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Selections for April 2008
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen (2007)
On the surface, Claire and her sister Sydney are as different as chalk and cheese, and just about as close as that description implies. After a peripatetic first six years with her free-spirited mother, Claire has happily spent the rest of her 34 years at home in Bascom, North Carolina, in the same house that the Waverley family has occupied for many generations. She lives alone and works as a caterer, specializing in using the edible (and magical) flowers that grow in her garden. But when her younger sister Sydney unexpectedly returns to Bascom with her daughter Bay in tow, the sisters must gradually learn to trust and value one another, despite their differences. Of course, it doesn't hurt that true love comes along for both Claire and Sydney, or that the apple tree in the garden decides to give them a hand in finding happiness in their lives. In Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen has written a light and heart-warming romance that's sweet but not cloying, and thoroughly satisfying: in short, a fantasy that just could be real.
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (2008)
Publishing being the business that it is, it is often the case that one good (selling) book begets another (of the same type). It should come as no surprise, then, that following the success of the best-selling Freakonomics, readers have been deluged with books (some good, some not so good) on various economic topics. Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions definitely fits into the "good" category. One of the bedrock principles of classical economics (known as "the dismal science") is that people can be treated as rational decision makers. Ariely, who works in the field of behavioral economics, looks at how we make the decisions that we do, and how little sense those decisions often make. One of the real life examples he includes is why putting expensive items on the menu, even if they're only infrequently ordered, makes money for restaurants - it's been shown that many people resist ordering the most expensive item on the menu, but don't hesitate to order the next most expensive. (I caught myself doing exactly that recently.) Other areas he discusses are how and why we make predictable (but not necessarily rational) decisions when we're choosing from among three similar items; why we tend to prefer more expensive brand name medications to their generic (and cheaper) counterparts; and why paying kids to perform better in school (or to participate in household chores) is actually often counterproductive. Ariely offers these (and many other) thought-provoking arguments and examples (all backed up with scientifically credible surveys and experiments), and presents them in a chatty yet informed manner.
Little America by Henry Bromell (2002)
Focused on the diplomatic community of a small Middle Eastern country in the 1950s, at the height of the Cold War, Henry Bromell's novel, Little America, is the story of a son's search for the truth about his father. History professor Terry Hooper wants to find out exactly what happened all those years ago in Kurash, where his father was CIA station chief. Congressional hearings have recently revealed that the CIA not only aided and advised the young King of Kurash, but also supplied him with large amounts of cash. What was the money for? What, exactly, was his father's role in the events that took place in Kurash at the time? Who is telling the truth? How important is it that some secrets not be revealed? Bromell cuts back and forth between the present, in Boston, and the past, in Kurash, using both fictional and historical characters to good effect. (There are some wonderful scenes with the Dulles brothers, Allen and John Foster, who between them would have ever-so-great influence on American politics in the decades between World War II and the end of the Cold War.) This is a terrific airplane read - it's stylish and intelligent, and absorbing enough that you might even wish that your plane ride were just a bit longer, so that you can finish the book before you land.
The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Nineteenth-Century America by Nigel Cliff (2007)
Just when you think that everything that could ever be said about Shakespeare and his influence has been said, a book like Nigel Cliff's The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Nineteenth Century America is published, demonstrating just how wrong that thinking is. Cliff begins by focusing on the intersecting lives of two competing Shakespearean actors. One, Edwin Forrest, was an American who appealed to the working classes; the other, William Charles Macready, was an Englishman who was a favorite of upper-class intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic. The book opens in 1949, when a huge melee broke out at Astor Place in Manhattan between followers of the two, which left an impressive number of participants dead and injured. It then looks back to 1809 and yet another riot, this one at a performance of Macbeth in London - I always knew that Shakespeare incited passionate responses, but riots? - and looks forward to the Bard's popularity on the American frontier later in the century. (This last section ties in nicely with Interred With Their Bones, Jennifer Lee Carrell's impressive debut novel that I recommended in January's Pearl's Picks.) Cliff's book offers both fans of Shakespeare and those interested in 19th-century social history a well-researched, nicely written, and extremely readable book (although I must say that I spent a lot of time looking up words with which I was unfamiliar, so it was a good vocabulary-learning experience as well).
The Konkans by Tony d'Souza (2008)
I'm a firm believer that you learn something from every book you read, be it fiction or nonfiction, whether it's a bit of history of which you were unaware, or a deeper understanding of human behavior. I certainly learned something from The Konkans, Tony d'Souza's second novel, another of the now large number of novels about immigrants becoming hyphenated Americans. The events are seen through the eyes of Francisco D'Sai, beginning when he is a young child. Francisco's father is a Konkan (learning of, and about, Konkan culture is one of the main things I gained from reading this novel), who grew up in Goa, on the western coast of India. The Konkans were originally Hindus who were forcibly converted to Catholicism by Portuguese missionaries in the 16th century. (The story of this forced conversion is told to Francisco by his uncle, Sam, who is - justifiably - bitter about it, and who effectively (and affectingly), communicates the taste of this bitterness to Francisco and to the reader. Francisco's parents' marriage had a profound conflict built into it from the beginning - his American mother, in India as part of the Peace Corps, adored the country and wanted to remain there, and his Indian father loved the opportunities to be had in America, and needed an American wife in order to get the precious green card required to take advantage of those opportunities. Growing up in Chicago in the 1970s, Francisco is aware of the tension between his parents, as his father strives for success in his corporate job, and all that success brings with it - fancier cars, bigger houses, a coveted membership in an exclusive country club - while his mother yearns for the simple life of rural India. When his father's two younger brothers come to live with the family, the differences between the two ways of life are thrown into even sharper relief. This poignant novel will remind readers of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, but it offers its own particular insight into the immigrant experience.
The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places edited by Klara Glowczewska (2007)
Armchair travelers will have a great time exploring the world with this selection of essays from Condé Nast Traveler, entitled The Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places, compiled by the magazine's editor-in-chief Klara Glowczewska, who also wrote the introduction. There are 21 essays, all of which appeared over the last 20 years (the magazine began publishing in 1987). The contributors (who are not allowed to accept free or discounted travel from airlines, hotels, or restaurants) include a wide variety of writers, among them Russell Banks (on the Everglades), Simon Winchester (on a volcano in the Philippines), art critic Robert Hughes on the pre-Romans who lived on the west coast of Italy, Irish novelist Edna O'Brien on Jane Austen's Bath, Francine Prose on Prague, consummate traveler Pico Iyer on Iceland, which he calls "the loneliest place on earth," and a dozen others. One of my favorite essays was an account of a safari in Tanzania taken by journalist Philip Gourevitch and his wife in 2005, wherein you'll meet, albeit briefly, a lioness known as Alice Pacino. Another was about gardens in Tokyo, by novelist Nicole Krauss. "Quick, call the travel agent," I found myself saying frequently to my husband as I read these essays. "Let's go here"¦ Or no, here. Or there"¦" The choices seemed endless and the places described endlessly interesting.
The Known World by Edward Jones (2003)
Edward P. Jones's stunning Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Known World, is as much a tapestry as it is a novel; it's a work in which every thread, color, and texture has been chosen with care. The result is a story that is deeply felt, painfully beautiful, and richly described. It takes place in the antebellum South, and at its heart are several generations of a family of black plantation owners, their slaves, and the people whose lives intersect theirs (for better or worse): freed blacks, white slave owners, patrolling deputies and the law enforcement officials of a fictional town in Manchester County, Virginia. Many readers will be surprised (as I was) to learn of the existence of freed black people who owned slaves; Jones' account compassionately and unsparingly details the harsh contradictions of that reality, giving us both the outer zeitgeist of the times and the inner, private conflicts of the people living in it. The Known World has justly received a panoply of literary awards and drawn accolades from just about everyone, from the New York Times to the National Book Critics Circle to a friend of my younger daughter (who, upon taking it with her on an Italian vacation, saw nothing of Tuscany, opting instead to stay in the hotel, reading and crying, for the entire trip). Even so, it took me more than several chapters before I was able to really let myself sink into the slow, careful weave of Jones' epic. Once I did, the quiet spell of the writing took over and held me completely, releasing me at the end with a certainty that I had truly experienced, as one character puts it, the "silent and songful" nature of human existence.
Gateway by Frederik Pohl (2004)
Gateway, by Frederik Pohl, has been one of my favorite science fiction novels for 30 years, ever since I first read it in 1978, and it's also one of the few books that have won both the Hugo and the Nebula, two of the top awards given by the SF community. Quite simply, it's a grand read. Robinette Broadhead relates the story of his life on (and off) the asteroid Gateway to his psychiatrist, a robot whom he's nicknamed Sigfrid von Shrink. (Even though he's fictional, I've often thought that the AI - artificial intelligence - Sigfrid sets the gold standard for psychotherapists.) When Broadhead wins a lottery in his native Wyoming, he uses his winnings to get a seat on the first space ship that's heading for Gateway, in order to make his fortune prospecting. Now run by a huge multinational corporation, Gateway appears to have once been the home of an alien race whom the humans call Heechees. (What they called themselves is anyone's guess.) These aliens quite clearly left Gateway millennia before the humans arrived, but they left behind a large number of working spacecraft, as well as other artifacts, that continue to puzzle human scientists, who would love to discover their original function and/or use. Any prospector who comes to Gateway can choose to go back out into space in any of the remaining spacecraft. The only catch is that each one is preprogrammed, and no one can figure out what its intended destination is, how long the trip will take, or how to change destinations once it's underway. When you're in a Heechee craft, you're forced to put your faith in Heechee plans and know-how. And what's wise for a Heechee is not necessarily wise for a human. These unpredictable journeys occasionally lead to fame and fortune for the risk-taking prospectors, but more often end in tragedy. What happens to Broadhead turns out to be a mix of fame, fortune, and tragedy, all of which involve Klara, a fellow prospector and the great love of his life - hence the necessity for his visits to Sigfrid, many years after the events he's describing. I think what keeps me rereading this novel is not the characters, well-drawn and interesting as they are, or the story, but rather wondering, down through all the years since I first discovered Gateway, if I would ever have had the nerve to take one of those Heechee spacecraft out into unknown, uncharted, and oh-so-dangerous territory. (Probably not.)
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone (2000)
Although you'll find Difficult Conversations: How To Discuss What Matters Most, by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen, on the self-help shelves in most bookstores, the library will probably have it cataloged more accurately in the "interpersonal relationships" section. Refreshingly plain spoken, the book was researched and written by the deputy director and two affiliates of the Harvard Negotiation Project, at Harvard Law School, which defines its mission as "to improve the theory, teaching, and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution, so that people can deal more constructively with conflicts ranging from the interpersonal to the international." One of the reasons I liked it so much is that the authors so clearly respect the intelligence of their readers. At the core of Difficult Conversations is a thorough and coherent analysis of the ways and whys we talk to each other when the stakes are high and our defenses are up. Using the information gained from a 15-year study, the authors' insights are humane, incisive, and wonderfully useful for those of us interested in both understanding and changing habitual responses. Conversation, in the authors' view, is as fascinating and complex as the people who engage in it, and getting better at the tough talks we find ourselves in so often is something that can benefit us all. One of my favorite parts of the book addresses our tendency to think that we need to stay rational and keep the messy feelings out of a difficult conversation with our significant other, our children, our co-workers, and our friends. "The problem with this reasoning," the authors point out, "is that it fails to take account of one simple fact: difficult conversations do not just involve feelings, they are at their very core about feelings. Feelings are not some noisy byproduct of engaging in difficult talk, they are an integral part of the conflict. Engaging in a difficult conversation without talking about feelings is like staging an opera without the music. You'll get the plot but miss the point."
Title available via inter-library loanAt Large and At Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman (2007)
More than half a century ago, the 814 section of the library shelves was a bustling place, with many books being published and many being checked out and read. Nowadays, there's not a lot of action going on in this part of the library. After reading Anne Fadiman's At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays, a delightful follow-up to her earlier collection, Ex Libris, we, along with Fadiman herself, can only bemoan that fact. Fadiman explains the different kinds of essays this way: the familiar essay is one that is seemingly addressed to a single reader, written in a conversational style. Unlike both the critical essay ("more brain than heart") and the personal essay ("more heart than brain"), the familiar essay has both heart and brain, in equal measures. The topics of Fadiman's essays range widely, from her admiration for Charles Lamb (who wrote hundreds of personal essays himself), moving houses, ice cream ("My favorite flavors are all variations of chocolate, vanilla, coffee, and nuts, none of which are good for you. I do not like fruit flavors. They are insufficiently redolent of sin."), butterfly collecting, and the Culture Wars, which she describes as "that peculiar development of the last two decades or so that takes culture--a multidimensional thing if there ever was one--and attempts to compress it to a skinny line running from left to right." She says, "I have never seen cultural politics enlarge a work of literature, only diminish it." (Much food for thought there.) The essays are marked, as I hope you can see by this review, by an enviable sense of humor, a passionate engagement with the world, and an engaging writing style.
Title available via inter-library loanNow You See It: Stories From Cokesville PA by Bathsheba Monk (2007)
Bathsheba Monk's always smart, sometimes humorous, and frequently affecting Now You See It: Stories From Cokesville, PA, harks back to the form of Sherwood Anderson's classic, Winesburg, Ohio--a collection of interlocking short stories primarily set in and around one particular small town, in this case the coal-mining, steel-making, rust belt town of the title. The earliest story takes place in 1949, while several are set in the early 1990s. Because the stories are not arranged chronologically and do not follow the life of any one particular character, we get multiple perspectives on the residents of Cokesville, as we encounter them through their own eyes, those of an omniscient narrator, and via the words of their friends, enemies, and neighbors. Although most of the characters show up more than once (if only in a line in another tale), there are several stories about the (possibly autobiographical) Annie Kusiak, whose ambition as a child and adolescent is to be a writer. Here's how Annie describes the town she tries again and again to leave: "Seventeen church spires probe into the brown atmosphere of the downtown--looking for God, but finding soot, which rains like manna on the southside row houses. An inch of soot on the windowsill means a regular paycheck. Two inches means a fat one." Whether Monk is describing Annie's experiences both in and out of Cokesville, those of her high school friend Theresa Gojuk (known as Tess Randall in Hollywood, where she went to find fame and fortune), the experiences of the boys from Cokesville who went off to fight in Vietnam, Annie's Babba (whose first husband, she tells her granddaughter, was a dancing bear), Mrs. Szilborski, who hears the voice of God telling her to convert to Judaism, or the men for whom the loss of a job in the mines takes away their manhood and their reason to live, Monk brings them all vividly to life for us.
Title available via inter-library loanWash This Blood Clean From My Hand by Fred Vargas (2007)
In my seemingly never-ending search for engrossing mysteries, I was delighted to discover Fred Vargas' Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand. (Although two other titles by the French author are translated into English and available in the U.S., this is the first one I've read.) The job of tracking down murderers gets personal for Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg of the French National Police when a serial killer, long thought to be dead, seems to have risen from the grave and resumed his fiendishly clever murders. The Commissaire's connection with the killer known as "the Trident" (because of the method of his murders--use your imagination), began when, as a teen, Adamsberg's own brother was (falsely?) convicted of killing his young girlfriend, a crime Adamsberg always believed was committed by the Trident. In the course of his investigations (which have to remain secret from his superiors and most of his co-workers, since only Adamsberg is convinced of the return of his old nemesis), the Commissaire and members of his squad travel to Quebec for some training in CSI techniques, which come in handy at a crucial moment in the story. An engaging hero, a smooth translation, and a creative plot all add up to one of the best new mysteries from across the Atlantic that I've found in ages.


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Recovery in Action: "Energy Squads" in the Twin Cities
Posted byon December 23, 2009 at 12:26 PM ESTBefore we get into the national round-up, we wanted to highlight one particularly action-packed story out of Minnesota. The headline from the Star-Tribune is 'Energy squads' find and stop waste":
As the biggest storm of the season so far descends on the Twin Cities, some lucky homeowners are getting expert help battening down the hatches and lowering their utility bills. The bonus? It's costing them peanuts.
The Center for Energy and the Environment (CEE) in Minneapolis and Neighborhood Energy Connection (NEC) in St. Paul, both nonprofits dedicated to energy efficiency, began pilot programs in the fall in select neighborhoods. Their crews replace light bulbs, wrap fiberglass blankets around water heaters and weatherstrip doors. All the homeowners receiving these customized services had to do was attend a free workshop, then pay $30. Besides the installed products, they get utility-bill savings averaging $127 a year.
Xcel Energy Inc. and CenterPoint Energy pay both programs' labor costs as part of their efforts to meet state-mandated conservation goals. But in January the two utilities will begin offering Home Energy Squad, their own joint program, to other customers in the seven-county metro area. It will be a limited version of the neighborhood-focused visits offered by NEC and
CEE, and will expand over the next three years. You must be a customer of Xcel electric and either Xcel gas or CenterPoint gas to be eligible. This is the first time the utilities have collaborated on such a broad scale, said Todd Berreman, who oversees CenterPoint's conservation programs.
And what allowed CEE and NEC to expand expontially? You got it, the Recovery Act. Who else has been reaping the benefits of the Recovery Act? Let's go with alphabetical order so as not to offend anybody:
Learn more about Economy, Energy and EnvironmentRecovery in Action: Powering a Greener Economy
Posted byon December 18, 2009 at 1:17 PM ESTWhile President Obama and key members of his Administration work to address global climate change issues in Copenhagen, here at home the Recovery Act is funding a wide array of projects to increase energy efficiency, develop new clean energy technologies, and train workers for the green jobs of the future. The President recently spoke about how the Recovery Act is helping retrofit existing homes and businesses to take advantage of new energy-saving technologies, and news outlets and officials across the country are reporting on new Recovery Act-funded clean energy projects in their communities. A sample of these stories are linked below, detailing new projects in Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Tennessee and Washington:
Georgia, Fox 5 Atlanta, 12/18/09
Solar Energy Projects Will Receive Funding Through Georgia's ARRA-Supported Clean Energy Property Rebate Program: "State officials say solar energy projects are receiving $4.5 million through Georgia's Clean Energy Property Rebate Program. A bill aproved by the Georgia Legislature this year created a commercial clean energy rebate program for solar, wind, energy efficiency and geothermal heat pump projects, with funding contingent on the availability of federal stimulus money. Georgia Environmental Facilities Authority executive director Phil Foil says his agency received $82.5 million in stimulus funds for the state energy program and obligated $4.5 million for clean energy rebates."
Iowa, Office of Senator Tom Harkin, 12/17/09
Senator Harkin Announced More Than $45,000 In Recovery Act Funding For Energy Efficiency And Conservation Block Grants: "Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) announced today that Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa will receive a total of $46,600 in Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants (EECBG) from the Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the Recovery Act)... Specifically, this funding will be used for: energy audits and building retrofits in the residential and commercial sector, the development and implementation of advanced building codes and inspections and the creation of financial incentive programs for energy efficiency improvements."
Colorado, Telluride Watch, 12/17/09
The City Of Ouray Was Awarded A Stimulus-Funded Grant To Install A 20 Kilowatt Micro-Hydro Generating Unit; The System Is Expected To Save The City Approximately $12,000 In Annual Electricity Expenditures: "The City of Ouray has been awarded a $30,000 grant from the Colorado Governors Energy Office to install a 20 kilowatt micro-hydro generating unit to be located at the Ouray Hot Springs Pool... The electrical output from the system will be net-metered to offset the electricity use of the pool complex, saving the city approximately $12,000 in annual electricity expenditures. The powerhouse for the project will be constructed by a shop class from Ouray High School. Once completed, the project will provide an added tourist attraction to visitors to Ouray Hot Springs"
Tennessee, Nashville Business Journal, 12/16/09
Tennessee Career Center Will Use Stimulus Funding To Train Displaced Workers In Business Information Technology, Solar Panel Installation/Welding, Practical Nursing And Physical Therapy: "Displaced workers from General Motors' Spring Hill facility and the plant's associated suppliers may benefit in $1 million worth of new grants from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development announced Wednesday... Training will be available in business information technology, solar panel installation/welding, practical nursing and physical therapy, among other areas. Training providers include the Tennessee Technology Center at Hohenwald, the Tennessee Technology Center at Pulaski and Columbia State Community College."
Washington, Gov. Chris Gregoire's Office, 12/17/09
Stimulus Will Fund Projects To Build Or Enhance Clean Water Infrastructure In Washington State, Create Nearly 1,280 Construction Jobs: "Gov. Chris Gregoire and the Washington Department of Ecology have approved the last four projects to share part of $66 million in Recovery Act funding to build or enhance clean water infrastructure. They will share $9 million and provide nearly 80 short-term construction jobs. They bring to 17 the state's total of clean water projects funded through the Recovery Act. Together, they are estimated to create 1,280 construction jobs and retain 21 jobs in the state…'This is an incredibly fast time frame for communities to get contracts bid and signed in the next two months, and I thank everyone for pitching in to move this along,' Gregoire said. 'The hard work of our communities will lead to job creation, economic recovery and environmental protection…Clark County's Upper Whipple Creek habitat protection and runoff control project, which will receive $850,000 to protect five acres of critical wetland habitat. The project will reduce flooding and protect downstream reaches of the creek from runoff erosion…Cowlitz County's failing sewer system in Ryderwood, which will receive $2.9 million to replace defective sewer mainlines and pipes. The project will rehabilitate or replace 28 sewer manholes…Rock Island wastewater treatment facility in Douglas County, which will receive $3.4 million to help construct a new wastewater collection system that will serve approximately 270 residents. The subsidy is a forgivable-principal loan. The city has applied for additional low-interest loan funding from the Clean Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund."
Learning from the Growth of the Internet -- the New Broadband Grants
Posted byon December 17, 2009 at 12:06 PM ESTToday, Vice President Biden is in Georgia to kick off over $2 billion in Recovery Act grants and loans to bring broadband to communities that currently have little or no access to the technology, all rolled out over the next 75 days. The initial $182 million investment announced today is for eighteen broadband projects benefiting seventeen states, and has already been matched by over $46 million in private capital.
We in the National Economic Council are releasing a new report (pdf) called "Recovery Act Investments in Broadband: Leveraging Federal Dollars to Create Jobs and Connect America." The report explains the Administration's strategy for using stimulus dollars wisely to get the biggest return on investment, in terms of jobs and exciting new opportunities for Americans.
An intriguing part of the report shows how the Recovery Act now will do for broadband what federal efforts did for the Internet in the 1980s and 1990s. Here are three pictures of the Internet over time, from 1988 to 2007. The thing to notice is that the federal government invested first in the backbone of the Internet. Next, it helped fund regional networks to extend the Internet's reach. With the backbone and the middle piece in place, private investment took off, leading to the Internet connections of the present day.
That's the pattern we are following for the high-speed broadband funded in the Recovery Act. A big focus of the new awards is on the "middle mile"—the infrastructure that connects the Internet backbone to communities across the nation. Our grants help build middle-mile infrastructure to underserved communities. We make it easy to connect "anchor institutions" such as schools, libraries, and medical centers. The middle mile investments, like the regional networks that filled in the Internet, set the stage for private investors to finish the job, with the so-called "last-mile" connections to homes and businesses.
The broadband grants in the Recovery Act will total over $2 billion in the next 75 days, and over $7 billion within the next year. There are many stories to tell about how these broadband grants will spur private investment and provide opportunities in jobs, education, health care, new businesses, and other realms. To learn more, read our new report, and read the Vice President's speech.
Peter Swire is Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy
Learn more about Economy, TechnologyThe President on Retrofitting Buildings: "Here's What's Sexy About It: Saving Money"
Posted byon December 15, 2009 at 3:20 PM ESTYesterday the Vice President sent a memo (pdf) to the President demonstrating how the new foundation for a clean energy economy has been laid this year. The memo is thorough and solid - take a look to get a shapshot of how the future will unfold as a result of the investments in the Recovery Act and the President's budget.
Today the President honed in on one element of that emerging clean energy job market, an element he announced a renewed focus upon during last week's speech at Brookings – retrofitting homes. Speaking at a Home Depot, he described the focus as one of several "strategic surgical steps," explaining why this area of the economy is so well-fitted for an immediate boost that will help the economy as a whole turn around:
In our nation's buildings -- our homes and our office consume almost 40 percent of the energy we use and contribute almost 40 percent of the carbon pollution that we produce and everybody is talking about right now in Copenhagen. Homes built in the first half of the last century can use about 50 percent more energy than homes that are built today. And because most of our homes and office aren't energy-efficient, much of that energy just goes to waste, while costing our families and businesses money they can't afford to throw away.
The simple act of retrofitting these buildings to make them more energy-efficient -- installing new windows and doors, insulation, roofing, sealing leaks, modernizing heating and cooling equipment -- is one of the fastest, easiest and cheapest things we can do to put Americans back to work while saving families money and reducing harmful emissions.
As a result of a variety of investments made under the Recovery Act, including state and local energy grants, we're on pace to upgrade the homes of half a million Americans by this time next year -- half a million Americans: boosting the economy, saving money and energy, creating clean energy jobs that can't be outsourced. But this is an area that has huge potential to grow. That's why I'm calling on Congress to provide new temporary incentives for Americans to make energy-efficiency retrofit investments in their homes. And we want them to do it soon.
I know the idea may not be very glamorous -- although I get really excited about it. We were at the roundtable and somebody said insulation is not sexy. I disagree. (Laughter.) Frank, don't you think installation is sexy stuff? (Applause.) Here's what's sexy about it: saving money. Think about it this way: If you haven't upgraded your home yet, it's not just heat or cool air that's escaping -- it's energy and money that you are wasting. If you saw $20 bills just sort of floating through the window up into the atmosphere, you'd try to figure out how you were going to keep that. But that's exactly what's happening because of the lack of efficiency in our buildings.
So what we want to do is create incentives that stimulate consumer spending, because folks buy materials from home improvement stores like this one, which then buys them from manufacturers. It spurs hiring because local contractors and construction workers do the installation. It saves consumers money -- perhaps hundreds of dollars off their utility bills each year -- and it reduces our energy consumption in the process.
Get more on who the President spoke with before his remarks -- people representing every link in the chain for this sector -- in the White House background release.
Learn more about Economy, Energy and EnvironmentWall Street Journal Debunks Wall Street Journal on Recovery Act
Posted byon December 1, 2009 at 2:55 PM ESTThere's a new report out from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on the economic impact of the Recovery Act. I'll get to the findings in a second, but somebody over at the Wall St. Journal's editorial page has a whole lot of explaining to do.
Here what CBO found:
Between its inception in February of this year and the end of September, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has:
- Saved or Created up to 1.6 Million Jobs (midpoint estimate: 1.1 million)
- Added up to 3.2% to the Growth of Real GDP (midpoint estimate: 2.2%)
- Reduced the Unemployment Rate by as Much as 0.9 Percentage Points (midpoint estimate: 0.6 ppt)
Now, these numbers may look familiar to you... they're about what we and other analysts have been citing all along (e.g., see Tables seven and eight in this CEA report).
On the other hand, if you read the Wall St. Journal, these numbers will surprise you. Or, to be more precise, if you read the editorial page, you'll be in the dark. If you read the front page in today's WSJ, you'll learn the facts about the CBO report noted above in the context of an article that documents the importance of stimulus projects to construction workers. In fact, the article worries about jobs cuts once the stimulus fades.
So, how does this square with lines like these from Journal editorials?
"No matter how hard or imaginatively the administration spins, the reality is that the stimulus has been the economic bust that critics predicted it would be." –November 19, 2009
"…the largest obstacle to turning this recovery into a durable expansion is now the very 'stimulus' programs that were sold as a way to ensure recovery." –October 30, 2009
"We aren't getting much bang for our $787 billion stimulus bucks." –November 25, 2009
"It's hard to imagine a more complete repudiation of Keynesian stimulus than the evidence of the last year's job market." –November 7, 2009
"[The Recovery Act has not] made even the smallest dent in employment." –November 7, 2009
"The White House says the stimulus created as many as one million new jobs, but this is single-entry economic bookkeeping." –November 7, 2009
They don't square at all, of course, because the editorial board is more interested in scoring political points by discrediting the Recovery Act's jobs impact than they are in reading their own paper's reporting. And let's be clear: while the new CBO findings are a welcome addition, these facts have been out there for months, including from an earlier CBO report last March (their updated findings are actually slightly improved).
We're not asking for a free ride. We have and will continue to take great pains to provide information about the impact of the Recovery Act with more transparency than has ever been associated with a project of this magnitude. Editorialists have every right to use that information to evaluate the impact of the act and to suggest ways that its performance could be improved upon.
But I doubt you'll see that from the WSJ. Unless, that is, they start reading their own reporting.
Jared Bernstein is Chief Economist to Vice President Biden and Executive Director of the Middle Class Task Force
Learn more about EconomyReality Check: The Very Real Jobs the Recovery Act is Supporting
Posted byon November 19, 2009 at 11:38 AM ESTThree months ago, the critics denied that the Recovery Act was making any jobs. Today, everyone – including the critics - can see those jobs for themselves on Recovery.gov. Now that the evidence has proven them wrong, they are left to cast doubts about just how many jobs were made and where. But for all of the attempts to distract and distort from the program's progress, these reports – directly from the recipients of Recovery Act dollars - make one thing indisputably clear: the Recovery Act is now responsible for supporting at least one million jobs across the country.
It's time to keep the critics honest. Here are some of the misleading things you may have been hearing about how we are tracking our progress supporting jobs through the Recovery Act – and the truth behind them:
FICTION: The reports recipients of Recovery Act funds filed are riddled with errors.
FACT: More than 130,000 reports were collected from recipients who were required to fill out 99 different data fields – that's over 12 million pieces of information collected directly from those putting the funds to work. Much has been made of incorrectly coded Congressional Districts, but that issue – which the Recovery Board has already fixed – affected about 1 percent of reports. And other potential over or under-counts of jobs you may have seen highlighted in the media amount to less than 5 percent of all reports.FICTION: The Administration is misleading people about where Recovery Act money is going.
FACT: The reports you see on Recovery.gov were filed by over 130,000 recipients of Recovery Act dollars and they were responsible for inputting the information – including their Congressional District. We don't expect that these recipients – many of which are small community organizations or businesses - will do this perfectly the first time out of the gate, but we do take our role reviewing the reports very seriously and continue to work with the recipients to improve the accuracy of their reports. The fact is, though, that the errors you are seeing are simply typos or basic human error.FICTION: The jobs that were listed in non-existent Congressional Districts were not real.
FACT: The jobs and related projects listed are legitimate – they were just coded in the wrong Congressional District. The Recovery Board moved quickly to correct the coding and posting error – but before that happened, the public was still able to click through to find the address of the recipient and confirm their correct Congressional District on their own.FICTION: The Administration has failed to meet expectations it set for the quality of data it would collect.
FACT: From the beginning, even before the data was collected, Administration officials said repeatedly that they did not expect the initial reports to be perfect, but certainly expected them to provide an unprecedented and largely accurate look at the Recovery Act at work – and they do. We will continue to collect this information every three months and we expect the data we collect to get sharper and more precise each time we do it.FICTION: These errors mean that none of the reports and related jobs numbers can be trusted.
FACT: Overall, less than 5 percent of the reports have been identified as potential over or under-counts of jobs. That is a lower possible revision rate than most long-standing, widely-accepted government economic indicators. Take for example:- Payroll Employment, 2008: Original Average Monthly Decline – 157,000, Revised Average Monthly Decline –230,000, 46 percent lower than original
Independent economist Mark Zandi said it best:
- "Well, these numbers are [verified]. The 600,000-plus estimates from the administration come from recipients of the stimulus aid. And, so, we know for sure that these jobs are for real. Now, of course, it doesn't count all of the other jobs created by the tax cuts and other elements of the stimulus. That is much more difficult to count, at least directly. But the 600,000-plus, that's numbers that are counted directly and accurate... All of the statistics that we get on the economy that the government collects are based on surveys and samples, similar to the one that was conducted here. So, I think they are using the same approaches and techniques in constructing these estimates then -- that we use for constructing all kinds of estimates to try to get a gauge of where the economy is." [Newshour, 10/30/09]
FICTION: The jobs numbers are already lower than expected – and this lack of credibility just makes the case for the job impact of the Recovery Act even weaker.
FACT: In fact, economists say that, because the reports cover less than half of the money put to work so far and only direct jobs, they point to a job impact of at least double what was reported. So even if reports totaled only 500,000 jobs – not the over 600,000 reported – it would still confirm Administration and independent estimates of over 1 million jobs.
But don't take our word for it. Here is what economist John Irons, who is testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Recovery Act jobs today, had to say:- "New data from recipients of grants, loans, and contracts made under the Recovery Act count about 650,000 new jobs created or retained to date, one of the strongest signs yet that the Recovery Act has led to significant job creation. The data, which reflect a fraction of all the Recovery Act investments made to date, are consistent with other estimates of jobs creation showing that between 1.1 and 1.5 million jobs have been created or preserved as a result of the stimulus package to date. It follows recent news that the economy as a whole grew by a 3.5% annual rate in the third quarter, another indication that the Recovery Act has provided a much needed spark to the economy." [Economic Policy Institute, 10/30/09]
FICTION: The Administration already had to remove 60,000 inaccurate jobs from the website – who knows what other inaccurate items they've posted that should come down.
FACT: The Administration worked with the Recovery Board to have 60,000 over-counted jobs removed from the list before it was ever posted on Recovery.gov in order to dramatically increase accuracy pre-posting. Items flagged as possible over or under reports since the data was posted on Recovery.gov are a fraction of this size, indicating the vast majority of errors were caught before then.Liz Oxhorn is Recovery Act Communications Director
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ON THIS PAGE: You will learn about how doctors describe a cancer's growth or spread. This is called the stage. To see other pages, use the menu on the side of your screen.
Staging is a way of describing where a cancer is located, if or where it has spread, and whether it is affecting other parts of the body. Doctors use diagnostic tests to determine the cancer's stage, so staging may not be complete until all the tests are finished. Knowing the stage helps the doctor to decide what kind of treatment is best and can help predict a patient's prognosis. There are different stage descriptions for different types of cancer.
One tool that doctors use to describe the stage is the TNM system. TNM is an abbreviation for tumor (T), node (N), and metastasis (M). Doctors look at these three factors to determine the stage of cancer:
- How large is the primary tumor and where is it located? (Tumor, T)
- Has the tumor spread to the lymph nodes? (Node, N)
- Has the cancer metastasized to other parts of the body? (Metastasis, M)
The results are combined to determine the stage of cancer for each person. There are five stages: stage 0 (zero) and stages I through IV (one through four). The stage provides a common way of describing the cancer, so doctors can work together to plan the best treatments.
Here are more details on each part of the TNM system for oral and oropharyngeal cancer.
Tumor. Using the TNM system, the "T" plus a letter or number (0 to 4) is used to describe the size and location of the tumor. Some stages are also divided into smaller groups that help describe the tumor in even more detail. Specific tumor stage information is listed below.
TX: The primary tumor cannot be evaluated.
T0: No evidence of a tumor is found.
Tis: Describes a stage called carcinoma (cancer) in situ. This is a very early cancer where cancer cells are found only in one layer of tissue.
T1: The tumor is 2 centimeters (cm) at its greatest dimension.
T2: The tumor is larger than 2 cm, but not larger than 4 cm.
T3: The tumor is larger than 4 cm.
T4: Describes any of the following conditions:
T4a (lip): The tumor began on the lip but has invaded adjacent tissue, such as the bone floor of the mouth or the skin of the face.
T4a (oral cavity): The tumor has invaded through the cortical bone deep into structures in the mouth, such as the muscle of the tongue or into the sinuses.
T4a (oropharynx): The tumor has spread to the larynx, tongue, or jawbone.
T4b (oral cavity): The tumor has invaded the base of the skull and/or encases the internal arteries.
T4b (oropharynx): The tumor has moved into the nasopharynx, skull base, or nearby arteries and muscles.
Node. The "N" in the TNM staging system is for lymph nodes, the tiny, bean-shaped organs that help fight infection. Lymph nodes near where the cancer started are called regional lymph nodes. Lymph nodes in other parts of the body are called distant lymph nodes. There are many lymph nodes in the head and neck area, and careful assessment of lymph nodes is an important part of staging.
NX: The regional lymph nodes cannot be evaluated.
N0: There is no evidence of cancer in the regional lymph nodes.
N1: The cancer has spread to a single lymph node on the same side as the primary tumor, and the cancer found in the node is 3 cm or smaller.
N2: Describes any of these conditions:
N2a: Cancer has spread to a single lymph node on the same side as the primary tumor and is larger than 3 cm, but not larger than 6 cm.
N2b: Cancer has spread to more than one lymph node on the same side as the primary tumor, and none measure larger than 6 cm.
N2c: Cancer has spread to more than one lymph node on either side of the body, and none measure larger than 6 cm.
N3: The cancer found in the lymph nodes is larger than 6 cm.
Distant metastasis. The "M" in the TNM system describes cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.
MX: Distant metastasis cannot be evaluated.
M0: Cancer has not spread to other parts of the body.
M1: Cancer has spread to other parts of the body.
Cancer stage grouping
Doctors assign the stage of the cancer by combining the T, N, and M classifications.
Stage 0: Describes a carcinoma in situ (Tis) with no spread to lymph nodes (N0) or distant metastasis (M0).
Stage I: Describes a small tumor (T1) with no spread to lymph nodes (N0) and no distant metastasis (M0).
Stage II: Describes a tumor that is smaller than 4 cm (T2) and has not spread to lymph nodes (N0) or to distant parts of the body (M0).
Stage III: Describes a larger tumor (T3) with no spread to lymph nodes (N0) or metastasis (M0), as well as smaller tumors (T1, T2) that have spread to regional lymph nodes (N1) but have no sign of metastasis (M0).
Stage IVA: Describes any invasive tumor (T4a) with either no lymph node involvement (N0) or spread to only a single, same-sided lymph node (N1) but no metastasis (M0). It is also used for any tumor (any T) with more significant nodal involvement (N2) but no metastasis (M0).
Stage IVB: Describes any tumor (any T) with extensive nodal involvement (N3) but no metastasis (M0).
Stage IVC: Indicates there is evidence of distant spread (any T, any N, M1).
Recurrent: Recurrent cancer is cancer that has come back after treatment. If there is a recurrence, the cancer may need to be staged again (called re-staging) using the system above.
Tumor grade (G). Doctors also describe a primary tumor by its grade, which is determined by using a microscope to examine tissue from a tumor (called a histologic examination). The doctor compares the tumor tissue with healthy tissue, and the grade describes how closely the cancer cells resemble normal tissue under a microscope. Normal tissue contains many different types of cells grouped together, which is called differentiated. Tissue from tumors usually has cells that look more alike each other (called poorly differentiated). Generally, the more differentiated the tissue, the better the prognosis. A tumor's grade is described using the letter "G" and a number.
GX: The grade cannot be evaluated.
G1: The cells look more like normal tissue (well differentiated).
G2: The cells are only moderately differentiated.
G3 and G4: The cells don't resemble normal tissue (poorly differentiated).
Used with permission of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC), Chicago, Illinois. The original source for this material is the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual, Seventh Edition (2010), published by Springer-Verlag New York, www.cancerstaging.net.
Information about the cancer's stage will help the doctor recommend a treatment plan. The next section helps explain the treatment options for this type of cancer. Use the menu on the side of your screen to select Treatment Options, or you can select another section, to continue reading this guide.


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Been lurking around different forums and discovered this one today. Joined up in order to post here before realizing most of the threads are old...I'm bummed!!! Was so excited; what's happened for there to be so little activity? i would think this would be a hotbed.... : ) |
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I posted here when it was livelier but it isn't very active. If you enjoy posting in forums you might want to try the kitchen table. They discuss anything and everything, it is very active. It is listed on the home page, further down and in the middle of the lists. |
Welcome! I think most of the older posters have either gotten into relationships/married or given up. We sure used to have some fun discussions and I miss it, too. I left because I got married, but, sadly, my DH died 5 years ago, so I'm single again. I check in every day and respond when someone posts, but as you can see, posts are few and far between. Feel free to start a discussion - I know several of the original posters still comment when someone posts a new thread. |
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Sarah, this forum is so slow these days - it used to be a busy place. Go to the Kitchen Table forum - over half of us are single and we'd love to have you! Just click on the link, below, and join us - we are a VERY active group. |
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Getting the kids a Wii for Christmas seemed innocuous enough. This observation, of course, is filled with foreboding. Some friends recently purchased a 47″ flat-panel television and graciously gave us their old 32″ conventional television. It's a nice RCA which required only the purchase of a remote. Naturally, this goes well with the Wii that the kids don't yet know about… but they've already been using the big TV with the $20 unit we got them a few years ago to play Ms. Pac-Man, Rally-X, Galaga, and a few other classic arcade games. The plan was to finish up the basement rec room so the kids could play on the Wii or watch movies down there, leaving the main floor free and quiet for us in the evenings now that the kids are too old to bundle off to bed at 7:00PM.
Emergent Terminology: It's Not About Fracturing
Yesterday I wrote the introduction to this post, which ended up being about as long as the next bit that contained the important stuff I wanted to say, so I split it up. Feel free to start yesterday, then continue on below, which is about the whole mess of misunderstanding over networks that are not called Emergent.


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I just recently bought a chicago electric chipper/shredder off of craigslist. I paid quite a good amount for it considering it was used. It worked perfectly for the first few days. After a rain, the leaves were a little wet, so when I put them in, the chipper got clogged and the blades got stuck. I turned it off and cleaned it out. But now, when I try to turn it back on again, it doesn't work! I am seriously PO'd
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Okay, so I need to edit this. It doesn't start, but only SOMETIMES. I changed it to a different outlet and it started. However, when I took it back to the same extension cord I used before, it didn't start. I used another one and it started. Then it got clogged again so I stopped it to clean it out. When I went to start it again, it didn't work. Changed the outlet but with the same extension cord. Didn't work. So for some reason or another, the machine keeps "blowing out" the extension cord. I have no idea what is going on here |
Okay I think I figured it out. There is a safety feature on this where you need to screw on the bolt that fastens the lid together to complete the circuit. Yeesh, how anticlimactic |
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unplug the unit from its power source and turn the electric motor by hand a few degrees press the reset plug in and try again.good luck |
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2014 is our 23rd season of
Rising Stars Buddy Baseball!!
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is once again offering Buddy Baseball for children with any type of disability. The camp will include practices and scrimmage games with emphasis on improving baseball skills (i.e. catching, throwing, batting, running bases, etc). Pitched baseballs and T-ball stands will be used depending on each player's ability. All athletes and buddies will receive a T-shirt and a baseball hat. Athletes and buddies must provide their own gloves.
The Buddy Baseball program utilizes the "buddy system": Children with physical and mental disabilites are paired, if necessary, with a non-disabled buddy from our group of volunteers. The buddies are children of Wheaton Juniors, friends, and family of athletes. Our goal is to promote skill development, cooperation and the making of new friends.
The camp started in 1991 with 7 players and 11 buddies. In 2013, our club welcomed 60 players and more than 80 buddies. We are hoping for even more in the 2014 season! This project encompasses what it means to do service work for the community and is easily the most meaningful 5 weeks of the WJWC club calendar. Please come and join us this summer and see for yourself what Buddy Baseball is all about. We promise you will be glad you did!
If you have any questions or if you need further information, regarding registration, feel free to text/call Becky at (630) 461-5061 or email me at: firstname.lastname@example.com.
THANK YOU! We hope to see you at the ballpark!
Becky Herbold
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Children with physical and mental disabilities, ages 5 and up
TUESDAYS – July 8, 15, 22, 29 and August 5th; 6:30-8:15 p.m.
Briar Patch Park, Wheaton – Field #14
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$15.00 per athlete. Buddies are free.
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"Ask any parent what they want most for their child, and they would probably answer something like 'I want he/she to be healthy and happy'. Ask any parent of a special needs child what they want most for their child and . . . they of course would want the same. As life unfolds for these special people we as parents, and community seek out opportunities for those goals. The Wheaton Jrs. Rising Star Buddy Baseball Program took on this mission 18 years ago. Seeking happiness for your child is a tricky thing . . . because it usually comes naturallly with a child's abilities/skills and involvement in different activities, building social relationships simultaneously. But . . . what about those individuals who don't have the ability/talent/skill/social contacts to create the happiness . . . the sense of belonging? Buddy Baseball has provided that "space" where people are people, welcomed unconditionally. Yes, everyone makes the team, you don't worry about who you're playing, you're thankful you have a coach, and all parents yell and scream on the sidelines for all the children . . . imagine that!!! Come see a game and witness the ear to ear smile on a nonambulatory child "running" to 1st base, or a child with a walker cross home plate, or hear my daughter yell to her brothers . . . "Boys, I did it, I did it", as she smacks the ball for the first time without use of the tee! Happiness is not what the scoreboard dictates, but what your heart feels as a founder, a coordinator, a coach, a photographer capturing the thrills, a parent, a grandparent, or a player when walking off the field. To us as parents nothing speaks louder then when our rather quiet, expressive language delayed "girly girl" says "I had fun" on our way to the ice cream parlor. Oh . . . and you think the players had fun, just ask a buddy what they feel . . . . . . . . happiness for all at a sporting event???....WOW. "
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To learn more about the services offered to employers, please review the following list of Associate's (AS) and Bachelor's (BS) degree programs and contact the appropriate member of the Career Services Staff. Contact can be made by telephone at 401-467-7744 or by e-mail.
Patricia Blakemore, Director of Career Services (ext. 3321)
• AST Aviation Science Technology
• ELT (BS) Electrical Engineering Technology
• ELY Electrical Technology
• EST Electronic Systems Technology
• MCT (AS & BS) Mechanical Engineering Technology
• OTA Occupational Therapy Assistant Technology
• MSOT Occupational Therapy – Master's program
Kathleen Dohoney, Career Advisor (ext. 3477)
• ABTA/ABTB Architectural/ Building Engineering Technology (CAD)
• AUT/ AHP Automotive Technology/Automotive Technology w/High Performance
• AAUT/AAHP Advanced Automotive Technology/ Advanced Automotive Technology w/High Performance
• ACR Auto Collision Technology
• ASM (BS) Automotive Service Management
• BCC Building Construction/ Cabinetmaking Technology
• CJ Criminal Justice Technology
• CMT (BS) Construction Management Technology
• DMP (AS & BS) Digital Media Production Technology
• ID (AS & BS) Interior Design Technology
• MGT (AS & BS) Business Management Technology
. MT Marine Technology
. NUR Nursing
• PLBH Plumbing/ Heating & Gas Technology
• RACH Refrigeration/ AC Heating & Gas Technology
• ST Surgical Technology
Shirl Gerlach, Career Advisor (ext. 3330)
. CMA Clinical Medical Assistant Technology
• CYB Cyber Security Technology
• HCM (BS) Healthcare Management Technology
• ITN/ITS (AS & BS) Information Technology (Network engineering/Software engineering)
• GDS (AS & BS) Game Development/Simulation Programming Technology
• GMW Graphics, Multimedia & Web Design Technology
• PTA Physical Therapist Assistant Technology
• RC Respiratory Therapy Technology
• VET Veterinary Technology
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THE FAUXCADEMY OF DECORATIVE FINISHING AWARDS™ is an awards presentation honoring beginning and advanced Faux and Decorative Finishers, Mural and Trompe L'oeil Artists, Stencil Artists, Decorative Plasterers, and Decorative Furniture and Cabinetry Finishers for their achievements. The Fauxcademy of Decorative Finishing Awards™ concept was designed to allow decorative artists the ability to show off their accomplishments in their marketplace.  Being honored with these awards will make a dramatic statement, and this kind of recognition validates your value to your clientele, and provides you with powerful marketing tools to use in your business while propelling you to the top.  Do not be intimidated, there are many categories for entering the awards.  There are also separate levels, one for beginning finishers and another for advanced finishers. LEVEL I. Decorative finishers in business for one year or less and competing on a beginning level in the categories of choice.  Level I entries will compete for the top honor "Fauxcademy of Decorative Finishing Awards Platinum Certificate", presented for each category.  Level I also includes a Gold Certificate (2nd Place) and Silver Certificate (3rd Place) award winners in each category. LEVEL II. Experienced decorative finishers in business for one year or more competing at the top level in the categories of choice.  Level II entries will compete for the top honor "Fauxcademy of Decorative Finishing Awards Trophy", presented for each category.  Level II also includes a Gold Certificate (2nd Place) and Silver Certificate (3rd Place) award winners in each category.
Awards Entry Deadline: Monday, May 31, 2004 Fauxcademy of Decorative Finishing Award entries must meet the criteria listed below for each category.  You may enter up to 3 different projects for each category, and you may enter each project in as many categories as you prefer, provided that projects meet the criteria for each category in which it is entered.  Entries are only judged against entries in the same category.  Any person who enters more than one project in a particular category will only have the chance to receive one Top Honor Fauxcademy Award.  Each entry must be work applied by the individual entering the category or their employees. Each individual entry must be submitted with a complete Official Fauxcademy of Decorative Finishing Awards Registration Entry Form.  If different projects are entered in a single category or if a single project is entered into different categories, each will be considered a separate entry and require a separate entry form as well as a separate $50.00 entry fee. Anyone in the field of decorative finishing may compete.  You must attend the event to be eligible to enter the awards. All projects entered must use Faux Effects® and/or Aqua Finishing Solutions® products as the primary products for the finishes applied on the project.  Miscellaneous non-competing materials may be used, such as colorants for murals or stenciling, and painted marbles or wood graining.  Also unusual materials such gold or metal leaf, solvent based clear coats, or any other materials that are not in direct competition may be used.  Any non Faux Effects® and/or Aqua Finishing Solutions® materials must be stated on the entry form and will be reviewed for entry qualification. Each entry must supply a minimum of three (3) and maximum of five (5); 8"x10" color photographs per project.  Note: Entries submitted in any other format will not be accepted.  Close-up photos of each entry will help the judges to see the details and recognize the true craftsmanship of the work. All entry photographs will become the property of The Fauxcademy of Decorative Finishing™ and may be used for promotional and marketing efforts in relation to The Fauxcademy of Decorative Finishing™.  Please do not send irreplaceable materials or photos.  Items will not be returned. Note: The Most Innovative Faux and Decorative Finish Sample Creation - The Raymond Sandor Fauxcademy Award - will not require photographs because of the type of entry it is.  Please view requirements for this category in the Awards Categories section. Each entry must provide a written description of the work and project, how long the project took, how the colors were chosen, what products were used, what influenced the type of finish or painting used, any aspects about the project, any special techniques that may have been used.  Note: Entries submitted without written description will be disqualified. Entries must be submitted as required above for each category and must be in our office at: The Fauxcademy of Decorative Finishing™ 13308 Millard Ave. Omaha, NE  68137 no later than May 31st, 2004.  Any entries received after May 31st, 2004 will not be accepted.
Special sections will be posted for the Top Honor Fauxcademy of Decorative Finishing Award Winners for both Level I and Level II in each Category. Note: All winners will be able to use this section of our website for their advertising efforts and allow their prospective customers to view their awards and honors.  There is nothing else of its kind out there for Faux and Decorative Finishers.  We hope our efforts will support professional finishers across the United States to gain credibility in the marketplace and position them above the competition! Please note that Fauxcademy of Decorative Finishing™ is a trade marked name, any use of the Fauxcademy name in any form and for any reason, must receive prior written consent from the Fauxcademy of Decorative Finishing.
A panel of industry professionals has been assembled to judge and vote on the categories.  The panel will consist of Mural and Trompe L'oeil Artists, Faux and Decorative Finishing Professionals, Furniture Professionals, and other qualified persons. The judges will maintain the highest integrity when judging all entries.  All entries will be judged anonymously in a professional manner, without bias towards any person or entry.  Entries will be judged on the following criteria: use of color, innovation and creativity, special techniques, degree of difficulty, unique aspects, overall skill and execution, design of the project and finishes used, the simple beauty of the finish project, and any other related criteria deemed appropriate by the panel of judges.
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Mafia II
Version and / or Patch Used: Latest Steam Update
Timedemo or Level Used: Built in Benchmark
Developer Homepage: http://www.2kczech.com/
Product Homepage: http://www.mafia2game.com/
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Mafia II is a third-person action-adventure video game, the sequel to Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven. It is developed by 2K Czech, previously known as Illusion Softworks, and is published by 2K Games. The game is set from 1943 to 1951 in Empire Bay (the name is a reference to New York's state nickname "The Empire State"), a fictional city based on San Francisco and New York City, with influences from Chicago and Detroit. The game features a completely open-ended game map of 10 square miles. No restrictions are included from the start of the game. There are around 50 vehicles in the game, as well as licensed music from the era.
Across the board Mafia II sees some excellent gains. More importantly, though, our performance is well above that 60 FPS average we aim for. Against the AMD offerings we can see that the SLI GTX 560 setup pulls off the win against both at all resolutions.


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Lichborne: How to kill a death knight in PVP {WoW}
Jul 5th 2011 5:21PM In my defense I was drinking when I put together this image.
About the Bloggers: Tyler Caraway {WoW}
Jun 29th 2011 6:10PM was this the day i was cooking all the chicken?
Know Your Lore: Magic is... {WoW}
Jun 15th 2011 5:49PM This is oddly like the premise Kate Griffin puts forth in her urban fantasy books:
"Life is magic. Where there is life there is magic."
Reader UI of the Week: Triple play with Shaynk's UI {WoW}
Apr 19th 2011 6:20PM All Fox does on ANY system or monitor is to automatically check his auctions.
Review: WoW TCG Assault on Icecrown Citadel Four-Player Game {WoW}
Mar 19th 2011 4:14PM Briefly watched some people playing this at PAX East- was totally jealous. Jaina with the Staff of Antonidas is something to watch out for.
Guest Post: 32 tricks for Icecrown Citadel {WoW}
Aug 10th 2010 10:08AM In order for the LK disengage trick to work you need to be slow falled/levitated before the Valks drop you since that buys you enough time to spin and disengage in the correct position. Usually this becomes a problem as a single hit of damage from infest or otherwise will pop off the slow fall/levitate.
On Sindragosa as she pulls you in hunter's can switch to Aspect of the Pack to give the raid a run boost speed and then shift back to Hawk.
Cataclysm Beta: Hunter talent overhaul {WoW}
Jul 15th 2010 4:26PM The base problem with Hunting Party right now is that the SV tree requires a HUGE investment of points in order to become fairly decent at the moment.
Hunting Party is an investment of 2 talent points to give you a return of 4% on your agility in what amounts to close to end game talent tier. Which is relatively speaking a huge investment for little a tiny return.
Comparatively speaking destro warlock and ret pally (the other two that offer replenishment) have returns which seem fairly favorable without the need for a substantial point dump given the tier they are in. Their replenishment buff also double dips giving them what amounts to be double return for their investment.
Hunters have no such luck as the only benefit we gain from Hunting Party is the agility.
Blizzard to begin throttling GearScore-like inspect requests {WoW}
Jun 25th 2010 9:24AM GS does create lag on some level- that many people hammering the server with that many requests constantly can't entirely be a good thing. By the same token it's Blizzard's server- if want to add new functionality that increases the amount of memory requests THEIR game makes to THEIR server then they are totally within their power to limit how many requests external add-ons make. The onus is then on the add-on makers to compensate for this change. Such is life.
The Classifieds: Coming out of the closet edition {WoW}
Jun 16th 2010 10:03AM If you are on Ally I believe the guest guild the Stonewall Family invites you too offers free portal services from the starting areas to Theramore as well as a guild bank stocked with colorful outfits!
Breakfast Topic: Erasing the line between fantasy and reality {WoW}
May 11th 2010 9:39AM I said shorter than I imagined. I didn't say you were short cupcake.


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Madonna has proved she's still at the top of her game after her MDNA trek was named the highest-grossing tour of 2012.
The Material Girl has been on the road since May this year, and the jaunt, her ninth world tour, has taken her around the globe.
And the hard work has paid off - the concerts have pulled in a staggering $228m (£141m), making it the most lucrative tour this year, according to Billboard magazine.
The huge figure leaves the singer way ahead of The Boss - Bruce Springsteen's ongoing Wrecking Ball Tour has made $198m (£123m).
Former Pink Floyd rocker Roger Waters' The Wall Live show, which has been on the road since 2010, is in third place on the countdown with $186m (£115m), while the Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour by Cirque Du Soleil has pulled in $147m (£90.9m).
British rockers Coldplay ($147m), Lady Gaga ($124m), Barbra Streisand ($40m), Sir Elton John ($32m) and Justin Bieber ($30m) also make the list.


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STEPHIE for the Pickett family — VA
Scott and Chandres met in 2000, were married in 2003, and by 2010 were expecting their third child. During an early difficult pregnancy, there were markers for heart defects and chromosomal disorders, so they began researching Down syndrome and met with a cardiology team. After their daughter's successful heart repair in 2011, the Picketts knew they were ready, once again, to add to their family. They began exploring different adoption routes, discovered Reece's Rainbow, and brought Viktorya and Denny home from Bulgaria in March 2013.
After a year of adjusting and settling, Scott and Chandres saw a picture of a young lady in the same country so dear to their hearts and began praying about adding her to their family. Scott, Chandres, Viktorya, Ayden, Elijah, Denny, and Sadie are excited to welcome "Stephie" into their family!
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Any of some 3,300 species of small, wingless, parasitic insects of the order Phthiraptera. The order consists mainly of biting, or chewing, lice (parasites of birds and mammals) and sucking lice (see sucking louse). The louse's body is flattened. The eggs, or nits, are cemented to the hair or plumage of the host, and most species spend their entire lives on the bodies of host animals. Heavy infestations cause much irritation and may lead to secondary infections. In moving from host to host, lice may spread many diseases, including tapeworm infestation in dogs and murine typhus in rats.
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Ricard Oren Whittington
Whittington, Richard Oren 84, of Grayslake passed away on Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville. He was born on November 28, 1929 in South Bend, Indiana. He married Mary Vargas on September 5, 1959 in Waukegan. He is survived by his loving wife of 54 years, Mary Whittington; three sons, Bruce (Kari) Whittington, Dave (Robin Van Sickel) Whittington and Danny (Tina) Whittington; four grandchildren, Crystal (Jesse) Chammaro, Grace, Danny and Sarah Whittington. He was preceded in death by his parents, Oren and Edna Whittington and brother and sister-in-law, Ronald (Patricia) Whittington. Dick served in the US Army during the
Korean Conflict
from 1951-1953 earning a Decorated
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and the UN Service Medal. He graduated from Waukegan High School in 1948 and then graduated from Lake Forest College in 1959. He worked at Abbott Labs as a Biochemist for 38 years, retiring in 1985, and was a recipient of the Presidential Award in 1980. Among his many accomplishments at Abbott, he created the vaccines for Hepatitis A, B, & D, as well as the test for HIV. He is listed in the Who's Who in America for these accomplishments. He also worked for Grayslake as Director of Environmental Services for 10 years, and set up the first drop-off recycling in Lake County. He was also a Grayslake Volunteer
Police Officer
part-time during the 1960's. Dick was a charter member of Shepherd of the Lakes Lutheran Church since 1962 and assistant Scoutmaster for Troop 73 from 1973-1980. He enjoyed camping, golfing, bowling and wood crafts. Visitation will be on Sunday, April 13, 2014 from 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. at Shepherd of the Lakes Lutheran Church, 285 E. Washington St., Grayslake, IL 60030. Funeral services are Monday, April 14, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. at the church with The Rev. Kris D. H. Ferkin officiating. Entombment will follow at Warren Cemetery & Mausoleum, Gurnee. There will be a reception at the church following the entombment at the cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Mission Endowment Fund at Shepherd of the Lakes Lutheran Church. Condolences at
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This foam craft kit makes a touching gift for Dad! A fun activity for preschool or Sunday School students, this blue and yellow inspirational decoration has star accents and quotes part of the Bible verse Matthew 19:13-14: "Let the children come to me" The sentiment below says "I made this handprint for you so that one day when I am tall, you'll remember what my hands looked like long ago when I was small! Happy Father's Day!" Trace each child's hand on the foam and cut out to create the picture frame. Approx. 7 1/2"; holds a 1 1/4" x 1 3/4" photo. All craft kit pieces are pre-packaged for individual use. Kits include instructions and extra pieces.
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