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Edmund Hillary's Early Life

Edmund Hillary was born in July 1919 in Auckland, New Zealand. His love of adventure was established at early age in the adventure stories he would read on long train journeys. This sense of adventure was first realised in a mountain setting on a high school trip, after which he was hooked: the beginning of an eighteen year journey to Everest Base Camp began with Mount Ruapehu (2,797 m), a mountain on the North Island of New Zealand. His first major climb followed three years later, after college, with Mount Ollivier (1,933 m). Hillary later commented about that climb: "It was the happiest day I had ever spent."

Hillary's Expeditions

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first person to ever reach the highest peak in the world. His famous partnership with Tenzing Norgay in 1953, when their Everest Trek made the summit, made them instantly renowned and revered worldwide. Hillary was humble about the achievement, pointing out that the success of the expedition was owing to his climbing companion Tenzing, and the considerable efforts of the support team of almost four hundred men who had waited expectantly at Everest Base Camp to hear if they made it to the top.

Four years after trekking to Everest's summit, Hillary was aboard the first small plane to fly to Marble Point, a remote science research centre in Antarctica. This small accolade took on more significance in 1985 when he teamed-up with another icon of exploration, Neil Armstrong, to fly to the North Pole. In doing so he became the first man to have stood on the world's tallest peak and on both poles.

Charitable Missions

But Hillary did not turn his back on the country where he had made his fame. Through the Himalayan Trust that he founded, he was instrumental in building bridges in Nepal, re-roofing a monastery, and organising the construction of the airport at Lukla, which is used to this day to bring hundreds of trekkers to the main starting point of their Everest Base Camp Trek. More vital for the Sherpa people was the infrastructure that he raised money for, pioneering the construction of 27 schools, 12 clinics and 2 hospitals in the Khumbu, starting with the Khumjung School in 1961. Over a 20 year period the Himalayan Trust has supported numerous education, healthcare and environmental projects that have significantly enhanced the lives of the Sherpa people. In later years, Hillary became a special ambassador to Nepal for UNICEF.

As well benefitting the local Sherpa people, the medical facilities he established are valuable for treating ailing trekkers on Everest Base Camp trek expeditions, and featured in the recent BBC 'Everest ER' series.

Hillary was also keen that there may be people to follow in his footsteps, and share his passion for life outdoors. He put his name to the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre in New Zealand that provides youth courses for secondary schools and vocational training schemes for the outdoor industry. Courses include training in white-water kayaking, rock climbing, and of course, mountaineering.

Commemorations

During his lifetime, New Zealand's most famous person had tributes heaped upon him. He was knighted by the Queen and made a member of the Order of the Garter. Hillary was honoured by the United Nations for his conservational work, and had a statue of him erected in Mount Cook National Park. He was also New Zealand's high commissioner to India.

After his death in 2008, there were proposals to memorialize Hillary by renaming Mount Ollivier after him, since the mountain was his first major climb as a young man. His most enduring legacy though will be in the form of his charitable foundation, the Himalayan Trust, which will continue to improve the lives of the Nepalese people that work and live along the Everest Base Camp Trek routes for generations to come.

Kirsty Parsons is the Marketing Coordinator for Everest Base Camp Trek, an adventure website which provides holidays featuring the classic Everest Base Camp Trek, as well as several alternative Everest Trekking routes in the Himalayan region.

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If you are looking for some education money for yourself or your spouse, or your children or your grandchildren, and you have not reached age 59½, consider a withdrawal from either your traditional IRA or your Roth IRA, without having to pay the 10% additional tax penalty on the withdrawal.

While you will still owe applicable federal income taxes on the withdrawal distributions, this is an often overlooked method of paying for eligible educational expenses.

According to the IRS, "an eligible educational institution is any college, university, vocational school, or other post-secondary educational institute eligible to participate in a student aid program administered by the Department of Education." Undergraduate and graduate courses are both eligible. Even some foreign schools qualify. If you have any doubt as to whether a school qualifies, it's best to contact the school.

Qualified expenses for a student who is at least "half-time" are: (1) tuition, (2) fees, books, supplies, and (3) equipment required for enrollment or attendance at an eligible educational institution.

A Word of Warning: Be careful of equipment as a qualified expense. It might be useful to have a laptop computer, but check to see if it's actually "required" for enrollment or attendance. The IRS has disallowed such expenses in the past.

Room and board can also be a qualified expense, but not more than the greater of actual amounts charged for residing in housing owned or operated by the school or allowance for room and board that was included in the cost of attendance.

To determine expenses that are not subject to the 10% penalty requires some calculations on your part. In essence, you must calculate your "adjusted qualified educational expenses." You do this by reducing your total "qualified education expenses" by any "tax-free educational expenses." Tax free educational expenses include such things as distributions from Coverdell educational savings accounts, tax-free scholarships and fellowships, pell grants, veterans educational assistance, and employer provide educational assistance.

If you receive any gifts or inheritances, these do not reduce your qualified educational expenses.

You are not subject to the 10% penalty if your IRA distributions are equal to or less than your adjusted qualified educational expenses.

As you might expect, the IRS wants you to file Form 5329 to record your early distributions. The instructions to file this form are on Part 1.

Before we leave this subject, there's a couple things to remember about Roth IRAs. Earnings from your Roth IRA can be withdrawn tax-free if left in the account for five years. If the earnings are withdrawn prior to five years, they are included as income on your return.

You should also note that a withdrawal from an IRA generally increases your income for that year and may affect your eligibility for financial aid in the future.

Lastly, remember that any withdrawal from an IRA is eating into your retirement savings. This is often not in your best interest.

For these reasons, you probably should explore other ways of funding college expenses before opting for this method. You may also want to discuss your personal financial situation with a tax advisor.

Glenn ("Chip") Dahlke, a senior contributor to the Living Trust Network, has 28 years in the investment business.

He is a Registered Representative of Linsco/Private Ledger and a principal with Dahlke Financial Group. He is licensed to transact securities with persons who are residents of the following states: CA. CT, FL, GA, IL. MA, MD. ME, MI. NC, NH, NJ, NY.OR, PA, RI, VA, VT, WY.

If you have any questions or comments, Chip would love to hear from you. You may contact him at dahlkefinancial@sbcglobal.net. You may also contact him at the Living Trust Network. Its web site is http://www.livingtrustnetwork.com

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Perhaps one of the most wasted opportunities in higher education is the area of student oral presentations. Because we live it every day, we understand the inherent benefits of

• preparing a convincing argument,
• presenting it to others, and
• responding to their questions and signals.

As a type of alternative assessment (i.e., a way to find out what students are learning via a means other than a traditional paper/pencil exam), oral presentations allow students to master an array of life skills that seemingly can be mastered through few, if any, other vehicles. Although many professors do require students to make presentations, often, unfortunately they provide such muddled expectations of student performance that students are set up for failure. Some students will thrive in spite of their professors' poor handling of the process; many others, however, will become so unnerved that they will literally become sick. How can you make sure that you do not waste the opportunity to help students be successful?

First explain to students that they already do oral presentations every single day of their lives - presentations that are called by such innocuous names as conversations, discussions, and interviews.

Second, to help students deliver a solo performance in front of the entire class, you can stair-step them to that point rather than tripping and shoving them into what they often perceive as a lake filled with alligators.

• For the first step, start small, by having students interview a single other student and then report the results, while seated, to the rest of the class.
• Move up to panel discussions, in which each student is expected to present a specifically selected portion of a broader topic.
• Continue upward by having students deliver an extemporaneous thirty-second response to a course topic drawn from a hat or shoebox.
• Finally, if you have provided ample verbal feedback (not just numerical scores) throughout the preliminary activities, and have given students a clear rubric will in advance, they can reach the high point of giving a short presentation in front of the class. Even those few experienced, high school debate team members you may have who are capable of delivering a moving presentation on the first day of class will benefit from the preliminary activities.

Many students may think that oral presentations should be limited to speech classes, but the reality is that being well prepared to make presentations to other individuals is a necessity in today's society. This applies to health care professionals, salespeople, administrators, training officers, managers, teachers (duh), and on and on. To leave your students unprepared would be to shirk your responsibility as an educator. When you have worked to develop your students' speaking skills, as you well know, you will see the concomitant growth in self-esteem, poise, and leadership.

That's a good day's work, isn't it?

Strategic professors know that using a variety of teaching and learning methods is critical to students' learning and success. Pay attention to the ideas in this article and others available from Meggin McIntosh. In addition, you can learn much more about teaching and reaching the many different types of students who are in today's college classroom by reading the book *Teaching College in an Age of Accountability* (Allyn & Bacon). The book was written by Richard Lyons & Meggin McIntosh (the author of this article).

To learn more ideas that you can use as a faculty member, be sure to check out

** http://www.ArticlesforProfessors.com

** http://www.TopTenProductivityTips.com

(c) 2009 by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D., "The Ph.D. of Productivity"(tm). Through her company, Emphasis on Excellence, Inc., Meggin McIntosh changes what people know, feel, dream, and do. Sound interesting? It is!

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Primary Education Goals

When I hear the topic about education, what comes into my mind are the things like a student carrying books on her left arm, and a pen on her other hand, walking towards the corridor of the school building. But beyond this scenario, what does education really mean? Is it about attaining high grades? Is it about reaching the top of the class? If not, what is it all about?

Studying in school is like a battle that you need to be prepared. You must be able to have enough training before you enter the battlefield. Preparation requires sufficient time to build up adequate knowledge and skills. Education is important for preparing students to have better careers in the future. Education is a process for learning. It gives us the knowledge of everything in this world and at the same time it helps us develop perspectives in life.

It is like food and shelter. It is a necessity for us to survive in a society. It is a food for our minds because it gives us enough knowledge for us to be aware of the things around us. Through education, we learn how to socialize, behave, have proper attitude towards circumstances, and other fields.

It is like a hammer. It breaks through the rock and let a person shed its radiance. It motivates a person to be the best. Students are able to discover their talents and skills because they were taught about many things. They are able to apply them. It can lift a person's status because it gives him or her opportunities like jobs and careers, and even vocation.

Education is synonymous with cultivation. It is like planting a seed where you need to water it and take good care of it until it grows into a wonderful plant. It needs effort for it to grow into something great. It is something that needs to be taken care of. Otherwise, it will wither or be gone.

It is like business where you need to invest. Even if that investment is not that high for as long as you work hard for it, it will develop and earn well. It may start small but it may grow into higher rates.

Education does many things. It gives power to someone to think, ask and see beyond the obvious. It doesn't really require memorizing all the theories and terms found in books and other sources. But it is how we apply them in our daily lives. Having true education is how we respond to things. It is how we make strategies in solving problems. It is not about grades. It is about how you learn things by heart. It is through learning from failures. It is a process of going beyond limitations. It is how you work hard for something. As a whole, education is a preparation for us to have knowledge as food, to invest hard work and perseverance with it and it is where we cultivate the seed of success for us to reach our goals.

There are so many new developments in Technology and Education coming to a school near you. Be informed and learn about what your kids are learning.

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Do the teachers unions really care about the children's education?

Do they care about the quality of education or is their primary goal to protect their golden egg?

There is a symbiotic relationship, of sorts. Often times, the things teachers' unions fight for benefit the dues-paying members AND children. For instance, the fight for smaller class sizes makes teachers' working conditions more favorable, but smaller classes tend to benefit students, too. That said, having interviewed for a position in the state branch of our teachers' union that would have doubled my salary (and then some), I do think some of the higher-ups in the teachers' union might just be paying lip service to some concepts as they make more a year than I will EVER earn as a teacher and dues-paying member. It's like that in most unions, though. It's kind of a necessary evil, I think.

Also, saying the "teachers' unions" is a way to keep the organization nameless, faceless, and easy to demonize. The teachers' union is made of TEACHERS. I would say 90% of teachers really do care about their students and the quality of education they receive. I suppose there are some who are just there to collect a paycheck, but you get that in any profession. While teachers generally do receive some nice benefits, the salaries still lag behind many other professions. If teachers were in it for the "golden egg," a lot of them would probably switch professions.

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