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The Worrying Rise In Personal bankruptcy Filings
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When you take the time to see the statistics of bankruptcy you will be alarmed and surprised. In a years time form 2006 to 2007 the number of bankruptcy filings increased by 39,365. On June 30th, 2006 it was recorded that for the year a total of 91,674 individuals filed for personal bankruptcy. On June 30th, 2007 it was tape-recorded that for the year a total of 91,674 people had declared insolvency.
The rises in chapter 7 insolvencies are gradually climbing and are not showing any chance of stopping. The varieties of those who have declared bankruptcy are the greatest considering that the new bankruptcy laws of 2005 were embeded in place. The highest personal bankruptcy rates by state include Tennessee, Utah, Georgia and Alabama.
Other insolvency statistics are just as jaw dropping. Comparing Non-business to service filings you might be shocked. In 2006, the variety of bankruptcies was 597,965 for Non-Business cases. Just 19,695 insolvencies were filed by companies in 2006.
When it pertains to personal insolvencies over half of those who file have experienced a severe health condition. Two from three fliers have lost their job and 44% of filers are couples. More females than men declare insolvency. Ladies are ranked at 30% while men rank at 26%. Regretfully less than 9% of those who file for bankruptcy have not suffered task loss, medical expenses or divorce. These cases are typically due to bad financial options. The top ranking reason for insolvency is credit card debt.
You would imagine as we develop in society that we would have a much better understanding of the best ways to control our finances or have techniques embeded in location to assist us prevent us from filing insolvency. Maybe future stats will show a decline in personal bankruptcy, as financial management courses are readily available. Just time will tell.
Frequently people are led to believe that personal bankruptcy only takes place due to irresponsibility and bad money management. When in reality one of the leading ranked reasons for bankruptcy is due to medical expenses. Research studies have actually shown that from 1.5 million bankruptcies, half of those was because of out of control medical costs. 3 quarters of these people were covered by medical insurance. With outrageous prices for medication, medical facility stays and other medical treatments it is simple to acquire a medical expense in the thousands.
With many Americans having a hard time to make ends fulfill while generating income to be thought about middle class, medical expenses can end up being a nightmare. Even by making continuous payments it is near impossible to pay of bugging expense collectors. There have actually been examples of individuals who file bankruptcy who are exceptional bill payers, have good houses, drive good vehicles and work hard to care for their families. For one woman this was her life until she was stricken with cancer. Medical costs took over her life financially and she was required to choose personal bankruptcy for financial obligation relief.
Other circumstances consist of a baby ending up being stricken with the flu. The kid was experiencing a high fever, not consuming fluids or eating along with revealing seizure like symptoms. The moms and dads rushed their kid to the emergency room for treatment. The kid was cared for and regained its health without any complications. Though the child was healthy once again the parents became overwhelmed in medical expense financial obligation. They were forced to submit insolvency in order to gain back financial control.
Life carries unforeseen events, especially when it comes to human health. For cases like those listed here, unimportant spending but a health problem that was unanticipated did not cause personal bankruptcy. This can quickly discuss why medical costs are a top reason for insolvency filing.


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KAZAKHSTAN: "Quite enough missionaries" in the south?
Both the South Korean-led Synbakyn Protestant church and the Ahmadi Muslim community in southern Kazakhstan have come under pressure from south Kazakh authorities recently, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. Late in 2004, the authorities tried to close down the Synbakyn church's seminary, and both foreign Protestant and foreign Ahmadi Muslim missionaries have encountered visa problems. The regional local authority's chief specialist on religious affairs, Vladimir Zharinov, told Forum 18 that "all our region's authorities are trying to do is to ensure that religious associations operate in accordance with the laws of Kazakhstan." But Zharinov could not say in what precise ways religious believers were breaking the law.South Kazakh authorities continue to pressure the local branch of the South Korean-led Synbakyn Protestant church, the director of the local sociological resources centre Serik Aidasov told Forum 18 News Service on 2 January from Shymkent, the administrative centre of South Kazakhstan region. The authorities tried to close down the church's seminary in November 2004, while a missionary from South Korea had his visa cut short in December and had to leave Kazakhstan, though he has since been able to return. Forum 18 has also learnt that a local leader of the Ahmadi Muslim community has been told that next time his visa will not be renewed and he will have to return to his native Pakistan.
The administrator of the Synbakyn church, Tatyana Kim, confirmed that Aidasov had attended all the court hearings. But she declined to comment on why she believed the church was facing such problems, telling Forum 18 from Shymkent on 7 January that the church is hoping to "find a common language" with the authorities and resolve the problems. Most members of the 100-strong Synbakyn church are local ethnic Koreans.
In November 2004, the local procuracy brought an administrative case against the church's seminary on the grounds that the seminary did not hold a state licence to provide education. However, the church's representatives managed to persuade the court that, under the religion law, there is no requirement for religious educational establishments to hold a licence to teach.
"The public prosecutor based his action on the law on education, under which educational establishments do indeed have to hold a licence from the ministry of education," Aidasov told Forum 18. "However, Kazakhstan's constitution states that the church is separate from the state, and therefore this law does not extend to religious educational establishments." He said the court referred the issue to the ministry of education and received an official reply saying that the ministry did not issue licences to religious educational establishments. "After that, the court recognised the activity of the Protestant seminary as legal," Aidasov reported.
Nevertheless, in mid-December 2004 the Visa and Registration Administration for South Kazakhstan region cancelled the visa of a South Korean missionary at the Synbakyn church. Aidasov notes that according to a Cabinet of Ministers decree, since 2003 all missionaries have had to register with the local state authorities. "The law states that registration is a matter of notification, in other words the authorities cannot refuse to register a missionary," he said. "However, the South Korean missionary was officially refused registration on the grounds that South Kazakhstan region had 'quite enough missionaries'."
The Visa and Registration Administration for South Kazakhstan gave the missionary an official warning that his visa was being cut short and that he would have to leave Kazakhstan by 13 December 2004. Church members told Forum 18 that he left by that date and returned to South Korea, but was able to gain a new visa and return to Shymkent.
Other foreign missionaries are also having problems with their visas. Said Hasan Tahir Bukhari, head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in South Kazakhstan region and a citizen of Pakistan, told Forum 18 in Shymkent, on 2 January 2005, that the South Kazakhstan Visa and Registration Administration had warned him that he was being given a visa for the last time and that he would subsequently "have to go back to Pakistan". The Ahmadiyya community was founded in nineteenth-century India by Mirza Gulam Ahmad Kadiani and is regarded as non-Islamic by many Muslims. Ahmadi doctrine was brought to Central Asia at the beginning of the 1990s by preachers from Pakistan.
Said Hasan Tahir Bukhari believes that in the past few months the authorities' policy towards religious believers in South Kazakhstan region especially has become much harsher. "I myself have not received reports about the persecution of believers in other parts of Kazakhstan," he told Forum 18. "However, the authorities in South Kazakhstan have significantly stepped up their policy against believers of all confessions."
These moves against the Synbakyn Church and the Ahmadi community follow the compulsory re-attestation of imams in South Kazakhstan region, which began in late November. Although local Muslim leaders denied it to Forum 18, local commentators insist the re-attestation was prompted by the authorities, not by the Muslim community (see F18News 8 December 2004 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=472). South Kazakhstan region, which borders Uzbekistan, is a distinct region of Kazakhstan with some 18 percent of its population being ethnic Uzbeks. With some justification, Kazakh officals have privately told Forum 18 that the region is the main "hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism" in the country (see F18News 8 December 2004 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=472).
However, the chief specialist on religious affairs at the department for relations with public associations at South Kazakhstan's regional administration, Vladimir Zharinov, denied that the authorities' policy towards believers had become harsher. He conceded to Forum 18 on 2 January from Shymkent that the fact that ethnic Uzbek citizens of Kazakhstan were among the suicide bombers who attacked the Uzbek capital Tashkent in July 2004 "could not but arouse our alarm. However, I wouldn't say that our policy towards believers has become harsher. All our region's authorities are trying to do is to ensure that religious associations operate in accordance with the laws of Kazakhstan." Zharinov could not say in what precise ways religious believers were breaking the law. (END)
For more background, see Forum 18's Kazakhstan religious freedom survey at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=249
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05 September 2012
Raymond Green says his patented Catching Wind Power Compressed Air Enclosed Wind Turbine will bring at least 25 new jobs into the state. Significantly, he adds, it avoids harm to birds, bats and other forms of flying wildlife.
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The turbine is available in a range of sizes from portable domestic to large scale wind farm units. Green, 89, approached Sigma Design Company (owned by Jerry Lynch who is also a veteran, formerly of the US Navy) with the intention of creating a product which would ultimately provide jobs for veterans. Although the company is in its early stages of development, it already has patents across the US as well as in New Zealand, Australia, China and 27 European countries. Green believes the new turbine will benefit the military and remote installations as well as having a general global appeal.
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Indulge in Brussels' culinary delights while doing some sightseeing. Venture past the major sights and along the way : stop at local restaurants, cafés, shops and taverns to savor Brussels' specialties including mussels, frites, beefstew, waterzooi, waffles, chocolate and beer.
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- Brussels sightseeing and food walking tour, all in
- See the major sights of Brussels and also the hidden treasures
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- Sip traditional Belgian beers at local taverns
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Beer, chocolate, waffles, sightseeing and Belgian food. You will spoil your taste buds with flavours of Belgian beer, chocolate, food and delight your eyes with the beauty of the city. The tour will start in the UNESCO heritage listed Grand Place where you will learn about the history of the buildings and the secret behind their golden touch, Royal Galleries, Manneken Pis.. The sightseeing part is the perfect introduction to Brussels as it will help tourists to orientate throughout the center, to know where the best places to eat, drink and avoid crowded spaces.
Beer and chocolate
Brussels is famous for its beer and chocolate, therefore these are a must for your tour. Commercial items are out of the list as we will make sure that you are introduced to the most delicious beers and only to the most exclusive chocolate of top branded stores. Regarding beer, if you are in Brussels, it is a must to try out our beers and we will make sure you enjoy it despite your potential fears of not liking it. We have beer for everyone's taste. You will taste beers with an ascending alcohol percentage which can reach even up to 11÷ and chocolate whose darkness level touch 80%. Do not be mislead by the word "darkness" as it does not imply bitterness – it might be sweeter than you think.
Waffles and Belgian Food
Sample Belgian food in Brussels : Mussels and Frites, Beef stew and Waterzooi are the most common dishes, we will make sure you taste in an authentic Brussels' restaurant.
The tour will end with the most mouth watering Brussels' waffle served with delicious cream, topped with strawberries and caramel.. By the end of the tour you will have known everything about beer, chocolate, Belgian food and the major Brussels sights.
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The all-in discovery tour ticks most of the boxes for a visit to Brussels. There's no need to take a beer, a chocolate AND a city tour as the all-in discovery covers all these in one go. Of course you CAN take three tours, but if you're wanting to experience Brussels in a day then perhaps this all-in style is more suited to you.
Every time we travel to a new place, we like to find a food tour to help us learn about its culture and history. The Brussels All-In Discovery Tour is exactly what it sounds like: a full, complete, comprehensive Brussels walking tour which covers its food, history, culture, and more. During our tour – hosted by Global Enterprises – we explored Brussels by foot, discovering tiny back alleys dotted with local hot-spots that we never would have found on our own (mainly because they were all built to be purposefully hidden from the naked eye). We ate so much food that a couple of our fellow tour group members actually attempted to turn down a fluffy Belgian waffle (I know, right?! Don't worry – she made a full recovery and was able to eat the entire waffle. Phew).


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Daniel 6:1-28
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty satraps, stationed throughout the whole kingdom, and over them three presidents, including Daniel; to these the satraps gave account, so that the king might suffer no loss. Soon Daniel distinguished himself above all the other presidents and satraps because an excellent spirit was in him, and the king planned to appoint him over the whole kingdom. So the presidents and the satraps tried to find grounds for complaint against Daniel in connection with the kingdom. But they could find no grounds for complaint or any corruption, because he was faithful, and no negligence or corruption could be found in him. The men said, "We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God."
So the presidents and satraps conspired and came to the king and said to him, "O King Darius, live forever! All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an interdict, that whoever prays to anyone, divine or human, for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be thrown into a den of lions. Now, O king, establish the interdict and sign the document, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be revoked." Therefore King Darius signed the document and interdict. Although Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he continued to go to his house, which had windows in its upper room open toward Jerusalem, and to get down on his knees three times a day to pray to his God and praise him, just as he had done previously.
The conspirators came and found Daniel praying and seeking mercy before his God. Then they approached the king and said concerning the interdict, "O king! Did you not sign an interdict, that anyone who prays to anyone, divine or human, within thirty days except to you, O king, shall be thrown into a den of lions?" The king answered, "The thing stands fast, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked." Then they responded to the king, "Daniel, one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the interdict you have signed, but he is saying his prayers three times a day." When the king heard the charge, he was very much distressed. He was determined to save Daniel, and until the sun went down he made every effort to rescue him. Then the conspirators came to the king and said to him, "Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no interdict or ordinance that the king establishes can be changed." Then the king gave the command, and Daniel was brought and thrown into the den of lions. The king said to Daniel, "May your God, whom you faithfully serve, deliver you!" A stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, so that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no food was brought to him, and sleep fled from him. Then, at break of day, the king got up and hurried to the den of lions. When he came near the den where Daniel was, he cried out anxiously to Daniel, "O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God whom you faithfully serve been able to deliver you from the lions?" Daniel then said to the king, "O king, live forever! My God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths so that they would not hurt me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no wrong." Then the king was exceedingly glad and commanded that Daniel be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God. The king gave a command, and those who had accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they, their children, and their wives. Before they reached the bottom of the den the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.
Then King Darius wrote to all peoples and nations of every language throughout the whole world: "May you have abundant prosperity! I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people should tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: For he is the living God, enduring forever. His kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dominion has no end. He delivers and rescues, he works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth; for he has saved Daniel from the power of the lions." So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
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God uses those who serve him faithfully.
Standing up for God brings opposition, in Daniel's case from jealous bureaucrats (6.4-9). When we face similar attacks in the workplace, they often have spiritual opposition behind them. Daniel seems to understand this since his first reaction was to pray (6.10). Daniel was willing to sacrifice his entire career because he trusted God no matter what (6.23).


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"Wool Painting" is the process of placing and stacking various colors of wool fibers on the flat surface to form beautiful imagery. Once completed, the wool painting is mounted under glass for display and to safeguard the fiber placement.
Painting with wool is very easy and it is not necessary to be a painter or to know how to draw. To give life to your masterpiece, you just need wool, a picture frame, and your desire to create. The main advantage of wool painting is the ability to fix bad "smears" any time you wish.
Wool Painting Kit "Red Bullfinch" contains:
— a detailed step-by-step instructions of full process (book 28 pages);
— wool in these colors: grey-blue, grassy-green, blue, turquoise, light-lilac, white, brown, dark-brown, red, white, black, grey, light-grey, dark-grey, orange, bright-red, orange-red;
— quilted paper padding.
To create picture you also need:
— picture frame with glass, size 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm);
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Google China withdrawal may be permanent
Google would probably be unable to return to China should it withdraw from the market instead of abiding by the country's censorship laws, a former executive at the company said.
The public manner in which Google announced its intention to pull out of the country means they may have "burnt bridges and they've burnt the Google brand in China," Peter Lui, formerly the company's financial controller for the Asia Pacific region, said in an interview yesterday.
"There is no way Google can ever come back."
Gabriel Stricker, a spokesman for Google, declined to comment, as did Jessica Powell, a spokeswoman in Tokyo.
The owner of the world's most-used search engine on January 12 said it would stop filtering its website in China even if that meant ending its operations in the country.
Speculation that negotiations with the government had faltered intensified after China said last week the plan to stop filtering at its Google.cn site was irresponsible.
"China can do without Google. They have other search engines," said Christopher Tang, professor of business at University of California. Google "will have a difficult time re-entering the China market," he said.
The US company may announce on March 22 it will pull out of China on April 10, China Business News reported today, citing an unidentified Chinese sales agent and an unnamed Google official.
First employees
Lui, 45, said he was one of the first people at Google China and left the company in 2008 after three years because of disagreements with upper management.
Lui then joined online recruiter 51job Inc in March 2009 as chief financial officer before resigning eight months later.
Growing concerns that Google would pull out led some advertising agents to advise clients to promote their products in rival Internet sites such as those of leading Chinese search engine operator Baidu Inc.
China has 384 million Internet users, according to government data, more than the total US population.
The number may grow to 840 million, or 61pc of the population, by 2013, according to estimates at EMarketer Inc in New York.
Google rose $0.15 to $566.40 on the Nasdaq Stock Market yesterday. The shares have dropped 8.6pc this year.
The prospect of a pullout helped bolster shares of Baidu, China's biggest Internet search engine, 46pc since the January 12 announcement.
All Internet service providers in China must have their licenses reviewed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in March, though the agency may extend the reviews for some companies into April, Shawn Zhao, Google's managing counsel for greater China, said earlier this week.
Google's possible withdrawal would have no bearing on the overall environment for foreign companies operating in China and would be an "individual business act," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said this week.
"It's over for Google in China," Lui said.


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Attending to the spiritual struggles and needs of patients and families is part of palliative care philosophy and practice. Clearly, you have spirituality on your radar as you care for patients and have integrated it into your practice. Your comfort in opening up conversations with patients about their spiritual perspectives and religious beliefs enlarges and deepens the care you and the health care team provide. Your prayers with patients can be a meaningful way of supporting their religious faith and affirming a divine presence in their suffering.
Because spirituality is part of palliative care practice, cross-cultural issues and the need for spiritual sensitivity do arise. Health care providers may feel uncertain when trying to respond to the spiritual needs of patients from traditions other than their own. It is tempting in such situations to avoid the spiritual domain of care or to leave it to the patient or family to make their needs or expectations known. However, a better option is to approach these patients with a readiness to learn how the health care team can support them in meeting their spiritual needs during their illness.
A conversation about patients' spiritual needs or expectations may reveal how you or other team members can act as spiritual resources for them. If necessary, you can clarify with the patient or family what your role might be in supporting him or her. It may be helpful to acknowledge that your faith background is different and to ask the patient how he or she would like to be prayed for. Many religious patients or families feel comfortable and supported if familiar prayers, rituals and symbols are offered to them by representatives of their own tradition. You or the team's spiritual care provider may play a key role in arranging this.
Some patients have inclusive spirits and inquisitive minds that cut across religious boundaries. These patients may welcome opportunities to talk about spiritual issues with a health care worker from a different spiritual tradition. They experience this exchange of perspective and shared exploration of spiritual questions as an enrichment of their spirituality. They are open to including people from other traditions in their personal spiritual community. If respect and trust grow in these relationships, praying together may arise naturally.
Even when mutual trust and respect have been established, a health care worker needs to carefully explore how prayer could be shared meaningfully when the possibility arises. There is no one right way to share prayer across faith boundaries. The important thing is to find a way that works for both the patient or family and the health care worker. You may find some of the following suggestions helpful:
In no case should prayer be imposed on the patient or family, or offered without their consent. In the same vein, health care professionals should not engage in prayer if they feel uncomfortable, insincere or conflicted. Your prayer support of patients and families does not need to involve actually praying together. You can simply let them know that you are remembering them in prayer.
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VW Beetle Convertible 1959
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VW Beetle Convertible 1959 Semaphore direction indicators
• 21 years of last owner
• Karmann Cabriolet
• Old type
• Semaphore direction indicators
• Small rear lights, reclining headlights
• Correct 1192CC 4 cylinder engine
This Volkswagen Beetle convertible was delivered new in the year 1959 and comes from a real enthusiast who has owned him for 21 years. This model was built by Karmann with the old folding side pegs (Semaphore), the small rear lights and the reclining headlights. The car also has the original tool set in the spare wheel! In the period 1995-1996 the car has been restored in the Netherlands and is in a decent and good condition. The Volkswagen is powered by the correct Type 1, 1192CC, 4 cylinder engine in combination with the 4-speed manual gearbox. In short, a neat and early Beetle Cabriolet ready for a lot of driving pleasure.
- Ref. nr.: V9544
- make: Volkswagen
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Department of Sociology University of Toronto 725 Spadina Ave. Toronto, Canada M5S 1A1 e-mail: [email protected] www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman How To Write -- and Edit -- a Paper (c) Barry Wellman December 6, 1999 I. PURPOSE A. Enhance creativity and clarity of expression. B. Liberate creativity by systematizing work, focusing work, using tricks to do "maximum output with minimum effort" C. Enables you to see -- and highlight -- connections between your ideas. D. Communication, not masturbation (writing for one's self) 1. E. You are writing prose, not poetry: writing to do a job, not to call attention to itself 1. F. "A vision is just a vision if it's only in your head. If no one get's to hear it, it's as good as dead!" (Stephen Sondheim, "Putting It Together," from Sunday in the Park with George [Broadway musical, 1984?] See Isak Dinessen, Out of Africa. Clear writing, beautifully precise descriptions, but simple language. Mark Twain--"Genius is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration". But this was before systems of writing techniques were developed. Our approach is to see if we can raise inspiration proportion to 20% by cutting down on the perspiration. G. Nevertheless, writing is hard, frustrating, lonely work. "I do it because I have to. If you don't have to do art, then do something else. [Kevin Cunningham, Executive Artistic Director, 3-Legged Dog {performance art group} at Bellagio Centre for Studies and Conferences, 16Nov99. "I'm difficult when I don't write, and I'm difficult when I do write. But at least when I write there is a reason." [Science-fiction writer/editor Judith Merril, personal communication, about 1995]. H. The solution is to NOT wait for inspirational genius to descend but to keep writing anyway. Usually you will write servicable prose, and often you will discover your genius as you write or as you edit. Your job is "to make the invisible visible through reality." Max Beckman, painter, as quoted by Herschel Chipp, Theories of Modern Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968: 188-89. As Martha Graham once told fellow choreographer Agnes DeMille who was having a crisis of confidence: Your job is not to question if it's any good. Your job is to keep the channel open! 2 II. KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE A. Differences between a graduate student paper and a professional paper 1. Types of professional papers A. B. C. D. E. F. Report of substantive research Review essay Theory piece Research report for a consultant Grant proposal "How-to" methods 2. Anonymous refereeing: how it works for papers and proposals. 3. Most papers don't fail because of boring results, but because: A. Poorly focused: Don't have a clear idea of what they are writing about or who their audience is. B. Poorly organized and repetitious: Parts out of order; circular writing. C. Have inconsistencies between their grand theoretical claims and their more limited data. (1) D. B. Sometimes use inappropriate (often too grandiose here, too) labels (claims) for their variables -- e.g., Siddique and Turk's use of frequency of contact as a label for density, which then was taken as a proxy for evaluating all of network analysis (CRSA, 1983). Poor scholarship: not aware of latest writings/thought in the field. All scientific papers are "a fraud" [Sir Peter Medawar, as quoted by John Duran, New York Review of Books, 28 April 1988] 1. They present a formal and highly idealized account of research, written according to a set of standard conventions. They don't tell about all (or any) of the false trails, bad ideas, missed-up analyses. This is as it should be: Your job is not to provide a blow-by-blow account of how you actually did the research, it is to summarize what you actually accomplished. The result is a sanitized account, but not a lie. C. "Gaughin ... taught that the impression of nature must be combined with an aesthetic sense that selects orders, simplifies and synthesizes." Jan Verkade, "Gaughin and the School of Pont-Avens" exhibit, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, April, 1995. C. Know your journals 1. General vs. substantive. 2. Major to minor. A. 3. D. Acceptance rates: AJS about 15%; others may be greater than 50%. But partially, too, a coreperiphery problem. Periphery may lack collegial feedback. Style differences. Oral presentations 1. Cut down on everything but the intellectual question, findings and conclusion. A. 2. Cut back literature review drastically and merge with intellectual question -- audience wants to hear YOUR findings. Balance the proportions of your paper beforehand to the time you'll be aloud. A. Many speakers are surprised when they're just getting started and the chairperson tells them they have 3 minutes to finish. 3 B. 3. Speak from an outline, not from a written text. A. 4. Outline, practice and use a stopwatch. Almost impossible not to drone on if you read from a written text, except if you're Ronald Reagan (who has to). Use visual aids to break the monotony, give concrete detail A. At the minimum, photocopied handouts. (1) B. E. These also give the audience something to take away and think about. Overhead transparencies (easy to make with a photocopier) or slides (1) Use large print (2) Avoid clutter. Remind yourself throughout and prepare 1. 2. 3. Paste paragraph in front of you when you write giving title, intellectual question, and audience. Find yourself paper and human role models: analyze already-published journal articles for form (not content), get advice from veteran--heavily-published--faculty members. Communicate!: write to be clear for others, to sell your ideas to them. 4. Always work single-spaced -- allows you to see more lines for editing; you can always change spacing at the end for publication. 5. Use 10 to 12 point serif font (such as "Times Roman"). Better readability than sans serif. 6. Consider using a sans serif font (bold, but in same point size) for Heads and Sub-Heads. This makes the heads stand out. Capitalize only important words. A. First level head (main ideas): Centered, Bold B. Second level head Left Flush and Bold – on its own line. C. Third level head: Italic, Bold, not on its own line, starts a paragraph . F. Hermits rarely write good papers. Develop your artistic community. Talk with appropriate others about your ideas. 1.. Pablo Picasso "[I] never avoided the influence of others." (As quoted in Chip Sullivan, Drawing the Landscape, 2d. ed., 1997: 52). 2.. They will help you spot holes 3. Give you new ideas and fresh leads to new sources 4. Give you infectious enthusiasm. A.. "It is important for artists to be surrounded by others who are driven and motivated." (Sullivan, 1997: 53). B. "Artists are nourished by each other more than by fame or by the public." (Mike and Nancy Samuels, Seeing with the Mind's Eye, 1975: 169). C. "[The artist] must have the ... technical knowledge and more broadly situated knowledge of human experience in order to know what technical matters and elements of experience are most widely held to be valid and true." Alex Rothenberg, The Emerging Goddess: The Creative Process in Art, Science and Other Fields. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979: 132. III. PARTS OF A PAPER Total length should be about 30 pp., including References (but not Tables and Figures). F. "Art isn't easy. Every minor detail is a major decision. 4 Have to keep things in scale. Have to hold to your vision." (Stephen Sondheim, "Putting It Together," from Sunday in the Park with George [Broadway musical, 1984?] G. C. E. E. Title 1. Write it early to help you focus on contents of your paper, but change it often. 2. Use it to sell your paper. 3. One good solution is to use two parts A. The first short and snappy--with a colon (:) at the end. B. The second part should be more fully descriptive. Abstract 1. Write at the end, but use it to convey your findings. 2. This way your readers will know the highlights before they start to read your paper--don't make your paper a mystery novel. 3. Do a first draft by stealing key phrases from your text, especially your introduction and summary. 4. Avoid beginning with "This paper reports that sex leads to happiness." Get right to the point: "Sex leads to happiness. The more, the better. The 1,000 men and women we interviewed overwhelmingly agree." Intellectual Question -- Why This is an Important Thing to Write About 1 p. 1. Where the scene is set; where the grand considerations are dealt with 2. "The very 1st sentence should contain in essence the atmosphere, the emotional content of the story and its final effect." Joseph Skvorecky, the Engineer of Human Souls, p. 68. Literature Review -- Who's Done What on the Subject. 5-10 pp. 1. One of main differences between high school and more professional paper. 2. You are not trying to show that you know everything about a subject or that you are smart (it is assumed -- and you write as if it is assumed -- that you are a competent professional). i. On the other hand, for a student paper, you need to convince your prof. that you do know the subject comprehensively--however, this still doesn't mean throwing in the kitchen sink. 3. Rather, you are trying to set the terms of the intellectual debate to which your research (reported on below) is contributing. 4. Hence work carefully to sharpen the terms of the debate but don't get hung up on details. Many people might work most profitably by only sketching out this section initially, and then filling it in after they have written up their research findings. 5. Finding the literature. i. Use Social Science Citation Index, to find out who's hot in the field; what recent work is. (1) Computerized version online best to use – checks all fields and all authors (2) If using printed version, work backwards. (3) Don't just stick with 'old masters'--altho OK to search SSCI on them. ii. Use Sociological Abstracts, Dissertation Abstracts, Social Science and Humanities Index, Canadian Periodical Index. iii. Use computerized searches -- Sociofile, Psychoinfo -- lots of payoff. 5 6. Taking notes i. Use 4x6 index cards or a notetaking program (1) Upper left corner of each card: main topic and subtopic to which it tentatively fits (2) Upper right corner: Author, date. (3) Take notes only on 1 side, so you can see everything at a glance. (4) "Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work." [Flaubert, as quoted by Mary McGarry Morris, NY Times]. (5) Better to paraphrase than to quote: Shorter, tighter, makes others' ideas work for you. A. ii. If you do quote, must give page numbers, use exact quotation, although ellipsis .... are OK as are [explanatory] ideas. One 3x5 bibliography card for each reference using standard format. (6) Author, date in upper left corner -- to link with your research card. A. (7) Or use note-taking program to do this. Most database programs will work, or Endnote. (Perhaps even Word Perfect.) Key is ability to define fields and to do Boolean searches. Make piles and sub-piles of these cards. (A) Spread out 1 sub-pile at a time on your work- table. 7. Organize your review by intellectual idea, not by author. 8. 4 phases [via David Kaufer, Carnegie Mellon, The Architecture of Argument]--NY Times 7 April 87 9. I. I. Summarize other authors ii. Synthesize their ideas to find common principles iii. Analyze the merit of their positions iv. Contribute new views to the discussion Avoid "Marx said...", etc i. Better 1. to have debates, comparisons of competing ideas which your research will address. ii. Martha Graham:" We all steal. It's who we steal from and what we do with it that's important." (Note that I've just stolen this from her.) Evaluate what they have said: Don't just let it sit there. 1. Synthesize ideas to find common principles, analyze the merit of their positions, and contribute your views to the discussion [from D Kaufer, C Giesler and C Neuwirth, The Architecture of Argument, Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1987]. (1) B. C. "To me, the only good reason for writing is to try to organize my scattered thoughts of living into a whole, to relate everything to everything else." [English poet W.H. Auden, quoted in "Learning to Love One's Neighbor," Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, NY Times, February 15, 1996.] Consider using an outline program (such as the one I originally wrote this on: Maxthink) to take notes and then interrelate them. But DOS-only. Word processor will do. (1) Fosters a good mixture of structured and intuitive thinking. (2) Let's you either sketch out main ideas and then add details later (3) Or fill in with detail each thing (4) Or a mixture of the two. Easy to move ideas around--not the same thing as sentences. 6 IV. E. Easy to flesh out topic sentences into paragraphs. Another alternative is a textbase program: searches, interrelationships, moving things around. 11. Technical, consulting reports often scant, or even eliminate, this section--clients want results, not scholarly debates. A. Hypotheses or Focused Questions 2 pp. 1. In contrast to your broad intellectual question in the beginning, this is what you're 'really' going to look at. 2. Should be set up by your literature review; i.e., your literature should lead up to it in a seamless web so that it appears to the reader only logical and 'natural' that you're doing the actual research in the way you are doing it. a. 3. In fact, you should rewrite your literature review after you've written your hypotheses so that this is the case. In many cases, you may not need/want formally specified hypotheses {avoid misplaced 'scientism'} -- you may be evaluating competing arguments (e.g., is community 'lost,' 'saved' or 'liberated'. a. 4. Don't just list hypotheses -- spend at least a paragraph per each backing them up, and showing how they link with other hypotheses. This part very important for grant proposals (may even be a bit longer), because you don't have the results to justify your hypotheses and methods -- you have to back up even more thoroughly the soundness/reasonableness of what you want to do. For example, here are some assessment criteria for getting National Health Research grants: a. b. c. d. e. B. Are the objectives of the proposal clear? Will answers to the questions posed, or attainment of the stated objectives, contribute to new knowledge or understanding of the subject? How? Has this work been done before? If so, does it need to be done again? Why? Has the proposal left out key studies -- past or present -- which may have some bearing on the importance of this proposal? Are the methods adequate to meet the objectives of this proposal? Research Design/Methods -- How you accomplished your research. 2-5 pp. 1. Avoid spending much time on the obvious, i.e., what a fellow professional would be routinely expected to know -- e.g., random samples. SPSS, significance tests. a. These should be mentioned briefly, e.g., "We interviewed a random sample of 845 adult residents of the inner-city Toronto borough of East York" b. Material such as significance tests might be in a very terse note to a table or in a parenthetical statement the first time dealt with in text (in report of research findings section) c. For a student paper, you may well want to spend more time documenting you know what you're doing. Before you are "certified," your professor (or TA) can't take for granted routine professional competence. d. After you're a professional, you can often get away with citing your thesis ("see Wellman, 1969 for more details") or writing a technical report (published through your research centre) which goes the tedious but necessary details. e. On the other, other hand, for grant proposals, you have to spell out much of this (for same reasons as with your hypotheses)--the referees want to evaluate how sound you are, your proposal is, and they also don't have the findings to help 7 evaluate it. f. 2. May vary by audience. For example, only specialized audiences have heard of multidimensional scaling or network analytic techniques. Provide background context on the setting--what kind of place, situation you studied. a. Like the scene setting for a novel. b. Varies in length depending on the exoticness of the setting --weird places may have to be described more (and defended more as being good places from which to generalize) as opposed to places about which you can assume your readers to know about, e.g., Eaton's Centre, East York. c. Varies in length depending on kind of research. It may be just 1 paragraph for survey research; may be several pages (broken out into a separate section) for field work. d. Varies in length depending on audience. For example, you have to tell Americans a lot more about Canada. 3. Tell readers enough so that they can understand what you did: What kind of sample, how large, whether or not random, where and when collected, what kind of data collection method, any special analysis methods used. 4. Don't try to sneak by any quirks/deficiencies. Instead, discuss in common sense terms the extent to which you can generalize from your sample to the 'outer world'. Don't be embarrassed or defensive--all research has deficiencies. It's nice if you can provide statistics (e.g., census data) or other material (briefly) to back up your claim to representativeness. a. Only mediocrities, the ill-educated and the close-minded avoid on principle either quantitative or qualitative research b. Use the appropriate tool for the appropriate question: generalizations, subtle dynamics. c. Consider mixing the two types--sum may be greater than the parts. 5. Nice if you have a word processor when you are doing this repeatedly. Much of this is standard stuff -- 'boiler plate' -- and can be pulled in from a stored file and customized. a. 6. C. I also do New Year's letters and grant proposals this way. Research proposal ends here. Report of Research 10-15 pp. +/1. Basic organizational rules a. Don't recapitulate your voyage of discovery -- readers want to learn what you found out, not how you got there, what mistakes you made, what you didn't find out. i. For example, don't be coy -- showing something in the 1st subsection, and then in the next subsection saying things are more complicated than they originally seemed. ii. Instead, say right away in one-half a sentence, something like: "While at first glance there seems to be a close association between the prevalence of storks and the prevalence of babies (Table 1), three-way analysis (Table 2) shows that the true relationship is between rurality and babies." b. Organize either in terms of independent variables or dependent variables (decide where the more interesting comparisons are). Examples: i. Impact of domestic and paid work on different types of support: {Paid workers; Domestic workers; Double loaders} 8 ii. Impact on types of support {Emotional, Services, Companionship, $$s} of different types of work. c. Work from simple to complex; e.g., bivariate to multivariate, interactive relationships. d. Use lots of subheads; perhaps sub-subheads. 2. Text should tell the story without the tables. a. Refer to table in text first time its used (Table 1) and every time its used thereafter when you have already switched to another table (see Table 1 above) b. Not necessary to tell everything about a table in the text. c. Summarize the highpoints, making pertinent comparisons. d. Assume a competent, but somewhat lazy, reader. e. Rarely necessary to repeat numbers from tables in the text unless you are using the precise numbers themselves to make a point. f. Be careful of loaded terms: "slightly, moderately, many, most, as much as, as little as" 3. i. Remember Zen question: Is the glass half-full or half-empty? ii. Be consistent in your adjectives. Put ideas into research description. The most boring things in the world are mere summaries of tables or field notes. a. It is OK to have carnal intercourse in this section between your findings, other peoples' findings, and theory. i. "Unlike Fischer (1982), I find that...." ii. Do this to a limited extent for specific points; you don't want to interrupt the flow (and you'll have more time to generalize in the Conclusions section) iii. Note that it's OK (actually preferable) to use "I" if you're a single author. Save "we" for multiple authorship. It's pretentious, not modest, to use "we" if you're one person. b. 4. "Numbers are not the point. Numbers are used to help make a point." [Beverly Wellman, 1988] Tables should be interpretable in their own right without reading the text. a. Clear headings and subheadings, usually expressing relationships: The Effect of Paid and Domestic Work on Various Types of Social Support. i. b. Use English-language names for your variables, not SPSS or SAS eight-letter abbreviations that you've gotten overly used to while running data. Work on packing information from many tables into one table: i. For example, the above mentioned support table may have been compiled from 4 separate crosstabs, each done for a separate type of social support. ii. Yes/no tables (or any dichotomous table) can be reduced in size to just "Percent/number saying yes", etc. iii. Correlation matrices need only be triangular, not rectangular, with perhaps the partial correlation coefficient in the other triangle. c. Eliminate clutter, e.g. i. Leading zeroes in correlations, regressions. 9 ii. How many decimal points do you really need? Rarely more than one in crosstabs (I usually don't use any unless less than 10%) or two in correlations, et al. iii. Usually just need %s in one direction (comparing across categories of independent variable); omit row %s, cell %s, cell #s (these latter can be reconstructed from total N and marginal %s). iv. Must give readers enough information though that they can evaluate the accuracy of the tale you're telling in the text. (a) d. e. f. g. h. i. (a) D. Use footnotes to tables sparingly, labelled "a", etc. Consider using graphs instead of tables. Show comparisons more carefully Emphasize highlights, not petty details. Don't cheat: e.g., cutting off bar graphs. See Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Or use software such as Harvard Graphics, Excel. Just because you can do it with software, that doesn't mean you should do it. Conclusions, 3-5 pp. Really two parts 1. Summary (1-2 pp.) a. Recap the main findings for the reader (and for yourself). b. Don't necessarily keep to the order in which you originally presented the findings, weave them into a coherent whole, highlighting the main points. c. Stick fairly closely to your data here. Link back explicitly to your hypotheses, comparisons. 2. Conclusions a. Where summary links to hypotheses, this should link to your broad intellectual questions and your literature review. b. What are the implications of your findings for major scholarly debates. i. E. And perhaps for major policy debates. c. Implications for future research. d. Here's your chance to play a little, too. References 1. References, not a comprehensive bibliography. 2. Use standard form a. 3. See American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology Nice to have all your references on a computer program, such as Endnote Then all you have to do is select the ones you need, reformat them to fit the style of the place you're submitting to a. b. We've developed a Word Perfect macro (5.1 and 6.0) that searches your text, pulls out your citations, alphabetizes them, and then helps you get the full references from a cumulative bibliography file. Endnote better. (1) (2) Allows Boolean searches Quickly shifts formats, e.g., to APA style. 10 (3) V. In principle, will search your Word Perfect text and compile reference list automatically. In practice, it takes a bit of iterative fiddling. HOW TO WRITE REALLY CLEARLY A. Learn to think in terms of multiple drafts. 1. At least three: rough, organizational shaping, final polishing. 2. "Telling a story is easy for me. Writing is easy, it's reading what you wrote that's hard." (Irving [Speed] Vogel, co-author with Joseph Heller of No Laughing Matter, as quoted by Samuel Freedman, NY Times, 27 March 1986). a. Get in the habit of writing a little daily, rather than trying to do a big burst at the end. i. "I find writing as easy as having a shit. I do it daily." [Strangler guitarist/songwriter Hugh Cornwell in Now, Toronto, 9 April 1987]. ii. "It seems to me, as it must have seemed to {D.H. Lawrence,} reasonable to sit down every morning and fulfil a minimal quota of 1,000 words." [Anthony Burgess, {author of A Clockwork Orange}, in Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D.H. Lawrence. Arbor House, 1985]. (3) b. "Unless I write something, anything, good, indifferent or trashy, every day, I feel ill." [English poet W.H. Auden, quoted in "Learning to Love One's Neighbor," Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, NY Times, February 15, 1996.] S.J. Perelman wrote 21 books. His "writing flows so effortlessly that it comes as a surprise to learn it was a painful, laborious process for him, and he agonized over every word. A friend recalls telephoning him once and Perelman said, `I'm in the middle of a sentence, I'll call you back when I finish.' He returned the call next day, and said, `I've just finished the sentence.' He maintained that he customarily wrote 37 drafts of each article." [Dorothy Herrmann, Toronto Globe and Mail, 2 Aug 86]. 3. Use "gradual writing." Try 1st to outline your paper, but not in traditional grammar-school way. Sketch out your heads and subheads, and write a few key phrases, sentences or paragraphs for each. You may throw most out, but it gives you a running head start to write that section, and better still, by being quick and dirty, moves you to write the lead-ins for each part in terms of the whole (you're less likely to wander off into side issues). a. Start at the end. Know from the beginning where you're taking your readers and give them some sign-posts. This is neither a mystery story or a tale of someone lost in the woods. b. This helps you handle the forest/trees problem where you are so immersed in detail you can't keep track of the overall shape and flow of your paper. 4. No real need to write draft linearly from beginning to end 5. Put interesting ideas that belong elsewhere [into brackets] so you won't lose them: A. "When I complete the [first] draft, I review it and index my bracket notes since they may contain the summaries of several additional novels that occured to me along the way. [A word processor's search, copy/paste functions are great for this.] A good novel is far too precious to waste; it must be caught the moment it flashes into mental view, or it will escape to the brain of some other writer who really doesn't deserve it....My creative notions don't have to wait their turn; they are always welcome." [Science-fiction writer, Piers Anthony, Pp. 311-12 in "Author's Note to On a Pale Horse." New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 1983. 11 B. 6. Write whichever sections you're comfortable with -- in whole or part -- knowing you'll come back and expand or polish later. Software a. I.F. Stone: "The computer propagates verbosity, but when it comes to making revisions, there's nothing like it." [Toronto Globe and Mail, 25 March 1988]. b. B. Outline program good for starting. It allows you to keep control of structure, move ideas around. ROUGHING: First and most important rule is not to have any style, organizational rules when you write. Get it down any way you can, and then post-edit. 1. "You can't have good ideas unless you have a lot of ideas." Linus Pauling (on Phil Donahue Show, 23 Dec 86) 2. Have an audience in mind. Don't write for yourself (masturbation) or for vaguely-defined others. You want to have some initial sense of what tone to take, how much detail to put in. a. 3. C. Allen Ginsburg (as quoted by Linda Bamber, NY Times Book Review, 13 Dec 86, p. 40): "[Jack] Kerouac is my listening angel. Still. Even though he's dead. [But he's not the only one.] Whenever I write something witty, I think of [William] Burrough's dry laconic intelligence. Whenever I write something romantic I think of Orlovsky's great heart. When I turn a funny phrase I think of Gregory Corso." See Howard Becker, Writing for Social Scientists. SHAPING: Next, edit for organization (no point in worrying about stylistic sentences, nice grammar or spelling at this stage). Best if you can set the paper aside for a week -- or even a day -- so you can minimize pride of authorship, look at it with a fresh eye. 1. Outline the paper, writing key words in left margin of each paragraph. a. Be more critical of your own work than anyone else could be. But don't force yourself to be unduly critical while you're actually in the act of writing. Wait until you've cooled off and gone into edit mode. Train yourself to be able to read what you've written as if someone else had written it. [hints from David McFadden] b. This lets you find inconsistencies, redundancies; allows you to check if flow of paper makes sense; if you've given the right proportionate emphases (in terms of page length). c. "Write with your heart, revise with your head." [London Times, 27 April 1988]. 2. Try to find a trusted assessor: someone who knows subject, and a good enough friend to tell you when you have problems. [Only wimps, enemies or prospective lovers tell you it's wonderful on a 1st draft.] But remember, only you know what you want to do, and it is your name that goes on the final product. a. Better for one person to tell you if there are problems, than to flunk, have lots of people think you're stupid. This is where authors in the periphery get into the most trouble. b. "Writing is such a lonely business that it almost doesn't matter whether the response is positive or negative. You need to be with other people who have shared that solitude." (Phillip Lopate, as quoted by Linda Bamber, NY Times Book Review, 13 Dec 86, p. 40). c. Perhaps the ultimate were the Brönte sisters, who had the dual advantage of brilliance and living together: "Once or twice a week, each read to the others what she had written, and heard what they had to say about it....The readings were of great and stirring interest to all, taking them out of the gnawing pressure of daily recurring cares, 12 and setting them in a free place. It was on one of these occasions that Charlotte determined to make her heroine [in Wuthering Heights] plain, small, and unattractive, in defiance of the accepted canon." [Elizabeth Gaskell, as quoted by Linda Bamber, New York Times Book Review, 13 Dec 86, p. 40]. D. POLISHING: Edit for style: Carolyn Mullins, The Complete Manuscript Preparation Style Guide; A Guide to Writing and Publishing in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. 1. Here's some sample, genuine, badly-written sentences (from a professor!). Let's see how to fix them: a. That is, if a social structure and/or idea structure essentially mimics the pattern that is the most likely outcome of the pursuit of affective maximization, that is, if it has a form of hierarchical differentiation, then individuals pursuing affective maximization re predisposed to shape their worlds by marking them in part with such structures. b. In addition, given our instinctual poverty, and complex cognitive tools, both of which give us a far greater ability to shape our worlds than any other species has ever had, is it not possible that certain social structures could be created that actually increase in one way or another the likelihood of such affective arousal actually occurring? 2. Minimize words greater than 2 syllables. a. Avoid "creative obfuscation": big, impressive sounding words to replace small ones with clear meanings. [Note that "creative obfuscation" is an example of itself: "b.s" is just as accurate.] b. Calculate smog index. 10 sentences from front, middle and back of paper. Count all words greater than 2 syllables. Take square root and add 3. Yields approximate grade level of what you have written. Aim at grade 12 (high school grad.): Makes it more readable even for more advanced people. c. Use thesaurus routine on computer. d. Try style programs, such as Grammatik.. e. Think Anglo-Saxon, not French. 3. Make all sentences, without exception, three typed lines or less. a. 4. Break big ones up (compound, complex clauses) into short ones. No passive voice. a. Hunt for -ed phrases ("I found" vs. "It was found"). Actually, it's better to skip both and get right to your findings. b. Examples of how passive voice avoids issues: i. "His fall should have been broken by an elasticated bungee rope, but it became detached from the box and fell with him." [Manchester Guardian, 1987, on the death of a volunteer stuntman on a BBC TV show.] The passive voice avoids the key question of who tied the rope badly. ii. "They have not been told of this diagnosis, for it is felt that as long as the man feels well, is happy at home and at work and his physical condition remains good, nothing should be done." [Dr Kenneth Smith, MD, an employee of the Johns-Manville Corp. telling the company why he decided not to tell workers they had fatal asbestosis, but he wasn't going to do anything about it. From Paul Brodeur, Outrageous Misconduct, Random House.] 13 5. Put subject and object close to each other, without long qualifying clauses intervening. 6. Some additional hints from David McFadden, Toronto poet and essayist: 7. E. a. Do not use a metaphor unless it is necessary, interesting, beautiful or amazingly funny. b. Rid yourself of phrases such as: very, totally, absolutely, completely. [Tighter is punchier.] Doing these also opens up your text: It's no longer sacred, untouchable script. You'll soon start think of other ways to tighten it up and make it more exciting to read. Payoff is that if you get these mechanics down, not only will your work be easier, but your thinking will be clearly, you'll see more connections, and your writing will be better to read. - 30 -
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LP Tanker Truck Driver
Liquid Trucking
Part 1
About 4 months ago, when an opportunity arose to drive for an LP tanker line, I upgraded my credentials to add hazmat and LP license, and started delivering raw mix, (propane/butane liquid) with a 10,600 gal tanker from the gas well collection site in south Alabama to a couple of different fractionary processing plants in Louisiana. With a 280 mile one way delivery, you have to be on your toes and manage your pick-up and delivery times carefully, and try to get there and back and end your day successfully with fueling, closing your paperwork and logs, and being ready for the next run. No matter how long you have driven, It takes some training to familiarize with the transfer pumps and valves, and loading independently, and knowing how the facility operates. On the delivery end its mostly getting there during the right times, on the scales, taking test samples, waiting, and then the primary hook up, engaging the truck pump or using the facility electric pump and then re- weighing the empty tank upon departing, getting your tickets and you're gone again. The main thing is to get tomorrows pick up authorization, turn in today's info to the dispatcher, and keep those logs up to date!
When you first start your day, inspect everything from your truck, your trailer, and never fail to make regular walk-arounds each time you get in and out of your truck.. Pay attention to your tare , empty weight and as you fill your tank, be considerate of expansion,and maximum load restrictions, and then perhaps some consideration of your fuel weight and how these things might affect your crossing the D.O.T. scales as you cross state borders, or even if you are randomly selected for an inspection. Have all your p's and q's done and be ready! Also watch for safety issues in and around the collection sites. Be sure to honor their rules and lock up behind yourself as you ease out the gate if it is an unattended transfer site. One time I had a transfer pump that went down with no one there, causing me to scramble and use those posted emergency numbers. Fortunately with my electrical background, and knowledge of pumps and mechanical, I was able to get the information on locating the plant controls, and I reset everything and kept on going.. with that in mind, be mindful of the other drivers following you in, and leave the plant where they can easily make their hook-ups with the hoses, find your loading sheets,and sometimes you might want to leave notes for the next guy.. but don't hold him up if he's already trying to get in the gate behind ya. He wants to LOAD AND GO! Just be safe and don't skip any steps, especially follow the "flare off" procedures before you unhook the vapor and liquid lines. Remember to chock and un-chock your wheels! Wear your Protective Gear as well!
Some of the important things to remember as you launch your career in the Hazardous tanker category is that you will have to start thinking "STOP at all RAILROAD TRACKS" (& use four way flashers). You will have to think "I HAVE A LIQUID AND unstable WEIGHT MASS and NEED TO BE CAUTIOUS IN THE CURVES, and slow down for TURNS." No abrupt lane changes, or sudden jerks on the steering wheel. Use Careful STOPS with attention to the rules for braking distances and stopping, No leaving your vehicle unattended along the highway, and make sure you carry your paperwork, hazardous placards, and implement emergency procedures on board. It is crucial to know the hazardous routes of travel. Check your tires, hubs, and brakes often for overheating or other malfunctions. BE aware that other travelers, and normal drivers aren't aware of the cargo or risks involved. Don't assume anything! I am not ashamed to mention that I have had recent classroom training, as well as on the road driver training, besides my lifelong experience as a driver/operator. Make sure you KNOW what you are doing at every moment. Good sleep and rest is important! Make sure you use your off time to rest and recuperate from the stress and strain you are under on the interstates and in the industrial plants.
As national attention is on finding new resources and developing new oil and gas fields, this is a very much in demand haul. Liquid tanker is wide scale and growing. Chemicals, liquid petroleum, crude oil, and other liquids are in demand. They must be transported. Lots of Jobs are being created even as I speak. Countryside wells are being drilled throughout the south. Again you need to train. You need to add drivers endorsements. You might need a specialty license such as I had to get in order to haul Liquid Propane. Ease into it and be careful.. Listen to those older guys who will be helpful if you are respectful! Also these more specialized companies may require up to 2 years of general driving experience unless you are applying out of a driver's training course.
Pressing On!
Part 2
I found the LP (liquid) loading and transfer very uncomplicated, and I gave 120 % to make sure it was a success for me and for them. Sometimes you face challenges like this that force you to be innovative and to grow! If you are handed a Lemon, Make Lemonade! These are points for consideration in the day to day life of all commercial trucking positions.
I have included some extra flave' in this article, but as I look back on life, and experiences, we all have our own stories, and we own our own stuff! Once shortly after getting married I was hauling deisel fuel to a rock crusher (south of Big Delta) in the mountains of Alaska, and it was snowing so much I couldn't but guess where the road actually was!. I said a prayer and asked "is it possible to send an angel in the night to guide me down this highway?" -Within minutes, a tanker pulled by me all cylinders a-roaring, and led the way, breaking trail in almost a foot of fresh white "termination dust"; all the way to the rock crusher where I was headed. It was a driver who had been driving that road for years and years: I made it home that night to my new bride, and Oh, I was tired. but not too tired to tell her I loved her! And thanks to the driver that made my snowy day brighter!
Modern Trucking and Time Management
- Modern Trucking and Time Management
Knowing the value of time management: A trucker can only be successful if he establishes a "routine", avoids industry "bottlenecks" and knows when he is saddling a dead horse. You will enjoy!
The Life of a Commercial Truck Driver
- The Life of a Commercial Truck Driver
Commercial truck driving techniques, the challenge involved in everyday hauling, and long hours with fierce competition. A driver overcomes obstacles daily and has to keep his record spotless.
Truck Driver Logs, The 1/2 Hour Rule
- Truck Driver Logs; The 1/2 hour rule
About the totally senseless 1/2 hour break law. How it cannot fit specifically or randomly into a drivers daytime schedule or logbook. And to show how even D.O.T. Officials can get sidetracked.
© 2012 Oscar Jones
My father got out of construction and into OTR trucking and experienced one employer that didn't want to shell out for diagnostics or repairs so he left and found a job for less pay where he was home daily and driving safe trucks. I am especially glad to hear you did the same. It might not have been easy to do but continuing to drive in those circumstances could have injured or killed you or others. Some people put profit above all else unfortunately.
I think you are already close to it. Look at your forums! Wow!
Hi Oscarlites,
Glad I am not a truck driver. Sounds like they kind of treat you like worse then you deserve.
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Pigs Fly: A CEO's mea cupla
The CEO of JetBlue airlines, David G. Neeleman, admitted to a failure in communications systems which led to over 1000 flight cancellations for over a week (including a full plane that was stranded on the JFK tarmac for six hours) after last week's northeast snowstorms.
David G. Neeleman said in a telephone interview yesterday that his company's management was not strong enough. And he said the current crisis, which has led to about 1,000 canceled flights in five days, was the result of a shoestring communications system that left pilots and flight attendants in the dark, and an undersize reservation system. Until now, JetBlue and its low fares have enjoyed overwhelming popularity and customer satisfaction ratings.
"We had so many people in the company who wanted to help who weren't trained to help," he said. "We had an emergency control center full of people who didn't know what to do. I had flight attendants sitting in hotel rooms for three days who couldn't get a hold of us. I had pilots e-mailing me saying, 'I'm available, what do I do?' "
The part of the company that locates pilots and flight attendants and directs them to their next flight assignment is far too small for an airline JetBlue's size, Mr. Neeleman said. He vowed to train 100 existing corporate office employees to work in that area when needed. Within two weeks, the area can be better backstopped, he said, and within 30 days, "flawless." (link)
Wow – this kind of admission of 'we screwed up' is pretty rare for a company CEO. Rarer still is this part:
Mr. Neeleman said he would enact what he called a customer bill of rights that would financially penalize JetBlue — and reward passengers — for any repeat of the current upheaval. He said he would propose a plan to pay customers, after some amount of time, by the hour for being stranded on a plane.
He says knows he has to deliver. "I can flap my lips all I want," he said. "Talk is cheap. Watch us."
There is growing sentiment in Congress to pass legislation that would mandate limits on the time passengers can be kept in a plane on the ground and also set compensation standards for stranded passengers. The airline industry hopes to fend off such a measure. Mr. Neeleman said he wanted to make the penalties to JetBlue "more aggressive than any airline lobbyist would let Congress do."
Of course, he is not exactly a saint and my cynical side says that this is part of a strategy to win back the high customer approval ratings enjoyed by the company. Still, it is refreshing to see someone in the airline industry taking a measure of responsibility.
Personally, I have flown JetBlue a few times and loved their leather seats with personal DirectTV on every seat, the surprisingly friendly service and funky blue chips. They had fallen from grace when they decided not to respect customer privacy (handing over travel information to DoD contractors) – but perhaps this should mend it.


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5 Tips to Incorporate More Family Time into Your Busy Routine
We all have busy lives. Work, school, soccer, swim lessons, play dates. The list can go on and on. But despite these busy schedules, we still want to spend some quality time with our family. Here are five tips on how to incorporate more Family Time into your busy routine from Meredith Sinclair, Juicy Juice Family Time expert.
PLAN for family playtime: Families are the busiest they've ever been. With work, school, extracurricular activities, and schedules bursting at the seams, it can feel nearly impossible to fit in frequent uninterrupted family time.
One of my secret weapons in the fight for more family fun each week is a "Family Playlist". This printable is an easy way for everyone to share ideas, and it puts family activities front and center! I recommend you put it on the fridge or the family bulletin board and then each week pick an activity from one or multiple columns. It will encourage you to do more things together as a family, from a weeknight board game to a Saturday trip to the zoo.
Create a "Creativity Cupboard": I am asked all the time for suggestions on how to limit screen time. A great way to encourage kids to get off the computer or iPad is to create a space for them to use their imagination in a fun and interactive way. I'm a firm believer that if you build it they will come.
Designate a cupboard, drawer, or big bin somewhere in your home and fill it with open-ended, engaging supplies. Playdoh, craft materials, upcycled items such as a juice or tissue boxes, paper towel rolls, even Popsicle sticks, coloring books, puzzles, etc.
Include some craft templates to help get the creative juices flowing. For example, you can use an empty juice box to create an adorable Juice Box Rocket, in four easy steps. Or transform your juice boxes into these colorful sailboats. For even more fun, fill up the tub or sink and see if they float!
Also, when you have time, keep adding little surprises in the Creativity Cupboard for when your kids are in the boredom zone. It will keep them going back to see what's new!
Plan a park or playground crawl: No matter the age of your kiddos, no one can resist the lure of an open field or well-placed cluster of swings, slides, and see-saws. Take a few hours on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon and hit several parks or playground in a row! Bring some fun snacks and juice boxes along for the ride. After your day of park hopping, have a playful pow-wow and decide which park gets the awards for "most awesome swings", "best slide in a supporting role", and "overall best park", etc..
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Be flexible: Family time can also take the form of a conversation or game on a 10-minute ride to school or the grocery store. I've pushed for carpool time to be a "no phone zone". It's zero fun for parents to feel like their kids' silent chauffeur and I've found those quick trips to and from school, errands, and/or extracurricular activities are a breeding ground for light-hearted conversations that can connect the " what-did-you-do-today" dots. My son often acts as our mobile DJ, picking his favorite tunes for the ride. Music is the perfect conduit for playful and positive 100% family time. Especially on the road.
Turn meal prep into family time: Get your kids involved with planning the meals for the week. Make the grocery list with your child, and ask him or her what they would like to eat. Let them pick the meal for one night, and have them help you prepare it. Give them a job! If you're short on time, you can still get your child involved in the mealtime prep. Ask him or her to get certain ingredients out from the fridge and line them up on the countertop so they are easily accessible. Have your child set the table, or start a f
un game for him or her to sit in the kitchen with you.
Also when it comes to cooking, try to select some kid friendly recipes that make it easier to have little hands in the kitchen. Two of my favorite easy-prep recipes that my kids love are the Baked Fish Tacos with Tropical Salsa and Sweet and Sour Slow Cooker Meatballs.
Get out there and spend some quality time with your family! Have fun!
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Juicy Juice Family Time expert, Meredith Sinclair M.Ed., is an author, television contributor and, play expert. She is the author of the book "Well Played: The Ultimate Guide to Awakening Your Family's Playful Spirit" (Harper Collins 2016) and is a regular family lifestyle contributor to the Today Show, Home and Family, and Fox and Friends. Meredith has been featured on the Steve Harvey Show, the Meredith Vieira Show, and is a parenting blogger for the Huffington Post. A former elementary school teacher with a master's degree in Education, she is passionate about improving people's lives by spreading the importance of play.


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10 Natural Cures For Sleep Apnea To Start Now
Obstructive Sleep Apnea is a severe condition that calls for serious medical attention. Several therapies and devices have been designed to help cure sleep apnea. But with the risk of other harsher health conditions developing out of their use, lots of patients prefer the Natural Cures For Sleep Apnea instead. Here's 10 Tips for using alternative therapies to help combat sleep apnea.