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Square Enix Parts Ways With IO Interactive
Posted May 11, 2017 by John Newby in Video Games
IO Interactive is officially for sale.
Square Enix originally took control of the developers responsible for Hitman, Kane & Lynch, and Mini Ninjas back in 2009 as part of purchasing Eidos Interactive. The relationship officially ended Thursday as Square Enix announced in a press release that the company was withdrawing from the "business of IO Interactive".
"In addition, the Company announced that it has decided to withdraw from the business of IO INTERACTIVE A/S, a wholly-owned owned subsidiary of the Company and a Danish corporation, as of March 31, 2017, and that the decision has resulted in booking of the extraordinary loss amounting to 4,898 million yen in the financial results for this Fiscal Year. For details of this announcement, please refer to the document "Notice of Booking of Extraordinary Loss" disclosed today."
The move to part ways with IO seems completely bizarre considering that the announcement came during a press release where Square Enix talked about how the company experienced record net sales and operating income. Both Rise of the Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy XV were named as big reasons for the success, but Hitman was mysteriously absent.
So what will happen to IO Interactive?
Square Enix did mention in the press release that "as a result of this the Company started discussions with potential new investors and is currently in negotiations to secure this investment." No investors have been named as of yet, but it seems ridiculous that no publisher would want to take a chance on a company with a history of successful games.
Obviously, the most concerning aspect of this news is the future of IO's employees. Layoffs are never a good thing. Second to that is the future of Hitman. IO currently has plans for two more seasons of content, but this too is now in question. Hopefully the Danish developer will be able to continue cranking out missions for Agent 47 because Hitman is incredibly impressive.
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Stephanie Plum is back, and this time she is involved in body-guarding a country-western singer, taking care of the son of a kidnapping victim, and searching for money from a long-ago bank robbery. All the usual suspects are back and, as always, become in all sorts of absurd situations that leave me laughing out loud.
I have read a few reviews of this one, and it's hard to believe they're all talking about the same book! So much of our opinion about books, I think, results from our expectations. It's hard to feel terribly disappointed in a book if you just pick it off the shelf at the library on a whim. But when you are invested in a series (and its characters), there's a huge build-up when the next book comes out. I think that was why I was a bit disappointed in the latest Sue Grafton mystery.
When I open a new Stephanie Plum book, it feels a bit like unwrapping a chocolate bar. My expectations are there, sure, but they're not overly demanding. I simply look forward to a whirlwind ride out and about in Trenton, with quirky characters I've come to enjoy spending time with getting into all sorts of outrageous situations. I find Evanovich to excel at a nice, tight plot with dialog that makes me laugh - not to mention funny little surprises that keep me giggling along the way. This book delivered, and I had a great time with it. I'm ready for number fifteen!
I'll probably be reviewing this next month (there are 23 ahead of it) and I'm still not sure what to say about it. Of course I liked it but I don't think it was as good as the previous ones.
Since I've only read the first 5 books in this series, I'm totally skipping your review!! But I do love Stephanie Plum. The books are just so funny!
Ladytink - I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who's behind in my reviews! I doubt I'll ever get caught up. I think #2 will always be my favorite Stephanie Plum novel, as much as I've enjoyed some of the later ones. Too, too funny!
Stephanie - I envy you that you still have so many to read for the first time! They are funny, and there aren't too many books that make me laugh out loud all the way through. I'll be looking forward to your reviews!
I can't remember which one it is, but my favorite was 5 or 6.
I liked this book though, it wasn't in my top 5 for this series, but I did enjoy it.
Really the only ones that I haven't cared for our the in betweens. Those can be a bit goofy. I still love this series though.
I also agree on the latest Grafton, I didn't like that one at all.


MTD Micro Molding, a medical-focused micro mold manufacturing company in Charlton recently took home some hardware from the Plastics News Executive Forum in Naples, Fla. The plastics manufacturing trade newspaper named MTD a finalist for two awards: Processor of the Year for 2017 and Best Places to Work in 2018. The company was also given an award for employee relations. Dennis Tully, president at MTD, spoke with the WBJ about his company's workplace culture.


Since I'm the only person in the world who doesn't watch The Walking Dead, I had to look him up!! I see what you mean now!
"Shot thru the heart and your to blame,you give love a bad name" or so the song goes.
I hadn't thought of that! You're so right, it goes perfectly with the picture! Thanks for stopping by!
It's that one thing that strikes your heart.
Oh, nicely said, Joyce. When something touches our hearts, it really can feel as though we've been hit by a dagger! Thanks for your comment!


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Sylvie Albou-Tabart est autrice française de livres pour enfants et adultes. Elle est également directrice éditoriale indépendante et chroniqueuse littéraire.

Biographie

Œuvres
 Du Prince charmant au chacal puant, éditions Marabout, 2020, BD, en collaboration avec l'illustratrice Camille Burger
 Deyrolle. À la croisée des savoirs, éditions de La Martinière, 2015
 Un rêve de sardine, illustrations de Gaelle Berthelet, éditions La souris qui raconte, 2014
 La Mélody du bonheur, Alice éditions, 2013
 Une histoire de ciel bleu. Les grandes questions de Topinambour, éditions Les Lucioles, 2012
 Quiz'Cube, éditions Bordas, 2012
 Voyage dans l'au-delà, éditions Les Lucioles, 2010
 Destin... et tout peut basculer !, Lokomodo Fantastique, 2010
 Contes d'Égypte, illustration de Séverin Millet, Albin Michel Jeunesse, 2009.
 Histoire des jeux et jouets de notre enfance, Du May, 2008.
 Femme en Égypte au temps des pharaons, avec Dominique Antérion, Josette Demory, Altipresse, 2006.
 L'Égypte, Petite Encyclo Hachette, collectif, 2006.
 Dieux de l'Égypte, Du côté de la découverte, collectif, Hachette, 2004
 Mon abécédaire des animaux, avec Domique Foufelle, Hachette, 2009
 L'encyclopédie de la Terre, avec Elisabeth Andréani, Sylvie Barjansky, Patrice Brudieu, Hachette, 2006.
 Roi de France, avec Daniel Bernard, Serge Cosseron, David Gaussen, Hachette, 2006.
 Je découvre la forêt, Fabienne Kriegel, 2007.
 Plaisir de dessiner, avec Isabelle Arslanian, Joëlle Bondil, Nathalie Chahine, Hachette, 2004.
 Réussir ses aquarelles - Paysage marins, collectif, Hachette, 2005.
 Réussir ses aquarelles - Paysage de France, avec Dominique Foufelle, Isabelle Arslanian, Joëlle Bondil, Hachette, 2006.

Références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Liste d'auteurs de littérature de jeunesse
 Littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse
 Liste d'auteurs de littérature fantastique

Liens externes

 https://www.noosfere.org/icarus/livres/niourf.asp?numlivre=2146576781
 https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/en-regions/du-prince-charmant-au-chacal-puant-les-sites-de-rencontre-passes-au-crible-dans-une-bd-au-vitriol_4043821.html
 https://www.planetebd.com/bd/marabout/du-prince-charmant-au-chacal-puant/la-bd-pour-survivre-aux-sites-de-rencontres/42074.html

Écrivain français du XXIe siècle
Écrivain français de fantastique
Femme de lettres française
Auteur français de littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse
Écrivaine de fantastique et fantasy

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Eagle's Job'll Be A Dream Come True —Siasia
Samson Siasia.
Samson Siasia has been relishing the prospect of becoming the next coach of Nigeria's Super Eagles.
If the news of him being tipped to take over the job of the senior national team becomes a reality, the former U-23 Eagles' handler told P.M. Sports that it will be a fulfillment of a lifetime dream.
From soccer administrators, officials of Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, down to the soccer loving Nigerians, the news of Siasia taking over from Lars Lagerback has been the talk of the town
And the man of the moment himself believes if he is given the job, it will be a dream come true. The silver medal winning coach at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, who is currently coaching Heartland Football Club of Owerri, told P.M. Sports after watching the Flying Eagles beat Junior Syil Nationale of Guinea 2-0 in the African Youth Championship, AYC qualifier in Abuja on Saturday, that "it's good news for me because this is what I have been waiting for a very long time. Let me tell you that serving my fatherland is all I have been doing as a professional footballer and coach of the national team.
"The aspiration of every Nigerian is to serve our great country at any higher level. I want the Football Federation, NFF, to come out and make it official. I must confess, I have heard the news as well and it will surely be a dream come true for me. It is a welcomed development."
When asked how he will cope, especially what he would to handle the big boys in the Super Eagles if he gets the job, the former Nigerian international said: "trust me now, let the dream come true first, Nigerians will then see how I will handle the team. What I know is that, a coach, who is worth his salt should have authority over his team. No player should be bigger than the whole team. The issue of big boys' problem in a team depends on how the coach handles such a team. But I believe that I'm capable of doing the job."
Al Ahly v Mamelodi Sundowns in CAF Champions League
CAF Champions League: Rivers United demoted by Al Hilal, other results
CAF cups: Rivers United walk tightrope, Bayelsa in slim advantage
Speaking ahead of his club, Heartland's next CAF Champions League cracker against JS Kabylie of Algeria and their second leg game against Al Ahly of Egypt in Cairo, Siasia said: "I know we are playing against tough oppositions. The North African teams are a good side. There is no cause for alarm. We have our plan and I know that my boys are up to the task. For me I believe in my team."
Siasia, who played for Australian club, Perth Glory, has these to say about the performance of the Flying Eagles' against the Guineans on Saturday, "the Flying Eagles played a good game and I believe they could have scored many goals in the match. I think they need to step up their game in the second leg in Conakry. I wish Coach John Obuh and his team the best of luck in their quest to qualify for the AYC in Libya next year.
Looking back at the international career of Siasia, there is no doubt that he has done his best for his fatherland. He played 46 international matches for Nigeria, in which he scored 13 goals. He was also part of the team that participated in the 1994 FIFA World Cup and won the 1994 African Nations Cup. He played for the Eagles for 11 years and was recognised in Nigeria as the third leading scorer for the national team.
Going through the coaching career of the Bayelsa State-born former player, it would be noted that he is a coach of high repute. In 2005, Siasia coached the Flying Eagles, took them to the finals of both the 2005 U-20 World Cup in Holland. That was after leading them to win the U-20 African Youth Championship, AYC at Benin 2005 and advanced all the way to the WYC final in Holland, before losing 2-1to Argentina. He also assisted Austin Eguavoen in coaching the national team.
Siasia was appointed the national U-23 coach in January, 2007. In 2008, he coached the Nigerian U-23 Olympic squad to the final against the same Argentina. In a superbly played series of matches, Nigeria's team earned the Olympic silver medals in China. Earlier in 2008, the U-23 team won the inaugural Intercontinental Cup in Malaysia. The team were built with the players invited from the Nigerian league and they won the Cup against many teams then heading for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
In addition to his position as head coach of the U-23 Olympic Eagles, he developed a youth academy in the capital city Abuja, called SiaOne Soccer Academy. On March 17, 2009, he was reappointed head coach of the U-20 team after they finished a disappointing 3rd in the 2009 African Youth Championship. He was handed a six-month contract to coach Heartland F.C. of Owerri this month.
—Taiwo Adelu
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If you decide to give your son a skateboard as a gift on his next birthday, it's high time to figure out what kind of wheels suits him most.
I know that it could make you down-hearted because I used to be just like you. However, no need to worry! I'm here to help!
How Can You Choose The Best Square Skateboard Wheels?
Whenever talking about the word "wheel", something round in shape will automatically come to my mind.
But things now are different thanks to the creativity of skateboard wheel manufacturer. They've changed the circular-only tip of the iceberg into the more efficient square design.
It goes without saying that there are several ways that the skateboard's wheels have a great impact on your ride. The better your set of wheels is, the better performance you will experience.
There is a wide range of skateboard wheel brands out there, and each has a huge collection of models. Therefore, choosing the one fitting you best is such a challenging task. These important things below should be taken into consideration.
For over 5,000 years, the design of typical parts in a lot of applications in my everyday lives has been almost the same. Generally, you can find two main types of skateboard wheels available on the market.
The first one is the harder street wheels at a smaller size, and the second one are the softer cruising wheels with a bigger size. The former is more round shaped, and the latter are square in profile.
The wheels with the square shape promise better gripping ability, and faster speed as well as a smoother ride.
Polyurethane (PU) – which is cheap to manufacture, durable and resistant is used in most skateboard wheels.
There is no shortage of colors offered by this skateboard wheel brand. And of course, skateboarders can opt for almost any color they want. However, white is the most frequently used.
It is simply because off-white is the natural color of the material used to make wheels.
Once the color pigment is added, it may influence how others see the skateboard wheels when you ride it on a very narrow road. White might fade to yellow but white wheels on your board glows.
Even though the wheel's durometer and diameter can make the difference, they are a matter of your preferences as well as your own skating style.
The range of Shark skateboard wheels is from 60 to 70 mm in diameter. The bigger the wheels are, the faster they go.
Wheels with the 70-mm diameter roll over debris with fewer difficulties. Also, they are made for higher speed.
Meanwhile, the wheels with the 60-mm diameter allow less top speed, but they can accelerate quicker. And it is not good at rolling over debris.
Durometer could range from 78 to 98A, which measures the hardness of the wheels. The higher the number is, the harder the wheels are. And the harder, the faster.
However, softer skateboard wheels will offer a much better grip on rough terrain.
Those who have been aware of the importance of diameter should pay attention to picking the wheels with perfect size for their truck. There are three sizes for wheels of skateboards.
For players on the hunt for the suitable wheels to perform a heelflip, a kickflip, a backside heelflip, a 360 Flip, or an inward heelflip, there is no better choice than low trucks.
If you love skateboarding on streets or concrete parks, the mid/standard trucks are what you are looking for.
But what if you are interested in cruising or carving? The high trucks are made for you.
Why Are Shark Wheels The Brand With The Best Square Wheels?
Shark Wheels know exactly what their customers need. That way, they may have actually made a revolution in the wheel technology.
And their creative team are trying their best to find out new ideas, look for new formulas, and create new shapes, just to design much more competitive wheels.
And the very first steps they do to lead the square wheel market are patenting the classic design and revolving around a central axis.
What Make Shark Wheels Outstanding?
Shark Wheels has gone to great lengths to make the best skateboard wheels ever. That's why their product boasts an endless list of excellent features.
Much Quicker Ride: Shark wheels have only 3 ridges of them on the ground. Thus, the faster speed is, not surprisingly, the result of the rolling resistance.
Better Grip And Slide Control: The sine wave in shape, the increased width, and the decreased friction are for the superior lateral grip and much better slide control.
Enhanced Durability: Unlike the usual skateboard wheels which come with only one point of contact, the square-shaped wheels have three separate points. As a result, they are more durable.
Should You Buy Shark Wheels?
Do you prefer a model that can roll a little bit faster than normal skateboard wheels do? Are you looking for wheels which offer an impressive performance in the rain; or the ones roll over more debris than regular?
Luckily, the Shark Wheels' models tick all the boxes. If you want to test out the differences between the Shark Wheels and the normal ones in terms of performance improvements, get yourself a set of them!
Getting the support after the appearance on Shark Tank, the smartly engineered skateboard wheels have a one-of-a-kind look to them. And it is exactly what makes it stand out among a long list of the best wheels for skateboarding.
The optical illusion of a set of square-looking wheels and the reputation of the multi-Emmy® Award-winning reality show aside, what really makes the Shark Wheel California Roll is what it has to offer.
For all traditional skateboard wheel users out there, I know that most of you are having difficulties achieving a smooth ride over the slippery terrain.
Controlling the grip is not that easy. And instead of an adventurous yet fun ride, it can turn out to be a bumpy and sometimes, even scary one.
But a set of 60mm, 78a Shark Wheel California Roll sets its owners free from worrying about terrible skateboarding experience.
Some might think that the sine shape reduces the speed. In fact, it does not. In addition to giving users a much greater slide control, it also rolls smoothly over the toughest terrains.
For those who have a big budget for a set of high-quality skateboard wheels, the Shark Wheel Sidewinder Longboard Wheels are highly recommended.
These above $50 wheels have so much to offer. From the impressive appearance to the groove as well as the safe and fun riding experience, everything presents it as a pro-friendly model.
70mm in diameter and 78a durometer make it incredibly handy over a lot of pavement qualities. And the reinvented shape enables it to conquer almost every single terrain.
The price is increased, which is understandable considering the quality of slide control, its groove, and its durability.
In terms of performance improvements, there are a handful of major differences between this square model of the Shark Wheel and a set of regular solid longboard wheels.
The longboard wheels by the Shark Wheel promises a much safer and smoother ride. Also, you can expect the exceptional control and holds provided by a wheel's edge.
Bad-pour indicators in a single packaged wheel set.
The next level of the Shark Wheel's reinvention in the field of skateboard wheels is the Shark Wheels with FREE Abec 9 Shiver Bearings.
There is no side-to-side competition between the Shark Wheels with FREE ABEC 9 Shiver Bearings and a set of traditional solid wheels.
The best wheels ever made for rough terrain relies almost solely on the incredible slide control.
One more feature that encourages you to buy these wheels by the Shark Wheels is their durability. Experts say that their lifetime can last 15% longer than those of other models by the industry-leading brands.
Like other models by the Shark Wheels, this model with FREE Abec 9 Shiver Bearings comes with a pretty high price tag.
But, fortunately, the amount of friction produced over even the most challenging terrains is decreased. Skateboarders can longboard as fast as possible with ease.
You might think that reinventing the circular wheels is not feasible, the square wheels by the Shark Wheel will persuade you otherwise!
The Shark Wheels 78a Clear with ABEC 9 Bearings are the skateboard wheels to lay your trust in. In particular, these multi-terrain skateboard wheels can always be much faster, lighter, greater, and more durable.
The unique square shape of this model makes them not much bulky and not too heavy.
Also, they improved significantly by creating the skateboard wheels with faster speed and smoother riding experience over all kinds of terrains.
Additionally, the maximum grip will help you realize the difference right after riding out of your garage.
Even though the Shark Wheel 78a Clear with ABEC 9 Bearings is not the cheapest one available, it is much cheaper than other models by the Shark Wheels mentioned above.
Q1: How Much Do Skateboard Wheels Cost?
Expect to pay from $25 up to $60 for a set of skateboard wheels. High-end models are clearly more expensive than the low-end ones.
Q2: When Should You Change Your Skateboard Wheels?
For those who perform few wheel slides, there is no need to think about replacing the bearings. In my opinion, it is not a good idea.
No matter how often you use your wheels, through time, they could become irregularly shaped, more rugged, or even show signs of flat spots, which are the result of the general use.
Believe or not, the negative change will affect what your skateboard wheels can perform. Right after you realize that it is getting worse or you experience a bit bumpy, don't hesitate to get new ones!
Shark Wheels is a famous brand which reinvented the high-quality wheels for skateboarding. That's why they offer some of the best square wheels on the market.
But which are the ones fitting you best? Check out my recommendations above! Hope that you can find the most suitable wheels for skateboarding as soon as possible!


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Robert C. "Bob" Pechous (August 24, 1933 – July 9, 2013) was an American politician and educator.

Early life
Born in Berwyn, Illinois, Pechous served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. He then received his degree in political science from Southern Illinois University.

Career
Before entering politics, Pechous worked as a teacher. Pechous was the Berwyn Township supervisor and Berwyn city clerk. He served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1977 to 1983 as a Democrat. In 1992, he ran unsuccessfully for his old seat.

Death
Pechous died in Berwyn, Illinois.

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1933 births
2013 deaths
People from Berwyn, Illinois
Southern Illinois University alumni
Educators from Illinois
Democratic Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives
Military personnel from Illinois


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The seed of an idea
All about seed saving activities for trees
It's the 26th of January here and for people in Australia that means Australia day which is a public holiday. Yay! The public holiday celebrates the landing of the First Fleet on the continent way back on the exact same day in 1788. For those that don't know it, the First Fleet comprised quite a few ships carrying a whole bunch of criminals, some military to supervise them and a couple of free settlers of questionable sanity. The first sensible act upon arriving on this continent was to send ships off to obtain more supplies from the nearest English colonies. It quickly became evident that a bunch of criminals from urban areas of the UK really knew very little about farming in a strange and unfamiliar environment. Needless to say, the whole lot of them almost starved.
I have a wide streak of irreverence so for me the 26th of January is to be celebrated for the national government funded and commercial free youth radio station which is broadcast across most of the continent: Triple J - because that radio station hosts the Hottest 100 countdown. As a fun fact listeners vote over the Internet for a limit of 10 songs per listener and just to show how much attention the countdown receives here, there were more than 2,000,000 votes. That's right 2 million votes. That's a whole lot of votes. In fact it is the biggest music poll anywhere on the planet. And yes, I'm outing myself here as something of a youth music tragic because I've been listening to the countdown and also the radio station since 1994. Long live the government funded commercial free youth oriented music radio station Triple J! That alone makes me happy to pay my taxes, it does.
Back to the real world and in breaking farm news: The first steel step has been installed for the cantina shed. It is looking good and most importantly of all, steel is far less prone to bouts of spontaneous combustion during a bushfire than a treated pine step (which was the material it replaced)!
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Travels through the Crimea, Turkey, and Egypt; Performed during the Years 1825-1828: Including Particulars of the last Illness and Death of the Emperor Alexander, and of the Russian Conspiracy in 1825.
Rebacked, 8vo., 2 volumes; Vol. I: pp. xii, ccxii, 162, 2 and Vol II: pp. viii, 435.
Original boards, borders richly gilt tooled. Spine richly gilt tooled as well with 5 raised bands and the titles in the second and the fourth compartment. Original marbled free end pages preserved.
Boards rubbed, upper board-edge of Vol. II bumped and very light foxing to some of the plates. A small stain on the fore-edge of the last pages of Vol. II, not bleeding into the margins of those pages.
These volumes together contain 7 aquatint plates h.t. by Newnham and 9 vignettes and hence are complete as per the list of illustrations.
Volume I is mainly dealing with Europe and Turkey, while volume II almost entirely is devoted to Egypt, with a smaller part dealing with Arabia.
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MasterChef Chris to pop up at Marmalade
A MasterChef contestant will be cooking at a city centre pop-up restaurant.
Friday, 1st July 2016, 2:26 pm
Updated Friday, 1st July 2016, 3:32 pm
Chris Hale.
Chris Hale, who made the quarter finals of the BBC show will be creating a 10-course Italian inspired tasting menu to serve at Marmalade on The Square on Friday July 8 from 7.30pm.
For more information go to www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chris-hale.


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Some things change, some BBQ remains the same, but that's a good thing.
Restaurants come and go. They may last a week or a decade. A few manage to eek out a couple of generations. But one institution in Hot Springs has been going strong for 80 years.
Of course, that'd be McClard's.
To be completely honest, if you took a trip back in time you wouldn't find this restaurant sitting here in 1928. Back then the original McClards, Alex and Gladys, owned the Westside Court Motel a few blocks down Albert Pike (though it wasn't called Albert Pike then, but I digress). They'd take on lodgers -- and they had one who stayed with them two months. But when it came time to settle the bill, he wasn't able to come up with that $10 he owed. Instead, he offered them the recipe for what he called "the best barbeque in the world." They took him up on it, called it a fair trade, and let him go.
Turns out, that was a momentous decision. The happy couple reopened their motel as Westside BBQ, and they smoked their meat of choice -- goat!
No, goat's not on the menu today.
The family moved the operation to its present day whitewashed building in 1942, where it operated with carhops who'd come out and take your order when you honked the horn. You could even drive up and tune in to the jukebox with your car radio. Waitresses would bring out drinks and ribs and fixins on a tray that attached to your window.
Things change, of course. By the time I entered the picture as a babe-in-arms in the early 70s, there was a dining room and a long line of barstools across the front at a lunch counter. My folks would take me and we'd find ourselves a booth and munch down on a plate of tamales or a rack of pork ribs together.
We all age, don't we? And sometimes memories fade into the black, only to come back with a scent on the wind or a hearty bite of something between the teeth. Strangely enough, it wasn't the call of barbeque that called me back to my past on my recent visit.
I was traveling with a group of new companions who weren't familiar with Hot Springs recently. We dropped in on a Wednesday afternoon with appetites and curiosity. It felt sorta like introducing old friends to new ones.
We sat down and perused the menus. One of my tablemates, a confessed vegetarian (bless her heart) decided she'd give a little and try some of the pulled pork with her side orders. It's the same dish Mr. Clinton gets when he comes to town -- pork, beans, and slaw -- though Mr. Clinton usually forgoes the bread since he's watching his weight. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas records the former President as the only person the menu has ever changed for, and the only person the restaurant will accept a reservation from. Well, I can't fault them there.
I decided on an old favorite pairing... and went for a barbecue beef sandwich, tamale, and chocolate malt. I know, I know, I can't eat the tamales -- but I can gaze fondly on them, and at $2.90 each it's worth the memory. Besides, there were plenty for me to share it with and experience it vicariously.
McClard's tamales aren't like anything you'd ever know anywhere else -- they're particularly of an Arkansas breed. No corn sheaths here -- just a core of shredded pork, within a hand-formed tube of cornmeal mash, served with saltine crackers. Yeah, some folks eat them with a fork, but the locals use the crackers to scoop it up, and some of the oldtimers even still wash it down with buttermilk.
I swear, I believe there's only been one woman who's waited on me all those years. Oh, I mean, from time to time one of the boys behind the counter would take my order, but
for service at a table it's always been Ms. Wyona. She's been there about as long as my mom's been alive, and she's still amazing. She can take a table full of orders without a notepad, remember it all, get everything right -- and she's still doing it today. She's at least 80 and still going strong.
She came over and refilled my iced tea and slid a couple of plates on the table in front of me -- the aforementioned tamales and the chopped beef sandwich served the way we do it in our state -- at least, those of us from here who know how these things are done. Beef is chopped after it's smoked, then layered onto a fresh bun with mayo, chopped cabbage, and sauce. That cabbage and mayo combination is usually replicated elsewhere as slaw, but since the slaw here is good enough to eat by itself this will do. It's cut in half -- has to be, since handling more than a half at a time is begging for disaster. As it is, a napkin from the box at the inside end of the table is a prerequisite. You just make sure you pick up the napkin before you start chowing down on that sandwich.
Moments later, Ms. Wyona had brought out my chocolate malt. I know people who don't order malts because they're "chalky." I doubt they've ever tried the malt at McClard's. No, it's not big -- and anyone who tries to pressure you into getting one of those 32 ounce monstrosities at some place or another doesn't know what they're talking about. Better than that, they're not full of air -- so what you get in your glass is just creamy rich milk, ice cream, chocolate, and malting -- smooth and gentle and the perfect bit of calm to ease your taste buds out of shock. Because, though McClard's sauce isn't hot on the way down, a few minutes after you start to feed you'll notice a sharp wang of spice building up. Hence the popularity of dairy items on the menu (buttermilk, milk, chocolate milk, ice cream) and the need for beer (a bottle will run you around $3).
It's hard not to go into a food coma with something as good as all that. I watched with a bit of disengagement as Ms. Wyona brought out plate after plate for others -- rib plates that were a feast for the eyes with those ruddy red smoke stained bones amid a pile of fries; pork and beef plates with their triangles of light green cole slaw and deep red beans (the beans lean far further towards the Mexican side than the pork-n-bean side), glasses of Coke and plates of tamales. Me? My tongue was dancing with the kind juxtaposition of cool cabbage, creamy mayo, spicy sauce, and that deep smoked pink ringed beef. Between the sandwich and the perfection of the chocolate malt, I was whipped away in bliss.
And apparently, so were my traveling companions.
Remember the lady I mentioned was a self-confessed vegetarian? This is her plate, after the hunger was satisfied. No, I was in no position to help her, but she did mighty fine by herself -- so fine, in fact, that we conspired to pick up a dessert, too. And what dessert cries out "Arkansas" more than cobbler?
She ordered the blackberry, I ordered the peach. One of our other dining companions ordered the Key Lime Pie and declared it good -- high praise from someone who's likely tasted Key Limes in the Keys. I was all about some peach cobbler -- lightly spiced with layers of crumbly dough in-between. Heavenly.
The current co-owner, Scott McClard, dropped by to talk with the folks who had congregated in our area, and to answer questions. He's fourth generation, and his girls might one day join in the business, too. Of course, they're in their teen years, so there's plenty of time.
If you go, know a couple of things. Chicken is only served on Wednesday -- otherwise, it's beef or pork. Shake on a little of the McClard's dry seasoning on everything for a try -- it's a great little extra kick. Don't bother coming down on Sunday or Monday -- no one will be there. And wash your hands -- the restrooms are around the back on the east side, and they're clean and neat.
McClard's is open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday at 505 Albert Pike in Hot Springs. If you're in a real rush and want to grab your meat on the go, you can call (501) 624-9586. And if you can't make it at all, order your sauce off the website.
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Which Cooker Hood Suits Your Kitchen?
When picking out new appliances for your kitchen, it can be difficult to decide which appliances will suit their decor. Ship It Appliances is here to help you pick out a style of cooker hood that will look great with the rest of your kitchen.
Classic and traditional kitchens should aim for a more understated look. Chimney cooker hoods and curved glass cooker hoods would look best in these types of settings, as they blend in nicely with the décor. Thy do not take too much focus away from the classic look of the room. Visor and under-cabinet cooker hoods are also a good choice, if you prefer to keep your kitchen ventilation hidden.
If your modern kitchen has a very minimalist look, it is best to seek out a cooker hood that will remain hidden. Downdraft cooker hoods are perfect for this, because they are only visible when they are in use. They rise out of the kitchen counter, perform their task, and then descend back down into the surface.
If you have a busier style of kitchen, then an eye-catching designer cooker hood is the best option. Flat glass cooker hoods and lantern-style cooker hoods will add a unique touch to your kitchen décor. In addition to ventilating your kitchen, they also act as a design feature that can complement modern art pieces in your home.
Industrial kitchens are known for their sharp lines and steel surfaces. The perfect cooker hood for this look is one that ticks both of these boxes. Either a stainless steel chimney cooker hood or a linear cooker hood with blend in beautifully with an industrial kitchen décor.
'Rustic' is a new and trendy design theme in homes across the UK, and we are seeing plenty of homeowners design their kitchens in this style. If you have a classic rustic kitchen, then it is best to have a kitchen extractor that remains hidden – like a downdraft cooker hood or an under-cabinet cooker hood. This allows you to keep the focus on the wood or stone elements in your kitchen.
However, if you're going for a more modern-rustic look, then you have plenty of options. You can go for an industrial-style linear cooker hood or even a curved glass cooker hood for a soft look.


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This lecture introduces the ancient world as a 4,000-year period of extraordinary cultural richness and variety. From this long ancient era only 40 or so fragments of music have survived. In this lecture we discuss the cyclical, rather than linear, nature of art and music. Ultimately, this lecture focuses on the role of music in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds and concludes with a brief examination of the role of music in the early Christian Church.


When you have social anxiety, it can feel like you're the only one in the world who does.
The nerves that creep up when speaking in a large group, the stomach churning that comes when you're called on in a class and the heart-pounding prospect of having to leave your house and go out to a party — anyone who has experienced social anxiety will recognize its dreaded markers. In the United States, that may be as many as 40 million adults who suffer from anxiety disorders, making it the most common mental illness in the country.
It can be downright crippling. Social anxiety disorder, a prevalent form of anxiety that affects 6.8% of Americans, is often characterized by "fear or anxiety about social situations where the person is exposed to possible scrutiny by others, like meeting a new person, eating in public or public speaking," Eric Hollander, clinical professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, told Mic.
That social distress is a daunting emotional iceberg; most people don't see it, but a lot is happening under the surface. Fortunately, people are increasingly comfortable talking about their social anxiety — how to better understand friends with anxiety, portraits of how it really feels and how it impacts our partners. One medium through which they're doing this is Tumblr, where a growing group of people are openly navigating living with the illness.
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Here are 12 Tumblr posts that perfectly capture the struggle that so many of us face in silence.
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But even if you feel like it, nobody with social anxiety is ever alone.


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The Self-Destruction of Donald Trump Part VIA: Darkness
Feb4 by howardadelman
Darkness is not a mere absence of light. Darkness is not blackness. A black hole in the universe may emit no light because it draws all energy around into itself. But there is energy. There is too much energy. A superabundance of energy! But it is all inwardly directed. That is blackness. Darkness may be a state in which all cows are black. But blackness is not darkness. Darkness is much more than blackness. With blackness, cows can be distinguished from their surroundings by feeling them. By tracing our hands over their bodies, we would be able to identify a species. But in darkness, there are no species. No genera. No families. Just darkness. Darkness hovers. Blackness penetrates.
In the beginning of any creativity, there is darkness. One does not know what will appear or when it will appear. It is darkness that is exciting with promise. Darkness, unlike blackness, is a temporal rather than spatial phenomenon. Though temporal, it has two sides or two faces. In the beginning of becoming, of coming to be, the face of darkness is the face of the deep. Darkness hovers over itself. The other face of darkness appears near the end rather than at the beginning. In the beginning, when there is darkness, there is no light. However, just before the end, there is full light. The face of darkness at the beginning is scintillating with what is to be. The face of darkness before the end is the face of dread.
Arthur Koestler recognized the difference between blackness and darkness. For in darkness before the end, there is full light. Yet one cannot see. The blackness has become bleakness. In Darkness at Noon, Koestler relayed his experience as a member of the Communist Party in the thirties. There could be full sunlight, the most sunlight in the entire day. And there can still be darkness. Darkness is not an absence of light, but an inability to see. Before the end, it is an inability to see what should be apparent to anyone. Although there is more than enough light to see, if we look on, if we stand aside and gaze, no one can be differentiated. Everyone was a prop in service to the self-absorption of Stalin.
In the early part of this month, in a stunt to reverse his ratings decline due to his border closure, Donald Trump went to visit the American border with Mexico near McAllen, Texas. Senator John Cornyn, Senator Ted Cruz sporting his new beard, Sean Hannity, Trump's echo chamber on Fox News, Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen, Lieutenant Todd Semonite, Head of the Army Corps of Engineers, all tramped after Trump as he walked along the Rio Grande. They were either stone-faced or nodded in agreement at his many utterances claiming to prove a need for a wall – or a barrier, or a steel fence. Watching the whole entourage on television offered a direct experience of darkness, darkness at noon when the sun shone right overhead and there were no shadows, when differences are readily apparent. But there were no differences. Though Ted Cruz wore a bomber jacket and the jackets of others could be differentiated, these were all men, even the one woman, these were all men in grey flannel suits.
It was a day in which all cows and all politicians and all members of the senior administration were black. Not Black, but black. Like black holes, light was sucked inward to prevent enlightenment. Blackness was the inverted world of light, of the Enlightenment. Trump asserted that building his wall was "common sense" as he redefined common sense as non-sense. Like all tyrants before him, Trump declared that he had an "absolute right to declare a national emergency." A national emergency did not have to exist. If he declared it, then it did exist. Trump's word was the law.
What happens if there is no such national emergency, but Trump declares that one exists? What happens if the President determines that a national emergency exists because he did not get what he wanted? That is the emergency. The 1976 National Emergencies Act grants Trump no such absolute right. However, it does not deny it. It relies on other constitutional provisions – the power of the House to determine where and when money can be spent. When there is day and when there is night and when night can be turned into day and the brightness of day can be turned into night, then we know that darkness is hovering over the face of the deep once again. However, we recognize that the deep has become shallow under the cover of darkness.
From the inside, everything is black and lacks colour and nuance. But to experience the blackness from the outside is to experience darkness, is to discover that that we are hovering above that blackness and it is we who are cast into darkness, not because we cannot make distinctions, but because what we see is indistinguishable. But if we look harder, if we search our own minds and memories for contrast, we will know that what we see is simply dull and drab, that we are viewing everything under a black cloud, that if we look closely, if we look with our hearts as well as our eyes, we will see eyes of the Other that are really slits of pain and brows that are wrinkled in agony. Instead of triumphalism, we will see desperation. We will see the slits turn into dots as they move closer together on the face of the deep. We will see only self-loathing.
DT would have us believe that people can and should only be seen on a screen, online or on television. Otherwise, there is no reality. Modern technology allows directors to populate the picture before us with tens, with hundreds, with even thousands of men, all in camouflage with nothing essential that distinguishes one from the other. They look like they are ready for battle, for combat, but they are like the cardboard artillery pieces the Brits mounted on their shores in 1939-40 to fool the Nazi enemy into believing that they were prepared for war.
Everything DT reveals shows that all that glitters is not gold. The glitter hides the total absence of underlying value. It glistens but does not gleam. DT serves a Macdonald's hamburger to a wealthy guest with impeccable taste when he invites him to break bread at his home. Instead of the details revealing what is true and real, they unveil a fraud.
To be able to see in the darkness, it is necessary to prepare. We must get in shape to be able to overcome numbness in order to confront dumbness and deflate it. We do not do so by participating in the overblown, by making the blackness lurid, but by muted understatement. Our minds and eyes must become alert even when we cannot see the danger before us. We must rely on our noses to sniff the threat. The trick will be to read when we can only see and to see what we are actually reading. That takes preparation. That takes practice. At least, if we want to see and understand the great weight holding down the flimsiness and fragility and apparent weightlessness that confront us daily. When all that appears is a blur, look for clear lines. When we view a few and seemingly simple lines and a very muted and small-ranged palette, look for depth.
How do we express what we see? With economy. A shallow and ignorant man incapable of articulation requires only a few quick flicks, flashes of economy, a verbal austerity, like a character in a Ruth Prawer Jhabvala short story. What requires revelation is not DT's dreary and unrefined raw character, but his danger, his threat to society and to civilization. It requires probing into the shallowness to discover the depth beneath, that the sense of entitlement has been built on a sand dune easily washed out to sea in a storm. For beneath it all, it is important to recognize that Donald Trump is a refugee from Queens who has sought refuge, first in Manhattan and then in the rest of the world, but despises refugees because they remind him of where he came from, a world of material wealth but spiritual impoverishment, a world which he, unlike most refugees who come with richer backgrounds, was unable to leave behind.
How do you portray a man with no knowledge of syntax or coherence or consistency or validity with one with syntax, with explication, with logic and with a fluency that captures rather than hides the waves of reality? If the observer becomes obsessed with ignorance of a profound order, he or she becomes mesmerized when that ignorance is married to power. On the one hand, the hypnotized can only see what they are told to see. On the other hand, that hypnotic quality is also a vital danger to one who values distance. Precaution is then necessary, the same precaution Agamemnon needed when passing between Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and a hard place, between two apparently equal hazards. As Aeschylus wrote, "When all is dark, shall we unwisely; Rush blindfold on an unconsulted deed?" What does an observer do if he or she lacks the acerbic wit that provides the sharp spears to prevent madness from colonizing one's mind?
By remembering that if we are to survive the high noon of darkness, it cannot be done by looking back nostalgically to the morning when it was far easier to see and one was not blinded by the glitter and the glum. We must be prepared to see, or, if not to actually see, to anticipate that youthful seers will be around the corner who have no memory and no nostalgic longing for what has been lost. As such, they may be somewhat immune to the grifter, to the lecher, to the manipulator who claims the future is a return to an eternal never-never land of greatness. For the poseur always has reincarnation on offer. When fixated on being reborn, whether here on earth or in the afterlife, one becomes a sucker for false promises, and, much more seriously, blind to the pain and poverty in one's surroundings. Let me illustrate with an ancient reference.
Yesterday, we drove out with a guide to Monte Albán, a magnificent architectural site only 10 kilometres south-east of Oaxaca. As we rose into the mountains to a level of about 6,000 feet, I felt we were in Israel visiting an architectural site there since the topography seemed so similar though the elevation was much higher. I personally felt it in my breathing as I very quickly became breathless. It did not help that I was hosting a bad cough. But this site was vast, far larger than it first appeared or that I had ever experienced. And that was only the part of the site that had been excavated. We went through the museum first to become oriented.
The biblical narrative stretches back about 1,500 years A.D. preceded by a cosmological narrative that dates the world less than 6,000 years ago. Genesis provides the metaphysical foundation for the central narrative of Exodus, the escape of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt and their entry into the Promised Land. The Zapotecs founded what the Spaniards later called Monte Albán, because of the white flowers of a specific tree that blanketed the mountain, in approximately 700 B.C., only a few centuries after the Israelite exodus. As the guide said, Zapotec stories told of their own Moses.
In many ways, the tales were similar – one of successful occupation then abandonment and then re-occupation. Further, each successive ruler put his mark on the site by either expanding an existing temple or building a new temple nearby and contracting the size of another temple. But unlike Jerusalem where the temple is in the centre of the city, in the Zapotec site, the people lived on the farmland in the valley at the foot of the mountain and this was a religious site where the people gathered to worship their gods, each temple celebrating one of the different major gods.
The site differed from Jerusalem, not only because it was not a place of habitation but of worship only, not only because there were multiple temples to various gods rather than a single temple mount, but also because it was not a fortress. This does not mean the Zapotecs were not strategic in where they located their city. The city lay to the west, but the enemies lived to the south, the Mayans, the north and the west – the Olmecs, Teotihuacános and the Mexicas. The safe land of the Zapotecs was protected by the mountains and the Pacific Ocean 230 km. to the east. More importantly, the strategy of conflict differed radically. It was centred on the very meaning of the word, Zapotec, a place of reconciliation. Oaxaca was on a trading route where the different peoples of the area – 26 linguistic groups of Zapotecs alone – and in the region, Mayan traders from the south, other groups from the north and from the west, came together to barter and trade in the currency of the time, cocoa beans. Several repeated periods of development and abandonment went on for 1600 years until its final abandonment in the 9th century, 400 years before the Aztec Empire was established and 700 years before Cortés the region on behalf of Spain.
There is another difference between this religious centre and Jerusalem. It had a ball court that has been excavated and preserved. Evidently the sport was played with three to a side using a rubber ball. Prior to the Spanish conquest, Europeans used balls made of leather, but after the conquest, rubber was incorporated into ball sports in Europe. The game was played evidently by bouncing the ball off the walls at each end of a very large court, much longer than a tennis court, so the players would have been required to have enormous stamina to play the game. We were told a story about hoops – a story that is disputed in terms of archeology – were there or were there not hoops? – and history. Re the latter, the story is told that it was extremely rare and difficult to get the ball through the hoop because of its height. But if successful, the player who achieved such a feat was sacrificed so that he could enjoy an afterlife living among the gods.
We were told by the guide that the grounds of the entire plateau surrounded by these monumental structures – erroneously referred to as pyramids for they were simply layers of foundations that were extended upward and outward – could hold 6,000 people. I estimated that the grounds could easily hold ten times that number. Other than the escape and magical tunnels running through them, the structures were solid: The Grand Playa, the System II, the Dancers (named after carvings which turned out not to represent dancers at all), a Southern Platform, The Palace and a number of central buildings. There may have been others. The fact is that the expanse was vast and was clearly one of the greatest Mesopotamian metropolises.
Two particular rituals described to us stood out. A shaman/king – I was not sure whether the religious and political leader was united into one person or not – appeared on a platform with his masks and baubles dangling from him, but he would announce to the multitude the forecast of the rains to come and the proof, a shaft of light that would strike and be reflected from a cistern below. The Zapotecs had been so advanced in their mathematics and astronomical calculations that they built the structure so that at the equinox, or some other predefined time, the light from the sun would penetrate a slot in the structure and be reflected back on the cistern as a beam of light.
Evidently, the ruler had a small cluster of intellectuals attached to the monarchy who kept, developed and passed on the mysteries of that knowledge, knowledge withheld from the people to enhance the mystery and power of the king. Instead of knowledge existing to challenge power, power was used to create a monopoly over knowledge. The magic extended to outright trickery, for the king in all his royal regalia would dance, give his speech and then suddenly disappear, reappearing on the platform of another structure to put on a repeat performance. But if the tunnels were as narrow as the guide described – as a boy he used to go into the tunnels for the archeologists because they did not easily fit, earning usually a quarter for the effort – how did the shaman in his regalia and headdress do it? That was the real magic.
If knowledge is power, if knowledge controlled and monopolized by power reinforces authoritarian rule, in a system, such as ours, where knowledge is said to be the counterweight to correct and limit power, how did the country with the greatest university system in the world elect such an ignorant president? How did the promise of resurrection unite with mass naiveté to choose a trickster and fraud for its president?
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After a terrifying encounter with Emerson Drake, Becky and Joe Mellor return to Bowen Hall for the Easter Holidays. All seems quite normal until they meet Shamus Cusack, a young Irishman with a shocking story to tell, and are pitched into a quest for the fourth Eden Relic, the Sword of Ages.
So begins the most powerful Time Hunters adventure yet ... a thrilling story that leads Becky, Joe, Uncle Percy and Will to 1950s Italy, Medieval England, and the subterranean caves of Loch Ness.


I recently heard about a great event held in San Diego each year, Your Natural Baby Fair. I am thrilled to attend for the first time and mingle with other like-minded mommas. I did receive two free tickets for the event, as well as a podcast subscription, in exchange for hosting this giveaway. However, I am honestly excited about the fair and was planning on attending anyways. The chance to offer this giveaway is a bonus!
I know many of you aren't in San Diego, but don't worry, we thought of you too. This year there is a live broadcast from the fair by New Mommy Media. It will be like attending the fair right from your own home.
As you know, we use cloth diapers on The First Mate and that opened up the world of natural parenting. This event will be a great resource for parents who want to learn more about natural parenting. That is what appealed to me most about Your Natural Baby Fair. There are a number of speakers discussing various natural parenting issues. As I have mentioned before, I am a researcher and my iPhone has lead me to these names often when searching for answers. I think the words of Dr. Bob Sears have calmed my worried mommy brain more times than I can count.
For more information on each speaker, click here.
As a part of this giveaway you can submit a question to ask of one of the three above speakers. The person who submits the question selected to be the best, will have their question asked live!
That is in addition to having the question asked LIVE to the speakers.
Don't worry, if your question isn't chosen to be asked live you can still win.
A RANDOM WINNER will receive two free tickets to this year's Your Natural Baby Fair ($30 value).
Be sure to enter using the Rafflecopter form near the end of this post and read the terms & conditions.
This event is for anyone who is interested in learning more about all things supportive for fertility, pregnancy, birth and baby. Whether you are a practitioner, expert, parent or someone interested in learning the most recent trends in health and wellness for you and your family, we will have something worth your while!
Kids' entertainment, including face painting, kid's classes and HULLABALOO!!!
A great event for both practitioners / professionals and families!!
ARRIVE EARLY! Our first presenters start at 10:00… doors open at 9:00am… Registration will begin at 8:30am.
Remember, even if you aren't in San Diego, there is a live broadcast this year so you don't have to miss a thing.
Your Natural BabyFair partners with local businesses to reinvent the traditional baby fair by focusing awareness on natural supports and holistic health from before your baby is born through childhood. Parents, practitioners, experts and families are welcomed to learn the latest trends of creating a healthy and nurturing environment for the whole family.
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EducationFor-Profit Education
Truman, Eisenhower, and the First GI Bill Scandal
Report The Cycle of Scandal at For-Profit Colleges
January 24, 2017 — David Whitman
David Whitman
1Congress Takes Notice of GI Bill Abuse
2Accrediting Agencies as Arbiters of Quality
3A General Becomes President
4Timeline of For-Profit Higher Education
The 1944 GI Bill enabled millions of soldiers returning from World War II to enroll in college or job-training programs.
At the same time, however, many for-profit trade schools took advantage of the vouchers by recruiting veterans into what turned out to be low-quality programs. Frequently, school owners took the money without leaving enough to even finish the courses that students had enrolled in.
Grappling with many of the same problems evident today, Congress—and the Truman and Eisenhower administrations—took decisive bipartisan steps to rein in predatory institutions to protect students and taxpayers.
This report is part of a series of papers published by The Century Foundation focusing on the repeated for-profit college scandals of the past sixty years. Policymakers should learn from this history so that these abuses do not return again to victimize future generations.
This report is the first in a TCF series—The Cycle of Scandal at For-Profit Colleges—examining the troubled history of for-profit higher education, from the problems that plagued the post-World War II GI Bill to the reform efforts undertaken by the George H. W. Bush administration.
The 1944 GI Bill is rightly remembered as one of the most effective social policy programs in U.S. history. Thanks to the GI Bill, millions of soldiers returning from World War II had the opportunity to enroll in college or job-training programs, and had access low-interest loans to buy homes. What has been largely forgotten, however, is that the GI Bill also led to systematic abuses at for-profit schools—schools that sprang up to take advantage of what was essentially a government educational voucher with no strings attached.
Congress and the Truman and Eisenhower administrations soon realized that strings were needed.
Treating the Veterans Administration (VA) as their primary funder, opportunistic entrepreneurs established schools and set their tuition rates at the maximum amount that the VA would pay. Many schools falsified their expenditure data and attendance records, overcharged for supplies, and billed the VA for students who were not even enrolled, all in order to tap taxpayers for every penny they could get. While the GI Bill helped millions of returning veterans go to college, it also fed an explosion of misleading advertising, predatory recruitment practices, sub-standard training, and outright fraud in for-profit education. Tens of thousands of veterans were trained for jobs in overcrowded fields in which there were no actual job openings.1
Sadly, veterans were sometimes complicit in these abuses. In one scam, veterans would enroll in TV repair courses, and then drop out as soon as they got the free television that came with enrollment.2 Since there were no loans involved, if a veteran got a few classes and a TV out of the GI Bill, it was at no cost to him; he had no reason to care—and often was unaware—that the taxpayer paid a high price. School owners, meanwhile, also had no accountability to taxpayers, running a federally funded school that was a surefire business proposition. In the five years that followed President Roosevelt's signing of the GI Bill, the total number of for-profit schools in the United States tripled,3 even while thousands closed.4 More veterans actually used their educational benefits under the GI bill to attend for-profit vocational schools than to enroll at public and nonprofit colleges.5
It did not take long before newspaper and magazine exposés about unscrupulous trade school owners and deceived veterans started popping up all over the country. The Saturday Evening Post ran a piece in 1946 titled "Are We Making a Bum Out of GI Joe?" Other newspapers and magazines ran stories with headlines like "How Many Wrongs Make a GI Bill of Rights?" and "There's a Shell Game at Every Turn for a Man with an Eagle on His Lapel."6 Associated Press reporter Rowland Evans, who would soon team up with Robert Novak to write a long-running conservative syndicated opinion column, reported in 1949 that the VA wanted "curbs on the enrollment of veterans in fly-by-night 'proprietary' schools… If this isn't done, 'taxpayers are to be bled white,' says H. V. Stirling, the man who runs the vast GI Bill Education program."7
A description of how one state approved schools for the GI Bill, from an article in Collier's Weekly, May 1, 1948.
Congress Takes Notice of GI Bill Abuse
In 1949, Senator Elbert Thomas (D-UT), chairman of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, asked Carl Gray, the VA administrator, to prepare a report on education and training under the GI Bill. Gray's 200-page report, released in January 1950, was a sharp indictment of the for-profit industry.8 The Gray Report found that, of the 1,237 schools identified by the VA under the GI Bill as being involved with some irregularity or questionable practices, 963 schools were for-profit institutions. Of the 329 schools that had lost their accreditation, 299 of the schools, more than 90 percent, were for-profit schools.9
President Truman's response to the Gray Report was swift and pointed. In a Special Message to Congress, Truman stated that "in a good many instances veterans have been trained for occupations for which they are not suited or for occupations in which they will be unable to find jobs when they finish their training . . . each time a course of trade and vocational training does not contribute in a substantial way to the occupational readjustment of a veteran, it constitutes a failure. . . . Such failure is costly to the veteran, to his family, and to the Nation."10 It was necessary, Truman said, that steps "be taken to give greater assurance that every trade and vocational course under the [GI Bill] will provide a good quality training and will in each instance help a veteran to complete his occupational readjustment and find satisfactory employment."
Congress passed a joint resolution in 1950 launching the House Select Committee to Investigate Educational, Training, and Loan Guaranty Programs under the GI Bill, a thirteen-month effort. The committee's files of hearings, commissioned reports, and case files on 258 proprietary (for-profit) schools measured twenty-five feet long stacked side by side, and resulted in a 222-page committee report in February 1952. The congressional committee also commissioned the General Accounting Office (GAO, now referred to as the Government Accountability Office) to survey veterans training programs in six states. The GAO concluded that newer proprietary schools were using "promotional plans and extensive advertising campaigns, which were often misleading and laden with extravagant, unjustifiable claims . . . conducted for the express purpose of attracting veterans."11
The February 1952 report of the House select committee concluded that many for-profit schools "offered training of doubtful quality" in fields where little or no employment opportunities existed.12 Pointing to the approximately fifty court cases in which schools and their executives had been convicted of fraud and abuse, as well as ninety similar pending cases, the report stated that "exploitation by private schools has been widespread" and that there was "no doubt that hundreds of millions of dollars [had] been frittered away on worthless training."13 "Under the policies of the Veterans' Administration," the committee concluded, new for-profit "schools were allowed to virtually write their own charges against the Treasurer of the United States without regard to the amount, type, and quality of service rendered."14
Click here to view the full Teague Report.
The chairman of the House select committee was Olin "Tiger" Teague, a no-nonsense Democrat from Texas who would go on to earn the title of "Mr. Veteran" for his decades-long domination of veterans policy as chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Teague was a fiscal conservative and Southern Democrat who later opposed much of Great Society initiatives of the 1960s (today, he almost certainly would have been a member of the Republican Party). In World War II, Teague lost most of his left foot to enemy gunfire and won three Silver Stars, three Bronze Stars, and Three Purple Hearts. He believed that generous educational benefits should be reserved for wounded veterans, and strictly limited for service members who served in peacetime. During the next two decades, he fiercely opposed efforts, led by fellow Democrats, to expand educational benefits for GIs who did not see combat.15
Teague, with the full support of the Truman administration and later the Eisenhower administration, led a bipartisan crackdown on for-profit schools. In 1948, Congress banned the use of GI educational benefits for hobby or recreational courses. Two years later, representatives authorized the VA to deny access to for-profit schools that had been in existence for less than a year, to impose restrictions on those where fewer than one-fourth of enrolled students paid their own tuition, and to prohibit the expansion of programs that would not likely lead to a job.16
For Teague, the 1950 legislation was only the start of a bipartisan crackdown on for-profit schools. The original GI Bill of Rights for World War II veterans was drawing to an end, and by 1952 Congress and the nation were debating how to extend educational benefits to GIs during the Korean conflict. The 1952 Korean GI Bill, which passed the House by a vote of 361 to 1,17 included the first "85–15" rule aimed solely at for-profit schools. Under the 85–15 rule, the VA was barred from approving and paying for non-accredited, non-degree courses for veterans at proprietary schools if more than 85 percent of students were veterans.18 (The Teague select committee had recommended a higher eligibility threshold at for-profits of a minimum of 25 percent enrollment of non-veterans.)
Teague's biggest triumph was to kill off the proprietary schools' golden goose: direct tuition payments from the federal government. Instead of making tuition payments to schools, the 1952 Korean GI Bill had the VA make monthly payments to veterans, out of which the veteran had to cover not only the costs of tuition, but also books, supplies, fees, and other living expenses related to their education and training.19 With the elimination of easy access to direct tuition payments, and the introduction of competitive funding needs of veterans, the for-profit sector stopped expanding almost overnight. In ensuing decades, Teague would successfully beat back three efforts in Congress—led by Democrats—to renew direct tuition payments.20 In 1972, twenty years after the passage of the 1952 Korean GI Bill, Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC) would tell an advocate of restoring direct payments to schools: "That was tried . . . in 1944, and it was on the books until 1951, and there were so many abuses that it had to be changed to the present system of just allotting so much for a student."21
The issues that Congress grappled with in 1952 are, in many respects, the same struggles that today's lawmakers are having: given the financial incentives that for-profit school owners have to enroll as many students as possible and to spend as little as possible on their education, how can government aid be designed so that it encourages enrollment of qualified students in quality career-training programs? A new strategy included in the 1952 legislation was to involve private accrediting agencies, which colleges themselves had created years before as a voluntary system of quality assurance through peer review.
Accrediting Agencies as Arbiters of Quality
Beginning with the 1952 Korean GI Bill, and repeated in dozens of subsequent federal student aid statutes, Congress required the U.S. commissioner of education, then the nation's top-ranking federal education official, to publish a list of agencies and associations deemed to be "reliable authorities" on the quality of training offered by an educational institution. The approving agencies in each state and the VA could, in turn, rely on the judgments of these private groups to determine which institutions were worthy of federal aid.22
With the explosive growth of for-profit schools, the VA was overwhelmed and understaffed when it came to processing veterans' educational benefits, as well as monitoring and enforcing regulations. States, likewise, had been similarly unprepared for the flood of schools and programs unleashed by the 1944 GI Bill.23 Deferring to accrediting agencies seemed like a convenient, low-cost solution that kept the government out of the business of directly setting quality standards.
The U.S. Office of Education, however, was not in a position to undertake a detailed review of accrediting agencies to determine which ones could be deemed reliable authorities on academic quality. So the commissioner of education, Earl McGrath, decided to simply publish the list of accrediting bodies then listed in the Office of Education's directory, which at the time omitted several fledgling accrediting associations for proprietary trade schools. McGrath reportedly feared that including these might open the door to diploma mills, along with legitimate trade schools. It was not until the late 1950s that the trade schools' accrediting agencies were added to the Office of Education's list of recognized authorities.24
Federal reliance on accreditors was an awkward fit from the start, and is still controversial today, especially as it relates to for-profit schools. As Terrel Bell, the U.S. commissioner of education in the Nixon and Ford administrations and Ronald Reagan's first secretary of education, later summed up: "Some of the associations were creatures of the owners, and their policies were established in a self-serving way, so that the institutions could qualify for federal assistance."25 Chester Finn, a Reagan administration appointee, has observed that accreditation operated like a "private club competent to pass on its own candidates for membership but scarcely equipped to police their handling of the government's money and certainly not designed to regulate profit-seeking institutions that reject many of its norms."26
A General Becomes President
After the Korean War ended in July 1953, the issue of how to provide educational benefits and pensions to those serving in peacetime took on new urgency. In January 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower established a Commission on Veterans' Pensions to study the issue, appointing his friend, the famed General Omar Bradley, as chairman of the presidential commission. The central recommendation of the April 1956 Bradley Commission Report was that while peacetime soldiers should continue to receive medical care and employment assistance, their "military service does not involve sufficient interruption to the educational progress of servicemen to warrant a continuation of a special educational program for them." In times of war or peace, the commission declared, military service "is an obligation of citizenship and should not be considered inherently a basis of future Government benefits."27
The Bradley Commission Report's recommendations squarely matched up with Eisenhower's beliefs—and over the next four years, Eisenhower teamed up with Congressman Teague to successfully block bills by Senate Democrats to provide generous educational benefits to Cold War veterans. In his final budget message to Congress, Eisenhower warned that providing education benefits for peacetime soldiers could undermine the services' efforts to retain career servicemen by encouraging soldiers to leave the military to attend college. Education benefits, Eisenhower said, "cannot be justified by conditions of military service and are inconsistent with the incentives which have been provided to make military service an attractive career for capable individuals."28
The Bradley Commission Report also included a damaging analysis of for-profit schools. In the wake of increased educational benefits for veterans, the Commission found "thousands of new proprietary schools were established" and, at these institutions, "many veterans enrolled in courses leading to occupational fields where the employment prospects were far from good."29 The Commission had no reliable information "on the number of veterans graduated from profit schools who were actually placed in jobs for which they were trained, but it was estimated in January 1951 that of the 1,677,000 veterans who attended profit schools only 20 percent completed their courses" and that "much of the training in profit schools was of poor quality."30 Furthermore, the government "was overcharged for much of the training in schools below college level, particularly in profit schools.31 Soon, the Eisenhower administration launched the first federal effort to list and shame "diploma mills"—correspondence schools that awarded "degrees" by mail without requiring students to meet real educational standards.32
While Eisenhower staunchly opposed providing generous educational benefits to veterans who had served in peacetime, he was not opposed to expanding federal support for students more generally to go to four-year colleges and universities to study science, math, engineering, and foreign languages. In October 1957, the Soviet launch of the Sputnik I satellite precipitated a round of national soul-searching, both about whether the Soviet Union had outdistanced the United States in the space race and if American students were lagging behind their Soviet counterparts. In January 1958, Eisenhower proposed to Congress that it create a four-year "emergency" program to strengthen national security that would include a program of 40,000 federal scholarships for low-income students to go to college, with scholarships earmarked for students with good preparation or high aptitude in science and mathematics.33
Eight months after Eisenhower made his proposal, he signed into law the National Defense Education Act, which created the National Defense Student Loan (NDSL) Program, the first federal student loan program to provide direct loans capitalized with funds from the U.S. Treasury. Funds for the loan program were given to schools, which were then tasked with distributing the dollars to students with financial need in the form of low-interest loans with an emphasis on improving science, mathematics, engineering, and foreign language preparation. In the aftermath of the proprietary school scandals of the GI Bill, Eisenhower and Congress limited the funding to public and nonprofit colleges.34 The better part of a decade would pass before Congress, at the behest of a Democratic administration, would open the door to using federal student loans at for-profit schools. When Congressman William Ford (D-MI), the future chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, arrived in Washington after being elected in 1964, he found that Congress was still "broiling with anger" about the misuse of federal student aid dollars. The anger, Ford recalled, "remained from the period of the much-publicized abuses of the GI bill."35
Timeline of For-Profit Higher Education
Scroll through the below timeline to view the history of for-profit higher education.
See the findings of the House Select Committee to Investigate Educational, Training, and Loan Guaranty Programs Under the GI Bill, House of Representatives, 82nd Cong., 2nd sess. February 1952, p. 3. Hereafter referred to as the "Teague Report."
In 1949, 546,000 veterans made course changes, roughly twenty times as many veterans who made courses changes in 1946 (26,000). James Bowman et al., "Educational Assistance to Veterans: A Comparative Study of Three GI Bills," Educational Testing Service, September 1973, reprinted in Final Report on Educational Assistance to Veterans: A Comparative Study of Three G.I. Bills, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. Senate, Senate Committee Print No. 18, September 20, 1973, 93rd Cong., 1st sess., 171.
The Teague Report, 12.
By some accounts, at least 9,000 proprietary schools and as many as 13,000 proprietary schools participated, however briefly, in the training of veterans in the five years after the signing of the GI Bill. See the testimony of Harold Orlans, a researcher at the National Academy of Public Administration Foundation, in Proprietary Vocational Schools, Special Studies Subcommittee of the House Committee on Government Operations, 93rd Cong., 2nd Sess, July 1974, 56. The January 1950 Gray Report by Carl Gray, the VA Administrator, reported that there were more than 7,500 for-profit institutions on VA approval lists in 1949. Cited in A.J. Angulo, Diploma Mills (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), 64.
While 2.2 million vets went to four-year colleges on the GI Bill, more than three million GIs used their educational benefits to enroll in trade and technical and business schools (2.4 million vets), with another 637,000 veterans taking correspondence courses. Teague Report, 92.
Bowman et. al, Final Report on Educational Assistance to Veterans, 114.
Rowland Evans Jr., "VA Would Check Some GI Schools," Washington Post, August 21, 1949.
A. J. Angulo, Diploma Mills, 63–65.
Paul Starr, The Discarded Army: Veterans after Vietnam (New York: Charterhouse, 1973), 236.
"Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Report on the Training of Veterans Under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act," February 13, 1950, Public Papers of the Presidents, Harry S. Truman, 1945–1953. Available at the Harry S. Truman Library & Museum, The American Presidency Project, http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=656.
Quoted in Teague Report, February 1952, 30.
Ibid, 3, 12.
Ibid, 30.
See Mark Bolton, Failing Our Veterans: The G.I. Bill and the Vietnam Generation (New York: New York University Press, 2014), 35–42, 60–103.
Barbara McClure, "Veterans' Education Assistance Programs," Congressional Research Service, 86-537 EPW, January 31, 1986, 8. The bill prohibited GI Bill payments for new courses at for-profit schools if state agency responsible for overseeing GI Bill schools determined that the occupation for which the course was intended to provide training was crowded in the State and that existing training facilities were adequate.
Bolton, Failing Our Veterans, 42.
Barbara McClure, "Veterans' Educational Assistance Programs," 11.
Ibid. Also see The Teague Report, 1.
Tim O'Brien, "The Battle of the GI Bill: Sen. Hartke v. Rep. Teague," Washington Post, July 21, 1974, C4.
Educational Benefits Available for Returning Vietnam Era Veterans, Hearings on S.2161 and Related Bills, Part I, Subcommittee on Readjustment, Education, and Employment, Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 92nd Cong., 2nd Sess., March 29, 1972, 485.
Bowman et al., Educational Assistance to Veterans, 177.
"Many State departments of education were not adequately staffed in 1944 to perform the regular functions assigned to them by State law, not to mention the new functions assigned to them by [the G.I. Bill]. Standards for the approval of institutions and establishments varied widely in 1944 and in some States were practically nonexistent." Veterans' Benefits in the United States, The President's Commission on Veterans' Pensions, Volume III, Staff Report No. IX-B, 1956: "Readjustment Benefits: Education and Training, and Employment and Unemployment," 19.
Charles M. Chambers, "Federal Government and Accreditation," in Understanding Accreditation: Contemporary Perspectives on Issues and Practices in Evaluating Educational Quality, ed. Kenneth E. Young, Charles M. Chambers, H. R. Kells and Associates (London: Jossey-Bass, 1983), 243–44.
Terrel H. Bell, "The Federal Imprint," External Influences on the Curriculum: New Directions for Community Colleges 64 (Winter 1988), 12.
Chester E. Finn, Jr., "In Washington We Trust, Federalism and the Universities: The Balance Shifts," Change 7, no. 10 (Winter 1975/1976): 29.
The President's Commission on Veterans' Benefits, "Veterans' Benefits in the United States," April 1956, 10. Available at the Veterans Law Library, http://www.veteranslawlibrary.com/files/Commission_Reports/Bradley_Commission_Report1956.pdf.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Annual Budget Message to Congress: Fiscal Year 1962," January 16, 1961, Public Papers of the Presidents, The American Presidency Project.
"Veterans' Benefits in the United States," 296.
Ibid 296-297.
Ibid 291.
In October 1959, Arthur Flemming, the secretary of health, education, and welfare,warned of the evils of degree mills at a press conference and charged the U.S. commissioner of education with preparing a list of degree mills for public release at a subsequent press conference The preliminary list, released by the U.S. Office of Education in April 1960, named more than thirty organizations as degree mills. See "Pollution in Higher Education: Efforts of the U.S. Office of Education in Relation to Degree Mills," Bureau of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, March 1974, 3.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Special Message to Congress on Education," January 27, 1958, Public Papers of the Presidents, The American Presidency Project.
Robert Shireman, "The Covert For-Profit: How College Owners Escape Oversight through a Regulatory Blind Spot," The Century Foundation, October 6, 2015, 4, https://tcf.org/content/report/covert-for-profit/.
Hearings on the Reauthorization of The Higher Education Act of 1965: Program Integrity, House Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, 102nd Cong., 1st Sess., Serial No. 102-39, May 30, 1991, 427.
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David Whitman, Contributor
David Whitman was the chief speechwriter for U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan from mid-2009 to November 2014. Prior to that, he covered social policy for U.S. News & World Report for nearly two decades, from 1985 to 2003. He is the author of the award-winning book, Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner City Schools and the New Paternalism (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2008), a two-year study of six high-performing inner-city secondary schools and their successful educational models. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, the Atlantic, New Republic, and numerous other publications. Currently, he is president and founder of Whitman Wordsmithing & Communications.
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