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Academic corruptionFebruary 06,2013On the day after the Super Bowl, I got a call from Michael McAdoo, a 22-year-old defensive lineman for the winning Baltimore Ravens. I had been expecting his call for several weeks, ever since the North Carolina Court of Appeals refused to revive his lawsuit against the NCAA and the University of North Carolina, where he had played for two years before being declared permanently ineligible. Though he didnt dress for the big game hes been injured most of his short professional career McAdoo had attended the teams practices and meetings; he told me hed been too busy to call earlier.
Athletes almost never win lawsuits against the NCAA. There is, after all, no constitutional right to play college sports, and because the NCAA is a voluntary organization made up of member institutions, courts are loath to interfere, even when the rules seem unfair.
In 2008, in his first semester at North Carolina, McAdoo had asked a former tutor to help him write citations for a paper, something he was unsure about. With the due date fast approaching, the woman whom he wasnt supposed to talk to because she was no longer an official tutor essentially wrote the citations herself. Several years later, in the middle of a burgeoning scandal involving more than a dozen Carolina football players, the email exchange between McAdoo and the former tutor was unearthed, and his actions were reported to the NCAA and the schools honor court.
The honor court ruled that McAdoo should be suspended for a semester. Never one to show mercy, the NCAA went further, barring him from ever playing college football again. McAdoo sued to get reinstated, but the case was tossed. Because his college career ended prematurely, he signed with the Ravens for the professional minimum (which, at $450,000 a year, is admittedly none too shabby).
When stories like McAdoos burst into public view, the athlete is almost always cast as the villain, a cheater gaming the academy. But, in this case, McAdoo was the true victim. The real scandal is what goes on under the rubric of academic counseling.
It is not news, of course, that universities accept athletes who read at the fifth-grade level or worse; quite often academic counseling is remedial. But McAdoo wasnt in that category. He had been an OK student in high school, and his mother, a schoolteacher, was adamant that he get a college education. He told his recruiters he wanted to major in criminal justice.
Once he got on campus, however, he was quickly informed by his academic counselors that North Carolina didnt have a criminal justice major. According to McAdoo, his counselor picked his major, African-American studies, because it wouldnt interfere with football practice.
Among the first classes he was assigned (as he phrases it) was a Swahili course, an independent studies class taught by the department chairman, Julius Nyangoro. There wasnt any class, McAdoo recalled. You sign up. You write the paper. You get credit. I had never seen anything like it. He never once met his professor. Despite the strange circumstances, he researched and wrote the paper. It was that paper that got him in the trouble with the NCAA.
All the academic counselors knew about the paper classes as they were called and they all steered athletes to them, says Mary Willingham, a former academic counselor at the university.
But when the NCAA went after McAdoo, there was no mention of the phony classes. The school certainly never mentioned them, and as for the NCAA, all it cared about was whether McAdoo had committed academic fraud for getting citation help in a class that never met. McAdoos contention that he had no reason to believe he had done anything wrong, because he had simply done what hed been told to do fell on deaf ears. His college career was sacrificed so that the NCAA could maintain its long-standing pretense that college athletes are supposed to be students first.
The paper classes were eventually exposed by The News & Observer, after which the university asked former Gov. James Martin of North Carolina to conduct an investigation. Martin, who issued his report a few months ago, found that 216 courses were problematic, and that as many as 560 grades had been changed. He laid all the problems at the feet of Nyangoro (who had earlier been allowed to retire), and one department colleague. Martin insisted that the scandal wasnt strictly an athletic one, because non-athletes also took some of the paper classes. Well, maybe.
As for Michael McAdoo, the public humiliation still stings. I had days when I was so depressed, I could barely get out of bed, he told me. He feels that he put his trust in an institution that ultimately betrayed him.
I would still like to get a college degree someday, he said. But not at the University of North Carolina. They just wasted my time.
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I've been looking through the other reviews and they mostly say that it works immediately and clears up acne. I'm in middle school so it's really hard for me to go to school every day with acne this bad. I get it alot around my mouth and chin. acne sucks.....i used this oxy stuff for a couple days, and it's been clearing up little scars and small pimples, but then there's the large zits that I can't get rid of. The pads sting a little but I guess that means they are working so I continue to use this product. GREAT TEXTURE
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I've been using this everyday for about 4-5 days now. It doesn't smell BAD, it just smells like a medicated wash. Also, for me, it doesn't burn at all. I use it on both my back and my face every morning in the shower. My back is almost completely clear and I cannot describe how awesome that feels! My face breaks out occasionally with a few pimples, but this is clearing them right up. It is slightly drying, but within an hour or two my skin is back to normal.
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what i ate wednesday: getting the hang of things
I've been officially back on the food tracking train for about a week-and-a-half now and I'm starting to get the hang of it again. The accountability of tracking is what I really love about it. That running total of numbers at the bottom of my log everyday is a gentle reminder that just one Cadbury Chocolate Creme egg is a fine dessert. And that I should really add more veggies to my plate to help hit my nutrient goals. So far, I'm happy to be back tracking. It's nice to know the numbers.
After a few hours, things died down a bit and I was able to dig into my actual breakfast. Overnight oats that weren't really overnight. Greek yogurt, chocolate almond milk, PB2, chia seeds and oats. I mixed it before work and by the time I got around to eating them, they were perfect.
A few hours later, things were back to crazy, but my tummy was grumbling, so I ate bites of mac and cheese (recipe coming soon) while I dealt with the craziness.
A bit later, I opened up my giant bowl of raw veggies. I've been struggling a lot with consistent hunger lately and I wanted a way to fill my tummy without filling up on calories. So this grocery trip, we loaded up on the fresh veggies and I cut them all up this weekend and have them stashed in our fridge. I snacked on this bowl for the next hour or so while I worked on a proof. You can't really see it, but there is a whole layer of cherry tomatoes and baby carrots in the bottom, too. Veggies are good!
Around afternoon snack time, I finally got around to finishing the rest of my lunch. Greek yogurt, hard-boiled egg and chocolate square.
Things calmed down dramatically after a late afternoon meeting, so I took some time to check in on my emails and eat a pre-workout snack of dates, crackers and a clementine.
After my snack, I headed home, changed into workout pants and a t-shirt and headed out for a 3-mile walk. Glorious 70° weather! After that, I came inside and did a quick Nike Training Club arm workout. A stretch session later, I headed to the kitchen to start on dinner. I made myself a fake soda to sip on while cooking. In the jar: lemon juice, lime juice, seltzer water and a splash of simple syrup.
Dinner was an exact replay of this recipe, only without the nice food photography. Oh how the mighty have fallen…
Dessert was one (just one!) Cadbury chocolate creme egg while watching 30 Rock. I wish these came in dark chocolate, but they are still pretty darn good.
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2044 calories, 303g carbs, 56g fat, 92g protein
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It is crazy how many calories we consume per day without realizing it. Since I started tracking mine on dailyburn (not every day, but just now and again as a check-in), it has really surprised me. Also, I thought I was getting plenty of protein, but it turns out that I get way too little. Since then, I have upped my protein significantly, and I feel better and stay full longer. Those calorie-tracking apps/websites are really helpful!
All your food looks so good! Question about chia seeds… I've seen them often on a few different blogs. Do they change the taste/texture of your food? Are they good for you? I saw them at the store and almost picked them up, but then got nervous I'd never use them haha!
i cannot wait to get my hands on a cadburry creme egg.
I was wondering about FitDay…do pay for the premium service or do you just use the free version? I just joined and can't figure out how you created the charts you posted. They are so concise and tidy! Love your blog.
Did you manually put in your BMR for the net calorie goal or did you just use what MFP gave you when you set up the account? I have looked at it before but it said my net should be 1260, which is like 200 below my BMR. Even on on workout days I would feel like I was DYING on that few of calories. Just interested in how you planned your daily intake goal. Thanks!
The only thing more dangerous than a Cadbury Creme Egg are the mini ones – those things are deadly because you can eat the equivalent of 5 big eggs without even knowing it…or is that just me?
I love that you go to bed early due to the prospect of overnight oats. I do the same thing when I have a peanut butter, whole wheat bagel planned for breakfast


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Like many products from Dermalogica, this serum contains a litany of fragrant plant oils research has proven are problematic for skin (Source: www.naturaldatabase.com). Jasmine, rosewood, and lemon oils do not moisturize skin any more than a martini helps to rehydrate your body or quench your thirst!
Beyond those specific fragrant plant oils, it's nothing short of scream-inducing (with us doing the screaming) that women are offered products like this that are loaded with problematic ingredients. Ironically, the first two ingredients in this serum (safflower and argan oils) would've been much better on their own. After them, it's pretty much a "who's who" of problematic ingredients that won't repair anyone's skin or help it act younger. Please see our list of Best Serums for superior options—and check out More Info to learn why daily use of highly fragrant products is the wrong move for anyone's skin.
Daily use of products that contain a high amount of fragrance, whether the fragrant ingredients are synthetic or natural, causes chronic irritation that can damage healthy collagen production, lead to or worsen dryness, and impair your skin's ability to heal. Fragrance-free is the best way to go for all skin types. If fragrance in your skin-care products is important to you, it should be a very low amount to minimize the risk to your skin (Sources: Inflammation Research, December 2008, pages 558–563; Skin Pharmacology and Physiology, June 2008, pages 124–135, and November-December 2000, pages 358–371; Journal of Investigative Dermatology, April 2008, pages 15–19; Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, March 2008, pages 78–82; Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, January 2007, pages 92–105; and British Journal of Dermatology, December 2005, pages S13–S22).
Dermalogica Age Smart Overnight Repair Serum hydrates, nourishes and restores the skin while you sleep to smooth fine lines and improve elasticity. Peptides increase collagen production and even your skin tone. Jasmine, rosewood and lemon oils moisturize and brighten the skin.
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Dermalogica's name implies a logical relationship to dermatology, which makes it sound as if you are getting serious skin care. The subtitle on their products is even more commanding: "A Skin Care System Researched and Developed by the International Dermal Institute." But what is the International Dermal Institute, you ask? Are there any dermatologists there? Apparently not: The International Dermal Institute is a Dermalogica-owned school for aestheticians who want an education beyond what is required for their cosmetology license, and the classes are taught by aestheticians.
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According to company history, the reason Dermalogica products came to be was that founder Jane Wurwand could not find a spa-oriented skin-care line that met her criteria. She was dismayed that so many skin-care lines aimed at the aesthetics market had products that contained alcohol, artificial colors, fragrance, mineral oil, and lanolin, ingredients that she believed had a well-documented history of problems. That's true for fragrance and alcohol (and artificial colors to a lesser extent), but mineral oil and lanolin have no documented history of causing skin problems. If anything, quite the opposite is true. Further, if Dermalogica's founders were so concerned about potentially or definitively harmful ingredients, why do their products contain so many of them? Where is the research proving that lavender oil, camphor, balm mint, arnica, ginger oil, and citrus oils are helpful for skin?
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A native New Yorker, Benney had his first opportunity to devote full time to painting in 1936 and 1937, when he traveled to Haiti, the Dutch West Indies, and British and Dutch Guiana. He left New York soon after to live on the Gaspe Peninsula in Canada. His paintings have been widely exhibited, and invited to national art exhibitions, including the Corcoran Gallery and the Brooklyn Museum. Benny worked in New York prior to his travels, creating portraits of famous personalities, including Alfred Lunt, Claude Rains, Raymond Massey, John Barrymore, George Arliss and many others. Benny has been honored with exhibitions in the Museum of the City of New York and also the New York Public Library.
Lawrence Beall-Smith
Born in Washington, D.C., in 1909, Smith graduated from the University of Chicago and received art training at nights at Chicago's Art Institute, summers at Gloucester and under Hopkinson and Zimmerman of Boston. His work has been exhibited in the International Exhibition of Lithography and Wood Engraving at the Chicago Art Institute. Smith's work in represented in permanent collections of Herron Art Institute, Harvard University's Addison Gallery, University of Minnesota, Sheldon Swope Art Gallery, and many private collections. He was appointed art instructor for city schools in Boston.
Howard Baer
Born in a little mining town below Pittsburgh in 1907, Baer received an art education at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. He was a resident of New York since 1929, except for long trips into Southern France and Mexico. He achieved widespread attention for drawing, illustrations and cartoons in The New Yorker, Esquire and other magazines. He spent several months in 1941 in the interior mountain village of Chapala, Mexico, where he found his first opportunity since graduating from art school to devote his time to easel painting. The series of paintings and large mural of the town which resulted from this trip made up a noteworthy exhibition in the Associated American Artists Galleries in New York.
Adolf Dehn
Born in Minnesota in 1895, Dehn studied at the Minneapolis Art School and Art Students League of New York. Awarded the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1939, he traveled throughout the United States and Mexico. Among his awards were Honorable Mention at the Philadelphia Alliance and First Print Prize from the Philadelphia Alliance. For seven successive years, his graphic works have been included in Fifty Prints of the Year. Represented in permanent collections of Metropolitan, Whitney, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco and British Museums, Addison Gallery, Honolulu Academy, Oslo National Museum, British Museum, London.
Don Freeman
Born in San Diego in 1908; Freeman came to New York in 1929. He studied with John Sloan and Art Wickey at the Art Students League. He started his art career as trumpet player, spending much time backstage sketching members of the casts. These drawings soon appeared in the dramatic and magazine sections of the New York Times and the New York Herald-Tribune, as well as theater magazines. His paintings have been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum's American Art Biennial Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Corcoran Gallery. The Philadelphia Print Club awarded him first prize for lithography. He served as an Army private at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, during World War II.
Joseph Hirsch
Born in Philadelphia, 1910. Began art studies at Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, graduating with first prizes in life drawing and illustration. Awarded the Woolley Fellowship to Paris, 1935, Guggenheim Fellowships, 1942 and 1943. Prizes include Third Hallgarten Prize at National Academy, Lippincott Prize at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Honorable Mention in Prix de Rome competition. Represented in Museum of Modern Art, Boston, Philadelphia and Whitney Museums, and many private collections.
Georges Schreiber
Born in Belgium in 1904; came to United States, 1928. Studied in Berlin, London, Rome, Paris and Florence. So grateful for opportunities offered in this country that he visited all of the 48 states, recording his impression of each in a series of 48 paintings which were exhibited in Associated American Artists Galleries, New York, 1940. Won Tuthill Prize, International Water Color Exhibition, Chicago Art Institute, 1932. Paintings exhibited by invitation in Whitney Museum, Chicago Art Institute, Pennsylvania Academy, Santa Barbara Museum, Denver Art Museum, and many others. Represented in permanent collections of Brooklyn, Whitney and Metropolitan Museums, Museum of the City of New York, Sheldon Swope Art Gallery, etc. Author and illustrator of "Portraits and Self-Portraits", book of noted Americans.
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Air Pacific, the flag carrier of the South Pacific island
republic of Fiji, and Boeing announced an order Tuesday for five
Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners, with three additional purchase rights.
With this announcement, total orders for the Boeing 787 family have
reached 350 airplanes from 26 customers.
The first of the long-range airliners will be delivered in 2011,
and will fly the airline's key routes from Nadi, Fiji, to
Australia, New Zealand, North America and Japan. The new
Dreamliners will eventually replace two Boeing 747-400s and one
No list price is currently published for the 787-9 model.
The order was included last week on the Boeing Orders &
Deliveries Web site, attributed to an unidentified customer.
Today's announcement coincides with the second anniversary of
Boeing's launch of the 787 program.
"This is a momentous decision for Air Pacific that has taken
many months of detailed study and negotiation," said Gerald
Barrack, chairman of Air Pacific, Ltd. "I am pleased with the price
negotiated and the certainty this decision provides for Air
Pacific, for the future of air transport links within the Pacific
and particularly for the future growth of Fiji's tourism and
export industries."
The contract signing ceremony held today also marks
Barrack's retirement from the airline he has led for nearly
20 years.
"We are delighted to have concluded an extensive evaluation and
negotiation, and are convinced that the right aircraft has been
selected," said John Campbell, Air Pacific managing director and
Boeing reports the 787
will use 20 percent less fuel for comparable operations than
similarly sized airplanes, while traveling at speeds similar to
today's fastest commercial airplanes -- Mach 0.85. The 787-9
is the largest version of the 787 family currently being offered to
airlines, and will carry 250 to 290 passengers on routes of 8,600
to 8,800 nautical miles.
"As the airline is an all-Boeing operator, Air Pacific and
Boeing have enjoyed a great relationship for many years," said Rob
Pasterick, vice president and chief financial officer, Boeing
Commercial Airplanes, representing the company at the Suva press
conference and contract signing ceremony. "Air Pacific is one of
the great success stories in South Pacific aviation, having
consistently produced profits in the face of tough competition. We
are delighted that Air Pacific has selected the 787 after its
rigorous evaluation."
Air Pacific has yet to choose between GE Aircraft Engines' GEnx
or Rolls-Royce's Trent 1000 powerplants for its new airplanes.
Air Pacific began operations in 1951 and expanded as tourism and
export markets grew. The airline was the region's inaugural
customer for the Boeing Next-Generation 737 family with an order in
1996, followed by the 1998 delivery of a 737-700 and the 1999
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|Giving Wings to Social Butterflies
|Written by Katie Sayers
|Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:37
Giving Wings to Social Butterflies
Giving back to the community can be a great way to meet new people. Check out this list of the most magnanimous ways to mix and mingle.
For those social butterflies out there who are busy mingling and flitting from one social event to another, finding the best volunteer opportunities that fit your social calendar is not as hard as you think. There are many opportunities here in Cincinnati to volunteer for the arts, all while doing your favorite thing: Meeting new people.
Kristin Suess, interim director of Enjoy the Arts, says volunteering is a great way to meet people because of the already similar interests combined with a shared goal and the ability to network. "In every opportunity volunteers get to meet others," Suess says. "Decide what you want to get out of volunteering. If it's networking, some of the social events will allow you to cast a wider net, but sitting on a committee will give you enhanced connections."
So where can you find these volunteer opportunities?
Suess says the most prominent group listing for Cincinnati is through the Fine Arts Fund's Arts Services Office. "The best way is to contact the fine arts groups directly," Suess says. "Most, if not all groups, have a volunteer section on their Web site."
For newcomers to volunteering, Suess suggests a planning committee for an annual or seasonal event as a great place to start. "As part of the planning process, you will meet regularly with a group of enthusiastic and creative people and have that end thrill of seeing your project come to fruition," Suess says.
There are many volunteering opportunities with the arts here in Cincinnati. Suess' recommendations for social butterflies are the ONE Parties at the Cincinnati Art Museum (artistic parties that highlight current exhibitions and artists), Taft with a Twist at the Taft Museum (an event to socialize with others who are into art and culture), the Gala after party at the Cincinnati Opera, and at the Know Theatre (where there are opportunities for volunteer bartenders in their cabaret space where they can mix with newcomers and regulars).
"Another good opportunity is being an usher at the Cincinnati Art Association, where there is the chance to socialize and the ushers get the added bonus of seeing the shows for free," Suess says. "Also, check into the Bacchanalian Society for an on-going party that benefits many worthy groups. As a host or hostess for an event, the job is typically to invite all your friends to come and enjoy the event."
Currently, Enjoy the Arts has around 100 volunteers in its database. Enjoy the Arts specifically recruits volunteers for its 20/20 Festival in the fall. "We need volunteers for planning and working shifts, for on-going office tasks and special events, as needed," Suess says. "If someone has an interest to volunteer, we try to accommodate them."
With the number of volunteer opportunities in Cincinnati, Suess offers advice to finding the opportunity perfect for you and your social calendar. "Look for an organization that sparks your interest and then sign onto an opportunity," Suess says. "Don't be afraid to try something new after your initial experience, either within the same organization or with another group."
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Lined Seahorse (Hippocampus erectus) as seen in our Sea & Me exhibit.
The intriguing seahorse is part of the Family Syngnathidae which includes pipefish. These are atypical fish that have bodies encased by bony rings, tubular snouts and toothless mouths. Male seahorses and pipefish have brooding pouches into which females deposit their eggs for fertilization. The males then carry the young until they are reared. The seahorse is a poor swimmer due to its small, weak fins. Instead, they rely on their natural coloring and body forms to hide themselves from predators among eel grass and other aquatic plant life. The Lined Seahorse is generally brown, gray or dark red in color with a fan-shaped dorsal fin and prehensile tail.
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About this Program
Stress is very common with attorneys and detrimentally affects their professional and personal relationships. Join Clinical Psychologists Daniel Guerra and Dana Gionta as they speak with attorney Alastair Onglingswan about the factors that cause stress and how attorneys can use self-care techniques to manage it. These practitioners discuss common mistakes that attorneys make in their attempts to manage their stress. In addition, they explain how attorneys can assess their stress levels, identify and maintain important boundaries, and the significance of breathing and reflection to reduce anxiety. The speakers conclude with sharing tips on developing and following a personal action plan, which will surely help any attorney manage his or her own stress levels.
I. What is Stress?
II. Attorneys and Stress
III. Self-Care
IV. Assess Your Stress
V. Ratio Breathing
VI. Mindfulness
VII. Develop a Personal Action Plan
stress reduction has real value
A+++ - the best CLE course yet!
Was helpful to me.
Very good breathing exercises.
A good basic introduction, for people not familiar with stress management techniques.
I would recommend this to anyone looking to learn new techniques to relax or keep their cool in stressful situations.
Very helpful tips
helpful and practical
This should be a required course at law schools. This was a great course that provided helpful strategies to deal with the everyday stress in the practice of law.
This is a seminar that I will be viewing again.
I think in our hearts we know this but its good to hear it from people trained in the field
this topic cannot be emphasized enough and should be taught by a variety of healing & spiritual practictioners.
A lot of common sense but also a couple unexpected bits of wisdom in here.
good format
Daniel Guerra's introduction to mindfulness meditation is worth the price of admission. If all attorneys incorporated this into their routines, oh what a wonderful profession it would be!
This was an excellent overview of the challenges of dealing with stress, which affects many attorneys. I also liked the 'hands on' experience of mindful meditation.
Excellent program. I literally wrote down every word to practice these techniques each day.
Definitely worthwhile
great audience participation!
Useful and practical tools to deal with stress.
Thank you.
An excellent introduction to the concept of mindfulnes.
just relaxing!
It's good to know I'm not alone with stress. The techniques and reasons given by the presenters I hope will motivate me, particularly in the area of taking time to take care of myself, rather than work, without thinking I don't have the time to do both.
Interesting program.
great seminar - thanks!
Good stuff!
Enlightening experience
Excellent........... I loved the relaxation drills. Great presentation by both.
We need more CLE classes like this. They tend to get too pragmatic and topical on subjects, but not tailored to the human needs of attorneys.
We need more of these!
Practical.Doable. I'm excited about trying some of these recommendations
Good course for when you are absolutely sure that now is the time you must start doing more stress management.
Very good
I think the presenters gave great ideas on how to manage stress on a daily basis. Not just for legal situations, but throughout life.
Good reminders.
I wish I had taken a course like this years ago! I am definitely going to come back to it periodically for refreshers.
I didn't realize how stressed out I was until I watched this. Good tips on taking care of oneself. All three instructors were enjoyable to watch and to listen to.
very helpful suggestions
best every. Great tips on stress management.
VERY helpful!!! I will definitely be coming back to this program again and again!
MUCH better than I expected! Thoughtful and helpful.
Really valuable course--exceeded my expectations!!
Good introduction and basic tips for stress management.
Great course.
Very good material on an important topic. I liked the practical aspects of the course.
Great advice! Wonderful program!
A nice change of pace. helpful and practical advice. Although a little naïve about the major stress that the vast majority of attorneys have each day!
Excellent! I am so glad I chose this course. I will be able to go back and listen to it again and again to refocus myself in the midst of attorney madness. This was constructive, well paced, and wonderfully presented. Likely the most useful CLE I'll ever take.


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On Monday 24 March 2003 18:45, Louis-Philippe Brochu wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 10:08, Abhishek Amit wrote:
> > > IMHO Portage should have a way to upgrade all installed packages.
> > > No need for dependencies checking (--deep) or world file, Just go
> > > through the list of all installed packages (that we can get with
> > > qpkg) and act as if there were part of the world file in the
> > > current implementation. In fact i think such an option should be
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> > > What do you think? Why would someone want to update only packages
> > > in the world file? What are the advantages/disadvantages of the
> > > previous method compared to the current --deep option?
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> > Try doing emerge `qpkg -I -nc`. This should do what you are looking
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> What i mean is, why isn't this option the default option when
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Private Equity Changes CRO Landscape With PPD Buyout (PPDI, CRL, CVD, PRXL)
The world of contract research organizations is changing. The unexpected news hit the wire this Monday that Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc. (NASDAQ: PPDI) is being acquired. This was no gobble-up acquisition where a larger public company preyed on a smaller company. This was a private equity transaction.
PPD has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired in a $3.9 billion cash buyout by affiliates of The Carlyle Group and Hellman & Friedman. The terms of the deal call for the assumption of liabilities and for the common holders to receive $33.25 per share in cash. Before today, the trading range had effectively been $25 to $32 but the stock closed at $25.66 on Friday and that implies a near-30% premium.
PPD has also been north of $40 in the last 5-year period. That being said, the board of directors has unanimously approved the deal and is recommending that shareholders vote for the transaction.
The attraction here is the CRO business, which aims to help pharmaceutical and biotech companies develop new drugs at lower costs and with less inside oversight.
As you would expect, the deal is subject to approvals and to regulatory reviews, but the transaction is not subject to any financing conditions. The funds combined between Hellman & Friedman and Carlyle were listed as nearly $22 billion and it was also noted that external debt financing is being provided by Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and UBS.
PPD does have a "Go Shop" provision as the terms allow the company to go solicit acquisition proposals from third parties for a period of 30 calendar days from the date of the merger agreement. PPD can also respond to unsolicited proposals that the board "determines are reasonably likely to result in a superior proposal." Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman were given a "right to match" term and the current merger is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2011.
PPD has offices in 44 countries and more than 11,000 professionals worldwide.
Charles River Laboratories International Inc. (NYSE: CRL) is up 1.5% at $29.05 and its 52-week range is $27.76 to $42.84.
Covance Inc. (NYSE: CVD) is up 1.3% at $46.07 and the 52-week trading range is $43.00 to $63.86.
Paraxel International Corp. (NASDAQ: PRXL) is up 3% at $19.45 and its 52-week range is $15.26 to $27.91.
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Co-Founder and Co-Director of Midsummer Sound, JANICE LAMARRE teaches violin, viola, and Music Theory classes at Midsummer Sound. She combines her experiences from her own studies with those from teaching Undergraduate and Graduate students at Juilliard, Yale, and the Manhattan School of Music. Janice also brings aspects of masterclasses she has attended at Prussia Cove in England, in Austria, Germany, and in Fontainebleau, France to the students at Midsummer Sound.
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Piano Faculty MICHAEL BERKOVSKY graduated from Juilliard and John Hopkins' Peabody Conservatory with a Doctorate in Piano Performance. He has won numerous international competitions, and his student has won the Canadian Music Competition, performing with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Michael is a founding faculty member of Midsummer Sound, and returns to mentor Barrie students during the school year. He will teach a new piano jazz improv class this year, and we are very excited he is returning to teach in 2014.
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SHARON PRATER has toured North and South America, Asia, and Europe as former cellist of the internationally acclaimed Colorado Quartet. Ms. Prater earned her Master of Music degree from Juilliard, and was teaching assistant to Joel Krosnick of the Juilliard Quartet. She also studied at the Aspen Music Festival with Paul Katz and the Cleveland Quartet, the Banff Institute with William Pleeth and Zoltan Szekely, and the Britten Pears School (England) with the Janácek and Vermeer Quartets. Relocating to Toronto in 1990, Sharon was subsequently a member of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, the Amadeus Ensemble, and the Espirit Orchestra. She has been on the faculty of the New School of Music (Philadelphia) and taught as adjunct chamber music faculty at the University of Toronto. Ms. Prater has been the Principal Cellist of the Toronto Philharmonia since 2003, and was the cellist of Ensemble Vivant between 1999 and 2009. Her recording with that group includes four discs – "The Music of Leroy Anderson", "Audience Favourites", "Fête Française" and "Homage to Astor Piazzola".
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posted Dec 19 2014 3:46PM
It is never fun to get sick, but it's down right awful at Christmas time!
I have no idea who 'gifted' me with this bug, but I've been laying low
so I don't gift it to anyone else!
I have had several requests for my
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this year and it's made it a lot quicker! Instead of making little loaves,
I've rolled them into small balls. You have to watch and turn the tray about
twice before the 8 to 12 minutes are up (they only need to be golden)
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It's not just that I enjoy baking, I
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In the summer of 2013, the reconstructed and enlarged vorarlberg museum was reopened in Bregenz.
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GLEN ALLEN, Va. ( TheStreet) -- Star Scientific (STSI) finally admitted Friday that only $5 million in cash was received from the settlement of a long-running legal tussle with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco. Star also warned that current cash on hand would run out before the end of the first quarter 2013.
All in, Star Scientific's third-quarter financial results were both humiliating and humbling. The company's stock price has been cut in half since July and Friday's close of $2.56 (before third-quarter results) was the lowest in 10 months.
Star Scientific sued R.J. Reynolds, a division of Reynolds American (RAI), for violating patents covering a tobacco curing technology. The legal battle wound through multiple courts, decisions and appeals by both sides, but throughout, Star Scientific promised its shareholders victory that would force R.J. Reynolds to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties plus ongoing royalties on future tobacco sales.
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The Friends of the Georgetown Library's Hill Country Authors Series will feature novelist Ann Weisgarber on Monday, November 17, 2014 at 2 pm at the library. Doors open at 1:30 pm. Ann is the author of The Promise which will be featured on November 17. See article posted below for more details or go to http://www.folgeorgetown.com/web/
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For those now reading The Paris Wife, may I suggest a photo book that will give an excellent feel for life among the artists and writers in Montparnasse during the 20's? If you can find a copy, take a look at Kiki's Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900-1930. And be sure to read the captions and text (and even the footnotes!). It really enriches your understanding of the life and times of the art community in Paris. It seems like everyone was there then.This is also when Barnes was amassing his wonderful collection of art (which some of you may have seen part of, when it came to the Kimball).
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Santa Clara Valley
The Santa Clara Valley runs south-southeast from the southern end of San Francisco Bay in Northern California in the United States. The northern, urbanized end of the valley is part of a region locally known as the "South Bay" and also part of the electronics research and manufacturing area know as Silicon Valley. Most of the Santa Clara Valley is in Santa Clara County, including its county seat, San Jose. The valley, named after the Spanish Mission Santa Clara, was for a time known as the Valley of Heart's Delight for its high concentration of orchards, flowering trees, and plants. Until the 1960s it was the largest fruit production and packing region in the world with 39 canneries.[1][2]
Once primarily agricultural because of its highly fertile soil, it is now largely urbanized, although its far southern reaches south of Gilroy remain agrarian. The most northern urban areas are also part of "Silicon Valley", although since it is not an actual valley, parts of the San Francisco Peninsula farther north are included in Silicon Valley as well. Locally, the urbanized areas of Santa Clara Valley are also referred to as part of the South Bay (San Francisco Bay Area).
Few traces of its agricultural past can still be found, but the Santa Clara Valley American Viticultural Area remains a large wine-making region. It was one of the first commercial wine-producing regions in California (and possibly the United States), utilizing high-quality French varietal vines imported from France.[3][4]
The northern end of the Santa Clara Valley is at the southern tip of the San Francisco Bay, and the southern end is in the vicinity of Hollister. The valley is bounded by the Santa Cruz Mountains on the southwest and by the Diablo Range on the northeast. It is approximately 30 miles (50 km) long by 15 miles (20 km) wide. The valley's largest city, by an 86.7% margin, is San Jose. The population of the valley is 1.81 million along with approximately 865,700 wage and salary jobs.[5] Santa Clara Valley has a Mediterranean semi-arid climate.
Cities and towns[edit]
Cities and towns in the Santa Clara Valley include (in alphabetical order):
- Campbell
- Cupertino
- Gilroy
- Hollister
- Los Gatos
- Los Altos
- Los Altos Hills
- Milpitas
- Monte Sereno
- Morgan Hill
- Mountain View
- Palo Alto
- San Martin
- San Jose
- San Juan Bautista
- Santa Clara
- Saratoga
- Sunnyvale
Because so much high-tech industry has spread out from the Silicon Valley, Fremont and Newark, even though they are not in Santa Clara County, are often included in discussions about the Silicon Valley or, in the case of Fremont, is referred to as the Gateway to the Silicon Valley (a title also claimed occasionally by San Jose, Union City, and several other locations). Similarly, Palo Alto, while in Santa Clara County and considered part of Silicon Valley, is on the San Francisco Peninsula.
San Francisco South Bay[edit]
The South Bay is a subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States and is roughly synonymous with the Santa Clara Valley, Silicon Valley, and Santa Clara County (in general). The South Bay is one of several Subregions in the Bay Area including: San Francisco, the North Bay including parts of the Wine Country, the Peninsula, and the East Bay, among others.
In addition to the primary cities listed above, although physically separated by the Santa Cruz mountains and in another county (Santa Cruz County), the following incorporated cities are sometimes considered part of the region:
Many other cities, towns or census-designated places are also sometimes considered part of the region, such as the San Lorenzo Valley towns between Saratoga and Santa Cruz.
Some cities in the East Bay or especially on the Peninsula sometimes are referred to as part of the region. Many of these cities including Menlo Park, Redwood City, Newark, and Fremont are considered part of the Silicon Valley (and therefore the South Bay) because of their relative peripheral location to Santa Clara County, history, or concentration of high-tech companies. The conception of the South Bay as a region is relatively new compared to that of the Peninsula and coastal East Bay, and the cities of northwestern Santa Clara County (Palo Alto, Los Altos, Mountain View, and sometimes as far as Cupertino and Sunnyvale) maintain an identity more strongly connected to the Peninsula and the Stanford campus than the City of San Jose. Additionally, the counties of Santa Cruz and San Benito are considered part of the South Bay by the Bay Area media although the two counties are often considered to be their own subregion centered on the city of Santa Cruz.
Notable structures[edit]
There are a number of well known structures and sites of interest in the South Bay:
- Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto
- Stanford University, Palo Alto
- SAP Center, San Jose (originally the San Jose Arena and formerly Compaq Center and HP Pavilion)
- Hayes Mansion, South San Jose
- Plaza de César Chávez, downtown San Jose
- Cathedral Basilica of Saint Joseph, downtown San Jose
- Winchester Mystery House, West San Jose
- Santana Row, West San Jose
- Lick Observatory, San Jose
- Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, Central San Jose
- Mexican Heritage Plaza, East San Jose
- History Park at Kelley Park, Central San Jose
- Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, Downtown San Jose
- San Jose International Airport, San Jose
- San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
- San Jose State University, San Jose
- Santa Clara University, Santa Clara (includes original Santa Clara Mission site)
- California's Great America, Santa Clara
- The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose
- Moffett Federal Airfield, Sunnyvale/Mountain View
Santa Clara Valley was created by the sudden growth of the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Diablo Range during the later Cenozoic era. This was a period of intense mountain building in California when the folding and thrusting of the Earth's crust, combined with active volcanism, gave shape to the present state of California. Hence, Santa Clara Valley is a structural valley, created by mountain building as opposed to an erosional valley, or a valley which has undergone the wearing away of the Earth's surface by natural agents. The underlying geology of the Santa Cruz Mountains was also formed by the sediment of the ancient seas, where marine shale points to Miocene origin. Today one can still find evidence of this in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where shark's teeth and the remains of maritime life are still found as high as Scotts Valley, a city nestled in the mountains.[6] The highest peak on the Santa Cruz Mountains side of the valley is Loma Prieta at 3,790 feet. The highest peak in the Diablo Range side of the valley is Mount Hamilton, specifically Copernicus Peak at 4,370 feet elevation. This is the highest peak in Santa Clara County.
- ^ Valley of Heart's Delight : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive. Archive.org (2001-03-10). Retrieved on 2013-07-21.
- ^ Golden Harvest...Fifty Years of Calpak Progress : California Packing Corporation, Industrial and Public Relations Department : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive. Archive.org. Retrieved on 2013-07-21.
- ^ Santa Clara. Ohp.parks.ca.gov. Retrieved on 2013-07-21.
- ^ Almaden Winery History from NCD. Awna.org (1997-01-23). Retrieved on 2013-07-21.
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- ^ "Early History". Santa Clara County: California's Historic Silicon Valley. National Park Service. Retrieved 2008-01-18.
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Summary: Ray, Abby, and the kids visit Bel Air Academy, hoping Bridget will get into the prestigious school, but the day is interrupted when Ray has to take care of a case at a Beverly Hills hotel. Mickey, Bunchy and Daryll drive out to Palm Springs to visit Mickey's ex-girlfriend, Claudette.…
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