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Top five ways to do business unethically in India
Over a decade long career , I have often been reminded of this saying from erstwhile mentors in long forgotten consulting email group- It is not WHAT you KNOW, it is WHO you KNOW. The power of WHO you KNOW can defeat even what you know , have learnt or worked hard at. Accordingly these are some wry observations on how businesses sometimes take shortcuts in India, and the whys and wherefores.
1) Regulatory Arbitrage due to Lack of Regulatory Oversight- This is especially true in terms of labor practices. This includes under-paying Caucasians and non -Indians for internships , or jobs (in the name of sponsoring the work visa). India is an extremely inexpensive place to stay in, but it is sometimes unfriendly (in terms of laws not people) to people visiting from the West. This ranges from amusing things to paying 10 times the price for non Indian visitors to Taj Mahal- to not so funny things as paying them lower salaries because they need a reason to stay on. Unfortunately this is true in many countries -underpaying aliens, but it is much better regulated in the West.
2) Stealing Intellectual Property- I have often known people to steal presentations and even excel macros from the place they were working to the new place. Almost no one gets prosecuted for intellectual property theft (unless you are caught with 10,000 pirated music or film cds)
3) Using Pirated Softwares – Lack of awareness of FOSS means many SMEs use shortcuts including downloading software from Pirate Bay and using this to work for clients in the West. Example- This could be as simple as downloading SAS software from Internet, or using WPS software for training and mis-representing SAS Institute's name. (added confusion due to SAS -software,company,language ) . There are other major companies who suffer from this too, notably Microsoft.
This could be as complex as using academic versions of enterprise software for businesses purposes. In each case because of the geography, legal risk is quite low, and returns quite high from pirated software. It also helps lower the unethical vendor's quotation of prices compared to the one who is doing it straight.
One way to avoid this is -ask your vendor to show you copy of how many legal licence's for software. It can also help in cutting down exaggerated bench strength claims of vendors, as sometimes businesses hire many people and then put them on internal projects.
4) Illegal Trade practices- This include making employees sign a 1 year bond for not leaving the company after they have visited the West for company work- in the name of training . This also includes abusing the loopholes in various types of visa.
5) Ignoring signed contracts and negotiating to lower prices at every step illegally, in collusion with other vendors ( there is no effective anti -trust act ) and using the complete inadequate and lengthy nature of filing court cases in India.
Almost every non Indian client I know pays on time- almost every Indian client I know needs reminders. This is more of a mindset problem , knowing the reluctance to file lawsuits in India given slow progress in the courts ( India has 1.2 billion people and per capita access to judges and lawyers is quite low). The buzz word is- How much can we settle this? Lets do a settlement!
In the long run, this is choking off growth and potential of SMEs in India. In a continuing series- I will help the non Indian users with ways to use technology for legal remedies in India for intellectual property along with known case studies and examples.
How to use Bit Torrents
I really liked the software Qbittorent available from http://www.qbittorrent.org/ I think bit torrents should be the default way of sharing huge content especially software downloads. For protecting intellectual property there should be much better codes and software keys than presently available.
The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µtorrent. Additionally, qBittorrent runs and provides the same features on all major platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD).
qBittorrent is based on Qt4 toolkit and libtorrent-rasterbar.
qBittorrent v2 Features
- Polished µTorrent-like User Interface
- Well-integrated and extensible Search Engine
- Simultaneous search in most famous BitTorrent search sites
- Per-category-specific search requests (e.g. Books, Music, Movies)
- All Bittorrent extensions
- DHT, Peer Exchange, Full encryption, Magnet/BitComet URIs, …
- Remote control through a Web user interface
- Nearly identical to the regular UI, all in Ajax
- Advanced control over trackers, peers and torrents
- Torrents queueing and prioritizing
- Torrent content selection and prioritizing
- UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
- Available in ~25 languages (Unicode support)
- Torrent creation tool
- Advanced RSS support with download filters (inc. regex)
- Bandwidth scheduler
- IP Filtering (eMule and PeerGuardian compatible)
- IPv6 compliant
- Sequential downloading (aka "Download in order")
- Available on most platforms: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD
So if you are new to Bit Torrents- here is a brief tutorialSome terminology fromTracker
- A tracker is a server that keeps track of which seeds and peers are in the swarm.
- A Seed is used to refer to a peer who has 100% of the data. When a leech obtains 100% of the data, that peer automatically becomes a Seed.
- A peer is one instance of a BitTorrent client running on a computer on the Internet to which other clients connect and transfer data.
- A leech is a term with two meanings. Primarily leech (or leeches) refer to a peer (or peers) who has a negative effect on the swarm by having a very poor share ratio (downloading much more than they upload, creating a ratio less than 1.0)
1) Download and install the software from http://www.qbittorrent.org/2) If you want to search for new files, you can use the nice search features in here3) If you want to CREATE new bit torrents- go to Tools -Torrent Creator4) For sharing content- just seed the torrent you just created. What is seeding – hey did you read the terminology in the beginning?5) Additionally -FromTrackers: Below are some popular public trackers. They are servers which help peers to communicate.
Here are some good trackers you can use:
- When a file is new, much time can be wasted because the seeding client might send the same file piece to many different peers, while other pieces have not yet been downloaded at all. Some clients, like ABC, Vuze, BitTornado, TorrentStorm, and µTorrent have a "super-seed" mode, where they try to only send out pieces that have never been sent out before, theoretically making the initial propagation of the file much faster. However the super-seeding becomes less effective and may even reduce performance compared to the normal "rarest first" model in cases where some peers have poor or limited connectivity. This mode is generally used only for a new torrent, or one which must be re-seeded because no other seeds are available.
- Note- you use this tutorial and any or all steps at your own risk. I am not legally responsible for any mishaps you get into. Please be responsible while being an efficient bit tor renter. That means respecting individual property rights.
Interview Prof Benjamin Alamar , Sports Analytics
Here is an interview with Prof Benjamin Alamar, founding editor of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sport, a professor of sports management at Menlo College and the Director of Basketball Analytics and Research for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the NBA.
Ajay – The movie Moneyball recently sparked out mainstream interest in analytics in sports.Describe the role of analytics in sports management
Benjamin- A very typical first step for a team is to utilize the tools of predictive analytics to help inform their draft decisions.
Benjamin- I got involved in sports through a company called Protrade Sports. Protrade initially was a fantasy sports company that was looking to develop a fantasy game based on advanced sports statistics and utilize a stock market concept instead of traditional drafting. I was hired due to my background in economics to develop the market aspect of the game.
There I met Roland Beech (who now works for the Mavericks) and Aaron Schatz (owner of footballoutsiders.com) and learned about the developing field of sports statistics. I then changed my research focus from economics to sports statistics and founded the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. Through the journal and my published research, I was able to establish a reputation of doing quality, useable work.
For students, I recommend developing very strong data management skills (sql and the like) and thinking carefully about what sort of questions a general manager or coach would care about. Being able to demonstrate analytic skills around actionable research will generally attract the attention of pro teams.
Benjamin Alamar, Professor of Sport Management, Menlo College
Professor Benjamin Alamar is the founding editor of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sport, a professor of sports management at Menlo College and the Director of Basketball Analytics and Research for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the NBA. He has published academic research in football, basketball and baseball, has presented at numerous conferences on sports analytics. He is also a co-creator of ESPN's Total Quarterback Rating and a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal. He has consulted for teams in the NBA and NFL, provided statistical analysis for author Michael Lewis for his recent book The Blind Side, and worked with numerous startup companies in the field of sports analytics. Professor Alamar is also an award winning economist who has worked academically and professionally in intellectual property valuation, public finance and public health. He received his PhD in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2001.
Prof Alamar is a speaker at Predictive Analytics World, San Fransisco and is doing a workshop there
Track 1: Sports Analytics
Case Study: NFL, MLB, & NBA
Competing & Winning with Sports Analytics
The field of sports analytics ties together the tools of data management, predictive modeling and information systems to provide sports organization a competitive advantage. The field is rapidly developing based on new and expanded data sources, greater recognition of the value, and past success of a variety of sports organizations. Teams in the NFL, MLB, NBA, as well as other organizations have found a competitive edge with the application of sports analytics. The future of sports analytics can be seen through drawing on these past successes and the developments of new tools.
You can know more about Prof Alamar at his blog http://analyticfootball.blogspot.in/ or journal at http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jqas. His detailed background can be seen at http://menlo.academia.edu/BenjaminAlamar/CurriculumVitae
Analytics for Cyber Conflict
The emerging use of Analytics and Knowledge Discovery in Databases for Cyber Conflict and Trade Negotiations
The blog post is the first in series or articles on cyber conflict and the use of analytics for targeting in both offense and defense in conflict situations.
It covers knowledge discovery in four kinds of databases (so chosen because of perceived importance , sensitivity, criticality and functioning of the geopolitical economic system)-
- Databases on Unique Identity Identifiers- including next generation biometric databases connected to Government Initiatives and Banking, and current generation databases of identifiers like government issued documents made online
- Databases on financial details -This includes not only traditional financial service providers but also online databases with payment details collected by retail product selling corporates like Sony's Playstation Network, Microsoft 's XBox and
- Databases on contact details – including those by offline businesses collecting marketing databases and contact details
- Databases on social behavior- primarily collected by online businesses like Facebook , and other social media platforms.
It examines the role of
voluntary privacy safeguards and government regulations ,
weak cryptographic security of databases,
weakness in balancing marketing ( maximized data ) with privacy (minimized data)
and lastly the role of ownership patterns in database owning corporates
A small distinction between cyber crime and cyber conflict is that while cyber crime focusses on stealing data, intellectual property and information to primarily maximize economic gains
cyber conflict focuses on stealing information and also disrupt effective working of database backed systems in order to gain notional competitive advantages in economics as well as geo-politics. Cyber terrorism is basically cyber conflict by non-state agents or by designated terrorist states as defined by the regulations of the "target" entity. A cyber attack is an offensive action related to cyber-infrastructure (like the Stuxnet worm that disabled uranium enrichment centrifuges of Iran). Cyber attacks and cyber terrorism are out of scope of this paper, we will concentrate on cyber conflicts involving databases.
Some examples are given here-
Types of Knowledge Discovery in -
1) Databases on Unique Identifiers- including biometric databases.
Unique Identifiers or primary keys for identifying people are critical for any intensive knowledge discovery program. The unique identifier generated must be extremely secure , and not liable to reverse engineering of the cryptographic hash function.
For biometric databases, an interesting possibility could be determining the ethnic identity from biometric information, and also mapping relatives. Current biometric information that is collected is- fingerprint data, eyes iris data, facial data. A further feature could be adding in voice data as a part of biometric databases.
This is subject to obvious privacy safeguards.
For example, Google recently unveiled facial recognition to unlock Android 4.0 mobiles, only to find out that the security feature could easily be bypassed by using a photo of the owner.
Example of Biometric Databases
In Afghanistan more than 2 million Afghans have contributed iris, fingerprint, facial data to a biometric database. In India, 121 million people have already been enrolled in the largest biometric database in the world. More than half a million customers of the Tokyo Mitsubishi Bank are are already using biometric verification at ATMs.
Examples of Breached Online Databases
In 2011, Playstation Network by Sony (PSN) lost data of 77 million customers including personal information and credit card information. Additionally data of 24 million customers were lost by Sony's Sony Online Entertainment. The websites of open source platforms like SourceForge, WineHQ and Kernel.org were also broken into 2011. Even retailers like McDonald and Walgreen reported database breaches.
The role of cyber conflict arises in the following cases-
Databases are online for accessing and authentication by proper users. Databases can be breached remotely by non-owners ( or "perpetrators") non with much lesser chance of intruder identification, detection and penalization by regulators, or law enforcers (or "protectors") than offline modes of intellectual property theft.
Databases are valuable to external agents (or "sponsors") subsidizing ( with finance, technology, information, motivation) the perpetrators for intellectual property theft. Databases contain information that can be used to disrupt the functioning of a particular economy, corporation (or " primary targets") or for further chain or domino effects in accessing other data (or "secondary targets")
Loss of data is more expensive than enhanced cost of security to database owners
Loss of data is more disruptive to people whose data is contained within the database (or "customers")
So the role play for different people for these kind of databases consists of-
1) Customers- who are in the database
2) Owners -who own the database. They together form the primary and secondary targets.
3) Protectors- who help customers and owners secure the databases.
1) Sponsors- who benefit from the theft or disruption of the database
2) Perpetrators- who execute the actual theft and disruption in the database
The use of topic models and LDA is known for making data reduction on text, and the use of data visualization including tied to GPS based location data is well known for investigative purposes, but the increasing complexity of both data generation and the sophistication of machine learning driven data processing makes this an interesting area to watch.
The next article in this series will cover-
the kind of algorithms that are currently or being proposed for cyber conflict, the role of non state agents , and what precautions can knowledge discovery in databases practitioners employ to avoid breaches of security, ethics, and regulation.
- Michael A. Vatis , CYBER ATTACKS DURING THE WAR ON TERRORISM: A PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS Dartmouth College (Institute for Security Technology Studies).
- From Data Mining to Knowledge Discovery in Databases Usama Fayyad, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, and Padhraic Smyt
- Any effort to combat online piracy must guard against the risk of online censorship of lawful activity and must not inhibit innovation by our dynamic businesses large and small (AJ-yup)
- We must avoid creating new cybersecurity risks or disrupting the underlying architecture of the Internet. (AJ-note this may include peer-to-peer browsers, browser extensions for re-routing and newer forms of encryption, or even relocation of internet routers in newer geographies )
We must avoid legislation that drives users to dangerous, unreliable DNS servers and puts next-generation security policies, such as the deployment of DNSSEC, at risk.
While we are strongly committed to the vigorous enforcement of intellectual property rights, existing tools are not strong enough to root out the worst online pirates beyond our borders.
We should never let criminals hide behind a hollow embrace of legitimate American values
We should all be committed to working with all interested constituencies to develop new legal tools to protect global intellectual property rights without jeopardizing the openness of the Internet. Our hope is that you will bring enthusiasm and know-how to this important challenge
Authored by
Victoria Espinel is Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator at Office of Management and Budget
AJ-Why not sponser a hackathon, White House and create a monetary incentive for hackers to suggest secure ways? Atleast a secure dialogue between policy makers and policy breakers could be a way forward.
SOPA in its current form is dead. We live to fight another day.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. John F K
Does Facebook deserve a 100 billion Valuation
some questions in my Mind as I struggle to bet my money and pension savings on Facebook IPO
1) Revenue Mix- What percentage of revenues for Facebook come from Banner ads versus gaming partners like Zynga. How dependent is Facebook on Gaming partners. (Zynga has Google as an investor). What mix of revenue is dependent on privacy regulation countries like Europe vs countries like USA.
2) Do 800 million users of Facebook mean 100 billion valuation ? Thats a valuation of $125 in customer life time in terms of NPV . Since ad revenue is itself a percentage of actual good and services sold- how much worth of goods and services do consumers have to buy per capita , to give $125 worth of ads to FB. Eg . companies spend 5% of product cost on Facebook ads, so does that mean each FB account will hope to buy 2500$ worth of Goods from the Internet and from Facebook (assuming they also buy from Amazon etc)
3) Corporate Governance- Unlike Google, Facebook has faced troubling questions of ethics from the day it has started. This includes charges of intellectual property theft, but also non transparent FB stock option pricing in secondary markets before IPO, private placement by Wall Street Bankers like GoldMan Saachs, major investments by Russian Internet media corporations. (read- http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/03/technology/facebook_goldman/index.htm)
4) Retention of key employees post IPO- Key Employees at Google are actually ex- Microsofties. Key FB staff are ex-Google people. Where will the key -FB people go when bored and rich after IPO.
5) Does the macro Economic Condition justify the premium and Private Equity multiple of Facebook?
Will FB be the next Google (in terms of investor retruns) or will it be like Groupon. I suspect the answer is- it depends on market discounting these assumptions while factoring in sentiment (as well as unloading of stock from large number of FB stock holders on week1).
Baby You Are a Rich Man. but not 100 billion rich. yet. Maybe 80 billion isnt that bad.
Chrome Extension- MafiaaFire
The chrome extension MafiaaWire basically gives you an updated list of redirected websites. So the next time , your evil highness shuts down your favorite website- the list promises to give you an update. While obviously entertainment intellectual property is a very obvious site category for such redirects, in some cases these extensions can be used for simple things like hosting dissents or protesters against govt corruption in non US countries .
Basically under the new SOPA act (an oline version of pepper spray http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act) even browsers like Firefox and Chrome would be liable for any such extension that can be used to download American Intellectual property illegally.
In the meantime – this is an interesting and creative use case of technology and sociology merging in the brave new world.
You can read about it here-
MAFIAAFire works by downloading a list which contains the names of the "blocked" sites as well as the sites to redirect to. This list is downloaded every time Firefox starts up or every two days on the Chrome version (although the user has the choice to force an update on the Chrome version instead of waiting for two days).
When a user types in a domain name from the list of blocked domains, the add-on recognizes this and automatically redirects the user to the secondary site. Since this happens before the browser connects to the DNS server, this renders any DNS blocks useless.
Although the add-on checks for which sites are entered into the address bar every time (as it needs to check if that site is on its block list), it does not log these requests nor send these requests to any central server. In other words: it does not track the user.
Download it from
Interesting times indeed!


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Emporia State University
Emporia State University | |
Emporia State University Seal
Latin: Emporia Universitate | |
Motto | Changing Lives Since 1863 |
Established | 1863 |
Type | State university |
Endowment | US$67 million[1] |
President | Michael D. Shonrock (January 03, 2012-present) |
Vice-president | James Williams |
Provost | David P. Cordle (July 01, 2013-present) |
President of the Board of Regents | Fred Logan |
Academic staff | 240 |
Admin. staff | 610 |
Students | 6,033 (fall 2013) |
Undergraduates | 3,773 |
Postgraduates | 2,260 |
Location | Emporia, Kansas, United States of America 38°24′58″N 96°10′47″W / 38.416023°N 96.179584°WCoordinates: 38°24′58″N 96°10′47″W / 38.416023°N 96.179584°W |
Campus | 218 acres (0.88 km2) |
Former names | Kansas State Normal Kansas State Teachers College Emporia Kansas State College |
Colors | Black Old Gold |
Athletics | Division II (NCAA) MIAA |
Sports | 13 Varsity Teams |
Nickname | Hornets |
Mascot | Corky the Hornet |
Website | emporia.edu |
Emporia State University (ESU) is a university in the city of Emporia in Lyon County, Kansas, just east of the Flint Hills.
The university was founded in March 1863 when the Kansas Legislature passed the enabling act to establish the Kansas State Normal School. The school's first graduating class consisted of two women — Ellen Plumb and Mary Jane Watson[2]— in 1867, the year the first permanent building was completed.
The name "Normal" originated in France during the 17th century and was given to schools that had "model" classrooms or schools designed to educate teachers-in-training the proper practices of teaching students. The United States had many Normal schools in the 19th century and most changed their names to "Teachers College". Many later became "State Universities."[3]
In 1876, the Kansas Legislature passed the "Miscellaneous appropriations bill of 1876".[4] The end result was that Leavenworth Normal and Concordia Normal were closed so the state funding for normal schools could be directed to Emporia.[5]
KSN branched out with locations in Pittsburg and Hays, Kansas. The western branch in Hays opened June 3, 1902 and today is Fort Hays State University. The Pittsburg branch was opened as the Manual Training Auxiliary School in 1904 and became a four-year school named Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg in 1913. Today it is Pittsburg State University.[6]
In February 1923, the name of the school was changed to the Kansas State Teachers College. In July 1974, the name was changed to Emporia Kansas State College. On April 21, 1977, the college became Emporia State University. Even before any of the name changes were made official by the Kansas Legislature and Board of Regents, though, the school was called Emporia State unofficially by some in the public and in many news reports.[7]
The Kansas Board of Regents is the governing body for ESU. Since 1863, more than 150,000 students have studied at ESU.[8] Emporia State prides itself in being a university that has been changing lives since 1863 and 2013 marked its 150th year.
Michael Shonrock became president of Emporia State University on Jan. 3, 2012.[9]
These persons have served as presidents or interim presidents of Kansas State Normal School (1863–1923), Kansas State Teachers College (1923–1974), Emporia Kansas State College (1974–1977), and Emporia State University (1977–present).[10]
Title | Name | Dates |
President | Lyman Beecher Kellogg | 1865–1871 |
President | George W. Hoss | 1871–1873 |
President | Charles Rhodes Pomeroy | 1873–1879 |
President | Rudolph B. Welch | 1879–1882 |
President | Albert R. Taylor | 1882–1901 |
President | Jasper N. Wilkinson | 1901–1906 |
President | Joseph H. Hill | 1906–1913 |
President | Thomas W. Butcher | 1913–1943 |
President | James F. Price | 1943–1945 |
President | Dr. David L. MacFarlane | 1945–1953 |
Interim President | Dr. John Jacobs | 1953 |
President | Dr. John E. King | 1953–1966 |
Interim President | Dr. Larry Boylan | 1966–1967 |
President | Dr. John E. Visser | 1967–1985 |
President | Dr. Robert E. Glennen | 1985–1997 |
President | Dr. Kay Schallenkamp | 1997–2006 |
Interim President | Dr. John O. Schwenn | 2006 |
President | Dr. Michael Lane | 2006–2011 |
Interim President | Dr. H. Edward Flentje | 2011 |
President | Dr. Michael D. Shonrock | 2012–present |
Emporia State University comprises four colleges: the School of Business, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, School of Library and Information Management, and the Teachers College.
In July of 2013, Emporia State University was named a Great College to Work For[11] by the Chronicle of Higher Education[12] and Princeton Review[13] included ESU among its "Best of the Midwest" institutions of higher education.
School of Business[edit]
The Emporia State University School of Business is a public business school located on the main campus of Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. The ESU School of Business was founded in 1868 and currently has more than 30 faculty members and approximately 300 students.[14]
The School is an Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) accredited school. The programs have been thoroughly reviewed and found to be of the highest quality. This distinction is found with less than 5% of business schools worldwide.[15]
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences[edit]
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in numerous fields, with an emphasis on health professions and related programs, biological and biomedical sciences, and social sciences. Courses are offered at the main campus, online, and at satellite campuses.[14]
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences[16] at Emporia State consists of:
- Art[17]
- Biological Sciences[18] (general biology, botany, ecology and biodiversity, zoology, microbial and cellular biology, physiology, aquatic biology, wildlife biology, genetics, pre-agriculture, pre-medical, pre-medical technology, pre-dentistry, pre-optometry, pre-physical therapy, pre-veterinary, pre-physician assistant, pre-mortuary, biochemistry and molecular biology, and secondary teaching)
- Communications and Theatre[19] (communication, debate, theatre, speech education)
- English, Modern Languages, and Journalism[20] (English, creative writing, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, East Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, ESL, TESOL)
- Math, Computer Science, and Economics[21]
- Music[22]
- Nursing[23]
- Physical Sciences[24] (chemistry, earth science, physics, physical science teaching, geospatial analysis, pre-engineering, pre-medical, pre-pharmacy)
- Social Sciences[25]
- Sociology, Anthropology, and Crime and Delinquency Studies[26]
School of Library and Information Management[edit]
The School of Library and Information Management (SLIM)[27] is accredited by the American Library Association (ALA) and consists of the Master of Library Science,[28] which can be acquired at the Emporia campus or one of its satellite locations: Kansas City, Denver, Colorado, Salt Lake City, Utah, Orem, Utah, Portland, Oregon, and Atlanta, Georgia.
Emporia State also offers a Doctor of Philosophy in Library and Information Management,[29] an Archives Studies Certificate,[30] a Restricted School Specialist,[31] and an Alternate Route/Restricted License Program.[32]
Teachers College[edit]
Emporia State University's Teachers College[33] is one of only four post-secondary institutions in the nation to be identified as an Exemplary Model Teacher Education program by Arthur Levine in his 2006 national study of teacher education programs.[34] The other three were Alverno College, Stanford University, and University of Virginia.[35] In 2011, The Teachers College was featured in a video produced by the U.S. Department of Education highlighting the use of professional development schools.
The main buildings of Emporia State University are all dedicated to someone or of are important part in ESU's history.[36]
Building name | Function of building |
Preston B. Plumb Hall | Administration, Finical Aid Services, Human Resources, Learning Center, and Classrooms |
ESU Memorial Union | Main Street (Lounge), Bookstore, Admissions, and Sodexo (Dining services) |
John E. King Hall | Classrooms, Theatre Department, Arts and Communication Department |
William Allen White Library | Computer Lab, Library |
Roosevelt Hall | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences |
Frank A. Beach Music Hall | Music Department |
Abigail Morse Hall | Residence Halls (sophomores to seniors), TRIO Program, and Student Wellness Center |
Towers Complex | Resident Halls |
Raymond Griffith Cremer Hall | School of Business |
John E. Visser Hall | Teachers College |
HPER Building | Recreation Center and Athletics Department, classrooms |
Butcher Education Center | Sociology, Anthropology, and Crime & Delinquency Studies classrooms |
Bruekelman-Cram Science Hall | classrooms, Peterson Planetarium |
Earl Sauder Alumni Center | ESU Foundation, Alumni Association |
Cora Miller Hall | Newman Regional Hospital, Division of Nursing |
The school competes in Division II of the NCAA and became a member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) in 1991. ESU Athletics currently fields teams in 15 sports, including: baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, football, women's soccer, softball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's track & field, and women's volleyball.
ESU Athletics has had four top four finishes in four sports over last four years (Women's Basketball, 1st in 2010; Baseball, 2nd in 2009; Softball, 2nd in 2008; Men's Track and Field, 4th in 2011). In March 2010, the Lady Hornets basketball team won the NCAA Division II National Championship, defeating the Fort Lewis College (Colorado) Skyhawks.[37] The softball team played for the national championship in 2008. The baseball team played in the national championship game in 2009 and they were MIAA conference champions in 2011. They've played in 9 straight regional tournaments. The hornets have been pre-season ranked top 10 since 2009.
Notable alumni[edit]
See also[edit]
- Emporia State Hornets
- Emporia State University Teachers College
- Emporia State University School of Business
- Emporia State University Memorial Union
- ^ Emporia State Endowment
- ^ Ted McDaniel, ed, Gwen Zimmerman, Our Land, A History of Lyon County Kansas, (Emporia State Press, 1976) 167
- ^ New World Encyclopedia, Normal School, Origination of Normal Schools
- ^ Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, Volume 6 By Kansas State Historical Society]
- ^ A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans "State Normal School, Concordia" by William E. Connelley, transcribed by Carolyn Ward, 2000
- ^ Ted McDaniel, ed, Gwen Zimmerman, Our Land, A History of Lyon County Kansas, (Emporia State Press, 1976) 171.
- ^ Emporia Gazette June 7, 1904
- ^ Emporia State University History
- ^ Michael D. Shonrock becomes 16th President of Emporia State University
- ^ "Former Presidents of Emporia State University". About Emporia State University. Emporia State University website. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
- ^ Great College to Work For
- ^ Chronicle Website review on ESU
- ^ Princeton Review on ESU
- ^ a b ESU Academic Schools
- ^ ESU School of Business AACSB Accreditation
- ^ College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- ^ Art degree
- ^ Bio Sciences at ESU
- ^ Communication and Theatre
- ^ English, Modern Languages and Journalism
- ^ Math, Computer Science, and Economics
- ^ Music
- ^ Nursing Dept.
- ^ Physical Sciences
- ^ Social Sciences
- ^ Sociology, Anthropology, and Crime and Delinquency Studies
- ^ School of Library and Information Sciences
- ^ Master of Library Science
- ^ Doctor of Philosophy in Library and Information Management
- ^ Archives Studies Certificate
- ^ Restricted School Specialist
- ^ Alternate Route/Restricted License Program
- ^ Teaches College
- ^ Education Schools Project
- ^ ESU Teachers College Recognition
- ^ ESU Campus Map of Buildings
- ^ Lady Hornets Celebrate, Emporia Gazette, 29 March 2010.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Official athletics website
- The Bulletin
- ESU's Jones Institute for Educational Excellence
- American Association of State Colleges and Universities
- Buildings and structures in Lyon County, Kansas
- Education in Lyon County, Kansas
- Educational institutions established in 1863
- Emporia State University
- Emporia State University faculty
- North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
- Universities and colleges in Kansas
- 1863 establishments in Kansas

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Immigration Past and Present: A Conversation with Bill Ong Hing
Saturday, 10 January 2009 16:00
By Greg Marutani, Program Committee, AIISF
Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Bill Ong Hing, Professor of Law and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. With the re-opening of Angel Island taking place in 2009, I asked him for his views and thoughts about the significance of Angel Island.
When I asked him why the Chinese wanted to come to the U.S. he said it was in response to war in Asia, rice famines, and the overall poor conditions and they heard about the opportunities for a better way of life in the United States.
With the discovery of gold, the Chinese were among those who cam to California to seek their fortune. They were also being recruited to be laborers to build the Transcontinental Railroad. Because they were dependable workers, they were also recruited to work in areas like the Napa Valley.
While there were employers who accepted Chinese immigrants, there were those who did not like them because they did not speak English, although most other immigrant groups did not, and they did not understand the customs or culture of the Chinese. When the economy took a downturn, there were those who accused the Chinese of underbidding others for work adding to the hatred and racist attitudes toward the Chinese.
Local and State efforts to discourage the Chinese businesses, segregation of Chinese students in public schools, barring Chinese from testifying in court, but did nothing to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants.
With California leading the way, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 that barred laborer but allowed students to enter added, "It took a war to recognize our errors" the U.S. Professor Hing pointed out that this law was not repealed until 1943 when the U.S. realized that the Japanese was using it as propaganda in China against the U.S. at a time when China was an ally in World War II. Hing added, "It took a war to recognize our errors"
Professor Hing said that today many lawful immigrants have technically fallen into the "illegal" category as there have been lengthy delays in the processing of their papers because of the system's inefficiency, delays in fingerprint checks. Other immigrants who have initiated the process to reunify their family but due to numeric limitations backlogs for siblings have wait periods for up to 20 years.
The Professor added that whenever there has been an economic downturn, anti-immigrant sentiments rises, and those who even "
look like
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we are a nation of immigrants
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when we experience Angel Island we should be sure to look at what is happening today too. We should see that history is repeating itself.
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Whenever we hear anti-immigrant statements, we need to look behind the statement and wonder if those sorts of statements were made back in the past about Asian immigrants, especially the Chinese we should catch ourselves and should make sure we don't buy into it.


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A friend of mine, for example, collects standard diving helmets that he's gathered from around the world. Rescued from use as doorstops or novelty plant-pots, he's lovingly restored each of them to working condition and gets as much joy out of diving with them as he does from the knowledge that he's helping to preserve a part of diving's history.
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1. | up the stairs; to or on an upper floor or level |
2. | informal to or into a higher rank or office |
3. | informal in the mind: a little weak upstairs |
4. | informal kick upstairs to promote to a higher rank or position, esp one that carries less power |
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5. | a. an upper floor or level |
b. (as modifier): an upstairs room | |
6. | informal, old-fashioned (Brit) Compare downstairs the masters and mistresses of a household collectively, esp of a large house |
"He [Halifax] had said he had known many kicked down stairs, but he never knew any kicked up stairs before." [Gilbert Burnet, supplement to "History of My own Time," from his original memoirs, c.1697]


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What do I need to start a Screen Printing & Promotional Products business
by jebsca2, Window Shopper
- Created: November 8, 2010, 5:19 am
- Updated: March 14, 2013, 10:36 am
I need to know what I need for licenses and permits to start this home based buiness?
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ronnies20 | Window Shopper | 3/12/2013 - 9:34 pm
You should consider joining Advertising Specialty Institute. It's an easy way
to get into the promotional premium business. You pay a monthly fee but it
gives you access to wholesale pricing for hundreds of thousands of premium
to get into the promotional premium business. You pay a monthly fee but it
gives you access to wholesale pricing for hundreds of thousands of premium
kmurray | Community Moderator | 10/19/2011 - 3:00 pm
A useful resource on our site, the Business Licenses and Permits search tool, allows you to get a listing of federal, state and local permits, licenses, and registrations you'll need to run a business.
cjvannette | Window Shopper | 10/18/2011 - 7:07 pm
You might choose to pursue CAS/MAS certification through the industry's leading trade organization, PPAI. More info here: http://www.ppai.org/education/certification/overview. This is strictly optional, however.
JimD | Former Moderator | 11/8/2010 - 5:19 am
Take a look at the 10 Steps for Starting a Business. I do not think screen printing or promotional products would need a special license, but licenses are controlled by local and county officials.
In addition to registering you business with the state, you will probably need to apply for a sales tax permit. This is controlled by the state.
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Sandhya Somashekhar reports for The Washington Post: "The battle over same-sex marriage intensified this week after a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled unconstitutional the 1996 law that forbids the federal government to recognize gay marriages, a decision that could have repercussions in the District and the five states that allow gay unions."
Read More...The UK's Telegraph reports: "Johanna Sigurdardottir, Iceland prime minister, married her long-time partner on Sunday as a new law legalising homosexual marriages came into force."
Read More...John D. Podesta and Robert A. Levy write on the opinion pages of The Washington Post: "Loving v. Virginia ended bans on interracial marriage in the 16 states that still had such laws. Now, 43 years after Loving, the courts are once again grappling with denial of equal marriage rights -- this time to gay couples. We believe that a society respectful of individual liberty must end this unequal treatment under the law."
Read More...Alice Park reports for Time: "The teen years are never the easiest for any family to navigate. But could they be even more challenging for children and parents in households headed by gay parents?"
Read More...Ed O'Keefe writes for the Washington Post, "President Obama extended Wednesday a wider range of benefits to the same-sex partners of eligible federal workers, including access to medical treatment, relocation assistance, credit unions and fitness centers.
The move goes beyond a memo Obama signed last June, which permitted same-sex partners to use the government's long-term-care insurance and other fringe benefits. The Office of Personnel Management said Tuesday that same-sex partners will become eligible for such insurance next month."
Read More..."President Barack Obama handed the gay community a victory [on April 15] by granting hospital visitation rights to same-sex partners, but gay rights advocates say the offering is mere peanuts compared with what they expect him to do for them this year," write Jennifer Bendery and Tory Newmyer in Roll Call.
Read More...A New York Times editorial says: "Under California law, it is illegal for postsecondary educational institutions that receive state money to discriminate on the basis of religion or sexual orientation. The school correctly determined that the law requires it to ensure that its student organization program does not permit discrimination."
Read More...CNN reports: "A Mississippi lesbian Tuesday won a judge's backing for her contention that her First Amendment rights were violated when her high school refused to allow her to attend her prom with her girlfriend."
Read More...Sarah Netter reports for ABC News: "A Mississippi high school senior has filed suit to get the school's prom reinstated after officials canceled it because the young woman, an open lesbian, asked to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo."
Read More...Ann E. Marimow and Keith L. Alexander report for The Washington Post: "On Tuesday, the District for the first time issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples, some of whom married in ceremonies across the city -- from a D.C. Superior Court chamber to a Unitarian church in Northwest."
Read More...Keith L. Alexander and Anne E. Marimow report for The Washington Post: "D.C. Superior Court began accepting marriage license applications from same-sex couples Wednesday morning, a historic milestone for gay couples and activists that was made possible by the city's new gay marriage law."
Read More..."The Pentagon's top leaders declared Tuesday for the first time that -- after decades of opposition and equivocation from the armed forces -- they support an end to the ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military," reports The Washington Post.
Read More...Todd Spangler writers for the Detroit Free Press: "Opening a hearing on the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy on gays in the military, Michigan Democrat and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said it's time to repeal what he considers a discriminatory policy that hurts military effectiveness."
Read More...New York Daily News' Joe Tacopino reports about NOW and Women's Media Center's protest against the anti-choice ad by the group Focus on the Family to be aired during the Super Bowl game: "Several women's groups have argued that the spot, which is believed to be a pro-life ad featuring Tebow and his mother, is an advocacy ad and is inappropriate for Super Sunday."
Read More...Marisol Bello reports for USA Today: "As a San Francisco trial on gay marriage began Monday, unusual plans to show the landmark case on YouTube were nixed by the U.S. Supreme Court."
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KIDDERMINSTER, England (AP) — Pitch-invading soccer fans attacked players and caused a half-hour delay during a fifth-tier match Saturday in the latest bout of crowd trouble in England.
Visiting Stockport supporters raced onto the field after Kidderminster went 1-0 ahead in the 51st minute, confronting players from both teams. The referee decided to take the players off for safety reasons.
A post on Kidderminster's Twitter feed says "punches thrown at Kiddy players."
The non-league game restarted and Kidderminster won 4-0 to relegate Stockport to the sixth tier.
Crowd trouble marred the FA Cup semifinal between Millwall and Wigan at Wembley Stadium last weekend, when Newcastle fans also clashed with police after a northeast derby loss to Sunderland.


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Influenced by Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster but definitely his own person, Ike Quebec was one of the finest swing-oriented tenor saxman of the 1940s and '50s. Though he was never an innovator, Quebec had a big, breathy sound that was distinctive and easily recognizable, and he was quite consistent when it came to came to down-home blues, sexy ballads, and up-tempo aggression. Originally a pianist, Quebec switched to tenor in the early '40s and showed that he had made the right decision on excellent 78s for Blue Note and Savoy (including his hit "Blue Harlem"). As a sideman, he worked with Benny Carter, Kenny Clarke, Roy Eldridge, and Cab Calloway. In the late '40s, the saxman did a bit of freelancing behind the scenes as a Blue Note A&R man and brought Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell to the label. Drug problems kept Quebec from recording for most of the 1950s, but he made a triumphant comeback in the early '60s and was once again recording for Blue Note and doing freelance A&R for the company. Quebec was playing as authoritatively as ever well into 1962, giving no indication that he was suffering from lung cancer, which claimed his life at the age of 44 in 1963. ~ Alex Henderson, Rovi
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