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State overseers of the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement, and the stalled Bertha tunneling machine, tried Tuesday to put the best face on their project, talking up the Seattle Port Commission with liberal application of makeup in the form of charts and optimistic figures. "It actually is 70 percent complete," Todd Trepanier told the commissioners. […] [Read More]
Bertha: Off the hook in the Legislature but not out of mind
A bill in the Legislature to stop all spending on Seattle's "big dig" and repair of the Bertha tunnel-boring machine has died, less than a day after it was introduced. While Bertha is off the hook in Olympia, however, the long-delayed tunnel project remains a potential issue for use against Gov. Jay Inslee and […] [Read More]
New waterfront will cost $1 billion: How will city afford it?
A new central waterfront with parks, plazas and a tree-lined Alaskan Way boulevard is estimated to cost more than $1 billion, and at that price, Seattle voters will be asked more than once to help pay for it. Residents were presented Thursday with a more detailed vision for the city's future waterfront once the Alaskan […] [Read More]
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The Seattle manufacturing sector, citing transportation improvements pledged — but never delivered — with past stadiums, is deeply worried whether cargoes will move if an 18,000-seat NBA and NHL arena is located in South Downtown (SODO). "East-west road access will be very expensive to provide or expand: Who will pay for it?" Dave Gering, director […] [Read More]
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An independent review panel has found that the Alaskan Way Viaduct tunnel replacement project is on schedule and on budget. The three-person panel, requested by the Legislature to review the project, gave it a "clean bill of health" and said it can be successfully finished, state officials said Tuesday. But the panel said funding and […] [Read More]
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During a ceremony marking the beginning of demolition of the Alaskan Way Viaduct, Governor Chris Gregoire got behind the wheel of a large front-end loader and unloaded a pile of rubble from the demolition project. A couple nervous-looking project managers watched as Gregoire got a brief lesson in how to operate the massive machine. While […] [Read More]
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been running beast cleave at around 1900mmr and started running into a lot of trouble. We played around 50-100 games today and didnt gain any rating but neither did we drop any just benching at 1850.
TSG comps no matter the healer with them just training our priest to the ground - if DK is in unholy presence we silence him off the bat with stormlash so he cant switch stances and generally bring him to around 30% with traps on healer + hex's on war but outside of that he goes blood and feels super hard to kill so we end up going warrior and our priest just dies before we can kill him - freedom totem / earthbinding / hex on dps with silence on dispeller are our best ways of peeling dunno what to do here
KFC 50/50 win ratio - we train hunter and they train me the shaman and we die before they do - switching to healer seems a grim situation and we always switch to the war in deterrence / if he extends - if shaman healer silence shaman - hex on war - trap on shaman is our CC and we get a couple of deterences
LSD/LSD.2 - dont even know what to do here spread pressure is aids feel like we cant kill bommy/warlock/shaman or the healer
Godcomp- win most of these exception of a few - we go mage with hex's on shadowpreist and silences on healer - traps etc - try and MD the block asap and ascendance after the first block generally
any tips be really appreciated - sorry for the wall of text - we joined the season late so we are all rocking pretty much 3 pieces grievous + trinkets + wep dunno if this matters too much
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Changes in Mass Transit...
While the Orlando/Tampa area is gaining a major mass transit program, the City of Atlanta recently suffered a big regulatory blow to its plans for expanded transit options:
In a blow to Atlanta's hopes for a rebirth in transportation, the Obama administration has passed over the city's application for a federal stimulus grant to build a streetcar on Peachtree Street.
In fact, in a two-page list of grant recipients including many in the Southeast, Georgia appears not to have a single project. Atlanta, local business groups and MARTA applied for $298.3 million, the total amount needed to construct the streetcar. The city and the business groups would have shared the cost of operations, helped by ticket fares, advertising revenues, and naming rights. MARTA would have administered the grant. The city also suggested smaller versions of the project that would cost less, but no dice. Streetcars operated in Atlanta until 1949.
The loss for the streetcar is one more drop in the bucket of metro Atlanta's mass transit misery. MARTA, the only public transit system of its size in the U.S. that receives no significant, sustained state funding, according to transit officials, is facing a disaster in the next fiscal year, when it will have to cut more than $100 million out of its operating budget. Clayton, one of the five core metro Atlanta counties, has decided that it can pave roads, but it shouldn't have to fund buses, so it is completely shutting down C-Tran on March 31.
As someone who lives just a couple hours away from Atlanta, we enjoy visiting the city often. One of the nicest things is the fairly expansive availability of fixed rail mass transit (the MARTA system).
Indeed, a case can be made that Atlanta is the only Southeastern U.S. city where a resident could reasonably live without owning a car. There is enough horizontal and vertical mixed use near several of the MARTA stops that living, working, and meeting your daily needs without a car is viable.
It seems quite odd then that the current Administration would fund high speed rail lines between two Florida cities that don't have a great deal of crossover use while neglecting the type of intra-city and intra-region transit that really would reduce the need for vehicular travel.
One final note: for my smart growth seminar this semester, I'm taking the students on a series of "site visit" classes. In March we'll travel to Atlanta where everyone will park their cars at the airport and then travel the city via MARTA while studying legal issues related to pedestrian activity versus vehicular activity--looking especially at how transit-oriented development is and is not affected to land use laws and regulations.
--Chad Emerson, Faulkner U.
Chad - I think some blame can be laid at the feet of state leaders. The current Georgia administration left millions of state transportation dollars on the table in recent years due to lack of planning for high speed rail. This latest snub may be a result of more of the same.
Posted by: Jamie Baker Roskie | Feb 17, 2010 10:45:59 AM
The mass Transit program is the need of the hour. It will solve the growing problems of transportation in the city and provide excellent solution to the citizens to enjoy a peaceful and comfortable inter city transportation system that is cheap and convenient.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Challenging an old idea,
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This review is from: Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (Paperback)
A "negative" title such as this carries unfortunate implications. The "error" must be identified, then explained and refuted. For newcomers to cognitive studies, Descartes "error" might seem an obscurity . Yet it has been the basic tenet of education and social thinking in the Western world for three centuries. "Cogito ergo sum" was translated into the belief that the mind and the remainder of the body were separate entities. Behaviour was controlled by the mind, while the body went about its own business. Damasio demolishes that long-standing mistake for good in this superbly written groundbreaking study.
The first indication of the relationship of the mind and body was the bizarre penetration of a railway worker's skull in 1848. The worker lived, but the damage to his brain left him with severe personality changes. The case opened the door to research leading to mapping areas of the brain that reflected various personality traits. Damasio recounts the incident, matching it with numerous clinical studies of his own. Additional work, some of it strongly innovative led Damasio and his colleagues to a reformulation of how the mind and body interact.
He reminds us that the brain is much more than a collection of electrically interacting cells. The body is sending information to the brain almost continuously, with the brain replying or initiating communication. These signals are both electrical and chemical. More importantly, Damasio reflects on the evolutionary origins of these conditions. For him, it is inevitable that the mind and body interact intimately. His proposed appellation for Emotions aren't separated from our reasoning processes, but are an integral part of them. The attempts by parents and educators to "train out" emotions in children are thus doomed to fail.
Damasio's thesis hinges on what he calls "somatic markers." The markers are areas of the brain which continuously interact with the body, particularly those areas we associate with emotions. If confronted with emotionally charged choices, the stomach "knots," the face may "flush" warmly, and perspiration may increase markedly. These body/brain functions begin developing early in the embryo. Indeed, they have a long evolutionary history, which firmly establishes their roots. In humans, the brain not only controls/reacts with the body in addressing stressful circumstances, but retains some level of memory of the events causing the reactions. Hence, even thinking about such circumstances can lead to bodily reactions associated with them. You need not be confronting an emotional situation to be able to express the feelings associated with it. This, of course, is most notably seen in actors or other performers. Damasio offers the excellent example of orchestra conductor Herbert von Karajan, whose pulse rate was higher while conducting than when confronted with an emergency situation in an airplane. To Damasio, "Descartes' error" was that he placed all these controls in a central location of the "mind" where, in fact, they are scattered over much of the brain.
The implications from this book will be far reaching. Besides impacting academic courses on behaviour, there will be changes in how we parent, how we deal with education, and even in the realm of law. Binding reason and emotion will revise uncountable long-standing ideas about how the mind deals with our surroundings. It is a work addressing fundamental questions about what make us human. Read it with care, aware that many preconceptions are likely to be challenged. The rewards for this effort will be great in years to come. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]
28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellently written and well-presented thesis,
Savita (UK) - See all my reviews
Whatever the final outcome of all the research into the mind/body problem (if there can be one) Damasio's ideas are serious and challenging. A comment on one of these five star reviews suggests that academics are moving against Damasio's views rather than supporting him. However, the comment gives no references so it is hard to take it seriously as yet. I am currently reading Jerry Fodor's LOT2 and the absence of any reference at all to Damasio is striking but so is the mechanistic view of memory that Fodor supports and which Damasio shows to be unfounded. Memory is not a filing cabinet as Fodor and probably many others suppose. The degradation of data that we all experience shows this. Damasio's view is, as I said, challenging. It tells us that only the present moment is real for us and when we "remember" what we actually do is create a new experience from old patterns. We don't, as Fodor states, go to the file marked X and pull out the data. To be fair to Fodor, this may be true of basic simple tokens but certainly not of complex structures like memories. It may not even be true of the basics either. I feel sad if Damasio is not being taken seriously as I think it is because academics are so entrenched in their computer mentality that any theory that suggests that major aspects of our minds don't work in that way is not acceptable. John Searle's severe critique of AI theory has still not been satisfactorily refuted but there are many who do their best to ignore it. I think the same kind of thing is happening with Damasio. I suggest you read this book and other books on Philosophy of Mind and decide for yourself. One thing is clear, we are a long way away from understanding how the mind works and if we don't keep a truly open mind for all the possibilities then we are not going to get anywhere.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Organismic Feedback Loop Theory,
nicholas hargreaves - See all my reviews
After having read "The Feeling of What Happens" I thought I'd give this earlier work by the same author a read,as I have recently come across numerous references to it that elevate it to somewhat of a classic in its field.
The first one hundred pages read like a dream and I mistakenly thought that the author had saved his verbose and prolix style for his later works,but then I found I had been lulled into a false sense of security,by which time I was in too deep.The rest of the book took a considerable effort to finish,as to understand a great deal of it requires one to read then re-read a sentence,then deliberate on it until its meaning becomes apparent in your own linguistic terms.This method is taxing to say the least and a vast amount of concentration was required for reading anymore than 10 pages at a time,but due to the interesting nature of the material one remains motivated to proceed further,and by the end of the book you are in no doubt as to the information that has been imparted.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A neuroscientific account of consciousness attempting to be airlifted out of a sea of reductionism,
Joseph Augustine "Frisky Dirt" (Cambridge, UK) - See all my reviews
Damasio sets out to establish the importance of the prefrontal cortices (anterior part of frontal lobes) implicated in the executive function of categorising contingencies. Since these are directly connected to every avenue of motor and chemical response available in the brain, they therefore form "the basis for the production of rich scenarios of future outcome required in making predictions and planning".
Whereas Descarte's error was to crudely separate mind and body or thought and emotion - with emotion residing in the body - Damasio explores visceral information in the cognitive process and makes a case for the mind and body coming together harmoniously in the prefrontal cortices.
Crudely speaking 'Descarte's Error' is very much written from the perspective of the western medical model but with a heavy philosophical slant and, as might be expected from an erudite clinician, the style can be overly long-winded and surgically disengaging at times which makes for ponderous reading if your background is not neuroscience. The axis of what is to many in the arts and humanities a basic conclusion takes such a long time to reach that some readers could be underwhelmed to discover (possibly due to the book's age) that the mind and body are entwined, though it must be said in the best scientific tradition that Damsasio only ever offers working hypotheses.
That said, though the medical school terminology and cold hearted approach abounds, Damasio does not ignore the human dimension and more than understands that western medicine has concentrated for far too long on the physiology and pathology of the body, rather than the "human heart in conflict with itself", i.e. with a mind of its own as a function of the organism. The overthrowing of Cartesian dualism and its set of sub-specialisations is recognised in that only a part of the circuitry in our brains can ever be determined by genes as the human organism operates in collectives of like beings. Brain circuitries are unique at any given moment and are shaped by cultural and social context, especially in their regulation of pain and pleasure.
The 'somatic marker hypothesis' put forward is that emotions play a critical role in our ability to make fast, rational decisions in complex and uncertain situations, which might explain the rather old-fashioned trait of stubborn dominance guiding alpha types in making key gut decision when faced with complex and conflicting choices - and many an addiction to the boardroom scenes in the BBC's version of The Apprentice! Those with frontal lobe damage do not have easy access to visceral feedback and are incapable of flying by the seat of their pants in making the fine adjustments to their social situations. These individual are still however able to make logical 'as if' decisions, or response images that can be stored in long term memory and provide the ammo for high scores in a battery of cognitive tests. There therefore might be a neuroscientific explanation for the much overused mantra that high intelligence does not always exhibit common sense!
Such a fascinating finding was measured in two unequivocal experiments. The first one showed that those with prefrontal lobe damage were incapable of generating skin conductance to a series of projected slides with randomly screened disturbing images. The second experiment was carried out with a a more life-like game of cards paying rewards and penalties. Its findings consistently revealed that those with prefrontal lobe damage bypassed their emotional hunches that would tell them something about the stimulus that they had encountered over time, so that they exhibited a myopia for making future predictions in their miscalculation of 'goodness' and 'badness' in gambling different decks. According to Damasio this is a crucial factor in constructing personal decisions about one's welfare and guidance, a fate that misfell the infamous Phineas Gage.
I could not help but make the link with the ultimate Buddhist somatic marker of 'life as suffering' which Damasio would conclude puts us on notice as the best possible protection for survival: it becomes a motivator for our drives, instincts and decision making strategies. If patients with prefrontal damage have altered pain responses how does this affect their connection with cosmic events, if this is their belief? Such a conclusion also led me to consider Damasio's findings in its application to management practice in that those in ivory towers should suffer to give them a rounded decision matrix. Thus one must be more than a little bit wary of people who cannot feel, especially bosses...
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The mind is embodied and not just embrained,
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Substance dualism is the idea that our bodies are made out of one kind of stuff and our minds out of another, and Antonio Damasio is having none of it. Cogito ergo sum - perhaps the most famous statement in philosophy - "illustrates precisely the opposite of what I believe to be true about the origins of mind and about the relation between mind and body." Damasio reminds us that we were beings long before we became thinking beings, and, throughout this marvellous book, he argues for the importance of our bodies (not just our brains) in creating our minds. Indeed, "the bedrock of the sense of being alive" comes from just those "evolving representations of the body" that reach consciousness.
Perhaps it's not surprising that a philosopher elevated thinking, and awareness of thinking, to such prominence, but modern science is beginning to tell a far more interesting story about the "real substrates of being". The neat separation between the physical body - subject to its animal passions - and the higher rational soul - imagined as a divine endowment - is a fiction, albeit a powerful one. Damasio shows the many ways in which the "lowly orders of our organism are in the loop of high reason" and how emotion, feeling and biological regulation "all play a role in human reason".
Those who lament health and safety regulations would do well to read the salutary tale of Phineas P. Gage, a railroad worker whose momentary lapse of concentration in 1848 provided material for both a front page tabloid sensation and countless neuroscience textbooks. An iron bar through the brain would be enough to kill most people, but Gage not only survived he was not even knocked unconscious. I cannot help using his name and the pronoun that implies continuity of personhood, but, after such a serious brain injury, we should ask, who has survived? Which parts of the old personality? In Gage's case, "his likes and dislikes, his dreams and aspirations" all changed. There was a new spirit animating his body. Gage was no longer Gage.
Mid nineteenth century, the brain was being revealed as "the foundation for language, perception, and motor function". The importance of Gage's story was that it hinted at "systems in the human brain dedicated more to reasoning than anything else". While Gage could still move and speak normally, he had lost "something uniquely human, the ability to plan his future as a social being". Had a piece of his soul been blown out along with his brains, ending up a hundred metres away, on a sticky iron bar covered in dust?
Damasio brings us up to date with one of his own patients, Elliot, "an intelligent, skilled, and able-bodied man" who "had undergone a radical change of personality" and whose behaviour resembled Gage's. The cause was a brain tumour, which was successfully removed. However, while still capable of attending to detailed tasks, "Elliot had become irrational concerning the larger frame" of his life and, unable to plan hours let alone days ahead, was no longer "an effective social being". Damasio and his team observed in Elliot and other similar patients that such impaired decision making invariably came with "flat emotion and feeling". Could it be that a reduction in emotion was an important source of irrational behaviour?
Everyone from Plato to Oprah has talked about emotions and feelings - their own and other people's, whether they should be held in check or freely expressed. Damasio brings some much needed clarity to these often fluffy concepts. For a start, they are not interchangeable terms: while "all emotions generate feelings if you are awake and alert", background feelings originate in body rather than emotional states and contribute importantly to our "sense of being". Feelings of all kinds "form the base for what humans have described for millennia as the human soul or spirit." Taking the long view, the "beauty of how emotion has functioned throughout evolution" is that it enables living beings to act smartly without having to think smartly. The emotional feeling of disgust upon seeing some rotting meat, for example, discourages us from eating it. There is no reasoning involved: we are relying on innate knowledge - "based on dispositional representations in hypothalamus, brain stem, and limbic system" - acquired over millions of years.
Key to Damasio's neurobiology and his understanding of when a brain can be said to have a mind is not just that neuron circuits are modified by changes in our bodies and the external world in reliable ways, but that such neural representations become images. Once the brain is able to "display images internally and to order those images in a process called thought" then we can not only think about the world as it is but we can begin to imagine the world as other than it is: we can "predict the future, plan accordingly, and choose the next action."
This is one of those books it is worth working hard as a lay reader to get through. While I'm sure some of the science has already been revised, there is much to learn, and the fact that answers to some very big questions are being put forward is incredibly exciting. When do brains develop minds? What is the source of intuition? What are thoughts? How are emotions an indispensable foundation for rationality? Antonio Damasio reconnects body and mind and undoes much of the damage done by Descartes' error: "the body contributes more than life support and modulatory effects to the brain." It is a content provider "that is part and parcel of the workings of the normal mind." Don't worry about unweaving this particular rainbow: "Understanding the biological mechanisms behind emotions and feelings is perfectly compatible with a romantic view of their value to human beings." And why pick on this particular error? After all, Descartes was wrong about many things. It matters because Descartes' error is our error: from early childhood we are all intuitive dualists.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I am therefore I think...,
I read this book as after BLINK when discussing Dr de Bono's view of how thinking 'works' - or does not work - in the human brain. Several other books (BUY-OLOGY, THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST, FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS) confirm the same message based on different sources - humans are fundamentally irrational and most decisions are strongly influenced by our subconscious memories. This is ironic given our governance systems assume that people are reasonable and may be persuaded by logic. Actually emotions determine decisions and D'Amasio explains where emotions come from...
Perhaps the most important take-away of the book is the confirmed link made between mind and body when it comes to health. Western medicine treats mind and body as separate systems; D'Amasio refutes this and also says that the mind cannot think when disembodied; it requires constant feedback from the body (as well as nurturing by the body).
For years, I have looked for an explanation of how instinct is inherited when memory is not - this book helps answer that without mysticism. It confirms that the complexity of the brain exceeds the programming ability of our genetic code, but that the ability to think in certain patterns can be inherited.
'Descartes Error' also emphasises the importance of learning to a pre-school child as they build up their synaptic map (with personality and cultural biases) when the paths through their brain are fired up and prioritised.
It is a bit heavy to read, but well worth the effort to learn how we achieve our consciousness. On the way, there is tacit acknowledgement that other mammals have most of the same abilities and may even share self-awareness.
Business blogger Seth Godin frequently refers to the 'Lizard Brain' inside our mind which inhibits action through excessive caution. D'Amasio confirms this mechanism is real, primitive and useful as it allows us to sidestep nasty options by following well-known choices again and again and again...without thought. It is this endless and sometimes unproductive loop that Dr de Bono seeks to exit with lateral thinking techniques.
A well written book and a nicely presented roundup of the subject accessible to a lay reader. Reading it prompted more questions however - why is autism rising; what does the endless audiovisual stimulation of TV do to our brains; is there any impact on our thinking from the radio frequency swamp we now inhabit; is subliminal messaging possible via Internet streaming; how does hypnotism work; why do humans crave risk through gambling, bungey jumping, etc. We need answers to these questions also and I hope there will be a sequel soon...
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5.0 out of 5 stars Emotions and Decisions.,
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An excellent book. Damasio offers up a very well researched and thought out approach to the involvement of emotions within our decision making ability.
He outlines research from lesion studies and neurological defecit patients - linking to a theory of reason and emotion.
This book opened my eyes to a very modern set of theories and to many understandings of neurology and neuropsychology previously undiscovered by myself.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!,
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I really enjoyed this book because it showed how important the handling of our emotions is for an effective rational thinking. Everyone who suffered from severe depressions and saw its emotions damaged should read it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating!,
I found it hard to put this book down. It's quite a challenge to follow Damasio's discussion of complex research. However, the book has been carefully edited to differentiate in-depth background material from his gradually developing insights..
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4.0 out of 5 stars Shorten the sentences. Make your points more succinctly.,
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No question, this is an important book. The argument is one we all would do well to digest. My only beef is that it can read a bit like a collection of Bar Chart titles. Too many dependent clauses and appositional phrases, etc. But don't let that put you off buying it! 'The Feeling of What Happens' suffers somewhat less from prolix sentences. Both books, however, are printed on very poor paper and some of the diagrams are very smudged.
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Posted by Bestbank Tiger on 4/6 at 9:32 pm to lsufan112001
I believe it though. My company hired a recent biology graduate a little while back. Great for us, but there's no way someone that good should have been available.
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Posted by BelleTigre11 on 4/6 at 10:50 pm to Bestbank TigerOut of curiosity, for those of you who say a college degree isn't necessary in today's world, what job would you suggest to a high school senior after graduation which would allow him to become just as successful as his classmates who plan on going to college?
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Posted by Sigma on 4/7 at 3:45 am to Vols&Shaft83
Oh how I hate these kind of people. You sound like you're actually still in high school.
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Posted by Athanatos on 4/7 at 7:05 am to BelleTigre11
Work on/foe Offshore service vessels
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Posted by yellowfin on 4/7 at 7:49 am to BelleTigre11
Pretty much any skilled trade. Plumber, welder, electrician, etc. I'd do it myself for a few years and then start hiring people to work under me
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Posted by Bestbank Tiger on 4/7 at 10:14 am to BelleTigre11
I still think you're better off having a college degree. You do gain something from the experience, and it opens more doors for you.
But I wouldn't recommend overpaying for it or taking on a lot of debt. I'd also take the labor market into account when choosing a major.
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Posted by Vols&Shaft83 on 4/7 at 11:20 am to TyOconnerTo me, the risk of going into debt spending 4 years pursuing a degree I wasn't sure I wanted was greater than the risk of trying to find another path. I had no idea what I wanted to do at 18 years old. If I had known I wanted to be a doctor/lawyer/ engineer back then, I would have stayed in school, no question. So if an 18 year old is blessed enough to know what he/she is looking for, than college is where they need to be.
Part of the "pumping up of my nuts" comes from the years of ridicule I received from friends and family for my choice to leave school. It's hard not to feel a sense of cockyness & vindication when those same naysayers ask you for a job. Does that make sense?
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Posted by Bayou Tiger on 4/7 at 11:31 am to Vols&Shaft83
quote:That makes perfect sense now that you explain it. But when you are unable to dial back the spiteful demeanor, it more than negates the positive impression from your accomplishments (comes across as small and insecure)... just in case you even care.
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Posted by AutoYes_Clown on 4/7 at 11:31 am to Vols&Shaft83Why has no one suggested starting a Used Car Dealership?
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Posted by Vols&Shaft83 on 4/7 at 11:51 am to Bayou Tiger
That's the problem with internets, it's hard to understand someone's perspective from just reading it. Lynx may not have meant what he posted as insulting, but it sure came across that way. As somebody who listened to the same false assumptions about self employment for years, I probably took it personally, perhaps a bit prematurely.
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Posted by yellowfin on 4/7 at 12:23 pm to Vols&Shaft83
so you sell life insurance?
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Posted by Vols&Shaft83 on 4/7 at 3:11 pm to yellowfinI am licensed to sell life insurance, but I rarely do. I take bids from life companies to become part of a benefits package for employees in various industries.
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Posted by EA6B on 4/7 at 8:52 pm to AutoYes_Clown
Between my wife's and my family we have more than a fair share of doctors, engineers and others with post graduate education, but the family member that is truly wealthy got that way with a string of used care dealerships. He barely made it through high school, but is very bright. Formal education is only compatible with certain personality types.
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Posted by horndog on 4/7 at 9:49 pm to lsufan112001People need to do their homework on what degrees will be in demand in the future and not waste their college opportunity on crappy degrees. The occupational outlook website can give good insight into it.
Here's an example from the healthcare section of it.
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Posted by Carson123987 on 4/7 at 11:04 pm to lsufan112001i will push my kids towards engineering, obviously.
in reality, if you are a smart person and know a few people, you will be successful no matter what.
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Posted by yellowfin on 4/8 at 7:56 am to Carson123987Honestly I'll tell my kids to go to college for the experience and study something they enjoy, if it's engineering that's fine and if it's art history then that's good too.
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Posted by SouthTexasSaint on 4/8 at 1:12 pm to yellowfinI tell my son to get a degree that means something and he enjoys. Thats why I went back to school, so i could tell him that without being a hypocrite. And when he complains about something not being fair, I tell him "life isnt fair, and the sooner you learn that, the better off you will be" Plus the never make excuses for yourself deal too.
He just turned four. Maybe Im pushing him too hard.
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Posted by Vols&Shaft83 on 4/8 at 1:44 pm to SouthTexasSaint
Not for Texas, in Oklahoma I'm pretty sure it's considered abusive
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Posted by JabarkusRussell on 4/25 at 8:43 pm to lsufan112001If I have kids I'm telling them they are going to have to pay for college on their own. It is just getting too expensive. In grad school, I paid $1200 for 3 classes one semester. My last semester I paid $900 for one. I can't imagine how much it will cost in 18 years. I would gladly trade in my degree if it meant I had the money I spent on it.
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In the midst of some of life's more grievous trials, our mind often finds itself fixated on one seemingly unanswerable question:
When our lives begin to come apart at the seams or we're faced with a pain that feels unbearable, it's almost impossible to not ask why. We want to know why God would allow something this terrible to happen to anyone, especially if He is the loving God He claims to be.
It's at times like these that it becomes more important than ever to understand God's purpose for suffering. The prophet Zechariah was inspired to write of a time of great trials to come, when the human race will be subjected to suffering it can't yet begin to comprehend. In that description, we find why God allows us to suffer:
"I will bring the one-third through the fire, will refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'This is My people'; and each one will say, 'The Lord is my God'" (Zechariah:13:9).
God doesn't enjoy letting us hurt. He is a loving God who wants the best for each of us. He allows trials and suffering to occur in our lives for one purpose only—because it's sometimes through the difficulties and the pain that He can take and shape us into the best we can be.
There's much more to be said on the subject, and you'll find links to more detailed answers below. But the key is this: If you're hurting, it's not because God has given up on you. He loves you. He's willing to be there every step of the way, if you'll let Him. The apostle Paul—a man who had been shipwrecked, beaten, stoned, whipped, jailed and subjected to countless other torments—had this to write about the difficulties of this life:
"Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or are hungry or cold or in danger or threatened with death?… I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can't, and life can't. The angels can't, and the demons can't. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, and even the powers of hell can't keep God's love away. Whether we are high above the sky or in the deepest ocean, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans:8:35, 38-39, New Living Translation).
God loves and cares deeply about you. No trial will ever change that.
For more understanding, please read our booklet, Why Does God Allow Suffering .
This subject is very personal to me. I suffer from a series of painful issues, from chronic migraines and fibromyalgia to joint ailments and TMJ, broken bones not set properly, and spinal issues that have degenerated over time. Those, plus injuries suffered in my youth have caused me to become disabled and, most days, leave me homebound.
I try to keep the suffering at a physical level because it can become a greater one if I allow it to affect my mind. This is where God's spirit enters the picture. Christ also suffered for us. He set the example, as did others in scripture. When we suffer, we actually share this experience with Him! Those who suffer patiently due to no fault of our own, we can become acceptable to God, for we grow in character. Our shared experience allows us to communicate with our Father in prayer and meditation on a deeper level, for we can start to relate on a greater level with more understanding. Our pain becomes a shared one. We begin to realize that we really do have an Advocate and a Mediator in Heaven; Christ really does know how we feel. We start our journey together, walking in agreement (Amos 3:3) because we can talk about it and our prayer for others who suffer takes on greater urgency, compassion and empathy for we walk in their shoes as we join their journey. No one walks alone. We can become Family.
Our physical bodies only temporarily house the real us. The purpose of our physical suffering is to reach upward and grasp the spiritual meaning of our existence. Seeing beyond the here and now is what got Christ through His torture and death, and He teaches us to do the same.
I read a wonderful book by ViKtor Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning" which describes his survival of unbearable suffering and loss as a survivor of Auschwitz and Berkenau. He found a deeper purpose, something spiritual and deeper beyond the present--there is always a future to live for. We, by the grace and mercy of God, know what that future is--and we are reminded that this physical suffering is temporary, no matter how it feels. It, too, shall pass. Living this belief is faith in action.
That's the same question Jesus asked (in principle). Only he asked it this way ...
My God! My God! ... why have you forsaken me?
And then he died.
To say he was hurting would be a colossal understatement. So why wasn't he helped? Because it was for that very cause that he came into the world ... its the reason he was born. To suffer and die.
How can that be?
Rev4:2 "..., a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne." This is the Father.
Rev5:1 "And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals."
What is this book? Its the future ... the future that returns God's kingdom to the earth and replaces Satan's and creates the God Family ... of which you may be a part.
But there was a problem. A question is asked:
Rev5:2 "... Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?"
Who is worthy to Captain this future?
And the answer was ... no one.
That being the case you can kiss your life and your salvation goodbye. John wept over this.
But - "... one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne ... stood a Lamb as it had been slain. It was this same Jesus.
He had to suffer and die to become worthy to open the book. He had to become the perfect captain. And before the suffering he experienced he wasn't the perfect captain. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For - Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
You are one of those sons.
And like him ... you too have to be made perfect through sufferings. So when the correct answer for your best interests is to provide no help ... then that's the answer you get. And the result of you enduring those trials is sterling character and eternal life ... as a very son of God ... in the Kingdom of God that Jesus made possible ... because he was willing to endure his trials. So embrace your pain in your trials ... because it leads to eternal life.
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