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Guest Post by Suzzane Handler
Mental Illness is one of those subjects that is still pretty much taboo to talk about in the Orthodox Jewish community. And that can lead to tragic consequences. No more tragic than what happened in Cheyenne, Wyoming almost 80 years ago.
I think it is high time we start the conversation. I can think of no better time to do so than during the Aseres Yemei Teshuva. The following was sent to me by Catherine Goldberg whose opening words introduce Suzzane Handler. She wrote a book about her Orthodox grandfather – a man who murdered his own daughter.
My name is Catherine Goldberg. I'm a big fan of Emes Ve-Emunah and look forward to learning something new everyday every time you post. It always makes me think. I just wanted to share something I'm working on and I thought your community may be interested in.
I found this book called The Secrets They Kept. (It is) about an Orthodox Jew who murdered his youngest daughter who was schizophrenic instead of having her committed.
I got in touch with the author (whose) name is Suzanne Handler and she's fabulous. We talked about how there's a big stigma in the Jewish community that bad stuff like schizophrenia or abuse doesn't happen to us. We both agreed this is not a safe way to think. There's a lot of guilt and shame associated it with and when that's internalized that can be really dangerous.
Secret keeping, especially throughout generations is devastating. (T)his book… says it's OK to talk about this, and by sharing your story we can begin to move forward.
We also talked about what this has to do with forgiveness and Yom Kippur. Suzanne had to forgive her family for keeping this horrible secret from her. I think once she did forgive her family her quality of life improved significantly.
Maybe Yom Kippur is a good time to talk about this and how it relates to mental illness in the Jewish community.
In hopes of raising awareness, Suzanne sent me a little piece that she wrote about her story. She's hoping that her story will get people talking.
The reason why I was so drawn to this is because a good friend of mine was schizophrenic and committed suicide during our senior year of college. He was Jewish too and I was really torn between this idea that Jewish law says you can't mourn a suicide and realizing this kid was sick. We've made a lot of progress on how we approach mental illness but not enough. It would be amazing if by spreading Suzanne's story I could raise awareness and money for schizophrenia research or something.
The following was written by Suzzane Handler:
What would compel a devout Jewish father to take the life of his own child?
On June 28th of this year, The Intermountain Jewish News (IJN) ran a feature article detailing the dramatic events contained in my book, The Secrets They Kept: The True Story of a Mercy Killing That Shocked a Town and Shamed a Family. For your convenience, I have provided the link to that piece below. Chris Leppek, assistant editor of the IJN and the person who wrote the article, has granted permission for his story to be reprinted, with the caveat that his name and that of the paper be appropriately cited. He does so in the hope that thoughtful discussions regarding the stigma of mental illness in our society will follow.
Here is a brief summary of the story: In 1937, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, my maternal grandfather, Sam Levin, shot and killed his 16 year-old daughter. The girl, Sally, had been diagnosed with dementia praecox (mid-century term for schizophrenia) and was to be sent to an insane asylum, presumably for the rest of her life. Declared incurable and a danger to herself and others, Sally begged her father to end her life, as well as his own, in a joint murder/suicide pact. On August 16,th of that year, my grandfather, exhausted and desperate from grief and indecision, finally agreed to Sally's last wish. The girl died within the hour; my grandfather lived and carried the burden of his shame and sorrow to his grave.
Due to the stigma of mental illness then, as well as now, and the nature of my grandfather's unimaginable crime, this story remained a secret in our family for over 70 decades. Following years of research and soul searching, I have now, at long last, come to the place where understanding meets forgiveness.
I am humbled that The Secrets They Kept: The True Story of a Mercy Killing That Shocked a Town and Shamed a Family, has sold over 8,000 copies and is currently #1 in Mental Health and #7 in Jewish Interest in the Amazon Virtual Book Store.
Visit Emes Ve-Emunah .


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Cannot validate the JAL code
I encountered following error message everytime I validated the JAL code, even those sample codes.
Execution of command "c:\24x7\JAL\jal.exe" /NOBANNER /VALIDATE "C:\24x7\Queue\jalValidator.tmp" failed.
Please advise how to work around it.
Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:27 am
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Please add c:\24x7\JAL to the global search path, the system PATH environment variable.
I also recommend upgrading to a more recent version of the scheduler if your license is covered by the maintenance. From the issue description I can tell you that your version is not up to date.
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Our version is 5.0 Build 385. The JVM version is 1.6.0_29-b11
We used to run version 3.6 under Window 7 and it was fine. This time the license key forced us to upgrade to version 5.0 and we found odd is that the installer created a folder C:\24x7\ besides the C:\Program Files\24x7 Automation 3\
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C:\24x7\ is just the default folder. You can change it during the installation to anything else. Using /Program Files/ is not recommended because Windows will obstruct any attempts to save global settings, log files, data files and all types of workfiles in that place.
The installer doesn't create C:\Program Files\24x7 Automation 3\ folder, that is something that has been left there from the legacy version, I suggest you remove it to avoid further confusion if you don't need the old version anymore.
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I tried to validate more sample codes and found that only the Javascript code can be validated sucessfully. The VBscript validation returns an error message "line 0: null", even though I removed all codes except:
sub main( )
end sub
The Windows we are using is Simplified Chinese Win 7.
When I install the scheduler to a Traditional Chinese Win 7, I found the JAL code can be validated sucessfully but the VBScript still returns same error message.
Anything related to this?
Thu Sep 13, 2012 3:18 am
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It could be still a path issue, I mean resolving path locations to different programs. Theoretically it could be also related to differences in user permissions or system security setup (Windows UAC or domain settings) between 2 systems. In terms of the installation settings and user permissions, what's different between your "Simplified Chinese Win 7" and "Traditional Chinese Win 7" systems?
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We did not change the installation path during setup so everything is done according to default values. Regarding to user permission, please advise us the user privileges to use teh scheduler.
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What I meant is that if you still have the legacy 24x7 version 3.x installed on the same system it could be sitting in the system search path first in front of the new version obscuring access to the latest programs.
As for permissions. The user running 24x7 should have full permissions for C:\24x7 folder and its subfolders. Windows UAC should
virtualize access to that folder and its subfolders or obstruct it any other way so that new files can be created and updated in the Queue and other subfolders as required. To set explicit permissions, right-click C:\24x7 folder, select Properties from the menu, then Security tab, and in the permissions list give "Full control" to the user.
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Cannot validate the JAL code
Environment:Win7 pro. 32bit Simplified Chinese.
We have installed 24x7 scheduler (version 5.0 Build 385) to other PC. PC has not install version 3.6 before.
Windows path:
Use Local Admin for testing.
Error message (Execution of command "c:\24x7\JAL\jal.exe" /NOBANNER /VALIDATE "C:\24x7\Queue\jalValidator.tmp" failed) show when I push Validate.
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For permissions, we are using the account of the local admin to run 24x7. It should have full permissions for C:\24x7 folder and its subfolders. Of course, we have checked the Properties of the C:\24x7 folder. We have been granted the Full control to the folder.
When we click validate, it prompt out:
When we click debug in the 24x7 Editor, it closed the editor and prompt out:
Any suggestion how to solve?
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You get CreateProcess 740 error when you try to start an application which requires admin rights. Please check your Windows security settings and UAC settings.
Additional notes.
1. By design jal.exe doesn't require admin rights, so that's your Windows system fooling around
2. The scheduler is a system utility. In the scheduler requirements it is stated that it should be run under admin-type user accounts only. The fact that you get that kind of error indicates that you are not being logged in as a user with Administrative privileges, or your Windows UAC is set to a very restrictive mode.
3. If you run the scheduler as a service, UAC will not interfere with the processing.
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We used Local Admin for all testing before, so we are really no idea what security setting or UAC setting still need to concern? Please help to show us the detail.
We have install 24x7mp_setup.exe only, need to install other software?
Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:57 pm
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Clearly there still some security related issue that is causing the error. Please note that login to Windows as a Local Administrator is not the same as starting applications in "Run as Administrator" mode is not the same thing. Windows 7 doesn't really care how users login to the system, if UAC is enabled, it treats all users as low privileged users and whenever you try to run something interactively, it prompts asking for permissions to elevate program's privileges for that run. In comparison for the automated processes and processes started from non-elevated processes it simply fails them silently. Also note that UAC doesn't block services and doesn't impact processes started from services, so that if you the scheduler as a service, you won't face that issue.
Please try the following: start 24x7 in graphical mode from Windows start menu, right-click the 24x7 Scheduler icon in the start menu and choose "Run as Administrator" after that, try validating your JAL scripts. Please let us know if that helps.
Form ore details, see Windows UAC guide
more specifically "Scenario 2: Configure an application to always run elevated"
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Monmouth Park Barn Notes for Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012
Ruler on Ice has only raced once at Belmont Park and on that day he was the upset winner of the 2011 Belmont Stakes. On Saturday, trainer Kelly John Breen sends him back to New York with high hopes that history will repeat itself in the Jockey Club Gold Cup.
"So far, so good. He's one-for-one at Belmont," said Breen, who trains the gelded son of 2005 Haskell winner Roman Ruler at his Monmouth Park base for owners George and Lori Hall.
"It's a very tough race. It should be. This race is the prep for a $5 million race- the Breeders' Cup Classic, "said Breen. "He's training very well."
Ruler on Ice, third in the 2011 Grade 1 Haskell Invitational, blazed four furlongs in :48 flat in a workout at Monmouth on September 22 and the move was the fastest of 54 horses at the same distance.
Breen got the luck of the draw on Wednesday. Ruler on Ice will break from post three, the identical post he drew when he won the Belmont.
"I've got my fingers crossed," he said. "That's a good omen."
They were foaled at the same farm six weeks apart, raised together, broken and given their early lessons together, and then sent to the same barn at the track together. Billyscrystalball and Shesfromboston even train and race together and that's not about to change any time soon.
"Those two have been nose to nose since day one and that's what makes it fun. Usually one will advance more quickly than the other but that hasn't been the case," said Michael Mullin, who trains the 2-year-old fillies bred by David and Doris Wilkinson at their Hidden Acres 4-D Farm in Allentown, New Jersey. "They are never apart. They even breeze, gallop and school together. Normally, I would never do it this way, but it's worked out well with them. But I did have to separate them from adjoining stalls in the barn just recently because they had bonded too much. Still, they holler for each other and nicker at one another in the barn."
Billyscrystalball, who is owned by Kristen Lomasson, and Shesfromboston, who races in the colors of her breeder, even hit the board together. Their first time out on August 25, Shesfromboston placed in a 5 ½ furlong maiden special weight at Monmouth while her best friend was third after being steadied early. In their only other effort in another maiden special on New Jersey Thoroughbred Festival day on September 15, Billyscrystalball was the winner at five furlongs while her stablemate almost got second before being overtaken in the lane by the fast-closing PJ's Superego and finishing third.
Mullin has nominated both fillies for the $60,000 Jersey Juvenile at six furlongs on October 6 and he hopes that they can hit the wire together while beating the boys. The race is open to juveniles of either sex..
"Billy is a blue collar girl and a work horse, and she's got a big heart," said Mullin. "She won that race in hand and Joe Bravo rode her brilliantly, but it remains to be seen if she can stretch out. Shesfromboston is bred to stretch out so going longer is better for her. They have both been consummate professionals in everything they do. You could not have nicer two-year-olds in the barn."
Everybody into the pool. Since longshots came in when Monmouth Park last raced on Sunday, there will be carryovers of $19,996 and $18,571, respectively, into the pools for the Pick 5 and Pick 4 when live racing resumes on Saturday.
The Pick 5, comprising races five through nine, is a 50 cent base wager with a takeout rate of only 15 percent. The early Pick 4, which will be on races two through five, is also a base wager of only 50 cents and has the same low takeout rate.
Bluegrass Miniature Golf, located at Monmouth Park, is set to open on Saturday, September 29 and golfers can choose to play either of two 18-hole courses. The Monmouth Course and the Triple Crown Course come complete with individual horse racing themes.
Bluegrass Miniature Golf will be open seven days per week, weather permitting, through October 31. For details, hours of operation and fees, call 732-222-5100 or visit http://www.monmouthpark.com.
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The recent case of Rhodia International Holdings Limited and Rhodia UK Limited v Huntsman International LLC [2007], provides new guidance on a long-disputed area of contract law. According to the judgment of the High Court, a duty to exercise 'reasonable endeavours' requires less than 'best endeavours' but can still demand a party to act against its own commercial interests, although the case does not resolve all the uncertainty surrounding the difference between 'reasonable' and 'best' endeavours.
The case confirms that 'reasonable endeavours' is a less stringent obligation than 'best endeavours' – a concept which is commonly assumed. The case also confirms that a 'reasonable endeavours' obligation may be discharged by exhausting just one of a number of possible solutions, whereas a 'best endeavours' obligation requires all avenues to be explored.
Huntsman International LLC ("Huntsman") had agreed to buy Rhodia International Holdings Limited and Rhodia UK Limited ("Rhodia"), a chemicals company. As part of the sale and purchase agreement both parties were to use reasonable endeavours to ensure that all supplier contracts passed from Rhodia to Huntsman, including one with a power company called Cogen.
However, Cogen refused to accept the transfer of the contract without a guarantee from Huntsman's parent company. The argument over what was meant by reasonable endeavours focussed on Huntsman's refusal to provide that guarantee. That refusal therefore affected the transfer of the contract with Cogen for the supply of power.
Huntsman paid for the power from the date of its purchase of Rhodia in 2001 until 2004. However, in 2004 Huntsman told Rhodia that it was pulling out of the location and that responsibility for the power contract remained with Rhodia until the contract expired in 2009. Huntsman submitted the reason for this being that the contract for the supply of power had not been transferred. Cogen claimed that £14.8m worth of power and services was owed, and the case concerned Huntsman and Rhodia arguing over who owed Cogen that amount.
The case was eventually decided on what constituted 'reasonable endeavours' to ensure the contract transferred from one company to the other. It was ruled that Huntsman International had breached the sale agreement by not using its reasonable endeavours to provide a guarantee for a power contract. Julian Flaux QC, sitting as a deputy High Court Judge in the case said:
"An obligation to use reasonable endeavours to achieve the aim probably only requires a party to take one reasonable course, not all of them, whereas an obligation to use best endeavours probably requires a party to take all the reasonable courses he can. In that context, it may well be that an obligation to use all reasonable endeavours equates with using best endeavours…"
The ruling in the case made it clear that the terms of the sale contract were binding, even if its terms no longer suited one of the parties. The companies must abide by their contractual obligation to make a reasonable endeavour even if it is against their company interests.
However, there are other authorities which suggest a slightly different viewpoint. In the absence of a specific course of action assumed by a party in the context of a reasonable or best endeavours obligation, neither obligation is likely to require a party to sacrifice it own commercial interests. It appears from the other authorities – which were not discussed in this case – that 'reasonable endeavours' may not even require the party giving such an obligation to act to its own disadvantage. This would suggest that relatively little effort is required to comply with a 'reasonable endeavours' obligation.
As far as the drafting of contracts is concerned, the best way to achieve certainty would be to specify the actions a party must take in using its 'best' or 'reasonable' endeavours wherever possible. The relevant party will then be bound to take those actions in any event and the question of whether those actions are contrary to that party's commercial interests will not arise.
© RT COOPERS, 2007. This Briefing Note does not provide a comprehensive or complete statement of the law relating to the issues discussed nor does it constitute legal advice. It is intended only to highlight general issues. Specialist legal advice should always be sought in relation to particular circumstances.


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RB Jamaal Charles Named Chiefs MVP
KANSAS CITY (AP) - Jamaal Charles, who rushed for 1,509 yards in 2012, has been named the Derrick Thomas Award winner as the Chiefs' Most Valuable Player.
Charles was a consistent bright spot in Kansas City's 2-14 season. His 91-yard touchdown run against the Saints in Week 3 sparked Kansas City to its first victory. Charles went to the Pro Bowl after knee surgery had forced him to miss most of the 2011 season.
Nose tackle Dontari Poe received the Mack Lee Hill award as the club's Rookie of the Year. Poe, the No. 11 overall pick in the 2011 draft, came on strong as the season progressed and finished with 38 tackles, including 28 that were unassisted.
"There are a lot of ways your rookie year can go," Poe said. "Luckily for me, I came to the Kansas City Chiefs."
Kansas City also announced that former defensive back Gary Barbaro will be the newest inductee into the Chiefs' Hall of Fame. Barbaro, a three-time Pro Bowler, played for the Chiefs from 1976 through 1982.
"I was blessed to be part of a team that had a lot of veteran players like Emmitt Thomas, Willie Lanier and Jim Lynch," Barbaro said. "They took me under their wing."


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Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said on Thursday that broad federal spending cuts through sequestration should not be a drag on overall economic growth, but will have different effects among the country's regions.
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S&P said it expects the strongest growth in 2013 to occur in the mountain region, which encompasses Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, as well as in the west south central states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
Meanwhile, the growth forecast for Pacific states - Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon and California - "looks slightly dimmer from the vantage point of a few months ago, owing primarily to the expected impact of federal sequestration cuts that went into effect March 1," S&P said in a report.
The rating agency revised its forecast for economic expansion in the mid-Atlantic states of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania to 1.9 percent from 1.6 percent in January. The Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin were expected to have the slowest growth among the regions due in part to lags in employment growth and the housing recovery, according to S&P.
(Reporting Caryn Trokie and Karen Pierog; Editing by Richard Chang)


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At a time when the market for veteran kickers and punters has been looking a lot like the market for veteran running backs, that could soon be changing.
The buzz in Indy, where tampering season is in full swing, is that agents are desperate to find jobs for kickers due to become free agents on March 12.
In recent years, teams have opted to use the franchise tag on kickers and punters because it was regarded as cheaper to play tag than to sign kickers and punters on the open market. This year, the base tag is $2.9 million for kickers and punters.
Whether that means teams won't use the franchise tag on certain kickers and punters remains to be seen.


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Friday, February 22, 2013
It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over....
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Time marches on for us all and of course that can be disheartening, scary or something else. But, without being naive, I hope you can say that your sailing future will not be over, but just different. Of course you would prefer to continue with Das Boot but if your circumstances no longer permit that, maybe you need a Sozadee moment to find a new direction. Please keep us posted on your quest and thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
I will still be living. Because boats -- the ones with sails -- can only prolong my life.ReplyDelete
Been a busy and tough couple of months at work. Could use a boat with sails right now.
I'm sorry you are thinking that your sailing days may be over.ReplyDelete
It's something I think about a lot too.
Barring some sudden death by accident or stroke or heart attack, it seems very likely that deterioration in physical abilities will one day force me to admit that my Laser sailing days are over. I see that Dick Tillman, a Laser sailing icon since the early days of the Laser, has decided that he has sailed his last Laser regatta this month.
Perhaps I will then move to a less physically demanding boat? Maybe. But even that will come to an end one day. I hope that by thinking ahead and accepting that that day will inevitably come, it won't be too hard when it does.
In the meantime, I totally agree, boats with sails can only prolong my life, not to mention make it more worth living.
Hang in there Doc. And keep on blogging.
There's space reserved on my boat for you, Doc. You're good rail meat!ReplyDelete
Thanks, guys, for these comments. I would be sailing on other peoples' boats, especially in today's race. It's just that my back is out now, too. Maybe I'll have to get that surveyed, also.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 24, 2013 at 10:05 PM
Life has a way of working out - I hope that with a little time it turns out to be a good thing that Das Boot didn't go this time. It's sad to hear you think your sailing days are numbered - I enjoy reading about everything you get up to and would miss your commentary - maybe now is the time to take up knitting and start hanging round sailing clubs talking about it? It's nearly as much fun and less likely to put your back out.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 26, 2013 at 4:27 AM
I wouldn't give up on the sailing game just yet! You've got plenty of years left to carry on your passion and I hope you do so!ReplyDelete


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Toho recently introduced these tiny little cubes, so perfectly formed, little 1.5mm cubes! They are fun to use, stack so nicely! These itty-bitty cubes are amazingly detailed with well defined corners and smooth edges. We've put a lot of research into our color selection to ensure that you have the best variety of today's most popular colors and finishes to choose from. Notice how TOHO has managed to maximize the inner thread space of the bead with their signature diamond shaped hole -- even on such a tiny bead! perfect for interlocking stitches as well as intricate geometric patterns. Have fun and experiment with this new size; try taking some of your favorite cube patterns and shrink them down!
Our 1.5 Cube beads are packaged in 2 x 2 " clear bags holding approximately 10 grams of beads. There are approximately 92 beads per gram, a bag holds approx 920 beads.


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Cinemetrics lab is the latest addition to our site, and is still work in progress. When finished, the lab is envisaged to offer students of film history a range of analytical tools that will help them dissect, visualize and compare film-related data. We started with a large-scale comparative chart which looks a little like a star map. It is a scattergraph each dot on which represents a film available on our database. Select areas by dragging a rectangle to zoom in and see better different areas of film history. Once you have found your film on this map you will see how it relates to thousands of other films on the x-axis of time (past 111 years of film history) and on the y-axis of average shot lengths. What we intend to do is to add more tools to the lab in order to augment its statistics apparatus and enhance its means of data visualizations.
Year/ASL chart. Note the Log10 scale on the y-axis. It allows us to see all films in the very widely spread high ASL range.
Search: Results shown in white. Go to database to see result list.
List of films in this lab:
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The Pay Plan is produced for your use in the preparation of personnel action forms, and in the administration of the Tarleton compensation and classification program.
It is the policy of Tarleton State University that all persons shall have equal opportunities afforded them in all employment-related functions, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, or status as a veteran. "Equal opportunities" include, but are not limited to: initial employment; position classification and reclassification; promotion; transfer; demotion; recruitment or recruitment advertising; reduction in force or other termination; rates of pay; benefits; rights of appeal and due process; and selection for training. Tarleton State University, an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and Educator, is committed to excellence through diversity.
For more information related to Tarleton's pay practices, refer to Tarleton Rule 31.01.01.T1.01, Employee Salary Compensation Administration and its associated procedure.
Questions concerning information contained in Tarleton's Comprehensive Pay Plan may be addressed to the Department of Employee Services at (254) 968-9128.


text: Daniel Ridge wrote: > > Your fresh Scyld Beowulf machine probably does not have LAM installed -- > we ship a very slightly modified MPICH instead. > BTW: I had a conversation with Jeff Squyers on this point and I think we > might be able to get LAM to support the Scyld Beowulf platform with only a > small amout of work. That would be rather nice. In our tests, LAM has generally performed better than MPICH (which has 36% higher latency). Also, LAM shared memory performance using usysv transport on our SMP boxes is about as good as the hardware can deliver (1 microsecond latency, 266 Mbyte/s peak bandwidth). MPICH shared memory performance is not as good (16 microsecond latency, 235 Mbyte/s peak bandwidth). On the minus side, LAM requires an auxiliary process lamd on each node. While we are on the topic of daemons on nodes, PBS uses some (pbs_mom). Also, some networks require daemons on nodes (e.g. Giganet cLAN uses clanmgr and clanagent). It would be nice if this could be incorporated into a Scyld cluster on per-node basis (e.g. some nodes may need such daemons, others not). Given that clusters are often built with different generation hardware sets, there may be other specific requirements (e.g. different lm_sensors or ECC monitoring modules). A mechanism similar to using /var/beowulf/boot.img.# to load node # with its own boot file may help (we were able to use this to load SMP or uniprocessor kernels into nodes as appropriate). Could the Scyld node_up script be augmented to carry out node-specific hardware initialization and daemon startup? Perhaps the the default node_up could try starting a node_specific.# script after finishing the default setup... Sincerely, Josip -- Dr. Josip Loncaric, Senior Staff Scientist mailto:josip at icase.edu ICASE, Mail Stop 132C PGP key at http://www.icase.edu./~josip/ NASA Langley Research Center mailto:j.loncaric at larc.nasa.gov Hampton, VA 23681-2199, USA Tel. +1 757 864-2192 Fax +1 757 864-6134


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UnNews:Activist campaigns for cause of cancer cells
This article is part of UnNews, your source for up-to-the-microsecond misinformation.
21 October 2011
WILDWOOD, New Jersey -- Don Hamilton, a former biochemistry student and political activist shocked the entire medical community when he attacked them for "infringing upon the rights of cancerous cells."
Hamilton's statement, which obviously referred to the the tireless research against cancer that is being conducted, was followed by an elaborate speech on the rights of "cells who dared to be different".
"We keep talking about human rights and equality for all," said Hamilton, addressing a tiny group of people in his backyard that soon snowballed into a crowd big enough to fill up a minor-league baseball stadium. "But my time as a biochemistry student has shown me what a brutal regime our own cells-the very things that make us all-live in!"
Hamilton went on to explain how every cell in the body is actually a slave. "The only thing these cells do is facilitate biochemical pathways like glycolysis! Other than metabolizing our food and acting on whatever signals our tyrannical brain gives on its whim, these cells have no life! No life at all!"
"If such a life in itself wasn't bad enough, these cells are killed if they do even one thing wrong! Too tired to metabolize a glucose molecule? Die! Taking too long to process a signal the brain gave you? DIE!" he went on to say, "The lysosomes within the cell just....murder it, like it's nothing! And those cells that survive, that dare to fight this horrible system, are dubbed as the cause of cancer!" he bellowed.
"How can our doctors endorse such brutality, such tyranny, such repression?" he went on, "These so-called cancerous cells are fighting for their rights! Their right to have a life of their own! Their right to stand up those fucking neural signals that push them around so much! Have we learned nothing from all our struggles for freedom? From all the civil rights movements that took the world by storm? What's the point in being a liberal and inclusive society if we do something as horrifying as poisoning ourselves with chemicals, in order to destroy the freedom fighters that are inside of us! If our own cells cannot be free, how can we?"
Don Hamilton has called for a blanket ban on all anti-cancer research going on in the world. He has said that cancer patients "should be proud that they're inhabiting such eminent revolutionaries within them." "I would rather contract and die of cancer, than live with the degraded cytoplasm of my own cells on my hands. I'm proud to support our brave and valiant cancer cells. Are you?" he concluded.
Post his speech, he told our UnNews correspondent, "Our fight will not stop until everybody stops repressing the cells within them that dare to stand up to the system."
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To My Mum and Nana
|My Grandmother Doris Morgan and my Mum, Marjorie
on their way to a family picnic at the Botanical Gardens
c. 1944
I miss you Mum; I miss you Nana.
I think you would both be pleased at what I (the back sheep of the family) have achieved, and I know that you Mum, would be excited at the information I have found since I took on your role as Family historian, and the new family connections that I have made. Many of your cousin's children are now interested in Family History, one of whom even holds a Roberts Family Reunion each year. I'm sure you wish you could be part of the excitement of discovering new relatives and finding out about their stories.
|Roberts Family Reunion 2011
I remember as a child the large extended family gatherings that took place in the Botanical Gardens in Sydney; all the kids running and playing hide and seek amongst the tree roots, and rock caves that seemed so large back then. This must have been a long standing tradition as I have a photo of you as a child attending just such a gathering. I wish I knew who all those women were; how are they related to us? Where did they live and what did they do? From electoral rolls, I realize most of the women were stay at home mothers, with "HD" (Home Duties) given as their occupation. Were you the only one who had to work? Did they know or care about their convict ancestry? So, so many questions; questions that I bet you knew the answers to, but which I can only guess at.
We were such a large and connected family back then, nothing was more important. But I was a child and took it all for granted; sometimes even found it a nuisance having to "Go and visit Auntie Stella…"; "Take this down to Uncle Tom's…."; so many eyes in our small suburb which all seemed focused on what I was up to, that I eventually left. Now the remnants of that large community are spread far and wide, and I so wish that I could just walk down the street a couple of house and have a cuppa with Auntie Thel or Auntie Mavis, and hear the stories again – this time paying attention instead of fidgeting and being anxious to get down the beach instead.
I'm only just discovering how many people in our small community I am related to… The Burn's, Cree's, Cotton's….., names I am familiar with, but was unaware of the family connections until recently. So just who are all these women and children? I know that you are there Mum with your Auntie Vi (bottom right), Nana, you are also there right in the middle, as is your Mother-in-law, My Great Grandmother, Elizabeth Olive Roberts (Dillon) (2nd from right, top row); but the rest..., I really wish I knew. I wish you were here to tell me.
|Roberts family gathering at the Botanical Gardens, Sydney
c. 1934
And Nana, this is a picture of your Grandmother, Louisa Morgan (Nicolls), daughter of two convicts who were transported to Tasmania, and eulogized as "A Grand Old Pioneer" pouring the tea. Just what was the occasion that called for the wearing such hats? Surely not just afternoon tea with the rellies! And just who they are I have even less chance of finding out, but I am still glad to possess this picture, so thanks Nana for keeping it for me, even if I can only wonder…
|Louisa Morgan, doing the duties at Afternoon Tea, probably at her home in Lidcombe, NSW
c. 1900?
Love from Linda


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NEW YORK - Lil Rounds continued her streak of disappointment on "American Idol."
The 24-year-old Memphis mom's eyes welled with tears as judge Simon Cowell derided her performance of "What's Love Got To Do With It" Tuesday night as a "second- or third-rate version of Tina Turner."
I have no idea who you are," Cowell told Rounds. "You're not making the impact you should be making on the show.... You've got to start becoming more original."
She has lost momentum in recent weeks, while Adam Lambert has emerged a serious front-runner on the popular Fox network competition.
The 27-year-old actor from Los Angeles received a standing ovation from none other than Cowell following his rendition of "Mad World" by Tears for Fears.
The theme on this week's performance show was songs from the year the contestants were born. All of them - except for 16-year-old Allison Iraheta - were born in the 1980s.
Cowell and his fellow judges loved Matt Giraud's slick take on the Stevie Wonder hit "Part-Time Lover." They also gave Danny Gokey high marks for his cover of Mickey Gilley's version of "Stand By Me." They praised Anoop Desai's performance of Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors," although Cowell deemed the North Carolina college student a "singing yo-yo" for his erratic work.
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Iraheta, who has an easy laugh and can do an uncanny impression of Gokey, performed Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me." Judge Randy Jackson compared her to original "Idol" Kelly Clarkson, declaring: "She could sing her face off and so can you!"
Cowell suggested Scott MacIntyre go back to what he does best - playing the piano - after the 23-year-old from Scottsdale, Ariz., tried his hand at the electric guitar.
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Pros: Strong visuals enable at-a-glance status and detailed performance analysis.
Cons: Multiple conflicting task methods; little historical reporting.
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Not sure what this forum is for, but I feel stupid for posting this in the main forum and it feels pointless on myspace, so I guess this is the hot shit. anyway, I like lists. ritalin or something.
Top 5 songs and reason's why they are on the money:
The Gloria Record - The Immovable Motorist
A great son by an amazing band. TGR are one of those bands that are perfectly balanced (like boobs on a see-saw...just made that up ayyyyyyy?). I could get technical, but their songs have a way of flowing like they were written before time itself, without any adherance to any aesthetic reasoning, releasing a product that defines beauty itself, a quality not exclusive to TGR. Compared to Mineral or Zookeeper, TGR is like this weird reversal of entropy, a freak in the world of artistic pleasure.
From Autumn To Ashes - Capeside Rock
Shitty lyrics, shitty music, shitty vocals... but it sounds like it's coming from the heart. That heart sounds like a TV Set, but I'll take a pathetic honest heart over every other fake real one I hear 99% of the time.
The Bled - Sound of Sulfur
For some reason I thought the bled were going to drop the fucking bomb. You know: like when you first heard "oasis: wonderwall" when you were little and went, "Shit, what if every song was like that? all I would need then is a vagina and I would never leave my room". The Bled don't really do this, but this is one sweet song. Great vocals, probably one of my favourite vocalists around. Everything else sounds good, but the vocals make these guys.
Bright Eyes - A line allows progress, a circle does not
I remember passing out drunk under my desk and this song coming on random, and I was like...jeez.. this is that "moment" when you grow up. It's one of those song's I can listen to over and over again and think I understand, but never quite do. Normally when I get this feeling a huge bullshit alarm goes off inside me and reassures me that what I am listening to is a big hunk of fraud. Eg Coldplay, Pixies, Hope Conspiracy, P!ATD, Everytime I Die, they all fail this test. This song doesn't. Somehow I sympathise with the guy, even though he is a fucking lame dude. Just a pop song, pleasant I guess.
P.s I really like the hope conspiracy. really. it's like a good gutg with songs that sound like names for crew cuts.
Love Like...Electrocution - The truth of the matter is that I am satan, and on guitars we have the devils. this is devil music
"I quite fancy being a public figure"... BAM! keeps it up from start to end. Sound like an argument that magically ends when the dipshit you hate is about to put in his two cents... did that work? No? Imagine the rebels won the battle at hoth... same thing as hearing this song as far as I am concerned.
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as much as I love give up the ghost, hope conspiracy shit all over them.
although, I don't like this "Hope Con" insignia that they've taken on. it's hittin a little too close to "KoRn" territory.
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.
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I appreciated everything about Dagz' post apart from where he fucks with the pixies. Please edit so I can stop hating you when I really want to love.
Got those sticky thread blues.
Posted: 04-06-2006 05:43 PM
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yeah I agree, I really think the pixies are awesome. I just have 2 problems with them:
1)people who say they love them when they really like the end of fight club.
and 2)... yeah that's it really.
shit... that's not very good is it? that's lame. I worked for a telemarketing place like 3 years ago when I was 17 or something, and some guy there gave me all these cd's - Husker Du, Pixies (doolittle), Radio Birdman, The saints.. Mudhoney? yeah anyway, I hadn't heard any of the bands, but decided I loved RB and the pixies. Debaser.. I loved that song. yeah I like the pixies. soz.
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1)people who say they love them when they really like the end of fight club.
hahaha, you are totally redeemed.
Got those sticky thread blues.
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fuck this SWATVAC shit at uni is horse shit. I have 3 pieces of assessment due and make up lectures all week. STUDY FREE my arse.
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Five more songs I think are kind of tops, because they kind of are.
Interpol - Obstacle 1
I always mention that I like this song to Interpol fans, and they alway go "BUT THEY HAVE HEAPS OF OTHER GOOD SONGS" and I agree, songs like Narc, and Slow Hands, and Stella was a Diver... all good songs, but this is the best. I try to explain this to the people that cry when I say I like this song, but they don't get it. Interpol fans almost make me hate Interpol... almost. I still love them though. This is a great song. If Elliot Smith wrote this, he wouldn't have sgtabbed himself. The music is so mmmminor, and the lyrics seem to have meaning withought that "bullshit meaning" you seem to get with depresso songs these days. "bullshit meaning" is the kind of meaning you have to go to wikipedia or dictionary.com to figure out. BAH! if you have a song that requres these two sites, then you have failed, the meanind needs to be open, yet closed.. figure? I love this song... that's all.
Pearl Jam - Off He Goes
It says so much (with the lyrics), but means so little...yet... so much? To one of my old friends, it stands for one of his coke addict friends being an underwear model. ummm. for me it stands for peers being the only restrictions for your dreams. every big step I take in life is like a fight between me and eddie vedder. I love that dude.
Sounds like Violence - I push you up the stairs
If rock was controlled by someone with at least half a brain, these guys would ROOL DA SKOOL. Honestly, this band is so fucking good. I have read review upon review of people hating this band, and it just tells me that the publications/authors are full of shit. You cannot say these guys don't have it going on. They are too good. Everything good about sweedish pop/rock shit combined with everything good about US emo/rock. Think Hives mixed with..I dunno, your favourite emo rock band. Brilliant. I will never await any album by these guys with the "I WONDER IF THIS ALBUM IS GUNNA BE GOOD" anticipation that I do with most bands. It's like Linux mixed with Windows...somehow. Supreme.Supreme.Supreme.
Sublime - Greatest Hits
I feel like I'm 19 everytime I hear this song. Reminds me that no matter who I am, we are all fragile mother fuckers, and on the flipside, kings. We can do whatever we want. This song is as honest as you can fucking want, and it was sung by a fucking stoner piece of shit. Amazing piece of shit, but still a piece of shit. If this can come from his mouth, then noone has an excuse to not give 100%.. honestly... if you can say it, you can do it. Slackers... we need more DOT COMS.
The Sinks - I just pissed in thou
not a song, but a fucking true story ayyyyyyyyy?????
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Obstacle 1 has been one of my top five songs ever since I was about 15.
Got those sticky thread blues.
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Coffee (in the espresso form) Is really really good. I love these things about it: It's been completely mastered: there is a "perfect" coffee in regards to the way it is made, unlike wine; no-one "owns" coffee - it's goodness is independant to it's supplier (pretty much). I can think of nothing better than a cup of coffee, a slice of thick vegemite toast, a newspaper and a cigarette to perform a perfect merge into the day.
I personally like a flat white or long black in the morning, strong latte for morning tea, cappuccino for lunch and a strong latte for afternoon tea. A short black should be an order reserved for your favourite cafe's, and never during busy periods. Syrups should only really be used for places with inconsistent espresso, although the occasional caramel latte is appropriate, and a macchiato can be given a rather firm erection with a shot of hazelnut or vanilla.
Soy milk shouldn't be used - get a long black or if you have to a flat white. Skim milk on the other hand is perfectly reasonable.
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so umm yeah... life. how about it? good aint it?
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"Too good for the heart."
Days pass, a
jar is just a jar and it's
small and it's
filling fast.
She feels
so fucking distant,
forgotten; each kiss ends
so strange, the resistance: so
plain. Each "He misses the point!"
or "What happened?"
Is answered too quickly
with "What do you mean(s)" or
"You're thinking to deep(lys)": a
careless approach that's just
hurting them both. But the
jar overflows and he
can't let it show, so he
seals it and goes to a
place where he knows what he
knows. But this
hell fucking shows in his
eyes that are so fucking
red and it's lonely out
here. And a question
remains: "Am I
the most?"
Now the traffic starts to bleed.
He lays awake, it's christmas. Stop fooling yourself darling.
It's way too late, it's christmas. Stop fooling yourself darling.
Can't hardly wait till christmas. Stop fooling yourself darling.
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update (2/9/06)
more to come...
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I think "Probsclickin" is going to take off.
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I love the feeling of a hard throbbing cock touching that back of my throat
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Myspace graffiti attack. My last google search was "sugar coated almonds". I don't like these at all, I was just trying to figure out what the Italian translation for it is. I've got a newish taskbar setup. I really like it. My laptop right next to my work computer has a slightly different taskbar set up:
I managed to snip 10-20px off the top in exchange for some extra squeeze on my task buttons. This is because my laptop has a widescreen monitor, so I wanted to really fight for my vertical pixels. A few changes to my applications - an added VPN app for uni, a network connections shortcut for swift network changes and Filezilla, not because I use it that often, but I hate the F.T.P so much that I want to make it as quick as painful as possible when the need arises.
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I might pull a shattered and have lunch at 7pm tonight with my boyfriends parents.
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[quote="Justin"]if I can't read a bands logo then I won't go and watch them play.[/quote]
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A new year, a new collection of good songs:
Ground Components - On your living room floor
Almost a novelty song - punchingly delivered in part speech, part yell and part tantrum. Great instrumental mix; the organs duel with the guitars in this really bittersweet way, and the bass drives it along with the really hopeless cadense. The vocals seem to struggle behind the jam in a really desperate way that reminds me of a poppy pink floyd crossed with AC/DC. It may not sound like that, but that's what I hear.
Great song, looking forward to seeing these guys live.
Sounds Like Violence - Until Death do us part
From there album released earlier this month, this is a really cool song. Andreas has such an amazing grasp of vocal melody. I'm not sure how natural it comes to him, but to me it sounds like it comes pretty damn natural. His lyrics are quite basic and childish, which may or may not be because english isn't his first language, but what is for certain is that this awkward poetic expression is an amazing intermediatry for this raw emotion that ruptures from the heart of every song on this album.
I'm never won by poetic lyrics. Language is a barrier for any sort of expression, so the emotion is in the delivery, not the words. They are all going to be construed and the more complex it gets, the more contrived it is.
Anyway, this song is amazing. Great sliding guitar leads that really open up all through the song. Constricted rythm that lays a base for amazing vocal melody that is sung so fucking well. No holding back.
Bright Eyes - Southern State
I don't really hate poetic lyrics when they are sung with a folky narrative feel. Short stories I guess... that's the structure of the narrative of this song. I'm glad that Coner is no longer writing political songs - they sounded so juvenille. This is a great new song off the live CD.
Converge - Sacrifice
I was going to say No Heroes, but I'll say this song, played with the 2 songs before and the song after. I think it's all you need to get the album.
Cursive - Flag and Family
I reckon this is the best song of the new Cursive album (a great album that is underrated by most Cursive fans I know). Some of the lyrics really stick into my head:
Your daddy and my daddy had a drink at the bar
Talking about what was best for me
Without a name or a degree,
Stubbornly holding onto you
And you pulling away from me
The most amazing thing about this CD is the creativity that comes out of the atheist theme of the album. Somehow they've tackled the theme from a completely different angle in every song. It never gets boring and I would listen to this CD once a week and get more enjoyment from it every time. The only CD that's gotten more of a workout is that Fast Times at Deep Crack High # 2 DVD that I stole off my uncle a few years.
I've talked more about albums in this post than I should have, but that's because there have been so many great albums in the last year or so. Happy Hollow, Noise Floor and Motion Sickness, brothersister, All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone, With Blood On My Hands, No Heroes, The always open mouth and Sound the Alarm. I still think Mourning Tide's LP rips, Sonic Youth (who are surely going to hit struggle street soon) have some great songs on RR... Even Norma Jean and IKTPQ - great CD's. I hope it continues.
Now it's time to be negative - the lates As Tall As Lions did suck pretty bad.
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As the duo behind the show put it, "This is a comedy, it won't let the truth get in the way and will be a lot of fun."
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The show features 15 original songs and opens with a number called 'A Big, Bright, Shining Star,' in which Kanye's mom Donda West — voiced by Higginbotham — celebrates her son's birth. It continues with several highlights of Kanye's career, including his supposed "victimization" after the incident with Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMAs, and closes with 'One Day, They'll Understand,' whose lyrics detail Kanye's feeling that people will eventually see the genius behind his actions.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows announced
UMass Medical School scientists Job Dekker, PhD, and John L. Sullivan, MD, have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.
Dr. Dekker, professor of biochemistry & molecular pharmacology and co-director of the Program in Systems Biology, was elected as an AAAS Fellow for the invention of chromatin conformation capture, and for using it to map in detail the three-dimensional organization of the genome within the nucleus.
Dr. Sullivan, professor of pediatrics and molecular medicine, was elected for distinguished contributions in viral immunology leading to new insights into human immunodeficiency diseases and in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
This year, 388 members have been awarded this honor by AAAS because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. Each new fellow will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue rosette pin on Feb. 15 at the AAAS Fellows Forum during the 2014 AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago.
This year's AAAS Fellows will be formally announced in the AAAS News & Notes section of the journal Science on Nov. 29.
Dekker and Sullivan join other distinguished UMMS faculty previously named AAAS Fellows, including:
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• Trudy G. Morrison, PhD, professor of microbiology & physiological systems;
• Thoru Pederson, PhD, the Vitold Arnett Professor of Cell Biology and professor of biochemistry & molecular pharmacology;
• C. Robert Matthews, PhD, the Arthur F. and Helen P. Koskinas Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology and chair and professor of biochemistry & molecular pharmacology; and
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The Honors Program goes beyond traditional business school coursework to teach leadership. An effective leader must not only possess financial and strategic skills, but also must understand how his or her own traits, characteristics and behavior influence others in the organization.
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The Honors Program provides outstanding career development advantages and opportunities for students interested in accounting, banking, business law, entrepreneurship, finance, general management, graduate study, international business, investment management, and marketing. In recent years, CEOs and senior executives from prominent organizations have traveled to our campus to meet with Honors Program students as part of a required course on strategic leadership. These CEOs and senior executives have represented the following organizations:
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The Program consists of a three-course sequence focusing on leadership, corporate strategy, and business ethics:
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BUS 300 Introduction to Leadership Seminar
What makes for success as a researcher and business leader
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Preparation and presentation of a final research project selected by the student, advised by a faculty member
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BUS 495 Business Honors Seminar I (cross-listed with MBA 634, Strategic Management)
The role of leaders in setting corporate strategy
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Participation is by invitation. Students wishing to be considered for invitation must either declare a major or minor in the Collat School of Business or otherwise have demonstrated a commitment to a business education, and meet the following minimum eligibility requirements:
3.5 GPA in Pre-Business and Business Courses, and
3.0 GPA Overall
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