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Thirumal, P. and Gary Michael Tartakov. "India's Dalits Search for a Democratic Opening in the Digital Divide." International Exploration of Technology Equity and the Digital Divide: Critical, Historical and Social Perspectives. IGI Global, 2011. 20-39. Web. 17 Jan. 2020. doi:10.4018/978-1-61520-793-0.ch002
Thirumal, P., & Tartakov, G. M. (2011). India's Dalits Search for a Democratic Opening in the Digital Divide. In P. Randolph Leigh (Ed.), International Exploration of Technology Equity and the Digital Divide: Critical, Historical and Social Perspectives (pp. 20-39). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-61520-793-0.ch002
Thirumal, P. and Gary Michael Tartakov. "India's Dalits Search for a Democratic Opening in the Digital Divide." In International Exploration of Technology Equity and the Digital Divide: Critical, Historical and Social Perspectives, ed. Patricia Randolph Leigh, 20-39 (2011), accessed January 17, 2020. doi:10.4018/978-1-61520-793-0.ch002
Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development
Socio-Economic Impacts of Technology
India's Dalits Search for a Democratic Opening in the Digital Divide
P. Thirumal (University of Hyderabad, India) and Gary Michael Tartakov (Iowa State University, USA)
Source Title: International Exploration of Technology Equity and the Digital Divide: Critical, Historical and Social Perspectives
This chapter seeks to recognize and read the marginal presence on the Internet of India's most oppressed and stigmatized community, the Dalits, simultaneously as acts of resistance and acts of constituting both self and community. It is an exploratory exercise in writing the social history of technological media in general, and the Internet in particular. The medium of Internet, unlike most associated with script and print that preceded it, offers emerging users access without the censorship of either established authorities or canons of authoritative formal regulation. More significantly, it provides the Dalit community, heretofore excluded from all but the most marginal voice in civil society, with an entrance into the national discourse. And quite as important, it furnishes them with their first meaningful media platform for a nationwide internal discourse, which they have previously been denied.
Introduction: A Democratic Opening In The Digital Divide
Most of the time when we think about the Digital Divide we are considering issues of class, the economic divisions of our societies and the social distance between those with access to information technology and those with little or no access. There are, however, other meaningful measures within the perspective of social power available. There exists in India and the United States, and indeed most, if not all, nations, a division that both trumps and parallels class, offering us a valuable refinement worth considering in our view of the Digital Divide. In the United States we find this refinement when we bring the social construct of "race" into the picture.1 In India we have a close variant of the same perspective in terms of "caste."2 In both of these cases we go beyond the simple hierarchy of classes to embrace the case of an antithetical class, a population treated as an enemy of the system as a whole, we can think of as an anathematized, stigmatized or criminalized class, caste or "race" (Tartakov, 2009). In both cases we have segments of the population occupying not only the bottom of the social hierarchy but an identity that is treated as if it was established against the system, and so we may say doubly divided from access to all social amenities from essentials like food, housing and employment to more extraordinary opportunities such as information-technology.
Though we include these most-discriminated-against in our vision of the society and the Digital Divide among those at the bottom of the class system, they actually play a distinctive role that is somewhat different from the other excluded populations they tend to be lumped into, a role that is worthy our interest. Observing the situation of the anathematized classes not only reveals discrimination at its most extreme—and so the divide at its most extreme—but also models of resistance at their most crucial and so a situation to watch for suggestions about how those denied access are resisting that denial and how we may contribute to that resistance.
India's caste system is a traditional, religious class system that categorizes people into a hierarchy on the basis of their supposed ritual purity as determined by their birth into historically fixed marriage circles, dividing power along the borders of those circles. Though its traditional categories are not precisely equivalent to India's economic classes, they parallel them closely enough to offer useful insights into their social dimensions (Shah, Mander, Thorat, Deshpande, & Baviskar, 2006; Deshpande & Darity, 2003). In India we see access to digital technology largely confined to the upper three of Hinduism's four great varna (macro-castes), the Brahmins and two other "twice born", so-called "Aryan" castes, that compose the national elite, along with a small upper layer of the fourth varna, the Shudra. The great majority of the fourth (lowest) varna—which comprises the great bulk of the Hindu population—has no access to digital technology. Outside and below the caste system, at bottom of the class system, are India's Dalits, (those defined by the government as Scheduled Castes), the Scheduled Tribes, and the religious minorities of Muslims and Christians, who are largely descendents of those groups. It is since the early 1970s that these people at the bottom of the social system have begun adopting designation of Dalit (oppressed or ground down), as opposed to the demeaning Brahmanical epithets like achut (untouchable) or governmental technical designations like Scheduled Castes. 3 The significance of this new title comes from it being a self-definition based on their experiences, that recognizes the source of their situation in their exploitation by the upper castes rather than a negative definition placed upon them by those seeking to exploit them. What is most important for us may be to realize that Dalits represent seventeen percent of the Indian population or nearly 200 million people. They are a minority but quite a substantial one. If we include Scheduled Tribes among the Dalits, as more and more do, we will be up to nearly 25 percent of the population, or over a quarter of a billion people. 4


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Q: Guzzle curl request getting empty response body but status is 200 and Content-Length header is correct I am making a request through Guzzle 3.8.1 for a Jasper report (via the Jasper Server API) that is over 2MB and I'm getting a response with the correct Content-Length header but no response body.
Guzzle request:
GET /jasperserver/rest_v2/reports/projects/i3app_suite/Resource/BulkShiftExport.csv?ACCOUNT_ID=2&START_DATETIME=2015-01-01&END_DATETIME=2015-01-31 HTTP/1.1
Host: jasper.i3app:8080
User-Agent: Guzzle/3.8.1 curl/7.19.7 PHP/5.5.8
Authorization: Basic ***=

Response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Cache-Control: private
Expires: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 MST
P3P: CP="ALL"
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=F0B0F72B65A8145B45DA9DB2BACE53D8; Path=/jasperserver/; HttpOnly, userLocale=en_US;Expires=Fri, 13-Feb-2015 18:56:44 GMT;HttpOnly
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="BulkShiftExport.csv"
output-final: true
Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel
Content-Length: 2173897
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 18:57:02 GMT

If I make this request through curl on the command line (or request it in a browser) I get the report as expected
GET /jasperserver/rest_v2/reports/projects/i3app_suite/Resource/BulkShiftExport.csv?ACCOUNT_ID=2&START_DATETIME=2015-01-01&END_DATETIME=2015-01-30 HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Basic ***=
User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/3.15.3 zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.4.2
Host: jasper.i3app:8080
Accept: */*

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
< Cache-Control: private
< Expires: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 MST
< P3P: CP="ALL"
< Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=AF1BF885354AF3E352DD9E18FA044A4B; Path=/jasperserver/; HttpOnly
< Set-Cookie: userLocale=en_US;Expires=Fri, 13-Feb-2015 19:03:42 GMT;HttpOnly
< Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="BulkShiftExport.csv"
< output-final: true
< Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel
< Content-Length: 2113902
< Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 19:03:49 GMT
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The only difference I could see was Accept: */* in the curl request. I tried adding that header to the guzzle request and got the same result.
When making the request through the Guzzle client it appears to take the same amount of time (5-6 seconds) to receive the response, and it sets the Content-Length header, but the response body is empty. Why am I getting an empty response body though Guzzle which is using curl but not when using curl on the command line? Is there an option I need to set to make this work?
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        new QueryString($parameters)
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    $request->setUrl($url);

    $response = $request->send();

...
public function getGuzzleClient()
{
    if (!$this->restClient) {
        $client = new GuzzleClient();
        $this->setRestClient($client);
    }
    return $this->restClient;
}

A: In my case, I was using MockHandler mistakenly.

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Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, center, speaks at a news conference about legal action in the dispute between health insurance providers UPMC and Highmark Health, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, in Pittsburgh.
He asked Commonwealth Court to forestall developments expected July 1 that would leave some Highmark insurance customers facing higher fees or looking for new doctors.
UPMC has sought to stop accepting Highmark insurance since 2012. That year Highmark acquired medical provider Allegheny Health Network. This association put Highmark in direct competition with UPMC which at that point was the only health organization in western Pennsylvania providing both insurance and medical care.
In 2014 the state stepped in to make sure Highmark patients had access to certain UPMC services, like the children's and cancer specialty hospitals. Though the consent decree expires this summer.
The 73-page petition to modify consent decrees seeks to enforce Pennsylvania laws about fundraising for charity, nonprofit corporations and consumer protections. It aims to modify and indefinitely extend 5-year-old consent agreements that have kept some Highmark Medicare Advantage members and others with in-network rates for UPMC services.
"I can't sit idly by and watch our seniors and children and workers suffer because of corporate greed," Shapiro, a Democrat, said in a news conference at his Pittsburgh offices.
The attorney general's office wants the court to impose a single, modified consent decree that would continue the business relationship between UPMC and Highmark, both based in Pittsburgh, two of Pennsylvania's largest charitable institutions. Shapiro said he's only acting against UPMC because while Highmark is willing to compromise, UPMC is not.
UPMC is a non-profit that benefits from tax-exempt status. Shapiro said that means UPMC is legally obligated to provide affordable health care "through negotiated contracts with any health plan," and therefore excluding a major insurance carrier is antithetical to that.
Highmark Health chief executive David Holmberg said a modified agreement would be in the community's best interest.
"We've always believed that a level playing field should exist among health insurance companies and health care providers," Holmberg said.
In an emailed statement from Paul Wood, UPMC's chief communication's officer, said the competition with Highmark has increased health care options which benefits consumers.
"These are hospitals that were built for the community by taxpayer dollars, by community contributions, and the very people who paid for them will not be able to access them," Highmark spokesman Aaron Billger said Thursday.
Shapiro said UPMC has not been living up to its obligations as a public charity, a status that gives it protection from taxes. The attorney general's petition accused UPMC of wasting charitable assets through "exorbitant executive salaries and perquisites in the form of corporate jets and prestigious office space waste."
He wants the court to "enable open and affordable" access to UPMC services through contracts with any health plans, to require arbitration when talks between insurers and providers fail, and to prohibit "excessive and unreasonable" billing practices by UPMC.
The business relationship between UPMC and Highmark was about to end when the administration of Republican Tom Corbett, the governor at the time, engineered the five-year consent decrees between the companies and the attorney general's office in 2014 that kept in-network rates for Highmark customers in the Pittsburgh area and Erie.
A main objective of those agreements was to protect vulnerable patients — children, older people and poor people — with Highmark insurance from suddenly being unable to get treatment through UPMC's extensive network of hospitals, doctors and other medical providers.
The Associated Press' Mark Scolforo contributed to this report.


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Those who impress The Punk Philatelist and bring glory to their craft, their nation, and the human race.
Choo the fat with 'Mainline Railway Stamps'
July 14, 2019 July 17, 2019 | The Punk Philatelist
A few months ago I received a new book: Howard Plitz's Mainline Railway Stamps. As I've made clear on the blog, I am bang up for receiving free stuff, so I'm delighted to return the favour with this site's first ever book review!
Howard is a lifelong philatelist and railway aficionado, and this book is the sequel to his Narrow Gauge Railway Stamps of 2018 (which I haven't seen). He has chosen a dangerous path in life. What if he made a minor error? The consequences of incurring the combined wrath of philatelists AND trainspotters are too gruesome to contemplate.
Well, Howard can relax for now. This philatelist and secret train fan was all aboard as soon the box was opened. This is just a beautiful book to hold. The size and weight feel satisfying in the hand. It's handsomely put together, and the vibrant images leaping from the page during a flick-through just made me want to tear straight in.
The feast for the eyeballs continued inside, with colourful railway stamps exploding off the shiny paper stock, illustrating the potted railway histories told around them. The book makes clear at the outset that it's not a catalogue of railway stamps for thematic collectors; it is not exhaustive in either stamps or railways, and nor does it attempt to value the illustrated stamps. On the railway side, its vision is commendably global, but on the stamp side, it wisely eschews the meaningless postal agency wallpaper and fraudulent collector-bait.
Mainline Railway Stamps is tremendously readable, if you can forgive Howard's occasional meandering sentence bordering on stream-of-consciousness. (And whom among us is innocent of that?) You could devour it in a solid few hours, or dip into it in over a cuppa as life allows. And while the appeal to philatelists is obvious, it would make an attractive option if the railfan in your life is as difficult to buy gifts for as the one in mine. (Yes Dad, that's you.) The spotlight in this volume is on mainline, mostly broad-gauge railways, with a selection of preservation lines thrown in, along with their cinderellas. And Thomas the Tank Engine hasn't been forgotten.
As the child of a train fanatic, I inherited a love of smelly old steam engines, but I've also been subjected to more technical specifications than I'll need in my lifetime. (Admittedly, I get the same way over Australian decimal postal rates. I am available for your next dinner party.) Howard's impressive achievement with this book – against all odds – is to enthuse about trains and stamps without dwelling on details that would cause the average reader's eyes to glaze over. A note here and there on gauge sizes or postal developments is to be expected, but the text is informal in tone and never gets bogged down. Rarely spending more than a paragraph on any railway service before moving on, the reader is kept engaged, and alert to the next discovery.
And discoveries abound. A real joy of this book for me was a constant stream of little wow! moments. Did you know that Switzerland's Brienz Rothorn Bahn tourist railway (as featured in the stamp above) was never electrified, with most trains operated by steam locomotives built in the 1890s – so it followed that the same company could supply new steam locos a century later in the 1990s? Did you know that due to track gauge discrepancies, trains leaving Spain for France can adjust the distance between their wheels on their axles?
Can you believe that in 1950, Cuba released a set of stamps depicting a train accident – and then featured one again in a 1987 stamp-on-stamp? Piltz was unable to dig up information on that incident, or on the two men depicted. But he got me intrigued. Thanks to an old bulletin I found from the Cuban Philatelic Federation, I can tell him they were drivers who lost their lives in a 1947 derailment on the San Luis Oriente line. The original issue concerned a retirement fund for postal employees.
I'm already a collector, of course, and yet this book represents trouble. I've always verged on being a 'trains on stamps' kinda Punk. Adding this book to my shelf will be like racking up cocaine in front of a model. At the very least, I'm on now the hunt for this Japanese issue marking the 50th Anniversary of the Shinkansen. I like a miniature sheet that screams 'Get out of my way!' Stick these stamps on your mail and you can rest assured it'll get there on time.
Publishers Pen & Sword bill themselves as military and nostalgia experts, but they might be carving out a niche for themselves in the philatelic market. There exists an enormous gap between entry-level 'How to be a stamp collector' books, and serious-philatelist catalogues and monograms on specific issues. Magazines and the internet fill that gap somewhat (hello!). But amid the hand-wringing over the "future of the hobby", a few more books as attractive and as engaging as this, pitched at normal human readers, might trigger a philatelic itch in a few. (Especially if they were to cover subjects that are, dare I say it, slightly less old-manny.) Mainline Railway Stamps generously ends with a chapter that puts the trains aside and gently introduces the reader to the attractions of stamp collecting. It's a lovely touch.
I'd like to thank the good people at Pen & Sword (which IS mightier? Sounds like they're on the fence) for allowing me to preview Mainline Railway Stamps. If you think this effusive review was part of the deal, please know that I warned them that I owe it to my readers to be critical if I felt the need, and they were OK with that and sent it anyway. They must have known they were onto a good thing.
Mainline Railway Stamps, Howard Plitz. Pen & Sword
Narrow Gauge Railway Stamps, Howard Plitz, Pen & Sword
Fondue is big this year
February 5, 2019 April 4, 2019 | The Punk Philatelist
So I look away for one moment and suddenly everyone is putting fondue on their stamps. And by 'everyone' I mean mostly Switzerland, but also Jersey.
Switzerland can be forgiven. Fondue as a mainstream dish is a surprisingly recent development in cuisine, but it's theirs, and it's a thing of national pride. Back in the 1930s, sitting around dipping stale bread into a pot of melted cheese must have been a fun way to pass a cold Alpine evening while discussing in four languages how the nearby rise of fascism left you feeling completely neutral. Continue reading →
Exploring Exploring Stamps
July 12, 2018 October 15, 2018 | The Punk Philatelist
A day off work due to illness presents a perfect opportunity to binge-watch a series that you've been meaning to see for a long time. So it was that I recently popped a painkiller, snuggled into my bed, and reached for the comforting glow of my laptop.
Which series would see me through the day? A dystopian futuristic drama about women in sexual servitude? One of those quirky Aussie comedies with no jokes in it? A day-trip back to Westeros and Game of Thrones?
Oh no, my friends, I had bigger fish to fry. It was time to explore a YouTube series that had been on my radar for a long time. It was time to explore Exploring Stamps.
Exploring Stamps debuted on YouTube at the end of 2016, comprising seasons that are 20 (short) episodes each in length, along with occasional specials. At the start of each regular episode, our host, Graham, plucks a stamp from a trove stashed in a big cardboard box, and uses it as a launching pad for a journey of discovery. Most often this involves the stamp's history and subject matter, with a bit of philately-for-the-beginner along the way. But his tangents can delight and surprise. Continue reading →

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I was briefly in St. Louis to give a talk, and had a chance to take a few photos in one of the older parts of the city. My Leica M5 was my weapon of choice, equipped with my 50mm M-Hexanon f/2 lens. I used T-MAX 400 film, without any kind of filter.
I'll just comment, real quickly, that I was shocked by the level of abandonment and neglect I saw in St. Louis. It honestly surpasses anything I've seen in say Baltimore or parts of Philadelphia.


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Literacy Quebec is a network that connects and represents community-based literacy organizations to empower people, impact lives and build a stronger society.
We envision a Quebec where everyone has the literacy skills they need to live a fully engaged life.
Literacy Quebec believes literacy is a basic human right and is guided by the following core values:
> Literacy is a right
> Universal access to literacy services
> Literacy is a lifelong process
> Ongoing professional development for literacy providers are essential
> Volunteers & community action matter
In pursuit of our mission, Literacy Quebec engages in a wide range of activities:
Providing professional development opportunities for literacy practitioners
Advocating for literacy
Working in partnership with government agencies
Networking with literacy-related groups
Raising awareness of the importance of literacy in Quebec
Take a look at our activity report for some more information about the work that we do!
Click on the image to be directed to this year's activity report.
Click on the image to be directed to this activity report.
Click the image to be directed to this activity report.
History of Literacy Quebec
In 1980, adult education coordinators at each regional school board initiated the establishment of a volunteer literacy council in each region. Recruiting, training and volunteer support was initially based on the 'Each One Teach One' principles established by Dr. Frank Laubach. Since 1999, Literacy Quebec (LQ) has been accredited with MELS, and receives funding to realize our mission. This has allowed LQ to hire the staff necessary to carry out the objectives determined by our volunteer Board of Directors.
Today, member organizations embrace a variety of philosophies and approaches to teaching literacy and essential skills, reflecting the unique opportunities and challenges in their local communities.
In 2015, Literacy Quebec (LQ) celebrated 35 years as a provincial organization of community, volunteer-based literacy groups, with member organizations across Quebec. Have a look at our Milestones in History (below) and the 30th anniversary newspaper to see how the LQ landscape has changed over the years.
Freda Hudson Volunteer Recognition Award
Literacy Quebec inaugurated the Freda Hudson Volunteer Recognition Award in 2007, in memory of a remarkable volunteer. It is presented annually to an active volunteer who has made a significant contribution to literacy.
A remarkable woman, indeed.
Freda Hudson was instrumental in forming and supporting LQ, serving as a Director and Chairperson for many years.
Freda was active on the national level, as a Director for LLC. Her contributions included authorship of several Canadian publications, many of which are found in the libraries of the literacy councils today.
After working at the national and provincial levels of literacy issues, Freda decided to get back to her local roots and contribute in a major way to the Yamaska Literacy Council, serving as a Director, a tutor, a Chairperson, and an adviser.
Freda's student, Trudi Brown, like her tutor, is a remarkable woman with a remarkable story to tell. With Freda's support and encouragement, Trudi wrote "A Rose of Courage", the story of her mother's life.
Recently, Trudi wrote about Freda, "Now I can go around the world in a book. I travel so much in books and every time I do I think of Freda."
Designing the Award
The design itself is a plant: roots firmly in the ground, and sprouting a "flower".
This motif represents growth and implies something organic which continues to evolve. Freda's initials are worked into the roots to honour the foundation that she laid in our literacy community and to emphasize that many of the developments we have gained are "rooted" in her literacy work. The "flower" suggests an open book: a symbol of knowledge, learning, and literacy. The "leaves" are designed to suggest wings, a symbol of the freedom that we gain from having knowledge and skills.
As Freda was indeed a precious individual who shone brightly and reflected her brightness, silver was chosen as the material for her commemorative pin. The piercing technique used (cutting the design into the metal) honors the wearer of the pin as it allows the colour and texture of their own clothing to show through and interact with the pin, thus highlighting their own individuality and connecting them to Freda at the same time.
Kate Strickland, Designer
2017: Rick Valin, Western Quebec Literacy Council
2016: Warren Law, The Learning Exchange
2015: Jim Eames, Quebec City Reading Council
2014: Mary Chuprun, Laurentian Literacy Council
2013: Valerie Sauriol, The Learning Exchange
2012: Beryl Kerrison, Western Quebec Literacy Council
2011: Lillian Hartley, South Shore Reading Council
 & Ed Chaffey, RECLAIM
2010: Cornelia Fischer, Yamaska Literacy Council
2009: Mona Arsenault, The Learning Exchange
2008: Martha Shufelt, Yamaska Literacy Council
2007: Grace Saabas, RECLAIM


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package com.starjobs.pojo;

import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.util.Date;

public class RefreshJob {
    private Integer id;

    private Integer comId;

    private Integer jobId;

    private Date createTime;

    private BigDecimal refreshCost;

    private Integer refreshType;

    public Integer getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(Integer id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public Integer getComId() {
        return comId;
    }

    public void setComId(Integer comId) {
        this.comId = comId;
    }

    public Integer getJobId() {
        return jobId;
    }

    public void setJobId(Integer jobId) {
        this.jobId = jobId;
    }

    public Date getCreateTime() {
        return createTime;
    }

    public void setCreateTime(Date createTime) {
        this.createTime = createTime;
    }

    public BigDecimal getRefreshCost() {
        return refreshCost;
    }

    public void setRefreshCost(BigDecimal refreshCost) {
        this.refreshCost = refreshCost;
    }

    public Integer getRefreshType() {
        return refreshType;
    }

    public void setRefreshType(Integer refreshType) {
        this.refreshType = refreshType;
    }
}

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Money gurus confess their biggest financial blunders in college and the lessons they learned.
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — For many Americans, starting college means taking on a host of new freedoms and responsibilities. Besides handling a rigorous course load, making new friends and adjusting to life on campus, college students are often also faced with the difficult task of managing their own finances for the first time. While some succeed without doing too much damage to their bank accounts, it's all too common for college students to fall into financial pitfalls that can haunt them for years to come.
As a new generation of students heads off to college this fall, MainStreet asked financial gurus to share their biggest money mistakes in college and the lessons they learned. Their stories just might help spare today's college kids from making the same blunders.
"The biggest financial mistake I made in college was getting a credit card. I got approved for one and signed up for tons of pre-approved offers. I ended up having 13 credit cards by the time I graduated and was $19,000 in credit card debt. I had a savings account but didn't understand how credit cards worked. I got a full-time job but lost my job which was the start of my financial woes.
"I was able to pay off my credit card debt but it took me four years. I am very careful with credit cards today and pay for 95% of my purchases with cash."
"During my years in college, I worked pretty much full time, in addition to going to school full time. I had a variety of jobs, including working in the bookstore, parking cars on the weekend and being a resident assistant. My biggest mistake was not capturing some of the money I made. It all seemed to go, whether on books, supplies or food on the weekends. It was a constant cycle of earning and spending and my stipend check never came soon enough. Had I had the foresight, I would have taken at least 10% from each job and stashed it away. That probably would have allowed me some reserves for job hunting after I graduated. I can see now that a little planning would have made my life significantly easier, but unfortunately, I didn't have the training or awareness to put some away."
"As a younger person, you dream of achieving financial prosperity at a very young age. I did everything I could and worked as hard as I could to save up some money, which I invested in penny stocks. That trap has ensnared many college kids — and adults — because they see it as a cheaper way to invest when many penny stocks are simply scams. I lost about $4,000 in approximately four to five months.
"I've learned that knowledge is power. The stock market isn't rigged, scary or only for the smart or wealthy. Have someone teach you what they know. Learn technical analysis, learn how to do covered calls and invest in companies you know and whose mission you care about. In the end, you'll do just fine."
Lives in: Upper Marlboro, Md.
"My biggest financial mistake in college was having a full ride scholarship and then losing one of the scholarships in the package by not being able to check a box online to accept the award because it was grayed out. That one small mistake cost me $4,000. I probably could have asked around more and really tried to fight for it, but I didn't.
"I would tell current high school students and current college students that if they cannot accept all of their awards online, they should manually accept them by signing and submitting the sheet that tells them how to accept the awards. Also, I would follow up with the financial aid department of the school a week after sending in the acceptance letter to make sure that they received it and that all of the awards went through."
"My biggest financial mistake while in college was not keeping a budget. I spent too much on eating out and shopping and didn't make sure I had savings left when I graduated. When I got my first job out of school, I had to borrow money from my parents to pay for my first security deposit. I advise students to keep track of how much they're taking out in student loans, to always keep money as an emergency fund and to budget. I didn't realize I was spending hundreds on eating out, bars and more until I started keeping better track of my money."
"The biggest blunder I made in college was taking out additional student loans to pay for spring break vacation since I didn't max them out on actual school and books. I should have been more diligent about stashing cash from my waitressing job or taking on more babysitting and waitressing shifts to pick up the travel tab so I wouldn't have had to spend several years paying interest on that loan.
"I've learned the importance of setting small financial goals and creating savings plans to ultimately avoid going into debt for travel or other luxury purchases. I find it easy to do this by opening a separate bank account where I put aside a certain amount of funds each week based on my target savings goal and date. I also look for ways to reduce daily and monthly spending by eating out less, doing my own manicures and pedicures, spacing out time between hair salon visits and washing my own car. All these small expenditure reductions add up over time."
"I turned down a full scholarship to a great university because my significant other didn't want me to take it. I stayed at the school I was at and it took twice as long to get my degree, because I had to pay for it as I went along, instead of being able to just go to school and study because of a full scholarship. I took a partial scholarship and had to work full time in order to get through. I've learned that any relationship that asks you to give up your future should be in your past."


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public interface
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{
   public void visitPath(SimplePath path);
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Not only has Obama failed to live up to the high expectations he set out at the start of his administration, writes Khaled Elgindy, he is on his way to becoming the first U.S. president in more than four decades to break no new political ground in terms of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This piece originally appeared on Foreign Affairs.
U.S. President Barack Obama's meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in late September renewed speculation about what, if anything, the president would do to advance the goal of Israeli-Palestinian peace before he leaves office. With just four months left in his term, and virtually no chance of resuming negotiations before then, the president is reportedly considering the option of laying out the basic parameters of a final status agreement, perhaps in the form of a U.N. Security Council resolution, as a way to preserve the possibility of a two-state solution under a future U.S. administration.
Obama is on his way to becoming the first U.S. president in more than four decades to break no new political ground in terms of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Indeed, when it comes to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, no U.S. president has promised more and accomplished less than Obama. He entered office with a strong start: appointing a special envoy for Middle East peace on his second day in office, calling for an end to Israeli settlement construction, and working to bring the parties back to the negotiating table. But it went downhill from there. After initial U.S.led negotiations ran aground in late 2010, largely over the issue of Israeli settlements, the president effectively walked away from the issue and has scarcely looked back since. Even as Secretary of State John Kerry mounted a valiant but ultimately unsuccessful effort to broker a framework agreement between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in 2013–14, the president noticeably kept his distance.
Meanwhile, for all his talk of "new beginnings," Obama's handling of the peace process has remained remarkably faithful to the approach pursued by his predecessor—only with far less effectiveness, given the dramatic changes within Israeli and Palestinian politics as well as across the broader Arab region. As successive Israeli governments headed by Netanyahu have grown more hard-line, the Palestinian leadership has become weaker and more dysfunctional, thanks in large part to the nearly decade-long political division between Abbas' Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and the Hamas-dominated Gaza Strip. At the same time, given the tremendous upheaval across the Middle East, Arab states such as Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia no longer have the resources or the political bandwidth to devote to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.
The Obama administration has repeatedly referred to a resolution of the conflict as a "vital national security interest." Yet its actions seem to suggest otherwise. While the administration decries the status quo as "unsustainable," it has consistently worked to block attempts to challenge it, even when they are compatible with a two-state solution. Most notably, the administration actively opposed Abbas' bid to gain recognition of a Palestinian state by the United Nations, which formally admitted Palestine as a "nonmember state" in November 2012.
In contrast, although the administration has harshly criticized Israeli settlements and other practices that threaten the viability of a twostate solution—a source of persistent friction between U.S. and Israeli officials —it has arguably done less to back up those criticisms than previous administrations. In addition to vetoing a draft Security Council resolution criticizing Israeli settlements in January 2011, the Obama administration—as Lara Friedman of Americans for Peace Now, which is part of the Israeli peace movement Shalom Achshav, recently pointed out—is the only U.S. administration in nearly half a century to consistently shield Israel from any type of censure by the Security Council.
With Israeli settlements and the chronic weakness of the Palestinian Authority rapidly foreclosing prospects for a Palestinian state, Obama may yet try to salvage the possibility of a twostate solution, as well as his own legacy, before leaving office. Any 11th-hour intervention by the president would have to be sufficiently bold to overcome the enormous policy deficit and political inertia of the last eight years. Based on some accounts of Kerry's negotiations, the furthest Obama might go would be to make an explicit reference to a Palestinian capital in Jerusalem, an outcome that was also part of most previous negotiating rounds, including at Camp David in 2000; Taba, Sinai, in 2001; and Annapolis, Maryland, in 2007. Although this could technically be considered a shift in U.S. policy, it may do little in the way of peace, since such parameters might be just enough to antagonize the Israelis but probably not enough to satisfy the Palestinians or prevent further prejudice by Israeli settlements.


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A storm driven night…wreckers deliberately drive a helpless merchant ship on to a rocky shore on the west coast of Ireland. Abbess Faife, leading a pilgrimage to a holy mountain, is slaughtered, and her six companions, young female religieuse, are abducted. An ageing ecclesiastical scholar is murdered in the oratory of the Abbey of Ard Fhearta. Do these bizarre events have a connection?
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If you live in Pakistan, chances are you know of Paperazzi – the brainchild of Samina Khan and Meher Tareen. Although young in comparison, Paperazzi started as a weekly off shoot of the quarterly, Paper Magazine. It has undoubtedly become a force in the fashion industry in a very short time. Today, as Paperazzi comes to it's 100th week in publication, we look back at it's journey and our 8 favourite moments when we fell in love with the magazine, over and over again.
With it's first edition almost a 100 weeks ago, we fell in love with Paperazzi's cover feature with Mishall Chaudhri where they celebrated true style and drove home the message that a style is not dependent on brands and logos but on how one carries themselves.


Where to start? This is such a broad subject matter and no one answer will truly fit all situations.
Precision machining, Quality Controlled Manufacturing Inc. is pleased to announce it has partnered with the San Diego Workforce Partnership to establish the QCMI Machinist Training Program, and the first class of six students will start on November 10, 2014.
Quality Controlled Manufacturing Inc. (QCMI), a San Diego region-based precision machining manufacturer, is pleased to formally announce it has established the QCMI Machinist Training Program. QCMI partnered with the San Diego Workforce Partnership for the funding for the first 12 students. Six will start on November 10, 2014, and six will start on February 9, 2015.
Establishing a machinist training program has been a dream of QCMI CEO Bob Grande. Grande founded his machining company in his garage 36 years ago this month. Over the years, he continued to see shop classes disappear from high school curriculum. According to the Employment Policy Foundation, in 1950, 60% of all manufacturing jobs could be handled by unskilled labor. By 2005, less than 15% of all manufacturing positions were unskilled. As QCMI continued to grow, the executive team knew it needed to come up with a long-term people solution.
In 2012 COO / CFO Rick Urban spearheaded the creation, planning and development of the companys new training program. The success of the QCMI Machinist Training Program will be the first step in launching the 501(c)(3) Grande Foundation Comprehensive Machinist Academy. The Grande Foundation has a mission dedicated to the improvement of San Diego community education with the focal point being the development of a self-sustaining, state of the art machinist training academy.
With the November 10, 2014 opening, the QCMI Machinist Training Program is geared up to provide Veterans as well as other individuals with a career education in machining and related lean manufacturing business principles. QCMI is working with the East County Career Center in search of eligible applicants. Qualified QCMI employees developed the structured curriculum. They will teach shop theory, blueprint reading, safety principles, CNC machining, inspection and more. Each student completes a final project. Upon graduation on April 25, 2014 of the first six graduates, they will receive their Six Sigma Green Belt and machinist training diploma. Graduates from the QCMI Machinist Training Program will be prepared for a position as a CNC machinist. Becky Quinn, Human Resources Manager said, We anticipate 100% job placement of the graduates, if not with QCMI, then with other companies in the community that are looking to hire trained machinists.
The San Diego Workforce Partnership (SDWP) is designated by the County and City of San Diego to receive state and federal funds to fund job training programs throughout the region. The SDWP funds job training programs enabling eligible adults to develop the skills and knowledge needed to meet the needs of regional employers. As community partners, QCMI and SDWP are assisting eligible applicants interested in the new subsidized machinist job training. The main source of SDWP funds come from the United States Department of Labor through the Workforce Investment Act (WIA).
QCMI produces complex parts for aircraft and gas turbines. It specializes in the precision machining of all metals including exotic alloys. The nationally recognized metal working company produces components with complex shapes, contours, exacting tolerances and stringent quality requirements.
The kickoff of the QCMI Machinist Training Program marks the culmination of efforts by the San Diego Workforce Partners, the East County Career Center, and QCMI with its subject-matter expert trainers, said QCMI COO / CFO Rick Urban. We look forward to training individuals for machinists jobs that are both well-paying and stable.
At 15 years old I liked to work with my hands, and I was lucky enough to be the shop class assistant. Some 36 years later, the precision machining company I started in my garage employs more than 95 and is award-winning, said Founder, President and CEO Bob Grande. Our industry is facing a machinist shortage. Automated factories demand workers who can operate, program and maintain the computerized equipment. My hopes and dreams for training individuals to become machinists have come to fruition in the opening of the QCMI Machinist Training Program.
For more information about the QCMI Machinist Training Program, call (619) 443-3997.
About Quality Controlled Manufacturing Inc.
Founded in 1978, QCMI specializes in the precision machining of all metals including exotic alloys. QCMI is ISO9001/AS9100 certified, ITAR registered and Nadcap accredited for nondestructive testing. It manufactures components for the aerospace, power generation, Department of Defense (DOD), oil and gas, marine and heavy equipment industries. QCMI is authorized to operate an approved FAA repair station with the following ratings: Limited Accessory and Nondestructive Testing. In 2013 QCMI received its fifth consecutive UTC Supplier Gold Award, and Inc. magazine recognized it as one of its Inc. 5000 companies. The San Diego Business Journal named QCMI its 2014 Family Owned Business of the Year in the 51-150 employee category and its 2014 #1 Healthiest Company in the 1-100 employee category. For more information about QCMI call (619) 443-3997 or visit http://www.qcmfginc.com.
This is a topic that tends to provoke strong feelings among employees. Reviews are meant to 'grade' an employee's job performance, professional skills, and a host of other metrics designed to subjectively render a critique of that employee's overall value to the company. Inherently, nearly all reviews are fatally flawed. Even done with the best intentions, reviews tend to rank employees. There will always be those that are top performers and those that aren't. In any case, no matter how large or small a company is, the review process ultimately demotivates and discourages employees.
What is Kaizen, Six Sigma and 5S? More importantly, why do these programs tend to fail?
Basically, all of these terms refer to a philosophy of continuous improvement and working practices, set in place to remove clutter, improve quality, and to streamline work processes. It is the purpose of these 'quality programs' to reduce over production, cut waste, and deliver products 'just-in-time' to customers.
In theory, these programs are beneficial for the companies implementing them. To a lesser degree, it can also be a positive influence to those who use the same techniques in their own personal lives.
What I'm interested in is why these quality programs tend to fail. I've been involved in Six Sigma and 5S programs when employed at various companies in the past. These programs, in my opinion, started with good intentions but were either misunderstood, mismanaged, or 'gamed'.
Misunderstood: Often, people's concept of Kaizen, Six Sigma and 5S, is limited to the replication of other companies' implementation of these programs. It is said that copying is the sincerest form of flattery. While that may be true, copying a wrong result will only end in another wrong result. Looking to other companies as an example, is a great start. But you should start by asking 'Why?' 'Why' does a company using Kaizen, Six Sigma and 5S... do so in the way that they do? Does it make sense to use the exact way one company uses it in your own company? Or, do you need to tweak the way you use the program to better fit your own company/work environment? You need to have a vision of what it is you want to achieve and not go about blindly making unnecessary changes. This will only confuse employees who are charged with maintaining the program and create a pessimistic response from them too.
Mismanaged: This is probably the biggest part of failure relating to Kaizen, Six Sigma and 5S. Like 'misunderstood' mentioned above, it goes one step further by oversimplifying, overdoing, and becoming entangled in the nuances of the quality program instead of addressing the aim of the quality program. An example of this is labeling and marking. You can tell when this is concurring by looking at the workspace in question. Is the area marked off in excess? Staplers lined off on desks... file cabinets lined off AND labeled 'File Cabinet'... etc. Are things labeled for the sake of labeling? Don't get me wrong, but when you label a label maker, you've exceeded your usefulness and entered the realm of the absurd.
Gamed: Gamed in terms of manipulation of the data to achieve better 'results'. Results that falsely show the quality program's results that are not accurate. Managers often try to manipulate charts and data to reflect a positive momentum towards a perceived end goal result. The purpose of Kaizen, Six Sigma and 5S is not to achieve perfection but to address inefficiency and wasted movement in the workplace. Implementation of Kaizen, Six Sigma and 5S are costly. When the programs get 'gamed' in this way, then the integrity and effectiveness of the programs must be called into question.
POWAY — Poway-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has won a $411 million government contract to provide the U.S. Army with 29 Gray Eagle unmanned aerial vehicles, the Defense Department announced Tuesday.
The aircraft, popularly referred to as drones, are scheduled to be completed and delivered to the military by March 2015. The contract also calls for 31 ground-control stations, 55 ground-data terminals, spare parts and ground-support equipment.
General Atomics plans to subcontract out the ground-control stations and ground-data terminals, company spokeswoman Kimberly Kasitz said.
In 2005, General Atomics won an Army contract to provide Extended/Range Multi-Purpose Unmanned Aircraft Systems, and since 2008 it has completed and delivered 50 Gray Eagle aircraft, Kasitz said. An additional 44 Gray Eagles are in development, meaning the Army has now ordered 123 of the unmanned aircraft from General Atomics.
Gray Eagles have accumulated more than 35,000 flight hours since first being deployed in 2008, Kasitz said. Gray Eagles have a maximum endurance of more than 30 hours, can operate up to 29,000 feet and can carry up to 1,075 pounds.
Gray Eagles are a long-range aircraft that are used for intelligence surveillance, reconnaissance, convoy protection, improvised-explosive-device detection, close air support, communications relays and weapons-delivery missions.
California currently ranks #49 among U.S. states for "business tax climate" (Tax Foundation) and #48 for for "economic freedom" (Mercatus). It shouldn't be any surprise then that companies are leaving the "Golden State" in record numbers this year (see chart above) for "golder pastures" and more business-friendly climates in other states.
"Today, California is experiencing the fastest rate of disinvestment events based on public domain information, closure notices to the state, and information from affected employees in the three years since a specialized tracking system was put into place. Out-of-state economic development officials are traveling through the state to alert frustrated business owners and corporate executives to their friendlier business climate versus California's hostility toward commercial enterprises.
* From Jan. 1 of this year through this morning, June 16, we have had 129 disinvestment events occur, an average of 5.4 per week (see chart above).
* For all of last year, we saw an average of 3.9 events per week.
* Comparing this year thus far with 2009, when the total was 51 events, essentially averaging 1 per week, our rate today is more than 5 times what it was then.
Our losses are occurring at an accelerated rate. Also, no one knows the real level of activity because smaller companies are not required to file layoff notices with the state. A conservative estimate is that only 1 out of 5 company departures becomes public knowledge, which means California may suffer more than 1,000 disinvestment events this year.
The capital directed to out-of-state or out-of-country, while difficult to calculate, is nonetheless in the billions of dollars. The top five destinations are (1) Texas, (2) Arizona, (3) Colorado, (4) Nevada and Utah tied; and (5) Virginia and North Carolina tied.
Based on the legislature's recent rejection of business-friendly legislation and Sacramento's implementation of additional regulations, signs are that California's hostility towards business will only worsen. California is such fertile ground that representatives for economic development agencies are visiting companies to dissect our high taxes, extreme regulatory environment and other expenses to show annual savings of between 20 and 40 percent after an out-of-state move."
Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Perry is currently on sabbatical from the University of Michigan and is a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
There's a lack of qualified machinists in San Diego. Several local shops are constantly looking to fill vacancies to no avail. There could be several reasons why its becoming harder to fill those open jobs; job security, below average wages, and the high cost of living in San Diego.
Job security. It is human nature to be afraid of the unknown. Machinists who currently hold jobs in this tough job market are less likely to walk away from those jobs, even if they're not happy. That's because they already know what to expect in their currently job. Switching to another company is a little risky, especially if it doesn't work out. They'll most likely join the 11%+ unemployed in California for a while to come.
Low wages. With the economy in shambles, a lot of companies are very conservative on paying out lucrative salaries. The bottom lines of companies are constantly being squeezed. They'd much rather pay a little extra in overtime than add to their long term payrolls. Machinists with a lot of experience won't be tempted to jump ship for less than what they're worth.
The high cost of living in San Diego. Let's face it... San Diego is a very expensive place to live. Even with the housing market bubble popped, its still relatively hard to rent or buy a place to live in the county on limited funds. Before the housing market crashed, people were starting to leave the area for other cities with a lower cost of living. That migration has contributed to a shortage of machinists. Those highly skilled machinists left are now able to pick and choose the better companies they want to work for. The lesser qualified machinists would still fall into the 'job security' and 'low wages' categories.
This all equates to not finding qualified machinists. Local shops need to offer better compensation packages for potential employees and be more aggressive in recruiting/retaining machinists.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 10:42 p.m.
General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego — the last major shipbuilder on the West Coast — plans to eliminate one-fourth of its work force to cope with a prolonged slump in the industry, cutting as many as 1,150 positions.
The county's largest manufacturing business said it has sent letters to 900 of its 4,100 workers, notifying them that they might be laid off starting in mid-July. About half of the 500 jobs held by subcontractors also might be cut.
"The potential work-force reduction is the result of a sustained downturn in the commercial and government shipbuilding markets that NASSCO addresses, as well as fluctuations in the Navy's repair schedule," Karl Johnson, a NASSCO spokesman, said Wednesday.
The impending layoffs would be the largest in 15 years for San Diego's biggest waterfront union, Shipyard Workers Union Local 1998, which has about 2,300 members.
Although the downsizing had been anticipated for a year, the timing — unemployment in California remains in the double digits — is painful, said Robert Godinez, president of the local union, which is a branch of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers.
Time to layoff some city employees!
San Diego has had several years of underfunded pensions for our city employees. On top of that, many are 'double-dipping', buying time in order to qualify for higher retirement payouts. To make matters worse, many city employees are overpaid. Below you'll find a pdf file which contains the salaries of the city's top employees for calendar year 2007. The salaries include base pay and overtime. It contains 84 pages with the lowest salary + overtime entry at $75,000.64.
Curious entries include page 7 (Lifeguard Chief) with a salary of $120,000+, page 8 (Lifeguard Sgt) $118,000+, page 11 (Lifeguard Sgt) $112,000, page 14 (Lifeguard Sgt) $108,000, and the list goes on. I understand the fire department and the police department both have hazardous jobs to do but why are so many of them on this 84 page list? Remember, the lowest salary here is $75,000.
I guess right now, many of you are probably wondering what the current and future domestic economic situation holds for you.
If you're an employer, you're concerned about future contracts, and getting paid for work already completed... not to mention if you will eventually have to let go of some of your employees. What do you do? It may be a little late, but one of the things I use to do when times were good was to always keep some sort of idea brewing on the back burner. When things got a little slow, I would devote some time to that idea. How to develop it, what my target market would be, how to get that product in the hands of potential consumers. And the list went on and on. The main thing you're concerned with is keeping those spindles going and the parts coming off the machines. When that stops, everyone is in a world of hurt.
That was the question I was asked a few years ago by a young female recruiter for a large temporary agency. She had called on day when I wasn't too terribly busy at my shop. Normally, I wouldn't have had a lot of time to spend with non-business related calls but, like I said… I had a little extra time that day.
Headhunter: Can you tell me, where do you guys all hang out?
Headhunter: I'm having a little trouble finding machinists in the area.


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Campaign watch: Donald Trump couldn't get no respect!
Making Mika visibly angry: In one way, we sympathize with Candidate Trump.
We don't like it when people are forced into mandated speech, a practice described by experts and scholars as the "Cordelia effect." On Sunday, Candidate Trump was cast in that role when he was asked, again and again, to denounce the KKK.
For whatever reason, he just wouldn't do it. Later, he improbably blamed his refusal to speak on the effects of a very bad hairpiece!
(Or perhaps on a bad ear piece. Due to bad staff work on this end, we couldn't exactly hear.)
At any rate, Candidate Trump kept refusing to renounce the Klan. This is such a stupid offense that even our seven-figure cable "journalists" are even able to spot it.
As a result, Joe and Mika were soon attempting to deny their past eight months of bizarre Trump Love. They even directed their staff to create a deceptive videotape.
The tape was designed to make you think that they only predicted Trump's success—that they haven't spent the past eight months cheering their best friend on.
They played the deceptive videotape this morning. To watch the tape, click here.
The collection of clips from Morning Joe programs runs just over three minutes. We were struck by this fact:
Good grief! Morning Joe staffers couldn't even assemble a tape of that length without including a clip in which Mika and Joe are praising Trump for his "searing" honesty—for having the guts to say the "truthful" things no one else will utter.
Go ahead—watch that tape! Just after the one-minute mark, you'll see Mika and Joe raining praise on Candidate Trump. This apparently happened last June 18, two days after The Last Great Man entered the race.
This is what the Peculiar Pair said on that occasion. The horrible Mika is visibly angry about the lack of respect being aimed at the man she has spent the past eight months seeming to love:
SCARBOROUGH (6/18/15): When he's on a debate stage, and he turns to Scott Walker or Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush and hits them, not with something mean-spirited—
BRZEZINSKI: Searing!
SCARBOROUGH: But searing and truthful, that nobody else in polite political society would say, it can shape a race.
BRZEZINSKI (with visible disgust): Nobody has the guts to say.
SCARBOROUGH: And so all these people saying that he's going to have no impact, they don't get it!
BRZEZINSKI: Sam Stein, what's so funny?
STEIN: I mean, listen. No one's doubting his entertainment value—
BRZEZINSKI: No, no, no, no, no.
Careful, Stein! Players like Mika will routinely deploy their 18-inch rulers!
Mika's sullen contempt for the critics of Trump is visible in that clip. Two days into Trump's campaign, she and Joe were praising Trump for his "searing" honesty—for the way he'll say the truthful things no one else has the guts to say.
Good God! This program's staffers couldn't assemble three minutes of clips without including this type of resentful affirmation of Trump! Especially coming from Mika, who's supposed to be Morning Joe's resident liberal, it's the sort of thing which has made this program completely bizarre over the past eight months.
Go ahead—watch that tape! Two days into the Trump campaign, Mika was already visibly angry about the lack of respect for the man who had the guts to discuss all those Mexican rapists.
Joe and Mika weren't predicting—they were affirming Trump that day! But wouldn't you know it?
After Trump hugged the KKK, the seemingly store-bought cable pair turned tail and ran for the woods. According to various experts and scholars, it's increasingly hard to get good help, no matter how much you're willing to pay!
Posted by bob somerby on Wednesday, March 02, 2016
The guy's got my vote. I know he says some crazy things and maybe he did rape Mexicans I never heard that but I will be voting Trump because she says what he believes and is an OUTSIDER who can get things done. I love how stupid all you liberals are. Get ready for a fight. If your girl wins, fine but she is going up against ALOT of determined people. Get ready to to be very, very unhappy come November robot stooges.
Great parody of a Trump voter!! Kudos for satire!
I can't watch the video. I can't watch those two defend themselves. It's sad and pathetic. Two grown people who cant let it go. So much like The Donald. Their producers need to intervene and stop these two before they self-destruct. They simply doth protest too much.
LEGALIZE PROSTITUTION NOW!
http://prostitutionrights.blogspot.com//
It's time to end the war on personal freedom. Prohibition never works, as the past as proven time and time again. And the demand for prostitution will never go away, hence it is the world's oldest profession. It's high time to LEGALIZE IT, both for the sake of the women who engage in prostitution and the men who buy it.
Contrary to false beliefs, the vast majority of women who engage in prostitution do so voluntarily. Therefore why should they not be allowed to legally trade sex for money? Also, legalizing prostitution would eliminate human trafficking since the very small percentage of women who are forced into prostitution would be able to go to the police for help. It would also eliminate the need for dangerous pimps.
What about STDs? Actually you are far more likely to get an STD with a regular girl since people tend to use condoms less with regular women. With prostitutes, condoms are a necessity and therefore the risk of STDs is zero. The whole STD scare has been blown way out of proportion in order to make people afraid of sex.
Studies also prove that when prostitution is legal, the number of rapes dwindles to practically zero. By keeping prostitution illegal, we are actually causing more women to be raped.
But the core issue is that we have NO RIGHT to tell two consenting adults that they cannot trade sex for money. It's time to legalize prostitution!
In the NY Times today, lower voter turnout is Hillary's problem, not Bernie's, despite the fact that he is the loser. And, those emails again. They are as relentless as conservatives.
It is not clear whether any Democrat can replicate Mr. Obama's relationship with the new voters in his two campaigns, particularly black voters. African-Americans turned out widely in 2008 to elect the country's first black leader and mustered similar strength in 2012 to validate his presidency, angered by what they saw as contempt and disrespect from Republicans.
They came out and they voted for Obama in a record way. The importance then was that these were not Democratic voters — these were Obama voters.
What happened in the new Pavilion yesterday?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/neil-degrasse-tyson-scott-kelly_us_56d7342be4b0871f60ed8d0a
Liberals may cost Democrats votes by scoffing at ordinary caring Americans like these:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/sheriff-man-with-selfies-fatally-shoots-himself
MEka is not MJ's resident liberal and never has been. She's a anti-abortion, pro-gun conservative and always has been.
Jeeves Stump March 3, 2016 at 11:44 AM
This blog has been around for years and still the Press pulls stunts like these. It's time for Howler to get serious and join Trump in opening up (if that the term) the country's libel laws and overturning NYT v. Sullivan (if that's the problematic case). Then maybe we'll have a Press that prints the Truth (whatever that is) or else.
"This blog has been around for years and still the Press pulls stunts like these."
Sarcasm, right?
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Volume 7, No. 6
How WWHP Fulfills Its Mission During These Challenging Times
Working Women's History Project grieves for the loss of life and livelihoods caused by Covid-19. Working people, especially working people of color, bear the brunt of those losses. Along with the rest of the world, we now also grieve the completely unnecessary loss of George Floyd's life as well as the lives of Trayvon Martin , Tamir Rice , Michael Brown , Eric Garner , Philando Castile , Breonna Taylor , Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks, and others.
WWHP is committed to racial and economic justice, and, like our sisters and brothers in the SEIU, "We know that until Black communities and other communities of color can thrive, none of our communities can truly thrive."
Unlike SEIU and other advocacy organizations, WWHP is an educational organization with a mission to preserve and promote the stories of historical and living Chicago women who have made contributions toward achieving social justice and equality.
WWHP has told the stories of women who:
supported the right of workers to organize--for a decent wage, for healthcare and other benefits, for gender equity, for fairness on the job.
fought to keep nurses in Chicago Public Schools.
fought for pensions for teachers and services and resources for retired people.
worked to have affordable and quality child care available to all families.
worked for women's suffrage, especially Black and Brown women whose efforts for suffrage had been largely overlooked.
WWHP pledges to continue to seek out and tell those stories and to provide a platform for working women of all races, ethnicities, creeds, and classes to tell their own stories.
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We Shall Rise May Day Birthday Celebration for Mother Jones
by Margaret Fulkerson
Brigid Duffy as Mother Jones
On May Day 2020, Working Women's History Project joined the Mother Jones Heritage Project with Ireland's ambassador to the US Daniel Mulhall; Brian O'Brien and Sarah Keating of the Consulate General of Ireland in Chicago ; Sara Nelson, President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA; and Cecil Roberts, President of the United Mine Workers of America to honor Mother Jones on her May Day Birthday via a socially distanced zoom event.
WWHP's very own Brigid Duffy made Mother Jones come alive, performing excerpts from the Autobiography of Mother Jones. Sara Nelson spoke of Mother Jones's wisdom and showed how relevant her fight was in the struggle of "essential" workers for safe working conditions and a living and secure wage, which are all under attack during this pandemic. Nelson urged us not to forget the lessons that Mother Jones gave us. As Mother Jones said, "The future is in Labor's strong rough hands."
For more information see Brigid Duffy as Mother Jones
https://www.facebook.com/MotherJonesLives/videos/561676074481717/?t=4
Sara Nelson
https://www.facebook.com/MotherJonesLives/videos/1444259205781513/?t=0
Susan B. Anthony on Trial:
Woman Prosecuted For Daring to Vote
by Helen Ramirez-Odell
Engraved by G.E. Perine Co., NY
June 17, 1873 was the day Susan B. Anthony went on trial for voting illegally in Rochester, New York. She had voted in the presidential election with fourteen other women. All were arrested, but Anthony was the only one to be indicted and put on trial for voting because she was a woman. She believed the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave all citizens the right to vote. As a woman, she was ruled incompetent to testify in her own defense. Her attorney was Henry R. Selden, a respected local lawyer who agreed to take her case. Selden argued in court that women were citizens and entitled to all the rights of citizens including the right to vote.
The trial was complicated and widely publicized. Judge Ward Hunt did not allow the jurors to discuss the case United States v. Susan B. Anthony in the federal circuit court where the trial was held. He directed the jurors to find her guilty. On the last day of the trial Anthony was finally permitted to speak. She ignored the judge's order to stop speaking and continued to deliver what some believe was the most famous speech in history calling for women's suffrage. She accused the judge of ignoring her natural rights, civil rights, political rights and judicial rights. She said she was robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship: "I am degraded from the status of citizen to that of a subject, and not only myself individually, but all of my sex..."
The judge sentenced Anthony to pay a fine of $100 which she declared she would never pay and she never did. He did not order her to be taken into custody because then she could appeal her case to the Supreme Court.
A year after the trial, Anthony published a book containing documents from her trial. A month after Judge Hunt retired, another circuit court judge ruled that a judge could not direct a jury to deliver a verdict of guilty and this was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1895. Susan B. Anthony's trial helped make women's fight for the right to vote to become a national issue and propelled the women's rights movement to make women's suffrage a priority.
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee:
Fought for Women's Suffrage
Even While Barred From U.S. Citizenship
by Amy Laiken
Photo credit: NextShark
Born in Canton, now Guangzhou, China (some sources say 1896, others say 1897), Mabel Ping-Hua Lee immigrated as a child to the United States to join her father, a Baptist pastor, in New York City. She had been awarded a Boxer Indemnity Scholarship, which enabled her to secure a U.S. visa to study in this country. She came during the era in which the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was in effect, which barred Chinese immigrants from attaining United States citizenship, and therefore, from voting. Nevertheless, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee became involved in the movement for women's suffrage at an early age, even though she herself was unlikely to benefit from the enfranchisement of women.
While still in her teens as a student at Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School, Lee led a suffrage parade on horseback, attended by approximately 10,000 people, down Fifth Avenue in 1912. Later, as a student at Barnard College, she joined the Chinese Students Association, and wrote essays for The Chinese Students' Monthly. In her 1914 essay, The Meaning of Women's Suffrage, she wrote of the importance of voting rights and equality for women. Over a year later, she gave a speech before the Women's Political Union's Suffrage Shop, titled "The Submerged Half," in which she discussed the education and civic participation of Chinese women. In 1917, Lee led Chinese American women in another march for women's suffrage down Fifth Avenue. That year, women in New York State won the right to vote.
In 1920, women across the country had achieved voting rights, but Lee and many other women of color were unable to exercise those rights.
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee graduated from Barnard College, and went on to earn a master's degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a PhD in economics from Columbia University in 1921. She was the first Chinese woman to earn such a degree. After her father's death, Lee became the director of the First Chinese Baptist Church of New York City. She also opened the Chinese Christian Center, which offered a health clinic, a kindergarten, vocational training and English classes.
In 1943, Chinese immigrants were able to become U.S. citizens, but according to the National Women's History Museum and the National Park Service records, it is not known if Mabel Ping-Hua Lee ever became a U.S. citizen or voted. However, her activism in support of women's suffrage helped to make voting rights a reality for many other women.
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee died in 1966. In July 2018, Congress authorized the renaming of a post office in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan. It is now named in honor of Mabel Lee.
Working Women's History Project
Please contact us through Amy Laiken
Amy@wwhpchicago.org


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Tech UPTechnologyChina's 'artificial sun' reaches 70 million degrees for 17...
Tech UPTechnology
China's 'artificial sun' reaches 70 million degrees for 17 minutes
The record was set on December 30, 2021. The 'artificial sun' nuclear fusion reactor in Hefei, China, set a new world record after operating at 70 million °C for 1,056 seconds, more than 17 minutes. It is the longest lifetime for an experimental advanced superconducting tokamak fusion power (ESTE) reactor , Xinhua News Agency reports.
What happens in this reactor emulates the reactions that take place in stars like our own Sun. That is, nuclear fusion energy works by colliding heavy hydrogen atoms to form helium, releasing large amounts of energy, mimicking the process that occurs naturally. in the core of stars.
Seeking unlimited, emission-free energy
Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) kept the plasma at fusion temperatures of 120 million degrees Celsius, breaking its own record set just seven months earlier. Recall that the core of the Sun, where hydrogen fusion takes place, is at a temperature of "only" 15 million degrees Celsius.
The reactor also broke a record last May when it ran for 101 seconds at a temperature of 120 million °C. This time it has been a considerably longer time.
Announced by the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP), this is an incredible milestone. On Earth, reactors need higher temperatures because the stars' fabulous pressures keep hydrogen at bay . As terrestrial reactors cannot recreate these pressures, temperatures of at least 100 million degrees centigrade are required -it is the magic number of nuclear fusion- to achieve the fusion process. The goal is to release huge amounts of energy, extract it and convert it into electricity.
Succeeding in generating usable amounts of energy through nuclear fusion would change the world, but it 's incredibly difficult to pull off. It implies replicating the processes that take place in the heart of a star , as we have seen, and it is a titanic process. In fact, one of the most difficult elements to achieve is keeping superheated plasma confined for long periods of time to cultivate longer reaction times. The problem is that all this results in a chaotic and turbulent process, prone to instabilities, resulting in leaks.
The merger still has a long way to go despite this great milestone. At the moment, much more energy is coming in than we can get out of the fusion generator . And to achieve viable nuclear fusion, scientists must show that they can produce more energy than fusion reactors need to run.
EAST is just one of many nuclear fusion experiments that exist around the world. Other nuclear fusion experiments include MIT's Bill Gates-backed SPARC and South Korea's KSTAR, which recently broke a record by keeping superheated plasma at a million degrees for 30 seconds.
They create the most detailed 3D map of the universe and it is spectacular
The map, under construction, now includes 7.5 million galaxies. When complete, it will contain information from 35 million galaxies.
China is building an artificial moon
The artificial moon has a low-gravity environment to help us dig deeper into our satellite.
They detect a possible second supermoon outside the solar system
This moon, which would orbit a planet the size of Jupiter, is almost three times larger than Earth. More observations are needed to confirm the finding.
The cosmic bubble that surrounds the Sun is the source of all nearby stars
A team of astrophysicists has demonstrated this by means of a 3D model of the origin of the Local Bubble, some 500 light-years in diameter.
A large asteroid will approach Earth next week
More than twice the size of the Empire State Building, asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) will pass five times the distance to the Moon.
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The oldest 'Homo sapiens' lived 35,000 years earlier than previously thought
They discover the first exoplanet that does not have a spherical shape


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