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43-5071.00 - Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks
Verify and maintain records on incoming and outgoing shipments. Prepare items for shipment. Duties include assembling, addressing, stamping, and shipping merchandise or material; receiving, unpacking, verifying and recording incoming merchandise or material; and arranging for the transportation of products.
Sample of reported job titles: Receiver, Receiving Clerk, Receiving Manager, Shipper, Shipping and Receiving Clerk, Shipping Clerk, Shipping Coordinator, Shipping/Receiving Clerk, Traffic Manager, Warehouseman
Tasks | Technology Skills | Tools Used | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Detailed Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Examine shipment contents and compare with records, such as manifests, invoices, or orders, to verify accuracy.
- Record shipment data, such as weight, charges, space availability, damages, or discrepancies, for reporting, accounting, or recordkeeping purposes.
- Prepare documents, such as work orders, bills of lading, or shipping orders, to route materials.
- Confer or correspond with establishment representatives to rectify problems, such as damages, shortages, or nonconformance to specifications.
- Pack, seal, label, or affix postage to prepare materials for shipping, using hand tools, power tools, or postage meter.
- Contact carrier representatives to make arrangements or to issue instructions for shipping and delivery of materials.
- Deliver or route materials to departments using handtruck, conveyor, or sorting bins.
- Requisition and store shipping materials and supplies to maintain inventory of stock.
- Determine shipping methods, routes, or rates for materials to be shipped.
- Compute amounts, such as space available, shipping, storage, or demurrage charges, using computer or price list.
- Compare shipping routes or methods to determine which have the least environmental impact.
Technology Skills
- Access software — Citrix
- Accounting software — Sage 50 Accounting
- Compliance software — Kewill Compliance Partner
- Data base user interface and query software — FileMaker Pro; MSR Visual Exporter
- Document management software — MSR Visual Exporter Document Library
- Electronic mail software — IBM Notes
- Enterprise application integration software — Electronic Data Interchange EDI systems; MSR Visual Exporter Enterprise Integrator
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software — Infor ERP Visual; Microsoft Dynamics GP ; Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ; SAP (see all 5 examples)
- Internet browser software — Web browser software
- Inventory management software — Inventory tracking software
- Label making software — Barcode labeling software; Endicia Internet Postage; Laser Substrates PostalXport
- Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software — Bill of lading software; Varsity ShipSoft Supply Chain Execution Suite; Warehouse management system WMS; WindowBook Postal Package Partner (see all 22 examples)
- Office suite software — Microsoft Office
- Optical character reader OCR or scanning software — Enterprise Systems RFID Data Management
- Presentation software — Microsoft PowerPoint
- Procurement software — Aestiva Purchase Order
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Word processing software — Microsoft Word
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
Tools Used
- Bag tag printer — Barcode printers
- Bar code reader equipment — Handheld bar code scanners; High-speed/moving object scanning devices
- Box sealing tape dispensers — Reinforced tape dispensers
- Desktop computers
- Electronic toploading balances — Package scales
- Forklifts
- Form or fill or seal machinery — Pillow packing machines; Taping machines
- Franking or postage machines — Postage meters
- Hand trucks or accessories — Hand trucks
- Notebook computers
- Packaging vacuum — Shrink wrap packaging vacuums
- Radio frequency identification devices — Fixed radio frequency identification device RFID readers; Handheld scanners; Radio frequency identification RFID devices
- Razor knives — Box cutters
- Staple guns — Pneumatic box staplers
- Clerical — Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
- Production and Processing — Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
- English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Perceptual Speed — The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Work Activities
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Handling and Moving Objects — Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Performing General Physical Activities — Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
- Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
- Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment — Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or water craft.
- Performing Administrative Activities — Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
- Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others — Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
Detailed Work Activities
- Inspect shipments to ensure correct order fulfillment.
- Record shipping information.
- Prepare documentation for contracts, transactions, or regulatory compliance.
- Package objects for shipping.
- Respond to customer problems or complaints.
- Coordinate shipping activities with external parties.
- Deliver items.
- Order materials, supplies, or equipment.
- Store items.
- Analyze shipping information to make routing decisions.
- Calculate shipping costs.
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Work Context
- Contact With Others — 79% responded "Constant contact with others."
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 81% responded "Every day."
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 64% responded "Extremely important."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 58% responded "Extremely important."
- Time Pressure — 48% responded "Every day."
- Telephone — 66% responded "Every day."
- Electronic Mail — 69% responded "Every day."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 42% responded "Some freedom."
- Importance of Repeating Same Tasks — 43% responded "Extremely important."
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 71% responded "Every day."
- Frequency of Decision Making — 54% responded "Every day."
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 38% responded "Very important results."
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 49% responded "Some freedom."
- Coordinate or Lead Others — 45% responded "Very important."
- Deal With External Customers — 43% responded "Extremely important."
- Physical Proximity — 37% responded "Moderately close (at arm's length)."
- Responsible for Others' Health and Safety — 33% responded "Very high responsibility."
- Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls — 43% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Duration of Typical Work Week — 71% responded "40 hours."
- Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions — 33% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Spend Time Standing — 29% responded "About half the time."
- Responsibility for Outcomes and Results — 34% responded "High responsibility."
- Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable — 35% responded "Every day."
- Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets — 40% responded "Every day."
- Spend Time Walking and Running — 40% responded "Less than half the time."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
|These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
|Related Experience
|Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations often involve using your knowledge and skills to help others. Examples include orderlies, forest firefighters, customer service representatives, security guards, upholsterers, and tellers.
|SVP Range
|(4.0 to < 6.0)
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- Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
- Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
- Enterprising — Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
Work Styles
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
Work Values
- Relationships — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
- Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
- Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
Related Occupations
Wages & Employment Trends
|Median wages (2018)
|$15.88 hourly, $33,030 annual
|State wages
|Employment (2016)
|681,000 employees
|Projected growth (2016-2026)
|Little or no change (-1% to 1%)
|Projected job openings (2016-2026)
|State trends
|Top industries (2016)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2018 wage data and 2016-2026 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2016-2026). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
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As a farm machinery mechanic and writer, Dan brings a hands-on approach that only a pro can muster. Along with his In the Shop blog, Dan writes a column by the same name as well as the Shop Series for Farm Journal magazine. Always providing practical information, he is a master at tackling technical topics and making them easy for all of our readers to understand. He and his wife, Becky, live near Bouton, Iowa.
I admit I'm a tool snob. I refuse to use the cheasy, cheap, unbalanced, underweighted claw hammer my wife keeps in the kitchen drawer. At hardware stores I look down my nose at bargain bins full of screwdrivers on sale for 99 cents each. I generally wouldn't be seen in public using any of the multi-tools that have a 38 different tips, bits and accessories stored in the handle.
But there are a few tools that I own that I'm embarrassed to admit I like. For example, while I'm too good to own one of the multi-tools with 38 tips, bits and accessories, I confess the go-to screwdriver at home and around my garage is a sturdy plastic-handled screwdriver that has a removable shaft with a Phillips tip on one end and a flat tip on the other. And the Phillips tip and flat tip are double-ended, so I end up with two Phillips tips of different sizes, and two flat tips of different sizes. This particular reversable screwdriver has a quality handle and hardened tips that have endured a lot of abuse. I actually bought two more of that brand and style of reversable screwdriver, so I'll have spares in case they stop making them.
I've got a fancy digital tire pressure guage that would probably give my wife justification for a new pair of shoes if she ever found out how much I paid for it. It's got a neat, LED-illuminated round gauge-housing mounted in shock-absorbing rubber, with a hose to a two-way chuck. It's really cool. But most of the time when I need to check air pressure in a tire, I grab my old slip-stick tire pressure gauge. It's quick, it's easy, I never have to calibrate it and its batteries never go dead because it doesn't have any. Just like the screwdriver I'm ashamed to own--the slip-stick tire pressure guage is what I use at home when nobody else is around.
Yes, I am a tool snob. But not such a snob that I don't recognize a simple, useful, durable tool when I see one. When I tried to explain my tool buying philosophy to my wife, she smiled, patted me on the head and said,"That's the exact strategy I used when I was looking for a husband."
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VERGENNES — Work has begun to correct longstanding drainage problems in the Crosby Farms development area, City Manager Mel Hawley told aldermen on at their Aug. 21 meeting.
Hawley said after a firm was hired to "televise" about 60 percent of the stormwater drainage systems, two blockages were found, some iron bars (known as rebar, which holds concrete in place) sticking into one 24-inch pipe, and a 15-by-6-inch stone in another drainage pipe.
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EAST MIDDLEBURY — Like many of the state's waterways right now, the Middlebury River has slowed to a virtual trickle in some spots amid what has been a hot, dry summer by Vermont standards.
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Prior research demonstrates that temporal memory streaming and related address-correlating prefetchers improve performance of servers though increased memory level parallelism. Unfortunately, these prefetchers require large on-chip meta-data storage. In this talk, I will describe the requirements for storing predictor meta-data for temporal memory streaming in off-chip memory while still achieving 90% of the performance potential of idealized on-chip meta-data storage.
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My usual chilled Friday night with BFF where we tried a new Spanish restaurant, "Vi Cool", and enjoyed the evening over red wine and tapas, which was a combination that proved to be just perfect. My newly skincare purchases for the month involving a stop over at Kiehl's, where my current favorite product is now their "Midnight Recovery Concentrate". The essential oils acts like an over night serum and has this refreshing lavender fragrance that gives me a sense of relaxation when applied on. Entering a dark and cosy bar by the name of "Tai Long Fung" bar for a friend's birthday, which had interesting Chinese decors, such as using old Chinese lookalike newspaper as their drink menu. Best of all, their drinks are at decent prices and without 10% service charge.
Celebrating mom's birthday with her friends and families, and some lovely flowers were presented to her on this speical day. Buying two mini cakes from Paul Lafayet on the way home for dad's birthday. The name of their Earl Grey Infusion and Baileys Dome cakes instantly caught my attention with the lovely purple flower petals and mini red macaron detailing on them. Received a cute elephant print make up bag and some cute Japanese snacks from BFF during her business trip in Japan. Japan never fails to surprise me with their creative and delicious food and snacks!
Enjoying my Sunday afternoon at home doing research for my Christmas trip to Europe, while enjoying a pot of my fave Earl Grey tea from Fauchon, and some Taiwanese honey sponge cake. Starting my early Christmas shopping at Franc Franc to prepare my Christmas gifts for friends and families back in the UK and Denmark. Amongst the crowd and Christmas songs playing merrily across the shop, i spotted this pretty white jewelry stand in the form of a tree with two cute birds on the branches, which i'm still deciding if i should buy. Some retail therapy at H&M always helps when you have a bad day at work or suffering from Monday blues.
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Was digging thru a few things last night and found these 2 old cut receiver pieces. I know what is different and what I found, was very happy about the find.
So what is different?? I know that Flemgunner knows and a few others do, so lets give some of the other folks a small chance. If you know whats up for sure at 1st glace then wait till Sunday to tell everyone. You can post saying I Know I Know but give some others a chance. There are a few pics on this website about it.
Yes it's torch cut bad and missing a few pieces but both pieces are from the same receiver. Here in America we don't see it this close together.
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Django is a sponsoring organization for the 2007 Google Summer of Code. (Read Google's page for more information on how the program works.)
If you're interesting in mentoring -- supervising a student in work on Django-related activities -- list your name below, wait for March 14, and sign up over at Google:
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Student applications opened March 14; sign up over at Google and be sure to list Django as the project you want to work with. You should do it before March 24!
If you'd like to get started on your proposal early, we'll be looking for a few things. You'll need to have a concrete task in mind (some ideas are below) along with a solid idea of what will constitute "success" (you tell us). We'll want to know a bit about you -- links to previous work are great, if any. You'll also need to provide us with a rough schedule of milestones so your mentor can know if and when to nag you :)
Note that none of the ideas below are good enough to be submissions in their own right (so don't copy and paste)! We'll want to know not just what you want to do but how you plan to pull it off.
And don't feel limited to the ideas below -- if you've got a cool project you want to work on, we'll probably be able to find you a mentor. We plan on approving as many projects as we possibly can.
Note: we're looking for projects that add value to Django itself - not application/CMS projects that use Django.
Here are some suggestions for projects students may want to propose (lazyweb: please add to this list!). This isn't by any means the be-all and end-all of ideas; please feel free to submit proposals for things not on this list.
Try to scope ideas/proposals to the 4-month timeline -- simply proposing to fix a ticket or two will probably result in your proposal being rejected in favor of a more ambitious one. The SOC does not cover activities other than coding, so certain ideas ("Write a more detailed tutorial" or "Create demonstration screencasts" or "Add a pony") are not suitable for inclusion here.
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Author Notes: This is one of my favorite recipes because I love anchovies...I love to eat them right out of the can. A friend of mine who has lived in Italy from time to time first made a version of this recipe. He said that it was a recipe that even anchovy haters would love. Well, he did not anticipate the passion of anchovy haters. As he begged a guest to just TRY some of the sauce, she replied that "she would'nt because it had touched an anchovy!" So I practically had the whole dish to myself. I later made this dish for a very famous Italian winemaker who was duly impressed and of course loved anchovies!. —dymnyno
Serves: 4
1 jar or can of whole anchovies
1 cup olive oil
1 large bunch italian parsley
3 garlic cloves, chopped
3 tablespoons cabernet vinegar
1/2 teaspoon cayenne
- Open jar or can of anchovies and remove whole anchovies carefully one at a time.
- Carefully rinse and put in a bowl of cold water.
- Remove and dry with paper towel. Arrange in a dish.
- In a food processor pulse the parsley, olive oil and garlic until coarsley chopped.
- Add the vinegar and cayenne and pulse until finely chopped.
- Pour the parsley, garlic, olive oil, vinegar and cayenne mixture over the anchovies. Cover with wrap and marinate for a while or overnight.
- Serve as a first course.
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FTC in San Francisco had its second For The Cash contest where they set up a course right inside the shop. SF locals as well as skaters from far and wide came to rip and spectate. When the dust settled, Chris Cole came out on top, as he usually does, with Dwayne Galloway in second and Josh Matthews in third. Check these photos for more shredding from Walker Ryan, Roberto Aleman, Brandon Turner, and more.
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Around USL: Sept. 14
With the final week that awaits the Pittsburgh Riverhounds, making the United Soccer League playoffs would be a well-earned feat. After Saturday's 1-1 draw in Wilmington, the Riverhounds are in seventh place, one spot and one point out of a postseason berth in the Eastern Conference. With a game in hand on sixth place Richmond, Pittsburgh controls its own destiny, but the upcoming opponents make for a tough challenge. The Riverhounds host first place Rochester on Wednesday before traveling to… Read More »


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Kim Kardashian Wants to Know What Constitutes a 'Baby Bump'
If anyone is used to pregnancy rumors, it's Khloé Kardashian.
Following a summer of major "baby bump" speculation, the reality star, 26, is facing it yet again, with new reports surfacing Monday.
"She's pregnant like every other week," Khloé's sister Kourtney Kardashian told PEOPLE coyly on Monday while promoting her new series, Kourtney & Kim Take New York.
Neither Kourtney nor sister Kim Kardashian would address the subject directly. Kim instead jokingly asked, "What I want to know is what constitutes a 'baby bump?' "
Kourtney suggested, "It's like if you eat a lot that day and sit down and have a tiny fat roll – it's so funny."
But despite the banter, a source close to the reality TV family says Khloé and her hubby Lamar Odom, 31, dismiss the latest rumors. "She's not pregnant yet," the source tells PEOPLE.
The sisters' new show airs Jan. 23 on E!. Khloé and Odom, meanwhile, have a reality show of their own in the works.


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Good Debt, Bad Debt
This is the sixth of a series of blogs based on excerpts adapted from the 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth. I wrote Agenda to spur a national conversation on economic policy issues and options that are otherwise largely ignored. This blog series is intended to contribute to that conversation. —DK
It appears that we are a nation addicted to debt. In 2009, U.S. public and private debt totaled $57 trillion. Of this total, $42.5 trillion is private household/business/financial sector debt and $14.7 trillion is federal/state/local government debt. Of the private debt, $13.5 trillion is household debt, accounting for 122.5 percent of annual disposable income. Of the total U.S. debt, $14 trillion is owed to foreigners. Current U.S. GDP is $14.3 trillion.
So is this a problem?
Most of the money in circulation is created as credit when a bank issues a loan. By the nature of this system, no debt means no money. Now that would be a really big problem in an economy that cannot function without money.
More important than the size of the debt is the question of whether it is good debt or bad debt. So what's the difference?
Let's start with good debt. The underlying logic of a debt-based money system rests on the assumption that the money banks create by issuing loans is invested in ways that expand society's productive capacity and thereby the available pool of real goods and services.
It further assumes that the benefits produced are shared equitably among all who contribute. The savers and investors who defer their consumption to build the bank's capital reserves receive a fair share as interest. The bank employees receive a fair share as salary and benefits. The governments that provide the legal, social, and physical infrastructure required to do business receive a fair share as taxes.
The problem facing the United States is that most of our outstanding debt is bad debt. It was issued to fund consumption and phantom wealth speculation and in aggregate cannot be repaid, because it is not backed by real assets.
This didn't just happen. It is the result of bad public policies and can be corrected only by better policy choices. Let's take a look at four examples.
- Gambling Debt: Borrowing at interest to gamble on asset bubbles and loan pyramids can inflate financial asset statements, but produces nothing of real value and the assets can deflate in a heartbeat, leaving the loans unsecured and unpayable. This is a direct consequence of the financial deregulation that allowed Wall Street players to take control of the money and banking system and reorient it from financing investment in the real-wealth economy to financing speculation in the bubble economy.
- Private Consumer Debt: Borrowing at interest to support current consumption beyond one's income is a dead end. At issue here are policies relating to trade, unions, wages, employment, public services, and taxes that suppress the incomes of working people relative to the cost of living—while inflating the incomes of the investing class. This forces the majority of households to borrow from the investing class to cover basic consumption expenses.
- Public Consumer Debt: Much of the current debate about debt centers on public debt. Borrowing by governments to invest in things like education, research, infrastructure, and even temporary economic stimulus directed to creating jobs in the real economy builds the nation's future productive capacity and is logical and sensible. Borrowing to fund war, tax breaks for the rich, and current government operations is neither. Tragically, most of our public borrowing has been for the latter.
Arguments focused on the size of the U.S. public debt will get us no place, unless we address the failed economic theories and policies that have mired us in all four of the major varieties of bad debt.
- Foreign Debt: Perhaps the most dangerous of all bad debt is that owed to foreign countries to pay for current consumption beyond what we produce for ourselves domestically. Our foreign debt is largely a result of unsound trade policies that lead to outsourcing jobs in manufacturing, research, and technology and increase our dependence on imports of manufactured goods, agricultural products, and services. These policies also play a major role in driving down domestic wages and forcing households to borrow against their credit cards and home equity to meet basic consumption needs. They place our children in a position of potentially permanent debt slavery to the children of other nations—a very bad idea indeed.
Arguments focused on the size of the U.S. public debt will get us no place, unless we address the failed economic theories and policies that have mired us in all four of the major varieties of bad debt. To get out of this mess, we need policies that favor productive investment over speculation, living wages and quality public services over consumer debt, public investment in education, research and infrastructure over war and tax breaks for the rich, and domestic production over outsourcing and imports.
[Next: A Real Market Alternative]
The ideas presented here are developed in greater detail in Agenda for a New Economy available from the YES! Magazine web store.


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Scythe Twin Mounter 2.5 Rev.C, 2.5 to 3.5inch Adapter
Scythe's Twin Mounter 2.5 allows installation of up to two 2.5" SSD/HDD units in one 3.5" bay which is a great way to save space in a traditional PC case.
- Allows for two 2½" drives to be installed in one 3½" bay
- Ideal for laptop and solid state drives
- Has captive rubber washers for drive shock protection
- Easy to install
With prices falling and storage pace increasing, 2½" hard disk drives former primarily designed for mobile PCs, but now they are becoming the hard drive of choice for quiet PC enthusiasts . Especially now that Solid State Drive (SSD) technology is becoming a must-have for users who want their PCs to be totally silent.
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Excellent product - works brilliantly. It's well made and replicates the screw hole position and type (i.e. wide thread) of a full size 3.5" HDD. This is not the case with some 2.5" to 3.5" adapters I've come across.
One thing to note though is that if the HDD you're mounting is particularly deep (such as the newer 2.5" WD Raptor) you might have trouble fitting in a second disk into the same mounting. Doesn't detract from the product however, you'd just need to buy two!
Scythe Twin Mount 2.5 to 3.5
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Ten years had passed since I had seen my father. At the time I had no photographs of him, just a vague memory of his face from our last visit. When we pulled up in a rented van to the VA housing complex in Sarasota, Florida, my husband saw him first.
"There he is." Duncan tipped his head to point.
I turned my eyes slowly. A man was standing under the awning of the complex. I saw his dark skin, his head, nearly bald and square, and a barely visible neck. It was him. He was just as I remembered but bigger, maybe 40 pounds heavier than the last time, when I had left my young children to fly down for three days. I had not forgotten those three days of silence.
Now I stared at him, frozen. How do I play this scene? I thought. Loving daughter greeting long-lost father? Kind daughter bringing her children to meet their grandfather for the first time? Angry daughter wanting just a few words from her father?
Duncan stopped the van. I got out slowly and opened the doors for the kids, holding my breath. They piled out one after another. My father stood there seeming not to see them, as if they were inconsequential to his life—which they were. He knew nothing about them, had never even seen photographs of them. I had never sent any because my father was barely interested in his own children, let alone his children's children.
When the last one jumped out, suddenly I was on. I knew what to do. I hugged the strange man, patting him on the back with the tips of my fingers. I did not want to get too close to him.
"Hi. How ah ya?" he asked in his Massachusetts accent. He smiled a little, showing a few remaining teeth, all broken.
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Though reinforcements will arrive Monday, trying to hold on to first place in the American League Central has become more difficult.
Subpar pitching, a lack of clutch hitting and a defensive miscue Saturday night led to an 8-2 loss at Boston. The defeat was eased somewhat when Minnesota lost to Oakland, keeping the Sox a half-game ahead.
"We need to come back and try to get at least a win here and work from there," designated hitter Jim Thome said. "Every game now is important, and we understand that."
The Sox (76-59) lost for the third straight time for the first time since July 27-29, when their lead was cut to a half-game.
"The only difference between this night and last year was that last year was a Triple-X movie," said manager Ozzie Guillen, referring to Boston's pasting of a non-contending Sox team last year at Fenway Park.
"Right now, it's just PG-13."
Nevertheless, the Sox have been outscored 27-5 during their skid.
The starting pitchers have surrendered 14 earned runs in 142/3 innings after staff ace Mark Buehrle allowed seven runs on 11 hits in 42/3 innings.
The White Sox were 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position, one night after placing one runner in scoring position in a listless 8-0 loss.
"We have a powerful ballclub; it's all or nothing," Guillen said after the Sox didn't hit a home run in consecutive games for the first time since June 25-26. They hit 96 homers during a 55-game span before this drought, but 114 of their 198 homers this season have been solo shots.
They also are strengthening the case of Boston second baseman Dustin Pedroia as the AL's most valuable player. With chants of "MVP, MVP" from a sellout crowd of 37,751, Pedroia went 4-for-4 for the second consecutive game and has reached base safely in all 10 plate appearances against the Sox.
"I never thought I would [intentionally] walk a jockey," Guillen joked, referring to Pedroia's 5-foot-7-inch height. "I must be the worst manager ever in the history of baseball right now, walking a guy that just came from being on the top of Big Brown to beat the White Sox.
"Right now he's on a roll."
Pedroia, who is batting .327 with 15 home runs and 68 RBIs, singled during a three-run first. Jermaine Dye then ran toward the right-field foul pole in an attempt to catch Jason Bay's drive, but the ball landed well behind him for a two-run double.
Trailing 7-2 in the eighth, A.J. Pierzynski was caught easily while trying to advance from second to third on a grounder to third base for the first out.
Pierzynski's mistake was witnessed by Mike Port, Major League Baseball's vice president of umpires, who said umpire Doug Eddings had incorrectly ruled that Tampa Bay's Willy Aybar obstructed Pierzynski on a crucial call in the Sox's victory last Sunday.
"You can do so much to make them go and fight," Guillen said.
"They are the ones who have to fight. We are in the corner."


text: Via lgpolicy... New Program to Provide Language Scholarships for Up to 50 Incoming Students Each Year September 20, 2010 Middlebury College and the Monterey Institute of International Studies have announced a new three-year scholarship program designed to strengthen the linguistic competency of incoming Monterey Institute students. The Betty and David Jones Language Scholarships, named in honor of two of Middlebury and Monterey's most engaged and generous benefactors, will offer up to 50 scholarships each year in seven languages - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Russian and Spanish - at the Middlebury College Language Schools, at the Monterey Institute Summer Intensive Language Program (SILP), or in Monterey's Intensive English Program. The program will award the scholarships to highly qualified applicants to the Monterey Institute to help these students enhance their language skills prior to enrolling in graduate programs at Monterey. A range of scholarships will be available, from full tuition for students who attend the SILP or English Program at the Monterey Institute, to full tuition, room, and board for those who enroll in the Middlebury Language Schools. "It's not surprising that Betty and David, two of our most creative donors, have provided an innovative way to improve access to Monterey's programs," said Middlebury President Ronald D. Liebowitz. "They were among the earliest supporters of the Middlebury-Monterey partnership, and we thank them for making this new scholarship program possible through their consistent philanthropy." "Betty and David have always viewed language study as a cornerstone of greater cultural and international understanding," added Monterey Institute President Sunder Ramaswamy. "We know this cause is near and dear to their hearts, and are excited that these new scholarships will help a significant number of future Monterey Institute students." Betty Jones, an alumna of Middlebury's School of French, served on the Middlebury board of trustees for 15 years and is now a trustee emerita. She and her husband David Jones, a member of the Monterey Institute board of governors, have been strong supporters of collaborative efforts between the two institutions since they first contemplated an affiliation in 2005. The Betty and David Jones Language Scholarships complement the Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace, another initiative designed to support the aspirations of future Monterey Institute students through a program of scholarships supporting attendance at Middlebury's Language Schools. On July 1, 2010, the Monterey Institute became a graduate school of Middlebury College. The resulting partnership brought together two institutions with renowned undergraduate and graduate programs in language learning and teaching, international policy, and environmental policy. The Betty and David Jones Language Scholarships illustrate how the institutions' combined resources complement one another and create new educational opportunities for students at both schools. Additional details and application materials for the Betty and David Jones Language Scholarships will be forthcoming on the Monterey Institute's Web site in the weeks ahead. --http://www.miis.edu/about/newsroom/stories/node/21479 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/edling/attachments/20100922/4e983e33/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Edling mailing list Edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu https://lists.sis.utsa.edu/mailman/listinfo/edling List Manager: Francis M. Hult


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LAS VEGAS -- The cavalcade of A-list stars continued to descend upon Caesars Palace here Wednesday, as Johnny Depp turned up to wow movie theater owners at CinemaCon, days after Brad Pitt put in a surprise appearance.
Depp's arrival to tout Disney's "The Lone Ranger" film wasn't actually all that shocking, of course. The actor has often showed up as an unannounced guest at Comic-Con. Last year, he popped up at CinemaCon to promote his movie "Dark Shadows."
PHOTOS: Billion-dollar movie club
In the Disney movie, Depp stars as Tonto, a Native American who forms an unlikely partnership with uptight Texas Ranger John Reid (Armie Hammer), a.k.a. the Lone Ranger. Gore Verbinski directs.
Depp barely uttered anything on stage at the Colosseum -- not that the crowd seemed to mind, as fans hooted enthusiastically as he waved to the audience. "Armie is very tall -- which means we're not small," he said, standing next to his 6-foot-5 costar. "Anything to add to that, Armando?"
"No," Hammer replied, and then the two exited the stage and roughly 20 minutes of previously unseen footage from the $225-million-plus production began to play.
Exhibitors seemed to have a mixed reaction to the new footage, which attempts to strike a tongue-in-cheek tone. After shutting down production on the film in 2011 to work on reducing the picture's budget, Disney has a lot riding on the still very pricey movie, which hits theaters over the July 4 weekend.
On stage, studio chief Alan Horn said he was often surprised by how few people in the industry seem to be fazed by the notion of a $200-million budget. It's only when he tells colleagues that $200 million could buy 600,000 dinners for four at one's favorite restaurant with a bottle of wine that he gets a reaction, he says.
"Of course, not every movie can work .... We ask for your support if we go through that. Not that we care about money," he quipped.
Horn appeared at ease in front of the auditorium, cracking that his recent transition from Warner Bros. president to Disney head was made simple by remembering "bunny, mouse."
He said he soon learned, though, that Disney was "different because it's the only studio that is in fact a brand .... The audience may not know what they're going to see, but they know what they're not going to see." Part of that strategy, he added, includes releasing between 14 and 15 movies per year -- eight of which are tentpoles.
The studio's upcoming slate, which includes Angelina Jolie as "Maleficent," Tom Hanks as Walt Disney in "Saving Mr. Banks" and George Clooney in "Tomorrowland," was then outlined. Horn also announced that the seventh "Star Wars" film will be released in summer 2015, followed by two sequels in 2017 and 2019. In the years between those releases, spinoff properties from the "Star Wars" brand will hit theaters.
The movie that arguably got the biggest push during the presentation, though, was "Monsters University." The animated prequel to 2001's "Monsters Inc.," out June 21, was screened in its entirety and got a warm reception from the crowd.
The movie follows a monster, Mike (voiced by Billy Crystal), who journeys to Monsters University, where he hopes to become a "professional scarer." But Mike quickly realizes he's not as frightening as his peers and teams up with fellow monster Sulley (John Goodman) to prove everyone wrong.
Horn, for one, was bullish about the Pixar Animation title's box-office potential.
"They give us one diamond of a movie a year," he said of John Lasseter's studio, "and they've had 13 smashes in a row."
Universal shows off 'Fast' cast, confirms 'Pitch Perfect' sequel
Warner Bros. shows off its star directors Snyder, Phillips, Del Toro
'Lone Ranger': Watch Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer live from Las Vegas
Roger Ebert: Career in pictures
ENVELOPE: The latest awards buzz
PHOTOS: Greatest box office flops


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This week, we ran a chart showing HP's crashing stock price since Mark Hurd was forced out of the company.
After we published the chart, a friend emailed to say, "Hurd destroyed the company. Gutted R&D, which was the cardinal sin. It was always an engineer's company. He financialized it. And in so doing, set in motion the wheels of doom."
From 2010, here's a look at how R&D as a percentage of revenue fell under Hurd's watch.
But, is the R&D budget really why HP is hosed? Probably not. Look at this chart, also from 2010:
Anything jump out in that chart?
Apple spent less on R&D than HP, Google, and Microsoft in 2009. No one is going to accuse Apple of not producing great innovative products, despite a small R&D budget.
When Hurd was pushed out, an ex-HP engineer told Joe Nocera slashes in the R&D department was, "why H.P. had no response to the iPad." Apple managed to make the iPad while spending less on R&D, so we're not sure that totally adds up.
It's not how much you spend on R&D, it's what comes of it.
As for the charge that Hurd "financialized" HP, well, that may be true. But, he seemed to be at least somewhat in control of where the company was going. The two CEOs since Hurd have no clue, it seems, about what to do with HP.


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Joe Konrath: Scar Tissue contains some stellar short stories--stuff that really sticks with the reader months later. How did it come about?
Marcus Sakey: It came about because I find writing short stories brutal. They need to be so damn perfect.
With a novel, there's a certain freedom to play. You can try things: flirt with a style, dance with a quirk, toy with a notion. Now, understand, I'm tenured faculty in the Kill Your Darlings School of Writing, so I believe that ultimately an experiment has to succeed to survive, and that failed attempts should be shot in the head and dumped in the garbage. It's just that the breadth of a novel gives you room to maneuver.
Short stories, on the other hand, are themselves an experiment. By definition they are almost certain to leave a reader wanting. They're one night stands. And so they have to be stellar, or all you'll be left with is annoyance and regret and in the worst cases, blue balls.
I've written dozens of short stories. There are exactly seven that I'm satisfied with.
And that's ScarTissue.
Joe: You're doing something unusual with this release. What is the Team Julian Foundation?
Marcus: In 2010, two of the best people I know got unimaginable news: their four-year-old son had an incurable brain tumor.
Julian Boivin was a superhero in training. He was sweet and bright and joyful and incredibly tough. He and his parents fought an epic battle: surgery, radiation, chemo, things no child should have to experience. But in the end, cancer stole this beautiful boy.
Founded in his honor, the Team Julian Foundation is trying to give other kids a fighting chance. To help, I'm donating 50% of the proceeds from every copy of Scar Tissue sold to pediatric cancer research.
Joe: But that's not all…
Marcus: No. For the next two weeks, I'm going to donate 100% of the profit. Every cent from every sale. The reason is simple: your blog.
I've been reading A Newbie's Guide for six years. I know how many readers you have, and how influential they are. If we all pitch in, we'll not only raise a lot of desperately needed funds, but hopefully build momentum that will encourage others to help.
So please, if you're reading this, consider buying the anthology. It's $3. It's not even a latte. But every bit of the profit will go to helping kids like Julian.
Joe: And besides doing good, you get the book. I've read it, and it gets my highest recommendation. And others agree.
Marcus: First off, thanks. I'd say the check was in the mail, but I know you prefer payment in beer. Which I admire.
The stories have been well-received, with a lot of critical praise and some Hollywood interest. The most successful, "The Desert Here and the Desert Far Away," was nominated for the Macavity and the Lovey, as well as being shortlisted as the best short story of 2009 by the International Thriller Writers.
But I think one of the most memorable honors I've received was for my shortest story ever, the 25-word tale "The Time Before the Last." The anthology that published it was used as source material for an artists' competition, with individual painters choosing the story that moved them most.
Several people selected my story, and it was just the coolest thing to see artists take inspiration from a story I wrote and then go on to create something completely different.
I tried to buy one the pieces, but they'd sold the opening night. Which is pretty cool too.
Joe: What's your writing background?
Marcus: Lying to people.
For me specifically, it was advertising. There's no better way to prepare for writing about criminals and thieves than a job in advertising.
I enjoyed it for awhile, but the business eats its young, and one day I realized I was at best an appetizer. So I decided to quit, and the next morning, I went to see my boss. Before I could get a word in edgewise, he fired me. With severance.
Talk about a karmic kick in the pants.
Anyway, I threw myself into writing short stories—the fact that they need to be perfect is the exact reason you should start with them; you'll miss more than you hit, but you'll learn from the swing, and you can swing a lot—while taking classes towards an MFA. My plan being that if I failed as a writer, I could become a teacher.
Then this hot-shit newcomer spoke to my class. He was all fire and energy and system-breaking, and he laid some serious business on us: how the industry worked, the truth about money, the need for focus, the idea that you can either talk about wanting to be a writer or you can write. After class, I asked if I could buy him a beer.
Our bar tab, five hours later, was $96. Joe let me pay. Bastard.
It was worth it. I dropped out of my program and wrote my first novel. The Blade Itself sold at auction, won some awards, and was bought for film by Ben Affleck.
Joe: I hope you wrote that off on your taxes. :)
Besides buying Scar Tissue, how can people contribute to the Team Julian Foundation?
There are a hundred ways. For a checkbook liberal like me, the easiest is just that: write a check. Team Julian is completely volunteer managed—Julian's parents Brad and Nettie, along with their amazing friends, handle everything—so your money goes pretty much directly to pediatric cancer research.
But there are lots of other things you can do to help as well. Check out TeamJulianFoundation.com for more details.
Joe: I already have the ebook (hell, I wrote the foreword for it) so I just donated directly to Team Julian. If you have Scar Tissue, I invite you to do the same. If you don't have Scar Tissue, get it for $2.99 and as previously stated, Marcus will donate all profits to the foundation for two weeks, and after that half the profits, forever. Marcus's short fiction is every bit as good as his novels, which is to say it's spectacular.
Spread the word.


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Gary Steven Fraser and Blair Carnegie Nimmo were appointed Joint Administrators of Dawson International PLC, Dawson International Trading Limited and Dawson International Holdings (UK) Limited on 15 August 2012. The affairs, business and property of the Companies are being managed by the Joint Administrators. The Administrators act as agents of the Companies and contract without personal liability.
Gary Steven Fraser and Blair Carnegie Nimmo are authorised to act as insolvency practitioners by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.


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I understand there is a review of Kids & Critters in KoTD #178. I don't subscribe to the magazine and I'm not interested in the rest of the content, however I'd love to read the review. Does anyone have a copy? If so, can a kind person scan the review and send it to me at all? PM me if you can help. Cheers.


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Ferrets: The Pursuit of Excellence
Ferrets: The Pursuit of Excellence Previous Broadcasts
KQED 9: Tue, Jul 15, 2014 -- 11:00 PM
The program travels to Ohio and the annual Ferret Buckeye Bash -- the home to the largest and most popular ferret show in the country, where hundreds of top breeders, seasoned experts and ferret enthusiasts pamper and parade their pets in a quest for prizes and prestige. Though these mischievous creatures are unlikely show animals, the competition is intense. For top breeders, the Best in Show award is the ultimate validation of their breeding stock though the many ferret fanatics whose "fuzzies" don't win a prize insist that beauty remains in the eye of the beholder.
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED Life: Thu, Jul 17, 2014 -- 4:00 AM
- KQED Life: Wed, Jul 16, 2014 -- 10:00 PM
- KQED 9: Wed, Jul 16, 2014 -- 5:00 AM


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The Teaching and Learning Center
Department of Education
The Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) on the Levelland campus assists students in developing the skills, strategies and knowledge to perform as confident, independent and active learners, prepared for a lifetime of learning. Housed on the third floor of the library building, the TLC provides academic support services to all South Plains College students and professional development activities to all employees. Services provided include peer tutoring, study skills assessment with individual learning plans and advisement, learning strategy instruction, and independent study. With its motto, "Working for You," the Learning Center typifies the South Plains College commitment to improving each student's life.
We provide academic services and support to help students succeed in college. This includes:
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The report identifies issues in finance, project management, and manufacturing, but the skills gap in these sectors is not as acute. With manufacturing, for example, the trend for bigger turbines means that fewer are needed to produce more capacity. "If you need ten people to produce a 1MW turbine, you do not need 20 people to produce a 2MW turbine - you maybe need 14," explains Jacopo Moccia, a policy officer at the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA). "You are not multiplying manufacturing personnel by the number of megawatts."
However, this rationale cannot be applied to the maintenance sector. As the number of wind farms increases, not only are there many more turbines to maintain, but a proliferation of different models with specific requirements means it is no longer sufficient for an engineer to have a general knowledge of how to repair a turbine. The skills needs are now far more diverse.
Also, as turbines age they require more, or a different kind of attention. Moccia says that a few years ago, the main focus was installing the turbines, after which there would be a five to ten-year period where not that much had to be done. "Now many turbines are reaching a post ten-year period. You have to maintain them more regularly," he says.
The number of players in the post-warranty service market is also growing. "Twenty years ago developers would contract the turbine manufacturer to maintain them for the life of the wind farm," says EWEA research officer Angeliki Koulouri. "Now, as portfolios become bigger, they often sub-contract a third party, which may be cheaper or offer more services than the manufacturer."
Another problem facing the O&M market is that maintenance is not always given high-enough priority by the industry, which is shortsighted says Moccia: "The only profit from the wind farm is selling electricity. If you lose some megawatt hours because your station is poorly maintained, that is a huge blow to your income.
"The fundamental point is that you need a preventative maintenance regime to ensure that you don't get caught with your trousers down. So you need to foresee that manpower clearly," he says.
Lack of graduates
The biggest problem highlighted in the skills report is the shortage of graduates with science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) qualifications. Of employers interviewed, 78% said it is very difficult to find suitably trained staff.
With a decline in popularity of STEM subjects among European students, Koulouri welcomes anything that will pull students into STEM subjects at a school or university level. But but the wind industry by itself cannot do that.
The skills problem was highlighted last year when Siemens struggled to fill 37 apprentice posts despite having received more than 1,000 applications. The roles were at the wind-turbine manufacturer's wind-power training school at its integrated energy service training facility in Newcastle, northeast England. When the applications were assessed, Siemens team leaders had doubts about the general educational standard of many applicants, in particular in mathematics.
Call for government action
Trade association RenewableUK is trying to persuade the UK government to act to increase the number of students in STEM subjects. It argues that this would also benefit the engineering industry as a whole.
Sophie Bennett, skills and employment policy officer at RenewableUK, would like to see a reduced fee structure for key courses such as engineering in order to attract people to study those subjects. She also believes that funding for courses could be better planned: "At the moment it tends to be on an almost ad-hoc basis and would be much more useful if it were consistent."
The renewables industry as a whole would benefit from a lot more certainty, but skills are particularly vulnerable without it, says Bennett. "To plan a workforce you need to know what is going to be happening in the long term - what kind of funding you'll have access to, and what skills needs there will be," she says. "In order to do that you need to have a lot more certainty on what the market is going to be like. Ideally, a 2030 forecast on renewable energy would enable the industry to plan its workforce."
She highlights an ongoing need to change perceptions of both engineers and engineering. "We need to move away from it being something that is largely a male role and move towards it being more inclusive for both women and ethnic minorities," she says.
Experience needed
There is no shortage of talented people who want to work in the industry, says Andrew Garrad, CEO of Garrad Hassan, but they are all short of experience. "There are not enough links between the academic and industrial world, so we have suggested various mechanisms to improve that."
Secondment from academia to industry and vice-versa would allow academic staff to be better informed about what the industry is really doing and what the industry really wants, he says.
For several years, pan-European programmes have existed for exchange of students, but the skills report reveals a significant disparity between how practical or theoretical courses are, and exactly what is being taught at a university level in different European countries. One recommendation from the report is to harmonise the vocational training at a European level.
Harmonisation is easier said than done, acknowledges Bennett, which is why it has been talked about for many years. "There are so many different standards that as a whole we strive towards doing that but it's a difficult process."
Both Bennett and Garrad agree on the importance of apprenticeships. Garrad says that large companies must hire more at the ground level rather than expecting to find skilled people. And Bennett believes that there should always be more funding being put into apprenticeships: "They are a great way of providing practical learning opportunities. The industry needs people who are highly skilled, but who also have practical experience at work, and learn at work.
"There is gradual recognition of the importance of apprenticeships which is leading to more support. This is helping to change the perception of apprenticeships as a worthwhile training tool."
Ultimately, the wind industry needs to enthuse the public about its employment possibilities. "The extraordinary developments of the machinery and the sheer size of our business should excite children and young adults to get involved in engineering rather than finance," Garrad says. "It is clearly a more interesting field than oil or gas and we need to convince people to make that leap."
In the UK, trade body RenewableUK has found regional initiatives particularly effective in raising awareness of the future economic and employment benefits of wind developments. For example, its Champions for Wind programme aims to support teachers in north-east England in providing careers guidance for the wind, wave and tidal industry to pupils aged 13-14 years. The programme was developed by a consortium of companies bidding for the third round of UK offshore projects and the Humberside Education and Training Association.
The Erasmus Mundus European wind-energy Masters course aims to educate 120-150 MSc graduates a year in wind energy technology, covering the top 1-2% global demand for wind-energy professionals with post-graduate education.
The European Renewable Energy Centres (EUREC) agency is working with several European universities in renewable-energy education and training. These universities have responded to the demand for industry-appropriate training through the development of the European Master in renewable energy.
Universities involved include Mines-ParisTech and Universite de Perpignan (France), Loughborough University and Northumbria University (UK), Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and Kassel University (Germany), Zaragoza University (Spain), Hanze UAS (the Netherlands), IST Lisbon (Portugal) and the National Technical University of Athens (Greece). Students move between universities during the first two semesters according to their specialisation, then undertake a six-month project during the third semester in a business or a research centre.
Sweden's Uppsala University offers several wind-specific courses taught in English, from basics to project development, planning and economics and wind turbine technology to a masters programme in wind power project management.
The UK's renewable-energy apprenticeship is now in its third year and has trained around 130 people. The renewable-energy apprenticeships programme and the wind-turbine operations-and-maintenance advanced-level apprenticeship are overseen by the National Skills Academy for Power. Standards are set by the renewable-energy companies that offer apprenticeships.
Skills transition
RenewableUK launched the renewables training network (RTN) in November 2011, which works to ensure that experienced skilled workers from other industries can make the transition to renewables effectively. The RTN was set up through joint funding from industry partners and the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, and is in the process of developing various training schemes for the wind and marine energy industries.


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Thoughts of the postseason took a hit on Saturday afternoon at Hurricane Field as the Georgia Southwestern men's soccer team dropped a 1-0 heartbreaker to USC Aiken.
Michael Ardrey notched his first score of the season for the Pacers, and the lone goal of the match, from eight yards in the 19th minute when his shot towards the top of the goal clipped GSW goalkeeper David Porley's fingertips and trickled inside the right post, just over the white line.
The Hurricanes were unable to convert their few serious scoring opportunities the rest of the way.
In a match that saw little offense, USC Aiken (2-10-2, 1-6-1 PBC) finished with an 8-4 shots on goal advantage and led 5-3 in corner kicks.
It was the fifth 1-0 loss of the season for GSW and seventh time the Hurricanes have lost by a single goal.
Goalkeeper David Porley finished with seven saves for the Hurricanes. Robert Bolender stopped four for USC Aiken.
Southwestern (2-11, 1-6) must win on Wednesday at Flagler to qualify for the PBC Tournament. Kickoff is at 7:30 p.m.


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There has often been many debates against atheists including myself that if I have no god, there is no reason to be moral, so we take advantage of it and do immoral actions. Morality should not come from fear of being sent to a place of eternal punishment. Knowing what is right without having an excuse to be moral, in my mind is the best type of morality there is. People don't need religion to show them what is right and what is wrong. Religious people sometimes make excuses to do immoral things, thinking that if they ask for forgiveness from god, they can do whatever they please. Or sometimes religious people might think about their immorality and say that god wanted them to act immoral. A couple weeks ago I read a news article about a man that killed a USA soldier only because he was an atheist. I bet that man still thinks he can go to heaven. Atheists know what is wrong, and they don't make up a fairy tale excuse to make them look better. I mean, everyone makes immoral actions. Like just today i stole ice cream from the freezer without my fathers consent. I'm guilty as charged and maybe some day I will learn. Some religious people create dangerous situations, and they should be careful about what they do or say. So... what makes a person moral? Is morality really getting a fresh start on forgiveness promising to do the right thing out of fear? Or is morality a good deed. Or maybe morality is just being there for someone. Morality has often peaked many interests.
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Everyone has empathy unless they have a neurological problem, so it's not hard to learn right from wrong. Even a year-old dog has empathy, or at least a few I've seen. Doing the right thing because humans can feel it and even learn to enhance it is not as big of a mystery as religionists like to believe.
I'll give the inventors of early religion/"morality" some credit for when it encourages compassion and liberation, but the hateful, destructive crap and most of the stone age wisdom has to be seen for what it is: divisive and subjugating.
MikeyMike1 - morality exists in the animal kingdom, among social species. Morality is all about how we treat others. I do think we can use our rationality to refine and enlarge our morality - just like anything else.
In your opinion, what makes this an objective moral value?
I disagree with your definition of objective, because we are dealing with the world of human values, not the objective world of physical facts.
"Unnecessary" would seem to need no further definition. Or rather, it's up to the individual's judgement in each case, and as such, is a little difficult to define maybe? I suppose you could say "proportionate". "Don't go over the top".
"If it was a value it wouldn't be objective."
Then you've answered your own question. I disagree with you, however.
I'd say that "avoiding unnecessary pain" is generally a good thing. The problem comes with any absolute, "objective" definition, when it comes to details of unusual circumstances, e.g. war. Could we ever (e.g.) trust a computer programmer to properly program a computer to "objectively compute" necessary vs. unnecessary suffering for any circumstances possible in the universe?
So I see "good" morality only in general terms that often require human judgement. Golden rule, plus perhaps some variation in choice of which rules one would prefer to live under, e.g. similar to having different morals and laws per each country in the world, as long as one isn't forced to stay in that country if one doesn't want to.
Can you give me an example where avoiding unnecessary suffering is ever a bad thing?
No I can't, and I'd probably agree with you as you've stated it. My argument is that what's "unnecessary" is not always easy to determine objectively.
There is no argument for not taking the interest of the livestock animals into account, as we have just agreed, causing unnecessary suffering is wrong.
But that is exactly where our various arguments are. For example:
We do take into account the suffering of the animal, and we try to minimize if not completely eliminate it (albeit not always enough). I eat less meat than I'd like, because (I estimate that) raising meat can be 10 times more earth-resource-intensive than raising crops, yet another point of view.
We humans evolved as omnivores, and the meat that we hunted surely suffered more than most farm animals currently do.
So we may disagree about how much humans still need meat for nutrition, or how much the animals are suffering. Even if someday we could measure these variables objectively and objectively calculate "least suffering" (or similar), we can't do that today, and so we're still stuck with disagreeing on the calculations.
I agree that unnecessary suffering is always a bad thing. I believe that almost everybody would agree with that statement. How do we define "unnecessary"? That's a good question, and surprisingly easy to answer, I would contend.
See? This is what happens when people take the blinkers off, when they begin with not knowing, instead of thinking they already know the answer. I think you've put your finger exactly on one of the key principles involved. "We should not cause unnecessary suffering" may be called an objective moral value, because everyone believes it, and it is always valid. What exactly "unnecessary suffering" is, differs according to the situation. So what to actually DO, is not objective and never can be, because reality is so infinitely varied. However, I still think we can refine and narrow "what to do" down from "whatever you like" to "use your judgement in *this* way".
MikeyMike1 - I am agreeing with you.
"I think I am logical in concluding that the interests all species should be considered insofar as they have the capacity to suffer."
I agree.
"What I can't accept is that it is ethical to disregard the interest of another being capable of suffering becuse this is based on an objective ethical/moral value."
Do people actually believe that? That would be "rationality gone wrong".


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It is hard to imagine a more gentlemanly trade than the buying and selling of old books. The very word "antiquarian" evokes tweedy, bespectacled fellows moving between dusty shelves to pull down some esoteric intellectual treasure. But as Travis McDade shows in "Thieves of Book Row," book dealing in the early 20th century was rife with scoundrels and rogues.
Book prices soared in the 1920s, then plummeted in the Great Depression, "when a difficult industry was made nearly impossible," McDade writes. "Booksellers did what they could to survive, ranging from the mildly unethical to the outright criminal."
Most sellers of used books plied their trade on Book Row, on New York's Fourth Avenue between Astor Place and Union Square, with a few boutique shops uptown. The ecosystem stretched from penny paperbacks to rarities worth thousands, and a used book would often pass through the hands of multiple shop owners on its way to a collector such as Jerome Kern.
When Kern's collection was auctioned in January 1929, collectible book fever was so high that it set price records that lasted 50 years. The most expensive item was Percy Bysshe Shelley's revised poem "Queen Mab," which sold for $68,000 — the equivalent of $913,000 today.
Prices like that made dealers hungry for stock, but used books don't grow on trees. They could, however, be easily harvested from libraries, a practice that dated to the Victorian era. It was an open secret on Book Row that many of the suppliers of collectible books were filching them from library shelves, and by the 1920s, a number of bookstore owners were actively involved in the process.
In the spectacular theft at the center of the book, robbers nabbed "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" and Edgar Allan Poe's "Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems" from the New York Public Library. The Poe is so rare that McDade, the curator of rare books at the University of Illinois College of Law, says he cannot estimate its value.
"Al Aaraaf" and the other two books were stolen on a busy Saturday in 1931 from the library's well-protected reserve book room. Authorities were so close to catching the thieves they could see the coattails of the last one flapping as he raced away.
That thief was Samuel Raynor Dupree, a novice accompanied by more experienced biblioklepts he knew only as Paul and Swede. With names like that, McDade's story takes on the quality of a 1930s gangster film. One book dealer who organized thieves was William "Babyface" Mahoney. When the ring was finally busted, it didn't sound bookish at all: The papers called it the Romm Gang.
McDade does a superb job of drawing a complete picture of the environment in which the Romm Gang operated. Charles Romm was a respected book dealer who had connections to less respectable book dealers, who managed a rotating cast of book thieves. In a scheme that stretched to the 1800s, a fleet of ne'er-do-wells and slightly nefarious scholars had walked into libraries, pocketed books (literally), and then scrubbed them of the markings that indicated ownership.
Libraries defended their stock, pulling valuable holdings out of circulation, hiring guards to sit by the exit, and adding more complex markings. Thieves were most challenged by the markings — removing them took a skilled hand.
To bring the practice of stealing rare books to an end, someone had to line up thief, scrubber, fence, buyer and stolen property all at once. The man who did it was G. William Bergquist, a kindly World War I veteran who was the NY Public Library's chief investigator. McDade tries to make a hero of Bergquist, but the criminals, with their gangster-style monikers and other peculiarities, are almost universally more interesting than the library lawman.
For the most part, however, McDade makes a smart choice to spin his tale around the mostly forgotten individuals who participated in a widespread scheme to steal library books. Yet he's not particularly sympathetic to them: he bristles at their audacity, their greed, and the offense itself, stealing books from public libraries for private gain.
For bibliophiles, the story isn't over. In addition to the maps, guides, and firsthand accounts of early Americana that were frequently stolen, thieves also filled their coats with books by writers we still consider great. Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Paine, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe and many others were stolen.
While the NY Public Library got its "Al Aaraaf" back, "The Scarlet Letter" and "Moby-Dick" were never recovered. They — and many other valuable classics that used to sit on library shelves — may well be sitting in personal collections today.
Thieves of Book Row:
New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It
Travis McDade
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Think anti-Semitism, the kind that gave rise to the Holocaust, is dead? Think again.
A survey conducted in Poland on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day revealed 63 percent of locals believe that there is a Jewish conspiracy to control the banking system and the world media.
On the religious front, 18 percent said the Jews were responsible for the death of Christ, and 13 percent of those surveyed still believe that Jews use Christian blood for ritual purposes.
Today, anti-Semitism is most often masked as hostility toward the State of Israel, and that played into the poll, as well, with 21 percent of respondents saying that Israel treats the Palestinians just as Hitler treated the Jews of Europe. Thirty-five percent said Israel would stop at nothing to achieve its nefarious goals.
The survey was conducted by the Center for Prejudice Research in Warsaw among a representative sampling of Polish citizens. The findings were presented to the Polish parliament by MP Michael Bilvic.
Bilvic noted that while anti-Semitic sentiment among Polish Christians was down, Jew-hatred in general had not decreased. He and many other parliamentarians agreed that education against anti-Semitism must be improved.
The problem is even more pronounced in other European countries.
The past year has seen a significant rise in the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Greece, especially those perpetrated by neo-Nazi groups. Among the incidents in Greece were statements by prominent figures denying that the Holocaust ever happened, and desecration of Jewish tombs and monuments. This new wave of anti-Semitism in Greece has been fuelled equally by the recently disbanded Golden Dawn party and leaders of the Greek Orthodox Church who continue to use anti-Semitic rhetoric and arguments as a matter of course.
In Hungary, the number of anti-Semitic incidents doubled from 2012, with violent assaults on local Jews, desecration of Jewish cemeteries, public anti-Semitic chants and the burning of the Israeli flag.
Yaakov Hagouel of the World Zionist Organization called the fact that Jews are still facing this level of hatred "appalling."
"In recent years, we have witnessed a significant increase in anti-Semitism in Europe," Hagouel explained. He called on "Jewish communities around the world and the Israeli government to work together with European governments to eradicate this phenomenon."
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