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Can industrial cadets help you conquer the skills shortage?
The Industrial Cadets scheme aims to help address skills shortage affecting manufacturing. We had the pleasure of being introduced to the scheme by one of Worcester's largest employers, Yamazaki Mazak, a leading global manufacturer of machine tools.
Mazak has 11 production plants including the 29,000 square metre production facility at its EU Headquarters in Worcester. Mazak is one of the world's leaders in machine tool production and 50% of all the machines installed in Europe were manufactured at the UK facility. The components are produced on Mazak's own machines before being assembled on site and shipped to customers.
Mazak machines are in action around the globe making parts as varied as those used in jet engines, knee replacements and even McLaren race cars. The top end machines include sophisticated robotic and connected technology and cost upwards of a million pounds. Accordingly, you may conclude that Mazak's customer base is predominately large corporates but Non Executive Director Marcus Burton, was keen to stress that over 60% of orders are from SMEs. Marcus has a particular interest in supporting SME manufacturers in the UK; indeed, his aim is for Mazak to enable such customers to deliver customised products for the same price as an off-the-shelf item using Mazak's multi-tasking computer controlled machine tools.
Industrial Cadets: addressing the skills shortage
It was Teruyuki Yamazaki that developed the strategy that ensured the rapid international growth of his Japanese family owned business. His philosophy was based on strong management principles and a belief that marketing must come first – even for an industrial product manufacturer. He was determined that his company would adapt to changes in the market so keeping abreast of changes in both customer needs and technological advancements has always been critical. Mazak has a keen eye for product development, with many of its current product range being introduced within the last three years, the company remains true to this principle almost one hundred years since its foundation.
In order to maintain its reputation for forward-thinking, Mazak knew that it needed to attract younger employees who would offer a new perspective on how to do things. It also recognised that as an employer it had a responsibility for helping address the skills shortage. After operating an apprenticeship programme for many years, Marcus found himself discussing ways to attract younger talent to industry with HRH Prince Charles when he visited Mazak's manufacturing plant at Worcester in 2013. Before the conversation was over, Marcus had pledged to join the Industrial Cadets scheme, of which Prince Charles is the patron. Prince Charles immediately announced this intention to the audience of Mazak employees ensuring that the commitment was binding!
Industrial Cadets sees manufacturers of all sizes commit to providing a worthwhile work experience programme for 11-19 year-olds. Mazak's scheme is for predominately Year Ten students (ages 14 to 15). In the words of Chris Morris, Learning and Development Advisor, it is like the 'Duke of Edinburgh Award for work experience.'
Initially, there was some internal resistance from those expected to help deliver the programme. This, coupled with low initial interest from local schools – just one teacher turned up to its first teacher education event – would have made it easy to shelve the initiative, but Marcus's conviction that employers should share the responsibility for addressing skills shortages with schools, coupled with his Royal promise, ensured that the company persevered.
Since then, the programme has gone from strength to strength and now the company welcomes groups of six pupils, selected from a pool of local schools, several times a year. Having experienced kick back when introducing the scheme, Chris wryly admits that he would now experience the same response if the company were to leave the scheme. The fifty-strong cross-functional team which supports the Cadets thoroughly enjoy the change of routine brought by an influx of youngsters and Chris is often stopped and asked when the next cohort is due. Such employee engagement is a far cry from the early days when a small number employees supported the first group of Cadets. Matt Farmer, Electrical specialist, said that "The cadets have brought youth and exuberance to everyday factory life. They put a genuine smile on my face!"
The Cadet Experience
A week away from a school-desk is incentive enough for many students to consider work experience anywhere, but the Mazak experience gives Cadets an immersive insight into the world of work. Cadets are provided with their Mazak uniform on their first day so they immediately feel part of the family. Over the course of the week, they take part in hands-on activities, including team building challenges, and hear presentations from many different departments. This builds a picture for them of the business as a whole and helps them identify how their skills and interests would fit into a manufacturing organisation. At the end of the week, teachers and parents are invited in to hear the Cadets present on their experience. For many, it is a nerve-wracking introduction to public speaking within a formal auditorium environment but they soon flourish in the supportive atmosphere.
Chris explains that the level of commitment shown by the company is clearly appreciated by the Cadets themselves, as well as their teachers and families. Recently, one Cadet proudly reflected on his week's activities, favourably comparing them to his friend who had spent his work experience week manually shredding documents for a local solicitors. Another Cadet's parents thanked Chris, explaining that they felt they had 'got their son back' after a period of him being so disengaged at school that pastoral support had been necessary.
The impact of the Cadet programme can be felt many years after. Each Cadet finishes their work experience with a portfolio of their work, including video footage of their performance in activities, which they can use to demonstrate their skills to potential employers.
A Flexible Framework
Mazak clearly has more available resource than many smaller manufacturers but the Industrial Cadet programme's flexible framework means that it is accessible to all sizes of business. Participating employers are encouraged to choose the level of commitment which is right for them from Challenger (offering taster activities) and Bronze (20 hours) through to Platinum which requires placement activities. Mazak's Silver level (30 hours) was no barrier to success at the Industrial Cadets' Awards earlier this year when the firm won the 'Employer of the Year' Award, which was handed to them in person by Prince Charles. Some of Mazak's Cadets were even on hand at the ceremony to share in the excitement.
Unexpected benefits for Mazak
Although the scheme is separate to Mazak's apprenticeship programme, it has helped generate more applications for their apprenticeships. Mazak take on 17 to 20 apprentices a year from a pool of around 160 applicants, compared to the three or four the company took on just a few years ago. Some of Mazak's current apprentices have been Industrial Cadets at the company in the past.
A strong example of this is current Year 3 sheet metal apprentice, Harry Fuller, who took part when he was at a local school in 2014. In the final year of his GCSEs, he successfully applied to work in the sheet metal department of the business. Roles within this section were historically a challenge to attract talent, however, he was drawn to it as a result of his experience with the company. In 2017, he was awarded the Personal Development Award at Worcestershire Group Training Association's annual award ceremony. As he enters the final part of his apprenticeship, he has excelled and is completing the cycle by being actively involved with the current groups of cadets that partake in the scheme.
Mazak's Top Tips for Addressing the Skills Shortage
Find out if joining the Industrial Cadets scheme is right for you.
Decide on the level of commitment you can make
Build relationships with local schools
Appoint organisational STEM Ambassadors
Promote the organisation at careers events and/or site visits
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 Liu Bang, rei Han, derrota Xiang Yu de l'Estat de Chu a la batalla de Gaixian, que posa fi a la disputa Chu-Han. Liu Bang s'autoproclama emperador de la Xina i oficialment comença la dinastia Han, amb capital a Xi'an
 Comença la construcció de Changsha (Xina)
 19 d'octubre - Batalla de Zama entre romans i cartaginesos amb victòria dels primers, combat que posa fi a la Segona Guerra Púnica
 Masinissa I comença el seu regnat a Numídia
 Fi del regnat de Shalishuka a l'Imperi Maurya

Naixements
 Wen, emperador xinès de la dinastia Han (mort el 157 aC).

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Did Barack Obama Just Appoint An Under-qualified Stooge and Privatizer Secretary of Education?
Black Agenda Report\'s Bruce Dixon interviews Chicago educator and activist George Schmidt
by Bruce Dixon / December 31st, 2008
The short answer seems to be "yes." Before being appointed CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, Arne Duncan never saw the inside of a classroom as a teacher. This is probably a good thing, since Duncan does not possess the academic qualifications to be even a substitute teacher. Worse still, Duncan's idea of improving inner-city schools in Chicago is handing them over to corporate-run charter schools or converting them to military academies. This, says longtime Chicago educator and activist George Schmidt, is not the change we voted for.
This is a transcript of a December 22, 2008 Bruce Dixon interview with longtime Chicago educator and activist George Schmidt broadcast on WRFG 89.3 FM Atlanta.
Bruce Dixon: Our next guest George Schmidt was a Chicago Public School teacher for 28 years. A longtime union activist, he was once a candidate for presidency of the 28,000 member Chicago Teachers Union, one of the largest union locals of any kind in the nation. He is a founding member of Substance and Substance News, an organization and a newspaper originally founded to represent the views of Chicago's substitute teachers. Substance News, which you can find online at substancenews.net is still required reading for anybody who wants an unfiltered view of the road public education has taken in Chicago and nationwide over the last two decades. How you doing Mr. Schmidt?
George Schmidt: It's been a fun week, to be sure.
BD: We've got a lot to cover. Can you tell us about your own background for the first minute or so of this?
GS: Well, I spent almost all my public school teaching career in the inner city high schools of Chicago, starting at Dusable in the upper grade center, and teaching at schools like Manley, Marshall, Collins and Tilden. My last years of teaching were at Bowen High School on the city's far south side near the Indiana border where I taught English and where I also served as union delegate and what we called the school security coordinator. During those years I was also very active in the union, as you pointed out. At one point I got over 40% of the vote in a race for president of the Chicago Teachers Union, but I didn't win.
BD: Yeah, it takes a little more than 40%. Well, we're talking to Mr. Schmidt because last week president-elect Barack Obama tapped Arne Duncan, who heads the Chicago Public Schools to be his Secretary of Education. Now Chicago has the third largest school system in the nation, so if you can make it work for the citizens of Chicago maybe you ought to get a chance to do it nationwide. So how's it working in Chicago, man?
GS: Basically, it's not. It's not working for the majority of children in the city and it's certainly not working for the majority of teachers. In order to understand how that particular sentence can be nuanced, you have to understand two things. The first is the dominance of the corporate narrative of "school reform". In 1995 democratic control of the Chicago Public Schools was taken out of the hands of parents, teachers and citizens and put into the hands of Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley. A new law which was passed by the all-Republican state government at the time gave Mayor Daley the power to appoint a seven member school board eventually — at first he appointed a five member thing that was called the School Reform Board of Trustees — and the power to appoint a newly created chief executive officer based on the corporate model to run the Chicago Public Schools. Daley was also given power over the entire school system's budget, and for the first time in 17 years, the school system was freed from the oversight of an outside entity called the School Finance Authority.
What Daley did since then was basically massively increase the public relations spin that was put on every activity performed in Chicago, to the point where the gap between the reality of the public schools we have in our city and the claims that have been made about them is as great as any between fact and fiction anywhere on the planet.
BD: We hear a lot about "reforming education." I'm from Chicago, and back in the 80s when I was involved in school reform, school reform meant giving more power to parents and to rank and file teachers, power to determine curriculum, even to let parents evaluate the performance of teachers and programs and principals. You talked about the corporate narrative of school reform. Just what is that?
GS: The corporate narrative is the dictatorial model that you get in any corporation under a chief executive officer or CEO. And just as it's failed now miserably in corporate America, with the collapse of Wall Street and the finance industry, it's failed in the public schools as well. But just as a year ago you would find very few dissenters on the private sector analogy so today we still find not a loud enough voice for those who dissent against the claims that the corporate model (of education reform) has succeeded. Basically what you're talking about by the late 1980s we had one of the most democratic models – with a small d – of school improvement anywhere in the United States. In 1988 Illinois passed a law which gave an elected Local School council of ten or eleven members the power at every school to hire and fire the principal to set curriculum and to have an enormous say over the budget. The majority of those Local School Council members were parents. Those of us who were active at the time participated in those elections and those processes.
BD: So that was school reform in the eighties.
GS: That was school reform in the eighties, and that grew primarily out of the work of Harold Washington who we elected mayor of the city of Chicago in 1983 in a mass movement that locally rivaled the mass movement which just elected Barack Obama president of the United States.
BD: So now we've replaced democratic school reform that gave parents the power with what exactly? I understand one of Arne's pet things is giving public high schools over to the US military.
GS: Yeah, that's one example of several and it's a very good one. Beginning in the first days of the 21st century, literally Chicago instituted military high schools. And we're not talking about high schools that have ROTC programs, we're talking about high schools that are run by and for the military. The first of those was established in the heart of Bronzeville, the south side community at 35th and Giles, in the old armory there. It's now the Chicago Military Academy. Since then they've set up two more army high schools. Carver and Phoenix, a Marine high school and a naval academy which is named the Hyman Rickover Naval Academy inside Senn High School.
BD: Except for the naval academy operation inside Senn High School all of these are in African American communities, are they not?
GS: Yes they are.
HG: George this is Heather Gray. Is this a model that's in other parts of the country as well? Are other cities doing this?
GS: No.
HG: So this is unique to Chicago.
GS: This is unique to Chicago. Most places where you have more democracy, even where you have this CEO type dictatorship now, the citizens are better positioned to resist it than we are here in Chicago.
BD: In Chicago, for the benefit of our audience, we're in Atlanta, GA now, the mayor is Richard Daley. 2009 marks his 20th year in office. His father was the mayor too for almost as long, from about 1956 if I remember right to 1975, I think, eighteen or nineteen years. So out of the last fifty or so years, for forty of them the city of Chicago has been run by the Daley clique, the Daley Regime, or as we call it in Chicago, the Machine. Arne Duncan, is he a product of the Machine.
GS: Exactly, Daley as I pointed out, in 1995 was given dictatorial power over the Chicago Public School system. It was based upon the lie that the system as a whole had failed, and the repetition of that lie from the eighties on. Daley has appointed two CEOs and roughly two school boards since then. Both of the CEOs have been white non-educators who replaced African American educators. Both of the CEOs had no experience in education or in corporate America. This is an important point since it's supposedly a corporate model. They were fundamentally political puppets who would do his bidding.
BD: The predecessor to Mr. Duncan (in Chicago) he's a guy named Paul Vallas, isn't he?
GS: That's true. Mr. Vallas came to the chief education job in Chicago through his position as budget director at City Hall under Mayor Daley.
HG: George, just going back to the military model (of education) again. What have been Barack Obama's comments about this, if any at all.
"The gap between the reality of the public schools we have in our city and the claims that have been made about them is as great as any between fact and fiction anywhere on the planet."
GS: I haven't heard comment from Barack Obama himself, and I've known him since he was in the Illinois State Senate, and I was working for the Chicago Teachers Union. Never to my knowledge, and that may be contradicted by something on the record did he comment on this assault on the openness of Chicago high schools. But his newly incoming chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel has been a proud proponent of the military academies and even bragged on one occasion I was covering a press conference and he was with Mayor Daley that he got a million dollar earmark specifically for the military academies while he was in the US House of Representatives as my congressman.
BD: So it does say something that out of all the superintendents of school systems, CEOs or whatever nationwide, Barack Obama reached around and found one that not only liked the corporate model but liked the military model too. Since we're talking about Chicago's unique contribution to education on the national stage, let's stick with Paul Vallas. You said Paul Vallas got his start just an average guy on the budget team on the City Hall budget team, where did Mr. Vallas go after leaving the Chicago Public Schools"
GS: After Daley dumped Vallas in 2001, he was picked up by Tom Ridge, the governor of Pennsylvania who was trying to privatize the Philadelphia school system. Vallas was made head of the Philadelphia school system in mid 2002 after a failed attempt to get himself elected governor of Illinois. He ran Philadelphia for four years I believe, the chronology may be a little off. Presently he's been sent to New Orleans where the public school system has been obliterated after Hurricane Katrina and replaced by a system of primarily charter schools, many of which have been modeled on the charter school privatization plans originally hatched here in Chicago.
BD: Arne Duncan is going to be the nation's number one guy on education. Surely this guy must have years and years of classroom and administrative experience,
GS: Wrong. He has none.
BD: So he's never been in a classroom?
BD: Except as a student, perhaps.
GS: He talks now, as he tries to brush over his resume, about how when he was a student at the privileged University of Chicago Lab School where his father was a professor at the University of Chicago, that after school he would go to a tutoring program his mother ran in that area north of the University of Chicago called Kenwood, where he apparently, according to Arne's narrative helped poor black children with their homework. That's the extent of Arne Duncan's actual educational experience or praxis. His career after Harvard, where he supposedly got a BA in Sociology, I've never got to see a resume, was in professional basketball…
HG: What do you mean you haven't been allowed to see a resume? Why do you say that? You've asked for a resume and you've never seen one?
GS: For the past 14 years we've asked for the curriculum vitaes and resumes of top officials of the Chicago Public Schools under the Freedom of Information Act. And the answer we get every time we repeat this request is that this is classified privileged personnel information.
BD: Of course the new Obama administration is pledged to openness and transparency everywhere, so I'm sure that Arne's resumes and cv's and all that will surface really soon.
GS: If that's the case, people are going to find out that he spent most of his adult life either playing basketball or working with some very wealthy financiers from his old neighborhood of Hyde Park in Chicago.
BD: Since we are talking about applying this Chicago model of public education nationwide, what has the regime of high stakes testing and closing schools that don't meet testing goals which is now national policy thanks to No Child Left Behind meant to Chicago — oh, and one other thing I'd like to see if I can get your comment on is that Hillary Clinton at one point said let's repeal No Child Left Behind while Barack was saying, well, he didn't quite say mend it but don't end it, but something like that. So what has the regime of high stakes testing done for African Americans in Chicago and public education in Chicago?
GS: Basically the vast majority of the schools that have been closed for supposed academic failure, which means low test scores, have been those schools which served a population of 100% poor black children via a staff that was almost always majority black teachers and usually a black principal. Since Arne Duncan took over in 2001, he has closed over 20 elementary schools. Most of them have been privatized into charter schools, and he's closed six high schools. In all the cases I know of, the majority of the staffs of those schools who were then kicked out of union jobs and forced on the road to try to get new jobs, were majority black teachers and principals, many of which I knew personally. The six high schools he closed, Austin HS, Calumet HS, Collins HS, Englewood HS, Orr HS, and Harper HS, were either all black, in the case of five of them, or majority black and Latino in the case of Orr. That's the active record of what Arne Duncan has done in his school closings for which Barack Obama has praised him. .
BD: We're not seeing much of any criticism of Barack Obama's nominations, especially not this nomination…I understand there was a meeting of the Chicago Board of Education soon after the nomination was announced, and some people who were at that meeting took issue with the nomination. Can you tell us about that?
GS: If you don't mind I'll give you a six day backup of that. The teaser stories began on December 11. On that day, Margaret Spelling, who's George Bush's Secretary of Education came to Chicago to stand on stage with Arne Duncan and Mayor Daley and praise the (teacher) merit pay plan that they'd introduced jointly, and to say that Arne Duncan was the same type of educational leader that she and George Bush favored. By Monday the 15th, word was out around Chicago that Duncan was probably the front runner for the Secretary of Education…
BD: He plays ball with the president-elect
GS: Exactly. On the night of the 15th it was made official. Barack Obama held a press conference with Joe Biden at Dodge School on the 16th. On the 17th, the Board of Education had its regular monthly meeting scheduled for downtown Chicago. Even though they apparently, expected it to be a love fest for Arne Duncan, what happened was that more than a dozen teachers and community activists from seven schools got up and exposed Duncan's public record of sabotaging public education, of privatizing schools, of union busting, and of fraudulently cooking the educational statistics books. By the middle of the meeting Duncan had walked out for an hour and these testimonies continued to go on. By the end of the meeting members of the board were heatedly arguing with the teachers, and after the meeting two of the teachers were threatened. Members of Duncan's staff called their principals demanding to know why they had been allowed to take the day off work to talk about Arne Duncan's crimes (against public education) before a school board meeting.
BD: Now I haven't been to a meeting of the Chicago Board of Education in a long time, but it's hard to believe that the day after Duncan had been tapped to be Secretary of Education, it's hard to believe that room wasn't full of corporate media. We haven't seen or heard anything about this. Have we? Or did I miss it?
GS: No, the dog and pony shows were on the 16th, at Dodge School where Barack Obama made the announcement with Duncan sitting there. At the Board of Education (meeting), one of the most interesting things that happened… was that not one of the TV stations was there to film or video any of this activity during the board meeting. The only photographer there besides me, because I cover every board meeting for Substance, was a woman from the Chicago Tribune and the only photograph the Tribune did was of Barbara Easton Watkins, who according to speculation here is in line to succeed Duncan here in Chicago. The TV stations boycotted the meeting completely, the story in the Tribune was a wacky one that ignored most of what happened in the meeting. The Sun-Times which is our other major daily newspaper covered the meeting slightly accurately, and NPR had a reporter there who missed 98% of what was actually going on, typical for the way Chicago Public Radio has been covering this type of story.
BD: The regime of high stakes testing and closing schools that came into national prominence which became national policy with No Child Left Behind, then is going to be with us for a while. What does that do to public education? Does it work?
GS: First of all, it has gradients. As soon as I say this you'll know what I am talking about. Public education in the United States is not a unified system of equal access for all children. It's a highly stratified system of at least four or five components. In the wealthy suburbs of any major city you'll find some of the best public schools anywhere on the planet. In Chicago we're talking about Wilmette, Winetka, the north shore, Glen Ellyn in the western suburbs, where the high schools are just everything you could want for your children if you could only afford a home in those areas.
BD: OK.
GS: You move from there and you have rural schools in some of the most challenging schools in some of the most desolate parts of rural North Dakota or Montana. When you get to our cities and the immediate suburbs which have declined industrially too, right now what we have is a three part system, Chicago is the exemplar of that. We have a magnet school system which selects kids on the basis of IQ scores and test scores in kindergarten or the first grade, and keeps them in that magnet school system for twelve years, and that's one of the best school systems you'll find anywhere. Michelle Obama is a graduate of Whitney Young High School, which is a part of that system, the magnet and elite schools in Chicago…
BD: We're down to our last minute and a half…
GS: Well then, basically… the place where the impact of high stakes testing has been most devastating has been in those schools which serve the poorest children with the fewest resources and in the most challenging environments. In that area, the schools have not been improved, but instead the teachers and schools have been under attack for failing at things the society has never taken responsibility for.
BD: Last question, if you can do this in ten or twenty seconds or so, people in their millions or tens of millions voted for change. Insofar as education goes, are we gonna get it?
GS: If this the kind of change we needed, then I am still glad I voted for Barack Obama. I'm proud I was able to publish pictures of him and our colleagues. But this is not the kind of change we needed or we hoped for here in Chicago, we the people who supported that man, and who've known him and his wife for years and years.
Bruce Dixon is the managing editor of the Black Agenda Report, where this article first appeared. Read other articles by Bruce, or visit Bruce's website.
This article was posted on Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 at 8:00am and is filed under Activism, Children/Youth, Classism, Democrats, Education.
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Venerable J said on December 31st, 2008 at 10:57am #
We got clowned by Obama's pick of Duncan. A school district and larger community should be judged by the real support it gives neighborhood schools to become high performing schools. Duncan and the Chicago School Board follow the script written with the Chicago Commerce Club to ensure neighborhood schools fail and that their cronies are able to build charter schools. The Duncan recipe is to not give neighborhood schools in Chicago a longer instructional day that is necessary and not an option!!! Neighborhood school staff need time built in during the day to look at student work and other important data to strategize the next steps. A staff as a whole needs to be on the same page and work together. While CPS asks much of their neighborhood schools, they do not give the most needy schools the freedom and support they need, but do the opposite, put shackles on staff and the curriculum are told to offer our students. It is a crime on some of the curriculum that teachers are ordered to implement in the classroom in our neediest schools!!! Sorry, but I think Obama clowned us on his choice of Duncan. When you look at Duncan's record from multiple perspectives, he comes up way short!
HR said on December 31st, 2008 at 12:47pm #
Ho, hum. More buyer's remorse. I have little sympathy for those who bought the snake oil Obama peddled.
Tree said on December 31st, 2008 at 12:59pm #
It may be obvious to many that Obama is not what his supporters believe him to be, but it's still good to be informed of who he appoints and what their agendas are.
HR said on December 31st, 2008 at 1:07pm #
To anyone who actually listened during the campaign, it was clear just exactly what sorts of people Obama would appoint. This article provided no new information at all.
In fact, my characterization of this article is that it is nothing more than pseudoprogressive whining, which I have come to expect from those who rejected the real change offered by the likes of Kucinich, Nader, and McKinney in favor of the meaningless babble of "hope and change" and "yes we can" offered by the maintainer-of-the-status-quo-elect.
Brian said on December 31st, 2008 at 4:41pm #
Thank you, George, for excellent analysis.
Sadly, the NEA, has endorsed this horrible choice.
Michael Hureaux said on December 31st, 2008 at 5:56pm #
Thanks for the snotty dismissal of the concerns about public education expressed here, HR, lthough I have to add to your commentary that the rough equivalent of what you call a "pseudoprogressive" is righteous posturing from people who presume that the ultimate end of a radical democratic effort is casting a vote for a third party candidate. Assuming that national elections are the be-all to end all of what is called progressive politics in the United States, you might have a point. But suppose there are those of us who view the presidential election and a "third party" presence in that election as little more than a propagandizing effort for independent radical politics? Suppose there are those of us who continue to rally for independent radical politics at the base in between election years, as well as during the big contests? Suppose we're people who actively support the ideas engendered by a third party campaign, go out and support that candidate, argue against the mainstream, and build a continuing base of activists for an independent radical politics? Does an errant vote for a "democrat" once in a blue moon cancel out all our other work?
Given that the topic here is mobilization of a working class base of teachers and parents opposing privatization in the public schools, and the further development of such a base beyond any national vote, I think your critique of George Schmidt is pretty cheesey. I don't think Schmidt is looking for the sympathy of any of the hardliners here, you can do whatever you like. I think he's talking about the looming destruction of public education. He's not whining. He's in the trenches if he's been teaching in the urban schools. Where do you teach, HR? How come you don't have to engage with any of the concrete problems Schmidt poses here? How come you're allowed to look on from a distance and condemn his mistakes? Do you have some magic bullet for organizing teachers and parents that we urban teachers need to get hip to? If so, where are you? Your input is welcome. But not if you begin by condemning all of the hard work put forward by Substance, and other militant efforts brought forward by working teachers. Christ, isn't there anything he's got right here? How come you know so much you don't have to grapple with the problems he's outlined? If you're so concerned about the problems the candidacies of Nader and McKinney brought forward, what do you have to offer during these years we try to hold a resistance together against the more sophisticated wave of reaction represented by Obama? It's great you can see the larger picture. But your take on this stuff sounds top-down to me, since you don't have to talk about the issues posed here by what you're critiquing. And why should any of us trust that?
In fact, the task in front of us is
The Angry Peasant said on December 31st, 2008 at 6:32pm #
I have listened to the likes of Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, both of whom I admire, say that we should vote for the lesser of two evils, and hope for the best. This is baffling to me, that great thinkers like these can subscribe to this sort of defeatism. Nobody should vote for a Republican or Democrat. Period. No, it doesn't negate the efforts of progressives to do so, but it does send a message that we're willing to play the corporate rulers' corrupt game. Better to vote your conscience, I say. Perhaps the argument to vote for the lesser of two evils might have held sway twenty or even ten years ago, but let's face it—the Democrat Party has been utterly, shamefully corrupted by wealth and power. They are Republicans for all intents and purposes. No good will come from Obama, I assure you. None. And who knows? Maybe after the shit finally starts hitting the fan in regards to the general public's tolerance of this horrid system (and I believe it will; probably after the people see that Obama is the very antithesis of what they thought they voted for), you may just see a third party candidate finally get some substantial voting returns. Maybe three or four elections from now, a Nader or a Gravel or a Paul might just have a shot. Everything is spiraling down so fast now in America, it probably won't take even that longBut one shouldn't give up and vote for a war-mongering monster like Obama. It's inexcusable.
Michael, more pseudoprogressive rationalizing. People who turn their backs on candidates who offer REAL hope for change in favor of snake-oil-selling machine politicians get the government they deserve. All your rationalizing and excuse making won't change that.
kalidas said on January 1st, 2009 at 9:16am #
"A society of cheaters and the cheated."
bozh said on January 1st, 2009 at 10:35am #
angry paesano,
i, too, shook when i read that the socalled leftists were advising people to vote for socalled lesser evil.
to me, voting for O meant voting for samecons and sam evil or even greater evil.
thse people r closet leftists. thnx
kalidas said on January 1st, 2009 at 9:27pm #
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Mencken
Rene Levesque said on January 8th, 2009 at 8:56am #
Wait, wait….you mean to say that the old boss is the same as the new boss?
Who really thought that Barry was going to be different?
Oh wait…. it wasnt as much as they believed in his BS as much as they despised the other side.
I still have gay friends who truly believe that Obama is for gay weddings just like I have hippy friends who think he is 'anti-war' even with the hawks in his administration and the stench of the Clintons on him (I was in europe when the democrats had their own Iraq BS and bombing in support of muslim terrorists when Bin Laden was our friend and there were mass demonstrations against the US throughout the continent that my family back home never heard anything about. We didnt start getting hated because of Bush the idiot.) I heard tech shows who rave that teh new prez is tech savvy yet their own research gave him a lower mark on tech issues that the old crusty McCainausorus.
Its not what you say or do but what people THINK you say or do.
Its going to be the exact same thing as before but with better PR spin and if we bomb and kill people it will be because of humanitarian bombings (Im looking at you Sudan and teh billions that the chinese have invested in your oil. Were gonna come and save you soon)
The color of a man's skin is of no importance if he can do the job but I despise the idea that somehow your skin color makes you better or different than others.
We had Condi Rice and Colin Powell in high power positions and blacks can be as big d**ks as whites.
Barry is a smooth SOB but he wont be different than any other in his position.
Dont confuse Ron Paul with Barry.
As much as Bush was bad, we sort of knew it (sure, no one said a word inpublic until 2006). Barry will be able to finesse his way into these kind of decisions and have it slide off him in a way we would have never allowed Shrub Jr to do.
In other words, were screwed.

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One of my best friends has been asking me to start DDP Yoga with him. He did it once already and was looking for a friend to help keep him accountable for another 13 week round of it. He knows my love for yoga – so he sent me the DVD's. This week I'm going to do 3 days of DDP Yoga. (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) I did the first round of it last night. Its like yoga but caffeinated! It gets your heart pumping just as good as my real appeal workouts last week. I am committed to doing this 13 week journey of DDP Yoga and then we'll see how things go. Both workouts (Real Appeal & DDPY) were great at getting me moving and even hitting some muscles that haven't worked hard in a long. However, I think it'll be good for me to have an accountability buddy.
This week – I'm going to add some more veggies to my diet. You know that I kid and say I'm allergic to vegetables, but seriously, I don't like them! My goal is to slowly add a bit more every day. I picked up some frozen brown rice & veggie mixes, and I'm eating my way thru a head of celery. I know celery probably isn't the best, but its one that I like, so I'm going to count that for now! 🙂 I'm trying to get away from my favorite snacks like chips or even chocolate.
Oh and I did gain half a pound since last week. I had a delightful Easter weekend and I'm ok with the gain. I didn't put on a ton of weight in a week – and its not going to come off that easily. So I'm taking baby steps towards being healthier and eating better.


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Bulldogs fall to Golden Bears
Published 9:02 pm Wednesday, December 5, 2018
By Tyler Julson
Lake Mills senior Kristyn Throne dribbles around a defender Tuesday night at home. The Bulldogs would lose to the Golden Bears 48-42 and fall to 1-3 on the season. - Lory Groe/For the Albert Lea Tribune
Lake Mills boys' and girls' basketball teams fall to Bishop Garrigan
The Lake Mills boys' and girls' basketball teams hosted Bishop Garrigan on Tuesday night, with both teams looking to continue their success from the previous games.
Girls' team rallies, but falls short
On the girls' side, the Bulldogs mounted a late-game comeback that fell just short in the end, as they fell to the Golden Bears 48-42.
It was a game of turnovers for Lake Mills in the first quarter, but despite giving the ball up multiple times, the Lake Mills defense held strong as it was a fairly even score heading into the second quarter.
Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, their turnover struggles continued into the second quarter and allowed the Golden Bears to climb to a 12-point lead as the teams headed to the locker rooms at halftime.
The Bulldogs roared back into the game late in the third quarter to tie the game back up. However, they were never able to claim the lead, as the Golden Bears knocked down a couple of free throws to seal the game in the end.
"I knew that if we took care of the ball and started attacking the rim, we could get ourselves back into the game, and we did just that," said head coach Garrett Patterson. "Late in the third quarter we tied the game up. We couldn't take the lead, and were down four late. Needing to foul to get the ball back, Bishop Garrigan sealed the game by making their free throws down the stretch. We played our best ball of the season at times, we just need to string four quarters together."
Lake Mills was led in scoring by junior Jessa Gasteiger with 17 points; junior Kate Groe was second with 10 points.
The Bulldogs fall to 1-3 on the season and will be back on the court Monday when they host the Panthers of Central Springs.
Colby Groe takes a shot from beyond the arc Tuesday against Bishop-Garrigan. The Bulldogs went on to lose to the Golden Bears despite leading by 12 at halftime. – Lory Groe/For the Albert Lea Tribune
Late comeback defeats boys' team
In the boys' game, the Bulldogs held the lead for a majority of the time, but were unable to hold on down the stretch, losing 64-52.
At halftime, Lake Mills had a comfortable 12-point lead over Bishop-Garrigan and was still leading by eight heading into the fourth quarter.
However, the Golden Bears would go on a tear in the final quarter, outscoring the Bulldogs 31-11 to turn the table and win the game.
The Bulldogs were led in scoring by junior Chett Helming with 21 points; junior Colby Groe had nine and sophomore Caleb Bacon had eight.
The Bulldogs drop their first game of the season and fall to 2-1. They will also be back in action Monday when they host Central Springs.
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Chelsea Clinton's Heartfelt Confession: "I Was Curious If I Could Care About Money And I Couldn't"
So now it is damage control. As Bloomberg reports, "Hillary Clinton will test today whether she can still drive home a populist message, even after handing critics in both parties an argument that she's lost touch with the public. She'll speak in Denver at a Clinton Global Initiative forum on "economic justice," just as she tries to rebound from a round of comments in which she suggested that she and former President Bill Clinton aren't really rich."
At least hypocrisy knows some bonds and the forum isn't called "economic injustice."
But what likely hurt her attempt to appear as "one of us" namely the peasant proletariat (despite her bank account), are comments by her daughter Chelsea, who as a reminder is married to a hedge funder, whose turn it is now to insist she isn't "well-off" according to a recent interview, in which she claims she couldn't care less about money.
"I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn't," she told Fast Company in an interview that ran in the magazine's May edition, explaining why she gave up lucrative gigs to join her family's philanthropic foundation.
Perhaps the reason why Chelsea can't care about money (at some fundamental level) is because she has more of it than she can spend in one lifetime?
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Home » Analysis & Comment » Opinion | Women Are Having Fewer Babies Because They Have More Choices
Opinion | Women Are Having Fewer Babies Because They Have More Choices
American women are having fewer children and having them later than ever before — a demographic shift being met with significant consternation from the left and right alike.
For conservatives, the fact that more women are putting off parenthood or forgoing it entirely is evidence of a dangerous decline in traditional family values. In this framing, women have been manipulated into putting their educational and professional aspirations ahead of motherhood, contributing to a broader cultural breakdown.
Liberals make the (better) case that birth declines are clearly tied to policy, with potential mothers deterred by the lack of affordable child care and the absence of universal health care, adequate paid parental leave and other basic support systems. Couple that with skyrocketing housing prices, high rates of student loan debt and stagnant wages and it's no surprise that so many women say: "Children? In this economy?"
Either way, the baby bust, if that's what it is, is cast negatively. Both liberals and conservatives point to shifting demographic trends as a kind of failure: of the family, of women and of a culture compromised by feminist ambition; or of the state, of capitalism and of our family-unfriendly workplaces that fuel a culture of overwork.
But what if lower birthrates are a good thing? For a great many individual women, reconsidering motherhood doesn't reflect hardship or unmet desire, but rather a new landscape of opportunity. As a country, we would be better off if we saw significant demographic changes as data points that can give us important clues about what people want, what they need and how we might improve their lives.
Birthrates are declining among women in their 20s, ticking up slightly among women in their 30s and 40s and, as a New York Times analysis found, decreasing the most significantly in counties where employment is growing. In other words, the women who are driving this downturn are those who have the most advantage and the greatest range of choices, and whose prospects look brightest.
Further, while birthrates are dropping, the total percentage of women who are mothers has risen, in part thanks to older women, college-educated women and unmarried women being more likely to have a baby than they had been. Childbearing remains overwhelmingly the norm: 86 percent of American women ages 40 to 44 are mothers. Motherhood isn't on the decline so much as motherhood is delayed, and families with one or two children are ascendant.
Thanks to feminist cultural shifts, and better access to contraceptives, more women now approach childbearing the same way we approach other major life decisions: as a choice weighed against other desires, assessed in context. Without compulsory childbearing, this assessment continues throughout women's childbearing years. The 24-year-old who says she wants children someday but is focusing on her career can easily turn into the 30-year-old who says she wants children but with the right partner. Later, she can easily become the 45-year-old who has a meaningful career, a community of people she feels connected to and a life rich in pleasure and novelty that she doesn't want to surrender. Likewise, a mother sold in theory on three children might discover her family is complete with two, or one. Is that a woman who had fewer children than she intended? Or is she someone whose intentions were largely abstract in the first place, and they shifted as she did?
Many women are surely not having as many children as they want, and policymakers should pay attention to that: Many of those women might make different decisions if they had better support. But the hard binary of child-free vs. definitely wanting children doesn't adequately capture the push-pull decision-making process that characterizes the lives of many American women.
It is still revolutionary to consider childbearing in the context of desire. Throughout human history, parenting was simply an assumed part of adult life.
But intentionality matters. Women who plan their pregnancies wind up happier, better educated and with less relationship conflict than women whose pregnancies are unintended, according to studies compiled by the Guttmacher Institute. The Institute for Family Studies found that women who have more children than their ideal are less likely to report feeling happy than women who had their ideal number and than women who had fewer children than they said they wanted.
Women the world over are having fewer children and having them later. And countries where women have the most opportunity to pursue higher education, live independently and work for pay also tend to have a higher average age of first birth and lower birthrates overall. Despite the broad lack of social support systems in the United States, the average American woman has her first child at 26.4, a younger age than the average woman in any other developed nation.
At the heart of declining birthrates in the world's most prosperous countries might be the matter of meaning. Historically, men dominated the realms of paid work, politics, economics and world affairs, while motherhood was the clearest and most acceptable path to adulthood, community respect and purpose for women. As more women either find jobs that bring in a paycheck and the attendant power of independence, or maybe even a sense of satisfaction and purpose, fewer women use motherhood as a conduit to respect and adulthood. This makes parenthood better, too: Women lucky enough to have a choice see parenthood as its own distinct path, and intentionally walking down it brings unique life experience, deep meaning, expanded potential and a relationship unlike any other — and also trades some opportunities for others.
Of course these choices are not all free, or always "choices" at all. The United States remains a wildly unequal place, and that affects women's reproductive choices. Women who want to balance career, life and their own future may be less likely to have a baby (or a second or a third) with a man who doesn't pull his own weight. And many American women are still unable to find easy access to family planning tools, including contraception and abortion.
But there are also fewer constraints on American women today than at any point in U.S. history, and many more options. The United States is also now a place where huge numbers of women of childbearing age live in dynamic communities where those their age are staying single and delaying motherhood longer than ever. Growing numbers of young women have opportunities to travel, live independently, pursue a career and simply spend many more years of their adult lives asking themselves who they are and what they want, instead of being slotted, early, into a narrow set of gendered expectations.
To be sure, for some women choosing to wait to have children, choosing to have fewer, or not have them at all, is linked to a failure of the state. But for many others, it's a sign of a more flexible and open society, populated by women who feel surer of themselves to pursue the unconventional.
Concerns about the economic impacts of lower birthrates are valid, but also shortsighted — especially given that an ever-expanding global population of wealthier people living longer is simply unsustainable. One short-term solution to an aging population is immigration. Longer-term answers come down to finding more creative ways to fund social welfare programs than dependence on unlimited population growth and placing the burden on women to create a generation of workers.
Maybe the truth is that, given a wider range of options for finding love, respect and a full life, women will choose many different paths of which motherhood or mothering a large brood are but two. Maybe the choices made by some of the luckiest and best-resourced women in the world shouldn't scare us, but should inform us that when women have more options and opportunities, women's desires become far more varied.
We should spend less time worrying about birthrates, and more time developing policies to support families of all kinds — because it's simply the right thing to do. We should couple that with an intentional shift in culture that doesn't require women to cede so much of themselves (and give up so much of their potential and so many of their other wants) when they have children. That might not result in a baby boom, but it would serve a more worthy goal: healthier families and happier citizens, each a little freer to decide for themselves what makes a good life.
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DPRK's party congress ends with vows to strive for unity, self-reliance
Asia | January 13, 2021 10:13:09 AM IST
Pyongyang [North Korea], January 13 (ANI/Xinhua): The eighth congress of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) closed here on Tuesday, reported official media on Wednesday.
Kim Jong-un, the re-elected general secretary of the WPK, concluded the congress with a speech, the official Korean Central News Agency reported.
In his speech, Kim clarified the main idea and spirit of the congress and stressed the need for the whole party to deeply cherish and uphold the ideas of "believing in people as in Heaven", "single-minded unity" and "self-reliance," according to the report.
Kim said the party's eighth congress "brought up the immediate plan of the struggle for opening up a period of fresh upsurge, a period of great changes in the revolution and construction" and important issues arising from the party's development, said the report.
The congress unanimously adopted the resolution to thoroughly carry out the tasks set forth in the report on the work of the seventh Central Committee of the WPK, it said.
The eight-day Congress put forth a new five-year economic development plan and its new policy on military affairs and foreign relations, according to the report. (ANI/Xinhua)
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Estimating the ratio of pond size to irrigated soybean land in Mississippi: a case study
Although more on-farm storage ponds have been constructed in recent years to mitigate groundwater resources depletion in Mississippi, little effort has been devoted to estimating the ratio of on-farm water storage pond size to irrigated crop land based on pond metric and its hydrogeological conditions. In this study, two simulation scenarios were chosen to...
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Ying Ouyang; G. Feng; J. Read; T. D. Leininger; J. N. Jenkins
Mississippi, on-farm water storage pond, pond hydrology, ratio, STELLA model
Water Science and Technology: Water Supply
Seedling Quality Standards for Bottomland Hardwood Afforestation in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Valley: Preliminary Results
Afforestation of bottomland hardwood species has increased in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Valley (LMRAV) in recent years. Rising demand for hardwood nursery stock and poor performance of some planted seedlings has created concern regarding the quality of seedlings currently available for afforestation in the LMRAV. Furthermore, no definitive guidelines for...
Douglass F. Jacobs; Emile S. Gardiner; K. Francis Salifu; Ronald P. Overton; George Hernandez; M. Elizabeth Corbin; Kevyn E. Wightman; Marcus F. Selig
afforestation, green ash, seedling quality, transplant shock, water oak
In: Dumroese, R. K.; Riley, L. E.; Landis, T. D., tech. coords. 2005. National proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations—2004; 2004 July 12–15; Charleston, NC; and 2004 July 26–29; Medford, OR. Proc. RMRS-P-35. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 9-16
Pitch canker of southern pines and recent cases in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas
Pitch canker disease causes a multitude of problems in all life stages of southern pines. It occurs in most southern states and can affect mature stands, plantations, seed orchards, and nurseries. It is now also known to occur in California and at least 6 other countries. Recent occurrences in the western Gulf region are typical of those farther east. Long-term...
Dale Starkey; Jim Meeker; Alex Mangini
Fusarium circinatum, eastern pine weevil, Nantucket pine tip moth, seed orchard diseases, genetic resistance, poultry production, fertilization
In: Riley, L.E.; Dumroese, R.K.; Landis, T.D. National Proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations - 2006. Proceedings RMRS-P-50. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 97-103
Understory vegetation as an indicator for floodplain forest restoration in the Mississippi River Alluvial Valley, U.S.A
In the Mississippi River Alluvial Valley (MAV), complete alteration of river-floodplain hydrology allowed for widespread conversion of forested bottomlands to intensive agriculture, resulting in nearly 80% forest loss. Governmental programs have attempted to restore forest habitat and functions within this altered landscape by the methods of tree planting (...
Diane De Steven; Stephen P. Faulkner; Bobby D. Keeland; Michael J. Baldwin; John W. McCoy; Steven C. Hughes
afforestation, bottomland hardwoods, Conservation Effects Assessment Project, wetland ecosystem services, wetland restoration, Wetlands Reserve Program
The water quality and quantity effects of biofuel operations in pine plantations of the southeastern USA
Working alongside operational trials, a comprehensive research programme was developed to evaluate sustainability, life-cycle analysis, soil productivity, wildlife, and water resource impacts. The hydrology field studies consist of three sets of forested watersheds, each with mid-rotation pine reference, switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) interplanted, typical...
J. Nettles; M. Youssef; J. Cacho; J. Grace; Z. Leggett; E. Sucre
silviculture, switchgrass, intercropping, biofuels, sustainability, erosion, evapotranspiration
Water Quality: Current Trends and Expected Climate Change Impacts
Trend analysis and forecast of precipitation, reference evapotranspiration, and rainfall deficit in the Blackland Prairie of eastern Mississippi
Trend analysis and estimation of monthly and annual precipitation, reference evapotranspiration ET, and rainfall deficit are essential for water-resources management and cropping-system design. Rainfall, ET, and water-deficit patterns and trends at Macon in eastern Mississippi for a 120-yr period (1894-2014) were analyzed for annual, seasonal, and monthly...
Gary Feng; Stacy Cobb; Zaid Abdo; Daniel K. Fisher; Ying Ouyang; Ardeshir Adeli; Johnie N. Jenkins
Mississippi, Reference ET, Rainfall, Trend Analysis
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Temporal validation for landsat-based volume estimation model
Satellite imagery can potentially reduce the costs and time associated with ground-based forest inventories; however, for satellite imagery to provide reliable forest inventory data, it must produce consistent results from one time period to the next. The objective of this study was to temporally validate a Landsat-based volume estimation model in a four county study...
Renaldo J. Arroyo; Emily B. Schultz; Thomas G. Matney; David L. Evans; Zhaofei Fan
In Proceedings of the 17th biennial southern silvicultural research conference. e–Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–203. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 4 p.
Evaluating the impacts of crop rotations on groundwater storage and recharge in an agricultural watershed
The Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer, which underlies the Big Sunflower River Watershed (BSRW),is the most heavily used aquifer in Mississippi. Because the aquifer is primarily used for irrigating cropssuch as corn, cotton, soybean, and rice, the water levels have been declining rapidly over the past fewdecades. The objectives of this study are to...
Abdullah O. Dakhlalla; Prem B. Parajuli; Ying Ouyang; Darrel W. Schmitz
Groundwater, Watershed modeling, Crop rotations, Irrigation, SWAT
Agricultural Water Management
Pond and Irrigation Model (PIM): a tool for simultaneously evaluating pond water availability and crop irrigation demand
Agricultural ponds are an important alternative source of water for crop irrigation to conserve surface and ground water resources. In recent years more such ponds have been constructed in Mississippi and around the world. There is currently, however, a lack of a tool to simultaneously estimate crop irrigation demand and pond water availability. In this study, a Pond-...
Ying Ouyang; Gary Feng; Theodor D. Leininger; John Read; Johnie N. Jenkins
Crop irrigation demand.Mississippi .Pond-irrigation model .Pond wateravailability
Integrating climatic and fuels information into National Fire Risk Decision Support Tools
The Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) is a component of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Decision Support Systems (DSS) that support fire potential modeling. Fire potential models for Mississippi and for Eastern fire environments have been developed as part of a National Aeronautic and Space Agency-funded study aimed at demonstrating the utility...
W. Cooke; V. Anantharaj; C. Wax; J. Choi; K. Grala; M. Jolly; G.P. Dixon; J. Dyer; D.L. Evans; G.B. Goodrich
wildland fire management, Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS), Decision Support Systems (DSS), models, dlimate, fuels, topography, ignition
In: Butler, Bret W.; Cook, Wayne, comps. The fire environment--innovations, management, and policy; conference proceedings. 26-30 March 2007; Destin, FL. Proceedings RMRS-P-46CD. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. CD-ROM. p. 555-569
Survey responses from Region 8: Are we achieving the public's objectives for forests and rangelands?
The survey on values, objectives, beliefs, and attitudes, implemented as a module of the National Survey on Recreation and the Environment, asked over 7,000 respondents nationwide about their values with respect to public lands, objectives for the management of these lands, beliefs about the role the USDA Forest Service should play in fulfilling those objectives, and...
Deborah J. Shields; Michelle Haefele; Donna L. Lybecker
National Survey on Recreation and the Environment, forests, rangelands, grassland watersheds, South, law enforcement, mineral development
Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-158. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 31 p.
Effects of land use practices on neotropical migratory birds in bottomland hardwood forests
Description of the system: Bottomland hardwood forests (including bald cypress and tupelo swamp forests) are historically the dominant natural community of riverine floodplains of the southeastern United States. Their greatest single expanse was in the 21 million acre floodplain of the lower Mississippi River Valley from southern Illinois to coastal marshes along the...
David N. Pashley; Wylie C. Barrow
bottomland forests, riparian ecosystems, habitat destruction, species richness, flooding, floodplains, migratory birds
In: Finch, Deborah M.; Stangel, Peter W. (eds.). Status and management of neotropical migratory birds: September 21-25, 1992, Estes Park, Colorado. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-229. Fort Collins, Colo.: Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service: 315-320
Comparing cold-stored and freshly lifted water oak (Quercus nigra) seedlings based on physiological parameters
Water oak is often used in afforestation projects in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, but its field performance is often poor due to low survival rates and severe top dieback immediately after planting. The poor physiological quality of planting stock may be a contributing factor to this transplanting problem. In this study, cold storage was investigated to...
Rosa C. Goodman; Kent G. Apostol; Douglass F. Jacobs; Barrett C. Wilson; Emile S. Gardiner
chlorophyll fluorescence, electrolyte leakage, LT50, net photosynthesis, top dieback
In: Riley, L.E.; Dumroese, R.K.; Landis, T.D. National Proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations - 2006. Proceedings RMRS-P-50. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 126-131
Efficacy of a borax-copper preservative in exposed applications
This study evaluated the ability of pressure treatments with a borax?copper (BC) preservative to protect wood exposed above ground or in contact with the ground. Stake testing...
Stan T. Lebow; Patricia K. Lebow; Bessie M. Woodward; Steven A. Halverson; William Abbott; Michael M. West
Preservatives, copper borates, stake tests, leaching, borax, copper, preserved wood, evaluation, wood preservation, wooden buildings, borax-copper, pressure-treated wood, above-ground, ground-contact, durability, leaching
Research paper FPL-RP-655
Degradation and damages from utilizing ecosystem services in a river basin
We examine the tradeoffs between utilizing multiple ecosystem services in an economic model of the Lower Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin. We show how economic development in the basin degraded the ecosystem, but diversified the economy. A degraded ecosystem and more employment opportunities elsewhere reduced the region's reliance on agriculture and other...
Travis W. Warziniack
ecosystem services, general equilibrium, impact analysis
In: Proceedings of the American Water Resources Association 2012 Summer Specialty Conference; Riparian Ecosystems IV: Advancing Science, Economics and Policy; June 27-29, 2012; Denver, Colorado. Online: http://www.awra.org/proceedings/Summer2012/Riparian/index.html
Reforestation of bottomland hardwoods and the issue of woody species diversity.
Bottomland hardwood forests in the southcentral United States have been cleared extensively for agriculture, and many of the remaining forests are fragmented and degraded. During the last decade, however, approximately 75,000 ha of land-mainly agricultural fields-have been replanted or contracted for replanting, with many morelaacres likely to be reforested in the...
James A. Allen
Restoration Ecology 5(2): 125-34
Restoring the American chestnut tree
The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was a dominate hardwood tree in the eastern United States. Its historic range extended from Maine south to the northern parts of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and west to the Ohio River Valley. In 1904, an exotic Asian fungus responsible for the death of American chestnut trees was first identified at the Bronx Zoo (New York...
Bryan Burhans; Fredrick V. Hebard
American chestnut, Cryphonectiria parasitica, ink disease, backcross breeding, The American Chestnut Foundation, chestnut blight
In: Haase, D. L.; Pinto, J. R.; Riley, L. E., tech. coords. National Proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations - 2011. Proc. RMRS-P-68. Fort Collins, CO: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 24-25.
Impacts of rainfall and air temperature variations due to climate change upon hydrological characteristics: A case study
Rainfall and air temperature variations resulting from climate change are important driving forces to change hydrologic processes in watershed ecosystems. This study investigated the impacts of past and future rainfall and air temperature variations upon water discharge, water outflow (from the watershed outlet), and evaporative loss in the Lower Yazoo River Watershed...
Ying Ouyang; Jia-En Zhang; Yide Li; Prem Parajuli; Gary Feng
evaporative loss, HSPF model, rainfall, temperature, water outflow, watershed
Journal of Water and Climate Change
Black belt landowners respond to State-sponsored wildland fire mitigation policies and programs
This investigation focused on nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowners in selected counties across five States in the Southeastern United States (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina). These counties are located in the Southern Black Belt region, which has higher than average percentages of African-American residents and higher poverty rates...
Cassandra Johnson; Jianbang Gan; Adam Jarrett; Miriam S. Wyman; Sparkle Malone; Keenan J. Adams; J.M. Bowker; Taylor V. Stein
African-American landowners, Black Belt, poverty, wildfire mitigation, wildland-urban interface
Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–139. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 25 p.


Dora was born 10 Apr 1869 in Illinois to William A Newberry and Martha E Hefling. She died 28 Feb 1949 in Ipava, Fulton County, Illinois.
Riley was born about 1869. He died 07 Jun 1910.
Dora and Riley married 11 Nov 1888. They had one child.


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Chinguetti, the 8th century African city in Mauritania you need to visit before it vanishes
Elizabeth Ofosuah Johnson Nov 28, 2018 at 03:00pm
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Mauritania is a West African country with a relatively small population of about 4.5 million. Officially known as the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, it is also popular for having some of the oldest kingdoms in West Africa, home to one of Africas oldest indigenous groups, the Berbers.
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With its many sites, tourists are spoilt for choice when they visit Mauritania but one of its must-see places is Chinguetti, a medieval Berber city currently under the threat of being swallowed by the desert.
Established in 777, the city served a sole purpose: a trading centre. By the 11th century, Chinguetti had developed into a prosperous city, home to several rich traders and elites and the most important trading centre in Sub Saharan Africa with several trans Saharan slave routes.
The ancient city offers unique architecture with beautiful mosques and libraries that testify to the development of written literature and education in Africa long before the coming the Europeans.
Chinguetti libraries
Its beautiful mosques built with brick and sands were once the principal gathering place for pilgrims and it soon became known as a holy city.
Chinguetti receives thousands of visitors from all walks of life and religious backgrounds each year and to date, it remains a very important city in both Islamic and West African history. It is popularly called the 7th Holy City of Islam and groups of pilgrim still go there to pray.
However, parts of the town are currently buried under dunes, giving tourists an eerie and magical feeling. It is not exactly known when the city was abandoned but in 1980 it was shut off to preserve it during a conflict.
Aside from its libraries, mosques and beautifully built houses that exhibit the sophistication and wealth of its ancient inhibitors, the city of Chinguetti is also known for its school and universities.
Located in the Adrar Plateau east of Atar, it was, in 2000, named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Q: Overall Probability Using 2 sports teams, team A and B:
Team A's win probability based on historical data:
On Mondays is 80%;
Against team B is 40%;
Recent form is 70%;
At home is 60%
How do you find 1 overall probability based on those numbers?

A: Probability requires assumptions in order to make calculations. Determining what those assumptions should be is more art than science, and in this case, it's sports not maths.
If you assumed that those factors were independent, all equally important, and you had no more relevant information that you could include, then you can just multiply them all together: $0.8\times 0.4\times 0.7\times 0.6 = 0.1344$.
However, I want to emphasise that this is not "an equation [that] figures out [the] overall probability". They are probabilities in a model that has a number of (very flawed) modelling assumptions. Working out how to refine the modelling assumptions to get slightly less bad estimates is a career, not a StackExchange question.


In the new Reports function, there are options to show 'Modules without lists' and 'units without lists' - is it possible to have the same for 'Courses' as at Sussex we link the reading list to the Course title in the hierarchy. It would be very useful to identify which courses did not have a reading list attached.
I've added a "Courses with no lists" report – let me know how you get on. I wasn't sure from the Idea whether you meant courses or departments – but guessed you meant courses. Let me know how you get on.
Is it possible to show the 'Term' for a list in the new Reports function results? For management statistics we are often comparing one year to another and we have recently decided that we will keep the current year and the previous 2 years of lists on Aspire before archiving a list.
b) it should never be deleted. If a second review takes place, all of the work done and notes made in the first review is lost. Review history should always be kept.