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Several months ago, TreoCentral began organizing a pledge drive to raise enough money to convince some developer to create a driver to allow the palmOne Treo 600 to use a Bluetooth SD card.
Eventually, $5812 was pledged to the first person who could create a driver for a Bluetooth SD card that would allow this smartphone to HotSync, exchange files with another Bluetooth-enabled device, and use wireless headsets.
Sadly, the deadline of September 6 came and went without anyone winning the bounty. Even worse, TreoCentral reports being told by developers that what they wanted was impossible to accomplish, "because it was physically impossible for the Treo to access the voice stream from the radio."
So at this point it looks like Treo 600 users will never be able to use Bluetooth short-range networking with wireless headsets.
The closest thing to good news in this is the next-generation Treo is rumored to have built-in Bluetooth. This model is expected to debut in early October.
Thanks to infoSync World for the tip.
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In the cost-benefit analysis of global domination, you can probably label a fine from European regulators as a distraction.
The European Commission is fining Microsoft $731 million for failing to help consumers make a fair choice about which web browser they'll regularly use after buying a desktop PC.
More details on what that means in a moment, but the bottom line for Microsoft: the desktop browser wars are an old distraction next to the bigger battle over mobile phones, and that 561 million-euro ($731 million) fine looks like pocket change anyway.
As Christopher Mims at Quartz points out, Microsoft had a whopping $51 billion in offshore cash in 2011, and will probably use this to pay the fine.
It has likely hoarded that cash overseas to avoid paying 35% in corporation tax, a far higher sum than the fine it must now pay to the European Commission.
Microsoft must pay the fine because four years ago, it agreed to a EU demand to program a ballot screen into Windows, which would pop up the first time a buyer turned on their computer. The ballot screen offered choices between browsers: Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer, Google's Chrome, Mozilla's Firefox, Apple's Safari and Opera.
Opera Software is a Norwegian company which filed the original EU complaint against Microsoft in 2007.
It now turns out that Microsoft did not include this "browser choice screen" in its Windows 7 service pack, between May 201 and July 2012, which meant "15 million Windows users in the EU therefore did not see the choice screen during this period," according to a Commission statement.
Microsoft said that was a "technical error." European Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said intentional or not, "it calls for a sanction."
In any case, the so-called browser war has settled into a steady ranking in the last few years, with Internet Explorer holding well over half of global marketshare for web browsers, followed by Firefox at 20% and Chrome at 16.3%, according to the latest figures from NetMarketshare. Microsoft, in effect, has won it.
Its more important battle now is over mobile ecosystems. These are the software platforms that run our smartphones, dominated by Apple's iOS and Google Android, and which Microsoft is trying to infiltrate with Windows Phone.
These interfaces are far more important now than desktop web browsers ever were, because they provide their creators with commission revenue from selling mobile apps on their respective marketplaces, and licensing revenue from manufacturers.
Ironically enough, Opera's market share as a web browser has risen only incrementally, to 1.8%, since the EU enforced the voting screen.
But the company is glad to see regulators keeping Microsoft in line. It said in an emailed statement: "Opera is happy to see that the Commission is enforcing compliance with the commitment, which is critical to ensuring a genuine choice among web browsers for consumers."
$731 million because people are too stupid to know there's a choice. I only use IE on sites that require it, and if they didn't I'd uninstall it. Is Opera to cheap to advertise and let people know it's out there?
Wrong tone in headline. Hopefully, MS shareholders were protected by docking management bonuses by $731M. I'll bet that got their attention.
Look at it as a tax free way to repatriate $731M. Pay the EU in Eurodollars. Dock pay in Seattle by $731M. Helps US cash flow by $731M. What a deal.
This is absolutely stupid. Microsoft does not have a monopoly. You can always use OSX or Linux. Why should Microsoft be forced to do anything with their software? They made it! If you don't like it, use something else or make your own. I have never felt it was even remotely challenging to use another browser on Windows. Anyone feeling cornered likely has no concept of what an alternative may even be. It comes packaged with IE, just like OSX comes packaged with Safari, and most Linux distros come packaged with Firefox. Should they all be fined as well.
So let me see if I have this correct. There were fines levied in 2006, 2007 and 2012 if I remember correctly. As I see it; do we really need Europe that badly.
Maybe its time for Congress to exempt the $51 billion from taxes and have Microsoft bring the money home. Next will be Google, then Apple, then Samsung, then and on and on.
Maybe what we should be doing is closing all of our military bases – they certainly don't need our help with all the money they are collecting. Maybe we should impose bigger import fees on European products. Maybe we should start by charging European airlines carbon fees equal to twice their proposed fees. We can certainly get an American judge to do that for us if they can get a European judge to do it for them. That would really make for some good will wouldn't it.
Why we roll over and play dead like Microsoft is doing is beyond my understanding. Certainly Microsoft's attorneys are smart enough to realize this is just the tip of the iceberg and this will never end.
There is not now, nor has there ever been, any restrictions on the ability of someone in Europe from installing and using any browser they want. This stinks way beyond rotten eggs.

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Powell —
The decision to cut the hours of the Powell Post Office to four hours a day was made prior to Saturday's meeting, which left some residents upset, but they did get to have some say on which four hours a day it will be open for business.
More than a year ago, the United States Postal Service issued a decision that it would close more than 700 mostly small post offices around the country to save money. When small towns like Powell protested, saying it would detract from their local identities, the postal service relented and decided to instead downsize. Some post offices were closed and the stamp-selling, package-handling business given over to local stores. Some others, including Powell's, will merely have fewer hours.
According to a survey sent out to Powell postal customers 107 of the 119 who responded said they preferred the post office's hours be cut rather than the office closed.
In the Dallas district, which includes Navarro County, 121 offices are being affected, according to Pat McGree, who was one of the USPS representatives in Powell on Saturday.
The number of hours each post office was granted was based on customer visits and mail volume, he explained.
Several residents objected, saying the Powell Post Office is necessary, and they felt their voices weren't being heard.
"Your voices were heard, when they were talking about closing the little post offices," McGree said.
About 30 residents from Powell and the surrounding area attended Saturday's meeting. It had originally been scheduled to take place in the post office lobby, but was moved to the Powell Fire Station to accommodate the crowd.
Although the decision isn't final yet, the general consensus at the meeting was to have the Powell office open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays. Customers with post office boxes will still have access to their boxes after hours, as they do now.
Although almost all the smaller post offices in Navarro County will eventually be affected, the first offices to be cut are those without a postmaster, such as Powell.
Not all the post offices being closed are in small rural communities, he said. One of the Dallas post offices closed was the one in the federal building there, McGree explained.
"This shoe's pinching everybody," he said.
Since 1971, the U.S. Post Office has been considered a federal corporation, similar to Amtrak and the Tennessee Valley Authority, and is supposed to be self-supporting without relying on a regular influxes of taxpayer dollars. The growth of on-line banking, on-line bill-paying, and e-mail have caused a significant decrease it the bread-and-butter of the postal service — the first class stamp — leading to cuts across the board, as well as an increase in the cost of stamps.
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In Gross Old White Guys You Don't Want to Picture Having Sex news, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been free from his ultra-luxe downtown Manhattan apartment prison for days — more than enough time for you to call him up and ask him for a date!
Now, ABC News Online has put together a marvelous little story about five DSK-related conspiracy theories floating around France. Let us read on and enjoy this non-newsy news piece thrown together at the last minute to fill a publishing quota…
1. Vengeance! Under Strauss-Kahn's sexxxy leadership, the International Monetary Fund predicted that China's economy would kick American ass. This gave Obama a sadz, so he magically conjured a Guinean immigrant maid with a credibility problem to accuse Strauss-Kahn of rape, or what the French call "a gentleman's privilege."
2. Sabotage! President Sarkozy saw that this political candidate was a comer (sorry) and took him out by colluding with the owners of the Manhattan Sofitel and… magically conjuring a Guinean immigrant maid with a credibility problem to accuse Strauss-Kahn of rape.
3. Roman Polanski! Somehow this is his fault? We can safely assume that ABC News Online needed five conspiracy theories to make a nice headline (four is so much less exciting) so they threw this one in without any further explanation. Some other European was once accused of rape! Wheeeee!
4. Judaism! Or as ABC News Online puts it, "A Rich Jew With a Fondness for Women." This is obviously self-explanatory, because the U.S. hates horny Jews.
5. Other countries also were pissed at Strauss-Kahn! Specifically, the Greeks and the Russians.
Are these conspiracy theories actually being tossed around France, or did ABC News Online simply need to craft a story to satisfy some editor's arbitrary decision about content? The world may never know.
Here's an Indecision conspiracy theory: Rapist or not, DSK is grossy-gross and unfit for human sexytime. The lamestream media is free to just reprint that sentence over and over again in place of its weirdsy space-filling puff pieces.
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God, international political leaders are so bitchy. Instead of mourning the tragic retirement of sophisticated, irresistible former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, they're all jockeying to fill his place!
It's as if capitalism's head cheerleader fell off the top of the pyramid, and all the other spirit queens are sniping and backbiting their way to what they hope is the rulership of the squad…
Now that Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resigned as the chief of the International Monetary Fund, the choice of his successor is quickly turning into a competition between Europeans determined to keep the job for one of their own and leaders of emerging economic powers like China, India and South Africa that hope to break Europe's established grip on the post.
Who the hell do these second- and third-world jerks think they are? Tell 'em, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso!
"It should be a European," he said at a business conference in Brussels on Wednesday. Taken together, European members "are the biggest stakeholders in the I.M.F. Why now choose someone because he is not European? That makes no sense."
Yes, these less-pale nations should assume the position Europe has forced upon them in the past, which incidentally is not unlike the position Dominique Strauss-Kahn is alleged to have forced an African immigrant maid to assume at the Sofitel in New York City earlier this week.
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Editor's note: This is the first in a four-part installment on a first-time cruising experience.
Forgive me if this column seems a little off-kilter, but after a few days of gently rocking back and forth on a Carnival cruise ship, it feels like my office chair is as wobbly as my Uncle Jimmy at a family reunion.
My wife and I just returned from a four-night cruise to The Bahamas. It was our very first cruise, and I figured I just might return with a column idea -- in addition, of course, to sunburn and a few tropical diseases. I sure hoped I would come home with a column idea because since 1995 I've been convinced every column idea I've had is the last I'll ever have -- I've had that feeling for 884 straight weeks.
Until now. There was just too much from this cruise to cram into a single column. From the food to the Bahamian people to the ship itself, I've got enough for four columns. Actually, I've got enough for five columns if you count my brief jailing and public flogging in Nassau, but five columns just seems like overkill.
Today, let's talk about the ship itself. Getting on the thing was adventure enough -- especially when we went through security. Putting 2,000 passengers on a boat is a slow process in today's fearful society. I remember watching "The Love Boat" in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and it never took more than five minutes to find your cabin, flirt with cruise director Julie and get a drink from Isaac. So I don't know what the holdup was during our embarkation -- unless it was folks trying to smuggle liquor on board in an effort to skirt the ship's drink prices.
Granted, we did have two very large bottles of mouthwash that smelled and tasted inexplicably like rum. Strangest thing I've ever seen -- but apparently not the strangest thing the lady checking our luggage has ever seen as she gave us a wink and smile and said, "This ain't my first time."
I have no idea what she was trying to imply about our needing a half-gallon of mouthwash for four nights, but at least she was nice about it and let us keep the two bottles. And after a couple hours on the ship -- and a few mouthwashings -- I managed to put that incident behind me and begin exploring the vessel.
I discovered that a cruise ship is significantly bigger than a Basstracker, with way more stairs. There are 10 decks, spread across a ship that is 103-feet wide and 14 miles long. My poor wife never got her bearings, mouthwash or no mouthwash. She can't go to the bathroom without a GPS. If we were supposed to go down, she went up. If it was left, she went right. If the captain had let her drive the boat, we'd have wound up in Lake Eufaula -- which is a beautiful place, mind you, but not as well known for its snorkeling. Fortunately, by the end of the cruise, she well, never mind, she never got her bearings. Come to think of it, it was awfully quiet on the ride home from the port in Jacksonville.
"Um, honey?! Baby, are you here?"
I'm sure she's around here somewhere. Probably lost. Or, rather, she may have stayed on board when we were supposed to disembark today (which I thought was something you did to a tree) because she fell in love with the elves on board. The elves were some of the crew members from all over the world who sneaked into our cabin every five minutes or so and made the bed, exchanged the towels and spit-polished everything in the room. My forehead has never been so shiny!
But what truly won her heart was the way they twisted our towels into animals and set them on a shelf so that my wife would come in and squeal with delight upon seeing a walrus, moose and then an elephant in our cabin. I tried to follow suit on the last night of the cruise and twisted one of our towels into an eel, but she was not impressed. Must be because I'm not Ukrainian.
What I found amazing about the ship was that they could cram a casino, restaurants, waterslides, health facilities, bars, pools, libraries, shops, theaters, more than a thousand staterooms and Yankee Stadium onto a single vessel. It was truly spectacular.
Most spectacular, though, was what we saw from the top of the ship -- ocean, stars, the moon, islands, other vessels. Of course, on the top decks they also had something called wind. I didn't actually see it, but I know it exists because it took my straw hat and donated it to the Atlantic Ocean.
I honestly had no complaints about the ship. I thought the cabins were plenty big, and the bathrooms had super water pressure with hot water that could reach the nuclear level I like for my showers. My only issue came on the first night when some loudmouthed twentysomethings made way too much noise about 2:30 a.m. after apparently hitting the casino and bars a little too much. I worried they might resurface the rest of the cruise, but they were never heard from again.
It's quite possible they didn't make it back to the ship after our first shore excursion in Freeport or perhaps they fell over the side into the ocean, either of which was OK with me. But don't blame me for whatever happened to the loudmouths -- I merely wished for them to have hangovers and seasickness for the rest of the cruise.
Before the cruise, I worried that all the children and rugrats on the ship would be the ones who got on my nerves. But all the kids just acted like kids, laughing and playing and having innocent fun. It was instead the drunk twentysomethings throughout the ship who got on our nerves. We found ourselves far more comfortable in areas where kids played without cussing and blowing smoke. They didn't seem desperate to draw attention to themselves.
And after seeing what all the boozing did to some of the younger adults on the vessel, we found we didn't even want all the mouthwash we smuggled on board. In fact, by the end of the cruise, we poured most of it down the drain. After all, we didn't take this cruise for the mouthwash; we came for the islands. And our visits to Freeport and Nassau would be everything we expected and more, as you'll learn next week.
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Local literature aficionados are in for a treat from a Gloucester County native, whose first-ever novel takes place right here in South Jersey. Woodbury Heights native Bill Schweigart is set to release his first novel the end of this month. He says his novel—a Coast Guard thriller called Slipping the Cable—has very strong ties to the region.
His main character, Kelly, is from Ocean City and is fresh out of the academy when he is assigned to his first ship. All seems well for the character, until he finds himself at odds with the captain and ultimately becomes entangled in a battle of wills with him.
Schweigart's childhood home is directly off of Mantua Pike, not too far behind the Hollywood Diner. He lived with his parents there until he graduated from Gateway High School in 1991, then enlisting into the Coast Guard. After serving five years on active duty, Schweigart then spent some time as a corporate recruiter, before becoming affiliated with the Department of Homeland Security. He has recently moved to Arlington, VA.
"The Coast Guard has so many cool jobs," says Schweigart. "It's the perfect setting for an action story."
Reflecting on his time on active duty, Schweigart says many of his personal experiences are reflected in his novel. He recalls working on a "cutter," a small boat that could really make one's stomach turn in rough weather. Schweigart says he is not too proud to admit the rough weather even got the best of him on some occasions.
"I guess the inspiration was born in those very low moments," says Schweigart recalling the memories of seasickness.
But regardless of the occasional stomach turning, Schweigart says he loved every moment of serving in the Coast Guard, saying he "had a blast." Yet, memories of seasickness was not the only times of inspiration. Schweigart also recalls many rescue missions.
One in particular, started as an investigation of a light on the horizon. After close inspection, the light was found to be coming from a makeshift torch, comprised of a T-shirt wrapped around a baseball bat. The torch was held by one of several people trapped on a sinking pleasure boat. He remembers helping to save the boat and its passengers. The passengers spoke in a language foreign to Schweigart, but remembers them repeating one word. Upon talking to a translator, his crew learned the passengers were calling them "angels," a memory Schweigart says sticks with him to this day.
While Schweigart says the seeds for this novel were planted in his head during his time in active duty, he did not start writing until his duty was over. Schweigart began writing his novel in 1999 and finished it in 2003. In 2004, he began to send out queries, but stopped after he realized the book needed some polishing. After a "heavy edit" last year, Schweigart sent out more queries and was picked up by Martin Sisters Publishing Company.
"This is my first novel being published, so I'm pretty excited," says Schweigart.
Schweigart says his novel has appeal outside of just the Coast Guard. He maintains his book is very character driven, and is for anyone who has had an impossible boss or just needed an escape.
Currently, Schweigart says there is no promise of a sequel, but has some ideas floating around for one. He is presently working on a supernatural novel based in Virginia, but with a character native to South Jersey. He maintains that no matter where he lives, South Jersey will always be a part of him and his work.


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July 2nd UPDATE: Well, it's pretty close, but it seems "The Boys of Winter" by Wayne Coffey is our selection for July. It is available on Kindle. Please check in with your local library or book seller to see if it is available there.
I'll aim to put up the discussion post around July 26th. And then we can choose between the titles below (adding in "Tropic of Hockey" ) for the next one. Enjoy your summer puck reading!
While many of you may still be enjoying (or working through) Ken Dryden's classic, The Game, it's time to get the next Puck Readers 2010 book selected. I looked back on the poll from last month and the following books received votes or rave reviews. If you want to comment about why you think readers should choose a book, that would be awesome - and appreciated. Just check the comments for additional insight before voting, if you aren't sure.
If you want me to add another option for next month, that's also the place to do it.
The poll will close next Friday, July 2, at noon, to give people who were looking for some reading over the 4th of July holiday to pick up the book of choice. Draft and free agent talk won't last forever, unfortunately, so maybe the icey reading will keep you cool and your hockey fix supplied, as we wait out the summer for October's arrival.
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The allegations came in an article in The Daily Campus written April 29, about sexual assaults involving students.
It claims that 100 students have been sexually assaulted in the last 25 years, but the paper said only one case - involving student Monika Korra, who was raped in 2009 - was successfully prosecuted.
It blamed university officials for using more confidential administrative hearings to handle sexual assault cases, rather than having them heard in public courts.
"If you choose to go through these panels, is justice brought?" said SMU senior Brooks Igo. "That's the question."
Igo researched and wrote the story, along with fellow students Natalie Posgate and Patricia Boh.
The trio stand by their story, saying it interviewed campus police, counselors and officials from the Dallas County district attorney's office for their story.
SMU officials do not dispute the numbers, but claim it doesn't try to hide these serious crimes.
The university posts all crimes on it's web site and sends out alerts to students when a sexual assault or other serious crime is reported on- or off-campus.
"I'm disappointed with the headline, we take any allegation of sexual assault seriously," said SMU Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Lori White.
White said the newspaper's headline is misleading, and a majority of the victims of sex crimes choose not to move forward with their cases for other reasons.
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The newspaper printed a response by the university on it's web site. The response calls the report "misleading."
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Despite their impressive numbers (which are very similar to those that earned them All-Star nods last year), Wizards forwards Antawn Jamison and Caron Butler both were left off of the Eastern Conference All-Star team.
The outcome of the coaches' votes for the squads' reserves were anounced tonight and obviously, the Wizards' league-worst 9-36 record was too glaring a mark against both two-time All-Stars.
Making the Eastern Conference squad as reserves were forwards Chris Bosh (Toronto), Danny Granger (Indiana), Rashard Lewis (Orlando) and Paul Pierce (Boston) along with guards Devin Harris (New Jersey), Joe Johnson (Atlanta) and Jameer Nelson (Orlando).
The Wizards shouldn't feel too badly, however, considering Boston's Ray Allen also was left off the squad.
The Western Conference reserves were Chauncey Billups (Denver), Pau Gasol (Los Angeles), Dirk Nowitzki (Dallas), Shaquille O'Neal (Phoenix), Tony Parker (San Antonio), Brandon Roy (Portland) and David West (New Orleans).


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Eriksson, who has lived in Toronto ever since he first played here in 2000, also has another, more recent tie to the Leafs. He played with Nik Kulemin in the Russian League in 2005-06, and thought enough of him to reccommend the Leafs draft him. "You should have seen him play in Russia, he was incredible," Eriksson said. "When I saw him and he wasn't drafted, I couldn't believe it. He did everything (Evgeni Malkin) did, but he was quiet, no one cared."


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Stick it in your camera and it functions like a standard SD card, but it can do anything else you want, rotate your oldest photos off to your PC/NAS/phone, proxy the card in realtime to a 2TB hdd in your backpack, run a webserver, etc. Fully hackable, upgradable, customisable, and instantly compatible with a billion existing devices.
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Dazza: Yes, I'll need to expense $150,000 for the consultants though.
Boss: No worries.
Dazza: *clickety click ftp mss.cn files sent* Great. It should be done very soon.
Comment: WORST calculation ever. (Score 1) 355
Let them all lie down (1.7m average height) - after all this will take a while.
And then throw in 40cm between them for comfort.
You could still fit in 1.5 million people and change, or about the population of Idaho.
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- 6 page thank you note by author
- 11 page table of contents, double spaced
- 17 page prologue describing the conception of the e-book
- overly normalized content, stuffed with references to other chapters
- no index, forcing you to flip through all the pages
I don't know about you, but I don't like the sound of these e-books.
Comment: War, Detente, Disrupt, Decline (Score 1) 404
USA/Russia - War (Good vs Cheap), Detente (Nuclear brinkmanship, Cold war), Disrupt (new economies), Decline (high cost of supporting existing infrastructure/policies)
RIM/Nokia - War (Good vs Cheap), Detente (stuck to their product lines), Disrupt (Touch replaced T9 / Qwerty), Decline (high cost of losing customers & late entry to new markets)
Apple/Google - War (Good vs Cheap), now settling into a comfortable Detente. They're not stupid. They both know there will be a Disruption. It won't come from Microsoft and Blackberry making "me too" phones.
Apple will try and do it themselves, with loads of secret R&D. Google are trying to do it with loads of public R&D (driverless cars, Glass, Nexus Q, Ingress).
But it's inevitable. One day, some other company will blindside them and Disrupt them utterly.
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Comment: Phone linked to credit card after two visits. (Score 1) 323
Each time you go to the checkout, the software can associate your phone's ID with (say) 20-30 payments happening in that vicinity.
After the second time you've been through the checkout, they will know who you are.
Comment: Why even bother with a console? (Score 2) 267
Costs US$199, most games are under $5. Goes with the kids in the car, in the bedroom, but still easy to confiscate and lock away.
Far better selection of educational games, not just twitch reflex shooters.
Serves double duty as a media player. Movies, music, Youtube.
Serves triple duty as an internet research / learning tool. How do volcanoes work? Look it up.
With Android 4.2 you can set up individual user accounts for each child & parent, so the whole family can use it. But it's still cheap enough that you can buy one for each person if you wanted.
Honestly, why would you get a console?
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Apple: Our iDevice is now FREE but requires an iCloud account. iCloud is $39 a month.
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Our secular culture sees health as something we can buy. The technological discoveries of the past century have all but eliminated many diseases including smallpox, polio and malaria. They have extended life expectancy. Advances in surgical techniques allow surgeons to operate on all the organs of our body. We turn to specialists in the health-care industry to diagnose and treat our illnesses. Our primary-care physician refers us to oncologists, neurologists and gynecologists. To improve our health, we turn to personal trainers, nutrition counselors and therapists.
Health has become a puzzle. Specialists must draw on technical skill and knowledge to restore the function of whatever organ is malfunctioning.
We have privatized our health. It takes a lot of money to restore our health if we get sick. Health insurance for a family of four costs at least $10,000 per year. We have come to see good health as an entitlement. We complain about how expensive it is, but we are entitled to it. We all expect to live to be at least 85. And if we get a disease, we expect a physician to cure us.
The World Health Organization has a broader definition of health as: A "complete mental, social and physical well-being." The Hebrews had a word for it: "shalom."
Ancient religions had insight into health that we have lost. Shamans treated illness as if it were more than a private problem of one patient. It was a sign of a cosmic imbalance. Scientists today are exploring the link between pesticides and diseases such as allergies and asthma. Pollution to the environment may be responsible for some disease.
Jesus was known as a healer. There are different types of healing miracles in every gospel. He didn't rely on technology; he fused healing and salvation in his ministry by forgiving and accepting people and bringing them back into community. Healing was about restoring the unity that ties people together.
Different streams of Christian tradition have lost that sense of unity. Pentecostals celebrate faith healers. Christian Scientists refuse medical care and rely on prayer. Mainline Christians turn to health-care professionals for their physical illnesses and seek out their ministers and their churches only for spiritual problems.
If we put health in a theological light, we will see health as a gift rather than a right. In fact, our entire life is a gift.
Life itself is an expression of God's creativity. God created a world in which randomness still exists. God created order out of chaos, but there is still some chaos. A child can die in a tragic accident. EF-5 tornadoes can flatten communities. Good people can get cancer.
We can rely on the creativity of health-care specialists to treat our diseases, but we should recognize that they have a limited role. They are focusing on the function of one organ. They can't do anything about the cosmic imbalance.
Health is about more than physical well-being. Health includes spiritual and social well-being. A cancer patient can rightly be called a healthy person if they are spiritually grounded and if they are connected to a loving and supportive community of family, friends and church.
If they are spiritually grounded, they accept reality for what it is. They let go of entitlement. They are thankful for the good health that God had given them up until the time of their illness. I can't imagine anything more difficult than losing a child but at least you enjoyed the company of an angel for a little while.
Part of the damage caused by illness is social isolation. The sick in ancient societies were ritually unclean. They were excluded from society until they were purified. Who can forget the leper colonies in the movie "Ben Hur"?
God heals brokenness, whether it is our bodies or our spirit or our relationships that are broken. God restores our health. No charge. It is the peace of God that surpasses all understanding.
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Tickets are available at the door as well as online at www.springcommunitypartners.org/talentshow. Tickets are $5.00 for students and $7.00 for adults.
The talent show is presented by Spring Community Partners, in conjuction with the Dobbs Ferry Youth Council and the Dobbs Ferry Public Library Teen Advisory Group. Proceeds will benefit the programs of SPRING, ensuring that all children in Dobbs Ferry have the resources they need to succeed in school and beyond.


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Heavy rain arrived late Thursday morning and local temperatures started dropping by noon. The rain changed to sleet and soon became snow as the complex system that the National Weather Service predicted delivered snow at a rate of 2 inches per hour. The hazardous conditions delivered by the wintry mix provided a real challenge for drivers and law enforcement officers.
"It's not too hard to get around in the snow," Major Darrell Bailey. "The problem is that with all of these wrecks, you can't get anywhere."
Peter Corrigan, a meteorologist/hydrologist with the Blacksburg, Va., office of the National Weather Service said that in spite of the complex nature of the winter storm system, it was "acting to script" through the day.
"Our radar is down right now so we're having to track the system by piecing it together from other radar images from offices surrounding us," Corrigan said. He said that by mid-afternoon, he had heard a report of a snowfall total of 4 inches in Bluefield during the first two hours of the event.
"It's a fast-moving system that will dump a lot of snow in the area, and be out of there quickly," Corrigan said. He predicted that the snow would move out of the region by about 10 p.m., Thursday night.
"It has been a unique and interesting system," Corrigan said. He said that the lack of local radar has reduced the chance to track the individual of bands as the system passed through the mountains, but he said that the storm has acted as predicted. "This one won't last too much longer," he said.
Dr. Deborah Akers, superintendent of Mercer County Schools said that she did not hesitate about canceling school although the storm brought only rain through the morning.
"The information we had early (Thursday) morning was that our area was under a winter storm warning," Akers said. "A warning is the third level of possibility with an advisory being the first, followed by a watch and then the warning. Since it looked like the storm going to get hit, I didn't hesitate."
Akers said that the early period of rain was somewhat misleading. "In the morning I thought it could just be a rain event, but I think the Weather Service has a pretty good ability to predict a major snow storm."
Akers wasn't that fortunate on Dec. 18, 2009 when a fast-moving snow storm blew into Mercer County at about 12 noon, and made the roads almost impassible before the buses could get to the schools and pick up students.
"We were under a winter storm advisory that day, and the storm wasn't supposed to get here until late that evening," Akers said. "The safety of our students, faculty and staff members is a priority."
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Heavy rain arrived late Thursday morning and local temperatures started dropping by noon. The rain changed to sleet and soon became snow as the complex system that the National Weather Service predicted delivered snow at a rate of 2 inches per hour. The hazardous conditions delivered by the wintry mix provided a real challenge for drivers and law enforcement officers.
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Past projects in Half Moon Bay have included developing a watershed management plan for Pilarcitos Creek that balanced the needs and interests of farmers, ecotourism, and residential users; removing a barrier in Frenchman's Creek so fish could pass through; and providing technical assistance to nurseries on water quality and habitat protection.
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Spectacular ratings for an All Star spectacleBy
The numbers are in, and this week's 15-inning All Star marathon at Yankee Stadium was a huge ratings hit. As Maury Brown at the Biz of Baseball reports, an estimated 14.54 million viewers watched the game, the most viewers of the Mid-Summer Classic in the last six years. Brown also notes that Monday's Home Run Derby was the highest rated cable TV broadcast of the year and that merchandise sales — including the popular Statues on Parade — and FanFest attendance reached record highs as well. Brown does offer up an interesting question to ponder: How can MLB top this year's Yankee Stadium send-off next year and in years to come?
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Can they? I'd argue that the big reason people watched this was because it was all about the Yankees and their stadium.
Yeah. I think Hamilton in the derby helped stir up some excitment for the game as well.
It's funny were knocking it for the lack of "stars"
Wow, maybe they should make the old Yankee stadium the permanent place of the All star game like they should do to Athens Greece and the Olympics and like what the NFL did with the Probowl in Hawaii.
Because the Olympics are always held in Athens Greece……………………………
my mistake, didn't see the "should do". You really think they should keep the olympics in one place?
anybody read that jim caple article about thr allstar game on espn? it was such bullshit he basically talked about how the one at fenway was soooo much better and classier. he called this years a ripoff of what the sox did. then in the last few sentences he mentions how it was pretty cool they had the old timers line up in their old positions. i dont like to speculate about the supposed red sox bias but its shit like that that pisses me off why disparage? such crap
Is it me, or is this the first time in a very, very long time where there has been a positive news story on baseball's TV ratings?
It seems like every time the topic of TV ratings come up, it's always disappointing.
Where are Mike and the Mad Dog to break down these numbers and help us make sense of all this???
The HR derby should be 2 rounds only. After the 8 guys hit in the 1st round, drop the bottom 2 and let the rest get a second round with the leaders going last and add both rounds together. Highest total wins. Three rounds is too many for most players. Hamilton would've had the title locked up and could just put on an exhibition without worrying about tiring out.


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1884 fans, now we're getting somewhere! Gone are maps, appearing are books (with a subtle Braille wallpaper behind), and the argument gains a new dimension.
(Wait, holy bananas, did I just invent Braille wallpaper? Has that been done before, or should I call my patent attorney? Can you imagine your living room done in Harry Potter, or something dirty by Henry Miller? Blind interior decorators, call me, I have notions to burn.)
So Frank makes a valuable point. Linotype made printing faster and easier, and as a result we now have books flying out of machines, 750,000 every second or something. I mean, it's gotten so bad that Nick Hornby needs me to feel bad for watching Burn Notice to get me to buy his latest novel, which probably was about music and guys who don't date good, I think.
Anyway, kudos to Frank, kudos to Linotype. The argument's pushed and our match goes one step forward. Though I'll complain that, graphically, this is all pretty dull, right? Where's the dish? Where's color, sex, fire?
Fans, countrywomen, those who too love Dolly, I want more Boom.
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Mark Hunt recently did an extended interview with Rogue Magazine and expounded on a number of subjects including Fedor, Kimbo, his beef with Zuffa, and being labeled a Soldier of Fortune for following the $$$.......
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Q. So tell us about the MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) deal with DREAM?
A. Now that the K1 thing is out of the way it's all good baby: all MMA and MMA only. These guys (DREAM) want me to fight Aleksander (Emelianeko) in about three weeks time on May 11th! I was like no way because it's too short a time with no training. I don't want risk fighting like that. But if they compensate me enough for taking that risk then it's all good and I'll fight. The money has to be right. DREAM plan was to see how Fedor (Emelianeko) goes and when and if he wins the DREAM title, and then I will fight him.
As a fan that has been waiting forever to see the Aleks vs Hunt slugfest finally go down, this is music to my ears. Sure, neither guy has much of a ground game to speak of but the stand-up will be of epic proportions. As for the Fedor re-match, it is possible they are looking at Hunt vs Fedor as a back up plan for the Fall, in case the Randy Couture vs Fedor fight falls through; if not, then Hunt-Fedor 2 would wait after until Fedor's rumored Dynamite showdown with Mirko, making it early '09.
Q. How about you in the UFC? What's the likelihood of that happening?
A. I don't know, not sure about that or them... they wasted my time after the whole Pride buy out promising everything under the sun and when that turned to crap, I waited for all that time and my contract came to nothing. However if the dollars are right then it's fight time...
Q. What do you mean by waiting for all that time after the Pride take over?
A. Once Pride was bought over, as someone on the Pride team I was promised all these fights and etc. which never happened. So it wasted a good chunk of my career and I was inactive. I could have done so much and fought good in that time. They owe me for that, I should have and could have very easily fought the top guys but that little episode didn't allow me to. I am a man of my word and I was messed around......So UFC should have kept good on their word- It's a real shame but that's the fight game.
Hunt may overstate the ill effects of the just under a year he was under Zuffa contract, but he makes several valid points here and in the remainder of the interview. Joachim Hansen was another Pride fighter that was being offered around half or a third of what their contracted payouts were under their Pride deals, and like Hunt was sidelined for the better part of 08. Honor the previous contracts , like they did with the WFA purchase, or give them a release......doing otherwise seems unfairly punitive.
Q. ROGUE coined you on the term "Soldier of Fortune"- you took some flack on internet forums for that, your thoughts?
A. Yeah I get that a bit. That's the way it is and honestly not too many people in this game do it for love. I am honest and up front about it. It's the way it is. Fighting professionally is good and always, I think of the money and do it. It's something you could get hurt doing so you need to be compensated for it. Look at how promoters and big companies like K1 make money off fighters and give the fans entertainment. So it's the way it is and yeah I am a mercenary as you called it, "Soldier of Fortune": you hit that sh*t on the money baby, love your work!
As much as the fans and (socialist) bloggers hate to hear it, Hunt hits it right on the button. While we often hear the arguments that money has ruined boxing and hopefully MMA guys won't be making the big money so that they will stay hungry, Mark boils down the whole fight game to one revolving around money. In a trade of body parts and brain cells for dollars and cents, I don't begrudge a fighter that drives the hardest bargain possible.
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Pat O'Brien to Talk About His Recovery from Alcoholism at Dinner for The Healing Place
By Rick Howlett
Friday night, The Healing Place will hold its 9th annual Celebrate Freedom Dinner, marking the success of those who have been helped by the Louisville addiction recovery facility and homeless shelter.
The guest speaker for the dinner is Pat O'Brien of Fox Sports Radio.
The former host of the TV entertainment programs Access Hollywood and The Insider will talk about his recovery from alcoholism and the events that led him to seek treatment. They included a highly public scandal involving graphic voice mail messages he left on a woman's cell phone.
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I write about video games: the industry and the culture.
Alyssa Rosenberg live-blogged the Emmy's. I don't typically watch the Emmy's or any other award show, but I do like reading about the winners and last night Modern Family won big. Alyssa muses:
It's really unfortunate that Modern Family has a gay couple that it's explicitly decided aren't married (and I know that's true because the actors who play Mitch and Cam told me that at the HRC Awards last year). It's true that Mitch and Cam are humanizing gay couples, but the show really should have taken that step if it wants major credit for being groundbreaking.
I disagree! Not that having a married gay couple wouldn't be groundbreaking – it certainly would be. No, I disagree that it's unfortunate that Mitch and Cam aren't married…yet.
You see, I'm almost positive that during the show we'll see the couple get officially, legally hitched. I'm not sure if this will follow the return of gay marriage to California, or whether they'll tie the knot-tying into the show in some other way, but I do think we'll get the wedding. The act of getting married on the show would be far more powerful and emotionally moving than having Mitch and Cam married from the outset. Hell, I got all teary in the "Hawaii" episode when Phil threw Claire the surprise second-wedding.
I could be wrong, of course, but a wedding makes for great television. A gay wedding on Modern Family would not only be fantastic TV, it would be a really great moment for gay rights, equality and social progress in America. Furthermore, Americans are ready for it – for the first time ever, more Americans support rather than oppose gay marriage.
Those that support gay marriage simply don't know the difference between right and wrong.
Yes, you could say that, but the difference is I'M RIGHT, and you're wrong. That's right Mr. Kain, anybody who thinks marriage is between a man and a woman is a bigot.
Yes, I could provide all kinds of "arguments," but you wouldn't buy 'em anyway. Why waste my time (and yours).


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Entertainment behind the scenes
Larry King — from broadcast to bagels
Just days after announcing he will be quitting his CNN interview show in the fall, Larry King has found a new job that takes him right back to his Brooklyn roots — promoting a new bagel franchise.
King, 76, is to play a key role in promoting and developing the franchise business for the Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co, and help with training and seminars, the company said on Thursday.
The Florida-based franchise is a quick-service restaurant chain that creates Brooklyn-flavored water and uses it in bagels, sandwiches and coffee.
King, who was born in Brooklyn and whose father was a restaurant owner, is apparently a big fan.
"American Idol" favorite talked out of quitting
Scary news from the usually-closely guarded "American Idol" camp.
Seems front-runner Crystal Bowersox — the only contestant this season to get consistently rave reviews from both the judges and the viewing public — had a bit of a meltdown a couple of weeks ago and was persuaded against quitting the show only by the wisdom of "Idol" host Ryan Seacrest.
Seacrest, whose busy career also includes presenting a celebrity news TV show for E!, confirmed a TMZ report on Friday that he had talked the dreadlocked young mom into staying in the competition in a parking lot showdown after she said she hated the attention and missed her family too much to continue.
Fall? What fall? J.Lo says the day after AMAs
Jennifer Lopez is laughing off her fall at the American Music Awards on Sunday night.
"Did I trip a little bit? I don't even remember," the "Jenny from the Block" singer said on Monday morning to Ryan Seacrest on his Los Angeles radio show.
Ryan Seacrest looks for "sexual tension" from new "American Idol" judge Ellen DeGeneres
The stars of Fox's "American Idol" expect great things from new judge Ellen DeGeneres , but they are all saying something different about her addition to the judging panel of Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi, and her replacement of songstress Paula Abdul.
Host Ryan Seacrest told Fox News at the Primetime Emmy awards on Sunday that DeGeneres, a comedian with her own daytime chat show, is a "superstar."
Can Ellen fill Paula's shoes on "American Idol"?
"American Idol" producers moved swiftly to replace Paula Abdul with comedian and TV chat show host Ellen DeGeneres as the new judge on the show which starts again in January.
But is Ellen the right fit for the show?
Fans are split and even media watchers were stunned by the move, which serves the dual function of closing the door permanently on Paula, and making the show talked about all over again after a summer of shock announcements.
Paula Abdul — no longer an "American Idol"?
Are "American Idol" producers really going to dump Paula Abdul after all these years?
Or is the emotional judge (or her representatives) just playing mind-games at this late stage in a bid to get a better offer for the next few years after Ryan Seacrest upped the stakes by securing a new three-year deal reputed to be worth around $15 million a year?
"Idol" turns to Kara for winner's first single
Adam Lambert and Kris Allen will be getting all the attention on Tuesday when they sing for the "American Idol" title. But new judge Kara DioGuardi will also be sharing the limelight.
Songwriter DioGuardi, who has worked in the past with Kelly Clarkson and co-wrote Ashlee Simpson's hit single "Pieces of Me", is credited as co-writer of "No Boundaries" — the new song that will be released as a single by the winner of the TV talent show, music industry sources say.
Is Kris Allen really a dark horse going into "Idol" finale?
"American Idol" on Tuesday entered the last week of competition before the finale, and we at "Fan Fare" had the good fortune to land second-row seats in the talent show's live studio audience. (For the record, this twist of fate had nothing to do with our coverage of the show — it was good old-fashioned standing in line combined with almost two years of being on a waiting list.)
Watching "Idol" in its natural habitat revealed dozens of quirks imperceptible to the 25 million or so viewers who tune in at home. First off, the studio was smaller than expected — even more intimate than watching a live show in a theater. One audience member in our row even remarked that it was smaller than her college lecture hall.
Simon Cowell becomes a stand-up guy
It's an unusual night on "American Idol" when the normally sharp-tongued judge Simon Cowell offers a contestant a standing ovation, which is exactly what he did at the end of Tuesday's show in reaction to Adam Lambert's performance. Granted that Cowell had to offer succinct praise because the show was out of time, but he was definitely acting out of character when he stood up and gushed over Lambert's singing.
Lambert chose the 1982 hit "Mad World" by Tears for Fears, a selection much less well known than the songs other contestants performed. This week, the Idols had to pick a song from the year they were born. The judges were tough on a couple of them over their song choice, with Lil Rounds getting the worst of it.
Who would the "Idol" judges save?
Top 9 contestant Megan Joy danced off the "American Idol" stage on Wednesday night after she said midway through the show that she did not care that judge Simon Cowell disliked her performance on Tuesday night. Cowell responded later on by telling her: "Megan with the greatest respect, when you said you don't care, nor do we." So with no chance that the judges would save her, when Megan sang Bob Marley's "Turn Your Lights Down Low" one more time, it was all about the pathos.
When will the judges step up and use their save? Although there was some lively discussion on the panel last week when oil worker Michael Sarver sang his last song, few were surprised when the judges declined to save him.


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University of Vermont
University Scholars for 2012 - 2013
Each year, four distinguished faculty members – two from the basic and applied sciences, and two from the social sciences and humanities – are named University Scholars in recognition of their sustained excellence in research and scholarly activities. University Scholars are selected by a panel of faculty scholars, based upon nominations submitted by UVM faculty.
For a listing of all our prior scholars, please click here.
Our 2012 - 2013 University Scholars are:
- M. Cristina Mazzoni, Professor & Interim Chair, Romance Languages, College of Arts and Sciences
- Mercedes Rincon, Professor, Medicie, College of Medicine
- Stephanie Seguino, Professor, Economics, College of Arts and Sciences
- Margaret A. Vizzard, Professor, Neurology, College of Medicine
It is nearly impossible to briefly summarize the many accomplishments of these distinguished colleagues, but below you'll find at least a little introduction to them. During the next academic year, each of these University Scholars will present a public seminar about their work. The Graduate College will announce these, and we hope you'll join us for those notable events.
M. Cristina Mazzoni
Professor & Interim Chair, Romance Languages, College of Arts and Sciences
M. Cristina Mazzoni received a Bachelor of Arts degree in General Literature, summa cum laude, from the University of California, San Diego, and a PhD degree in Comparative Literature from Yale University. Her first teaching appointment was at Connecticut College, and she joined the UVM faculty as Assistant Professor of Romance Languages in 1993, rising to the rank of Professor in 2005.
Professor Mazzoni's scholarship is in the field of comparative literary studies, and her primary research focus is on gender, spirituality, and maternity. She has authored seven books, published by prestigious university presses including Cambridge, Chicago, and Cornell. In addition to her books, Mazzoni has published some thirty-five peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in leading journals in both English and Italian, publications that demonstrate and emphasize her remarkable scholarly range.
In addition to her research and scholarship, Professor Mazzoni is deeply committed to teaching, including Italian language, literature, and culture at all levels. When she arrived at UVM, the University had only a small Italian program. Today, thanks in large part to Mazzoni's efforts, it is the third largest UVM language program, offering a major in Italian Studies and minors in Italian and Italian Studies. Indeed, one of her books is a popular one for language learning, Italian Made Simple, and she maintains an Italian-language website accessed the world over.
At UVM, Mazzoni has served on several College committees, as Honors College Coordinator and Faculty Mentor, and she currently serves as Interim Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Linguistics. Among her UVM honors is the Dean's Lecture Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Teaching (from the College of Arts and Sciences).
Mercedes Rincon
Professor, Medicine, College of Medicine
Mercedes Rincon received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and PhD in Immunology, both from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, following which she held positions as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate Research Scientist, Immunobiology Department, Yale University School of Medicine. Professor Rincon was appointed Assistant Professor in the UVM Department of Medicine, Immunobiology Program, in 1996, and promoted to Professor in 2009. She is a faculty member in a number of UVM programs, including the Vermont Cancer Center, Environmental Pathology Training Program, Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Vermont Lung Center, and Vermont Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases.
Professor Rincon is a highly respected scientist nationally and internationally in the field of cytokine gene regulation and MAP kinases in T lymphocyte function, as well as in the role of Interleukin-6 (IL-6) in a variety of immune functions, including asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer. A basic scientist, she is very interested in clinical medicine and has pushed her basic research in a translational direction. Her research has been supported with substantial funding from the National Institutes of Health and a wide variety of private foundations. Rincon has published 120 articles, many of them in the top journals, including Science and Immunity. Many of her publications have been frequently cited by other researchers, strong testimony to the importance of her work. In addition, she has published a number of invited review articles. She is also a frequent reviewer for numerous journals, Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Medicine and Journal of Immunology, and Editor of the International Journal of Biological Science. She has been appointed to various NIH study sections, and has reviewed projects for the European Research Council and other international funding agencies.
In terms of mentoring and service at UVM, Professor Rincon has mentored many undergraduate, Ph.D., and M.D. students, as well as postdoctoral and clinical fellows, in her laboratory. She started and has directed the UVM Transgenic Mouse facility since her arrival at the University, and has periodically taught an intensive graduate level course on "Genetic Manipulation of Mice". In addition, she has been a member of the Steering Committee for the Cell and Molecular Biology Program since she joined UVM, and the UVM Women's Mentoring Program.
Stephanie Seguino
Professor, Economics, College of Arts and Sciences
Stephanie Seguino received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Maine, in International affairs and Political Science, and Economics, respectively, and a PhD in Economics from The American University. Prior to beginning doctoral study she was an economist with USAID's Haiti Mission, and prior to her appointment as Assistant Professor at UVM in 1995 she served as an Instructor at both American University and the University of Southern Maine, and a Research Associate and Assistant Professor at the University of Maine.
Professor Seguino's research focuses on the relationship between inequality, growth, and development. Recent work analyzes the causes and implications of the global economic crisis, the effects of globalization on inequality, the impact of religiosity on gender relations, and human well-being as a goal of macroeconomic policy. The results of her research are reported in many articles in a range of important journals, book chapters, and a book, "Inequality, Development, and Growth". In addition, she has authored a variety of background papers and monographs, papers commissioned by international development agencies, including several for the United Nations Research Institute on Social Development.
Stephanie Seguino is a Research Scholar at the Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts – Amherst; Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; Associate Editor of Feminist Economics and the Journal of Human Development; editorial board member of Review of Keynesian Economics; and past president of the International Association for Feminist Economics. She is also an instructor in the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE), a training program in development economics for scholars, trade unionist and policy makers from the Global South.
At UVM, Seguino has taught a broad range of courses in economics, including the regional economies of East Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, and she has chaired a number of student thesis defenses. In addition, she has taught extensively in international settings, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of West Indies. Her administrative service includes chairing the Department of Economics, a term as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and membership on a number of important University committees.
Margaret A. Vizzard
Professor, Neurology, College of Medicine
Margaret Vizzard earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology from Temple University, and PhD in Physiology from Thomas Jefferson University, following which served as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor in the Pharmacology Department of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She joined the UVM faculty as Assistant Professor in the departments of Neurology and Anatomy and Neurobiology in 1995, and was appointed full Professor in 2005.
Professor Vizzard is a nationally and internationally recognized expert and leader in system neuroscience related to the neural control of the lower urinary tract system. She has developed multidisciplinary approaches and technologies that reveal new insights into the fundamental mechanisms by which the nervous system responds to injury and inflammatory processes related to the genitourinary system and beyond. Her research has been supported by a variety of federal and private agencies including the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association, American Paralysis Association, Interstitial Cystitis Association and Spinal Cord Research Foundation. It has been reported in more than eighty publications in important journals, and in many invited review articles and presentations at research symposia.
Within the professions, Vizzard is a grant reviewer for NIH study sections, manuscript reviewer for numerous journals, serves on an editorial board for the American Journal of Physiology, and as an associate editor for other journals.
As a teacher, Professor Vizzard is highly regarded by her students. For many years, her responsibilities have included teaching and administering the large Human Neuroscience course taken by graduate students in physical therapy, as well as advanced undergraduates. Vizzard regularly provides research experiences for undergraduate students, has been the research advisor for a number of graduate students, and has also mentored both post-doctoral researchers and UVM faculty.
Her extensive UVM service includes chairing the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and College of Medicine Research Committee. Beyond UVM, Vizzard also volunteers in community projects, judging science fairs and promoting women in science.