XP needs a job. Here are his skills:
EDUCATION: MSW with a concentration in Macro Social Work and Community Development
WORK EXPERIENCE SKILLS:
- program evaluation;
- assisted in a variety of reports through writing, editing and formatting as needed;
- researching social service trends;
- data analysis for agency reports;
- advising program coordinators on identification of appropriate performance indicators;
- assisted in the research of potential funding opportunities;
- assisted in the grant writing process through writing, editing and formatting as needed;
- managing the organization’s information systems, including computer operations, systems programming, applications programming and networks;
- analyze the needs of the organization;
- identified Federal, State, and local funding sources;
- assisted in variety of written community development and neighborhood plans, reports and working papers through writing, editing and formatting as needed;
- developed project proposals in the areas of housing and community development;
- advised agency planners and administrators on relevant government regulations and industry trends;
- provided assistance to the department’s annual request for applications for funding process
Managed Projects:
Project Administrator of HUD’s Continuum of Care Planning Process at the local level. Fiscal Year 1998, 1999 and 2000)
- organized applicants’ orientation and training conference;
- provided applicants with technical assistance on application process;
- provided applicants with technical assistance on outcome measures and program evaluation;
- developed training materials for proposal reviewers;
- trained proposal reviewers;
- compiled summative project report
- responded to general and specific technical information requests generated through mail, email, and telephone contact
If you know of something or somebody, please contact XP.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Some problems with the links you provided.
By the way does anyone know anyone who can make me an animation (and turn it into a YouTube video) in order to advertise the WA secular party as being “Group Q”?
I think it is because XP’s site is graphics heavy and slow loading therefore. On dialup to Australia, it would time out, I think.
Animation: virtually any undergraduate in the Communications department these days? And uploading to YouTube should be easy (I say, not having ever done it).
Actually, I got this error:
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
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Apache/1.3.39 Server at xicanopwr.com Port 80
My good friend, like a sister is in Japan, on dial up. She can never read my blog and checking email is a chore.
Scratchy – that is *weird.* I’ll put a comment on his blog so he knows.
Yeah, there is one other American blog I can never reach either: BitchLab.
hmm.
I just came from Rent Party where I was able to see this, however: The New Immigrant.
I can relate. The part about not wearing yourself on the outside is a good metaphor. In the first few years after my migrant experience, I used to weary of people who would say, “You’re this sort of a person,” or “You’re that sort of a person.” It actually didn’t make any sense to me that I could be a “sort of a person” outside of an environment that would make sense to me. The speaker in the video said that the Americans would wear themselves on the outside. He is right that this is a very American characteristic. It gives the impression of being “loud”, no matter how quietly someone speaks. I have never been able to get used to that approach. It’s like I want to say to the person, “Hey, you’re being loud. Do you really have to do that, or can’t you try something new?”
Anyway, (and on a similar track), this recent blow-out with Hattie was interesting. I find that some people react to the honest pronouncement, “I’ve become stoical because of all the crap I have received,” with huge thunderclaps of condemnation. Actually, this was precisely my parents’ basis for condemning me. The tendency to withdraw from society, whilst developing a thick skin, in order to recover from one’s wounds, is highly rousing to a person of bourgeois consciousness. Like I said, as a correlate of that, my father used to develop quite a bit of paranoia when I switched off the computer screen each time I left the room. (I didn’t have a screen saver at the time.) It seems like when the bourgeois just don’t like something — because they just don’t understand something — they fly into an attack mode, no matter what the social cost is. This is the sense in which they are really hysterical and not considerate at all. They seem to assume that a certain amount of tactical withdrawal is akin to “being selfish” or “having no feelings for others”, when the withdrawal is often the result of an overwhelming sense of feeling in one way or another.
This may be of use to you regarding “re-education”…
Yes this is very descriptive of Reeducation. There was a blowout with Hattie beyond what she said about (I think) “disliking children” – ?
Yeah, she told me that I was perfectly happy where I was and with my situation (or, by implication, ought to be if my head was screwed on right — or if my head wasn’t screwed on right, then I was worth ignoring.) Then when I asked her to explain, she said I already knew what she was talking about. Finally, she counselled me to just shut up (at which point I had to ask her again why she was bothering emailing me to tell me I was happy and to just shut up.)
Odd.
Yeah it is very odd. Actually it is a misunderstanding that stems from bourgeois epistemology, with its several perfunctory a priori categories, which are supposed to define everything including happiness. Also a misunderstanding based on bourgeois mind-body dualism and its attendant notion that if you keep referring to things contingent and personal all the time, you must be desperately unhappy. Why not just allow yourself to be swallowed up in the Universal and be done with it?
Also a misunderstanding that somehow there is a competition for who can suffer the most, and that this means anything. (The person who gets given the most attention for their mere contingent life’s experiences can be deemed as the one who has righteously suffered the most and is meriting this attention as moral compensation.)
So, all sorts of misunderstandings.
Odder. But I suppose very mainstream, is it that you are not mainstream enough?
I’m sure that this is part of it. I’m not well-acclimatised to mainstream thought and choose not to be.
I also think (another misunderstanding, I guess) is that when I make a claim about my own emotional attitudes, it might be hard for someone who is a bit more accustomed to group think to realise that these attitudes are my own — I didn’t choose them because they are superior furnishings which I purchased from the supermarket of life; I didn’t choose them as a way of standing tall and recommending them to other people, and so on. So, my preferences in life do not have an attendant moral agenda trailing after them.
Take my condition of not especially liking the present crop of western kids because I can’t relate to them particularly. I like ruffians — runabout kids like I had been. Mostly black kids have the kind of quality that I consider most admirably devilish and childlike. White kids are too tame, too much a miniature version of their consuming and consumptive parents. …
So, I express this preference, which is derived from my life’s contingencies and that should be it. However, in the bourgeois mode, a preference isn’t just a preference, but a way of competing, a way of making a “social statement” and so on. So, my preference is misread. My view that I wouldn’t like to have kids of my own in this day and age is read as a kind of oneupmanship in relation to those who have chosen to have kids. The strength of my assertion about what I like and what I dislike undermines the self esteem of those who have different likes and dislikes. (This is to be regretted — but really, it is not my fault that others choose to read me this way.)
There is a lot of rhetoric around about how one can choose how one feels, and also about how one should shape one’s tastes to an acceptable mold.
This is all well and fine for people who have no self discipline and need to learn some, I suppose, but otherwise it is beside the point.
I think it’s a pretty ubiquitous message spread through the advertising media.
“Show who you are by buying this product.”
“This kind of a product is perfect for the kind of a person that it you. Don’t be left behind in last season’s fashion. Show people that you are the perfect mix of style, taste and charm by buying FAST-AHEAD purchase today!”
I think more importantly in churches and the self help industry. One is expected to choose mainstream feelings.
Example.
Untamed Person: I am angry about X.
Tame Person: Anger is a bad emotion. You should not be angry, you should “let it go.”
Untamed: I am not sure it is a bad emotion and in any case, I am not over X yet.
Tame: It is a secondary emotion. You must discover what the fear is which is motivating your anger. Then you will not have to feel angry any more, and will be able to claim a much more acceptable emotion, fear.
Etc.
Haha! Yes, I’m familiar with that kind of reasoning. Hattie’s reprimand may be somewhat related to that — as kind of a cousin ideological approach, perhaps. But I am inclined to think that what occurred was more a problem with epistemological paradigms (although I’m rather guessing and probably reading too much into it, certainly more than any explanation that was given). I’m thinking that what is offensive is my failure to conform to the paradigm of white privilege — I’m supposed to acknowledge that I am supremely privileged in every sense that matters, and that things are ‘great’. The outward sign that things are great would be for me to stop talking. By talking I am making myself much more special than the requisite guilt about my having white privilege should allow. I’m implying, ‘I’m not just a generality, but a person.’ This is offensive because there are a lot of people suffering in the world, and by showing that I am aware of my personhood, it somehow undermines their suffering.
Because any personhood is assumed to be some imperialist type of personhood. The so-called “Cartesian I” … and so forth.
Yeah, perhaps so. Something with a moral agenda that says, “I’m doing this, so you’d better sit up and take notice. It had all sorts of moral implications, and that is why I’m doing it.”
If I hit on mainstream thought and get the codes right to express those thoughts it is purely by accident.
I also think (another misunderstanding, I guess) is that when I make a claim about my own emotional attitudes, it might be hard for someone who is a bit more accustomed to group think to realise that these attitudes are my own — I didn’t choose them because they are superior furnishings which I purchased from the supermarket of life; I didn’t choose them as a way of standing tall and recommending them to other people, and so on.
Yes, I agree. I find it so annoying when someone says “You do not speak for me.” Well, I never said I did. I expressed my opinion, mine alone. There is something with that automatic assumption that one is taking instead of the other giving. By feeling like I am speaking for you, I am not taking your voice you are giving me your voice. WTF? How is my opinion taking your voice. Then others jump in and say “yeah yeah, you do not speak for us.” Well who the hell said that I speak for you?
Then others jump in and say “yeah yeah, you do not speak for us.” Well who the hell said that I speak for you?
Ha! Yes! That’s it! The idea that one’s opinion has a generally applicable moral agenda in tow. Or, even more absurdly, that because I have experienced a different situation that I consider superior to the approach that westerners commonly use to school their children, that my ability to make such a comparison is a way of expressing a dislike for children per se.
No, I’m not making universalistic claims in that way. I have no need to be so obscure.
Sorry about that, I am having problems myself. I spoke to tech support today, it had something to do with a file. I am hoping it got corrupt instead of being hacked. Crossing fingers, hoping I can get solved asap.
I hope the announcement goes viral and works!
thanks for the GREAT post! Very useful…
This is a really vague comment and you have an IP address in Amsterdam, it seems … and a fake website and name. I’ll let this through, using your e-mail address as your name, on the off chance that you are a real person. I cannot figure out what your objective would be if you are not. –Z