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Boise State Accepts At-Large Bid To MAACO Bowl Las Vegas XIX
Broncos to make first Las Vegas
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LAS VEGAS - As part of a highly sought matchup of teams boasting an undefeated record in four BCS games, No. 10/10 (AP/Coaches) Boise State will make its first-ever appearance in the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas when the high-powered Broncos face No. 20/19 Utah on Dec. 22 at 5 p.m. PT, Executive Director Tina Kunzer-Murphy announced Sunday.
Boise State, which rose to as high as third in both polls last month, is 11-1 overall and tied for the Western Athletic Conference championship at 7-1. The Broncos filled an at-large spot in the game after the Pac-10 Conference failed to provide an eligible team.
Head coach Chris Petersen's squad will be the first WAC representative to appear in the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas since Fresno State lost to Utah 17-16 in 1999. Boise State has played in Las Vegas three times ? all against UNLV -- with the last appearance coming in 1976.
As part of the second consecutive MAACO Bowl Las Vegas to feature two ranked teams, the Broncos will face the Utes (10-2/7-1) from the Mountain West Conference for the first time since 2006. Boise State leads the all-time series between the two 4-2. Each school is 2-0 in BCS games as the Broncos boasts a pair of Fiesta Bowl wins (2007 and 2010) and Utah won both a Fiesta (2005) and a Sugar Bowl (2009).
''We welcome Boise State to our game for the first time and by pairing two powerhouse western programs in the Broncos and Utah Utes, our committee just put together one of the top matchups of the entire bowl season,'' Kunzer-Murphy. ''This is the one everyone wanted and we expect a full house later this month to see two ranked teams playing their final game as members of their respective conferences (Boise State joins the Mountain West in 2011 while Utah moves to the Pac-10).''
The MAACO Bowl Las Vegas, which is owned and operated by ESPN Regional Television (ERT), will be televised nationally on ESPN HD. Last year's game attracted 40,018 fans, which marked the fifth consecutive sellout crowd as No. 15 BYU defeated No. 16 Oregon State 44-20 in the first meeting of two ranked teams at the annual event.
Tickets for the 2010 MAACO Bowl Las Vegas are on sale now and this year include complimentary transportation from the two host hotels to and from Sam Boyd Stadium. Prices of remaining tickets are $35, $55 and $100 and can be reserved by phone at 1-866-388-FANS, online at www.unlvtickets.com or in person at the Thomas & Mack Center box office. For information on sponsorship opportunities and corporate ticket packages, call (702) 732-3912 or log on to www.maacobowllv.com.
''On behalf of Boise State University, I want to thank executive director Tina Kunzer-Murphy and her staff in selecting the Broncos for this year's game. The MAACO Bowl Las Vegas committee and the city of Las Vegas have a reputation for hosting great bowl games and we are look forward to experiencing their hospitality firsthand. Boise State has been fortunate to attend several different bowl games over the past decade, and we know this will be another outstanding bowl experience for our team and fans.''
''We are very excited upon our selection to the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas. Our team is looking forward to another great bowl experience and the opportunity of finishing our season against another nationally ranked opponent. Utah has one of the top programs in the country and has proven that again this season. Coach Kyle Whittingham and his staff do a great job in preparing their team and we look forward to the challenge.''
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May 25, 2016
News Release: Allstate
Florida State forwards Natasha Howard and Okaro White were just announced as nominees for the 2014 Allstate WBCA/NABC Good Works Team®.
For the second year, Allstate, the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) are recognizing a select group of college basketball student-athletes who stand out for their charitable achievements and community involvement. The players nominated for this prestigious honor are committed to enriching the lives of others while contributing to the greater good of their communities.
Howard boasts an impressive resume of community service accomplishments, which include:
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All eyes might be on the fashion going on at the Cannes Film Festival this week, but those eyes definitely switched over to Monaco this weekend as Dior unveiled its 2014 Cruise Collection.
I am in love with Jessica Biel's gown that she paired with that gorgeous side swept hair. Becoming Mrs. Justin Timberlake has really upped her fashion skills. As always, Marion Cotillard was stunning. Well, almost always. I still can't get into this outfit.
Even the royalty of Monaco was in attendance. Princess Charlene and her husband, Prince Albert II, both looked rather excellent, although obviously I want Charlene's dress more than Albert's suit.
Overall, Dior has got it going on in the cruise collection. Now, if only I could afford to spend money on stuff like that. I mean, what says "excess money" more than cruise collection attire?
Launch the gallery to check out all the celebs at the fashionable event from Jessica and Marion to Liv Tyler and Ruth Wilson. Hey celebs, if you've got any excess cruise collection pieces lyting aorund, feel free to sned them my way.


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Tea tree oil has been used the world over in the manufacture of cosmetics, as well as herbal supplements, that also include traditional medicines. As a remedy for coughs and colds, you will find Australian natives crushing the leaves of this tree and inhaling the oil produced.
While it may sound unbelievable, the tea tree leaves have eleven times more antimicrobial power than phenol and can be applied on wounds or soaked in infusions. Phenol was a substance widely used in the past to protect wounds from bacterial infections. After Arthur Penfold did a study on the plant's antimicrobial effects and later wrote articles on the same, production went into full force. During World War two production of tea tree oil took shape manually, but has of present become mechanized.
With its powerful antiseptic value that treats various skin ailments, insect bites, minor wounds and even ear infections, it is recommended for external use only since it can cause ataxia, drowsiness or even allergic reactions. Although this remedy is much slower than antibiotics in showing results, it is a very effective herbal remedy for the skin.
Benefits & Uses:
Tea tree oil uses are plentiful, although this pure essential oil is more commonly know for their skin care applications. There are over 98 different compounds in the native tree from the Northeast coast of Australia. All of these compounds play an important factor in the healing properties of tea tree oil, although 4-terpineol is directly responsible for this pure essential oil's antiseptic and antifungal properties. Because of the potent all natural chemical properties, different types of skin care allow for many tea tree oil uses.
Firstly, tea tree oil is produced through steam distillation of the trees leaves. This process leaves you with a very pure essential oil. One of the tea tree oil uses is for acne. The normal, prescribed treatment for acne is 5% benzoyl peroxide creams or lotions. There have been many studies conducted, which show tea tree oil is just as effective, although it might take a little bit longer. So, if you are looking for an all natural way to help relieve acne, then try tea tree oil.
Another use is for athlete's foot. Since the oil has anti-fungal properties as well, this condition makes another use for tea tree. If you have any sort of itching, or cracking, or toe nails yellow, or infected, then tea tree oil is just right for this. All you need to do is put the drops of oil between your toes and on your toe nails and rub it in. This should start to cure up within a couple of days.
If you ever have any burns, scrapes, or something like poison ivy, tea tree oil can help. The 98 different compounds help to provide all natural healing for any of these skin conditions. I have seen people use this for mild conditions of psoriasis to help gets rid of the itching. It does not cure psoriasis, as there is no cure, but it can help the small percentage of the population who suffers from psoriasis.
Dandruff is another condition tea tree can help with. You can either buy shampoo already with tea tree oil in it, or you can buy the pure essential oil and just add it to your own shampoo. I would recommend buying an all natural shampoo with tea tree oil in it. Regular shampoos have chemicals which naturally dry out your scalp. Natural shampoos will not dry your scalp or leave you with flakes. Go all natural if you want to be safe.
There are many tea tree oil uses out there. With the antiseptic and anti-fungal properties, you are sure to find a good use for tea tree oil. And better yet, you are healing your body all naturally, which is always better for you, and keeps you in tune with nature.
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ESPN article labels the Thunder as best under-25 team in the league
In a recently released article by ESPN Insider Amen Elhassen, ranking the NBA's best under-25 teams, the Thunder expectedly came in at the top spot.
That's not shocking. OKC has two of the top 10 players in the league, regardless of age, and when you lower the requirements to those who can't rent a car without hefty insurance bumps, Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook could make a strong case for being the two best.
Kyrie Irving, Derrick Rose and James Harden have an argument, but none of the three play together. That's what ascends OKC right toward the top of Elhassen's list.
But with two other established youngsters (Serge Ibaka and Reggie Jackson), plus some promising developmental pieces (Jeremy Lamb, Steven Adams and Andre Roberson), the Thunder easily flies above the rest (although the comment on Perry Jones III potentially being 'Durant-lite' seems a bit unrealistic).
Here's part of Elhassan's reasoning…
"…what makes the Thunder No. 1 on my ranking is their stable of young prospects and track record for developing talent. Jackson is a shining example of this, going from hardly playing in his rookie season to being a major contributor (and a starter in the playoffs once Westbrook went down). Elsewhere, Lamb is a silky-smooth shooting guard with excellent length and athleticism, Jones III has the chance to be a "Durant-lite" with his size and skill set, and rookies Adams and Roberson bring a different dynamic to the front line. Oklahoma City is the rare team that is legitimately contending for a championship while simultaneously stockpiling real talent in its youth pipeline."
That last point by Elhassan is an important one. Take a closer look at his rankings, particularly the top 10/bottom 10, and you'll notice a trend:
Top Ten
1. OKC Thunder
2. New Orleans Pelicans
3. Utah Jazz
4. Cleveland Cavaliers
5. Chicago Bulls
6. Houston Rockets
7. Golden State Warriors
8. Detroit Pistons
9. Portland Trail Blazers
10. Minnesota Timberwolves
Of those 10, only four were playoff teams last season — the Thunder, Rockets, Warriors and Bulls — all of which are widely regarded as having some of the most appealing rosters, a select group who have firm foundations for the present and future. The rest are rebuilding clubs, who have been slowly stockpiling young talent but still lack playoff experience and veteran talent.
Meanwhile, take a look at the lower part of the rankings:
Bottom Ten
21. Boston Celtics
22. Denver Nuggets
23. Milwaukee Bucks
24. Memphis Grizzlies
25. San Antonio Spurs
26. New York Knicks
27. Brooklyn Nets
28. Miami Heat
29. Dallas Mavericks
30. Los Angeles Lakers
That's nine playoff teams from last season, including a four-team group (Heat, Mavs, Lakers, Spurs) that holds claim to the last nine NBA titles. A group of veteran teams with closing windows, some of which have already been shut (Celtics, Mavs, Nuggets).
Free agency clearly alters the future outlook. And big market teams have the upper-hand there. But with the information we currently have, OKC looks to be at the top of a select list of teams who are set to compete now and in the future.
Of course, Thunder fans are probably a bit tired of being labeled the best 'young' team in the league. They're only concerned about making the next step and, you know, becoming the best team in the league, regardless of age, salary cap or whatever else.
But moving forward, the first category has a long-term correlation with the second, as Elhassan puts it:
"While an inventory of talent under the age of 25 on a roster is not predictive of a franchise's future success (the quality of management decision-making, financial resources, team chemistry, coaching and, of course, luck all play major roles)," Elhassan writes, "you'd rather your team have the assets in hand than not have them, all else being equal."


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King Mufasa Becoming a Force (06/11/13)
Posted Tuesday June 11, 2013
By Mike Paradise
While King Mufasa won only 2 of 8 starts as a freshman and banked just $9,360, this year he's 3-for-3 in the ICF 3-year-old colt and gelding trotting division, including an easy victory in the $50,800 Cardinal on May 29.
Since he joined the Mike Brink Stable the high-flying state-bred trotter also has made over $39,000 already in his second season.
"Last year as a 2-year-old King Mufasa was out of control. This year he's not," said his driver Mike Oosting. "Mike (trainer Brink) has done a real nice job with him, making my task out there on the racetrack a lot easier.
"The horse is a lot calmer out there. His confidence level right now is real high and that's a big thing. Every week he's drives the same. He doesn't seem to get tired and he's got a big kick on the end of the mile."
With major ICF stakes like the Su Mac Lad on Super Night and next month's Kadabra still ahead and with big open events like the American National and the Hanover still on the horizon, King Mufasa's bankroll should swell in 2013.
"If King Mufasa stays sound he's going to be a nice trotter and a force to be reckoned with," added Oosting.
Since King Mufasa and last year's division champion Powerful Poe sharing common-ownership among the five horses entered, Wednesday's $12,000 Southern Rocketop stake for ICF 3-year-old trotting males was relegated to an early non-wagering event with a 6:45 pm post time.
The other ICF stake Wednesday will be part of the regular 10-race wagering card. It's the $6,000 Misty Misty for freshman pacing fillies.
All six ICF fillies are making their pari-mutuel debut and three of them—Sky Candy, Smashing Samantha and Linda On My Mind—all gaining some experience with a non-betting affair a week ago in Springfield.
The other three Misty Misty starters are Green Valey, Sara Pearl and Perfectly Clear.
The Chris Choros homebred Green Valley (Bobby Smolin), has three siblings who have competed this year—State Street Liz (1:54.3), Yermanos (1:53.4) and Remissionofsins (1:52.2). They're all out of his broodmare Pleasepassthejelly.
Green Valey leaves from post 3 for trainer Bob Phillips at opening odds of 5-2 in race two with Linda On My Mind (Mike Oosting) next at 3-1.
County Fair Report
Sunday Afternoon June 9 Results
FIRST: Downstate Classic, 3-Year-Old Filly Trot, 1st div 1, Purse $6,448:
Horse (Driver) Time (Track Fast)
Divination (Nick Prather) 2:03.1
Trainer: Nick Prather. Owners: Derek Jacobus and Kevin Kline.
SECOND: Downstate Classic, 3-Year-Old Filly Trot, 2nd div, Purse $6,448:
High Stepper (J D Finn) 2:03.2
Trainer: J D Finn. Owners: Mary Jeffers and Adele Everett,
THIRD: Downstate Classic, 3-Year-Old Colt Trot, 1st div, Purse $7,684:
Gonnageyta (Freddie Patton 2:03.2
Trainer: Manuel Wilson. Owner: Manuel Wilson.
FOURTH: Downstate Classic, 3-Year-Old Colt Trot, 2nd div, Purse $7,684:
Riet's Kid (Paul Cavett) 2:06
Trainer: Gene Williams. Owners: Frank Marsaglia, Joseph Marsaglia and Gene Williams.
FIFTH: Downstate Classic, 3-Year-Old Filly Pace, Purse $12,889:
Incredible Filly (Ronnie Gillespie) 1:58.1
Trainer: John Fletcher. Owner: Stevanna Turner.
SIXTH: Downstate Classic, 3-Year-Old Colt Pace, 1st div, Purse $7,388:
Mr. Three Quarters (Antonio Love) 1:59.1
Trainer: Antonio Love. Owner: Terry Wilson.
SEVENTH: Downstate Classic, 3-Year-Old Colt Pace, 2nd div, Purse $7,388:
Mystical Walter (Lewayne Miller) 2:00.1
Trainer: Erv Miller. Owners: Paymag Racing, D & M Trading and Mystical Marker Farms.
EIGHTH: Pride of the Prairie, Pace, 4 and Up, Purse $3,500:
NJ's Big Deal (Ronnie Gillespie) 1:55.1
Trainer: John Fletcher. Owners: Stevanna Turner and John Fletcher.
Monday Evening June 10 Results
FIRST: Big 10, 2-Year-Old Filly Trot, 1st div, Purse $2,060:
Horse (Driver) Time (Track Fast)
All Psyched Up (Graham Ross Jr.) 2:06.2
Trainer: Graham Ross Jr. Owners: Ronald Phillips, John Carver and Jesse Ferge.
SECOND: Big 10, 2-Year-Old Filly Trot, 2nd div, Purse $2,060:
Bands Alexis (Derrick Flowers) 2:12
Trainer: Derrick Flowers. Owner: Moses lowers Jr.
THIRD: Big 10, 2-Year-Old Colt Trot, Purse $3,777:
JJ's Revenge (Jamaica Patton) 2:08.3
Trainer: Roshun Trigg. Owners: Joseph Evans and James Course.
FOURTH: Big 10, 2-Year-Old Filly Pace, 1st div, Purse $2,049:
Rockin Reba (John De Long) 2:01
Trainer: Jesse De Long. Owner: Jesse, John and Austin De Long.
FIFTH: Big 10, 2-Year-Old Filly Pace, 2nd div, Purse $2,049:
Another Burbon (John De Long) 2:04
Trainer: Dennis Brooks. Owner: Dennis Brooks,
SIXTH: Big 10, 3-Year-Old Colt Pace, Purse $3,877:
Checkout My Body (John De Long) 2:02.1
Trainer: Jesse De Long. Owners: Jesse, John and Austin De Long.
SEVENTH: Free For All Trot, Purse $1,000:
Itzazim (Nick Prather) 2:03.1
Trainer: Nick Prather. Owner: Nick Prather.


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Many books about art and the philosophy of art include discussions of artistic materials. By artistic materials I mean the stuff from which the work of art emerges. Stuff such as limestone, marble, water or oil based pigments, words, tones or bodily movements. Discussing artistic materials for the sake of understanding and appreciating works of art has a long history. Here are a few famous examples:
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One Hand, Two Hands
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A Time to Embrace
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Captivating (Revised and Expanded)
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God's Little Princess Devotional Bible
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The Sweet By and By
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The Jesus Book
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What's the startup scene at Harvard?
As I finish this semester, I thought it might be valuable to shed some light into the unique entrepreneurship scene at Harvard. It can be clichéd, but it's hard to deny Bill Gates's and Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard roots. There's increased interest in entrepreneurship on all college campuses, but at Harvard it has accelerated especially rapidly given The Social Network and the Facebook IPO. The startup scene has grown beyond recognition in the three years I've been on campus—I'm a junior now—so I'll try to objectively describe the various initiatives around campus and then offer my own thoughts.
Harvard Innovation Lab
The largest addition to Harvard's entrepreneurship efforts this year was the new Innovation Lab (i-lab for short). The 30,000-square-foot ground floor features day-use space, reserved space for incubated teams, a classroom, conference rooms, a kitchen stocked with snacks, and a game room filled with video games.
Physically, the building is on the Harvard Business School campus. While it isn't next to the center of campus (Harvard Yard), the vast majority of entrepreneurship events are now hosted there, so many students have been spending more time there. The i-lab has hosted a startup career fair, a Startup Weekend hackathon, and office hours with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs-in-residence.
University-Sponsored Initiatives
Considering that the i-lab hosts or runs many of these initiatives, it makes sense to describe these next. The administration recently came out strongly in support of entrepreneurship, sponsoring a President's Challenge that awarded 10 teams $5,000 each to advance their ventures in the areas of clear air, clean water, global health, personal health, and education. A panel of professors then awarded a grand-prize winner and up to three finalists a total of $100,000 to develop their ventures during the summer. While money isn't the only solution to encouraging entrepreneurship, the resources and backing of the University certainly go a long way to helping student-led ventures.
The Experiment Fund
Probably the second most important announcement of the past term was the launch of the Experiment Fund, a seed fund run by NEA, Accel Partners, and Polaris Ventures to help fund student ventures. While the fund was initially launched at Harvard, it is expanding to include other colleges in Cambridge. The fund has already financed a few ventures, including health incubator Rock Health and TV-over-the-Internet startup Tivli.
Hack Harvard
The newest technical addition to startup extracurriculars is Hack Harvard, an organization that brings together mostly engineering students who are working on personal projects. An emphasis is placed on cool hacks or integration of third-party APIs. In the last year, they welcomed a number of technical speakers, among them Aza Raskin of Massive Health and former creative lead of Firefox. They also welcomed the Winklevoss twins and Divya Narendra of The Social Network fame.
Hack Harvard runs an incubator program over winter break for campus startups. Students learn more about web development and design through a number of workshops led by professors and upperclassmen. They spend the rest of their time advancing their projects in anticipation of a demo day for other students, investors, and the Boston community.
Rough Draft Ventures
Just a few months ago, General Catalyst helped launch a new seed-stage fund in Boston for students working on a startup of their own. Rough Draft Ventures gives students up to $25,000 in the form of an uncapped convertible note to fund their venture. Its first investment was $20,000 in Balbus Speech, a company focused on special education and speech therapy.
Zuck returns to campus
The biggest tech celebrity to come to campus in 2012 was Mark Zuckerberg, who returned for the first time since dropping out in 2004. His homecoming was billed as a recruiting talk, and he spoke to an audience of computer science students. Overall, his visit further invigorated campus interest in computer science.
Computer Science Department
The most notable addition to the Harvard CS program was Computer Science 164: Mobile Software Engineering. The class is not only an introduction to iOS programming and jQuery Mobile, but also a great primer in industry-standard software development practices, including pair programming, code reviews, source control, unit testing, MVC frameworks, and database scaling. The class is taught by star CS professor David Malan, who also teaches the introductory CS class, CS 50. CS 50, a 10-week overview of computer science in C, HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, is now the second most enrolled class at the College following Introduction to Economics, demonstrating the surging popularity of CS at Harvard.
Social Entrepreneurship
The entrepreneurship scene isn't limited to tech startups. Students are interested in social entrepreneurship across a number of areas, including education, health, clean tech, and more. Through extracurriculars like the Social Innovation Collaborative and University initiatives like the President's Challenge, there is an emphasis on socially-oriented ventures.
Business Plan Competition Winners
There are two main business plan competitions on campus. College students enter the i3 competition, while HBS students enter the HBS Business Plan competition. Past winners of the HBS competition include Rent The Runway, Birchbox, CloudFlare, RelayRides, and thredUP. In 2012, the winner of the business venture track was Vaxess Technologies, a company working to commercialize a technology to condense vaccines into a thin film strip that can be shipped and stored without refrigeration. Here's a full list of the winners and runners-up.
On the college level, a total of $50,000 was awarded to six major award winners for everything from a foot shape analysis technology to an iPad point-of-sale survey platform. Here's the full list of winners.
Harvard College Venture Partners
There is also a strong interest in venture capital on campus, the main activity for which is Harvard College Venture Partners, or HCVP. HCVP brings venture capitalists and successful entrepreneurs to campus to speak with Harvard startup founders. One of its main objectives is to facilitate cross-campus collaboration, particularly with Harvard Business School students and professors.
Harvard Business School has become notably more open to sharing its resources with the rest of the University. The i-lab is one way of connecting HBS professors with undergrads and other schools. A new class taught to undergrads this year was U.S. and the World 36: Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The class—a survey on innovation across disciplines—was taught with HBS's signature case study method. It was primarily taught by professors Joe Lassiter and Mihir Desai and co-taught by visiting professors from other Harvard schools, including the Kennedy School of Government and Engineering School. The course culminated with students working on over 40 real-world projects at various startups and organizations.
Harvard Business School students have also increasingly turned to the College to learn about CS. Enrollment in CS50 by HBS students was sharply up this past fall. Many students were happy with their decision to take it, and the increased interaction with undergrads was largely welcome (though I don't believe many undergrads have bandwidth to work on outside projects, which I describe more below).
This shift towards openness was both student- and faculty-driven. The new FIELD curriculum requires that all ~900 first-year students conceive, establish, and grow a business using $5,000 in seed money from HBS. This broad shift in the first-year curriculum followed the success of Startup Tribe, HBS's homegrown entrepreneurship club founded just two years ago. As I understand it, entrepreneurship among the HBS student body was previously an afterthought, something only a small percentage of students did. Startup Tribe helped change the entrepreneurship scene on campus, so much so that its founders recently received the Dean's Award for their efforts.
HLS and the Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project
Further demonstrating how Harvard's graduate schools are now collaborating, the Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project (HLEP) helps student startups avoid common legal pitfalls and critically assess the viability of their businesses. Each semester, after a pitching and vetting process, the Student Practice Organization pairs law student teams and an attorney advisor from Cooley, Gunderson Dettmer, or WilmerHale with ten to twelve student entrepreneur teams. All projects are also reviewed by the current General Counsel of Charles River Ventures. HLEP has worked with entrepreneurs from virtually every school at Harvard so far. Recently, HLEP's leadership organized Hack IP, a weekend-long event dedicated to brainstorming and developing a policy about copyright that HarvardX should adopt.
i-lab Silicon Valley Trek
Another effort to raise interest in entrepreneurship as a career choice was the Innovation Lab's trek to Silicon Valley. About 40 students, evenly split between HBS students and undergrads, Graduate School of Education, Kennedy School, and engineering graduate students, visited Silicon Valley VCs, startups, and incubators.
We heard from Michael Dearing at Harrison Metal; serial entrepreneur Mike Cassidy; Randy Komisar from Kleiner Perkins; Matthew Prince at Cloudflare; James Reinhart at thredUP; Diego Rodriguez at IDEO; and many more.
Incidentally, Cloudflare was founded on that same trip in 2009, when founders Matt Prince and Michelle Zatlyn developed the idea in the hotel bar in between trips to startups. Having that in mind as we visited Harvard alumni across the Valley was even more inspiring. From my understanding, the general consensus from students on the trip was that they were newly inspired and driven to get a career at a startup after graduating.
Here's a short video chronicling our trip.
There is no shortage of startup opportunities for students, but it can be hard to sort out the good opportunities from the bad. The main recruiting mailing lists get 5-10 emails a day with startup opportunities. Here are a few excerpts of a few of the more interesting requests.
We are looking for a technical co-founder who can build and design all aspects of the website, including creating an attractive product and managing the back-end database. The programmer should know (or be willing and able to learn quickly) PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and MySQL at a minimum. Familiarity with jQuery would be beneficial. The programmer should be able to essentially replicate Pinterest, or be confident that they can learn how to do so in a short period of time. Please provide any examples of previous work, if any. Our engineer will be an equity partner in what we believe will be a very profitable business and great learning opportunity. We are also open to discussing salaried compensation instead of equity. The co-founder will join a team with experiences ranging from entrepreneurship, design, consulting, and law, and will learn about the contacts and skills necessary to start a new venture.
I have a project which I need your assistance on. What am I offering? A partnership. I have a concept which I believe is worth pursuing. It most likely will involve php, sql, and rss. The first step would be letting me know if you are interested or not (I know some of you are very busy). The second step would be a non-disclosure agreement. I would then explain the concept, and you could tell me if you are interested in helping develop it. You would then tell me what percentage ownership in the company you would be seeking. I would then see which offer is a match between ownership and skills and select. You pick your own team. We will make it work. I look foward to hearing from you.
On the other hand, we also get a number of recruiting requests from exciting, well-funded San Francisco, New York, and Boston startups looking for students to fill internship and full-time positions.
If you're interested in recruiting Harvard students, there are two main outlets to do so. First, contact the Office of Career Services. They're the official middleman between employers and students, and they're incredibly committed to increasing the number of students who go into the startup world after graduation. They can help get your job posting submitted into the Harvard job posting database, and will be able to tell you what career fairs are coming up. Second, submit your posting to [email protected]. Most CS students are subscribed to that list, run by the Harvard Computer Society, so it's a good way to find qualified CS students.
In my opinion, Harvard's startup scene is a microcosm of the broader startup environment: There's a lot of noise, but there are many gems in the rough that will be hugely successful.
I was speaking with a Harvard senior studying CS a few weeks ago about how he believes the environment has changed over the past four years. He noted that startups are the new non-profit or NGO for college students. A few years ago, every student had a pet non-profit that they claimed they were building. Some would go the extra mile and work on the organization over the summer, but few actually took the effort needed to grow it professionally and reach a sizable number of people.
Now, almost every person I encounter has founded or is working on a startup. The barrier to entry is so low that anyone can feasibly claim they're developing a new venture. In reality, most of these students do one or more of the following things instead:
- Buy a domain
- Launch a landing page to collect email addresses
- Mock up a logo
- Buy t-shirts with their logo on it
- Order business cards with their name and logo
- Email a mailing list looking for developers
To be clear, Harvard is in no way unique in this respect, nor is there a shortage of brilliant entrepreneurs working on promising startups or dropping out to work in a startup. It's just hard to identify those entrepreneurs given the many resources and events that are trying to educate and attract interested students.
Next, the Harvard CS department is undergoing an internal rift over whether to stay true to the historic and conventional definition of computer science, or to embrace more practical classes in web development and programming. This is an argument that many computer science departments across the country are having, considering that the vast majority of CS students are not interested in graduate CS study or CS research. On the one hand, critics of the current department argue that students are leaving the department ill prepared for the real-world jobs for which they're hired. On the other hand, there is little value in teaching practical skills without their theoretical background, especially since the necessary skills change so quickly. The introduction of CS 164 and CS 179: Design of Usable Interactive Systems is moving the department toward a healthy balance of the two extremes.
Overall, Harvard University itself has admirably changed its stance towards entrepreneurship. For a 375-year-old institution, it now actively supports innovative ventures. Its EdX initiative is shaking up the online ed-tech space, and the Innovation Lab is a model that other schools can emulate to establish entrepreneurship hubs for students.
In short, don't write off Harvard when it comes to entrepreneurship, especially in favor of Stanford. We're not half bad.
This is a post I published last year detailing the new initiatives that popped up at Harvard. I'm cross-posting it here from my old blog. If you're interested in hearing more, contact me at my website.


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Jennifer Hudson is a brand new mom, but she already knows a few things about her son. The most important being that he is just like her when she was a baby.
She said, "He's the cutest thing in the world! There are no words for it. He's the best. It's just amazing us discovering each other, me becoming a mom. The other night he was having a fit screaming, and someone turns on the music and he just stops and calms down. And I was exactly the same way as a baby."
She says that David is, "a very rare newborn."
"He tries a lot he's turning over, he's lifting up his own head, he tries to hold his own bottle, sometimes I swear he's talking to me, or at least trying to. The other day he said, Hi!' I swear, I'm not crazy. David was there too, and he was like, He just said, "Hi!" He's very aware."
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Yes it is the time again when we are looking for new, motivated, testers to help test our games. We have some big plans for next year and we need a new batch of testers to help us realise those plans.
Deadline for applications: 7th July.
So how do you become a tester?
If you want to be a tester you will have to meet some requirements and send one of the project leaders or the lead tester a pm on the forums.
Who do I send a pm?
You can send your pm to one of the four members below.
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You have to have a BHP forum account.
- How else would you join us in the tester forums?
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- We use teamspeak during testing sessions to make sure everything goes according to plan and to communicate with each other effectively. You don't need a microphone and you do not need to speak. As long as you have the ability to listen, you should be fine. (We'd would appreciate it if you do have a microphone!)
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Remember, you will be testing all three games, so we're only interested in players who want to test all games, not just one of them.
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There were a couple of good articles in the Omaha World Herald today about GMac. From reading the paper in Omaha this weekend they are pretty happy with the selection of McDermott, putting much of the blame on his lack of success at ISU at the player defections, and that is the players fault not his (what a joke).
McDermott: Player defections are a sign of the times - Omaha.com
In any environment, Jays' new coach right at home - Omaha.com
Hey, it sounds like the same hope we had for him 4 years ago, except he was coming from a successful program. If he pans out, good for him, he just wasn't cut for coaching in a big conference.
Anyways, GMac is old news, let's move on.
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I only read the first story and, to me, it basically sounded like he was lost at the high major level with the type of kids that you have to deal with. Nothing new, I guess.
That first article kind of pisses me off with the blaming of the players and not himself.
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The secret ingredient is...
Me: "sigh. TORTILLAS. You've eaten tacos before! It's the outside!"
French Breakfast Muffin recipe.
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I think you shouldn't let her eat until she can identify foodstuffs.
I agree with Nina.
Also, the matzo should be in the trash by now. No one in their right mind eats matzo once Passover is done. Ick!
hey, hey, i love matzo, any time of the year. it's good for lunch!
I ordered the Ratatouille cookbook from amazon.com last week. You should tell Disney you deserve a cut of their profits!
Now that I know it's on Amazon, I am buying that book! You keep tortillas in the pantry? huh... I never even thought of not putting them in the fridge. Good idea.
Sarah, I do keep my tortillas in the fridge, we were looking in both the pantry AND the fridge. Ha! Confusion! You can keep them in the pantry really, I'm just a hypochondriac when it comes to spoiled foods!
i applaud the patience you have. My gma does the same thing to me. After the second question, I would've torn out my hair.
Yowza. I can understand being sheltered from certain foods, as I was as a kid, but she's an adult and been to the "big city" now how many times? Does she not watch TV? Certainly you can learn things there, right?
Shall I send her some Pretzel Turtles?
Since you posted the recipe for those French muffins, I had to make them last night. They were a HUGE hit. I couldnt believe how delicious they are! Thanks, and I cant wait to get that cookbook!


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For parents that can't stand seeing their kid fail at anything, not even for a day.
For parents that can't stand seeing their kid fail at anything, not even for a day.
I present - ta-daaa - the fixed gear gyrobike! Not for weenies:
* Accelerating is like climbing the alps - you have to stand on the pedals to get that flywheel sucker going for a lot longer than just riding without. Build your leg muscles with no hills in sight!
* for stopping using the fixed gear only you will need those large leg muscles to absorb the flywheel energy. Normal brakes won't do anything for you except burn out the brake pads.
* track stands: sorry folks, no can do.
* crashing: radio-tracking needed for the bike which will keep going for miles after you picked the grit out of your road rash.
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It's obviously an engineering project from some students at Dartmouth. Seems pretty cool too.
Not nearly so cool as luddite retro-grouchism though. Being an ******* naysayer is way cooler than creating something, huh?
Adults 30-40 years from now are going to be the wimpiest people on earth.
Since kids learning to ride usually stop with their feet... seems like adding inertia to the bike would be asking for them to run into things. Also wouldn't that get pretty dangerous as they speed up? If the flywheel is spinning at 4X wheel speed, that would mean if the kid gets up to 10 mph, the flywheel's moving as though they were going 40 mph. Can you mount a fender / scattershield on those bikes?
Don't let your kid near a hill...
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But working at a job where I can't surf BikeForums all day any more...
If this works as advertised, it could be a boon for adults who, because of preexisting or recently acquired balance or coordination problems, have lost the ability to ride or who cannot ride easily or safely.
isn't it easier just to take the pedals off your kid's bike and raise the seat a half inch or so every week while they're sleeping so they learn to balance without even realizing it?
For those who can't ride bikes, there's trikes. I've always said that training wheels actually prevent learning to ride a bike, so in that I agree with the inventors. But it's still better to take the pedals off and learn balance on a grassy slope, not to introduce another balance aid.


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Oprah's Next Chapter is definitely the business…Okay?
It was announced that Aresnio Hall will sat down with media mogul, Oprah Winfrey, in an upcoming episode. Recently, Arensenio returned to the late night talk scene having the highest-rated premiere week for any syndicated talk show in seven years.
He is said to discuss his father inspired comedy, advice from Jay Leno, and being the only African-American on the late night talk show arena. The show airs October 20 on Own.
Sidenote: I watched his show and I actually like it…
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Young musicians from 32 area school districts descended on the Lakeland School District Friday for PMEA District 9 'Bandfest 2013.'
Musicians in grades five through eight were selected by their directors to attend the one-day festival that culminates with a performance by two select bands – a fifth and sixth grade group and a seventh and eighth grade group.
The two groups were led by brother and sister directors Vincent LoRusso and Kathleen Riley.
LoRusso is the director at Blue Ridge Middle and High School. Riley is the elementary music teacher at Evergreen Elementary in the Western Wayne School District.
Selections splayed by the fifth and sixth grade band included "Midnight Suite," by Brian Balmages; "Surpirse Symphony Variations," by John O'Reilly; and "The Quest," by Samuel R. Hazo.
LoRusso said he has noticed that middle school musicians like to play "fast and loud."
Those attributes led him to choose to end their portion of the concert with "More Cowbell," by Mark Williams; and a rendition of the Isley Brothers hit "Shout," by Gerald Sebesky.
The seventh and eighth grade band performed stunning arrangements that featured each instrument during the concert.
Songs performed included the rich, traditional harmonies of Frank Erickson's "Balladair;" the exuberant "Joy" by Frank Ticheli; and the "Piper's Rhapsody" by James Hosay.
"Piper's Rhapsody" is a piece comprised of tunes usually performed on bagpipes and hornpipe, including "Scotland the Brave," "Loch Lomond," "Sailor's Hornpipe," and a beautiful arrangement of "Amazing Grace."
Capping off the night's entertainment, the band performed the exciting "Ignite the Night" by James Swearington.


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CLARKSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Charlie Wyzard, 69, has a bad back. Bill Davis, 67, has legs that give him problems.
They both know it could be worse.
Wyzard and Davis know there are other seniors out there who have bigger problems. Instead of just counting their blessings, the two men donate four or five days each month to local nursing homes, bringing smiles and laughter to the seniors that live there with their karaoke shows.
"We see people a lot younger than us in here, and we know we're fortunate," Davis told the News and Tribune (http://bit.ly/Tiojtx ). "That's the reason we do this."
For about two hours every week, Wyzard and Davis become "Fun Karaoke with Bill and the Wiz," playing songs their audiences remember from their youths.
"They're just outstanding," said Robin Strutz, activities director at Clark Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center, Clarksville. "They really get involved with the residents when they're in here. They just make it so much fun for (the residents). It's great."
After his mother went to live in a nursing home 12 years ago, Davis got involved with karaoke at American Legion Post 28 in New Albany. The soft-spoken man found that he had a knack and passion for performing for an audience.
"They (were) having karaoke, and a friend of mine's wife got me up there to sing," Davis said, recalling his first time on stage. "That was it. It only took the one time."
Davis began performing at his mother's nursing home, which got a great response from the residents, he said.
"Then I thought, 'If I'm doing it here, maybe someone else might want me,'" he recalled. "I went out and started it all. I was doing all kinds of nursing homes."
At the same time, Davis was involved in the Retired Seniors Volunteer Program, or RSVP. Davis shelved his karaoke gear for years until Wyzard talked him into getting back on the scene.
Wyzard's relationship with karaoke goes back a bit farther by a few decades. He didn't know it at the time, but he first encountered it at the late Buddy Knight's Jeffersonville bar, Buddy's Nook. Bar patrons would bring records and sing by memory to them, and between songs Knight would entertain the crowd with garish costumes and jokes. When Wyzard is playing the Wiz, he's really emulating Knight, he said.
"I always try to recognize Buddy each and every time we do karaoke," Wyzard said. "He died Jan. 24, 1990, at the very young age of 94. I know he's up there in karaoke heaven looking down.
"He used to say, 'Wiz, these people come in here all weekend and laugh at me. But every Monday when I go to the bank with that big bag, he said, I've got that big smile on my face.'"
Wyzard's not laughing all the way to the bank like Knight once did. He and Davis do the shows at nursing homes free of charge. Their reward is knowing that they're doing right by the residents.
"I call them the forgotten people, because some of them have been in here for years, and all they do is sit in their rooms," Wyzard said. "Well, if we can bring back some memories to them, get them to think and put that smile on their faces, it puts big smile on our face."
Wyzard will do anything to get his audience to smile. He has multiple bags full of silly hats, wigs and clothing. He'll dance. He'll do impersonations. He'll tell corny jokes. He'll sing.
Davis is more reserved. While Wyzard is the emcee, Davis operates the karaoke equipment.
And the residents are into it, Strutz said.
"The residents get involved. They get up and sing, and it was something I was shocked over," Strutz said. "They get the staff involved. They'll sing with staff, or they'll sing by themselves."
Wyzard and Davis typically do two-hour sets, and it takes about that long for them to set up and tear down, Davis said. But they both think it's time well spent.
"It costs us money, but it's to see them and know they appreciate it," Wyzard said. "I know I wouldn't want to be in here. I hope I never have to be."
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The J.C. Penney store at the Vernon Park Mall in Kinston is set to close.
The closing is part of the retail chain's cuts announced Wednesday.
J.C. Penney is cutting 2,000 jobs and closing 33 underperforming stores, including the one in Kinston.
It's not clear when the Kinston store will close, but the closings are expected to be completed by early May.
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Are you satisfied with your job? Do you ever wonder who is? According to employee job satisfaction statistics reported on LiveScience.com, those in the clergy, firefighters and other folks in helping professions are the most satisfied. These were the results of national job satisfaction studies conducted by the General Social Survey (GSS) at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
This report of employee job satisfaction statistics was based on interviews with 27,000 Americans. In the study, researchers asked about job satisfaction and general happiness. According to Tom Smith, director of the GSS, "Work occupies a large part of each worker's day, is one's main source of social standing, helps to define who a person is and affects one's health both physically and mentally."
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According to the report, 47 percent of those questioned by the General Social Survey said that they were "satisfied" with their careers. Here are the 10 most gratifying jobs and the percentage of those who said they were very satisfied:
This is not a list of which job you should pursue to be satisfied. There is a lot of self-selection in these ratings; these jobs are only satisfying to very particular personality types.
For example, most people would find the solitude, rejection, and poverty of being an author depressing. The vast majority of books don't make significant money for their authors. My grandfather was an author of dozens of books, but he made more money in real estate than he ever did as an author.
I also wonder about the high satisfaction rating of psychologists. Given that the job is to make other people satisfied with their lives, I doubt psychologists could afford the marketing hit if they admitted to being dissatisfied themselves. :-)
Other jobs in which 50 percent reported "high satisfaction" included: police and detectives, registered nurses, accountants, editors and reporters. Apparently, the perceived prestige (as opposed to actual salary) of a profession had an effect on job satisfaction and general happiness.
However, not all prestigious professions included high job satisfaction; these would include doctors and lawyers. The report suggested that the high stress and responsibility brought down the smiley quotient. :-(
These are not the only folks who are not happy; here are the ten least gratifying jobs, with the lowest percentages of satisfaction:
Looking at the typical pay of this list vs. the most satisfying jobs, the pay of these jobs is much lower. While doctors and lawyers may whine, for the rest of us, it is all about the money :-)
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TARPON SPRINGS — City Commissioner-elect Rea Sieber
is anxious to get down to business.
Sieber will be sworn in during a ceremony prior to the April 1 regular meeting at City Hall.
The local business owner beat out two other candidates by securing 45.08 percent of 3,962 total votes. She defeated runners-up Joe Muzio, with 28.95 percent, and Chris Hrabovsky, with 25.97 percent.
Also on last Tuesday's ballot was a referendum for the city to sell a 3.4-acre parcel of land at 501 S. Walton Ave. Voters overwhelmingly voiced their support for the $813,000 sale to a New Port Richey-based developer with nearly 95 percent.
Sieber, who will replace term-limited Commissioner Susan Slattery, wrote in an email that she is looking forward to the opportunity to serve Tarpon Springs.
"I take this new commitment very seriously and will work to do the best job to make Tarpon Springs an even greater community."
Helping Sieber command a 16-point victory last Tuesday was time spent canvassing the city, she wrote.
"Of course everyone I knew considered me the best candidate, but I needed to introduce myself to people I didn't know," she wrote. "I feel that this made a difference."
She added: "I met so many people from every neighborhood in Tarpon Springs. I listened to their concerns and took notes, and brought back some of the questions or concerns to the City."
After retiring as a guidance counselor at Tarpon Springs High School, Sieber opened a pair of businesses at the Sponge Docks, Wine at the Docks and Rea Sunshine.
Sieber, who was educated in Greece, Germany and Florida and speaks four languages, increased her visibility and participation in the local business community after opening the two stores. She became an member of the Tarpon Springs Chamber of Commerce and president of the Tarpon Springs Merchants Association, where she played an integral role in the recent merging of the downtown and Sponge Docks merchants associations.
The new commissioner has said she would step down as president of the merchants association if elected.
Sieber will bring to the City Commission an up-to-date knowledge of the city's financial situation after serving on the Budget Advisory Committee since June 2013.
As for the property at 501 S. Walton Ave., the landslide approval from voters allows city staff to move forward with a plan to convert the site's long-vacant property into an assisted living facility with an Alzheimer's care unit.
Once operational, projections estimate the center to generate about $50,000 in yearly property tax revenue while creating roughly 100 jobs of varying income ranges that total $1 million in annual salaries.
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Yes, The Gift & The Curse is amazing, but it is flawed. Let's get the bad over with before I proceed to ride his dick. For starters, it's an excess of songs that, like most double CD's, could have been trimmed down; there's songs to skip through. There are some unwanted features. And stylistically, The Blueprint 2 is very experimental and all over the place, where-as, its predecessor's praise was due in-part because it revolved around the same soulful sound. But in the same breath, The Gift & The Curse wins because of Jay-Z's experimentation and the fact that he didn't try and make the same album again.
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There's plenty of hot shit on here, but Jay really showcases his gift on The Curse disc- the hands down, better of the two.
As rumoured Jay does fire back at a Nas and his hypocritical claims on Blueprint 2. The hauntingly hypnotic production compliments Hov's verses perfectly as he tries to figure out where Nas' head is at, is it "Oochie Wally Wally" or is it "One Mic"/ Is it "Black Girl Lost" or shorty owe you for ice. He goes on to admit he lost the battle but won in the greater scheme of things, I will not lose, for even in defeat/ there's a valuable lesson learnt, so it evens it up for me.
At the end of it all, even though it's no classic, Jay-Z is great- word to the hyphen in his name.


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North Carolinians to vote for or against marriage
Next Tuesday, North Carolina voters will decide for or against the following language:
"Constitutional amendment to provide that marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State."
If the voters who choose to protect marriage outnumber those who don't, the following will appear in the state constitution:
"Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state. This section does not prohibit a private party from entering into contracts with another private party; nor does this section prohibit courts from adjudicating the rights of private parties pursuant to such contracts."
At least 41 states have laws banning homosexual "marriage" by amendment or statute, including North Carolina. In 1996, the state legislature passed a law that defined marriage as between a man and a woman. But the political landscape has changed in 16 years. Homosexual activists have become much more determined to redefine marriage and render it meaningless. North Carolina lawmakers decided to let the people vote directly and make the ban part of the state constitution, so only the voters-not courts or lawmakers-can change it, according to state law.
Judges in other states can and do strike down voter-approved laws. In February, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel affirmed a lower court's ruling that California's Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between a man and a woman, was unconstitutional. But there is a stay on such "marriages" pending appeals.
The North Carolina amendment's opponents claim that if marriage becomes the only domestic legal union, the law would weaken domestic violence laws, take away health insurance from children of the unmarried, and affect custody and visitation arrangements. Proponents deny the law will do any of those things. The advocacy group Vote FOR Marriage NC notes that protection under existing domestic violence laws, for example, isn't dependent on the victim's marital status. "Out of the extensive six different sub-categories outlined in this statute, even roommates qualify under these protections regardless of marital status."
Rep. Paul Stam, North Carolina House Majority Leader, said in a press release that the amendment's language allows private companies to offer domestic partnership and civil union benefits but would bar the government from forcing companies to do so. The law won't invalidate wills, trusts, and estates, or healthcare powers of attorney.
Rachel Lee, communications director for Vote FOR Marriage NC, told Baptist Press the amendment wouldn't take away anyone's healthcare coverage: "They know that North Carolinians support preserving marriage between a man and a woman, and they're bringing up these distraction arguments that are based on falsehoods."
Alarmist claims about uninsured children and unprotected victims of domestic violence notwithstanding, here's what really sticks in opponents' collective craw: The amendment appears simply to bar the government from calling domestic partnerships and civil unions "marriage" and strongly reiterate there will be no homosexual "marriage" in North Carolina.


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