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Fill your brain with random trivia! We feature a new trivia question in each edition of the library newsletter, which is sent to subscriber's inboxes every other Tuesday. Sign up here.
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Aug. 26, 2014
Trivia Q. What food festival do the folks in Liberal, Kansas and Olney, England celebrate every year with a competitive race?
Trivia A. International Pancake Day! It's the one day every year where it's okay to run down the street with a flapjack and not get any funny looks. Want a great pancake recipe so you can get flipping this weekend? Try checking out the Big Book of Breakfast.
Aug. 12, 2014
Trivia Q. Which 1986 movie character hacked into his school's computer to change the number of absences on record?
Trivia A. It was the rascally Ferris Bueller, of course, from the popular 80′s comedy film. If you've never seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off, go over and place a hold on the DVD. It's an 80′s classic, and the perfect DVD for back-to-school.
July 21, 2014
Trivia Q. How often does the average person visit the supermarket, and how much does on average do they spend?
Trivia A. According to the Food Marketing Institute 2010 research, the average American visits the supermarket 2.2 times a week and spends $26 on average. However, now you have the chance to save a little more of your money when you go to Topeka's Hy-Vee. There you can use the new Library smartlocker to pick up requested titles at no cost.
June 24, 2014
Trivia Q. What's the name of the Topeka church with twin towers that dots the downtown skyline?
Trivia A. St. Joseph's Catholic, 227 Van Buren, a center for the German community in early-day Topeka, was completed about 1900. Uncover this and other long-forgotten secrets of the Golden City when you stop into the Topeka Room (second floor).
June 10, 2014
Trivia Q. Stratus, cirrus and nimbus are types of what?
Trivia A. Look up. The answer is in the sky. It's those clouds floating by
So now that you know that one, conquer some more weather trivia – and rack your brain on other various topics – by playing the Online Summer Reading Bonus Level. It's free, but registration is required. You get to earn cool, virtual badges like these ones and compete members of the community.
May 27, 2014
Trivia Q. David Shannon, the guy who illustrated How I Became a Pirate, also illustrated a popular series by Jon Scieszka. What is the name of the series?
Trivia A. Trucktown. The 50-book series ranges from picture books to the more advanced "Ready to Roll" early reader titles, and the library's got a shelf full of 'em. If your child's favorite Trucktown titles are all checked out, browse the many other transportation-related books in the Kids Library.
May 9, 2014
Trivia Q. Holy trivia, Batman! This one's not about the caped crusader, however. We want to know if you know… Who played Catwoman in the film Batman Returns?
Trivia A. Michelle Pfeiffer. Meow. Of course you can check out the beloved Batman movies to enjoy at home, but why not share in the Batman lovefest May 17 as we celebrate Batman's 75th birthday – or at least the birth of the 1966 film Batman: The Movie. Come for Batman games, crafts and displays, which starts at 2pm. The film starts at 4pm.
April 28, 2014
Trivia Q. What mid-'70s/early '80s band popularized the catchphrase "Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto"?. (Good luck getting that song out of your head.)
Trivia A. Styx. Want some music that takes you back? Listen to our comps of classic rock, many of which include Styx songs. Check out Styx Greatest Hits and The Grand Illusion: Love, Lies and My Life with Styx, a book by bassist and founding member Chuck Panozzo.
April 10, 2014
Trivia Q. This popular mystery writer won a Grammy in 2001 for Best Album Notes on Richard Pryor's album …And It's Deep Too, and three years later, snagged a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award.
Trivia A. Walter Mosley, who brought us the great, hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins. Check out the Easy Rawlins mystery series. His mystery Little Green will be the inaugural book for the One Book, Many Voices book club April 17 at 7pm. Come share your thoughts. Learn more about the author, the book and Rawlins' character in this video book discussion.
March 26, 2014
Trivia Q. This actor grew up in Overland Park, Kan., and starred in Horrible Bosses and We're the Millers, following a stint on Saturday Night Live.
Trivia A. Jason Sudeikis. If you guessed Paul Rudd good guess, but wrong, though he did grow up in Overland Park and went to the same high school(Shawnee Mission West) as Sudeikis. Check out episodes of Saturday Night Live, including the best of Will Ferrell, Chris Farley and Eddie Murphy, on catalog.tscpl.org.
March 14, 2014
Trivia Q. St. Patrick's Day is March 17. A phrase you'll likely hear during that day is: "Erin Go Bragh." What does that phrase mean?
Trivia A. Erin Go Bragh translates to "Ireland Forever." You can learn how to speak a foreign language, Irish or otherwise, with Mango, an online language learning software. tscpl.org/mango
Feb. 26, 2014
Trivia Q. The 1955 Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott was spurred by the refusal of this woman to give up her seat on a segregated city bus.
Trivia A. Rosa Parks, born Rosa Louise McCauley. She was a seamstress at a Montgomery department store. She and her husband subsequently lost their jobs as a result of championing this civil rights fight. Learn more about Parks by checking out these titles: Rosa Parks: My Story, Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of the Woman Who Changed a Nation, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and Rosa Parks: A Photo-illustrated Biography
Feb. 14, 2014
Trivia Q. How long does it take for the light from the Sun to reach the Earth?
Trivia A. About 8 minutes. Have fun with other scientific facts at Sid the Science Kid at 2pm this Saturday at the Topeka Performing Arts Center. TPAC and the Library, along with the Sid and his friends, will teach your child science is cool! Tickets are still available. Find details here!
Jan. 28, 2014
Trivia Q. After Kansas was admitted to the Union, how many stars were on the United States flag.
Trivia A. 34 stars. Kansas was the 34th state admitted to the Union. Learn more about Kansas history and read famous Kansas authors in the Topeka Room (second floor).
Jan. 14, 2014
Trivia Q. True or false? Laws prohibiting interracial marriage are ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963.
Trivia A. False – The landmark ruling that ended race-based restrictions on marriage in the U.S. would be delivered four years later in 1967 in Loving v. Virginia. Learn about Mr. and Mrs. Loving and talk to a panel who share similar experiences when you attend the Created Equal film series Feb. 2 at 3:30pm. The documentary film, The Loving Story, will be shown; discussion follows.
Dec. 31, 2013
Trivia Q. While today it's made of Waterford crystals, the ball used for the first New Year's Eve ball drop in Time Square was made of iron, wood and 100 incandescent light bulbs. When was the very first ball drop?
Trivia A. The ball dropped for the first time in Time Square in 1907. As technology has evolved, so has the ball. It originally was a 700-pound iron and wood ball illuminated by 100 25-watt light bulbs. It's now a designer ball that weighs 11,875 pounds and features 2,668 Waterford crystals. It's been lowered annually since its debut, with the exception of 1942 and 1943 due to wartime restrictions.
Dec. 17, 2013
Trivia Q. In what year did the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library open at its new location at 1515 SW 10th Ave?
Trivia A. Ground was broken for the library at its 1515 SW 10th Ave address in 1952 and opened to the public Dec. 13, 1953. All regular services in the new building began Dec. 14, 1953. A 23-million dollar bond issue is passed in 1996 to expand and renovate the library. In 1998, ground is broken for the 100,000-square-foot addition. On January 12, 2002 the library opened its new doors to the public. Learn more library history here or stop in our Topeka Room (second floor) to ask our local history experts.
Dec. 3, 2013
Trivia Q. In Trading Places, the popular '80s movie starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, what is the monetary amount of the bet?
Trivia A. One dollar. The Duke Brothers, owners of a brokerage firm, bet one dollar that they couldn't take a perfectly productive, law-abiding professional and turn him into a criminal while at the same time turning a street hustler into respective professional. As you may know, it's not the only one dollar-bet in the movie. Whether you are just discovering or reliving this story of redemption, Trading Places is a wonderfully funny holiday movie, albeit one for a more mature audience.
Most of our holiday-themed movies check out for three weeks. Pick 'em up this week and don't worry about returning them until after Christmas.
Nov. 19, 2013
Trivia Q. How long has Topeka been holding its community Thanksgiving dinner?
Trivia A. According to an article in the Topeka Capital-Journal on Nov. 28, 2002, this free Thanksgiving feast was first held in 1965. The Topeka tornado of '66 put these community dinners temporarily on hold. In 1968, the dinner picked back up by East Topeka Methodist Church and has been held ever since. It's currently at the Kansas Expocentre from noon to 3pm on Thanksgiving Day. Find out what else happened in the '60 in Topeka when you visit the Topeka Room (second floor).
Nov. 5, 2013
Trivia Q. Which song, which has been ruler of the radio lately, has propelled the singer, a 16-year-old New Zealander, into fame?
Trivia A. Royals by Lorde. While fans who adore her might just have to buy the track, remember you can download and keep many other popular hits from contemporary artists for free. All you need is your library card. Freegal, a service of the library, allows you to download 3 free music tracks per week. Learn more about our music service here. See what's hot in the nation and among Topeka's music fans and start downloading.
Oct. 22, 2013
Trivia Q. In 1999, Topeka Civic Theatre moved into their current facility in a former school. What was the name of that school?
Trivia A. Gage Elementary School. Check out Town Hall Tonight: A Pictorial History of Topeka's Theaters for further exploration of art and culture from our city's past. Then, make a trip to the Topeka Room (second floor) to dig deeper into local culture.
Oct. 8, 2013
Trivia Q. What family left a legacy in Topeka with its renown psychiatric clinic, which operated here from 1919 to 2003?
Trivia A. The Menningers. C.F., Karl and Will Menninger founded the Menninger Sanitarium, later known as the Menninger Clinic, which became the place for speciality mental health care for locals. It also attracted patients from all over the world who could afford to travel to Topeka. Many innovative research and psychiatric practices came out of Menninger Clinic, including art therapy. You can ask the experts more about this famous family and pick up techniques for researching your own family at the Ancestor Fair Oct. 19 at the Kansas Historical Society, 6425 SW 6th St. Stop in between 9:30 and 3pm. And learn more here.
Sept. 25, 2013
Trivia Q. The first Doctor Who program aired on BBC television on November 23, 1963. In what year did Doctor Who first air in the United States?
Trivia A. 1972, although it wasn't until PBS began regularly airing the program in 1978 that Doctor Who gained widespread popularity in the United States. Show your love for the Doctor by making a movie! We'll be editing together a crowd-sourced video to debut at the library Nov. 15 at 6pm. Submit your video entry through Oct. 27. Consult filmmaker's instructions here and learn more about the Doctor Who party on Nov. 15.
Sept. 10, 2013
Trivia Q. How well do you know your community? The city's founders chose to name the city after the anglicized Indian word "Topeka," which loosely translated means what?
Trivia A. In late 1854, the founders agreed to name the town Topeka. They considered such names as Webster, Mid-Continent or Papan's Ferry before selecting an anglicized Indian word for "Topeka." Naturalist Thomas Say in 1819-1820 recorded an Otoe word for the river of Kansa: to-pe-o-ka, which meant good potato river," according to Quick Reference to Kansas: Lost – Found – Missing Towns and Places by Melvin D. Bruntzel. In more recent history, Topeka has been loosely translated Topeka to "great place to grow potatoes." A trip to the Topeka Room (second floor) will satisfy many a curiosity about Topeka trivia. Dig into reference books, maps, city directories, newspaper clippings and digital resources in the Topeka Room. Ask our staff about upcoming local history and genealogy programs, including the Ancestor Fair. Mark Oct. 19 on your calendars for talks from Lisa Arnold of Ancestry.com, Jan Wilkes of familysearch.com and Beth Foulk of genealogydecoded.com.
Aug. 27, 2013
Trivia Q. Which of the following Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks also won the Heisman? a.) Tom Brady b.) Brett Favre c.) Jim Plunkett d.) John Elway
Trivia A. C.) Jim Plunkett won the Heisman while he was at Stanford University and led the Oakland Raiders to two Super Bowl championships. The library is showing some of the Kansas City Chiefs' day games on our new big screen. Come watch the Cowboys vs. the Chiefs Sept. 15 at noon and the Raiders vs. the Chiefs Oct. 13 at noon.
Aug. 6, 2013
Trivia Q. What real person is Christopher Robin, from the Winnie the Pooh books, named after?
Trivia A. Christopher Robin is named after author A. A. Milne's own son, Christopher Robin Milne. Reconnect with Winnie the Pooh stories from your youth and introduce your children to this beloved character.
July 24, 2013
Trivia Q. What famous Austro-American actress/mathematician helped create the wireless radio technology which serves as the basis for mobile phones, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi?
Trivia A. Hedy Lamarr. You can look forward to racking your brain for answers to questions like this and others at our quarterly trivia competition. Get your team together. Space is still available for Trivia @ your library Saturday, July 27 at 3pm in Marvin Auditorium. Register by calling 580-4540.
July 9, 2013
Trivia Q. Where was the first place in Topeka where the public could view fine art?
Trivia A. According to the Topeka Public Library: Its First Hundred Years (Shawnee County Historical Society Bulletin, 1970), one of the conditions of the first building (on the statehouse grounds) was that it include art. The building was dedicated April 20, 1883, and the first exhibition of local artists was also in 1883. I am told that we were the first public art location in Topeka. Edward and Mary Wilder spearheaded the effort to create replicas of the masters, and at the beginning of the 1900s brought fine art from Europe back to Topeka and the Topeka Free Library, as it was then called. Answers to questions about the library's earliest days can be found in the Topeka Room (second floor).
June 25, 2013
Trivia Q. Of these musicians, which one does not have a child who's in the music industry? Richard Thompson, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Ravi Shankar, Dolly Parton, or Billy Ray Cyrus.
Trivia A. Dolly Parton. She raised many of her younger siblings, but never had children of her own. As for the others who do have musical offspring… Richard Thompson's son is Teddy Thompson, Jon Lennon's is Sean Lennon, Ravi Shankar is Norah Jones, Billy Ray Cyrus is Miley Cyrus. Find their music in our CD collection or download it via Freegal, a which offers you thousands upon thousands of tunes from the Sony Music collection.
June 11, 2013
Trivia Q. The following were presidential pets: Checkers, Heidi, Macaroni, Rex and Misty Malarky Ying Yang. Can you name the Presidents who owned them?
Trivia A. Checkers belonged to Richard Nixon. Heidi belonged to Dwight Eisenhower. Macaroni belonged to John F. Kennedy. Rex belonged to Ronald Reagan. Misty Malarky Ying Yang belonged to Jimmy Carter's daughter, Amy. Many of these pets traveled with their presidential owners. Where do you take your pet besides the vet? This summer we're soliciting pictures of your pet on vacation for our pet travel photo bulletin board and an online photo blog. Come on, show us just how cute your pet is. Submit your pet photo here.
May 28, 2013
Trivia Q. What was the name of the Double A minor league baseball team that Michael Jordan played for during the 1994 season?
Trivia A. Birmingham Barons. Check out the 2010 documentary Jordan Rides the Bus about Jordan's baseball career.
May 14, 2013
Trivia Q. What brand of golf ball is found in the whales blow hole when George pretends to be a marine biologist? A.) Titleist B.) MacGregor C.) Wilson D.) Pinnacle
Trivia A. A.) Titleist. Check out Seinfeld Seasons 1–9 from the library's catalog!
April 30, 2013
Trivia Q. Cedar Crest is the official residence of the Kansas Governor. Who was the original owner of Cedar Crest?
Trivia Answer. Topeka State Journal publisher Frank P. MacLennan
Check out Kansas First Families at Home: Residences, Residents and Recipes by Karen Carlin, executive editor, Robert W. Richmond, editor. Or the current governor's book From Power to Purpose: A Remarkable Journey of Faith and Compassion by Sam Brownback
April 16, 2013
Trivia Q. It's a trivia question worthy of tweeting about! Can you identify this bird (pictured) that's common to Kansas?
Trivia Answer. American Goldfinch
Both kids and grownups can have fun with birds when you check out our wide range of bird books. Start with the DVD Bill Nye the Science Guy: Birds and then move onto books like A Guide to Kansas Birds and Birding Hot Spots and The Crossley ID Guide Eastern Birds. We've got an ongoing partnership with the Topeka Audubon Society so look for nature programs in Library News.
April 3, 2013
Trivia Q. During baseball's opening day, the Rangers' Yu Darvish pitched a perfect game before the Astros' Marwin Gonzalez hit a single in the ninth inning. How many perfect games have been recorded in MLB history?
Trivia Answer. 23
Get your library card ready, baseball fans. You can find stories about the perfect game and the pitchers who can claim this rare feat at the library. Start with Perfect: Don Larsen's Miraculous World Series Game and the Men Who Made it Happen and Perfect: The Inside Story of Baseball's 20 Perfect Games and then move onto our sports magazines for recent stories about perfect games and pitchers. For those wanting to learn the sport, we've got you covered too with both instructional DVDs and books.
March 19, 2013
Trivia Q. Your library just hit a milestone anniversary for one of our most beloved services. Our Bookmobile traveled the streets of Topeka for the first time on March 15 of what year?
Trivia Answer. March 15, 1943. Happy 70th Anniversary Bookmobile!
The first bookmobile was called the Traveling Branch. Bookmobiles now stop at 16 locations around the county. Find a stop nearest you on our Bookmobile page.
March 5, 2013
Trivia Q. In the Seinfeld episode The Library, what was the name of the library investigations officer who went after Jerry for not returning a copy of Tropic of Cancer?
Trivia Answer. Mr. Bookman.
Check out the TV series (episodes 1-9) on DVD and books about the show's philosophy, including Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing – plus Jerry Seinfeld's comedy CDs.
Feb. 19, 2013
Trivia Q. In the novel Tender Is the Night we meet Dick Diver and Nicole Warren. Readers often interpret these two characters as alter egos for which real-life married authors?
Trivia Answer. F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, who were both authors. Fitzgerald penned Tender is the Night, but is best known for his novel The Great Gatsby, which the entire community is reading as part of The Big Read (Feb. 1–March 2). Learn all about The Big Read here.
Feb. 2, 2013
Trivia Q. After many years of silent films, the first full-length talking motion picture was released in the U.S. in 1927. What was its title?
Trivia Answer. The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, May McAvoy and Warner Oland. Jakie Rabinowitz runs away from home to become a talented jazz singer, but will the demands of a Jewish family and heritage be too much to resist? Check it out from the library. And celebrate the Roaring Twenties (and the Jazz Age) as we unite in reading The Great Gatsby as part of The Big Read 2013, a National Endowment for the Arts initiative to restore reading to the center of American culture. Roaring Twenties events going on now through March 2, when Queen Bey, a legendary jazz singer from Kansas City, performs.
Jan. 22, 2013
Trivia Q. What is the title of the novel that made F. Scott Fitzgerald famous and helped make the flapper movement a national fad? (Hint: It was his debut novel.)?
Trivia Answer. This Side of Paradise. Fitzgerald gained overnight fame when his debut novel came out – and almost as quickly a wife. Hear about Fitzgerald's life Feb. 17 at 1pm during a presentation by Kirk Curnutt, author, scholar and expert on the Fitzgeralds. All month of February, the community will unite in reading as part of The Big Read 2013, a National Endowment for the Arts initiative to restore reading to the center of American culture. Readers will be reading and discussing another popular Fitzgerald book, The Great Gatsby, during The Big Read (Feb. 1–March 2).
Jan. 8, 2013
Trivia Q. Who is the object of Jay Gatsby's obsessive love in the classic novel The Great Gatsby?
Trivia Answer. The beautiful Daisy Buchanan, wife of Tom Buchanan. Grab and go with your copy of this classic work by F. Scott Fitzgerald when you stop at the book display the library's atrium. All month of February, the community will unite in reading and talking about the story as part of The Big Read 2013, a National Endowment for the Arts initiative to restore reading to the center of American culture. Or reserve your copy of Gatsby online to pick up later.
Dec. 25, 2012
Trivia Q. On what year was Christmas declared a national holiday in the U.S.? a.) 1790 b.) 1818 c.) 1854 d.) 1870 e.) 1902
Trivia Answer. d.) June 26, 1870. In the U.S., it was not consistently celebrated across ethnic, religious and geographic divides for much of our history. Puritans condemned the holiday. Louisiana was the first state to declare Christmas a state holiday in 1837. 33 years later U.S. Congress followed suit. Discover where certain Christmas traditions came from and dig up local Christmas facts with a visit to the Topeka Room (second floor).
Dec. 11, 2012
Trivia Q. What social site is the fastest growing in the history of the internet?
Trivia A. Pinterest. Did you know your library is on Pinterest? Access our boards. Browse through staff picks, get new DIY ideas and drool over pictures of food. We even have a library lounge board for you to hang out in.
Nov. 27, 2012
Trivia Q. Who plays Woodie Guthrie in the 1976 film adaptation of his autobiography Bound for Glory?
Trivia A. David Carradine. Check out Bound for Glory on DVD from the library. You can also check out the book Bound for Glory if you prefer reading to watching.
Nov. 13, 2012
Trivia Q. At McKinley High School, what is the preferred item for the popular students to throw at the unpopular students (or rather, what do the athletes throw at the Glee Club members)?
Trivia A. Slushies. Check out Glee on DVD from the library. You can also get many of the series' music CDs here too.
Oct. 30, 2012
Trivia Q. In the children's picture book Pinkalicious, what color of foods must the little girl eat to undo her pink color change?
Trivia A. Green. Check out Pinkalicious by Victoria Kann and Elizabeth Kann at the library. This is a popular book with young girls. We own several copies of titles in the Pinkalicious series.
Oct. 16, 2012
Trivia Q. Which Greek heroine refused to marry any man who could not beat her in a footrace, those who lost being killed?
Trivia A. Atalanta. Check out stories of Greek mythology at the library. Start with Greek Myths by Diane Namm
Oct. 2, 2012
Trivia Q. What major league baseball hall of famer grew up in Commerce, Oklahoma and played briefly for the Kansas City Blues in the minor leagues?
Trivia A. Mickey Mantle of the Yankees. Check out The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy
Sept. 18, 2012
Trivia Q. What Oscar-winning Best Picture film BEGINS with the title character's death in a motorcycle crash?
Trivia A. Lawrence of Arabia. Check out the movie, plus read Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda
Sept. 4, 2012
Trivia Q. On a popular CBS show, a lead character frequently wears colored comic-book themed T-shirts, with the color of the shirt worn in the scene being a clue to his mood. What is the name of this character?
Trivia A. Sheldon. Check out Big Bang Theory Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 from the library!
If you just can't get enough trivia, form a team of family, friends or coworkers and sign up for the library's popular quarterly Trivia Night and Trivia Afternoon. Check for upcoming trivia events in Library News, our bimonthly newspaper.
And if you want to organize your own trivia night, check out our free guide, written by our Trivia Night experts! http://tscpl.org/library-stories/how-to-trivia


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I'll be there Feb 27-March 13. Any recommendations for good cheap single accom studios with kitchenette in Armeos, Masouri, Myrties close to climber's hangouts? Sounds like finding people to climb with shouldn't be a problem, but if anyone will be there, lemme know! I'll be pretty much off the couch when i get there, usually good to lead 5.9-easy 5.10 and expect to be up to hard ten, easy eleven sportiness in a week or so.
Dang, zero response in almost a week. I hope Kalymnos actually exists!
i have a couple buddies out here who have been to kalymnos a few times.....i'll see what i can find out
ritas is the place to be on the cheap, that's right in massouri. i really like poppie's cause it's out of the way, a little nicer, and the internet is good - that's in myrties. avra's is also super cheap and maybe even more central than ritas... really though, i wouldn't bother making a reservation, there's plenty of places to stay and you'll figure it all out when you get there. you're going to have a blast, man, that place is SICK!
Thank you Ryan! I say again:
ok, so the word i'm getting is that you'll want to stay in masaori....thats where most of the climbing is. the guys who owns the local climber bar rents out sakis studios. if not, go to elenas. you'll want to rent a scooter too hope that helps, good luck dude
Back again. It was fun
hey, how was sakis? I'm flying out in 10 days going solo. Was finding a climbing partner pretty easy? Were there people hanging out at bars or anything at night?

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CAA hike in Gatwick costs criticised by BA boss
Mr Walsh went on: "The Gatwick proposals, which will result in a significant increase in charges, are completely unjustifiable, totally unacceptable and directly contravene the CAA's new remit to represent customers' interests.
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"We will make strong representations to Dame Deirdre and the board to reconsider this proposal."


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The government shutdown has left the owners of some local craft breweries waiting to open wondering whether their plans will have to be put on hold.
The craft beer industry is governed by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, or TTB; all new companies are required to receive permits from the TTB, which is currently closed down.
Mike Wagner, who owns Little Giant Brewery in Bradenton, is getting ready to open in January but still needs a permit.
"It's kind of a limbo situation which could potentially hold us up quite a bit," said Wagner, who is currently on a business trip as he prepares his business. "Hopefully they work the politics out and get things open again so that we can just have the piece of mind to know that our plan that we've been working on for years is going to come through in the time that we want it to."
Ryan Dowdle, who works at Cigar City, is also getting ready to open a new brewery in Seminole Heights.
He already as a permit but knows his business will also be impacted if the government shutdown lasts past his grand opening because the TTB also approves all new recipes and labels.
"We actually will brew beers to the season," Dowdle said. "Unfortunately if the government doesn't open back up, I won't be able to release those beers. That directly impacts my revenue."
Wagner said there are about a dozen craft beer companies planning to open in the Bay Area in the next six months.
"We really want to be a positive part of the community and the economy at large but this is just holding us up," he said. "If [the shutdown continues], then the frustration level will increase for everyone quite significantly, I'm sure."
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Man City prepared to offer more than Man Utd for Ronaldo
Manchester City is reportedly set to break the bank to bring in Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo if he becomes available this summer.
Looking to hijack Manchester United's attempt to sign the Portuguese ace, City is prepared to beat any financial offer that United puts to Ronaldo, hinting that they could pay more than 300,000 pounds-a-week to get their man, the Daily Star reports.
According to the report, City chairman Sheikh Mansur has made it clear to the club's chief executive Ferran Soriano and football director Txiki Begiristain that should Ronaldo come onto the market, City have to do everything possible to clinch his signature.
Although Ronaldo has a big emotional pull from Real, with United spending five months trying to put together a deal to bring the player back to Old Trafford, the report however, said that City is ready to overcome that hurdle and have made it clear that if Real is open to letting him leave, they will go as far as it takes to beat their Manchester rivals.
Ronaldo has two years left of his current deal in Spain, but despite making public claims a new deal is close, Real have yet to make any formal contract offer, which has increased optimism at United that they can seal a stunning summer transfer, although the report said that City's late interest will cause concern at Old Trafford. (ANI)
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- Man Utd hope to lure Ronaldo following denial of contract renewal with Real
- Man Utd hopes Real capture Bale to open door for Ronaldo exit
- Man City plan sensational £95m bid to sign Cristiano Ronaldo
- Man Utd approach Ronaldo to gain early lead over chasers
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Chris Matthews and Robert Reich Ironically Discuss 'Republican Lies About Jobs'
Former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich wrote a truly nonsensical piece for the Huffington Post Tuesday ironically called "The Republicans' Big Lies About Jobs."
MSNBC's Chris Matthews must have loved this tripe and its sophomoric title for he invited the Berkeley professor on Wednesday's "Hardball" so that the pair could put on a clinic in liberal economic fantasy (video follows with partial transcript and oodles of commentary):
REPRESENTATIVE ERIC CANTOR (R-VIRGINIA): We have adopted a two-track approach called cut and grow. Now, the first part, cut, is obvious. We know that we have to stop spending money that we don't have, and we have to begin managing the money we do have and spend it more wisely. The American people are tightening their belts and Washington should too. The growth part is about those gazelles, growing businesses that add new employees every month, keeping regulators from running amok.
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Welcome back to "Hardball." That was House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Monday out at Stanford University. His speech on the economy prompted a reaction from former labor secretary Robert Reich in the Huffington Post. We all read it. Reich wrote about what he called, "Republicans' Big Lies About Jobs." Reich says there are five of them: deficit cuts somehow create jobs; tax cuts for the rich create jobs; corporate tax cuts create jobs; wage and benefit cuts create jobs; regulation killing creates jobs, and; regulations kill jobs. […]
Robert, you say what we were taught in school. So, is there somebody teaching something else? I mean, if you want people to spend more money, you give them more money in wages or whatever, you don't fire them and leave them as paupers, because they're not very good consumers then. When you fire people, take away their rights to bargain for higher wages you take away their ability to spend their wages.
So, what is this thing, this sort of religion course we're getting, this primer we're getting from Cantor? What is it, neo-classical from the 19th century? Where does he believe that stuff from?
From here, Reich repeated some of the nonsense in his piece concerning how spending cuts would be the end of the world now, and President Obama needs to push back to prevent this from happening.
However, what was stunning about this over eight minute segment was how Matthews and Reich admitted that the economy is in terrible shape while claiming it was caused by spending cuts that haven't happened yet.
What they both totally ignored was the fact that spending has increased by 41 percent since 2007 while unemployment has risen from 4.4 percent to 8.9 percent as the country lost seven million jobs.
Sound to you like this massive increase in spending over the past four years has done any good?
But even better, towards the end of the segment, Reich let a really inconvenient truth slip: "This is the most anemic recovery we've had from a deep hole since the Great Depression."
Please notice that Matthews agreed, as of course do I.
And that's the point, for we've increased federal spending by 41 percent without it resulting in much economic improvement. Yet Matthews, Reich, and their ilk believe cutting spending will hurt the economy.
In reality, we now have two distinct economic periods in the past 80 years when huge increases in federal spending were made to try to pull the nation out of a "deep hole," and neither has worked.
From 1929 to 1939, annual federal outlays tripled from roughly $3 billion to $9 billion. Did it help?
Hardly. The unemployment rate was 3.2 percent in 1929. Having peaked at roughly 25 percent in 1933, it was still at 17.2 percent at the end of 1939.
Did a tripling in outlays end the Depression? Certainly not, which means that massive federal spending has not solved the worst two economic crises of the last 80 years.
But let's take this a step further. The Left and their media minions always like to use the Clinton Era as an example of how raising taxes can actually spark economic growth.
Of course, we conservatives know that the early '90s recession ended in the 2nd quarter of 1991, and that the economy was already booming before the former governor of Arkansas was elected. We also understand that the creation of the Pentium chip as well as internet routers sparked a technological and economic boom like nothing most baby boomers had ever seen.
Ignoring all that, the 90s was also a period of fiscal restraint in Washington. On-budget spending (meaning not including Social Security and Medicare) only grew by 42 percent.
In the '80s, this rose by 115 percent, which was actually down from 184 percent in the '70s. Spending grew by 107 percent in the '60s. More recently, on-budget spending in the '00s rose 117 percent.
This means that if the Left and their media minions want to use the Clinton years as the blueprint for economic success, they should realize that government spending during that period increased at the slowest pace in the last five decades.
Putting even a finer point on this, spending in the '90s grew at less than 1/3 the rate of the average of the other four decades – meaning that the four decade mean growth was three times the '90s.
Add this to the failure of massive spending increases to get us out of the Depression and the most recent recession, and it's clearly preposterous to claim that growth in government is at all economically stimulative.
What was that Matthews and Reich were saying about big lies?
*****Update: A great comment from NBer TheHistorian has led me to go further back in time to make a finer point about how wrong Matthews and Reich are. Spending rose 95 percent in the '50s, 366 percent in the '40s, 188 percent in the '30s, 814 percent in the '10s, and 33 percent in the 1900s.
I skipped the Roaring Twenties because as TheHistorian accurately pointed out, this was a unique decade in American history when spending declined by a whopping 48 percent.
You read that correctly: spending declined by almost half after World War I!
And why was this decade called the Roaring Twenties?
Well, let's let the liberal Wikipedia tell us:
The 1920s was a decade of increased consumer spending and economic growth fed by supply side economic policy. The post war saw three consecutive Republican administrations in the U.S. All three took the conservative position of forging a close relationship between those in government and big business. When President Warren Harding took office in 1921, the national economy was in the depths of a depression with an unemployment rate of 20% and runaway inflation. Harding proposed to reduce the national debt, reduce taxes, protect farming interests, and cut back on immigration. Harding didn't live to see it, but most of his agenda was passed by the Congress. These policies led to the "boom" of the Coolidge years.
One of the main initiatives of both the Harding and Coolidge administrations was the rolling back of income taxes on the wealthy which had been raised during World War I. It was believed that a heavy tax burden on the rich would slow the economy, and actually reduce tax revenues. This tax cut was achieved under President Calvin Coolidge's administration. Furthermore, Coolidge consistently blocked any attempts at government intrusion into private business. Harding and Coolidge's managerial approach sustained economic growth throughout most of the decade. However, the overconfidence of these years contributed to the speculative bubble that sparked the stock market crash and the Great Depression. The government's role as an arbiter rather than an active entity continued under President Herbert Hoover. Hoover worked to get businessmen to respond to the crisis by calling them into conferences and urging them to cooperate. Hoover's vigorous attempts to get business to end the depression failed.
When the income tax was established in 1913, the highest marginal tax rate was 7 percent; it was increased to 77 percent in 1916 to help finance World War I. The top rate was reduced to as low as 25 percent in 1925. The "normalcy" of the 1920s incorporated considerably higher levels of federal spending and taxes than the Progressive era before World War I. From 1929 to 1933, under President Hoover's administration, real per capita federal expenditures increased by 88 percent.
In 1920-1921 there was an acute recession, followed by the sustained recovery throughout the 1920s. The Federal Reserve expanded credit, by setting below market interest rates and low reserve requirements that favored big banks, and the money supply actually increased by about 60% during the time following the recession. By the latter part of the decade "buying on margin" entered the American vocabulary as more and more Americans over-extended themselves to speculate on the soaring stock market and expanding credit. Very few expected the crash that began in 1929, and none suspected it would be so drastic or so prolonged.
Of course, the excitement and excessive speculation toward the end of this extraordinary economic period indeed led to Wall Street's crash and the Great Depression, although the collapse actually began in Europe.
Regardless, the next time someone tells you that you can't cut taxes and spending at the same time, you should not only mention Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, but also how the economy exploded as a result.
As it pertains to Matthews and Reich, isn't it interesting that two of the strongest economic decades in the previous century occurred during periods of tight fiscal policy while the worst periods were when our elected officials spent like there was no tomorrow?
Exit question: why can't Americans learn from our own history what works and what doesn't?
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Great column
Submitted by merly1 on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 9:37pm.
Home run on this analysis!
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Here is just a partial record
Submitted by Van Halen on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 9:46pm.
Here is just a partial record of the last 27 months of the Obama administration which could be written on a piece of paper, rolled up and used to swat both Matthews and Reich across the face over and over. Let them defend this:
(Remember, it's a PARTIAL list.)
record deficits, record unemployment, longest jobless stretch since the 1930's, record bank failures, record foreclosures, record trade deficits, record poverty rate, failing dollar, national poverty at record highest level, foreign policy disasters, record number of golf games played by a president, record death toll in Afghanistan, record number of food stamp recipients, consumer confidence at record lows, home values have fallen to Depression levels
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Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 10:07pm.
To paraphrase Whoopi Goldberg, you're only saying this because Obama is black. No one would ever say anything like this about a white president. O.k. they said bad things about George W. Bush all the time, but still. Obama's black so lay off the poor guy.
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Another point is the Roaring 20's
Submitted by TheHistorian on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 9:47pm.
The 20's were ushered in by the Woodrow Wilson spending, culminating in a panic in 1920. Harding cut the Federal work force and taxes by about 1/3. The result was the biggest increase in middle-class prosperity in the last 100 years, called the "Roaring 20's".
Demonstrates that cutting Federal spending and taxes does a lot to improve the economy.
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Wilsonites who served in the Federal govt . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 10:17am.
. . . during the First World War were Progressive proponents of heavy government control of the economy and social engineering, and used the war "emergency" as an excuse to impose new regulations. FDR was an Assistant Secretary of the Navy around this period.
As some historians noted, FDR's New Deal was inspired by the Wilson Administration's power grab. It modeled many of its programs along those lines, and then went a great deal further.
In both cases, these regulations were dreamed up by attorneys with little or no economics training or business experience.
Now take a look at the regulation kings (czars) in the Obama Administration.
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Prissy and Herr Reich can put all the lipstick on this pig of an
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 9:55pm.
...economy they want, but at the end of the day, it is still sucking wind while thrashing wildly about in the mud, as it slides ever nearer to the edge of the cliff.
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Good point, Dave. Chris 'last
Submitted by Van Halen on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 10:09pm.
Good point, Dave. Chris 'last place in the ratings per Drudge yesterday' Matthews can bring Robert Reich on to talk to us like we're three-year-olds about how wonderful Obama is, but at this point in time, virtually everyone in the country knows someone broke, unemployed, or on the battlefield.
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But, but, but...
Submitted by Dave81 on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 10:02pm.
But a LIBERAL said it's all lies without any data or rationale to justify it, so it MUST be true, right??
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not just the Lord who giveth and taketh away
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 10:18pm.
They can talk this way because they know with the Republicans in control of the checkbook any new massive spending will not happen. What this is meant to do is to convince the unwashed gullible that the Liberals have a plan. Of course it's the only plan they ever have and has never worked but they keep selling their 'Miracle Cure' to the sick who are hoping for a miracle.
The Spread the Wealth socialists have no method of growing an economy. They can only steal from the productive to give to others. While we see a growing poverty class as a tragedy the Liberals are seeing more potential politically dependent voters for themselves. It is to their advantage to have just two Americas, one rich and one poor, with the poor outnumbering the rich. A middle class is too hard to control. The poor of course are dependent and the rich can be controlled by special legislation favorable to whatever is their source of income.
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Submitted by Agnostic on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 10:30pm.
The ability to grow an economy is severely limited when you are fighting to prevent an income gap which is the class warfare tool of every socialist everywhere. Without an income gap your methods of expanding an economy are limited to new inventions and new markets. The US can not compete with new markets on price and with the government now choosing winners and loser we will soon be unable to count on new inventions. Income gaps that occur when investors are willing to invest create jobs and markets quickly and usually at higher rates of pay but with a more volatile environment.
The liberals don't seem to care that someone in the middle class builds yachts or does custom marble work. get rid of the income gap and those reasonably well paying jobs go away. Those jobs go away, unemployment goes up, investors get nervous, the wealthy hold their money and the income gap increases. Unfortunately no one is investing so the situation becomes stagnant and there is not enough income to tax to maintain government spending. So it is either tax wealth or continue on with their failed plans.
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michael row your boat ashore
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 10:51pm.
Liberals only want one thing, power.
By doing whatever it takes to get that power.
When a Liberal sees people scraping by picking over trash at a garbage dump they see an injustice. Not the one you and I see. What they see is that people who have money are the cause of these rag pickers because the wealthy have hoarded the countries wealth.
What Conservatives see is a system that is denying these people a chance at opportunity for self improvement.
Or to put it another way imagine a boat with many people but only a few oars. In order to get the boat moving the Liberals want the few people with oars to row harder whereas Conservatives want to install more oars.
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liberals and power
Submitted by Agnostic on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 11:08pm.
There are those but the average liberal not in DC or a state capitol isn't necessarily out for power as much as social justice. The fact that the only way to approach the idea of social justice to remove power from the individual isn't usually part of the thought process. It seems that every generation believes that some form of socialism can coexist with individual liberty and that only works if you have an outside source of capital not reliant upon the earning potential of the economy. This is why the economic ideas of liberalism sometimes sound adolescent - as long as that outside source (Mom and Dad) provide the income then there are no real economic consequences to the freedom of the individual regardless of the degree of error.
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Head bumpers
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 10:23pm.
Tingles and Reich must have bumped heads when bowing to the Messiah. Perhaps one of Tingles site monitoring staffers can bring him back to earth by telling him that It is the truth that will set you free.
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Who cares
Submitted by grammajane on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 11:05pm.
Who cares what Tingles and his radical libs say. According to Drudge, nobody views HardBall anyway.
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What the hell does that
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 11:16pm.
What the hell does that little twerp Reich know about 'jobs' and 'employment'...............has the guy ever had a 'real' job in the private sector where he had to produce and make sense and turn in positive results??? I think the guy's been a public employee his whole life, so he wouldn't have a clue about how jobs or employment are created................
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Spot on
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 9:06am.
He's a lifelong academic and govt employee. He studies from on high (or maybe while high--he does teach at Berkeley) and expounds his opinions.
Problem is, his opinions don't seem to follow any logical framework, as his comments with Matthews indicate. He's a big union supporter, stating that unions are very beneficial for America across the board. He's just totally out of touch with reality.
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He was a public employee his whole life
Submitted by no tingly legs on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 9:26am.
because no racehorse owner wanted to hire him as a jockey.
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The MSM celebrates "Professor" Reich as an expert on . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 2:14pm.
. . . economics, but he's a lawyer by training, with some studies in 'political economics,' which is economics by ideology vice theory and math.
Of course, in the New Deal, all the economists in the government were lawyers.
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1984 George Orwell
Submitted by dmaley1714 on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 11:35pm.
Reich's balls are bigger than he is to somehow twist George Orwellls classic anti big goverment novella into a defense of big government beuarcracy is beyond reason.
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There haven't been any of the
Submitted by jdhawk on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 4:05am.
There haven't been any of the following:
deficit cuts - we are spending ourselves into destitution
rich tax cuts - there haven't been any tax cuts for the rich in nearly tens years
corporate tax cuts - there haven't been any tax cuts for corporations in nearly ten years
wage cuts in public sector jobs reduce the tax burden on all, while avoiding local, city, county, and state bankruptcy
regulations do kill jobs - had the card check or cap and trade been voted into law - the latter would have added hundreds of billions in expense to corporation that would have been passed on to us.
In other words, Reich is full of crap - again . . . .
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No Trace Of Conscience
Submitted by Boil It Down on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 4:58am.
With no conscience at all, they are able to continue spewing this swill and still sleep at night.
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Is it just me,
Submitted by johnsonl on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 7:36am.
or do all Berkeley college professors look like hippies? Seriously, liberal freaks. There comes a time in your life, hopefully by your 30's, when you take a bath, shave, get a haircut and dress like an adult for work. The whole flower child look is pathetic if you expect normal people to take you seriously, no matter how smart or well spoken you are.
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Is it just me,
Submitted by johnsonl on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 7:36am.
or do all Berkeley college professors look like hippies? Seriously, liberal freaks. There comes a time in your life, hopefully by your 30's, when you take a bath, shave, get a haircut and dress like an adult for work. The whole flower child look is pathetic if you expect normal people to take you seriously, no matter how smart or well spoken you are.
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Regulations don't kill jobs?
Submitted by kronological on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 9:36am.
REALLY? So, just how many incandescent bulb manufacturing plants do we have in the US?
And taxing the 'rich' less doesn't create jobs? Well, yes, your leftist alternative certainly works better. Lets just tax the snot out of them. Why...remember the luxury tax? Wonderful, that. Worked out so well for boat manufacturers and the people they once employed.
The only thing these dolts do well is sit around back-slapping each other upon each moronic comment that oozes from their gaping pie-holes.
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Regulations do create jobs...
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 9:42am.
... problem is they're all government jobs that suck money out of the economy.
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Reich & Matthews are the
Submitted by fitzfong on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 9:52am.
Reich & Matthews are the proverbial turds that somehow managed to float to the top of the bowl. Two complete economic illiterates, these ignorant gasbags have perversely managed to be highly overcompensated...further solidifying their economic illiteracy and making them significant drains on the organizations that employ them. Essentially they are where they are because those that employ them are either more stupid or corrupt than even they are.
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." -George Best
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Wikipedia is not necessarily "liberal"
Submitted by gopcongress on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 11:18am.
I've noted that Wikipedia is not centralized in the authorative or controlling sense for most articles. What it does have is a methodology of ensuring that statements are cited from "credible" sources, the word credible of course in quotes because the sources may themselves determine the actual credibility of the statement.
That being said, anyone can actually edit most Wikipedia articles, including one of us. As long as we maintain the strict encyclopediac standards, then the bias would only be directed by the latest revisionists, not Wikipedia as a whole.
"The news and truth are not the same thing." -Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)
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The real problem
Submitted by dreamsincolor on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 12:53pm.
with ALL of these economically challenged leftists is they don't want equality, they want mediocrity.
They are under the assumption that if they take the wealth from the rich and give it to the poor everyone will be better off. So OK, say they accomplish that, now we have no rich people to give other people jobs. Instead of making things better, they just make everyone poor(er).
Logic escapes these people.
Margaret Thatcher made the point more simply in 1979 when she said "The problem with socialism is that you very quickly run out of other people's money".
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FVTC helping feed demand for pilots
June 30, 2011
From The Northwestern: "FVTC helping to feed demand for pilots, which is only expected to increase"–
Joe Arnold remembers his first flight.
He was three years old and the blue airplane was big enough to seat him, the pilot, his dad and his stuffed animal, Birdy. While Birdy got the front seat view, Arnold was bitten by the flight bug.
His fascination with flight continued as he was growing up, first with a learn to fly day at the local airport in Wisconsin Rapids when he was a teenager and continuing on to six years of flight school – sandwiched around two military deployments. After graduating from the aeronautics program at Fox Valley Technical College earlier this year, Arnold has now joined the staff as an aeronautics flight intern and is helping teach the next classes of hopeful pilots to fly.
Tavern training scholarships available
June 30, 2011
From the Wausau Daily Herald: "Tavern training scholarships available"– A group consisting of Marathon County Tavern League members, local law enforcement officers, public health educators and Northcentral Technical College staff received $9,000 this year for scholarships. The grant money is available through the Marathon County Alcohol and Other Drugs Partnership Council for scholarships to the Responsible Beverage Server training at NTC.
The scholarship covers a $25 course fee for the revised RBS training course offered at NTC. The course at NTC is the only classroom training available in central Wisconsin. Training takes place the second Wednesday of each month.
For a scholarship application, call Renee Trowbridge, public health educator for the Marathon County Health Department, at 715-261-1931.
FVTC students receive scholarships
June 30, 2011
From Waupaca Now, "Bestul receives nursing scholarship" -- The Riverside Health Foundation has awarded $10,000 in scholarships to nine Waupaca-area residents who plan to pursue careers in healthcare. Jordan Bestul of Manawa is one of the recipients.
"By awarding these scholarships, we help support health care education for our future providers and honor the legacy of those who have served our community," said Steve Huhta, president of the Riverside Health Foundation. "We are proud of these hard-working students as they continue their education and pursue careers in healthcare."
The board administers three scholarship funds that were established to honor Dr. Marshall and Mary Boudry; Isabelle Rowe; and Nancy B. Salan.
The Isabelle Rowe Nursing Scholarship was established to assist non-traditional students in pursuit of an education leading to a career in nursing. This year three recipients received $1,000: Kelsea Moore, of Scandinavia, plans to attend UW-Fox Valley; Jordan Bestul, of Manawa, plans to attend Fox Valley Technical College; and Corinne Lund, of Wild Rose, is attending Fox Valley Technical College.
The Boudry Health Career Scholarship, established by the Boudry family, hopes to expand health care opportunities by encouraging promising young scholars to fulfill career goals in medicine. This year three recipients each received $1,000.
NWTC teaches motorcycle safety
June 30, 2011
From WLUK-TV, Fox 11: "Motorcycle season brings safety reminders"– GREEN BAY – With more than one of every ten traffic deaths in Wisconsin being a motorcycle rider, officials say it is important to remember safety on the roads.
"The safety is paramount, the riding techniques are proven techniques, everybody is hopefully going to be riding the same and using the same safety techniques," said Gene Rousseau, who currently teaches motorcycle safety at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College.
One technique Rousseau preaches is to be defensive.
"You're only on two wheels and you don't have this cage around you, this protective barrier around you like in a car or pickup truck," said Rousseau.
"When you're out there riding your bike there's a lot of traffic, there's deer and I think that if you learn these techniques and these skills it will help you to prevent any crashes and accidents," said Garrett Roush of Green Bay who is taking the motorcycle class at NWTC.
SCJ donates $100,000 for Gateway scholarships
June 28, 2011
From the Journal Times: "SCJ donates $100,000 for Gateway scholarships" RACINE – SC Johnson has donated $100,000 to Gateway Technical College for student scholarships, the college announced Monday.
The donation is being used to create an endowed scholarship fund for Gateway students in recognition of the college's 100th anniversary this year.
"We're very proud to be able to have the support from SCJ to be able to provide opportunities for students," Gateway President Bryan Albrecht said. "Our students in particular need financial support and the scholarships will help provide education to a lot of young people in our community."
Up to five $1,000 scholarships will be awarded annually to students enrolled in any associate degree program. The average cost of attaining a Gateway associate degree is $3,800 per year so the scholarships will make a difference, Albrecht said.
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MPTC students celebrate GED, HSED success
June 27, 2011
From the Fond du Lac Reporter: "Students celebrate GED, HSED success"– For some high school students, work, family life and other obstacles have prevented them from graduating with a high school diploma.
Students who attended the Moraine Park Technical College General Educational Development (GED) and High School Equivalency Diploma (HSED) graduation ceremony on June 16 overcame these obstacles to achieve the first step to educational success.
"To earn a GED, a candidate must demonstrate a level of skill that is rigorous and standardized to all graduating seniors," said Sandra Huenink, Moraine Park dean of basic education.
More than 300 students completed the GED/HSED program at Moraine Park during the past year.
"This is a milestone to celebrate and enjoy," Huenink said. "By obtaining your GED or HSED, you have opened new doors to your future and should be proud of your success."
New MPTC president returns to roots
June 27, 2011
From the Fond du Lac Reporter: "New MPTC president returns to roots"– Sheila Ruhland is ready to take on the challenge of Gov. Scott Walker's budget bill as new president of Moraine Park Technical College.
The two-year, $66-billion state budget, headed to Walker's desk after it cleared the state Legislature with only Republican votes, cuts aid to technical colleges by 30 percent, or $72 million.
"I recognize the work ahead and the challenges we are now faced with," Ruhland said. "I am coming aboard to join a very strong team set up under the previous leadership."
Federal budget cuts that support career technical education also appear to be eminent, she said.
"No doubt the cuts will have an impact on our school and our property tax levy, as well as collective bargaining with our faculty and staff. I intend to provide leadership and support to these groups," Ruhland said.
Nicolet College anticipates another enrollment jump
June 27, 2011
From the Northwoods River News: "Nicolet College anticipates another enrollment jump in fall" — Nicolet Area Technical College is about two months away from the start of the 2011 fall semester, and already, enrollment numbers are on the trajectory for another increase.
The college's Director of Admissions Susan Kordula said about 1,000 students are registered in one of Nicolet's programs for the fall, an approximate 3 percent increase from what enrollment was at in June of last year. Kordula said about one-third of the college's students enroll during the months of June, July and August, putting Nicolet on another projected enrollment increase once classes begin Aug. 24.
"The economy hasn't really changed and in down times, people go back to school," Kordula said.
Some of Nicolet's programs are already filled. The Culinary Arts and Barber/Cosmetology programs have reached their capacity (each program is able to take in approximately 20 new students). Others (e.g. all the health-related programs) are filling up fast Kordula said. Even if a program is already full, students can still enroll and begin meeting some basic course requirements Kordula added.
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From the Journal Times: "Youth offenders receive diplomas"–
RACINE — Joseph Williams was all smiles Friday morning as he stepped up to receive his high school diploma. As family and friends cheered, the 22-year-old and 71 other graduates achieved a goal that for many had seemed impossible.
Williams and his fellow students are all inmates at the Racine Youthful Offender Correctional Facility (RYOC), 1501 Albert St., a medium security adult institution for male offenders between the ages of 15 and 24. RYOC offers inmates classes to build their skills to help them re-enter the workforce upon release.
Many of the men, like Williams, had not attended school for years prior to incarceration and relished the opportunity to improve their lives.
"I didn't go to school before I got in here," Williams said. "It's not a good thing that I got in here, but it was a good wakeup call … My degree means when I get out of here I can keep going to school, better my life, get a job."
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From the Post Crescent: "Communities try to remain optimistic jobs will return after mill closure"– KIMBERLY — Ontonagon, Mich., and Kimberly have something in common — both are grappling with the closure of paper mills and the loss of hundreds of good-paying jobs.
To passers-by, both sites appear capable of resuming production at a moment's notice. But residents and leaders of the two villages wonder what the future holds as the Ontonagon mill is readied for demolition and Kimberly's NewPage mill awaits the fate that will be decided by the scrap metal recycling company that now owns both mills.
The mill in Ontonagon, which operated for about 90 years, employed about 180 people when it closed in December 2009. American Iron & Metal Co. Inc., a scrap metal specialist from Montreal, purchased the Ontonagon mill in January and plans to tear down the facility.
New agreement makes transfer easier for NTC students
June 27, 2011
Inside Newsroom of UW-Green Bay: "Initiative extends UW-Green Bay bachelor's options for Wausau tech students"– A program starting this fall will make it easier for students from the Wausau-based Northcentral Technical College to transfer in at junior status and earn bachelor's degrees from UW-Green Bay.
The two schools finalized the partnership this past spring in a signing ceremony at NTC's main campus in Wausau. UW-Green Bay Chancellor Tom Harden and President Lori Weyers (above) represented their respective institutions.
Under the agreement, UW-Green Bay will offer some weekend classes at NTC and employ an academic adviser on that campus to help placebound NTC graduates earn their bachelor's degrees either fully online or in combination with weekend offerings.
"What they'll get from the program we offer is an opportunity to extend the application of those technical skills, to get a broader education," Harden told reporters at the April announcement. "To think sometimes in a broader way, a different way, is something you find business leaders looking for in employees."
A student who earns 60 credits from NTC can begin as a junior with UW-Green Bay, regardless of when he or she earned a degree from NTC.
MPTC recognizes Board's deputy director with award
June 24, 2011
From the Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin: "Moraine Park Technical College recognizes Board's deputy director with Basic Education Award – Madison, WI — Moraine Park Technical College held its General Educational Development (GED) and High School Equivalency Diploma (HSED) graduation ceremony on June 16, 2011 at its Fond du Lac campus.
As part of the ceremony to recognize the accomplishments of GED/HSED graduates, Seth Lentz of the Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin was presented with the Friend of Basic Education Award. He also gave the congratulatory address to Moraine Park's graduates at the ceremony.
The award was presented to Lentz for his work in driving adult basic education and career pathway development. Lentz began working with the Moraine Park Technical College-Beaver Dam campus in 2008 to develop and launch a short-term skills development and transition center to serve as an access point for dislocated, unemployed and underprepared workers in South Central Wisconsin. The platform design of the skill center includes case management, financial literacy, GED completion, and basic computer literacy services to help adults prepare for the high level of skills required for today's jobs.
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Agriculture careers on the rise
June 24, 2011
From Fox 11: "FVTC: Agriculture careers on the rise"–APPLETON – A local tech school says jobs are booming in agriculture.
On Thursday, Fox Valley Technical College held a special boot camp to help students explore those opportunities.
"This industry is moving forward really fast," instructor Jason Fischer said. He says you don't need to be from a farm to take advantage.
The school held the day long camp to help people interested in agriculture explore their options and get some hands on experience.
"It was a lot of fun," attendee Laura Sorenson said. "This was the first time I actually drove a tractor, so I had a blast."
"I would like a career in agriculture, but I'm not quite sure what," Jeremy Uitenbroek said.
Originally the free session was designed for displaced workers, but a grant helped widen the opportunity for anyone curious about agriculture.
Madison College instructor receives national award
June 23, 2011
From WisBusiness.com: "Madison College: Instructor receives prestigious national award" — Madison Area Technical College information technology instructor Andy Czerkas and his wife Jenny, a Madison College graduate, received the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis award at the recent national Jefferson Awards in Washington, D.C.
Andy and Jenny founded The River Food Pantry in Madison about ten years ago. The pantry provides hot meals, groceries, clothing and household items to about 21,000 Dane County families that are struggling to make ends meet.
The Jefferson Awards are considered the "Nobel Prize for public service." They are presented to unsung heroes for their extraordinary and selfless volunteer work.
The Czerkas' were among a "who's who" of award winners. Others receiving national honors at the Jefferson Awards ceremony included Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sports owner Jerry Reinsdorf and actress Marlo Thomas.
Madison College hosts construction trade fair
June 23, 2011
From WisBusiness.com: "Madison College: Hosts construction trade fair" — Interested in a career in the building trades?
Madison Area Technical College is hosting a Construction Trade Fair from 3 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 28 in the Truax campus cafeteria, 3550 Anderson Street.
Eric Cobb, executive director of the Buildings and Construction Trades Council of South Central Wisconsin, will be among those talking about career and apprenticeship opportunities in the building trades.
Madison College representatives will also be available to answer questions about the first phase of the College's building plan and the construction bidding process. The $134 million project was overwhelmingly approved by voters last November. Groundbreaking for Madison College's new Health Education Building is scheduled for this September.
The College will hold similar trade fairs this August in Reedsburg, Portage, Fort Atkinson and Watertown.
Colleges do the lost-aid shuffle
June 22, 2011
From the LaCrosse Tribune: "Colleges do the lost-aid shuffle" —
Staff cuts and financial juggling will help the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and Western Technical College absorb the impact of the pending cuts in the state budget bill passed last week.
Anticipating a $2.4 million reduction because of the bill, Western officials opted to eliminate 12 full-time faculty and staff positions. Seven will be laid off and five vacated positions will be phased out, effective next month.
Wade Hackbarth, controller for Western, called the state aid cut a major issue.
Facing about $10.4 million in possible cuts for the next biennium, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse officials will eliminate two non-faculty staff positions in the university's tech department through attrition as part of its plans, but there will be no layoffs, said Bob Hetzel, UW-L vice chancellor for administration and finance.
From the Superior Telegram: "WITC-Superior Foundation announces 2011 distinguished alumni" — Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College-Superior Foundation has named Jim Dahlberg as the recipient of their 2011 Distinguished Alumni award. The award was presented during WITC-Superior's graduation ceremony on May 13, during which Dahlberg delivered the commencement speech to WITC graduates.
Dahlberg graduated as a programmer analyst from WITC-Superior in 1983. That same year, he began working for the college part-time as a programmer. He has been with the college more than 27 years, currently serving as the director of information technology for Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College.
From UW – Platteville: "University of Wisconsin-Platteville expands credit pact with technical colleges" — The University of Wisconsin-Platteville, an accredited pioneer in distance learning for 33 years, has expanded its credit transfer agreement with Lakeshore Technical College, Cleveland, Wis. The UW-Platteville has added constitutional law and criminal law to its list of courses that will transfer to its bachelor's degree program from Lakeshore's Criminal Justice – Law Enforcement program. Graduates of the program can take advantage of the new agreement starting this fall.
"Increasing the number of transferable courses from two to four demonstrates the commitment by both our institutions to students," said Amy Nemmetz, coordinator for UW-Platteville's undergraduate criminal justice program. "And it's our responsibility to provide them whether they're online or on-campus, with every opportunity to succeed. This does just that."
Nicolet College Foundation honors Lac du Flambeau tribe
June 22, 2011
From NewsoftheNorth.net: "Lac du Flambeau tribe honored with Nicolet College Foundation Friends and Partners Award" — The Nicolet College Foundation recently named the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians as the recipient of its 2011 Friends and Partners Award, honoring the band's long-standing dedication to promoting education.
"Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe education staff, its enterprises and its leaders have gone above and beyond in their efforts to work with Nicolet to bring education to their community," wrote Nicolet staff in nominating the tribe. "The relationship between the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe Nation and Nicolet College has been good for the college, good for the tribe, and generations of students have benefitted."
Accomplishments have included establishing a Nicolet classroom in tribal facilities in Lac du Flambeau, creating a Tribal Management academic certificate, working cooperatively to allow Nicolet students to gain professional experience in tribal enterprises, offering GED and HSED classes in Lac du Flambeau, and establishing academic pathways for Lac du Flambeau students to earn their two-year associate degree from Nicolet and then transfer to a four-year college or university to earn a bachelor's degree.
CVTC Foundation awards scholarships
June 20, 2011
From Oak Creek Now: "CVTC Foundation awards scholarships"– Two hundred and twenty-four Chippewa Valley Technical College students received scholarships recently at a donor-scholar luncheon held in their honor.
Scholarships are administered by the Chippewa Valley Technical College Foundation, Inc. This year the Foundation awarded over $110,000 in scholarship funds.
Kyle Wojciechowski of Oak Creek received the Tech Training Systems Electromechanical Technology Scholarship. Wojciechowski expects to graduate in June 2012.
Scholarships are funded through the generous donations of individuals and businesses. To learn more about the CVTC Foundation, Inc. or the scholarship program, visit http://www.cvtc.edu/foundation.
Chippewa Valley Technical College delivers superior, progressive technical education which improves the lives of students, meets the workforce needs of the region and strengthens the larger community. Campuses are located in Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire, Menomonie, Neillsville and River Falls. CVTC serves an 11-county area in west central Wisconsin. CVTC is part of the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) and is one of 16 WTCS colleges located throughout the state.
Blackhawk Tech College introduces kids to their future
June 20, 2011
From the Janesville Gazette: "Tech college helps kids have fun and thing about their future"– JANESVILLE — The Legos robot built by Alex Vanbrocklin and Kadan Ruiz clipped the wheel of a chair and toppled onto its side.
The two boys took a moment to grumble before picking up their creation and rushing back to their computer to adjust its programming. By calculating distances, power usage and the angle of turns, Vanbrocklin and Ruiz attempted to navigate their car through an obstacle course.
They succeed on their fourth try and were rewarded with candy from instructors John Horkey and Dave Gile.
The boys were having fun and getting hands-on experience of what it's like to be an automated systems engineer.
That was the goal at Blackhawk Technical College's 14th annual Tech Knowledge College for Rock County students entering seventh to 10th grade.
Vanbrocklin, who will be starting high school in Milton this fall, said he hopes to be a mechanical engineer. This was his second year taking the robot challenge class, and he's planning on taking a programming design class in high school.
Gile said the classes were a great way to get the kids thinking about their futures.
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NTC opens dairy education center
June 16, 2011
From the Wausau Daily Herald: "Northcentral Technical College opens dairy education center"– TOWN OF MAINE — A project six years in the making to create a state-of-the-art agriculture learning facility officially opened Wednesday, and officials hope the center will prepare farmers for years to come.
Northcentral Technical College leaders and others cut the ribbon Wednesday on the Agriculture Center of Excellence, which spans more than 100 acres on Highway K in the town of Maine. Students will be introduced to technology, such as a robotic milking machine, and learn about different cattle-management techniques. A partnership with the manufacturer Case IH also gives students a chance to try out the latest in agriculture equipment.
The center will host more than 30 students in NTC's dairy science associate degree program — the only one of its kind in Wisconsin — and serve about 250 students overall in various NTC agriculture courses, said Susan Ryman, coordinator of marketing and public relations for the college.
"It isn't just classrooms, it's hands-on experiences, it's the people that work here and the educators who will provide that information to students," said Ben Brancel, secretary for the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. "That's more valuable even than the structures and the buildings."
2011 Apprenticeship Centennial award winners named
June 15, 2011
From WisPolitics.com: "Dept. of Workforce Development: 2011 Apprenticeship Centennial award winners named" — MADISON – The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) and its Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards announced today the 2011 Wisconsin Centennial Hall of Fame Award winners. The award winners were honored at the 25th Wisconsin Biennial Apprenticeship Conference and Centennial Celebration in Madison.
"I am pleased to announce this year's award winners on behalf of the Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards and the Wisconsin Apprenticeship Advisory Council," said DWD Secretary Scott Baumbach. "We are proud to celebrate 100 years of apprenticeship in Wisconsin, and this is one way to honor those who have been actively involved in the apprentice program's success."
Secretary Baumbach said that, in June 1911, Wisconsin was the first state in the nation to enact legislation regulating apprenticeship. Since that time, apprenticeship in Wisconsin has remained a vital partnership between employers, organized labor, the technical college system and highly motivated apprentices.
Individuals and organizations were nominated for awards by apprentice stakeholders. They were selected because of their support for apprenticeship, excellence in their work, and willingness to go "above and beyond the call of duty" for the continued growth of apprenticeship.
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NTC Dairy Sciences School opens in Maine
June 15, 2011
From WSAU.com: "NTC Dairy sciences school opens in Maine today"– North Central Technical College will be officially opening their Agriculture Center of Excellence school this morning.
The school is a partnership between NTC and the Dairyland State Academy. The facility is located just northwest of Wausau near the Maine Town Hall and Maine Elementary. The move is a culmination of a 3 year long process of permits, funding from Marathon County, and approval for the site construction.
Students at the Academy will have a chance to learn the trade of dairy farming on a live and operational farm. They'll also be using state of the art equipment under an agreement with CASE. The program will offer a two year associates degree in Dairy Science, and allow for progression into a four year degree with NTC.
From University of Wisconsin Green Bay: " 'Return to the U' partnership helps adults complete degrees"– A new partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Fox Valley Technical College is encouraging former UW System students to come back and finish their degrees.
The initiative, "Return to the U," kicked off in earnest June 6 as officials sent letters to about 3,500 individuals who have credits at UW-Green Bay, but for one reason or another did not complete their degrees at the University. "Return to the U" invites those students to either complete a degree at FVTC or another Wisconsin technical college first, or come back directly to UW-Green Bay in person or via online classes.
Respondents who show interest in returning to school will be asked to take an online Student Success Survey to assess their readiness, identify strengths and pinpoint areas in which they may need support. Returning students will be paired with volunteer alumni mentors who help them navigate their return.