Did Instagram just kill the résumé?
The job market is a jungle and traditional CV's don't quite cut it anymore, say Nadia Pachon and Sophie Donaldson from Beaumont People, who recently presented a personal branding masterclass at a How to Life session hosted by the University of Sydney Union (USU).
Their mission is to help students and recent graduates navigate through the vines and swinging branches to find their ideal careers. As recruitment consultants, they scroll through hundreds of résumés a day, trying to find candidates that stand out from the crowd. So, what exactly creates that point of difference? And how can you use your existing social media presence to get #hired? Nadia and Sophie share their thoughts.
We all know that person who reveals a little too much of their weekend shenanigans on social media. Think about what you've got on your accounts: do you shiver at the thought of a potential employer seeing it? Does it authentically reflect who you are? Does it send a clear message about your passions, skills and career interests?
"Personal branding is about building an online presence that reinforces your qualifications so that when someone looks you up online, they have a clear idea of who you are, what your interests are and what you're putting out into the world," says Sophie.
Privacy is a hot topic, and it is important to ensure your personal information is protected. However, when it comes to promoting your personal brand for the purpose of gaining the attention of potential employers, it may be worthwhile to have your account set to public.
"It certainly depends on your content. If your social media profile is predominantly photos with friends and family, or you have controversial tendencies, then I would say leave it on private" says Nadia.
"But say if you're a photographer, you should create a public profile that exhibits your work and then connect with relevant professionals and industries. You can even have two separate accounts for your personal and public life if that's something you'd prefer".
LinkedIn is a channel specifically designed to help you connect with colleagues, like-minded professionals and even future employers. For recruiters like Sophie and Nadia, it is a huge talent database, and a platform where your experience, achievements, and career prospects are easily displayed for potential recruiters or employers to see and (hopefully) get in touch.
Nadia is a big believer in LinkedIn and advises that: "as a graduate, or student in their final year, it is definitely worthwhile to set up a LinkedIn account. You can list your degree and any experience you've had through internships, volunteering and part-time work. You're also able to list your skills and have connections to endorse you to gain credibility".
"As recruiters, we are always on the look-out for people who are interested in finding a new internship or career, so be sure to mention that in your profile description".
If you're a writer, write! Photographer? Take photos. Engineer? Post about it. And, if you're on an internship or meet an influential person in your industry, share it with your audience.
Use your social media to show, not tell, people about your skills and experience – it's essentially tangible evidence no resume can provide.
Know your brand and the message you're trying to get across, and be consistent.
Be bold, sincere and authentic with your content. Let your social feed reflect your personality – that will be the thing that sets you apart.
Network and make connections (it could likely lead to opportunities!). And don't be afraid to ask for advice and experience – if you don't ask, you won't get.
The Careers Centre runs heaps of workshops to get you career ready, including how to set up a LinkedIn account, resume writing and interview tips. Why wait? Get ahead now.
You don't need a lot of industry connections or experience to use LinkedIn. These tips will help you to build your professional profile while you're still a university student.


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Place garlic and onion into TM bowl and chop 5 sec/speed 7.
Add oil and curry powder/paste and saute 3 min/100°C/speed 1.
Add tomatoes and cook for a further 2 min/100°C/speed 1.
Add coconut milk and potatoes. Cook 10 min/100°C/reverse/speed soft.
Add chicken, place the thighs around the blade and then the legs on top (if using legs) and cook 20 min/100°C/reverse/speed soft. Until the chicken is cooked.
Serve with basmati rice, naan bread, chutney and sambals.
You may add vegetables in bite size pieces when you insert the chicken.


KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 10 — The ICERD controversy may be a hot-button issue over the past few months, but Umno and PAS will not be able to capitalise on it until the 15th general election (GE15) as it is unlike the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal, observers have said.
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia's Faisal Hazis noted that the crucial difference was that the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government had not adopted the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), while the 1MDB financial scandal had already taken place.
"It's going to be played for some time by PAS and Umno but I don't think it will have life until the next election," the associate professor told Malay Mail when contacted, pointing out that PH had already said it would not ratify ICERD.
"It's totally different from 1MDB, which was something that has happened and was raised not only within the country but outside the country," he said, adding that the 1MDB issue had "more resonance among voters".
Oh Ei Sun, senior fellow of Singapore Institute of International Affairs, also did not believe that the Opposition parties of Umno and PAS would be able to use the ICERD issue in their campaign against the ruling PH up to the GE15.
"No, nobody will remember what it was all about in a few months' time. This is unlike 1MDB involving massive unaccountable disappearance of public funds," he told Malay Mail when contacted.
The 1MDB scandal, which took place when Datuk Seri Najib Razak was Umno president and the prime minister, has resulted in massive financial losses to the country and also a number of court cases.
PH regularly focused on 1MDB both in the years before the 14th general election (GE14) and while campaigning in the national polls. The 1MDB scandal was credited with contributing to PH's unexpected victory and the Umno-led Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition's shock defeat in GE14 on May 9, 2018.
The ICERD controversy, which culminated in a mass "thanksgiving" rally on Saturday backed by Umno and PAS, has been driven by fears among the Malay and Muslim community that the special privileges they enjoy and Islam's official position would come under threat if Malaysia adopts the international agreement to end racial discrimination.
These fears may be unfounded as the ICERD does allow for the existence of affirmative action policies like those implemented here to help the Bumiputera community reach a level playing field, and also allow countries to make reservations and not fully comply with the convention.
Is Pakatan Harapan (or Malaysia) safe then?
UKM's Faisal cautioned that the lack of longevity of the ICERD issue does not mean PAS and Umno will stop playing the race and religious cards, believing that these two parties will continue to do so as long as the status quo remains with Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi leading Umno and with Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang leading PAS.
"I think these parties will continue to use the race and religious cards. Now it could be ICERD; in the future, it could be other issues.
"It's not healthy for the country. If you think this is the way to be back in power, but if the country is severely fragmented, severely divided by racial and religious politics, is it worthwhile to be back in power in a country that has already been destroyed? This is something PAS and Umno have to ask themselves," he said, questioning the strategy of stocking up religious sentiments for political mileage.
Faisal said the continuing trend of PAS and Umno using the race and religious cards was due to the two parties realising that they currently hold the bulk of Malay support, citing UKM and Merdeka Center's analysis of GE14 results where the majority of Malays voted against BN and Umno but with PH trailing behind PAS in terms of Malay support.
"So I think Umno and PAS realise that so they are using the ICERD as another vehicle to play up the race and religious cards.
"Although this is post-BN Malaysia, although we are no longer under BN, and we have a new government in place, that does not mean racial-based politics is gone. I think it is still a key feature of Malaysian politics because it has been deeply entrenched in Malaysia for six decades and you can't easily uproot it," he said.
PH is aware of its need to secure Malay support, with Singapore Institute of International Affairs' Oh noting that the ruling coalition's decision against ratifying the ICERD was due to its main concern of avoiding its current Malay base from being "further eroded".
"PAS and Umno are now the undisputed champions of Malay special rights and privileges, as they won up to 75 per cent of Malay votes in the last GE.
"Ratifying the ICERD would further consolidate PH's ironclad 95 per cent hold on non-Malay votes, but the Malay pushback proves to be too strong for PH to stomach," he said, adding that PH's leadership "wisely chose" to anger their solid non-Malay support instead of risk losing Malay support.
Universiti Utara Malaysia's Prof Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani said there was a slight misjudgement by PH when it prematurely made its initial announcement that it would ratify the ICERD, adding that the government should have first studied the suitability of ratifying it and carry out the necessary groundwork by increasing public awareness and understanding of the international convention.
"The problem is when it announced it was going to ratify it, many groups like PAS and Umno who try to champion Malay rights and privileges made use of this issue to rally against the government.
"Actually, they are not really against the convention; they are against the government. So, people just blindly accept their propaganda," he told Malay Mail, adding that the public are easily carried away supporting PAS and Umno as they do not understand the ICERD which has not been widely discussed publicly.
"Umno has problems with its leaders facing criminal charges, it's a blessing in disguise for them to have this ICERD issue to distract people from their problems, because the main issue right now in public is 1MDB. For them to have the ICERD, it's a big issue for them to turn people away from 1MDB," he added.
Noting that the ICERD was actually merely a legal issue and that it is actually in line with the Federal Constitution, Azizuddin said Umno and PAS may continue to use the ICERD issue to rally support against PH.
"The best thing for PH is to make people aware and understand the issue. If people don't understand the issue until the next election, BN and Umno and PAS will continue to use this issue to fight against PH. Luckily, PH is less than one year in government. It has ample time to use all the machinery and media to make people understand the ICERD and other international conventions," he said.
Azizuddin said PAS and Umno were now virtually indistinguishable as they fight for the same issues of race and religion, but said these two parties will continue to use racial sentiments as long as such sentiments determine Malaysians' way of thinking.
"It's not unique to Malaysia. If in Europe, they talk about anti-immigration, they use the racial card," he said.
Penang Institute executive director Datuk Ooi Kee Beng said it was a given in Malaysian politics that PAS and Umno would use race and religion to dictate terms, but said what was "surprising was PH's lack of strategic sense" in pushing for the ICERD's ratification.
"I hope this is a wake-up call for the government that it needs to prioritise properly how reforms in Malaysia are to take place. According even to their own understanding, the major issues have to do with fighting corruption on the one hand, and improving the economic standards of the B40," he told Malay Mail, adding that the reformist government should focus on local and regional matters as politics usually revolve around local issues first.
While saying it was a good move for the PH government to not ratify the ICERD, Ooi said it would have been "wiser to prioritise their reforms and not give in to individual pressure from within the coalition or from supporting organisations outside it".
Faisal said it was strategic for the PH government to defer the move to ratify the ICERD first and address other more pertinent issues, such as the plight of the low-income group known as B40, getting the economy back on track, the declining quality of education, low-cost housing, and the marginalisation of the Sabah and Sarawak's natives.
"I am not saying what PH should do is confined to the manifesto, but there are other priorities that have to be addressed by the government. There are other pertinent issues that have yet to be addressed which are in the manifesto and that should be given priority. If the ICERD is distracting them from pushing ahead, it's strategically done to postpone it," he said.
Faisal said the decision to not ratify the ICERD does not mean that the government should stop efforts to end racial discrimination, as there are other options available without touching on sensitive issues, such as Malay rights and to prevent racial discrimination from being a stumbling block for Malaysia to move forward.
He noted, however, the "dilemma" and challenges that PH is facing, as illustrated by how it had to shelf its initial plan to ratify the ICERD after the idea was opposed.
"The coalition wants to project an inclusive Malaysian narrative, but at the same time, it realises it doesn't have the support of the Malays. It realises the way to remain in power and not be a one-term government is to win Malay votes on top of non-Malay votes," he said.


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Newcastle United Foundation A must hope it's a case of third time lucky as Terry Mitchell's men bid to beat the club's away day blues.
The Magpies travel to Rochdale on Wednesday on the back of successive defeats on the road.
But Mitchell is convinced his battling squad can turn the corner following a heartbreaking 3-2 Trophy loss at Norwich.
"The lads showed a lot of character to come back from 2-0 down and make a real game of it down there," insisted Newcastle's head coach.
"It was an even game and on another day we could have won it.
"The result was disappointing but the experience was overwhelmingly positive.
"We spent 48 hours together as a team, enjoyed our time together at Norwich's community base, The Nest, and prepared for the match like professionals.
"Norwich were fantastic hosts and the facilities they put at our disposal were first class.
"Take the defeat out of the equation and it was an experience that will genuinely benefit my players in the future."
United's Foundation is home to Newcastle College students who combine their studies with four days' training and competitive football.
This season four squads are competing at various levels with the Foundation's A team key players in the Northern Premier Division of the National Football Youth League.
And Mitchell's men return to league action next week with what promises to be a tough trip to mid-table rivals Rochdale.
"We're in the middle of a difficult run of three games on the road but it's a good learning curve for the lads," he added.
"We lost at Norwich but their first half goals were as a result of our own individual mistakes.
"It's not as if we played poorly. We were in the match right up until the end."
The Canaries went 1-0 up in the 16th minute following a defensive lapse by the visitors.
And seven minutes later Norwich doubled their lead after converting a smartly taken spot kick.
"It was actually a game of very few chances," added Mitchell. "But we gifted Norwich two opportunities and they took them.
"It was a frantic start to the match with both teams looking to impose themselves.
"And unfortunately our mistakes cost us.
"But credit to my players – they fought their way back into contention and we pulled one back just before the break."
With the clock ticking down in the first half Nathan Beesley picked up possession in midfield and found Antonio Agostino with a perfect pass.
The Magpies' striker took the ball in his stride and produced the perfect finish to reduce the deficit heading into the break.
"We had a right go in the second half," added Mitchell. "But neither side really crafted any clear-cut chances.
"Norwich scored a third in the 88th minutes but my lads still refused to throw in the towel."
Birthday boy Dan Marriott guaranteed a nervous final few seconds for the hosts with a 25-yard free kick in the 90th minute.
But it was too little, too late for Newcastle as United slipped to a 3-2 defeat and missed out on a quarter-final place in the Trophy.
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Wasted Minds and Wasted Lives
Against the Current, No. 35, November/December 1991
PC-Bashing: A Vicious Frame-up
The New Russian Revolution?
The Crisis of the Campuses
Multiculturalism As It Really Is
— The U-T Writing Group
CUNY's Springtime of Struggle
— Anthony Marcus
Multiculturalism in Brooklyn College
— Nancy Romer
Campus Unionism at Twenty Five
— Milton Fisk
PC: A New McCarthyism?
— Ellen Schrecker
— Jake Ryan and Charles Sackrey
Review: The Right's PC Frameup
— Mike Fischer
Viewing "Berkeley in the '60s"
— Mike Parker
Three Views of the University
Russia: Toward a Party of Labor
Russia: A Fast Walk to Nowhere
— I. Malyarov
Poland's Crisis and Solidarity Today
— Mark M. Hager
Jan Josef Lipski
Puerto Rico's Albizu Campos Centenary
— Héctor Meléndez
C.L.R. James: Intellectual Legacies
— Kent Worcester
Random Shots: The East Is Read
The Rebel Girl: Women, Sex and Desire
Anita Hill--and Ourselves
— Dianne Feeley
Jake Ryan and Charles Sackrey
"A child without education is essentially a child without hope or opportunity. You take the United Negro College Fund motto 'What a waste it is to lose one's mind or not have a mind as being very wasteful.' How true that is. – Dan Quayle, Vice President, U.S.A.(1)
1. Opening and Closing Heaven's Gates
IN 1900 LESS than five percent of the 18-24 year-olds in the United States were in college, almost all of them males from rich families. By 1930, the ratio was still only 10%; yet after World War II began to swell and included more and more working-class youth.
This opening resulted primarily from an expanding and rapidly changing economy, the private and public sectors of which were producing slots for college-trained people faster than they could be supplied from the usual college-goers.(2) The new opportunities were also spurred by federal and state scholarship programs urged by mass political movements in the 1960s.
By 1980, we had the following array of college students in terms of social background:
% of 1980 High School
Graduating Class
Enrolled in College
Low 30.3%
Low-Middle 40.3%
High-Middle 51.9%
High 70.2%
All 46.1%
In other words, some degree of democratization of higher education had occurred from the end of World War II through the 1970s, a process that ended with the Reagan presidency, even though the proportion of 18- 24 year-olds going to college continued to rise moderately during the 1980s.
One should be careful not to overestimate this opening to higher education. In fact, even at its height in 1980 approximately two-thirds of the youngsters in the bottom half of the income distribution who graduated that year did not go on to college that year. Of those who did, slightly less than half attended two-year colleges. And if we look at 1980 high school seniors from the lowest income quartile, by 1986 they were about five times less likely to graduate from a four-year college than their highest income counterparts, and eleven times less likely to acquire a graduate or professional degree.(3) (We use income levels here as a general indicator of class, recognizing of course that this is only an approximation but adequate for purposes of this article.)
Furthermore, these figures do not take into account the significant difference in high school dropout rates between high- and low-income groups. Economist Robert Reich provides some particulars in his study of the college-going rates in three Massachusetts towns: Belmont, Somerville and Chelsea. Belmont is inhabited by members of the professional and managerial class. Their high school has a dropout rate of three percent; over 80% of its graduating seniors go to four-year colleges. In Chelsea the dropout rate is over 50%, and only 10% plan to attend college.(4)
If the Chelsea college-going rate doubled in the next few years, this community of significantly "unemployed and unemployable" will still be desperate and in poverty. Furthermore, it will not mean that some portion of the 80% of college-bound youth from Belmont will be forced out of their pathways to class succession by the upstarts from Chelsea. At worst, a few of those from Belmont might end up at less selective institutions and bring shame upon their high-achieving families.
Like their elders in the wage labor system, working-class youngsters can improve their prospects most easily in an expanding economy, or by dint of periodic outbursts of public pressure to increase the social wage. Needless to say, when the economy declines or is restructured, or when public policy shifts the other way, invitations to campus will no longer be sent to working-class youth. In fact, during boom or recession, the college prospects for them reflect the relatively diminished prospects for everything else they will get: jobs, health care, income, leisure, the degree of upward mobility, the dignity afforded to them by life.
As our society is currently made, whatever their proportion in college, most working-class kids will be raised as fodder for the "lesser" jobs, just as they have always been. This is not, of course, to argue that all wage labor jobs, for example, are "worse" than all salaried jobs, in whatever way the costs and benefits of both are measured. Nevertheless, for every professional who fantasizes about an enticing wage labor job in the trades or in services, there are probably thousands of wage workers whose dream is that they—and if not themselves, their children—will someday be able to join the professional classes.
Some few of those who display talent and habits of mind appropriate for long-term schooling are courted and creamed off the top, invited to join their class betters in the more prestigious institutions of higher learning and eventually in positions of class privilege. Policies that result in intellectual creaming of the "elite" from down below are then heralded as evidence of the openness of the social order, fairness, equal opportunity and so on.
If, however, the performance of working-class college entrants on standardized tests is fifty or 100 points lower than their middle-class counterparts and if they are admitted to an elite school, a great howl goes up about the "unfairness" of the selection process. If it is unfair, the magnitude of the unfairness is indeed very small; when compared to the deal that establishes vastly different starting places—one with embroidered broad pathways, others strewn with obstacles of almost insurmountable dimension. It is patently absurd for a society to create such divisions and still be able to claim to be committed to the ideal of equal opportunity.
Ordinarily obscured in this debate is the fact that the ungifted and/or unruly children of the establishment have ample spaces open to them, in either highly subsidized public higher education or expensive (but also subsidized) private higher education. No one asks how many of the less gifted children of the middle and upper classes should go on to college. All! Every last one, if they can pay the toll.
As any seasoned academic knows, many of these students are neither bright, nor curious, nor even ambitious. They are merely following the script that middle class life offers, where most ultimately go to college and where most succeed their parents into the ranks of relative power and plenty. Class advantages can overwhelm the injuries of a wasted mind and a dimmed imagination. The nation's vice president lives the proof.
Without question, the new conservatism ushered in at the end of the 1970s has set in reverse motion whatever opening had been made in campus gates for working-class kids. Working-class access was particularly sensitive to federal policy, demography and economic trends, and the friendly circumstances critical to this inclusion were abolished amidst Reaganomics and the depressed or stagnant possibilities generated for working class people during the 1980s.
For instance, the great shift of personal income that occurred in the 1980s drastically altered the ability to attend college for those at all but the highest income levels. From 1980-1990, the real, after-tax household income of the lowest fifth declined by $384, from $7357 to $6973, or 5.2%. Indeed, there was no real change in the average income for the typical family in the bottom three-fifths of the income distribution, and an increase of less than 10% for the second highest fifth. Only the richest fifth made real gains, on the order of about one-third per family. The share going to the richest 1% actually doubled, in real terms, during the decade.(5)
In the face of these declining incomes for all but the plutocrats were rising rates of tuition and other costs of attending college. Increases constantly outstripped inflation and rose in some cases as much as 10% per yeat.(6) Unfortunately, neither the state nor the federal government stepped in to pick up the tab: Between 1980-89 total funds for grants, fellowships and loan guarantees rose modestly from $8.5 to $9.4 billion in real dollars, hardly enough to offset either the rising tuition costs or the declining family income.(7)
Exemplifying the consequences for working-class kids, Harvard, one of the few schools that keeps specific statistics regarding working-class applicants, noted in a report on admissions that in 1988 only 11% of its applicants were from non-college families, whereas three years earlier the pool was 16%. Other elite colleges noted a comparable decline in white and African-American applicants.(8)
Further, African-American enrollments in colleges and universities have actually declined slightly in the 1980s, reversing the trend of the 1970s. Indeed, enrollments of white students, 18-24 years old, increased about twice as rapidly as those of Blacks between 198088. This is a drastic reversal because in the 1970s white enrollments had actually fallen by 6% while Black enrollments grew by 28%.(9) Since African Americans represent about one-third of all low income families in the United States, this trend embodies the financial and other obstacles standing between low income people, Black and white, and the campus grounds.
An additional factor explaining declining African-American enrollments is that racial minorities are disproportionately choosing the armed forces over jobs and college. African Americans alone make up 21% of active duty forces, up from 11% in 1970, while their percentage of the population is only 12%. Between 1980 and 1987 the number of African-American recruits from middle or upper-middle income neighborhoods jumped by 56%.(10) And the percentage of Black high school graduates from middle income families who were enrolled in college declined between 1976 and 1988, from 53% to 36%.
It is no mystery where low income young people are going these days, if not to college. We know that few are going into the factories to make good wages with benefits. Anyone paying modest attention to the economy knows that over the past decade extraordinary numbers of industrial jobs have been lost to economic restructuring urged forward by the hypermobility of profit-maximizing capital, while the fiscal managers have chosen to maintain high levels of unemployment to curb endemic inflationary tendencies. As many as 8090% of the new jobs generated in this country since the depression of the early 1980s have been unstable, part-time, low-paying or otherwise unattractive service industry work.
So metaphorically and literally, it is likely—and much evidence attests—that more and more low income youngsters are going nowhere, unless to the cemetery at an early age or to prison spurred by the drug culture and national drug hysteria. Between 1982 and 1989 the incarcerated population rose from 605,098 to 1,035,446, or from 270 to 426 per 100,000 population. This can be compared to 1989 rates in such countries as the Soviet Union (268), Italy (60) and Denmark (40). In 1989, the United States had incarcerated 3109 African-American males per 100,000, while the rate for South African Black males was 729. It should surprise no one that according to studies reported by the Justice Department, using data from the early 1980s, about four-fifths of those incarcerated in U.S. prisons were blue collar, farm or service workers; that about two-thirds in jails and prisons had not finished high school; that of those in jails, 45% were unemployed and 12% held part-time jobs when imprisoned.(11)
These grim, ugly, hard realities will not be altered significantly by liberalized tuition grant policies, more aggressive college recruitment from the working class, racial and ethnic minorities, or improved schools. That there be paths of escape from the bottom does not satisfy any reasonable definition of the good society. If the paths accommodate fifty escapees instead of forty, does it mean we are in a period of progressive change? We must always consider what has happened to those down below over the same period of time.
The evidence is that the costs of staying behind are perhaps greater than they have been in recent history. The bottom fifth of income earners is slipping into a kind of hell of surplus labor, of marginalization resulting in chronic unemployment, family disintegration, school and neighborhood collapse, a void of essential services, crime and desperation.
2. Strangers in Paradise
College may well be an escape from the indignities and perils of working-class life; yet those who get there from the lower orders must negotiate difficult terrain, in college and after. Attending elite schools obviously places one smack in the middle of class superiors.
Working-class students must cast about in a strange world of the rich and privileged, trying to find some solution to alienation and isolation; no small number will endure the fact that spring break is the occasion for a needed stint of wage labor, rather than for a baking of one's hide at Montego Bay. All must cope with new circumstances and negotiating some continuing attachments to prior affiliations, family, friends and the like. So begins the experience of living in two worlds, with a foot in each and a heart in neither, two ways of speaking, two modes of behavior, dual class membership with conflicting loyalties.(12)
For racial and ethnic minorities the complexity is richer, as skin color remains a basis for challenging the legitimacy of one's presence on predominantly white campuses, and for some the charge of selling out and becoming "white" must be confronted on weekend visits to the old neighborhood. Certainly, high attrition rates for class- and race-conflicted youngsters are one probable consequence.
Lurking close to the surface in this process is the specter of betrayal and abandonment of those left behind, and the rejection of the authentic self-rooted in the culture of class origin. Our research has convinced us that this process often begins in college and continues throughout one's experience in the professional ranks. These feelings may not be manifest on a conscious level but could be operating at an unconscious level, the source of misidentified or poorly understood distress, ironically related to personal success.
In other words, escape from the lower depths is itself fraught with difficulties that go beyond the intellectual challenge and the financial obstacles. We believe that the further one goes into the world of the unfamiliar or the deeper into conflicted class relationships, the greater the risk of feeling a traitor or an imposter or just plain alone.
In all this, we do not want to trivialize the importance of college-going rates for working-class youth. Certainly, for countless people in this country the experience has ushered in the better life, furthered family ambitions, embodied the American dream, strengthened and enlightened the minds and spirits of many. The fact remains that children of upper-income people will have an opportunity to attend college be they bright or not, and most working-class children won't.
The proper perspective in which to judge these matters, we believe, is to remember that even in the golden days of democratization two Out of every three working-class kids, if they were the ones who "got in," went from high school to work or into military service. For this two-thirds the experience of campus life, if it occurred at all, was as a secretary, a janitor or a food service employee, doing their part to provide the good life for their social superiors.
Also of critical concern is the system's failure to provide a decent life for those to whom college is not an option even under ideal circumstances. The quality of a social system must ultimately be judged not simply by the degree of opportunity it offers to become "somebody," but by how it treats those who try and fail or never even get a real chance to try.
Current versions of liberal reform can produce neither fair opportunity nor a decent life for those left Out of the so-called American Dream. At the time of the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, Haywood Burns, Dean of the CUNY Law School said, 'Any system must be judged not by the relatively few Thomases that in whatever way 'make it,' not by the few dreams realized, but by the millions crushed or forever deferred."(13) So many minds—and lives—are wasted by the failure to measure up to any reasonable standard of a good society. How true that is!
Cited In These Times, May 24-June 6, 1989, 4.
We discuss social forces that stimulated expansion of enrollments in our book Strangers in Paradise: Academics from the Working Class (Boston: South End Press, 1984).
Data from U.S. Government Statistical Bulletin, 1990 and various annual Fall Enrollment Surveys and the Digest of Education Statistics, published by Center for Educational Statistics, U.S. Department of Education.
Reich's study is cited by Holly Sklar in an excellent analysis of the implications of the widening income gap, 1980-89, 'The Truly Greedy, Part M,' Z Magazine, June 1991, lO-1.
"Fuming Over College Costs," Newsweek, May 18, 1987, 6.
U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Financial Statistics of Institutions of Higher Education,' April 1990, and National Association of State Scholarship and Grant Programs, 20th Annual Survey Report, January 1990.
Hassan and Reynolds, Working Class Students at Selective Colleges: "Where Have They Gone?" College Board Review, Winter 1987-88, 4-5.
U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census, Current Population Reports, series P-20, no. 433.
Brenda Payton, "Looking for a Post Gulf Role," The Nation, July 1, 1991, 8-11.
Incarceration rates from National Prison Project, Journal, Winter 1991. Personal characteristics of inmates from U.S. Department of Justice, Report to the Nation on Crime and justice, 2nd ed., March 1988.
We are examining many accounts of the impact of upward mobility experiences, building on our analysis in Strangers in Paradise.
Haywood Burns, "Clarence Thomas, A Counterfeit Hero," New York Times, July 9, 1991, 19.
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Ryan Miller, The First Domino To Fall
Happy Friday everyone! There is a trade to announce. The Buffalo Sabres, the centerpiece of the trade deadline festivities got the proceedings started with the shot of their... well, it was a big boom, so we'll call it a cannon. As the Sabres begin the tear down to start the rebuild, both Ryan Miller and Steve Ott have been shipped to the St. Louis Blues for a package that includes Jaroslav Halak and Chris Stewart.
The rumours that swirled around Miller were becoming quite intense and with still five days to go until the trade deadline, the Sabres were able to find a deal that they received a considerable return with.
As much as he is the second-best player in the trade, according to the pool points, Miller's name is the headliner, as the impending unrestricted free agent has been a career-Sabre and had led the team into the playoffs a number of times, playing exceptionally well in his 10+ seasons with the Sabres. In the 2014 season, Miller finished his time in Buffalo with 15 wins and 2 assists in the pool scoring table, giving him 32 points, which had him ranked 155th in pool scoring, going into Friday night's games.
The Sabres, as the post is being done up, are underway against the San Jose Sharks, where both Miller and Ott were late scratches from the game.
On to Ott, the third captain the Buffalo Sabres have traded in the last 12 months. In 59 games played for the Sabres this year, he has 9 goals and 11 helpers for 20 points. He brings some added grit, fearlessness and leadership to the Blues, something they likely thought they were lacking going into this trade deadline.
Going the other way to Buffalo is not a small package, by any means. Jaroslav Halak has 24 wins, 1 shutout and an assist for 57 points this season with the Blues, which ranks him 24th in pool scoring, a 1st round pick in this season's draft, by those standards. Halak had a poor showing in the Olympics and dropped a 1-0 loss to the Canucks on Wednesday night in his Olympic return, but his departure opened up the door for Miller to be the undisputed number one in St. Louis.
The Sabres also received gritty, yet streaky forward Chris Stewart, who has 15 goals and 11 assists in 58 games for the Blues, good enough for 217th in the pool scoring list. Stewart's name has been thrown around in many trade rumour discussions, as a chip the Blues could/would use in a deal that would help improve their team and those rumours came to fruition today.
Also heading to Buffalo, according to the St. Louis Blues' website was 2013 2nd round pick, forward William Carrier, a 2015 1st round pick and a 2016 3rd round pick. It looks like the Sabres named their price and ended up getting it without much of a struggle.
Only one of the five players dealt in this deal has any implication on the money race in the pool... well, actually he has implications on two races, as Mike is in the middle of both the main race and the third segment race. Mike has Stewart on his side, as he goes into Friday's action 6th in the standings and 2nd in the segment, only points out of both wins. Does Stewart improve in Buffalo? It doesn't seem very likely, especially since the tear down is only just beginning and expectations are going to be low. I wouldn't say that an improvement is impossible, just doesn't seem likely. With the tear down, however, Stewart might find himself lining up with a Cody Hodgson or Drew Stafford or Zemgus Girgensons, by default, which may help his cause in the end.
I think the Buffalo Sabres win this deal and come away like bandits, especially in the prospect and pick department. Halak goes UFA this Summer, with a re-signing possibility, while Stewart has another year on his deal and technically, a 1st, 2nd & 3rd round pick on top of that looks fantastic for a goalie, who sometimes looks like he's out of steam and a well-traveled veteran, both possible rentals in St. Louis, seems like a heavily weighted win.
Granted, if the Blues are able to translate the acquisition of Miller and Ott into a Stanley Cup, there is no question that the Sabres didn't come away as the winners we thought they were.
Do I think Miller and Ott are enough for the Blues? Not entirely today. The Blues will ride Miller and I'm not certain that he should be the horse that we should be betting on right now.
Labels: blues, sabres, trade, trade deadline
Player Notes in the Draft (Feb 28)
The Carolina Hurricanes lost the services of forward Alex Semin in Thursday night's game against the Dallas Stars, having suffered a lower-body injury early in the game and not being able to return. On Friday morning, there was no indication to the severity of the injury, but his condition will be monitored for the weekend. The Hurricanes will be in Los Angeles for their next game, against the Kings on Saturday afternoon.
Semin belongs to Scott, who sits in 6th after Thursday night, sitting only 1 point out of 4th and 6 points out of 1st. Not a good time to have one of your hottest forwards go down with injury, if there ever was a good time. Scott is also in the race in the third segment, only 7 points back of the lead, back in 4th place.
Another injury on Thursday night, as Edmonton Oilers forward Nail Yakupov suffered an ankle injury after getting in the way of teammate Justin Schultz' shot against the Minnesota Wild. The Oilers will likely say more about Yakupov's injury before practice, later on Friday. If the injury is considered more serious than being out day-to-day, there will be an update on the blog, but if it is just bruising and nothing more, we'll let it be.
Stuart continues to hold the 20th spot in the standings through Thursday night's busy schedule, but isn't making up any ground on the rest of the top 20, barely hanging on to what he has at the moment. This injury could see him fall under again, especially if it is long-term.
The Senators blueline appears to be still be a point of worry for the coaching staff, as bodies on the roster are being healthy scratches and they are pool defensemen as well. Patrick Weircioch returned to the press box after playing before the Olympic Break, joining Joe Corvo up there as a semi-regular press box popcorn consumer. I would have to think that if the Senators would be looking to shore up anything, it would be the blueline, possibly using one of the regular healthy scratches as a possible return in a deal.
Weircioch belongs to Doug in the pool this year and this week, Doug currently holds the basement position with only 4 points in the week. Unfortunately, that has been the story of his season, something he hasn't been able to see any improvement in.
There was an expectation that Marcus Johansson would be back from Sochi/Sweden by now, but reports are suggesting that the playmaking pivot was having passport issues in his travels and things have been hung up, making him unavailable to play on Thursday night. According to the line rushes at practice on Friday morning, Johansson is back with the team and I would imagine that he is expected to play on Saturday afternoon, when the Capitals visit the Bruins for a matinee game.
It only looks like it'll be one game away for Johansson in Wes' line-up. I'm not sure how much more bad luck Wes could have, but I suppose it could be worse, as he could be mired in the basement this year. Wes is safely planted in 15th place through Thursday night.
Injury news for the Capitals as well on Friday morning, as it appears that Mikhail Grabovski may have returned too early from his lower-body injury, which kept him out of a number of games before the Olympic Break. Grabovski aggravated the ankle injury that kept him out and has now gone back to Washington to get checked out further by team doctors and the team has announced that he is officially out for Saturday afternoon's game in Boston, but that is as much as they'll say.on Friday.
Grabovski belongs to the pool's duo, Kristy & Don, who have also had all kinds of injury woes this season. They have climbed up two positions to 17th place this week, but they will likely want to have one of their better forwards back before too long to help that climb back up into a respectable finishing position.
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The Ottawa Senators are not expecting to have their number one goalie, Craig Anderson, back in the crease to open up the home stretch of the regular season, as he had gone home to be with his family, as they welcomed a new addition. The Senators will go with Robin Lehner in net against the Red Wings on Thursday night, while rookie Andrew Hammond will be the back-up for the game.
This isn't quite the start to the post-Olympic stretch that Derek Wilton was expecting or hoping for, as his team has been taking their fair share of hits in the line-up department, Anderson being another one. Don't think it will last, but thankfully those who are playing are picking up points for him.
Labels: senators
More Player Notes in the Draft (Feb 26)
An undisclosed injury will keep Buffalo Sabres forward Tyler Ennis from playing in the second half of back-to-back games on Wednesday night, as they host the Boston Bruins. Ennis was reportedly hit hard into the boards in the 3rd period against the Carolina Hurricanes and it has proved to be enough to keep out the scoring forward for at least one game. Unfortunately, details of the injury were not disclosed, so he'll be listed as out day-to-day for right now.
Bad news for Stuart, who jumped up to 20th place, thanks to a point last night from Ennis. Doesn't look like it will be a repeat performance tonight.
News out of Calgary Flames practice on Wednesday morning, as Lee Stempniak was among those not on the ice, as he is away from the team for personal reasons. There was no suggestion of what they may be, nor is it any of our business. It does leave the question, however, about whether or not he will be able to dress for the team on Thursday night with the Los Angeles Kings in town. I have him on the list as questionable for the game, which leaves it wide open for dressing and playing.
If Leo is going to get out of last place, 5 points from 23rd, it will be all hands on deck for his team. Leo's team can ill-afford to miss games here. Leo's team is among three teams tied for last place in the third segment, with 51 points, already 37 points back of the lead, so he'll need something to aim for at the end of the year.
The Montreal Canadiens called up goaltender Dustin Tokarski on Wednesday morning to back-up Peter Budaj against the Red Wings in the game later that night. The reports from the team are saying that Carey Price aggravated a lower-body injury while in Sochi and he had left practice in the morning, favouring one of his legs after stopping a shot. Price isn't expected to dress in either of the next two games for Montreal.
No matter how you're going to cut it on Stacey's team, be it Price or Budaj, she's only going to get one start out of the team, but if they elect to go with Tokarski for a game, that would put a kink in her team's plans for some money. Going into Wednesday night's action, Stacey's team sits 1 point out of 4th and 3 points out of 1st.
The Philadelphia Flyers do not start up again until tomorrow (Thursday) night against the San Jose Sharks at home, but the team has already announced that Finnish defenseman Kimmo Timonen will be in the press box, as he gets an extra day's break after playing at the Olympics in Sochi. Timonen is expected to return to the line-up on Saturday afternoon, home to the New York Rangers instead.
This means an extra game missed for Ryan V. as the season starts up. Ryan currently sits in 5th in the third segment prize race, 8 points out of 1st place. It would certainly be better for him to have everyone in the line-up to start the home stretch, but that isn't the case for him this week.
The Vancouver Canucks suffered an Olympic casualty of their own, as centre Ryan Kesler suffered a hand injury at the tournament in Sochi and after undergoing an MRI in Vancouver, he has now been listed as out day-to-day. Kesler will miss Wednesday night's game against the St. Louis Blues and it is unclear as to how much more time he will miss. Kesler was able to play through the pain after suffering the injury in the USA/Russia round robin game, but with some time before crunch time, the Canucks want to make sure he is 100% for that run.
Being out day-to-day won't hurt Allan's projected games to be played number, as he could return any time soon. Allan's team sits atop of the standings, but for how long? His team only holds a 1-point lead and is only 5 points up on 6th place.
Labels: canadiens, canucks, flames, flyers, injury, sabres
The Boston Bruins will open up their post-Olympic campaign on Wednesday with a game against the Buffalo Sabres, who opened up last night. The Bruins have already announced that they will go with Chad Johnson in net and that Tuukka Rask won't travel with the team to Buffalo for the game, giving him a little extra time off to rest up from his bronze medal winning performance in Sochi over the break. Rask will return to the net for the team's next game, Saturday afternoon, home to the Washington Capitals.
Rask belongs to Wes in the pool, who currently sits in 15th place in the standings. Wes has relied heavily on his goalies this season, who have made up 26% of his team's points through Tuesday night. It isn't a good sign when two positions on your roster is making up more than a quarter of your overall total.
As expected, there were a couple of returns on Tuesday night, as both forward Matt Moulson and defenseman Tyler Myers returned for the Buffalo Sabres, as they visited the Carolina Hurricanes for their make-up game to open up the schedule. Moulson was effective in his return, notching an assist in the 3-2 win for his side, while Myers had a solid 23 minutes on the ice, but no points to show for his efforts.
Wes did get a point on Tuesday night from Moulson in the return, which won't really make up for the loss of Rask tonight, but it is still something. Benson welcomed back Myers, who missed a couple games before the break, but could have used some points to jump up in the race.
An injury update, as the Detroit Red Wings get started tonight in Montreal... defenseman Jakub Kindl will not dress tonight or tomorrow night in Ottawa, as his knee sprain has not fully recovered over the break. The injury did force him to miss out on his Olympic spot with the Czech Republic and it sounds like he's going to need a bit more time. Kindl remains on the IR with no actual timetable for a return.
With his time on the IR, it means his projected games come off, which sends Benson down into the basement with Wilton and Doug with 28 games left to play this week from his team.
Labels: bruins, injury, red wings, returned, sabres
Despite being a 2014 Olympian, Finnish defenseman Sami Vatanen was sent down to the AHL by his NHL club, the Anaheim Ducks, on Tuesday, just before they kicked off their post-Olympic campaign. Vatanen drew the short stick among all the healthy defensemen in Anaheim, thanks in large part from not having to clear waivers to head down.
Vatanen has been good for the Ducks this year, picking up 14 points in 41 games, 3rd among Anaheim blueliners, but that still wasn't enough to send a player like Ben Lovejoy down instead. I would expect to see Vatanen before too long, but he'll have to wait for an injury or something along those lines to happen first.
This makes two defensemen down for Derek Wilton, who goes into the home stretch in 6th place, only 5 points out of 1st. Wilton now shares the projected games basement, with Doug, going into tonight's action with only 28 games expected to be played. Wilton's defense has been average this year, accumulating 90 points through 19 weeks.
The target date for Tampa Bay Lightning superstar Steven Stamkos was pushed back to March 6th after his last X-rays didn't give enough reason for team doctors to give him the green light to play this week. This would still put Stamkos in to some amazing recovery times for his broken leg, but the Lightning have to be cautious with their best player.
Stamkos was picked up by Ryan V. in the second Waiver Draft and he currently sits in 22nd place. The pick-up was more cosmetic than competitive, but it would definitely keep him out of the basement, if Stamkos was to return at his regular scoring pace.
Labels: ducks, injury, lightning, sent to minors
Key Returns in the Draft This Week (Feb 24)
The San Jose Sharks went into the break with a couple of key injuries of note and it sounds like one of them will be ready to go, as Logan Couture, who underwent hand surgery a month before the Olympics, trying to get back in time to play for Canada, should be close to 100% when the Sharks hit the ice in Week Twenty. The other injured player is Tomas Hertl, who doesn't appear to be anywhere close and seems likely that he won't be playing any time soon for the Sharks, barring a miracle.
The return is good news for Dale B., who goes into the home stretch in 17th place, 39 points out of the top half. Dale is also waiting on some more news, which may or may not pop up below (intrigue!).
The Montreal Canadiens will be ready to welcome scoring forward Alex Galchenyuk back to their line-up, as he is returning from a broken hand, which he suffered in January. Galchenyuk was scoring at just over half a point-per-game at the time of his injury, scoring 10 goals in 44 games and his energy is also a huge plus in the line-up. Max Pacioretty, who left the Habs last regular season game with a lower-body injury, did end up play for Team USA in the Olympics, which means he should be a-okay to go when the Canadiens hit the ice.
Galchenyuk belongs to Stacey M. this season in the draft, who goes into the post-Olympic stretch in 5th place, only 4 points out of 1st place. Getting a forward back will be a huge boost for the stretch. Pacioretty will return for Wes, who starts in 15th place, 22 points out of 12th.
Sounds like Mikhail Grabovski should be good to for the Washington Capitals this week, as he has been out since the end of January with an ankle injury. Grabovski missed eight games before the break and likely took advantage of the break with some quality rest. It sounds like defenseman Mike Green should also be good to go for the Caps, as he has reported that his baseline tests have been passed and it has been a few weeks since he suffered his last concussion, so all systems should be go.
Both players play for the pool's duo, Kristy & Don, who restart the season in 19th place, well out of contention of just about everything. In the third segment, they are already 37 points out of top spot, mired in a tie for 22nd.
The Detroit Red Wings are in the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff race, already knowing they'll likely be without their captain for the remainder of the regular season, they are expecting some good news after the break, as both forward Johan Franzen and defenseman Jakub Kindl are projected to return to the line-up from injury. Franzen skipped the Olympics with a concussion, while Kindl also had to skip the tournament with a lower-body injury, both being cleared ahead of the return to action.
Grant, a one-time leader in the pool, now sitting 12th, 26 points out of 1st, will welcome Franzen back to his line-up, while Benson, who is chasing Grant for 12th place, 16 points behind, has Kindl coming back.
On Thursday, Anaheim Ducks forward Nick Bonino confirmed that he will return from an upper-body injury, which had him on the Injured Reserve since the end of January. There was no indication what his upper-body was, but he has said that he is 100% and ready to go. Bonino has been good this season for Anaheim, having 40 points in 56 games this year.
Since being picked up in the first Waiver Draft of the season, Bonino has been excellent (when healthy) for Stacey M., scoring 25 points in 30 games. This makes two key returns for Stacey, in her quest for back-to-back wins in the hockey pool.
A couple of injured bodies before the break look to be ready to go this week. Defenseman Chris Phillips is set to return from a hip injury, which has kept him out for nearly a month before the Olympics, while forward Clarke MacArthur suffered a foot injury in the week before, but was taking regular line rushes at practice over the weekend and should be ready to go. Ottawa is in the mix for a playoff spot and is getting two good players back in the line-up, so they'll be ready to make a push.
Also looking to make a push, Brenda's team sits in 10th place, only 17 points back and will get Phillips back, while Ryan V., who sits in 22nd, will try to stay out of the basement with MacArthur back in his line-up.
The days leading up to the March 5th trade deadline will feature Buffalo forward Matt Moulson, likely in large quantities, as he is likely to be dealt in the Sabres rebuild plans. Moulson is returning from an upper-body injury, which has been revealed to be an arm injury, which he suffered in the last couple weeks before the break. He will be able to return to boost his trade value, which is already pretty high, having 33 points in 51 games between Long Island and Buffalo. Also returning from injury will be defenseman Tyler Myers, who suffered a lower-body injury, just before the break. Myers is back practicing with the team and is expected in the line-up.
Wes, who has already appeared on the post once, will get a second player back in his line-up, but this could have be too little, too late for him. For Benson, he gets a second blueliner back in his line-up, a blueline that has scored 82 points this season for him, just slightly below-average (87) heading into the return.
The Vancouver Canucks, who were mired with injury before the break, will get both forward Henrik Sedin and defenseman Kevin Bieksa back from injury, as they reset their systems from a horrifying losing streak into the break. Sedin is returning from a rib injury, which kept him out of the Olympics, while Bieksa was out with a foot injury, speculated to be a fractured foot.
Tony will be happy to see Henrik back in his line-up, but again, it could be too little, too late for his team. Tony's team is still banged up, heading back from the break and he's mired way down in the standings as well. As for Bieksa, he plays on Clayton's team, which sits in 8th, 11 points out of 1st. Bieksa could figure 11 points in the last seven weeks, which could be a difference maker.
The infection that Evander Kane had in his hand has reportedly subsided and the scoring forward is back at practice with the Winnipeg Jets, as they prepare for the return to action this week. Kane had been dealing with injuries with his hand all season long, which has hampered his numbers, only scoring 29 points in 42 games for the Jets. If he is 100%, it will be interesting to see how he helps his team, which sits only 2 points out of a playoff spot.
Kane, who belongs to John, who now sits in the pool basement for projected games played, thanks to the season-ending injury to Canucks forward Mike Santorelli, but does get all of his games from Kane, in the projected sense. John starts the home stretch in 20th place.
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Olympic Pool Update (Final Results)
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Q: VGA video switching using TS5v522 I am trying to bring video card signal to switch to  a single monitor. I was hoping to use the TS5v522c but am not having much success. Data sheet below.
https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/ts5v522c.pdf#page=5
Has anyone done this and is there a circuit lay out I can use that is proved working.
I have taken VGA from a PC video card, supply at +5v, To test the chip I am bringing one colour and passing it through but am not getting any output.Red in on pin 2(AR)
Red out on pin 3 (1R). Unused i/p and o/p are floating.
Pullup resistors are on OE and pull down on SEL lines. The other colours and H+V syncs  are wired direct to the monitor.
I unfortunately do not have access to an oscilloscope or schematic layout software.
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Easily identified by its T-shaped nose with eyes at the extremities – all the better for searching out its prey – these big fish (they grow up to six metres long) tend to hang out together during daylight hours and hunt solo after dark. Uninhabited Cocos Island, 550 kilometres off the coast of Costa Rica, is one of the best places in the world to dive with hammerheads, especially around June when the water is relatively calm and sharks far outnumber divers. You'll have to jump on a live-aboard dive boat though, since it takes more than a day to reach the island from Puntarenas on the west coast.
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My CVDA Experience: "Family is Forever"
Chester Valley Dance Academy is proud to offer students with not only quality dance training at the studio, but also the opportunity to travel and participate in conventions, competitions, and master classes. The studio produces an annual Senior Showcase that gives the graduating class an opportunity to showcase their talent and have the spotlight to celebrate their years with CVDA. At this year's Senior Showcase, we celebrated the Class of 2020 and all of their accomplishments. The dances were beautiful and the messages shared through Senior Speeches were so heartfelt. This year, the audience was limited and those who would normally have attended the showcase missed out due to Covid-19 limitations. We are proud to share with our studio community the Speeches our Seniors gave at the show, reminiscing on their time at the studio, and inspiring the underclassmen to savor every minute of their time at Chester Valley.
Senior Speech - Emily Plichta
"I grew up at Chester Valley, I was enrolled into preschool ballet and just never stopped. I am grateful to all my teachers from my very first, to all the wonderful teachers I have this year. They have been by my side through so much, all the highs and lows! Especially now, I am feeling the loss of my "lasts" of high school and getting to say goodbye to my second home, but I can't help thinking about how lucky I am to have something so hard to say goodbye to. It means the world to me that I have had the privilege of knowing and learning from all the staff that have seen me grow up in and out of the studio. Also, special shout out to my family and most especially my mom for always being my biggest fan and I know these moments are just as special to you as they are to me.
Emily dances to a song from the Broadway show "Dear Evan Hansen"
Chester Valley fosters a safe haven to get away from the daily pressures of life, although your social life comes and goes with recital and Nutcracker season. The girls that we have chosen to surround myself with are the most caring, funny, and accepting people I have ever had the privilege getting to grow up with and spend more time with than my own family sometimes. This year was especially fulfilling to see how powerful the love and community is at the studio, with spearheading the dance siblings program with Emma. I'm sorry we could not continue doing fun events with you all, but my hope is that you all incoming seniors take charge and continue this new tradition well after Emma and I have left. Bridging the age gap and coming together like a true family, I think, is the most important part of this program and it aligns so uniquely to how much value Chester Valley has to all of us.
I know in my heart that although this showcase may be a little different and there may be some very special people missing from the audience, nothing takes away from the last fifteen years and everything that came with it; the good and the bad. At our last rehearsal for the showcase, we were talking just about the show and Miss Kim said that Story of My Life was a great way to start the show and we all nodded our heads and I was excited because I love One Direction, but I also thought of how much this showcase is a representation of The Story of Our Lives, and how every decision we have made in the past has led to this very moment. No matter if we continue dancing in the future, even if it is just in our bedrooms, we cannot deny the impact of what dance did for us, The Chester Valley family is forever. We have to be resilient and tackle whatever challenges are thrown at us next year, and I know that we will with grace, just like we were taught."
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Filmstrip Keba
(Labrat Music)
Miami-based, Trinidad-born singer and songwriter Keba Williams says of the five tracks on her new EP Filmstrip that "they are my truth. They mark a transformation in my life from a girl into a woman." That autobiographical snapshot has resulted in a series of songs that suggest or maybe acknowledge the hardships that face womanhood. On the standout single "Perfect", Keba sings, "I'm scared of the critics, don't want to risk it / Rather be comfortable / I'm just being honest / Oh don't you know it's hard to be vulnerable" — encapsulating the mindset of a blossoming soul looking to make it in the world. Songs of hopeful love, regretful breakup, and heartbreak, anchored by a powerhouse voice with range and a modern, funky R&B setting, provide a ready milieu for her growth, literally and figuratively, in a music industry that takes no prisoners. If one's life is a movie, this sequence is an episodic narrative that satisfies all the way through.
Two Worlds 5OH8 + KVL
(Rude Mood Records)
A pair of writers at Slate magazine recently noted that "artists are changing how they make songs and assemble albums to optimise for streaming." The playlist is becoming the new norm, over the long-playing album, and the extended play is the choice for the digital generation making tentative steps in the music industry. Two Worlds blends the EDM aesthetic — future bass and trap — of Boston-based DJs and producers 5OH8 and KVL with the soca voicing touched by hip-hop of Braveboy (formerly Mark Hardy) from Trinidad. This short, intense set of songs — just three, with an atmospheric prelude — could be a supercharged addition to festivals anywhere. Determined aggression ("Fyah Bun"), an inevitable breakup announcement ("Let You Go"), and a come-on to a nubile dancer ("Give It to Me") are the span of themes of this collaborative set that dances between the urge to wine and to rave as an escape. It's an interesting amalgam of genres seeking a new way to sing the Caribbean.
Osaka Riddim Various Artists
(Precision Productions)
Trinidad Carnival is upon us. Back in the final months of 2018, producers were busy perfecting their release riddims — multiple songs on a single music track — to flood the marketplace with an early warning of what soca has in store in the new year. Groovy is the tempo of this early tranche of music, and on Osaka Riddim, from super producer team Precision Productions, the music sets a benchmark for other producers to either achieve or to supersede. Precision has assembled a group of five singers, including multiple Soca Monarch Voice, to channel their individual ideas upon a bed of music that pulses with the electronic pacing and sonic perfection that has a home in cultures outside the Caribbean. Voice and Kerwin Dubois shine with anthems inspiring both responsible reflection and joyful elation. Preedy, vocal group LFS Music, and 5Star Akil join in with the celebratory songs that Carnival is known for, with a wink and a nod towards the carnal pleasures of the Caribbean bacchanal.
Feel Alright Tebby (Single)
(567239 Records DK)
Bahamian singer Tebby Burrows tells us that her new song "Feel Alright" is "a reminder to stay present, grounded, and trust that everything will work out in the end." That kind of positivity would be nice if we lived in a perfect world. She even sings, "And at the end of the day when you lay in your bed / If the one you love chooses somebody instead / I hope you know you're never alone and you feel alright." With a voice that suggests the young Tracy Chapman, Burrows channels a euphoric promise that the light at the end of the tunnel is not an illusion. This pop song is a motivational anthem for many singers caught in the tireless cycle of still trying to "make it." There's a hint that the song is deeply personal, but the sentiments make for a great track that may catch a wave among a generation of Caribbean people looking to break out beyond the boundaries of our island existence, in the real and metaphorical senses. Self-doubt has an antidote in this catchy tune.
These reviews appear in the January/February 2019 issue of Caribbean Beat magazine.
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Carol Thompson, 26, spends her day battling to get the attention of a classroom of small children. She gets up at 6:15am, runs to work, starts preparing for meetings and adds her finishing touches to lesson plans. At 9pm she relaxes on the sofa. Watching the news is the last thing on her mind.
"I generally watch television that I have recorded, rather than watching anything live or simply watching things because they happen to be on," explains Thompson, whose viewing choices tend towards All 4, iPlayer, ITV Hub and Sky Go.
Even if she had the time, she says that she wouldn't spend it watching the news on TV. She struggles to relate to the newsreaders and the topics, which are often reported in ways that, she says, she finds difficult to connect with.
Thompson's responses are typical of her generation. A recent report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) showed that people aged 16-35 are rapidly losing interest in viewing television news.
"There's no evidence to suggest that young people today are less interested in news than they were in the past. What has changed is that they have more options to choose from, and news is losing out in that competition," explains Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Director of Research at RISJ and co-author of the report, "What is happening to television news?".
In the UK, the number of households owning TV sets is declining. Average TV viewing per head of the population has decreased by 10 per cent in three years, from a high of 241 minutes per day in 2012 to 216 minutes per day in 2015, according to the report.
The authors also found that the average number of hours of television news watched during 2014 by all adults was 108; for those aged 16-24, a mere 25 hours. Worse still was the speed of change: the average time spent viewing television news by UK adults has fallen 9 per cent since 2010; but, for those aged between 16 and 24, it was down 25 per cent.
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Tom Sanderson, a 23-year-old who lives in London and works in marketing, avoids scheduled TV, let alone the BBC's flagship Ten O'clock News.
"I never watch it," he says. "It's something that I guess I would like to say I'd do to keep up to date… but I feel there's never any point in catching up with TV news. By then, something else has happened and it's old news."
The report notes that, for younger people in the UK, beyond-the-box video accounts for half of all viewing.
Sanderson finds out about the news through word of mouth and social media. He adds: "I no longer watch the news, usually due to a lack of time and not being at home in the evenings.
"I do think that it's something that could become a problem. I wonder if we will become a generation of oblivious youths, who don't know what is happening around them unless they are tempted by clickbait or it's compressed into a message 140 characters long. As much as I hope not, it's exactly how I act."
This sort of response doesn't come as a surprise to Nielsen, who says: "The most interesting thing for us is that there are many broadcasters that are trying to think about how to do new forms of television news."
He adds: "But even the most innovative and forward-looking organisations probably recognise that no one has cracked it yet. There is no one recipe at this stage, but there is a growing realisation that things have to change."
The Brownlow sisters, Jess, 17, and Maya, 19, who live in Reading and Oxford, both watch television mainly through on-demand services. They keep up to date with the news online.
Jess, who is a student at an independent school in Berkshire, regularly uses All 4, Netflix, Amazon Prime and iPlayer, but rarely watches the news.
"Usually, Facebook will show something's going on and, if it's interesting to me, I'll look it up," she explains.
Maya, an undergraduate at Oxford, describes her viewing routine as "erratic and often based on how much time I have. I can binge-watch TV or not at all. I like to keep up with the major news events but I often find it all quite overwhelming."
She adds: "News on the TV means that you only see what has been chosen for you. Certain events are decided to be not worth covering, which I don't like, even if I understand the necessity of it.
"Broadcasters should definitely use more social media as an outlet; Twitter and Facebook are how the vast majority of people my age stay afloat with the news. Any news on TV should be kept short and to the point, and perhaps be published on social media after it has been aired."
Video on social media and video-sharing platforms have clearly poached viewers from traditional television. YouTube has reported more than 8 billion daily video views. The messaging app Snapchat claimed 8 billion daily views by the end of February.
Facebook evolved from posting links to showing clips, to hosting clips, which now auto-play. By the autumn of 2015, the site reported more than 8 billion video views per day.
NowThis News, another brand built around online viewing, also revealed dramatic growth, going from 1 million views in 2014, to 50 million per month early in 2015, to 200 million by the summer and 600 million a month by the end of the year.
Looking back at his own experience, Sam Kemble, 34, a research associate from Rugeley in Staffordshire, believes that people don't grow up until they hit 30, become homeowners and start a family of their own.
"It's only then that the likes of politics and school development, for example, become important," he says. "People need to pay more attention to their own lives and not what Kim and Kanye are doing."
Kemble adds: "I don't think that it is an issue with broadcasters, it's society." He watches BBC Breakfast news on weekday mornings before work, and reads a free newspaper during his commute.
Tali Boswell, 17, from Wrexham in north Wales, agrees with this somewhat harsh verdict. He says: "Although it is not fair to categorise young people, as there are many who are very interested and concerned by current events and news, I would say that the majority are not interested in news because they are distracted by social media and other things."
Boswell is a student and part-time tennis coach. He watches drama on Netflix. When he does watch live TV, it's sport. He admits that he should do more to keep up with the news. He finds out what's happening in the world via social media or by listening to the car radio.
"I think that broadcasters should promote news on social media, such as having a news live stream that could be accessed on Facebook or Twitter news feeds," he suggests. He also thinks that television news does not try hard enough to appeal to younger audiences.
"There is a growing realisation that things have to change if you want to move beyond serving a shrinking and ageing audience," warns Nielsen. "Television news providers have to think about providing a digital-first experience that works for mobile media, social media and that bring the moving image and audio-visual news into the 21st century."
This article originally featured in the June issue of RTS members magazine Television and was written by Sanya Burgess, a journalist for the Sunday Times and Television Magazine @sanyaburgess.
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