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It's been too depressing to write the past few weeks. After the Eagles squandered the fourth-quarter lead against the Lions, we were 3-3 going into the bye. That wasn't horrible, except that we had just lost two winnable games in a row.
Close Losses Come Back to Haunt You
The Lions game goes without saying, but people quickly forget that we had that Steelers game. If Vick hasn't fumbled at the goal line we might have taken that game. But instead of going into the bye at 5-1 we went in at 500. Even if we accept the tough loss against the Steelers, we really needed to pull out that Lions game, and there was no excuse for that loss.
Two Embarrassing Weeks Against the NFC South
Anyway, with Reid's success after the bye and being at home, I thought we had a good shot to beat the Falcons. Even though they came into that game undefeated, I still can't really believe in the Falcons. The only time I've really seen them play this year, aside from against the Eagles, was the Monday night game against Denver early in the season. They made Peyton look bad, but it was his first game back, so I didn't put as much stock into the disguised defensive schemes that Gruden was raving about all night. Also, the Falcons have had some really shaky wins against questionable teams. Granted, the Eagles few win over Cleveland was shaky as well, but the win against the Giants was solid and although we got some help at the end of the Ravens game, it was still a strong showing and a victory against a still-good team. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Falcons split their final four games, but in any case back to the Eagles.
So we all know how embarrassing the past couple weeks have been. The worst part is that the Eagles continue to shoot themselves in the talons. Shady tore up the Saints with at least three big runs in the first half. Heck even Bryce Brown had a couple great runs, and Vick was getting a few years on the ground as well. But then the same old story. We get in the red zone and we're throwing the ball nonstop. Between turnovers, penalties, and screw-ups, the Eagles have managed to sink to 30th in the league in scoring TDs in the red zone: at 37.04%, the Birds are only ahead of Cleveland and Kansas City (The Saints, by the way, lead the league with an incredible 72% TD rate in the red zone).
The Eagles Are a Mess
Simply put, the Eagles continue to be a mess. They were a mess all of last year, but we thought that the correctable mistakes–picks, fumbles, penalties, poor play calling, execution–would make some progress. But it really doesn't seem like much progress has been made in any of those areas. This is just a sloppy football team.
And that is really what is so frustrating. This team could be better. The talent is there. But we just continue to hurt ourselves. There are some things we can't do much about. The offensive line is hurting, but the replacements are still pathetic. But that's only part of the problem. If you know that your offensive line stinks, get Vick to roll out more. He's getting hit on his 3- and 5-step drops, so start bootlegging him out. Run the ball more (novel idea!). The D line is getting in fast, so give the ball to your super talented back and let him find the holes. Establish the run, and if it's working, stick with it. Why we got so pass heavy in the second half against the Saints still boggles my mind. We were tearing them to shreds on the ground. Even if you only get 3.4 years per carry, that's still a first down every time.
Looking Forward
On the plus side, regardless of the real concerns that we should have (especially after the Falcons blowout), I still think our defense is solid. To counter the poor red-zone offense, we are actually fourth in the league at preventing touchdowns in the red zone (only behind Chicago, Miami, and Baltimore). We finally managed a couple sacks last week, and in general the pressure seemed better. To me that was a good sign because against lesser quarterbacks, that pressure will have more of an effect.
We really need this Cowboys game, but it's hard to have much confidence as a fan at this point. The Eagles just look like a complete mess out there, and the Cowboys, although they also cause themselves problems to lose games, at least look like they are close to turning things around at times. The Birds seem like they just have miles to go…


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November 1, 2002
To: Faculty Council
From: Paul S. Muhly
Re: Proposal for a joint faculty-staff budget committee
I write this memo to address the two questions raised at
the last Faculty Council meeting: 1) What are the pros and cons of forming a
joint faculty-staff budget committee? 2) What role(s) should budget committees
(separate or combined) play in the budget process?
Concerning point 1), the pros and cons that were solicited
from the Senate's Budget Planning Committee are described below.
Concerning point 2), I have attached an excerpt from the Final Report and
Recommendations of the Budget Planning Advisory Committee (the Carlson Report)
that was commissioned by former President Coleman to review the University's
current budget processes and to make specific recommendations to improve the
processes, leading, in particular to a "more strategic use of funds."
That report recommended that "[s]teps should be taken to promote more
effective faculty and staff participation in University-level budget allocation
decision-making", and offered suggestions (recorded below) on how this might
be done.
Experience shows that the
administration usually responds more favorably to an idea when it is endorsed by
faculty and staff in a joint discussion than when it is generated in separate
discussions. The FRIC was held up
as an example of how the faculty and staff's interests can be promoted
simultaneously in ways not possible in separate committees.
The two current committees share
many of the same issues. The
administration would have to prepare fewer materials and spend less time
repeating itself in meetings.
A joint committee would provide a
more diverse perspective on the issues than would either committee separately.
The discussions and interactions have tended to be broader when the
faculty and staff meet together.
A committee somewhat larger than
either of the two separate committees might make it easier to develop effective
subcommittees whose responsibilities would be focused on particular budget
issues. A larger committee might
also assure that there would be some members on campus to participate in budget
discussions during the summers.
The primary force driving all
budget decisions ought to be the effectiveness of our academic mission: our
teaching, our research and our service. The
faculty have a unique perspective on these issues and related fundamental
responsibilities that are not shared by the staff. Some worry that the faculty voice might get diluted in
undesirable ways in a joint committee and that this would adversely affect our
academic mission. This might become
especially troublesome if the joint budget committee were to take on the task of
reviewing unit reviews (as has been proposed and discussed for the Faculty
Senate Budget Planning Committee).
Some who voiced concern over the
possibility that the "faculty voice" would be diluted also opined that there
is no evidence to support this. They
acknowledged that the primary interests of the Staff Budget Committee have
generally focused on employee oriented issues, rather than on academic matters,
but expressed optimism, based on past experience, that given the opportunity to
be involved in discussions of academic importance, the staff would energetically
and helpfully become involved.
Concern was expressed over the
fact that the chair of the combined committee is to be appointed by the
President of the University.
Concern was expressed that a
disproportionate number of staff are from clinical, hospital, and other
non-academic units.
Some feel that the size of a joint committee would work against its effectiveness. Discussions in large committees tend to be less candid. Larger committees present scheduling problems.
3: Steps should be taken to promote more effective faculty and staff
participation in University-level budget allocation decision-making.
Budget allocation decisions are made in three different ways at the
University level. First, the
University makes an annual budget allocation to each budget unit.
Second, the University allocates monies from centrally controlled budget
pools (e.g., research funds, equipment funds) to specific purposes in each unit,
generally on the basis of requests received from those units.
Finally, in response to a unit review (either a regular review or a
specially requested review), the President's Council on Strategic
Implementation (PCSI) may determine that the unit's allocation of funds should
be increased or diminished on a long-term basis.
We believe that there should be effective faculty and staff participation
in all these decisions. With regard
to allocations from budget pools, there sometimes is such participation.
Advisory boards or committees participate in the process of reviewing
proposals and awarding funds from various research funding pools controlled by
the Office of the Vice President for Research.
Faculty are also often asked to advise on travel and curriculum
development grants awarded by the International Programs Office (a branch of the
Provost's Office). There are
other examples. On the other hand,
many of the budget pool funds administered by the Provost's Office are awarded
without any independent faculty or staff involvement (except insofar as faculty
and staff participate in preparing requests for funding that are submitted to
the Provost). Thus, with regard to centrally administered budget pool resources,
our recommendation is simply that consultative mechanisms should be maintained
where they are already used and should be developed where they are not currently
in place.
The PCSI group (which has the authority to authorize extraordinary
changes in budget allocations) already includes faculty and staff
representation. We agree with the
recent move to link faculty and staff representation on PCSI more closely to the
elected leadership of the Faculty Senate and Staff Council.
However, we also believe that faculty and staff terms on PCSI should be
lengthy enough for the representatives to become knowledgeable about the issues
that are regularly under consideration by PCSI.
Knowledge and experience are vital to making effective contributions on
budget matters, and we would not endorse a regime in which faculty and staff
turnover was so rapid as to diminish the ability of faculty and staff to
participate usefully in PCSI's discussions.
Faculty and staff also participate in general budget discussions through
the Faculty Senate and Staff Council Budget Committees.
In this connection, these committees are consulted frequently by central
administration and urged to offer their views and suggestions freely.
Indeed, we believe that the central administration's record in this
regard is exemplary. Nevertheless,
there are some problems and, while we do not have any very good solution to
them, there are some possible options for addressing them that we think deserve
further discussion by those committees and administrators.
One problem was alluded to earlier: gaining expertise in budget matters
takes a considerable period of time. Several
steps might be taken to address this problem.
First, the terms and term limits for members of both the Faculty Senate
and Staff Council Budget Committees should be long enough for those members to
develop real expertise in budget matters. Second,
careful thought should be given to ensuring that the membership of the committee
includes people who have prior experience with budget issues, whether because of
their academic credentials or because of their work experience.
Third, budget orientation meetings, which have been successfully used in
the past, should be held on a regular basis early in each academic year.
A second problem is the separation of faculty and staff into two separate
groups. This puts an extra burden
on administrators (who must find enough time to discuss budget issues with two
different groups), and it means that faculty and staff are not able to share
information and perspectives about budget issues.
While we recognize that faculty and staff frequently have differing
interests, our work as a joint committee has convinced many of us that there is
significant value to discussing budget issues together.
We would, accordingly, recommend that the Faculty Senate and Staff
Council Budget Committees seek and pursue opportunities for joint meetings on a
regular basis.
A third problem is the sense that the Faculty Senate and Staff Council
Budget Committees sometimes feel that they are not consulted on the "real
issues," e.g., the decisions that determine who gets what and why.
We believe that past consultation with these committees has been
substantive and meaningful, especially over the past few years.
But this consultation has usually focused on specific initiatives (should
the University request an additional allocation for library acquisitions or an
increase in tuition) or on broad principles for managing budget crises (e.g.,
should salary increases be paid even if the state does not fund them).
The question of basic university priorities is rarely a subject of
explicit discussion.
We think that
improvements in this state of affairs primarily require changing the practices
of committee members and administrators in small ways (i.e. changing people's
expectations about what to ask and what to talk about).
In part, the question is the timing of consultations.
Budget discussions currently focus primarily on the current year's
budget. Increased emphasis should
be placed on securing early faculty and staff input and feedback concerning
budget decisions to be made in future years, with attention both to general
issues of priorities (e.g., the relative importance of research initiatives
versus Provost office initiatives) and the future budget implications of new
initiatives or policies being considered on campus.
In addition, where discussions must focus on impending budget decisions
(e.g., when budget cuts must be made), feedback should be sought from the
Faculty Senate and Staff Council Budget Committees on the specific proposals
(e.g., whether to cut centrally-funded research support, curriculum support,
travel support, etc.) as well as on general principles.
Finally, we also believe that implementation of recommendation 2 (regarding activity-based budget reporting) will help make faculty and staff participation in budget discussions more effective because, as noted above, it presents some basic budget issues more clearly and starkly than do current budget reports.


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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Happy Canada Day Eh?!
Posted by
Claire the Shepherdess
Well, as most of you know, I'm Canadian. Canada Day is celebrated on July 1 each year. It's not unlike July 4 here in the USA. We have fireworks and outdoor concerts and barbecues and all that great stuff that comes with summer and celebrations. It is a celebration of the July 1, 1867 enactment of the British North America Act, which united Canada as a single country of four provinces. In Canada, the establishment of the country is also known as Confederation.
In celebration of the day, I thought I'd offer some facts about Canada that you might, or might not, know.
1. Canada is the second largest country in the world (Russia is the largest).
2. Canada and the USA share the world's longest common border.
3. Canada is made up of 10 provinces and 3 territories. The provinces and territories are similar to states.
4. Canada has two official languages - French and English. That doesn't mean that all Canadians speak French! It is spoken widely in the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, and to a lesser extent in other provinces and territories.
5. Canada is named after an Iroquois word, "kanata," which means village or settlement.
I was born in the province of Quebec, but lived most of my life in the province of Nova Scotia. I also spent 11 years of my life in the province of Ontario. I love Canada dearly - after all, it is my homeland. I miss certain things about it that are in some ways intangible and difficult to describe. Most of all, I miss family and friends.
For me, being Canadian is a part of who I am and it defines certain things about me. That said, I believe that it doesn't really matter where one is born and where one lives one's life. What matters most is what one makes of one's life, and how one contributes to the lives of others. I could have been born in any country in the world, and I would still be, at the core, the same person that I am now. I embrace all cultures, all people, and all countries for their own strengths and weaknesses. I do not believe that there is a "greatest country in the world" because all countries have their own remarkable qualities and their own failings.
I live in the USA for now, but that doesn't mean I will always live here. Part of me would love to return to Canada. Part of me would love a new adventure in a different country. New Zealand appeals to me, but since I have dual citizenship with the UK, I could also live and work anywhere in Europe. How about a villa in Tuscany?! I'm open to adventure, but I try to remain realistic as well. Who knows what the future holds!
Best wishes to my homeland and all family and friends in Canada for a wonderful Canada Day!
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
Garden delights in the kitchen
Posted by
Claire the Shepherdess
Well, to be honest, they're not all from the garden. Some are from the coop!
Today I made 6 egg custards and a flan pie from a surfeit of eggs brought to us by our lovely hens. Kelly loves egg custard and flan, so these will disappear quickly! i generally use the bantam eggs in baked custards at a ratio of 2 bantam eggs per 1 standard egg. It uses up the little eggs easily and quickly.
Personally, I like to eat them with fresh fruit. Today, I picked fresh red currants from the garden. They are one of my favorites! I like to make jelly with the red currants, but they are also quite lovely fresh, sprinkled around the flan or on top of a custard. I have black currants and white currants that will soon be ready for picking too! You can see the currants in the tub in the picture. I still need to take them off their stems.
We also picked our second batch of garlic scapes. Usually Kelly cuts them up and purees them with softened butter, then freezes that into logs. It makes great garlic butter. Garlic scapes are the flower stalk of the garlic plant. Generally, in order to allow the garlic bulb (under the soil) to maximize its size, you cut the flower off so that the plant focuses its energy in the root, not the flower. They make these unusual curly stems, and the flavor of them is garlicky, but milder than the bulb. Garlic is very good for us, even though it's not one of my favorites really. I eat it anyway. I do think that the garlic scapes are lovely to look at!
I also finished plying some yarn that I had spun. The orange/turquoise is a seacell and merino blend, while the buff is an alpaca and merino blend. I'm quite pleased with how this one came out.
Of course, I can't finish up without a mention of the little white bundle under my desk.
What is it? Look closer! It's Marshmallow!! She's doing wonderfully well and has gained a whole pound! She is now over 5 pounds of fleecy delight. Hooray! She has also adapted well to her sanitary routine of being diapered. It saves a lot of clean up and she seems perfectly comfortable. Whew!
Have a great week!
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Friday, June 19, 2009
First Bottle Lamb!
Posted by
Claire the Shepherdess
When we decided to have sheep, we hoped that all lambings would go well, of course. I think every shepherd hopes for that. Sometimes, there can be trouble with the delivery. Sometimes, there's just too much of a good thing! That's what happened yesterday on Whispering Acres. Our final pregnant ewe, Buttercup, gave birth to quadruplets! Woah! That's a whole lot of lambs! Sadly, one of them died, so we were left with triplets. When I got home after work yesterday, one of the three was not doing too well. She was laying in the field, very lethargic, panting in the heat despite having shelter, and just not doing very well. I think she kind of called to me.
Of course I called to you, you silly lady. My Mummy wasn't doing her job! What do you expect?! And you call yourself a shepherdess. Pffft....
just let me sleep, would you please?
I brought her inside to give her a bottle of prepared colostrum, since the powdered colostrum substitute I have says to feed that for the first 24 hours before moving on to lamb milk replacer. Sure enough, she hungrily took to the bottle. She had a little rest and seemed much better after that, much to my relief. So, I decided to keep her in for the night. She slept by my bedside in a little basket.
My own bed!
Thank you for the blankie! It's soooo comfy!
I think her mom was having trouble caring for 3 lambs since she's a first time mom. For the sake of all of them, I decided it was best to keep her as a bottle lamb. She is the smallest of the 3, and the other two were much more aggressive with their Mom's udder, so she was getting left out.
Well no kidding. I'm barely as big as your foot! I had trouble with my brother and sister. They were awfully pushy. You, on the other hand, are a pushover!
Marshmallow has a bottle every 2 to 3 hours now, although soon she will be able to manage 4 to 5 hours. She went to work with me today because Kelly was busy and unable to keep up with the feedings today. Really, we shouldn't have animals at work, but it was important to give her a good start. My colleagues were delighted to host her for the day, and she was very quiet and well behaved, despite a steady stream of visitors.
Marshmallow! What kind of a name is that? You're not going to eat me are you? I can't imagine...
I had to pick up some diapers on the way to work to ensure there were no "accidents" on the carpet! She is now sporting "Pampers Snuggables Sensitive" for up to 10 lb babies. I make a small adaptation to them so that her tail can stick out.
Yeah, this is pretty embarassing you know. If the other lambs see me.....wait a second....what is this stuff I'm smelling, it smells familiar....like me! Why is it these weird colours? What kind of sheep are these anyway? They are even more quiet than me!
This afternoon when I got home from work, I had a little snooze because last night I had to get up for bottle feedings, and the night before I had been awake for hours due to tremendous thunderstorms. She slept beside me curled up in a little ball. She has me hooked around her little hoof. Really, sometimes, I swear she's talking to me!
I am afraid to ask what this contraption is. But it kind of smells like me too, but different. This is very odd. I'm going to have to do some more investigation. I'm not sure if I trust you yet.
Hey lady! Where's my bottle?!
Ummm...gotta go!
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Tutti Frutti With Cream (and a cameo appearance)
Posted by
Claire the Shepherdess
I love fruit - nearly all kinds of fruit, although I'm not all that excited about lychees, but hey, we can't all be perfect. In order to indulge myself, I have planted a "home orchard" of sorts. Really, it's quite a big home orchard. In fact, I now have 60 fruit trees planted, mostly dwarf and semi-dwarf and a few standards. So, I now have a wide array of cherries, plums, apricots, peaches, nectarines, apples, pears, quince, apriums and pluots.
Last year, I planted several apple trees, a couple of cherry trees, and pears. Here's what is happening this year with those trees! (I'm so excited!)
Here are some Burbank dwarf plums!
These are Stanley prune plums.
Montmorency sour cherries (I ate one, ohhhh so good!)
These are Cortland apples
Some Honeycrisp apples too!
And here is a baby Bartlett pear!!
I think it's wonderful to be able to grow and pick my own fruit trees. I can't wait for the coming years when I will see how they all progress and what kind of fruit yields I can get even here in chilly Iowa! Well, I mean in winter. Right now, it's sticky hot out!
In addition, I have rhubarb, black currants, red currants, white currants, pink currants, raspberries, blackberries, lingonberries, honeyberries, gooseberries, not to mention grapes. I'll have to do posts on some of those as the summer progresses.
So, what's up with the "cream" part of this blog post title? Well, as I was out there photographing my young fruits, I couldn't help but notice the antics of little Cream Puff, our 4-way-cross lamb, as she cavorted around the sheep pasture. Oh, she's a firecracker! Here she goes! Bounce!
Oh yeah! She's a jumper lamb! See her fly!!
This is her flight platform. Sometimes she looks like she will just take off!
Other lambs walk. She bounces.
So, after all that lambie excitement, there I was, all ready to go back in the house, and I turned to look back as I walked, and then I saw her. Yup, you know who....always wanting to be in the spotlight! LUNA!!! What are you doing out of your pasture fencing, young lady?
"What? I'm busy....eating..."
"I'm just picking up the mess from when you unloaded the hay from the trailer."
Luna has picked up the habit of squeezing out of the cattle panel fencing, going for little foraging walks, checking out the chickens and ducks, and then going back into the pasture with the other goats. She doesn't run away, she just goes on walkabout.
"I can't believe you put me back with the other goats. I was HELPING you clean the yard! Besides, you NEVER feature me on your blog any more. My fan base demands my appearance!"
Sven says "See Mom, see how well behaved I am? I'm nothing like that naughty little goat! And I have beautiful horns too. I am the future herdsire! Worship me!!"
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Iowa Sheep & Wool Festival
Posted by
Claire the Shepherdess
This past weekend, Kelly and I spent much of our time at the Iowa Sheep & Wool Festival that was held in Adel, Iowa. We packed an awful lot into two days, but it was worth every minute.
It was difficult to choose from all the classes and workshops available, but here is some of what we did...
We both attended a class in parasite resistance and strategic deworming of sheep.
Kelly attended a FAMACHA class and received his certification (FAMACHA is a technique of determining the worm load in an animal by comparing the color of its inner eyelid to a chart, thus determining if it should be dewormed or not)
We both went to the "hall of breeds" exhibit to see all the different sheep varieties
Kelly had a great time learning from the shearer after a demonstration of shearing
Claire attended the "adding pizzazz to your yarn" class (I'll blog about that separately)
Kelly attended a workshop on learning to judge sheep
Claire visited the fiber vendors far too many times, but there were so many lovely things to touch and look at and buy!
We met Jill from Blue Gate Farms in person! She's lots of fun and we really enjoyed spending time with her on Sunday afternoon!
Kelly ate lamb burgers, lamb jerky and a lamb bratwurst. Claire didn't.
Claire attended the "Spinning Woolen & Worsted Techniques" class
I thought I'd give a little more detail about the spinning woolen and worsted class, because it was very interesting for me as a fairly new spinner, and I certainly learned a lot. For those who are not spinners, let me just preface this discussion by saying that when you spin yarn, the fiber that is spun is held in your hands, and your foot spins the wheel. The spinning of the wheel makes the fibers twist together, and the twisted fibers are pulled through the "orifice" of the wheel and wound onto the bobbin.
We started the class with raw Romney fleece. We learned to flick card (for those who didn't already know how) the fibers to open out the tips and make the fibers align together. Then, we took those fibers and spun them in the way that most spinners use, keeping our hands fairly close to the orifice and smoothing down the fibers as we spun, thus making what is referred to as a "worsted" yarn. In the picture below, the middle skein of brown yarn is that worsted yarn which I made from the raw fleece.
The top skein in the picture above is a semi-worsted yarn. The difference between it, and the worsted yarn that we first made, is that the semi-worsted is made from wool roving. In roving, the fibers are somewhat meshed together, so that they are not all aligned in the same direction. We used a white Corriedale roving for that skein. Here is the closer picture of the semi-worsted skein on the bottom of the picture below, next to....something awful looking!
That awful looking stuff is my first attempt at true "woolen" yarn. The difference between spinning a woolen yarn is that you use what's called a "long draw" technique, which means that your hands are a long way from the spinning wheel orifice, and you do not touch and smooth down the fibers as you spin. So you're holding this hunk of fiber a long way away from the wheel and letting the spin travel up the line and just pinching near the top. This is not easy, my friends! That is why my above sample looks like something one of my chickens got into. How embarassing. Clearly, I need more practice with this technique! I think I need to "pre-draft" the fiber more before doing it again. Most of us in the class came to this realization - it is difficult to spin woolen without considerable pre-drafting. Pre-drafting means stretching out the fibers before you start to spin with them. The same corriedale roving was used for the woolen skein.
Finally, we did a semi-woolen skein. In that case, we prepared the fiber as one would do for worsted (made all the fibers line up by flicking out the locks of raw fleece) but we spun as one would do for the woolen technique using the long draw. I actually really liked the yarn that I spun using that technique. You can see it in the picture below - it's the bottom skein. It has more texture to it and a more interesting character. The point of woolen yarns is that there is more air space spun into them and that should, in theory create a warmer yarn because it has more air pockets to hold warm air, such as in a hat or scarf, against the body. I will be trying some more work on semi-woolen yarns in future.
So, to summarize...
Worsted yarn - align fibers, use short draw, smoothing of fibers as spun
Semi-worsted yarn - not aligned fibers, use short draw, smoothing of fibers as spun
Semi-woolen yarn - aligned fibers, use long draw, no smoothing of fibers as spun
Woolen yarn - not aligned fibers, use long draw, no smoothing of fibers as spun
One of my upcoming blog posts will cover the yarns I made in the "Adding Pizzazz to Your Yarn" class, featuring Flash, soy silk, merino, tussah, and more!
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Thank you! Blog Awards!
Posted by
Claire the Shepherdess
I have been very kindly awarded a couple of blog awards and have been remiss in blogging about them and thanking those who bestowed them upon me.
Jenny Holden of "
Wandering Gecko
" gave me the "Honest Scrap" award!
So, (sorry Jenny) I find this really funny....when I first visited Jenny's blog, in her profile, she had her job listed as something like "Water Vole Officer" and now she has it listed as "Beaver Trial Field Officer." I mean, how do you keep a straight face when someone asks you what you do, and you have to say "Oh, well, I'm a water vole officer." This, for some reason, makes me collapse into a fit of giggles. I envision her standing at a vole crossroads, saying "I'm sorry Mr. Vole, but you didn't stop and look both ways. I'm going to have to issue you a citation!" In all seriousness, I think it's wonderful that she is doing such a badly needed job in the role of ecology of small mammals. If I had that job, I should think I would get so excited at the sight of a water vole that I would track it all day and forget where I was. Thank you Jenny, for introducing me to your world, and your sheep, of course!
Back to the award....Honest Scrap Award rules:"When accepting this auspicious award, you must write a post bragging about it (done), including the name of the misguided soul who thinks you deserve such acclaim (done), and link back to said person so everyone knows he or she is real (done). Choose a minimum of 7 blogs that you find brilliant in content or design. Or improvise by including bloggers who have no idea who you are because you don't have 7 friends. Show the 7 random victims' names and links and leave a harassing comment informing them that they were prized with "Honest Weblog." Well, there's no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon. List at least ten honest things about yourself. Then, pass it on! "
Wow, Here are my 7 "victims" of the Honest Weblog award, who are "brilliant in content or design," in no particular order...
Lola Nova
- because she is always brilliant in her crafty designs and I love her blog!
- she always makes me laugh, and that's brilliant!
Blue Gate Farm
- because they promote sustainable farming, and that in itself is brilliant!
Disapproving Rabbits
- seriously, brilliant rabbit photos and very funny quotes!
Color & Texture
- brilliant knitter & crocheter. Really. I am so jealous!
Apifera Farm
- Katherine is a brilliant artist and wonderful writer.
Split Rock Ranch
- because I bought a llama fleece from her today, but also because she's wonderfully crafty with her fleeces and is a brilliant fiber blending artist!
And here are my ten honest things about myself:
1. I sleep with a stuffed kangaroo named Lurvig. It bothers me if I wake up in the middle of the night and can't find him. Sometimes I have to turn the light on and find him.
2. I am a perfectionist about most things and I hate making mistakes.
3. I am a terrible housekeeper.
4. I have a secret (well, not anymore) fear of being hit by a meteorite.
5. I force myself to eat salad because I know it's good for me but I'm really not a big fan of it.
6. I have an emergency chocolate stash in my work filing cabinet.
7. When I was a child, I used to like the taste of Elmer's white glue.
8. I am terrified of flying and I tremble uncontrollably when seated in a plane.
9. I always wanted to be 6 foot tall but I am 2 inches short of that.
10. I am drawn to red sports cars, which are entirely impractical when I live on a dirt road.
Brenda at
Split Rock Ranch
(whom I awarded up above!) gave me the "Kreativ Blogger" award!
Brenda is far more creative than I am, and is a fiber artist extraordinaire. She has a wonderful herd of llamas and they have gorgeous fleeces. She has fleeces for sale on her Etsy shop - you should check them out! She also has a great fiber of the month club (I'm a member!) and some lovely yarns and rovings in her
Etsy shop
So, I'm supposed to list sever favorite things, and then award the Kreativ Blogger award to seven blogs. Here we go!
Seven Favorite Things
1. Visits from my parents! They are a tremendous help here on the farm and bring me such joy when they come to visit the farm!
2. My farm animals! I never knew how wonderful it would be to have sheep, goats, llamas, chickens, ducks, and donkeys in my life!
3. Haagen Dazs Toasted Sesame Brittle Ice Cream. More please!
4. My garden. It is my peaceful place.
5. Springtime - because everything is new again.
6. Collecting eggs from my hens, it's a surprise every day!
7. Fiber! And more fiber! (I don't mean the edible kind)
Seven "Kreativ" Blogs!
Frolic 'n Fibers
- I'm very envious of her fiber drying table
: http://frolicnfibers.blogspot.com/2009/03/fiber-arts-fridays-drying-and-picking.html
eXtreme Spinner
- she has lovely fiber in her Etsy shop (I know because I've bought a lot of it!) and she's very creative indeed!
3. Mare at
Moon & Stars Studio
- an amazingly creative and talented woman with a heart of gold.
4. Corinne at
Crosswinds Farm
, because she is creative enough to understand my fiber addiction, and she has such an eye for photography. Look at her latest batch of pictures from her local farmers market! Wow!
Artstanding Stranger
- a new blog to me (see below) but a great artist! Check it out!
Loess is More
- Diane is another amazing photographer, and that makes her "Kreativ" in my books! Plus, she always makes me laugh too. Thanks Di!
Felted Treasures
- such a wonderful array of felted items - a great blog for inspiration! Very Kreativ indeed!
Also, I had a special mention on "
Artstanding Stranger
" which is a really super creative blog that you should visit! I had not found her blog before, but she found mine! I'm so glad she did, because now I can visit hers. Diane has an interesting mix of art and philosophy on her blog. Her recent post mentioned that she learned from my blog about llamas jumping through hoops, and about the birth of lambs! Isn't that what it's all about - learning from others that we might never otherwise encounter in our daily lives. That is the treat of blogging. Thanks for your visit Diane!
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Birds Aplenty!
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I thought I'd do a bird blog - and for once it's not about my chickens or ducks! I'm very lucky to have a wooded area on my land, and that brings in lots of different bird species. I love to watch the birds, and I enjoy finding their nests and watching their young grow and fledge. I have 3 bluebird boxes, 2 of which are presently inhabited. One box had a bluebird family in it earlier this spring, but after they fledged, tree swallows moved in and now they have 4 eggs being "incubated" by mother swallow. The second box has a different swallow family in it. The movement and flight of the swallows is mesmerizing. I especially like to watch them when Kelly mows the lawn, because that seems to stir up the bugs from the grass. They follow behind the mower, diving and swooping in a bird ballet of sorts, getting all the tastiest insects I'm sure!
Of course, hummingbirds are a favorite of mine also, and here is one that I photographed earlier this week at my hummingbird feeder. It sits right outside my dining room window, so I can watch it when I eat (if I'm not eating in front of the computer!) They are such delicate little birds, but they pack a mean beak when there is another hummingbird around, and they will dive-bomb each other while trying to feed. It's hard to keep up with their antics sometimes!
On the more docile side, we have quite a few chipping sparrows around here. Can you see the chipping sparrows in this picture?
Nah, didn't think so. It's a bit of a trick question. This is my Jackmanii clematis, which mother sparrow decided was the perfect place for her nest. Indeed it was, because last year's chipping sparrow (maybe the same one?) tried a nest in 2 of my viburnum shrubs and in a juniper, and every time, the nest was either destroyed or the eggs broken. I'm not sure who the culprit was, but this time....success!!
Now you can see the chipping sparrows in the clematis! There were four babies and they just fledged this weekend. What a sweet little family! If you go back to the first picture, you can actually see a little bit of the nest, just to the right of the single bloom on the bottom left side. She used a bit of shredded paper (from my chicken nest boxes) and the white shows the edge of the nest.
Today, I heard one of those unpleasant "thunk" sounds on a window in my dining area. I have some decals that are supposed to limit bird strikes, but sometimes they still hit a window. I ran outside to see if I could be of assistance. Sure enough, this female rose-breasted grosbeak was in need of some quiet time.
I think she was so focused on the caterpillar in her mouth that she neglected to notice the window. I generally felt her wings and legs, etc, to ensure that I couldn't feel any breaks or things out of place, and then gently placed her in a little animal carry-crate with some water, in a quiet spot. I did take some photographs of her first, because it's such a treat to have a close-up experience with such a bird.
She has beautiful golden yellow patches under her wings.
After about an hour, I heard her begin to flap about in the box, and I took her outside and released her. She flew away with no problem whatsoever. I'm glad she had a safe place to rest and recover from her bump on the head! Maybe next time, she'll remember not to fly with her mouth full!
"Excuse me? Since when are you an expert in bird etiquette? Just leave me alone with my nectar, please. Geesh....humans...."
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Monday, June 8, 2009
"Shear" Delight
Posted by
Claire the Shepherdess
One of the reasons we decided to get llamas on our farm was because they are supposed to be good livestock guardians. That was a good thing for our goats and sheep! Another reason was because llamas produce lovely fiber (fibre, for my Canadian readers....I wish we could all just spell things the same way...)
Of course, in order to obtain the lovely fiber, one must shear one's llamas. This is a good thing to do in any event, because llamas with heavy fur coats are very uncomfortable in the summer in Iowa, where temperatures often hit the high 80s (that's 30s in Celsius, for my Canadian readers....I wish we could all just use the same scale!)
When our shearer came to do our sheep, we were unable to catch two of our llamas for him to shear. In addition, he told us that he didn't do llamas very often, but that he'd been told that llamas are very prone to depression and that if you shear more than a barrel cut on them, they can die from depression. I had not heard this, but not having time to look it up when he was here, I agreed to just do a barrel cut for now. I subsequently looked it up and asked some fellow llama owners, and nobody had heard of this llama death-by-depression phenomenon, so I decided that even the ones we had sheared needed some more taken off for their own comfort in the heat of summer.
So, while my parents were visiting last month, we decided to shear llamas. I only have hand shears so that's what I used. I think that hand shears are quieter and hopefully less likely to distress the llamas. Some were more receptive than others. Here you can see the hand shears - they are very sharp, indeed! More than anything, I was worried about the llamas making sudden movements and my jabbing them by mistake. Fortunately, that didn't happen.
Rosco was very agreeable about the whole experience.
He has lovely caramel brown colored (coloured) fleece, and a wonderful disposition.
On the other end of the scale, we had Dolly. She was not in the least bit impressed with the proceedings. She wanted nothing to do with the shears and was only vaguely mollified with grain. We knew we had to get her sheared because her coat was so very heavy. Finally, we had to resort to trying to hobble her, so that she would lay down. We achieved this, but only briefly, because Kelly was holding her down while I was trying to shear, and with one immense surge of energy, she threw Kelly off, sending him flying, and I felt her start to move so I stepped back quickly with the shears, narrowly escaping stabbing her unintentionally.
After that, we had to keep her partially hobbled by having one foot roped and off the ground, upsetting her balance, and keeping her tied to a tree. (No llamas were harmed in the making of this blog!!)
This was not ideal at all, and for next year, Kelly is going to weld up a proper llama shearing stand like the ones we saw at the llama show we attended. I slowly worked down her body, taking off as much fleece in one piece as I could.
In the end, here is how she looked. I didn't get as much as I'd wanted to, but she is probably OK for the summer. Kelly calls it the "bumpy cut" and says that everybody in the barnyard wants the bumpy. It's hard not to have it look that way when you're a beginner with hand shears. My hand was aching so much by the end of it all. Good thing it's only once a year!
The rest of the llamas fell somewhere between the Rosco and Dolly attitude, but they all got sheared!
Just so the other animals don't feel left out, here's Willow with baby Onyx, who has gradually lightened to a dark chocolate brown, rather than the black that he was when he was born.
In my "spare time" I have completed this handspun yarn. I'm quite pleased with it! It's 2 ply merino, silk and an unknown wool blend. I love the colors (that's colours, for my Canadian readers...sigh...) and the touch is really bouncy. I am going to send it to a knitter friend to test it out in a "real life knitting situation" and we'll see how it goes. It's my 3rd yarn attempt since I got my Louet spinning wheel.
Have a great week, everyone!
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I'm a Canadian who moved back to Nova Scotia after having lived in Iowa for nearly 9 years. I came back for reasons that disintegrated, and am now trying to rebuild from the ground up. I do my best to live in harmony with the world around me. This is a blog about life, adventure, and the pursuit of self-sufficiency, and ultimately, happiness.
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This blog is the story of a woman, and her farm, and her critters, and her attempt to rebuild life after a fall. The blog was previously called "Whispering Acres" but that part of my life is in the past, as are the stories previously told. It was time for a new name, and it is time for a new chapter to life.
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Malaysia's top continental team Le Tua aims to make an impression at this years
edition of the tour. Veteran and legend Tonton Susanto leads team fresh off win
at the Jelajah Malasia race.
KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysia's first and most successful UCI Continental team Le
Tua will be making their second appearance in Le Tour de Langkawi (LTdL) with an
eye on making a bigger impact than they did a year ago.
Starting Asia's biggest cycling event from February 9 to 17 will be a team
that comes fresh from a highly successful campaign in the Jelajah Malaysia,
which saw their veteran Indonesian climber Tonton Susanto win the overall
individual title, while sprinter Anuar Manan took the points classification.
The 35-year old Tonton, who hails from Jakarta, claimed his first ever
overall victory in the Jelajah Malaysia thanks to disciplined overall
performance by his Malaysian team. "With time running out for me, that victory
was a sweet one because after so many years of trying, I finally have an overall
victory to savour," said Tonton, who two weeks prior to Jelajah Malaysia had
finished second overall in the Tour of Thailand behind Iran's Ahad Kazemi Sarai.
"We have a strong team which worked really well together so we hope to keep
it all together for LTdL. Obviously, LTdL is a different level of cycling, but
if we keep our discipline and be a bit brave, we can deliver some good results."
Tonton will be Le Tua's best bet for a shot at the Asian riders' jersey in
LTdL, being among the top Asian climbers in the field this time around. In the
Jelajah Malaysia young sprinter Anuar made headlines with a record three stage
wins as the Le Tua team controlled proceedings dominantly despite a field that
included some of the biggest names in Asian cycling. Anuar had also secured his
second successive overall points classification win in Jelajah Malaysia, which
confirmed his status as one of Asia's top young sprinters.
In his sprinters train he has the seasoned former national rider Sayuti Zahit,
Ahmad Haidar Anuawar and Nor Rizuan Zainal, along with Sea Games gold medallist
Rian Ariehaan of Indonesia.
"We have a stronger team than we had last year with Sayuti the key addition.
On top of that, our experience in LTdL last year gave us some knowledge of what
we have to do to achieve results in a big race like this," said Anuar, who is
21-years old and hails from Kuala Ibai in the East Coast state of Terengganu.
"The problem we had when lining up for the sprint finishes last year was
getting to the front. We really were outclassed by the stronger European teams
then. But now we know better and we can try to match them."
Even so, it wasn't entirely a dismal showing by Le Tua in last year's LTdL as
in all 12 years of the race's history prior to that, there had been just two
fifth placed finished in stages registered - first by Nor Effandy Rosli in 2000
and then Suhardi Hassan in 2005. Last year, Ahmad Haidar registered two fifth
Le Tua 2008 le Tour de Langkawi Squad (provisional)
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- "My anger will calm only when I am proven to be the true emperor!"
- —Urien
Urien, as he appears in Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition
|Eye color
|Hair color
|Blonde (turns white in metallic state)
|Fighting style
|Secret Illuminati Techniques[1]
|The G-Project, Suits[2]
|Gill, Alex, Ken, Chun-Li
|Genetic Research[2]
|Metallic Sphere, Chariot Tackle, Violence Knee Drop, Dangerous Headbutt, Tyrant Slaughter, Temporal Thunder, Aegis Reflector
|First game
|Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact
|English voice actor(s)
|Lawrence Bayne (3rd Strike)
|Japanese voice actor(s)
|Yuji Ueda (2nd Impact)
Urien has a similar appearance to Gill, having exactly the same physical build (i.e. that of a Greek Olympic athlete) with dark bronze skin tones and short, metallic grey hair. He also wears a simple loincloth.
In his pre-match introduction in the Street Fighter III series, he appears lighter-skinned and wears business attire; he then sheds the suit, his skin darkens to a bronze complexion, and his hair turns from blond to metallic white. Also, many of his alternate colors are similar to those of Dhalsim, in that they change his skin color as opposed to his costume's color. This ability to change skin and hair color could be the result of his control over metal, though how exactly is unclear.
Urien's personality can be best described as tyrannical, much in contrast with the benevolent nature of his brother Gill. Urien frequently displays sadistic tendencies, and takes a lot of pride in becoming the "True Emperor". Urien also dismisses the cryogenically preserved brains of his predecessors as "ugly and stupid" and "a mass of junk with no ability to take positive action".
Urien also renounces any noble traits and elements associated with leadership, regarding them as worthless, and instead seeks fear and subjugation through his reign, much like a despotic tyrant. Accordingly, he screams phrases such as "crush", "destroy" and "kill" during most of his special attacks, which - along with their names - highlight his violent nature. This also points to a lack of self-control stemming from emotional instability that may be reflected in gameplay by his use of charge motions.
Story Edit
Supplementary material on Urien's backstory notes that unlike the other candidates for the leadership of the Illuminati, who are kidnapped and brainwashed into doing their bidding, Urien and Gill were born to parents who were long time members of the cult. Both his parents are said to have been candidates to the presidency of the cult; being holders of Ph.D(s) in their respective fields. It is noted that his mother, an olympic level athlete and a doctorate in Sports Dynamics was especially a favourite to become the President.
Urien became a potential candidate for the presidency at the age of 6 along with his brother Gill. After this the brothers were separated from their parents and were made to undergo constant genetic modifications, training and monitoring sessions. During this period, Urien learned to manipulate both his ki and the elements of the Earth, merging them together in his aura. He also learned to perform the Aegis Reflector, one of the 66 secret arts described in the lore of the Illuminati. At the age of 22, the management chose Gill as the president due to his greater strength and charisma over Urien, sometime before the events of Street Fighter III.
Street Fighter III: 2nd ImpactEdit
In Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact, Urien is introduced as the younger brother of Gill, who bears an intense grudge against him, stemming from an inferiority complex. Like Gill, he too is subject to genetic modifications and training programs under the Illuminati. His inferiority stems mainly from his emotional instability. Being the second strongest member of the Illuminati, Urien originally holds the position of the Vice President of the organization during the tournament of Street Fighter III 2nd Impact, outranked only by Gill who serves as the President. Urien stakes his claim to the Presidency by challenging Gill to a match in order to prove his superiority. Gill purposely throws the match and Urien is made the President. Immediately after, Urien learns that the President is outranked by the Emperor in the hierarchy of the organization, his recently promoted brother Gill.
Urien is also in charge of the Illuminati's crisis management unit, the G-Project, which works on the basis of human body remake theory. This unit is responsible for the mutations to a Russian national, Illia, more commonly known by his code name, Necro. Urien also spearheads the creation of Twelve, and many similar clones.
Street Fighter III: 3rd StrikeEdit
During the events of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, Urien longs to overthrow Gill by creating his own army of super-soldier clones with the G-Project. He also kidnaps one of the children under Chun-Li's care to subject her to genetic modifications. He however agrees to let the child go, if the legendary street fighter, Chun-Li, fights him for his amusement. After a brief spar Chun-Li manages to defeat him and rescue the child. Ken also encounters Urien during the tournament as he attempts to uncover more about the Illuminati.
What happens to Urien after the events of the Third World Warrior Tournament is yet unknown. His 3rd Strike ending shows that he took leadership of the Illuminati and destroyed its preservation facility, where a weakened Gill was resting, declaring the beginning of an era "After Urien". Gill's own ending, however, shows an entirely different outcome, implying that he actually survived.
Other appearancesEdit
Capcom Fighting EvolutionEdit
Urien appeared in Capcom Fighting Evolution as a playable character.
Gameplay and fighting styleEdit
Both Urien and Gill underwent the same Illuminati physical training program; Urien's grasp of the more advanced techniques of the program is fairly limited, reflected by his relatively simpler Super Arts compared to the much more advanced ones of his brother. Where Gill wields fire and ice, Urien can wield lightning and make his body metallic.
Urien's normal and command moves have the same high priority of his brother's, though they tend to do less damage all around. Urien's special moves (mostly "charge"-based) also serve to distinguish him somewhat from his brother, and this aspect typically makes each move harder to do and take longer to do than Gill's counterparts; in addition, each of these moves tend to be weaker. Overall, he has slightly less power, speed, stun, and stamina than Gill, thus making him more balanced for multi-user play.
The similar moves shared by Gill and Urien are as follows:
- Cryokinesis/Pyrokinesis -> Metallic Sphere
- Moonsault Knee Drop -> Violence Knee Drop
- Psycho Headbutt -> Dangerous Headbutt
- Cyber Lariat -> Chariot Tackle.
His Super Arts consist of the Aegis Reflector, a barrier that reflects incoming projectiles; the Tyrant Slaughter, a string of Chariot Tackles followed by a lariat; Temporal Thunder, a powerful Metallic Sphere.
See: Urien/Quotes.
Trivia Edit
- Urien seems to have a connection to Alex; when Alex asks if he knew someone named Tom, Urien becomes upset and demands that name to never be mentioned again.
- Urien's nickname in the Street Fighter III series is "The Trecherous Disciple", alluding to his status as the Judas to Gill's Jesus.
- The names of Urien's moves are inspired by Greek and Roman antiquity.
- Urien is similar to Broly from the Dragon Ball series, being very powerful and yet mentally unstable. They also share a similar fighting style consisting of wrestling and brawling moves combined with projectile attacks, further paralleling the martial arts with ki projectiles style of their respective protagonists.
- Urien bears a resembalence to Roy Batty, the lead Replicant from the film Blade Runner, as well as Michelangelo's "David".
- In his winquote to Urien in the console ports of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, Twelve refers to him as 'Dad' (in Binary), asserting the fact that the G-Project is Urien's brainchild.
- Urien's 2nd Impact stage is possibly set in the archeological sites outside the Temples of Abu Simbel, Aswan in Egypt while Gill's stage is inside the temples.
- Urien's 3rd Strike stage, set in the Olmecan ruins likewise is in La Venta, Tabasco in Mexico.
- In Street Fighter X Tekken, Bryan Fury's Swap Costume is modeled after Urien.
- Both Urien and his brother share the same voice actor in 3rd Strike, Lawrence Bayne. Coincidentally, Bayne also voices Twelve and Necro, whose creations Urien is responsible for.
Stage ThemesEdit
See alsoEdit
- ↑ Capcom 30th Anniversary Character Encyclopedia
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Street Fighter: World Warrior Encyclopedia
|Street Fighter III Characters
|Akuma (Shin) – Alex – Chun-Li – Dudley – Elena – Gill – Hugo – Ibuki – Ken – Makoto – Necro – Oro – Q – Remy – Ryu – Sean – Twelve – Urien – Yang – Yun


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Cobo Rodregas says:
Wrong question. The question really is "Is a humanities degree at an expensive private school worth it?"
There is a bubble in people who have English and theater degrees. I think these degrees have value, but there are simply too many people getting them.
Engineering, Computer science, chemistry, physics, etc.. there is no bubble (but biology might be in a bubble). And I know that even computer science gets dissed by the self taught crowd, but year after year of dealing with mistakes, and bad algorithm design from them.. I disagree. Kids straight out of high school lack the tools to do proper problem solving.
The last thing this country needs is to fall even further behind on educational attainment. We used to be the most educated country in the world, and this helped fuel the boom in prosperity we enjoy today. Now it feels like we are in a race to the middle, articles like this one reinforce that.
Matthew Hall says:
Talking about art degrees from Princeton is just a strawman argument. The number of such degrees is tiny in comparison to the total number of degrees awarded. People with Finance, Economics, and Communication degrees are the ones hurting in large numbers. People with MBAs and law degrees are facing much harder times today,as well.
The question is how can the cost of universities be reduced and access to instruction they offer made more flexible and accessible so people who can't give over 4 years to their college education can still work toward one.
Matthew Hall says:
I should add Psychology and Foreign Languages are collapsing in many universities.
PeterW says:
@Cobo – While there are a number of people who make this argument, and who seemingly have been making this argument for 50 years – but it's not really reflected in reality. Hostility of people with with more "useful" degrees toward the humanities is nothing new, of course (although IME humanities grads are more employable than social science grads).
People going to to the University of Phoenix or other for profits aren't majoring in Classics or Art History; they are in business or programming or accounting fields. The recent NY Times article on student loan indebtedness focused on an individual with a programming certificate, an MBA, and a person who attended a nursing program.
The real difference I've seen has to do with the colleges granting the degrees. Engineering grads from Carnegie-Mellon are still getting multiple high-paying offers. Engineering grads from Tri-State University are making in the high 20's, if they are working in the field at all. (I know engineering grads from both places.)
So the real question, I think, isn't whether "college" is worth it. That question is too broad, as a degree from Harvard or Princeton in any field will end up being "worth it." The real question is whether a college degree from a much lower tier school is worth it, particularly if the lower tier school is a private school or a for-profit that will be financed with loans. I think that is something that prospective students need to look at carefully and evaluate other available options, including community colleges and skilled trades.
(Note that skilled trades are not a panacea – there are a limited number of apprenticeship slots, the jobs tend to require some heavy physical labor, and they require a certain aptitude, like anything else. On the other hand, you will be paid as an apprentice, so there is no opportunity cost, much less debt, at all).
John says:
I think the problem is really in the hyper-competitive nature of educational institutions. The institutions themselves keep taking on debt to build the latest and greatest laboratories, rec centers, student unions, etc. so they can recruit the best students and faculty. The costs of all these new buildings get at least partially passed along to the students. As long as people keep paying for it, there is no incentive for the universities to be more financially prudent.
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