Friday, March 11, 2011

Class Systems in History

Basic system for figuring out who's rich and who isn't, according to Monty Python.

Last Day

Last Day

Bonus Points.

H/I Cover Letter?

H/I "Second Chance" Draft?

Due Monday by noon in my office.

Essays must include my comments

Paper clips/staples

Complete Feedback.

Return of Essays, etc

First week of Spring Quarter—ask Kelley in English Department.

Grades mostly.

For more feedback from me, bring your essay in and we'll go over it.

Grades due Next Friday, posted online under schedule that day

My schedule

Spring 70 x3

Fall 101 x2 and Creative Writing

Winter 102 x2 and American Lit Post WWII.

Spring 70 x2 and Student Literary Journal.

Also, you can ask about anything anytime.

You can say hi to me on campus. Say your name and I'll say mine.

You can say hi to each other.

Andy Blevins' story.

One in there Americans in their mid-twenties attended but did not finish college.

Only 41 percent of low-income students entering a four year college managed to graduate within five years. (66% of high income did).

75 percent of students enrolling in community colleges said they hoped to transfer to a four year institution. But only 17 percent of those made the switch within five year. The rest were out working or still studying toward the two year degree.

This is not the path you are on.

This is the path you are on:

"As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow." --Nikos Kanzantzakis

Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Two Things

First, if you are posting comments on this blog you might want to reconsider your screen name if it might be considered offensive, whether you intend it to be or not.

Second for those of you making the "Parenting" argument, here's "Tiger Mom" on Colbert:

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Amy Chua
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogVideo Archive

Smart People Attract Smart People (and Money)

This article is fascinating:

A great paradox of our age is that despite the declining cost of connecting across space, more people are clustering together in cities. The explanation of that strange fact is that globalization and technological change have increased the returns on being smart, and humans get smart by being around other smart people.

Dense, smart cities like Seattle succeed by attracting smart people who educate and employ one another.

A person’s earnings rise by more than 7 percent as the share of people in his or her metropolitan area with a college degree increases by 10 percent, holding that person’s own level of education constant. Educated neighbors are particularly valuable in dense cities, where contact is more common.

Skilled people have often chosen to come to already educated cities, and the share of Seattle adults with college degrees has risen to 56 percent from an already high 47 percent in 2000.

Day 46

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 46

1. Learn from Leon and Lindsey and the Tour De Dumb and ANOTHER Leon.

2. Bonus points?

a. Science Lecture (march 9th)
b. Faculty Lecture, Brock Eubanks
c. Open Mic Night Allied Arts

Cover Letter due Monday. See post below for sample formats.

3. Angela Whitiker’s Climb—slideshow.


10. Juan Peralta slideshow and discussion.

9. Some suggestions with discussion.

What about immigration, too?

6. Colbert, again.

2. Stewart.

9. Robots from yesterday’s paper.

10. Transit from today’s paper.

Drug and Alcohol Assembly.

Race and mobility. again, with Yakima angle.

11. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2001.

12. How to handle CM in text and in works cited:

A Work in an Anthology, Reference, or Collection

Works may include an essay in an edited collection or anthology, or a chapter of a book. The basic form is for this sort of citation is as follows:

Lastname, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). Place of Publication: Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium of Publication.

Some examples:

Harris, Muriel. "Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers." A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One. Ed. Ben Rafoth. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000. 24-34. Print.

Swanson, Gunnar. "Graphic Design Education as a Liberal Art: Design and Knowledge in the University and The 'Real World.'" The Education of a Graphic Designer. Ed. Steven Heller. New York: Allworth Press, 1998. 13-24. Print.

Note on Cross-referencing Several Items from One Anthology: If you cite more than one essay from the same edited collection, MLA indicates you may cross-reference within your works cited list in order to avoid writing out the publishing information for each separate essay. You should consider this option if you have several references from a single text. To do so, include a separate entry for the entire collection listed by the editor's name as below:

Rose, Shirley K., and Irwin Weiser, eds. The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1999. Print.

Then, for each individual essay from the collection, list the author's name in last name, first name format, the title of the essay, the editor's last name, and the page range:

L'Eplattenier, Barbara. "Finding Ourselves in the Past: An Argument for Historical Work on WPAs." Rose and Weiser 131-40. Print.

Peeples, Tim. "'Seeing' the WPA With/Through Postmodern Mapping." Rose and Weiser 153-67. Print.

Learn from Lindsey and the Tour De Dumb


Oh Lindsey Jacobellis
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One More Time!

Learn from Leon

Business Letter Format

Here.

More on China

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Evan Osnos
http://www.colbertnation.com/
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Change in pay since the recession

College is looking like the place.
Globalization in action.

Day 45

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 45

1. Colbert.

2. Stewart.

3. Bonus points?
a. Science Lecture (march 9th)

4. Tourism from yesterday’s paper.

5. Final draft due Thursday.

a. NARROW= Supportable/researchable.
b. BROAD= Temptation, but this essay is about making hard choices.
c. Easy thesis: We can create more AW’s by doing A, B and C.
d. CA: practical? costs? other ideas are better? government intrusion?
i. Definitions from the books of the obstacles are highly encouraged.
ii. Examples of the problems from the books are highly encouraged.
iii. Examples/Definitions of the solutions from the book are highly encouraged.
1. These keep your paper narrow and specific and help you avoid the axe to grind, biased, unsubstantiated claims.
iv. Examples of solutions from the Yakima Valley are Golden.

6. Angela Whitiker’s Climb—slideshow.

7. Brooks’ Human Capital (CM Social Capital).

8. How do we increase our skills in these areas?

9. Some suggestions with discussion.

10. Juan Peralta slideshow and discussion.

11. Tomorrow, MLA information on N&D’d and CM.

Monday, March 07, 2011

Top 1%

Today just 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.


Sample Essays

Here's One, Two, Three

Class sizes going up

All over.

Some (including Gates) don't see a problem if the teachers are good.

I say, 43 students x 5 classes= 215 essays to grade, if I assign only one.
Paper grading robots, where are you??!?!?

More ideas

Social Capital

1. Parenting
2. End "marriage penalty"
3. Promote marriages in PSA's etc (LDS does this and others)
4. Require classes for license
5. Allow gay marriage
6. Leadership/Bully Pulpit

Human Capital

1. Parenting
2. Word of the Month
3. Gear Up
4. Attendance rewards
5. Grade rewards
6. Big Brothers
7. Peer Mentors
8. DARE
9. Parenting classes
10. Tough love
11. "Stable, predictable environment, good behavior is rewarded +practice"
12. Universal Preschool
13. Personal finance classes
14. Public Speaking classes
15. Leadership/bully pulpit

Other

1. Race
2. Increase minimum wage to living wage?
3. Wage Insurance?
4. Faith Based programs?
5. Volunteering
6. Reaching out/Mission work

7. Prohibitions?
a. Make divorce harder, for ex
b. Smoking/Drinking
Drug Test Welfare Rolls? (does that include farm subsidies? or bailed out bankers?)
c. Number of children
d. Censorship? tv/video games
e. What about drugs/alcohol?

text4baby

Here's a flat world approach to parent education.

Babycenter.com, too.

Prepard by 20

Here's the site.

More research for AW and others

Family Structure (Nobody Gets Married Anymore, Mister)

UW has a program started by a former student of mine that fits in this conversation well. It's called the "Dream Project"--she started it as her senior project and it's now her doctoral work. It matches UW students as mentors to low income high school students. And it's really working.

Central raising tuition again. (This is a year old. The numbers for next year will be worse)
The president says those hurt the most are in the middle class.

Teach for America (maybe a way to find better teachers?)

Ultra fast, ultra cheap broadband (in Hong Kong)

STEM grants (science, technology, engineering and math), locally

Lawyers, outsourced to the future.

College the Easy Way (this is not good news)

To Get Into College, It Helps to be Rich

Friday, March 04, 2011

Links and more links

Immigrant Parents Learn Lessons on Raising Ninos--YHR

Prosser, the Catholic Church and Affordable Housing: NIMBY.

from previous essays:

The case for Vocational Education and Community Colleges.

Wine Tasting at Farmer's Markets considered in new bill.

Ambition and college costs

UW has a program started by a former student of mine that fits in this conversation well. It's called the "Dream Project"--she started it as her senior project and it's now her doctoral work. It matches UW students as mentors to low income high school students. And it's really working.

Central raising tuition again. The president says those hurt the most are in the middle class.

Rewards for Students

Here's an article from today about attempts to deal with the ambition gap.

(AND, if you comment on this article, you get a point. Should you?)

Some more links

If you think Drug and Alcohol education programs are a good solution to obstacles, things just got a bit harder.

If you are working on how to create a spark, here's an idea from Today's Paper: Young Achievers.

And if you are interested in education costs and visibility of the conditions of the working poor, YVCC and Berkeley have you covered.

Promoting Healthy Families

Here's one place.



Here's google results.

Faith based solutions

Here's some from the Christian tradition.

Here's what Bush was doing.

Here's what Obama is doing.

Day 43

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 43

1. Bonus points?
a. Science Lecture (march 9th)
b. Play tonight and tomorrow.

2. Business essays--questions about handwriting, see me's.

Homework: Bring 2 copies of your revised rough draft for Monday. We'll try to have peer editors look at it.

Final draft due a week from today.

a. NARROW= Supportable/researchable.

b. BROAD= Temptation, but this essay is about making hard choices.

c. Easy thesis: We can create more AW’s by doing A, B and C.
d. CA: practical? costs? other ideas are better? government intrusion?

i. Definitions from the books of the obstacles are highly encouraged.
ii. Examples of the problems from the books are highly encouraged.
iii. Examples/Definitions of the solutions from the book are highly encouraged.
iv. Research: There are many programs in place. Maybe you want to argue for another, but maybe you want to argue for expansions? Do some digging locally.

1. These keep your paper narrow and specific and help you avoid the axe to grind, biased, unsubstantiated claims.

iv. Examples of solutions from the Yakima Valley are GOOOOLDENNNNNNN.

3. Why is this important in Yakima?

a. So far, the unemployment is up, but not as up as most places.
b. So far, housing prices are down, but not as far down as most places.
c. But…

d. 42-50 percent on public assistance.
e. ENI ranking.

f. Right now, the budget is being balanced by cutting social services and public employment (teachers, firefighters, police, parks, schools etc) vs. asking people who start out on third base to share the pain. In fact, through bailouts and tax cuts, we've sweetened the pot for them. This is somewhat of an editorial, but it's also factual.

g. Add it up and what do you predict?
h. In third world countries…

4. What would Friedman say?

5. What would Ehrenreich say?—Page 213-214
Why is the government needed? or put another way, Why is it the governments job?

6. What does Brooks say?
a. Marshmallows and public policy—paragraph 5 and last three
b. Types of human capital (note his definition is different than CM’s).
c. Safe, predictable environment…

7. What are the advantages/disadvantages of these approaches?

8. What is happening in budgets RIGHT NOW to these ideas?

a. What does this do to our solutions?

b. What doesn’t cost money, but still works?

c. What costs money, works and is worth raising taxes? Just because it’s not popular doesn’t mean you can’t argue for it. Recent attempts to raise taxes on candy and pop and bottled water/income tax on wealthy (200-400k), and nationally on 250k+.

d. The idea of "class warfare" is a dangerous one, but it goes both ways.

e. I'll show you some of my cards. Sunday school and growing up here. But, as a teacher, I strive to for objectivity. I go to extremes in this regard and take pride in it as a professional obligation.

f. I get most excited when I'm reading a paper if the writing is well organized, logical, researched, anticipates opposition and questions. Not whether I agree with the ideas politically. I'm looking for good writing/thinking.

Parental Leave?

Family Values in Sweden.

is this a better way than Universal Preschool?
or fend for yourself?

Here's a handy table to compare.

Obama's Controversial School Speech

Work hard. Stay in school.

Huckabee Slams Portman

Hey, Lay off Senator Padme.

or,

Maybe this is leadership on the issue?

The New Normal

Where to cut the budget, according to David Brooks:


A second austerity principle is this: Trim from the old to invest in the young.
We should adjust pension promises and reduce the amount of money spent on health
care during the last months of life so we can preserve programs for those who
are growing and learning the most.

Thursday, March 03, 2011

Day 42

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 42

1. Bonus points
a. Latino Film Fest” March 3rd
b. Science Lecture (march 9th)
c. Play

2. More time for rough drafts.

a. 3 pages due by End of Period.
b. I’ll try to have these back to you by Monday, but it’s going to be a quick read.
c. Use the writing center, your family and friends as readers, too.
d. Final draft due a week from today.

i. Remember, according to CM and Friedman, much of the slowing of mobility is the result of globalization putting a premium on certain skills and knowledge. That’s the real big picture: those at the bottom of the economic ladder are competing against people making $2 a day who appear to work harder than they do in countries with lax standards and safeguards for people and the planet.

ii. Definitions from the books of the obstacles are highly encouraged.

iii. Examples of the problems from the books are highly encouraged.

iv. Examples/Definitions of the solutions from the book are highly encouraged.

1. These keep your paper narrow and specific and help you avoid the axe to grind, biased, unsubstantiated claims.

v. Examples of solutions from the Yakima Valley are GOOOOLDENNNNNNN.

3. Essays nearly graded. Bring your Business essay to class tomorrow (regular classroom).

4. We’ll talk about the other obstacles and solutions and the sad reality of the chance any of this comes to pass if it costs money to do.

Portfolio Review

Portfolio Revision Worksheet Due Tuesday—Answer on a separate piece of paper
11 prewriting points

1. Which essay do you think is strongest? Explain your answer in detail, including a quote or paraphrase from the essay.

2. Did your peer readers agree with your assessment? What did I have to say about the essay? Paraphrase or quote from a peer and from something I wrote to support your answer.

3. What is your weakest essay? Explain why you think it’s weak, using quotes or paraphrase.

4. Did your peer readers agree that it was your weakest? What did I have to say? Paraphrase or quote from a peer and from something I wrote to support your answer.

5. What revision would you need to make to the Education assignment? List all the tasks you would need to complete.

6. What revision would you need to make to Business assignment?


7. What revision would you need to make to the Angela Whitiker assignment?


8. What’s the most frustrating part of writing for you? What’s the hardest part about writing?


9. What do you still need to work on?


10. What are your strengths as a writer?


11. What do you like about writing? What’s the most satisfying part of writing for you?

Made in America

Maybe not the cure . Friedman would love these stats.

Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Outline suggestions

Here’s the process we’re walking (or running) through.

1) What are the obstacles that you think are the most important/fixable

a. Find 2-4. (For rough drafts)
i. Put in your own words
b. Find page numbers and quotes to help define these obstacles.
i. Explain the quotes

2) What are the solutions to those obstacles as presented in the books

a. Find 1-2 solutions
i. Put in your own words (for rough drafts)
b. Find page numbers and quotes to help define the solutions
i. Explain the quotes (For final drafts)

3) What are the solutions you or your classmates have come up with?

a. Put 1-2 in your own words
b. Find evidence outside the books to support your ideas.


One Way to Organize This Essay

Paragraph 1: Intro (hook, background, thesis)

Paragraph 2: Obstacle 1 (define using texts)

Solution to obstacle (define using texts, outside sources)
Other solution to obstacle (define using texts, outside sources)
Option for each body paragraph—add an example of the obstacle and solution from the texts or from other source.

For ex: (obstacle) Angela Whitiker struggled to complete her degree because she lacked reliable childcare. –find quote that explains family structure from CM and/or childcare dilemma in N&D’d
(solution) She would have been able to complete her degree more quickly if she didn’t have that concern and instead could have put her children in a clean, safe, predictable environment, like the ones proposed by Ready By Five.—quote Ready by Five website.

Paragraph 3: Obstacle 2 (define using texts)
Solution to obstacle (define using texts, outside sources)
Other solution to obstacle (define using texts, outside sources)

Paragraph 4: Obstacle 3 (define using texts)
Solution to obstacle (define using texts, outside sources)
Other solution to obstacle (define using texts, outside sources)

Paragraph 5: Obstacle 4 (define using texts)
Solution to obstacle (define using texts, outside sources)
Other solution to obstacle (define using texts, outside sources)

Paragraph 6: C-A: Some might say, others might say, I say. (Right before end or right after intro is a good place for this) Acknowledging the other ideas is a good start. Conceding/Defeating them as top priorities will be more credible and convincing, thus putting you on the fast track to better score for C-A.

Paragraph 7: Conclusion

Obstacles and Solutions

Obstacles and Solutions

Meet in Labs Thursday (C230)

Now, for some help with the rough draft:
Pick your top three from the list
How do we help Angela Whitiker overcome these sources of economic friction?
What are the solutions offered by the books?
Research for some of these is in your books.
What are our original solutions?
Research for these topics is encouraged.

Education

1. Parenting
2. Collect at state level and spread equally
3. Emphasize:
• CQ+PQ
• Math/Science
• Right Brain
• Learn to Learn
• Collaborators
4. Tougher tests
5. Longer school days
6. Longer school years
7. Universal Preschool
a. Head Start/RB5
8. College Aid
9. Increase vocational/trade programs
10. Classes through work

Health Care

1. Expand congressional health care to 30 million w/o coverage
2. Portable coverage

Isolation

1. Protest
2. Social Activism
3. Change Housing rules/styles
a. We've tried large projects
b. We've tried easier loans
4. Credit Crisis-is there an ironic benefit to it?
5. Required class in teacher prep.
6. Immigration reform
7. Language classes
8. News catching up with this?

Family Structure

1. Shift focus of sex ed
2. Leadership

Transportation

1. Mass transit

Information

1. Expand broadband
2. 211

Child care

1. Universal pre-school
2. Expand government care
3. Be more generous with paid leave

Social Capital

1. Parenting
2. End "marriage penalty"
3. Promote marriages in PSA's etc
4. Require classes for license
5. Allow gay marriage
6. Leadership/Bully Pulpit

Human Capital

1. Parenting
2. Word of the Month
3. Gear Up
4. Attendance rewards
5. Grade rewards
6. Big Brothers
7. Peer Mentors
8. DARE
9. Parenting classes
10. Tough love
11. "Stable, predictable environment, good behavior is rewarded +practice"
12. Universal Preschool
13. Personal finance classes
14. Public Speaking classes
15. Leadership/bully pulpit

Other

1. Race
2. Increase minimum wage to living wage?
3. Wage Insurance?
4. Faith Based programs?
5. Volunteering
6. Reaching out/Mission work
7. Prohibitions?
a. Make divorce harder, for ex
b. Smoking/Drinking
c. Number of children
d. Censorship? tv/video games
e. What about drugs/alcohol?

Monday, February 28, 2011

But how will we pay for it?

Here's one place.

Here's another.

That's assuming you favor the idea of the government doing something about it in the first place.

GPS and Hooky

Here's a scary idea that's being tried to fill the ambition gap.

Maybe it's race, cont.

Facebook

The world is obsessed with Facebook

Here's the first in a popular "Shift Happens" series.

Day 40

Lesson Plan Day 4

  1. 15 Years Slide Show
  2. Homework: Prepare for In Class Essay, Day 1
  3. In Class Essay Question

    1. How to prepare for and take an in class essay: Short Link, Longer Link
    2. How to prepare for THIS in class essay
      1. Notes
      2. List of quotations/page numbers
      3. Outline
      4. Open book
      5. Typed or not, double spaced
      6. Not written before class.

C206, 50 minutes

Bonus points-Blog comments due tomorrow.
a. Latino Film Fest” March 3rd
b. Science Lecture
c. Play

3. Done with 1030 class, starting on 1130. Save everything.
4. Angela Whitiker’s Climb slideshow part two
5. Nickel and Dimed Evaluation chapter, continued
6. Obstacles or “Friction” in class mobility—on the board?
7. Solutions?
9. David Brooks articles.
a. For Brooks—your favorite and “annotate it”

Friday, February 25, 2011

Day 39

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 39
1. Bonus points-Last Night
a. Latino Film Fest
b. Science Lecture
c. Play
2. Almost done with 1030 class. Save everything.
3. Friday: Angela Whitiker’s Climb. + Worksheet
a. Discussion of Questions
b. Slideshow
c. More questions
4. Nickel and Dimed Evaluation chapter
5. Obstacles or “Friction” in class mobility—on the board?
6. Weekend: 15 years + David Brooks articles.
a. For Brooks—print out your favorite and “annotate it” for Monday’s discussion

David Brooks Articles for Weekend

Here's Psst! Human Capital

Marshmellows and Public Policy

Of Love and Money

Investing in Human Futures

Human Capital Agenda

A Critique of Pure Reason (deals with Education reform)

America's Admissions System (deals with immigration)

And another on Education Reform

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Eval Chapter Questions

EVALUATION CHAPTER

a. How did she do as a worker?


b. How did she do at “life in general”?


c. Why are the official poverty rates misleading?


d. If productivity is increasing, why aren’t wages?


e. What keeps the workers from finding better jobs? Where is the friction?


f. Explain the “vicious cycle” of labor costs described by the book.


g. What makes the working poor invisible?


h. List some of the complaints the middle and upper class have about the
working poor.


i. Summarize the problems facing the working poor.


j. What are the solutions to these problems?


k. What are the objections to these solutions?


l. Why does Ehrenreich call the working poor the most philanthropic of all
social classes?

Day 38

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 38
1. Bonus points-Tonight
2. 22 so far. Save everything.
3. Assignment for third essay.
4. Thursday: Angela Whitiker’s Climb. + Worksheet
a. Discussion of Questions
b. Slideshow
c. More questions
d. Nickel and Dimed Evaluation chapter and answer questions
5. Friday: AW’s Climb, part two + Nickel and Dimed
6. Weekend: 15 years + David Brooks articles.

The Human Cost of Budget Cutting

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/opinion/20herbert.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fopinion%2Findex.jsonp

more to make you feel like crap:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/opinion/19blow.html?src=me&ref=general

Here's the link I had up yesterday:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gRTwz1tzSQFqc06bHyjpLjKd6sjQ?docId=a65fe0577eb8481cb48a5b59351d3a12

Friedman's latest post

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/opinion/23friedman.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
Middle east and oil.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Two Graphs







Day 37

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 37

1. Bonus points

2. 10 so far. Save everything.

3. A note on late essays.

4. Schedule for rest of quarter.

5. Assignment for third essay.

6. Shadowy Lines as a class.

a. On the surface
b. In reality

c. Likely to continue/change?
d. What has changed, would you guess, since this poll?
7. Thursday: Angela Whitiker’s Climb. + Worksheet
a. Read 15 Years
8. Friday: AW’s Climb, part two + 15 Years on Bottom Rung
9. Weekend: Nickel and Dimed/David Brooks articles.

Educational Needs Index

Here's a site that tracks Educational Needs.
Yakima Country ranks 59th (from the bottom) out of 2071 overall and 32nd in Education in particular. (And last year we were 100th. That's right, we've gotten worse. Jeez.) The next county in Washington is 291, then 423.

My first reaction: I've got to get out of this place. My second reaction: Well, if I want to make a difference, this is the place to be.

In any case, it definitely shows us why it's critical to understand Angela Whitiker's situation. We're living in one of the poorest, least educated places in the country and it's up to us to figure out a way to change this.

The three factors drive the ENI model and the variables that make up each factor are:
Educational Factor – Indicators assess the educational capacity of a region’s adult population. Indicators measure the percent of the population with a high school degree, associate’s degree, and bachelor’s degree, and a measure of the educational attainment gap between younger and older members of the workforce.

Economic Factor - Indicators in this category assess the degree of economic challenges facing counties. Indicators measure the percent of population in poverty, unemployment rates, the existing earnings capacity of residents, and dependence upon manufacturing and extraction jobs.
Population Factor – Indicators assess the present population growth issues facing the county and potential need for increased emphasis on human capital development to address changing demographics. Indicators measure recent and project population growth, population aged 19 and younger as a percent of the total population, population aged 20-44, and the relative size of an area’s at-risk minority population (African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans).

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Day 35

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 35
1. Bonus points this week.
2. Wednesday: Shadowy Lines + Worksheet
3. Thursday: Angela Whitiker’s Climb. + Worksheet
4. Friday: AW’s Climb, part two + 15 Years on Bottom Rung
5. Weekend: Nickel and Dimed/David Brooks articles.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Day 34

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 34

1. Bonus points?

2. Sample essay/grading for essay 2

3. Tuesday: Essay 2 due. Bring final draft and intro/conclusion to read.

4. Wednesday: Shadowy Lines + Worksheet

5. 15 years on the bottom rung + Worksheet

6. Thursday: Angela Whitiker’s Climb. + Worksheet

7. Friday: AW’s Climb, part two

8. Weekend: Nickel and Dimed/David Brooks articles.

The Story of Stuff

Here's the video.

Attending Harvard in China

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/02/attending-harvard-in-china.html

It looks like this.

GE and Biogas

Here's the site.

Here's the ad I saw:



Here it is in China:

Broadband Access

Half Flat in Rural America

Thursday, February 17, 2011

The Unflat World on 9 11

Day 33

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 33

1. Bonus points?

2. Hand in Peer Review Review.

3. The Counter Argument

4. Too Sick
a. HIV-AIDS, malaria, TB, polio (and Gates)
b. Pandemic (have you seen 28 days later? You get the picture)

5. Too Disempowered

a. Half-flat world—in India high tech is .2 percent of employment.
b. Rural voters

6. Too Frustrated

a. Cultures feel threatened, frustrated, humiliated
b. Differences coming into contact, including online.
c. Threat of openness
d. Abandon religion to join advances or retreat to fundamentalism

7. Too Many Toyotas

a. natural resources, oil, timber, etc
b. environmental destruction

8. Friday: Sample essay/grading for essay 2
9. Tuesday: Essay 2 due. Bring final draft and intro/conclusion to read.
10. Wednesday: Shadowy Lines + Worksheet
11. 15 years on the bottom rung + Worksheet
12. Thursday: Angela Whitiker’s Climb. + Worksheet
13. Friday: AW’s Climb, part two
14. Weekend: Nickel and Dimed/David Brooks articles.

Tourism in Yakima

Recession not as bad here.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

The Cost of War

http://costofwar.com/en/

This is an issue raised by Friedman in "Their Moon Shot and Ours".
You can use the interactive feature to see "Trade Offs".

This is clearly and "anti-war" site, I guess.
But I'd like to leave that debate for someplace other than the comments.
It's just eye opening and a measure of priorities, whether you agree with them or not.

Alternative Energy

Friedman

Tourism?

Friedman, maybe, on tourism

Solar

Friedman

Windmills

Friedman

Friedman on Agriculture

Sort through these for help on his stance.

The Uncontacted World

The Unflat World

Here's a good summary of the chapter

Day 32

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 32

1. Bonus points?
2. Complete peer review.
3. Complete Peer Review Review.
4. Tomorrow: We’ll talk about the drawbacks of the flat world
5. Friday: Sample essay/grading for essay 2
6. Tuesday: Essay 2 due. Bring final draft and intro/conclusion to read.
7. Wednesday: Shadowy Lines That Still Divide.
8. Thursday: Shadowy Lines part two, 15 Years on the Bottom Rung.
9. Friday: AW’s Climb.
10. Weekend: Nickel and Dimed/David Brooks articles.

Synthesizers and Collaboration

Here's one that will blow your mind.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Bird of Paradise

Day 30

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 30

1. Bonus points?

2. Peer Editing Proces
a. Students learn from each other.
b. Students learn by teaching.
c. Kind honesty. (You have my permission to tear my paper to shreds)
d. Thick skin.

3. Number the paragraphs on your essays.

4. Write two questions you’d like answered by your peers.

i. Exchange essays with a person in your group.
ii. Apologize as needed

v. Make marks as you go.

vi. Complete peer editing forms, including the outline.

vii. Have a CONVERSATION (that’s why there’s four of you)

viii. Finally, writer asks questions not answered.

ix. Repeat

x. Suggested: make changes to your essay for tomorrow's reader(s) based on what today's reader says.

5. Homework—complete peer editing worksheet for essay from another class. Must be returned tomorrow, including outline. (10 pts) As with Face to Face peer editing: do a good job on this, but don’t be a tyrant.

Green Jobs and other ideas

Here's an article about finishing HS in 2 years then going to CC's.What do you think?

Washington State Green Jobs and Senator Cantwell visits Yakima

YHR editorial on Digestors and Wind Farms from Yesterdays (!) paper.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Day 29

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 29

Rough Drafts (4 pages=20pts) due Monday. Bring four copies (I'll take points off this time if you don't have four copies).

1. Math Scores and Community College Students

2. Your Brain Lies to You.

3. The Big Dilly-Dally

4. Bonus Points—V Week, others.

5. Conclusions powerpoint/Amazon search inside

6. Thesis statement for essay two with clickers.

7. Counter-Arguments for the topics?

1. Take your thesis and try to write it as an opposite statement.
2. Take your thesis and see if you can figure out what the other side might say.
3. Take your thesis and find the weakness of it according to TWIF.
4. Are there more than two sides? (This would make your English teacher feel very good about you).

8. A note about how to fit in TWIF

Best if you can set it up as each paragraph addressing an issue raised by TWIF (Collaborators, synthesizers, explainers, etc).

It can also work if you are using TWIF as a set up or in conclusion to the research. This means you might use TWIF in a paragraph at the beginning of the essay to set up the concepts inherent in a globalized economy, or to define terms you will want to use later. (If there’s time I’ll show a sample of this).

A very broad outline of this would be:

1. Intro and How would this impact the Yakima Valley? Thesis
2. Friedman says
3. Others say
4. I say
5. Conclusion

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Survey of Community College Students

Internet's a big deal.

Math Scores Ok?

Here's a report that says they're not terrible.

Wikipedia and the Power of Pure Stupidity

Interesting analysis on the good/bad of wikipedia.

Day 28

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 28

1. Bonus Points—V Week, others.

2. Intros and Conclusions powerpoint.

1. Now, Your turn. (Never before attempted!)

• Statistic
• vivid example
• a question
• an anecdote
• an unusual fact
• an analogy or metaphor

3. Thesis statement for essay two on the board with clickers.

Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Day 27

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 27

1. Bonus Points—V Week, others.

Hand in web evaluations.

2. No Degree/College Dropout Boom

3. Web Evaluation as a class.

4. Intros and Conclusions powerpoint.

Now, Your turn. (Never before attempted!)

5. Homework: Thesis statement for essay two.

• Use the “roadmap” style from the first essay—Yakima would be smart to focus on (pick a topic) because it will help attract “untouchable” jobs, such as ______________________, _________________________ and _______________________.

• Try this: What effect will (pick a topic) have on the Yakima Valley in the new flat world? Well, some say___________, others say__________________, but I say___________________.

• Or think about how you might advise a Yakima businessperson with the rules for “How Companies Cope”—something like: If Yakima wants to compete in the new flat world they should embrace (pick a topic) and remember to ____________, ______________ and ________________.

• Or make it a warning. Because of (pick a topic) if we fail to follow the rules _____________, _______________ and _____________________the flat earth will flatten us.

Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Bias

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/science/08tier.html?src=me&ref=homepage

NYTimes and Falling Cows

Oops.

Need to do a little web evaluation workshop there.

And Floating Pigs, too.

Day 26

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 26

1. Bonus Points—V Week, others.

3. Now, to use the notecards:

1. At top, label cards using “Code” from TWIF chapter.

1. Ex: “Math Lovers,” or “Green People” or “Anchored” or “Collaborators and Orchestrators” or “Counter Argument” or “Localizers”

A. Conducting Research

B. Web Evaluation—some basics

C. Homework: Web evaluation forms for three sources.

D. Intros and Conclusions powerpoint if time allows.

An Exercise in Web Evaluation

Using Guest workers/Immigration as a model.

What is credible?

Has it been edited/reviewed? (avoid the ~ in the URL)
Is the author an expert or a guy in his pajamas?
Is it trying to sell you something?
Does it have a "works cited" section?
Are there clues to bias?
Do they over-rely on emotion?
Does it looks cheesy?

Wikipedia

Guest workers in WaPo

Guest workers won't work

Guest Workers won't work

MinuteMen

If we look closer...

Let's try again

Look closer and...

How about on the other side?

To be "fair"

Bi-Lingualism and Business

Bi-Lingual Education
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/opinion/02engel.html?_r=1


http://drpfconsults.com/confronting-issues-in-bilingual-education/


http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos175.htm

http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1788/Bilingual-Education.html

http://www.qualityinfo.org/olmisj/ArticleReader?itemid=00001701

http://drpfconsults.com/confronting-issues-in-bilingual-education/

http://www.practicelink.com/magazine/featured/the-benefits-of-being-bilingual/

http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1788/Bilingual-Education.html

http://www.businessknowledgesource.com/manufacturing/spanish_in_todays_workforce_the_importance_of_bilingual_communication_021398.html

http://www.ehow.com/info_7755792_bilingualism-careers.html

http://www.icademyglobe.org/article.php?id=39

http://losangeles.jobing.com/blog_post.asp?post=10566


http://www.businessknowledgesource.com/manufacturing/why_bilingual_communication_is_important_in_the_manufacturing_field_024732.html

Distribution Centers

Distribution Centers
1) http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/food-stores/4246937-1.html

2) http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/09/6/liquor-changes-could-leave-local-governments-woozy

3) http://thepacker.com/Washington-apples---Business-updates/Article.aspx?oid=1255056&tid=&fid=PACKER-SPECIAL-SECTIONS&Print=1

4) http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/10/23/1393672/a-paucity-of-pumpkins-for-western.html

5) http://www.king5.com/news/local/Group-rallying-opposition-to-Monroe-Walmart-112683554.html

Robots

Robots
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/25309.php
(Urology- Pros and Cons of Robots)


http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-08/could-robots-take-over-world
(Could Robots take over the World?)

http://www.helium.com/items/921801-could-robots-take-over-the-world
(Could Robots take over the World?)

http://www.helium.com/items/1565413-but-it-could-be-possible-before-the-end-of-this-century

Robots)

http://www.helium.com/items/978878-could-robots-take-over-the-world
(Robots)

http://www.helium.com/items/359362-could-robots-take-over-the-world
(Could Robots take over the World)

Solar

Solar
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/12/10/power-to-the-people


http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast23mar_1/


http://www.nytimes.com/info/solar-energy/


http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/10/31/a-bright-idea


http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/


http://articles.cnn.com/2008-05-30/tech/space.solar_1_solar-satellites-solar-power-megawatts-of-additional-power?_s=PM:TECH

http://www.kinkaa.com/weather/Yakima_Washington_USA.175755.html

Average sunny, partly cloudy, and cloudy days in Yakima.
http://www.kyocerasolar.com

Solar panel company's website
http://www.pacificpower.net/content/dam/pacificorp/doc/CCCom_Update/December_10/PP_LabelInsert_Residential-OR.pdf

Current sources of pacific power electricity
http://www.sunandclimate.com/applications/1-photovoltaic-solar-energy/100-sale-of-electricity-to-electric-companies.html

selling excess solar power
http://solarindependence.biz/default.aspx

Articals about the benefits of soler power and a map showing the amount of kWh/day available in the US

http://www.nytimes.com/info/solar-energy

http://www.solarpower.org

http://homepower.com/home

http://solarpower.com

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703507804576130060294951704.html

Vertical Farms

Vertical Farms
http://www.verticalfarm.com/more


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/16/vertical-farms-photos-the_n_499924.html#s74041&title=undefined


http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-rise-of-vertical-farms


http://nymag.com/news/features/30020/


http://www.eoearth.org/article/Vertical_farming

1) Could vertical farming be the future

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21154137/

2) Vertical Farming: Does it really stack up?

http://www.economist.com/node/17647627

3) Growing Skyscrapers: The Rise of Vertical Farms

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-rise-of-vertical-farms

4) Vertical Farming- Time

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1865974,00.html

5) Vertical Farming in the Big Apple

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6752795.stm

www.verticalfarms.com

http://www.economist.com/node/17647627

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_farming

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/science/15farm.html?_r=1

http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2007-07/skyscraper-farms

http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/daily-planet/april-2009/daily-planet-april-23-2009/#clip164926

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-rise-of-vertical-farms&print=true

http://www.economist.com/node/17647627

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Vertical_farming

http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/vertical-farming-50072108?click=main_sr

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/29/vertical-farms-urban-food

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21154137/

http://greenupgrader.com/2057/vertical-farms-growing-up-sustainably/

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/12/farms-as-skyscrapers.html

http://www.verticalfarm.com/

http://gogreen.whatitcosts.com/vertical-farm.htm

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Vertical_farming


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21154137/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/


http://www.brighthub.com/environment/science-environmental/articles/39036.aspx


http://www.iees.ch/EcoEng041/EcoEng041_verticalFarm.html


http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1865974,00.html

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-rise-of-vertical-farms

http://www.economist.com/node/17647627

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Vertical_farming

http://nymag.com/news/features/30020/

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/science/15farm.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/16/vertical-farms-photos-the_n_499924.html#s74041&title=undefined

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1865974,00.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21154137/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/29/vertical-farms-urban-food

http://www.brighthub.com/environment/science-environmental/articles/39036.aspx

http://www.brighthub.com/environment/science-environmental/articles/39036.aspx?p=2

http://www.iees.ch/EcoEng041/EcoEng041_verticalFarm.html

http://www.verticalfarm.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/opinion/24Despommier.html?ref=urbanagriculture

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1865974,00.html

http://americancity.org/buzz/entry/1405/

http://www.nbm.org/media/video/greener-good/vertical-farming.html

http://www.eco-tower.fr/

http://archive.columbiatribune.com/2005/aug/20050830busi010.asp

http://www.verticalfarm.com/

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Vertical_farming

Anaerobic Digestors

Anaerobic Digestors
http://www.epa.gov/agstar/

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2007/09/why-dont-we-hear-much-about-anaerobic-digestion-in-the-u-s-49970


http://blog.harvestpower.com/featured/anaerobic-digestion-reduces-greenhouse-effect-according-to-scientists/

http://www.terrapass.com/projects/details/george-deruyter-and-sons-dairy.html

http://nwrenewablenews.wordpress.com/category/farmranch/

Comments from :
"Cow power-- Digester makes dairy man a believer"
OUTLOOK -- Here in the heart of dairy country, where thousands of cows munch, lactate and poop away their days, an unlikely experiment is under way in the fight against global warming. "My goal is to sell 100 perce
Full story:

http://yakima-herald.com/stories/2008/11/22/cow-power-digester-makes-dairy-man-a-believer


Comments from :

"Can dairies help fuel data centers?"

YAKIMA, Wash. -- The New York Times reports today on a study by Hewlett-Packard engineers that finds dairies can sell biogas from manure digesters to technology companies building server farms in rural areas.

Full story:
http://yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/5/19/can-dairies-help-fuel-data-centers


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic_digestion

http://www.energysavers.gov/your_workplace/farms_ranches/index.cfm/mytopic=30003

http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2024655/anaerobic-digestion-industry-welcomes-boost-feed-tariff-support

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/02/04/02-05-10-digester-dl

http://www.fs.fed.us/woodybiomass/documents/Yakima_County_Biomass_Report.pdf

Organics, Localvores and Sustainable AG

Localvores/Organics/Sustainable Ag

Food Miles and Relative Climate Impacts..."

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es702969f

"Grist versus NY Times: Debating Local Food"

http://www.theatlantic.com/food/archive/2010/08/grist-vs-new-york-times-debating-local-food/62080/

"A Food Manifesto for the Future"

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/a-food-manifesto-for-the-future/?ref=markbittman

"Resolve to Eat Locally Grown Food Whenever Possible"

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2008/03/03/resolve-to-eat-locally-grown-food-whenever-possible

"The Idea of a Local Economy"

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/299/

"Small Farms Aim for Right Niche"

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20060805&slug=cheese05m

http://discover.winecountry.com/food/2010/06/yakima-valley-farms.html

http://organicyakima.com/Organic-Gardening-in-the-Yakima-Valley.php

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013189572_hops18m.html

http://agr.wa.gov/foodanimal/organic/

http://www.foodroutes.org/

this has a lot of other links

http://yvbj.com/news/2009/11/09/organic-growers-to-hold-annual-conference-in-yakima.html

this is about Tilth and the Organic Business in the valley

http://discover.winecountry.com/food/2010/06/yakima-valley-farms.html

this give a list of the farms in the valley and what they grow

http://www.organic.org/education/

this is great information about Organic food in general

www.eatwild.com/products/washington.html

http://yakimafoodcooperative.com/

http://www.organicvalley.coop/who-is-your-farmer/northwest/allen-voortman/

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/09/green-basics-organic-food.php

http://www.organicfoodee.com/

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/oct/18/organic-label-vexes-hop-farmers-brewers/

http://www.countryliving.com/cooking/regional-foods-and-events/yakima-valley-fruit-0705

1) WSU offers intensive two-week course in organic gardening--

http://othellooutlook.com/?p=17108


2) Organic Food Program

http://agr.wa.gov/foodanimal/organic/


3) Locavores like food grown close to home

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/05/05/locavores-like-food-grown-close-to-home


4) Yakima Food Cooperative

http://yakimafoodcooperative.com/


5) Eat Wild - Washington

http://eatwild.com/products/washington.html


6) Everything Yakima- Organic and Local Produce

http://www.everythingyakima.com/about/fruitstands/organic.html

Medical School

PNWU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_school

http://www.annals.edu.sg/pdf/37VolNo12Dec2008/V37N12p991.pdf

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_April_14/ai_n13609767/

http://www.ycda.com/business-resources/workforce-education/

http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2009/08/medschoolfuture.html

http://www.annals.edu.sg/pdf/37VolNo12Dec2008/V37N12p991.pdf

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_39/b4002001.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-03-04-medical-schools_N.htm

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2008/07/22/new-medical-college-expected-to-make-deep-impact

http://www.villasterraceheights.com/aboutyakimavalley.html#Economic


http://www.st-lukes.org/Sub.aspx?id=2608

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/192004/

http://www.holistic.com/holistic/learning.nsf/title/A+new+vision+of+medical+care:+An+interview+with+complementary+medicine+pioneer+Rudolph+Ballentine.+M.D.

http://www.yakimamemorial.org/community_education.html

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2007/05/14/focus1.html

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2007/03/05/story4.html

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2007/05/14/focus1.html

http://search.proquest.com.libsrv.yvcc.edu:2048/docview/577582708/fulltext/12D63587DC96FBCFF8C/6?accountid=1227

http://search.proquest.com.libsrv.yvcc.edu:2048/docview/517219222/fulltext/12D6357E3A577C20945/8?accountid=1227

http://search.proquest.com.libsrv.yvcc.edu:2048/docview/458979769/12D6357E3A577C20945/19?accountid=1227

http://www.collegebound.net/college-university/article/pacific-northwest-university-of-health-sciences/6935/

http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-regional-local/5082516-1.html

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2008/07/21/daily23.html

http://www.pnwu.org/p/College_of_Osteopathic_Medicine

http://www.aacom.org/resources/bookstore/cib/Documents/2011cib/2011cib-pnwu-com.pdf

http://www.pnwu.org/

http://www.washington.edu/medicine/som/depts/medex/applicants/programinformation.htm

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/12/22/med-school-gets-funds-to-use-for-new-colleges/print

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2014069289_guest29gold.html

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009295808_apwaweeklywages1stldwritethru.html

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009859005_apwacwubudgetcuts.html

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002242241_medschool15m.html

http://www.yvbj.com/articles/business-expo-2011-goes-green.html

http://www.e-technologymanagement.com/tm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=350:it-job-market-transformed-21st-century-view&catid=45:tm&Itemid=81

http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2010/11/16/top-10-most-secure-jobs-in-2011/

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/06/23/student-center-fits-pnwu-growth-pattern

http://www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services/4332275-1.html

http://www.kennewickgeneral.com/getpage.php?name=news_2010_medstudentsatKGH

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/12/22/pacific-northwest-university-receives-400k-federal-grant

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/02/03/johnson-pursues-funding-for-pnwu

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/03/17/osteopathic-medical-education-continues-to-grow


http://www.healthdegrees.com/spotlight-the-top-ten-fastest-growing-allied-health-careers

http://www.careerkey.org/asp/career_development/people_skills.html

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/02/12/many-unemployed-workers-retooling-and-retraining

http://www.wtb.wa.gov/Documents/HealthCareShortagesReport_06.pdf

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2007/03/05/story4.html

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2007/03/05/story4.html

http://www.pnwu.org/

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2008/07/22/new-medical-college-expected-to-make-deep-impact

http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-regional-local/5082516-1.html

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/04/16/yakima-s-medical-school-finalizes-its-next-class-of-students


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_University_of_Health_Sciences

http://liveyakimavalley.com/living-in-the-valley/colleges-universities/

http://healthcareers.about.com/od/whychoosehealthcare/tp/MedicalJobsInDemand.htm

http://hubpages.com/hub/Best_Careers_in_2010

http://medicalschoolgrants.org/medical-school-scholarships

http://www.washingtonstatewire.com/home/32-state_agency_takes_10_percent_off_the_top.htm

http://www.allbusiness.com/education-training/students-student-life/14691615-1.html


http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/04/27/new-legislation-will-allow-pnwu-to-increase-funding

http://zirklecommunity.com/pdf/ZFOsteopathicSForm.pdf

Tourism Links

Tourism
http://www.nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4893:wash-tribe-exhibits-images-of-flooded-petroglyphs&catid=43&Itemid=19

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/highschoolsports/2013940955_yakimapreps16.html

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/01/06/yakima-tourism-industry-hopes-to-draw-winter-visitors-to-area

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2008/07/20/the-economy-where-does-yakima-stand

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/09/15/county-tourism-money-travels-to-four-destinations

Trends and issues:

http://www.whytourismmatters.com/regions/sewashington/yakima.html

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lots of jobs (+)
eliminate tourism funding for 2011-2013!?:

http://yakimavalleytourism.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/tourism-matters/

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Might go to this:
State of the Tourism Industry, Feb 17th, Convention Center -

http://yakimavalleytourism.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/state-of-the-tourism-industry-and-visitor-profile-research-unveiling/

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Downtown plan for 07 (esthetics):

http://www.downtownyakima.com/about.html

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What yakima offers:

http://visityakima.com/newSite/yakima-valley-arts.asp

http://visityakima.com/newSite/yakima-valley-what-to-do.asp

http://www.experiencewa.com/attraction.aspx?id=121


http://nwcheapsleeps.org/2010/02/28/why-tourism-matters/

http://crosscut.com/2010/05/28/yakima/19833/yakima-coming-into-its-own-as-a-wine-tourism-destination/

http://dailyrecordnews.com/news/article_5ba1ef3a-9c42-11df-8f8f-001cc4c002e0.html

http://www.winesnw.com/news_reviews/newsandreviews_prosser2.htm

http://yakimavalleytourism.wordpress.com/

http://www.winebusiness.com/wbm/?go=getArticle&dataId=50125


http://www.holidayshub.com/wine-tourism/


http://reesenews.org/2011/01/13/wine-production-expected-to-stimulate-tourist-industry/7844/


http://www.wineaustralia.com/usa/Default.aspx?tabid=2569


http://vinumimporting.com/washington.html


http://www.capitoltheatre.org/CEimpact.cfm

http://www.capitoltheatre.org/CEnews8.cfm

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2011/02/04/committee-sends-wine-corkage-bill-to-house-floor

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2011/01/19/yakima-county-jobless-rate-same-as-dec-2009

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/01/06/yakima-tourism-industry-hopes-to-draw-winter-visitors-to-area

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/08/12/seattle-to-sunnyside-tourist-destination-eyed

http://crosscut.com/2010/05/28/yakima/19833/Yakima-coming-into-its-own-as-a-wine-tourism-destination/


http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/02/9/economy-puts-squeeze-on-washington-wine-industry


http://wineyakimavalley.org/about-wyv_345.html


http://www.ycda.com/about-new-vision/


http://www.experiencewa.com/images/PDF/TC_TourismMatters2010.pdf


http://www.visityakima.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHlu3ZO7CaA

http://liveyakimavalley.com/


http://www.commerce.wa.gov/DesktopModules/CTEDNews/CTEDNewsView.aspx?tabID=0&ItemID=302&mid=840


http://www.washingtonbeautiful.com/wine-country/


http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/01/06/yakima-tourism-industry-hopes-to-draw-winter-visitors-to-area


http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/03/10/speaker-says-area-needs-to-expand-wine-theme-amenities


http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/03/19/wine-tourism-doesn-t-stop-at-the-winery


http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20030716&slug=winedevelop16


http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20030716&slug=winedevelop16


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2008599890_webwashtourism07.html


http://www.washingtonwine.org/


http://wineyakimavalley.org/


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw


http://www.wawgg.org


http://wineyakimavalley.org


http://www.gilbertcellars.com/story


http://www.everythingyakima.com/about/wines


http://wineyakimavalley.org/

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/01/06/yakima-tourism-industry-hopes-to-draw-winter-visitors-to-area

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/09/20/small-farm-could-reflect-big-change-in-agriculture

http://www.yakima.net/about.php

http://www.ycda.com/yakima-county-is-the-pacific-northwest-leader-in-agriculture/

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw/2008923694_pacificptaste29.html


http://www.seattleweekly.com/2007-08-29/food/two-days-of-wine-and-tacos-in-the-yakima-valley/


http://yakimavalleytourism.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/state-stops-corkage-free-project-in-yakima/


http://crosscut.com/2010/05/28/yakima/19833/Yakima-coming-into-its-own-as-a-wine-tourism-destination/


http://www.allbusiness.com/economy-economic-indicators/output-demand-gross/14678616-1.html

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/07/4/reporter-s-notebook-ellensburg-makes-bid-for-wine-tourism

http://yakimavalleytourism.wordpress.com/

http://www.allbusiness.com/economy-economic-indicators/output-demand-gross/14678616-1.html

http://crosscut.com/2010/05/28/yakima/19833/Yakima-coming-into-its-own-as-a-wine-tourism-destination/

http://www.experiencewa.com/cities/yakima.aspx?id=790&tab=1001

http://yakimavalleytourism.wordpress.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHlu3ZO7CaA

http://www.whytourismmatters.com/

http://www.kimatv.com/news/local/85438737.html

http://www.mrsc.org/subjects/econ/ed-tour.aspx#Planning