The financial crisis seemed to be a ticking bomb that was set to blow at 12am this morning. What does it mean that a resolution has not been met? What are the other options?
Hey, I can't answer these questions, but here are articles about the proposed rescue plan written by people smarter than me:
Economist
Newsweek
Forbes
BusinessWeek
The Wall Street Journal makes you log in, so I'm not linking to them.
Please share if you have any cool online sources for bail-out news/plans.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Indiana Debates
It is hard to NOT be up-to-date on the presidential race, but the race for governor of Indiana is also taking place. The Indiana Debate Commission has the debates online for you to view.
If you have another site that has good local information, please share it!
If you have another site that has good local information, please share it!
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Men and Women are different
In case you missed this story last week, women are more prone to sports injuries than men:
Tim Hewett, of the Sports Medicine Biodynamics Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, says that just after boys go through puberty, they tend to get a big power burst.
"They get much bigger gluteal muscles," he says, "and much bigger hamstring muscles."
But with girls, there's not as much of an overall power spurt. Growth during this stage, for girls, is concentrated in only a few muscles.
"Women tend to be very front dominant," Hewett says. "They use their quadriceps, the big thick muscles in the front of the legs."
This means that women's bodies don't fully activate the muscles on the back side, namely the hamstrings and the glutes.
On the soccer field or basketball court, Hewett says, this is a problem. First, the imbalance of muscle use — something Hewett calls a "muscle turn-on pattern" — ends up putting stress on the ACL.
The ACL is a major ligament that runs through the center of the knee, linking the upper leg bone with the lower one. Tearing an ACL, which female athletes are up to six times more likely to do than men, is brutal. It's an injury that can keep players out of their sports for an entire season.
Friday, September 12, 2008
The Bush Doctrine
Just in case you didn't know what it was either, this is how Wikipedia defines it:
The Bush Doctrine is a phrase used to describe various principles of United States president George W. Bush, created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. There are many and varied elements to the phrase. It is sometimes described as the policy that the United States has the right to treat countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups as terrorists themselves, which was used to justify the invasion of Afghanistan.
Later it came to include additional elements, including the controversial policy of preventive war, which held that the United States should depose foreign regimes that represented a supposed threat to the security of the United States, even if that threat was not immediate (used to justify the invasion of Iraq), a policy of supporting democracy around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating the spread of terrorism, and a willingness to pursue U.S. military interests in a unilateral way. Some of these policies were codified in a National Security Council text entitled the National Security Strategy of the United States published on September 20, 2002. This represented a dramatic shift from the United States’ Cold War policies of deterrence and containment, under the Truman Doctrine, and a departure from post-Cold War philosophies such as the Powell Doctrine and the Clinton Doctrine.
The Bush Doctrine is a phrase used to describe various principles of United States president George W. Bush, created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. There are many and varied elements to the phrase. It is sometimes described as the policy that the United States has the right to treat countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups as terrorists themselves, which was used to justify the invasion of Afghanistan.
Later it came to include additional elements, including the controversial policy of preventive war, which held that the United States should depose foreign regimes that represented a supposed threat to the security of the United States, even if that threat was not immediate (used to justify the invasion of Iraq), a policy of supporting democracy around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating the spread of terrorism, and a willingness to pursue U.S. military interests in a unilateral way. Some of these policies were codified in a National Security Council text entitled the National Security Strategy of the United States published on September 20, 2002. This represented a dramatic shift from the United States’ Cold War policies of deterrence and containment, under the Truman Doctrine, and a departure from post-Cold War philosophies such as the Powell Doctrine and the Clinton Doctrine.
Obama on SNL
US Magazine reports that the Democratic presidential nominee will be on this Saturday's season opener of Saturday Night Live.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Don't you love Terry Gross, Thomas Friedman, NPR ... and WVPE
This is an unsolicited (I promise) email from WVPE listener Melissa Kinsey:
I hope you had the chance to hear Terry Gross on Fresh Air today ... she interviewed Thomas Friedman about his new book, "Hot, Flat, and Crowded". Can't wait to read it. Friedman wrote "The World is Flat" - which has become a staple when teaching college business courses. His down to earth writing style can even make economics & statistics interesting. (!) This time he has taken on the need for an American Green Revolution.
The interview addresses MANY of the challenging topics our SBRT organizational team talk about all the time - such as:
- working around the preconceived notion that global warming is warm & fuzzy & nothing to be concerned about
- the lack of credibility given to "green" issues ... "tree hugging / birky wearing / etc ...
- the challenges of working with legislators & how to we begin to make a difference
- examples of current legislation to be aware of - tax incentives both for & against green energy development
It's a great interview. As usual - Terry asks all the right questions.
If you didn't hear it today - they will probably post the transcript by tomorrow.
Melissa.
The audio from the story is here.
Here's a sample of what Friedman writes ...
The core argument is very simple: America has a problem and the world has a problem. America's problem is that it has lost its way in recent yearspartly because of 9/11 and partly because of the bad habits that we have let build up over the last three decades, bad habits that have weakened our society's ability and willingness to take on big challenges. The world also has a problem: It is getting hot, flat, and crowded. That is, global warming, the stunning rise of middle classes all over the world, and rapid population growth have converged in a way that could make our planet dangerously unstable. In particular, the convergence of hot, flat, and crowded is tightening energy supplies, intensifying the extinction of plants and animals, deepening energy poverty, strengthening petrodictatorship, and accelerating climate change. How we address these interwoven global trends will determine a lot about the quality of life on earth in the twenty-first century.
I am convinced that the best way for America to solve its big problem the best way for America to get its "groove" back is for us to take the lead in solving the world's big problem. In a world that is getting hot, flat, and crowded, the task of creating the tools, systems, energy sources, and ethics that will allow the planet to grow in cleaner, more sustainable ways is going to be the biggest challenge of our lifetime. But this challenge is actually an opportunity for America. If we take it on, it will revive America at home, reconnect America abroad, and retool America for tomorrow. America is always at its most powerful and most influential when it is combining innovation and inspiration, wealth-building and dignity-building, the quest for big profits and the tackling of big problems. When we do just one, we are less than the sum of our parts.
I hope you had the chance to hear Terry Gross on Fresh Air today ... she interviewed Thomas Friedman about his new book, "Hot, Flat, and Crowded". Can't wait to read it. Friedman wrote "The World is Flat" - which has become a staple when teaching college business courses. His down to earth writing style can even make economics & statistics interesting. (!) This time he has taken on the need for an American Green Revolution.
The interview addresses MANY of the challenging topics our SBRT organizational team talk about all the time - such as:
- working around the preconceived notion that global warming is warm & fuzzy & nothing to be concerned about
- the lack of credibility given to "green" issues ... "tree hugging / birky wearing / etc ...
- the challenges of working with legislators & how to we begin to make a difference
- examples of current legislation to be aware of - tax incentives both for & against green energy development
It's a great interview. As usual - Terry asks all the right questions.
If you didn't hear it today - they will probably post the transcript by tomorrow.
Melissa.
The audio from the story is here.
Here's a sample of what Friedman writes ...
The core argument is very simple: America has a problem and the world has a problem. America's problem is that it has lost its way in recent yearspartly because of 9/11 and partly because of the bad habits that we have let build up over the last three decades, bad habits that have weakened our society's ability and willingness to take on big challenges. The world also has a problem: It is getting hot, flat, and crowded. That is, global warming, the stunning rise of middle classes all over the world, and rapid population growth have converged in a way that could make our planet dangerously unstable. In particular, the convergence of hot, flat, and crowded is tightening energy supplies, intensifying the extinction of plants and animals, deepening energy poverty, strengthening petrodictatorship, and accelerating climate change. How we address these interwoven global trends will determine a lot about the quality of life on earth in the twenty-first century.
I am convinced that the best way for America to solve its big problem the best way for America to get its "groove" back is for us to take the lead in solving the world's big problem. In a world that is getting hot, flat, and crowded, the task of creating the tools, systems, energy sources, and ethics that will allow the planet to grow in cleaner, more sustainable ways is going to be the biggest challenge of our lifetime. But this challenge is actually an opportunity for America. If we take it on, it will revive America at home, reconnect America abroad, and retool America for tomorrow. America is always at its most powerful and most influential when it is combining innovation and inspiration, wealth-building and dignity-building, the quest for big profits and the tackling of big problems. When we do just one, we are less than the sum of our parts.
Conservative Feminism?
I caught an interesting segment on yesterday called Sarah Palin: New Face fo Feminism?
"Stanford University historian Estelle Freedman, author of No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women, and host Jacki Lyden discuss whether a conservative such as Palin can be called a feminist in 2008."
What do you think a feminist and can a feminist be conservative?
The Merriam-Webster definition of feminism is: the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes.
So a feminist believes in equal rights regardless of gender. Therefore a feminist can be a man or woman, believe in government funding for social programs...or not. He or she can be pro-gun, anti-abortion, or for school prayer.
However, top many people the word "feminist" conjures up a very specific image and description. How would YOU describe a feminist?
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Whoa, baby!
How is the media handling the Palin pregnancy? It seems to be sensationalized in the celebrity/tabloid magazines like People and Us Magazine, but NPR isn't going into depth about it. What have you noticed?My personal view can best be expressed through a friend's words: Gov. Palin needs to explain her staunch support of abstinence-only sex education in light of her 17-year-old daughter's pregnancy. Your thoughts?
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