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SACRAMENTO -- Noting that America's middle class has lost its distinction as the wealthiest in the world, two Bay Area lawmakers say they're attacking income inequality with legislation that would link a company's tax rate to the gap between executive pay and average employee wages.
It would be the first law of its kind in the nation at a time when the growing plight of the middle class is becoming a major issue in this year's midterm elections.
Three decades ago, chief executives made a little more than 40 times as much money as an average worker. Now, CEOs of elite companies like Silicon Valley's eBay and Oracle earn average compensation that's more than 350 times greater than what middle-class workers earn.
Wells Fargo CEO John Strumpf made $22.9 million in 2012 while his employees made an average of $48,317, meaning his salary is almost 500 times greater, according to data collected by Bloomberg News. Executives of Dublin-based Ross Stores and oil and gas company Chevron, headquartered in San Ramon, also made hundreds of times more than their workers that year.
The biggest pay gap in the Bay Area was at software giant Oracle, where CEO Larry Ellison made 1,287 times the salary of the average worker.
Under SB1372, if the CEO of a publicly traded company doing business in California makes more than 100 times the pay of an average employee, that company's tax rate will go up from 8.8 percent to as high as 13 percent. Companies with relatively little disparity will get a tax break, according to the bill, sponsored by Sens. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, and Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley,
"This is not only unjust, but it's bad for the economy," Robert Reich, a former U.S. labor secretary who now teaches public policy at UC Berkeley, said of the pay gap before speaking to the Senate Governance and Finance Committee on Thursday. "There's no purchasing power left in the middle class to buy what the economy produces. That's why we're seeing the slowest economic recovery in years."
Reich, who supports the bill, cautioned that the California Chamber of Commerce would label the bill a "job killer." And sure enough, representatives from the chamber, California Taxpayers Association and California Retailers Association all spoke against the bill.
"This bill would launch our corporate tax rate into the stratosphere," said Gina Rodriguez, vice president for state tax policy at the taxpayers group. "California is already the third worst state for business climate in the nation and this would add to our reputation as an anti-business state."
The committee advanced the bill on a party-line 5-2 vote. Chairwoman Lois Wolk, D-Davis, applauded her Democratic colleagues for trying to address the pay-gap problem.
Vice Chairman Steve Knight, R-Antelope Valley, said the plan is "not a bad idea" and agreed executive compensation is "out of whack" with middle-class salaries, but he said it's not the government's responsibility to correct the problem.
He also questioned whether the money saved by decreasing a CEO's pay would go back to the workers -- something the bill does not explicitly require.
The chances the measure will make it to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk this year are slim because it would require support from two-thirds of the lawmakers in each house of the Legislature and Senate Democrats lost their supermajority when they suspended three lawmakers ensnared in high-profile corruption cases.
Wells Fargo spokeswoman Holly Rockwood declined to comment specifically on the legislation, but she stressed the bank "pays for performance that is aligned with customer and shareholder objectives" and offers an array of benefits and career-development opportunities to its employees, which include more than 45,000 in California.
Hancock said the incentives for businesses to lower executive pay will fluctuate based on the size of the gap, but creating that incentive is vital. When fast-food and retail companies don't pay their workers enough to support their families, she said, taxpayers end up footing the bill for the public-assistance programs they need.
"This bill represents a doable, practical solution that creates incentives for responsible corporate behavior," Hancock said. "Runaway CEO pay at the expense of the working people is not right."
Contact Jessica Calefati at 916-441-2101. Follow her at Twitter.com/calefati. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.


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As chief resident of neurosurgery at Virginia Commonwealth University, Leslie Hutchins has already completed her rounds of checking in with the neurosurgery patients at the hospital - both ICU and regular floor patients - by 8 a.m. and now has the choice of which surgeries she will perform today. Of course, that's after rising at 4:30 a.m. to feed her 1-year-old daughter and getting ready for work.
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"Neurosurgery can be emotionally, physically and mentally exhausting," Hutchins says. "It seems glamorous, but when you are sacrificing everything, spending 14- to 16-hour days during residency, it's not so glamorous. But when you can perform an intervention that can change an outcome for an individual or a family, that is what I love the most about my job."
As a student at Cooper High School in Abilene, Hutchins worked on the yearbook staff and cultivated an interest in photography. She planned to make that her career until one of her science teachers planted a new idea. He suggested that her grades and personality might be a good match for a career in medicine, and that advice set Hutchins on a new path as she enrolled in college.
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After receiving a Presidential Scholarship to ACU, she majored in biology and biochemistry. Both of Hutchins' parents attended ACU, and her father, Hubert Pickett ('74), is a former member of ACU's Board of Trustees. Family connections aside, Hutchins was drawn to ACU's impressive medical school acceptance rate and the genuine personal attention of the faculty.
"I knew ACU had a great reputation for getting its students into medical school," she says. "The professors start molding and preparing you your freshman year, emphasizing a solid GPA and being well-rounded. Their letters of recommendation are genuine and demonstrate the essence of ACU and its students. They also have mock interviews to allow you to prepare for your interview date. The students coming from ACU are exactly the type of students every medical school wants."
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Hutchins' medical career plans evolved during her time at ACU and as she began medical school. She entered the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center with an ambition to work in pediatrics, but, despite once fainting while watching a hernia repair, later changed her focus from pediatrics to surgery.
"As a second-year medical student I was observing in the emergency room when a patient with a subdural hematoma came in and went immediately to the operating room," Hutchins says. "I got to go along to the operating room and, ever since then, I have been hooked."
While a freshman at ACU, Hutchins met (and later married) the boy next door. Brian Hutchins, who was then enrolled in the Marine Corps, lived next door to her parents and came over one evening to meet her at the suggestion of her dad. They married three years later, and he completed his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of North Texas while she attended medical school at UTSW in Dallas. Today, they have a 1-year-old daughter, Talia, and Brian is head of technology for Benedictine College Preparatory, an all-boys military high school near their home in Richmond, Va.
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Quote: SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Republican state lawmaker who resigned after he was caught on tape boasting about his sexual conquests says he was engaging in inappropriate storytelling.
Assemblyman Mike Duvall of Yorba Linda says his decision to resign Wednesday was not an admission he had an affair. The Southern California lawmaker says he regrets what he described as "inappropriate storytelling."
The 54-year-old lawmaker was recorded this summer at a committee hearing telling another lawmaker about having sex with a female lobbyist and another woman.
Duvall, who is married with two adult children, said he resigned because his comments had become a distraction to his colleagues in the Assembly
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MORGANTOWN - He juked with his hips and shoulders, accelerated with his legs, and set up blocks with pointed fingers.
In short, Tavon Austin put everything into this one.
Austin obliterated a 12-year-old Big 12 record by turning in 572 all-purpose yards - six shy of the FBS record - and scored a pair of touchdowns, but his effort wasn't enough West Virginia dropped another one-point, last-minute decision at home, 50-49, to Oklahoma on Saturday night.
The Mountaineers defense still was unable to make critical stops, but neither could the Sooners' defense, especially when Austin had the ball.
And he had it often.
He rushed 21 times for 344 yards, breaking Kay-Jay Harris' 337-yard school record for most yards in a game, set against East Carolina in 2004.
If that sounds odd, considering Austin is the nation's leading receiver in terms of catches per game, well, oops on the coaches, who moved him to the backfield only last week because they were unhappy with the production they were getting from the position.
"He goes for 344 yards; we probably should have done it four years ago," WVU head coach Dana Holgorsen said. "Tremendous football player, best guy on the field. Hindsight, we probably should have done it prior to this."
Permanent move?
"Sure," Holgorsen said. "Why not?"
Austin still found time to catch four passes for 82 yards and return eight kickoffs for 146.
Add that all up and it's 572, six off the record set by Utah State's Emmett White against New Mexico in 2004.
"He's as good as I've seen. He just plays on a different speed than anyone else," WVU offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson said. Great vision."
Austin really had no idea of what he was doing.
"I don't worry about that during the game," Austin said. "They told me I had about 400 or something like that. At the end of the day, we still lost. It was a good thing for me, but I'm still worrying about the loss."
It was a marvel nonetheless. After all, this wasn't New Mexico's defense.
This came against the 20th-ranked defense in the land, one that normally yields 325 yards per game, period, much less 344 on the ground.
Quarterback Geno Smith became the first passer to throw for 300-plus yards against Oklahoma this season, as he completed 20 of 35 passes for 320 yards and four touchdowns, or one more passing TD than the Sooners had given up all season.
In the end, all of it 778 total yards, second-most in school history behind the Baylor game earlier this season wasn't enough.
But you've got to give the coaches credit for trying.
"They definitely told me it was going to be quite a bit, but I didn't think it was going to be 21 times," Austin said of his number of carries.
"Back there, it's like home," Austin said of the running back position, where he starred in high school in Maryland.
He said he had two things going for him. It came back to him fairly quickly. And he didn't have to learn a bunch of new stuff.
"Two plays -to the left and to the right," Austin said. "I will be back there next week after the performance (Saturday)."
With two rushing touchdowns, Austin became the first Mountaineer in history to score a touchdown four different ways rushing, receiving, kick, and punt return in one season.
Austin's all-purpose yards for the 2012 stands at 2,313, as he jumped from No. 6 to No. 2 on the WVU list. He set the record at 2,574 last season.


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Crushed, the thirteenth volume in Sara Shepard's #1 New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars series—also a hit television series on ABC Family—is bursting with more scandals, secrets, and drama than ever.
High school seniors Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer have been tortured by A for too long. Now they're determined to take the fight to A . . . even if it's the last thing they do.
As the rest of Rosewood prepares for the prom, the girls drop everything in their hunt for A. But with each new piece of evidence, A only seems farther away. No matter how close the liars get, A is always one step ahead—and ready to crush them completely.
It's springtime in suburban Rosewood, which means iced soy lattes, fresh manicures in shimmering pastels—and prom. But while everyone else is fl ipping through the racks at Saks in search of the perfect dress, Hanna, Spencer, Emily, and Aria are on a diff erent kind of hunt: They're looking for A. . . .
Hanna puts her campaign for prom queen on the back burner to volunteer at the burn clinic, where one of A's victims is recovering. Emily digs into Ali's past at the mental hospital with some very crazy consequences. Spencer contacts a private eye to help her stalk her stalker. But when their sessions get a little too private, they may forget to keep their eyes on A. . . . And Aria's worried that A is even closer than she thought. When her dark secret from Iceland fi nally comes to light, she discovers that maybe, just maybe, the one person she's been trying to hide the truth from has known all along.
The liars are fi nally taking the fi ght to A. But no matter what they do, A's always one step ahead, ready to crush the girls completely.
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The 2012 presidential election summoned the familiar drumbeat of criticism aimed at the Electoral College, the constitutionally-mandated voting system that renders the vast majority of ballots essentially meaningless.
Because of the Electoral College, voters in so-called "swing states" have an inordinate amount of power. Despite all the noise about these swing voters, the actual, quantifiable weight of their votes has been largely glossed over. Law Blog crunched the numbers.
In the 2012 election, there are technically eleven swing states, where polls show either candidate has the possibility of winning. Three states – Florida, Virginia and Ohio – are widely considered the most important of those states. Since the conventions, 149 of the campaigns' 255 total tour stops have been in one of those three states, according to data gathered by a non-partisan voting reform group called FairVote. The 39 "spectator states," where the election results were all but decided months ago, got exactly zero visits from the two candidates or their running mates.
Dr. Michael McDonald, a professor at George Mason University, has tallied the voter turnout in every presidential election since 2000. According to Dr. McDonald's data, about 30 million people voted in "swing states" in the 2008 election – equivalent to roughly 10% of the American population at that time.
In Florida, Virginia and Ohio, 18 million people voted in the 2008 election – roughly 6% of the population. If you assume that the election largely comes down to which way people in those three states vote, each ballot carries an incredible amount of weight. To be specific, every ballot has a .0000055% effect on the election. That doesn't sound like a lot, but that makes them 1,650 times more influential than an eligible voter's ballot if all 200 million were counted equally, according to our calculations.
FairVote and other advocates of changes to the voting process believe voting power should be more evenly distributed among the nation's 200 million eligible voters. Andie Levien, a fellow at FairVote, said the organization isn't backing a constitutional amendment, which would be too drastic a step. (And largely impossible. Amendments to the Constitution occur about twice every 50 years). Rather, the organization backs the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which was pioneered by a computer science Ph.D. Named John R. Koza and has been adopted by several states.
Under the compact, states would agree to give all of their electoral votes to the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide. Under the current system, most states give all their Electoral College votes to the candidate that gets the highest number of votes in that state. In essence, the plan circumvents the Electoral College without changing the constitution.


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Definición de crown en inglés:
1A circular ornamental headdress worn by a monarch as a symbol of authority, usually made of or decorated with precious metals and jewels.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Room after room of the Armoury reveals incredible riches, including the imperial crown, mace and sceptre of the Tsars.
- Several months earlier Sir Henry Mildmay had been summoned to give an account of the whereabouts of the crowns, robes, sceptres and jewels.
- His golden crown, laden with jewels, sat on his chest.
coronet, diadem, circlet, tiara
literary coronal
1.1 (the Crown) The reigning monarch, representing a country's government: their loyalty to the Church came before their loyalty to the Crown
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- Our claim has been made to Her Majesty, the Crown, not the Government of Queensland.
- He also asserted the crown's power with an iron will, though, particularly when he embarked on the great adventure of separating the English church from that of Rome.
- British liberal and opposition writing up to 1789 concentrated almost entirely on the dangers of the excessive power of the crown.
monarch, sovereign, king, queen, emperor, empress;
monarchy, royalty
informal royals
1.2An ornament, emblem, or badge shaped like a crown.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- The new badge comprises of a crown, harp, shamrock, laurel leaf and torch and scales with the cross of St Patrick as a centrepiece.
- Kingston's first-ever coordinated Christmas street lighting was on December 3, 1979 in Market Place and Fife Road consisting of 16 shimmering gold crowns.
- The flag has a horizontal red stripe on top, and a wider white stripe with a gold crown surmounted by seven stars in the middle.
1.3A wreath of leaves or flowers, especially that worn as an emblem of victory in ancient Greece or Rome.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- The awards for the winners have also changed over time; in Ancient Greece the champions were given wild olive leaf crowns to wear, as at the time, the olive was a very valuable plant.
- Wearing a traditional costume - a crown of reddish leaves and flowers, necklace and a beaded red bracelet - Taroi leads the men in a chant.
- The girls of Warcop carry their crowns of flowers, which they traditionally gather the previous day, and the boys hold rushes made in the shape of a cross.
1.4An award or distinction gained by a victory or achievement, especially in sports: the world heavyweight crown
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- If she claims an eighth crown over two laps, it would be a championship record.
- The great Floyd Patterson was the last 17-year-old to win an Olympic crown in 1952 when he took the middleweight title.
- The truth is that France only have themselves to blame for the most pathetic defence of the crown in World Cup history.
title, award, accolade, distinction;
trophy, cup, medal, plate, shield, belt, prize;
laurels, bays, palm(s)
2The top or highest part of something: the crown of the hill
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- What they uncovered eventually at the crown of the hill was a huge, oval-shaped monument measuring about 170 metres at its widest point.
- With a sense of drama and spectacle, the Incas often built on the crown of a ridge.
- He walked to the rounded crown of the hill, he procured a metal box from his backpack, unhooking it from a solar battery, and set it down on the earth.
top, crest, summit, peak, pinnacle, tip, head, brow, apex
2.1The top part of a person's head or a hat.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- If you're out for a big night and want some serious volume, spray some super-hold hairspray at the crown of your head and backcomb your hair to give it an extra lift.
- Relax the most resistant hair first, which is usually at the back of the head or at the crown.
- Spray a bit of hair spray onto the crown of your hair and backcomb to give it some volume.
2.2The part of a plant just above and below the ground from which the roots and shoots branch out.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- When potting African violets, take care to set the plant so that the crown is just above the surface and the soil is firmly pressed around it.
- Where winter is severe, cut it back and mulch the crown to protect the roots.
- Position the bare-root plants so the crown of the rootball is right at soil level.
2.3The upper branching or spreading part of a tree or other plant.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- During dryer intervals lightning strikes started fires even on the low-lying areas where they may have spread through the crowns of the trees.
- The many foresters in the group moved slowly as well, squinting up at the crowns of the trees, feeling bark and leaves and identifying the many species we walked among.
- The largest trees were retained as to remove these with their large spreading crowns would damage surrounding trees during felling.
2.4The upper part of a cut gem, above the girdle.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- The bezel setting can either create a smooth, flush, appearance, or leave the gem's crown exposed for extra drama.
- As light passes through the crown of the diamond its path is bent and it is reflected from one facet to another inside the diamond.
2.5The part of a tooth projecting from the gum.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- There are two parts to a tooth: the crown, which is covered by enamel and is the visible part of the tooth, and the root, which lies underneath the gums.
- The outer layer of enamel is an extremely hard, highly mineralized, crystalline structure that covers and protects the crown of the tooth.
- Each tooth is divided into a crown that projects into the mouth and a root that is embedded into the jaws.
2.6An artificial replacement or covering for the upper part of a tooth.
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- Artificial tooth supports surgically set in the jaw are used in combination with bridges, dentures and crowns to replace any number of missing teeth.
- The crowns, bridges or dentures are generally easily replaced, providing the implant underneath is not damaged.
- Non-routine dental expenses, including crowns, bridgework, periodontal and orthodontic treatment, do qualify for tax relief.
2.7The point of an anchor at which the arms reach the shaft.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- With a home made paddle serving as a spade, I quickly dug down to the crown of the anchor and then the lower fluke.
- One end of the rope, which was connected to the boat, was still tied to the anchor's crown.
3 (also crown piece) A British coin with a face value of five shillings or 25 pence, now minted only for commemorative purposes.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Croft twiddled a silver crown piece in his hand and examined it with great interest.
- The medals are about the size of a crown piece, and they look too good to have been done as a joke.
- There were farthings, pennies, oxfords, crowns, florins, shillings, guineas, and pounds, among other divisions.
3.1A foreign coin with a name meaning 'crown,' especially the krona or krone.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- The prize, 75,000 Swedish crowns, is awarded annually in Stockholm.
4.1 (in full crown octavo) A book size, now standardized at 186 × 123 mm.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- The second surviving account book is a crown octavo cash book, single-cash lined in red ink by Scott, as previously, and carrying on the same recording and balancing practices as before.
- The book is a limited edition in Fine condition, full black cloth with gilt, crown octavo.
- The text was extensively altered for the second edition of 1875, and the format was reduced to the usual crown octavo.
4.2 (in full crown quarto) A book size, now standardized at 246 × 189 mm.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Nos.1 to 5 and No.7 are crown quarto in size with a 2-colour titled card cover.
- It is in crown quarto format, with 384 pages and 163 black and white and colour illustrations, casebound with laminated dustjacket.
verbo[with object]
1 (usually be crowned) Ceremonially place a crown on the head of (someone) in order to invest them as a monarch: he went to Rome to be crowned [with complement]: she was crowned queen in 1953
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- It is ceremonially used in the act of crowning a King, Queen or other Sovereign.
- As archbishop, he was close to William III and crowned Anne and George I, but, as a leading advocate of the Hanoverian succession, he was isolated by extreme Tories.
- Before she left, she was crowned Queen, so that her marriage would then make Frederick King of Jerusalem.
enthrone, install;
invest, induct
1.1 [with object and complement] Declare or acknowledge (someone) as the best, especially at a sport: he was crowned world champion last September
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- England return to Twickenham on Saturday for their first meaningful game at the home of the sport since being crowned world champions.
- A year later, he was crowned WBU world champion, a title he would later be stripped of because he didn't have the finances to defend his crown.
- Or will he be able to walk away from Australia knowing that he was still one of the greatest hurdlers that ever lived, regardless of whether he is crowned Olympic champion or not?
1.3Rest on or form the top of: the distant knoll was crowned with trees
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- The railings are broken, the steps descending into Terrace Field are now so wonky that they are impassable to some less agile walkers and many of the trees that once crowned the hilltop have died or blown over.
- The tops of the trees seemed to crown the water and all at once I knew exactly why my dad chose to live here.
- The island's only village is adorned with whispering palm trees, wide spacious streets and a main square crowned by a vast Mexican-style church that seems plucked from a Clint Eastwood film.
top, cap, tip, head, surmount
1.4Fit a crown to (a tooth).
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Then it was home for about 8 hours sleep, then up to Hornsby to see the dentist and finish crowning my tooth (and extracting $1, 000 from my wallet).
- This, in turn, necessitated a visit to the dentist who said the cracked tooth could be crowned.
- It is necessary that once the treatment is done the teeth should be crowned else they would become brittle in no time.
2Be the triumphant culmination of (an effort or endeavor, especially a prolonged one): years of struggle were crowned by a state visit to Paris (as adjective crowning) the crowning moment of a worthy career
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- The success of these efforts was crowned with the signing of the 1953 treaty establishing the European Defence Group.
- The committee are hoping for a fine weekend to crown their efforts.
- For the special forces, British and American, his capture would crown their efforts and make the three-month campaign worthwhile.
round off, cap, be the climax of, be the culmination of, top off, consummate, perfect, complete, put the finishing touch(es) on/to
3 [no object] (Of a baby's head during labor) fully appear in the vaginal opening prior to emerging.
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- It was an easy labour and, within five hours, Filipa was fully dilated and the baby's head was crowning.
- The baby's head is crowning.
- I want to ask my doctor to take off his glasses so that I don't have to be confronted with my own reflection, but at this point the baby's head is crowning and I can feel my body stretching around her skull.
crowning glory
- The best and most notable aspect of something: the scene is the crowning glory of this marvelously entertaining showMás ejemplos en oraciones
- Though her subsequent world titles established the Australian at the pinnacle of her event, the crowning glory was an emotionally charged Games in 2000 when she realized a childhood dream.
- Cities are considered the crowning glory of a country and cultural heritage resources are the jewels in the crown which need to be treasured, preserved and revered by custodians of the culture.
- Its 101 titles include the Sheffield Star, the Lancashire Evening Post and the Wigan Evening Post, while its crowning glory is the Yorkshire Post, one of Britain's most respected dailies.
- chiefly humorous1.1 A person's hair.Oraciones de ejemplo
- Average height, chunky but not fat, with this long, dark, beautiful, shiny hair, her crowning glory you might say, that she sometimes wore in a bun or let loosely lay around her shoulders.
- It was the vibrant flame of her hair, her crowning glory, which made her so instantly recognizable.
- Penny's crowning glory is her beautiful, natural blonde hair and she was petrified she would lose it as a result of the cancer treatment.
to crown it all
- As the final event in a series of particularly fortunate or unfortunate events: it was cold and raining, and, to crown it all, we had to walk homeMás ejemplos en oraciones
- And just to crown it all, when I walked in I was hit by a wall of heat coming from my desk.
- And then, to crown it all, the 'DJ' decided to do a sound check.
- And to crown it all, if the chef's team does not get it right, he tells his head waiter to close the restaurant.
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French corune (noun), coruner (verb), Old French corone (noun), coroner (verb), from Latin corona 'wreath, chaplet'.
A crown is now usually a grand jewelled affair, but the original idea was probably closer to a simple garland or headdress. The root was Latin corona 'wreath' ( see coronary), which is from Greek korōnē 'something bent'—the Greek crown was a laurel branch or wreath of flowers bent around the head to honour a victor or official. See also tiara
Palabras que riman con crownbrown, Browne, clown, down, downtown, drown, frown, gown, low-down, noun, renown, run-down, town, upside-down, uptown
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Cuccio Hosts Training Event in Quebec
Cuccio hosts a training event in Quebec to cover a variety of techniques using the latest technologies.
Last month, Cuccio educator Marilyn Garcia visited north of the border to launch the T3 LED Gel to more than 60 attendees in conjunction with Summum Beaute, Cuccio's exclusive distributor in Quebec. The one-day event, held at the ALT Hotel in Brossard, covered a variety of techniques and design work with the T3 LED Gel, pink and whites, 3D design and Cuccio Colour Veneer. The attendees received certificates upon completion and left with a better understanding of how to use the latest technologies in nails to create length.
According to Garcia, "This was a great opportunity to introduce designer nails to Quebec. Everyone was so receptive to the T3 Gel and they were excited to learn. We made sure it was a classroom atmosphere so that anyone with questions felt free to ask them."
This was the first of several Canadian classes; the second of which was hosted by Elaine Watson in Toronto on April 28. For more information, please visit cuccio.com.
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Spa News: GLAMSQUAD Partners with Essie
On-demand beauty app to offer at-home manicures and pedicures in partnership with essie, launching May 2015 in New York City, NY.
GLAMSQUAD, a leading on-demand beauty app offering professional and affordable hair and makeup services from your home, office, or even a hotel, recently announced its new partnership with essie to bring manicures and pedicures into clients' homes.
The service, which will cost $35 for a manicure ($55 for two), $50 for a pedicure and $75 for a manicure/pedicure together, offers clients the opportunity to kick their feet up, indulge and get their nails done in their favorite essie shades at a time and place convenient to them. From the highly-trained manicurists to the quality of the products being used, GLAMSQUAD ensures a convenient and luxurious experience with a longer-lasting result.
"We have listened to our clients who have expressed a clear desire for having their nails done in the comfort of their own home. Therefore, the expansion into nails was an obvious next step for us. We feel confident that our clients will love our manicures and pedicures," says Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, GLAMSQUAD Co-Founder and CEO.
"Award-winning essie nail color is known for the highest quality with its long-lasting, chip-resistant formula, and we couldn't be more excited to partner with GLAMSQUAD to offer essie manicures in this new environment to clients who want the very best in nail care and services," adds Leena Jain, Vice President, Marketing, essie Professional. "GLAMSQUAD has done an amazing job providing a unique professional beauty experience to women and we are thrilled that essie can be an addition to this high-quality service. Experiencing the world of essie with its array of prismatic colors and unforgettable names is an experience we know the GLAMSQUAD woman will enjoy."
GLAMSQUAD, which currently operates in New York, Los Angeles and Miami, hand-picks experienced beauty professionals who are expertly trained through an extensive and rigorous program to ensure consistent, high-quality results. With a range of signature looks and inspirational styles, GLAMSQUAD offers clients the full celebrity glam experience, helping women look and feel their best before any event, occasion or just because.
The GLAMSQUAD app is available for free download. Prices range from $50 for hair services and $75 for makeup applications. Appointments begin at 6AM and are available as late as 9PM with the ability to book one month in advance. For more information, please visit www.GLAMSQUAD.com.
PBA Announces Beacon 2015 Student Winners & Honorable Mentions
Top Cosmetology Students Win Chance to Participate in PBA Beauty Week
The Professional Beauty Association (PBA) is pleased to announce the winning students and honorable mentions chosen to attend Beacon 2015. These students were selected from more than a thousand applicants based on the creativity, presentation and content of their resume, professional portfolio, and creative marketing pieces. All Beacon applications were judged by PBA members, including top manufacturers, distributors and licensed professionals from across the country. Meet these exceptional students at PBA Beauty Week in Las Vegas July 11-14, 2015.
Held annually as part of PBA Beauty Week, Beacon accepts around 100 winners and invites 200 additional honorable mentions to be a part of this career-building event. Attendees are comprised of the nation's top cosmetology students and PBA strives to help provide them with a foundation to build a successful future in the industry. Designed to educate students on the various components needed to manage an accomplished career, Beacon introduces students to the business side of the industry and provides valuable insight on marketing, business operations, networking and leadership training.
Beacon winners receive free tuition, and honorable mentions pay a small fee to attend PBA Beauty Week in Las Vegas, which includes a full line up of education tailored specifically to them. The Beacon program is long renowned for hosting the industry's most accomplished speakers and this year's program features leading educators including Geno Stampora, Vivienne Mackinder, Stephanie Kocielski. In addition to attending their specialty classes, students tour the Cosmoprof North America trade show floor to meet beauty business leaders and attend PBA's annual Business Forum, featuring the Beauty Pitch, where they learn the role global distributors and manufacturers play in the industry. As part of this year's Beauty Week, PBA is encouraging Beacon winners and honorable mentions to post the "I am a 2015 Beacon Winner!" and "I am a 2015 Beacon Honorable Mention!" graphics on their social media pages, along with #BEACON2015, as a way for their followers to support them on their journey to Beauty Week.
For a full list of the winners and the schools they currently attend, please visit probeauty.org/beaconwinners. If you would like to sponsor the 2015 Beacon program, please visit probeauty.org/beacon.
DAYSPA Wins Western Publishing Association's Maggie Award for Global Speak Column
DAYSPA received the Western Publishing Association's (WPA) Maggie award for Best Regularly Featured Department, Section or Column in a Trade Publication for our Global Speak column at the WPA's annual awards ceremony on May 1, 2015.
Recognizing that an increasingly globalized economy calls for a big-picture view of small business, DAYSPA launched Global Speak in January 2014. The column, written by top spa industry consultant, travel journalist and DAYSPA contributing editor Lisa Starr, touches on points such as geography, demographics, spa traditions, consumer habits and spa business practices. Regions featured in Global Spa in 2014 include Africa, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Morocco, the Nordic countries, Thailand and Western Europe.
"Global Speak provides a glimpse into the meaning, practice and business of spas around the world, and reinforces the concept of a global spa and wellness community," says DAYSPA executive editor Linda Kossoff. "We're truly honored to have been recognized by the WPA for our efforts to bring this aspect of the industry to our readers."
Spa News: Dr. Deepak Chopra to be Keynote Speaker at 2015 Global Wellness Summit
Best-selling author and pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine to address delegates at ninth annual conference in Mexico City
The Global Wellness Summit (GWS), an annual event that attracts international leaders and visionaries, recently announced Dr. Deepak Chopra as a keynote speaker for its ninth annual conference. Chopra, author of over 80 books, including 22 New York Times bestsellers, is a leading, global figure in wellbeing and alternative medicine. He was hailed as "the pioneer of alternative medicine" by President William Clinton, while TIME magazine has described him as "one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century."
Chopra joins a long list of internationally recognized and inspiring keynote speakers, including His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, to grace the GWS stage. He will address delegates on this year's theme, "Building a Well World," during the conference taking place at The St. Regis Mexico City from November 13-15.
"I'm thrilled to be a part of this gathering of like-minded, forward-thinking wellness influencers who are committed to helping to create a peaceful, just, sustainable, happier and healthy world," said Chopra whose soon-to-be released book, Super Genes (Harmony, November 2015), co-authored by Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, will be released just prior to the conference in early November.
In addition to his status as a best-selling author, Chopra is also the founder of The Chopra Foundation and Co-founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing, and has received countless honors for his work and humanitarian efforts. Chopra's medical training is in internal medicine and endocrinology and he is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and serves as an Adjunct Professor at both the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Columbia Business School, Columbia University.
"There are few people whose impact on the way we think about health and wellbeing has been as profound and wide reaching as Dr. Chopra's, and we're thrilled he accepted our invitation to speak at this year's Summit," said Susie Ellis, Chairman and CEO of the Global Wellness Summit. "He has transformed the way the world views physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social wellness, and it is this holistic, sophisticated understanding of wellbeing that we, as an organization, are always striving to communicate."
The Summit is widely recognized as the premier gathering of business, government and academic leaders across the wellness, travel and spa industries - and for its high-profile, keynote speakers and innovative agenda, industry research, Global Wellness Tourism Congress and business networking opportunities. The Summit is an exclusive gathering for senior executives, for information about attending click here.
To learn more about the 2015 GWS, visit www.globalwellnesssummit.com/2015-summit.
Spa News: Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spa Appoints Chad Waetzig as New Chief Marketing Officer
Chad Waetzig brings more than 25 years of experience in the beauty, entertainment, and hospitality industries to the Red Door Spa executive team.
Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spa recently announced the appointment of Chad Waetzig as its Chief Marketing Officer. Mr. Waetzig brings more than 25 years of experience in the beauty, entertainment, and hospitality industries to the Red Door Spa executive team. In this role, Mr. Waetzig will be focused on leading Red Door growth initiatives through brand repositioning, new business opportunities, and brand partnerships to address a changing competitive landscape.
Most recently, Mr. Waetzig served in an executive advisory role for Blink Fitness, a subsidiary of Equinox, where he led the development of a new brand communications platform, including integrated advertising campaigns to drive new lead generation. Prior to Blink Fitness, Chad served in leadership marketing and branding roles for The Walt Disney Company, Starwood Hotels and Resorts, and Marriott International where he led brand repositioning, growth, and guest enrichment initiatives around the world. Chad began his marketing career with Procter & Gamble in its Beauty Care Division, developing brand strategies and new product launches for Cover Girl and Max Factor cosmetics.
"We are excited to have Chad join Red Door Spa, as his achievements reflect his ability to build, revitalize, and transform brands through strategy and integrated marketing campaigns in highly competitive markets," said Todd Walter, CEO of Red Door Spa Holdings. "We're eager for him to spearhead and refocus the growth of the Red Door Spa brand, and maintain its leadership within the spa industry."
TouchAmerica Announces Advisory Board for Next Generation Spa & Salon Development
TouchAmerica collaborates with industry leaders to create innovative wellness spaces.
TouchAmerica, one of the leading US-based manufacturers of spa and salon equipment, is pleased to announce the formation of their new Advisory Board. The mission of the Advisory Board is to envision creative wellness solutions for spa and salons, as well as lodging and retail spaces.
TouchAmerica Advisory Board:
Leon Alexander
Chief Executive Officer/President
Eurisko Design
Blake Feeney
Cheryl Hartsough
Thor Holm
Account Representative
Director of Spa, Recreation & Fitness
Feeney & Co
The Industry Source/Nailco
Hammock Beach Resort/ Salamander Resorts
Alison Howland
Principal /Partner
Spa Success / Well World Group
Robert Henry
Eva Jensch
Gordon Tareta
Diane Trieste
Deborah Waldvogel
Chief Operating Officer
Spa Director
Director of Spa Development & Operations
Robert D. Henry Architects
Spa Concepts International
Marilyn Monroe Spas
Blue Heaven Spa /Art of Living Retreat Center
Sedona Resorts
The board represents the top echelon of spa developers, designers, architects, operators and suppliers-including two former ISPA Chairs, Thor Holm and Deborah Waldvogel, current ISPA Board members Blake Feeney, and former ISPA Board Members Cherly Hartsough and Diane Trieste.
"Forming the Advisory Board of spa industry heavy hitters is crucial to our commitment to service spas and salons in 2015 and beyond," said Stewart Griffith, CEO of TouchAmerica. "For more than 30 years, TouchAmerica has partnered with developers, operators and consultants to create innovate massage tables and spa equipment that solve real issues. Our offerings have grown with the needs of the industry to include custom furniture, reception desks/podiums, creative salon furniture, cabinetry, retail shelving and displays, and more. Our Advisory committee is excited to co-create innovate wellness solutions to satisfy the demands of the new generation of spa and hotel guests."
Hotel guests are looking for spa and wellness experiences outside the four walls of the spa, according to Trends(r) in the Hotel Spa Industry by PKF Consulting USA, In the future, hotels will take advantage of this desire and drive revenue elsewhere in the hotel by creating unique experiences centered around wellness.
"One of my goals as a TouchAmerica Advisory Board member is to envision new ways of delivering the spa experience," said Eva Jensch, principal of Spa Concepts International, consultant for Four Seasons, Hilton, Hyatt, Radisson, Starwood, Ritz Carlton and Spa at The Palace Downtown Dubai-winner of the Best Hotel Spa in the Middle East at the 2013 World Luxury Spa Awards.
"I'm impressed with the company's commitment to environmentally responsible solutions," continues Jensch. "TouchAmerica is a longtime partner of Aveda and has been tasked with sourcing eco-friendly materials and implementing sustainable practices at their North Carolina manufacturing facility. And, of course, it feels good supporting 'Made in the USA.'"
For more information, visit www.touchamerica.com.
Green Spa Network Announces New Membership Structure in Honor of Earth Day
Free Associate Membership brings sustainability resources to all, while Contributing Membership lets green spa leaders shine.
In honor of Earth Day, the Green Spa Network (GSN) recently unveiled a new membership structure designed to make joining the network easier and expand the non-profit organization's impact. The new Associate Member and Contributing Member levels will provide an improved foundation for the ongoing development of focused spa sustainability resources for the spa industry.
Beginning on Earth Day, anyone interested in learning more about or taking action for sustainability will be able to join the movement as a GSN Associate Member for FREE at www.greenspanetwork.org. "There are so many people opening to sustainable opportunities beyond basic eco-greening, the GSN board of directors wanted to be able to provide our tools to anyone who can benefit from them without the barrier of dues," says Green Spa Network Executive Director Paul Schmidt. "Our new memberships now make it even easier for spas and supplier partners all over the world to collaborate for a sustainable future."
The Associate Membership is to support people who know there is a bright future ahead if we all work together through networking, education and being in action. Associate Members will stay in the know regarding sustainability and spas through GSN's news and informational messages and have full access to GSN's Sustainability Assessment Tool and Greening Toolkit, as well as a wide range of fulfilling volunteer opportunities.
Spa leaders who share GSN's passion for being in action and wish to support the spa sustainability movement can join as a Contributing Member. Contributing Members can have their spa listed on GSN's Green Spa Locator Map and enjoy other exclusive benefits such as supplier discounts and offers, media and marketing opportunities, member decal and wall certificates, preferred rates for GSN events, and more. GSN Contributing Members believe that spas can lead the way in promoting sustainable business and lifestyles and strive to "walk the talk" through ongoing improvement at their own properties. One year of Contributing Membership is just $360 USD.
"It's exciting to expand our reach because our work is so important in shaping the future of our industry and conducting business that is both socially and environmentally responsible," says Tara Grodjesk, GSN Founder, Board Member and Chair of the Congress and Personal Care Committees.
For more information, please visit www.greenspanetwork.org.
Running Y Ranch Introduces Inclusive Health Program Focused on Overall Wellness
Running Y Ranch, located in Southern Oregon, is expanding its spa services to include a new Inclusive Health program from health expert Dr. Howard Murad.
Running Y Ranch, southern Oregon's premiere full-service resort, announced the addition of the Inclusive Health program, a breakthrough approach to health and wellness designed by Howard Murad, MD, FAAD and founder of Murad, Inc., that offers an integrated multidisciplinary approach to help create a stronger, healthier body. Running Y's Sandhill Spa will be among an exclusive list of health spas in the United States to provide the certified program.
Dr. Murad's pioneering research and clinical studies into The Science of Cellular Water™ have established him as an international authority on health and the aging process. The Science of Cellular Water, recognized as the world's most comprehensive approach to understanding health and aging, looks at the ability of cell membranes to hold water as the fundamental marker of youthful good health. Using insights gained from his discoveries, Dr. Murad developed Inclusive Health.
The Inclusive Health approach marks a significant shift about what it means to lead a healthy lifestyle, beyond something that can achieved by spot-treating health problems, trying the latest fitness trend, getting the best spa treatments or treating skin with the newest active ingredients. At the heart of Inclusive Health is a three-faceted approach that helps people Look Better through high–performance clinical skincare, Live Better through nutrition, supplements and exercise, and Feel Better by managing stress.
Looking Better through targeted topical skin care is critical to health, as well as appearance, because the skin is connected to every system in the body. Living Better enhances the body's capacity to heal itself through careful choices of food and dietary supplements that give it the building blocks it needs to function at its peak. Feeling Better encourages people to put themselves first and take care of their needs through high-touch services such as a facial or professional massage as a strategy for managing the impact of stress. The integration of all three facets of care provides a comprehensive system designed to help people look and feel their absolute best.
A leading visionary in the fields of skincare and dermatology, Dr. Murad holds 19 patents for advances in the science of skin health. He has received numerous recognitions, including being named the "Best Forward-Thinking Doctor" by Vogue Magazine, a "Beauty Genius" by Elle Magazine and an "Industry Visionary" by the International SPA Association. Dr. Murad recently conducted a tour to promote his latest book, "Conquering Cultural Stress: The Ultimate Anti-Aging Secret - 3 Steps to Looking, Living and Feeling Better" with events in Chicago, New York, Miami and Los Angeles.
For information about the work and career of Dr. Murad and to learn more about Inclusive Health, visit MuradInclusiveHealth.com.
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Babies Love Massage Too!
Check out this treatment for the "baby blues"!
Clients can never be too young! Watch this adorable video (and keep an eye out for our June issue's story about marketing to young clients)!
Sabias que los bebes tambien se estresan ? Todos necesitamos un masajito de vez en cuando.
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Sheriff's Office identifies woman
Published: Monday, November 4, 2013 at 5:11 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, November 4, 2013 at 5:11 p.m.
An injured woman found sitting in front of a Tuxedo business Monday has been identified by Henderson County sheriff's deputies, who notified her family.
Earlier Monday, sheriff's deputies responded to a call about an injured female sitting at a business in Tuxedo, but she did not know her name or where she lived.
The sheriff's office disseminated a photograph of the woman, hoping family members would come forward and identify her.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - With recent drought conditions, there may be no better time to discuss the state of our river here in Western Colorado. Tonight, the community is invited to come out, listen, learn, and voice their concerns on what's turning out to be a difficult water year in Mesa County.
Water is flowing… but not quite like it has in years past.
"Last year was a historically high year. So we're between 30 and 40 percent of average, and last year was way higher than average," says Hannah Holm, coordinator for the Water Center at Colorado Mesa University. "It has been a very, very dry winter and a very warm spring."
It could spell out an even drier summer, when water is especially important for irrigation and keeping endangered fish alive.
Holm says the area between DeBeque Canyon and where the Gunnison River starts is a major habitat for these fish.
"So there are a number of cooperative efforts among all the water users to try to keep enough water in the river for the fish so that they can recover," she says.
But in a drought year like this, it's not so easy to meet everyone's needs.
"And there's a possibility that going forward we could be facing more dry years," says Holm.
With the state population likely to double by 2050, Coloradans will need more water in years to come.
"We have more demands coming on the water and we have the same or possibly less water to draw on. So we're going to have to get really creative," she says.
Tonight's river meeting will focus on all of this, plus touch on the history of the Colorado River District, celebrating its 75th year. They also plan to look ahead to plan for the future of Mesa County's water usage and what we can do to prepare for potential droughts to come.
The meeting starts at 6:30 tonight over at Colorado Mesa University, it will be held in the ballroom of the University Center. All are welcome to attend.


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AMES, Iowa. -- After watching 10th-seeded Florida State open the game by making four straight shots to take an 11-4 lead, Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer wanted to change defensive schemes.
Her assistant coaches were advising her to stay with more of a man-to-man approach, but VanDerveer had a feeling that switching to a little-used zone defense might work.
Did it ever.
The switch helped stifle the Seminoles offense and propelled second-seeded Stanford to a 63-44 win, sending the Cardinal back to the Sweet 16 for the seventh straight season.
"Against all the other coaches on the bench, I went out on my own," VanDerveer said. "We had played a minimal amount of zone (this season)."
Senior Chiney Ogwumike had 21 points and nine rebounds and freshman Lili Thompson added 14 points to lead Stanford (31-3). The Cardinal now returns home to Maples Pavilion to host its region's next round against the winner of Tuesday's game between No. 3 seed Penn State and No. 11 seed Florida.
But to survive the tournament's first weekend and return home unscathed, the Cardinal first had to get past Florida State, the school that prevented Stanford from reaching the Sweet 16 in 2007.
After the quick start by the Seminoles, Stanford's zone defense held Florida State to just one field goal over the final 121/2 minutes of the first half. The stingy streak fueled a 28-5 run that allowed the Cardinal to go into the break leading by 16 points.
"It was definitely the turning point for our team," VanDerveer said. "It helped us get some stops, stop the bleeding, come back and score a couple times, and then it just gained momentum. Our team was like, 'Yeah, this is really working.' "
The Seminoles finished the first half just 7 of 28 (25 percent) from the field and finished 18 of 58 (31 percent) overall on the night. The shooting percentage was a season low for Florida State, as were the 44 total points and 16 first-half points.
Seminoles star Natasha Howard was scoreless in the first half and finished with nine points.
"Once we changed to our zone, it felt like the game changed," Thompson said. "We were communicating well in it. We knew when someone was running the baseline or when there were spots we needed to cover. We were working a well-oiled unit."
Ogwumike, who became the Pac-12's all-time leading scorer in Saturday's first-round win over South Dakota, was held in check in the early going. But after being held scoreless for over six minutes to start the game, Ogwumike ignited the Cardinal offense by scoring six straight points -- and 10 overall -- during a decisive 16-0 run. Ogwumike's 3-point play gave the Cardinal a 17-14 lead, and it never trailed again.
VanDerveer said Saturday that returning home with a pair of wins in Ames and earning the chance to play in front of its home crowd was her team's sole focus. Now that they've done that, VanDerveer hopes the home-court advantage can help the Cardinal get a step closer to reaching the Final Four for the sixth time in seven years.
"For us, it's a great win," VanDerveer said. "We're very excited, and we're really looking forward to playing at Stanford in the Stanford regional."
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Producer Neil Moritz (S.W.A.T., 2 Fast 2 Furious and its upcoming sequel—we can't resist, 3 Faster 3 Furiouser?) has signed on to bring the Johnny Depp TV vehicle 21 Jump Street to the big screen for Paramount.
It seems that Depp is a little tied up with being a huge, movie-star pirate these days. But we're pretty sure Paramount can get Richard Grieco if they can find someone to keep an eye on the deep frier during takes.
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MILLER: At what point in the development process should companies be looking for a CMO to work with them on their early-stage CMC requirements?
JONES: You might want to start looking for a CMO before you have identified your lead compound. There are some companies that will help you identify your lead compound and tell you which one has the best qualities to move forward into manufacturing. Otherwise, when you have identified your lead compound, you should already be thinking about how to manufacture it and at what scale, and what your needs are going to be for early clinical trials, and go from there to figure out which CMO you want to work with.MILLER: Does that mean you really need to have some experience in developing a drug or work with somebody who can advise you on what decisions to make and when?
JONES: It's certainly helpful to have advisors who have knowledge about drug development. A lot of new products are coming out of academic laboratories, where there is less experience in drug development. They should look earlier for development help and get CMOs involved as early as possible.
MILLER: When you go out to look for a CMO, what kind of information should you have in hand that you can bring to them, so that they can evaluate your requirements?
JONES: Obviously you should know what your compound is and what you are trying to manufacture, and anything you know about its performance characteristics. For example, is glycosylation important, so it needs to be in a mammalian system? Is it small and can you make it in a microbial system? Anything you know about what the product is going to end up looking like is very important.
MILLER: What characteristics should a biopharmaceutical company look for when it is choosing a CMO?
JONES: There are different types of CMOs out there with different service offerings. It depends really on what your resources are, what your risk tolerance is, and what your long-term strategy is. If you have the resources, you may choose a CMO that can take you all the way through commercialization, that has full quality and compliance systems, and larger bioreactors. Maybe you prefer to go with a smaller, high-quality, earlier-stage CMO that's not going to get you all the way through, and plan to do a technology transfer later to a larger organization for late-stage and commercialization. There are a variety of other attributes that you should consider, including location. One of the most important things is identifying a team of people you can work with, so that when you meet them, the interactions are good and you know you can develop a process with them.
MILLER: Many CMOs these days are offering proprietary expression systems with the promise that those systems have been optimized and can get you into the clinic more quickly, and can give you much better yields sooner than if you have to develop an expression system from scratch. What's your feeling about the tradeoff between proprietary systems and individually developed systems?
JONES: It's true that there are a number of proprietary expression systems, both mammalian and microbial, and that you will pay some kind of license fee, access fee, or royalty for, but that can give you much higher expression so you can run fewer batches earlier on. That will lead to significant cost savings and give you better cost of goods in the later stages when you commercialize the product. If you have the time and don't need as much product and don't want to pay for it, then there are systems out there that have been off patent and that also can be accessed. I certainly believe there are benefits of proprietary expression systems but I believe they are not for everybody.


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Barbara Schuster, 84, of New Rockford, N.D., died Monday, March 13, 2013, at her home in New Rockford.
Her funeral service will be held Tuesday, March 19 at 10:30 a.m. at St. John's Catholic Church, New Rockford. Visitation will be held Monday from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. with a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Evans Funeral Home, New Rockford.
Burial will be in St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery, rural Bremen, N.D., in the Spring 2013.
Evans Funeral Home, New Rockford, is in charge of arrangements.
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Baker College Manufacturing Expo & Picnic Aug. 20 to Offer Tours of Expanded Lab, Career InformationAugust 5, 2014
New mobile Fab Lab makes area debut
CHARLEVOIX, Mich. – Baker College of Cadillac is opening the doors to its ramped-up manufacturing training lab at the Charlevoix Middle/High School (CMS/HS) for tours for community members, including prospective students and manufacturers, at its Advanced Manufacturing Expo & Picnic, Wednesday, Aug. 20.
The event is free and open to the public. It will be 4:30-7 p.m., at 5200 Marion Center Road, Charlevoix, and offer:
- Baker College advanced manufacturing lab tours and equipment demonstrations, including the recent equipment additions that nearly double the lab's machining capacity.
- Information about 21st century manufacturing careers.
- Examples of some of the items manufactured in Northern Michigan.
- Tours of North Central Michigan College's Fab Lab, a new 44-foot mobile digital fabrication lab designed for workforce development and supported by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), Northern Lakes Economic Alliance (NLEA) and Precision Edge Surgical Products Company, a medical instruments manufacturer in Boyne City with headquarters in Sault Ste. Marie.
- A picnic dinner, including pulled-pork sandwiches.
- Enrollment and financial aid information for Baker's two manufacturing programs.
"The goal of the Expo & Picnic is to excite people about manufacturing careers," said Mark Lagerwey, dean of business and technology for Baker College of Cadillac. "We're on the front lines of the great search to fill a true talent void in Northern Michigan. This is a one-stop event for information about effective training programs and rewarding careers in manufacturing."
On hand to lead the Baker College lab tours and provide equipment demonstrations will be members of the first cohort of students who will soon complete Baker's computer numerical control (CNC) operator certificate program launched at CMS/HS last year.
Representatives of area manufacturers, who are also members of the Baker College manufacturing program advisory committee, will provide employment information and display examples of items that are manufactured in Northern Michigan. Personnel from Baker College of Cadillac admissions and financial aid departments will be available for enrollment information.
Baker College offers evening classes at CMS/HS for two manufacturing programs: the CNC operator certificate and the advanced manufacturing associate degree. The programs are open to adults as well as high school juniors and seniors through a dual-enrollment program.
Fall quarter begins Monday, Sept. 29, and registration continues through the first week of classes.
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I've been talking about them, complaining about what you CAN'T do, about the troubles with 3D cards... Personally I'm getting a bit lost with all this. So, I've decided to compile all the information I could find out about those pesky 3D desktops.
Since last week, comments, accounts from other websites, personal experiments, further readings and general nosiness allowed me to update my article. Still, further comments are welcome.
A "what is" guide to 3D desktops—updated
Essentially developed by Novell for SuSE and the first "elegant" 3D desktop, it came out with Compiz, a window manager that can replace Gnome's (and now KDE's and others) window manager. Allowing desktop rotations, window transparencies and deformations, it is nice-looking, fluid and can run on hardware more than five years old.
In short, if your existing X configuration supports somewhat advanced 3D acceleration and DRI, you can run XGL: it will start your normal X, ask it to draw a single, full-screen OpenGL window in which a simple new X server runs...
The advantage:
It will run (fast) on almost any 4 year-old video hardware, provided it has accelerated 3D (free or otherwise).
It will run on older cards, but don't expect astonishing performances.
The problems:
Cards that can't handle outputting video (meaning colour spaces different than xRGB) to a texture will have to use software rendering; it's slower than video output to a VGA framebuffer, and 3D acceleration for applications require the card to handle several GL contexts.
Championed by Red Hat and NVIDIA (amongst others) this method intends to add 3D acceleration to composite (ie. which can declare any element rendered separately and asks the hardware to assemble it all on screen) X; this was accepted by the Xorg and freedesktop projects, so version 7.1 of Xorg has seen a nice AIGLX extension added. This solves the two main problems XGL encountered: 3D acceleration is still made available to applications, and video output can still make use of existing X extentions like xv.
AIGLX first came with a modified version of Metacity, Gnome's default window manager. Changes to Metacity are being merged upstream, and its plugins are being homogeneized with Compiz's.
However, AIGLX requires full compliance with the X ABI version 1.0, the support of GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, and DRI support; things that most proprietary drivers don't support fully as of yet, not even NVIDIA, proponent of the project: DRI doesn't work with their "legacy" driver (71.84), and GL_EXT_texture_from_pixmap isn't supported (71.84 and 87.74).
One good comment about both ATI's and NVIDIA's drivers though, those were quite quickly updated to support the new X 1.0 ABI.
Meaning that right now, only owners of Intel, some Sis and older ATI hardware (pre-X1xxx) can make use of AIGLX, since those have free, AIGLX-supporting drivers.
The Support
|Xorg 7
|i810 to i965
|See Xorg's
|2D,3D, closed
|2D,3D, closed
|Rage128 to Radeon 9200
|was there one?
|Radeon 7000 to Radeon 9200
|Radeon 9500 to X1850
(#)These cards require legacy NVIDIA driver (71.84). "MX" relates to both GF2MX and GF4MX, since both are Geforce2-level.
(##)3D applications are accelerated on a Geforce 6 (not tried on others), video is fast from the FX onward.
(*)Card models named Rage (128, Mobility, II, pro etc.) were either Mach64 2D chips with added functionalities (those don't have a working DRI/DRM and are called with the "ati" driver) or "real" 3D chips (their DRI/DRM module is r128). 3D works with r128, but missing visuals make Compiz unable to load.
(**)Early Radeon (7x00 to 9200) are fully supported by Xorg's "radeon" driver.
(***)Card models from 9500 to X600 use the R3xx chip family. 3D support is being implemented, and AIGLX is working on R3XX cores (tested 9500, got reports on 9600). R4xx is under heavy development. If the free driver supports 3D, then AIGLX support is practically guaranteed.
"Useless" refers to the fact that there are no working proprietary 3D driver, and that the driver integrated with Xorg is good enough to run AIGLX—which works better than XGL anyway. So while XGL would work, it is of no use except if you use an older version of Xorg or Xfree86.
Cards I could try
NVIDIA has no worthwhile free driver, so you basically need to use their closed one. Luckily, they have quite nice support.
The NouVeau project has made some progress on a free driver though: right now, they're adding EXA and DRI/DRM support to the nv driver... They're doing an extraordinary job with very little data to base themselves on, so if you could help them...
But let's now see what I discovered:
- I've tried a Riva TNT rev.4 with 16MB of SDRAM. It ran without DRI using legacy NVIDIA driver on a 800x600x32bit driver (16bit didn't display windows or desktop), at a snail's pace. More RAM, a higher clocked chip and working NVIDIA DRI support would provide much better results.
- The Geforce 4 is a ti4200 with 128MB of DDR; it didn't have accelerated video, but I think 3D acceleration worked for applications. DRI was reported to work.
- Geforce FX 5200 with 128MB of DDR and Geforce 6600 with 256MB were the more "recent" NVIDIA hardware I tried. Video was stable on both, and 3D worked on the 6600 (Google Earth worked fast).
Conclusion, recent NVIDIA drivers run XGL on basically all cards, but good performance requires recent hardware.
I don't have as great a range of ATI hardware as I have NVIDIA; still, here is some information.
- A Mach64-based Rage Mobility (M1) would load a DRM module (not compiled by default on vanilla kernels), but it would issue a DRI/DRM version mismatch. Courageous folks may get it to work, but...
- An r128 (Rage128 TVout) card could load AIGLX, but misses visuals 0x23 to 0x32—so compiz won't load on Rage 128 hardware (maybe once all visuals are implemented in the driver...)
- No r100 or r200 cards, sorry. However, they are considered fully supported, so my guess is AIGLX works very well on those.
- A R300 (Radeon 9500) could run AIGLX, and quite well—the driver may need some more licking, but it basically works.
I have nothing more recent at my disposal, so owners of X6xx to X1xxx cards, if you could please give me a status report on those cards, with both the free and closed source driver, on both AIGLX and XGL...
Only a 750 available to test; there is no 3D support and no DRM module for those cards, so no 3D desktop on it at all. Too bad.
No hardware to test; a report of AIGLX working slowly on a i810 reached me, and the Fedora website reports good working 830 to 9XX, so it stands to reason to think that AIGLX works well on pretty much all Intel IGPs anyway.
If I get more information, I will update this chart more. I'm currently writing a more complete guide—that I'll publish in PDF format here—with more in-depth details.
It would be nice to get detailed comments on the hardware you test and report: distribution, proprietary/free driver, chip revision, amount of video RAM, X version, etc.
Personally, I use the latest Mandriva 2007 RC (with Cooker updates) on a spare hard drive that I move from one computer to the other. It uses recent CVS extracts of Mesa, meaning that it supports the widest range available of free 3D drivers. More recent would be Gentoo, but I don't feel like learning a new distribution for those tests.
Last weeks entry—A glimpse into 3D desktops....
AIGLX on Fedora Core
I've been using AIGLX on Fedora Core 6 test series now for some time... It performs amazingly well on my laptop's meager 915 shared memory graphics chip.
If you're into the Fedora scene, once FC6 goes final (and right now in the test series), you can enable AIGLX+Compiz from within Gnome via System Menu -> Preferences -> More Preferences -> Desktop Effects. Just click the "Enable Desktop Effects" and enjoy, or file a bug report ;)
Radeon 9200 is pretty solid
I'm sorry I don't know the chipset number, but the ATI Radeon 9200 card works pretty well for me. The biggest win with this card is that the free-licensed DRI driver for it works well.
I have an nVidia on one of my machines, but when I went from the 2.4 to the 2.6 Linux kernel, I lost the proprietary binary driver modules, and simply have not had the time or desire to reintegrate closed-source drivers. I'm planning to spend a little money on buying an ATI 9200 that I know will just work out-of-the-box with Debian.
Unfortunately, from what I hear, the later ATI cards are closed and undocumented, which means this will probably be the last ATI model I buy, too. Which leaves something of a vacuum.
I'm hoping that the consumer model of the Open Graphics Project video card will be coming out in a year or so (they are currently gearing up to manufacture the prototype/developer FPGA-based boards, which is promising, but there's still a lot of work remaining on the project). When the ASIC-based card hits the market, I'll probably start using those instead of any of the closed proprietary cards.
Re: Radeon 9200 is pretty solid
I think I made a mistake on my array: I mentioned the 9200 in 2 ranges, while it should be in only one.
Basically, 3D works solidly on older Radeon hardware, while Rage is something else: it supports 3D operation, but ALL rage hardware (be it mach64-based or 'pure' Rage128, up to and including models higher than the Rage II and Rage Fury) can't support AIGLX or XGL.
Radeon 7000 to 9200 are based on r100 and r200 cores, which benefited from limited sources released by Ati, thus leading to a very solid free implementation. r300 uses some functionalities from previous generations, and the rest is being reverse-engineered to get a more complete support.
- since I hadn't logged in
- since I hadn't logged in when submitting the previous post - r300 has gotten VERY solid: I've tried it on a 9500, and many people report very good success with 9500/9700/9800. It should work very well with all the other cards (9600) with the free driver.
A 9800 is a nice card, even by today's standards: it supports fully programmable shaders, it's clocked high enough to roar, and, well, I still haven't found a 3D app on Linux that could saturate it.
If you can find one, go for it - it is a VERY big upgrade over the 9200, which is basically a tweaked and overclocked 8500.
A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows.
help plz.....
I have ATI RADEON 200 . I am not able to get the desktop effects enabled
I found that compiz was not
I found that compiz was not installed as part of my upgrade to Fedora Core 6. I had to 'yum install compiz' to be able to do System->Preferences->Desktop Effects and enable compiz
200M and AIGLX?
sounds good!! Did you use xgl and the fglrx drivers or did you use the ati/radeon drivers and AIGLX? If so (with AIGLX), could you tell me, which configuration you used in xorg.conf?
THX a lot! Benedikt
Radeon 7000 Mobility
Radeon 7000 Mobility with 16Mb on video RAM on my notebook works quite nicely with AIGLX and the open source "radeon" driver. I can run compiz and 3D games. Of course not with T&L as this card does not support that.
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (R350) Seems to be fine
I have not been using it for long, but it appears that Beryl on X.org 7.1 (AIGLX) with the "ati" open source driver is working well for me.
ATI Mobility Radeon X1300
I have an ATI X1300 in a nc6400 HP Laptop and using the ATI/AMD fglrx proprietary driver doesn't allow to get AIGLX and Composite extension :-(
I'm trying to see how to enable the XGL instead of X with AIGLX, but didn't find any way so far.
I have an AGP x1300 and no
I have an AGP x1300 and no luck for me either usung the ati drivers from their website.
Is your x1300 using shared
Is your x1300 using shared system memory, turbocache, or its own complete framebuffer?
If it's using turbocache, I think even proprietary drivers can't make 3D work on this card. Either shared RAM or local RAM are required.
fglrx requires you to use XGL and disable Composite.
radeon should work nicely with AIGLX and no options required.
A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows.
I have a SiS 661/741/760/761 PCI/AGP VGA Display ... do you know if Compiz/AIGLX will run on this?
look at the table. No
look at the table. No 3D.
A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows.
ATI Mobility Radeon X1300
I have a nc6400 too and I'm using omega drivers but they are unable to display 1440*900 with a 75hz refresh rate for an external LCD monitor.With a 60hz refresh rate the monitor looks too wavy.Any suggestions.
Not driver
Your problem is more than likely a lousy external DAC - it can only do 60 Hz refresh in ????x900 resolution on the external display. Try resolutions with less lines (like 1280x768) and see if you have a higher refresh rate. If not, you can try configuring your xorg.conf file by hand to force it to output higher refresh rates. It's unlikely to work though.
A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows.
"ati" driver
It looks like the "ati" driver is a wrapper to autodetect the card. It seems that the "atimisc" is what gets loaded if your rage128 isn't really a 3D card.
the ati driver, in fact, covers:
mach (mach32/64, and early Rage which were in fact 2D mach with a triangle unit)
r128 (other rage chips)
radeon (r100 to r400).
you can either specify the generic ati driver, or select the one most appropriate to your card's generation.
A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows.


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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that is trying to decide what to dress as this All Hollows' Eve.
It seems a rather strange tradition when one thinks about it. Men, women and children donning costumes, makeup, prosthetics and such just to score a little free candy. We don't mean to sound like ol' sticks in the mud (we enjoy seeing animals dressed up as much as the next guy, in fact we had a weimaraner pup running around the Corporate Suites just the other day wearing a hot dog costume). It's just that it seems to be a little over the top. We're all for having a good time (we confess, sometimes a little too much of a good time), it's just that it seems to like a party for the sake of a party.
Perhaps we can garner some inspiration from the the peeps pictured above. They seem to be having a good time.
Well, that's all we've got. Until tomorrow, we out.


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The New Hampshire entry list includes Toomas Heikkinen, the current Global Rallycross points leader; Tanner Foust, two-time defending Global Rallycross champion and host of "Top Gear"; Travis Pastrana, the defending Global Rallycross at New Hampshire race winner; and former Formula 1 drivers Nelson Piquet Jr. and Scott Speed.
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Get weather right in your menu bar.
MenuWeather is a simple, yet powerful, menu bar weather client.
▶ Super-accurate weather data from CustomWeather.com which provides weather to Fortune 100 and 500 companies
▶ Automatically determines your location
▶ Quick access to any number of days or hours of weather right in your menu bar
▶ 15 day forecast
▶ 2 day hourly forecast
▶ Radar maps
▶ Severe weather alerts (U.S. & Canada only, everywhere else coming soon)
▶ See the weather for multiple locations
▶ Many customization options
▶ Growl integration
Weather is available in every language through MenuWeather however, the application's preferences are only available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish and Dutch.
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Tags: menu , weather , menubar , corelocation , menuextra , temperature , menu , weather , menubar , corelocation , menuextra , temperature
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Best application of its kind on OS X.
It's amazing and work fine. Thanks.
After the problems at the beginning it now works fine. Nice app, thanks :)
Amazing idea, this app. For a while, it's been working wonderfully.
But as of today I experienced an epic memory leak from the app, causing it to soak up 1,35 Gb of my RAM. Made my Mac quite slow for a while, but all seems back to normal again.
Otherwise a cool app.
Yeah, you do have to add the key, and yes it's a bool value. I fixed some bugs and I'm adding a crash reporting framework in the next version. It should be out sometime tomorrow.
Evan - no problem, will get to you shortly. BTW there wasn't a myDebug key in the info.plist to start with, I had to add the key (as a bool, I assume) - hopefully we're on trackâ¦!
Can you open the Info.plist file in the App bundle (control click on the app and show package contents) then change myDebug to true, then open Console (Application/Utilities/) and run MenuWeather. Then search menuweather in Console and copy and paste everything into an email to [email protected]
Rakaniaz - You're not alone. I wasn't noticing it at first (the startup is actually very quick for me, and the program works as expected for a while)â¦
But, after running for a while, it will get severely 'stuck,' as you say. Last time I was running it, I clicked it to check the weatherâ¦Â *45 minutes later* the menu dropped down. This is on a well-specced 8-core Mac Pro.
Think I'm going to let it chill for a while, check back in a few versionsâ¦!
I don't know why, but on my MacBook unibody (late 2009) it's quite unusable. When I start the App I must wait a long time before I can set my location and everytime it stucks really heavy. At this moment I don't want to test this on my iMac.
So, just in case anyone reads my previous comment - both forecast and manual location setting have been implemented now. Quite usable!
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It's richly ironic: Barbara Walters, who made her reputation -- and a massive amount of money -- by asking celebrities and other big shots probing, thought-provoking and sometimes intrusive questions, did not like to be interviewed.
"It's not so comfortable to have the shoe on the other foot," she told me back in 2008, during the only one-on-one chat I've had with her. "I think I like it better the other way around. Now, I feel like I need to give you sound bites."
Walters, 84, officially retires from daily television work on Friday with a final appearance on "The View," the daytime talk show she created. In the run-up to her exit, a lot of us have been churning out stories reflecting on the legacy of this TV-news icon.
While doing so, I was compelled to dig up that old Q&A, in which she expressed her discomfort at being interviewed. Truth be told, I wasn't all that comfortable, either.
I've been in this business for longer than I like to admit and have chatted with hundreds of celebrities, from sports stars like Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan to Hollywood types like Tom Hanks and Angelina Jolie, so being in the presence of stars does not freak me out. But I do tend to experience a different level of angst when I speak to someone who conducts interviews for a living.
How will they judge my questions? My demeanor? My approach? I had similar apprehensions when I once interviewed the revered Walter Cronkite. I'm a journalist who gets a little edgy interviewing journalists.
Walters, of course, was one of the great interviewers of all time. In her 50-plus years on the job, she conducted hundreds of emotionally charged interviews in which she got to the heart of what made her subjects tick, often bringing them to tears.
After having established her hard-earned reputation, she enjoyed the kind of luxuries that network television brings: the access to the biggest names, their undivided attention, lots of time to warm up to a subject and dig into his or her psychological texture.
Unfortunately, most of us don't have those advantages when we conduct celebrity interviews. Our access is usually limited -- sometimes to as little as 10 minutes -- and often conversations are on the fly, via cellphone, or in some hermetically sealed hotel room with personal publicists breathing down our necks.
I can't remember how much time I had with Walters, who, in 2008, came to the Bay Area to promote her autobiography, "Audition," but it wasn't substantial. Fortunately, she was attentive and charming throughout a conversation in which she touched on, among other things, the book's most intimate revelations (an affair with Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke), her tumultuous stint as an evening newscast co-anchor with Harry Reasoner ("I felt like a failure, and I thought my career was all but over"), the big interview she would have liked to get, but didn't (Osama bin Laden), and the biggest misconception people have of her ("That I'm totally together. That I don't bleed. That life and career for me has been nothing but up, up, up.").
And I had to ask her about her penchant for turning her interviews into sob fests.
"I'm sure that's what my obit will say: 'She made people cry,'" Walters told me. "One reason it happens is that I often ask people about their childhoods. ... And many aspects of a childhood can be very difficult and painful.
"But I don't really do it anymore. I even find myself telling (interview subjects), 'No, you can't cry!' It has gotten to be a joke."
When we were done, she thanked me for my interest in the book and told me, "nice job." Coming from the queen of interviews, that felt like a shiny badge of honor.
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On behalf of the Board of Trustees, it is my pleasure to welcome you to Coastal Carolina University.
Founded in 1954 on a dream that was fueled with tenacity and character, this University has provided countless opportunities and possibilities for students who have come from down the street and around the world. On its surface, the University appears vastly different each passing year as it expands to serve record numbers of students and opens new buildings and spaces for students to learn and live. Yet, in many ways, the University is amazingly similar to its humble beginnings serving an entering class of 53 students. The values that led to the establishment of the "college" nearly 60 years ago remain central to our goals today: to promote academic opportunity and excellence, and focus our resources toward quality, relevance and accountability.
It was an honor to become a member of this board in 2009 and humbling to be selected to lead the board in 2011, especially as a proud alumnus whose life has been dramatically shaped by this University. I know first-hand of the soul of Coastal Carolina University – its character and commitment toward a bold future for generations of students to come.
I look forward to the work ahead with the members of the Board of Trustees and President DeCenzo and his administration as all of us seek ways to better serve the students, alumni, faculty, staff and many friends of this University.
D. Wyatt Henderson '98
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