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- 0Nov 18, '11 by k.2012Quote from Malia09I can't really help with the rejection letter...I don't remember seeing anything about it on the other forums, but I could have been so excited about the information that I just forgot I read about it.Hi!! Im applying too!
Im a transfer student from Hawaii so I am a little worried that my transcripts will be misread? I have taken A&P twice at two different colleges, so I really hope that they see that and take the higher score. A vs. C. Plus does anyone know what math they will look at? The highest level, the best grade etc. I have the required math plus higher math, I have a C in basic math but A's in college algebra, trig and Calc. I started college way too young (17) and just messed around, now Im more mature and dedicated. I hope it doesn't bite me in the bum. Anyway, Im pretty excited. Im going to send my application in pretty soon so I don't have to worry about it during the holidays.
I can help with the transcript thing though...sort of. A&P, you've taken it a total of two times, but received a C and an A? No clue on how they'll deal with that because you aren't supposed to be allowed to take a course again that you've received a C or better in. I would go talk to an advisor to see how they'll handle that so you know what to expect. As far as math goes, they'll look at college algebra and higher math classes that you've taken and take the highest grade. So you should be set in the math department! Good luck!!
- 0Nov 19, '11 by brandeekinsThey do send out rejection letters too, in case there is an error (which apparently happens often) or if they offer you an alternate spot.
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you aren't supposed to be allowed to take a course again that you've received a C or better in. [/QUOTE]
Hi k.2012
Do you know where you read about not taking a course over again? In the health science information it just says they will dock your GPA if you take it more than 3 times. I hope I didnt miss something. Do you have a link for that?
- 0Nov 22, '11 by brandeekinsIf you receive a C in a class at HCC you cannot retake that class at HCC, because C is passing. The only thing I found that kinda referred to it in the catalog was this:
For courses taken at accredited institutions, transfer
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I would talk to the advisers to find out which they will look at.
- 0Nov 22, '11 by k.2012Quote from Malia09Hi k.2012
Do you know where you read about not taking a course over again? In the health science information it just says they will dock your GPA if you take it more than 3 times. I hope I didnt miss something. Do you have a link for that?
On page 3 of this document under 'Forgiveness Policy' in the first paragraph it states that a course with a grade of C or better cannot be repeated.
I've attended three colleges in Florida thus far and all of them have had the same policy. I would assume that this policy is uniform in all colleges (I think you said you took those in Hawaii?), but I don't know that for sure. My suggestion would be to talk with an advisor before submitting your application to see if it's going to be a problem. I have only repeated courses that I've withdrawn or failed, so I can't speak from experience. I can only speak from what colleges I've attended have told me.
- 0Nov 22, '11 by k.2012Quote from Malia09Sorry that's all the info I can give on it! Hopefully an advisor helps clear everything up.Great Thanks guys!
Im in touch with the nursing admissions office Glad you found the link k.2012. I have only been in FL for a couple months so the more info the better!
- 0Dec 6, '11 by CalleyI got As in the last prereqs I needed so I will be applying with a 3.52, which I know thats an alternate level gpa but Im proud of myself for working so hard. I wish I could change something to have a higher gpa, but I cant. So I guess Ill start on the application process, Im praying I get accepted or an alternate or just a left over seat IDC ill take it with my gpa!
- 0Dec 14, '11 by leepoffaithI'll be dropping off my application today!! So excited. I transferred in some classes that were on trimesters so I have some odd credit hours, but if I've calculated properly I should have a 3.89 GPA.
As for retaking the class issue previously discussed, any class you retake that you have received a C or better in will not count EVEN for classes that were transferred in from other institutions. This is a Florida Law and it's not just HCC. I came from Wisconsin and almost found this out the hard way. I know of people that took Sociology 20 years ago that can't get rid of a C they got in it back then. Pretty odd if you ask me, but that is Florida Law for you.
Good luck to everyone else submitting their applications and Happy Holidays!!
- 0Dec 30, '11 by brandeekinsI sent my application in the mail on Tuesday (I waited ALL DAY for the mailman on Monday! lol.). Now I wait.


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Port Hits Stride After Years of Work
by John Henry
Posted 8/20/2007 12:00 am
Updated 3 years ago
The Port of Little Rock is finally proving its potential as a transportation hub
Its location at the nexus of one of the most heavily traveled cross-country interstate highway systems, an airport, major rail lines and, of course, the Arkansas River has helped make Little Rock the choice for two major new industries.
After Arkansas experienced a couple of well-publicized losses of "super projects" to neighboring states, the Little Rock Port reeled in two sizable companies.
The 741 acres purchased by Welspun Gujarat Stahl Rohren Ltd. of Mumbai, India, and the 135 acres that Denmark-based LM Glasfiber bought last month had been marketed for a long time.
Those involved in the economic development of the region say they aren't doing anything much different from what they've done before; it's just that the long process of building relationships with site consultants is finally paying off.
"After 10 years' involvement, we're an overnight success," said Mike Maulden, Entergy Arkansas' director of external affairs, head of its Office of Economic Development and chairman of the Little Rock Port Authority board, on which he has served for 10 years.
Jay Chesshir, president and CEO of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, said attracting the companies was the result of a team effort over a period of several years. The city has invested the capital to make the port a viable site.
"Economic development is about relationship-building," Chesshir said. Over time, the site consultants "began to get more comfortable with us," he said. "That was our job.
"We lost some upfront, but we did what we said we would do, and we gained an opportunity for the success we've had."
With the formation of the Metro Little Rock Alliance's targeted economic development marketing program, Cardinal Health Inc. came in, Chesshir said, and "attention was directed to us." Site consultants "now look at Little Rock as a viable place to do business," he said.
The Haley-Beebe Team
If there's one common factor to which all involved in the success at the port point, it is the work of Maria Haley, executive director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, and Gov. Mike Beebe.
"She refuses to lose," Maulden said. "She's very skilled in international relationships."
"Gov. Beebe is involved in the recruitment process early on," Maulden said, "and that has helped. He is very accessible."
Maulden and Chesshir also credit the governor's Quick-Action Closing Fund, which comes from $50 million in the General Improvement Fund and is specifically directed for economic development. The money gives the state the ability to negotiate for work force training, capital investments and other projects instead of having to wait for legislative approval that could be slow and cause a business seeking to relocate to look elsewhere.
Paul Latture, executive director of the Port Authority, likewise credits Haley and her staff at AEDC. But he also acknowledges the work of the port authority's board of directors, the Little Rock chamber and Joey Dean, vice president of economic development for the chamber and executive director of the Metro Little Rock Alliance, along with Entergy's Teamwork Arkansas.
Welspun said it is building its $100 million steel pipe manufacturing facility at Little Rock to cut shipping costs and serve more projects in this part of the world, where about 60 percent of its exports from India were heading anyway.
The plant will employ about 300 initially and produce about 300,000 tons of material annually. A coating facility expects to be online by March 2008, with the pipe-manufacturing unit up and running by September 2008.
Latture said the company bought 741 acres of private property next to the Port Authority land with further expansion plans in mind down the road. The site will be annexed to the city and placed under the governance of the Port Authority.
LM Glasfiber said it will employ 500 in the fall and eventually more than 1,000 at its $150 million plant. The maker of giant fiberglass blades for power-generating wind turbines wants to break ground in September.
LM Glasfiber said it chose the port site for the project because of its easy access to interstate highways, rail lines and the river. The smallest blades the company makes are 123 feet long. The largest blades reach more than 200 feet.
A recent report released by the American Wind Energy Association predicts strong growth in the wind energy industry. AWEA said the United States is on track to add well over 3,000 megawatts to the nation's power-generating capacity in 2007.
This bullish performance by the industry is tempered, however, by supply chain shortages and policy uncertainty. "Wind power developers report that turbine availability is a limiting factor - in other words, there is demand for even more wind energy but companies can't build more projects because there aren't enough new wind turbines to buy," the report said. "And, in turn, there aren't enough manufacturing facilities for turbines and turbine parts in the country because the U.S. government's intermittent policy toward renewables has discouraged companies from investing in manufacturing facilities."
It would seem that LM Glasfiber will hit the market at the right time to grow.
Location, Location, Location
Latture also likes to brag about the location.
"There are simply not many places," he said, "that offer quick access to an interstate highway, is only a mile from an airport, is on the water and has its own switching railroad that connects with two Class 1 railroads."
In addition to being near Interstate 440 and Little Rock National Airport, the port has two terminals, one on the main channel of the river and one at the slackwater harbor, and rail connections to Union Pacific Railroad and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co.
Already the largest port operation in Arkansas, the Little Rock Port will see a major expansion as Welspun and LM Glasfiber add about 1,400 to 1,500 employees to an industrial park area that is home to about 3,000 workers.
In a quick analysis earlier this year, Latture said the capital investment in the land, infrastructure and industry at the port's industrial park area exceeds $500 million.
In addition to the two larger announcements, Boyd Metals of Fort Smith, a full-line metals service center, announced this month that it has bought a 10-acre site at the Little Rock Port where it will...build a 45,000-SF metals distribution facility....
Boyd Metals opened a service center in Little Rock last year at 600 Bond Ave.
"We are pleased with the reception we have received over the last year in the central Arkansas marketplace and excited to show our long-term commitment back to the market with this land purchase," said Mike Rowland, vice president and general manager of the Little Rock operation....
Boyd Metals President Tom Kennon said design and engineering work would begin soon. Boyd Metals was formed in 1991 and, in addition to its Little Rock facility, has operations in Fort Smith, Joplin, Mo., and Oklahoma City.
On the Arkansas River, the Little Rock Port is exceeded only by the Tulsa Port of Catoosa, which focuses on agricultural products and liquids that the Little Rock Port doesn't. Otherwise, Latture said, the two ports would be very close in the amount of tonnage each handles.
The industrial park takes up about 1,600 acres. Much of it is filled. Only 100 acres of unrestricted property are left.
The slackwater harbor area contains 600 acres, 300 acres of it developed, but it is restricted to water transportation users only.
The port handles about 600,000 tons by barge each year, Latture said, and he expects that when Welspun is up and operating, that tonnage will increase by 250,000 to 300,000 tons.
The largest amount of cargo handled by docks at the port terminals is steel and metal products, Latture said. That includes steel, aluminum, steel coils and wire rod coils. The largest single commodity is scrap steel, he said, most of which is going to the Nucor Corp. plant near Blytheville on the Mississippi River. Other major commodities at the docks include cement and waste oil.
Latture is quick to point out the energy and cost efficiencies of barge transportation if time is not a major factor. A barge can hold 1,600 tons of cargo, compared with 160 tons for a railcar and only some 25 tons or so for trucks.
The Arkansas Waterways Commission makes it easier to understand. It says the cost per ton mile for a barge is only 97 cents, compared with $2.53 for rail and $5.35 for trucking.
The port authority's railroad handles 12,000 to 13,000 railcars a year, Latture said. Again, he estimates that once the new plants are up and running, that figure will increase to between 18,000 and 19,000 railcars each year.
He said he's now advertising for bids to upgrade the more than 12 miles of mainline track in the industrial park and double the size of the marshalling yard.
Looking Ahead
Maulden, Chesshir and Latture said some other solid prospects have inquired about locating at the port.
Recent authorization by Congress for a 12-foot channel on the river, Latture said, will allow for 40 percent more tonnage on the same barge. And that, he said, will allow the Little Rock Port to compete on a more even level with the towns along the Mississippi River.
The Port Authority operates on a budget of $1 million annually. It receives no tax money and makes its revenue through the unloading of railcars and barges. Some income also comes from leasing vacant lots to farmers to grow crops.
The switching railroad's staff of five, including four crewmen, makes up more than half of the Port Authority's work force of eight employees.


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On those first Tuesdays when the library opens an hour later for all-staff meeting, we're almost never discussing what you'd think. Literary chat would be fun, but other priorities rule the agenda. Administering an information/access/community center--the modern library model--demands customer service updates, new resource training, community awareness presentations. This week's confab was special, marking our official transition into SRP Mode, best described as a state of high alert with moments of mild panic.Michelle, our director, likens library summer reading programs to the retail world's Christmas--a potentially game-changing season fraught with conventional expectations and opportunities to innovate. New customers are attracted by SRPs, while current users anticipate another rewarding experience. Hence, the flurry of questions: Did we order enough reading rewards for children? How will they know when they've qualified for one? Will the online registration work? What prizes will tempt grownups to complete a reading log? Will they like this year's mad scientist theme?And this issue was tricky: how can everyone enjoy summertime when some define the ideal library visit as calm and thoughtful while others express high spirits in loud tones, sometimes romping around beyond a parent's field of vision? Did we oversell the "second floor is the quiet floor" concept, and by directing phone calls, conversations, and general noisiness downstairs, foster the impression that first floor is "No Holds Barred" territory?Our consensus: it's OK--considerate and responsible, in fact--to remind folks about library manners and the need for constant parental supervision in a highly public venue. I work on the grownup floor and consequently admire the energy (and diplomacy!) required to manage the pleasant chaos resulting from large crowds drawn by summer performers. Still, as part of the team coordinating the adults' SRP, I envy the demographic perks of Youth Services' customer base.Just think: children aren't encumbered by work responsibilities; grownups devote 40 potential reading and library-visiting hours to their jobs. Parents, mindful of the advantages of early literacy and summertime reinforcement, don't merely encourage library visits--they deliver and accompany their offspring!The Adult Services audience, meanwhile, gets sidetracked by pesky non-library activities like the aforementioned employment, volunteer responsibilities, home and lawn maintenance, child care, meal preparation, bringing their young to children's programs... Given our multitasking, responsible demographic, we appreciate each and every completed adult reading log and program attendee. Not that grownups lack youthful tendencies. We observe "kid in the candy store" moments when overwhelmed adults ask for reading suggestions--"just a few, please!". Like the youngster who much prefers the sturdy packing carton to the shiny gift, a mature reader may bypass the new hardcovers and digital resources that we're most excited about, instead choosing a years-old paperback novel. And grownups can put one in one's place almost as deftly as kids do. When a retired patron recently reported her 10-15 books per week average, I calculated my meager 1.5 for the past week (which included a book review deadline, work, houseguest). Answering my regretful "I didn't get through many this week", the customer huffed, "Well, I happen to think that reading is important!"
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Halloween treats abound all over Disney World — but that's not all the food news! We've got menu updates, new snacks, and more in the latest edition of What's New!
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Marketing Your Restaurant At Christmas
Are you a procrastinator? Do you operate by the seat of the pants? A Christmas restaurant marketing idea never came to you? For those who are planning for next year, take heed. For you who are scrambling to get attention, get ready.
If you are a last minute person, then you will only get a piece of the benefit from this because a good marketing campaign plan needs thought, coordination of resources, and people.
Two words: Christmas Lights. Bigger than anyone, Better than anyone. Be amazing. What I have loved about this time of year for the restaurant business is how many of the staff become involved. Get a team and buy the lights, reindeers, Santa's and make the outside of your business shine so special that people will say: "Hey, did you see that magnificent Christmas display at YOUR NAME"?
Once you get your restaurant looking amazing and people are making a special trip to view your business, contact the newspaper. Do a fundraiser. Support a local charity. Recognize your staff.
(The decorations could have been put up before Thanksgiving and taken down at New Year's.)
Before you say... naw, thanks anyway, think about this:
The zoo charges a fee to see the decorations / lights. People are standing in line.
People are conversing about the best Christmas lights on Yelp.
People will use Google, Yahoo and Bing to search for neighbourhood Christmas lights, best Christmas lights, etc. Will your name come up?
Christmas lights can be stored and used year after year.
Planning for next year? Buy the store out when the 75% sale happens the day after Christmas.
You don't have to install the lights yourself. Someone knocked on my door asking if I wanted this service.
The landlords will have more flexibility during this time... it's Christmas.
You can bring joy and smiles to the community each year.
People will be taking photos of YOUR BUSINESS if you create awesomeness!
You can advertise business for free on internet via free classified ads.
Free press release distribution is available online.
If you did not have holiday marketing in your restaurant marketing plan, it is time.
If you have procrastinated and are wondering how to make a big bang, you still can.
If you think: "I don't believe it", then visit the local area where there are Christmas lights this year and watch the number of people who visit. I personally know of dozens of restaurants who could use more traffic, more awareness, more eyeballs, and more people talking about them. Do you need more eyeballs looking your way?
Whether you are ahead of the game and just want to re-think your strategy and turn up the visuals or stay behind with too much to do, tis the season. Otherwise wait until next year!
PS. After you have become the talk of the town with Christmas lights, what is your plan for April 2010? Now is the time to review your restaurant marketing plan and finalize preparations! (Don't forget to buy Christmas lights on 12/26.)
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StavrosOctober 28th, 2010
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TomiamOctober 29th, 2010
Yeah this goes for everything, when ever, where ever. Do something amazing, get an amazing amount of attention. It's kind of like getting a writer to sign their books in your store. Create an event an people shall come.
StephanieOctober 31st, 2010
E-mail lists, people! I signed up for Chili's e-mail list and once a month, I get an e-mail with a coupon for a free appetizer or dessert with purchase of an entree. The markup on food at restaurants is so high they're not losing any money on it and I'm certainly in there often for my free chips and queso dip! So even if a restaurant only offered something once a year - during the holidays - the extra sales would add up quickly.
KimOctober 31st, 2010
Stephanie, that's certainly a no-brainer and I'm surprised more restaurants don't do this. But my uncle, who owns a pub, did something a little different. He actually donated a percentage of all his sales the week of Christmas to a homeless shelter and advertised is extensively beforehand. Not only did his business pickup, but he got local press coverage.
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Futuristic truck concept gamefies long hauls
Semi trucks aren't usually the sort of vehicle you think about when you envision the world of tomorrow. They're boxy and noisy and just plain boring — most of the time. But once in a while a designer comes around and turns something boring on its head. In the world of semi truck design, Ehsan Parandin has done just that.
Parandin has dubbed his concept the Turan, and its radical redesigns begin with a fully intelligent windshield. Information ranging from current weather conditions and fuel consumption to weight allowances and clearance heights on that upcoming overpass. The information is displayed unobtrusively across the massive screen, allowing drivers a clear view of the road.
With a screen like that, you might think that a trucker wouldn't need much else in the way of tech. Need, however, isn't the same as wanting — and you'd be hard pressed to find a trucker who wouldn't appreciate a sweet driver's chair like the one in the Turan. Looking like something across between a Star Trek captain's chair and something out of the Alien movies, this chair does away with the steering wheel altogether, replacing it with tandem steering controls straight out of the air force. There are also another two displays on snaking, adjustable arms, a pair of data-gathering sensors, and even a cup holder (can't miss that one).
The design also includes a park assist system, a lightweight composite trailer and some pretty crazy snake-like aerodynamic styling. Parandin has also included a hybrid diesel engine in his work-up of the Turan, which should help with the cost of those long drives. If we're very lucky, trucks like these will be barreling down the highway in the future.
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text: Psalm 105:1-15 [16-41] 42Numbers 14:10b-241 Corinthians 10:1-13Grants made from OGHS dollars in the first half of 2012, and designated disaster and refugee response accounts totaled more than $1.3 million. The grants were in response to crises in the United States, Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and Europe, and Southern Asia. Whether $530,000 to earthquake relief in Haiti, $70,000 in drought and famine relief in Ethiopia, $100,000 in long term recovery from Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi – all of these grants allow the United Church of Christ and its members to bring hope and assurance to those whose lives have been devastated by disaster. Food, clean water, and temporary shelter are all crucial to our physical well-being. But just as crucial in the recovery process is the knowledge that people next door and across the oceans are willing to give their time, talent and treasure to help.


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"Decadence…degeneracy…debt…frauds…numbskulls," our friend Michel was probably speaking for thousands of dear, long-suffering readers.
"Don't you ever have anything positive or upbeat to say?" asked Michel. He is a French intellectual, but that doesn't mean he can't tie his shoelaces. He still has a useful thought from time to time.
So, yes, dear reader, we do. We note that even a man who is half-dead is half-alive, and the grass grows greenest around the manure pile. Yes, Western civilization is in decline. But no, it doesn't mean we can't have a good time.
Do you remember our dictum: "Americans spend money they don't have on things they don't need and would probably be better off without?" We had in mind electronic gadgets, particularly big-screen TVs, and fancy automobiles. But colleague Lila Rajiva reminds us that it is not the gadgets that do the financial damage, it is the big-ticket items — expenses that are supposed to be beyond consumers' control: housing, health care, education, transportation, energy and taxes.
"Home ownership getting tough for the working class," signals a CNN/Money headline. "Atlanta gas prices + 40 cents in a month," adds the local paper. "One quarter of Boston's homeowners stretched," says the Christian Science Monitor. Well, here is today's cheerful news: even the big-ticket items can be greatly reduced — with no real loss in human happiness.
Meanwhile, the papers are all a-twitter with comments on Ben Bernanke's speech to the Economics Club in New York. The new Fed chairman seems to have picked up his predecessor's speaking skills; when he stopped talking the essential questions remained unanswered. Will he raise the benchmark rate? Or will he not?
The stakes are high. America is a country that lives on debt; we pay $3 billion in interest charges every day. Most families have no cushion of savings — nor do they have a "labor cushion." The typical woman works as well as her husband. When times get tough, she cannot go "back" to work; she's already working full time. So, when interest rates rise, something will have to go.
So, all eyes are on the Bank of Ben Bernanke. Our guess is that Bernanke believes what he says: that the economy is solid, and that only an old coot like Warren Buffett would have serious reservations about it. He also said he was not worried about an inverted yield curve. That too, he said, is an old-fashioned indicator not worth thinking about. Our guess is that he will confidently raise rates another quarter point and then, when he sees the economy crumbling, cut like mad.
Goldman Sachs estimates the amount taken out in home refinancings last year was $834 billion. Of that, 68% was used for discretionary spending — amounting to about $1 trillion over the last two years. Even with all this spending, according to economist Walter J. Williams, the economy shrank. What will happen when interest rates go up and the "refis" stop? You know what we think, dear reader, but we will tell you anyway. We think today's low rates are based on a delusion. We think that history has come to a dead stop, that nothing bad will happen, and therefore, you don't need any protection from it — either in the form of savings, or in the form of higher, just-in-case yields.
"The end of history…the beginning of nonsense," said Maggie Thatcher, taking the words out of our mouths.
• Hmmmn. Robert Shiller, he of "Irrational Exuberance" fame, is backing a way to trade options on the housing market.
• Yes, dear reader, you can save money — big money. You can live better, even as the U.S. Empire declines. The Exodus of power and money continues; the Experimental dollar collapses. The Economy turns down and the cost of Energy turns up.
Who really is better off for giving up a third of his income to taxes?
Anyone who reads the paper knows the money is wasted. The taxpayer might just as well waste it himself, but taxes are a special case. The world improvers and bullyboys will send you to the slammer if you don't pony up your share. For every other big-ticket item, though, you can evade the cost without ending up in the company of stick-up men and drug dealers.
Take education, for example. One of our children has already graduated from college. Three are still in college. We have two more who will probably go to college in the next few years. Despite our familiarity with them, we are still shocked every time we get a tuition bill. One college just announced a hefty increase for next year. Another merely raises the rates without notice.
We wondered how other parents managed.
"Dad," Jules explained to the chump he calls his father, "All the other kids have some form of scholarship or financial aid. Even if their families have a lot of money, they seem to all get something. We're the only ones paying the full rate."
Even with the loans and hustles, college is a crushing expense for many families. And what do they get for it? Unless the kid is in the sciences, applied or abstract, the answer is probably nothing. We looked around us. Of all the people we know, who would have been worse off if he had not gone to college? What did any of these people learn that was actually useful or uplifting? We can't think of a single person…or a single thing. What was learned that wouldn't have been learned better on the job? Or from reading books? Or from keeping your eyes open?
We don't know. In our own career, we can't think of anything we learned in school, after the 6th grade, that we couldn't have learned on our own. Besides, most of it subsequently proved to be incorrect, misleading or irrelevant. Remember the line from the popular song: "When I think of all the things I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can even think at all." We cringe when we think of all our classes in government, economics, politics, sociology and history; it was as if they were all taught by Thomas L. Friedman, giving us an idealized, child's notion of how things work. Even then, we thought there was something fishy about them, but imagine if we had stopped thinking at age 18. We'd be buying the Dow at 11,000…and voting for Hilary Clinton! By our estimate, at least half of the spending on what is called "education" could be tossed out the window with no loss in real knowledge or brainpower.
And what about housing? People pay a lot more for housing than they used to, largely because they buy a lot more house. But, who was ever really made happier by a bigger house? Average house sizes have doubled since the 1950s. Almost everyone now has a formal dining room he doesn't use, and lonely extra bedrooms for non-existent guests.
We are not ones to cast stones, for we have our own enormous pile of glass in France. Most of our rooms are seldom used. In fact, there are bedrooms that haven't been entered for years. For all we know, the desiccated body of the last weekend guest is still there, lying in bed and waiting for a wake-up call. The main living room is used as a passageway; it might as well not be there. The family is afraid to go up in the attic; we hear strange sounds at night. We wonder what is going on up there. A tribe of gypsies could live up there; we would never know. All we get from this space is the expense of heating it to keep the pipes from bursting, and keeping it up.
Do you really need to spend a lot of money on a house? Far away and long, long ago — long enough for the statue of limitations to have run out — we decided to build an experimental house with our own two hands. We were young, strong, and sure we had a better idea than any that had come along in thousands of years of vernacular architecture.
The state of West Virginia was less sure; neither its building codes nor its zoning regulations would permit it. So, we sited the place in the woods where no one would see it, and we built it anyway. We tied rebar and wire mesh together to make a cage. Then we sprayed it with gunite, and covered the inside with plaster. Dirt was heaped up around, so that the place almost disappeared completely, but leaving open a large section facing the south. This was covered with glass, sloping down to the ground. The total cost: less than $20,000.
"Interesting…" was Elizabeth's judgment on the greatest achievement of her husband's life. But she didn't want to live there. It did not accord with her idea of what a house should be, though your author was perfectly delighted with it. It was like no house he had ever seen. One great feature was that it needed almost no heat since the glass wall acted as a heat absorber, which was protected in summer by leafy, overhanging tree limbs.
Maria noticed the drawbacks: "Eeewww…there are bugs in it." And so, after a brief spell, the family abandoned the experiment and returned to more conventional quarters. The house is still there; it needs no maintenance, no heat and no attention. The last we heard it had been rented to a man who has been happy there for many years.
Bill Bonner [send him mail] is the author, with Addison Wiggin, of Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving the Soft Depression of The 21st Century and Empire of Debt: The Rise Of An Epic Financial Crisis.