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How do I sell work / life balance to managers with an old school mentality? I’ve been selected on my job to sell the concept of work / life balance to a bunch of managers who are from the old school and think everyone needs to be in the office from 9 to 5 Monday – Friday. Even though we have employees in the office during these times, it does not equate to productivity. However based on the research I’ve done, many people are more productive when given the opportunity to work in alternate locations (telework) and schedules (compressed work week, flex-schedule). Could you help me with some suggestions on how to best sell the work / life balance concept? I want them to walk away from my presentation thinking they have no choice but to adopt this program as part of our policy. Thanks for your help!!

Big 4 Vs 2nd Tier National Firms Work/Life Balance? My University has an excellent internship program for Winter (Busy Season) internships. I am a solid candidate for Big 4 firms, and could likely get placed at a firm of my choice on the assurance side of the business. Historically, students at my school end up being hired by the firm in which they interned with. I currently have interviews with Deloitte, KPMG, RSM, BDO, Clifton Gunderson, and a few large local firms. I have been told that the Big 4 pays slightly better, but also requires more hours than in other large national firms for new staff. Is this true? Does this same general stereotype apply for throughout one's career? I'm slightly torn between the prestige of the Big 4 and the work/life balance pitch by the large nationals. Any advice pertaining to large accounting firms in general would also be appreciated.

For CRNA (nurse anesthetist): How do you balance work/life/family?? Is it worth it? Hi there, I'm a radiologic technologist with my BS in health sciences and considering going back to school to get my Accel. BSN with a goal of becoming a CRNA. I have alwasy considered nursing as a career, was actually accepted to a BSN program out of high school, but decided to take another route and get my radiography degree (2 year AS program). I am almost 23, female, no kids, and figure I would finish my MSN CRNA degree by the time I'm about 30 (start 15 month ABSN May 2010-Aug. 2011, 1-2 years ICU exp., 28 month MSN degree). I was fairly shocked with the job market for radiographers when I graduated school (only 1 person out my graduating class of 20 got a full time job!). I have been working per diem for the past two years since I graduated (from my AS) and transferred to get my BS degree full-time. Now that I'm done with my BS degree, I still can't find FT employment (I need health insurance!), and am really disappointed with the hourly wage in my state (new hires only start at $16/hour!) when the cost of living and taxes in my state are very high! I have been taking a few night classes in computers/networking while working per diem, thinking I might be able to get into PACS/RIS administration or other dept. network systems admin. in the hospital (or any business), but still not too sure about the employment reliability in the computer/IT area either... I love working with people, caring for others, but was always a little "nervous" about all the procedures/responsibilities nurses have (although we do our share of fun as rad techs, too). I know I could do if I put my mind to it... I had a fairly easy time in college with good grades (3.85 graduating BS GPA, and I took pre-med science courses like Bio, Chem, Physics, etc). I realize the commitment and challenges of nursing school and the CRNA program and fully respect anyone who goes through it! I like the idea of becoming a CRNA, more autonomy, you pick your place of work and hours, better pay, more specialized, etc. The only thing I am concerned about is how women (and men) out there balance family life and work life. I am in no hurry, by any means, to get married and have a family, but by the time I graduate CNRA school, I may thinking of that. I don't plan on having a huge family or being a stay at home mom for life or anything like that... I just want options and don't want my career to completely rule my life. How do you guys balance your career and other aspects of your life? I want a family first, then my career, not the other way around! Is CRNA the career for me? Or is it a full-time, life changing comittment? I realize one must love their job and always be focused on continuing education and what is best for the patient... but I also want a job that I can leave at the hospital and come home to my family and still have "other interests." No offense to anyone, I don't want to be an MD or work 80 hours a week (I have huge respect for those who can do that). I just want a stable, rewarding career that will allow my family and I to live confortably and happily. I know it may be somewhat stressful of a career (as there is stress in ANY job), but don't want it to affect my entire life (is there a high "burn out" rate like there is in some other nursing specialties?) I would also like the opportunity to maybe work part-time if I have kids... What are you opinions? How do you balance work and home life? Would any of you do anything different (if you could go back)? Is CRNA a good "mothers" career? Is it worth all the time and training you put in? Thank you for your time and opinions...

Is putting school before work morally wrong? I'm getting a master's degree. I've had the same job for about 3 years now. I wasn't in school when I started working here, but I am right now. My company does not really support a work/life balance. But I need this job until I graduate. I am thinking of doubling up on some classes to get finished in 9 months. I would only be able to work the minimum 40 hours per week. Do you think I should take less classes so I can devote more time to work, even though it will take me twice as long to finish my program? Or do you think I should just get school out of the way and finish within the next 9 months even though I will be barely getting by at work? I plan on leaving the job when I'm done with school. There's nowhere else for me to go here, my degree wouldn't help at my present company.

How much work is involved in the IB program? I'm on the fence and i would like to know how much of my time it will take up. I dont have a problem with alot of work but i'd like to maintain a balanced life aswell and dont want to spend all my time studying. Are the classes taken during my normal school hours? Or is it an after school thing?

How to get a think tank/strategy job in corporate america? My wife has a B.S. degree in Operations and Logistics...an MBA in M.I.S. And she is PMI-certified as a project manager, has ITIL certification, and some Six Sigma experience...no certification. She enjoys strategy creation and implementation tasks and roles and gets a little bit of those types of experiences in her current role. But, mainly she is a project manager and program manager. How can she get a strategy job in corporate america? She wants to do more of what she feels passionate about and less of the administrative/repetitive tasks. We live in the Chicago Northwest suburbs. Oh...she also wants work/life balance since we have kids. So it would seem that management consulting with the big agencies would not be an option since they seem to work constantly.

Do you believe that Tony Robbins programs work? There are so many self improvement programs. I understand the key to any improvements to anyone's life is balance and discipline. But do you feel his program is among the top ten around for motivating change for the better in ones life. Please do not use faith based resources for this question.

Should I change MBA programs in New York (From Baruch to Touro)? I am 26 yrs old & in my 1st semester at Baruch College for a General MBA. The material isn't that hard, but there is a lot of work outside class (e.g., group work) & I am looking at 3 years of hard school twice a week (+ summers & winters). My career situation & aspirations are as follows: I work for a retailer as a Process Analyst (Process Improvement) & make around 50k. I enjoy my 40 hr work week & don't think I'll ever want a Wall St. job or one that alters my work/life balance. I enjoy the field I'm in (2 yrs experience), & the employer I work for, & plan on staying in the NY/NJ area. Eventually I may become a consultant, or a Sr. Mgr. in a small company, or start my own company, but for now I'm happy where I am. I would like to be earning at least 70k within 3-4 years. Should I switch to Touro's MBA Program which is less demanding, can be done 4 nights/week & takes 2 yrs. (minus summers & winters)? Is Baruch that much better in my situation? Will I miss out on needed networking?

Is it doable to take night MBA courses while married and working? im planning on getting married soon, but i do still want to go the grad school (mba). My university offers a night mba program. Anyone think this balancing act of work/married life/class at night is doable?

i want to confirm the job i secured from seadrill mobile units nigeria. is it true or fraud.? SETTING THE STANDARD IN DRILLING SEADRILL MOBILE UNITS NIGERIA LTD (Mobile Units and Jack-ups Nigeria) Sabaina HousePlot M15 Banana Island Foreshore Estate Ikoyi Lagos Mobile:+234-8067632080 SR/EMP/EXP/VOL.IV/09- OFFER LETTER Attention: HUSSAIN MOHAMMED ERSHATH A.M. RE: CONTRACT LETTER We refer to your earlier forwarded application for job engagement with relations to the Seadrill Mobile Units Nigeria Ltd; Oil Project in rivers state Nigeria with job reference number: SR/EMP/EXP/VOL.IV/09. On the above subject matter, the Seadrill Mobile Units Nigeria Ltd. Management hereby congratulates you on your successful emergence based on detailed recruitment by our official recruitment consultants. Also this is to inform you that we the Human Resources Department of Seadrill Mobile Units Nigeria Ltd have hereby acknowledged the receipt of your answer to the short on-line interview questions. We have written to inform you that your response to the short online interview questions was found suitable for this project requirement. You are hereby inform that you have been accepted/selected by Seadrill Mobile Units Nigeria Ltd to work as physiotherapist, for the requirement of the Seadrill St Fergus Gas To Liquid Plant Project here in Nigeria with a salary indication of $7,550 united state dollars (USD) per month (After tax deduction). The contract is a 24 months time contract 28 days ON 28 days OFF, which can be renewable by the employee if necessary. Work | Life | Balance Some of our work/life balance benefits include: Education Learning and development is an important part of the Seadrill culture. We offer educational reimbursements to pay for or reimburse a portion of fees related to job-related workshops, off-site seminars, courses taken at accredited educational institutions and other programs targeted to improve your skills and performance, plus paid time off for study and exams. Travel Seadrill offers international opportunities that enable you to work and train in locations around the globe. With a presence in approximately 70 countries, Seadrill offers many opportunities to work on interesting projects, collaborate with new people, experience new cultures and see the world. Time off With our generous flex day, holidays, leaves of absence and vacation opportunities, you get the time you need to enjoy life outside of work. Health and wellness Seadrill offers a wellness program that promotes the health and well-being of our employees and their families through the delivery of customized solutions to help lose weight, quit smoking and get in better shape. Home apartment First class family accommodation will be provided to you in Company communities only as necessitated by employee with maximum security both in the site also entitled with bullet-proof vehicles for safety and driver shall be adequately provided along with army officers or ant armed force in all your movement for safety. Note: the Nigeria constitution with expatriate who wish to engage services with oil and gas in Nigeria must have Department of Petroleum Resources certificate (DPR), before he/she will be allow to working with Oil Company here. What we are implying is that, if you don't have department of petroleum resources certificate, you will not be authorize by Nigeria government to join Seadrill Team Nigeria. This is because of the existing policy. All the same if you have worked here in this country after this constitution was made, invariably you must have the side certificate. JOB PROCEEDING/REQUIREMENT: You are to note that all employees successfully screened and recruited for the Searill St Fergus Gas To Liquid Plant Project here in Nigeria. that are not presently possessing a DPR CERTIFICATE shall be expected to personally incur all expenses that are related to the processing, procurement and acquisition of necessary DPR certificate, as every expenses incur by you on the processing of your DPR certificate shall be duly reimbursed to you not later than Five (5) working days after submission of employee’s expense report and receipts to us for proper verification. You shall be required to furnish us with your DPR certificate on or before the 18th May. 2009 as a proof of readiness to join Seadrill Mobile Units Nigeria Ltd. (Seadrill St Fergus Gas To Liquid Plant Project team) in the due time as stipulated above for your job resumption with the Seadrill Mobile Units Nigeria Ltd. And also to enable you receive your first monthly salary including your due entitlements/emoluments prior to your departure for services with the Seadrill Mobile Units Nigeria Ltd. However, for expatriate services employees who do not presently have DPR certificate are to make contact with the address given below for issuing DPR certificate to you. Note: You have to write a letter of application to the Department of petroleum resources Nigeria for the proc

Which of these Women's issues are the worst of McCain's Views? Women's Issues that John McCain has been opposed to... NO to pay equity NO to contraceptive access and reproductive rights NO to appointing Supreme Court judges who will uphold women's rights and civil rights NO to funding shelters and other anti-violence programs NO to supporting working moms and dads with policies that support work/life balance. Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/nows-political.html

Enterprise Rent A Car management trainee program question? I am recently in the process of acquiring a job at Enterprise Rent A Car in southern California and would like to know how its like in the management trainee program. i have come across a lot of negative forums set up by former and current employees their that totally despise their work. they all seem to mention the same thing: working 55+ hour work weeks, thus your social and work life are not balanced well. the managers treat you like a slave and you pretty much are a glorified taxi driver because all you do all day is wash cars in your suite and drive people around. the pay is alright at $34,000 a year +, that's only because you work so many hours. So I am going to graduate in about a month soon from a UC and would like to know if i would be wasting my time in this company or would the experience in it will be able to set me up for higher paying jobs in the future.

should i go to law school? what would you do? so I'm in a serious dilemma, i have an offer from a top law school and a masters in public policy with a co-op option. Law school will command three more years of school one year of bar/articles before any money can be made. It will also put me in a debt of over 130 thousand dollars, not to mention my undergraduate debt which i already have. however, it would mean i am following my dreams, and will in the end have a prestigious if not too lucrative and powerful career. the masters in public policy will result in a comfortable government job, 9-5 work with a stable salary range of over 60-68 thousand dollars and is only a one year course followed by another year dedicated to co-op. My debt would only be roughly 20, 000 dollars for this program. this will give me a stable, and comfortable career with a good work-life balance, not necessarily glamorous or very lucrative. what would you pick?

How to approach possibly reneging an offer? I am about to graduate from a master's program. After searching non-stop for a job, I received an offer about two weeks ago. I have already signed and am supposed to start in one month. The company (company A) seems really great and I think I'll greatly enjoy what I'll be doing, even if it doesn't fit directly into my 10-20 year plan. Here is the problem: A second company (Company B) contacted me last week to set up a phone interview. This position is directly tied to my career plans and I have been chasing people at Company B for at least two years. In fact, I used to work at this company (albeit in a much lower position) before leaving to get my graduate degree. I have set up a phone interview with them for next week because I feel it would be in my best interest to talk to them, even though I'm now committed to the company I signed with. (I am 99.9% sure that I will stay with Company A out of loyalty and life-style-- Company B's position usually requires 70+ hours per week and travel). My questions are: 1. Should I even be talking to the second company given that I have already signed with the first company? (Note: Normally I would not even consider, but this job with the second company is the whole reason I went for my master's to begin with and in this economy I trust no one as I've seen nearly 10% of my class have offers rescinded while another 30% still don't have offers). 2. What conditions should I change my mind? I think work/life balance is important, but this second position may boost my salary by nearly 50% over the first offer and 200% over what I made before pursuing a graduate degree. (Another note: This isn't because the second job will pay so much more, it's just that my pre-graduate job paid so little.) 3. How upfront should I be with the second company? I am pretty sure I will not ever tell the first company especially since I'm still 99.9% I will stay with them, assuming I even get the job at company B. 4. The market I will be in is relatively small. I'm sure people talk and I know there will be bitterness over my decision if I rescind. How long will it take to get my reputation back if I renege? Other factors: Company B has a national reputation and five years there carries a lot of weight. Plus, I have more exposure to what I ultimately want to do (I don't want to say more out of fear of being discovered.) We are in a tight market and Company B is way more likely to be effected by the downturn than Company A, so job security is much higher at company A. Once again, I'll be in a small market and have already talked to everyone in that market, so if I get an offer at B and renege I am pretty much f-ed becuase there will be no going back to A and nobody else is hiring. But I don't think company B has layed off for decades. Finally, Company A gave me a signing bonus, but I haven't spent it yet. My only legal obligation if I renege is to return this money. My decision point is that if I can get the 50% higher income without working more than 65 hours per week on average ( I realize some weeks will have many more hours) I will strongly consider Company B. But then again, the probability of me getting the job are probably 25% and the joint probability of me getting the job and it meeting my requirements above is probably 2.5 to 5.0%. Any advice, comments, things to consider, etc. are greatly appreciated. I know I am jumping the gun here, but I want to be ready and I tend to overanalyze everything. Thank you. The probabilities are really just provided to give someone an opportunity to tell me that I'm overthinking this way too much. As for the hours, I have young children that I want to spend time with. As they age, I will be able (eager to) work more because they will (1) cost more and (2) complain/talk back more. Company B--or a similar company/position--is really step 2 in my 10 year plan, but I figure I should really consider an opportunity to skip a step.

Please Help!!! Whats the best combination with accounting undergrad degree? I am about to complete my undergraduation in Accounting. I have got into a Masters Program that offers a lot of different options: Audit, Tax, MIS, Financial Management, Entreprenueral Leadership. What should I get my masters in? Whats a really good combination with accounting? My criteria in decreasing order of imporance are (1) job opportunities (2) Ease with which I can climb up the corporate ladder (3) salary (4) busy season, and stress levels, ability to maintain a work-life balance. Initially I was interested in Finance, but after talking to loads of people I am completely confused. Some said that because of the "recession" the job opportunities in Finance have decreased. And they say that if they were to do this again they would pick Entreprenueral Leadership. Others say that MIS is really good because it expands your horizon beyond accounting to computers. I know a lot about computers, and I am not afraid of MIS. I am really confused. Could someone please help medecide

Why is this fact relevant to average American female voter? McCain camp keeps saying he supports women because McCain has more women working and making more $$ than Obama in his campaign. But how does that affect real voting women? while John McCain has consistently said "no" - NO to pay equity, NO to contraceptive access and reproductive rights, NO to appointing Supreme Court judges who will uphold women's rights and civil rights, NO to funding shelters and other anti-violence programs, and NO to supporting working moms and dads with policies that support work/life balance On pay equity. Sen. Obama is a co-sponsor of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act, legislation to end wage discrimination against women. On reproductive rights. Sen. Obama is a co-sponsor of the Prevention First Act, to strengthen access to contraception and reproductive health care, and prevent unwanted pregnancies. He strongly supports Roe v. Wade and will oppose any efforts to overturn it. On violence against women. Sen. Obama supports the continued reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act -- of which Sen. Joe Biden is the chief sponsor -- as well as the Security and Financial Empowerment (SAFE) Act, which is legislation to provide legal, medical and financial support to victims of domestic violence. On the Supreme Court. Sen. Obama opposed the nominations of George Bush's extreme right-wing nominees to the Supreme Court, who have consistently ruled against women's rights,

Video-game-career position for a person that likes to work on strategy & balance in characters/abilities? I need help! I want to be in the video-game business, but I dont know where i fit in all of the fancy technical descriptions that job vacancies list or if i even fit at all. I wiil tell you about myself and maybe you know the position I should seek: Here is me: I have no degrees, & hardly any experience with any particular programming tool or language. And i do not wish to ever become proefficient in any either or do anything more than dabble or to tweak something by adjusting some values of a previous made creation/script. I am good with computers in general and have a firm understanding of them. However, i am not a person that likes to get too technical with knowing all of the intricate things behind software or programming languages. I am more of a creative person than a tech-head. My abilities in math is lower than average but i enjoy it to some degree but have no interest in going above agebra 2 level. I have some skills in art and am more of a right-brain than left-brain thinker. a realist. I am a gamer for life with experience playings thousands of games since Atari 2600, Coleco & Vetrex days. I mostly love competitive games like fighting games, card games like Culdcept, Rpg's, and Real-Time-Sategy. Work: I love to problem-solve and draw on my imagination games.. i create full games in my mind and am constantly coming up with ways of improving on existing games. What i would love to do in this business is put together games with a focus on strategy concepts ... cause and effect and work on the balance of characters and their spells/abilities as well as the balance of the worlds/environments and how they relate to those characters. Decide on concepts and designs of these things to remove things and add things that match with the overal design; deciding what fits or what makes no sense. And deciding on adjustments of values of things like how much damage a spell should do, mana cost and how long the player should wait to do it again. Or deciding on the tweaking of a units animation speed to coincide with the crea

how to balance my time for study, research, TA, community service and workouts? I am a rising sophomore at one of the most competitive schools in the nation, and I hope to go to medical school in the future. I sort of lost focus in the second semester of my freshman year. I fell for a girl who wasn't that into me, could not concentrate as well as I did in the first semester, and had a terrible roommate situation, and so on. Next semester, I will resist all sorts of temptation and just focus on my work. I will put social life aside. I plan on doing many things: studying my butt off, getting involved in an undergrad research project, being a TA for general chem, becoming a member of this student organization called Community Health Advocacy Program, and working out, which is like my only way of dealing with stress. These are things I want to and must do. However, I am not so sure if i am capable of balancing out my time for all of those activities. The life of a pre-med is indeed tough. Please give me some tips on how to distribute/manage my time.

What are the correct Listen & Win as well as trivia answers for US 99.5 for Monday June 23,2008? Spiral Frog Trivia 1,000,000 songs & videos for you at Spiral Frog! For 2500 Points: Click on News. Under Music News there are 3 choices: Main, Story Archives and WHAT? - Today In Music http://www.spiralfrog.com/pages/news.aspx?type=home Yahoo HotJobs Trivia Escape to Tahiti sweepstakes by Yahoo HotJobs: For 2500 Points - Under Avoid Burnout, who wrote the article? - Tom Musbach The slowdown in the U.S. economy is threatening a necessity for workers: vacations. According to the annual Yahoo! HotJobs vacation survey, 51% of respondents said they plan to skip taking a vacation this year, opting to save money instead. "Vacations are usually the first thing to go when people feel job or economic pressure," says Joe Robinson, a trainer in work-life balance and author of "Work to Live." He continues, "We're programmed to believe that free time is worthless, a frill to shove aside, but vacations are as important as watching your cholesterol or getting exercise." Skipping a vacation can also be bad for your employer. Milo and Thuy Sindell, founders of Hit the Ground Running and authors of "Job Spa," say, "You are not helpful to the company and your coworkers when you are not operating at full capacity. Vacations help you to get rejuvenated to come back to work at full capacity." For those tempted to skip vacation this year due to financial worries, experts recommend the following tips: Remind yourself: Vacation is not a luxury. "You owe it to yourself, your family, and your company to take care of yourself by stepping out of the office for at least a few days at a time," says Liz Bywater, president of the Bywater Consulting Group, which helps improve organizational performance. Put aside some funds each week. "Even $50 a week [or less] can add up and make your trip happen," says Robinson. Plan leisure activities near home. "Stay at home and read, garden, hike, jog, bike, or whatever you like to do but never have enough time for during the weekends," say the Sindells. "Or be a tourist in your own city." Try home-swapping. You can swap with someone you know in another city, or use an online service, such as homexchange.com or even vrbo.com (Vacation Rentals by Owner). "It can have the look and feel of a vacation at a much more affordable housing cost than paying for hotel or resort lodging," says Michael Haubrich, president of Financial Service Group and an expert in financial planning for career issues. Keep the itinerary simple. Travel columnist Donald D. Groff recommends selecting a destination within 200 miles (a three-hour drive) from your home. If you're traveling by plane, fly nonstop whenever possible. "The sooner you get to your destination, the sooner your relaxation begins," Groff says. The economic downturn is also adding to workers' stress levels. Nearly a third of the respondents (31%) are worried by how the economy is affecting their workplaces, and 34% said they feel pressure to improve their performance for fear of being laid off. With 55% of respondents admitted to being "burned out" by work, stress and fatigue add another threat to vacations. Experts say you can prevent the threat in the following ways: Start small. "Start with an afternoon off to do something you really enjoy, even if it's just a walk at the beach or a visit to a farmer's market," says Beth A. Levin, author of "Making a Richer, More Fulfilling Life a Reality." If planning is a burden, don't. "Instead of planning a vacation, just take time off to be at home and figure it out each day as you go," the Sindells suggest. Enlist back-up support. Ask a trusted coworker to back you up while you're away and offer to return the favor, Bywater suggests. "It's much easier to relax when you know someone's got you covered." Choose according to what you need. You may need a peaceful retreat from stress, or you may benefit from something more active and exciting. "Avoid the kind of vacation that will leave you even more exhausted than before," she adds. Give yourself a deadline. "Stop thinking about it and just do it," says Bywater. "Think of it as 'doctor's orders.'" http://hotjobs.promotions.yahoo.com/tahiti/article.html Surveys For Monday June 23,2008 - Recently, David Faustino (Bud Bundy from TV's Married With Children) was asked via e-mail to autograph a copy of his own police report by a fan. Faustino said he would under the condition that it would cost the fan$500 which Faustino would give to his favorite charity. 1. Do you think there is a certain line that should not be crossed when asking a celebrity for an autograph or should it be an anything goes type of request? Fans should show a little respect to celebrities when asking for autographs. Fans should be able to ask a celebrity to sign anything at anytime. That's why they made the big bucks! Surbeys For Monday June 23,2008 (continued Part 2) - Fabulous Films Ever watch a fabulous film where a main character's job was one that you wish that you had? Maybe the character (s) is a writer, a lawyer, a fireman, an astronaut, or even the captain of a spaceship. 1. Of the below occupations that a movie character had in a fabulous film, which of their jobs do you wish you had most? Hans Solo's job as the Captain of the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars. Woodward and Bernstein's jobs as Washington Post journalists on the verge of cracking the Watergate scandal in All The President's Men. Newbie fireman Jack Morrison in Ladder 49 One of the Mercury 7 astronauts as depicted in the 1983 movie, The Right Stuff. The young lawyer, Rudy Baylor, taking on a big insurance company case in The Rainmaker. Champions Baseball legend, Joe Jackson is better known with his nickname attached: "Shoeless" Joe Jackson. Even though his career was cut short, due to the "Black Sox" 1919 World Series scandal, he currently holds the third highest career batting average. Who gave Joe his nickname? (Enter in the LETTER of the corresponding answer) - a)A fan,Country Music Trivia As a child, George Strait was influenced by and listened to: (Enter in the LETTER of the corresponding answer) - a)British Invasion rock groups,Extraordinary The Homestead Act was a federal law signed in 1862 by President Lincoln intended to populate the American West with farmers by providing the transfer of 160 acres of public land to each homesteader. How much did each acre of land cost? (Enter in the LETTER of the corresponding answer) - a)$1.25 Famous Firsts In 1903, the Baltimore Orioles were bought and moved to Manhattan where they played as the New York Highlanders. In what year were the Highlanders were renamed and first called the Yankees? (Enter in the LETTER of the corresponding answer) - b)1913,Villains of the Silver Screen 1987's Fatal Attraction gave men another good reason not to give into temptation and cheat on their wives after the psychotic and vengeful Alex Forrest stalks Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) and boils the family rabbit. Glen Close's, Alex, helped make it the second highest grossing movie of 1987. What was the first?(Enter in the LETTER of the corresponding answer) - b)Three Men and a Baby Taylor Swift Code Listen to Bill Garcia each week night at approximately 8:45 p.m. for the Taylor Swift Code Word of the Day. Enter it here to win 25,000 points - tied Together With A Smile Previous Trivia Answers For Sunday June 22,2008 - Champions Previous Answer: b) The Hammer FYI: At six feet, one inch tall and weighing 185lbs, Schultz fit right in with the classic enforcers gang on the Flyers, known as the "Broad Street Bullies.",Country Music Trivia Previous Answer: A Victim of Life's Circumstances,Extraordinary Previous Answer: c) Clorox FYI: The two components are perborate and silicate.,Famous Firsts Previous Answer: b) Zone Improvement Plan FYI: The ZIP code is the U.S.'s version of the postal code that was first used in Germany in 1941.,Villains of the Silver Screen Previous Answer: c) wire hangers FYI: Crawford screams in the movie, " No more wire hangers, ever!" Previous trivia answers for Sunday June 22,2008(continued) - Dave Schultz (ice hockey) David Schultz (born October 14, 1949 in Waldheim, Saskatchewan) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. Playing career Schultz earned the nickname "The Hammer" for his aggressive style of hockey. He was one of the most notable enforcers on the Philadelphia Flyers' infamous "Broad Street Bullies". After winning two Stanley Cups with the Flyers (1973–74 and 1974–75). "The Hammer" drifted through several teams (Pittsburgh Penguins, Los Angeles Kings and Buffalo Sabres), looking for a permanent position. When different GMs tried to find some "muscle" for their fledging clubs, his was a popular number to call. Schultz was not just an enforcer in the traditional sense, in that he scored 20 goals for Philadelphia in 1973–74. He also scored the series-clinching goal in overtime in the first round of the 1974 Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Atlanta Flames. Personal anecdotes Towards the end of Tim Horton's career — and life, it soon turned out — Schultz attempted, at age 24, to pick a fight with the 44-year-old Horton, who was considerably smaller (5'10" and 190 pounds) and known for a more gentlemanly style of enforcing (he never got more than 150 penalty minutes in a season his entire career, even though he was famous for powerful hits). Horton initially refused to fight, but eventually accepted after repeated confrontations, where he defeated the younger and stronger man handily by throwing him to the ice and sitting on him until the referee ended the fight. Derek Sanderson had recently bitten Horton after receiving a crushing bear hug. After injuring his wrist in a fight, Schultz once put boxing wraps on his hands for protection. As things usually went, Dave had several fights in ensuing games, while wearing the wraps. 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What can colleges do better to assist nontraditional college students? I am a nontraditional college student, and the first in my family to go to college, so all of this is new to me. My college has not been very helpful at all in providing me with information about course work that will lead up to graduating with a degree in my major, financial aid, scholarship/grant opportunities, study habits, balancing work/school/kids/life, refresher courses, etc. In fact, I have seen 5 counselors there, so far, and 3 of them told me that there was basically no chance in hell that I would ever make it through school and graduate in my major -- and I know it was because of my age! My grades are fantastic. But at every turn, it seems like they are trying to convince me that I CAN'T do this. They keep trying to discourage me, and get me to enroll in one of their "certificate" tech programs, which I DO NOT want to do! Anyone go to a college or university where they "do it right" for the nontraditional students? Which school is it, and what do they do different?

How do you balance parenthood, college, and work all at the same time? I'm freaking out. I'm pregnant with my 2nd child. The first one was unplanned, but I didn't have nearly as much going on in my life. Now, it was also unplanned, but not entirely my fault. I have a lot going on, I'm in college, I'm supposed to start my program this fall, I've been going to school and working 6 days a week for 1 1/2 years. It's been working out but the new addition is going to "complicate" things. Any ideas on how I can be Super Woman and Super Mommy all at once?

Loan Forgiveness Program - Is it too late? I earned my MA English in 2003, teaching for a large university in an adjunct position. Now, with my student loan balance, I want to take advantage of the Public Service Jobs and qualify for Loan Forgiveness (new program under Obama) which includes teachers. I am now 64 years old, work full time, have no intention of retiring until 69 or 70 years of age. I'm completely discouraged by the teaching profession, given the number of layoffs and lack of funding in education for 2010-2011. I can't help wonder if its even worth trying to get back into education. Still, I want to pay off my student loan and take advantage of the Loan Forgiveness Program. I've worked my entire life so have social security and a 401K.

Will Weight Watchers Work For Me? I'm a 16 year old girl and I want to lose 10-15 pounds. I already have a fairly healthy lifestyle--I work out (run 3 times a week, strength train twice a week) and I eat healthy for the MOST PART. The parts that I fail in is not working out sometimes, and not being able to turn down that food temptation. But I basically eat 1300-1800 calories a day (before Weight Watchers). My Weight Watchers daily points value is 20 (along with my extra 35 weekly points allowance). If I follow my points balance, will I SOON lose 10-15 pounds? And should I not use my weekly points allowance for faster/more effective weight loss? Because, basically, when I follow my Weight Watchers program, I'm not changing THAT much up from my daily life--is that OK and will these changes still make this program work for me?

How can you do really well in university? and still have fun? Im a university student and didnt do too well in first year, im really focused on my studies now but i dont want to let 4 years go by without enjoying my time in university. My program is EXTREMELY tough, i wanna have a balanced life style but don't know how to make it work..any ideas?

Why is leisure /recreational therapy so important? I am trying to set up a leisure program for the mrdd population. I need to explain to my board of directors why it is important for this to happen for the clients I serve. I already know that self care, work, and leisure are what makes up a persons well balanced life, but how do I explain the importance of this so my clients can benefit?

A question for Police Officers/ Game Wardens...? Any regrets on entering the field?Can you balance job/family? How hard would it be to be a good father/ game warden, specifically? I'm starting towards an Associates in Park Management and Law Enforcement, and was wondering if I'll be wasting my time? I know its very hard to becomea Warden, so I was wondering how fulfilling the job was, and how easy/ hard it is to balance with a family life? Harder/ easier than hospital work, in your estimation (also been accepted to a Respiratory Therapy program). ANY help GREATLY appreciated. =)

Do you think this would work? Got this from another yahoo answer, just wondering if this is true? your opinion please. •DAY ONE All fruits except bananas. Your first day will consists of all fruits you want. It is suggested you consume lots of watermelon and cantaloupe. DAY TWO All vegetables. You are encouraged to eat until you are stuffed with all the new and cooked vegetables of your choice. There is no limit on the account or type. Avoid oil and coconut while cooking vegetables. Have large boiled potato for breakfast. DAY THREE Any mixture of fruits and vegetables of your choice. Any amount, any quantity. No bananas yet and no potatoes today. DAY FOUR Bananas and milk. Today you will eat as many as eight bananas and drink three glasses of milk. You can also have one bowl of vegetables soup. DAY FIVE Today is a feast day. You will eat 1 (one) cup of rice. You also have to eat 6 (six) whole tomatoes and drink 12 (twelve) glasses of water today to cleanse your system of the excess uric acid you will be producing. DAY SIX Today is another all vegetables day. You must eat 1 cup of rice today and eat all the vegetables you want cooked and uncooked to your heart's content. DAY SEVEN Today your food intake will consist of 1 cup rice, fruit juice and all the vegetables you care to consume. Tomorrow morning you will be five to eight kilograms lighter than 1 week ago. If you desire further weight loss, repeat the program again. Repeat the program as often as you like, however, it is suggested that you rest for three days before every repetition. You have your system under control now and it will thank you for all the purging and cleansing you just gave it. Even more than a diet program it is good to follow this diet once in a while to clean your digestive system and remove toxic substances that have a accumulated in the system. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS The most important element of the program is the 10 (ten) tall glasses of water a day. You can also flavour the water will some lemon to make the drink easier. While on the program, take only black coffee and never more than one teaspoon of oil. Preferably do not use oil because the high calorific content. No fruit juices before day seven. Here is what happens to you body while you are on this program and how and why it works. Day 1: You are preparing your system for the upcoming program. Your only source of nutrition is fresh fruits. Fruits are nature's perfect food. They provide everything you can possibly want to sustain life except total balance and variety. Day 2: Starts with a fix complex carbohydrates in the form of a boiled potato. This is taken in the form of a boiled potato and taken in the morning to provide energy and balance. The rest of the day too consists of vegetables which are virtually calories free and provide essential nutrients and fibre. Day 3: Eliminates the potato because you get your carbohydrates from fruits. Your system is now prepared to start burning excess pounds. You will have cravings, which

I feel like wont an addiction free life more than my wife please help!!? My wife is working on overcoming a sleeping pill addiction need advise. I told her that I wonted a divorce that I could no longer live with the lye and deception. She told me she would do anything to keep me. I told her I wonted her to go to a 30day rehab program she agreed. We set up a meeting with her therapist for later that day. The therapist did not think that she would qualify because she was not currently using and that her problem was not to that level. I said the I would like her to do an out patient program and make some big life changes and relay work on this addiction problem. She said she should start going to 12 steps AA meeting. So my wife stated this she has been going for two weeks 3 meeting a week I wonted her to do 90-90 but after the next therapy session with her therapist she said that in our rural are it is nearly imposable to go to that many meeting that 3 meeting a week would problem be enough. She also thinks that I am trying to hard that I just need to back of my wife and let her do what she feels she needs to do. I wont this to be the most important thing she has ever done I don’t feel that we can get on with our life until this is delt with. I don’t wont to be with her if I cant trust. I feel that is the bases for a successful marriage. Her therapist thinks I am way off the mark and she has been telling my wife that I am to involve in the process and need to back off. I think that the therapist treatment isn’t the most beneficial for the process (she is using unconditional positive regard) due to the relapse that my wife has had. How do I deal with? Is it OK to question what she is doing? I don’t feel that my wife is giving it her all. How do I find the balance of pushing to get results and giving up and walking away? Have you ever been hear? What are your experiences? I am frustrated, confused and tired any advice would be nice During this time she has been going to the same concaler, I have had regular conversation with this therapist about what has been going on. In December when she was abusing the pain killer I wonted to send her to a 30 day rehab program but she did not agree for 2 reasons because all the pills were gone, and because she didn’t feel that it was that big of a problem “just a little slip up”. In the process of this recovery my wife has made me a list of thing she would do to improve our life and get it back on track on of witch would be to finish her resume and apply for a few jobs (She is currently work as a privet preschool teacher but with no benefits so I would like her to get a public school job). Well she fished her resume and cover letter and sent it to my sister in-law to correct and it was all stolen off the net. This was the last straw for me I confronted her about it and she showed her who she had copied it from on the internet she still denned that she had copied it. in december she o/d

does this diet work !? and if so. how much weight do you think ill lose while one it. and also doing an hour of cardio a day.. YOU MUST ABSTAIN FROM ALL ALCOHOL. YOU MUST DRINK 10 GLASSES OF WATER EACH DAY DAY ONE - All fruits except bananas. Your first day will consist of all the fruits you want. It is strongly suggested that you consume lots of melons on the first day. Especially watermelon and cantaloupe. If you limit your fruit consumption to melons, your chances of losing a lot of weight on the first day are very good. DAY TWO - All vegetables. You are encouraged to eat until you are stuffed with all the raw or cooked vegetables of your choice. There is no limit on the amount or type. For your complex carbohydrate, you will start day two with a large boiled potato for breakfast. You may top the potato with one pat of butter. DAY THREE - A mixture of fruits and vegetables of your choice. Any amount, any quantity. No bananas yet. No potatoes today. DAY FOUR - Bananas and milk. Today you eat as many as eight bananas and drink three glasses of milk. This will be combined with the vegetable soup, which may be eaten in limited quantities. DAY FIVE - Today is a feast day. You will eat sprouts and paneer and tomatoes. Eat 280 grams of sprouts and paneer. Combine this with six whole tomatoes. On day five you must increase your water intake by one quart. This is to cleanse your system of the uric acid you will be producing. DAY SIX - Sprouts and paneer and vegetables. Today you may eat an unlimited amount of sprouts and paneer and vegetables. Eat to your heart’s content. DAY SEVEN - Today your food intake will consist of brown rice, fruit juices and all the vegetables you care to consume. Vegetables can be taken in the form of salad if desired. No dressing except malt, white vinegar, squeezed lemon, garlic and herbs. No more than one teaspoon of oil. Do keep way from beans (Lima, Pinto, kidney.) because they tend to be high in calories even though they are very good for you. BEVERAGES YOU MAY CONSUME WHILE ON THE PROGRAMME. Water flavored with lemon or lime if desired. Club soda Black coffee, No cream or cream substitute, No sugar or sweeteners. Black tea. No fruit juices before Day 7. HOW AND WHY IT WORKS. DAY ONE - You are preparing your system for the upcoming program. Your only source of nutrition is fresh or canned fruits. Fruits are nature’s perfect food. They provide everything that you could possibly want to sustain life except total balance and variety. DAY TWO - It starts with a fix of complex carbohydrates coupled with an oil does. This taken in the morning for energy and balance. The rest of Day 2 consists of vegetables, which are virtually calorie free and provide essential nutrients and fiber. DAY THREE - Day 3 eliminates the potato because you are getting your calories from the fruits. Your system is now prepared to start burning the excess pounds. You will still get cravings, which will diminish by Day 4. DAY FOUR - Bananas, milk and soup sound like the least desirable and strangest diet. You are in for a surprise. You will probably not eat all the bananas that you are allowed. But they are there for the potassium you will have lost and the Sodium that you may have missed during the last 3 days. You will notice a definite loss of desire for sweets. You will be surprised how easily this day will go. DAY FIVE - Sprouts and tomatoes. The sprouts are for iron and protein. The tomatoes are for digestion and fiber. Lots and lots of water purity your system. You should notice colorless urine today. You must eat 6 tomatoes. DAY SIX - Day 6 is similar to Day 5. Iron and proteins from sprouts, vitamins and fiber iron vegetables. By now your system is a total weight loss inclination. There should be a noticeable difference in the way you look from Day 1. DAY SEVEN - Day 7 finishes of the program like a good cigar used to finish of the Victorian meal. Except it is much healthier. You have your system under control and it should thank you for the flushing and cleaning you just gave it.

Have I wasted my life at home (good teen years)? I went to college in a program at age 16 and am still there at age 19. I did Running Start, where at junior in high school you can take freshmen year of college classes and graduate with a four year degree two years early. So at least I have that. I got into some trouble along the way because I was always at home. Family got in my face, and had some fights that cannot be taken back. I have some phone #s in my high school year book, I will call them in the next few days here. I cannot take it anymore, mainly because I'm getting older and its unhealthy. I always sit in my room and watch tv religiously. Don't take to people. I admit it, I'm a loner. I've realized time goes and life will suck if don't have fun now before I have to go to university then work a REAL career. Time doesn't care, it ticks, ticks. I spent all day today at home today watching repeat news on tv while my mother was at work and thought, "man, this sucks!" I'm not a total loser, I talk at school with people. But no times things were really crazy, with no rules, like off the record stuff like hanging out or doing something. No gf either. This might be more common, i dont know. I'm thinking about it. Seems like the times were empty. Only thoughts of horrible school work and dark days. I've heard there's no real formula to get friends, or such thing. It just happens. But it doesn't happen, like other than just talking. I saw somebody else mention this on yahoo as well. What is your opinion? I feel I have a real opportunity to turn it around here, but I know I must do something and am the only one. I'm a cool dude, smart. It's not like I'm a nerd or anything. I also work a job like hell. I failed a class last quarter, mainly because I think I lack a "balance" in life. I was burned out, and CHEATED on tests. Things gotta turn around. 2 minutes ago - 4 days left to answer. Additional Details Like, for say, tomorrow, we are going to meet some family friends and have tons of dinner, food. But I only do family things. THE ONE EXCEPTION is when I recently went to southern California for spring break (beach and all, bike riding). But even then I was with my grandfather the whole time and his old friends.

Q1. Rewards offered to labors involved in production, are categorized as;? Q1. Rewards offered to labors involved in production, are categorized as; A. Salary B. Fringe benefits C. Wage D. Commission Q2. The goal of pre-retirement educational programs is to; A. Improve job satisfaction B. Increase employee commitment C. Minimize medical claims from retirees D. Ease the transition from working life to retirement Q3. Organizations put maximum effort in measuring performance of organizational people because; A. It makes procedures cost effective B. It helps in detecting the problems C. It leads to product innovation D. It assists in implementing new technology Q4. Willingness, capacity & opportunity to perform are said to be; A. Performance outcomes B. Determinants of performance C. Performance appraisals D. Types of performance standards Q5. One of the major barriers to career advancement experiencing by working ladies is; A. Difficulty in balancing work and family life B. Top management is usually male oriented C. Lack of educational opportunities D. Common perception that woman can not be better boss Q6. Alternative work arrangements include all of the following EXCEPT; A. Part-time work B. Flexible hours C. On-site child care D. Job sharing Q7. Mr. Ahmed is a cashier and he feels dissatisfied at work. What best justifies this situation? A. His job may not be structured to suit his preferences B. It involves physical toughness C. It requires mental toughness D. It involves too much customer interaction

Can someone please advise me on this? I am really having a difficult time making this life changing decision.? When I was 20 my wife(g/f at the time) and I foudn out we were having a baby. We quickly jumped into an accelerated college program (i went for business and she went for accounting) to make sure we would be able to provide for our son and be very wealthy. During the last 3 years I was working a job m-f 7:00 am- 2:30p.m and also work 4 hours saturday and 4 hours sunday. I would go to school two days a week from 5-9:30 at night and either take a saturday class or an online class. Well I got really used to the schedule and having time. I would get home on days I didn't have school spend a few hours with my son then go to the gym with my friends and my brother for 2 hours and then come home most days to spend time with my family and other times go to my friends house and just hang out a little. A perfect balance right? Well I graduated in December and a friend from school who like my work at school was actually pretty high up in a fortune 300 company and he was able to get me a supervisor job that I started early February. Since I have started the job I have been miserable. My thoughts are very depressed. I can not help but to think how short life is and how life is going to fly by. I don't think in days I only think in years. Things I used to enjoy doing I do not get the same enjoyment or I feel I don't have the time to balance those things. The hours are 3:30 in the morning till about 4:40 or sometimes to 6:00 at night. Other hours I work are 4:45 to 3:30(which isn't that horrible) and currently I am working 3:00p.m. to 1 or 2 a.m. I will be 24 years old at the end of next month and I feel so trapped. I have been thinking about going back to school to get a Secondary Education Degree in Matematics( which is what I went to college for when i was 18 but dropped out because I was still dealing with issues from my moms deatht he past year). My wife wants to go to school to teach younger kids as well. Since we both already have bachelor's degrees it will take only 2 years maximum to get the education degrees. I am scared to take this chance because I do get paid pretty well( just under 50k) fresh out of college and I will get two nice raises int he first year and I am not sure if the economy will have any teaching jobs open for me when I graduate. I would work while going to school but teaching programs do not have night school. I feel that I may be also too old to make this change. One benefit I might have is that the Department Head of math, the vice principal, and a teacher of over 18 years in the math department at my old highs chool all said they would put their names on the line to get me a job and that math teachers are always needed. I am sure I would have the balance of time and decent pay again when i get a math teaching job. Where I am from in Illinois , math teachers start out about 45k. I really want to be happy again and enjoy life but also be able to enjoy what I do and provide for my son. By the way we live with my wifes parents. So my bills are cell phone($130/month), car insurance on two cars($150/month), which I would bring down to one car if we went to school, rent ( $250/month), cable t.v. which I cna cancel and a gym membership I can cancel. All other bills are just food and gas and entertainment. Please give me some advice. All I hear all the time is how lucky i am to have a job and that gets really frustrating being how miserable I am. I do not have insurance yet for another month so I can't see a therapist yet either. For the comment about walking in poor people shoes. Since my parents split when I was 14 and mom died at 17 I have lived in my car for months and slept in tents during the summer even while working and going to school full time which makes this decision even tougher now that I actually have money.

Which master's program shall I pursue? I have a BS in Engineering and I am a stay home mom currently. With the time that I have right now I want to get a masters degree. I want to get a degree in something that will enable me to work from home or get a part-time and well paid job, basically something that I can balance with my personal life (not a regular 9-5 job!)

plzzzz i need help !!!!!!!!!!!? Matching IDENTIFYING KEY TERMS, PEOPLE, AND PLACES For items 1-6, match each term with its description below. Type the letter of your answer choice in the box below each description. *You will NOT use all the terms. a. coalition b. revenue c. Tennessee Valley Authority d. New Deal e. national debt f. public works program g. Wagner Act h. demagogues i. Social Security system j. American Liberty League 1. government-funded projects to build public facilities (1 point) 2. project that helped farmers and created jobs by reactivating a hydroelectric power facility (1 point) 3. legislation that allowed collective bargaining and set up a National Labor Relations Board (1 point) 4. group that spearheaded much of the opposition to the New Deal (1 point) 5. the total amount of borrowed money the federal government has yet to pay back (1 point) 6. an alliance of groups with similar goals (1 point) Multiple Choice Choose the item that best completes the statement or answers the question. IDENTIFYING MAIN IDEAS 7. How did life change for American women in the 1920s? (1 point) Many women felt freer to experiment with bolder styles and manners. Married women found it much easier to balance careers and family life. Most women grew long hair and stopped using makeup. Women began to dominate the work force, often taking leadership positions. 8. The growth of radio and other mass media in the 1920s produced (1 point) a national culture. a book-selling boom. superb jazz musicians. new ways of looking at local events. 9. The Red Scare was a response to (1 point) Prohibition. the Teapot Dome scandal. the Russian Revolution. the Kellogg-Briand Pact. 10. Many Americans believed that Sacco and Vanzetti were executed because they were (1 point) subversives trying to overthrow the government. Communist agitators who helped organize strikes. responsible for setting off bombs that damaged A. Mitchell Palmer’s home. immigrants with radical beliefs during the Red Scare. 11. When Hoover took office in 1929, most Americans expected (1 point) to become millionaires. a depression or some other disaster. more bank failures. prosperity to continue. 12. One sign that the economy might be weakening in the 1920s was (1 point) uneven distribution of national wealth. underproduction of consumer goods. an increase in personal savings. the collapse of large corporations. 13. Which of the following was a sign of an unsound economy during the 1920s? (1 point) Personal debt was decreasing. Wages were keeping pace with production. More goods were being produced than consumers could buy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was steady. 14. What symbol of business in the 1920s became labor’s prime enemy in the 1930s? (1 point) Will Rogers Calvin Coolidge Henry Ford Babe Ruth 15. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation aimed to (1 point) create a national bank. provide government credit to banks. give loans to war veterans. build houses for the homeless.

history help please?! :D? For items 1-6, match each term with its description below. Type the letter of your answer choice in the box below each description. *You will NOT use all the terms. a. coalition b. revenue c. Tennessee Valley Authority d. New Deal e. national debt f. public works program g. Wagner Act h. demagogues i. Social Security system j. American Liberty League 1. government-funded projects to build public facilities (1 point) 2. project that helped farmers and created jobs by reactivating a hydroelectric power facility (1 point) 3. legislation that allowed collective bargaining and set up a National Labor Relations Board (1 point) 4. group that spearheaded much of the opposition to the New Deal (1 point) 5. the total amount of borrowed money the federal government has yet to pay back (1 point) 6. an alliance of groups with similar goals (1 point) Multiple Choice Choose the item that best completes the statement or answers the question. IDENTIFYING MAIN IDEAS 7. How did life change for American women in the 1920s? (1 point) Many women felt freer to experiment with bolder styles and manners. Married women found it much easier to balance careers and family life. Most women grew long hair and stopped using makeup. Women began to dominate the work force, often taking leadership positions. 8. The growth of radio and other mass media in the 1920s produced (1 point) a national culture. a book-selling boom. superb jazz musicians. new ways of looking at local events. 9. The Red Scare was a response to (1 point) Prohibition. the Teapot Dome scandal. the Russian Revolution. the Kellogg-Briand Pact. 10. Many Americans believed that Sacco and Vanzetti were executed because they were (1 point) subversives trying to overthrow the government. Communist agitators who helped organize strikes. responsible for setting off bombs that damaged A. Mitchell Palmer’s home. immigrants with radical beliefs during the Red Scare. 11. When Hoover took office in 1929, most Americans expected (1 point) to become millionaires. a depression or some other disaster. more bank failures. prosperity to continue. 12. One sign that the economy might be weakening in the 1920s was (1 point) uneven distribution of national wealth. underproduction of consumer goods. an increase in personal savings. the collapse of large corporations. 13. Which of the following was a sign of an unsound economy during the 1920s? (1 point) Personal debt was decreasing. Wages were keeping pace with production. More goods were being produced than consumers could buy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was steady. 14. What symbol of business in the 1920s became labor’s prime enemy in the 1930s? (1 point) Will Rogers Calvin Coolidge Henry Ford Babe Ruth 15. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation aimed to (1 point) create a national bank. provide government credit to banks. give loans to war veterans. build houses for the homeless. 16. Recognizing Ideologies Why did so many Americans fear the spread of Communist ideology? (5 points)

i need help plz help me out :(? IDENTIFYING KEY TERMS, PEOPLE, AND PLACES For items 1-6, match each term with its description below. Type the letter of your answer choice in the box below each description. *You will NOT use all the terms. a. coalition b. revenue c. Tennessee Valley Authority d. New Deal e. national debt f. public works program g. Wagner Act h. demagogues i. Social Security system j. American Liberty League 1. government-funded projects to build public facilities (1 point) 2. project that helped farmers and created jobs by reactivating a hydroelectric power facility (1 point) 3. legislation that allowed collective bargaining and set up a National Labor Relations Board (1 point) 4. group that spearheaded much of the opposition to the New Deal (1 point) 5. the total amount of borrowed money the federal government has yet to pay back (1 point) 6. an alliance of groups with similar goals (1 point) Multiple Choice Choose the item that best completes the statement or answers the question. IDENTIFYING MAIN IDEAS 7. How did life change for American women in the 1920s? (1 point) Many women felt freer to experiment with bolder styles and manners. Married women found it much easier to balance careers and family life. Most women grew long hair and stopped using makeup. Women began to dominate the work force, often taking leadership positions. 8. The growth of radio and other mass media in the 1920s produced (1 point) a national culture. a book-selling boom. superb jazz musicians. new ways of looking at local events. 9. The Red Scare was a response to (1 point) Prohibition. the Teapot Dome scandal. the Russian Revolution. the Kellogg-Briand Pact. 10. Many Americans believed that Sacco and Vanzetti were executed because they were (1 point) subversives trying to overthrow the government. Communist agitators who helped organize strikes. responsible for setting off bombs that damaged A. Mitchell Palmer’s home. immigrants with radical beliefs during the Red Scare. 11. When Hoover took office in 1929, most Americans expected (1 point) to become millionaires. a depression or some other disaster. more bank failures. prosperity to continue. 12. One sign that the economy might be weakening in the 1920s was (1 point) uneven distribution of national wealth. underproduction of consumer goods. an increase in personal savings. the collapse of large corporations. 13. Which of the following was a sign of an unsound economy during the 1920s? (1 point) Personal debt was decreasing. Wages were keeping pace with production. More goods were being produced than consumers could buy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was steady. 14. What symbol of business in the 1920s became labor’s prime enemy in the 1930s? (1 point) Will Rogers Calvin Coolidge Henry Ford Babe Ruth 15. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation aimed to (1 point) create a national bank. provide government credit to banks. give loans to war veterans. build houses for the homeless.

Is this an ok cover letter? Name Address Telephone 13th February 2010 To Whom It May Concern Sanity Retail Personnel Manager ( i actually dont know about this, im just guessing, would that be right? because it doesnt say on the site) Address Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to apply for a position of Casual Retail Staff member at Sanity. I would be well suited for this position as I find working with customers and different people exciting and rewarding. I am currently studying in Year 11 at Saint Ignatius' College. As you will see in my resume, I am able to read and speak different languages which help me to communicate with people from different backgrounds better. Furthermore, I am able to work with others of different ages, gender, race, religion and political beliefs. This was demonstrated when I began work experience, meeting the staff at Springbank Discount Pharmacy for the very first time. I have the ability to balance my work, home life and leisure activities, having enough time for each. This includes having the ability to work on weekends and during extended trading hours. I can use mathematics to solve problems individually and in groups. I have a range of basic IT skills to process my assignments and letters on, including software programs like Microsoft Word. In addition, I have great enthusiasm for ongoing learning and acknowledging the need to learn in order to accommodate change. I believe I am a candidate for a Casual Retail Staff member because of my skills stated above. I have the confidence and can offer dedication, enthusiasm and commitment during tough and difficult situations. I am willing to work for Sanity as it will help me to gain new skills and experience. In return, I can offer you great customer service assistance and help your company to continue being an organisation customers love to shop in. Thank you for considering my application. I look forward to talking to you further and can be contacted after (time) on weekdays by phoning (number). Yours Sincerely, Name So, is that ok?? BTW they didnt advertised a position. On their website they just tell you how to apply, but i want to work as casual so is writing "Casual Retail Staff member" ok even though they didnt advertise it?? Thankyou so much guys!

14, 5'2, 116 POUNDS I NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT! WILL THIS HELP? I used to be a healthy 106, But then I started gaining weight and I started looking pudgy at 110, But I didn't stop overreating, now I weigh 116 pounds and I need to drop it before I lose my mind. Please help me!!!!! Do you think this diet plan would work? Diet Program To Lose Calories I have found This Diet Program , that is designed to flush your system of impurities and give you a feeling of well being. It will improve your emotions because of its cleansing effects. After 7 days you will begin to feel lighter because you will be lighter The effectiveness of this seven day plan is that the food eaten burns more calories than they give to the body in caloric value, but is completely nutritional and gives all vitamins, elements, etc. as required. This plan can be used as often as u like however it is suggested that you rest for a week between each repetition. YOU MUST ABSTAIN FROM ALL ALCOHOL. YOU MUST DRINK 10 GLASSES OF WATER EACH DAY DAY ONE - All fruits except bananas. Your first day will consist of all the fruits you want. It is strongly suggested that you consume lots of melons on the first day. Especially watermelon . If you limit your fruit consumption to melons, your chances of losing a lot of weight on the first day are very good. DAY TWO - All vegetables. You are encouraged to eat until you are stuffed with all the raw or cooked vegetables of your choice. There is no limit on the amount or type. For your complex carbohydrate, you will start day two with a large boiled potato for breakfast. You may top the potato with one pat of butter. DAY THREE - A mixture of fruits and vegetables of your choice. Any amount, any quantity. No bananas yet. No potatoes today. DAY FOUR - Bananas and milk. Today you eat as many as eight bananas and drink three glasses of milk. This will be combined with the vegetable soup, which may be eaten in limited quantities. DAY FIVE - Today is a feast day. You will eat sprouts and paneer and tomatoes. Eat 280 grams of sprouts and paneer. Combine this with six whole tomatoes. On day five you must increase your water intake by one quart. This is to cleanse your system of the uric acid you will be producing. DAY SIX - Sprouts and paneer and vegetables. Today you may eat an unlimited amount of sprouts and paneer and vegetables. Eat to your heart’s content. DAY SEVEN - Today your food intake will consist of brown rice, fruit juices and all the vegetables you care to consume. Vegetables can be taken in the form of salad if desired. No dressing except malt, white vinegar, squeezed lemon, garlic and herbs. No more than one teaspoon of oil. Do keep way from beans (Lima, Pinto, kidney.) because they tend to be high in calories even though they are very good for you. BEVERAGES YOU MAY CONSUME WHILE ON THE PROGRAMME Water flavored with lemon or lime if desired. Plain soda Black coffee, No cream or cream substitute, No sugar or sweeteners. Black tea. No fruit juices before Day 7. HOW AND WHY IT WORKS DAY ONE - You are preparing your system for the upcoming program. Your only source of nutrition is fresh fruits. Fruits are nature’s perfect food. They provide everything that you could possibly want to sustain life except total balance and variety. DAY TWO - It starts with a fix of complex carbohydrates coupled with an oil does. This taken in the morning for energy and balance. The rest of Day 2 consists of vegetables, which are virtually calorie free and provide essential nutrients and fiber. DAY THREE - Day 3 eliminates the potato because you are getting your calories from the fruits. Your system is now prepared to start burning the excess pounds. You will still get cravings, which will diminish by Day 4. DAY FOUR - Bananas, milk and soup sound like the least desirable and strangest diet. You are in for a surprise. You will probably not eat all the bananas that you are allowed. But they are there for the potassium you will have lost and the Sodium that you may have missed during the last 3 days. You will notice a definite loss of desire for sweets. You will be surprised how easily this day will go. DAY FIVE - Sprouts and tomatoes. The sprouts are for iron and protein. The tomatoes are for digestion and fiber. Lots and lots of water purity your system. You should notice colorless urine today. You must eat 6 tomatoes. DAY SIX - Day 6 is similar to Day 5. Iron and proteins from sprouts, vitamins and fiber iron vegetables. By now your system is a total weight loss inclination. There should be a noticeable difference in the way you look from Day 1. DAY SEVEN - Day 7 finishes of the program . Except it is much healthier. You have your system under control. And don't tell me I don't need to lose weight because, Holy crap, You haven't seen me. I look very fat.

How can I organize my life? I'm a sophomore in college and my life seems so unorganized. I never seem to have enough energy or time to do the work I need to do. My mornings begin around 6 because I am part of the ROTC program at my school. Whenever I'm done PT in the morning all I want to do is sleep. I'm also trying to prioritize but I always seem to focus too much of my energy on one class. My room is a mess so it makes my life even worse. I guess I need to have a balance. Any advice or suggestions would help. Thanks!

Pre-med student in need of help! How to manage my time? HELP? I am a rising sophomore at one of the most competitive schools in the nation, and I hope to go to medical school in the future. I sort of lost focus in the second semester of my freshman year. I fell for a girl who wasn't that into me, could not concentrate as well as I did in the first semester, and had a terrible roommate situation, and so on. Next semester, I will resist all sorts of temptation and just focus on my work. I will put social life aside. I plan on doing many things: studying my butt off, getting involved in an undergrad research project, being a TA for general chem, becoming a member of this student organization called Community Health Advocacy Program, and working out, which is like my only way of dealing with stress. These are things I want to and must do. However, I am not so sure if i am capable of balancing out my time for all of those activities. The life of a pre-med is indeed tough. Please give me some tips on how to distribute/manage my time.

What is a really good Organizer/ Planner or an online program? I'm a full time student, I work full time, and have a three year old son and a husband with which we fly to brazil a couple times a year. Trying to balance all that, family life and my friends since I'm only 24 so there still a large part of my life=).....My life is a bit caotic=) I always hate having everything crammed in my head and feel like I'm not using my time wisley=( I need everything listed and written down in front of me but I dont know were to start=( I have a blackberry curve but It doesn't offer much besides a calander...and a main to do list, so I tryed that and ended up with 500+ to do's and had a bitch of a time scrolling down them all=(

Why do people strain themselves in school? I went to a high school with a rigorous higher education program. After a couple years of it, I was having a very difficult time balancing the work with my hobbies and passions. My social life had already been reduced to nothing because of this, but I refused to give up my hobbies. It wasn't until halfway through the 4 year program that I questioned myself as to why I was doing it. I did some research and found that the program would give me enough credits to skip my freshman year of undergrad, and I saw no incentive to want to sacrifice my high school years just to sacrifice a year of college, which from what I understood was the life. So I dropped the program, and now two years later I'm at college where there is a similar program as the one in my high school. I certainly steered clear of it, but I want to know why so many people eagerly sign away their lives in programs such as these. Whenever I ask someone about it they almost always are unable to give me an answer, which reminds me of myself in 10th grade as I hadn't questioned my path until then. It can't be all about money can it? I would be shocked if so many people thought it was worth all the time sacrificed and good times missed in order to have six cars instead of two when they're 45.

help me with my personal experience in h.s and college? It has been observed that as much, if not more, can be learned from failure as from success. We all know it's true; failures are often very informative, particularly if you can trace the root causes of the failure. In that spirit, I offer the causes of my academic debacle that took place during my freshman year at a Gibbs Boston College. One cause for my failure was a lack of prioritizing my educational duties and instead, embracing my first year as a social experiment. Secondly, the most paramount reason for my failure could be attributed to my lack of vision and having no intrinsic motivating factor driving me to pursue an education. And equally important as identifying the causes of failing is to realize the solutions and maybe what alternate choices could have been made to prevent failing as to ensure it doesn’t occur again. Coming out of high school and viewing college as a surround of various ethnicities, religions and backgrounds, I was captivated by the experience of socializing and communing with lots of new and interesting people. What began as an equal balance of work and play was short lived and quickly evolved into a cycle of abandoning my responsibilities and education for nights of socializing and constant partying. I thought life was great- no classes, no professors, no deadlines, and no pointless research papers about subjects I had absolutely no interest in researching. I was an 18-year-old, playing adult. Yes, I occasionally worked, but I played exceedingly more, and yet I wasn’t even old enough to drink or rent a car. I spent more time on the beach, in clubs, and in the gym than most people do in their entire lives. I went out every night, not studying or working on any assigned tasks or papers. Why? I thought I had done it all, learned it all, and experienced it all. But I was still only a freshman. I lacked the maturity to make wise decisions regarding my education at that time. And eventually, the constant neglect of my responsibilities led to my subsequent downfall and failure in school which resulted in an astonishing grade point average of zero, losing a full scholarship, and eventually being placed on final academic probation. Another cause for my failure, coupled with extensive partying and social activities, was not having a clear picture as to why I was even attending college besides the fact that it was the norm after graduating high school. Lacking a vision was my primary reason for my failure. Not having a vision for the future except a distant hazy, gray picture of bleakness made college seem pointless and my future aimless. Also, dealing with a barrage of questions from my family and friends constantly pressuring me to choose my major and career path, and seeing their concern and not having chosen a major lead me to rethink my choice of why wanted to continue the college experience since it seemed in vain and directionless. I knew I wanted to be married and have children one day, but that’s not exactly offered as an undergraduate program. My problem was that I tire of busywork. Reading three hundred pages weekly for boring classes along with never-ending homework seemed pointless since I couldn’t find a legitimate reason as to why I should do it and what purpose it would serve in the future. I constantly complained about commuting because of the toll it takes, how early I had to leave the house, and how it eats hours of my week. Trivial and petty excuses some would say. Well, without knowing my purpose in college it wasn’t trivial, because without a vision for where it is heading, it was wasteful and burdensome, for me and my parents. Lacking a goal and vision at that time made college seem like unnecessary hard work, and entirely unproductive. Realizing how my failure could have been prevented is imperative in continuing my education. Excessive partying and social activities could have been balanced with my school work by prioritizing my life and what was important for my future. Having a balanced outlook with clear scheduling of my time and how I was going to accomplish my goals and tasks would have prevented my first cause for failure. As important as it seemed then to experience the parties and night life in college, if I would have balanced the two, I would not only have a plethora of memories, but also a toolbox of knowledge to prepare myself for life after college instead of now playing catch-up with my degree. Alongside prioritizing my time, having a clear picture of where I was going could have also prevented my failing freshman year. Relevant to not having a vision and failing in college, I am reminded of a biblical passage, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Proverbs 29:18. Having an outlook of where I someday would arrive would have given a purpose to what seemed like a tiring and fruitless expenditure of time and money. To be successful, you need to have a compelling vision that you are willing to go all out to achieve. So, it is important to

please read and help my essay, due today so respond quickly? It has been observed that as much, if not more, can be learned from failure as from success. We all know it's true; failures are often very informative, particularly if you can trace the root causes of the failure. In that spirit, I offer the causes of my academic debacle that took place during my freshman year at Hillsborough Community College. One cause for my failure was a lack of prioritizing my educational duties and instead, embracing my first year as a social experiment. Secondly, the most paramount reason for my failure could be attributed to my lack of vision and having no intrinsic motivating factor driving me to pursue an education. And equally important as identifying the causes of failing is to realize the solutions and maybe what alternate choices could have been made to prevent failing as to ensure it doesn’t occur again. Coming out of high school and viewing college as a surround of various ethnicities, religions and backgrounds, I was captivated by the experience of socializing and communing with lots of new and interesting people. What began as an equal balance of work and play was short lived and quickly evolved into a cycle of abandoning my responsibilities and education for nights of socializing and constant partying. I thought life was great- no classes, no professors, no deadlines, and no pointless research papers about subjects I had absolutely no interest in researching. I was an 18-year-old, playing adult. Yes, I occasionally worked, but I played exceedingly more, and yet I wasn’t even old enough to drink or rent a car. I spent more time on the beach, in clubs, and in the gym than most people do in their entire lives. I went out every night, not studying or working on any assigned tasks or papers. Why? I thought I had done it all, learned it all, and experienced it all. But I was still only a freshman. I lacked the maturity to make wise decisions regarding my education at that time. And eventually, the constant neglect of my responsibilities led to my subsequent downfall and failure in school which resulted in an astonishing grade point average of zero, losing a full scholarship, and eventually being placed on final academic probation. Another cause for my failure, coupled with extensive partying and social activities, was not having a clear picture as to why I was even attending college besides the fact that it was the norm after graduating high school. Lacking a vision was my primary reason for my failure. Not having a vision for the future except a distant hazy, gray picture of bleakness made college seem pointless and my future aimless. Also, dealing with a barrage of questions from my family and friends constantly pressuring me to choose my major and career path, and seeing their concern and not having chosen a major lead me to rethink my choice of why wanted to continue the college experience since it seemed in vain and directionless. I knew I wanted to be married and have children one day, but that’s not exactly offered as an undergraduate program. My problem was that I tire of busywork. Reading three hundred pages weekly for boring classes along with never-ending homework seemed pointless since I couldn’t find a legitimate reason as to why I should do it and what purpose it would serve in the future. I constantly complained about commuting because of the toll it takes, how early I had to leave the house, and how it eats hours of my week. Trivial and petty excuses some would say. Well, without knowing my purpose in college it wasn’t trivial, because without a vision for where it is heading, it was wasteful and burdensome, for me and my parents. Lacking a goal and vision at that time made college seem like unnecessary hard work, and entirely unproductive. Realizing how my failure could have been prevented is imperative in continuing my education. Excessive partying and social activities could have been balanced with my school work by prioritizing my life and what was important for my future. Having a balanced outlook with clear scheduling of my time and how I was going to accomplish my goals and tasks would have prevented my first cause for failure. As important as it seemed then to experience the parties and night life in college, if I would have balanced the two, I would not only have a plethora of memories, but also a toolbox of knowledge to prepare myself for life after college instead of now playing catch-up with my degree. Alongside prioritizing my time, having a clear picture of where I was going could have also prevented my failing freshman year. Relevant to not having a vision and failing in college, I am reminded of a biblical passage, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Proverbs 29:18. Having an outlook of where I someday would arrive would have given a purpose to what seemed like a tiring and fruitless expenditure of time and money. To be successful, you need to have a compelling vision that you are willing to go all out to achieve. So, it is important to have a clear vision of what you want to accomplish and then thinking very carefully about what you want to do and how you’re going to get there. Having a clear vision tailored around my goals, hobbies, and interests would have made the experience purposeful and meaningful, allowing me to be passionate and enthusiastic about my education. It would have meant something personal to me, something in which I would have enjoyed and endured for the sake of achieving my dream. So why did I fail? In final analysis of my lack of success during my first year of college, I’ve come to the conclusion that my mismanagement of time and lack of prioritizing my work over my social life was one cause for my failure. But the chief reason for my failure in college was the absence of an adequate plan and vision. Not having a clear vision of my purpose and future lead to my belief that there was no purpose in striving for an education, considering the fact that I didn’t know what I was getting an education for. And just as important as it is to recognize the causes for failure, it is also necessary to realize that the causes could have been prevented and to learn from the mistakes. So in sum, believing that all lived experiences are enriching, failing my first year of college enlightened me to the responsibilities of being an adult. And recognizing and understanding my reasons for failing have allowed me to, hopefully, avoid the same mistakes I made the first time as I am now currently in school and trying to make better on the college experience.

OCD: I'm trying to keep a balance, but I need some ideas on dealing with this...? I tend towards obsessive compulsive thinking, and I'm generally fine with that. It helps me to harmonize in music and arts, and I don't mind being a list-maker. And when I get totally obsessed with something new (like a video game, or a style of cooking, or clothing) I try not to worry, because I've learned I will get bored of it soon anyway. I know that my perception of reality (like anyone else's) is variable, and the OCD along with it. On bright, warm days my germ phobia is non-existant, and I've tried de-sensitization techniques and self-hypnosis to good effect. But I'm only willing to do anything about something if I can see that my reaction really is so over the top that it damages me more than the offending issue ever could. I've always been exposed to second-hand cigarette smoke to some degree. I've never liked it, but it's only been in the last few years that it has become a misery to me. This came after I did a few months of a detox & health program at home. Once I did that, I felt a lot better, the strongest and healthiest ever. But if I ate a food I'd excluded again, I would get strong reactions, and the same is true for exposure to smoke. I could immediately tell that my nose started to get irritated, then my throat, my eyes start tearing, head starts pounding, and I end up feeling really stressed and angry. But that's a social killer, even when there is a well-working smoking ban in place. And where I live now, the "smoking ban" is shoddy. Here's the thing: Smoke is a risk factor for a number of illnesses that stress also is one for. So how much good is my worry doing me, really? I want to be able to quantify how damaging second-hand smoke really is. "Bad" is not quantifying. And I realize that "2% of your life energy per hour of exposure, 1,5% can be recovered", is not really the answer either. What I mean is: - I grew up in the countryside, now I live in a big city. How does air pollution from cars, industry, etc compare? - How much is the damage from exposure to smoke balanced out by healthy diet & exercise (for example also extra Vit C) It seems I can't find any balanced information / opinion / advice on this, either it is "smoke won't harm you, it's all propaganda" or it's "smoke will kill you for sure, if not today, then tomorrow". Something will in the end kill us all. Anything out of moderation is potentially harmful. Smoke serves no purpose, it is always harmful, but how bad is it really in balance? It freaks me out to read on official health board sites that second-hand smoke is worse on people than smoking the cigarette itself! (?!!) That's some confusing advice to give. It used to be family, then it was at gigs and clubs and parties, and friends and relationships. Now I notice it a lot, blowing in from outside at work, seeping into my flat from the neighbours, etc. It's not in my head, my friends are not OCD and they notice it, too. But I don't smoke, and over here almost none of my friends smoke. I live in a big city, and the air pollution is relatively low. I don't know if that balances it out somehow? Writing / talking a lot is NOT a sign of OCD :D :D :D oh god, lol, that's so funny.... It's true, that more people would be dead if it was THAT toxic, but it's not just about immediate death. It's about lowered quality of life, crossover effects on immunity and allergies, chronic diseases etc.... Doingthepanic, thanks that is pretty much my situation, I grew up in that, too, and later didn't really want to not go out just because the smoke was so thick at the best clubs. Good point about the "that's worse than smoking yourself" stuff being aimed at parents, I hadn't even though of that... I'm sorry you ended up with asthma and allergies as well. What do you do, stay away from places and parties where it's smokey? I mean how far do you feel OK taking it? I really feel like 2 minutes in a smokey place and I gotta walk, that's no good when my favourite band is on, and kids are smoking in the toilets (ban or no ban, who's gonna check at 11pm...) And it's one thing to stay away from parties and clubs, but another to get miserable in my home, because neighbours smoke is coming through somewhere that we haven't already sealed up (I'm getting so tired of this....), or indeed at work when half the office smokes, and when it's cold no one wants to open the windows, and people hover around the doors to smoke outside, so it just blows back into here.

I'm a pre-med, and how should I manage my time? I need some tips!!!? I am a rising sophomore at one of the most competitive schools in the nation, and I hope to go to medical school in the future. I sort of lost focus in the second semester of my freshman year. I fell for a girl who wasn't that into me, could not concentrate as well as I did in the first semester, and had a terrible roommate situation, and so on. Next semester, I will resist all sorts of temptation and just focus on my work. I will put social life aside. I plan on doing many things: studying my butt off, getting involved in an undergrad research project, being a TA for general chem, becoming a member of this student organization called Community Health Advocacy Program, and working out, which is like my only way of dealing with stress. These are things I want to and must do. However, I am not so sure if i am capable of balancing out my time for all of those activities. The life of a pre-med is indeed tough. Please give me some tips on how to distribute/manage my time.

Good Excuse?!?!? i am a good "A" and "B" gifted program tested student but my freshamn year in high school i screwed up. I took all these Gifted and AP classes that my teahcers recommended me for and they were hard. So i ended up with a "C" in AP bio and a D in Geometry. and my mom is going to be so disappointed in me make me feel like shit and mentally harass and abuse me and will probably make me quit the varsity cheerlading team. I refuse to change/photoshop my report card because that is below low. I just just need things to tell her so she wont be mad at me. no bullshit answers, save me the guilt trip. next year i learned to take straight honors classes! oh yeah... mom doesn't care if everyone else is getting a c. she also thinks that if im so damn smart then i should be making "A"s in that class. calls me a stupid bitch then mom comapres me to my friends who can balance social life, cheerleading everyday, and school work/good grades. NO BASHING ME OR MY MOM

how I get discover credit card work with me? I owe 13,752 dollars on Discover, I went through a ruff patch of my life a couple years ago. And last year they put me in a program were I would only pay 150$ per month to try to catch up, but i knew it was to only bide some time, time has come and they will remove the monthly payment of 150 and boost my interest from 9% back to 14.99 or 13.99 i forgot which one. and i will not be able to make the new payment because i know they will be in the upper 300 because the credit limit was 12,500 and the balance is 13,752. I dont know what to do. please help. And also my credit is shot right now.

Time for COLLEGE!!! How does it work, and what should I do? (<(<(<(<HEADS UP>)>)>)>) If you just want the jist of things, scroll down to the bottom-most two paragraphs, that should pretty much wrap it up ^^'' Okay, so I'm 18 years old, right? I know I need to go to college as soon as I graduate this year, since I probably won't have the motivation to apply for one AFTER I graduate, so I'm trying to decide what I'm going to DO with my life :( I don't know much about colleges, but what I do know is that you can have Major and Minor degrees in certain courses. I was planning on going into Architecture when I enrolled in my school's Vo-tech program this year, but now that I'm actually IN the class, it doesn't seem nearly as fun as I made it out to be, anymore. I LOVE drawing, it's my passion. Anything that has to do with Photoshop, G.I.M.P. or any other Image-Manipulation programs, I'm all over it. (The most common form of Art that I find myself drawing is usually Manga- or Anime-style characters.) But at the same time, I don't want to risk losing interest in the one thing that I truly enjoy doing by being forced to draw for a job. I have basic knowledge of C++ computer coding, and from what little practice I've had in my spare time, it seems like something I could see myself learning, and it'd be pretty fun. :] Oh yeah, and one more mentionable thing about my interests is that I LOVE video-games, especially computer games. That kind of stuff really grabs my interest, so.. I'm a complete nerd ^^'' Yes, that includes making Maps and Triggers (stuff like that) as another option for me. However, I'm trying to decide how I could find a balance between all that Mambo Jumbo. THAT, and I was hoping to maybe find a college or something that I could attend that also taught Japanese, because I'm infatuated with Japanese and Oriental culture (for whatever reason...). SO, in Short, I was wondering if there were any way to incorporate art, computer programming, and Japanese together into one MASSIVE curriculum. Would there be some way I could Major in one, and then Minor in the others or something? I can't decide what college near Pennsylvania I can attend that would be able to do all of that for me, or if one even exists anywhere in the WORLD. -_- I'm completely lost at this point.

I don't know where to go in life...help? I'm 15 years old and i'm a sophomore in high school. everyone seems to have chosen their paths expect me. i want to be someone ppl can look up to and say "wow, i want to be just like her". expect i'm quiet and have trouble speaking up. theres a program in my school called jrotc and i dont know which team in jrotc i should pick. drill unarmed team is very dedicated and i think i can work hard and ignore the drama that goes on there. but if i be in drill team, i have to go to pratices everyday after school and saturdays too. if i dont join drill and go to another team like academic or drum, i can balance all my things out. my older sister was in academic and i feel bad cus noones joining academic anymore and everyones leaving. most likely if i join drill, i will prolly go to the college called west point since its so dedicating and takes up studying time...

How will I get into foreign college if I don't have a GPA? So this might take awhile to explain to you but her it goes! I started working at a pretty young age because my family is really poor and so school always seemed to take the backseat, and by the time freshman year highschool ended (I really meant I started working young to bring in money!) I only had one credit! I was pretty much ready to drop out and wait for my sixteenth birthday the next year so I could just get my GED and continue working. My mom wouldnt have it though. She told me that I had better graduate highschool and I'm not dropping out and all that, but in all honestly I couldnt balance work & school. So my mom got me into this contract thing at the school I was attending where I only went once a week for 45 minutes and did like 23 hours of homework. I've been doing this for the past two months now and its been going great. I was also able to quit one of my jobs which leaves me a lot more free time than i could have imagined. Anyway back to my question! The program I'm on dosnt provide its students with a gpa. It just gives the credits with a PASS, and at the time of graduation a highschool diploma- This worrys me because I really wanted to attend a medical school outside of the U.S and now I feel its near impossible. Or perhaps not? I suppose I could go to community college for a few years and build up a gpa? Would that do anything for me? I'm pretty desperate to follow through with what I want to do with my life, graduate from a foreign medical school. (The reason I dont want to stay in the U.S is simply because I find the rest of the world much more facinating x_x terrible I know) So what do I do folks? Since I've quit one of my jobs I've already begun volunteering at a hospital four hours a week and next week I will also begin volunteering at a homeless shelter and homefully that will help out as well too eh? I really wanted to study in Japan or Egypt, and so you Know I am not some dumb kid, I have been studying Japanese and Arabic for years and already my levels are nearly native hopefully by the time I am eighteen they will be at the native point, (I have some native speaking friends who I am greatfull to say put aside an hour a week to teach me! ^.^) Well I probably wont get too many answers seeing as how complicated this is, but thanks for all who tried!

My Graduate school classmates are driving me crazy? advice? I am in a small, competitive program in a specialized field of engineering. I know it's hard work but I strive to achieve balance in my life and I am in no way shape or form a slacker. I just have a job with a major company and a life outside of my career too! My classmates are really out of control with the competition lately. Whenever I get paired up with one to work on a project, I get bombarded with emails, phone calls, and backhanded remarks 24/7. I give them absolutely no reason to ever worry as I have never turned in anything below an A quality paper or project since I have been there. When we have a lab together, many of them make sure to cover up their papers (even though we are supposed to work together as a group) and even bring their equipment to a corner of the room to work away from the group. In class, asking an honest question is an open invitation for a full on debate! One time I even got stopped in the middle of a power point presentation I was giving by a woman trying to debate me!!! IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PRESENTATION!!! She didn't even have the courtesy to wait until the Q/A session. I got paired up with someone for a very simple project (which will take an hour or two tops) that is due in a month and I have already been sent 3 emails which were forwarded to our professor for absolutely no reason because there was no reason to involve him in the matter. If I make a mistake, forget it...there's at least 5 fingers ready behind me to point it out. I am running out of comebacks and I am loosing my patience. I am no longer able to play it as cool as I used to. I need advice from people on how to better deal with the situation at hand. I don't want to loose my mind, but I feel like I am starting to. They stress me out more than the actual work does!!!! Was everyone else's grad program THIS competitive?

How to balance out my life.? Okay so I really like this guy but here's the problem. He lives like 2 hours away from me. I moved schools last year and now the only way that I can talk to him is on aim which sucks. Now he has a girlfriend too but he is sort of like flirting with me. I really like him though. I also have a whole bunch of school stuff to do and I am going to go to the cty johns hopkins program over the summer and I also am taking place in a spelling bee where I have to represent my whole town. I don't know how to balance it all out. Please help. 1. What should I do about him. I am 11. 2. How should I balance out my educational stuff and my fun stuff? going on aim etc. Please help. Thanks. He may break up with his girl friend

How many hours of homework is the IB program? How many hours of homework should I be expecting for the IB program per day. (approximately) Also, is it hard to balance 2 sciences and still have a social life? I am planning on taking: Biology HL English HL Business and Management HL Chemistry SL French SL Math SL

how can i balance my social life, school, track and lifting? im a 15 year old boy, 9th grade, and i run on my schools varsity track team. im a straight A student and i love to party and hang out with my friends, which i usually just do on friday and saturday night. i have track every day mon-fri after school. tuesday nights i have a leadership program. which requires me to commit to community service at other times. i'm an alter server on sunday mornings usually. and i really need to get to the gym for like 2 hours at least three days a week. can you help me get a good schedule going that has all of my needs but with room to move them around if need be??? please! thanks! its a 45 minute drive from my house to my school. 10 minutes from my house to the gym. & most of my friends live between 20 and 45 minutes away.

Is it true that eating a balanced diet but low in calories lengthen our life span? Briefly. The theory behind is that our cells are genetically programmed to divide a definite number of times, but if we starve a little bit. but having a balanced diet.so much percentage of Fat...%proteins (good quality aminoacids) etc. The cells will not divide as fast...so Silly example but to make the point clearer... lets assume the the cells are programed to divide 100 times and that they divide once every day. so the person will live 100 days. but if the person starve a little bit in calories. is forcing the cells to divide once every 2 days...so the person will live 200 days. Now the example above was a silly one, but according to some biologists. it could lengthen quite a bit the life of a human ... Has someone read something about this idea?

Does being a christian and following the lord mean that you don't have a balance in your life.? By this i mean, can't there be times for other things. I find that with christians, its all about god. I mean All about god. I believe and love god with all of my heart but like watching other programs on tv other than bible stories. I also like lots of different movies just not christian music? Someone please. I think i need a christian site to go on because no one in this neck of the woods is listening to me. I walk away without an answer to my question. I end up feeling guilty and i don't think thats right.

What are your new years resolution? Mine are... To focus much more in school :) and put my foot in the RN program Have a balance life Be more conservative with my personal life Go to the gym & stay fit Save more money Buy a car!!! Become a better speaker in public. Stay more organized

Have I wasted my life at home (good teen years)? I went to college in a program at age 16 and am still there at age 19. I did Running Start, where at junior in high school you can take freshmen year of college classes and graduate with a four year degree two years early. So at least I have that. I got into some trouble along the way because I was always at home. Family got in my face, and had some fights that cannot be taken back. I have some phone #s in my high school year book, I will call them in the next few days here. I cannot take it anymore, mainly because I'm getting older and its unhealthy. I always sit in my room and watch tv religiously. Don't take to people. I admit it, I'm a loner. I've realized time goes and life will suck if don't have fun now before I have to go to university then work a REAL career. Time doesn't care, it ticks, ticks. I spent all day today at home today watching repeat news on tv while my mother was at work and thought, "man, this sucks!" I'm not a total loser, I talk at school with people. But no times things were really crazy, with no rules, like off the record stuff like hanging out or doing something. No gf either. This might be more common, i dont know. I'm thinking about it. Seems like the times were empty. Only thoughts of horrible school work and dark days. I've heard there's no real formula to get friends, or such thing. It just happens. But it doesn't happen, like other than just talking. I saw somebody else mention this on yahoo as well. What is your opinion? I feel I have a real opportunity to turn it around here, but I know I must do something and am the only one. I'm a cool dude, smart. It's not like I'm a nerd or anything. I also work a job like hell. I failed a class last quarter, mainly because I think I lack a "balance" in life. I was burned out, and CHEATED on tests. Things gotta turn around. Like, for say, tomorrow, we are going to meet some family friends and have tons of dinner, food. But I only do family things. THE ONE EXCEPTION is when I recently went to southern California for spring break (beach and all, bike riding). But even then I was with my grandfather the whole time and his old friends.

How do I convince my mom I can balance out my education and a boyfriend? Because my mom (and my dad, but he's not exactly the problem here) grew up in China, she never really had the time to have a boyfriend because education is so big in China. But I don't live in China, I live here, in America, where education isn't nearly as strict. Of course, because she grew up like that, she thinks that *I* also can't balance out a boyfriend and my education. When I asked if I could have a boyfriend, she almost automatically opposed the idea. Why? She told me I would have to choose between my future or this boy. She also tried to make me feel bad about my boyfriend (who is a really sweet, nice, and funny guy; but she tried to tell me that he wasn't "superior" to me in anyway...) I am 14 years old, the WORST grade I have ever gotten since 6th grade (middle school) has been an A- and that was on a midterm. Every single final grade I've gotten is an A. I am in our school district's Highly Capable Learner's Program. I play the violin and the piano. I have done everything my mother has ever told me to do (except, maybe, clean my room). She still doesn't trust me. She refuses to allow me to get to know a boy that closely. I do not understand. How can I get her to see that I'm not a little girl anymore? That she hasn't given me the chance to try or do anything? That I can balance my life out?

How do I convince my parents I can balance out my education and a boyfriend? Because my mom (and my dad, but he's not exactly the problem here) grew up in China, she never really had the time to have a boyfriend because education is so big in China. But I don't live in China, I live here, in America, where education isn't nearly as strict. Of course, because she grew up like that, she thinks that *I* also can't balance out a boyfriend and my education. When I asked if I could have a boyfriend, she almost automatically opposed the idea. Why? She told me I would have to choose between my future or this boy. She also tried to make me feel bad about my boyfriend (who is a really sweet, nice, and funny guy; but she tried to tell me that he wasn't "superior" to me in anyway...) I am 14 years old, the WORST grade I have ever gotten since 6th grade (middle school) has been an A- and that was on a midterm. Every single final grade I've gotten is an A. I am in our school district's Highly Capable Learner's Program. I play the violin and the piano. I have done everything my mother has ever told me to do (except, maybe, clean my room). She still doesn't trust me. She refuses to allow me to get to know a boy that closely. I do not understand. How can I get her to see that I'm not a little girl anymore? That she hasn't given me the chance to try or do anything? That I can balance my life out?

Which Engineering Program? what do you guys know about the engineering program of these four schools: -U Minnesota ~Twin Cities -Syracuse -Saint Louis Univ -Purdue Which one has best program...but is also balanced with a good campus life? If u go to one of these schools. what do you like/dislike about it?

how can i balance things? im in this early college program and im a JUNIOR in HIGH SCHOOL.... i dont have any time 2 hang out wit my friends b/c of all the hw i hav been gettin... im losin contact with them and losing my social life... how can i balance my social life and keep up my grades high????? =/

I want to lose 50 pounds and I found a diet- do you think it will work? plz skim and answer!? To lose weight in 5 months, follow this simple diet routine, proved to be more effective: General Motors Weight Loss Diet, a.k.a. The GM Diet* - An e-mail received from Shri M Siddique (who recd from Ravindra Jaju) Have you heard of the Physics Diet? As common sense goes, prevention is always better than cure! The following diet and health program was apparently developed for the employees and the dependants of General Motors Inc. The program was developed in conjunction with the grant from the US Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration. It was first tried at the Johns Hopkins Research Centre and was approved for distribution by the Board of Directors of General Motors Corporation at a general meeting on August 15, 1995 . General Motors Corporation wholly endorsed this program and is making it available to all employees and families. This program will be available at all General Motors Food service facilities. It is the management’s intention to facilitate a welfare and fitness program for everyone. This program is designed for a target weight loss of 5-6 Kgs. per week. It will also improve your attitude and emotions because of its systematic cleansing effects. The effectiveness of this seven day plan is that the foods eaten burn more calories than they give to the body in caloric value. This plan can be used as often as you like to without any fear of complications. It is designed to flush your system of impurities and give you a feeling of well being. After seven days you will begin to feel lighter by atleast 10 pounds. You will have an abundance of energy and an improved disposition. During the first seven days you must drink 10 glasses of water each day. DAY ONE All fruits except bananas. Your first day will consists of all fruits you want. It is suggested you consume lots of watermelon and cantaloupe. DAY TWO All vegetables. You are encouraged to eat until you are stuffed with all the new and cooked vegetables of your choice. There is no limit on the account or type. Avoid oil and coconut while cooking vegetables. Have large boiled potato for breakfast. DAY THREE Any mixture of fruits and vegetables of your choice. Any amount, any quantity. No bananas yet and no potatoes today. DAY FOUR Bananas and milk. Today you will eat as many as eight bananas and drink three glasses of milk. You can also have one bowl of vegetables soup. DAY FIVE Today is a feast day. You will eat 1 (one) cup of rice. You also have to eat 6 (six) whole tomatoes and drink 12 (twelve) glasses of water today to cleanse your system of the excess uric acid you will be producing. DAY SIX Today is another all vegetables day. You must eat 1 cup of rice today and eat all the vegetables you want cooked and uncooked to your heart's content. DAY SEVEN Today your food intake will consist of 1 cup rice, fruit juice and all the vegetables you care to consume. Tomorrow morning you will be five to eight kilograms lighter than 1 week ago. If you desire further weight loss, repeat the program again. Repeat the program as often as you like, however, it is suggested that you rest for three days before every repetition. You have your system under control now and it will thank you for all the purging and cleansing you just gave it. Even more than a diet program it is good to follow this diet once in a while to clean your digestive system and remove toxic substances that have a accumulated in the system. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS The most important element of the program is the 10 (ten) tall glasses of water a day. You can also flavour the water will some lemon to make the drink easier. While on the program, take only black coffee and never more than one teaspoon of oil. Preferably do not use oil because the high calorific content. No fruit juices before day seven. Here is what happens to you body while you are on this program and how and why it works. Day 1: You are preparing your system for the upcoming program. Your only source of nutrition is fresh fruits. Fruits are nature's perfect food. They provide everything you can possibly want to sustain life except total balance and variety. Day 2: Starts with a fix complex carbohydrates in the form of a boiled potato. This is taken in the form of a boiled potato and taken in the morning to provide energy and balance. The rest of the day too consists of vegetables which are virtually calories free and provide essential nutrients and fibre. Day 3: Eliminates the potato because you get your carbohydrates from fruits. Your system is now prepared to start burning excess pounds. You will have cravings, which should start to diminish by day four. Day 4: Bananas and milk. You are in for a surprise. You probably will not be able to eat all the bananas allowed. But they are there for the potassium you have lost and the sodium you may have missed during the last three days. You will notice a definite loss of desire for sweets and you will be surp

I feel like wont an addiction free life more than my wife please help!!? My wife is working on overcoming a sleeping pill addiction need advise. I told her that I wonted a divorce that I could no longer live with the lye and deception. She told me she would do anything to keep me. I told her I wonted her to go to a 30day rehab program she agreed. We set up a meeting with her therapist for later that day. The therapist did not think that she would qualify because she was not currently using and that her problem was not to that level. I said the I would like her to do an out patient program and make some big life changes and relay work on this addiction problem. She said she should start going to 12 steps AA meeting. So my wife stated this she has been going for two weeks 3 meeting a week I wonted her to do 90-90 but after the next therapy session with her therapist she said that in our rural are it is nearly imposable to go to that many meeting that 3 meeting a week would problem be enough. She also thinks that I am trying to hard that I just need to back of my wife and let her do what she feels she needs to do. I wont this to be the most important thing she has ever done I don’t feel that we can get on with our life until this is delt with. I don’t wont to be with her if I cant trust. I feel that is the bases for a successful marriage. Her therapist thinks I am way off the mark and she has been telling my wife that I am to involve in the process and need to back off. I think that the therapist treatment isn’t the most beneficial for the process (she is using unconditional positive regard) due to the relapse that my wife has had. How do I deal with? Is it OK to question what she is doing? I don’t feel that my wife is giving it her all. How do I find the balance of pushing to get results and giving up and walking away? Have you ever been hear? What are your experiences? I am frustrated, confused and tired any advice would be nice

How many hours of homework for IB? How many hours of homework should I be expecting for the IB program per day. (approximately) Also, is it hard to balance 2 sciences and still have a social life? I am planning on taking: Biology HL English HL Business and Management HL Chemistry SL French SL Math SL

Please check my work! No one else will!? Please check these problems and correct me if any are wrong! I need an A on this test! please help! 1: Which of the following made possible the American industrial growth of the late 1800s? the household economy technological advances * government reforms the development of labor unions 2: Which of the following revolutionized American communications in the late 1800s? steam engines and steamships the telegraph and telephone * a workable light filament refrigeration and sewing machines 3: One of Thomas Edison's major accomplishments was developing a more efficient way to make steel inventing the telegraph and telephone helping to make electricity more widely available * preaching the "gospel of wealth" 4: Andrew Carnegie argued that the success of wealthy industrialists helped the entire nation * should be limited by the government was illegal according to the Sherman Antitrust Act had no effect on average Americans 5: During the late 1800s, children often worked in factories because their parents believed in the process of "natural selection" families needed the income to survive * employers offered high wages to skilled children there were no public schools for children to attend 6: One thing a person could do in 1900 but not in 1865 was ride on a train sew a dress play a phonograph * read at night 7: Which statement best describes the lifestyle of homesteaders? Homesteaders lived in isolation and avoided social contact. Most women worked outside their homestead. * Homesteaders lived simple and secure lives. Homesteaders often had to struggle even for the necessities. 8: Which one of the following is a lingering myth about the West? It was settled by a variety of races. * Settlers were nearly all white males. Settlers nearly destroyed Native American peoples. Western settlement damaged the environment. 9: Farm mechanization resulted in an increase in farm production a decline in the number of eastern farms * the end of bonanza farms stable crop prices 10: What was one key requirement that applicants had to meet to receive land under the Homestead Act? They had to live on the land all year long. * They had to farm the land for five years in a row. They had to file a claim with a bank. THey had to whel portable cabins from plot to plot. 11: What drew many new immigrants to the West? the opportunity to learn new languages the climate on the plains "land-grant" colleges cheap land and new jobs * 12: How did new technology help farmers on the Great Plains? It saved them time and effort It eliminated insect pests * It made crops drought-resistant It lowered their dabt 13: During the late 1800s, the port of entry for the majority of immigrants was Boston * San Francisco Philadelphia New York 14: Which of the following was a major result of both immigration and the increaded productivity of factory jobs in the late 1800s? the rapid expansion of urban areas * mechanization of agriculture high wages for factory workers overpopulation of the South 15: In the 1890s, immigration patterns shifted dramatically, with most immigrants now coming from northern European countries southern and eastern European countries * Mexico and Central America China and Japan 16: One reason that the United States became more urban during the late 1800s is that farm mechines and factory-made goods reduced the need for farm labor * nobody wanted to live on farms anymore immigrants did not know how to do farm work union organizing of farm workers had not yet begun 17: Which of the following attacted many immigrants to the United States? the military draft strong alien land laws a chance at a better life * labor unions 18: Where did European immigrants often settle in the United States? in western railroad towns in their ports of entry * in the South near lakes 19: When African Americans left southern farms in the late 1800s, where did they relocate? in western minig towns in Mexican border towns in nearby cities * in suburbs 20: Which of the following did NOT contribute to the growth of cities? migration to the suburbs improvements in transportation construction of skyscrapers * immigration 21: Which of the following best characterizes urban areas in the early 1900s? slums and tenements a growing middle class population open spaces, trees, and grass ethnically mixed neighborhoods * 22: Which became the most popular American sport during the late 1800s? football baseball * basketball hockey 23: In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court declared segregation unconstitutional established the "separate-but-equal" doctrine, upholding segregation * ordered public school districts to upgrade schools for African Americans ordered universities to enroll more women and African Americans 24: Which of the following factors helped to reduce household chores by 1900? technological advances * smaller homes inexpensive domestic help division of labor among family members 25: Which of the following were popular forms of entertainment in the late 1800s? vaudeville moving pictures trolley parks all of the above * 26: Which was a result of the Spanish-American War? Cuba became a Spanish protectorate Puerto Rico and Guam were made US territories Spain admitted it had blown up the Maine The Philippines won independence from foreign rule * 27: The building of the Panama Canal was important because it helped staballize the economies of Latin American countries improved relations between Colombia and the United States facilitated movement between Atlantic and Pacific ports * promoted European investment in the United States 28: Under imperialism, the stronger nation attempts to dominate a weaker country sell its products to a weaker country create an empire all of the above * 29: Most Progressives argeed that the government should nationalize industries abolish home rule in cities and states protect workers and help the poor * outlaw unions 30: Woodrow Wilson won the presidential election of 1912, partly due to Taft's decision not to run for a second term the fact that he was the only candidate with a reform platform a split in the Republican vote * the lack of competition 31: Progressivism was halted by the efforts of the NAACP World War I the repeal of the prohibition amendment * the victory of the Bull Moose Party 32: Which belief was held by most Progressives? The government should be more accountable to its citizens Housing and healthcare should remain private The government should protect agricultural interests The government should intervene in unfair business practices * 33: In 1906, Upton Sinclair's novel entitled The Jungle exposed dangerous workplace conditions in the meatpacking industry for women in the garment industry for children working long hours * for miners in West Virginia and Colorado 34: One way reformers hoped to end corruption in govenrment was to establish an income tax * give voters more direct say in lawmaking provide more welfare services use the army to oust political machines 35: Many Americans became more supportive of sufrage as a result of women's activities in World War I * the Seventeenth Amendment the Bradwell v. Illinois decision the repeal of prohibition 36: The battle for women's suffrage ended with the ratification of the 16th Amendment 17th Amendment 18th Amendment 19th Amendment * 37: Which event sparked World War I? the sinking of the Lusitania the German-French dispute over Alsace-Lorraine Russia's quest for a warm-water port the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne * 38: Which of the following was a major factor in the decision of the United States to enter World War I? Britain's naval blockade of Germany Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare * Vladimir Lenin's rise to power in Russia France's fall to the Central Powers 39: An underlying cause of World War I was the ongoing dispute over the convoy system the web of alliances European nations created for their defense * an alliance between the autocratic rulers of Germany and Russia American insistence on neutrality 40: After Lenin seized control of Russia in 1917, Germany surrendered the Allies declared war on Russia the United States entered the war Russia withdrew from the war * 41: One of the main causes of the war, imperialism, involved invading Belgium and France acquiring uncolonized areas of the world * blockading enemy ports acting in a nation's own interest 42: The German U-boat changed the rules of naval warfare because it attacked only in the summer remained hidden and fired without warning * avoided merchant ships surfaced before firing its torpedoes 43: The death toll from World War I was the highest for American troops low, because of advances in weapons extraordinarily high * high for Germany, but low for the Allies 44: In the 1920s, many American consumers began to adopt the practice of recycling sewing their own clothes buying goods on credit * publishing their own newspapers 45: Henry Ford's dream was to sell cars that came in many colors could travel 100 miles per hour ordinary people could afford * would attract wealthy business owners 46: One result of Prohibition during the 1920s was an increase in alcoholism a decline in dancing and socializing the rise of organized crime * the creation of urban artistic colonies 47: How did life change for American women in the 1920s? Many women felt more fre to experiment with bolder styles and manners * Married women found it much easier to balance careers and family life Most women grew long hair and stopped using makeup Women began to dominate the work force, often taking leadership positions 48: Jazz was brought to northern cities by older generations musicians from the Mexico City area southern Arfican Americans * World War I veterans 49: The rise of films, radio broadcasting, and the news media all helped to bring about organized crime a national culture * the Garvey movement the Ku Klux Klan 50: During the Depression, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans made great strides in equal rights legislation often lost jobs to white laborers * were less affected than other groups were encouraged to start their own businesses 51: A major environmental crisis of the 1930s was known as the Dust Bowl * the Grapes of Wrath Black Tuesday the Great Crash 52: How did most investors react to a sudden fall in stock prices in 1929? They called in their loans They pooled money to buy stocks They raced to sell their stocks * They pledged their stocks as collateral 53: A fundamental disagreement between the candidates in the 1932 presidential election concerned whether or not the Depression existed the federal governement should try to fix people's problems Americans should offer aid to European economies any relief efforts were necessary to ease the ecnomic crisis * 54: The rise in homelessness mainly resulted from increased immigration high interest rates a decline in housing construction laid off workers losing their homes * 55: During the Depression working women were embarassed to be working respected for being family providers paid extra if they got married accused of taking jobs away from men * 56: Which New Deal agency was created to help businesses? Federal Reserve Board National Recovery Administration * Civilian Conservation Corps Home Owner's Loan Corporation 57: What criticism did many Progressives make of the New Deal? It unfairly taxed successful, hardworking people It poromoted a regimented, militaristic society It did not do enough to redistribute wealth * Many of its programs smacked of "Bolshevism" 58: The "black cabinet" was an unofficial group of African American officeholders * a loose coalition of opponents to the New Deal the nickname given to Roosevelt advisors Harry Hopkins and Harold Ickes African American Cabinet members who opposed the New Deal 59: How did Roosevelt try to help business? by raising tariffs * by stabilizing industrial prices by expanding foreign trade by abolishing the minimum wage 60: How did Roosevelt's programs help farmers? by raising crop production by encouraging farmer associations by allowing Mexican labor by giving financial assistance to farmers * 61: Sit-down strikes were so successful that the Supreme Court outlawed them * employers hired only nonunion workers unions won all their demands Congress passed the Wagner Act

Is it hard for vegetarians to build muscle? Im 23 and have been a vegetarian my whole life (and intend to be), last few months i have improved my deit and consumed less fatty and sugary stuff and started to drop pounds with a balanced exercise program. A few friends at the gym tell me i am at a disadvantage when building muscles because i dont consume any sort of meat? I mean vegetarians can pack on muscle mass cant they? but not trying to be a 250 pound bodybuilder of course! What sort of foods and vegetables sould i eat more?

How would you feel about High School classes like these? American Banks: how to open an account, how to read the fine print, how to know if it is really free, how to balance a checkbook or use a program to do this. Grocery Shopping: how to pick veggies and fresh fruit, how to read a package label, when does the shelf life expire, when was it baked. Public transportation: pay by the ride or buy a pass, how to read a bus or el route, how to avoid getting lost, when should you take a taxi. Fashion: What to wear and where to find it, how to figure your size, do those shoes fit. Personal grooming: how to get rid of hair, how to keep it manageable, how often to trim or get it cut, what you should know about hair dying. You get the idea. Something practical. Any others? The concept is Practical as opposed to Theorectical. Not what brand to wear or how to go Goth. What are students not getting in school that they really need to live day to day? Parents do not always do this and some students may not have both parents.

What is a really good Organizer/ Planner or an online program? I'm a full time student, I work full time, and have a three year old son and a husband with which we fly to brazil a couple times a year. Trying to balance all that, family life and my friends since I'm only 24 so there still a large part of my life=).....My life is a bit caotic=) I always hate having everything crammed in my head and feel like I'm not using my time wisley=( I need everything listed and written down in front of me but I dont know were to start=( I have a blackberry curve but It doesn't offer much besides a calander...and a main to do list, so I tryed that and ended up with 500+ to do's and had a ***** of a time scrolling down them all=(

I'm looking to start a blog and petition about balancing the national budget. Anyone want in? Our lives as we know it will change drastically if we don't balance the national budget. Social Security will dry up, medicare will cease to exist, and our dollars will be worth less than the Turkish lira. We need to raise taxes and slash programs like gathering the president's poop and burning it so that terrorists can't use his DNA (THEY ACTUALLY DO THIS!). Who's with me?

How do you equate the wealthy to the poor? I am tired of hearing how there is a massive gap between rich and poor. When really most of America is middle class. Second, the wealthy don't contribute to people being poor, considering: The poor collect welfare, government housing, food stamps, medicaid, and other safety net programs provided by the government. The government is funded by anyone who pays taxes. I don't see the reason of how the wealthy cause people to be poor. I don't understand the reasoning behind it. The wealthy, middle class, and poor, are all based on the individuals success. People will be successful, and others won't. (I am not talking about the mentally/physically handicap) That's just how life is, everyone has different abilities, I don't understand why people try to balance things and make it "perfect" when the reality is everyone has different levels of achievement. Alot of wealth is generated through different ways, either due to high education, athletics, innovative ideas, acting, musical talent, and so fourth. Not everyone can be rich, and not everyone has to be poor. I think we tend to forget majority of America is middle class. So anyways tell me what you think please I named those safety net programs because people are still poor who collect them. It doesn't get them out of their financial situation, they just sit there collecting it like it's a life style.

How can I transfer a balance? read the detail listed.? My mother is ending a relationship that she had with her boyfriend. She tried to help him get his life back together by using her credit line to pay for some expenses that he had incurred prior to them hooking up, so that he could get a job--which he has-- and start rebuilding his own credit. She is now to the point where she wants to end her relationship but transfer the remaining balance to an account that belongs to the boyfriend. She has tried to open accounts in his name but she was declined twice. Is there anyway legal or through a program where she could switch her liability on that unsecured debt so that if he refuses to pay the debt it wont negatively affect her score? In other words just take her name out of that debt.

REAL LIFE FEEDBACK: PhD in Counselor Education or PhD in Counseling Psychology? I am looking to get my PhD in Counselor Psychology. My ultimate career goal is to provide counseling services for everyday people who are dealing with problems, (NOT serious mental disorders) within my own practice, OR provide services for people who are on insurance (i.e. being on a list of providers for insurance companies). My secondary goals (if the primary doesn't play out) are to teach in the university system, and a final goal is to conduct research. All of these goals are ones I HOPE will allow me to make a good amount of money, but also have the balance of doing what I want to do. I am however wondering if getting a PhD in Counselor Education is an attractive choice, or even getting only a Masters in Counselor Education. I was very driven with Counseling Psychology, but I have been hearing from many sources that to go through a strenuous program like that may not be necessary when I can reach my same primary goals going the Counselor Education route. Is there anyone out there who can provide some REAL LIFE pros and cons of each choice? My main concern is being able to carry out my primary goals, but if I can do it with a lesser time and money investment, AND potentially make the same amount of money, it would be more attractive. I hope that the specificity of my question will yield specific answers. I am completing my Psychology undergraduate this December. I have had ample professional experience in the marketing research field (eight years) prior to this career change. Thanks! Its moreso a question about Counseling EDUCATION versus Counseling PSYCHOLOGY degrees.

If I want to be a family and litigation attorney, what major(s) could I pursue to balance the two out? I am receiving my Associates Degree in Paralegal Technology, and I am thinking about pursuing a double major in Philosophy and Psychology, and possibly considering a masters in one of the two. I am thinking that Philosophy would be a better approach since my focus is not solely on family law, rather both and I guess Philosophy will give me an understanding how everything in the world fits together, and from what I hear philosophy is an excellent degree to pursue to prepare myself for law school because it is a good critical thinking and writing and argumentative degree. As for law school, I want to be specialized in one of their dual programs. I thought about economics or accounting to have the business aspect apart of my life. Could you tell me how you would balance family law and litigation? and what masters you would get prior to law school? I want to be specialized, know everything I can and make the most amount of money that I can. However, I do not want to teach so I don't think I would need a phd in anything. Opinions? Thank you. Yes thank you. I was referring to Philosophy and Psychology for my undergraduate degree. There is no specific pre-law degree. You just need to pick any degree to prepare yourself for law school, usually any liberal arts degree, business, a lot of students pick political science, philosophy, even psychology. It just depends on the field of law they want to pursue. I have to take the LSAT after my undergrad and masters to get to law school. I have the school picked, just need advice with balancing the two areas of law that I want to practice. Law school is 4 years for a dual program (ex. law & social work or law & accountancy) or 3 years for just the JD degree. Thanks!

Is it good to drink milk? The text is too long but worthwhile read....? "MILK" Just the word itself sounds comforting! "How about a nice cup of hot milk?" The last time you heard that question it was from someone who cared for you--and you appreciated their effort. The entire matter of food and especially that of milk is surrounded with emotional and cultural importance. Milk was our very first food. If we were fortunate it was our mother's milk. A loving link, given and taken. It was the only path to survival. If not mother's milk it was cow's milk or soy milk "formula"--rarely it was goat, camel or water buffalo milk. Now, we are a nation of milk drinkers. Nearly all of us. Infants, the young, adolescents, adults and even the aged. We drink dozens or even several hundred gallons a year and add to that many pounds of "dairy products" such as cheese, butter, and yogurt. Can there be anything wrong with this? We see reassuring images of healthy, beautiful people on our television screens and hear messages that assure us that, "Milk is good for your body." Our dieticians insist that: "You've got to have milk, or where will you get your calcium?" School lunches always include milk and nearly every hospital meal will have milk added. And if that isn't enough, our nutritionists told us for years that dairy products make up an "essential food group." Industry spokesmen made sure that colourful charts proclaiming the necessity of milk and other essential nutrients were made available at no cost for schools. Cow's milk became "normal." You may be surprised to learn that most of the human beings that live on planet Earth today do not drink or use cow's milk. Further, most of them can't drink milk because it makes them ill. There are students of human nutrition who are not supportive of milk use for adults. Here is a quotation from the March/April 1991 Utne Reader: If you really want to play it safe, you may decide to join the growing number of Americans who are eliminating dairy products from their diets altogether. Although this sounds radical to those of us weaned on milk and the five basic food groups, it is eminently viable. Indeed, of all the mammals, only humans--and then only a minority, principally Caucasians--continue to drink milk beyond babyhood. Who is right? Why the confusion? Where best to get our answers? Can we trust milk industry spokesmen? Can you trust any industry spokesmen? Are nutritionists up to date or are they simply repeating what their professors learned years ago? What about the new voices urging caution? I believe that there are three reliable sources of information. The first, and probably the best, is a study of nature. The second is to study the history of our own species. Finally we need to look at the world's scientific literature on the subject of milk. Let's look at the scientific literature first. From 1988 to 1993 there were over 2,700 articles dealing with milk recorded in the 'Medicine' archives. Fifteen hundred of theses had milk as the main focus of the article. There is no lack of scientific information on this subject. I reviewed over 500 of the 1,500 articles, discarding articles that dealt exclusively with animals, esoteric research and inconclusive studies. How would I summarize the articles? They were only slightly less than horrifying. First of all, none of the authors spoke of cow's milk as an excellent food, free of side effects and the 'perfect food' as we have been led to believe by the industry. The main focus of the published reports seems to be on intestinal colic, intestinal irritation, intestinal bleeding, anemia, allergic reactions in infants and children as well as infections such as salmonella. More ominous is the fear of viral infection with bovine leukemia virus or an AIDS-like virus as well as concern for childhood diabetes. Contamination of milk by blood and white (pus) cells as well as a variety of chemicals and insecticides was also discussed. Among children the problems were allergy, ear and tonsillar infections, bedwetting, asthma, intestinal bleeding, colic and childhood diabetes. In adults the problems seemed centered more around heart disease and arthritis, allergy, sinusitis, and the more serious questions of leukemia, lymphoma and cancer. I think that an answer can also be found in a consideration of what occurs in nature & what happens with free living mammals and what happens with human groups living in close to a natural state as 'hunter-gatherers'. Our paleolithic ancestors are another crucial and interesting group to study. Here we are limited to speculation and indirect evidences, but the bony remains available for our study are remarkable. There is no doubt whatever that these skeletal remains reflect great strength, muscularity (the size of the muscular insertions show this), and total absence of advanced osteoporosis. And if you feel that these people are not important for us to study, consider that today our genes are programming our bodies in almost exactly the same way as our ancestors of 50,000 to 100,000 years ago. WHAT IS MILK? Milk is a maternal lactating secretion, a short term nutrient for new-borns. Nothing more, nothing less. Invariably, the mother of any mammal will provide her milk for a short period of time immediately after birth. When the time comes for 'weaning', the young offspring is introduced to the proper food for that species of mammal. A familiar example is that of a puppy. The mother nurses the pup for just a few weeks and then rejects the young animal and teaches it to eat solid food. Nursing is provided by nature only for the very youngest of mammals. Of course, it is not possible for animals living in a natural state to continue with the drinking of milk after weaning. IS ALL MILK THE SAME? Then there is the matter of where we get our milk. We have settled on the cow because of its docile nature, its size, and its abundant milk supply. Somehow this choice seems 'normal' and blessed by nature, our culture, and our customs. But is it natural? Is it wise to drink the milk of another species of mammal? Consider for a moment, if it was possible, to drink the milk of a mammal other than a cow, let's say a rat. Or perhaps the milk of a dog would be more to your liking. Possibly some horse milk or cat milk. Do you get the idea? Well, I'm not serious about this, except to suggest that human milk is for human infants, dogs' milk is for pups, cows' milk is for calves, cats' milk is for kittens, and so forth. Clearly, this is the way nature intends it. Just use your own good judgement on this one. Milk is not just milk. The milk of every species of mammal is unique and specifically tailored to the requirements of that animal. For example, cows' milk is very much richer in protein than human milk. Three to four times as much. It has five to seven times the mineral content. However, it is markedly deficient in essential fatty acids when compared to human mothers' milk. Mothers' milk has six to ten times as much of the essential fatty acids, especially linoleic acid. (Incidentally, skimmed cow's milk has no linoleic acid). It simply is not designed for humans. Food is not just food, and milk is not just milk. It is not only the proper amount of food but the proper qualitative composition that is critical for the very best in health and growth. Biochemists and physiologists -and rarely medical doctors - are gradually learning that foods contain the crucial elements that allow a particular species to develop its unique specializations. Clearly, our specialization is for advanced neurological development and delicate neuromuscular control. We do not have much need of massive skeletal growth or huge muscle groups as does a calf. Think of the difference between the demands make on the human hand and the demands on a cow's hoof. Human new-borns specifically need critical material for their brains, spinal cord and nerves. Can mother's milk increase intelligence? It seems that it can. In a remarkable study published in Lancet during 1992 (Vol. 339, p. 261-4), a group of British workers randomly placed premature infants into two groups. One group received a proper formula, the other group received human breast milk. Both fluids were given by stomach tube. These children were followed up for over 10 years. In intelligence testing, the human milk children averaged 10 IQ points higher! Well, why not? Why wouldn't the correct building blocks for the rapidly maturing and growing brain have a positive effect? In the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (1982) Ralph Holman described an infant who developed profound neurological disease while being nourished by intravenous fluids only. The fluids used contained only linoleic acid - just one of the essential fatty acids. When the other, alpha linoleic acid, was added to the intravenous fluids the neurological disorders cleared. In the same journal five years later Bjerve, Mostad and Thoresen, working in Norway found exactly the same problem in adult patients on long term gastric tube feeding. In 1930 Dr. G.O. Burr in Minnesota working with rats found that linoleic acid deficiencies created a deficiency syndrome. Why is this mentioned? In the early 1960s pediatricians found skin lesions in children fed formulas without the same linoleic acid. Remembering the research, the addition of the acid to the formula cured the problem. Essential fatty acids are just that and cows' milk is markedly deficient in these when compared to human milk. WELL, AT LEAST COW'S MILK IS PURE Or is it? Fifty years ago an average cow produced 2,000 pounds of milk per year. Today the top producers give 50,000 pounds! How was this accomplished? Drugs, antibiotics, hormones, forced feeding plans and specialized breeding; that's how. The latest high-tech onslaught on the poor cow is bovine growth hormone or BGH. This genetically engineered drug is supposed to stimulate milk production but, according to Monsanto, the hormone's manufacturer, does not affect the milk or meat. There are three other manufacturers: Upjohn, Eli Lilly, and American Cyanamid Company. Obviously, there have been no long-term studies on the hormone's effect on the humans drinking the milk. Other countries have banned BGH because of safety concerns. One of the problems with adding molecules to a milk cows' body is that the molecules usually come out in the milk. I don't know how you feel, but I don't want to experiment with the ingestion of a growth hormone. A related problem is that it causes a marked increase (50 to 70 per cent) in mastitis. This, then, requires antibiotic therapy, and the residues of the antibiotics appear in the milk. It seems that the public is uneasy about this product and in one survey 43 per cent felt that growth hormone treated milk represented a health risk. A vice president for public policy at Monsanto was opposed to labelling for that reason, and because the labelling would create an 'artificial distinction'. The country is awash with milk as it is, we produce more milk than we can consume. Let's not create storage costs and further taxpayer burdens, because the law requires the USDA to buy any surplus of butter, cheese, or non-fat dry milk at a support price set by Congress! In fiscal 1991, the USDA spent $757 million on surplus butter, and one billion dollars a year on average for price supports during the 1980s (Consumer Reports, May 1992: 330-32). Any lactating mammal excretes toxins through her milk. This includes antibiotics, pesticides, chemicals and hormones. Also, all cows' milk contains blood! The inspectors are simply asked to keep it under certain limits. You may be horrified to learn that the USDA allows milk to contain from one to one and a half million white blood cells per millilitre. (That's only 1/30 of an ounce). If you don't already know this, I'm sorry to tell you that another way to describe white cells where they don't belong would be to call them pus cells. To get to the point, is milk pure or is it a chemical, biological, and bacterial cocktail? Finally, will the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) protect you? The United States General Accounting Office (GAO) tells us that the FDA and the individual States are failing to protect the public from drug residues in milk. Authorities test for only 4 of the 82 drugs in dairy cows. As you can imagine, the Milk Industry Foundation's spokesman claims it's perfectly safe. Jerome Kozak says, "I still think that milk is the safest product we have." Other, perhaps less biased observers, have found the following: 38% of milk samples in 10 cities were contaminated with sulfa drugs or other antibiotics. (This from the Centre for Science in the Public Interest and The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 29, 1989).. A similar study in Washington, DC found a 20 percent contamination rate (Nutrition Action Healthletter, April 1990). What's going on here? When the FDA tested milk, they found few problems. However, they used very lax standards. When they used the same criteria, the FDA data showed 51 percent of the milk samples showed drug traces. Let's focus in on this because it’s critical to our understanding of the apparent discrepancies. The FDA uses a disk-assay method that can detect only 2 of the 30 or so drugs found in milk. Also, the test detects only at the relatively high level. A more powerful test called the 'Charm II test' can detect drugs down to 5 parts per billion. One nasty subject must be discussed. It seems that cows are forever getting infections around the udder that require ointments and antibiotics. An article from France tells us that when a cow receives penicillin, that penicillin appears in the milk for from 4 to 7 milkings. Another study from the University of Nevada, Reno tells of cells in 'mastic milk', milk from cows with infected udders. An elaborate analysis of the cell fragments, employing cell cultures, flow cytometric analysis , and a great deal of high tech stuff. Do you know what the conclusion was? If the cow has mastitis, there is pus in the milk. Sorry, it’s in the study, all concealed with language such as "macrophages containing many vacuoles and phagocytosed particles," etc. IT GETS WORSE Well, at least human mothers' milk is pure! Sorry. A huge study showed that human breast milk in over 14,000 women had contamination by pesticides! Further, it seems that the sources of the pesticides are meat and--you guessed it-- dairy products. Well, why not? These pesticides are concentrated in fat and that's what's in these products. (Of interest, a subgroup of lactating vegetarian mothers had only half the levels of contamination). A recent report showed an increased concentration of pesticides in the breast tissue of women with breast cancer when compared to the tissue of women with fibrocystic disease. Other articles in the standard medical literature describe problems. Just scan these titles: 1.Cow's Milk as a Cause of Infantile Colic Breast-Fed Infants. Lancet 2 (1978): 437 2.Dietary Protein-Induced Colitis in Breast- Fed Infants, J. Pediatr. I01 (1982): 906 3.The Question of the Elimination of Foreign Protein in Women's Milk, J. Immunology 19 (1930): 15 There are many others. There are dozens of studies describing the prompt appearance of cows' milk allergy in children being exclusively breast-fed! The cows' milk allergens simply appear in the mother's milk and are transmitted to the infant. A committee on nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics reported on the use of whole cows' milk in infancy (Pediatrics 1983: 72-253). They were unable to provide any cogent reason why bovine milk should be used before the first birthday yet continued to recommend its use! Doctor Frank Oski from the Upstate Medical Centre Department of Pediatrics, commenting on the recommendation, cited the problems of acute gastrointestinal blood loss in infants, the lack of iron, recurrent abdominal pain, milk- borne infections and contaminants, and said: Why give it at all - then or ever? In the face of uncertainty about many of the potential dangers of whole bovine milk, it would seem prudent to recommend that whole milk not be started until the answers are available. Isn't it time for these uncontrolled experiments on human nutrition to come to an end? In the same issue of Pediatrics he further commented: It is my thesis that whole milk should not be fed to the infant in the first year of life because of its association with iron deficiency anemia (milk is so deficient in iron that an infant would have to drink an impossible 31 quarts a day to get the RDA of 15 mg), acute gastrointiestinal bleeding, and various manifestations of food allergy. I suggest that unmodified whole bovine milk should not be consumed after infancy because of the problems of lactose intolerance, its contribution to the genesis of atherosclerosis, and its possible link to other diseases. In late 1992 Dr. Benjamin Spock, possibly the best known pediatrician in history, shocked the country when he articulated the same thoughts and specified avoidance for the first two years of life. Here is his quotation: I want to pass on the word to parents that cows' milk from the carton has definite faults for some babies. Human milk is the right one for babies. A study comparing the incidence of allergy and colic in the breast-fed infants of omnivorous and vegan mothers would be important. I haven't found such a study; it would be both important and inexpensive. And it will probably never be done. There is simply no academic or economic profit involved. OTHER PROBLEMS Let's just mention the problems of bacterial contamination. Salmonella, E. coli, and staphylococcal infections can be traced to milk. In the old days tuberculosis was a major problem and some folks want to go back to those times by insisting on raw milk on the basis that it's "natural." This is insanity! A study from UCLA showed that over a third of all cases of salmonella infection in California, 1980-1983 were traced to raw milk. That'll be a way to revive good old brucellosis again and I would fear leukemia, too. (More about that later). In England, and Wales where raw milk is still consumed there have been outbreaks of milk-borne diseases. The Journal of the American Medical Association (251: 483, 1984) reported a multi-state series of infections caused by Yersinia enterocolitica in pasteurised whole milk. This is despite safety precautions. All parents dread juvenile diabetes for their children. A Canadian study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Mar. 1990, describes a "...significant positive correlation between consumption of unfermented milk protein and incidence of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus in data from various countries. Conversely a possible negative relationship is observed between breast-feeding at age 3 months and diabetes risk.". Another study from Finland found that diabetic children had higher levels of serum antibodies to cows’ milk (Diabetes Research 7(3): 137-140 March 1988). Here is a quotation from this study: We infer that either the pattern of cows' milk consumption is altered in children who will have insulin dependent diabetes mellitus or, their immunological reactivity to proteins in cows' milk is enhanced, or the permeability of their intestines to cows' milk protein is higher than normal. The April 18, 1992 British Medical Journal has a fascinating study contrasting the difference in incidence of juvenile insulin dependent diabetes in Pakistani children who have migrated to England. The incidence is roughly 10 times greater in the English group compared to children remaining in Pakistan! What caused this highly significant increase? The authors said that "the diet was unchanged in Great Britain." Do you believe that? Do you think that the availability of milk, sugar and fat is the same in Pakistan as it is in England? That a grocery store in England has the same products as food sources in Pakistan? I don't believe that for a minute. Remember, we're not talking here about adult onset, type II diabetes which all workers agree is strongly linked to diet as well as to a genetic predisposition. This study is a major blow to the "it's all in your genes" crowd. Type I diabetes was always considered to be genetic or possibly viral, but now this? So resistant are we to consider diet as causation that the authors of the last article concluded that the cooler climate in England altered viruses and caused the very real increase in diabetes! The first two authors had the same reluctance top admit the obvious. The milk just may have had something to do with the disease. The latest in this remarkable list of reports, a New England Journal of Medicine article (July 30, 1992), also reported in the Los Angeles Times. This study comes from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and from Finnish researchers. In Finland there is "...the world's highest rate of dairy product consumption and the world's highest rate of insulin dependent diabetes. The disease strikes about 40 children out of every 1,000 there contrasted with six to eight per 1,000 in the United States.... Antibodies produced against the milk protein during the first year of life, the researchers speculate, also attack and destroy the pancreas in a so-called auto-immune reaction, producing diabetes in people whose genetic makeup leaves them vulnerable." "...142 Finnish children with newly diagnosed diabetes. They found that every one had at least eight times as many antibodies against the milk protein as did healthy children, clear evidence that the children had a raging auto immune disorder." The team has now expanded the study to 400 children and is starting a trial where 3,000 children will receive no dairy products during the first nine months of life. "The study may take 10 years, but we'll get a definitive answer one way or the other," according to one of the researchers. I would caution them to be certain that the breast feeding mothers use on cows' milk in their diets or the results will be confounded by the transmission of the cows' milk protein in the mother's breast milk.... Now what was the reaction from the diabetes association? This is very interesting! Dr. F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer, the president of the association says: "It does not mean that children should stop drinking milk or that parents of diabetics should withdraw dairy products. These are rich sources of good protein." (Emphasis added) My God, it's the "good protein" that causes the problem! Do you suspect that the dairy industry may have helped the American Diabetes Association in the past? LEUKEMIA? LYMPHOMA? THIS MAY BE THE WORST--BRACE YOURSELF! I hate to tell you this, but the bovine leukemia virus is found in more than three of five dairy cows in the United States! This involves about 80% of dairy herds. Unfortunately, when the milk is pooled, a very large percentage of all milk produced is contaminated (90 to 95 per cent). Of course the virus is killed in pasteurisation-- if the pasteurisation was done correctly. What if the milk is raw? In a study of randomly collected raw milk samples the bovine leukemia virus was recovered from two-thirds. I sincerely hope that the raw milk dairy herds are carefully monitored when compared to the regular herds. (Science 1981; 213:1014). This is a world-wide problem. One lengthy study from Germany deplored the problem and admitted the impossibility of keeping the virus from infected cows' milk from the rest of the milk. Several European countries, including Germany and Switzerland, have attempted to "cull" the infected cows from their herds. Certainly the United States must be the leader in the fight against leukemic dairy cows, right? Wrong! We are the worst in the world with the former exception of Venezuela according to Virgil Hulse MD, a milk specialist who also has a B.S. in Dairy Manufacturing as well as a Master's degree in Public Health. As mentioned, the leukemia virus is rendered inactive by pasteurisation. Of course. However, there can be Chernobyl like accidents. One of these occurred in the Chicago area in April, 1985. At a modern, large, milk processing plant an accidental "cross connection" between raw and pasteurized milk occurred. A violent salmonella outbreak followed, killing 4 and making an estimated 150,000 ill. Now the question I would pose to the dairy industry people is this: "How can you assure the people who drank this milk that they were not exposed to the ingestion of raw, unkilled, bully active bovine leukemia viruses?" Further, it would be fascinating to know if a "cluster" of leukemia cases blossoms in that area in 1 to 3 decades. There are reports of "leukemia clusters" elsewhere, one of them mentioned in the June 10, 1990 San Francisco Chronicle involving Northern California. What happens to other species of mammals when they are exposed to the bovine leukemia virus? It's a fair question and the answer is not reassuring. Virtually all animals exposed to the virus develop leukemia. This includes sheep, goats, and even primates such as rhesus monkeys and chimpanzees. The route of transmission includes ingestion (both intravenous and intramuscular) and cells present in milk. There are obviously no instances of transfer attempts to human beings, but we know that the virus can infect human cells in vitro. There is evidence of human antibody formation to the bovine leukemia virus; this is disturbing. How did the bovine leukemia virus particles gain access to humans and become antigens? Was it as small, denatured particles? If the bovine leukemia viruses causes human leukemia, we could expect the dairy states with known leukemic herds to have a higher incidence of human leukemia. Is this so? Unfortunately, it seems to be the case! Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin have statistically higher incidence of leukemia than the national average. In Russia and in Sweden, areas with uncontrolled bovine leukemia virus have been linked with increases in human leukemia. I am also told that veterinarians have higher rates of leukemia than the general public. Dairy farmers have significantly elevated leukemia rates. Recent research shows lymphocytes from milk fed to neonatal mammals gains access to bodily tissues by passing directly through the intestinal wall. An optimistic note from the University of Illinois, Ubana from the Department of Animal Sciences shows the importance of one's perspective. Since they are concerned with the economics of milk and not primarily the health aspects, they noted that the production of milk was greater in the cows with the bovine leukemia virus. However when the leukemia produced a persistent and significant lymphocytosis (increased white blood cell count), the production fell off. They suggested "a need to re-evaluate the economic impact of bovine leukemia virus infection on the dairy industry". Does this mean that leukemia is good for profits only if we can keep it under control? You can get the details on this business concern from Proc. Nat. Acad. Sciences, U.S. Feb. 1989. I added emphasis and am insulted that a university department feels that this is an economic and not a human health issue. Do not expect help from the Department of Agriculture or the universities. The money stakes and the political pressures are too great. You're on you own. What does this all mean? We know that virus is capable of producing leukemia in other animals. Is it proven that it can contribute to human leukemia (or lymphoma, a related cancer)? Several articles tackle this one: 1.Epidemiologic Relationships of the Bovine Population and Human Leukemia in Iowa. Am Journal of Epidemiology 112 (1980):80 2.Milk of Dairy Cows Frequently Contains a Leukemogenic Virus. Science 213 (1981): 1014 3.Beware of the Cow. (Editorial) Lancet 2 (1974):30 4.Is Bovine Milk A Health Hazard?. Pediatrics; Suppl. Feeding the Normal Infant. 75:182-186; 1985 In Norway, 1422 individuals were followed for 11 and a half years. Those drinking 2 or more glasses of milk per day had 3.5 times the incidence of cancer of the lymphatic organs. British Med. Journal 61:456-9, March 1990. One of the more thoughtful articles on this subject is from Allan S. Cunningham of Cooperstown, New York. Writing in the Lancet, November 27, 1976 (page 1184), his article is entitled, "Lymphomas and Animal-Protein Consumption". Many people think of milk as “liquid meat” and Dr. Cunningham agrees with this. He tracked the beef and dairy consumption in terms of grams per day for a one year period, 1955-1956., in 15 countries . New Zealand, United States and Canada were highest in that order. The lowest was Japan followed by Yugoslavia and France. The difference between the highest and lowest was quite pronounced: 43.8 grams/day for New Zealanders versus 1.5 for Japan. Nearly a 30-fold difference! (Parenthetically, the last 36 years have seen a startling increase in the amount of beef and milk used in Japan and their disease patterns are reflecting this, confirming the lack of 'genetic protection' seen in migration studies. Formerly the increase in frequency of lymphomas in Japanese people was only in those who moved to the USA)! An interesting bit of trivia is to note the memorial built at the Gyokusenji Temple in Shimoda, Japan. This marked the spot where the first cow was killed in Japan for human consumption! The chains around this memorial were a gift from the US Navy. Where do you suppose the Japanese got the idea to eat beef? The year? 1930. Cunningham found a highly significant positive correlation between deaths from lymphomas and beef and dairy ingestion in the 15 countries analysed. A few quotations from his article follow: The average intake of protein in many countries is far in excess of the recommended requirements. Excessive consumption of animal protein may be one co-factor in the causation of lymphomas by acting in the following manner. Ingestion of certain proteins results in the adsorption of antigenic fragments through the gastrointestinal mucous membrane. This results in chronic stimulation of lymphoid tissue to which these fragments gain access "Chronic immunological stimulation causes lymphomas in laboratory animals and is believed to cause lymphoid cancers in men." The gastrointestinal mucous membrane is only a partial barrier to the absorption of food antigens, and circulating antibodies to food protein is commonplace especially potent lymphoid stimulants. Ingestion of cows' milk can produce generalized lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, and profound adenoid hypertrophy. It has been conservatively estimated that more than 100 distinct antigens are released by the normal digestion of cows' milk which evoke production of all antibody classes [This may explain why pasteurized, killed viruses are still antigenic and can still cause disease. Here's more. A large prospective study from Norway was reported in the British Journal of Cancer 61 (3):456-9, March 1990. (Almost 16,000 individuals were followed for 11 and a half years). For most cancers there was no association between the tumour and milk ingestion. However, in lymphoma, there was a strong positive association. If one drank two glasses or more daily (or the equivalent in dairy products), the odds were 3.4 times greater than in persons drinking less than one glass of developing a lymphoma. There are two other cow-related diseases that you should be aware of. At this time they are not known to be spread by the use of dairy products and are not known to involve man. The first is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), and the second is the bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV). The first of these diseases, we hope, is confined to England and causes cavities in the animal's brain. Sheep have long been known to suffer from a disease called scrapie. It seems to have been started by the feeding of contaminated sheep parts, especially brains, to the British cows. Now, use your good sense. Do cows seem like carnivores? Should they eat meat? This profit-motivated practice backfired and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or Mad Cow Disease, swept Britain. The disease literally causes dementia in the unfortunate animal and is 100 per cent incurable. To date, over 100,000 cows have been incinerated in England in keeping with British law. Four hundred to 500 cows are reported as infected each month. The British public is concerned and has dropped its beef consumption by 25 per cent, while some 2,000 schools have stopped serving beef to children. Several farmers have developed a fatal disease syndrome that resembles both BSE and CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob- Disease). But the British Veterinary Association says that transmission of BSE to humans is "remote." The USDA agrees that the British epidemic was due to the feeding of cattle with bonemeal or animal protein produced at rendering plants from the carcasses of scrapie-infected sheep. The have prohibited the importation of live cattle and zoo ruminants from Great Britain and claim that the disease does not exist in the United States. However, there may be a problem. "Downer cows" are animals who arrive at auction yards or slaughter houses dead, trampled, lacerated, dehydrated, or too ill from viral or bacterial diseases to walk. Thus they are "down." If they cannot respond to electrical shocks by walking, they are dragged by chains to dumpsters and transported to rendering plants where, if they are not already dead, they are killed. Even a "humane" death is usually denied them. They are then turned into protein food for animals as well as other preparations. Minks that have been fed this protein have developed a fatal encephalopathy that has some resemblance to BSE. Entire colonies of minks have been lost in this manner, particularly in Wisconsin. It is feared that the infective agent is a prion or slow virus possible obtained from the ill "downer cows." The British Medical Journal in an editorial whimsically entitled "How Now Mad Cow?" (BMJ vol. 304, 11 Apr. 1992:929- 30) describes cases of BSE in species not previously known to be affected, such as cats. They admit that produce contaminated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy entered the human food chain in England between 1986 and 1989. They say. "The result of this experiment is awaited." As the incubation period can be up to three decades, wait we must. The immunodeficency virus is seen in cattle in the United States and is more worrisome. Its structure is closely related to that of the human AIDS virus. At this time we do not know if exposure to the raw BIV proteins can cause the sera of humans to become positive for HIV. The extent of the virus among American herds is said to be "widespread". (The USDA refuses to inspect the meat and milk to see if antibodies to this retrovirus is present). It also has no plans to quarantine the infected animals. As in the case of humans with AIDS, there is no cure for BIV in cows. Each day we consume beef and diary products from cows infected with these viruses and no scientific assurance exists that the products are safe. Eating raw beef (as in steak Tartare) strikes me as being very risky, especially after the Seattle E. coli deaths of 1993. A report in the Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research, October 1992, Vol. 56 pp.353-359 and another from the Russian literature, tell of a horrifying development. They report the first detection in human serum of the antibody to a bovine immunodeficiency virus protein. In addition to this disturbing report, is another from Russia telling us of the presence of virus proteins related to the bovine leukemia virus in 5 of 89 women with breast disease (Acta Virologica Feb. 1990 34(1): 19-26). The implications of these developments are unknown at present. However, it is safe to assume that these animal viruses are unlikely to "stay" in the animal kingdom. OTHER CANCERS--DOES IT GET WORSE? Unfortunately it does. Ovarian cancer--a particularly nasty tumour--was associated with milk consumption by workers at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, New York. Drinking more than one glass of whole milk or equivalent daily gave a woman a 3.1 times risk over non-milk users. They felt that the reduced fat milk products helped reduce the risk. This association has been made repeatedly by numerous investigators. Another important study, this from the Harvard Medical School, analyzed data from 27 countries mainly from the 1970s. Again a significant positive correlation is revealed between ovarian cancer and per capita milk consumption. These investigators feel that the lactose component of milk is the responsible fraction, and the digestion of this is facilitated by the persistence of the ability to digest the lactose (lactose persistence) - a little different emphasis, but the same conclusion. This study was reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology 130 (5): 904-10 Nov. 1989. These articles come from two of the country's leading institutions, not the Rodale Press or Prevention Magazine. Even lung cancer has been associated with milk ingestion? The beverage habits of 569 lung cancer patients and 569 controls again at Roswell Park were studied in the International Journal of Cancer, April 15, 1989. Persons drinking whole milk 3 or more times daily had a 2-fold increase in lung cancer risk when compared to those never drinking whole milk. For many years we have been watching the lung cancer rates for Japanese men who smoke far more than American or European men but who develop fewer lung cancers. Workers in this research area feel that the total fat intake is the difference. There are not many reports studying an association between milk ingestion and prostate cancer. One such report though was of great interest. This is from the Roswell Park Memorial Institute and is found in Cancer 64 (3): 605-12, 1989. They analyzed the diets of 371 prostate cancer patients and comparable control subjects: Men who reported drinking three or more glasses of whole milk daily had a relative risk of 2.49 compared with men who reported never drinking whole milk the weight of the evidence appears to favour the hypothesis that animal fat is related to increased risk of prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is now the most common cancer diagnosed in US men and is the second leading cause of cancer mortality. WELL, WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS? Is there any health reason at all for an adult human to drink cows' milk? It's hard for me to come up with even one good reason other than simple preference. But if you try hard, in my opinion, these would be the best two: milk is a source of calcium and it's a source of amino acids (proteins). Let's look at the calcium first. Why are we concerned at all about calcium? Obviously, we intend it to build strong bones and protect us against osteoporosis. And no doubt about it, milk is loaded with calcium. But is it a good calcium source for humans? I think not. These are the reasons. Excessive amounts of dairy products actually interfere with calcium absorption. Secondly, the excess of protein that the milk provides is a major cause of the osteoporosis problem. Dr. H egsted in England has been writing for years about the geographical distribution of osteoporosis. It seems that the countries with the highest intake of dairy products are invariably the countries with the most osteoporosis. He feels that milk is a cause of osteoporosis. Reasons to be given below. Numerous studies have shown that the level of calcium ingestion and especially calcium supplementation has no effect whatever on the development of osteoporosis. The most important such article appeared recently in the British Journal of Medicine where the long arm of our dairy industry can't reach. Another study in the United States actually showed a worsening in calcium balance in post-menopausal women given three 8-ounce glasses of cows' milk per day. (Am. Journal of Clin. Nutrition, 1985). The effects of hormone, gender, weight bearing on the axial bones, and in particular protein intake, are critically important. Another observation that may be helpful to our analysis is to note the absence of any recorded dietary deficiencies of calcium among people living on a natural diet without milk. For the key to the osteoporosis riddle, don’t look at calcium, look at protein. Consider these two contrasting groups. Eskimos have an exceptionally high protein intake estimated at 25 percent of total calories. They also have a high calcium intake at 2,500 mg/day. Their osteoporosis is among the worst in the world. The other instructive group are the Bantus of South Africa. They have a 12 percent protein diet, mostly p lant protein, and only 200 to 350 mg/day of calcium, about half our women's intake. The women have virtually no osteoporosis despite bearing six or more children and nursing them for prolonged periods! When African women immigrate to the United States, do they develop osteoporosis? The answer is yes, but not quite are much as Caucasian or Asian women. Thus, there is a genetic difference that is modified by diet. To answer the obvious question, "Well, where do you get your calcium?" The answer is: "From exactly the same place the cow gets the calcium, from green things that grow in the ground," mainly from leafy vegetables. After all, elephants and rhinos develop their huge bones (after being weaned) by eating green leafy plants, so do horses. Carnivorous animals also do quite nicely without leafy plants. It seems that all of earth's mammals do well if they live in harmony with their genetic programming and natural food. Only humans living an affluent life style have rampant osteoporosis. If animal references do not convince you, think of the several billion humans on this earth who have never seen cows' milk. Wouldn't you think osteoporosis would be prevalent in this huge group? The dairy people would suggest this but the truth is exactly the opposite. They have far less than that seen in the countries where dairy products are commonly consumed. It is the subject of another paper, but the truly significant determinants of osteoporosis are grossly excessive protein intakes and lack of weight bearing on long bones, both taking place over decades. Hormones play a secondary, but not trivial role in women. Milk is a deterrent to good bone health. THE PROTEIN MYTH Remember when you were a kid and the adults all told you to "make sure you get plenty of good protein". Protein was the nutritional "good guy”" when I was young. And of course milk is fitted right in. As regards protein, milk is indeed a rich source of protein- -"liquid meat," remember? However that isn't necessarily what we need. In actual fact it is a source of difficulty. Nearly all Americans eat too much protein. For this information we rely on the most authoritative source that I am aware of. This is the latest edition (1oth, 1989: 4th printing, Jan. 1992) of the Recommended Dietary Allowances produced by the National Research Council. Of interest, the current editor of this important work is Dr. Richard Havel of the University of California in San Francisco. First to be noted is that the recommended protein has been steadily revised downward in successive editions. The current recommendation is 0.75 g/kilo/day for adults 19 through 51 years. This, of course, is only 45 grams per day for the mythical 60 kilogram adult. You should also know that the WHO estimated the need for protein in adults to by .6g/kilo per day. (All RDA's are calculated with large safety allowances in case you're the type that wants to add some more to "be sure.") You can "get by" on 28 to 30 grams a day if necessary! Now 45 grams a day is a tiny amount of protein. That's an ounce and a half! Consider too, that the protein does not have to be animal protein. Vegetable protein is identical for all practical purposes and has no cholesterol and vastly less saturated fat. (Do not be misled by the antiquated belief that plant proteins must be carefully balanced to avoid deficiencies. This is not a realistic concern.) Therefore virtually all Americans, Canadians, British and European people are in a protein overloaded state. This has serious consequences when maintained over decades. The problems are the already mentioned osteoporosis, atherosclerosis and kidney damage. There is good evidence that certain malignancies, chiefly colon and rectal, are related to excessive meat intake. Barry Brenner, an eminent renal physiologist was the first to fully point out the dangers of excess protein for the kidney tubule. The dangers of the fat and cholesterol are known to all. Finally, you should know that the protein content of human milk is amount the lowest (0.9%) in mammals. IS THAT ALL OF THE TROUBLE? Sorry, there's more. Remember lactose? This is the principal carbohydrate of milk. It seems that nature provides new- borns with the enzymatic equipment to metabolize lactose, but this ability often extinguishes by age 4 or 5 years. What is the problem with lactose or milk sugar? It seems that it is a disaccharide which is too large to be absorbed into the blood stream without first being broken down into monosaccharides, namely galactose and glucose. This requires the presence of an enzyme, lactase plus additional enzymes to break down the galactose into glucose. Let's think about his for a moment. Nature gives us the ability to metabolize lactose for a few years and then shuts off the mechanism. Is Mother Nature trying to tell us something? Clearly all infants must drink milk. The fact that so many adults cannot seems to be related to the tendency for nature to abandon mechanisms that are not needed. At least half of the adult humans on this earth are lactose intolerant. It was not until the relatively recent introduction of dairy herding and the ability to "borrow" milk from another group of mammals that the survival advantage of preserving lactase (the enzyme that allows us to digest lactose) became evident. But why would it be advantageous to drink cows' milk? After all, most of the human beings in the history of the world did. And further, why was it just the white or light skinned humans who retained this knack while the pigmented people tended to lose it? Some students of evolution feel that white skin is a fairly recent innovation, perhaps not more than 20,000 or 30,000 years old. It clearly has to do with the Northward migration of early man to cold and relatively sunless areas when skins and clothing became available. Fair skin allows the production of Vitamin D from sunlight more readily than does dark skin. However, when only the face was exposed to sunlight that area of fair skin was insufficient to provide the vitamin D from sunlight. If dietary and sunlight sources were poorly available, the ability to use the abundant calcium in cows' milk would give a survival advantage to humans who could digest that milk. This seems to be the only logical explanation for fair skinned humans having a high degree of lactose tolerance when compared to dark skinned people. How does this break down? Certain racial groups, namely blacks are up to 90% lactose intolerant as adults. Caucasians are 20 to 40% lactose intolerant. Orientals are midway between the above two groups. Diarrhea, gas and abdominal cramps are the results of substantial milk intake in such persons. Most American Indians cannot tolerate milk. The milk industry admits that lactose intolerance plays intestinal havoc with as many as 50 million Americans. A lactose-intolerance industry has sprung up and had sales of $117 million in 1992 (Time May 17, 1993.) What if you are lactose-intolerant and lust after dairy products? Is all lost? Not at all. It seems that lactose is largely digested by bacteria and you will be able to enjoy your cheese despite lactose intolerance. Yogurt is similar in this respect. Finally, and I could never have dreamed this up, geneticists want to splice genes to alter the composition of milk (Am J Clin Nutr 1993 Suppl 302s). One could quibble and say that milk is totally devoid of fiber content and that its habitual use will predispose to constipation and bowel disorders. The association with anemia and occult intestinal bleeding in infants is known to all physicians. This is chiefly from its lack of iron and its irritating qualities for the intestinal mucosa. The pediatric literature abounds with articles describing irritated intestinal lining, bleeding, increased permeability as well as colic, diarrhea and vomiting in cows'milk-sensitive babies. The anemia gets a double push by loss of blood and iron as well as deficiency of iron in the cows' milk. Milk is also the leading cause of childhood allergy. LOW FAT One additional topic: the matter of "low fat" milk. A common and sincere question is: "Well, low fat milk is OK, isn't it?" The answer to this question is that low fat milk isn't low fat. The term "low fat" is a marketing term used to gull the public. Low fat milk contains from 24 to 33% fat as calories! The 2% figure is also misleading. This refers to weight. They don't tell you that, by weight, the milk is 87% water! "Well, then, kill-joy surely you must approve of non-fat milk!" I hear this quite a bit. (Another constant concern is: "What do you put on your cereal?") True, there is little or no fat, but now you have a relative overburden of protein and lactose. It there is something that we do not need more of it is another simple sugar-lactose, composed of galactose and glucose. Millions of Americans are lactose intolerant to boot, as noted. As for protein, as stated earlier, we live in a society that routinely ingests far more protein than we need. It is a burden for our bodies, especially the kidneys, and a prominent cause of osteoporosis. Concerning the dry cereal issue, I would suggest soy milk, rice milk or almond milk as a healthy substitute. If you're still concerned about calcium, "Westsoy" is formulated to have the same calcium concentration as milk. SUMMARY To my thinking, there is only one valid reason to drink milk or use milk products. That is just because we simply want to. Because we like it and because it has become a part of our culture. Because we have become accustomed to its taste and texture. Because we like the way it slides down our throat. Because our parents did the very best they could for us and provided milk in our earliest training and conditioning. They taught us to like it. And then probably the very best reason is ice cream! I've heard it described "to die for". I had one patient who did exactly that. He had no obvious vices. He didn't smoke or drink, he didn’t eat meat, his diet and lifestyle was nearly a perfectly health promoting one; but he had a passion. You guessed it, he loved rich ice cream. A pint of the richest would be a lean day's ration for him. On many occasions he would eat an entire quart - and yes there were some cookies and other pastries. Good ice cream deserves this after all. He seemed to be in good health despite some expected "middle age spread" when he had a devastating stroke which left him paralyzed, miserable and helpless, and he had additional strokes and d ied several years later never having left a hospital or rehabilitation unit. Was he old? I don't think so. He was in his 50s. So don't drink milk for health. I am convinced on the weight of the scientific evidence that it does not "do a body good." Inclusion of milk will only reduce your diet's nutritional value and safety. Most of the people on this planet live very healthfully without cows' milk. You can too. 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Can someone please help me with my calc project? i need to do it using the maple program.? a couple have just taken on a mortgage of $200,000. an annual interest rate of 7.5% compounded monthly is being offered for a 30-year loan (360 payments). Two different payment schemes are offered. One consists of a series of ballooning house payments which will increase by exactly the same amount each month until the loan is paid off. the first month's payment is only $1250, which is exactly the interest due during the first month. determine how much the house payment is to increase each month. list the sequence of payments. list the sequence of balances over the life of the loan. the other payment scheme is a fixed payment each month over the life of the loan. determine how much that payment should be. list the sequence of balances over the life of the loan. the Truth in Lending Law requires that you tell your client the true total cost of the loan for each payment schedule. determine these amounts for each of the two payment plans. i will be indebted to anyone who can help.

What do you think Illegal immigrants a financial burden on Michigan ? For several months now, alarm bells in Lansing have been ringing uncontrollably as we are warned of the state's impending financial collapse should we fail to balance our budget and keep the cost of doing state business down. Unfortunately, many in Lansing are only willing to pay lip service to the problem rather than finding solutions to it. I choose to focus on the concerns of the taxpayers from the 74th district and their agenda, rather than the Lansing agenda of raising taxes and partisan bickering. For this reason, I am happy to join other Republicans in support of the Taxpayer's Agenda. An important part of this Taxpayer's Agenda is the creation of several task forces to address the issues that many in Lansing choose to neglect. I am excited to be a member of the Border Security and Immigration Reform, which focuses on homeland security and seeks ways to limit the negative impact that illegal immigration has on Michigan's economy. Taxpayer dollars are being used to subsidize illegal aliens in this state, and state programs are the vehicle that allows this. Medicaid costs have been increasing by millions annually, and the last thing we need is the added cost of care for people who should not be here in the first place. Other Midwest states have gone to a system where a Medicaid applicant must prove their citizenship before receiving assistance. After doing so, those states have seen a 5 percent reduction in Medicaid expenditures. If Michigan were to implement a similar program and achieve similar results, we could see a drastic decrease in Medicaid spending totaling roughly $125 million. Illegal immigrants who go to hospitals for emergency care rarely have the means to pay for their care. However, due to current laws, hospitals are not allowed to deny treatment based on inability to pay. As a result, the hospitals must count this "free" care as a loss, therefore passing the cost of this care onto other paying customers. Spectrum Health incurred charges of more than $700,000 last year alone on illegal immigrant health care, and they expect that figure to increase this year. Michigan's employment environment is also polluted with illegal immigrants. In fact, there have been several instances in which new projects have been hijacked by illegal immigrant workers. In the Thumb area of Michigan, the Harvest Wind Farm project so highly touted by Gov. Jennifer Granholm was being staffed by a contractor who hires not only out of state workers, but employs illegal immigrants as well. After first chiding the Republicans for forming the Immigration and Homeland Security Task Force, the Democrats have recently introduced legislation embracing some of our ideas. However, their half-hearted attempts don't stand up under scrutiny. Although they say they want to punish employers who hire illegals, they would only do so by canceling state contracts with these companies and requiring them to pay back incentives. No other punitive action would be taken. This is unacceptable. The latest task force hearing held in Jenison focused on homeland security threats that Michigan is now plagued with because of illegal immigration. Testimony included representatives from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Ottawa County Sheriffs, 9/11 families for a more secure America; and Jon DeWitte from Congressman Peter Hoekstra's office. The discussion centered on of law enforcement personnel, security officials and other concerned community members. We were successful in our mission to conduct a frank discussion in ways that we can end the unnecessary burden of illegal immigrants on our state. As my colleagues and I travel the state we look forward to hearing ideas from a diverse background. -- Rep. David Agema represents the 74th House District. He lives in Grandville. http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1189233975131770.xml&coll=6

How was the Clinton adminsitration balancing the budget? During the Clinton years the budget allegedly was going to be balanced by 2002, How was this possible when he pardoned many criminals who evaded taxes, cut many federal programs such as welfare and our military protection yet allowed legislation to pass bills that doubled the presidents salary, increased legislative salaries and gave themselves annual salary increases far beyond tax payers increases in addition to unlimited health care and a large pension plan that relieved the senate of FICA taxes? By heavily taxing the working class and pardoning their supporters who evade paying taxes? By cutting spending to social programs while increasing benefit packages of president and senators (that we will pay for for the rest of each leaders life? By spending millions to control crime then set the worst ones free becasue they donate to political campaigns or serve other purposes?

Can you recommend a laptop/Notebook with really good battery life/efficiency? I need a portable Laptop for some traveling that I have coming up. It needs to be/ have: Small and compact, 15" screen max. Balanced in Specs and able to run some form of photo processing Programs. Excellent battery Life Minimum power consumption And around 160gb+ hard drive space. The idea is that I can have the laptop and camera with me along with a compatible Solar charger. Thus being able to take and store pictures over a prolonged period of time that I will be away from mass civilization :P Cheers in advance :)

life advice from the wise? sometimes i feel like i am stuck in life. i'm a college junior bio major, my grades arne't bad but they're not great, i'm shooting to get into an accelerated RN program and set into my career after that. I have my plan and i know what i want to do but why do i feel so stuck? like my time from here to my career is just whatever, blah. i seek content in simply things and just being in solitude. i have a loving boyfriend and great friends but why don't i feel like this is it? sometimes when i feel stability, i don't want it to change, but knowing life change is ALWAYS constant. how do i accept change in my life without trying to hold on to the past? maybe life is all about finding out and maintaining a balance.. i want to gain some insight from the elder, because i feel that wisdom and knowledge comes with age.

I'd like to become a Counseling Psychologist, yet everyone suggests becoming a Lawyer. Can I find a balance? I'm completing my undergrad Psychology degree this December. I am in the process of applying for a PhD in Counseling Psychology program. My goal is to ultimately have my own practice. At the most basic, I love giving advice, listening, and helping people with their problems. However, throughout my life, EVERYONE, even professors, suggests I may be a good Lawyer. More recently a lot of people close to me are suggesting it because it would be less school than the PhD program, and I have the opportunity to make more money doing the same thing. Although I feel I would be a great lawyer, I am not sure of how I can have a balance of doing what is important to me, such as helping people who are going through emotional, relationship or career problems, if I were to become a lawyer. Are there some facets or career tracks in law that would give me a balance of being able to provide a personal touch of helping people that I'm not aware of? I don't want to just become a lawyer and end up not enjoying the human service portion of Counseling I know I would enjoy. More than anything, I am reconsidering it because 3 years and earning more money does sound more reasonable than 7 years and earning less. I am specifically looking for LAW careers that would strike the balance. What type of lawyers would do work most similar to the type of work I want to do in counseling?

have u heard these proverbs for a "HEALTHIER" life? * If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out. * Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. * Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a mechanic. * Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. * If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before. * My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. * Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. * It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. * For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. * If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip. * Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks. * A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. * Eat well, stay fit, die anyway. * Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it. * No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes. * A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. * Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places. * Opportunities always look bigger going than coming. * Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it. * There is always one more imbecile than you counted on. * Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. * By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends. * Thou shall not weigh more than thy refrigerator. * Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world. * Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

leave the US due to looming fiscal disaster? I am seriously thinking about leaving the US due to the looming financial mess on the horizon. I'm a 25 year old professional, and with the baby boomers retiring soon Social Security and Medicare will become enormous burdens on the fewer workers who remain in the workforce (i.e., me) to pay taxes. The only ways to balance the budget, that I see, are through higher taxes on my wages, or a devaluation of the dollar. Either way my standard of living will take a hit. So, I'm thinking of getting out now- before the music stops and the party crashes- and establishing a new life overseas in a country with more stable prospects. Why should I stay here and work hard and pay taxes to fund other people's retirements when those programs won't be around when I need them? My generation is going to have to pay for the promises made to the baby boomer generation- pensions, etc.- but companies no longer offer pensions for us. So what about leaving the country before the train wrecks?

APR is high and a ballon balance is due? my mom owns a house, but has to morges on it due to her bad credit, my dad lives at home aswell and pays for the house, they cannot refinance it because their credit is bad and they dont have enough income, they also have a ballon balance thats due in Feb 2009, what kinds of programs are out there to help them.!! please me help them, im running out of ideas and ppl to turn to, my parents both speak russian and have younger children.

What do I do to counter balance the effects that detoxing has been putting on my skin? I started a on detox tea program of 2 months, but shortly after the beginning of the program my skin started having that orange skin texture and I've been having painful blackheads and pimples, not to mention it's become very oily too. I have never had acne or even occasional pimples in my whole life and even though I know that these are the effects of the detox, it hurts and I want to fix it! Also, I'm scared that after I finished detoxing my skin won't go back to normal. Does anyone know any home (natural) treatments I can do along with the detox? Any tips? If you have a similar experience, please share it with me. It'll make me feel much better to know that after I stop detoxing my skin will come back to the healthy look it had before.

Why are Conservatives the only ones that believe in equal rights? Color Blind Court Conservatives received a double dose of good news yesterday as the death of immigration "reform" was met with an immensely important ruling from the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the majority opinion for the Court, holding that school districts in Seattle and Louisville may not assign children to particular schools on the basis of race. In a line for the ages Chief Justice Roberts explained: "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." Equally moving was Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote: "What was wrong in 1954 cannot be right today. The plans before us base school assignment decisions on students' race. Because 'our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens,' such race-based decision making is unconstitutional." However, the victory was dampened somewhat by Justice Anthony Kennedy, who joined in the result but refused to join the portion of the opinion declaring that achieving "racial balance" cannot be a "compelling interest" -- i.e., a justification for racial classification by the government. According to Justice Kennedy, race may still be used as a factor if all other alternatives are exhausted. Nevertheless, the ruling pointed out the significance of the new chief justice and of Sandra Day O'Connor's replacement, Justice Samuel Alito. O'Connor was the deciding vote in Grutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 Supreme Court decision which upheld the notion that race could be one of many factors in determining admission to universities. Justice O'Connor memorably intoned in that case: "Twenty-five years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary." Apparently the clock used by Alito and Roberts is set differently. The importance of the decision was not lost on Democrats, Ward Connerly (the champion of measures to abolish racial quotas and preference including last year's successful Michigan Civil Rights Initiative), and conservative activists. Hillary Clinton was the first Democrat out of the box, predictably bemoaning the Court's decision. If Clinton saw dark clouds, Connerly saw rays of sunshine, declaring in a released statement: "The Supreme Court today made a glorious decision that directly fits with our plans to eliminate race in all facets of American public life." He continued: "This Supreme Court decision shows that the era of race preferences is quickly coming to an end. The Court is finally starting to catch up with what the American people have known for years: Race has no place in American public life." Roger Clegg, president and General Counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, said simply "we won" and that he believed "the practical impact will be significant on school boards" who likely will recognize that they are "asking for trouble" if they use race to assign students to schools. It remains to be seen whether this will impact the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. Rudy Giuliani was the only GOP candidate to respond to request for comment, stating: "I applaud today's Supreme Court decision striking down the racial preferences used in determining students' public school placement. I completely agree with Chief Justice Roberts that 'the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.'" In the days ahead one can expect that Giuliani will remind voters of his strong stance against racial preferences while mayor of New York. Having run on the slogan of "one standard, one city," he can boast that as mayor he withstood harsh criticism from liberal civil rights groups and abolished minority set-asides and eliminated many race-based affirmative action programs. Senator John McCain and former Gov. Mitt Romney have made statements in the past opposing racial preferences and quotas. As for "testing the waters" candidate Fred Thompson, one of the former Tennessee senator's rivals pointed out shortly after the opinion came down that he voted twice in 1995 in favor of affirmative action. (His campaign did not return a request for comment.) Aside from any ramifications in the presidential primary, the decision was remarkable for conservatives for two reasons. First, the Court's ruling on its own terms reflects conservatives' view of America as a society based on merit and individual, as opposed to group, rights. The Court's opinion is a teachable moment for the country at large. The message is simple: the government should not treat people differently based on race. Second, it comes as a much needed boost for those who have come to view the Bush years as dismal ones for movement conservatives. The Congressional majority has slipped away and the current Administration is a subject of derision and contempt by many. The record of Medicare Part D and No Child Left Behind and the near-death experience with immigration reform has pained many conservatives. The picture on the international front is no less grim. However, a real and significant shift in the Supreme Court may be the Bush administration's most lasting and historical achievement. The work of conservative activists, judges and academics is bearing fruit -- a powerful reminder that Constitutional battles are won over not just years, but decades. Together with the Court's ruling upholding the federal ban on partial-birth abortion and invalidating McCain-Feingold's issue ad ban, the school cases make clear the Court's direction. Whether incrementally or in bold strokes, the Court no longer will be the handmaiden to the liberal social agenda. If the left wishes to impose an agenda of abortion on demand, racial quotas, gay marriage, and other social experiments, it will need to convince the public and enact its will through either legislation or constitutional amendment -- no easy task, but an altogether appropriate result in a country that fancies itself the world's great democracy. Nevertheless, the business of legal conservatives is unfinished, as aptly illustrated by Justice Kennedy's concurrence, which joined in the result but left open the distinct possibility that race may still be used as a factor by the government in determining how it treats its citizens. If ever there was a warning that the next Supreme Court justice pick will be critical for generations to come, this case should remind conservatives that the Court matters but is not yet "won." For the country at large, the ruling highlights the difference between the parties. The Democratic Party is determined to maintain a Rube Goldberg-like system of racial preferences and quotas. The Republican Party defends the view that the government should rarely if ever be allowed to classify its citizens by race. If elections are about clear choices, this issue provides one of the starkest for the American electorate. Republicans are banking that most Americans are on their side.

Both Right and Left, you do realize that there is more to life than being pro or Anti War? It would seem that this room is preoccupied with war spending and Party affiliations... The right has been galvanized by a corporate media that spins almost entirely right Including NPR,PBS and CNN, despite the Michael Savages and Glenn Becks of the world telling you otherwise.. Then the folks on the left that defend themselves on here always from a position of weakness, accepting the Oh So Hateful "Liberal" Moniker ???? and then answering or making their own attacks based on this Left/Right Identity crisis... Guess what, ... America is founded on an equal participation of conservative value and Progressive thinking and social Programs... One without the other is out of Balance... War is not the only Issue and Neither is The election in 2008... Unemployment The Shrinking Dollar and the escalating cost of living.. Misplaced Taxation Health care Homelessness, Planet and Climate Change Corporate consolidation of Media, Education standards and costs Family Farms etc,etc,etc... Not "ONE" person in this room this morning resides in that top 2% that benefits so greatly from our current entitlement system... So why defend it so strongly??? we are all under the same weight... why are we so easily divided along these artificial Lines?????? Then we're Fu@ked Bossy Babe because we can not win .... "Doc" ... you are lying!

Which of these three schools have the most "think-outside-the box" kind of students/faculty: UCLA, UCB, USC? I want to be an English/creative writing major, and I'm looking for a school that encourages students to be creative and think outside of the box, look beyond textbooks and lectures, and that the process of learning is more important than getting a degree and getting into top graduate schools. I want the students to work hard but not be too competitive, and all school and no play, but rather, I am looking for a school where the majority of students work cooperatively instead of comparing grades, and who can balance their school life while maintaining a social life. I know that there might not be a single school that meets all of my expectations, and that it is more of an individual kind of thing, but I can't visit campus right now, and I need your help. I know that all three of these schools have stellar programs, but aside from their name and prestige, which school (UCLA, UC Berkeley, University of Southern California) has the general vibe that I'm looking for?

Wife started 12-step program do I need to stop drinking? My wife just started the 90-day 90 meeting with AA for her sleeping pill addiction. She has also vowed not to drink for 90 days. Do I need to stop drinking? With codependency one thing they say is not to change your life for the addict. I am young and still go out with friends and have a beer at the end of the day to wind down. I don’t drink every day but I do enjoy drink and hanging out with my friend. I do relies that life will change with my wife going threw 12 step. With this all being new I don’t know what I wont to change for me? I am wondering what that balances is between having a level of normal and having a level of sobriety for my wife? Have you been in my shoe what have you done?

Shouldn't the President have to go through simulator training? He or she has the lives of millions of people hanging in the balance. Even commercial airline pilots have to go through rigorous simulator training for the responsibility of less than a few hundred lives. Wouldn't it be a good idea to force the President into a "TopGun" training program (in transition) so possible stupid mistakes like we have been seeing as of late probably wouldn't happen?? Anyone have any idea how much training goes into teaching the President how to be a good Commander in Chief and hopefully making it highly unlikely in getting any unneccesary people killed? I'm thinking whatever the amount of training is, it is not enough. I'm Not necessarily blaming George Bush; could it be this process here that is at fault? Your thoughts on this specific set of questions written here only, please. Someone please address the final question here, regarding whether it is this process of training for the President that is lacking.

I need help with this problem. I need to create this program for a C++ class.? Interest on a loan is paid on a declining balance, and hence a loan with an interest rate of, say, 14% can cost significantly less than 14% of the balance. Write a program that takes a loan amount and interest rate as input and then outputs the monthly payments and balance of the loan until the loan is paid off. Assume that the monthly payments are one-twentieth of the original loan amount, and that any amount in excess of the interest is credited toward decreasing the balance due. Thus, on a loan of $20,000, the payments would be $1,000 a month. If the interest rate is 10%, then each month the interest is one-twelfth of 10% of the remaining balance. The first month, (10% of $20,000)/12 or $166.67, would be paid in interest, and the remaining $833.33 would decrease the balance to $19,166.67. The following month the interest would be (10% of $19166.67)/12, and so forth. Also have the program output the total interest paid over the life of the loan. Finally, determine what simple annualized percentage of the original loan balance was paid in interest. For example, if $1,000 was paid in interest on a $10,000 loan and it took two years to pay off, then the annualized interest is $500, which is 5% of the $10,000 loan amount. I need help with the math part. It is too confusing to fully understand the problem. this is what i've done: #include <iosream> using namespace std; int main() { int loan, interest, payment, balance cout << "What is the loan amount?\n."; cin >> loan; cout >> "What is the interest rate?\n."; cin >> interest; last_month = recount +1 last_balance = balance + balance * monthly_interest last_interest_amount = interest_amount + (balance * monthly_interest) total_interest = last_interest/loan_amount annual_interest = (total_interest/last_month) * monthly_interest {while (balance + (balance * monthly_interest) >= payment) cout << period << "Your monthly payment is\n."; }

A few question for Law Enforcement Officers...or, more specifically, about being a Game WArden? How hard is it to be a good father/ game warden, specifically? I'm starting towards an Associates in Park Management and Law Enforcement, and was wondering if I'll be wasting my time? I know its very hard to become a Warden, so I was wondering how fulfilling the job was, and how easy/ hard it is to balance with a family life? Harder/ easier than hospital work, in your estimation (also been accepted to a Respiratory Therapy program)? ANY help GREATLY appreciated. =) I want a job where i can help people, but a job where i can also be there for my family. Please help.

Do you belong to the "new Church of Global Warming"?

Is Using Neuro lingustic Programing on someone to change them really a ethical? I am very confused. 2 years ago I was a very well balanced individual and then I started karate. There is a woman who I knew from the minute I met her I could never ever work well with. I kept my distance from her until we ended up in very close quarters in japan and she gave me the fright of my life. in that she claimed she was going to make a complaint about me and see me gone because she couldn't put up with me. I actually stopped mid argument and stared in shock. then my sensei kept telling me I was losing balance and not in control and that put me out of joint because I need my freedom to be. I am a very independant person the idea that someone would try to control me is very annoying. He uses NLP. I have been refusing to train, and i feel he is trying to change me into a person I don't want to be. I like the person I am. I don't want him to change me and I want to learn karate but I don't know how to tell him to stop. I feel violated by his actions I have valid life experience of my and I have reasons for behaving the way I behave and i want those behaviour patterns respected. I don't want them altered and I really hate the person he is trying to shape me into I find myself becoming very angry and growling at him on a regular basis. I feel blocked in expressing myself and being able to defend myself against this woman because of stupid japenese hierachy rules. I want to train in this club, but I want to explain to this person to stop using nlp becausing it is making me very unhappy. I don't like that he is trying to change and that he had never asked me if it was what I wanted. I am zen buddist. I don't meditate to often and I think that is one of the reasons why my instincts are running against him. I am feeling very emotionally confused and mentally disturbed and reduced in confidence and sense of security. Its not so much that he stopped the argument as in he started using nlp after the argument happened.

Unsure if I should split up with my wife? My wife is a recovering addict to sleeping pills and has lived with her mother now for about 50 day. I asked her to move out after she lied to me. When she moved in to her mothers she joined AA and has been going to a drug counselor senses November. She had vowed to use no mind-altering drugs for 90 day she made it 40 day without having a drink we were out to supper I was having a beer and she had one to. She has been working the AA program and I am very happy for her. Last weekend she had an AA party and asked me to attended I declined because I had a party to go with my fellow firefighter. She feels like I am not supporting her. I love her very much and wont her to get better but I also wont to stay my distance so I don’t get her again. Last night she offered to go out with me after work but I chose to go over to a friend’s house instead she was in our wedding party and is going threw a breakup as well. We talked about what was going on in each of our lives and how bad it sucks. This morning my wife asked where I went last night and I told her and she was upset because I didn’t go out with her and chose to hang out with one of “her friends”. I am afraid to let my wife back in to my life because I feel like I will get her again but I am also not ready to Wright her off yet. How do I support her and still live a life separately. Her mother who she lives with is nuts and I am still one of the only people that she talks to. How do I find balances in my life from supporting my wife and figuring out whether I wont to be married!! Advise please

Some people are saying that Hillary Clinton is increasingly likely to be the next president...60% chance? http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff163.html Hillary Clinton is more and more likely to become the next President of the United States. The price of her nomination contract on Intrade has jumped to the 60 area, meaning she has a 60 percent chance of winning the nomination. No one else is even close. The market thinks that Bill Richardson is likely to be her running mate. Speculators think that this ticket will win the election, although they are not as sure of that. They are very sure that Democrats will retain both Senate and House control. A Clinton II presidency will affect taxes, stock and bond prices, dollar and gold prices, and a great deal else. Speculators and planners will be watching closely her every word in order to discern the material impacts of her possible policies. Long before she is elected, asset prices will begin to move in anticipation of potential legislation and policy changes. There are certain areas that Hillary Clinton is very interested in that will affect many Americans and the portfolios of many Americans. Interesting questions arise. Will Bill Clinton serve in a new Clinton administration? Will he have a marked influence on Hillary’s policies? Will her fiscal and monetary policies look like his? Will she be her own woman? I will briefly summarize a few of Hillary’s currently indicated directions. This usually is a valuable exercise. Elected officials often follow the signals they emit during their campaigns. But it is an iffy exercise. Events overtake a president and lead to unexpected twists and turns. I also cannot resist offering a few of my own jaundiced reflections. It is extremely difficult to watch multiple American tragedies unfolding before our eyes and not say something about them. And who knows? Maybe Hillary or someone close to her will read this and see some light. Hillary would like to end the war in Iraq. Bill Richardson even more plainly wants to end it. The idea is to shift the $450 billion going into warfare into domestic concerns like health care, education, and energy. Such a platform is a sure winner. But Richardson as Vice-President will have limited influence. Hillary will find herself drawn into the foreign policy game just as her husband was. Hillary as President will curtail U.S. military operations in Iraq but not end them. She has promised to end the war, but at the same time she promises to transform and continue it. She says she will retain a significant force and continue to try to produce country-wide military and police forces, attack terrorists, and provide materiel. She will call for more equipment for the area and fewer personnel. She will talk tough to Iraq’s leaders. Her promise to end the war is an empty one. Since she and the U.S. establishment want to produce a stable Iraq allied to the U.S., she can’t end the war because that will produce the opposite consequences. Iraq will disappear and be replaced by a partitioned country with many frictions: between Iranian and Iraqi Shiites, between Iraqi Shiite factions, between Sunnis and Shiites, between Turkey and Kurds, etc. The bloodthirsty terrorists of Al-Qaeda will ally themselves with whomever they can to lever their position. Events in Iraq are unpredictable. Both the U.S. and Hillary are willing hostages to them. Even under the cover of a democracy, a strong man could arise, another Saddam. Which way will Hillary go? Will she bite the bullet and withdraw, letting the chips fall where they may? Or will she succumb to the urge to shape events and control Iraq’s future? Like her husband, she will do both. She will straddle the issue. Just as he bombed and bombed, she will try to substitute equipment for manpower. She will withdraw some men but not all; and she will not withdraw power and interference. She will compromise between those voices urging faster exit and those counseling disaster if she withdraws too quickly. In other words, the war will drag on until the balance of power shifts to install a regime or regimes that keep power. Hillary on the Iraq War is a continuing disaster. She will not exercise a foreign policy leadership that will make a real difference. She has already joined others in her party who promise to heat up U.S. efforts in Afghanistan. Adjacent Pakistan also continues to heat up as another hot spot. On energy, Hillary is a booster of the Apollo Alliance. She supports renewable energy sources, ethanol, biofuels, clean coal, and measures to reduce global warming, which are all popular but costly, wasteful, and ineffective ideas. None of these measures will reduce America’s oil dependence, as she claims to want. Only a big shift into nuclear power will accomplish that. However, she is at best lukewarm and/or really cold on nuclear power plants. She thinks the public is against them ("so hard to site them") and that they cost too much ("so hard to fund them.") Since she could exercise leadership on nuclear power and isn’t, she is unlikely to go in that direction. Instead, in a speech on Feb. 26, 2007, she called for an Apollo Project for energy that would end "tax breaks for big oil" and subsidize research and development of clean fuels. Hillary on energy is a disaster, but so has been every administration for a long time. U.S. energy policy is a huge and stupid tragedy, and Hillary will play a lead role in continuing it. Hillary hasn’t moved an inch on HillaryCare. The Congress, with benighted public support, has moved in her direction, enacting universal health care piece by piece. Hillary will extend health care benefits and introduce price controls on insurers. She wants full and universal coverage for all Americans. On paper everyone will have health care. In reality, there will be rationing and price controls. American health care will deteriorate even further. Will Americans care? Will they fly to India or Thailand where they can get better, faster, and cleaner health care? Hardly likely. Unlike Canadians suffering with their national health care system who have been coming here, where will Americans turn? They will wait, suffer, and die before their time. The only bright side is that this will provide a background for those who see some advantage in running against the system and drastically changing it. Nothing less will suffice at this point than completely dismantling the health care monstrosity. Hillary on health care is a continuing disaster. George Bush II played his role in this tragedy by introducing the prescription drug benefit and failing to reform the system in any way. In another sign that she does not understand economics and/or wants to make political hay, Hillary wants women by law to be paid the same as men are. This sounds good to untutored American ears, who think this is a matter of simple justice. However, if women were systematically being underpaid for no good reasons, wouldn’t those same businessmen who are supposed to be so greedy rush in and hire them at $0.75 on the dollar? Shawn Ritenour explains some of those good reasons for men-women pay differentials here, and Thomas E. Woods, Jr. explains that "never-married women of comparable education and experience and who work full time have the same incomes as their male counterparts" here. Raising women’s pay above the market level that takes into account compensating differentials (related to such factors as on-the-job training, length of tenure, job interruption, and time spent with family) will put women out of work. In an interesting pair of contradictory statements from the Hillary campaign site from which I draw her positions, we are told that "Hillary has stood firm as an advocate for a woman's right to choose." Hillary favors Roe v Wade. She is in favor of abortion. But a few sentences later we read this: "As president, Hillary will continue her lifelong fight to ensure that all Americans are treated with respect and dignity." Apparently, babies in the womb do not count as Americans. Moreover, Hillary is known as a champion of children: "America is ready for a president who fights for our children." She has a long slate of legislation relating to children, including a new proposal to extend pre-kindergarten schools to all 4-year-olds. Why then does she not favor the babies who would be born? Maybe it’s because they can’t vote. Hillary on the American family is yet another continuing disaster. In the Clinton II realm, the government will step up its invasion of the family. The State long ago crossed the boundary into American family life in a largely unnoticed and unheralded stealth invasion. Hillary will extend the State’s victory over the American family and consolidate that control. Like all presidents, Hillary can be counted on to push for a number of favorite hobby-horses. Hers are many. They include public schools in overseas countries, support of Israel, government reform, voting reform (including same-day registration and an Election Day holiday), and working with the U.N. Political government under Hillary will grow larger, just as it has under just about every president ever elected. This process can go on for some time as there is a lot of ruin in a country. When major American establishment figures start talking different games than the ones we’ve been hearing for the last 100 years, then we’ll know that some real change is in the air. This has not happened yet. In the meantime, the only consolation is that the State is running into diminishing returns. We can see this in the projected deficits to fund the government’s programs. We can see it in the difficulties and cutbacks in countries overseas. Economics is a constraint on how far the State can go. Clinton II will be operating under constraints. Unfortunately, they are not yet tight enough to prevent her from continuing the tragic policies of her predecessors and placing her own personal stamp upon them. --------------------------- Mitt Romney would lose against her. Giuliani would lose against her. Thompson would lose against her. The only people I could see beating her are possibly Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul. What do you think?

Is it really that bad???? I'm a high school senior that entering a combined Math/Education university program next year with aspirations to become a Jr. High or High School teacher. I have had the great fortune be have been taught by some great young math teachers that were really fun and seemed like they had nice, balanced lives Yet after reading many of the threads here I can't help but feel that maybe the teaching proffesion is really not that appealing, as many people, including teachers, are openly mocking this "noble proffesion" due to financial reasons, student issues, admin. issues, all kinds of stuff.... Most of it is really depressing and really makes me second guess my career choice My question is if teaching has that many negatives associated with it? I have always loved math and enjoyed tutoring peers/siblings Where I live (Canada) teachers make $50 000 CND a year to start, which I dont cosider that bad, especially for getting the summer off... Any help or advice would be appreciated

Changing Priorities or Just Lack of Motivation? I'm in my 30s and am back in school. My life up until this point has been consumed with work - and not a lot else. Now, as I am back in school, I'm finding that I don't want school to replace work - I no longer want to be consumed by anything. I am seeking a lot more balance in my life. The problem is, I need to have some of that old "go getter" attitude to continue with my program - and I just don't have it. I want to basically focus on one or two areas; become really good at those - and spend the rest of my energy living my life. I left a very good paying job and career field - but don't want to go back. I wasn't particularly great at what I did, nor did I like it - but was able to do it because of hard work. Now, I feel very lazy (I'm in school and I'm working but not with the gusto I did in the past). Is this normal? Has anyone else experienced this?

What about this for an Immigration plan? The thing that I dont understand is why those who want this amnesty dont care about America workers? You never here any of them say we should protect American workers 1st. Why is that? What about American workers wages, middle class and the working poor, this amnesty will insure that there wages will never raise in their lifetime. This whole debate is such a shame. Immigration is so easy to fix they just dont want to do it. 3 or 4 phases. Phase 1. Legislate all the money. New border patrol agents, Interior enforcment agents, Border fence and new technology for virtual fence, computer system for tracking everyone who enters and leaves the country, employment verification system, imigration judges. End the latchkey kid program and Amend the constitution stating for birthright citizenship 1 parent must be a US citizen. Birthright citizenship had to do with slavery it wasnt meant for this. Pass a law making fines 1 million dollars for each Illegal you hire + 1 million a day for every day it can be proved the Illegal worked for you + revoke your business lic. and never allow you to get another. After all this is done and operational were ready to move to phase 2. Phase 2. Give business community amnesty from this point until Phase 3 is finished so they can comply. The new fines are meant for after this whole process is set up anyway. However it doesnt give them amnesty from any investigation that was going on before this time. Require all Illegals to register so we can find out the true # here, ( I bet if the estimate is 10-20 million there is somewhere between 25-35 million.) also all employers must verify all their workers. Let it be know that any Illegal who doesnt register if caught in the country after the registation process is done you will deported within 24 hours and put on a banned for life list from ever entering the country again. Once employers know how many Illegals they have, make them list all the jobs on a goverment Immigration website where it must stay for 5 business days so that any American citizen who wants one of those jobs can have them. Get every community organization involved especially in inner cities where their is high unemployment. The goverment can offer small relocation loans and for low income people grants to anyone who wants to take one of these jobs but maybe doesnt have any money to go to them. Just talking like a couple hundred dollars enough to get them their and keep them fed until they get a check. (Gas money,food stamps for a 2 weeks) somethng like that. Phase 3 Now with any job left the companies can apply for temp workers to fill those postions, but every 6 months they must relist any job held by a temp worker. Now that we see what this countries worker needs are now we could look at whether we need to keep the temp workers just that, temp or are these permenant jobs where we need to put more people on a path to become citizens. Temp workers should be temp, I like the work 2 years them go home for 1 thats not to bad an idea. Also we need to go to the point based system where the countries needs come before family ties. I know there might be a few other things we need to do also but this plan would protect American workers and give American citizens the 1st chance at any job in this country. We do need some workers and I am totally for legal immigration but instead of blanket amnesty for everyone the countries needs should drive the Immigration process. Also you should only be able to apply to be a temp worker from your home country. It should be balanced worldwide not just to mainly Mexican citizens. For all those that favor amnesty and Mexican and other foreign citizens over American citizens, are all the 20+ million Illegals in this country right now working? The answer is NO. Go to any day labor gathering spot any day of the week and when you add them all up there are millions of Illegals just standing around with no job hoping someone might hire them for the day. But even those peolpe under the amnesty plan get to stay. Thats for only 1 reason, more cheap labor to lower American citizens wages.

Is there any one else addicted to watching all the news networks and public broadcasting programs they can? I know that I have been addicted to news and the presidential elections ever since I was 5 y.o. and now I have 3 grown children. I even like C-Span, and watch programs that bash Bush and the US government. In other words, I watch a balanced coverage of the news. I have subscribed to news magazines since I was 17, many years ago. I write letters to the editor. My cousins have either been elected or appointed to some very high federal offices in this country. So, it may be in my blood to be well-informed politically. My grandfather was a personal friend of Sam Rayburn of TX. My husband wishes that I would not be so pro-active, but I come from a long line of public servants of all stripes and parties. You would be surprised, but some some of my cousins' legal opinions still have much power over our daily lives today!

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