http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/us/29prison.html?_r=1&ex=1361941200&en=895e0616e28e0cd3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
U.S. Imprisons One in 100 Adults, Report Finds
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: February 29, 2008
For the first time in the nation’s history, more than one in 100 American adults are behind bars, according to a new report.
Text of the Report (pewcenteronthestates.org)
Nationwide, the prison population grew by 25,000 last year, bringing it to almost 1.6 million, after three decades of growth
that has seen the prison population nearly triple. Another 723,000 people are in local jails...MORE
27 February 2008
Homelessness--Two Sides of the Street | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/21/2008
SOURCE: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/hot_topics/15848292.html
Posted on Thu, Feb. 21, 2008
HOMELESS IN PHILADELPHIA: FIRST OF THREE PARTS
Two Sides of the Street
As homelessness mounts, the struggle over shelter — and rights — intensifies...MORE
By Jennifer Lin and Joseph A. Slobodzian
INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS
Posted on Thu, Feb. 21, 2008
HOMELESS IN PHILADELPHIA: FIRST OF THREE PARTS
Two Sides of the Street
As homelessness mounts, the struggle over shelter — and rights — intensifies...MORE
By Jennifer Lin and Joseph A. Slobodzian
INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS
Keep your data safe by following the Password Commandments |
SOURCE: http://www.cnet.com/
Workers' Edge - a productivity blog from Dennis O'Reilly - CNET Blogs
February 27, 2008 12:01 AM PST
Keep your data safe by following the Password Commandments
Posted by Dennis O'Reilly
Your first--and sometimes only--line of PC defense is your password.
Even the most carefully crafted password can be rendered useless if you don't keep it secret.
This is not such an easy thing to do, especially considering all the clever tricks data thieves have come up
with to grab it, with or without your knowledge. More dangerous is the lackadaisical approach many people
take to creating, using, and protecting their passwords.
Here are 10 ways to use passwords to best effect....MORE
Workers' Edge - a productivity blog from Dennis O'Reilly - CNET Blogs
February 27, 2008 12:01 AM PST
Keep your data safe by following the Password Commandments
Posted by Dennis O'Reilly
Your first--and sometimes only--line of PC defense is your password.
Even the most carefully crafted password can be rendered useless if you don't keep it secret.
This is not such an easy thing to do, especially considering all the clever tricks data thieves have come up
with to grab it, with or without your knowledge. More dangerous is the lackadaisical approach many people
take to creating, using, and protecting their passwords.
Here are 10 ways to use passwords to best effect....MORE
Revisiting Rental Housing — HBS Working Knowledge-PODCAST
SOURCE: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5864.html
Podcast: Revisiting Rental Housing
Podcast with: Nicolas Retsinas
Published: February 27, 2008
Interviewer: Sean Silverthorne
Running Time: 13 min., 22 sec.
Renters are the forgotten underclass of American policymakers. Although a third of all U.S. citizens rent their dwelling, rental stock is in poor shape, short supply, and expensive. With subprime defaults continuing, it appears as if the situation will only worsen as former home owners now seek shelter in the rental market....MORE
Podcast: Revisiting Rental Housing
Podcast with: Nicolas Retsinas
Published: February 27, 2008
Interviewer: Sean Silverthorne
Running Time: 13 min., 22 sec.
Renters are the forgotten underclass of American policymakers. Although a third of all U.S. citizens rent their dwelling, rental stock is in poor shape, short supply, and expensive. With subprime defaults continuing, it appears as if the situation will only worsen as former home owners now seek shelter in the rental market....MORE
U.S. Among Harshest for Sentencing Children
SOURCE: http://www.blackagendareport.com/
U.S. Among Harshest for Sentencing Children
by Daniel Macallair
The American Prison Gulag, the shame of the planet, reveals its utter barbarity in
condemning thousands of children to permanent...MORE
U.S. Among Harshest for Sentencing Children
by Daniel Macallair
The American Prison Gulag, the shame of the planet, reveals its utter barbarity in
condemning thousands of children to permanent...MORE
25 February 2008
BBC NEWS |New homes 'must cater for ageing'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7261944.stm
Last Updated: Monday, 25 February 2008, 13:32 GMT
New homes 'must cater for ageing'
New homes will have 16 key design features under the plans
Every new home built in England will have to be designed to suit an ageing population, under government plans.
Ministers want all new homes to include 16 features such as stairs wide enough for stairlifts, downstairs bathrooms, and room for wheelchairs to turn.
Builders have until 2010 to show they are adopting the standards, with the threat of compulsion from 2013 if not.
...SOURCE
Last Updated: Monday, 25 February 2008, 13:32 GMT
New homes 'must cater for ageing'
New homes will have 16 key design features under the plans
Every new home built in England will have to be designed to suit an ageing population, under government plans.
Ministers want all new homes to include 16 features such as stairs wide enough for stairlifts, downstairs bathrooms, and room for wheelchairs to turn.
Builders have until 2010 to show they are adopting the standards, with the threat of compulsion from 2013 if not.
...SOURCE
GroundReport | Philippines | Ort is now the favorite food of the low income earner city dwellers
SOURCE: http://www.groundreport.com/
Ort is now the Favorite Food of the Low Income Earner City Dwellers
by Renato Ariza for
Rus in Urbe
February 24, 2008
Before, only the vagabond, street dweller, homeless and the extremely poor people are the one eating orts or leftover foods that were discarded from the different restaurants and fast food chains in cities. These people roam the city’s garbage depots to look for leftovers, others works in dumpsites collecting salable trashed items and the much sought after leftovers which is already unfit for human consumption...MORE
Ort is now the Favorite Food of the Low Income Earner City Dwellers
by Renato Ariza for
Rus in Urbe
February 24, 2008
Before, only the vagabond, street dweller, homeless and the extremely poor people are the one eating orts or leftover foods that were discarded from the different restaurants and fast food chains in cities. These people roam the city’s garbage depots to look for leftovers, others works in dumpsites collecting salable trashed items and the much sought after leftovers which is already unfit for human consumption...MORE
24 February 2008
Stadium Project Falling Short Of City's Ambitious Hiring Goals - washingtonpost.com
SOURCE:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
By Daniel LeDuc
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 24, 2008; Page A01
Stadium Project Falling Short Of City's Ambitious Hiring Goals
Contractors Use Fewer D.C. Workers Than Required
Workers build a restaurant and bar at Nationals Park. Contractors have not used as many D.C. journeymen as a project labor agreement envisioned.
With Washington's new ballpark a little more than a month from its scheduled completion, the project has failed to meet the majority of hiring goals
meant to provide construction jobs to city residents, and the District has not sanctioned any contractor for falling short.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
By Daniel LeDuc
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 24, 2008; Page A01
Stadium Project Falling Short Of City's Ambitious Hiring Goals
Contractors Use Fewer D.C. Workers Than Required
Workers build a restaurant and bar at Nationals Park. Contractors have not used as many D.C. journeymen as a project labor agreement envisioned.
With Washington's new ballpark a little more than a month from its scheduled completion, the project has failed to meet the majority of hiring goals
meant to provide construction jobs to city residents, and the District has not sanctioned any contractor for falling short.
22 February 2008
NPR: Credit Woes Seep into Student Loan Market
SOURCE
EDUCATION
Credit Woes Seep into Student Loan Market
Morning Edition, February 22, 2008 · The student loan market is feeling the pinch of the faltering credit market.
Students still have access to loans for college, but it's costing them more to borrow. David Wessel, economics editor
for The Wall Street Journal, talks to Steve Inskeep about what's in store for American students...MORE
EDUCATION
Credit Woes Seep into Student Loan Market
Morning Edition, February 22, 2008 · The student loan market is feeling the pinch of the faltering credit market.
Students still have access to loans for college, but it's costing them more to borrow. David Wessel, economics editor
for The Wall Street Journal, talks to Steve Inskeep about what's in store for American students...MORE
Sub-Prime and Suburbia
SOURCE: http://www.spaceandculture.org/
Sub-Prime and Suburbia
As the “sub-prime” mortgage crisis winds its way across the United States (and impacts the lives of everyone else) we are left wondering how this real estate tsunami will affect the future of home-buying, suburbia, and urbanism. The Atlantic.com suggests that the shuttering of the suburban dream is being fiscally hastened by financial crises, and that the McMansions of today will be the shoddy slum-apartments of tomorrow...MORE
Sub-Prime and Suburbia
As the “sub-prime” mortgage crisis winds its way across the United States (and impacts the lives of everyone else) we are left wondering how this real estate tsunami will affect the future of home-buying, suburbia, and urbanism. The Atlantic.com suggests that the shuttering of the suburban dream is being fiscally hastened by financial crises, and that the McMansions of today will be the shoddy slum-apartments of tomorrow...MORE
BBC NEWS | UK | UK prisons now 'over-capacity'
SOURCE: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
UK prisons now 'over-capacity'
Prison officers accuse ministers of "total mismanagement"
Prisons in England and Wales have exceeded their normal capacity for the first time, officials have confirmed.
The Ministry of Justice said that as of Friday morning there were 82,068 inmates in jails - 96 over the Prison Service's normal operational capacity.
Justice Secretary Jack Straw has asked magistrates to jail fewer people while officials attempt to manage the crisis.
Some 358 inmates are in police or court cells in an attempt to ease pressures.
According to the latest figures from the Ministry of Justice the population breached its current capacity of 81,972 on Thursday evening.
The breach comes despite a year of efforts to reduce pressures by releasing more prisoners and building more cells.
21 February 2008
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraqi police detain street people
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7255196.stm
Last Updated: Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 15:35 GMT
Iraqi police detain street people
Officials said the measures were to protect people living on the streets
Iraqi security forces have been ordered to detain beggars and mentally ill people found on Baghdad's streets who could be exploited by militants.
The Iraqi interior ministry confirmed the order went into effect on Tuesday and that a handful of such people had been picked up from the streets so far.
Those detained will be sent to mental institutions or back to their families...SOURCE
Last Updated: Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 15:35 GMT
Iraqi police detain street people
Officials said the measures were to protect people living on the streets
Iraqi security forces have been ordered to detain beggars and mentally ill people found on Baghdad's streets who could be exploited by militants.
The Iraqi interior ministry confirmed the order went into effect on Tuesday and that a handful of such people had been picked up from the streets so far.
Those detained will be sent to mental institutions or back to their families...SOURCE
Education Week: More Time for Math and Reading Equals Less for Other Subjects, Study Finds
Published Online: February 20, 2008
Source; http://www.edweek.org/
More Time for Math and Reading Equals Less for Other Subjects, Study Finds
By Kathleen Kennedy Manzo
Most of the nation’s elementary schools have added at least 75 minutes of instruction time in reading and mathematics each week—and often twice that amount—in the five years since the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act, but many did so by skimming that time from the teaching of science, social studies, the arts, recess, and physical education.
Source; http://www.edweek.org/
More Time for Math and Reading Equals Less for Other Subjects, Study Finds
By Kathleen Kennedy Manzo
Most of the nation’s elementary schools have added at least 75 minutes of instruction time in reading and mathematics each week—and often twice that amount—in the five years since the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act, but many did so by skimming that time from the teaching of science, social studies, the arts, recess, and physical education.
jim reid--BBC NEWS -- Minister of Parliment pelted after confronting gang
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7253900.stm
MP pelted after confronting gang
The MP said the youths were astonished to be approached
An MP is urging people to confront anti-social behaviour after a gang of youths pelted him with stones when he challenged them about their behaviour.
Tobias Ellwood, MP for Bournemouth East, confronted the group on the Townsend Estate, in his constituency, when they urinated in someone's garden.
He said the gang verbally abused him and threw stones at him when he threatened to call police.
He said more people should be prepared to tackle anti-social behaviour.
Mr Ellwood, a Conservative MP, told the BBC: "Unless more people come forward and try to prevent this sort of behaviour it will continue to grow.
"There is a generation growing up now that are not used to being challenged. Unless we do challenge them, then these sort of youths will be carrying knives in a couple of years...SOURCE
MP pelted after confronting gang
The MP said the youths were astonished to be approached
An MP is urging people to confront anti-social behaviour after a gang of youths pelted him with stones when he challenged them about their behaviour.
Tobias Ellwood, MP for Bournemouth East, confronted the group on the Townsend Estate, in his constituency, when they urinated in someone's garden.
He said the gang verbally abused him and threw stones at him when he threatened to call police.
He said more people should be prepared to tackle anti-social behaviour.
Mr Ellwood, a Conservative MP, told the BBC: "Unless more people come forward and try to prevent this sort of behaviour it will continue to grow.
"There is a generation growing up now that are not used to being challenged. Unless we do challenge them, then these sort of youths will be carrying knives in a couple of years...SOURCE
blackagendareport.com - On Black Violence
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=533&Itemid=33
On Black Violence
No one can doubt there is an excess of violence in Black America. The U.S. is a violent place, in general. We all feel the need to deal with the problem.
But, like all problems, it can only be solved through patient and intelligent analysis. What lies at the core of the problem?...SOURCE
On Black Violence
No one can doubt there is an excess of violence in Black America. The U.S. is a violent place, in general. We all feel the need to deal with the problem.
But, like all problems, it can only be solved through patient and intelligent analysis. What lies at the core of the problem?...SOURCE
Education Week: Stable Prekindergarten Funding Proves Challenging for States
Published Online: February 21, 2008
Published in Print: February 27, 2008
Stable Prekindergarten Funding Proves Challenging for States
By Michele McNeil
San Antonio
Even though state spending on prekindergarten has grown $1 billion nationwide over the past two years, a report says, state policymakers looking to sustain and expand their programs—especially in tough budget times—are still scrounging for more money....MORE
Published in Print: February 27, 2008
Stable Prekindergarten Funding Proves Challenging for States
By Michele McNeil
San Antonio
Even though state spending on prekindergarten has grown $1 billion nationwide over the past two years, a report says, state policymakers looking to sustain and expand their programs—especially in tough budget times—are still scrounging for more money....MORE
Whole grains help deflate belly rolls
*Whole grains help deflate belly rolls*
SOURCE
<http://www.propeller.com/viewstory/2008/02/20/whole-grains-help-deflate-belly-rolls/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msnbc.msn.com%2Fid%2F23256171%2F&frame=true>*
*Cutting calories helps people lose weight, but doing so by filling up
on whole grains may be particularly heart-healthy, new research suggests.
SOURCE
<http://www.propeller.com/viewstory/2008/02/20/whole-grains-help-deflate-belly-rolls/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msnbc.msn.com%2Fid%2F23256171%2F&frame=true>*
*Cutting calories helps people lose weight, but doing so by filling up
on whole grains may be particularly heart-healthy, new research suggests.
In a study of obese adults at risk of heart disease, researchers found
that those who trimmed calories and increased their whole-grain intake
shed more belly fat and lowered their blood levels of C-reactive protein
or CRP.
CRP is a marker of chronic, low-level inflammation in the blood vessels,
and both abdominal fat and CRP, in excess, are linked to heart attack
and stroke.
19 February 2008
Banished: American Ethnic Cleansings: Independent Lens - PopMatters Television Review
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/tv/reviews/55209/banished-american-ethnic-cleansings/
Descendants
The fable goes that, "Yes, there were unfortunate things that happened,
yes, some blacks were threatened, but we bought the land from those
people who left and so there really was no injury. It's not a true
story, but it's a comforting story.
—Elliot Jaspin
"When you start to read these things, you're just… you're stunned by
it," says Elliot Jaspin. "It's so unexpected, the accounts of what took
place. It says, 'Negroes flee from Forsyth. Enraged white people are
driving blacks from county.'" Jaspin is looking at newspaper headlines
on microfiche, that pre-digital archival form, here put to dramatic and
even musical use, as its signature whooshing sound alludes to the
process of digging into history long repressed.
Facts or Phantasies
http://www.transad.pop.upenn.edu/
Young Adults in the United States, 2005:
A Mid- Decade Profile by
Rubén G. Rumbaut and Golnaz Komaie
updates trends on living arrangements, work,
education, marriage, parenthood and more for young adults.
SOURCE
Fast Facts--
Parenthood, 2006
Age 18-24: 11% had children
Age 25-29: 37% " "
Age 30-34: 57% " "
Never married
45.3% women
56.3% men
Cohabiting:
8.5% women
7.7% men
Currently married
40.2% women
32.6% men
Divorced, separated, widowed
6.0% women
3.4% men
Has one or more children
39.9% women
24.1% men
Young Adults in the United States, 2005:
A Mid- Decade Profile by
Rubén G. Rumbaut and Golnaz Komaie
updates trends on living arrangements, work,
education, marriage, parenthood and more for young adults.
SOURCE
Fast Facts--
Parenthood, 2006
Age 18-24: 11% had children
Age 25-29: 37% " "
Age 30-34: 57% " "
Never married
45.3% women
56.3% men
Cohabiting:
8.5% women
7.7% men
Currently married
40.2% women
32.6% men
Divorced, separated, widowed
6.0% women
3.4% men
Has one or more children
39.9% women
24.1% men
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Sussex | Homeless man 'lived in airport'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/7252598.stm
Homeless man 'lived in airport'
An Asbo(court order) banned Delaney from the airport and its railway station
A homeless chef who ate, showered and slept at Gatwick Airport for more than
three years has admitted breaching an (court order) banning him from the site.
Anthony Delaney, 43, made the West Sussex airport his home in scenes
similar to the 2004 Spielberg-directed film, The Terminal, starring Tom Hanks.
Lewes Crown Court heard that he only left the airport's south terminal to collect his Jobseeker's Allowance
(unemployment comp check)
Homeless man 'lived in airport'
An Asbo(court order) banned Delaney from the airport and its railway station
A homeless chef who ate, showered and slept at Gatwick Airport for more than
three years has admitted breaching an (court order) banning him from the site.
Anthony Delaney, 43, made the West Sussex airport his home in scenes
similar to the 2004 Spielberg-directed film, The Terminal, starring Tom Hanks.
Lewes Crown Court heard that he only left the airport's south terminal to collect his Jobseeker's Allowance
(unemployment comp check)
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