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In a globalized business world with fierce competition market driven innovations determine the permanence of entrepreneurial success. As a prerequisite of powerful innovation, practical experiences and actual subject matter expertise need to be combined. Another component is the courage to be daring and try out less conventional approaches.
In 2010 SAP University Alliances and SAP Education started a cooperation with Steinbeis Center of Management and Technology (SCMT), SRH Hochschule Heidelberg and the Chair for Information Systems of Technische Universität München (TUM) with the joint ambition to educate high potentials and tomorrow´s experts in an integrated and comprehensive manner. Using the framework of our new SAP Corporate Master Program, the program trains and develops excellent young potentials from companies in diverse industries and consulting firms.
We offer four study programs covering different focus areas in management and technology, each of them using a select higher education partner:
Master of Business Administration (MBA) u2013 requiring a minimum of two years of experience on the job
Master of Business Engineering (MBE) u2013 immediately following primary studies
Master of Science (MSc) u2013 immediately following primary studies
Master of Computer Sciences (MCompSc) u2013 non-consecutive, after completion of studies
All students of all programs will be trained and tested by SAP Education to become certified SAP consultants. The universities are responsible for the academic part of the programs and will qualify and test the students as part of the master studies. Following the successful completion the students will receive the academic degree (MBA, MBE, MSc or MCompSc) from their university plus an internationally acknowledged SAP consultant certificate from SAP Education.
For more information, please follow the Link to our SAP Coporate Master Program (www.sap-corporate-master.com).
Best Regards,
Daniela Weckenmann - Chair for Information Systems of Technische Universität München
Edited by: Daniela Weckenmann on Mar 2, 2010 8:39 AM
Hi Daniela
Well done this sounds exciting. We have been offering Master Degrees built around SAP solutions for nearly 10 years now. In the last 3 years we have built on SAP Consultant Certification in a number of areas (BI, FI, XI, TERP10). These are either via class room training or SAP uAcademy. How are you including SAP certification in your programs?
Paul Hawking
SAP Academic Program Director
Victoria University
Edited by: Paul Hawking on Mar 10, 2010 1:15 AM
Hello Daniela,
This sounds very interesting. As with Paul we have a number of UK institutions that have incorporated Certifications into their degrees most notsably Sheffield Hall University that runs a NetWeaver Developer MSc that includes TERP10 and SAP academy delivered by SAP Education. A few other universities are interested in doing something similar.
I'm interested in how the SAP Education component is integrated. At present the aggressive SAP degrees we run have UA-delivered SAP elements (ERP, BIW, BOBJ, CRM) and then a TERP10 Certification and then another Certification on top if the students are prepared to pay to have an academy delivered but the numbers on the second element vary from year to year depending on expense, the global economy (85% of our postgrads are non-UK), and the interest in the specific academy topic. So to manage the variability the universities do more themselves (i.e. incorporating eve more UA materials) and then deliver an academy only when the economic conditions are suitable.
So I guess my questions would be - what is the additional benefit from this program that we don't do already (ie. do they have a whole load of additional materials - what sort of accredditation do they get) and what flexibility is there. You also specify certain degrees - are these degrees that SAP is accrediting or are they just the degres that SAP is prepared to work with?
All the best
Martin Gollogly
Director, University Alliances, UK, Ireland and Benelux
Hello Everyone,
I am Mahesh one of the aspirants who wish to to do a Masters program in SAP. I have seen many programs in SAP in different universities like Shieffield-Hallam University(UK),Brunel University(UK),Victoria University(Australia) etc..,But the present new course what is called as SAP Corporate Masters Program which is a colleberation of SAP and the german universities seems to be interesting and exciting.I got some details regarding the courses,universities and flow of the program from the course coordinator of SCMT.But, when I have seen the threads posted by Paul Hawking and Martin Gollogly, I am into a state of confusion like what is the difference between this special program and the program offered by other universities and also what are all the extra benefits do a student get after joining this course.
Please give me a reply ASAP as I am planning for the SAP corporate masters program.
S Mahesh.
Hello I would also like to know exactly what Mahesh has asked. Please let us know how is it different from the normal programs!
Dear S Mahesh
The SAP Corporate Master Program currently is found in three universities in Germany. The universities involved are long-time University Alliances member institutions. They designes their masters curriculum to employ SAP products in a number of their courses. They also offer the TERP10 SAP Integration of Business Processes certification in the first year of the program. SAP Education cooperated closely with these universities in Germany in the design of these programs.
This is also what a number of University Alliances member institutions all over the world including in Germany, at Victoria University in Australia, and at the various UK universities mentioned in an earlier post have done even before these three universities offered the SAP Corporate Master Program. You would have to say that the inspiration for the SAP Corporate Master comes from these innovative programs.
Indeed, these innovative universities often cooperated with SAP Education in their local countries (i.e. Germany, Australia and UK) to integrate the opportunity for students to choose to take further official SAP certifications as options in their programs. In the SAP Corporate Master universities, a second official certification is included in the second year of the program as a requirement.
So, for the students, I would say that you should look at ALL of these programs as being very worthwhile. All of them are innovative and all of them successfully involve the university professors, SAP University Alliances, and SAP Education in the delivery of the programs. They are all innovative and valuable. In the SAP Corporate Master, SAP Education worked with University Alliances and the universities early on in the development of the curriculum. In the other universities, they developed their curriculum as members of the University Alliances program and also chose to invite in SAP Education to participate in making additional certifications available to their students.
Please don't be confused. All of these programs are really excellent. Choose which program based on the content offered that fits you best and the other factors of geography, cost, reputation, etc. that you normally use in making the decsion.
I hope this helps you.
Bob LoBue
thanks for reply,however i am confused ,
what is difference between the normal sap master course which is priced at 10000 euros and sap master course which is 40000 euros (in srh heidelberg),both have the same course contents ,
please clarify.
Dear Mahesh,
For detailed information on the SAP Corporate Master Program you can contact Ms Kerndl, you find her contact details on following website: http://www.sap.com/germany/services/education/cmp/index_en.epx.
On this website you can also find a download brochure, including many details on the contents of the program.
Hello, everything looks very exciting, but I have a complain and a question.
1) why I cannot read the page in English? Well, we have google translator and one could understand some German, but I can see very little text so the translation, I mean an official one, would take a skilled translator like minutes. Maybe you could fix it? Does not look very professional.
2) I would like to know if there is a way a graduate on other university with years of SAP experience could study your course and take some shortcuts. I have passed many theoretical exams in computer science, have completed many practical trainings and have successfully used all the theoretical/ school experience in oth technical and functional world of SAP. I would like to learn some more, meet some new people, maybe even get a fancy paper from a respected univerity like yours, but I don´t have time/ money to move to another country (I cannot do this on any of the local univerisites) and study for years to get something what I already have.
I understand you must have heard many questions like this one, I am sorry for that, but that would bridge the gap between the schools and the industry in a great way and of course would help the working professionals (like me, I hope) to help traing the youngsters and get trained in some new and fancy things at the same time.
Regards Otto
Hi Otto,
There is an English website as well (http://www.sap.com/germany/services/education/cmp/index_en.epx) but nevertheless you are completely right that the translation of the CPM website is still missing.. I will forward your complaint to the websites admins.
Your second question is an interesting one - I think life-long learning is vital, especially within such a fast-moving area we are working in. As you have gathered already lots of theoretical and practical experience, you maybe could start teaching at an university as guest teacher? This is just one of many other ways to share your experience and to get in touch with university people to discuss and develop new ideas and concepts.
Thanky you, Sonja, for the idea. I had the same idea. But my alma mater was not interested, or better to say: they had enough "teachers" and PhD students to do the job (read: they needed some purpose for themselves, so they didn´t want any other people to get in). By the way, we are said (they´re) to be very theoretical and more sceitnific than intersted in engineering and I feel the course would not fit in. And the procedure was neither clear nor easy to get your own course. So I took my degree and started some real work instead of starting a fight.
I would be happy to teach or help teaching but none of the universitites in my country are members of UAC (I have asked a question how can one become a member and what could bring it to the school, I still don´t understand why there is no "starter pack" I could sent those guys or offer them in personal....) and am afraid not interested in any "external" SAP sources. Maybe it is because of some petty-minded people out there or I didn´t crush into the right ones, I don´t know.
I meet this kind of people everywhere and that is why I started posting to SDN, where one is who he/she wants to be and how hard he/she is working. And only because I feel a little debt i started searching for alternatives around here. My primary interest is to help young people to understand and learn SAP and help them decide and start their SAP career. But if it would be possible to get some more education for me or offer some more formal education (than the blogs, forum posts etc.) for the others, I would be interested. I welcome any thoughts/ ideas.
By the way it is possible this discussion has already happened here and I missed it, in that case I am sorry for asking the same questions and complaining about the same things. Thanky ou for your patience with a newcomer:))
regards Otto
But let me insist on the second question. Is there a way I can became a distant student and get the degree (I could learn so much more at the foreign university, I believe, meet new people and the name of the school could also help one day). But without having to go through this all over?
cheers Otto
By the way, some parts of the website are dead, for example check the links here: http://www.sap.com/germany/services/education/cmp/investment/index_en.epx
Hi Otto,
the offered courses a no long-distance courses, but as far as I know at least some of the course contents are blocked.
If you need more details, you can also use the central contact adress info.sap.cmp(at)scmt.com.
Please let me know if the German language skills are mandatory for following such a program. I ask this because the program is in English but i've seen that with no German language skills a student cannot be included in the projects which are part of the program. Please clarify this.
Thank you
Otto I'm curious to know if you have heard anything further?
Hi Otto
Last time I checked we offer 6 post graduate SAP related subjects online. These are part of our Master of Business in ERP systems which is offered in China, Singapore and Austria. I don't want this forum to turn into a place for universities to publicise their courses but you has a specific request about distance education. The different time zones might be a killer but all lectures are recorded.
Good Luck
Paul Hawking
SAP Academic Program Director
Victoria University
I am so glad you were able to spare a minute and tell me about it! I am aware of the SAP courses/ education/ name in SAP education of the University of yours and would be cool if there would be a way I could tap to any of your activities...
But you can imagine what questions come next: Would it be possible to attend (and get a degree from your university?) for a guy from the central europe? I would love to attend, study or teach, or maybe both, but have no idea about the details, prerequisities... Is there a page, you could point me to, to read something more and do not bother you with the questions?
I don´t care about the time zones, if it could work for me, I would prefer to study instead of sleeping:))
Thank you for your time and effort,
regards Otto
p.s.: if you could share a brief description of your interests (I mean personal interests), I would try to find something we have in common, to become a valuable "contact" for you. I am not going to waste your time!
I found this one: http://www.business.vu.edu.au/sap/ but cannot see any details how to arrange it. Is there anybody I could reach with the specific details? I mean somebody who would be interested to "work" with me:))
Hope I am not too cheeky, I am only excited about the opportunities...
thank you,
regards Otto
Hey guys,
I have done my computer engineering from Mumbai university.I am thinking of doing this SAP MASTERS PROGRAM along with my MS.The only problem is my financial conditions are not much good.So can any1 tell me can i get any scholarships on this sap masters program.My aggregate in engineering is 58.2% .and also i read that university charge get paid by your company in which you are working (SAP Project) but how will we get the company to work for!! Do SAP AG 100% provide company to work?
And how is the current scenario as far as IT jobs are concerned in Germany?
Will i get a good job after i complete my MS+SAP MASTERS?
Do SAP AG provide placements after doing their SAP MASTERS PROGRAM
Kindly reply ASAP guys as i need to apply for the unviersites.I am bit tensed and in dilemma to go for it or not.
Hey everyone,
Most of the SAP UA universities and corporate master program universities teaches TERP10 which does not specialize in any module, it's an overview of business processes in different module and i think an SAP experience guy like me( SAP B1 certified ) would need more than that, so can anybody suggest me an master program who has specialization in an module with indepth study of that domain, here in my case it's accounting.
Hi! See my recent post (last reply) with the universities in the UK and Australia in addition to Germany that have the SAP Corporate Masters Program - http://scn.sap.com/message/13247978
Best regards,
Are these courses taught in English at your university? is language a barrier in Germany for jobs?
what are the prerequisite for the courses?
these are few queries, i thought every aspirant would be interested in..
Also if possible could you please provide the direct link for course content and the concerned person with whom we can clear out our queries.
Varun...Hi! Comments below...
Are these courses taught in English at your university?
** Comment: UK - yes. Germany (primarily Germen)
is language a barrier in Germany for jobs?
** Comment: A person working Germany should, in my opinion, be proficient in Germany. Certainly much global busines takes place in English and other languages.
what are the prerequisite for the courses?
** Comment: Please contact the respective universities to confirm their prerequisites.
Also if possible could you please provide the direct link for course content and the concerned person with whom we can clear out our queries.
** Comment: You can connect to the respective, participating university via this link - http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-28233
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Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes remarried her ex-husband Gregg Leakes at the InterContinental Buckhead Hotel in Atlanta on Saturday, a rep for the reality star confirms.
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OK, recently I've upped my activity and am making a point of getting cold sometimes, to keep my immune system "alert" (if it's used to the cold, it will, theoretically, fight off flus and colds better than if I mollycoddle it and keep it at exactly 36C all the time). This means I need more kcal. I know I need more, because I feel hungry, but have no particular "craving" or interest in food, which is usually my body asking for an energy source.
But I can't eat. I literally feel sick when I put even a nibble in. And it doesn't seem to be psychological: I can chew and swallow fine, but, about 3-5 minutes in, when the stomach has started to break it down properly, I feel sick.
It doesn't seem to be stomach size, either, as I haven't eaten recently enough to still be full, besides a few bites of this and that, trying to fuel myself. It's literally as if my body's got a "split mind": one side wants energy, the other has a kcal limit. /:
My body seems to have "appetite cut off points":
1300kcal if the day is warm and I'm inactive, which I can boost to 1500kcal without issue.
1500kcal if the day is cold or I'm active, which I can boost to 1800kcal, no probs.
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It's Wednesday and that means there's plenty of news going down in the wide world of sports.
In a somewhat surprising move, the New Orleans Saints released TE Jeremy Shockey yesterday. He was due to make almost $5 million in 2011, and the Saints are in the process of trimming some of the fat they have on the payroll. Reggie Bush and his $11 million salary should be put on alert after seeing this move made.
The Los Angeles Dodgers already thin pitching staff could get a little bit thinner because Vicente Padilla is going to undergo an MRI on his right elbow. Usually when a pitcher has a problem this early in spring training it's never a good thing. This is certainly not how Don Mattingly hoped his managerial career in Los Angeles would begin.
Former Olympic gold medalist Greg Louganis is back to doing what he does best: diving. He has accepted a position as the diving coach with Fullerton College. Can he be a good coach or will this be just like when Michael Jordan went into the front office in the NBA?
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7 Halloween Costumes That Never Look as Cool as You Think
What kind of sick freak doesn't like dressing up for Halloween? I don't care how old you are, it's just flat-out fun to shed your normal boring life for a night, tape down your balls and dress up as a slutty French Maid.
But like with anything, there is a way to do costumes wrong. Usually because what you think people see in your costume, and what they're actually seeing, are totally different things.
#7. "Sexy" Anything
Why people do it ...
I'm certainly no stranger to the "sexy" genre of Halloween costumes. Especially considering that last year I underwent $170,000 worth of plastic surgery to transform myself into Christina Hendricks. I'd say I had a good time, but I can't be totally sure of that. I ended up drinking a spiked Pepsi and passed out. When I woke up, it appeared that someone had rubbed a glazed doughnut all over my face and enormous breasts.
I did look pretty good that night, though.
Halloween is the one time of year that people are able to let their hair down and just whore it up without being viewed as one. It's accepted, it's all in good fun. It's just a costume.
Why it's a terrible idea ...
We're masturbating to you.
Via Nypost.com
"Hi. Can I buy you all of the remaining alcohol in the state?"
Ladies, after Halloween many, many websites/Facebook pages/Tumblr accounts will feature photo galleries from their costume parties. The most popular galleries will focus on sexy ladies in sexy costumes, like this one and let me make it clear: Those galleries exist so we can masturbate to them.
I'm sorry. Men are terrible. The guys you don't think are terrible are the ones who have become experts at hiding it, and we secretly high-five those guys when you're not looking. But make no mistake, when Shelly shows up in what she thinks is "cute nurse costume that shows some sideboob," the males at the party see one thing: "Shelly's sideboob." The rest of your costume becomes a vague blur.
We're like Boob Terminator, except we wish not destruction.
So be prepared, because at the party you will absolutely get creeped on. Regardless of your intentions when choosing the outfit, when guys see your cleavage, their most dominant thought is going to be, "Out of all the women in this room, that one is the most likely to engage in some genital hunch-fucking." If you're not down with that, that guy -- and probably several guys -- will be jerking off to the memory of your costume later. And the guys doing it will probably still be dressed as a comic book or video game character at the time.
Now, if that was your goal all along, then obviously your outfit has served its purpose. But holy shit, does that make for some awkward conversations along the way. And this is absolutely a female issue -- I don't know if you've noticed this, but 90 percent of guys can't pull off "casual and sexy." So their attempts come off as a nervous joke, and then they try to play along and act like it was a joke all along.
"Haha, oh we're crazy. Now about that 'sitting on Santa's lap' thing we said in total jest ..."
But I'm just going to put this out there right now: All of those guys who have made "jokes" about how they want to have sex with you? They all actually want to have sex with you. It's never a joke, it's testing your reaction to the idea. So when you dressed as a Sexy Police Woman and the guy "jokingly" said, "Hey, Tina, want to give me a strip search! Ha!" he was totally not kidding. He was propositioning you for Halloween Party Bathroom Sex, or at least a Halloween Handjob After She Has Two Pitchers Of Strawberry Daiquiris In Her.
#6. The Politically Charged Costume
Why people do it ...
Ah, the politically-motivated costume. This could be as simple as dressing up as a president (or as one of the surfer bank robbers from Point Break), or as complicated as creating a costume intended to make some kind of political statement (say, as a redneck Tea Partier with an intentionally misspelled anti-Obama T-shirt).
Via Zazzle.com
Yep, you're going to be an absolute pleasure to speak to!
Why it's a terrible idea ...
Do you realize your costume is going to get people talking politics? Is that what you had in mind? What kind of an asshole wants to spend the entire Halloween party talking about abortion and the fucking national debt? Especially today, when every minor, insignificant thing said about any political party at all is instantly blown out of proportion and everybody starts trying to remember talking points from whatever political blog they read that morning.
Via Photos.momlogic.com
On second thought, this should have gone in my previous point.
And don't think you'll be getting away with not talking politics -- you're fucking dressed as Obama with a diaper that says "HEALTH CARE" on it. Hell, just walking into the party as a recognizable figure (if you're lucky or skilled enough to even pull that off), you've already started the debate. You are a living political cartoon, and the entire room is filled with drunken commentators. You will goddamn well hear their opinions whether you like it or not.
You can say, "Sure, but I'll just avoid the political assholes and talk to the level-headed types." Yeah, but they won't talk to you. They came to have fun and get drunk. You came dressed as George Bush, drinking from a cup that reads, "OIL." They will avoid you like the fucking plague.
"Oh, hey there, Jerry. I see you dressed as everything we all hate about working with you."
#5. Unrecognizable Movie Characters
Why people do it ...
It's one thing to dress as Austin Powers or Captain America because their costumes make them instantly recognizable. But it's something entirely different to go as a pre Two Face Harvey Dent or Jeff Goldblum's character from Independence Day.
I can see why people would want to do it. It's more original, hardcore fans of the movie or show will love it, and if you look anything like the actor to begin with, your costume is already half made. You just have to find their signature outfits from the movies, and you're good to go.
"I'm one of the customers from the cafe scene in Pulp Fiction."
Why it's a terrible idea ...
Very few people at the party are hardcore fans of that particular movie or TV show. And to all of them, you're going to have to explain your costume. Over, and over, and over. When the pics get posted the next day? Get ready to explain it to all of your co-workers, and family. Over, and over, and over.
This is a good object lesson. That's the blog of a woman who is into fashion. For Halloween, she decided to be Ellen Page's character from Inception. So she used her fashion knowledge to painstakingly track down each individual piece of the character's outfit. She worked really hard on it. She was clever. What she put together is a pretty goddamn good match for the one found in the movie.
Via Fashionarchitect.blogspot.com
The problem is that in a costume party atmosphere, she looks like she just showed up in street clothes, and now she has to explain to every single fucking person she encounters why she didn't dress up. Then, she's relying on them to remember what that character was wearing in specific scenes -- remember, she didn't wear that ensemble through the whole movie.
Believe me, it will take talking to about three people before she starts gritting her teeth and fighting the urge to fling handfuls of her shit at the nearest guy in a Scream mask.
Know what? She should just do that anyway.
#4. The Badass
Why people do it ...
Let's face it, every guy's fantasy is to be a badass. Especially nerds who spend all year weeping into their weak, helpless hands because they're too shy to stand up to people who shit on them. It's why so many online video games are filled with human festering yeast infections. It's the place where they can unleash their dark side without fear of physical retribution.
So when Halloween rolls around, it's only natural to whip out the face paint and become the supervillain or vigilante you've always wished you could be. In my day, it was The Crow. Since 2008, you'll find at least four Heath Ledger Jokers at every gathering ... even ones in July that aren't actually costume parties.
Via Infobarrel.com
We're midnight tokers. We get our lovin' on the run.
Why it's a terrible idea ...
There aren't that many recognizable badasses. So if you care about originality at all, you're fucked.
It's not going to just be a case of one other person in the same outfit. You can just about guarantee that 20 percent of the attendees will have the same idea as you. Because on the whole, the average person isn't that creative. They saw the same blockbuster movie you saw, they were enraptured by the same super cool character in the cool costume.
Feel free to Google "Freddy Krueger costume" if you have a few hours to spare.
And now, you're just one of the crowd. Again. On the one day that you're allowed to be a standout badass, you have once again been reduced to just another average face in a sea of intentionally sloppy clown makeup and green hair.
And on the off chance that some slutty nurse decides to bone a supervillain, you could find the fate of your erection decided in a game of "Eenie Meenie Miney Moe." Though I guess depending on your level of nerdiness and social disconnect, that may actually be an improvement over your normal odds.
Via Costumesupercenter.com
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Orlando Magic buy downtown land for entertainment complex
Land sits between Hughey and Division avenues
The Orlando Magic have made it official, saying they will buy some prime city real estate for a mega-complex of downtown entertainment.
The chunk of land is 4.9 acres that sits across from the Amway Center, fronting Church Street and bordered by Hughey and Division avenues.
The Magic have been studying the purchase since late 2011.
A price from the city won't be known until an appraisal is complete.
Additionally, the Magic signed a purchase option agreement for another 5.2 acres of land next to the Church Street property last month.
That's contingent on the city moving the police headquarters.
The Magic are expected to reveal details on this entertainment center at a workshop April 22.
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After my seventh gram of Columbian marching powder I had some seriously awesome hideas for the development of the new campaign!
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An idea that sounds absolutly brilliant when you're high, but loses its appeal as soon as sobriety sets in.
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Friday, December 6, 2013
Mount Pleasant senior, Marc DeLoach, skippered the School of the Arts Sailing Team to an outstanding finish Nov. 23 and 24 as the team competed on the national stage at the Great Oaks Invitational in New Orleans.
The SOA locals finished a notable fourth place of 40 teams from all around the U.S. and the Virgin Islands, each of whom had to earn their spot in the regatta through qualifying competitions in 2013. During the two day battle on Lake Pontchartrain, the sailing conditions were extremely tough and most races took place under an active small craft advisory. Cold temperatures, reduced visibility, and gusty winds of over 25 kts produced impressive waves that tested both competitor and equipment limits.
Marc DeLoach skippered all 16 races while alternating through five crew members - Marco Lanier, Oliver Penegar, Sarah DeLoach, Fiona Lewis and Nick Heinen. The SOA students finished cold, very wet and a little bruised but excited about their team's success.
While in New Orleans, SOA sailors also had time to visit the French Quarter where they enjoyed jazz, street performers and some delicious baguettes at the famous Café du Monde.
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Selena Gomez has canceled her Australian tour next year, saying that she needs to focus on herself.
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Emmett Vinson, a retired Buffalo firefighter and a founder of the Mocha Society of Black Firefighters, died Saturday at his home in Buffalo. He was 67.
Born in Buffalo, he was a graduate of Emerson High School, where he played basketball and participated in track and field events. He also attended Alfred State University before he was drafted into the Army in 1966.
Mr. Vinson began his career in the Buffalo Fire Department in 1977. In August 1991, he assisted in the resuscitation of a newborn child who had just been delivered in an Adams Street house on the city's East Side. Firefighters used a firefighter's air mask on the infant until the baby boy took his first gasp of breath. Far from finding the experience routine, Mr. Vinson shortly afterwards told The Buffalo News that it was scary.
In addition to being one of the founders of the Mocha Society of Black Firefighters, he served stints as the group's treasurer, financial secretary, affirmative action officer, first vice president, second vice president and third vice president. He was a trainer for fire safety, a board member for the Fire Survival Center and an instructor for the Buffalo Fire Department's entrance exam. He also worked part time as a substitute teacher in the Buffalo public schools and as a housing specialist for the city. He retired from the city fire department in 2002, after serving as drug coordinator for the department.
Mr. Vinson was a member of Calvary Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife of 43 years, the former Deana Savage; two sons, Emmett A. and Daniel; two daughters, Deidra Mcilwain and Dawn; two brothers, Charles and Monroe; and four sisters, Willie Anne Huff, Fannie Herritage, Doris Hunt and Beatrice Foster.
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On Sunday, Nov. 17, the Archdiocesan Catechetical Office will honor men and women who devote so much of their lives to the catechetical or religious education ministry. I am referring, of course, to our parish catechists and catechetical leaders. The annual Certification and Recognition Ceremony will take place at Maryknoll in Ossining. Msgr. Edward Weber, director of priest personnel, will preside. Catechists and catechetical leaders who have completed training and supervision will be officially certified by our office. Certified catechists who have given 25 or more years to the ministry will receive the Catechetical Medal Honor.
The ceremony will also feature the presentation of the Terence Cardinal Cooke Award to pastors, recently retired, whose parish catechetical programs demonstrated their outstanding support for the catechetical ministry; the Good Shepherd Award, presented to catechetical leaders and colleagues of the ministry whose lives and actions reflect Jesus the Good Shepherd; and the John Cardinal O'Connor Award, given to catechetical leaders whose ministry to persons with disabilities and their families is exceptional.
It takes a great deal of dedication, selflessness, time and preparation to become a proficient catechist or catechetical leader. It takes great energy and creativity to maintain excellence in a parish program, whether there are 200 or 1,000 students. Everyone deserves the best. It also takes a true missionary spirit because catechesis is at the heart of the Church's mission to evangelize. Amazingly, almost no parish catechists receive financial remuneration and the catechetical leader is definitely not the highest paid person on the parish payroll.
However, if you stop and think about it, the catechists and catechetical leaders are some of the best evangelizers in the archdiocese. They reach out to parents, grandparents, siblings and family friends. They work hard to celebrate cultural diversity. They support the rights of persons with disabilities and their families to faith formation and make it happen for them. More times than you know, it's their missionary spirit that brings people back to the church.
So, on Sunday, the 17th, perhaps you will whisper a thank-you to God for these selfless men and women, who give so much of their lives to the ministry of catechesis, helping their students and families to develop a closer relationship with the person of Jesus Christ.
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"Constructing Chinese Cosmopolitanism: Southeast Asia, Overseas Chinese, and Xiamen, 1842-1937"
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After a fantastic sneak peek last month, Rupert's response to Jamie Campbell-Bower in Hunger TV's "I Dare You" series is now available online.
"Oh my God." Rupert says. "It's tempting, hahaha. I don't know if I can do that! Can I do a section?!"
Rupert goes on to dare Rusel Tovey ("What Remains") to "milk one of my llamas teats".
Also appearing in the issue is a fashion shoot with Cherrybomb co-star Robert Sheehan, who'll begin filming "The Mortal Instruments 2: City of Ashes" with Jamie Campbell Bower soon. Going along with the "I Dare You" theme, Robert dared Rupert "to dye his hair blue".
We may soon be seeing a shaved, blue Rupert.
Boys will be boys?
Aside from their playful daring, Rupert did comment upon his upcoming projects saying that he looks for "weird experiences and something completely different" in new film roles.
More information on the interview can be found at hungertv.com.
[With thanks to Rupert Grint Peruvian Fans, 82 stills from the interview are now online for your viewing pleasure. Thanks guys!]
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Jan. 14, 1924 – Feb. 17, 2013
Norma Kassirer, a Buffalo author, poet and artist who influenced generations of local writers and artists, died unexpectedly Sunday in Buffalo General Medical Center after going to the movies with friends. She was 89.
A Buffalo native, the former Norma Kelly grew up in Hamburg. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in social work from Case Western Reserve University. She went on to do casework for Buffalo Family Service and, after the birth of her two daughters, began writing.
She was best known for her two novels for children, "Magic Elizabeth" in 1966 and "The Doll Snatchers" in 1969.
Mrs. Kassirer wrote "Magic Elizabeth," intended for children ages 8 to 12, after reading family letters that dated from the 1700s. Called a modern classic, it is included in Eden Ross Lipson's New York Times "Parents' Guide to Best Books for Children." It has been reprinted several times and is currently appearing in newspapers throughout the world through Breakfast Serials serialized stories.
Her other books include "The Hidden Wife," a collection of stories with artwork by Willyum Rowe published in 1991; the story cycle "Milly," published in 2008; and her novella "Katzenjammered," published in 2010.
Her short fiction and poetry were published in various literary magazines and collections. This year she was selected by the University at Buffalo's esteemed Poetry Collection as a featured writer for the forthcoming "Three Poems" series.
Mrs. Kassirer came from a long line of writers. Her father wrote articles about his experience in World War I. Her brother David was a prize-winning poet. A great-great aunt wrote poetry for Harper's Magazine in the 1800s. And a great-great-great uncle, C.F. Briggs, founded a literary journal in New York City, partnered with Edgar Allen Poe and, under the pseudonym Harry Franco, produced a number of best-selling seafaring novels.
Mrs. Kassirer helped run a children's musical theater many years ago at the Buffalo Museum of Science, writing and directing plays. She also worked as a writer and editor for publications of Sisters Hospital and reviewed books for The Buffalo News.
She also was an artist. Recently, her paintings were exhibited at Betty's on Virginia Street. She is known for her stunning and original handmade artist's books, one of which is owned by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Her paintings and books were exhibited at Western New York Book Arts in conjunction with the release of "Katzenjammered."
She often painted at the MollyOlga studio, and taught classes there and in the Poets in the Schools program.
She was long involved with Hallwalls from its inception. She painted murals on the ceiling of the gallery's former space on Essex Street.
Her husband, Earle, died in 2002.
Survivors include a daughter, Susan.
A memorial gathering will take place later.


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October 2, 2008
When Sara Harris' 12-year career in day care ended, her desire to open a bakery began. Her mother-in-law, Bernice Harris, urged her saying, "With all the baking you do, you should open a bakery....
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Service Availability Standards for Carrier-Grade Platforms: Creation and Deployment in Mobile Networks
Tam, Francis
Publication type: Doctoral dissertation
Issue date: 2009-05-15
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University: Tampere University of Technology
Faculty: Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering
Department: Department of Software Systems
The rapid development of the mobile network industry has raised considerably the expectations and requirements of the whole chain of stakeholders, from the end users through the mobile network operators and ultimately to the network equipment providers. A key expectation from an end user is service availability, which is a perception that services are continuously operational even in the presence of failures in the mobile network. Network equipment providers have been using carrier-grade platforms to provide various support functions including high availability as reusable assets for products creation. The term carrier-grade refers to a class of systems used in public telecommunications network that deliver up to five nines or six nines (99.999% or 99.9999%) availability. The convergence of communications and information technology in the industry has led to more competition and pressure to reduce development efforts. By creating a service availability standard, Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software can be bought and integrated into a carrier-grade platform, enabling a company to focus on the core business and concentrate the resource investment onto new innovations. This thesis explores the kind of service availability support needed for a carrier-grade platform and captures the essential ones for standardisation. It also aims at investigating the impact of using standards-based service availability software in the platform on the overall product development life cycle. The main result of this research is reflected in having the proposed solutions of availability management and online software upgrade standardized by the Service Availability Forum. All the current network equipment providers have effectively endorsed them as the service availability standards in the mobile network industry. It has also created a set of robustness test suites and experimented on three standards-compliant implementations. The thesis has contributed to the development of concepts, programming and administrative interfaces, and mechanisms related to supporting availability management and online software upgrade in a carrier-grade platform. It has also contributed to a testing methodology that addresses the often neglected robustness factor in the selection process for COTS availability management middleware.
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Neither Capitalism nor Socialism but … what?
A friend of mine is fond of quoting the American humorist and commentator, the late H.L. Mencken, who said that, "If all the economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion".
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Hockey players and owners are "normal" people that are just more successful fiscally than you (and I). Good for them, it's free market economics at work. These posts harping on the amount of money being made reek of jealousy and class envy. Let's be happy that players get payed well in the NHL; it's a big that reason that many of them are in this league... and you get to enjoy watching them.
It's not class envy at all. It's being disgusted watching greed take over the sport we love.


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Imagine calling 911, only to receive a busy signal or an automated voice saying that all circuits are busy. Officials said Monday during a Barbour County Commission meeting they worry that might happen if citizens continue using the emergency number to voice complaints about nonemergency issues.
Office of Emergency Management Director Cindy Hart said she answered 350 calls about address change complaints on Monday alone.
County commissioners also said many complaints are coming in to the Barbour County Courthouse about the address changes.
Hart said many of the calls to the Barbour County Communications Center have come in on the emergency number, with citizens dialing 911 to complain about their addresses being changed.
Abuse of the 911 emergency phone line could result in criminal penalties, though Hart said no one has been charged.
"911 is taking a big hit on this," Hart said. "It is ridiculous. It's minute things that they're making these big deals over."
Some of the calls are about the costs of changing an address, Hart said, adding that these complaints could be tying up the emergency lines and preventing someone who is in need of immediate medical assistance from getting a timely and efficient response.
Hart said changing one's address could be as simple as paying $5 for a new identification card or a driver's license, or otherwise waiting to change that information once the card has expired and needs to be renewed. She said it could also simply mean that a person will have to take some time to fill out a form on the back of a billing statement that provides the company with an updated address.
"(The Barbour County Communications Center) has zero authority to change their mailing addresses (back)," Hart said, adding that the 911 address and mapping is a state-mandated project that county authorities cannot stop. "We get blamed for a lot of it because it's 911 that is attached to the name. This has been in the works since 2004 in this county."
Hart said the address changes are meant to prevent confusion and help reduce emergency response time. She said two roads in the same zip code should not have the same or similar names, because this creates confusion when emergency responders are trying to respond in an efficient manner to a life-threatening situation. Some road names in Barbour County have had to be changed, she said.
William Iddings, a county resident, asked what would happen if a 4-year-old dials 911 because something happened to his or her mother. Iddings said the address changes are a way to allow responders to easily find a person's home, even in those situations. Rural route numbers are part of an old system that could confuse emergency responders about where they actually need to go.
"People resist change; it's that simple," Iddings said. "This is one of the best things that you folks are doing. I'm serious about this. Change is tough, and people are going to fuss."
Hart said she would prepare a press release for media outlets at a later date to further address this issue. Hart and the commissioners said complaints should be made to the Barbour County Commission at 304-457-4339, not the county Communications Center.


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ben- Did you see shelby's eyes?
Patrick- Yeah, they're really wonky.
Patrick- Yeah, they're really wonky.
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weird, whacked out, messed up, not working for no definable reason. Usually applied to technology.
"Dude, you have the wonkiest computer in the world. I walked through the room and it crashed."
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not right, odd
Jenni had a wonky eye, it was the source of all her self-esteem problems.
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Askew, non-intuitive, poorly designed, or not functioning as it should.
The UI on that site is kind of wonky.
My demo works, but when you start clicking around things get a little wonky.
My demo works, but when you start clicking around things get a little wonky.
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Totally messed up; Strange and out of place; not working properly.
The printer's gone wonky.
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crazy,loony, not quite right, out of sorts. a mix of bonkers and wacky.
My computer keeps deleting my incoming mail,a nd being all wonky
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to not work properly, to be out of sorts
my computer went wonky today.
After drinking I felt a bit wonky
After drinking I felt a bit wonky
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i should have done that bump before we even got in the club i am now wonky as fuck *proceeds to fall over*
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5 Awful Things You Learn About Yourself Playing 'Dishonored'
It's here: video game season. That magical time of the year right after the veritable desert wasteland of summer, when game developers the world over suddenly remember that they have jobs to do and go about trying to drown their customers in a glut of quality entertainment. I know you're going to feel unproductive, sitting there on the couch while the world enjoys itself outside -- children leaping and skipping through the fallen leaves, women laughing gaily on their bicycle rides, men, like ... tossing a medicine ball, I guess? I don't know a lot about outside. But the point is this: You need to stay on that couch. Because gaming isn't a waste of time. If you pay close attention, it can teach you volumes of hard lessons about yourself.
For example, I just picked up Dishonored, the new stealth game from the people who brought us Skyrim, and already I'm learning things about myself. Awful, terrible, disappointing things that I wish I could forget but will probably haunt me forever. Like ...
#5. I'm Way Nicer Than I Thought, and It's Going to Get Me Killed Someday
I love stealth games. Developers, if you let me convincingly pretend to be a ninja, a spy or a laughably inadequate Batman, I'm going to wad $60 up and throw it in your face. Then, while you're distracted, I will steal your game and run away (it's the perfect crime -- nobody ever comes after me, for some reason). So it's too bad that, without exception, I am universally terrible at them. I finally figured out why: To nobody's surprise more than my own and that of the child I am currently kicking, I think I'm terrible at stealth games because I'm simply too good of a person.
Yep. Paragon of virtue over here.
If you're not familiar with the genre, the core of any stealth game is staying unnoticed. Rather than resorting to something as vulgar as slapping helmets on the players and asking them to sprint through a beige war zone full of cinder blocks and exploding minorities, stealth games set players loose in a semi-open environment and let them plan their murders discreetly, like gentlemen. Sometimes one of the murder-dolls will turn out to be an important character, however, or at least be programmed to do something mildly interesting if you let them live, thus giving players some sort of incentive not to kill them (just yet).
And that ruins everything. Because, if you're anything like me, instead of flapping out of the darkness, a flailing half-seen shadow of death whose name, as far as the enemies are concerned, is "OH SHI-," you are now cautiously approaching every guard like a timid squirrel taking breadcrumbs from a pensioner in the park. I am of course aware that they're probably going to kill me even as I approach, but the doubt is always there: Maybe not this time! Maybe this guard is different. Maybe he's just a friend I haven't met yet. Sure, he has the exact same character model as all those other guys who have, historically, done nothing but try to kill me, but you know what? Somebody once told me that you're not supposed to judge a book by its cover. I think it was Jesus. Or maybe Reading Rainbow.
Same difference.
And so, with love in my heart and a friendly word on my lips, I will cautiously sneak up on some jackbooted sentry and optimistically press the button that breaks stealth. At which point he'll holler, "Ha! GOT YOU." And then spit fire into my face.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Fuck you, LeVar Burton; you have ruined me.
#4. I'm Not as Smart as I Think I Am
When I was in grade school, an assessor came through and gave all of the children IQ tests. From my class, myself and another boy scored in the "genius level" and were considered "gifted students." This meant that we could be transferred to a special school for the remainder of the year. I was proud, surprised and a little humbled. Although I was worried about leaving all my old friends behind, I put on a brave face and agreed to the transfer, because I knew. I knew this was it: This was the day I discovered my mutant powers and joined the X-Men.
"You know what this group is missing? A bunch of chubby 10-year-old boys!"
"Gross, Cyclops."
That special school very quickly realized their mistake.
That's when I learned that intelligence is only one part of the equation that makes up genius: The other part is patience. A smart and patient child will read an interesting fact in his science book and then devote himself to the study of chemistry. A smart but impatient child will read that same science book, learn that acids and bases "react violently" and drop everything to sprint out of the classroom. Two hours later, he'll be in the principal's office for throwing water balloons full of baking soda and vinegar at the local bully under the mistaken assumption that he would explode.
You can see the same thing when you watch somebody play a game like Dishonored: The truly intelligent player stalks his prey cautiously; he memorizes the patterns and refines the angle of attack. He waits for his moment, and then strikes, merging back into the shadows before the scream can even leave his victim's lips. The impatient player will watch those same guards, slooowly walking their routes, muttering the same three lines of dialogue to each other, and he'll snap and toss a vat of exploding whale oil at them, because explosions are awesome and watching dudes mosey about unimpeded is not.
#3. My Immaturity Will Be the Death of Me
Early on in Dishonored, you're informed that empty bottles, dishes and various other items can be tossed to distract enemies. Players could grab a teacup and gently toss it into an unused alleyway to distract the cyber-ruffian below, and then, when the ruffian goes to investigate, they could drop from the sky and stick their telescoping sword right through his bowler.
They could do that.
Or they could grab a fifth of whiskey, carefully plot out the arc and velocity and then whip it right into an old-timey riot cop's face and laugh as he swears profusely and staggers about. I mean, sure, that cop's next action is to discover and immediately shoot the dude who just whipped a bottle at his head -- but just imagine the conversation they'll have when they fish your corpse down and discover that the uppity 12-year-old they thought was tossing garbage at them was instead a super-assassin with a biomechanical face, loaded up with razor-wire mines and explosive crossbow bolts, who inexplicably decided that his best method of attack was bourbon to the face.
Now, to apply it directly to the forehead ...
That's just one example of the many, many stupid practices that get me killed in Dishonored. Here's another: Like most other stealth games, Dishonored also gives the player a nonlethal option. You have choke-out holds and sleeping darts if you're not comfortable butchering old-timey policemen just trying to do their jobs. But while the developers no doubt envisioned a noble antihero stalking the shadows -- a Batmanesque figure of stern, uncompromising morality who strikes fear, even as he shows mercy -- what they got instead was me: An alternate universe 19th century pervert who sleep-darts all the guards and carefully positions their bodies so that, when they wake up -- just before they pull out their pistols and mow me down -- they find that they've been touching each other's junk.


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Ex-Dallas Catholic bishop retiring early in New Jersey
Bishop Joseph Galante is retiring early as head of the Catholic diocese in Camden, N.J., nine years after leaving Dallas in frustration over clergy sex-abuse scandals.
Galante is several months shy of the church's mandatory retirement age of 75 and suffering from chronic kidney disease, according to news reports today.
He became Dallas' coadjutor bishop in 2000. He expected to soon succeed Bishop Charles Grahmann, whose tenure was marked by a series of abuse scandals. But Grahmann refused to step aside.
Grahmann also refused to suspend a prominent priest who'd admitted "inappropriate contact" with an adult worshipper who sought a pain-relief blessing. The worshipper said the priest agreed to perform the blessing, as I reported in 2002, "then pulled down his jogging pants, groped him and propositioned him."
Galante took the extraordinary step of telling me he disagreed with Grahmann about the case. And a little over a year later, the Vatican sent him to New Jersey.
There, Galante eventually faced accusations that he, too, did too little to clean house. SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said this week that he had "basically done little or nothing in recent years to distinguish himself from the majority of his peers who continue to act recklessly, secretively and callously in child sex cases."
Grahmann finally retired in 2006 but has maintained contact with the Dallas diocese. He last appeared in one of our news stories in late 2011, when attending the dedication of a new sanctuary at St. Cecilia Catholic Church.
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Softball Rolls Past Southeast Missouri State; 11-2
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. - - After a slow start, the Ball State offense exploded for five third inning runs and never looked back in a dominating 11-2, six-inning win over Southeast Missouri State Sunday morning in its final game of the Blues City Classic at Greenbrook Park in Southaven, Miss.
In all, 11 different Cardinals (7-2) recorded at least one hit in the game, with senior left fielder Jennifer Gilbert (McKinney, Texas/McKinney) leading the way by going 3-for-4, with a triple, three runs scored and a pair of RBI.
After recording her first career save in the circle yesterday, sophomore Sammi Cowger (Fenton, Mich./Fenton) closed the game with a pinch hit double to center, driving in Ball State's final two runs and capping the run rule at 11-2.
Sophomore pitcher Kelsey Schifferdecker (Belton, Mo./Belton) turned in a solid performance in the circle for the Cardinals, improving to 4-0 on the year by limiting the Redhawks(4-4) to two runs and seven hits over 5.0 innings. Schifferdecker also struck out three batters.
Freshman Jocelyn Rivera (Brooklyn, Ohio/Brooklyn) threw the final inning for the Cardinals, holding SEMO to just one hit, while also collecting a strikeout.
The Redhawks posted the game's first run in the top of the second after a leadoff walk, back-to-back sacrifice bunts and a RBI bloop single by Nicole Deering.
With one out in the bottom of the third, the Cardinals bats found their grove in a rally started by a short single from sophomore center fielder Briana Evans (Tulsa, Okla./Tulsa). After Evans stole second, junior right fielder Loren Cihlar (St. Charles, Ill./St. Charles North) followed with a single up the middle and a stolen base of her own. Sophomore second baseman Emily Dabkowski (Plainfield, Ind./South Putnam) took advantage of the two runners in scoring position by blasting a two-run single to left to drive in the Cardinals first two runs.
With Dabkowski at second, Gilbert connected for a RBI single to right center pushing home BSU's third run of the game. Senior first baseman Taylor Rager (Fishers, Ind./Hamilton Southeastern) followed with a single to center and moved to second on the throw in to third. With Gilbert at third and freshman pinch runner Taylor Cooley (Chelsea, Mich./Chelsea) at second, senior third baseman Audrey Bickel (Munster, Ind./Andrean) smashed a single to right field to drive in BSU's final two runs of the inning and push the score to 5-1.
The Cardinals added two more runs in the bottom of the fourth, extending its lead to 7-1. Cihlar walked to open the frame and then recorded her second steal of the game. Dabkowski once again took advantage of the runner in scoring position with a RBI single to right. Gilbert followed with a single to right center and stole second to put a pair of runners in scoring position. Gilbert would eventually score the final run of the inning on a fielders' choice from Bickel who drew a throw from the catcher which allowed the run to sneak home.
SEMO tallied its second and final run of the game in the top of the fifth, thanks to a sacrifice fly from Jamie Woodworth.
After being held scoreless in the bottom of the fifth, the Cardinals tacked on four runs in the bottom of the sixth to complete the run rule and end the game. Dabkowski started the inning with a walk and crossed the plate on a RBI triple from Gilbert. Freshman first baseman Hayley Cruthers (Swartz Creek, Mich./Swartz Creek) followed with her first career hit and RBI, bringing in Gilbert with a single to center.
After senior pinch hitter Lauren Schroeder (Greenfield, Ind./New Palestine) singled through the left side, Cowger came up with her pinch hit double to center to drive in two and end the game.
SEMO's Aubrey Denno suffered the loss in the circle, falling to 2-1 on the year after allowing five runs and six hits over 2.1 innings of work.
The Ball State softball team returns to action Friday, when it opens play in the Louisville Slugger Invitational hosted by Arizona State with games versus South Carolina (4:30 pm ET/2:30 pm MT) and FIU (6:45 pm ET/4:45 pm MT).
The Cardinals cap the three-day tournament with a Sunday showdown versus No. 4 Arizona State, which is coached by former Ball State head coach Craig Nicholson.