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Lesser-Known Schizophrenia Symptoms Which Actually Have a Great Impact
When people think of schizophrenia, they often think of hallucinations and delusions. And these are debilitating for many people with the illness. Imagine that you can't trust your own mind to tell you what's real and what isn't.
One of Devon MacDermott's clients asked her to think of an image and then to imagine that the knowledge that she'd conjured the image herself was erased. Which would leave MacDermott to question: Is the thought really my own or a symptom of schizophrenia?
"In that moment I realized that it must be terrifying and extraordinarily frustrating to be in the mind of someone with schizophrenia," said MacDermott, Ph.D, a psychologist in private practice in New York City, who has worked extensively with people with schizophrenia in inpatient settings.
But there are other, less recognized symptoms of schizophrenia that can be just as problematic as hallucinations and delusions — or even more so.
For Rebecca Chamaa, who pens the Psych Central blog Life with Schizophrenia, lack of motivation is especially disruptive. Chamaa lacks the motivation to socialize. She can easily go weeks without seeing anyone but her husband of 18 years. "If you met me at a party, you'd think 'she's just like everyone else.' But for me to actually want to go to that party is a big deal."
Chamaa also believes the sinking motivation hampers her productivity. Even though she writes articles, blog posts and essays for various websites and attends a writing program at UCLA, Chamaa has noticed that her motivation is diminishing as she gets older.
Lack of motivation is classified as a "negative symptom" of schizophrenia. (Hallucinations and delusions are considered "positive symptoms.") Negative symptoms are an absence or reduction of characteristics that are present in well-functioning people who don't have schizophrenia, said Dawn I. Velligan, Ph.D, professor and co-director of the Division of Schizophrenia and Related Disorders at the Department of Psychiatry, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Negative symptoms affect about 30 to 50 percent of people with schizophrenia, she said. These "lead individuals to spend a lot of idle time." For instance, a person might be able to cook and clean, but they don't initiate or start these activities.
People with schizophrenia have a hard time getting out of bed, working, fostering relationships and pursuing hobbies, MacDermott said. "Life can feel much heavier and effortful when your motivation and energy are zapped. It leads people to be less likely to engage in their lives."
People with schizophrenia also are much less expressive with their emotions (another negative symptom). They might be feeling joy or sadness but they look like they aren't feeling anything, MacDermott said. Our ability to express our emotions is vital to connecting with others. When that's reduced, "it can severely impact someone's ability to obtain support and empathy. It means that people with schizophrenia are much more likely to feel alone in their experiences."
It can become a vicious cycle. According to Velligan, a person might have a blank facial expression and little emotion. They also might have little to talk about because they aren't engaging that much in life. This can make others uncomfortable, which can lead to rejection, which "causes people with negative symptoms to initiate even less."
Chamaa, author of Pills, Poetry and Prose, also struggles with anxiety. As she wrote in this post on her personal blog:
I have episodes of anxiety that make it impossible for me to do anything besides trying to relieve the anxiety. It is a catch-22 because the more I focus on relieving the anxiety, the more anxious I become. Anxiety ruins many events for me. At a writer's conference, I will almost always be overcome with anxiety and have to leave to be by myself and try to diminish the symptoms. When I see friends, and I am socializing, I often have a panic attack and need to go home quickly. Being around people in general can easily trigger a wave of anxiety. I take medication for this, but this symptom is probably the one that keeps me from leading a "normal" life.
Chamaa's paranoia around standing up for herself is especially hard. As she writes in the same post:
Constantly being fearful when you are just trying to be treated decently and fairly in this world is difficult to live with. Believing that people are going to punish you for disagreeing with them is a terrible way to live. We all need to feel some form of safety and comfort and trust in order to be healthy and happy. Those things are disrupted for me by schizophrenia.
About 95 percent of individuals with schizophrenia have cognitive impairments, which means difficulty paying attention, processing information quickly, remembering and planning, Velligan said. Because of these symptoms, people forget to perform important tasks at work and at home (like paying their bills). Not being able to plan also affects a person's ability to complete tasks, along with identifying problems and finding solutions, Velligan said.
In fact, research has found that cognitive symptoms predict people's social and occupational functioning, more so than hallucinations and delusions, said Melissa Fisher, Ph.D, a research psychologist and director of assessments in the Vinogradov Research Laboratory at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and a senior statistician in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco.
For instance, she cited this study by Lin et al. The authors found that both cognitive symptoms and negative symptoms in individuals at risk for psychosis were the strongest predictors of poor outcome.
Cognitive symptoms (and negative symptoms) also don't respond to medication. (Medications do improve positive symptoms, which is critical.) This is why researchers are exploring interventions such as cognitive training, which seems to bolster the benefits of psychosocial treatments and occupational programs.
Fisher cited this study by McGurk et al. According to the researchers, findings revealed that: "Over 2-3 years, patients in the supported employment with cognitive training program were more likely to work, held more jobs, worked more weeks, worked more hours, and earned more wages than patients in the program offering supported employment alone."
Schizophrenia is highly heterogeneous, Fisher said. "Any given patient may exhibit just a few, or several, or most of the symptoms over time." Whatever combination of symptoms a person experiences, it still disrupts their everyday life. However, with treatment and support, people with schizophrenia can and do lead fulfilling, productive lives. That might be the least well-known fact of all.
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The High School division of Academia Cotopaxi encompasses grades 9 through 12. Students follow a college preparatory course of studies that prepares them for further study at colleges and universities around the world. The curriculum leads to a US-accredited high school diploma as well as the IB Diploma, IB certificates and Ecuadorian Diploma.
High School students at Academia Cotopaxi are positive and motivated. An atmosphere of responsibility and respect is promoted and there are strong relationships between students and teachers. Students are encouraged to speak up and work for positive change; HS faculty and administration are committed to working as a team with students and parents.
Dear Students and Parents:
To all our new students and parents, I am delighted to welcome you to Academia Cotopaxi American International School. To all of our returning students and parents, I wish to say how fortunate I believe we all are to be a part of this school community. I look forward to meeting you and to working with you to enhance the outstanding tradition of excellence in education at ACAIS while also providing a rewarding and safe environment for our students.
Students in grades 9 and 10 take a program of eight classes each year, including English, Spanish, History, Science, and Math. They also take courses to meet requirements in Physical Education, Fine Arts (visual arts, music, or drama) and Technology.
The Diploma Programme is a comprehensive two-year international curriculum that generally also allows students to fulfill the requirements of their national or state education systems. In Ecuador, we are working closely with the requirements of the Ministry of Education for this to happen.
At Academia Cotopaxi, the college search process is a vital part of a student's development and education. Our goal is to provide student centered counseling which will foster independence and confidence among students so that they can find a college that matches their intellectual and social interests and needs.
Here you will find the High School handbook. This is the reference for all students and parents/guardians; communication of school policies and of what is expected from each member of our community helps promote a healthy and successful relationship between home and the school.
Students at Academia Cotopaxi follow a dress code. High School dress code is reviewed every year and adjustments made to our list of items to support the optimal learning environment.
This program guide is compiled to help high school students (grades 9-12) choose a course of studies which meets their needs. Counselors, teachers and mentors, the IB Diploma Coordinator, the High School Principal, and parents all guide students in this process.

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The moment happens, you find out your pregnant, and it is almost immediately that cravings begin to occur. Since you are pregnant you are eating for two, right? As much as we have heard this, and would love this to be the case, it is actually not completely true. During the first two trimesters, our body requires the same amount of energy from food as we normally consume in our non-pregnant state. The "Eating for Two" mindset is easy to embrace because it feels like a great excuse, until we have to pay the cost later. It is certainly one of the main causes for excessive weight gain in pregnancy, and adds to the challenging battle to lose the pregnancy weight because you are shedding a firm mindset as well as fat.
Finding out you are pregnant usually starts with incredible excitement, followed by the first trimester exhaustion. Eating starts to become just something to do, and because we are going to gain weight anyways, why not enjoy it, right? For example, I remember my first; all I wanted was cheeseburgers and French fries. I literally could eat a triple cheeseburger a large fry and still want that again for the next meal. Looking back, I cringe, but that was my reality. Then with the subsequent pregnancies came pizza, Mexican food, and M&M's by the Costco bag full. Yes, we will have cravings, and yes our taste buds will change – just like our sense of smell. We don't have to completely deny those cravings, we just need to shed the lie of eating for two. So how can we still be healthy, and take care of our body and the baby growing inside us at the same time?
When we eat too excessively and gain too much weight we are at risk for hypertension, gestational diabetes, and preeclampsia. None of this is to scare you, because you should enjoy life, especially your pregnancy. The reality is that pregnancy can be exhausting and sometimes a good junk food meal is a much needed pick me up, and a little oasis of happiness, right? But, just like when we are not pregnant, too much of a good thing is still too much, and our post-pregnancy self will thank us for not piling on excessive recovery time.
So let's look again at a basic truth – we need to eat. Eating is what will keep you and your baby healthy through these 40 weeks. But what can you do to stay healthy, and still enjoy this time?
- Eat healthy meals that are able to balance the tastes you crave with the fuel you need.
- Stay active – go for a walk if that is all you can do, but keep moving.
- Watch your food portions.
- Limit high fat and sugary foods. Please notice the word "limit". It does not say "don't eat…" or "stay away from…". We all need a treat, and a plan that keeps mama bear away from a treat is a plan that will fail.
In your third trimester, especially in the last few weeks of pregnancy, you need to prepare your body for labor. Much preparing is focused on the positions, and stretching, and getting your body physically ready for labor, and that is good. But did you know that before anyone runs a marathon, they eat for the race. This means that labor is just that – labor. It is work. Preparing your meals so that the food you are feeding yourself will give you the energy needed for this marathon. Eating foods that have good carbohydrates will help give you energy. Foods with good healthy fats and proteins will help you to not crash in the middle of the day and keep your energy levels up so that throughout the labor process you have a good amount of strength. Eat during this time to fuel your body.
All of this info is a general guideline to help inform you. There is definitely a way to dial it in more specifically and develop a plan to accomplish for your pregnancy a good balance of joy and discipline. The big thing here is that you enjoy this special time and take care of yourself and that growing baby.
**Amy Bender is part of our team here at Coastal Doulas and she teaches our classes on nutrition, as well as individual meal planning and prenatal nutrition counseling to help keep your body in optimal function for the amazing race that you are about to run. If you would like more information on our nutritional support, please contact us here for more information.**


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It's been about a year since Spike Lee signed on to direct Spinning Gold, the biopic about Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart, who signed among others, KISS, T. Rex, Parliament, and Cher. Justin Timberlake is already on board as Bogart, and it looks like Kelly Rowland is interested in playing the voice of disco herself, Donna Summer.
Apparently Rowland has been "campaigning" for the role—she certainly nailed the look in a selfie she posted to Instagram last week, which she captioned, "#tbt #DonnaSummer-ish #LovetoLoveYa." Obviously the woman can sing, so it'll be interesting to see if she's a serious contender, but hey, Justin's in there! Holy shit, can we cast this whole film with 90s-early aughts pop sensations?
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Joining HBO's Sunday night line-up, Togetherness rounds out an evening of slice-of-life programming. Accompanied by Girls and Looking, both peeks at the melodramatic and desperate lives of a group of directionless friends, Togetherness is an LA-based dramedy that looks into the window of two overwhelmed couples living under one roof. One is a married duo trying to keep the flame burning, and the other are two stragglers who've stuck together, both fighting age to keep the dream of youth alive. At a half-hour an episode, with eight episodes in its first season, the series is nuanced family TV that's not quite for the family, and one you absolutely need to get familiar with.
Mark Duplass and Melanie Lynskey play husband and wife Brett and Michelle Pierson, a seemingly perfect couple with two kids whose problems are hidden behind closed doors.
Even before their domestic life by their two new roommates, Brett and Michelle have been struggling to keep their sex life healthy. The comfort of domesticity has taken its toll on the pair, who now seem to have desexualized each other. With Brett being a health conscious dork who rambles his way through the awkwardness of foreplay, Michelle is often left to pleasure herself. It doesn't help that she's a stay-at-home mom struggling to find purpose, as her husband records bird calls on Hollywood Blvd. for his job as a sound tech in the movie industry. Soon enough, Michelle's quest to redefine herself sees her campaigning for a charter school, alongside a charming divorced dad (John Ortiz), who could prove a wrench in her marriage. But she's not the only one, as Brett starts taking to a New Age cliche named Linda (Mary Steenburgen).
Amanda Peet stars as Michelle's sister older Tina Morris, the resident bachelorette, and an aging party girl still trying to live forever 21.
Unlucky in love, Tina moves into her sister's house to get her life together. Still one to dress in mini skirts, cowboy hats, and tight cleavage-baring tops, Tina often finds herself investing way too much emotion in what would otherwise be a random hook-up in hopes that guy-of-the-week would turn into husband/father-of-her-children in no time. One such prospect becomes Larry (O.C. alum Peter Gallagher), a cheesy Hollywood producer who accessorizes with a Pomeranian. When she's not trying to detach from her disappointing single life, she focuses on her day job: party planning.
Gallagher stopped by Big Morning Buzz Live to discuss his varied film and TV roles.
The series was created by indie film power players Mark and Jay Duplass.
Since 2005, the Duplass brothers have become a staple in the independent film industry, making a name for themselves with low-budget slacker films that include The Puffy Chair, Baghead, and Jeff Who Lives at Home. Essentially, they're kings of telling stories about white suburbanites struggling to get out of their head just long enough to get by. Now, they're transferring that same sensibility to the small screen. "We were just getting mauled by the massive task, in our minds, of trying to be good dads and good husbands and also trying to be good at our jobs, which are very demanding and sort of 'dream jobs.'" Jay Duplass told the LA Times. He then went onto describe another set of childless, careerless friends who were wary of fully embracing adulthood. "Both groups tend to be equally miserable about very different things, and the material seemed to just go on and on forever."
Steve Zissis, an old friend of the Duplass brothers, plays a character admittedly inspired by himself in real life.
A friend of the Duplass brothers since going to high school together in New Orleans, Zissis was the big man on campus, and the guy Mark and Jay admittedly looked up to. Decades later, he's balding, chubby, and a relatively unknown actor, which basically describes his character Alex Pappas. As Alex, he's a miserable and insecure "whale" who gets evicted from his home, which forces him to move into the Pierson's. There, he forms a bond with new roomie Tina, and becomes her unofficial life coach. Of course, he predictably begins to fall for her.
Catch the premiere of Togetherness on Sunday, January 11 at 9:30 PM ET on HBO.
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President Bush has taken the first steps toward a major reform of U.S. intelligence gathering. It is part of an effort to repair intelligence failures surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
Reforming the intelligence community will be a difficult, lengthy and perhaps controversial process.
Most of the work will be done by Congress, which will have to rewrite existing laws governing the intelligence community.
But with the White House feeling public pressure for action, President Bush is doing what he can to implement change using his executive authority.
On Friday, he signed a series of measures that set the stage for what could be a comprehensive reform package.
He took action to better coordinate the work of the various intelligence agencies run by the U.S. government. Mr. Bush said, for the time being, the central intelligence director will be given enhanced authority over all their operations. In time, according to White House officials, that power will pass to the newly created post of national intelligence director.
The commission that investigated the September 11 attacks championed the idea of a national intelligence director. Mr. Bush's rival for the presidency - Democrat John Kerry - has already endorsed the idea.
White House officials say the decision to give enhanced powers to the CIA director on an interim basis will strengthen the foundation for reform. Other executive orders signed Friday by the president further the reform process by creating a new National Counterterrorism Center, and improving information sharing among intelligence agencies.
Congress is expected to take up the issue of intelligence reform when it returns to work in early September. Senators will also decide whether to approve the president's nomination of Congressman Porter Goss to be the new head of the CIA. Mr. Goss, a Republican from Florida, until recently served as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.


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A Working Paper from the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii
Cannon Brooke
From the introduction:
The time has come for parents to think about their children's future plans and decide if the university system is a viable option. This fall, roughly 2.6 million students will enroll in some form of higher education.[1] It has long been a part of the American dream to walk into the Ivory Towers and continue onto post-secondary education. However, this American dream can turn into an American nightmare for parents that are unprepared. When the time approaches to decide about possibly sending your child to college, a sputtering economy along with skyrocketing tuition might have you asking if it is worth it.
This paper explores alternative options to a post-secondary education, as well as considers attending a university. Particularly, this paper focuses on how to think strategically about the college option and calls for a proper cost-benefit analysis from parents and their children. There are many viable options to the university system that need to be exhumed so both parents and their child know they made the correct choice. While much attention and consideration is given to the college experience, other options such as: vocational schools, internships, volunteering, apprenticeships, community college and working after high school are sensible alternatives.
Many parents plan on sending their children to college as soon as they graduate high school even though the price of tuition and fees has increased at an astronomical rate of nearly four times the consumer price index (CPI), even outpacing healthcare (see figure I).[2] Unfortunately, many students enter the universities poorly prepared for academia and end up wasting valuable time and money. This problem illuminates the need for parents to exert more leadership and take a proactive role in their children's educational future.
1 "Digest of Education Statistics," Institute of Education Sciences, 2009.
2 Vicki E. Murray, "10 Questions State Legislators Should Ask About Higher Education," American Legislative Exchange Council, 2011.
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Urban Planner: May 19, 2010
Urban Planner is Torontoist's guide to what's on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you'd like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you've got any—to [email protected].
WALK: The City of Toronto is inviting residents to "walk this way, talk this way" as part of the Dundas Street West Streetscape Improvement Project. If you reside, commute, or hang out along this stretch (Bathurst Street to University Avenue), your feedback and ideas are being sought in order to facilitate the revitalization of this burgeoning thoroughfare. Participants are asked to RSVP by e-mailing [email protected] and bring along a digital camera or smartphone for the walk. University Avenue median park (University Avenue north of Dundas Street West), 5–7 p.m., FREE.
ART: Enigmatic Swiss graphic designer turned sculptor and installation artist Thomas Hirschhorn is in town to chat about his recent project, The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival, as part of The Power Plant's International Lecture Series. Named after the The Bijlmer neighbourhood of Amsterdam where it was erected last year and the philosopher Baruch Spinoza, The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival is a sculpture that addresses the question of public space, the question of the Other, and the idea of a "non-exclusive audience." Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre (235 Queens Quay West), 7 p.m., $12 (members FREE).
PARTY: It has been one glorious year since our comrades at ArtStars* started the video blog dedicated to Toronto's art scene. Since then, they've chatted with plenty of artists and art critics (sometimes in a Snuggie), thrown big parties, crashed massive parties, and made a run for the border. In celebration of these achievements, the ArtStars* One Year Bish-Bash is going down tonight. The ArtStars* crew, including host and executive producer Nadja Sayej, who has become a familiar face who's in your face at events and openings around town, will be partying with Team Macho, Jesjit Gill, and DJs Carl Heindl, Kevin Ritchie, and LBC & Baller. Double Double Land (209 Augusta Avenue), 10 p.m., $5.
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Every time you choose, you have also to renounce…I have personnally always had difficulties to make choices in my every day life. People always present you life's reality as simple dichotomy: this or that, heads or tails, left or right, beast or beauty, good or bad, black or white. But one of the most important thing I have learnt in analysis is to relativize. The world is not manichean, the nuance is a key for the prefrontal brain. As I was working with Barbie dolls when I received the opportunity to be part of the Apex Art project, I had the idea to use them as link between my current concerns : life in couple, equity between men and women, issues of modern working mothers. I decided to tint them in « fifty shades of grey » as an echo to the feminist side I have seen in the topic and to tight them on the ceiling by the feet, as if there was a leash to the foot of every woman who is at the same time a wife, a mother and a lady. She has to deal with her tiredness and to fight against the thought's shortcut of the archaic brain and easy way of thinking which are offered to her everywhere.
The Net
While I am weaving, I am thinking about the Julien Gracq's 'rough waves and short curls of foam' (in The Opposing Shore) which burst constantly on the rocks. I think about all traditional fishermen who, every morning, come back with their daily catch, armed with courage whereas so many others destroy seabeds and small producers' work, little by little…
This piece of art is representing a cocoon with a lightened heart, half animal half human. A cocoon is a revival's metaphor. As the artist sometimes needs to withdraw to be able to think, conceive and recreate himself, the chrysalis needs to take its time to come out of his shell and reborn. There is nothing as constant as change.
Black Dino
What is the link between a dinosaur and oil slick? At dinosaur's era, an asteroid was the cause of the species' extinction. Today the biggest danger for the animal kingdom is the human being and his incessant and growing activities which destroy nature and endanger the survival of life on earth.
Do not see any religious or political point of view here. It is only an artwork. We just wanted to explore the question of the freedom to express which is the highest value for artists.
Rain of chains
Hanged chains, locks and slave bandle, handcuffs….which evoke a part of the African history : ancient or modern.
Rope of prisoner's clothes braid together…
Vegetal jail
To enjoy the features of a matter, following it by slow movements to see where it can lead. To improve its properties adding several technique one by one as coat of thoughts : the beautifull pattern that nature can give us and which move me. It reminds me an Old French tale from the 19th century in which the trees are snapping shut behind the heroine as she is entering more deeply in the forest.
House of boxes
Do not over think ! Live the experience with your feelings, your senses : see the sounds, listen the darkness,…Experiment the ubiquity. ..
Remember the room of Gregor Samsa in the Kafka's novel « Metamorphosis » or the one of « Birdy » in William Wharton's story… which are metaphor of inner room : isolation and mutism.
Teleport you mind to a cell in a Prison Island in Panama, United States, Vietnam, Italy, or South Africa…going past by a makeshift house such as those of Calais, in France, where the sand dunes and streets became a camping out and squatter settlements called « The Jungle » after the Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy decided to close the Sangatte camp in 2002.


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Tip 1:
Those food trucks that come out like an army of toilet paper salesmen are bad news. Some are better than others as far as gastric pleasantness, but most use cheap ingredients and are way over priced for what they are. And if in doubt where these vendors save the bucks, see this past DSC News article for some insider info.
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East Indian food is a delight…when done right. I will even acquiesce that even the crappy East Indian is still very palatable, but for the price, you must be cautious. With no shame in outing the crap, avoid IVORY(Review HERE) and Dhoom (Review HERE).
Clay Oven, Samosa Hut in CityPlace and Chef Express in Portage Place are cheaper fast foodish alternatives. East India Company on York has the awesome décor and the wide selection of well made food that checks every Indian restaurant box. The best you can get in Downtown Winnipeg with a wide assortment of desserts as well. Pricey…but make it a special night out.
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Support local. What is local? You ask…the eateries that are not multi-national cattle chutes. Café 22 is franchise…BP's(Review HERE), while adequate, is franchise (born in stinking, yet enduring Edmonton).
Some local eats include the always pleasant wraps from the Fyxx on Broadway. The Yellow Dog(Review HERE) has good pub eats, if the actual established leaves some cool air to be desired in summer. Shawarma Khan's is stellar. Located in the exchange, this is a great local joint that breathed life into the staunch, pretentious eats scene of the exchange. Other local eateries include Thida's Thai on Broadway, The Don (Review HERE) for sufficient breakie and as far as sushi, Samurai Sushi across from the MTS centre is good stuff, albeit pricey as sushi tends to be.
Bottom line, support local to enjoy unique eats and to generally support your neighbours. If you don't, we will be inundated with the Mc's and Earls of the world…the places that think of you as fatso's with money.
Enjoy the downtown eats and venture to all Downtown Winnipeg has to offer.
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AEP Industries (NAS: AEPI) reported earnings on June 11. Here are the numbers you need to know.
The 10-second takeaway
For the quarter ended April 30 (Q2), AEP Industries beat expectations on revenues and crushed expectations on earnings per share.
Compared to the prior-year quarter, revenue increased significantly and GAAP earnings per share grew.
Margins increased across the board.
Revenue details
AEP Industries logged revenue of $296.7 million. The one analyst polled by S&P Capital IQ looked for revenue of $272.2 million on the same basis. GAAP reported sales were 19% higher than the prior-year quarter's $248.5 million.
Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Dollar amounts in millions. Non-GAAP figures may vary to maintain comparability with estimates.
EPS details
EPS came in at $0.87. The one earnings estimate compiled by S&P Capital IQ averaged $0.39 per share. GAAP EPS were $0.87 for Q2 compared to -$0.11 per share for the prior-year quarter.
Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Non-GAAP figures may vary to maintain comparability with estimates.
Margin details
For the quarter, gross margin was 14.5%, 250 basis points better than the prior-year quarter. Operating margin was 4.3%, 260 basis points better than the prior-year quarter. Net margin was 1.6%, 190 basis points better than the prior-year quarter.
Looking ahead
Next quarter's average estimate for revenue is $283.3 million. On the bottom line, the average EPS estimate is $0.24.
Next year's average estimate for revenue is $1.11 billion. The average EPS estimate is $1.12.
Investor sentiment
The stock has a two-star rating (out of five) at Motley Fool CAPS, with 74 members out of 91 rating the stock outperform, and 17 members rating it underperform. Among 28 CAPS All-Star picks (recommendations by the highest-ranked CAPS members), 23 give AEP Industries a green thumbs-up, and five give it a red thumbs-down.
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We cover a lot of information about the science of climate change, but it's clear that the topic also has social, political, and economic components. I would (and do) argue that, in a lot of ways, the science, which is dry and complex, is starting to matter a lot less than the economics of the topic. But this appears to be a rare week where almost every single aspect of this contentious topic has made the news. Hang on while we bullet up the stories.
- Bringing the science to the board room: Yale is teaming with the financial firm Marsh & McLennan to run a forum for providing companies with the rundown on the "financial, legal, business and investor implications of climate change." The organizers suggest that many companies are concerned, but don't know where to start in terms of action. As evidence for this, they note that even among companies that have signed on with the Carbon Disclosure Project, fewer than half are actively working on reducing emissions.
- Or, at least some board rooms: Britain's science-centered Royal Society is none too pleased with Exxon, and has sent an official letter declaring the company is misleading the public. They note that the Exxon Corporate Citizenship statement continues to highlight "gaps in the science," which the Royal Society suggests is an attempt to suggest the whole topic is scientifically unsound.
- Firing warning shots across the board room door: In the face of stagnating federal fuel economy standards, California would like the ability to regulate carbon dioxide emissions as they would any other pollutant. The automakers object, and have sued to block the state. California has now sued back, suggesting that the state is suffering massive economic losses due to changes in climate, noting that cars account for over 30 percent of the state's carbon emissions. The general consensus is that this is a legal maneuver related to the fuel standards case, rather than a genuine attempt to collect damages.
- Money from the Chairman of the Board: Richard Branson, chairman of the Virgin Group, apparently doesn't need a lawsuit or angry letter to convince him to act. He's pledged the profits from the transportation branches (rail and air) of his empire to combat global warming. It's estimated that this will amount to nearly $3 billion over the next ten years.
- No board room jokes available for Greenland: Can't let this slip by without some science. Papers in both Science and Nature take the latest gravitational density measurements and arrive at the same conclusion: Greenland's ice is leaving the building. As Greenland warms, the central portion of its ice sheet is expanding due to increased snowfall. But that increase is being swamped by the rapid flow of ice out to the sea from the southern end of the island. During the four year period of this study, the rate of loss has more than doubled. On average, the study suggests that Greenland alone has been raising ocean levels by about a centimeter every other year this century. Although this is a short-term study, the findings are in line with many trends from longer-term records.
Those are all the stories from just this week, and the week isn't even over yet. It's clear that the science is beginning to push its way into the forefront of the economic world.


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In this time of increasing competition for people's attention, it is critical to communicate with your current and future patrons in a broad and consistent manner. That is why we provide the powerful marketing tools that are highlighted below.
Automated Pre and Post Event Emails
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- Valuable real estate on Print-At-Home Tickets can be designed to encourage "likes" and visitors to your organization's social media accounts.
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You work hard to develop and promote your brand image on your website and other places. When a patron clicks a link on your website to purchase tickets or to donate money, it is important that your brand continues regardless of what page it goes to. That is why we customize your ticketing and donation pages on SeatAdvisor to match your brand. In addition, we can help you make sure your Print At Home ticket templates also match your brand. We want your patron to feel that they are always working directly with you.
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There are many ways that SeatAdvisor can help you increase attendance at your events. If you want to reward your loyal patrons, you can arrange special pre-sales of selected events. This powerful capability allows you to restrict access to only patrons with certain attributes, set a minimum and/or maximum number of tickets, and create promo codes to use in your promotions.
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Email Marketing
You have the email addresses for hundreds or maybe thousands of patrons, but how you utilize them is truly an art. Sometimes a campaign targets donors, and other times they are used to announce events and on-sales. Or perhaps your organization opts to distribute coupons, promotions or even Holiday greetings. Regardless of your message with a given campaign, having a solid and reliable service available to you is of the utmost importance. For this reason, SeatAdvisor has integrated Vertical Response as our official partner for email marketing.
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GrowYellow provides software sales and marketing professionals who have specialized and have in-depth knowledge and experience in B2B sales and channel development to expand your sales and marketing power. GrowYellow works for companies with strong value propositions and repeatable business opportunities.
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After having seen "The Island", his latest film, I hate him even more. I hate him because he takes a good idea and a whole lot of money and just wastes them, right in front of us. It's like watching someone purchase a $1,500 dinner and then take a shit on it just to show that he can.
Bay got his start directing music videos and is apparently still committed to that even though he's been hired to make features. He cuts every 2 seconds or so, fills his films with stark images and jagged compositions, and just generally makes everything fractured and messy. This isn't always a bad thing, if the director knows what he's doing. Bay might, but he doesn't seem to care. Performances are never given a chance to grow because they're so fractured and cut to ribbons you can never really get a sense of what's going on. The forward momentum is frenetic and constant, even when the camera pauses to let the audience soak in what's going on and think for a moment it doesn't stay still long enough.
"The Island" could have been a good movie. It was probably a decent script. Instead the film is a mess that says nothing and spends its time blowing stuff up and making sure that the characters are all underwritten and hazily composed. There are a few good sequences, Michael Clarke Duncan gives a glimpse of what the movie should have been with a performance so pitch-perfect that not even Bay can destroy it, but it's all for naught.
OH but this could have been a good film. A four-starer. A shot in the arm to the sci-fi community. A classic even. Instead it's a shit sandwich on a loaf of really good bread. And it's Michael Bay's fault.


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A last gasp header by Lindsey Horan levelled a thrilling 1-1 encounter between the USA and Australia, in Connecticut. Horan's 90th minute header came from a Megan Rapinoe corner, meaning both sides shared a point in the Tournament of Nations second round match.
Australia had taken the lead on a counter attack in the first half, when Lisa De Vanna made a surging run and set up Chloe Logarzo for a smart finish and while USA dominated possession in both halves, Alen Stajcic's speedy team was always a threat on the break.
It's all to play for for both sides, going into the final round of matches, with both Jill Ellis' side and the Matildas level on four points. (Images: Daniela Porcelli/@joerdeli1)
Match: U.S. Women's National Team vs. Australia
Date: July 29, 2018
Competition: Tournament of Nations
Venue: Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field; East Hartford, Conn.
Kickoff: 7 p.m. ET
Attendance: 21,570
Weather: 81 degrees, sunny
Scoring Summary: 1 2 F
AUS – Chloe Logarzo (Lisa De Vanna) 22nd minute
USA – Lindsey Horan (Megan Rapinoe) 90
USA: 1-Alyssa Naeher; 22-Emily Sonnett (14-Casey Short, 79), 7-Abby Dahlkemper (16-Rose Lavelle, 79), 4-Becky Sauerbrunn, 19-Crystal Dunn (10-Carli Lloyd, 87); 2-Julie Ertz, 9-Lindsey Horan, 6-Morgan Brian (5-McCall Zerboni, 63); 17-Tobin Heath (23-Christen Press, 74), 13-Alex Morgan (capt.), 15-Megan Rapinoe
Subs not used: 3-Samantha Mewis, 8-Amy Rodriguez, 11-Merritt Mathias, 12-Tierna Davidson, 20-Allie Long, 21-Adrianna Franch, 24-Ashlyn Harris
Head coach: Jill Ellis
AUS: 1-Lydia Williams; 4-Clare Polkinghorne, 6-Chloe Logarzo (9-Caitlin Foord, 85), 8-Elise Kellond-Knight (capt.), 10-Emily Van Egmond, 11-Lisa De Vanna (17-Kyah Simon, 58), 13-Tameka Butt, 14-Alanna Kennedy, 16-Hayley Raso (15-Emily Gielnik, 90+5), 20-Sam Kerr (19-Katrina Gorry, 90+1), 21-Ellie Carpenter
Subs not used: 3-Amy Sayer, 5-Mary Fowler, 7-Laura Alleway, 18-Mackenzie Arnold, 22-Larissa Crummer, 23-Alex Chidiac
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Content-Reuse. The Answer to Good Brand Governance?
If this is a situation you've found yourself in – you're not alone. It's an issue facing some of the globe's biggest brands. And it doesn't get any easier. The more regions you operate in, the more languages your customers speak, the more complex it becomes to deliver truly engaging, relevant and consistent experiences.
We recently asked SDL customers how they're approaching the issue. Looking at the results, a few trends suggest that organizations want to remain in control of their brand, but have local flexibility, when it comes to engaging with customers consistently on a global scale.
Companies want brand governance
It may sound simple, but a company's branding, message and voice needs to be consistent throughout all content – regardless of the customer's language. Achieving this isn't quite as easy. One piece of content alone, translated into five different languages for seven different channels, will involve 42 different pieces of content.
Despite the complexities, it seems that brands are striving to deliver more consistent campaigns globally, and waking up to the benefits of systems to reuse, adapt, and synchronize content across channels, markets and devices as the business grows.
Take KONE as an example. The company faced this very challenge and took control of its brand governance across more than 50 regional websites in more than 30 languages. With a shared site structure, local marketers now localize content to gain the greatest brand impact in each region.
By gaining control of this vital digital channel, KONE increased onsite conversion rates by 20%. It just shows how greater control of your online presence and brand image can have such an impact on engagement.
Brands want control of channels
Today, consumers choose what content and channels they want to engage with. They watch their favorite shows online, read web magazines, look up product information, share reviews… the list goes on.
As a result, customers, according to Forrester, expect a seamless experience "every time they interact with a company — whether it be when researching a product, completing a sales transaction, or getting customer service — over all the communication channels that a company offers."
To address these challenges, brands need flexible content strategies that include a host of new content: infographics, educational videos, mobile ads, native advertising and other creative formats to try and reach audience segments.
With so many digital media formats, messages and noise, how can brands control every aspect of the experience so it's authentic, and relevant to their audience?
Content re-use. A strategic way to improve governance and quality?
Although all these new and exciting digital channels enable brands to realize their goals, it also means creating, managing and delivering millions of pieces of content. This amounts to a staggering level of content being created every minute – in fact 211 million pieces/minute. And if you want to stay relevant, you'll most likely need to create all this overnight.
If you're creating content for multiple campaigns – and again for a different market – then why not take advantage of content re-use? Many of our customers are tackling this challenge by re-using content more effectively to engage with millions of customers.
Think about how many times you could have saved the trouble of recreating and reinventing by using content more intelligently across your channels?
The answer is to re-use content, across multiple channels and languages, if you want to engage with a truly global audience.
By taking this approach brands gain substantial efficiencies, and far greater control and governance, of their content. At scale, this becomes an even more powerful way of engaging with global audiences. With the emergence of newer digital platforms – chatbots, IoT, AR/VR etc – and with newer content types, it's getting harder to just manage the sheer volume of content, let alone the intelligent use and repurposing of it.
Big brands are taking control and addressing governance by making it a priority in their digital transformation strategy. Are you?


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Bill Gates predicts that, "It's very clear that five years from now, on the web, for free…you will be able to find the greatest lectures in the world."
Higher education is becoming cheaper and more accessible. With an internet connection users can watch TED lectures or look up academic papers. Now Udemy.com, a website that tries to, "disrupt and democratize the world of education by enabling anyone to teach and learn online," is making things even easier. Udemy has recently launched "The Faculty Project," a website that offers free enrollment to classes taught by some of the world's best professors. The Faculty Project is currently offering 15 courses taught by professors from Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Yale and Stanford – an impressive lineup – for no charge. Courses range from Ancient Greek Religion to Foundation of Business Strategy to Brazil for Beginners.
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The Tupac Amaru Rebellion's first review is out. Kirkus Reviews notes that, while most studies of the Tupac Amaru rebellion are either in Spanish or outdated, Walker's
straightforward account looks beyond the death of the rebel leader, on May 18, 1781, barely seven months after the start of the uprising, to the subsequent and bloodier foment led by his cousin Diego Cristobal and others during the next year. Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui Noguera (1738–1781) descended from the royal line near Cuzco; his forebear and namesake, Tupac Amaru, was executed by the conquering Spanish in 1572. His royal ancestry proved a galvanizing force to his leadership among the Quechua people, who believed that another Incan chief was destined to reappear.
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Acro yoga is a combination of yoga, acrobatics and Thai yoga massage. You will carry and support others as base and be carried and supported as flyer. It is about trust and surrendering in acro yoga, but above all it's a lot of fun!
In this workshop we will cover the basics of therapeutic flying. This means that you don't need any experience, just some curiosity. We will start with some partner yoga exercises to get to know each other, before the actual acro yoga, just to make sure everyone feels safe and supported.
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Seated by the window, I am flying back home after a two-day business trip. The aerial view of the land below is simply stunning. It is as if someone has covered mother earth with a warm blanket of fireflies on this cold winter night.
At the airport, I picked a tiny Cookie Monster stuffed toy for Ram. It seemed like the right gift for a child who never misses an opportunity to check out what Sesame character adorns his diaper. Between a Sudoku activity book and a fancy bookmark, I picked the latter for Hari. The child has been using the library receipt as a bookmark, may be this fancy toy will jazz up the reading experience for him. I chose a bookmark that said, "Real books do not catch viruses" for Da, who is an early adopter of ebooks and online reading. May be it will come in handy for the few real books he reads every now and then.
Armed with these little toys, I am looking forward to going home. I am looking forward to having a steaming cup of creamy milk mixed with two heaps of Complan. I am looking forward to sneaking into the room to curl up with my sonny boys. When I do so, I know they will instinctively curl up to me, wrapping me in a cocoon of love. And for those few moments, my heart will be full, with gratitude and contentment, and life will seem perfect as is!


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Liberalism is a political ideology that has been prominent in modern times. The foundation of which are the concepts of liberty and equality. The meaning and application of these words in society are heavily debated. A broad few of these terms and a look at the people who have defined Liberalism will provide a depth of understanding into modern societies.
Liberty and Equality
Liberty, simply put, is the freedom to choose and act. It is also the freedom from oppression. Equality is defined as "the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability."[1] In Liberal ideology, both of these words are heavily debated as to what is intended by liberty or equality. For example, it is argued whether personal liberty or collective liberty is the goal. Personal liberty and collective liberty work much like a weighted scale. If collective liberty is taken to the extreme personal liberty is lost. If personal liberty is taken to the extreme, collective liberty is severely limited. The debate is where the balance between the two exists. Likewise with equality the argument lies in which way should people be equal. Equal according to the law? Equal according to freedoms? Equal according to financial prosperity?
Many essays and books have been written by ideologues about the meanings of these two words. This has caused a division within this political theory. The two main groups of "liberals" are Classical Liberals and Social Liberals.
Classical Liberals
This group would generally define liberty as the freedom from oppressive governments and places emphasis on personal liberty over collective liberty. They would generally define equality as everyone being created equal and having the same "rights". Known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, John Locke is the quintessential Classical Liberal. His ideas were echoed by Thomas Jefferson in The Declaration of Independence. Consider the wording, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…"[2] Other notable Classical Liberals include; David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, and Adam Smith.
Economics in this type of society would be classified as laissez-faire, which is "a policy that allows businesses to operate with very little interference from the government."[3] This is a very Darwinian type of economics where businesses exist in a free market and are subject to the survival of the fittest.
The Republican Party is a combination of Classical Liberalism and American Conservatism. While todays Republican Party is very different from what it once was, it is perhaps this group that best personifies Classical Liberalism today.
Social Liberals
The main distinction between Classical Liberals and Social liberals is the emphasis placed on collective liberty. Also known as "Social Justice," this emphasis "is generally used to refer to a set of institutions which will enable people to lead a fulfilling life and be active contributors to their community."[4] Examples of these types of institutions include public healthcare, public education, and social security. This approach to society differs greatly from other types of liberalism as it requires a larger government to provide these types of services. Prominent figures who believe in this type of ideology include, Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, T.H. Green and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
One of the main criticisms presented by this group is that without the means for becoming educated or receiving healthcare, one cannot truly be free. They push for Liberty from poverty, or social class. From an economic perspective a Social Liberal would implement more regulation on the market. This would come in the form of progressive taxation, labor rights, and programs that attempt to provide equality of opportunity.
In today's society, Social Liberals are generally typified by the Democratic Party.
The Delusion of Difference.
Democrats and Republicans, when observed, are very different on details. However on a broad view, agree on a great deal. Often in the United States, the two parties are presented as being polar opposites, and yet they derive from the same ideology. Both would have greater contrast when compared to the ideologies of Socialism, Communism, or Fascism, then they have to each other. It is similar to religion in this respect. There are many denominations within Christianity, and they differ drastically. However Christians in general agree for example that Jesus Christ is the Savior. They are more likely to have more in common with other Christian denominations than to other main religions like for example, Islam. This is important to remember. Even though important differences do exist between Classical Liberal and Social Liberals they derive from the same Ideology.
Liberalism is the predominant ideology in the modern United States of America. It is largely based off liberty and equality, though there are drastically different views on how they should be applied. The main two groups of Liberalism are represented in modern society as Republicans and Democrats. While those two groups are different, they share much in common.
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We 'forgot' some groceries items, i.e. TBG didn't put stuff on the list when he was making it out, so I started the day by going to the grocery store, but first I needed to empty out the guest bathroom on the first floor. TBG broke the flush mechanism when he got home on Sunday, so I had to call Maintenance to come in and repair it - however, it's a small space, so I needed to remove the cat box, trash can, magazine holder, area rug, and small table before anyone could get to the toilet to repair it.
Did the shopping and got to work. My desk wasn't bad, which was a pleasant surprise. There wasn't much to do in my In box, mostly it was just piles on the desk. but that was okay. I filed and did some correspondence. I also remembered to stop over at the complex office and asked them to repair the toilet.
Then Araceli arrived and the complaining started. She's always done this, but since becoming BM, it's gotten much worse. Of course, this is stuff I used to complain to her about (Brian double dipping his hours, putting down OT with approval, etc.) and she never did more than bat an eyelash. Now that she's in charge of the money, she doesn't like it one bit. Nor does she like the fact that Dennis tends to let the shop buy whatever they want. Yesterday, it was a new laptop for the sound booth that Craig needed. They have one upstairs, but that's needed up there... this is on top of a $4500 lightboard, also Craig. he is drained us dry and no one seems to care.
She had a bad experience with the outside event this past weekend - not a surprise, this is never a good experience, mostly due to a total lack of organization on the part of the Miss San Joaquin pageant staff. She went on about that for a while and complained about the billing and asked how she should do this or that.
Okay, so the paychecks are finally ready and I'm told I need to take them out to Jay's - except it's my lunch time. Jay's is from one to two, so guess who got to work her lunch hour taking checks out to be signed?
Thankfully, the afternoon sort of evened out for a bit, although one of our volunteers gave creditor our phone number and their robot keeps calling and threatening us with legal action. Yeah, not loving that.
I pick up TBG and manage to get home without incident to discover that my toilet has been fixed. Yay! I pick up the area rug to put it down and discover that some cat has peed all over it. "Let's get out the rug cleaner and clean the rug! Oh, and the kitchen one... and the hallway one... Yeah... yay, me. So that's what we did for an hour after work. The cats were grumpy because I didn't feed them right off the bat, but I knew they would be gone the minute the rug cleaner came on.
After that, I was finally able to change out of my work clothes and start on dinner. I made a recipe posted by a_boleyn and it was very yummy, but a little intense because TBG decided he was going to cook, too, and was working on his own stuff. At times, our kitchen is very small.
After dinner, we went for a walk, which helped me to clear my head and then watched the first half of a movie. There were nothing hugely wrong with Monday, it was just like being pecked to death by ducks.
Good things that happened, I got a lovely package from duckys_lady and she sent me Spam chapstick (love it) and some pralines. I got a copy of When Marnie was There and it was payday. Dinner was yummy, I remember to cancel my doctor's appointment, and I had a nice chat with sparky955.
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Since the corporate/political class doesn't trust principals to ferret out all of the "bad" teachers and send them off to alternate careers, schools are required to hire independent observers as a check on what is seen as cronyism between teachers and administrators.
As fate would have it, a local district reached out to me to take on this role. It sounded like a fun way for someone who observed teachers for 30 years to see what was going on in local classrooms, so I took the job.
Since I'm observing every teacher in the district, I get to see everything from kindergarten to Advanced Placement Physics. While this sounds a bit daunting, I started my career teaching middle school and high school science and finished as an elementary principal. In addition, my writing career, my love of current events and history, my ability to speak a second language (Swedish), my exercise compulsion, my love of cooking, and having a daughter who majored in art allow me to "talk shop" with any teacher in the K-12 beat.
Last week, I ended up observing a middle school home and careers lesson. The goal was to have each student research a career that they might be interested in some day. I like the idea as it allows students some control over what they study and to control to some extent the pace and the skill level needed. As part of this observation, I asked every student in the class what career they were researching. As it turned out, everyone was working on a career that required four to eight years of college.
I'd seen almost 70 classes previously in this 6-12 building and talked to teachers about their challenges. I can assure you that it's a safe bet that not all of these students will end up with a college degree or two or three needed for the careers they were looking at. In his recent New York Times op-ed piece, Oren Cass makes the point that as taxpayers, we spend too much on students who might be college material and not enough on those who aren't. In essence, the college crowd has access to a lot of public dollars while the noncollege crowd gets ZERO!
Thanks to the federal push to make all students career- and college-ready, we end up with some students who are college-ready and very few who are ready for anything other than nonskilled work. If, however, we give students more options in high school for vocational education and subsidize post-high-school vocational training, we would have fewer college dropouts with large college loans to pay off.
Some cities in the United States have realized this and started to retool their high schools and community colleges. In a recent New York Times business article, Ben Casselman tells a tale of two cities, The first is Nashville, Tenn., where businesses and government got together to overhaul the community college system. As a result, the number of jobs and the population has dramatically increased. The other city is Birmingham, Ala., where growth in population has been much slower due to the fact that schools are not training workers with the skills they need. What is your city doing?
Making these changes also requires a change in the mindset of many parents who see college as the only option. While college graduates on average outearn noncollege graduates, there are a lot of plumbers and electricians who make more than many college graduates who majored in fields that do not make them career-ready. I bet you can name some of these majors yourself. Even if these students slog on to a doctorate and score a college teaching job, they still are not likely to make as much as a skilled craftsperson.
My advice to the home and career teachers out there is to have every student dig into two potential careers, one that requires a college degree or two and one that only requires a shorter stay in a trade school program. This should open their students' eyes, and it just might send more students in a direction where they will find success, a good paying job, and little or no debt at the start of their working life. I would also encourage high schools to do what they can to offer more vocational courses and internships so more students don't have to pay to play.
How can we start to give more emphasis on alternative college routes postsecondary? Please share
Cass, Oren. The Misguided Priorities of Our Educational System, The New York Times, December 12, 2018, p. A27, available online at https://nyti.ms/2GlZpHs.
Casselman, Ben, Nashville Leaves the Pack Behind, The New York Times, December 17, 2018, p. B1, available online at https://nyti.ms/2GF8pHA.
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Katy Perry has admitted that she relies on an autocue to help her remember lyrics live since she often goes blank or daydreams onstage
Katy Perry has admitted that she relies on an autocue to help her remember lyrics live since she often goes blank or daydreams onstage.
The 'I Kissed A Girl' hitmaker also admitted that after she came to know that her pop star pals use the device, she also feels that she can't manage her shows without it.
"I do (forget) tiny, tiny (song sections), or I change a word. I do use it, now that I have it. I never had it before and I never had a problem but now it's more psychological, I think. I'm singing 15 songs in a night," Contactmusic quoted her as telling Perez Hilton.
The 27-year-old singer demanded a teleprompter for her recently-wrapped California Dreams Tour.
"If I've had a really long day, it's such a security blanket. For instance, if I've overworked myself or underslept, sometimes I just blank.
"Or if I've got something big the next day like an awards show or TV (appearance), I'm thinking about that typically when I'm onstage, so this is really helpful. I've had a lot of friends say they've had it, so I was like, 'Well since we're doing arenas this time, we're gonna have one of those!'" she added.
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Nevin Spence's dream debut year shows no signs of slowing up and he will have another chance to enhance his growing reputation against the Cardiff Blues at Ravenhill in the Magners League tomorrow night.
The centre has established himself in Ulster's first team with a string of fine performances that have helped Brian McLaughlin's men challenge for honours both domestically and in Europe. And, he has already come to the attention of Ireland coach Declan Kidney as he invited Spence to a national training camp in Dublin.
"It's been a lot of firsts for me in the last two seasons, it was a good experience rubbing shoulders with the superstars of rugby and it is definitely something that I will remember for a long time — my aim is to try and get back there on a more regular basis," said Spence.
To get more Ireland recognition Spence knows he has to stay on top of his game for Ulster.
"I'm just taking each game as it comes and trying to play to my potential.
"Paddy Jackson did well last week and there is a lot of youth coming through with the likes of Craig Gilroy and Luke Marshall so it looks good for the future.
"It's good that the coaches have just thrown us in and with Gilroy getting a good run it shows we haven't done too bad and we're happy enough."
"I'm just taking each game as it comes, trying to enjoy it as much as possible. If your not enjoying it I don't think there is much point in doing it."
With Darren Cave making his comeback with the Ravens yesterday Spence knows he is under more pressure to perform.
"That's the way it was always going to be, it's good for both of us that there is a bit of competition now and it can only be good for the team that there is competition in all positions."
Belfast Telegraph