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November 23, 2010 By Ulf Wolf
Kentaro Toyama, a researcher in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, recently penned an amazing article for the Boston Review, where he refused to accept the widely accepted digital truth that "more is better" and that a PC in every family world-wide will solve everything.
"Technology—no matter how well designed," he says in the article, "is only a magnifier of human intent and capacity. It is not a substitute."
I cannot recommend this well researched, reasoned and articulated article enough; it should be required reading for everyone participating in the assault on the digital divide.
Technology on its own, Mr. Toyama points out, will never solve the problem of poverty, illiteracy, and discrimination. Lacking the desire—and skill—to use technology for betterment (rather than entertainment), and dooms the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project to failure.
"The myth of scale is the religion of telecenter proponents, who believe that bringing the Internet into villages is enough to transform them.
"Technology is a magnifier in that its impact is multiplicative, not additive, with regard to social change. In the developed world, there is a tendency to see the Internet and other technologies as necessarily additive, inherent contributors of positive value. But their beneficial contributions are contingent on an absorptive capacity among users that is often missing in the developing world. Technology has positive effects only to the extent that people are willing and able to use it positively."
He goes on to observe, "When a village has ready access to a PC, the dominant use is by young men playing games, watching movies, or consuming adult content."
The old adage of leading a horse to the digital river, comes to mind.
The real issue is not technology, or lack thereof. The real issue is human intention, human understanding, human enlightenment, and human education. Technology will only magnify (for better or worse) the underlying human condition.
Please do yourself a great favor. Read the whole article.
November 15, 2010 By Ulf Wolf
Carolyn Kellogg reports in the LA Times that Forrester Research now predicts that eBook sales will total $966 million in 2010, and that next year we will cross the $1 billion line for total eBooks sales.
Granted, in 2009, eBook sales only amounted to $169.5 million—only a small portion of the $35 billion publishing industry—but the growth rate in sales was nothing short of impressive: 176%.
The reason?
If the Forrester is to be believed is that people who get the hang of reading eBooks do shift their book-buying from hardcover or paperback to eBooks. As Forrester's James McQuivey writes, "the average eBook reader already consumes 41% of books in digital form." Carolyn Kellogg adds, "Those who've taken the plunge and gotten a Kindle or other eReaders have an even higher percentage: 2 out of 3 books they read are eBooks."
I can verify this from personal experience. Since buying a latest generation 6 inch screen Kindle, I have bought one paper book (not available on Kindle) and easily twenty Kindle eBooks. They are easier to read, especially if you like to read in bed, and Kindle's implementation of its built-in dictionary (New Oxford American Dictionary) is nothing short of brilliant.
Bottom line for me as a reader: If I plan to get a book, I always check Kindle availability first, and if they have it I normally get it right away (it's downloaded and readable in minutes). If I have questions about the book, I can download a free sample (usually 10% or so of the book itself). If the book is unavailable I usually opt to wait until it is—letting Amazon know that I'd like to see this title on Kindle.
Amazon's own statistics back this up; they announced in July of this year that in its spring quarter it sold eBooks for every 100 hardcover books.
Still, the Forrester report indicated that today only 7% of online adults who read books read eBooks. Translation: excellent prospective market growth (to put it mildly).
McQuivey writes, "even if we never get color e-Ink screens, if publishers never experiment with eBook subscriptions, and interactive eBook formats never succeed, we will still see digital get close to $3 billion in size by the middle of the decade."
Carolyn Kellogg questions whether eBooks will cannibalize traditional book sales; that's to say, will the buyer of a new best-seller buy both the hardcover version and the eBook?
My personal answer: I'd never buy paper again, if I can help it.
November 8, 2010 By Ulf Wolf
Aussie Ross Dawson is a well-known Internet media guru who has never been shy in his predictions. In August of this year he predicted that newspapers in their current form will be irrelevant in Australia by the year 2022, an announcement that garnered a fair amount of international attention from quarters like The Australian and UK-based The Guardian.
In a recent blog, he has now come back with an expanded prediction that includes the projected newspaper "irrelevance date" for various nations.
As he puts it on the site, "Part of the point I wanted to make was that this date is different for every country. As such I have created a Newspaper Extinction Timeline that maps out the wide diversity in how quickly we can expect newspapers to remain significant around the world.
"First out is USA in 2017, followed by UK and Iceland in 2019 and Canada and Norway in 2020. In many countries newspapers will survive the year 2040."
Global Variables
Taken from his site, here are some of the global factors that determine the remaining lifespan of the printed newspaper:
National Factors
Then there are national factors that extend or shorten the remaining newspaper lifespan, and they vary for each country. Those Ross took into consideration include:
Technology development
Economic development
Industry structure
Consumer behaviors
Relative interest in local and global news
Not a Question of If
The digital writing is on the wall. I believe that by 2050 the only print newspapers still surviving will be small, local papers that cover such news that the by now overwhelmingly digital news industry cannot or does not want to cover.
There will also still be a digital divide, primarily due to user preference (which also implies demographics, such as age), and those the reside on the far side of the divide will still support the printed newspaper, and keep the smaller, local papers alive.
Still, it is not a question of "if" the printed paper will eventually go the way of the dinosaurs; it is a question of when.
Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author. He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies, future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network, leading events firm The Insight Exchange, and influence ratings start-up Repyoot.
Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0, the prescient Living Networks, which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships. He is based in Sydney and San Francisco with his wife jewelry designer Victoria Buckley and two beautiful young daughters.
November 1, 2010 By Ulf Wolf
Have you ever tried to use your cell phone at a well-attended event, say a large outdoor music festival, where the majority also have cell phones they also try to use? The result is usually some sort of "no network at the moment, please try again later" message since there are only so many channels available.
One answer—and the one most commonly applied—is to add more cell towers, or add more channels to the ones available. That, over time, gets very expensive, and providers are, of course, analyzing traffic patterns to see if there's a return on investment to double the existing channels next to the football stadium, or the festival site—which, since it's only used sporadically, will most likely not provide sufficient return to augment the local capacity.
Indeed, effective—and economic—bandwidth utilization is at the core of network design, and the solutions and approaches to this problem are many.
One of the most refreshing solutions I've come across lately is detailed in an article on the UK Site "The Frontline" and suggests that a network of human nodes will solve the problem.
According to the article, "Researchers at Queen's University of Belfast (QUB) are working on what could be the most sci-fi approach yet to improving the UK's mobile phone coverage - using human beings as network nodes.
"Academics at QUB's Institute of Electronics, Communications and
Information Technology (ECIT) said they believe using mobile sensors carried on the human body could form the backbone of new mobile internet networks.
"However, this doesn't mean putting a chip in your frontal lobe. Instead it would more likely mean that sensors were carried inside other devices, such as the next-generation of smartphones, which would then communicate with one another."
This, quite brilliant, outlook mirrors in many ways what the Internet as a whole, as well as specific applications like Torrent, do in that it breaks down the information into a multitude of packages and then sends each one over the next available channel (or over as many as are available that instant) for reassembling at the receiving end.
Also, it would in many instances cut out the "middle man" and could communicate node to node rather than node to tower to node.
As the article puts it, "This would create a body-to-body network (BBN) that would allow phones to boost coverage by sending information between themselves before reaching a base station."
(I love the acronym: BBN)
It would also mean that at that music festival, where you before could not get a channel, you now have an abundance of available nodes at your disposal, and your chances of placing a call, or receiving a text, is in fact greatly improved.
Dr. Simon Cotton, from ECIT, pointed out that individual human-carried sensors—which would be worn on the body, carried on smartphones or even integrated into clothing—would bring improvements in a number of areas.
"It will provide a number of key benefits compared to cellular networks alone such as in disaster situations where cellular infrastructure has become damaged or is unavailable, body-to-body networks could help provide networking for relief workers and civilians," he explained.
"It promotes the concept of 'green spectrum' whereby we can re-use frequency allocations over much shorter distances, meaning that the precious resource of radio spectrum is utilized much more fully."
Cotton also said that this technology would "most likely" be able to match LTE speeds as data transfers would only be limited by the availability of network paths that other enabled devices provide, meaning even large HD files could be transferred.
LTE (Long Term Evolution) is a technology that may be used for the next-generation mobile communications network. LTE supports speeds of over 100 Mbit/s downstream and 50 Mbit/s upstream.
"Instead of burdening the cellular network," Cotton added, "the software intelligently splits the file into smaller streams and transmits the content to multiple nearby persons who then forward data to other humans acting as network nodes and so on."
"The file is reassembled when reaching the intended user. Data rates here are really only limited by the number of discrete paths the data can find through the network."
Digital Citizen Engagement - or how Government-IT empowers Citizen Participation and Input - is an important aspect of 21st century life given all the challenges communities face. This is a subject very dear to my heart and one I like to keep a constant finger on. This blog shares my findings and impressions with those interested.


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WAKEFIELD — There wasn't much separating the undefeated West Warwick and Prout boys soccer teams entering Tuesday's Division III showdown.
After 80 minutes, there still wasn't much separation.
The Crusaders, thanks to a third-minute goal from senior forward Kevin Brew opened the scoring, but the Wizards received goals on either side of halftime from junior forwards Cameron Price and Chris Peixoto to lift West Warwick to an impressive 2-1 road win.
"We beat a pretty good team," Peixoto said. "They're a very good team. We won because we played as a team and communicated. This shows us that we can do it. We can do it."
"Sometimes this is the good one to get out of the way," Prout coach Tim Ryan said of his team's first loss of the season. "Anybody going undefeated in this league's tough. Someone's going to knock somebody off because there's a lot of parity this year. Based on today with two of the top teams going at it, I don't think either of us stood out."
West Warwick (6-0 Division III) has now won more games this season than the squad won in the whole of last season. The biggest sign of the Wizards' improvement is how they played against the Crusaders.
Last year, Prout went to West Warwick and embarrassed the Wizards in a 4-0 win. Tuesday, Prout had more possession, but the Crusaders couldn't match the finishing of Peixoto and Price.
"This is nice for the kids because they were really prepared for this game," West Warwick coach Isa Price said. "We still have a long way to go. We can't really be happy and relax."
Prout (5-1 Division III) jumped out to an early lead after Brew's tally, but the Cursaders simply couldn't finish over the last 77 minutes of the match. West Warwick sophomore goalie Matt Grenier made eight saves, but Prout had many more chances.
The Crusaders will have a chance to work on their finishing when winless Masters visits Saturday afternoon.
"We definitely have the goal scorers. Our mental attendance and when we want to turn it on is a little tricky," Ryan said. "I think we definitely can do it. We just don't know the right time."
The right time Tuesday was in the third minute when Brew blasted a shot to Grenier's far post. The sophomore lunged for the ball, but the shot was perfectly placed into the corner.
It was the second time the Wizards fell behind early in a game. The Wizards came back from an early 2-0 deficit on the road against Warwick Vets to earn a 3-2 win.
"Both times we've been down this season they've focused," Price said. "We made a couple of subs which brought some speed on to the field. That was the key."
One of the mental lapses which frustrated Ryan came in the 28th minute when Price was allowed to flick a ball past Prout goalie Bryan McCormack without a defender around.
The two teams split chances over the next 20 minutes before Peixoto picked up a loose Allen Flyntz pass in midfield and just ran at three defenders. The junior slalomed through the defense before toe-poking a shot past McCormack.
"In the heat of the moment it was either I take the ball to goal or just pass it. I decided to take it and take the risk," Peixoto said. "I just did anything I could to get it in the back of the net."
The Wizards played the final 20 minutes of the game with just one forward in the hope of soaking up the Prout pressure. The tactic almost didn't pay off when freshman Jared Covell blazed a shot from inside the six-yard box off the top of the crossbar.
"I don't think they were that tough (that tough to break down), I just don't think we made good decisions," Ryan said. "We started playing their game, we were playing kick-and-run trying to get over the top or sneak around the back. We had a lot of possession in the middle third, but they parked the bus."

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Interesting facts about girls
1. When a girl says she's sad, but she isn't crying, it means she's crying in her heart.
2. When she ignores you after you've done something wrong, it's best to give her some time to cool down before touching her heart with an apology.
3. A girl can't find anything to hate about the guy she loves (which is why it is so hard for her to 'get over him' after the relationship' s over.)
4. If a girl loves a guy, he will always be on her mind every minute of the day, even though she flirts with other guys.
5. When the guy she likes smiles and stares deep into her eyes, she will melt.
6. A girl likes to hear compliments, but usually not sure how to react to them.
7. When a particular guy flirts with a girl very often, a girl would start thinking the guy likes her. So if you treat a girl just as a friend, go easy on the smiles and stare ok?
8. If you don't like a girl who likes you, break it to her gently.
9. If a girl starts avoiding you after you reject her, leave her alone for a while. If you still treat her as a friend, talk to her.
10. Girls enjoy talking about what they feel. Music, poetry, drawing sand writing are ways of expressing themselves (which explains why most girls like writing journals).
11. Never tell a girl that she is useless in anyway.
12. Being too serious can turn a girl off.
13. When the guy she likes calls her for the first time, the girl may act look uninterested during the call. But as soon as the phone is back on the hook, she will whoop with joy and immediately start telephoning her friends to spread the news.
14. A smile means a lot to a girl.
15. If you like a girl, try making friends with her first. Let her get to know you.
16. If a girl says she can't go out with you because she has to study, leave.
17. But if she still calls you or expect a call from you, stay.
18. Don't try to guess a girl's feelings. Ask her.
19. Hearing the words "I love you" is a great reassurance to a girl that she is beautiful.
20. After a girl falls in love with a guy, she'll wonder why she never noticed him before.
21. If you need tips on how to flirt with a girl, read romance stories.
22. When class pictures come out, a girl would first check who is standing next to her crush before actually looking at herself.
23. A girl's ex-crush will always be in her memory, but the guy she loves now stays in her heart.
24. Girls love having fun!
25. A simple 'Hi' can brighten a girl's day.
26. A girl's best friends usually know best what she is feeling and going through.
27. Girls hate it when a guy pays attention to them just to get close to their 'prettier' friend.
28. Love means devotion, caring and happiness to a girl, in that order.
29. Some girls care about looks, some care about brains, but ALL girls want a guy who will love and care for them.
30. Girls want nothing more than to feel loved.
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Jean-Georges Vongerichten has brought his trademark virtuosity to one of the Richard Meier's gleaming glass towers on the edge of the Village. The sleek, minimalist space fronting Hudson River Park is cast in luminous whites and neutral tones that focus attention where it belongs: on the food. The menu features playful and innovative variations on seasonal favorites (like the savory strawberry gazpacho amuse-bouche or the peekytoe crab salad beautifully presented with edible flowers), though the flavors can border on the subdued, as with the bland red snapper in chili oil. Excellent desserts (try the warm mango upside down cake) and a decent wine selection round out the experience, though service can be somewhat stiff.
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I normally do not post about my recipe try outs from the Alinea cookbook. Since this time is the first time I actually made a laborious, awesome looking, multi-component dish that took more than a week (I really did take my time though) from start to finish, I figured it deserves more than a few flickr pictures. I picked this recipe mostly because it looked challenging and had several techniques that I was looking forward to trying out (using Methocel, Agar puddings, making filled frozen capsules, altering Alinea ice cream recipes for my ice cream maker…)
- Buckwheat ice cream. Most of Alinea's recipes for ice cream are designed for a Pacojet. They are formulas low in fat and usually sugar. So, using a regular ice cream maker might not be a good idea since the end result is more likely to be a block of frozen cream instead of a creamy scoopable confection. Buying a very expensive Pacojet is out of the question. So, I augmented the recipe a bit by upping the fat content by using all cream and adding a few spoons of Golden Syrup. This made a nice and smooth ice cream that can be scooped and formed into quenelles.
Toasting the Buckwheat groats
- Mint Puffs. These are made using Methocel, mint and sugar. I "dehydrated" them in my oven for a LONG time. End result was very nice though. Like minty meringues without the egg whites.
Adding sugar to the mint and Methocel mixture
- Dehydrated Passion fruit curd. For both this and the pudding, I used frozen passion fruit puree. It comes in flat plastic pouches and is made by Goya. We use it to make juices by mixing with sugar and water. The classic egg passion fruit curd was spread on acetate and also dehydrated in my oven for 24 hours or so. Very delicious and crackly on its own
- Mint Jell. I used regular gelatin to set this mint extract, sugar and water mixture instead of the required Kelcogel since I had none. Seemed to work fine. Since I never had the original dish, I guess I'll never know for sure.
- Passion fruit Pudding. Passion fruit juice and sugar set with agar and then blended with Xanthan gum to a very smooth and brilliant "pudding". It tasted amazing and looked great. I can see many desserts benefiting from similar "sauces" made with different fruits.
- Coffee Cream Pudding. Made similar to the passion fruit pudding using cream and espresso. Both puddings went in squeeze bottles.
- Mint Cream. The recipe asks us to use a French mint liquore called "Get 31″. It is colorless and about 21% Alcohol. Well, I could not find it anywhere. I am not even sure it is sold anywhere in the US! Instead I used another good qualtiy French mint liqoure made by Marie Brizard. This one was green though, but alcohol wise, it was pretty close at 23%. Mint, cream and sugar make up this one. IT is then frozen but with the high alcohol content it never quite freezes solid. this makes sense since this is the filling for the capsules.
- Coffee Mint Capsules. As expected, this was the trickiest part of the recipe. The capsule walls are made by a thin layer of the coffee pudding on acetate. That is rolled and taped and frozen to make cylinders. In there we pour some mint cream and freeze the whole thing. I never got perfect cylinders, but I am pretty pleased with the end result. Thank goodness for the make shift "mold" I made. If it wasn't for that, no way would I been able to make even layers of pudding on acetate.
- Coffee Cake. This is fairly standard, flavored with coffee extract and cocoa and baked in a sheet pan.
- Buckwheat Streusel. Buckwheat flour, almond flour, all purpose flour, brown sugar and butter. It's baked and crumled.
The final result was an delightful mix of delicious flavors, textures and temperatures. Who knew coffee, buckwheat mint and passion fruit go so well together. I might never make this dish in all its components again, but it was a useful learning experience and many of these subrecipes will be showing up again in one form or another in my dishes.


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- COMPOSTING - One of the first kitchens in San Diego to install the eCorrect Food Waste Decomposition System, La Costa prevented 180,000 pounds of food waste from going into the landfill in 2012
- RECYCLING - Processed 680,000 pounds of recycled material
- RECLAIMED WATER - La Costa uses 2.2 gpm faucets and aerators, 1.6 gpf toilets and 2.5 gpm showerheads. Additionally, plants and trees on property are tolerant of local weather conditions and adhere to local limitations on watering
- BUY LOCAL - La Costa supports local businesses and provides the freshest cuisine to guests by partnering with and purchasing produce from local farmers
- LANDSCAPING - Changed out areas of the Champions Golf Course to native grasses, resulting in an increase in the amount of small birds to the area
- WILDLIFE - In addition to attracting new species of birds, with the planting of more native flowers, we've helped sustain the Bee population and, for the first time in 11 years, welcomed a young Bald Eagle to our 400 acres -
- ENERGY CONTROL - Using "smart" thermostats in guestrooms, energy is saved in unoccupied rooms. Additionally, energy-efficient lighting and web-based computerized controls on pool and spa heaters are used to minimize gas use.
- GREEN PRODUCTS - We only use environmentally-preferable cleaning products
If you have any additional tips, we'd love to hear it. Please add a comment here and we'll update this page frequently with those tips.
This property meets the Green Seal™ standard for Hotels and Lodging Properties, GS-33, for waste minimization, water and energy efficiency, hazardous substances handling, and environmentally responsible purchasing.
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RecyleThere are resources all over the country aiding in making recycling convenient - from paper and plastic, to electronics
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Forward head
The problem: Stiff muscles in the back of your neck
The fix: Moving only your head, drop your chin down and in toward your sternum while stretching the back of your neck. Hold for a count of five; do this 10 times a day.
Rounded shoulders
The problem: Weakness in the middle and lower parts of your trapezius (the large muscle that spans your shoulders and back)
The fix: Lie facedown on the floor, with each arm at a 90-degree angle in the high-five position. Without changing your elbow angle, raise both arms by pulling your shoulders back and squeezing your shoulder blades together. Hold for five seconds. That's one rep; do two or three sets of 12 reps daily.
Anterior pelvic tilt
The problem: Tight hip flexors
The fix Kneel on your left knee, with your right foot on the floor in front of you, knee bent. Press forward until you feel the stretch in your left hip. Tighten your butt muscles on your left side until you feel the front of your hip stretching comfortably. Reach upward with your left arm and stretch to the right side. Hold for a count of 30 seconds. That's one repetition; do three on each side.
Elevated shoulder
The problem: The muscle under your chest (running from your ribs to your shoulder blades) is weak.
The fix: Sit upright in a chair with your hands next to your hips, palms down on the seat, arms straight. Without moving your arms, push down on the chair until your hips lift up off the seat and your torso rises. Hold for five seconds. That's one repetition; do two or three sets of 12 reps daily.
Pigeon toes
The problem: Weak glutes (butt muscles)
The fix: Lie on one side with your knees bent 90 degrees and your heels together. Keeping your hips still, raise your top knee upward, separating your knees like a clamshell. Pause for five seconds, then lower your knee to the starting position. That's one rep. Perform two or three sets of 12 reps on each side daily.
Duck feet
The problem: Your oblique muscles and hip flexors are weak.
The fix: Get into a pushup position with your feet resting on a stability ball. Without rounding your lower back, tuck your knees under your torso, using your feet to roll the ball toward your body, then back to the starting position. That's one rep. Do two or three sets of six to 12 reps daily.
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For example - (Thinks)"Ah good, my spouse is picking me up at the north side of the car park at 4.30pm". [Puts phone away.]
Why do you need to get that text before the credits roll?
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"Handguns" didn't exist in 1789, so if you're holding up a 1789 piece of paper, you should only get to use a 1789 gun! If you accept a gun made in 2014, then you have to accept ALL the technological features required. It's not that complicated.
Handguns existed at the time the Second Amendment was passed. They weren't nearly as good, no question, but they did exist. More importantly, though, I doubt you'd accept that kind of limitation with respect to the First Amendment, which would allow only handwriting, unamplified speech, acoustic megaphones, woodcuts, manual printing presses, and a few other, mostly one-off or impermanent, means of expression. No internet. No microphones. No audio recording and playback. No video or photographs.
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That's why the article says this: "For legal reasons, the ShareRoller won't engage when you're at a standstill, so I had to pedal a couple of times before I could engage the 1.0 horsepower motor with a handlebar-mounted throttle."
The law banning electric bikes does not apply unless the motor "is capable of propelling the device without human power." Here, it's not (although it doesn't sound like it needs much human power).
That still doesn't mean this is legal to use. It's possible the Citibike agreement bans (or will ban) their use. Probably won't result in a fine, but it could result in a ban. And money damages if the device does cause excess tire wear. But the general NYC ban on electric bicycles doesn't apply.
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The irony of someone accusing the Tea Party of "Almost assassinat[ing] an American congresswoman" in the same post that decries "[d]ivid[ing] America to the worst point since the Civil War" is painful. The former had NOTHING to do with the Tea Party, and the accusations that it did were a prime example of the vitriol that's come to dominate political debate.
I don't support most of the platform that's associated with the Tea Party, but the accusation that they've somehow been more vitriolic is ridiculous (although they haven't been less). A simple scan of the comments here is the perfect counterpoint.
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Ever since I dropped cable and started buying shows individually, I've saved about 80% on my costs of video-viewing (which included cable, netflix, plus buying DVDs). Also, I watch less crap--no couch-surfing with the remote--and am happier for it. Sure, it's artificial willpower. But it works for me.
Basically, if it's not worth $3, then it's not worth an hour of my time.
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Yeah, but Amazon is really clear when you buy a season pass that you're paying $(n * 2.87) for the n episodes that have already been aired and $2.87 for each future episode as it comes out. It's very clear there's a per-episode price, and splitting it into multiple seasons has no effect on the total price paid.
I have no idea if iTunes is as clear; I don't order from them.
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No semicolon needed there:
Show excitement,
Or emotion.
They're generally set apart from a sentence
By an exclamation point,
Or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong.
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I went from a laptop + tablet to just a Helix. I like it. Web browsing is just so much nicer on a real PC in tablet mode than on either iPad or Android. I can access all of my docs in tablet mode. For reading, this makes sense for pretty much all of them, even using desktop apps. For some, editing in tablet mode makes sense, again using desktop apps. And I can pop it into the keyboard in a second if I need to do serious editing. It's more convenient to carry just the one item around, and I don't have to shuffle files around. And I have enough storage to get serious work done even when I don't have access to cloud storage. I never have to wish I'd copied a file to my tablet before leaving.
I wish the tablet mode were even lighter and thinner. I wish the battery lasted longer, although it's never run out on me. But it works as is, and I expect them to get better in the next year or two.
I don't use Modern UI except for a very few settings tasks. Until Modern UI Firefox comes out, I probably won't use it for anything substantive. I added a start menu that lets me boot to desktop. And Windows 8 desktop has some nice improvements over Windows 7. Win 8.1 promises even more, including different scaling factors for the device display and my desktop monitor. It ain't perfect. But neither are android and ios. For *me*, this works better.


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Start-up: 1957Construction cost: $1.65 billionProduction: T-ingots, rolling ingots, billets, rodProduction capacity: 295,000 mt/yearPort facilities: owned by the smelterCertifications: ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:2004 and ISO 17025Economic benefits for Québec: close to $602 million invested in wages, taxes and goods and services, including $270 million in the Baie-Comeau region.
Located on a rocky promontory overlooking the majestic St. Lawrence River, the Baie-Comeau Smelter has an annual production capacity of 295,000 metric tons of aluminum. Successively owned by the Canadian British Aluminum Company, the Reynolds Metals Company and Alcoa (since 2000), the smelter was built and then expanded on four different occasions between 1957 and 1991. In addition, the Söderberg cells were upgraded in the early 1980s. The smelter is Baie-Comeau's largest employer and its employees are highly involved in the community. It supports a number of organizations, including the Manicouagan-Uapishka World Biosphere Reserve.
The plant was recognized as part of the St. Lawrence Action Plan for its work on industrial wastewater treatment. It also received the Mérite québécois de la sécurité civile award for helping create a stakeholder emergency readiness training program for the Manicouagan regional county municipality. The Baie-Comeau Smelter is an Elite member of Hydro-Québec's Écolectrique network.


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Why we need a Marxian renaissance that drops the old 'Marxist' tropesApril 27th, 2012
Cathartic but way off target: traditional marxism
In case you missed this (scroll down for the comments), we publish the more pertinent points here:
What do we mean by human beings being 'mediated by the commodity form?'
What is meant by mediation? Following Richard Gunn, to mediate is to relate a term to itself or to one or more other terms through another term. The mediation is the relating term, which is itself the relation. There are several kinds of mediation but I am primarily concerned with the one in which two terms mediate each other, where each relates the other to itself reciprocally or we can say where each is the middle term for the other, as in capital and labor. This can also be referred to as an internal relation, which is what we are concerned with in dealing with social forms. An internal relation constitutes the terms it relates and as it is the relation itself, it is the mode of existence, form or appearance of the terms it relates. If the terms are contradictory then the mediation allows the terms to subsist in their contradiction. A properly Marxian notion of contradiction relies on this notion of mediation.
What then might it mean to say that social life is mediated by the commodity-form? Firstly, that sociality itself, as we live/experience/know it, subsists in and through the commodity form.
For example, capital entails a society in which the vast majority of human beings find their day-to-day existence not merely engaged with the purchase and sale of commodities, and not merely with the production of items directly for exchange, rather than for immediate consumption, but with the reproduction of themselves by such means and in order to sell their own life force as a commodity in turn qua labor power.
I find it amusing that we so frequently fail to realize what it means to have such a huge percentage of the population involved in the dominant form of the production of surplus wealth. In ancient Greece, slaves accounted for barely 35% of the population, less in some cases, and between that and pillage, provided the bulk of surplus wealth as the majority of the Greeks were subsistence farmers. In feudal Europe, a small part of the serfs' time actually went to surplus production, and many people contributed no surplus whatsoever.
The universalision of the proletariat
By comparison, the majority of humanity at this point is brought, directly and indirectly, under the ambit of the capital-labor relation. Those who are not directly involved in wage-labor frequently 1) manage wage labor, 2) provide direct services for those within the capital-labor relation.
From another angle we might develop the degree to which almost nothing which we consume at this point is not a commodity or gotten with a commodity (if one say goes fishing at the lake or hunting in the woods, it is probably with equipment you bought, even if the fish or game is not a commodity and the activity is not either.) Further, there is very little left of so-called leisure time which is not also mediated by the commodity form.
We then have to ask if the way in which the commodity-form is expressed in the entire cycle of capital impacts forms of consciousness, that is to say, objectively shapes consciousness. Is there a way out of this?
Keeping on with the ideas of form, relation, and mediation, Lukacs takes the view that form and its content are not unified. For example, J.B. Say argued that crisis was impossible because sales and purchases always had to be equal. For Lukacs, crises in which stocks lay unsold while money flows in abundance gives the lie to this formal relation. The content of the capital cycle overflows the limits of the form because the form contains within itself a contradiction, which Marx shows to be a crisis of valorization.
This overflowing of content opens the way to consciousness, but consciousness does not simply overcome the mediation, but brings to awareness the necessity and the possibility of collective action that would overcome the mediation.
It is outside the scope of this discussion for me to lay out my issue with Lukacs and the concept of reification. I am actually quite skeptical of it and Lukacs' appropriation of Weberian concepts, however much he might alter them. What matters is that I would say that he is not Hegelian enough and falls back into a kind of Fichtean immediacy.
On the so-called 'state-derivation debate'
The direction Holloway and Bonefeld took actually was to say that properly speaking, the state is a social formation particular to capital, that is, to a society in which there is a genuine separation of sphere between the political or public power and the economic, or reproduction and private wealth. Both argued that this was reliant on the development of the capital-labor relation itself which separates production of goods from domination because all people enter into the market as equals, as equally possessing commodities, and equally seeking to buy and sell commodities. This form of interaction necessitates a disinterested arbiter, above civil society, to ensure the equality and fairness of the transaction is maintained.
This was developed systematically against Milibank's idea that the state was a container filled with the class content of whichever class controlled it, and also against Poulantzas' Eurocommunism, in which the state was hypostatized as its own field, acting 'autonomously'.
I think if you look carefully at their contributions to the state debate you will get a better view.
Why traditional Marxism has to be overcome
Again, saying that labor is not the standpoint of the critique of capital is singularly NOT the same as saying that the communism entails the abolition of the working class. If you can't tell the logical difference between the two, you have larger problems of comprehension. The latter only takes us part way there because if you think that labor is the standpoint of the critique (as a lot of people who hold the latter view do), then you still essentialize labor and fall into the old garbage about how direct sociality is our goal (Lukacs does this, actually), 'free labor' is wonderful, labor mediates humanity, etc.
Unfortunately, that view of labor is piffle and leads right back practically to capitalism, the society in which labor already is associated with freedom. We might even say, taking up Marx's language in Vol. 3, that between the realms of Necessity and Freedom, necessity being the realm of Labor, that capital conceives of the Realm of Necessity as the Realm of Freedom, whereas pre-capitalist societies held an strict separation of the Realm of Necessity, reserved for slaves, serfs, and peasants, and the Realm of Freedom, reserved solely for the Lords, Masters, and all others who got to enjoy and create poetry, art, music, etc.


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Higher Education
Higher education is critical to the Texas economy because it is the key to providing a highly qualified work force in an increasingly technical world. Higher education also helps to meet specific local and regional employer demands for skilled employees. Finally, it provides higher salaries throughout a graduate's lifetime, increasing the quality of life for these individuals and their families.
The Texas Legislature recognized the importance of these factors by referencing the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's (THECB) Closing the Gaps master plan for higher education in state law.208 The plan calls for improved statewide participation, better graduation outcomes, improved excellence and increased research funding by 2015.209
In recent years, partly in response to THECB's plan and its tracking measures,
the state has made major changes to its higher education system, including its funding methods, student financial aid and admission policies. In the process, the state has explored fundamental Questions about the system, its structure and purpose; enacted innovative and sometimes untried policies; and addressed controversial issues – some of which remain unresolved.
One factor affecting higher education participation is the availability of educational opportunities. Texas has 145 higher education institutions, including 101 public universities and colleges. Public institutions include 35 universities, nine health-related institutions, seven technical and state colleges and 50 community college districts; private institutions include 39 universities, two junior colleges, two chiropractic colleges and one medical school (Exhibit 37).210
Exhibit 37
Texas Public Institutions of Higher Education
(Texas Public Institutions of Higher Education, Text Alternative)
In addition, the Texas Workforce Commission lists about 250 proprietary and nonprofit schools in the state, many with multiple campuses, offering career and technology training.211 Online opportunities also have increased the availability of higher educational programs to anyone with access to a computer.
To make more classroom education available in regions with growing or high demand, and to conserve on costs, the state has established nine higher education centers, sometimes called multi-institution teaching centers (MITCs), that offer courses at one central location or at several sites. MITCs are partnerships between institutions of higher education and may include public community and technical colleges, public universities and independent colleges and universities. Students enroll through their college or university but can attend classes at the MITC.212
In addition, Texas is establishing a new medical school in El Paso and has authorized a new MITC in East Williamson County.213 Certain junior colleges also have been authorized to offer up to five baccalaureate programs.214 These additions will increase availability for undergraduate and graduate education in areas of the state where demand has outpaced availability.
Texas' community colleges, which are open to anyone who applies and serve almost all areas of the state, offer a variety of one-year technical certifications and two-year associate degrees in a wide variety of technical and academic subjects. In addition, the community college system offers many classes at night and on weekends year-round, through the Internet and at satellite centers such as high schools, providing flexibility that allows the system to respond relatively quickly to changes in enrollment, employer and regional demand.
Higher education was appropriated $10.1 billion – about 12 percent of the state budget – for fiscal 2008.*
Even so, THECB reports that 17 percent of two-year students in its Southeast region and 15.6 percent in its Northwest region attended Texas two-year institutions outside their home region in 2005, compared with just 5.6 percent statewide. This may reflect a lack of institutions within these (generally more rural) areas; closer proximity of students to institutions in neighboring regions; or greater availability of course offerings in other regions.215
THECB's Northwest and Upper East Texas regions ranked highest in 2005 for the percentage of students traveling outside the region but within the state to attend undergraduate universities – 65.3 percent and 64.1 percent respectively, compared with 36.3 percent statewide. These percentages probably reflect the relatively low number of universities in those regions.216
Demand has outstripped the supply of certain programs, such as Nursing , throughout the state. In response, Texas has increased incentive funding for Nursing and other allied health programs in short supply and streamlined the process for establishing new Nursing programs beginning in 2007.217 As a result, some areas are starting to see lower Nursing demand or are projecting additional nurses being available in the near future.218 Although the demand is still greater than the supply, THECB reports that the state is now on target for meeting its 2015 goals for graduates in health fields.219
Another factor affecting participation in higher education is the accessibility of educational opportunities. One of the most debated aspects of this issue has been admission to Texas universities.
Since 1998, the state has guaranteed admission to Texas public universities to all Texas high students ranked in the top 10 percent of their high school graduating classes. Starting in 2008-09, freshmen must also graduate under the more demanding Recommended or Distinguished Achievement high school graduation plans to gain automatic admission under the 10 percent rule. (See the Outcomes section for a discU.S.on of graduation plans.)220
Higher education leaders attribute the increased numbers and percentages of minorities, particularly Hispanics, enrolled in Texas institutions, and particularly at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), primarily to the 10 percent rule; other factors, such as increased recruitment and incentives, also have contributed.221
The Hispanic population in Texas rose by 22.1 percent from 2000 to 2005 (most recent data available).222 Total Hispanic enrollment at Texas public universities rose from 81,180 in fall 2000 to 117,816 in fall 2007, a 45.1 percent increase; UT's total Hispanic enrollment rose from 5,920 to 7,991 over the same period, a 35 percent increase.
Exhibit 38
The University of Texas at Austin
and Statewide Students Under the Top 10 Percent Rule
as Percent of Total First-time Undergraduates
(Top 10 Percent Rule's Effect on Undergraduates,Text Alternative)
The increase in UT's Hispanic enrollment is more significant than these numbers indicate, however, since UT kept its total enrollment relatively flat from fall 2000 to fall 2007 at about 50,000 students, compared with an 19.9 percent increase in total enrollment for public universities statewide. UT increased the Hispanic share of its total enrollment from 11.8 percent in fall 2000 to 15.9 percent in fall 2007, compared with 19.6 percent to 23.7 percent statewide. Despite these increases, since the statewide share of Hispanic enrollment also increased, the university continues to lag about 7.8 percentage points behind the statewide share.223
In all, then, UT's Hispanic share of total enrollments rose by 4.1 percentage points from fall 2000 to fall 2007, the same as statewide enrollment growth of 4.1 percentage points. From fall 2000 to fall 2005, however, the Hispanic share of the state's total population increased by 3.6 percentage points, from 32 percent to 35.6 percent. At this rate of growth, enrollments statewide and at UT will continue to lag behind the Hispanic share of the state's population.224
Black enrollment at UT grew by 33.6 percent from fall 2000 to fall 2007, from 1,582 to 2,113; this represents an increase from 3.2 percent of total enrollment to 4.2 percent during the same period. Statewide, Black enrollment increased from 9.8 percent of total enrollment to 11.4 percent.225 The Black share of the state's total population fell from 11.5 percent in 2000 to 11.4 percent in 2005, which means that the gain in share of enrollment has been a real gain when compared with population growth.226
The 10 percent rule also is having an effect on the number and percentage of females accepted to Texas public universities. Statewide, 62 percent of students accepted under the 10 percent rule in summer and fall 2006 were female, compared with only 54.8 percent of total students accepted; females represented 53.9 percent of all applicants. At UT, 58.5 percent of students accepted under the top 10 percent rule were female, but only 46.5 percent of students accepted under other criteria were female. Females represented 54.3 percent of all students accepted to the university.
The percentage of first-time undergraduates accepted to Texas public universities who ranked in the top 10 percent of their high school graduating class rose from 21.1 percent in fall 2000 to 23 percent in fall 2006. First-time undergraduate acceptances at UT under the 10 percent rule, however, have increased from 31.9 percent in fall 2000 to 72.8 percent in fall 2006. The top 10 percent group at UT increased from 52.1 percent of fall enrollment of first-time undergraduates in 2000 to 75.8 percent in fall 2006. Statewide, the top 10 percent group enrollment rose from 25.3 percent to 26.5 percent of the total enrolled (Exhibit 38).227
The increase in the top 10 percent group as a percentage of the total enrolled as first-time graduates at UT was due primarily to relatively flat total acceptances and enrollment compared to an increase in applicants in the top 10 percent group and a cut in total acceptances in fall 2003. UT cut total acceptances in fall 2003 by almost 1,000 students from the year before and did not exceed fall 2002 acceptance levels until fall 2006. Although UT increased total acceptances by 11.2 percent over the fall 2000 to fall 2006 period, total first-time undergraduate enrollment rose only slightly, by 2.6 percent, after dipping below fall 2000 levels in fall 2003 (Exhibit 39).228
Exhibit 39
UT Applicants, Acceptances and Enrollments
First-time Undergraduates
Total and Top 10 Percent Group
Fall 2000–Fall 2006
(UT Applicants, Acceptances and Enrollments Under Top 10% Rule,
Text Alternative)
Nearly 40 percent of all Texas students who qualify for automatic admission under the 10 percent rule apply to UT.229 A continuing rise in the number of high school graduates accepted to UT under the rule poses a potential problem for some who prefer that the university maintain its current size, as it has for many years, and employ more than one criterion to select students; others view it as a positive way to increase qualified candidates and minority enrollment.230
Although the total number of first-time undergraduate students at Texas public universities has increased, the percentage of applicants accepted has declined slightly, from 88.5 percent in fall 2000 to 87.6 percent in fall 2006; the number of applications grew by 41 percent and the number of applications that were accepted grew by 39.6 percent. The top 10 percent group grew as a percentage of enrollment from 25.3 percent to 26.5 percent from fall 2000 to fall 2006.231 These data indicate that for the most part, universities are expanding to accommodate applicants, and the top 10 percent group is having little effect on competitiveness.
For UT, the percentage of first-time undergraduate applicants accepted to the university declined from 85.8 percent in fall 2000 to 71 percent in fall 2006.232 Total fall applicants to UT increased by 4,386 over this period, but the total accepted increased by only 1,224; applicants accepted under the top 10 percent rule increased by 5,348.233 If these trends continue and UT does not expand its capacity, gaining admittance to this institution may become increasingly difficult for those who do not qualify under the 10 percent rule.
Another key to increasing both participation and graduation outcomes is ensuring the affordability of higher education. Traditionally a "low tuition, low aid" state, Texas deregulated tuition in 2003, allowing institutions to set their own rates.234 To offset the resulting tuition increases, the state expanded financial aid––but not enough to curb a growing gap between college costs and aid.
The state requires its public undergraduate institutions to set aside 15 percent of state-mandated resident tuition and, since deregulation, not less than 20 percent of other tuition above $46 per semester credit hour, to assist undergraduate students with financial aid.
In addition to institutional and federal financial assistance and tax incentives, eligible students can access a wide variety of state aid as well as a 529 college savings plan, which provides special tax benefits under section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code to families that set aside funds for future college costs. In Texas, the plan is called the Texas College Savings Plan; it was established and is maintained by the Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board (TPHETB) and staffed by the Comptroller of Public Accounts.235 The 2007 Legislature passed a program of prepaid tuition contracts, also administered by TPHETB and staffed by the Comptroller's office, which starts September 1, 2008, and will allow families to purchase tomorrow's tuition at today's costs.236
Texas public and private institutions of higher education received about $4.8 billion in total need-based financial aid to assist students in fiscal 2006. Need-based aid includes gift aid, which does not have to be paid back, loans and work-study. The federal government awarded 76.1 percent of that amount; the state provided another 11.3 percent, or about $541 million; institutions gave 6.8 percent
of the total; and 5.8 percent came from other sources.237 Total annual aid has risen by about 60 percent since fiscal 2002, but the state has more than doubled the amount it contributes.238
The state's largest program, the TEXAS Grant Program, which began in fiscal 2000 with $19.8 million, disbursed $198.7 million to 62,435 recipients in fiscal 2008. An estimated 42,000 students that qualify for the grant in fiscal 2008 will not receive it due to inadequate funding levels.239
Another new effort, the B-On-Time Loan Program, which forgives loans of students who graduate on time, provided 7,384 students with $26.9 million in fiscal 2006. Currently, the program has no funding for new students.240
In fiscal 2006, about half of all students attending Texas public and private institutions, more than 582,000, received some type of need-based aid. This represented 62.5 percent of students who enrolled and applied for such aid. Of the total receiving aid, 94 percent registered Texas as their home state.241
Despite recent increases in state financial aid, the gap between actual college costs and aid received by Texas students rose from $2.3 billion in fiscal 2001 (in constant 2006 dollars), to $3.9 billion in 2006, a 71 percent increase in costs that students and their families must cover (Exhibit 40).242
Exhibit 40
Aggregate Costs of Attendance versus
Aggregate Financial Aid Funds
Constant 2006 Dollars
In millions
(Costs of Attendance versus Financial Aid Funds,
Text Alternative)
Estimated average annual tuition and fees at Texas undergraduate universities, based on 30 semester credit hours increased by $2,128, or 61.8 percent, from 2003 to 2007.243
Community colleges have the lowest tuition and fee requirements, although students who live outside community college taxing districts must pay more than in-district students. Annual public community college tuition and fees for students living within the community college taxing district, based on 15 credit hours for each semester, averaged an estimated $1,639 in 2007-08, compared with $5,569 for undergraduate universities. THECB estimates total 2007-08 resident costs of attending community colleges – including tuition and fees, books and supplies, room and board, transportation and personal expenses – at $10,456, and undergraduate institutions at $16,995.244
By fall 2006, Texas was about a third of the way to reaching its Closing the Gaps participation outcomes for total enrollment in undergraduate education for 2015. Progress toward the goal, however, as measured by the percentage of the population enrolled in higher education institutions, is slowing. The plan also sets goals for increased participation of Hispanic and Black students; while progress is on target for Blacks, it is below target for Hispanics.245
Fall 2006 enrollment in all colleges and universities in the state was 1.2 million, about 5.3 percent of the state's population. Enrollment was 5 percent of the population in 2000; the 2010 goal is 5.6 percent and the 2015 goal is 5.7 percent, which would place Texas third among the ten most populous states behind California and Illinois.246 Enrollment in public institutions represented 90.3 percent of the total in 2006. Enrollment in two-year institutions amounted to 48 percent of the total.247
Community colleges absorbed the greatest enrollment increase, rising 29.2 percent from fall 2000 to fall 2006, an increase representing more than 126,000 students. Public universities increased their enrollment by 18.5 percent, or more than 76,000 students, over the same period.248
Although Hispanic enrollment at all Texas public and independent institutions rose by 40.7 percent from fall 2000 to fall 2006, their participation represented only 3.9 percent of the Hispanic population in 2006. While this was an improvement over the 3.7 percent participation rate in 2000, it is well below the Closing the Gaps targets of 4.8 percent for 2010 and 5.7 percent for 2015. To reach the 2010 target alone, Hispanic enrollment must increase by another 41.9 percent.249
Black enrollment is on target for meeting the Closing the Gaps goals for both 2010 and 2015, and THECB cited this improvement as "one of the most important accomplishments" since the start of the effort. Enrollment for this group was 31.5 percent higher in fall 2006 than in fall 2000 and is equivalent to 5.4 percent of this group's estimated population – up from 4.6 percent in 2000.250
The public college and university population is projected to increase to 1.1 million by 2040, assuming 50 percent of the net migration rate that occurred during the 1990-2000 decade. Enrollment in public community colleges is projected to grow to about 588,000 and to 478,000 for public colleges and universities.251
Exhibit 41
Public College and University Enrollment by Ethnicity
|Fall 2000
|Fall 2006
|2040 Projected
Note: Numbers may not total due to rounding.
Sources: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and Texas State Data Center.
Hispanic enrollment as a share of the total is projected to increase to 44.2 percent by 2040; all other ethnicities are projected to decline as a percentage of the total. White enrollment is projected to decline to 38.4 percent; Black enrollment, to 9.4 percent; and other ethnicities, to 7.9 percent (Exhibit 41).252
About half of all Texas high school graduates enroll in a higher education institution in the fall following graduation; of these, about half attend two-year institutions. In recent years, Texas has strengthened its high school graduation requirements, improved academic content in all grades, established standards and accountability systems and expanded its offerings of dual-enrollment classes.253
These changes should improve student preparation for the work force and increase the share of students who attend college after high school. The share of Texas high school graduates entering Texas public higher education institutions in the fall following graduation rose from 43.4 percent in 2000 to 46.1 percent in 2006, a difference of more than 18,000 students.254
Trends show that Closing the Gaps college graduation outcomes are on target for meeting overall 2015 goals, but the state is slightly below its target for producing math and science teachers and well below its target for math and science graduates. On the other hand, the state is above target for increasing allied health and Nursing graduates by 2015, an area that is still in high demand. Growth from 2000 to 2006 was 30.9 percent despite a decline from 2000 to 2001 that did not recover for two-year institutions until 2003 and for four-year institutions until 2004.255
Although the increase in the total number of bachelor's and associate's degrees and certificates awarded is currently on target, the trend is slowing and flattening. The 27.1 percent increase in degrees awarded since fiscal 2000, which rose to 147,705 degrees in fiscal 2006, will not be enough to reach the 2015 goal of 210,000. To meet this goal, institutions must increase the number of degrees awarded by another 42.2 percent from fiscal 2006 (Exhibit 42).256
Exhibit 42
Public and Independent Institutions'
Bachelor's and Associate's Degrees and
Certificates Awarded and "Closing the
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(Degrees and Certificates Awarded and Targets,
Text Alternative)
Improving the college readiness of high school students can improve the number of students who stay in college, which in turn will improve graduation rates. A steadily increasing percentage of first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students entering Texas public universities are now graduating –– about 24.3 percent within four years and about 56.7 percent within six years.257
For Texas community colleges, 11.7 percent of first-time, full-time students received a credential within three years as of fiscal 2005, and 30.6 percent did so within six years. This represents an improvement from fiscal 2000, when 10.8 percent received a credential within three years and 25.7 percent received one within six years.258 About a third of students who graduated from a Texas university in 2005 had completed at least 30 semester credit hours at a community college.259
In fall 2003, about one-half of first-time entering students did not meet state standards in at least one area of math, reading or writing. For public universities, the total was 21.2 percent and for two-year institutions, it was 61.6 percent.260
About 65.8 percent of the high school graduating class of 2006 took either the SAT or ACT college entrance exams; of those, only 27.1 percent scored at or above the criterion used to determine college readiness. In 2007, about 53 percent of high school students were college-ready in English Language Arts and 54 percent in Mathematics, according to the TEA's higher education readiness testing program.261
Recent increases in high school graduation requirements and the strengthening of academics throughout public education may improve these percentages in the future. In the meantime, students and institutions must rely primarily on costly noncredit, remedial courses to prepare students for college-level work.
Besides participation and graduation outcomes, Closing the Gaps calls for increasing excellence in higher education.
The Closing the Gaps target for 2010 is for one research institution, either public or private, to be ranked in the top 10 nationally and for two additional universities to rank among the top 30. For 2015, the goal is for two public research institutions to be in the top-ten national rankings for public research institutions, and four in the top 30.262
THECB uses the rankings from U.S. News & World Report, which produces the best-known ranking in this field, as one source to evaluate this measure.263 The publication uses a wide variety of criteria, including acceptance, retention and graduation rates, class size, faculty measures, expenditures per student, peer assessment, alumni giving, student selectivity and other measures.264
For the upcoming 2008 year, U.S. News & World Report ranked UT 13th among public institutions, and Texas A&M University, 23rd.265 UT has steadily improved its ranking, from 17th in 1999; but A&M has fallen from 15th, a place it held from 1999 through 2002.266
For public and private research institutions, THECB employs rankings from Arizona State University's Center for Measuring University Performance.267 The center uses criteria based on factors such as research and development expenditures, including federally sponsored research expenditures; endowments; significant faculty awards; doctorates granted; the number of postdoctoral appointments supported; and median entering student SAT scores (as an indicator of student competitiveness).268
In 2006, according to the Center for Measuring University Performance rankings based on 50 criteria, among public and private institutions, UT tied at 28th nationally, A&M ranked 32nd and Baylor College of Medicine tied at 40th. Among public institutions only, the center ranked UT tied at 13th with the University of Florida and A&M at 16th.269
On the other hand, the plan is on target for meeting national recognition goals for excellence in certain programs, including those of community colleges. In addition, the plan calls for increasing the state's share of federal research and development funding for science and engineering research, a goal that is slightly below target as of 2007.270
The plan's other research goal – to increase overall research funding in real dollars – is on target for meeting its 2015 goal.271 Increased research funding, and particularly an increased share relative to other institutions, is one measure of quality since it demonstrates the degree of confidence that funding sources have in an institution's capability.
State appropriations to higher education, including federal and other funds, totaled $16.9 billion in 2006-07 – 11 percent more than in the previous biennium.272
Higher education received $10.1 billion in state general revenue appropriations for operations support for the 2006-07 biennium, an 8 percent increase from 2004-05. Of this amount, public universities received $4.3 billion; health-related institutions, $2.4 billion; community and technical colleges, $2.1 billion; and other higher education programs, $1.3 billion.273
In fiscal 2006, total revenue for Texas public undergraduate universities amounted to $7.1 billion, excluding funds from the Permanent University Fund and the Higher Education Fund that are used for capital expenditures. Of this total, 36.4 percent came from state appropriations; 28 percent from tuition and fees; 19.3 percent from the institutions' funds; and 16.3 percent from federal funds. The fiscal 2006 general revenue appropriation per full-time equivalent (FTE) student was $6,259, 8.4 percent more than in fiscal 2004. Total revenue per FTE student was $17,185, an 18.2 percent increase since fiscal 2004. The difference was due mostly to higher tuition and fee revenue.274
Community colleges receive funding for their operations primarily from tuition and fees and state appropriations, augmented by local tax revenue; local tax revenue pays for their infrastructure and equipment. State appropriations are based on a dollar amount per "contact" hour – each hour a student spends in class with a professor. The state's technical two-year colleges receive funding primarily from tuition and fees and state appropriations.
Average general revenue funding per contact hour for community colleges declined from $7.47 in 2000-01 to $6.62 in 2006-07 – about 11.4 percent – after reaching a high of $7.71 in 2002-03. Funding will increase to $7 per contact hour for these institutions in 2008-09.275
Education Questions for Further Consideration
- What can Texas do to keep the costs of higher education affordable for all Texans?
- What can Texas do to increase the number of bachelor's and associate's degrees awarded?
- What can Texas do to draw in more research dollars for institutions of higher education?
- How do we prepare non-college bound Texans for careers that will provide economic benefit to them, their families and the state?


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Great place to eat If you go into Fairfax near the "Fairfax Circle" (Where 29 & 50 intersect) there is a restaurant named Artie's. It is great. Good service, good food. It's part of a local group of restaurants called Great American Restaurants and all of them have a very similar menu (Artie's, Coastal Flats, Mike's, and Sweet Water Tavern), but I think Artie's is the best. I would not recommend going to each of these places on different days, though, unless you want to eat the same food over & over again, even though it is good. Prices are about $10-$20/plate. Try the salmon with the creamy potatoes. It's the best salmon I have ever had and the potatoes are great too.
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Make Wall St. Pay for the Catastrophe They Caused: New Bill Would Fine Banks $20,000 for Each Forclosure
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The epidemic of foreclosures that began in 2008 has been devastating America's families, communities and the state economy.
Nowhere is this more true than in California, where one in five U.S. foreclosures has taken place. Since 2008, more than 1.2 million Californians have lost their homes, and the number is expected to exceed 2 million by the end of next year. More than a third of California homeowners with a mortgage already owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth.
As a result, home values in the state are estimated to plummet by $632 billion. That translates into a loss of more than $3.8 billion in property taxes. One foreclosed home in a neighborhood can reduce property values for the rest of the houses in the neighborhood, and a cluster of foreclosed houses compounds the physical, economic, and social devastation.
And just as local governments are starving for revenues, they are asked to deal with the increased costs - estimated at $17.4 billion over four years - caused by the foreclosure mess. These include public safety, maintenance of abandoned and blighted properties, inspections, trash removal, sheriff evictions, unpaid water and sewer charges, and the provision of emergency shelter.
We can't solve California's fiscal disaster without addressing the foreclosure crisis. It doesn't make sense to make severe cuts to state and local budgets only to allow Wall Street banks and their overpaid CEOs to drain billions more from our states. The banks created the housing crisis with toxic lending practices and they need to be part of this solution.
A bill sponsored by Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield (Democrat, Los Angeles) -- the Foreclosure Mitigation Fee (AB 935), which is currently going through legislative hearings - would require banks to pay their share of foreclosure costs. Backed by a broad coalition of consumer, community and labor groups, the bill would impose a $20,000 fine on banks for each foreclosure.
The $12 billion revenue over next two years would go entirely to local communities in order offset the multiple costs borne by our neighborhoods because of foreclosures and shared between public safety, public education, local governments, redevelopment activities and small businesses.
Los Angeles County alone will face an estimated 381,461 foreclosures through 2012, costing local governments $918 million in lost property taxes and $2.8 billion to pay for the problems. Riverside and San Bernardino counties have been particularly hard hit by the foreclosure earthquake. But no county, city, or small town in California has been spared the devastation.
Indeed, the foreclosure tsunami and the housing market crash are the primary causes of the severe budget crisis facing California's municipalities and counties, forcing local officials to slash services and lay off tens of thousands of employees.
But many Californians are asking, why should taxpayers and communities have to pick up the tab, and face such hard times, for a crisis they didn't cause? They - and the families caught in the maelstrom - are the victims of this human-made disaster.
And let's be frank. Wall Street's reckless and predatory lending practices were responsible for the mess we're now in. Bankers pushed homeowners into high-cost loans they couldn't afford. They engaged in deceptive and often illegal activities, like not informing consumers that they qualified for conventional loans, tricking them into more costly and risky subprime mortgages.
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DUBLIN (AP) - Ireland's government announced Monday that DNA testing has confirmed that Polish meat offcuts imported into Ireland and labeled as beef actually contain up to 75 percent horsemeat, a discovery made as Ireland's food-standards scandal forced a second burger manufacturer to shut operations.
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DETROIT (AP) - American consumers ignored tax increases and trudged through winter weather to buy new cars and trucks at an unusually strong pace last month. It was the auto industry's best January since 2008.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) - An explosion at the main headquarters of Mexico's state-owned oil company in the capital killed 14 people and injured 100 on Thursday as it heavily damaged three floors of a building, sending hundreds into the streets and a large plume of smoke over the skyline.
NEW YORK (AP) - Facebook delivered fourth-quarter results above Wall Street's expectations on Wednesday and sought to show that it has finally transformed into a "mobile company."
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators say Pfizer has provided low-quality evidence to support its request to remove a bold-letter warning from its anti-smoking drug Chantix about suicidal behavior.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - First the chefs of a small Italian restaurant got mad at online review site Yelp. Instead of trying to get better reviews, they decided to take a different approach: get terrible ones.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The nation's second-largest chain of rent-to-own furniture and appliance stores has agreed to pay $28.4 million to settle a case in which it allegedly violated California's consumer protection and privacy laws, attorney general Kamala Harris announced Monday.
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PAPHOS IS CLOSED There are major road works along the front in Paphos. From the Annabelle Hotel to the harbour is a no go area. Food/drinks expensive, currency is now Euros.
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