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Not all industries are equally lucrative for UC alumni. The report released noted that the mean income after 10 years of work in the humanities ranged between $59,1112 to $83,589, whereas 10 years of work in the STEM industry offered a mean income ranging from $100,838 to $134,664.
Paule says it’s not just the degree or the industry that affords the UC’s low-income students such a comfortable future after graduation. At the end of the day, students without parents that can support them after college have little choice but to work hard to make it own their own, Paule explained.
“The diploma is one thing, but it’s all about the hustle,” he said.
Anna-Sofia Lesiv is a reporting intern at the Mercury News. Originally from Toronto, Canada, she is currently studying economics and computer science at Stanford University.
The Air Force Reserve's airport presence dates back to 1948, and we have flown the F-51, F-80, C-110, and C-130. Our flying squadron dates back to 1943; constituted at Baier Army Air Field, Ind. In the last 20 years, the wing's mission has taken our members around the world.
European shares were on course for a fifth day of gains on March 19, powered by a strong rally in automakers after Peugeot suggested Fiat Chrysler was among the options for a merger, and as Bank of America Merrill Lynch talked up stocks in the sector.
“There is likely to be some short covering today given that sentiment across the world is positive in stocks and some traders have been viewing the poor economic indicators of the eurozone as justification for shorting the eurozone,” said CMC Markets analyst David Madden.
Madden said the Fed was likely to maintain its data-driven policy approach. This would follow moves by the European Central Bank two weeks ago to reloosen policy and pump more money into the financial system, offering hope of a continuation of stock market gains.
Daimler, Volkswagen, and Porsche were among BAML’s top picks, helping German stocks stage a rebound from Monday’s fall to a five-month high and lead gains in the region.
The speaker of parliament on March 18 ruled May could not put her deal to a new vote unless it was re-submitted in a fundamentally different form. May is due at an EU summit in Brussels on March 21 at which she will ask for a delay to Britain’s planned departure from the bloc on March 29.
Online supermarket Ocado climbed to a record high after posting strong gains in first-quarter retail sales despite a fire at its flagship distribution center.
French telecoms operator Iliad dropped almost 3 percent after the company cut its cash flow target for 2020 in France and added it was considering the sale of part of its mobile assets.
Investors in the U.S. seemed to turn more optimistic earlier in the day, but then resumed their selling.
A 1 percent change in stock prices hardly does this controversial week justice.
Leonard Ray Mantooth, 77, of Lubbock passed away Saturday, March 26, 2011. He was born Dec. 31, 1933, in Calera, Okla., to Jesse and Edith Mantooth. He married Margaret Jane Felts on Feb. 9, 1952. She preceded him in death on March 2, 2005.He was also preceded in death by his parents and four brothers: Odell Scott, LaFon Mantooth, Leon Scott and Lee Scott.Leonard is survived by a son, Keno Mantooth and wife Robyn of Lubbock; a daughter, Robin Odell and husband Randy of Lubbock; brother, Milton Mantooth and wife Mickey; sister, Jane Browning; three granddaughters, Dawn Kineman and husband David, Wendi Zamora and husband Eric, and Destiny Garcia; and great-granddaughter, Camryn Jane Kineman.Leonard owned and operated Mantooth Masonry, specializing in custom brick design. In his personal time he enjoyed spending time with family and fishing.The family will receive friends from 7 until 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Sanders Memorial Chapel with the Reverend Ken Horn officiating. Burial will follow at Peaceful Gardens Memorial Park under the care of Sanders Funeral Home.Leonard was a loving man and will be dearly missed by family and friends.
He moved to White Bluff a year ago. Joined Leadership. Now he's Dickson Chamber president.
When Fayetteville, Tenn. native Corey Albert moved to his wife Kaley’s hometown of White Bluff in 2017, the local chamber of commerce was not foremost on his mind. But that was before he registered for Leadership Dickson County.
Now Albert is the new president of the Dickson County Chamber of Commerce.
“Everyone told me that there was no better way to learn about my newly adopted county than the leadership program, and they were right,” Albert said.
“I feel like I know more about Dickson now than my own hometown,” he added, laughing.
It was this new-found knowledge that gave Albert an appreciation for the people, the leaders, and the history, as well as the issues and needs of Dickson Countians.
“The program’s mission statement includes the line ‘the program will nurture the most valuable community resource – people,’ and when I finished the 10-month-long program, I was ready to become more involved,” Albert said.
Chamber Board Chairperson Paula Eleazar was pleasantly surprised that Albert was living locally.
Unlike many chamber presidents, Albert did not bring a chamber background to his new position, he brought a financial one. After earning his degree from Freed Hardeman University, he began a career in the financial services industry where he obtained his series 7/66 licenses. Most recently, he worked with Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company specializing in assisting small business owners and families with their financial plans.
The new president also cited his Fayetteville background as a plus.
“I understand the small-town feel and love the fact that Dickson, White Bluff and other beautiful towns in the county have a great atmosphere. Their residents are all proud of who they are and what they represent within the framework of Dickson County,” Albert said.
That discussion brought Albert to relationship building, one of the skill sets most vital to his new role. During his time in the Leadership, and now with the board of the Leadership Dickson County Alumni Association, Albert noted that he was able to build a great rapport with the chamber staff, which he described as “a stellar group that is doing an excellent job.
While Albert already has met various leaders in the community, including the mayors, many small business owners, he is excited to begin reaching out to everyone in the community, educating them on what the chamber can do for their business and listening to their comments.
Already an active member of the White Bluff community, Corey coaches a White Bluff Junior Pro basketball team. He is married to Kaley (Gross) Albert. He’s a Tennessee Vol fan who enjoys anything outside, including hiking, camping, fishing, hunting and golf.
Albert will begin is chamber duties Feb. 4 and can be reached at 615-446-2349.
The Ridgewood Elks lodge closed with more than $1M in assets. Where does the money go now?
The former Elks chapter was suspended by the national organization in 2016 and is selling off its assets. Where does the money go?
RIDGEWOOD — Closed in 2016, the former village Elks Lodge is selling off its assets, valued at more than a million dollars. But where does the money from the sale of its headquarters and liquor license go, now that the local organization is defunct?
Founded in 1922, Ridgewood Elks Lodge 1455 was suspended by the national Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks in March 2016 and its charter revoked a few months later.
In recent months, the national Grand Lodge and the New Jersey Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks have taken steps to sell the former Ridgewood lodge’s liquor license, a move that could net hundreds of thousands, and has sold its North Maple Avenue headquarters to the village for $1.1 million.
The Grand Lodge’s revocation of the Ridgewood lodge's charter was met by resistance by local lodge members. More than two years later, some still feel aggrieved.
“It was really cold-hearted what transpired there,” said former leader Michael Enright. He said he and others decided a few years ago to try to revive the lodge.
“Our lodge did more than any other lodge in our district. Our membership was up 28 percent; we were the youngest-average-aged lodge in our district. We were up and coming and turning the place around, and they came in and closed us,” Enright said.
In its revocation, the Grand Lodge alleged that the Ridgewood Lodge — on and off probation for 15 years — failed to file audits on time four years in a row, was delinquent on bills and taxes, did not fix a “dangerous electrical condition” in the basement, and failed to provide management reports and minutes to the special representative.
Before the Grand Lodge pulls a charter, the lodge is put on probation and a trustee is assigned to help it become viable, said Malcolm McPherson, a state Elks official.
“That just didn’t happen for Ridgewood," McPherson said. "They were on probation for a number of years."
Local leaders appealed to the state Elks, filed a complaint in Superior Court and launched a GoFundMe drive. In the end, the court ordered the lodge’s finances, building and liquor license to be transferred to then-state President John Szczomak as trustee.
When a lodge closes, assets are held in trust, unless there is a local effort to revive the lodge.
“What happens when the Grand Lodge takes the charter from the local lodge is any proceeds they have — bank accounts, sale of real property, the liquor license — that money is held in trust for a period of five years. Just in case, if the lodge local wants to re-establish itself in the community or another town, then that money is held in trust for them,” McPherson said.
If locals wish to form a new lodge “within a reasonable time,” the assets can be transferred, said James Nichelson, a spokesman for the Grand Lodge. “If that isn’t done, those funds are ordered transferred to the major charity of the state Elks association,” Nichelson said.
New Jersey State Elks Association’s state project is Camp Moore, a sleepaway camp for children with special needs.
McPherson said the closing on the Ridgewood lodge building may take place in January.
The defunct Ridgewood Elks had total assets of $154,210 as of March 2017, according to the most recent available filing of the club's nonprofit IRS Form 990.
In the past six years, two New Jersey lodges have had their charters either surrendered or revoked. Phillipsburg and Somerset Hills did not reopen. There are 800,000 Elks members in the U.S., and about 43,000 in New Jersey.
The Ridgewood lodge testified during its revocation hearing that it held a public liquor license, permitting public use of the facility. The Grand Lodge concluded that the Elks are a “private fraternal nonprofit organization” and lodges are only for members and their guests.
The Elks are still looking for a buyer for the Ridgewood liquor license, McPherson said.
Since the license remained inactive for two terms and without a licensed premises, the Elks needed to obtain a special ruling from the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control director to renew it. The director granted conditional approval in October 2018 for renewal.
As a final step, the Village Council was asked to act and approved the Elks’ renewal through June 30, 2019. The license is not tied to the North Maple Avenue property, and the village clerk will retain it before its sale.
While Ridgewood receives $2,500 in fees from the Elks for the renewal, the license’s true value will come from its sale to another business.
The statewide average for liquor-license sales is thought to be close to $350,000, said Diane Weiss, executive director of the New Jersey Licensed Beverage Association. However, prices within the state vary sharply, with sales as low as $50,000 for Clifton and as high as $2.3 million in Short Hills. Ridgewood is home to a thriving downtown restaurant scene, so there is potential for a high return on the Elks’ license.
TWO sheep-shearing competitions in July offered proof that sheep shearers are working hard to preserve the culture and the necessary skills of their profession.
A regional sheep-shearing competition took place in the municipality of Kamenica in the Sabinov district in eastern Slovakia in mid July, where a total of eight contestants sheared 148 sheep, with Ján Hankovský from Bardejov, Slavomír Sobek form Ružobmerok and Jozef Hankovský from Bardejov being the winners.
Sobek also won the competition for the fastest shearing, with one minute and 10 seconds for one sheep – lagging only two seconds behind the Slovak record.
The third year of this competition was not as well attended as previous years, Peter Angleovič of the organising farm Farma Kamenica told the TASR newswire. But poor weather and various work-related obligations in the high season might have prevented some sheep shearers from participating.
Those who made it to the finals in Kamenica automatically proceeded to the national round of the competition.
In Liptovská Lúžna in northern-central Slovakia, the 10th International Championship of Slovakia in sheep shearing took place on July 26. Polish sheep shearer Krisztian Jarosz won the competition, beating two Slovaks – Peter Kučera of Valaská and last year’s winner Igor Fonguš of Liptovské Revúce, who placed second and third, respectively, in this year’s edition.
Reľovský also noted that after a period of some decline, the profession of sheep shearing is experiencing somewhat of a revival. “Aside from the fact that sheep need to be sheared, we’re noticing increasing demand for products made of high-quality sheep’s wool. We need more young sheep shearers,” he said.
At the same time, however, he praised the talents shown by the competition’s youngest entrant. “The youngest participant, 20-year-old Marek Marko of Valaská, demonstrated undeniable talent, and happens to be a student at the Slovak Agricultural University in Nitra. What’s especially valuable is that he received the evaluation of the contestant with the highest-quality and slickest shearing,” Reľovský concluded.
Engaging online content and more targeted social media outreach are major keys for commercial success in Cambodia, whose youthful population has been identified as the world’s most receptive to social media advertising and content, a market researcher said yesterday.
Eelco Dijkhuizen, general manager of market research firm TNS Cambodia, said during a breakfast discussion hosted by EuroCham yesterday, that online connectivity was growing rapidly in Cambodia, with a third of the 15 million population and nearly half of all urban-dwellers now connected to the internet.
He referred to the findings of a Kantar TNS study, Connected Life, which found that the average Cambodian consumer spends almost two hours a day on social media networks and visits an average of 3.4 platforms a week – accessing the online content almost entirely through their mobile device rather than computers.
Given these trends, it is important for marketers to recognise their targeted audience, but also for them to understand how online users consume content on the internet, he said.
“When you look at the activity footprint of consumers, we see they mostly do instant messaging, access social networks, watch videos and read articles, and overall they spend about 3.5 hours a day online,” he said.
The study found that virtually all Cambodians who are online have a Facebook account. While this offers companies huge potential to grow the popularity of their products through targeted advertising on the platform, he cautioned that as online users receive a high volume of advertising, “it is imperative that you target your consumers properly in terms of where they are and when you target them”.
Online users still access traditional media such as television, radio or newspapers, but two-thirds of their time spent consuming media now takes places online. “I’m not saying TV is dead, but I am saying that digital is moving really quickly,” noted Dijkhuizen.
The study found that Cambodians were highly receptive to brand content on social media platforms, and 75 percent of online users share brand posts they find interesting or engaging.
Dijkhuizen noted, however, that firms generally should not focus entirely on digital advertising as traditional media is still very important in Cambodia – especially among the older generations.
Chharoat Chhaleta, founder of Roserb, an online cosmetics and skincare boutique, said product marketing on the internet was replacing the role once served by television as a result of the rapid proliferation of smartphones.
She said while her company uses Facebook and Instagram to advertise its products, this reliance on social media was not suited for every type of business.
“Our target customers are mostly people from young generations aged from 14-25 years old because they are up-to-date in technology, and social media plays an important role to reach out to them,” she said.
Beginning in 2010, mathematics and English language arts standards, called the Common Core State Standards, were adopted in 45 of 50 U.S. states.
The Common Core Standards represent a substantial change from what was in place before. They are not just national (nearly) in scope, but also their content differs considerably from prior state standards.
Initially, this change was welcomed by a majority of the public. But more recent polls show a growing opposition to the standards. This opposition has been joined by several conservative groups and, more recently, by Republican presidential candidates.
More recent polls indicate that a large percentage of Americans still know very little about Common Core standards. And quite alarmingly, often what they know is incorrect.
We are researchers leading a research initiative — Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning (C-SAIL) — that has been studying the implementation and effects of these and other new standards adopted across the U.S.
Here is what you need to know about the Common Core.
Why Common Core? And why the worry?
Historically, the education system in the United States has been remarkably decentralized. Educational governance and funding have primarily been a state and local issue, with about 90 percent of the funds and the vast majority of the policies coming from these levels.
Unlike many other countries, the U.S. does not have national content standards (documents indicating what students are supposed to know and be able to do at particular grade levels).
While there have been numerous efforts to develop a national curriculum, these have repeatedly failed due to political backlash.
Recognizing the failure of previous efforts, several groups came together in 2008-2010, funded by private philanthropies, to develop common standards that could be used across states.
They were motivated by a number of arguments. For example, the standards' developers argued that teachers and schools would benefit because national standards are more efficient (in that educators can share resources across states) than state-specific standards. Others argued that common standards would benefit a highly mobile population where students often move across states.
As the standards have been adopted and implemented, however, opposition has arisen.
Perhaps the biggest Common Core controversy has to do with a perceived federal role in the adoption of these standards. Conservative groups in particular have voiced this objection. Most Republican presidential candidates have opposed the standards due to this reason.
It is important to note that the Common Core standards were not developed by the federal government, nor were states required to adopt them.
It is true, however, that President Obama’s administration did encourage states to adopt the standards when it created a program called Race to the Top that offered states extra funding in exchange for developing education reform agendas and policies.
In particular, states received more points in the scoring of their grant applications if they had adopted Common Core.
It is not clear how many states would have adopted the standards without this incentive.
Another major controversy has to do with the new standardized tests that states have adopted to measure student mastery of the Common Core standards.
Prior to Common Core, each state had its own state-specific assessments in each subject under the federal No Child Left Behind law. State assessments were also viewed by many as low-quality and poorly aligned with state standards.
After the adoption of Common Core, two testing consortia were funded by the federal government – Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium. Almost all Common Core states joined one of the consortia, but over time the number of states involved in the consortia has decreased as states have decided instead to create their own tests.
These tests have also been criticized by the teachers’ unions and anti-test groups who say the tests are too long and too challenging.
While the new consortium tests are indeed somewhat longer than other assessments, and while the level of difficulty is higher, recent reviews suggest these tests are indeed high-quality. These new tests measure the content in the Common Core standards better than the state tests they have replaced.
Finally, the standards have been criticized for some substantive reasons as well.
For instance, some have objected to examples of “Common Core mathematics” that use methods different from traditional algorithms. Common Core standards differ from the traditional algorithm that most U.S. adults learned. For instance, most U.S. adults learned only one way to multiply – as shown here, but Common Core suggests alternative approaches.