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Is this normal?
That's what I recently asked my husband as he sat in the seat next to me on our airplane that had just taken off and was soaring above the ocean.
I heard a sound. How do I describe it? A two-syllable kerchunk thump.
Then the plane stopped soaring when it should have been pointing upward. And the sound changed from what a healthy, ascending airplane is supposed to sound like to that of a sick truck that passes you on the freeway and is way too loud, the sound of a truck that's chugging along more than gliding by. Any minute the grrr, hummm of the engine sounds like it's trying too hard and is going to give up.
That's what our plane sounded like.
Then the voice of our pilot, a calm and articulate man, filled the tense silence in the cabin.
"A bird flew into our engine," he announced. "We're going to turn around and go back to the airport."
I looked out the window and saw the ocean. What if we don't make it? Is this it? Is this how it will end? What about my new book? Who will care for my dog and cats? Will someone find our will? What will happen to my art? Will my mother be OK? Maybe I should have stayed home where it was safe.
No, we will be fine, I decided. But what if we're not?
It took 12 minutes to fly back to the airport. I never will forget those minutes. No one spoke. Were they thinking what I was thinking, or was it just me?
Waiting for us were emergency vehicles and people prepared to put out a fire. We didn't need them. We landed just fine.
What does this have to do with your career? Everything.
People of all ages and professions write me daily and tell me they want to change their life and career.
Most act as if they have all the time in the world. They don't. Times like those 12 minutes remind me to remind you of that.
Instead, most people have excuses for not doing what they want: I don't have the money. I'll have to start at the bottom. I'm too old. I may not like it. I might fail. I'll have to go back to school. My parents won't understand.
Are these concerns normal? Yes.
Would it feel safer to stay with what you know? Sure.
But is that enough for you and your time on this planet?
When your fear crops up - and it will, you need to ask the question that gets you through it:
If I worry that my parents will be upset, what do I need to say to them to explain what I want to do and gain their support?
If I need to go back to school, what will that entail and what options exist so I can fit it into my schedule and budget?
If I worry that I may fail or not like it, what's the risk? How will I feel if I don't try it? What do I need to do to feel more confident?
If you're not headed in the direction you want, change that.
Will everything turn out well? You won't know until you try.
I can tell you this: I will get on another airplane.
And both of us will have bumps and scary times along the way. But in the case of your career, you're at the controls.
Step on it.


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COVINGTON -- Newton County officials are not willing to turn over the Main Street Covington program to the city of Covington, based on results so far of meetings of a committee assigned to study the issue.
Chairman Kathy Morgan has said that the county's large footprint in the downtown area means it should still be a part of Main Street Covington. Morgan could not be reached for comment Thursday, but committee members said it looks like the county will retain a 50 percent share in financing of Main Street, though commissioners will discuss the matter at their working retreat in late February.
Covington City Councilman Chris Smith, a member of the committee, first suggested the city be fully responsible for Main Street in exchange for the county taking over Keep Covington-Newton Beautiful. Operating costs for both programs are split between the two governments.
"The county wants to stay involved in (Main Street). We have a tentative intergovernmental agreement and the county asked that it be sent over to the county attorney. The city attorney has reviewed it already," Smith said.
Commissioner Nancy Schulz, also a member of the committee, said the agreement will spell out who the Main Street director will answer to; there has been confusion over that because the director is a city employee but the board of directors has hiring and firing authority. The intergovernmental agreement, which would require approval by both the City Council and the commissioners, specifies that the director report to City Manager Steve Horton.
"My thinking was it's easier to answer to one boss than three bosses," said Smith of why he proposed the program swap. "The Keep-Covington Newton Beautiful budget is a little less than Main Street's and the county would have saved about $10,000 ... but if they want to stay in it, I certainly will support that."
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When will people do the math?
"Taxing the Rich" will never generate enough money to get us anywhere.
The only solution is cutting spending.
Wisconsin's Gov. Walker is showing us how.
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The article quotes: "I think it's safe to say that any attempt to pass another temporary stimulus funded by a permanent tax hike on the very people we're counting on to create the private-sector jobs we need in this country is purely political, and not intended to do a thing to help the economy, since we already know it's likely to fail with bipartisan opposition," Mr. McConnell said on the Senate floor.
Actually, I count on the demand from those with the temporary tax cut to create the need for the economic production that will necessitate job creation. I'm hardly counting on the wealthy to create more jobs if there is no demand out there to buy whatever goods or services our wealthy people feel empowered to produce. The rich have had low taxes since 2002 and they have not significantly grown the economy without a bubble. They have had the same low taxes since the beginning of the economic crisis and the economy has hardly budged.
Raising taxes 2% on people who will spend every last penny of it, or at least reduce their debt and enable future consumption (and the expectation thereof), is likely to be more damaging than raising taxes an equivalent dollar amount on the wealthy. It's not about right or wrong right now. It is about what will create jobs and grow the economy. The Republican position won't even protect the wealthy since the loss in income caused be a double-dip recession would likely be more costly than the proposed taxes.
McConnell admits as much when he says "permanent tax hike." I'd love to see them compromise for another year or two. A nice non-permanent tax hike for the wealthy to pay for the tax holiday for the poor and middle class would be a sensible compromise. McConnell hints at it, but I doubt the Republican back-benchers would agree to any compromise.
Cutting spending is not the ONLY solution. You also need to increase taxes. Only the idiots buy the "can't raise taxes" line coming from the GOP.
the wealthy already get a big payroll-tax break because that stop paying on income once it exceeds $106,000, no? So a person making $40,000 a year pays the fully mandated percentage, while the person making $1,000,000 a year pays a tiny fraction of that percentage.
Maybe you don't understand how the system works. Social Security is a system where one pays in during working years and receives back when retired. The amount of salary is capped on what is paid in because Social Security is capped on how much it pays out. Otherwise, you don't have Social Security, you have welfare. Is that what you want?
Yes, I was aware of that, but the system isn't a straight dollar-in, dollar-plus-accumulated-returns-out system like a corporate pension scheme. All sorts of variables determine how much one gets back from the system. And considering that the payroll tax at, say, 6% has a much greater impact on current quality of life on the $40,000-a-year earner than it does on the $1,000,000-a-year earner, I'd say it'd be fairer to raise that limit, and by quite a lot, in the interest of keeping the overall system solvent.
The only idiots that want to raises taxes are the ones it won't effect, and of course hoping they will get more of someone else's money that they didn't earn. Another idiotic thought is that the $80B proposed tax increase will have some impact on DC. That will really put a smack on the $15T deficit -can you spell "uneducated or moron"?
Why can't congress volunteer to take a 100% tax on ALL income the members generate as an example for all of America. Then we will have proof of their sincerity.
Spending is the crack cocaine of Washington. We had a perfectly good sysytem for 200 years until congress learned that entitlements were the best way to get votes. Now they live like kings and the masses are the dogs. Taxes are a short term fix until they raise them again while the wealthy figures out more loopholes and ways to move thier money and companies offshore, leaving NOTHING for the entitled. It's simple stupid - STOP SPENDNG!
@ And besides has it correctly. Moreover, payroll tax cut worsens whatever financial integrity the SS system currently has. To extent benefit levels as "promised" are actually paid out in future, the now larger shortfall (due to the payroll tax cut) in future years will most likely be made up by general income tax revenues, which very sneakily makes SS system more progressive tax-wise (thus more like redistributive welfare) than at present. Yes, that's right, "And besides." Payroll tax is (with certain limited exceptions) not regressive but in fact modestly progressive. SS not like general income tax system, must account for future expected benefits in order to evaluate properly the progressivity of the tax, and when doing so, payroll tax/SS system is already progressive, and will become more so once general tax revenues are channeled to help fund benefits in future.
Of course there is a calculation that Social Security uses to determine amounts paid in and out. I understand your concern to keep the system solvent, however, this imbalance was caused by two main things. 1) Too much paid out versus collected for several years without adjusting for an aging population, and 2) The use of Social Security funds to pay current account deficits. Given that DC has mismanaged this so poorly, I would caution using "other people's money" to bail it out before adjusting system payouts. Once you distort the system too much, people will look for ways to bypass it. Think Greece and it's inability to collect their taxes.
While I'm not "for" the partial payroll tax holiday, it would be wrong to let it expire on 12/31/2011. Yes, the cost must be made up elsewhere and possibly a "temporary" tax hike on incomes over $1M might be acceptable. Of course, on 01/01/2013 (if memory serves) all "Bush Tax Cuts" will expire. Plus, on 01/01/2014 a surtax will be imposed on incomes over $200k/$250k ("millionaires and billionaires) derived from dividends and capital gains - part of Obamacare. So, it would appear that we're on track to raise the top rate to 39.4%, then 3.8% Obamacare surtax, plus 2% -3% for this high earner tax to pay for the payroll tax cut...let's see, that would be a total rate of 46.2% up from 35% today.
@Goofy economics: Let's say the payroll tax cut is extended and expanded as Obama wants. At the end of the day, most job creation comes from small and medium sized businesses (frequently taxed at individual rates). If those businesses see a pick-up in demand they are faced with expanding their workforce with the higher mandated costs (Obamacare, higher tax rates); might they be willing to either outsource the work or ask their employees to produce more for the same money (or slight increases in overtime pay)?
Social Security is paying out more than it's taking in. We've jacked up the SS tax in the past to deal with this. Reagan had to double it, and even then, it took less than 30 years for SS to start losing money again. Now we're slashing the pay in. That's making things a lot worse. Yet, undoubtedly, those who support slashing SS's income will respond to talk of cutting SS benefits by saying "you can't do that, we PAID for it!"
That's what they've always said before.
I agree that it is a drag on the economy to overtax small business as a result of raising individual rates, but so is an end to the payroll tax holiday. Of course taxing the very wealthy through a less big-business-friendly/discriminatory tax code would be better, but you'd have to get Congress to act.
As for your other taxes mentioned... There's a lot of conjecture there. For one, I doubt we'll actually head back to a 39.4% top tax rate for anyone making under a million. That's a bargaining position opening, not a dictate. 35% would likely be steep for where we'll actually end up. You are correct that the Obamacare tax rates will raise the top rates as well, but I'd be very surprised if the top rate went over 40%. For the rich rich, Buffett style, they'll take their gains in non-income fashion, keeping their tax rates below 30%. The poor rich will pay the highest rates, as normal.
Therein lies the crux of the problem. The poor rich ($200-500K) can't figure out how to divorce themselves politically from the rich rich. So we end up under-taxing the rich rich to avoid overtaxing the poor rich. And since politically we cannot control spending much more than we have, we end up with permanent deficits.
As for the Obamacare taxes, those will be a drag on the economy. On the other hand, so is out-of-control health care spending in this country. The previous model did nothing to control costs. Obamacare has at least some cost-control built in. These were not the right years to put in place Obamacare, but these were the years where there were 60 votes in the Senate. The old system, beloved of the Republicans, was doing nothing but explode costs and provide sub-standard care to half of the population.
Either way, there is no way our political system will allow a top rate of 46.2%. That's just scare mongering.
Cut spending. Don't reduce social security taxes. That money needs to keep coming to pay for the outlays.
personally the only way i'd like to see this extended is if the cost is offset by spending cuts of the same magnitude. the tax increases we have stacked up just waiting to come back into play is getting scary now...with the expiration of the bush tax cuts (for everyone) followed by the big obamacare tax increase...gulp.
the unfortunate thing about the payroll tax cut is that it doesn't seem to have had any noticeable positive impact on employment. i don't think employers are hiring based on any temporary payroll tax cuts as they see these massive tax increases coming, and generally hiring is a long term decision that isn't swayed much by short term policy changes...they need policy certainty, and we have the opposite situation here. on the demand side, it seems that a lot of the tax cuts are being used to improve individuals balance sheets rather than spent..
Don't you love how I call this a tax "increase", but I favor "eliminating" the Bush Tax Cuts.
Aren't I a clever one?
If we reduce the payroll tax then we need to reduce social security benefits.
The bottom line is that these tax cuts need to be extended. Reducing this 12.4% tax to 8.4%--for a benefit some future Democratic administration will steal from me anyway--is more than a penny earned.
@Response, thanks for an even-handed post. Every rah-rah partisan should read it twice. Frankly, we've run up so much debt, I don't think any sector is going to be shielded from the effects of closing the deficit and paying down some debt. I think all temporary tax cuts should end--we can't afford them, and the stimulus effect is not true, at least not anymore. We can't stimulate our way to a balance budget or balanced economy, and we can't cut taxes to get there either. These solutions haven't worked well enough for the past ten years, and we've piled up debt from the failed experiment. It's time to stop the experiments and move resolutely to a balanced budget. A moderate proposal: http://moderatepoli.blogspot.com/2011/09/tax-week-finale-my-budget-proposal.html
The reason we have these payroll taxes is because of the socialist wealth distribution program called social security that transfers wealth from the young, working American's into the pockets of the elderly.
If we get rid of the democrats social engineering ponzi scheme, then we won't have a need for payroll taxes at all.
51% of households pay no income tax now, but at least they pay social security. Apparently the Dems feel they should have no skin in the game at all! I can't think of a clearer example of wealth transfer than this.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) told reporters on a conference call. "We all know that Republicans have long had an advantage over Democrats over the tax issue but that is changing."
There you have it, the new Democratic strategy: Reduce taxes and increase spending. How long until we are borrowing $2T/year?
If you sum a person's tax bill and his handouts (since tax credits, especially "refundable" ones, function exactly the same as welfare checks), you'll find that over 20% of the country gets paid to live. That is, even after you count the payroll taxes that "everyone pays", their net "tax" is still a negative number. This number is larger than ever.
The geniuses who run the Democratic Party have realized that by rephrasing handouts as "refundable tax credits", they can run circles around Republicans in debates. Not only can they claim that they, the Democrats, are offering "big tax cuts", but they can also condemn repeals of their social redistribution as "tax hikes". They can claim that total taxes, and the size of government, are "smaller", because they're now "adding" in negative tax "payments" by the bottom third of society.
The number of refundable credits has increased five-fold just since Obama took office. Their dollar amount is also skyrocketing.
They will take the money from the General Fund that would have come from those payroll taxes, so no loss.
And then they will claim, as always, that SS benefits should be untouchable (unless you're rich!) because we "paid for them with our taxes."
How much longer will we enable the lie?
the "tax" they are talking about is your contribution into your social security account...current administration is saying spend the $$ now and put less into your social security...
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The Changing Face of Osteopathic Medical Education
By Kathleen Louden
If Norman Rockwell were still painting pictures of physicians, they probably would look different from the white men that mirrored the artist's view of America in the 1920s and 1930s.
Today, more than one-third of DOs are women, and osteopathic physicians are more varied in race, not unlike the United States itself. Minority racial and ethnic groups now make up 37 percent of the U.S. population, and the U.S. Census Bureau projects that they will be in the majority by 2043.
Like other forward-thinking educational institutions, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine is not waiting for the country's demographics to change before increasing the diversity of its student body, says Lisa McBride, PhD, the College's inaugural chief diversity officer. "We're planting the seeds for success now," Dr. McBride says. "PCOM and other osteopathic medical schools are responsible for educating our students to serve an increasingly diverse society."
Diversity defined
The Association of American Medical Colleges defines diversity as acceptance and respect of differences, including in race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, age, abilities, religion, native language and culture.
Dr. McBride says that among PCOM students, "diversity includes single parents, international students, students having experienced other cultures, veterans, individuals from different geographical and socioeconomic backgrounds, and others with unique backgrounds and life experiences."
PCOM's admissions policy states: "We actively recruit under-represented minority students and non-traditional students who often offer exceptional potential for becoming outstanding physicians."
Minorities remain under-represented in medicine, however. A 2006 study from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shows that minority physicians are more likely to work in areas that are medically underserved. Yet African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans represented only about 6 percent of practicing physicians nationwide in 2004, despite constituting 25 percent of the U.S. population, according to the Sullivan Commission, a group charged with studying workforce diversity in the health profession.
In its 2004 report, the Sullivan Commission called for an increase in racial and ethnic diversity among health professionals. The commission cited "compelling evidence" that benefits of racial-ethnic diversity include improved access to health care for minority patients, greater patient satisfaction and better educational experiences for students in the health professions.
Greater racial and ethnic diversity among osteopathic physicians is critical to eliminating the racial-ethnic disparities that exist in the quality and availability of health care for underserved populations, Dr. McBride and other experts say.
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Sources: American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, March 23, 2013 (DO graduates nationwide, 1985 and 2012); C. B. Perloff, To Secure Merit: A Century of Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine 1899–1999, chapter 14 (1986 data); Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine registrar report, September 27, 2013 (class of 2014).
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Sources: American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, March 23, 2013 (DO graduates nationwide, 1988 and 2012); C. B. Perloff, To Secure Merit: A Century of Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine 1899–1999, chapter 14 (1988 data); Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine registrar report, September 27, 2013 (class of 2014).
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Sources: American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, March 23, 2013 (DO graduates nationwide, 2012); Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine registrar report, September 27, 2013 (class of 2014).
A history of diversity
Many medical schools are working to enhance an environment of diversity, but diversity is nothing new to osteopathic medical colleges. Osteopathic medicine—itself a minority in the medical field—was an early supporter of bringing women and racial minorities into the profession.
Historically, PCOM has embraced diversity. One of the first two graduates of the College—then named the Philadelphia College and Infirmary of Osteopathy—was a woman, and a female physician was on the new College's faculty in 1900.
Later, female graduates of PCOM pioneered in traditionally male-dominated areas of medicine. Among them was Vivian Barsky, DO '67, one of only two women in a class of approximately 100 medical students. Now retired and living in Venice, Florida, Dr. Barsky says, "I never felt discriminated against in class because of being a woman. The education was excellent."
Although it seemed to Dr. Barsky that most physicians at the time thought that women should become general practitioners or obstetrician/gynecologists, she received offers for residencies in multiple specialties. She chose the male dominated field of surgery and became PCOM's first female graduate to be board-certified in general surgery.
A woman in the class after Dr. Barsky, Elizabeth Bomheuer, DO, graduated in 1968 at the age of 52, showing the College's openness to accepting older students.
The first African-American graduate of PCOM was a woman, Meta Christy, DO, in 1921. Although the College graduated only four African Americans in its first 50 years, by 1978 it was pro-actively recruiting students from under-represented minorities, including African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans.
The College's early efforts at recruiting minority students earned it a recommendation from the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine as a model program. Initiatives included outreach programs to Philadelphia high school students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds as well as to colleges with high minority enrollment. PCOM also began awarding scholarships to minority students in the 1980s.
Even before the institution's commitment to supporting programs that would aid in successful student outcomes, minority students were committed to helping each other succeed, says Marsha Williams, PCOM associate director of admissions. For example, third- and fourth-year minority students formed peer partnerships to emotionally encourage and academically assist students.
Commitment to diversity
Since the 1980s, the College has become more diverse (see figures 1-3 above). Of the current DO student body at both College campuses (Philadelphia and Georgia), one third are minorities or multiracial, and more than half of students are women.
PCOM's minority student enrollment fluctuates from year to year. At osteopathic medical schools nationwide, the percentage of enrolled African American students dropped from 4.1 percent in 2006 to 3.0 percent in 2010, according to a January 4, 2012, article in The DO. That decrease, despite a 35 percent increase in overall enrollment at osteopathic medical colleges during the same period, may be a sign of the economic recession, the article reports.
The College uses various methods to matriculate minority students. For instance, recruitment trips to historically black colleges and regional educational meetings geared toward minority recruitment in other parts of the country, such as the Southern Regional Education Board Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, help develop relationships between under-represented minority students and PCOM. Strategies for recruiting minority students to PCOM are dynamic, as staff members constantly look for ways of improvement, according to Ms. Williams.
For the past two years, PCOM has given high school students from under-represented populations in Philadelphia firsthand experience of osteopathic medicine as a possible career by hosting them monthly throughout the academic year. Known as the Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program (HPREP), this educational "pipeline" program is co-sponsored by the Office of Admissions and the Student National Medical Association (SNMA), a minority medical student organization. HPREP gives participants an opportunity to visit various areas of campus once a month and learn about different fields in medicine. Students also learn to suture and are required to complete a final project on what they would need for a successful career in medicine. Last year's final project was designing a practice in an underserved area. Ms. Williams says she expects to have data in five or six years on the numbers of HPREP participants who choose to study osteopathic medicine.
For the past few summers, minority "whiz kids" have been mentored (on campus) by PCOM scientists through the Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP). PSTP is a national program that supports aspiring minority physicians from 7th grade through their senior year of college. The program focuses on training physician scientists who will be capable of translating basic research advances from the laboratory to the clinic.
And each spring, PCOM hosts an open house for minority college students. This event introduces them to current medical students who come from similar socio-economic backgrounds and who are fulfilling their dreams of a medical career.
Another recent change, according to Ms. Williams, is to allow virtual appointments through a webcam with applicants and prospective students from other states who cannot afford to travel to Philadelphia. "Students want face-to-face interaction. In this way, I provide them with that opportunity at no expense to them," she says.
Multicultural sensitivity
An important part of diversity is building understanding of other cultures, called cultural competence.
Many African Americans who attend predominantly white undergraduate universities feel a lack of understanding about their culture from students of other races, and they fear losing their cultural identity, research published in 2013 in the journal Communication Education shows.
Helping students bridge the culture gap at PCOM campuses are national student organizations that focus on multicultural affairs. Such groups for medical students include the SNMA and the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association.
PCOM goes further by including instruction about cultural and linguistic competence in its curriculum. The class on patient-centered skills for first- and second-year DO students this year introduced a lecture series about multicultural situations they likely will encounter in medical practice, including different religions, care of transgender patients, and care of children of lesbian and gay couples.
In Philadelphia, medical students work in a homeless shelter and at PCOM's Healthcare Centers—four urban and one rural—that provide care to medically underserved communities. A major goal of the College is encouraging PCOM medical students at both campuses to provide care to underserved communities after graduation and to conduct research on healthcare disparities—conditions that disproportionately affect one race compared with another, Dr. McBride says.
The goal of cultural competence education is to foster the knowledge, skills and attitudes that allow future osteopathic medicine physicians to understand sociocultural differences and work effectively with patients, their families and other members of the medical team. "We encourage all potential physicians to have a culturally competent heart. It meshes with our mission of fostering civility and respect for each member of the PCOM family," Dr. McBride says. "The world is changing, and we want to be a welcoming community."
NOMA Promotes Diversity
Among the organizations promoting diversity in osteopathic medicine is the National Osteopathic Medical Association (NOMA). "Diversity is important because it's a true reflection of the world we live in and the community we serve," says Jennifer Caudle, DO, vice president of NOMA and an assistant professor of family medicine at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford, New Jersey.
The mission of NOMA is to facilitate the recruitment, admission, retention and graduation of minority osteopathic medical students, heighten awareness of the osteopathic profession in the minority community and promote initiatives designed to improve minority health issues globally, Dr. Caudle says.
NOMA was founded in 1992 to create a sense of community for minority osteopathic physicians and to address these issues. The association links osteopathic medical students and pre-med students with physician mentors, and it advocates on critical issues affecting minority physicians and their patients. NOMA also sponsors health fairs and other community service events that aim to improve minority health.


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Osfel Andrade, who is one of four named plaintiffs in an ACLU of Southern California lawsuit against Terra Universal, Inc., was arrested at his home Wednesday morning by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
The company produces "clean rooms" and other high tech laboratory equipment for NASA and the U.S. military, as well as the private sector. The Fullerton plant was raided by the feds in June and 43 workers were arrested. Terra Universal is currently under investigation by ICE and the U.S. Department of Labor for alleged exploitation of workers.
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Andrade and other workers who complained about these workplace issues or who suffered injuries were fired, had their pay deducted or their hours reduced and were verbally abused, according to the ACLU/SC, which filed the suit along with its co-counsel Hadsell Stormer Keeny Richardson & Renick in August.
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TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: "Saturday Night Live," 11:29 p.m., NBC.
Bruno Mars jumped into rare turf - Justin Timberlake/Mick Jagger land - when he doubled as the host and the music guest. He threw himself into it with his usual energy, as we see in this rerun.
Mars sang his uptempo "Locked Out of Heaven" and ballad "Young Wild Girls," plus much more, in a sketch that had him as a temp who must rescue a radio station by singing every song. He leaped into other sketches, including one as an angry woman on a Jerry Springer-type show.
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Two area cross country runners — Christoval's Annie Archuleta and Wall's Turner Adams — were selected to the Texas Girls Coaches Association Academic All-State Team, released Tuesday.
To be eligible, athletes must be seniors, have a GPA of 94 or above for grades 9-11, and be a team member in good standing.
Archuleta was one of 19 girls in the state selected to the Class 1A team. Adams was one of 17 girls in the state selected to the 2A team.
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The Standard-Times is accepting nominations for its annual All-West Texas volleyball team. The deadline to submit nominations is Nov. 21.
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Tickets for Central's bi-district playoff game against El Paso Franklin will be sold through Thursday at the SAISD Administration building, which is open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
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Brandell Collins scored a game-high 19 points for the Chiefs. Josh Dominguez and Ryan Chaney also scored in double digits with 15 and 10 points, respectively.
The Chiefs led 30-23 at the half and put the game away with a 16-8 advantage in the fourth quarter.
"I was very pleased," Lake View head coach Robert Chaney said. "I was happy we won. I thought we played really good defense.
"We missed a lot of shots, but I think in time they'll start falling. We're just trying to get better each week and we will."
Lake View is scheduled to host Big Spring in its home opener at 6:30 p.m. Friday.
Lake View 19 11 11 16 — 57
Brownwood 6 17 11 8 — 42
LAKE VIEW — Brandell Collins 19, Jordan Everitt 8, Ryan Chaney 10, Josh Dominguez 15, Fabian Tavarez 1, Robert Martin 2, Spencer Kennemer 2. Totals 21 13-15 57.
BROWNWOOD — Bryant McDaniel 17, Tyler Jackson 2, Mike Sawyer 8, Jeff Newton 7, Andrew Brenham 5. Totals 12 17-29 42.
3-Point Goals — Lake View 2 (Chaney, Domingue); Brownwood 2 (McDaniel 2). Records — Lake View is 1-0, Brownwood is 0-1.
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Lady Cats lose to 2A power Ballinger
The Central High School girls basketball team was routed 69-41 on the road against Ballinger on Tuesday.
The Lady Cats, led by 11 points from Brianna Torres, fell behind 33-13 at halftime. They got within 46-33 after three quarters before being overwhelmed in the final period.
"We have a lot of work to do," first-year Central head coach Greg McWilliams said. "The kids are working hard, and we are trying to come together. Ballinger played a good game, and we just struggled on offense and defense."
Ballinger was led by Shayann Matschek with 15 points and Kirsten McCoy with 11.
Central will play again Thursday in the three-day Marble Falls Tournament.
Ballinger 69, Central 41
Central 7 6 20 8 — 41
Ballinger 15 18 13 23 — 69
CENTRAL — Brianna Torres 11, Jennifer Torres 8, Emily Hurst 6, Brooke Cyphers 5, Kendall Jones 4, Abby Shelburne 3, Brianna Contreras 3, Kara Sanders 1. Totals 14 8-18 41.
BALLINGER — S. Matschek 15, K. McCoy 11, C. Garcia 9, K. Willingham 6, C. Toliver 6, L. Tounget 5, J. Good 5, E. Sanchez 5, T. Bowman 4, D. Caudle 3. Totals 23 18-36 69.
3-Point Goals — Central 8 (B. Torres 3, Hurst 1, J. Torres 3, Cyphers 1); Ballinger 5 (Good 1, Caudle 1, McCoy 1, Garcia 1, Matschek 1). Records — Central is 1-2.
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This week, I am up in Portland, Maine, leading a newspaper workshop at the Telling Room. It's my first real foray into teaching, and I have a great group of 12-15 year olds.
Monday we had a riveting panel of journalists–me, my father, a 45-year veteran of the newspaper industry, and a Portland-based journalist, Deirdre Fulton. We talked about news hooks, story ideas and the virtues of pencils over pens, plus shared some of our most embarrassing interview moments. In the afternoon, the students interviewed each other and wrote mini-profiles about their workshop-mates.
Amazingly, they all came back on Tuesday morning! Because of some weath-a, we decided to cut the day short, so we got right to writing after some fun, break-the-ice activities. I gave the students a lists of facts and asked them to craft a stories out of it. Many of them have written before, but generally fiction or poetry. Journalism has it's own form and style, so it's useful to practice writing that way, even if we don't have time to do all the interviews.
We experimented with new ledes on a magazine story I read years ago (also discussing how much reporting the writer did and how she made a seemingly boring topic more interesting), and then talked about story ideas–the students will hit the town tomorrow as reporters doing pieces on local coffee shops and other businesses, an E.R. doctor and a local healthcare center that's closing.
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Where: Winooski Bowmen Clubhouse, N6744 Sportsman Lane, Plymouth
Synopsis: The Winooski Bowmen Archery Club is sponsoring the event, which will feature a raffle drawing for grand prizes following the contest awards. Food and other refreshments will be served starting at 11 a.m.
Contact: For information, call Mike Strege at 920-892-2060, or visit www.winooskibowmen.org.
Jan. 19
What: Hunting for a Cure
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Where: Kim's 5 Corners, N3701 County Highway I, Sheboygan Falls
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What is poor performance costing your company?
When a company hires new employees, the goal is to grow, increase productivity, and ultimately make more money. But what happens when your new hire or even a long-time employee under-performs? Forget about increasing productivity! Every manager with a few years experience has dealt with an under-performing employee. The problem persists in every department, organization, and industry, because every company relies on the output of its workforce.
While the intangible effects of under-performance, such as low moral and reduced productivity, are real, until recently the actual cost of poor performance was too ambiguous to calculate.
The Future Foundation conducted research in seven countries including the United States to understand the costs associated with poor people performance. Their eye-opening research revealed that American managers spend 13 percent of their time managing poor performers and 14 percent correcting poor performers' mistakes.
That translates into an average of 34 days per year dealing with under-performance. Combine that with the fact that American employees admit that 68 percent of the mistakes they make never come to their manager's attention.
Worse yet - problems increase with the size of the organization. In larger organizations, managers spend approximately eight weeks per year, or 41 days, managing poor performers.
What's the root of these staggeringly high poor-performance statistics? Researchers at Sheffield's Institute of Work Psychology sampled manufacturing businesses and found that 18 percent of variations in productivity and 19 percent in profitability were attributed to people management practices.
In addition, The Future Foundation estimates the United States devotes $105 billion a year correcting problems associated with poor people management and hiring practices. This translates into 1.05 percent of the total United States gross domestic product. Clearly, the current approaches to people management waste corporate profits.
How to Improve Poor Performance
Promising instant results or oversimplifying quick fixes is counter-productive. No one-size-fits-all people management template will work for every organization. The strategy you use must fit within your company's business strategy and goals. And your management practices must fit together and mutually reinforce each other.
However, the following three strategies can be applied to every organization in any industry.
Increase Accountability
Everyone's contribution can and should be measured. Failure to set clear, measurable performance standards for each employee often leads to poor performance. The worker may believe he or she is meeting expectations, while the supervisor has a completely different perspective. When specific measurable objectives aren't in place, success is open to interpretation.
As a general rule, when setting performance goals you need to:
Clearly define desired results or outcomes.
Clarify approved policies or procedures. Be careful you don't dictate exactly how to reach the end result unless specifically asked. Remember that a goal can be achieved in different ways.
Outline available resources. This may include a budget, personnel, and equipment.
Set specific phases for accountability.
Help the employee see the big picture and how his or her performance furthers the organization's goals.
Make sure you reach a mutual understanding about each item before starting. A proven method of increasing accountability is increasing the frequency of performance reviews. Often employee performance reviews and goal-setting meetings are scheduled every 90 days; however, with such a long length of time, employees tend to wait until the last few weeks before the review to achieve the desired outcome. When this happens, you lose weeks of improved performance.
Instead, break the goals into monthly segments. Then the employee can focus on a more realistic goal with a shorter duration. This makes it easier for them to stay motivated, you get the benefit of increased performance earlier, and any misunderstandings can be resolved sooner.
Plus, shorter timelines increase accountability. Holding each employee accountable and demonstrating how their contribution affects the company is essential for improved performance.
Improve Your Hiring Process
According to The Future Foundation study, an average of eight months of training is required to achieve expected performance levels. Currently, one out of eight American employees leaves the job before obtaining competency.
Worse yet, co-workers are not immune to the mis-hire. The same study found 23 percent of American workers surveyed feel their colleagues are incompetent.
To combat this problem, review your hiring process and calculate your success. Most companies have spent a great deal of time creating manufacturing and sales processes, but have neglected the procedures for finding, interviewing and hiring top talent. To do so:
Hold your hiring process account- able: One of the leading causes of employee turnover is a poor job match. Calculate what your success rate is by determining the average length your employees stay before leaving. Calculate the cost of each mis-hire and work to decrease it on a regular basis.
Plan properly: The axiom, "Poor planning produces poor performance and proper planning produces proper performance," is very true when it comes to hiring. Organize your hiring process with the same levels of effort and thought you use with other critical processes.
Ask for feedback and conduct exit interviews: After a new employee has acclimated for 30 days, ask for confidential feedback on the hiring process while it's still fresh in their minds. You may receive information that will improve your process. Most companies perform exit interviews as people leave. If you don't, start now. You're missing out on valuable information that could improve your hiring.
Give your hiring processes the time and resources they deserve. The right people in the right positions are your most important asset - act like it.
Revamp Your Development Process
Most senior executives agree on the importance of developing a management team for superior business performance. The gap between current productivity levels and expected performance is often attributed to a lack of skills.
Although executives feel they are investing in their people, these programs are often under-funded, antiquated, and not in line with the organization's goals.
To improve your management's development process, stop funding reactive investments dealing with employee performance levels. The capital saved should be invested on proactive solutions to ensure the right people are matched with the right positions within the organization. This will go a long way to free up the manager's time spent on under-performers.
Second, review your development process to make sure it provides three essential elements: skills training, hands-on practices of acquired skills, and a network of advice from colleagues and mentors. Adults learn best when applying new information in a non-threatening environment to confirm understanding.
Third, be sure your development plan is in line with the strategic goals of the business. IBM now begins its development process by defining desired business results because their most popular training courses were producing a negative return on investment: They had to make changes in their system to attain their goals.
When you use this process to invest wisely, your development process will increase your bottom line.
Better People Management
Now more than ever, human capital is the key driver of profit and innovation. Effective people management practices get superior results by increasing accountability, retaining and recruiting better people, and developing innovative ways to increase profit.
In fact, integrated and appropriately applied people management strategies and practices are the most powerful driver of sustained success. Even small improvements can be expected to deliver results. When you use these people management strategies in your organization, you can increase productivity, eliminate under-performance, and boost your bottom line.
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OK, granted these 2011 Phillies go through stretches where it appears their offensive strategy must have been devised by Thomas Wolfe -- "You Can't Go Home Again". Though we all suspected that without Jayson Werth and with Chase Utley and Domonic Brown banged up, runs were sometimes going to be scarce, this lineup shouldn't be as bad as it frequently looks. And, historically, it really isn't.
Sure, it's tough watching gritty pitching performances by Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels wasted because of a lack of run support. But these Phillies have averaged 732 runs a season since 2006 and even in an offensively trying 2011 are scoring 4.3 a game. That ought to be enough support for quality pitchers like Halladay, Lee and Hamels. Remember, Steve Carlton somehow managed to win 27 games with a '72 Phils team that scored just 503 runs that season, an average of only 3.1.
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If the Internet had existed in that first full year of America's involvement in World War II, it would have imploded beneath the collective weight of this city's baseball torment. So bad were the Phillies and A's that they must have come close to inducing civic hari-kari (Harry Caray?). If nothing else, their combined 97-208 record undoubtedly boosted area enlistments. The last-place Phils were a franchise-worst 42-109, while Connie Mack's American League A's, also last, went 55-99. Still, in comparison with the Phillies, those A's were a Murderers Row, crossing home plate 549 times.


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The state of Illinois would have to allow ordinary citizens to carry weapons under a federal appeals court ruling issued today; Sen. Sullivan supports the ruling
State Senator John Sullivan (D-Rushville) applauded today's ruling by the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which struck down Illinois' restrictive law on bearing arms outside the home. The federal court gave the General Assembly and the governor 180 days to enact concealed carry legislation
"I am extremely pleased with today's decision and could not agree more that the time has come for Illinois to join the 49 other states where it's legal to carry a gun for self-defense in a public place," Sen. Sullivan said. "I look forward to working with my colleagues to draft a law that finally respects Illinoisans' Second Amendment rights and makes our state a safer place for law-abiding citizens."
Illinois law currently prohibits carrying a loaded weapon outside one's own home, with exceptions for hunters, law enforcement officers and a few other types of individuals. Following the United States Supreme Court's lead, the appeals court in a 2-1 decision declared that the right to bear arms includes a right to self-defense and that people need to defend themselves and their families in a variety of settings, not just in their homes. The court suggested some restrictions would still be permissible but unequivocally stated that Illinois may no longer remain the last hold-out in the nationwide movement to allow concealed carry.
State Representative Jil Tracy (R-Quincy) was pleased with the recent court decision that upholds an individual's right to use a firearm in self-defense, on their property as well as outside their home.
"The court's opinion today should help pave the way for a responsible concealed carry law here in Illinois," said Rep. Tracy. "The legislature returns to Springfield in early January to take up a number of issues, and I would hope a concealed carry measure would be top on that list after this recent ruling."
Illinois National Rifle Association representative Todd Vandermyde will discuss the pro-concealed carry side of the issue Wednesday morning on WTAD. He will make an appearance on The Morning Meeting at 10 am.
"I am a thousand percent for concealed carry and the citizens of Illinois and this nation being able to exercise their right. I have sponsored a couple of pieces of legislation related to concealed carry," said State Sen. Sam McCann (R-Carlinville). "I plan to introduce legislation as soon as the 98th General Assembly convenes…my staff is already working on that legislation so I can introduce it as soon as possible."
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The state of Illinois would have to allow ordinary citizens to carry weapons under a federal appeals court ruling issued today, but the judges also gave lawmakers 180 days to put their own version of the law in place.
In a 2-1 decision that is a major victory for the National Rifle Association, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals said the state's ban on carrying a weapon in public is unconstitutional.
"We are disinclined to engage in another round of historical analysis to determine whether eighteenth-century America understood the Second Amendment to include a right to bear guns outside the home. The Supreme Court has decided that the amendment confers a right to bear arms for self-defense, which is as important outside the home as inside," the judges ruled.
"The theoretical and empirical evidence (which overall is inconclusive) is consistent with concluding that a right to carry firearms in public may promote self-defense. Illinois had to provide us with more than merely a rational basis for believing that its uniquely sweeping ban is justified by an increase in public safety. It has failed to meet this burden.
"The Supreme Court's interpretation of the Second Amendment compelled the appeals court to rule the ban unconstitutional, the judges said. But the court gave 180 days to "allow the Illinois legislature to craft a new gun law that will impose reasonable limitations, consistent with the public safety and the Second Amendment as interpreted in this opinion, on the carrying of guns in public."
David Sigale, an attorney who represented the Second Amendment Foundation in the lawsuit, called the decision by the appeals court in Chicago "historic."
"What we are most pleased about is how the court has recognized that the Second Amendment is just as, if not at times more, important in public as it is in the home," he said. "The right of self-defense doesn't end at your front door."
In the opinion, Posner wrote that "Twenty-first century Illinois has no hostile Indians. But a Chicagoan is a good deal more likely to be attacked on a sidewalk in a rough neighborhood than in his apartment on the 35th floor of the Park Tower."
Illinois is the only state in the nation not to have some form of conceal carry after Wisconsin recently approved law.
"The (Illinois) legislature, in the new session, will be forced to take up a statewide carry law," said NRA lobbyist Todd Vandermyde.