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The Ruth S. Shur Fellows team is comprised of 25 dynamic and dedicated volunteers from across the country who were selected from a pool of candidates to support state coaching teams in mentoring local Leagues in recruiting and engaging members and the community to make our democracy strong and vibrant. Read about each of our unique and talented National Coaches below.
The Ruth S. Shur Fellows are a part of the support network provided to participating state coaching teams through the Membership and Leadership Development (MLD) Program. Through the MLD program, the League is becoming more effective and more powerful in communities throughout the nation. Watch this short video to learn more.
The MLD program is funded by the Fund for Local League Growth. Give to the fund and help grow the League in your community.
Tracy Adkison
Tracy Adkison has been an active member of the League of Women Voters for almost 15 years. In 2002, Tracy joined the Board of Directors of LWV Atlanta/Fulton County. During her time on the Board, she served as VP Programs & Membership. While serving on the Voter Services committee, she organized various community forums, voter registration drives and chaired candidate forums. In 2008, Tracy joined the Board of the LWV Georgia. She also chaired the local arrangements committee for the LWV-US 49th National Convention held in Atlanta, Georgia in 2010. She is currently serving as 1st Vice President.
Professionally, Tracy has become Atlanta's newest entrepreneur launching her Project Management firm – Business Management Concepts. She has continued contracting with DeKalb County School District for the Management Information Systems department. Tracy has a BS in Business Administration, and an MBA. Tracy & her husband Eric will be celebrating 9 years of wedded bliss & comedic turbulence in March. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, traveling, community service and spending time with family.
Julie Arneth
Julie Arneth has been an active League of Women Voters member since 1996. She has served on both the LWV Greater Green Bay and LWV Wisconsin boards as director, secretary, and president. Presently, she is the LWV Greater Green Bay president and a member of the LWVWI state board. In an effort to hone her technology skills she maintains the LWVGGB Website and monthly e-newsletter.
A retired secondary Language Arts teacher, Julie has served as past-president of the Green Bay Substitute Teacher Association. She continues to teach evening classes for English Language Learners at Literacy Green Bay and coordinates a number of Learning in Retirement classes at University of Wisconsin Green Bay.
Julie enjoys a myriad of activities including reading, prairie gardening, travel, seasonal sports and volunteer work both within the states and internationally with the Sierra Club and Global Volunteers. She is a member of the Green Bay and De Pere Antiquarian's board
Lineah Davey
Lineah Davey grew up in Nebraska where she began her career teaching English. She retired teaching high school social studies and now she supervises social studies student-teachers at Colorado College.
When Lineah and her family moved to Boulder, Colorado in 1969, she joined the League, which had intrigued her since she read the LWV of Omaha Voters Guides.
After moving to Colorado Springs, Lineah became more active in League and has since held several positions on the local board, including President. Lineah served on LWVCO Board from 2005-2012 as VP of Member Services, conducting Leadership Training for local league board members, and serving as state coordinator for Membership Leadership Development. Lineah also served as a member of LWVUS Streamlining Committee. Lineah and her husband have two married daughters and three grandchildren. In her free time, Lineah enjoys hiking, sewing, and reading mysteries.
Georgia DeGregorio
Georgia DeGregorio has served six years at the state level for LWVNY as Grassroots Director and, then, as Membership Chair. She is currently finishing her term as president of her local league, LWV Rochester Metro Area. No matter how long Georgia has been a League member, she has always found something new to learn and ways to grow as well as new friends to make.
Being a Shur Fellow helps her to continue this adventure. Besides League commitments, Georgia enjoys membership in Osher Lifelong Institute at Rochester Institute of Technology where she is taking a course on significant Supreme Court cases as well as one on Poverty: Local and World-wide. Additionally, each week, Georgia is responsible for the services at her church. Georgia has the pleasure of welcoming her three daughters into the League and, beginning this year, her 19 year old grandson.
Nancy Eitreim
Nancy joined the Seattle LWV in 1975 and was elected to the Board in 1977. Since then, she has been active both on and off boards building relationships with the membership and the community around key issues. Her passions are Voter Service, Women's Issues, and Social Justice. Making voting easy and accessible, working for universal registration, and providing clear and accessible information on the issues and candidates are key to a working democracy and a healthy community. Over the years, she managed and co-managed many media registration and information projects for commercial and public TV and radio as a volunteer and employee.
After retirement, she served four years as the LWVS president (2003-2007) and one term on the LWVUS Board (2008-2010). Professionally, she was a public affairs special project coordinator for KING 5 TV, development director and fundraising consultant for several nonprofits, and deputy probation officer in Alameda County, CA ('60s). She is president of the Board of the Southeast Seattle Senior Foundation that owns and manages 125 units of affordable nonprofit senior housing. Nancy is married, with two adult children, and two young grandsons who fill her spare time with fun and adventure.
Myra Evans
Some of Myra's work with the league has been as the local Nominating Chair, member of the local MLD Ambassador Team and youth voter outreach coordinator/facilitator. She is sought out as a "connector," someone with an ability to assess a circumstance and offer suggestions, when invited. Locally Myra's mantra is "it is all about the party" – not the political party, but the fun that is shared when work is done in groups, and always the more the merrier.
As a bit of a vagabond early in life, Myra have been blessed to live in different states and countries. Myra and her husband like to say that currently they are Mobilians by choice. That choice has enabled Myra to work with a number of non-profits with varied focuses from sex education to preschoolers to community growing to housing. Myra is looking forward to expanding her circle of friends and knowledge through the Shur Fellows program and the incredible work everyone is involved in.
Charolette (Lottie) Fox
During her 50+ year League service Lottie has served in nearly every local board capacity from observer to President and is a past board director for LWV California. League opened the doors of her mind and has walked beside her and befriended her through both her working career and her personal life. She has been inspired by other League leaders past and present who found their voice and their purpose in community service. Being a Ruth Shur Fellow is an extension of that purpose writ large, a way to give back (with gratitude!) to THE organization that educates and trains members to be leaders.
Her current civic and community activities include eleven years of service as a Commissioner on the Temecula Community Services and Human Relations Commission. This commission addresses preservation of open spaces, park acquisition, oversees maintenance of public facilities, housing for military veterans, promotes youth leadership, and seeks to enhance the arts and cultural experiences for all residents.
She has served on the Riverside County Court-Community Committee, a group under the auspices of the Riverside County Superior Court concerned about juvenile justice, selection and appointment of state judges, judicial independence, and the security of courts, jurors, defendants and plaintiffs.
Judy Golberg
Judy has 35 years of League experience that has included just about every aspect of the organization including serving on the state board, as the state president, serving on her local board and serving as president. She also worked full time at the local medical center (now retired). Judy has been very involved in her community in activities ranging from educational, children's groups, civic/service oriented, parliamentary procedures, and political.
Her hobbies include playing bridge, reading, working out in the gym, hiking, skiing, traveling the world and spending time with her husband, two sons and two grandsons. Judy believes that the best aspect of being a Ruth Shur Fellow is learning from other national and state coaches and the national staff. The MLD is an exciting program that can spark enthusiasm throughout the League. Judy's personal goal is to share with others this knowledge and enthusiasm!
Therese Hansen
Therese had an issue in 1990--healthcare reform. After moving to Washington State and searching for the most competent voice urging change in the US healthcare equation, she was recruited into the irrepressible Seattle League by long-time and extremely persuasive member, Nancy Debaste. Therese served on the Board, and as VP of Action and liaison to the WA State League. She chaired the Microcredit and National 2-year Healthcare Reform studies. And, the highlight of her League participation came in 1995, when she had the privilege of serving as delegate to the 4th UN NGO Conference on Women in Beijing. Scratching an unrequited adolescent itch to join the Peace Corp, Therese finally left her law partnership in 2006 to work in Senegal and South Africa on HIV prevention, treatment and care, and health systems. She is currently the US Liaison to a South African nonprofit aimed at strengthening rural health systems. She deeply respects League's "heft!"
Diana Haskell
Nearing the end of her career as a computer systems analyst, Diana Haskell finally joined LWVUS in 1999 and became a member of LWV-Wake County, NC in 2000. There she chaired the education committee and was a facilitator for Study Circles before becoming the local president 2006-2008 where her focus was on coalition building.
In 2007, she participated in the pilot of the Membership Recruitment Initiative (MRI) and then became a Ruth S. Shur Fellow in 2010. Throughout this process her most rewarding experiences have been the privilege of working with so many dedicated leaders at all three levels of the League. Since moving to Bethesda, MD in 2009, she has served on the boards of LWV-Montgomery County and LWVMD, but her local passion is the LWVUS Volunteer Lobby Corps. On occasion, she finds time to read or sew.
Margaret (Peggy) Hill
Margaret (Peg) Hill has been a member of the League of Women Voters in Texas since 1973. She served as President of the League of Women Voters in Richardson, Tx. In Houston, she served at Election Central Chair, as a Unit Chair, as Education Chair, on the nominations committee, and on the LWV Houston Area Board of Directors. She has also served for two years on the LWVUS Board of Directors where she was Co-Chair of the National Education Study. Currently she is a National Shur Fellow working with Arizona and California Leagues. During her 40+ years with the League, she has held many portfolios but with heavy emphasis upon education and environmental issues. Currently, she is on the LWVTX Education Committee and has been elected to serve on the LWVTX Board of Directors.
Dr. Hill also holds a doctorate from University of Houston in the area of literacy development. During her 20 years of university teaching, she directed the National Writing Project site in Houston, chaired the Department of Language and Literacy, and served as President of the Texas Association for the Improvement of Reading and the Texas State Reading Association. She was also active in the International Reading Association and National Council of Teachers of English. She's been awarded exemplary service at the University of Houston-Clear Lake in both Service and Teaching. She was also awarded a Lifetime Service Award by the Texas Council of Teachers of English and the Leadership Award from the Texas State Reading Association.
Marcia Hirshberg
Although Marcia Hirshberg likes to say she's been in League for 100 years and served at every level, she also points out that she is still growing with this wonderful vibrant organization. Being a Shur fellow has allowed Marcia to learn new things about how the League works in different areas of the country. It gives her the opportunity to interact with intelligent, creative women to solve community issues. Outside of Marcia's League life, she enjoys choral singing (as in her picture), gardening, reading a lot and recently she has been outrageously involved in partisan politics. Marcia's Scottie dog thinks she should take him for more walks and her husband thinks they should go to more movies.
Amy Hjerstedt
Amy is 31 years old and lives in Sault Sainte Marie, MI, the eastern end of the upper peninsula, with her husband and two sons, Gabriel who is five years old and Lucas who is two years old. Before motherhood, Amy was in the U.S. Coast Guard training Coast Guardsmen and women about boat handling, saving the lives of recreational boaters, chasing drug runners, and regulating fishing vessels on the west coast of Oregon and California. Now she leaves all that demanding work to her husband of ten years. Her adventurous Coast Guard life helped pay her next six years of college so that she could earn an Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Studies, a Bachelors of Science in Social Sciences, and a Masters of Arts in Political Science. When Amy is not doing diapers and other mom duties, she is in her "cave" working on her next volunteer project. She helps with the local PTO, Women's shelter, Coast Guard Spouses group, MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers), Great Start, City Commission appointed Community Service Board, and LWVMI. After moving to Sault Ste. Marie in May 2012, she found the community lacking access to nonpartisan information and education on big policy issues, so she decided to start a MAL League in her area. Amy is now the president of League of Women Voters of Eastern Upper Peninsula, and she has grown the group from two (she and her husband) to 30 in just one year. She is also serving as the co-chair to the LWVUS Young People Task Force. Besides her League experience in Michigan, Amy has served as a LWV Board member in San Diego, CA and Portland, OR.
Linda Johnson
Linda Johnson has been active in League since 1980, having served on local and state boards in 4 communities and two states. Since moving to Leavenworth, KS with her husband, Carl, Linda has been instrumental in starting a new League there. Most recently, Linda has been the secretary on the Kansas board, and an MLD coach.
Linda and her husband have two adult daughters – one in Seattle, and one here in Leavenworth. Linda and Carl enjoy playing bridge, square dancing, attending theatre, reading, walking, singing in choir, and working together outdoors. Linda's professional life was in social work, in a wide variety of settings – hospitals, inpatient mental health, nursing homes, ethics center, managed care organization. For the last decade or so of her career, she was in administration and teaching. Her most recent adventure was running unsuccessfully for the state legislature – but she thinks she'll try again!!
Donna Lauffer
Donna Lauffer has been an active member of LWV Johnson County Kansas since 1987. After moving to Overland Park in 1986, Donna wanted to become familiar with her new city home and volunteered as a League Observer. She has been active in the League since. In 2011 Donna retired as the Director of the Johnson County Library after 32 years. She was instrumental in developing civic engagement in the library system and established the Lauffer Civic Engagement Fund in the library foundation to continue this civic work.
Donna served as President of the LWV Johnson County 1994-1995 and the LWV Kansas President 1998-2000. She served on the LWVUS Board 2006-2008. Donna and husband Russ are enjoying more time with their grandchildren Katie, Madison, and Nicholas. Donna is also active in Kansas City Consensus, a public policy non- profit in Kansas City area that encourages citizen participation in public policy. She also works with her local Rotary Club on a Youth Leadership Institute held each summer.
Deborah Macmillan
Deborah Macmillan is president of the League of Women Voters of East Windsor-Hightstown and past chair of the LWVNJ Committee on Immigration. She has also served as president of LWVNJ member of the LWVUS study committee on immigration, and is retired from a career in academics and survey/market research, and brief stints as a professional canoeist and as a 2010 census taker. She loves the intensity and diversity of the League members she works with in the MLD program.
Linda Mahan
Linda Mahan grew up in the St. Louis area and after college in Ohio, began a career in teaching in Boston. Following graduate school at BU Linda moved to Colorado in 1979 where she quickly was invited to "join the League" in Fort Collins. In addition to leadership roles in the League of Larimer County and seven years on the LWVCO Board, Linda has enjoyed networking on health care with Leaguers and working in many other organizations related to health care, youth, the arts and my faith community.
Linda's life has been further enriched through hosting international students and living abroad for three years with her family. Her educational background and League experience equipped Linda to teach English as a second language in France, Belgium and Nepal and most recently conduct civic education programs in Nepal and India. Linda and her husband raised their two sons in Fort Collins and continue to appreciate biking, camping and hiking in our outdoor playground.
Gini McGirr
Gini McGirr joined LWV in 1965 in Worthington, MN where she served as President for four years and held other offices. Before moving to Tucson, Gini has also been President of local Leagues in Phoenix, AZ and Greeley, CO and was Secretary on the Colorado state board. She was Voter Editor in Omaha, NE. She has lived in Tucson for 21 years, where she has been President of the local League for 4 years and has served on the League board for many years. Gini has been President of the Arizona state League, Arizona state secretary for four years while living in Phoenix and is now still serving in that office. She has attended 20 national conventions and 14 councils, and has started four local Leagues. Gini has also been on the LWVUS nominating committee and the LWVUS Resolutions committee.
Gini, and hubby, Gordon, of 63 years, wind down from League activities by watching the Arizona sunsets.They have one daughter with two grandsons living in Tucson. Gini enjoys reading and keeping tabs on state legislators.
Eileen Olmsted
Eileen Olmsted settled in California in 1977 after spending many years of her life overseas. The first organization she wanted to join was the League of Women Voters. As a non-citizen living in another country Eileen realized how important civic involvement could be in a society. Eileen has held many offices in League but her favorite League position has always been membership. Quite simply, without an active membership, League can have no impact. Outside of League, Eileen's hobbies are reading, singing, genealogy, and attending opera. Eileen currently lives in Pittsburgh PA where she is co-president of the local League. This is her second time around as a Shur fellow because she truly believes in the program and Eileen looks forward to a greatly invigorated grassroots organization as a result of it.
Amanda Patanow
Amanda Patanow first joined the League of Women Voters in 2008 as a way to take action after seeing low voter turnout, particularly young voters, in a local election. Since then, she has continued the theme of action by serving on the Voter Service committee, as a Director and President of her local League board and as a Membership and Leadership Development state coach. In each of these roles, Amanda has applied her love of bringing about change and connecting with people through lobbying state legislators, moderating local candidate forums and coaching local Leagues.
In her professional life, Amanda uses her 15 years of marketing experience to create strategies, materials and training for sales organizations to reach healthcare professionals. To do this successfully, she has specialized I'm understanding the complex world of healthcare reform, changing legislations and physician practice workflow optimization. Amanda holds a BS in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences from Florida State University. She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida with her wife, Lisa, and their daughter.
Lisa Plencner
Lisa Plencner has been the Court Administrator for St. Joseph County, Indiana for nine years. Lisa attended Loyola University Chicago and Indiana University Bloomington. She has her paralegal certificate from Indiana University South Bend.
Lisa is just finished her fifth year as President of the LWV of the South Bend Area (IN) and sits on the board of the LWVIN. Lisa also shares her talents as a board member of the Unity Gardens, the Volunteer Lawyer Network and is the District 2 (IN) Coordinator for the "We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution" a program to promote civic competence and responsibility among the nation's elementary and secondary students.
In her free time, she does extensive traveling with her mother and participates in competitive shooting with her father. Lisa shares her home with her partner of nine years and their two dogs and two cats.
Haley Richards
Haley Richards has been an active member of the LWV Pensacola Bay Area for 6 years. In 2009, Haley joined the Board of Directors of LWV Pensacola Bay Area as Secretary and today serves as Co-President. Other League activities include Membership Committee Chair, Nominating Committee, Social Media and participating in a study of Inmate Rehabilitation Programs. Haley believes the MLD program can help Leagues grow new members and leaders. She is looking forward to supporting Leagues efforts to apply the MLD tools as a Shur Fellow.
Haley is a Pensacola native and received a BA degree in Secondary Education/ Social Science from Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL in 2007. She is currently employed as the Circles® Northwest Florida Community Organizer with Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida. Community involvements include Pensacola Young Professionals Quality of Life Team, Toastmasters Club member, and named as a 2014 Rising Star by the Independent News.
Elona Vaisnys
Elona serves as LWVCT Membership Director and is co-president of her local League. She was appointed by President Carter to the Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies, has worked in the Connecticut Governor's Office of Policy and Management, was the editor for the engineering departments at Yale University, wrote a by-lined column on civic activism in the New Haven Register, produced a monthly show on health/medicine on WELI, was a consultant for the CPTV program "Better Health," and visited Lithuania for the LWVUS Global Democracy Program.
Elona holds a Ph.D. from Yale, has a son and daughter, and lives with her scientist husband in North Haven, CT.
Penney Van Vleet
Penney Van Vleet has been president of several local Leagues and served on state boards in WI and WA. She managed multiple community and economic development organizations in WI. Penney, along with her mentor, new Leaguers and young mothers, recently conducted a housing survey and won enactment of a Fair Housing Ordinance for Houston, TX.
Penney credits the Shur Fellows experience with providing a new skills set and insights into the camaraderie, support, enthusiasm, and hard work at all three levels of the League. It has been an exciting journey! When there is free time she loves to kayak, read, knit, carve driftwood, and enjoy time with her friends and husband.
Mary Wilson
Mary G. Wilson served as the 17th president of the League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS). She is a native of Ohio who has lived in New Mexico since 1979 and has been a member of the League since 1986. Mary is a graduate of Valparaiso University in Indiana and the University of Denver, College of Law.
She is an attorney with 37 years of experience in diverse fields of practice including estate planning, regulatory compliance, commercialization and privatization, corporate and environmental law. She is the owner of The Law Offices of Wilson & Associates, P.C., Albuquerque, NM. She and her partner, José Mora, live on a ranch with their five horses and two donkeys.
The work of the National Coaches was made possible through the generosity of League member Walter Shur in memory of his beloved late wife and life-long League member Ruth S. Shur. If you would like to participate in the Membership Leadership Development (MLD) program or would like to donate to the Fund for Local League Growth to support the National Coaches' work, please contact Shauneen Grout at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Alan S. Wayne, M.D. is the Associate Director for Pediatric Oncology at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Professor of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the Director of the Children's Center for Cancer & Blood Diseases at CHLA, and the Head of the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation in the Department of Pediatrics. As the head of the division, Dr. Wayne oversees the research, clinical and education programs in pediatric hematology, oncology and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation within USC and CHLA.
His primary research efforts are directed towards the development of new treatment approaches for leukemias and lymphomas, with a primary focus on relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He develops and conducts collaborative laboratory, translational, and clinical investigations, including bench-to-bedside development of targeted, immune-based and cellular therapies, investigator-initiated clinical trials and industry-sponsored studies. Dr. Wayne serves as the Medical Director of the Therapeutic Advances in Childhood Leukemia/Lymphoma (TACL) Consortium, which is a multinational clinical trials group that conducts Phase I and II trials.
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Children's Hospital Los Angeles
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@indigomoth - The problem is that these days a lot of skilled labor comes from other countries and they are willing to work harder than local construction workers, so they take the jobs. The only solution is to try and be more of an expert, or try to undercut them, or move to somewhere with so many jobs that it's easy to get one.
Personally, rather than start a business, I'd rather stay as a freelancer, as I think it's easier to get work if you are willing to take on smaller jobs.


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President's Office
9:30 a.m., Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Meeting Minutes
Present: Barr, Beran, Dahlstrom, Di Leo, Ferguson, Hudson, LaBrecque, Norgard, Rossow, Schnebly, L. Smith, Tart
Absent: Garino, Niroomand, Rice
OUA Representative: Mundy
I. Organizational Business
Mr. Ferguson moved and Dr. Dahlstrom seconded to approve the minutes of March 10, 2010 as presented.
Motion Carried Unanimously
II. Business
Dr. Hudson —
- Announced UHV will be presenting their budget to the chancellor on April 6th. The Budget Committee, after a few tweaks, will still be holding onto everything that was discussed at the March 10th meeting;
- Thanked those that have contributed to the Campaign Victoria and noted the community has been very responsive;
- Served on a SACS on-site visitation team at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and that Dr. LaBrecque had also just returned from serving on a SACS team at Fort Valley State University in Georgia.
— A briefing seminar will be scheduled about these visits in preparation for UHV's future SACS review.
III. Roundtable
Dr. LaBrecque announced the American Association of Colleges of Nursing named Dr. Kathryn Tart as the Nursing Advocate of the year. Dr. Tart received the first Nursing Advocate award and is the only dean out of 646 programs to receive this honor. The Victoria College has initiated a meeting with UHV to work on a Title V grant together. The UHV SACS 5th-year Report was received on March 15, at 9:40 a.m. Dr. LaBrecque noted that UHV will be proud of the report and thanked Holly Verhasselt and the faculty who served on the committee for a fantastic job.
Dean Tart reported part 1 of a 3 part workshop will be held at the Sugar Land campus on Nursing Simulation: What should it be? on April 10th. Another event scheduled at the Sugar Land campus will be on May 1st, where Dr. Tart will open the Women's Health Symposium for Prime Living Magazine and Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital. Matagorda Hospital has contacted the School of Nursing about partnering with the university on writing a Higher Education Coordinating Board grant for a RN-BSN cohort from the hospital that can be sustainable.
Ms. Smith told cabinet members of a new user friendly UHS Retirement Manager System that will allow access to ORP accounts and Tax Deferred Annuity's online. At the next meeting of cabinet Ms. Smith will be bringing a draft of the Summer Flex plan for review. It was requested that a draft be circulated ahead of time so cabinet will be ready to vote on this item. An anonymous suggestion to the Feedback Solutions box was that all offices should be open on Friday afternoon.
Ms. Norgard reported that Career Services has been working on a list of 900 + businesses received from the Chamber of Commerce, of which 500 have useable email addresses, checking the need of full and part-time employment needs. So far 70+ are interested and 134 definitely want part-time and interns. This appears to be a great opportunity for UHV; for these businesses are especially needing quality employees with customer service experience. The areas having shown the most interest include health care, real estate, and restaurants. As of today, total applications are at 741 with 211 freshmen and 29 sophomores having been accepted. Applications slowed down a little due to Spring Break. A lot of phone calls have been made where help was given to students needing to complete their applications, as well as assistance with new applications. Ms. Norgard said Marketing had reported web traffic is up, over a 1,000 hits every month with a lot coming through Google searches. With 26 confirmed student RSVPs, plus their guests, Ms. Norgard announced there could be a possible attendance of 70-75 people attending our first Jaguar Day activities. There will be an April tour of 200 high schools students from Madison High School visiting UHV. Next week there will be a group of AVID students from San Antonio coming for a tour. Ms. Norgard has been meeting with the American Campus Community (ACC) on Jaguar Hall dorm management and 6 RA (Resident Assistants) positions will need to be filled. In early April, ACC will be advertising to fill these positions with current UHV students and also students at Victoria College. ACC will also be hiring a General Manager, but may just move some of their current people around in their operation.
— Dr. Hudson said UHV needs to develop an extracurricular transcript.
— Mr. Beran suggested possibly running the employment through SBDC since this will be advantageous for SBDC's performance measures and for SBDC's funding.
— Mr. Ferguson suggested that staff be made aware early enough that any accrued vacation hours that will not carry forward to the next year must be used prior to August.
Dean Rossow reported meeting with Dr. Pat Vandervoort, The Victoria College Vice President of Instruction, and Dr. Thomas Cox to discuss establishing a faculty apprenticeship. This apprenticeship will be for those VC faculty and staff that want a higher education. He will be meeting with an administration team at Wharton County Junior College on April 6th to discuss something similar. Dean Rossow is resurrecting a similar program with Austin Community College called Faculty Apprentice Program. The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs (CACREP) is going well and faculty teams have been assigned to address those areas the CACREP agency would like to see changed. Dean Rossow is working on a brochure to display the School of Education and Human Developments faculty members' publications and accomplishments. He is currently talking with Texas A&M Kingsville about a joint doctoral program. Dean Rossow will be making a presentation in Denton on campus searches in higher education law. He is also developing a summer institute to be included in Victoria Independent School District's teacher's orientation this summer.
Dr. Schnebly reported the Faculty Senate has not met since the last cabinet meeting. She announced Dr. LaBrecque had attended the spring senate retreat held at the Northside Education Center in El Campo.
Dr. Dahlstrom announced The Victoria College will go to a 4-day work week for the summer. The library hours will be the
same as last summer: Monday –Thursday, 7:45 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.;
Friday, 7:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.; Saturday – closed; Sunday –1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Dr. Dahlstrom will be attending the UHS Library Directors meeting where he hopes to see a draft of the new Sugar Land library. He also
passed out a brochure on the conference Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Korean War, June 24-26 in the Victoria College
Ms. Barr said she had 3 clients this past week that are interested in offering internships for UHV students. There is no new news concerning Staff Council other than the next meeting will be in Sugar Land on April 8th. She thanked Chari Norgard and Robin Cadle for speaking at the last council meeting. Ms. Barr announced she is working with Cuero Independent School District for a fall entrepreneurship class where one component is to write a business plan. She would like to offer a scholarship for 1 course at UHV in this business plan. A brief discussion followed. Ms. Barr requested everyone vote for Cuero as America Coolest Smallest Town at http://www.budgettravel.com/bt-srv/coolestsmalltowns/CST2010.html.
Ms. Mundy announced new gift donations are at an all time high. Campaign Victoria has increased by $30,000 since the last meeting of cabinet, with $50,000 still needed. She said Alumni Day will be March 27th in conjunction with Jaguar Day. Ms. Mundy announced Dr. Rossow has taken the lead on the Greater Texas Access for Success grant and that their board will be visiting in May. UHV was honored to have members of the Johnson Foundation on-campus for a tour, with UHV receiving a very generous donation to support the new Patient Care Simulation Center.
Mr. Beran reported on Jaguar Hall. Kruger Construction will have 140 rooms completed and ready for incoming freshmen in 4 months. A verbal life safety system will need to be installed in the dorm. Consultants are checking to see if it is feasible to try to save building 2. He reported the Facilities staff members have been working very hard in the kitchen area. The interior design is being completed and will be approved by UHV; and ordering of furniture will need to take place next week. American Campus Communities (ACC), the student housing management company, will have a person on-site by mid April to talk to students. ACC will also be helping with marketing materials and is working on a contract for students. The city has approved sidewalks in front of Jaguar Hall and down Ben Wilson to UHV. Mr. Beran reported the 5% reduction plan is a reality and $1.3 million will be submitted to the Legislative Budget Board over 2 years. Ms. Norgard and Mr. Beran have worked out a way to give Financial Aid awards to UHV's freshmen/sophomores; where they will receive half of their tuition paid for the entire first year. DN3 tuition will be locked in at the beginning rate when the student enrolls if they stay on track. Mr. Beran is also working with the Coordinating Board figures to see how many square feet UHV needs at any given time. UHV's new soccer coach, Adrian Rigby, and Facilities Services is working on the staked off area out front for a possible competition soccer field.
Dean Di Leo announced that ABR's issue on bad books has generated a national discussion. He also announced he will be making a presentation at Penn State next week, and will discuss the issue with their faculty and students. Illinois State Distinguished Professor Curtis White will be the ABR Reading Series next guest speaker on March 25th. He reported the El Paso Centro Victoria event was a hit while promoting their agenda. The School of Arts and Sciences has been working on downward expansion core curriculum.
Mr. Ferguson announced Information Technology (IT) is working through the bugs of Windows 7 before installation begins on university computers. Some printers are not working well with Windows 7 and IT is still working on fixing those problems. Exterior door key cards, which can be attached to key chains, will be available shortly.
Dr. Hudson said his next blog will be on UHV becoming a destination university to benefit the region. He reported the Jaguar ballplayers are having interesting seasons and playing great games; and encouraged everyone to attend. Dr. Hudson noted the Lady Jags achievements have always been top ranked. Dr. Hudson closed the meeting by urging everyone to read and share the "New to UHV" thumbnail sketches on UHV's new students.
Meeting was adjourned at 11:40 a.m.
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Resources - Resources means the University's computing, network and information technology Resources, including without limitation all data and information in electronic format or any hardware or software that makes possible, in the broadest possible sense, the processing, transmission, storage or use of such information. As an example, included in this definition are access identity accounts and login processes; communications devices; computers; data; databases; digital images; digitized information; electronic mail; messaging; network electronics and access points; servers; software; storage devices; web sites, blogs and public information services; and workstations.
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Merit Network, Inc., operates the statewide network MichNet, which provides Internet access for the University. Merit is a non-profit corporation governed by all thirteen of Michigan's four-year publicly supported universities, including OU. University participation in MichNet and access to the Internet in general is governed by their Acceptable Use Policies. OU AP&P #860 Information Security


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Maine Medical Insurance Trend Public Reports: Small Group2012 Maine Trend Survey for Small Group Medical Insurance Policies Effective 4th Quarter The Maine Medical Trend Public Report was developed using quarterly survey responses collected from licensed Maine health insurance carriers having credible Maine experience and financial data. The Maine Bureau of Insurance (Bureau) received a rate review grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services which supported the Bureau's survey design, data collection, and reporting efforts. This data resource has given the Bureau a better understanding of trends in health care utilization and costs, allowing the Bureau to enhance publicly available information and improve transparency. The figures in this report include both actual and projected data, and all data is presented as of September 30 of the stated year. The results provide historical, current, and future incurred claim cost, utilization, and membership information from which premiums and associated trends are demonstrated. Cost is one measurable factor of value for health insurance. Care must be taken in comparing these premiums as covered benefits and risk characteristics of members differ between carriers. Insurers sell plans with varying benefits, co-pays, and deductibles; therefore, the total healthcare cost for a member in a less expensive plan may actually be greater than a more expensive plan that has lower cost sharing. Premium Rates and Claims Figure 1: Premium Per Member Per Month1 (PMPM) Figure 2 provides the annual premium rate increases by carrier. This is the annual average increase in the premium if the members renewed with a consistent benefit package from year to year, or in other words, if members or employers did not 'buy down' their benefit package. The rate changes reflect the true growth rate in the total cost of covered services, and are not affected by changes over time in the proportion of cost being borne by members through cost sharing. Figure 2: Annual Premium Rate Increases2 by Carrier
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WorkingUSA, The Journal of Labor and Society is an important forum for new
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WorkingUSA is indexed/abstracted in EconLit, Sociological Abstracts, PAIS,
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Nikon D7000 Firmware Update 1.02
Nikon D7000 Firmware Update 1.02
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D7000 Firmware Update 1.02
Modifications enabled with this firmware upgrade, release date April 25, 2011
• Noise reduction processing is now performed with shutter speeds slower than 1 s (previously 8 s) when On is selected for Long Exp. NR in order to reduce the bright spots that occur with shooting of still images at slow shutter speeds.
• An issue that prevented the opening of movies recorded with the D7000 in certain movie editing software applications has been resolved.
• When the camera was connected to a television via the A/V cable and a movie was played back, playback was normal the first time but when the movie was played two or more times, the sound was played back at extremely low volume and seemed to play intermittently. This issue has been resolved.
• When white balance for RAW images created using the camera's image overlay function was fine tuned with Capture NX 2 or ViewNX 2, the images acquired a magenta cast. This issue has been resolved.
• An issue that caused 0.00" to be displayed for heading information when the GP-1 GPS unit was connected to the camera has been resolved so that ---.-- is now displayed.
• When Viewfinder virtual horizon was the role assigned to the Fn button or the preview button and the applicable button was pressed, errors in the virtual horizon indicator were displayed. This issue has been resolved.
• The following errors in Help displays have been resolved.
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German help displayed "Select focus priority for AF-S mode." for Custom Settings>a1: AF-C priority selection help .
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Information technology services company Data#3 has not suffered a drop in its share price despite announcing lower than expected profits and a share split late last year. The Queensland-based company blamed global financial and national political uncertainty for its forecast of a drop in half-yearly profits – the first time Data#3 has done so in nine years. Net profit for the six months ending December 31 is set to fall 9.5 per cent to $7.2 million. But it still predicted a 15 per cent increase in revenue, to $434 million, thanks to high demand in software and support services. The company also performed a share split in late November to boost liquidity and increase the number of shareholders on the books. The move divided Data#3's share price by 10 and multiplied the number of shares by the same amount, leading to no loss in value. Analysts still see the company as a good buy despite it being in an investment phase.
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Flickr adds in-browser uploading for Android
Android users finally get to make use of the in-browser uploading feature built into Froyo with a new Flickr tool that feels just about the same as the desktop version.
Android users looking to upload photos and videos to Flickr now have a new way to do it. Today the company rolled out an enhanced version of its m.flickr.com mobile site that lets users upload within Android's browser.
This behavior should be familiar to desktop users of Flickr, though on mobile phones this process hasn't exactly been carried along for the ride. In this case, it's about as close as you can get to that same desktop experience, though you can only upload one photo or video at a time. Another big difference is that Flickr does not offer to let you tweak or make changes to a photo or video's metadata immediately after it's been uploaded.
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Before the album drops June 25th, fans can listen to the new Slum Vil project in its entirety now. Check it out down bottom.
PREVIOUS: Slum Village: Put It On The Line pt. 1 (Video)
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1 Night is certified love maker... FIRST.
it's sad that some posts on here get 900+ "dopes" with 100+ comments, but something like slum gets slept on. i know it's not the original big 3, but damn.
Probably because it's not something the blogs have hyped about. Honestly, this is the best album they've put out in years, in my opinion.
With Baatin & Dilla gone and Elzhi out of the group, the steam has really been taken out of the group. T3 is not a strong enough emcee to merit hype, Illa J is......ok, and Young RJ is no Black Milk....
I really don't want to hate on Slum, but I'm not liking this at all.
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I'm trying to let this grow on me. Miss the organic sound that Dilla brought to the table. Not the same without Dilla (RIP), Baatin (RIP), and Elzhi.


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Orange you glad you joined in the Orange fight?
The Battle of the Oranges, or Ivrea Carnival, takes place each year in the Italian town of Ivrea, where thousands gather to take place in the biggest orange fight in the world.
Participants will ride in horse-drawn carriages throughout the town where oranges are thrown from the people on foot, and from the carts, until oranges cover the Town Squares.
You can volunteer to be placed on one of the teams or can be a spectator and watch the events on the sidelines. Wearing a red hat marks you as a non-participant.
Regional food including fat bean, pork rind, cod with polenta, and boiled sausages are found throughout the town.
The Ivrea Carnival dates back to the Middle Ages when beans were thrown instead of oranges. Over time, it changed to oranges. Girls would throw an orange at a boy they had crushes on, and if the boy liked her too, he'd throw an orange back.


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So, yeah, I do use a chip as a shoulder pad. I'm proud of my identity. But I can't stand being treated specially because of my sex, whether it's a form of harassment, ingrained centuries-old tradition, or just plain discrimination (which is particularly rife in South Florida). I don't want a man hooting at me, I don't want him to open a door for me if I've already gotten to it first, I don't want a man's name instead of my own (though even that might be better than being referred to as "and wife," which is how I am now identified on the mortgage). And I especially don't want to be put on a pedestal at a restaurant simply because I have breasts.
I took a large party to the Capital Grille, the luxurious new steak house in the Rivergate Plaza on Brickell Avenue downtown. The sixth restaurant in a high-end national chain that originated in 1989 in Providence, Rhode Island, and that has outposts in Boston and Washington, D.C., the Capital Grille fancies itself a place where the city's power elite can cut deals over beef and Beefeater. But the only politics I sensed were sex-based.
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Our server insisted on a ladies-first procedure throughout the meal. This, manager Rob Orvis later told me, is a policy at the restaurant: "The lady will be served first as long as it doesn't interfere with the comfort of the customer." Only our waiter must have nodded off during the second half of the orientation. The table we were seated around was large enough to make his tactic quite uncomfortable -- not to mention obvious and foolish. He couldn't reach across, so he had to constantly circle in order to serve the women before the men. He skipped the men's wine glasses to fill the women's first, including mine, though I'd been the one to order the bottle (from the 400-plus selection) and taste it, and so should have been poured last. Later he made a point of stopping by each woman's chair to ask about her meal before sparing a moment for the men -- though when one woman complained about a peppery sauce, he pompously explained to her that he was inquiring only about whether the meat had been properly cooked to order. And when handing out dessert menus, he commented to the man next to me, who had reached for one, "I was going to give that to her," nodding at one of the other women in our party. "But since you grabbed it...."
I can stand only so much "politeness" before I lose my appetite. I don't mind being catered to in a restaurant as long as everyone is treated equally; the same goes for being ignored. I do despise being a visible female guest when all I want to be is a typical diner.
Fortunately the steaks eclipsed the service.
Main course portions -- served a la carte in the New York-style steak house tradition -- are monstrous, far too big for my dainty appetite but perfect for the hungry power broker. With filets and fillets this big, you don't really need appetizers. That said, get the French onion soup anyway. It's rich with Gruyere, a cheesy lid that hides a deluge of soft, fragrant onions. The broth was a hearth-warming pleasure, soaking a slice of French bread with deep caramel flavor. One of the better crocks of soup I've had in a long time, but a filling one for sure.
For a lighter, milder beginning, hearts of palm salad was good if not inspiring, coined hearts of palm laid out on a bed of soft butter lettuce, pale yellow and green. A honey-sweet Key lime vinaigrette accentuated the mild vegetables.
Also on the palate-preparation side, Capital Grille offers the typical shrimp cocktail, the smoked salmon, the oysters on the half shell. Looking for something a little bit more South Florida to start, we were tempted by stone crab claws until we found out the price -- $14.00 for one (colossal) claw. So we went for crab and lobster cakes instead. Good choice. Plump and meaty with crab, nubby with lobster, the cakes were delicious, accented with red bell pepper and pan-fried to a crunchy golden-brown finish. Another seafood starter, squid sauteed with hot cherry peppers, was tangy stuff. Not too spicy but certainly zippy, the flour-dredged cones of calamari were tender, like al dente noodles.
Seven cuts of beef, including a 24-ounce porterhouse and a 20-ounce Delmonico, vie for attention as entrees. We started to order prime rib but desisted when we found out it couldn't be done rare; apparently it was already past that point. Steak au poivre was a disappointment we actually got to the point of tasting, an overly peppercorned sirloin strip dressed with a starchy sauce. We couldn't detect any of the "dry-aged" beef flavor under all that fuss.


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Surfer Blood, local band gone big time, rocked the house at Propaganda in Lake Worth. They played with The Dewars, The Jameses, and Chill Pillars to raise money that will benefit the Gulf Oil Spill. Surfer Blood played a similar benefit show at Propaganda in January following the Haiti earthquake.


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Another great nugget helps understand how off the tracks we really were in the couple of decades leading up to the bust—We had an unhinged radical running the economy for nearly twenty years:
Greenspan had an unusual take on market fraud, Born recounted: "He explained there wasn't a need for a law against fraud because if a floor broker was committing fraud, the customer would figure it out and stop doing business with him."
Even Steve Forbes or The Wall Street Journal editorial page would have a hard time arguing that line with a straight face.
Toward the end, the Post goes off the rails into feature land a bit too much here:
Sometimes this woman — whose mother always made her wear white gloves when they went downtown — doesn't bother dyeing her hair, letting it go gray."I go through phases," she said one afternoon, smiling and drawing a thin, small finger across her head. "I was just looking in the mirror this morning and thinking, 'Maybe it's time.' "
Um, who cares?
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In the heart of Woodland Hills, within walking distance of restaurant, small shops and Warner Center Business District. Shopping Malls are 3 miles away. Pool/ Jacuzzi, Complimentary WiFi, Continental Breakfast. HBO/ESPN. Friendly Staff. Sorry No Pets Accepted. An in-room microwave or refrigerator may be requested and is based on availability, please call hotel for availability.
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It's straight out of Orwell.
The Cuban government of Raul Castro has kept up the repression of the Cuban people through a Criminal Code known as "dangerousness."
According to a new report released by Human Rights Watch today, this code allows authorities to imprison individuals before they have committed any crime, on the suspicion that they are likely to commit an offense in the future.
In other words, the "dangerousness" provision is defining as "dangerous" any behavior that contradicts Cuba's socialist norms. Orwell's protagonist Winston Smith in 1984 would absolutely recognize such a law.
The 123-page report by Human Rights Watch, "New Castro, Same Cuba," documents how scores of people in Cuba are being locked up for exercising their fundamental freedoms and how many more political prisoners arrested during Fidel Castro's rule are being left to languish in detention.
Rather than dismantle Cuba's repressive machinery, Raul Castro has kept it firmly in place and fully active, the report says.
"In his three years in power, Raul Castro has been just as brutal as his brother," said Jose Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. "Cubans who dare to criticize the government live in perpetual fear, knowing they could wind up in prison for merely expressing their views."
Based on a fact-finding mission to Cuba and more than 60 in-depth interviews, Human Rights Watch's Nik Steinberg led a team of researchers that have documented more than 40 cases in which the government has imprisoned individuals under the "dangerousness" provision for exercising their basic rights.


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Yesterday we had our annual blogger's Christmas Party at our boss', Kristen's, house. And once again, it was a blast! When we first got there, thanks to Katie's glorious driving, we were able to eat. Kristen had prepared us some delicious food and I definitely ate too much! While we ate, all of us bloggers got to catch up and talk about the current state of our semesters and how things have been since the last time we met up.
After we chatted, we proceeded to watch the movie Elf. Elf is one of those movies that almost everyone else but me has seen and everyone seemingly quotes it and references it and I never get the jokes. But I unfortunately could not concentrate as there was only one thing on my mind, building the Gingerbread house. I've never built one before so it was definitely a life-changing experience. I designated myself as being the person who placed the icing that held the house together so needless to say, I had the most important job.
Afterwards, Kristen gave us all gifts and we were able to make it back to Butler, where I started studying for finals.


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Optimizing Radiation and Contrast Dose for Cardiac CT
Course Format: Online Video
Course Credit Type: CE
Course Credit: 1.00
Course Category: Radiology
Accreditation: 1 Category A ARRT CE credit accredited by AHRA: The Association for Medical Imaging Management.
Faculty: Frank J. Rybicki MD, PhD
Program Sponsor: Applied Radiology
Course Cost: $15.00
Mobile Friendly: No
Course Release Date: October 20, 2011
Supported by an educational grant from: Bracco Diagnostics Inc.
Program Summary: Dr. Rybicki shares his protocols for optimal imaging of the coronary arteries while using the lowest possible radiation dose. He explains how to manage radiation dose while providing clinically useful images in pediatric and adult patients. He also addresses the use of iodinated contrast in renally compromised patients and how to time contrast dosing for patient safety and optimal imaging.
This program was originally broadcast live as part of a Webinar series sponsored by Applied Radiology, supported with an educational grant from Bracco Diagnostics Inc.
Cost Note: Free access period ended October 19, 2012. $15 per course, October 20, 2012 to October 31, 2013.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Describe imaging protocols to visualize the coronary arteries
- Define best practice in iodinated contrast injection, including common pitfalls
- Understand how to obtain the most diagnostic information from coronary artery enhancement
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Jessica Wilson can be seen reporting during the week and anchoring the weekend morning news on KETK.
She holds a degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Central Florida in Orlando where she completed internships at the NBC and CBS stations.
Jessica joined the KETK news team in 2009 after working as a freelance sports reporter in Tampa and doing a brief stint at a Dallas magazine.
One of the highlights of Jessica's time spent with KETK, was an interview with Governor Rick Perry and Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. Although politics is a passion of hers, Jessica also enjoys meeting new people in East Texas and telling their stories.
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