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Don't be a blueprint. Be an original. (Roy Acuff)
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. (Konrad Adenauer)
No bird has ever uttered note / That was not in some first bird's throat; / Since Eden's freshness and man's fall / No rose has been original (Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
Often the most unique, compelling work comes not from a concept or an idea but from a deep, wordless place inside the artist. (Juliette Aristides)
Creativity in living is not without its attendant difficulties, for peculiarity breeds contempt. And the unfortunate thing about being ahead of your time when people finally realize you were right, they'll say it was obvious all along. (Alan Ashley-Pitt)
Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do. (Darby Bannard)
Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.' (Darby Bannard)
Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook. (Darby Bannard)
If you want to be one of the first into a new territory, you cannot wait for large amounts of evidence. (Joel Barker)
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. (Charles Baudelaire)
Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision... by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences... molds something distinctly personal. (Romare Bearden)
All has not been said and never will be. (Samuel Beckett)
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. (Henry Ward Beecher)
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. (Tony Bennett)
Be yourself. The world worships the original. (Ingrid Bergman)
Every individual has the potential to be original. (Yogi Bhajan)
There is no one just like you, and there never will be anyone just like you, so there's no reason not to be original. (Sergei Bongart)
U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. (Bono)
'Authentic' is derived from the Greek authentikos, which means 'original.' And unfortunately, there's no recipe for originality. Each brand must build its own primary source code for the authentic. (Bill Breen)
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. (Robert Bresson)
Nowadays, all a man can do to be original is to cite the earliest known quote on that subject. Women, though, have no problem being original. In fact, women are always being original. I constantly have to tell my wife to stop talking so much nonsense. (Benson Bruno)
-photographer, 1874...I believe that... my first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming to something which, to my eye, was very beautiful, I stopped there instead of screwing on the lens to the more definite focus which all other photographers insist upon... (Julia Margaret Cameron)
When we refuse to conform and use all our strength, we can express opinions that others will have never been able to conceive and surprise the constipated minds that take everything for granted. (Vittorio Canta)
Originality is a thing we constantly clamor for, and constantly quarrel with. (Thomas Carlyle)
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest. (Paul Cezanne)
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator. (Paul Cezanne)
Only those with no memory insist on their originality. (Coco Chanel)
Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original. (John Cleese)
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. (Jean Cocteau)
What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. (Leonard Cohen)
Originality comes from just being true to ourselves and what we value about what we see. (Melinda Collins)
Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions. (Thomas Couture)
There's a certain subtle pressure – even when you think you've put it behind you – toward the original, the unique, the novel and the new. It's easy to confuse this with authentic creativity. (Warren Criswell)
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. (Salvador Dali)
All art is derivative. There is no form of art that is totally original... 'originality' is a modern art construct... a silly concession to marketing concerns. (Paul deMarrais)
The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd. (R. S. Donnell)
I would like to make something that is real in itself, that does not remind anyone of any other things, and that does not have to be explained like the letter A, for instance. (Arthur Dove)
Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path... (Max Ehrmann)
Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art. (Paterson Ewen)
Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float. (Martin Fischer)
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
If you are like most people, then, like most people, you don't know you're like most people. (Daniel T. Gilbert)
The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Everything clever has been thought of before. We must try to think again. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can take on an untrammeled life of its own. Labored self-involvement, contrivance, ulterior motives, even the extraordinary facility that one may have, must be let go. (Josh Goldberg)
What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality. (Samuel Goldwyn)
You must study the Masters but guard the original style that beats within your soul and put to sword those who would try to steal it. (El Greco)
All profoundly original work looks ugly at first. (Clement Greenberg)
Art is about presenting the possibility of a different way of thinking. (Josephine Le Grice)
-oxymoronica...We come up with what seems like a genuinely original thought... But then we discover that someone else beat us to the punch... years, even centuries, before... It's a little deflating at first, but ultimately pretty satisfying to discover that we have briefly been on the same wavelength with some of the world's finest thinkers. (Dr. Mardy Grothe)
It would be as natural for a full-grown tiger to mew as for a man released from the slavery of imitations ever to go back to his neighbor again with 'What do you think of this? What do you advise about that?' (Henry S. Haskins)
It is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better. (Friedrich August von Hayek)
Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do. (Robert Henri)
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. (Thomas Wentworth Higginson)
In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time. (David Hockney)
Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. (Eric Hoffer)
Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented. (Eric Hoffer)
If you want to create an original piece of art, your paintings should suit your temperament and be true to you. (Amanda Hyatt)
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. (William Ralph Inge)
The most important thing an artist can do is confront society with something it has never seen before, something in a sense improper. (Arata Isozaki)
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes. (Billy Joel)
Originality is the art of concealing your source. (Franklin P. Jones)
Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable. (Asger Jorn)
-on upcoming show, The Digital Artistry of Don Lambert, 2012...It's certainly going to be different from what people have seen before. (Don Lambert)
There is no such thing as a completely original technique or subject. (Don Lambert)
No man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth, without caring twopence how often it has been told before, you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. (C. S. Lewis)
But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound. (Jennifer Lopez)
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. (James Russell Lowell)
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. (Archibald MacLeish)
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also, you will have betrayed your community in failing to make your contribution. (Rollo May)
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. The pressure of ideas would simply drive it frantic. (H. L. Mencken)
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. (John Stuart Mill)
It does not matter how badly you paint, just so long as you don't paint badly like other people. (George Edward Moore)
I really do not aim at any originality. (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own. (Alfred de Musset)
Originality really means... the ability to mix up various elements and come up with something new. When you take it apart you realize none of the elements are really new, but the end product is. (Margarete Nagarkar)
The businessman says, 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says, 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.' (LeRoy Neiman)
The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary thrill, dependent upon no one else. (Mary Carroll Nelson)
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
It is the subject matter that must be treated in an, if not striking then, original manner. Don't be pigeonholed by your own format. (Alex Nodopaka)
I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me... shapes and ideas so near to me... so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down... (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Knowledge and skills, once acquired, practiced and mastered, have to be laid aside and stored in the unconscious. Then the informed artist can be free to create truly original paintings. (Hilary Page)
The more originality you have in yourself, the more you see in others. (Blaise Pascal)
A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable. (Walter Pater)
To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them. (Edgar A. Payne)
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. (Laurence J. Peter)
What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements. (Pablo Picasso)
A young artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work. (Pablo Picasso)
No idea is completely original, but if it is too divergent the artist has the bigger job of educating his audience to enjoying the works of true originality. (Sally Pollard)
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. (Beatrix Potter)
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. (Ezra Pound)
Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists. (Marcel Proust)
Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same. (Robert Rauschenberg)
My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible. (Odilon Redon)
A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike. (Al Ries)
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. (Sir Ken Robinson)
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with something original. (Sir Ken Robinson)
I invent nothing. I rediscover. (Auguste Rodin)
It is better to be good than to be original. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. (Don Miguel Ruiz)
The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man. (Albert Pinkham Ryder)
The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before. (David Salle)
Originality depends on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. (Georges Seurat)
All art is based on non-conformity. (Ben Shahn)
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. (George Bernard Shaw)
Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't. (Eli Siegel)
Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way. (John Sloan)
Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it. (John Sloan)
Love art, love yourself, do what you have to do and what only you can do. Utter honesty is the only path to originality. (Roberta Smith)
Since there are only a few original people in the world, there is more uniformity than one might expect, in view of the large number who think they have something to say. (Leo Stein)
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. (James Stephens, author)
It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur. (Wallace Stevens)
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms. (Anthony Storr)
All original art is self-regulated; and no original art can be regulated from without. It carries its own counterpoise and does not receive it from elsewhere - lives on its own blood. (Hippolyte Taine)
Nothing is said that has not been said before. (Publius Terentius Afer, Terence)
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength. (Leo Tolstoy)
Your decision to be, have and do something out of the ordinary entails facing difficulties and challenges that are out of the ordinary as well. (Brian Tracy)
What a good thing Adam had – when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. (Mark Twain)
In the visual arts, originality can be a very ambiguous word. (Chris Tyrell)
The existence of originality, it seems, is as threatened as many plants and animals. Originality is becoming an endangered achievement. (Chris Tyrell)
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. (Voltaire)
Original art is the World's Most Powerful Currency. (Milos Vujasinovic)
It is essential for each of us to strive to retain originality and to maintain our identity as human beings. (Thomas J. Watson, Jr.)
The world doesn't necessarily need another pretty picture. But what the world sorely needs is a sense of how things might be put together, that hither to have not been put together. (Frank Webb)
Original art that is created is like a flower, every Spring new and every time a little different. (Kevin Weckbach)
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. (Edith Wharton)
Every really new idea looks crazy at first. (Alfred North Whitehead)
Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality. (Steve Whitney)
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. (Oscar Wilde)
...worked so far out beyond the frontiers of conventional studio art that they have no names themselves for the forms they create. (Tom Wolfe)
It is the triumph of the individual over art - the zenith of an original voice. (Miles Patrick Yohnke)
We are all born originals – why is it so many of us die copies? (Edward Young)
There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity. Whoever creates new artistic conventions has found methods of interchange between people about matters which were incommunicable before. The capacity to do this has been the basis of the whole of human history. (J. Z. Young)
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Neiman Marcus is a nominee for the Readers' Choice Award for Best Department Store. The Dallas, Texas-based luxury retailer was founded in 1907 by Herbert Marcus, Sr., his sister Carrie Marcus Neiman and her husband A.L. Neiman. Since then, the company has become known for its merchandise leadership and superior customer service. Its upscale assortment of apparel, accessories, jewelry, beauty and decorative home products cater to the affluent customer.
The company is credited with many firsts. In 1926, the company premiered the first weekly retail fashion show in the U.S. It began offering menswear in 1928, featuring items like French-made ties and English shirtings--items rarely found west of New York City. In 1934 the company started running national advertisements in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar magazines--the first retail establishment outside New York City to do so. In 1984, the company established InCircle, the industry's first customer-loyalty program.
In 1939, the company launched its annual Christmas Book tradition with a wonderland of fur coats, fashion accessories, perfumes, toys and more. The book has since become famous for extravagent, over-the-top luxury items, such as a $25,000 customized and motorized cupcake car and a Jaguar XJL Supercharged Neiman Marcus edition sedan for $105,000, both offered in the 2009 book. The Christmas Book's "His and Hers" gift, which is an annual tradition, currently features a pair of ICON A5 Sports Aircrafts and pilot training for two for the princely sum of $250,000.
Now more than a century old, the company has 41 stores and a total of more than six million gross square feet around the country, from California to Massachusetts. In 1999, Neiman Marcus launched its website, neimanmarcus.com, making it possible for customers around the world to easily access its large selection of designer and luxury brands via the Internet. The Neiman Marcus Group is the parent company of two other esteemed companies: Bergdorf Goodman, the luxury department store based in New York and The Horchow Collection, a luxury mail-order catalog.
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Teaching is not pouring knowledge into kids' heads. It's supporting students to choose their own values, develop their own skills and forge their own path in life.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Why I'm striking, JCB
CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard is on record saying both that CTU leadership is deciding whether or not to strike, and that "everyone knows that a strike would only hurt our kids."
I just wanted to educate my boss a little on the history of Chicago, as he is relatively new to the area. Chicago is founded on the hard daily struggle of working people. It is the birth of the labor movement—not a movement just for wages and benefits, but a movement that stopped child labor so that each of the kids in CPS schools could attend school instead of working. It was a movement that stopped the practice of working conditions so unsafe that consumers were eating the actual workers who fell into the mix while they were making hot dogs. It was a movement that fought so that workers could have some tiny measure of time with our families rather than spending all waking hours working for the enrichment of their bosses.
But even more importantly, I wanted to educate Mr. Brizard about what it means to "help or hurt our kids".
When you make me cram 30-50 kids in my classroom with no air conditioning so that temperatures hit 96 degrees, that hurts our kids.
When you lock down our schools with metal detectors and arrest brothers for play fighting in the halls, that hurts our kids.
When you take 18-25 days out of the school year for high stakes testing that is not even scientifically applicable for many of our students, that hurts our kids.
When you spend millions on your pet programs, but there's no money for school level repairs, so the roof leaks on my students at their desks when it rains, that hurts our kids.
When you unilaterally institute a longer school day, insult us by calling it a "full school day" and then provide no implementation support, throwing our schools into chaos, that hurts our kids.
When you support Mayor Emanuel's TIF program in diverting hundreds of millions of dollars of school funds into to the pockets of wealthy developers like billionaire member of your school board, Penny Pritzker so she can build more hotels, that not only hurts kids, but somebody should be going to jail.
When you close and turnaround schools disrupting thousands of kids' lives and educations and often plunging them into violence and have no data to support your practice, that hurts our kids.
When you leave thousands of kids in classrooms with no teacher for weeks and months on end due to central office bureaucracy trumping basic needs of students, that not only hurts our kids, it basically ruins the whole idea of why we have a district at all.
When you, rather than bargain on any of this stuff set up fake school centers staffed by positively motived Central Office staff, many of whom are terribly pissed to be pressed into veritable scabitude when they know you are wrong, and you equip them with a manual that tells them things like, "communicate with words", that not only hurts our kids, but it suggests you have no idea how to run a system with their welfare in mind.
When you do enough of this, it makes me wonder if you really see our students as "our kids" or "other people's children".
And at that moment, I am willing to sacrifice an awful lot to protect the students I serve every day. I am not hurting our kids by striking, I'm striking to restore some semblance of reasonable care for students to this system. I'm doing to tell you, "No, YOU are the one hurting our children, and you need to STOP because what you are doing is wrong, and you are robbing students of their educational opportunities.
I ask anyone who does remotely care about the kids we teach and learn from and triumph and cheer and cry and grow with., to stand with us and fight for a better future for our kids.
See you on the picket line, my friend.
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Albuquerque is with you Xian! Teachers are wearing red tomorrow in support. Labor Day here had petitions for supporting CTU as well as donation cans. What can we do? You are on the front line of the battle to stop the corporate takeover of our schools. My daughter has been in public schools for 6 years, and I'm so grateful to her teachers.
ReplyDeleteMy son is a CPS student. He's in high school now and has been in CPS since kindergarten. He has had a number of hero-teachers who saw his potential and helped him realize it. We will be on the line with you and at the rally today. I will show up at a school to stand with our teachers before work every day. Stay strong! You are not just fighting for our kids but for all the kids in this country who face ridiculous and dangerous education policies!
ReplyDeleteIts interesting to me that all the poor conditions in the schools of which are talked about have been under the life-long rule of Chicago Democrats. If you don't like the horrible conditions don't strike and make the kids to suffer. Maybe it's time stop stop voting Democrat.
ReplyDeleteRepliesIt's true, the Democrats, from Obama down, are fools about education policy, idiots about what they consider "reforms." Indeed, they are just as foolish and idiotic as the Republicans. Sadly, our votes can't fix things, at least not at this historical moment.
DeleteMaybe so. Because Republicans really care about education when they call people who go to school educated elitists and cut programs for schools and funding for schools and undermine public schools with voucher programs. Screw you.
DeleteThis doesn't have anything to do with Democrat or Republican. This has to do with the loss of respect for the education of teachers and the care they provide to the students they teach. Every Tom, Dick and Harry who has been through 8th grade thinks they KNOW how to teach. Man, are they wrong. Sure wish those who think it is so easy would take over for a couple of months - but then again, our poor students would really suffer and we can't have that. We need to believe in and rely on those who have trained to be educators - not the wannabes or pretends.
DeleteFools. This isn´t about Obama or Romney, Democrats or Republicans. I stand with my brothers and sisters. We are teachers, educators if you must, and our primary purpose is for our students. We believe that the best place to service our charges is in US public schools. That is where we teach. Target us. Diminish us and you diminish yourselves.
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This is completely right in every form possible. It is not about pay as those issues have been resolved...it is about our children starting the school year and textbooks not being available. it is also about a program for a longer day with no plan on how to staff it. It ultimately is about our children and enriching their education through arts and world languages and physical education that has gone to the wayside over the years. It is about implementing a year round school system when the average temperature in July here was over 100° and many classrooms have no air. IT IS ABOUT OUR CHILDREN.
DeleteClaudia - I think you need to prepare to take over since you so intently think this so wrong. Maybe then you'll discover YOU were so wrong.
DeleteAre you a teacher too, Claudia? Do you teach in Chicago?
DeleteNo one is completely right or wrong in situations like these. I hear about CPS teachers complaining that the administrations wants to lengthen the school day but they want to be compensated. You cannot say it isn't about pay, even if those issues have been resolved, they were a part of the negotiations leading to the strike! CPS has the shortest school day in the Chicago land area.
That being said, the administration needs to stop giving themselves raises and put money into school renovations. These are the main problems with what is taking place in CPS. All schools should have air conditioning for days when it is over 80 degrees outside! All students should have the proper supplies going into the school year including text books.
I do not support the strike but I sure as hell don't support the administrators who have become to greedy for their own good! Being on the school board should not allow someone to make hundreds of thousands of dollars.
If CPS administrators and ALL (I capitalize all because I know not every teacher feels the same way about pay increases) teachers really wanted to focus on the children, then both sides would stop taking 2-5% pay increases each year and turn around and put more money into the physical conditions that help make the learning environments better for everyone. This will help not only the students who will be able to focus more on studies, but teachers who have to deal with higher class sizes.
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❝You see, even though back then Barack was a Senator and a presidential candidate … to me, he was still the guy who'd picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door … he was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he'd found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too small.❞
❝And understand this: If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself, I'll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America. Because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.❞
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA9KC8SMu3o&feature=player_embeddedCompletely agree about TIF money. The way it works now is a bizarre scandal and a total misuse of the law (labeling areas like the South Loop as "blighted," for example). And I agree about not fixing physical plants and instead spending money on pet projects. Nonetheless, what seems to be the issue now is benefits and job security, not all of the other things you mention.
Benefits are a tough issue. Health insurance costs are, and have been, eating everyone's raises for over a decade. Thus we are all poorer because of exploding health insurance costs, and something has to be done. Unfortunately, what usually happens in these situations is the employer wants to put the employees into a cheaper plan (meaning more out-of-pocket costs, fewer benefits, less choice, etc.) and/or ask them to pay higher premiums. What stinks is that with such a large workforce, CPS and CTU have some power to get creative with health insurers, and really try to push the envelop to bring costs down. For example, they could require all teachers to draft a living will and an end of life directive, and/or give highly reduced co-pays for teachers who go to salaried hospitals and clinics (like the Mayo Clinic), where the doctors are not compensated on a fee for service basis and costs for insurers are typically far lower. But I doubt that anyone is trying to get creative in this regard, which is really unfortunate.
Also, I know how tough the job and the kids can be, especially in CPS, where you have a ton of low-income students. But I still think job security should be reduced. Set up as far and impartial a system as you can, and continue to tweak it as you go along. And if you're doing a decisively poor job, you get canned, without the process taking years and years. If you're mediocre, you get a lot of help to help improve. And then make sure everyone else gets paid more. I love teachers, but we all know people, even at many fine schools, who have checked out and are mailing it in. So let's go with less security, higher standards, but better pay. And let's do that not just for teachers but for other important public employees (particular cops). Expect more, pay more, still maintain a respectful working environment, and get better results.RepliesOne of the problems with leaving details to be worked out later is that Mayor E, CEO Brizzard and the CPS BOE have shown teachers should not trust them.
Increasing the length of day and length of year without going through the motions of negotiating made it exceedingly difficult to trust management to operate in good faith.Mr. Man,
Your post is very accurate in the way I think things should be handled and as far as Carl, although they went about lengthening the school day in a way that shouldn't have been done, I'm tired of hearing teachers complain about this. CPS has the shortest school day in the Chicago land area and a majority of these students need to be in school the most, not only for education purposes, but sometimes safety reasons as well!
My wife is a teacher in the burbs and although I like the idea of tenure because I know she will have a very difficult time losing her job, I believe tenure should no longer be used or at least changed to a point where teachers must be evaluated more regularly and can lose their jobs as easily as the average person. THIS DOES NOT MEAN USING TEST SCORES TO ME THOUGH. Like Mr. Man stated about the health care benefits, there can be more creative ways on evaluating teachers and test scores should only be a very small portion of those evaluations!
Xian, I'm glad I got to meet you when we watched that documentary on the Iraq War in River Forest years ago.
One of the things that bothers me about some of the hostility toward CTU is the complaint about the bad teacher who can't be fired.
CPS did fire a bunch of teachers. The goal was to get rid of teachers who principals didn't like. These were often high quality teachers who complained or otherwise challenged principals and other administrators who were performing at a suboptimal level.
But singling out teachers who complained about principals would be too obvious and a violation of the contract and probably the law.
So CPS fired thousands of teachers and created a secret "do not hire" list. Almost all the teachers were rehired, but not the teachers that principals didn't like.
The people who are angry about the one teacher choose not to notice that when CPS did give themselves the power to fire teachers, the district didn't fire the screw-ups, it fired the teachers that were agitating for their schools to be better.
CPS already has the power to hire, train, manage and fire administrators. Has this resulted in particularly high quality of administrators in the schools?I was a student in CPS 25 years ago when teachers last went on strike. As a 12 y.o. student, I saw the horrible conditions in our school way back then - over crowded classes, mixed grade classes (I was in a 6th/7th grade split class with one teacher and over 30 students), the lack of A/C made it difficult to concentrate on hot days, teachers who had no prep time because they were too busy discipling or providing extra help to students, no recess or gym classes, over-focus on standardized testing. I now live over 1,000 miles away, but I still support the teachers in the Chgo Public Schools. You had a tough job then, and it seems even tougher now. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteRepliesSame boat as you Mel my children were CPS students 25 years ago. Teachers went on strike every two years. I got sick of it, they did like clock work. I finally moved away, far away! I was a CPS graduate. I got a good education graduating in 1969. We worked hard and I think that was the end of the good Chicago Public School education. I don't know what changed. Too bad you can't get back what once was. Yes, I do think the teachers have a hard job made harder by politics and a greedy top heavy administration system but keeping the kids out of school by striking is not the way to get your way. Why don't you teach the children but refuse your paychecks in civil disobedience?
Grad student to become a teacher, in support of all of the strikers. Districts and the media need to stop demonizing teachers and their labor unions. You guys are the ones doing the hard work. The administrators are the ones, for some mysterious reason, getting the raise. Keep it strong.
ReplyDeleteI am a future teacher getting ready to do the student teaching part of my program and I support you...I hope the District wakes up and realizes what they are doing to our kids. I wish the government would do away with the ridiculous High Stakes Testing anyway it takes away from actual learning anyway. I do not believe in the idea of High Stakes testing at all. I believe in assessing our students but not putting so much pressure on them that they are stressing out over a test. I watched the coverage on the Today Show this morning concerning this strike and they really made it sound like the teachers were the ones in the wrong....I wish for one day these people who do not work as an educator could step into their shoes. I may not be a teacher yet but I have seen what goes into it ....working for free to get stuff done for the students, using their own money so that the students have the best supplies and resources available for a lesson, I am sick of teachers always getting a bad rap. It needs to stop.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this post and for your commitment to your students and educational equity. I teach a class on diversity and education in Georgia (non-union state). Today, I scrapped my lesson and taught the #CTUStrike instead. I gave the students a packet of pro and con articles and asked them to make up their own minds. Your blog post was included in the packet, and they all loved it. According to one, "Teacher X is the kind of teacher every kids needs and deserves. He is speaking up so his students will learn how to speak up, too." Thank you for speaking up for your students and for teaching my students how to speak up, too.
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I am not supporting this like of thinking at all but I have heard some say, "if the conditions of the schools is the reason, why not use the $400 million raise to fix the schools instead?" So I am just wondering what response you all how are supporting the strike would offer to that argument.
ReplyDeleteChicago teachers make seventy-something thousand a year, plus 3 months paid vacation, kids learning scores are pathetic, they should all be replaced if they don't report for work! America is sick of your wining.
ReplyDeleteRepliesI would like to hear a little bit about your background Kacee and would like to sit down and have a chat with you. If you would look around and investigate a little bit, it is really not about the money, as some would want you to believe. It is truly about working conditions and unilateral, unfair, and unpopular decisions being forced on an entire population. The worst part is that said decisions affect children, even more than teachers, administrators, counselors, or other support staff. For the record, I don't make nearly 70,000/year.
DeleteIf its not about money, then ask your union leaders to remove the salary increases and put that money into the air conditioning. Do that one thing and I will respect you.
If you know that striking hurts children, WHY ARE YOU DOING IT?Funny how nobody who supports the strike can answer why they don't put their raises toward better facilities and conditions. If its not about the money than prove it.
DeleteThey're only allowed to strike over salary, not working conditions. And if you cared about anything other than vilifying teachers, you'd know that.
Personally, I look forward to a time when teaching is such a horrible job that only child molesters apply for it. Of course, I'm leaving the country soon.
Shared this on Facebook this afternoon where so many of my friends are Philadelphia public school teachers and members of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers. I am a retired teacher, veteran of 34 years and never have I seen conditions like this in our nation's urban schools. The very souls of the students are at stake. You are so right in saying that this is about "other people's children. Those politicians and business people now taking over urban schools make sure their own children go to suburban or private schools where the class size is limited, supplies are abundant and teachers are free to use their knowledge and professional experience to create curriculum that engages their students, treats them like constructors of knowledge and prepares them for the emerging economy of creativity. There will be no place for those trained as rote test takers in this new evolving world the students of today will be entering. Thank you for all you do and the cogent way in which you made the case for so many teachers and students across this country. Best to you and your colleagues in this struggle. You are not alone.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to strike and make signs about class size, and run down class rooms and air conditioners, then great. Then strike for that and I am there with you. But, if you are just negotiating for 10 months of severance after layoffs (10 months!!) and not wanting a particular system of evaluations then stop obfuscating and say that. Because I bet once the union gets it's 10 months and its evaluation system, my kid will go right back to his un-air conditioned, 22-person, 100-year-old class room.
ReplyDeleteThis CO teacher supports you and your fellow teachers. We, too, are under attack in Douglas Co. due to an overly zealous board who has forgotten to focus on what is best for students in exchange for vouchers, union busting and other pet projects. Good luck in restoring order in the name of students!
ReplyDeleteI'm too lazy to check the facts stated in this. BUT,
If just only 10 percent are true, then, I say
My experiance thru 60 years of life has always shown me 95 percent -PLUS- of TEACHERS are selfless, sacrificing, dedicacated people.
(My english teachers would probably cringe at some of the spelling and grammer used above.)This educator from MA supports you 100%! Clearly you understand what teaching is all about. Your former students clearly have seen that THEY MATTER to you..and YOU MATTER to the students of Chicago. We will be wearing red in solidarity on Wednesday. Stay strong and keep up the good fight.
ReplyDeleteI only pray this strike goes for weeks.
If that happens then the public will fire back... and there is a blueprint for that. It started in Ohio and was made bulletproof in Wisconsin.
Illinois is next. You teachers (may or may not) know the state is broke but you want more $? You want more when the private sector struggles? You want no performance measurement? What kind of crazy world do you live in?
Oh and clogging streets tonight in rush hour did more to hurt your case than it could ever help.
I wish Reagan was alive and he would do to you what he did to the air traffic controllers. You all make way too much, 76K on average - vs 47K on avg in private sector.
Today was the Union's Waterloo.You supported WI teachers when their unions were disbanded and their benefits slashed a couple of years ago, I feel it important to support you now.
Teachers deserve a safe and functional workplace just like anyone else and our children even more so. I have worked high volume factories that were more comfortable than some of my kids classrooms.This teacher in Colorado is behind you in Chicago 100% and will be wearing red to support you. Everything these politicians are attempting to do HURT our kids so they can capitalize on the poor and disenfranchised. I hope teachers everywhere join in the strike and show solidarity. Chicago has a rich history of labor -- Haymarket Square, the Pullman strike -- let the labor rejuvenate on the strong shoulders of Chicago! RISE UP!
ReplyDeleteI wish to goodness CPS would call your bluff and offer to fix everything on your list... in return for raising your health insurance premiums, freezing your pay for the next four years, and instituting a teacher evaluation system with teeth. I'm sure that all of you would go back to work the next day.... yeah, right.
It's always "about the kids," except that it never is. The students (who, by the way, mostly read below grade level in Chicago) are just props for union propaganda.Xian thank you for this post. I wish your union leader had shared with the media the real reason the teachers are FORCED to go on strike. The board wants others to think that the teachers want more money. It is not really about the money, the reason the money comes up is because all the other teachers' rights have been taken from them. Teachers no longer have seniority, pension is at risk, principals can fire any teacher, test score is used to evaluate teachers when most of the school year is spent on preparing for test instead of teaching. Teachers are being blame for low test score. CPS officials do not take into consideration the social situation of some students, the increase crime rate in the city, and the number of students in a classroom. Experienced teachers got fired to be replaced by young unexperienced teachers; then they want the rest of us to believe they care about the kids - give me a break. Guess what: the salary for one teacher can hire two or more unexperienced teacher - now you make your conclusion.
I have nothing against young or unexperienced teachers because they have to start somewhere but a mixture of young and older teachers will be best. Those teachers who see an opportunity now will be at some point in their career in the same situation. There is no doubt the kids are the victims but parents, the community need to stand up with the teachers so the situation can be solved once for all. The lack of respect that exist for teachers in this country is unbelievable. One more point: teachers' job do not end in the classroom. They take assignments at home to grade and contrary to other professions, teachers have to prepare lesson plans prior going to work. Teaching is just the easy part of the profession; there are so many other things a teacher has to deal with to keep 30+ focus. I would love to send my children to the laboratory school because Chicago Public School is ...Why I do not trust Advance Illinois and other outside reform groups such as Stand for Children
...We must be careful of wealthy foundations that support the prevailing tsunami of educational reform. It is not honest "reform." It is about profits and privatization of public schools. These corporate millionaires behind groups like Advance Illinois and Stand for Children will not and "cannot be held accountable" for the damage they will incur; they are not elected by anyone. This is an irony since these groups believe that teachers should be held accountable for all the failures of their students.
Under what pretense can we embrace the agenda of outside groups such as Advance Illinois and Stand for Children and reject our own experiential and implicit understanding about what must be done to guarantee that all students obtain the best education possible?
Implementing so-called performance agreements, diminishing the power of unions, establishing merit pay, hiring and firing personnel according to private sectors' procedures – do not address problems in education. Consider, for instance, how a public school district would establish an assurance of administrative impartiality and competency before providing the requisite training for fair and equitable evaluative methods and due process.
Changes for educational reform must come from teachers, administrators and its local school board, and from students and their involved parents as they work together to solve the many challenges that we face. Modifications of current teachers' evaluations, benefits, and rights should not come from outside, corporate-funded groups that emphasize an accountability program based on questionable sanctions and unformulated "multiple measures" linked to teachers' performance.
Be aware of the "Trojan Horse" that groups such as Advance Illinois and Stand for Children will bring to a school district. Be mindful of their glib adulations that "your district is a premier school district riding the top of the wave of student achievement… that it is not your district that should be concerned"; be aware of promises made for complete local autonomy regarding this legislation when it becomes law, for it may be a Faustian bargain in the end.
No Child Left Behind and its spawn, Performance Counts, cannot resolve the difficulties that teachers will invariably inherit. Why? Teachers do not work with "quantifiable outcomes." (Perhaps we need Performance Counts legislation for our students' parents instead: streamline dismissal hearings for ineffectual parenting, an independent fact-finding panel for impasses, an evaluative process based largely on how well children are doing in school and everywhere else...).
How does one measure the effects that a teacher has on his or her students' character, aspirations, responsibility, and moral and ethical values? How does one measure a teacher's inspiration, dedication and passion that these influences have on students? Are there reliable, valid tests and data for such indelible impressions on students? I have had some teachers who would not have received a "Satisfactory" rating today, but some of them have had a lasting influence on me that is incalculable.
Carefully examine the goals of public education. They are not the goals of Stand for Children and Advance Illinois. A teacher does not make a sale or earn a profit. A teacher works with children and young adults. Though we all want the best instruction for our students and children, we do not have to consider riding along with this prevailing wave of attacks on teachers' autonomy and their rights by corporate factions and their entrepreneurs, such as Jonah Edelman's Stand for Children and Robin Stean's Advance Illinois. Why? Because waves will crash to shore no matter how we ride them.
The economy is in shambles resulting in city budget cuts and the city/state/nation's pension system is being crushed because there is little return on investment. Its mathematics. Teachers must suffer alongside the rest of the population. Why they are different, should deserve more than others or should be able to take a larger share of a shrinking pie is beyond me.
ReplyDeleteHi Xian - This is Nicole Colson from Socialist Worker newspaper (SocialistWorker.org). We were wondering if we could have permission to reprint this on our website? If so, just let us know how we should credit it (we'll be happy to provide a link to this page). Feel free to email me at email@example.com.
ReplyDeleteRepliesTone down your hate please. It's a bad influence on others.
Thanks!Gotta love it -- "hate" is now the all-purpose term of disdain. It basically means: "I disagree with you but don't really have an argument. I emote, therefore I am." And thus, why this strike makes sense to you becomes clearer.
DeleteI posted my argument above, you were the one who entered this space and was obnoxious to people.
Projection is the child of insecurity.
Solidarity from Rochester, NY...JCB's last "home" where he also caused union/management gridlock, imposed his will on us instead of working with us, overspent by millions and then tried to solve the budget issues by laying off staff while he & management got large raises & bonuses, encouraged a culture of teacher blame and lowering of accountability for other stakeholders and eventually pushed us out on the streets to picket and protest. He & Emmanuel are simply taking advantage of the current trend to demonize unions in some hope to advance their own agenda for power & advancement. He's gone and Rochester, NY is in recovery. Amazingly, our new SuperIntendent is having no problem collaborating with the unions and improving the district for kids. We are not having the same inflated drama about budget deficits. JCB'S is your biggest problem and Emmanuel is right behind him.
Stay strong and remember that although you may not have your students in the classroom, you are teaching them an important lesson about speaking out and standing up for what you believe in. You are teaching them about standing together and pushing for leaders to listen to what you have to say. These are important lessons too especially in this election year. We can't let only the rich or politicians supported by them have a voice in this country. I'd like to see them teach for a school year and then see how they feel about unions, class size, work conditions, etc. I am certain the rhetoric would differ.
I am wearing red tomorrow and will be there with you all in spirit. Fight CPS teachers! Teachers are counting on you all around the country!WOW ! It is a good thing that the NEA and its state pooh-bahs in places like Washington are stepping in with effective counter messaging!
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I forgot – I pay dues to a bunch of political cowards, on a good day – except when they aren't focused on dumping tens of thousands into the pockets of the same ol same ol CON$ultant$ of "Democratic" stripe who've lead us working stiffs down this primrose path to penury.
(pst! any WA. union "leaders" who'd like to email me privately about unity and solidarity - blaming ME for this crap state of affairs – I'll be posting your blame crap on dailykos, with my reply. Step Up.
We could have a democratic public debate on policy towards this strike, the strike where 'leader' silence has been deafening, BUT, that kind of democratic member engagement runs counter to the Top Down grassroots tactics of our union, and the DLC sell out Democratic party which Rahm is leader of, doesn't it.)We're supporting you here in Champaign-Urbana! Why are so many people are ready to vilify teachers? In no other field do we focus so much on the few who are not competent and/or committed and overlook the vast majority who are dedicated, working long hours, and fighting for our kids. Thanks for your work and your words.
I truly believe you are about the kids 30-50 kids in a classroom is very difficult.
That being said, something in this country needs to change with education, and we cant just throw money at it. The US spends more per capita per student than any other country in the world.
And we are not getting results.
The Chicago mean and median salaries for teachers are $78K and #68K. These are base salaries. This is plus government healthcare, and pensions. The base salaries alone are 60% higher than the median US income.
The charter school movement enables innovation and reallocates costs from salaries to materials and resources for students. You say that 50 kids per classroom is too many. If a traditional public school is shut down, 2 charter schools could open up in its place. The innovation of education is key here - there is no room for innovation in non-charter schools.
Charter schools that are successful, get more $. Ones that are not, get shut down.
Charter schools, while unpopular amongst traditional teachers because they are viewed as union busting. But looking at the performance of schools - something needs to change.
My sister has taught in traditional public schools, and left for a non-union lower paying job because the charter school was more innovative, successful, and resource-laden
Please reply as I want to know your thoughtsRepliesTed, I would in most ways agree with you. We spend less of our GNP on education compared to our most successful counterparts. Additionally, we spend a great deal on Special Education services, as we should.
We are getting results--we have the best education in the world for middle class students and above.
But we are failing as a country in fair economic results for work. We are failing at economic opportunity, and no one is using their tax cuts to set up job opportunities in the neighborhoods we teach in. Peep the unemployment rate for minority youth (remember--that's for people actively looking for jobs).
We have bad educational outcomes for 2 reasons:
1) Top down educational system that makes teachers focus on compliance and testing instead of teaching.
2) Devastatingly bad economic conditions and a poverty gap that is only increasing.
Fact check: Our mean and median salaries are not what you've posted. Those are based on counting admins and downtown personnel, and it's not the latest info. We make a below average salary for the value of dollar in Chicago and our level of education.
Charter schools that are politically connected and unsuccessful get cloned--not shut down. That's why they are twice as likely to underperform as outperform. They are a scale up of all of the top down problems that plague the regular system.
UIUC's charter research shows that charters are only more innovative in marketing and fundraising, not in educational practice.Thanks for the response - I appreciate it. Here are my closing remarks, feel free to respond, or not.
I agree compliance should not be the key here. However standardized tests ("top down") are the norm world wide. That being said, I never want to deal with "teaching the test"
Your arguments about pay do have some merit. That being said, your response indicates that your salary, benefits, etc are an issue here. 2 questions - 1 - Do you think that you would be a worse teacher without a Masters Degree? I dont and I question the merit of getting one. I think great teachers are knowlegeable, enthusiatic, driven, and passionate - you dont need a masters degree for that. 2 - You make less than peers with same education - did you expect anything different?? If you went to grad school for the money, a Masters in Elementary Education is not the one to pick.
I am a liberal, 4 for 4 democratic presidential voter, however, I believe the only true solution is to bust the teachers unions.
Total Spend should be re-allocated to focus on resources, cloning successful schools, and performance-based-bonuses to teachers. Not caught up in lengthy contracts, inability to fire the worst of the worst teachers, and GUARENTEED pensions.
I have a masters degree, work in private industry, have no gaurenteed pension, and could be fired at any moment for performance - or rewarded for performance as well.I just don't see the data--the top performing states and country have stable educators who are protected by unions. The argument that unions lower the standard of education just has no basis in reality.
My response on salary was because you asked about it. If you asked me about ice cream and I talked about it because I love ice cream, that wouldn't mean that the strike was about ice cream, it would mean that I'm a good conversationalist (who likes ice cream).
I think I would be a worse teacher without a master's degree, but specifically in my case, I was trained to teach in Japan, so I had to take graduate classes in order to obtain my teaching degree.
I don't want more money than my peers, but when our critics are saying that we are overpaid compared to people without comparable education it ignores the trend in society that greater education is rewarded.
Finally, we don't have guaranteed pensions. Quite the contrary, we contributed and the state/city robbed our pension fund. Please don't blame us for politicians' greed.
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ReplyDeleteFirstly, I like how people who are against the strike have no actual reasons to back it up, other than "it hurts the children" (which I think Xian does a great job of dismantling here).
Secondly, the bit about Chicago having the shortest school day in the country is completely inaccurate. From what I understand, that's based off of ONE school in Chicago. The school day of every CPS high school I have met teachers from (around 7 hours) is longer than the school day I had (6.5 hours) in a wealthy Massachusetts suburb known for its quality school system.
Thirdly, some people threw out creative ideas of ways for teachers to make change without striking. One was continuing to teach without accepting paychecks. For starters, this is EXACTLY what the Board wants; free labor. Doing their work for free would not give teachers ANY power to affect change in the school system. Additionally, although teachers are awesome, they aren't superhumans and have the same basic needs as every other person such as food, clothing, housing, etc, which in our capitalist society can only be attained with money.
Someone suggested that teachers should use their raises to install air conditioning in the schools. Even if my above point about basic needs wasn't true, this puts all the responsibility on teachers to provide even the most basic amenities for students. Should teachers just start doing all the building repairs in the schools? Maybe they should give all the students rides to and from school every day, and scrub the school toilets too. The point is to hold the Board of Education and CPS accountable to THEIR duties, which include providing an environment in which students can actually learn.Yeah, I know, "The best thing that ever happened to New Orleans education was Hurricane Katrina". The thing is, I've been there. I've seen the devastatingly unequal schooling after the hurricane. I've seen the charter empires bully the mom-and-pop charters and more than that, I've seen and heard the stories of the students of New Orleans. So I don't know if you are Paul Vallas or some random dude, but your anonymous input means little.
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Min Wage to increase to $10.10/an hour
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Nancy Poloci, announced today that she and a few of her congressional leaders, are preparing a bill to raise the federal min wage, to $10.10 per hour. Please, tune in tonight, and Weigh in your feedback.
The Harsh Realities of a Minimum Wage Increase
by commonsensenj in Politics Conservative
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On Tuesday, November 5th, NJ voters will be asked to vote on a minimum wage increase, which will not only become law but a NJ State Constitutional Amendment.
While proponents of the minimum wage increase profess to be helping out those most in need, they refuse to look to the facts and figures that point to the completely opposite direction.
Joining us as we discuss the implications of an amendment to our NJ State Constitution and the harsh economic realities of a mandated wage increase is Matt Rooney founder of the Save Jersey blog.
We will also expose the myth of who the minimum wage earner really is; who will be hit the hardest by this increase; how the job market will be affected; how poverty will be affected and impact on the economic competitiveness of NJ.
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The Injustice of the California Minimum Wage Increase
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Pastor Brad Morgan of New Life Beginnings Church in Brookshire / Pattison, TX speaks from bible scripture about the principles of increase in the word of God. Lessons about poverty, debt, tithing and provision are shared by Pastor Brad through the scriptures. If we will learn how to do things God's way, things will come to pass, and God will show you a better way.
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Pastor Brad Morgan of New Life Beginnings Church in Brookshire / Pattison, TX speaks from bible scripture about the principles of increase in the word of God. Lessons about poverty, debt, tithing and provision are shared by Pastor Brad through the scriptures. If we will learn how to do things God's way, things will come to pass, and God will show you a better way.
"Holy Spiritz" Minimum Wage....It Has To Change Now!
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Luk 17:1-21 NKJV1 Then He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no offenses should come, but woe to him through whom they do come!2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.3 Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.4 And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."5 And the apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."6 So the Lord said, "If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.7 And which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come at once and sit down to eat'?8 But will he not rather say to him, 'Prepare something for my supper, and gird yourself and serve me till I have eaten and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink'?9 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not.10 So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, 'We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.' "11 Now it happened as He went to Jerusalem that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
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What are the pros and cons of cloth vs disposable diapers?
So far everyone I know has used disposable diapers. I have read/heard though that cloth are cheaper and better for the environment. I have no one to explain to me how they really work though (one size vs. sized, absorbancy, covers, prefold, that kind of stuff). This is the first kid and I'm confused here! The web sites that I have found don't clarify things either, as they seem to be geared more towards selling the product and to people who have a knowledge of this type of thing. I want the miminal amout of work with the maxium benefits (as I think we all do). Someone please shed some light on this for me!
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My wife and I love these wipes. So imagine our dismay when the most recent shipment came in (we subscribe) with different packaging and less wipes. I wouldn?t be upset except the price didn?t change. So now we are getting 120 less wipes (nearly 2 packages less) for the same price. It ends up meaning 0.6 cent increase per wipe or a 15.7% increase in price. Since we order one case of pkgs per month this will turn into a $66 increase of the course of a year. I realize the economy is bad so companies are reducing production but the product price should decrease at least a little accordingly. Poor PR move by a what we have considered a great company. As far as distribution goes, since the original package at the original price is still being sold, I am annoyed with Amazon for changing which product we receive without any notification. Pregnancy & Expecting Moms Help & Supportposted 04/01/2011 by a BabyCenter Member
More extras: :] What, you didn't think I was done, did ya? Cloth diaper safe bottom balm is essential for my little man; I strongly advise Earth Mama Angel Baby, Lalabee's, or Dimpleskins. All safe and quite effective. You just need to apply it in a very thin layer - like lip balm. Cloth wipes: I suggest you use 'em! Cotton works for us, and there are a variety of lotions and potions you can try with them. Very cost effective, and so convenient when you're laundering diapers as well. Laundry: We've used Rockin Green, Allan's, and Kaley's soap nuts (though I'm sure any source would be great). They all work well - no stink, and stains only sometimes from poo (note: Allan's is great for soaking diapers in to get rid of stains!). We had to use RLR, a laundry treatment for removing mineral deposits in fabric, once; a well-meaning relative slathered our little man's tush in zinc oxide once. It worked well, and we haven't had to do it since.posted 01/05/2011 by Titanius Englesmith
My recommendations are as follows: Fabrics: Hemp, bamboo, or organic cotton. They're pricier, yes, but also softer (in the case of the bamboo and the cotton) and more absorbent (slightly, for the cotton, and much more so for the bamboo and hemp). Cut: A full stash of prefolds (I use Flips and Bummis, both organic cotton) and some fitteds (I use AMP hemp) will pretty much cover it. We went from 12 prefolds a day at first to 10 or less per day, especially with the Flips. Covers: Pretty much your prerogative, but I'd advise PUL or wool. Both are available in many shapes and styles - I use Flips (one size) and a variety of sized covers. At first, we needed about 6 covers per day between washes; now, we're down to two or three. I recommend snaps - they last longer. Extras: Doublers. They do just that - double the absorbency - and they're a lifesaver. Hemp and bamboo are perfect for them. They're not that pricey, so don't feel bad for having a dozen or so of them. Very useful for nightsposted 01/05/2011 by Titanius Englesmith
I am using CD for my. Its cheaper and easy to handle. My kid doesnot have rashes also, i am happy about that.posted 12/10/2010 by momofhandsome
Ginuca I've used lansinoh lanolin on my son to protect his skin when in cloth diapers and he has NEVER had a rash from cloth diapers. Works great. A really great site for any questions on cloth diapering, is greenmountaindiapers.com. This woman is SUPER knowledgeable. Good luck. Hope this helps:)posted 12/02/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
I have a three week old baby boy who's got horrible diaper rash/skin chafing around his tush and above his penis as well. I've tried A&D cream, bacitracin, even callendula ointment, nothing seems to work. This week I'm switching to cloth diapers - will finally get them in the mail. Any suggestions on what else I can use on the poor little guy? Thanks!posted 12/02/2010 by Ginuca
well you all know that the bleach used in disposibles can be carsonogenic and there evern thing to go with male sterilty that might be because of the heat disposibles have, look it upposted 10/07/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
I use a mix of cloth and paper - I use paper at night so she sleeps; as my little on can't stand being a little wet, and cloth the rest. While some of the responses about the velco snap cover diapers and such are good ones, if cloth diapers to save money is the issue I seriously recommend and personally use just plain old white diapers you fold and pin and plastic pants I've never had the pins come undone and I found the best people to talk to for help learning how to fold, clean and care for my stash of diapers was my grandparents. Alot of older folk the only choice they had was cloth and they are happy to share and show you how to use them. Even if you only use them at home - you'll save a ton of money. And if you have a washer and dryer in your home, if you rinse them as you go you can toss them in with towels and babyclothes to "top off" the load; so it really isn't as much extra laundry as you would think.posted 07/12/2010 by KarenAndLisa
Cheaper, easier, less to no rashes, no more poopy blowouts that get on clothing, and of course, helping the planet!posted 06/28/2010 by AAE's mama
I cloth diapered my last child who is 7 and loved it. I just had my 4th child a week and half ago and cloth diapered from the start even in the hospital. They are so easy. It is just another load of laundry and haven't had any leaks from newborn poo either. Daycare will accept cloth diapers as well. So please don't think they won't. You just have to look around to find one you like and one that will accept them. I have only had one daycare turn us down for the cloth diapers. I refuse to use the disposables just because that is what they want. There are always better options.posted 06/17/2010 by OTA_2008
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Eagles win their opening game in Puerto Rico
San Juan, PR – A poor shooting performance wasn't enough to derail the Asbury women from winning their first game in Puerto Rico, defeating Metropolitian University 68-44 on Tuesday afternoon. The Eagles shot only 34% from the field but grabbed 26 offensive rebounds.
A balanced attack pushed the Eagles through on this day as 13 of the 14 players scored in the game, led by Ellen Gray and Laura Carroll with eight a piece. Asbury (7-9) connected on only 5-of-27 from beyond the three point arc.
Asbury jumped out to a 12-0 start and looked to run away with the game early but Metropolitian nearly matched the Eagles the rest of the half as Asbury took a 39-25 lead into intermission. Asbury pushed their lead to 20 for the first time with just over nine minutes remaining in the game where it would basically stay the rest of the game.
The Eagles dominated on the glass, pulling down a season best 56 total rebounds. Their 26 offensive rebounds were also a season high. Brislyn Sizemore led the individual effort with eight rebounds. Metropolitian grabbed 40 total rebounds as Mirteliz Figueroa pulled down nine.
Asbury is set to take on Sacred Heart University in San Juan on Wednesday at 4:00 pm eastern.


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