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WASHINGTON, March 9, 2010 Under clear blue skies, beneath the spires of the U.S. Air Force Memorial here, military aviators gathered today to pay homage to the achievements of the first women to fly military aircraft during World War II.
The memorial service and wreath-laying ceremony, with a reception afterward, was a prelude to the March 10 presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal to the 1,102 pilots who served as Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II.
Retired U.S. Coast Guard Vice Adm. Vivien Crea, the keynote speaker at the service, told those assembled that by answering America's call to duty in 1942, they gave birth to a fledgling service that would become the WASPs with achievements that would go on to inspire another generation of women in the military.
"As aviators, you possessed an invaluable capability that our nation desperately wanted," Crea said. "You joined not because you were great pioneers, but because of your great sense of duty. You served America in its time of peril."
Nearly 200 of the surviving women pilots attended the ceremonies with family and friends, and family members represented other pilots.
Thirty-eight of those women were honored with roses during the memorial ceremony for having made the ultimate sacrifice for their country during their service, and the 20th Fighter Wing from Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., performed a flyover in the "missing man" formation.
The WASPs' service, and their ability to fly every type of aircraft, Crea noted, prompted U.S. Air Force Gen. Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold to declare, " 'We have not been able to build an airplane that you can't handle. It is on the record that women can fly as well as men.' "
Crea herself is an accomplished aviator, inspired by the WASPs' service, serving for 36 years of active duty, most recently as the 25th vice commandant of the Coast Guard. She became the 21st and only female Ancient Albatross, a designation given to the longest serving active duty Coast Guard aviator.
"It has taken over six decades for our nation to recognize the unique service and valor of the WASPs with the Congressional Gold Medal you shall receive tomorrow," Crea said. "But your true legacy is much more vital, enduring and transformational than that honored piece of gold. It is in the young women and men, from your peers and your own children to today's youngest generation that you have inspired with your patriotism."
Crea said that because of the WASPs, there is a new generation of women fighter pilots, lifesavers and warriors "who enjoy the absence of any conception that they can't do something because of a coincident of birth…that women are equal partners in war as they are in peace."
From 1942 to 1944, more than 25,000 women applied to the WASP program, an Army Air Corps experiment to explore the opportunity for women to serve as pilots and relieve men for overseas duty; 1,102 women were accepted. The WASP were not granted military status until 1977.
At a reception at the Women in Military Service Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery after the service, Gen. Norton Schwartz, U.S. Air Force chief of staff, said this week's special events "take us back to another era, and not merely to honor the past, but truly in a larger sense, also to correct some of its errors. The well-deserved respect for the WASPs is long overdue."
Schwartz said it is important to celebrate the WASPs' contributions, not only in wartime service, but for their pivotal roles as women pioneers blazing a trail to the military cockpit.
"Pioneers like you often had to endure persistent criticism, which made your efforts ever more courageous, and your achievements ever more substantial," Schwartz told the WASPs.
The legacy of the WASPs, he said, is that these accomplished women went on to become leaders in civilian life "continuing their noble efforts to vanquish societal limitations and subtle forms of discrimination" and living the example of what diversity can mean.
"You demonstrated that our great nation benefits most when it rightly harnesses the abundant energy, the generosity, the talents of all of its citizens, and you proved that far greater strengths and vitality lie in inclusiveness," Schwartz said.
For Jan Nicolai, whose late aunt, Helen Jo Severson, was in WASP Class 43-5, the days of celebration of the WASPs' contributions is very special. She carried roses and a photo of her aunt to the memorial service.
"When she was inducted into the South Dakota Air Hall of Fame, and in 2007 she received her star on her grave site, we thought that was it," Nicolai said at the start of the memorial service. "But this, this is magnificent."
For many of the women who became WASPs, it was their love of flying, as much as love of country, that set them on a course that would change their lives.
"When Lindbergh flew over the ocean, I was seven years old, and I thought, 'I want to be a pilot some day,''" recalled Dolores Reed, 92, WASP Class 44-1. "Not long after, my dad spent a dollar and put me in the back of a plane. That was a lot of money in The Depression. I could barely see over the seat. And when we landed, I said 'I'm going to fly.'"
When she started working, Reed paid $8 per hour for flying lessons, and with 35 hours of flying under her belt, she applied to be a WASP. "I did aerial gunnery. I flew targets four hours a day while the boys sharpened their skills," she said.
Reed also set her sights on her squadron commander – marrying him and raising three children. She continued flying after the WASP was disbanded, taking up air racing.
Her friend Josephine Swift, 92, also Class 44-1, said she was hooked on flying after her brother, a Navy pilot, took her up in the air. She got her private license and worked for a flying service and jumped at the chance to be a WASP. "I just applied and they accepted - that was the secret, getting accepted," she said.
For Swift, the two days of ceremonies marked an opportunity to reminisce with old friends, and miss the ones who had passed on.
Carol Brinton Selfridge, 92, Class 44-5, said flying was something she just had to do after following the achievements of Amelia Earhart and test pilot Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran as a child. Sibling rivalry played its part as well, she recalled. "My brother flew, and I don't let my brother get ahead of me," Selfridge said.
When she joined the WASPs, she had two children, who were cared for by her mother while she flew. Her husband, who worked for Lockheed, could not serve, and Selfridge recalls he told her "I can't go, so you might as well."
After the WASPs disbanded, she went on to have two more children, and she now has a granddaughter in the U.S. Air Force
"It means a lot to me to see them recognized," said U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Christy Kayser-Cook, Selfridge's granddaughter, who is assigned to Scott Air Force Base, Ill. "I got interested in flying because of my grandmother's experience, but I think a lot of people haven't heard of the WASPs before."
Selfridge, however, remains modest about her own achievements and instead conveys pride in her granddaughter's accomplishment. "I don't know why they're making so much of us because I loved every minute of the flying," Selfridge said.
For Jeannette Goodrum, Class 43-8, the service, reception and anticipation of the March 10 award ceremony were "exhilarating."
"It's the greatest story of all to see young people who graduated from the Air Force Academy because of what we did in 1942," she said.
One of those young people was U.S. Air Force Maj. Nicole Malachowski, the first female Thunderbird pilot, who was among the guest speakers at the reception.
Malachowski, who was one of the leaders of the movement to have the WASPs awarded a Congressional Gold Medal, said the WASPs' story "helped write my story."
As a child, she said, she wanted to be a fighter pilot, but few took her seriously. In 1986, her parents took her to the Smithsonian, where there "was a small display in a dusty back room" about the WASPs, and proof that she could achieve her own dreams.
As a Thunderbird performing in her third air show, Malachowski recalled how five WASPs elbowed their way to the front of the line to meet her and get her autograph.
"I made a beeline for them, and before I could get a word out of my mouth, they were thanking me for my service," she said. "Here are my heroes, and they're thanking me. They redefined what's possible for women who want to serve their country."


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Destruction is certain and Oklahomans will soon be on the way.
The Disaster Relief Team from the Oklahoma Baptist General Convention is packed up and ready to go.
Forty to 60 volunteers will head to the hardest hit areas of the northeast as soon as the storm surge settles.
The Southern Baptist Convention has trained 5,000 Oklahoma volunteers who are ready for the call to help.
State Director Sam Porter plans to head to New Jersey later this week as soon as relief workers will be allowed into the most damage areas.
Teams from Oklahoma will serve 10 to 14 days in the region.
"We don't receive any government help," Porter said. "We are a faith-based group going in and saying, 'Hey if we can make a difference in your life, that's what we're going to do no matter what it takes.'"
The Southern Baptist chainsaw crews will help in snow packed areas.
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Porter said working in the northeast is always exciting because communities aren't often expecting faith-based help.
"Some of them say they've never heard of us and I say we're actually the second largest denomination in the U.S. behind Roman Catholic. Believe me," Porter said with a laugh.
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Key4Women 2013 Forum Series Presents "Negotiation and Leadership: For Women in Business and Life"08:00 EDT Tuesday, March 12, 2013CLEVELAND, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Think improvisation has no place in the serious business of negotiation? Key4Women wants you to think again.Using improvisation to boost negotiation skills can make the difference between women getting what they want, and settling for what they get, said Aneta A. Kuzma, senior vice president, specialty programs and senior strategist for Key4Women, KeyBank's national program for women entrepreneurs, professionals and nonprofit leaders. "Whether we are talking compensation, company hierarchy or personal leadership opportunities, women walk away from the table with less than they have earned," Kuzma said. "This is such an important issue for women. That's why we are excited to present Karen Hough, CEO and founder of ImprovEdge LLC as the keynote speaker for the 2013 Key4Women Forum series. We believe Karen's insights on effective negotiation can help attendees make the most of their personal and professional potential." The forum series begins in May. In addition to leading ImprovEdge, Hough is a best-selling author whose career includes being a senior sales executive and a one-time performer at Second City, the nationally known improvisation troupe. She is also a KeyBank client and member of the Key4Women national advisory board. "Women pay a high price when they don't use effective negotiating skills to obtain what they want," Hough said.For example, she said, even though women outlive their male partners by 15 years, women's median retirement savings total $10,000 less than men's retirement savings. In business, women leave more than $500,000 on the table during the course of their careers. The average woman-owned business made 25 percent less revenue than its male-owned counterpart in the same industry, according to a 2010 report based on US Census data "It is clear women business owners have the ability to do more, given that women own more than over 30 percent of all US businesses. These are businesses that generate $1.2 trillion annually and employ more than 13 million people," Hough said. "My goal ? and the goal of Key4Women ? is to help women identify the strengths that will make them more effective negotiators and leaders."Using humor, audience participation and case studies, Hough will share the following: Three classic negotiation pitfalls that trip up women Four improvisation techniques that boost negotiation skills Three steps women can take to get the time and leverage they need to fulfill their personal and professional potential.The first 2013 Key4Women forum will be held May 11 in Salt Lake City. Additional forum dates and locations are Cleveland, May 16; Naples, Fla., May 23; Rochester, NY, June 6; Albany, NY, June 7; Denver, Sept. 24; Portland, Ore., Oct. 8; Anchorage, Alaska, Oct. 10; Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 10; Seattle, Oct. 15.; and Columbus, Ohio in November. Anyone interested in the forum can tune in for highlights at the #K4W hashtag on Twitter, which reaches more than 900,000 Twitter accounts, or join the conversation on LinkedIn and on Facebook."Karen offers a high-energy and entertaining demonstration how women can use improvisation to think on their feet more effectively, to manage risk with confidence and to attain their goals through negotiation," Kuzma said. About Key4WomenFounded in 2005, Key4Women is a national program that helps women entrepreneurs, professionals, nonprofit leaders and consumers to achieve their goals by providing access to capital, customized solutions, ongoing education and networking opportunities. Among the nation's largest financial services companies and a leading small business lender, Key provides financial services to thousands of women-owned businesses in 14 states and continuously exceeds lending goals focused on women-owned businesses. Visit Key4Women for more information. About KeyCorpKey traces its history back more than 160 years and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. One of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, Key has assets of approximately $89 billion as of Dec. 31, 2012. . Key (NYSE: KEY) provides deposit, lending, cash management and investment services to individuals, small and medium-sized business in 14 states under the name KeyBank National Association. 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What's the "green" driving some high-profile corporations to break with the country's largest business lobbyist over climate change? Hint: It's not the environmental kind.
Originally published on Forbes.com: 10.02.09
This is a precarious moment for supporters of a measure d approach to carbon emissions legislation. Last week, Nike ( NKE – news – people ) became the latest prominent U.S. company to break from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its fierce opposition to the cap-and-trade bill now languishing in the Senate. Nike resigned its seat on the board just a few days after Exelon ( EXC – news – people ) announced its intention to quit the Chamber altogether, painting the nation's largest business lobby as scientific obstructionists.
The Obama administration took the opportunity to open up a second front against cap-and-trade opponents. Concerned that Congress might not produce legislation before the December Copenhagen climate change summit, it announced that the Environmental Protection Agency will regulate greenhouse gas emissions with or without Congressional approval. That's another direct rebuke of the Chamber, which has been on the forefront of groups challenging the EPA's expanding regulatory authority over climate issues.
Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the EPA has the authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, by labeling them as a pollutant. Since all sides recognized that any EPA regulations would likely be complex and unwieldy, the administration had the EPA hold its fire as Congress debated comprehensive legislation. But that's stalled, and Obama's environmental team apparently has decided to raise the stakes.
Earlier this week, the president authorized the EPA to compel large power plants and industrial facilities–including 400 new facilities and thousands more coal plants and refineries undergoing renovation–to prove that they have the "best available" technology for reducing greenhouse gas emissions or face sizable fines or delays in licensing, with the rules taking effect as early as next year.
The New York Times characterized the announcement as a "cudgel to push lawmakers to reach agreement" on a cap-and-trade bill, but it's more like a tactical bomb threat. The administration appears to be trying to split the corporate community, which up until recently has remained somewhere between hostile and skeptical of the Democrats' climate change strategy, and the 1,400-page pork-filled bill, known as Waxman-Markey, that passed the House last summer.
The chamber has proved an easy target, in part because of its own blunders. Exelon's exit followed earlier departures by PG&E ( PCG – news – people ) and PNM Resources ( PNMPRA – news – people ). Two of the nation's largest companies, General Electric ( GE – news – people ) and Johnson & Johnson ( JNJ – news – people ), have made it clear they think the chamber is out of step on climate change, though they've retained their membership. Duke Energy ( DUK – news – people ), while also remaining in the Chamber, said in May that it would not renew its ties to the National Association of Manufacturers, another Waxman-Markey opponent.
These resignations have environmentalists and their supporters in Congress crowing. Jay Inslee, a House Democrat from Washington State and a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, says, "It's an earthquake." Ceres, a liberal-lobbying group that supports the bill, called it a "game-changer."
That's too soon to know.
Last week, when John Rowe, Exelon's CEO, slammed the Chamber's "stridency against carbon legislation," he was clearly casting his company as a green knight.
But as is often the case in such high-profile public policy spats, the story behind the story speaks more to opportunism. Environmentalists are trying to divide and conquer the business community by splitting it into two camps: self-proclaimed "progressive" green-minded companies, egged on by campaigning environmentalists, vs. greedy, Neanderthal defenders of the status quo.
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Andrew Wiggins told Kansas coach Bill Self that he wants to be traded from Cleveland to Minnesota because the No. 1 overall pick believes it will be better for his long-term future.
Wiggins joined his former coach as a guest instructor at Self's basketball camp in suburban Kansas City on Sunday. And while Wiggins declined to speak to the few reporters at Shawnee Mission West High School, Self said the rookie wants to carve out his own legacy in the NBA.
Earlier this week, The Associated Press and several other outlets reported a deal has been reached to send Wiggins, Anthony Bennett and a first-round pick to Minnesota for All-Star forward Kevin Love, who will join LeBron James and Kyrie Irving to form a new "Big 3" in Cleveland.
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The strong rains originating from La Niña that have recently affected Colombia caused disasters for crops and roads for many of ECLOF Colombia's clients. A special report from the Regional Committee for the Attention and Prevention of Disasters (CREPAD) revealed that in 2011 every 16 kilometers of road in Colombia contained an area damaged by rain.
This disaster, which has affected enormous stretches of croplands, cattle pastures, roads, settlements, and houses, was mainly due to the overflowing of the Chicamocha, Magdalena, and Suarez rivers, Lakes Fúquene and Sochagota, the cooling reservoirs of Termopaipa and Lake Tota in the areas of the Boyacá department such as Tota, Cuitiva and Aquitania. Indeed, it has created a real state of emergency. Moreover, the Colombian Weather Service informed the population that even if La Niña has now become weaker, the rains will continue to cripple the country until the end of June.
The strong rains have direly affected the Villa de Leyva Region, in Boyacá, where one of ECLOF Colombia's clients, José Vicente Aguasaco Sierra, lives. His tomato and onion crops have been entirely and irremediably flooded. Because of this disaster, Don Vicente's economic situation was severely affected. In particular, it became impossible for him to pay his credit installments to ECLOF Colombia. Don Vicente works on six hectares of rented land; and now, burdened with these additional, unexpected difficulties, he was greatly challenged to find a way to get back on his feet.
While faced with such problems, Don Vincente was particularly grateful for ECLOF Colombia's understanding and support. "ECLOF's management listened to me, regarding this unforeseen climate change. I sent a letter explaining my situation and they helped me out by granting me four months without my having to pay installments, so that I can overcome this emergency." And Don Vincente is actively working to avoid falling into a similar situation in the future. Indeed, he told us "I already have six lanes of a green house, 20 tomato plants sown, and 10,000 pounds of onions to plant. I've learned my lesson though. I'm planting away from the river…I'm not going to put my crops at risk when another rainy season comes. I only hope now to harvest my crops and repay my debt."
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Monthly Archive for January, 2010
Are Christians Persecuted?
I received a mass email last week alerting me to the increased persecution of Christians for their faith. Although I didn't recognize the sender, I opened the email anyway thinking I would find news and updates on the struggles many Christians currently have in parts of larger Asia and Africa. Instead, I found an unsubstantiated, […] [Read More]
Boycott Houston? Umm…Good Luck With That
Reverend David Grisham in Amarillo, Texas has launched an initiative to boycott Houston because its citizens have voted a lesbian mayor into office and allowed the largest Planned Parenthood facility to be built in the city. Grisham says both these things are an abomination in the sight of God, and that those "seeking to preserve […] [Read More]
A Pact with the Devil? Probably Not.
Evangelist Pat Robertson continued his work in "disaster analysis" this week by explaining to his television audience that the earthquake in Haiti came because of a "pact to the devil" the nation swore at its founding in the 18th century. Sadly, Robertson's explanation of the Haitian suffering is routine for him, having offered "explanations" in […] [Read More]
God, Gays & Evangelicals
I was struck this week by the image of Lakewood Church Senior Pastor Joel Osteen praying for the success of Houston's new mayor. Lakewood, the largest Christian church in North America, is a socially conservative, broadly evangelical faith community. Mayor Annise Parker is a lesbian. Yet, there he was, his brow furrowed in what is […] [Read More]


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New Chancellor of Oklahoma Higher Education To Visit RSU
Paul Risser, Chancellor of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education, will visit Rogers State University on Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 29-30.
During his visit, the chancellor will meet with RSU President Joe Wiley, tour the Claremore campus, meet with faculty and participate in a question-and-answer session with RSU students.
"We are very pleased to welcome the new chancellor to Oklahoma and show him why RSU is the state's fastest-growing university," Wiley said.
Before assuming the role of chancellor in November, Risser served as president of Oregon State University in Corvallis, where he led the university to record enrollments and impressive growth over the last seven years.
He previously was president of Miami University in Ohio and also has held the positions of vice president for research, provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of New Mexico, and chief of the Illinois Natural History Survey.
Risser is a native Oklahoman born in Blackwell, where both he and his twin brother attended school. Risser played high school basketball, participated in track and was selected as outstanding senior man. His mother taught school and grew up in Billings, Okla., where the family still owns a farm. His father operated a farm in Blackwell, and his grandfather was a doctor and owned the hospital in Blackwell. His mother still lives in Tulsa and one of his sons lives in Norman.
Risser has an academic background in Oklahoma where he served as a faculty member from 1967-81 at the University of Oklahoma. Risser joined the OU faculty as assistant professor of botany, and 10 years later was promoted to full professor and chair of OU's Department of Botany and Microbiology.
Risser holds a bachelor's degree from Grinnell College, Iowa, a master's degree in botany and a doctor of philosophy in botany and soils from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He serves as program director of ecosystem studies for the National Science Foundation and has served as president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (1991-1992) and president of the Ecological Society of America (1984-85).
He is married to Les Risser, who holds a bachelor's degree from Miami University. Mrs. Risser will accompany the chancellor on his visit to RSU. She is a former English teacher and served as coordinator of university events at Miami University.


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You parents with young children: There's no reason to get bent out of shape about the college-affordability crisis. Nor is there any rationale for President Barack Obama to butt in. The free market already is addressing the problem of soaring tuition costs, primarily via the Internet. Just as the 'Net profoundly changed the business dynamics of the newspaper industry, the retail industry, and countless other industries, it is rapidly altering higher education, bending the cost curve downward. Obama wants the government to create a cost-benefit analysis of colleges and universities, which would take years of bureaucratic head-scratching, if it ever happens at all.
The average new college grad holds $26,500 in student-loan debt versus about $15,000 in 2004. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, this is the only form of consumer obligation that has grown since consumer debt peaked in 2008. "Balances of student loans," it says, "have eclipsed both auto loans and credit cards, making student-loan debt the largest form of consumer debt outside of mortgages." Outstanding debt is close to $1 trillion, versus $350 billion in 2004.
Enter Internet entrepreneurs. At the University of Maryland University College, which offers online undergraduate programs, a four-year degree costs $30,000 for in-state residents and $60,000 for out-of-staters. That's a steal, compared with most not-for-profit four-year colleges and universities where costs easily can exceed $100,000. Currently, total enrollment is 95,000 students. Last week, Georgia Tech, along with Udacity and AT&T T -0.1724137931034483% AT&T Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD34.74 -0.06 -0.1724137931034483% /Date(1438376509427-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 29136578 AFTER HOURS USD34.7 -0.04 -0.11514104778353483% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 744360 P/E Ratio 34.74 Market Cap 213565619127.039 Dividend Yield 5.411629245826137% Rev. per Employee 525640 More quote details and news » (ticker: T), announced creation of an online master's degree program at the bargain-basement price of $6,600.
Despite abuses that Barron's has chronicled over the years—including the recruitment of unqualified students by some publicly traded Internet schools merely to boost revenue and profits—online education is booming. According to the U.S. Department of Education, from 1999-00, 8% of undergrads were enrolled in a "distance" course. That doubled to 16% in 2003-04 and hit 20% in 2007-08. The number of Internet users worldwide rose from 248 million to 1.8 billion during this period. The Department of Education will update the data this year; presumably, the percentages will be higher.
STILL TOO MUCH for your pocketbook? Some of the finest courses in the world—from top-tier schools like MIT and Stanford—already are available at no cost via Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. When Stanford made a MOOC of one of its prestigious artificial-intelligence courses in 2011, 160,000 students from 190 countries signed up. About 23,000—or 14%—of them completed it, and 248 aced it. (None were from Stanford.)
What about that indispensable sheepskin? The end is nigh for credentialism. Udacity, one of several Websites serving as a portal to free college courses, identifies the smartest pupils and tells headhunters. Says a spokesman: "We have about 350 companies who have signed up to receive résumés and profiles of our top students, including Addepar, Appdirect, AT&T, Autodesk ADSK -0.039525691699604744% Autodesk Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD50.58 -0.02 -0.039525691699604744% /Date(1438376400147-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1649590 AFTER HOURS USD50.58 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 22369 P/E Ratio 144.5142857142857 Market Cap 11514638212.5586 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 289244 More quote details and news » (ADSK), Cadence, Game Closure, Google (GOOG), Nvidia NVDA -0.34965034965034963% NVIDIA Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD19.95 -0.07 -0.34965034965034963% /Date(1438376400031-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5404034 AFTER HOURS USD19.95 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 55177 P/E Ratio 17.8125 Market Cap 10733100410.4614 Dividend Yield 1.9548872180451127% Rev. per Employee 512540 More quote details and news » (NVDA), and Trialpay. Some of these partners have developed courses directly with us, as well. We have placed about 25 students with partner employers. The number of people who have reported using our credentials and found work because of a Udacity course is in the hundreds."
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By Pat Hatfield and Barb Shepherd
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After learning it will cost more than they thought to put up an air traffic control tower on the DeLand Municipal Airport, city commissioners have nixed the project.
After less than an hour of discussion at a special meeting that began at 6 p.m. today, May 26, at City Hall, the City Commission voted unanimously to postpone the project for the near future.
Fear that the tower would eat up all city monies targeted for airport improvements — and then some — spurred the vote.
City Manager Michael Pleus pointed out the city would need to borrow $350,000 to obtain a grant for construction of the control tower from the Florida Department of Transportation. A site behind the Airport Restaurant & Gin Mill had been selected for the tower.
"I can't see coming to you with the recommendation to fund the money," Pleus said.
Neither could City Engineer Keith Riger.
The best-guess estimate for the cost of the tower was $1.76 million. Operating and maintenance costs would be added to that.
The decision not to build a tower to regulate traffic on the airport comes as a relief to DeLand's skydiving industry.
Industry representatives have told the DeLand City Commission repeatedly that a tower could cripple their businesses, by slowing takeoffs and landings at the airport.
The city will revisit the tower topic in two to four years, Pleus said, after another review of the airport master plan. Whether state grant money will be available then to help fuel the project is not known.
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One other thing...a tower at DeLand will not attract commercial flights. What it will attract is more corporate jet traffic, which the FBO and the airport needs. Companies which write insurance policies on business class jets typically require two major airfied conditions to be met. One, a runway at least 5,000 feet long. And two, a control tower. As long as the airport can't meet requirement number two, corporate business at DeLand will never increase. And corporate jet business is the largest growing segment of the aviation industry right now.
Finally, some sanity. This whole issue has been about city planners having "tower envy", as if a tower would make Deland more like a big city.
Yum: The airport area is booming with skydive business. You have it backwards. A tower would not create business because it is built. Just look at New Smyrna Beach. They made the mistake we almost did. Is that now a booming hub? Only for flight trainers, who don't stop there, don't fuel up there, don't do business there, beyond the occasional burger for lunch. Driving past that airport calls for a dose of nodoze.
As for adapting, you are right, skydivers would adapt. By moving their operations to a more favorable airport. The manufacturing operations might even move out of state. Luckily we won't have to find out.
Treal: The pilots control themselves. Much like we all do when we are driving our cars. We know the rules of the road, and get along pretty well. We can even get thru a 4-way stop on our own. A tower at the airport would make about as much sense as replacing every stop sign in Deland with a live traffic cop.
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DODGE CITY — This weekend, the Dodge City Community College Cheerleaders participated in a two-day National Cheer Association cheerleading camp. Their hard work and determination paid off as at the end of the camp, they were handed a bid (invitation) to the National Cheer Championships in Daytona, Fla., April 11-14, 2012. The cheer and yell leaders used their own funds to bring the camp to Dodge City.
The NCA competition is an elite competition. More than 1,000 teams will attempt to earn bids, but the competition will only offer about 60 invitations to college teams.
Head coach Valerie Cunningham said, "I am extremely proud of them, I have a very dedicated squad, and this bid is just confirmation of their hard work."
This is only Valerie's second year as head coach of the Conq cheer squad, and the program has really flourished. This is the first time in Dodge City Community College history that the cheerleaders have been to nationals. This year, Cunningham also has the help of assistant coach Angel Navaro.
"Our squad will compete against D1 and D2 schools," said Navaro. "I am excited for the squad to be seen by recruiters from major colleges. The day after the competition is something they refer to as 'stunt fest,' and the cheer and yell leaders can use this to showcase their talents for the recruiters and get their name out there."
Squad member Caitlin Nelson said she was excited to go to nationals.
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Tyler Royle, yell leader, said, "I am looking forward to being around all the other talented squads. They are inspiring and drive you even further."
Being college students who will head to Daytona during spring time, Royle added, "I am also excited because it's Daytona!"
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The DC3 cheer squad consists of 10 women and five men. They practice four to six days a week and anywhere from one to four hours a day. They will be given some help financially by the college, but the majority will have to be raised.
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App.net adds free, invite-only limited account tier
app.net (ADN) has just announced a new, free account tier. It's by invite only, so if you want in you'll have to hit up an existing, paid friend with an account. It's also limited, in that you can't engage with as many people or host as much data as a paid account. What it is is a way to sample one of the most interesting cloud services to date. Dalton Caldwell dropped the F-as-in-free-bomb on the ADN blog:
As of today, App.net is a freemium service
Although App.net has had only paid account tiers thus far, we initially conceived of App.net as a freemium service. It took some time to get to this point, but we are now ready to make this vision a reality.
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- Free accounts can upload a file with a maximum size of 10 MB (100 MB for paid accounts)
This is what I like best about ADN. Their fearlessness in trying new, even sometimes outlandish-sounding things. From launching a paid micro-blogging service to adding a powerful messaging system to offering online storage, they're seeking not to mimic an existing business, but become something more -- a personal, one-stop cloud platform. That ambition really is audacious to say the least, but the future is willed into existence.
I don't know what or how much difference the new free accounts will make, or if they've nailed the right balance for them, but I like that they're trying.
And in an age of media and advertising owned social, I think it's not only important, but laudable that they are.
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Dr. Kristy Murray, a professor of tropical medicine at Baylor and the study's principal investigator, says her team found that 47 of 3,768 individuals tested in Houston for West Nile virus from 2003 to 2005 were positive for antibodies to acute dengue infection. The study found two of the 47 died from the infection.
Murray says the cases suggest there was a dengue outbreak in 2003.
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According to Bloomberg, Lee Young Hee, Samsung's executive VP of mobile business, stated in an interview that they've been working on a smartwatch for a long time. This is clearly a war tactic, if Apple releases the iWatch, Samsung will also release one and try to compete with it. My bet is that Samsung's watch will look similar to the iWatch and they will argue that it's a universal shape. Just like the Galaxy S and the Galaxy Tab and various other products that Samsung has copied from Apple.
We've been preparing the watch product for so long. We are working very hard to get ready for it. We are preparing products for the future, and the watch is definitely one of them. The issue here is who will first commercialize it so consumers can use it meaningfully.
When asked more about the smartwatch, the spokesperson declined to comment. Samsung could introduce a watch running Android, or its Tizen OS, and price it less than Apple's iWatch to get more customers. Sources familiar with the iWatch have stated that it will be released this year. Along with basic dialing and messaging features, the iWatch will come with a full version of iOS and include a pedometer and a heart-rate sensor.
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Here's a scene I wrote. It's a film that Rocky makes to show Lulu what his childhood was like...
ROCKY (Voice Over) :
"When I was seven years old I used to live in an island in the middle of the ocean."
A little man in a sailor suit stands alone in an island in the middle of the ocean. It's a little sailor Playmobile standing inside a flower pot with a giant single tulip right behind him. The flower pot is the island and the ocean surrounding it is made out of shiny blue plastic.
"The only other other human available to play with was a boy two years older than I."
Two little sailor Playmobiles sitting on the edge of the flower pot staring into the sea.
"Syd was my older brother therefore he was the fastest, the funniest and cleverest."
The two little sailors run around in the island chasing each other. The movements are those of a homemade stop-frame animation.
"Little did we know that we were being watched from above and something big was about to happen. Something that would change the course of our lives."
A bright light points down at the two little sailors. It's a flying saucer and our two little heroes are both sucked into the light, going up and disappearing. The flying saucer flies away into the sky...
"Yes my friends. We were abducted by aliens. But let me show you what these creature looked like."
The group of EURO-TECHNO-FREAKS posing for the camera. A colourful dozen men and women in their 20s and 30s, some of them fully naked. A lesbian couple with bright blue hair. An albino with dreadlocks. A naked Japanese girl with wings. A naked couple (ROCKY's PARENTS) and the two naked boys playing with sand. The older boy looking at the camera.
"My brother Syd told me that Juliette, Jago and a Japanese girl that everyone called Jap all came from the same planet and in their planet everyone's name's started with J"
A picture of the universe. Stars and planets. Jupiter. The letter J highlighted in a fluorescent colour.
"For quite a long period of time I was convinced that Syd was right we've been abducted by aliens from planet J. And now we were surrounded by them."
Pictures of parties at the beach. Ibiza in the early 90s. Our two little sailor Playmobiles appear in every picture, surrounded by the party monsters, staring out at us as if asking for help.
"Eventually we befriended the aliens and managed to survive all the summers that we've been abducted after that. We got used to them and after a while we couldn't tell the difference between aliens and humans between planet earth and outer space. And that's the end of the story."
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My Purdue alumni friend took me (and my ripped pants) on a whirlwind tour of Delhi two weekends ago. We visited Qutub Minar, Humayun's Tomb, India Gate, and Red Fort. In the process, I had the opportunity to view old and new Delhi. The differences were quite striking- from upscale American-style shopping malls, to open markets with vendors hawking their wares, from a streamlined metro to bicycle auto-rickshaws, from McDonald's to back-alley food stalls- Delhi is certainly still negotiating the line between old and new, rich and poor. I enjoyed my time, although it was quite exhausting. If you decide to take in the sites yourself, I would not recommend the audio tour as it is akin to a theatrical production and not very informative. In addition, I would give yourself sufficient time to admire the craftsmanship and architecture of the many World Heritage sites in and around Delhi. Each site charges 250 rupees for admittance, or about $5.
Qutub Minar
"Qutab Minar is a soaring, 73 m-high tower of victory, built in 1193 by Qutab-ud-din Aibak immediately after the defeat of Delhi's last Hindu kingdom. The tower has five distinct stories, each marked by a projecting balcony and tapers from a 15 m diameter at the base to just 2.5 m at the top. The first three stories are made of red sandstone; the fourth and fifth stories are of marble and sandstone. At the foot of the tower is the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, the first mosque to be built in India. An inscription over its eastern gate provocatively informs that it was built with material obtained from demolishing '27 Hindu temples'. A 7 m-high iron pillar stands in the courtyard of the mosque. It is said that if you can encircle it with your hands while standing with your back to it your wish will be fulfilled."
The iron pillar was blocked off when I was there. I was, however, told a story of local University students committing suicide by leaping from the top after failing their exams. Apparently the suicides, along with stampeding deaths, led to the closure of the stairs leading up the monument.
Despite its tragic history, the monument was quite beautiful. I took the picture above while laying on the ground at the base of the Minar. My hosts assured me that they were not embarrassed.
Humayun's Tomb
"Located near the crossing of Mathura road and Lodhi road, this magnificent garden tomb is the first substantial example of Mughal architecture in India. It was built in 1565 A.D. nine years after the death of Humayun, by his senior widow Bega Begam. Inside the walled enclosure the most notable features are the garden squares (chaharbagh) with pathways water channels, centrally located well proportional mausoleum topped by double dome."
This is one gem we almost missed. Upon entering the site we had went to see the tomb pictured on the right. This particular tomb, while still impressive, was quite small and only took us a few minutes to walk through (be sure to remove your shoes before entering and do not take pictures of the tomb itself). As we were about to leave, one of the party wanted to see what was on the other side of a sloping wall. I agreed to accompany him. Upon walking through the gateway and a short way down the lane, we came across the magnificent building above. If not for his youthful curiosity, I might have missed it. Be sure to thoroughly explore an area before leaving!
India Gate
"At the center of New Delhi stands the 42 m high India Gate, an "Arc-de-Triomphe" like archway in the middle of a crossroad. Almost similar to its French counterpart, it commemorates the 70,000 Indian soldiers who lost their lives fighting for the British Army during the World War I. The memorial bears the names of more than 13,516 British and Indian soldiers killed in the Northwestern Frontier in the Afghan war of 1919."
This was as close as we got to India gate. The road leading under the gate was closed that day for an unspecified reason. I was also immediately mobbed by four little girls who wanted to sell me alphabet letter bracelets. They each held out a small notebook for me to write down a name and told me 10 rupees, or 20 cents. Not wanting to disappoint, I gave each of them a different name (which I will not reveal here- it will ruin the surprise for the recipients!). They worked quickly, confirmed the spelling, made any necessary corrections, finished the bracelet and showed me how to tie it in about 2-3 minutes. Suddenly, however, the price went up- now it was 10 rupees per letter. Okay. Fine. Then it was 100 rupees ($2) per letter. That is when my gracious host stepped in and told them they would be paid 10 rupees per letter. The girls accepted the money and went off to ply their wares elsewhere. I am still unsure what I ought to have done in such a situation. My host pointed out that it was child-labor and they clearly had "handlers" nearby- I saw them monitoring the interaction closely- but what about the girls themselves? It is a difficult question for me.
Red Fort
"The Red sandstone walls of the massive Red Fort (Lal Qila) rise 33-m above the clamour of Old Delhi as a reminder of the magnificent power and pomp of the Mughal emperors. The walls, built in 1638, were designed to keep out invaders, now they mainly keep out the noise and confusion of the city. The main gate, Lahore Gate, is one of the emotional and symbolic focal points of the modern Indian nation and attracts a major crowd on each Independence Day."
By the time we reached Red Fort, we were exhausted. The picture above was the extent of my sightseeing there. It reminded me of the line from the recently released movie "The Guilt Trip" with Barbara Streisand and Seth Rogan. Upon arriving at the Grand Canyon, Streisand (who plays Rogan's mother) asks, "How long do we have to look at it?" to which Rogan replies, "At least 10 minutes, any less than that seems disrespectful." If I have time, I might return to Red Fort on India's independence day, August 15, to enjoy the full effect. As it was, my feet hurt, I was dripping sweat, and it was well past lunchtime. Delhi in a whirlwind indeed!


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The Detroit Bureau reports a surprising find from a new study into fuel economy.
The rate at which your fuel economy drops as you increase your speed is generally across the board similar for all makes and models of vehicles, including hybrids.
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee found increasing from 50 to 60 miles per hour will cut fuel economy about 12-percent.
It will drop about 14-percent as you go from 60 to 70 miles per hour and increasing to 80 will decrease fuel economy by 16-percent.