According to the latest report on CNN Money.com the unemployment rate has hit a 4 year high at 5.7%. 2008 has been a bad year for those of us who like having a job, employers have cut their head count for seven straight months.This could create hardship for those recent college grads just entering the […]
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admin on November 19th, 2008
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admin on November 15th, 2008
Hope women’s basketball coach Brian Morehouse can laugh now, but when Philana Greene broke her wrist during the team’s European trip in the middle of August, there was some cause for concern.
Greene, heading into her junior year at Hope, will be one of three team captains (along with Jenny Cowen and Kaitlyn Kopke) and of the returning players this year, she was the leading scorer at 9.5 points per game.
But the wrist is fine. Morehouse reported that last Friday, the team doctor cleared her to get back into action, heading into the team’s first practice on Oct. 15.
October 15? Wow, it’s almost basketball season!
When I chatted with him Tuesday night between sets of the Hope volleyball match with Trine University, Morehouse said he was concerned when “about halfway through the first half of the second game we played in Germany, she was coming off a screen and got pushed. She kind of got her hand and wrist squished between another body and the ball.”
But then, Morehouse started laughing as he continued his explanation.
“We asked for some ice and they brought her three (ice) cubes,” Morehouse said with a laugh. “I think her comment then was something along the lines of, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.’
“We got it x-rayed the next day and they confirmed one break and they weren’t sure about a second break, so they casted it up pretty tight. We kind of just elevated it and tried to ice it, but we were in Germany and they didn’t seem to have any ice.”
Greene said her No. 1 concern about breaking her wrist in Europe: “How was I going to stay in shape for the rest of the games (on the trip)? It didn’t really spoil the trip though. I still had a lot of fun.”
Once the team returned home, Greene went to a West Michigan doctor who did find a second crack and recasted the arm.
“When we got here they looked at the cast and they didn’t like what they saw,” Greene said. “But I did take another x-ray and they saw a second break.”
The breaks have healed and Philana Greene OK now. Things are looking good for the Hope women’s basketball team heading into the 2008-09 season.
“She’s good to go now and we’re ready. We’re good to go on October 15,” Morehouse said. ” We’re all cranked up and ready to go. I can’t wait.”
admin on November 14th, 2008
When I graduated high school, I weighed 165 pounds. I was working at the hospital in food service, carrying heavy pans around. I’d been doing debate for years, carrying heavy debate tubs around. I was in decent shape.
After my freshman year of college, I weighed 195 pounds. I had gained 30 pounds, but I was OK with that. I was pretty sure I’d been underweight and a little malnourished in high school, and the gain in weight was largely due to eating a regular number of meals a day. I stayed at this weight through most of college.
After my first year at my current job, I weighed 215 pounds. I had gained 20 pounds in a year because my job now consisted of sitting at a computer, all day, every day. Throughout college, I had been a student worker, which meant running all over campus to fix stuff. Now, though, I did research and writing and other such things, all in my comfy office chair.
I started going to a gym, at which point I weighed around 225 pounds. I lost 18, down to 207 pounds, and felt really proud of that. Then I stopped going. That was ten months ago.
I have now rejoined the gym. I weigh 233 pounds. My goal is to lose 53 pounds by the end of next May. I’d also like to strengthen my arms (I used to carry 120 pounds around regularly, now 30-65 pounds give me trouble over anything other than short distances) and improve my flexibility (I studied martial arts when I was young, and have lost a significant amount of flexibility since I stopped down that in junior high).
I’m meeting with a trainer on Thursday to discuss these goals and plan out how I can best reach them. In addition to attending the gym 5-6 days a week, we bike most days to work. Not sure how that’ll fare during the winter, but at least I’ll continue to have the gym when it gets bitterly cold.
What one man can do, another man can do.
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admin on November 9th, 2008
The new legislation introduced by democratic candidates bans college loan lenders to pick and choose among institutions. Under the regulations of this law, college loan lenders will have to extend credit to any eligible student, regardless of family income and the number of years of education.
The New York Times reports that the government already guarantees the loans at nearly full value.
Lenders have said they were responding to the small number of borrowers and the small amounts borrowed at certain institutions. Financial aid administrators countered that selective lending could make it harder for poorer students to pay for higher education. They argued that lenders participating in the program should not be allowed to cherry-pick.
According to Yahoo! Finance, student lending has become a volatile business over the last year, however, as credit has tightened across the country, investors have shunned securities backed by student loans, which has created a problem for those companies dependent on sales of their loans to raise capital.
Senators Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, and Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, introduced the proposal after an article in The New York Times identified several lenders that had stopped offering federally guaranteed loans at community colleges and some four-year institutions.
The letter of Edward Kennedy addressed to the president of the American Association of Community Colleges supports this bill. Here what it says.
“Colleges participating in the direct loan program have not and will not face the possibility that their lender will pull out.”
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admin on November 8th, 2008
Big Jim Modlin’s East Carolina Pirates have a big game on Saturday as they head up to Charlottesville, Virginia to take on the Virginia Cavaliers.
THE GAME
East Carolina will close out its 2008 non-conference schedule when it visits Virginia Saturday. The battle against the Cavaliers also represents the fourth of four matchups against Bowl Championship Series (BCS) members in ‘08 for the Pirates, who have split a pair of meetings with ACC members Virginia Tech and N.C. State, and defeated West Virginia already this season. The matchup against Virginia will serve as ECU’s only October road game and will provide an opportunity for the Pirates to snap a two-game losing skid after opening the campaign with three straight wins.
PIRATE RECORDS AND STREAKS
ô€˜ Nine winning or .500 seasons in the last 14 years (two straight) …
ô€˜ Six top three C-USA finishes in the last 11 years (two straight) …
ô€˜ Have won five of the last seven, seven of the last 10 and 10 of last 14 games ..
ô€˜ Have won three straight against nationally-ranked opponents (first since ‘91) …
ô€˜ Have won five of nine games against ACC opponents in the Skip Holtz Era …
ô€˜ Have won six of 14 games against BCS opponents in the Skip Holtz Era …
ô€˜ At least two forced TOs in seven straight games (and 13 of the last 14, 16 of 18) …
THE COACHES
SKIP HOLTZ (Notre Dame ‘86) is 23-19 (.548) in his fourth season at East Carolina,
while overall, he is in year nine as a collegiate head coach with a 57-42 (.576) record.
When he became ECU’s 19th all-time head football coach Dec. 3, 2004, Holtz officially
finished a six-year stint as South Carolina’s assistant head coach, offensive coordinator
and quarterbacks coach.
AL GROH (Virginia ‘67) is in his eighth season heading the football program at Virginia
and sports a 53-40 (.570) record. Overall, he is in his 14th year as a collegiate head
coach with a 79-80 (.497) mark.
In 1981, he earned his first head coaching position at Wake Forest and guided the Demon
Deacons to a 26-40 record in six years before spending 12 seasons in the NFL.
*****from Tom McLellan and the ECU Athletices Department*****
admin on November 7th, 2008
I’m preoccupied studying for a Macro test, but here are some interesting stories/sites I have come across recently.
Unigo.com: Provides uncensored student reviews of almost every college and university in America. Similar to the Princeton Review, except up-to-date, uncensored, and much more interactive. Prospective college students making a monumental decision are plagued by asymmetric information. Current college students love talking about their schools. Unigo fills a huge need and advertisers pay big bucks to target prospective students. Prediction: It will be a big success.
Polymeme.com: Blog and news aggregator of interesting stories. Someone described it as a “smart person’s Digg.” You won’t find any top 10 lists or iPhone tutorials here. Polymeme uses an algorithm and human editors to select noteworthy pieces from a database of about 25,000 “leading blogs”. And yes, AspiringEconomist.com is one of those blogs.
A Visual Map of U.S. Ancestry. Take a look. It gave me a whole different perspective on the U.S. as a melting pot.
Stephen Dubner asks MBA students how the last week has altered their career plans.
admin on November 5th, 2008
Cheap Seats Trivia: In 1977, while on probation, the Kentucky Wildcats football team went 10-1 and finished #6 in the AP poll. They had a win at #4 Penn State and went 6-0 in the SEC. Their only loss was at Baylor. Who was the head coach of that team?
Some random rambling while wondering what ever happened to Willie McGee.
Trivia Question Answer: Fran Curci. Read about him by clicking here.
Cheap Seats readers enjoy your comments, so post. Also, you can email Cheap Seats at: cheapseats@lifeinthecheapseats.com
Anne Hathaway is going to play Agent 99 in the highly anticipated Get Smart movie that opens June 20, 2008. Here is a decent picture of her:
admin on November 4th, 2008
I lost interest in blogging a while back. And I lost the energy that got me start into blogging. I started blogging so I can share my thoughts and it comes to a point where I really don’t know what to share. I don’t want to give a lot of my life away, well because that will be just weird and I know for a fact a lot of people(I know in life) read my blog. It kind of embracing, people search my name and end up on my site.
When you try to hide things, it becomes harder to open up and write things. So I really don’t know how to go about hiding personal views, feeling and then writing and sharing quality content. I’m going to change the direction of the blog and focus on software, apps and technology - after all ‘ItS WoT I DuS!’ right?
Anyway, I finally decided on the universities I will be picking. When writing my personal statement and reviewing my choices, I figured that I had the base grades (GCSE Maths, English and Science), so why not just pick the top university. I’m picking Kings College University, because it’s ranked 10th in the UK and 25th in world. Plus there is no way a dumbass like me would get into Cambridge or imperial College. Kings College has far-more Arabs and international students because I want to meet new people from other cool countries.
If Kings are douches and don’t take me on, for some reason then Queen Mary University. QMU is by far the closest university to my area and I can just jump on the bendy and dangerous bus that takes me right in front of it. The thing with Queen M. it’s in an area which is similar to mine, so not much of a change. Another thing and don’t think I’m racist … it has a lot of Asians(*Cough Bengalis).
My parents are being all protective, even though I’m so old now. They want me to go to a university which is in London, which limits a lot of my dream … Living on my own. Dad has convinced me that, living with them I wouldn’t pay rent, bills, and mum will be cooking plus Internet is 24/7, who can say no to that?
Another thing, I’m banning myself from going to Tunisia till, I finish my degree.
Peace, 2AM WOOT!!
admin on November 1st, 2008
There’s a campaign on for Natures newest 7 wonders - Puerto Princesa Mayor Edward Hagedorn, has simple request to Mike In Manila readers - if you can help him out it would be great….
Spread the information along in blogs and to your YM’s and IM’s and personal networks.
The contest voting date is close and the goal is to include the world famous Palawan World Hertigae sites on the online list of 7 Wondersof Nature campaign -
Palawan’s World renown Underground River St. has been accepted on the list to vote for it and also the Tubataha reefs.
St.Pauls Park is on the list of nominated sites.The area is unique as it is one of the few National Parks and ‘UNESCOWorld Heritage’ sites ever devolved or returnbed to Local Government and NGO
Community Management.
It is a rare success story of local community envirnomental
management in the world of National Parks.
It is proud part of the natural heritage for those of us from Puerto Princesa.
We who are form believe it belongs on the list of7 Natural Wonders of the world. Also any help and support would be greatly
appreciated to spread the word and get people to get out the vote!
Please see his email below for details.
Thanks and God bless
MikeinManila
Mayor Hagedorns Email -
Dear Friends,
I write to seek your help.
Last year, a search for the 7 New Wonders of Nature was launched . As expected, hundreds of nominations from all over the world were submitted including the world famous Tubatahha reef of the province of Palawan. It has now occupied the # 9 position out of the top 77
entries . Pls visit www.new7wonders.comLast month, one of our avid supporters nominated Puerto Princesa City’s Underground River to the contest. The nomination was accepted only yesterday. Although others think it is too late to join the search, I personally believe we can still make it since the deadline for nomination will still be in december this year. Besides, I really feel that this underground river, which by the way has been declared
by UNESCO as a world heritege site , is truly a wonder of nature. And to fully appreciate it, please visit the special website dedicated solely for the Underground River at www.puerto-undergroundriver.comI know I can count on you my friends. Thank you in advance !!.
Mabuhay!
Mayor Ed
My name is Carlos Salas, a 36-year old self-made business man from Boston, Massachusetts. My family immigrated to the U.S. from Columbia without a penny in 1986. My father worked hard to enable me to have a college education. I graduated with a MBA and after a few years working my way up the financial ladder, I set up my own investment banking consultancy.
I dedicate a large amount of my time to help people from unprivileged backgrounds into college education.
