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Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award
General Information
Named in honor of Dean Emeritus of the School of Social Work, this award was established in 1996. It recognizes faculty whose service contributes to the development of a culturally and ethnically diverse campus community. Nominees must be full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty on the Ann Arbor campus. Criteria for selection include:
- Commitment to diversity as an important part of the University's educational mission
- Public and/or academically oriented endeavors that demonstrate intellectual excellence and commitment to cultural diversity in service, teaching, scholarship, and/or creative activity
- Efforts to increase diversity within one's academic unit and/or the University
- Efforts to use scholarly and/or creative work to enhance the success of students and faculty of diverse cultural and racial backgrounds
- Willingness to serve as a mentor to students
- Efforts to bring about equity in our society
Five awards are made annually and include a $5,000 stipend. Call (734) 764-3982 for detailed information and a nomination form.
Nomination Form
Download as PDF or call Laura Harrington at (734) 764-3982 to request a nomination form or with questions.
Nomination deadline: March 15
Past Johnson Diversity Award Recipients
R. Alexander Blackwood, Medical School
Omolola Eniola-Adefeso, College of Engineering
Arline T. Geronimus, Institute for Social Research and School of Public Health
Robert Jagers, School of Education
Nojin Kwak, LSA
Jennifer Linderman, College of Engineering
Ruby Tapia, LSA
Sarah M. Aciego, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, LSA
Evelyn Alsultany, Department of American Culture, LSA
Linda Chatters, School of Social Work
Sandra Momper, School of Social Work
Lester P. Monts, School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Lisa A. Newman, Department of Surgery, Medical School
Nils Walter, Department of Chemistry, LSA.
Ketra Armstrong - School of Kinesiology
Elizabeth James - Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
Mark Moldwin - Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, College of Engineering
Edward Sarath - Music Department (Jazz), School of Music, Theatre, and Dance
Amy Schulz - Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health
Denise Sekaquaptewa - Psychology and Women's Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Research Center for Group Dynamics, ISR
June Manning Thomas - Urban Planning, A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Residential College, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Letha Chadiha, School of Social Work
Leslie Hollingsworth, School of Social Work
Barbara Israel, Health Behavior and Health Education
Timothy R.B. Johnson, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
John Matlock, Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives
Paul Mohai, SNRE
John Vandermeer, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Deborah Goldberg, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Barbra Meek, Anthropology and Linguistics
Juanita Merchant, Internal Medicine and Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Stephanie Rowley, Psychology and Education
Derrick Scott, Center for Engineering Diversity & Outreach
Dorceta Taylor, Environmental Sociology and Environment
Stephen Ward, Afroamerican and African studies and the Residential College
Crisca Bierwert, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
Deborah Carter, School of Education
Avery Demond, College of Engineering
James Holloway, College of Engineering
Martha Jones, College of LSA
Andrew Shryock, College of LSA
Robin Means Coleman, Communication Studies
Carol Fierke, Chemistry
Elijah Kannatey-Asibu, Mechanical Engineering
Guy Meadows, Engineering
Robert Sellers, Psychology
Louis Yen, Kinesiology
Kelly Askew, Anthropology
Tabbye Chavous, School of Education and LSA Lawrence La
Fountain-Stokes, American Culture/Romance Languages
Karin Muraszko, Medical School
Scott Page, Political Science and the Institute for Social Research
Daniel Washington, School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Paul Allen-Meares, Social Work
Matthew Countryman, History/American Culture
Maria Cotera, American Culture/Women's Studies
Carla O'Connor, School of Education
Bradford Orr, Physics
Frieda Ekotto, Romance Languages and Literatures/Comparative Literature
Bruce Frier, Classical Studies/Law
K. Wayne Jones, Materials Science and Engineering
Janice (Janie) Paul*, School of Art and Design
Catherine Squires, Communication Studies
David Wooten, Business Administration
Cleopatra Caldwell, School of Public Health
Larry Gant, School of Social Work
Sioban Harlow*, School of Public Health
Charles Smith, Pharmacology
Mieko Yoshihama, School of Social Work
William (Buzz) Alexander*, English Language and Literature
Percy Bates, School of Education
Alec Gallimore, College of Engineering
Joseph Lam, School of Music
Jana Nidiffer, School of Education
F. Muge Gocek*, Sociology and Women's Studies
David Gordon, Pathology
Mark Lewis, Industrial Operations
Paul Rasmussen, Chemistry
David Scobey, Arts of Citizenship/Architecture and Urban Planning
Robert L. Griess, Jr., Mathematics
María E. Montoya, History
Michael S. Spencer*, Social Work
Antonia M. Villarruel *, Nursing
Alford A. Young, Jr., Sociology
Special Recognition: Gerald Gurin, Institute for Social Research
Anthony W. England, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Carmen R. Green*, Medical School
Lemuel A. Johnson, English
Amy K. Stillman *, Music and American CultureMarilyn W. Woolfolk*, Dentistry
Bunyan Bryant*, School of Natural Resources and Environment
Harold Neighbors*, School of Public Health
Michael Savageau, Microbiology and Immunology
Kristine Siefert*, Social Work
Abigail J. Steward, Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Levi T. Thompson, Chemical Engineering
Lorraine Gutierrez, Psychology and Social Work
James Jackson, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
Terrence McDonald, History
Robert Megginson, Math
Emerson Robinson, Dentistry
James A. Chaffers, Architecture
Charles J. Krause, Otolaryngology
Ann E. Larimore, Geography and Women's Studies
Earl Lewis, History and Afro-American/African Studies
Margaret Scisney-Matlock, Nursing
Patricia Y. Gurin, Psychology
Sylvia Hurtado*, Education
Richard Lichtenstein*, Health Management and Policy
Marilyn Roubidoux, Radiology
David R. Williams, Sociology
Elizabeth A. Allen, Nursing
Charles N. Ellis, Dermatology
Robert M. Ortega*, Social Work
Willis C. Patterson, Music
Beth G. Reed*, Social Work and Women's Studies
Frances R. Aparicio, Spanish and American Culture
Mark Chesler, Sociology
Donald R. Deskins, Urban Geography and Sociology
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England beat Slovakia 1-0 in their opening World Cup qualification game at the City Arena Trnava thanks to a last minute goal from Adam Lallana.
The game was tied going into the fourth minute of additional time until Lallana found a last-gasp winner.
In case you missed it, here is the goal that won the match.
We took a look at how the England international team responded to the victory.
Chelsea defender Gary Cahill underlined the general conclusion him and his teammates made after the game that 'patience paid off'.
Was is patience or a bit of luck that saw England gain all three points?
Rooney made history becoming the most capped out-field England international.
Kane meanwhile decided to thank the fans and posted three lion emoji's.
Kane's Tottenham teamamte Eric Dier had a very similar tweet. So similar in fact it left us wondering whether they have the same social media manager! Or was it all just a coincidence?
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Hopful Harvest Brown Ale
A brown ale brewed with 160lbs. of pumpkin and heavily hopped with Hallertau and Horizon hops. Smooth in taste and light in body, having notes of chocolate, toffee, and subtle hints of coffee.
|16 oz $8
Red Barrel Brown
This version of an English porter has a moderate roastiness with subtle characteristics of chocolate, slight caramel, nutty and toffee. Secondary notes include coffee and licorice which serve to support the prominent malt backbone.
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RRBC Christmas Ale
A traditional dark ale with a medium body and ruby red highlights. This ale is brewed with a touch of honey and brown sugar in the boil then lightly spiced with a combination of spices from St Nick himself!
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River Razz
Deep-red and jammed with 350 pounds of fresh Oregon raspberries, this multiple medal-winning fruit beer is just the thing for lunch, dinner, dessert, or any other occasion we can think of!
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Red River Red
A light session beer brewed in the traditional of a true Irish red ale!
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Waterways Wheat
The signature brew of RRBC. Brilliant gold in color, this wheat beer is light yet full of flavor with just a hint of floral and citrus hops on the palette and in the aroma. A Red River Brewing tradition.
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BC Pale Ale
Shades of copper in color with a spicy-citrus hop aroma highlight this American pale ale. This moderately bitter ale that goes down great with spicy dishes and meats of all kinds.
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A continuation of our series of India Pale Ales that explore a single hop variety and showcases the aromas, flavors and bittering qualities that are unique to each strain. This brew uses one of the most used varieties in craft brewing, Cascade. This hop is pleasant, flowery with a mild hint of spice, citrus and a touch of grapefruit.
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Technology is moving credit unions forward and young professionals are needed to lead the way. Find out more at the next Not for CEOs event.
Technology is moving credit unions forward and young professionals are needed to lead the way. Find out more at the next Not for CEOs event.
Industry observers and executives with other processing companies predict that the recent supervisory letter on FIS security problems may have a limited impact on FIS' sales but will likely heighten the importance of security for all payments processors.
Big CUSO said it's confident card processor will address security issues but also plans to make sure.
Somewhat counterintuitively, CU card industry experts say that two conflicting trends in the economy make 2012 a good year for a credit union that had foregone credit card issuing in the past to get back into the business.
CO-OP Financial Services white paper sees a couple reasons to say yes.
CO-OP Financial Services is doing its part to get people buzzing about credit unions with its new "Credit Unions Do" campaign.
Print ads placed nationwide focus on theme: "Banks Don't Like You. Credit Unions Do."
CUSO says FIS problems on Friday shut down ATMs but CO-OP point of sale unaffected.
The credit union movement received better-than-expected news on June 29 when the Federal Reserve Board announced its rules to implement the Durbin Amendment concerning debit card interchange. For credit unions under $10 billion in total assets, interchange rates will show little or no decline in 2011, and this will probably...


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To delete a protection group on all clusters, run the geopg delete command on each cluster where the protection group exists.
Before deleting a protection group, ensure that the following conditions are met:
The protection group exists locally
The protection group is offline on the local cluster
To keep the application resource groups online while deleting a protection group, remove the application resource groups from the protection group before deleting the protection group. You do not need to do anything to shadow RAC server proxy resource groups, as deleting the protection group removes these resource groups without affecting the RAC server proxy resource groups that they shadow.
Log in to a node in the cluster where you want to delete the protection group, for example, cluster-paris.
To complete this step, you need to be assigned the Geo Management RBAC rights profile. For more information about RBAC, see Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Software and RBAC in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition System Administration Guide.
cluster-paris is the primary cluster. See Example Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Cluster Configuration in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition System Administration Guide for a sample cluster configuration.
Delete the protection group.
phys-node-n# geopg delete protectiongroupname
This command deletes the configuration of the protection group from the local cluster. The command also removes the Oracle RAC server proxy resource groups and the replication resource group for the Oracle Data Guard Broker configuration in the protection group.
If the protection group is not deleted, the Configuration status is set to Error. Resolve the error and rerun the geopg delete command.
This example shows how to delete a protection group from both partner clusters.
# rlogin cluster-paris -l root phys-paris-1# geopg delete sales-pg # rlogin cluster-newyork -l root phys-newyork-1# geopg delete sales-pg
This example shows how to keep two application resource groups, apprg1 and apprg2, online, while deleting the protection group that they share, sales-pg.
Remove the application resource groups from the protection group and delete the protection group.
phys-paris-1# geopg remove-resource-group apprg1,apprg2 sales-pg phys-paris-1# geopg stop -e global sales-pg phys-paris-1# geopg delete sales-pg
Unlike other data replication modules, the Oracle RAC server proxy resource group is not added to the protection group. Instead, a shadow RAC server proxy resource group is added to represent this resource group. You can add and remove the shadow RAC server proxy resource group to and from the protection group at any time without affecting the Oracle Data Guard data replication.
Consequently, the application resource groups that are shown in this example can have no data to replicate, as only Oracle Data Guard data replication is supported in this particular protection group. Application resource groups that might meet this criteria can be scalable web servers, where their data is static or held on some remote storage that is not controlled by this cluster.


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COIDA (Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act, 1993)
This is the legal framework for injuries, disablement, disease and death caused by work-related activities (occupational disease and accidents). This used to be called Worker's Compensation.
When a worker becomes ill, the empoyer needs to make a notice of this event to the Department of Labour. This form "Employers Report of an Occupational Disease" is to be used. The employee may then fill in follow up forms, and make a statement to start the claim process from this fund. The employee form, "Notice of an Occupational Disease and Claim for Compensation ", is available here.
Return to > Government Support.
- Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF)
- Bargaining Councils
- COIDA (Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act, 1993)
- Basic Conditions of Employment
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- The Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Act
- The Employment Equity Act
- The Labour Relations Act (LRA)
- Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs) and the Skills Levy
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Here are some newer historical romances (info provided by publishers and/or their websites):
Nicholas (Lonely Lords) by Grace Burrowes (Sourcebooks). After a wild youth, Nicholas Haddonfield, Viscount Reston, has promised his ailing father he'll finally take a bride, though doing so will force Nick to make impossible choices and face old, painful wounds. Leah Lindsey is glad to find refuge from her own desperate situation in a marriage of convenience with the gallant viscount. But soon convenience is not enough, and Leah can't understand why Nick remains so distant. What is he hiding, and will he never allow her into his heart?
Ten Reasons to Stay by Sabrina Jeffries (Pocket Star). Previously published in the anthology The School for Heiresses. Lessons go far beyond etiquette and needlepoint. Eliza Crenshawe's lesson is to look before she leaps. But when she discovers that her new guardian plans to marry her off without so much as a Season, she forgets all that. She flees — on a horse she unwittingly steals (oops!) — from Colin Hunt, a newly minted earl who wants nothing more than for her to go home … or stay forever.
Hill Country Cattleman by Laurie Kingery (Harlequin Love Inspired Historical). To escape a scandal in England, Violet Brookfield is sent to her brother's ranch in Texas. Soon she discovers that the vibrant new world and rugged trail boss Raleigh Masterson are perfect material for the Western she's writing. And when her time is up, she'll return to the nobleman she left behind. But Violet is the most elegant female ever to set foot in Simpson Creek, and Raleigh is sure she'll never stay. He has no business falling for the beautiful aristocrat. But soon Violet makes a place for herself in the Hill Country-and in his heart. Now if only he can convince her that she belongs there forever.
Lady Vivian Defies a Duke by Samantha Grace (Sourcebooks). Lady Vivian Worth knows perfectly well how to behave like a lady. But observing proper manners when there's no one around to impress is just silly. Why shouldn't she strip down to her chemise for a swim? When her betrothed arrives to finally meet her, Vivi will act every inch the lady — demure, polite, compliant. Everything her brother has promised the man. But until then, she's going to enjoy her freedom. Luke Forest, the newly named Duke of Foxhaven, wants nothing to do with his inheritance — or the bride that comes with it. He wants adventure and excitement, like the enchanting water nymph he's just stumbled across. When he discovers the skinny-dipping minx is his intended, he reconsiders his plan to find Lady Vivian another husband. Because the idea of this vivacious woman in the arms of another man might be enough to drive him insane — or to the altar.
The Devil's Pearl by Jennifer Haymore (Forever Yours e-book). Sir Devlin will never forget the sensual pleasures of his beloved. Naïve in the ways of love, Julia blossomed under his guidance becoming a skilled lover. But then she disappeared, leaving him alone and longing for her touch. Now, Devlin will do anything to get her back. Even kidnap her.
Cheyenne Amber by Catherine Anderson (Signet). Born and bred in Boston, Laura Cheney was used to civilized society. She never dreamed she would wind up in the Colorado wilderness with her newborn son — widowed and very much alone. But her fragile beauty and amber eyes hide a spirit to be reckoned with — and a mother's fierce protectiveness. When her son is kidnapped, Laura turns to a man feared by many and trusted by few. Raised by the Cheyenne, Deke Sheridan is considered a renegade to his own kind. But his steely reserve is no match for Laura's intoxicating beauty. And to win her trust and devotion, Deke will stop at nothing.
True to the Law by Jo Goodman (Berkley). "Find her" is the only instruction that private detective Cobb Bridger receives from Richard Mackey. The scion of a wealthy Chicago family, Mackey is desperate to know the whereabouts of the woman who disappeared from his employ, taking with her something of great value. Intrigued as much by what Mackey won't say about the missing item as he is by Mackey's description of the missing woman, Cobb accepts the assignment. Bitter Springs, Wyoming, has a new schoolteacher who may or may not be exactly what she seems. Upon making the acquaintance of Miss Tru Morrow, Cobb begins to question the guilt of this golden-haired lady — and the protective feelings she stirs in him. His investigation hinges on understanding where the truth lies. Can he believe in Tru? Or is she just another treacherous woman out to swindle this hardened detective's heart?
A Wedding in Springtime by Amanda Forester (Sourcebooks). Miss Eugenia Talbot's presentation to the queen is spoiled by a serious faux pas — the despicable William Grant made her laugh, right in front of Her Majesty. Now Eugenia is ruined and had better marry — someone, anyone — at once. Roguish William Grant has never taken anything seriously in his life. Until he meets Eugenia Talbot, who makes him feel and do thing he never thought he would. Now Eugenia's great sense of humor and kindheartedness may be her undoing, unless William can help her find a husband. To his surprise, that's the last thing he wants to do.
Lisbon (Richard and Rose) by Lynne Connelly (Samhain). Rose has recovered from bearing triplets, but Richard treats her like she's made of porcelain. To win him back body and soul, she resolves to use every wicked, seductive trick he's taught her. Until a possible attempted murder on board their Portugal-bound ship puts them on edge. Richard loves Rose too much to risk losing her with another pregnancy. When they realize an old enemy has caught up with them, it's imperative they work together. Their distance could be their undoing, when Mother Nature conspires to make them endure one last, desperate test of their love.
Untamed by Anna Cowan (E-Penguin). Outspoken and opinionated, Katherine Sutherland is ill at ease among the fine ladies of Regency London. She is more familiar with farmers and her blunt opinions and rough manners offend polite society. Yet when she hears the scandalous rumors involving her sister and the seductive Duke of Darlington, the fiercely loyal Katherine vows to save her sister's marriage – whatever the cost. Intrigued by Katherine's interference in his affairs, the manipulative Duke is soon fascinated. He engages in a daring deception and follows her back to her country home. Here, their intense connection shocks them both. But the Duke's games have dangerous consequences, and the potential to throw both their lives into chaos.
Banking on Temperance by Becky Lower (Crimson Romance). Basil Fitzpatrick was born into a life of privilege. In 1856, at 23 years of age, he is the owner of the family banking business. Temperance Jones and her family are forced to spend the winter in St. Louis, en route to Oregon. Basil is drawn to the family the moment they roll into town, partly because of the eldest daughter, Temperance. (Check out Becky's guest post with HEA.)
The Laird's Forbidden Lover by Amelia C. Gormley (Riptide Publishing). Farm lad Iain Munro knows his love affair with Tavish MacIntyre, future Laird of Creachann-Dubh, is dangerous — discovery could mean disgrace and death. But they've been in love since they were boys, and they've never been able to resist each other. Now, facing a lifetime apart, Iain and Tavish must leave their childhoods behind for good as they choose between honor and love, innocence and happiness, and their vows before God and to each other.
Check out some newer contemporaries, romantic suspense and women's fiction, too.


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EnergyHub, creator of electronic dashboards that let people track and reduce how much energy they are using in real time, closed its first round of funding today, gaining a certain degree of legitimacy in an increasingly crowded field of competitors. The money will fund a 50-home pilot test of the firm's products in preparation for commercial release as early as this summer.
While it didn't disclose the amount of the round, received from .406 Ventures and Physic Ventures, the company's chief executive said it was typical of most first rounds of capital, meaning it probably fell somewhere in the low single-digit millions. This should be enough to push its dashboard device out into the market as well as its requisite socket adapters and power strips, reports Greentech Media.
The dashboard itself is a standalone monitor display that can be placed anywhere in the home. It receives and presents information about home energy consumption in several simple, easy-to-understand formats. The data itself is transferred to the device through ZigBee sensors (see today's earlier story about ZigBee distributor Ember for more information on this system). All told, the EnergyHub system is estimated to cost a little over $100.
EnergyHub is far from alone when it comes to easy-to-use energy monitoring systems. Tendril and Greenbox, both of which offer dashboards of their own (even in the form of a handy iPhone app), spring immediately to mind. But some more formidable players are also jumping on the bandwagon. Intel, for example, has partnered with General Electric to bring the same data and metrics to people's PC and television screens, no special monitor needed.
This might seem like a daunting environment for a startup with limited resources, but so far there seems to be enough demand to sustain multiple players. As smart meters gain traction, more and more homeowners are interested in knowing how much power they are using, and more importantly, how much it's costing them. This has paved the way for companies like EnergyHub and its rivals to find significant customer bases of their own. Maybe after they all launch, a wave of consolidation will leave the strongest players standing — but that's still a ways off.
EnergyHub also has an advantage because its system works even if a smart meter is not installed in the home in question. It's able to ascertain pretty much the same consumption data from its wall socket adapters and power strips. The company says its dashboard also lets users measure and even adjust temperature in their homes, even though it doesn't offer smart thermostats itself.
In addition to the recent funding, the one-year-old company scored a $156,000 grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.


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Lead Business Advisors Announces New Roles for Chesterman and Harris
Lead Business Advisors, a division of Lead Bank, provides strategic, operational and financial advice to businesses. Advice ranges from transactional business brokerage, project consultation to succession planning, and interim executive support.
April 28, 2014 (Newswire.com) - Lead Business Advisors Announces New Roles for Chesterman and Harris
Lead Business Advisors, a division of the 86-year-old financial institution, Lead Bank of Lee's Summit, MO, has appointed Patrick Chesterman to Senior Managing Director and Clint Harris to Senior Director of Corporate Finance for Lead Business Advisors. Chesterman was previously Division President at Inergy L.P. and Chief Operating Officer at Ferrellgas. Harris was previously Vice President of Ascend Learning, a healthcare-focused education technology company, and is a Principal at Chadwick Partners. Combined, both Chesterman and Harris have extensive and varied business backgrounds with experience in finance, operations and transactions, acquisitions, joint ventures, capital advisory work and IPO's.
Lead Business Advisors provides financial, operational and strategic advice to businesses across the Kansas City area. By offering monthly bookkeeping services, financial statement preparation, budget creation and reporting, as well as strategic and operational advising services, Lead Business Advisors provide outside expertise and guidance to help owners and senior executives better run their businesses. Lead Business Advisors' team is equipped with the know-how to assist companies with all aspects of their growth strategy, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and succession planning. With the unique capability to understand both sides of the balance sheet, Lead Business Advisors services are a cost-effective and creative way for businesses to grow profitably, streamline operations and gain additional market share.
Lead Business Advisors' goals are to provide financial leadership in Kansas City, evolving to meet the demands of clients and the needs of their businesses. "By bringing on Chesterman and Harris, Lead Business Advisors can now create more robust and intense client engagements to help them gain market share, capture new markets, defeat competitors, and achieve business goals," said Josh Rowland, Executive Director of Lead Business Advisors and Vice Chairman of Lead Bank. "Clint Harris brings with him a tremendous skillset. Having experience in complex financing matters and deal making, Clint will help our clients make better strategic financial decisions such as how to acquire, be acquired and restructure their business. Patrick Chesterman's business sense and private sector leadership experience is first-rate, as is his approach to client engagement. With Patrick and Clint taking on more day-to-day leadership within Lead Business Advisors, we will now offer a higher level of service in helping clients win any battle they might be facing," Josh added.
Lead Business Advisors, a division of Lead Bank, provides strategic, operational and financial advice to businesses. Advice ranges from transactional business brokerage to M&A, project consultation to succession planning, and interim executive support to monthly bookkeeping services. The Lead Business Advisors team of dedicated professionals works with companies to help them achieve their business goals. As an independent entity of an 86-year-old financial institution that has helped thousands of businesses, Lead Business Advisors has a broad, historical perspective that delivers smart financial solutions for business owners, managers, their families and the communities they live in. With two Missouri locations, Garden City and Lee's Summit, Lead Bank also provides treasury management, lending services and personal client products. For additional information about Lead Business Advisors, visit https://www.leadbankonline.com/business-advisor.htm or call directly at (816) 874.4960.
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Plant fertilizers and household plant foods are substances used to improve plant growth. Plant fertilizer and household plant food poisoning can occur if someone swallows these substances.
Plant fertilizers are mildly poisonous if swallowed in small doses. Larger doses can be harmful to children. Touching large quantities of plant fertilizers may cause severe burns.
This is for information only and not for use in the treatment or management of an actual poison exposure. If you have an exposure, you should call your local emergency number (such as 911) or the National Poison Control Center at 1-800-222-1222.
Household plant food poisoning; Plant food - household - poisoning
Seek immediate medical help. Do NOT make a person throw up unless told to do so by poison control or a health care professional.
If the chemical is on the skin or in the eyes, flush with lots of water for at least 15 minutes.
If the chemical was swallowed, immediately give the person water or milk, unless instructed otherwise by a health care provider. Do NOT give water or milk if the patient is having symptoms (such as vomiting, convulsions, or a decreased level of alertness) that make it hard to swallow.
If the person breathed in the poison, immediately move him or her to fresh air.
Determine the following information:
The National Poison Control Center (1-800-222-1222) can be called from anywhere in the United States. This national hotline number will let you talk to experts in poisoning. They will give you further instructions.
This is a free and confidential service. All local poison control centers in the United States use this national number. You should call if you have any questions about poisoning or poison prevention. It does NOT need to be an emergency. You can call for any reason, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
See: Poison control center - emergency number
The health care provider will measure and monitor your vital signs, including temperature, pulse, breathing rate, and blood pressure. Symptoms will be treated as appropriate. You may receive:
How well you do depends on the amount of poison swallowed and how quickly treatment is received. The faster you get medical help, the better the chance for recovery.
Fertilizers can be dangerous in large amounts. They will affect the amount of oxygen that your brain and other organs receive. If you eat large amounts, your outcome will depend on how quickly you receive medical attention.
Belson M. Ammonia and nitrogen oxides. In: Shannon MW, Borron SW, Burns MJ, eds. Haddad and Winchester's Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose. 4th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 97.
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The hype has been out of this world (pun intended), the underground reviews have been nothing short of amazing, and the response from the critics has been astounding. And I must agree wholeheartedly! Cameron has topped his greatest works to make something that is beyond imagination. AVATAR is the movie I have waited for, for a very long time.
I do want to say that I am fan of Cameron and his work but not the average Titanic fanboy that some might think. While Titanic, a great accomplishment in its own right, is still sitting atop the highest-grossing-film-of-all-time charts, it will be a memory at best after AVATAR hits.
The world created by Cameron, Pandora, is a vast universe in which one can only get lost. This is a good thing! Sitting here thinking about the film only makes me want to view it again for a second and third time to catch what I missed in the previous viewings. The sheer awe that the film's environments create should be enough for folks to want to see this as soon as possible.
The acting comes in as expected in a fantasy film such as this, even with the alien character of the Navi stealing the show. The Navi, green-screen aborigines, put on a show for us all to enjoy. The visual effects come in near spotless, all while the lush environments in which they live take our breath away. There are very few times that you could even try to say that is CGI; in reality almost the entire movie is GCI.
Jake Sully, played very well by Sam Worthington, is a paralyzed marine who hits life head-on. The journey that he takes us on is one of amazing heart and exploration. The storyline flows all throughout Pandora in a way that amazes me. For a film that runs over 161 minutes, I went in thinking it was going to have many a lull. Not so, my friends! I left wanting more… no I don't want a sequel, but maybe an extended cut version.
The world that Cameron has created is a vast land of beauty. The 3D lends itself to something very very special in this fantasy world. The creative mind of Cameron can only be summed up by exhibiting an open mouth. This is something special, something that we have not seen the likes of before. Yes there are story lines that may mimic or he may take from others but it is truly a special film.
3D has come a long way and this movie is one to prove that movie goers NEED to start seeing films in 3D. Even since the awesome 3D that is Coraline, it doesn't come close to the world Cameron has brought out into the light with the 3D technology. IMAX would only heighten the experience if it's for nothing more than sound enhancement. While I am selling you on 3D, I must admit I will be sorry to see this film on DVD and even on Blu-Ray unless they can create a new technology by its release. This lends itself to a downside of the creativity and sheer size of this film; it could get lost on DVD and Blu-Ray.
The storyline throughout the movie has its peaks and valleys. It has its corny jokes and standard "military" lines that you can deal with only where you are. I think the visual appeal of the movie far outweighs the storyline. While the storyline is a standard story with some ups and downs, you get lost in the visuals and may not be able to come back.
It is hard to put forth a constructive review when one is so enamored with the content and the overall feel of the film at hand. To say something bad about a movie that I have waited for for so long would be against the grain of my being. So I am not going to!
Cameron has been able to accomplish something special with this film and it would be a waste for folks to miss out on it. This is a must-see and must-see-in-the-THEATER film. The suspension of disbelief will be lost on the DVD-viewing public. This is something that needs the cinema experience!
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Kai Ryssdal: Apple rocked an important part of the tech world today -- that's the part that makes software applications for mobile devices. Apple eased off on some of the rules for developers, the folks who make apps for the iPhone and the iPad. There are something like 250,000 apps available out there -- everything from one that turns your iPhone into a flashlight to one that lets you listen to public radio.
Marketplace's Janet Babin reports on why Apple changed its mind.
Janet Babin: Apple's business model is based on a pretty closed system: The company controls its devices and what software can run on them. Apple delivered that same message of control to developers making apps for the iPad and iPhone.
David Berlind: Developers, if you want to write applications for this, you have to do it according to our rules.
That's David Berlind, editor-in-chief at Techweb.com. He says Apple restricted developers from using certain development tools, like Adobe's Flash software. But today, Apple relaxed the restrictions. The company says it listened to developers and took their feedback to heart.
Berlind says Apple changed its rules to keep up with the competition: namely, Google's Android mobile operating system.
Berlind: Google's cutting into Apple's market share, so Apple is really under the gun to make sure that as many developers can come to their platform and build applications in the language of their choice.
There may be one more reason Apple relaxed its rules: To fend off any allegations of anti-competitive practices from Adobe. Larry Dignan is editor-in-chief of ZDNet.
Larry Dignan: Adobe brought a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, and you know, we've seen this before where regulators start to poke around, and suddenly things get fixed.
Whatever the reason, software developers are thrilled.
Rob Terrell is with Touchcentric; the company's made more than 50 mobile apps.
Rob Terrell: I think it removes a cloud that had been hanging over us, so now developers can use whatever the best tool for the job is.
That freedom should translate into more interesting games and apps for all of us.
I'm Janet Babin for Marketplace.


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July 23, 2012 – SSS Invites Pastor Tunde Bakare For A Chat
Pastor Tunde Bakare was today quizzed by Nigeria's State Security Service, SSS over his controversial preaching of yesterday which titled "How To Change Government Peacefully And Make Society Better". www.naijagists.com
Pastor Tunde Bakare was not detained however, he was questioned for over an hour and later released
Excerpts from the sermon
"In spite of the president's promises to deal with insecurity head-on, this government appears helpless because it cannot see the linkage between corruption and violence,"
"the nation has been thrown to the dogs of pervasive corruption and disruptive, perennial insecurity".
Pastor Tunde Bakare listed the Unquestionable God Factor, Resignation, Impeachment and the People's Revolt as some of the options open to Jonathan.
Out of these options, he said the immediate one is resignation which, according to him, "is not a sign of weakness– it is a sign of patriotic truthfulness. It is giving opportunity to those who can do a better job in the interest of a nation to carry on with nation-building where the exiting leader stops."
There will be change of leadership in Nigeria before 2015 – he added.


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Forget the Battle of Ontario. This is the battle for Ontario.
And its a barn burner.
An old fashioned donnybrook, in fact.
You want to get me off? You want to take me on? Don Cherry said of Leafs General Manager Brian Burke on Coachs Corner Saturday night. Two years ago you said you were going to do something to me in the playoffs. Remember that? And I said, Oh Brian Burke Im shaking in my boots. Im shaking right now. Do your best.
Another Cherry bomb.
For Grapes, the battle stems from the fact that the Toronto Maple Leafs do not have one player from Ontario currently on the roster.
For GM Burke, a loud and bombastic failure so far in his first three years at the helm despite tens of millions spent, it may end up being a battle to keep his job.
Its a heavyweight prize fight.
Perhaps Burke can rent a barn at Riverdale Farms, like he suggested he wanted to do to settle a heated grudge match he had a few years back with Edmonton Oilers GM Kevin Lowe?
The problem is as fighting goes Cherry had 1,343 professional penalty minutes over 16 years in the minor leagues where Burke had 60 penalty minutes in just one season.
Their first two rounds were hot. The third round is steaming.
In January, Burke admitted he had quietly and professionally gone to Cherrys CBC superiors to complain about what he called vicious and cutting attacks during Coachs Corner against his coach and players.
Cherry took exception to him going behind my back saying its quite obvious Brian is trying to deflect from his teams performance missing the playoffs three years running at my expense and to be a hero to his players at my expense.
The temperature rose a few more degrees Saturday when Cherry called out Burke for both his lack of Ontario players and his going after his job.
Here is what kills me, Cherry said. Burke goes to my bosses and says I am a bad guy because I said something vicious about his coach; two weeks later he fires him? Figure that one out folks!
But it was the surprising fact that there are currently no Ontario players being iced that was one right to the kisser of American-born, dual-citizen Burke.
Every team in the National Hockey League has a guy from Ontario except one. Guess who it is? Its Ontarios Toronto Maple Leafs, said Grapes. Now if you want American college guys; if you want Americans you got the team.
As a Maple Leafs season ticket holder, Cherry said we pay his salary from Ontario and to not make the playoffs for three years in a row, probably not four and not have one guy from Ontario is a crime as far as I am concerned.
Forget the barn. To the woodshed.
Self described vindictive but other times big-hearted Burke did not seem to respond Sunday fresh off his first win in a month with his new, Ontario-born, coach Randy Carlyle. He eventually patched up the feud with Lowe without any barn rental and will likely have no choice but to do the same with Cherry since going behind a guys back for his job in hockey is not honourable.
Even though Burkes defenders say he has drafted, and his developing many Ontario players, his detractors say Ontario players like Nazem Kadri and Mike Zigomanis should be in the lineup now instead of overpaid and under-achieving team members who are not from these parts.
The bench-clearing brawl that ensued has gone viral.
I thought Don was superb, said former Toronto Sun hockey columnist and Hockey Night in Canada commentator Al Strachan. For the most part, the Toronto media corps, that is supposed to be so demanding, has given Burke or Burkie as they almost universally call him a free ride. His inconsistencies are ignored; his gaffes are written off; his arrogance is forgiven and his general ill temper is accepted as a somehow acceptable personality trait.
Strachan added Burke has had great success browbeating the superiors of those who disagree with him and (allegedly) getting them fired but he tried it once too often when he went after Cherry. Unfortunately, very few in the Toronto media have had the fortitude to examine what Burke really is and to stand up to him. Don did that on Saturday night and it was great to watch.
And every hockey fan certainly loves to watch a good tussle between two heavyweights.
Theres enough material develop a third CBC life and times movie where Jared Keeso does have excellent job of playing Grapes. But who is going to play Burke.


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The first scene of Channel 4's new sitcom The IT Crowd opens with Chris Morris disguised by a huge false moustache glaring with a threatening leer at a hapless young woman who has lied on her CV. So far, so postmodernly funny.
Then, there is laughter and giggles and it suddenly becomes clear - this is a studio-based sitcom filmed in front of an audience. No hand-held cameras. No artfully obscure cuts and angles. No lines that could be jokes or could be the demolition of the human soul. It is a sitcom in the old way - the way that no one would dare to make a sitcom these days.
Its writer and director Graham Linehan, of Father Ted fame, revels gleefully in this wanton disregard for the conventions of contemporary comedy. "I find it quite comical that everyone is doing the same kind of shaky camera, audience-free sitcom just because it's in vogue. For one thing, studio sitcoms are a very good way to get your script from 70% perfect to 90% perfect. Nothing focuses the mind of the cast and crew like the idea that they may be standing in front of an audience and not getting any laughs. On a practical level, of course, having a studio audience means the show will stand out a bit more because no one's doing them any more."
Vulgar and coarse
The passing of the so-called traditional sitcom seems to have been the main topic of conversation in the comedy community for the past six months. Mourners at the wake for situation comedy include Victoria Wood, who recently opined that "sadly the sitcom is dead. The likes of The Office are so good that you can't go back. Everything is very naturalistic now, whereas before it used to be quite contrived." Carla Lane and Dad's Army writer David Croft both bemoaned TV comedy's "vulgarity" at last year's British Comedy Awards.
"These shows are not about people any more," Lane argued. "They are too vulgar and there are no characters in them." Croft said: "Sitcoms used to be about things and people but now they are just about being vulgar and coarse." And former ITV director of programmes, David Liddiment, presented a documentary about the sitcom's "demise".
Of course, there is some basis for the argument that you would expect that sort of grumbling from any generation when looking at the works of the young. Last week, however, an unlikely voice was added to this chorus - Armando Iannucci, pictured below, the creator of The Day Today, I'm Alan Partridge and BBC4's hand-held camera, no studio audience sitcom The Thick of It. Delivering a well-attended first lecture in his role as visiting professor of broadcast media at Oxford, he offered a form of mea culpa, complaining that the comedy world - himself included - had focused on edgy stuff for BBC2 and Channel 4 while ignoring BBC1 and ITV. Unusually, in the context of these lectures, he said that ratings do matter and they just were not high enough.
"Just as comedy shows get more daring and varied in format and technique, and just as audiences get more and more sophisticated in the breadth of comedy they're willing to watch, viewing figures are in decline," he said. "Less comedy is being made for the mass audience channels of BBC1 and ITV, while the commissioning of comedy shows is increasingly in the hands of TV professionals from outside comedy production, under pressure from advertisers and schedulers not to take risks."
Iannucci said that the average viewing figures for the top five sitcoms on British telly had fallen from 14.7 million in the mid-80s to 6.9 million at the turn of the century. On BBC1 and ITV, the hours of new comedy fell from 108 in 1984 to 35 in 2004. Writers, he said, used the term "can you make it a bit more mainstream?" as a shorthand for "can you make it a bit less funny?" at a time when drama writers, like Russell T Davies and Paul Abbott, were capable of bringing shocking and experimental drama to prime time mainstream TV. "In the golden age of sitcom, shows like Porridge and Steptoe had the best writers writing for the best actors of the day," he says. "I think that came to an end after One Foot In The Grave."
All commentators seem to agree that the debate reflects the deep-seated love the British have for sitcoms. Certainly the public have a hunger to write them, which was demonstrated recently when a BBC competition for aspiring writers attracted 5,000 entries. Those who made the shortlist are appearing on The Last Laugh on Saturdays on BBC3.
Creative control
One of the Last Laugh judges was Adam Chase, writer and ultimately executive producer on Friends. He feels the problem British comedy faces is money. "In America if you're a very successful comedy writer on a very successful show you can earn well in excess of a million dollars over the course of 22 episodes," he explains. "No way would Jennifer Saunders have stopped writing Absolutely Fabulous if British shows got the obscene amounts of money US shows do. In theory, the quality of British sitcoms should be better than America. The traditional UK process of one writer on most of the scripts means you have complete creative control. You have to write defensively in America, and in the UK you can really go as far as you want. For instance, in this competition one of the pilots is about a gay brothel. If I tried to pitch that to a network they would laugh me right out of the room ... and not in a good way."
For some observers, however, the slump may be just a matter of fashion. Graham Smith commissions comedy for Five and the Paramount Comedy Channel. He has recently ordered Five's first two sitcoms - Suburban Shoot Out and the late Harry Thompson's final work, Respectable. He has 15 projects in development and says four or five of the scripts could play pre- watershed in a classic sitcom form.
"I think we're about to see a return to warmth in comedy writing," he explains. "The split between alternative comedy and mainstream in the 80s that led to the dark comedy of the 90s and early 21st century is about to fade. There are some great young writers and some great projects like The Worst Week Of My Life and My Family which perform pretty well. Meanwhile someone like Peter Kay is delivering comedy from the old school and BBC1 and ITV would kill to get their hands on his next project."
Perhaps the litmus test of this theory will be The IT Crowd itself. With My Name Is Earl underperforming on Fridays for C4, Linehan's latest is carrying a great deal of weight on its shoulders - not just the hopes of C4 schedulers, but the fears of Iannucci, Wood and Croft. The industry may be watching - the question is, will the public?
· The IT Crowd is on C4 on Friday at 9pm