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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Frogs and Ravens: Professorial Scapegoats, Or Why Little Jimmy ...
It's Not Our Responsibility
It's popular wisdom these days that you need to go to college if you want a good job.? Increasingly, the wisdom is right in the sense that a lot of employers assume that a qualified candidate is one with at least a B.A. or B.S., and some fields, like medicine, law, or academia (more on this in a bit), require more than that.? However!? Saying that you need a college degree to get a good job is not the same thing as saying that a college degree guarantees you a job, or even that it is about getting a job.? Rather, it's that there are qualities present in people who have gone to college that are appealing to employers.?
And yes, college administrations and marketers may well play up this angle, because many of the folks out there with money to give tend to be of the mindset that things are only worth funding if they offer a "good return," with that defined in terms of "how much profit" and "what I get out of it"; older appeals to improving society, or benefiting humanity, or making good citizens don't hack it so much.? That doesn't mean that those things should be abandoned, however.? Indeed, the argument can be made that it's even more important that colleges and universities resist the monetization and corporatization of everything, because if they don't, who will?? But this is an argument for another time, and one that's been made well by other people, so back to the main point.
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It's Not Our Job
Implicit in the idea that college prepares you for a professional career and in the complaints about "clueless" professors instilling "bad" habits in their students is the idea that professors should be teaching students about "professional" (meaning corporate -- again, I'll get to this in a bit) behavior.? No.? Professors at most colleges are not there to teach corporate-focused skills, with some exceptions (like those in MBA programs).? Your English teacher is there to teach English.? Your mathematics professor is there to teach mathematics.? Your art teacher is there to teach art.? They are not there to teach students how to: wear a suit / write cover letters / use a fax machine / write thank-you notes / prepare resum?s / use MS Word / network / interact with co-workers / respond to your boss's criticism... and all the other myriad little things you pick up by working someplace.? That is why their classes are called things like "English Literature during the Reformation," "Calculus 103," "Ceramic Studio Techniques" and not "Office Etiquette," "Job Search Expectations," or "Using Computers in Business."
Now, if you're lucky, some of the things they teach you will indeed transfer into the corporate workplace, but many or even most of them will not. This does not mean they "failed" to do their jobs.
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Where's Business in All This?
A lot of the complaints seem to take the form of managers complaining that their new employees don't know how to do.... fill in the blank here with an industry-specific task.? Hello, that's your job, managers.? You know your business, you know your needs, you have the experience and the expertise.? Just as I don't expect my students' employers to teach them how to write a research paper in history, you shouldn't expect me to teach them how to write a memo on supply distribution chains. Again, that's your job.
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Where Are Students/Employees in All This?
There's frequently this attitude that if students or recently-graduated employees are messing up, it's the fault of those who taught them (other things!), as if they were passive blank slates incapable of thinking for themselves or adapting to new situations.? It's funny; I've never seen a student have trouble understanding that the way they write in an academic paper is not how you write in a letter to a friend or family member, and most of them are capable of grasping that the way you write an academic paper in English is different from the way you write an academic paper in History or a lab report in Biology.? Yet, somehow, when confronted with the task of writing in a corporate, business context, they are incapable of recognizing that what served them well in college might not be appropriate in this situation?? I call bullshit.
(And I'll lay you odds that the people who complain to career counselors "But that's how they told me to write in college" are the very same ones who protested "But that's how they told me to write in high school" when they were in my class.? I wouldn't be at all surprised that they whined in similar fashion when they were expected to write in pen rather than crayon the first time.)
Second, there's the assumption that they have those bad habits (whatever they are) because they were taught those habits, as opposed to the far more common situation (based on my and my colleagues' experiences) where the student persists in writing bad, sloppy, and generally incompetent papers despite our best efforts to teach them how to write good ones.? Is it a surprise that such students then later prove unable to write well in other contexts?? But, oh, no, it's because "college writing" means "bad writing" and they were misled.? Or something.
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What Is "Long"?? What Is "Bad"?? And Whose Fault Is It, Really?
I also see a lot of bemoaning professors' asking students to write "long papers" as this spoils them for the demands of the business world, where concision is the norm.? Compared to a one-paragraph memo or a two-bullet-point PowerPoint slide, I suppose a five page paper (the length I see cited most often) is "long."? (Pause for all the writers of monographs and dissertations to laugh.)? But that completely ignores context and function.? Which is more concise, for example: (a) a one-sentence paraphrase of the two sentences the boss spoke in yesterday's meeting, or (b) a one-paragraph summary of the argument of a 400-page scholarly text?? Those "long" papers are the length they are because they are (a) summarizing significant amounts of content (both primary and secondary) and (b) they aren't just summarizing content - they are also making persuasive arguments.?
Or put more briefly, those "long" papers are just the length they need to be to accomplish their goals, just as a memo or a cover letter is the length it needs to be to accomplish its goals.?
Now, it's true that some students misunderstand page requirements and end up puffing and padding their arguments with multi-syllabic words pulled from the dark recesses of the thesaurus in an effort to meet them, but those are the students who get Cs and Ds on their papers.? They are not being taught to write like wordy puffballs; they are choosing, on their own, because they are ignorant and/or lazy, to write that way, not because someone stood up at the lectern and said, "You must employ pompous language at all times.? Oh, and use lots of semi-colons, too."? Pretty much every single professor I've ever known has complained about "thesauritis" and padding and wordiness, so, damnit, don't try to pin student prolixity on us.
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What Is "Job Training"?
Not only are there multiple misunderstandings and misassumptions about the nature of what professors do, but I'd argue that there are also a bunch of unstated assumptions about what a "job" is, and what you need to know to get one or succeed once hired.? For one thing, a lot of what professors teach, even in the most caricatured version of the ivory tower intellectual, is, in fact, a form of job training.? It's just that the job is teaching whatever subject the professor specializes in, rather than, say, being an administrative assistant or an HR director.? When it comes to training students in the culture of academia, the professional expectations, the skill sets needed for success, etc., most professors do a pretty good job.? Some departments are more or less attentive to things like interviewing skills and other such job-searchy things (viz, this blog!), but if you're planning to go into a profession that requires publication to advance? All those "long academic papers" are precisely what you need to know how to do.
Moreover, most of the complaints I've seen haven't been about new graduates' lack of industry-specific skills but about either (a) their job searching skills, (b) their understanding of office culture, and (c) their inexperience.? So you get the gnashing of teeth about things like their inability to dress properly for interviews, their bad cover letters, their informal e-mails, their acting like they know more than their more-experienced co-workers, and so on.? That's not really job training.? That's socialization.? And, again, this is something that students should be taking on some responsibility to figure out themselves.? Do you really want to waste time in your Political Science class learning that you should wear a suit to interviews, and that, yes, if your manager tells you to fetch coffee you should fetch coffee?? Or would you rather learn about how the European Union interfaces with the United Nations and NGOs in sub-Saharan Africa??
Related to this is the whole whine about "useless" degrees and "useless" classes.? Setting aside for the moment the argument that not everything in life should be valued solely in terms of how it affects your salary prospects, the question I'd ask is useless for whom?? A person planning to go into accounting and tax preparation probably won't get much in the way of practical career skills or information from an art history class -- but a person planning to go into graphics and web design had better well know the difference between a Picasso and a Rembrandt, at least if they plan to advance in their career.? So that media professor whose classes some students find useless or inappropriate relative to their preferred fields may very well be the professor whose class on reporting and ethics proved the crucial jumping off point for a future Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.
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There.? How's that for a long paper?
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Newly married gay couples face tax land mines
While most tax news in this election cycle is focusing on expiring tax cuts, what may be most revolutionary about 2012 is how many newly married same-sex couples are going to face a tax quagmire.
There are more than 130,000 married gay and lesbian couples in the United States, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. And with more states, notably New York, legalizing same-sex marriage, that number is rising.
Taxes for same-sex couples are far more complex than those for heterosexual couples because the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) prohibits same-sex marriages from being recognized at the federal level, while state-level tax rules vary greatly.
Filing status matters
Because of DOMA, you can't file your federal income tax returns jointly, even if you are married by state standards. If you or your partner can file as head of household instead of as a single person, you'll be able to get a greater standard deduction ? $8,700 in 2012, versus $5,950 for single status ? and better tax rates.
To qualify, you need to cover more than half the costs of the household's upkeep and have a "qualifying person" living with you ? typically a related child. In the case of a lesbian couple where one partner was the biological parent of a child and the other was a breadwinner and not related to the child, neither would qualify.
The same disparity occurs when parents are claiming dependents. A married heterosexual couple simply lists children on the joint return, and accrues tax benefits. However, for gay and lesbian couples with children, there are two problems: They can't file a joint tax return, and they may not both be legal parents of their children. (Some states allow same-sex adoptions.)
For tax purposes, that means that only the biological or legally adoptive parent would be permitted to take the exemptions for their children, the child credit and a number of other child-related benefits, including education tax breaks.
If both partners are legal parents, they have more options. In general, the higher earner should claim the dependent if possible.
Same-sex couples can expect higher health-related taxes, too. Generally, health insurance benefits are not taxable, and employers deduct the cost of health insurance from an employee's paycheck on a pre-tax basis. But for gay and lesbian couples, the benefits for the partner are taxed at the federal level as wage income.
Estate planning headaches?
Gay and lesbian couples need to make sure they have explicit estate plans and update their wills often. That's because assumptions about assets going to the surviving spouse don't hold ? and families who didn't accept the relationship may be more likely to squabble.
For those with greater wealth who may owe the estate tax (currently due on estates above $5.1 million), the big issue is that the rules allowing spouses to inherit unlimited amounts tax-free do not apply to gay and lesbian marriages because of DOMA.
The recent court decision in Windsor v. United States may change that. Edith Windsor filed suit seeking reimbursement of the $363,053 in federal estate taxes that she paid when her same-sex spouse, Thea Spyer, died and left her assets to Windsor.
In June, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that Section 3 of DOMA, which limits federal benefits based on marriage to a man and a woman, was unconstitutional in that case, and that Windsor should be repaid the estate taxes plus interest. The American Civil Liberties Union has petitioned the Supreme Court to hear the case, and it is one of four DOMA cases that the Supreme Court could choose to hear.
While the case is being appealed, "some CPA firms are filing protective claims to get their clients back money," said Nanette Lee Miller, a partner at the San Francisco accounting firm Marcum, who heads the firm's new tax practice focused on nontraditional families. A protective claim would allow a taxpayer to get a refund based on a contingency, such as pending litigation, beyond the statute of limitations.
Double the filing costs?
If you live in a state that recognizes your marriage, such as New York, Massachusetts or Vermont, you'll file your state taxes as a married individual. But because the state return is calculated from the federal return, and you can't file federally as married, you'll first create a dummy federal return in which you are. Some states will want to see that dummy return, while others won't, so check your state's requirements.
"The nightmare of compliance is difficult and the cost of compliance will be at least double, and I think you face a greater risk of audit," said Ken Weissenberg, a partner at accounting firm EisnerAmper in New York who is himself in a same-sex marriage with two children.
Signing in protest
Lambda Legal, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy organization, recommends that if you're legally married you should attach a declaration to your federal tax return that notes that your filing status is based solely on DOMA, and that you are not disavowing your marriage (or perjuring yourself) by not filing as married.
All these workarounds for same-sex couples would become moot if DOMA is overturned, either legislatively or by the Supreme Court. But because DOMA affects approximately 1,000 federal statutes, it's unlikely the financial complexities will go away quickly or easily.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Fitness Secrets Of Russian Athletes | Manila Style
This really is one significant problem if this involves the conventional diets that many people begin. As these diets are standardized, it?s much more likely that you are not really eating probably the most optimal diet for you personally. If you are searching at the popular diet plans, you need to search for those that permit the most personalization.
The majority of the weight loss diets promote to consume a specific food group and restrict other recommended food groups. Such diets may show temporary results. Should you follow these restricted diets for any very long time, you might develop some health issues at later stage because these diets don?t contain all of the necessary nutrition needed for you.
Diet Is the quickest growing segment from the nutritional supplement industry. Sales of diet pills and related supplements happen to be growing 10-20 percent yearly to the stage where this past year they arrived at $2 billion. Thinking about the truth that 60% from the U.S. human population are overweight or obese, it?s no surprise that a number of us are searching for a method to drop unwanted weight.
Starvation? Yes, all diets result in weight loss by lowering the quantity of what you eat. By consuming less calories your personal body translates this like a potential food shortage also it responds by conserving energy, to ensure that you are able to survive the famine.
Fitness secret: Russian sports athletes eat healthy food choices.
Nutritional supplement term usually signifies items made from a number of from the fundamental nutrition, for instance vitamins, minerals, and proteins. Based on DSHEA (Nutritional Supplement Health insurance and Education Act), nutritional supplement is, with a few exceptions, any product meant for ingestion like a supplement towards the diet. Good examples are vitamins, minerals, herbal treatments, botanicals, proteins, metabolites, etc.
Diet is really a dreadful word for many people since it means food deprivation. This is particularly so for individuals who like to eat, hearing this word appears like asking these to commit suicide. However, the word diet isn?t what we should know so that it is, because the phrase the term diet is ?the typical drink and food of the person? or ?something that?s used, loved or provided regularly?. Getting stated this, there is nothing dreadful within the word actually, it?s something loved because the dictionary informs us.
However, your opinions might change upon reading through the reduced-carb diet overview. Within the low-carb diet overview, become familiar with that energy doesn?t originate from carbohydrates alone. Low-carb diet overview will even tell you just how good fats become energy similar to carbohydrates, as you may know so that it is. Low-carb diet overview will likewise let you know about the suggested carbohydrates like wholegrain, fruits and veggies.
Efforts to lower the cholesterol through cholesterol lowering diets have experienced only modest effects to date. So that they can boost the effectiveness of cholesterol lowering diets in preventing coronary disease, the Adult Treatment Panel from the National Cholesterol Education Program has suggested adding plant sterols and viscous materials towards the diet. None of Russia?s star sports athletes faced the load-loss (or putting on weight, for your matter) problem, that is harmful since it can trigger a rest-lower. Weight-bodybuilders and wrestlers went for protein: farms from the Moscow region delievered pork and beef, as the China furnished fish and caviar. Volleyball, basketball and handball gamers required worry about their vit a levels, consuming butter, sourcream, egg yolk and seafood. Track and area sports athletes require more vitamins and microelements to prove their worth: enter fruit, veggies, nuts, potherbs and seed-oil. Runners and swimmers, who require particular stamina, only eat chicken broth prior to the start, while marathon runners only drink a combination of water and glucose. If this involves weight, the charming Siberian girl Irina Chaschina, 22, who?s 165 centimetres tall (5? 5?), is just 46 kg (101 lb). Unlike Alina Kabaeva, her team mate and prime rival in the forthcoming Olympic games, Irina isn?t disposed to additional weight and had not placed on 10 kg (22 lb) within the wake from the doping scandal. Per week prior to the Olympic games Irina?s daily ration uncluded chocolates, rye bread with caviar (no butter), low-body fat youghurt, a glass of kefir, cucumber and tomato salad (no oil, no mayonnaise), fresh vegetable and fruit juices. Irina does not usually require a diet to keep her weight, yet sometimes she goes a b light diet that?s wealthy in fruit and vegetables. The fruit diet Breakfast : a glass of fresh orange or any fruit juice. Lunch : fruit salad, composed of equal levels of cut oranges, pineapples, kiwi and peeled apples, cleaned lower with juice freshly squashed from one of these simple fruits. Supper : a glass of still standard water along with a eco-friendly apple. Adhering for this diet for five-seven days, a determined person may shed 3-5 kg (7-11 lb).
Additionally to those points, I have broadly layed out the reduced carb diet plans, which appear to become taking up the minds of dieters and scientists alike, along with the research for and against pertinent towards the reduced carb diet plans.
Negative calorie meals are stated to make use of more calories to digest compared to calorie content from the meals themselves, leading to an adverse calorie balance. Therefore, it is natural to think about a diet that contains these meals for weight loss. More about detox diets at http://world wide web.diet-detox.info
People diet for many reasons, and with a lot of aims in your mind. Regardless of what your aims are, the very best diet to attain them is really a personalized one. A customized diet which fits you is the thing you need, whether you need to get a lean body, or simply slim down.
The weight loss on low-carb diets is really a purpose of caloric restriction and diet duration, and never with reduced carb intake. This finding indicates that if you wish to slim down, you need to eat less calories and achieve this on the very long time period.
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