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I'm moving by January 1. 2009 from this to this. I am tired of paying and not having RENT. I'm tired of borrowing from my friends. I'm moving to a fine house my dear mother left me in Tucson. I have an expensive new alarm system. Every morning precisely at 8 am my cell phone rings. It’s the creditors. Rings then stops and minutes later the house phone rings. Consistency is important in a topsy turvy world. My landlord who lives in the attached house leaves for work at exactly 2 pm and returns always after 10:30 pm. I can’t think of one thing I do consistently except wear different colored socks everyday. Willa suggested we go work on the Obama campaign so I got us a room for two nites high up in the Golden Nugget where I stayed previously with Helena. It has a slide that sends you through a live shark tank. Last time at 4 am I ran across a half dozen Elvis look alikes waiting for their wives. I ran to the elevator.. up the elevator.. into the room.. back down the elevator.. and they were gone. This time we got up and followed directions to the Obama Vegas headquaters-a store front in a shopping mall between a mattress store and something else. A lot of dads with their daughters. The young Mexican American that ran it was articulate and as hip as he needed to be. The experience reminded me of going east coast with Willa to look at colleges. The best colleges had the best regular-guy speakers he told us not to talk to press and dont blog. My wonderful daughter (chip off the old block) used to cell phone to make a brillant series of vids on youtube: ROAD TO SALVATION (http://www youtube com/watch?v=D5dWCKlki1Q). OBAMA MOMMA (http://www youtube com/watch?v=HEaf8qeR7-4&NR=1) and DAD STOPS FOR A CACTUS (http://www youtube com/watch?v=BDdLpi7paQ4&NR=1). We were assigned a house to go to to get our instructions. We went to an upper middle class white neighborhood and followed the signs to the back and there was a Palo Alto Sanford graduate African American.. articulate etc. I think Willa liked him and within minutes had his cell and later was texting about this and that... During his rap the woman next to me brought up she had been brought up in the neighborhood we were to work and it was bad bad bad. We were to get out the early vote and get people to go down and register the last 2 days left of registration... He hadn't gotten any sleep and had been working with high school volunteers to put together the package we were given. The name and address with the way they had voted.. a map with pencil dots to match the names on the list. I asked if he and I could do a pyscho drama of what might happen. He played me. I played the poor guy in a rundown trailer. Helpful... I guess. Off we went... The poor didn't really think about the election. The pro McCain (was that his name) people weren't polite and told us.. not asked us to leave. If the yard was clean they were leaning towards Obama.. if there was a rabid or angry watch dog.. they weren't home weren't answering the door or none of the above... The only moment I felt we did anything was when we found this elderly gentlemen and he was guy and. I imagine pleased to have someone to speak with.. said he left voting to his wife and he didn't vote nor his son. I pointed at bright eyed Willa and said to please go down and register and bring his son and do it for her. I found a killer Mexican restaurant and spent time with Willa and Obama. As we left Vegas I felt it was worthwhileWilla. I turned 62 out in Tucson and that morning tried to sneak in without paying at the Saguro National Park. It was 5:30 am and I noticed the sign said "62 years and older" lifetime entry $10. I had that so went in later and discovered that my lifetime membership was good for ANY National Park and included being able to bring in 3 others in my car. I did the 8 mile loop and found a road leading to Mica Trail and found a bbq area and when Jessica was with me we cooked out twice. She bitched about the bugs but the light the place and her creative spontaneity made it (andy) devine. striptease house by the side of the road called “PIN UPS” with a fresco of a dancer below the sign. We stopped to take erotic fashion of Jessica in front. A young girl sat watching and I went over to her. She had shaved her eye brows and painted or tattooed them back on her face. I asked if I could take her portrait and she agreed but when she moved I noticed her inner arms were sliced with perhaps a razor. I asked if I could do a still life of her cut arms. Then as she moved I noticed she had done the same with the upper thighs of her shapely legs. I shot those also and later saw she had carved “Shame” into her thigh. She was a dancer…from to get my gums whacked by Dr. Green and my haircut by Dagny. I fought with Jessica and spent time with my male friends. At one point over breakfast on Masonic with my fine photographer friend Dennis Letbetter I got a text from Miss Carcinogen who I had met online through my oft absent friend and photographer (strong sexual images) Tommy Landon. She was on Haight and if I didn’t meet with her she was going home. She met us and we went up the street and shot at Dennis and Jane’s house. Elegant and intellectual (the house) I shot with a frenzy…I felt Miss C reminded me of a Hans Bellmer sculpture and Jane was there to be the butt I needed in the foreground (thanks Jane) and Dennis shot me shooting and sometimes grabbed the camera. At one point Miss C got a text… “blow him”. That buzzed around my adult mind as I shot and finally made up an excuse to take her upstairs. In the bathroom I did this and that and I asked about this and that and then she told me what she enjoyed and I choked her …not to kill her but to cut off the air from her lungs.

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What is it that makes a community one of the best places in the country to raise kids? How many of you would put Racine in that category?If you're Business Week magazine -- which makes a career out of its annual best places best colleges best places to work issues -- the most important factors that make communities family-friendly include: affordability Already you're thinking. "Well that leaves out Racine." But Business Week also includes such factors as: cost of living air quality (check!) racial diversity (check!) local parks and ball fields (check!) zoos (check!) recreation centers (check!) museums and theaters (check!) Hmmm. Business Week says it dropped from consideration communities with fewer than 50,000 people or median household incomes less than $40,000 or more than $100,000 (Whoops! This is a close call: The 2000 Census listed Racine's median household income as $37,164 but more current figures say it's $42,234. We just squeak into consideration.)But. OK we didn't win. That honor went to. "a quiet Chicago suburb" whose high school ranks 12th in the state its football team has been state champion three times in eight years and its marching band has won 26 straight state championships. "It is a middle-class community with low crime affordable homes award-winning schools ethnic restaurants a major regional mall and a small-town charm."Still. Business Week wants to leave happy readers everywhere and so it has chosen the best places to raise kids in every state. Alas. Racine didn't win the Wisconsin title either. That honor went to population 61,887; median household income. $60,637. "once primarily a logging and manufacturing town but the economy now includes high-tech health-care and university jobs."Runners-up in Wisconsin: Appleton and (drum roll finally!) Racine. (Take that Madison!)Business Week provides no supporting information no rationale. Maybe it's better that way. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Mother always used to say. I am surprised to hear we are a runner-up because I believe this is a title we should be striving for.. not one that we deserve quite yet. So the schools not being able to gradate 50% of the kids had no effect?Or the Crime (though the Post's idea of not reporting crime means it's not happening might work.  - Nov 12. 2008  - Nov 11. 2008  - Nov 11. 2008  - Nov 10. 2008 Please support our advertisers! Follow Racine Post on Twitter! The companion blog to the complete source of news and comment about Racine and Racine County. It is run by and.

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The University of Akron has received a national ranking. Again. The Princeton analyse ranked UA as one of the best colleges in the Midwest among 161 other institutions of higher learning in its 2008 "beat Colleges: Region by Region" edition. In 2005 the analyse judged the university one of the best midwestern colleges; its "Best Business Schools" recognized the College of Business Administration graduate program in 2005. '06 and '07. Careers & Colleges magazine identified the university as one of 14 "Schools That command" in the United States calling it an example of "under-recognized schools that deserve a closer be," in 2004. For this year's rankings the analyse selected 654 of the best colleges from the regions of the Northeast. Southeast. Midwest and West. Selected institutions had to conform to "standards for academic excellence within their region," according to the Review's web place. The second requirement was that students respond to anonymous surveys either online or on cover which were conducted during campus visits."In many instances we are able to contact students on our own and collect enough student surveys to produce a representative opinion-driven compose for a particular college."But oftentimes we believe on a college's administrators to help us get in contact with its students. Therefore if some excellent colleges seem conspicuously absent from our list it may be the result of unwillingness on the move of administrators to back up us," A statement from the analyse's Web site said. University president Luis Proenza said students are responsible for the positive analyse."These designations designate the efforts and professionalism of our faculty and staff and further elevate the university's regional and national stature for its academic research technical and athletic excellence," Proenza said. "Given that their input formed a significant portion of the analyse our students obviously agree that the University of Akron is one of the best in the Midwest."

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Lynchburg College is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education according to The Princeton Review's 2008 edition. The beat 366 Colleges. Only about 15 percent of the four-year colleges in America and two Canadian colleges were chosen for the schedule. LC is one of the 146 colleges named a "Best Southeastern College" by The Princeton analyse. In the 2008 edition students praise Lynchburg College for its "beautiful campus," "small personable environment," "close-knit community," and "well-balanced liberal arts education." Of academics students said. "Classes at LC are challenging and interesting" and professors helpful. LC's rating for interesting and accessible professors was 87 each and the overall quality of life rating was also 87 all up considerably from the 2007 edition. Students described themselves as wanting to have fun but also wanting to succeed in school. Robert Franek. Princeton analyse's vice president of publishing said. "In our opinion each school in this schedule is a 'best' when it comes to academics. But as anyone visiting colleges can bear witness their campus cultures and offerings differ greatly. We compile rankings in multiple categories to give college applicants and their parents - particularly those who can't tour these schools - a wide range of information to decide which of these academically outstanding colleges will be best for them. It's all about the fit." The ranking lists in the 2008 edition of Best 366 Colleges are based on The Princeton analyse's analyse of 120,000 students (about 325 per campus on average) attending the 366 colleges in the schedule. The Princeton Review is a New York-based affiliate known for its evaluate preparation education and college admission services. It is not affiliated with Princeton University and does not publish a magazine. For more information check.

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High school students across the country so eagerly anticipated U. S. News & World inform’s 2008 college rankings that the publication was actually embargoed to generate suspense. After claims of leaked rankings lit up Internet blogs for weeks the official rankings were finally released on Aug. 17 met by a firestorm of controversy about their presumed importance. Stanford remained fourth in the magazine’s 2008 ranking — part of the annual “America’s Best Colleges� air — trailing behind only perennial list-toppers Princeton. Harvard and Yale. The ranking methodology takes into account factors including the SAT scores of incoming students the percentage of freshmen in the top 10 percent of their high school categorise the percentage of alumni who donate and the most controversial criterion of all. “reputation� — a category in which college presidents score institutions other than their own. “We’re pleased to be recognized as one of the top universities in the country,� said Jeff Wachtel ‘79 special assistant to President John Hennessy. The rankings have received much criticism this year as a rising tide of university presidents education advocates and commentators have decried the list as misrepresentative of the mission of higher education. Their cries against the rankings echoed the sentiments of former University President Gerhard Casper in the mid-1990s. Casper declared in an open letter to U. S. News & World Report that universities can no more easily be ranked than magazines calling the enumerate “utterly misleading.� Lloyd Thacker director of the Education Conservancy a Portland. Oregon-based advocacy assort and think-tank is building an alliance of college presidents against the rankings. Thus far. 64 presidents have signed a letter refusing to submit the statistical data that forms the backbone of the rankings. “[The rankings] do not alter Stanford’s behavior much,� he said. “We are pursuing a path we think is alter. The rankings have no effect on the faculty’s approach to research.� Thacker noted that need-based aid at universities has remained constant in the past decade while merit-based aid has increased six fold as colleges more aggressively act high-scoring students in an effort to obtain ground in the rankings. “It’s irresponsible to rank colleges,� Thacker said. “The rankings imply a degree of precision and authority that is not supported by educational research. They do not decide what really matters in higher education.� The rankings have spawned an entire industry that Thacker said amounts to more than $4 billion annually. Management consultants for universities alone account for $1 billion of that total. Thacker said the figures reflected the “commercialization of higher education.� Many components of the rankings are arbitrary according to Thacker. The “alumni giving rate� measures the percentage of alumni who donated which he said is much more about the slickness of a university’s fundraising race than “alumni satisfaction,� as U. S. News & World Report claims. The “alumni giving rate� category also fails to measure the dollar amount of donations. For example about 39 percent of alumni donated to Stanford measure year but the University raised a total of $903 million much of that money coming from other sources. Princeton on the other transfer raised only about $250 million but 61 percent of alumni contributed and the New Jersey educate was consequently ranked higher in the “alumni giving rate� category. School of Education Prof. Denise Clark Pope ‘88 who has publicly advocated for a less stressful college admissions affect also denounced the ranking system as creating undue pressure for high school students. “[The rankings] are adding to the problem instead of being the solution,� she said. “There’s a misconception that highest-ranked is best. They advance an incorrect communicate that everyone should strive for the highest-ranked schools. “It’s crazy to rank schools on an overall basis,� she added. “Each person is looking for different components.� College ratings are too biased towards research and scholarship and not favorable towards a great campus environment. LOTS of choices in terms of student clubs and dining facilities etc. lots of back up from faculty and cater etc. Sure an education is great but obviously people undergo lives OUTSIDE of class and homework and if a college can't help the students out in that regard fuck it. (Comments are meant to provide a constructive way for users to interact online. gratify keep discussion civil and refrain from using profanity personal attacks potentially libelous language or dislike speech. The Stanford Daily is not responsible for any content that appears in the comment section of its Web site. The Daily is not responsible for monitoring the board or removing comments that could be in violation of the policy. The editors of the non-profit newspaper support a free transfer of ideas change surface if beliefs expressed are controversial but The Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation claims all rights and sole discretion to delete or not remove any affix for any cerebrate at any time. 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has been ranked in the top tier of master's universities in the 15-state Western Region of the groups institutions according to a classification scheme used by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching where large universities with extensive doctoral programs and research activities are considered " " and institutions with a more limited be of doctoral programs and research activities are considered "Regional know's" universities. Universities are measured for a variety of characteristics in the U. S. News survey including a look assessment graduation and retention rates faculty resources student selectivity financial resources and alumni giving.

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inform Lookout - College of the Ozarks is again ranked No. 11 in U. S. News & World Report’s enumerate of “America’s Best Colleges” for the Midwest region - up from last year’s No. 29 ranking. This is the 18th year that the educate has been named a top-tier school by the magazine. The college also was named No. 1 in the category “Great Schools. Great Prices” for schools providing quality education for the lowest costs. And the school was No. 1 in the “Lowest Acceptance evaluate” for Midwest colleges. College of the Ozarks which holds its enrollment at about 1,250 students accepts 12 percent of applicants based on financial need academic ability sound engrave and a willingness to work. Inclusion in “America’s beat Colleges” is based on factors including peer assessment retention graduation rates student/faculty ratios financial resources and alumni contribution rates.

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