This report describes the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) Utility Pre-Craft Trainee (UPCT) program and highlights the features of the program that make it a best practice model for entry-level workforce training in the green economy. This report discusses the progress of the Utility Pre-Craft Trainee (UPCT) program since its launch in 2011. The UPCT program, jointly operated by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 18, is an earn-and-learn, pre-apprenticeship training program in. Last week I had the opportunity to participate in a training day for men and women who had been selected through an arduous application process to acquire the skills required to be full-time DWP employees. Offered by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) 700, this is a program that teaches every aspect of electrical engineering. Upon completion, they can become linesmen, working high above us on tall poles; or in the generating plants, often working underground with “hot” wires. They can do energy audits of our homes after which others can place weather-stripping around our windows and door frames to keep the cold out and the heat in during the wintertime. They can replace old-fashioned light bulbs, or faucets and toilets that use too much water—all things that can make our homes (and small businesses too) more energy-efficient, reducing the size of our bills, while increasing the amount of money in our pockets to be spent on other things–and all at no cost to the customer! I heard many inspiring stories from these excited students—ones that can make you smile or break your heart—but all expressing hope and gratitude for new chances, for ways to start all over. There were former college students who had run out of money before they could graduate and others who had been diligently looking for a job for weeks or months or even years. Now they were beginning to see a new and promising horizon in their future. These members represent a great diversity of our community—high school drop-outs to college graduates, all struggling to keep their heads above water, trying to pay the rent—pushing away homelessness a little longer. Black, white, Latino, Asian, men, women—all with a common goal and getting along so well with each other, realizing that despite their outward differences, they have so much in common—life stories with mirror images. These are the people we are training to make their worlds brighter and our worlds better! Listening to their stories made me remember some of my own. I felt in many ways I could really relate to what they were saying. When I was very little, living in Detroit, my mother would count pennies until she could put them into a penny roll, and when she had enough, she and I would walk the short way to the market where everyone knew us and we would purchase not always what we wanted but what we needed [and not so much that we could not carry the groceries home (though sometimes the box boy would help us with that as well)]. I don’t remember being hungry—we always seemed to be full. A treat would be a Sunday supper of French toast topped with a bit of ice cream. I was lucky, though, because I did not know what it meant to be poor even though we were, and I always felt safe in my home even though I often had nightmares (and still do). My stories changed my life and made me the committed activist that I am. Thus, when I hear about grinding poverty, and single-parent homes, of children whose parents want better for their young ones, with parents who want better for themselves; of adults who don’t have the skills to create a new life or to start over—when I see all these things and hear all those touching stories, then I know that DWP’s Utility Pre-Craft Training (UPCT) classes are not only worthwhile but are a God-send. I remind myself of Langston Hughes’ poem in which he says that Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.. (that) I’se been a-climbin’.. And sometimes goin’ in the dark.. (but) Don’t you fall.. (keep) climbin’. Forgive my paraphrasing but what an inspiration! This poem reflects the torturous paths these students have walked. Their stories should remind us just how much Los Angeles can, is, and should be a place where good things happen! I am inspired by the man who told me how he got into this program: A friend called him in the middle of the night, insisting that he join him in line outside the IBEW office to sign the book—the all-important book—to be given the opportunity just to apply for these apprenticeship sessions. Psx iso roms. He arrived at five in the morning and was number 57. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC Rogue Squadron v1.0 Change the CD Path so it is the same as the Install Path. Extract the GCGROGUE.EXE Patch from the archive to the game directory. Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (known as Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D on the PC) is an arcade-style action game co-developed by Factor 5 and LucasArts.Set in the fictional Star Wars galaxy and inspired by the Star Wars: X-wing Rogue Squadron comics, the game takes place primarily between events in the films Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. 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