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There are maps of the new campus tree walks available by the globe at the entrance of campus. This walk takes about 45 minutes and is an interesting and provocative way to learn about the beautiful trees that grace our campus. As a point of interest the Andrews University Campus was designated nationally as an official arboretum site in 1991.


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Last year, Smartshop.com Inc., a free comparison-shopping service for online shoppers, began to consider making its site compatible with the new wireless Internet technologies. "We looked at the indicators and found that wireless was growing like mad," says Tim Musgrove, COO and CTO. "We looked at the service we offer-comparison shopping-and knew that consumers were not just going to do this behind a desk. We knew they would be out, carrying a Web-enabled phone in a shopping mall and comparing prices from their phones. We knew we had to do it."
So, in a well-calculated effort to jump on the trend, the Morgan Hill, California, company decided to add wireless capabilities to its site-meaning customers can now browse, research and compare prices for a wide range of products straight from their Internet-enabled handheld devices or mobile phones. It works like this: First, users log on to the wireless section of the company's site. Then, either customers can download the site's wireless capability onto their PCs to use on their PDAs, or, if they're using a mobile phone, they can log on to http://wireless.smartshop.com, which can be bookmarked for later use. Users can then use a pared-down version of the Smartshop.com site any time-whether they're on the road, at the mall or anywhere else they'd like to search for desired products by category or keyword.
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The Little Things: Emirates' First Class Almond-Stuffed Dates
In the midst of the bustle of travel, it's all too easy to overlook the details. We're talking about special touches others have stressed over just so you can enjoy a unique experience, whether you know it or not. Every so often we'll highlight The Little Things like this, so now you will know.
The Little Thing: Emirates' First Class bite, Bateel figs stuffed with almonds.
Emirates, which is known to be über-luxurious on the ground as much as it is in the air, presents guests with a little treat before flying: a wooden box filled with Khidri dates from the prestigious Bateel gourmet confectionery of the U.A.E. Dates are considered a perfect after dinner desert to top off a delicious feast and Bateel is known to have some of the best.
Not only are guests in the lounges treated with a box on each counter, but First Class passengers onboard flights are offered a plate of these delicious fruits as a pre-arrival snack. Similar to a piece of chocolate prior to landing, the figs are a sweet end to a sumptuous flight experience and keep your belly from grumbling through immigration.
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Even Falcons Get to Fly on Commercial Aircraft
Have you ever flown with a pet? It can be a frustrating experience, not to mention expensive, but from time to time even four-legged and feathered friends need to go on vacation too.
This brings us around to the above photo, of two men traveling in economy class on a flight either to or from the middle east, who are enjoying a little in-flight entertainment, a little nap, and a little quality time with their falcons.
The image comes courtesy of @mrstrefusis on Twitter, who explains a bit further: "my friend who lives in the UAE sent it to me - I've asked him if it's something he saw himself or if he found it on t'interweb."
Now, next time we see a traveler trying to calm a yapping dog, we'll just be happy we're not sitting next to two birds of prey with very real claws and very real sharp beaks.
[Photo: @mrstrefusis, hat tip to @runwaygirl]
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Cheers! These 13 Airlines Aren't Afraid to Pour the Good Champagne
Just because the confetti is cleaned up, Auld Lang Syne is retired in your iTunes playlist, and your outfit from New Year's Eve is at the dry-cleaners doesn't mean we still can't talk about one of the best parts of ringing in a new year: a champagne toast! Since 'popping bottles' is for such special occasions, we can't think of a better way to sip some bubbles than when on a plane heading for a new destination.
While some airlines have a knack for feeding passengers fine food like lobster and caviar, there are thankfully more still taking sparkling wines just as serious. If your 2014 travel plans include flights in First or Business Class on the following carriers, be sure to reach for that PDB (pre-departure beverage) and ask for a flute of these fine pours:
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What It's Like to Belly Up to Emirates' A380 Onboard Bar
Long gone are the days when flying was an event and passengers "dressed to the nines" to be wined and dined at 30,000 feet. Despite cost-cutting and the spread of air travel to more than just the moneyed, a few modern airlines manage to pull off bits of those glamor days still. One of these is Emirates, because traveling on one of their A380s is one of the more civilized experiences, stretching from boarding to deplaning. On our own recent flight, however, it was the full bar that wowed us most.
The airline's superjumbos feature separate First Class and Business Class bars, both fully stocked with top-shelf liquors, fine Champagnes, and light bites to lubricate passenger relaxation and socializing. Just after take-off, while the cabin crew are prepping for meal service, a few crew members are tasked with setting up this flying perk that is unique to only a few carriers.
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Leading the New Route News are Air Canada, LAN, and Hainan Airlines
Sometimes it's hard to stay on top of all the new route announcements that come our way, so we've complied a little bit of a rundown below. As long as you can afford the fares, this should definitely help add to your passport stamp collection.
· Air Canada:
It's been a long time coming, but Air Canada is finally going to score its very first Boeing 787s once 2014 rolls around. Things seem to finally be on scheduled for delivery, and if all goes according to plan the new planes will be hitting the hangar as soon as March. If you're eager to fly in one of these new planes it looks like Air Canada is planning to introduce them on nonstop flights between Toronto and Tel Aviv and Toronto and Tokyo-Haneda. Both flights are scheduled to take to the skies on July 1, but before then they'll be testing out all the buttons, switches, and whatnot on the new toy—probably even flying it domestically between Toronto and Montreal and on a few transatlantics.
So you're in Aruba enjoying the sun and the sand, but then you start thinking that somewhere else might be nice to visit. Just head over to LAN Airlines' website, as they've got an option that you might enjoy. This week they started up new nonstop service between Bogotá—in Colombia—and Aruba. Things took off earlier this week, and the planes and people will head back and forth on Mondays and Thursdays. Airbus A320s are in charge with the flying, of course with some help from the pilots, and it'll be a quick flight with only roughly 500 miles between the destinations.
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Even on a Short Hop, We're Enamored with Emirates' Business Class
Yesterday, we unzipped our amenity kits and showed you what's inside the über-luxe Emirates First Class swag. Now we can reveal what it's like to fly on their A380.
We booked a Business Class seat on one of the world's most sought-after airlines, on a bit of an odd route. An Emirates super jumbo A380 actually flies from Brisbane to Auckland. It's a trip of a little over three hours, but that's plenty time to enjoy a little extra luxury.
As you can expect, everything from time in the Emirates lounge to sitting back in our lie-flat seat on the upper deck contributed to our lack od desire to leave the plane upon arrival in Auckland.
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Inside Emirates' First Class Amenity Kits for Both Men and Women
If you've been lucky enough to fly internationally in a First or Business Class seat, then you know it's quite the treat and not only because of free-flowing champagne or the extra legroom. Some bonus fun comes in the form of a special gift, an amenity kit. Sometimes these amenity kits contain the basicseye shades, socks, ear plugs, toothbrushbut in the case of Emirates, the kits are a luxury sampler.
Here's our peek inside the elusive first class amenity kits for both ladies and men who cough up lots of cash (or frequent flyer points) to fly up front in the airline's A380s. We should mention that both kits are Bulgari-branded and chock-full of stuff that will last beyond your time onboard the plane.
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Air China, Emirates, and Alitalia Work It Out with New Routes
Sometimes it's hard to stay on top of all the new route announcements that come our way, so we've complied a little bit of a rundown below. As long as you can afford the fares, this should definitely help add to your passport stamp collection.
· Emirates:
Some of the biggest new routes this week comes from the folks over at Emirates, as once again they're looking to expand their reach across the globe. This week news arrives that they will be starting service between Boston and Dubai as of March 10. Emirates will go between the two spots on a daily basis, as they will rely on Boeing 777-200LR jets to get things done. Overall this is destination number eight for Emirates in and out of the nifty fifty, as they also do the nonstop thing over to Dubai from places like New York, San Francisco, and Seattle.
· Air China:
There's few people that wouldn't be interested in a new option over to Hawaii, so that's why we're excited to pass along the news regarding a new flight in and out of Honolulu. Air China is thinking about starting nonstop service between Beijing and Honolulu beginning in January of 2014, so pack those snorkels and swimsuits. It looks like this new option will be competing with some new service between the two cities from Hawaiian Airlines, so be on the lookout for the possibility of some competitive fares.
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Emirates, Air Canada and Volaris Lead This Week's New Routes News
Sometimes it's hard to stay on top of all the new route announcements that come our way, so we've complied a little bit of a rundown below. As long as you can afford the fares, this should definitely help add to your passport stamp collection.
· Air Canada:
They are already flying nonstop between Montreal and San Francisco, but things are going so well that they're now going to do it all year long. Air Canada just announced that this city pair will be more than just a seasonal option beginning this November, as Airbus A319s will make the flight throughout the entire year. The flight times are even pretty nice too, as they don't even stick you with an overnight flight. No redeyes on the way back from California, as the flights depart San Francisco around 8am and arrive in Montreal around 4:30pm—all times local.
· Interjet:
There was some new airplane action this week to and from Mexico City, as Interjet is on the move once again. They're bringing the low cost carrier thing to New York City, as earlier this week nonstop flights started between Mexico City and New York-JFK. There's plenty of competition on flights between these two cities from carriers like Aeromexico and Delta, but let's hope that a little friendly competition brings airfare down. If JFK isn't where you want to go, Interjet also flies nonstop to spots like Miami and San Antonio.
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Hey, How About a Google Street View Tour of Inside an Emirates A380?
It's no secret that Google has high ambitions for Street View. In March the company expanded its offerings across Eastern Europe, and for the first time users got the opportunity to walk through Bulgaria, plus some 200 Russian cities. Then a few weeks ago we told you about new walkthroughs being built into Street View that will allow users to meander through rain forests, beaches, and maybe even a volcano.
Then news came this week that Google is letting users inside the insanely decadent Emirates Airbus A380. You start off on the concourse at Dubai International Airport. From there you get the option to step inside the plane. Here is the economy "bus with wings" section of the plane. Here are the steps you take if you're lucky enough not to be sitting there. And here is the bar you get to avail yourself of once you're upstairs. It's kind of amazing, the things we can do.
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International New Route News from Emirates, American, and Even Allegiant
Sometimes it's hard to stay on top of all the new route announcements that come our way, so we've complied a little bit of a rundown below. As long as you can afford the fares, this should definitely help add to your passport stamp collection.
· Emirates:
Sooner than later you'll be able to spend more than just one night in Bangkok, as Emirates is getting ready to boost their service with some new flights. They're increasing capacity between Dubai and Bangkok with another daily nonstop flight—this is number six.
The plan is to start it on October 27, and if you're keeping track it's going to do its thing as EK370. Airbus A380s head back and forth on this route already, but this extra flight is Boeing-flavored. Boeing 777-200ERs will do the heavy lifting on flight number six.
· Qatar Airways:
Over at Qatar Airways they love 'em some Boeing 787s, and now it looks like they're getting ready to send their planes to new spots. The Dreamliner will be on the move to and from Doha, of course, as the plan is to start flights to Stockholm on August 1.
After that the planes will also be heading to both Copenhagen and Oslo as of September 1. There's 254 seats aboard this bird across a couple different cabins, so we're sure that you'll find a spot to rest your rear on the way to your next destination.
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Emirates Opens an 'Interactive Museum' Complete with Flight Simulators for the Public
A trip to London need not be filled with the usual Royal tours, high tea and Big Ben. Thanks to Emirates, visitors to Emirates Air Line, the recently opened cable car from the Greenwich Peninsula to the Royal Docks, will now be able to learn how modern aviation brought them to the foreign city. Remember when the airline renamed two stations?
Just yesterday, the airline opened their Emirates Aviation Experience on the south end of the cable line. The 300-square meter facility will host interactive exhibits teaching visitors how awesome aviation is; it's so hands-on that within the experience are four flight simulators so you may try your own hand at flying a Airbus A380 or a Boeing 777.


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Everyone loves a homemade gift, especially if that gift is edible and sweet like the following Christmas candy recipes from Martha Stewart. Choose from easy recipes for fudge, chocolate bark, pralines, marshmallows, and more, and give this holiday season a personal touch that can't be beat.
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I appreciate the thought that went into Rick Telander's series "Can heaven still be found on a playground," which provided a stark look at a neighborhood that has significant challenges.
It's rare for writers — especially a nationally respected sports columnist — to take the time to focus in-depth on urban issues. And, while I applaud the attention, I was alarmed by his consistent characterization of Englewood — the community that was the object of the series — as menacing and dangerous. Additionally, such terms as "the devil's playground" reinforce harsh images and unwarranted stereotypes about people living in low-income African-American communities. Not helpful. Not fair.
For the last six years, I have worked in Englewood, leading efforts of the Adler School of Professional Psychology to address issues such as youth violence, women empowerment and community mental health. In my interactions with residents — men, women, boys and girls — I've learned that there is a deep reservoir of pride in the community, of commitment to its survival and a belief in its eventual capacity to thrive. Certainly, the community has challenges; but it has bright spots as well.
I do believe that Mr. Telander identified some of the key factors underlying Englewood's plight: classism, racism, joblessness and the dismantling of Chicago Housing Authority high-rises (i.e. segregation). And, I hope his readers noted these observations. I would add a few items such as sexism; an inequitable school financing system; a corrupt and abusive banking system, and poor health-care access and treatment.
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On another note, a good friend just got pregnant at CCRM after 7 IVF cycles!!! I am so so so happy for her! She had been banking embryos on her last 4 IVF's, it was her first transfer at CCRM, she transferred 3 day 3 polar body biopsy normal embryos and it looks like one stuck. I love hearing good news specially from girls that have struggled so much. It is possible ladies!
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How frustrating for you. They have known that the plan was to do CCS on your transfer day and had you on the schedule for Friday. Now that you are locked in to travel $$ they change it on you. It sucks, because you are at their mercy.ReplyDelete
What great news about your friend! I've got a friend who is about to start her 7th IVF cycle at CCRM, so that is inspiring!
Argh - that is frustrating that you have to change plans so last minute. Oh well, I guess the most important thing is that the CCS test goes well.ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing that story about your friend - it gives me hope! I can't believe she has been banking embryos for 4 cycles! Why so many, did she not have normals every time?
I am excited and so nervous for both of us...argh, let the waiting be over soon.Replies
Dr. Schoolie told her that she should bank at least 4, specially since she was doing day 3 embryos. So on her first IVF @ CCRM she got 2 normals, on her second no normals, on her third no normals, on her 4th IVF she grew them to blasts because she had I believe 6, only one made it to blast, she did CCS and it was abnormal. So she decided to just transfer 3 :-)Delete
Wow...that's crazy! That's interesting because we are transferring with only 2...I hope we are taking the right path. Maybe we should have "banked" more. Too late now I guess. Thanks for sharing!Delete
So frustrating yet again!!! On a happy note, it is right around the corner!!! I can't believe your big day is almost here my friend. I am so excited and I have such high hopes this time. I love hearing about your friend too:) So inspirational!!!ReplyDelete
CCRM owns us. While my last minute change was not quite as inconvenient as yours, they did something similar to me for my transfer day. Ugh.ReplyDelete
Very frustrating indeed. Changing travel plans is not easy especially with 2 working adults. Hope it all works out for the best! That is great news about your friend, very inspiring!ReplyDelete
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MADISON, Wis. and FARMERS BRANCH, Texas (1/30/12)--January was a transition month for many credit unions, with announcements of CEO retirements popping up each week or new CEOs taking the helm. Succession plans for the credit unions have received a workout.
CEO retirements will trend upward as more baby boomers hit retirement age. As they retire, the people replacing them will have left key senior positions at other credit unions, which will trigger the implementation of succession plans at those credit unions.
Credit unions and their boards should be prepared for the transition while finding the right person for the critical job. Having a detailed succession plan is essential, according to Karen Houston-Johnson, vice president of Credit Union Resources' OnBalance.
Failing to plan for succession well in advance of an executive search can result in chaos, contribute to costly delays in organizational momentum and progress, and needlessly create uncertainty among members, volunteers, staff and other stakeholders in the credit union, Houston-Johnson told the Texas Credit Union League (
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Effective boards understand that while CEO departures are often unexpected, turnover in executive leadership is inevitable, she said. "To lay the groundwork for a successful transition, boards should invest in the forethought and advance work of succession planning."
The planning works best when the board and incumbent CEO collaborate to create conditions for a successful transition--expected or not expected, said the article.
Houston-Johnson outlined the benefits of an effective succession plan. The plan should:
Respond to emergencies by designating an executive or management team to run the credit union until the boar names an interim CEO;
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Give the board an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of senior executives;
Guide the development of senior executives with an emphasis on preparing them to fill the CEO's position on either ran interim or permanent basis;
Reflect the unique nature of every credit union's market and membership; and
Reassure members and employees so the board can initiate quickly steps that ultimately will lead to naming a new CEO in a timely manner.
How important is this? Ask a credit union that underwent a CEO change this month. Here are 10 credit unions that announced a CEO transition in January. There are probably more. They include:
Members 1st CU, Brattleboro, Vt.--CEO Judy Wisell officially handed the reins to successor Rick Chapin, former vice president of Chittenden bank, at year end and commemorated the exchange at its annual planning discussion Jan. 22 (
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Greater Iowa CU, Ames, Iowa--The $280 million asset Greater Iowa CU hired Scott Zahnle, executive vice president at $850 million asset IH Mississippi Valley CU, Moline, Ill., to succeed David Carlson as president/CEO, effective Feb. 8.
Guthrie FCU, Sayre, Pa.--John Savelli has been appointed president/CEO. He most recently was controller at United Health Services Hospital System and earlier was senior vice president/chief financial officer oat GHS FCU, Binghamton, N.Y. (
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Tobyhanna FCU, Scranton, Pa.--Sean Jelen, chief operating officer at Palisades FCU, Pearl River, N.Y., was named president/CEO at TobyFCU, succeeding James Kanaley, who retired Jan. 3 (
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Commonwealth CU, Frankfort, Ky.--Karen C. Harbin, executive vice president of the credit union, was named president/CEO, succeeding Gary Wallace (
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University of Michigan CU, Ann Arbor, Mich.--Tiffany Ford, executive vice president at Michigan State University FCU, East Lansing, was named president/CEO of University of Michigan CU (
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Jan. 16).
Valley Bell CU, Elgin, Ill.--Jackie Hoonjan, previously with Workers' CU, Fitchburg, Mass., was appointed president/CEO of Valley Bell CU.
Laclede Community CU, Alton, Ill.--Paul Smith, vice president of Laclede since 1993, was named president/CEO after the retirement of Janice Callies, who held the position since 1998.
Shell Community CU, Wood River, Ill.--Gregory Lyons, vice president of member services at Shell Community, was appointed president/CEO, succeeding Kathy Swearingin, who retired.
Market USA FCU, Laurel, Md.--Laura Hassan, executive vice president at Market USA since 1994, has been promoted to president/CEO, succeeding Robert McClosky, who retired Dec. 31.
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Summary: This story is about a young boy who fought to save the farm he grew up on. Young Willy lived with his grandfather on a potato farm and his grandfather became very ill. He could not do anything besides lay in bed so Willy was forced to run the farm by himself. When he found out that his grandfather owed $500 for taxes he knew he had to do something. he enters an adult dog sled race and is racing against a legend, Stone Fox. Willy and his one dog, Searchlight, are neck and neck with Stone Fox at the end and then instantly Searchlight's heart burst before the finish line and died. Stone Fox stopped all the other racers and let Willy finish the rest of the race by walking and Willy won the money from the race.
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Interesting Facts about Indoor Plants:
- They can remove a variety of toxic air emissions including ammonia, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, benzene, xylene and trichloroethylene.
-At home, studies show they make people feel calmer and more optimistic.
-Within workspaces, studies show they enhance creativity, increase productivity.
Getting Started:
1) The first thing you're going to need is something to hold your terrarium. I found an old glass bowl I got at Restoration Hardware and a pot that had previously been used to hold a bonsai.
2) Second, your going to need succulents. I snipped some (at an angle always helps with plants) from my garden out back which had some succulents that were beginning to look overgrown.
3) For the soil you'll need some cactus mix or something that doesn't feel too moist, succulents like dry soil. For drainage you'll need some pebbles, make sure to rinse them. The top layer of the terrarium can have either sand or more pebbles. You want to be light handed if you use pebbles on top, so as not too suffocate the succulents since pebbles can get very hot. One thin layer of either pebbles or sand is plenty.
4) I like the elements that can add a nice aesthetic to your terrarium. I picked out some coral that I had found in Tahiti, some jagged rocks I had found on the beach, and a little stone sculpture given to me by my husband when he returned from a snowboarding trip in Chile.
Start by placing a two inch layer of stones at the bottom of your terrarium. Next layer over the cactus soil, thickness depending on how deep your pot is. Adjust the succulents stem and soil to be about the same. Be creative with arranging and don't hesitate to rearrange the plants. Just be gentle :) Last, cover the surface of the soil with either rinsed pebbles or some sand from the beach. I gently placed my little statue on top of the pebbles & for the coral I used a wine opener corkscrew to create a small hole which fit a toothpick perfectly, holding the coral up in the soil.
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It has been over a year since Dean Diane Hoadley arrived at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire to begin her tenure as dean of the College of Business. Looking back at the past year, Dean Hoadley reminisced about her time on campus and in the Eau Claire community.
When asked what she enjoys most about UW-Eau Claire, Dean Hoadley cites the collaborative environment she finds here.
She complimented the faculty and her colleagues for their positive attitudes during an especially difficult year when the university was required to make many budget cuts. Dean Hoadley feels the College of Business is "very fortunate to have great donors who make advancements possible." She finds UW-Eau Claire students to be "bright, articulate, and able to present themselves well." She says that she even had the chance to watch students present as part of the Great Northwoods Sales Warm-Up this past year.
The community of the city of Eau Claire has also been a welcome change for the dean. It is the largest community she has lived in for 30 years and she has taken advantage of the great opportunities the city has to offer. Dean Hoadley enjoys outdoor activities, such as golfing, biking, and cross country skiing, and she has recently taken up hiking.
Dean Hoadley compares her position as dean to that of the CEO of a company. As CEO of the College of Business, she says she has two main responsibilities: to make sure the college runs efficiently and to be its public face.
As a dean of an AACSB-accredited school, Dean Hoadley goes on a number of accreditation and reaffirmation site visits at other schools throughout the year. These visits allow her to see how our business school compares with other ones. "Other universities envy our Student Professional Development program," she said. "Their students are struggling in these areas." She says the Center for Advising, Development and Enrichment (CADE), the college's new center for academic advising, also is a progressive step in comparison to other universities.
While the College of Business has many strengths, it also has several areas of weakness. One of the biggest obstacles Dean Hoadley faces is finding resources to support the many ideas the faculty and staff have. Despite working to increase resources when funding is continuously being cut, Dean Hoadley has been able to make progressive strides toward improving the College of Business. For example, she has used funds secured through the Blugold Commitment to create new faculty positions in accounting and finance, hire adjunct business law faculty, provide one-time support for the Leadership Institute, and establish CADE.
Another challenge the College of Business is facing is its facilities. Schneider Hall was built in the '60s before personal computers existed and group work was commonplace. According to Dean Hoadley, the new education building will open up space on campus. Departments that are currently housed in Schneider Hall will move to the new education building or other vacated spaces, making Schneider more cohesive as a business building. As a result of these developments, discussion focusing on future renovations to Schneider will occur.
Although Dean Hoadley is very busy with day-to-day work, the future of the College of Business never slips far from her mind. When asked what her goals were for the College of Business next year, Dean Hoadley had a variety of ideas.
At the top of her list is her desire to "identify points of distinction for the college that differentiate it from other business colleges." Dean Hoadley would like to figure out what attracts students to their schools of choice.
When asked what future of business schools will look like, Dean Hoadley is eager to answer. She explains that classes are moving away from traditional textbook teaching and toward a more problem-oriented curriculum. Courses will become more multidisciplinary focusing on bigger issues such as globalization and sustainability rather than on specific areas like marketing or finance.
Dean Hoadley will prove to be a very busy person in the coming years. We can look forward to many positive changes. The plans she has set out will result in a stronger, more competitive College of Business.
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Part of the Rosetta spacecraft is silhouetted against the orange surface of Mars in this February 25 image. Rosetta flew just 160 miles (250 km) above Mars to get a gravitational boost toward its final target, a comet. This view is from a small lander that will touch down on the comet. The large rectangular structure is a solar panel. [CIVA/Philae/ESA Rosetta]


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After a Wednesday night results show featuring Kelly Clarkson, Bruno Mars, and the most blatant acknowledgement to date that this show is a complete circus, the fourth and fifth "acts" to be eliminated from the X Factor laser field are….
Lakoda Rayne and LeRoy Bell.
Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid wanted to send home LeRoy, while Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger didn't want to send home anybody but eventually pretended they wanted to send home Marcus. That meant we were in deadlock. "DEADLOCK," said the center screen with a big 'X.'
So the public vote determined LeRoy's elimination. Stevecrest the Human Stopwatch took his sweet time opening the tiny envelope with LeRoy's name on it (or what I suspect was a private note from Simon to "shut it.") I love how Steve's alone time is his top priority. Truth be told, I'm a little obsessed with him.
Lakoda Rayne didn't even get to sing for their lives -- no one had voted for them so they were embarrassingly forced to disintegrate into a heap of rhinestones on stage about 18 minutes in. "Girls, that sucks. The dream is over," announced the incredible Steve Jones. The dream was not over, Paige corrected him. "You'll be seeing Lakoda Rayne in concert everywhere," the brunette assured us, forgetting to add, "if you're prone to nightmares."
I'm just kidding -- I will miss all four of Paula Abdul's last remaining pets, and this was a terribly abrupt exit. But we can't blame Stevecrest, who needed the extra time to welcome "the wonderful Howie Mandel" -- or, as he even more hilariously put it later, "Howie Mandel, top man," to plug his new show. "I'VE GOT TO MOVE ON," our restless host suddenly decided, next to Howie. Steve Jones had places to go! He moved about a foot to his left and resumed speaking.
The writing was on the wall -- in this case the GIANT SCREENS -- for the LeRoy Bell vs. Marcus Canty showdown. LeRoy had tranquil waters and just a few twinkling blue stars behind him during his soulful rendition of "Don't Let Me Down," but young Marcus was backed by a more intricate version of The X Factor's opening credits (smoky red galaxy) during his. It was just more dynamic, and to me Marcus is simply a more engaging performer than LeRoy.
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Self-injury behaviors are any behaviors that a person does with the purpose of hurting oneself. How to stop self-harm once you start though can be a big problem.
Some people may self-injure (also known as self-harm or self-mutilation) only once, while most will engage in self-harm behaviors multiple times.
Many people go on to years though because they find it so difficult to stop self-harm. (read about Self-Harm in Adults)
But it is possible to change self-harm behaviors – it is possible to stop self-injury. To stop self-mutilation, though, many things need to change, including:
It's also important to know about self-harm alternatives and to gain some insight into why you self-harm or what triggers your self-injury behaviors. This self-injury test can help with that part.
The environment is part of what causes, or allows for, self-harm and changing it can help stop self-injury. The first step is analyzing what role the environment has on self-injury behavior. For example:
Knowing the answers to these questions can help you change those aspects of your environment that contribute to your self-harm behaviors. (Causes of Self-Injury)
Changing the environment can be done once the urge to self-harm strikes, but it's easier to do before the urge comes.
For example, to help stop self-harm, you can:1
Many people battle to stop self-mutilation but lose this battle when fighting alone. It's only once they gain the support of others that they can stop self-harming behaviors. Self-injury help and support can come from professional sources such as a self-harm treatment center, program or psychotherapist, or it can come from friends, family members or others. The important thing is to have supportive people around you who you can turn to for help when you need it. If you feel the urge to self-harm, call one of these supports and have them talk or sit with you. This can be one of the easiest ways to stop self-mutilation.
Changing the way you think is no easy task; that is for sure. However, changing some of the negative thoughts that lead to self-injury is possible and important. Just like with the environment, first it's important to analyze the thoughts surrounding self-harm in order to better understand and challenge them. Some questions to think about might be:
Handling those thoughts can be tricky but there are techniques used to challenge, stop and alter negative thoughts of self-harm.
These self-harm thought-altering techniques may take a lot of practice to work. A therapist can help you with more self-harm stopping techniques.
If you find yourself in a spiral wherein you feel you are about to self-harm, it's important to know self-harm alternatives that can take the place of self-injury. Self-mutilation alternatives can keep you physically safe even when overwhelmed with the urge to self-harm.
Self-injury alternatives include:2
Of course, the best self-harm alternative is likely to reach out and talk to someone about how you are feeling.
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Book review
Context as Other Minds
Givón, T. 2005. Context as Other Minds. The Pragmatics of Sociality, Cognition and Communication. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Reviewed by Antoine Gautier, Paris-Sorbonne University
According to its author, Mind, Code and Context (Givón 1989) failed to reach one of its objectives: It did not succeed in generalizing pragmatics so as to study individual and collective framing of reality from a similar perspective. That is what Context as Other Minds (Givón 2005) aims to make up for, relying on Theories of Mind and recent data from neuroscience. Thus, the book intends to set the basis for a vast program of re-positioning "pragmatics, and most conspicuously the pragmatics of culture, sociality and communication in a neuro-cognitive, bio-adaptive, evolutionary context."
Context as Other Minds consists of ten chapters organized into four parts. The first part reminds the reader of the main historical steps and concepts of pragmatics. The second part (Chapters 2 and 3) studies how generic mental categories are acquired in order to build the mental lexicon. The third part (Chapters 4 through 7) describes context as the "on-line construction of the interlocutor's belief and intention states" and considers grammar as a set of cues activating predefined states of belief in the mind of the addressee. The last part extends pragmatics to the philosophy of science (Chapter 8) and cognitive psychology (Chapter 9), mainly by using the cases of schizophrenia and autism. Lastly, the tenth chapter brings martial arts and pragmatics together in accordance with their common strategic feature.
In the first chapter, the author reviews the major problems of pragmatics and then sketches a brief history of the discipline. At first, he attempts to clarify the concept of "context". For that, he has to cope with the objectivism/relativism alternative, because certain distrust of pragmatics is founded upon its presumed "unbridled relativism" and consecutively leads to the opposite position of extreme objectivism. The author manages to resolve this dilemma by establishing that "context is a subjective construct" and that its relevance is finally determined by evolution. But the real object of Givón's work is to study context explicitly as "the construal of other minds", and not only as the objective setting of a communication. Afterwards, the chapter outlines the history of pragmatics. Before Kant, whose work may be seen as the "opening to modern pragmatics", pragmatics chiefly consisted of a struggle between Rationalists and Empiricists. Once the middle course was revealed by Kant, C. S. Peirce established the real bases of the discipline, bases which enabled the development of pragmatics, which kept developing onwards - though sometimes lacking coherence. Nevertheless, according to Givón, pragmatics "holds the key to an integrated understanding of life, behavior, cognition and communication."
The second part deals with the organization of mental categories from a bio-adaptive point of view. Chapter 2 begins with a critical approach to 'mental categories' through philosophy, psychology, and linguistics. Compared to Aristotelian categories which are built on necessary-and-sufficient conditions, and to Wittgensteinian 'family resemblance', the hybrid system of prototype-like categories turns out to best match one of the main activities of biological organisms: "sorting tokens of experience into separate categories" in order to be ready to respond to their "physical, biological, mental and social environment." Subsequently, the prototype-like nature of categories is not a mere theoretical posture but a cognitive fact induced by information processing. Relying on Posner's works (among others), the author demonstrates that there is no need for the mind to process the bulk of the empirical data in the same way as unusual phenomena: In the former case, processing is fast, automated, and context-free, in the latter case, it is attended, conscious, and context-scanning, and thus slower. As one would expect, this organization of mental categories impacts one's reasoning (possibly in a harmful manner, e.g. with clichés). On the other hand, particular adaptive contexts may influence categorizing, as Givón demonstrates. Surprisingly enough, he also shows that social organization tends to mimic mental categorization, producing a result which may have grievous consequences. Obviously, the natural tendency to predict what others think and intend to do induces over-stereotyping, while the need for stability leads to both favoritism toward peers and discrimination against strangers.
In Chapter 3, Givón studies the layout of mental categories, i.e. the structure of the generic lexicon. After a short presentation of the human communication system, he takes up the theory of "the lexicon as a network of nodes and connections". In this network, each word corresponds to a core of prototype nodes. The actual use of the word may activate these prototype nodes (literal sense) or on the contrary more distant ones. In the latter case, the shift from core nodes will be described in the way of polysemy, idiom, or metaphor according to the distance from the core, to the frequency of usages and the dependency to context. For example, "live metaphor" is "highly sensitive to its serendipitous pragmatic context." Lastly, Givón focuses on the actual function of metaphor from a bio-adaptive point of view and shows its raison d'être is about "reorganizing the generic-cultural conceptual map." In other words, metaphor makes the "system truly live" by making use of "its potential (…) for exception and variation."
The third part deals with the core subject of the book: how mental representations of others' beliefs and intentions are constructed. The first three chapters described the generic lexicon we assume a priori our interlocutor shares with us. Chapter 4 builds upon these founding ideas and moves from an "investigation from the generic to the specific." At the start, Givón sets out the ternary cognitive model of mind he has adopted (Atkinson & Schifrin 1968) and then incorporates the question of grammar. Its functional study differs considerably from the structuralist approach, for it aims at interpreting "the discourse coherence functions coded by grammar" as "systematic manipulations […] of the interlocutor's current state of belief and intention." But first, the speaker must assume that both he and his addressee share the same code. So, broadly speaking, grammar is an "input/output translation code." According to the author, its development in human phylogeny is destined to liberate language "from the tyranny of paying constantly attention to context." Since there are in general three different types of context during ongoing communication (shared generic network, shared speech situation, shared current text), grammar has to operate on these different levels. That is what Givón supports with examples from then on in the following three chapters. Among other facts, he considers the functioning of "definite grammatical cues": He shows how they work with every type of context and how they may indicate a discourse referent is accessible through lexicon and/or situation and/or text. In Chapter 5, the author continues to examine grammar as a set of cues to "establish well-grounded episodic structure" and thus guarantee the hearer's comprehension. Givón studies in detail anaphoric and cataphoric grounding and then produces a general view of the mental operations involved with referential coherence. Finally, he concludes questioning the 'Theories of Mind' assumptions that mental models of other minds need to be explicit. He relies on the fact that the fast and continuous shift of these mental models seems incompatible with conscious attention. This statement also applies to the grammar-coded propositional modalities, which Givón considers in Chapter 6. Here he stresses the interaction of the two "mega-modalities": Epistemic and deontic. In Chapter 7, the author widens the scope of his investigation. He examines how clauses are grounded into chains and chains into paragraphs. He also notes that grammatical cues become more scarce at high levels of hierarchic structure. Lastly, he concludes that grammar of discourse coherence can be defined as a "system of cues that speakers give hearers about highly-specific mental structures and operations."
The fourth and last part extends pragmatics to philosophy of science, psychology and martial arts. In Chapter 8, Givón starts by claiming that "organized science toils in the same vineyard and under similar handicaps as the cognizing biological organisms." By way of analogy, the "other minds" of the speaker become the "community of scientists" theorized by Kuhn. Pragmatics of science will thus deal with the relationship between this abstract being and hypothesis formation, testing and falsification, in brief scientific inquiry. By Givón account, "the scientist (…) is always engaged in a dialog with one or more putative interlocutors in his/her relevant community of science." Going from social entity to individual, the author devotes Chapter 9 to the study of the "impaired self." From a cognitive point of view, schizophrenia and autism in general may be seen like impairments affecting mind framing. By this way, Givón distinguishes the framing of one's own mind (2nd order) and of the minds of others (3rd order) and sketches how both interact, in unimpaired minds, to create a 4th order socially-sensitive self-representation. This 4th order representation emerges from the "repeated, long-term interactions with intimates" which characterize social beings. Lastly, the book finishes with a tenth chapter about the pragmatics of martial arts. The pairing is justified by the fact that "in both communication and warfare, one's moves depend. . . .on the ever present-explicit or implicit-mind of the other ." Except that the opponent, in martial arts, is not compliant with Grice's maxims but rather hostile. From the teachings of his Tai Chi master, from fragments of the Tao Teh Ching and excerpts of Castaneda's works, Givón brings together the praxis of oriental warfare, the pragmatics of discourse and mysticism, and then concludes by comparing the paradox of Yin and Yang ("unity in diversity") with the middle course between reductionisms he described at the beginning of the book.
Context as Other Minds is an extremely ambitious cross-disciplinary work. It succeeds in connecting paradigms one could have thought incommensurable and proceeds easily across crucial issues without over-simplifying. The first part outlines a useful reminder of both facts and concepts of pragmatics. The second part offers an updated model of the lexicon and stresses an interesting parallel between inner generic structure and outer social organization. The third part sets the main pieces of an adaptive and functional description of grammar, while simultaneously drawing upon epistemology and the cognitive models of the mind. The fourth part daringly extends pragmatics to other territories, though one wonders if it does not run the risk of being spread too thin by diversifying to such an extent. Having said this, Context as Other Minds remains an impressive synthesis of the best and most recent cognitive works, in addition to promulgating a powerful and stimulating theory. Some of the point discussed in the book may be profitably compared with references suggested below
Forest, Robert. 1999. Empathie et linguistique . Paris: Presses universitaires de France.
Givón, T. 1989. Mind, Code and Context: Essays in Pragmatics. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Guillaume, Gustave. 1964. Langage et science du langage. Paris: Nizet.
Kuno, Susumu, and Etsuko Kaburaki. 1977. Empathy and syntax. Linguistic Inquiry 8 (4), 627-672.
Kuno, Susumu. 1987. Functional syntax. Anaphora, discourse and empathy. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press.
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Yemen, one of the world's poorest countries and a crucial US ally in Washington's fight against al-Qaeda, is in the midst of a series of conflicts that threaten its stability.
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Lego-themed hotel opening in 2013 in California
The obsession with all things Lego is something that transcends age and nationality, but no amount of Lego interest can replace visiting one of the theme parks dedicated to the iconic toy. Now one of those locations will offer another level of the Lego experience via a new hotel dedicated to its colorful aesthetic.
The Legoland Hotel at Legoland California will feature 250 guest rooms decked out in all the familiar Lego visuals, divided into three toy themes: Pirate, Adventure, and Kingdom. Although the hotel itself isn't constructed using Lego block-like materials, as some might hope for, the building is swathed in so much of the toy's iconography there will be no doubt as to where you're staying--smack dab in the middle of a Lego lover's dream.
And while the building's facade offers an inviting Lego-style entrance, the actual interior somehow looks a little bit dated, particularly when you have hotels like the Yotel hotel delivering futuristic confines that seem more well suited to the modern and minimalist feel associated with Legos. Nevertheless, the hotel will offer a unique experience, complete with a Lego-themed castle and swimming pool, both still under construction. You can take a brief tour of the facilities by checking out the video below.
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Food Manufacturers Company FMC - Ulker Saudi Arabia, was established in November 1999. FMC is a joint venture company between Ulker Group, Dallah Group and OAB Establishment.
FMC plant is 22.000 square meter with 18.500 square meter for manufacturing and closed warehousing. FMC is running its business with a diversified talents in all managerial and technical levels.
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