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College can be an emotional decision, sometimes an overwhelming decision for a high school student who is the first in a family to think about a college degree. For a student whose parents are immi-grants or whose parents have little formal education, the idea of attending a univer-sity may seem like an unreachable goal.
The details are numerous. What col-lege to attend? What will be my ma-
jor? How do I apply? How do I pay tuition? Where do I live?
With no one to provide guidance or to explain the college experience, high school students sometimes set aside the college dream.
That’s where a new program – Mis-souri College Advising Corps (MCAC) – is trying to help by implanting a col-lege mindset into high school seniors
who are first-generation, low-income or underrepresented students.
“We believe in college. We believe go-ing to college is so important,” said Beth Tankersley-Bankhead, executive direc-tor of MCAC. “Whatever we can do to help young people go to college is the whole focus of the program – helping many who might not otherwise have a chance to attend college.”
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Una pista con información impor-tante referente a la muerte de su hijo es por lo que García está rezando.
“Eso nos daría un poquito de consue-lo, tan sólo un poquito. No lo va a traer de regreso y sabemos eso. Pero con un poquito de consuelo, nos hará avanzar un paso más en la dirección correcta”, García le dijo a Hispanic News.
Su hijo de 17 años – José Macías – fue asesinado el 28 de marzo del 2008, mientras caminaba cerca de las calles 13 y Ridge en Kansas City, Kan. Él y su primo fueron heridos por balas dis-paradas desde un vehículo que pasaba. Su primo sobrevivió.
El caso permanece sin resolver, pero oficiales y la familia de la víctima es-peran que una contribución adicional a la recompensa el 24 de marzo motive
que alguien se acerque con una pista de importancia crítica para resolver la investigación. García agregó $1.500 a la recompensa, la cual suma hasta ahora $2.500.
Jim Fitzgerald, asistente coordina-dor de la Línea de Emergencias para Pistas de Crime Stoppers, dijo que el incremento en la recompensa podría generar más pistas.
“Estamos esperando que esto podría reactivar la memoria de alguna perso-na y alguien podría llamar ofreciendo alguna información”, dijo él.
Pistas pudieran emerger de mu-chos lugares, dijo Fitzgerald, desde un ciudadano en el área hasta una tercera persona que pudiera haber es-cuchado hablar a alguien más respecto a la balacera. “Ellos pudieran no estar afilados con la víctima o con el sospe-choso, pero nosotros esperamos que la
Consiguiendo pautas para asistir a la universidad
In early March, community leaders gathered to visit with Nicole Farmer Hurd, executive director of the National College Advising Corps. She said, “Think about how many decisions you have to make about financial aid, about which school to attend, about scholarships.”
A comienzos de Marzo, lideres de la comunidad se reunieron para visitar junto con Nicole Farmer Hurd, Directora Executiva de National College Advising Corps. Ella dijo “Piense acerca de cuantas decisiones usted tiene que hacer acerca de los apoyos financieros, acerca de cual escuela atender, acerca de becas.”
Don’t Be Fooled By Weight-Loss Myths
La universidad puede ser una de-cisión emocional, algunas veces puede ser una decisión abrumadora para un estudiante de secundaria quien es el primero en su familia en pensar re-specto a un título universitario. Para un estudiante cuyos padres son inmi-grantes o cuyos padres tienen poca educación formal, la idea de asistir a una universidad podría parecer como un objetivo imposible de lograr.
Los detalles son numerosos. ¿A cuál universidad asistir? ¿Cuál será mi área
de estudios? ¿Cómo postular? ¿Cómo pagar mí matricula? ¿Dónde viviré?
No teniendo a alguien que le guíe a uno o que le explique cómo es la expe-riencia universitaria, algunas veces los estudiantes de secundarias ponen de lado el sueño de la universidad.
Es allí donde un nuevo programa – Cuerpos Consejeros Universitarios de Missouri (MCAC) – está tratando de ayudar implantándole una mentalidad universitaria a estudiantes que cursan su último año de secundaria y quienes también son estudiantes de primera
generación, de bajos recursos o que no son adecuadamente representados.
“Nosotros creemos en la univer-sidad. Nosotros creemos que ir a la universidad es muy importante”, dijo Beth Tankersley-Bankhead, directora ejecutiva de MCAC. “Cualquier cosa que pudiéramos hacer para ayudar a los jóvenes a asistir a la universidad es todo de lo que se trata nuestro enfoque sobre el programa – ayudar a los mu-chos que de otra manera no pudieran contar con una oportunidad de asistir a la universidad”.
April Fool’s Day may be synonymous with pranks and practical jokes, but members of TOPS Club, Inc. (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), the nonprofit weight-loss support organization, know better than to be fooled when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle.
Ahmed Kissebah, M.D., Ph.D., director of the General Clinical Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and medical advisor for TOPS, offers the fol-lowing information to dispel common weight-loss myths, separating fact from fiction.
Myth #1 - Eating grapefruit burns fat
Dozens of diets based on eating large quanti-ties of grapefruit claim that grapefruit, grape-fruit juices, or concentrates in the form of a pill, contain enzymes that help digest fats and then burn them away. There are no enzymes in grapefruit that are known to increase the speed
or the quantity at which the body burns fat. In fact, there is no food that can cause fat to be burned away.
Adding grapefruit to a weight-control plan can be a good idea, since grapefruit has very few calories and creates a sensation of fullness. But there is nothing in grapefruit that will suppress appetite or cause calories to be burned faster. Crash diets that sometimes recommend eat-ing grapefruit and eggs, grapefruit and bacon and eggs, or other high-fat, high-protein foods, could have a serious side effect. These may cause an increase in blood levels of cholesterol, which can predispose a person to a high risk of heart disease.
Myth #2 - Potatoes are extremely fattening
Potatoes have no fat and no cholesterol. They
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Adding new dollars to the reward fund has been the goal of josie Garcia, the mother of homicide victim jose Macias. The smiles are difficult because Garcia still waits for someone to come forward with information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible for her son’s death. Also pictured are jim Fitzgerald, Susie Tinoco and john Garcia. Agregando más dólares al fondo de la recompensa ha sido la meta de Josie García, la madre de José Macías, víctima de un homicidio. Las sonrisas son difíciles puesto que García aún espera que alguien se acerque con información que lleve al arresto y encarcelamiento de quienquiera que sean los responsables de la muerte de su hijo. También en la foto aparecen Jim Fitzgerald, Susie Tinoco y John García.
KC Hispanic News endorsementsWhat the Kansas City, Mo., School District needs are candidates who can bring new
leadership with fresh, bold ideas. It needs candidates who are willing to listen and who will remember the people who entrusted them to oversee the education of their children. Crispin Rea and Kyleen Carroll are candidates ready to serve students of Kansas City. See page 2.
Aumentando el Fondo de la Recompensa de Macías
One tip with important information about her son’s murder is what Josie Garcia prays for.
“It will give us a little bit of closure, just a little bit. It’s not going to bring him back, and we know that. But with that little bit of closure, it will put us one more step in the right direction,” Garcia told Hispanic News.
Her 17-year-old son – Jose Macias – was killed March 28, 2008, while walking near 13th and Ridge in Kan-sas City, Kan. He and his cousin were wounded by bullets fired from a pass-ing vehicle. His cousin survived.
The case remains unsolved but of-ficials and the victim’s family hope
an additional reward contribution on March 24 will spur the critical tip to solve the investigation. Garcia add-ed $1,500 to the reward, which now stands at $2,500.
Jim Fitzgerald, assistant coordina-tor for the Crime Stoppers Tips Hot-line, said the increased reward will likely generate more tips.
“We’re hoping it might jog some-body’s memory and that they will call in to give us some information,” he said.
Tips can surface from many places, Fitzgerald said, from a bystander in the area to a third-party who may have overheard someone else talking about the shooting. “They may not be affili-ated with either the victim or the sus-
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El Día de los Inocentes pudiera ser sinónimo de bromas y chistes, pero los miembros del club TOPS Club, Inc. (Deshágase de Libras de Man-era Sensible), que es una organización sin fines de lucro para ayudar a perder peso, es lo suficiente-mente inteligente para no dejarse engañar cuando se trata de vivir un estilo de vida saludable.
Ahmed Kissebah, M.D., Ph.D., director del Centro Investigación Clínica General del Cole-gio Médico de Wisconsin en Milwaukee y asesor médico de TOPS, ofrece la siguiente información para disipar mitos comunes referentes a perder peso, separando los hechos de la ficción.
Mito #1 – Comer toronjas quema la grasa
Docenas de dietas basadas en comer grandes cantidades de toronjas o jugo de toronja o los concentrados en la forma de píldoras, contienen enzimas que ayudan a digerir grasas y luego que-marlas. Hasta donde se sabe, no existen enzimas
en las toronjas que aumenten la velocidad o la cantidad con que el cuerpo quema la grasa. De hecho, no existen comidas que puedan causar que la grasa se queme.
Agregar toronja a un plan para la pérdida de peso puede ser una buena idea, puesto que las toronjas tienen pocas calorías y crean una sensación de sentirse satisfecho. Pero no existe nada en las toronjas que reduzca el apetito o cause que las calorías se quemen más rápido. Las dietas de choque algunas veces recomiendan comer toronjas y huevos, toronjas y tocino y huevos, u otros alimentos altos en grasa y pro-teínas, pudieran tener un serio efecto secunda-rio. Éstos pudieran causar un aumento en los niveles de colesterol en la sangre, los cuales pueden predisponer a una persona a un alto riesgo de enfermedades cardiacas.
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pect, but we hope the amount of money out there motivates them to talk to authorities.”
The reward increase was possible because of a March 6 fund-raiser where friends and family of Macias from across the Kansas City area gathered to honor his life.
John Garcia, a longtime family friend and an organ-izer of the fund-raiser, said he was glad to see the reward go up and hopes it will attract key information.
He said the strong turnout at the event demonstrates how the community has not forgotten about Jose Macias or the tragic way he died. He said the event is also evidence that the Latino community will support those in need, whether to pay a child’s medical expense or search for a critical break in an on-going homicide investigation.
Fitzgerald said, “The more times the community gets in-volved, the better the chances are the crime will be solved. If the community is involved, that means the community is talk-
ing about it. If the community is talking about it, other people will hear about it and word of mouth helps us (police).”
Meanwhile, Josie Garcia continues to wait for someone to talk.
“I don’t know what it’s go-ing to take,” she said. “It drives me crazy that somebody knows something. Maybe it’s going to be the money that brings it out of that person.”
Garcia said she is grateful for the community’s support that will not allow her son’s case to fade into obscurity.
“We’re not going away. The shooting was wrong. They had no right. Jose didn’t deserve it. And I’m not going away. The time is coming. Now, we just need someone to come for-ward and say what they know. Whatever they know is going to help.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers Greater Kansas City TIPS Hot-line at 816-474-TIPS (8477). TIPS may also be submitted electronically at KCcrimestop-pers.com, or by texting TIP452 and your information to 274637 (CRIMES). Information lead-ing to an arrest in the case could be eligible for up to $2,500 in reward money.
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josie Garcia and longtime family friend john Garcia look through the paperwork as they add to the reward fund, which now stands at $2,500.
Josie García y John García, antiguo amigo de la familia, revisan documentos mientras le agregan dinero al fondo de la recompensa que ahora alcanza los $2.500 en estos momentos
Often times I find animated features to be much finer films than their life-action counter-parts. Perhaps the attention to detail in the art of animation makes the filmmakers more mindful of the need to also keep the dialogue meaningful and the story tight and the message clear. This is certainly my take on “How to Train Your Drag-on”, a delightful new animated feature from DreamWorks.
Let me start out with a note of caution: this film is not for the very young. It is at times very fast and loud and, after all, it’s all about Vikings and dragons. I think tots under the age of 7 or so have a good chance of find-ing it fearful, as one did in the screening I attended. That be-ing said, I think those from 7 to 97 have a good chance of find-ing it absolutely enchanting.
The story centers on Hiccup, a lad whose father is the Viking Chief, Stoic the Vast. Hiccup is
nerdy and small and not on his way to becoming the warrior his father had planned on. Hiccup and his father engage in a few heartfelt and realistic exchang-es about this situation. Ulti-mately, Hiccup takes a chance and tries to become the dragon-slayer his father desires, but, as you can imagine, it does not go smoothly. In an effort not to give away too much, suffice it to say that Hiccup ends up with a dragon named “Toothless” to either kill or train. He chooses to train him. And it’s charming to watch.
I have only 2 criticisms to levy here. One is that the dialogue is sometimes incoherent when the movie gets loud. Oftentimes I can overlook this, as with a live-action action movie, because the dialogue is mediocre at best. In this movie, however, I really felt that every word counted and was carefully chosen and I hated to miss any of it. The oth-er criticism is that the younger characters in the movie have
American accents while the adult characters have a thick Scottish burr. I think the actors portraying the young charac-ters here (among them: America Ferrera; Jonah Hill; TJ Miller and Kristen Wiig – all adults themselves) could have easily donned some form of Celtic ac-cent that would have blended well with the adult characters and would have made a cohe-sive movie even more so.
This film boasts a broad spectrum of folks in its writing credits for story and screenplay. From Cressida Cowell (virtu-ally unknown) to Chris Sanders (whom we know from Mulan, Lilo & Stitch, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King), with Dean DeBlois, Adam F. Gold-berg and Peter Tolan nicely fill-ing in the middle.
I would be remiss if I didn’t remark on the brilliance of the animation itself. Absolutely first-rate. This movie will be released in 3D Real, IMAX 3D and 2D. I saw it in 2D, but imagined many scenes would be greatly enhanced in 3D. In whatever format you have available to you, I highly recommend you see this movie and savor every one of its 98 minutes.
Running time 1hr 28 min rated PG
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The Kansas City, Mo., School District, under the leadership of its new super-intendent John Covington, is working to close more than 25 schools in the face of budget cuts, teacher layoffs and a declining student enrollment. The time for radical change for the future of the school dis-trict is now. Kansas City His-panic News endorses the hard decisions made by the current school board. However, a new school board will have other challenges to confront – to continue the struggle to turn around a weakened and frac-tured school district.
On April 6, voters who live in the KCMSD boundary will go to the polls and vote for their candidate or candidates. KC Hispanic News believes it is time for a major overhaul when it comes to who oc-cupies the board seats. After conducting interviews and attending school board candi-date forums, Hispanic News believes the best two at-large candidates to endorse will serve the people and students well if they are elected by the voters on April 6.
We endorse these candidates.
Crispin Rea, 24, a candidate for an at-large seat, said he wants to raise district stand-ards to meet state standards. He said he wants to eliminate chaos, instability and turmoil on the current board. “We need board members who will
answer to one interest group – the students,” Rea said. “I envision a better district.”
A graduate of Park Universi-ty, Rea is a youth development liaison for the Mattie Rhodes Center and former aide to Kan-sas City Mayor Mark Funk-houser. Rea said he supports the proposed reorganization of the school district.
“It’s time to turn the page on a school district that lacks a com-munity’s trust and confidence,” Rea said. “We must promote the culture of transparency. The manner in which some of the board members have been able to conduct business is ab-solutely appalling. One thing I would like to do as a board member is have our meetings televised and streamed on-line so that those who are not able to attend will be able to see what we are working on.” Rea supports the idea of bringing the school board meetings to the community possibly on a quarterly basis.
The other candidate we en-dorse is Kyleen Carroll, who said she wants a board that will instill value to the quality of education.
“Our children deserve bet-ter,” Carroll said. “We need to be above the political bick-ering that has hovered in the school board.”
She said she would work toward creating competitive standards to ensure every stu-
dent is able to graduate and matriculate at any university in the country. “We must do that for our scholars, our par-ents, our community members, our taxpayers, our educational professionals and for our busi-ness community.”
A graduate of the Universi-ty of Arizona, Carroll has been a teacher of seventh grade so-cial studies at the Kansas City Middle School for the Arts since 2007. She said maintain-ing safe school campuses and state-of-the-art educational tools in the classroom are also on her priority list if elected to the board.
“We have a problem,” she said. “We have a hole in our ship, and that hole is safe schools. We cannot have excel-lence until we can make sure that we have safer schools and a safe learning environment.”
These two individuals – Crispin Rea and Kyleen Car-roll – are ready to roll up their sleeves and put in the time it will take to work with Super-intendent Covington. They will keep in mind the first stakeholders in the district – the students. They sound like candidates will put their service to education above any personal or political agenda.
It would be a grave mistake to elect candidates who want to go back to what some call the good old days. It didn’t work then and I don’t think it will work today.
García Agradeció el apoyo de la Comunidadcantidad de dinero los motive a hablar con las autoridades”.
El dinero de la recompensa fue posible a causa del beneficio del 6 de marzo, en donde ami-gos y familiares de Macías de toda el área de Kansas City se reunieron para honrar su vida.
John García, antiguo amigo de la familia y organizador del beneficio, dijo estar feliz de ver aumentar la recompensa y es-pera que ésta atraerá informa-ción clave.
Él dijo que la gran partici-pación de el evento demos-tró cómo la comunidad no se ha olviado de José Macías o de la trágica manera en que murió. Él dijo que también el evento prueba que la comu-nidad latina apoyará a aquel-los que lo necesitan, ya sea para pagar los gastos médi-cos de un niño o buscar una pista en la investigación de un crimen.
Fitzgerald dijo, “Mientras más veces participe la comu-
nidad, mejores son las opor-tunidades de que el crimen sea resuelto. Si la comunidad participa, eso significa que la comunidad está hablando re-specto a ello. Y si la comunidad está hablando de ello, las otras personas lo escucharán y el pasarse la voz nos ayudará (A la policía)”.
Mientras tanto, Josie García continúa esperando que algu-ien hable.
“No sé lo que tomará”, dijo ella. “Me desespera que alguien sabe algo. A lo mejor va a ser el dinero lo que traiga a esa persona”.
Garcia dijo estar agradec-ida del respaldo de la comu-nidad que no permitirá que el caso de su hijo se desvanezca en la oscuridad.
“No vamos a desitir. La ba-lacera fue algo malo. Ellos no tenían derecho. José no se lo merecía. Y yo no voy a desistir. El tiempo se está acercando. Ahora, solamente necesita-mos a alguien que se acerque y diga lo que sabe. Lo que sea que sepan nos va a ayudar”.
A cualquier persona con información se le pide que se contacte con el teléfono de la línea de emergencias TIPS de Crime Stoppers del Gran Kansas City en el 816-474-TIPS (8477). Pistas también pueden ser ofrecidas electróni-camente en KCcrimestoppers.com o por mensajes de texto TIP452 y su información al 274637 (CRIMES). Informa-ción que lleve a un arresto en el caso pudiera calificar para una recompensa de hasta $2.500 dólares.
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sas City, Mo., bajo el liderazgo de su nuevo superintendente John Covington, está tra-bajando para cerrar más de 25 escuelas debido a cortes presupuestarios, despidos de maestros y disminución en las matrículas de los estudiantes. El momento para un cambio radical en el futuro del dis-trito escolar es ahora. Kansas City Hispanic News le da su respaldo a las difíciles deci-siones tomadas por la presente junta escolar. Sin embargo, una nueva junta escolar ten-drá otros desafíos que encar-ar – continuar la lucha para hacer cambiar un debilitado y fracturado distrito escolar.
El 6 de abril, los votantes que viven en la frontera de KCMSD irán a las urnas y vo-tarán por su candidato o can-didatos. KC Hispanic News cree que es momento para una mayor renovación cuando se trata de ocupar posiciones en la junta. Después de conducir entrevistas y asistir a foros del distrito escolar para candida-tos, Hispanic News cree que los mejores dos candidatos generales a respaldar les ser-virán bien a la gente y a los es-tudiantes si es que resultaran electos el 6 de abril.
Nosotros respaldamos a es-tos candidatos.
Crispín Rea, 24, un can-didato para una posición de carácter general, dice que quiere elevar los estándares del distrito para cumplir con las normas estatales. Él quiere eliminar el caos, la inestabi-lidad y la confusión mostrada por la presente junta. “Neces-itamos miembros de la junta que le respondan a un grupo
de interés – los estudiantes”, dijo Rea. “Mi visión es la de un distrito mejor”.
Un graduado de la Univer-sidad Park, Rea es un enlace del Centro Mattie Rhodes para el desarrollo de la juven-tud y ex ayudante del Alcalde de Kansas City Mark Funk-houser. Rea dice que apoya la propuesta reorganización del distrito escolar.
“Es tiempo de dar vuelta a la página en lo que va a un distrito escolar que carece de la confianza de la comu-nidad”, dijo Rea. “Nosotros debemos promover la cultura de la transparencia. La man-era en que algunos miembros de la junta han conducido negocios es absolutamente atroz. Una cosa que me gus-taría hacer como miembro de la junta es hacer que nuestras reuniones sean televisadas y transmitidas por la Inter-net para que aquellos que no puedan acudir puedan ver en qué estamos trabajando”. Rea respalda la idea de llevarle las reuniones de la junta escolar a la comunidad, en lo posible cada tres meses.
El otro candidato que apoya-mos es Kyleen Carroll, que dice querer una junta que le in-culque un valor a la calidad de la educación.
“Nuestros niños merecen algo mejor”, dijo Carroll. “Ten-emos que situarnos por encima de las disputas políticas que han cubierto a la junta escolar”.
Ella dice que le gustaría trabajar en vías a crear es-tándares competitivos para asegurarse de que cada es-tudiante pueda graduarse y matricularse en cualquier
universidad en el país. “No-sotros debemos hacer eso por nuestros académicos, nuestros padres, los miem-bros de nuestra comunidad, quienes pagan impuestos, nuestros profesionales de la educación y nuestra comuni-dad de negocios”.
Una graduada de la Uni-versidad de Arizona, Carroll ha sido maestra de estudios sociales para el séptimo grado en la Escuela Media de las Artes de Kansas City desde el 2007. Ella dice que de ser electa a la junta, entre sus pri-oridades también se encuentra el mantener las instalaciones escolares seguros y modernas herramientas educacionales en los salones de clases.
Nosotros tenemos un prob-lema”, dijo ella. “Tenemos un agujero en nuestro barco y ese agujero son escuelas seguras. No podemos tener excelencia hasta que podamos asegurar-nos de tener escuelas más segu-ras y un ambiente seguro para la educación”.
Estas dos personas – Crispín Rea y Kyleen Carroll – están listas a subirse las mangas y poner el tiempo que tomará tra-bajar con el Superintendente Covington. Ellos tendrán en cuanta a los primeros accioni-stas del distrito – los estudiant-es. Ellos suenan como candi-datos que pondrán su servicio a la educación por encima de cualquier agenda política.
Sería un grave error elegir candidatos que quieran regre-sar a lo que algunos llaman los buenos viejos tiempos. No funcionó por ese entonces y no creo que funcione hoy.
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El programa de dos años del estado, el cual ha estado presente en algunas selectas escuelas se-cundarias del área de Kansas City, está basado en la Universi-dad de Missouri-Columbia y es uno de 10 programas estatales en toda la nación que es finan-ciado por un subsidio privado de carácter filantrópico.
El programa está presente en las Secundaria de Grandview, en Northeast High School, Paseo Academy of Fine and Perform-ing Arts Schools, Van Horn High School y Metropolitan Commu-nity College-Penn Valley.
Los orientadores o consejeros de los Cuerpos Consejeros Uni-versitarios de Missouri pasaron tiempo con estudiantes para mostrarles cómo prepararse para una universidad de cuatro años – desde tomar exámenes de admisión, buscar becas, navegar a través de los formu-larios de ayuda financiera, hasta visitar campus del área.
“Este no es un programa para reclutar estudiantes para MU, sino que es más bien para que vayan a la universidad en cualqui-er lugar. Nosotros ayudamos a los estudiantes a encontrar la in-stitución que mejor les acomode y asistir a ella”, dijo Bankhead.
Los 13 consejeros en Missouri están divididos en tres grupos – un grupo en St. Louis, otro en Kansas City y el tercero se enfoca en las áreas rurales del estado.
Cerca de 9.000 estudiantes, de los cuales 1.700 se encuentran en su último año, han tendido acceso a los consejeros. Otros 12.000 estudiantes de colegios comuni-
tarios también tienen acceso a los consejeros del programa. El año pasado, los estudiantes que reci-bieron orientación en el programa se matricularon o asistieron a 73 instituciones de educación supe-rior en 14 estados. Solamente 13 de esos estudiantes optaron por asistir a MU. La mayoría de los estudiantes orientados del área de Kansas City se matricularon en universidades regionales.
Los Cuerpos Consejeros Universitarios de Missouri son parte de los Cuerpos Consejeros Universitarios Nacionales, los cuales comenzaron en el 2005 en la Universidad de Virginia.
Oficiales por ese entonces reconocieron que una cantidad desproporcionada de estudiant-es de primera generación y de bajos recursos no estaban bus-cando una educación superior. Las estadísticas fueron desen-cantadoras, dijo Nicole Farmer Hurd, directora ejecutiva de los Cuerpos Consejeros Universi-tarios Nacionales.
En Virginia, el 79 por ciento de los estudiantes se estaban graduando de las secundarias y solamente el 3 por ciento es-taban asistiendo a la universi-dad. La cantidad de orientación consejera en las secundarias fue también una preocupación para los oficiales. El promedio na-cional de la proporción conse-jero a estudiante es cercana a 1 entre 380 (Missouri es cercano a 1 entre 450 estudiantes).
El consejero de orientación en una secundaria se pasa un promedio de 20 minutos durante todo el año platicando respecto a la universidad con estudiantes del último grado, dijo Hurd, cuya oficina nacional está basa-da en la Universidad de North Carolina en Chapel Hill.
“Piensen cuantas decisiones uno tiene que tomar respecto a la ayuda financiera, respecto a cuál universidad asistir, acerca de becas. Veinte minutos en todo el año simplemente me parece algo increíble”, dijo Hurd.
Lo que llegó a ser Cuerpos Consejeros Universitarios Na-cionales nació después de que el
programa recibiera apoyo priva-do de parte de la Fundación Jack Kent Cooke. Catorce estudiantes recientemente graduados de la universidad fueron contratados y asignados a secundarias de Vir-ginia y el programa comenzó. En su año inicial tuvo tanto suceso que la fundación les otorgó $10 millones más para que así otras instituciones de educación supe-rior pudieran comenzar un pro-grama idéntico. MU fue una de esas instituciones, dijo Hurd.
“El modelo es verdaderamente simple”, dijo ella. “Nosotros tomamos a recientes gradu-ados de las universidades que son verdaderamente brillantes y los ponemos en las secundarias y en los colegios comunitarios para que ayuden a los jóvenes no tan sólo a pensar sobre la universidad, sino que también logren un título. No podemos simplemente preocuparnos del acceso, también tenemos que preocuparnos del suceso”.
Hurd dijo que un fuerte com-ponente del programa es cómo el componente demográfico de los consejeros encaja con el componente demográfico de sus secundarias. “Así entonces hay jóvenes que pueden decir, ‘yo sé cómo es que esa mamá y ese papá no fueron a la universidad porque mis papás tampoco lo hicieron’.
“Ellos entienden lo que signifi-can las barreras, ya sean barre-ras culturales, barreras sociales o barreras financieras. Ellos las viv-en en carne propia y ellos pueden decir, “Sí me puedo graduar de Mizzou, entonces tú también te puedes graduar de una gran in-stitución, entonces sentémonos y llenemos esta solicitud”.
Ella dijo que la conexión es instantánea debido a que los estudiantes de secundaria están platicando con alguien cercano a ellos en edad y en experiencia.
Adam Higgins es el consejero de la Secundaria Van Horn en el Distrito Escolar de Independ-ence. Originalmente de Sugar Creek, él creció en Raytown.
“Yo sé lo que significa venir de un hogar económicamente en desventaja”, dijo él. Su padre no
finalizó la secundaria y su madre trabajó en varios trabajos para ayudar a mantener la familia.
“Es mi trabajo el ayudar a es-tudiantes a que tomen decisiones respecto a qué hacer después de la secundaria”, dijo Higgins. “Nuestro objetivo es el de entrar en ese difícil proceso y ayudarlos a tomar las decisiones correctas”.
Higgins, un graduado de MU, dijo que pasa sus días ayudando a los estudiantes de la Secundar-ia Van Horn mediante el proceso de postulación a universidades y completando formularios de ayuda para becas y ayuda finan-ciera. Y él ha guiado a los estu-diantes a través de tours que les muestran la vida en los campus de las universidades.
A la opción de ir universidad no se le está dando a menudo un intento real, dijo Higgins, debido a que allí hay una brecha cultural entre las familias de primera gen-eración y las familias de bajos re-cursos la cual juega un papel de-masiado grande en decidir qué es lo que el estudiante debería hacer después de la secundaria.
Él dijo que su trabajo no es el de prescribirle la universidad a cada estudiante, “sino que es mi objetivo el de derrumbar los mitos que van en el proceso para que los estudiantes puedan verdaderamente tomar deci-siones informadas para que así todas las opciones sean sopesa-das equitativamente”.
Greg Netzer, director de la Secundaria Van Horn, dijo que ha notado un cambio en cómo piensan los estudiantes sobre la universidad debido a los Cuer-pos Consejeros Universitarios de Missouri. Hay 117 estudi-antes de último grado en Van Horn este año y 90 de ellos han presentado una solicitud para ingresar a la universidad.
“Yo no sé cuál hubiera sido esa cantidad si él (Higgins) no hubiera estado aquí, pero sospe-cho que hubiera sido significati-vamente menor”, dijo Netzer.
Van Horn tienen dos consejeros para cerca de 650 estudiantes. Los consejeros trabajan con esos estu-diantes en una variedad de asuntos – problemas de horarios, desde preo-cupaciones relacionadas con la asist-encia hasta rendimiento académico, dijo Netzer. Algunos también traba-jan con estudiantes para tratar prob-lemas sociales y emocionales.
Pero el trabajo de Higgins es el de urgirle a los estudiantes que piensen sobre un plan para la opción universitaria, dijo él.
Hurd dijo que MCAC quiere aumentar la cantidad de conse-jeros en Kansas City y ofrecer más talleres de trabajo para las fa-milias y sus estudiantes que están pensando asistir a la universidad.
Ella dijo que el programa de MCAC no está tratando de crit-icar el trabajo de los consejeros de las secundarias “porque ellos ya tienen bastante trabajo”. En lugar de ello, el programa está tratando de potenciar a los estu-diantes y ofrecer más énfasis en planes para la universidad.
“Como instituciones de edu-cación superior, nosotros somos culpables de no darle a los con-sejeros de las secundarias su-ficiente desarrollo profesional”, dijo ella. “Nosotros cambiamos formas, nosotros cambiamos reglas, nosotros cambiamos los procedimientos y cambiamos las fechas cuando terminar. Y no es justo para los consejeros porque no siempre les informa-mos respecto a esos cambios”.
Los orientadores de MCAC pueden también ofrecer un en-lace directo entre el estudiante y los oficiales de admisiones uni-versitarias, dijo ella.
“Por lo que verdaderamente se trata de hacer pesar los re-cursos”, dijo Hurd. “Allí no hay balas de plata en la educación. Si las hubiera, para ahora ya lo hubiéramos solucionado”.
The two-year-old state pro-gram, which has been in some selected Kansas City area schools, is based at the Uni-versity of Missouri-Columbia and is one of 10 state programs nationwide that is funded by a private philanthropic grant.
The program is at Grandview High School, Northeast High School, Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts Schools, Van Horn high School and Metropolitan Community Col-lege-Penn Valley.
The advisers, or counselors, in the Missouri College Ad-vising Corps spend time with students to show them how to prepare for a four-year college – from taking entrance exams, applying for admission, seek-ing scholarships, navigating financial aid forms to visiting area campuses.
“This is not a program to re-cruit students to MU, but to at-tend college anywhere. We are helping student find their best-fit institution and go there,” Bankhead said.
The 13 advisers in Missouri are split into three clusters – one group in St. Louis, another in Kansas City and the third fo-cused on the state’s rural areas.
About 9,000 students, of whom 1,700 are seniors, have had access to the advisers. An-other 12,000 community col-lege students also have access to the program’s counselors. Last year, the students advised in the program enrolled at or at-tended 73 institutions of higher learning in 14 states. Only 13 of those students choose to attend MU. Most of the Kansas City area students advised enrolled in regional universities.
The Missouri College Advis-ing Corps is part of the National College Advising Corps, which began in 2005 at the University of Virginia.
Officials at that time acknowl-edged that a disproportionate number of first-generation or low-income students were not seeking higher education. The statistics were heartbreaking, said Nicole Farmer Hurd, ex-ecutive director of the National College Advising Corps.
In Virginia, 79 percent of the students were graduating from high school, and only 3 per-cent were going to college. The amount of guidance counseling in high school was a concern as well to officials. The national av-erage counselor-to-student ratio is about 1-to-380 (Missouri is closer to 1-to-450 students).
The high school guidance counselor spends an average of 20 minutes the whole year talking to seniors about college, said Hurd, whose national of-fice is based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“Think about how many deci-sions you have to make about fi-nancial aid, about which school to attend, about scholarships. Twenty minutes in the whole year just baffles the mind,” Hurd said.
What became the National College Advising Corps was born after the program re-ceived private support from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. Fourteen recent college gradu-ates were hired and assigned to Virginia high schools and the program began. Its initial year had such great success that the foundation granted $10 million more so 10 other institutions of higher learning could start an identical program. MU was one of those institutions, Hurd said.
“The model is really simple,” she said. “We take really bright recent college graduates and put them into the high schools and community colleges to help young people not only think about college but attain a degree. We can’t just be about access; we have to be about success.”
Hurd said one strong com-ponent of the program is how the demographics of the advis-ers match the demographics of their high schools. “So there are young people who can say, ‘Hey, I know what it’s like that mom and dad didn’t go to col-lege because my parents didn’t
go either, but this is how we are going to convince mom and dad to send you.’
“They understand what the barriers are, whether they are cultural barriers, social barriers or financial barriers. They lived it themselves and they can say, ‘If I can graduate from Mizzou, then you can graduate from a great institution too, so let’s sit down and fill out this form.”
She said the connection is in-stant because high school stu-dents are talking to someone close to them in age and experience.
Adam Higgins is the college adviser assigned to Van Horn High School in the Independ-ence School District. Originally from Sugar Creek, he grew up in Raytown.
“I know what it’s like to come from an economically disadvan-taged home,” he said. His father did not finish high school, and his mother worked several jobs to help support the family.
“It’s my job to help students make decisions about what to do after high school,” Higgins said. “Our goal is to get in that thought-process and help them make the right choices.”
Higgins, an MU graduate, said he spends his days helping Van Horn High School students through the college application process and completing schol-arship and financial aid forms. And he has guided students on tours that demonstrate life on a college campus.
The college option is often not getting a fair shot, Higgins said, because there is a cultural gap among first-generation and low income families that plays too large a role in deciding what stu-dent should do after high school.
He said his job is not to pre-scribe college to every student, “but my goal is to debunk the myths that go into this process so students can really make in-formed decisions so all options are being weighed equally.”
Greg Netzer, principal at Van Horn High School, said he has noticed a change in how students think about college be-cause of the Missouri College Advising Corps. There are 117 seniors at Van Horn this year, and 90 have made submitted an application to a college.
“I don’t know what that number would have been had he (Higgins) not been there, but I suspect it would have been sig-nificantly fewer,” Netzer said.
Van Horn has two coun-selors for about 650 students. The counselors work with those students on a variety of issues – scheduling problems, attendance concerns to academic perform-ance, Netzer said. Some also work with students to address social and emotional issues.
But Higgins’ job is to urge students to think about and plan for the college option, he said.
Hurd said the MCAC wants to increase the number of ad-visers in Kansas City and pro-vide more workshops for fami-lies and their students who are thinking of attending college.
She said the MCAC program is not trying to disparage high school counselors “because they have a lot on their plates al-ready.” Instead, the program is trying to empower students and provide more emphasis on col-lege planning.
“As higher education institu-tions, we are guilty of not giving high school counselors enough professional development,” she said. “We change forms, we change rules, we change proce-dures, and we change deadlines. And it’s not fair to counselors because we don’t always inform them about those changes.”
MCAC guides also can pro-vide a direct link between the student and the college admis-sion officials, she said.
“So it’s really about leveraging resources,” Hurd said. “There are no silver bullets in educa-tion. If there were, we would have cracked this by now.”
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Mito #2 – Las papas o patatas engordan bastante
Las papas no tienen ni grasa ni colesterol. Son altas en fibras, vitamina c, algunas formas de vitamina B (Niacin) y una bue-na fuente de complejo de carbo-hidratos. Una papa de 5 onzas horneada sin pelar provee cerca de 130 calorías, no más que una porción de queso del mismo peso y un 20% menos de calorías que una porción de arroz café o integral. Las papas pueden, sin embargo, convertirse en una co-mida problemática cuando éstas se fríen en aceite o se cubren con mantequilla, crema agria o queso derretido. Como otros al-imentos altos en carbohidratos, tales como la pasta y el pan, no es la papa la que engorda, es lo que uno pone en ellos.
Mito #3 – Comer antes de irse a dormir lo hará ganar peso
No hay diferencia respecto a qué hora la persona come, suponiendo que ellos comen las mismas comidas y mantienen los mismos niveles de activi-dad durante un periodo de 24 horas. No existe evidencia de que cuando la comida se con-sume en la noche, más calorías sean almacenadas en el cuerpo que cuando la misma cantidad de comida es consumida du-rante el día. Las calorías que uno consume en la noche serán quemadas cuando el cuerpo lo necesite. Pero una cosa sí, si uno come de noche como un agregado a sus comidas nor-males, usted ganará peso.
Mito #4 – Se estomago se en-cogerá si come menos comida
Cuando una persona come tremendas cantidades de co-mida, el estomago se puede expandir. Sin embargo, una vez que el estomago se vacía, vuelve a su tamaño normal. Si una persona reduce el consumo de calorías por varios días, los niveles de apetito bajan, pero ello no tiene nada que ver con el tamaño del estomago.
El estomago no se puede encoger, sin importar la poca comida que uno coma. La úni-ca manera de reducir física-mente el tamaño del estomago con el objetivo de interferir con el consumo de comida es mediante una cirugía de bypass gástrico. En esta op-eración, el estomago es redu-cido a aproximadamente 1/8 de su tamaño normal. Por lo tanto, la persona está obliga-da a consumir cantidades más pequeñas de comida.
Mito #5 - Masticar apio ayu-da a quemar calorías
El apio – además de las lechugas tipo iceberg y los pepinos – son casi libre en calorías debido a su alto con-tenido de agua. Un pequeño apio de 8 pulgadas contienen solamente seis calorías. Mas-ticar apio o cualquier otra cosa quema cerca de la mis-ma cantidad de calorías por minuto. Aunque el apio es bastante bajo en calorías, masticarlo no causará que el exceso de calorías se queme más rápido.
Mito #6 – Usted tiene que de-jar todos los dulces para poder perder peso
La clave para perder peso y mantenerlo alejado es adoptar hábitos saludables de comer y de hacer ejercicios con los cuales usted puede quedarse para toda una vida, eso es un método sensible respaldado por TOPS. Incluyendo razonables cantidades de dulces en un plan para perder peso podría ayudar a asegurar que la persona con-tinúe en un plan sensible por un largo plazo. Su deseado ob-jetivo de pérdida de peso puede ser logrado y mantenido.
Es poco realista esperar que uno nunca se vaya a comer un pedazo de chocolate o una rebanada de pastel. El antojo por los dulces tiene sus bases químicas en el cerebro. Cuan-do una persona responde a estos antojos comiendo canti-dades descontroladas, el cer-ebro normalmente responde excretando más cantidades de la hormona serotonina, la cual puede suprimir el hambre. La persona se siente satisfecha y puede, por lo consiguiente, es-tar en control de las cantidades de dulces que consume. Usted también puede minimizar el consumo de calorías utilizando comidas endulzadas con endul-zantes artificiales en lugar de azúcar real, ya que las papilas degustadoras no pueden dis-tinguir entre aquellas y la azú-car verdadera.
are high in fiber, vitamin C, some forms of vitamin B (ni-acin), and a good source of complex carbohydrates. A 5-ounce potato baked in its skin provides about 130 calories, no more calories than a serving of cottage cheese of the same weight, and 20% fewer calo-ries than a serving of brown rice. Potatoes can, however, become a problem food when fried in oil or covered with butter, sour cream, or melted cheese. Like other high-car-bohydrate foods, such as pasta and bread, it’s not the potato that’s fattening, it’s what you put on it.
Myth #3 - Eating before bed-time will make you gain weight
It doesn’t make a differ-ence what time a person eats food, assuming that they eat the same foods and maintain the same activity levels dur-ing a 24-hour period. There is no evidence that when food is consumed at night, more calo-ries are stored in the body than when the same foods are eaten during the day. The calories you eat at night will be burned when needed by the body. If, however, you eat at night as an add-on to your normal meals,
you will gain weight.
Myth #4 - Your stomach will shrink if you eat less food
When a person eats enormous amounts of food, the stomach can expand. However, once the stomach empties, it returns to its normal size. If a person reduces calorie intake for several days, the appetite level drops, but this has nothing to do with the size of the stomach.
The stomach cannot shrink, no matter how little food you eat. The only way to physically decrease the size of the stomach with the goal of interfering with food consumption is through gastric bypass surgery. In this procedure, the stomach is reduced to approximately 1/8 of its normal size. Therefore, the person is compelled to consume smaller meals.
Myth #5 - Chewing celery helps burn calories
Celery – as well as iceberg let-tuce and cucumbers – is nearly calorie-free because of its high water content. An 8-inch stalk of celery contains only six calories. Chewing celery or anything else burns about the same amount of calories per minute. Although celery is very low in calories, chewing it will not cause excess calories to be burned any faster.
Myth #6 - You have to give up all sweets in order to lose weight
The key to losing weight and keeping it off is to adopt healthy eating and exercise habits that you can stay with for a lifetime, a sensible method that TOPS endorses. Including reasonable amounts of sweets in a weight-loss plan may help to ensure that the person continues on the sensi-ble plan for the long-term. Your desired weight goal can then be achieved and maintained.
It’s unrealistic to expect that you will never eat a piece of chocolate or a slice of cake. A craving for sweets has a chemi-cal basis in the brain. When a person responds to these crav-ings by eating a controlled amount, the brain normally re-sponds by releasing increased amounts of the hormone se-rotonin, which can suppress hunger. The person feels sat-isfied and can, therefore, be in control of the amount of sweets consumed. You also can mini-mize caloric intake by using food sweetened with artificial sweeteners rather than real sugar, since taste buds can’t distinguish between those and true sugar.
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Wealth Watchers
Todos los que alguna vez in-tentaron bajar algunos kilos saben que no todas las dietas funcionan para todos. Del mis-mo modo, puede costar varios intentos encontrar un sistema de administración de finanzas personales que pueda cumplir.
Para muchos, un sencillo pro-grama llamado “Wealth Watch-ers” (Cuidadores del Dinero) podría ser la solución. Como su nombre lo indica, este pro-grama utiliza la técnica de reg-istro popularizada por el pro-grama Weight Watchers, en la que se registra cada bocado que se come –o, en este caso, cada dólar que se gasta- día por día.
La idea es que, al controlar los hábitos de gastos cuidadosa-mente, usted tenga más con-sciencia de su patrón de com-portamiento y pueda modificar las conductas que lo hicieron extralimitarse. El programa en-fatiza además la importancia de su educación financiera.
Wealth Watchers nació como consecuencia de la adversidad. Su fundadora, Alice Wood, era una exitosa abogada dedicada a la planificación patrimonial cuya ocupación la convirtió en experta en cuestiones de finan-zas personales. Pero, después de una lesión cerebral sufrida durante un accidente aéreo, Wood se dio cuenta de que estaba olvidadiza, no podía concentrarse y tendía a tomar malas decisiones financieras que terminaron endeudándola.
Otra de las secuelas del acci-dente fue su aumento inespera-do de peso. Wood dice: “Fui a Weight Watchers para que me ayuden a bajar los kilos de más, y en uno de esos momentos de “iluminación” me di cuenta de que la solución a mis problemas de peso y de finanzas estaba en la simple disciplina diaria de ll-evar registros.”
Después de desarrollar y practicar los principios básicos que definirían a Wealth Watch-ers –como “gastar menos de lo que se gana”- Wood comenzó a compartir sus ideas con famil-iares y amigos y, eventualmente, con grupos más grandes. Lue-go, en enero, publicó un libro titulado: “Wealth Watchers: Un Programa Simple para Ayudar-lo a Gastar Menos y a Ahorrar Más” (Free Press, $19.95).
El libro contiene formulas para calcular cuánto cuesta vivir por mes, así como hojas de cálculo para registrar el ingreso disponi-ble diario (DDI, por sus siglas en inglés), que es la cantidad de dinero que se puede gastar por día sin endeudarse. “La difer-encia entre la meta de DDI y el total de gastos promedio diarios reales les mostrará si están haci-endo las cosas bien,” explica.
Otra de las cosas que me gus-tan es el “Llamado de Acción para los Consumidores”, una guía de 16 pasos para tener una buena situación financiera. Al-guno de esos pasos que a veces la gente pasa por alto son:
• Asegúrese de que su pareja tenga sus metas.
• Defina y comprenda la dif-erencia entre gastos fijos, semi-fijos y discrecionales.
• Conozca su calificación crediticia: Si está por debajo de 700, procure que suba. Encuen-tre consejos en www.whatsmy-score.org.
• Establezca y cumpla es-trictamente un sistema de pago de cuentas para evitar los car-gos por pago atrasado. Mucha gente encuentra utilidad en el débito automático de la tarjeta de crédito o cuenta bancaria.
• Conozca sus “pequeñas fu-gas” –debilidades de gasto que pueden atentar contra sus me-tas (por ejemplo, comprar cosas innecesarias).
• Comparta su meta con otras personas. Esa es la razón por la que muchas personas encuen-tran que las reuniones de Weight Watchers son muy útiles.
Lo más importante es: Encuentre un sistema que le dé resultado. Para mad-era, adaptar las técnicas que aprendió en Weight Watchers para registrar y controlar sus gastos fue la clave de su recu-peración financiera.
Jason Alderman dirige los programas de educación financiera de Visa. Para inscribirse y recibir un Boletín de Noticias Electrónico financiero personal gratuito mensualmente, vaya a www.practicalmoneyskills.com/newsletter.
Anyone who’s ever tried to lose a few pounds knows that not every diet works for every person. Similarly, it may take a few tries to find a system for managing your personal financ-es that you can stick to.
For many people, a simple program called “Wealth Watch-ers” could be the solution. As its name might imply, Wealth Watchers features the journal-ing technique popularized by Weight Watchers, where you track every morsel eaten – or in this case, every dollar spent – each day.
The idea is that by carefully monitoring your spending hab-its, you become more aware of, and more likely to change, be-havioral patterns that caused you to overdo it in the first place. The program also places heavy emphasis on the impor-tance of financial education.
Wealth Watchers was born from adversity. Its founder, Alice Wood, was a success-ful estate-planning attorney whose occupation made her very knowledgeable about personal finance issues. But after sustaining a brain in-jury during a freak airplane accident, Wood suddenly found she was becoming for-getful, unable to concentrate and prone to making poor
financial decisions that later plunged her into debt.
Another byproduct of her ac-cident was unexpected weight gain. Wood notes, “I went to Weight Watchers to help drop the extra pounds, and in one of those ‘lightbulb’ moments, I re-alized that the solution to both my weight and spending prob-lems lay in the simple, daily dis-cipline of keeping track.”
After developing and prac-ticing the core principles that would come to define Wealth Watchers – such as “spend less than you make” – Wood began sharing her ideas with family members and friends, and even-tually with larger groups. Then, in January she published a book entitled “Wealth Watchers: A Simple Program to Help You Spend Less and Save More” (Free Press, $19.95).
The book contains formulas for calculating what it costs to live each month, as well as work-sheets to track your daily dispos-able income (DDI), which is the amount you can safely spend each day without going into debt. “The difference between your DDI goal and your actual average daily total of expenses will show you if you are staying on track,” she explains.
Another feature I like is the “Call to Action for Consumers,” a 16-step roadmap for achieving
financial health. A few of those steps people sometimes over-look include:
• Make sure your partner is on board with your goals.
• Define and understand the difference between fixed, semi-fixed and discretionary expenses.
• Know your credit score: If it falls below 700, make it high-er. Find tips at www.whatsmy-score.org.
• Set up and strictly follow a bill payment system to avoid late payment charges. Many people find automatic payments from credit card or checking ac-counts helpful.
• Know your “small leaks” – spending weaknesses that can undermine your goal (e.g., buy-ing unnecessary gadgets).
• Share your goal with oth-ers. That’s why so many folks find Weight Watchers meetings helpful.
The bottom line is: Find a system that works for you. For Wood, adapting techniques she learned from Weight Watchers to track and control expenses was the key to her fi-nancial recovery.
Jason Alderman directs Visa’s financial education programs. Sign up for his free monthly e-Newsletter at www.practicalmoneyskills.com/newsletter.
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Many Diet Myths can be Questionable
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Kansas State’s superb men’s basketball season was within a whisker of making its first Fi-nal Four appearance since 1961 after winning a classic sweet sixteen match-up with Xavier. With top seed Syracuse out of the way, fifth-seed Butler is all that stood between KSU and a trip to Indianapolis.
What the Wildcats didn’t see coming was the Bulldogs. Ranked number eight in the na-tion going into the tournament, Butler had the longest winning streak in the nation coming into the contest. They also have a sophomore star not known nationwide. Forward Gordon Hayward stands 6 feet, 9 inches but is equally adept at stroking a jumper from three-point range as he is getting to the rim. Like the immortal (and fictitious) Jimmy Chitwood, the Bulldogs leader is from small-town Indi-ana (Brownsburg) and hit the game winning shot in the state championship game for his high school. The similarities between Butler and Hickory High from “Hoosiers” extend to Butler’s home court, Hinkle Fieldhouse, where the state title game in the movie was shot.
K-State came out of the chute against Butler, trying to figure out how to beat the trapping defense against their dynamic backcourt. Guards Denis Cle-
mente and Jacob Pullen didn’t score en route to Butler grab-bing a ten-point lead that KSU could only get down to seven after Clemente scored the first points for the position right be-fore the half.
In the second half, adjust-ments were made and Clemente and Pullen picked up the tempo as the purple pride methodically cut into the lead. With less than 5 minutes to go, a 3-pointer put KSU up by a point and after going back down by two, Clem-ente knotted the game up with a floater.
Perhaps the most pivotal play of the game occurred. Wild-cats designated defensive stop-per Dominique Sutton got lost on a pick for Hayward. A lob pass over the defense brought an easy lay-up that gave Butler the lead and some momentum. K-State never could get back to a tie or lead position as the Bull-dogs only got stronger.
As the game ended so did K-State’s season. So too did the careers of center Luis Colon and Denis Clemente. While three starters and all key reserves are slated to come back to Man-hattan next season, it will be interesting to see how the Cats react to the loss of their Puerto Rican brethren. The speed with which Clemente ran the team
was something that nobody but Butler and Kansas were able to deal with this year. Hopefully they’ll be able to adjust to a slower speed because his ability to jet up and down the court is a rarity.
On the other hand, the front court future looks bright with Wally Judge and his fellow young forwards certain to take a leap ahead in their games next year. It will also be a team that will still have senior leadership with Jacob Pullen already in that type of role and Curtis Kel-ly ratcheting his game up after averaging better than 15 points a game in the tournament this year.
The other thing to keep in mind is Frank Martin can lev-erage this experience as Bill Self did for his 2008 National Championship team. He could continually remind them how close they were to the Final Four and see whether his team channels that frustration into a trip to Houston next year.
This year has restored Pur-ple Pride for fans in Manhat-tan, Kansas City and the entire Wildcats nation. For that, the fans owe a big thanks to their team. I promise we’ll get to those sad sack Royals next time and check in on baseball after a long stretch of Madness.
Wildcats chased from Final Four by Hoosier Bulldogs
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MRC Gallery “Celebrates” 40 Years of After-School Art
Children’s Art Exhibit
The Mattie Rhodes Art Center and Gallery presents the exhibit “Celebrate 40 Years of After School Art” an exhibit of artwork created by the students of the Mat-tie Rhodes After School Art Program. This event marks the beginning of a year-long celebration of 40 years of after school arts programming.
The Mattie Rhodes Art Cent-er was originally formed 40 years ago as the Craft Learn-ing Center and was housed in a converted garage at the back of the property. The families liv-ing at 915 W 17th street wanted to provide the children in the neighborhood with a safe place to be creative after school. In 1986 it was time for the Craft Learning Center to change hands and its founders selected
Mattie Rhodes Center as the perfect partner.
Mattie Rhodes had been working on the Westside pro-viding social services and youth programming for over 90 years, so the transition was only natu-ral. Since that time, the Art Center has seen many changes including a large physical reno-vation of the house at 915, a complete updating of the ceram-ics studio (the original garage), a multi-year healing garden project and many program ex-pansions. The Art Center offers not only after school arts, but summer art camp, spring break art camp, birthday parties, vari-ous workshops and classes to all ages and fieldtrip opportuni-ties to school and social groups. The After School Art Program is the longest running program of the Mattie Rhodes Center, which last year celebrated its 115th anniversary.
The exhibit “Celebrate” is free and open to the public and will feature hundreds of works of art. The opening reception will feature a Sundae Bowl Fundraiser where visitors get to pick out their favorite ceramic bowl (handmade by local art-ists and painted by students, teachers, and friends of the Art Center) and fill it with ice
cream and sundae toppings. A $10 donation includes a one of a kind ceramic bowl and your very own ice cream sundae with all the toppings. Proceeds support the Art Center and the programs that have touched so many lives.
The opening reception for “Celebrate” will be First Friday, April 2, 2010 from 6:00 – 9:00
p.m., at the Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery, 919 W. 17th Street, Kansas City, MO 64108. Gal-lery Hours: Wed-Fri 10am to 6pm and Saturday, 10am to 4pm. The exhibit will be open to the public until April 24, 2010. Visit www.mattierhodes.org for exhibit information and art workshop opportunities.
Brandi Fields and her daugh-ter Kylie took the plunge last weekend at the Great Wolf Lodge in Kansas City, Kan. And when they were finished, they stood in line to do it again … again … and again. And maybe a few more times after that.
“It’s an awesome slide and we’ve gone done it at least five times al-ready,” said Brandi Fields.
They were among the thou-sands who waited for their turn, not just for the thrill but to help a charitable cause — Big Broth-ers Big Sisters of Greater Kan-sas City.
The effort was part of the Great Wolf Lodge’s waterslide-
athon that unofficially set a new Guinness World Records listing for the longest distance traveled on a waterslide in 24 hours. The former record was set in Ger-many in 2007 with a total dis-tance of 843 miles.
Eleven locations of Great Wolf Lodge across the coun-try participated in the attempt. In all, 47,660 people slid a total of 3,651 miles. The totals still need to be certified by Guinness World Records.
The Kansas City park ended after a total of 4,787 sliders traveled 305.53 miles on the Howling Wolf waterslide – a 337.8-foot-long slide.
Christine Hinson, director of sales and marketing for Great Wolf Lodge in Kansas City, Kan., said the waterslide-athon asked for a $1 donation from each person. All the proceeds locally will be matched by Great Wolf Lodge, she said, and will go to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Kansas City.
“This is exciting to see so many people participating,” Hinson said. “Everybody is ready for summer. We’ve been busy because everyone wants to get into a different element other than snow and rain.”