Perhaps a living parable for our current times of financial crisis was acted out on January 16, 2009, when faced with a *double bird strike* of U.S. Air Flight 1549 over New York City. Pilot Chesley B. Sullenberger radioed to the area flight controller that he was putting the air craft down in the Hudson River and simply announced to the passengers to *brace for impact!* The Pasadena City College Board of Trustees could learn a lot of how to handle its impending financial crisis of an imminent shut down of state funds from the way Captain Sullenberger had to...