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Two vans packed with excited campers, staff and gear left Brighton, Colorado, and headed west to the Rocky Mountains for a week of hiking, rafting, exploring nature, birding and much more as part of RMBO's Taking Flight camp. Summer Education Assistant Hannah Haas writes about this amazing week of camp and its impact on 15 young people.
Birds can migrate thousands of miles a year between their breeding and wintering grounds. Where, exactly, do they go? What routes do they take and where do they stopover? RMBO biologists set out to answer these questions for Western Tanagers and Swainson's Thrushes that breed in Rocky Mountain National Park in a project for the National Park Service. CSU student Marina Rodriguez writes about this project and reveals whether the biologists successfully discovered where the birds go.
Earlier this year, RMBO hosted forums to gauge feedback on a new Decision Support Tool. The tool helps compare management options that ensure the economic viability of grazing lands with the habitat needs of sagebrush-dependent songbirds and grouse.
Bird banding brings us cool birds, interesting insights and always new questions, and this spring was no exception. We again shared these experiences with hundreds of visitors, from toddlers to school kids to adults of all ages. Without further ado, here are the birdy highlights from the spring.
Every year at this time, we get calls from people who have spotted a baby bird out of its nest and want to know what to do. They're concerned, and rightfully so. We all love our feathered friends and want to see their little ones survive and prosper, so we put together this blog post to share some useful insights and resources with you.
Variety keeps life exciting. This is not only true in our personal experiences, but in the way we present our backyard habitats to those creatures we are attempting to attract to these feeding areas. David Menough, owner of Wild Birds Unlimited of Arvada, offers tips on a variety of attractors you can use to entice a diversity of birds.
Since many birds that breed in the Rockies and elsewhere in the western U.S. winter in Central America, it's important for Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory and partners to support and advance conservation abroad. In March, RMBO coordinated a landmark meeting in San Vito, Costa Rica, to determine the conservation status of the birds of Central America.
Sept. 5-7 - Colorado Birds of Yesterday and Today Field Trip
The Secret Lives of Birds Speaker Series at Denver Museum of Nature & Science:
Sept. 11 - The Beautiful World of the Birds-of-Paradise
Oct. 21 - Bird Sounds: From the Beautiful to the Bizarre
Nov. 5 - The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
Summer Camps
Registration open for bird and nature camps for ages 2-14. Register for camps.
Spring-Summer Newsletter
Read about bird banding, Bald Eagle Watch, Mountain Plovers and more.
Osprey Migration
Follow the migration of two Ospreys from Rocky Mountain National Park. View Shadow's location. View Rainbow's location.
2013 RMBO Annual Report
Birds don't give a hoot about state or international borders. Like the birds, RMBO's biologists, educators and natural resource managers cross boundaries to work on bird and habitat conservation through Science, Education and Stewardship in the Intermountain West, the Great Plains, Mexico and beyond.


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A guy falls in to an eight foot deep hole while at work. His boss comes along and the guy says, hey boss can you get me out of here?
The boss says, Things are pretty tight around here so we cant afford to buy a ladder, but we have this old shovel sitting around. Ill throw it down and you can dig yourself out.
It takes a long time, but after a lot of trial and error (sometimes even digging in the wrong place and making the hole deeper) our guy manages to dig himself out of the hole. And of course, hes damn proud of himself for that accomplishment. It certainly wasnt easy. He's recognized far and wide for his perseverance.
The boss is so impressed that, not long after, the guy gets a promotion. And, while everyone thinks its a bit odd, the guy never goes anywhere without that old shovel.
(This article was originally posted at Knuckleballsblog.com)
A couple of years later, company revenues have grown significantly but, alas, holes still happen and one day the guys replacement in his old job falls into another eight foot hole. Sure enough, our guy is the first person to walk by and he hears, Hey, can you get me out of here?
Still holding on to that old shovel, the guy jumps down in to the hole, too.
What the hell, man? Why didnt you just reach down and pull me out?
Dont worry, our guy answers, Ive been down here before and I know how to dig us out.
After a couple hours of digging, the boss comes by. He looks down in to the hole and shakes his head. Hold on a minute, guys, we can afford a ladder now. Ill be right back. He walks in to a nearby hardware store and returns a few minutes later with an extension ladder and lowers it in to the hole.
The new guy climbs up the ladder and walks away.
But our guy looks distrustfully at the ladder and keeps on digging.
A couple of days later, the boss walks by the hole again and, to his surprise, the guy is still down there digging, only now the hole is 12 feet deep. The boss kind of shakes his head and laughs, but when customers question why the hole is getting deeper, he just tells them this guy has done this before and knows what hes doing.
Days later, a crowd has gathered and theyre all exasperatedly trying to tell the guy that all he has to do is extend the ladder and climb out. Pretty soon, a reporter shows up and asks the guy why he wont use the ladder.
"We've got a lot different revenue streams now, says the guy, but if you've got to try to get out using a ladder, you're probably going to fall. It just doesn't work."
Soon after, the boss walks by again and he doesnt seem as amused now. These people gathered around are all potential customers and the guy in the hole is making him and his company look foolish or like theyre too cheap to give the guy the right tools to get out of the hole.
The reporter asks the boss to comment on the guy digging in the hole and the boss replies, "We have to acknowledge we probably have to use that ladder to get out of that hole. Our guy is committed to using the ladder. He can speak for himself, but I believe he's enthusiastic about doing that."
Of course, the guy continues to dig.
Eventually, the crowd turns angry because the hole just keeps getting bigger and the police have to clear the area until the only people left are the guy in the hole and his boss.
When he's certain nobody but the guy in the hole can hear what he says, the boss looks down in to the hole and says firmly, Enough with the digging. Use the damn ladder to get out of that hole. Now!
Of course, since there was nobody else around to hear it, we can't be 100% positive thats what the boss finally said.
But I sure hope it is.
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Sidney J. LeBlanc, Sr., 85, of Port Acres, Texas passed away October 11, 2013 at his home. He was born in Abbeville, Louisiana on November 13, 1927 to the late Lionel and Ozea Chauvin LeBlanc. He was a member of St. Therese the Little Flower of Jesus Catholic Church in Port Acres.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 at St. Therese the Little Flower of Jesus Catholic Church in Port Acres with Father Rejimon E. George, CMI celebrant. Interment will follow at Oak Bluff Memorial Park in Port Neches. A gathering of family and friends will be held at Melancon's Funeral Home on Monday, October 14, 2013 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. with a Rosary being recited at 6:30 p.m.
Sidney is preceded in death by his parents; wife, Margaret LeBlanc; his son, S. J. LeBlanc; and his brother, Stanley LeBlanc. He is survived by his sons, Bobby LeBlanc and wife, Brenda of Port Arthur and Mark LeBlanc of Port Acres; his daughters, Kay and Melodie LeBlanc, both of Port Acres; 5 grandchildren; 7 great-grandchildren; sister, Shirley Moore of Port Neches; and sister-in-law, Lupe LeBlanc. He is also survived by many uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, and many close friends.
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"Seen Along the Way," an exhibit by Isabel Becker will be on display in the Martucci Gallery at the Irvington Public Library from November 1 through November 29. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, November 3, from 2pm to 4pm.
Isabel Becker works with photographs, fabric, scissors, thread and sewing machine to recreate landscapes, flowers and everyday objects that have touched her with their beauty. She is a member of the Scarsdale Art Association, the Rye Art Center and the Westchester Village Square Quilters. She has placed first in juried exhibits in the Scarsdale Art Association's mixed media category and the dobbs Ferry Women's Club Beaux Arts Group.
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Contact: Gloria Sajgo, Lee County Planning Division (239) 533-8311
FORT MYERS, FLA. (Oct. 9, 2012)
Owners of older buildings in unincorporated Lee County have a chance to obtain funds to fix up their old, historic structures under the Lee County Historic Preservation Grant Assistance Program. This year the program makes available $50,000 in rehabilitation grant funds. The average grant award is for $5,000. However, grants have been awarded for as much as $25,000 and as little as $800.
Lee County's historic resources are major contributors to the quality of life enjoyed by residents and visitors. The purpose of the program is to help preserve these resources because they are valuable, contribute to neighborhood preservation and urban revitalization, are part of our area's rural character, enhance our sceneries, and help give our county its identity and special sense of place.
To qualify for participation in this program, a building must be about 50 years old and designated or qualify for designation under the Lee County Land Development Code Chapter 22, Historic Preservation. The structure must be located in unincorporated Lee County. Buildings located in the city limits of Bonita Springs, Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach and Sanibel DO NOT QUALIFY.
The criteria used to evaluate an application include:
All applications are due by 4:00 p.m. December 14, 2012 at the Lee County Planning Division.
To download an application, go to www.leegov.com/dcd/applications. For details or to obtain a printed application, contact the Lee County Planning Division: call (239) 533-8311; FAX (239) 485-8319; e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com; write to P.O. Box 398, Fort Myers, FL 3902-0398; or visit the second floor of the Lee County Community Development and Public Works Building, 1500 Monroe St., Fort Myers.
Learn more about historic preservation at www.leegov.com/dcd/historicpreservation.
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Chris Durst's research is primarily focused in the fields
of diagnostic and interventional neuroradiology. To date, Dr.
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use in the evaluation of neurologic disorders, differentiation and
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GABA Spectroscopy
Traditionally, GABA has been difficult to isolate with MR
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By focusing a large number of ultrasound arrays at a small focus,
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Advanced imaging techniques have provided neuroradiologists with
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I'm not so arrogant as to believe this announcement will impact you in some monumental way, and I don't think a long-winded explanation is warranted or necessary. But I want you to know that I've decided to end this blog. I am so grateful to those of you who took an interest in this little space of mine. Some of you have even become real life friends, and for you I am especially thankful.
I always told myself that I'd keep fashion blogging until it wasn't fun anymore. Until it started to feel like a chore. Recently, that's how I've started to feel.
Between school and two internships, I have little free time, and it's important to me that I spend that free time doing things I'm passionate about. In that vein, I have started a new blog, one that's more in line with my budding interest in photography and my love for travel.
I hope that some of you will follow along on my new adventure at Some Beautiful Things.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
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Friday, October 26, 2012
Foodie Friday: Crock-Pot Quinoa
I love quinoa. And I love anything I can cook in the Crock-Pot. So this recipe, from A Year of Slow Cooking, is a match made in food heaven. [In the future, though, I think I'll make this sans tomatoes. I don't think they added anything to the dish.]
1 1/2 cups quinoa
3 cups vegetable stock
1 T olive oil
1/2 t cinnamon
1/4 cup sliced almonds
1/3 cup dried, unsweetened cranberries
Handful of baby spinach
1 cup baby tomatoes, halved or quartered depending on size
1/2 block feta cheese, crumbled
1. Dump quinoa into the crockpot. [Some quinoa needs to be washed before use, so be mindful of this.] Add 1 tablespoon of olive oil, and mix it around. Add vegetable stock and cinnamon. Stir in almonds and cranberries.
2. Cover and cook on low for 4-6 hours or on high for 2-4. The quinoa is done when you can fluff The liquid should be pretty well absorbed and quinoa should be kind of "fluffy."
3. Fluff the quinoa with a fork and add baby tomatoes [or not] and feta cheese. Stir gingerly to mix. Add a handful of baby spinach to the top, and close the lid. Cook on high for another 20 minutes.
4. Stir again to distribute the spinach and serve.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Jacket: Calvin Klein (thrifted)
Button-down: Lands' End Canvas
Bracelets: Madewell
Purse: Fossil (Macy's)
Pants: Urban Outfitters:
Flats: Gap
Several times on the blog I've declared, "I need to wear such-and-such more often!" I've said it about t-shirts. I've said it about pants. I've said it about jewelry. Well, now I'm declaring that I need to wear my jackets more often.
Often I will bundle up or layer underneath a chunky sweater when I need to add warmth to an outfit. In the process, I neglect my [actually rather large] jacket, blazer, and coat collection.
So here I am wearing my denim jacket. Okay, I admit I'm kind of cheating here, as this is the one jacket I do wear with regularity. But I'm hoping it's a step in the right direction!
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Rainy Day
Scarf: Gap
T-shirt: Gap
Cardigan: thrifted
Jeans: American Eagle
Shoes: Steve Madden (6PM.com)
Purse: vintage Dooney and Bourke (thrifted)
Ring: thrifted
Bracelets: American Eagle, Madewell
I don't normally pose with my Starbucks—I feel like it's a little douchey—but hear me out.
Ben and I were done with work by noon last Friday, and we decided to take advantage of our afternoon off by going out to eat and going for a walk. We had lobster soup for lunch at New England Soup Factory and then headed to Starbucks for our post-meal caffeine. As we left Starbucks, it started to rain, so we ducked under an overhang to snap a few photos, Starbucks cup and all. I couldn't let a perfectly good outfit go to waste! As it was pouring, a walk was out of the question, so we took a leisurely drive through neighboring Marblehead instead. It ended up being a wonderful day in spite of the rain.
How do you like to spend your rainy days?
How do you like to spend your rainy days?
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Sweater: Forever 21
Dress: Urban Outfitters
Leggings: Forever 21
Shoes: Target
If it's true that the world is divided into two categories—cat people and dog people—then I would have to be a cat person.
But I do love dogs too! So when a friend told me he was puppysitting, another friend and I promptly skipped out on our last class of the day and headed over to meet Oliver the puppy. We spent the remainder of the absolutely beautiful afternoon walking Oliver and playing with him in the Boston Common.
Oliver is adorable, and I know he's the real star of this post. But my new sweater is pretty cute too, right?
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Glasses: Glasses USA
Sweater: thrifted
Button-down: American Eagle
Belt: thrifted
Pants: Marshall's
Shoes: Steve Madden (6PM.com)
Full disclosure: I wasn't going to blog this outfit. I really do like it, but by the time Ben got out of work it was dark, and outdoor photos were out of the question. Booo. But then Ben came home and liked the outfit so much that we decided to snap a few indoor photos before heading out to dinner. I'm glad we did!
I'm having a major love affair with these pants right now, and finding ways to style them is a fun challenge. I'm a big fan of blue and gold together, so pairing them with this button-down was a logical choice. I was in the mood for some preppy androgyny, so I rolled up my pant legs and opted for these great Steve Madden brogues.
I was also in the mood for Mexican food, so..
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
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You can read all over the Internet about speculation that the NHL still had hopes of a 60-game season had talks not broken off Thursday night to end the lockout. Gary Bettman said afterward that no less than a 48-game schedule -- the same that was played in 1994-95 -- would be considered to maintain "integrity" of the competition (like there's any integrity left here but I digress ... )
With games only canceled through Friday, it's likely the league will have to dump more off the schedule as soon as Monday (the Sabres have already had 27 canceled).
So we're close to a best-case scenario of a 48-game season. The Sabres have 46 scheduled from Jan. 1 on and it would be easy to throw two more dates in there.
With that in mind, and thinking optimistically about hockey at some point, I decided to look back to last season. You can't put every team at 48 games so I put the Sabres at 48 and it was an ugly time: The morning of Jan. 22 when they awoke on a five-game skid overall and having lost a franchise-record 12 straight on the road after a 4-2 loss in St. Louis.
The standings at that point are here. The Sabres were 19-24-5 and 14th in the Eastern Conference. But the incredible thing I found was this -- 15 of the 16 playoff teams from last season were already determined by that point.
The top eight in the East (NYR, BOS, FLA, PHI, OTT, PIT, NJ, WAS) all made the playoffs as did seven of the eight in the West (DET, VAN, SJ, STL, CHI, NAS, LA). Only Phoenix, which eventually caught Colorado, snuck in.
Most hockey observers say it's tough to come from out of the playoffs to sneak in after the new year and this certainly upholds that theory. Some people say it's even earlier, like the start of December.
One thing is for sure: In a short season, there's going to be no time for long slumps, no time for a late rush to the top eight -- which is something the Sabres have tried to pull off in four of the last five years and only succeeded in 2011.
If everything is pretty well decided by 48 games of an 82-game season, that means you better be in good shape by game 30 of a short schedule. Maybe sooner. If we get back to seeing hockey, it will make for a pretty unusual dynamic right from the start of the season.
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Sorry for the image quality (taken with the phone). I don't have the subs in
yet because I still haven't figured out where I am mounting them. Space is at
a premium so it takes some careful planning.. :)
The head unit is mounted in 1/4" Smoked Lexan with the back of the Lexan
painted black. I couldn't find a "marine" mount that would work with this head
unit because of the dual face when it's open it would hit the marine enclosures.
The amp is mounted right under the port side dash and wired with Mobile Spec
4 Awg Pos and Neg runs back to the #2 Battery (1100CCA Nothern Marine
Deep Cycle) and is fused with a Mobile Spec digital readout ANL fuse block.
The RCA's are RadioShack gold series (figured it best to use something gold
plated to resist corrosion) and I have never had any complaints with thier patch
cables I've used them a gazillion times.. I am not into esoteric cable mojo, I
usually just build all my own cables from scratch but I'm getting lazy :)
The Momo's are mounted in factory locations in the Kick Pannels and beside
the bench seat in the rear of the boat.
The subs.... Like I said, I have no clue where to put them.. I planned on
having the dual 10 Momo's under the bench seat like most other 230SX
owners have done, but the Polk 10's won't fit there... 8's would fit but I
really don't want to step down to 8 inchers..
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The Andover Townsman
---- — The historical chapel at West Parish Garden Cemetery is in line for a new roof, with the work scheduled to start Monday, Aug. 19.
Many roof tiles are broken and the under layer also needs replacing, Lynn Capozzi, president of the West Parish Garden Cemetery Committee, said.
The cost to replace the 104-year-old chapel roof is $120,000. The new roof comes with an 80-year warranty.
"The chapel is a historic gem and our goal is to preserve it for generations to come," Capozzi said. "We want it to be historically correct."
The replacement project is expected to take several weeks, she said. Neighbors of the cemetery, located at 129 Reservation Road, received letters about the project last week.
The William W. Wood Foundation has donated $50,000 to the project. Capozzi said fundraising is planned for the remaining $70,000. Donations may be made to http://www.gofundme.com/3oy1l0.


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NCEAS Project 7680
Elevational trends in biodiversity: Examining theoretical predictions across taxa
- Christy M. McCain
|Further Information
|Postdoctoral Fellow
|13th January 2004—12th January 2007
|Participant List
|Graduate Student
|1st April—30th June 2006
|Participant List
Documenting patterns and understanding factors producing and maintaining global biodiversity have been fundamental goals of ecological research since the first expeditions of Darwin and Wallace. After a century and a half of research on biodiversity patterns and processes, Brown asserted that a general explanation for patterns of biodiversity would emerge in the next few years, particularly for elevational and latitudinal patterns. Elevational gradients hold enormous potential for understanding general properties of biodiversity since variable topography is global, and predictable climatic patterns with large concomitant changes in biodiversity occur over small spatial scales. Additionally, biodiversity studies along elevational gradients have been amassed for many taxa on mountain ranges across the globe. Lomolino outlined some testable diversity hypotheses in a research agenda, which would lead to a general explanation for elevational patterns, including climatic hypotheses, species-area effects, community overlap patterns, and historical factors. In the first quantitative synthesis, I tested some of the predictions for elevational diversity patterns of non-volant small mammals (n = 51) with intriguing results. Peak alpha diversity occurred at higher elevations on taller mountains, evidence supporting a combination of climatic factors influencing diversity patterns. In contrast, gamma diversity patterns supported the predictions of the mid-domain effect, displayed a positive, linear trend with latitude, and showed trends consistent with species-area effects. To further examine these preliminary trends, I propose addressing the following questions: (1) Is there a latitudinal trend in elevation of peaks in diversity on mountainsides? (2) Does the species-area relationship inherent to elevational gradients mask other mechanisms producing and maintaining biodiversity? (3) Is there general support for the community overlap hypothesis on elevational gradients? (4) Are there general mechanisms producing elevational diversity patterns across taxa?
|Products of NCEAS Research
|Journal Article
|Dunn, Robert; McCain, Christy M.; Sanders, Nathan J. 2007. When does diversity fit null model predictions? Scale and range size mediate the mid-domain effect. Global Ecology and Biogeography. Vol: 16. Pages 305-312.
|Book Chapter
|Grytnes, John A.; McCain, Christy M. 2007. Elevational patterns in species richness. Edited by S. Levin Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. Elsevier, Inc.. Pages 1-8.
|Journal Article
|McCain, Christy M. 2005. Elevational gradients in diversity of small mammals. Ecology. Vol: 86(2). Pages 366-372.
|Journal Article
|McCain, Christy M. 2006. Do elevational range size, abundance, and body size patterns mirror those documented for geographic ranges? A case study using Costa Rican rodents. Evolutionary Ecology Research. Vol: 8. Pages 435-454.
|Journal Article
|McCain, Christy M. 2007. Area and mammalian elevational diversity. Ecology . Vol: 88 (1). Pages 76-86.
|Journal Article
|McCain, Christy M. 2007. Could temperature and water availability drive elevational species richness patterns? a global case study for bats. Global Ecology and Biogeography. Vol: 16. Pages 1-13.
|Journal Article
|McCain, Christy M. 2009. Global analysis of bird elevational diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography. Vol: 18. Pages 346-360.
|Journal Article
|McCain, Christy M. 2010. Global analysis of reptile elevational diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography. Vol: 19(4). Pages 541-553. (Online version)
|Journal Article
|Mittelbach, Gary G.; Schemske, Douglas W.; Cornell, Howard V.; Allen, Andrew P.; Brown, Jonathan; Bush, Mark; Harrison, Susan P.; Hurlbert, Allen H.; Knowlton, Nancy; Lessios, Harilaos A.; McCain, Christy M.; McCune, Amy R.; McDade, Lucinda A.; McPeek, Mark A.; Near, Thomas J.; Price, Trevor; Ricklefs, Robert E.; Roy, Kaustuv; Sax, Dov F.; Schluter, Dolph; Sobel, James M.; Turelli, Michael. 2007. Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: Speciation, extinction and biogeography. Ecology Letters. Vol: 10. Pages 315-331.


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Since Alumni will be in town in April, the Aviation Heritage Fair at the Kent Sate University Airport has been moved to the spring instead of this fall.
The annual event is normally in the fall, but to coincide with two events put on by Kent State's College of Technology and its Aeronatutics Program, the air show will be April 21, 2012.
"The new spring date allows Kent State alumni who will be attending the Richard Schwabe Golf Outing April 20, 2012, and the Vision 21 Banquet on April 21, 2012, to join community members to enjoy an all-day event of aviation activities, a pancake breakfast, airplane rides, music and entertainment, as well as meet aviation scholars, enthusiasts and industry professionals," according to a press release.
The Aviation Heritage Fair features activities for both the flight enthusiast and casual fan. Event admission and parking are free. There is a cost for airplane rides.
The event is run by the faculty, staff and students of the university's Aeronautics Program with help from the .


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RALEIGH — Tim Gleason is back to being his old, rugged, often agitated self.
Mike Komisarek is a big man who knows how to use his size and won't hesitate to level a player, if need be.
Jay Harrison likes things physical. Justin Faulk certainly doesn't mind it.
Andrej Sekera appears to be steady, quietly and efficiently getting the job done. Ron Hainsey, like Sekera, is a proven commodity.
When the Carolina Hurricanes began training camp Wednesday, there was the disconcerting news that defenseman Joni Pitkanen would miss the season because of a broken heel bone that has not healed sufficiently. But by Sunday's Red-White game at PNC Arena, there was a sense that while Pitkanen will be missed, the Hurricanes may collectively have enough players on the back end – and the right blend of defensemen – to make up for his loss.
"We'll have a balanced group," Canes coach Kirk Muller said Sunday. "(Pitkanen) is a special player and to none of these guys are we going to say, 'Replace Pit.' I think the trick will be monitoring it and whether we can balance it out among six or seven D. I think that's the test."
In Sunday's game, won by Eric Staal's Red team 3-1, Gleason was paired defensively with Komisarek, Faulk with Sekera and Harrison with Ryan Murphy, the Canes' first-round draft pick in 2011. Hainsey, a veteran who signed a free-agent contract Thursday, played much of the game with Matt Corrente, a former first-round pick of the New Jersey Devils.
"Looking at the group, two things that look a little different than in years past is there's a really good balance and size as well," Harrison said. "We're a little bit bigger and take up more room out there. I think that will really contribute to the type of game we're trying to play, especially from our zone on out."
Komisarek is 6-foot-4 and 235 pounds, and looks bigger. Harrison is 6-4 and 220, and Hainsey listed at 6-3 and 210.
Gleason, Faulk and Sekera all are 6 feet and all are strong, sturdy types. Sekera was obtained in a June trade with Buffalo that sent Jamie McBain, who rarely appeared to be in top physical condition, to the Sabres.
Brett Bellemore, who played much of last season with the Charlotte Checkers of the American Hockey League, adds more size at 6-4 and 225 pounds. The only little guy is Murphy, a speedy, skilled player who is 5-11 and 185 pounds.
"It's a good mixture, for sure," Gleason said.
The Canes were 26th in the NHL in shots against (32.2) per game and 29th in goals against (3.31) last season, a big reason they finished 19-25-4.
"Without question that has to improve, and I think you have seen in the first workouts how important that is and how much we have stressed that," Harrison said. "I think the group we have assembled is fit for the task."
In Sunday's game, Eric Staal, Alex Semin and Drayson Bowman had goals for the Red, and Zac Dalpe scored the lone goal for the White team captained by Jordan Staal. Bowman's was a power-play score, and the other three goals came off well-executed rushes.
While the game was not as brutal as the Friday scrimmage, Komisarek sent Zach Boychuk tumbling to the ice with a big hit. Gleason also tangled with Boychuk and again exchanged some hits with Jared Staal.
"'Gleas' has to play on the edge," Muller said. "He needs to play physical. … He's not a guy who can sit back and play conservative."
That's fine with Gleason. Nor did he mind the rough stuff coming from Jared Staal, a young forward trying to make the roster.
"I actually love it," Gleason said. "Now's the time to get ready and get in game-ready shape and I think that's why it's more intense. There are guys who want it and that pushes the level higher and higher every day."
NOTE: The Canes on Sunday returned forward Sergey Tolchinsky and defenseman Trevor Carrick to their respective junior teams in the Ontario Hockey League. They were the first training-camp roster cuts.
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Two basketball coaches -- one from Strongsville -- were issued minor misdemeanor citations for disorderly conduct after they get into a fight during a youth basketball game in Twinsburg, according to a Twinsburg police report.
The fight occured during a youth basketball tournament on Jan. 26 at the Edge Sports Performance Academy on Ravenna Road.
A witness called 911 at about 1:46 p.m. to report the fight, which began after the coaches started arguing about the game.
One of the coaches told police that the other man threw him to the ground. Police officers say there was blood on the right hand and nose of one of the coaches.
The fight was broken up by other coaches, according to the report.
Both men were ordered to appear at the Stow Municipal Court on Feb. 1.


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Punishment depends on the result of the investigation.
"It really depends, it could run anything from a reprimand to to suspension.," says Steve Orlando with UF. "Of course right now they are on a temporary suspension, pending the outcome of the investigation."
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Date: May 14, 2009
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Jonathan Yarwood of the Jonathan Yarwood Golf Academy at The Concession Golf Club and Residences will begin teaching a wide range of lessons this spring and summer.
To begin, Yarwood will offer golf specials, including buy three lessons and get a fourth lesson free or buy four lessons and get a fifth lesson free. Yarwood will also teach a one-half hour Taser lesson, which includes video analysis to help increase one's skills, for $50 and a $150 special for snowbirds to help tune up any part of their golf game.
Originally from England, Yarwood moved to Florida in 1996, joining the David Leadbetter Academy through IMG where he was a golf instructor for nine years. Yarwood, who was named one of "Golf Digest's" top-20 coaches under 40, founded the Jonathan Yarwood Golf Academy a little more than a year ago.
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Original recipe yields 1 - 9x13 inch cake
- Bake German chocolate cake mix according to package directions.
- While cake is still very warm poke holes in top of cake with the end of a wooden spoon, poor sweetened condensed milk over top. Let cake cool. Pour hot fudge topping over top of cake and let set. Spread on whipped topping and garnish with crushed Heath ™ Bars (toffee crumbles).
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I've been making this cake for several years. This is the first time I've heard of adding the fudge topping. I always mix a jar of caramel ice cream topping to the sweetened condensed milk and warm it in the microwave so it's easier to pour into and over all those holes. This cake is even better the next day (if it lasts that long). Since we're such big fans of Heath Bars, I use no less than 6 on this cake. This is one of my all time favorite recipes. It's easy and delicious!
i've definitely had better sex than this.
This is a super cake to make! Instead of poking holes, I made horizontal slits across the top of the cake, being careful not to go all the way through. Also, instead of pouring on the condensed milk & caramel sauce separately, I heated them up in a sauce pan over low heat & poured it over the cake so it ran into the slits. Sprinkled the Skor (Heath) chunks over the cake & then topped with low fat Cool Whip. I will definitely make this one again!
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Amount Per Serving (24 total)
- Calories
- 315 cal
- 16%
- Fat
- 11.5 g
- 18%
- Carbs
- 50.5 g
- 16%
- Protein
- 3.4 g
- 7%
- Cholesterol
- 9 mg
- 3%
- Sodium
- 274 mg
- 11%
Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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Most films save the daffy, high-spirited hijinks montage till midway through, once you've established enough of a connection to the characters to care whether or not they're happy. Frances Ha (Criterion DVD, Blu-ray, and streaming) opens with two young women cavorting carefree through the streets of New York in art-house black and white. It's a little bit sick-making, to be honest, a sugary demi-glace of Wes Anderson twee and Girls-style solipsistic privilege. But soon Sophie (Mickey Sumner) casually blindsides her roommate/ostensible BFF Frances (Greta Gerwig) by telling her that she's moving in with another woman—a relative stranger. In a nicer neighborhood. And at that point director/co-writer Noah Baumbach's magic starts to work.
At this late date, a platonic romcom crossed with a coming-of-age tale shouldn't have Frances Ha's freshness, its sparkle, its gimlet-eyed shrewdness about character, its genuine emotional wallop. Much of the fact that it does comes down to Gerwig. She jumped off the screen in the so-called mumblecore productions in which she got her start, but got no significant traction in the small roles in more polished productions she landed thereafter. But she and Baumbach, her romantic and creative partner, co-created this bespoke project, which features her in every frame and yet displays little vanity and no apparent guile.
Early in the film, you notice Frances' mannish trudge as she clomps around New York looking for a new cheap place to crash, post-Sophie. Later in the film, her friends make fun of her mannish trudge. It's just one small way in which the depth of Gerwig's characterization and the patience of the film's progress not only allow you to feel like you know her, you feel like you know people who know her, and you all know plenty of people like her: Though still young, she's getting a little old for shiftless couch surfing. Returning home to stay with her parents offers less solace than in past, Her youthful dreams of performing as a professional dancer are growing dimmer with each missed opportunity. And as she reels from what amounts to a break-up (Sophie is "the same person with different hair," Frances quips with increasing desperation), Gerwig telegraphs both the good soul and the cluelessness that led to her character's heartbreak, and which inform her struggle to finally figure out who she is by herself. And if that sounds cliché, then you'll be ever more pleasantly floored by the deeply funny and sweet film Gerwig and Baumbach deliver here.
Writer/director Andrew Bujalski also arose from the mumblecore scene (see also Funny Ha Ha), and while we're making much of coincidence here, he also shot his new film in black and white. Most significant of all, Computer Chess (Kino Lorber DVD and streaming) also holds a strong hand in character-based humor, though in a far less straightforward way than Frances Ha, for good and for ill.
Bujalski filmed his latest on a vintage Sony AVC-3260 camera, the cinematographic equivalent of one of those huge coke-dealer cell phones from the '80s. The ghostly vaporousness of the early videotape look will prove a madeleine for those old enough to remember when you needed a handcart to lug a "personal computer." Indeed, Computer Chess purports to be footage of an annual gathering of early programmers who come together in a suburban Californian motel conference room to pit their chess programs against each other. Between the vintage look, the vintage electronics, the vintage wardrobes, the fluent geekspeak, and the hippie-carryover singer/songwriter score by Collie Ryan, it's a retro nerdgasm. (Among other things, Computer Chess serves as a reminder that the early '80s were far closer to the '60s than makes sense now.)
Fledgling computer-scientist Peter (Patrick Reister) serves as de facto protagonist, but the motel is crowded with an ensemble of characters, including his uptight teammate Martin (Dazed and Confused's Wiley Wiggins, utterly unrecognizable) and his distracted professor and team leader Tom (Gordon Kindlmann); a couple (Chris Doubek and Cyndi Williams) taking part in a cultish "encounter weekend" at the hotel; a dork-hot "lady" computer scientist (Robin Schwartz); and Michael Papageorge (Myles Paige), a hilarious cross between Steve Jobs and Chevy Chase who stalks the hotel conference rooms and corridors in a three-piece suit and an Art Garfunkel 'fro. Complications ensue.
The period-perfect everything is a hoot, as is the slow-burn character comedy. (The contrast between the buttoned-down programmers and the libertine encounter-ers is measured out beautifully.) But Bujalski clearly has more on his mind than mere laughs, here and there turning different threads of the story to the complications of connecting and the divide between the thinking brain and the messy rest of us. Not everything scans, or works (for example, a late-in-the-going break into color puzzles more than seems worth it), but if nothing else Computer Chess dazzles with the host of new imaginative possibilities it presents for telling stories onscreen, even in an era when people are starting to make movies on their phones.
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The Republican's Debt and Deficit BlackmailTuesday, December 18th, 2012
Republicans have been using debt and deficit blackmail as a bargaining strategy since the days of Ronald Reagan.Reagan's brand of politics was successful at promoting the notion that federal government spending on social programs is mostly wasted on pointless handouts to lazy recipients. He carefully cultivated the impression that "government spending" meant "free money" for people who were nothing more than moochers. Sound familiar?
Ronald Reagan was swept into office on the same Republican fearmongering-propaganda that grips the country today…"spending is out of control, the country is going bankrupt and government is too big."
There is no denying Reagan inherited an economy that was in a deep recession, but his response to the debt crisis was far different than Republicans would have us believe.
Despite his "small government" rhetoric, Reagan expanded the federal government by 7%, employing a larger federal workforce (those greedy public employees) than any President in history other than Johnson who presided over the Vietnam War.
He did enact a huge tax cut, but then raised taxes eleven times; increased defense spending; ballooned the federal deficit to the largest peacetime deficit in history; raised the debt ceiling 17 times and accumulated a debt burden that equaled the previous 200 years of American history, turning the United States from a creditor nation into a debtor nation. For the first time in the history of the nation, the United States borrowed in order to cover federal budget deficits.
David Stockman, Reagan's economic wizard and the architect of the trickle-down budgets wrote:
"The Reagan deficits were intentional, designed to cut revenue as a way of pressuring Congress to cut programs Republicans wanted to destroy….The plan… was to have a strategic deficit that would give you an argument for cutting back the programs that weren't desired…."
The "small government" mantra and "debt and deficit" narrative continued after Reagan left office and another Republican, Bush (41) took the helm.
Daily News 1990: Legislators Say There's No Money.
During the tenure of these two Republicans, deregulation and imprudent real estate lending contributed to a Savings and Loan crisis and quite possibly the stock market crash. Between 1980 and 1994, more than 1600 banks were closed or received financial assistance from the FDIC. Over 1,000 banks with total assets of over $500 billion failed. The number of savings and loans declined from 3,234 to 1,645.Taxpayers assumed the bill for a $124 billion bailout, while corporate scandals and bankruptcies made matters worse. Enron represented the biggest corporate scandal in history, while Worldcom MCI filed the largest bankruptcy in history.
That was the economy Republicans left for Bill Clinton and they were singing the same song: "spending is out of control and the country is going bankrupt."
Americans blame GOP for budget mess
Buffalo News 1995
Then as now, Republicans focused solely on cutting the social safety net and entitlement programs. Remember welfare reform? Republicans take credit for Clinton's 1993 deficit-cutting package, but the truth is the balanced budget passed without a single GOP vote in either house of Congress. By the time Clinton left office, there was a surplus.Bush/Cheney inherited the Clinton budget surplus and immediately began turning it into a deficit.
Despite their opposition to entitlements, Republicans passed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 expanding the program (can't privatize it, figure other ways for private corporations to extract money from the program). After being debated and negotiated for several months, the bill finally came to a vote on a November morning at 3 am while America slept. Among other things, the bill prohibits the federal government from negotiating discounts with drug companies. Read the curious legislative history.
Bush launched wars with Iraq and Afghanistan and introduced tax-cuts that primarily benefited the rich. None of these expenditures were offset and they all were kept off the books, giving the illusion that the country was in a much stronger fiscal position than it was. Republicans admit under Bush they "spent like drunken sailors", but when the spending was taking place, not a single Republican rebelled. Remember, running up debt and deficits is a strategy.
Six weeks before President Obama was sworn in, the economy collapsed and the Republicans began their familiar chant…"spending is out of control and the country is going bankrupt."
Newly installed Governors cut the federal workforce; remember, Reagan ( the man Republicans credit with economic problem-solving) increased the federal workforce to one of the largest in history. They cut employee pay and pensions, while they delivered more tax cuts to the wealthy. They busted unions, destroying employees last firewall between workers and employers. All of these acts redistribute the treasury from the middle class and working poor to the wealthy.
It isn't ideology that drives the Republican insistence on spending cuts, it's a strategy. Think about it…the Republicans controlled the House, the Senate and the White House for four consecutive years. They could have fixed Medicare and Social Security, but for some reason, there's never a problem unless a Democrat is in the White House.Listen to how fervently they defend cuts to defense. Why? Afterall, defense workers are unionized public employees. Because there isn't a department that shifts more taxpayer money to the private sector than the Defense Department. There is no other federal vehicle that allows the wealthy to extract more money from the treasury, convert more taxpayer revenue to the private sector than the Defense Department.
Throughout history, since 1783, tax cuts for the wealthy and increased defense spending and union busting have increased the gap between the revenues and the expenditures. Shareholders and those on Wall Street have enjoyed inflated returns, while the wages for workers have taken a beating. It's a 21st century Gilded Age.
In the final analysis, the real targets are Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid; any program that supports the less fortunate. Republicans have a long-standing, deeply-held antipathy for both Social Security and Medicare. Not only did Reagan advocate that Social Security should be privatized, he was at the forefront of a coalition against Medicare with the same arguments we hear today.
How did the public ever buy the idea that Republicans are good stewards of the economy? Studies have been done comparing every phase of economic growth, during Democratic and Republican presidencies and congresses, and they all show stunningly better performance when Democrats are in power.
The trickle down miracle never worked because lower taxes don't generate more revenue, they generate deficits. It is a fact that is so mathematically basic, it borders on common sense.


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09-08-07, 10:09 AM #61Master OfficerVerified LEO
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Someone has a rude awakening in store, should they ever hit the street. Throwing push-button tackles on a video game or playing tag with a willing partner on a mat are a far cry from someone trying to gouge your eyeballs out on an asphalt roadway while they're grabbing at your holster.
This young man uses video out-takes of uniforms being made victims; domestic, foreign, and even security guards, who put themselves in compromising professional, then tactical disadvantages, relates that to a hasty generalization of POLICE training and conduct. In his little, linear window of the world, he shares the perception of many facets of the e-generation, and ignorant of statistical fact, he equates what he sees on the internet as his "global" reality.
For those of us on the street:
Ten years from now, the glory will be gone, the scars and aches will be real, and the memories what nightmares are made of. You'll often wonder why, but learn to avoid wondering what if...
Use this lesson, my shield-brothers (and sisters), this is what your public sees and thinks. Be mindful that to the human, perception is equivalent to reality. This is the boldness that society feels, and a cause of the aggressive posturing that we now so commonly face. And it appears to be getting worse.
Critique yourselves constantly. Remember positioning, tactics, peripheral awareness and vigilance. Re-acquaint yourselves with the 10 deadlies, and practice their avoidance. Read the eyes, but watch the hands.
Be diligent, professional, always exuding calm confidence, and be ever-watchful for the cues of impending violence. You are never legally bound to only react to acts of aggression, you must well-articulate the basis for your actions and reasonings behind your perception of a threat and the reasonable expectation of violence. Once committed, never relax until you are secure and alone among family again. Rule #1, always and in all ways.
You, my family are the legacy of the warrior. Your victory is for that which is right and just. Carry the banner proudly, wear the uniform with dignity and decency.
Wear your velvet gloves over an iron fist.
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
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That from the nunnery
Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind
To war and arms I fly. - Lovelace
The opinions expressed by this poster are wholly his own, and should never be construed to even remotely be in representation of his employer, its agencies or assigns. In fact, they probably fail to be in alignment with the opinions of any rational human being.
I think they should teach Tai Chi in Academies. That way we'd all look good in Slow Motion.To be born an Englishman, is to be a winner in the Lottery of Life.
I've Talked the Talk and I've Walked the Walk, now I Sit the Sit!
It's not until you look at an Ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day, that you realise just how often they burst into flames for no reason!
Someone may want to tell this young man one day that Billy Badass never made it to be an old man and judging books by their covers only ever proved you were too stupid to read.
09-09-07, 06:33 AM #65PeterJasonMN Guest
LOL ... that could be funny.
Wait until the OP finds out Cops carry Golden Saber, Ranger, Gold dot, Hydra-shok ammo in their handguns instead of....
"When I'm driving along and I see a sign that says, CAUTION: SMALL CHILDREN AHEAD,
I slow down, and then it occurs to me, I'm not afraid of small children"!
That was priceless!!!!
Car 4I would like my country back. I used to believe that one man could never destroy this country. Not so sure anymore!
One of my partners on the P.D. was taught Hwa Rang Do when he was in Spec. Ops. in Vietnam and it served him very well on the street
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Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer. --Al Bundy
10-31-07, 04:36 PM #71Badge212 Guest
The biggest problem is we're taught defensive skills and officer survival tactics once and maybe refreshing ourselves in the classroom once a year, but if you don't use what your taught regularly, you forget it. So thats probably what leads most officers to fight like you see on television because you just simply forget it over time. At least thats what my instructors have said.
That being said, I was trained in street survival (Ground fighting, fighting people with weapons such as knives, razors, etc), PPCT (Pressure Point Control Tactics) and a new one Homeland Security came out with, Controlled F.O.R.C.E.
Suffice to say I've used it just the other day to disarm a nut that came at me with a fork, and it works wonders. And once they feel that nerve being hammered on, they comply pretty quick with your commands.
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Are car keys a thing of the past?
The furor over General Motors' deadly ignition switch has the potential to doom the car key, a technology drivers have been using for 65 years. Full Story
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When you become a TAXI member you can submit your music to these opportunities. Our experts will carefully listen to, and pre-screen each song. The best and most appropriate are forwarded to the Record Label, Music Publisher, or Music Supervisor that requested the material. This is how our members get deals! These listings are updated on the 1st and 15th of every month, so check back often. Click here to have free updates of these listings emailed to you.
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Failing fast and failing often are traits I've noticed over and over among successful TAXI members. They keep swinging until they get it right and eventually smack the ball out of the park. Why am I telling you this?
I spoke with a TAXI member last week that wasn't all that happy with our service. I asked him how long he'd been a member. "Two years," he replied.
I asked him how many submissions he'd made during that time. "Five or six, I guess." A half dozen submissions in two years dozen exactly scream, "I'm working heard to make it in the music business," does it?
I asked him specifically why he was unhappy with our service. "Because I haven't gotten any deals or made any money through you guys."
I asked him how many songs he writes and records per week, month, or year. "A few," was all he said. "A few per week, per month, or per year," I asked.
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I could hear the tone of his voice go from somewhat angry to embarrassment. As soon as those words left his lips, even he knew what the problem was. He was so afraid to fail, that he rarely completed or pitched any new songs. If he expected to get professional results, he'd have to do what professionals do — work at it every day!
Sure, he's going to fail. He's going to fail over and over and over again. But if he learns a little bit from each failure, then he'll get better over time. So, doesn't it make sense that the faster he writes and records, the faster he'll fail, the faster he'll learn, and the more quickly he'll succeed?
If you strive for absolute perfection every time you write and/or record new material, you'll probably spend too much time on each song or track to fail quickly. You're just delaying your own success! Don't be afraid to fail quickly and fail often! Look at each failure as one step closer to becoming successful at what you love.
That's the common thread I see in so many of our most successful members. They don't fear failure — they embrace it!
Try this experiment. Give yourself one hour every night for a month to write and record something. I don't care if you write a bomb every single night! I don't care if you only do a guitar or piano/vocal demo each night. I don't care what you write about, or how poorly you might sing. Just do it, and don't leave the room until you've recorded it on something. A simple recording on your phone will even do the trick.
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Chutes and Ladders
The American Dream promises equality of opportunity. But decades-long studies of families show unequal prospects for rising above–or falling below–one's parents' station in life. Things are especially unchanging for those who grow up in the poorest fifth and the richest fifth of households. Forty percent of the children of parents in those groups remain in those groups as adults.
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Inequality Surges
Why is social mobility low? Rising income inequality is one explanation. The rich and the poor have grown further apart over the past 40 years.
As this occurred, other gaps have widened. Among the starkest is educational attainment. High-income children are much more likely to graduate from college than low-income children are–more so now than 30 years ago.
The wages of adult Americans with a college degree have risen steeply compared with those without one. Lacking a college degree makes it hard to get ahead.
The College Difference
A college degree dramatically improves have-nots' chances of reaching the middle– and upper–income brackets as adults. Armed with college degrees, half of children born into the lowest income bracket reach the middle quintile or higher.
Sources: Census Bureau; Pew Economic Mobility Project; University of Michigan professors Martha J. Bailey and Susan M. Dynarski
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