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"Kids mosaic HD", an interactive educating game will help your children to train their memory, learn to distinguish colors, develop imagination and hands motor functions.
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The Hunger Game
The good news is there's no reason anyone should ever starve to death in America. The bad news is more and more working Americans, many earning what were once middle class incomes, are spending their time and scarce money to find their next meal.
Think it can't happen to you? The necessity of food will be the last thing you'll spend your limited funds on as wage stagnation, the cost of energy, housing and other mandatory expenses drive middle class family budgets to the breaking point.
Emergency Food: More and More, It's What's for Dinner
The good news is there's no reason anyone should ever starve to death in America. The bad news is more and more working Americans, many earning what were once middle class incomes, are spending their time and scarce money to find their next meal.
Think it can't happen to you? The necessity of food will be the last thing you'll spend your limited funds on as wage stagnation, the cost of energy, housing and other mandatory expenses drive middle class family budgets to the breaking point.
Val Traore, the radiant and gregarious CEO of the Food Bank of South Jersey (FBSJ), wanted to make one thing perfectly clear in our discussion of hunger in America today. "We do not have starvation here in the United States. In Mali," she says, referring to the West African country where about half the population lives below the international poverty line of $1.25 a day, "if you live in poverty you risk starvation and death. That doesn't happen here in America." It's an important point worth dwelling on.
So what is happening here?
"We're seeing a large number of families that have never needed food assistance before," reports Traore. How many? So far, for 2010 FBSJ has witnessed a 10% increase in their client base of approximately 100,000 people. Here's the surprise: a large portion of the people needing food assistance today are working, and especially among FBSJ's new clients, many are earning incomes nearly twice the poverty line of $22,055 per year for a family of four (up to 185% of poverty).
Who are the hungry and why can't they afford to feed themselves and their families? Increasingly, the shocking answer is this: If you are not financially independent, the odds are good that someday you could be waiting in line to feed yourself and your family.
Food Lines: The Growing Reality Based Social Network
December 18, 2010 - Burlington County, NJ: Especially since the airing of television shows like "The Sopranos" and "Jersey Shore" most of the nation probably sees New Jersey as some cultural aberration. Perhaps it is. But, this is south Jersey and the landscape looks a lot like other semi-rural areas of the country.
On the drive from Philadelphia through Burlington County, a main highway cuts through farmland that includes several agricultural supply and farm equipment dealers. There are also strip malls, fast food franchises and diners offering breakfast for $2.99 and prime rib dinner specials as low as $10.99. If you were somehow transported here and I told you that you were in Ohio, you would have no reason not to believe me.
In Browns Mills, population 11,257, a tractor trailer painted as the "Hope Mobile" carrying about 28,000 pounds of food is being unloaded at the local United Methodist Church. People are lined up outside, but most of the line has been moved inside on this frigid morning. The church pastor has allowed the use of the facility's assembly room and adjacent corridor to bring members of some 600 pre-qualified, pre-registered families in from the cold.
Depression soup lines have nothing on this sucker. The first in line sit along the hundred foot length of the assembly room where a beautifully lighted Christmas tree glows. The line extends out the door and down one side of a hundred foot corridor and then loops back on itself down the opposite wall. At the end of the line, another 30 feet or so, people will brave the weather for an hour or two until things get moving. Over 20,000 pounds of food will be provided to the crowd here, the remaining 7,000 pounds will go to a second event later in the day in Camden, NJ.
The Browns Mills' Hope Mobile drop has been occurring monthly since August in an effort to relieve demand on overwhelmed local pantries. Some 450,000 people live here in Burlington County where the median household income here is just under $77,000 per year. The county is 77% white, 17% black and 6% Hispanic.
Many of the people here (according to national averages about 70%) are just plain poor. Some are on Social Security Disability. Others are senior citizens living on small fixed incomes. Some of them care for grandchildren that their own children, for whatever reason, can not care for.
A few are homeless, or the formerly homeless who have recently found a place live. They are white, they are black and they are Hispanic. All represented in good numbers. They are a typical gathering of Americans in winter wear, with kids in tow and babies in strollers. If I put them all in a local shopping mall - even the ones that told me they were homeless - you would have no reason to believe they weren't holiday shopping.
Deborah (all the names of those interviewed for this article have been changed) is twenty-something, smart, articulate, bi-lingual single mother of four. After losing a well paying job eight months ago, she took a warehouse position at minimum wage, $7.25 an hour in New Jersey, and moved her family into a shelter.
She's hoping her education and language skills will mean a quick promotion and higher wages. Though she pays little in rent, she tells me that after her car expense, diapers and clothes, there's no much left for food. A quick calculation reveals her car expenses alone will eat up nearly a third of her $14,790 annual income.
If you can't quite relate to a single mother of four, who recently lost a significant amount of income, then consider Joan.
Joan tells me over and over that hers is a good story that people need to hear. Unfortunately, for her and her family she is right.
Before moving to Shamong, NJ, Joan, her husband and four children, lived a well above average middle class life in a suburban Toledo, OH. They owned a single family home. She ran a home day care to supplement her husband's $80,000 plus income. He worked as a pipeline technician, a career he built over 26 years, lost 14 months ago and has not been able to reclaim. Two years ago he found work in New Jersey through relatives and the family moved.
Moving meant Joan's day care income was gone. It also meant a cut in her husband's salary to $40,000, and an increase in rent from $875 monthly mortgage payment, which included principle, interest, taxes and insurance, to a trailer park rent of $1,125.
Doing some quick math for Joan's situation reveals how the Great Recession has decimated middle class America: after taxes $40,000 is about $30,000 take home in New Jersey. Less $5,000 for carfare to get to work. Less $13,500 for rent. Utilities and phone, let's say $2,400; way too low, right? That leaves $14,100 for food, insurance, diapers, laundry, clothes and every other vagary life throws at a family of six. Since a decent family health care insurance is at least $9,000 per year, I'll bet they aren't making what's left of the COBRA payments.
Think you can feed yourself for $5 a day? What would you buy? What would you forego? Fast food will eat up that whole amount in a single meal. If Joan spends every cent of her family's $14,100 of "discretionary" money on food she would have a $6.53 per person per day food budget.
Joan wasn't embarrassed to talk about her situation with me. For whatever reason, she wanted people to know her story. But she was the exception. There were many others seeking a week's worth of food who didn't want to be noticed. They were still well shod. One middle aged gentleman, escorting his wife, was twitching. He didn't care to share his story.
Why You Will Choose to Be Hungry
Setting priorities when your budget gets squeezed is exactly why food is going to come last and why you're going to be left with little or nothing to feed your face and the hungry faces of those you love.
In a strange subversion of Maslow's hierarchy of human needs, when things get tough in our modern world, you will put food last. "There are a couple of reasons," explains Traore. "First impulse is we don't want other folks to know we're struggling. So, Americans have a tendency to decide to pay for the visible expenses first."
If you think about it, it's pride, practicality and the unwillingness to give up hope too soon. Mix it all together and before you know it, you're hungry.
You may put off buying new clothes, or if interviewing for a job is a must, you won't.
You've been out of work for a couple of months, but obviously now is no time to sell the house. So you'll continue to make the payments as long as you can, especially in this market.
The car is leased or not yet paid off and you have to get to interviews and in today's environment public transportation to a job may not be an option. Anyway, you don't want to start taking the bus or train when a better situation is probably just around the corner, and the neighbors will notice the Camry is gone.
In today's world, how can you live without a cell phone? A haircut? An internet connection? A clean pressed suit? A couple beers with the crew after a hard day on the job site? Paper towels for the kitchen, heck toilet paper for the bathroom? A small gift for the kid's birthday? A coffee at break time? Money for the school field trip? License, registration and auto insurance?
So, you're going to pay the rent, you're going to keep the car, you're going to pay the cell phone bill. Do you think you want the neighbors seeing the electric is off? I don't think so. And, as things don't improve for months and months, you're going to max out the credit cards and home equity line of credit.
In retrospect, you're going to see that it was time to stop the hemorrhaging of money long ago, but you didn't do that. You couldn't do that. Where would you move? How much would that save? Are you underwater on the mortgage, ditto the car loan?
Whether it's looking for a job equal to, or nearly equal to the one that's long gone, or running in the right circles to get that job, appearances are important. The fear is if you're seen as a loser now there's no going back. Sadly, employers appear to be embracing this thinking as evidence continues to show that older workers and long time unemployed workers are being discriminated against.
Nice Spread: The Odds on You vs. Food
Sustained under or unemployment, yours or that of your life partner, or any other significant decrease in income is certainly the most obvious way to find your tight budget has you looking for your next meal. But it is not the only way.
Case in point: Paul, a postal worker, and his wife Amy, a part-time housecleaner and full-time mother of six.
On paper, Paul doesn't look like he belongs on a breadline. He has a solid employment history, 23 years with the United States Postal Service. His wife not only raised their children, but supplemented the family income. He has always had a government medical insurance plan for the entire family. With $52,000 of earnings in 2010, you would think he would be at least lower-middle class.
Paul's family, formerly of Queens, NY, moved to south Jersey two years ago to get out from under an oppressive and ever escalating rent that ate up nearly half of their family income of $62,000 per year, $2,500 per month when they left, utilities not included.
There were other reasons to move as well. Two of Paul's children have learning disabilities. So it made sense to also look for a good school district that could meet their educational needs. The move to a two-plus bedroom garden apartment in Mount Holly, NJ at a rent of $1,300 per month looked like a smart thing to do.
With a little luck, Paul could make a swap transfer to a post office in New Jersey without losing his seniority. But the recession and luck was not with them. Housecleaning work in New Jersey has not been plentiful for his wife. The hoped for transfer has yet to materialize. And, Paul is spending $400 a month for a 2 hour commute to Brooklyn, NY on a commuter bus, then the NYC subway and then a second bus to main post office.
In New Jersey they also have a car expense. Paul tells me he is not a regular food pantry client, but the children are getting older and eating more in their teen years. At just over 130% of the poverty line, Paul's family is not poor enough to get food stamps. They are well within the 185% of poverty qualifier for food assistance.
What happened? Did Paul and his wife have too many children? They were all born by the year 2000. If their income was as little as $40,000 per year 11 years ago, they were no where near living in poverty. Just ten years later, with only a slight decrease in income and their efforts to decrease their housing expense, they are no longer getting by.
Paul's was probably one of the few families here with decent healthcare insurance. But ten years of higher living costs without enough increase in income has thrown them off balance and into a financial net loss.
Together, decreases in income and increases in living costs are the combined factors that will put more and more of us in the food lines. In a way, Paul and his family are solidly in the middle class, a middle class newly defined as not quite able to afford the necessities of life.
The imbalance is continuing even if, by academic measures, the recession is over. The engine of this financial imbalance for the middle class is another imbalance: wealth and income inequity. By all indications, the financial assault on working people will continue.
Oil is now hovering at $90 a barrel and the average national gasoline price is set to break $3.00 a gallon any moment. Not only is this more money out of the pockets of Americans, most of whom must drive to work, it threatens another round of layoffs should demand for goods and services fall as a result.
In a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, global food prices are forecast to spike over the coming decade. The report concludes that demand for food from developing countries will outstrip even an increased production supply.
But inflation over the past ten years has been tame, right? Wrong, whenever you hear a report of "core inflation," just remember that number does not include two categories that affect working people the most: food and energy. Shelter costs, that spiked with the bank fashioned housing bubble, have also thrown many middle class families into financial turmoil.
The only good news on the horizon is in the area of housing where costs are predicted to fall. But moving is expensive and foreclosures will soon return to historic high levels as soon as the banks sort out their questionable procedures for putting people out on the street.
So, what does it take to be middle class today? That depends, and it's not necessarily an income number, though many analysts throw around income from $70,000 to $100,000. Tell that to Joan. You'll need to be able to sustain those dollars year after year without much in the way of cash flow interruption.
To be middle class, paying for all the vital and frivolous "necessities" of American adult life, you do need an income, usually from a job.
If it took education to get the training or degree needed for that job, subtract the cost of student loan repayment. Then you need housing at a cost that fits that income, and transportation that provides a reliable way for you to do what you need to do to earn that income.
As you would like to have more in your life, like a spouse and/or children your income needs may change, i.e. increase substantially. But because life is generally unpredictable you also need to be able to afford at least some insurance, auto, home and medical, to smooth those costs.
To be middle class, you will also need the one thing the current economic and socio-political situation refuses to oblige: stability.
You need to know that at least most of the important things that you've build your life on will not disappear tomorrow. For example, the job that expensive education bought will not be down-sized, right-sized, off-shored, out-sourced or become obsolete and eliminated altogether.
Unfortunately, that modicum of stability no longer exists. Too many things that put your stability at risk are out of your control.
It may not seem possible, but in today's global corporate market, your job could be history tomorrow.
The probability that you will need to retrain for another job, no matter how old you are, is high and today education is very expensive and may mean becoming a debtor in a big way.
The odds energy costs will increase to unaffordable levels, for at least periods of time, is nearly a sure bet. These spikes will increase what you pay for transportation, heating, electric and also affect a broad market basket of prices on everything from food to paper.
That housing shortages and increased rents may occur is still in the cards. If housing costs do decease you will need money to move and reestablish your living situation.
That labor prices may continue to be depressed is nearly certain. Most American workers have already tightened their belts. You only need to look a Paul's story to see the fine line between making it and otherwise.
That large corporations will enter more and more business categories where small business once thrived is a foregone conclusion. Today, there are only a handful of small business opportunities that have not been taken over by corporate category killer big box and national chain operations.
Odds that some day you and your family will need food assistance because you haven't yet made the rent or paid the phone or gas bill and your next paycheck is nine days hence: better, much better, in my opinion, than ten to one.
The Hunger Game: What You Will Do to Get Food
As stated earlier, unless for some odd reason you are unable to make contact with the outside world, you will not starve to death in America. You will, however, play a game with certain rules and you will also spend time, money and effort to play the hunger game.
As with many lifelines in American society, help is available but you will need to jump through a few hoops to get it. We just can't bring ourselves to make basic needs easy to get. It's a puritanical punishment our society seems to need mete out to those in need.
Money is short. The fridge has a bottle of ketchup and bread bag with a heel in it. What do you do? That night you'll scour the house for loose change and buy some macaroni and a jar of tomato sauce. While you're eating you'll vow to do something about the situation.
That night on the internet tubes, you will look into Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, formerly known as Food Stamps. SNAP is not only an acronym, it's also a contradiction; nothing about the program is quick or easy.
You will probably find you don't qualify as your income can be no more than 130% of the federal poverty threshold. If you're single that's $14,079 pre year; for a childless couple $18,941. Then, for each additional person or child in the family add $4,862. Really!?! It just doesn't add up, expenses for children can be much greater than those for adults, but that's the formula.
Let's say you think you may qualify, SNAP won't get food on the table tomorrow or the next week or even necessarily the next month. Remember Joan, the woman who moved with her family from Toledo? She applied for SNAP in September of this year. To date, her application has neither been accepted nor rejected.
Eventually, depending on how dire your need is, you will find a food pantry. If the one you find isn't open the next day, you may get referred to one that is. Maybe you'll remember those little $1, $3 and $5 coupons you occasionally purchased at the supermarket that make a donation to a food bank. In that case, you might call the food bank and they will somehow get you somewhere you can get your first supply of emergency food.
Congratulations! You've just join the ranks of 37 million Americans served by Feeding America and all the related agencies that are part of their food assistance programs and the ranks of approximately 49.1 million people who are food insecure in the U.S. today. Don't be embarrassed. If you or you spouse or significant other has a job you are among 36% of those millions that do, the working class Americans that are not able to afford food.
That's just the beginning. Now the major part of the game begins. Pantries are not open every day and lately they've also been running out of food. More importantly, you may not be able to get there when they are open. So, like any good game, you'll need a strategy and a plan.
Still got a car? Great! You can drive to the food pantry and depending on their inventory you may get enough food for a day or two. No, car? It's public transportation or spring for a car service. Call before you leave to check if food is available. Also ask when they open and get there early to be sure you get your share.
Big events, like FBSJ's Hope Mobile are a godsend as you'll pick up 5 days of food in one stop. But chances like this don't come every day, or every week, just once a month. Deborah, Joan and Paul all drove 20 miles, about 30 minutes, each way to get to the Browns Mills Hope Mobile. They were early birds and waited just three hours to receive about $50 worth of food.
So, to win the Hunger Game, you will gather information on where the pantries are and when they are open. You will talk to a counselor at your child's school and enroll your children in whatever programs may be available. You will get pre-qualified with the local food bank. If you're an older citizen or physically disabled you may be able to get your food delivered, if possible, or a senior center or other nearby agency to relieve you of the need to stand in line.
The Hunger Game comes with an excellent support feature. You are not alone. Organizations like the FBSJ and other Feeding America organizations are playing the game and they're on your side. Besides procuring surplus food and donations to buy food for you, they are also working every day to figure out who is hungry, where they are and how to get food to them as easily as possible.
For example, demand for food and the need to get more food to more people spawned the Hope Mobile.
Preston Beckley the Hope Mobile Program Manager at FBSJ is obviously proud of the good work and success of the Browns Mills event. Not only have 600 pre-qualified families received food, another 28 families were qualified at this event. That's well over 1,300 people getting food they need in one quick shot.
Next year, FBSJ's Beckley plans to expand the program from 9 sites to 16 sites. "There's a real need and it's increasing. With this program we are able to supplement pantries that can't keep up with the increased need. We can also bring the truck to places that have no pantry."
That's the point of many of the FBSJ's programs: find ways to get the food to the needy. For seniors it's home delivery. For school children it was a weekend supply of food for the child, but that soon turned into a program of school based pantries were parents could obtain a weekend supply of food for the entire family. FBSJ supplies food to over 200 agencies, homeless shelters, soup kitchens, special services, church and faith based organizations in their four New Jersey county service area.
Nobody wants to see an important donated resource, like food or food stamps, turned into a nefarious business enterprise. But why do people have to prove they are in need, a reasonable requirement, but also spend excessive amounts of time and money to get help?
The Hunger Game shouldn't just be about getting food. It's getting food, keeping a job, working toward a self-sustaining future, getting the necessary education and to the point where you can afford all the necessities of life on your own.
Eliminating the Hunger Game
If hunger is the problem, food is the answer and the Food bank of South Jersey is just one of over 200 such non-profit organizations that serve all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, distributing more than 2.5 billion pounds of food and grocery products annually under the national organization Feeding America.
Traore's organization is the hub of an intricate, charitable food distribution system designed to provide sustenance to anyone hungry in four south Jersey counties when money for food is scarce.
Hers is part of a shadow system to the gigantic profit driven arrangement that has made relatively inexpensive food easily available everywhere. They do a great job at minimal administrative cost and deserve your support.
Shouldn't there be a better way? After all, there are already large caches of food nearly everywhere in places called supermarkets, wholesale clubs and big box department stores? I put that question to Traore and she agreed.
"I'm sure our services are not accessible to everyone who needs emergency food in our area and that's a function of logistics," confessed Traore. So, what can be done?
"My wild idea is that certain food, what I call ground provisions," explains Traore, "should be free and available at all major food outlets." She defines "ground food" as basic, no frills food stuffs. A protein, maybe chicken, maybe just dark meat chicken, though I believe people deserve a whole chicken, a meal and soup after. Flour or basic bread. A green vegetable and a fruit, canned if not otherwise. Milk.
Under Traore's proposal, everyone would have a ground food provision that could be electronically tracked. You would "purchase" up to your provision limit monthly, or not use it at all. That's it. Have a food emergency? Tap your ground food provision. Need to supplement your food supply? Tap your ground food provision. Feel entitled to food Just because you are human, even if you're a millionaire? Tap you ground food provision. Nobody goes hunger. Nobody is put out. Nobody is wasting other valuable resources, like time and fuel, in the pursuit of a self-sustainable life here in America.
You know it's so crazy Traore's scheme just might work and be a boon to the economy.


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After 10-years of trying, we went through IVF and it cost around $25K. The cycle failed and our options are another cycle or donor eggs.
After viewing IVF success rates carefully at various clinics, I believe that people must plan for at least 2 or 3 cycles before they are going to have a high probability of success. At this rate, we're looking at $75K+ for expenses!
My questions to everyone out there: Are most of you paying for all this yourselves or is insurance paying for this? I can understanding doing 3 cycles if insurance is paying for it, but for 90% of the people out there, coming up with this kind of cash is very difficult.
Also, having gone through an IVF now, I believe that it is (for the most part) a cook-book process. For example, you have three options as far as the cycle, then you have some choices for the fertilization etc. Has anyone thought to ask WHY is this so expensive? Because looking at it logically, there is nothing that seems so earth-shattering new, especially 30-years later after the first IVF. Or, is this the case of the doctor's just milking it for what they can?
My only comparison is when vision corrective surgery came out, it was very expensive. Now, you can get it for about $2K per eye! Besides the lower equipment costs, the majority of costs in these procedures are doctor's fees, which inevitably go down as the number of doctors who perform these procedures increase. Based on this, my only conclusion is that IVF will drop in cost in the next 5-10 years as the number of doctors who perform this procedure increase--unless of course the doctors figure out a way to limit the number of doctors (competitors) that will do this. Once again, it's the AMA controlling costs by controlling supply.
Anyway, we're thinking about what to do next, and going abroad to a reputable clinic seems to be a good option for getting IVF done at a fraction of the cost ($7,500), which seems very reasonable. The cost of the medicine is about the same, but the doctor fees are A LOT less, and at this point, it just seems like a probability game.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- One of the biggest donors to Paul Ryan's political action committee told Romney campaign officials they need to tighten, not loosen, U.S. financial regulation.
Billionaire Paul Singer -- founder and chief executive officer of hedge fund Elliott Management Corp. and one of the Republican Party's most influential donors -- said the presumptive GOP presidential nominee and running mate Ryan should make a case for tougher bank regulation.
He called for regulation that would go beyond that of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act -- signed into law by President Barack Obama July 21, 2010, and touted as among the most significant reforms of U.S. financial regulation since regulatory reforms that followed the Great Depression.
Singer said in his quarterly investor letter, which he sent to Romney officials with a plea to make the case, that Dodd-Frank was "ill-conceived" and could cause a financial "black hole."
Instead, Singer said he wanted more stringent capital requirements and a regulatory framework that forces big banks to be more transparent about liabilities and assets, debts and financing activities not on company balance sheets.
"Conservatives who believe in free markets should also believe in sound fair markets," Singer told the Financial Times in an interview published Thursday.
"Private reward and public risk is not what conservatives should want," he said.
"It is the big, highly leveraged financial institutions which are opaque and were instrumental in the financial collapse," Singer told the newspaper. "They will likely lobby against the fixes that I believe are necessary. But the fixes are essential. If they do not occur, the next financial crisis could be similar to the last one, but perhaps more sudden and intense."
The Romney campaign said in a statement Romney would "implement a sensible, streamlined regulatory framework that doesn't overly burden small banks or hurt small businesses."
"This regulation will include enhanced capital requirements and greater transparency for our financial institutions," the statement said, adding Romney believed the current regulatory system was "poorly equipped to deal with dynamic and evolving markets."
Singer, who turns 68 Aug. 22, told the Financial Times he had no political ambitions. When asked if he would take a role in a Romney administration, he said he had no interest in serving in government and would run his $16 billion hedge fund.
Elliott Management investment adviser Dan Senor, a Singer colleague, was recently appointed a top Romney foreign policy adviser.
Singer told the newspaper he also disagrees with Romney and Ryan on same-sex marriage, supporting efforts to legalize it in four states voting on the issue in November.
He said he has given nearly $10 million to gay rights causes.
Singer has a son who is gay and married his partner in Massachusetts, where same-sex marriage is legal.
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"I feel very strongly that Republicans are right on most issues. With continued work on marriage equality, I hope to persuade more Republicans of its rightness too," he said.


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1 (16 oz) bag of broccoli
3-4 medium potatoes
2 Tbsp onion soup mix or soup of your liking
2 eggs
½ cup milk
1 salt and pepper to taste
2 oz (approx grated cheese (optional)
Place frozen broccoli in a strainer. Run hot water over it briefly to start it defrosting, then let it sit and drain while you go on to step 2.
Peel and boil the potatoes until they are soft enough to mash. Smash the potatoes. Need not be thorough because they will get more smashed in following steps.
Combine the eggs, milk, soup mix, and seasoning. Mix well.
Pour about 1/3 of the liquid into the potatoes and mash it together.
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Marty Jannetty has been through it all in his wrestling career both in and out of the ring. He opens up and talks about everything in thisShoot Interview. Jannetty discusses it all from his most famous angles and matches, but he really goes into details on the party scene. Jannetty and Shawn Michaels had some crazy times together and Jannetty talks about them all here!!! This is a must for any HBK fan as you'll learn all about life as his tag team partner. Jannetty covers it all from working early territories to Japan to AWA to WWE and gives insightful opinions on all these promotions. This could be the best Shoot Interview ever for road, party and prank stories!!! You'll laugh, you'll hear information you've never heard before and you'll definitely learn something with this must see Shoot Interview. Here are the topics discussed:
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-Thoughts on Harley Race
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-Who he learned the most from while in Japan
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-How and where he first met Shawn Michaels
-Initial thoughts of Shawn
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-Story about Marty & Shawn partying with some girls at a hotel in St. Louis
-Going to AWA
-Story about being at a lounge with some girls and Bob Geigel walks in
-How Curt Hennig helped him out
-Story of Marty, Shawn, & Curt in a casino where Shawn hit the jackpot
-Who came up with the Midnight Rockers name
-How Verne Gagne reacted to crowd size dwindling
-Thoughts on Jimmy Snuka
-Story of ribbing wrestlers by locking their bags to different places
-Stories of ribbing Nick Bockwinkel
-Learning to work long matches without losing the crowd
-What Paul Heyman was like during his AWA days
-Memories of the feud with Bad Company vs. Midnight Rockers
-Thoughts on Dallas Page
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-Story of what they did when getting pulled over for speeding
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Outstanding news for our video-game fanatics out there: The long-gestating Metal Gear Solid movie, which has been on again and off again for years, officially is back on.
At a Metal Gear anniversary event in Tokyo, Konami declared that the movie finally is moving forward at Columbia Pictures. According to Kotaku.com, uber-producer Avi Arad (The Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man, X-Men and X2) will guide the film to the big screen, as revealed by Japanese game director Hideo Kojima.
"Comic books are now biggest genre in cinema, Video games are the comic books of today," Arad said, before easing Metal Gear fans' minds by reassuring, "We will take our time and tell the story with all the nuances, ideology, cautionary tales needed."
This is, by no means, a reassurance that the film actually is guaranteed to happen, however, presentations like this (with names like Arad attached) amount to more than the usual dog-and-pony show. But Metal Gear joins a short list of successful video-game franchises waiting for their shot at silver-screen fortunes. Uncharted and Mass Effect are two such properties that seem like natural translations to feature length. However, for every Tomb Raider, there's a disastrous Doom, Max Payne or Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time serving as a cautious reminder for Hollywood not to mess up.
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Department of Revenue News Release
November 17, 2010Interested Bidders Will Have Until Dec. 17 to Submit Proposals to Manage Warsaw License Office
JEFFERSON CITY - Interested groups or individuals will have until Dec. 17 to bid to operate the Warsaw Motor Vehicle and License Office.
The Office of Administration issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) on Friday asking for bids to manage the office. The office, located at 237 W. Main St., will remain open under the guidance of the current agent, Wanda Brown, until at least through the end of the year.
Brown was recently elected to be the new state representative in the 116th House District. She will be sworn into her new office on January 5th. At that time, she will have to relinquish her role as agent in accordance with state laws that prohibit members of the state legislature from performing services for state agencies.
Alana M. Barragán-Scott, director of the Missouri Department of Revenue, noted that the transition from Brown to another agent should go smoothly.
"Wanda has done an outstanding job as the agent for the Warsaw office, and the Department of Revenue wishes her the best in her new role as a state legislator," she said. "People or groups that are interested in managing the office will have until Dec. 17th to submit bids to the Office of Administration, and the proposals will then be evaluated by a review team at the Department of Revenue. The proposal that scores best in the areas of customer service, business experience, office location and other criteria is the one that will be chosen."
During Fiscal Year 2010 (July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010), the Warsaw office conducted an estimated 35,838 transactions and generated about $120,005 in agent processing fees.
Common transactions that take place at local license offices include renewing or applying for a driver license, renewing or applying for registration on motor vehicles, boats and outboard motors, and applying for titles and paying sales taxes on these units.
A copy of the RFP that bidders will use to develop their bids can be viewed at https://www.moolb.mo.gov/. To review an RFP, select "Guest" on the home page, click on "Open Bids By Agency," then scroll through the list of bids until the appropriate bid is located. (The bid number for the Warsaw office is B3Z11082.) Additional information regarding the bidding process can be obtained at http://oa.mo.gov/purch/vendorinfo/DORoffices.pdf or by calling OA at (573) 751-2387.
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You can use shortcuts to insert accented characters and common symbols into your Word documents. For example, you can type deja vu or get fancy and type déjà vu or café or résumé.
Diacritical symbols appear over certain letters in foreign languages and in foreign words borrowed into English. To create a diacritical symbol when you're typing in Word 2007, you press a special Control-key combination. The one you press somewhat represents the diacritical symbol you need, such as Ctrl+' to produce a ' diacritical. The Ctrl-key combination is followed by the character that needs the new "hat."
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"Ladies First" – in 2019, and for the fourth time, our amazing Iron Girls will open the doors to the great annual triathlon weekend in Kraichgau. We are calling to all the IRONKIDS Mums, IRONMAN Wives and Girlfriends, and all the sporty women of the region to battle it out on our 6KM run. No matter if you just started running or are already an experienced runner, regardless of your age, no matter if you want to chase a new personal best or just spend a nice evening with your girlfriends – don't miss this opportunity to join the competition and have a fun race supported by your loved ones.
Before the start, our DJ will heat up the atmosphere and give you the best energy and a push for your run, and after reaching the finish line a well-deserved glass of champagne and your Iron Girl Medal will be awaiting you. Additionally, all registrants will of course also receive the obligatory Iron Girl Shirt.
On top of our individual ranking, 2019 Iron Girl Kraichgau also welcomes you to race as a team – "Best-Friends-Team", "Sisters-Team" and "Mother-Daughter-Team" – pick your category and register together to show up in the team ranking in order to win the Best-Friends-, Sisters- or Mother-Daughter-AWARDS.
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Jacqui Boland started Red Tricycle in Seattle six years ago when she was pregnant with her son, creating an online city guide for new parents who wanted to discover restaurants, day trips, events and other activities for families.
Today, Red Tricycle boasts nearly 400,000 email subscribers, attracting about a million page views per month to its network of Web sites for parents in Seattle, New York, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco and LA.
Boland built the media business on her own, never taking outside capital, riding instead on the coattails of national advertisers like Disney, Old Navy, Microsoft and hundreds of local advertisers who loved the company's core demographic of mothers. (National advertisers now make up about 45 percent of Red Tricycle's advertising).
"When I launched Red Tricycle in 2006, I wasn't sure at the time if I was starting a hobby or a nice little work-from-home-business for myself in Seattle, or whether I was building a business to scale," says Boland. But that question now appears to have been answered.
Red Tricycle's bootstrapping days are a thing of the past, and the little trike that could is getting a bit of rocket fuel.
Seattle venture capital firm Maveron is leading a $1.5 million investment in the startup, with angel investors such as MTV founder Bob Pittman; entrepreneur Jason Calacanis; Gmail creator Paul Buchheit and Dave McClure of 500 Startups also participating.
Perhaps even more interesting is that Zulily, the Seattle daily deal service for moms, which just scored its own $85 million venture round earlier this month, joined the deal as well. The two companies also have entered into a commercial marketing agreement that will connect the commerce piece of Zulily with the content piece of Red Tricycle.
That alliance makes a lot of sense, but Boland declined to go into specifics since the particulars are still in the works.
"We are going to be showcasing that in the next couple of months, so you will see Zulily and Red Tricycle working on a plan for content integration and distribution," said Boland, a former advertising manager for Where Magazine and San Francisco Magazine.
Red Tricycle plans to use the cash to expand to new cities, revamp the Web site and better cater to a growing mobile audience, since Boland notes that about a third of visitors interact with the company's content offerings on a mobile device. It also plans to experiment by hosting its own events for families.
Catering to busy moms, Red Tricycle is pedaling forward in a market which has seen some notable acquisitions in recent years, namely CNET's purchase of UrbanBaby in 2006 and Comcast's acquisition of DailyCandy for $125 million in 2009. (Interestingly, MTV's Pittman also was a backer of DailyCandy).
With that consolidation wave a few years ago, Boland said she saw "a real opportunity in the marketplace" to better serve the 34 million moms in the U.S. with children under the age of eight. She hired a business partner to help with expansion, quickly launching in San Francisco and other cities.
From January 2010 to September 2011, the company ramped from 18,000 email subscribers to 200,000 subscribers.
"We felt we had enough of a business model to raise some money," said Boland, adding that a number of investors, including Calacanis, discovered the company first as users of the newsletter or Web site.
The 7-person company (which also has a network of nine sale reps and 50 freelance writers) is no longer based in Seattle, with Boland relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband a few years ago. But given the Zulily partnership and investment from Maveron, Boland notes that she'll be spending more time in Seattle.
As a result of the financing round, Maveron's Jason Stofer is joining the Red Tricycle board.
"As an investor and as a father, I believe the company is solving a real problem for busy parents," said Stofer. "From day one, we've heard from parents about how passionate they are about Red Tricycle."


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Sugar and spice and everything nice, that's what little girls are made of. Ice cream and toppings and candies to choose among, that what's good times taste like.
This ice-cream sundae baby shower was so much fun to pull together for my friend Caitlin last fall. Since it was her second babe, she wanted a small, low key affair, which turned into an ice cream and movie night. Decorations were basically confined to the sundae bar itself, making for really easy set up.
I printed out ice cream scoops with girly phrases and propped them inside sugar cones. Sprinkle-covered cone wraps were cute and helped stabilize the cones from falling over since they were pretty light without actual ice cream. Pincushion cupcakes (reused from a supper club) helped push the sweets to the extreme.
And the rest was very self-explanatory: Scoop it, Sprinkle it, Candy it, Top it. The directions were simple cone designs I propped in upside down cones. All in all a really sweet night honoring this amazing mom and her (now born) wonderful daughter.


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Prepared Remarks for Convocation 2011
Chancellor Susan J. Koch
August 18, 2011
Thank you all for coming to this University of Illinois Springfield Fall 2011 Convocation. I want to offer a special welcome today to all of our faculty and staff who are new to the UIS community. I hope you feel, as I do, that you have made a brilliant decision in becoming part of this very fine institution as we begin our fifth decade of enriching the lives of our students and making a difference in the world.
Today I want to reflect on our history, our mission, and our future. In a few minutes, I'd also like to recognize some special guests, but first I'd like to tell you one brief story that may help explain (in part) how I got from the Dakota prairie of my childhood to this liberal arts university here in Illinois.
As was my mother, my father was the first and only member of his family to attend college. He was one of five children of an electrician and a homemaker and the grandson of a coal miner from Spring Valley, Illinois. He joyously embraced the liberal education that he was fortunate to receive in the 1930s at a public university here in our state. (And by the way, the only reason he was able to attend college was that he was very good at sports!) That opportunity changed his life and the lives of his entire family forever. He went on to become a college professor, and he insisted on a university education for his own five children. He wanted each of us to achieve, as Wendell Berry describes in his book, Home Economics, the mandate of a university education, "becoming responsible heirs and members of human culture."
My liberal education, and that of my brothers and sisters, however, began long before our university experiences; with books and musical instruments and dinner table conversations and travels from our small-town home in South Dakota to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. My father was our intellectual mentor and, though we lived far out on the Dakota prairies–the very prairies that Meridel LeSueur referred to as "the waste and ashes of pioneerin"–he expected us to THINK and to have IDEAS and above all, to USE OUR IMAGINATIONS.
But for me, a turning point in my early intellectual life was provided not by my father, but by a neighbor whose name was John Vaughn. John and I shared the steps at the Carnegie Library every Saturday morning, a man of about 30, a girl of nine; waiting to trade in our books for the next week's worth of fantasy. John was unusual. Even on the hottest summer days, he wore the same clothing: a tired brown plaid wool shirt under bib overalls, tattered boots inside five-buckle galoshes, and a canvas hunting cap with earflaps and a string. With his grizzled beard and shaggy hair, it was no wonder that local boys made fun of him as he walked alone around our small town, mimicking his hulking steps, a burlesque behind his back.
My mother instructed me firmly to "Be polite" and said that "John had a hard life." So I always said "Good morning," and when the library door was opened he held the door for me in a courtly manner before proceeding to the large oak table near the newspapers. He would still be sitting there reading when I later checked out my books for the following week.
Our weekly convenings on the steps of the library went on for a very long time, and I began to wonder what it was about those newspapers that held such fascination for my unusual "library companion." So one day (and I don't remember how old I was by then) instead of checking out my books, I sat down at the table across from John. He looked up with kind eyes and then pushed a section of the paper across the table. It was the travel section of the New York Times.
So much for the "waste and ashes of pioneering!" The Travel Section of the New York Times, along with the Science, Arts, Style, Opinion, Business and, yes, the news sections became the fuel that fired my imagination and provided the threads that connected me to innovations beyond anything I could ever have imagined.
Though we never had a conversation, from that Saturday onward, my neighbor John and I connected weekly across that broad oak table at the Carnegie Library, sliding sections of the New York Times back and forth until all had been consumed. I remain a devoted fan of the NYT today (though I read more of it online that in print) and I will be forever grateful to my strange neighbor, John Vaughn, for introducing me to ideas and innovations so far beyond the boundaries of my own geography. This was my introduction to a liberal education–in a small-town library in South Dakota, no waste or ashes in sight.
As I stand here today, deeply honored to serve as chancellor of the University of Illinois Springfield, I feel as if I have arisen from that chair in the library still very much energized by the power of ideas, imagination and innovation. I'll come back to that a little later.
Since this is my first convocation at UIS, I want to recognize the service and the achievements of the presidents and chancellors who have come before me, especially Dr. Harry Berman, who served so ably as interim chancellor this past year; Dr. Richard Ringeisen, chancellor the past ten years who was kind enough to stop by for a visit a few weeks ago; and Dr. Naomi Lynn, who left a legacy of outstanding leadership and careful stewardship here on our campus.
I also want to welcome some special guests who have joined us today:
- Member of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees, UIS alumna and great friend to our university, Karen Hasara;
- Dean and provost of Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Dr. Kevin Dorsey;
- President and CEO, Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce, Gary Plummer;
- President of Lincoln Land Community College, Dr. Charlotte Warren;
- Dr. Tih-Fen Ting, chair of the Campus Senate;
- Jerry Burkhart, chair of the Academic Professional Advisory Committee;
- Bobbi Fults, Chair of the Civil Service Advisory Council; and
- UIS' Student Government Association President, Erin Wilson.
Please join me in welcoming these special guests to our convocation.
And I am delighted to welcome some special international partners who are with us today from the University of The Gambia:
- Professor Kah, president of the University of The Gambia;
- Dr. Kuye, head of the Department of Public and Environmental Health;
- Mr. Maneh, University Secretary; and
- Mr. Ofosuhene, Director of Finance.
I'd also like to welcome my "personal" special guest, my husband, Dennis Koch.
I also want to offer a special welcome to any faculty emeriti, university retirees and alums who may be with us today. As I have read the founding documents of our university during the past few weeks, I have developed a deep appreciation for your contributions as past faculty, staff and students. These contributions are part of your legacy and our history. I want you to know that we appreciate what you have done, and I am grateful for your continued interest and commitment.
I also need to take a moment to thank so many of you who talked with me about the university during my candidacy, who have so warmly welcomed Dennis and me to the campus and to the community, and who have worked so diligently to insure a smooth transition of leadership during the past several months. That includes:
- the members of the Chancellor Search Committee, especially Search Committee Chair, Dr. Tih-Fen Ting,
- President Mike Hogan, Board of Trustees Chair Chris Kennedy,
- Trustee Hasara and other members of the board,
- members of the Chancellor's Office staff, Interim Provost Lynn Pardie, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Tim Barnett, and the other members of the UIS leadership team,
- so many of you who have provided guided orientations of your particular area of the campus, (My goal is to get into every building on campus, so don't worry, if I have not been to your location yet, it will happen soon.)
- and those of you who have kindly tolerated my unexpectedly joining you for lunch in the cafeteria.
Thank you all
During my first week on campus, two students took my husband and me around, and I asked them to give us not only the usual campus tour, but also to take us to some of their favorite places. Guess what? I'll bet I saw some things that those of you who've been here for many years have yet to see! So a special thanks to Dan and Brandon for the inside story on our campus!
I must tell you that in all these interactions these past few weeks; my earliest impressions of the University of Illinois Springfield have proved consistent and true. This is a university that lives its commitment every day to provide an intellectually rich and collaborative learning environment for students as well as for faculty and staff, and it is a university that is serving its communities from local to global. It's great to be here, and I look forward to our work together in the coming years.
Part of my self-assigned work as your new chancellor has been to understand our history. I have read our founding documents from the 1960s and early 1970s, and one in particular was a memorandum written just three months after we first opened our doors in a downtown church in the fall of 1970. It was President Robert C. Spencer writing to the Academic Vice President regarding "considerations in appointing new faculty."
One word from that memo already has made a lasting impression on me. That word is innovation. The first president of then-Sangamon State University framed the university's commitment to students, to teaching, to research, to shared governance, and to "a respect for an involvement with the world of work" as "contributing to the university's mandate to be an innovative institution."
As I have been reflecting on those founding documents and more importantly, on the road ahead, it seems to me that there is no better word to frame this particular moment in time and this Convocation 2011 than the word that was actually the original mandate of this university: innovation.
Innovation is most certainly going to be required of us if we are to live up to the mission and vision of our own campus and of the University of Illinois, one of the preeminent public universities in our nation.
We've already come a long way since 1970!
- From 45 faculty then to 209 as of yesterday.
- From 811 students to about 5,200 this fall – if our projections hold true.
- From 12 academic programs to a total of 44 different degrees.
- From a campus with those few small metal buildings on the east side (I've heard them called "temporary"; but that appears to be a relative term), to a campus growing so much that every building west of where I am now standing – the residence halls and the townhouses – as well as the two major facilities south of us – University Hall and The Recreation and Athletic Center – have all been built in the past 10 years.
- From a university where the Internet did not exist to one where online and blended education have become so important that one-third of our enrollments this fall will be from students who are totally online.
The excellence and success of our online programs is the envy of higher education institutions around the world; thanks to the innovative efforts of many of you faculty and staff who are contributing to that effort!
Our public affairs emphasis here in the state capital of Illinois is providing a unique and high-caliber educational experience for future leaders — innovation again!
And don't even get me started listing all of the achievements of our faculty, staff, students and alums (though I wish I had time to do it). I am just beginning to know those achievements myself, but I think we can probably agree that we've taken that "innovation" charge pretty darned seriously in our first forty-one years!
But as we look ahead, perhaps the appropriate question is: "How will we interpret that original innovation mandate for the coming decade? How will we continue to create that "brilliant future" for our students that was promised in our 2006 Strategic Plan? How will we employ our innovation mandate to deliver on our mission and provide every undergraduate and graduate student an intellectually rich, collaborative and intimate learning experience while we serving our local, regional, state, national and international communities?"
With that "innovation mandate" in mind today, I'd like to suggest that, at least for starters, we need go no further for inspiration than that 2006 strategic plan! Let me be clear: I might be able to provide comfort to many in this audience today (though I reserve the right to change my mind if needed) by not calling for a new strategic plan.
But I do think it's time for us to re-examine that document, to refresh it as needed and to imbed into it even more fully the innovation mandate so necessary for our university's continued advancement; particularly given the changes in the higher education environment in our country and in our state that have occurred since the plan was first developed in 2006.
Just over a year ago in our 2010 Strategic Plan Progress Report to the Board of Trustees, we described many areas of progress. To name a few:
- Under Goal 1 –Academic Excellence – we were named the best
public university at the Masters Level in the state of Illinois!
- Under Goal 2 – Enriching Individual Lives — we reported the largest number of students ever participating in Study Abroad programs.
- Under Goal 5 – Enrollment and Retention – we reported record enrollments, topping 5,000 students for the first time, including strong upward trends in minority student enrollments.
But much remains to be done! I am aware that all of the colleges have created their own strategic plans in accord with the UIS plan, and so did many divisions and units such as Student Affairs. It's going to take a little time for us to sort out exactly where we are, what we need to refresh, what we need to add, and how we will do that. I will have more to say about the process in the weeks to come, after consulting with campus leadership.
In the meantime, we must continue to vigorously pursue academic excellence, enriching individual lives, making a difference in the world, strengthening our campus culture, pushing forward on enrollment and retention, and developing the necessary resources and infrastructure to support our educational endeavors. These are the six goals in our strategic plan and they are worthy ones.
We have to act energetically and creatively even as we continue our careful planning. We can't afford to wait, because our students have needs right now, our faculty and staff have needs right now and the higher education environment in Illinois and in the nation is becoming more challenging and competitive.
To our credit, we have documented many successes in implementing the strategic plan of 2006. But in re-examining that plan we will surely find important goals and dreams yet to be implemented. That's why a campus dialogue is so necessary.
What I am so hopeful about is that our strategic plan will continue to provide a launching pad for us to be innovative, because that is what we need it to do.
And I want to take a few moments today to talk specifically about enrollment. The fifth goal in our strategic plan, "Enrollment and Retention," says that we will improve access and opportunity and that we will enroll, retain and graduate a larger and more diverse student body engaged in both classroom and technology-enhanced education. We set a goal of having 6,000 on-campus students, and I want you to know that I endorse this goal. I believe we need to grow the number of students on campus if we are to be successful in implementing our mission more fully. We also need to increase our on-campus enrollment because our community and our state need more college-educated citizens.
And because it's clear that we are so successful with online classes and programs, we need to have a serious conversation about the growth of both on-campus and online programs. This combination of online and on-ground programs may be the wave of the future at other universities; but at UIS it is the present. Students have embraced online and blended learning. For many of our students, it is the essential key to access to a college degree. Our faculty (with the support of talented staff) do it very, very well, and a conversation about the "what next" is important for us to continue in our international leadership role.
There are at least two other reasons regarding enrollment that we need to focus on:
One has to do with our vision and mission of being a diverse community. Again, we can document significant progress and success in this area. Our minority student enrollments have grown significantly, and we are doing a better job of supporting our minority and LGBTQ communities with professional staff and student services. But we can and must do better. I am not satisfied, for example, with the diversity of our workforce. We need a more diverse faculty and staff, and I am pleased that President Michael Hogan agrees. We will be participating in the coming year in a university-wide effort to increase the diversity of the faculty in our community, and we need to have a conversation about expanding that effort across all aspects of our community. Diversity matters to all of us, it matters to our board and it matters to our state. It must be a priority.
Living in a global community requires us to increase our international outreach – bringing more international students to UIS, having more of our students benefiting from global experiences and integrating a global perspective throughout our curriculum. I am pleased that we are engaging colleagues and students from China, India, Vietnam, Poland, Mongolia and now Gambia. The more internationally diverse we become, the richer the educational experience that we provide will be.
Another thing I want to say about enrollment: In order to continue to grow and provide a continuously rich intellectual environment, our efforts at innovation must also include examination of the programs we offer and new programs that we ought to offer to meet the demands of our times and our students. This is the approach that our charter faculty members and administrators took in designing innovative programs in the past. We have the same chance to be innovative and forward-looking, but in a competitive higher education environment where resources must be carefully allocated and re-allocated, we will need to be both strategic and decisive. So I am calling on the university community to look at your strategic plans and goals, listen to your advisory board and alums, consider national trends and other relevant data – and see where that might lead us.
Our founding documents mandated that we should be a public affairs university as well as one focused on the liberal arts. That public affairs mandate has taken some twists and turns during our first four decades. While there has been some shift toward a stronger liberal arts emphasis (and our COPLAC membership is evidence of that), I want to acknowledge that I am pleased that UIS has never lost its public affairs emphasis. This is a terrific example of our university asking itself that very important question so central to, as Jim Collins says, moving from "good to great." That question is: "What can we be best at in the world?" Given our location in the state capital of Illinois and the home of Abraham Lincoln, we certainly can and should be "best at" public affairs. We have always said that we can do public affairs within the scope of a liberal arts institution, and we have done that well.
There is another topic from our founding documents, however, that over the years, seems almost to have been forgotten. I haven't been here long enough to know the whole story, but I find it worthy of bringing to your attention today. Originally, the Illinois Board of Higher Education also called on this university to – and I quote–"take advantage of the existing medical facilities in Springfield as [we] plan programs in the allied health fields." Look around. In central Illinois, state government as an industry is slightly shrinking while still critically important, and medicine and health care are expanding exponentially – health care may soon overtake state government as the biggest local employer.
According to a recent article in the State Journal-Register, the health-care industry in the Springfield area generates almost $2.5 billion a year in direct and indirect economic activity and shows great potential for the future. According to an analysis by the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce, despite the nationwide recession, the health care industry in our area will continue to grow and provide employment opportunities in a wide variety of professions.
So as we refresh our strategic plans, I am asking the university community to be mindful of what might have been prophetic wisdom from the IBHE forty years ago when it asked us to serve the needs of the health care industry in this region. Perhaps we have not been innovative enough in these areas.
And finally, I cannot leave the issue of enrollment without saying a few words about the cost of higher education for our students and their families. When I attended undergraduate school at a public liberal arts college in South Dakota, the cost of attendance was about $250 per semester, the state provided about 90 percent of the cost of my education and I completed my undergraduate degree with no debt. Today, that $250 would not even cover a single credit hour at the University of Illinois Springfield. This fall, a freshman in-state undergraduate student will pay over $4,000 for a full slate of courses. State support for higher education now covers less than half of the costs, and the average student debt for an Illinois undergraduate upon degree completion is $18,500! We need more scholarships to help provide access to a University of Illinois degree for qualified students. We need more scholarships to help us be competitive. And with the expertise of our development staff working with me and with our deans and others, with the commitment of our alumni and friends of the university in Springfield and beyond, and with your support, we will increase the number and size of our need and merit-based scholarships provided for our students. I intend to lead by example, and I can assure you I will not be shy about asking for support for our students.
I hope you can see that the theme of innovation is intertwined and inseparable from the need to refresh and revise our strategic plan, and that planning strategically for growth is central to our discussions.
Before I bring my remarks to a close today, I want to raise one more strategic issue that has been on my mind these first weeks as I have been getting to know the campus. That issue is Goal Four of our strategic plan – "Strengthening our Campus Culture." This goal describes the need for us to provide an intellectual rich and culturally diverse campus environment that will enhance our students' educational experience and that will also serve as a social, cultural and educational resource for the community. I don't have a full understanding yet of the progress we have been making in that regard; but I can tell you from my own past experience on two other university campuses, opportunities for students to participate in and be exposed to music and theater, the visual arts, intercollegiate athletics, service learning, volunteering, student organizations and intercultural experiences are very important elements of the university experience.
I am reminded of my own oldest daughter, who attended a very fine liberal arts institution and is now the Senior Advisor for Peacekeeping for the United Nations. When asked what elements of her college experience have meant the most to her success she always says that while in college:
1) she learned to write very well, 2) she learning languages, 3) she volunteered, and 4) she was a collegiate athlete — a competitive swimmer. The first two elements were clearly academic and provided her with the basic intellectual skills of her professional life; the volunteering gave her a broader experience of the world (and caused her to meet Madeline Albright who offered her first job), and the collegiate athletics provided the discipline, the competitiveness, the time-management and a set of lifelong friends.
Each of you plays an important role in strengthening our campus culture. One simple but effective way to do this is to connect your work, whatever that work is, to our mission. If you are a supervisor, make connections for your staff every day between the importance of their work and that bigger mission of providing a rich, collaborative and intimate learning environment for our students. Martin Luther King once said: If you are street sweeper, your should sweep the streets like Michelangelo painted or Beethoven wrote music. You should sweep the streets so well that the heavens will rise up and say, "Here is a street sweeper who does his or her job very well."
If we all connect our tasks to our mission, we will deliver on that mission for our students, UIS will be a more enriching place to work and we will be visible and more appreciated in the communities beyond our campus.
Let me close today with a favorite saying of someone near and dear to our academic community. He taught journalism at our university in the early 1970s, and he also created one of our most successful programs, the Master's Program in Public Affairs Reporting, which provides students the unique opportunity to work alongside professional journalists in the state capitol while pursuing their degrees. I am referring to the late Paul Simon, who left UIS to run successfully for Congress and then became a United States senator. One of Simon's favorite sayings was very simple, but profound: "We can do better." He wrote a book with that title and he believed with all his heart and all his passion that every citizen and society as a whole could do better in every imaginable way. He spent his life trying to do just that. He challenged his colleagues in Congress to do better, and he taught his students the same thing.
Our Board of Trustees Chair, Chris Kennedy, echoed this sentiment at our July board retreat when he said: "We want our university to be the best at what it does in everything that it does."
We are justifiably proud of many aspects of our university: we share a deep commitment to the ideas and the ideals of the liberal arts, because we understand that these are the underpinnings of an educated and productive citizen; our faculty and staff take a personal interest in students both within the classroom and beyond in student life, in athletics, in the arts, and in the community. I have been impressed in the short time I have been on campus with the dedication of our faculty to excellence in teaching and with the quality of the scholarship that we produce. I have become aware of the many important functions that our Academic Professionals serve throughout our organization and also of the many contributions of our Civil Service staff.
The depth and breadth of our engagement with public affairs and with the preparation of professionals to serve in leadership positions in both the public and private sectors is well known, and the excellence of our online learning initiatives are the envy of the rest of the country. But if our former colleague were here today, I believe he would say to us, as I say to you now: we can do better.
As we begin this academic year, 2011; I invite you to engage with me in determining how we can best do better.
- What are we passionate about?
- What can we be "best at in the world?"
- How can we build on our strengths and create new ones?
- How can we better serve the needs of our students?
- How can we better serve the needs of our communities and the needs of the state of Illinois and beyond?
- How can we best create a campus culture that contributes to the intellectual, cultural, social and personal enrichment of every member of our community?
- How can we make that valuable University of Illinois diploma even more valuable?
I will be listening to you in the coming months because one thing I have learned in nearly 30 years in higher education is that leadership is about collective wisdom used strategically.
If my old "friend" John Vaughn were on our campus today, I think he might be on the third floor of Brookens Library, still reading newspapers. And if he were, I might join him from time to time, sit across the table from him and slide a few sections of the New York Times back and forth. I also like to think we would have a conversation (something we never did at the Carnegie Library), a conversation not only about what was newsworthy that particular day; but also about things that matter, taking advantage of our collective wisdom and experience.
I invite you to join me at that table. Let's light the fires of our imagination. Let's reinvent together that innovation mandate that drove the founders of our university. Innovation is critical for us, and I am very confident that our collective wisdom will guide our university to a brilliant future; a future that will deliver on the promise that we have made to our students and to the citizens of Illinois.
Thank you for what you do every day to deliver on that promise to our students. I want you to know that I appreciate your contributions and I value your input.
Best wishes for a wonderfully successful and satisfying year.


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