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Because i was signed of work due to my mistreatment by management... and forced to work less hours during the relevant months used to calculate whether i was entitled to SMP can i get them done for this?
Thank you for your patience - I am just getting my advice ready and will post it on here shortly
If you were treated detrimentally because of your pregnancy then that would likely amount to discrimination, which is something you are protected against in law.
The test is whether you were treated less favourably because of your pregnancy when compared to other employees that were not pregnant. Therefore, bullying, victimisation, harassment, etc that you were subjected to as a result of being pregnant would amount to discriminatory conduct by the employer and the individual employees responsible for it.
If you were the victim of discrimination then you can consider taking legal action to seek compensation. The claim must be submitted within 3 months of the discriminatory act complained of, or the last in a series of discriminatory acts. If the bullying behaviour occurred more than 3 months ago then you can try and claim that their failure to give you SMP is just another in a series of discriminatory acts and use that as the date from which to count the time limit. In any event I would not advise that you delay this much longer if possible.
In addition to a claim for discrimination you can also consider resigning and making a claim for constructive dismissal. This should only be an option you pursue if you believe that this has now reached the last straw and you can no longer continue working there as a result of all that has happened. The same time limit to claim applies, in this case 3 months from date of resignation (you would not be expected to work your notice period).
Please let me know if this has answered your query or if you need me to clarify anything else for you in relation to this?
Hello, do you need any further advice on this issue?
Yes, recently last week i was handed my works maternity policy explaining how SMP works, do you know if i should have been handed this sooner?
i was given a maternity risk assessment months ago but only just received my maternity policy last week explaining in detail how things would be carried out, leaving me in the dark, my manager kept telling me she didn't know how it all worked and i feel as if she was intentionally misleading me
SMP is not a company policy issue, it is a matter of law and that is public knowledge and this would have been available for you at any time to view on the Government websites. If there were other issues that were specific to the maternity policy that were not applied then you can complain to the employer about that - the policy is there to be followed and failure by the employer to do so, especially if these were also their legal obligations towards a pregnant employee, can make them in breach
Regarding the letter... Why i cannot pay you SMP i received tuesday, its states i was paying Class 1b NI contributions, on my wage slips it says i paid, employee NIC & below Tax payed, on a Tax Code 512T
and that this may mean my employer may not have counted all of my earnings, and that i should ask them to recalculate my earnings as if i had been paying Class 1 NI contributions
i used Gov.UK to determine what i was entitled to there calculator based on my earnings during the "relevant period" to which it stated i was entitled to SMP
Were you given form SMP1?
Yes, and the box ticked was your earnings are to low
If you are really not eligible for SMP then you may be able to get Maternity Allowance and you can contact the DWP for that. If you believe that you have been wrongly told that you cannot get SMP the you can raise this with the employer first and then with HMRC
I believed my employers deliberately made my working life hell and cut my hours from 30 - 12 hours under my contracted hours, to force me out my job or for them to not pay me as much SMP or any SMP at all, as it all coincides with the relevant period from how SMP is calculated, what would you advise?
this takes me back to my advice above - if your hours were cut and as a result you are not eligible for SMP then that is not something that you can challenge with HMRC but you have to pursue the employer for the alleged discriminatory behaviour and that is when the potential sex/pregnancy discrimination claim comes in as well as the constructive dismissal if you believe you can no longer work there as a result
I have used GOV.UK maternity calculator for employers and used my pay for the relevant period, it says this employee is entitled to SMP and that you should pay your employer this amount, could i use this as the last straw to resign my job and make a case for discrimination previous to the 3 month period, also If i quit my job would i still be entitled to Maternity allowance ?
Try to challenge the employer's decision not to pay you SMP directly with them first but that could be used as a further discriminatory act on their part. You may still get MA if not currently employed as long as you satisfy the employment rule, which you can find here:
I have used my wage slips/invoice for the relevant months used to work out SMP, i did receive some holiday pay during these months because i was receiving much less hours then before and had bills to keep up with so i put Holidays through to help me keep up payments, i read that holiday pay does not affect the relevant period calculations and should be taken into account when adding up SMP, using this i was eligible for more money on SMP than i would receive from Maternity allowance
SMP will depend on your earnings during the relevant period of calculation. Holiday pay is just normal earnings and will be included in this calculation
Is Maternity allowance calculated using the same rules and "relevant period" as SMP is ?
no, the rules are different - MA deals with a test period and that is 66 weeks before your baby is due. Party of the eligibility criteria is that you must have earned an average of £30 a week over any 13 week period in the test period
I rang them to tell them that i thought there calculations was wrong, where i was told it can't be wrong, i insisted that it was wrong and she put me on hold for 10 mins, where she then picked up the phone and told me to call back Monday as the person who deals with this is not in, and that they might have been missing a week of the calculations, i then received a phone call shortly after and was told i am right on the boarder line to receive SMP but to call back Monday, So i'm assuming my manager give them the wrong information
they may have and by the looks of it they are still unsure themselves and a final decision has not been made
I've also noticed my manager had my due date down as the 25th when it is the 30th Aug, so she has "i think" intentionally wrote the wrong date is because she has my records, this makes a massive difference and whether or not i am entitled to SMP
it does not matter what they think or what they have written - the due date is set by medical records and the calculations will all depend on facts and figures that have already occurred so it is just a matter of correcting the errors and coming up with the final answer, which can only be one
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I just checked all my vacuum hoses again yesterday and insured that none are leaking or are pinched.
yes if i rev it past 1-1.5k it truns right off, it comes on when i stay at any rmp for 10-15 seconds but goes away if the rpms drop or rise.
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Is your evap system for the fuel tank breathing properly?
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Hahaha, I understand that. Its not like im going to come back 6 months later and yell at you guys. I take full responsibility for my actions and body.The process is simple: Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
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Ill look into itThe process is simple: Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
I screwed up my back last year falling on the ice. Hasnt been the same since. One muscle seems to get pulled out a lot since it happened.The process is simple: Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
Try some back stretches and also strengthen your core to help improve and stabilize the muscles/spine. It's highly likely prolonged duration of sitting or standing can cause weakness in the muscles and one of your vertebrae are weak and easily loosened....can pinch or irritate the spinal cord or other nerves.
Ask yourself:
Which toes or part of the foot/feet do you feel the most pins and needles sensations?
Where did you fall and mess up your back...where on the back exactly and where if there is, any pain on your back?
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A few years ago I had annoying pins and needles in my feet/toes. Turned out to be another symptom of major problems with the vertebrae in my lower back, and I should have heeded the warning. Spending a week at a time flat on my back in bed because it was too painful to sit or walk (extreme shooting nerve pain from lower back down to toes) was NO fun. Took months to recover.
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President Obama nominates three judges for seats in federal district court in the Philadelphia area
President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated three judges for seats on the federal district court in the Philadelphia area.
Obama nominated Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro, Luis Felipe Restrepo, and Jeffrey L. Schmehl for judgeships on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
If confirmed by a majority vote of the Senate, the judges would fill three of six vacancies on the 22-judge court.
Federal judges are paid an annual salary of $174,000 and are appointed for life.
The vacancies were created with the death of U.S. Judge Thomas M. Golden of Reading, and when U.S. Judge Anita Brody became a senior judge in 2009 and U.S. Judge R. Barclay Surrick III became a senior judge in February 2011.


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A gay man who fathered a child for a lesbian couple has been awarded the same rights as a heterosexual father in a landmark legal ruling.
The sheriff hearing the case called on the Scottish Parliament to clarify the law on the parental rights of same-sex couples.
The 30-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had turned to the courts after disagreements with the lesbian couple over access to the 18-month-old boy.
The boy's mother wanted her partner to be awarded full parental rights.
They said he was just a sperm donor and wanted legal recognition for the mother's partner.
In a written judgement at Glasgow Sheriff Court, Sheriff Laura Duncan ruled that a lesbian couple cannot constitute a family unit.
She said the child's welfare was of paramount importance in granting the man "full parental rights and responsibilities", because it would be in the baby's best interests to have access to his father.
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The written judgement states that the man was named as father on the birth certificate and he signed the document.
"He is therefore liable for the support of the child", it said.
"The pursuer gave the impression of being a thoughtful individual who considered the long-term implications and issues of what he was about to embark upon.
"I was satisfied that the pursuer did not enter into the arrangement lightly," the sheriff added.
The call for a debate was echoed by gay rights campaigners.
Tim Hopkins of the Edinburgh-based Equality Network said: "I welcome that the sheriff has made it clear that in the case of the father here, the fact that he is gay doesn't stop him from getting full parental responsibilities.
"The law is quite clear that what matters is the welfare of the child but the law needs to be clarified to protect the relationship between the child and the lesbian partner of a mother."
Stonewall Scotland director Ally Jarvis agreed that the judgement was a "positive step".
"This is part of a wider debate and I would endorse the sheriff in saying that it needs some more serious thought given to it," she said.
"I would like to see a situation where the best interests of the child are at the forefront.
"Children need parents who love them and whether that is two parents, three parents or four parents, heterosexual or gay, makes no difference."
Scottish Tory MSP Phil Gallie also agreed that the ruling was "spot on" - although he did not support a change in the law.
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A private reception to welcome Ms. Davis was held July 28 at the Folger Estate Stable in Wunderlich Park.
Ms. Davis will have an office in the Friends office next to the Woodside Community Museum. Among her responsibilities, Ms. Goldstein said, are recruiting, training and managing volunteer docents; public relations; administrative support; and collaborating with the San Mateo County History Museum for tours for children.
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Ms. Davis is an equestrian with interests in the natural environment and thus "a perfect fit for activities available in both county parks," Ms. Goldstein said. She comes to the Friends from Mills College in Oakland, where she was head coach for women's crew. She was an assistant crew coach at the University of Wisconsin and Stanford University.
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City-owned and operated energy companies are very common in Dalzell. The city as well as officials take on the task of delivering energy services, setting them up in apartments and homes, installing meters and managing client accounts for city locals.
City-owned energy companies in Dalzell are non-profit, nevertheless they possess the power to limit how many competing companies which come into the area.
Privately Owned Dalzell Energy Companies
Privately owned Dalzell energy companies also provide a variety of services in most areas. If you want to use gas-related or alternative energy services these are often provided by privately owned energy companies.
Privately-owned, or retail, energy companies in Dalzell, SC are for-profit and sometimes offer special promotions. Remember that some energy companies are affiliates of larger providers. Affiliates simply sell energy services and manage customer accounts, they do not actually provide you with the services.
Co-op Energy Companies in Dalzell
Dalzell co-op energy companies operate like other kinds of co-ops with members serving as owners and managers in addition to being recipients of the services. Co-ops are more uncommon than the two types of energy companies pointed out above.
Co-op energy companies in Dalzell, SC are a popular choice for residential areas interested in using sustainable energy sources as a main method of supplying energy services.
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The services provided by an energy company can vary considerably. It's important to check with your local providers and be certain exactly what services they provide. It's highly likely you will have to work with several energy companies to meet all your needs.
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Asia, led by China, is fast challenging America, Europe and Japan in spending on scientific research and development but still lags on key criteria of inventiveness, according to a UN report to be published on Wednesday.
In its first review of world science budgets in five years, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) found Asia accounted for 32 percent of gross domestic expenditure in research and development in 2007 compared with 27 percent in 2002.
Over the same period, the proportion of researchers in developing countries increased from 30 percent to 38 percent, it said.
China alone accounted for two-thirds of this increase, having 1.423 million researchers in 2007.
"The bipolar world in which science and technology were dominated by the triad made up of the European Union, Japan and the USA is gradually giving way to a multipolar world," said UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova in a foreword to the report.
Europe, the United States and China each contribute 20 percent of the world's researchers, followed by Japan, with 10 percent, and Russia, with seven percent, the report found.
From 2002 to 2008, developing countries boosted from 16 percent to 25 percent their share of studies published in scientific journals, a benchmark of scientific credibility, it said.
China's share alone more than doubled, from 5.2 percent to 10.6 percent.
However, Asia still lagged on two key measures of scientific stature and inventiveness.
Researchers from the United States, Europe and Japan were given far more "citations" -- references in published studies that denote ground-breaking work -- than counterparts from Asia.
They also claimed the lion's share of applications filed with the US, European and Japanese patent offices, which have a high quality rating.
Another worry for developing countries is the brain drain of talent to rich countries, although this may be attenuated by cutbacks there since the 2008 financial crisis.
The report swung the spotlight on the benefit of the Internet in spurring scientists in poor countries. Access to online information "is one of the most promising new trends of the Millennium," it said.
It cited figures that the share of world gross domestic product (GDP) devoted to R&D was unchanged at 1.7 percent in 2007 compared with 2002.
In volume terms, though, there was a huge rise, from 790 billion dollars to 1,146 billion, mirroring the growth of the world's economy.
The figures comprise both public and private sector spending and cover fundamental as well as applied research in industry and technology.
The previous UNESCO Science Report appeared in 2005.
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The projected operating profit will be the highest since it posted its largest-ever profit of ¥2.27 trillion in the business year ended in March 2008 before the so-called Lehman shock in September 2008.
Japan's largest automaker said it expects group net profit to rise 42.4 percent from fiscal 2012 to ¥1.37 trillion on sales of ¥23.5 trillion, up 6.5 percent.
The earnings improvement came as the dollar further appreciated against the yen to around the ¥95 level as of March, compared with the company's earlier projection of above ¥80.
"The long-standing yen appreciation has been finally corrected," Toyota President Akio Toyoda said at a news conference in Tokyo. "Also, the world's new-car demand is expected to grow going forward, driven by the recovery of the U.S. market and the expansion of the emerging markets."
While the weakening yen is bolstering profits, Toyoda is facing a resurgent Detroit as General Motors, Ford and Chrysler offer their best lineup of vehicles in a generation. Toyota's market share in the U.S. has fallen to a 15-month low and deliveries in China have fallen for three straight quarters.
"There's no guarantee the weaker yen will last," said Yuki Sakurai, president of Fukoku Capital Management Inc., which oversees about ¥1.5 trillion in Tokyo. "So it's difficult to take for granted that earnings will rise in the coming years."
Toyota also said it booked a net profit of ¥962.1 billion in the fiscal year to March, up from ¥283.5 billion a year earlier, on sales of ¥22.0 trillion, an increase of 18.7 percent on-year.
The rosy annual profit underscores the recovery among Japan's major automakers after the 2011 quake and tsunami devastated sales and production, and highlights strong demand in the key Asian and U.S. markets.
The yen, which has lost about one-fifth of its value against the dollar since November, has also helped, boosting Japanese firms' competitiveness overseas and jacking up the value of their repatriated foreign income.
The declining yen was among the factors cited by Toyota for its profit jump, after Honda said its net profit for the year to March soared 73.6 percent thanks to robust overseas sales, a weaker yen and cost cutting.
Toyota, which last year overtook General Motors to regain the title of world's biggest automaker, also said it expects to earn a net profit of ¥1.37 trillion for this fiscal year.
"We experienced increased sales of our vehicles mainly in North America and Asia," Toyoda said, also pointing to "companywide profit improvement activities."
Global vehicle sales hit 8.87 million units in the year to March, Toyota said, despite nearly flat results from recession-riddled Europe.
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If you'd like to see a list of this growing community of socially responsible businesses, the new BenefitCorp.net website will grant that wish. And given that their Benefit Corp search directory is fed live from B Lab's CRM database—Salesforce.com— you'll be able to see the list automagically grow almost before your eyes as more and more organizations join the ranks.
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FRENCH actor and new Russian national Gerard Depardieu says he is applying for an Algerian passport and possibly others, describing himself a "world citizen".
The 64-year-old star, one of the world's most prolific actors, acquired Russian nationality in January after getting into a fight with the French authorities over a new 75-per cent tax on the super-rich.
"I would like to have seven" passports, he told France's Journal du Dimanche on Sunday. "I'm going to ask for an Algerian one and others as well," he said. "This will help me avoid visas."
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**I apologize for not having part II of my in-depth look at Battlestar Galactica posted yet, it should be up in the next few days (finals week and everything). I've had this article sitting finished on my computer for a while now, and it is the tenth anniversary of Enterprises' last episode (and the last of episode of any Star Trek), so I figured I'd post this in the mean time.
Long reviled by many as the series that essentially killed Star Trek as we had known it; Enterprise has been slowly undergoing a kind of semi-rehabilitation in the fan community lately. Within Star Trek fandom there are often cycles in which something is almost universally hated for so long, that eventually a wave of contrarian backlash forms, and people will jump to its defense. The Final Frontier (Shatner's infamous vanity project) has followed this pattern at times. There is also a tendency right now for fans to "circle the wagons" in response to both JJ Trek and the current drought of Star Trek or any space based sci-fi on the small screen. The show has always had a small but devoted subset of Star Trek fans on its side, but online streaming and the general explosion of interest in nerdy cultural artifacts, has exposed ENT to a wider audience. But the series' fans, both old and new, tend to overlook the serious flaws that kept the show teetering on the brink of cancellation.
Personally, I do find Enterprise to be refreshing stylistically, it has a "you are there" sort of feel to it, and the ship seems more like a real space filled with real people facing a journey into the unknown than any other Trek series. There are also nice little bits of continuity sprinkled in that tie even the more self-contained stories together. While there are problems with characterization (I'll get back to that point later) the crew is much less bland and 2-dimensional than Voyager. It also has the best production values of any Trek series and almost always looks a cut above the rest of the Berman era. However, ENT labored under the weight of its own poor construction, and developed problems early on that it would never completely shake.
First, no one could decide what the show was actually about, as far as any sort of overarching narrative. It was originally conceived of course as a prequel and a Federation origin story, but then became a kind of back door reboot for the franchise. It rarely directly contradicted canon, but it went off and made entirely new story elements instead of expanding upon the Trek universe as it already existed. In seasons 1 and 2 we wound up mostly with a myriad of entirely new alien/planet/anomaly of the week plots (which were stale and perfunctory imitations of TNG) and the poorly planned and thought out Temporal Cold War arc. There were a few weak callbacks to the prequel notion, but they were disjointed and poorly handled, like the Vulcans showing up just to be insufferable jerks once in a while.
The third season just dropped the pretense of being a prequel all together with the Xindi arc. While the story was interesting and mostly well handled, it amounted to "24 in Space"(several of ENT's writers worked on 24) and it was an ill-fit for the structure of the series and the characters. The Xindi were never very threatening or convincing as enemies and the dark turn in the series was too sudden and ham-handed to be taken seriously. Though the season was entertaining simply for the way it ran the ship and crew through the wringer. Testing them on a long and dangerous mission in hostile space and bringing a sense of realism and continuity to the show; at times it felt like watching Voyager if it had stuck to its premise.
Season 4 is where the show starts to get its act together....well...after the space Nazi episode at least. But it still had its low points. One problem was that the new show runner, Manny Coto, brought in writers who were long time fans, and sometimes it felt like the inmates were running the asylum. They spent 5 episodes on a convoluted fan-fictiony explanation for the Klingon makeup change, and "oh look there are scenery chewing augments and Dr. Noonien Soong's look alike ancestor!". They also spent 2 episodes in the Mirror Universe, which was simplistic fun but also slightly derivative and oriented towards fan service. The real standout is the Vulcan arc, which I have to say stands among the best stories Star Trek has ever produced. Season four however was not a complete redemption of the series and I don't buy into the common refrain that a fifth season would have been some sort of unparalleled Trek masterpiece. Aside from the fact that TV shows are reasonably expected to sort out their growing pains in one season not three, and that ENT would have been cancelled long before if the Star Trek name wasn't behind it; season 4 showed only a few glimpses of the series' full potential.
The second major problem lies with the characters. The writers wanted to make the point that Humanity was taking its first steps into deep space and still had much to learn. This was a good idea in principle, since it would help to set the series apart from its predecessors and open up the potential for better drama. However they used ham-fisted methods to accomplish this; making the humans petty and stupid. In the first two seasons, Archer and Tucker often revel in their own sort of childish ignorance and masculine impulsiveness, while gleefully rubbing T'Pol's face in it, who is often the sole voice of reason.
Instead of the interplay between logic, intuition and morality with Spock, Kirk and McCoy in TOS, we get T'Pol as an overbearing mother figure dealing with her rebellious sons. Archer's character is especially dragged through the mud in awful episodes like "A Night in Sickbay", and it seems like he'd be pretty much ok with his entire crew dying horribly as long as his dog was safe and he didn't have to ask any Vulcans for help. Tucker mostly just comes off as a bumbling redneck caricature; of course according to "These are the Voyages" he never went to college and somehow taught himself warp theory by working on boat engines in his native Florida…Yes, you heard that right. I guess folksy wisdom triumphs even over the intricacies of manipulating spacetime.
This dynamic begins to change in season three, and while Archer and Tucker both gain competence, they take a sudden and unconvincing turn towards becoming revenge obsessed "space Jack Bauers". It's only in season four that they finally become people you could reasonably imagine leading an interstellar mission and not blowing up the ship in the first week, because they tried to use warp coolant discharge to heat a moonshine still. But Scott Bakula never seemed comfortable in the role, and Archer still remained the weakest and least interesting out of all the Trek captains.
The other characters are all pretty much one note. Reed likes weapons, Hoshi is afraid of everything and Mayweather (when he manages to get a line) likes to remind everyone that he was raised on a cargo ship. They are mostly forgettable. Phlox though is fairly interesting at times and John Billingsley usually manages to walk the line between annoying and endearingly eccentric, while usually avoiding the "bleeding heart doctor" clichés.
Finally, there is a sort of childish male-centric sexuality that runs through much of the series. The very first episode gives us a gratuitous decontamination scene where Trip and T'Pol rub oil all over each other; while Reed and Mayweather giggle like 12 year old boys about three breasted women. T'Pol of course is given a catsuit uniform that is insulting to the actress, the character and fans of all genders and sexualities; then in a particularly awful episode she contracts an illness that makes her prowl the ship like a dog in heat. Star Trek never handled sex very well (go watch TNG's "Sub Rosa"), but Enterprise took this to new heights of puerile stupidity.
So we're left with a deeply flawed series, that couldn't decide on a larger story direction nor completely break away from tired tropes of the franchise. But it is a series that I found to be ineffably watchable and at times very entertaining. It never reached anywhere near the heights of TNG or DS9, but it always managed to keep up a feeling of boldly going, even when it was to places we had obviously been before. Often the competence of its production overcame its questionable writing. For that reason I would rate it higher than Voyager, which always felt like it was retreading the same stale formula. While I would never recommend Enterprise to someone unfamiliar with Star Trek, I think the series is worth a watch for any serious fan of the franchise. The current drought of Star Trek on the small screen is now entering it's tenth year, sometimes beggars can't be choosers, and you will find more than enough entertainment to keep you going through the ups and downs of its four seasons.
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Blacks attend underfunded 'racially separate' colleges
There are 27 comments on the New Pittsburgh Courier Online story from Aug 6, 2013, titled Blacks attend underfunded 'racially separate' colleges. In it, New Pittsburgh Courier Online reports that:
Despite high test scores and access to higher education, Black students often attend poorly-funded colleges and receive certificates instead of earning degrees, according to a recent report.
Join the discussion below, or Read more at New Pittsburgh Courier Online.
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#1 Aug 6, 2013
I think this could be about money, have the parents of black students saved into a college fund for their kids?
It seems as if Black and Hispanics are just choosing the cheapest colleges, so clearly their parents have not saved money over the years to pay for their college the way white parents automatically do when a child is born.
These colleges cost money, no matter what SAT results you get, you still need to pay for your place at a good college.
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#2 Aug 6, 2013
In case you've not heard, Blacks and Hispanics generally make less money than whites. And even Black and Brown middle classes are mostly newly arrived, which means little or no inherited wealth.
And we have a racially stratified economy over here. I, for one, came from a poor inner city family. My family had NO money over and above necessities. Most newly arrived members of our petty bourgeois and intelligentsia come from similar circumstances.
You ought to study these matters.
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#4 Aug 6, 2013
So blacks can't really afford to have children? or if they do, they cannot afford to enable their children to access the American Dream? If you can't afford to save $60 a month in a savings account for your child's college fund, you shouldn't be having children. That's all it costs, if you open the fund the year the child is born and pay into it every month until they are 18.
I'm sure the majority of these whites are not inheriting money or using inheritances, they simply PLANNED for having children and made the neccessary sacrifices and preparations needed to enable their children to have driving lessons, get a first car and go to a reputable respected college.
It's basic....$60 to $75 a month for 18 years is all it will cost and if you invest in the right savings account, you will have excess to pay for car and driving lessons too.
Do African americans really class themselves with newly arrived Mexicans who sneaked across a border from a hell hole?
Who has a baby and doesn't immediately open a savings account? But you guys can afford to smoke cigarettes and drink alcohhol regularly can't you?
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#5 Aug 6, 2013
Theses men can afford to have all the latest designer clothes, tattoos and flashy jewels, the women can afford weaves at 100s of dollars and fake nails at a salon every 2 weeks. But they can't afford to open a college fund for their kids :(
Hispanics are catholics and have big families, so things are different for them when it comes to saving for college, but AAs don't have big families.
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Baltimore, Md.
#6 Aug 6, 2013
Obama isn't just educated, but the President of the USA. And he was a Senator before being president. Even a half-literate buffoon will make more money than an educator or ordinary professional person (let alone a working class stiff) if he's a senator or President.
Athletes and celebrities make more than even well paid Ivy League professors even if those athletes and celebrities have a high school education or less. Sarah Palin is far less educated than I, and is less informed or articuate than my AVERAGE student, but she's a millionaire.
You need to take better examples. But how typical is either Obama or Palin?
#8 Aug 6, 2013
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Paris France
#9 Aug 6, 2013
It is a very valid point : to add to this situation, money goes mostly to predominantly white colleges and universities, which is the result of this study. No big surprise and the push to dismantle Affirmative Action in the Academic sphere is only to increase this existing gap.
Next year it will be the 50th anniversary of Civil Rights Law and we still have this in higher education, housing and income huge discrepancies and Jim Crow justice (!) in Florida.
1964-2014 ... the road is still long ahead.
That Quentin Tarantino made a big and great movie this year with Django Unchained is very illustrative : this perceptive movie director has clearly seen that in Obama USA, the question is still there and Candieland all over the country.
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#12 Aug 7, 2013
One question to you... if you fathered a child and didn't open a college fund and pay regularly into it and even sometimes get uncles, aunts and grandparents to add to it... where would you expect your kid to go to college?
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#13 Aug 7, 2013
Why do people make excuses for black people, as if we are children and not normal capable human beings? We are perfectly able to plan and save for our children's futures, we are not Catholics who have on average 5 kids... there is no reason why we can't plan and save to help our kids achieve their dreams.
Just like many other parents do from Asian and white families.
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#14 Aug 7, 2013
Most whites in America are going to school off financial aide and student loans, not some college fund that their blue collar worker daddy's stashed away for them. This is the cold hard truth.
" There is roughly somewhere between $902 billion and $1 trillion in total outstanding student loan debt in the United States today. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York reports $902B while the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau reports $1T.
Roughly $864 billion isoutstanding federal studentloan debt while the remaining $150 billion is in privatestudent loans(Source: Consumer Finance Protection Bureau). Privatestudentloansare not made or backed by the federal government."
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#15 Aug 7, 2013
Maybe from a foreigner on the outside looking in it may seem like all "whites" are living in some dream world, but that's far from the truth. College is expensive for all Americans and many people are opting to go community colleges, cheaper institutions, and trade schools.
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#16 Aug 7, 2013
Maybe you don't know as much about white anglo culture as you think you do. Many ordinary white families start saving for their child's future even before the baby is born. There are many investment and savings accounts available and created specifically for this purpose. Their representatives will visit you in your home, discuss with you what you can reasonably afford to save for your child and give you projections for what figures you could expect to yeald in 18 years. This money usually goes on college, or a deposit on a house etc for the child.
You may see statistics for whites taking out student loans, but whites and asians of ten do this even if they have a college fund. The college fund is not enough to pay for you to go to college, but it is enough to make the difference between going to a reputable respected college and going to a poorly funded community college.
It doesn't make your child RICH, it simply gives them an option.
Many of these whites and asians take out student loans because the interest rates are so low. They take out the loan, put it straight into a high interest bank account and leave it there to earn money for them, then the pay it back to the government and keep the interest earned.
So to blacks like you, whose dad preferred to buy cigarettes instead of saving money for you and whose mom decided to by fake nails at a salon instead of saving for your future, it looks as if whites are living off student loans... when many of them are not.
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#17 Aug 7, 2013
We are not talking about big sums of money or big lifestyle changes. If you invested the cost of 2 packs of cigarettes a week in a savings plan for 18 years... you would have enough money for a college fund to HELP out your child.
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#18 Aug 7, 2013
My daughter goes to a UK grammar school specifically for highly intelligent girls.
There are black girls there whose parents WANT them to have the option to become American citizens and their parents have planned for this almost from the moment their child was born. They have sent their daughters to a normal UK school but at the same time they have paid privately expensive tutors to prepare their daughter to sit the SAT, they also pay privately for their daughters to study international baccalaureate subjects so that American employers will give them jobs.
This all costs money and needs meticulous planning, these are just ordinary black people who send their daughters to my kid's school.
Yet AAs can't save $60 a month???
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Paris France
#19 Aug 7, 2013
They should come study in France : annual Academic fees are 240 euros i.e. roughly 300-320 US$. With the mandatory health insurance, say 500 $.
That being said, paying those enormous tuitions you have in the USA is nothing specific to the "father" : it's a parents', both parents, duty.
Basically, as often, you miss the point turning back to "individual"'s personal choice. As if everything in life is only a question of "my choice".
As if in the Bush family, sending W the clueless and brainless to an Ivy League college was the same as for an average Black father and mother paying the same tuition to send their kids at the same place.
Moreover in any country, when you study the % of Academic students and graduates coming from the project areas and the same % in posh upper middle class areas bingo, much less in projects.
Is this a question of divorce rate ? of absentee fathers or mothers ? Not really. Is this a question of individuals'choice ? Not really.
It's always amazing for us euro-whites to see how much Amerikkkans can never think "society", "social categories", anything that is beyond the "I", "me", "my"... all these basic categories that are moulding in a large part this "I", "me", "my".
It is like closing one eye to look at something : watch reality with your 2 eyes.
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Paris France
#20 Aug 7, 2013
Thanks interesting infos.
Some analysts say the next big financial crisis in the USA, after the subprimes, could come from student loans that they won't be able to pay back.
You're right also that all the colleges in the USA are not UCLA and Ivy League level and many Academic institutions of lower level can have a standard inferior to what we can get in the E.U.
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Baltimore, Md.
#21 Aug 7, 2013
The American Dream, except perhaps as envisioned by Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr., is an illusion. And a somewhat unimaginative (and often) vulgar illusion at that. In fact, tens of millions of Americans ARE too poor to establish a savings account. And if you think that even those who can put aside such a modest savings can thereby afford higher education, especially at an elite school, then you're out of touch with reality. For one thing that's not enough money given the exorbitant expenses of education. And someone who is able to put aside a modest savings most likely has a modest standard of living wherein one often faces financial emergencies (e.g. sickness, unemployment) which quickly wipe out those savings.
Indeed, higher education for the MASSES (initially white masses) only became possible with the GI Bill after World War 2. As for cars and such, the very poor cannot afford them, I was not able to afford a car until I began my academic profession. That is, after I'd moved from poverty to the middle class life of the professional intelligentsia.
As for you claim that whoever is poor should not have children, that is mainly a right wing bourgeois prejudice which, as Dr. King pointed out, reveals a twisted value system which values things above persons, and measures the worth of persons--of human life-by the size of one's wallet. I am committed to overthrowing the entire social order which generates such poisonous values. And I am glad that my impoverished parents didn't assume that they had no right to bear children.
Instread, I argue that s society as wealthy as the USA, or the Uk, is guilty of crimes against humanity by allowing--even creating--such poverty to begin with. And it is doubly guilty for demonizing the people whom this system has impoverished.
The poor gave us spirituals, blues, jazz, soul and yes, hip hop. From theo poor we were gifted with Fannie Lou Hamer, malcolm X, Richard Wright, James Baldwin and those who do most of the world's creating wealth for an elite who despises.
In short, not only to our interpretation of social reality differ; but values by which you and I evaluate reality are radically different.
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Baltimore, Md.
#22 Aug 7, 2013
As usual, OhFrilly makes posts irrelevant to the discussion topic on the table, and made up largely of quote from other thread on other topics, and from oher contexts.
Nonetheless, Attai's point about inequality in education is well taken, and supported by TONS of research.
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#23 Aug 7, 2013
I know white fathers who start saving plans to pay for their daughter's wedding as soon as the doctor confirms they are having a girl child.... before the baby girl is even born.
I don't believe in excuses... there is no reason why a responsible parent would not open a savings plan for their child. No reason at all. These AAs can afford to wear $400 weaves and have tatoos that cost 100s of dollars... they have money, they just spend it on themselves and not their children's future.
These people have money for all the latest technological advances, the most expensive cell phones and handbags... they can afford to save money for their children, they CHOOSE to spend every penny as soon as they get it, on themselves. The average AA woman has only $5 in her bank account! How can any mother function like that? especially a single mother?
You will never persuade me that blacks are incapable of doing what whites and asians can do. We are not inherently inferior to anybody and we can be as organized and disciplined as any other parent.
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Paris France
#25 Aug 7, 2013
I will never persuade you of such a B.S. because I will never endorse that, never had, never will.
Miss you are here talking to yourself setting aside what I said which is the opposite of what you write above.
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Parts 2 and 3 of a Series on Pa. and fracking laws and impacts
Here's highlights of part 1, which dealt with the gag order on physicians and scientists over fracking chemicals:
Here's excerpts of part 1 of Walter Brasch's series about PA. and gas industry impacts and laws:
"Each well is expected to generate about $16 million during its lifetime, which can be as few as ten years, according to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (PBPC). The effective tax and impact fee is about 2 percent. Corbett had originally wanted no tax or impact fees placed upon natural gas drilling; as public discontent increased, he suggested a 1 percent tax, which was in the original House bill. In contrast, other states that allow natural gas fracking have tax rates as high as 7.5 percent of market value (Texas) and 2550 percent of net income (Alaska). The Pennsylvania rate can vary, based upon the price of natural gas and inflation, but will still be among the five lowest of the 32 states that allow natural gas drilling. Over the lifetime of a well, Pennsylvania will collect about $190,000$350,000, while West Virginia will collect about $993,700, Texas will collect about $878,500, and Arkansas will collect about $555,700, according to PBPC data and analyses.
State Sen. Daylin Leach, a Democrat from suburban Philadelphia, says he opposed the bill because, At a time when we are closing our schools and eliminating vital human services, to leave billions on the table as a gift to industry that is already going to be making billions is obscene. State Rep. Mark Cohen, a Democrat from Philadelphia, like most of the Democrats in the General Assembly, agrees. The legislation, he says, produces far too little revenue for local communities, gives the local communities local taxing power which most of them do not want, because it pits one community against the other, and gives no revenue at all to other areas of the state.
The new law is generally believed to be payback by Corbett and the Republican legislators for campaign contributions. The industry contributed about $7.2 million to Pennsylvania candidates and their PACs between 2000 and the end of 2010, including $860,825 to the Republican party and $129,100 to the Democratic party, according to data compiled by Common Cause. In addition, the natural gas industry contributed about $1.6 million to Corbetts political campaigns during the past 10 years, about $1.1 million of that for his campaign for governor, according to Common Cause. Rep. Brian L. Ellis (R-Butler County), sponsor of the House bill, received $23,300. Sen. Joseph B. Scarnati (R- Warren, Pa.), the senate president pro-tempore who sponsored the companion Senate bill (SB 1100), received $293,334. Of the 20 Pennsylvania legislators who received the most money from the industry since 2001, 16 are Republicans, according to Common Cause."
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1. Part 2 of 3 - Health threats of fracking
Some of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturingor liberated by itare carcinogens, Dr. Sandra Steingraber told members of the Environmental Conservation and Health committee of the New York State Assembly. Dr. Steingraber, a biologist and distinguished scholar in residence at Ithaca College, pointed out that some of the chemicals are neurological poisons with suspected links to learning deficits in children, while others are asthma triggers. Some, especially the radioactive ones, are known to bioaccumulate in milk. Others are reproductive toxicants that can contribute to pregnancy loss.
Research by Dr. Ronald Bishop, a biochemist at SUNY/Oneonta, suggests that fracking to extract methane gas is highly likely to degrade air, surface water and ground-water quality, to harm humans, and to negatively impact aquatic and forest ecosystems. He notes that potential exposure effects for humans will include poisoning of susceptible tissues, endocrine disruption syndromes, and elevated risk for certain cancers. Every well, says Dr. Bishop, will generate a sediment discharge of approximately eight tons per year into local waterways, further threatening federally endangered mollusks and other aquatic organisms. In addition to the environmental pollution by the fracking process, Dr. Bishop believes intensive use of diesel-fuel equipment will degrade air quality [that could affect] humans, livestock, and crops.
Research strongly implicates exposure to gas drilling operations in serious health effects on humans, companion animals, livestock, horses, and wildlife, according to Dr. Michelle Bamberger, a veterinarian, and Dr. Robert E. Oswald,a biochemist and professor of molecular medicine at Cornell University. Their study, published in New Solutions, an academic journal in environmental health, documents evidence of milk contamination, breeding problems, and cow mortality in areas near fracking operations as higher than in areas where no fracking occurred. Drs. Bamberger and Oswald noted that some of the symptoms present in humans from what may be polluted water from fracking operations include rashes, headaches, dizziness, vomiting, and severe irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat. For animals, the symptoms often led to reproductive problems and death."
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"In addition to forbidding physicians and health care professionals from disclosing what the industry believes are trade secrets in what it uses in fracking that may cause air and water pollution, there are other industry-favorable provisions. The new law guts local governments rights of zoning and long-term planning, doesnt allow for local health and environmental regulation, forbids municipalities to appeal state decisions about well permits, and provides subsidies to the natural gas industry and payments for out-of-state workers to get housing but provides for no incentives or tax credits to companies to hire Pennsylvania workers. It also requires companies to provide fresh water, which can be bottled water, to areas in which they contaminate the water supply, but doesnt require the companies to clean up the pollution or even to track transportation and deposit of contaminated wastewater. The law allows companies to place wells 300 feet from houses, streams and wetlands. The law also allows compressor stations to be placed 750 feet from houses, and gives natural gas companies authority to operate these stations continuously at up to 60 decibels, the equivalent of continuous conversation in restaurants. The noise level and constant artificial lighting has adverse effects upon wildlife. As a result of all the concessions, the natural gas industry is given special considerations not given any other business or industry in Pennsylvania."
The election of Tom Corbett to govern during this time is akin to the fox watching the hen house.


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