The Education section of the New York Times online (one of the best places to go to find out what’s the people who make decisions are reading), ran an article last week talking about the federal work study program and how it can fit into the ever-more-confusing funding structure to pay tuition. I had to make at least a few comments on this article and relay some of my experience with the work study program and the real world that I dealt with in college about a decade ago. [Read more…]
New Stuff at JerseySmarts.com
Hello everyone! I’m going to be trying out some new stuff at JerseySmarts.com so don’t panic if you see things looking a little bit different the next few times you visit the blog. I don’t have anything major planned other than some rearranging of content. For example, I’m going to try using the Read the rest of this entry » tag more often if not on every post (except this one, since it’s really short). When I began this blog I actually used that feature all of the time; the more things change, right?
Also, you’ll notice that the sharing buttons at the bottom of each post are now gone and have been replaced on the individual entry pages with a bar above each post allowing you the option to share the page to a variety of sites, print the page, subscribe to our RSS feed, or share the specific page with your Facebook friends. I think that some people will find this feature very useful. Anyway, I’m always interested in more of your ideas and comments about how to make the blog better, so please let me know if you have any thoughts!
Ford Plans to Compete with Toyota on Hybrid Price
At some point last month, Ford announced that the Fusion Hybrid would cost slightly more than Toyota’s Camry. Ford hopes that its hybrid version of the Fusion (which is projected to get better gas mileage than the Prius) will be able to start taking away some of the Camry’s annual sales.
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Remembering the Columbine Massacre
Seems hard to believe that it was ten years ago when the massacre took place at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Friends and family members of the victims will gather later today for a remembrance service. The two little scumbags who caused the massacre don’t deserve to be mentioned, but here are the names of the people who are no longer with us because of this event:
- Cassie Bernall
- Steve Curnow
- Corey DePooter
- Kelly Fleming
- Matt Kechter
- Daniel Mauser
- Daniel Rohrbough
- Dave Sanders
- Rachel Scott
- Isaiah Shoels
- John Tomlin
- Lauren Townsend
- Kyle Velasquez
For additional information on each of the victims, click here. I remember bits and pieces of the whole event – namely sitting at home with my Dad and watching the entire thing unfold on television while thinking that the high school looked remarkably similar to my own high school. There is a scene that is somewhat famous now of a kid hanging out of a window and falling out of the window to escape the shooters – I remember watching that live on television.
I also remember going to school the next day and everyone having a creepy, eerie feeling. Most of the students wanted their classroom doors closed and our teachers must have been instructed to be prepared to discuss the entire event with us because the teaching staff did an excellent job of discussing what happened.
And, in a little known piece of trivia, my high school had a copycat event take place the very next day. No one knows about this because not many people were told about it. I was privy to certain pieces of information because back then I was President of the Student Council. The Principal called me into the office at some point during the day to let me know that a student came to school that morning wearing the whole black trench coat get-up that the killers at Columbine wore and he was diverted to a private room in the high school and searched. He had knives on him. The kid was expelled within a week.
Columbine was a senseless act of destruction. Here’s hoping that Americans don’t have to deal with anything like that again.
Susan Boyle Brings Hope to the Masses
Every once in a while something happens that sets the world of pop culture on its head. The latest in these events is the emergence of Susan Boyle – an unassuming charity worker from a small village in Scotland. The most basic of digging on the internet shows that Ms. Boyle spent the last ten years caring for her ill mother before she passed away and that she’s never had a relationship with a man or, as she calls it, she’s “never been kissed.” [Read more…]
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