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What B-school rejection feels like: When Harvard, Wharton, Kellogg, Tuck, and Yale all say no by Ethan Baron @FortuneMagazine January 12, 2015, 2:57 PM EDT E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons (Poets&Quants) — It was as if he'd climbed up on a high diving board, shouted down to everyone on the pool deck to watch him perform a triple back flip with four twists, bounced a few times to prepare for launch, bounced a few more times to make sure everyone was looking, propelled himself into the air … and missed the pool completely. Splat. Poor Grant. He wasn't attempting the world's most difficult dive, but its academic equivalent instead: applying to an ultra-elite MBA program. And while he wasn't wearing a Speedo on a high board over a pool, he was even more exposed—Grant was standing in the middle of the Internet for all to see. You may have read his blog, Grant Me Admission, in which he chronicles his quest for a top-tier MBA. It's received nearly 100,000 page views. And it's pretty good: enthusiastic, lively, clearly written, full of tips and ideas and lessons learned. Read it, and you're right there with Grant as he studies for and takes the GMAT, researches schools, visits campuses, analyzes sample essays, and gets interviews. It's incredibly detailed. Which is part of the reason Grant went splat. He wasn't just applying to top B-schools. He was also working full time, and doing a lot of nonprofit work, plus putting in hours and hours on his blog. His story holds a valuable lesson for anyone applying to top MBA programs. Grant failed to focus on Goal No. 1, getting admitted to business school, and he paid a painful price. As he writes on a recent post, below a photo of a bleak Martian landscape: Harvard: Dinged without an interview Wharton: Dinged without an interview Yale: Dinged without an interview Kellogg: Dinged Tuck: Dinged I'm not going to lie; it is incredibly hard for me to share these results. Of course, as anyone who plays this game knows, rejection is a person's worst nightmare—but it is also the norm. Last year, the five schools on Grant's target list received more than 25,400 applications for less than 3,000 available spots. With acceptance rates that range from a low of 12% for Harvard to a high of 24% for Yale, the odds of getting into one of these schools are against you. Overall, not much more than 18% of the applicants to these five MBA programs was accepted last year. One unfortunate fumble leads to another, and another For a 5'11", 175-pound, 27-year-old man who enjoys Olympic-style weightlifting and superhero movies, not getting into an elite business school may very well be his first significant failure yet. Grant works in corporate finance, and is now in the process of switching homes and jobs—from the East Coast, working for a Fortune 50 aerospace company, to Los Angeles, where he'll be working for an entertainment company not far outside the Fortune 50. He had suffered a lesser defeat before receiving the five rejections. The year before, Grant had applied to Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business alone, but didn't get in. He'd at least been wait-listed. And that's another reason why Grant went splat. After applying to Tuck in October 2013, and languishing on the wait list from December until his August rejection, Grant got a little obsessive, worrying over his prospects of getting in, trying to put numbers to his chances. The fact that a friend with a lower GMAT score had gotten into Tuck the year before after being wait-listed gave Grant hope, which turned out to be false. "It was probably borderline unhealthy," he recalls. "I was like an addict. I was constantly looking on forums, and playing the percentage game." So the next time, after he applied to Harvard, Wharton, Yale, Kellogg, and Tuck, he wasn't going to make the same mistake and drive himself nuts by fixating on his odds of getting in. Instead, he made a bigger mistake. The previous year, while anxiously awaiting an answer from Tuck, he'd remained diligent: he followed up his interview by getting in touch with the interviewers, emailing them once a month—demonstrating his strong interest and perseverance, and keeping himself on their radar. He should've done the same this time after interviews with Kellogg and Tuck, but he was trying to prevent the waiting game from consuming him as it had the time before, he says. "This year I didn't follow up on those interviews," he says. "I didn't email the interviewers. That was really stupid and lazy of me. I just kept putting it off. Really dumb." Not for lack of enthusiasm Generally speaking, Grant (who asked that his last name not be revealed because he hasn't told his employer he's planning to go to an MBA program), is not a poor candidate. Although he went to a middling California state university for college, he was a full-ride President's Scholar, led his school's team in the International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition, earned a 3.7 GPA, and graduated Cum Laude with a BS in accounting. For years, Grant had dreamed of earning an MBA. "It was even before I went to college, to my undergrad," he says. "That's always been there." Before college, he hadn't refined his B-school ambitions to a particular tier. But after graduation, he arrived at the conclusion that he wanted to get his MBA from a top-10 school, "but if that's outside the realm of possibility, then top-20," he says. "If you're not in the top 20, I can't even look at you because I'm not going to invest that kind of money without any kind of demonstrated value from the degree." Applying to Tuck, and only Tuck, two years ago was "kind of like my trial thing," Grant says. He had put a lot of effort into the application. He spent almost 200 hours studying for the GMAT and scored 710. To prepare for writing his application and the interview, he met with five Tuck students and interviewed another eight by phone. He reckons he spent 50 hours studying Tuck's programs, facilities, and professors, reading books, and speaking with MBA program experts. He organized the fruits of all that research into a "crazy document on Tuck," containing facts, school intricacies, details of programs that interested him, and information gathered from Poets&Quants, Internet forums, articles, and interviews. He visited the school twice, and doesn't include in the 50-hour total the time spent on those trips."I really knew the school and what the story was all about," Grant says. Going over Grant's enthusiastic posts written during his application process is like reading a diary entry by Edward Smith, captain of the Titanic, rhapsodizing over the lovely weather and smooth sailing that came before the unfortunate incident with the iceberg. After his interview with Tuck—when he had applied there and at the four other schools—he came to a conclusion while driving home from Hanover, N.H.: "I have fallen in love with Tuck again," he writes. "I was scared this was going to happen again. The first time I applied, I KNEW that Tuck was the place for me… And here we are again." Then Kellogg usurped Tuck, after Grant visited the school in Evanston, Ill., and had his interview. "Kellogg is amazing and totally synonymous with who I am and where I want to end up in my career," Grant gushes, going on to use the word "amazing" three more times in his post about his visit and interview. Add in the two "fantastics" he used, and you know that when that Kellogg ding came, it stung. But it turned out to be less painful than the one from Tuck. After all, he'd made the wait list when he'd applied there the year before, and a school official had later told him they hadn't let in anyone from the list. For his second chance at Tuck, Grant felt he was an even better candidate. And the school had become his last hope. Harvard had been the first to turn him away, without an interview, but that didn't concern Grant too much. "It's Harvard Business School, the best business school in the world—denied, big deal." "When I didn't get an interview at HBS, I was not surprised. When I didn't get an interview at Wharton, I was a little scared." Running on empty With every rejection, he'd beat himself up a little more over the mistakes he'd made during the process of preparing for the GMAT and applying to schools. He'd been determined to far surpass his first GMAT score of 710, writing on his blog that he "most likely will be taking it again for a ~750." But when it came to studying for the test his second time around, the rest of his life got in the way. "I got promoted, and then I got an additional leadership responsibility. Another opportunity came up at work for a special project to lead. I started blogging. I'm really heavily involved in non-profits," he says. Grant would wake up at 4:30 a.m., start studying at 5, keep it up for an hour or two, go to work, then go to his non-profit assignment. Each night, he'd resume studying at 8, and put in another couple hours. If he wasn't doing volunteer work on the weekend, he'd work through his Saturdays and Sundays. "I was operating on four hours of sleep for six months." All told, he put in 150 GMAT-prep hours over eight weeks. "It wasn't good quality studying time," he says. "My mind was racing on a million different things and the GMAT was just one of them." Not only was he "completely stressed out," he hadn't even come close to hitting his 200-hour goal, or even matching the 190 hours he'd put in when he studied for the GMAT the first time. While he'd spent 50 hours preparing for his first Tuck application and interview, he fell far short of that when applying to the five schools, not even hitting the same number for all the schools combined. "This is so embarrassing," he says. "I think I spent maybe 60 hours. Maybe. That's being pretty generous with myself. It might've been less, it might've been closer to 40. It was really bad," he says, before muttering to himself: "Damn it." He'd hired a consultant, but hadn't done any practice informational interviews, he says. He visited all the schools, except for Yale. After he didn't receive interviews at Harvard and Wharton, Yale was the next school to reject him. "I was like, 'Holy shit, I might not even get in (to B-school) this year,'" Grant says. The fear grew worse as the rejections added up. "When I got dinged from Kellogg, I was thinking to myself, 'I'm really in trouble.'" Meanwhile, Grant's career was shifting. He was anticipating disruption at his aerospace industry job. Staff were going to be cut, and those who remained would face additional work burdens. "I basically started hedging my bets. I had started looking at other opportunities." Swimming in a sea of self doubt The string of B-school rejections had seeded Grant with self doubt, not a feeling he was used to. "Am I really a top performer?" he asked himself. "Am I capable of doing anything on my own? "That's why it was so important that I applied for another job." By the time Kellogg rejected his application, he had already had a phone interview with the L.A. entertainment firm. Grant is not giving up on his MBA dreams. He's going to apply again to top 10 schools, but probably only three or four, and will likely not apply to Harvard, he says. He plans to spend 30 hours of prep time specific to each school he'll apply for, and he is shooting for 300 hours of GMAT studying time. "I'm really hoping to get a 760," Grant says. "That will help." Grant created his blog because he wanted to help other people on the same path, he says. That fits with his interest non-profit and volunteer work. "That's my life's mission," he says. "I want others to succeed, that's how I get my happiness. "That's what hurt the most. I was like, 'Hey, I'm going to lead the charge, and everyone follow me,' and then I, like, tripped." On his blog, beneath the photo of the Martian landscape that tops his revelation about his five rejections, Grant addresses his readers, "I feel that I have let you down," he writes. "It is incredibly difficult to fail publicly and own up to it. I am deeply sorry." Nevertheless, Grant is clearly well positioned for another attempt at getting into a top program, particularly at Tuck and Kellogg, which had already rated him high enough for an interview. His history working in finance for the aerospace industry makes him attractive to admissions committees, and his new job is impressive. He appears to have learned a great deal about what he did wrong in his first two attempts, and if he applies those lessons, he's bound to make a better impression in applications and interviews. A higher GMAT score would give him an additional boost. It turns out that the stark Martian scene, he says, does not represent a barren wasteland of the soul. It shows, he says, a new frontier. "It's a whole new world out there." More from Poets&Quants: The Highest and Lowest Paid MBAs of 2014 M7: How The Super Elite Business Schools Compare McKinsey Partner Chosen As Dean of UVA's Darden School
How Yale is beginning to crack into the elite B-school ranks by Ethan Baron @FortuneMagazine December 17, 2014, 1:13 PM EDT E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons (Poets&Quants) — It's an alluring morning in New Haven, Conn. Under a brilliant sun, the air is crisp and cool. The leaves on the trees are beginning to transform into a kaleidoscope of colors. And Dean Edward "Ted" Snyder of Yale University's School of Management is strolling the halls of the school's brand new $243 million complex. Gathered in the lobby are a group of young people—a dozen or so prospective applicants to SOM—who are waiting for an admissions official to give them the pitch and a tour of the building, which looks so modern it could be the Starship Enterprise. Dean Snyder moseys over to the group and asks what interests them most about Yale's School of Management. The first and second people who answer his question make him nearly wince. One earnest-looking young man immediately says that it is the school's non-profit slant. Another says it is the relatively small size of Yale's MBA program, which this fall enrolled just 323 students, a little more than a third of the totals at Harvard, Columbia, Wharton, Kellogg, and Booth. What Dean Snyder had hoped to hear was that these potential applicants were keen on Yale because it is, in the dean's own words, "the most distinctively global U.S. business school." That is, after all, what Snyder has tirelessly worked to do in repositioning the school since his arrival as dean in mid-2011. There are only two other answers that he would have preferred to hear this morning: that they're keen to look at SOM because it is among the most integrated business schools with its home university or because it is the best source of leaders for all sectors and regions. Those are Snyder's three aspirations for the Yale School of Management. Becoming a truly global business school, however, has required reengineering of the school's mission and purpose. And as the answers from the young professionals suggest, going global may well be easier than gaining recognition as global. After all, despite years of effort by rivals to rid themselves of the narrow identities placed on them, too many people still consider Harvard the school for future CEOs, Stanford for entrepreneurs, Wharton for finance, and Northwestern for marketing. Undaunted, Snyder is plowing full speed ahead with his global strategy for the school and has made remarkable progress in just three years, notwithstanding the cluelessness shown by the applicants in the hallway. "If we succeed," proclaims Snyder, "what's going to happen is we are going to get students who respond to the call. They will already be über global or aspiring to be global and that will be a big difference. It's a fundamental repositioning for the school." Snyder's global push is at the center of SOM's transformation, which includes a new modern building, significantly increased scholarship money to get the best MBA students, a new focus on entrepreneurship, and far more outreach to Yale University as a whole. The school's rankings in both The Financial Times and Bloomberg Businessweek are up dramatically. In Businessweek, SOM climbed 15 positions to sixth place, the highest rank ever achieved by the school in any major ranking. Round one applications have increased by 10%, with 55% of applicants coming from outside the U.S., slightly better than the traditional 50-50 split. "Right now, there is an incredible sense of excitement about the growth of the place," says Andrew Metrick, a finance professor who also serves as deputy dean. "It has really taken us a while to grow up. We're only 30 years old and that is really young for a business school. We used to be in other people's buildings. We didn't have an endowment. We had an allowance where the university would just write a check. We now have a physical space that matches the quality of the faculty and the students. We really look like a 21st century business school…." For most other business schools, going global has meant increasing the percentage of MBA students from outside the home country, recruiting faculty with foreign passports, boosting international case studies and examples in classes, and adding a few exchange programs with other schools. Few schools have fundamentally overhauled their curricula, however, and even fewer have genuinely partnered with other universities. "U.S. business school deans have not globalized," insists Snyder, who believes that if you put aside the long-standing student semester exchanges and partnerships over Executive MBA programs, most of what has occurred is changes in the markets for faculty, applicants, and graduates. "Those changes have been thrust upon top schools. There are so many interesting places in the world that have been left out of business schools." Building a 27-member global B-school network In contrast, Yale has upped its game considerably, creating a network of 27 top business schools from every corner of the globe, including the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Launched in April 2012, the Global Network for Advanced Management schools share unique programming, from on-campus network weeks to small network online courses or SNOCs. They develop global case studies, facilitate faculty partnerships, and hold events with speakers like Google's Eric Schmidt and micro finance pioneer and social entrepreneur Fazle Hasan Abed. Member schools are adapting their programs to sync with the global network. Technion in Israel recently launched a full-time MBA program in English called the Startup MBA and built its academic calendar around the network. "Schools are adjusting their strategies to take advantage of it," says David Bach, senior associate dean for global programs at Yale. "It's cool to see how the network effects are kicking in." The global initiative has been central to Snyder's strategy to make Yale SOM a Top 10 business school. "That really is a very important unifying theme for what Ted is trying to do," says Fiona Scott Morton, an economics professor at the school. "And the way Ted is going about it makes an enormous amount of sense. We're not opening a far-flung campus or doing a partnership. Those are expensive and very 20th century solutions. Ted puts this network together and waits for these ideas to bubble up, and they do." Consider the Global Network Week, which gives students a chance to travel to another member school for a weeklong module with students from throughout the network. The host school for network week offers a course that takes advantage of its faculty expertise, often on a topic that is especially relevant to business in its region. The themes have ranged from "Global Strategies for Emerging Economies" put on by EGADE Business School in Mexico, to "Doing Business In China" hosted by Fudan University's School of Management. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology did a week on "Start-up Nation," exploring what cultural and public policy attributes have helped to make Israel a welcoming place for new business ventures. Yale has weighed in with "From Madison Avenue to Wall Street–Everything You Need to Know About Behavioral Economics," building on its expertise in the area. Yale Professor Robert Shiller, who teaches behavioral and institutional economics, won the Nobel Prize last year. Of course, many business schools offer MBA students the chance to visit a foreign country for a one- or two-week experience. More often than not, however, these visits are organized in collaboration with a partner school. But students generally experience the foreign country with students form their own school and rarely interact with other students in a meaningful way. Yale's network weeks, as well as a series of online courses, are meant to move beyond that model. The first time out, five schools and about 240 students participated in March 2013. Next year, in March 2015, Snyder expects at least 18 schools and as many as 900 students to participate, up from 12 schools this year and 469 students. Yale alone plans to host four global network weeks during the 2014-2014 academic year, each with budgets of $50,000 to pay for faculty, student advisors, and program materials. Then there are the SNOCs, Small Network Online Courses offered by faculty at member schools where students work in cross-school teams in real-time class sessions as well as via online class work. The current 2014-2015 academic year will feature six to eight SNOCs, attracting up to 300 students across the network. These range from "Inclusive Business Models" by IIM-Bangalore and "New Product Development" by Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to Management of Humanitarian Emergencies" by the London School of Economics and "Value Based Leadership for Business Model Innovation" by the University of Cape Town. Fiona Scott Morton is teaching a SNOC called "Analysis of Competition Law and Enforcement Across Countries." Formerly the deputy assistant attorney general for economics in the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice, she had 25 students in her online class. Watching her teach in a classroom at Yale filled with video screens of students from all over the world is a surreal experience. There are little more than a handful of students in the largely empty room. "It's hard because the students are not in the room," she concedes. "But I had a couple of great students last year who were not from Yale and they got a lot out of the course and wrote fantastic final papers. We record the classes so students can look at them again and repeat the slides and the lectures. And this is a course offering they cannot get at home." There are Global Network weeks for faculty, and network-developed case studies on issues in Mexico, Indonesia, Spain, and Ireland. In the spring of this year, Yale's Leadership Case Competition attracted teams from a half dozen network schools. A brand new degree Yale also has introduced a Master of Advanced Management Program that brings recent MBA graduates from network schools to Yale for a one-year program where they mix with current students in the full-time MBA program. This year, some 62 students are in the program, up from 20 in the 2013 inaugural class and 38 in the class of 2014. As Snyder describes the program, "it is a Yale degree program and not a global network initiative though we have agreed to recruit only from network schools. It is part of the strategy of pulling the schools closer together." All told, the school welcomed students from 58 countries this fall, including Afghanistan, Bolivia, Ghana, Ireland, Israel, Indonesia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, South Africa, Turkey, and Zimbabwe. "The nature of the community is that it does not have a dominate cultural norm. It reflects an equality of perspective," says Anjani Jain, senior associate dean of Yale's MBA program. Yet, some students apparently came away with a more nuanced view of the experience, both at orientation and in the elective coursework. Concedes Snyder: "One view is that these new MAM students have not had the core. 'They are not Yale trained and there is friction in the class and a drag on our teams.' Others have said, that 'these students are the best and brightest from around the world. What a great resource they are.'" The challenges were especially prevalent when MAM students joined MBAs in some of the second-year electives. "There were some points of friction," says Jain. "Most of it came from language skills. There are students with less than perfect command of the English language and the practices with respect to career development are different and they are new. But we're seeing that there also are friendships deeply embedded between the MAM students and the second-year MBAs." Jeffrey Adadevoh, an MAM student from Ghana, agrees. He voices enthusiasm for the mash up, noting that during orientation, the school created teams of eight students each, mixing both programs together. "The first assignment we did was together with the MBAs," he says. "We had a global challenge and MAMs were put in groups with MBAs and had to develop an idea to solve a problem in the world. We came up with a mobile cloud technology that manages health records for developing countries which find it hard to keep track of those records." The MAM students, moreover, are different than the traditional international students who come to a top U.S. business school to study. Many of those MBAs are often more Western in their approach and focus. The joint orientation seemed to move the groups closer together. "The integration really started things off on a positive footing," says Alexa Allen, a second-year MBA student who is president of SOM's student government association. "The different ideas you hear change your way of thinking. Your classmates push you. Most of the MBAs would agree that it's so positive to have access to the MAMs. They have this wealth of knowledge about their country cultures." Full-time MBA students also gain exposure to the network in other ways. Yale, which initially required a global experience in 2006, has put in place a broader, global studies requirement with greater options. An MBA can now fulfill the requirement by doing two of the global network weeks, a 10-day global enterprise course or the more traditional international travel course. At least some deans are enthusiastic, saying the network has exceeded expectations. "We thought it was a good idea at first but how it was going to develop wasn't mapped out," says Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, dean of the University of College of Dublin's Smurtfit Graduate Business School. "We wouldn't have thought the SNOCs would be developed so quickly or the global network weeks. This is a much richer experience than expected." Smurfit has hosted a network global week on "Digital Marketing: Understanding Opportunities and Devising Strategies." But not everything has been successful. "The network weeks have been a big hit," says Snyder. "The SNOCs are emerging to be extremely positive. The cases are at best an incomplete with indications that they are a real challenge. We thought global cases would have been more featured in the portfolio." Some network schools simply lack the resources to be major contributors to the partnership or, in some cases, to even send students to the network weeks. But as Synder's hallway conversation with current applicants suggest, this is a work in progress. With an endowment of $725 million, only a quarter of Harvard Business School's total, SOM lacks the deep resources to go head-to-head with HBS, Stanford, and Wharton. As Professor Morton quips, "At Harvard, they catch the leaves as they fall off the trees. The landscaping budget at HBS is higher than most business school's educational budget." Yet, as word spreads about the unusual experiment going on at Yale, more students keen on engaging in a true global business school are likely to show up and take advantage of what SOM has put together. Already, Synder has achieved his goal of making SOM "the most distinctively global U.S. business school." Arguably, no U.S. school can boast a similar package of unique global offerings and SOM, given the halo of Yale University, can now offer a global experience that rivals London Business School and INSEAD. Key rankings are turning up for Snyder, which will help bring the school more positive attention. For the first time in SOM's history, the school seems on the verge of breaking into the truly elite category of business schools. More from Poets&Quants: Best & Worst 2014 MBA Job Placement At Top Schools The 2014 Top 100 MBA Programs In The U.S. The 2014 Top MBA Programs Outside The U.S.
Stanford tops Poets&Quants' ranking of the best business schools by Ethan Baron @FortuneMagazine December 1, 2014, 5:36 AM EDT E-mail Tweet Facebook Google Plus Linkedin Share icons (Poets&Quants) — To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose. And so it is in the world of business schools. With interest in startups and entrepreneurship reaching a fever's pitch, Stanford Graduate School of Business emerged as the No. 1 business school in the U.S. in Poets&Quants' 2014 ranking of the best full-time MBA programs. At a time when Silicon Valley can now boast an HBO television series that pays homage to the pervasive startup culture that defines the region, Stanford nudged aside Harvard Business School for the first time since P&Q's composite ranking debuted in 2010. Rounding out the top five programs were the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in third place, the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business in fourth, and Columbia Business School in New York in fifth. For the first time in five years, Wharton pushed ahead of Chicago Booth to claim the No. 3 position. In a separate ranking of full-time MBA programs outside the U.S., London Business School repeated its first place finish for the fourth time in five years. INSEAD came in second, while IMD finished in third place. Two business schools in Spain—No. 4 IE Business School in Madrid and No. 5 IESE Business School in Barcelona—completed the top five non-U.S. MBA programs. Unlike other rankings, the Poets&Quants composite list combines the latest editions of the five most influential business school rankings in the world: U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Financial Times, and The Economist. Instead of merely averaging the five, each ranking is separately weighted to account for Poets&Quants' view of their authority and credibility. (U.S. News is given a weight of 35%, Forbes, 25%, while both the FT and Businessweek is given a 15% weight, and The Economist, 10% weight.) Combining the five most influential rankings doesn't eliminate the flaws in each system, but it does significantly diminish them. When an anomaly surfaces on one list due to either faulty survey technique or biased methodology, bringing all the data together tends to suppress it. So the composite index tones down the noise in each of these five surveys to get more directly at the real signal that is being sent. The upshot: The list is far more stable—and reliable—than most rankings published elsewhere, taking into account a massive wealth of quantitative and qualitative data captured in these major lists, from surveys of corporate recruiters, MBA graduates, deans and faculty publication records, to median GPA and GMAT scores of entering students, as well as the latest salary and employment statistics of alumni. This year, 25 of the top 30 schools had either an identical position as they had last year or experienced a change of only one place up or down. The stability in the list is reflective of the fact that from year to year, MBA programs rarely change dramatically. Yale makes strongest gains Besides the switch at the very top, Yale University's School of Management and Cornell University's Johnson School experienced the largest changes in this year's ranking. Fueled by significant gains in the Financial Times and Businessweek rankings, Yale climbed five places this year to finish 12th, its best ever showing. The school is in its fourth year of substantial change under new Dean Edward "Ted" Snyder. This is Snyder's third deanship. He was at at the helm of both the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and the University of Virginia's Darden School, and that experience has clearly paid off at Yale. Snyder's strategy rests on three guiding aspirations: to make Yale the most distinctively global U.S. business school, to leverage the world-class university that Yale is by making the business school the most integrated with its home university, and to be recognized as the best source of leaders for all sectors and regions. These days, you'll hear similar things from many deans but few have delivered creative and innovative ideas as Yale has done under Snyder and his two key deputies, Senior Associate Deans Anjani Jain and David Bach. Cornell, on the other hand, slipped four positions to a rank of 15 from 11 in 2013, after declining in four of the five most-watched rankings this year. It's not always easy to discern why a program might lose ground in any of the rankings because each list is based on multiple metrics, some that overlap and some that are unique to the individual ranking. However, it is generally rare for a school of Cornell's prominence to fall in every ranking in a single year. In both U.S. News and the FT, the school slipped by just one place. But it dropped six rungs in the newly constituted Businessweek ranking, moving from seventh to 13th, while it lost similar ground in The Economist, dropping from 11th to 17th among U.S. schools. Forbes, which ranks schools every other year, did not produce a new list this year. Cornell's Johnson School had a relatively new dean in Soumitra Dutta, a former INSEAD professor, who is in his first deanship and is leading a major expansion of the school in New York City. But at a time when one school after another is adding faculty and centers to support entrepreneurship, this was clearly Stanford's year. With applications up 3.5% this past year, the school has the most selective MBA program in the U.S., accepting only 6.5% of its applicants. Stanford MBAs typically land among the highest first-year pay packages in the world. And MBA startups at Stanford have been at record levels in the past two years, making the school the place to start a business from scratch and search for capital from angel investors and VCs. This year, roughly 17% of the graduating MBAs—exactly 65 students—went the startup route. That's about the same as last year, when a record 18% chose to start new firms. In fact, the startup mindset has become so dominant at the school that the dean of its MBA program now believes Stanford should try to discourage it. "From our standpoint, we don't need to sell entrepreneurship here because we get it for free," says Madhav Rajan, senior associate dean for academic affairs. He believes that the school's location–in the heart of Silicon Valley–allows it to have a near hands-off approach to entrepreneurship. "Students will automatically think Stanford is entrepreneurship," he adds. "We don't need to sell anybody on it. If anything, this is a trend we have to push against more than embrace. We have a completely different problem than anybody else. We don't want to be the graduate school of entrepreneurship. We are a school of general management." Winners and losers Stanford's latest crop of MBAs is the largest class in the school's history, with record percentages of both female and international students. Out of a class of 410 newbies (vs. 406 last year), 42% are women, up six full percentage points from last year's 36%, while 44% come from outside the U.S., up three percentage points from 41% last year. The international contingent at Stanford hails from 62 different countries, an all-time high. The average GMAT score for the class is also the highest of any U.S. business school yet again: 732. The most improved school on Poets&Quants' Top 100 was the University of Pittsburgh's Katz Graduate School of Business, which rose 18 places to a rank of 43 this year. Generally, dramatic rises or falls on the P&Q list come from MBA programs that suddenly appear or disappear from one of the five major rankings. Katz made its way onto The Financial Times and Bloomberg Businessweek's rankings. Katz also gained ground at U.S. News, going from 61st to 52nd, and at The Economist, moving up from 47th to 43rd among U.S. programs. Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management inched up a dozen places to finish at an impressive 31st place; Pepperdine's Graziadio School of Business and Management, rose 14 spots to No. 69; UT-Dallas' Jindal School of Management, also jumped 14 places to finish 60th; and two University of California schools, UC-Davis' Graduate School of Management and UC-San Diego's Rady School of Management, both gained 10 positions to rank 44th and 57th, respectively. And the big losers? Fordham University's Graduate School of Business took the biggest dive. Under interim dean Donna Rapaccioli, an accounting professor who has led the undergraduate program and who only got the graduate job in June of this year, Fordham plummeted 15 places to barely finish in the top 100, at a rank of 98. The school disappeared from Businessweek's list entirely, after ranking 56th two years ago, and it also plunged 13 places in U.S. News' ranking to finish 93rd from 79 a year earlier. Meanwhile, the University of Iowa's Tippie School of Business fell 14 places to a rank of 49, while three other well-known schools each plunged 11 positions: Babson College went from 53rd to 64th, Thunderbird fell from 65th to 76th, and Syracuse University's Whitman School dropped from 72nd to 83rd. Case Western University's Weatherhead School of Management was the only other MBA program to drop in double digits, falling 10 places to a rank of 62. A host of schools fell off the list entirely this year. Among the schools that disappeared this year: The University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Howard University, Auburn, Virginia Tech, Bentley, St. Louis University, the University of Oregon, the University of Kentucky, and Tulsa. Climbing onto the list for either the first time or reappearing after an absence last year were the University of Cincinnati at 69, Texas Tech (86), Florida International (89), the University of Kansas (90), the University of Houston (91), Rensselaer Polytechnic and Claremont (both tied at 93), Hofstra (97), the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of West Virginia (both tied for 98th place). This year marks a slight change to the weighting in Poets&Quants' ranking. Due to significant changes in the methodology at Businessweek that have made that ranking less credible and authoritative, we have reduced its weight in our composite ranking. Instead of weighing Businessweek 25% as we have in the past, the magazine's ranking is now valued at 15%. 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Paula Abdul's Absence Leaves Major Void in 'American Idol': Our Readers React
Phinesse Demps says:
♦ Paula was -- and I can't believe I am saying this -- but when you look back, she was the most professional of the judges. She advised contestants from experience and really set them at ease.
♦ Ellen DeGeneres tends to feel bad about being critical and is always apologizing, where Paula did it in a tactful, kind way. Now we see Randy feeling confused as a judge and Kara trying to imitate Simon instead of giving sound advice. 'Idol' is in total chaos.
♦ Paula's departure began a downturn in the quality of the show. Now Simon is leaving after this season? Can we say bye-bye, 'American Idol'?
Tera Geishauser says:
♦ 'Idol' never suffered a dull moment with Paula as a judge. I mean, she spit her gum at Simon during a heavy audition week in season eight!
♦ She offered a weekly dosage of crazy that kept the audience wanting more of their favorite "Paula Moments." Who could forget Paula's slip-up during season seven when she critiqued contestant Jason Castro on two performances when in reality he had only performed one song? After Randy cleared up the confusion for her, she simply claimed, "This is hard!" and we were right back on the Paula-loving bandwagon.
♦ Not only are Paula Moments what we miss the most, they're half the reason we tuned in.
Josephine Gilliland says:
♦ No more weird make-out sessions between Paula and Simon breaks my heart.
♦ The whole reason I tuned in was to watch somewhat unstable people (i.e. Paula) give somewhat normal people advice. The sheer sound of her slurring her words like a drunken sailor was music to my ears -- now that music has turned into monotone voices telling the truth. I feel bad for all the singers on 'Idol' now because they're no longer given false hope by the judges.
Kimee Balmilero says:
♦ Paula was and always will be the best judge 'Idol' ever had.
♦ Gone are the days when her awkward hand clapping would lead me to wonder if that was the next big dance move.
♦ I also miss my favorite drinking game, "Take a shot when Paula says, 'First of all, you look absolutely gorgeous tonight.'"
Keira Peterson says:
♦ Paula was maternal. She wouldn't just tell a person they weren't good enough, but that they should always keep their eyes open for bigger and better things. Not to mention if someone flat-out couldn't carry a tune, she would suggest vocal coaching or maybe that singing just isn't for them.
♦ Paula kinda kept a muzzle on most of the crude comments that slipped out of Simon's mouth.
♦ Simon made everyone wonder, "Who the hell is brave enough to go up in front of that guy?" A lot of bold performers put their dreams on the laps of three judges and waited for the thumbs up. Not only was Paula the glue that held the show together, it was her kind words of criticism that always kept more people daring to try out for the next season.
Billie Nichols says:
♦ She was bubbly, funny, made interesting fashion decisions, and was just so authentically "Paula." I miss the way she went on a tangent, I miss the banter between her and Simon, I miss her scathing looks at Kara, and I'm hurting without her quirky crushes on contestants and her over-the-top enthusiasm.
♦ Paula may not have been the most technical critic, but she was a bright spot in the judging, and someone who could always be counted upon to put a positive spin on things.
♦ With any TV show, once the original stars get replaced, the show itself loses something important. And not only is Paula gone, she's been replaced with her polar opposite.
♦ Paula really seemed to bring out the best in contestants, like Adam Lambert, and without her this year, everyone seems a little lost.
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- Tuesday 13 AprilBy Cissy
I miss Paula, but I think American Idol has outlived its time. It has gotten mundane and boring. I watched once this season, and I can't bring myself to go through another episode.
- Tuesday 13 AprilBy Eastwood Fan
The contestants are mostly horrible.
- Tuesday 13 AprilBy desrtdrmr
I miss Paula. I will miss Simon and think that his leaving will be the death of AI. I really dislike Kara on the show..........didn't like her last year, like her even less this year. She should have found another path last year........she hangs on Simon so, it's just kind of slimy. She has a real attitude, and sort of puts herself above everyone else. You never have the feeling that she's really rooting for those kids, like Paula did. Her attitude seems to be that she is so much better than they, or anyone else is/are. Ellen is fun and funny, but isn't one to give singing advice. Randy is Randy, but will not be able to carry the show alone. I do believe that Simon, Ellen, and Randy are truly interested in the contestants.
- Tuesday 13 AprilBy smitty
nice try AOL, with this biased slant pro Paula piece. For me the show hasn't missed a trick. It's about the singers. Randy is Randy. Kara, despite writing a poor finally song last year, forgot more about music than Paula knows. Ellen, although not a musician, is funny, smart, clear, and concise. Paula was none of those things. Simon is Simon, but that's a problem for the future, because of all judges, he is the most interesting. The quality of the show is still good. Ratings are still good, but dropping because the show in general is losing steam. Paula was ok, but it ain't broke because she's not there.
- Tuesday 13 AprilBy Darr247High Rank Vote downVote upReport this
AI's not doing so well? Imagine that... I wouldn't know, since I haven't watched a single episode of it this season. Still, way to teach Paula a lesson for thinking she deserved pay equity with the 'stars' - Simon and Seacrest.
Idiots. - Tuesday 13 AprilBy Konrad Kayne
Miss that goofy old drunk chick? No.
Growing ever soooo bored with Idol anyway....hmmm YES! - Tuesday 13 AprilBy T-BONE
- Tuesday 13 AprilBy cessileclam
The whole e-mail confirmation thing keeps me from posting but for Paula I will do it! I deliberately have NOT WATCHED this year in protest about the Paula and the whole vote thing last year. Ellen was NOT the right choice and no wonder Simon decided to leave the sinking ship! Ha-ha.
- Tuesday 13 AprilBy ED
What they should really consider for replacing Simon is Adam Lambert..I watched him critique the contestants tonite and he didnt sugar coat it.
- Tuesday 13 AprilBy reaganw
I stopped watching this year.... I miss AI. Why can't we go back to the AI we all enjoyed watching the last eight years? (Sigh....)
- Tuesday 13 AprilBy joey
Paula was a good role model for my daughter - now she has to watch a lesbian with no talent and a bimbo who is posing naked in magazines - ellen should go on the logo channel and kara should go into pornos
- Tuesday 13 AprilBy Debbie
I too, quit watching American Idol after Paula left. Why do the producers have to mess with a good thing, by not treating the people who make the show, with fairness. Paula & Simon made the show, so after Simon leaves, what is left?
- Tuesday 13 AprilBy jimmy
please bring paula back - I am so fed up with all these lesbians on tv - I want to see straight sexy woman who dont look like young boys - now oprah is a lesbian - no surprise there
- Wednesday 14 AprilBy K
First of all, this year sucks, I have never seen such horrible singers, if you can call them that. Half of them should not even be on the show..... this is the best talent out there? Its just BAD. I dont like Ellen or that other woman... Kara? Ryan has been acting like he has been smoking something. Its just not like it was, and next year Simon is gone. I wont be watching any more, I am done with this boring, dull show.
- Wednesday 14 AprilBy souldust
It is not Paula that is leaving a void. It is the lack of singing talent.
- Wednesday 14 AprilBy pppsfan
I really can't stand the show this season. I like Ellen but I think they should change the rest of the judges. Randy is just sickening with his same lines every singer, Dog, Dog I didn't really feel it Dog. It was kind of pitchy etc. Kari, if she was any further up Simon's backside she should beable to see his tonsil's. She is just sickening also. Simon is Simon!
- Friday 16 AprilBy Annie
American Idol died the day Paula left. Its a shame that Idol let her slip away. They are real fools I say!
- Friday 16 AprilBy Donna
We hate HATE Kara. We Love LOVE Ellen.
- Friday 16 AprilBy Amanda
What?! I don't agree at all, in fact the only reaason why I decided to keep watching American Idol was because Paula was gone, I couldn't stand her rambling on and on and her draumatic tears and applause. I find Idol a lot more entertaining this year. Too bad the talent isn't very good!
- Friday 16 AprilBy Adam
I'm glad Paula is gone. She was so much of a ditz head. She would ramble on and on about nothing. Not a very clear headed person.
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Newtown massacre: Faces of change, one year later
The news was unimaginable. On Dec. 14, 2012, gunman Adam Lanza entered Sandy Hook Elementrary School and killed 20 first-graders and six adults, some of whom had thrown themselves in the line of fire to protect the children in their custody. We speak to area residents whose perspectives have seen a shift since that day.
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Why should Lindsey Graham be defeated this year? I offer 10 reasons:
Graham voted to put radical leftists Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor onto the Supreme Court.
Graham voted to confirm Hillary Benghazi Clinton as Secretary of State and has said shes the best secretary of state in his lifetime.
Graham voted for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Graham voted to raise the federal debt ceiling numerous times.
Graham voted to end U.S. Sen. Ted Cruzs brave filibuster against Obamacare.
Graham favors amnesty for illegal aliens.
Graham favors radical environmental regulations to combat so-called climate change.
Graham supports military intervention in the Syrian civil war.
Graham supports spying on American citizens and the restriction of civil liberties.
Graham voted 63 percent of the time with Obama in 2011 and 57 percent of the time with Obama in 2012.
Graham has lost all credibility with conservatives. Hes closer to Harry Reid than to the typical South Carolinian.
Responsible South Carolinians will unite on June 10 to give him the boot.
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Workshop on Cross-device LUX @ ECTEL, Saarbruecken, 19-9; deadline in August
Workshop Call for Papers
LUX - a creature from far-far-away? A workshop on Cross-device User Experience, Accessibility and Usability in Learning
To be held 19 September as a workshop of
The 7th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (ECTEL)
Saarbrücken (Germany), 18 - 21 September 2012
Workshop Themes and Goals
The main goal of this workshop is to develop a vision for learning of the future in the triangle of Cross-Device User Experience, Usability and Accessibility to enable Learning for All.
The target audiences for the workshop are researchers working in the areas of user experience, usability, accessibility across multiple devices. We encourage the participation of researchers working in any of these areas, across these areas, or those who have plans or proposals to explore these topics.
Below is a list of open research areas relevant to this workshop:
What important issues appear when authoring for learning across multiple devices, considering user experience, usability and accessibility?
There are standards and guidelines for usability and accessibility. How can they be applied to support the overall cross-device user experience in learning environments?
Semantic Web
How can Semantic Web Technologies support cross-device User Experience, Accessibility and Usability in learning environments?
Which processes support cross-device User Experience, Accessibility and Usability in learning environments?
Which aspects of users, their environments and their devices need to be modelled? Which can be either inferred or observed in the interaction between users or between user and system?
How can this support the cross-device user experience?
Do we need new models?
Adaptation Methods & Techniques
Which existing methods and techniques can be reused or tailored to support cross-device user experience, taking usability and accessibility in flexible learning environments running into consideration?
Which future scenarios for cross-device User Experience, Accessibility and Usability in learning environments evolve if we think about new ways to enable learning for all?
Important Dates
2 weeks before Early Bird: 1st Workshop paper submission deadline
4 days before Early Bird: Notification of acceptance
13 August 2nd Submission Deadline
27 August Notification of Acceptance
19 September Workshop
The submission process has two submission deadlines. The first one allows for decisions before the early bird deadline for the conference (tbc), the second deadline close to the beginning of the conference.
The conference organizers so far (19 June) have not communicated registration dates, but we would like to leave the option open to get accepted before the early bird deadline. Hence the vague 1st deadline.
Workshop Format and Methodology
Following the success of former events the workshop will consist of two main parts, a fishbowl discussion to get the exchange started, and to give a chance to present own ideas. It is followed by a UX cafe in world cafe format, to provide ample opportunity to discuss interesting new ideas more thoroughly.
More information can be found here:
Submission instructions
We welcome 4-page position papers.
Refererences do not count towards the 4-page limit, all other parts of the text do.
Papers should be submitted in pdf format through email to: email@example.com .
In your email, please provide a short one sentence claim, that summarizes your main idea. These claims will be up on the wall to support the workshop discussions.
All submissions should follow the First Monday submission guidelines (http://firstmonday.org/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions) as closely as possible.
Active workshop participants will be invited to submit a full paper for a Special Issue on Cross-device Learner User Experience of First Monday (http://firstmonday.org). First Monday is an established peer-reviewed, open access Online Journal.
Workshop committee
Barbara Gölz, CEO 50 Millisekunden, Germany.
Barry McMullin, RINCE Research Institute for Innovative Engineering Technologies at Dublin City University.
Brenda Mallinson, South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) and Rhodes University, South Africa.
John Traxler, University of Wolverhampton, UK.
Liam Twomey, CTO of Fluid Rock, Ireland.
Magreth Mushi, Open University of Tanzania and East African Universities ICT Accession Project.
Matthias Müller-Prove, User Experience Principal and Manager Software Development, Oracle, Germany
Mmamakanye Pitse-Boshomane, Meraka Institute, CSIR, South Africa and Living Labs in Southern Africa (LLiSA).
Sabine Moebs, IRCSET Fellow, RINCE, Dublin City University, Ireland and Fluid Rock.


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On my wedding website I have created new pages, and would like to match those page with adsense adds, that matches page subject. Please advise
Thanks emvy. When you add AdSense code to your pages, the AdSense technology will automatically match the ads to your content.
But you do have to use the right keywords in your articles. But Don't over do it.Otherwise adsense may target the wrong words. Check the keyword tool.
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Catch and Release . . .or not
Jim Clarke
It is only after a lifetime's flyfishing I feel I can contribute a little to this never-to-be-settled argument. There is no doubt catch and release is the "future provider" method of game fishing and that a fish caught and released will still be there to live on and perhaps to be caught again. But do we want that? Does it not smell somewhat of fish in a barrel? It makes me feel we are saying, "I have caught you once and inflicted fear and pain on you but I am not going to kill you, I am putting you back so I can inflict fear and pain on you again next week." Humane? I think not.
A few years ago I was a member of a small 30-man syndicate ( although we had 30 members and were so limited by the rules, roughly half our members never fished, they kept up their subscriptions "just in case. ") They were mostly well past fishing age but liked to feel they were still members, and of course it made the fishing less crowded, and cheaper, for the rest of us.
We leased and stocked a seven-acre lake in the beautiful Cheshire countryside. We had fished here for some thirty years, the older members at least, and all of us felt it was "our lake". Then, disaster! The estate, of which the lake was a part, was sold to a pop star. Horror of horrors! Not only was our lease not renewed but also fishing out the remainder of the season already agreed upon was made very uncomfortable. Eight-foot high razor wire fences (to keep out female teenagers) and large almost feral Alsatians (me bruvver breeds 'em, doesn't he) do not set well with the idyllic ambience we fishermen know and love. And so our fishing came to an end. For once in my adult life I seriously considered tears.
However, I digress. While we fished the lake there were the usual committee squabbles (why do all clubs suffer committees permanently at war with themselves?)
Fred, the Hon. Treas., wanted to put in a lot of little (cheap) fish and let them grow on. This in spite of the fact we took out at least one large pike each year, and the others that had to be in there were waiting with gleeful anticipation for Fred's view to prevail; in spite of the presence of a healthy population of herons and in spite of a nearby caravan park whose temporary residents found ample opportunity to avail of the free fishing we had so kindly provided.
Joe wanted brownies. He liked to fish a dry fly in the evenings and felt brown rose more willingly than did rainbows in the gloaming. In any case-- rainbows were foreign.
The rest of the committee felt we would be best advised to put fish in, "few and often," and large rather than small. We also, to a man, felt rainbows fought better, looked better, grew quicker and tasted better. They also rose to flies in the evening if they felt like it, and that little bit of uncertainty added the necessary spice.
We decided in the end, and this prevailed most years, to order, say, 200 fish of one and a quarter to two pounds, and fifty fish of two and a half to three pounds. We coaxed the fish farmer to let us have the odd older, larger fish that he might have surplus to requirements. He usually let us have five or six in the five-pound range, and so another degree of excitement was included in the mix.
Half of the committee felt we should refrain from fishing for four days after the fish were put in. This was to let them settle and to save us from catching too many fish too easily. (They would be confused and take anything they were offered!)
The rest of us took view that we were putting fish in the lake so we could catch them, and as we were all gentlemen (?) any fish, which gave itself up or didn't acquit itself sportingly, could be carefully returned.
For my part, I had come to know the lake well and knew, or thought I knew, where fish could be depended upon to be lurking at every time of the day. I could have fished in the more unlikely places, but who would? Be that as it may, three or four days after stocking, in the year when this dilemma first thrust itself into my mind, I arrived at the lake and carefully plopped a Hare's Ear in the perfect spot. On cue, as if scripted, a three pound rainbow decided that Hare's Ear was the flavour of the month and consumed it, first cast! Five minutes later another followed. I don't want you to think this was too easy, but I knew the lake and all its vagaries and the fish were willing.
But---- and it is a big but. The members limited ourselves to two fish per day, twice a week. I now had my two for that day and had only been there for, at most, fifteen minutes. What to do now? Obvious-catch and release or go home. Going home isn't in me at a time like that so catch and release it would have to be.
All fishermen will guess what happened next. Following a leisurely stroll round the lake, I came to a favourite spot, a spot which habitually held a fish, usually a good one. After a few exploratory casts under the trees a rainbow of some four pounds swallowed the fly and made it his own. Landed as quickly as possible to reduce the build-up of acid, it was to have taken the fly so far down the gullet that removing it was well nigh impossible, barbless though it was. What to do?
1. Cut the nylon and hope the fish could work the fly in nature's way, a size 14 barbless should not cause too much of a problem, though I wouldn't like to have it work it's way through
2. Subject the fish to long forceps, causing massive trauma, probably condemning it to death anyway.
3. Kill the fish and break the rules, which I had a hand in framing. A hanging offence!
Many fish will be hooked lightly in the lip or mouth edge and can be shaken off a barbless hook leaving the conscience clear, but the concept thereafter becomes a little blurred, at least for me. While I am catching fish I am 'Man the Provider,' taking food from Nature and intending to eat the results of my efforts. That we shermen have purposely made it difficult for ourselves is beside the point, I can justify the whole procedure on food grounds. Once my limit is reached, and two fish should be enough for anyone, to embark on a course of catch and release gives me the horrible feeling I am subjecting the fish to pain, trauma and possible death just for fun. Purely for my own pleasure and amusement. That surely cannot be right.
There must be more to sportsmanship than this.
Hard though it is on a day when things are not going well, I now feel the best and fairest course is to quickly return any fish which is lightly hooked, taking care to support it in the water until it is as fully recovered as possible, thereby allowing it the maximum chance of survival. A fish which is hard hooked or one that has been difficult to subdue and is obviously exhausted beyond reasonable chance of survival should be killed humanely and regardless of size,
be included in one's total bag.
When the limit is reached, home I go. Hard to do on a beautiful day when fish are co-operative, but I feel it is the right way. Undoubtedly it is easier to do when the first fish is three pounds and the second is a double. You can face your children's camera with pride.
If, however the first fish is a pound and a quarter and the second is not in good condition or even a flaccid stockie, what then?
This is what is called, "taking the rough with the smooth" or even "sorting the men out from the boys." It is to be a true sportsman if you can abide by it.
~ Jim Clarke
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Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, longer ago than he cares to remember, and on leaving school went into his family's business - Gunmakers and Fishing Tackle manufacturers. By the time he joined the firm it had become more retail than manufacturing , though the history and reputation of the company was somewhat patrician, which stood them in good stead in the face of the modern, retail only, fly-by-night businesses which proliferated in the fifties and sixties in the climate of leisure time explosion. A few years later, feeling somewhat stifled in a company run by father and two warring uncles, he left to take over an ailing gun maker in Chester, England. He was to stay there for thirty pleasant years, retiring some six years ago, ostensibly to have more time to fish. He had given up shooting, but in reality appears to have retired to garden, decorate and construct THINGS in the garden.áHe has, nevertheless managed to fish in Ireland, Scotland Wales and England, with trips to Sweden and Alaska thrown in. You will find more of Jim's writing in our
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Content Management on the Internet
a look at K-12 schools access to resources
John R. Wenrich
The Internet presents a new phenomenon to educators and students in the K-12 environment. It's ease of use and ready access to material provides an overwhelming resource for use in the K-12 classroom. This study looked at content management of Internet resources in the K-12 school environment. Content management is defined as the methods of organizing access to the information available on the Internet allowing the teacher to effectively use resources in a classroom setting. Teachers have managed the material, or content, that they present to students for over a decade. Now that resources available on the Internet are also open to K-12 students, teachers must be aware of the need to manage Internet content, just as they would do for any other content being used in their classroom.
This study looked at middle school students in 6th and 7th grades. An experimental design was used to determine if K-12 access to Internet resources provides a higher degree of results when students are presented with managed resources, or when students have open access to Internet resources.
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The women sitting on the streets are philipinnos who works in HK. They got holidays every Sunday and they love sitting on the streets
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When we got off of the ferry our first order of business was finding some lunch. We wanted to try Dim Sum/Yum Cha (depending on where your from) and headed to a restaurant suggested in our guidebook as being one of the best in Hong Kong. The restaurant itself, called Maxim's Palace, was in a bit of a strange location inside the city hall, which was a bit out of the way from the main eating district in town, but it was obviously very popular as the crowd out the front was enormous and we had to get a ticket. They told us the wait would be 45 minutes and luckily there was a nice courtyard where we went to sit in the sunshine and wait our turn. True to their word, 45 minutes later our number was called and we were escorted into the enormous dining room, that looked more like a ballroom with its gold curtains and massive chandeliers.
I had been looking forward to eating Yum Cha in Hong Kong for days and my expectations were very high. I had heard that the food in this town is excellent and I didn't want to be disappointed. The ladies serving all sorts of steamed buns, spring rolls, dumplings etc were wheeling carts around the room and we selected the dishes that we wanted. Thankfully the carts had labels in Chinese and English, so we knew what we were getting and we definitely not disappointed, the food was great. We filled up on pork buns, dumplings, spring rolls and sesame buns, and I also got some crispy squid with spicy salt which of course, Rich did not share. Because of the sheer number of people in the room, it was a very noisy place to eat, but that was part of the fun and I'm glad we got to do it. This was up there with some of the best meals of the trip and we left feeling satisfied.
The biggest tourist attraction in Hong Kong is "The Peak", the tallest hill in the area behind the city with great views of the harbor and skyline. To get there you catch the peak tram and it was here that we next walked to. The ride on the tram, which is really a funicular pulled up the hill by a cable, cost about $8 USD each. The only real problem with the tram is that it can't really cope with the sheer number of tourists trying to use it. There are only two trams that go up and down and it is about 8 minutes between each one. With thousands of people trying to go up and down, it makes for an unpleasant wait. We waited about 45 minutes to get on the tram and then headed up the hill. The ride itself was a little scary as it is really steep and I couldn't help but think what would happen if that cable snapped! Thankfully that didn't happen and we alighted at the top. The station lets everyone off into a big mall filled with lots of crappy souvenirs and it took us some time to work out how to get out. We were getting very frustrated because we felt like we were trapped in the mall and that there was no exit. We eventually found it and went outside to take pictures. We didn't spend too long at the top as we had other places we wanted t see, but there were a lot of shops and cafes catering to the hoards of tourists that visit the lookout. The view id quite spectacular and would be amazing at night, but I can only imagine how many people try to get up on the tram at night, it must be a nightmare!
We had to wait in line for another 30 minutes to get down again and once we got off we walked to the nearby Hong Kong park. This was quite a nice park in the middle of the city and had a huge aviary in the middle. We walked through the aviary and then headed into the popular parts of the city where many trendy restaurants, bars and cities are located. There is no way we could afford to eat here! We also walked through one of the wet markets selling lots of produce and seafood and meat. BY now we had to head back to the ferry as I had a date to talk with my parents on Skype later that afternoon, but as we walked on the raised skybridges that criss cross the city we noticed a very strange phenomenon. We had seen it earlier, but didn't know what it was and the more we walked, the more we couldn't figure it out. Basically, there were hundreds and hundreds of groups of women sitting on the skybridges, on the side of the roads, in the parks, anywhere there was a bit of space. They had flattened cardboard boxes or blankets to sit on and many where sharing meals and others were just chatting, or playing cards or other games. We could not work out why they were all out in the street. We wondered if the apartments here are too small for get together, or if there was another explanation. It was very strange.
After getting back to our room and chatting with mum and dad, it was time for our evening outing. We decided to head to the Temple street night market and to get there we needed to catch the train. We eventually figured out the ticketing system, got to the right stop and found our way to the market. We looked for somewhere to eat and there wasn't a lot on offer, so we decided to eat at one of the street market restaurants that were spilling onto the street. These places looked very busy, had full size chairs and didn't look too dirty, so we gave it a go. We were glad we did as the food was very good. I had a Chinese chicken curry that was big enough to feed 4 people and Rich had sweet and sour pork. The meal only cost us $20 including drinks, which is an absolute bargain for Hong Kong. Once we finished our dinner we walked around the night market for some time, but the quality of the stuff there wasn't that good. We then decided we would walk back to our hotel, as it was only one train stop away and we weren't ready to call it a night yet. It was still super busy out on the streets and it was nice to see all of the Christmas lights. All in all, we had a great day today.


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KBS-3 (an abbreviation of kärnbränslesäkerhet, nuclear fuel safety) is a technology for disposal of high-level radioactive waste developed in Sweden by Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB) by appointment from Statens Strålskyddsinstitut (the government's radiation protection agency). The technology was developed by studying different natural storage facilities such as the natural reactor in Oklo, Gabon, and the uranium mine in Cigar Lake, Canada. KBS-3 is also to be used in Finland at the Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository, being built by Posiva.
The disposal method consists of the following steps:[1]
- The waste is first stored in intermediate storage for 30 years.
- The waste is encapsulated in cast iron canisters.
- The cast iron canisters are encapsulated in copper (CuOFP alloy) capsules.
- The capsules are deposited in a layer of bentonite clay, in a circular hole, eight meters deep and with a diameter of two meters, drilled in a cave 500 metres down into crystalline rock.
- After the storage facility is full, the drill hole is sealed and the site marked.
- After 100,000 years of storage, the radioactivity level of the waste is at the same level as that of uranium ore mined to make the fuel.[2]
If the holes into the rock from the cave are drilled vertically, the method is called KBS-3V and if they are drilled horizontally it is called KBS-3H. The only method considered so far is KBS-3V.
The first facilities using this method will be located in Östhammar, Sweden, next to the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant, and in Eurajoki, Finland, at the Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository next to the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant.[3]
The Östhammar facility will have space for 6,000 capsules and the plan is to deposit 200 capsules into storage annually.
In 2012, a research group at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, published research that suggests that the copper capsules of KBS-3 are not as corrosion-proof as SKB and Posiva claim.[4] The research group led by Peter Szakálos found that the copper capsules would last only about 1,000 years, instead of the 100,000 years claimed by the companies. According to the research results, corrosion in pure copper advances at about one micrometre a year, whereas KBS-3 depends on a rate of corrosion that is a thousand times slower. In response, STUK (the Finnish nuclear safety office) has asked Posiva for further explanation, and independent research conducted in Finland has supported the results of Szakálos's group. However, in public, Posiva dismissed the independent research in Sweden and Finland, referring to its own safety studies.[5]
See also[edit]
- ^ "The KBS-3 Method - SKB". Retrieved 2009-09-24.
- ^ Manson Benedict, Thomas H. Pigford, Hans Levi (1981). "Nuclear Chemical Engineering", McGraw-Hill, Toronto, 1981. ISBN 0-07-004531-3. This work shows data (Figure 11.2) indicating that enriched fuel from a light water reactor, subjected to a typical burnup regime will be no more radioactive than the ore from which it was mined, after a period of about six hundred years.
- ^ Jason Deign (2012-01-18). "Final repositories: deep knowledge in the Nordics". Nuclear Energy Insider. Retrieved 2012-12-30.
- ^ Peter Szakálos and Seshadri Seetharaman (2012). "Technical Note 2012:17: Corrosion of copper canister" (PDF). Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten. ISSN 2000-0456. Retrieved 2012-12-30.
- ^ "Ydinjätteen loppusijoitus ajautumassa vaikeuksiin". YLE. 2012-12-18. Retrieved 2012-12-30.
External links[edit]
- Djupförvarets barriärer (in Swedish)
- Final repository (same as above, but in English)


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Date of Stay: February, 2015 - $55.00
This is a large, clean park. Most of the sites are a seasonal or permanent, but they are very well kept up. Many people have decks, flowers, etc.. The residents are all older, snowbirds, and very friendly. There is a very nice pool and community room. There are activities planned every day. The restrooms are very clean and modern, the showers are small but the water temperature and pressure are excellent. The staff is friendly and helpful. The sites are close together, are all back in, gravel with concrete pad patios and picnic tables. The wifi was not good at our site, even though it was close to the office. There are many cable channels, including HBO, ESPN, and Comedy Central. We stayed for 4 nights and would definitely return. We camped at Bay Bayou RV Resort in a Travel Trailer.
Date of Stay: January, 2015 - $53.00
The entrance is tight with a big rig and toad. Some sites are great while others are terrible. When we checked in we were given a site that the help said "you must have booked late the good sites are gone". It sure didn't help my rate. He was right our site was on sand with neighbors very close. The renters here are mostly seasonal and friendly. The biggest complaint I have is a nice site behind me with gravel was open during our whole stay. Why were we not put there? We camped at Bay Bayou RV Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: January, 2015 - $30.00
Extremely friendly and helpful staff. Located in the city but feels like a rural park. Sites are just large enough to feel uncrowded, but all are back in, no pull-through. Good mix of snowbirds and campers. Definitely will stay again. We camped at Bay Bayou RV Resort in a Motorhome.
Close to Tampa Downs Race Track, only 15 mins from Downtown Tampa.
Date of Stay: September, 2014 - $34.00
Nice park in a tropical setting, almost all sites under the shade of mature trees. Some sites gravel, some grass, all back-ins, mix of 30 & 50 amp. Larger rigs placed in grass area (50amp) on bayou, and these sites are very large. Other sites we're closer together, but not claustrophobic. This is a quiet park with many permanent residents that keep their sites neat and clean. Security gate at entrance with nightly patrols; we felt safe there. Although the park is located off a major road (580), it is tucked back along the bayou with minimal road noise. Wi-Fi worked well, pool, clean showers, activities, close to everything you need (grocery, Walmart, restaurants). We had no trouble maneuvering our 45' coach in the park. During our stay, there were several days of heavy rain and we had about 2-3" of standing water at our grass site. We moved to another site without incident. Would stay here again. We camped at Bay Bayou RV Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: January, 2014 - $48.00
We stayed two weeks. This time of year there were many residents for several months -- many of whom were repeat visitors. Clean, attractive, and well managed. We would stay here again. We paid weekly winter rate of $335. We camped at Bay Bayou RV Resort in a Travel Trailer.
Date of Stay: January, 2014 - $48.00
Nice dog parks. Great staff. Try to arrive before dark. Maneuvering space a little tight. Keypad security for entrance. Would stay again. We camped at Bay Bayou RV Resort in a Travel Trailer.
Date of Stay: August, 2013 - $27.00
Rate reflects the $189 weekly special. Really nice friendly and helpful staff. Many "permanents, but well kept trailers. Great grounds, super Wi-Fi, easy access to Tampa, Snook fishing off of campground docks, relatively quiet. Cleanest AC'ed restrooms I've ever seen. Good rules for every one. We would stay here again. We camped at Bay Bayou RV Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: April, 2013 - $47.00
This is not a bad place. Forget the water view on the site. There is some water during high tide, but not worth the walk. Nice staff. Decent space between sites. Big problem getting into the park, if you have a big rig and are towing. There is not a lot of room right after you pull in for you and your tow-we had to unhook. The sites have patio's. Some sites have gravel, but most are just dirt and you need to vacuum every day unless you love living in a dirty place. We camped at Bay Bayou RV Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: February, 2013 - $44.00
This is one of the best run campgrounds that we have stayed in, over our six years and many thousands of coach miles. Super pet friendly and usable water on two sides. It is near the race track and supermarkets. A very nice pool. The "workout" equipment however, is in the community room and was not conducive to our use. There is a YMCA nearby. We stayed for February. We camped at Bay Bayou RV Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: October, 2012 - $42.00
We stayed here for a few weeks while my husband was working nearby. We really liked this campground. They have quite a bit of shade and river access if you like canoeing. They have a nice pool, laundry facilities, and clean restrooms and showers. The staff was friendly and helpful, and the park is nearby shopping and restaurants. The sites have concrete patios, but the parking is on dirt or sand. We had problems with ants despite the maintenance crew applying pesticide to control them. We camped at Bay Bayou RV Resort in a Fifth Wheel.
Date of Stay: July, 2012 - $25.00
Rate indicates a mid summer stay 3/pay 2 special. This is a well run, mainly snowbird park: well maintained and quiet. Our site was grass with a concrete patio, some were improved with stone/shells. Wooded sites, enough so that we did not even attempt roof mounted satellite TV. Cable works very well: 40 channels, including HBO. WiFi worked well, as did our Verizon, ATT, and Sprint data worked well, as did Verizon and Sprint voice. Very nice pool area and clubhouse. A few supplies in store, but they do sell ice cream. We camped at Bay Bayou RV Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: May, 2012 - $28.00
One of the best maintained parks that we have stayed in. Shady sites, excellent wi-fi, cable good. Small lakes and fountains around and waterfront to creek. Two dog runs, both with hot bath available. Bathrooms are spotless. Really good facilities, and pools that are meticulously looked after. Rate quoted is the Spring "Special" of $199 per week. Location is quiet and close to shopping and restaurants. Short drive to Tampa or beaches. We camped at Bay Bayou RV Resort in a Fifth Wheel.
Date of Stay: March, 2012 - $56.00
Very nice park. Large helpful staff. Very well maintained. Very nice facilities, large pool, workout area, pool table meeting rooms. There are a large number of permanent or long term residents, but so far, all are very friendly to transients, with plenty of sites available. Sites are very large and range from dirt with grass, to sea shell gravel. Although they are mostly 90 degree sites, the streets are not that narrow, and the plastic posts that someone mentioned slip right out of a ground socket to ease backing into. This was told to us at check in. Backing in with my 37 ft rig was quite simple as sites are large, especially with the post temporarily removed. Only complaint is that there is but one trash dumpster site near the office, and the park is very large, requiring many people to have to drive their trash to the site. Most people drive in and out during the day anyway, so it isn't really a problem. Rules are normal, and there is no feeling of being watched for violations. Very pet friendly. Many longer term people have even added decking and beautiful plant arrangements and lighting which add to the overall homey feeling. Many sites have large trees nearby which makes satellite TV difficult, although there are sites where it is OK. I was able to park forward enough to miss the trees for satellite reception. Someone mentioned bad cable TV, but ours was excellent as was our friends who were in a site nearby. We camped at Bay Bayou RV Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: January, 2012 - $50.00
This is my first time at Bay Bayou and I must say that this park is one of my favorites in the area. The grounds are absolutely beautiful, the park is filled with big oak trees and there are little flower gardens planted throughout the park which made me feel like I was at home. The sites themselves are all very large and spacious, I had a premium site right on the river and it was perfect since my husband loves to fish. The staff and the guests are all very friendly and even my dog had a great time playing in the dog park. I would recommend this park to anyone traveling through or staying in the Tampa area! I will be back next year. We camped at Bay Bayou RV Resort in a Fifth Wheel.
Date of Stay: January, 2012 - $50.00
This park is way over priced for what it is. The streets are paved which is nice, but the sites are a mess especially when it rains. Some are shelled which does help but many are real fine black sand. It does have a beautiful pool area & a nice club house. The gardener does a great job with the landscaping all over the park. The downsides are that the washing machines are not kept wiped out, some of the sites have become permanant homes for people that collect too much junk on their site, and the park rules are only for chosen people. We have traveled quite a bit, & we have never found such rude people in management as in this park. They do not want to be bothered with your concerns & are very unfriendly. We would not stay here again. We camped at Bay Bayou RV Resort in a Motorhome.
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