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HOTLINE SESSION MARKS PROGRAM'S 3RD YEAR
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From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today, residents throughout the region can call toll-free to contact three geriatrics specialists participating in the Deseret News/Inter-moun-tain Health Care Hotline.
Callers can reach Lance Stoker, Dr. Cherie Brunker and Dr. Frank Yanowitz by dialing 1-800-925-8177.The session marks three years since the program's inception. From its beginning in August 1992, nearly 2,000 callers have sought the advice of experts in the free public service.
Altogether, 75 specialists have made themselves available to answer questions in 32 different medical or health topics.
The range of subjects has been vast: pediatric care, depression, nutrition, allergies, access to medical insurance or charity care, fitness, breast cancer, headaches, eye care, skin care, geriatrics, prescription medications, heart disease, women's health, orthopedic injuries and many more.
"IHC's mission is to serve the community," said John Taylor, IHC's vice president of public relations. "The Deseret News/IHC Health Hotline is a great partnership that benefits many individuals in our community."
Taylor said research shows that people want information about health care. "The health hotline helps meet this desire for information," he said.
"Deseret News editors and reporters also feel a responsibility to the public about medical care, and we are pleased to help provide this important service," said Chuck Gates, Deseret News associate city editor.
"Over the years, several callers with potentially dangerous conditions were able to get help quickly, thanks to the response of hotline participants. Many others got advice that made their lives healthier or that helped ease their minds about medical concerns."


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Q: How can I find all sight-reachable points without iterating over all polygons? as the picture shows, the vertices of all polygons are candidate points, stand on the green point and look around, how can i find all sight-reachable points without iterating over all polygons?

A: One approach is to enclose each polygon in a bounding circle. A preliminary visibility test first locates all visible circles. Then the regular visibility test needs to consider only the polygons inside the visible circles and can skip the rest.
This approach pays off when the bounding circles are cheaper to test for visibility than the enclosed objects. Unfortunately, I cannot help with the details. I am only familiar with the principle.

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Why I'm Pulling For Brian Williams
February 11 | 2015
Newsrooms are snake pits. I say this with great affection.
Newsrooms are tribal and competitive, fueling pettiness in the most honorable people. Editors cling to turfs like dictators policing their borders, and sometimes they mistake intimidation for management. As for reporters, they make their living asking questions and telling stories and too often turn their curiosity onto the private lives of their colleagues. Our profession breeds town gossips.
Still, there is no substitute for the combustible mix of wit, talent and impossible personalities thrown against daily deadlines. It's arguably a sick thing, I concede, to yearn for big breaking news that makes a newsroom feel one spark away from an explosion. As with any memorable high, once you're up there, it's hard to climb down. We're seldom gracious toward those who get to stay at the top.
It was inevitable that Brian Williams would become the punchline of so many bad jokes once his fellow journalists learned that he had lied about his experience covering the Iraq War in 2003. Specifically, he claimed to be riding in a Chinook helicopter that took heavy fire. This was not true, and Williams' weak attempt to explain it away as the fog of memory launched the mocking Twitter hashtag "BrianWilliamsMisremembers." A number of news sites have covered this Twitterfest. How heartening that so many of us still care about the truth.
Celebrity is so seductive and requires constant vigilance to avoid falling for the notion that the rules for everyone else no longer apply to you. Few of us journalists can lay claim to the fame that contributed to Williams' undoing. We are an envious group. This does not bring out the best in us.
Of all that has been written about Williams, whom NBC News has now suspended without pay for six months, one of the more instructive observations has come from Poynter's Al Tompkins, who instructs us to pay attention to the boldface words in the following paragraph:
"On March 26, 2003 … Tom Brokaw introduced Williams' report on Dateline (by) saying, 'Our colleague Brian Williams is back in Kuwait City tonight after a close call over the skies in Iraq. Brian tell us what you got yourself into.' Williams reported, 'In the end, Tom, it did give us a glimpse of the war as few have seen it. We asked the U.S. Army to take us on an air mission with them and they accepted. We knew there was risk involved, we knew we would be flying over Iraq, we discussed it, we weren't cavalier about it. We took off and that is right about when things started to happen.'"
"A story that might have been about soldiers risking their lives was, from the very beginning, focused on the newsman covering the soldiers," Tompkins writes. Over the story's ensuing five minutes and 26 seconds, Tompkins counted 19 more references to "we" and eight more to "us."
Even before he altered the tale, Williams had carved out a starring role in someone else's story.
Show of hands, fellow journalists: Who has done the same thing — if not in our reporting, then in recounting to friends and family? I don't mean making stuff up. I'm just talking about shifting the account to first person, in which we are just that clever, that imperiled, that entertaining. I'm not even referring to solely us columnists, who are paid to be insufferable.
Writer Anne Lamott, in partial defense of Williams, shared on Facebook how an oft-quoted observation by someone else became attributed to her.
The quotation: "You can tell you've created God in your own image when He hates the same people you do."
The original author: Tom Weston, her "wild Jesuit friend," in a lecture delivered 23 years ago.
Lamott explains: "The first few times I quoted it — probably at Salon, and possibly in Bird by Bird — I attributed it to him. Then the next few times, I didn't. I just shoehorned it into conversation, as if I'd just thought of it that minute; brilliant daring me.
"And not exactly 'conversation.' More like, 'While being interviewed.'
"Then, it got picked up, and it was everywhere, and I started trying to correct the lie — at a big public level. …
"The line is frequently quoted, as mine. It's a great line; it says it all. But I'm sick of cringing and saying I borrowed it. Okay — stole it. Fine."
Leave it to Lamott to remind us just how reliably human we are.
I won't defend Brian Williams' efforts to aggrandize his experience covering a war he wasn't fighting. Still, I can't deny the heaviness in my heart. I find no joy in Williams' crisis of credibility. If scrutiny of his career reveals further missteps, our profession takes a body blow.
I'm pulling for Williams. Selfishly so.
Connie Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and an essayist for Parade magazine. She is the author of two books, including "…and His Lovely Wife," which chronicled the successful race of her husband, Sherrod Brown, for the U.S. Senate. To find out more about Connie Schultz (con.schultz@yahoo.com) and read her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
Photo: NBC News anchor Brian Williams speaks onstage at 2014 Stand Up For Heroes at Madison Square Garden on November 5, 2014 in New York City (AFP/Andrew H. Walker)
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Trump Children Refusal To Pay Bills Results In DC Investigation
Michael Hayne
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When it comes to avoiding personal financial responsibility and screwing over contractors, there's no bigger grifter than Donald Trump. So it's not very shocking to learn that his kids are just as much of grifting deadbeats as daddy.
According to a report from the Daily Beast, the Trump Organization -- which is mostly run by Eric And Don Jr-- might have created yet another legal headache for themselves on account of not paying their bills. The Daily Beast reports that Washington D.C, District Attorney Karl Racine is incorporating a dispute between the family's business and a D.C. hotel over an unpaid $49,358 bill into his investigation over the misuse of inauguration funds dating back to 2017.
The legal controversy surrounds the Trump Org's steadfast refusal to pay for the block of rooms they booked at the Loews Madison Hotel after 13 people didn't show up, resulting in the bill being sent to a collection agency. As a result, the financial dispute put Trump and his family right back in the "crosshairs in an ongoing investigation into how the Trump kids used the Presidential Inauguration Committee to throw lavish parties of their own."
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, one of the participants who helped coordinate the inaugural festivities, is working with investigators.
According to Winston Wolkoff, "It was their friends. It should never have been sent to the PIC. That's misuse of funding. The Trump Organization being involved in any way and getting the PIC to pay any sort of balance anywhere on their behalf? It just doesn't seem legitimate."
Even though the bill was eventually "paid by the Presidential Inaugural Committee at the direction of Rick Gates," the investigation produced a slew of communications that show that Don Jr's aides were in the loop over the fight over the money, which produced enough red flags to instigate the investigation.
"The District of Columbia's AG hopes this evidence proves that the Trump Organization should remain part of the lawsuit, which seeks to seize money it deems was misused and divert it instead to another nonprofit. Otherwise, the civil investigation would continue only against the PIC (which is no longer active) and the Trump International Hotel Washington (which is being sold anyway)," the Beast reports, adding, "When approached by The Daily Beast, the AG's office pointed to the arguments it made in court. The Trump Organization's lawyer didn't respond to a request for comment. The collection agency didn't return calls on Friday.
On New Year's Eve, the case was reassigned to D.C. Superior Court Judge Yvonne Williams, a former NAACP lawyer appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama.
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Spam filters are nice. And recently, with the help of machine learning, they have become increasingly efficient. Because their encoding is relatively easy to understand, these filters are popular amongst ambitious programmers and software engineers who want to dive into AI. Sarah Mestiri is one of them. On her blog, she takes us through the process of keeping her inbox clean using text classifications in conjunction with clever handling of data. And she does it all open source. Take a look at her version control here.
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Back to the '80s: Andrew McCarthy writing 'Brat Pack' book
HILLEL ITALIE
AP National Writer
NEW YORK — Actor-writer-director Andrew McCarthy, a 57-year-old father of three, keeps getting asked about his "Brat Pack" years in the 1980s.
He is now ready to answer.
Grand Central Publishing announced Tuesday that McCarthy's "Brat: An '80s Story" will come out next spring. Grand Central is calling the book "a revealing look at coming of age in a maelstrom, reckoning with conflicted ambition, innocence, addiction and masculinity." McCarthy is calling it a long-delayed reckoning.
"For years people have asked me, on a near daily basis, 'What was it like "back in the day?' Routinely, I'd offer up any number of stock responses," he said in a statement. "Finally I thought, 'Let's take a hard look under that rock.' What I found surprised me, at times scared me, and finally made sense of a lot of seemingly disparate parts of my life."
McCarthy was widely known in the '80s for such films as "Pretty In Pink," "Less Than Zero" and "St. Elmo's Fire," and for his association, at least as seen by the media, with such contemporaries as Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald and Emilio Estevez.
The term "Brat Pack" was popularized by an unflattering New York magazine story that ran in 1985 and portrayed the young actors as shallow and self-absorbed. McCarthy has long disputed he was part of any such group, telling People magazine in 1999 that he hadn't seen any of his famous co-stars since making "St. Elmo's Fire."
Over the past 30 years, McCarthy has appeared in dozens of films and TV shows, starred in the acclaimed play "Side Man," written an introspective travel memoir that Cheryl Strayed praised as a "good book about a good man" and directed episodes of "Orange Is the New Black" and "Gossip Girl" among other programs. He has also spoken openly about past struggles, saying he began drinking at age 12.
Grand Central announced that he will write about everything from "scoring loose joints in Washington Square Park" to "Hollywood with John Hughes and an iconic cast of characters."
"'Brat' is a surprising and intimate story of an outsider caught up in a most unwitting success."
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Brexit or Bremain? No Matter the Outcome, Hedge Funds Stand to Profit
Hedge funds are using private exit pollsters to capitalize on outcome of referendum vote before public finds out the result
Nika Knight, staff writer
"Any trader with inside information on what the outcome of the referendum might be could make a lot of money." (Photo: PA)
As UK voters head to the polls on Thursday to say whether Britain should leave or remain in the European Union, markets are tumultuous as investors balk with fears that the EU's second-largest economy will depart the union.
"Far-right nationalists and neoliberal capitalists will survive the demise of institutions like the EU."
—John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus
Yet a select class of über-wealthy capitalists are excitedly looking to pounce on the market no matter the outcome—using polling information they've bought and paid for, unavailable to the general public.
"Hedge-fund managers are sensing opportunity," as Bloomberg observes. "After enduring the worst first-quarter returns since the start of the financial crisis, the prospect of Britain voting to leave the European Union is creating the market turmoil that can make them money."
Taking advantage of UK election law that forbids exit polling data from being published before 10pm on the day of an election—to prevent exit polls from influencing votes—hedge funds are paying for private polling companies to perform exit polls throughout the country, so they'll be able to bet on the outcome before the general public learns of it.
"As we have seen, when polls have been published suggesting that Leave might win, the pound has fallen on the currency markets," explains the Independent. "Any trader with inside information on what the outcome of the referendum might be could, therefore, make a lot of money."
One investment advisor predicts that hedge funds may be able to confidently predict the outcome of the vote—and therefore manipulate the market to their advantage—a full two hours before the rest of the public finds out the result of the referendum.
Northern Ireland's Belfast Telegraph reports:
Heavyweight financial institutions have approached pollsters as they look to be the first to reap the rewards from a swing in the value of the pound triggered by the result on June 24.
[...] Kathleen Brooks, research director of City Index, said: "Although the Remain camp has managed to stem the recent wave of support for the Brexiteers, the outcome is still very much uncertain."
"There is no official exit poll due on Thursday night, however, rumour has it that some large hedge funds have organised their own unofficial exit polls, so expect lots of volatility throughout the night as we all try to cut through the fog of the vote count to find out who will emerge victorious."
According to the Belfast Telegraph, David Neuhauser, managing director of activist hedge fund Livermore Partners, told Bloomberg TV that if there is "a short run, there is a lot of dislocation, valuations are blowing down and there is some really unique companies with some really unique assets, we want to buy situations just like that for sure."
Indeed, as John Feffer writes in Foreign Policy in Focus, "far-right nationalists and neoliberal capitalists will survive the demise of institutions like the EU."
But for those less concerned with profit, and more concerned with human rights, refugee protections, trade reform, and cross-border solidarity—such as the recently murdered anti-Brexit MP Jo Cox—Feffer wonders if Britain severing ties with the EU might spell the demise of that inclusive vision for Europe.
'This Is a Dangerous Game': Iran Tells US and UK to Leave Gulf Region Immediately as Tensions Soar
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Q: Dropdown sub menu and bullet point alignment I am trying to create a sub menu option for my website but do not how to. From the references I found online I was able to create a horizontal menu but I want to create a sub menu option for the side menu.
https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_subnav.asp
I am also having problems with the custom bullet list alignment. The arrow is not in the middle of my text.
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What I tried to do for my sub menu but I am unsure if I doing the right thing.

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Somalia: Another CIA-Backed Coup Blows Up
December 8th, 2008 - by admin
Mike Whitney / Information Clearinghouse – 2008-12-08 22:09:43
"The Ethiopian invasion, which was sanctioned by the US government, has destroyed virtually all the life-sustaining economic systems which the population has built for the last fifteen years."
— Abdi Samatar, professor of Global Studies at the University of Minnesota, Democracy Now
(December 2, 2008) — Up until a month ago, no one in the Bush administration showed the least bit of interest in the incidents of piracy off the coast of Somalia. Now that's all changed and there's talk of sending in the Navy to patrol the waters off the Horn of Africa and clean up the pirates hideouts. Why the sudden about-face? Could it have something to do with the fact that the Ethiopian army is planning to withdraw all of its troops from Mogadishu by the end of the year, thus, ending the failed two year US-backed occupation of Somalia?
The United States has lost the ground war in Somalia, but that doesn't mean its geopolitical objectives have changed one iota. The US intends to stay in the region for years to come and use its naval power to control the critical shipping lanes from the Gulf of Aden. The growing strength of the Somali national resistance is a set-back, but it doesn't change the basic game-plan.
The pirates are actually a blessing in disguise. They provide an excuse for the administration to beef up it's military presence and put down roots. Every crisis is an opportunity.
There's an interesting subtext to the pirate story that hasn't appeared in the western media. According to Simon Assaf of the Socialist Worker:
"Many European, US and Asian shipping firms – notably Switzerland's Achair Partners and Italy's Progresso – signed dumping deals in the early 1990s with Somalia's politicians and militia leaders. This meant they could use the coast as a toxic dumping ground. This practice became widespread as the country descended into civil war.
Nick Nuttall of the UN Environment Programme said, "European companies found it was very cheap to get rid of the waste."
When the Asian tsunami of Christmas 2005 washed ashore on the east coast of Africa, it uncovered a great scandal. Tons of radioactive waste and toxic chemicals drifted onto the beaches after the giant wave dislodged them from the sea bed off Somalia. Tens of thousands of Somalis fell ill after coming into contact with this cocktail. They complained to the United Nations (UN), which began an investigation.
"There are reports from villagers of a wide range of medical problems such as mouth bleeds, abdominal hemorrhages, unusual skin disorders and breathing difficulties," the UN noted.
Some 300 people are believed to have died from the poisonous chemicals.
In 2006 Somali fishermen complained to the UN that foreign fishing fleets were using the breakdown of the state to plunder their fish stocks. These foreign fleets often recruited Somali militias to intimidate local fishermen. Despite repeated requests, the UN refused to act.
Meanwhile the warships of global powers that patrol the strategically important Gulf of Aden did not sink or seize any vessels dumping toxic chemicals off the coast.
So angry Somalis, whose waters were being poisoned and whose livelihoods were threatened, took matters into their own hands. Fishermen began to arm themselves and attempted to act as unofficial coastguards." (Socialist Worker)
The origins of piracy in Somalia is considerably different than the narrative in the media which tends to perpetuate stereotypes of scary black men who are naturally inclined to criminal behavior. In reality, the pirates were the victims of a US-EU run system that still uses the developing world as a dumping ground for toxic waste regardless of the suffering it causes. (just ask Larry Summers)
In fact, the dumping continues to this day, even though we have been assured that we're living in a "post racial era" following the election of Barak Obama. Unfortunately, that rule doesn't apply to the many black and brown people who still find themselves caught in the imperial crosshairs. Their lives are just as miserable as ever.
Ethiopia's Plan for Withdrawal
In 2006, the Bush administration supported an alliance of Somali warlords known as the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) that established a base of operations in the western city of Baidoa. With the help of the Ethiopian army, western mercenaries, US Navy warships, and AC-130 gunships; the TFG captured Mogadishu and forced the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) to retreat to the south. Since then the resistance has coalesced into a tenacious guerrilla army that has recaptured most of the country.
The Bush administration invoked the war on terror to justify its involvement in Somalia, but their case was weak and full of inconsistencies. The ICU is not an Al Qaida affiliate or a terrorist organization despite the claims of the State Department. In fact, the ICU brought a high level of peace and stability to Somalia that hadn't been seen for more than sixteen years.
Political analyst James Petras summed it up like this:
"The ICU was a relatively honest administration, which ended warlord corruption and extortion. Personal safety and property were protected, ending arbitrary seizures and kidnappings by warlords and their armed thugs.
"The ICU is a broad multi-tendency movement that includes moderates and radical Islamists, civilian politicians and armed fighters, liberals and populists, electoralists and authoritarians. Most important, the Courts succeeded in unifying the country and creating some semblance of nationhood, overcoming clan fragmentation."
The Bush administration is mainly interested in oil and geopolitics. According to most estimates 30 per cent of America's oil will come from Africa within the next ten years. That means the Pentagon will have to extend its tentacles across the continent.
Washington's allies in the TFG promised to pass oil laws that would allow foreign oil companies to return to Somalia, but now all of that is uncertain. It is impossible to know what type of government will emerge from the present conflict. Many pundits expect Somalia to descend into terrorist-breeding, failed state for years to come.
The latest round of fighting has created a humanitarian disaster. 1.3 million people have been forced from their homes with nothing more than what they can carry on their backs. Over 3.5 million people are now huddled in tent cities in the south with little food, clean water or medical supplies.
According to the UN News Center: "Nearly half the population is in crisis or need of assistance….Continuing instability, coupled with drought, high food prices and the collapse of the local currency have only worsened the dire humanitarian situation in recent months. The UN estimates that 40 per cent of the population, are in need of assistance. In addition, one in six children under the age of five in southern and central Somalia is currently acutely malnourished." (UN News Center)
The war between the occupying Ethiopian army and the various guerrilla factions has steadily intensified over the last two years. Fighters from the ICU, Al-Shabaab and other Islamic groups have moved from the south to the vicinity of Mogadishu where fighting could break out at any time.
It's "game-over" for Bush's proxy army and the transitional federal government. They cannot win, which is why the Ethiopian leaders announced a complete withdrawal of troops by the end of the year. By January 1, 2009, the occupation will be over.
In a recent Chicago Tribune article, "US Appears to be Losing in Somalia," journalist Paul Salopek sums it up like this:
"(Somalia) is a covert war in which the CIA has recruited gangs of unsavory warlords to hunt down and kidnap Islamic militants…and secretly imprison them offshore, aboard U.S. warships. The British civil-rights group Reprieve contended that as many as 17 US warships may have doubled as floating prisons since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks…
"Somalia is one of the great unrecognized U.S. policy failures since 9/11," said Ken Menkhaus, a leading Somalia scholar at Davidson College in North Carolina. "By any rational metric, what we've ended up with there today is the opposite of what we wanted."
(Paul Salopek, "US Appears to be Losing in Somalia." Chicago Tribune)
The CIA has done its job well. It's created a beehive for terrorism and the potential for another catastrophe like 9-11.
Currently, negotiations are underway between the guerrilla leaders and the TFG over a power-sharing agreement. But no one expects the talks will amount to anything. The moderate ICU may regain power but the country will still be ungovernable for years to come. At best, Somalia is a decade away from restoring the fragile peace that was in place before Bush's bloody intervention.
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Q: Starting Intent Service from BroadcastReceiver - OnHandleEvent is never called I am working on an Android application and I have stumbled upon a problem for which I cannot seem to find a solution. I've tried different approaches, but with no luck. I am aware there are similar questions asked, but no answer seems to help. Here's the problem:
I am adding an action button to my notifications by adding the following line to my NotificationBuilder:
.addAction(R.drawable.done,"Complete", completeTaskPI)

Here's the code for the pending intent completeTaskPI:
Intent completeTask = new Intent(getActivity(),NotificationActionReceiver.class);
    completeTask.setAction("COMPLETE_TASK");
    completeTask.putExtra("taskId",taskId);
    PendingIntent completeTaskPI = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(getActivity(),COMPLETE_TASK_CODE,completeTask,0);

It sends a broadcast to NotificationActionReceiver when the Action Button is clicked. From here, I simply start MyIntentService:
public class NotificationActionReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver{
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {

    Intent completeTask = new Intent(context, MyIntentService.class);
    context.startService(completeTask);
    }
}

Everything works properly before this moment. The receiver receives the pending intent with all the info and starts the service. The service starts, but never gets to onHandleIntent. The code for the IntentService:
public class MyIntentService extends IntentService {

public MyIntentService() {
    super("MyIntentService");
}

@Override
protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) {
    Log.i("onHandleIntent","triggered");
}

}

I've tried creating a new IntentService, a different BroadcastReceiver, still nothing.
I'd like to note few things:
 - The service is properly declared in the Android Manifest;
 - I already have several other services that work just fine (with broadcast receiver, as well);
 - I need the action done on a background thread and not in the broadcast receiver;
 - I am assuming there is some problem with the context, although I am not sure what could be the problem.
I've been trying to locate the problem for several hours now and I just can't see it, so I thought I'd ask for help here.
Thanks in advance!

A: Following @pskink's advice, I've solved the problem by starting the service with the pending intent, avoiding the Broadcast Receiver entirely.
I hope this helps someone else in the future.
Thank you!


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Almost All Students With Disabilities Are Capable Of Graduating. Here's Why They Don't.
Our education system is failing students with special needs.
Sarah Butrymowicz and Jackie Mader— The Hechinger Report
Nov 4, 2017, 07:00 AM EDT | Updated Nov 6, 2017
Illustration by Jonathan Shin
As a teenager, Michael McLaughlin wanted to go to college. He had several disabilities, including dyslexia and bipolar disorder, which threatened to make the road ahead more difficult. He sometimes had trouble paying attention in class and understanding directions.
He also had an IQ of 115 — on the upper ranges of what is considered average. With help, he should have been able to graduate alongside his classmates, ready to pursue higher education.
But instead of graduating from Bartlett High School in Anchorage, Alaska, in four years, he took six. After high school, he did odd jobs for several years.
"Our son's education was a waste," his mother, Michelle McLaughlin, said. "We could get no one to listen or do what was needed."
There are 6.6 million public school children enrolled in special education in the United States, 13 percent of all public school students. Kids like Michael make up the vast majority of them. Their disabilities shouldn't keep them from achieving the same standards as their peers — and experts estimate that up to 90 percent of students with disabilities are capable of graduating high school fully prepared to tackle college or a career if they receive proper support along the way.
Yet, just 65 percent of special education students graduate on time, well below the 83 percent four-year rate for American students overall. Many of those that do earn their diplomas find themselves unprepared for the real world. After high school, students with disabilities have lower college graduation rates than their peers and earn less once they join the workforce.
"For many children with disabilities, they're capable of far more than their schools give them credit for," said Kitty Cone, a special education lawyer who works in Arkansas. Their education "falls far short of what federal law requires or even what common sense dictates."
In interviews with 45 parents and students and more than 50 other experts, advocates and lawyers across 34 states and the District of Columbia, families and advocates described systemic problems with special education in high school. They spoke of teachers inadequately trained to support special education students. Of districts lacking the funding to provide needed supports. Of expectations lowered to the point where they do students more harm than good. Of very capable students being pushed into "alternate" diploma programs, limiting their future options. Of students not being taught the soft skills, like communication and organization, that they'll need in college and the workforce. And of parents who either don't know what their children's rights are or feel forced to fight long battles to make schools comply with the law.
Michael McLaughlin and his mother, Michelle, at Michael's 2013 graduation. Michelle McLaughlin said Michael's education did not prepare him for college or career
Photo Courtesy of Michelle McLaughlin
Related: Is teacher preparation failing students with disabilities?
Special education is a broad umbrella. It includes students with specific learning disabilities (such as dyslexia and dysgraphia), hearing and vision impairments, emotional disabilities, autism and more severe cognitive delays. Students' needs vary greatly by disability, and even two students with the same disability may need different supports to keep up with their peers. In some cases that means being given more time on tests or being offered the option of using technology for written assignments; in other cases it means having an aide in the classroom working with them individually.
Experts and parents widely agree that most students with disabilities do best academically and socially when they are in the same classrooms as their nondisabled peers, and when they are given the same opportunities to plan out their postsecondary lives. Even students with cognitive delays may be able to attend modified post-secondary programs if given adequate preparation and encouragement in school.
But too often, schools aren't providing students with the appropriate help.
Janae Cantu has dyslexia and thus struggles with reading. Her disability doesn't mean she can't analyze and discuss a text; she can be taught strategies to help her decode words more easily. But, instead of getting that kind of instruction or preparing for college-level work with her peers, she left her general education classes in Oklahoma for one period every day in ninth grade to go to a special education class where students did activities like making cars out of cereal boxes and racing them.
Mark Nelson also has dyslexia, along with dysgraphia, which means he has trouble writing. Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A. One time, a teacher gave his special education world history class all of the answers to their final exam.
Tyrone Colson is on the autism spectrum. His high school placed him on a track to get an alternative diploma, which would have made it impossible for him to enroll in most colleges or apply for most jobs. His mother fought the decision, and he graduated from his Washington, D.C., high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn't prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers.
"In every setting I've worked in, special ed has been the red-headed stepchild. I wish that special education services were more respected and people knew how much special education teachers do."
- Carole Banks, special education teacher
Sean Sieleni, who has Down syndrome, was exclusively enrolled in general education classes for 11th grade, where he successfully studied with his peers, completed homework and took modified exams. Yet a teacher suggested that Sean should stop taking academic classes and have a "fun" senior year. Instead, his mom worked with the school district administrators to expand their expectations for Sean, and he reenrolled in general education classes for 12th grade.
Kenyatta Burns, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and bipolar disorder, was able to grasp grade-level material — she just needed a bit more help staying focused and completing long assignments. Instead, she was passed from class to class at her high school in North Carolina. When she dropped out at the end of ninth grade, she didn't know how to use punctuation or do multiplication.
Such negative experiences can have lasting consequences.
Parent and special education advocate Sri Hatharasinghe-Gerschler recalls teachers telling her she'd never go to college when she was in middle school in the mid-1990s. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. She said she never got the help she needed or was taught strategies to work on comprehension. Instead, her high school placed her in remedial courses for math and English, where she just fell further behind. Her parents hired a tutor to help her.
After she graduated high school, she enrolled in a junior college to study child development while working full time. Two years later, she transferred to the University of California, San Diego.
Post-graduation, Hatharasinghe-Gerschler provided in-home behavioral services for students with disabilities and now helps parents and students navigate the special education system. At age 34, despite her ultimate success, she said her understanding of grammar and writing remains so poor that she still feels angry about her experiences in the classroom. The system, she said, "failed me."
Related: STUDENT VOICE: They told me I'd never go to college but I just finished my freshman year — what about all the other students with autism?
Sri Hatharasinghe-Gerschler at her 2006 graduation from University of California San Diego.
Photo courtesy Sri Hatharasinghe-Gerschler
For years, many parents and students said, the system has denied their legal rights. Under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which passed in 1975, all special education students are entitled to a "free and appropriate education" that will allow them to reach their fullest potential. Technically, the U.S. Department of Education is responsible for monitoring state compliance with IDEA.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos raised eyebrows in January during her confirmation hearing when she said that requiring taxpayer-funded schools to follow IDEA was "a matter best left to the states." When pressed later on in the hearing if she was aware that IDEA is federal law, she said she "may have confused it."
Not long after, the Department of Education overhauled the IDEA website. In a July speech, DeVos reaffirmed that she believed special education was important. "Ensuring that all children with disabilities have appropriately ambitious goals and the chance to meet challenging objectives is a priority for the department," DeVos said in a July speech.
Since then, the department has eliminated 72 guidance documents that dealt with the rights of special education students. At least two dealt directly with the transition from high school to college or career. The department said the documents were "outdated, unnecessary, or ineffective."
"For many children with disabilities, they're capable of far more than their schools give them credit for."
- Kitty Cone, special education lawyer
The department did not respond to a request for comment on the rescinded transition guidelines or the administration's plans for IDEA oversight
At a local level, courts and state education departments often play an important role in making sure special education law is followed. They have found districts guilty of many violations of the federal law, including isolating special needs children from their peers and, in the case of one South Carolina district, shortening the school day for special education students.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a student with autism whose parents accused a Colorado school district of not doing enough to help their son meet his educational goals. The court ruled that students with disabilities must be provided an "appropriately ambitious" education. "A student offered an education program providing 'merely more than de minimis' progress from year to year can hardly be said to have been offered an education at all," wrote Chief Justice John G. Roberts in a unanimous ruling.
That ruling "reinforced that you can't educate children based on stereotypes," said Senator Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), who sits on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee. She has a son with cerebral palsy and has focused on special education throughout her political career. "We all want our kids, no matter how they learn or what their physical condition is, we want them to be challenged to reach their full potential."
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The quality of special education services can differ vastly from district to district. "We tend to see the same districts over and over again," Cone, the Arkansas special education lawyer, said. "I still think that they're lazy in general and they will continue to try to play the odds that they won't get sued."
For every reported case in which a school or district is taken to court, experts and lawyers said there are many more in which families never realize they have the right to fight for better conditions for their children.
"Once they're given this diagnosis, [schools] can use it and say, 'Oh your kid has autism so they can't be in a mainstream class,' " advocate Hatharasinghe-Gerschler said. "Parents that don't know any better fall into this trap and say, 'Fine.' "
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee member Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) questions Betsy DeVos in January.
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Parents that do know better often don't want to deal with the hassle of months or years of court battles, or may not have the time or resources to do so. Many parents said that advocating for their children's rights can feel like a full-time job.
Even when students get the services to which they're entitled, some parents said, schools and teachers don't grasp how individual disabilities affect different children differently or have reasonable expectations for what their children should be able to do.
Oftentimes, parents find themselves not only advocating, but problem-solving as well. Back in Anchorage in the early 2000s, Michelle McLaughlin started doing research on her own to determine why her son, Michael, was falling further behind in elementary school.
Every special education student is assigned an Individualized Education Program (IEP), which describes the student's current ability level, sets goals and details any accommodations they will need for classes and exams. Schools are supposed to revise the IEP document annually in partnership with the student's parents and conduct a barrage of assessments to reevaluate the child's disability classification every three years.
Over the course of Michael's education career, he received some help, such as a class with other students with mood disorders in which he worked on communicating and controlling his behavior. Michael's IEP allowed him to work in small groups, have extended time on assessments and use a computer for written assignments. But he still struggled. McLaughlin said that at one point school officials delayed updating his IEP for several months.
Her research turned up strategies, like using sheet protectors to outline the page, which helped him focus, and trying to decode words from the beginning instead of from the middle — strategies she said his teachers were unaware of. With these strategies in place, McLaughlin said, Michael was able to focus and comprehend more when reading.
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Margie Gillis, president of Literacy How, a Connecticut-based group that trains teachers and administrators in literacy instruction, said that what Michael and students like him really need is "explicit and systematic instruction in the structure of language." Unfortunately, she added, teachers often don't know how to address this — a problem that stems from teaching preparation programs.
Special education is a matter of neuroscience: the brains of students with disabilities work differently than those of students in general education. Many students and adults with disabilities interviewed explained how they process information in a particular way. Experts say that teachers need to learn the physiological differences in order to effectively teach their students. A lack of understanding often results in an assumption that students can't handle academic material.
"Our son's education was a waste. We could get no one to listen or do what was needed."
- Michelle McLaughlin, parent of a special education student
Yet general education teachers rarely have much training in special education. Few teacher education programs require more than one class on students with disabilities. Meanwhile, special education teachers have to balance completing extensive federal paperwork with planning lessons and teaching classes. And they aren't always taught everything they need to know to handle the full range of disabilities they face in the classroom, or even, Gillis said, how to teach reading to children with different neurological obstacles.
Carole Banks, a special education teacher at a charter school in California, said that the only reason she felt prepared during her first year of teaching was because she'd worked as an assistant special education teacher for five years prior to going to school for her teaching degree.
"My program, they tried, but if I hadn't had experience, I would have just been feeling like I was thrown in the middle of an ocean with no life raft," she said.
Banks works in a resource lab for special education students who are mainstreamed in general education classes; they come to see her for one period each day. She said she holds her students to the same standards as their general education peers. But she's had to do research on her own to find strategies for how to help them cope with their disabilities. And the schools she's worked for have not had the funding to send her to an expensive training session for a reading program she believes would be extremely helpful.
"In every setting I've worked in, special ed has been the red-headed stepchild," Banks said. "I wish that special education services were more respected and people knew how much special education teachers do."
Many parents interviewed expressed frustration that special education teachers aren't better supported and said that the root of the problem is not individual teachers in the classroom but administrators' lack of understanding and districts' lack of incentive: special education services are usually expensive to provide.
Under IDEA, the federal government is supposed to fund 40 percent of the "excess cost" of educating children with disabilities — meaning the money above and beyond what's needed for a general education student. The government has never reached that target, forcing school districts to make up the difference — when they can afford it.
In fiscal year 2015, the federal government gave states about $12 billion, or 16 percent of the excess costs, according to a report by the New America Foundation, a nonprofit public policy institute. To reach the 40 percent target would require roughly $18 billion more, the report said.
Senator Hassan said she plans to push for full funding during the next budget process.
"Nobody likes to be the family or the child whose special education needs create budget cuts in other parts of the school budget," she said. "We know how important it is to make sure that investments in education don't fall just on local and state taxpayers."
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When Michael McLaughlin was in sixth grade, his mother gave up on the public schools and began to homeschool him. But by tenth grade, she worried that he was missing out on the opportunity to communicate and work with his peers, an important skill his autism diagnosis made even more critical. Michael returned for half days. His special education teachers worked with him on the goals that they'd laid out in his IEP.
"A lot of it was socialization," McLaughlin said about her decision to send him back to school. "Another part of it was … I didn't feel like he was getting enough with homeschooling with me. We were just concerned with what his education was going to be."
McLaughlin worried that he wouldn't be prepared for college. He enrolled full time in 11th grade. At first, the district wanted to put Michael on a track to earn a certificate of attendance. Unlike a GED, a certificate is not equivalent to a high school diploma and is not accepted by most colleges and employers. Certificates of attendance are designed for students with severe cognitive limitations who cannot meet high school academic standards.
Experts say there is little accountability to make sure districts aren't limiting students like Michael — who, with special education supports, can handle a rigorous high school curriculum — to those alternate certificates.
McLaughlin said that the school also wanted him to transition into a life skills program. Life skills programs are designed for students with ability levels and IQs far below Michael's. He would have learned independent living skills, like doing laundry and grocery shopping.
"That just made absolutely no sense to us," McLaughlin said.
Michael's family insisted that he earn a regular diploma, even if it took him a little longer than other students. He ended up repeating a year of high school to earn more credits. (Under IDEA, special education students are allowed to stay in public schools up to the age of 21.) He graduated in 2013.
Bartlett High School principal Sean Prince said he can't speak to the details of Michael's experience because he did not become the school's principal until 2014, a year after Michael graduated. But he said he feels "helpless" that he couldn't do something to help Michael.
"I wish we could have helped more," Prince said. "I hate that [Michael's] mom still has bad feelings about this. … It really makes me feel bad if she felt we weren't doing a good job because we try to meet the needs of students every day."
Now 24, Michael is enrolled in a three-year painting apprenticeship. His dad works as a foreman at a painting company and has hired Michael. He'll continue to work for his dad when he completes the program.
McLaughlin said Michael likes the program. But she said his experiences at school hurt him in more ways than limiting his future career and education options. "It's impacted him in every possible way that it can," McLaughlin said. "The biggest thing my son still struggles with, to this day, is his feeling of self-worth."
This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with HuffPost. Read the whole series, "Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students," here.
Who is in Special Education?
Students who are diagnosed with one or more of the 13 disabilities covered by the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act qualify for special education. Those disabilities include learning disabilities, autism, emotional disturbance, and hearing impairment. Within each disability, there is variance in severity and how the disability reveals itself in a classroom.
Special Education Glossary
IEP: Every student covered under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act receives an IEP, or an Individual Education Program. This lengthy plan details a student's current performance levels, goals for the next year, the classes a student will take, and any accommodations or modifications the student will receive in classes.
Transition plan: The transition plan is part of an Individual Education Program and must be developed before a student with a disability turns 16, according to federal law. This plan uses student interests and other information about a student to outline post-high school goals.
Accommodations: Accommodations include strategies like allowing a student to take extra time on a test, type an assignment instead of hand writing it, or sit in an area that helps a student focus. These are described in a student's IEP.
Modifications: Modifications are changes in assignments and curriculum meant to assist students with disabilities in mastering content, such as providing fewer answer choices on assignments or tests, or providing text at an appropriate reading level for a student.
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A total of Php 300,500.00 cash incentives under the "Katas ng VAT – tulong para kay Lolo at Lola" Program, at Php 500.00 for every beneficiary, were given to the six hundred sixty one (661) identified senior citizens of the Municipality of Miagao in an official turn-over ceremony held at the Justice Ramon B. Britanico Hall on May 25, 2010.
The program is a one-time cash subsidy of Php500.00 for qualified senior citizens. It was funded through a National Government Allocation Fund from the Value Added Tax (VAT). The program was implemented nationwide since 2009 by the Department of Social Welfare and Development in coordination with the Office of the Senior Citizens Affairs (OSCA) and Local Government Units.
In Miagao, some 1,622 citizens have availed of the Php500.00 incentive in 2009, the first trance of the program, or equivalent to Php811,000.00.
Mrs. Rosalinda S. Mueda, Municipal Social Welfare and Development Officer, said that the program was designed purposely for the senior citizens "to augment their resources".
Senior citizens, because of their age and already fragile physical being require a lot of care to maintain their health physically and mentally. Aside from the fact that they need a caring environment, they need medical attention which is to have a good healthy diet. Much as they want to have what they need, due to limited resources and increasing prices of commodities they could not support such need," said Mrs. Mueda.
Mrs. Mueda said the names of the senior citizens were identified by the Punong Barangays from their respective barangays. For the MSWDO, they did the validation and submitted the list to the Regional Office for their consideration and approval. Among the things considered in picking the beneficiaries were: age (should be 70 years old) and must not be covered by Social Security System and Government Service Insurance System Retirement Benefit.


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The Recessional at a Wedding is the big moment at the end of the ceremony, usually right after the couple is introduced for the first time as husband and wife and is typically accompanied with a song. While the traditional wedding recessional song is "The Wedding March" by Felix Mendelssohn, it's used only some of the time. Here is a broader list of Recessional Songs.
Top Choice Wedding Recessional Songs
These are my "go to" songs when nothing else gives. They're good songs, not too cliche and pleasing on the ear for the masses.
"Signed, Sealed & Delivered (I'm Yours)" by Stevie Wonder
"I Do" by Colbie Caillat
"All You Need is Love" by The Beatles
"Happy Together" by The Turles
"Ain't That A Kick In The Head" by Dean Martin
"The Adventurer" by Angels & Airwaves (great buildup)
Modern & A/C Wedding Recessional Songs
"You Are The Best Thing" by Ray LaMontagne
"Ho Hey" by The Lumineers
"Kiss Me" by Sixpence None The Richer
"Sweet Disposition" by The Temper Trap (great buildup)
"Love You Madly" by Cake
"Home" by Edward Sharp & The Magnetic Zeros
"Tenderness" by General Public
"City of Blinding Lights" by U2 (Great Buildup)
"Beautiful Day" by U2 (After ~50 sec)
"Wouldn't It Be Nice" by The Beach Boys
Oldies Recessional Songs
"(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher" by Jackie Wilson
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" by Marvin Gaye
Quirky & Fun Wedding Recessional Songs
"All I Want is You" – Barry Louis Polisar
"I Do" by The Marvelows
"Joy" by Apollo 100
Classical Wedding Recessional Songs
"The Wedding March" by Felix Mendelssohn


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We have all faced adversity; it's what we do to overcome adversity that determines our success. That success is not always measured in a tangible gain, such as money, position or power. Overcoming adversity could be as simple as getting out of bed after a difficult illness, or seeing a child succeed in the face of the most austere environments.
You have made a choice to overcome adversity by improving yourselves through education. Pursuing education in itself could create adversity as there are many roadblocks and challenges facing students. All of which could have a negative impact on achieving your goal of a college degree.
Almost all of the greatest success stories about overcoming adversity center on identifying and using available resources to help. You don't have to walk this journey alone. There are more resources available than you may actually need. The greatest obstacles to overcoming adversity are our own pride and stubbornness to seek and ask for help.
We at Stevens-Henager College have taken extraordinary steps to ensure that you have the resources and tools available to help you overcome adversity in the classroom and as a student, but we don't have all the helps at our disposal. We rely heavily on you to have an open communication network with us. By communicating with us on adversities you are facing can better help us guide you to the best resource.
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Dr. Ben Voth researches and teaches with a goal of equipping individuals to have a voice in the world. He has published three books on how individual communication abilities can positively change the world: James Farmer Jr.: The Great Debater (Lexington Books, 2017); Social Fragmentation and the Decline of American Democracy: The End of the Social Contract (Springer, 2017, with Robert E. Denton Jr.); and The Rhetoric of Genocide: Death as a Text (Lexington Books, 2014 and 2016). The Rhetoric of Genocide won the American Forensic Association's 2015 top national book award, the Daniel Rohrer Memorial Outstanding Research Award, for research in the field of speech and debate. Voth's writing has been featured in The Dallas Morning News, Fortune magazine, American Thinker and discussed on various NPR affiliates. His expertise is cited in national publications such as The Washington Post and U.S. News and World Report, and has been discussed on The Rush Limbaugh Show. His communication collaborations with national and international institutions include: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the George W. Bush Presidential Center, the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation and the government of Rwanda. His students often work to overcome human rights problems in a variety of international settings including Burma, North Korea, Rwanda, India and Europe.
Voth's unique approach to communication emphasizes the role of free speech, dissent, and argument in preventing and reversing problems of human injustice. Specializing in a rhetorical studies approach allows him to teach courses in public speaking, argumentation and debate, persuasion theory, political communication, communication and ethnoviolence, communication and genocide.
As director of speech and debate, Voth has coached more than a dozen national champions of collegiate speech and debate events including International Public Debate Association's varsity competitions, novice policy debate, persuasive speaking, communication analysis, and impromptu speaking.
Ph.D. in Communication Studies, University of Kansas, 1994
M.A. in Speech Communication, Baylor University, 1990
B.A. in Communication and Journalism, Baylor University, 1989
Technology and communication, the rhetoric of genocide, humor and politics
Public Deliberation and Rational Discourse [Debate]; Communication in Global Contexts; Communication Theory
Author of The Rhetoric of Genocide: Death as a Text, a communication-based guide to the tenacious global problem of genocide. Numerous book chapters in academic books on political communication and research articles in top journals in argumentation and rhetoric such as Argumentation and Advocacy, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, and the Southern Communication Journal.
Coached more than a dozen national champions in collegiate speech events. Qualified more than a dozen teams to the National Debate Tournament. Coached teams to the elimination rounds of the National Debate tournament four times including a 3rd place finish overall. Hired as a consultant by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 and again in 2007. Coached more than a dozen national champions in collegiate speech events. Qualified more than a dozen teams to the National Debate Tournament. Coached teams to the elimination rounds of the National Debate tournament four times including a 3rd place finish overall. Hired as a consultant by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 and again in 2007.
Public Deliberation and Rational Discourse [Debate]
Communication in Global Contexts
Communication Theory
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Originally published in 1872, Lewis Carroll's 'Through The Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There' takes us on a very different journey to Alice's previous excursion into Wonderland. In 'Looking-Glass,' Alice passes through the mirror into a world of chess-people, curious school-boys, a living egg, sentient and loquacious flowers, and a host of other strange and fantastic creatures. Alice is immediately given an evolving role in a game of chess being played out across the whole of the Looking-Glass world. As she travels through a landscape which at times defies the 'normal' laws of nature, she encounters characters who challenge her experience and perception. This world of 'nonsense' ultimately offers Alice, and the reader, insights into the 'normal' world.


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Investing can be a bit of an interesting topic. When you know nothing about it, it can really feel like a foreign language. It's complex and risky, and something that you can never really see yourself getting on board with. But at the same time, investing has an allure. You know that a lot of people can make a lot of money when they invest. But you're never really sure if you're ready for a piece of the pie. If you're in debt or only have small savings, you can be put off – but you don't have to be. If you are currently sat on the fence, and you want to see what kind of options are available to you – as well as what the rest of the country is doing, you've come to the right place. Let's take a look at five main avenues that the US invests in.
Up first, we're going to consider mutual funds. For beginners, this is often a really easy way to start out and find your feet in the investment world. You'll find that you have an account that collates money from lots of investors, then places that investment into one portfolio. You'll have money managers that invest in a range of investors. The bonus here is that you share losses and costs, as well as profits. Both the cost and your risk is low because of this.
Then, there's a certificate of deposit (CD). Again, this is a basic option for you to start out with. In a way, it's kind of like a savings account because you put your money in and you receive interest. However, the money is invested, rather than paying you a fixed rate. It will also be tied up for a set period. In that time, you're likely to find that the rates you get a higher than in traditional savings.
Next, we have bonds. These are a debt obligation that big businesses issue so that they can finance their operations or expand. By buying a bond, you'll receive interest on a regular basis, usually over a set period of time, along with the value of your bond. This is usually a very simple and straightforward way to invest.
For something slightly different, there's also commodities. Rather than dealing with the stock market, you can choose to invest in something such as energy, metals, or cryptocurrency. Right now, there is a shale gas boom in the US, making this a popular choice. But you will find that whatever commodity you invest in, it's likely to hold it's money or increase in value, giving you a great way to make money.
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Where do Curlies come from? How were they developed?
Curlies were first discovered by white men in America in the wild herds of mustangs in Eastern Nevada, at the turn of the 20th Century. The Sioux and Crow Indians had Curly horses as early as 1800, though whether these two kinds of Curly horses were related we don't know. There is also written and pictorial evidence of curly haired horses found at various times in various places around the world - Charles Darwin writes of curly horses in South America, for instance. Again, whether these horses are at all related to the North American dominant gene Curly horses is unknown at this time. Hopefully future research will shed some light on these matters. The Damele's, a Nevada ranching family, were the first to gather and use the Curlies on their ranch, in the 1930s. They interbred the tough, intelligent range Curlies with their ranch horses, and with an Arabian stallion, Nevada Red, and later a Morgan stallion, Ruby Red King. They found the Curly coat often came through on the cross-bred foals, showing that the Curly gene was dominant in these range Curlies. They also frequently got the other Curly characteristics which they prized - strong bone and hooves; calm, intelligent, easily trainable temperament; friendly personality; tough constitutions and stamina, etc.
Why are Curly horses curly? Are they really a breed?
The ICHO is undertaking serious research on the Curly gene, to try to discover more about it and it's various expressions. There will be pedigree tracking, surveys on traits, etc, to begin learning as much as possible about these mysterious, curly coated, hypoallergenic horses.
By current scientific breed recognition guidelines, the North American Curly Horse is not a true breed, but rather a coat type. However, the goal of many Curly Horse breeders is to develop real breeds of horses that are curly coated. Many Curly breeders are also just as dedicated to the preservation of the old bloodlines of North American Curly Horses, that still exist. ICHO goals are supportive of all these type breeding programs.
What do Curlies look like?
Curlies come in a variety of sizes and shapes, and all colors. The winter curls on different individuals can range from crushed velvet looking, to marcelle waves, to tight ringlets, to "french knot" microcurls. Manes and forelocks can be corkscrewed, ringletted, or dreadlocked. Tails may have some wave or curl. The hair in their ears is curly, the whiskers, eyelashes, and fetlocks are often curly or wavy. These curls are considered a hallmark of the breed, and most owners would never trim or clip them off.
In summer, Curlies typically shed out to a slick coat, sometimes still appearing slightly wavy. Some Curlies keep strongly curled hair all year round, though not as thick or long, in the summer.
What are Curlies used for? What disciplines are they suited for?
The original Curlies were used by white men for ranch work, and Native Americans for buffalo hunting. Today, Curlies are used as sporthorses (Dressage, jumping, combined driving, etc.), western and ranch horses, pleasure horses, trail horses, endurance horses, and exotic looking pasture ornaments! Perhaps more than anything else the variety & versatility of the North American Curly Horse underlies its fast-growing popularity and makes it particularly appealing as a horse with which the whole family can become involved.
There has been some gaited blood mixed into some Curlies, and about 10% of Curlies will do either a foxtrot or running walk or stepping pace (aka Curly shuffle). This is a natural low stepping smooth gait.
Curlies are unsuitable for racing, and for any mechanically induced gaits in such performance areas as high stepping Park horses, "big lick" gaited horses, or the ultra slow Western Pleasure horse.
Where can I go to see a Curly Horse?
Check out the members webpage for Curly Horse owners or breeders close to you that you can go visit. Always call or email first to set up an appointment.
Are Curlies really hypoallergenic? Is it really true most people who are allergic to horses are not allergic to curlies?
For whatever reason, apparently so, yes. Most people who are allergic to horses can tolerate Curlies with reduced or no allergic reaction - a dream come true for many!
The prefix "hypo-" means, by definition, below or significantly less than normal.
We claim that Curly Horses are HYPOallergenic.
We do not, and can not claim that Curly Horses are NONallergenic.
If you are considering purchasing a Curly Horse that you will not be allergic to, we recommend testing your reaction to any given horse you might be considering, and consult with your allergist for the best and safest way to do this. Hair samples can be sent as a preliminary test. For people who are dangerously allergic to horses, we highly recommend doing any testing in the presence of your allergist, with emergency drugs immediately available. Though they may very well not be needed!
For people who are allergic to horses, they also do have to determine that it is only the horses themselves that they are allergic to, and not hay, straw, pollen, dust, manure, barn cats, etc.- in these latter cases, the breed of horse wouldn't matter.
ICHO breeders supplied special quarantined Curly Horse hair samples for a world University study conducted in Europe, on the hypoallergenic properties of various horse breeds. The findings of this study, will be published in a highly regarded international allergy medical journal.
Is the offspring of a curly to straight horse mating, less likely to be hypoallergenic, or not as hypoallergenic, than the offspring of a curly to curly mating?
By all accounts gathered so far, there appears to be no significant difference, if they are both curly coated. Any horse with a curly coat, is very likely to be hypoallergenic. There are some accounts of smooth coated Curly Horses, also being hypoallergenic. It seems that the hypoallergenic SC's ARE usually the product of curly to curly matings. We need more research results, to verify this, and to explain why Curly Horses are hypoallergenic.
I've heard Curlies need almost no care. Is that really true?
This is an unfortunate misconception that has sadly landed some Curlies in neglect situations. Curlies do not need pampering, but they do need good basic care. Since they are a horse that developed in the wild, they tend to be easy keepers, with tough hooves and hardy constitutions. They tend to be winter hardy. This does not excuse lack of care, though. Good food in the right amounts, adequate shelter, regular veterinary care, worming, hoof trimming and shoeing as needed, dental care, etc., all should be provided just as they would be for any other horse.
What kind of care does the Curly's coat take?
Normal grooming is satisfactory for most Curly coats. Combing out the ringletted or corkscrew or dreadlocked manes can cause them to lose their curly look. Some people choose to trim the manes occasionally instead to keep them neat. Tails can be brushed and combed in the normal manner. Care must be taken during shedding season, not to pull out too much mane and tail, during grooming.
In springtime, the ICHO Fiber Guild collects, bags, & cleans the shedding out coat from as many Curly Horses as possible, to use themselves for spinning and weaving, or to sell to others who do this. The profits got to ICHO Curly Research efforts. If you can collect the hair shed from your Curly Horse in spring, and would be willing to donate it to the cause, please visit the Fiber Guild Affiliation page for more information.
What do Curlies normally cost?
Prices vary, of course, but Curlies in general are a very good value. They are comparable in price to other breeds of pleasure horses.
What should I look for when considering a Curly to purchase?
This of course is very individualized, depending on what you are looking for in a Curly horse. They should have the conformation, gaits, and temperament, to do what it is you hope to do with them. We recommend having a pre-purchase veterinary exam before agreeing to buy a horse. You may also want to have a trainer or other professional evaluate the horse to see if it is suitable to your needs and skills. The seller should be forthright in his or her representation of the horse, and should have clearly taken good physical and emotional care of the horse. Any specific agreements or guarantees are up to the seller and prospective buyer to determine. We recommend you get any agreements or guarantees in writing.
Is it true that Curly Horses really have a quieter temperament than most other breeds of horses?
Yes it really seems to be true. In the livestock world, there are usually more differences between individuals within breeds, than between average individuals of different breeds... however in the case of the Curly Horse, most are very intelligent, and most are very calm natured compared to other breeds of horses. Many Curly Horses enjoy their humans as much or more than other horses. They tend to figure things out, very quickly. Some owners compare Curly Horses to mules or asses, in their higher intelligence, and the fact that they think rather than just panic. When given the choice between fight or flight, they often amaze people by resorting to a third choice: reasoning. Handled properly, they are typically not flighty, very reliable, train very quickly, and have a wonderful work ethic.
It also bears mentioning here that Curlies (being very intelligent) who are mishandled and allowed to disrespect humans, or taught to distrust humans, can become terrors very quickly. A Curly like that would not be suitable for beginners. Of course that is true of any breed, but with a highly intelligent horse, the undesirable results can develop very quickly.
In general, Curly Horses are highly intelligent, quite calm natured, and are often a thinking horse rather than a reactive horse.
Is it true that Curly Horses mature slower? What age is it safe to begin training them?
According to Deb Bennett, all breeds of horses do mature at the same rate, even the ones that by their appearance seem to mature slower or faster than others.
So, inform yourself, ask questions, and treat them with care and knowledge.
I've seen Curlies with no mane or tail hair. What's going on there?
Some Curlies will shed out their manes and tails along with their winter coats each spring, and grow them back in the fall and winter. A few Curlies have very thin or scanty manes and tails year round - why some Curly Horse are more extreme in these traits is uncertain, and research is planned in this area.