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Faculty at Cal State East Bay votes to strike next Thursday
Original post made on Nov 8, 2011
Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 6:38 AM
Comments (73)
on Nov 8, 2011 at 3:06 pm
First show me your list of publications, then talk to me about money.
on Nov 8, 2011 at 3:34 pm
If you go to CSU East Bay homepage and click on the different academic depts (e.g., Math, Soc., Pol Sci, etc.), you'll find that many if not most faculty either post their vitae or at least a partial list of recent publications. East Bay campus actually has some relatively high tenure and promotion requirements as compared with other schools in the CSU system.
Of course, all this begs the question as to whether most of the public, including the poster above, has the knowledge and skill to competently interpret a list of publications.
Fact remains, however, that faculty are not shy about their accomplishments. The insinuation (above post) that they are shy, or that they haven't already revealed their accomplishments, appears to be rather churlish and emanates from a good deal of ignorance on the poster's part.
on Nov 8, 2011 at 4:04 pm
My insinuation is that the value of university-level teaching staff is a function of productivity as evidenced by the number and frequency of notable publications.
on Nov 8, 2011 at 4:33 pm
That's not an insinuation, Mike; that is a platitudinous value claim. Don't know, given your oblique claims, whether you have been following events, or whether you simply want to tell everyone that you are against professors being unionized. In this case, assuming you're not a woefully uninformed ignoramus who is just spouting his own bias, your value claim has the effect of expressing that you think college university professors should not be able to collect upon a raise that was guaranteed in a prior contract.
Oh, and re. your platitude about frequency of publications. I might note that one of the greatest political theorists of the past century -- John Rawls -- rec'd tenure at Harvard based upon a single, slender publication. Moreover, there are many other criteria that go into judging the productivity of professors, including effectiveness as a teacher in the classroom, mentoring junior faculty, public service, and the kinds of committee work that appeals to some talents more than others.
on Nov 8, 2011 at 4:53 pm
What follows from my platitude is that raises should be decided on an individual as opposed to faculty-wide basis.
on Nov 8, 2011 at 5:26 pm
Which makes your platitude exactly what most platitudes are, Mike: Empty, abstract statements that often fail to capture the complex nature of reality. The faculty at CSUEB are picketing in order to raise awareness of how they have been unfairly treated over the past several years by a Chancellor that seems intent on pleasing a Board of Directors rather than improving the quality of education within the CSU system.
In fact, here your platitude is so far off the mark it verges on the comical. This labor conflict and its manifestation here as professors picketing has nothing to do with your platitude-filled pipe dreams. The question is whether the CSU administration is or is not going to honor a contract agreed to earlier by both administration and faculty union.
on Nov 8, 2011 at 7:11 pm
If the increase in question is, in fact, a contractual obligation, I suppose some high priced union lawyers will be facilitating the further fleecing of the taxpaying populace. Not that there's any guarantee, as stated above, that higher pay makes for better professors or better outcomes. I'm sure if money were not the sole motivator for the poster above, he wouldn't resort to the name calling and immature taunting exhibited in his defensive rants.
on Nov 8, 2011 at 7:27 pm
Just astounding.
Professors going on strike for a raise when their students are faced with another year of large education cost inflation, mounting education debt and a deteriorating job market.
One greedy generation sticking it to another. I guess it is get in and grab what you can before the ship goes down.
on Nov 8, 2011 at 7:40 pm
"a Chancellor that seems intent on pleasing a Board of Directors rather than improving the quality of education within the CSU system."
Which board of directors would that be?
on Nov 8, 2011 at 9:33 pm
Excuuuuuuse me. In my haste I wrote Board of Directors when I was thinking Board of Trustees. It's good that Mike is inquiring about this, as it may counteract his penchant for proselytizing solutions before he has even the most minimal information on the matter.
on Nov 8, 2011 at 9:42 pm
Ah, Dean (Jane), your posts are always the ones that proselytize. It seems to me that someone(s) should be losing their jobs for not seeing this fiscal fiasco coming. And if raises are revoked, recent administrators' salary increases should be revoked as well.
on Nov 8, 2011 at 10:29 pm
Directly below, I quote my efforts to inform in the face of some ignorant, highly opinionated postings:
"If you go to CSU East Bay homepage and click on the different academic depts (e.g., Math, Soc., Pol Sci, etc.), you'll find that many if not most faculty either post their vitae or at least a partial list of recent publications. East Bay campus actually has some relatively high tenure and promotion requirements as compared with other schools in the CSU system."
"I might note that one of the greatest political theorists of the past century -- John Rawls -- rec'd tenure at Harvard based upon a single, slender publication. Moreover, there are many other criteria that go into judging the productivity of professors, including effectiveness as a teacher in the classroom, mentoring junior faculty, public service, and the kinds of committee work that appeals to some talents more than others."
"The question is whether the CSU administration is or is not going to honor a contract agreed to earlier by both administration and faculty union."
Then, Kathleen [what's her last name? what's her last name?] accuses me of proselytizing -- immediately prior to proselytizing with her expressed wish that some people get fired, others have their salary increases revoked. What a gasser she is!
on Nov 9, 2011 at 12:02 am
Don't worry, the government/Wall Street complex will see to it that students will be able to borrow as much as they need to keep paying the higher tuition so that they can securitize the debt and then let well healed investors place side bets on payment defaults. When the casino finally can't pay off on all the bets, the taxpayers will be there with a bailout. It is all about wealth creation. The students and the faculty are just pawns in this.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 7:31 am
"well healed" should be "well heeled" I need to proof read.
I don't mean to sound cynical, but it is that "everyone deserves as house", "everyone deserves as college education" mentality at work again. The only winners in this are the government/Wall Street complex.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 8:47 am
Dean, I meant _all_ your posts, not just here. Just proving it doesn't matter if I use my whole name, part of my name, or switch to something anonymous. Being "playful" is what I believe you called it. As to proselytizing--just pointing to the pot calling the kettle black.
On topic, yes, this kind of error needs redress. We can chat about how all of public education is in a financial mess, but in this case, the professors and students shouldn't pay for this lack of vision.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 9:08 am
"We can chat about how all of public education is in a financial mess"
Public and private education is in a financial mess at the college level for the same reason private family housing was and is in a financial mess. It is in a mess because there is too much borrowed money available through student loans, just as there was too much borrowed money available for houses. The root cause is the same. It will hit both public and private colleges, but the entire economy is at risk from this. Credit default swaps traded on student loan debt are now putting the financial system in the same kind of risky position that real estate CDS did in 2008. Large numbers of students are getting loans that they will never pay back. The same pattern we saw with real estate debt is happening with these loans. We need to solve the root cause. We need to put the breaks on the federal government's involvement in student loans. We need to get derivatives traded on public exchanges so that we know are not blindsided by another AIG. If we solve these problems, the other problems will take care of themselves.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 9:37 am
Kathleen - If "the professors and students shouldn't pay for this lack of vision", who should?
The higher-income taxpayer? The ones that already pay 67% of all taxes in this state even though they represent only 39% of all income?
Future citizens? By letting education debt continue to expand to an unsustainable level, allowing wide-spread defaults, then letting future citizens pay down the debt?
Nothing comes for free in this world. If you are going to let education costs continue to grow much faster than inflation (so professors and get their raises and cushy retirement) but not have current consumers of education (the students) pay for it, someone needs to pick up the tab. Who would it be if you were queen for the day?
I completely agree with Patriot that it is the unchecked expansion of education debt that is the underlying issue and that it will not end well. Just like it didn't end well with the housing market. I sure wish I could buy a CDS on students loans. That would be a great investment.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 9:59 am
"breaks" should be "brakes". My spelling is terrible.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 10:38 am
GX--I was saying that some administrative heads should be rolling. I don't know that CSU can then still afford to pay the raises to faculty or not raise tuition for students. Just can't believe you would leave the same people in control.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 10:46 am
Well said GX. Too frequent and too large tuition increases in recent years have placed tuition out of reach for middle-class kids (the backbone of the state system). Public union greed is destroying the next American generation.
As long as there are loans , greedy unions will keep pushing the envelope, stealing futures. If the actual market of what people can afford were in play, the ceiling would have been hit a long time ago.
Public unions will not play in real world...just keep pusing, and destroying.
Then the administration starts picking the winners and losers game about WHO gets help. If you attend art school, and history of civilization, etc, and can't seem to find a viable job, poor dear, the government will rescue you IF you don't make enough...BUT, If you study a serious profession, and work you tale off, pay for most, but need a small loan, you must starting paying back immediately. It's the picking and choosing the 'favorites' of an administration for freebies for NON-viable fields, and punish serious students, it's unfair. I think loans should have minimum guidelines for viable skilled majors. I don't want to fund watercolor majors....and then have their loanswaived if they can't find a paying job! ! !
on Nov 9, 2011 at 11:09 am
OK Kathleen - I appreciate your point and agree with it.
And I agree that the union is part of the problem.
In general, I am not a fan of unions especially public employee unions. Yes, they had their place back in the late 1800's and 1930's given all the exploitation of labor but we are well past that.
Today, it is very rare to find a situation where unions have a positive effect on their host organization. It seems as though unions do their job very effectively and push for maximum compensation even if it is detrimental to their organizations. Look at GM, Chrysler, union-heavy states (CA, IL, NJ), etc.
The Cal State students say we don't want to pay. The Cal State Faculty Union will say we deserve our raises regardless what is happening to the economy. They both will say take it from the 1% never really knowing or acknowledging that the CA tax system is already quite progressive.
Isn't it nice to spend other peoples' money?
on Nov 9, 2011 at 11:41 am
I think a substantial majority of the voters in Ohio yesterday said it pretty clearly: Everyone deserves a house; everyone deserves a college education. EVERYONE.
@GX says: 'If "the professors and students shouldn't pay for this <lack of vision>", who should? The higher-income taxpayer? The ones that already pay 67% of all taxes in this state even though they represent only 39% of all income?'
Well, GX, in a word, yes, the higher-income taxpayer should pay for their greed and penchant for squeezing money from America's working-class majority. Another word: OHIO, OHIO, OHIO
Note how GX rails in chest-thumping manner about the increase in student loans. At the same time, he conveniently (albeit ignorantly perhaps) forgets to note that it isn't Cal State students who are taking out gargantuan loans that they'll likely never be able to repay; it is increasingly and alarmingly students at private-sector, corporate-owned, for-profit "universities" that charge ungodly high tuition rates in order to keep their corporate coffers overflowing. (See Washington Post and its involvement with for-profit "universities.")
Note how adherents of the right-wing ideology refuse to deal with facts but instead immediately go off on pipe-dream generalities about 'irresponsible students' and 'govt. intervention' and 'unpayable loans' and off with their heads, and cut their salaries, and fire them all.
Facts are: Cal State education remains relatively affordable for students; Cal State professors tend to earn a lower salary than do junior college professors, despite Cal State professors, unlike many of their counterparts at junior colleges, having earned a Ph.D. In terms of publications, there is no comparison: Cal State professors publish far more than do higher paid junior college professors. Cal State Administration agreed in a prior contract to give Cal State professors a modest raise; the administration is now reneging on the contractual agreement; that is why Cal State professors this week are forming "informational picket lines." Also, Cal State professors' salaries are substantially below what their colleagues in like-universities are making in most other states. Go off and suck the fumes of FOX news all you want to. These are the facts.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 12:00 pm
It has been said that great minds debate ideas.
Mediocre minds talk about events.
Small minds attack people.
Dean - I agree with your point regarding for-private schools but I haven't seen a breakout of student loans across categories. It would be interesting to see this.
But here are the inconvenient facts I'm aware of. The cost of public education is going up 8.3% this year (after many years of above inflation increases). CA has one of the most progressive tax systems in the country and yet we are continually running out of money and thereby putting the burden on future generations via increased costs for education, increased debt, etc.
If Cal State professors are upset that they are making less than at other schools or junior college teachers, they should go after those jobs. That will do two potential things - 1) bring the pay of those two groups into equilibrium and 2) increase the demand/pay of Cal State professors (if that demand can't be met by others). This is how markets work and how the pay is set for most non-union, non-government jobs these days.
But I still go back to Patriot's basic point. This severe education cost inflation we are experiencing is due to the education debt bubble that is being blown. And it won't end well.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Dean - CA already has one of the highest and most progressive state tax systems in the country. Reference the stat I mentioned above plus the data below. Are you suggesting even more taxes to pay for teacher raises and subsidized education? If so, what is fair from your perspective?
California Tax Rank (1st least taxed; 50th highest taxed)
Property Tax - 18th
Sales Tax - 49th
Corporate Income Tax - 33rd
Capital Gains Tax on Real Estate - 50th
Gasoline Tax - 50th
Utility User's Tax - 50th
School Parcel Tax - 50th
Overall Rank - 50th
Source: Tax Foundation
on Nov 9, 2011 at 12:33 pm
GX, You apparently do not realize how absolutely ridiculous you sound. In case you hadn't noticed, ours is not a free market system. To urge on people to act as if it _were_ a free market system is only to engage in delusional thinking.
You're a pretty funny guy. You remind me of another poster -- Arnold, who had a similar penchant for rationalizing the ridiculous. With respect to debating big ideas, as Aristotle once noted: many hear the call, but few are chosen. What is most hilarious is when ideologically befogged posters like yourself ask others to treat their ideas with seriousness. (See yesterday's vote in Ohio to get a realistic perspective on how "free markets" are dismissed by most of us who have worked our way through Adam Smith, Herbert Hoover, Milton Friedman, ad nauseum.)
Let me demonstrate how idiotic is your suggestion. Let's see, I'm a member of the faculty at Cal State. My union (which I support) negotiated a contract, approved by union majority and Cal State administration, that guaranteed a modest raise. The administration is reneging on the contractual agreement. I have a number of choices. One choice is Dean's choice: mobilize union members and put on an 'informational picket line' to bring the matter to public attention. (Again, see yesterday's Ohio vote.) Then there's GX's choice: quit your job, uproot your family, and mount a search for a junior college job somewhere either in California or elsewhere because, hey, that's how free markets work. So, I ask again. Do you not recognize how silly you sound? Give us some more data, GX, and do so all you want to. Fact remains, you're a big sillypuss.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 12:38 pm
One thing you might want to consider is that the easy availability of loans for college tuition is making college more difficult to afford. Many students will be spending the rest of their lives digging out of college debt. Like a said above, the same thing happened in housing.
To " Stop union greed",
I don't think you can place all the blame on the unions of the state system. The same tuition increases and salary increases for administrators are happening at private schools.
Web Link
on Nov 9, 2011 at 12:41 pm
I guess I could counter with Wisconsin and yesterday all the anti-public union initiatives that were passed in the Bay Area and across California, but all these, including your Ohio, are datapoints that define a broader trend that neither of us knows how will play out.
In the interim, I am genuinely interested in how you suggest we pay for all this.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Actually Patriot, the latest information shows that the cost of public education is growing faster than the cost of private education. But I do agree with you that the source of all this is the expansion of our education debt bubble. It is the larger issue.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 12:55 pm
I teach at a JC, but not for the money because I also have a solid business. I see this as a potential model for the future, a modification of the old adage that "Those who can't do, teach," that reads, "Those who can, also teach."
on Nov 9, 2011 at 1:54 pm
I find guys like you, Mike, who part-time it at the JC's as well as many 4-year colleges, as being part of a pernicious trend within the academic system. Being a college professor is a full-time job. One's effectiveness in the classroom is largely a consequence of one's research. Now, to save on cost, colleges hire guys like you off the street to teach part-time, half-axxed, and often with marginal competence (if even that). The part-timers and the administrators who rationalize bringing them in to teach are contributing to an increased trend where colleges are becoming vocation-technical institutes rather than institutes of higher learning.
The reason I have one daughter at Duke, another at Princeton, is that I want them to have a four-year experience where the ivory tower -- yes, indeed -- enables them to read, write and think about the higher pursuits of humanity: truth, beauty, goodness, justice. These schools take the idea of liberal arts and humanities seriously. Unfortunately, the trend is increasingly to bring in part-timers off the street like yourself who spew their experienced-based glop about the 'real world', which usually, as you have so adeptly illustrated often on these threads, doesn't extend beyond their own belly buttons.
Potential model for the future? Potential model for the increased dumbing-down of America, more like it.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Stacey is a registered user.
So, Duke and Princeton don't make use of adjunct professors?
on Nov 9, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Here's a Princeton professor I wish I could have had. He's not part time as far I know but he sure brings a lot of real-world, experience to the classroom.
Web Link
on Nov 9, 2011 at 2:31 pm
An adjunct professor is not a part-timer, Stacey. One can, for example, have a degree in economics and be housed in an economics department; yet he or she can also, based upon specific expertise, hold an adjunct position in, say, women's studies. Part-timers are a mixed bag of folks hired off the street in order to place a warm body in front of students in a classroom. More often than not, they either do not have a Ph.D. or, if they do, haven't distinguished themselves in a way that ends in full-time employment within the university as a professor with a doctorate.
Duke and Princeton both have adjunct professors. Unfortunately, they too have resorted to hiring part-timers, not so much as a cost-saver but as a glittery lure to impress donors to the university. Putting Al Gore or Bill Bradley or Bill Clinton into a classroom or two is an example of such. Either way, not a good idea. I'd be happy to bring a Clinton or some other dignitary into my classroom to deliver a guest lecture; but it remains my classroom, with standards for reading and writing and grading that have evolved from 10+ years of graduate training, and then decades of academic research in specific areas of expertise. Giving Al Gore or G.W.Bush a class to teach is a joke; hiring someone like Mike to come in off the street and teach students is a travesty.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 2:36 pm
"colleges hire guys like you off the street. . ., half-axxed, and often with marginal competence (if even that)."
I was hired by "a department" rather than "a college," as I'm sure you were. The people in that department would, I assume, be people just like you in the hiring process, people who judged me to be competent. Or are you saying that you would knowingly hire an unqualified individual to teach in your department? And if you would, wouldn't it follow that you might be one of the incompetent people hired full-time by your department?
"part-timers off the street like yourself who spew their experienced-based glop about the 'real world', which usually, as you have so adeptly illustrated often on these threads, doesn't extend beyond their own belly buttons."
As opposed to the 'real world' as defined by you, right?
on Nov 9, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Hey Patriot, It isn't so much a matter of 'real-world' experience, which we all have. It is the quality of the lens through which the experience is interpreted, which includes critically assessing, through one's peer-reviewed research, whether one's current interpretation of that experience is valid or not. (See some of the experienced-based delusional comments of many of the posters above.) Hiring someone off the street to do a professor's job based upon experience amounts to turning a blind eye to what academia has traditionally stood for. It lowers standards to the detriment of all.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Hey Mike, there ya go. You were not hired by a department, as you claim. A department -- and more than likely an overworked dept'l chair -- scanned your credentials and then passed along a recommendation that the college hire you to teach a course or two in that department. The college pays your salary, not the department. So daffy is your position on this, that it sorely weakens the credibility of your claim to be a professor or any other kind of academic.
Real world? See my above post/response to Patriot. Everyone has real-world experiences, Mike. I argue that sustained, full-time, academic research is what separates contenders from pretenders. It is how one _interprets_ the real-world experiences of oneself and others; and academic research, the processes through which it is conducted, is geared to distinguish a valid interpretation of experiences from invalid or less valid ones. Good time Charleys who come off the street and share their experiences with students are doing the students a disservice, as they might otherwise be actually learning about experiences and _how to interpret them_ in a class taught by a professor with an earned doctorate in the discipline who has spent a lifetime thinking about what counts as valid knowledge when applied to human experience.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Dean - I am very curious to get your perspective on who should be paying for the shortfall these days so that your promised raise can be given and your unfunded pension can be paid for.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 3:37 pm
People with those doctorates who have the capacity to move their fields forward while applying their research and experience to endeavors that allow them to be independent of a teaching salary are, I would argue, of great value to students.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 3:58 pm
Stacey is a registered user.
An adjunct professor can be both part-time or full-time, but since they usually are hired to teach only one or two classes they are usually part-time. They may or may not have PhDs in their field. They often are of value to a university due to their experience in a career other than teaching. I apologize for using my own working definition of something you failed to explain adequately.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 4:34 pm
Backing up here a bit Dean, "the higher-income taxpayer should pay for their greed and penchant for squeezing money from America's working-class majority." At least you note they are paying more in taxes. but exactly how do you see that squeeze happening?
Or "Hiring someone off the street to do a professor's job based upon experience amounts to turning a blind eye to what academia has traditionally stood for." So those who have worked in a given area have nothing to offer, and yikes if it's non-traditional?
And "academic research is what separates contenders from pretenders. It is how one _interprets_ the real-world experiences of oneself and others." Interprets . . . there are internships in many fields of study so one may actually learn in the real-world, apply and adjust and challenge what is being taught, and not just sitting in the closed environment of some (one?) professor's realm. Surely you know your students are leaving you and having a much different experience after they do.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 8:25 pm
GX asks 'who should be paying for the [presumed] shortfall'? As government partially subsidizes public education, so some of the money must come from the taxpayers. (Other money has already come from tuition and fee increases, faculty furloughs, larger classes, fewer course options, etc.) In other words, GX, the govt may have to raise your taxes, or roll back the ill-advised tax cuts that have previously taken place. Take that and chew on it, you poor P-town home-owning oppressed taxpayer you. What? Already gnashing your teeth? Then start talking about cuts in defense spending, and putting Americans' tax money where it is better served: education.
Stacey, I'll not spend time pampering you and suffering your cloying need to save face.
Kathleen, hate to break the news to you, but you're not a very good reader. I didn't say non-degreed actors have nothing to offer. Professors sometimes can invite them to their classes. Giving them a course to teach is quite another matter. They lack the training to be a college professor. Believe it or not, academe still values the Ph.D. to the extent that graduate students frequently must labor 10+ years, earning little or no money while so doing, in order to attain the degree which serves, inter alia, as credential for college classroom teaching.
I think college-sponsored internship programs are a patent waste of time and money. Just another spoke in the wheel of dumbing down our college graduates.
To be more precise, the rich pay more money in taxes than do the poor; but they pay a lower percentage of their income in taxes than do the poor. You and others can play dumb regarding this fact, but it is a fact. And it is criminal that such an inequality can persist within a nation that claims itself to be democratic.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 9:35 pm
Stacey is a registered user.
When the part-timers start unionizing, I hope you are there to correct them when they try to call themselves the Adjunct Professors Union.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 9:56 pm
"I think college-sponsored internship programs are a patent waste of time and money."
I would disagree. Internships give our students outstanding experience in their chosen fields, help them make connections that will help them as they move forward, and if they are paid, help them with tuition, books, beer and pizza.
on Nov 9, 2011 at 10:28 pm
Dean, Yes, we discussed the tax issue elsewhere. "They lack the training to be a professor" . . . gotta be tough getting your head off the pillow in the morning.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 6:59 am
Dean - I completely agree with you regarding the need to reduce military spending and the need to make the Federal tax system more fair, but changes at the Federal level will have little impact on CA.
CA already has one of the highest and most progressive state tax systems in the nation that is deterring business. And you are suggesting more.
So let me get this straight, rather than foregoing a raise, your preference is to raise taxes on your neighbors during one of the most severe recessions in our lifetime. The same neighbors who haven't seen a raise in years, the same neighbors who don't have a retirement safety net like yours, the same neighbors who don't have the medical benefits you do, the same neighbors who live in fear every day of losing their jobs.
Very interesting. I don't need to place any labels on you or your words. They speak loud even by themselves for everyone who reads this blog.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 8:33 am
I agree with all your points on the post above, GX, and admire the fact you did not have to resort to the name calling and personal derision that our esteemed elitist dean uses in_his_attempts_to_communciate.
"And it is criminal that such an inequality can persist within a nation that claims itself to be democratic."
So we're a democratic nation, dean? You probably don't accept corrections well, based on your pompous and condescending previous posts, but our nation is a democratic republic. Maybe that fact eluded you while you were formulating your latest union sponsored attack of those of us who pay your wages, benefits, pension, etc.
You're welcome.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 10:02 am
A substantial majority of the populace supports the proposition of raising taxes on the rich. If taxes are raised on the working class as well, that would include professors too. It would include me. But let's be real here: you don't care about your neighbors; all you care about is holding onto that quarter in your sweaty fist, and you'll dredge up any out-of-context data slice you can get your money-grubbing fingers on in order support your own obsession with me-me-me.
Over the past few decades, the wealthy have seen their income rise by over 270%. The working-class has seen their income either flatline or drop over the same period. But you and your companion dimwits want to deny Cal State professors a measley 2-3% raise that was contractually guaranteed to them? If you think readers other than the village idiot are going to be impressed with your position, you're even dumber than I thought.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 10:40 am
Thing is, it isn't anyone out here that is denying the actual increase--it's the administration of Cal State. They are likely former professors and liberals. Why not rail at them?
The American public is starting to realize that all of public education is costing them a fortune in pensions for those retiring at a young age. As has been pointed out by many experts, you can take everything from the top 1% and not solve that problem.
Did you happen to catch the coverage on The News Hour about education (part of a long series they are doing). They documented a community in Indiana with a 55% graduation rate from high school. The state is giving vouchers and three choices: private school, charter school, or a neighboring district. While it is sad that the district of origin has gone from 21,000 to 7,000 students, those same students, same socio-economic status, left and are faring much better. If the needs of students are not met, then change will come and more quickly as experiments like this prove to work. You can't tax your way out of that outcome either.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 11:20 am
Dean - the world might be a better place and people might listen more closely to your perspectives if you didn't have such a confrontational approach. Dialogue and debate is critical these days at all levels.
FYI, I did a quick search on Kathleen's 1% point above. According to the governments own data
Web Link
even if you taxed the top bracket at 100%, that wouldn't provide enough revenue to cover even the current year deficit. Even if you could find a way to do this, you'd create a depression much greater than we are experiencing now.
Even if you cut back dramatically on the military (which I agree makes sense), you still would have to tax the heck out of everyone to cover all the other entitlements and operations.
The simple fact is our government has promised more to its people than it can afford to pay. Every thing is going to have to be scaled back - e.g.Dean's promised raise and promised retirement.
If the Fed tries to continue to print its way out of this, they will create a currency crisis and create significant inflation that will hurt our poorest people the most.
Yesterday I heard about how the Federal government is going to tweek the definition of inflation once again to short-change future beneficiaries. Does anyone believe today that we are experiencing only a 2% inflation that the Fed suggests? I don't.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 11:31 am
There's GX and KR again, repeating the tired mantra about how taxing the top 1% won't get us all the way there. What they don't consider is raising taxes on the top 10-20%, because then we'd have to take the prospect more seriously than fox news and the rich want us to.
Any discussion from either of them about taxing the rich who have made off like bandits while the economy has flatlined? Nope. Back to how its the teachers' fault. Let's deny CSU professors their contractually guaranteed 2-3% raise; and let's ignore them as they attempt to alert the public's attention to how the Chancellor's office is attempting to screw them, once again.
Both GX and KR come across as a couple of parrots, repeating tired old right-wing bugaboo time and again, no matter what the posted topic happens to be.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 11:42 am
For someone like you in academia, it is interesting to see how much you try to avoid data/facts.
I've found in my life that I can make better decisions when I consider the facts.
As I pointed out above, I agree that the Federal tax system needs to be made more fair. However, the larger point is that even with your suggested fixes won't fix the basic problem that governments at levels are spending dramatically more than they can ever take in.
It is interesting to note that Brown did not push for a tax increase this year as he knew it would fail. If the economy is in the same state next year, there is little chance that he will be able to increase CA taxes. By then Dean, you may be complaining about the pay cut you may be getting.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 11:48 am
Dean - I continue to be amazed with your and other government employee's entitlement attitudes. Don't you realize you are killing the golden goose, somewhat for you but primarily for other government employees that come after you?
Take from others in these difficult times and force more debt on future citizens so you can get your 2-3% raise? Isn't this a bit selfish?
BTW, what do you teach?
on Nov 10, 2011 at 11:57 am
I think it was H.L. Menchen who said "Statistics don't lie, but liars use statistics." You can cut and paste any set of statistics you want to, GX, but I've found you to always dishonestly take them out of context and misuse them. Your statement about taxing the top 1% is a perfect example of such.
Admit it. You're on a personal crusade against teachers because teachers have been making modest inroads into that portion of the pie that has been the sole preserve of the rich. It just so happens that the rich are only too happy to support your efforts, because it serves the purpose of diverting people's attention from the ungodly maldistribution of wealth in this country. You might try taking a lesson from the 99%ers, many of whom are students, who know and respect their teachers enough to realize our country's economic mess is not their teachers' fault, and that carving away their salaries and pensions, although it may make those immersed in resentment feel better, offers no solution whatsoever.
I truly believe you and KR have had some unfortunate educational experiences in your lives, and now you can do nothing else but haunt these posts denigrating teachers, their achievements, and their needs.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 12:10 pm
The information comes from the IRS.
I'm fortunate to have an Ivy League graduate education.
I have absolutely no issue with teachers like yourself.
I have a major issue with the entitlement attitude class that you so neatly represent. The class of people who want to take coercive action if necessary to take from the "doers" of civilization because they feel they deserve it.
Best of luck with your strike. I'm not sure the message will go far in this environment.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Stacey is a registered user.
"Admit it. You're on a personal crusade against teachers because teachers have been making modest inroads into that portion of the pie that has been the sole preserve of the rich." and "I truly believe you and KR have had some unfortunate educational experiences in your lives, and now you can do nothing else but haunt these posts denigrating teachers, their achievements, and their needs. "
Jane's wild narcissistic fantasy world again...
on Nov 10, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Uh, Jane, someone is responsible for negotiating the contract and for failing to properly budget for said agreement.
Perhaps you miss that if you take _everything_ from the top 1% and are not able to cover the hole, just taking some additional amount from the top 10-20% isn't going to do it either. Here is something worth reading: Web Link
"Higher rates on the rich are not, then, a free lunch. At low levels rate increases will lift revenue, but not without a cost in efficiency and short-term growth. If the budget is a government's primary concern, then the evidence is that reforms which close loopholes and broaden the tax base are a more efficient way to bring in more money than higher taxes for the rich.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Not denigrating teachers or their accomplishments and needs--remember, I have family in the biz. One place we differ in is how to get to a system of paying the best well and quickly removing those who are not the best.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 12:42 pm
More on taxes, WSJ: Web Link
"An insightful reader post on Megan McArdle's blog on the Atlantic uses IRS data to figure out how much money the government would raise by taxing certain wealth levels. He says a 45% rate on incomes of more than $1 million would generate $31 billion, while an even more progressive tax, with rates of 50%, 60%, 70% on incomes of $500,000, $5 million, $10 million respectively would generate an added $133 billion."
On teachers from yesterday's "Tri-Valley Times" editorial: Web Link
"While we think seniority and tenure regulations should not be dismissed altogether, they should not be so rigid that it is virtually impossible to remove incompetent teachers or lay off poorly performing senior teachers.
What is needed is a better balance between job security for teachers and the ability of school principals and districts to remove poorly performing teachers.
Today, there is an unacceptable imbalance in favor of the former to the detriment of California students."
on Nov 10, 2011 at 3:43 pm
"But let's be real here: you don't care about your neighbors; all you care about is holding onto that quarter in your sweaty fist, and you'll dredge up any out-of-context data slice you can get your money-grubbing fingers on in order support your own obsession with me-me-me."
"Admit it. You're on a personal crusade against teachers because teachers have been making modest inroads into that portion of the pie that has been the sole preserve of the rich."
You ignore what the posters actually write and claim that there is ulterior motive to their disagreement with you. Outstanding abuse of rhetoric. Professor!
You are right. The quality of the CSU system is at risk. Unfortunately, however, you seem to be mistaken about what has created that risk.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 4:25 pm
GX says, "I'm fortunate to have an Ivy League graduate education." Yeah, you say that, but the quality of your above arguments gives strong indication that, once again, you feel a need to lie about your education. I have a neighbor who claims to have gotten an Ivy League graduate education. It only cost him $1200.00 to attend that week-end long seminar on how to win friends and influence people.
Kathleen continues to be stuck in the rut of right-wing mantra worship as she cites her little one-page blogs and contra costa editorials on taxes and teachers. Cites a concluding paragraph of a little snippet she links from the Economist, and doesn't apparently begin to recognize the flaws in the author's conclusion. He emphasizes short-term growth (but let's not consider long-term growth that comes from a healthier and better educated citizenry; and in the interests of nonverbosity, let's not factor in questions of social justice). Oh yeah, and expand the tax base -- you know, make the poor give up some of their happy meals. Did someone skip that part of their education where students were taught to read critically?
Fortune Cookie man Mike opines that I misuse rhetoric. As per usual, no attempt is offered to defend the accusation.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 4:30 pm
This is worth repeating:
It has been said that great minds debate ideas.
Mediocre minds talk about events.
Small minds attack people.
Your approach speaks loud enough for itself. Best of luck with your endeavor.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 4:37 pm
Please continue to repeat the platitude, GX. I bet the fortune cookie man is eating it up. And soon to chime in will be the village idiot commending you for defending such a thoughtful position.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 5:06 pm
Dean, what pension plan do you belong to?
on Nov 10, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Though I don't have any direct experience with the California State College system, I think the problems with K-12 education in the US are very different from those at the Universities. While US K-12 schools generally rank poorly compared to schools in other industrialized countries, my understanding is that US public universities rank among the best in the world. Also, the issues surrounding tenure for college and university faculty is are very different from those with tenure for K-12 teachers. Consider, for instance, that faculty at private colleges and universities are tenured whereas those at private K-12 schools typically aren't.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 7:37 pm
Stacey is a registered user.
"Oh yeah, and expand the tax base -- you know, make the poor give up some of their happy meals."
The poor Jane refers to are already a part of the Federal tax base, especially if they happen to be employed.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 8:33 pm
Deanie, how are thIngs in your democratic country? Do they allow union thugs to represent the holiest of holy----post high school teachers like yourself? I've heard it's much better work than joining the private sector and earning your pay.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 8:41 pm
I point out your abuse of rhetoric because it exemplifies with brevity why you do not merit respect. I feel for your Chancellor, an individual who is clearly trying to improve education despite the obstacles employees such as you create in your lust to prevail - not to be right, mind you, but to prevail.
on Nov 10, 2011 at 9:19 pm
He's not my Chancellor, bub. Lustily yours, Dean
ps Your business dealings will brighten over the next few days.
pps We'll be sending you shortly that free bag of 100 complimentary fortune cookies that you have inquired about for your research purposes. Signed, Kwong Tong Noodle Company
on Nov 10, 2011 at 9:54 pm
on Nov 10, 2011 at 11:39 pm
This 'striking' mentality makes me sick. How do these union xxxx look their students in the eye. Have they no shame? Such poor examples of adult behavior.
on Nov 15, 2011 at 8:06 am
Dean, your raise may be safe.
I read this morning that CSU wants to raise tuition by 9% next year. This would only mean a 400% increase of tuition over the past few years.
on Nov 15, 2011 at 8:12 am
Not my raise, GX. As to your use of numbers, like your assumption about where I work, your assumption that students and faculty are the only two participants in a zero sum game is wrong-headed and simplistic, as per usual. 400% tuition increase over the past few years? Cal State professors have received no salary increases over the past few years. So, maybe you should try pointing your crooked accusatory finger elsewhere.
on Nov 15, 2011 at 9:44 am
Here's a list of some at Cal State: Web Link You can do other searches on the site.
Here's Berkeley: Web Link
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Ninety-six students were awarded scholarships by government and the private sector resulting from their performance in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) this year, an increase from the 65 students awarded last year and 82 awarded in 2010.
The list of scholarship winners from the Ministry of Education was published in the newspapers today.
Receiving the Scotiabank Foundation Shining Star Excellence Top Girl and Top Boy awards are Catherine Douse of St Catherine Preparatory and Chevaugn Campbell of Vaz Preparatory respectively.
In September Douse will attend St Jago High School while Campbell will go to Campion College.
As has been the norm in recent years, Campion was the school of choice for more scholarship winners than any other school. This year 41 students on the list will attend Campion, up from 33 last year.
Of the 25 government scholars announced, 19 will be going to Campion.
Although students from independent (preparatory) schools again dominated the government scholarships, the primary schools did better this year compared to last year. Six of the 25 government scholars are from primary schools, compared to only one out of 24 last year.
Schools receiving more than two scholarships included Hillel Academy (five) and St Catherine Prep, Vaz Prep, Stella Maris Prep, and St Richard's Primary (three each).
In addition to Scotiabank, scholarships were named for a number of companies and products including Jamaica National, Tang, Petrojam, Guardian Life, Horlicks (for PATH recipients), Gas Pro, Sagicor and Jamaica Energy Partners.
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For now Novum only has about 20 employees, but they are planning on hiring more next year.
"We're going to hopefully expand and be a great research facility in the Fargo area." Hellman says.
Giving those employees who were let go a chance to come back to the old facility with a fresh new company.
"The nice thing is working with a lot of the same people I used to work with, knowing the same faces, knowing the same people, kind of that home feeling." Dahl laughs.
"The families getting back together." Blanchard adds with a smile.
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"I'm excited to be back."
On what he needs to do now that he's back:
"Getting back into a routine is important. There's a lot we have to do."
On how he dealt with not being on the sideline during the season:
"It's difficult. You try to draw an analogy to it. I found myself in a routine on game day. Of course I would get the coach's copy (of the game tape) the middle of the week. I had that available. You're watching from afar and there were certain things you would see. At times it becomes frustrating. With the situation as unique and unprecedented as it was. I was thankful to the staff."
On watching the team struggle:
"You feel frustrated. The amount of time you spend together with the players and fellow coaches, you want to see them do well, you want to see them have success. I think the hardest part, was not football. The hardest part was – so many of these people we're talking about Mickey Loomis, Mr. Benson, a number of the players – you're used to talking to them on a regular basis… the more difficult part for me was not having the personal interaction, not necessarily football related, but as a friend."
On whether he would do anything differently with regards to the things that got him suspended:
"Oh surely. We're in the business of teaching. We ask our players all the time to learn from our mistakes. There's certain things when you have a chance to look back on it that I would want to differently and would want to handle differently."
On how much he missed the game:
"Quite a bit. You miss that competition. That element of what it feels like when you're winning. When you have success, the butterflies on Sunday morning."
On whether he thought punishment was fair:
"It was more or less something you can't control. To dwell on it, with the time that I had, the first week or so it was difficult. I felt a lot of different emotions. At that point you have to move on, regardless of how you felt, because 'there's eight more months here,' we'll drive ourselves crazy if we continue to hold those thoughts… or whether or not you thought it was fair or not. Turning the page was important. It's no different than what we teach our players when you feel like a call doesn't go your way. It was a much bigger scheme of thing, (but) had to be the same approach by me."
On the player appeals of their suspensions:
"Being away from it, I followed the process, but I wasn't really privy to how those appeals went – the specifics – and still not."
On whether, once the players' suspensions were vacated, whether he wondered about his suspension:
"I didn't. Clearly there were two different things taking place. There's the players and the players' union and I'm the head coach. As the head coach, it all falls under your umbrella. That's why, as much time and energy as we spent in the draft and in free agency, creating the right culture in the locker room and getting the right guys has been a huge part of our success and a big part of our mission statement and it really is something we did a good job with and the same challenge is with us in hiring assistant coaches. I was so far into a routine that I wasn't going to emotionally going to get invested or uninvested to get upset.
Directly asked if Saints ran a bounty system:
"I appreciate the question, but both of us (commissioner) that the specifics were not going to be what we met on and certainly not what I'm going to visit on with everyone right now. It's time for closure. It's time for us as a team, as a league, to take this next step forward."
On his contact extension being negated and re-done:
"There was no way I was going to another team. The issue was a minor technicality. What became challenging was being out of the building and then trying to work through the specifics to get the contract done. In the prior contracts… I had that two-three week period where Mickey and I would visit and then it would get to the agents and the attorneys and this time that didn't exist. I understand and appreciate the speculation… the reason I feel I have the best job is the relationship I have with the general manager and Tom Benson is fantastic. That's what makes the job special, because that, in our industry doesn't exist with all the teams… There's great respect and the friendship that exists with Mickey and I, I don't take for granted at all. There was never any attempt with regards to leverage. I couldn't be involved with specifics."
What's on his to-do list:
There's a checklist of a lot of things going through my mind right now… that will be different than what might be the norm. But, the norm for us recently hasn't been in the Senior Bowl. If you're in the championship game or deep in the playoffs, you normally won't come.
The decisions not so much on free agency, and the draft, but the decisions on your own team and the evaluations on your own team, I can be a part of.
Will his teams still be as physical as before:
"It was one of the discussions that the commissioner and I had, we've grown accustomed to what the expectations are as regards to hits above the head, hits on the quarterback… I know this, those are challenging calls for the officials. We teach getting low. I thinkt he players in our league are more educated and aware of the rule changes. You always want to be a physical team but you want to be teaching the right thing – you don't want 15 yard penalties and you don't want people getting hurt.
On his team's record in 2012: 7-9:
"When you play the way we played defensively, it's going to be hard to win. When you struggle to run the ball the way we did in the first half of the season, it's going to be hard to win. We struggled at times in special teams – against the Giants I have no idea how many yards they got in return game – these things keep you from winning games."
On expectations the team will return to winning now that he's back:
"Coach Parcells said to me, 'you gotta make sure that this mindset that you're back and all of a sudden you're back to winning 11, 12, 13 games doesn't exist because you could well win five games next year."
On the support he received from Saints fans:
I am grateful and certainly humbled by it. The region has been unbelievable. That's helped me a lot. At times when I was back in New Orleans for functions, that was something that was overwhelming.
Why he didn't consider going to another team:
This was clearly the team I was returning to. When we started in 06 post Katrina, it felt like a business start up. There was just too much invested in the people in the building. When you start trying to identify what makes a job good, it's when you're working with the right people… with our fan base, I'm forever grateful. At times it was even embarrassing (the level of support) but I'm certainly grateful."
How this city should treat Commissioner Goodell and the NFL during the Super Bowl:
"One thing this city does better than any. They know how to entertain and feed you and there's no better city in the world to host a super bowl and they'll do a great job with that. The most important element is closure and moving forward… this next step is important. We have so many other challenges… move on."
"I think it should be the way our city hosted the previous nine (Super Bowls). I think it should be outstanding, gracious. I think that's our responsibility. We're still the top destination for this game. We're not getting in Towne Cars and driving 45 minutes to some venue. You're right down the street from the finest hotels, the finest restaurants… that would be my answer to anyone, especially the commissioner."
Has he, or does he want to talk to Gregg Williams:
"I've never talked with him (the commissioner) at all about Gregg, nor do I know about Gregg's status. 'Would you want to talk to him?' No, I have no interest in talking to Gregg."
On the work ahead:
We've got a lot of tough meetings ahead. That's what 7-9 is.
Has he talked to Drew Brees:
"I got a text. I knew he was heading to Hawaii. He was excited. I told him to stay healthy over there. He is going to be spending some time here before heading to California and I'll sure he'll come by."
Did Brees' contract issues or Payton being gone affect Brees' play:
He's been in this system and takes such good care of his body. There are certain players you worry about when they're not in the building, but he would not be one of those players. To look at how much of me not being there – that's not going to be our reason for the good things or the bad things. There's a lot of things that take place. If you're not playing good defense and you're not running the football, then I'm going to show you a quarterback who might struggle.


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This is a good companion to The Weaver's Idea Book, but I couldn't tell what she was doing with her fingers in the finger manipulated weaves; depth of focus/photography was not good for this. Also, I got this DVD during a sale. It's not worth it at full price.
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- love this DVD Review by Evelyn
I am a beginner weaver and watched this dvd over and over. I have learnt so much about the ridged heddle loom and am amazed at all the wonderful techniques that can be achieved. Jane is very clear and she made me feel accomplished.
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I am a beginning weaver. This video was good and informative - but assumes a certain level of knowledge. I will come back to this later when I am a little more experienced. I got the book to go with it and that does help a little - to follow along.
If you are a beginner- like me - I suggest Liz Gipson's Slots and Holes and Life After Warping: Weaving Well on a Rigid-Heddle Loom.
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- Helpful workshop Review by Deb
I was brand new to weaving when I got this workshop. Inspired by Rita Buchanan's 'In Praise of Simple Cloth' I decided to try out a rigid heddle to see if I liked weaving. Using this workshop with the excellent book by Jane there is more versatility and amazing options than I could wish for. It enabled me to get started and to feel confident and to produce cloth from my home spun wool (I learned to spin using Rita Buchanan's 'How I Spin'). I am absolutely delighted with the results. Many thanks to Jane and Interweave for producing such informative and wonderful workshops.
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- broad range of patterns covered Review by Vous
I'm extremely new to weaving and Jane certainly gave me a lot of options to do with my new 'toy', although i think i will have to watch it a hundred times!! to get the hang of some of the patterns. i was looking forward to the PDF downloads but i don't seem to have them - i was wondering how i can access them?
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- Disappointment Review by Jennifer
There are supposed to be PDF downloads and other "extras" included in this DVD set. I have asked several people who also own this item and they are also missing PDF files from their copies as well.
I don't think the tutorial is that great either. It would be nice if she had taken the time to go into further detail with some of the techniques. The Danish Medallion tutorial was sadly lacking further instruction because there are so any different styles....only one was represented.
(Posted on 5/27/13)
- Fantastic! Review by Beverly Bortner
I am pretty new to weaving. I purchased a rigid heddle loom and needed instructions. I purchased this dvd and in no time i was warping my loom and weaving. In less that two weeks i whipped up three scarves. I have not yet tried the decorative work but can't wait to play. Thank you for this wonderful dvd. It gave me the instructions and confidence to work with my loom. Well worth the money for any new weaver
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- Weaving on a Rigid Heddle Loom Review by Ellen Black
I'm new to weaving. I too liked the details in warping the loom, and appreciate the close ups. I think I enjoy this format even more than a class as I can re watch. There were a few spots where I would have liked to see a couple of things close up as Jane Patrick was talking about specific points. Overall this is a wonderful DVD. I have Jane Patricks book and think it's fantastic.
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- Clear and Concise Review by Leslee Moore
I found these lessons to be clear and concise. As someone new to weaving, I particularly enjoyed the section on warping the loom.
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- Disappointing Review by Suellen Light
I couldn't wait to get this set of dvd's. I have the book and love it and thought with the dvd set I could actually see how she is doing the weaving, as I am a visual learner. The camera does not focus closely enough to see what she is doing and it was no help. I am really disappointed.
(Posted on 1/26/11)
- Jane Patrick has hit a home run with this dvd set! Review by Barbara Mays-Stock
I received this DVD set in the mail this week, and I couldn't wait to view it. She has a laid back, easy instructional tone and simplifies each new concept. She is easy to listen to, and watching her as she demonstrates the various patterns that can be done on a rigid heddle loom encourages me to "try without fear!" Teaching adult learners is not always easy, but her manner and method is so inviting that it feels as though she is right there, teaching and encouraging. An excellent instructional DVD set. Congratulations!
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With 15 minutes of the half left, Jonah Holmes was shown a yellow card, after a series of Wasps offences. Within a minute, Worcester took advantage of their numerical superiority, when quick passing created an opening for Jon Clarke to cross near the posts. Carlisle missed the conversion, but made no mistake, two minutes later, when another well-worked move created an overlap for Andy Short to go over in the left corner. The crowd was angry that the officials had missed what seemed like a clear knock-on, earlier in the move – but the fly-half's excellent kick gave the visitors a 12-7 lead.
Tommy Bell narrowed the gap, with a penalty, three minutes later and Wasps comfortably played out the remaining minutes of Holmes's absence.
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Wasps started the second half the stronger, and an impressive scrum produced a penalty inside the Worcester 22, six minutes after the break. Bell's kick was again on target, from near the right touchline, and the Wasps lead was stretched to 16-12.
They came within a whisker of going further ahead, after Ashley Johnson's powerful charge from the back of a lineout launched a move which ended with Tom Varndell almost going over in the left corner, only to be denied by a double tackle by Errie Claassens and Nikki Walker, which just forced him into touch, as he went for the line.
After a drab period of play, littered with Worcester handling errors, Wasps brought the crowd back to life with a superb try, 17 minutes from time. Tom Lindsay threw to the back of a lineout on the Worcester 22, Wasps won quick ball and Chris Bell's powerful burst in midfield sucked in the defence. Quick ball set up space on the right, and Tom Varndell came into the line to send Jack Wallace over in the corner. Tommy Bell added another superb conversion, and then made way for Lee Thomas. Further Wasps replacements brought James Haskell, Charlie Davies, Nathan Morris and Will Taylor into the fray, in place of Sam Jones, Jonah Holmes, Tom Lindsay and Phil Swainston.
Worcester brought themselves right back into the game, ten minutes from time, when replacement winger Ben Howard went over in the left corner and Carlisle's fine conversion made the score 23-19.
Wasps produced the perfect immediate response, when Charlie Davies gathered a kick, 30 metres out, and accelerated through a gap to race away for a thrilling try in the right corner, which Lee Thomas was unable to convert.
Wasps completed their replacements, with five minutes left, when Chris Mayor, David Hughes and Lewis Thiede came on for Tom Varndell, Josh Thomas-Brown and Simon McIntyre.
One fine move almost brought the bonus point try, but Lee Thomas was stopped by a last-ditch tackle, ten metres short of the line.
One final assault ended in a Worcester penalty, with the clock at zero. Realising that another try would bring them two bonus points, they ran the ball from near their own line, but the move came to nothing, and Wasps ended up the winners.
London Wasps return to Adams Park next weekend when they take on Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership on Sunday 25 November, KO 14:30.
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Hugo Southwell (c), Jack Wallace, Elliott Daly, Chris Bell, Tom Varndell, Tommy Bell, Jonah Holmes, Simon McIntyre, Tom Lindsay, Phil Swainston, Josh Thomas-Brown, James Cannon, Sam Jones, Matt Everard, Ashley Johnson
Nathan Morris, Lewis Thiede, Will Taylor, Dave Hughes, James Haskell, Charlie Davies, Lee Thomas, Chris Mayor
Worcester Warriors
15 Errie Claassens 14 Nikki Walker 13 Alex Grove 12 Jon Clarke 11 Andy Short 10 Joe Carlisle 9 Jonny Arr 1 Ceri Jones 2 Ollie Hayes 3 Rob O'Donnell 4 Dean Schofield (c) 5 Craig Gillies 6 Richard de Carpentier 7 Jake Abbott 8 Blair Cowan
16 Ed Shervington 17 Ryan Furniss 18 James Currie 19 Chris Jones 20 Neil Best 21 Paul Hodgson
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Grayhawk In North Scottsdale in Scottsdale
- bedrooms 1
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- sleeps 2
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- type Condo
- community Grayhawk
- rates (USD) $ 2,200 - $ 2,200 / month
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In the summer of 2010 we purchased and fully renovated our vacation home. We have freshly furnished the unit with new furniture. Renovations and furnishings were at a cost of 29k. This ground floor unit is located in North Scottsdale in the Upscale Community of Grayhawk. We are a Gated Community with Security Foot Patrol. You must be over the age of 25 to rent.
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Renovations include multi-color natural stone slate throughout the unit, new mocha paint with 3 profile walls, white cabinets with black galaxy granite, and a new fully restored white garden style bathtub.
All furniture is brand new from the Room Store and includes leather couches with sleeper, 2 HD Samsung TV's 32" and 19", Sealy Mattress for the queen bed in the bedroom. The sofa pulls out for an additional queen bed in the living room. There is a washer/dryer in the unit and we provide laundry detergent/bleach/bounce sheets.
The complex provides a World Class 24 hr fitness center with free aerobic classes (yoga/spin cylcle), 2 swimming pools with spa, barbecues, wine bar, free coffee, popcorn and a wifi hot spot ( must have a smart phone or laptop) in the 3 million dollar great room. There is a private chef that cooks meals 3 times a week (check calendar), games room with nintendo wii, pool table and a 25 seat movie theater. A concierge is on duty daily to answer any of your questions (7am to 9 pm ). Laptops and pool towels can be signed out from the concierge and daytrips may be organized to the spa or sight seeing.
The unit has everything you could possibly need away from home to make your stay enjoyable and stress free. We also provide a land line for local calls and over 125 channels of HDTV/cable.
activities and attractions in Scottsdale Arizona
Waste Management PGA TPC Golf Tournament, Phoenix Suns, Phoenix Coyotes, Arizona Cardinals and Diamondbacks are a short drive away for sporting events. Cactus League Spring Training, Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction and the Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show also take place in the area.
High end shopping takes place in the Kierland Commons or Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall.
Great restaurants are endless and close by whether you want fine dining or casual. Old Town Scottsdale is always hopping with nightlife and many happy hours. The shops at fifth avenue and the waterfront are great for strolling or people watching. Desert Ridge mall is 5 minutes away and Frys and Wholefoods are close by for grocery needs.
Hayden Peak Crossing, a shopping complex, is a 5 minute walk away.
vacation rental rates
90 Day Minimum Stay
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accepted payment methods
Prior to paying a reservation deposit, always verify payment instructions by calling the phone number displayed on this listing page. By contacting the owner directly and paying by an approved method - credit card, paypal, check or bank transfer - your reservation payment will be protected up to $1,000.Learn more in our Security Center
Top things to do in Scottsdale
- High end shopping
- Fine dining
- Major sporting events
- Hiking Camelback Mountain
- Golfing over 200 courses
Top things to do on a budget
- Wine and Arts Festivals
- Strolling in Old Town
- Free Transit in Old Town
- Happy Hour everywhere
- Farmers Market
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- Wet n Wild Phoenix
- Phoenix Zoo #4 in USA
- Museums
- Go-Carts/ Mini Golf
- Drive the Apache Trail
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Senior Day, a bit of revenge, an attempt to start setting the table for next season.
If ever there has been a highly important non-championship-game-implications season finale for the JU football team, it would be Saturday at D. B. Milne Field when Drake comes to town.
Let's start with Senior Day when 17 players will be making their final stand for the Dolphins and caps a quite emotional week for the team which included each senior speaking to the team after practices.
Not only is it emotional for the team, but coaches, too.
"It's a very emotional week for me,'' JU coach Kerwin Bell said. "It hurts to see them end their careers here. We like to have our seniors go out winners so I am looking for everyone to play their best game.''
While the game has no Pioneer Football League championship implications for the Dolphins (7-3, 5-2) it certainly does for the Bulldogs (7-3, 6-1) who, with a win, would share the title with at least Butler (if needed, San Diego will play a make up game at Marist on Dec. 1).
Seeing how Drake ended JU's record 16-game PFL win streak last season and owns a 9-2 series advantage, this would be good time for the Dolphins to get a little revenge and have Drake feel that "there goes our championship hopes'' feeling.
"We've experienced that at Butler (two weeks ago) where you get that pit in your stomach that you walk around with three, four or five days and we don't want to have that feeling to end the season,'' Bell said. "We've got a chance to spoil their season and they've been a thorn in our side the last couple of years.''
In order to do that, the Dolphins are going to have to overcome a loaded team that has the reigning PFL Offensive Player of the Year in senior quarterback Mike Piatkowski.
"He's real methodical and call a lot of his own plays,'' Bell said. "They'll take their shots but he dinks and dunks down the field. It's hard to get to him because he gets rid of it so fast but we've got to get in his face and cause him to get disrupted.''
Piatkowski has thrown for 2,996 yards and 20 touchdowns this season with only nine interceptions.
Nonetheless, Bell says, the Dolphins might have a shot if they can stay away from missed assignments which caused two touchdowns for Campbell last week.
"We can't bust, they're too good a team and we've got to make them earn everything,'' he said. "We had too busted assignments last week and it's pretty simple, we've been working on it since preseason.''
Offensively, the goal is simple. More production.
"We've thrown one touchdown in three games and have got to get some production out of our passing game,'' Bell said. "We have got to have more balance and we've got to have some explosive plays in the passing game.''
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Students and teachers of all subjects are exchanging chalkboards for interactive whiteboards and opting for laptops, tablets and smartphones over pen and paper. The Federal Aviation Administration's Academy in Oklahoma City, Okla., and its more than 230 Raytheon-managed field locations are also exploring mobile learning options. Training for FAA air traffic controllers still includes traditional instructor-led courses, but is complemented by simulator-based training, electronic learning and even a mobile application has been developed for the Apple's® iPhone™ and iPad™.
The application, developed by Raytheon, runs air traffic control training modules that allow controllers to practice aircraft vectoring and separation exercises at their convenience outside of traditional classroom training environments. Raytheon's Air Traffic Control Optimum Training Solution (ATCOTS) team is responsible for supporting FAA ATC training across all four domains: en route, tower, terminal and TRACONs (Terminal Radar Approach Control).
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Audi Club Georgia is hosting a 2-Day Driving School at Atlanta Motorsports Park! Once again, this year's driving school is presented by Audi North Atlanta! We are also proud to be supported by APR and Butler Tire. Atlanta Motorsports Park (AMP) is a road course designed by famed Formula One architects, Hermann Tilke. At AMPs heart is a 2-mile road course with 141 feet of elevation changes, technical course layout, high speed straights and two 'signature' corners designed to pay homage to famed European race courses; Belgium's Spa-Francochamps and the iconic 'Carousel' from Germany's Nürburgring.
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This is the 17th annual One Lapp of Ohio Rally Tour which takes place in the beautiful Southeastern part of the state. The event is headquartered at the Salt Fork State Park Lodge in Cambridge, Ohio. The event will run from October 24th though the 26th.
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on Aug 13, 2008 at 11:10 am
Oh man. With how over-policed this city is I think it's somewhat humorous that they left on foot and didn't get caught.
Now that they've added another bank to Main Street's stocks, it's really one-stop shopping for bank robbers.
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Wonder if the bank teller is in on the scheme.
Robbing banks this seems way too easy.
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We are pleased to announce that renowned author Chris Bohjalian is our featured author and his most recent work, Skeletons At the Feast, is our book selection for 2009. Chris Bohjalian is the author of 11 previous novels, and in every work he has tackled serious ethical, moral and social issues that challenge his characters and his readers. Two of his prior works were made into successful TV movies.
Skeletons at the Feast was inspired in part by an actual diary a friend asked Bohjalian to read in 1998; it had been kept by his friend's East Prussian grandmother from 1920 to 1945. The historical novel takes place during the final six months of WWII and follows the evacuation of the Emmerich family from their estate in East Prussia. Their journey takes them through familiar and devastated countryside and they come to the full realization of the horrors and atrocities of their countrymen. The perspective of German families within Nazi territory adds much to our understanding of that time and the effects of war on everyday people. The group's efforts to survive and maintain human decency in the face of events completely beyond individual control creates a page-turning read. Skeletons at the Feast's focus on those displaced by the war--soldiers, prisoners, families and communities--has a great deal of appeal for today's world.
Our grant funds have pretty well been depleted and thus it is not going to be possible for us to distribute the book for free this year. Every library in the North Country Library System will get a copy of the book early in February. We will do one major event in each of the three counties: Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence. They will all be school-based events, at Jefferson Community College, Lowville Academy and Ogdensburg City School District. These events will be complemented by several public book readings and author presentations. All events are free and open to the public.
Your friends, group or book club are welcome to participate and we hope that by giving you such advance notice that you can begin to make other arrangements for securing books or planning travel costs.
Visit our tentative schedule for North Country Reads 2009 events. Please mark your calendars and plan to join us in person or listen via the live broadcast of Readers and Writers on the Air on Thursday, April 2 at 7 pm.
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