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the word katie is given to a super Kool girl, that is extremely beautifull, totally random, and suffers from ADHD. she is also a great friend. she is also psoh but loves Mc donalds and her knicker-boxers and we love her!
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OMG that radient girl over there, must be a katie!
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A happy person who is a good listener and reliable friend. Likes to party and is always there when you need her.
''Call katie she'll go out''
by Katie A August 11, 2006
Katie is as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside. Katie is radiant and smiles from the inside out. She lights up a room when she walks in. A girl of good character. She has the heart of an angel, shows compassion and encourages everyone around her. She is sincere, sensitive and kind. A sensual, graceful dancer. Katie can be a bit clumsy which she demonstrates when she often falls off of her high shoes so be ready to catch her. Has a flare for fashion. Is usually a homecoming queen. Has a passion for life! Intelligent and discerning. A person you can trust with your heart. Guys gravitate towards her. She is old fashioned and will not chase guys but lucky is the guy who pursues her and wins her heart. Loyalty is one of her many attributes. Katie has a huge capacity for love. Be kind and you will win her heart forever. BUT be warned IF you are a cheater, a player, mean, hurtful, dishonest, rude or inattentive you will distroy her love for you. If you are ever lucky enough to have a Katie in your life then you have found a rare treasure. Cherish each and every moment with her like it is your last.
I love that sweetheart Katie.
by liveandlearn July 17, 2009
An absolutetly gorgeous person. Someone who is so amazingly beautiful its almost physically impossible.
That girl is so beautiful. She must be a katie.
by kooolio3682-xx March 20, 2008
the name katie is usualy given to one who happens to be exceptionaly well at pleasing their partner. katie's happen to be very good at making the opposite sex rather "turned on". one would not regret having been with a katie.
i want a girl like katie, one who can turn me on and tease me but do a good fuckin job at it ;) mmmbaby!
by logan! November 26, 2007
The most beautiful, intelligent, wonderful girl. She is wiser beyond her years. Her frienship means the world to me. She had dreams greater than anyone and I believe she can achieve them all. She's to good for the boys. If you're not her friend, you're missing out!
there is noone who can compare to Katie.
by lyksierraduh April 21, 2008
A happy, friendly person who likes to be around friends and gives lots of hugs
-she's such a Katie-
-that girl is a real Katie-
-that girl is a real Katie-
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a supah fly chick with a crazy life,
usually enjoys parties.
usually enjoys parties.
damnn that girl is such a katie!
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Paula Deen and a former employee have reached a settlement to dismiss the remaining claims in a lawsuit that cost the celebrity chef a chunk of her empire.
The U.S. District Court in Savannah, Ga., on Friday formally dismissed the sexual harassment case with prejudice, meaning it can't be filed again, just days after the judge threw out the racial discrimination portion of the lawsuit.
A court document said both sides reached the settlement "without any award of costs or fees to any party."
The former employee, Lisa Jackson, released a statement saying Deen was not personally responsible.
"I assumed that all of my complaints about the workplace environment were getting to Paula Deen, but I learned during this matter that this was not the case," said Jackson. "The Paula Deen I have known for more than eight years is a woman of compassion and kindness and will never tolerate discrimination or racism of any kind toward anyone. I now know that the workplace environment issues that I raised are being reviewed and will in the future no longer be at issue."
Jackson had sued Deen and her brother, Bubba Hiers, last year saying she was subjected to sexual harassment and racist attitudes during the five years she worked at their restaurant, Uncle Bubba's Seafood and Oyster House.
"I am looking forward to getting this behind me, now that the remaining claims have been resolved," Deen said in a statement. "During this time my faith has strengthened me and the tremendous outpouring of support as well as prayers from folks from all walks of life has been both humbling and overwhelming.I am confident that those who truly know how I live my life know that I believe in kindness and fairness for everyone."
Deen also said of Jackson, "We appreciate her service" working at Uncle Bubba's for five years.
"Moving forward my team and I are working to review the workplace environment issues that were raised in this matter and to retool all of my businesses operations," Deen added. "I look forward to getting back to doing what I love."
The Food Network and other business partners dropped Deen after she acknowledged using racial slurs in the past during questioning by Jackson's lawyers.
Since the fallout, Deen, 66, has led a quiet life at home in Savannah. "She's doing okay," a producer friend recently told PEOPLE. "She's a fighter and she's got a family who supports her."
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Just 18 months old, Roona Begum has had multiple surgeries for extreme hydrocephalus. Her head tripled in size because of a buildup of cerebral fluid soon after birth. She had been given months to live, but underwent surgery funded by donations.
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The U.S. Department of Labor has certified more than 18,000 former Hostess workers around the country, including 572 at its plants in the Buffalo Niagara region and across the rest of New York, as eligible to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
An investigation found that an increase in imports of baked products was a significant factor in the closing of Hostess, which made laid off employees eligible for the benefits. Hostess had three locations in Western New York – one in Amherst and two in Cheektowaga.
About 18,000 workers in 48 states from 864 Hostess company locations can apply for benefits that include case management and re-employment services, training in new occupational skills and/or trade readjustment allowances that provide income support for workers enrolled in training. Workers may also receive job search and relocation allowances, and the Health Coverage Tax Credit.
The assistance is open to all eligible workers of all ages, but workers 50 years of age and older may choose to get Re-employment Trade Adjustment Assistance instead, which pays 50 percent of the difference in income, up to $10,000, if the worker receives a new job, earning less than $50,000 and less than wages earned in the trade-impacted position.
Hostess Brands is liquidating after failing to reach an agreement with striking bakers on concessions to help the company emerge from bankruptcy. Earlier this month, Hostess won bankruptcy court approval to hold auctions for brands including Wonder Bread, Twinkies and Drake's.
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Sparing or scant in giving or spending; stingy.
Let me have a Skittle, you sheisty bitch.
by Daniel March 26, 2002
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a lying, cheating, dishonest, stealing, or simply shady mother fucker who steals $40 from his neighbors purse and makes you pay for pizza that night!!! what the fuck
I know that sheisty bastard cris stole my shit but hes not admitting to it...even though i saw him do it.
by "Jeremy" April 17, 2003
Suspicious; shady
Yo, he's lookin' sheisty. Keep an eye on him.
by G-G-G-Geisto April 16, 2003
a shady individual that is quick to reach a means needed via trickery and dishonesty. A con-man.
There is a government regime that is infested by rich sheist/ sheisty individuals.
by manny gonzalez March 04, 2006
not being true to something
Pirates of the Carribean was a sheisty movie--it wasn't true to the ride.
by Jenyofer July 13, 2003
An individual who is constantly putting himself and/or those around him in risk of getting arrested for drug-related charges.
That fool was rolling around with two zips in his car while he was hittin a bob. What a sheist/ sheisty ass motherfucker.
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Sheist! I locked my keys AND my bong in the car!
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William, 31, who served as a RAF search and rescue helicopter pilot until September, was watched by wife Kate as he laid a wreath of poppies at a memorial in central London. He followed his brother, army captain Harry, 29, who donned his ceremonial Household Cavalry great coat with wide red collar, in paying tribute on behalf of his father, Prince Charles (who is in India with wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall).
As in previous years, Kate, 31, watched from a balcony above Whitehall, central London, alongside William's aunt Sophie, Countess of Wessex, and Tim Laurence, the husband of Princess Anne. Kate donned a brooch in the shape of a poppy – the traditional symbol worn to honor those who have perished in wars.
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Sunday's ceremony (a continuation from Poppy Day in London on Thursday) remembered those who died in the two world wars and conflicts since.
A day prior, William stood in silence with 66,000 rugby fans as they paused for two minutes to remember those lost before a match between Wales and South Africa.
Following the game, William received some gifts for son Prince George – a little shirt from the Wales squad and a little springbok toy from the victorious South Africans.


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Fund performance counts in bull and bear markets.
Ancient people spent an awful lot of time piling up large rocks, in part to discover just how long it took Earth to go around the sun. Modern people have (generally) dispensed with the large rocks and settled on 365.25 days. We use that unit to measure many things, such as our own age and the amount of time it seems to take Congress to reach a budget agreement.
Whether or not you should measure your mutual fund's performance by the time it takes Earth to cycle around the sun is another question. In fact, you might be better measuring how your fund fares in a full market cycle — from bull to bear and back, or vice versa.
Of the 663 large-company stock funds from the top of the last bull market in September 2007 to today, 225 posted above-average performance in both the 2007-2009 bear market and the bull market that continues (possibly) to this day. Let's take a look at a few of them and see what they have in common.
Lipper divides large-company funds into three categories:
• Value funds, which look for beaten-down stocks that have the potential to return to Wall Street's favor. In theory, since these funds buy stocks that have already been clobbered, these stocks will get clobbered less in a bear market. Many value funds also have above-average dividend yields, which help soften the effect of a downturn. But value managers generally won't buy the stocks that really fly in a bull market.
• Growth funds, which look for stocks of companies with high potential earnings growth. These funds buy stocks that soar in good times, and land like Wile E. Coyote at the bottom of Dry Gulch when the bull market ends.
• Core funds, which look for companies with GARP: growth at a reasonable price. In theory, this should be the best of both worlds, although it's much harder in practice than in theory.
No categories are as neat as people would like them to be. Few growth managers will admit that they don't give a fig about a stock's price, relative to earnings. And few value managers will say they have never given a thought to a stock's earnings prospects. But the classifications do give you some idea of how a manager invests.
In the value camp, the winner is John Hancock Disciplined Value Fund (ticker: JVLAX). The fund fell 47.8% from the end of September 2007 through February 2009. Bad as that seems, it's better than the 54.1% tumble the Standard & Poor's 500 took during the same period, with dividends reinvested. The fund has gained 161% since the bear market bottom, for a round-trip gain of 36.4%. (The S&P's round-trip record was 25.8%.)
Not surprisingly, managers Mark Donovan and David Pyle aren't hard-core value managers: They look at industry earnings trends as well as traditional value metrics, such as price-to-book ratios.
Interestingly, an index fund, PowerShares Dynamic Large Cap Value Portfolio (PWV), also made the cut. While expensive for an index fund — it charges 0.59% in expenses a year — it's cheaper than the John Hancock offering, which charges 1.20% a year, as well as a front-end sales charge.
Laudus Growth Investors U.S. Large Cap Growth Fund (LGILX) was the best round-trip fund in the growth camp, racking up a 56% round-trip gain. Both managers are new — they started at the helm in November 2012 — so it's hard to give the fund in its current incarnation too much credit.
A better bet might be the ancient Putnam Voyager fund (PVOYX), launched in 1969. Current manager Nick Thakorehas been at the helm since November 2008. The fund has scored a 49.6% gain during the full market cycle.
The top growth fund is — again — an index fund. PowerShares QQQ Trust (QQQ), which tracks the Nasdaq 100 index, has gained 59.2% for the cycle, thanks in large part to its biggest holding, Apple.
And the world according to GARP, the winner is the Managers AMG Yacktman fund (YACKX), up 89.6% in the round trip. Don Yacktman, the chief manager, has been at the helm since 1992, and his son has worked on the fund since 2002.
No word on the grandchildren's role as yet, but they could do worse than learning at their grandfather's knee. The fund trades rarely — its turnover rate is just 7% — and tends to hold a relatively concentrated portfolio of high-quality, reasonably priced names like Procter & Gamble, Microsoft and Coca-Cola. The fund lost 39.7% during the bear market and gained 214.5% during the bull phase.
As the Securities and Exchange Commission likes to remind us, past performance is no guarantee of future returns. But looking at a fund's record in bull and bear markets gives you an idea of what you can expect in a bad market and a good one.
Of course, we can only hope that few people put their entire fortune into a fund at the start of the bear market in 2007. Those who started investing $100 a month into funds at the end of September of 2007 did pretty well, though. In the case of the Yacktman fund, $100 a month — $7,300 total — would have become $11,740. It's not easy to hang onto a fund in a bear market. But it is easier than piling up large rocks.


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Gerhild Romberger
Gerhild Romberger was born and grew up in Emsland in Germany. After having graduated her studies of music teaching at the University of Music in Detmold she completed her vocal training with a concert exam with Heiner Eckels. Further she added courses for lied interpretation with professor Misuko Shirai and professor Hartmut Höll. Meanwhile Gerhild Romberger lives with her family in Detmold where the highly popular teacher since many years holds a professorship for singing at the University of Music.
The mezzosoprano in her singing has always focused on concert singing. Key aspects of her work are recitals with a wide variety of topics and her engagement with contemporary music. This singer´s astonishing extensive repertoire covers all major alto and mezzo-soprano parts of oratios and concerts from the Baroque era, the Classical and Romantic periods as well as 20th century literature.
Highlights of Gerhild Romberger`s concert career in recent years have been concerts with Manfred Honeck, who invited her for, amongst others, Mahler´s symphonies, Beethoven´s Missa Solemnis or the Große Messe by Walter Braunfels. Further concerts at the NDR Hamburg with Wolfgang Rihm´s Drei späte Gedichte von Heiner Müller, with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Prague, numerous performances with Enoch zu Guttenberg (among others Bach´s Passions, Verdi´s Messa da Requiem, Beethoven´s Missa solemnis and Wagner´s Wesendoncklieder). After a performance of Bach´s St. Matthew`s Passion in the Philharmonie in Munich she received enthused reviews: "The beautiful voice of the alto, which, despite its clarity, exudes an unearthly warmth, loving mother at first, tender lover at other times – Gerhild Romberger sings, and time stands still. (Süddeutsche Zeitung).
Her artistic work leads her to the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester under Riccardo Chailly, repeatedly to the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (with Schmidt´s Buch mit den sieben Siegeln and with Mendelsson´s Elias with Thomas Hengelbrock), to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert Blomstedt, to the Symphony Orchestras of WDR and MDR and to the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. A regular cooperation closely connects Gerhild Romberger to Ralf Otto of the Bachchor Mainz as well as to Philippe Herreweghe and the Orchestre des Champs Elysées in Paris.
In the near future the mezzosoprano will perform with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Prague, the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, on tour with Beethoven`s Missa solemnis with the Orchestre des Champs Elysées Paris under Philippe Herreweghe, with the Bavarian Radio Chorus and with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck in the United States and on tour in Europe (Mahler´s 2nd Symphony + Mozart`s Requiem).


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Quaker Chemical Corp. showed me two science papers authored by the technical staff and researchers in its metalworking products laboratory. Quaker is a supplier of metalworking fluids formulated for specific machining applications. Glancing at the papers, I saw tables of data, micrographs, chemical formulas and long lists of references and scientific sources at the end. "Uh-oh," I thought at first. Papers like these are usually hard to read and sometimes boring.
As it turns out, both papers are clear, readable discussions of topics related to metalworking fluids. Plus, both papers present insights useful beyond fluid usage concerns. So don't be put off by the appearance of highly technical content. I recommend both papers. One runs 7 pages, the other 10.
For a short review of "Aluminum High Speed Machining" and a link to the full paper, click here.
For a short review of "Lubrication & Machining of Compacted Graphite Iron" and link to the full paper, click here.
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HARPERS FERRY - After 30 years of teaching, Karan Townsend decided it was time for a change. Her doctorate in education took her to many countries and, upon her return to the United States, she found the perfect town that reminded her most of her travels in Europe - Harpers Ferry.
Along High Street in Harpers Ferry, Townsend has transformed a house built in 1840 into an inn that also has a restaurant and, after Friday's grand opening, now a small store.
In 2007, Townsend took over the abandoned holiday home. After a year of renovations, two guest rooms on the second floor were added along with a parlor and guest room on the third floor.
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Members of the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce welcome the new addition of a shop to the Town's Inn in Harpers Ferry Friday afternoon.
The lodge was leased out until a little more than a year ago when Townsend took over, and it has been open 24 hours ever since.
"We changed our menu from the regular Harpers Ferry restaurant menu to a home-cooked, homestyle, everything-done-right-in-the-kitchen kind of menu," Townsend said.
Cook Jill Gaskins created each and every one of the recipes with her mix of many years of cooking experience. She creates dishes from quiche to shepherd's pie to sausage gravy, all homemade in the inn's kitchen.
This fall, Townsend's daughter stopped by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy to find out what kind of things hikers need when they stop along the trail. With her list, she went to Trader Joe's and Whole Foods, and returned with items such as peanut butter, trail mixes, toothpaste and batteries.
"The store is good not only for visitors and hikers, but also for locals that don't want to go to Wal-Mart to get basic things," Townsend said. "Here it's lodging, it's dining, it's a shop. It's an old-fashioned general store and inn," she said.
Townsend said one of her concerns was that Harpers Ferry was not very hospitable for people between Labor Day and Memorial Day, and so the Town's Inn stays open all year round -which is easy for Townsend, because she also lives in the same building.
"If people need something in the middle of the night, it's OK, they can just call me," Townsend said.
The store section of the inn officially opened Friday with members of the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce holding a ribbon-cutting to welcome in Townsend's newest addition to her historic building.
The store items sit comfortably tucked on shelves around the tables in the dining area. Townsend said she likes to think of it as a "high-end 7-Eleven in the lower town."
"I thought that after teaching, which is exhilarating and exhausting, doing an inn might be a nice retirement kind of thing. It's like a farm, there's always something to do here, because we never close," Townsend said.
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013
When it comes to meeting that special someone, many factors come together to make that perfect match. Physical attraction, common interests and a shared sense of humor are all regularly cited as important qualities in the perfect mate, but what about an attractive accent?
Your date's accent may not seem like a vital detail – especially when meeting someone online - but your subconscious reaction when they speak could make or break a relationship.
With a continent as large and diverse as North America, it's not surprising that accents are many and varied. From the lilting twang of the South, to the short and snappy speech of New Yorkers, the way North Americans speak is as much a melting pot of different styles and influences as the food and music.
The vast variety means that here in North America there really is something for everyone. But with choice comes preference, and although you may not think about it often, everyone has their own vocal likes and dislikes.
But which accents make us weak at the knees, and which are a turn off?
Well thanks to a recent survey of over 2,000 men and women by dating site Cupid.com we finally have the answer. The Southern accent, as spoken by the good people of the Palmetto State, was voted in first place as the most attractive of all.
(Rank, total and male/female split)
1st Southern – 36.5 percent (45/28)
2nd New York –16.5 percent (10/23)
3rd Western – 13 percent (16/10)
4th New England – 10.5 percent (8/13)
5th New Jersey –7 percent (4/10)
6th Canadian –7 percent (3/11)
7th Midwestern – 5.5 percent (8/3)
8th Mid-Atlantic – 4 percent (5/3)
So what is it that makes the Southern accent so appealing to members of the opposite sex? When it comes to romance, most of us dream of long lazy days in the sun, epic sunsets and, ahem, rolls in the hay. It's therefore no surprise that in at number one is the sweet sound of the South.
The distinctive sound of the Southern drawl is infamous the world over, but who knew its sing-song tones were secretly such a turn on? Interestingly the Southern accent proved a particular hit with the men who were surveyed. We're not sure if they're after a Scarlett O'Hara or a Daisy Duke, but either way it's great news for all you single southern belles.
New York
New Yorkers short, sharp talk may sometimes come across as harsh, but that didn't stop it from landing second place as most attractive accent in North America.
You may have
thought that their directness would scare prospective lovers off, but it seems that's far from the case.
In fact New York's fast and straight talking is actually very popular – especially among those women surveyed.
Bachelors of New York – make yourselves known.
With notable exceptions like the laid-back sounds of California's surfer dudes, the West is home to North America's least distinctive and most generic accents. However, far from
being a downfall it seems to be serving Westerners well, as they bagged third place in
Cupid.com's survey. So the Western states are a potential hotbed of love and romance.
New England
Ah, the Boston accent; one of the most characteristic in the USA. Yes, they may have
something funny going on with the letter "R," but that didn't stop New England ranking fourth as the most attractive accent in North America according to this survey.
New England scored particularly highly with females; we wonder if that has anything to do with Boston's famous sons Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg and Ben Affleck?
New Jersey
We wouldn't want to be the ones to have to break it to Tony Soprano, but it seems his
native New Jersey accent isn't a winner when it comes to love. Yes, Tony may have had more romantic conquests than we've had hot meals, but his hard-hitting New Jersey accent only reached fifth place in our Cupid.com survey. Tony may have found some solace in the fact that once again it was women who reacted most positively to New Jersey's harsh tones. It seems that when it comes to love, daters are looking for partners who conform to the gender stereotypes of softly-spoken women and tough-talking men.
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Prospective Freshmen
Students entering the School of Management can expect to be challenged by professors and fellow students to rise above previous accomplishments. The transition to college can be demanding and intimidating, but you have the skills to succeed and to excel. This set of pages and links will help you in the transition process.
Summer Orientation
Your first introduction to Binghamton University and the School of Management will be during Summer Orientation. At this time, you will receive your initial academic advising and prepare the schedule for your first semester. You'll also learn about the various student services offices and the multitude of campus activities and organizations. You may meet your new roommate and visit your residential college. Most of all, you'll make lots of new friends to make the early days of the semester more comfortable. Learn more about Orientation.
First-Year Schedule
Students in the School of Management focus on Binghamton University's General Education requirements during the first year alongside taking two required courses, MGMT 111 and CQS 111. These courses are required first-semester courses and are designed to introduce the new freshman to the programs and services offered in the School of Management and also to provide the computer skills needed in the rest of the program and in today's business world. This is followed in the second semester by CQS 112- Statistics, which introduces statistical techniques and reinforces the computer skills developed in CQS 111.
A typical first-year schedule for a freshman would look like this:
Semester One:
CQS 111 - Computer Tools for Management
MGMT 111-Intro to Decision Making In Management
MATH 220 - Calculus for Management Decisions or MATH 224/225 - Calculus I
General Education course (see discussion of General Education Requirements below)
General Education course
Semester Two:
CQS 112 - Statistics
ECON 160 - Microeconomics or ECON 162 - Macroeconomics
General Education course
General Education course
Note: You will have considerable freedom to choose courses to fit your interests.
Academic Advising
Academic Advising in the School of Management is centralized. The office is located in Academic A, room 142 (AA-142). This is the place you will visit for any academic questions you may have during your time at Binghamton. In addition, Advising is a good source for information about other issues. We know who to visit to get problems solved. We can provide help with Study Abroad and internships, job opportunities, choosing a major, taking courses at home over the summer or winter breaks, and almost anything else you may have questions about. You never need an appointment to see an advisor. Just stop in at your convenience. There is always someone here to help you.
More detailed information on SOM programs may be found at the Academic Advising page.
Degree Works
The primary tool you'll use to monitor your progress towards your degree is the Degree Works report. These reports are available to you at any time and should be consulted frequently to confirm that you are progressing normally. Degree Works can be accessed in the BU student portal (BU Brain). Among other links on BU Brain are the Course Guide, the Course Schedule and the Registration System. You'll using BU Brain frequently during your time at Binghamton. If you need help in interpreting yourDegree Works please print it and bring it to SOM Advising at anytime. We'll be glad to show you how it works.
General Education Requirements
Most colleges and universities include a set of common courses in their curricula which provide exposure to a wide variety of subjects considered to be necessary for the educated individual. At Binghamton this is known as the General Education requirement and consists of several areas mandated by the SUNY system as well as a few areas chosen by Binghamton. All students at BU must complete the GenEd coursework in order to graduate. This coursework is generally foundational, meaning it is taken during the first two years of any program. Freshmen especially focus on GenEd coursework. See a more detailed explanation of the program and its various categories. GenEd is also covered in significant detail during the Orientation sessions held prior to enrollment. General Education courses may be taken in any order.
Advanced Placement and College credits
Students who have earned college credit via Advanced Placement (AP) courses or courses taken through local colleges while in high school will have those credits evaluated and added to the student record as appropriate. Most liberal arts courses and lower-level business courses will transfer easily. Upper-level business courses (those numbered 300 or higher at Binghamton) transfer only from other Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accredited colleges and universities.
Advanced Placement scores are usually sent to Binghamton electronically late in the summer, but only if you asked to have your scores sent. Please arrange to have score reports sent to us before you arrive for your first semester if you did already not request they be sent. See a table showing how specific AP courses are equated to BU requirements.
College coursework will be evaluated by the SOM Advisor for equivalence to BU courses and credit awarded for those deemed acceptable. Credit is awarded as specifically as possible and would include credit for GenEd requirements as well as other degree requirements. For those freshmen entering the School in the fall semester, this is usually done during the first month of classes. Admitted students should arrange for official final transcripts to be mailed to Binghamton University's Admissions Office as soon as courses are completed. Students who have questions about how their previous coursework was evaluated should visit the SOM Advising Office once the credit has been added to the student record. Additional information may be required to make the evaluation more accurate. Retain your syllabi and course descriptions until after the credit has been finalized.
Information on the equivalencies for many liberal arts courses offered by SUNY or CUNY community colleges is available through the Harpur College Advising pages. The School of Management generally follows the advice of Harpur College in regards to equivalencies for liberal arts coursework.
Connecting to the School of Management
The required MGMT 111 course taken during the first semester will introduce you to the various major options in the School and begin the professional development process which will continue long after you leave BU. You'll write a resume and learn to update it regularly. You'll do mock interviews. You'll attend mentoring sessions with upper classmen where they'll provide you with the benefits of their experience.
You'll use the SOM Student Lounge as study space or for meeting with fellow students to work on group projects. You'll visit the Advising Office whenever you have academic questions or even just to chat. You may even serve as a academic peer advisor as a junior or senior or as a mentor to younger students.
You are encouraged to participate fully in School activities. It is not too soon to get involved with recruiters and going to their presentations will help you prepare for future visits when you will be seeking internships and jobs. It's never too early to begin developing your network. Visits by recruiters and speakers are regularly announced on the various SOM listserv's. Read your email frequently.
Student organizations welcome freshmen as well. If you have an interest in a particular discipline within management, attend the student club meetings. See a list of our SOM student clubs.
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Food served in hospitals has long been notorious for being both unhealthy and unappetizing.
Cooking Well Invitational
What: Cooking Well Invitational, emceed by "Restaurant Impossible" TV star and celebrity chef Robert Irvine.
When: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday.
Where: Culinary Institute of Charleston at Trident Technical College.
Details: This culinary competition and trade show, sponsored by the South Carolina Hospital Association's Working Well Initiative and Sodexo, will emphasize healthier ways to cook tasty and affordable meals. It seeks to celebrate the success of the state's hospital chefs, who are striving to create delicious, healthy dishes for workers, patients and visitors every day.
Hospital teams: Baptist Easley Hospital, Beaufort Memorial Hospital, Georgetown Hospital System, Laurens County Health Care System, Oconee Medical Center, Palmetto Health, Piedmont Medical Center, Providence Hospital, Providence Hospital Northeast, and the Medical University of South Carolina.
Registration fee: $35, includes a light lunch. A limited number of tickets also are available for a pre-event, "Demo Impossible" on Thursday at the Culinary Institute.
Info: www.cooking well2013.com. Tickets also will be available
at the door.
But the times are a-changing.
"We don't serve 'hospital food' anymore," says Jeff Lentini, director of food and nutrition at Roper St. Francis Healthcare. "The food we serve is fit for any restaurant in town ... There are very few items here that aren't fresh."
Nationally, many say a driving force is the Affordable Care Act, which bases Medicaid reimbursements partly on a "patient satisfaction scores." And food plays a role in that.
Regional initiatives also are at play. The New York City Health Department started a voluntary "Healthy Hospital Food Initiative," which drew 35 New York area hospitals.
Closer to home, hospitals have taken on the challenge and are working to change the perception that healthy food doesn't taste good.
Trident Health System has worked to make food more healthy and healthy food more visible through its H2U, or Health To You, initiative and by making changes through recommendations by the Trident Health Wellness Committee.
Roper St. Francis Healthcare and its food service provider, Morrison Healthcare Food Service, have taken similar steps.
Morrison, which has contracts with 550 hospitals nationwide, has created a "wellness commitment" with strategies covering all the bases, such as retail and patient menus, registers, nutrition labeling and healthier beverages.
The Medical University of South Carolina is among 50 state hospitals that have joined a three-year hospital employee wellness program, S.C. Working Well, which is funded by the Duke Endowment and administered through the South Carolina Hospital Association.
Setting an example
Besides promoting tobacco cessation and physical activity, S.C. Working Well seeks to improve nutrition as part of an overall goal to establish and maintain a "culture of wellness" on hospital campuses, according to Susan Johnson, the director of the office of health promotion at MUSC.
"I think this project is timely and significant for many reasons. Hospitals are natural leaders in prevention and we have resources available to help our own employees and community members lead healthier lives and avoid unnecessary illness and health care costs," says Johnson.
Johnson, who spearheaded MUSC's Urban Farm, says that a key component of making healthy choices is eating fresh, local food, which should be the norm.
Healthy competition
Spotlighting that effort comes this Friday with the Cooking Well Invitational, a one-day culinary competition and trade show at the Culinary Institute of Charleston at Trident Technical College.
The event, which costs $35 to attend and includes a light lunch, will feature celebrity chef and "Restaurant Impossible" star Robert Irvine.
The invitational will celebrate the success of South Carolina's hospital chefs from 10 different "Gold Apple" award-winning hospitals.
They are MUSC, Baptist Easley Hospital, Beaufort Memorial Hospital, Georgetown Hospital System, Laurens County Health Care System, Oconee Medical Center, Palmetto Health, Piedmont Medical Center, Providence Hospital and Providence Hospital Northeast.
The chefs will demonstrate how to convert recipes into healthier versions without sacrificing taste. Professional chefs will judge the dishes.
Sodexo & MUSC
Johnson says MUSC has benefited from having a closer relationship with its food service provider, Sodexo, which is the title sponsor of the Cooking Well Invitational and a partner in MUSC's Urban Farm.
Among the initiatives that Sodexo and MUSC have undertaken together include the implementation of a "Wellness and You" program at MUSC, which allows customers to choose healthier options in areas of calories, fat, sodium and cholesterol.
Johnson says equipping food service employees with nutrition knowledge is another vital component of the Wellness and You program.
Employees became "Wellness Certified" via live and online trainings.
"The trick is to keep the momentum going, though. We conduct quarterly audits of the food services to make sure that we sustain this so that we didn't just do this one time and that it would fall off."
Johnson says another, long-held misconception that MUSC and Sodexo have been working to change is the idea that healthy food tastes bad.
"Hospital food has always gotten a bad reputation for not only being unhealthy, but tasting bad, just like school cafeteria food," says Johnson.
"It's a tough balance when you are serving food in an institutional setting for large numbers of patients as well as visitors, employees and, in our case, students in terms of serving what is going to satisfy the consumer, the organizational expectations and the food service provider who is primarily concerned with their profit margin."
Fresh, local produce also is available through weekly farmers markets held on campus as well as delivery service of locally sourced food and produce through Community-Supported Agriculture programs.
The MUSC Urban Farm provides opportunities for learning about the connection between food and health.
And vending machines offering only all-natural, organic and preservative-free items have been installed in several buildings on campus. Existing vending machines feature a system to identify healthy choices.
A five-cent surcharge has been added to unhealthy items, with proceeds benefiting the MUSC Heart Health pediatric weight management program.
Covering bases
Roper St. Francis Healthcare has taken a similar approach to encouraging healthy food choices.
Jeff Lentini, the director of food and nutrition services at Roper St. Francis, says 60 percent of food in all vending machines is considered healthy. The hospital also eliminated an employee discount for sugary drinks, and the cafeteria offers a baked version of each fried entree.
Since April, Roper's food service provider, Morrison Healthcare Food Service, has been using its "Great Living" patient menu. It increases dietary fiber by 20 percent through the use of whole-wheat products, decreases sodium by 50 percent through use of herbs and spices instead of salt, and decreases total and saturated fat by using cooking techniques such as steaming and dry roasting.
"Roper St. Francis menus are built to eliminate food-related health concerns by modeling good nutrition," says Lentini. "The change in diet teaches patients what they should be eating at home."
He adds that Roper is also taking part in Morrison's sweeping wellness commitment for the health care setting over the next three years.
Efforts to change the culture at Trident's hospitals started three years ago with similar initiatives, according to Catherine Grych, a dietitian and director of Trident's H2U program.
Sodexo, also the food service provider for Trident, started labeling healthy menu options with the icons for foods that meet certain standards for fat, cholesterol, sodium and portion size, says Grych.
Grych adds that the Trident Health Wellness Committee, composed of staff from different health disciplines, have worked on making healthy food options the easier choice, such as placing them at more convenient locations.
Sodexo food service and the Medical University of South Carolina have participated in numerous outreach efforts, including this one at the Charleston Green Fair last fall. Here, Darryl Gathers, Sonia Scott and Ferando Middleton prepare a salad using only ingredients from South Carolina.×
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EAST LIVERPOOL - The Bears are treating this year's edition of the "Battle of the Bridges" against the Potters as more than just a rivalry game.
With three games left in the regular season, Oak Glen has already begun its playoff push. Head coach Ian Whittington said that from here on every game is make or break for the Bears.
"If we don't win out, we have no shot at the playoffs," the first-year coach said. "Our backs are against the wall. It's live or die. If we win, we stay in the race and if we lose, you can take our name out of the playoff picture. It's playoff football right now."
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Tonight marks the 34th edition of the "Battle of the Bridges" between cross-river rivals East Liverpool and Oak Glen. (Photo by Wayne Maris)
Currently, the Bears sit at No. 22 in the WVSSAC playoff ratings in Class AA, leaving five teams between them and the final postseason spot. The top 16 advance with the first eight teams hosting first-round games.
After an open date next week, Oak Glen will play state-ranked Point Pleasant, which jumped to the AAA classification this year, and Magnolia, which dropped to Class A.
"It's a pivotal week," Whittington said. "If we happen to take a loss, I'm sure the attitude of the guys will take a hit for two weeks. But, if we win, that would be three in a row and give us a lot of momentum. We'd have a chance to rest up. This is an extremely crucial game."
To this point in the season, the Bears have been on a rollercoaster ride. After winning the first two games of the season in impressive fashion, Oak Glen stumbled mightily in the next three games only to rebound the past two weeks with road victories.
"We started on a high note," Whittington said. "Then, we faced some adversity and didn't handle it well. But, I give the guys credit. They've been able to bounce back and keep us in the playoff hunt."
For the rival Potters, things haven't gone so well. A 65-12 victory against a winless Toledo Woodward team is the only win East Liverpool can claim.
However, head coach Rick Prescott said his team has had more victories than those that appear in the win column.
"Hubbard really gave it to us," he said. "But, we were in the game against Cambridge. In the end, special teams got us, but we came out and played with them. At times, we looked just as good as them. We've had one of our better weeks of practice and I'm still pleased with the attitude and effort."
If level of competition matters, then the Potters should be more than prepared to handle the Bears.
Oak Glen has four wins on the season, but they have come against teams with a combined record of 5-22. Only two of the Bears' seven opponents have a winning record.
East Liverpool, however, has already faced four teams who currently sit above .500 on the season.
"You learn to play against the competition you face," Prescott said. "We've been in a lot of our games until the last couple of minutes. Our goal is to put four quarters together. Our schedule is no walk in the park, that's for sure. I think our team has improved because of the tough teams we're playing."
If last year's game between the two was any indication, records really don't matter in this rivalry.
Oak Glen was in the midst of what was arguably the best season in school history last year when a winless East Liverpool squad crossed the bridge and gave the Bears all they could handle. Oak Glen would eventually come out on top of a hotly-contested 13-6 affair.
"No matter what the record of either team is, you know it's going to be a fight, a brawl," Whittington said. "It's going to be an emotional, heated, physical game. I think in this game both teams tend to play up."
Prescott echoed Whittington's sentiments.
"It's a rivalry game and there's no way around that," he said. "The kids get excited to play each other. It's about as natural a rivalry as you can get."
According to Whittington, this rivalry, in some ways, is a bigger deal than the one against Hancock County counterpart Weir.
"This is huge," he said. "We see these kids constantly. At the gas station, Walmart, you name it. People are always crossing over to shop or eat. We interact more with them than we do the Weirton kids. It may be an even bigger rivalry when you look at it that way."
NOTES: Whittington said that Oak Glen never beat East Liverpool during his high school career. According to Whittington, Josh Weltner is set to return to kicking duties tonight. However, he is not yet cleared to return to his post as a wide receiver and cornerback. The two teams have played one common opponent in Indian Creek. The Redskins beat East Liverpool 26-12 and the following week downed Oak Glen by a score of 41-9.


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Pending agreement centers on police advancement
February 4, 2013
SALEM — A pending agreement will allow city police officers assigned to special duty, such as drug enforcement, to earn promotions in rank and remain in their special assignment position....
Seriously Mendez? Is that true? Ugh who has lost their mind? All this rank in this small of a department? It is ASININE and the same for the IDIOT that falls for this budget killing scheme.
JT really? This is your idea to "PRIORITIZE". You are off to a bad start there buddy. In the same breath you are asking for a secretary and you want to do something with those badges in your drawer? REALLY? After this stunt? I wouldn't be counting on that any time soon. Goodness this isn't hard to figure out why this city is broke. It's a rank money war. By the way, just how much is this rank war costing the tax payers? I will support these boys tooth and nail when it is for the right reasons but THIS? NO WAY.
1 LT. 1SGT over two officers per shift. We pay for this rank. So tell me something how much more just got ate up of your budget and taken from equipment? Better yet you explain to us how that "rank" is going to help fight the drug and crime war?
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I agree somewhat Watchdog. That would give nearly half the department rank. They are a little top heavy. Each shift has a Lt. and Sgt. for two, maybe three officers.Don't get me wrong, it makes no sense not to have guys like Detectives to have rank. I'm just not sure on that many on one shift
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Rank happy little bunch aren't they?
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Keep up the good work Salem Pd. Mendez....you nailed it.
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I for one applaud this effort. It's usually your best officers on assignment. JT is just one example. I know for a fact Det.Talbert has deferred on promotionals every time. (Thank goodness he did) Let's keep moving in the right direction. Thank you Salem Pd and Mayor Berlin
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Manure Puts Money in the Bank
Manure Puts Money in the Bank
The time is now to test your manure for nitrogen; the fertilizer savings could surprise you.
by Natalie Rector
The author is a nutrient management educator for Michigan State University Extension. For more information, visit www.animalagteam.msu.edu.
How much nitrogen is manure supplying my corn?" It's a common question from farmers who are frustrated when I answer, "It depends."
But contrary to what they think, I'm not trying to be elusive. Numerous factors have to be taken into account before we can come up with an answer. The same manure applied at the same rate might vary from 25 to 125 pounds of nitrogen per acre due to different timings, application methods, and weather conditions. Soil nitrate testing is the quickest — and most trusted — route to the answer.
The financial risks of guessing too high or too low are enormous this spring. If you think you don't have the staffing to test, consider this: the money you save from a good, accurate nitrate test could pay most of one employee's salary for a full year or buy new tires for your manure tank or at least offset the milk check.
Whether you call it a late-season nitrate test (LSNT) or a pre-sidedress nitrate test (PSNT), the goal is all the same: to gauge the amount of plant-available nitrogen in soil after the temperatures have warmed up enough to convert ammonium and organic nitrogen to the nitrate form. This nitrate is the primary form of nitrogen taken up by plants and what the soil test measures. The soil tests need to be taken later than what is convenient, when the corn is 6 to 12 inches tall. They also need to be taken deeper and handled differently than regular samples.
It might not be convenient
The timing of this test is frustrating for dairy producers — it coincides with first-cutting hay and herbicide spraying. Many dairy farmers choose to put down their nitrogen for corn just prior to or at planting to free up time for other necessities.
The soil test will be most accurate at measuring the nitrogen from manure applications if synthetic nitrogen has not been applied. Minimal amounts in the starter have little impact, but taking the test after full nitrogen fertilizer rates have been applied on a manured field is counterproductive. Though pre-sidedressing nitrogen may seem inconvenient, it allows you to adjust any deficit with a sidedress application. Or, better yet, find out that the manure application is sufficient.
The nitrate soil testing is just one piece of the system that helps you to fine-tune nitrogen management. Following it consistently on your farm will show a pattern for success.
Start with good manure samples, and make the best estimate of plant-available nitrogen from these samples. Timing is crucial — you will get several different answers if you apply the same manure at different times. You'll get one estimate of plant-available nitrogen for surface-applied manure in the summer, another one for injected manure in the fall, and yet another estimate for manure applied in the spring.
In stratified manure systems, such as those with sand bedding, you should pull several manure samples from each storage area — one from the top, watery area; one after agitation; and a third from the sand that is scooped out of the bottom. Then, you can send each of these samples, frozen, to a laboratory for testing. Each of these samples will result in different application recommendations. Different goals will also alter application rates. Is the goal to apply a full nitrogen rate to a cornfield? When manure rates are limited by phosphorus standards, how much additional fertilizer nitrogen is still needed for corn yield potentials? Teaming the soil and manure tests with a stalk nitrate test at corn black layer stage and monitoring yields can help you further refine your nitrogen decisions.
The wild card
Even when manure is tested, rates are estimated, and calibration confirmed there is still one remaining wild card: WEATHER.
Nitrogen in manure can be lost just as quickly as it can be retained. The many variables surrounding nitrogen losses and retention are exactly the reason you need the nitrogen test to quantify all these differences and put accurate recommendations to the individual situations so you can manage nitrogen profitably.
I don't recommend that any producer blindly follow nitrate soil tests the first time they take them. The soil nitrate tests should be part of your overall system — and may bring other components to light. If manure has been randomly applied, the nitrate soil tests will show random results. When a soil nitrate test comes back differently than expected, backing up and looking for the reason may prompt closer attention to manure sampling, calibration, spreading, communication, and record keeping.
To gain confidence in nitrate soil testing sample from a variety of potential nitrogen credit situations. You will be amazed at how logical they are. Take a sample from a field that has not had any manure, one from a field that has not had a manure application in two years, and one from a field that has received manure every year, and note the progression of additional nitrogen.
Consider past crops: corn following alfalfa, beans and corn will show declining N values. Sort out fall-, winter-, and spring-applied manure situations. Note what was surface-applied versus fields that were incorporated. Records of weather conditions on surface-applied manure and how soon it was incorporated will probably correlate to the amount of nitrogen found. During hot weather, delaying incorporation from hours to days will quickly show up in reduced plant-available nitrogen. It would not be uncommon for these different variables to create a range of plant-available nitrogen rates from 25 pounds per acre to 125 pounds per acre from the same rate of manure applied at different times, methods, and weather conditions.
Interpret and monitor
I've made a point to visit with producers about their soil nitrate test results, and usually we come to a very logical reason for the differences they find. They also find consistency on their farm from year to year. Spot checking these different situations annually will help quantify the impact that weather and soil conditions produce in any one season.
Nitrogen may be lost by leaching, volatilization, or denitrified, but how much is always the question. Determining if and how much nitrogen has been lost can be determined in time for sidedress corrections and with confidence in purchasing expensive inputs. Available nitrogen really does depend on numerous site-specific factors, but the soil nitrate testing can bring logic to a dynamic system.


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5 Old News Stories the Media Pretended Were New This Year
Looking back on 2013, you'd think America spent the whole year recovering from the vapors and waking up between fainting spells. Whether the story was Kanye making a baby with a Kardashian or Miley Cyrus and her pancake butt making a spectacle of herself at the VMA Awards, the Internet reacted to major news stories with expressions that are usually only found on Taylor Swift after walking in on her parents doing it.
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Actual picture of me watching C-Span.
Forget "selfie" -- the word of the year should have been "incredu-rage," a word I just made up to describe how we handle unexpected events now. Did you know that when the Breaking Bad finale aired, our collective gasps of disbelief turned the tide of global warming? It's true. Look it up.
If we'd just taken a few minutes to learn some history, none of these stories would have shocked us. As a reminder that history, like first grade, often repeats itself, here's why 2013's most outrage-inducing stories were old news before they ever happened.
#5. The Pop Star Trajectory Is as Old as Pop Stars
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In August, former Disney child star and current world dominator Miley Cyrus shocked us into a frothy lather when she used her MTV VMA performance to rub her butt against a 36-year-old man's crotch. (P.S. Let's stop calling what Miley did "twerking." Five minutes of YouTubing will reveal that Miley wouldn't know a twerk if it slapped her in the face with its popping butt cheeks. Double P.S. If you're not popping, you're not twerking.) The notorious performance couldn't have provoked us more if she'd birthed a baby onstage and then eaten it whole.
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Honestly, there could have been baby cannibalism involved and it probably wouldn't have made a difference.
Why It Was Old News:
Hey! Did you ever see that 1968 Madison Square Garden performance where a practically topless Tina Turner pretended to do fellatio on a microphone while Ike Turner made slurping noises in the background? No? Here you go!
Hey, again! Did you ever see that time Debbie Harry walked on a stage without her panties (or pants)? Here's the version of that time that I'm allowed to publish on this website:
In case you're wondering, Debbie is not a natural blonde.
If ever there was an appropriate time for the phrase "don't hate the player, hate the game," this was it. Because Miley Cyrus is playing a game. And she's winning it hard.
For good or bad, for almost as long as women have put themselves on the stage, they've used what the good Lord gave them to get your eyes on their bodies and your ears on their voices. Madonna, Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, Debbie Harry, Janet Jackson, Britney, Cher, Tina Turner, and middle-aged Julie Andrews are all part of a long tradition of scintillating while entertaining. Oh, did you miss that part where I said Mary Poppins has performed with her bosoms unswaddled?
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We forget that popular music, like beauty pageants and high school, is one part talent and 99 parts sexual spectacle, and has always been that way. Jimi Hendrix dry humped his guitar on stage just in case no one noticed the actual mind-blowing music he was making at the time. 1970s disco icon Donna Summer spent one of her most popular songs writhing in orgasmic ecstasy. Miley Cyrus' own godmother, Dolly Parton, transformed herself from a Betty White look-alike into an inflatable sex toy over her six decades in the spotlight.
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So let's make a vow to stop condescending to Miley Cyrus and all the other skankyish pop stars who come after her as victims of predatory management or even worse -- naivete. Clearly, there's some foresight and brilliant planning behind the career of Miley Cyrus. It's time to recognize Miley as a woman who is self-aware and probably on her way to stealing the pop star throne.
#4. The N-Word Is Still Off Limits to White People
This summer, the sugar hit the fan when we found out celebrity Southern cook Paula Deen admitted to using the N-word back in 1986. She also admitted to fantasizing about hosting a plantation-style wedding complete with small African-American children tap dancing around like in "Shirley Temple days," but that's a story for a whole other article. The important thing here is that for the first time in the history of old people saying racist, backward things, we didn't just blink in embarrassed silence before asking Grandma if she'd like some more pie or which of her friends has cancer now.
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All of them. It's a cancerpocalypse out there.
This time, when Deen fulfilled the oldest comedy cliche in the book, aka old people are racist and inappropriate, the country flipped its lid and rightfully called her out on it. And Deen responded in the only way she thought appropriate: by turning into an Oompa Loompa and begging for forgiveness as uncomfortably as possible.
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Why It Was Old News:
You don't have to look back far to find white celebrities using racial slurs. Whether it's Dr. Laura, Roger Ebert, Mel Gibson, Michael Richards, or Riley Cooper, every single instance draws anger and shock BECAUSE WE ALREADY WENT OVER THIS. For every white person defending their right to use the N-word, there are thousands and thousands of white people wondering where these idiots come from and how they always end up with cameras in their faces. White people see frequent N-word user Quentin Tarantino as the Michael Scott of Hollywood: clueless, embarrassing, and inappropriate, but somehow good at sales.
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Yaaaaaaaay whites!
But back to Paula. Those who defended Deen tried to provide context/excuses for her gaffe: she grew up in segregated schools, the city where she got her start actually named a bridge after one of Georgia's most insane white supremacists, she just couldn't know any better. Which is all bullhonkey. As early as 1904, Northerners were recognizing that racist white Southerners who still insisted on using the N-word were doing so with complete awareness of their choices, cognizant that the slur was a slur, stubbornly insisting on keeping the word going. More importantly, defending Deen's screw-up with a history lesson doesn't acknowledge the fact that there are plenty (millions, if I had to guess) of white people who grew up in her exact same context without picking up the word in the first place.
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Here are two of them reaping their Not-a-Racist Reward.
While I obviously can't explain what compels otherwise bright people to spit out verbal garbage, I do think I get why the media love covering the story. Whether it's a washed-up celebrity or a beloved folksy cook using the word 26 years ago, it's always going to be news. Not because we're totally over racism and everything's great, but because look at how dramatic it is when CNN does a hard-hitting N-word special!
More importantly, talking about other people using the N-word gives those of us who never use it a chance to pat ourselves on the back. We knew skipping it in rap songs would pay off someday!
#3. Our Government Has Always Been Up in Our Business
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Thanks to secret documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, we found out that the United States government has been secretly and illegally tracking our phone calls, emails, pages, faxes, telegrams, and smoke signals for the past, oh ... I don't know, forever. And they've been more than happy to inflict the same treatment on our allies, including German head of state Angela Merkel. When asked about the breach of trust, she said something to the effect of "It's like no one even remembers what angry Germans are capable of."
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This is one moment when the outrage was actually disproportionate to the story, but in the other direction. Knowing our government was recording our everything should have sent us rioting in the streets and screaming at the White House in righteous anger. American men and women go to war to fight against regimes that treat their citizens like this. We should be rounding up pitchforks as we speak, not laughing it off with Twitter hashtag games.
Why It Was Old News:
We have yet to invent a form of communication that our government hasn't used to spy on us. Maybe that's why the American reaction to the news was more of a sad trombone sound and a fart than a raised fist. When we found out Verizon was collaborating with the NSA, did anyone disconnect their Verizon service in a fit of rage? Probably not -- shares of the company rose when the news broke. I guess investors were glad to know Verizon had found a new niche.
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It feels like the federal government has always been that weird jealous boyfriend who oversteps his boundaries, which makes the American people the insecure girlfriend who just puts up with it. For example, when George Washington was barely president, he requested money for a secret service fund, a fact I only discovered by visiting the CIA's Kids' Zone page. It wasn't long after the country started that we passed the Alien and Sedition Act, which gave the president the power to imprison anyone who dared to speak out against the government. True, the act was allowed to expire, but it was like we had already joined Slytherin by that point.
Then something happened. In 1898, the United States found itself in possession of the Philippines, a nation that didn't want to be occupied by a foreign power, for some odd reason. To quell the (completely justified) rebellion that followed, the American military used every technology they could get their hands on to turn the Philippines into a police state. And when it was time to come home, the U.S. turned around and applied all their new tricks to ferreting out German-Americans with suspicious loyalties, draft dodgers, and overly zealous labor organizers. By the 1940s, Western Union was cooperating with the NSA's predecessor to provide copies of every incoming or outgoing telegraph. No caveat there -- they were just turning over all of them. This, by the way, is all public information thanks to congressional hearings that were held back in the 1970s. In fact, the reason why we're extra sure all this domestic spying is illegal is because in 1978 Congress completely freaked out over the intelligence community's overreaching monitoring boner and passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to keep their mitts off us.
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Then this happened.
Long story short (too late!), three different whistle-blowers alerted us about the NSA's insanity before Edward Snowden. The difference between those guys and Snowden was that Snowden went straight to the press, bypassing all the internal mechanisms that got the other three shut down faster than a brothel during period week.


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Evacuation Plans. Every manufacturing plant is advised to keep a complete custom evacuation plan based on the information and layout of a particular plant. In developing this plan a variety of different emergency conditions should be considered. Every employee and employer should know about this plan. It is also a good ideas to post instructions around the manufacturing plant visible to all.
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Lockout Procedures. In case of some emergency within the manufacturing plant there must be a way for any employee to shut off all energy sources to all equipment. Employees should also know what the shutoff and verification procedures are. Safety switches need to be visible to all employees in case of an emergency. There are some programs that can meet the specifications and needs of your manufacturing plant rather than just a general lockout plan.
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SALEM - The public is invited to a dance today at the Saxon Club, 1980 state Route 9. Doors open at 5 p.m. Line dancing begins at 7 p.m. with music throughout the evening. Music by Borderline is slated from 9 p.m. to midnight. Borderline is a country southern rock band from northeast Ohio. Admission is $5 per person. A full cash bar and food, including sloppy joes, pulled pork sandwiches, hot dogs, chili dogs, German potato salad, macaroni salad and veggies, will be available for purchase. For more information call 234-564-5964.
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NORTH LIMA - Sheely's Furniture & Appliance has teamed up with Hands-On Volunteer Network of the Valley for a Memorial Day promotion. Customers who visit the store with an unopened box of either granola or breakfast bars to donate will receive a $100 off coupon for a $1,000 purchase made that day.
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5 Ways You're Accidentally Making Everyone Hate You
#2. You Wasted Their Time
All you did was email your boss with a simple question or idle thought, and she jumped down your throat! What a bitch!
Then, later that night, you popped into your buddy's house unannounced, and like one minute later he's all acting annoyed, opening the door and saying, "Well, good to see you!" like he's ushering you out! What a dick!
Or maybe you're on the other end of the situation in the first entry -- you messaged an acquaintance with a "happy birthday" and you got cold, dead silence in return. But you know they ain't no goddamned introvert, they talk to a hundred people a day! What a hell-shitting cockhitler!
And I know you didn't commit suicide because you're too busy to do it!
So What's the Problem?
If you've been paying attention up to this point, you're already trying to figure out how this ties in to the power thing. Well, in the first example, the boss was way too busy to put up with your bullshit. In the second, your friend clearly was too busy to watch you smoke a bong and talk about Breaking Bad for three hours. In the third, the dude got too many birthday wishes to reply to them all. But in each case, due to the complicated power dynamics at play, they weren't allowed to openly say so.
After all, that would be effectively saying that they've prioritized some other interaction over yours. That would mean A) they have the power to dictate your interactions and B) other people have power to get in line ahead of you. "I'm important and busy, you are just one of the lesser peasants begging for my attention."
"Oh yeah? Well, what about now?"
Wait, it gets worse. Because at the exact same moment they made you feel powerless, they also feel like the powerless party, because they're so besieged by people making demands on their time. That's why they got pissed at you. Sure, you can say, "Well, being busy is no excuse to be a dick!" just as a billionaire could tell a homeless guy that losing a pair of shoes is nothing to get upset about. An extreme shortage is never something to get emotional about when you're not the one suffering from it.
I'll use myself as an example. The last article I wrote got about 6 million hits, and I swear that every one of those people messaged me four or five times each, many demanding that I personally debate them on the subject point by point. At the exact same time, the movie they made about my ridiculous book became available for download, which as you can imagine generated a whole second stream of messages that spilled across my personal email, my work email, my personal Facebook account, my two work Facebook accounts, Yahoo Instant Messenger, the Cracked forums, the Cracked forums private messaging system, Twitter, and my cellphone. Checking all of those channels is a frantic blur of sorting and prioritizing and deleting, knowing that at any given moment I'm causing disappointment and frustration to dozens of people who are waiting to hear from me, many of whom can't do their jobs until they do.
"Oh my God, you fucking douche, just pick up the phone and greenlight this butt sex joke."
Now, quick show of hands: How many of you actually feel sorry for me? OK, now how many of you were annoyed by the above paragraph and interpreted it as one of those stealth boasts we mentioned before ("Boohoo! I'm too famous! Waaah!")? Yeah, that's what I thought. And that's the point -- there's no good way for a busy person to tell you they don't have time for you. It always comes with the implication that they're a bigger deal than you are. And as we established earlier, the only thing worse is to say nothing.
So Keep in Mind ...
The person who is being terse with you, or who is clearly screening your calls, is often in an impossible situation. They're coming off as flaunting their power to screen you, while from their point of view, they have no power at all -- they spend all of their time seeing to the needs of the crowd. So, the most good-hearted of busy people just try to deal with your thing, quickly answering your question while silently gritting their teeth and thinking, "It would have taken him five seconds to Google this."
"Yes, it is fucking real. Why did you need me to tell you that?"
If that sounds like they're making you pay for someone else's behavior, well, they are. That's the way it works -- prior offenses count, even when it was someone else who committed them. The cashier at Arby's got annoyed when you pointed out that their logo looks like a dick because she hears that joke six times a day. Remember: You are nothing more than one link in somebody else's chain of human interactions. A chain that occasionally rubs them raw.
#1. You Assumed That Because You Were OK With a Situation, Everybody Was
This is the one that is by far the most likely to sneak up on you. Also, it exists at all levels -- between roommates, friends, spouses, ethnic groups, nations.
In the office, this usually turns up as some pointless new rule that seems to come out of the fucking blue -- a memo says from now on nobody can adjust the thermostat without asking a supervisor. Another announces that the Christmas party is now the "winter holiday" party. In a relationship, it's the partner suddenly deciding after several years that they no longer want Friday to be meatloaf night.
You get the idea -- everything was going along absolutely perfectly fine, the system was running as intended, and suddenly they're making these arbitrary demands. You then hear yourself saying things like:
"Why do they have to rock the boat just when things were going good?"
"Why complain now, when we've always done it this way?"
"I don't have a problem, you're the one who's screaming!"
"But you love Bat Out of Hell!"
So What's the Problem?
Let's start small: In a previous article, we talked about the classic male/female conflict over not putting the toilet seat down. The reason it's such a sore subject in some couples is that, as we explained, it demonstrates that the man simply isn't factoring in the woman's needs at all. It's not that he intentionally wants to make her life worse, or that he hates her or feels any negative emotion whatsoever. Why would he? The seat is where he likes it, he has the power, everything is fine. It's not even that he disagrees on the issue; it's that he refuses to acknowledge it as an issue at all.
This will happen to you. You will be on one side of a conflict that does not feel like a conflict to you, because that is the conflict. Trust me, there's a great chance you'll be oblivious to it until it's too late. Entire governments have fallen this way.
Let me use myself as an example again, so it doesn't come off like I'm accusing anyone:
That's me on the left.
After being raised as an evangelical Christian, I for years assumed that Christianity was the default -- there were Christians, and then there were weirdos. I was shocked when in college I found that some people get offended when you tell them, for instance, that their recovery from surgery was a "miracle." "No," they'd say, "it was actually the result of three months of excruciating rehab, incredibly expensive doctors, and a loving and supportive family who worked extra jobs to pay for it all." I sneered and thought of them as overly sensitive PC hippie atheists, because I never considered how I would feel if, say, a Scientologist insisted that the ghost of L. Ron Hubbard wrote my books for me and that I owed all of my success to him. Enjoy your eternal hellfire, Zooey!
Now check the headlines -- any controversy having to do with gay marriage, or school prayer, or any social hot-button issue involves the group who's in control acting just like I did -- baffled that any other groups are dissatisfied with the "normal" way of doing things ("Oh, so now we can't keep the TEN COMMANDMENTS monument in the COURTHOUSE? But it's ALWAYS BEEN THERE!"). And in many cases, the baffled people don't feel any more malice than the guy did when he left the toilet seat up. My favorite blog in the world gives some great examples where opponents of desegregation or gay marriage have always insisted that they don't hate the group whose rights they're opposing. In many cases, they mean it honestly -- "I'm not angry at anyone, I just want to leave things the way they are. Which incidentally involves me having all of the power."
"I don't know what they're bitching about. Our taxes and health care are just fine."
So Keep in Mind ...
It's easier than you think to find yourself on the wrong side of this in your everyday life. You like to stay in on weekends, your girlfriend/boyfriend likes to go out. After a year or so, they give up and stop trying to get you off the sofa every Saturday. You interpret this as the relationship settling in just how you like it; meanwhile, they're so miserable that they're rehearsing their breakup speech. "But, but ... everything was going great!"
Sure it was. For you. You didn't perceive yourself as being in a position of power because that is the main advantage of power -- that you don't have to think about it. You don't think about money when you're eating at a restaurant. But you sure as fuck think about it when you're too poor to eat.
That's not a cupcake.
And out of all of the pitfalls on this list, this is by far the worst, because it means that you can absolutely make other people hate you without lifting a finger. Hell, you can do it without even knowing it. Which means that, unfortunately, avoiding it requires constant vigilance.
It's exhausting, I know. But hey, at least you'll have fewer people screaming at you.
David Wong is the Executive Editor of Cracked.com and a NYT bestselling author, his long-awaited new novel is about cybernetic criminals and other futuristic shit like that. Pre-order it at Amazon, B&N, BAM!, Indiebound, iTunes, or Powell's. You can read the first seven chapters for free by clicking below:
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"We have lost a genius and a true ambassador of not only Pop music but of all music," Justin Timberlake, who was clearly influenced by Jackson, wrote on his Web site. "He has been an inspiration to multiple generations, and I will always cherish the moments I shared with him on stage and all of the things I learned about music from him and the time we spent together. My heart goes out to his family and loved ones."
"I can't stop crying over the sad news," Madonna says. "I have always admired Michael Jackson. The world has lost one of the greats, but his music will live on forever! My heart goes out to his three children and other members of his family. God bless."
Former Wife 'Heartbroken'Lisa Marie Presley, who was married to Jackson from 1994 to 1996, says, "I am so very sad and confused with every emotion possible. I am heartbroken for his children, who I know were everything to him, and for his family. This is such a massive loss on so many levels, words fail me."
In a long, heartfelt statement, Usher said he was "deeply saddened" by the loss and paid tribute to Jackson's legacy. "May God cover you Michael. We all lift your name up in prayer. I pray for the entire Jackson family particularly Michael's mother, children and all his fans that loved him so much. I would not be the artist, performer, and philanthropist I am today without the influence of Michael. I have great admiration and respect for him and I'm so thankful I had the opportunity to meet and perform with such a great entertainer, who in so many ways, transcended the culture. He broke barriers, he changed radio formats! With music, he made it possible for people like Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama to impact the mainstream world. His legacy is unparalleled. Michael Jackson will never be forgotten."
"He was magic," said Beyoncé Knowles. He was what we all strive to be. He will always be the King of Pop!"
On Friday, Chace Crawford said on Britain's GMTV that he heard the news while at a party hosted by Elton John at the musician's home just outside of London. When word got out, "It was … like an instant viral just spread," said Crawford. "It just instantly changed the energy of the party."
In a statement Thursday afternoon Britney Spears said, "I was so excited to see his show in London. We were going to be on tour in Europe at the same time and I was going to fly in to see him. He has been an inspiration throughout my entire life and I'm devastated he's gone!"
Whitney Houston, who has battled her own demons and is on the verge of a comeback (just as Jackson was), released a statement saying simply, "I am full of grief," while Paul McCartney, who collaborated with Jackson at the height of his success, writes on his Web site: "I feel privileged to have hung out and worked with Michael. He was a massively talented boy man with a gentle soul. His music will be remembered forever and my memories of our time together will be happy ones."
Elizabeth Taylor 'Devastated'Elizabeth Taylor, one of Jackson's closest and longstanding friends, was "too devastated" to issue a statement, her rep says, while Quincy Jones, who produced Jackson's biggest hits, says, "I am absolutely devastated at this tragic and unexpected news. For Michael to be taken away from us so suddenly at such a young age, I just don't have the words."
Cher, calling in to Larry King Live on CNN, shared many memories of Jackson, including dancing together on the Queen Mary and seeing the musical Dreamgirls together. "I am having a million reactions," said Cher. "When I think of him, I think of this young boy, this teenager I first met … He was a great teenager, optimistic and adorable."
"My heart is overcome with sadness for the devastating loss of my true friend Michael," adds Brooke Shields, who raised eyebrows when she briefly dated Jackson. "He was an extraordinary friend, artist and contributor to the world. I join his family and his fans in celebrating his incredible life and mourning his untimely passing."
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Neil Portnow, president of the Recording Academy, which honored Jackson with 13 Grammys, says, "Rarely has the world received a gift with the magnitude of artistry, talent, and vision as Michael Jackson. He was a true musical icon."
On his Web site, former child actor Corey Feldman, who was once very close friends with Jackson, posted a statement mourning his old pal. "I come to you today with great sadness, acknowledging the loss of the greatest entertainer in the history of mankind. For me he was more than that, he was my idol, he was a role model, he was someone to cry to when my childhood was unbearable, he was a brother, he was a dear friend," Feldman writes.
"Unfortunately Michael and I had a falling out on September 10th 2001 and that broken friendship had never been repaired," he adds. "I am filled with tremendous sadness and remorse. All I choose to remember from this point is the good times we shared and what an inspiration he was to me and the rest of the world. Nobody will ever be able to do what Michael Jackson has done in this industry, and he was so close to doing it all again. I am truly, and deeply sorry for all of the heartbroken fans and supporters worldwide."


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December 1, 2011
Two Saint Vincent College students have started a new club that their grandmothers might like to join. Creatively named Threads for Heads, the new student knitting club founded by Mary Bukowski and Muniza Uddin is attracting a growing number of students – both men and women – who enjoy making colorful hats which are donated to cancer patients in the Westmoreland County region who are suffering from hair loss due to chemotherapy treatment. "When I first learned to make these hats on a small loom, in one month I made 25 of them," Ms. Bukowski recalled. "I wondered what to do with them. Then I thought about cancer patients and an organization called the American Cancer Society which said they would love to have them to give to patients who attend the cosmetics classes they conduct for women. They really appreciated them and said they could use more so I decided to start a club to teach others how to make them." Earlier this fall, Ms. Bukowski and Ms. Uddin set up a display at the student club fair and recruited their first 15 members in a short time. With membership now totaling 50, they meet every Thursday evening at 9:30 p.m. and their numbers continue to grow since some of the women bring their male friends. "It takes a real man to knit," Ms. Bukowski added. "And it was one of the men who suggested the name for the club. It's perfect since it sparks curiosity." The students report that it takes about two hours to make one hat so they expect to be able to make dozens during the coming months. As a club officially sanctioned by the Saint Vincent College Student Government Association, the club receives funding for materials as well as the all-important snacks the students enjoy while they are working. "I work part time at Joanne Fabric so I also get a discount on the materials I purchase on behalf of the club," Ms. Bukowski said. "Our goals are to learn a creative craft, reduce any stress we might have from the pressure of studying and tests, and have some enjoyable time with friends while doing something worthwhile for others," Ms. Uddin explained. "While knitting we enjoy talking about school topics but it is all very informal. We all eat while we work with favorite choices being Chick-fil-A, Jioio's Pizza, chips and popcorn." "I fell in love with this very quickly," Ms. Uddin added. "It only took me about 15 minutes to learn the basics. I love how this club is so selfless. Our goal is to reach out to others in need; we do not aim to make a profit. That is what makes our club so unique; we have fun helping others." The hats are made in a variety of colors and yarns to suit both men and women and smaller ones in bright colors are made especially to be attractive to younger patients. Ms. Bukowski, a junior majoring in communication with minors in marketing and management, and Ms. Uddin, a junior biology/pre-med major, are both from Greensburg. Ms. Bukowski participated in the Equestrian Club last year and has completed a marketing internship at S&L Solutions, a pharmacy staffing service in Latrobe. A volunteer at Weatherwood Manor, she is a member of St. Nicholas Byzantine Church in Greensburg. Ms. Uddin served as a general biology facilitator for the Collaborative Learning Program and completed a pre-medical shadowing internship during the summer at several area hospitals. A member of the Dean's List, the Alpha Lambda Delta honor society, and the Student Government Association, she is also a volunteer at Emeritus of Latrobe, formerly Green Meadows Personal Care Home and a volunteer at Latrobe Area Hospital. She is a member of the Muslim Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh in Monroeville.
Photo: Mary Bukowski (left) and Muniza Uddin (right) with some of their hand-made knitted hats which they give to cancer patients.


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