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Can Soft Drinks Poison You? (Jul, 1931)
Can Soft Drinks Poison You?
Billions of bottles of beverages ate drunk in America each year—Analyzed by the Government Pure Food Board, harmful ingredients are kept out of them—This article tells why locally made drinks may prove injurious By GEORGE LEE DOWD, JR.
TO QUENCH the Great American Thirst, eleven billion bottles and glasses of soft drinks are consumed every year—enough to nil a giant bottle as wide at the base as a city block and twice as high as the Empire State Building, the world's tallest structure! This means that, if you are a law-abiding citizen in good health between eight and eighty, you probably will drink an average of one glassful a day during the three hot summer months.
These sweet, fizzing liquids, pink, orange, green or amber, will cool your parched throat at the ball-game, at soda fountains, or at roadside hot-dog stands.
But what will they do to your health? Are they as wholesome and harmless as they look and taste?
In most cases, you may rest assured that they are. The Government sees to that. They are tested and approved (or condemned) by Government laboratory experts. Because soft drinks contain a small percentage of food value, they come under the control of the U. S. Food and Drug Administration. To enforce the Food and Drug Act, the Department of Agriculture maintains a staff of 530 administrative officers, chemists, and other specialists in Washington and sixteen other important cities. It is part of their job to analyze your soft drinks, even if they consist of nothing but charged water. Still, there remains a certain risk, but there are tell-tale signs by which you can distinguish a good drink from a possibly harmful one. Unfortunately, the Federal authorities, under the law, have control only over bottled beverages and syrups that are shipped from State to State, but lack the power to test those that are sold in the State where they are made. As State and other local laws on the subject either are sketchy or non-existent, the small local manufacturer often can let his conscience be his guide as to what he will put into his brew.
IN OTHER words, when you order a nationally distributed product, you will get a safe drink. Whether you stop for it at the humble roadside booth or at a marble soda palace in the city, makes no difference, except, possibly, in the price. But when you buy a locally made drink, and especially pink "lemonade" at a carnival, fair, or small circus, there is no way of telling with what horrible concoction you may assault the inner man How can you tell the difference when the stuff is in a bottle? The cap and label will show you at a glance whether the drink is Government tested or not.
For example, almost all fruit drinks contain artificial coloring. Cap or label will tell you whether or not any has been used in making your beverage. If it has. this is no indication of poor quality. Nor need you be frightened because it has been "artificially flavored.'" Both artificial colorings and flavorings must conform to the standards of the Food and Drug Administration. Sometimes, they are even beneficial.
A PECULIAR quirk in human nature is responsible for the use of these substances in most beverages. As a matter of fact, you would probably refuse a glass of your favorite fruit drink if they had been left out of it.
The reason is this: When the juice is crushed from strawberries, raspberries, grapes, and the like, it is cloudy because a fine residue from the fruit cells remains in it. Americans won't buy a cloudy drink, and so the manufacturer strains the juice through a filter or treats it with a clarifying chemical, such as kaolin.
Either treatment clears the juice but robs it of much of the taste and flavor that make you like it. To replace them, the manufacturer has to resort to some harmless coloring and artificial flavoring. Fifty thousand pounds of coloring matter and five million pounds of fruit acid are annually used in this way. This increases the price of your drink, but you have your own prejudice to blame. There is no harm in cloudy fruit juice.
ANOTHER artificial process is brought • into play in the making of root beer. You like it rich and foamy? The manufacturer sees to it that you get it that way. The foam on root and birch beers and on sarsaparilla is a product of saponin called "gum foam." Only one type of saponin is harmless or non-toxic. All other kinds cause diffusion of the hemoglobin, that is, the red coloring matter in the blood, and, consequently, anemia.
However, you may drink your favorite brand of root or birch beer or sarsaparilla with perfect peace of mind so long as it is the product of a national manufacturer,because the Food and Drug Administration considers drinks of this sort that contain toxic saponin as adulterations, and rules them out. Jealously guarding both your health and your pocket book, the Government insists on "realism" in the pictures on the labels. That does not mean that Uncle Sam sets himself up as an art critic. The authorities have laid down a hard and fast rule that the manufacturer of a fruit drink cannot display a picture of a fruit on his label unless the drink actually contains the juice of that fruit. All of this was set forth in a long Court opinion with the amusing title: "The United States of America vs Ninety-five Barrels (more or less) Apple Cider Vinegar"!
One manufacturer had been using a picture of an orange on his label for many years and describing his drink as containing the juices of oranges and orange peels. He was ordered either to change his label or add genuine fruit juices to his product. Rather than destroy the value of his established trade-mark, he is now spending more than $100,000 a year for the real juices.
Sharing the popularity of fruit juices, root beers, and other "soda pops," are the cola drinks. Here is a question thousands have been asking for years: Do they really contain a narcotic? They do, but very little of it. In addition to sweetening, acids, and carbonated water, they contain the juices of the coca leaf and the cola nut. For the leaves the manufacturers have to send to South America, while the nuts come all the way from Africa. And all that to give you that little "kick" in your drink!
THE coca leaf contains morphine, but this is removed before its juice gets into the syrup. It is the cola nut that provides the slight stimulant—caffein, a narcotic. The question whether caffein is a habit-forming drug or not is still up in the air. In any case, the average bottle or glass of the drink containing it holds only about one-half grain, considerably less than the quantity in an ordinary cup of coffee, tea, or cocoa.
But the caffein in a cola drink does not always come from the juice of the cola nut. Sometimes it is derived from coffee, tea, or cocoa. One manufacturer of such a drink is said to be the largest importer of tea sweepings in the United States.
Are soft drinks nutritious? Do they actually stimulate? May they be taken without fear of harmful effects?
These three questions J. W. Sale, chemist in charge of the Water and Beverage Laboratory of the Food and Drug Administration in Washington, answers with an emphatic "yes," provided, of course, that the beverages are of the Government-controlled variety.
All soft drinks contain these ingredients, or most of them: Sugar, fruit juice, acid, carbon dioxide, water, artificial coloring, artificial flavoring. Then, the cola drinks contain caffein, the ginger ales ginger, and the root drinks saponin or some harmless equivalent.
To begin with sugar, of which 250,000 tons are used in soft drinks each year, nothing but the best quality will do for making syrups, because anything else would cause the finished drink to spoil soon after bottling. Its food value averages between 58 and 175 calories, a higher caloric content than that of many foods recommended by nutrition experts. By the action of the acids in the finished syrup, the sugar is changed to "invert sugar," meaning that it is broken down so it can be absorbed more readily by the system.
THAT is why a good drink at a soda fountain not only quenches your thirst, but also renews your energy supply, and does it so quickly. But if sugar generates energy, why does it not also generate enough heat to offset the good effect on a hot day? The answer is that the amount of heat is so small compared to the energy generated that you do not notice it.
The ice in your drink, by the way, helps little to cool you off, and is put into it merely to make it taste better. It is dissipated almost immediately by the heat of the body, which cannot digest anything of a temperature either lower or higher than its own. For some reason, Americans like their beverages either ice-cold or piping hot. This national predeliction is a never-failing source of wonder to European inn-keepers, as returned travelers, exhausted by a vain search for ice water, will testify.
Fruit juices generally constitute about fifteen per cent of the volume of a drink. To them are added fruit acid and color. These fruit juices are said by experts to be just as beneficial in a soft drink as they are in any other form.
Finally, there is the "carbonated water," the essential part of all soft drinks that are not "ades" of one kind or another. Four hundred million gallons of it go into them a year! This is simply water charged with carbon dioxide gas, which gives it its bubbles. In connection with this "fizz water," there has arisen one of the numerous fallacies believed by many about soft beverages.
This is the old "marble dust" story, that still survives. To this day, some people will take you aside, and solemnly warn you against "soda pop" because "it has marble dust in it."
THERE isn't a speck of marble dust in any soft drink, and there never was. But, like many yarns of the sort, it started with a half-truth. The fact is that carbon dioxide gas originally was produced by the action of sulphuric acid upon marble. As gas was released, it was collected and then shipped to the buyer. Word of the process got around, and imagination did the rest.
However, it is possible for carbon dioxide to contain various injurious sulphur compounds when it is made from coke, limestone, or products of the fermentation of low-grade saccharines. Fortunately, gas of such origin gives drinks an unpleasant taste, which eliminates it from use in their manufacture.
Still, there is one danger of which even the maker of syrups himself may not be aware, and which is difficult and sometimes impossible to detect chemically. That is the presence in carbonated water of minute metallic particles from vessels and pipelines used in manufacturing it.
In one case of this kind, the Department of Chemistry discovered 3.3 grains of zinc chloride in one bottle of root beer sent in for examination. A man who had drunk some of the stuff had been made very sick, though not seriously. The only cure for this trouble is to keep the charged water away from such metals as much as possible.
Carbonated water that contains pure carbon dioxide, properly made, is actually good for you. Carbon dioxide is not only stimulating, but kills certain types of harmful bacteria in the large intestine.
THERE are some places where it is never safe to take a soft drink—the carnival, the small circus, and the country fair. These places are infested with hawkers presiding over stands, usually out in the dust-laden air, who invite you to "wet your whistle" from a huge punch-bowl and, more often, a doubtfully clean tin tub. It is filled to the brim with a pale pink liquid in which a few forlorn and tired looking lemons are floating.
Keep away from such stuff. You wouldn't buy a bottle of orangeade that had a cloudy appearance. You would return to the soda clerk a bottle of "pop" in which you saw a black dust particle. But at the fair, all is gaiety and excitement; you don't care!
It is this mental attitude of which the hawker takes shrewd advantage. He makes you pay him several thousand percent on his investment. He makes you swallow enough real dirt from the trampled midway to cause you to fire the cook if you found it in your spinach. He makes you believe this mixture is "lemonade."
He buys it in powder form from houses that sell carnival equipment wholesale. In any carnival trade magazine you will find this powder advertised—not as lemon or orange powder. Oh, no. That would get the wholesaler in trouble with the Food and Drug Administration. It is cleverly advertised as "fruit flavor," and is shipped to the buyer as such. He mixes about two dollars' worth of it with thirty gallons of water from the nearest faucet (or from the buckets used to water the elephants), adds a few slices of real lemon for effect, a quarter's worth of ice, and sells it as "lemonade" at ten cents a glass.
You can readily see that the Food and Drug Administration is powerless to stop this racket. There has been no misrepresentation, misbranding, or mislabeling of a product shipped from one State to another. All misrepresentation has taken place locally.
PROHIBITION, of course, has greatly increased the consumption of soft drinks. But a paradoxical feature of the situation is that each and every one of them contains alcohol. This is because the flavoring extracts are almost insoluble in water, but readily soluble in alcohol. Therefore, alcohol is used to dissolve them, and some of it remains in the drinks. But even if you are a confirmed Dry, you can take your "soda pop" with a clear conscience, for the residue of alcohol is not sufficient to constitute anything approaching a violation of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act.
Also, whether you are a Dry or a Wet, you may drink your "pop," or whatever it is you like, without fear for your health. The Government watches out for its purity, and it is to the maker's advantage that it should be wholesome so that you, like Oliver Twist, will come back for "more."


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The Group of Seven nations reiterated its commitment on Tuesday to market-determined exchange rates and said fiscal and monetary policies must not be directed at devaluing currencies.
It followed a heated round of rhetoric about currency wars, prompted largely by Japan's new government pressing for an aggressive expansion of monetary policy, which has seen the yen weaken sharply as a result.
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"We, the G7 Ministers and Governors, reaffirm our longstanding commitment to market-determined exchange rates and to consult closely in regard to actions in foreign exchange markets," said the statement, released by Britain which chairs the G8 (G7 plus Russia) forum this year.
"We reaffirm that our fiscal and monetary policies have been and will remain oriented towards meeting our respective domestic objectives using domestic instruments, and that we will not target exchange rates.
"We are agreed that excessive volatility and disorderly movements in exchange rates can have adverse implications for economic and financial stability. We will continue to consult closely on exchange markets and cooperate as appropriate."
Despite that, there is little suggestion that Tokyo is going to come under serious pressure when G20 finance ministers and central bankers meet in Moscow at the end of the week not least because the United States is indulging in similar policies.
U.S. Treasury official Lael Brainard said on Monday that while competitive devaluations should be avoided, Washington supported Tokyo's efforts to reinvigorate growth and end deflation. (Writing by Mike Peacock. Editing by Jeremy Gaunt.)


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Overshadowing Janet and Mario
Who thought that anything could over shadow Janet Yellen today? Well, leave it to the energy complex. Refining issues and tight supply of distillate will keep oil supported as the rest of the markets focus on Jackson Hole.
Talk that Shell Deer Park refinery could be down for months as well as a Bloomberg report that Korea National Oil's "Come by Chance" refinery in province of Newfoundland and Labrador will start shutting down the first week of September for month of work, caused a spike in RBOB that could turn around the oil. Add to that an increasing chance that next week we may be dealing with a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico has energy marching to a different drummer that the rest of the macro-economic focused markets.
Just in time for a seasonal bottom in distillate and RBOB(NYMEX:RBV4). Not only will refining problems tighten already tight supply for distillate RBOB could bounce as we head into the Labor Day Weekend. Triple A is predicting that gasoline demand will hit a six-year high as prices hit the lowest level since 2010.
Weather that has been a non-factor this summer may become a factor both in the short term and the long term with a tropical storm threat in the Atlantic and a prediction of a very cold winter by the Farmer's Almanac making short plays in natural gas and products a bit more dangerous.
The National Hurricane Center is increasing the odds than we may be talking about a Tropical Storm Cristobal next week. The NHC says that shower activity associated with the small low pressure area moving over the Leeward Islands remains limited and disorganized. Interaction of the low with Puerto Rico and Hispaniola will likely inhibit significant development through tonight. However, environmental conditions are expected to be more conducive for development when the disturbance moves near or over the southeastern Bahamas on Saturday, and a tropical depression is likely to form over the weekend or by early next week. Regardless of tropical cyclone formation, gusty winds and heavy rainfall are expected across portions of the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands today, and over Hispaniola and the southeastern Bahamas tonight and Saturday. Interests in those islands should monitor the progress of this disturbance. The storms formation chances through the next 48 hours is set at a high 60% and a formation chance through the next 5 days at a high of 80%.
In the long term get ready for another character builder of a winter. The Old Farmer's Almanac had it right last winter and their woolly caterpillars and other things they use to predict weather will send chills down your spine. They are predicting a "super cold "winter in the eastern two-thirds of the country. The west will remain a little bit warmer than normal. Get out the sweaters!
Natural gas focused on heat and blew off the 88 bcf build in natural gas supply. Despite above average injections we are still 17.3% below the five-year average.
Are tensions being reduced in Ukraine or rising? The Russian convoy that allegedly has entered the country is carrying humanitarian aid has entered the Ukraine without permission. Russia is warning Ukraine to not attack. Stay tuned.
Seeking Alpha reports that the status of Kurdish crude oil will come to a head today, as the high-stakes dispute over a tanker carrying 1 million barrels of Kurdish crude still situated in the Gulf of Mexico will be determined by a federal court in Texas. The ruling will define the status of importing the controversial crude, as the Iraqi Oil Ministry and the Kurdistan Regional Government wrangle over the latter's right to produce and sell its natural resources.
Metals and other markets are acting like they want to turn back up expecting that Janet Yellen will come out dovish and Mario Draghi may signal a step towards QE as Europe fights deflation. Forget the Fed Minutes. We also saw reports of an uptick in physical demand after the recent sell-off.
Dow Jones reports that India just raised its import tax on sugar. Cattle on Feed and Cold Storage today! Beware of limits!


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Steve Smith's days with the Carolina Panthers are over. He shouldn't be out of work for long.
NFL Media's Albert Breer reported Thursday that the Baltimore Ravens will be in fast pursuit of the veteran wide receiver upon his release. According to Breer, a deal could materialize quickly.
If Smith has anything left in the tank at 35, he should be a good fit in a Ravens offense that never adequately replaced Anquan Boldin last season. Smith would ostensibly work in the slot with Jacoby Jones (re-signed Wednesday) and Torrey Smith on the outside and a healthy Dennis Pitta at tight end.
Suddenly, Joe Flacco will have a legit roll call of playmakers.
Smith shouldn't be an assumed slam dunk for the Ravens, of course. His play fell off significantly in 2013, and Panthers general manager Dave Gettleman essentially paid Smith to go away. The Panthers did their franchise star wrong in their handling of the situation, but their internal view of Smith as a player raises red flags.
That said, Smith makes sense for the Ravens at the right price in a supporting role. Finally, something to put on your calendar: The Panthers will visit the Ravens this season.
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Essays on economic variability, dynamics of adjustment, and exchange rate flexibility
Abstract (Summary)AL-ABRI, ALMUKHTAR. Essays on Economic Variability, Dynamics of Adjustment, and Exchange Rate Flexibility. (Under the direction of Douglas K. Pearce and Barry K. Goodwin.) This dissertation revisits the literature on the role of exchange rate flexibility in smoothing the adjustments of the economy to different disturbances. Recently, the role of flexible exchange rates in stabilizing the economy against real shocks has been challenged by the new open economy models, which build on some empirical regularities, such as the low pass-through from nominal exchange rates to import prices. We take three approaches in an attempt to enrich this literature. Firstly, we incorporate factors of production into welfare analyses of fully-specified general equilibrium models. We find flexible exchange rate regimes reduce terms of trade and consumption volatility for primary commodity economies, particularly oilexporting. Secondly, in an empirical investigation, using a panel Vector Autoregressive Regression of nine of the OECD's major oil-importing countries and the Reinhart and Rogoff's de facto classification of exchange rate regimes, we find support for the hypothesis that flexible exchange regimes better absorb oil-price shocks. We also document feedback from the real effective exchange rate and inflation rate to the domestic-currency real oil price shocks, supporting the growing notion that oil price shocks are not purely exogenous to developed economies. Thirdly, in a micro-level empirical investigation, we find a significant improvement in estimating the degree of nominal exchange rate pass-through to import prices when the adjustment costs and the equilibrium degree of pass-through assumptions are considered. More specifically, using a vector threshold cointegration model, we find increases in both the initial reaction and the long-run equilibrium response of import prices to nominal exchange rate changes for five industries in 16 OECD countries, especially for the manufacturing industry.
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Adventure Club scours the Internet looking for hidden gems to remix, and it appears to have paid off as the group's dubstep remix of Flight Facilities' "Crave You" has more than 22 million views on YouTube.
"We like to choose vocalists some people wouldn't have heard of in the first place," said group member Leighton James of finding songs to remix. "For 'Youth' by Foxes, when we took that up, there was only 200 views on that song. That exploded obviously. We try to dig deep to find hidden hits. That's our approach to it."
Adventure Club's main criteria for remixes is simply the vocals.
"We don't care how big they are in popularity terms," James said. "If it's a good voice, then it's a good voice and we'll work with them."
The duo, featuring Christian Srigley and James, are scheduled to perform at 9:10 p.m. Sunday inside the dance heavy Sahara Tent, above acts like the aforementioned Flight Facilities, Krewella and Alesso and just below Duck Sauce.
"We definitely plan on something a little bit different," James said of the group's set. "We'll incorporate a little other music like from other genres into it like some rock features. At an EDM festival we kind of just play bangers. And I think with this we'll try to keep it vibey. Like a mix between festival bangers and super vibey stuff."
The group, formerly a hardcore pop-punk band, almost didn't use the name Adventure Club to describe their sound.
"It was always floating around in our heads. When it came time to release the first song on the interwebs, it was kind of a joke that we put up Adventure Club," James said. "It kind of stuck and it seems to be working. We'll keep it."
After Coachella, the group plans to go back out on the road for more road dates and James acknowledged his lack of sleep and the toll the road takes when playing 20 to 25 shows a month.
"You can say you'll go to bed but there's always a couple of people lingering around to party with," James said. "Most of the sleep we get is on the plane. Our physical health is taking a toll since we've been on tour, but we're getting better. Me and Christian used to be big gym rats before, then being on the road it went to (expletive). This past year, we've been managing to stay healthy. Before when we were on tour, we were bombarded with so many parties and so much free alcohol. We went crazy. Now we realize if we do this for whatever — five or 10 more years — we need to buckle up and pass on the parties. But putting it into practice is a different matter."


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By Michael Moroney, Special to CNN
Editor's note: Michael Moroney is the director of communications at the Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity. The views expressed are the writer's own.
Lawsuits are in vogue this summer as unpaid interns go after their former employers. Hearst, Condé Nast, and even Gawker are feeling the heat as disgruntled former interns take them to court.
As a recent graduate who used paid and unpaid internships to garner experience and help figure out a career path, I was taken aback by the recent slew of suits. When I was a rising sophomore I started my first unpaid internship at a government relations office Washington, DC. The experience gained and relationships made were worth far more to me than the paycheck I could have made at a normal summer job. My first internship served as a springboard to many other internships – paid and unpaid – that eventually led to the career path I'm on now. The diversity of the internships I completed helped shape my professional skill set and prepared me to compete in an over-saturated job market.
As our modern economy gets more challenging and complex, unpaid internships are an integral part of preparing for the current job market.
As Forbes recently noted, the Supreme Court established nearly six decades ago in Walling vs. Portland Terminal Co. that unpaid internships are legal and exempt from minimum wage laws as long as six conditions are met. These conditions heavily emphasize that the internship is to the benefit of the intern, not the employer. Thus, so long as the intern is aware of, and agrees to, the fact that his internship is unpaid, and the employer approaches the internship with the intention of training the intern rather than just receiving output from him or her, the internship is lawful.
The most important point is that unpaid internships are voluntary, and if an intern feels that the training isn't worth their time, they are free to leave. The inherent frivolity of these lawsuits is that these interns willingly chose to take an unpaid position to further their careers. By trying to extract damages from employers who generously provided a learning experience, they threaten a system that's created opportunities for thousands of students and recent graduates.
Internships also serve as helpful evaluative periods for employers. During a period of supervised training, an employer can evaluate an intern's professionalism, skill set, and ability to work collaboratively. Characteristics like these are difficult to glean from a resume or interview alone. Internships, therefore, are a low-risk method of giving a potential new hire a more thorough look. Even with entry-level jobs, recruiters prefer tried and tested applicants over a fresh graduate with only a degree.
Unfortunately, in today's fragile economy, the alternative to an unpaid internship is often unemployment, and being unemployed at a young age can have reverberating costs for decades to come.
The most troubling facet of the recent lawsuits isn't the misguided complaints of a few dissatisfied interns, but rather that they could ruin this avenue of opportunity for other aspiring young professionals. Despite the legal outcomes of these cases, the media attention surrounding this issue will surely have ramifications for how companies handle their internship programs – or if they'll even have them at all.
This probably won't be the end for unpaid internships, but they will certainly dry up in many instances – hurting the young people that need them the most.
Should companies be allowed to use unpaid interns? Are unpaid internships popular in your country? Let us know what you think in the comments section below.
Just to clear up some misconceptions...
1. Unpaid internships are not "slave labor." My first unpaid internship was at a hedge fund. Hedge funds generally do not hire inexperienced paid employees. I was lucky to get the position because it gave me experience in an industry that does has virtually zero "paid internships." That opportunity opened doors for me and nobody forced me to do it. I did it because it was smart and in my best interest.
2. Unpaid internships are mostly unrelated to class or affluence. I came from a blue collar, working class family and did what many people do: a part-time paid position and a part-time unpaid internship. Most people who take unpaid internships are young, have low living expenses, and can afford to take a part-time unpaid position for the experience. The class argument is pretty silly if you ask me. If anything, unpaid internships help people like me break into industries we otherwise wouldn't break into without having serious connections, aka coming from a well connected family.
3. Unpaid internships generally do not supplant paid positions. I'm co-founder in a tech startup and have no plans to ever hire a paid interns – it wouldn't make sense to pay people who are untested and inexperienced because they're not the best use of company funds. I'm sometimes approached by people who want to work for free to learn what they need to know, build references, and build resumes so they can become skilled and get a job in our industry. I wish I could help them, but the new laws forbids me from doing it. Instead, these people will struggle to find employment because there are not many paid positions for people without references and training.
4. Unpaid internships often end up being paid. For my second internship, I was able to get a position at a boutique law firm that normally doesn't hire new people because I offered to work for free. They started paying me when they saw that I could do the job. But I never would've gotten the job if I hadn't offered to work for free initially.
I interned in high school and college. I worked part-time, too, for some semesters in college. All of my unpaid internships left me feeling rewarded. If any failed to be that way, I would have left. Interns have a right to seek payment if their work is equivalent to the work of full-time employees. That's equal pay for equal work. Interns are often used as paralegals, as copy room attendants, as front desk managers, executive assistants, receptionists, and mail room clerks. I know of situations where an unpaid intern trained a full-time employee to do the same job as the unpaid intern.
That is improper. Internships are for learning, as well as participating in professionals processes that normally require much more experience and education
I also did an unpaid internship in college BUT many young people are expected to do it for a very long time instead of an entry level job hoping to get hired. So many companies have outsourced positions that were once entry level that the only ones that are left are these "internships" too. Short term it's a learning experience, long term, pay the interns.
You work without pay; meanwhile, you pay a big corporation 7% on your student loan.
It's a republican bonanza!
I've done 2 internships in my life, while in college. While I got college credit for doing them, neither internship was worth the time or effort. Neither one taught me anything about the subject I was there to learn about. In both cases, I was used as an unpaid grunt. All I did was files years and years of paperwork for them. One place had an entire room filled with boxes of filing nobody had gotten around to putting away. The other had almost as much, even on chairs. When I had emptied all the boxes and chairs and caught up all their filing, I was told thanks and let go. The only learning I experienced was learning that internships are just free labor for someone else.
I had an unpaid internship in 1978. I worked a paying a job at night to cover my apartment and food expenses. My internship provided me with a very strong foundation when I started my first job. In fact the company that I was an intern with, were instrumental in helping me find my first salaried position. So I will tell anyone, if you have a chance at an internship, go for it and find a way to make it work. In this world knowledge is power, sometimes you have to be willing to sacrifice to get ahead.
Finally, someone who has the courage to speak out about the value of an unpaid internship. Can we honestly say that students will be hired to work at these companies even at minimum wage without ANY experience? In my opinion the answer is no and in the end it won't be the colleges or the employers who will lose it will be the students.
I've hired interns a number of times. I do pay them entry level wages but I've found that many interns are pretty useless in their "field of expertise", since they are studying. They actually cost a company money in terms of lost production due to excessive supervision (supervision they need to learn). The value comes back to a company when an intern shines during their internship and you can hire them after graduation. It also helps build a pool of experienced graduates that now know of your company & will apply for a permanent position.
I have an unpaid high school summer intern right now. I'm putting time into supervision and teaching, and I hope that by the end of 6 weeks he will have produced some work. For me, it's probably a net loss unless he ends up being a superstar or comes back to work for me in the future. But I enjoy teaching, so it's worth it to me. Like the article says, it's a voluntary arrangement.
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Well who knows. Maybe after 30 days some get an unpaid raise.
In this day & age, internship just contributes to government welfare or worse poverty. It is just another end around denying a person a days pay for a days work.
I agree with the writer. Although people are somewhat forced into an unpaid internship due to whatever reasons they might have, they have a choice of finding an actual paying internship.
And becides, while the students, or job seekers are fully aware of the conditions to the unpaid internship, what would be the reason for them to sue the company?
To add on, in the United States at least the companies are teaching interns about something. I mean.. it is a time worthwihle. However, in a country where I live, which is South Korea, there are a LOT of companies who exploit high-education labor by letting them do their errands. Some interns only sit in front of the copying machine for the whole time! While they get to write another line in their resume that they have "interned" in some fancy company, in reality, they would have gained nothing.
So, look on the bright side and just be satisfied with the fact that you get to do some real work and actually learn something even though it's an unpaid job.
I'm sorry to say, but this describes a lot of unpaid internships in the US as well. Interns are often used to sort mail, answer phones, make copies, and other administrative tasks that don't really teach them anything about the field. On the other end, you have companies that give interns substantive work–essentially replacing their entry-level workforce with unpaid interns. That isn't any better, in my opinion, because it creates a system where you have to be able to work unpaid for awhile if you ever want to get a job in your field. Too many places have interns doing jobs that used to be done by paid employees, and that's just as problematic as making interns make copies.
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I completely disagree with your assessments and observations. The reason for that is your thoughts and perpective is outdated. In mentioning about your unpaid internships, you forgot to mention the time when you graduated, education was affordable, middle class could afford higher education and moreover internships were very selective. Nowadays, kids are graduating with debt that is going to take away atleast 5-10 years of their life and that too you elitist people want them to work for free. Why? Your argument is the opportunity to gain new experience, but does this mean the interns do not even deserve minimum wage and have to increase more debt to gain experience! On top of that, think like a business, the good companies want to pay their interns to retain them, the smaller companies, businesses can afford little but they need everyone to contribute so interns usually work as much and even harder than employees, so where is the scope of betterment for the intern, also isn't that what training programs are for? Unpaid internships are nothing more than exploitation, and before you make the silly argument of its voluntary, use your common sense, if a business can get a free intern why the hell are they ever going to pay for one. and especially in hard economic times.. This is basic economics, nothing fancy just supply and demand. Interns are not asking for 6 figure salaries, they are just fighting for a minimum wage, so they can afford basic necessities and increasing their debts exponentially. I am surprised how the elitist trivialize anything that does not suite them. Learn from any age in history and you will see whenever the disparity between have's and have not's has increased it has lead to society's downfall. Learn from it and at a very basic level it is economics which even capitalists should understand. You cannot exploit people to no end and expect a prosperous society. You will have prosperous people, but your businesses will suffer. I am a very practical guy, so anyone who graduated 20 years ago and giving these kids advice to use free internships, get this thing first, put yourself in their shoes, average 50k debt, no income, a difficult job market, companies that hoard up cash rather than investing, even outsourcing.. were these things that worse in your day and age. Businesses will always need interns and even at minimum wage these interns will be cost effective for most businesses. I do want to give the contributor the benefit of doubt, maybe they are writing this out of their ignorance and not indifference, because that would be a shame.
I say lets start an "free internship" program for businesses.. any business or company has to provide free services to the government, city, state whatever before they win contracts related to Energy, Defense, Infrastructure, services, etc.. lets see the companies line up after that! All the Capitalist will go shock and awe on this one! Government is becoming socialist, there will be no growth, services will suffer!! hehehee.. any thoughts Mr Moroney?
And with all this said and done... just get me a latte and shut the f*** up!
Well said Mr. Moroney, internships are voluntary, take it or leave it. Those who want to abolish all unpaid internships should consider doing it by having the interns pay their companies for providing these great learning and resume building experiences for them.
"By trying to extract damages from employers who generously provided a learning experience"
I would be weary of making this statement. The fact of the matter is that many employers do not provide a learning or mentorship experience for their interns. Instead, employers turn to "on the job" training, where interns are thrown into the organization's daily operations and are doing the exact same work that a paid employee would be doing and thus, directly profiting off of the intern's free labor while displacing paid employees.
"Unfortunately, in today's fragile economy, the alternative to an unpaid internship is often unemployment, and being unemployed at a young age can have reverberating costs for decades to come."
Unpaid internships are now the new entry-level position which is why, as you mention, if a young person does not take on such an internship their only other option is unemployment. Where have these entry-level positions gone? There seems to be a correlation with the growth in unpaid internships and the decline in entry-level positions. Unemployment is costly, but so is wage theft – so, which is worse?
The problem I have with the arguments that are made by individuals who are pro-unpaid internships is that they continue to push the idea that internships are "useful" and they can "provide useful job experience". In some cases yes, definitely. But in actuality that isn't even the key issue – we are not only looking at whether unpaid internships are useful or not but rather, do they warrant that employers pay their interns minimum wage? Are employers exploiting young people? Are they taking advantage of the abysmal job market and sucking every bit of free labor they can get? These are the internships that are problematic.
With growing student debt and unpromising job prospects, something has to be done. Many young people cannot afford to work for free and to be honest, why should they? Older generations would look at us and say "suck it up, work for free, we volunteered back in our day" – times are different. Household debt is at an all-time high. Students are drowning in their own debt. Unemployment is not getting better.
Whatever happened to making the world a better place for future generations? Why can't generations of all walks of life support the generations who are trying to break into the job market and contribute to the economy?
If the internship was used as intended which is to provide much needed experience and training fine. However, I have personally witnessed where the intern is used to re-fill the soap dispenser in the rest room so the company doesn't have to hire janitorial services. It is true that intern can quit but how does he account for the month, year etc of wasted time since once he quits he/she cannot ever use that company as a reference. Six conditions may have been mandated by the court but I have yet to see a company follow them or any government agency enforce them.
Who has the privilege to work an unpaid internship?
If I'm a broke college student, I barely have time to study and go to work at a near full time paying job.
The problem I have with unpaid internships is that companies who offer them are essentially allowing only the wealthy to apply.
I disagree with the author of this article. I am currently working full time as an unpaid intern in DC in a position that I know for a fact is paid for during the summer and winter, when PhD students are usually hired to do my job. I love my job and I wouldn't trade it for the world, but I honestly believe it is fundamentally wrong to ask someone to work full time for no pay. If the internship were only one or two days a week, that would be a different story. But working full time is a real commitment to the business and therefore, an intern ought to at least receive a stipend to cover food and housing.
I am lucky that my parents can afford to pay for my summer. But they shouldn't need to. Most of the other interns I know will leave this summer with no or very little money left in their bank accounts. Another fellow intern had to apply for scholarships during the semester, when she should have spent her time focusing on studying. She instead had to panic over whether or not she was going to be able to do her internship. I have very much enjoyed my internship opportunity and I am very glad that I was able to afford it. But it is grossly unfair to expect someone to work full time for free. Logically, it makes no sense. If your boss came to you and said, "hey, I'd like you to do your exact same job that you do now, but for nothing," would you think that was right?
Like I said, my internship experience has been great. I just think that full time interns deserve some kind of monetary pay to cover most of if not all basic living expenses.
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"The experience gained and relationships made were worth far more to me than the paycheck I could have made at a normal summer job."
Translation: I had someone else supporting me and didn't have to worry about paying my living expenses, so I could afford to work unpaid.
Unpaid internships are making economic mobility even harder for millenials. In a world where you are expected to work multiple internships before graduating from college, and are often expected to work internships after graduating before being hired, it's the poor and lower-middle-class who are penalized. Those with wealthy parents who are willing to support them can afford to do internships every summer and build their résumés, but most can't.
Internship culture is making it harder and harder for the economically disadvantaged to succeed, no matter how gifted and hardworking they are. The idea of the hardworking poor student who works their way through college will soon be a myth; it's almost impossible now to work your way through a decent 4-year university without walking away with a mountain of debt. Now add to that the expectation that you must also fit in time to work unpaid. "Pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps" in that situation is just unrealistic.
Unpaid internships may be a great opportunity for some people. But they're an opportunity that the vast majority of students, however qualified, can't take advantage of without adding to their debt. I did a lot of internships during school–I was lucky to have parents who could and would support me through months of unpaid work. I was lucky I had my tuition paid for me so I didn't need to work to cover it. Internships were good for me, but they are a bad trend for our society.
Thank you!!!! This article and most of the other comments are full of it! They obviously had support from their parents so that they could afford to work an unpaid job. That was then. This is now.
I am a current unpaid intern and they work me to the BONE. All I do is clerical work and I haven't gained any experience or connections and I work as much as I would a part time job! It's free labor! I am also the college student who doesn't have enough time in the week for a part time job, an unpaid internship, and school. The part time job at least gets me food! But nobody wants to hire someone who has to go to school either! Employers want FULL availability or you don't get the part time job that keeps you fed or pays for books! And it's expected that I do well in school?! Our parents have NO idea how bad this is for us.


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Earlier today in New York, IBM hosted a big media event--the first of its kind for the company--to unveil their latest plans for using the PowerPC architecture (now just known as POWER) to achieve world domination. Aside from some stuff about reconfigurable chips, which Newsday and other publications horrendously mangled in their coverage, there wasn't much in the way of new technology announced. (There actually was some slightly new stuff, which I'll get to below.) The main thrust of the event was in outlining IBM's strategy for sticking it to Intel and for pushing POWER as a challenger to x86.
Though it wasn't part of the event proper, a CBS MarketWatch interview with IBM's vice president of the Systems and Technology Group, Jeff Benk, really sums up one of the themes that IBM wanted to communicate with this event:
BS.MW: Does it seem like the Power processor gets less notoriety?
A. Benck: I don't know if you've seen it, maybe you haven't based on your comment, but we're getting Power everywhere. We basically have the trifecta of game devices, with recent wins at not only Game Cube and Xbox, but also moving into next-generation game systems all the way up to the Power architecture going into our high-end pSeries and iSeries platforms. We have this breadth of technology and it's become extremely pervasive. We're not the only ones leveraging it. If you look at Apple and some of the recent stuff they've been doing, they'll be doing some exciting supercomputer work with Virginia Tech leveraging the same technology. So, while you say less notoriety, if anything, we're seeing a pickup in interest in Power, particularly because of the interest in the consumer space of games. There's a lot of interest in that. It's the high volume capability that we create there that gives us the manufacturing efficiencies to continue to invest in high-end systems, too.
The centerpiece of the event was IBM's announced "opening" of the POWER architecture, which is a combination of expansive licensing and a set of freely available tools for designing POWER-based microprocessors. From IBM's press release:
NEW YORK -- March 31, 2004 -- IBM today outlined plans to openly collaborate and build a community of innovation around its Power microprocessor architecture used in a vast range of products from the world's most powerful enterprise systems and supercomputers to games and embedded devices. The move could have major implications for computers and the electronics industry at large.
This unprecedented step by IBM is designed to create a platform for innovation that enables researchers and electronics makers to add the features and capabilities that will drive new devices and applications. The move recognizes the fact that it is the final chip designs -- more than the underlying architecture -- where innovation is taking place to create entire systems in silicon, not just electronics components.
Part of IBM's plan includes the creation of a Power Portal site where potential licensees can download a free Power Architecture Pack that includes software for designing a custom POWER chip. The idea is that chip designers can incorporate some of their own IP and use it to enhance the POWER core in order to produce a chip--manufactured either by IBM or a third party--that's specifically tailored to their needs. Ultimately, IBM hopes to create a new market for POWER derivatives of different types, used in everything from servers to game consoles to PDAs to routers, produced by licensees from across the industry.
Most people are making comparison's between IBM's new approach and Linux, but I think a better analogy might be Sun's Java. IBM will still control the PPC instruction set, at least insofar as the various POWER derivatives are concerned, and the POWER derivatives will all build on IBM's basic designs.
I suppose I should ask the obvious question at this point: what does this mean for Apple? If it takes off, I think it means that Apple will either have to lower their margins to compete with vendors of commodity POWER-based boxes (which will inevitably be able to boot OS X), or they'll morph into a software and media company.


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Monday, October 31, 2011
On DVD: "Tabloid"
These are, it seems, categorically opposite descriptions of the same event, told with equal force and vigor--a salacious, sensationalistic version, and a flowery, romantic one. Who the hell is our reliable source here? And with that question, we're getting into Errol Morris territory.
McKinney and her story, which became a sensation in late-70s English newspapers, is the subject of Morris's new film Tabloid. It is not one of the director's best films--there is less urgency and momentum, less at stake than in The Fog of War or The Thin Blue Line or Standard Operating Procedure, and he tends to flourish in approaching Big Subjects. But second-tier Morris is still Morris; it is a peculiar and riveting picture all the same.
Though Anderson declined to be interviewed (perhaps understandably), Morris talks to Peter Tory, a gossip columnist for the Daily Express and Kent Gavin, a photographer for the Daily Mirror, to get the tabloid side; Tory Williams, a former missionary and Salt Lake City radio host; Jackson Shaw, the fixed-wing pilot who got out of the scheme before it got out of hand; and, most intriguingly, McKinney herself, a fascinating if fairly sad figure who is probably, in Tory's words, "barking mad."
True to Morris's style, this is not a standard, dull, talking-heads documentary; though he eschews his oft-deployed device of re-enactments, the film is filled with odd little detours, ingenious illustrations (including a new device of using headline-style on-screen graphics to highlight keywords, attribute credit, and act as commentary), and weird archival footage. The film begins with a strange and mannered McKinney reading from the "pending book A Very Special Love Story," which recasts her story as the tale of a fairy tale princess (the footage was shot by Trent Harris, known among film cultists for his Beaver Trilogy); towards the end, there is an odd piece of home video footage that McKinney shot to illustrate the disruptiveness of a neighbor's barking dog. But she keeps starting over, doing retakes, obsessively re-shooting it. The effect is haunting. Morris leaves it all in.
Likewise, his interviews tend to hold a beat longer, letting a reaction fill in the blanks. Sometimes it's innocent (and amusing), like the little grin on Shaw's face after he describes McKinney's see-through blouse. And sometimes it's disturbing, like the way Gavin chuckles about her suicide attempt after the story began to grow hair--mainly because of his breathless uncovering of her sketchy past.
And then there is McKinney herself. She's clearly, to some degree, delusional--and not just based on her long, strange tale ("I don't see any connection at all between cloned puppies and a 32-year-old sex slave story," she insists, and you wouldn't think there would be), but in the slightly off-kilter way she tells it. In her current interviews, poised and still sporting her Southern accent, she can be funny--she says that trying to her trying to rape Anderson would be "like puttin' a marshmellow in a parkin' meter"--and even charming. But there's something intangibly not right about her, about how she insists that sex with "my Kirk" was "a melding of two souls," how she insists, even today, that "I'll die loving him" because she is "an incurable romantic." How does Morris see her? How is he approaching her? Is he laughing at her?
Tantalizingly, it is as impossible to tell that as it is to tell what actually happened in that cottage in Devon. Williams--the closest thing we have to a voice of reason--lays out Anderson's claims as "Story #1," McKinney's fairy tale as "Story #2," but proposes "a third scenario: something in between." Only those who were there really know, and they're not telling. Midway through the film, McKinney says, "You know, you can tell a lie long enough, until you believe it." She's talking about Kirk there, but she's saying much more.
"Tabloid" is out on DVD tomorrow.
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In light of his upcoming elevation into the red-hat crowd, I thought it would be good to dip into my GetReligion folder of guilt and take a look at that recent New York Times mini-profile of New York Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan. Of course, it is also important that the Cardinal-designate Dolan -- as leader of the U.S. Catholic bishops -- has been in the headlines throughout the religious-liberty battles between the Obama White House and a coalition of traditional religious groups over the new Health and Human Services regulations.
Here is my main comment about this solid feature story, other than one or two points about the accuracy of some language about doctrinal issues: It's hard to write a nasty, unbalanced profile of a man who is an effective, unapologetic communicator, one who is not afraid to state his viewpoints clearly and with a touch of zip. It's hard for reporters to do fair, informed coverage of religious leaders who -- either through design or lack of talent -- surround their most important statements with clouds of boring fog.
The bottom line: It's much easier to accurately and fairly quote a religious leader who is not hiding, who is not terrified of being quoted in defense of his or her faith.
This comes across quite clearly in the Times article through its emphasis on Dolan's often earthy sense of humor. Here's what that looks like in practice, describing the soon-to-be cardinal's radio show:
Since arriving in New York from Milwaukee, Archbishop Dolan, who was raised in Ballwin, Mo., has most often caught the public's attention as the traditional unyielding Catholic voice of "no" -- to same-sex marriage, to abortion and to sex education in public schools. His show, "A Conversation With the Archbishop," which is broadcast on Sirius XM satellite radio, is an attempt to change that. It uses a modern talk-show format, with an Ed McMahon-like sidekick and guests, and features the archbishop's booming bass voice and interest in subjects as varied as the Sept. 11 attacks and exorcism, along with jokes when the tone gets heavy. ...
There is trendy theme music ("City of Blinding Lights," by U2). And after his regular sign-on, "Praise be Jesus Christ," the 6-foot-3, barrel-chested archbishop finds ways to work in regular jabs about his own weight ("I'm the only guy that breaks a sweat while he's eating"), his ratings ("my mother is my only listener") and his Irish heritage ("I tried to trace my family roots in Ireland, but I got so embarrassed that I had to stop. It was not a pretty picture.").
His humor is both authentic and strategic, as he readily acknowledges. His hope is that by highlighting the ebullience he finds at the heart of the faith, he will win back some of the nation's millions of straying or ex-Catholics. "Happiness attracts," he often says.
The key question, of course, is whether it is possible to communicate the basic facts -- as opposed to opinions -- of Catholic doctrine in a way that would be winsome in any context defined by the Times.
Now, please understand that when I say "facts" I am not saying that Catholic doctrines are facts for those who have not chosen to be part of the Catholic Church. I am saying that these doctrines are the facts on the ground -- for centuries -- for those who want to take part in the sacramental life of the Catholic faith. Thus, a man like Dolan is not simply expressing his own feelings and opinions when he defends basic Catholic doctrines in statements to his fellow Catholics.
So, it probably is true that Dolan is the voice of "no" in relation to the Manhattan public. He is much more than the voice of "no" when talking to Catholics who genuinely seek to be in Communion with the Catholic Church, which is not a democratic, public institution. The Times is not the only publication that struggles to grasp the difference between these two roles, often struggling for reasons openly articulated by it's former editor Bill "collapsed Catholic" Keller.
Take, for example, any statements that Dolan might make on -- pick an issue -- "sex education in public schools." Dolan is speaking with one level of authority when he talks to practicing Catholics about that issue, perhaps suggesting that they should seek tolerance for their beliefs when wrestling with school administrators. He is speaking with a different, and less authoritative voice, when he speaks to those very administrators as part of an open, public debate.
With this distinction in mind, note this crucial paragraph in the Times mini-profile:
Pope Benedict XVI plans to make Archbishop Dolan a cardinal at a ceremony on Feb. 18 in Rome, giving him the red hat that signifies his new stature as a prince of the church. But even now, two and a half years after Archbishop Dolan arrived at the helm of the New York Archdiocese, his personality is not well known outside of religious circles. And the question remains whether this distracted, liberal, scandal-weary city is willing to listen to a conservative voice even as entertaining as his. ...
Archbishop Dolan's style is a striking shift from that of the man he replaced, Cardinal Edward M. Egan, who was known as a no-nonsense and at times aloof administrator during his tenure overseeing the New York Archdiocese, from 2000 to 2009. The last charismatic figure to lead the archdiocese was Cardinal John J. O'Connor, from 1984 to 2000, whose eloquence in expressing the church's views made him a major figure in the life of the city and beyond.
Key word there? That would be "eloquence."
By all means, read this whole piece. It's worth the effort, because the Times lets Dolan speak for himself as much, or more, than is the norm. Readers can make up their own minds when it comes to accepting what the archbishop has to say.


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Egleston Square isn't known as a magnet for astrophysicists, yet Mike Barnett spends a lot of time there.
Strictly speaking, Barnett isn't an astrophysicist anymore. Instead, he is a celebrated professor at Boston College who has devoted himself to helping to teach science-phobic kids — especially from city neighborhoods — to appreciate the wonders of science.
One of the ways he does this is through teaching students to grow fruits and vegetables in high-tech hydroponic gardens and sell them to their neighbors at farmers' markets. It is this pursuit that takes him, as it did Saturday morning, to Jamaica Plain.
"When you grow food, you learn a little about physics, a little about chemistry, and a little about biology," he said last week. "It's all about helping kids get excited about science."
Barnett is an education professor at BC, specializing in urban science education. His mission is to use science to stimulate students, who might fall by the wayside, to become excited about school. The farmers' market is part of a larger effort to teach kids how science can touch their daily lives.
So they pore over data showing the location of convenience stores as opposed to supermarkets. They perform experiments to discover what kinds of plants they can grow in labs, without natural sunlight or soil. They ponder why low-income people have less access to nutritious food.
And then they try to address the problem, by growing healthy food and selling it for a minimal profit. "Science is such a gateway discipline," Barnett said. "It really opens up a wide range of opportunities, once you begin to understand it. Access to healthy food is a social justice problem."
The students in his College Bound program are mainly from Brighton High and West Roxbury High. They aren't the students normally plucked for college-prep programs. "We recruit not the A kids but the C kids," he said. "The A kids get plenty of attention, but it's easy for a C student to skate through and be forgotten. We try to get C students to get excited and become A students, and we've been fairly successful at it."
Barnett came upon his passion almost by accident. He was a graduate student at Indiana University when the physics department fielded a call from a frustrated fifth-grade schoolteacher who wondered if someone could help her explain the moon to her students. She was referred to Barnett, who ended up in her classroom, talking about astronomy to a roomful of curious kids. To his surprise, he loved it.
"What I learned quickly was that fifth-graders can do the same science as high school kids," he said. "You just have to break it down into appropriate pieces so they can understand it. But they're really, really inquisitive."
Instead of becoming a researcher, Barnett became an expert on teaching science. His program combines teaching science to students with working with teachers from across Eastern Massachusetts on better ways to teach science and technology.
Barnett, who's 41, grew up on a farm in Kentucky, where his parents grew tobacco and raised cattle. His early love of science fiction hardened into a passion for physics partly because of an inspiring high school teacher. He was the first member of his family to go to college, which may partly explain his affinity for helping to encourage students from similar backgrounds.
"I never missed the farm," he said. "But here I am growing things."
Last week, Barnett was recognized as Massachusetts professor of the year by the Carnegie Foundation, but he deflected the praise he has received.
"I'm not a huge fan of awards," he said. "It's more a reflection of the fact that we have a strong and dedicated team that works on these projects."
Teaching science is less important than stimulating curiosity, he said. "We're really trying to get kids in college and keep them there," Barnett said. "We show them how to use science to address social justice issues. Our kids are living those issues."Adrian Walker is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @Adrian_Walker.


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In this life it's important to decide a)how normal you want to be and b)how normal you're capable of being/how normal you actually are.
Self deceit causes a lot of unhappiness
In this life it's important to decide a)how normal you want to be and b)how normal you're capable of being/how normal you actually are.
Self deceit causes a lot of unhappiness
As sad as it is, Job/work is often just an excuse to leave home, to be away from family and such. More and more people seem to get divorced AFTER retirement these days in other words when people are wrecking each other's nerves 24-7. Shows that "Happy Family Life" is often another case of wishful thinking and/or propaganda.
so with that in mind i'd say in (grown up) life you must
a) be realistic about how much money you need to live a comfortable life (hint: its in the low/mid twenties)
b) build from there
i do "blue collar work" and have done for a long time , i get enjoyment from work the same way anyone who's used to the ratrace does, relationships, bants and most importantly being able to put a roof over my head, afford simple luxuries and where possible save for better luxuries. that's all i want from Work and i'm quite happy to continue doing it while pursuing interests elsewhere
mon - fri living (depending on hours) can pretty much kill off any aspirations outside making it to the weekend but im lucky enough to have a 50/50 60/40 balance of work-play because of how i've manoeuvred in this dunya
if i didnt do what i currently do i'd be tempted to drive a bus for a year or two
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It's difficult to know what's realism and what's defeatism.
Some people give up dreams too early, others hang on far too long.
My point was that financial limitations (actual or imagined) can stop a person from fulfilling their quote unquote dreams
And if people were to be more realistic about the amount of money they need to be comfortable, live, create etc then they'd be less stressed
Maybe more stressed though. Who knows.


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DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife seeks volunteers for Cedar Swamp Wildlife Area project on March 9
DOVER (Feb. 27, 2013) – The DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife is looking for volunteers to help with "Bye Bye Boxwood," a habitat restoration project, at the Cedar Swamp Wildlife Area east of Smyrna from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 9.
At the Vogel Tract on the Cedar Swamp Wildlife Area, ornamental boxwood shrubs are outcompeting native plants and taking over the understory, impacting native wildlife habitat as they spread. To remove these shrubs, volunteers will use hand saws, pruners and loppers, which will be provided along with work gloves, or volunteers may bring their own.
Volunteers under the age of 18 must provide a parental consent form, which can be printed from the Division of Fish and Wildlife's volunteer website (see address below). Participants under the age of 16 also must be accompanied by an adult.
Volunteers will meet at the Cedar Swamp Wildlife Area's Vogel Tract. Follow Thoroughfare Neck Road, cross over Collins Beach Road and continue to the end of the dirt road. A map with directions can be found on the Fish & Wildlife online volunteer calendar on the volunteer website below.
For more information, or to sign up for this wildlife area project, please contact Lynne Staub at 302-735-3600 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Volunteers are strongly encouraged to pre-register with contact information in case of inclement weather leading to postponement.
For more information on other volunteer opportunities with the DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife, as well as parental consent forms, maps and directions to volunteer project sites, visit www.fw.delaware.gov/volunteers.
This project is part of DNREC's Delaware Bayshore Initiative, a landscape approach to restore and protect fish and wildlife habitat, increase volunteer participation in habitat stewardship projects, enhance low-impact outdoor recreation and ecotourism opportunities, and promote associated environmentally compatible economic development.
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