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Brave Lizzie battles prejudice to land dream job
Updated 4:50pm Thursday 23rd January 2014 in News By Joanna Davis
A YOUNG woman with a facial deformity is calling for people to change their attitudes after undergoing 19 job interviews without being offered a job.
Lizzie Court, 21, has eight GCSEs and three BTEC diplomas and has spent the seven months since she left Weymouth College applying for numerous jobs in travel and tourism and reception roles.
She turned to Abilities – a Weymouth charity which helps people with disabilities find work – and was offered and has accepted a reception desk job at the charity.
Lizzie, from Preston, said: I think some people may have been put off by my face but I can't say that for all the interviews.
"I have wanted to have a job for so long.
"When I heard that I had a job on the Abilities reception I was delighted."
Lizzie was born with Goldenhar Syndrome. She was born without a jaw, left eye and left ear.
The only learning difficulties Lizzie has stem from having half of the vision and hearing ability other people have.
Lizzie's mum Catherine, 61, said: "We understand that there is a big issue with youth unemployment at the moment but Lizzie has been for a lot of interviews."
Her dad David, 60, said: "She has got down to the final few for jobs so many times so there can't be anything wrong with her CV.
"It's a hard thing to say and I'm sure all these employers would defend it, but the sad reality is that there are issues of people discriminating."
Lizzie's parents say people approach her to look at her face when the family is dining in a restaurant or walking in the street.
Her dad David, 60, said: "The difficulties Lizzie has in her life are intolerance and ignorance.
"It's hard to believe what people like her go through. We've had people follow us around to look at Lizzie and come up to us to take a closer look without saying anything.
"It hurts me but it doesn't hurt Elizabeth – she deals with it tremendously.
"You don't expect people to still be having this kind of attitude today."
Katherine said: "If people were to say to her 'what's the matter with your face?', you can explain it and it's not hurtful."
Lizzie was born with a 49 degree curvature of the spine and wore a body cast 23 hours a day from the age of 18 months to 16.
She has had 15 operations and is due to have three more.
Her dad said: "Lizzie has experienced four seizures and had one while she was taking her GCSEs.
"She is an inspiring person and she has bounced back so quickly. It is unbelievable to think of the depression she has gone through trying to find a job."
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It's hard to imagine not having your family around if you are so inclined, and maybe hard if you have medical needs, but in larger cities there is more anonymity and less prejudice. If I had a job to give her I would do so, just for having the balls to stand in front of the camera and say give me a job.
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Very best wishes for the future.
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Greetings from London, GetReligion readers! My five days in the British capitol find me on the edge of my seat, per the huge news I keep reading in the easy-to-read-in-the-tube tabloids! So much seems to be happening! The families of delinquent children receiving £5,000 for misbehaving! Fathers receiving 6 months paternity leave! And the BBC asking for more British taxpayer money!
OK, so it's not that exciting over here, but it's certainly a change of pace from the staid Washington papers. I have noticed, in my completely unscientific poll of the London papers, an absence of religion coverage, but that's not saying that there isn't any.
Speaking of which, let's move onto more important things that don't include the newspaper headlines I've been reading.
One of our readers, Francis, found this article in the Times of London "interesting." On a first read, I also found it interesting and also completely frustrating because it reads as a hit piece by an authority who knows little about religion. The headline, "Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible," is enough to give anyone who knows anything about the Catholic Church heartburn. After that, the piece is all downhill:
The hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has published a teaching document instructing the faithful that some parts of the Bible are not actually true.
The Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland are warning their five million worshippers, as well as any others drawn to the study of scripture, that they should not expect "total accuracy" from the Bible.
"We should not expect to find in Scripture full scientific accuracy or complete historical precision," they say in The Gift of Scripture.
The document is timely, coming as it does amid the rise of the religious Right, in particular in the US.
I'm sure the Catholic bishops of England, Scotland and Wales were thinking of the rise of the evil religious right when they "warned" their parishioners that Catholics do not swear to the absolute truth of the Bible. And since when was a group of bishops from Great Britain "the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church"?
Sullivan weighs in, and is predictably caught up in the misleading nature of the article:
Of course. Anyone who believes that the world was literally created in six days a few thousand years ago is not expressing his or her "religious beliefs". Believing something that is demonstrably and empirically untrue is not religion. It is simply superstition or lunacy. It has nothing to do with faith in things we cannot know. The notion that it should actually be taught in public schools as science is beneath even debating.
I am not a Catholic, but I do know a thing or two about the Catholic Church, and one is that official Church doctrine has long rejected its traditional position regarding the absolute accuracy of the Holy Scriptures from a modern historical and scientific perspective. Then why is this paragraph in the article, referring to this somehow groundbreaking document?
The document shows how far the Catholic Church has come since the 17th century, when Galileo was condemned as a heretic for flouting a near-universal belief in the divine inspiration of the Bible by advocating the Copernican view of the solar system.
Right. From condemning Galileo to "some parts of the Bible are not actually true."
And while this is possibly an editing oversight, the end of the article contains a list of passages from the Old and New Testaments citing, as fact, those that are true and those that are untrue, but it fails to cite a source.
Jimmy Akin has a much thorough breakdown of the articles failures than I could ever provide (and delivers quite a smackdown, by the way), so I encourage you to read more here if you're interested. Here's a snippet:
Ooooooh! That's completely different, then! It ain't "the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church" but just the bishops of England, Wales, and Scotland that issued the document!
Gledhill must have been raised in a non-Euclidian universe where the fallacy of composition works, so that you can identify the part with the whole without fear of inaccuracy.
Things — including news reporting — must be so much simpler in Gledhill's universe of origin, what without having to worry about that pesky part/whole distinction.
Over there the Vatican has probably not bothered calling any ecumenical councils gathering all of the world's bishops to speak for the Church. They've just let the bishops of Great Britain issue all of the Church's official statements. Maybe the pope is even based in non-Euclidian England!
So why is this, along with the many other 32-point type headlined stories that I've read in the last few days, news to anyone? I guess you have to do something to sell newspapers these days, along with free DVD offers blasted across the upper folds. With these trends making their way across the Pond, I worry about the future of American journalism, though I wouldn't mind a tabloid size Post or Times for my morning yogurt and eggs, minus the big headlines of course.

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Some more on Fred, some of the time
Tennessee blogger Phil Ayres: An article this morning in the Wall Street Journal discusses the "Tennessee Mafia�: Baker, Alexander, Thompson, and Frist. Ted Welch has been instrumental in the successful political careers of all 4 of these men. However, the article goes on to discuss how Welch is already committed to Romney. Why? Because FRED HAS WAITED TO DAMN LONG.
No he hasn't. It's called free media, and Thompson is getting a ton of it. You can't buy this kind of exposure.
Case in point: But Mr. Thompson has some free media cards to play so long as he is a non-candidate. On May 4, he will travel to Orange County, California to speak at the prestigious Lincoln Club, the political dinner group that has traditionally hosted GOP presidential candidates in what is often called "Reagan Country." That same night, Mr. Thompson will join Jay Leno on his "Tonight Show" set for an interview that no doubt will touch on his presidential prospects.
But the ultimate in free media exposure will come later in May when HBO Films will offer repeat showings of a new movie, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee," based on the classic Dee Brown book depicting the 1890 massacre of Indians in South Dakota. The film features a prologue that depicts happier times in the 1870s when federal Indian policy was more enlightened. Key scenes take place in the Oval Office of President U.S. Grant, played by none other than Fred Thompson, on loan from his role as a prosecutor on NBC's "Law & Order."
Tennessee blogger A.C. Kleinheider: I don't see these things changing anytime soon. And as long as Fred keeps flirting, his shadow will continue to colour the race. It is not for certain he will run, but if he does, the announcement will not come soon. He will wait because it doesn't hurt him to wait.
Tennessee blogger Bob Krumm: I'm actually surprised that Fred didn't perform better among Tennessee GOP voters; I half expect that he could get 45% of the Democratic vote in the Volunteer State. Still, it's a good showing for someone who isn't even a candidate.
Another TN blogger on another issue with Fred: John Norris Brown: Read the whole entry. It's been causing quite a buzz in the blogosphere. But count me among those that aren't impressed. Thompson's claim that the Iranian people are not anti-Western is true, which makes his call for sanctions confusing. Who does Thompson think will be harmed more by such sanctions - Ahmadinejad and the mullahs, or the (often pro-Western) people of Iran? Who suffered more from the sanctions on Iraq, Saddam Hussein or the Iraqi people?
Also, Adam Groves has a Tennessee poll.
Apparently, Mr. Kleinheider wants to have it both ways.
Wasn't it just last week that he was saying that Fred wasn't going to run because it was too late, the early candidates had already locked up the money?
He seems to be singing a different song today. I wonder what changed?
Reading his full post, he makes it clear that it doesn't matter how late Fred enters, because it's already too late. Except he's no longer so sure that it's too late:
That is how Thompson enters. Not in two weeks, not in June, but in late August. From there it will be a dead four month and change sprint to New Hampshire.
More than enough time to for a media celebrity with insider connections to mount a successful campaign.
A successful campaign? Does this mean the contrarian has finally realized that it isn't just sycophants and boosters who want Fred to run, but a large number of conservatives who are clearly dissatisfied with the current field of candidates?
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Rick Ross probably envisioned his birthday to start off a bit differently.
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Geez, when the fuck is this guy going to learn to shut the fuck up? Unbelievable.
Guess what Jon? The vast majority of your fans will never know you on a personal level, let alone even meet you, so as MMA fans, they will come to their own conclusions about you from what is relayed to us through the media. When what comes to me seems to get more and more pathetic every time you open your mouth to the media, you lose more and more fans, and come across as pathetic, at least in my view.
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I am not going to say I embraced the role of being a villain because I am not, Jones told MMAWeekly.com recently. I am not a villain; I am not a bad person. I pride myself off of inspiring others. For all the people that think I am cocky, its like if you really listen to what I talk about, if you talk to me about fighting you may hear something that is a little arrogant because, right now, I train so hard to not even get hit, let alone talk about rousing a fight.
So it is like I love this sport so much, I own it to myself to think of myself in the highest regard, so I am not going to apologize if I am a little full of myself when it comes to MMA.
I am the nicest person ever to everyone who has ever met me, Jones said. Im the nicest person to people. Every day I walk into Jacksons gym and I hand out boxes of equipment. I order stuff all the time for my teammates and just give it out. I just give it to people. I am like the nicest person ever.
What this fake chicken fail to realize is that real nice people do not have to explain why they are nice. Real nice people do not say "I am nice".
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Local educators and community members had the opportunity to voice some of their concerns about the common education system in Oklahoma while meeting with a State Superintendent candidate on Monday.
Joy Hofmeister, a former member of the State Board of Education, held a campaign "meet and greet" event at Woodward High School.
Hofmeister resigned from the State Board of Education in April, citing her intentions to campaign for state superintendent and challenge incumbent Janet Barresi. She said Monday that she plans to run against Barresi in the Republican primary in June 2014.
Before discussing her goals for the future of education in Oklahoma should she be elected State Superintendent, Hofmeister talked a little bit about her background and experience in education. This included time as a classroom teacher in Texas right after she was first married and for the last 13 years she has owned and operated a Kumon Math & Reading Center in Tulsa, serving 745 students from 80 different schools to help them build skills in these essential learning areas.
She then served on the State Board of Education for 15 months.
During that time on the state school board, she said she observed "many missed opportunities," which led her to decide to try for a bid for the State Superintendent position.
She said these missed opportunities included everything from a rush to write rules before considering the impact on those who must follow them to not being able to answer educators' questions about those rules with consistency.
"Sometimes you see a problem and have the opportunity to do something about it, so you answer that call," Hofmeister said.
Hofmeister said she is running for State Superintendent with a 4-part vision for the state's common education system.
"We need students who are prepared, teachers who are appreciated, schools that are supported, and parents who are engaged," she said.
When it comes to preparing students, Hofmeister said sometimes "the politics need to be set aside and we need to put students first."
She said a good example of this is the requirement that students must past 4 of 7 End of Instruction (EOI) exams before they may earn their high school diploma.
While in general she agrees that "diplomas need to be meaningful to ensure our students are prepared," Hofmeister said there are some times you need to "put the focus on the student and not the policy."
For example, she discussed one student who was denied his diploma because he didn't pass the English II EOI. But as an English language learner who had only recently moved to the United States, and who had earned good grades and had been accepted to college, she felt the student should've been allowed to graduate with his peers. She felt that was what would've been best for that student even though it didn't follow policy.
But students aren't the only ones affected by the policies enacted by the State Department of Education.
"Everything we do lands on the desk of the teacher," Hofmeister said. "We pass it and they feel it."
That's why she feels it is important for the State Board of Education to consider the impact of policies on teachers and school administrators before approving them.
In addition, if the state wants to be able to attract more highly qualified, skilled and dedicated teachers, Hofmeister said the education system needs to start showing them more appreciation. It's already difficult enough to find teachers, the State Board of Education doesn't need to make it more difficult by creating more challenges for them.
For example, she said "to get people to do what is mandated, you need to communicate that in an effective way and not with rules that just lead to more questions."
She said this appreciation for teachers also needs to go one step further to also provide support for them and their school districts.
For Hofmeister, this includes supporting schools in being more autonomous.
"We need to unleash people to do what they need to do," she said, noting "I think it's important to have local control, because I believe the people in Woodward, or the people in Altus, or even the people in Tulsa know what's best for their students."
However, educators can only do so much, and when it comes to learning students also need guidance from their parents.
"As a mother, I think it's important to lead by example," Hofmeister said, noting that parental involvement, or lack thereof, can play a big role in a student's education.
So being able to engage parents and have them participate in the education system will be an important piece of the puzzle in creating a cohesive educational environment for Oklahoma's youth.
Hofmeister also seeks to engage community members, which is why she asked audience members on Monday to share some of their questions and concerns.
The major issues expressed were concerns over the citizenship readiness of students after they graduate and too much focus on testing over actual learning.
Local businessman Max Benbrook expressed dismay on the number of recent graduates who come looking for work but have no real sense of work ethic.
While he agrees that this is something that should be taught at home, he understands that in many cases it isn't and feels that schools provide the "only place where that need can be filled" to help prepare students for the workforce.
"The curriculum needs to support the things that actually make our society function on a day to day basis," Benbrook said.
Barclay Holt, assistant superintendent for High Plains Technology Center, seemed to agree that there should be more focus on helping students develop useful skills.
"It's not going to be a science or math fix," Holt said, noting "the state continues to buy in that we need more science and math classes, yet they cut funding for vocational schools that actually teach students what the difference between a fourth and a half of a cup is or make them learn responsibility through caring for animals."
While educators agree that the goal of education should be to prepare students for life after school, they say the problem is that current and upcoming mandates place too much emphasis on getting high test scores.
"There's pressure to build good test takers," Woodward Superintendent Tim Merchant said, noting since tests will determine whether students move on to the next grade and graduate "it's all about making sure they do well on a test and not whether they have appropriate skills. And until that pressure is lightened or taken off, there's going to be a discount on building citizenship skills."
JoLynn Love, an English teacher at Woodward High School, and Bob Beatley, an art teacher in Mooreland Public Schools, both discussed how soon 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation will be based strictly on how well their students perform on certain tests. That means whether or not a teacher keeps his or her job will depend highly on how well students perform on the tests.
"If you think I'm going to teach character skills, I don't have the time, not when my job depends on me teaching for a test," Love said.
She said the problem is that the accountability is placed entirely on the teacher and not on the students themselves, because there are some students who just don't want to put forth the effort.
She compared it to as if society judged dentists based on how many cavities their patients had.
"A dentist can tell her patients over and over again not to eat sweets. She can give them toothpaste and floss, but there's nothing she can do once that patient leaves her office," Love said.
This is like a teacher giving a student homework and then blaming the teacher when the student refuses to do that homework, she said.
Hofmeister didn't respond directly to all these concerns, but did thank the audience members for their comments.
"I want to hear your frustrations," she said.
Because, she said, she views the State Superintendent position as one of "public service" where she would be an "advocate" those she serves, including both students and educators.
And in order to serve them properly, she feels she must communicate with those involved to identify problems and then collaborate with them to resolve those problems.
If things are going to change for Oklahoma's education system, Hofmeister said, "we need to develop an overall culture of trust and respect so that we foster collaboration and communication."


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Star appeal: None. This is a reality show with no host.
When does it air? The pilot episode airs Friday February 28 at 7 p.m. on TNT
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It's always been difficult to describe Big Ears, the odd festival of offbeat, avant-garde, and experimental music that AC Entertainment is reviving this spring after a three-year layoff. (Sometimes I'm inclined to describe it as "music that Ashley Capps likes.") New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff seems to have nailed it in the paper's Jan. 1 issue, when the Times' critics named their picks for the most anticipated events and products of the year.
"It's an extraordinary music festival in Knoxville, Tenn., drawing and serving the intersections among classical minimalism; detail-oriented indie-rock; experimental electronics and improvisation; drone-based or ambient music; and complete wild-hair whatever," Ratliff wrote.
Ratliff, who attended the festival in 2009 and '10, praised the previous events ("I was amazed to see challenging music take over a relaxed, midsize city, presented with attention to sound and comfort—in renovated historic theaters, a museum, a large club and a cheery warehouse district dive") and recommended this year's edition, with good advice on how to approach the range of music presented, which always makes intuitive sense but sometimes defies easy classification:
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WASHINGTON The Bush administration and Congressional leaders moved closer to agreement on a historic $700 billion bailout for financial firms on Monday, including tight oversight of the program and new efforts to help homeowners at risk of foreclosure.
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But lawmakers in both parties voiced anger over the steep cost and even skepticism about the plans chances of success.
As heated debate began on Capitol Hill, Congress and the administration remained at odds over the demands of some lawmakers, including limits on the pay of top executives whose firms seek help, and new authority to allow bankruptcy judges to reduce mortgage payments for borrowers facing foreclosure.
Congressional leaders and Treasury officials also said they were close to an agreement over a proposal by some Democrats in which taxpayers could receive an ownership stake, in the form of warrants to buy stock, from firms seeking to sell distressed debt.
Lawmakers want to require an equity stake, while the administration wants flexibility on that matter, a Treasury official said.
Despite the progress, the rancor in Congress ratcheted up the pressure on Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, the architects of the proposal to let financial institutions, including some foreign firms, pass their most distressed assets to the United States Treasury.
Both are scheduled to testify before the Senate banking committee on Tuesday morning, where they must now sell the bailout plan to dubious lawmakers and to an increasingly angry public. They will also appear before the House Financial Services committee on Wednesday afternoon.
I am concerned that Treasurys proposal is neither workable nor comprehensive despite its enormous price tag, Senator Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, the senior Republican on the banking committee, said in a statement. It would be foolish to waste massive sums of taxpayer funds testing an idea that has been hastily crafted.
While Congressional leaders in both chambers said they were confident that they could reach a quick deal, it was also clear that Mr. Paulson and Mr. Bernanke would face rough questioning and that initial support for the bailout had begun to fray. Some Democrats said they simply did not trust the president, and drew a parallel to Mr. Bushs request for authority to wage war in Iraq.
Some conservative Republicans also expressed outrage, echoing scornful comments by Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, and Lou Dobbs, the CNN anchor, among other right-leaning critics.
Treasury officials brushed off the protests from influential Republicans like Mr. Shelby and said they were confident that Republican leaders could bring their members along. We are making progress and have confidence that a plan will pass by the end of this week, said Michele Davis, a spokeswoman for Mr. Paulson.
The financial markets, however, reacted badly to the wrangling in Washington, with the Dow Jones industrial average tumbling 372 points.
President Bush urged Congress on Monday to act fast. Americans are watching to see if Democrats and Republicans, the Congress and the White House, can come together to solve this problem with the urgency it warrants, he said in a statement. The whole world is watching to see if we can act quickly to shore up our markets.
The majority leader, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, said Democrats were prepared to do so. Democrats in the Senate arent going to drag our feet, he said in a speech on the Senate floor. Well respond with the urgency of action that this situation demands, but after eight years of fiscal dereliction of duty, its time for accountability.
Should we resolve the issue in one day? he asked. I think not.
Republican leaders who support the administrations plan warned the Democrats on Monday to exercise restraint and not slow the bailout package, even as they prepared for an aggressive internal campaign to rally Republican support.
When theres a fire in your kitchen threatening to burn down your home, you dont want someone stopping the firefighters on the way and demanding they hand out smoke detectors first or lecturing you about the hazards of keeping paint in the basement, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, said in a speech on the Senate floor. You want them to put out the fire before it burns down your home and everything youve saved for your whole life.
Mr. McConnell added: The same is true of our current economic situation. We know that there is a serious threat to our economy, and we know that we must take action to try and head off a serious blow to Main Street.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, after a meeting with party leaders on Monday evening, said she, too, remained committed to getting a bill to the president as quickly as possible.
But powerful lawmakers in both parties said they would not be rushed into granting Mr. Bushs request.
I walked down LaSalle Street on Friday, a great street in Chicago lined with banks and big office buildings, said Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat. A lot of people came up and said hi. But a lot of them came up and said: Are you really going to do this? $700 billion bailing out the banks? And I said: I dont know. At the end of the day, I just dont know.
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Mr. Durbin, in a speech on the Senate floor, angrily recalled that the administration had similarly requested swift approval of its plan to attack Iraq. Just as we should have asked more questions about weapons of mass destruction six years ago before we found ourselves in this war, Mr. Durbin said, we need to ask questions today about where this is leading.
Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California who leads the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said: The taxpayer is being asked to risk billions to protect the bonuses of investment bankers.
The skepticism was equally palpable at the other end of the ideological spectrum.
This is going way too fast, said Representative Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana and a conservative leader who said constituents he met this weekend were flabbergasted at the plan. The American people dont want Congress to make haste with the financial recovery legislation; they want us to make sense.
And Mr. Shelby, of the banking committee, said: Congress must immediately undertake a comprehensive, public examination of the problem and alternative solutions rather than swiftly pass the current plan with minimal changes or discussion. We owe the American taxpayer no less.
Mr. Gingrich, the former House speaker, said he expected Republican lawmakers to oppose the plan in increasing numbers. I think this is going to be a much bigger fight than he expected, Mr. Gingrich said, referring to President Bush.
In a sign of how complicated the negotiations over specific provisions of the bailout could become, Senator Mel Martinez, Republican of Florida, and a member of the banking committee, said that he would strongly support limiting the pay of executives whose firms seek government aid. But Mr. Martinez said he would oppose any effort to change the bankruptcy laws.
In his prepared testimony, Mr. Paulson sought to underscore the huge risks to everyday Americans. The market turmoil we are experiencing today poses great risk to U.S. taxpayers, Mr. Paulson plans to testify. When the financial system doesnt work as it should, Americans personal savings, and the ability of consumers and business to finance spending, investment and job creation are threatened.
Mr. Bernanke, in his remarks, will implore the Congress to act. Despite the efforts of the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and other agencies, global financial markets remain under extraordinary stress, he says in his remarks. Action by the Congress is urgently required to stabilize the situation and avert what otherwise could be very serious consequences for our financial markets and for our economy.
Early on Monday, Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, and chairman of the banking committee, introduced a 44-page draft bill that his staff pulled together on Sunday incorporating many priorities of Senate Democrats a hefty counterproposal to the administrations initial three page proposal.
Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, and chairman of the Financial Services Committee, who had already submitted a series of demands to the Treasury, worked Monday to revise his version of the legislation to reflect various agreements with the administration on oversight and other issues.
Officials said that the administration was also prepared to adopt conflict-of-interest rules for any private firms that are hired to help the Treasury manage the bailout program. Some lawmakers were worried that such firms might also own assets that could grow in value depending on how the rescue plan was run.
Officials said there was also a deal to mandate that the government develop a plan to prevent foreclosures by renegotiating any mortgages that it purchases.
Because the markets are eager for a final deal and because Congress is trying to adjourn for the fall elections, lawmakers are bypassing the normal committee process and working toward an agreement in hopes of votes in both chambers within days.
And some lawmakers said it could be done. We are convinced that inaction could be a disaster, said Senator Robert Bennett, Republican of Utah. We dont believe that inaction is an option, so therefore we are going to do whatever we can to make sure that the action that is taken is as responsible and well thought-out as possible.
I am against this. I don't trust the people who wrote the bill and I don't trust what these corporations will do with this money with no oversite. Plus I think that in the long run this will hurt the US a lot more. Think of the inflation. It's like giving money to the rich and taking from the poor.
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It's so worth it dude! I printed them off on photo paper and laminated them (so I can put them in the dishwasher periodically).
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I'd hit is so hard... Well, let's just say SpaceGuard would pick me up eight years in advance. Nations would be evacuated, and underground shelters would be built. Movies would be made about it, and scientists would theorize and debate about the nuances of it - whether the damage would be limited or extensive.
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Against it.
I pay my fcuk bills. I'm careful not to overextend myself. I don't buy crap I can't afford.
I don't think I should have to pay for the mistakes of people who are too stupid to do the same.
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i agree, i own my 3rd home, and because of this issue, i lost 60K on my last house...it is bull crap, i will pay the trillion dollars with my taxes...
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Pablo Hunny wrote:
because of this issue, i lost 60K on my last house...
Good God. Sorry to hear that...
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hey me too...but i hope to gain that back with this house...
sadly i just had to cut my loses for the business
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Could have been worse, I guess.
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We're looking for somewhere to post up our Black asses for the night. So, uh, bang bang, skeet skeet, nigga. Just a couple of pimps, no hos.
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Against it.
I pay my fcuk bills. I'm careful not to overextend myself. I don't buy crap I can't afford.
I don't think I should have to pay for the mistakes of people who are too stupid to do the same.
I also agree. God knows I don't already pay a crap ton into taxes as it is for both federal and state, but now they expect me to foot the bill now that someone fcuk up. I hope the government remembers this the next time I don't pay my taxes. I will try to have them reimburse me at other taxpayer's expense.
Plus I fail to see how this will save the problem. If you take the pyro out of a buring house, stick him in a new one
hand him a pack of matches, what to expect him to do? Redecorate the goddamned place?
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I think the whole situation boils down to people not knowing what they were getting into, companies taking advantage of that, and in the end, we are going to have to pony up the dough to bail out all these huge companies......
I think its crap, and Im totally against it.
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the government is all worried about the economy thats why there is a bail out.
Bail out the american people
Im against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG. Instead, Im in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend. To make the math simple, lets assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.. So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00. My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It
Dividend. Of course, it would NOT be tax free. So lets assume a tax rate of 30%. Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam. But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A husband and wife has $595,000.00. What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family? Pay off your mortgage housing crisis solved. Repay college loans what a great boost to new grads Put away money for college itll be
there Save in a bank create money to loan to
entrepreneurs. Buy a new car create jobs Invest in the market capital drives growth Pay for your parents medical insurance health care improves Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean or else Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed
Forces. If were going to re-distribute wealth lets
really do it...instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( to buy our vote ) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President. If were going to do an $85 billion bailout, lets bail out every adult US Citizen 18+! As for AIG liquidate it. Sell off its
parts. Let American General go back to being American General. Sell off the real estate. Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up. Heres my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesnt. Sure its a crazy idea that can never work. But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party! How do you spell Economic
Boom? I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion We Deserve It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC . And remember, The Birk plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.
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reading that made me sick to my stomach, we are getting fcuk...paying to bail out a company that fcuk up...if i fcuk up my business i am opening right now, the government wont do crap for me...bush said he is all for free enterprise, i call bull crap, he is all about making a buck for himself long term...
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Pablo I agree. It all makes me sick to my stomach and not only Bush but all our politicians (Obama & McCain grossly) profited from this crap and now we taxpayers have to clean up the mess.
If there was a better country I'd be living there.
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Well, great job everyone.
We forgot to buy Matt Geiger's house. The former member of the Miami Heat, Charlotte Hornets and Philadelphia 76ers put his house up for sale four years ago and we totally spaced on it.
The house, which had the asking price of $20 million, was sold for only $8 million through Engel & Völkers Clearwater Realty. EIGHTY PERCENT OFF! And we blew it!
The property is 28 acres and has an artificial lake stocked with 2,500 bass. On top of that, there's a 330,000 gallon swimming pool with a rock-diving cliff. Oh yeah, and there's a shark tank.
As for the actual house, it is 28,000 square feet with six bedrooms and eight bathrooms. Inside, there are multiple bars, a gym, a DJ booth (obviously for when Rony Seikaly comes over), a movie theater, some hot tubs, a pizza oven, a wine cellar and a cigar room. The property also has a putting green, a tennis court and a volleyball court.
And I haven't even mentioned the styling of the house. Since it was made for an NBA player, everything is larger. Doorways, bathrooms, etc are all larger than the average house's. The interior is eloquent and palatial, featuring rich browns and other warm colors, along with fantastic wood furnishings.
And if that's not enough, there's a 5,000 square foot guest house too!
Too bad his farm wasn't included in the sale; he once had a herd of 12 buffalo, 11 Watusi cattle, two donkeys, a miniature horse and a cow. Geiger also had 40 televisions in the house at one point, with 18 of them being hooked up to Xboxes.
You need more convincing? The house is also part of movie history! Yes, The Punisher had some scenes shot here! Talk about a great movie! — And then you can talk about The Punisher!
But it's too late. Someone else snatched it up while we just sat on our hands.
Can we still buy Dr. J's house?
(Sources: Business Insider, Engel & Völkers, Tampabay.com)
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This is the first in a four-part series about homelessness in Fairfax County. Links to additional parts of this series are at the bottom of this article.
Thomas calls it a peaceful place.
Thomas (not his real name) is 44 years old. He moved to southern Fairfax County two years ago from Fredricksburg to live with his sister. A former drug dealer, he now works five nights a week as a restaurant cook but doesn't earn enough to make ends meet. Still, he sensed the time had come to head out on his own.
"I don't want to put that burden on my sister," Thomas says. "I'm a grown man, so I've got to stand up for myself."
Standing up for himself landed him at the Ventures in Community Hypothermia Outreach Program shelter, or VIC-HOP. Coordinated by with support from Fairfax County, VIC-HOP is staffed largely by volunteers from Ventures in Community, a ecumenical group of faith communities in Mount Vernon and surrounding areas. Housed at on Russell Road, VIC-HOP provides free shelter and dinner to up to 25 adults Dec. 1 through March 31 every year.
This quiet corner of the world is where Thomas sleeps on his nights off. He's saving money for a place to live.
"I don't dwell too much on the past," he says. "That's what gets a lot of us in trouble — dwelling on the past, and, 'what if,' and 'if I would have did this and I would have did that.' … I think about it, but I don't let it get to me."
Dinner and a Rubber Mat
It's 6 p.m. on a Friday at VIC-HOP. A few men sit patiently in the church foyer, waiting for the 7 p.m. check-in. VIC-HOP Volunteer Coordinator Sherry Edelkamp greets the night's volunteers, a group from Heritage Presbyterian Church on Fort Hunt Road.
A homeless woman helps out Edelkamp by spraying 25 thin rubber mats with Lysol. The sleeping bags, freshly laundered at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, are piled in the office.
The volunteers quickly set to heating up dinner, which the women cooked at home earlier in the day. Tonight, the volunteers and the homeless — the "guests," they're called — will dine on meatloaf with gravy, mashed potatoes, green peas and eclair cake.
The kitchen resounds with the rattling of pans and the opening and closing of oven doors. One volunteer, Jenny Kennedy, brags about how well the mashed potatoes turned out. Many of the recipes they cook for the shelter come from the church cookbook, Kennedy says.
"In the book it will say, 'Oh, I make this for VIC-HOP,' because we each have our specialties," she says.
The volunteers set the tables with plastic silverware and napkins, placing salt and pepper shakers and plates of cheesy garlic bread at each table. Edelkamp leads the church members and the initial seven guests in prayer: Thanks to God for bringing people together, thanks to God for the food and the volunteers, and an appeal to God to keep safe those on the streets tonight.
Men and women — black, white, Hispanic — eat while a small television plays a serial crime drama. More guests arrive, coming indoors from the rainy night.
The rules at VIC-HOP are simple: no alcohol or drugs on the property, no weapons, no fighting or disruptive behavior, no stealing and no panhandling. "It's kind of just the bare minimum rules (for) people who don't want to follow a lot of rules, but they still feel they have a safe place to come in the wintertime and not be out in the woods," Edelkamp explains.
VIC-HOP began in February 2006, after community leaders joined together to provide emergency shelter following the deaths of several homeless people in the Route 1 corridor. Guests may come anytime during the night, although space is limited to 25. Extras are driven to New Hope Housing's Eleanor U. Kennedy Shelter at Fort Belvoir.
Most nights, it's a uneventful place, Edelkamp says. "We're like a family here. They all keep each other in check."
Edelkamp will stay for three hours. After that, volunteers are in charge until morning. They serve in groups of three or four, sleeping in shifts in the church office with two people awake at all times.
VIC-HOP has housed 93 people to date this winter, less than last year, but the shelter will operate through the end of March. Seventeen different churches are sending volunteers to VIC-HOP this year.
A 'Lot of Stress'
After dinner, some guests take to their mats to sleep. Others lie quietly and stare at nothing in particular. One woman empties and organizes a large bag, a routine she performs nightly. Other guests lounge in the dining area and watch television — Law & Order and Criminal Minds are favorites — or chat with one another.
There's June (not her real name), who has been staying at VIC-HOP off and on since December. June, 56, sleeps in her car when the weather is warmer.
Well-dressed, wearing jewelry and a blue hat, June explains that homelessness is new to her. She helped operate a family business for 18 years, but when her mother died, she lost her income, the business and almost everything else.
She doesn't drink alcohol, June stresses. She doesn't use drugs. She keeps healthy with proper nutrition and plenty of fluids. Stress alone, she says, will drain your energy.
"It's a lot of stress," she says. "It's embarrassing. It's humiliating."
At VIC-HOP, June says, there's little drama. During the day, she searches for part-time work at the local library or stops by the county's drop-in clinic at the , located behind where she can take a shower. She believes her age is working against her in finding a job.
"It's hard," she says. "It's hard. It's a continuing hardship. You have the struggle to see the light at the end of the tunnel."
Anthony Blake, 43, sits at an adjacent table. He's been at VIC-HOP since December. Before that, he lived outside, sleeping in laundromats. Blake explains he's homeless by choice: He could stay with his sister in Maryland, or he could stay with his mother in Woodbridge, but without transportation there, he says it's no better than jail.
"You're not really homeless, Tony," another guest yells to him. "You can go home anytime you want."
Blake prefers VIC-HOP. During the day, he sits in a local bus shelter, drinks beer and reads The Washington Examiner. He pretends he's drinking a mojito at the beach.
Blake doesn't know what he'll do when VIC-HOP ends its season March 31. "(I'll go) wherever Jesus, God takes me," he says. "We're not even guaranteed tomorrow, so I'm not worried about the end of March."
The Volunteer Night-Shift
It's the beginning of the month, and Edelkamp expects fewer guests because several receive Social Security disability checks and pay for a few nights at local motels. When the lights go out at 11:30 p.m., 16 people are sleeping on rubber mats.
Four volunteers from Heritage Presbyterian are spending the night. They swap stories about people they've met at the shelter or talk about church. Volunteer Gary Larson, who is retired from both the military and from working in local schools, where he taught math, always checks the guest sign-in sheet for the names of former students.
"They have to have someone to watch over them. I have plenty of time, and I enjoy it," he says. He's never received any trouble from the guests. "They're very personable. I mean, they've got their problems, and somebody's going to have to help them."
Volunteer Chris Geren says volunteering at VIC-HOP is the least she can do to give back to the community.
"I'm a Christian, a believer in Jesus Christ, and I've had so many blessings, it's a sin for me not to give back," she says. "I enjoy it. It gives me joy, and peace, and there are so many great people in the world, literally, 'but for the grace of God go I,' and they're our fellow brothers and sisters, and it's just our responsibility."
The rain has stopped. It's a fairly warm night for early March, and the temperature falls to only 46 degrees overnight.
Early Wake-up
Wake-up comes early. The guests turn their sleeping bags in to the volunteers, who roll up the mats and stow them away for the next night. Coffee brews, and the volunteers set out slices of breakfast danish and cartons of juice.
June is drinking coffee. Today, she plans to check her email for jobs. She'll be back at VIC-HOP that night, she says. She likes the people.
"Empathy, sympathy toward the homeless, makes a big difference as far as the attitudes of everyone involved, the staff and volunteers," June says. "You have to have compassion to understand. You might have never lived homeless, but you have to have the compassion."
The volunteers hand each guest a plastic bag with snacks to eat now or save for later. They pack a few bags and a bin of supplies, and their work here is done. At 7 a.m., everyone is out into the dreary, drizzly morning. The volunteers head home. The guests take to the streets.
Anyone seeking information about volunteering at VIC-HOP may email Sherry Edelkamp at firstname.lastname@example.com.
About This Series
Homelessness is a serious problem for many in Fairfax County, especially because housing is so expensive here. This series will introduce you to some of the more than 1,500 people in Fairfax County who have experienced homelessness recently as well as the people trying to help them.
Part 1: (Monday, March 12)
Part 2: (Tuesday, March 13) and related video:
Part 3: (Wednesday, March 14) and related video:
Part 4: 'I'm not Called to Pastor a Middle-Class Church' (Thursday, March 15) and related video: Meet the Rev. Keary Kincannon