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Student Learning Outcomes at El Camino College
The Mission of El Camino College (ECC) is to offer quality, comprehensive educational programs and services to ensure the educational success of students from our diverse community. Central to this mission is student learning, which is not restricted to interactions between students and instructors in a classroom. Instead, the entire campus works together to support student learning in all of our courses, programs, and services.
ECC strives to create a culture where outcomes assessment continually improves the quality of student learning and institutional effectiveness. Members of each department and program engage each other in the development and assessment of outcomes. Dialogue within and amongst departments and programs moves the college forward to meet the evolving needs of our students through instruction, curricula, programs, and services.
Learning Outcomes exist at multiple levels.
- Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) are learning outcomes that we expect students to achieve after they have completed a course.
- Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) are learning outcomes we expect students to achieve after completing a degree or path of study at ECC.
- Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs) measure the core competencies achieved by students completing a course of study at ECC.
- Service Area Outcomes (SAOs) are explicit statements describing knowledge, skills, abilities, and/or attitudes that a student will be able to demonstrate at the end (or as a result) of his or her engagement in a particular lesson, course, program, or collegiate experience.
Assessment plans are in place to evaluate our success in helping student achieve these outcomes.
Although the initial impetus for assessment began with SLOs, all areas of the college, including Student Services, have benefited from setting outcomes they want achieved by their work (outcomes that those they serve will achieve). Thus outcomes assessment (rather than only SLO assessment) is the language we use to describe all levels of our efforts across the college.
Learning Outcomes are developed and assessments take place for the following areas:
- Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
- Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
- Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
- General Education Outcomes (GEOs) (In process)
- Service Area Outcomes (SAOs)
We believe that assessment is the vehicle to promote continuous improvement in our courses, programs, and services. The materials and links on the learning outcomes webpages provide resources for students, faculty, staff, administrators, and community members to learn about ECC's commitment to assessment of student learning and the actions we take to promote student success.


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Goodbye to All That
A frank conversation with three members of Congress who are calling it quits.
This 113th Congress has been in crisis pretty much from the moment it was elected, lurching from budget deadlock to government shutdown and back again. At times, the debate has come down to whether it's the worst Congress ever—or merely one of the worst. No wonder, then, that as the election year starts, a number of the institution's stars, past and possibly future, have decided to call it quits. Retirements from the House of Representatives are not yet at historic highs—so far 16 have announced their exits, but among them are many of those who remember an institution that used to work in ways the present-day House no longer does, including formidable legislators like George Miller, one of the last serving members of the famously reformist Watergate class of 1974, and Howard "Buck" McKeon, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee. "What you have is a real problem in trying to get things together, in trying to get things to happen," a tearful McKeon told a press conference Thursday in announcing his exit.
But gridlock and dysfunction, that infuriating inability to get things to happen, can often seem like hopeless abstractions, as if it were just some eternal and unsolvable mess up on Capitol Hill. We decided to sit down with several thoughtful members of Congress who are leaving to talk— frankly and on the record—about what's really wrong, how things have changed and what they'd love to fix if they got the chance. Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), a veteran at age 66, is the former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, forced from his post two years ago by term limits on committee chairs. Both Reps. Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.) and Tim Griffin (R-Ark.) were seen as up-and-coming stars with prized seats on the House Ways and Means Committee. All three had a lot to say about the crises, the inaction, the disemboweling of the committee system—and the annoying trials of sleeping for years on end on an air mattress in one's office. Not to mention their frustrations with ill-informed constituents and bullying outside groups, out-of-control gerrymandering, a president who never calls, and other indignities of life in Congress circa 2014.
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Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.): Not getting things done: that's one of the factors that I thought about in terms of announcing my retirement. And I juxtaposed that against looking ahead the next couple of years, running for another term, hopefully being successful in the election. But do things really change legislatively for another couple of years after that? And then juxtapose that against the lifestyle—being down here so many nights a week without your wife and family. And do you want to continue living that kind of existence if you're not seeing big things move through the process and to enactment? So that was the two factors that entered into my decision: the lifestyle, which is a tough lifestyle for most members, and, at least for me, thinking ahead that things aren't going to change much in the next couple of years. Do I want to continue with that kind of situation?
Susan Glasser, editor, Politico Magazine: That's what's striking. All of you have great positions in Congress. It's not just that you're members, but you have seats on Ways and Means or a chairmanship. That used to be incentive enough on its own for someone to stick with it.
Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.): There's always been partisanship if you define it as differences in policy—strong opinions. What I think has changed, and it's been a gradual process—probably even before I came to Congress—is the districts we run in. When I was elected in '92, I represented most of Birmingham; I also represented some suburbs and a rural county. It had a Democratic congressman—had for 10 years. In 2000, it was totally changed to a Republican district. There have been credible Democrats, as far as their resume or their accomplishments, but they were going nowhere in that district. And we've gone from a lot of swing districts to almost none.
John Bresnahan, Capitol Hill bureau chief, Politico: It's like 60 or 70 competitive seats—the whole House is down to that.
Bachus: So, your elections now, I'd say 90 percent of them are decided in primaries. And people tend to run in the Republican primaries to the right—very much to the right—and very much to the left in the Democratic primaries. You've also had this change, where, even when I came, there were probably two dozen Southern Democrats that were conservative. You also had a great number of New York, Pennsylvania Republicans that were moderate. And they were an integral part of the Republican Party—the Northern Republicans. The Southern Democrats were a sizeable number in the Democratic Party. So now, the parties have pretty much shaken that out…. [What's more,] you used to live together. You used to go to school together. … Now, it just seems like they're divided down the middle.
Rep. Tim Griffin (R-Ark.): I've thought a lot about the narrative that you hear that that borderline Republicans are gone, that the conservative Democrats are gone. And there's something to that, but when you really analyze it, those people were conservatives and it's true they were conservative Southern Democrats and a bunch of 'em are now gone. Well, people love to talk about the old bipartisanship. But it wasn't really bipartisanship. Yeah, they had a different label. But they're replaced now by people with basically the same views.
Bresnahan: Except they're Republican.
Griffin: They just have a different label. People love to say: You used to hang out with those people when they were Democrats but now you don't because they don't exist. But the person you are hanging out with has basically the same views, and they're from that district, they're just Republican. So, some of this is nomenclature only. You took a conservative or a relatively conservative Southern Democrat from a decade ago that you used to hang out with, right? And you replaced them with a Republican.
And so, you're looking around going, "Well, I don't hang out with any Democrats." Well yeah, but you hang out with the guy that took that seat. So, you're changing the label, but it's the same views. I mean, I was never going to be hanging out with [liberal California Democrat] Henry Waxman. But I think we often overstate the role of the party in that. I'm in the gym every morning, and have lockers by Democrats. You know, I don't ask person X or person Y to go out to dinner. Not because they're bad people—I just have very little in common with them.
Bresnahan: But isn't that kind of the point though?
Griffin: Well, no, it's not. Because, if they were Southern Democrat, from a decade ago, I would have something in common with them.
Bresnahan: But culturally, the parties are getting driven one way or the other.
Glasser: And Congressman Bachus's point is an important point too, which is: If there are now structural changes layered on top of that cultural difference, it may mediate toward a more extreme version of each party—that is what the primaries are now producing.
Bachus: A different way of coming at this: The people might have the same views, but the structure has changed.
Griffin: Right, that's correct.
Bachus: And it's changed the way they act.
Glasser: Because their incentives are different.
Griffin: And because they've got to follow party leadership often.
Bachus: And they didn't before. Believe you me.
Gerlach: They had some flexibility.
Bresnahan: Well, let me ask you, Congressman Gerlach: You serve in the state legislature. And you served in Congress. And one of the things that struck me—and I've been covering Capitol Hill now since '95—is that the leadership—what started was a Gingrich reform, term limits and reining in the chairmen—the chairmen had become too powerful back in the day—but now, everything is done at the leadership level. And basically, for better or worse, we've gutted the committees. I mean, look from the time when I covered Bill Archer running Ways and Means to where Dave Camp is as the current chairman; it's a major change. Would you say that is a big problem in the House?
Gerlach: I agree with what Speaker Boehner has said repeatedly, which is that we have to have a more regular order process, where you allow the committees organically to develop their pieces of legislation, bring them to floor, and debate 'em, argue 'em, and amend them, and do all you can. But then try to get to the 218 [votes for a majority]. And I think that's just a better legislative process. It's the kind of process I experienced back in the state legislature. It's what I was experiencing when I first got in to Congress in January of 2003, and I just think it's a better process. And I've seen examples of it: Mike Oxley was chairman of Financial Services before Spencer. Mike seemed to have a leadership ability to decide what the agenda would be and move that agenda and leadership seemed to allow him to move forward in that way. And the Transportation Committee that I served on—first under Don Young—you had the opportunities to have a lot of direct input to that legislation so you felt like you were getting stuff done in committee. That's a lot of it—you just want to have an opportunity—if you're going to spend all this time away from family, and then even when you're back in the district, you're still not with your family, 'cause you're running around your district—if you have a competitive one like I've had. You want to get something done for that time that you're putting in. And the committees allow you to get some of that done. And the more that you have that chance as a member, the better the experience. And if it's all directed from the leadership level, it just makes it tougher and tougher.


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WASHINGTON (Dec. 21, 2010)- The Department of the Treasury announced a
new rule that will extend the safety and convenience of electronic
payments to millions of Americans and phase out paper checks for federal
benefits by March 1, 2013. Officials at the Department of Veterans
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"Receiving VA benefits electronically will increase the security,
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On March 1, 2013, VA will stop issuing paper checks. People who do not
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Top government officials gave a positive, if lukewarm, response to the latest developments in cross-strait relations at the APEC meeting in Bali, Indonesia, while the opposition party lambasted Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) for pressuring Taiwan to open political negotiations based on China's terms.
Top cross-strait officials — Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Minister Wang Yu-chi (王郁琦) and Taiwan Affairs Office Director Zhang Zhijun (張志軍) — met on Sunday, and they addressed each other by their official titles, Presidential Office spokeseprson Li Chia-fei (李佳霏) said.
"President Ma said such moves exemplify that the two sides do not deny each other's authority to govern," she added.
Li said that the Wang-Zhang meeting marks a good start for normalizing official interactions across the Taiwan Strait, and it serves as an important milestone for the institutionalization of bilateral relations.
Asked about President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) reaction to Xi's comments suggesting that China would not allow Taiwan to put off political talks, Li said there would be no further statement from the president on the issue.
Xi said at a meeting with former vice president Vincent Siew (蕭萬長), Ma's envoy to APEC, on Sunday that the "longstanding political division between the two sides will have to be eventually resolved step-by-step as it should not be passed down from generation to generation."
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leaders rebuffed the comments made by Xi.
Honigmann Hong (洪財隆), head of DPP's Department of China Affairs accused Ma of selling out Taiwan's sovereignty.
"Ma is surrendering Taiwan to be bound up inside the 'one China' noose. He is only thinking of his place in history, by creating conditions for a 'Ma-Xi meeting' next year," Hong said.
"In doing so, Ma has wasted good opportunities at the APEC summit, for active participation to present ideas and proposals and that represent Taiwan's rights," he added.
DPP Legislator Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁) said there was a clear subtext to Xi insisting that the division between the two sides should not continue indefinitely.
"This indicates China is becoming impatient because cross-strait talks are actually bypassing a sticky political issue, by focusing on economic integration. Xi is pressuring Taiwan back to the negotiating table," Chen said.
DPP Legislator Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said it was clear from Xi's words that after pushing for economic integration, China would push for political integration.
"Xi outlined his 'one China' framework, which nullifies the so-called '1992 consensus,'" Lin said, referring to the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) policy that there is "one China, with each side having its own interpretation."
"Xi's comment has also trounced Ma's efforts for the past five years to exploit the ambiguity contained in the '1992 consensus,'" he added.
Other DPP officials questioned Ma's interpretation of Wang and Zhang addressing each other by their official titles as "embodying mutual non-denial."
One DPP official said that this was political ploy, as neither China's People's Daily, the Beijing Daily nor any PRC state media had mentioned Wang and Zhang addressing each other by their official titles.
Regarding the interpretation that Xi's comment was aimed at pressuring Taiwan onto a fast-track schedule for unification, Wang told reporters in Bali that it was just Xi expressing China's own stance and viewpoints.


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Normally supersymmetric quantum field theories have Lagrangians which are supersymmetric only on-shell, i.e. with the field equations imposed. In many cases this can be solved by introducing auxilary fields (field which don't carry dynamical degrees of freedom, i.e. which on-shell become a function of the other fields). However, there are cases where no such formulation is known, e.g. N=4 super-Yang-Mills in 4D.
Since the path integral is an integral over all field configurations, most of them off-shell, naively there is no reason for it to preserve the on-shell symmetry. Nevertheless the symmetry is preserved in the quantum theory.
Of course it is possible to avoid the problem by resorting to a "Hamiltonian" approach. That is, the space of on-shell field configurations is the phase space of the theory and it is (at least formally) possible to quantize it. However, one would like to have an understanding of the symmetries survival in a path integral approach. So:
How can we understand the presence of on-shell symmetry after quantization from a path integral point of view?


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I've always wondered what was going on with the ancient polo bikes which were rotting away at Herne Hill Velodrome. They had been used for grass games in the past but recently we have heard nothing of them. So it was great to here that Rollapaluza CC has recently purchaed the 11 reminaing bikes and now plans to totally overhaul them so they can be used once again!
Apparently they need quite a lot of work on them so any donations of time and spare parts (26″ wheels!) would be much appreciated. The aim is to get them fixed up and suitably stored at Herne Hill so we can eventually play some grass games.
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It's no secret that Vin Diesel, the gravely-voiced star of Pitch Black and the new film Riddick, likes video games. So it makes sense that there have been two solid Riddick games already — and now we're getting a new one.
The game, which will be on the Apple App store for iOS devices on Friday September 20, is called Riddick: The Merc Files. You can watch a teaser for it above, which gives a sense of how it'll play.
According to the game's press release, the same folks who worked on Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena are working on the new game. While their first two games were big-budget console games,The iOS-only Merc Files doesn't sound insubstantial.
From the official description:
The game features situation-based game play, where you'll need to quickly adjust to every possible scenario.
If you are careless, mercs may find the bodies you leave behind and become alerted to your presence. If they do, sometimes an all-out attack may become necessary. The controls are designed specifically for a mobile format. You control Riddick with two fingers on one hand, making the game accessible without losing any game play depth.
I keep wanting to make "ridic/ridiculous" jokes about this one, but can't come up with the right angle. I sure hope this game is… ridic! Anyway, you can find some screenshots over at the game's website, and we'll have more on Merc Files once we've played it.


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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Teaching Requirements? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Teaching Requirements? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Italy View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Rachel JadeJoined: 09 Aug 2011Posts: 1Location: Canada Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 9:30 pm Post subject: Teaching Requirements? Hi guys! I am Canadian-Italian - thinking of making the jump across the pond to teach English spring 2012. But I have a question - what are the qualifications/requirements that are most often desired? I do not have a BA, but am starting CELTA in January. Is this sufficient? Thanks! NB And I don't want to be only able to find sketchy jobs. Back to top Teacher in RomeJoined: 09 Jul 2003Posts: 1286 Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:37 pm Post subject: I have come across teachers without a BA, but many schools / institutions will expect it along with CELTA / Trinity TESOL and experience. In the company I worked for, we needed to forward teachers' CVs to take part in a bid. One of the requirements (it was a publicly funded bid) was a bachelor's degree, meaning that any teachers without this would not be eligible to teach on the program. A lot depends on how you word your CV. If you have any higher ed, make something of it. If you lack teaching experience, talk up any business experience - this might position you for work where you need to teach business English or work in-company. Back to top euro2010Joined: 20 Jun 2010Posts: 13 Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 2:58 pm Post subject: Do you have a BSc or no kind of degree? If you're looking at private schools then there shouldn't really be a problem if you've got a CELTA except maybe in some of the big cities. As was said before though, if you're looking at government/EU-funded schemes, very common in the south, then you'll need a degree and as most private schools take contracts for these schemes you may be out of luck. Back to top sophieisidoroJoined: 31 Aug 2011Posts: 8 Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:35 pm Post subject: My school for instance on paper requires a CELTA and three years experience but I have seen that occasionally they have employed people with less experience because they already have some commercial experience (useful for business english) Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Italy All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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|Re: Independence day ? A message of freedom ? My poetic tribute
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Dear Ajay,
Thanks for your mail.
My best wishes to you.
Wishes from Dr. A. P. J. Kalam
Happy Independece Day
|My Little Poem – Independence day – A message of freedom – My poetic tribute
Today is a great day. Sacrifice of our passionate Indian became successful at this day for freedom of our loving mother India. We can sense true feeling of independence in our hearts and souls. Mission of the life of that great warrior fulfilled at 15 august 1947 .But vision is still continuing for moving India toward developed nation and making our world a better place for living of every one.We have acquired broad vision from our Spiritual scientist , which is:
May all be Happy
May all free form disease
May all realize what is good
May none be subject to misery
Our glorious family is continuously trying to transcend our dream through integration of our minds, hearts and souls. So that we can co-create our invaluable knowledge and experience for channelize our infinite capability and energy in a synergic way for creation of more happiness in everyone's life.
Dedicate to our loving Mother India
Dedicate to our great freedom fighters
Independence Day – A message of freedom – My poetic tribute
Happy Independence Days (15 August)
Remember that day
All sacrifice of our freedom fighter became meaningful.
All righteous actions achieved successful resonance.
All True efforts of everyone fulfilled for independence.
All missions of great leaders accomplished for winning.Remember that day
An energetic radiation was spreading on our bodies.
A true vision of leaders was circulating in our brains.
Rays of happiness were pouring in our hearts.
Blesses of those warriors were transmitting in our soul.
Stabilize this day
Recharging our minds, hearts and souls.
Redefining mission of our invaluable life
Harmonizing our thinking pattern of brains
Integrating our all thoughts, actions and deedsBut journey is continue
Our true vision is still motivating us For Transforming our vision on real world platform
Supporting to emotional matrix in our family
Erasing all type of sorrows from the world
Establishing prosperity in our loving family
Expanding waves of true love in the world
Spreading rays of happiness in the universe With best wishes ~ Ajay K Singh Niranjan
Jai Hind …. Jai Mother India ……Jai Indian …… Jai Humanity


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Featured ListingsGould & Pakter Associates, LLC
Forensic Accounting Expert
Chicago, IL
Mr. Pakter has more than 40 years of experience in accounting, forensic accounting, financial analysis, financial forensics, business economics, fraud examinations and investigations, including more than 15 years of experience in economic damages and business valuations. Courts and arbitral bodies have recognized him as an expert in accounting, financial analysis, financial forensics, economic damages, business valuations and business economics. He is a Certified Public Accountant, registered and licensed in the State of Illinois. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants has recognized him as additionally Certified in Financial Forensics and Management Accounting. He earned the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts Certified Valuation Analyst designation and its Master Analyst in Financial Forensics designation. The Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors has awarded him its Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor certificate and its Certification in Distressed Business Valuation. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner and he earned a Chartered Accountant credential.
White, Zuckerman, Warsavsky, Luna & Hunt
Barbara Luna
Sherman Oaks, CA
100s of times as Expert Witnesses for Business, Real Estate, and Personal Injury Litigation & Marital Dissolution; Damage Analysis of Lost Profits/Earnings, Business Valuation,Forensic Accounting and Investigative Analysis of Liability & Fraud. Offices in Sherman Oaks and Irvine. Second office: 4 Park Plaza., Suite #200. Irvine, CA 92614
Expert ListingsAlerding CPA Group
Michel Alerding
Indianapolis, IN
A 45 year CPA with over 25 years litigation support experience. Specialties include Lost profits Lost wages and Lost Value. Also very experienced in Accountants Malpractice matters representing both Plaintiffs and Defendants. Have worked with and against national regional and local CPA firms and law firms on these matters. Will travel.
Shelia Darby
Houston, TX
Shelia Darby is a managing director at BizWorth, where she leads the valuation and economic modeling practice areas. Shelia brings nearly 20 years of experience in valuation and financial modeling covering both domestic and international projects and companies. Prior to BizWorth, Shelia served as the Assistant Treasurer of Transocean and held various valuation and finance roles at ConocoPhillips, including the international rollout of the financial modeling and valuation course to over 200 finance employees located throughout the United States, Canada, Scotland, China, Singapore and Australia. Shelia is a certified CVA and PMP. She holds an MBA from Rice University and a bachelor's degree from Baylor University. Past business and project valuations include: oil and gas (upstream, midstream & downstream), liquefied natural gas (LNG), shipping, transportation, renewables (solar and wind), mining and printing.
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Eric Forster
Beverly Hills, CA
Eric Forster is the Managing Principal of Forster Realty Advisors. With more than 35 years in the industry, he has become a recognized expert in the areas of real estate and mortgage fraud, brokerage standards and practices, RESPA, TILA and HOEPA violations, as well as escrow practices . He was Co-Chair of the Real Estate Experts subcommittee of the American Bar Association from 2009- 2012.
Kohler Healthcare Consulting Inc.
Charlotte L Kohler
Woodstock, MD
Results driven consultant and expert witness in cases involving all facets of medical and healthcare relating to business, financial, operational, coding, billing and regulations. Recent work in radiology billing companies, anesthesia, physical therapy, behavioral health, hospital inpatient and outpatient contracting damages and disputes etc.
Thomas Roney, LLC
Thomas Roney, President
Dallas, TX
Thomas Roney, LLC experts provide expert economic damages reports and testimony. The firm's economic, forensic accounting and finance experts specialize in personal injury, employment and discrimination, business litigation/lost profits/valuations, franchise disputes and intellectual property matters. We have offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and Atlanta.
Litinomics Inc.
Gregory Pinsonneault
Walnut Creek, CA
Mr. Pinsonneault has 15+ years of experience providing consulting and expert testimony for economic financial and business issues in commercial litigation primarily related to economic damages. He has consulted in intellectual property disputes, including patent, trade secret, trademark, etc., class certification and damages, and many other issues.
Kelly Hickel
Expert Witness Consulting Services ("EWCS")
New York, NY
Expert Witness Consulting Services, LLC (EWCS) focuses on Expert Consulting and Expert Litigation Support, especially in Finance, Healthcare and Intellectual Property. We have assembled a world-class team of Experts, both internal and as affiliates, who can meet your needs for Expert Consulting or an Expert Witness to support your Litigation or Arbitration.
Newell Advisors
Wei Chiu
Palo Alto, CA
Wei Chiu's expert witness work is focused on business loss analysis in civil litigation working with both defense and plaintiff attorneys. He brings over 35 years of executive level experience in the management of finance and operations for multiple industries ranging from Fortune 100 to single investment partnerships. Mr. Chiu has a B.A. from Harvard College (Physical Science), an M. Architecture from MIT, and an MBA (Finance) from Stanford. Please contact for a complimentary assessment of your needs.
Sequence Inc. Forensic Accounting
Tracy Coenen, CPA, CFF
Chicago, IL
Tracy L. Coenen, CPA, CFF practices exclusively in the area of forensic accounting and has completed several hundred financial investigations and fraud examinations. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed in Illinois and Wisconsin, and is Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF).
Econ One Research
Stephan Levy
Arlington, VA
Dr. Stephan Levy is an economist with over 22 years experience analyzing antitrust, intellectual property, and other commercial litigation claims. Clients have entrusted Dr. Levy with evaluating complex issues, such as defining relevant antitrust markets, determining market power using direct and indirect evidence, analyzing the competitive effects of horizontal and vertical conduct, estimating damages, determining reasonable royalties, and analyzing the commercial success of patented innovations. He has been designated as an expert witness in several antitrust and other commercial litigations and has testified before administrative and Federal courts. Dr. Levy has testified and consulted in numerous industries including pharmaceuticals, health care, sports and entertainment, and telecommunications. He has held positions at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and several prominent consulting firms, and he is a former instructor at Indiana University. He holds a B.A. in economics from Tulane University and a Ph.D. in business economics and public policy from Indiana Universitys Kelley School of Business.
Inglewood Associates
Nancy Terrill
Fairport Harbor, OH
John Lane is an expert in Business Valuation and Damages Calculations. He began his career as an accounting partner at an international firm, and is currently active as a turnaround consultant. Nancy Terrill is the Inglewood contact.
Research & Planning Consultants
Ronald T. Luke, JD, PhD, President
Austin, TX
For attorneys in Personal Injury, Commercial Litigation and Healthcare Litigation, RPC provides economic damages and regulatory analysis, from loss of earnings to fraud and contract disputes. In-depth experience in healthcare liability and damage issues. 40 years experience.
Delta Economic Advisors
David Gouiran
Staten Island, NY
Delta Economic Advisors provides calculation of losses damages reports and expert testimony in personal injury wrongful death employment and commercial matters.
Sullivan Company Cpa Inc.
Brian Sullivan, CPA/ABV, CVA, CBA, CFE, CMAP
San Mateo, CA
Integrate accounting & auditing knowledge with investigative skills gained from more than 30 years of practical business experience to resolve financial disputes, including breach of contract, embezzlement, fraud, personal injury and shareholder disputes.
Arrowfish Consulting - Business Valuation and Economic Damages Experts
Jeremiah Grant, CVA, CLCS, MBA
Salt Lake City, UT
Arrowfish draws from a deep pool of PhD Economists, MBAs, CPAs, CFAs, ASAs and other credentialed experts to provide the experience and subject-matter expertise needed for each engagement. The Arrowfish team has over 200 years of experience to leverage in quantifying damages in commercial litigation, employment and personal injury matters.
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G. Michael Phillips
Pasadena, CA
Our expert witnesses and consultants provide services in economics, finance, statistics, valuation, and forensic accounting. Strategically located in Southern California, our firm enjoys an international clientele. Visit our website at www.rule26.com for more information on how we can help address economics, statistics, finance, valuation, and forensic accounting issues you may face.
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Los Angeles, CA
Careful economic analysis and industry research, presented through effective witness testimony and graphics, gives juries basis to determine proper damage amounts. Accounting fraud and other financial investigations are thorough yet quick because our experts ask the right questions at the beginning. The combination of appraisal research and experience provides valuation conclusions that withstand scrutiny, even for intangible assets, closely-held businesses and other difficult-to-appraise interests. Computerized data analysis cost-effectively extracts valuable hidden data. Our consultants know where to look for insights that provide proper royalties, insurance recoveries, and other payments due under your contracts. Our experts help you win.
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Chell Chelliah, CPA, CFF, CFE, CIRA
Manhattan Beach, CA
Professional Expert Witness with 25+ years experience in Forensic Accounting, Fraud, Finance, Bankruptcy, Profits and Damages. Accomplished Practicing C-Level Business Consultant with highly credible experience & technical credential CPA,
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San Francisco, CA
Bob Bates is a CPA, CFE, CVA and CFO and has worked with dozens of lawyers on over 50 cases in various states. Sometimes he provides financial support for a client in litigation, or pre-litigation, and other times he provides a report, such as a damages calculation, which can be used in litigation. He also has experience providing testimony in depositions and trials.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- An Army sergeant based at Fort Campbell has pleaded guilty for his part in the theft of fuel from a military base in Afghanistan.
The U.S. Justice Department said in a news release that Bilal Abdullah pleaded guilty to bribery on Thursday before U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell in the Western District of Kentucky.
The statement says Abdullah admitted taking payments from a trucking company representative to facilitate the theft of 25 truckloads of fuel, causing a loss to the U.S. of more than $400,000.
The guilty plea by Abdullah, of the 426th Brigade Support Battalion, is the third to come out of the investigation. Military contractor employee Jonathan Hightower pleaded guilty to similar charges last August, and Christopher Weaver pleaded guilty to fuel theft last October.


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Not far from the city of Secunderabad, in a boulderstrewn landscape, the Uddamarry Good Shepherd School models the new approach of Operation Mobilization India (OMI). A simple cement structure, Uddamarry educates several hundred bright-eyed children from 14 villages. Most students at Uddamarry are Dalits—members of the "untouchable" caste that composes the lowest rung on Indian society's ladder. They long for education.
In this rural setting, where Christianity has never gained a foothold, children are learning Bible verses—and so are their families. Almost three times as many students have applied for admission as the school can accommodate.
OMI teachers live in the surrounding villages, one married couple per three villages. OMI teachers are viewed with great respect. When they start church fellowships in their homes, they do not encounter the same level of resistance as do traditional missionaries.
Churches are opened as the school gains credibility. Then comes a variety of development schemes. In Uddamarry, OMI has started a tailoring school where workers stitch the students' blue uniforms.
There is also a small health clinic, a microenterprise office, and a self-help center. All projects work in concert, demonstrating a holistic gospel in a place where the name of Jesus is scarcely known. OMI offers Christmas programs, Awana children's clubs, vacation Bible school, and other programs. They invite local officials to these events. The gospel gradually becomes less foreign, hostility fades, and interest in Christ grows.
Ragland Rameshwarren, who oversees OMI's community development projects in Uddamarry, says, "In the old days, there was no place for me. You had to ...1
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Profit growth is declining, and given that stocks are trading near record levels, any currency shock out of Asia makes the market particularly vulnerable and could send the U.S. into recession as job growth and investment vanish. That's the take from Societe Generale uber-bearish strategist Albert Edwards on Tuesday.
Edwards looks at profit growth based on MSCI's trailing earnings metric and notes that the dip in the profit-growth cycle puts stocks and GDP growth on particularly shaky ground because sluggish growth will discourage business investment, which is already conservative as it is.
"The bulls will point out, quite correctly, that on many key measures the profits situation in the US looks quite healthy. But experience shows us that it is not the level of profits, nor the rate of profitability (ROE), nor the level of margins that drives the investment cycle. Instead it is the rate of growth of profits that should be monitored."
Among Asian currencies, the Chinese yuan hit its lowest point in more than one year against the U.S. dollar after the central bank widened its trading band and appeared to push it lower. And Edwards has previously fretted that a weakening yen could "destabilize already weak balance-of-payments situations in the rest of Asia."
In his latest report, Edwards writes:
"While profits growth is so anemic, any adverse shock such as an Asian currency devaluation that we have discussed previously (including both Japan and China) will be enough to deepen that profits recession and send US investment expenditure into decline. While most equity investors appear to believe that the US economy has reached escape velocity, a recession carries a far higher risk than the market supposes."
Even without using MSCI metrics, first-quarter earnings are now expected to be flat, according to FactSet, compared with expectations back at the beginning of the year that they would expand 4.4%.
For the rest of the year, analysts are forecasting earnings growth rates are 7.7% for the second quarter, 11% for the third quarter, and 11% for the fourth quarter, according to FactSet. But those, of course, are subject to change and historically have tended to be revised lower as the end of the quarter nears.
Corporate investment, or a lack of it, is posed as a risk to the economic recovery by Lindsey Piegza, chief economist at Sterne Agee, in a note Tuesday. Citing the rise in consumer confidence, Piegza notes the confidence survey doesn't really outline a catalyst for businesses to ramp up hiring and investment, which is necessary to make good on the improved outlook.
Piegza wrote:
"Businesses remain hesitant to invest hindering employment and longer term income growth. No matter how optimistic consumers may be, unless the credit cycle takes hold, prompting investment, it's unlikely the economic picture improves markedly over the next 6-12 months."
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One thing I like about developing the emacs environment (i.e. writing emacs lisp) is programming in the image. In contrast when I run a perl script, any data loaded into the script vanishes when the script exits.
my $image = {}; populate_particular_set_of_people($image); populate_particular_set_of_orders($image); # ... more populate functions ... produce_report($image);
If the populate functions take a long time to run and there is a syntax error in one of them, I might waste a lot of time waiting for data to be loaded over and over and potentially annoy my DBA.
Hence my thinking about REPLs earlier in the year.
Instead, I can mitigate this problem and support exploratory programming by serialising my data structure to disk after each section has been loaded.
use Storable; use constant IMAGE_FILE => '/tmp/.jareds-image-RANDOMTEXT'; sub populate_particular_set_of_people { my $image = shift; return if (exists $image->{'store'}{'people'}); # Get the set of people store $image->{'store'}, IMAGE_FILE; } sub populate_particular_set_of_orders { my $image = shift; return if (exists $image->{'store'}{'orders'}); # Get the set of orders store $image->{'store'}, IMAGE_FILE; } my $image = {}; $image = retrieve(IMAGE_FILE) if -f IMAGE_FILE; populate_particular_set_of_people($image); populate_particular_set_of_orders($image); # more populate functions produce_report($image);
Error handling has been elided.
I'm only storing part of the hashref,
$image->{'store'} in this example. This is fairly typical of my standard use case for this technique – quick one off reports. Some of the data is slow to load in from the database so I persist it to disk. The rest is calculated based on the loaded data so I don't persist it. I keep all of the data together so I can pass it to each subroutine as a single parameter.
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Four years have passed since I released the original Pieces at 3am. The book that came to be one of my best selling collections and the single publication that spawned most variations by other artists of my original thoughts and ideas.
I've had the thought of doing a second volume for years, but I've never had the correct collection of effects and concepts that I felt could adhere to the original thought. All of the effects in the original book were ideas that came to me as I woke in a cold sweat at night. They were pieces that entered my conscious mind after dark, usually at around 3 am.
Now, I offer you the second volume. Four years of subconscious thought and a notebook by my bed. Four years of sifting through after-dark material that just wasn't impactful enough, or wasn't practical enough for me to use in my gigs.
Four Years. Four New Effects.
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The Beautiful Nurse Perry
"One of the challenges for me in the beginning was balancing two totally different careers. Currently, it's not an issue now that I'm fortunate to be in a position to make my own schedule,� Lisa, a registered nurse, says.
Where She's From: Lisa Perry, whose Zodiac sign is Capricorn, was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York to Jamaican parents. "The most important lessons learned from my parents would be the importance of an education and having God in my life,� she tells The Black Star News.
Lisa attended nursing school in Manhattan Beach, in Brooklyn, New York and launched her modeling career shortly thereafter. "I would describe my career at the beginning. I feel like I haven't even scratched the surface of where my career is going,� she adds. "With God all things are possible.�
"One of the challenges for me in the beginning was balancing two totally different careers. Currently, it's not an issue now that I'm fortunate to be in a position to make my own schedule,� Lisa continues.
Where She's At: When this registered nurse isn't tending to people's health issue needs, Lisa has been scoring impressive achievements in the modeling business. Lisa has a worldwide contract with Gentle Treatment hair product. Her media appearances include on Good Morning America and with supermodel Iman on The Today Show. She also recently partnered with another company that presents a "number one business opportunity,� she says.
"It is very important to combine brainpower and beauty,� Lisa adds. "In my opinion there is nothing more attractive to see than a woman that is both beautiful and intelligent. This woman can conquer the world.�
So how does Lisa prepare to step outside? "I prefer light soft scents—anything too strong makes me nauseous. When it comes to shoes, I love European cut stilettos; Jimmy choo's. When it comes to style, I would capture that with a classic beautiful summer dress, having class is priceless.�
Lisa's Words Of Wisdom: "Where you are does not determine where you're going.�
Lisa's Secret Of Success: "We are what we repeatedly do—excellence is not an act but a habit....Aristotle.�
Lisa's Favorite Three Movies: "Flashdance, The count of Monte Cristo and Crash.�
Lisa's Favorite Books: "The Bluest Eye, Race matters, Behold A Pale Horse …�
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FRESNO, Calif. — Officials have lifted quarantines on two Central California dairies linked to a case of mad cow disease, after investigators found the illness didn't come from cattle feed.
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Tests performed by the World Organization for Animal Health confirmed what U.S. labs had found: The diseased cow had a form of the illness involving a spontaneous mutation of a protein gene that hasn't caused illness in humans.
The cases of mad cow reported across Great Britain in the 1990s were caused by cattle being fed protein supplements made from the spinal columns and brains of diseased cows. That practice has since been banned.
The case in Tulare County was discovered through random testing.
Officials have not released the names of the affected dairies, which had been shuttered since April 24.
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The Millikin University football team lost to #11 North Central College 42-22 on Oct. 6 at Frank M. Lindsay Field in front of a sold out Homecoming crowd. The Cardinals improve to 4-1, 2-0 while Millikin goes to 3-2, 0-2.
North Central opened the game with an 87 yard kickoff return by Patrick Mitchell to start its first series at the Millikin four yard line. On its first offensive play running back Jordan Tassio scored on a four yard run to make it 7-0.
Millikin answered back on its first possession driving 66 yards on 13 plays to score on a seven yard pass from quarterback Matt Holmes to Erik Tobey to tie the game at 7-7.
North Central went up 14-7 on a Tassio 11 yard touchdown run, but Millikin would again answer this time with a 36 yard Austin Brettschneider field goal to make it a 14-10 ball game midway through the second quarter.
North Central then took control scoring two more touchdowns before halftime to build a 28-10 advantage at the half.
Millikin fought its way back in the fourth quarter with two scores to make it a 42-22 final. Holmes and Tobey connected again from 24 yards for one score and Sean Dunning scored from two-yards out on the game's final play.
Dunning had 98 yards rushing on 17 carries. Holmes was 19-31-1 passing for 245 yards and two touchdowns. Tobey was the Big Blue's top receiver with eight catches for 107 yards and two touchdowns.
Nick Kukoc rushed for 117 yards on 14 carries and two touchdowns for North Central. Tassio had 46 yards rushing and three touchdowns.
Spencer Stanek was 19-28 passing for 237 yards and one touchdown.
Jacob Alvis, Marquette Moore and Christian Silva led Millikin with 11 tackles. Andy Roth had 10 stops including two tackles for a loss. Jake Hazelton and Jake Weston also had two tackles for a loss.
Joey Michales led the Cardinals defense with eight tackles.
North Central had 429 yards in total offense while Millikin gained 360 yards. Mililkin was hurt by nine penalties for 87 yards.
After falling to Top 15 teams two straight weeks, Millikin will try to regroup on Oct. 13 when they travel to Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill. for a 1 p.m. kickoff. Augustana lost at Elmhurst 31-27 in action today.


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(Phoenix, Ariz. – Feb. 26, 2009) Attorney General Terry Goddard announced today that Laura Lee Medley, 37, of Las Vegas, a con artist with eight prior felony convictions, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for making fraudulent medical claims.
Medley, who claimed that medical conditions caused her to need a wheelchair, got up from her wheelchair and ran from officers who arrested her in May of 2006. In addition to her prison sentence, Medley has agreed to repay $7,247 to victims she defrauded.
Medley pleaded guilty to one count of Fraudulent Schemes and Artifices in exchange for the dismissal of a host of minor charges. She admitted filing a claim against the BNSF railroad claiming that she broke her leg after falling from her wheelchair into a hole at a grade crossing at 43rd Avenue and Grand Avenue. To support that claim, Medley provided medical documents which were later determined to be false. However, before BNSF discovered the forgeries, the company paid her a $5,200 settlement.
"Above and beyond the financial effects of Medley's fraud, her false claims have hurt the disabled community," Goddard said. "That she would pretend to need a wheelchair in order to defraud Arizonans is unconscionable."
Before pleading guilty, Medley also faced indictment for:
- Defrauding the family of a former jail inmate of $1,200 by posing as a Deputy Maricopa County Attorney.
- Filing false claims against a landscaping company for $847 in water damage to a computer system that did not exist.
- Producing dozens of sheets of counterfeit $20 bills discovered by investigators.
Before being arrested on these charges, Medley left the state and filed several lawsuits in California falsely alleging injuries that she claimed were the result of violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. According to public records, Medley was convicted of two felony charges of Insurance Fraud and Perjury arising from these claims. In total, public records show that Medley had eight prior felony convictions before receiving her most recent sentence.
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With the election victory by Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) headed by Shinzo Abe, it is widely expected that an era of aggressive monetary easing will be unleashed in the country. But one expert says this will do little to prop up growth in the world's third largest economy which is reeling under its fifth recession in 15 years.
"I don't think it's going to work. QE (quantitative easing) is good at containing the downside, addressing crisis and disruptive markets, but it definitely doesn't give you traction in regenerating demand in the real economy," Yale University senior fellow Stephen Roach told CNBC on Friday, ahead of the Sunday elections.
(Read more: Investors In for Bumpy Ride Aboard the 'Abe Trade')
"Whether its consumption, capital expenditure, exports or the like, Japan needs a lot of structural repair to really break the logjam in a structurally impaired economy. If Abe leans on the BOJ (Bank of Japan), he's just barking up the wrong tree," the former Morgan Stanley chief economist added.
Japan's economy contracted for a second straight quarter in July-September, knocking it into a mild recession, and analysts expect another quarter of contraction in the final three months of the year due to falling exports to China.
(Read more: Toyota Sees Japan Sales Dropping 20% in 2013)
In the leadup to the win, the former Prime Minister had already provided a big boost to investor sentiment with his aggressive stance on monetary easing.
Last month, Abe pledged that if he were elected, he would push the BOJ to aggressively ease monetary policy to bring life back into the economy that is suffering from deflation and a strong yen. These comments have led to a rally in the country's stock market – which has risen 12 percent in the past month - and an over 5 percent slide in the yen against the dollar over the same period.
(Read more: BOJ Likely to Ease Again Via Asset Buying)
Roach said, while yen depreciation will support the export recovery, it is just a "temporary palliative" for the overall economy.
"Japan was moving in the right direction in the late 90s when it started to push ahead aggressively on recapitalizing the banks, corporate restructuring and structural reform and then the momentum has slipped. Structural reform doesn't give you instant gratification, but ultimately for countries like Japan it's the only way out," he said.


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Recent TalkTalk attack underlines warnings that crime is increasingly being perpetrated and fought online.
Last week TalkTalk's chief executive had to apologise to customers after a "significant and sustained cyber attack" on its website left millions of people potentially at risk of having had their credit card and bank details stolen.
Senior police have repeatedly singled out cyber crime as one of the key challenges facing law enforcement agencies in the present and the future.
The capacity of authorities to combat the danger posed by hackers to the country's infrastructure could come under scrutiny as forces brace for fresh budget cuts next month.
Despite the internet having been embedded in daily life for years, it was only last week that the first reliable estimates of the scale of online crime in the UK were released.
Research by the Office for National Statistics found there were an estimated 2.5 million incidents which fall under the Computer Misuse Act in the last year.
In context, that is the equivalent of nearly 7,000 offences every day, while the data also suggested that on average one in 22 people has fallen victim to cyber crime.
The most common cyber offences involved victims' devices being infected by a virus, while the category also included hacking of emails and social media accounts.
However, as apparently demonstrated by the TalkTalk incident, there is also the potential for more sophisticated attacks which target vast troves of personal data.
When Sara Thornton, chairwoman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, sparked a furore by suggesting burglary victims may not always be visited at home, she made the point that forces need to shift their focus away from "traditional" offences in the wake of budget squeezes and staff cuts.
She said: "Crime is changing in this country. There are a lot less burglaries than there used to be and a lot less car crime.
"The sorts of crimes that are on the increase - sexual offences, concerns about terrorism, cyber crime - that's where we really need to focus."
The country's most senior officer, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, admitted that police are just "skimming the surface" in tackling cyber crime.
Scotland Yard has created a squad of around 300 officers dedicated to the issue, he said, with the number likely to expand to 500 over the coming year.
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No matter how high-def your screen might be, you can't truly comprehend some disasters until you see them firsthand. I've been made speechless twice before: Once, when I went out on the Gulf to see the extent of the BP oil disaster two years ago, and also the first time I watched a mountain being blasted apart for coal. This weekend, though, it was my own hometown that stunned me.
Post-Hurricane Sandy, the New Jersey shore resists description. Thousands of homes have been flooded or destroyed. Roads are ripped up. Boats sit incongruously in the middle of side streets or on train tracks. There is no heat, no gas, no power, no water.
The barrier island where my parents live was hit hard by the superstorm and was subject to mandatory evacuation. Fortunately, my mom and dad already happened to be safe in sunny California to see their newest grandchild. After ten days, they were able to return to New Jersey, but not their home. Like so many others, they were prevented from returning to their house to see the wreckage. Finally, all residents in the area were allowed to return home for about 7 hours yesterday, so they could see what might be left. I drove down with my parents and my sister, but none of us were prepared for what we saw. This was the house my dad built for his family, and where my brother and sisters and I grew up.
Like many families, we found that a foot or two of seawater had come through our house. Even though we wore masks, the smell hit hard when we opened the front door. Mold was everywhere: on the walls, in the insulation, in cabinets, and even on lampshades. We had to rip up the rugs and the floorboards. Every appliance was ruined. Furniture too. We tried to salvage an old shoeshine box that my late grandfather used when he was a boy in New York City. We were able to save an old folder of campaign materials from my dad's first run for mayor in the 1970s (he won). We might not be so lucky with the old family photo albums we found soaking wet.
This is hard for our family and so many others. Sadly, we're not alone. Families in Haiti are in despair after Sandy ripped through leaving 200,000 homeless. Last year in the U.S., we had 14 storms that each caused more than $1 billion in damages, breaking the previous record of nine. 2012 has been a year of living dangerously. Across the U.S., wildfires destroyed thousands of homes from Texas to Wyoming. Disaster areas were declared in nearly 1,500 counties, covering 32 states. Our planet's temperature has warmed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit so far; scientists now estimate that warming could warm 8 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century.
We can do better for ourselves. While we were cleaning my parents' house, we watched as a helicopter carrying Vice President Biden flew overhead. He touched down a couple miles away. We appreciate the vice president's support, sincerely. But the Obama-Biden administration needs to step up its response to the threat -- and the opportunity -- that climate change presents. During the recent campaign, Mitt Romney famously mocked President Obama for pledging to "slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet," and said "my promise is to help you and your family." What he failed to understand was driven home by everything I saw in New Jersey: We can't do one without the other.
P.S. You can see the destruction we encountered in these shocking images by photograher Julie Dermansky.