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June 1, 2016
The Mississippi Republican Party says at least two GOP presidential candidates plan to appear in the state before the March 13 primary.
Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania is scheduled to appear Wednesday at campaign rallies in Tupelo and in Jackson. On Sunday, he will appear at a rally in Meridian at Weidmann's, and also a rally in Gulfport.
Tuesday, the Mississippi GOP listed a more specific agenda for Santorum:
March 7
Tupelo- Rally at Hawkeye Sheet Metal, 4:30 p.m.
Jackson- Rally at the Ag Museum, 7 p.m.
March 11
Meridian- Rally at Weidmann's Restaurant, 12:30 p.m.
Gulfport- Rally at Lookout Steakhouse, 7:30 p.m.
March 12
Biloxi- The Gulf Coast Energy Summit, 10 a.m.
Former U.S. Rep. Newt Gingrich of Georgia is scheduled to appear Thursday in Jackson, Tupelo and Southaven. He's also doing a $250-per-person fundraiser that day at a Jackson restaurant.
On March 12, Gingrich and Santorum are set to appear at the Gulf Coast Energy Summit in Biloxi.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will decide later whether to make appearances in Mississippi. That's according to Austin Barbour of Jackson, one of his national finance chairmen.
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REGIONALREPORT Charlotte
Get the heck out of that bank.
Democratic Sen. Dick Durbins advice to Bank of America customers Oct. 3 after it announces it will institute a $5 monthly debit-card fee. Reason: the Durbin Amendment (named for you-know-who) to the Dodd-Frank Act, which limits swipe fees what banks charge merchants for debit-card transactions and will diminish the nearly $16 billion a year Charlotte-based BofA and others get from them. He makes his comment on the Senate floor.
I have an inherent duty as a CEO of a publicly owned company to get a return for my shareholders.
BofA CEO Brian Moynihan Oct. 5
You dont have some inherent right just to get a certain amount of profit if your customers are being mistreated.
President Barack Obama Oct. 3
I, like you, get a little incensed when you think about how much good you all do.
Moynihan to BofA employees during a global town hall Oct. 18, expressing his frustration with the banks negative image in light of its community service.You ought to think a little about that, he tells critics, before you start yelling at us.
Never mind
David Darnell, co-chief operating officer, announces Nov. 1 that BofA is canceling the fee. We have listened to our customers very closely over the last few weeks and recognize their concern with our proposed debit-usage fee.
What it tells me is that Bank of America is not in a position to lead, and it didnt lead here.
Gary Townsend, co-founder of Maryland-based Hill-Townsend Capital LLC, which invests in banks, Nov. 2
Fee-Market Capitalism: Bank of America learns it has to be more subtle about screwing its customers.
Slate online magazine Nov. 2
Sources: The Wall Street Journal, ABC News, The Charlotte Observer, CNN, CNBC
$180 million
Price a New York private-equity firm agreed to pay Charlotte-based Ruddick Corp. for its subsidiary, American & Efird Inc. Ruddick says the Mount Holly-based thread and yarn maker no longer fits strategically with its Matthews-based Harris Teeter Inc. supermarket chain, which generated 93% of its sales last year.
McColl-Richardson Field
Name of UNC Charlottes future football field after Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson and former Bank of America Corp. CEO Hugh McColl made a joint, undisclosed donation to the school. The 49ers begin play in 2013; the $40 million stadium naming rights still available will be completed next year.
$24 million
Penalties and restitution a federal judge ordered Charlotteans Sidney and Charlotte Hanson to pay for defrauding investors in a Ponzi scheme. From 2006 to 2009, the couple solicited $22 million. Some of it, purportedly invested in foreign currency, went for personal use, including an 88-acre farm. He was sentenced to 22 years; she faces no criminal charges.
GASTONIACTL Packaging USA will open a factory here by mid-September, employing about 130 during the next four years to make plastic packaging for cosmetics, food and drug companies. The jobs will pay an estimated $42,500, about $9,000 more than Gaston Countys average.
CHARLOTTE The Electric Power Research Institute, which conducts independent research in the industry, is expanding its local campus. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based nonprofit purchased 108,000 square feet of office and laboratory space next to its existing research center, where it employs about 200. The institute will add an unspecified number of workers during the next five years.
CHARLOTTE McLean, Va.-based Booz Allen Hamilton, which provides management and technology consulting services, will double its local workforce to 40 by year-end and to 80 by 2015. The average annual salary will range from $80,000 to $150,000.
MORRESVILLE Hardware retailer Lowes closed 20 underperforming stores in 15 states, trimming 1,950 jobs. It will open about half of the 30 stores it expected to open in 2012.
MATTHEWS Hanover, Md.-based Structural Preservation Systems plans to close its local office, idling about 125 construction workers. A company spokesperson said layoffs will begin in November and be completed by 2012.
CHARLOTTE The Duke Endowment gave $35 million to Johnson C. Smith University. About $25 million will go toward the construction of a center for its science, technology, engineering and mathematics program. About $5.5 million will help renovate a residence hall, and the rest will fund scholarships.
MOORESVILLE ISI Alarms, which installs and monitors security and fire alarms, will complete its move here from Concord this month. It will add 40 employees, increasing its workforce to 100, and expand to 150 within two years.

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This week�s story about Mayor Bettis allegedly assaulting his wife is an opportune time to remind readers that all forms of abuse are about power. Classic behaviors of an abuser include an uncontrollable temper, violence and threats of violence if the victim resists the desires of the abuser, and increased violence with the passing of time.
Those primed to become abusive are demanding and unwilling to listen to alternative perspectives, accuse the abused of "not supporting them" when they express an opinion not held by the abuser, and slowly isolate the victim socially and financially to prevent escape.
As a formerly abused spouse (many years ago), I do not agree with Mrs. Bettis' decision to not prosecute. The mayor clearly needs anger management counseling and efforts to get to the source of his rage and dismantle it from harming others. Court mandated attendance for counseling is one sure way of holding an abuser accountable.
Regrettably, most victims who die at the hands of their abusers do so at the time they attempt to leave and restraining orders are woefully inadequate to protect victims of violence. Victims are strongly encouraged to seek professional advice to develop a well thought-out plan.
Unlike the early �70s, victims today have a support system. No matter the circumstances, there are many of us who have walked this path previously and can help victims strategize a safe way out. The national hotline is 888-7HELPLINE. For the office in Craven County, contact the NC Coalition Against Domestic Violence at 638-4509 and the Crisis line at 638-5995.
Vana Prewitt, New Bern
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Compensation in 2012 Will Be Looking Very Familiar
Average base-salary increases will be in the 3 percent range in 2012, like in 2011, analysts say.
American workers hoping for a decent raise after three years of meager wage hikes don't have much to look forward to for at least another year.
Average base salary increases appear to be stuck in the 3 percent range through 2012, according to several surveys of compensation practices at U.S. companies. That level of pay increase is in line with 2011 average raises but below the 4 percent standard before the recession undercut wage hikes in 2009.
"We were thinking that as the recovery came, some organizations would start doing catch-up, with 4 percent, 5 percent or even 6 percent increases. That clearly has not happened," says Kerry Chou, senior compensation practice leader in Scottsdale, Arizona, for WorldatWork, a not-for-profit organization that focuses on human resources issues. What's worse, inflation has started creeping up, eroding even the modest increases being doled out by U.S. companies. WorldatWork noted that for the 12-month period ending in April 2011, inflation rose faster than base pay for the first time since 1980.
Ken Abosch, compensation group leader for HR consultant Aon Hewitt, says there is no indication that base pay rates will start to catch up any time soon, particularly with the unsettled global economic picture. "If there is any good news for employees, it is not going to be on the base salary increase side of the equation," Abosch says. "But it could come in the form of a bonus opportunity."
Abosch says that despite the low level of base pay increases, the extra compensation that workers can earn from bonuses, merit awards and other variable compensation programs could still be substantial. But those increases are typically performance-based, with a select few employees seeing the biggest rewards.
One bright spot for workers is contained in a salary survey released in October by staffing specialist Robert Half International, which said that starting salaries should rise an average 3.4 percent in 2012, led by technology positions, which were projected to see a 4.5 percent jump in starting pay.
Extra incentives have become increasingly important in this era of low base-pay increases as companies seek creative methods to encourage high performance and deter defections to other companies. Those incentives cover a broad range of options, including merit pay for workers deemed top performers, profit-based schemes that tie bonus pay to a company's overall financial performance, and various types of rewards or incentives that range from help with college expenses to one-time freebies such as tickets to sporting events.
While consultants seem to agree that companies are continuing to make extensive use of variable pay schemes and reward programs, they differ on how fast those methods are growing and which ones companies deem most effective. That difference is reflected in how individual companies are addressing the compensation issue.
One place where diverse approaches are evident is Minnesota. Two large employers have taken dramatically different strategies toward compensation.
General Mills Inc. in Minneapolis has put just about every worker on a variable pay plan in which raises are tied to performance measures. As a result, pay increases can vary widely from employee to employee.
But the nearby Mayo Clinic in Rochester, it uses no variable pay system at all, instead opting to give uniform raises to every employee based on industry standards. Mayo sets its annual raises above the norm, then announces the percentage increases for job categories to the entire workforce. There are no variables and no secrets in terms of individual compensation increases.
To hear the two employers tell it, there seems to be little difference in effect. Both say their systems create loyal, productive employees and improve overall company performance. General Mills argues that the performance-based incentives drive productivity. Mayo says its standard scale for pay increases provides clarity and avoids the distraction of endless evaluations and monitoring that come with merit systems.
At General Mills, the central corporate campus in Minneapolis includes 3,000 workers, with another 2,500 in the area. The company employs 35,000 worldwide, about half of them in the U.S. The packaged foods giant tries to set its compensation level above industry standards, but uses a system of merit and bonus pay tied to performance that adjusts each worker's actual pay. Part of that system is based on corporate performance: If the company does well, workers can get paid more.
"Every single employee in our company has a variable element to their pay," says Mike Davis, senior vice president of global human resources. "We provide very good compensation and the ability to make a lot more for high performance. We think it makes a difference." Mayo, on the other hand, believes that such merit and bonus systems can create an unnecessary distraction that sows mistrust and erodes morale. They can also be a drain on supervisors, who often dread the task of computing raises and then telling workers individually how much each will receive. During a period of lower overall compensation increases, those variable pay schemes can mean very minor differences from worker to worker—sometimes just pennies an hour for lower-paid employees—but they still require the extensive work of evaluating performance and determining raises.
"It is a difficult job to try to make those tough decisions about pay," says Karmen Reid, director of compensation at the Mayo. "We at Mayo are a real team environment. Most of our managers say it would adversely affect the team environment if they had to deal with a merit pay system."
Reid says she has heard from some colleagues in other organizations who also have begun questioning the use of merit systems. But consultants say the overall trend seems to point toward more use of variable pay rather than less.
Tom McMullen, reward practice group leader at the Hay Group consultancy in Chicago, says variable pay systems, particularly those based on a corporation's overall performance, have continued to spread. "Back in the late '80s, the only people eligible for incentives were executives and midmanagement," he says. "We have seen the threshold of participation in annual incentive plans pushed lower and lower into organizations. Now a majority of lower-level folks are being included in those programs."
The design of annual performance incentives has changed somewhat, influenced by the recession, McMullen says. Prior to the recession, many of these programs based rewards on revenue and volume growth. The emphasis began to shift in 2009 and 2010 to profits, with new hurdles that limit or eliminate payouts unless certain profit targets are met. At the same time, companies are fine-tuning performance measures to focus more on rewards for key functions like customer service.
Karen Vujtech, managing director at Total Rewards Consulting in Schaumburg, Illinois, says one big difference these days is that corporate management is being more rigorous about enforcing variable pay schemes. One effect is to widen the gap between high and average performers.
"Although many organizations have talked about it for a long time, the reality is that companies are making tougher decisions now about who is going to get that 3 percent, and it may not be every employee," Vujtech says.
Still, the prospect of even a substandard increase would be an improvement for many workers, particularly at companies that struggled the most during the recession. Aon Hewitt's Abosch says more than 20 percent of companies that his firm surveys reduced compensation in 2009 during the depth of the recession. The effects lingered in 2010, when 13 percent froze pay. About 4 percent planned to freeze pay in 2011, while only 2 percent said they planned freezes in 2012.
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - East Carolina came up just short of No. 22 North Carolina Tuesday as the Tar Heels edged the Pirates 65-61 at the Myrtle Beach Convocation Center in the final game of the Carolinas Challenge. ECU falls to 6-4 overall while UNC improves to 8-2.
Four East Carolina players netted double figures in the contest, led by Chareya Smith's 14 points. Shala Hodges, Tatiana Chapple and Celeste Stewart also put in 12, 11 and 10 respectively. Chapple was the top rebounder for ECU, pulling down seven while Stewart, Katie Paschal and Bryelle Smith recorded three assists each. Chay Shegog was the offensive force for North Carolina, powering her way to 19 points.
The Pirates put up 64 shots, converting 23 of them for a 39-percent mark while the Tar Heels used their height advantage down low to shoot 45 percent. Nonetheless, East Carolina played UNC pretty evenly on the boards, giving up 41 rebounds but securing 38 of its own - including pulling down 14 offensive boards as compared to 13 for North Carolina. ECU also committed just 14 turnovers while picking up eight steals and forcing 17 Tar Heel miscues.
North Carolina was whistled for just 12 fouls in the contest as East Carolina was called for 24, leading to a 27-7 margin in free throw attempts for the Tar Heels.
After She'la White hit a jumper to open the scoring, Chareya Smith dropped in a running layup to make the score 13-8 in favor of the Pirates at the 12:53 mark. UNC would respond with a 13-5 run over the next four minutes as Brittany Rountree converted on two free throw attempts to put the Tar Heels in front by a 21-18 score.
The teams played nip and tuck basketball down the stretch of the half as Krista Gross hit a jumper in the paint to tie the score at 27 with just over four minutes left on the clock. ECU would score eight of the final 13 points as Bryelle Smith drove to the left side and hit a fall-away three at the buzzer to afford East Carolina a 35-32 halftime advantage.
Both squads shot in the mid-forty percent range from the field in the first 20 minutes while also ending up even on the glass at 19 rebounds apiece and virtually deadlocked in the turnover column with UNC committing 10 as compared to nine for the Pirates. Tatiana Chapple led ECU with eight points in the period while Chay Shegog poured in 10 for the Tar Heels.
The Pirates kept their lead during the first four minutes of the second half, assuming a 42-40 lead when Hodges hit a three. However, North Carolina pulled back in front and would stay there at the timeout with 7:44 left in the contest, taking a 51-47 lead on a Shegog layup. Shegog then put UNC in front by six at the 5:35 mark when she put in a bucket in the paint to make the score 57-51.
ECU did not go away, as Stewart put in a layup to pull the Pirates to within 57-56 as the clock wound down to 2:57. East Carolina came up with a defensive stop with 46 seconds left and trailing by one, but Krista Gross snuck into the lane and put an offensive rebound back in to give her team a 61-58 cushion. ECU could not quite catch up as the Tar Heels were able to escape.
The Pirates return to action Dec. 28 when they travel to College Park, Md., for the Terrapin Classic. East Carolina will face No. 20 Delaware at 2:30 p.m. at the Comcast Center before facing either No. 5 Maryland or Lafayette the next day.


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Roundup: MSAC soccer pairings announced
The Mountain State Athletic Conference soccer championships will be held Saturday at the Trace Fork Soccer Complex.
The girls game between Princeton and George Washington will kick off at noon, while the boys game between Hurricane and Winfield will get underway afterward.
Place-winner games will be held over the next two weeks at the higher seed's field.
For complete pairings, see page 2B.
MU SPORTS: Tine Schryvers scored three goals as host Memphis pounded the Marshall women's soccer team 7-1 on Sunday. Christabel Oduro, Kaitlyn Atkins, Taylor Isenhower, and Madison Oyer each scored once for the Tigers (8-3 overall, 4-0 C-USA). Myka DeMarco scored the lone goal for the Thundering Herd (6-6, 2-2).
Kyle Cummings and Omar Mata each scored for the Golden Hurricane (7-3, 2-0). Marshall dropped to 7-1-1 overall and 1-1 in Conference USA with the loss.
WVU AWARD WINNERS: The West Virginia football coaching staff announced its award winners on Sunday for the team's 70-63 win over Baylor on Saturday.
Offensive lineman Joe Madsen was named the offensive champion, Will Clarke was the defensive champion and Garrett Hope won special teams champion honors.
UC MEN WIN: Dan Walmsley came up with a goal in overtime to give Charleston a 1-0 win over Urbana at Schoenbaum Stadium on Sunday. Sean Teepen made a pair of saves for the Golden Eagles (6-0-2).
W.VA. STATE BASKETBALL: Former Marshall women's basketball player Casey Baker was named as an interim assistant women's basketball coach at West Virginia State on Sunday.


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Some's schtick is their patter, their sales pitch, their routine. It can also simply be something that person is interested him.
"I see Jim Carey's still trying to get by with that funny-face schtick..."
Iain Cooper tərəfindən 25 Yanvar 2004
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Yiddish slang meaning "gimmick" that has come to mean "someone's signature behavior." In the 1940's, Jewish comedians in the Catskills referred to their comedy routines as their schtick.
"Joey's schtick is talking too loud."
Mambo Jambo tərəfindən 01 Fevral 2004
presentation or sales pitch, from yiddish slang, implying phoniness or slickness, lack of substance with focus on style.
Grandma Zeidel gave her usual shtick for serving take-out for dinner instead of cooking, claiming that her oven was broken and the cleaning lady forgot to do the dishes again.
S.D. Sarvas tərəfindən 31 Yanvar 2004
a routine. This could refer to a number of different things, but generally refers
to a type of comic routine.
Yiddish origin.
to a type of comic routine.
Yiddish origin.
I saw Don Rickles in an interview about
Toy Story 2 and he was performing the same old schtick, but he still was really funny.
Toy Story 2 and he was performing the same old schtick, but he still was really funny.
G Canis tərəfindən 26 Yanvar 2004
the party piece of an entertainer, patter, German - stueck. Enters English from Yiddish
singing is not my schtick
klidenengro tərəfindən 04 Fevral 2004
a routine or special ability, appears in the game Toon. examples are flight and hypnosis
buggie's schtick is hilarious, that or flying
soothsayer tərəfindən 09 İyul 2004
1.A girl who is slightly chubby but cute.
2. The border between a fat girl and a cute girl, while maintaining cuteness.
2. The border between a fat girl and a cute girl, while maintaining cuteness.
Damn! That girl is schtick. Look at those curves.
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Video: Meteorologist Talks About Chasing A Tornado, Close Call
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- I used to live in Oklahoma City, Edmond actually from May of 1994 through October of 1997. I worked in "tornado alley" at KOCO-TV. Even though I had earned a degree in Atmospheric Science, I had no idea how much 'on the job' training I would receive. Being there, actually living there is far more educational than the classroom.
My house in Edmond was a 4 bedroom house with a 2 car garage and a fenced in back yard, but no basement. It was built on a slab like many homes in that part of the world. The ground is very tough clay and digging is hard, so many homes are on slabs and not everyone has an underground place to hide. You can have a storm shelter installed, but you're probably talking $10,000, give or take, and not everyone can afford that. We were lucky to have a friend across town with an older home and an underground shelter and an invitaion if we ever needed it. Fortunately, my wife only had to use it once and that day, the storm never touched down.
When you live in Oklahoma, you are keenly aware of the threat from Mother Nature; you have to be. I recall talking with kids in first and second grade and talking about how tornadoes can kill them. I did not do this to scare them but they needed to be aware of the threat so that they could know what to do. If you don't respect the power of the weather, you're not likely to prepare for it. And even if you prepare, there are still no guarantees. The kids in Plaza Towers Elementary did what they had practiced, but many perished. One has to wonder why that school had no underground shelter or reinforced hallway that would have saved those kids. This is a decision that community made when they built that school and one they most likely regret.
So, while we struggle with all of us this? I ask the question to all of you, do you have a plan should severe weather hit? Are you prepared?
1) Identify a "safe" area in your home. A basement is the safest, or an interior room on the lowest level if you have no basement.
2) A meeting place after the event. Whether it be a friend's or neighbors home or some other location. But, everyone in the family has to know it and having a second and even a third choice is wise.
3) Make sure that even the youngest kids know what your phone number is, in case you get separated. It is much easier to track you down if the separated child can spit out your phone number. And while I'm at it, texts are much more likely to make it than a cell phone call.
4) Have some bottled water and non perishable food....the power could be out a while and making sure you keep your car's gas tank full in advance of severe weather could also make a difference should gas stations not be working.
These are just a few suggestions. The Virginia Department of Emergency Management has a very good guide here: http://www.vaemergency.gov/readyvirginia/makeaplan
Tornadoes and other deadly events happen, there are no guarantees, but understanding the risk and planning for the worst could be the difference between life and death.
Howard Bernstein
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J. BARRY MASON, PhD, Dean.
J. MICHAEL HARDIN., PhD, Associate Dean.
SUSAN C. WEST, MBA, Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs.
DAVID J. HEGGEM JR., EdD, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs.
GARY A. HOOVER, PhD, Assistant Dean for Faculty and Graduate Student Development.
First date refers to original appointment to the University. Second date, if any, refers to date of appointment to title listed.
Culverhouse School of Accountancy
STONE, MARY S., PhD (Illinois), CPA (Florida). Director of the Culverhouse School of Accountancy, Hugh Culverhouse Endowed Chair in Accounting, and Professor of Accounting, 1981, 2004.
ALBRIGHT, THOMAS L., PhD (Tennessee), CPA (California). J. Reese Phifer Faculty Fellow and Professor of Accounting, 1990, 2002.
DEZOORT, F. TODD, PhD (Alabama). Professional Advisory Board Faculty Fellow and Professor of Accounting, 2001, 2006.
DUGAN, MICHAEL T., DBA (Tennessee), CPA (Louisiana). Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting, 1985, 2002.
FITZGIBBON, J. THOMAS, MAcc (Alabama), CPA (Alabama)., Instructor of Accounting, 2006.
HATFIELD, RICHARD C., PhD (Florida), CPA (Texas). Assistant Professor of Accounting, 2006.
HOUSTON, RICHARD W., PhD (Indiana), CPA (Tennessee). Nabors Instructional Excellence Faculty Fellow and Professor of Accounting, 1995, 2006.
INGRAM, ROBERT W., PhD (Texas Tech), CPA (Texas). Steven J. Ross–Hugh F. Culverhouse Endowed Chair of Accountancy, 1985.
KEE, ROBERT C., DBA (Florida State). CMA Joe Lane Professor of Accounting, 1979, 2003, 2004.
MASON, JOHN O., PhD (Missouri), CPA (Alabama, Louisiana). Professor of Accounting, 1968, 1977.
MCKINNEY, LISA HUGHES, MTA (Alabama), CPA (Alabama). Instructor of Accounting, 2003.
PARSONS, LINDA, PhD, (Houston), CPA, (Texas, Virginia). Assistant Professor of Accounting, 2007.
REITENGA, AUSTIN, PhD (Kentucky), CPA (Texas), CMA (Texas). Assistant Professor of Accounting, 2006.
ROBBINS, WALTER A., DBA (Tennessee), CPA (Tennessee, Virginia). Roddy-Garner Professor of Accounting, 1981, 1992.
SCHNEE, EDWARD J., PhD (Michigan State), CPA (Kentucky). Culverhouse Professor of Accounting, 1982, 1995.
TAYLOR, GARY K., PhD (Ohio State), CPA (Ohio). Associate Professor of Accounting, 1996, 2002.
Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies
HELMS, BILLY P., PhD (Tennessee). Professor of Finance and Head of the Department of Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies, 1973, 1988.
AGRAWAL, ANUP, PhD (Pittsburgh). William A. Powell Jr. Chair of Banking and Finance and Professor of Finance, 1999.
BROOKS, ROBERT, PhD (Florida). Wallace D. Malone Jr. Endowed Chair in Financial Management and Professor of Finance, 1989, 1997.
CARROLL, CAROLYN A., PhD (Illinois). Associate Professor of Finance, 1984, 1993.
COOK, DOUGLAS O., PhD (Texas). Ehney A. Camp Jr. Endowed Chair of Finance and Investments and Professor of Finance, 2004.
COVER, JAMES P., PhD (Virginia). Young J. Boozer Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow and Professor of Economics, 1982, 2000.
DOWNS, THOMAS, PhD (Purdue). Associate Professor of Finance and Angus R. and David J. Cooper Endowed Faculty Excellence Fellow, 1989, 2001.
ELDER, HAROLD W., PhD (VPI&SU). Professor of Economics, 1981, 2000.
ENDERS, WALTER, PhD (Columbia). Lee Bidgood Chair of Economics and Finance and Professor of Economics, 2000.
GUP, BENTON E., PhD (Cincinnati). Robert Hunt Cochrane/Alabama Bankers Association Chair of Banking and Professor of Finance, 1983, 1989.
HOOVER, GARY A., PhD (Washington). Assistant Dean for Faculty and Graduate Student Development and Associate Professor of Economics, 1998, 2005.
JINDAPON, PAAN, PhD (Texas A&M), Assistant Professor of Economics, 2006.
LEATHERS, CHARLES G., PhD (Oklahoma). Professor of Economics, 1968, 1975.
LEE, JUNSOO, PhD (Michigan State). Professor of Economics, 2003, 2005.
LIGON, JAMES A., PhD (Pennsylvania). Russell Professor of Business Education and Professor of Finance, 1990, 2004.
MA, JUN, PhD (University of Washington). Assistant Professor of Economics, 2007.
MCLEOD, ROBERT W., PhD (Texas), CFP, CFA, CLU, AVA. Director, General Business Programs, John S. Bickley Faculty Fellow, and Professor of Finance, 1978, 2005.
MISIOLEK, WALTER S., PhD (Cornell). Professor of Economics and Dwight Harrigan Endowed Faculty Fellow in Natural Resource Economics, 1975, 2004.
PECORINO, PAUL, PhD (Duke). J. Reese Phifer Faculty Fellow and Professor of Economics, 1994, 2001.
RABEL, WILLIAM H., PhD (Pennsylvania). John and Mary Louise Loftis Bickley Endowed Teaching Chair in Insurance and Financial Services and Professor of Finance, 2006.
REED, Robert, PhD (Penn State). Assistant Professor of Economics, 2007.
SCHLESINGER, HARRIS, PhD (Illinois). Frank Park Samford Chair of Insurance and Professor of Finance, 1987.
SILVER, J. LEW, PhD (Duke). Associate Professor of Economics, 1990.
TEMIMI, AKRAM, PhD (Illinois). Associate Professor of Economics, 1996, 2002.
ZUMPANO, LEONARD, PhD (Pennsylvania State). Alabama Associate of Realtors Chair of Real Estate and Professor of Finance, 1975, 1988.
Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science
CONERLY, MICHAEL D., PhD (Southern Methodist). Head of the Department of Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science, and the Fred and Martha Bostick Faculty Fellow, 1982, 2005.
ADAMS, B. MICHAEL, PhD (University of Southwestern Louisiana). Professor of Statistics, 1989, 2005.
BARRETT, BRUCE E., PhD (Clemson). Associate Professor of Statistics, Coordinator of Applied Statistics Master's Program and the Young J. Boozer Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow, 1989, 1995.
CHAKRABORTI, S., PhD (SUNY–Buffalo). Professor of Statistics, 1984, 1995.
GIVENS, P. SHANE, MBA (Alabama). Instructor of Management Information Systems, 2007.
GRAY, J. BRIAN, PhD (Clemson). Professor of Statistics, Coordinator of Applied Statistics Doctoral Program and the James I. Harrison Family Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow, 1990, 1999.
HALE, DAVID P., PhD (Wisconsin–Milwaukee). Associate Professor of Management Information Systems and William White McDonald Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Director, Aging Infrastructure Systems Center of Excellence, 1995, 2000.
HALE, JOANNE E., PhD (Texas Tech). Associate Professor of Management Information Systems and Coordinator of the Management Information Systems Doctoral Program, 1995, 2001.
HARDIN, J. MICHAEL, PhD (Alabama). Professor of Statistics and Associate Dean, 2001, 2008.
KACMAR, CHARLES J., PhD (Texas A&M). Associate Professor of Management Information Systems, 2004.
KESKIN, BURCU B., PhD (Texas A&M). Assistant Professor of Operations Management, 2007.
MANSFIELD, EDWARD R., PhD (Southern Methodist). Professor of Statistics, 1975, 1998.
MCMANUS, DENISE J., PhD (Auburn). Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, 2005.
MELOUK, SHARIF, PhD (Texas A&M). Assistant Professor of Operations Management, 2007.
MILLER, DAVID M., PhD (Georgia Institute of Technology). J. Reese Phifer Faculty Fellow and Professor of Operations Management and Director, Alabama Productivity Center, 1983, 1985.
MITTENTHAL, JOHN, PhD (Michigan). Associate Professor of Operations Management and Coordinator of the Operations Management Master's Program, 1994, 1997.
PERRY, Marcus B., PhD (Florida State). Assistant Professor of Statistics, 2008.
PETTY, WILLIAM, MBA (Cincinnati). Instructor of Operations Management, 2007.
RAJA, UZMA, PhD (Texas A&M). Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, 2006.
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Ultimate Racing - The AMSOIL Great American CT TourWritten by on January 4, 2012 Moving Northward, We Visit Mohawk International, Thunder Road, and take a side trip to defunct Northeastern
We're almost finished with our New York Schedule, but one more track remains. Mohawk International Speedway is truly that. It's located very close to the Canadian border and much of its back gate is comprised of residents of our northern neighbors.
Then it's off to Vermont where we took in a classic track and race weekend at Thunder Road Speedbowl. So much has been written and talked about this racetrack and we were so glad to have included it in our NE schedule. In the middle of all of that, a big surprise was waiting on us.
We were staying at Moose River Campground near Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, and the owner told us that we just had to see an historic racetrack named Northeastern Speedway that was located just down the road a few miles. The current owner had recently restored it for display and held a 50th Anniversary reunion there. So, we'll tell you why this short-lived racetrack influenced NE racing and possibly racing across the country with how it ran its programs.
As we were leaving our last race event at Oswego, a hurricane-turned-tropical-storm was battering the Northeast coast and dropping huge amounts of rain on New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and the rest of New England. We left Oswego early Sunday morning to return to our campground just east of Syracuse as the winds and rain increased. By the next day, serious flooding had occurred in parts of southern Vermont, the next state on our list.
Luckily, our schedule, compiled last February and March had us taking a more westerly route north traveling up the western side of New York to Mohawk International and then across the top of the state into Vermont, avoiding the roadways closed by the storm. Our campground there, along the banks of Moose River, had been spared any damage so our trip was not interrupted.
Mohawk International RacewayLocated in the most northwesterly corner of New York State, Mohawk would become the very last dirt track we would visit on our 2011 Tour. It was a great ending too because we were able to see teams from two countries battling it out like there was no border. We were here for the American Revolution Series final Labor Day Shootout show run on a Thursday night. Afterwards, we would scoot on over to Vermont for another Labor Day event that same weekend.
This is another track, like Oswego, where the owners put lots of money into improvements to make a very attractive and functional racetrack. It was completely rebuilt for the 2009 racing season. They had installed NASCAR-style lighting, numerous suites, a raised and graveled pit area--no longer prone to flooding--and new seating. The fans celebrate coming here and the track celebrates with a party and huge bonfire after the show is over.
Don Thompson is the general manager here and he was a great host for our Tour. We were given access to his personal suite, the videographer's stand--used to shoot video for our website--and anywhere else we needed to go.
The class structure included the 358 Modifieds, Sportsman, Pro Stocks, Bandits, and Mod Lites. All of the races were very competitive because at this track, there were several grooves to choose from. This provided side-by-side racing action all night long.
One very popular class was the Mod-Lites that were in reality, Legends type cars running on dirt. They looked like mini-Dirt Late Models and put on quite a show. It's amazing how fast and competitive the smaller cars are on dirt. And this track also sports no walls except along the front straight to protect the fans. I really like that plan.
Being only 5 driving miles from Canada, this is truly an international speedway. I talked with quite a few racers from both sides of the border and it was plain to see that racers who reside as our northern neighbors are just as passionate of their programs as we are.
Thunder Road SpeedbowlFew tracks gain such notoriety as this track located in Barre, Vermont. Thunder Road is what is commonly referred to as a bullring track due to its short length and high-banked turns. The lack of walls also makes this a track unique to race on where you can get pushed over the top, hang on, and return to do battle again.
Owner and founder, Ken Squier would go on to be the first TV announcer to call the Daytona 500 in 1979 and that race would cement the NASCAR television connection, due in part to the now-famous fight between brothers Bobby and Donny Allison, and Cale Yarborough in Turn 3 at the end of the race. A good friend of mine was the only photographer to capture that fight on film and provided those images to Stock Car Racing magazine for its front cover and inside story.
The race weekend was the Bond Auto Labor Day Classic for the American-Canadian Tour Late Model cars. This series was started back in 1986 by promoter Tom Curley after he had been a part of the NASCAR North Tour for Late Model Sportsman cars. This new series was a departure from that type of racing in that it incorporated the Super Late Model-type cars more commonly run across the country.
In 1987, he aligned the ACT Tour with the ASA and the All-Pro Southeast series to form the Stock Car Connections. Many now-famous drivers came out of that union, such as NASCAR stars Darrell Waltrip, Mark Martin, Bobby and Davy Allison, Rusty and Kenny Wallace, and short track legends Dick Trickle, Butch Miller, Mike Eddy, and Bobby Gill.
In 2011, ACT started its tour at the Speedweeks, World Series of Stock Car Racing event at New Smyrna Speedway in February with two 100-lap non-points races. ACT also runs the Canadian-based Serie Castrol Edge, formed in 2005.
This Labor Day classic was a tough one due to the weather. A heavy rain fell after practice and qualifying and after a delay of a few hours, the racing was on. I was able to speak with Tom Curley early in the day and I got a sense of his passion for his series and stock car racing in general. He was positioned right where it counted: in the announcer's booth overlooking all of the proceedings.
Directly behind that building was a series of three ômonumentsö honoring past winners of the three huge racing events held each year. The Memorial Day Classic, the Milk Bowl, and the Labor Day Classic winners are memorialized forever. This is just one example of how Tom shows his respect for the racers and what they have helped to build at this track and for his series.
Through Tom's influence, ACT has introduced many innovative and cost-saving rules to racing including a spec engine program started in 1999, one of the country's first, and the development of spec tires through a cooperative effort with Goodyear Tire. All of his hard work was rewarded in 2004 when more than 1,000 racetrack promoters voted him the Auto Racing Promoter of the Year.
A normal night's racing at TR includes classes for the Late Models, Sportsman, Street Stocks, and Junk Yard Warriors. On one typical race day, 26 Late Models, 28 Sportsman, and 29 Street Stock and JYW cars raced. Those are very good numbers.
The numbers of fans in attendance spoke to the magnitude of this race and racetrack. Supporting businesses put on huge displays and brought employees out to spend the day at specially constructed viewing areas. The stands were filled as were the pits. At the end of the day, I could see why racing in New England was so popular.
Northeastern Speedway--Bonus Track!This now defunct, small 1/5-mile, racetrack located on Highway 18 just a few miles east of Saint Johnsbury was operated for only eight years. But in that time, it forged solid and useful rules and a model for sanctioning bodies that would influence many other racetracks and quite possibly set the tone for all of short track racing across the country.
The current owner of the property and primary catalyst for unearthing the track and holding the 50th anniversary celebration is Paul Bellefeuille and his wife, Lise. I met Paul at the track one day while staying in Saint Johnsbury and he showed me around the grounds. He told me many stories about the track and offered material and a video that told the history of this short-lived, but influential track.
On August 18, 1958, the Northeastern Racing Association was formed for the purpose of building a racetrack and the first President was Charles Ely. A parcel of land available for lease was located 4 miles east of town, and on July 18, 1959, the first race was run. By the time the last race ran in mid October of that year, 40 cars were competing and attendance rose to more than 3,000 spectators.
At that time in Vermont and New Hampshire, racing was very disorganized providing very little prize money, no association to represent the drivers, and no points system. Northeastern Speedway changed all of that.
Ken Squier announced the early races and he became so impressed with the operational efficiency he saw that the next year he and two brothers, the Cooleys, built the Thunder Road International Speedway, as it was called then, and asked NRA to run the program.
The opener at TR brought more than 5,000 spectators to the 3,000-seat track. It was an asphalt track and Northeastern was dirt. In 1961, it was decided to pave Northeastern so that the teams running both tracks would be able to equip the cars with the same tires and setups.
Strangely enough, along with paving Northeastern they erected a 3-foot-high concrete wall around the entire track. During that season, drivers threatened a boycott and wanted the track to tear down the wall due to excessive damage to the cars. It was removed after a few races, becoming even more like its sister track, Thunder Road.
Another innovation was the creation of a claimer class where any car that won three weeks in a row could be claimed for $75, less battery, tires, belts, and helmet. And, tech inspections were instituted where in the first season one car was suspended for having an illegal cam. Imagine that!
The track ended up having financial difficulties from spending so much on improvements. Meanwhile, being so successful in drawing spectators, it encouraged others in neighboring towns to build competing racetracks cutting back its attendance. Northeastern finally closed at the end of 1966 due to the money shortage and increased competition.
As a result of the forethought that went into the organization at Northeastern, we now have sanctioning bodies, strict rules to maintain fairness, decent payouts, and other innovations at all of the short tracks across not only the Northeast, but across the country. Now you know the rest of the story.
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A lonely ticket booth and uncovered asphalt is all that remains of Northeastern Speedway. It's a ghost track that was open for just eight years in the early '60s. But its legacy lives due in large part to how its organizers taught other racetrack owners how to operate.Mohawk is medium banked and doesn't have walls around the track outside the front stretch. This helps provide a safety net for the drivers who test the grip high in Turns 1 and 3. Several disappeared over the top only to reappear and reenter the race unharmed. Race teams appreciate that a lot.Mohawk is truly an international speedway lying just 5 driving miles from Canadian soil. In 2009, the owners completely rebuilt the speedway and installed these really nice grandstands complete with multiple suites and plenty of food and drink areas.One interesting feature of this racetrack is that there is an after-the-show party where a bonfire is lit and free food is available to the racers spread out on several large tables.The fire consisted of many pallets being stacked some 15 feet high and topped off with a picnic table.Tech inspection is of great interest in ACT racing. Early on, the founders of ACT realized the importance of making the racing more affordable while enforcing the rules so as not to create unfair advantages for creative teams. Note that next to the car number is the designation for the state of origin. So, there can be two No. 57 cars, one VT (Vermont) and one ME (Maine), which there were, running the race.Thunder Road has always attracted large crowds and with the help of local business sponsorships, the interest will continue well into the future. A successfully run track meets the needs of everyone—racers, fans, and area businesses included.Behind the announcer's shack was a memorial to the winners of past feature events at Thunder Road. Represented with their names etched in stone were winners of the Memorial Day Classic, the Vermont Milk Bowl, and the Labor Day Classic. This is a nice way to reward those accomplishments and the recognition carries on for a long time.
The track itself at Thunder Road was a small, wide, and high-banked affair and didn't have walls around it except for the front straight. This layout was copied by an early Vermont racetrack called Northeastern Speedway.Northeastern Speedway was alive just eight years before its decline and death from, of all things, success, its small size and money woes. But, its founders developed a plan on how to run a racetrack well before anyone even knew how to organize these events. That plan has been copied many times over for future series, tracks, and racing organizations. Here we see the beginnings of a restoration project that uncovered this historic venue and evolved into a 50th anniversary celebration attended by some of the very same fans, drivers, and crews who ran here in the early 1960s.


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A convicted habitual felon who police say robbed one Greenville restaurant and tried to rob a second one made his first court appearance this morning.
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The Problem of Defining Genocide
Stéphanie Giry has an article in the New York Review of Books, The Genocide That Wasn't, discussing the application of the term genocide to the case of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Giry outlines the problem that occurs when the generally accepted definition of a term clashes with the legal one and points out that genocide has become the ultimate crime in the eyes of the world public.
In this case, the Cambodian people, and most others around the world, consider what the Khmer Rouge did to the Cambodian people as genocide. But because the actions of the Khmer Rouge were not directed against an ethnic or national minority, the crime doesn't fit the legal definition of genocide. Instead, the Khmer Rouge leaders have been convicted of crimes against humanity, which is perceived as a lesser crime. (Even though the penalty is the same, life in prison.)
Analogous cases where popular definitions of terms conflict with technical ones are common, but the moral stakes here make this case a special one.
Genocide is a rare case of a word where we know who exactly coined it, a lawyer and law professor named Raphael Lemkin. Lemkin formed the word from the Greek word γένος (genos, race or tribe) and -cide (killing). Lemkin used the word in his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, defining it as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group." (Lemkin had argued as early as 1933 for an international law banning genocide, but I haven't found evidence that he used the specific word before his 1944 book.)
In a Washington Post editorial from December 1944, Lemkin is quoted elaborating on what he meant by the term, broadening its application:
Genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.
There is a flurry of citations of the word from December 1944, the result of a 26 November 1944 report by the U.S. War Refugee Board that for the first time made known to the U.S. public the full extent and horror of the Nazi war crimes.
The 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines the crime as:
any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
The Holocaust of WWII is the prototypical example of genocide and the event that caused the word to enter into common lexicon, but many other events, before and since, have been classified as genocide, including the extermination of Native Americans and Australian Aborigines, the 1994 mass killings in Rwanda, the mass killings in Darfur in the opening years of the twenty-first century, the actions of the Khmer Rouge government of Cambodia in the 1970s, and the mass killings of Armenians by the Turks in 1915. The application of the term to any particular case, except that of the Nazis, is usually controversial to some degree, with some claiming the crimes do not warrant the label of genocide or because, as in the case of Cambodia, the crimes do not fit the strict definition outlined in international law.
"genocide, n." Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989.
"Genocide," The Washington Post, 3 December 1944, B4.
mook, moke
Mook is an American slang term for a dull-witted or otherwise person of low status. It's recorded as far back as February 1930 when it appears in The Judge magazine in an article by S. J. Perelman:
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Even ordinary mooks like you and me have been stuffing their blotters and backs of envelopes in safe deposits for posterity.
A New Scrabble Champion
One may wonder at the detail and effort that fivethirtyeight.com put into this article on the national Scrabble championship, but really it's no more silly than the amount of analysis that goes into football (soccer or the other one), baseball, or hockey.
Rethinking the Prescriptivist-Descriptivist Dyad
I've just had an article published in English Today, "Rethinking the Prescriptivist-Descriptivist Dyad: Motives and Methods in Two Eighteenth-Century Grammars," that may be of interest.
Grammars and other works about language are traditionally described along an axis that runs from prescriptivism to descriptivism, but I contend that these two poles are not positioned along the same continuum. Rather, prescriptivism is a measure of intent, while descriptivism is a measure of methodology.
In the this paper I propose that a two-axis system that evaluates both motivation and methodology is better suited to describing grammatical approaches. Along one axis the motivation is categorized by the degree the grammar espouses normative principles and seeks to instruct, rather than describe. Along the second axis the methodology is categorized by the degree the grammar's pronouncements are based on either observations of actual usage or aspirational appeals to an idealized form. The paper examines the work of two late-eighteenth century grammarians, Lowth and Priestley, as test cases to see if this two-axis system can better capture the differences in these grammars.
Through this analysis it can be seen that, counter to common perception, Lowth is somewhat more observational than Priestley's first edition, although Priestley takes a significantly more observational stance in his second edition. Furthermore, Lowth's grammars, while generally observational, vary the methodology depending on the linguistic feature under examination, taking a strongly aspirational stance on at least one point of grammar.
This separation of motivation and methodology has wider application and can be used to resolve some of the issues in the current prescriptive-descriptive debate, as many modern grammars and dictionaries are used normatively, even if the methodology used to produce them is observational.
The article is available from Cambridge Journals Online.
Or you can download it from here.
In a World Where Protolanguages Could Not Be Understood…
We all know that academic titles don't exactly sell like hotcakes, but I'm not sure this marketing strategy will actually work.
You may recall George Walkden from this previous post and this follow-up on the use of hwæt in Old English poetry.
Tip o' the Hat: languagehat
zero gravity, zero g, microgravity
Zero gravity is one of those words that appears in science fiction before science and engineering had an actual need for it. Zero gravity, also called zero g or microgravity, is the state of weightlessness experienced in outer space (and, as we shall see, at the center of the earth).Read the rest of the article...
In modern English the word yard has two primary meanings: 1) a unit of linear measurement; 2) an open area near a house or other building. These are both yards, and they both come from Old English, the language spoken in England prior to the Norman conquest, but the two senses are different words with different origins.Read the rest of the article...
weapon of mass destruction / conventional weapon
Most people became aware of the term weapon of mass destruction during the run up to the first Gulf War in 1990–91. And it again entered the public consciousness during the second war with Iraq which started twelve years later. Both times Saddam Hussein had been thought to have developed these nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, an assessment that was only correct the first time. But the term is much older than widespread public awareness of it.Read the rest of the article...
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Heater Sports Lite-Ball Pitching Machine with Bonus Auto-Ball & 22' x 12' x 8' Home Batting Cage
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- Includes 12-ball automatic feeder; pitches a ball every 9 seconds
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Something I've been thinking about but been forgetting to post.
If I kill a buck, I'm most likely going to have to make a couple of trips to get it and my gear back. It will be October and at 10,000+ feet , so I'm not so worried about the temperature, etc.
I'll obviously have to hang any meat I can't take on the first trip.
But I will also have to leave my camp - tent, sleeping bag, pad, food, etc - behind.
I'll try and stash everything as best I can, but anybody have any ideas on that?
The other question is the head with the rack and tag (I'm going to have my first one mounted, so I'll have the head, cape, etc). I definitely don't want to leave it back with my gear unattended, I don't want to leave it sitting in the bed of my truck and if I run into DF&G and the second trip with any meat, I'll need it.
There's a pack horse operation at the trail head, if they're there, I may see if I can leave it with them, but I don't know if they're going to be open then (probably weather dependent).
The only thing I can think of is to carry it the whole time, but again, any ideas I might have missed?


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More and more bears keep coming to the plungeThousands set fundraising record for Special Olympics Delaware
Rehoboth Beach — Over the past two decades, the Lewes Polar Bear Plunge benefitting Special Olympics Delaware has grown from it inaugural event attracting 78 plungers to the 2014 event where 3,252 polar bears jumped into the Atlantic Ocean.
A record amount of money – more than $725,000 – was raised on Feb. 2 during a weekend of festivities in Rehoboth Beach.
No one could have predicted just how far the Polar Bear Plunge would go after the first event took place in 1992 in Cape Henlopen State Park. The Lewes Polar Bears Club partnered with Special Olympics Delaware to allow one of its five plunges to be a fund raiser for the organization. The club has been taking dips into the ocean at the park five times a year over the winter months since 1982.
Overall, the event has raised more than $7.5 million to support Special Olympics programs and athletes in Delaware.
The first six events took place at the park until it literally outgrew the venue and moved to Rehoboth Beach with more parking and more beach access.
The coldest event took place in 1995 when the air temperature registered 0 degrees with the wind-chill at minus-25. Even so, the event went on, and 339 polar bears braved the conditions to take a fast jump into the water.
Over the past two decades, the event has been postponed twice because of bad weather: in 1998 because of a nor'easter and in 2010 due to twin snowstorms in early February that dropped as much as two feet of snow throughout the state.
The weekend festival has grown to include cooking contests, ice-sculpting contest, family activities, the 5K Run to the Plunge and the Pooch Plunge. Organizers estimate more than 20,000 spectators line the Boardwalk to watch the event. And because the plunge coincides with Super Bowl Sunday, it's become a major off-season boost to the beach economy.
First event: 1992 with 78 polar bears
2009: First weekend festival, 2,923 polar bears raise $490,000
2011: 20th anniversary, 3,094 polar bears raise $550,000
2014: Records fall with 3,252 polar bears who raise $725,000
Overall: The event has raised more than $7.5 million over 23 years
This year: Air temperature, 50 degrees; water temperature, 34 degrees


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Renowned storyteller Gaelen Foley unfurls the seductive tale of the rakish Lord Alec Knight, who never looked for love - until it was right in front of him....
Lord Alec Knight, the most daring and handsome rogue in all of London, is a smooth-talking aristocrat with an abundance of high-society lady admirers. With his irresistible wit, lucky hand at the gaming tables, and enticing charisma, he can have any woman he wants. But when the only girl he would have considered marrying ties the knot with someone else, Alec realizes he doesn't want to be with just any lady - he wants to find the love of his life.
The boldly spirited, beautiful Miss Becky Ward takes his life by storm after he rescues her from peril. Alec soon learns that she is on the run from her cousin, the murderous Prince Mikhail Kurkov. Becky has uncovered a menacing secret about the prince - now nothing will stop him from hunting her down.
In the midst of danger, Alec and Becky find themselves deeply drawn to each other. After the two spend an all-consuming night of sin, Becky's knight in shining armor vows on his honor to protect her until the end. But before long, Alec is protecting her with more than honor - and it seems the once untamed rake of London just may have found what he has been searching for all along... true love.
©2005 Gaelen Foley (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
I love being swept away by a new romance and thankfully Audible's ever growing Library means I get to indulge myself over and over again
"My first - but definitely not my last !!"
Alas, another handsome rake bites the dust. This was a gamble, I hadn't listened to any of GF's books before and, by the sounds of my other fellow reviewers - you're either going to love this or hate it. So, I was very pleasantly surprised that I really enjoyed it, I thought it had a good plot with likeable main characters that you routed for. It had a few sex scenes but they weren't too explicit for those of you who don't like a pinch of spice with your romance stories.
Worth my credit? Yes, I'm a happy listener and off to download another GF book.
The best way to read.
"This Book is Great!"
Loving this book. No wussy, whiny women, no overbearing men, nobody will die without the other...Thank goodness!! This book is an actual novel, you know...like a good story. I will definitely read more from G. Foley. Narrator did a great job. Could had a bit more inflection for the lead female, but otherwise the book flows and is very enjoyable and I highly recommend it.
"Worth Every Penny"
This story has everything that makes a story great. A love story that you can understand without all the extra drama, heros vs. villians and a willing to win at all cost. Truely a story that you won't forget. It was one of the best I have listened to in a long time.
Audiobook Addict. It's all about the Listen. Mostly Romance, but I do branch out a bit. Reviews are my honest opinions-popular or not.
"Great light listening romance"
Well-written story with good narration. This is a nice stand-alone historical romance with a little intrigue and suspense. I will definitely look at other books by this author.
reviews for fun
"Excellent story line"
I liked this book a lot. It was very well done with a great plot. A great romance novel.
"Holds your attention!"
Holds your Attention!
I liked that this had a story line. A beginning, middle and end.
When Becky kicked butt!
"The narrator :-("
It was gutsy
The sex scenes are pretty raunchy
She had no expression or voice modulation at all. All the characters sounded like the same boring unemotional person.
It was okay, it had me wanting to stay with it
The narrator spoiled the experience
"My First Foley"
All I can say really is "bother, why aren't all the other books out in audio?"
I really enjoyed it, good story, didn't give me the irks half way through, a totally warm fuzzy story.
There is only 2 other books in the 10 book series (the Knight Brothers and Cousins) out on audio at this time and I am hoping the rest will be out SOON!
"really enjoyable listen"
This is the first audio I've listened to from this author, read a book a while back. Could not stop listening as I got toward the end. Really liked this story line. Narration was so-so, not bad but not super either. Would still listen to another by this narrator. Overall really glad I got this one, will look for more from the same author.
Researcher/oral historian and fitness enthusiast from Austin, TX, currently residing in San Diego. I love to read, but traditional books require a person to be sedentary while reading. Audio books make it possible for me to increase both my physical activity and reading quantity.
"Erotic but Romantic, Classy, and Well Written"
One Night of Sin is definitely worth your credit or cash if you like historical romance. Unlike a certain truly horrible and worthless book (hint: the title starts with "50" and ends with a color), this book is sensual and erotic yet romantic, classy, educational, and well written. I've listened to two of Gaelen Foley's books so far and each serves as a superior example of both the historical romance and erotic literature genres. Now I am looking forward to listening and reading my way through all of Foley's historical romance books.
"Sweet romance with lots of laugh out loud moments"
Another brilliant historical romance by Gaelen Foley. Alec Knight is the irresistable rogue who you can't help but fall a little bit in love with, and the fast-paced thriller aspect of the story really added another dimension for me. Would thoroughly recommend
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Learn how to find the mode, or the most frequently occurring value, in the data set.
A list of student-submitted discussion questions for Mode.
To activate prior knowledge, make personal connections, reflect on key concepts, encourage critical thinking, and assess student knowledge on the topic prior to reading using a Quickwrite.
To organize ideas, increase comprehension, synthesize learning, demonstrate understanding of key concepts, and reinforce vocabulary using a Quickwrite.
Connect your daily life experiences with specific points in a reading using a Double Entry Diary.
Develop understanding of concepts by studying them in a relational manner. Analyze and refine the concept by summarizing the main idea, creating visual aids, and generating questions and comments using a Four Square Concept Matrix.
Students will analyze the Academy Award film nominees for the mode and the mode in other categories. In addition students will analyze the nominees for other measures of central tendency.
Find out how the fashion industry determines which styles are the most popular.
Find out how many children are in the typical American family.
This study guide looks at levels of measurement and the shape, measures of center (median, mean, mode), and measures of spread (standard deviation) of a data set. It also compares the measures for population vs the measures for sample.
These flashcards help you study important terms and vocabulary from Mean, Ungrouped Data to Find the Mean, Grouped Data to Find the Mean, Median, and Mode.


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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- In England, a king-size baby named George King has come home from the hospital. At delivery, George tipped the nursery scales at a whopping 15 pounds, seven ounces.
It was a natural childbirth -- no C-section. George's shoulders were so wide that he got stuck during delivery, but doctors rushed in to save the day.
His mother says she's going to wait a while before having another baby, thank you very much.


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Pre-purchased tickets are SOLD OUT. You're welcome to purchase tickets at the door for standing room only. Thanks!
Join the Mizel Museum and Neal and Séverine Sokol as they present a North American exclusive: A laugh-out-loud conversation with comedy legend and French screen idol Michel Boujenah!
Moderated by accomplished stand-up comedian and former host of The History Channel's Cities of the Underworld, Eric Geller.
Michel Boujenah is one of France's funniest and most talented comedic performing artists. For over 40 years, Boujenah, a Sephardic Jew originally from Tunisia, has delighted standing room only audiences around the world with his powerful and hilarious story-telling. Boujenah is best known to American audiences for his roles in the hit films Les Misérables (1995), Three Men and a Baby (1985) and his poignant award-winning directorial debut Father and Sons (2003).
This exclusive one-night-only appearance was arranged with the help of the acclaimed entertainment impresario and writer Charley Marouani.
$10/person. Ages 13 and up.
Each event ticket will enter you into a raffle for a special prize courtesy of world famous Le Creuset cookware.
Light refreshments provided courtesy of Whole Foods Market – Tamarac.
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Kids' Comedy Workshop: 4:00 -6:00 pm – $15/kid
The Mizel Museum's Comedy Kids Workshop will keep your children entertained and learning while the adults enjoy Boujenah's talk. Kids 12 and under are invited to participate in a comedy and improvisation workshop led by talented local improviser and actress Abbie Booth. In this fast-paced, high-energy workshop, kids will learn to focus their minds and bodies, develop bold characters and feel confident in their decision making!


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May 25, 2016
Florida Department of Education
Educators recommend books to read in honor of Black History Month –
Tallahassee, Fla., February 11, 2013 – The Florida Department of Education's Just Read, Florida! office celebrates Black History Month with its recommended reading list featuring the literary works of acclaimed African-American authors.
The selections help young readers understand the influence of African-American culture on society. Students are encouraged to choose from the recommended reading list during Black History Month and throughout the year.
"Reading is the gateway skill for academic success," said Commissioner of Education Dr. Tony Bennett. "Other subject matters, such as history, are reinforced through reading. It is crucial that educators and parents work together to promote literacy in and outside of the classroom."
The reading list features both fiction and non-fiction selections, including biographies of influential African-American leaders. To see all of this year's list, visit the 2013 Black History Month Recommended Reading List.
Just Read, Florida! promotes reading in Florida's public schools and among community groups and volunteer organizations statewide. For more information about the Department of Education's literacy promotion efforts, visit the Just Read, Florida! office.
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HOUSTON – Drained but delighted, bordering on delirious, the Mariners were in full agreement on one thing after they had — somehow — pulled out a 4-2 victory over the Astros on Saturday night.
This one was special. Special, as in a win to savor. And special, as in, you might not see another quite like this for awhile.
"It's the oddest win I've ever been a part of,'' said Michael Saunders, whose fingerprints were all over the Mariners' fifth straight triumph.
"What a crazy game,'' said Tom Wilhelmsen, who finished it off — with a major assist from Saunders — for his 21st save.
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"A very unique set of circumstances,'' marveled manager Eric Wedge.
Houston starter Erik Bedard, the former Mariner, worked 61
3 innings, not allowing a hit. And yet he was the losing pitcher as Seattle, on the strength of their lone hit in the game — a booming two-run double by Saunders off reliever Jose Cisnero in the seventh — rallied past the Astros at Minute Maid Park.
Oh, yeah: The Mariners struck out 15 times. And they became just the second team since 1916 to score four or more runs with one or fewer hits. The White Sox did it in 1990 while being no-hit by the Yankees; but unlike the White Sox, the M's did it without benefit of any errors, though two runs were indeed unearned as the result of two passed balls.
"I would say it was the strangest game I've been involved from Little League to the big leagues when you give one hit and punch out 15 guys and end up on the losing side of it," Houston manager Bo Porter said. "But it's crystal clear how we ended up on the losing side of it. When you walk seven guys (actually just six) and all four of their runs that score are via the walk, there's no defense for it."
Bedard walked five, and Porter lifted him, the no-no still intact, with one out in the seventh after the lefty walked Justin Smoak. Bedard had thrown 109 pitches, matching his season high; the score, improbably, was tied at 2-all.
"The plan was to see if he could have a quick inning,'' Porter said. "He was kind of at the end of the rope."
Said Bedard: "I've had three shoulder surgeries, and I'm not going over 110 (pitches). I'd rather pitch a couple more years than face another batter."
Cisnero struck out pinch-hitter Dustin Ackley, but he walked Mike Zunino. Saunders then came through with the Mariners' first (and only) hit and made it count: a blast over the head of center fielder Brandon Barnes and up the incongruous hill that resides out there.
Both runs scored, and Saunders wound up on second with a double, missing a triple only because he slipped rounding second.
"I knew that he liked his fastball and throws hard,'' Saunders said. "I took a couple breaking balls for balls and just kind of sat dead-red heater and put a good swing on it."
Here's the kicker: The go-ahead run was charged to Bedard, so he wound up absorbing the loss on a night when visions of a no-hitter were alive much of the night. Though as Bedard's pitch count mounted, it became increasingly clear he wasn't going to do it alone.
Bedard's start was the 206th of his career, and he's thrown just one complete game: a two-hit shutout against the Rangers on July 7, 2007. But his stuff was electric on Saturday night.
"He had a great breaking ball going, a live fastball,'' Wedge said. "He did everything good to keep us off-balance but we made him work."
Bedard became just the sixth pitcher dating to 1916 to give up no hits over at least six innings and allow two or more runs. It hadn't been done since ex-Mariner Matt Young, then with Boston, in 1992.
Overshadowed early, Mariners starter Hisashi Iwakuma prevailed for the victory, giving up two runs over seven innings. The Mariners' streak of 23 games with a homer ended, as did Kyle Seager's 15-game hitting streak.
The Mariners, trailing 2-0 after five, with only a leadoff walk by Kendrys Morales in the fifth to show thus far, managed to tie the score in the sixth inning — while Bedard kept his no-hitter intact.
He struck out Zunino to start the inning, his 10th induced whiff of the game (he became the 12th pitcher this year to have double-digit strikeouts against the Mariners).
But Bedard walked Saunders and followed with a base on balls to Brad Miller. Both runners moved up on a passed ball by Houston catcher Jason Castro, and Nick Franklin delivered a sacrifice fly to center. Miller advanced to third.
Yet another passed ball on Castro allowed Miller to scoot home with the tying run. Bedard, now laboring, walked Raul Ibanez before getting Morales to fly out. Both runs were unearned.
Charlie Furbush and Wilhelmsen finished up for Iwakuma. Wilhelmsen was aided by a great running catch in right by Saunders to rob Justin Maxwell, leading off the ninth, of extra bases.
"He closed down on that sucker so fast," Wilhelmsen said. "That ball was smoked."
Added Wilhelmsen: "Those are games that winning ball clubs win. And we're on our way."
|Making it count
|Saturday's game was the third time in franchise history that the Mariners won despite getting only one hit.
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WASHINGTON – Innovative winter weather road treatments give a new meaning to "getting food on the road."
USA Today reports that some local governments are mixing it up during winter storms and using natural substances to help salt stick to the road. The new additions also help to cut down on the amount of salt used.
The most popular additives to keep the salt from bouncing off the road are molasses and beet juice. In Wisconsin, home of the "cheeseheads," some areas are using cheese brines to weigh down the salt.
The article explains that nationwide states can dump as much as 15 million tons of rock salt on roadways, but most of that salt ends-up in the water table. Using less salt also amounts to more savings for road agencies.
Winter weather solutions don't stop with food. The U.S. government delegated $750,000 for experiments using solar power to heat the asphalt to melt ice during nasty weather, according to USA Today.
But until a better solution is found, salt trucks are here to stay – even if they are mixed with something that smells like molasses, beets or cheese.
WTOP's Del Walters contributed to this report. Follow @WTOP on Twitter.
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Cathay Pacific flights to and from Mumbai now operate from the New International Terminal 2 of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. The airline has shifted its passenger operations to the new Terminal with the first flight departing on 13 February 2014.
In addition to the new and improved facilities of the new terminal, First & Business Class passengers; and Gold and above members are welcome to check-in at our Business Class counters at zone 'P' and can also use the fast track counters for security and immigration clearance. Silver and below members please check-in at the dedicated The Marco Polo Club check-in counter in zone 'L'.
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