SIUE is in its second year of offering the Adventure of the American Mind (AAM), a project funded through the Library of Congress to prepare teachers to use the Library's American Memory Web site (memory.loc.gov).
In fact, the program has received $600,000 in additional federal funding to continue the program another two years, with the help of U.S. Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), who initiated the program in the state of Illinois.
Through the AAM program, teachers can find not only interesting historical information on the Web site, but also may download historic images to help make learning more vivid for their students. The Library of Congress Web site provides 7.5 million historical items presented in more than 100 thematic collections, including photographs and rare documents, maps, films, and audio recordings.
AAM Program Manager Amy Wilkinson, of the SIUE School of Education, said the program helps teachers analyze and interpret original primary sources of information from the Web site. "Within the AAM program, teachers will learn how to download photographs taken during the civil rights era or letters written by Thomas Jefferson or George Washington, or even motion picture films from Edison Co. showing us life on the streets of New York in the early 1900s," Wilkinson said.
She explained the program is for in-service and pre-service classroom teachers, as well as for university teacher education faculty, to access and produce curriculum using the Web site's resources. "This program offers training on integrating technology, using digitized primary sources, resources, and technical support," Wilkinson said, "and provides resources such as laptops, LCD projectors, scanners, and digital cameras. We also have a technical specialist who offers a wide range of technical assistance."
Wilkinson said the AAM program involves a commitment to attend courses during one academic year, which includes three components-training (graduate course), enrichment (workshops), and mentoring. "Through the AAM program," she said, "teachers develop skills in using these primary sources to increase student's critical thinking skills and to enhance student learning.
"As technology continues to evolve, there is a need for educators to increase their technology skills to access rich educational information on the internet."
School of Education Dean Elliott Lessen said SIUE became involved in AAM because of the "unique opportunities" that were available. "The program is unique because it relies on primary source materials that have been digitized rather than pre-digested materials, such as textbooks," Lessen pointed out. "Thus, teachers' creativity is allowed to flourish as they use primary source materials in a variety of ways. For example, one source could be used differently for math or science, or history or English.
"Through the AAM program, we are able to teach a course for graduate students and also infuse the unique features of AAM into our undergraduate teacher education programs," Lessen said.
For more information about the AAM program at SIUE, call the School of Education, (618) 650-3350.
Although it was a fixture at the Mississippi River Festival during the 1970s, the world renowned Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra has only returned to the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville twice since the summer festival's heyday.
The acclaimed ensemble's presence on the SIUE campus has been as rare as, well, Leap Day, so, what better day to enjoy this magnificent organization on campus again than Feb. 29 at 2 p.m. in Meridian Ballroom.
"Don't hesitate to 'leap'at the chance to hear again-or for the first time-one of the world's most applauded symphonic orchestras," says John Peecher, assistant development director for SIUE's College of Arts and Sciences and coordinator of the Arts & Issues series. "All joking aside, this orchestra is world class and is a wonderfully musical way to spend a winter's afternoon.
"Arts & Issues is proud to bring the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra to SIUE in a return engagement on our stage."
A familiar presence for many years in the recording industry, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra has met with critical acclaim and has garnered nearly 60 Grammy nominations, winning six of the prestigious music awards. The orchestra has expanded its audience through frequent tours of the United States, including both coasts, as well as tours to Europe and to the Far East.
In addition, the orchestra has played at Carnegie Hall in New York City and has been featured regularly on National Public Radio, both locally and nationally.
Information about the Feb. 29 appearance of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and how to order tickets may be found on the Arts & Issues Web site: artsandissues.com and in a printed brochure available through John Peecher, (618) 650-2626, or, by e-mail: jpeeche@siue.edu. Tickets for the event are $18; students, $9. Tickets also are available at the Morris Center Information Desk, (618) 650-5555.
The remaining Arts & Issues season includes: National Geographic photographer Sam Abell, who will speak about the Lewis and Clark Expedition (March 16); the explosive and creative movement of Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago (April 2); and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Norman Mailer (April 20).
Thanks to a $9,000 grant from the Ford Foundation through the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), SIUE will be assessing the region's needs for two new professional master's degrees in the Social Sciences and Humanities, according to Stephen Hansen, dean of Graduate Studies and Research.
The two new graduate programs are Professional and Technical Writing and Criminal Justice Studies. "SIUE is one of only 38 institutions to receive funding for a planning grant from the Ford Foundation," Hansen said.
"These degrees are designed to meet the changing needs of the area's workforce. In order to ensure that the new programs will be meeting area workforce needs, each program will create a Business Advisory Board, modeled after other such boards for other SIUE programs," Hansen said.
"The Graduate School, through its Institute for Urban Research, will be working with these Business Advisory Boards to survey workforce needs in the area."
Hansen said SIUE graduate programs are developed with the region's needs in mind, making the university a good match for funding from the Ford Foundation. "For the past two years, the CGS has supported the development of professional master's programs in science and mathematics fields," Hansen said. "SIUE received funding for the new Biotechnology Management and Environmental Science Management programs from CGS and the Sloan Foundation."
With support from the Ford Foundation, CGS recently conducted a survey of master's education in the social sciences that generated interest among social science and humanities disciplinary societies for a collaborative research and demonstration project that assesses the need for and promising models of professional master's programs.
Professional master's degrees are interdisciplinary in design and typically combine study in various disciplines. The SIUE Professional and Technical Writing program would be housed in the Department of English Language and Literature, with students taking courses in such other disciplines as business. The Criminal Justice Studies program would be located within the SIUE Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies, with students taking courses is such other disciplines as biology, psychology, and anthropology.
"Funding from the Ford Foundation and the Council of Graduate Schools is important national recognition of the quality of graduate education at SIUE," Hansen said.
Noting that graduate programs at SIUE are designed to be responsive to the needs of Southwestern Illinois, Hansen added: "We are excited that this grant will allow us to expand our program inventory by supporting the development of two new graduate programs that serve the region."
Business educators from four countries will visit Southern Illinois University Edwardsville during International Business Week, March 1-6, to discuss issues of trade and global business practices.
The SIUE School of Business and the SIUE International Trade Center are co-sponsoring events during the week to provide opportunities for students and for the general public to discuss global business practices with the international educators as well as regional business leaders from the community.
Events are sponsored, in part, by a grant from the SIUE Excellence in Undergraduate Education fund.
The four visiting faculty members are Albrecht Sonntag, on the faculty at the École Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales d'Angers, who specializes in the political economy of the European Union; Hans Gühlert, on the faculty of Fachhochschule Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Germany, who specializes in marketing and marketing research; Sara Isabel García, on the faculty of the Instituto Tecnológico Y De Estudios Superiores De Monterrey in Mexico, who has expertise in marketing, with specialties in advertising, sales promotion, marketing planning, and business ethics; and Chen Yan, associate professor in the International Trade Department at Xiamen University in China.
They will be joined in a March 1 panel discussion by Rick Dreyer, vice president of international sales at T.J. Gundlach Machine Company in Belleville, and Stewart Dahlberg, manager of export sales at J.D. Streett & Company Inc. in St. Louis. The panel discussion is set for 6:30 p.m. in the Maple-Dogwood Room, on the second floor of SIUE's Morris University Center. Topics will include international trade and the state of international business.
Admission is free to the general public, but reservations are requested.
Please contact Vivien Shao by e-mail: yshao@siue.edu or by telephone, (618) 650- 2452, to register and reserve seating.
The international faculty members also will speak to faculty, staff, and students from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in Room 2401 of Alumni Hall on Tuesday, March 2. This session, part of the School of Business' weekly "Business Hour," will provide students with a greater knowledge of and appreciation for the global business environment and how social, legal, political, cultural, and economic forces shape business practices in various countries.
The SIUE School of Business is an active participant in international exchange programs and sends SIUE faculty and students to study overseas each year.
• Black Film Series: A Historic Perspective-6-10 p.m. Monday-Tuesday, Feb. 23-24, presents screening of films directed by Oscar Micheaux (Lying Lips, 1939), Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree, 1969), Reginald and Warrington Hudlin of East St. Louis (The Great White Hype, 1996), and a fourth film to be announced. Elza Ibroscheva and Bala Baptiste, members of the SIUE Mass Communications faculty, will present a conceptualization of African-American films and filmmakers.
• Panel Discussion: Blacks, Radio and History, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25, in Goshen Lounge. Local radio talk show hosts and on-air personalities will participate in the discussion.
• Lecture-Are We Still Living Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream?-7-9 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25, Maple-Dogwood Room, Morris Center. Former Washington Post reporter Leon Dash will lead the discussion..
• Black Heritage Month Quiz Bowl, 11:30-1:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in Goshen.
• Gospel Explosion-6:30-10 p.m., Meridian Ballroom. This event features poetry, rap, praise dance, and gospel music.
It has been five seasons since the SIUE men's basketball team has made an appearance at Roberts Stadium for the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament.
It will be Coach Marty Simmons' first time back in Roberts Stadium since becoming SIUE's leader last season. Simmons was an assistant coach at the University of Evansville.
Nostalgia aside, Simmons takes his team into the league tournament beaming with enthusiasm and confidence. The Cougars hold a three-game winning streak. Their most recent victory was a homecourt upset of 14th-ranked Lewis 78-76 on Saturday (2/28). "That was a big win. It was what we had talked about before the game. Everything was dedicated to our seniors," Simmons said, referring to Corey Bradford (Chicago), Ron Jones (Kankakee) and Dan Lytle (Edwardsville).
Joel Jaye (Chicago) led all scorers with 28 points in the win.
SIUE, 16-11 and the No. 5 seed in the tournament, faces fourth-seeded Indianapolis in the first round on Friday (3/5) at noon.
Despite losing to Indianapolis twice during the regular season, Simmons said the team's one-game-at-a-time attitude remains. "Our guys are playing with confidence, but it all comes down to execution," said Simmons.
The Cougars will face an Indianapolis team, 19-8, searching for win No. 20 on Friday. Simmons said Indianapolis has a veteran squad led by David Logan. "They have a marquee player in Logan, but some of their supporting cast would be marquee players on other teams," Simmons said.
A win for the Cougars could put SIUE in the hunt for one of the region's eight bids to the NCAA Tournament. This week's regional rankings will be announced later this week and could give SIUE an indication of what needs to be done at the GLVC Tournament in order to gain an NCAA bid. The winner of the GLVC Tournament receives an automatic bid to the 64-team NCAA Tournament.
SIUE boasts a balanced scoring attack with four players averaging double figures led by Tyler Hackstadt (Okawville), Calvin Sykes (Chicago), Jones, and Jaye. The Cougars also lead the GLVC in scoring defense at 65.2 points per game.
SIU Edwardsville Coach Wendy Hedberg and her women's basketball team have the task of playing top-seeded Quincy in the first round of the GLVC Tournament.
The Cougars, 11-16, face Quincy, 23-4, at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday (3/4).
Hedberg said the key to Thursday's game is to create better passing angles into the post players and apply pressure on Quincy's guards. Hedberg said the Cougars also have been passing up open shots at the basket hoping to create a better shot. "Everybody has to step it up a little bit," said Hedberg. "Once we get the ball inside, we need to finish inside."
Despite the Cougars' No. 8 seed in the league tournament, Hedberg believes the Cougars can overcome the odds of upsetting the top seed. "Quincy is a good team, but I think we can play with them if we put two good halves together," said Hedberg.
Senior guard Jessica Robert (Carlyle) enters her final GLVC Tournament leading SIUE with a 13.9 scoring average. Junior forward Tanya Guell (Plymouth, Wis.) follows with a 12.7 scoring average. Freshman Julianne McMillen (Pana) holds a 10.3 scoring average.
After celebrating a first-ever Great Lakes Valley Conference championship for indoor track on both the men's and women's side, Coach Darryl Frerker now has an extra bonus.
Several Cougars have made the provisional qualifying list for the NCAA Championships in Boston on March 12-13.
Frerker, named the GLVC's Coach of the Year for men's indoor track and women's indoor track, said he expects Richard Skirball (Granite City), Jamie Thomas (Blue Island) and Callie Glover (Bartlett) to be on the entry list when it is announced later this week.
The top 12 performances in each event are invited to the national meet.
Frerker said Tairisha Sawyer (Chicago) also could make the trip with a little luck. Sawyer is 15th in the 60-meter dash, but with scratches to the meet and student-athletes who compete in multiple events, the possibility exists.
Skirball holds the 11th fastest time in the country at 800 meters. Thomas, the women's Freshman of the Year, is seventh in the 60-meter hurdles and 13th in the triple jump. Because she'll already be in attendance for the hurdles event, Frerker said, the meet committee will likely let her compete in the triple jump as well. Glover is tied for 11th in the shot put. "This is the most people we have had on the provisional list by a long shot," said Frerker.
That list also includes Brittany Reeves (Hanover Park), Breanne Steffens (Moline), and the women's 4 x 400-meter relay team. On the men's side, provisional qualifying marks also were made by Lee Weeden (Ferguson, Mo.), Cody Ellermeyer (DuQuoin) and Marvell Seals (Florissant, Mo.).
The SIUE baseball team must dig out of a four-game deficit after two losses to both Missouri Southern State and Grand Valley State this past weekend.
"We mixed in errors when we didn't need them," said SIUE Coach Gary Collins. "We tried to play everyone this weekend, but we just didn't take very good at-bats," said Collins.
Brad Scott (Benld) and Luke Humphrey (Rantoul) led the team with five hits each for the Cougars. Collins said despite the four losses that the SIUE pitching staff held up well. The staff completed the four-game series with a 2.01 earned run average.
Collins said he'll use the trip to Georgia as an opportunity to fine-tune the team to get ready for the league season. "With a 40-game schedule, if we don't finish in the top two or three, we probably don't belong in the (NCAA) regional tournament," Collins said.
After a 2-3 start to the 2004 season, Coach Sandy Montgomery and her SIU Edwardsville softball team will travel to Orlando, Fla., for the Rebel Spring Games.
SIUE has 10 games from March 8 to March 13 and hopes to use the opportunity to get a fresh start on the season. "I'm looking for us to play more consistent and build confidence," Montgomery said.
Shannon Evans (Manhattan) led the Cougars with a .571 batting average. Evans played four games behind the plate for SIUE. VJ (Veronica) Schmidt (Westmont) also came up with some big hits.
Montgomery also expressed confidence in the team's pitching staff despite a 3.17 earned run average to begin the season.
"Even though our pitching staff had a hard time, they've got a lot of potential," she said.
The SIU Edwardsville women's tennis team will hope to continue its successful spring season when it plays MacMurray on Friday (3/5). The match will be held at 2 p.m. in Elsah at The Principia College.
The Cougars, 11-5 overall and 2-0 in the spring season, picked up wins last week against Illinois-Springfield and the University of Chicago. "They are doing well," Coach Bill Logan said. "I'm proud that they did what they had to do to get those wins."
Chrissy Yingst (Belleville) won both of her singles matches against Illinois-Springfield and Chicago. Every singles player got at least one win in the two matches.
The doubles tandem of Coryn Reich (Newton) and Yingst went 2-0 on the week, as well as the team of Gina Wohltman (Effingham) and Allison Coats (Belleville).
The SIU Edwardsville men's tennis team will vie for its first win of the season when it travels to The Principia College to face MacMurray College. First serve is scheduled for Saturday at 2:30 p.m.
SIUE, which is 0-2 on the season, dropped a 6-3 decision to Western Illinois last Saturday (2/28) at King's Point in Belleville.
Matt Kuban (Pekin), Andy Renner (Belleville) and Chris Rigdon (Glen Carbon) all picked up victories in singles play, but SIUE was shutout in doubles action in three close matches. Western Illinois edged the Cougars by the scores of 8-6 in No. 1 and No. 2 doubles, and used a tiebreaker to come out on top in No. 3 doubles.
"We need these beginning matches to work out some kinks," Coach Bill Logan said. "We're a good team and will do much better as the season progresses."
Including the MacMurray match, SIUE still has nine matches to prepare for the Great Lakes Valley Conference portion of its schedule, which begins March 23.
SIU Edwardsville men's basketball will travel outside of conference play when it plays host to Lincoln University on Wednesday (2/25). It then wraps up its regular season schedule on Saturday (2/28) against Lewis at the Vadalabene Center.
Lincoln, an NCAA Division II team in the Heartland Conference, comes into the contest with a 3-19 overall record. Wednesday's tip-off is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. "We're going to treat it just like a conference game," Coach Marty Simmons said. "They are going to come in and try to beat us."
The Cougars then face Lewis at 3 p.m. Saturday. Lewis has clinched at least a share of the Great Lakes Valley Conference regular season title. It can clinch the title outright with a win Thursday (2/26) at Quincy or a win against SIUE.
For the first time since the 1998-1999 season, SIUE will be involved in the eight-team GLVC Tournament. Currently, the Cougars are sixth in the conference standings, a half game behind fifth-seeded Saint Joseph's. "That was one of our goals coming into the season," Simmons said. "After achieving the goal of reaching, you want to try to win it."
Saturday's game against Lewis will mark a sendoff to SIUE's two seniors, Ron Jones (Kankakee) and Corey Bradford (Chicago).
"Both players are great ambassadors to the program," Simmons said. "They are both quality people and it has been a joy to coach and be around them."
Jones was SIUE's leading scorer last season and is currently averaging 11.6 points per game. "Jones has had an outstanding career at SIUE," Simmons said. "I am lucky to have been able to coach him."
Bradford had last season cut short after a foot injury, but he fought back and has seen action in 19 games so far this year. "Corey battles through adversity as well as anybody," Simmons said. "He worries more about the team success than any of his own accomplishments."
Already assured of an eighth-seed in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament, the SIU Edwardsville women's basketball team will face Lewis Saturday (2/28) at the Vadalabene Center. Game time is set for 1 p.m.
The Cougars, 11-15 overall and 6-13 in the GLVC, are coming off an 80-54 win against Missouri-St. Louis. "We went back to playing the way we are capable of," Hedberg said of her team's performance against UMSL. "It nice to put some points on the board and see some emotion and intensity. They knew their backs were against the wall, and they stepped it up."
Lewis, who has clinched a tournament berth but is still jockeying for position, comes into the week with a 15-10 record overall and a 12-6 mark in GLVC play. "We need to worry about what we are doing and execute," Hedberg said. "You would like to go into the conference tournament after playing a good game."
Saturday also will mark the final home game for SIUE's four seniors, Kristen Boss (Carrollton), Jaque Howard (Galesburg), Jessica Robert (Carlyle) and Sarah Schweers (Chatham).
Boss has played in 76 games in her career, averaging 3.6 points per game. She will end her career sixth on SIUE's all-time blocks list with 49. "Over her four years in the program she has done some nice things for us," Hedberg said. "She helped solidify the post position for us."
Howard has played 95 games throughout her four-year career, and she has contributed in a big way recently. "Jaque sees the floor well and is a great passer," Hedberg said. "As of late, she has really stepped it up and hit some big shots for us when we needed them."
Robert became the 16th player in school history to surpass the 1,000-point plateau. She is having one of her best years offensively, averaging 14.3 points per game. "Jessica has been a solid player all four years here," Hedberg said. "This year, we asked her to step up, and she has done that with her overall game."
Schweers is second all-time on SIUE's three-point field goals made list. She is also having one of her best years, averaging just less than eight points a game. "Sarah is one of the hardest working players we've had," Hedberg said. "She was a walk-on who made herself into a starter through hard work."
After breaking numerous school records and posting provisional qualifying marks during the regular season, SIU Edwardsville's indoor track and field teams will attempt to claim a Great Lakes Valley Conference championship when the meet gets under way Saturday (2/28) at Lewis.
The Cougars have never won a GLVC Indoor title, but this season seems to be their best chance to do so. "Both the men's and women's team is in a position where one or both could come away with a GLVC championship," Coach Darryl Frerker said. "We are going to put ourselves in a position to score enough points to win."
The Cougars are coming off a weekend that sent some athletes to the Hoosier Hills Invitational and others to the Friday Night Special at Eastern Illinois.
Jamie Thomas (Blue Island) posted a provisional qualifying mark in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.98 seconds. She is also provisionally qualified in the 60-meter dash and triple jump.
Breanne Steffens (Moline) lowered her provisional qualifying mark in the mile with a school record time of 5 minutes, 3.60 seconds. She is also qualified in the 800-meter dash. Callie Glover (Bartlett) is a provisional qualifier in the shot put.
On the men's side, Richard Skirball (Granite City) has provisionally qualified in the 800-meter dash.
SIU Edwardsville baseball may finally get the opportunity to play outside. The Cougars will play three games against Missouri Southern and two against Grand Valley this weekend in Joplin, Mo.
The weather has prevented the Cougars from holding a practice outdoors, trading Roy E. Lee Field for the Vadalabene Center.
"We've been working hard, but its all been inside," Coach Gary Collins said. "It's hard to prepare your infielders and outfielders indoors."
Missouri Southern has played three games this season, dropping them all to Oral Roberts. Grand Valley State, ranked 10th nationally, has yet to play a game this season.
The Cougars have 10 new faces on this year's squad, and Collins is anxious to see what they can do on the playing field. "We'll probably try to play everybody," he said. "We'll be looking at the new guys to see who steps up."
Following its trip to Missouri Southern, SIUE will play host to a doubleheader with Lincoln next Wednesday (3/3) at Roy Lee Field. The Cougars then depart for a six-game trip to Carrollton, Ga.
The regular season is history for SIUE's wrestling team. It will travel to Edmond, Okla., for the Midwest Regional tournament Sunday (2/29).
The top four finishers in each weight class advance to the NCAA II Championships in March. "I am counting on five or six guys to possibly qualify," Coach Booker Benford said. "It will take some upsets to do so, but they have the ability, they just have to show it on the mat."
Joe Rujawitz (Belleville), who leads the team with 34 wins, should contend in the 149-pound division. Sean Tyus (Springfield) has posted 25 wins on the season and will contend at 197 pounds. Branden Lorek (Bensenville), Steve Chico (Hammond, Ind.) and Matt Oliva (Bartlett) should also contend in their respective weight classes as well.
"We're gearing up this week," Benford said. "We are going to start practicing a little harder to set us up for our regional, which is really strong this year."
Fresh off its first competition of the season at last weekend's Principia Invitational, SIU Edwardsville men's tennis will open its dual-match schedule Friday night (2/27) against Western Illinois. The match will be held at King's Point in Belleville.
According to Coach Bill Logan, the Cougars had a successful opening weekend. "I'm very pleased with the team's performance at Principia," Logan said. "It was probably one of our best showings in the last four years."
SIUE's two newcomers, Justin Free (Danville) and Matt Warner (Arlington Hts.), each posted 2-1 records in singles play. Doug Kummer (Fenton, Mo.) also posted a 2-1 record. The doubles tandem of Kummer and Free went 3-0 in the tournament. "The team's performance shows our guys that their hard work in the off-season is starting to pay off," Logan said.
SIU Edwardsville's women's tennis team will face Illinois-Springfield on Friday (2/27) and the University of Chicago on Saturday (2/28). Both matches will be held at King's Point in Belleville.
The Cougars, playing in the non-traditional spring season, opened two weeks ago at the Principia Invitational. Chrissy Yingst (Belleville) won two of three matches, and teamed with Gina Wohltman (Effingham) to play to a 2-1 record in doubles action. "All and all, everyone played well at Principia," Coach Bill Logan said.
During the fall season, the Cougars played to a 9-5 overall record and a 5-4 mark in the Great Lakes Valley Conference.


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Consider this when you winterize your mailbox.
When the State, County and Town of Riga install any object, (mainly signs) in the Right-of-Way; they always use breakaway post systems. We would not do this unless forced to do so by the legal system. So when you are inspecting and repairing your mailbox system, do you really want to use any post that is any stronger than a 4×4?
Check with your insurance company, if they will cover any post stronger than a 4×4.
If your mailbox system is damaged during snow removal operations the Town Board has authorized a 4×4 post and the standard size metal mailbox as the only replacements, regardless of what you have installed.
The highway crew will repair any mailbox system they damaged to serviceable condition, not necessarily a new system.
For your reference I have provided a list of roads in the Town of Riga and the municipal jurisdiction of each road. This helps explain the responsibility and the difference in services provided on each road. For example, dead deer killed in the road. The Town will pick-up and dispose of deer from a Town Road and we contract with the County to provide this service for their roadways.
The State on the other hand has contracted with a private vendor for this service on their highways. That's why the Town Highway Department can remove a dead deer the day we receive notification, where the deer could remain for some time on a state Highway awaiting the vendor response.
Another example is roadside mowing; the Town mows Town roadsides and the County contracts with the Town to mow their roadsides. Where-as the State DOT mows the State highways.
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Q: Python Error 'list' object has no attribute 'is_Number' I am having some issues with my python code, I am using sympy and would like to create a Lambda function that takes as input a list of real numbers [a1,a2,...,an] and return a list of real numbers [b1,b2,...,bn] where bi=cos(ai) +sin(ai).  iε[1, 2, ..., n]
I am running into an attribute error, however, which is
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'is_Number'

Here is my code (I am quite new and know it is not the best):
import sympy

# defining symbol 'x'
x = sympy.symbols('x')

# defining a lambda function that takes a list of values and returns the
# result of applying the formula cos(x)+sin(x) for each input value provided
f = sympy.Lambda(x, sympy.cos(x) + sympy.sin(x))

# testing by creating a list
input_list = [-1, -0.5, 0, 0.5, 1]
# calling f method to fetch the results of applying cos()+sin() for each value in input_list
output_list = f(input_list)

# printing both lists
print(input_list)
print(output_list)

A: In your case f doesn't take a list but just a value x, so in order to get your output, you need to do this...
output_list = [sympy.N(f(x)) for x in input_list]
print(output_list)

This will output following for your input
[-0.301168678939757, 0.398157023286170, 1.00000000000000, 1.35700810049458, 1.38177329067604]

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January-August pork exports to Mexico of 328,801 metric tons (724.9 million pounds) were 38 percent higher by volume and 17 percent higher by value than the same period last year. The January-August volume of pork exports to Japan (289,179 metric tons or 637.5 million pounds) slipped slightly below its 2008 pace, but exports to Japan still increased by 6 percent in value.


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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2- Review
by Toy Story Fanatic Devo | May 9, 2017 | Book & Movie Reviews | 0 comments
By The Toy Story Fanatic Devo
I like my superhero movies and of all of the movies that Marvel has been releasing I am confident in saying that Guardians of the Galaxy was my favorite of the bunch. I know I'm not alone in this either. The fact that Disney was bold enough to tear down one of the more popular rides at California Adventure and convert it into A GOTG based ride says that a lot of confidence is placed in those movies.
The second movie was officially released this last weekend and I'm here to tell you everything you need to know about the film before you see it.
Is it family friendly?
The first Guardians had its fair share of crude jokes, But the sequel goes above and beyond what is appropriate for families. image presented for promotional use.
No. No, it's not. The first guardians had its fair share of crude jokes, language, and mature behavior, but the sequel turns it
up to eleven. There were tons of crude jokes throughout the film and major plot points revolved around sex and talk about everything short of how babies are made.
I would not recommend that anyone under the age of 16 see it and 16-year-olds should go see it with their parents.
What it did right:
I remember reading an article one day that was trying to explain why the runaway success of Disney Infinity had to be shut down and a contributing factor to the problem was that toy production for the game and specifically the Yondu figure, stating that too many Yondu figures were ordered for production and not enough were bought. If Yondu got the same treatment in the first movie as he did in this movie we would still have Disney Infinity.
Yondu's performance in the film was easily one of the best and emotional parts of the movie. image presented for promotional use.
I cannot express enough how pleased I am with the growth of Yondu's character. While the other main characters seemed to have lost their own way a bit since the first film (more on that later), Yondu found the groove he needed to be in the whole time and became the most interesting character in the film. The same goes for Nebula and the new addition, Mantis. These new characters were done correctly and efficiently and were given the appropriate amount of spotlight to make me empathize with every emotion they were having. There are also several high marks to give to Drax. While unfortunately downplayed in the first Guardians, Drax had his well-deserved shining moments in this one.
The story was pretty well executed as well. While I do have some problems with the characterization of the original team, I do appreciate that it didn't take too long to enter into the new conflict. This allowed the film to delve deeper into the thoughts and emotions of everyone leading to an overall better story. Better story equals better movie.
The biggest thing this movie did right though was that it created long-lasting consequences. Marvel has been having a horrible track record of making everything fine in the end without much thinking towards the consequences of the characters actions. The Avengers can still operate without SHIELD, Coulson didn't actually die (making his sacrifice arguably meaningless), the country doesn't hate Captain America after Civil War, but not everything is right and okay at the end of Guardians. The victory was costly and the characters almost lost as much as they gained. This makes me want the guardians back more than I want even the Avengers.
What it did wrong
Baby Groot was one of the insufferable reasons that the movie felt too sugar coated. He was funny, but was he too funny? Image presented for promotional use.
The humor was much too prevalent. While there were plenty of serious moments and the overall theme of the story was spot on, it was ruined by the onslaught of jokes that didn't know when to quit. The ending of the film was one of the best endings I have seen in a Marvel film ever and would have gotten a higher place of honor in my mind if they didn't have to pull so many jokes during the very serious, very beautiful ending.
Sure, the humor is in part what made the first Guardians so entertaining, but all things need to be done in moderation. Too
much sugar will give you diabetes and too many jokes will spoil the tender, beefy moments that give the movie its flavor.
Another complaint was the characterization of the different players in the story. The guardians themselves sometimes stray into a weird spot that doesn't make sense from where they ended in the last film. It also seems like every important lesson learned about family, love, and acceptance that was learned by the end of the first movie was gone before the second movie began. Granted it may have been several years in the movie timeline, but that makes current relationships more confusing (particularly between Star-Lord and Gamora).
It seems that this movie was created with the goal to set up Thor: Ragnarok (which may explain the guardians like trailer). A lot of additions in the end credits and the film itself seem pointed to getting that movie set up and finishing up the building to Infinity War. Even if the movie was built off a checklist for the executives, it was well done and became my favorite Marvel movie since the first Guardians (honestly though, in the repetitive, no-consequences world of the MCU, it isn't hard to make a movie better than the majority of them).
By all means, the movie was worth the ticket price of admission. I'd recommend it to you if you are yearning for a good old-fashioned, Star Trek-like sci-fi movie. Again though, be very wary of taking your family to go see it.
Guardians saved the MCU for me and they did it again. Until next time, enjoy the film and remember to keep wishing on stars.
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Inexpensive 'nano-camera' can operate at the speed of light
MIT students (left to right) Ayush Bhandari, Refael Whyte and Achuta Kadambi pose next to their "nano-camera" that can capture translucent objects, such as a glass vase, in 3-D. PHOTO: BRYCE VICKMARK
Device could be used in medical imaging, collision-avoidance detectors for cars, and interactive gaming.
A $500 "nano-camera" that can operate at the speed of light has been developed by researchers in the MIT Media Lab.
The three-dimensional camera, which was presented last week at Siggraph Asia in Hong Kong, could be used in medical imaging and collision-avoidance detectors for cars, and to improve the accuracy of motion tracking and gesture-recognition devices used in interactive gaming.
The camera is based on "Time of Flight" technology like that used in Microsoft's recently launched second-generation Kinect device, in which the location of objects is calculated by how long it takes a light signal to reflect off a surface and return to the sensor. However, unlike existing devices based on this technology, the new camera is not fooled by rain, fog, or even translucent objects, says co-author Achuta Kadambi, a graduate student at MIT.
"Using the current state of the art, such as the new Kinect, you cannot capture translucent objects in 3-D," Kadambi says. "That is because the light that bounces off the transparent object and the background smear into one pixel on the camera. Using our technique you can generate 3-D models of translucent or near-transparent objects."
In a conventional Time of Flight camera, a light signal is fired at a scene, where it bounces off an object and returns to strike the pixel. Since the speed of light is known, it is then simple for the camera to calculate the distance the signal has travelled and therefore the depth of the object it has been reflected from.
Unfortunately though, changing environmental conditions, semitransparent surfaces, edges, or motion all create multiple reflections that mix with the original signal and return to the camera, making it difficult to determine which is the correct measurement.
Instead, the new device uses an encoding technique commonly used in the telecommunications industry to calculate the distance a signal has travelled, says Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor of media arts and sciences and leader of the Camera Culture group within the Media Lab, who developed the method alongside Kadambi, Refael Whyte, Ayush Bhandari, and Christopher Barsi at MIT and Adrian Dorrington and Lee Streeter from the University of Waikato in New Zealand.
"We use a new method that allows us to encode information in time," Raskar says. "So when the data comes back, we can do calculations that are very common in the telecommunications world, to estimate different distances from the single signal."
The idea is similar to existing techniques that clear blurring in photographs, says Bhandari, a graduate student in the Media Lab. "People with shaky hands tend to take blurry photographs with their cellphones because several shifted versions of the scene smear together," Bhandari says. "By placing some assumptions on the model — for example that much of this blurring was caused by a jittery hand — the image can be unsmeared to produce a sharper picture."
The new model, which the team has dubbed nanophotography, unsmears the individual optical paths.
In 2011 Raskar's group unveiled a trillion-frame-per-second camera capable of capturing a single pulse of light as it travelled through a scene. The camera does this by probing the scene with a femtosecond impulse of light, then uses fast but expensive laboratory-grade optical equipment to take an image each time. However, this "femto-camera" costs around $500,000 to build.
In contrast, the new "nano-camera" probes the scene with a continuous-wave signal that oscillates at nanosecond periods. This allows the team to use inexpensive hardware — off-the-shelf light-emitting diodes (LEDs) can strobe at nanosecond periods, for example — meaning the camera can reach a time resolution within one order of magnitude of femtophotography while costing just $500.
"By solving the multipath problem, essentially just by changing the code, we are able to unmix the light paths and therefore visualize light moving across the scene," Kadambi says. "So we are able to get similar results to the $500,000 camera, albeit of slightly lower quality, for just $500."
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Teledyne Imaging's newest cameras deliver true 16M resolution, global shutter and a compact C-mount lens
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Teledyne DALSA Genie Nano Camera
Teledyne DALSA introduced its newest Genie Nano cameras with eight new monochrome and color models built around the industry's best performing SONY® image sensors. These industry-first 5-Gigabit GigE ...
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Take for example Insta360, a new camera company looking to make its mark with its brand new Insta360 Nano camera. Much like the Ricoh Theta S 360 and other 360-degree cameras on the market, the ...
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A new kind of camera lens is illuminating a hidden mirror world by revealing the "handedness" of light in the pictures it takes. The lens could one day be used to sort helpful drugs from their ...
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New 'Nano-Camera' from MIT Sees Things at the Speed of Light, Costs Only $500
Problem is, that camera costs $500,000. The new "nano-camera," on the other hand, is almost as faster, smaller, and — by using off-the-shelf LEDs as strobes — can be built for around $500. Graduate ...
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Image editing is always fun in Photoshop. With Adobe Photoshop Express, an online version of Photoshop, you don't even need to install Photoshop on your computer. You just need a computer with decent internet connection. While looking at Photoshop Express, We made a list of other online photo editors. While some of them were simply rubbish, others were really really good. Let's check out the top 5 online editors except Photoshop Express.
1. Picnik: This is undoubtedly one of the most famous online image editors. It has some great features like Layers support, Red-eye correction, Rotate, Resize, Exposure etc. It is tightly integrated with Flickr. In fact it looked like Picnik was a product of Flickr. You can also upload image for editing, Acquire from webcam or use URL for image uploading. Runs on almost all browsers.
2.Splashup: Formerly Fauxto, it is a powerful editing tool and photo manager.Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photo sharing sites, and even has its own file format(.FXO) so you can save your work in progress.
3. Picture2Life: The site offers plenty of editing and special effect options—including collage and animation features. However, We found the interface to be little quirky. All the usual features are present. Only thing that sets it apart from other services is the ability to animate pictures. No direct printing support, but We found it to be a lil faster.
4. Snipshot: The interface is Super clean and simple. No signup were needed, and can output image to 6 different formats including psd. But advanced options like layer support were missing. Also, Most of the effects were for Pro version only, which is $9 per month.
5. Pixenate: A fairly uncomplicated site and really simple interface is what sets pixenate apart from other sites. Although we found that it was not as powerful and fast. The effects took lot of time to appear. But we like the "Fun effects" feature which had effects like Speech bubbles,TV/Interlace effect etc.


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The Armenia freestyle wrestling cadet team has returned with one gold, two silver and one bronze medal from the European Championship held in Faenza, Italy.
Head coach of the Armenia cadet team Arshak Hayrapetyan summed up the championship in a conversation with the ANOC press service.
"I'm pleased with the wrestlers' performances. Of course, there were some mistakes, but in general, I'm pleased though we could do more. There will be changes in the team before the World Championship, but the medalists of the European Games will surely take part in it. Lyova Gevorgyan at 92 kg lived up our expectations. His medal was expected. Gevorgyan wrestled in the final for the third time. Last year he could win and also qualify for the Youth Olympic Games but only this year managed to have a volitional victory over the Russian wrestler," the coach said.
As usual after an important tournament Arshak Hayrapetyan was speaking with a croak. "This time I started speaking with a croak a little earlier, the reason was my nervousness," noted the coach with a smile.
Let us recall the Armenia freestyle wrestling team had joined the European Championship with 9 wrestlers and had also won 2 silver and one bronze medal.
Harutyun Hovhannisyan (48 kg) and Grenik Asatryan (60 kg) had become silver medalists and Menua Yaribekyan (71 kg) had won a bronze medal.
Hakob Serobyan: We have no more chances to win Olympic qualification
We are going to prepare seriously for the Olympics.
Club ''Tashir'' lost the fight for bronze
In the fight for the bronze medal the Armenian club was defeated by the Iranian ''Kefayati'' 1:7
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Alla Poghosyan scored 624,3 points.
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Anna Grigoryan out of rivalry at the Armenian Artistic Gymnastics Championship
Anna Grigoryan won in all events.
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This victory he dedicates to the soldiers fallen at the border of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh
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Arsen Julfalakyan has been taking part in various events organized by the United World Wrestling.
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The first Tuesday of every February is Thanksgiving for pancake lovers across the nation because that's when they can stack up for free at the International House of Pancakes, aka IHOP.
Coincidentally, it's also National Pancake Day and the day before Ash Wednesday — better known as Fat Tuesday (or Mardi Gras, in French) and Shrove Tuesday.
Thousands were already lining up at IHOP for free flapjacks at 7 a.m., and the feasting was continuing until 10 p.m.
IHOP just asked that customers consider making a donation to the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals when they arrive to the restaurant. The charity benefits medical facilities for children and has a history of keeping funds in the same communities they are raised.
Although it's an admitted marketing push, the breakfast giant has used the day to raise $10 million for charity since 2006, according to IHOP's website. Last year was IHOP's most successful, as the company donated more than $3 million to local charities. Officials hope they will surpass that amount this year. The chain operates 1,565 restaurants across the United States.
In Catholic tradition, the consumption of dairy products was not acceptable during Lent. So, before the days of refrigeration, devout Catholics needed an excuse to get rid of all their eggs, butter and milk. Pancake Day was born.
In 2011, the International House of Pancakes agreed to refine its menu with healthier options, joining five other restaurant chains in the process. First lady Michelle Obama pushed the initiative in her campaign against obesity.
It's the first Tuesday of February. That means the International House of Pancakes, aka IHOP, is offering free pancakes. Coincidentally, it's also National Pancake Day and the day before Ash Wednesday — better known as Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, and Mardi Gras.


New data on payments from drug and device companies to doctors show that many doctors received payments on 100 or more days last year. Some received payments on more days than they didn't.
Maryland physician Juichih Hsu received payments — mostly food and beverages--from drug and device companies on 286 days in 2014, more than any other doctor in the country. Each box below represents a single day during the disclosure period. A gray box indicates no payments.
Where Did the Payments Go in 2014?
A breakdown of general payments by category, not including research or payments to physician owners of a company.
Correction, July 2, 2015: This graphic included incorrect numbers for "Gift" and "Nonaccredited Training." They have been corrected.
Update, July 8, 2015: Although Stankovic declined to comment for the initial story, she has now provided the following statement: "I am very passionate about clinical research and up to date medical information; and truly enjoy educating medical professionals on various complicated disease states. There is so much new information to be learned every day in medicine, but simply there is no enough time during the day, especially if provider has a busy medical practice. Many of the interactions that doctors have with pharmaceutical industry are needed in order to stay current with newer FDA approved therapies that may cure illnesses or slow progression of the complicated diseases. Patients should be able to appreciate those medical professionals who can thoroughly discuss all available treatment options on the market and warn them about possible side effects and contraindications."
Correction, July 2, 2015: This post has been corrected to change the average amount doctors received in payments in 2014. The graphic has also been corrected.


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The lost phone has been found.
A man came in and asked if his lost phone was here and I told him it wasn't.
It had slipped down the side of one of the very comfortable chairs in our "executive lounge".
It is here for collection, just come round and state the make and model and you will be invited to unlock it using the code that only you know. We have charged it up so it is ready to go.


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Il lago di Qaraʿūn () è un lago artificiale che si trova nel Libano, nella parte meridionale della Valle della Beqa'. Il lago si trova di fronte alla città di al-Qara'un e dista circa 65 km da Beirut.

Il lago si è formato a seguito di uno sbarramento del fiume Leonte effettuato nel 1959.
La diga, di 60 m di altezza e 1.350 m di lunghezza, è stata realizzata nell'ambito di un programma di sfruttamento del Leonte a fini di produzione di energia elettrica e per l'irrigazione. Una galleria di 6.503 metri porta l'acqua alla centrale idroelettrica sotterranea dove vengono prodotti un massimo di 185 megawatt. La diga è anche in grado di fornire irrigazione per 31000 ettari di terreni agricoli nel Libano meridionale e 8000 ettari nella valle della Beqāʿ.

È possibile visitare la diga i cui uffici sono posti a sud del lago sul lato sinistro. Nei pressi del lago si trovano un albergo e un certo numero di ristoranti specializzati nella cucina delle trote fresche pescate dal lago.

Voci correlate
 Geografia del Libano

Altri progetti

Laghi del Libano

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Campbellsville, Ky. – Shawnee State women's basketball finished the Mid-South Conference/Southern States Athletic Conference Challenge strong on Monday afternoon, defeating Mobile (Ala.) 86-65.
The Bears led from wire to wire, never trailing and only being tied at 0-0. The Bears used a 25-13 first quarter to keep a good gap between themselves and the Rams, building on their lead in every quarter. The Bears shot 54.7 percent from the field, and held Mobile to just 36.7 percent for the game.
Jonessa Moore led Shawnee State with 29 points on 13-of-14 shooting, and added five rebounds. Jen Arnzen scored 13 points, with Lydia Poe and Bailey Cummins each adding in 10 points in a balanced Shawnee State offense.
Starla Daggan had 29 points to lead Mobile. Kali Koenig added 17 and was the only other Ram that scored in double figures.
With the win, Shawnee State improve to 15-1 on the season after going 2-1 in the MSC/SSAC Challenge. Mobile falls to 5-4.
Shawnee State are off until after Christmas, when they travel to Florida to take part in the Kaiser University Classic in Florida on December 29 and 30.


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Writer of all things awesome, connoisseur of bacon and good gin, Amy started blogging in 2007 with her personal blog,Taste Like Crazy. Don't ask her how she came up with the blog's name; she doesn't remember.
Soon after, she started writing about video games and spirits – booze not ghosts – for b5Media.
Three years later she left b5Media and started her own Sims-centric site: Sims 3 Gamer.
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DeVos Children's Hospital adds beds to keep up with RSV cases
by: Kyle Mitchell
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — As pediatric RSV cases remain high, the staff at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids is working to meet the need.
The Intensive Care Unit has expanded bed capacity to care for more patients.
Nurse Manager Mary Carmichael said in the more than 20 years she has worked there, she has never seen this many patients in the ICU.
"Yesterday, we had 25 RSV patients of the 40 that we had," Carmichael said.
With other states seeing a significant spike in pediatric flu cases, Carmichael said the staff is concerned about what an increase would mean on top of the surge in RSV.
On Friday afternoon, 40 ICU beds were being used, but the number would normally be half that for this time of year.
"This is much worse than the amount of patients we had during COVID," Carmichael said.
She said while the pandemic posed challenges, RSV is using up more of the pediatric ICU's resources.
"We did have COVID patients. We did not see the effect in the (Pediatric) ICU as the adults did and so we didn't see a huge flex and overflow in patients like we are right now," Carmichael said.
Helen DeVos Children's ICU (Dec. 9, 2022)
The ICU is normally a 30-bed facility. The hospital has already added extra beds and can increase the number if needed.
"We have expanded capacity and we talk about it probably on a daily basis," Carmichael said.
The additional beds would mean nothing without the staff to make sure every patient receives the highest level of care.
"I think of the work that this team has done and that includes nurses, physicians, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, really everybody that takes care of patients in this ICU. It's been really incredible and I'm really proud of this team," Carmichael said.
She said there are things you can do to help slow the surge in respiratory virus cases.
"I think parents can do their part and the community can do their part by getting their vaccinations," Carmichael said. "If they're sick, keep their kids at home, or stay away from other children, don't send them to daycare,"
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Fed Policies Jeopardizing Jobs, Not Minimum Wage Fight
The minimum wage debate obscures a more significant problem in America. We don't primarily have a wage problem. We have a money problem.
Government devaluation of the dollar over the years has stolen money from average Americans. But instead of dealing with the core issue, the fight centers around wage policy and offers solutions that will just exacerbate the problems.
While we're on the subject, a recent study by the Congressional Budget Office put a little bit of a damper on the "Fight for 15" minimum wage initiative.
The nonpartisan government body projected that increasing the minimum wage would boost pay for about 17 million workers, but it would eliminate up to 3.7 million jobs. The median job-loss – the number you probably saw touted in headlines – was estimated at 1.3 million.
The CBO concluded that the job losses would have the biggest impact on women, workers without high school degrees and part-time employees. According to a report published by The Hill on the study, the CBO estimated that a $15 minimum wage would reduce family incomes by $9 billion.
The Fed Is At War With America
Mike Adams exposes the agenda of the private Fed as a war against the prosperity of Americans that simply want to make America great.
None of this should come as any surprise. The fundamental economic laws of supply and demand tell us that artificially raising the wage level will decrease the demand for low-wage employees. From this simple economic truth, we can safely say that employment levels for low-skilled workers will be lower with a higher minimum wage than it otherwise would have been. The CBO study confirms this reality. But we really didn't need a study to tell us this.
Raising the minimum wage might be good politics, but it's bad economics. As with any government policy, it will produce winners and losers. People who keep their jobs will benefit from higher wages. But some people will suddenly have their wages cut to zero. Advocates of government intervention love to highlight the winners, but they sweep the losers under the rug.
But we shouldn't lose track of the fact that minimum wage advocates seek to solve a legitimate problem facing American workers: their dollars buy less and less every year. But simply mandating employers fork over more dollars is a little like putting a band-aid on an amputation. It doesn't do anything to address the underlying problem.
Our money is broken, and we need to fix it.
The US government's monetary policy devalues our currency, and that means less purchasing power for you and me. Simply put, when the government debases the currency, a dollar no longer buys the same amount of stuff it once did. Quantitative easing debases the currency and the Federal Reserve has engaged in the practice for years.
Mussi Katz, Flickr, Public Domain
So, what does this have to do with wages? Well, consider this: in 1964, the minimum wage stood at $1.25. To put it another way, a minimum wage worker earned five silver quarters for every hour worked. Today, you can't even buy a cup of coffee with those five quarters.
But the silver melt-value of those five quarters today stands at around $14.80
That's getting close to your $15 per hour minimum wage.
This vividly illustrates currency debasement. In terms of purchasing power, the value of the silver remains relatively stable, but the value of a dollar shrinks. The long-term rise in the price of silver reflects this reality. It's the very reason people buy silver and buy gold.
Now flip things around. Today, it takes 60 quarters to make up the $15 minimum wage advocates want. If you paid that in 1964 silver quarters, the value of the metal would be over $175.
This demonstrates why precious metals are good investments. Silver and gold retain their value as paper currencies continue to debase – thus raising prices over the long-term.
In an economy with stable money, prices tend to fall, not rise. That means more purchasing power to the poor, minimum wage workers, those on fixed incomes, and savers. But the government currently debases our currency. The politicians and central bankers claim their policies stabilize economies and protect the people from currency debasement. But in truth, these policies only enrich the politically well-connected at the expense of you and me.
Minimum wage hikes only mask the problem. We need to fix the money.
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I'd like to introduce you to Faye De Lanty; presenter, fashion blogger and advocate for sustainable fashion. Faye, currently based in Sydney, Australia, will soon be migrating to New York. Australia will be losing a recycled fashion supporter to The Big Apple, but before she leaves, Faye will be running exclusive thrifty projects in the Land Down Under.
Truth be told I've always been a little bit thrifty. For as long as I can remember I've had a strong hunting instinct – a hunger for knowledge, experiences, new ideas and inspiration. Perhaps I'm part sniffer dog, perhaps it's the storyteller in me, perhaps it's just that I am forever a slave to fashion love.
'Necessity is the mother of all invention' rang very true for me while living in NYC and London. Fighting hard for work and to find my way, I went to job interview after job interview, meeting after meeting. I couldn't afford new clothes but I had to keep up my chic…so I started pulling outfits together from charity stores.
It seemed I had a knack for it because people would always gush over the great ensembles I rounded up. 'That looks so expensive' or 'This must have cost a fortune' they would say, when really it very rarely set me back more than 20 quid.
My best friend would always laugh that here she was dripping in designer when all the eyes were drawn towards my '1pound pretty' aesthetic.
And so in honor of my beloved beagle Soho [may god-dog rest her soul] I decided to share my tips and tricks for living a pre loved life of style – Fashion Hound was born.
In a world of excessive consumption and consumerism, I'm all for a 'waste not want not' ethos. Don't get me wrong High end 'Haute' and designer is delicious, I just think that when we can we should strive for fashion with a conscience and re-use, recycle, re-invent and re-write the followed fashion path. In turn we are supporting charities, saving cash and the planet! If you ask me, it's like a glorious treasure hunt or winning the fashion lottery when you score a one off wonder… and bonus deal - you will never look like anyone else baby! Now I'd call that a sartorial win-win wouldn't you?
I've spent the last two years fashion hounding my little heart out, showing people how to create on trend looks for less and lean towards more eco conscious fashion choices, in turn teaching myself so much along the way. I now have a regular segment with Channel 9 mornings which can be seen here, and here.
I am super excited to launch my VIP THRIFT SHOP TOURS with the RED CROSS. This is an extra special style evening in Sydney where we close the Red Cross Paddington store and thrift-anistas can sip champagne and op shop til they drop shop with 20% in store discounts on gorgeous second hand and pre-loved or surplus designer stock. It's a huge passion of mine to change the stigma attached to thrift stores and indeed the excessive and toxic waste the fashion industry contributes too.
There is so much great stuff that can be found in these stores, there really isn't much need to buy new.
This I hope will be the first of many tours and not just in Australia…next stop New York City! There is also an exciting eCommerce development in the works - thrift is about to get even more chic and totally tech savvy.
Thank you Faye, good luck with your first VIP Thrift Tour (anyone Sydney based can book on her exclusive VIP Thrift Tour here), we look forward to hearing all about it, and your future endeavours.