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Pulaski Tech to Launch Film, Digital Content Training

July 20th, 2011

Pulaski Technical College said Friday that it has partnered with Arkansas’ motion picture leaders “to launch targeted training” to meet the needs of the state’s film and digital content production industry.

The initial training curriculum will launch in spring 2012 and focus on two areas: scripted film and digital content production management; and nonfiction production.

The school said Craig and Brent Renaud, founders of the Little Rock Film Festival, are helping develop the program.

“We are fortunate that the Renaud Brothers – Little Rock’s own globally recognized, innovative leaders in the world of nonfiction production – will lend their expertise to our program,” David Durr, dean of Pulaski Tech’s Information Technology Division, said in a news release.

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Dow Rises 202: Best Day of 2011

July 20th, 2011

Strong profits and a bipartisan plan to lift the US debt limit drove a stock market rebound today. Stock indexes rose after Coca-Cola, IBM, and other companies reported rising second-quarter earnings. The three major indexes added to their gains after President Obama praised a proposal by six senators that would cut debt by $3.7 trillion over the next decade, raising hope of avoiding a default. The Dow climbed 202 points to 12,587, the NASDAQ rose 59 to 2,827, and the S&P 500 rose 21 to 1,327. Its the Dows best day of 2011, notes MarketWatch.

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Is It A Wrong For A Christian To Use Debt Of Any Kind? Is Being In Debt Sin?

July 19th, 2011

Yesterday an interesting discussion started in the comments section of a mortgage company review on this site.  A regular reader was asking the question of whether or not it was OK for a Christian to take on debt of any kind, or whether debt should avoided at all costs as being biblically a bad idea.

There was a bit of back and forth, and I think we agreed on some points, but not on others. So today I decided to open the topic up for further discussion.

Heres how the question was framed by Matt from DiscipleshipGuy.com:

Before I get to my comment I want to say that I currently have a house that we use to live in that we have outgrown and since have turned it into a rental due to not being able to sell it.

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College Is (Still) Worth It

July 19th, 2011

CATHERINE RAMPELL

Dollars to doughnuts.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has produced the following chart showing weekly earnings by ethnic group and education, broken down into quartiles. It provides yet another excuse to talk about why college is worth it:

Take a look at the right side of the chart, which shows earnings by education. The median weekly earnings for college graduates are $1,043. Not bad, especially when you consider that the median weekly earnings for a high school graduate are $643.

Whats more impressive, though, is that even the economic underachievers among college graduates earn more than the typical high school grad: A college graduate at the 25th percentile makes $730 per week, which is still 13.5 percent more than the median high school grad.

Things only get worse for high school dropouts.

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