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On a family trip to Mickey Mouse headquarters (Disney World) last month (a trip I highly recommend for everyone; kids or no kids), we hit the toll road that takes you from Ocala into Orlando, Fla., where the magic makes it all believable. As we pulled up to the toll station, the toll taker cordially stuck her hand out and said, "$4.75, please!" My kids started asking questions. "Daddy, what was that?"
At that moment it hit me that a toll road is a good metaphor for our current fiscal cliff issues. Of course, for my children, it was a great educational moment, at which my wife turned to me and said, "Explain it in simple terms." So over the next 20 to 30 minutes they learned how toll roads and bridges are built and funded, at a level a four- and five-year-old could understand. During my entire explanation, I continued to get the repetitive "Why?" so I had to try explaining it to them in a variety of ways. It was then that I realized half of America doesn't even know why or what the fiscal cliff issues mean and why tolls are a great example of how our tax system should foster capitalism not socialism.
Here's my thinking. The fee I paid to travel down the toll road is a form of tax/financing structure. The toll is used to pay back all the bond investors for their investment—with interest—as well as pay for the ongoing upkeep of the road. It requires management, budgeting, continuous monitoring and funding. Yet at the end of the day, the capitalistic investors who bought the bonds are the only ones at risk if everyone stops driving down the toll road. The money can't be redirected for things like Social Security funding, Medicare funding, or even welfare financing, as the bond issue is specific in nature to the toll revenue collected.
That's the opposite of our fiscal cliff issues, which are the direct result of mismanagement, over-spending and misappropriating money from one fund to another, which isn't specific in nature to the revenue received. So here we are again at the so-called fiscal cliff, requiring the U.S. government's borrowing cap limit to be increased, while forcing prudent citizens to pay more in taxes for which they receive no benefit.
Further points to note:
- The toll taker didn't ask me to fill out a net-worth statement or provide a copy of my latest income tax return before assessing my fee.
- The 2012 top-of-the-line red Lexus in the lane next to me paid the same $4.75 to travel the road as I did, even though my vehicle is five years older and worth a lot less.
- It didn't matter that I was carrying two adults and three kids in my older Suburban, versus only one person driving the new, decked out Lexus.
- There wasn't a progression in fees the more I traveled the toll road; if anything, there's a discount for increased usage through various card structures for locals.
Those are all capitalistic points in nature. The people who travel the road most often wind up paying most of the toll funding and maintenance. Same thing with a gasoline tax, as those who buy the most gasoline pay the most gas tax, right?
So why is it that our archaic income tax system penalizes people for working hard, trying to grow a business and making more money, by forcing them to pay more in taxes incrementally as their incomes increase?
Furthermore, what really puzzles me is why hundreds of politicians can't logically understand the simple comparison mentioned above. Why can't they see that America needs a structure that puts the tax decision back in the hands of the people, rather than politicians? Even my young kids logically understand why we had to pay the toll road tax, just as they understood the logic of my last article and the analogy between income tax and their Halloween candy.
As a country, we have allowed self-interest, manipulation and prosperity for all to cloud our views to the point we're all going to die on the vine while we socially press towards a utopian society, which will never be accomplished economically. So my advice is to never pass on an opportunity to teach your kids the basic principles of capitalism, because it's the only reason we, as a country, are where we are today and the only way to prevent fiscal cliff issues in the future.


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The Dogs of the Dow is an investment strategy popularized by Michael O'Higgins in his 1991 book, Beating the Dow. The concept is simply to buy the 10 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrials Average (DJIA) that have the highest dividend yields in January. Then you stick with those stocks through the rest of the year.
It's really a "buy low" strategy, based on the notion that the stocks with the highest yields got that way because of falling prices—a stock's dividend yield is calculated by dividing the per share dividend by the price per share, and when the price drops, that increases the yield. The notion is that last year's investment "dogs" may be set to rise in the coming year.
There are a number of variations on the theme. For instance, Small Dogs of the Dow involves buying five DJIA stocks instead of 10.
O'Higgins searched back decades to prove his theory, and although it hasn't always worked, overall this strategy has helped investors more than it hurt. And in 2016, Dogs of the Dow provided a return of close to 18%, compared with 14% for the DJIA overall.
Still, Dogs of the Dow ignores other crucial information, including investment fundamentals and your personal risk tolerance, and most experts recommend against relying solely on this or other investing shortcuts. It's far better to develop a comprehensive plan with your financial advisor that accounts for all relevant factors. Blindly following Dogs of the Dow could be barking up the wrong tree.
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Our log cabins are located on the Cherokee Indian Reservation, which is adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park;the most visited National Park in America. This part of Western North Carolina offers beautiful scenery with it's majestic mountains, crystal clear streams and rivers, waterfalls, hiking trails and more.
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We consider our cabins to be semi-secluded. You're not way back in the woods, yet you're not in the middle of town. We have 6 log cabins lining the riverbank. The view across the river is forest land with no development. The cabins are separated by full deck areas, 8-15 feet in size. The back of the cabins are about 50 feet from Big Cove Road, which is a local side road with low to moderate traffic. We believe you'll find the setting peaceful and enjoyable.
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daughter of Paul McCartney his amazing daughter Stella McCartney, fashion designer to the stars, is taking on a whole new design outlet children! In collaboration with Gap Kids and Baby Gap, McCartney is unveiling a one-time-only line of children's clothes. Launching in the UK, France, Japan, the U.S. and Canada, the line includes everything from ultra-soft cashmere blankets for newborns to brushed cotton blazers with silk lapels, and those wool military jackets.
Stella, 38, mother of three children under the age of five - two boys, Miller, 4, and Becket 1 1/2, and a girl, Bailey, 3 1/2 - sat down with W magazine to promote her new children's line, and discuss why she finally gave in to designing for the little people of the world.
On why she is designing kids clothes: 'When are you going to do kids? When are you going to do kids? It was just a question that was wearing me out."
On not being able to find good kids clothes: "I find there's nothing between the two worlds—it's kind of cheap or expensive, and they look like that," she explains. "Some expensive labels are too conservative and twee, and the cheaper stuff is a little less classy and tasteful."
On dressing kids over the age of 4: "I'm quite aware that after the age of four and a half, kids actually don't want to wear what their parents want to put on them anymore," she says, raising a knowing eyebrow. So she commissioned her 4-year-old son Miller and her colleagues' daughters to help with some of the designs. "My son is obsessed with superheroes, so I'm like, Okay, I'm going to create my own superhero," says McCartney. "I'd take it home and I'd be like, 'Do you approve of our superhero?' And he loved it. So I thought, I've kind of had a sign-off on that."
On choosing regular kids for the ad campaign: "Perfect little kids are not really very me. I wanted to have a bit of realness. When you're talking about this kind of accessibility and children, it's really important that you feel comfortable throwing the lot of it in the washing machine and not being too precious with it."
On her collection: "Nothing is really matching, which is very much what I do. And a lot of the designs just get better with age. To me, the fabric is so important, especially on a child, as they are so aware when things are scratchy."
On shopping for her kids: "I personally prefer shopping for my kids' clothes to shopping for my own. I just get more enjoyment out of it."


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On November 4, 2013, Business Ethics Week kicks off at San Francisco State University's Lam Family College of Business. The week-long event is intended to create a shared focus among students and faculty on the importance of business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainable business.
In its eighth year, Business Ethics Week begins Mon., Nov. 4 and runs through Fri., Nov. 9, with events held on the main campus and at the SF State Downtown Campus. During these five days, faculty members include classroom activities such as relevant readings, case studies, speakers, exercises and discussions of ethical dilemmas in business practice.
History of Business Ethics Week
During the first Business Ethics Week in November 2006, over 4,000 business students at SF State's Lam Family College of Business heard from more than 50 business and industry experts on topics related to business ethics. The College embraced the topic with approximately 50% of faculty integrating ethics-related modules or speakers. Campus-wide events included a former CIO of PG&E speaking on the topic of Corporate Ethics and a faculty panel on the topic of corporations and the environment.
The second Business Ethics Week in November 2007 again focused on classroom instruction, discussion and guest speakers in over 90 business classes. Outside corporate speakers came to campus from Hewlett-Packard and Starbucks Coffee Co.
The third Business Ethics Week in October 2008 created a shared focus among faculty and students on the importance of business ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainable business with classroom instruction, discussion and guest speakers in over 90 business classes. Outside corporate speakers came to campus from Starbucks Coffee Co. and the Gap Inc.
The fourth Business Ethics Week, held in November 2009, continued the tradition of faculty from every department in the College conduct discussions and activities in their classrooms related to business ethics. A speaker from Genentech and an expert in sustainability were the featured speakers for undergraduate students and MBA/EMBA students.
SF State's Lam Family College of Business is one of the few business schools that require all graduate and undergraduate business students to take a Business & Society course—and has for the past 25 years. Most of our faculty members in fields such as finance, accounting, marketing, information systems, decision sciences, management, international business, and hospitality and tourism management, integrate modules on ethics and social responsibility in their courses.
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Funeral service for Etta Buntrock was Wednesday, May 15, at Bethany Lutheran Church in Emmetsburg. Burial was in St. John's Cemetery, Emmetsburg. The Joyce Funeral Home in Emmetsburg was in charge of arrangements.
Etta B. Buntrock was born Nov. 29, 1931, in Spring Valley, MN, the daughter of Dwain and Mabel (Drinkall) Tenney. She was a graduate of Cresco High School.
On Sept. 16, 1950, Etta was united in marriage to Virgil Buntrock in Cresco. The couple made their home in Cresco where they raised their children. Etta worked for 35 years at J.C. Penney in Iowa, Colorado and California.
Etta was a charter member of the Cimota Club in Cresco. She was a member of Bethany Lutheran Church in Emmetsburg. Etta enjoyed making family photo albums, working crossword puzzles to stay sharp, and being around people. When raising her children, she would often make their clothes, doll clothes, Easter outfits and Halloween costumes. She had a creative spirit.
On Saturday, May 11, 2013, Etta passed away at the Lakeside Lutheran Home in Emmetsburg.
Left to cherish her memory are her children: Patricia and her husband, Gerald Theesfeld of Emmetsburg, James Buntrock and his wife, Jan of Littleton, CO, Karyn Davis of Emmetsburg, Ronald Buntrock of Emmetsburg and Denise Kirkwood of St. Louis, MO; brother, Clyde Tenney; sister, Thelma Lick; 13 grandchildren: Joseph Coffey, David, Daniel, Donald, Denise, Donna and Dennis Theesfeld; Diane (Thees- feld) Meseck; T.J. Davis; Michael Buntrock; Tawnya, Erin and Danielle Anderson; and 10 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; son, Dale; infant son, Virgil, Jr.; two sisters and two brothers.
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(CNN) – New York City is experiencing its largest wave of homelessness since the Great Depression.
The spike started following cuts to a government rent subsidy program. Ironically, the impact of having to provide shelter to more than 20,000 homeless children each night is costing the city more money than the cost of the subsidies.
[3:37] "It costs $36,000 a year to shelter a homeless family in New York City. In comparison, a rental voucher is $10,000 a year. So it's more than three times more expensive to have that family in shelter than it is to give that family permanent housing," said Patrick Markee, a policy analyst at the non-profit Coalition for the Homeless.
Ester Fuchs teaches Public Policy and Political Science at Columbia University. She says it's a prime example of how seeking short term solutions to budget problems can result in more tax dollars being spent down the road.
[4:03] "They're going after what used to be called entitlements and they are not concerned with the ripple effects down the line for state governments or for city governments."
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I moved to Florida for the kids to be in a "safer and more more calm environment", and needless to say, the job market there is very limited. I was laid off from an Assistant Teacher position and so was my husband. All our savings went into rent and no job application was successful. We ended up living in a motel for a year and drained our savings.
Not being able to find space in the shelters in that state, which by the way, was limited. We came back to New York and were in a shelter. Six months after living there and hundreds , maybe thousands of resumes later I found a job at a non-profit with no benefits Almost a year later, my husband found a job, too.
Now, I have read alot of comments here. And am disgusted with people who seem to think homeless people are lazy, uneducated and unworthy. There is a lot of prejudice. I hold a Bachelor's degree, am bilingual ,have a lot of computer skills and still ended up in a shelter. A terrible experience, being we had curfews and had to sign in and out of that place. Filled in hundreds of housing applications and although we did...either we had little income or too much. The living system sucks!!!
Sure, alot of people were "crack heads". We were the exeption. Not only did we have to attend meetings with caseworkers that would harass us to move out as soon as possible. They were very inefficient in their jobs.
Two years later, I am grateful to have found my subsidized apartment, with the help of a family friend. If not, I would have stayed there for years.. Not only did I have to deal with being treated like crap, these people should have given us those 36,000 to pay for rent . There are a lot of issues. I believe shelter systems are scams for what I have seen. Luckily, some of you will read this, and understand the problems in this system.
All I can say is struggle, struggle hard and long to stay at your job and keep your apartment. I hope never to be homeless again and pray this does not happen to some people here.
The cost of rent in New York is way beyond blood sucking. $2,000 a month or more to live in a space the size of a hot dog stand. Or the space between Kim Kardashian's butt cheeks.
Hey, if you run out of firewood, Wall Street Bankers burn nicely. Their skin makes great overcoats, too...what comes around goes around.
Your interview did touch on some of the important issues including the fact that shelter costs MORE than subsidy programs, but you failed to address the problem of subsidy programs like Advantage actually drawing people to shelter who would not otherwise enter. Did you notice the signs around the shelter informing people that they would not get the Advantage program by entering? Those are there for a very good reason. Also during the interview you pointed out that with Advantage the family's rent was paid, and implied that the family was paying it. However, the Advantage program typically did not have a tenant portion of the rent to be paid, so it was the program paying the rent not the family.
I do not begrudge any family or children a roof over their head, in fact I am thankful that the NYC shelter system exists because it would be terrible if all of these families would become street homeless. But the Advantage program was not the solution. I don't think the solution has been found yet, but I believe it would more likely include subsidized housing COMBINED with on site mandatory education classes (or college grants) and job training for real careers. Then you're solving the problem, not subsidizing it.
You are wrong. The current system and the high rent prices limit many. I believe in subsidized. The Advantage Program just started! Do your research, before judging. I had hundreds of lists just thrown at me to fill in and call the brokers and real estate agents, that to no avail would inform us that we had little income for those apartment listings and we both had full time jobs.
Once again, although you seem to try to understand. You do not. Had it not been a personal contact, neither private, nor housing would have found us an apartment. Do your research.
On another note, read my comment. There are also the poor, who are educated too!
We need to coordinate all government, nonprofit and private sectors together into a interconnected web of resources for these people! More online resources of to transfer, upgrade and educate the work-force is in order that is a ingredient for success! If you have means testing with condition like child limit or incentives by sterilization or choose to be lgtb, then you get more in welfare than the others that might not get as much. Tired of seeing here in Alabama people using churches and government like a throw away peggy bank just throwing away money for nothing. A last thought is that if I wasn't disabled that I'd at least be an electrician that has good payback for my investment in time and money to obtain that certification.
It is obvious most of you do NOT understand who homeless people are (nor care to). Homeless are people like you, YES, ALL OF YOU that wrote all that pile of BS in previous posts, that had great jobs, a family, an house. Then, 'something' happened. For women, as simple as they aged, after contributing for years to the system, and their husband died, slowly eat through their savings to pay rent/food, and finally end up in the streets. Or, your husband/wife/kid dies, leaving you in so much despair you loose you job and cannot lift yourself up again to earn enough to pay rent. And more, you get laid off, you are 55, no one will employ you no more, you are divorced, your kids grown and moved away, you slowly end up unable to pay rent, your pension will not be able to make you afford rent, you end up in the streets... etc etc etc... so as such, WE all deserve DIGNITY. And living in the streets is not so. These people cannot move to the mid-west as they are often too old/ill to work and only in the big cities they will get some attention/help. So, while it is obvious we live in a selfish, greedy society, this is not reason not to feel ashamed of leaving people behind just so other can get ahead.
So very well said Simona!!!! There are so many reasons that brings a person to this point in their lives but as humans, we all deserve to be treated with dignity. Its so heartbreaking that so many people cannot put themselves in other peoples shoes. We should all treat others the way we would want to be treated! The Lord forbid, this could happen to anyone of the 99% at any time.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but did any of these parents interviewed say, "I'd really like to go back to school or find a job?" Sounds like they're just waiting on their programs to provide for them.
No one even mentioned the idea of trying to get a job! It's disappointing that many people like myself work hard every morning, struggle to make things work out and this couple joins a program.
For three years, they never attempted to better themselves? They're just gonna sit and pray? I don't understand it.
Big Brother Bloomberg will handle it by either taxing homelessness or just prohibiting it.
Why, did, she, get, pregnant, again?
Why just round up and force sterilize these people.
If they be like to die they better hurry up and do it and decrease the surplus population.
Don't you have some nascar you should be watching?
*yawn* Trolls are such a cliche.
Richard, you're a horrible person, to even think something like that! You may one day be walking in those very same shoes!
And yet, after being in a subsidized apartment for years, this "couple" continues to dig themselves deeper and deeper into trouble by producing yet more kids! Let's set aside housing for a moment. What is the long term plan for WORK for these two people?
"Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"
That's what they asked for when they built the statue of Liberty.
tear that sign down
Finding shelter for the NYC homeless is simple. Simply kick all the teabaggers south of the Mason-Dixon line out of their trailer parks. (They're animals anyway) Then give the trailers to the homeless. Easy as pie.
How about we kick your teeth in hater.
I hit a nerve didn't I. You must be a bagger or a birther. What do you think of Fake News finally brooming your airhead leader Palin?
Why doesn't it surprise me that Richard would more than likely live in a trailer park! Trailer trash begets trash talk!
And the suggestion of your violent actions would make you what then?
"The weak should not be allowed to live off the strong"
NYC is a city for rich people only. You must have inherited money or a graduate degree to survive here financially. Practically all the working class lives in government-subsidized buildings and eat on government food stamps. There is really no good reason to live there unless you've got money
This Jacob dude is half right....but...you don't have to be rich to live there! I have family up there and they aren't rich! No offense but, only an idiot would think that only rich people can and do live there!
New york is the shithole of this country.
The reasons "why" we have soooo many homeless in the big metropolitcan cities is because way too many people want "the city life" that they really cannot afford and they were teetering financially long before they had their financial fall from grace. I hear there are tons of jobs in North Dakota for example. Alaska is hiring lots of people too. Omaha Nebraska my friends tells me can't find enough workers.
WE have way too many people on the coasts, and not enough good people in the middle heartland of this country! The coastal cities are expensive. If you can't afford it, you really have no business being here. That is the hard truth. That is why you have so many homeless in the big cities. But if the homeless were truly smart and savvy they would hop on a greyhound bus and head to the middle part of the country, where there are more churches, more charities that can take care of them.
They may even find a new lease on life. This goes for all the unemployed too. Stop looking for jobs where there is a glut of people and where you are not needed. GO WHERE THE JOBS ARE, pack your bags and just do it! It's the 1930's all over again under Obama............the grapes of wrath are with us again. He has taken a fender bender and converted it into a 100 car pile up.
It's really every man for himself out there! Good luck!
Spot on...but i think is more of like a 10,000 pile up....full of Kia, and 10 year old Cash for Junkers.....What a waste of 8 years for this country. The money isn't in the middle USA...its OVER SEAS...Brazil is kicking our a$$, so is 87 other countries. But you are Spot on...
Many of those in rent control housing in New York City are able to maintain an apartment for a couple hundred a month. Landlords can't raise the rent until they vacate the apartment – and they can be passed down to family members. Public transportation is a lot better in New York City than the middle part of the country. In the inner cities, many women have children out of wedlock (including gay women) because our society gives them entitlements to take care of the children – and often moves them to the top of the public housing list.
The rent control you are talking about barely exists in nyc anymore. I know a family of 4 with an income of 70 grand a year in a ONE bedroom apartment in one of the outer boroughs. They cannot afford or qualify for anything bigger in their neighborhood. Move that family to the midwest with the same family and they would own a house and at least one car and be on the upper side of middle class.
The thing is, they will also be payed less for the same job, so it won't be a house on a 70k budget anymore.
You'd would just be homeless in the middle of the country.
Ahem . . . . we have more than enough "good" people in the rural Midwest. Problems with big city living affect smaller communities in the heartland when places like Chicago "suggest" and entice undesirables to move to other places for such things as section 8 and welfare benefits and bring their numerous problems with them. The results have not been positive. If many of these folks would stop having kid after kid after kid they cannot afford their outlooks could be much more bright.
@Romancaesar – You've hit on something that many people in the field of public policy talk about here... We have a combination of an affordable housing crisis and low paying jobs fueling the growing homeless families problem. About a quarter of the families in homeless shelters actually do have one or both parents working, But they have very low paying jobs in the service industry. Given the lack of available affordable housing in NYC their salaries do not cover the cost of living in New York. It would certainly be more affordable for these families to live in other areas. But we still need people working those jobs here in New York. It's not like the need for that work forces goes away. So, the issue of creating a livable wage law in the state of New York has come up in our state legislature. We'll see where they go with it. Also, many more of those homeless families have tried finding work. They can document this by showing the applications they fill out. They're often required to show that they are looking for work. The problem is when a job position becomes available in a store like Target or Best Buy hundreds of people compete for that one position.
what about transportation to and from job, and home?, is there public transportation?, does it run on weekends, poor people aren't gonna be able to afford cars.
The problem is you have way too many people who want to live "the city life" and really were on the edge and can't afford to live in the big metropolitan areas anyway. I live on the west coast, but we need more people to live in the heartland. It's a lot cheaper to house a family in Kansas at $10,000 per year than NYC at $36,000 per year. I would tell them you have two years to find your way, if you do not, you get bussed out of the city to the heartland. Wyoming, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, those kind of states. Sorry, but you can't afford brie cheese on your bagel anyway, so it really won't matter at that point.
When you get in those desperate financial straits, you just want a roof over your head and a bed to sleep on and food as you get back to the basics of living.
Dude that's such a douche move. Your cities are the ones breeding homeless people, the heartland isn't, it's your problem you fix it. No one wants to be the dumping ground for NYCs failures. Yalll have been making homeless ever since there was a city there, the supply is endless, we don't want any.
Bloomberg to help? Nah....he's way to busy chasing around farmers in Bumfuk, Iowa, taking their evil shotguns.....
Not to mention taking their super-sized sodas..
Nanny Bloomberg is too busy worried about people with shotguns in Bumfuk, Iowa to take care of his own folks in need.
Spirit is lifted before a fall..
Spirit is lifted up before a fall...
Actually, NYC is lucrative place to many people in the world and almost everybody want to come and live in the city. The problem is the city does not have enough liveable paying job that create homelessness. A person can work at Mcdonald or Dunkin Donut but can not pay the rent and food expense.
It has more do to with mental illness than anything – many of the homeless have mental illness, and a good many are female victims of domestic violence or have other issues that make it difficult for them to function properly and productively – it has less to do with employment. People double and triple up on apartments if they have to in order to afford the rent, particularly in Manhattan.
I believe you are right the Northeastern US is crawling with mental misfitl, I don't know if it is from inbreading or something in the water.
$3,000 rent per month is in downtown manhattan. or highrise...mortgage is less than $1300 in many parts of the country and parts of new york.
Come to Detroit, $3000 will buy you a house.
after paying property taxes, mainteance fees, management fees, and mortgage payments on rental properties,,the profits mediocre hence less private interest in rental housing. gov't projects don't pay property taxes but maintenance is much more for gov't housing. red tape.
I disagree – there are always a ton of investors willing to speculate on NYC real estate, particularly in rental markets. Throughout NYC, inflation adjusted profit margins for landlord of rental properties from 1990 to 2008 was 9.3% per year – you show me any other investment that has steadily performed like that, particularly over that time frame.
it doesn't cost $36,000/ year for housing..it's only when gov't red tape does it cost $36,000 to put roof over your head. that is $3,000/month for rent..mortgage for a house is only $1,000 in some cities,,so that 36K /year is garbage.
The article doesn't state that it costs $36,000 to house a family. It costs $36,000 to shelter the family in a facility, not their own housing. These families are being housed in large shelters with hundreds of other people. The electricity alone in these large building are in the thousands of dollars. A lot of money is needed to "shelter" these people. Also money used needed for the programs to get them out of the shelter into their own affordable housing. I know this because I used to volunteer as a career couselor at a shelter in Brooklyn, NY.
Shutting down mental institutions and facilities, with no plan to help these people, but to turn them out on the street, is ruthless and inhumane.
yup – and that's what happened – the mentally ill have been cut loose and victims of domestic violence and broken families have been left to fend for themselves.
This is why people should save their hard earned income for emergency situations like this, so if they lose their house, at least they can have something to fall back on.
Wash123: Spoken like a true stock trader! When you have three kids, school clothes, fees, electric bills in winter, you sir, do not know what poor means, so why not open your wallet and donate instead of your big conservative mouth.
LOL! Save their money. Like maybe DON'T pay the electricity bill, DON'T pay the rent, DON'T buy groceries and SAVE that money! Wow!
Don't forget the grossly inflated gasoline prices.
People are hateful and expect everyone to see them as better people because they work and pay taxes. Whatever you are an ungrateful selfish phony being. On a moral scale your worst to the planet earth then the roach deer bear or fish you keep trapped in a tank. As it stands science has comfirmed one thing and its everything will come to an end. Thats the greatest gift God gave to the pure hearted. Knowing that evil people will vanish is a heart warming feeling. And by the way selfish man anyone on welfare that recieves cash and is not disabled most work for the state. But I bet your hateful heart would line them up and commit gencide. A humans heart is filled with greed and knowing the truth about this place i misteriously woke up in makes me wish i never was born. Cant wait to go back to where I was NOTHINGNESS.
You sound very much like a tortured soul. Don't let hate consume you. We are not to judge. I will say a prayer for you today.
May God help you find peace.
Rev Dave
I have lived and being abused in them,it is report the facts or sleep outside,great place for kids.I did not mention to you a spinal cord problem.My family lived in the same town but no help religious or maternal to get me out of there.they acted like nothing was wroung..know out I do not want to no them.
The homeless are homeless because they have neither the gumption, nor the fortitude, nor the aspirations, nor the decency to plant their feet, take a stand, and pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Real Americans create wealth; or at least expropriate it from some slacking sadsack who deserves it not.
Actually, for Mr. Roberts, the impact of Superstorm Sandy probably has a lot to do with new homelessness along the East Coast. Every year, in many different parts of the world, the situation is bound to become worse, and the USA isn't immune to weather-rleated disasters that destroy homes, or the possibility of building new cities and places of business. It would be easy to say that moving housing plans to higher altitudes inland, could help alleviate the future, predictable bad times ahead, due to global warming hazards, but that's merely talk, until the effort becomes a manageable reality.
While I might agree with certain aspects of the previous statement, your an ass because society has things backwards. We send MILLIONS to help other countries with their poor and destitute, but yet we forget our own.
I'll tell ya what, Mr. Bootstraps – let's inflict you with mental illness, say schizophrenia, and see how well your future becomes, and you'hold down a job and create wealth. How about we change your gender to female and subject you to a physically abusive spouse who beats the crap out of you and throws you out into the street and we'll see if you show up to work the next day raring to go. The largest causes of homelessness in NYC are mental illness and domestic violence/broken families – it has very little to do with a lack of inspiration to succeed.
I think this is pretty much in line with the principles of Satanism...are you a Satanist? If not you should really look into it you might like what you see.
Atlas Shrugged was the inspiration for the writing of the Satanic Bible.
This man should be killed, he has no respect for human life and never will. How stupid do you have to be to get your wife pregnant when you already have two kids and nowhere to live.
It's sick! We've become a sick society and it's time we spoke out and told people to STOP having children. Anyone who is reading this I BEG you please stop having kids and convince others to stop having so many kids. For the sake of HUMANITY please stop having so many kids.
uh – I hope you don't plan on collecting any social security when you retire then, because without children they'll be nobody to pay into the system to fund it, or any other care for you when you get old. Good Luck with that....
Do you really think homeless children will eventually pay into Social Security? My guess is probably not.
Kay Jen, do you have any idea how many "homeless children" went on to become highly productive and successful adults? Charlie Chapli, Ella Fitzgerald, Benjamin Franklin, Gordon Parks... The list would take all year, and that's just the famous people. You probably unwittingly pass by many hardworking homeless people every day because they don't fit the stereotype. Many of us are clean, sober, ambitious and hardworking. And, while my parents were never homeless, I doubt that homeless would have made a difference in their character.
Here is the sad truth. These social programs were in place to help people and families, however this has transformed into a way of life. There are some people as long as you take care of them they will never have the desire to take care of themselves. Some even fell like they are beating the system. Getting welfare, rent subsidies, and food subsidies( food stamps and or WIC). All of which are taxpayer supported which cost thousands of dollars a year. Then the cherry on top is when tax season comes along they get sometimes 10k-12k returns combined between state and federal returns. While most middle class people see a fraction of that. If they see anything at all. So now our political leaders are too afraid to do or say anything about it ( If there a minority they don't want to lose the minority vote, or if there white there afraid to be called racist.) Or the politician that wants the tax entitlements for the wealthy says noting as long as the we don't mess withe good ole boys. If we don't toughen up and show people that we don't want to be responsible for them and there children after a reasonable amount of time, we will continue to deal with this.
were you are right in some ways in other you are dead wrong I am a full time college student and work a part time job . I can not afford medical insurance so i am looking at the medical card as a option not only that but my step father worked all his adult life a a truck driver get hurt in an accident now can not work and barley gets any money from disability so we are barley surviving here in southern Illinois
Government assistance should be for, elderly and handicaped disabled – not for those down on they're luck. That 's nothing more then demorats buying votes it's a sham and it should be stopped. This is what would be my gov assistance reform plan A:) you go on any gov assistance – any – your vote in the jurisdiction where you get assistance has a 50% weighing factor, or you have 1/2 vote. Stay on assitance over 1 yr 1/4 vote, 2 years zilch. 2:) Unless you are over 65, handicapped, disaled unable to work, gov will help find you work in the private sector, whos hiring where, and how to go about moving there – or 3:) Gov will give you work, doing menial task, it is an opportunity to build up a sort of work credit history to get you on your feet. This will menial – ungratifyig work. Else your on your own.
Seriously! You have a free place to live for 3 years, two small children, a grown man living in there and one on the way! Get outta here. WOW! I have no sympathy. Well for the children but seriously...
Look, I have little sympathy too if he's an able bodied man with no severe mental illness that would keep him from supporting himself and his family – but that's not the point of the article – the point is it cost $36k per year in the shelter system, but only $10k a year for a rental voucher that provides for a permanent residence. I'll go one further – when this guy robs a bodega to feed his kids it will cost us $40k per year to keep him in prison, plus the $36k per year to house the rest of his family in the shelter system. If you want to save money you provide the $10k per year vouchers and find this guy a job, train him to so something, anything, to help him to become self-supporting. That's how you save a lot of money – "teach a man to fish....."
Liberalism at its finest. I can't wait to see what's next..The Bubonic Plague?
I heard the radio broadcast and it is a joke. A program called "Advantage", what a fitting name. The comments by the Columbia professor, a complete lie. If this family had housing for three years why didn't this fool get a job during that time and his wife another fool also. Instead they got lazier than they already are. Why is it that the studies never show that by providing entitlements for people creates a culture of dependency and ungratefulness. I do feel sad for the children, not because they are homeless but because the have a couple of low-lives for parents. May God protect them and favor them. CNN, please do something to find a job for these people to help them get back on their feet. BY WORKING NOT BY RECEIVING HANDOUTS BY THE GOVERNMENT AT THE EXPENSE OF THE TAXPAYER!!
Work for welfare should be mandatory. U.S. city infrastructure needs something like a $2.7 trillion investment, time to put the homeless to work. Generational welfare should be a crime.
That would be fine as long as they pay them the wage the work Is worth.wait a min then they won't need welfare are you getting it yet?
The wage they're worth ot the wage they think they're worth? Getting it yet?
Attempting to take the standpoint that those who aren't winning in the game of Pure Capitalism, which heavily favors Nepotism, not having the right to procreate is so ignorant, and downright offensive, that I don't even know where to begin. Go back to morality school, kindergarten preferably, you have no place in rational discussion.
The right to procreate?
If you lack the skills to provide the resources for your children, please don't have them. Your lack of ability, work either, and/or foresight doesn't obligate the government (aka the other citizens) to provide for your children. Your children are not my responsibility. They are yours.
Also, the constitution does not give you the right to procreate.
* work ethic
Oh, and lastly you could begin with a rational and/or philosophical argument, rather than an indignant attitude and the unsupported assertion that everyone has a right to procreate. Although at least you clearly admitted that you "didn't know where to begin" when forming a response. It turns out, if enough unskilled people procreate, eventually their unskilled children will overwhelm the resourced provided by the people who actually produce. Starvation, disease, an anarchy will result. And at that point there will be no one to whom you can turn, because everyone that can produce will have been driven out of the system.
"...heavily favors nepotism"? I believ it heavily favors hard work and common sense.
listening to the CNN radio it stated there were 48,000 homeless people currently. while New York Cities coalition for the homeless website in October 2012 states 48,694 people not including, families in private shelters or "other" public housing, domestic violence shelters, special emergency shelters, faith based shelters and drop in centers. so when you look at the bigger picture, greater numbers than the great depression and the fact that they are only counting municipal centers the number is GROSSLY misrepresented by 48,000 people! after a few hours of research and math i estimate New York Cities homelessness to be over 100,000.
How about we turn the homeless in to tires, that way we will still have homeless, but we can use them, on our cars.
Won't work. The lashings keep fraying.
No problem. I'm sure Mayor Bloombutt has a way to solve this problem. He'll just make homelessness illegal, just like he made super sized sodas and guns illegal.
Capital idea.
Obamas Dream Act.....Now YOU have to deal with it Bloomberg....Ha Ha Ha!
@ Ari – "john kerry supports increasing taxes on people like (and including) himself."
That's why he parked his yacht in Rhode Island – so he could avoid paying taxes to Massachusetts.
Yes, but when the public found out, he paid the docking fee/ taxes or whatever.
My parents never did a thing for me, stole my inheritance from my grandma, left me in a boarding school, I had to mow lawns, collect pop bottles as a kid as my old man would take us to the beach to gauck at the women and never gave us a dime for a snow cone. At christmas my friend and I would go out in the freezing cold to sing Christmas carols for a hand out. My mom never even gave me $7.00 for a student body card , and made me late to class every day. My first car was a real piece of shitt, I worked in restaurant washing dishes for school, and the jerk let me go cause he had a relative who needed a job. i had to go to Vietnam and see 100 Marines come home in body bags. My step dad left me in his bankruptcy, my old man lost everything in the stock market, my mom died of breast cancer and left me her husbands bankruptcy. My exwife became a alcoholic and divorsed me for a married man. In 1992 I had to buy another house as the courts sold my home and the earthquake demoslished the new house. But I still give money to the poor, what the hell might as well throw that away to, you can't take it with you. But today I'm doing ok thanks to the Lord, you know you always have the Lord by your side. Thank you Jesus.
That sounds so pitiful. What do you want-pity? Did you spend nights on the streets? Obviously you are not too poor-or you wouldn't be able to respond with your i-phone or laptop. Whats the matter with you? Try going to Solo Indonesia or the Favela in Rio and then tell the world just how bad your upbringing was. Don't you think this was all part of Gods' plan for you?
Not trying to be mean-my apologies, however there are people out there with really big concerns.
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"Despite care from top professionals, as well as from her very loving family, Grumpy encountered complications from a recent urinary tract infection that unfortunately became too tough for her to overcome," the announcement said. "She passed away peacefully on the morning of Tuesday, May 14, at home in the arms of her mommy, Tabatha."
"Besides being our baby and a cherished member of the family, Grumpy Cat has helped millions of people smile all around he world -- even when times were tough.
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Grumpy Cat, whose real name is Tardar Sauce, was born April 4, 2012, according to the Grumpy Cat website. She blew up on the internet after her photo was posted to Reddit that following September. Her family said some skeptics thought the image of her ill-tempered expression was photoshopped, but subsequent videos helped launch her to internet stardom.
Grumpy Cat's family said her face may have been due to feline dwarfism. Her rear end also wobbled when she walked for the same reason.
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Opinion: Finally, a Fed Taper
Americas columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady on the Fed's announcement that it will reduce its bond-buying program by $10 billion a month. Photo: Getty Images
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... I ... I ... the eastern purchasing eighty five billion dollars for months and longer term Treasury and agency mortgage backed securities ... starting in January will be purchased purchasing seventy five billion dollars of securities a month reducing purchases of Treasuries ... and mortgage backed securities by five billion dollars each ... and with that dry enough when from Ben burn Anqi the Dow Jones Industrial Average probably rose nearly three hundred points ... welcome to Opinion Journal I'd on Dan Henninger sitting in today for Mary Kissel ... I'm joined with Mary O'Grady of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and one has to ask Mary was the market's due for reaction to the tapering just ... I would say was justified but exactly why it was justified I think is a lot harder to understand that even justified because and the market has been waiting for a long time for the Fed to return ... and credit policy in this country to something normal that is threatening the things freely and credit should be free and basically they've tapped ... Credit free for very long time which is distorting ... everything and the economy ... and so I think it is on on some level people were happy that it looks like at some point we're going to get back to normal ... the other reason possible ... that time it's justified is because he also said along with the fact that he's going to reduce the amount of bond buying every month ... that he's gonna continue with a very easy money policy it will take ... if he reduces ten billion a month it will take till the end of next year to get down to five billion ... and hell also keep them short ... on ... interest rates which is what really the Fed normally controls ... at basically at the zero bound ... Holding said their benchmark would be once unemployment got below seven percent than other suggesting even if it got to six and a half percent they would keep rates at this level ... I think they understand very well that the unemployment rate is not really telling you what's going on in the economy because as you know ... of a lot of people and dropped out of looking for a job ... so when you have the labor force participation rates very well ... back to make it seem like unemployment coming down where is a lot of people just aren't working because they gave up ... on the other hand you look at that GDP growth which is a measure of how much the economy grows every year ... and you see that it seems like it might be just kindest on or around two percent and that's that's a problem ... well ... let's talk about the real economy ... we mostly associate ... this subject with how it affects the stock market ... but what is it would lead the Federal Reserve has announced it mean for the real economy the companies and people out there that actually making ... well you know it means that's probably the long end the monarchy in other words if you can't borrow money for ten years anywhere between ten years in thirty years ... I think it's can become a little bit more expensive which is how it should be because there's more risk there ... um but I think the other thing that's encouraging if you have people who are savers ... you have pension funds ... I'd you have I'm ... basically people at money who wanna lend a put to work ... with the refrain of landing in very low rates when ... if that ... is the rates go up at a later date there Handel was out ... and that's really what they're scared of ... well especially savers but this isn't going to raise interest rates fish only to make the Sabres lot of money they have been a privilege losers for the entire period of quantitative easing me read about that but I think it just the very fact that the Fed is actually acknowledging ... really what they're acknowledging here is this this isn't working this isn't really doing anything in fact it might be contractionary because it paralyzes people they think ... this is not normal and just listen on line hands and slowly returning something normal so what's all cool about this is that the Fed is can start to face reality and and let's face it Ben burn Anqi has always been complaining that the hard work heavy lifting ask to be done ... on the fiscal side Congress has to ... cut taxes ... Congress has to do something about entitlement spending on the list of the things that are really hampering the economy and ... he says that the Congress is basically asking him to step up ... and filling in for him because they're not willing to do their work and so this will throw the ball back and twelve which will see marry me and you know Fed Chairman from as far back as Alan Greenspan and testifying to use up to Congress to get its fiscal house in order that hasn't happened and remains the scene whether it will ... happen in twenty fourteen ... so I think one of the really big risks is that if you look at the history of central banking ... that the central bank's usually react too late ... and if we start to have an inflationary environment with all this money that the Fed has created Fed is still sitting in banks and not being went out ... aam ... will see how quickly the Fed reacts I think that's what is the real fear them ... Mary will be watching


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Both Michigan and Michigan State make history with Sweet 16 tickets
- For the first time in NCAA tournament history Michigan and Michigan St. are in Sweet 16
- Michigan started the celebration by dissecting Virginia Commonwealth%27s vaunted press 78-53 in the opener
- Michigan State made it a historic day%2C slamming the front door on Memphis 70-48
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — March has never been sweeter in the state of Michigan.
For the first time in the 75-year history of the NCAA tournament Michigan and Michigan State have advanced to the Sweet 16.
The Big Ten's Wolverines and Spartans earned their tickets right in their backyard, in dominating fashion, in a supercharged atmosphere Saturday at the Palace.
Michigan, just 36 miles from its Ann Arbor campus, started the celebration, dissecting Virginia Commonwealth's vaunted press 78-53 in the opener.
Michigan State, 81 miles from East Lansing, made it a historic day, slamming the front door on Memphis 70-48.
"I was surprised today," Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said. "I was pulling for everybody (in the Big Ten) today.
"It's pretty neat for our state to have two teams, playing in one of the greatest basketball facilities in the country here in Detroit. I thought that was pretty awesome."
This is MSU's 11th Sweet 16 appearance under Izzo. UM advances to this round for the first time since 1994. The rival programs helped the Big Ten move to 8-1 in the tournament.
"At the University of Michigan, we want to be champions, we're trying for Big Ten championships," coach John Beilein said. "And when you get in the NCAA tournament, you're trying to do the exact same thing."
The Wolverines (28-7) and Spartans (27-8) vanquished the visitors in blue-collar style. What else would you expect in the home of the auto industry?
Michigan held VCU (27-9) to 39.7% shooting and won the rebounding battle 41-24.
MSU was even more dominant defensively and on the glass, holding the Tigers (31-5) to 29.7% shooting and beating them 49-29 on the boards.
The locals loved it when Michigan's Mitch McGary set a screen that sent VCU guard Briante Weber crashing to the court.
"I set a good, hard screen and the man happened to run into my chest," said a smiling McGary, who starred with 21 points and 14 rebounds, making 10 of 11 shots including a series of dunks. "It was a legal screen I didn't mean intentionally for him to fall down, but it happened."
Later, the crowd seemed to feed off the fact that MSU teammates Derrick Nix and Keith Appling, friends and roommates, got into a tiff during a timeout. An animated Nix whipped a towel at Appling in anger while Izzo discussed strategy. Appling fired back. Izzo just kept on talking.
Like brothers battling in the basement, dad seemed content to let them sort it out on their own. At Michigan State there's a history of good things happening after a little healthy family disagreement. Best pals Mateen Cleaves and Morris Peterson got into an argument that turned physical in a locker room right here at the Palace during the 2000 NCAA tournament. A little over a week later, the Spartans were NCAA champions.
"I need players to get on players sometimes," Izzo said. "Sometimes Nix doesn't know exactly how. He's trying to please me, but he doesn't know exactly how. But trust me, it was fun.
"Players were a lot more vocal today. I just loved that."
It was a homespun atmosphere, the stands stocked with 21,723 fans splashed in equal parts blue and green, coexisting in unusual synergy.
The Wolverines and Spartans split their two games this year, MSU routing Michigan 75-52 in East Lansing, UM prevailing 58-57 in Ann Arbor.
On this day, on a neutral court, everyone who resides in the state went home happy.
"So sick that Michigan and Michigan state are in sweet 16!" Tweeted @CahilKrajniak. "Big ten representing. And representing Michigan as a state!" "Put your hatred aside for UM/MSU for a sec, both are in sweet 16. Both won their matchups handily. Great day for the state of Michigan," Tweeted @SammyMacAttack.
The teams separate for the next leg on the road to the Final Four in Atlanta.
Michigan heads to Arlington, Texas, to face the winner of Kansas-North Carolina for a berth in the Elite Eight. MSU moves to Indianapolis to face the Duke-Creighton victor.
For all the symmetry Saturday, there was one area where the teams differed greatly in their third-round games — at point guard.
Michigan's Trey Burke, who took a nasty fall after being undercut in a second-round win against South Dakota State, showed no ill-effects. He appeared in sync against the Rams, striking for 18 points and seven assists. VCU made him turn the ball over seven times, but Burke got the best of coach Shaka Smart's opportunistic approach, known as havoc.
"I knew that they were going to bring it," Burke said. "I knew that they were going to run and jump and turn me over. I knew it wasn't going to be a perfect game for any of us. So I just tried to find different ways to attack it, find different ways to get the ball in the middle. Get out of transition to get numbers."
MSU's Appling, meanwhile, had to leave Saturday's game after suffering a right shoulder injury. Appling managed just two points and a pair of assists in 28 minutes. He is expected to be OK for the round of 16.
"He'll be sore for a day or two, " MSU team physician Jeff Kovan said. "But he'll play on."
So will the Wolverines. So will the Spartans.
The sweetest spring in state history is just getting started.


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Two Marion County public school teachers recently were honored as part of the annual Awards Ceremony for the Fairmont State University School of Education, Health and Human Performance.
The 2013 Harry J. Hadley Award for Teaching Excellence was awarded to Joy Gaines of North Marion High School and Deborah Ann Coburn Sabo of Monongah Elementary School. The award, named in honor of Dr. Harry J. Hadley who served as Dean of the School of Education for 30 years, recognizes two West Virginia public school teachers who are graduates of Fairmont State and who exemplify FSU's goal of producing "The Informed Decision Maker." An elementary school teacher and a secondary school teacher are selected as award winners each year.
Gaines graduated from Fairmont State in 1981 with a B.A. in Secondary Education and went on to earn a Master of Arts in Communication Studies degree from West Virginia University. She has taught at North Marion High School for 30 years. Since 1982 she has been an adjunct instructor at Fairmont State. Gaines has authored or co-authored several grants to provide students with rigorous, engaging, curriculum impacting the school's culture for students, teachers and parents. She was Marion County Teacher of the Year, Security First Group's Teacher and Marion County English Language Arts Teacher of the year. She is a member of several professional organizations such as Alpha Delta Kappa, National Education Association, West Virginia Education Association and the Marion County Reading Council.
"To be effective, a teacher must know and understand all students. By doing so, we decrease opportunities for failure and set the stage for success, therefore providing a foundation for lifelong-learning," Gaines said.
Deborah Sabo graduated from Fairmont State with a B.A. in Elementary Education and from WVU with an M.A. in Pre-School Special Needs. She teaches first grade at Monongah Elementary School. She is active in the PTA, PBS implementation and Faculty Senate activities. She co-authored a grant for a computer lab at Blackshere School. She has attended the Governor's Summer Academy many times and has presented for the Early Childhood Conference in Charleston. Sabo currently serves as her school's Positive Behavior Support Team. Sabo is currently involved in the Marion County schools math cadre. Her leadership and involvement has proven to be a valuable asset to the school's teachers as they begin aligning a recent math textbook adoption and resources to common core standards. Sabo doesn't just measure success by the progress of students in her classroom, but she also is concerned about their achievement once they leave her classroom.
A parent of one of Sabo's students wrote the following: "As a parent, it's an honor to know that Mrs. Sabo is holding my little girl's hand and leading her through part of that journey."


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Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2011
Tweeting through time: History expert says social media connecting younger generations to the past
MANHATTAN -- A project by a University of Oxford graduate to document the events of World War II in real time using the social networking site Twitter is generating new interest about the war among young people, according to a World War II expert at Kansas State University. The project also highlights the pros and cons of using Twitter as a teaching method.
The ambitious project at https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII, which began in August 2011, has led to more than 1,000 tweets and a following of more than 175,000 people worldwide.
Generating new interest in World War II is a positive, said Mark Parillo, associate professor of history at Kansas State University. He thinks the use of Twitter in the project is practical for connecting with younger generations but could use refining.
"I think the concept is very good," Parillo said. "But I'm not sure it was done in the best possible fashion. I found it to be somewhat confusing as to what I was actually reading, who was supposedly authoring the Tweets and for whom they were intended."
Because Twitter caps each tweet at 140 characters, it limits the amount of information that can be communicated in each message. The number of tweets in the project varies daily -- each tweet represents a daily event during the war -- and the number of tweets will continue to grow when the project is completed in six years, which was the length of the war.
Though there has been little change recently in the broader understanding of World War II, Parillo believes two important factors have provided a spark for the project.
"The generation that experienced World War II, whether that be as soldiers or on the home front, never spoke about it much because it was such a common experience," Parillo said. "But they reached that point in the 1980s and more so in the 1990s where they began to retire and deal with grandchildren, and discovered there was not a great deal of awareness about it. They begin to set out the record themselves for their families and for others. The other factor is that we began a series of anniversaries, 50-year commemorations and so on, that brought a lot of attention to the war."
Harnessing the increased interest from the Twitter account is of great importance, Parillo said. Changes in students' reading habits from published works to online content have eliminated the editing and vetting process. Such trends have caused changes in Parillo's teaching style.
"I have found that I need to devote more time developing my students' ability to judge the reliability of sources," he said. "We don't really have the safety net of the publication process to weed out the most egregious and salacious of purportedly historical accounts."
The broadened use of Internet content lacking such a safety net suggests a larger issue related to the nature of education, Parillo said, and is applicable far beyond the boundaries of World War II studies.
"Our task as teachers is evolving to where we have to put more and more emphasis on assisting students to develop the criteria and standards for judging what they can and cannot trust among all the stuff that is floating around out there and available to them," he said.
Parillo, a longtime teacher of World Wide II-related courses, is the author of the book "The Japanese Merchant Marine in World War II." Some of his other publications include "Burma and Southeast Asia, 1941-1945" for "World War II in Asia and the Pacific and the War's Aftermath, with General Themes: A Handbook of Literature and Research"; the three-volume The Encyclopedia of War and American Society; and "'We Were the Big One': The World War II Generation in America."
His most recent project, "Statesman and Airpower," is due out from the University Press of Kentucky in 2012.
Parillo has served as chair and newsletter editor of the World War II Studies Association. He has also been a presidential counselor for the National World War II Museum in New Orleans and a member of the Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee.


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The "KDE Mobile" project aims at bringing the KDE Platform and the KDE Plasma Workspace onto mobile, netbook, in-car and tablets type of devices.
Right now one of our primary target are the Maemo based systems, and soon to follow MeeGo based systems.
If you're new to the Maemo microcosm, you might want to start with the "Maemo Explained" section to get an overview of the different projects, devices, systems used around.
Once you are more familiar with the project, you will be able to find more information on the KDE Mobile project in the media. Here we try to list blogs, presentations and articles about our effort.
If you just want to quickly get started, please use our VM with the scratchbox toolchain deployed: Maemo5/Qt SDK VM
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Relevant sections of the Maemo wiki
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Nothing there yet, some people showed interest though.
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Paul Joseph Watson
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Last month, so-called "birthers" got very excited over a clip in which Michelle Obama called Kenya President Obama's "home country," but a newly uncovered video is likely to stoke even more controversy, because in it the First Lady clearly states that Obama is "Kenyan".
In a video of a 2008 speech that went viral last month after it was resurrected from the archives, Michelle Obama states, "When we took our trip to Africa and visited his home country in Kenya, we took a public HIV test."
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Some media pundits expressed doubt that the First Lady was explicitly saying that Obama had been born in Kenya, and Glenn Beck even implied that the release of the tape was a trick designed to push Tea Party members over the edge and incite violence, allowing Democrats to demonize their political opposition as extremists.
However, yet another clip has been uncovered from the archives in which the First Lady plainly states that Obama is "Kenyan," leaving little open to speculation in terms of context.
During a December 2007 speech in Tampa Florida, Michelle Obama stated, "What it reminded me of was our trip to Africa, two years ago, and the level of excitement that we felt in that country – the hope that people saw just in the sheer presence of somebody like Barack Obama – a Kenyan, a black man, a man of great statesmanship who they believe could change the fate of the world."
The comment is made after the 2 minute mark. Watch the clip below.
It would be quite a stretch to claim that Michelle Obama means anything other than that Obama was born in Kenya when she says that the President is "Kenyan". When it comes to the term "home country," there's a little wiggle room, but saying that Obama is "a Kenyan" seems to be reasonably cut and dried.
This seems as straightforward as saying that Arnold Schwarzenegger is Austrian, because he was born in Austria. Of course, under the terms of Section 1 of Article Two of the United States Constitution, to be eligible to become President, an individual must be "a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States". This prevents Schwarzenegger from ever becoming President, as it would make Obama's presidency illegitimate if it was conclusively proven that he was born in Kenya.
We've largely sat on the fence regarding the whole "birther" issue, pointing out that there are legitimate arguments coming from both sides, but what's not up for debate is the fact that Obama's real name is Barry Soetoro, the name given to Obama at the time of his enrollment in an Indonesian elementary school.
Whatever the exact nature of the controversy, it seems inevitable that Obama is being blackmailed over his dubious origins, making it imperative that a proper investigation of the issue be conducted in the interests of both national security and the basic rule of law.
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Breaking the Slump
Jimmy Roberts
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The nearly 37 million people in the United States who play golf probably all have one thing in common: At some point they have contemplated giving up the game because they were frustrated with the way they were playing. When those blissful moments of precise drives and perfect putts disappear, when the ball seems to have a mind of its own, and when well-grooved swings become totally unhinged, we find ourselves in that panicked state known as a slump.When Jimmy Roberts, the award-winning reporter and writer, entered his own period of frustration with the game, he decided to ask some of the most famous golfers and successful people in the world for advice. Here, for the first time, are the stories and recollections of eighteen veteran players whose wisdom is both practical and philosophical. Some concentrate on technique (when Phil Mickelson is dissatisfied with the way hes driving the ball, he practices bunker shots to reinforce the most important element of the tee shot--rhythm). Others focus on mental adjustments (Davis Love III remembers his late fathers essential advice when hes frustrated: Try less hard).With stories from greats Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Johnny Miller, Dottie Pepper, Greg Norman, George Herbert Walker Bush, Paul Azinger, and many others, this is an emotional and spiritual first aid kit for anyone who plays the game and even those who dont. As the 41st president says, the way we handle adversities in golf can provide a template for how to handle the challenges in life: Golf lessons can sometimes be life lessons too. There may not be a universal cure-all, but there are many ways to recover from a debilitating slump.


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The Spanish government has drafted a child protection law with a measure requiring children under 18 to share in the responsibility of caring for the home and perform household tasks no matter their age or gender, according to the BBC.
The draft law also includes a section stating that children need to be respectful of their parents and teachers and have a positive attitude toward learning.
Should children be required by law to do household chores?
Outside of Western culture, children are chopping vegetables, catching fish, gathering fire wood and caring for younger siblings. They're learning life-long skills, building character and gaining a sense of maturity. In the Western world, kids are spending less time helping around the house and more time lying on the couch watching TV. University of Maryland professor Sandra Hoffereth analyzed time-use studies and concluded that the average American child does less than a half-hour of household work a day. Hoffereth and her team looked at data from 1981 to 2003 and found that children's time devoted to chores dropped 25 percent over the time span.
Homework is usually considered a child's job and after it's done she can play, which typically means turning on a screen. Soccer games, piano recitals and birthday parties also get in the way. It's rare for a family to have a free Saturday morning that can be dedicated to mowing the lawn or mopping the floors. Many parents just do the work themselves or hire outside help because it's easier and more time efficient than showing a 9-year-old how to dust base boards or identify weeds. What's more, overseeing a children's weekly chore list requires diligence. Making sure your kid cleans his room and the upstairs bathroom every week requires effort and then you have to come up with consequences if it's not done.
The loss of family chores is unfortunate, because most child psychologists have found that doing them builds responsibility. If your kids are folding their own laundry then they're less likely to put their clean clothes in the dirty hamper. If they're required to sweep under the kitchen table after dinner every night, then they're likely to be messy eaters. And if they go off to college and move into a dorm, they'll be more likely to keep their room tidy and their roommate happy.
But is a governmental law required? Honestly, I think a law would difficult to enforce. I think it's up to parents to take on the responsibility. Maybe cut back on the fancy enrichment — cooking lessons, rock climbing and poetry class — and put some time into some less glamorous activities like scrubbing the floors and washing the car.


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The Pop Art movement took key elements of mass communication and the mass-produced commodities that were shaping the 20th century, and boldly mixed them with fine art. Suddenly ordinary objects were given a colorful, new context and countless memorable images were created, and then embraced by the mass media that had inspired them.
Publishers and writers are still attempting to grasp Pop Art today with frequent retrospectives of the key artists and themes. Andy Warhol appears larger than life more than 20 years after his death. From the late 1960s, books and exhibition catalogs have showcased the finest moments in Pop Art from Warhol and his Campbells soup cans (many, many times) to the comic strips of Roy Lichtenstein and Ed Ruschas startling mundane images of California.
This selection - including work by David Hockney, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist and Larry Rivers - explains the origins of this global art movement and showcases the work that packed art galleries from New York to Stockholm for several decades. We do, indeed, have pages and pages of Pop Art.
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Mo. Gov. Nixon signs tax credit legislation
Measure authorizes up to $3M in tax credits for hosting amateur sporting events
Missouri soon will be able to flash some cash at the organizers of big-time sports events in hopes of competing against other states for the rights to host NCCA tournament games, Olympic trials and the tourist spending that goes with them.
Gov. Jay Nixon signed legislation Friday authorizing up to $3 million annually of tax credits for organizations and local governments that host amateur sporting events. He also signed a bill reinstating several state tax credits for donations to charitable organizations such as food pantries and centers that aid abused children.
The tax breaks for benevolent donations took effect immediately upon Nixon's signature. The legislation authorizing the sports incentives won't officially become law until Aug. 28, but local sports authorities could immediately begin incorporating the promised tax breaks into their marketing pitches.
The new incentives could be added to pending bids by the St. Louis Sports Commission to host the Olympic swimming trials in 2016 and the Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournament in 2017 or 2018.
"It gives us greater ability to compete with communities across the country and to bring in major amateur sporting events that will be very lucrative to the communities that host those events and to the state," said Marc Schreiber, vice president of marketing and development for the St. Louis Sports Commission.
"You're talking about millions of dollars in new tax revenue and visiting spending," Schreiber said.
State Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Glendale, said his legislation "will encourage broad economic activity while still having a positive return on investment for taxpayers."
Under the measure, local governments or nonprofit organizations that compete with other states to host amateur sports events can receive state tax credits equal to $5 for every ticket sold. The tax credits could be sold, allowing recipients to convert them to cash to offset costs for such things as renting facilities and providing security and transportation for athletes, officials and others involved in the event.
Schreiber said the subsidies could allow event organizers to make more competitive bids, perhaps by offering to let a sports association such as the NCAA keep a larger percentage of the ticket sales.
Some lawmakers who voted against the measure earlier this month expressed skepticism about the need for sports incentives, noting that St. Louis and Kansas City both hosted major college basketball tournaments this March.
Nixon signed the sports incentives bill without comment Friday, though he traveled to a food bank in Cape Girardeau to publicize his enactment of the other bill.
The new law reinstates tax credits for food pantry donations that expired in August 2011. It also renews tax credits that expired last August for donations to pregnancy resource centers and to organizations that provide services to children who are abused, neglected or in the state foster care system.
Donors can receive tax credits worth half the value of their contributions, which Nixon said can help leverage donations and decrease the need for state expenditures.
"Continuing to move our state forward means making sure we don't leave our most vulnerable citizens behind," Nixon said in a written statement.
Other tax credits gaining renewal under the bill offer benefits to surviving spouses of deceased public safety officers and to people who make improvements so that their homes are accessible to the disabled.
The legislation extends all those tax credit programs through 2019.
But the bill also eliminates tax credits for parents who adopt children from outside of Missouri, leaving the benefits in place only for the adoption of Missouri children who have "special needs." The tax credit is intended to help cover nonrecurring adoption costs, such as home visits and legal fees, and is limited to $10,000 per child.


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Connecticut woman attacked by raccoon she accidentally let into house, mistook for cat
HAMDEN >> In an incident eerily similar to an eyeglass-store commercial, an 88-year-old woman was attacked Sunday night by a raccoon she accidentally let into her home and then tried to pet, thinking it was her cat, according to police.
The woman was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital to be treated for several injuries. She had been released from the hospital by Monday morning, police said.
Officers responded at about 11 p.m. to a report of a wild animal attack at a home on Brinsmade Road, Capt. Ronald Smith said Monday in a press release.
Police found that the woman was attacked after a raccoon followed her cat into her home through a sliding glass door. The woman had heard a scratching sound outside the door and opened it to let her cat in, Smith said. When the woman attempted to pet what she thought was her cat, the raccoon attacked her, biting her on the elbow, hand, forearm, lip and chin.
The woman was transported to the hospital by an American Medical Response ambulance.
The raccoon charged two officers when they arrived at the house, according to Smith. The raccoon was caught and euthanized "before it inflicted further damage," Smith said.
The Hamden Animal Control Division transported the raccoon to the Connecticut Public Health Laboratory in Rocky Hill for rabies testing.
In a Sears Optical commercial first aired in 2009, a woman is seen outside of her home's sliding glass door, calling for her cat. A raccoon follows her inside instead. The tagline for the commercial, created by adversting agency Sponge, is "Missing something?"
In February, the Boston Globe reported that a 73-year-old Hingham, Massachusetts woman was attacked by a raccoon that entered her home through a door flap her cat used to get inside the house. The woman was treated for cuts and bite wounds, the Globe reported.


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sothron wrote:I am still getting the same error using both EIT and poppy10 suggestions. Am I not inputting this correctly? When it asks for a name to the string I just put in the same string and then the actual string. Should I name it something?
The name of the string ("enter preference name") should be
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