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"Elaine was a 'tough old bird,' but I suspect she may have been a 'tough old bird' since birth," Fey tells PEOPLE. "I loved her voice, her timing, her stories and her natural elegance.
"One day she was wearing a beautiful butterfly cocktail ring, and when I admired it, she gave it to me on the spot – like an Arab sheik in black pantyhose. I feel very lucky to have worked with her as much as I did."
Stritch's most recent agent, Joel Dean, who was also her friend for 15 years, tells PEOPLE he remembers her as "a great lady" who also managed to challenge and reward him in equal doses.
"I was always trying to cheer her up. 'How are you doing Elaine?' " he recalls his asking her. And her response? "Well, you can get me out of here, that's what you can do!"
Adds Dean, "That's how she was. She always had a quip for something or a sarcastic remark. I just adored that lady. She's very tough to get to know. It took me a long time until she trusted me and let me into her world."
Complications of DiabetesDean says that Stritch's stomach cancer was complicated by her diabetes.
"They took out a good part of her stomach, that was maybe two months ago. She said, 'They got it all, they got it all.' But it came back quite aggressively."
The longtime performer, whose contemporaries ranged from Marlon Brando (whom Stritch dated in acting school) to Ethel Merman (whom she understudied), as well as, of course, Alec Baldwin (who played her much-harangued son on 30 Rock), had so many stories – both in her and about her – that it was hard to keep them straight.
"One time I was taking her back to the Sunset Marquis, and she said, 'What's the name of that guy I worked with?' she was very vague," Dean recalls. "I said, 'What's the name of that guy you worked with?' 'Don't interrupt me!' she'd bark back. [She said], 'God damn it, you know who I'm talking about!' I said, 'No I don't.' Then at 4 a.m., the phone rang, and she said, 'It was Elis Rabb, god damn it!' and hung up the phone. I learned not to answer the phone at 4 am. She had no limits."
Baldwin, meanwhile, took to Twitter Thursday to remember Stritch – and hinted that things in heaven are about to get a whole lot more interesting.
"I'm sure that even God is a bit nervous right now," he wrote. "I love you, Elaine."
Reporting by MARY GREEN and JULIE JORDAN
I'm sure that even God is a bit nervous right now.
I love you, Elaine.
http://t.co/P3wQtnqsmV— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) July 17, 2014
A woman that I loved and admired, and a true one in a million, has gone to her rest.
http://t.co/sq0EZyfd4r— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) July 17, 2014
Thanks to all who took time to remember the one and only
Elaine Stritch... pic.twitter.com/tbtVTPLwY6— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) July 17, 2014


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The actress married actor Ryan Dorsey on July 19 in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in front of a small group of close family.
"We feel truly blessed to be joined as husband and wife," the couple told PEOPLE exclusively. "Our special day was fated and everything we could have ever asked for."
Dorsey, who is originally from Charleston, West Virginia, attended the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts before moving to Los Angeles, where he met Rivera four years ago. Longtime friends, they saw their relationship blossom into a romance shortly after her engagement to rapper Big Sean ended in April.
For their nuptials, Rivera, 27, wore a Monique Lhuillier gown while Dorsey wore a Dolce & Gabbana suit. She carried a bouquet of daisies and baby's breath and the couple exchanged Neil Lane rings.
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As they told PEOPLE: "True love always prevails."
For more on the couple's relationship, pick up this week's issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday
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On January 25, IMF Leader of the Delmarva Multiple Myeloma Support and Networking Group, Josephine Diagonale, addressed legislators, supporters, and members of the press at a press conference held to announce the introduction of the Delaware Cancer Treatment Access Act (HB 265).
HB 265, a bi-partisan bill introduced by a group of legislators (Reps. Deborah Hudson, Ruth Briggs King and Bryon Short and Senators Patricia Blevins and Liane Sorenson), would require health insurance plans in Delaware that cover cancer treatments to provide coverage for orally administered anti-cancer medications on a basis no less favorable than coverage for intravenously administered or injected anti-cancer medications.
Josephine explained to the crowd that the diagnosis of cancer brings patients face-to-face with their own mortality, but slowly a certain tenacity and warrior spirit emerges and with a little help from family, friends, doctors, nurses, spiritual advisors, and dedicated medical researchers who innovate new drugs that prolong life, they succeed.
"Please understand – all cancer patients unite to focus on a cure," she asserted. "Moreover, we form a band of brothers and sisters who bond in our battle to live productive and meaningful lives. And this means having access to all chemotherapy available to us without regard to the particular delivery system."
The crowd was asked by Josephine to imagine what it would be like to have to choose between incurring a large financial burden for an oral chemotherapy or going without treatment. It can be a life or death situation for many.
She declared, "Imagine having to make this choice when you have kids to raise or kids aspiring to a college education. Imagine having to make this choice in today's economy when jobs are limited and/or salaries reduced."
Josephine concluded her statement by emphasizing that cancer patients strive for a quality of life that enables them to have as much mobility and freedom to live and enjoy. Access to oral chemotherapy increases their ability to do this. She urged legislators in Delaware to pass HB 265 to allow all cancer patients access to all anti-cancer medications regardless of how they are delivered.
HB 265 will be heard by committee in mid-March.
We asked Josephine to share her thoughts on the day...
"Lending my voice to the Delaware legislators and other supporters of this bill was an honor and a privilege. As we all know, the financial stresses associated with cancer can overwhelm.
This bill would ease these stresses. This bill would allow us all to focus on our primary battle –the battle to live productive and meaningful lives.
To this point and on a personal note, I revel in the fact that I still experience "firsts" in my life –what a hoot!"
THANK YOU and congratulations to Josephine for her hard work and for being our February 2012 Advocate of the Month!
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quote: Your own prejudices against this "bad" (for Apple) piece of history do not change the fact that now things are very similar to those in 1990s. You just afraid to admit this because you are afraid of this particular "bad" piece of history.
quote: For the same reasons developers made less money with Windows than with Apple back in those early PC days. This did not prevent Windows from winning in the end though.
quote: then why are developers feverishly porting their once exclusive iOS apps to Android, and Android Market almost at the same number of available apps...Simple marketshare.


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on December 13, 2012 - 8:39 PM
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ALBANY – The State Senate sponsor of legislation to kick-start historic rehabilitation projects says he is comfortable with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's explanation for vetoing the measure and the governor's vow to re-examine the issue in next year's budget.
"I'm happy to hear it's something they want to look at," said Sen. Mark Grisanti, a Buffalo Republican. "It's not a dead deal, but it's something the Governor's Office is going to look at and do something in the budget. At what amount and what time period, I'm not sure, but it's something we'll continue moving forward on to get passed."
The legislation, passed in June, would raise the current $5 million tax credit available for certain historic property rehabilitations to $12 million. But the Cuomo administration said the measure would cost $20 million in the coming year and $80 million over the following two years.
A Cuomo official Wednesday said the governor was supportive of the concept but did not want to approve legislation with a fiscal impact on the state outside of the regular budget process that occurs in the spring.
Even the most vocal backer of the bill, who also happens to be a Cuomo fundraiser, was not critical of the governor's veto.
"My understanding is they will include it in next year's budget, so there's a bright light there," said Rocco Termini, a Buffalo developer who has used the state tax credits on project such as his Hotel @ the Lafayette.
Termini said he believes the governor, in his budget plan due out next month, will offer a more comprehensive bill that extends the current tax credit program beyond its 2014 expiration date and possibly allow further tweaks to a provision that now makes developers "buy" both federal and state tax credits to qualify. Such changes, he said, would make more projects eligible for state tax credits.
Also, Termini said he would back any effort to further target the credits to certain distressed areas of the state. "It might be a good idea to target it because there are certain areas of the state that don't need it," he said.
Termini earlier this fall shelved plans for a $60 million rehabilitation of the AM&A's building in downtown Buffalo because Cuomo had not yet signed the tax credit bill.
"It might be a little delay, but I think it's a win-win for everybody," Termini said of Cuomo's veto.
Preservationists agree.
"Municipal officials and developers should not be focused on the impending veto, but on the commitment from Gov. Cuomo to address increased incentives and other needed program enhancements in 2013," said Daniel Mackay, director of public policy at the Preservation League of New York State.
"Higher incentives for large projects, extension of the program past its current sunset in 2014, and providing greater access to the program for New York State investors will assure that this program moves to the top tier of effective economic development and job growth programs in New York State," Mackay said.
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SALINEVILLE - At the Jan. 8 meeting of the Southern Local Board of Education, the board voted to approve an Anti-Bullying Club for seventh through twelfth grade students.
Bullying awareness has been picking up momentum across the country and in Columbiana County with several area school districts considering their options to combat the problem.
Southern Local does not have a significant bullying problem due partially to its relatively small size and rural setting, according to guidance counselor Nancy Saling who helped organize a recent anti-bullying assembly alongside truancy officer Jackie Dalonzo.
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Pictured are the winners of Southern Local's Anti-Bullying poster contest. The contest was held as part of the schools Dec. 19 Anti-bullying assembly. The theme of the assembly was "You have a right not to be bullied." The event also featured guest speakers Officer Steve Boyd from the Sheriff's Department and Joe Albus from Bethany College. Winners include (from left, back row) Jenna Ronshak, seventh grade; Harley Palmer, ninth grade; Alysha Zwick, eighth grade; and (front) McKenna Boals, twelfth grade; Steven Treadway, twelfth grade; and Keiley Weeks, tenth grade. (Submitted Photo)
Saling added "Kids are kids," explaining that instances of bullying do occasionally occur at which time the administration works with all parties involved to resolve the problem.
Southern's Anti-Bullying Club is a student initiative. Students came to Saling concerned with bullying in neighboring school districts and wanting to set up a support system within their own school. "Once they got started they really became enthusiastic and put a lot of effort into the project."
As part of their initiative to raise bullying awareness, students organized an assembly for the junior high and high school on Dec. 19. The technology club and class lent a hand by researching multi-media resources like Youtube to find anti-bullying themed videos.
Art classes grades 7 through 12 held a poster contest featuring posters promoting anti-bullying messages. The winners were recognized by board members at Tuesday night's board meeting.
Junior high student Winona Boyd created and presented a video emphasizing the positives of individuality.
Southern graduate and daughter of Nancy Saling, Jen Sailing, got involved by helping students write and prepare skits for the assembly. The skits demonstrated bullying scenarios and were followed by open discussions of how students as bystanders could intervene in ways that do not enable the bully.
The assembly also featured several guest speakers including Officer Steve Boyd from the sheriffs department and Joe Albus, an actor from Bethany college who performed monologues on sensitive issues.
Officer Boyd challenged the student body to be the first area school to found an anti-bullying club. The students who had organized the assembly gladly stepped up to the challenge and on Jan. 8 board gave the club the okay.
"The students responded very well to the presentations," said Saling. "As a guidance counselor, I am very proud my students showed such initiative and enthusiasm and put in so much time and hard work for this great cause." Saling stated that the club is to receive grant money from Walmart and is planning to fund posters, t-shirts and other visual reminders featuring anti-bullying messages.
In other board of education business:
*Board approved several recommendations
-13-001 authorizes the Superintendent to accept resignations on behalf of the board when the board in not in session.
-13-002 to authorizes the Superintendent to make offers of employment directly to candidates to both teaching and non-teaching positions on behalf of the board.
-13-003 to join the Ohio School Boards Association for the 2013 school year.
-13-004 to submit the annual tax budget for consideration to the County Budget Commission Presented by the treasurer.
-13-005 to accept the resignation of Brittany McElroy as 8th grade girls basketball coach for the 2012-13 school year
-13-006 approving substitutes for the following: James Ryan Smith:teacher, Janice Pierce:teacher. Tessa McClellan:custodian, cafeteria worker, secretary, educational aid.
-13-007 approving of Natalie Saling as tutor.
-13-008 to go to executive session regarding "Matters required to be kept confidential by federal law or rules or state statutes.
*As part of their annual organizational meeting the board of education nominated the following members for the following positions for 2013
-Mike Abraham: President
-Bill Pitts: Vice-President
-Linda Morris: All-County Board of Education Representative
-John Sawyer :Legislative Liaison to OSBA
-Andrew Frischorn: Student Achievement Liaison


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HTC HD2 Hands on with Kevin Wolf (@bytemaster)
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A couple dozen phones in the last couple of years is grossly UNDER estimating the phones owned by The ByteMaster.
Great job guys!
Great job guys!
Even Mrs. ByteMaster is on here! That is awesome support.
Hey Now WolfBytes,
Nice Vid!
Thx 4 the info,
Great Job kevin! I liked the side by side comparison. This is a nice device!
I liked the HD2 so much that I was going to pay the outragous ~$700 for it. But I decided to wait until after WMC and I soooo glad that I did. I will be purchasing a Windows Phone 7 for myself as this years Christmas gift. I hope that someone builds a Window Phone 7 device that looks as nice as the HD2.
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I recently stumbled upon Kylo, a new web browser for your TV. Â It is built on the Mozilla platform (the same open-source software used by the Firefox browser) by the folks over at Hillcrest Labs. Â I haven't spent a whole lot of time working with the software, but from my limited experience I've decided to recommend it as PCTVCables.com's preferred web browser for your TV.
Hillcrest Labs, incidentally, also created and markets the Loop Pointer, a remote control designed to browse the web via your PC connected to your TV. Â So it's no surprise that Hillcrest Labs created Kylo to accompany their Loop Pointer.
Unlike Boxee, Kylo appears very stable. Â It never crashed on me nor did I stumble upon any broken links. Â It is a clean, simple interface to navigate the web on your TV with content organized by TV, Movies, Music, News, Sports, Games, Original and Social.
Since it's designed to be used on your TV (from across the living room), Kylo features big fonts and buttons. Installation was quick and painless and learning how to navigate Kylo was intuitive. Â In no time you'll be watching TV shows or movies or (my favorite) watching a Willie Nelson music video on Vevo.
Kylo also has an on-screen keyboard since there will be times that you have to do some typing (such as logging into your Netflix or Pandora Internet Radio account). Â Check it out. Â I think you're gonna like it:


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The act of punching the ass three times while you are engaged in doggy style vaginal sex, and then transfering from vaginal to anal sex, using the third punch to disguise the transfer of the penis to the anus. A great way to initiate anal sex for the first time.
She wouldn't let me bang her in the ass, so I used the triple tap transfer and did it anyways
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on December 2, 2012 - 12:34 AM
Unlike professional hockey players, Mike Robitaille cannot head to Russia during the NHL lockout to keep his skills sharp. The Kontinental Hockey League doesn't have many openings for TV analysts these days.
That doesn't mean that Robitaille, the longtime Buffalo Sabres analyst who appears on the pregame and postgame programs on the MSG Network, has been sitting in his living room playing Angry Birds.
"I've never been so busy in my life," Robitaille said by phone last week. "There are plenty of charities to get involved with, I have an association with Roswell [Park Cancer Institute], I also represent Seneca Gaming. … And we have a real estate company here in Williamsville, which takes up a lot of my free time. … I've been very fortunate that I don't just sit around all day and drive my wife crazy."
That would be Isabel Robitaille, CEO of Robitaille Relocation and Real Estate in Williamsville, where Mike Robitaille plays a supporting role.
Hockey, of course, is the second love of Robitaille's life. The 64-year-old former NHL defenseman who grew up in Midland, Ont., says he understands the reasons for the labor stoppage, but that doesn't mean he has to like it.
"I understand why they're doing it, why it needs to be done, and why they are at loggerheads," Robitaille said. "I understand where the players are coming from and I understand where the owners are coming from. You could make a good argument for both of them."
Robitaille has been making regular appearances on WGR Radio, as well as doing out-of-town interviews with radio stations and hockey publications in Canada and elsewhere, to discuss the lockout. But none of that replaces going to First Niagara Center to broadcast a game.
"This whole episode, I take it personally. I have a vested interest – hockey [broadcasting] is how I make my living," he said. "I've done it for 33 years. The game is in my blood and I miss it. I have a craving for it that's not being filled right now."
Robitaille said he knows that some fans threaten to never come back after any work stoppage in professional sports.
"But I sense they'll all go back" to watch the NHL, he said, if a settlement is reached.
"I am not surprised it has lasted this long. The negotiations might take them into the new year, when football is over. Hockey really picks up after football is over.
"If they're not back at that point, you'll see the outrage. I'm out in the community and I don't see the outrage yet."
If a lockout settlement is reached, Robitaille doesn't expect the fans in Buffalo to stay away too long, but there are other markets where the fan base for hockey is not as reliable.
"What bothers me more than anything else is the product of what the NHL has done in the seven years since the last lockout, the league and the players took this game of hockey to a height that no one has ever seen before," he said.
"Parity in the NHL is second to none. The league has been begging, crying, scratching for any TV exposure, and my God, they have NBC now in a marriage with the league, so all it's going to do is grow.
"Almost every detail is there to take the game to a level it's never been before. It's just needed that push, that momentum, and that doesn't come easy. It took them years, decades to get this momentum," he added, adding that momentum can be hard to recapture.
"You look at Los Angeles, which won the Cup last year, they had all that momentum. When I used to go into that building they had to give away tickets just to get people to come. Now, after winning the Cup, the franchise is ready to take off like it hasn't since Gretzky was playing there.
"In Florida, they have been doing better; Phoenix, that building was filled last year. Now the momentum has come to a screeching halt. Think of all the merchandise they would be selling this time of year [if the season were being held]."
Robitaille says he does not worry much about the fate of the Sabres.
"In this town, this team has never been in a better position in terms of ownership. This guy [Terry Pegula] will give his right arm in terms of his players and his employees. There's nothing but common sense in the way they run their hockey club."
If labor peace is achieved, Robitaille says everyone in the Sabres organization will be ready to hit the ice running.
"They've done a lot of constructive things with their off time. They've been preparing, putting in full days. When this is settled, they will be ready to fire from Day One."
When will Day One arrive?
"For those of us who are broadcasters and writers, we all kind of maybe think we know more than we really do [about the labor negotiations]," Robitaille said. "Behind those closed doors we don't know that the hell is going on.
"At the end of the day, if you're hurting enough, you will get it done. If my first-born was at stake tomorrow, there would be a deal done tonight. The question is, how much are they hurting?"
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Note: I met Robert Awkward last year during his internship with Erin Polley and the "If I Had a Trillion Dollars" (IHTD) youth film festival. The festival invites young people around the country to engage in conversations around how to shift our nation's budget priorities from militarism and war, to supporting the resources that communities need to thrive.
Though Robert and I both attended the Friends General Conference Gathering last summer, a yearly conference of liberal Quakers from around the country, I hadn't had the chance to hear about how the week's powerful events and speakers had touched him. This post is a beautiful testament to the potential of Quaker spaces to transform us into agents for change in our lives and in the world. - Madeline
Lying face-up on a granite bench, sun blazing across my face and shedding my shadow down across the lawn, I wonder: How did I get here?
I was on the lush campus of the University of Northern Colorado, in the town of Greely, attending the Friends General Conference's annual gathering. After my morning workshop, I found myself contemplating the path that my life was taking—heavy thoughts for such a sunny and lighthearted afternoon, but not uncharacteristic of the larger context of this conference. In this setting, introspection was typical and I was only just breaching the surface of a deep well of inquiry.
It was day two of a weeklong course of events, a week for which these Friends had traveled miles upon miles to come together in worship and self-discovery. I was only beginning to get to know the people who I had "come with," or at least the ones with whom my nametag associated me: a colorful group of AFSC staff, all leaders in a range of pro-peace workshops. These staff members hailed from San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia and Denver.
I was among this diverse crowd, a young team member coming from Indianapolis with my supervisor and friend, Erin Polley. Entrusted with the responsibility of co-leading a group of young people through conversations and dialogue on demilitarization and media-based activism, I felt an inspiring connectedness to a much larger cause.
This cause was in essence the fight for alternatives to militarism in the US. The national youth project, "If I Had a Trillian Dollars" film festival (IHTD), that Erin leads each year perfectly exemplifies to me a dedication to that cause. Through creative activism and planning, AFSC staffers are able to engage young people across the US in issues that they see as priorities over massive military spending. These program activities and the discussions within our group of youth were drawing me closer to the realm of social activism that AFSC champions: an aim toward lasting peace with justice.
It all might sound marvelously encouraging, but none of it was that easy.
It was my second day in the position of co-workshop leader, and I was late. Being a few minutes late wouldn't typically be something that left a substantial ripple in such a relaxed and non-competitive environment, but that day, for me, it was. This one moment was the pinnacle of a collection of smaller moments that I had lived on numerous occasions before. This moment reflected the time that I was late to pick up my sister from dance while visiting on a school break, and many more like it. It was a painfully embarrassing occurrence for me to relive. It was a habit that I could feel creeping itself back into this fresh new opportunity in Greely, and slowly gnawing its teeth into my daily practice.
It was something that I wanted to escape, but in that one moment, lying face-up, eyes closed, on a granite bench, sun blazing across my face and shedding my shadow down across the lawn, I wondered: How could I let such a poor practice and bad habit creep onto this new slate? How did I get here in the first place? I felt honored to be able to participate among this fantastic group of professional activists as well as an inspiring group of 6 socially concerned high school students. But this question of "How did I get here?" was allowing me to dwell on the mistakes that I had made, without doing anything to disrupt or change that pattern.
Plugging in my headphones, I rolled onto my side and turned on some comforting music. The sun pulled its blanket of warmth up over my shoulders as I dozed off for a few moments…
From that afternoon on during my thinking, processing, reflection and meditation, I began to soak in what I saw around me: groups of other participants meandering about the UNC campus, playing Frisbee on the expansive greens and meditating against tall oak trees; Young Friends gathering for their business meetings; and the band of babies crowded on a lawn outside of the dining hall working off a heavy lunch. Everything that I saw was connecting in some way; I just hadn't seen what that way was yet.
The connecting link came during a gratifying and peace-filling moment in a plenary session guided by Vincent Harding and his colleague Tink Tinker. As all of us in the audience discussed 'embracing and engaging our history' with Harding and Tinker, an important question was raised: "How do we embrace diversity without making it too simple or meaningless?" To that, Harding and Tinker answered this: "We have to go through the 'mud and mire' and make mistakes to become experts. We must teach about ethnic diversity, but remember that every time we teach about someone else, we're probably getting it wrong." In tandem with this response, Harding later emphasized once more a key aspect of working in community: "A person of discernment can see, there are two voices: one of racism, sexism, ageism, discrimination; and, one of human nature. The first is my present and my history, and another is the voice of who I aspire to be," (personal communication, July 4, 2013, paraphrased, emphasis added). Read an interview with Vincent Harding from the conference.
This was the link that connected my struggle with being late, to everything else that I was observing throughout the environment of FGC: I am a work in progress; essentially we all are. I highly doubt that anyone arrived at FGC with the general understanding that they were infallible. The path towards realizing our human nature is an intentional and conscious, exploratory journey. That evening's talk, many hours of contemplation and a willingness to trust my life's journey, culminated in the reminder that I needed.
I am a work in progress, and it is something that carries through today in the work that I do as a senior undergrad. I am in a long stream of processes and activities that will take place in my life; I am simply picking up the branches of experience from alongside the stream as I progress and swim toward my future. The Friends General Conference was and is a perfect place to share that progress with others, without judgment, but with constructive criticism and love.
So as I laid there face-up, eyes closed, on that granite bench; sun blazing across my face and shedding my shadow down across the lawn, I really didn't have to stress on, 'How did I get here?,' but rather, 'How can being here enlighten my journey along the way?' and 'What can I do on a practical level to not arrive late?'
I had come into that new space, ready to break new ground and explore new practices, but was instead reminded of perhaps one of the most primordial facets of my life experience: I have the space to learn by making mistakes and maturing in my journey, since I am always a growing work in progress.
More resources for the IHTD youth film festival:
- Invite Quaker youth to think about military spending
- 5 things your meeting/church can support IHTD and a shift in budget priorities
- Preview for the 2014 festival (submissions due January 11th!)


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quote: It blows my mind when conservatives romanticize the Reagan years as some kind of budgetary golden era when the hard facts are so readily available.
quote: Reagan is responsible for the greatest expansion of the US economy in peacetime ever ever. No Administration since has added more growth, more jobs, and more wealth to this nation. And how did he do it? Simple. He got out of the way and let capitalism do what it does best.
quote: How exactly do you add 14 million jobs to the economy, and also oversee a "huge spike" in unemployment at the same time? If that's your opening argument, I'll just do myself a favor and skip the rest of your factually incorrect lies. Go make crap up on somebody elses time. Reagan's record is a part of history, and you people cannot simply erase history because it doesn't fit your dogmatic ideology.


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WRRC Seminar - Surface-water availability during low-flow conditionsApril 17, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Manoa Campus, Watanabe 112
Surface-water availability during low-flow conditions: Case study in Anahola Stream, Kaua'i, and Hawai'i statewide application
Presented by Chui Ling Cheng Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Islands Water Science Center
Surface-water uses during low-flow conditions greatly influence water availability for ecosystems, aquatic biota, and people. To sustainably manage Hawai'i's water resources for current and future needs, reliable estimates of natural streamflow are needed to quantify surface-water availability in Hawai'i. Because the cost of maintaining continuous-record stream-gaging stations on all streams is prohibitive, cost-effective methods for estimating the low-flow characteristics are needed. Record-augmentation techniques are commonly used to estimate long-term discharges at sites with short-term record or partial-record streamflow data. The first part of the presentation will focus on a case study that applied record-augmentation techniques for characterizing natural low-flow availability in Anahola Stream, Kaua'i, Hawai'i. Additional discharge measurements were collected during the study period that were used to determine the presence of gaining and losing reaches in the stream. Regionalization techniques provide estimates of low-flow duration discharges based on data collected at gaged streams in similar hydrologic settings.These estimates can be used to characterize streamflow availability for streams where gaging-station streamflow data do not currently exist. The second part of the presentation will focus on a recent U.S. Geological Survey proposal that applies regional regression techniques for estimating low-flow characteristics at Hawaiian streams with no existing streamflow data. Chui Ling Cheng received her Master's degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Management from the University of Hawai'i at Mänoa in 2007. For three years, she was on the staff at the Hawai'i State Department of Land and Natural Resources, Commission on Water Resource Management. Her work involved water policy issues, in particular, establishing instream-flow standards in the east Maui area. Currently, she is a hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Islands Water Science Center. Her research covers mainly surface-water hydrology.
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|Wednesday, April 17
|The Wellness Center - Fitness Class Schedule
Maui Campus, Pilina Bldg., Wellness Center
|Semester of Shakespeare 2013: "A Day in Illyria"
Leeward Campus, Eucalyptus Courtyard
|ASH - The Acupressure Facial (4 of 4)
Windward Campus, Hale Kuhina 115
|HCC Career Fair
Honolulu Campus, HCC Cafeteria
|Social Welfare Final Oral
Manoa Campus, Henke Hall, Rm. 109
|Churnin' for Learning
Manoa Campus, Hemenway Courtyard
|Spring 2013 Faculty Speaker Series talk by Dr. Higgins
Manoa Campus, Burns Hall 2118, East-West Center
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A gunshots loud crack and a shattering alarm clock open and close a Summerville gun shop advertisement you can no longer see on ESPN.
Get to East Coast Guns, before time runs out, the voice-over suggests.
Time just ran out on the ad, at least for local ESPN viewers.
Shop owner Ron Sprovero said his local cable advertising contract to run ads on ESPN programming has not been renewed; he has been told ESPN has stopped running all gun-related ads, worried they promote violence in children.
The network is tightening up an advertising policy that restricts firearm-related ads and is sending reminders to local affiliates to adhere to it.
ESPN ad standards have not changed. It is our policy not to accept ads that involve handguns or handgun ammunition, both on a national and local level, said Amy Phillips, senior communications director.
The sudden drop makes Sprovero one of the latest targets of whats becoming a nationwide sentiment to limit the public exposure to at least some firearms and related advertisements following the mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school.
On Tuesday, as news of Sproveros ad drop spread, three people were wounded in a shooting at a Texas community college.
The sports network advertising reached some 20 percent of his potential customers, Sprovero said, people who do business with him on North Main Street for a mix of hunting, sport shooting and personal protection.
The dropped advertisement also showed semi-automatic AR-15 style rifles and handguns.
The ads are for a sporting public, whether some people want to accept that or not. I think (the ad drop) is hypocritical, and I dont think its right, he said. These are the guys (ESPN) that show mixed martial arts. My kids play mixed martial arts.
ESPN joins companies such as Time Warner and Groupon in more aggressively monitoring what services or products are advertised.
Groupon has been testing firearm-related deals like shooting ranges and concealed weapons courses for the last eight months. Based on performance and customer feedback, its clear theyre not a fit right now, said Julie Mossler, communications director.
Time Warner Cable announced late last week it was banning ads showing guns pointed at people or semi-automatic weapons such as the AR-15 type used to kill 20 children and others during the Newtown shooting in December.
If its essential to a business owner to show this kind of imagery in their commercials, there are other advertising options in the marketplace, said Melissa Buscher, communications vice president.
Advertising industry advocates are largely keeping clear of the controversy.
Im not surprised. I heard some media outlets were looking at this step, said Clark Rector, American Advertising Federation vice president. Thats their right, and theyre within their rights to do it.
AAF would step in if the government tried to restrict the advertising, he said. If a product is legal and the advertising is truthful, you ought to be able to advertise; the government cant restrict it.
Gun sales in the Lowcountry largely are local, and the national cutback didnt appear to be affecting other shops. Scott Hornsby of Carolina Rod and Gun on Savannah Highway in West Ashley said he doesnt advertise beyond The Post and Courier and Charleston Mercury.
ATP Gun Shop and Range on College Park Road in Summerville has not had problems with television advertising because its ads promote services such as ladies night or concealed-weapons classes, said Eric Elliott of VIP Marketing and Advertising, which handles the shops ads. Gun sale ads were pulled after the December shooting. We dont promote gun sales.
Sprovero said nearly all his sales are local, and the company handling his ESPN spots has moved the ads to other channels, which should help cover some of those lost customers. He worries that other channels might follow ESPNs lead; ESPN is owned by Disney, which owns ABC and other outlets.
A new gun shipment he posted about on a social media website the other day was half sold out by the end of the day, he said. So at least theres always Facebook.
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A Mayville man faces drunken driving charges after state police said he wrecked his car Sunday before fleeing the scene on foot.
Troopers said they saw a damaged and abandoned truck on Route 430 in Sherman before tracking down Jared Sundlov, 23. Investigators said Sundlov drove the truck while intoxicated, veered off the road and fled the crash scene.
Sundlov was arrested and taken to the state police barracks in Jamestown where he registered a 0.15 percent blood-alcohol content, troopers said. He was charged with driving while intoxicated and issued several tickets, including one for leaving the scene of an accident.
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It's no secret that Steve Jobs is no
fan of Adobe Flash -- Jobs basically kneecapped
Flash development tools with iPhone OS 4.0. In addition, Jobs has
long said that Flash on Mac computers is slow, buggy, and an
resource hog.
We all thought that the relationship
between Apple and Adobe was beginning to thaw a bit when Apple
announced that it
would make hardware acceleration APIs available to developers like
Adobe. That lead the way for yesterday's
announcement of Flash Player 10.1 "Gala" for OS X which
provides hardware acceleration of H.264 video content on Macs with
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M, or GeForce GT 330M GPUs.
But that isn't quite the end of the
story. In fact, Steve Jobs has even more to say about Adobe Flash in
the form of an open letter entitled "Thoughts on Flash".
Jobs' long-winded rant goes on about the fact that Adobe Flash is
proprietary; HTML5 is a better, open solution; the fact that Flash is
a security risk to Mac computers; and that Adobe Flash simply eats
away battery life on notebook computers (among other things).
Here's a blurb on Adobe Flash being
Adobe's Flash
products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe,
and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing,
etc. While Adobe's Flash products are widely available, this does
not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe
and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a
closed system.
Apple has many
proprietary products too. Though the operating system for the iPhone,
iPod and iPad is proprietary, we strongly believe that all standards
pertaining to the web should be open. Rather than use Flash, Apple
has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript – all open standards. Apple's
mobile devices all ship with high performance, low power
implementations of these open standards.
And here's another section with regards
to Adobe Flash and its interaction with touch-based devices:
Flash was
designed for PCs using mice, not for touch screens using fingers. For
example, many Flash websites rely on "rollovers", which pop up
menus or other elements when the mouse arrow hovers over a specific
spot. Apple's revolutionary multi-touch interface doesn't use a
mouse, and there is no concept of a rollover. Most Flash websites
will need to be rewritten to support touch-based devices. If
developers need to rewrite their Flash websites, why not use modern
technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript?
Jobs concludes, saying, "Flash was
created during the PC era – for PCs and mice… But the mobile era
is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards –
all areas where Flash falls short."
"New open standards created in the
mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too),"
Jobs adds. "Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great
HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving
the past behind."
The fight between Adobe and Apple is
definitely not over and we'll just have to sit back and wait to see
what Adobe's response to Jobs will be.
For those that want to read the full
letter, head on over to Apple's website.
quote: Apple and Jobs have been trying to control web standards for YEARS. They lost the desktop war, but its a new ballgame now with mobile devices, and they are playing to win, make no mistake!The other issue is the obscene amounts of money Apple is making in their PROPRIETARY App Store. A huge portion of the apps in the store would NEVER sell if Apple used Flash...the majority of these apps are already available FOR FREE on the web, using Adobe Flash. Apple WHINES about how web sites would have to be re-programmed to accomidate mobile touch screens as an interface instead of using a mouse, but really, its all about forcing people to pay for useless apps, instead of allowing them the ability to use whatever content they want from the web.


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December 19, 2011
This is the last issue of the Advocacy Update for 2011. The next issue will be published on January 15, 2012.
Advocates in Action
Thank you to everyone who attended our two-part advocacy webinar series and our in-person advocacy training in San Diego. Training included an in-depth tutorial on the IMF Advocacy Action Center, the definition of advocacy, details on our advocacy agenda, and what each advocate can do to help achieve our goals. If you were unable to attend online or in-person, you may view the presentations on our website. We will also be offering additional training opportunities next year.
On behalf of the IMF, we would like to thank you for all of your support throughout 2011. The good work and efforts of the myeloma community are essential to IMF's successful legislative efforts. We truly appreciate all that you do on behalf of myeloma patients.
Have a happy holiday season!
Happenings on the Hill
Below is a summary of some of the legislative issues that IMF has followed in the first session of the 112th Congress.
House Repeals Health Reform Bill
The House voted to repeal 245-189 the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) on January 19. The symbolic vote was along party lines with only 3 Democrats [Representatives Dan Boren (D-OK), Mike Ross (D-AR), and Mike McIntyre (D-NC)] voting with the Republicans. The House also passed a separate resolution instructing Committees to develop replacement health coverage measures and an amendment that calls for a permanent fix for Medicare physician payment rates.
Congress Averts Government Shutdown with final FY 2011 Continuing Resolution
Congress and the White House reached a deal in April (more than 6 months after the start of the federal fiscal year) that averted a shutdown of the federal government and finalized funding for fiscal year (FY) 2011. The deal cut $39 billion from FY 2010 funding levels. Below are the FY 2011 funding levels for cancer programs:
President Declares April 2011 National Cancer Control Month
President Obama proclaimed April 2011 as National Cancer Control Month. In his proclamation, the President encouraged citizens, Government agencies, private businesses, nonprofit organizations, and other interested groups to join in activities that will increase awareness of what Americans can do to prevent and control cancer.
Senate Passes Resolution Designating May as National Cancer Research Month
Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) introduced a resolution (S. Res. 172) honoring May as National Cancer Research Month. This resolution recognized the importance of cancer research and the contributions made by scientists and clinicians across the U.S. IMF in addition to a number of national organizations and cancer centers signed on in support of the resolution. The Senate passed S. Res. 172 on May 26.
41 Senators Sign Onto Dear Colleague Letter on NIH Funding
Senators Robert Casey (D-PA) and Richard Burr (R-NC) circulated a Dear Colleague letter requesting continued support for research at the NIH. Forty-one Senators signed onto the Casey-Burr Dear Colleague letter to show their support for biomedical research.
Cancer Coverage Parity Act of 2011 Introduced in the House
Representative Brian Higgins (D-NY) introduced HR 2746, the Cancer Coverage Parity Act of 2011, on August 1. This important piece of legislation requires health insurance coverage of oral anticancer drugs on terms no less favorable than the coverage provided for intravenously (IV) administered anticancer medications. HR 2746 has 8 cosponsors including Representatives Joe Baca (D-CA), Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE), Barney Frank (D-MA), Rush Holt (D-NJ), Steve Israel (D-NY), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Jared Polis (D-CO), and Charles Rangel (D-NY).
HR 2746 ensures chemotherapy parity for cancer patients by requiring:
President Signs Executive Order on Drug Shortages
President Obama signed an executive order directing the FDA to broaden reporting of potential shortages of certain prescription drugs and to expedite regulatory reviews that can help prevent or respond to shortages. Under the order, FDA also will work with the Department of Justice, which will examine whether potential shortages have led to illegal price gouging or stockpiling of lifesaving medications.
The executive order requires FDA to expand its current efforts to expedite the review of new manufacturing sites and drug suppliers to help prevent shortages. It also directs FDA to take additional steps to require drug manufacturers to provide adequate advance notice of manufacturing discontinuances or other actions that could lead to critical shortages.
In addition to signing the executive order, the White House announced the president's support for the Preserving Access to Life-Saving Medications Act (S. 296/H.R. 2245). This bipartisan legislation would require manufacturers to notify FDA of any potential drug shortages. According to the White House, early notification of potential drug shortages can help prevent a shortage from becoming a crisis by allowing hospitals, doctors, and manufacturers to take action to ensure medications remain available. Currently, FDA can only require drug manufacturers to disclose the discontinuation of a critical drug when the drug is available through a single manufacturer.
Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to PPACA
The Supreme Court will hear the legal challenges to the PPACA. As expected, the high court granted a hearing in the suit filed by 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business. The court said it will hear the suit's challenge to PPACA's individual mandate — the requirement that almost all Americans buy insurance. As they weigh the mandate, the justices will also have to consider how it affects other parts of the law. If they find the coverage requirement unconstitutional, they'll have to decide whether to let it fall on its own or whether to strike all or part of the rest of the law along with it.
Congress Finalizes FY 2012 Appropriations
After months of negotiation, the House and Senate finalized the FY 2012 funding levels for federal cancer programs. Below is a breakdown of how cancer programs fared in FY 2012:
The final FY 2012 Omnibus Appropriations bill included a provision that subjects funding to a .189% across the board cut as well as an additional 1.83% cut if both the House and Senate pass a bill that offsets funding set aside for disasters relief.


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Only 1,805 fewer dairy farms last year
Dairy producers proved they are a resilient lot. Despite tough economic conditions during the past two years, most producers kept milking cows as only 1,805 licensed dairy farms called it quits last year. Not only did this represent the smallest drop in permitted dairy farms since tracking began in 1992, last year also marked the lowest percentage drop at 3.3 percent. The next smallest reductions occurred in 2005 and 2008 when 3.4 percent of dairies hung up milkers for the last time.
It appears dairy farm losses may be moderating. When looking at nearly two decades of data, the previous three years posted the lowest actual reductions in farm numbers, noting the small losses in 2009 (2,185) and 2008 (2,003).
To read more on this topic and see statewide comparisons, see page 159 of the March 10, 2011 issue of Hoard's Dairyman.


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After 19 consecutive wins inside the Southwestern League, the Durango High School volleyball team fell 3-0 on Saturday at Fruita Monument, the Demons� first SWL loss since Oct. 16, 2010, against Grand Junction Central.
Durango (11-5, 6-1 SWL) had 10 service errors, and the Wildcats� service game gave the Demons fits as they tried to set up their typically potent offensive attack.
�(Saturday) we missed 10 serves, so it�s hard to get momentum when you constantly get in a rut,� senior McKenna Franzen said in a phone interview with The Durango Herald from Fruita.
Franzen led DHS with nine kills to go with 10 digs, and Bella Bernazzani had seven digs. Hannah Quick returned from an ankle injury to chip in five kills and six digs. Kennedy Clark led the way with 20 digs, while Natalie Bulen had 27 assists.
Franzen was quick to credit the Wildcats� game plan but also added the DHS defense didn�t scramble as well as it typically does.
�They knew what they needed to do to catch us off guard, and we just weren�t really scrambling the entire match,� Franzen said. �We could never really get on top of it.�
Fruita Monument (13-4, 8-1 SWL) took a two-game lead in the win column on DHS in the SWL title race. Durango, however, has two games in hand as the Demons seek their third league crown in a row.
Fruita Monument has one remaining league match on its schedule; Durango will finish its SWL schedule on the road against Montrose and Grand Junction Central next weekend.


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Grantham helps key win in fourth quarter
March 2, 2013
MARTINSBURG — With the the game in the balance heading into the fourth quarter, the words of his head coach, Dave Rogers, and, of all people, Marshall coach Tom Herrion, rang in Donte' Grantham's......
Really? This is an article about Washington and Martinsburg. Why are the comments all about HHS. Congratulate the two teams for a great game and move on. HHS boys season is over.
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epfan--you can't be SERIOUS ? hhs program is all about " ME " the coach - only concerned about a winning % ; come on , teams scoring only 15-30 POINTS in a game-- middle schoolers do much better than that - & , check out the schedule AGAIN- numerous class A teams & , of course, the REGULARS : silver oak / broadfording ..****e on : play a schedule WHERE YOUR PLAYERS ARE PLACED IN " TIGHT " SITUATIONS " not massacres .. never will i attend another game as long as he is at hhs - a total disgrace to the athletic program & REMOVE THE SPORTSMANSHIP BANNERS ..so wrong !
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Really Chasmo? HHS played most of the same teams last year and guess what? they went to states and oh that's right they became the state champs! I agree they could play better teams,but who would those other teams play? Maybe they play HHS for the experience. It truly comes down to what talent you get each year anyway. Just hope to see both teams make it to Charleston to Represent the EP.
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HHS--play a SCHEDULE not a MIDDLE SCHOOL SCHEDULE and possibly this would have been you ! Great job MHS & WHS - the best to both of you in Charleston
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COLUMBIANA - In the midst of an investigation into false attendance data, the state has released limited preliminary report cards to school districts.
Superintendent Don Mook went over the results with the board last week, and compared students' achievement in social studies, math, science, writing and reading to other districts in Columbiana and Mahoning counties. Testing results compared were for students in grades 3-11.
According to the results the district ranked first, second or third in each subject compared to other districts in the county.
Subjects in which students excelled when compared to others in the county were third grade math, fifth grade reading and math, sixth grade reading and math, seventh grade math, eighth grade reading and 10th and 11th grade writing.
Students excelled in both counties in fifth grade reading and math and sixth, seventh and 10th grade math.
Mook said he included the Mahoning County results since the district has residents living in both counties.
The Ohio Department of Education released a statement on its website that the remainder of the report card data will be released at a later date pending the progress of an investigation by state Auditor David Yost into the alleged irregularities of student attendance reported by local districts.
The data yet to be released includes the district's overall rating, attendance rate, and performance index.
In other business, the board approved the following:
- Michael Cunningham, Derek McElhaney, Alyssa Gwirtz, Bryce Bezdek and Amy Cannon as substitute teachers and Bruce Kalina and Barbara Miller as substitute support staff.
- One-year supplemental contracts for Alana Kady, Trisha Nord, Holly Ferguson and Rae Ann Gorby.
- Evan Hill, Matthew Liggett, Stephanie Baylor, Elizabeth Coffey and Kenneth Shea as volunteers.
- Transferring Neely Jack from the 4.5 hour per day Joshua Dixon Elementary cook position to the 5.25 hour per day elementary cook position and vacating the former position, effective Oct. 1.
- A salary change for Jennifer Fry, high school intervention specialist.
- An HVAC Time and Materials Service Agreement with Gardiner Trane Co. for the elementary, middle and high schools at a cost of $7,488, including 96 labor hours a year, with extra hours to be billed at $78 per hour. The contract is effective Oct. 1 through Sept. 30, 2013.
- Sunday May 26 as the 2013 commencement date.
- A roof maintenance contract with Boak and Sons Inc. for this school year at a cost of $4,836 for the middle and high school. The price included labor, material and supervision to complete two inspections per year and maintenance repair work.
- A contract with Transit Service for bus maintenance and repair as needed for this school year at a cost of $55 per hour.


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Liberal Education Curriculum 49 credit hours
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Business Administration Core Courses 39 credit hours
Global Business EnvironmentBSA 160
This course exposes students to the many ways that countries differ and examines the impact of those differences on business activities. The history and theories of international trade and investment are discussed as well as the evolution and role of the global monetary system. In addition, the course will explore the current international business environment including culture, infrastructure, and economic development and examine the strategies and structures of businesses operating in that environment.
Principles of MicroeconomicsBSA 211
This course provides an overview of market processes under conditions of pure competition, monopoly, and imperfect competition. Topics covered include demand and marginal utility analysis; supply and costs of production; elasticity; and consequences of government regulation of markets. In addition, students will be exposed to the application of microeconomic theory to current social problems.
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This course provides a brief survey of aggregate demand, aggregate supply, and the role of consumption, investment, government spending, and net exports in establishing full employment equilibrium. The concepts of fiscal and monetary policy, business cycles, and economic growth are also introduced.
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You will study selected topics in finite mathematics, including set operations, Venn diagrams, elementary probability, counting techniques (including permutations and combinations), matrices, solving systems of equations, linear programming, and mathematics of finance.
Principles of Accounting 1BSA 221
The ability to understand financial information is critical to anyone who wants to invest in stock, apply for a loan, or evaluate the profitability of a business. In this course, students will learn how to record business transactions, prepare financial statements and analyze financial data. Students will be prepared to do basic bookkeeping for a service-oriented or retail business.
Principles of Accounting 2BSA 222
The majority of business sales are generated by corporations. In this continuation of BSA 221, students will be able to record basic corporate transactions. Emphasis is given to developing critical thinking about complex financial data and ratio analysis. Students will also be introduced to basic managerial accounting terminology and cost-volume-profit analysis.
FinanceBSA 225
This course introduces basic financial management topics including financial statement analysis, working capital, capital budgeting, and long-term financing. The approach will include issues faced by multinational corporations such as foreign currency translation, international tax rates, and evaluation of international projects. Students will use problems and cases to enhance skills in financial planning and decision making.
Management/Organizational BehaviorBSA 240
This course concerns the management of organizations in a competitive global environment and evaluates the forces external to the firm that structure decisions. This course examines the different elements that shape managerial discretion and the tools that organizations use to survive their environments. This course will explore the impact of cultural differences on the success and failure of a firm and will address management styles across cultures.
Human Resource ManagementBSA 250
Human Resources Management (HRM) is a functional area of every business with the goal of attracting and retaining the best and brightest employees from all over the globe. Topics covered include intercultural sensitivity, global managers as change agents, global workforce diversity, expatriate issues, the role of the global manager, and the influence of culture on employee motivation and management styles.
Business LawBSA 270
This course addresses the legal and ethical issues confronting the global business manager. This course also addresses the legal system, legal processes, and several areas of substantive commercial law relevant to management decisions. In addition, it discusses the developing recognition of legal and ethical issues, and their managerial implications. The concepts studied in this course include product liability, the administrative legal process of regulation, antitrust, and the contract as the fundamental legal instrument of global commercial relations.
Decision ScienceBSA 441
Vast amounts of data are collected in today's business environment. The most successful managers are those that can put this information to work effectively to guide their decision process. This course prepares student to describe, gather, and analyze business data and to use statistical and management science tools to make effective business decisions in operations, finance, marketing, management, and staffing.
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Global Businesses' Opportunities and ChallengesBSA 345
This webinar based course exposes students to a variety of issues related to identifying and taking advantage of global business opportunities. Specific topics to be covered are exporting, accounting and taxation, logistics, off-shoring, staffing, and cross-cultural negotiation. These webinars will be presented in partnership with both government and non-governmental organizations.
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Introduction to LeadershipBSA1 140
This course is designed to provide an introduction into the many issues, concepts, and theories involved in the study of leadership. The course will explore traditional and contemporary leadership theories and models, with a major emphasis on understanding one's self as a leader.
Leadership and Change in OrganizationsBSA 343
This course examines the opportunities and issues when leading an organizational change effort. Emphasis is on organizational vision, motivation, organizational culture, alignment of organizational systems, and theories of change. Students will learn to form vision statements, implement strategies for organizational change, anticipate obstacles, and maintain motivation. Students will also analyze the successes, the failures, and the multiple dilemmas of modern organizations in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors in order to better understand the causes, implications, and potential leader actions and strategies associated with organizational change.
Performance ManagementBSA 354
Every employee has his/her performance evaluated and every supervisor evaluates someone's performance. This course is designed to provide you with an in-depth study of performance management (PM) in an organization. You will understand why effective performance management is critical, develop the skills to give feedback to employees, and learn how to develop a performance appraisal system. A required team project allows students to enter a local organization and evaluate their performance management system against the criteria taught in class. You should leave the course possessing a set of "tools" which can be used in effective performance management.
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This course provides an overview of current knowledge about consumer behavior. Basic behavioral science and specific techniques used in marketing practice are covered. Course topics include focus group interviews and qualitative research, survey analysis, sensory and perceptual analysis, attitude analysis, value analysis, and psychographics. The approach is not mathematical, but is technical. The course is directed at students preparing for positions in brand management, advertising, and marketing research.
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This course considers the gathering of marketing related data from individuals and organizations, with particular emphasis on integrating problem formulation, research design, and sampling so as to yield the most valuable information. Statistical approaches to improve marketing decision making in such areas as strategic marketing, advertising, pricing, sales force management, sales promotions, new products, and direct marketing are examined. The development, implementation, and use of quantitative models are emphasized.
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This course focuses on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of a company's marketing activities. Topics will cover product management, pricing, distribution and inventory, market segmentation, and positioning. The course will demonstrate quantitative techniques for determining sales territories and compensation; advertising and other promotional budgets; product line and business unit profit margins; and other metrics for determining the net contribution of the marketing program.


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This isn't to say he can be blamed for a long evening that seemed to be devoted more to singing than handing out awards.
On the other hand, he doesn't get credit for the show's best moments, either: Adele's powerful performance of "Skyfall," Daniel Day-Lewis's charmingly stiff humor in his acceptance speech for Lincoln – it was so like Abe! – or Michelle Obama's surprising and generous gesture: appearing via satellite to announce the Best Picture winner.
It's also only fair to say that this year's awards weren't as awful as the ones hosted in 2011 by James Franco and Anne Hathaway (her Supporting Actress award for Les Misérables, I suspect, was not only because she made "I Dreamed a Dream" look as painful as a birth scene from Alien, but for being such a good sport about that hosting fiasco). And, given the caliber and popularity of the movies nominated, ratings should be good.
But it's the host who sets the tone, and in that regard MacFarlane was problematic. I say "problematic" in the way that a Secretary of State might describe a report that North Korea had fired a missile in our direction.
The creator-writer of Fox's Family Guy and the hit film Ted, MacFarlane was brought in as a calculated, possibly desperate gamble to liven up the broadcast. He's certainly famous enough, but he's still known principally as a comic sensibility – a voice actor, a joke teller, a writer-director – than as a personality or performer.
And that sensibility is impossible to be indifferent to. MacFarlane likes to be politically and culturally incorrect in a way that registers as annoying, well-aimed tweaks. His jokes can feel like a pencil poked in your back by a student behind you in sixth grade.
I just experienced a most painful flashback to just such an incident.
Maybe the Academy was sold by the fact that, unlike Ricky Gervais and his unnerving, shiny face, MacFarlane looks so harmless, so completely host-appropriate. He arrives as an impeccably groomed package, as smiling and smoothly spoken as Ryan Seacrest. He looks as if he might have managed the Jonas Brothers. He can also sing in the lightly swinging style of classic crooners like Sinatra.
The incongruity doesn't make him funnier.
Why The Funny Man Wasn't So FunnyThe night started with one of the strangest and ultimately most pointless openings ever. William Shatner, looking rumpled and cross in his old Star Trek uniform, appeared on a giant screen. He said he had come from the future to warn MacFarlane that his show would be a disaster: "Your jokes are tasteless and inappropriate and everyone ends up hating you."
Then he showed a clip from "further on" in the broadcast: MacFarlane was singing (quite well) about actresses' exposed breasts. Then we saw MacFarlane's "sock puppet" adaptation of the Denzel Washington movie Flight. Shatner said he was appalled that MacFarlane would have the nerve to sock-impersonate a black actor.
In other words, MacFarlane had to explain to us that he would be offensive – because people weren't able to tell? – before he could actually be offensive. This wasn't not so much offensive as irritating and self-aggrandizing.
I actually would have been grateful to be shocked, angered or disgusted rather than patronized.
I mean, it's the Academy Awards, a night that often feels like Hollywood's idea of America's idea of heaven.
This happened to me only once. The "playing off" music – for winners who spoke too long – was the theme from Jaws. This seemed, for a moment, like an inspired, even cute idea, until you realized it came across as sniggering at the statuette-holders as they struggled to cram all they could into their moment of glory. It was like a whoopie cushion, or a wind instrument going "wha-wha-wha-WHAAAA."
(By the time Quentin Tarantino accepted his screenwriter award for Django Unchained with a very long, wildly emphatic speech, Jaws was gone.)
Beyond that, MacFarlane kept throwing out lines, as hosts do, delivering them with a Johnny Carson urbanity even when he was joking, for instance, about how many years it will be before 9-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis can hook up with (or, more precisely, will be too old for) George Clooney.
Then, with all the statuettes given out and the time on the cable box indicating a few minutes past 12 a.m., he and Kristin Chenowith performed a number called "Here's to the Losers."
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EllRay Jakes is tired of being bullied by fellow classmate Jared Matthews. But when EllRay tries to defend himself, he winds up in trouble. Then his dad offers him a deal: If he stays out of trouble for one week, they'll go to Disneyland! EllRay says he can do it. But saying it and doing it are two very different things.
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Cellular therapy is a challenging discipline from a variety of perspectives: The cells themselves need to be prepared and proven to be the appropriate inoculum free of contaminating subpopulations; there need to be assays to demonstrate, safety, efficacy, and potency; there is a challenging regulatory environment; and eventual reimbursement of cellular therapeutics is uncertain.
In this environment, benchmarks are needed—i.e., scenarios utilizing cellular therapeutics wherein a trajectory has been established. For this sense of direction, we turn to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), which has a 40+ year operating track record and has evolved in terms of the types of cellular inoculum that are deployed. The Figure presents the evolution of this space and presents two time points: 1988 and 2012—note the evolution of the source of stem cells utilized.
Cord blood is gaining in popularity as a source of starting material and provides a roadmap for how the cellular therapeutics space may evolve. Indeed, one could argue that cord blood utilization provides a framework for how the evolution of the broader cellular therapeutics field may unfold.
In the companion report published in GEN online (http://bit.ly/1g0hLED), we present a snapshot of some of the quantitative metrics in the cord blood banking space and track the challenges in the field as it seeks to remake itself from purely a source of material for HSCTs to a source of stem cells for addressing a wide swath of therapeutics needs.
Indeed, the ongoing clinical trials in the cord blood space focusing on CNS and other disorders demonstrate how a focused cellular therapeutic for hematological malignancies and inborn errors of metabolism can find wide appeal as a general source of therapeutically relevant stem cells.
The fact that more than 580,000 units of cord blood are available in public banks worldwide (a fraction of which is probably actually usable as a cellular therapeutic) with rapid access to patient populations suggests the potential of cord blood and its associated cells as a generalized cellular therapeutic going forward.
Of course, there are challenges and limitations with cord blood, and some of these are addressed in the companion report. The takeaways therefore are that cord blood-based cellular therapeutics provide a roadmap for the evolution of the cellular therapeutics space. In addition, some of the challenges in getting cord blood approved and working within its QA/QC parameters, which allow it to be offered as a product, to an extent will also likely applicable to allogeneic cellular therapeutics in the future.
In summary, we continue to follow the cord blood market as a means to track the evolution of this space per se as well as to provide a path forward for the unfolding of the allogeneic therapies space using adult stem cells of various classes over the coming years.
Our industry analyses show the increased utilization of cord blood in the hematological malignancy space and this trend is "spilling over" into other disease classes. These data lead to the concept that we seek to promote that the cord blood adoption trajectory provides a benchmark for the allogeneic cell therapy space.
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Stetson University Director of Athletics Jeff Altier announced today the addition of Pegjohngy "P.J." Moses to the Hatters Athletics Administrative staff. Moses officially began her duties as Associate Athletic Director for Student Services, Academics and Compliance on Monday, March 31.
Moses will serve as a sport administrator for multiple teams, will certify initial and continuing eligibility for student-athletes and will provide general academic advising, enhancement and referral for student-athletes among other duties.
"I am certainly excited to have P.J. joining our staff in what is an extremely important role," Altier said. "Nothing is more important in our mission than insuring the academic success and eligibility of our student-athletes. P.J. brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to this role and will be an asset to our overall athletics operations."
Moses comes to Stetson from Delaware State University where she most recently served as the Director of Enterprise Risk Management in the Office of General Counsel. Prior to her appointment to that position she served as the Associate Athletics Director for Internal Operations from 2008-12.
A graduate of Duke University in 1995 with a degree in Political Science & History, Moses completed her Juris Doctorate at the Tulane University Law School in 1998 while also receiving a sport law certificate.
"I'm filled with enthusiasm and excited to be here," Moses said. "Stetson has some of the best all-around people. The people, the place and the purpose are truly special. I'm blessed to be among such a wonderful family and I look forward to helping in the continued success of all of the athletics programs."
She began her professional career as compliance coordinator at Cornell University in 1999. From there she moved on to a similar position at UCF in 2000 before assuming the role of Director of Compliance for the Knights in 2001. She moved on to Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2003 where she served as Assistant AD for Compliance.
In 2004 Moses was named Assistant AD for Compliance and Senior Woman Administrator at the University of Texas Pan American, a position she held until moving to Delaware State in 2008.
Throughout her career she has participated in numerous professional development programs through the NCAA and other organizations.
Moses is a native of Goldsboro, N.C.


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A Palantir Founder Suggests His Startup Is Worth About $8 Billion
Ever heard of a startup called Palantir Technologies?
It's not often in the same conversation as some of the other largest technology startups in the ecosystem currently, like Twitter and Square. But Palantir Technologies is apparently one of the most valuable.
That's at least according to a co-founder of the secretive company, which has designed what many intelligence analysts say is the most effective software tool to investigate terrorist networks. Some of the sectors Palantir works in include anti-fraud, defense, cybersecurity, disease response, capital market analysis–essentially anything with enormous amounts of data to parse.
While being able to capture and control a massive amount of data is important for any of these spaces, being able to divine useful information–especially in sectors where billions of dollars and human lives are at stake–is a very valuable proposition.
On the question-and-answer site Quora, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale said he has seen investor interest in the company at a valuation of "between $7 billion and $8 billion." He was responding to a question asking about Palantir's worth.
Lonsdale also said Palantir's stock has traded on the secondary market at a valuation between $4 billion and $5 billion. In 2011, various media reports pegged Palantir's valuation at between $2.5 billion and $3 billion.
Lonsdale no longer works with the company, becoming a founder and general partner of Foundation 8, an investment fund. So he might not be entirely in the loop, as he suggests in his response. He may also be talking up the company, as he surely has a vested interest in its success.
Still, $8 billion is a bold claim, and it's rare that a founder will come out and publicly state the valuation of a company in such plain terms. We've reached out to Palantir about the valuation claim.
Palantir was founded in 2004 and has raised capital from investors such as Founders Fund, Youuniversity Ventures, Glynn Capital and Jeremy Stoppelman, the chief executive of Yelp. Peter Thiel, the hedge fund manager and former co-founder of PayPal, is also a founder and investor in Palantir.
Here is Londale's full response on Quora to the question, "What is the current valuation of Palantir Technologies?":
it's higher, but there is no official valuation. there have been trades of common between $4 and $5 billion on the secondary markets, and these occurred before the end of a very strong year.
I am not fully in the loop but I know that some groups have shown interest between $7 and $8 billion — but the company is not raising money / doesn't need to raise…


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Country music legend Loretta Lynn is postponing two shows in Iowa because of exhaustion.
A statement from Lynn's representative on the singer's website says the 81-year-old singer started feeling poorly midway through her three-week tour and is taking some time off to be treated.
"Loretta is a pro and wants to give her fans the best show possible," the rep said. "She felt she was physically unable to do that."
The statement says Lynn, who just finished a Canadian tour, is rescheduling both Iowa shows.
Last year, the singer postponed two shows to undergo more physical therapy following total knee replacement surgery.
Lynn was born in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky and chronicled her life in an autobiography and song, both titled "Coal Miner's Daughter."
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iShow at Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery
SLR you say? I don't think so. No need to mess with bulky equipment to snap up memories like the photog pros. The Video Association of Dallas and Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery together are sponsoring ishow, an upcoming exhibit featuring regional photographers who use the iPhone. No, seriously. The iPhone.
PDNB doesn't have any exhibit photos posted yet, so it'll be interesting to see how or if the subject matter is tied together throughout the exhibit.
There will be an opening reception Sept. 24 from 7 to 9 p.m., with performances included. The show will be at PDNB Gallery Sept. 24 through Oct. 9.
What tips do you have for fellow phone-toting photographers?