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[FlyingVProd]

I went to Chapman film school today finally in order to check the place out.

It looks like a good film school with plenty of studio space, and the atmosphere is nice and the people were all friendly.

In the main lobby of the film school the lobby is named after Cecil B. Demille who attended the AADA, so that is cool.

The Chapman film school looks like a cool place to make student films, etc, and it would be a good place for the students from the AADA to come to get experience making student films, and they can share their student films on You Tube.

I did not see anything interesting on the bulletin boards, they have some free workshops coming up for casting directors and that is open to the public, but I did not see anything for auditions for student films or anything.

It looks like a good film school, I just walked around a little and did not explore much, but it looks okay from what I saw. I will watch on their Facebook page to see if they have good upcoming workshops, and I will keep an eye out for auditions for student films.

I did not see any posting on the bulletin board for a tutor to teach me how to use this Apple Laptop to put Final Draft on it, etc, so I will have to keep wishing on that one.

I had lunch at Philly's Best, which was great, I had just a regular Philly Cheesesteak sandwich with grilled onions. Funny thing, somehow the lady knew my name, and I am sure I never told her my name. The last time I had a Cheesesteak sandwich was with my buddy Tom before he moved away and died, Tom loved Philly's Best.

Anyhow, I know where the Chapman film school is now, and I explored a little, and I am open to acting in student films there, and I am open to finding helpers there, and I am open to going to workshops there, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

[bambu.]

Students in America are punching, kicking, and spitting on teachers...so said an ("our schools are devastating") educator guy on Dr Phil on my tv just now.
Para; "They [prospective teachers] see that and are turned off".

Maybe why the teacher in Ohio who was being paid $43,000pa left his teaching job behind and took a job at Walmart that pays $63,000pa [think I saw "store manager" or the like in the article).
Mrs bambu loves Walmart.

$43,000pa for a teacher?
Hardly worth getting out of bed for, let alone going to college/uni or whatever for.
Certainly not worth getting punched, kicked and spat on for.

[FlyingVProd]

Students in America are punching, kicking, and spitting on teachers...so said an ("our schools are devastating") educator guy on Dr Phil on my tv just now.
Para; "They [prospective teachers] see that and are turned off".

Maybe why the teacher in Ohio who was being paid $43,000pa left his teaching job behind and took a job at Walmart that pays $63,000pa [think I saw "store manager" or the like in the article).
Mrs bambu loves Walmart.

$43,000pa for a teacher?
Hardly worth getting out of bed for, let alone going to college/uni or whatever for.
Certainly not worth getting punched, kicked and spat on for.

$40,000 is about what a Catholic school teacher makes in Anaheim, but the students are nice and polite and respectful.

A public school teacher in Anaheim makes about $70,000 per year.

https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/teacher-elementary-school-salary/anaheim-ca

The Community College professors make a lot more, and the professors at our Universities make more.

Salute,

Tony V.

[FlyingVProd]

Professors at Chapman film school are getting about $97,000 per year.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Chapman-University-Film-Professor-Salaries-E23974_D_KO19,33.htm

But if they know how to make movies then they can make extra money from making movies during their time off in the summer, etc. And they can write books, one of my film professors at AVC wrote books on film and so he made extra money from his books.

( For acting school, I had teachers who acted, and one teacher used to act on "The Young and the Restless" and I would watch her on television in the morning and then I would see her in the afternoon at the AADA and she was one of my teachers. The pay on "The Young and the Restless" back then started out at $30,000 per week and it went up from there. )

Salute,

Tony V.

[bambu.]

Students in America are punching, kicking, and spitting on teachers...so said an ("our schools are devastating") educator guy on Dr Phil on my tv just now.
Para; "They [prospective teachers] see that and are turned off".

Maybe why the teacher in Ohio who was being paid $43,000pa left his teaching job behind and took a job at Walmart that pays $63,000pa [think I saw "store manager" or the like in the article).
Mrs bambu loves Walmart.

$43,000pa for a teacher?
Hardly worth getting out of bed for, let alone going to college/uni or whatever for.
Certainly not worth getting punched, kicked and spat on for.

$40,000 is about what a Catholic school teacher makes in Anaheim, but the students are nice and polite and respectful.

A public school teacher in Anaheim makes about $70,000 per year.

https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/teacher-elementary-school-salary/anaheim-ca

The Community College professors make a lot more, and the professors at our Universities make more.

Salute,

Tony V.

The Vatican is rolling in it (money)?
Catholic school teachers are accepting $40,000pa?
Why?   is a legitimate question.

[bambu.]

Headline in bambuworld today:
 "(National, personal etc) Security concerns around Chinese cars".

No way I was going to buy one anyway.

[facilitatorn]

No. Not with what money your wisdom and professional acumen have left you with you are not.

They will look cool driving by you and cause you to feel more inferiority, paranoia and resentment.

If there is one thing about Chinese cars in Australia that I would bank on, it would be that. 

[bambu.]

No. Not with what money your wisdom and professional acumen have left you with you are not.

They will look cool driving by you and cause you to feel more inferiority, paranoia and resentment.

If there is one thing about Chinese cars in Australia that I would bank on, it would be that.

LOL

I was always 'low level'..."anti-social" they said, "doesn't join us at the pub or on weekend staff social days".
"Does no more than he has to"...correct, took a while for me to realise that was my wisest policy.
Finish your work by "lunch time", they only give you 'half' of someone else's work to do, and you eventually get stuck with doing it permanently.

"Anti-social"? correct, they tried to rip me off at their daily after work pub visits, always *bullied* me into buying the first round of drinks, 10x $3 =$30. One lemon squash for me...my lemon squash cost me $30. lol
That racket didn't last long, I "kicked the lot of them to the kerb", politely of course, my list of excuses for non attendance was very long.
I never had any 'professional acumen'....and I spent the very least amount of time I could in the office.
Married men are better off being at home after work than stuck at the pub with work colleagues.
Better off spending their weekends with their spouses than at social days with co-workers.

People have crashed into the car we have now 3 times (all the other drivers' fault). Twice they ran into the back of it, and once into the side, young man in a new car...just drove straight out of a mall carpark into it.
The two rear-endings done by young drivers, one male, one female...on phones or playing with dials etc on their new car...seems to me.
Buy a new car? [even if I had the money...Corollas I would want to buy are $40,0000+]...no thank you...if I want to drive out of my non-big-city *town* I rent new cars.
7-12 airbags, all the latest safety and comfort features.

When there are two people in the team, one person doesn't [or shouldn't] get all the say as to how the team's income is spent.
We had fun...now in our 70s it's time to repay the money we spent.
The one who is left will have more than enough life insurance payout to cover any debt.

Mrs bambu went to Vegas, stayed a few nights, saw the bright lights, gambled at a casino, slot machines...lost money...$5.
Not inclined to throw money away is she.

Retire at 65?   
If you then spend $30,000pa, after 10 years you have spent $300,000 after tax cash dollars.

[FlyingVProd]

Mayor Bass was just allocated six hundred million dollars to help the homeless people in Los Angeles.

Some quick things to mention...

We need to help the Foster Youth, many foster youth end up homeless after they age out of the system, we need to help the foster youth and we need for the foster youth to attend college. I support free college for the foster youth.

We also need to help the Abused Women, many of the homeless people on the streets are abused women who escaped abusive situations, we need to have Safe Houses for the abused women and their children, and we need to have moving companies such as "Meathead Movers" who come in and help the abused women and their children to move to a safe house.

We also need Drug Treatment Camps where the Drug Addicts and Alcoholics can go to get help and to learn the 12 Step Program, etc, and they need Sober Living Houses where they can rent a bed in a clean and drug-free environment and where they can get help.

We also need to create easy jobs that the homeless can do, such as washing the side-walks, and doing public landscaping, and laying cobblestones, and working in the forests to help to prevent forest fires, etc, and the homeless can plant orange trees and they can pick oranges and they can help to make orange juice, etc.

For the former gang members and for former criminals, there is Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles which will help them.

We also need more Mental Health Associations where the homeless and the mentally ill can get help, such as the MHA in Santa Ana.

And we need more Wellness Centers like the wellness center in Orange.

We can bring in stars to help to guide the homeless, such as Carlos Santana, Cher, and Meryl Streep. Other stars who help the homeless are Don Johnson, Morgan Fairchild, and Dick Van Dyke. The stars can help to guide the homeless.

And everyone needs to work together to help the homeless, the Federal, State, County, and City, Governments need to work together with charities, and with whoever can help, and there is Kiwanis, etc.

Six hundred million dollars will go a long way towards helping the homeless in Los Angeles.

Salute,

Tony V.

[Oil Filter]

We also need to create easy jobs that the homeless can do, such as washing the side-walks, and doing public landscaping, and laying cobblestones....

Not certain that there are presently (post-1800) a lot of cobblestones to be laid.  Apparently there was some sort of Industrial Revolution that made other paving methods easier and more economical.

[FlyingVProd]

In Rome, Italy, they have hostels where you can take a nice hot shower and where you can sleep in a nice comfortable bed for $15 per night, we need to have the same thing here. If you have a job at McDonald's then you need to be able to afford a bed and a shower, like in Rome, for $15 per night.

And the cobblestones are beautiful, Saint Augustine, Florida, here in the USA, has cobblestones all over, the cobblestones are beautiful. And we need beautification, it is not just about meeting a purpose, we need to create beauty. We need beautiful landscaping, etc, and we can put the homeless people to work making our cities more beautiful. And the homeless can earn enough to live in a hostel for $15 per night while working on city beautification projects, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

[bambu.]

Cobblestones look nice, rustic, ancient, archictectural, pleasant...but they're a nightmare for ladies wearing high heels, men wearing some types of boots, the elderly with and without walking sticks,
 etc.
I am an "elderly man', apparently, according to modern speak, and there's nothing I like better to walk on than flat concrete. (40+ is "old", 60+ is "elderly").
So even, no rolling an ankle over the side of a cobblestone. No having the corner of one's walking frame slide over the edge of one, or walking stick slip, causing one to fall.

[Oil Filter]

And the cobblestones are beautiful, Saint Augustine, Florida, here in the USA, has cobblestones all over, the cobblestones are beautiful.

Salute,

Tony V.

Nope they are bricks.  My uncle lived there for a while.  New World cities did not adopt the European practice of cobblestones, but favored bricks instead.  Some people did call them cobbles, which started that myth I guess.

[Oil Filter]

Atlantic article about why people, driven by economics, are leaving blue cities and moving to redder ones.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/florida-new-york-housing-population-republican-democrat/672994/

Many Americans are being forced to choose between liberal values and financial security. Reversing that dynamic will require blue states to prioritize affordability. But until rent prices near good jobs in New York or Washington or Massachusetts can compete with rent prices near good jobs in the Sun Belt, Clinton s pronouncement will seem more incorrect by the day.   

New Yawk needs to get serious about affordable housing.  (and global warming may help with the winter factor)

[Espnthree]

So last month group of twelve students from Our Lady of the Rosary High School in Greenville, S.C., visited the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum after attending the March for Life in Washington on January 20.
They wore blue beanie hats reading Rosary Pro-Life. Two guards and a  uniformed supervisor told the kids that the museum was a neutral zone and they needed to remove their hats or leave.
The kids,  aware of the Bill of Rights did not back down and left.

Immediately the Smithsonian put the  employees through a retraining .

Is there a political  test for hiring at the Smithsonian?
Evidently there was one for visitors.

I can just imagine the ensuing furor had those students been sporting caps with different messages.