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Social Media Use for Real Estate Professionals
3 Tips for Handling Social Media During Challenging Times (REALTOR® Magazine, Aug 10, 2020)
Is Now the Time to Boost Your Social Media Advertising? (REALTOR® Magazine, Apr. 28, 2020)
How to Use Hashtags: A Quick and Simple Guide for Every Network (HootSuite, Apr. 15, 2020)
The Complete Guide to Social Media Video Specs in 2020 (Hootsuite, Apr. 13, 2020)
11 of the Best Social Media Analytics Tools (Free and Paid) (Hootsuite, Apr. 2, 2020)
Real Estate Marketing in 2020: What You Need to Know to Grow (Easy Agent Pro, Nov. 11, 2019)
How to Effectively Use Social Media for Real Estate (Sprout Social, Aug. 22, 2019)
15 Real Estate Social Media Marketing Tips From Top Agents (The Close, Aug. 22, 2019)
Social Media Fact Sheet (Pew Research Center, Jun. 12, 2019)
Share of U.S. Adults Using Social Media, Including Facebook, is Mostly Unchanged Since 2018 (Pew Research Center, Apr. 10, 2019)
Social Media for REALTORS® Series Tips and Videos (National Association of REALTORS®)
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How to Set Your Social Media to Control Who Sees What (Wired, May 18, 2020)
Americans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused, and Feeling Lack of Control Over Their Personal Information (Pew Research Center, Nov. 15, 2019)
Implementing Privacy on Social Media (Forbes, Oct. 1, 2019)
Protecting Your Social Media Privacy (Norton, May 3, 2019)
Social Networking Privacy: How to Be Safe, Secure, and Social (Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Mar. 25, 2019)
How to Manage Your Social Media Privacy Settings (The University of Texas at Austin Center for Identity)
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Congrats on the new phase of your life. There is indeed life after retirement and it will be as good as you make it to be. Do not forget that you worked decades to achieve it so enjoy it as much as you can every day.
Also keep in mind that sometimes retirement seems to make you busier than you were when you were working. Don't know how that happens at times but it seems to be true. So if you find yourself feeling that way, fire yourself and go lay on the couch for a bit until the feeling passes....
DEFINITION OF A VETERAN A Veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life."
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In my case, I loved teaching. I was a teacher's teacher as well as a kid's teacher. I'd show up at 7:00 a.m. every morning, in order to get my day ready, as well as being ready to help staff who needed help with their computers, their AV equipment or library materials for their lessons. I used to work for another hour and a half or more finishing up the day's work and helping other staff, as well as doing lesson preps at night. I was one of two who did most of the extra-curricular activities. I could never imagine retiring because I enjoyed what I did so much. Never had to look at the clock other than to wonder how the day had slipped away so quickly.
Then one day in May (almost 9 years ago), the word retirement entered my head for a reason unknown to me. I felt sorry for those who wished me well but confided that they "had to put in another 10 or 15 years before they could get their pension." What a waste of their lives and their students' education if they were "putting in time."
Once I retired, I discovered that I had time to babysit my granddaughter, garden, read, play squash again, build small home projects, cycle and return to motorcycling and long distance touring. In other words, I was being blessed with a very different life. As for supply teaching, as many retired teachers in our system do, it offered no appeal; been there, done that, time to do different things.
I was equally blessed with my love of wedding photography. I now only do portraits or weddings during the winter as I explain to summer clients that I am already booked for their requested day; I'd hate to miss a motorcycle trip due to a photo shoot.
Retirement is something that all should experience. Unfortunately I sometimes discover some old friends don't live long enough to retire or die shortly after retiring. Hence, I believe in living each day, doing what can be done and afforded, as we never know what might happen tomorrow.
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I will turn 62 the middle of February, my target age, meaning I can retire without penalty. I am fortunate to have a "defined benefit pension" that I will get, as well as being able to draw social security.
I have worked as a construction engineer so my time off in good weather has been almost non-existent. I've squeezed in a handful of bike trips, but only the week-long variety.
I have to admit that retiring for me is a difficult concept to deal with. I have mixed emotions about it. I don't feel old enough to retire, but at the same time, the face in the mirror is not getting any younger. I worry about having enough money after I retire. I'll have 29 years in at my current job, so that amount of time would give me a decent pension, although not a great one.
My boss is an unpleasant, in-your-face micro-manager. I call him my "retirement incentive."
I'll probably retire by mid-July of this year unless I chicken out.
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As someone who is struggling to make the decision to 'retire' or not, I keep thinking of all the reasons pro and con and never seem to be able to resolve them. It's almost as if I want everything to be perfect before making the leap. Is that unusual? I have seen some people around me make the decision easily and go on to awesome experiences and others force to because of downsizing companies or illness and yet land on their feet and end up feeling and doing better overall than working for someone else every day. Is making the decision and acting on it that difficult for everyone?
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Excuses are the rocks upon which our dreams are crushed - Tim Fargo
Ken, when retirement is a voluntary decision, there are a lot of "should's" that come into play. Someday, the desire to retire will overcome the fear of retiring, and you'll be gone.
For me, there was some guilt to work thru, as well. After I retired from working a regular job, I felt guilty for not being at work. That good Catholic guilt kicked in for about 6 months, but I beat it!
What a great post I'll probably retire some time this year at 59 it's still kind of scary or should I say different but that's what makes it interesting hell maybe I can get a job dancing with the Chippendale's on the senior tour
Today is my last working Monday ever. I have vacation on Friday, and Monday next week is MLK Day. Six more working days left!
Am I excited, or what?
Interesting thread.
I'm one of those folks with an old-style pension working with folks that had a choice 25+ yrs ago. As you can guess, I don't talk too much at work about any future plans. However, after you've done something for a few decades, it is time to move on to new challenges or different perspectives. In a few years that will be me. What happens at that time will be as much a mystery to me as tomorrow is today.
A few years ago, I read an article on the naming of a new CEO for BMW AG. According to the article, BMW selects perspective upper management candidates when they are in their early 40"s, puts them on a path and then selects new CEO's that's in his early 50's from that pool of candidates. At age 60, the CEO must retire from his position, but can stay with the company in some technical or professional role. In many aspects, I like that idea. Give the guy some training, if he's good let him be the boss for 8~10-yrs, then get some new blood in the top spot.
New blood is always good and we can all be that in a new spot or place.
Good luck.
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Whoa, hold on there big fella! Don't get the idea that any of us poor pensioners are saying the purpose of the first 75% of one's life is to get the last 25% in retirement. I'd love to be 30 again and only have vacations available to take long rides. Enjoy it while you have it, but prepare for when it's gone, and know that when your time comes it can be a blast. I just hope no one starts a thread asking this group to list all their aches and pains; now that will scare the snot out of you.
P.S. I mispent my adolescence in Virginia Beach. Great place to find trouble when you are a teenager.
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Never have more ambition than adhesion.
I just hope no one starts a thread asking this group to list all their aches and pains; now that will scare the snot out of you.
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This has been a really interesting thread ever since I received a letter last summer letting me know that my projected retirement date has already passed...
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Smith family defrauded more than 100 victims of $63 million
TAMPA, Florida - In the United States, an elderly man in a wheelchair lost more than $100,000. A woman lost her high-end home and moved into a small shed on her son's property. Another victim lost her life savings and could not afford eyeglasses. Some victims declared bankruptcy.
These stories are just a few from the more than 100 victims who lost $63 million as a result of a fraud scheme carried out by the owners of Smith Advertising from around 2008 to 2012.
"This is not just a crime about money. These were people with real lives who were lied to and deceived, and they paid a real price," Special Agent Jay Stone, who investigated the case out of the FBI's Tampa Field Office, along with the U.S. Secret Service said Friday.
Gary Todd Smith, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, and his father, Gary Truman Smith, ran Smith Advertising, a North Carolina-based company with offices in Florida. At first, the company did legitimate advertising work, but it hit a financial snag in the mid-2000s, particularly after the 2008 financial crisis.
"The economic downturn was probably a crippling blow," Stone said. "The right and legal thing to do if your business is struggling is to restructure and possibly claim bankruptcy. But they wanted money, so they devised this fraudulent scheme."
The scheme was complex and successful, for a time.
When the business began to struggle, the company solicited investors, including friends and associates from their community, church, and civic organizations, for "bridge loans." The company told investors that they would loan Smith Advertising money so the company could pre-purchase advertising at a discount. The company promised to pay back the investors what they loaned plus a cut of the discount.
In fact, the company wasn't buying advertising. The loans were simply to keep Smith Advertising afloat and repay previous debts-the equivalent of opening a new credit card to pay off a maxed-out one. Some of the early victims were paid back with the promised return, but that was simply other people's money that the company had borrowed. Other victims, however, lost all of the money they invested.
Another aspect of the scheme was the advertising agency's use of factoring. Factoring is normally a legitimate business. Such companies buy a business' accounts receivable (debt that is owed to that business) for a sum less than the receivables are worth and profit by collecting the difference. Factoring companies are a legitimate means for businesses in need of cash to raise funds without taking loans.
However, in the case of Smith Advertising, the company used fake invoices to pretend they'd be collecting money they would never receive, defrauding the factoring company.
As the fraud went on, the Smiths continued to spend lavishly on themselves, while their business secretly faltered. Gary Todd Smith, who inherited the business from his father, didn't want it to fail and did not want to lessen his expensive lifestyle.
"It was a combination of lifestyle and pride. He thought he would get the company out of trouble himself instead of declaring bankruptcy. Ultimately, it brought financial ruin to a lot of people," Stone said.
The company eventually collapsed under the weight of enormous debt. According to court documents, at one point the company's bank balance showed a deficit of $12 million.
"It was a loan fraud, but it operated somewhat like a Ponzi scheme, with money coming in to repay those who previously loaned money to the Smiths," Stone said.
Once the company's checks began to bounce, the Secret Service and FBI were notified. The evidence investigators found was clear, including two sets of company books, the legitimate books and the records of the fraudulent activities.
"One was the 'dark side' copy. It showed how to falsify documents. There was a whole other world going on inside Smith Advertising," Stone said.
Gary Todd Smith pleaded guilty in 2017 to wire fraud and mail fraud charges. In December 2018, in Tampa he was sentenced to 40 years in prison. His father, Gary Truman Smith, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud charges was sentenced to five years in January 2019.
Stone advised anyone approached with a similar type of sales pitch to proceed cautiously and carefully research any investment option. For example, instead of thinking of this opportunity as an investment, investors could have asked Smith why they weren't using a traditional bank loan.
"Once you know a bank won't loan someone money, you're giving someone a high-risk loan, so it's buyer beware," Stone said. "People should always do their due diligence in investing. It's a saying for a reason-if it seems too good to be true, it probably is."
Pictured: Gary Truman Smith (left) with son Gary Todd Smith.


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Charlottesville Mall comes to YouTube
It finally happened: somebody made a rap about the benefits of using the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville. Credit (or blame) must lie with Emily Bolecek and Arin Noble, seen here in their five-minute video.
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That video was so good! Those girls freaking rock. What a fun and neat "rap." Way to go Emily and Arin!
this video is dabomb.com
Ladies, mad respect. Those are the sickest beats this town has seen since k-nice and The Blackout Project. You've made this city cool again, keep up the good work.
seriously: what is wrong with you? Who peed in your cheerios. Why can't you just move on to something else and let people who know how to enjoy life enjoy it.
Sad sad sad.
Girls: ignore seriously. As you grow older you will find that people who didn't have the gumption to do what you did will try and rob you of the joys of life.
Santa is crossing seriously off the list as we speak.
that was four minutes and 50 seconds too long. you lost some cred by posting this, hawes spencer.
Are you allowed to say something blows on the hook? This video sucks DOOOOOOONG. Butternut Squash's sarcasm just kinda pisses me off. I would say Fakename's critique was spot on. And I'd say it's clear that larry the cucumber punches puppies
Larry the Cuc you don't know what you're sayin'
Cut all the BS and stop all your playin'
You ain't a G til you die, you just little boy blue
you ain't high as the sky, you just a frail-ass dude
What you are is a vegetable down in the dirt
So you better pick yourself up boy and do some real work
Your mother and me we've been collaborating
I don't know why you're doin' all this hating
Your mom's tracks they be good, way better than yours
and she's probably calling you now to go do your little chores
Your rhymes they do lack, they don't really flow
But I'm taking your mom out, so I gotta go
good job.
yo girls this rap is mad weak i spit game better than that in my sleep, i flow like woah and i eat rice, like k-nice. and dont eat the cheerios i guess this guy above me peed in them.
best video ever!! thanks to arin and emily for your awesome dance moves! woo hoo!! let's go ladies!!!!!!!
Cheers to you, Emily and Arin! Community spirit around the C'ville mall was the point. Some folks are clueless. As for the rest of us, LOL and applaud your imagination. The C'ville mall is a showplace worthy of rapt attention.
Why was this under the MUSIC header? I have enjoyed vocalizations from my dog much more.
I have now found a valid reason for a TAZER to be deployed :)
I can't believe so many people are even viewing this page. Much less even generating enough energy for an opinion. I'm here b/c I'm friends with the creators. What's every one elses excuse? Spend all day reading every article and watching every video on the Hook? That's cool...
And by the way, I applaud the creators because they like to have fun and have a sense of humor. What jerks.
i think its time some fools got brought back to earth
Ok Larry, so you think you can rhyme?
Get ready to get pickled in my lyrical brine
only thing with less flava than a cucumber is you
Those girls got flow like exlax in your digestive stew
You know my girl Arin bout to get that vinegar dose
turn you green and knobbly like a witches nose
Butternut squash is just a minor league pumpkin
Rhymes sound like a minor league country bumpkin
Try and bite my girls beats and it'll get real scary
Like squash soup with no rosemary
yo I cover our food group
pyramid tier number two
I ain't no breads wheats or pastas
i'mma flipping vegetable stew
larry you don't even taste good
yo butternut - you too
now dj k la boss, yeah
you flow kinda sweet
but I'mma spit mad game
and you're about to get beat
cus DJ K's a little punk, he's sunk
he knows nothing about nothing
and I know how to dunk
like swoosh, above his head - he falls to the ground
and he ain't commin' back up
he's embarrassed, done, no he won't make a sound.
i'll grind him up
and spit him out
yo count on that happenin'
yeah without a doubt.
wham. yo girls, you wanna flow with DJ - or with me?
DJ, Veggies and Larry:
You think you got lyrics, think you got it on lock
But I got the spirits of Biggie and Tupac
I duck and I weave and I rhyme and I flow
And there's some things you two gotta know
Your lyrics are wack and your rhymin' is weak
I hope your next record don't ever get leaked
Because if it does your careers will be over
Unless somehow you get that luck from a clover
But that ain't gonna happen, it ain't gonna go down
So stay off the airwaves you big goofy clowns
These chicks know how to do it, how to spit that big game
And this downtown mall rap puts you jokers to shame
So go back to the drawing board, go back to the map
And don't try to come back here til you got a real rap
yo dog... you didn't have to cop that lil romeo rhyme
sounds like a freestyle from a half brained mime
try and apply at least some of your minimal brain matter
and put a little meat with that vegetablke platter
if rhymes were like dimes i'd have a whole lot
your flow is like a drain that goes drip drip drop
but at least you drop somethin so i'll relax my attack
jerret, nut and larry at home playin toe with tic tac
get off your butts and say some constructive words
stead of mouthin off and sounding like.... idiots
to CPD, with respect:
you're a pig, a pork, eaten with a fork
your rhymes are big, but they lack any torque
expectedly you ride upon this pd power trip
spent your whole life dreamin, dreamin to be hip
picked on back in grade school by bullies and pricks
now you seek revenge with yo little black stick
but we all know the truth of that age old shtick
compensation, for your undersized d*@k
chasin' down meatball, taze all you want
sure, keep your gun, i'm in for some fun
but ain't no chance you rival rex on the run
i don't even care how much lube you use, son
if screwin cats on youtube's yo thing, have fun.
i dip, i duck, i slide, i flow
lyrically, empirically, a genuine pro
and right when you think my work here is over
rear-naked choke alluponya like a dover
so please, cpd, recognize your actions
meatball in a wheelchair is hardly satisfaction
i've seen him ride, i've seen him roll
he'll beat your @ss cruisin on a donut stroll
seriously? we're still doing this. I got tired of it a week ago.
This is so creative and funny. I love everything from the lyrics to your sweet outfits. You should make more raps about Cville!
I just died a little inside.
The production vaule of the "rap" (if you want to call it that) was weak sauce. The lyrics were very questionable. And while this was for a class, so none of the aforementioned really matter, it just came across middle-school-esque. I hope they got a C on this project because you can't just rely on being cute and having boobs. And, i'm willing to say there may only be two real complimentative comments and the rest are just really sarcastic.
Being cute and having boobs is plentynuf in my book!
I am sad that I clicked on the link..
The portion I liked was when the girls warned pedestrians to look both ways at a crosswalk. Maybe the City of Charlottesville needs something like this instead of telling pedestrians they always have the right of way. :)
good for them... life is too short not to have fun...
Yeah I agree fake name, brillant critique.
This is the worst joke project ever made. If I had fun and made a project for class the production value would be superb and it would be at least high school quality.
We got to show these girls what its like to make good funny raps, and make sure we put them them in their place, otherwise they will have too much fun.
you larry the so called cucumber,
Ill verbally slice you and dice you in a cup, pickle you and ferment you polish style.
Relish your time before its up, your comments are gonna get squashed for a long while.
Anybody that is criticising this needs to look in the mirror and ask themselves why they need to criticize others for trying to get a little enjoment out of life. Is picking on two high school girls really nice thing to do? Perhaps you could do better.... but then again you would actually have to do it in order to prove it.
Keep up the good work girls and don't let the naysayers bug you. The only time they will be in the paper is their foreclosure listing or domestic abuse arrest.
ahhhhh this is great, a heated discussion on readthehook.com, fake name, boobman, and BUTTernut all obviously look for boobs on readthehook.com. I can guess they are uneducated, measly, douche bags, who take pleasure in making fun of a sick nasty beat with untouchable rhyms that make your hat fly off and your britches hang low. Butternut im sure there aren't many who will butter your nuts but goodluck in the search.
errybody knows ima G til i die,
yea i smoke weed so im high as the sky,
most of your raps sound like my moms tracks,
and you play ball like you've been drinkin 6 packs,
you suck and i rule,
errybody thinks youre a tool,
so shut up and go away,
cause you got nothin good to say..
You thought i was done but i came right back,
i flow all day and my rhymes never lack,
i cook you up and i eat you,
yea DJ K you too,
my girl arin's on deck,
and she knows shes on check,
jerrett's a carrot good thing he knows that,
and no i dont punch puppies ive only punched a cat.
My name is larry,
and i love to eat dairy,
one, two, three,
you cannot see me,
im out to the downtown mall,
if you wanna rap for real just give me a call,
Guys, all this fightin is makin me stressed
Your lyrics aren't better than the girls- they were the best
They didn't do nothin wrong
They just sang a nice lil song
And now you gotta hate
Move to the left and get GONE!
Haters, back off.
No one messes with Miss B. Or my girls Arin and Emily.
you got spunk meatball sub
but probably not in this blog reality
cus you swore and that's off limits
they'll take you down soon, the man will, you'll see
let's all band together
stop hatin on each other
we're all from different mothers
but i feel like you're all my brother
we rhyme nice, we dis' hard
we the blogosphere masta's
ain't no one gonna touch us bards
we flow, we go, we move, we groove
let's ditch this lame fight
get those chicks, take flight
to another place, another race,
where we'll run face to face
hand in hand, like real men
it could even be sort of zen
what do you say?
maybe not today?
but sometime!
we gotta stop this fight time!
we gotta be making: love, peace, joy, and sweet rhyme!
Vegetable platter, Mr. Holier than Thou,
Why would you choose to stop all this now
you've decided to be such a bore,
not totally unexpected from a herbivore.
Things were just getting good, and I was enjoying the chatter,
I must ask you now, what in the world is the matter?
I'm sure no one here means any harm,
But, if you have a probably go back to the farm.
We'll stay and enjoy and show off our skills
Until all is said and done, and we've all had our fills.
the ground may be frost but for me its growing season
yall bunch of weeds, spittin manure devoid of reason
meat ballz, dj floss, your delicate words could be a soft ballad
Larry's chopped up rhymes are more bland than a mcdonalds salad
Nuts back, cant peel me from my thick lyrical exterior
My words will bake you puree you, boil your interiors
Like barry sanders Im too good to stay around and linger
Cause' your girl's waiting to get a taste of this sweet butterfinger
Nutts back
this time hes here to stay
aint never gonna crack
so get your S#@% out the way
Vegetable platter, Mr. Holier than Thou,
Why would you choose to stop all this now
you've decided to be such a bore,
not totally unexpected from a herbivore.
Things were just getting good, and I was enjoying the chatter,
I must ask you now, what in the world is the matter?
I'm sure no one here means any harm,
But, if you have a problem* go back to the farm.
We'll stay and enjoy and show off our skills
Until all is said and done, and we've all had our fills.
New Kid's got chip on his shoulder
'cause of his grammatical mistakes he aint no attention holda
Squash's got chops like Kung-fu Panda
an animated character for an elementary school gangsta
He's up on his throne like the Blackhawks in the central
but he gonna fall like a teardrop from vegetable's pupil
Im here to represent the most classy of plays
with lyrical snides and delicate ballets
Ill tip toe around on jerret and larry
Im a Cullen you'll see, aint no werewolf fairy
bite your lip and stare cause you cant resist
I got too much sparkle, you know you're in lust
Im a hundred years old and you know what I am
JUST SAY IT you fool, you know it aint no scam
So all you so-called rappers, it's on
Team battle, tomorrow, New Moon, at dawn
Ill take arin, emily, meatballs, and Stacey Kent
The Boss, get your lineup and prepare to get given up for lent
Who's this new dude, comin' in here
Talkin' "Edward Cullen" like he's something to fear
You can't pick your own team, can't even pick your own nose
You're actin' all big, but everyone knows
You're a fool, a kid, a liar, a sham
Tryna be big by sayin' "you know what I am"
But I know what you are, you small little kid
You're a mouse of a rapper, not even on my grid
I don't care about you, don't care about your rhymes
But I do care about the Blackhawks, how they've won 20 times
But that's not the point, that's not the gist
The point is that Nutcracker, you won't be missed
Your rhymin' it stinks like a pile of dung
And the only thing you should bite is that little mouse tongue
So get out of here with this picking teams thing
Because around here, MEATBALL SUB IS KING
i shouldn't post on this site cuz my rhymes are too tame
that videos' parallel to hell but I must maintain
this too dangerous
please stop emailing us
our inbox is full up
its held like hostages
I run like cheetah with thoughts off an assisan
don't what that means but who's askin
beyond the walls of the downtown mall
life is defined,
don't think of crime, just get in a crosswalk state of mind
its only right that i was born to use michs
and the stuff that I write
is tougher than twilight
taking this thread to a new plateau
with rap gold
as i rap slow
i'm like a comm-schooler
all money
made without a real soul
-strong language
(to the beat of my song N.Y. State of Mind)
i shouldn't post on this site cuz my rhymes are too tame
peoples, that post needed some made edits
that videos' parallel to hell but I must maintain
this too dangerous
please stop emailing us
our inbox is full up
its held like hostages
I run like cheetah with thoughts off an assasin
don't know what that means but who's askin
beyond the walls of the downtown mall
life is defined,
don't think of crime, just get in a crosswalk state of mind
its only right that i was born to use michs
and the stuff that I write
is tougher than twilight
taking this thread to a new plateau
with rap gold
as i rap slow
i'm like a comm-schooler
all money
made without a real soul
-strong language
(to the beat of my song N.Y. State of Mind)
I'ma let you all finish, but Beyonce had one of the best raps of all time, of ALL TIME!
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King just finished this thread... peaze
DJ Floss thinks hes the boss
I don't listen to what he says
Cause his rhymes are worse than K-Fed's
(This one goes out to you Gasbag SOE.)
Yo Meatball,
They call you a sub, cause I'm gonna put you under
You're almost as whack as that pickled Cucumber
I'm teasin' my taser, and I'm ready to fire
No push to SAVE you like ol' McINTIRE
You're fleeing, you're running. You just got shot
You're peeing, you're writhing, that's not all I got
Bringing those weak rhymes, this means war
I'll put you in a wheelchair, two wheels, four
Hit you with my cruiser, here, better have some lube
Cause I'ma screw ya, film it, burning up Youtube
I'm fingering the trigger, your about to get dropped
All brought to you courtesy of your local Cop Shoppe.
seriously, veggie, we're still doing this
but larry's mom called, and offered a dis:
ââ?¬Å?i heard of a boy that comes from the earth
lives in the ground, the place of his birth
he claims he can dunk, but look at his height
talk talk dribble dribble, yeah right
someone set that tier-two-food right"
his love, his peace, his joy, his rhyme
sir English dubbed it's nothing but grime
veggie can't save it, not even with thyme
out the door veggie, girls are all mine
seems to be a pose
i hear nothin' but prose


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Effingham Selectmen Meeting | June 6, 2017
Part 1 of 1
Meeting Notes
Effingham NH Selectmen meeting 6/6/17. The Selectmen: Leonard Espie, John Meisner and Henry Spencer convene their meetings at the Effingham Municipal Offices, 68 School Street, Effingham. This meeting began at 5:00 pm. Town Administrator: Claudia Lamphier. Administrative Assistant: Cheryle Feirick.
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^Small crisis right at the beginning but we recovered!^
| ^General Sherman aka biggest tree in the world. Whaaaaat!! Amazing!!^
^ Romy was so excited to climb on everything^
^The deer stayed around for a long time until Roman threw a stick at it^
^Banks kept finding pieces of "art"^ ^Hollowed-out-tipped-over giant sequoia^
^Even the roots of the tipped trees were amazing^
^Pretty sure my face looked like this the whole time. I am in love with giant trees^
^Inside the Room Tree^
^More Room Tree^
We drove to Sequoia National Park and San Francisco "on the way" to my brother's wedding in SLC. It's 17 hours or so out of the way but completely worth the drive. Not to mention, there is nothing I like more than 17 hours of movies for the kids so Ben and I can sit in the front seat and hold hands and talk about everything in the whole world, which we pretty much did. Anyway, the Sequoias were absolutely breath-taking, and we thoroughly enjoyed our morning of hiking and staring at these amazing trees and looking at deer and maybe-sorta-kinda- taking a pinecone for the road. Sometimes I forget that when life starts looking kind of narrow, all we have to do is get our babies out in nature and let them run wild. Happy boys, happy parents, wonderful memories for our little family.
San Francisco pictures coming up next post!


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Rolen Down Memory Lane
The Blue Jays' visit here allowed me to visit with an old, old acquaintance. "Still the highlight of that season," Scott Rolen insisted again, for at least the third time since it happened, just the other day – in 1996.
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Wish there was film of you and Wendelstedt. I love a good showdown at home plate.
The Padres aren't winning any hearts and minds either in the NL West. It's sad when the Dodger fans outnumber the home fans at Petco, like they did Friday. Crock must be rolling over in his grave.
We Phoenix fans are a fickle bunch at the best of times, and these are the worst. I'm sorry to admit we aren't blessed with that wondrous loyalty to losers other cities can muster. Maybe we just need more practice appreciating the subtle pleasures of repeated, predictable defeat…and this season is giving us plenty of that. Besides that whole losing thing, it's the monsoon season in AZ, which just adds to the general tetchiness of the population. The unfortunate Mr. Reynolds is being punished for the sins of his teammates, and the dewpoint. Who knows? If we get a good soaking rain soon he may make it in the Final Vote.
I remember either reading about your one game on the bench, or maybe hearing you tell the story on DP's old show. I did not know, however, that you were tossed. Talk about a quick cup o' coffee…
And I agree 100% with your take on Reynolds. He definitely belongs on the A-S team.
enjoy your time! keep us posted on the things you have experienced. more power!leila from tricot chausson bébé


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Winter was getting me down and it's always a great idea to get out of Japan to keep one's sanity.
I wanted to go to a beach. Anywhere as long as it was somewhere to get away from it all, and preferably hot enough to swim. I found some really cheap airfares to Okinawa, but from everything I read at this time of the year it would still be too cold.
Hawaii was an option. I almost booked it. I was also keen to get rid of my American dollars at the same time! She couldn't really afford to go there, but she found a very reasonable package "tour". Three nights for 46,000 yen!
There had to be a catch right? The plane left late in the evening from Narita, so we'd be arriving there very early in the morning. We flew with EVA Air on a not so long three hour or so flight. Not the most prestigious airline, but not much to complain about. Maybe they needed to update their printed napkins. They had a picture of Christmas mistletoe next to their name!
We stayed at the Pacific Bay Hotel. It's no five star hotel. There was a slight smell of damp. Having said that though, the room was clean, the staff polite, and they do have a free Internet access in the lobby which is always nice.
Before I left I wanted to buy a mask or goggles. I hunted around all over Tokyo for a reasonable pair. Since it was out of season, it wasn't going to be easy. After a huge runaround I found a mask and goggles for 500 yen at Donki! Sweet.
I'm glad I got it, the water was crystal clear and close to where I took the above photo, there were plenty of fish to swim with. Be warned though. Seemingly curious Picasso triggerfish do protect their territory in breeding season and they DO bite. She got nipped a few times. I swear I could hear the Jaws theme a few times.
So what else is there to do in Guam? Shopping! Included in our tour package was a free bus that took us around to all the shopping malls. Apparently Guam is home to the biggest K-mart in the world. Most of my purchases consisted of lots of ravioli, some Sara Lee cheesecake and.. a Lego tie fighter!
Guam is strongly marketed to the Japanese. The majority of the tourists were easily Japanese (about 80%). It seems like they outnumbered the locals! There are numerous wedding chapels along the beach where it wasn't unusual to see a Japanese wedding.
We left VERY early Tuesday morning. Unfortunately later that day this happened.
Guam feels like a safe, enjoyable place to visit. I had a great time and it was a wonderful timeout from the loud hustle and bustle of Tokyo. The locals were very friendly so I could see myself coming back here again.


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Syria summoned the head of a United Nations mission in the Golan Heights on Thursday to protest against an Israeli air raid which Damascus said is a violation of a disengagement accord that followed the last major war between the two countries.
State media said Major General Iqbal Singha, head of the UNDOF peacekeeping force, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry where the protest was delivered.
Meanwhile, Syria warns of a possible "surprise" response to Israel's attack on its territory as Russia condemned the air strike as an unprovoked violation of international law.
Damascus could take "a surprise decision to respond to the aggression of the Israeli warplanes", Syrian ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul-Karim Ali said a day after Israel struck against Syria.
"Syria is engaged in defending its sovereignty and its land," Ali told a website of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
Syria and Israel have fought several wars and in 2007 Israeli jets bombed a suspected Syrian nuclear site, without a military response from Damascus.
Diplomats, Syrian rebels and regional security sources said on Wednesday that Israeli jets had bombed a convoy near the Lebanese border, apparently hitting weapons destined for Hezbollah.
Syria denied the reports, saying the target had been a military research centre northwest of Damascus.
Hezbollah, which has supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as he battles an armed uprising in which 60,000 people have been killed, said Israel was trying to thwart Arab military power and vowed to stand by its ally.
Israel has remained silent on the attack and there has been little reaction from its Western backers, but Syria's allies in Moscow and Tehran were quick to denounce the strike.
Russia 'deeply concerned'
Russia, which has blocked Western efforts to put pressure on Syria at the United Nations, said that any Israeli air strike would amount to unacceptable military interference.
"If this information is confirmed, then we are dealing with unprovoked attacks on targets on the territory of a sovereign country, which blatantly violates the U.N. Charter and is unacceptable, no matter the motives to justify it," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Details of Wednesday's strike remain sketchy and, in parts, contradictory. Syria said Israeli warplanes, flying low to avoid detection by radar, crossed into its airspace from Lebanon and struck the Jamraya military research centre.
The aggression resulted in serious material damage and killed two workers and injured five others.
But the diplomats and rebels said the jets hit a weapons convoy heading from Syria to Lebanon, apparently destined for Assad's ally Hezbollah, and the rebels said they - not Israel - hit Jamraya with mortars.
Munich meeting
US Vice President Joe Biden will Saturday discuss carnage in Syria in meetings with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Syrian opposition chief Moaz al-Khatib, the White House said.
Biden will hold the meetings on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, on a trip that will also include talks with the leaders of Germany, France and Britain.
This comes as a senior U.S. official warns Syria not to transfer weapons to Hezbollah.
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Jewel is a mistress of changing emotion. One day, she's on the Emmys singing a poignant ode to a fallen friend during the "In Memoriam" segment. The next, she's jamming with Sarah Palin.
Well, not quite: the musician this week posted a clever video on Funny or Die that's a "Behind the Music" parody imagining a past life in which she and her rival for the title of most famous Alaskan were once a popular folk duo.
Palin, who famously played the flute during her beauty pageant days, fronted Sarah Barracuda and The Jewel.
"When I played the guitar and she started on that flute, it was special – you could just tell," Jewel says.
She casts Palin as hyper-competitive (they bickered over who would make the cover of Time first – Jewel won) and charges the future politician lifted catchphrases like "Going Rogue," "You Betcha" and "Pitbull With Lipstick" from her poetry. But Jewel admits to a mix of lingering regret and bitterness about their break-up.
"I had to live in my car because of her," Jewel said, mocking the well-known story of her own humble rise to stardom.
The video marks the latest foray into humor by Jewel, who earlier this summer posted a charming short in which she went undercover as an office frau and wowed a karaoke bar crowd by singing her own songs.
The new piece also follows the recent serio-comic YouTube video by the liberal group EMILY'S List lampooning Palin's Mama Grizzly movement. Jewel's effort, though, isn't overtly political, poking as much fun at the "Behind-the-Music"-genre and herself as it does Palin's Alaska-sized ambitions.
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SILVERLAKE, Wash. — "Look! You can see the mountain!"
Lloyd Anderson springs ahead of the small group of visitors he has been leading through Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Reaching a small observational clearing, he sweeps his arm toward the horizon and bounces with excitement as he waits for the group — Forest Carnine, a cattle rancher from Angora, Neb.; his wife, Dorothy; their daughter-in-law, Ingrid Carnine of Boring, Ore.; and her two young sons — to catch up.
It is one of those rare days when the weather in southwest Washington clears so you can see Mount St. Helens, which rises behind Anderson and his joyous grin. The snow-capped volcano dazzles against a crystal blue sky, its peak obliterated 25 years ago in an eruption that left it looking like a dish of vanilla ice cream whose top has been scooped off by an eager child.
Lloyd Anderson still gets revved up by the mountain. He is 69 and hard of hearing, but when he gets rolling in the booming cadences of the nondenominational minister he was until 1999, the years fall away and the words tumble out with the message he has committed his retirement to bringing forth. Which is: The Earth is only a few thousand years old, and what happened here in 1980 proves it.
In the beginning ...
Anderson and his wife, Doris, are the founders of the Mount St. Helens Creation Information Center and curators of the 7 Wonders Creation Museum. They represent a third wave of modern biblical creationist thinking, one that says hard-core science proves the Genesis account of creation.
Mainstream scientists say that because it can sound plausible to non-specialists, it could be a particularly formidable threat to public acceptance of Darwinian evolution as it has been taught for more than a century, which Americans already reject by a ratio of almost 2-to-1, an NBC News poll found in March .
In the early part of the 20th century, believers in biblical creation rested their assurance purely on the Bible. It says God created the heavens and the Earth in six days, so it must be so. Nearly half of Americans, 44 percent, still believe that, the poll found.
After retreating from serious public engagement following the debacle of the prosecution of Tennessee science teacher John Scopes in 1925, some religious thinkers posited that the data did indeed support the standard reading of the geologic and biological record. Evolution could be correct, they said.
But that still didn't explain where the Earth came from in the first place. The delicate balance of climatic, geologic and physical conditions that led to life on Earth couldn't have happened by chance, they said. It all had to be set in motion by a greater intelligence.
Adherents of what is called intelligent design are careful not to speak of "creationism" as it is popularly understood, weary of the Bible-thumping stereotype the word calls up and aware that the Supreme Court has barred teaching the concept in the public schools. So religious legislators and school board members around the country have latched onto intelligent design as a palatable vehicle for undermining evolution in the curriculum.
Most attention has focused on votes to require the teaching of intelligent design in Dover, Pa. , and in Cobb County, Ga . Both initiatives have been challenged in court, but similar campaigns are under way in at least 15 other states.
A biblical analysis of hard data
If biblical creationism and intelligent design are at opposite poles of the anti-evolution argument, then Lloyd Anderson and a small number of others like him, popularizing the hypotheses of geologist Steven A. Austin and physicist D. Russell Humphreys, are the vanguard of a modern-day campaign to split the difference.
They are not your father's creationists.
Tall and forbiddingly learned, Lloyd Anderson can — and frequently does, his wife complains — discourse at length on pyroclastic flows, steam explosion pits, laminate stratification and the event horizons of dense gravity fields. If you wish, he could probably do so in ancient Greek or Hebrew, both of which he reads.
Doris Anderson, a retired registered nurse who pursued a second career as a journalist, translates her husband's perorations for the everyday reader in brochures and booklets that explain, in no-nonsense but engaging prose, how he believes the geologic changes at and around Mount St. Helens — the "7 Wonders" — prove that processes that mainstream scientists insist took millions of years can actually occur in days, or even hours.
The "second wonder," for example, was the formation of the Step and Loowit canyons. When you look at Mount St. Helens, Step Canyon, 700 feet deep, is the long gouge trailing down from the mouth of the crater. According to the emerging philosophy, the canyons took just five months to form, illustrating, Anderson says, that magnificent formations like the lava-carved Grand Coulee about 300 miles to the east and even the Grand Canyon could have been formed virtually overnight by a catastrophic event.
Anderson says he could marshal any number of scientific arguments to prove that the biblical global flood happened as it is described in Genesis, from inaccuracies in radiocarbon dating to gaps in the fossil record to superfine stratification of sedimentary layers around Mount St. Helens.
Scientists say it just doesn't work that way
Creation theory has always driven mainstream scientists nuts. But scientific young-Earth creationism is a special case. Geologists insist that it is just as wrongheaded as old-school blind-faith creationism, but they do so with a touch of grudging respect.
"The 7 Wonders Creation Museum is an example of the 'best' and the 'worst' of the young-Earth creationist movement," Wilfred Elders, an emeritus professor of geology at the University of California-Riverside, said in an e-mail message. "It is good in that it actually reports geological observations. It is bad because it ignores the scientific method in interpreting them."
Elders, a former chairman of the Education Committee of the Geothermal Resources Council of the U.S.A., said young-Earth creationists make a fundamental error: They start with their conclusion — that God created the Earth in six days — and then look for the proof. Scientists, on the other hand, "observe the natural world and follow those observations wherever they lead."Video: Teachers in the middle
"Constrained as they are by their view of biblical chronology, young-Earth creationists infer that the seven days of creation occurred less than 10,000 years ago, and that the next significant event in the history of the Earth and of life was the flood of Noah. The 7 Wonders museum ignores or rejects anything that disagrees with that view," Elders wrote to MSNBC.com. "In doing so it rejects modern science."
(You can find Elders' detailed technical explanation of the objections to "flood geology" in a posting reprinted by Tufts University.)
To Mike Clynne, a stratigrapher for the U.S. Geological Survey — he maps volcanoes — the young-Earth creationists make another fatal error, in how they think of time and scale.
Austin, Humphreys and their champions latch onto "very special geologic events" and, by extrapolation, misleadingly make them seem equivalent to much longer-term events, said Clynne, who worked at Mount St. Helens for seven years and is scheduled to deliver a presentation on its eruptive history this month at the Geochemical Society's annual Goldschmidt Conference. "In effect, they are taking things that are correct out of context and applying [them] to the much bigger picture."
The geologic record proves that Mount St. Helens has been erupting for about 300,000 years, Clynne said in an interview. What began happening here in the last few thousand years is just the mountain's fourth and most recent period of activity.
And no matter how violent the 1980 eruption may seem to us, it pales in significance compared to the awesome processes that created the geologic wonders of the world.
"From a human perspective, what happened at Mount St. Helens was a catastrophe on almost anybody's scale — 150 square miles of land devastated and 60 people killed. Yet if you compare that to an eruption at Yellowstone, it was a tiny pinprick," Clynne said. "So these events get orders of magnitude bigger than the eruption of Mount St. Helens."
Dueling definitions: 'theory' vs. 'theory'
Elders, Clynne and other scientists raise example after example of where they say young-Earth creationists are wrong on the basic science: They misunderstand radiocarbon dating. Their positions can't explain current phenomena or predict likely developments. Their suppositions can't be tested, nor can they (if you'll pardon the expression) evolve to account for new discoveries. Most maddeningly, scientists say, they distort the meaning of the word "theory."
When the Cobb County School District in suburban Atlanta put stickers in biology textbooks warning that "evolution is a theory, not a fact," it was correct, scientists say, but for the wrong reason: Evolution is indeed a theory — which means it is much more than a mere "fact."
When scientists talk about a theory, they mean something far different from the everyday understanding of a guess or a supposition. "'Theory' means a logical, tested, well-supported explanation for a great variety of facts," the National Center for Science Education says. The "theory" of evolution is like the "theory" of gravity — it is as close to a fundamental truth as anything can be.
It is scientific gospel.
The National Center for Science Education works to defeat attempts to teach creationism in the schools as internally illogical, among many other reasons. "If the purpose of the legislation is to require that teachers and texts offer evolution as a theory in the scientific sense," the center says, "it is unnecessary — they already do so."
Wryly suffering the slings and arrows
Lloyd and Doris Anderson do not blink at such criticism. They know what the scientific community thinks of them: "insane," says the 7 Wonders Web site, and "ignorant" and "intolerant" and "oxymoronic." They indulge it with amusement.
Lloyd Anderson says he honors scientists for their determination to ask questions and follow wherever the evidence leads. But when the Earth was born, "science wasn't there," he says. "God was there."
The Andersons' visitors are certainly convinced.
"Forest has had so many questions for so many years, and Mr. Anderson is able to answer them," says Doris Carnine, who attends a United Methodist church in Nebraska with her husband. "It's just a gift."
For her part, Ingrid Carnine takes a rare break from corralling her sons to say the presentation reinforced her belief that children should be taught biblical creationism.
"Of course it has a place in the public schools," where she says her two boys will be educated, "and I hope it gets in the public schools."
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Is HIV Education in Our Public Schools Up to Speed?
As more young adults come of age in a world where they've always known HIV, sex ed is often the first place they separate facts from fiction and get definitive information about a disease that is still beset by stigma and misconceptions. The HIV field has come a long way in treatment and prevention; breakthroughs are constantly being made, but does sex ed stay up to speed? Is HIV still implied to be a death sentence in the classroom, or do teens know it as a manageable, but preventable, disease? It's a difficult thing to assess, but, for the most part, experts say it's the latter. Stigma, however, remains a challenge.
"I would say that by and large, socially and culturally, people have caught up that it's no longer a death sentence and many school jurisdictions have great educators, nurses and health resource centers that are up to speed," said Angel Brown, a Washington D.C.-based activist who heads the GLBTQ division at Advocates for Youth, a national nonprofit that pushes for comprehensive sex education.
"I think there are still some communities that are struggling with having conversations about HIV, and a lot depends on the school jurisdiction, school by school, educator by educator," she said. "It really has to do with whether or not the school has someone teaching sex ed and health courses who is informed and comfortable explaining information and having conversations with students that speak beyond the textbook."
Since HIV is often taught alongside with other STIs, students might not get into details like antiretroviral medications and viral loads, but they know HIV is treatable, preventable and that contracting it no longer means you can't live a long, healthy life. The Internet has also changed things; teens now have handheld access to answers and information.
"I think schools and teachers have to think about what is relevant to teach young people about HIV," said Elizabeth Schroeder, executive director of Answer, a national sex ed advocacy group based at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "I don't think it's particularly relevant to lecture 10th graders about statistics unless they're relevant to their lives. What we really want them to know has to do with prevention, safety, health and not to stigmatize people with HIV."
Currently, 33 states and the District of Columbia mandate HIV education, with 13 of them requiring HIV-only sex education, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
In 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that more than 15 percent of teens reported not learning about HIV or AIDS in school, an increasing number.
Advocates for Youth has an effort underway to push for Congress, the president and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to make April 10 National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day.
The "Backfire Effect"
With the advent of life-saving medications in the '90s, the HIV narrative in sex ed changed drastically.
"I remember being a peer educator when we first saw drug cocktails and saying to young people, 'It's no longer a death sentence; you can live longer,'" Brown said.
As advancements were made and the messaging shifted, she and other educators noticed a new problem: students began taking HIV less seriously.
"The backfire effect is that many people don't think HIV is such a big deal anymore and they think about HIV the same they would as say, Chlamydia," Brown said. "That's one of the biggest issues now. The treatment and wellness conversation is working so well, but we still want young people to protect themselves; HIV isn't a walk in the park."
Schroeder, too, remembers seeing lax attitudes emerge among students she gave presentations to over the years.
"I saw a lot of young people in the '90s who were saying, 'HIV is no big deal, look at Magic Johnson.'"
The challenge for sex educators today is to strike a balance between keeping the narrative up-to-date and not fear-based, while not downplaying the seriousness of the disease and losing the core message of prevention.
"It's a fine line between educating and not stigmatizing," said Malek Guerbaoui, a community educator at the Pacific Pride Foundation in Santa Barbara, California, who's given HIV presentations to college students. "I try not to scare them, but make it seem like it applies to everyone, not just certain groups."
Getting Gay-Specific
Whether or not to direct the conversation toward students with the greatest potential of being affected by HIV is another challenge sex educators face. While some argue that addressing the prevalence in the gay community makes other students think they aren't susceptible to contracting HIV, others say keeping the conversation general can come off as heteronormative and doesn't help young gay men who may be at risk in the future.
"I try to use blanket terms and not single out or alienate different communities," Guerbaoui said. "MSM (men who have sex with men), for example, who may be dealing with internalized homophobia, I don't want them to think that since they're not gay, they can't get the virus. I talk about how risky behaviors spread the virus through certain groups of people, rather than gay men having it more than straight men."
In Los Angeles, Martha Chono-Helsley regularly has young gay men who test positive come into her office with a serious lack of information about HIV.
"In high school, we find that gay young men aren't even approached unless by outside agencies. It's rare to see HIV taught specific to gay men in sex ed. Sometimes HIV is taught separately from sex ed in biology courses," said Chono-Helsley, executive director of Reach LA, a nonprofit serving youth of color in metropolitan Los Angeles.
"Even when we target gay men, they're still getting infected, so we have to address other issues that aren't specific to the biology of HIV, but are more about self-esteem," she said. "What is it that's stopping them from using condoms, protecting and loving themselves?"
Budget Woes
Budget cuts to education present another set of challenges. It isn't so much schools being unable to buy the most up-to-date learning materials as it is health curriculum being threatened altogether.
"Schools everywhere are being affected," Schroeder said. "Health is not a tested subject, so we're pretty low on the food chain. We tend to see health being cut all together."
When Guerbaoui took a job giving presentations to students in sexuality courses at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he knew the temporary, part-time position used to be full-time UC staff.
"I'd say that they decided sex ed was the fat that could've been trimmed," he said.
The Los Angeles Unified School District, which has made severe budget cuts in the past several years, has only one HIV intervention specialist.
"It's very hard for him to get out there and train every health teacher," Chono-Helsley said. "We also see threats of cutting health classes at major high schools altogether."
"We still have a long way to go," Brown said. "There are many communities, towns and cities that still need resources and federal government dollars to support sex ed advocation."
Stigma Still a Powerful Hurdle
For all the advancements and strides the HIV world has made, sex educators still run into outdated myths and misconceptions from students. Questions about "catching" HIV from toilet seats aren't uncommon. Stigma is still a powerful hurdle in educating youth about HIV.
"A lot of topics around HIV education kind of bring up unmentionable topics, like homosexuality or people using drugs," Guerbaoui said. "It's not as simple as, 'Wear a condom.' There are a lot of social things that come into play that people don't feel comfortable talking about. There's a whole invisible community of HIV-positive people who don't want anyone to know because there's this judgment of, 'You did something bad and this is a consequence.'"
But while HIV is still surrounded by stigma, another result of modern treatment is the fact that more and more young people know HIV-positive loved ones who are living long, healthy lives. An hour-long class might not be enough time to break down hurdles created by stigma, but keeping the conversation open, honest and away from a context of fear, is a progressive start.
"Stigma and prejudice come from ignorance and fear," Schroeder said. "So when students don't understand, they're afraid, which leads to stigma, shame and bullying. I think schools have a valuable role to play."
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STORRS >> The images from the television screen were playing out in front of their eyes and the members of the UConn football team were just as stunned as the rest of the country as the expected national-championship matchup between No. 1 Kansas State and No. 2 Oregon blew up on one wild Saturday.
In between the gasps of shock as Baylor schooled Kansas State and the feeling of utter disbelief as Stanford rallied to beat Oregon in overtime, there was a collective feeling of "why not us" among the Huskies gathered around the television.
UConn is headed to face Big East preseason favorite Louisville (today at noon) playing for both pride and the hope that next week's regular-season finale against Cincinnati is a game which can make the Huskies bowl eligible.
"The big-time upsets, it was exciting because you never know what is going to happen," UConn sophomore safety Ty-Meer Brown. "The losses by the No. 1 and No. 2 teams are pretty exciting. Nobody is guaranteed anything each week you have to work for what you want and sometimes you are going to come out on top."
No. 18 Louisville, which needs to beat the Huskies and then defeat Rutgers next week to secure the Big East's BCS bowl spot, will be coming into the game with an extra week to stew after a loss to Syracuse knocked them out of first place in the Big East standings.
The Huskies know that the multi-faceted offense led by sophomore quarterback Teddy Bridgewater and the signature star of a relentless defense is senior linebacker Preston Brown who has 56 tackles in the last four games.
"We are playing a well-coached Louisville team. They execute very well," UConn senior cornerback Blidi Wreh-Wilson said. "We are going into their house and they only have one loss so the fans are going to be very into the game."
UConn's previous performances in conference road games have left much to be desired in losses to Rutgers, Syracuse and South Florida.
"When it came down to it we didn't execute," Wreh-Wilson said. "We prepared well during the week and the execution is not where it needed to be."
For Wreh-Wilson and the rest of the seniors, it is make or break time. If UConn loses today, the Huskies will be guaranteed their second straight losing season. Any hope UConn has of being invited to bowl game would end with a defeat at the hands of the Cardinals.
"If we want to get to a bowl game we have to win this game and the Cincinnati game comes after that," Wreh-Wilson said. "We need to make sure everybody is focused and understands what is at stake this week."
If the Huskies want to return with a victory, slowing down the Cardinals' explosive passing attack is No. 1 on the to-do list.
Sophomore quarterback Teddy Bridgewater is fifth nationally in passing efficiency. Bridgewater drew praise from UConn coach Paul Pasqualoni for the intangibles he brings to the position. Ten different Louisville receivers have at least 10 catches this season which puts tremendous pressure on opposing defenses. It also creates a dilemma for the Huskies. Even if Wreh-Wilson and fellow senior cornerback Dwayne Gratz shut down the players they are assigned to cover, Bridgewater can just look elsewhere to make plays.
Opponents have been able to isolate Brown and the other starting safety Byron Jones in one-on-one coverage and look for Louisville to try test the coverage skills of the UConn safeties and linebackers as well.
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However, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — the agency created by the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, which is tasked with policing consumer lending — believes that the New York Fed is underestimating the amount of student debt that Americans hold. In fact, a CFPB analysis shows that student debt has already cleared $1trillion:
Total student debt outstanding appears to have surpassed $1 trillion late last year, said officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency created in the wake of the financial crisis. That would be roughly 16% higher than an estimate earlier this year by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
The new figure—released Wednesday at a banking conference in Austin, Texas—is a preliminary finding from a study of student debt that the bureau plans to release this summer. Bureau officials said the estimate is based on a survey of private lenders, as opposed to other estimates that rely on a sampling of consumer credit reports.
That the debt number is this high is a sad result of the fact that, since 1985, the cost of college tuition and fees has nearly sextupled, while financial aid has failed to keep up. This month, 80 percent of bankruptcy lawyers said in a survey that they've seen a substantial increase in clients buried in student debt.
A study released yesterday shows that "almost two-thirds of U.S. student- loan borrowers misunderstood or were surprised by aspects of their loans or the student-loan process." The CFPB began accepting complaints regarding the student loan industry this month.
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