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ABC News : Consumers fall further behind financially, study reports 7/28/2008

Americans' household finances are bad and getting worse, and that spells trouble for the economy for the rest of the decade, according to a study by Moody's economy.com.Consumers are behind schedule in payments or have walked away from nearly $800 billion in household debt of all kinds — mortgages, credit cards, car loans, says Mark Zandi, chief economist for economy.com. "Household credit quality has arguably never been worse," he says. Zandi is one of the nation's chief analysts of regional economic trends. And Moody's has a long history of credit analysis for municipalities and corporations. Higher default rates are likely, Zandi says, because: •The housing downturn. Projected declines in house prices, home sales and housing starts are all worse than the housing collapses of the 1980s and 1990s, Zandi says. He projects a nationwide home price decline of 26% from the peak in 2006.As prices decline, fewer homeowners can borrow against their home equity. More borrowers also owe more...

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Is Matriarchy the Shape of the Future?

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A generation from now, the female lawyer with her male assistant will be the cliché. Look for women to outnumber men in many elite professions, and potentially in the political system that the professions feed. (The election of a female president is a question of when, not whether.)
Women's superior education will increase their earning power relative to men's, and on average they will be marrying down, educationally speaking. A third of today's college-bound 12-year-old girls can expect to "settle" for a mate without a university diploma. But women will not stop wanting to be hands-on moms.
For families, this will pose a dilemma. Women will have a comparative advantage at both parenting and breadwinning. Many women will want to take time off for child-rearing, but the cost of keeping a college-educated mom at home while a high-school-educated dad works will be high, often prohibitive.
In other words, today's young people already live in a world where, among their peers, women are better educated than men. As the grandparents die off, every year the country's college-educated population will become more feminized. In a couple of decades, America's educational elite will be as disproportionately female as it once was male.
Christians committed to a biblical model of marriage and gender relations must look to this social revolution with a deeper level of concern. The most significant concern must be the long-term consequences of a new matriarchal world order. While Christians support the cause of higher education, the biblical worldview puts a higher priority upon the rightly ordered family and church. This dramatic social change will only serve to subvert that purpose.
What about our own sons? Are they being encouraged toward education and leadership in the home, the church, and the culture? If not, we will surely reap what we sow. If you talk to the young women on college campuses, you will find that many are asking the same question. Where are the young men?

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Parenting and IT's Future

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he top concern among CIOs is attracting,
developing and retaining business-technology professionals,
according to the 2007 membership survey by the Society for Information
Management.

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Don't be surprised if finding and keeping IT pros remains atop the
SIM list for a long time. The pool of potential IT pros won't grow if we
depend on our schools to produce the next generation of business technologists.
We have a literacy problem in the United States, especially in
math and sciences, and that doesn't bode well for the IT profession. The
U.S. ranks 24th out of 29 in math literacy among industrialized nations.
We're as math literate as Latvia. "Literacy is the price of admission for
competitiveness,"
Sam
loves math, and scored a 5—the top grade—in a calculus AP exam. He excels
in courses that require analytical thinking. But Sam's deeper passion is
composing classical music, and that's what he wants to study in college.








While many parents steer their kids toward college programs that
promise relatively steady and lucrative careers, including those in IT management
and computer sciences, my wife—a longtime IT professional—
and I have been Sam's biggest champions in his pursuit of his passion,
though we know that few people earn a good living composing classical
music. The median annual salary of a classical music composer is $36,571,
according to Pay.com. Sure, Sam realizes to make a decent salary he'll need
to earn a doctorate and get a college professorship, yet there's no guarantee
he can land a job in academia because of stiff competition.
The blog received scores of responses, split on whether Sam, my wife
and I are following the right course. But, for the most part, the grander
question, our responsibility to society, went unanswered. As parents,
what are our responsibilities to our country by encouraging our children
to enter professions that will strengthen our competitiveness in
the world. Is asking Sam to sacrifice his personal dreams for the greater
good of society appropriate?

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Dave's cool list - NeverEndingSearch

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10. Connectivism:

Dave notes, "Connecting is the only way we can succeed in the world of edtech. This year's theme for the top 10 list is connecting and the forces of bad that are trying to stop us from sharing."

Yes, Dave, those of us who CONNECTED, especially this year, recognize how dramatically our learning has expanded, how our professional networks have grown. But as I travel and talk to other educators I recognize how many of us--teachers and learners--cannot yet connect from our schools. I recognize how many do not yet see the potential.
This year, for me, was the year that everyone began to discover a proliferation of Creative Commons and copyright friendly materials as options to help my students avoid those legal implications. This was also the year those free Web-based apps and open source alternatives gained true mainstream popularity.
Ustream

If you haven't yet tried this new production and sharing tool, it's absolutely time to explore. Ustream is:

platform that provides live interactive video for everyone. Anyone with a camera and an Internet connection can use Ustream to broadcast to a global audience.
4. CHEAPO computers in 3rd world--Computer wars

Dave points to OLPC’s (One Laptop Per Child) windmill tilting, noting that it forced everyone else in the computer industry to drive down their own entry level offerings toward the $200 mark. He calls this effort a nice corporate bidding game shielded under the guise of third world revitalization, but he recognizes the potential of this effort to connect huge numbers of the formerly unconnected.
3. Choice

Dave notes: I can’t be everywhere. Every educator is having to decide where they will stake ground. To twitter or not to twitter.

This is the story that resonates loudest with me. Some folks in this 2.0 universe truly seem to be able to be everywhere. I can no longer make every interesting Webcast. I can't Twitter everyday. I read fewer blogs than I once did. I give in. I can't keep keeping up. I am learning to accept that keeping up enough may be enough. I am also learning that when I log off at 9 PM, my world of tech awareness does not collapse.
2. Twitter

Dave says,Twitter has brought new meaning to "connected." I now know when people are getting out of bed, what they put in their coffee, and how good the cleaning staff is at their schools.

This one would definitely be on the top of my own top ten list. This microblogging strategy has changed how I operate. Sure my Twitter network provides a lot of meaningless (but sometimes entertaining) tweets. It also feeds me with new applications to introduce at school, issues to think and blog about, the webcasts and podcasts I need to see and hear.

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BBC NEWS | Business | Bill Gates: The skills you need to succeed

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A solid working knowledge of productivity software and other IT tools has become a basic foundation for success in virtually any career.
Beyond that, however, I don't think you can overemphasise the importance of having a good background in maths and science.
If you look at the most interesting things that have emerged in the last decade - whether it is cool things like portable music devices and video games or more practical things like smart phones and medical technology - they all come from the realm of science and engineering.
Communication skills and the ability to work well with different types of people are very important too.
I also place a high value on having a passion for ongoing learning. When I was pretty young, I picked up the habit of reading lots of books.
I agree totally with Mr Gates comments. I have always lived with the philosophy of 'the day I stop learning is the day I die' It is something I have tried to instil in my three young children. They like all young children are always asking why questions and rather than give the stock adult answer 'because' we go and look it up on the net or in the library. An enquiring mind is the greatest gift you can give any child.

Paul Marshall, London UK

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