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Blow up the banks! Forward the workers bomb!
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I was a VP at a bank a Foreign Exchange Trader. Near me were people who traded in instruments that were bazaar and dangerous. For Example an "Interest Rate Swap" Just so to make it clear and simplify It had a principal amount which can is in the millions. No one ever pays or has this amount. The client and the bank base it on (for example) The U.S. Prime Rate and The UK Libor rate. It is gambling if your rate is the Libor and it goes up you win the difference in interest between the two based on the principal amount that no one has put up or has. Guess whose money they are using yours. But no worry's if the bank fails we pay for it, and they still get there bonus and big ones. I did well in my area which was less of a problem as it was based on real money,
So, 100% so far for the break up of the big banks ...
It is a double edged sword. We need effective regulation that limits the liability the taxpayer needs to absorb, but the regulations cannot strangle the ability to react to market changes. Too much freedom allows situations like the savings and loan crisis of the eighties and the financial collapse of 2008. Too little freedom, and banks cannot entice new customers bringing with them new capital. Something has to be done about those few banks that have been deemed to big to fail, but in regulating those entities, we need to ensure that we are not placing a burden that stifles growth.
I would like to see salary caps for banking executives, dividend caps on shareholders, liquidity requirements, and limits on the percentage of depositor funds that are allowed to be used in high risk investments. Retail banks, banks that accept customer deposits, should be prohibited from acting as investment firms. Investment firms should be prohibited from offering banking instruments, like checking and savings accounts. If a depositor wants to open a checking account, savings account, apply for a car loan, or apply for a home loan (including a mortgage) they should be able to do that at a bank. If a depositor wants to invest money in the stock market, they should have to go to a investment firm.
There needs to be a reduction of risk. If you have money to play in the stock market, good for you, but the money you, me, or anyone else needs to pay the rent and put food on the table should not be in a high risk investment, placed there by yourself or your bank. Also if you have the money to invest in the stock market or other investment instruments, you need to be taking the risk for the loss of that money, not me and every other person who pays taxes. If I were a bank, and I am asking you to deposit your money with me, and this is money that you need to pay the rent (or mortgage), I should be prohibited from putting your money at risk. But, if you have money that you want to risk, and you are willing to accept the risk that your money may be lost, then that money should be directed into an investment firm, and kept separate from the money you need to pay your mortgage or buy food. Most of us would not take our last $5.00 to the casino, why would we want our bank to take our last $5.00 to the casino called Wall Street?
I was surprised that JP Morgan is a bank.
It sounds like someone's name.
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From time to time we get questions asking about the differences between BUG and the Arduino. Having done my graduate research on the Arduino and new media art for the past two years, I thought I'd take a stab at answering the question.
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While both platforms are open source and exceedingly useful there are some key functionality differences that set them apart. The first and core difference (no, literally) is that the BUG is an embedded computer, and the Arduino is a microcontroller. Whereas BUG runs Linux and has an ARM11 processor, the Arduino's brain is an ATmega168 or 328 (depending on the version). Both systems are programable via USB and have their own integrated IDEs, BUG is based on Eclipse while Arduino mirrors Processing. BUG has pre-made modules that allow a user to build by snapping them into the base, though BUG also has the vonHippel module, which is a breakout board in case a user wants to build external circuitry. Arduino allows users to wire up circuits on a lower level. Arduinos have many different versions and modifications from their community, this speaks to the ease at which Arduino is simplified, taught and documented. Soldering up your own BUG with all the surface mount pieces encased in our base would be next to impossible.
Because the functionalities differ, the applications differ as well as the price. Arduino is significantly cheaper than BUG. As a Linux box with 725 components on a 12 layer board, it adds up. Arduino has two significant advantages of being inexpensive. It takes the fear out of destroying your first microcontroller for beginners, and more people can afford to permanently embed Arduinos into their projects. BUG has the advantage of prototyping and running applications that require more power and memory. BUG has the capabilities to power LCD touchscreens, cameras and projectors as well create directories and files. BUG can handle playing a few games of Quake, being used as a wifi hotspot, or drawing on images fresh off the camera simply with snapping in a couple modules. Arduino champions the areas of sensor data input and output, wearables, and LED displays. This is certainly not to say that either platform could be used for similar projects, such as robotics, home automation, or sensor networks, but the scale and scope would be relevant for the suitable platform.
The purpose of opening up hardware design and empowering individuals to make their own electronics is a dear concept not only for the builders of BUG and Arduino, but also within their communities. Both Arduino and BUG have an economic impact on the way innovation and manufacturing are morphing in the current state of DIY. No longer are individuals confined to the choices manufacturers and marketers make for us. With the advent of accessible DIY platforms like Arduino and BUG, it is possible to prototype and bring new products to market in a fraction of the time with significantly reduced costs. Individuals want the ability to personalize things more and more right down to manufacturing their own devices. People are closer to the influence of their products and systems. Scale is broadened, growing outward from human scale; environments are expanded with passive smart dust and ubiquitous computing. Thanks to open source hardware projects of all types, individuals are free to choose the scale and environments which these technologies enhance. Although different in functionality, both BUG and Arduino are leaders in the open source hardware revolution and empowering user based manufacturing.
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A Few Extra Pounds May Harm Lung Function in Black, Hispanic Kids
FRIDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Even a small amount of extra weight can have a negative effect on the lung function of Hispanic and black children, according to a new study.
However, this is not the case for white children, the researchers noted. As a result, they suggested that differences in the distribution of body fat could help explain the greater prevalence of asthma in these minority groups. The study authors said their findings could help doctors identify and treat children with airway obstruction.
"While it has been well documented that Hispanics and African-Americans -- particularly those who live in urban settings -- have a higher prevalence of asthma and obesity, there is less understanding of the lung function in overweight asthmatic minority children," senior study author Dr. Deepa Rastogi, an attending physician in the division of respiratory and sleep medicine at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore in New York City, explained in a Montefiore news release.
"What we have learned from this study is that even small increases in weight can negatively impact lung function," Rastogi added.
In conducting the study, published in the February issue of the Journal of Asthma, the researchers examined the medical records of 980 children living in the Bronx ranging in age from 7 to 20. The records were collected from January 2003 to December 2007.
Although white children tend to be obese before they experience airway obstruction due to excess weight, the study revealed that just being overweight can have a negative effect on lung function among minority children.
"This information may prove to be helpful in the clinic," noted Rastogi, who is also an assistant professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. "Physicians might want to measure the degree of airway obstruction in Hispanic and African-American children who are both overweight or obese and asthmatic. Early identification of a drop in lung function can assist in better patient management."
While the study showed a connection between being overweight and having airway problems, it didn't establish a cause-and-effect relationship.
Although asthma is usually attributed to environmental factors such as secondhand smoke and exposure to dust or mold, the study authors suggested ethnic differences in body shape and upper body fat distribution may shed light on this discrepancy. Weight gain in Hispanics and blacks may be associated with increased abdominal fat, they explained. This extra belly fat could increase the prevalence of asthma in these minority groups.
The researchers noted previous research has shown that waist circumference is linked to the severity of asthma. Waist size, they added, also has an inverse relationship with lung function.
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The victory moves the seventh-ranked Lady Flames to 25-2 overall and 14-2 in conference play. The loss drops the Golden Tigers to 14-15 on the year and 5-13 in SSAC action.
The two clubs battled neck and neck in the opening half. Lee held a slim 30-29 advantage at the intermission. The Lady Flames held off the pesky Golden Tigers in the second stanza to preserve the victory and hold on to first place in the SSAC East.
Setting the pace for Lee was Jenna Adams, who followed her 41-point outburst on Thursday evening with a double-double performance (16 points and 12 rebounds). The junior was named SSAC Women's Basketball Player of the Week for her performance in two Lady Flame victories last week. Hollie German led all scorers with 19 points and grabbed eight boards. Brooke Hamby followed with nine markers and dished out five assists.
Both teams struggled shooting the ball throughout the defensive battle. The Lady Flames shot 34.5 percent (19-of-55) while Brenau hit 34.1 percent (15-of-44) from the field for the contest. Shots from behind the arc were even tougher to come by as Lee made just 4-of-19 while the Golden Tigers hit just 2-of-9 from 3-point distance. The Lady Flames were solid from the charity stripe, hitting a perfect 7-of-7 in the opening half and 17-of-23 (73.9 percent) for the game. The Georgia-based club struggled from the free-throw line, canning just 18-of-33 freebies, good for only 54.5 percent.
Lee outrebounded the Golden Tigers 38-25 in the contest. The Lady Flames grabbed 10 offensive boards to help keep possessions alive. Lee registered 14 assists in the game and turned the ball over 17 times. Brenau had 14 assists while committing 16 floor mistakes.
The Golden Tigers were led by Gabby Harvey with 16 points and seven boards. Olivia Williams added nine points and Brittney Wiley tallied eight markers and six rebounds. Tala Black rounded out the balanced scoring for the home team with eight points and three assists.
The Lady Flames will be back in action Thursday evening for the final home game of the season against conference foe Truett-McConnell. As a part of the festivities the Lee women's basketball team will honor their three seniors playing their final game at Walker Arena. Tip time is set for 6 p.m.
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Led by a breakout performance by sophomore Chad Lee the Lee men's basketball team dominated Hiwassee College from start to finish in Monday evening's 106-73 victory at Walker Arena.
Lee finished with a double-double, registering a career-high 24 points while grabbing 11 rebounds. Jamorris Gaines added 23 points and eight boards. Gaines got the crowd on its feet for the second straight game with another gravity defying slam dunk in the second half. Will Barnes tallied 19 points to go along with five rebounds and four assists. Big Steve Bennett provided the punch down in the post, with 14 markers and eight rebounds.
"Chad Lee hit some shots early tonight and just looked real comfortable shooting the basketball all night long. He shoots the ball real well in practice every day and did a nice job for us tonight," said coach Tommy Brown.
Plenty of Flames saw game action. Evan Forhetz dished out four assists and saw extended minutes with Chase Dunn out with the flu. Logan Ramsey added five points and four rebounds. The Lee bench finished with 57 points.
"Evan Forhetz played well tonight taking Chase's minutes," noted Brown. "Chase (Dunn) had the flu and we hope the flu bug doesn't hit anybody else on our team.
The Flames shot a sizzling 52.1 percent from the field and 46.4 percent from behind the arc. The Tigers shot 40.4 percent from the field and 37.9 percent from 3-point land. Lee was excellent in the assist-to-turnover department. The Flames dished out 24 assists as a team and were guilty of just 12 floor mistakes. Hiwassee managed 11 assists while committing 12 turnovers.
"I was very pleased with 24 assists" Brown stated. "Once again, though, our defensive intensity lacked in the second half. We've got to play tougher defensively in the second half."
The Flames used their size to dominate the Tigers. Lee won the battle on the glass, outrebounding Hiwassee 53-20 while outscoring the Tigers 46-18 in the paint.
Justin Browner paced the Hiwassee offensive attack. Browner finished with 19 points, hitting 3-of-6 from 3-point distance. Joel Bailey was the only other Tiger in double figures with 15 markers.
With the victory the No. 2 Flames move to 26-1 on the year. The loss drops Hiwassee to 7-22 overall.
Brown's club will now turn its attention to Thursday evening when SSAC rival Truett-McConnell comes calling. The Flames will honor their five seniors before the final home contest of the year at Walker Arena. Tip time is set for 8 p.m.
"Senior night is always a special night. We barely got out of Truett-McConnell with a win the first time we played them so we know it's going to be a battle. They are trying to qualify for the conference tournament so we are expecting a tough game," Brown acknowledged.
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The eMINTS instructional model ofinquiry-based teaching, combinedwith multimedia tools in theclassroom, improves test scoresfor all students.
Our fourth-grade classroomsbuzzed with students discussingtheir "Jefferson City or Bust"WebQuest (www.emints.org/info/bootheel/smithm/wq/jeffcity) as they neared the endof an intensive four-week project. Groupsof students had crafted arguments toconvince their local school board to allow afield trip to the state capitol so they couldexplore their state's government in personand in depth.
Just one year before, a majority of thesestudents were performing at the lowestmeasured ("basic") level in their communicationskills on the state test administeredto third-graders. Some observersattributed this performance to the"Black/African American" oval filled in bythe Missouri Assessment Program (MAP)facilitator on each child's state test coversheet. Yet this same group demonstratedremarkable gains on their fourth-gradestandardized test results. Not only did theyimprove their test results, but these once"basic" students were now confidentlypreparing PowerPoint presentations andaccompanying letters to persuade districtadministrators and the school board thatthe class was ready, both financially andeducationally, for their proposed field trip.
To a large degree, the changes in thesestudents can be credited to the eMINTS(enhancing Missouri's InstructionalNetworked Teaching Strategies; www.emints.org) program, a collaborativeeducational program that uses technologyto make a difference for children. Theprogram is sponsored by the MissouriDepartment of Elementary and SecondaryEducation and the University ofMissouri's Office of Academic Affairs,andfocuses on the expectation that all studentscan reach higher levels of performance. Itincludes mechanisms for increasingquality parental involvement,and providesteachers with the professional developmentand in-class coaching needed toaccomplish significant changes in theirteaching practices.
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NAEP results. A review of the NationalAssessment of Educational Progress'(nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard) resultsover the last 30 years reveals that the gapbetween black and white studentsnarrowed during the 1970s and into the'80s as black students made considerableimprovements, while the performance ofwhite students over this same timeremained mostly flat. However, the trendwas reversed during the latter part of the'80s and into the '90s when the performanceof black students flattened out andwhite student performance improved(Jaekyung Lee, "Racial and EthnicAchievement Gap Trends: Reversing theProgress Toward Equity?" EducationalResearcher, 2002, www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Journals_and_Publications/Journals/Educational_Researcher/3101/3101_Lee.pdf).
While some educational programshave produced measured gains for blackchildren, it remains unclear exactly whicheducational policies, programs, or practicesboth reduce the gap and sustain this reduction over time. However, theeMINTS program has undertakenrigorous external evaluation to determinethe effect of its components—multimediatechnology integrated into student-centered,inquiry-based teaching practices—on the black and white achievementgap,and research has proved that theprogram has been successful with a varietyof students.
MAP results. In one study of 39schools in the 2002 cohort, for example,evaluators examined the MAP scores ofstudents enrolled in eMINTS classroomsversus those enrolled in non-eMINTSclassrooms (Analysis of 2003 MAP Resultsfor eMINTS Students, eMINTS NationalCenter, 2004, www.emints.org/evaluation/reports/map2003.pdf). Among thefindings:
Cohort results. Another report, AnExploratory Study of the Black-WhiteAchievement Gap in eMINTS-Student GapResults (Douglas R. Hager, eMINTSNational Center, 2004, www.emints.org/evaluation/reports/gapanalysis.pdf),examines achievement data for black andwhite students by eMINTS enrollment forthree cohorts of participating schools. Itexamined schools which began implementingthe eMINTS instructional model during the 1999-2000, 2000-2001, and2001-2002 school years.
School districts applied to participatein the eMINTS program for each cohort,and upon acceptance they identified atleast one school where the program wouldbe implemented in at least two classrooms.These classrooms were then equipped witha prescribed suite of hardware and softwareproducts,including:
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Teachers in eMINTS classrooms participatedin a two-year process of professionaldevelopment and in-class coaching. Theprofessional development programemphasized inquiry-based teaching techniquesand creative uses of multimediatechnology. Use of Internet resources forstudent research in solving real-worldproblems was also a prominent feature ofthe professional development program.
Upon the teacher's completion of thesecond year of professional developmentfor each cohort, researchers collected datafrom students enrolled in each eMINTSteacher's classroom and compared theachievement of black and white studentson the MAP statewide tests. During theyears of the study, the MAP given in thirdgrade covered communication arts andscience knowledge and skills, while theMAP given in fourth grade covered mathematicsand social studies knowledge andskills. The data covered a three-yearperiod beginning in the 2000-2001 schoolyear (for the first cohort) and ending in the2002-2003 school year (for the thirdcohort).
A summary of the data concluded:"Analysis [in the study] presented evidencethat enrollment in an eMINTS classroom may improve performance on the MAPachievement examinations for both blackand white students as well as decrease thegap. … The average performance of blackstudents enrolled in eMINTS classrooms inthe FY01 and FY02 cohorts was considerablyhigher across all subject areas than theaverage performance of black students notenrolled, while the results for black studentsin the FY00 cohort were mixed. In the FY01cohort, those differences in average totalMAP score ranged from 7.6 points higher incommunication arts to 19.6 points in mathematics,and in the FY02 cohort, theyranged from about 12 to 13 points higherdepending on the subject" (Douglas R.Hager, An Exploratory Study of the Black-White Achievement Gap in eMINTS StudentGap Results, eMINTS NationalCenter, 2004, www.emints.org/evaluation/reports/gapanalysis.pdf).
Limitations. The data also found a fewlimitations to the study such as:
Interpretations of the study and theanalyses contained in it led eMINTSprogram administrators and many participatingschool leaders to view the eMINTSinstructional model as a promisinginstructional intervention for blackstudents. For complete analyses of allcohort groups from 1999-2003, access thefull study online at www.emints.org/evaluation/reports.
Monica M. Beglau, EdD, is director of theeMINTS National Center at the Universityof Missouri System's Office of AcademicAffairs. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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They are scattered around the Schlitz Park-area Milwaukee Youth Arts Center amid other classes at First Stage Theater Academy. But members of the so-called Young Company are stage veterans to some degree. And this is serious work.
In a large hall, 20 students walk over a glowing amber wood floor while instructor Matt Daniels talks them through a "viewpoints" exercise, helping them think about how actors inhabit the space of a theater. In another large hall, Karl Miller leads a group in high-energy choreography.
The exercise is very different down the hall. In a smaller classroom, 20 other students listen to Marcy Kearns talk about the language of Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw. Student Kyle Madigan, working on the moment in Shakespeare's play when Marc Antony discovers Julius Caesar stabbed to death, explores the opposite ideas ("thesis and antithesis") of the speech: "O, mighty Caesar. Dost thou lie so low?"
Actors in the largest group are all here for the first time, and they sit campfire-style around John Maclay, director of the Young Company. The order of business is auditions, and Maclay calls for volunteers. Hands shoot up, and Mallorey Wallace confidently stands and makes her entrance, introducing herself and her monologue from Romeo and Juliet. Maclay stops her after a few seconds, the sound of Shakespeare's first line hanging in the room. He looks around the audience. "Positive comments?" Quick answers from the group: "She sounded welcoming." "She seemed physically comfortable." More compliments. "Snaps for that," Maclay says, and the audience snaps fingers in the preferred mode of applause.
Then comes the work, and Maclay digs into the details of Wallace's short presentation. Telling the group about the importance of attentiveness and detail, he sums it up with an intimidating and noble call to the art of theater: "You have to change the world with words – that's what actors do."
Life in Young Company isn't all iambic pentameter and classical tragedy. The Bard has been on their minds this fall (in October, a group won several awards at the Utah Shakespeare Festival's high school competition), but the students have had different kinds of "bloody deeds" in mind, preparing to perform Mitch Brian's horror-comedy, Maul of the Dead.
It's a little bit George Romero, and a little bit Saturday Night Fever. And a lot of fun.
"That's exactly the point," says Theater Academy Director Jennifer Adams, who will direct the show. "They do a lot of Shakespeare and a lot of deep, heavy material. But there is all kinds of theater out there, and this gives them a chance to spread their wings in a different way."
Since this is a zombie musical comedy, wings are not literally involved. But there is plenty of blood, rotting flesh, and hacked off limbs – special stage effects that present their own acting challenges.
Adams expects the cast to rise from the dead, er, to these challenges. "They are tremendous," she says, "not only as actors, but as young people. At auditions the other day, I was blown away at how fearless they are, wanting to take a risk and make big character choices. But [they are] also fearless in supporting each other on stage and off. They are just kind of amazing."
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Dec. 6-8. First Stage's Young Company. Milwaukee Youth Arts Center. 325 W. Walnut St. 414-267-2961, firststage.org.
Just ask Laura Mesrobian, Kiaran Hartnett and Maxwell Mainwood, seniors who are serious about performing careers. Sitting in a conference room after more than three hours of classes, they are poised and articulate, a testament to First Stage's emphasis on personal growth as well as theater training. All of them are looking to study theater in college, but their work with First Stage isn't only about that.
"For me, it's about trying to find yourself as an actor," says Mainwood, a senior at New Berlin Eisenhower High School. "All the things we do here are designed to help you discover something new."
"I plan to study psychology as well as theater," says Hartnett, who attends Whitefish Bay High School. "Even if I don't end up in theater, the skills you learn here help you in so many ways – just communicating with people."
And Mesrobian – also a classmate at Whitefish Bay – makes the strongest claim for the Young Company: "As an actor, you learn to empathize with people. It's just a good way to generally be a better person."
This would be music to Maclay's ears, who believes strongly in the First Stage mission of teaching life skills first and theater second. But in recent years, the curriculum of the Young Company training has taken a step forward. "This year," Maclay says, "the majority of students said they wanted something more challenging. So we decided we would teach them what we learned in college – in a truncated way. And they really responded to that."
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I've been getting questions about how our church, Voyage, is coming along in its new building and I thought today would be a good time to give you all a little updated peek into my creative home away from home! You can find my "before" post right here!
I love the opportunity to do something creative for other people. It is fun decorating my own home, but giving the gift of a creative space to others is even more meaningful and rewarding. I love that we have been able to create a real church home and not just a cold sterile building!
My girls and I have worked countless hours on this "extreme budget church makeover" but we've enjoyed every minute of it. And we owe many thanks to the people who did the job I dread: painting the walls. You can see what we started out with five months ago (below).
Voyage does not have a typical looking church building, as you might have noticed. We are going for a more modern concert house / coffee shop vibe. We are in a leased building and had no budget for our project.
So I'm thinking you might enjoy seeing some of the ways we have transformed what was essentially a boring white box into a warm, inviting and creative space. Not unlike what many of us do in our homes! Except for in this case, I get to try different things than I typically do at home! And yet just like at home, I have to do everything on a limited budget and careful consideration to make the most of what we have.
Anthopologie Inspired Decorating
We don't like the fluorescent lighting on our ceiling, so we came up with some creative ways to add light to our cafe area. Inspired by my beloved Anthropologie store, we fashioned work lights into our own pendants with chains and metal bars. It works really well and I love how industrial and funky they look! My inspiration picture can be found on my Creative Ideas from Anthropologie post.
This chalkboard wall is in our cafe area as well.
This wall really means a lot to me. My friend (and sponsor of The Inspired Room) Dee from Red Letter Words emailed to me shortly after I announced our church was getting its own building. She offered to create special artwork for us as a gift, and WOW, did she ever!
I picked out several pieces of her work that I loved and she also created four unique canvases that fit with our key words, explore, discover, thrive and impact. My photos do not do this subway art justice, it is spectacular. Do yourself a favor and get yourself a piece of Dee's work.
Just for fun on that wall we added in a clipboard with old photos of ships (we are in a navy town right on Puget Sound) and an antique copper temperature gauge. Metal lamps on the tables are from IKEA.
Pulling back a bit so you can see our cafe area.
Yes, I did turn a metal garbage can upside down to make an end table. Risky. People probably think it is an upside down trash can.
I was inspired by pallets as art from my many visits to Anthropologie (you can see in my Decorating Lessons from Anthropologie post). They are truly fun (and free!) to create with as there is no end to how you could use them.
We hung small glass votives from the Goodwill with wire, put battery operated candles in them and added a couple of vases for flowers. We'll keep it that way for awhile but it is fun to know we can change the accessories at will and it will have a whole new look.
Pallet art. We don't mind the splinters since the pallet is not really handled by anyone. It adds to its rustic charm.
More pallet art! And art by Jeanne Winters sold at DaySpring!
We bought these little chalkboards from Lorrie at Fabric Paper Thread for my daughter's wedding and now we use them in our cafe! They were the best purchase ever.
Perrier bottles for vases.
We are doing some fun things for the restrooms too,
but I'll have to take some photos before I can show you more.
We use lots of cardboard for signs.
We love all the fun details of home we are able to have in this building!
There are many more things I'd love to show you but they'll have to be in another post. I definitely want to show you the nursery I talked about awhile back, but I have a few more things to finish up first before I photograph it.
We received other gifts of art that will be photographed when I show the nursery — so if you gave a gift, I haven't forgotten you! I'll be featuring more art in future posts.
I also had people asking about a Paypal account to help us with much needed funds to help us survive as a new church. Such a great idea!!! Unfortunately I messed up our paypal and cannot accept donations there yet. If you are still interested in helping us, let me know and I'll get you the information as soon as our paypal is available or I can give you our PO Box number. We really do appreciate every gift to keep us afloat.
Voyage is really a unique place in so many ways besides our building.
In addition to coming together in this place on Sundays, we also have a community service program called Impact. We cancel our regular gathering on the last Sunday of every month to go out as a group in the community to serve people in need. And, starting in October we are opening up our building to host concerts and events for the community. You can see Voyage Concert House's facebook here. Voyage's main facebook page is here.
It is all a big undertaking, but definitely a risk worth taking.
And now you know how I spend most of my time. Creating art with with pallets, garbage cans and chalkboards.
It is not too late to link up to the 2011 Fall Nesting Party, and it is certainly not too late to get inspired!


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Getting into Vintage Tools
I've recently started buying vintage gardening tools. Previously, I had bought a set of Spear & Jackson traditional range. Not for any quality issues but purely because I liked the look of them. They have been great actually. But then I thought, rather than buying tools that look vintage, how about buying some that really are?
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The Minnesota State Historical Records Advisory Board has received a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission that allows the Board to make small grants to non-profit organizations in support of the following goals:
- Projects that create and strengthen collaboration between local historical organizations, public libraries, and History Day teachers to increase the use of documents in the classroom.
- Projects that further the work of American Indian tribal archives and history programs to preserve and make available documents within their communities.
- Projects that provide increased documentation of the composition and history of recent immigrant communities.
- Projects that expand opportunities for the use of documents, including photographs, through collaboration with the Minnesota Digital Library Project.
For further information on the SHRAB grants program, contact: Shawn Rounds , 651-259-3265
Agriculture and Rural Life: Documenting Change
A Cooperative Project of the North Dakota State Historical Records Advisory Board and the Minnesota State Historical Records Advisory Board, with funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
- View Perspectives on the Issues (750 KB PDF), a collection of project papers with introduction.
- View Project Report (656 KB PDF), including
bibliography and list of Web resources.
Perspectives on the Issues
John Kolb and Edmund Brunner began their 1950s textbook on rural sociology with the dual question: "What is Rural Society-Why Study It?" The textbook defines rural society in objective terms by following the U.S. Census definition (at the time, roughly anyone not living in a city or unincorporated area of 2500 or more residents). What should be studied about rural society, said Kolb and Brunner, were 25 topics, ranging from the "psychological characteristics of rural people," to "the social function of land," from "rural interest groups and classes," to "rural recreation and the cultural arts" and "local government-a social institution." Why study all this? "It supplies a knowledge of the importance of rural America in the national life.and of rural-urban-relationships. It shows the importance of social forces, groups, and organizations and the parts they play in national and community life." After roughly 50 years of farm crises, the depopulation of rural areas, and national debate over the fate of "the rural way of life," the importance of understanding rural society probably does not need much further elaboration.
The study of agriculture and rural life is important, especially in areas where both have significant impact on economic and social structures. What Kolb and Brunner did not ask about rural society is the question "How Can It Be Studied?" A sampling of monographs on 20th century rural society in the United States, published between 1930 and 1990, suggest a broad and highly inconsistent base of sources. The most frequently cited sources are government reports and statistics, followed by scholarly monographs and journal articles, followed by newspaper articles (one author ranks the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal as the best sources for information on agriculture, along with the Des Moines Register, while most authors rely on the papers of the locality being studied).
Beyond these published sources, authors used field notes (personal observations of and conversations with members of rural society), local government records (probate, register of deeds, civil court, marriage), local bank records, Dunn & Bradstreet credit reports, plat maps, reminiscences, and the usual surmise, speculation, and extrapolation. Interestingly, in only one of these studies were traditional archives and manuscripts collections mentioned or used, and that study (which used local government records and bank records) was of rural social organization in Alberta, Canada. Nor were any formal oral histories cited.
A 1991 study by an intern at the Minnesota Historical Society reviewed articles in state historical journals and mainstream economic and American history journals, looking for articles on agriculture and rural life and then noting the sources used. The study's conclusions were that, first, these journals devoted relatively little attention to the topic of rural society (between 1% and 20% of the articles published) and, second, the sources used for these articles were divided roughly equally between government reports/data and manuscript material. However, a more focused analysis of the call slips at the Minnesota Historical Society, conducted for the same study, indicated that only 4% of researcher requests for government records and manuscript collections were for material documenting agriculture or rural life. It is clear that any dearth of use of or citations to archives, manuscripts, and oral history sources is not due to any dearth of those sources.
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Faced with these realities, and with the fact that agriculture and rural life are of critical importance to both states, the Minnesota and North Dakota state historical records advisory boards elected to undertake a project that would attempt to define the issues and better understand the context. The specifics of project operations are covered in a separate publication, Agriculture and Rural Life: Documenting Change. Final Report. That report details project objectives, reviews meetings held, constituencies consulted, and information gained, and includes an extensive, annotated bibliography of publications and websites related to the topic.
Beyond the report of project work, however, project staff and advisors saw the need to present a series of perspectives on the vast and unwieldy set of issues involved in documenting change in agriculture and rural life today. Thus this publication and its presentation of four views of the issues and realities involved.
In the first essay, Rethinking Rural America, David Danbom takes a thoughtful look at the definitions of what is rural in the America of the twenty first century. He reflects on the popular perceptions of rural life, its continuing attraction to many Americans, and the stark realities that often overtake those who attempt to meld urban and rural elements in their work and personal lives. Danbom provides a valuable set of considerations for those who would document agriculture and rural life - challenging the very perceptions upon which the documentation is built.
Robert Horton takes quite a different view, looking at the issues involved in documenting changes in agriculture and rural life from the perspective of the archivists who must decide upon a course of action. Reviewing the project's conception and the goals of its sponsors, he comments on the realities facing archivists as they attempt to understand the issues, their constituencies, and design realistic programs that serve a variety of needs.
The real world of farming and rural life is addressed in a series of reflections in the essay by Dean Carlson. A farmer in northwestern Minnesota, Carlson is an insightful chronicler of the world around him. Author of the book So This is Farming, Carlson reflects on the events of daily life that form the context for his own view of agriculture and life in the countryside. His view-from-the-land provides a critical perspective on the lives and work of the very people who are the subjects of the project.
The Red River of the North flows north from its source on the borders of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota and empties into Lake Winnipeg. Changes in agriculture and rural life in the Red River basin are thus international in scope, for the farming regions of Manitoba are an integral part of the area. Michael Moosberger lends a Canadian perspective in his essay, reviewing the development of documentary projects at the University of Manitoba. Moosberger directed the archives at the university for more than a decade. The Canadian experience provides an excellent case study as he chronicles the development of the Archives of the Agricultural Experience. It is exactly that experience from which readers will learn what worked, what didn't, and draw lessons from Moosberger's account of this ambitious program.
Dealing With the Present; Preparing for the Future
This volume thus presents a range of perspectives on the issues that surround any attempt to document the evolution of agriculture and rural life. The authors occupy a variety of vantage points as they review the challenge and the promise involved in such an undertaking. Taken together their essays provide a direct connection to the realities that confront everyone involved in this important work.
Reprinted from Agriculture and Rural Life: Documenting Change, Perspectives on the Issues (750 KB PDF). Minnesota State Historical Records Advisory Board/North Dakota State Historical Records Advisory Board. Copyright © 2001.


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UW-Eau Claire Foundation, YMCA to receive more than $8 million in estate giftsJanuary 10, 2012
|Learn more about the Simpson family's legacy of leadership and service to students.
|George L. Simpson Jr., who left estate gifts of more than $6 million to the UW-Eau Claire Foundation, played on the 1941 UW-Eau Claire (then Eau Claire State Teachers College) football team. This photo is from the Eau Claire State Teachers College 1942 yearbook, the Periscope.
EAU CLAIRE — The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Foundation and the Eau Claire YMCA will receive gifts of an estimated $4.3 million each in the coming months as beneficiaries of a trust from the estate of Lt. Col. George L. Simpson Jr., the son of Col. George L. Simpson Sr., one of UW-Eau Claire's first faculty members, and Marie (Stannard) Simpson, a member of the university's first graduating class in 1917.
In 2003, following the death of Lt. Col. George L. Simpson Jr., the Foundation and YMCA were notified they would receive the gifts from the trust following the death of his widow, Denise Simpson. Denise Simpson died Dec. 23, 2011. In addition to the planned bequest from the trust, the Foundation received an outright gift of $2 million from the Simpson estate in 2003.
The more than $6 million gift to the university and the $4 million gift to the YMCA are the largest gifts received to date by either organization.
"UW-Eau Claire is immensely grateful to be the recipient of this gift from the estate of Lt. Col. Simpson, who clearly found the university to be an important part of his life and who now ensures that it will continue to make a difference in the lives of its students for years to come," said UW-Eau Claire Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankevich.
Ken Van Es, executive director of the Eau Claire YMCA, described the generosity of George Simpson Jr. as "unbelievable."
"The impact that a donation of this size will have on his hometown cannot be overestimated," Van Es said. "It is huge. And the positive impact this will have will last for years to come."
Lt. Col. George L. Simpson Jr., who was born in 1923 in Eau Claire, attended UW-Eau Claire (then the Eau Claire State Teachers College) and played on the football team in the early 1940s. He was a member of the YMCA when he lived in Eau Claire. He left Eau Claire to serve with the U.S. Army's 301st Infantry in Europe during World War II, where he earned two Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts. He later lived in De Pere and Phelps before relocating to Florida, where he lived until his death in 2003.
George Simpson Jr.'s father, Col. George L. Simpson Sr., was one of the original 20 faculty members at UW-Eau Claire (then called the Eau Claire State Normal School). He was a professor of geography from 1916 to 1951, taking leaves from the university to serve during both World War I and World War II. A football letter winner at Oshkosh High School, Oshkosh State Normal School and UW-Madison (then the University of Wisconsin), George Simpson Sr. served as UW-Eau Claire's first basketball and third football coach. He died in 1963 at the age of 72.
|Col. George L. Simpson Sr., pictured here with his wife, Marie (Stannard) Simpson, was one of the first faculty members at UW-Eau Claire (then the Eau Claire State Normal School). Marie Simpson was a member of the school's first graduating class in 1917.
The Foundation's share of the Simpson trust account will be split between university athletics and the department of geography and anthropology, as designated by George Simpson Jr. George Simpson Sr. taught geography at UW-Eau Claire for 35 years and was a longtime coach in the athletics department. The funds will be used to establish endowments that will provide annual income of approximately $70,000 for each department, said Kimera Way, the Foundation's executive director.
"We are so humbled by Mr. Simpson's generosity, which first made its impact at UW-Eau Claire in 2003 and now will again in 2012," Way said. "We will be pleased and proud to honor the Simpson legacy in a lasting way through the endowment funds that will sustain two university programs. Each year, when the funds are invested in our students, the Simpson legacy will continue."
In the geography and anthropology department, faculty and staff work extremely hard to provide educational experiences for students that are innovative, meaningful and transformational, but there are limits to what can be done, said Dr. Douglas Faulkner, geography and anthropology department chair.
"This astonishingly generous gift will help to expand those limits, ultimately benefiting our majors and minors and all UW-Eau Claire students who take classes in geography and anthropology," Faulkner said.
The athletics department and UW-Eau Claire's student-athletes are very appreciative of the past and continuous support of the Simpson family, said Scott Kilgallon, director of athletics.
"This endowment in memory of Mr. Simpson will enable us to continue his core values of providing a great experience for our student-athletes today and in future years," Kilgallon said.
The $2 million outright gift received in 2003 from the Simpson estate became part of the UW-Eau Claire Foundation's Endowment for Excellence. Annual earnings from the endowment support student scholarships, faculty/student research, the Honors Program, faculty development and the university's other areas of greatest need.
The YMCA's board of directors will meet Jan. 25 to determine a use for the YMCA's share of the Simpson trust account. Some or all of the donation could be used to support the YMCA's plans to build a new YMCA on the corner of Menomonie Street and Clairemont Avenue.
"The size and timing of this gift could not be better for the Y," said Jack Kaiser, president of the YMCA board of directors. "As we move forward in trying to build a YMCA for the next several generations of our community, this donation will be critical to our success."


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Estate gift of $1.25 million to endow faculty chair at UW-Eau ClaireAugust 21, 2012
|Oliver Marion Ramsey
The gift is the fulfillment of an estate gift from James and Anne Ramsey in memory of James Ramsey's brother, U.S. Navy Lt. Oliver Marion Ramsey, a Fairchild native and 1933 UW-Eau Claire graduate who later graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, served as a lieutenant in the Navy during World War II and died in battle in 1942. James and Anne Ramsey, who lived in Longwood, Fla., notified the UW-Eau Claire Foundation of their planned gift in 2001. Anne Ramsey died in 2009, and James Ramsey passed away in April 2012.
The Ramsey trust has designated an additional gift to the Foundation to be made at the closing of the trust that will further add to the Ramsey chair endowment, said Kimera Way, UW-Eau Claire Foundation president.
The Oliver Marion Ramsey Endowed Chair is UW-Eau Claire's first fully endowed faculty chair in the College of Arts and Sciences. The first faculty recipient of the Ramsey endowed chair award will be announced before the 2013-14 academic year.
"We are honored by this gift of support for a faculty position and will gratefully fulfill James and Anne Ramsey's wish to memorialize Lieutenant Oliver Ramsey's service to his country through a faculty chair in his name," Way said. "This gift means so much as we continue to uphold our standards for academic excellence in preparing our students for success in an interconnected world, all while grappling with state budgetary constraints. Investing in faculty excellence is a major focus of the Foundation's efforts as we continue to reach out to alumni and friends."
Oliver Marion Ramsey was only 14 when he was named valedictorian of his graduating class at Fairchild High School, and he was only 18 when he graduated from Eau Claire State Teachers College (now UW-Eau Claire) in 1933. Marion, as his family called him, then attended the U.S. Naval Academy and rose quickly to the rank of full lieutenant after his graduation in 1937. In the fall of 1942, he was right-hand man to Rear Adm. Norman Scott aboard the flagship Atlanta in the South Pacific. On Nov. 27, 1942 — which would have been Marion Ramsey's 28th birthday — the Ramsey family of rural Fairchild received the news that Marion had died Nov. 13 in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. He had been buried at sea.