Summer jobs: Four tips for beating teen unemployment and boredom

Summer jobs can be hard for teens to find. Record high unemployment rates for teenagers means they should be creative in making their own jobs or volunteer opportunities by looking around the neighborhood. These four tips will give them a jump start.

By Jennifer Powell-Lunder and Barbara Greenberg,?Guest bloggers / June 25, 2012

Summer jobs for teenagers are on the decline again this year. Teens will need to hit the neighborhood pavement to see what needs to be done. Creating their own job (like mowing lawns or babysitting) is one tip for beating the teen unemployment slump.

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Experts predict that the teen unemployment rate this summer will reach a record high for the third consecutive year. This situation can cause undue stress on teens and their families. Many teens rely on this source of summer income to cover both recreational costs throughout the year and to save for college.

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Parents rely not only on the monetary gains for their teens, but also on the structure, predictability and stability a regular summer job ensures.?Many teens find themselves loafing around the house with little to do except sleep, eat, play video games, or spend endless hours on social networking websites.?The boredom can lead to strain between parents and teens. Parents want their kids to be productive; teens are frustrated with their lack of success in securing a job. Both parents and their teens can become annoyed and irritable with each other and the situation in general.

While the situation may seem dire, there are some strategies parents and teens can implement to stave off the boredom and create structure. While there is no guarantee that your teen will walk away with a job, isn?t it at least worth a try?

1. Call around to create a job. Your local neighborhood is the best place to conjure up employment. Teens should let friends and neighbors know they are available to do odd jobs. Parents can help to spread the word by talking to friends, co-workers, neighbors and family members.

2. Keen observation can lead to a job situation. A quick walk around the neighborhood could result in an employment opportunity for your teen. Does the neighbor?s lawn need mowing? Are the shrubs overgrown? Do the neighborhood kids seem bored? Do their parents seem overwhelmed? ?Could an elderly neighbor use some help running errands? By offering to take over at the right price your teen can create a job where none previously existed.

3. Look into volunteer opportunities. Boredom can easily result in feeling depressed, anxious and isolated. Volunteer work result in feelings of pride and joy. Many organizations offer formal volunteer programs.

4. Create a volunteer position. Help your teen find a volunteer position by suggesting that he offer to work for free at an organization or business. If for example, she enjoys gardening, offering to help out at a local nursery will provide her with a great experience. Perhaps he wants to become a disc jockey or news reporter. Contacting local stations, including public access or local cable channels, may provide him with a priceless experience. Is she an aspiring designer? Does he want to be an architect? Your teen should identify and approach local firms and offer to work for free. If your teen loves animals, have him head to the local veterinary office, animal shelter or farm. They may just welcome a helping hand. It?s possible that their volunteer work may translate into a paid position. At minimum, the experience will offer structure and satisfaction in addition to experience they need for future jobs.

The current employment market certainly offers no easy answers but with a little ingenuity, your teen may just able to create a stable summer situation for him where none previously existed.

The Christian Science Monitor has assembled a diverse group of the best family and parenting bloggers out there. Our contributing and guest bloggers are not employed or directed by the Monitor, and the views expressed are the bloggers' own, as is responsibility for the content of their blogs. Jennifer Powell-Lunder and Barbara Greenberg blogs at?Talking Teenage.

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Tammy Robacker | The Far Field

WESTPORT DOLOR

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Your quiet breaks me apart like whitecaps
collapse before coursing a shore. The water
that eddies you floats a shapeless gray
around this bay, over this day; ebbing
grief in the horizon?s haze. Here,
where your timber boom went bust,
now you just rust craggy stumps
along an emptied dock and austere pier.

You hang an ash-splashed canvas for miles
at this beach. A comber cannot read
where stone cold sky meets gun metal sea,
as they bumble down your one dead,
bone-jumbled jetty finger anchored
by blanched boulders and uprooted trees.

The rotund tourists straggle in and wag
tongues stuck full of green salt water
taffy and old fashion donuts. Their throats
close shut around pulpy oyster shooters
quaffed starboard off spitting bottomfish
charters rented out on the cheap.

The world ends here. Where longitude crosses itself
with latitude to no absolution. Where waves genuflect
then crumble rather than crash. The sand
dollars you?ve strewn townside are cracked
to halves. Their lost flock of peace doves,
once housed in a holy shell hollow, now worthless
debris to those who divine the beachhead.

Here your gulls swoon restless and hover
above the sea?s ennui. They dip and drone
mid-air: Scavengers perpetually hung
there?aimless and leering. They swing
back and forth, steering ghost-shaped waves
in the grimy brine sky above your grave.

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Winner of a Hedgebrook writer-in-residence award in 2011, and awarded the 2010-2011 Poet Laureate of Tacoma title, Tammy Robacker promotes the art of poetry in the South Sound community by writing, teaching and guest speaking locally. In 2009, she was the recipient of a TAIP grant award and published her first book of poetry, The Vicissitudes. In addition, she co-edited a Tacoma poetry anthology, with former Poet Laureate of Tacoma, Bill Kupinse, titled: In Tahoma?s Shadow: Poems from the City of Destiny. Ms. Robacker studied Creative Writing and Poetry at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and graduated with a B.A. degree. Now, actively involved in Washington State?s South Sound as a poet, a freelance writer, and a volunteer, Robacker also serves as secretary of the board for Puget Sound Poetry Connection.

Tammy?s poetry has appeared in Columbia Magazine, Plazm, Floating Bridge Review: Pontoon, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Word Salad, Pens on Fire, and the Allegheny Review. Ms. Robacker?s poetry manuscript, We Ate Our Mothers, Girls, was selected as a finalist in the 2009 Floating Bridge Press chapbook contest in Seattle, WA. Tammy Robacker runs her own freelance writing company called, Pearle Publications. Her editorials have appeared in SHOWCASE Magazine, CITY ARTS Magazine, and the Weekly Volcano.

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Taken 2 Trailer: What He Does Best


Taken 2 hits theaters on October 5 and, don't worry, Liam Neeson is bringing his particular set of skills back to the big screen.

A follow-up to the surprising 2008 hit, which established Neeson as a really surprising action star, the sequel will find his character of Bryan Mills going after his kidnapped ex-wife (Famke Janssen's Lenore).

It will also find him kicking, punching and shooting a whole lot of people in order to bring home his loved one. That's just how Bryan Mills rolls. It's what he does best, as he says below.

Watch the latest international trailer for Taken 2 now:

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Bullied NY bus monitor won't press charges

(AP) ? The upstate New York bus monitor who was the target of a videotaped verbal assault at the hands of four middle schoolers does not want the boys to face criminal charges.

Police in the Rochester suburb of Greece say 68-year-old Karen Klein is happy with the swift and strong community response against the verbal attack, which was captured in a 10-minute video that went viral online.

Greece police Capt. Steve Chatterton says criminally charging the seventh-grade boys would require their actions to rise to the level of a crime. So far, the conduct hasn't been found to reach that level.

By Thursday morning, the video that was posted to YouTube had been viewed more than 1.5 million times. An online crowd-funding site raised more than $200,000 by midday Thursday to help send Klein on vacation.

Associated Press

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European leaders push for $163 bln in measures

ROME (AP) ? The leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Spain have agreed to push for a growth package worth up to ?130 billion ($163 billion) at a European Union summit next week that's intended to kick-start the economy and safeguard the currency bloc.

President Francois Hollande of France, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Italian Premier Mario Monti, playing host, provided few details beyond agreement on pursuing a financial transaction tax ? something Germany has championed.

Economists said the size of the growth package would be modest, about 1 percent of the euro alliance's gross domestic product. But they said it marked a recognition by Merkel that more government spending would be needed.

"It is at least a step in the right direction," said Ted Truman, a former international economics advisor at the Federal Reserve and at the Treasury Department in the Obama administration. "The tone has changed, in part because the German economy has not been doing as well recently."

Merkel has come under rising pressure to give ground on key pro-growth measures.

"We say that growth and solid financials are two sides of a coin," she said. "Solid financials are not sufficient."

Monti, who met with his fellow leaders at a government villa in Rome, is trying to build a bridge between Merkel's insistence on fiscal discipline and the focus on growth by recently elected Hollande. He acknowledged that steps taken so far have not been sufficient, and that markets and European Union citizens alike need to view the euro currency as "irreversible."

"We maintain that if four countries as important and diversified as ours can find a convergent line, this can help force a strong consensus at the EU Council," Monti told a closing press conference.

Monti has warned of severe consequences for the 17 countries that use the euro and the world economy if next week's summit fails.

"A large part of Europe would find itself having to continue to put up with very high interest rates, that would then impact on the states, and also indirectly on firms. This is the direct opposite of what is needed for economic growth," Monti said in an interview with six European newspapers published Friday.

Without a successful outcome at the summit "there will be progressively greater speculative attacks on individual countries, with harassment of the weaker countries," Monti said.

The ?130 billion growth package discussed at the Rome meeting could include funds from unspent European Union structural funds, the European Investment Bank and European "project bonds" ? debt sold to finance cross-border infrastructure projects.

Yet it's hardly a long-term answer to the crisis.

"We still have miles to go before we get to any meaningful solutions to Europe's problems," said Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor at the Martin Smith School of Business at California State University.

A major challenge, Sohn noted, is how to strengthen Europe's banking system.

The European Central Bank said Friday that it will make it easier for banks to receive its loans by accepting more kinds of securities as collateral. The shift could support Spain's hard-pressed lenders, though it means more risk for the ECB's own finances.

Europe's banks will have greater access to ready cash amid the turmoil of the region's debt crisis. The ECB has been offering unlimited loans at its 7-day, one-month and three-month credit offerings to steady the banking system. But banks must have something they can put up as collateral.

The proposed financial transaction tax would charge banks 0.1 percent of the value of sales of stocks or bonds, and 0.01 percent per derivative contract with the proceeds going to fund future bank bailouts. However, at a meeting of finance ministers from the 27 countries in the European Union in Luxembourg Friday, only 10 member countries were prepared to support the idea.

The Rome meeting caps an intense week for Europe in which markets have been roiled on fears that the region's governments will not come up with adequate measures to fight the debt crisis and that Spain and Italy might soon need bailouts that the rest of the eurozone could not afford.

There are fears that an economic crack-up in Europe could drag down the entire global economy. Europe is a substantial trading partner with the rest of the world. Any deep recession in Europe will be felt in the order books of other leading economies ? including the U.S.

At a meeting of Eurozone finance ministers in Luxembourg on Thursday night, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned that the euro was under "acute stress" and urged leaders to consider measures ? including jointly issuing debt ? to alleviate the pressure on the region's debt-stricken members.

"We are clearly seeing additional tension and acute stress applying to both banks and sovereigns in the euro area," Christine Lagarde said at a meeting of finance ministers late Thursday.

Germany has strenuously opposed the issue of joint debt ? or eurobonds ? because, while it would immediately ease pressure on countries like Spain, German taxpayers would be put on the hook for foreign debts, and Germany's cost of borrowing would increase.

Asked in Luxembourg what Germany would think of her suggestions, Lagarde smiled and said "We hope wisdom will prevail."

Lagarde also Thursday said it was necessary to break "the negative feedback loop" that occurs when governments take on more debt to bail out their banks.

In Rome, Hollande said eurobonds need to remain a possibility "and not in 10 years," without specifying a timeframe. Rajoy spoke favorably about Monti's proposal to use bailout funds to buy bonds of vulnerable countries like Italy and Spain on secondary markets.

The leaders said they would spend the coming days lobbying their EU counterparts.

A growing number of international leaders have called on Merkel and the eurozone to find quickly a comprehensive solution to the debt crisis rather than continuing to take piecemeal measures that provide only temporary relief. At this week's G-20 summit of world economic powers in Los Cabos, Mexico, politicians, including U.S. President Barack Obama, called on Europe to do what was necessary.

Speaking at an economic forum in St. Petersburg, David Lipton, first deputy managing director at the International Monetary Fund, urged European leaders to act quickly: "The markets are beginning to question the viability of the European monetary union itself. It's very important that eurozone countries address the long-run question: Where is the architecture of the European monetary union going?"

"It's good that there is recognition that they have to move beyond austerity," said Luis Garicano, head of economics and strategy at the London School of Economics. "But the big decision is not the move beyond austerity, it is to set up the short-term and long-term architecture for the Euro to separate the sovereign risk and the financial risk."

The meeting was moved up by a few hours to give Merkel time to fly to Poland to watch Germany play Greece in a European Championship quarterfinal match. The game pits the teams of Europe's strongest economy, Germany, against the eurozone's most troubled, Greece. The just-installed Greek leader had no immediate plans to attend.

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Barry reported from Milan. Geir Moulson in Berlin, Nataliya Vasilyeva in St. Petersburg and Martin Crutsinger in Washington contributed to this report.

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LeVar Burton Hands-On With The New Reading Rainbow App [TCTV]

Screen shot 2012-06-19 at 10.34.53 PMAs you may have read minutes ago here on TechCrunch, there's a brand new iPad app on the market that brings the best of the Reading Rainbow show that many of us loved so much as kids to the current generation of budding bookworms. So it was a real treat to have LeVar Burton, the super popular film and television actor and director who was also -- of course -- the host of the long-running Reading Rainbow show on PBS swing by TechCrunch TV to give us the first-hand pitch on the app that he helped to develop.

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Podcast Basics For Egg Harbor City MLM Business Bloggers ...

Podcast Basics For Egg Harbor City MLM Business Bloggers

Today?s Egg Harbor City direct selling article is for Egg Harbor City internet rookies who want to kick up their web marketing a notch by adding a podcast to their Egg Harbor City home business blog.

A podcast is a multimedia file that is downloaded for playback on a mobile device such as an iPod or laptop computer. It can be a digital recording of a radio program or, more often, a program produced solely for online distribution. A podcast can be a recording of a webcast: a live Egg Harbor City program that is ?streamed? or broadcast on the internet in real time. When this is the case, it is similar to a DVD recording of a live program that you store in the database of your playback device.

A related term is the acronym RSS which probably originally stood for Rich Site Summary feed but is sometimes used for Really Simple Syndication. You have probably seen the term RSS on websites. An RSS feed allows digital files to be downloaded in a standard format. Leeds Point podcast listeners often subscribe to favorite ongoing podcasts. When new podcasts are produced, they are automatically downloaded by RSS applications.

It is fairly simple hardware- and software-wise to product your own podcast for your Egg Harbor City online business
. Your laptop may already have recording capability. If not, you can buy any equipment you need in the Leeds Point area.

Egg Harbor City business owners operating on a shoestring will be happy to know that basic recording and editing software can be downloaded for free. If you want to get fancy, you can always buy more sophisticated software at California specialty computer stores. I recommend using a headset microphone so the mic is always in the right spot to get a clear and consistent recording.

Now the fun part: what will you podcast? The possibilities are endless for Egg Harbor City direct marketers. You can record California trade show presentations, interviews with founding distributors of your Egg Harbor City direct sales company, or create an entertaining pitch about your Leeds Point business opportunity. Let your expertise and enthusiasm shine.

Creating a podcast gives you a chance to connect with potential Egg Harbor City customers or downline members in a personal way.

I am Xobiotic Chocolate Advocate JJ Birden, a network marketer representing X Power Squares. I am based in Pomona, California.

Are you interested in owning a X Power Squares online business? My team members are steadily expanding their networks and increasing their direct sales income.

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I am JJ Birden, and I am a Pomona-based Xocai artisan chocolate distributor. I joined Xocai in May 2010. I sell the industry-leading X Power Squares and Xocai Activ online and in Pomona, Egg Harbor City, Mays Landing, and Northfield. Our valued Leeds Point customers recommend Xocai Activ because Xocai Activ chocolate online by Xocai is healthy!.

TeamX88 is also a fantastic X Power Squares home-based business in the Leeds Point area. California entrepreneurs can supplement their income by cashing in on a high-demand California healthy artisan chocolate market. To learn more about TeamX88, visit http://www.jjbirden.com/.>

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Colo. firefighters make progress on large wildfire

Smoke billows from the High Park Fire west of Fort Collins, Colo., on Monday, June 18, 2012. The wildfire has now burned about 90 square miles and destroyed more than 180 homes. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Smoke billows from the High Park Fire west of Fort Collins, Colo., on Monday, June 18, 2012. The wildfire has now burned about 90 square miles and destroyed more than 180 homes. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Smoke plumes rise from the High Park Fire west of Fort Collins, Colo., on Monday, June 18, 2012. The wildfire has now burned about 90 square miles and destroyed more than 180 homes. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Eric Lutzens) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; INTERNET OUT

Emily Katz from Overland Park, Kansas pets one of the nearly 140 horses that were evacuated from the Springer Fire area on Monday, June 18, 2012. Katz works with the horses at Sanborn Camps near Florissant and was evacuated from her camp on Sunday. The horses are being boarded at the Teller County Fair Grounds in Cripple Creek, Colorado. (AP Photo/The Gazette, Jerilee Bennett)

In this Sunday, June 17, 2012, photo, Fort Collins police officers, Department of Wildlife managers and Colorado Parks and Wildlife veterinarians work together to lift a tranquilized moose onto a stretcher in a neighborhood in west Fort Collins, Colo. The moose, fleeing a wildfire, swam across Horsetooth Reservoir, wildlife officials said. (AP Photo/The Coloradoan, Dawn Madura) NO SALES

Smoke billows from the High Park Fire west of Fort Collins, Colo., on Monday, June 18, 2012. The wildfire has now burned about 90 square miles and destroyed more than 180 homes. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

(AP) ? Firefighters are making progress on a 92-square-mile wildfire in northern Colorado that has destroyed more homes than any other in state history, but more residents were warned Tuesday to be ready to leave because of a spot fire that ignited near the main fire.

The large blaze west of Fort Collins was 50 percent contained after firefighters labored in temperatures in the 90s to extend lines around the fire Monday. Expected strong winds didn't materialize, but gusts of around 30 mph were forecast Tuesday along with more hot, dry weather.

The fire already has destroyed at least 189 homes since it was sparked by lightning June 9. Incident commander Bill Hahnenberg said it could be weeks or even months before it's finally controlled.

The wildfire is one of several across the West forcing people to flee, including another blaze in Colorado that has driven out nuns living in a monastery, Boy Scouts at camp and residents of about 150 homes.

The Protection of the Holy Virgin Monastery evacuated as a precaution Sunday after the fire started in the foothills west of Colorado Springs.

A nun who returned to feed the chickens at the remote monastery Tuesday said the fire was about two miles from the site. She said sacred items from the chapel, including a chalice, along with insurance papers and historical documents were removed Sunday as slurry bombers flew over the property.

That fire has burned nearly 2 square miles, and fire managers said it still has the potential to grow in an area where logs are drier than pine boards from a lumber yard.

In California, firefighters got a break from predicted overnight winds and were able to contain 75 percent of a 900-acre wildfire in mountainous eastern San Diego County, officials said Tuesday.

Despite high wind warnings, it remained calm around the fire east of Campo, so firefighters increased containment from 30 percent to 75 percent, said Capt. Mike Mohler of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

More than 800 firefighters were battling the rural blaze, and full containment was expected Wednesday night.

At least one house has burned and 150 homes have been evacuated. Evacuation orders remained in effect Tuesday because of road conditions and emergency equipment in the area, Mohler said.

Elsewhere:

? In Idaho, a fast-moving wildfire near Mountain Home destroyed five homes and several outbuildings Monday evening. The blaze quickly moved through the area as Southwest Idaho remained under a red flag warning Sunday and Monday because of high temperatures, low humidity and high winds ? conditions conducive to explosive and destructive fires.

? In Wyoming, more resources were being sent to help battle a 2,000-acre wildfire in the Medicine Bow National Forest. The fire was spotted Sunday and tripled in size Monday because of strong winds. Residents of widely scattered ranches and cabins in the area have been advised to evacuate.

? In Nevada, a 10,000-acre wildfire north of Ely was 15 percent contained. Aerial mapping showed the fire was smaller than thought.

? In New Mexico, firefighters were taking advantage of favorable weather conditions to battle a wildfire that has destroyed 242 homes and businesses. More than 1,100 firefighters remained in Ruidoso as they fight to hold the Little Bear Fire that is now 60 percent contained. Another fire broke out Monday and burned three structures along a 5-mile stretch of the San Juan River in far northwestern New Mexico. The fire, burning east of Bloomfield, is 30 percent contained.

The fire in the Gila Wilderness, already the largest in state history, grew another 1,000 acres to 463 square miles and is 80 percent contained.

? In Arizona, firefighters were building containment lines around a 3,700-acre blaze on the Tonto National Forest to try to protect electric transmission lines that provide power to the state's major metropolitan areas.

? In northwest Nebraska, a fire burning on an estimated 3,000 acres has been partially contained.

? In Hawaii, the upcountry Kula fire was declared 90 percent contained Tuesday morning. The wildfire burned six acres and damaged three homes.

Associated Press

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Blackburn's Yakubu set to join Chinese club Guangzhou

Blackburn Rovers striker Yakubu Aiyegbeni is set to join the Chinese Super League (CSL) side Guangzhou R and F, a club official confirmed Tuesday.

"We are in final talks with him, and the negotiation is almost done," Lu Yi, vice president of Guangzhou club, told Xinhua.

"The job is 99 percent done. If nothing goes wrong with the final one percent, Yakubu will arrive at Guangzhou this week, and we started doing the registration in the Chinese league for him," he added.

Blackburn Rovers have been relegated after a disappointing English Premier League season despite the 17 goals the 29-year-old Nigerian scored for the team.

The club's top scorer ranked a joint fourth at the Premier League scoring board, after Arsenal's Van Persie, Manchester United's Rooney and Manchester city's Aguero.

Yakubu demanded an escape clause when Blackburn Rovers signed him from Everton last season, therefore Guangzhou may bring him to China with a great bargain.

"The club still have to pay an estimated six million euros a year to the Nigerian," a source close to the club told Xinhua.

Lu refused to give any detail of the contract.

"I can't say anything about the contract now," he said. "Two months ago, we began to contact with Blackburn and the player. He has been our first choice in the position of centre forward."

Newly promoted Guangzhou are currently third in CSL table, five points behind league leaders and city rivals Guangzhou Evergrande, who also made the headlines with the acquisition of Italian coach Marcello Lippi and Dortmund striker Lucas Barrios.

"I believe Yakubu is the one we need most," said Lu. "He has a good reputation and his ability has been tested in the world's most competitive league."

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