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How many professional tutors does the Learning Resource center in lake Superior College have? I really need to know NOW!!!

learning resource center? Has anyone run one? any tips on activities for after school/lunch times? It's a secondary school

What is the weaknesses of the learning resources center?

Do they have Rosetta Stone at the Learning Resource Centers on base? I'm a Marine

Has anyone ever used the Rapid Learning 24Hrs (Rapid Learning Centre). Is it a good resource as advertised ? I have been impressed by their pitch but needs some solid advice. My son is studying GCSE and will need to progress to A-Levels. What revision or study resources can be excellent for him ?

What are the softwares that erases newly installed programs when the PC is logged off? I'm actually having a problem with software installation. In our school, we have a Learning Resource Center where I used to install Adobe Photoshop CS2. I had installed this software yesterday morning and yes it came to moment that I enjoyed CS2 normally on screen until the end of my time limit. I closed the the program and shut down the PC. But when I boot the same PC for the second time on the same day, the Photoshop CS2 had gone. I have installed again the program but eveytime the PC is shut down, newly installed program such as CS2 will be erased in the next use. I don't know what kind of software program they, the management are using or something had been done with the PC. Help me to solve this probem, anyone.....

Can teachers send you to a resource center that is expensive (Like Sylvan) w/o offering lowcost options? My first grade daughter, who is a twin, is far behind her sibling. So are 9 other students that were in the same Kindergarten class and also made honor roll like my child, that I know of. I have already been told she will FAIL first grade if I don't send her to Sylvan or Reading Resource (another pay per trip resource center). The teacher is pushing me to send her to the doctor for medication. The principal says Sylvan is the answer. I work with my child every afternoon for hours, helping her learn skills she should have mastered in Kindergarten. Now, I'm being told by sources outside my school system that there is case law saying that schools can't tell you to go to any resource that costs the parent. If they do, the administrator from the other school district told me, the school would have to pay fees. Schools can only suggest you look at all available options and send child to their teacher afterschool. Does anyone know anything about this? I appreciate all help! Sara S -GA

What type of clubs/ activities would you like to see for 11 to 16 year olds during lunch time and after school I have a new job from Sept in a library/ learning resource centre in a secondary school. I am able to run groups for the pupils. eg. last year there was a knitting club. I would be interested to hear answers from secondary age pupils. groups could be academic (maybe something to do with History or English) or based on out of school interests. Thanks

How long does an order from learnig resources centre (Alberta) take? How many days does it take? i ordered a book form learning resources centre ( alberta) and i wondering when i could recieve it?

Why is buxton and its residents so obsessed with the word 'Devonshire'? In Buxton, Derbyshire, England lots of the businesses such as the 'Devonshire Royal Campus' and the 'Devonshire Learning Resource Centre' are associated with the word 'devonshire and its residents are obsessed with it. Anyone know why?

Work experience, the options, Which one should i pick? I'm 15 and i'm going to be spending one week at this place based working with planes (making the wings) and i have to pick two 'Preferred placements' from a drop list (below) Design LCM Engineering Tool Engineering Engineering Manufacturing Skills Development Centre Quality Finance Procurement Learning Resource Centre Human Resources Secretarial/Administration Air traffic control Which one sounds more exciting? What would you choose? I'm open to any of them, saying that, half of them i don't have a clue what they do! Thank you for your help/opinions :)

Which two would you work in? (IN AIRBUS)? Design LCM Engineering TOOL Engineering Engineering Manufacturing skills development centre Quality Finance Procurement Learning Resource Centre Human Resources Secretarial/Administration Air Traffic Control. I'm 15, its for my work experience, i'll be working in airbus for one week, i have to pick two preferred placements from a drop list. Half of them i dont know what they do, i'd love to pick the one most exciting and even valuable.

what groups/ clubs would you like to see in lunchtime & after school? What type of clubs/ activities would you like to see for 11 to 16 year olds during lunch time and after school I have a new job from Sept in a library/ learning resource centre in a secondary school. I am able to run groups for the pupils. eg. last year there was a knitting club. I would be interested to hear answers from secondary age pupils. groups could be academic (maybe something to do with History or English) or based on out of school interests.

Sylvan learning center? I'm a classroom teacher in California, and with summer vacation approaching, I'm looking for ways to supplement that missing paycheck in the 11 month pay cycle. Is Sylvan a good resource for me to look into, as a tutor? Have you ever worked there or somewhere similar?

Does anybody know anything about the ALICE library software? Is it easy to use? I have just been offered a job in a school library/ learning resource centre & this is the package they use for operating the library. Thanks

a great Chinese language Center ? I recomment a online Chinese learning Center http://www.cchello.com for you. It works by taking the best of the popular learning resources and native Chinese speakers, and reconstructing it around the needs of the students.it creates more opportunities for you as well.

How to learn Chinese at home? Recently ,I find a online Chinese learning Center---CcHello.com . It works by taking the best of the popular learning resources and native Chinese speakers, and reconstructing it around the needs of the students, At present, Chinese lovers from all over the world study Chinese and share experiences here with friends from around the world. It opens the doors to China for me. Some people know other places?

Texas History 4th and 7th grade teachers. Would you be interested in a Texas Rangers History and Edu Center? The Texas Ranger Division, commonly called the Texas Rangers, is a law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction based in Austin, the capital of Texas, in the United States. Over the years, the Texas Rangers have investigated crimes ranging from murder to political corruption, acted as riot police and as detectives, protected the Texas governor, tracked down fugitives, and functioned as a paramilitary force at the service of both the Republic (1836–45) and the state of Texas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Ranger_Division The Texas Rangers Division is opening the Texas Rangers History and Education Center in Kerrville, Texas. I want to first see if teachers and students would be interested in what the center has to offer. Would you like to use any specific resources? Would you like to visit the Center, etc. If you aren't from Texas, but do teach history, what are the things important to you and your students as far as resources and learning centers? Thanks!!

What is the best Online CAT/MAT competitive exam coaching center in India? I would like to know trusted reputed online competitive entrance exam coaching centers who provide e learning, online study resources for my CAT/MAT exam preparations.

Online learning and practice test for GRE? Hi, i am planning to take GRE general test on Dec 09 and i am desperately hunting for online resources since i dont have access to any learning centres. If anyone knows websites for taking online practice tests as well as learning, pls direct me. Also, if there are any resources for analytical writing, it would be a great help if you could let me know that as well. Thanks so much in advance for your time and response...pls help...

What would be a good name for a youth organization raising money for Haiti? We're a group of high school students that formed our own new organization under guidance of a representative from the group Empowering the Poor to raise money and awareness for relief in Haiti. We're looking for a name that exemplifies people helping people, hope, self-sufficiency, and empowerment. It could be specifically based on Haiti or can just be a general name since we may expand to Africa and the less fortunate in the United States. One of our main projects now is to provide tents and shelter for Haiti's homeless and to create a learning resource center for children who no longer have schools. Please help! also check out "empowering the poor" on facebook, twitter, or myspace if you would like to join our effort and spread the message or donate

Which one is more useful and practical,learning Greek or Latin?And do you know of an online learning center? FREE RESOURCES

What course should I do? I have a History degree and currently work in a high school as the Learning Resource Centre Supervisor. I would like to get into eduaction welfare or a similar field (basiclly in education but not teaching) I would like to do a course that will assist me and may also develop me in my current position. at the moment I run many out of school activities and am trying to increase reading and literacy in the school. Ideally I need to study by distance learning as I work full time and have a family. Thanks

Class Presentation? Im in Year 10, and now we have lessons in our Learning Resource Centre (Library) . I have a class presentation to make, i am in a group of four and our teacher/librarian said we need to make a presentation and it can be about anything, it can be informational, presenting a side of an argument or all of the argument, or anything? Has anyone got any ideas? It has to last 10 minutes

How do you handle rudeness in the workplace? I started working in a high school at the begining of Sept. I work in the learning resources centre. Many teachers send pupils out of lessons to my room if they are difficult or disruptive. 2 girls who get sent to me most days were seen out of school during their lesson time yesterday. I went to find their head of year to report it. As I approached him he waved his hands around in a dissmissive way & said "no, no,no, its nothing to do with me, I didnt send them, dont ask me" I realise people are stressed & have their own work load but isnt this just rude? I am new to this school & dont really know many people. The nature of my job means I have to work lunchtime & after school so dont get to interract with staff. I find that they are quite dismissive of me, few people even bother to know my name. I think that they assume Im dim as I work in the resource centre- I have a degree but dont want the stress of teaching whilst I have a young child. Am I making a mountain out of a molehill? make an effort to say "morning" when I see staff in the corridors but most of them look straight ahead & fail to acknowledge me. They do it to each other too so its not just me. I dont want to take things far as I am new. I just find it odd- it costs nothing to be polite!

it mostly refers to secondary education of schools. i need advices from professional teachers and sch. admins. i'm now working on a project for education reform in secondary schools. the deadline of the project is coming to the end but the budjet is still ok for further activities. i need to think over a kind of support for 20 new formed Parents Committee Cluster Assosiations in 105 schools. it is intended to form Learning Resource Centers but still i wish to contribute to Assosiations a kind of income generation item for further life as far as teh project will stop it's funding by December. Assosiations have to live longer for the sake of better service and conditions of schools. could someone please share a real experience out of that sort of things for the prosperity and welfare of one developing contry and if possible the information should be adopted to developing countries of Central Asia part. dear all! thanks for your grammar corrections of my letter but please i don't need to find a sponsor for my project couse there are enough money and even more. the only thing i need is advice on how to use that money for Associatoins future activities.

Help me use Learning Centers? Are there any good resource books or websites that will help me in organizing and using learning centers in grades 1-4?

Statistics on child abuse, Did you know? Perpetrator Relationship Victim data were analyzed by relationship to their perpetrators. Nearly 39 percent (38.7%) of victims were maltreated by their mother acting alone (figure 3–6). Nearly 18 percent (17.9%) of victims were maltreated by their father acting alone. Nearly 17 percent (16.8%) were maltreated by both parents. From the US Dept of Health and Human Services, Report from 2007 Approximately, 40 percent (39.9%) of child victims were maltreated by their mothers acting alone; another 17.6 percent were maltreated by their fathers acting alone; and 17.8 percent were abused by both parents, Dept of health and Human Services 2006 http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm07/chapter3.htm#factors http://www.childhelp.org/resources/learning-center/statistics Four children die EVERY DAY in the US. This is not a feminist issue it is a thinking feeling human issue. Why are so many responses to questions about child abuse so callous? shebajac, good point about the money. In our area we run a fund raiser every year called roofsit. A local DJ spends a week on the roof of a local supermarket to raise money and awareness. Last this program raised $250,000 for child abuse programs. Not bad for a ten county area.

Are Learning Centers Useful? Are there any good resource books or websites that will help me in organizing and using learning centers in grades 1-4?

Is my school allowed to deny me using campus resources because I have my 9mnth with me? I was denied use of the comp lab and student learning center at school because had my 9 month old daughter with me. She was not making a peep, or eating or touching anything. I needed to print some papers but they wouldn't even let me in. The people in there on myspace instead of doing schoolwork are more distracting because you can hear the profile music from several stations away. Can they deny me use of these resources because I have my daughter?

Learn Chinese? http://www.cchello.com . If you are looking for a Chinese professional tutor or want to find material resources,I recomment a online Chinese learning Center for you,cchello.com,It works by taking the best of the popular learning resources and native Chinese speakers, and reconstructing it around the needs of the students, At present, Chinese lovers from all over the world study Chinese and share experiences here with friends from around the world. It opens the doors to China for you, and it creates more opportunities for you as well.

How to become FSA approved? Where to find the resource to study? Is there any online learning center proposing courses on the subject? For a job in securities settlement, I guess it would be the "Certificate in Financial Administration"... But could not tell for sure

I am creating a business for a school project and need your valuable help!!!? I am having trouble deciding if it should be non-profit or a for profit business. It is a place where women who have come out of domestic abuse shelters and come out of drug rehab centers can come to learn how to be productive, give back to the community, learn valuable workskills (computer, typing,resume, etc.), learn about nutrition and healthy cooking. When they take these classes they will accumulate points that they can trade in for things like movie tickets, hair cuts, make-up, or even clothes certificates. These will increase their self esteem and also give them empowerment which women who have been through this lifestyle are lacking. It will also be a a resource center for finding employment, housing, counseling,etc. What do you think of my business idea?? Also should I charge these women a small fee and make it a for profit or get grants and make it a non-profit?? Please help me as this is very important for me to impress my teacher and get an A.

Which is the best place to do a distance learning course in Uk?? I want to do a course in Human resource, Customer Relation and Business Management. Which is a good centre to do it from?? Which is recognised worldwide.

9 weeks in school and my teacher already HATES me.....what should I do? I am in the LRC (learning recourse center) for math. I am in the 11th grade and am in Algebra II, on my IEP it says that I am allowed to take my test up in the resource center. My math teacher has been accusing me and a few others of cheating up in there, this is completely false. She yells at us and pretty much hates us. Her reason for her thinking I cheat is that I do well on my tests. I do well on my test because I have a tutor and, work hard to get a decent grade. She made me cry today for accusing me of cheating. I feel like she should be happy for me and instead she thinks the only reason a dumb girl like me would get a good grade is by cheating. what should I say to her, I can't switch teachers, its too late...unfortunatly!!!

Service Learning Project help? So in school we have to do a service learning project. I've decided to help at the missouri wildlife center caring for the animals, but before i do that i have to write a paper about, but some of the questions i don't know how to exactly answer. why does our community need this service? what other areas could you study about this service? what resources can you use to make this a service learning project? how will you inform the public about this service? what impact can you make?

SO IMPORTANT!!! Seriously? Im dead i have to have a starting sentence or paragraph for an essay about family....husband abuse and children that were abused. CAN U GUYS GIVE ME A STARTING SENTENCE??? A nice educational one!! heres some of my essay: There are numerous definitions of abuse that encompass physical, emotional, verbal, sexual, and psychological harm caused by family members or strangers towards a child or even an adolescence (Volpe 1996). Abuse leaves behind multiple psychological affects on children (Family Resource Center 2008). When someone learns to transfer a natural response from one stimulus to another, it is known as “classical conditioning”, (Sproule 2001). This can be used on those children who might be psychologically affected by abusive acts. By using Ivan Pavlov’s discovery, we can realize that if a child who is abused sees or even hears the abuser, that child will react and shows his or her fear towards the abuser (Sproule 2001). He or she may also be facing symptoms such as anxietyWhen something is “cyclical” it means that it happens over and over again. Abuse is known to be cyclical and it is passed down to others. When a child comes from a family who has experienced abuse in his/her family life, they are more likely to abuse other people in the society. For instance, when a child witnesses his/her parents fighting, that child will very likely act the same way in the future towards his/her spouse. Therefore, this proves that those children who are abusive in the society have faced the same situation before and they learned that behavior which is known as “a change in knowledge or behavior as a result of experience” or “nurture”. The nature and nurture debate once again can be argued in this aspect as well because children tend to learn or inherit many aspects from their parents which are a big reason in the way they act.

Online chat groups for personality disorder? I need some help to find and online chat/resource centre where I can talk to other people who are struggling or recovering from this illness. I am in so much pain, I need to learn how to cope with life and see how others do in the same situations..

Does this sentence make sense? 10 points for honest answer. Thank you? It was a pleasure to discuss my future with your company. I was very impressed to learn that the National Science Resources Center (NSRC) has grown across the nation. As I indicate, I believe human capital is the most important resources for organization to sustain its competitive advantage. I am excited for the possibility to help your organization continue to grow even more in the future. In addition to my enthusiasm for performing well, I am willing to learn the new tasks and would bring the technical and organizational skills necessary to get the job done effectively.

I want to know how much value does a post graduation diploma has if done through correspondence? I am presently working with a project management company.I am intrested to my post graduation in Human Resources.I feel i should take admission for the correspondene course offered by Symbiosis Centre of Distance Learning,pune.I just want to know wether it will hold a good value and will be competent enough in todays market.I do not wish to go for a full time course as i do not want to give up work.Kindly advice.

Does anyone know of a good I & R/A Software program? I am looking for good I & R/A program. I recently sat in on demonstrations of the SAMS I&R and PeerPlace programs. They both are good programs, each having their strong points and weak points. The program I am looking for has to have a reliable data base, able to be updated, easy to learn and use, easy to maintain (non-professionals will be using the program). I am looking to use it for the Aging and Disability Resource Network and Center. What is your opinion of the 2 programs I saw and is there anything better. Thanks

suing the school? i have learning disability, which was discovered by private doctors, but the school refused to accept that and instead even denied me help for my homework and even banned me from resource center so i had no help at all. because of all this my gpa really suffered, so i would like to sue the school for unfair treatment and have them fix my gpa. anything like this possible? what can i do?

English Teacher! Help..correct my words!! THANKS A LOT? I am preparing my interview and i was trying to write down the answers i may be asked. can you help me to correct my written , thanks! Work at eye clinic : Working in special education resource center is totally different from working in the hospital. You got MORE information about children , no matter from parents, school teachers or observing children in their familiar circumstance such as playground, classroom . My instincts told me that there was something wrong with chilren’s eyes. BUT nobody can resolve my doubts, even student underwent eye exam. Until I listened a speech which was about vision related learning problems from a ophthalmologist , then I started have a picture what was going on with their eyes. After that, I invited him to have speech in my county and my purpose at the time was “Tell teachers: be aware of your students , maybe they have visual function problems that affect their learning and they need help”. Surprisingly , special teachers ,especially who work in resource classroom were so interested in this topic and wanted to know more. And the same time, I referred several children to his clinic and I found there are some problems exist. First, parents can not afford medical payment. Secondly, they don’t have much time to commute ,because the clinic is in another city, which takes 2 hours being there by train. So I called my officer , who controls everything , any penny ,any policy about special education in my county. I told her every details about it and she is kind and trust my profession . after talking to her, I wrote a project to her , which is about training our teachers how to provide simple treatments to students with visual function problems. She proved my project and 4 teachers and I started our journey on learning evaluation and treatments of vision function.

would you mind checking my grammar or give any comment? In order to concentrate on my studying, I only did a few volunteers or paid jobs for short terms. For example, I joined the Terry Fox Run and school Basketball events; I helped to organize the store output in the Salvation Army-a second-hand store; I collected the fundraising money for Heart and Stroke Foundation; and sometimes, I offered a little help in my community’s women’s resource center and in my friend’s hair salon. From all these experiences, I learned the importance of problem-solving, customer relations-maintaining, and decision-making. Most of my study life, I lived outside with my friends, I learned the importance of caring, tolerating and independence. In addition to help my friends, I tutored Mathematics and baby-sited for more than three years. This helped me to develop my patience, circumspection, and imaginations.

Help name the Peer Center? OUR MISSION IS TO ASSIST COUNTY RESIDENTS WITH SYMPTOMS OF MENTAL ILLNESS IN ACHIEVING AND MAINTAINING THEIR HIGHEST LEVEL OF FUNCTIONING. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS MISSION WE WILL: RESPECT THE DIGNITY AND WORTH OF ALL INDIVIDUALS PROVIDE QUALITY SERVICES IN A CARING, NON-JUDGMENTAL MANNER ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF FULL POTENTIAL AND INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE AREAS OF LIVING, LEARNING, WORKING, PARENTING, AND SOCIALIZING WORK COOPERATIVELY WITH OTHER COMMUNITY RESOURCES Peer support programs provided by the Peer Recovery Center is an opportunity for consumers to direct their own recovery and to teach one another the skills necessary to lead meaningful lives in the community. The Center is committed to the notion that every individual with a mental illness can recover.For some it may mean achieving personal goals to live a fulfilling and productive life and for others it may mean effectively managing the effects of their illness.

Can my math dificiency be reversed? When I was in the first grade, I was given a one-to-one aid to help tutor me in the English Alphabet. I wasn't retarded. I just happen to be a bit slower than the average student when learning how to spell. In the third grade, my school told my Mother (who was single and hard-working at the time) that I was qualified to be placed in their Special-Ed program at the Elementary school I was attending. They convinced her it was the right thing to do for me. Within the first 3 weeks of being tutored one-on-one by the teacher, I was reading and spelling faster than the average student in my mainstream classroom. However, instead of putting me back in the regular classroom, they kept me in the Special-Ed program. While other kids in the fourth grade where learning how to multiply and divide I was stuck learning and re-learning Applied Math for the rest of my elementary school years. In Middle School, my teachers FINALLY came to the conclusion that I wasn't so special. In the 6th grade, I was removed from the Language Arts and Reading classes only. I was then placed in the Mainstream Classes for Language Arts and English, but was kept in the Math Resource/Special-Ed class until the end of 8th grade. My 8th grade teacher made a note on my records that I was no longer to be placed in Special-Ed for the Subject of Math when transferring to High School. He had faith that I would do well as long as I had a good teacher. On the first day of my freshman year, my Pre-Algebra teacher quit his job. Following that, was a struggle to replace that one teacher throughout the entire school year! Our class had constant substitutes and occasionally they would just assign some of the school aids to just observe the class. Not surprisingly, I failed that year. However, I managed to graduate and receive my Diploma from a public High School in 2007 by taking as many easy math credits as possible. The classes that helped me graduate was Applied Math, Pre-Algebra, Algebra-A (one semester only), and Consumer Math A, and B. Today, I am a struggling first-time Community College student trying to make it! Has there ever been a success story of a person like me getting over a Math Deficiency? Also, do you think I’m too old for math tutoring at the Sylvan Learning Center? I always wanted to go there since I was little, but my family never had the money. Now, I’m a working adult. Anyway, thanks guys for reading. Any suggestions would be helpful. I would love to make Mom proud. Please don’t make fun of me. I really need help.

What are my job prospects? I'll be graduating in a year with a BA in Human Resource Management/Personnel Psychology with a minor in Business Administration. I have 6 months of secretary/filing experience at Kumon learning center. 8 months as a front desk/secretary at a full-service salon. 6 months as a Administrative/Sales Assistant at a corporate office of a women's gym. 6 months of Accounting Assistant and moved on to be Accounts Payable & Payroll for 3 months as a substitute at the same company (shows growth?). I also have 2 years working part-time as a nanny & part-time as an Executive/Administrative Assistant at my Dad's Company. I will also complete 1 year of HR Internship at a local company or organization before graduation. We are given a list of local "qualified" companies/organizations that I can use for my internship. It's credit-based for my college. I really want to get into one of the medical organizations like a hospital, medical group, clinic or Red Cross. After graduation I want to either start out in Human Resources or would eventually like to work in administration at a hopsital. Just start out as an administrative assistant or admitting and maybe transfer into HR. I just think that a hospital is a place that I would feel good working for and would offer more job stability. I looked and most jobs at the local hospitals ask for a high school diploma or equivalent and 3-4 years office experience. Do you think my degree & experience will qualify me? I also have friends that work at either hospital I'm interested in. Would knowing someone help me more? Thank You! I know I still have 1 1/2 years of college left, but I would like to be prepared. I'm a very driven individual. Any input on my experience would be appreciated. I just heard hospitals are hard to get into.

Get answers from millions of real people.? As a parrent of a 9 yr old boy who can't read.... I am beyond frustrated! My son has had an IEP for over 2 years and he is suppose to be in the 4th grade (retained him back to 3rd) and he is only reading at a 1st grade level. He has had 3 years of private reading tutors and spent an entire summer, 5 days a week, 2 hours a day at Sylvan Learning Center and he still is sitting at a 1st grade level. I only have seen CONS on this whole stupid IEP subject. Teachers, principles and the IEP specialists talking in acronyms and at the end of your "results meeting" you are confused more then when you started. I just started my son in vision therapy and the DR. guarentees they will correct 80% - 100% of this problem because his eyes are so off balanced. After digging through the IEP program I found out that VISION Therapy is apart and covered under IEP provided your child is failing behind 95 other kids out of 100. So if 50% is failing your child has to be at 6% to receive resource. This is crap! In California we have laws of "No Child left behind" that don't mean anything! I have called Sacramento and my childs school district and am going all the way to the top until I get help. He's being left behind and this is against the law! The director of IEP for our district laughed in my face today when I told her we were spending a ton of money and beginning the Vision Therapy program. She laughed and said "many parents wasted money on programs like VISION CARE" that doesn't work"... she made a point to tell me there is no medical research that supports that Vision Care works. If this true, how come Vision therapy is considered a "disability" and is covered by the state of CA under IEP? She had no answer. My hands are tied and I don't know what else to do. I have requested my child receive 1 on 1 help with a resource aide in the back of the classroom and the school is telling me "No"... again, CA state Education Board says my child has the right to this service. What can I do? How do I fight this? Time is now ticking and the poor kid is already repeating the 3rd grade. It's time someone needs to fight this all the way and get some laws changed!

My disability accommodations were revoked and i failed a class because of it, who should i talk to? So I attend a University of Cali School and I just this year in my senior year have gotten diagnosed for a math learning disability and severe ADHD. I was provided note,test and tutor accommodations by the disability resource center for two of my classes. I passed those accommodated courses with Bs (something that never happened in the past) and I failed the third class. I have failed a lot since I was a freshman (in 4th year now) and feel I have been treated unfairly because my performance with these two classes show the accommodations worked. The third class I failed was one where my accommodations were cancelled part way through the term for no apparent reason and never replaced. The note taker had some conflict and the physics department tutor would not meet with me but always said I needed to reschedule. I feel I should get my Fs voided because I can show I do well with full accommodation and the Physics department wants to kick me out. What are my options? Who would I contact if I did want to pursue my legal options? Is there a free lawyer service? The note takers are students already in the class.

Would you consider a person with ADD to be disabled? I have ADD, and I have been wondering for a long time whether people with other disabilities, such as deafness, or blindness, or being in a wheelchair, etc., are offended that people with ADD or other learning disabilities are also considered disabled. This came up when I was touring a college, and my parents and I visited the Student Disability Resource Center, and the coordinator was blind. I felt so ashamed that I was in there with my parents, because I felt like I had no business seeking help when other people who needed a lot more resources needed help as well. I apologize if this offends anyone, but I just wanted to hear the opinions of disabled people on this. Please tell me if I am being insensitive, and tell me how I can avoid doing so in the future. Thanks!

**Anybody need a job?** **Now Hiring** ((Not Spam)) %%Please Read%%? 8. Teacher From postsecondary education to elementary schools, there are opportunities for students to learn virtually. Along with that, come opportunities to teach (and tutor) virtually. While distance learning is not new, advanced technology, collaborative multimedia software designed for schools and high-speed Internet connections have created more opportunities for teachers and students to work together from afar, says Fell. Durst has also noticed more teacher jobs being posted, and she knows of one professor who works mainly online and makes six figures -- although income "depends on how many hours you're applying to it and the type of classes you're teaching." A resource center for online teaching jobs is available at GetEducated.com. 9. Writer/Editor Yes, the print publishing industry has been suffering, but Durst is seeing frequent listings these days for writing, editing and proofreading, particularly for the Web. Even those without writing experience can join the b Well this really isn't a question, but i browse through this category and see many people in search of jobs in which people are interested in working from home. 9 times out of 10, those online opportunities are SCAMS! So i decided to post this article i found featured on yahoo to show some of you LEGIT opportunities that are online. Please tell me what you think. Comments? Concerns? Let me know!! Thanks. 1. Virtual Assistant This is a field with much potential, in part because the title description covers many things. "You can fit your offerings to what you know how to do," says Foster. One can own a virtual assistant business or work from home for a company that makes you available to other employees or clients. Homewiththekids.com, for example, currently features a dozen such companies. Small businesses hire virtual assistants to help when they can't justify a permanent employee. The International Virtual Assistants Association, which Durst co-founded in the 1990s, began with 28 members and has grown to more than 600, who charge from $15 per hour to more than $100 per hour. 2. Medical Transcriptionist As Foster knows, being a medical receptionist is a demanding job, and nearly every company listed on her site seeks applicants with experience and/or training from certain schools. The work involves listening to and typing up dictation from doctors -- some of whom have difficult accents, slur words together, and even "eat, drink, chew gum (and) talk to other people in the room" while dictating, she says. But hearing about medical matters can be interesting, and good transcriptionists are in very high demand. Expect initial earnings of less than $10 per hour, but some transcriptionists earn $20 or more per hour. 3. Translator Those with fluency in more than one language translate audio files or documents, not just word for word but often with cultural differences in mind. "Companies can access home-based translators with hard-to-find language skills without being held back by geographic location," says Fell. Foster's site lists 15 companies that seek home-based translators. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook 2008-09, which groups translators and interpreters, notes a projected employment increase of 24 percent over the 2006-to-2016 decade, much faster than the average for all occupations. The national mean hourly wage for translators and interpreters was $20.74, with a mean annual wage of $43,130 as of May 2008, according to estimates by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Some industries pay significantly higher, with the highest paying jobs generally in the management, scientific and technical consulting services areas, in which the mean hourly wage was $56.50 and the annual mean wage was $117,530. 4. Web Developer/Designer Information technology is the sector, Durst says, where most of the home-based hiring is being done. Terri Orlowski, a virtual assistant and Web developer based in Ledyard, Conn., offers services such as custom Web site design, template modification and redesigns, code updates, hosting, and usability reviews. She previously held administrative positions in a variety of industries, and makes a higher per-hour rate now. The job is in high demand. Of the more than 15,000 new monthly work-from-home job postings on Odesk.com, Web developers are in the greatest demand, says spokeswoman Elizabeth Gordon. A list of companies that post at-home tech jobs is available at ratracerebellion.com. 5. Call Center Representative When you phone to order something from a catalog or infomercial, a big office with rows of cubicles may come to mind. But the person on the other end of the line is likely to be sitting in a home office. "It's a huge and growing industry," says Durst of companies that hire independent contractors to take calls from home. She says the "home-shore movement" started in response to complaints about the many companies that looked offshore for workers. While some Web sites, such as Alpineaccess.com, actually hire representatives, most use subcontractors. Just be aware that the pay may be by the minute rather than by the hour, so you may not be paid for time you spend waiting by the phone. A list of companies that hire call center reps can be found at Homewiththekids.com. 6. Tech Support Specialist Call centers also hire technical support specialists to work remotely. Kate Lister, co-author of "Undress for Success: The Naked Truth About Making Money at Home," names it as one of her top three "best-bet work-at-home jobs." And according to the Occupational Outlook Handbook, jobs for computer support specialists (on-site and remote combined) were expected to increase by 13 percent from 2006 to 2016 -- much faster than the average for all occupations -- with 71,000 new jobs. 7. Travel Agent Scams abound in the travel industry -- particularly organizations that charge for information on how to break into the field. Bu

I need ideas for coming up with a name for a Peer Recovery Center? OUR MISSION IS TO ASSIST COUNTY RESIDENTS WITH SYMPTOMS OF MENTAL ILLNESS IN ACHIEVING AND MAINTAINING THEIR HIGHEST LEVEL OF FUNCTIONING. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS MISSION WE WILL: RESPECT THE DIGNITY AND WORTH OF ALL INDIVIDUALS PROVIDE QUALITY SERVICES IN A CARING, NON-JUDGMENTAL MANNER ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF FULL POTENTIAL AND INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE AREAS OF LIVING, LEARNING, WORKING, PARENTING, AND SOCIALIZING WORK COOPERATIVELY WITH OTHER COMMUNITY RESOURCES Peer support programs provided by the Peer Recovery Center is an opportunity for consumers to direct their own recovery and to teach one another the skills necessary to lead meaningful lives in the community. The Center is committed to the notion that every individual with a mental illness can recover.For some it may mean achieving personal goals to live a fulfilling and productive life and for others it may mean effectively managing the effects of their illness.

Self Contained Classroom and AD? My son has been diagnosed with ADHD. His current IEP gives him in class support for math and resource center for Language arts. For next year his child study team thinks he should go to a self contained class room in 3rd grade for Language Arts. If I chose not to take the self contained option they are requesting I retain him in 2nd grade. I am currently unable to decide which would be the best option. Has any one had experience with self contained classrooms for ADHD? He would be in a Self Contained Classroom with 6 other children with many different learning disabilities. He is a fidget. But I don’t consider that a behavioral problem.

I want to get home schooled. Here is the letter I wrote to my mom. What do you think? Here is the letter. Sorry it is so long: Dear Mom, I didn’t really feel like telling you this in person because there are too many details to remember. But here is the main idea: I am not happy. Last year, Stephanie caused me so much stress and my grades have taken a turn for the worse because of it. Before summer, when I left school on the last day, I knew of only 8 people who hated me. Now, as I am entering a new school year, I can think of 30 people who hate me all thanks to Stephanie. If you don’t believe me I can recite all 30 of them. Mom, Stephanie is out there to ruin my life. That is her goal. She tried to turn as many people as possible against me and she even tries to get people like Victoria and Julia against me too. Whenever I walk by her in the halls, she whispers about me and says “Ew”. And Mom, please don’t tell me to ignore her and make other friends. I am not good at making friends. And I am not the kind of person who can ignore this situation. These things really get to me and they bother me a lot. They make me depressed and pretty much all summer I have been worrying about this year. I can’t handle it any more. I’m the type of kid who you hear about in the news that killed themselves over bullying and stupid stuff like that. Not that I would do that. And Mom, it’s not just Stephanie. It’s everything. I hate school. I hate every single thing about it. I hate how none of my few friends are ever in my classes and I hate how you have to plan what you are going to wear every single day of the week because that is how people judge you and I hate all of the stupid gossip and drama and I hate the teaching environment. I also think I need more direct attention. In a classroom of about 25 students it is hard to relate to each student. I don’t ask questions in class because I am afraid it is like an obvious question or it has already been answered. I also don’t ask questions when I don’t get something because a lot of the time I am the only who doesn’t understand. I don’t want to look stupid. And I know you don’t like the High School at all. You say there are a lot of stupid teachers there and the community there is bad too. Oh and another thing: I was planning on hanging out with Hana this year because we are talking again but then I realized that at the end of last year, Hana’s mom requested that she was not in any of my classes because we were mad at each other at the time. So I will not be in any of the same classes this year either. Also, I am kind of friends with Hana’s friends (Julia, Kyle, Kaitlyn, Renee, Nicole) but they all requested to be in the same classes together, which means I can’t be in any classes with them either because Hana will be there. So here is what I am thinking: Burke is really expensive so it’s out of the question. But I thought of something even better! Homeschooling! I know what you are thinking “No, no, no, no, no, no, no, and no!” I know that you don’t have time to home school me. You are busy with church things and social things and errand things and housework things. Not to mention that Erin will be home most of the time and it wouldn’t be fair to give all of your attention to me and not Erin. So I found these 2 schools where you learn online. Online home schooling! You probably think that it will be very hard to learn off of a computer but really, it is not. People graduate from online home schooling every year. I found so many people with positive feedback about these 2 schools. The first thing you should know is that both of these schools are Christian schools so along with a proper education, I will learn about religion. The first school is called The Jubilee Academy. The second one is called The Morning Star Academy. I personally like The Morning Star Academy better. Not just because it has a cooler name, but because it looks like a better school. Basically, with these schools you just go on the computer and take your lessons. There are videos provided and online work sheets. This is coming directly from The Morning Star Academy virtual tour: Hello everybody and on behalf of the teachers, tutors and administration I would like to welcome you to this short tour of The Morning Star Academy Online learning center. I’ll be describing just some of the many wonderful ways that The Morning Star Academy can help Home-Learners. May the Lord bless you and Keep you in His grace. The Morning Star is a private Internet site. Only registered parents and students are allowed in the actual online school. Every student and parent is given two secret keys to get in to the school…a "User Name" and "Password". This only allows authorized visitors into our secure online area. Once we have authorized your entry keys you will be taken directly to your Homeroom. Your Homeroom will be your entranceway for all of your classes and all of the resources available at Morning Star. Your courses are easy to get to. Just click on the class name and there you go! You will easily be able to see your course contents and major sections. When you enter your special course classroom you’ll be able to chat with other classmates and get help from your tutors. The Morning Star Academy staff is always available with both helpful suggestions and loving hearts. "My Teacher" shows you a picture of your teacher and your teacher's email address. The list of your specific courses is always available so you can easily get from one class to another. Every major section of a course is broken down into daily and weekly assignments. Remember that the Morning Star Academy is on an any time, Anywhere, Any pace schedule. The assignments can range from simple reading to web-adventures to online testing to special field trip. The Message center is a great place to receive your private school mail. Teachers, parents and students can communicate here before or after regular school hours so that we are always in touch. It’s so easy to write to your teachers and tutors. You can ask questions or just ‘talk’. I really want to enroll in this school! I know it is just perfect for me! The Morning Star Academy I want to go to is 1525 dollars and the other school, The Jubilee Academy, is 625 dollars. Obviously, the cheaper one is The Jubilee Academy, but if I did enroll there, that program requires you to teach me some stuff. And like I said before, you don’t have time for that. And so, 1525 dollars may hurt your wallet but before Mom Mom said she would pay for me to go to Burke if she had enough money so she would be willing to help pay for some of it. And I bet Grandma and Pop pop would too. And Mom, I want to go there SO badly! And you have to admit, it is pretty cool how you can just go to school when ever you want. If you really wanted to, you could wake up at 1 in the afternoon or if you wanted to, you could do your assignments at 1 in the morning! Of course, if you let me do this, I would wake up at 8:30 or something sharp and I would make me bed, get dressed, brush my teeth and get right to work! I swear I will be totally devoted to my school work and I won’t rush through it or anything just because it is on the computer. And then that will be one less student’s school supplies for you to buy. And if you are worried that I won’t socialize at all, I promise I will join some kind of group activity thing. Or maybe I will join a youth group. Or maybe both. I have a feeling that you might say no. But why? That is my only question. Why? Is it because you don’t think I can learn from a computer? Lots of people go to these online schools and they love it there. And if you still doubt that I could learn from a computer program after reading some feedback, you could always do a 30 day trial and see how it works. If you don’t like it then I could just transfer back to…. Regular school. Even if you are planning on saying “No” after reading this, at least look into it. Go to themorningstaracadmey.org. Take the virtual tour and look at the course demonstration. Oh yeah and that reminds me, they have better courses to choose from. They have creative writing and journalism and Bible and more. Please just look into it at least. Don’t give me an answer right away. Talk about it with Dad, e-mail the school, do whatever you have to. I want to go to this school more then anything I have ever wanted before. I don’t want to go back to the stupid public schools. I can’t tell you how many times I went to bed crying or worried about the next day last year. I don’t want to have to go through that again. And please don’t tell me that things will change because they won’t. I know they won’t. I know that running away from your problems isn’t the answer but there is no way to fix this problem other then just getting away from it. And don’t think of it as running away from my problems, think of it as starting over. A new slate. So please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please at least consider it. I really want this. I know I will be happy doing this so please please let me go there. Love, Sara

Should Bill Cosby be putting his money into saving inner city youth instead of criticizing their plight? It is sad that Bill Cosby is so critical of the inner city communities while giving millions of dollars to black colleges. Why not promote "Hooked on Phonics" and open positive learning centers for afterschool activities. Instead of pointing to the messs, get in there and use his years of experience, financial resources, and Hollywood clout to make a BIG difference. If he can make us eat "Jello Pudding", he can influence inner city families to raise their standards. Lead by example, not criticism. A little love and encouragement, to a child who needs it, goes a long way.

question extension for ZMAN492 or anyone else that can chime in? you answered a question for me and you said I might reword my question about the premium. Whats confusing to me about the premium and me being able to get any of my investment back in the case of a loss is that on covered calls you pay the the person writing covered calls a premium, isn't the total initial price of the option you bought equal premium you gave them. So since the premium is theirs to keep and no longer yours how can you get any of the premium back say if you sell the call option for a loss? Here is your initial response to my old question <<<A person pays a premium to say buy a call option>>> Yes <<<the price of the option plus the number of contracts= premium.>>> No. Stock option prices are are given on a per share basis and a normal contract covers 100 shares. That makes the total premium = price x 100 x number of contracts. You also will have to pay a commission, usually around $10.00 at a discount brokerage. <<<Ok, so obviously the person is expected the price of the option to increase as they believe the stock will increase.>>> That is usually true but not always. Sometimes an option is purchased to hedge another position. For example, if I shorted 500 shares of a stock I might buy 5 call options in order to limit my losses if the stock went up, even though I expected the price of the stock to derease. <<<So, if the stock decreases instead how is a person still able to sell the option if its at a loss???>>> If the price of the stock goes down the value of the call option will probably also go down, but that does not mean that it goes to zero immediately. For example, assume that Friday I bought a call option wth a $110 strike price on stock XYZ that expires in April. Assume XYZ is trading at $100 per share and that I paid $4.00 per share ($400 for one contract) for the option. Now suppose two weeks from now the stock has dropped to $95 per share. There is still a realistic chance that the stock will be over $110 by mid April, so the call option still has some value. If the option is worth $2.50 per share I could sell it at that price and get back $250 of the $400 I originally paid for it, so I would only lose $150 for my $400 investment instead of the entire $400. Of course, if I still own the option at the end of March and the stock is trading at $40 per share, there would probably be no realistic chance that the stock would be over $110 per share before the option expired. Consequently the would probably not be anyone bidding to buy the option, so I could not sell it. <<< thought that premium you paid on the option was not refundable to you as you paid it to the seller of the call option?>>> It is true that the premium is not refundable, but when I paid that premium I bought something. (I bought the right to buy the stock for a fixed price per share.) In that respect it is similar to buying a new car or a Big Mac. Once I have bought something I own it and I am free to try to sell it again. If it still have value I can be confident I will be able to find a buyer. For example, a car with an expected life of 10 years still has value after five years so I will usually not have a problem finding someone to buy it unless I place too high a price on it. A half-eaten Big Mac, on the other hand, has minimal value and I might not find anyone willing to buy it. <<<So why is it that just the other day I had a loss on an option and sold it and got a portion of my premium back.>>> You probably did not sell it to the person who originally sold it to you. You probably sold it to someone else who wanted to buy it, just as you could have sold a car you had purchased earlier. <<<I am very confused how this works and need help with this one. Since I thought that you would have zero dollars in your account once you pay your premium because you sold the premium to someone else you cant get that back???>>> I have not figured out why you would think that. I am not even sure exactly what you are saying, so if you need further explanation it would help if you reworded that part of the question. ----- As an aside, another answer recommended the CBOE Learning Center at http://www.cboe.com/LearnCenter/default.... as a good place to learn more about stock options. I agree that is an excellent resource. Another excellent resource is http://www.optionseducation.org/ Both have a lot of high-quality free educational material. 12 hours ago Source(s): I have traded options on and off, never very activiely, for about three decades. ZMAN492 your a legend dude, not even my coach explained that to me like you just did, dad gum its taken a lot of frustration the last couple of days to get a clear understanding of that!

Geography question please help! Thank you? Where on Earth? The Peace Corps Assignment Only one person in the world knows where you will be spending the next two years of your life. Her name is Agnes Cremaldi, and she is an assistant director of the Peace Corps training center where you're preparing for your first Peace Corps assignment. Officially, she's not saying anything. But she might be willing to scatter a few hints in your direction. If she is, in addition to finding out whether to take sandals or hiking boots, you could start preparing yourself psychologically for the challenge that lies ahead. Thinking back, you remember how you made up your mind to join the corps. For the past six years you had worked as a master carpenter. Your handcrafted furniture had been in demand all over the state. During the last year, however, you made two important decisions. You wanted to travel abroad. At the same time, you wanted to continue working as a master carpenter. After doing some research in the local library, you realized that volunteering for the Peace Corps would allow you to do both. As a Peace Corps volunteer, you would live in a developing country and use your carpentry expertise to help improve living conditions. You lost no time filling out an application form, and, shortly afterward, you were accepted. At the Peace Corps training center, you learned how to conduct yourself as a representative of the United States on your own in a foreign country. Now you're ready for more specialized training in the language and culture of your host country-whatever country that is. That brings you back to Agnes Cremaldi and the question hanging over your head: Where in the world will you be spending the next two years of your life? Volunteers won't be notified officially until next week. But you have heard through the grapevine that Ms. Cremaldi knows. And, though she can't tell, she's been dropping hints. Assistant Director Agnes Cremaldi is always reading spy novels and loves to be mysterious. You've heard that yesterday, for example, a volunteer named Mark pressed her for more information. She told him that he might want to start practicing his Amharic. Mark looked up the unfamiliar word in the dictionary ("Amharic: a southern Semitic language, the official language in Ethiopia"), and he knew where he was headed. You're in luck! Here comes Ms. Cremaldi now. The possibilities are driving you crazy. You have to know. "Excuse me, Ms. Cremaldi" you say. "I was wondering if. . ." "You were wondering if I would tell you the name of your assigned country. You know I can't do that," she says sharply. Yet she pauses momentarily and looks at the ceiling, as if she's thinking. Just as quickly, she snaps back into focus. "I will, however, tell you this much," she says. "The nation where you are going is in South Asia. One of South Asia's three major rivers is in this country. The country has two climate regions, arid and semi-arid. And the dominant religion of the country is Islam." South Asia! But where in South Asia? What did she say? The country has one of the region's three major rivers, arid an semi-arid climates, and Islam as its dominant religion. You hurriedly jot down these clues. Then, you head for the training center's resource room. You decide to look at a physical map of South Asia to locate the major rivers. You will also need a climate map to find a country with both arid and semi-arid climates. Finally, you will need to find information on the predominant religions in each of the countries of South Asia. In which country is the Peace Corps assignment? Hint: Check the maps in Chapter 28 of your textbook. Looking up each of the countries of South Asia in an almanac will also help you. Pakistan Afghanistan Tibet Nepal

Peace Corps Assignment.? Where on Earth? The Peace Corps Assignment Only one person in the world knows where you will be spending the next two years of your life. Her name is Agnes Cremaldi, and she is an assistant director of the Peace Corps training center where you're preparing for your first Peace Corps assignment. Officially, she's not saying anything. But she might be willing to scatter a few hints in your direction. If she is, in addition to finding out whether to take sandals or hiking boots, you could start preparing yourself psychologically for the challenge that lies ahead. Thinking back, you remember how you made up your mind to join the corps. For the past six years you had worked as a master carpenter. Your handcrafted furniture had been in demand all over the state. During the last year, however, you made two important decisions. You wanted to travel abroad. At the same time, you wanted to continue working as a master carpenter. After doing some research in the local library, you realized that volunteering for the Peace Corps would allow you to do both. As a Peace Corps volunteer, you would live in a developing country and use your carpentry expertise to help improve living conditions. You lost no time filling out an application form, and, shortly afterward, you were accepted. At the Peace Corps training center, you learned how to conduct yourself as a representative of the United States on your own in a foreign country. Now you're ready for more specialized training in the language and culture of your host country-whatever country that is. That brings you back to Agnes Cremaldi and the question hanging over your head: Where in the world will you be spending the next two years of your life? Volunteers won't be notified officially until next week. But you have heard through the grapevine that Ms. Cremaldi knows. And, though she can't tell, she's been dropping hints. Assistant Director Agnes Cremaldi is always reading spy novels and loves to be mysterious. You've heard that yesterday, for example, a volunteer named Mark pressed her for more information. She told him that he might want to start practicing his Amharic. Mark looked up the unfamiliar word in the dictionary ("Amharic: a southern Semitic language, the official language in Ethiopia"), and he knew where he was headed. You're in luck! Here comes Ms. Cremaldi now. The possibilities are driving you crazy. You have to know. "Excuse me, Ms. Cremaldi" you say. "I was wondering if. . ." "You were wondering if I would tell you the name of your assigned country. You know I can't do that," she says sharply. Yet she pauses momentarily and looks at the ceiling, as if she's thinking. Just as quickly, she snaps back into focus. "I will, however, tell you this much," she says. "The nation where you are going is in South Asia. One of South Asia's three major rivers is in this country. The country has two climate regions, arid and semi-arid. And the dominant religion of the country is Islam." South Asia! But where in South Asia? What did she say? The country has one of the region's three major rivers, arid an semi-arid climates, and Islam as its dominant religion. You hurriedly jot down these clues. Then, you head for the training center's resource room. You decide to look at a physical map of South Asia to locate the major rivers. You will also need a climate map to find a country with both arid and semi-arid climates. Finally, you will need to find information on the predominant religions in each of the countries of South Asia. In which country is the Peace Corps assignment? Hint: Check the maps in Chapter 28 of your textbook. Looking up each of the countries of South Asia in an almanac will also help you. Pakistan Afghanistan Tibet Nepal

Teachers..what do you have to say about the following in your classroom? 10points for BEST ANSWER!! Organizing Procedures and Resources Arranging the Environment Monitoring Student Progress Anticipating and Handling Problems Designing a Learning Center

I REALLY NEED HELP WITH SOME HOMEWORK????PLEASE? I. Summarize the item that you read. Provide a discussion answering the following questions: In what way does this article discuss Critical Thinking in this field? How do you see Critical Thinking as relevant to your career field based on your readings. (Your answer should be 100 words). (For help on summarizing, go to: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/563/01/) Please note that the Online Writing Lab is also a source for you to use under Resources. II. Answer the following for each of the sources you examined: Title of the Article: Title of the Journal/Magazine/Book: Name of Database: Date Accessed: Title:A resource to reinforce higher level thinking.(NEW products)(Power Strips Plus)(Brief article). Source:Gifted Child Today 32.3 (Summer 2009): p62(1). (184 words) Document Type:Magazine/Journal Bookmark:Bookmark this Document Library Links: Full Text :COPYRIGHT 2009 Prufrock Press Power Strips Plus is a helpful tool for teachers seeking to incorporate critical thinking skills into their instructional objectives. Applicable to all content areas, Power Strips Plus comes with more than 100 laminated strips and 8 white board markers. Each strip offers a process skill related to a specific level of Bloom's taxonomy with blanks for teachers to fill in the appropriate content knowledge. On the back side of each strip, the developers have compiled a list of ways for teachers to use the strip in each core content area, as well as suggestions for how to manage the activity. Power Strips Plus will bolster instructional objectives as they challenge students to complete a variety of products ranging from listing characters in a story to creating a commercial for a given product or skill. This tool encourages differentiation in the classroom as it caters to individual learner preferences, and may be utilized in a variety of environments such as whole-group instruction, independent activities, learning centers, individualized learning plans, and more. For more information, contact Mentoring Minds, P.O. Box 8843, Tyler, TX 75711; 800-585-5258; http://www.mentoringminds.com. Source Citation:"A resource to reinforce higher level thinking.(NEW products)(Power Strips Plus)(Brief article)." Gifted Child Today 32.3 (Summer 2009): 62(1). General OneFile. Gale. LIRN. 25 Aug. 2009 <http://find.galegroup.com/itx/start.do?prodId=ITOF>.. Gale Document Number:A204930484

Do i have legal rights? please read Marines/military members? My friend and I went to the SMP (recreation center). This guy approaches us and tells us about his college program. He is a great "B"S"er and tells how his little CDs and book will help you for the CLEP test which is equal to a college class, but not all colleges accept CLEP tests. the program was $2500 to be paid in allotments, and i thought to myself why doesnt this program use the tuition assistance i have, but didnt put thought after that. Then he says a "free laptop for your education", i personally didnt care about the laptop, i just was just excited to get some college under my belt, and not fall behind my peers who are in college. So i started signing the papers. I asked once again am i paying for the laptop, and he said no you are paying for the books. im pretty sure the contract says otherwise though, I already knew it was a piece of sschit laptop thats $200. So i later realized through the Education Resource Center that it was a scam because military members should be getting their education free. This guys business card has numbers, i call them never picks up,i saw one of the guys involved in the scam his buddy, being pissed off, wanting to beat the shit out of him but played it off, ask him if i can return everything because "i couldnt afford it" due to my credit debt, car, and tv i just purchased" and he asked me stuff like is the computer open and i said yes, then i pleaded that i do not want to cause problems with your company, then he said he'll try to do something about it. I asked this guy if i payed for laptop or books and he said laptops and books were free, and i asked him for a reliable number, and he gives it to me, in the next 2 days i contact him and theres a message "this is military laptop financing serving our military members" then it goes on to ring but doesnt pick up. That got me even more angry because it said nothing about the college info i was given, it was just straight up "military laptop financing" paying $2500 for a $200 laptop. These guys are usually here 2-3 times a week so I'm gonna play it off still to see if i get something, because i told him i cannot afford and he said he'll do something about it, maybe even a deal at least even though i will still be getting ripped off. I was thinking this was a legit program because it was in the Rec Center and the workers had not kicked them out or anything. Its a scam, and my other 2 friends signed up for it too. The guy i dealt business with is a fraud, "former Navy" "BBB" logo, and always voice mail for his cell phone, his business telephone and fax dont exist, but like i said i met up with his buddy and hopefully he should be here tomorrow and hopefully pick up his stupid "military financing phone" because i made sure it worked and his phone rang. Theyre usually here 2-3 times a week. So once everything is settled wether i get something back or not ill let these guys have it and make a scene in the rec center. Authorities know and i guess they didnt do anything about it, so they should be here tomorrow or monday. Boot move i know, i learned, and please i learned my lesson, i dont want to hear negative things, in comes my question, make your case of what you read from my story. do i have legal rights? could it be fraud? please and thank you.

how many pple really get all their victims rights? MY NAME IS JENNAH. I WAS RAPED BY MY BIOLOGICAL FATHER, NORMAN, WHEN I WAS 18YRS OLD. I AM NOT GOING INTO DETAILS AS I BELIEVE THEY ARE UNNECESSARY AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE YOU CAN EMAIL ME AT jennah_z@yahoo. com. HE WAS CONVICTED OF 2ND DEGREE SEXUAL ASSAULT OF A MINOR AND INCEST.... I HAVE CALLED THE PRISON HE IS IN 2 TIMES. I WANT TO CONFRONT MY FATHER, TALK TO HIM ABOUT THINGS. IN THE "VICTIMS RIGHTS" I HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO. THE FIRST TIME I CALLED THE PERSON (A WOMAN) I TALKED TO TREATED ME LIKE THE BAD GUY! I FELT AS IF I WAS DOING WRONG TRYING TO GET MEDICAL INFORMATION FOR MY HEALTH. WHEN I ASKED IF I WOULD BE ABLE TO TALK TO MY FATHER SHE TOLD ME IT WOULDN'T BE GOOD FOR ME. HOW DOES SHE KNOW WHAT I NEED? I HAD NEVER MET HER. I WANT CLOSURE. THAT TOTALLY UPSET ME. THEY WERE ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT HIS REHABILITATION. ....WHAT THE HELL? SHOULDN'T THEY BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE VICTIM FIRST? THESE RAPISTS HURT OTHERS, POSSIBLY MAKING THEIR LIFE HELL FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. MAKING THEM LIVE WITH FEARS, AND NIGHTMARES. I DON'T THINK THEY SHOULD COME FIRST! I THINK THE VICTIM SHOULD. THE SECOND TIME I PHONED THE PRISON I GOT A VOICE MAIL PRESSED SO I PRESSED 0 FOR AN EMERGENCY ,THEY THEN TRANSFERRED ME TO ANOTHER VOICE MAIL. I AGAIN PRESSED 0 (FOR AN EMERGENCY) ONE MORE TIME AND I WAS TRANSFERRED TO A GUARD HE ASKED IF IT WAS IMPORTANT, I SAID YES, HE TOLD ME HE WOULD GET SOMEONE FOR ME IMMEDIATELY. AND I WAITED ON HOLD FOR ABOUT 5 MINUTES AND THEN AGAIN GOT VOICE MAIL. I LEFT A MESSAGE ONCE AGAIN FOR THEM TO CALL ME. THEN I CALLED THE VINE SYSTEM TALKED TO A PERSON AND FOUND OUT HE COMES UP FOR PAROLE IN OCTOBER OF 08. THE VICTIM OFFENDER DIALOG WAS REFERRED TO A BARB IN JANUARY 2007 AND NO ONE EVER CONTACTED ME AFTER THAT. THEY NOW PROMISE THAT I WILL HEAR FROM THEM IN A WEEK OR SO. VICTIMS RIGHTS NEED TO BE IN FORCED AND THEY NEED TO HAVE RESTITUTION NO MATTER WHAT THE CRIME. YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO REOPEN RESTITUTION IF A NEW PROBLEM STARTS UP OR SOMETHING HAPPENS BECAUSE OF THE CRIME LATER IN LIFE. BECAUSE THERE WAS NO PHYSICAL DAMAGE TO ME OR MY BELONGINGS I DON'T GET ANY RESTITUTION. I WILL BE ON MEDICATION ALL OF MY LIFE, I AM DISABLED BECAUSE OF THIS, I HAVE TO SEE DOCTORS, COUNCILORS AND PAY FOR GAS TO GET TO THEM. THIS IS FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. I ALSO STRUGGLE RAISING MY ELDEST DAUGHTER BECAUSE OF MY DISORDERS. I GOT INVOLVED IN DRUGS TO MASK MY FEELINGS RIGHT AFTER THIS HAPPENED AND LOST ALL MY CHILDREN. MY TWO BABY'S ALLISSANDRA LEELYNN BORN JUNE 28 LIVED IN MILWAUKEE THE LAST I KNEW(05). SERENITY MARIE BORN 02-07 LIVES IN NORTHERN WISCONSIN (06). I AM NOT ALLOWED TO SEE MY DAUGHTERS. I HAVE BEEN CLEAN FOR 3YEARS NOW. HOW CAN YOU PUT RESTITUTION ON LIVES LIKE THAT? I DID GET MY ELDEST TIFFANY DOB 12-3 BACK AND NOW I HAVE PRIMARY PHYSICAL PLACEMENT OF HER. I COULD TAKE CARE OF MY CHILDREN NOW. BUT ITS TOO LATE. I KNOW THIS IS PARTLY MY FAULT BUT IT IS PARTLY HIS. I CANT HAVE ANYMORE CHILDREN WITHOUT IVF AND THATS 11600. I DON'T HAVE THAT MONEY I AM DISABLED AND MY HUSBAND WORKS IN A FACTORY. INSURANCE DOESN'T COVER IT. I GOT MY TUBES TIED BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO BRING ANOTHER CHILD INTO A WORLD LIKE THIS. NOW I WANT TO SO THEY CAN HELP CHANGE IT BUT IT IS TOO LATE. THIS IS THE LETTER I AM SENDING OUT TO THE PRISON AND WHO EVER WILL LISTEN. MAYBE IF WE ALL GET TOGETHER WE CAN GET THIS FIXED. I DON'T WANT ANOTHER GIRL TO GO THROUGH WHAT I DID. AT THE BOTTOM IS A LIST OF VICTIMS RIGHTS THAT I FOUND ON THE WISCONSIN SEX OFFENDERS LIST. WISH THEY WORKED. To Whom it May Concern; 11/29/07 I am writing in regards to Norman Wilson DOC ID#: 00375807. My name is Jenifer and I am the victim of the crime, and his daughter, that he is currently serving time in Oshkosh Correctional Institution for. There are many different things that I need to say in this letter so that you fully understand the impact this has had and still has on me and my family. But first, I need to request some form of closure in this matter for me so that I am able to finally move on. I have requested this by pone and through the V.I.N.E. (VICTIM )It has been almost 9 years. This is the closure that I need very badly. My father has Hep C and is dieing. Before he dies I need to be able to speak with him so that i can move on. I do not care if it is a phone call, in a visit setting, or however else you could imagine to arrange this meeting. I really need to try to make him understand that he is still my father and I love him but at the same time I hurt and cannot forgive him. I need to tell him how this is effecting my family, my husband and daughter, and myself. I NEED to ask him "why". The answers he gives matters and at the same time doesn't matter to me at all. I just need an answer. I need to be able to ask. I would write him but writing would only give him time to think about his responses and fake emotion. I also don't believe that option will be a good closure to me. I also think he would be able to lie (better if he is or would lie). Hearing him or seeing him will tell me his emotions on the matter. I need to see if I can find at least some form of forgiveness for him so that I can better my life, or realize I have gotten answers and they did not help and then I can move on that way. I NEED this for MY well-being. It in no way can be anymore harmful to me then what is has been without me getting to say and ask what I need to. He has served half his sentence now. I still have only begun mine. I guess to understand what I go through I would like to explain my problems. I sleep about 4 hours a night, if that, still total. I have nightmares almost every night about what happened. I am on medication that allows me to sleep with out as many nightmares and sleep that long. I am afraid of people, I have problems with trust, I am agoraphobic (fear of leaving a safe place). I panic if I cant handle a situation (which can be as simple as,and has been, shopping), or over nothing at all. I have flashbacks-I see him, smell him. breath him. hear him-all as if it was happening again. No matter what else I have tried this still happens. I have been on medications and still take them, I see a councilor and a therapist and have since 1999. I go to support meetings. None of these things gives me the answers I need. I have spoken to my father but never really about what happened, he said he was sorry right after he got into the prision system, other then that it has been a lot of small talk---weather, his job, and his Hep C. The letters have helped me deal a little better with the extreme, horrible, hatred I used to have, now its a more tolerable hate. I just want these things better. I know they will never go away totally. Incest and rape go back in my family as far as I can find (which is only my grandparents as I no longer talk to that side of my family because they believe that my father was with in his rights.) My grandfather started mentioning having sex with me along with my father the next time he came up. I thank the lord that I was able to tell on my father, which was hard, before that happened. I believe this would have happened to everyone in my family if I would not have stopped it including my daughter. It happened to my older step-sisters and some friends. I stopped the rapes before it continued to my little sister or my daughter. Now I need my closure also. I do not care if he sees the prision walls until he is dead or is released tomorrow as long as I have my chance to be better first. Respectfully Jenifer Lyon "It has been said that something that is as small as a flutter of a butterfly's wings can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world." chaos theory If this is true, then you must ask yourself... what can or have you cause(d)? jennah Office of Victim Services and Programs The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has made a commitment to reduce criminal behavior and restore a sense of safety to victims and the community. It is our vision to: * Share ownership for justice through partnerships with the criminal justice system and the community; * Learn from the community and promote opportunities for the community to learn from us; and * Hold offenders accountable by requiring them to contribute to the recovery of victims and the community as a whole. Office of Victim Services and Programs Mission The Office of Victim Services and Programs is committed to the principles and philosophy of restorative justice. It is our mission to address the needs of crime victims, their families and the community through a variety of available services. The Office of Victim Services and Programs will assist in the reparation of the harm created by crime through: 1. Supporting the recovery of victims of crime by providing information and opportunities to participate in the correctional system; 2. Being responsive and sensitive to victims, victims' families and a diverse community; 3. Educating the public on what we do and how we do it; 4. Promoting relationships, credibility, understanding and involvement with the community; and 5. Encouraging that offenders be held accountable for their actions through sanctions, restitution and restoration. In order to accomplish this Mission, the Office of Victim Services and Programs will: * Provide comprehensive information, assistance and support to those harmed by crime including victims, their families, and communities; * Integrate victims' rights and services in program planning throughout the Department of Corrections; * Develop community partnerships to advance the principles of victim services/issues and restorative justice; and * Develop and maintain a resource center dedicated to victim services/issues and restorative justice. Services offered through the Office of Victim Services and Programs * Information, Advocacy, & Referral includes providing information to crime victims on the correctional system or a specific offender, working closely with Parole Commission Members, Probation and Parole Agents, etc. on the victims behalf, and/or referrals for other services/assistance . * Notification includes communication regarding changes in the offender's status. For example, this can include notification of parole interviews and decisions, release, escape and apprehension, discharge to supervision, etc. * Restitution includes assistance with questions and concerns related to restitution. If you have not received any restitution payments but believe that you are owed restitution from an offender who is or has been under the supervision of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, you can submit an unclaimed restitution inquiry. * Victim Impact Statements allow victims to provide a statement to the Parole Commission Member for review prior to parole consideration. * Participation in the Parole Process provides victims with the opportunity to provide information to the Parole Commission at the time the offender is considered for parole. * Victim/Offender Conferencing allows victims, if they choose, to speak to the offender in a safe setting with a neutral third party and discuss the impact and circumstances of the crime. Victims have the opportunity at this time to ask questions and to directly express to the offender how the crime has affected them and/or their family. * Impact Panels/Classes allow victims to share information with correctional staff and/or offenders about the impact of crime. * Education & Training on such issues as victims' rights, restorative justice, and the impact of crime for corrections staff, communities, and others. * Restorative Justice/Victim Services Resource Library includes reference materials that are available for review or loan. * VOICE stands for "Verbal/Visual Offender Information Center." VOICE offers access to general information via the Internet and allows electronic communication. VOICE also offers routine written notification to enrolled victims regarding certain changes in the offender's status. * VINE stands for "Victim Information Notification Everyday." An enrolled victim may access information over the telephone at (608)240-5888. VINE is the original automated phone system that victims may continue to use to receive information about offenders. what is tldr?

Ron Paul and The Matrix? Ron Paul and the Matrix by John J. Smalanskas by John J. Smalanskas DIGG THIS I had to wipe Earl Grey tea spray from my computer screen as I laughed and watched the very entertaining Ron Paul is the Matrix YouTube on the Lew Rockwell Breaking News blog. The Matrix–Ron Paul connection is a perfect fit. In The Matrix (in case you live in a duct tape and plastic enrobed house without outside communication), Neo (Keanu Reeves) is given a choice by Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) to take the blue pill, wake up in your bed "and believe whatever you want to believe," or, take the red pill and "stay in Wonderland and [see] how deep the rabbit hole goes." The Matrix, as Morpheus explains to Neo, is a computer generated program or "dreamworld" created by artificial intelligence (machines) to keep humanity under control and to use humans as its primary power source. As the story goes, Neo swallows the red pill, battles the nefarious Matrix Agents, and fulfills his destiny as "the one," which was to destroy the Matrix and save humanity. In our present reality, Ron Paul is our Neo; he is "the one" that may be our last and best hope to revive the essence and spirit of our (former) Constitutional Republic. Like a splinter in my mind, to borrow another Morpheus expression, the Ron Paul YouTube video made me recall another interesting aspect of both my past and The Matrix. There is a song on The Matrix soundtrack made (more mainstream) popular by the movie called Wake Up performed by Rage Against the Machine (RATM). The album of that same name (the cover of which depicts a Vietnamese Buddhist monk burning himself to death in 1963 to protest the murder of fellow Buddhists) was released to critical acclaim in 1992. If you have heard it, you understand; if you have not, you may want to check it out. Be warned: it’s a raw, politically-charged, profanity laced, anti-government, anti-establishment tirade that blasts a listener with cold, hard reality. It’s a perfect compliment to The Matrix, and to me, a perfect fit with the essence and spirit of the Ron Paul movement. As the Wake Up lyrics go, we are all "…[s]till knee-deep in the system’s sh**, … I’ll give you a dose but it’ll never come close to the rage built up inside of me, fist in the air in the land of hypocrisy… Whadda I got to do to wake you up, to shake you up, to break the structure up, ’cause blood still flows in the gutter …" Indeed it does and we are seemingly powerless to stop it, unless, of course, Ron Paul really is "the one." I attended the July 1993 Lollapalooza RATM show in Philadelphia when the band took the stage naked but for "PMRC" taped on the band members’ chests and black tape covering their mouths. They did not play that day, but they did stand there naked for 15 minutes to make their point. I was angered, as where many, but at the time, I did not know the whole story. (RATM later gave a free concert to make up for the mute-naked performance). PMRC, the "Parents Music Resource Center" was a censorship committee comprised of the "Washington Wives," Tipper Gore (Mrs. global warming Chicken Little), Susan Baker (wife of then Treasury Secretary James), Sally Nevius (wife of Washington City Council Chair John Nevius), Pam Howar (wife of Washington realtor Raymond Howar). The sickening Washington Wives reference is of course to their husbands’ tentacles in the Federal Government. When I later learned the full story, I was no longer angry. Fast forward from 1993 to 2000: I was at a friends house and I recognized the song "Wake Up" while watching The Matrix for the fist time. I was angry (again) because I believed that RATM had sold out for some Hollywood bucks, but as I watched the movie I realized the song was a perfect complement to the movie’s plot and underlying red pill–blue pill theme. And now in 2007, The Matrix red pill–blue pill theme and RATM’s Wake Up are perfect complements to the strengthening Ron Paul movement. RATM broke up in 2000, but in an interesting confluence of events (in my red-pill world, anyway) the band has reunited and performed several shows this year with more to come. Here’s where it becomes really interesting for those that have ingested the red pill: During a show in Indio, California on April 29 the RATM lead singer Zack De la Rocha gave a speech during Wake Up referring to statements made by Noam Chomsky on the Nuremburg Standards and said: […] If the same laws were applied to U.S. presidents as were applied to the Nazis after World War II […] every single one of them, every last rich white one of them from Truman on, would have been hung to death and shot – and this current administration is no exception. They should be hung, and tried, and shot. As any war criminal should be. […] this whole rotten system has become so vicious and cruel that in order to sustain itself, it needs to destroy entire countries and profit from their reconstruction in order to survive. […] Wake up. [As reported by Corey Moss, MTV News]. Later, our blue pill friends Hannity & Colmes (or perhaps Agents) at Faux (alleged) News "discussed" De la Rocha’s statement – while the typically annoying on-screen headline blared – "[RATM] says Bush admin[istration] should be shot." The always charming Ann Coulter (an Agent guest that day) said: "There’re losers, their fans are losers…" I have no cogent defense to Ann’s deep intellectual analysis, but I’d rather be a red pill loser than a blue pill A-hole any day. RATM was not done. During a subsequent concert in New York on July 28 RATM ended their set with Wake Up and De la Rocha fired back at the Faux (alleged) News blather: A couple of months ago, those fascist mother****ers at the Fox News [sic] Network attempted to pin this band into a corner by suggesting that we said that the president should be assassinated. Nah, what we said was that he should be brought to trial as war criminal and hung and shot. THAT'S what we said. […] And we don't back away from the position because the real assassinator is Bush and Cheney and the whole administration for the lives they have destroyed here and in Iraq. […] Wake up. De la Rocha’s delivery and the rawness and radical nature of his message may differ from Ron Paul’s reasoned delivery, but the essence of their message is very similar. Every day, more and more Americans happily swallow the red pill and open their eyes to reality. In The Matrix, there is a scene where Neo asks Morpheus why his eyes hurt. Morpheus explains that it’s because Neo has never really used them. The chicken hawks, hacks, liars, deceivers, and statist filth like Bush, Cheney, Romney, Giuliani, the Clintons, and many others have no clue how to deal with Ron Paul because he delivers truth. Just as they need to mischaracterize and misrepresent De la Rocha’s statements (and their lackey Agents like Faux (alleged) news) they need to attack Ron Paul and attempt to label him a loon. Based on the electric response Ron Paul receives everywhere he goes, Americans are taking the red pill in droves because they fully understand our present reality and that it is leading us all to economic and societal ruin. Unless, of course, you are one of the politically-connected elites that ride our backs like we’re donkeys. The illusion that is the Matrix is beginning to crumble before our eyes and the statists are very afraid. If you have not yet done so, I urge you to swallow the red pill and wake up. It may hurt for a short time, but living in a life of truth, justice, decency, and genuine freedom is far better than living in an authoritarian world of deceit, delusion, illusion, and servitude. August 22, 2007 John J. Smalanskas

Woman tells lawmakers about son's bullying, suicide? What do you think of this story? *Eleven-year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover liked football, basketball and playing video games with his little brother. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy says the effects of bullying are becoming more severe. But on April 6, after enduring what his mother called "relentless" bullying at school, Carl hanged himself with an extension cord in the family's Springfield, Massachusetts, home. "What could make a child his age despair so much that he would take his own life? That question haunts me to this day, and I will probably never know the answer," Sirdeaner Walker said in a House Education and Labor Committee hearing on school bullying. "He had just started secondary school in September, and we had high hopes," she said. "But I knew something was wrong, almost from the start." Watch Sirdeaner Walker describe finding her son's body » He didn't want to say at first, she said, but reluctantly told her of classmates who called him names, "saying he acted gay and calling him faggot," Walker said. "Hearing that, my heart just broke," she said. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-New York, said the emotional and physical effects of bullying are becoming more severe and that the acts of bullying can continue outside school. According to the National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center, about 30 percent of school-aged children in the United States are estimated to be involved in bullying, as either a bully or the target of a bully. Steve Riach, the founder of Heart of a Champion Foundation -- a nonprofit organization that says it offers educators an "innovative and effective approach to developing character in the lives of their students" -- said his organization has learned that students recognize that school safety cannot be accomplished only with security guards and metal detectors. And students "have told us that emotional safety is every bit a concern as physical safety," he said. Walker called school bullying a national crisis. "I've learned that bullying is not an inevitable part of growing up. It can be prevented, and there isn't a moment to lose," she said. "We need a national solution to deal with it," she said.* I think that this story is so sad, can nothing prevent this? As a parent, would you approve of your child bullying another child? I would not, my son has not even started school let and I've already made it clear to him that he better not treat another person in such a way that he would not wish to be treated...do parents these days not instill morals..I mean I know all kids tease, but sometimes it goes overboard.. I'm not giving thumbs down btw..

Where can I find good resource books for preschoolers? The question is pretty much in the title, but I teach in a day care center. the ages arent separated. we teach the kids from ages 2-5. I need a book with different lesson plans and like crafts, educational things like learning shapes, colors, numbers and letters. And also maybe writing. And I would like step by step procedures. what materials are needed and how to do it. I just need a really good book. I looked in books-a-million, walden books, walmart, the library, craft stores, and I even searched the internet. I was thinking about amazon, but i am not sure what to look for. what type of book would be good for what i want? is there a certain title to look for? is there a certain store? please help. any input would be appreciated. I need lesson plans for the next month. thanks

Tutoring for 10 yr. old.? Does anyone know of some good tutoring services in Chicago, IL area besides Sylvian Learning Center. I hear they are good but I just cant afford them at this current time. This is for my 10yr. old who's struggling in Reading and Math.. Please any resources will be helpful.. As for the after school program, It really doesnt help because there's only like 2 teachers to 20 students.. I'm looking for something where there is like 1 teacher to 3-5 students..

I REALLLLLLLLLY need help in my english class.? Activity 3.02: Set the Stage This activity is important as it "sets the stage" for your entire module. So, enjoy perusing the sites. Take your time. I will direct you to some important areas, but I also encourage you to find information based on your interests (e.g., music or history). 1. Spend at least 30 minutes reviewing each web site below (1 hour total). Surf! Read! Enjoy! 2. Prepare to rate each site from 1 to 10. Rate the sites with this question in mind: 'If I were to produce this play, how helpful is this site in my research about A Midsummer Night's Dream?' 3. Explain your rating of each web site by pulling in examples directly from the site. Concentrate on the content of the site, rather than design. Shakespeare Resource Center http://www.bardweb.net/man.html Be sure to check out: The Man The Globe Elizabethan England NOTE: To Spanish speakers (or those who'd like to learn!) Some content is offered in Spanish! Shakespeare Biography from AbsoluteShakespeare.com http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/biography/shakespeare_biography.htm Be sure to check out: his education his home in Stratford proof that he, indeed, wrote his plays 50 points For each site, you provide a rating. You adequately support your rating with specific details from each site. You have 2 well-developed paragraphs. Each paragraph is titled with the name of the web site. You demonstrate that you've thoroughly researched each site

If liberals love freedom, why have they done all of this? 1. Prohibition (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/progress/prohib/prohib.html) 2. Trying to ban rock, punk and heavy metal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center) 3. Trying to ban video games (http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2005/12/01/clinton_law-051201.html?print) 4. Passed laws regulating what we can and cannont eat (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16051436/) (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/27/national/main1550028.shtml) 5. Arrested American citizens for voicing dissident opinions in the privacy of their own homes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Raids) 6. Put American citizens into concentration camps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment)

Visitation..shared custody..full custody-checklist to help me get to my goals? any tips? Can anyone help me out on where to start with trying to get to the point of getting full (or at least FULL JOINT custody.) Currently I'm paying my cs on time and caught up, but my child' s mother is getting more volitile and reducing the time I get to spend with her every time I try to be civil. I know I have to get a lawyer eventually....but right now I am just trying to collect ALL the info I can to try to eventually get full custody even if it takes 10 years! I know the start is paying the 100.00 dollars just to process the visitation paperwork in court! I have stopped old habits, slowed down ,and will be marrying soon....but I just want some good info from a good guy who has faught this war. I guess I'm looking for some type of checklist from the beginning to the end to make sure I am educated for my planning and moves to make. I have found some good websites like National Fathers Resource Center and Fathers For Justice...but of course they want money to join. So if you have ANY help, tips, or not to do's please send them. And for the mothers who are hating...stop, let them in their lives good or bad so they can learn who or not to be like. And for the ones that are good-THANK YOU, you are appreciated and time will show that you have raised a wholesome child who has the best of both parents! :)

Visitation..shared custody..full custody-checklist to help me get to my goals? any tips? Can anyone help me out on where to start with trying to get to the point of getting full custody. Currently I'm paying my cs on time and caught up, but my child' s mother is getting more volitile and reducing the time I get to spend with her every time I try to be civil. I know I have to get a lawyer eventually....but right now I am just trying to collect ALL the info I can to try to eventually get full custody even if it takes 10 years! I know the start is paying the 100.00 dollars just to process the visitation paperwork in court! I have stopped old habits, slowed down ,and will be marrying soon....but I just want some good info from a good guy who has faught this war. I guess I'm looking for some type of checklist from the beginning to the end to make sure I am educated for my planning and moves to make. I have found some good websites like National Fathers Resource Center and Fathers For Justice...but of course they want money to join. So if you have ANY help, tips, or not to do's please send them. And for the mothers who are hating...stop, let them in their lives good or bad so they can learn who or not to be like. And for the ones that are good-THANK YOU, you are appreciated and time will show that you have raised a wholesome child who has the best of both parents! :)

What is the average job application answering time? I sent my resume and cover letter via yahoo hotjobs about two weeks ago. I got a notification email from human resource center of the company about that "they will consider my submission" in last week. I wonder that when can I learn the result. Should I call them? Thanks.. I can't send e-mail to the company. They accept cover letters and resumes only via hotjobs or their own online application system. They read no mail or job application letters that sent, except these ways.

My grades are so low and I don't know what to do? I lived in NY all my life with mom, and a few years ago my dad moved to CT. Well last year (september) I decided to go live with him and start at a new high school. I was starting grade 10. Within the first quarter I noticed it was much harder than what I was used to. All my classes were. I was struggling. So I started staying after school and going to the resource centers... that helped a little. But I wasn't passing. Now here I am in March, still struggling. My biggest problem is math and chemistry. Math has always been my worst subject but I'm not understanding ANYTHING. I feel retarded when I'm sitting there in Geometry class and I'm the only one who doesn't know how to find the missing side or whatever. And when I go after school, the teacher explains it to me, and I still don't get it. I have done the following: stayed after school, got a tutor, switched to lower level classes... and I'm STILL failing. Last year my grades were all above 80. I don't understand. I know I'm not stupid but I'm starting to think I have a learning disability when it comes to math/chem because NOTHING IS WORKING. What do I do? My grades are: Spanish - 94 Math - 50 Chemistry - 42 English - 85 Global - 80

I need help on my online english class plz(:? Activity 3.02: Set the Stage This activity is important as it "sets the stage" for your entire module. So, enjoy perusing the sites. Take your time. I will direct you to some important areas, but I also encourage you to find information based on your interests (e.g., music or history). 1. Spend at least 30 minutes reviewing each web site below (1 hour total). Surf! Read! Enjoy! 2. Prepare to rate each site from 1 to 10. Rate the sites with this question in mind: 'If I were to produce this play, how helpful is this site in my research about A Midsummer Night's Dream?' 3. Explain your rating of each web site by pulling in examples directly from the site. Concentrate on the content of the site, rather than design. Shakespeare Resource Center http://www.bardweb.net/man.html Be sure to check out: The Man The Globe Elizabethan England NOTE: To Spanish speakers (or those who'd like to learn!) Some content is offered in Spanish! Shakespeare Biography from AbsoluteShakespeare.com http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/bi... Be sure to check out: his education his home in Stratford proof that he, indeed, wrote his plays 50 points For each site, you provide a rating. You adequately support your rating with specific details from each site. You have 2 well-developed paragraphs. Each paragraph is titled with the name of the web site. You demonstrate that you've thoroughly researched each site

Is this the Holy Grail? No its the Cup of Human Kindness? Israeli citizens who do learn the truth about the stark suffering and loss of all human rights in Gaza and the West Bank are usually horrified at the conditions. They form groups, they protest, they write, and they march in solidarity with the Palestinian refugees. One such group is Gush Shalom. They are planning to assemble a Convoy of trucks carrying water filters and other supplies desperately needed in Gaza. Their Convoy will go to one of the Israeli checkpoints along the Gaza border on January 26th, 2008. There, the assembled people of the Convoy will stand not as Jews or Christians, or Muslims, or anything else that separates one group from another. They will stand together as human beings and ask the Israeli guards for permission to cross into Gaza so that they may deliver the needed goods to the Palestinians waiting on the other side of the fence. When I read about this planned convoy, I sent a donation to help purchase supplies. I sent it to the Eschaton Foundation, Resource Center for Nonviolence, which is accepting donations in the US for the Gush Shalom Convoy. (10) Yesterday, I received a thank you letter from Eschaton, and in the envelope was a charming little card with pressed flowers on it. The card read, "Flowers fromPalestine." I touched the delicate flower petals that had somehow endured their journey from Palestine to Eschaton in California, and from there to my home in Florida, still intact. The petals seemed to suggest there might be a simple and enduring way out of this terrible situation in the Holy Land. Turning the card over, I read the message on the back. "We don't want you to bring the Israelis to their knees, but to bring them to their senses. We believe in restorative justice: to redress the wrongs rather than avenge them, (signed) Zoughbi Zoughbi of Wi'Am, Palestinian Conflict Resolution. Bethlehem - Palestine." Perhaps having spent the day researching the violence and watching videos of the carnage in Gaza left me emotionally vulnerable, but when I read this, I was overwhelmed. Now came the tears that I had fought back all day long. A flower does indeed have a far better chance of bringing about enduring peace than bullets and artillery fire ever will. Above is an extract from Sparrowdancer dot org and the kind woman who wrote the above. ditto, i agree with you there is suffering on both sides, question is how much...in 2007 , 7 isrealis died, whilst 373 palestinians died in retaliation strikes...im only telling you the facts

Beginning photographer resources? I recently purchased an Olympus evolt E-410 digital slr camera. I'm looking to get into some photography classes so that I can learn to shoot better, and also how to use my camera! Are there any suggestions for the Indianapolis area? I've looked at IUPUI, the Community Learning Network at IUPUI, as well as a few camera shops around town and the Indianapolis Art Center. These are all good options, but none of them have availability for me. I'm looking for any other resources available. Any and all suggestions are appreciated!!

Spiritually speaking, can someone proofread my cover letter? EcoVentures International 1519 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 301 Washington, DC 20036 To Whom It May Concern: Being an environmentally-conscious college student, I have a strong desire to advance the cause of sustainable development in communities across the globe. That is why I was excited to learn that your organization has an operations and outreach intern position open. With my previous work experience and a passion to create a greener world, I am sure you will find me a viable candidate for this internship. In past jobs, I did many of the same tasks that are required of an operations and outreach intern. During my time at the National Science Resources Center, I helped plan an event where the company’s educational products were marketed to various clients across the world. In doing so, I learned to maintain contact databases, complete logistical work, distribute company brochures, and do other general administrative tasks like faxing material and keeping in contact with our clients. As a Community Assistant, I cared for the needs of several hundreds of students in the dorm community I worked in. This included doing database work on students, making routine calls to students about various dorm issues, distributing college material, and working with higher officials in the Resident Life department. This internship will fulfill my yearning to help the environment, which has grown over the past year. In college, I am studying civil engineering with a focus on the environment to learn how to better our world through a technical lens. With this knowledge, I hope to later get involved in environmental public policy on the federal and international levels to foster more aggressive environmental initiatives. Hopefully this brief letter has grabbed your interest. A resume and writing sample is also provided to give you a better idea of my qualifications. I welcome the opportunity to have an interview to answer any questions. Thank you for your consideration and I hope to speak with you in the future. Sincerely, Name What do you think?

Obama vs McCain on education what do you think? Obama First Senate bill: increase Pell Grant from $4,050 to $5,100. (Aug 2007) Sponsored legislations that recruit and reward good teachers. (Sep 2004) Voted YES on $52M for "21st century community learning centers". (Oct 2005) Voted YES on $5B for grants to local educational agencies. (Oct 2005) Voted YES on shifting $11B from corporate tax loopholes to education. (Mar 2005) McCain Unrestricted block grants--let states decide spending. (Feb 2000) Voted NO on $52M for "21st century community learning centers". (Oct 2005) Voted NO on $5B for grants to local educational agencies. (Oct 2005) Voted NO on shifting $11B from corporate tax loopholes to education. (Mar 2005) Voted NO on funding smaller classes instead of private tutors. (May 2001) Voted NO on funding student testing instead of private tutors. (May 2001) Voted NO on spending $448B of tax cut on education & debt reduction. (Apr 2001) Voted YES on declaring memorial prayers and religious symbols OK at schools. (May 1999) Voted YES on allowing more flexibility in federal school rules. (Mar 1999) Voted YES on education savings accounts. (Jun 1998) Voted YES on school vouchers in DC. (Sep 1997) Voted YES on $75M for abstinence education. (Jul 1996) Voted YES on requiring schools to allow voluntary prayer. (Jul 1994) Voted NO on national education standards. (Feb 1994) Focus educational resources to help those with greatest need. (Jul 2001) Require state standards, regular assessments, and sanctions. (Jul 2001) Support Ed-Flex: more flexibility if more accountable. (Jul 2001) Rated 45% by the NEA, indicating a mixed record on public education. (Dec 2003) What doy you think? http://www.ontheissues.org source

What is a good resource for finding guitar tabs or notes for songs? I am set to be getting a guitar and there are some songs I am wanting to learn. Trouble is I think some of them may be hard to locate in a conventional manner [Guitar Center, etc.]. Some Merle Haggard songs and Devil Went Down to Georgia translated to guitar for example. Any ideas? In addition, as players, is it better to learn notes or tabs? Or maybe even both? I used to play clarinet but can no longer read music [you lose it I guess if you don't use it]

Advanced Piano Technique Help- Qualified Instructors Only Please. Hello I am an intermediate/advanced piano student who lacks a good teacher. My question is this- how is proper voicing (orchestration) achieved? (i.e. the technique of sounding higher notes above the lower ones in a single chord) I have heard that it has something to do with utilizing arm weight and shifting the center of gravity, but I have no idea how to go about actually doing it. Also, can you recommend any pieces from classical repertoire in which to practice this? Finally, can anyone recommend any good resources for learning about the utilization of arm weight in piano technique? Even better: tell me all that you know! Thanks so much in advance.

How do I explain an Involuntary Termination without having to explain what happened? I am having a hard time explaining an Involuntary Termnination that I know was done out of revenge. To Authenticate who I am; Max R Waller 11261 Sproule Ave Pacoima CA 91331 Telephone:1-818-890-2048 Please be patient when reading and respond by writing to united_states_constitution@yahoo.com Wrongful Termination at Sam's Club 6625 at San Fernando California 91340 Gabriel H Peregrino is the Tire and Battery Associate that lied on Saturday, 21 April 2007. He wrote a lie stating that I was aggressive, but he only exaggerates and is vindictive. He is a slacker and Ambrosio Galvan and Bill Lang know this but will not admit since they can be fired for any reason since people in California can be terminated At Will. The following implicates Club Manager Fidel Jacobo Saturday, 21 April 2007 16:27 PDST To Sam's Club Asset Protection and management From Waller, Max Rafael Incidence TBC Assoc Gabriel (Assoc ID 2216) did not want to raise the vehicle for mounting and the easier task, the tire of the vehicle. About two week ago he and I had a great half hour talk about animation or know as cartoons. I thought we were having some kind of association but I am wrong. This took place around 13:07 PDST so please review the surveillance tape. You will also see the pranks others have played on me. Review all from two weeks back. Gabriel and I pushed each other. Ambrosio Galvan and Bill Lang know his work habits. Thank you for opening this investigation. I am aware of what constitutes a Hostile Work Place Environment. You, Fidel Jacobo, have been told of TBC Associates works habits. You have not addressed this in any document meeting. Show the surveillance video as proof. The video would exonerate me of their false charges. I believe that I was terminated since California is a At-Will Employment state William Gregory Lang or Bill Lang transferred to a Sam's Club near Palmer Lake in Colorado in early June 2007. Mr. Lang used to be trusted by me who made the mistake of telling him everything before the Termination on Monday, 23 April 2007. Bill Lang knows the dirt of Sam's Club 6625 and had told some people in the Club that almost everyone hates Fidel Jacobo and that is why a lot of people quit Sam's Club 6625. Team Lead Ambrosio Galvan also knows a lot of dirty secrets at Sam's Club 6625, but is nervous about losing his job if he sides with me Sam's Club PD-57 Investigation/Suspension was NOT adhering to by Club Manager Fidel Jacobo and Membership Manager Esperanza Lopez. Read the complete policy, PD-57, at the end. No documentation of any complaints and the San Fernando Police Department or the Los Angeles Police Department ever showed for a "Work Place Violence." Please show proof since one complaint and one video tape does NOT establish Workplace Violence. SHOW THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO!!! Neither Mr. Jacobo nor Ms Lopez wanted to sign the papers of any meeting between two managers and me for Legal Documentation. No meetings to address any potential problems at the Tire and Battery Center were brought up by the Team Lead or Management. As of Monday, 9 April 2007, the people of the Tire Shop are playing pranks and making it appear as if I was becoming forgetful such as the misplacement of tools and personal safety gear. The suspects are Erick Miron and Mark Castro. Esperanza Lopez was told and never had a meeting to discuss the topics brought to her attention by me. Esperanza Lopez was asked to verify this by reviewing the Surveillance video tapes and my request was not honored. Esperanza Lopez was told about the pranks about two weeks ago but no meeting to diffuse or address serious matters was conducted. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc does not always follow their guidelines and fire anyone that does not allow their selves to be intimidated!!! In the early 1990s Esperanza Lopez used to be a cashier at Tres Sierras Store #1 in Pacoima CA 91331 but when she became a manager she was as a friendly to old friends of the Delgado Family. Esperanza's nickname was "Pera." Esperanza Lopez is a decent manager BUT only honors the request (s) of those that will help her career or that she likes. If I can get a good attorney I might be able to file the following complaints. Discriminations types; Disparate Treatment and Disparate Impact The Waller Family will pray for everyone that is against me Erick Miron always complained about classical music and started a rumor and told Marco Arins that he and I had a physical fight. I, Max Rafael Waller, formerly Assoc ID 0035 and Operator 007 proudly served from Tuesday, 13 November 1990 - Monday, 23 April 2007 and only needed about nine years to do a minimal of twenty-five years to retire from Wal Mart Stores, Inc. I was one hundred percent vested in Profit Sharing and had a one month vacation allocated per year. I am a share holder Wal Mart Stores, Inc stock and I have about 11 shares so he has vested interest at the time of termination. HOW IT ALL BEGAN Sam's Club 6625 12920 Foothill Blvd San Fernando California 91340 Phone: 1-818-365-7710 Fax: 1-818-365-0690 December 2006 Mehmet Ekinci {A Hatchet Man and sent to "clean House" is no longer there but in Fresno California according to Mr. Jason Fastner} said that he was replacing everyone in the tire shop or its proper title: Tire and Battery Center according to Jeff Lopez {no longer work there} and Mark Castro {has recanted} and Bill Lang heard indirectly but will deny it. Max Rafael Waller studied all of Wal-Mart policies and found that if that his remark {INTIMIDATION} could be verified then he would get a coaching for making such a remark. The others are scared to tell the truth. According to Art who works for the California EDD at http://www.edd.ca.gov/ my ex boss told him that I was fired for 1) Work Place Violence and 2) Verbal Altercation. Fidel Jacobo was doing his best so that I would not receive unemployment. I am receiving unemployment since there was no meeting to talk about Work Place Violence. People that are fired/terminated due to violence will NOT receive Unemployment Compensation which is commonly known as Unemployment Pay. On Saturday, 12 May 2007 a relative of mine two Sam's Club 6625 associates possibly a Check Out Supervisor Jay and a female spreading misinformation at Wireless Communication #1, 11916 Foothill Blvd, Lake View Terrace CA 91342; Telephone:1-818-897-1477 and Fax:1-818-897-1467 If Wal-Mart / Sam's Club 6625 could negate what I have written, then I would be in legal trouble. A lot of information came from Bill Lang who is an insider. Wal-Mart Corporate Policy Number: PD-57 Investigation/Suspension Policy Revised: 10/16/04 Policy When it is necessary to conduct an investigation regarding possible violations of Wal-Mart policies, the investigation should be handled promptly and thoroughly. The investigation will be focused on determining if the allegations can be substantiated and what action, if any, is necessary. In all investigations, confidentiality will be maintained to the greatest extent possible. NOTE: This policy is to be used for all investigations, except for fraud of theft issues. Any investigations related to fraud or theft issue is to be conducted by Loss Prevention [now called Asset Protection]. Applies To All Associates, regular, temporary, full time, peak time, Hourly and Salaried. Procedures All investigations should be conducted thoroughly and promptly. Objectives of an investigation are to: determine whether the allegations can be substantiated; determine whether the allegations, if substantiated, constitute a violation of company policy; determine what action, if any, is needed; maintain confidentiality; Harassment/Discrimination/Inappropriate Conduct Investigations All supervisors/managers have an obligation to report cases or suspected cases of Harassment/discrimination/inappropriate conduct to an appropriate level of management as detailed below. Allegations reported to Hourly Supervisors must be reported to a salaried member of management. All allegations of harassment/discrimination must be reported to and investigated by: Facility Manager/Salaried People Manager (Wal-Mart Stores & Sam's Club) People Manager (Field Logistics) People Director, People Manager will inform the District Manager/Director of Operations (the title is no longer used), Divisional People Director and Regional Personnel manager of the allegation. The People Manager (Field Logistics) will inform the General Manager (Club Manager at Sam's Club) and the Regional Manager. Harassment/Discrimination Investigations Investigations regarding Harassment/Discrimination/Inappropriate Conduct allegations by Associate/Customer and /or Member must be conducted by the Facility Manager/Salaried People Manager or higher using the Investigation Report & Guide (IRG) of THE RED BOOK. If the complaint involves one of these managers, a higher level of salaried management should conduct the investigation. If the Facility Manager is out of the facility (i.e., Vacation, leave of absence) another member of management must contact the District Manager/Director of Operations or Regional Personnel Manager to ensure the investigation begins immediately. The Investigation Report & Guide and the following investigation forms can be printed from the link found at the end of this policy under Resources, Printed Materials, and THE RED BOOK Forms: Investigation Supplements Investigation Report and Guide Interview Checklist Witness Manager Notes Associate Statement Follow Up Interview Checklist Changes/Additions to Associate Statement All original documents obtained relating to Harassment or Discrimination allegations will be maintained in THE RED BOOK, at the facility in a locked file cabinet in the Investigating manager's office. They are not to be placed in a personnel file. If the investigation is regarding a salaried member of management's conduct, THE RED BOOK should be maintained at the District Manager/Director of Operations (Regional Personnel Manager for Logistics) office in a locked file cabinet. For confidentiality reasons, Associates are not entitled to copies of statements other than their own that are collected/obtained during as investigation. THE RED BOOK may be used for other type of investigations if desired (optional). Conducting Interviews A salaried member of management must interview all identified individuals to determine what occurred, when, where, and who was involved and obtain written statements from all individuals interviewed. Conduct all interviews privately, and ensure that is a salaried member of management participating as a witnessing manager. Explain to the Associate that the witnessing manager will be taking notes. At least one member of management should be the same gender (if practical) as the Associate is on the clock. Verify the Associate is on the clock. Tell the Associate you are here to learn what the Associate might know regarding certain matters that have come to your attention. Explain that the meeting will be considered an Open Door discussion and that the Associate is protected from retaliation from any person for sharing information during the investigation. Explain that the meeting is confidential, and that any information the Associate provides will be shared only with those who have a need to know or to further the investigation. Ask whether the Associate is comfortable meeting with you and the other manager(s) present. If uncomfortable, offer the Associate the opportunity to discuss without the particular manager. Tell the Associate that to be consistent you will be taking notes as you go through the interview. If an Associate request to have a co-worker present, and refuses to meet with management alone, you need to let them know that our Associates have the benefit of utilizing the Open Door Policy which allows them the opportunity to talk directly to a member of management regarding any situation, while maintaining confidentiality. As a result, it is not necessary for Associates to have a co-worker present, therefore, co-workers will not be allowed to attend. If the Associate to refuse to meet, you may request the Associate to submit a written statement regarding the situation. Inform the associate that the investigation will continue with or without their comments. Continue with the investigation and necessary action. Collect and review all statements, appropropriate paperwork, documentation, and system reports that are relevant to the investigation. Consider interviews, written statements, documents or other materials carefully to determine whether a violation of policy occurred and take appropriate action. All documentation concerning the investigation should be kept in a separate file locked file cabinet in the manager's office (People Manager for Field Logistics). They are not to be placed in the personnel files. Suspensions During the course of an investigation, the Investigating Manager may determine it would be in the best interest of the Associate of the Company for the Associate to be suspended from work, pending the outcome of the investigation. Suspension from the Company will be unpaid, pending the outcome of the investigation. Hourly Associates will not be eligible to use benefit hours (illness protection, or personal time) to compensate for lost wages. Salaried will be paid only through the end of the week in which they will be suspended. If an Associate is suspended due to an arrest, refer to Arrested Associate's Policy, PD-01 for additional information. Appropriate Action Once the investigation is completed, if there has been no violation of company policy, no disciplinary action will be taken. If there has been a violation of company policy, the Associate under investigation may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination. The investigation materials must still be maintained regardless of the outcome of the investigation. If the investigation is the result of an Open Door, it is the salaried member of management's responsibility to follow up with the reporting Associate. The salaried member of management should ensure the Associate understands how and why the resolution was determined. If the Associate still has unresolved concerns, the Associate should be directed to the next level supervision. Awards: Division A, now Region A 3rd Quarter Award for Member Service The award was received at Home office in November 2003 Region 54, now District 55 2nd Quarter Award for Member Service The Awards was received at Sam's Club 6625 in October 2003 Sam's Club 6625 September 2003 Associate of the Month The Awards was received at Sam's Club 6625 in October 2003 It's My Business (December 2005/ January 2006) A Sam's Club publication. This is the biggest award and recognition at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc regarding Customer Service. Member Service Living Legend The question is NOT a joke, so call. Telephone:1-818-890-2048 Max R Waller 11261 Sproule Ave Pacoima CA 91331 I am looking for sincere answers.

Have you read the book Indefensible and the agenda of the ACLU? Indefensible: 10 Ways The ACLU Is Destroying America Sam Kastensmidt Learn more about the ACLU's evil agenda and what you can do to stop it. Indefensible discusses ten ways the ACLU is destroying America—from sexualization of children and the promotion of abortion to their relentless campaigns to banish Christianity from the public realm and undermine homeland security. Indefensible is an easy-to-share resource from the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ. I just heard about this book today. I copied and pasted what the book was about. I was appalled on what I had heard about the ACLU. I know now a bit more of what is going on in my community to save the Mt Soledad Cross. I am tired of being tolerant and will do what ever I can to cease this contol issue that the ACLU feels they have. And anyone that was offended by my question..........suck it up.

Can some one who knows what they are doing help me with my essay..please? My writing experience That Were both Good and Bad My name is molly,and I have been attending Spokane Community college for almost one year. Every term I have taken at least one writing class. Every class that I have taken has helped me improve in some areas. I have overcome many obstacles in writing, and I have come a long way in my writing capabilities. I have taken all the criticisms from my peers and teachers and used them to the best of my ability. However, I have found writing an essay extremely challenging because I have a hard time putting my thoughts down on paper. I also have a hard time with grammer and punctuation. The peer reviews and tutoring center has helped me a lot. It has also helped me see where my weakness was. On the other hand, I have found a new love for reading and writing. I loved all the stories that we read in class. I could actually relate to "Fish Cheeks". I think my best journal entry was on that story. I also loved writing in my journal for practice. It kind of killed two birds with one stone. Not only was I practicing to freewrite , but I did a lot of venting ,as well. I loved writing my narative. I love to tell stories so, writing a narative was right up my alley. In conclusion, Writing has been difficult for me at times. But, writing 115 has helped me in many ways. I have learned a lot of different techniques to help my write good papers, and I have learned what resources are available to me. So, I know feel that I am ready to take writing to the next level.

1. Sally needs to gather information about careers from a print or media source. Which of the following woul 1. Sally needs to gather information about careers from a print or media source. Which of the following would be a reliable resource for her? (1 point) the Occupational Outlook Handbook Teen magazine Dateline NBC A&E's Dirty Jobs 2. Jim's mom is an accountant. He has learned quite a bit of information from her about her career. What kind of source of information about careers would this be considered? (1 point) internal external value print 3. Hugh has made an appointment to speak with a local librarian about their job. What kind of exploration is Hugh setting up? (1 point) job shadowing internship informational interview career presentation 4. Susan has always wanted to be a veterinarian. When doing her research, she answers all self-assessments geared towards that career and is only researching that one career. Which important component of career research is Susan neglecting? (1 point) Keep an open mind. Search your heart. Think of careers that interest you. Consider your skills and abilities. 5. Peter has called a friend's uncle who is an archeologist to ask him about his recent expedition. What important skill has Peter just used? (1 point) inquisitiveness persistence cabling networking 6. Which of the following is an example of networking? (1 point) Stephen has contacted a radiologist from the local yellow pages to interview about her career. Yusef has asked his football coach if he knows of any professional athletes that he could interview about their career. Samantha has made an appointment with her local career center to learn more about becoming a pilot. Charlie is using the Occupational Outlook Handbook to find more information about the field of architecture. 7. Regarding informational interviews, it is best to always: (1 point) Set up an appointment with someone with whom you wish to conduct an informational interview. Use the yellow pages to find someone with whom you wish to conduct an informational interview. Ask someone to work around your schedule when setting up an informational interview. Ask for a job at the end of an informational interview. 8. Entrepreneurs are important to our economy because they: (1 point) provide jobs. provide inspiration and motivation to our economy. provide new products and services. all of the above. 9. It is wise for entrepreneurs to acquire: (1 point) marketing knowledge. a factory. a home office. knowledge of technology. True/False 10. It is best to choose a career that others think you would be good at. (1 point) True False 11. Most people will only engage in career exploration once in their lifetime, so you should make it count! (1 point) True False 12. When completing career exploration, it is wise to consult your own knowledge of your skills, abilities and interests, your family and friends, and print or online resources. (1 point) True False 13. You should go into an informational interview without any prior knowledge of the person or their career. (1 point) True False Matching

10,000,000 points to who answers this...but no ill give u the best answer lol ? Question 12 points Save The African landform that was probably formed when two tectonic plates moved apart is the Western Coastal Plain. Sahara. Great Rift Valley. Congo River Basin. Question 22 points Save Nearly three quarters of the people in Africa south of the Sahara live in growing urban areas. in rural, agricultural villages. north of the Equator. in the rain forest. Question 32 points Save One of the main problems challenging the economics of many African nations today is a lack of diverse exports. increasing their export of raw materials. competing with the industrial output of other African nations. making fishing more productive. Question 42 points Save The large area of land that the tropical rain forest covers in Africa contains very fertile soil, but environmentalists will not allow people to cut down the trees to plant crops. is shrinking as the savanna expands to take land away from the rain forest. has poor soil because of leaching, which takes away nutrients. is located along the eastern coast of the continent. Question 52 points Save Great cultural diversity exists in African countries, especially those with small populations. located along the northern coast. located south of the Sahara. that were independent in 1914. Question 62 points Save Which of the following statements is not true? The Nile River is a major transportation route across southern Africa. The central plateau produces many cataracts in African rivers. Africa's rivers can be used for hydroelectric power. Because of terrain, some African rivers are not navigable. Question 72 points Save Keeping people healthy is a challenge in Africa because governments are not concerned about health matters. drought and famine cause poor diets and weaken the health of many people. modern medicine has not yet reached the continent. hurricanes and earthquakes cause widespread damage. Question 82 points Save What event led to Great Britain's renewed interest in Egypt in the late 1800s? the opening of the Suez Canal discovery of oil in the Sinai Peninsula the building of the Aswan Dam the French invasion of Egypt Question 92 points Save What was the major reason that Egypt tried to develop closer ties with the Arab Middle East immediately after the end of World War II? to oppose the establishment of the state of Israel to raise capital for the building of the Aswan Dam to promote trade among countries in the Middle East to protect the Suez Canal Question 102 points Save When did North Africa enter a golden age during which the region became an important center of learning? during rule by the Carthaginians during Roman rule after the Arab conquest after European powers invaded the region Question 112 points Save Which of the following is true of both Libya and all the nations of the Maghreb? Most of the land area is covered by tropical rain forest. They were French colonies until the mid-1900s. The majority of their people live along the Mediterranean coast. Their economies depend on the sale of petroleum. Question 122 points Save What factor made ancient Egypt a tempting target for waves of invaders? arable land at the Nile Delta great treasures housed in the pharaohs' tombs its location between Asia, Africa, and Europe rich deposits of gold Question 132 points Save Why does Egypt import more than half of its food supply? to encourage cotton production on arable land to encourage rural Egyptians to give up their traditional ways of life to promote industrialization to meet the demands of a rapidly growing population Question 142 points Save What two major factors limit the growth of industry in Egypt? few skilled workers and lack of capital lack of foreign aid and support from other Arab nations dependence on a single export and limited oil reserves limited access to trade routes and lack of raw materials Question 152 points Save Which of the following is a goal of Qaddafi's government? to protect the Tuareg culture to increase the revenues from foreign aid and to raise the rents on the military bases to provide Libyans with a free education from the primary grades through the universities to create a more equal distribution of wealth in Libya Question 162 points Save Why was the Sahel's location important to the early empire of Ghana? Its location in the Sahara made it difficult to attack. Its coastal location gave it vast fishing resources. The Sahel was the trade link between the Mediterranean coast and the rest of Africa. Its location between rain forest and desert gave it an ideal climate. Question 172 points Save Why have the people of West Africa started to work at the local level to help their economies? They have learned that their governments alone can do little to improve economic conditions. Foreign countries have stopped all economic aid to West Africa. One-man rule in West Africa has been replaced by democratic governments. West Africans are beginning to resist colonial rule of their countries. no can some1 please actually answer honestly no can some1 please actually answer honestly

Some of you wanted to know how illegals affect us? personally???? Here is ONE example!!!!!!!!!!!!! Catastrophe in Care Hospitals are being crippled by the costs of treating migrants--and that could be just the start of an immigrant-related health crisis By LEO W. BANKS Leo W. Banks One of the many signs on the Naco Highway. Leo W. Banks "It's not unusual to have one UDA (undocumented alien) cost $5,000, and we know we're not going to get that back," says Josie Mincher, emergency room manager at Copper Queen Hospital. Leo W. Banks "Until we have comprehensive immigration reform, we need to bear the health-care costs for undocumented workers, whatever those costs are," says Rev. Tom Buechele. If you drive along Southern Arizona's border with Mexico long enough, you might see a lone illegal wandering the desert. Or maybe he's hunched at the roadside sipping water from his milk jug. What's he doing there, and where are his compatriots, the people he broke into the country with? The uninformed might ask those questions, but those who live with the daily invasion across our open borders can make a pretty good guess what's happening. The fellow got bounced from his group by the coyote-guide. Two transgressions will get an illegal cut loose with certainty: Either he can't pay, or he shows signs of tuberculosis. You think these coyotes are fools? They don't want some hollow-eyed lunger hacking and coughing blood on them. So it's adios, pal, and now you're America's problem. But they know that already. Every illegal realizes that if he makes it to an emergency room in Southern Arizona, or anywhere around the country for that matter, he can get treatment, free of charge. It's federal law, and has been for 20 years. In its evolution, the policy has become a kind of federal health insurance program for illegals, and its rising costs are eating up resources that could otherwise go to poor and uninsured American citizens. It has created a financial nightmare for border hospitals and contributed to cutbacks in services at Tucson hospitals. Is this an outrage? A scandal? Some think it's both. But going back to our active TB sufferer, here's something even worse: The guy can't get treatment anywhere, goes underground and takes a job at a restaurant in Tucson or L.A., and coughs his way to infecting scores of others. Talk about a Hobson's choice. But as with everything in the ongoing crisis of illegal immigration, the hard choices would largely evaporate if the federal government fulfilled its constitutional duty and took control of our border. The threat illegal immigration poses to American public health plays out every day at Arizona's hospitals. Until recently, the issue remained only marginally public, a problem medical people batted around among themselves, not with the media. Even today, several hospitals contacted for this story declined comment. The Copper Queen Hospital in Bisbee, one of the hardest hit, helped break that barrier when CEO Jim Dickson began returning reporters' calls, even though the subject, as he puts it, has become "like the third rail. You don't want to touch it." But his problem had grown severe. Dickson's uncompensated costs for treating illegals rose from $35,000 in 1999 to $450,000 in 2004. His total shortfall now sits at about $1.4 million, a hefty deficit for a 14-bed hospital. To make ends meet, he had to close, in June 2000, the Copper Queen's long-term care facility, and cut back on staff and hours, forcing some employees to take second jobs to survive. The hospital has seen a ray of light, however. In the first months of 2005, the Copper Queen has gone back into surplus, in part because more illegals are in Border Patrol custody when brought in to the hospital. That means the Border Patrol must reimburse the Queen for the cost. In the past, agents would drop injured illegals not in their custody at the ER and take off, sticking the hospital with bills that never got paid. Another reason for the decrease, says Dickson: the Minuteman Project. "It's been terrific for us in April," he says, cutting down on the number of people coming across and therefore the number requiring ER treatment. Dickson says the hospital wrote off about $6,000 in losses in April this year, compared to about $35,000 in April 2004. The central issue, though, remains in place--the hospital has had to scale back health services to American citizens to treat illegals. Bisbee isn't alone. The most comprehensive study on the subject found that 24 counties in four states bordering Mexico wracked up $190 million in unpaid emergency medical bills caring for illegals in the year 2000. The study, commissioned by the U.S.-Mexico Border Counties Coalition, found that California spent $79 million of that; Texas, $74 million; Arizona, $31 million; and New Mexico, $6 million. Bear in mind that these numbers, the best available, are from 2000. We can assume, with increasing rates of crossings since then, the costs are considerably higher today. Nor do the above figures take into account non-border counties. Treating illegals in Maricopa County costs as much as $50 million a year, according to an estimate used by Republican Sen. Jon Kyl. Nationally, American hospitals lose $1.45 billion a year. The Medicare reform bill passed in 2003 allocated $1 billion to reimburse states for federally mandated ER care given to illegals--about $45 million a year of that to come to Arizona over four years. But even that, some hospital staffers say, is little more than a Band-Aid on a huge problem. Ruth Kish, director of patient care services at Copper Queen, expects that under the repayment formula, her hospital will receive only 10 cents of every dollar they spend on illegals. "But every bit helps," says Kish. Another factor: The counties in the above-mentioned study spent an additional $13 million in 2000 on emergency transportation, such as helicopters and ambulances, to pick up illegals injured after sneaking across the line. The Bisbee Fire Department's ambulance responds to about one of these calls a day during the summer, says Chief Jack Earnest. Asked how many of these patients pay up, Earnest wasn't sure, and recommended contacting the billing office in Sierra Vista. The billing office knew exactly how often illegals pay their ambulance bills--never. But there's another category--Mexicans injured in Mexico who call American ambulances for help. By federal law, they have to respond, which makes Bisbee's Copper Queen the trauma center of choice for Sonora's northern frontier. The calls come from Naco, Sonora, the town across the line just south of Bisbee, where, in spite of widespread poverty, cell phones are popular, and everybody knows the Americans are bound by law to treat them. "When we get a call we go, and we don't ask where the person's from," says Earnest. Naco residents needing care go to the port of entry and declare an emergency to American officials. When they're waved through, they're transported to the Copper Queen's ER in Bisbee's ambulance, or they drive themselves in private cars. The policy is called Compassionate Entry, and it applies to hospitals up and down the line. The Copper Queen averages about five such cases a month. Some abuse the privilege, says ER Manager Josie Mincher. She's seen Compassionate Entries with bad sore throats and others who aren't sick at all. One pregnant girl landed in the ER recently complaining of morning sickness. Most are seriously sick, though, and the staff rushes to help, "because that's what we do," says Mincher. But it doesn't take much to blow the budget. "Just walking in the door is $400," says Mincher. "It's not unusual to have one UDA (undocumented alien) cost $5,000, and we know we're not going to get that back. We're playing with monopoly money here." Here's an example of how one patient can wrack up a huge bill: A young Mexican man had a bad auto accident across the line and was taken to Douglas' Southeast Arizona Medical Center with severe neurological problems. After being stabilized there, he was transferred to Barrow's Neurological Center in Phoenix. He spent a costly month there, courtesy of the Center, and was transferred--with a tracheotomy tube in his throat and supplies to clean it, also provided gratis by Barrow's--to a hospital in Hermosillo. That facility kept him less than a day before releasing him to his home in Naco. But for reasons no one can explain, the Hermosillo hospital kept his trach kit and cleaning supplies. As a result, he became septic--a bad infection--and came through the Naco port under Compassionate Entry to the Copper Queen. He spent three days there, then the staff sent him off, with more free supplies, to a clinic in Agua Prieta for continued care. How much did this fellow cost the American health care system? A figure of a quarter-million dollars would surprise no one. Cost to the Copper Queen? Almost $6,000, and they got none of it back. Northern Cochise Community Hospital is in Willcox, far enough from the border that it doesn't get patients crossing the line for health care. But that doesn't mean it escapes the invasion. CEO Chris Cronberg loses about $100,000 a year caring for illegals, mostly those injured in traffic accidents when their loaded vehicle flips while speeding north. "It's not make or break for us," says Cronberg. "But as a small hospital, we depend on cash, and those are dollars that aren't coming in, so it has an impact." The same is true at Sierra Vista Regional Health Center, according to Vice President Marie Wurth. She expects the hospital to lose $250,000 this year treating those who jump the line, get hurt doing it and don't pay their bills. The big squeeze is on in Tucson, too. Tucson Medical Center loses an estimated $4 million every year treating illegals. The corresponding figure at UMC, which includes some foreign nationals, was $3.5 million for fiscal 2004, a $2 million increase from the previous year. Part of that is attributable to UMC, in July 2003, becoming Tucson's only Level One trauma center, meaning it saw the most serious cases. Chief Financial Officer Kevin Burns says the hospital's re-payment rate for treating illegals is about 5 cents on the dollar. "It's very expensive for us and continues to grow," says Burns, who says many illegals, as well as uninsured Americans, use his ER like a primary care physician. "We hear anecdotally that people come here from across the border because they know they can get cared for, and if they present at the ER, they can get that care at no cost." The federal law that put the hospitals on the hook for the medical bills of illegals goes by the acronym EMTALA--Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. It says that anybody who shows up in an ER must get screened, treated and stabilized, regardless of citizenship or ability to pay. But since its passage in 1985, the definition of emergency has evolved to include just about anything, and because Congress didn't fund the requirement, hospitals have had to eat the costs as word has spread that the federal goodie wagon is parked at the ER door. In cities with huge illegal populations, such as Los Angeles, the effects have been disastrous. In its spring 2005 issue, the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons reported that between 1993 and 2003, 60 California hospitals closed because, for several reasons including EMTALA, half of their services became unpaid. Another 24 are near closing, says author Madeleine Pelner Cosman. She also writes that in 1983, before EMTALA, L.A. County put together a trauma network that was "one of America's finest emergency med response organizations." A mere 22 years later--again, in part because of EMTALA--Cosman says the system is coming apart, with most trauma hospitals having left the network, along with physicians, surgeons and others. The law has caused a similar situation in Tucson, on a smaller scale. "With EMTALA, the government created an unfunded national health insurance program, and it has caused real problems in this community," says Dr. Herb McReynolds, who works for a company that manages the ER department for St. Mary's Hospital, which treats a large number of illegals. Lawmakers wrote the legislation to prevent patient dumping--in which one hospital refuses to accept, say, an uninsured woman in labor, telling ambulance personnel to take her to the county hospital instead. It stopped that practice. But it has caused a big increase in the amount of un-reimbursed care that hospitals provide, and in McReynolds' words, "made physicians rethink their careers and lifestyles." "The price of it has come over time, because after so much uncompensated care, it forces physicians off our call list," says McReynolds. "Physicians have a practice to go to the next day and a family, and ask themselves, do I really want to be up at 2 a.m. providing care when I won't get comp, and I can still get sued?" Some docs have removed themselves from on-call lists by going to work at outpatient surgical centers not affiliated with a hospital. Others stay on call, but limit the amount of time they're available. A neurosurgeon might take call one day a week, and that satisfies the law. EMTALA says that you must provide a reasonable amount of coverage, without being strict or specific about how much that is. McReynolds says that EMTALA--in tandem with the malpractice crisis--has caused the loss of medical coverage at many hospitals around the country and in Tucson, including St. Mary's. "Several years ago we had five neurosurgeons on staff here, and now we have two," he says. "We had hand surgery coverage every day, and now we have it one week a month. We used to have full ob-gyn coverage, and now they've left and gone to TMC. We have no ob-gyn and one gynecologist on staff covering emergencies one day a week." With docs all over Tucson running for cover, trying to stay off call and away from ERs, the variety of emergency health care available to Tucsonans has seriously diminished. And here's the most maddening irony of all: The feds now reimburse American hospitals for treating non-paying illegals, but not for treating American citizens. Exception: Those eligible for care under Federal Emergency Services, a fairly restrictive program. For a year and a half now, UMC has approached non-paying illegals in a novel way--it actually reports them to immigration officials. "Some people find that cold, but we have a responsibility to protect this charitable asset (hospital)," says CFO Burns, adding that UMC's status as a public entity requires a different approach. "Our belief is that to the extent people have ability to pay, we expect them to." After triaging and stabilizing an ER patient, the hospital sets out to learn who that patient is, and how he or she plans to pay. To those who are uninsured and underinsured, the hospital offers the option of applying for its innovative Charity Care program. Under it, the hospital charges the patient the same rate it would receive for that service from Medicare, a possible reduction of up to 70 percent. Patients unable to pay at that discounted rate are eligible for further discounts that can tear up the bill entirely. To apply for Charity Care, the patient need only return to the hospital with a W-2 or other documents. Those who cooperate and return with the required documents don't get reported to the feds. But the hospital does report those who take the medical care and run. How many illegals cooperate with this generous offer? Ten percent. Burns says UMC began reporting the 90 percent who don't pay in November of 2003. So far, they've reported 565 persons. Why start reporting? "Maybe a bit of it was born of frustration because people use our resources and make no effort to work with us and pay," he says. "Even if part of the population doesn't pay, I still have to hire new people and buy and upgrade equipment, which costs $15-$20 million a year. When you have these strains on resources, from foreign citizens and as well as Medicaid patients, you have to manage cash flow very carefully." As with most issues related to the illegal invasion, those who live along the Mexican border, the scene of the crime, have the best view. Where health issues are concerned, it's not a pretty sight. Residents say they've come across ground dotted with discarded pills, syringes containing nobody knows what, and used needles. Some report riding horses along creek beds, popular pull-up areas for groups heading north, and finding 70 or 80 piles of human feces, some of it blackened and running with blood. It's as disgraceful as it is disgusting--and it raises a question: What happens when rain washes all this into the water supply? Is it a threat to spread diseases such as hepatitis? Some believe it might be. What happens when cows drink from these contaminated creeks? And what happens when this constant flow of Third World humanity goes north, fanning out all across Arizona and the country? What kind of diseases do they bring with them? ER workers like Mincher live with that question every day. "We protect ourselves best we can," she says, "but if somebody comes in with a contagious disease, I might as well buy the farm, because I don't know what it is. A lot of times, they don't know what they have either. If they came off a ranch in southern Mexico, they've had no immunizations, no health care, nothing." Most of what she sees at Copper Queen--around 75 percent--is orthopedic, falls suffered while jumping fences, for instance. Dehydration, too. Some of these are pregnant women nine months along, who, in Mincher's words, "are so desperate to have their babies born in the U.S., they'll do whatever it takes." She sees cardiac-related cases among illegals who've been given crack, methamphetamine or speed by their coyote so they can keep walking. But she's also treated illegals with active chicken pox, tuberculosis, all varieties of hepatitis and AIDS. The Web and print media are full of stories about the diseases illegals carry, and their effect on American health. But some writers make alarming claims with sketchy evidence at best. In the cases of two diseases, however--Chagas and tuberculosis--the evidence is clearer that they're indeed coming across our border. Chagas, a potentially fatal illness spread by contact with the feces of the reduviid bug, called the "kissing bug," is prevalent in South and Central America. Fifteen million people in that region are infected with the parasite, and 50,000 die of it every year, according to the World Health Organization. A person can be infected for 10 or 20 years or more before showing symptoms, making it particularly insidious. At its most severe, the disease can cause the heart to fail, and literally explode. In the United States? Louis Kirchhoff, of the University of Iowa Medical School, estimates that between 80,000 and 120,000 Latin Americans with Chagas live here. Matching prevalence studies and immigration numbers, Kirchhoff figures about 10 Chagas-infected persons entered every day from Mexico alone in the 1990s. The disease can be transmitted four ways, but for Americans, the most worrisome is the blood supply. In the United States overall, the chance of contracting Chagas from a blood transfusion is small, one in 25,000, according to David Leiby, a research scientist at the American Red Cross in Washington. But in cities with high populations from Latin America, the numbers fall to much riskier levels. In Miami, for example, the chance is one on 9,000. In L.A., 1 in 5,400. Researchers have confirmed seven cases of people contracting Chagas through blood transfusions--five in the U.S., two in Canada--and they say the number of unknown cases is probably much higher. "A rate of one in 5,400 is something we're concerned about," says Leiby, adding that the FDA is still a few years away from a useable blood-screening test. "Chagas is overlooked by the health care system in the United States. Our physicians aren't aware of it and wouldn't recognize it in most cases." Tuberculosis, which also shows up in high rates in Mexico, is migrating north as well. Many assume a place like Cochise County, right on the border and overrun by illegals, would have a high incidence of TB. But it doesn't, says Edith Sampson, of the Cochise County Health Department. "The immigrants only pass through here on the way to Atlanta, or whatever city they're going to," she says. Exactly the problem--which is a big reason why 53 percent of the TB in the United States in 2003 was among foreign-born persons, up from 29 percent in 1993, according to the Centers for Disease Control. In L.A., again because of its huge illegal population, the figure is closer to 80 percent. Only 15,000 Americans suffer from active TB, the only dangerous kind because it can be passed to someone else, usually by coughing and expelling the bacteria from the throat or lungs. That's a small number, but the New York Academy of Sciences estimates that each victim will "infect 10 or 20 or more people--in whom the disease will likely remain latent, creating the potential time-bomb effect." The State Health Department says that Arizona had 295 reported cases of active TB in 2003, a jump from the previous year. Why the increase? More of the disease was found among kids under 5 years old and prisoners. The latter were mostly Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees--in other words, illegals. Sixty-eight percent of Arizona's foreign-born TB cases are from Mexico, says state health. Will TB return to the United States in a big way? It hasn't yet, says Lee Reichman, executive director of the New Jersey Medical School's National Tuberculosis Center. But he adds that with globalization--the ability to get around the world in 20 hours--and because "we can't stop people from getting in to this country, no matter how hard we try," the potential exists for a new epidemic. His particular concern is with multi-drug-resistant TB, fatal in 60 percent of cases. This strain requires a long regimen of costly drugs that illegals are unlikely to take, or have access to. Arizona has a small number of MDR-TB cases, and all of them in the past five years have been among foreign-born persons. "The reason you haven't heard about TB here is that good public health is working," says Reichman. "People who are symptomatic go to physicians, and the physicians don't ask questions. As soon as you have to ID yourself, or say we're going to send you back to Mexico, these people go into hiding and spread more TB. Any physician who cares about being a physician isn't going to ask those questions, because he took an oath to treat sick people." The Copper Queen's Rush Kish says that under Medicare reimbursement guides, her hospital cannot ask patients if they are in the country illegally. But how do you bill the feds to get money back for treating illegals if you can't ask if someone is illegal? Well, you play a little Orwellian word game, probing around the issue with a list of government-approved questions, then make educated assumptions. But the illegal holds the trump card, because he can refuse to answer every question. "We don't know yet what evidence Medicare will accept when we apply for reimbursement," says Kish. "But at least we can begin documenting the enormity of this problem." The question isn't whether those with genuine emergencies should get treatment. Of course they should. In Naco, residents have no access to ER care and many would die if they didn't get to the Copper Queen. The real question is: Who pays? Rev. Tom Buechele, pastor at St. John's Episcopal Church in Bisbee, thinks it's appropriate for the federal government to keep ponying up, as long as American companies "maintain their illegal trafficking in human labor." "Until we have comprehensive immigration reform, we need to bear the health-care costs for undocumented workers, whatever those costs are," says Buechele, who, for almost a year now, has been running a free monthly clinic in Naco, Arizona, catering to the poor and uninsured on both sides of the line. Although they talk a different language, politicians, even Republicans, promote policies that further Buechele's liberal vision. They boast to constituents that they've saved border hospitals by pushing through the Medicare reimbursement plan, which provides a relatively small amount of money over four years. But that's another Hobson's choice, which is to say no choice at all. What do you do, let hospitals go under? Kyl, who pushed to get the reimbursement money, says an emphatic no. "If we want those ERs to be there for us, then we'd better keep them in business," says the Arizona senator. "If our hospitals are required by federal law to treat anybody who comes into the ER, and the federal government has failed to control the border, then it's appropriate for the government to reimburse these hospitals." But some argue that the system as it stands now, with EMTALA firmly in place, is rigged to produce two results: The federal treasury will remain wide open to illegals, and that all but guarantees that more and more of them will bust the line to get here. After all, this is the end of the rainbow for them, where jobs await, education is free, health care is free. Who wouldn't come? And the more they come, the more American health suffers--from such diseases as Chagas and TB, further cutbacks in hospital services to American citizens, and even possible closures. Where's the compassion in that? Copper Queen ER nurse Josie Mincher, herself Hispanic, puts her health, and possibly her life, on the line to treat illegals. Listen to the emotion in her voice as she describes what that's like: "I go to work every day feeling like I'm on a torture wrack. My heartstrings get pulled in one direction by these sick people I want to help. Because I'm Hispanic, I know how they live. And I'm pulled in the other direction, too, thinking that if our hospitals aren't around, where do I take my own kids? "But we have to treat them because of EMTALA. It says that anybody who comes within 250 yards of an ER gets treatment. What would happen to Safeway if the law said anyone who comes within 250 yards of the store gets free food? They'd go out of business. Well, we're a business, too." Mincher's solution? "Send the bills to Mexico. If it affected them financially, they might do something about all these people coming across. My grandparents came here legally, and it took a long time and a lot of money. They respected the law. These people just walk across now. They weren't brought up the same way." Burns at UMC says he wants the U.S. and Mexican governments to work together to find a solution. But, as Kyl cautions, don't expect any breakthrough soon. Mexico benefits far too much from our illegal immigration nightmare--in jobs for its citizens and cash sent home--to step up with money to care for its own people. Until the border brought under control and the invasion stopped, we'll continue to pay the bills of people who illegally tiptoed across the line in the dead of night. This is an article from the Arizona Repuiblic newspaper, NOT something i "made up"!!!! If you don't believe me, LOOK IT UP FOR YOURSELF!!! It's on-line, if you look under Copper Queen hospital!!! And for those of you that can not take the time to READ this article, i can SEE why you are so UNINFORMED on this issue!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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Do Conspiracy Theorists have peer-reviewed technical papers that support their controlled demolition fantasy? Peer reviewed papers and articles on how the towers collapsed.. Engineers Explain WTC Collapse http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0529/news_3-1.html Report Ties WTC Collapses to Column Failures http://enr.construction.com/news/buildings/archives/040119.asp IT WAS THE FIRE, CAUSED THE TWIN TOWER COLLAPSE - icivilengineer.com http://www.icivilengineer.com/News/WTC/Fire.html Simulation for the collapse of WTC after aeroplane impact - Lu XZ., Yang N., Jiang JJ. Structure Engineer, 66(sup.). 2003, 18-22 Bazant, Z.P., & Zhou, Y. "Addendum to 'Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse? - Simple Analysis" (pdf) Journal of Engineering Mechanics v. 128, no. 3, (2002): 369-370. Brannigan, F.L. "WTC: Lightweight Steel and High-Rise Buildings" Fire Engineering v.155, no. 4, (2002): 145-150. Clifton, Charles G. Elaboration on Aspects of the Postulated Collapse of the World Trade Centre Twin Towers HERA: Innovation in Metals. 2001. 13 December 2001. "Construction and Collapse Factors" Fire Engineering v.155, no. 10, (2002): 106-108. Corbett, G.P. "Learning and Applying the Lessons of the WTC Disaster" Fire Engineering v.155, no. 10, (2002.): 133-135. "Dissecting the Collapses" Civil Engineering ASCE v. 72, no. 5, (2002): 36-46. Eagar, T.W., & Musso, C. "Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse? Science, Engineering, and Speculation" JOM v. 53, no. 12, (2001): 8-12. Federal Emergency Management Agency, Therese McAllister, report editor. World Trade Center Building Performance Study: Data Collection, Preliminary Observations, and Recommendations (also available on-line) Gabrielson, T.B., Poese, M.E., & Atchley, A.A. "Acoustic and Vibration Background Noise in the Collapsed Structure of the World Trade Center" The Journal of Acoustical Society of America v. 113, no. 1, (2003): 45-48. Glover, N.J. "Collapse Lessons" Fire Engineering v. 155, no. 10, (2002): 97-103 Marechaux, T.G. "TMS Hot Topic Symposium Examines WTC Collapse and Building Engineering" JOM, v. 54, no. 4, (2002): 13-17. Monahan, B. "World Trade Center Collapse-Civil Engineering Considerations" Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction v. 7, no. 3, (2002): 134-135. Newland, D.E., & Cebon, D. "Could the World Trade Center Have Been Modified to Prevent Its Collapse?" Journal of Engineering Mechanics v. 128, no. 7, (2002):795-800. National Instititue of Stamdards and Technology: Congressional and Legislative Affairs “Learning from 9/11: Understanding the Collapse of the World Trade Center” Statement of Dr. Arden L. Bement, Jr., before Committee of Science House of Representatives, United States Congress on March 6, 2002. Pinsker, Lisa, M. "Applying Geology at the World Trade Center Site" Geotimes v. 46, no. 11, (2001). The print copy has 3-D images. Public Broadcasting Station (PBS) Why the Towers Fell: A Companion Website to the Television Documentary. NOVA (Science Programming On Air and Online) Post, N.M. "No Code Changes Recommended in World Trade Center Report" ENR v. 248, no. 14, (2002): 14. Post, N.M. "Study Absolves Twin Tower Trusses, Fireproofing" ENR v. 249, no. 19, (2002): 12-14. The University of Sydney, Department of Civil Engineering World Trade Center - Some Engineering Aspects A resource site. "WTC Engineers Credit Design in Saving Thousands of Lives" ENR v. 247, no. 16, (2001): 12. The Towers Lost and Beyond http://web.mit.edu/civenv/wtc/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Eduardo Kausel, John E. Fernandez, Tomasz Wierzbicki, Liang Xue, Meg Hendry-Brogan, Ahmed F. Ghoniem, Oral Buyukozturk, Franz-Josef Ulm, Yossi Sheffi Paul I: As I responded to your email. peer-reviewed doesn't mean reviewed by other 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists! It means reviewed by objective engineers and scientists that effectively sign off on your work. Provide a source that is a mainstream, peer-reviewed journal and I will happily concede the point.

Why are we teaching our children to be dependent and weak? Banning Legos And building a world where “all structures will be standard sizes.” By John J. Miller Perhaps you’ve heard about the schools that have banned tag. Or dodgeball. Or stories about pigs. If so, you won’t be surprised to hear that the Hilltop Children’s Center in Seattle has banned Legos. A pair of teachers at the center, which provides afterschool activities for elementary-school kids, recently described their policy in a Rethinking Schools cover story called “Why We Banned Legos.” (See the magazine’s cover here.) It has something to do with “social justice learning.” My vision of social justice for children of elementary-school age is as follows: If you’re tagged, you’re it; if the ball hits you, you’re out; and pig stories are fun, especially when told over microwaveable hot dogs. But I try to keep an open mind, so I read the article on why Hilltop banned Legos. As most aficionados know, Legos are made by a Danish company. The company name comes from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means play well. “Lego became a national treasure and one of the strongest brands in the toy industry,” wrote The Economist last year. “Its colorful bricks are sold in over 130 countries: everyone on earth has, on average, 52 of them.” In their Rethinking Schools article, teachers Ann Pelo and Kendra Pelojoaquin describe how the kids at Hilltop built “a massive series of Lego structures we named Legotown.” I sensed that something was rotten in the state of Legotown when I read this description of it: “a collection of homes, shops, public facilities, and community meeting places.” My children have spent a large portion of their young lives playing with Legos. They have never, to my knowledge, constructed “community meeting places.” Instead, they make monster trucks, space ships, and war machines. These little creations are usually loaded with ion guns, nuclear missiles, bunker-busting bombs, force-field projectors, and death-ray cannons. Alien empires have risen and fallen in epic conflicts waged in the upstairs bedrooms of my home. Perhaps kids in Seattle, under the careful watch of their latte-sipping guardians, are different. But I don’t think so. At Hilltop, however, the teachers strive to make them different. “We recognized that children are political beings, actively shaping their social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity,” write Pelo and Pelojoaquin. “We agreed that we want to take part in shaping the children’s understandings from a perspective of social justice. So we decided to take the Legos out of the classroom.” The root cause of Hilltop’s Lego problem was that, well, the kids were being kids: There were disputes over “cool pieces,” instances of bigger kids bossing around little ones, and so on. An ordinary person might recognize this as child’s play. But the social theorists at Hilltop saw something else: “The children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys — assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive.” Pelo and Pelojoaquin continue: “As we watched the children build, we became increasingly concerned.” So they banned the Legos and began their program of re-education. “Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation,” they write. Instead of practicing phonics or memorizing multiplication tables, the children played a special game: “In the game, the children could experience what they’d not been able to acknowledge in Legotown: When people are shut out of participation in the power structure, they are disenfranchised — and angry, discouraged, and hurt. ... The rules of the game — which mirrored the rules of our capitalist meritocracy — were a setup for winning and losing. ... Our analysis of the game, as teachers, guided our planning for the rest of the investigation into the issues of power, privilege, and authority that spanned the rest of the year.” After “months of social justice exploration,” the teachers finally agreed it was time to return the Legos to the classroom. That’s because the children at last had bought into the concept that “collectivity is a good thing.” And in Hilltop’s new Lego regime, there would be three immutable laws: All structures are public structures. Everyone can use all the Lego structures. But only the builder or people who have her or his permission are allowed to change a structure. Lego people can be saved only by a “team” of kids, not by individuals. All structures will be standard sizes. You can almost feel the liberating spirit of that last rule. All structures will be standard sizes? At Hilltop Children’s Center, all imaginations will be a standard size as well: small.

Will it be a national pattern by Obama campaign to draw young inexperienced First time student voters to vote? Obama Draws Record Number Young People. Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was propelled to victory in the Democratic caucuses in Iowa Thursday night in large part because of the support of young people and first-time caucuses-goers. Among Democratic caucus participants under 30, Obama took 57 percent of the vote. "That's a landslide margin," says Jehmu Greene, a political consultant and former president of Rock the Vote, an organization that aims to mobilize young people. "It is clear that his message of change and hope connected with this generation of new voters." Young voters made up about a fifth of the 239,000 caucus participants, about twice as many as typically take part, according to party officials. While people under 30 made up 23 percent of the Democratic caucus, they were just 12 percent of the Republican caucus, however. From the beginning, reaching out to young people has been an integral part of the Obama grass-roots approach. "The Clintons have a strong operation with traditional voters. The Obama campaign knew they were going to have to find new voters, and the best way to find new voters is to reach out to young people, because they are the group that votes in the smallest numbers," says Greene. In the 2004 presidential election, just 47 percent of 18-to 24 year-old citizens voted, compared to 66 percent of citizens 25 and older, according to The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. This was still an 11 percent jump from four years earlier. Obama targeted young people not only through phone lines, e-mail and social networking sites — such as Facebook — but also face-to-face in an unprecedented way. "Usually there's very limited resources put into engaging young people, but the Obama campaign actually put a lot of resources into identifying these young people and they stuck with them, knocked on their doors and actually turned them out," Greene says. "I think the key point with the Obama campaign is that they didn't stop with the Internet and cell phone outreach; they took this to the street."

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Question for all who compose music!? Would you still make music if: Some mystical force all of a sudden prevented you from sharing music with the outside world. You can't show it to the internet, your friends, or your family. There's absolutely no way of getting your music displayed out there. Now, you still have all the tools and resources to learn, constantly improve and make music just as good and later on better than before. You still have access to guitar center, your DAWs and the upgrades and plugins which you can expand with, and you still can have lessons with a personal teacher and still ask questions to music communities, you just can't share your stuff. (Assume there's some alien force which can give you feedback and critiques on your creations which you can improve from, but there memory of your music is instantly deleted once you get their advice. Your music is absolutely meaningless to them). Now would you still produce music? Would you still be as inspired to be as good? Maybe a bit extreme. Now if your answer is no, answer this question please (if you answered yes, I'd like to still know your thoughts as well :) ): In this instance, you are allowed to share and give your music to other people, anybody and everybody can see it. They can enjoy it or not enjoy it. But- there is some law or weird force (of course, entirely hypothetical!) that prevents you from making money, winning prizes, or any other type of competition or contest that revolves around music. You also can't get your music featured in popular movies, video games, or commercials (only music from an outside world will be played in these instances, umm, couldnt think of anything else better to say). Everyone's music will get some popularity- but the "better" (which is hard if impossible to measure quantitatively) tracks will surface, while the worse tracks will sink near to the bottom of the food chain (but they will still get recognition, as long as you willingly partake (meaning because you like it, not just to be a stat whore) in the community). There's stil some diversity. For argument's sake, say you have sufficient money from another job/outside source to live and support a family. Maybe not the millions you might be able to rack in from selling CDs across the world, but enough to money to live a decent life. And also, you have ample time to make more than enough music. Again, completely hypothetical. If you lived under these conditions, would you still make music? Would you still be inspired to be as good? If you answered yes to the first question, would you prefer this music environment as described in question #2, over the one there is today? what changes would you make? Also remember that you will still somehow hypothetically recieve the same types of criticism to help you improve. So please tell me your thoughts and tell me why! And BE HONEST. I hope you enjoyed this, please respond and I look forward to hearing what you guys have to say. heh sorry, my english is not the greatest, i'll try to reword it

Article - Christian Executions What do you think about it? *Faith Under Fire Christian believers executed in North Korea* 'Refusal to worship Kim Jong-il, being caught worshiping God brings harsh Posted: January 21, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Michael Ireland Assist News Service Reports about four Christians being executed for their faith in North Korea are circulating in the Christian media. According to Mark Kelly of Baptist Press: "The Democratic People's Republic of North Korea is well-known as a country where Christians are persecuted for their faith. Because the government there keeps a tight lid on communication, however, only rarely does specific information leak out." Quoting the World Bible Translation Center's Gary Bishop in a conversation with Mission Network News, Kelly reports that one man who worked as an evangelist was executed after being caught with two Korean New Testaments in his possession. Bishop says North Korean Christians are becoming increasingly uneasy about possessing a Bible. He said: "A man that's known to be an evangelist. He's probably not an evangelist to anyone other than his family members, but he was caught with two of our Korean New Testaments in his possession and he was executed for that." Kelly writes that Bishop also told Mission Network News: "A woman and her grandmother were washing clothes when a New Testament fell out of the woman's clothing. Somebody reported it, and both she and her grandmother were quickly executed. And an army general who had become a believer was caught evangelizing men in his unit and was executed by a fellow officer." Kelly says Bishop told MNN that despite the oppression – or perhaps because of it – God seems to be working. Bishop said: "In response to a very, very oppressive government (and) human injustices, people are looking for an answer other than their own government. And, I believe that's awakening the resilience of believers in North Korea to say, 'We have another answer. There is another way to believe.'" MNN reports that thousands of North Korean Christians have been killed for their faith. Many more are in work camps. According to Bishop, there's no sign of the persecution easing any. "What you have is a leader who is proclaiming himself to be god. It's prescribed that they daily worship him. And, refusal to do that and being caught worshiping God just brings that kind of governmental response. And, as best we can tell, the tempo of that is not lessening." Bishop says it's obvious what that increasing pressure on Christians is doing to Bible smuggling. "It becomes more and more difficult to get a person to risk their life to carry those in to North Korea." With rivers frozen, it's a prefect time to smuggle Bibles into the country. While persecution continues, World Bible Translation Center has no intention of stopping the flow of Bibles into the country. "We do need to begin reprinting and get text ready as God enables people to take those in." North Korea: Country in Focus Population: 22,912,177 Government: Authoritarian Social Capital: Pyongyang Type: Restricted Nation According to the World Fact Book, quoted on the VOM Australia website: "Following World War II, Korea was split with the northern half coming under Communist domination and the southern portion becoming Western oriented. Kim Jong-il has ruled North Korea since his father and the country's founder, president Kim Il-sung, died in 1994. After decades of mismanagement, the North relies heavily on international food aid to feed its population, while continuing to expend resources to maintain an army of about 1 million. North Korea's long-range missile development and research into nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and massive conventional armed forces are of major concern to the international community. In December 2002, North Korea repudiated a 1994 agreement that shut down its nuclear reactors and expelled U.N. monitors, further raising fears it would produce nuclear weapons." Report from United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Religious freedom remains essentially non-existent in North Korea, where the government has a policy of actively discriminating against religious believers, says the USCIRF. The group states: "The North Korean state severely represses public and private religious activities. The Commission has received reports that officials have arrested, imprisoned, tortured, and sometimes executed North Korean citizens who were found to have ties with overseas Christian evangelical groups operating across the border in China, as well as those who engaged in unauthorized religious activities such as public religious expression and persuasion. Although access to updated information about North Korea remains limited, by all accounts, including according to testimony delivered at the Commission's hearing on North Korea in January 2002, there has not been any improvement in the conditions for religious freedom in the past year." In recent years, the USICRF says, the government has formed several religious organizations that it controls for the purpose of severely restricting religious activities in the country. For example, the Korean Buddhist Federation prohibits Buddhist monks from worshiping at North Korean temples. Most of the remaining temples that have escaped government destruction since the Korean War are regarded as cultural relics rather than religious sites. Similarly, the Korean Christian Federation restricts Christian activities. Following the reported wholesale destruction of over 1,500 churches during Kim Il-sung's reign (1948-1994), two Protestant churches and a Roman Catholic church, without a priest, opened in Pyongyang in 1988, even though the absence of a priest for Roman Catholics means that Mass cannot be celebrated and most sacraments cannot be performed. Several foreign residents have reported that they regularly attend services at these churches and that it is clear that whatever public religious activity exists, such as services at these churches, is staged for their benefit. The USICRF reports: "Persons found carrying Bibles in public or distributing religious literature, or engaging in unauthorized religious activities such as public religious expression and persuasion are arrested and imprisoned. There continue to be reports of torture and execution of religious believers. Although the practice of imprisoning religious believers is apparently widespread, the State Department has been unable to document fully the number of religious detainees or prisoners. According to a press report, an estimated 6,000 Christians are incarcerated in "Prison No. 15," located in the northern part of the country. The Commission learned from testimony at its January 2002 hearing that prisoners held on the basis of their religious beliefs are treated worse than other inmates. For example, religious prisoners, especially Christians, are reportedly given the most dangerous tasks while in prison. In addition, they are subject to constant abuse from prison officials in an effort to force them to renounce their faith. When they refuse, these religious prisoners are often beaten and sometimes tortured to death." The organization concludes: "Officials have stratified North Korean society on the basis of family background and perceived loyalty to the regime into 51 specific categories. Religious adherents are by definition relegated to a lower category, receiving fewer privileges and opportunities, such as education and employment, than others. Persons in lower categories have reportedly been denied food aid. Thousands of North Koreans have fled to China in recent years. Refugees who are either forcibly repatriated or captured after having voluntarily returned to the DPRK are accused of treason; those found to have had contacts with South Koreans or Christian missionaries are subjected to severe punishment, including the death penalty." (United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, as quoted on VOM Australia website).

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State : Neither Samaritan Nor Solomon ?? Mises? If you say that government is too big and truly overweening, you elicit a surprising degree of agreement among people, even mainstream columnists, economists, and nearly everyone. Even government employees, who famously resent their bosses, might be quick to agree. If you hang outside the offices of the IRS in Washington, D.C., in the park at noontime where its employees take their lunch, you will get an earful of vitriol against the bureaucracy such as you wouldn't hear outside 1990s militia circles. Incidentally, the government is having a terrible time recruiting employees. Only 16% of college-educated workers say that they are interested in a government job. Among those without a college degree, there is twice the level of interest. Among people currently employed, those with managerial or professional occupations show a low interest level of 17%. Among those who want work to be challenging and enjoyable, only 9% thought a government job qualified. And, interestingly, among those who say they want to make a contribution to society, 90% said that non-government work in the private sector, whether for profit or non-profit, is the way to go. Now, what this means is that the smart set avoids government. Government work might still be attractive to people with fewer economic opportunities, but they are entering it for reasons that are not ideological. And for that reason too, they are less loyal to the public sector and glad to bail out if something else comes available. Most people view this as a very bad trend. I would only say that it is a significant trend, especially considering that in the heyday of government central planning, government sought to attract the best and the brightest. Often it did. Now, one might argue that if government were doing what it should be doing, this would be a good thing. But if government is doing many bad things, it is certainly not a bad trend for it to experience a brain drain. It is always a tragedy to see smart and entrepreneurial men and women be attracted away from productive employment in the private sector toward a position of power in the public sector. It makes us poorer to have the talents drained away from wealth creation toward wealth destruction. As for the very few good people in politics — Ron Paul is the great exception that proves the rule — they are true public servants only insofar as they work to diminish government power rather than increase it. So long as government is large and overweening, we are better off with a public sector that cannot attract the best and brightest. They should stay put where they can continue to expand the range of goods and services offered within the market framework. It is the market that provides us the means necessary to improve our standard of living, and the tools we need to maintain some degree of independence from the state. We often rail against incompetence in government. But before we go too far with this language, we need to consider that competence in government may be a far worse fate. We don't need genuinely competent antitrust enforcers, drug and food regulators, tax collectors, money manipulators, labor-law interventionists, gun grabbers, and environmental police. As H.L. Mencken said, we should be thankful that we don't get all the government we pay for. To be sure, we are paying far more today for government than ever before. Consider the real annual growth rate of total government outlays by presidents. Under Nixon, it was 3%. Under Carter, it was 4.1%. Under Reagan, 2.6%. Under Bush's dad, 1.9%, a figuring owing to the cuts in military spending. Domestic spending soared. Under Clinton, whom we all denounced as a socialist, it was 1.5%, the lowest rate in the postwar period. And under the present Bush, who promised less government? The real annual growth rate of total government outlays has been 5%, which compares to Johnson-era spending. The old rationales for government growth may have been discredited in the public mind. But they are alive in Washington, among the special interest groups, and among the media. I would like to identify the main ones. Rationale Number One: The Good Samaritan State. In this view of government, the state should act like the third person to come upon the poor man who had been beaten and robbed. They imagine a population that is divided among three types of people: victims, victimizers, and those who refuse to help. The victim classes we know all too well, because the litany is said again and again within the structure of labor law: the elderly, the very young, ethnic and racial minorities, religious minorities, sexual minorities, the physically and mentally disabled, workers, the underpaid, people in rural areas, those who deal with urban overcrowding, people who breathe dirty air or eat chemically produced products, artists, the manufacturing industry, people with peanut allergies, the dyslexic, short people, fat people, the leisure deprived, and I've probably left out a hundred or so other groups. Among the victimizers, we similarly have a list: capitalists, racial and ethnic majorities, sexual majorities, the overpaid, managers and CEOs, people who live in gated communities, the well armed, consumers of cell phones, owners of mines, anyone living off a trust fund, fully abled men, and anyone who resents social managers telling them what to do. In the view of those who advocate the Samaritan State, these two classes of victims and victimizers are constantly at war. There is nothing but conflict between them. The loss of one is the gain of the other. These categories are fixed and unchanging. The lack of harmony of interests is built into the structure of the social and economic world. The remedy requires an institution that is relentlessly engaged in reweighing the power relationships between the two groups. The conflict cannot be finally ended, but justice requires that the victims are given an unending stream of compensation and that the victimizers are treated with disdain and punished for their very existence. Social justice thus requires that victimizers are reduced, disabled, denounced, and spat upon, while the victims must be exalted, fed, clothed, funded, and made whole. This is how the Left, broadly speaking, thinks the world works, and should work. It doesn't matter whether one considers oneself a hard Marxist or a soft social democrat, the intellectual tie that binds them together is the view that conflict and not cooperation characterizes the work of society in the absence of an institution dedicated to bringing about social justice. The institutional answer is, of course, the state. The state is the Samaritan who lifts up and exalts the meek, and smites the proud and powerful who would otherwise walk right past the poor person on the street, who is the very archetype of the victim in the leftist view of how the world works. But there are many things wrong with this view of society. In the parable, the victim was beaten and robbed. He was exploited only in a very narrow and old-fashioned sense: his person and property were violated. These are crimes against libertarian ethics, a system of thought that mirrors what every religious and ethical system has taught: do not kill and do not steal. In other words, he was not a victim of some hazy notion of Social Injustice. He was not discriminated against, exploited by an employer, made to work long hours, or denied a comfy living in his old age. There is a huge difference between being beaten and robbed, and having to pay high prices for prescription drugs. The great error of the Left is its inability to distinguish the injustice of violence from the supposed injustice of inequality of material condition. As for the Samaritan, he was not acting as an agent of the regime. He used his own money to help the victim. He got him back on his feet and paid his bills at the private clinic where he was deposited for care. The Samaritan did not rob someone else to give money to the man on the street. He presumably got his money justly by hard work and investment. He had no desire to keep the man dependent, nor to exercise power over him, tax him, regulate him, nor send him to war. The state is something very different. It has no income but that which it robs from someone else. It seeks its own gain at others' expense. It protects itself and promotes itself before the interests of everyone else. It is beholden to special interests who create and control its regulatory apparatus. It is not impartial. It sides with its friends over its enemies. Moreover, the state is an exploiter, a murderer, a violator of human rights. The typical response of the Left is to say that they want a state that does only good things such as share and care, and not bad things such as steal and kill. But this cannot be. We might as well wish for a lion that only purrs and cuddles, or a rattlesnake that only provides percussion accompaniment to mariachi music. The very nature of the state is that it exists only through and for compulsion. To imagine otherwise is not to face reality. Rationale Number Two: The Solomonic State. In the Bible we are told that King Solomon had "understanding exceeding much and largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the sea shore." And his "wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt." He was "wiser than all men" and "his fame was in all nations round about." He spoke "three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five." He "spake of trees, from the cedar tree that [is] in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom." Now, I'm not here to dispute the Bible's account of Solomon's wisdom. But let us also recall that Solomon's rule later became close to tyrannical. His son Rehoboam inherited his power, and when the people begged for relief from Solomon's "heavy yoke," and instigated a full-scale crackdown: "My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions." To be wise and prudent is not characteristics of rulers. In fact, it is very dangerous to hope that they may be. If we set out to find such a person, and have fantastic power available to him when we believe he has arrived, we have set up the framework for tyranny. The founders knew that no man can be trusted with power. They attempted to construct a system that presumed that men were corruptible, and that there would be some means to dislodge them when their corruption showed. Still, today many people long for the Solomonic State as a means of dispensing justice. Unlike the Samaritan model, the goal here is not charity but the just wielding of the sword on behalf of the right and true. Thus should we seek out righteous men of learning and moral character who know what evil is and have the courage to stand up to it and destroy it. This model is what inspires this mentality. There are many problems with this model. One man might be very wise, even the wisest of all men. But as F.A. Hayek might remind us, all the accumulated knowledge in the head of one person is still infinitesimal as compared with the wisdom that emerges through social cooperation on the marketplace. We can consider the price of any good on the market as it stands right now, and know that this one price results from the accumulated decisions of millions of people across thousands and thousands of sectors of economic activity spread throughout the world. The knowledge is dispersed in a million directions and results from small decisions and actions by economic actors. But the result is a single indicator that assists in allocating resources better than any single mind could ever do. The model of the Solomonic State also imagines that somehow the social order we see around us cannot possibly have come about without a single will operating in society, some firm hand that has designed the order and keeps it running smoothly. People who think this way imagine that in the absence of this firm hand, there would be nothing but a Hobbesian state of nature, where society is a war of all against all and life is nasty, brutish, and short. Our age is notably lacking in the likes of Solomon, and so those who fear the Hobbesian state of nature turn to the managerial state to act wisely in the interest of justice and order, at home and abroad. They might not always like what the rulers do, but they consider the alternative to despotism more fearsome. They warn about the dread results of anarchism and liberty, where people senselessly kill and rob without consequence. They fear this liberty more than they fear the abuses of power. This, I submit, is the mentality of many conservatives and many on the Right. We see it in the affections they have for Bush, the Patriot Act, the war on terror, and how quickly people fall for any leader who uses Manichean rhetoric in defense of the latest nationalistic crusade. What these people need more than anything else is a familiarity with the insights of the old liberal tradition as represented by Jefferson, Bastiat, Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard. They need to come to see how order is not the mother of liberty but its daughter. They need to see how society is harmonious not because of the state but because of the prevalence of human cooperation in the marketplace, where people work to trade to their own mutual betterment. People who fail to understand this become the unwitting servants of tyranny, particularly in the modern age when it is so obviously not wise but stupid and violent and presumptuous. They imagine that the state can posses godlike powers and bring justice and order, but they end up only empowering the worst elements in society, bringing injustice, and chaos. Now, you might say that the old liberal view of society is naïve. It might be in people's interest to learn to trade rather than steal but we live in a fallen world. If not for some overarching controlling force, people would loot each other unrelentingly and kill for fun. Now, to this I can say that it is true that some societies have not learned to make trading and peace significantly more prevalent than violence and killing. History is strewn with examples. The question we have to ask ourselves is whether a society that fails to learn the art of civilization will erect and sustain a state that will impose civilization on the people. I submit that history also teaches that when a people are brutal and uncivilized, the state is even more so. The state is rarely and maybe never better than the people it rules; in fact, it is almost always worse. Rationale Number Three: Log-Rolling. Given these two very different conceptions of the state, one favoring the welfare state and the other favoring a warfare state, why don't the visions cancel each other out? So intense is the desire of one group to have the state that it wants that it is willing to put up with another group's desire for its conception of the state. The two conceptions decide to cooperate and erect a state that purports to behave both like Solomon and like the Samaritan. That is the origin of the guns-and-butter state, or the welfare-warfare state, or the modern state as we know it, one that purports to meet every need. We see how this log-rolling works every day on Capitol Hill. One group wants more money for tanks and weaponry, and the other wants more for Medicaid and education. If both agree that politics is the art of compromise, they will put up with the other group's priorities in order that their own vision can be fulfilled. On the Right, we find that the love for the police power is more intense than the hatred of redistribution. On the Left, we find that the love of redistribution is more intense than the hatred of war and leviathan. They therefore work together to erect a massive and ever-growing executive. They are similarly unwilling to oppose the state in total. They fear that in doing so, the state as an institution will be discredited, and their conception of what the state should do along with it. Neither side particularly loves big government but both sides agree that it is better than the alternative of letting people alone. So they log-roll to support the public sector above all else, even when it means that they must sleep with their ostensible political enemies. Rationale Number Four: The Inflationary State. Now we come to the reason this system is able to perpetuate itself. And there is something of a mystery to explain here. No people anywhere will put up with a leviathan that grows and grows forever. At some point, the problem of funding state expansion will result in too much violence against property, and the people will revolt. Indeed, if the federal government had to collect all its revenue through a tax of any kind, leveled right now against the public, I submit to you that it would spark a tax revolt on a scale never before seen in modern history. Thus do we have the central bank to create money for the state. Thus do we have paper money that can be created in unlimited quantities. Thus do we have deposit insurance to make banks failure proof, so that the masses will never doubt that the credit pyramid is immortal. Thus do we have the Fed's power to manipulate interest rates and control the flow of credit to the system. An economist at Lehman Brothers sent us an interesting chart the other day. It compares the level of price increases across many Fed regimes. Under the first Fed governor Charles Hamlin, the dollar declined 8% in value. Under Thomas B. McCabe from the late forties, it declined 7.2%. Under Arthur Burns, wholly owned by Nixon, the dollar declined 42% in value. Under Volcker, Mr. Tight Money, it fell 40%. And under Greenspan, who has a reputation as a great inflation fighter, the value of the dollar in terms of goods and services fell fully 44%! Inflation serves the cause of the state by giving it room to run up debts without limit and fund its activities without making the people cough up more revenue. Indeed, that is the primary purpose of the inflationary state. People often say to me that a gold standard is impractical. In fact, that is not the case. It is very practical. It is the free-market answer. The state doesn't need to produce money any more than it needs to produce shoes or shirts or clocks. The problem is that we lack the political will to stop the inflation monster. Rationale Number Five: The Propaganda State. In every society control of educational institutions increases in tandem with the rise of the state. This is because the state needs these institutions to inculcate the civic religion of loving the public enterprise, and also because the less people know about the idea of liberty the more the state is provided the room to grow. Consider the Department of Education. Ever since its creation, every Republican administration has come to power with an intention to abolish it. But once they get in power, they find that bureaucracy has its uses. Instead of cutting or abolishing it, they increase the agency and give it more to do. The more the state does, the more the state sees the need to control public opinion by controlling the schools. Now, there is a point of optimism here. If any state could rule without propaganda, it would surely do so. Why then do states find educational control and the propagation of the civic religion in their interest? Because at some level, every state, in all times and places, is required to seek the tacit consent of those it governs. No state can control a society by use of the sword only and alone. It must also seek some degree of ideological conformity with its own goals. Otherwise its rule becomes threatened and destabilized. The other side of the coin is that states can indeed be destabilized by the ultimate counterrevolutionary tactic of providing alternative sources of education. As Mises said, all of history is a battle of ideas. Where the ideas of freedom are triumphant, liberty prevails. Where the ideas of freedom are buried and suppressed, despotism prevails. Our pathway is clear. It is a choice of the Mises Institute not to mix in the mire of a political system that is wholly owned or attempt to seek favor from influential opinion makers. Our path is one of education, pursued with high-minded ideals, advanced using the most modern methods, and animated by the spirit of guerilla warfare. There are Misesians and Rothbardians strewn throughout the academic world, financial and banking houses, law firms, and in every walk of life, not only in this country but all over the world. We have worked for nearly a quarter of a century on a very radical project of advancing economic science and logic. We have pushed to keep the fire of freedom burning brightly. We have sought to teach anyone and everyone about the workings and benefits of liberty. We have come under pressure from left, right, and center. Yet the attention given to this body of ideas grows by the day. We can prevail against the Propaganda State. So long as we are free to do so and have the means available, we will continue to do so. This is our weapon against power. It is the most effective weapon anyone could ever possess. If we win this victory, we win all others. We thank you for supporting education for liberty, and for being part of the revolutionary vanguard that sees through the errors of our day and imagines a brighter future of freedom, private property, and peace. : Mises Institute

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