a change of less than 1 percent from 1990–91 to 1994–95 (which resulted from small decreases at the beginning of this period, followed by small increases after 1992–93); and an increase of 34 percent from 1994–95 to 2008–09. In 2008–09, current expenditures per student in fall enrollment were $10,591 in unadjusted dollars. In 2007–08, some 55 percent of students in public schools were transported at public expense at a cost of $854 per pupil transported, also in unadjusted dollars.
Far from cutting spending on education under Reagan as H3xx claimed it increased 37% during the 1980s. I don't know what HIS source was, but ironically the POS site looks pretty good here compared to his source, at this point. (Though again, I should not have relied on it.)
The data granularity is a lot coarser before the 1980s but the 1960s and 1970s show large gains as well, suggesting (but NOT proving, since for all we know from this there is a huge hidden "dip" in the early 70s that Ford and Carter made up for) that Nixon didn't cut education either.
And THIS is the trend I was thinking of when I called bullshit on H3xx. And within that (K-12) context (which I admit I did not make clear, my bad) it turns out I was right, though (as I have said before) I should not have relied on the site I did rely on.
[Steve] This suggested to me more and more money being flushed down a rathole and not actually improving results--
[Gallup] Public schools, community colleges and state universities are not "ratholes".
Education--true education--is not a rathole, I agree. If I thought so I certainly wouldn't have done any college, much less post grad work. But clearly, if you can multiply per pupil expenditures after inflation by almost four in K-12 from 1960 to taday, and end up with WORSE results, a lot of that money is not going to actual education of students but rather to things that have no added value in producing educated people--that's the "rathole" I had in mind. (It's important not to confuse real education with the institution called "education.") Or, it is but educators are working harder and stupider rather than "smarter not harder." My suspicion (admittedly mostly based on anecdotes) is that it is a combination of both factors.
[Steve] since we had equivalent or even better results in the past with much less funding, we should be able to do the same today, with much less funding.
[Gallup] Correlation is not causality.
It isn't but what this shows is that there isn't a very strong correlation between amount spent per pupil, adjusted by inflation, and the quality of actual education that pupil receives. I imagine some folks out there see declining student achievement, hear people complaining about cuts to education, and draw the "obvious" inference that the decline is due to the cuts, and that increases are all that are needed to fix the problem. And many people in the education industry do their best to foster that impression. But there aren't any cuts (K-12), to the contrary, spending goes up and up as results have fallen. THAT is one of the points I have been trying to make.
I do not believe that the decline in results is directly caused the increase in expenditures. But I have a hard time seeing how the increases were beneficial--and if they weren't beneficial, that money has been wasted.
[Steve] If these are both true it implies that we're spending money stupidly in K-12 (which is what I was thinking of). But now that's called into question until I verify (or not) the trend in both of those graphs (the one from my original post and the one I pointed to in the post).
[Gallup] It confirms you were talking out of your ass. You say we can cut public education budgets in half and produce better education. Even if you "verify" the trend the conclusion does not follow thepremise.
It confirms that at points in the past we spent less than a third (closer to a quarter) per pupil, adjusted for inflation (K-12) and got better results than what we are getting today. If--now that I have more reliable data--suggesting that we should be able to repeat that feat via the right reforms to the K-12 system (no, not mindless "across the board" cuts that hit both useful and useless line items equally) is still "talking out of my ass," then you win. But if you do wish to claim victory here, please do explain why it's impossible.
OK, I realize that I've been basing this post entirely on K-12. I am now going to go look at Higher Ed and try to fill in my inadvertent blind spot--In a future post. (Since my original post and thinking was in fact K-12 centric, I will NOT try to claim at this point that the quality of college education has been declining while per pupil expenditures, either by government or by the students themselves has been increasing. I will further not yet claim that H3xx was full of shit claiming Reagan and Nixon cut funding for higher education, and I (for the present) apologize for implying such because I was talking about K-12 only, yet writing "education.")
Meantime, if you respond to THIS POST, please respond in the K-12 context, as little I have said here so far pertains to higher ed. If you throw higher ed stats at me at this point, you will not have refuted anything I've said in this post.
H3xx's point was that funding for public education has been drained starting with Nixon and Reagan. Your point is that this is "leftist bullshit". Your point was refuted in that public higher education has been savagely cut. This ended the debate since Hexx obviously was not claiming all funding for all public education funding has been cut.
Okay,so somehow the cuts from 2008 to 2013--caused by decreases in revenue due to a severe recession--are somehow Nixon and Reagan cutting ALL education?
What the fuck?!?!
I've thrown out a TON of data here, from reputable sources. I've conceded that there was indeed a cut to ONE sector of eductation (public higher) in the most recent five years, but I've also demonstrated the funding overall has skyrocketed... after you insisted that I consider all education, not just K-12. Oh but when I do THAT you want to focus on public tertiary education over the last five years.
Can't have it both ways.
You just didn't like the answer I came up with and want to obsess over a recent drop to the one sector... and somehow blame it on Nixon.
But assuming what you say is correct it refutes your point: if the spending per pupil has no strong correlation on the quality of the education, then cutting it by 50% will not improve it. Here ends the debate.
Won't hurt it either.
Here ends the debate.
Indeed. Until the next time you decide to obfuscate in the face of overwhelming statistics.
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I expect (going in) that the dynamics will be somewhat different and far more complicated since there is direct government support of higher ed (e.g., public universities), government supported scholarships, and finally, the "skin" put into the education by the students themselves, either up front or via student loans. Another complication is that universities have a second mission, and that is research; not every dollar that goes in is even nominally intended to educate.
Your two graphs show burgeoning tuition and decreasing state support for higher ed as percentages. But that's not enough, actually to prove your case; for that we need dollar amounts. Arizona cut state support 50+% over five years? How many dollars was that? From this graph, it could be ten dollars per student or ten thousand.
Tuition jumped 78.4% in Arizona over the same period? How many dollars was that? It could be ten thousand, or it could be ten.
If you pick the first alternative in both cases, you can't blame more than 0.1% of the tuition increase on cuts to state funding If on the other hand, it's the second alternative, then you can not only blame the entire tuition hike on state cuts, you can even offer to pay students a stipend (European style) if the state would just restore the funding it cut. (I really doubt this is the case; it would require huge increases in efficiency, not something government institutions are known for.)
I don't think either of these extremes is true, but I walked through that to show that because your data is presented as percentages of numbers we don't see, it doesn't actually show a connection, it merely suggests one.
So OK, this makes your case much, much better--The time span is the same (08-13) and it uses dollar amounts:
It shows the dollar amounts and Arizona cut per student expenditures by somewhere between 7-8K and hiked tuition by somewhere between 4-5K. It had the highest dollar amount tuition hike, but it looks like Washington (state) was just a whisker behind it. Hawaii, Washington, and Alabama, meanwhile, had larger dollar amount cuts, implying that they were originally spending more per student.
In every single case, the rise in tuition was less than the cut in funding. So complaints that public college tuition increases are due to cuts in the budgets for public higher education seem justified.
The article blames decreasing tax revenue during the economic downturn that started towards the end of Bush II.
But note this is public higher education, only a portion of all higher education, and a smaller portion of all education.
I'm interested to see what's up with other colleges as well, and in longer-term trends.
(download table 2a)We see inflation-adjusted private/nonprofit tuition going from 10,378 dollars in 1972-3 to 29,056 dollars in 2012-3.
Public four year went from 2,225 to 8655, with a large part of the jump occuring in the last five years (confirming the above)--tuition and fees jumped 27% in those years. However... the jump during the five years before THAT was even greater as a percentage (31%)! Why? Similar results for public two year institutions, a 24 percent jump during the last five years and a nineteen percent jump the five years before that. We can't blame those 2002-2007 jumps, of similar size to the ones you highlighted, on the recession that hit in 2008! I wonder what the government funding trend was.
That turns out to be harder to pin down for some reason, data for government support of higher ed pre 2008 is difficult to find. But I eventuall found this:
If you scroll down to the bottom, and click on the graph icon next to nation, you get a time graph of how much money state and local government kicked in per public college student. From 2002 to 2008 it dipped then rose again, showing a net increase (the numbers are 5,960, 5756, 5920, 6393, 6785. and 7106. I don't know if they are inflation adjusted. But note: IN SPITE OF THIS INCREASE in state support, students got socked with percentage increases in tuition pretty much the same as they are facing now with *declining* state support.
So tuition goes up and up regardless of how much the system is being fed from the government end. Why is that? I have my speculations, but I will keep them to myself; they aren't germane, and you would just insult them.
OK let's put it all together. This whole thing erupted when H3xx claimed that Nixon and Reagan had cut "education"--presumaby government spending on it, to include K-12 and College--and I called bullshit. (I am not sure what the last five years has to do with that, but of course arguments evolve over time to encompass more and more.)
I've managed to show that Reagan and *probably* Nixon did NOT cut K-12 spending, not even adjusting for inflation, when measured on a per-pupil basis. I've finally found a site that will show me TOTAL government (all levels) spending on total education.
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_1989USbn_14bc2n_2... shows you the federal and local breakdowns for 1989, the last year Reagan had influence on the budget. (Note though that he didn't do much to influence STATE budgets).
Here is the 1989 number: total spending on education $282.0B (all education levels, all governments) and here is the 1981 number: $174.1B
Nixon left office in 1974. $81.4B
Nixon's first partial year in office was 1969 $50.9
These numbers are NOT adjusted for inflation.
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl lets me adjust for inflation.
Converting to 2013 dollars, education spending in 1969 was $324.4B In 1974, it was $386.2B
1981's education spending in 2013 dollars, 447.9B
1989's education spending in 2013 dollars, 531.9B
...and if you had read what I wrote you would see I confirmed your point anyway.
Sorry, but I don't see how an increased inflation adjusted dollar amount can constitute a cut.


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You're the information technologies communications manager for a process licensing company-responsible for the operation of thousands of workstations in a campus environment. You oversee 300 to 400 moves per month, but your telecommunications infrastructure is dated. What do you do? John Whittington of UOP, Des Plaines, Ill., recently faced this challenging situation.) He engaged specialist Albert Chavoen of Technical Consulting Services Inc., Elk Grove Village, Ill., to eliminate the problem by helping push a large telecommunications overhaul project at the 19-building office and research lab campus.
The company used a mishmash of three e-mail systems, each of which were outdated. Because e-mail communication is such an important component of company activity, it was necessary to put the whole company on a single system. To negate any possibility of downtime, the site has redundant Wide Area Networks (WANs) and redundant Local Area Networks (LANs). Optical fiber datacom services from two providers offer another level of redundancy.
Historical conditions. At the Des Plaines campus, thousands of workstations used dated wiring and connecting equipment, making it difficult to apply the newest telecommunication services. UOP management wanted to upgrade the networking media to a high-performance level-putting a PC on everyone's desk. Additionally, newly installed network elements had to support the Windows NT operating system, Microsoft Exchange E-mail, and other features for desktop systems. The firm also wanted to be ready for digital communications and other future technologies.
Planning for the future. Anticipating future growth, Whittington supervised the installation of six-port duct banks and conduits to interconnect buildings on the Des Plaines campus in 1993. These duct banks now hold a system of 24-fiber multimode 62.5/125 micron fiber-optic cables that make up the backbone structure to the LANs and interconnect 19 campus buildings.
He and Chavoen planned all the optical-fiber raceway runs to avoid damaging the cable and thus degrading optical characteristics. For example, they positioned pull boxes to avoid overly long runs and lessen stress as they pull the cable around bends. Offering almost unlimited bandwidth, the fiber-optic cable runs link to workgroup switches and hubs in telecommunications closets.
Total performance needs. They specified all system upgrade components for their performance characteristics, including distribution frames and patch panels; connecting blocks, workstation outlet hardware, Cat 5 unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cabling for data transmission circuits, and Cat 3 UTP cabling for voice circuits. The Cat 5 cable satisfies performance needs for Cat 5 cabling as defined by EIA/TIA 568A, Commercial Building Telecommunications Wiring Standard. But it also offers typical near-end crosstalk values that are better than minimum requirements set in the standards, providing room for growth for future bandwidth-hungry applications.
UOP is also implementing Fast Ethernet protocol to the network as a replacement for its 10-Base-T Ethernet system.
Telecom closet details. Chavoen is an advocate of careful cable design and installation, because the life of the cable far exceeds the life of associated hardware (servers, routers switches, and hubs). Thus, the freestanding floor racks used in the main telecommunications room and elsewhere provide excellent cable management features. These include support for split-equipment shelves and 4.6-inch by 6-inch vertical side rails with relocatable hook-and-loop cable managers.
The cable managers make it easy to separate patch and building cables while providing plenty of space for easy routing of horizontal or backbone cables up to the point of termination. Additionally, the ladder channels on the top of the rack easily position standard 12-inch ladder trays.
Whittington and Chavoen specified another important feature: ac electric power. They installed duplex receptacle outlets, mounted within a vertical aluminum housing, between the patch panel racks, to provide convenient power outlets for energized equipment. They also installed duplex receptacles at convenient locations at the base of the cross-connect.All branch circuit wiring is carried in neatly installed EMT (electrical metallic tubing).
Cross-connect blocks provide the interconnect point between the horizontal distribution of the twisted pair voice/data cables to a workstation and the voice/data backbone (riser) cables. From the cabling/equipment racks, horizontal trays (installed in the plenum space above the access ceiling tiles) carry the cables.
Chavoen notes many organizations are upgrading their data communications networks from 10-Base-T Ethernet (10 Mbps) to 100-Base-T Ethernet (100 Mbps) systems. Installers must often rework cramped wiring closets while trying to meet EIA/TIA standards on proper bend radii, cable stripping, and administration.
"Well-designed patch panels help in making moves, adds, and changes," he says. "They also provide flexibility when cables have to be rearranged." At the workstation. Workstation outlet plate hardware requirements exceed those given in TIA/EIA standards, because a typical workstation needed a surface-mounted information outlet that could expand beyond a standard 4- or 6-port unit. Thus, the company uses a customized, surface-mounted, 12-port housing. It has from two to six Cat 5 jacks for data transmission alone. It reserved the remaining ports for at least three voice telephone lines (Cat 3 cabling) and any anticipated growth.
The firm uses other customized 12-port outlets, with three different six-position jacks (one two-conductor, one four-conductor, and one six-conductor). All of the cabling complies with the TIA/EIA-606 cabling-system administration standard regarding color-coding procedures.
Two Telco contracting firms, Telecomp Technologies, Chicago, Ill., and Current Communications, Hillside, Ill., did the cabling installation. UOP only employs installers who pay close attention to all aspects of safety on the job, such as maintaining proper distance from power lines and electrical equipment, and enforcing the requirements for safety equipment and fall devices.
One of the project's biggest challenges was working around the facility's normal operations. The companies did all of the cable testing with the same brand of instruments, which are familiar to UOP Datacom staff technicians. A Windows-based cable management software (CMS) program maintains the UOP cable plant. UOP conducts a Datacom grounding survey twice a year.
"Just about every fifth time we do this survey, we find that someone has tapped into the system and changed ohmic values," comments Whittington.


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|4. Sign-up Procedures
|4.1) How do I sign up?
Passengers may register for travel at the passenger terminal in person or by fax, mail, or email. Travelers remain on the register for 60 days or the duration of their travel orders or authorization, whichever occurs first. For Active Duty members, the expiration of their leave, pass, or liberty status is almost always the limiting factor. Sponsors who register in person for family members traveling with them will need all the required documents for everyone in their family, but the family members themselves need not be present. These travel documents will need to be presented again when selected for travel. Travelers may select up to five countries. You should list "all" for your fifth choice so that you keep your options open if a flight pops up to a destination you had not previously considered or an intermediate stop that is part of the way to where you want to go.
4.2) What is remote sign-up?
Remote sign-up allows passengers to enter the backlog by faxing copies of proper documentation along with desired country destinations and family members first names to the passenger terminal from which they plan to depart. If applicable, a statement that all required border clearance documents are current is also required. The fax data header will establish date and time of sign-up. Active duty personnel must ensure that the fax is sent no earlier than the effective date of their leave, pass or liberty. Submission by mail is also permitted, and recently several passenger terminals have established email sign up procedures. The Ramstein AB World Wide Web pages have the most comprehensive list of terminals providing email sign up. The list can be found at <http://mobility.ramstein.af.mil/group/>.
4.3) What is self sign-up?
Self sign-up is a program that allows passengers to sign-up at a passenger terminal without waiting in line. Many large terminals provide self sign-up counters with easy to follow instructions for registration. Again, active duty personnel must ensure sign-up takes place no earlier than the effective date of their leave, pass or liberty. If you use self sign-up and your travel will take you to a foreign country, it is your responsibility to ensure that all border clearance documentation is up to date. If you are unsure, you should check with a passenger service representative.
4.4) Can I use the same sign-up next time I travel?
No. Names of all originating space available passengers who depart on a flight will be removed from all destinations. If you return to the same terminal upon completion of your trip you can sign up again.
4.5) What documentation will I need?
The answer depends on many things, so this is something you should discuss with the passenger terminal. For example, family members traveling alone must have a letter (or "leave" orders in the case of EML or emergency leave) from their sponsor's command. Reservists must have certification that they are in an active (e.g. drilling) status or eligible for retired pay at age 60. People traveling overseas will often need passports, immunization records and visas. There are way too many special cases to list here. You can read the regulations yourself, but some requirements may have changed since the regulations were printed so checking with a passenger terminal is usually the best idea.
4.6) How can I find where my name is on the Space A register?
Major terminals maintain a Space A register, organized by category and within a category by the date and time of registration, that is updated daily. The register should be available to you in the passenger terminal. You can also call the terminal to find where you stand on the register. But bear in mind that only the people who show up for a specific flight will be competing for seats on that flight, and who will come is very difficult to predict. So being low on the list isn't always a problem. The list is most useful to people in the lower categories (retirees, for example) to see how many people are in higher categories at a terminal before taking a flight there.
4.7) Do I have to show up for every announced flight to my destination?
No, you have the option to stand by for any flight on which you believe you may have a reasonable opportunity to travel. The old requirement to show up for every flight was eliminated long ago.
4.8) If it takes more than one flight to get to my destination, do I need to sign up again?
When you register, you are assigned a category of travel and compete for seats within your category based on your date and time of registration. This date and time of sign-up is yours until you reach your declared destination. At each intermediate stop you will be entered in the register at the appropriate spot for your original sign up date and time. You will receive a new date and time when you register for your return travel.
4.9) If there aren't enough seats, who gets to go?
Passengers are selected for movement by category, and within a category by the date and time of their sign-up. A complete listing of eligible passengers by category is contained in DoD Instruction 4515.13-R. The order of presentation within a category is not significant, though. The following list describes the largest groups of eligible individuals in each category:
Category I. Emergency leave
Category II: Environmental and morale leave (EML)
Category III: Ordinary leave, pass, and liberty
Category IV: Unaccompanied family members on EML
Category V: Permissive (no-cost) TDY orders
Category VI: Retirees and Reservists
4.10) When will I know if I'm on a flight?
Space A seats are often identified as early as 2-3 hours prior to departure, but sometimes seat availability is not known until the plane arrives, which might be only 30 minutes prior to it's departure! Since planes often are early or late, it is difficult to predict when seat availability will actually be known. Almost all passenger terminals will establish a "show time" for passengers interested in a given flight, and then assign the seats to people who present themselves for processing at that time. People who show up after the show time are usually only accommodated after everyone that was there on time is taken care of, regardless of their category or date and time of sign up. Of course, if the plane runs very early, they'll just process whoever is there when it's ready to go. But usually, being there at the show time is good enough. If you choose to leave the terminal before the show time, you should make sure you have the latest information before you do. You should, of course, be ready for immediate processing and boarding at the show time.
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Special Projects Grant
The Special Projects Grant encourages modest scale research projects that educate our Cooper Union community on issues of sustainability, further the mission of the Institute, and strengthen the working relationship between students and faculty of the Cooper Union. As the necessity for sustainability education continues to grow, CUISD recognizes the importance of multiple perspectives. It is only by including voices from all members of our community that we will be able to build a sustainable world.
Eligibility Requirements
Only current Cooper Union faculty may apply for this grant.
Budgets for eligible projects should fall within CUISD's standard award parameters of $500 - $5000.
The grant is intended to serve as an impetus for acquiring additional funding and to assist in maintaining projects between funding cycles. Eligible projects must provide evidence that they are either receiving or actively seeking out additional funding sources.
Current Focus
We are currently interested in sustainable retrofits of existing building stock and initiatives related to education and the environment. However, projects that do not pertain to these areas are also encouraged to apply.
Review Process
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Waste Heat Roof Garden
Director of the Laboratory for Energy Reclamation and Innovation Prof. Robert Dell of Mechanical Engineering, is installing an experimental green roof plots on the Foundation Building using his heated ground technology. If only one quarter of the buildings using Consolidated Edison's steam had this system for its waste steam condensate, we could save over a million cubic meters per year of potable water now used for cooling the condensate.
This experimental technology also extends the growing season and increase plant growth by 20%. Prof. Dell has similar experimental gardens in Iceland.
Six Mechanical Engineering masters' degree students are using aspects of the project; two for Masters thesis, two for their senior projects and two for independent study.
Six two square-meter green roof plots are being installed and monitored on the northeast corner roof area of the Foundation Building at The Cooper Union. Four of the plots will be heated; two will be unheated control plots. All of the plots will contain the same green roof growth medium and the same hoses, drainage layer and roof membrane. The plants will be periodically measured for the rate of plant maturation, duration of flowering cycle, etc.
Below the drainage layer, drain will be installed in each bed, located at the lowest elevation on each garden bed for the collection, storage and measurement of runoff. The growth medium will be measured for temperature, moisture and in addition to any changes in the soil chemistry.
The heated beds should be able to retain more rain water that will further reduce the demands on New York City's sewers in addition to the potable cooling water that would no longer burden the system.
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Reuse of Available Material, Energy, Structures and Supplies for Emergency Shelter
The landscape of Mogadishu is dotted with plastic sheets supported by twigs, which shelter groups of weak and starving people from the southern and central regions of Somalia. This is the account given by Dr. Unni Karunakara, the international president of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). There is a clear and immediate need for projects that improve access to emergency shelters in this region. The engineering community has an obligation to use its research and its resources on such projects, which have the potential to benefit hundreds of thousands of destitute refugees.
Professor Cumberbatch has performed several investigations into the design of shelters constructed from freely available materials in very poor countries. Building on this experience, he has taken on the challenge of disseminating the design for a shelter constructed from available materials in the streets of Somalia and in the environs of the Dadaab camp in Northern Kenya.
The shelter consists of a dome-shaped structure that draws upon the model of the traditional Somalian aqal, and the more ubiquitous yurt. The frame is constructed from bamboo strips lashed together with twine in a form close to that of a geodesic dome. With the exception of tarps, the structure is constructed from completely biodegradable materials, sourced from regions as close as possible to the point of end use. In the longer term, Cumberbatch intends to replace the standard tarps with organic materials that utilize biomimetic principles to produce hydrophobic surfaces—ensuring that the entire shelter is biodegradable. Rudimentary investigations suggest that these ideas can be implemented on a large scale.


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Escape Skills
Escape skills refer to abilities in Diablo III that allow characters to survive experiences that would have been fatal without that skill. "Escape" does not necessarily mean movement since players can escape death by becoming invulnerable or intangible, rather than fleeing. Skills like Teleport or Smoke Screen qualify, as they will save a character's life if deployed in time.
Survival Skills are basically panic buttons that allow characters to escape certain death. These are skills like Shadow Power or Serenity that don't add any movement boost or monster debuff, but that enable a character to survive huge damage that would otherwise kill them off.
Movement skills are a related classification; these allow characters to move at a higher rate of speed, and/or pass through monsters or obstacles such as Waller or Jailer monster CC abilities. The same skill might be classified as movement and escape, but not all escape skills involve movement, and not all movement skill are especially useful for escape.
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Carrying at least one escape skill on the hotbar is all but mandatory for lower level characters and Hardcore players. These skills are not needed all the time, but they may be essential to survive dangerous situations. The most common are found on bosses and champions in Hell and Inferno, where the enemies get 3 or 4 Elite Modifiers which can combine to prove very lethal. Elites with modifiers such as Arcane Enchanted + Desecrator + Vortex + Waller can trap a character in place and inflict massive damage upon them, and these scenarios are very likely to prove lethal to players without an escape skill at the ready.
Escape and Movement skills are not mandatory; some players choose to focus on their offense and accept occasionally death as the price of faster overall killing. High level characters with very good gear can also ignore or minimize their Escape Skills since very good gear can make a character strong enough to take the damage, or to kill monsters before they can deal out lethal damage.
Hardcore characters must play more conservatively and keep at least one Escape or Movement skill ready at all times.
In addition to their survival features, Movement Skills such as Sprint or Vault or Tempest Rush can be used to traverse the dungeons more quickly than otherwise possible, greatly increasing the killing speed (by eliminating downtime) for many characters.
Barbarian[edit | edit source]
In addition to the skills listed below, the Barbarian has numerous attacks with defensive features, such as knockback, slow, or other debuffs to enemies. These are very useful to survive, but don't quite count as escape or movement abilities.
Survival/Escape Skills[edit | edit source]
- Furious Charge: (db) All rune effects allow for very rapid movement through any number of enemies. This skill will not pass through Waller walls or other solid obstacles.
- Leap: (db) All rune effects allow the Barbarian to leap to a targeted spot, moving over any number of enemies. This skill will leap over Waller walls and other solid obstacles. When timed right, can also avoid frozen blasts.
- Wrath of the Berserker (db): Though not a true panic button, this skill provides numerous powerful buffs to enhance the Barbarian's survival and killing speed, and boosts movement speed by 20%. Cannot be frozen, vortex or jailed.
- Ground Stomp: (db) All rune effects allow stunning all enemies within 12 yards for 4 seconds.
- Ignore Pain: (db) All rune reduces all damage taken by 65% for 5 seconds and the "Mob" rune extends to the party.
Movement Skills[edit | edit source]
- Frenzy: Vanguard (db) grants an 15% bonus to movement speed.
- Sprint (db): This skill grants a substantial boost to movement speed for 3 seconds, but does not enable the Barbarian to pass through enemies or obstacles.
- Whirlwind (db): This attack skill enables the Barbarian to spin through any number of enemies and also breaks all destructibles, but does not pass through Waller walls or other solid obstacles.
Demon Hunter[edit | edit source]
Demon Hunters have numerous skills such as Caltrops and Entangling Shot that debuff monsters, slowing or stunning enemies. These abilities can certainly help a DH survive danger, but they aren't precisely movement or escape skills in of themselves.
Survival/Escape Skills[edit | edit source]
- Rain of Vengeance: Stampede (db) This skill will knock back any number of enemies, opening up a path for a running escape for a surrounded or cornered Demon Hunter.
- Shadow Power (db): This survival skill does nothing for movement, but grants huge life steal for a short duration, which many Demon Hunters harness to increase their EHP and survive attacks that would otherwise kill them. The rune effect Gloom is the most popular for the 35% boost to life steal.
- Smoke Screen (db): A prototypical escape skill, this one turns the Demon Hunter invisible to enemies and grants full invulnerability for a short duration. Smoke Screen breaks Jailer and allows the DH to pass through any number of enemies, but can not pass through Waller walls. It also works as a movement skill by triggering the Tactical Advantage passive speed boost.
- Vault (db): Vault moves the Demon Hunter 35 yards in an acrobatic tumble at very high speed. It's a movement skill that also escapes Jailer and passes through enemies, but does not move over obstacles like Waller walls. It's a great movement option as well, especially when paired with the Tactical Advantage passive speed boost.
Movement Skills[edit | edit source]
- Evasive Fire (db): This skill causes the Demon Hunter to do a backflip when enemies are nearby. The flip will not break Jailer or clear Waller walls, but it can pass through monsters that would otherwise block movement. The faster run bonus from Tactical Advantage is also triggered by an Evasive Fire backflip.
- Strafe (db): This skill allows the Demon Hunter to move through any number of enemies, but does not provide protection or break Jailer or pass through solid objects like Waller walls.
- Hot Pursuit (db): This passive skill grants a 15% movement speed bonus (may exceed the 25% equipment cap) when the Demon Hunter is at full Hatred.
- Tactical Advantage (db): This passive skill grants a huge 60% bonus to movement speed for 2 seconds after using Evasive Fire (executing a backflip), Vault, or Smoke Screen. Fast moving/farming Demon Hunters Vault, run for 2 seconds at high speed, Vault again, run for 2 seconds, etc.
Monk[edit | edit source]
The Monk has numerous skills that debuff enemies, slowing, confusing, blinding, causing a knockback, and otherwise incapacitating them. These are useful for survival, but aren't specifically movement or panic button type abilities and thus are not listed below.
Survival/Escape Skills[edit | edit source]
- Inner Sanctuary (db): This skill creates a safe zone into which monsters can not enter, though it does not protect against ranged attacks or other AoE attacks. The Circle of Protection (db) rune effect reduces damage by 35% as well.
- Serenity (db): A true panic button skill, this breaks all CC effects and makes the Monk immune to all incoming damage for 3 seconds. Monks cannot pass through Waller walls, though.
- Seven Sided Strike (db): SSS is an offensive attack skill, but the Monk is untouched by all attacks while performing it, thus it can be used to avoid damage and CC effects such as exploding Molten or Frozen orbs.
- Near Death Experience (db): This passive skill resurrects the Monk if he dies, returning him to 35% hit points.
Movement Skills[edit | edit source]
- Dashing Strike (db): This attack skill Teleports the Monk to the target, and can be used as an escape skill to bypass AoE damages and debuffs such as Molten or Slow Time bubbles. It requires a target to cast though, so can not be used as a general purpose teleport type ability.
- Mantra of Evasion: Wind Through the Reeds (db) grants 8% movement speed bonus with the mantra is in effect.
- Tempest Rush (db): This skill greatly boosts the Monk's movement speed and allows him to hit and pass through any number of enemies. It can be used as an escape skill to get out of large groups of enemies, but it does not confer any immunity to attacks, and it does not break Jailer or pass through Waller walls.
- Way of the Hundred Fists: Blazing Fists (db). This combo skill grants a brief movement and attack speed bonus of 5% that stacks up to three times.
- Fleet Footed (db): This passive grants a 10% bonus to movement speed which may exceed the 25% cap from equipment.
Witch Doctor[edit | edit source]
Escape Skills[edit | edit source]
- Spirit Walk (db): This skill turns the Witch Doctor invisible (to enemies) and immaterial-although the effect ends if his physical body takes 50 percent of his maximum life in damage. While Spirit Walk breaks CC effects and lets the Witch Doctor pass through enemies, he can not pass through Waller walls or other solid objects.
- Spirit Vessel (db): This passive resurrects the Witch Doctor, returning him to life and placing him in the spirit realm for 2 seconds after receiving fatal damage.
Movement Skills[edit | edit source]
Wizard[edit | edit source]
Escape Skills[edit | edit source]
- Archon: Teleport (db). This rune effect of Archon grants a Teleport ability even if the Wizard does not have Teleport as one of her six hotbar skills. The teleport can escape all CC effects and move over Waller walls or other solid objects. As it has a 10 second cooldown per use, it's better classified as an emergency escape option than a proper movement skill.
- Diamond Skin (db): This skill grants a short term damage absorbing shield, which can be used to avoid potentially fatal attacks, when cast with the proper timing.
- Mirror Image (db): Creates duplicates of the Wizard. This skill doesn't boost the character's defense, but monsters will pursue the duplicates instead of the Wizard, granting her a brief reprieve from attack.
- Slow Time (db): Acts as a panic button against incoming projectiles and attackers, slowing them to a near-crawl. (Can be paired with Wave of Force to reflect back all incoming projectiles to damage attackers, and this can be quite impressive when there are dozens of fireballs caught up in the Slow Time bubble.
- Teleport (db): Teleport breaks out of Jailer and passes over Waller walls, but thanks to the long cooldown it's best used for emergency escapes rather than speedy movement. The Wormhole (db)rune effect is the best for movement, as it allows multiple quick casts of Teleport before the cooldown kicks in.
- Unstable Anomaly (db): Unstable Anomaly is the only Wizard Passive skill to incorporate an escape mechanism. It is used primarily by Hardcore players, and provides an automatic heal and a monster knockback attack when the Wizard drops below 30% of maximum life.
Movement Skills[edit | edit source]
Alone amongst the characters in Diablo 3, the Wizard does not have any true movement skills. Teleport exists, but with the long cooldown it's more of an emergency escape skill than a tool to pass rapidly across the battlefield. The lack of Wizard faster movement options is one of the main complaints by Wizard fans, who feel gimped by their slow foot speed when it comes to farming.
- Storm Armor: Scramble (db). This skill triggers a 25% movement speed buff for 3 seconds, but only after being hit by an attack.


text: Based upon Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, the film introduces Cho-Cho, a child survivor of the cataclysmic bombing of Nagasaki at the end of World War II. The daughter of a geisha, Cho-Cho sets her sights on becoming the wife of a brilliant, young American military pilot based in Japan-and she succeeds. Trained as an astronaut, her new husband departs for a mission. Even though he promises to return, Cho-Cho feels she has been left to manufacture hope in the face of despair.


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Hundreds of people demonstrated Saturday in Haifa, Jerusalem and the Negev in a protest, billed as a day of rage against a plan to resettle Israel's Bedouins.
A bill has been introduced in parliament that would resettle the Bedouin in the Negev, a southern desert region.
Protesters said they are determined the legislation will not pass, Ynetnews reported.
"The state of Israel wants to expel us from our homeland and we will not have it," one said.
Hundreds of people rallied at Hura Junction in the Negev, blocking roads. Protesters threw stones at police who responded with tear gas and stun grenades.
There was violence in Haifa where about 1,000 people turned out, and at a smaller rally in Jerusalem.
Dozens of protesters were arrested around the country, police said.
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Oak Ridge High School 2003 alumni Candace Crowell Marshall and Kevin Joseph Hannan exchanged wedding vows in a rooftop ceremony at The Peachtree Club in Midtown Atlanta on the evening of Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012.
Oak Ridge High School 2003 alumni Candace Crowell Marshall and Kevin Joseph Hannan exchanged wedding vows in a rooftop ceremony at The Peachtree Club in Midtown Atlanta on the evening of Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. The Reverend Bob Cantrell, former pastor of First United Methodist Church, Oak Ridge, officiated. Family friend Mrs. Kathy Jenkins of Oak Ridge read the scripture from Colossians 3:12-19. Mary Marshall Sandifer, aunt of the bride from Indian Creek, Md., sang "The Lord's Prayer."
The bride's parents are Joan Crowell Marshall of Oak Ridge and William Foote Marshall, III, and Julie Halladay Marshall of Raleigh, N.C. Parents of the groom are Kevin Martin Hannan and Stephanie Powers Hannan of Oak Ridge. The grandparents of the bride are Mayme Roberson Crowell, Oak Ridge, and Joseph S. Crowell and Joyce Blair Crowell of Nashville.
The bride was given in marriage by her parents. She entered to "Cannon in D Minor," wearing an ivory strapless sweetheart gown of silk charmeuse. The trumpet-fitted gown was adorned with a chapel-length train accented with an oyster-colored belt patterned with leaves and highlighted with clustered beaded leaves. Her chapel-length silk illusion veil was edged with leaf-patterned lace in oyster. The bride carried a nosegay bouquet of mauve roses with charms memorializing her deceased grandparents and great-grandmother.
The attendants' processional was "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring." The bridesmaids and matron-of-honor wore purple semi-formal dresses and carried bouquets of ecru calla lilies with purple centers. Jessica Royster, a longtime friend of the bride now living in Knoxville, served as maid-of-honor. Other bridal attendants included Laura Ann Devlin, cousin of the bride, Richmond, Va.; Leslie Ann Jenkins, Oak Ridge; Sarah Lesesne, Durham N.C.; Andrea Rhoads, Atlanta; and Cailin Hannan, sister of the groom, Atlanta. Caroline Riordan, cousin of the groom from Atlanta, was junior bridesmaid.
Christopher Mitchell of Jefferson City served as the groom's best man. Groomsmen included Charlie Rhodey, Cory Keeton, and Greg Butcher, all of Chattanooga; the bride's brother Joe Marshall of Oak Ridge; and the groom's cousin Kevin Riordan from Atlanta. Ryan Thomas Devlin, cousin of the bride from Richmond, Va., was an usher.
For the wedding, the mother of the bride chose a sheath of midnight blue, and the groom's mother selected a dress in cornflower blue. The bride's grandmother wore an aqua jacketed dress accented in silver. Their corsages were purple-throated white orchids.
Wedding book and "Blessings Box" attendants were Jenny Cooper from Dyersburg, Tenn., and Meredith Wentworth of Memphis. After the exchange of vows and the presentation, the couple recessed to "L-O-V-E" by Nat King Cole.
A "Yankee-Southern" buffet station dinner was followed with rooftop dancing at sunset. Throughout the evening, wedding guests were treated to funny photo booth sittings, and Atlanta's King-of-Pops served custom-flavored popsicles to guests as the reception ended. The bride and groom departed under a hale of sparklers as they headed to a car driven by the groom's uncle Jerry Hannan of Los Angeles.
The couple honeymooned in Costa Rica. They reside in Alpharetta, Ga., where Candace is a physical therapist with Amedisys in Fulton County and Kevin is an accountant with Verint Systems in Atlanta. Guests attended the wedding from California, New York, Maryland, North Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.


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City unveils signs renaming street to honor Lamar president
Jimmy Simmons Boulevard officially became part of the Lamar University landscape Friday, March 1, 2013, with the unveiling of street signs and a tribute to Simmons and his wife, Susan, in the historic McDonald Gym.
The Pep Band and national-champion Cheerleading Team added Cardinal Spirit to the occasion, while two rows of Simmons children and grandchildren – including three new grandchildren in strollers – brought proud introductions from the stage.
Lamar joined the city of Beaumont to commemorate the renaming of University Drive from East Cardinal Drive to East Lavaca Sreet, with Lamar students, alumni, faculty, staff and other friends of Lamar in attendance. Several alumni traveled from out of state. City Council unanimously approved the measure, which honors Simmons' accomplishments during his tenure as president of Lamar.
"This is another great day in Beaumont," Mayor Becky Ames said in greeting the crowd.
"I am so honored to come before you today to pay tribute to the man and the woman behind the man – Jimmy and Susan Simmons.
"When I first was elected to council in 1994, our relationship with Lamar University was nothing like it is now, and I'd like to say most of that is because of your efforts. Thank you so much. I can't remember a time when Lamar looked like this, acted like this and walked the walk that we wanted to happen in our city."
Simmons immediately credited Susan as a partner in his presidential accomplishments. "I know this is Jimmy Simmons Boulevard, but understand that right beside Jimmy should be Susan Simmons Boulevard. You will never know what a dynamic impact she has had on the university, not for 14 years but for 43 years. Susan, I appreciate all you have done for me, our family and this university. You are the best."
Among the guests were several grandchildren, including the most recent: twins Emma and Wells, born Christmas Day to son Matt and his wife, Becki, and Reed, born Jan. 25 to son Mike and his wife, Nikki. Also attending were their daughter, Jennifer Simmons Lehane, with two of her children, Rachel and Thomas; Susan's father, Rudy Williams, and his wife, Helen; and Jimmy's sister, Susan Howlett. Granddaughters Lily and Madeleine completed the group.
"It is very unusual for a president to have grown up, gone to high school and then come back to teach at the university in his hometown – and stay in that community for the rest of his life," Simmons said. "This is extremely satisfying to me.
"All these wonderful awards and accolades come to us for the work we've done for this university, but I want to tell all the faculty, staff and students here: Thank you so much for all you do for this university.
"Thank you so much for being here," Simmons told well-wishers. "This is a very special occasion for Susan and me and for our family."
Joe Domino, president of the Lamar University Foundation, introduced the mayor, saying, "No one can deny the relationship that Dr. Simmons has built with the community. There is no better way to honor Dr. Simmons."
Camille Mouton, vice president for university advancement presided at the ceremony. "It is so gratifying to see so many people coming together to honor Jimmy and Susan for all they have done, not only for Lamar University but for Southeast Texas," Mouton said.
Members of the Lamar Ambassadors unveiled one of the "Jimmy Simmons Boulevard" signs, covering was removed from street signs nearby. Ames read the proclamation she issued at the Beaumont City Council meeting Tuesday, declaring Saturday, March 2, as Susan and Jimmy Simmons Day in Beaumont. That day coincides with "A Standing Ovation for Jimmy and Susan Simmons," scheduled March 2 in the Montagne Center to recognize the couple for their leadership roles in the growth and success of the university.
The "Standing Ovation" will begin with the Lady Cardinals' basketball game at 4 p.m. and continue with the Cardinals' game at 6 p.m., special presentations during halftime of the men's game and a reception on the arena floor afterward that will give guests an opportunity to personally thank the couple.


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Last month's viral email from the mother-in-law from hell, Carolyn Bourne brought up a lot of ill feelings among ticked off daughters-in-law. After an overnight visit, Bourne felt the need to email her future daughter-in-law, 29-year-old Heidi Withers, a list of her so-called incidences of ill manners. She listed things such as: When you are a guest in another's house, you do not declare what you will and will not eat unless you are positively allergic to something. You do not take additional helpings without being invited to by your host. When the email went viral (after Withers emailed it to a friend who in turn passed it along to start a chain), hoards of angry women said not only have they been there, but they've heard worse from their own mother-in-law. And I'm sure it left a few mothers-in-law wondering if they've ever stepped beyond their boundaries with their words. Inspired by this story, I've pulled together a list for any prospective (or current) mother-in-law of 10 things that should never be said! What is the worst thing your mother-in-law has ever said to you? Share with us in the comment section below!
How to keep her home. My own mother-in-law who is the laid back type and wisely doesn't offer her own two cents unless asked for it, says that one thing a MIL should never do is tell a daughter-in-law how to keep her home. So that means no comments on her housecleaning, the way she places her furniture, or her visible dishes in the sink. None of it. Luckily my MIL lives by this rule so she never places pressure on me to have a immaculate house when she visits. If anything, she tells me to sit down and stop cleaning!
Is that a dig on cooking skills or the ability to keep her husband healthy? Sadly, it's probably both. First of all, the presumption that a grown man cannot feed himself makes my skin crawl. But on the cooking side, mean mothers-in-law often love nothing more than to put down a wife's cooking skills. Remember Marie Barone on "Everybody Loves Raymond"?
Courtesy of my good friend, Lisa, these comments, as she says "are fighting words!" It's common sense that she raised your husband, but you are his wife and she is his mother, two unique and starkly different roles (God willing!). No reminder is necessary.
I don't care if it something as simple as leave food on their plate or throw darts as their brother, what you did with your child 30, 40, 50 years ago is utterly inconsequential to me. I am the mother and I will respond the way I see fit, got it?
Stopped crying, fussing, acting out, it doesn't matter. The implication is that once you were out of the picture, your child behaved fine…for her…probably because you couldn't get the job done. Might you want to rethink those words?
"Oh honey, remember your old girlfriend Lila with the long flowing blond hair who came from that well-bred rich family? I saw her yesterday and she just completed her second year of medical school, had three kids, bought a house on the Upper East Side (in cash), and looks exactly the same as she did when you were dating. She said to say hello." Of course, she'll say this when you have not yet showered after being up with a newborn all night, your hair is falling out, and your hormones are teetering on the brink of full blown breakdown……..which leads me to…
Do not comment on your daughter-in-law's recent bad haircut, weight gain, added grey hairs, tired eyes, or any other physical asset, unless it's complimentary. I can assure you that you may have no ill intention behind it, but I can also guarantee you that there are some women out there who will take it the wrong way. And some comments are just comments, like "Why don't take a rest, you look a little tired. I'll watch the baby", but some are plain mean, "I notice the grey hairs are just multiplying, time for a touch-up?' And those words are simply asking for trouble.
I have a friend whose mother-in-law tells her every other visit about how easy her life is. My friend didn't grow up in war torn Europe, says MIL. She doesn't have to work at menial jobs all day and night long. She lives with an electric stove, refrigerator, and even a dishwasher! So therefore has NOTHING to complain about. Modern conveniences, yes, but with a MIL like that, I dare say an easy life sadly eludes her.
A little help is much appreciated…when asked for, but declaring that you will be staying with your daughter-in-law just after she is home from the hospital is a nightmare, not a help! Most couples want to be alone to treasure the time with a new baby and to become a family, and having an unwanted guest around will be another added stress. If the daughter-in-law wants you to stay, she will ask!
True, a woman's husband may very well enjoy to have his clothes folded for him and his coffee stirred just right, but he is a grown adult and I am not his mother! So yes, Johnny can do very well all by himself and one day he may even make it to the big swings without my assistance, either.