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Stress testing
Running an overclocked PC is totally fine provided that the PC is stable at the overclock settings. There are several programs available to assess system stability through stress testing the system and thereby the overclock level. The steps of overclocking a PC are beyond the scope of this article, but there is pretty inclusive guide written by graysky on the topic: [Overclocking guide].
Discovering Errors
Some stressing applications like mprime and linpack (see below) have built in consistency checks to discover errors due to non-matching results. A more general and simple method for measuring hardware instabilities can be found in the kernel itself. To use it, simply watch the output from the kernel ring buffer by this command:
# cat /proc/kmsg
The key error to watch for looks like this:
[Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
The kernel can throw these errors during an mprime run before mprime itself finishes the calculate and reports the error thus providing a very sensitive method to assess stability.
CPU Stressing Programs
These are listed in two categories: 'higher demand voltage' and 'medium demand voltage'. It is important to use some from each category to evaluate system stability. Ironically, machines can be more sensitive to selections from the 'medium demand' category than from the 'high demand' category. 'Higher demand voltage' programs demand the most vcore when run due to intense hardware usage. 'Medium demand voltage' programs do not always call for the highest vcore when running and as such can be more prone to throwing errors for systems that are undervolted relative to the clock speed requested.
Example on an overclocked i7-3770K (4.50 GHz); vcore is +0.020 V in offset mode with all powersaving features enabled.
Idle: 0.7440 V - 0.8320 V (varies). Mprime small FFTs: 1.2880 V (steady). Mprime large FFTs: 1.3040 V (steady). Mprime blend: 1.2960 V (steady). Linpack: 1.2320 V - 1.2720 V (varies). x264 encoding: 1.2320 V - 1.2720 V (varies). gcc compiling: 1.2720 V (steady).
This machine running with a vcore of +0.005 (in offset mode) remains stable in both mprime and linpack for hours, but throws errors under both x264 and gcc after only several minutes.
|Voltage Demand
|Both cc/gcc compilation is a great method of stress testing. Both are available in the base-devel group.
|handbrake-cli can be used to encode using high quality settings.
|systesterAUR Systester is a multithreaded piece of software capable of deriving values of pi out to 128,000,000 decimal places. It has built in check for system stability.
|mprime-binAUR factors large numbers and is an excellent way to stress CPU and memory.
|linpackAUR - Linpack makes use of the BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) libraries for performing basic vector and matrix operations. and is an excellent way to stress CPUs for stability.
Memory Stressing Programs
Memtest86+ is a standard memory testing util and is packaged in [extra].
Stressing CPU and Memory
Mprime (Prime95 for Windows and MacOS)
Prime95 is recognized universally as one defacto measure of system stability. Mprime under torture test mode will preform a series of very CPU intensive calculations and compare the values it gets to known good values.
Prime95 for Linux is called mprimeAUR and is available in the AUR.
To run mprime, simply open a shell and type "mprime"
$ mprime
When the software loads, simply answer 'N' to the first question to begin the torture testing:
Main Menu 1. Test/Primenet 2. Test/Worker threads 3. Test/Status 4. Test/Continue 5. Test/Exit 6. Advanced/Test 7. Advanced/Time 8. Advanced/P-1 9. Advanced/ECM 10. Advanced/Manual Communication 11. Advanced/Unreserve Exponent 12. Advanced/Quit Gimps 13. Options/CPU 14. Options/Preferences 15. Options/Torture Test 16. Options/Benchmark 17. Help/About 18. Help/About PrimeNet Server
There are several options for the torture test (menu option 15).
- Small FFTs (option 1) to stress the CPU (option 1)
- In-place large FFTs (option 1) to test the CPU and memory controller
- Blend (option 3) is the default and constitutes a hybrid mode which stresses the CPU and RAM.
Errors will be reported should they occur both to stdout and to
~/results.txt for review later. Many do not consider a system as 'stable' unless it can run the Large FFTs for a 24 hour period.
~/results.txt; note that the two runs from 26-June indicate a hardware failure. In this case, due to insufficient vcore to the CPU:
[Sun Jun 26 20:10:35 2011] FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4 Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file. FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4 Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file. [Sat Aug 20 10:50:45 2011] Self-test 480K passed! Self-test 480K passed! [Sat Aug 20 11:06:02 2011] Self-test 128K passed! Self-test 128K passed! [Sat Aug 20 11:22:10 2011] Self-test 560K passed! Self-test 560K passed! ...
Linpack makes use of the BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) libraries for performing basic vector and matrix operations. and is an excellent way to stress CPUs for stability. linpackAUR is available from the AUR. After installation, users should adjust
/etc/linpack.conf according to the amount of memory on the target system.
Systester (AKA SuperPi for Windows)
SystesterAUR is available in the AUR in both cli and gui version. It tests system stability by calculating up to 128 millions of Pi digits and includes error checking. Note that one can select from two different calculation algorithms: Quadratic Convergence of Borwein and Gauss-Legendre. The latter being the same method that the popular SuperPi for Windows uses.
A cli example using 8 threads is given:
$ systester-cli -gausslg 64M -threads 8
Stressing Memory
A very good program for stress testing memory is [Memtest86+]. It is based on the well-known original memtest86 written by Chris Brady. Memtest86+ is, like the original, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). No restrictions for use, private or commercial exist other than the ones mentioned in the GNU GPL.
Running Memtest86+
Either download and burn the ISO to a CD and boot from it, or install memtest86+ from [extra] and update GRUB which will auto-detect the package and allow users to boot directly to it.


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i also find the same problem with our computers...
not only that it restricts opening .bat files but also other files as well.
there are some restriction software i found out.
and it even restricts opening and reading the software...
....boot keys are also disabled...
....we only can use the Microsoft offices program other than that are nothing...
however...though the the software is tough..the computer itself is faulty..
what i did was to run any office program...in this case..microsoft word..then i deliberately
pull the plug, causing the computer to turn off, unexpectedly
the nxt time i turn it on, it produces an error(or things like that)
American Megatrend
delete=set up
this brings me in the heart of CMOS
then instinct follows..
i never change anything though, i am afraid i might be kick-out of school
but i know it is there!
hope this help!
i learn this when i was twelve
the same thing i did to my uncle's windows95
sadly, i totally broke the computer
through Christ our Lord...happy hackin'

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Playing the Cash Pot lottery can be very exciting especially if from time to time you are a winner. Winning can be accomplished quit often if the correct system is used. There are many so called experts in the market offering winning number secrets and scratch off ticket recommendations that promise to help you win. Most are not legit. However, there are a few systems on the market that has produced some promising results.
When you consider that that there are many different lottery systems available and lots of past winners you remain anonymous or don't talk about their winning strategies how many more winners might there be who have used such systems?
Think about it: is it possible that a huge percentage of lottery winners are actually using mathematical or statistical formulas to help them win? If that is the case then anyone who is not using a system is merely feeding the prize fund and has an almost zero chance of winning.
Would You Like to Win The Cash Pot lottery?
Lottery predictions is quite popular these days. People used to be skeptical with the predictions as they thought that the winning numbers are a matter of luck and fortunes. Not many people believe that lottery can be won by using some kind of a sophisticated science based predictions. It was not until the late 90s when lottery players began using lottery predictions to help them to win lottery or at least get closer to the winning numbers. When Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo, a Spanish man who managed to study and analyze many games in two different countries, Spain and the US and win a lot of money by using different strategies. After him people started to believe that lottery results can be predicted.Lottery players start thinking about how to win the lotteries using predictions. They use many kinds of predictions: from mechanical predictions on mechanical lotteries to technological predictions using computer software. A lot of people use algorithm to analyze and predict lottery results.Analysis of GroupsThere are many kinds of group analysis that lottery predictors use to get into the winning numbers. Lottery players can group the months having the best winning numbers of a certain period or they can group the numbers winning in certain period of time.Analysis of Hot-Cold TrendThis algorithm analysis is one of the most favourite so far as it can record the frequency ranks and use the variations to predict the tendencies of hot and cold numbers in the next drawings.Analysis of Repetition PatternA lot of lottery players share the same opinion that repetition is quite important to predict the winning numbers as most of jackpots will appear again in the future.The analysis mentioned above represents only a part of the strategies that lottery players can use. There are still many other algorithm analysis that can be done by predictors to help them win.
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Are you constantly thinking and saying, "I want to win the lottery?" Do you ask yourself, "Will I win the lottery?" If you think about winning the lottery all the time, you need to know this secret to winning the secret to winning the lottery.If you think winning the big bucks is just about picking the right lottery numbers, you're wrong. Yes, you do need to pick the right numbers, and it's best to have a system to win the lottery. Doing things like reading a lottery book can be useful too. But none of this will work for you if you don't do this one essential thing:The universe rewards those who are prepared. Did you know that?When you act as if you expect something, it's going to come to you. Did you know that?4. Make a list of people to whom you plan to give money and decide on how much you'll give. Take into account gift taxes when you do this. Be careful about who you tell, "I'll give you money when I win." You don't want to give away all your winnings.Combine this lottery win preparation method with a lottery winning system, and you will be able to answer "Yes," to "Will I win the lottery?" You'll be able to turn "I want to win the lottery," to "I WON the lottery."
Winning the Cash Pot lottery is very rewarding. Give this system a spin and watch your winnings grow.


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My greatest concern is the stash of atheistic kindle titles I have
I grew up in aso. baptist home ...
I'm still living a bit of a lie - I'm in the closet, as far as my family goes. My wife is a big time believer and to even question things is a major "lack of faith" so I'm just staying out of that horrible battle. It won't end well.
They also would not like to know that we will be raising our son to be a "free thinker". I'm sure it's bound to come out... but with our son only being 4 we can give it a little time I guess.
My wife and I were both Sunday School teacher's as well.
I guess the more you know the more you may doubt.
I knew she wouldn't entertain "atheism" but I was a little shocked how a rather benign question prompted such vitriol... needless to say I know my place in the closet now for sure. She never brought it up again and I don't plan on it either...
screw - looking forward to hearing your spiel
Quote from: neopagan on June 04, 2013, 10:09:58 AMscrew - looking forward to hearing your spielYou're probably not going to like it much. They never do. I'm going to criticize you. preview: http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/forums/index.php/topic,11639.msg259717.html#msg259717In fact, I was pretty much going to rewrite that. So, just read that post and the rest of the thread. Gnu and Azdgari made some good points. Kerlyssa and RiOtL did not.
The sticking point seems to be that we are discussing your wife, a person with whom you share an entire life (I assume). It's quite easy for me to avoid having this discussion with the members of my family that will respond badly (and to be honest, that's pretty much all of them excluding my own children) because we don't have much day-today interaction, due partially to distance and partially to preference.This is a very different situation that you are faced with. I'm getting the impression that your kids are your primary concern - can I ask how old they are?
There are two basic reasons why I bother to hassle people on this forum about being out. The first is for the interest of all atheists. We are parriahs, like homosexuals in the 1960s. Except we are even more hated and mistrusted. One of the things the gays figured out was that when people realized there were gays in their lives they cared about, it changed how they perceived all gays. That applies to us too. So on a grand scale and in general, I think it is important for atheists to be out because it can help change attitudes about us for the better.
It is more important for you to figure this out and have a plan than it was for CGA because in a lot of ways your situation more closely resembles infidelity.
I like to think that loved ones will still love us once they know the real us. But I'm not naive. I have no idea how she will respond and you should know better I. You should include in your plan a scenario for splitting up. That is a possibility whether you tell her or she figures it out.


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"The only exception I have to have an abortion is in that case of the life of the mother. I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God and I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape that it is something God intended to happen."
"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax."
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McCombs Today: A Prospective Student Overview
The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin cordially invites you to find out more about the admission to, and opportunities and resources available in our top-ranked program and the business arena.
Charles Enriquez is an assistant director in the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin and oversees recruitment and scholarships for the McCombs Undergraduate Program. Charles has been with the McCombs School of Business since 2005 working to recruit top talent to the program and administering the undergraduate scholarship program. Prior to his time with McCombs, he worked in the Office of Admissions for five years where he served as an admissions counselor reading applications and visiting with students and families regarding admission to the university.
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Challenges and Pitfalls of Decision-Making
Understanding Heuristics and Traps in Arriving at the Right Decision
This webinar provides research-based principles to help you get a critical leg up in arriving at the right decisions, even in the face of pressure and uncertainty. Decision-making has long been an area of scholarly study and this research forms the backbone of many techniques to making better choices. Decision-making has never been as important - and as useful - as it is now in our world of virtually limitless choice and overwhelming information.
Among the topics discussed in the webinar are: (1) Ways to avoid common critical thinking pitfalls and traps for individuals; (2) When and how to limit choices most appropriately; (3) Why "thinking harder" doesn't necessarily help make better decisions; (4) Why individual biases make group decisions more difficult; and (5) Techniques for making big, important decisions like those relating to ethics.
We will take an in-depth look what works - and what doesn't - when it comes to independently evaluating alternatives and making good assessments in a complicated, data-rich world.
Dr. Ethan Burris is an associate professor of management at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. in management from Cornell University. He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards on topics relating to leadership, working with groups and teams, and negotiations. He was also named to the "Faculty Honor Roll" in 2008, 2010, 2011, and 2013, received the Hank & Mary Harkins Foundation Award for Effective Teaching in Undergraduate Classes in 2012, the Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award in 2011, the ING Professor of Excellence award in 2011, and the 2009 Trammell/CBA Foundation Teaching Award.
Dr. Burris' current research focuses on understanding (1) the antecedents and consequences of employees speaking up or staying silent in organizations; (2) leadership behaviors, processes, and outcomes; and (3) the effective management of conflict generated by multiple interests and perspectives. Dr. Burris has collected data from and served as a consultant for a variety of professional firms, ranging from a Fortune 100 insurance company, a Fortune 500 company in the casual dining industry, several financial services organizations, hospitals, a defense contracting company, a commercial real estate firm, governmental agencies, and many retail organizations.
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Venture Investing
Admiral Bobby R. Inman graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 1950 and from the National War College in 1972. He became an adjunct professor at the university in 1987 and was appointed as a tenured professor holding the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy in 2001. He served as interim dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs in 2005 and again January 2009-March 2010.
Inman served in the U.S. Navy from 1951-1982 and retired with the permanent rank of Admiral. While on active duty, he served as director of the National Security Agency and deputy director of Central Intelligence. After retirement from the Navy, Inman was chairman and CEO of the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) for four years and chairman, president, and CEO of Westmark Systems, Inc., for three years. He also served as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from 1987-1990.
Since 1990, Inman has been a managing director of Gefinor Ventures and Limestone Ventures. He is a member of the board of directors of several privately held companies and serves as a trustee of the American Assembly and the California Institute of Technology. He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
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Business and Behavioral Ethics
The "next big thing" in business ethics education is behavioral ethics. Instead of using the tools of philosophy to focus on what is the right thing to do, behavioral ethics uses the tools of psychology to focus upon why good people do obviously bad things.
This talk focused on a temporal explanation for unethical behavior. One reason that people do not save as they rationally should is that their desire to have the things that $100 will buy today often outweighs their desire for the things that $100 could buy when they turn 65 sometime off in the future. Temporal factors can also help to explain why people do not act as they morally should.
Robert Prentice is the Ed & Molly Smith Professor of Business Law. He is also chair of the Business, Government, and Society Department, faculty director of the Business Honors Program, and faculty director of the Ethics Unwrapped educational video series, which provides free educational videos available to all at ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu.
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Big Data And Data Analytics: How Companies Use Data To Solve Business Problems
Professor Michael Hasler presented on "Big Data and Data Analytics: How Companies Use Data to Solve Business Problems."
Professor Michael Hasler is the program director for the Master of Science in Business Analytics program. He's a fellow in the Supply Chain Management Center of Excellence, and a lecturer in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management.
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An Economic Outlook and McCombs School Update
Dean Gilligan gives updates on the latest initiatives, programs and departments at McCombs. He also offers an economic forecast and touches on topics such as GDP growth and unemployment. Finally, he offers a look at the university's and McCombs' financial picture in relation to the latest Texas legislative session.
In 2008, Tom Gilligan was named Dean of the McCombs School of Business and the Centennial Chair in Business Leadership. Prior to joining the McCombs team, Dean Gilligan spent over 20 years as a faculty member at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, where he held a variety of leadership positions. He received his B.A. with honors from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK in 1979, and his Ph.D. in economics from Washington University, St. Louis, MO in 1984. His areas of professional interest include microeconomics, applied price theory, industrial organization, antitrust economics and public choice.
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Advertising Disclosure in Public Filings: Implications for Firm Profitability, Firm Value and Top Management Team Structure
Dr. Leigh McAlister is the Ed and Molly Smith Chair in Business Administration at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. Before joining the university, she served on the faculties of the University of Washington and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the executive director at the Marketing Science Institute. She has received many teaching and research awards, including her most recent JMR's O'Dell Award and JR's Davidson Award. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University, and her current research focuses on determinants of firm value and implications of web communications.
Insights from the March 2013 UT Energy Poll
Energy touches most aspects of our lives. Access and affordability of energy plays a critical role in a nation's quality of life. How we produce and use energy also affects our environment. The University of Texas at Austin's Energy Poll was launched because we recognized the need for a regular, nonpartisan and authoritative look at public opinion on energy.
In this webinar, UT Energy Poll Director Sheril Kirshenbaum offers a briefing on the latest poll results, and deeper insight into American public opinion on major energy matters like hydraulic fracturing, climate change and consumer choice.
About the UT Energy Poll:
This groundbreaking public opinion poll measures and reports biannually on consumer opinions and attitudes toward energy consumption, pricing, development and regulation. The results provide a source to inform and guide discussion, business planning and policy development by highlighting American consumer attitudes and perspectives on energy. The UT Energy Poll has been fielded in March and September each year starting with September 2011.
About Sheril Kirshenbaum:
Sheril Kirshenbaum, director of the UT Energy Poll, works to enhance public understanding of energy issues and improve communication between scientists, policymakers and the public. She is the author of two popular science books and regularly contributes to magazines and academic journals. Sheril is a 2012 Marshall Memorial Fellow, a Next Generation Project Texas Fellow and has served as a legislative Knauss Science Fellow in 2006 on Capitol Hill with Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) where she was involved in energy, climate and ocean policy.
Critical Energy Technologies of the Future
Dr. Michael Webber earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 2001. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 2006, where he is an associate professor of mechanical engineering, Josey Centennial Fellow in Energy Resources in the Cockrell School of Engineering and co-director of the Clean Energy Incubator. He holds four patents, has published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal papers and serves on the board of advisors for Scientific American.
Current Research in Financial Reporting
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The Difficulty of Being Ethical in a Difficult Economy
Robert Prentice is the founding chair of the Business, Government and Society Department at the McCombs School of Business. He received his B.A. from the University of Kansas and his J.D. from Washburn University. His research and teaching interests include business ethics and business law, particularly securities regulation and the legal liability of accountants.
Professor Prentice has won numerous teaching awards and is a member of The University of Texas' Academy of Distinguished Teachers. He has published more than 30 major law review articles on topics such as securities law litigation, tender offers, insider trading, securities regulation and the Internet, accountants' legal liability and products liability.
The Big Auxiliary – Funding a Modern Intercollegiate Athletics Program
Chris Plonsky has served as The University of Texas' women's athletic director since spring 2001. She also supervised external services for men's and women's athletics at UT since 1993. As the women's athletic director, she leads the university's 11-sport program of more than 240 women student- athletes. The external services area includes serving as the university's athletics' chief liaison with multimedia rights holder, IMG College. She also supervises the university's trademark and licensing staff, which works directly with IMG College's Collegiate Licensing Company.
She serves as a volunteer board member of the National Football Foundation/College Football Hall of Fame and USA Basketball. She is president-elect of the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators (NACWAA) for 2013-14. Locally, she is a member of the UT Libraries Advisory Council, the Capital Area Crime Stoppers board and the University Federal Credit Union supervisory committee.
Plonsky was born in Pittsburgh and raised in both Greensburg, Penn. and northeast Ohio. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Journalism in 1979 at Kent State University.
The Role of Energy Innovation and Investment in Driving the Economy
Rex Tillerson is a native of Wichita Falls, Texas, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin before joining Exxon Company, U.S.A. in 1975 as a production engineer.
In 1989, he became general manager of EUSA's Central Production Division, responsible for oil and gas production operations throughout a large portion of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas. In 1992, Mr. Tillerson was named production advisor to Exxon Corporation. Three years later he was named president of Exxon Yemen Inc. and Esso Exploration and Production Khorat Inc., and in January 1998 became vice president of Exxon Ventures (CIS) Inc. and president of Exxon Neftegas Limited. He was responsible for Exxon's holdings in Russia and the Caspian Sea as well as the Sakhalin I Consortium operations offshore Sakhalin Island, Russia.
In December 1999, he became executive vice president of ExxonMobil Development Company. Mr. Tillerson was named senior vice president of Exxon Mobil Corporation in August 2001, and was elected president of the corporation and member of the board of directors on March 1, 2004. He assumed his current position Jan. 1, 2006.
Mr. Tillerson is a member of the Executive Committee and is a former chairman of the American Petroleum Institute. He is also a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is a member of the National Petroleum Council, a member of the Business Roundtable, an honorary trustee of the Business Council for International Understanding and a member of the Emergency Committee for American Trade.
Mr. Tillerson is the vice-Chairman of the Ford's Theatre Society, immediate past national president of the Boy Scouts of America and a former director of the United Negro College Fund. He is also a member of the Chancellor's Council and the Engineering Advisory Board for The University of Texas at Austin and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Big Data and Data Analytics: How Companies Use Data to Solve Business Problems
Michael Hasler is a fellow in the Supply Chain Management Center of Excellence, lecturer in the Information, Risk and Operations Management department and the director for the Master of Science program in Business Analytics. He received his B.S.M.E. from the General Motors Institute (Kettering University), M.S. and MBA from the University of Virginia and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.
The bulk of his professional experience was in supply chain management and operations for the auto industry. He moved to high technology in the semiconductor equipment industry with Applied Materials where he helped launch their supply chain management activity, and led operations for a $1 billion division. He was the head of global materials operations before leaving in 2003.
Trillion Dollar Platinum Coins, Currency Wars and Other "Modern" Ways to Produce Inflation
Lewis Spellman is a professor in the Finance Department at the McCombs School of Business. He received his B.B.A. and MBA from the University of Michigan and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. His research interests include the value of third party financial guarantees, market estimates of bank risk, bank survival and banking development. His teaching interests include debt, equity, foreign exchange price trends, market intervention by governments and macroeconomics and business conditions.
Advocacy: How to Get People to Buy Your Ideas
Good ideas never sell themselves. The only way any idea sees the light of day is by effective advocacy by its proponents. - Dr. John Daly
Join Dr. John Daly, author of "Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Others," as he shares his thoughts on transforming ideas into practice.
Dr. John Daly has published more than 100 scholarly articles, produced five books and made numerous conference presentations. He has served as editor of two academic journals, the president of the National Communication Association, and the president of the Council of Communication Associations. He has been on the Board of Directors of the International Customer Service Association and the International Communication Association.
Daly has worked with more than 300 companies and public agencies worldwide on topics related to communication, influence and customer loyalty. In recent years, he has worked with corporations like American Airlines, EDS, IBM, Trammell Crow, Marriott, Roche, Merck, TI and Merrill Lynch, as well as governmental units such as the White House, Department of the Army, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Interior and many others.
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Outsourcing: Promise Versus Reality
With increased global connectivity, firms continue to unbundle their value chain activities and rely on global resources for business processes and other inputs. Some firms have gained from global sourcing, but most find the reality different from the promise. Why do some firms benefit while others fail to achieve desired results? This presentation seeks to address why different firms experience different results in global sourcing.
Dr. Prabhudev Konana is the chairman of the Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management. He is a William H. Seay Centennial Professor of Information Management and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He has an MBA and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona.
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Insights from the UT Energy Poll
Energy touches most aspects of our lives. Access and affordability of energy plays a critical role in a nation's quality of life. How we produce and use energy also affects our environment. The University of Texas at Austin's Energy Poll was launched because we recognized the need for a regular, nonpartisan and authoritative look at public opinion on energy. This groundbreaking public opinion poll measures and reports biannually on consumer opinions and attitudes toward energy consumption, pricing, development and regulation. The results provide a source to inform and guide discussion, business planning and policy development.
Sheril Kirshenbaum is the director of The Energy Poll and works to enhance public understanding of energy issues and improve communication between scientists, policymakers and the public. She is the author of two popular science books and regularly contributes to magazines and academic journals. Sheril is a 2012 Marshall Memorial Fellow, a Next Generation Project Texas Fellow and has served as a legislative Knauss Science Fellow in 2006 on Capitol Hill with Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) where she was involved in energy, climate and ocean policy.
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McCombs Today: A Prospective Student Overview with Charles Enriquez
The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin cordially invites you to find out more about admissions, opportunities and resources available in our top-ranked program.
Charles Enriquez is an assistant director in the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, and oversees recruitment and scholarships for the McCombs Undergraduate Program. Charles has worked at the McCombs School of Business since 2005, recruits top talent to the program and administers the undergraduate scholarship program. Prior to his time with McCombs, he worked in the Office of Admissions for five years where he served as an admissions counselor reading applications and visiting with students and families regarding admission to the university.
Live Webcast of "The Economy in 2013 - Now What?" Texas Enterprise Speaker Series with Dean Tom Gilligan
Will there be budget deficits and a double-dip recession? Or will we see Europe resolve their financial challenges, the Dow consistently over 13,000 and profits rise across Texas? One thing is for sure, there'll be an election in November, and that too, will likely change the economic landscape.
As you work on those revenue and expense numbers for your 2013 budget, you have to wonder what the environment will look like for investing, growth and expansion – within Texas and around the world. Come listen as economist and Dean of the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, Tom Gilligan, Ph.D., shares the view from 30,000 feet, along with experts from some of the most active industries in the Texas economy, including health care, energy, and technology.
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Retirement: The Future is Not What It Used to Be
Join Professor Laura Starks for a discussion on how retirement investing has changed. Research provides evidence on the decisions individuals and institutions are making regarding the sources and uses of retirement funds, including choices regarding investment vehicles, asset allocation, payout methods and the psychology behind these choices. There is also evidence on the consequences and potential consequences of those decisions for financial markets.
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How to Capture Innovative Ideas (from Your Employees)
The pursuit and capture of innovation is challenging to say the least. Employees must be invested enough to spend the time and effort to contribute their ideas. There are no guarantees that anything will be done once employees give their suggestions. Once an organization develops a way to solicit employee ideas, executives may find it challenging to sift through them all, arrive at a set of agreeable strategic actions, and convince the many constituencies to buy in. Selecting the most-feasible ideas to implement and align stakeholder commitment is similarly daunting for senior leaders. This webinar focuses on how organizations can foster an environment that encourages employees to speak up with ideas and develop a process for evaluating and prioritizing ideas once they are on the table.
Greece, the Euro-Zone and America's Future
Join Professor John Doggett in a lively discussion on what is happening "behind the headlines" in Greece, and what he predicts for the Euro-Zone. How will it affect America's economy? What are the long-term impacts for economic growth and development globally? Learn from our own global expert on what the fallout will be, and how to prepare your own business.
Dean Tom Gilligan
Ed Tonkon, BBA '78
Our Turn Campaign: Giving to Ensure the Prestige of Our Degrees
In this webinar, Dean Tom Gilligan joins alumnus Ed Tonkon, a McCombs ambassador for the Our Turn Campaign, to discuss the steps being taken to double the alumni giving rate to 10% over the next three years. While our McCombs School of Business has attained several top performance rankings, lower-ranked schools like SMU, Texas A&M (and even OU) at least double our rate of alumni giving of only 5 percent. When alumni give back it helps McCombs, which in turns helps keep each prestigious degree preserved. It also helps keep alumni informed on the latest events, activities and development going on with McCombs and its alumni.
An Economic Outlook and McCombs School Update
This webinar provides updates on the latest initiatives, programs and departments at McCombs. Dean Tom Gilligan offers an economic forecast, and touches on topics like GDP growth and unemployment, and looks at UT and McCombs' financial picture in relation to the latest Texas Legislative session.
Numbers All Americans Should Know
This presentation focuses on many of the fiscal and economic numbers that you should be familiar with in order to participate in the political and economic discussions that will continue to take place well into the foreseeable future. We'll discuss debt, social security, health care, disability insurance, employment and other issues.
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Crisis Management and the Psychology of Blame
A critical issue companies face during a crisis is whether they will be blamed by the public, even when it is not clear how the crisis occurred. Will people blame the company, despite the uncertainty surrounding the cause of the crisis? How does the public assess blame during a crisis? This webinar discusses the factors influencing the assessment of blame during a crisis, a topic that Daniel Laufer has been researching over the past 10 years since receiving his Ph.D. from McCombs in 2002.
"Money, Power, Politics and Ambition: The Texas Way"
In Dr. Cunningham's keynote address at the 7th Annual Alumni Business Conference, he discussed some of the more interesting and controversial events that took place during the period he was President of The University of Texas at Austin and Chancellor of The University of Texas System. These ranged from the creation of the Big 12 to his relationship with four Governors and the Texas Legislature. Video coming soon.
"Good ideas never sell themselves. The only way any idea sees the light of day is by effective advocacy by its proponents." Professor Daly just released his new book "Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Others" and shared thoughts on how to transform ideas into practice. Video coming soon.
Case Studies in Ethics
Paula Murray discussed "Hot Topic in Business" and presented two cases related to ethics at the 7th Annual McCombs Alumni Business Conference. Video coming soon.
"How Do We Solve the US Fiscal Crisis?"
Is the federal government's fiscal health as bad as conventional wisdom says it is? Or is it even worse? Using actual data from the federal government's audited financial statements, Professor Michael Granof will attempt to answer those questions. He will tie the federal government's fiscal condition to that of state and local governments to present a more complete picture of the challenges that we, as citizens and taxpayers, currently face. Video coming soon.
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Findings from the UT Energy Poll
UT's new groundbreaking public opinion poll measures and reports biannually (October and April) on consumer opinions and attitudes toward energy consumption, pricing, development and regulation. The Energy Poll results provide an impartial and authoritative source of public perspectives on energy in order to inform and guide discussion, business planning and policy development. The University of Texas at Austin's Energy Management and Innovation Center, a research center within the McCombs School of Business, and the McCombs Department of Marketing developed the Energy Poll to provide objective, scientifically valid and practical data on consumer attitudes and perspectives on energy issues, tracked over time. The survey was rigorously developed and tested by academic and research experts. To ensure its usefulness and impartiality, the university also solicited input from parties across the energy spectrum, including non-governmental agencies, consultants, a large energy user, energy producers, and an academic advisory panel. Video coming soon.
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Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship and Why It Matters to Everyone
Kevin Williams develops and teaches graduate courses at the McCombs School, where he's received several awards for teaching. He also taught at the McCoy College of Business Administration, Texas State University, San Marcos. Williams was a Venture Partner with ARCH Venture Partners from 1999-2005, where he was involved in seed and early-stage technology investing.
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Is a Sovereign Default an Earth-Shaking Experience?
A sovereign default, or even a near default, can have earth-shaking consequences to income levels, wealth redistribution, institutions and governmental structures. The developments in Europe have the power to change most everything we're accustomed to. The European situation will be reviewed, and some general conclusions will be drawn.
Open Innovation and Technology Transfer, Sustaining the Firm for the Future
In this webinar, Professor John Sibley Butler will investigate the relationship between laboratory science, the commercialization of laboratory science and the competitive strategy of the firm.
Butler is professor of management and sociology and is the director of the IC² Institute and Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship and Small Business. IC² is an interdisciplinary research unit with 18 endowed fellows and over 280 fellows worldwide. Butler's research areas are organizational science, with special emphasis on military and entrepreneurial organizations.
Motivating Employees: Beyond Carrots and Sticks
This presentation explores academic theories of motivation within the context of three key themes: (1) motivation requires a relationship, (2) true change and learning comes from inside a person and (3) a change of behavior is as much emotional as it is intellectual. In addition to an overview of theoretical knowledge, the presentation will provide applicable guidelines and examples to help you understand how to improve productivity and morale in your workplace.
Organizational Corruption and Control
Organizational corruption is illegal or unethical (by societal standards) action taken by organizational members, through their organizational positions or with organizational resources. This webinar examines the drivers of corruption and the tools and techniques that have been developed for organizations to control corruption and build ethical organizational cultures.
Capital and the Investor's Perspective
This session provides participants with a crash-course in capital for new businesses, including:
Kirk Coburn is an entrepreneur and start-up advocate that founded three companies through idea creation, market validation, team building, fund raising, company launch, operational execution and successful acquisition.
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Influence and Problem Solving
Dr. Gaylen Paulson is associate dean and director for Executive Education at the McCombs School. He is also a Senior Lecturer for the Management Department. His research and teaching are focused on the strategic aspects of interacting with people, including negotiation, conflict management, persuasion and interpersonal communication.
Update on the Private Capital Market
Professor Nolen will give an update on the current state of the private capital markets, including capital availability for privately owned businesses, venture capital and private equity activity and middle market M&A activity. Recent and pending IPOs by LinkedIn, Groupon and Facebook will be discussed on whether these high profile VC exits will revive the IPO market in the US or lead to another tech bubble.
Challenges of Ethical Leadership
The ethical behavior of an organization is largely dictated by its ethical climate. The leaders of an organization are the most significant contributors to its ethical climate. Leaders face unique ethical challenges by simply being leaders. This webinar will addresses those challenges.
Economic and McCombs Update
In addition to providing updates on the latest initiatives, programs and departments at McCombs, Dean Tom Gilligan offers an economic forecast, touches upon on topics like GDP growth and unemployment, and looks at UT and McCombs' financial picture in relation to the latest Texas Legislative session.
Texas Venture Labs
Continuing the discussion from his webinar in November, Dr. Rob Adams covers the newly formed Texas Venture Labs, a cross-campus initiative centered around innovation, commercialization and entrepreneurship. Venture Labs provides direct links to the entrepreneurial, business, technology and legal resources available both on the campus and in the Texas entrepreneurial eco-system.
Sustainability of Government Spending
Is the federal government's fiscal health as bad as conventional wisdom says it is? Or is it even worse? Using actual data from the federal government's audited financial statements, Professor Michael Granof attempts to answer those questions. He ties the federal government's fiscal condition to that of state and local governments to present a more complete picture of the challenges that we, as citizens and taxpayers, currently face.
Keynote Presentation: 6th Annual McCombs Alumni Business Conference
I. Jon Brumley has more than 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He was chairman of the Texas State Board of Education and he's been active in educational causes and oversight since 1980. He has a BBA degree from McCombs and an MBA degree from Wharton.
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Making a Difference in a Second Career: Planning and Results at McCombs
Lamar Johnson discussed "Hot Topic in Business" related to career changes at the Sixth Annual McCombs Alumni Business Conference.
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Energy at McCombs
Professor Spence discussed "Hot Topic in Business" related to energy at the Sixth Annual McCombs Alumni Business Conference.
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Marketing UT Athletics
In 1996, The University of Texas at Austin's athletics programs languished in the Southwest Conference with an unimpressive record, coaching turnover and a $21 million budget. The Texas Athletics rise of to national powerhouse with $143.6 million in revenue is a story of focus, innovation and branding, with lessons for every enterprise. Ben Bentzin, lecturer in the Department of Marketing and CEO of an Austin technology startup was formerly a marketing executive with Dell Inc.
Business Ethics
Professor Cox discusses the "creed of greed" based on the concept of "economic man" and its progeny: "rational choice theory" and "game theory." He uses sports as a metaphor for business and its regulation. Cox is the La Quinta Motor Inns Centennial Professor in Business and professor in the Department of Marketing. He received his B.A. (1965) and MBA (1966) from Michigan State University and his DBA (1973) from Indiana University.
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Director of Texas Venture Labs
Market Validation and Texas Venture Labs
The November Knowledge To Go (KTG) webinar features Rob Adams on market validation and the newly-formed Texas Venture Labs. Texas Venture Labs is a cross-campus initiative centered around innovation, commercialization and entrepreneurship. Market validation is a technique core to making new products successful in the market, and it's the framework for some of the successful acquisitions that have come through Texas Venture Labs.
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Real Estate Outlook
What started out as a subprime crisis led to a financial crisis, which in turn impacted the entire macroeconomy. The resulting recession led to a standstill in real estate activity and a drop in values. Now many worry that commercial real estate represents the "next shoe to drop" (or that has already dropped). In this September KTG webinar Professor Hartzell discusses current conditions in the real estate markets, how we got to this point, and the outlook for the future.
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Challenges & Successes with Marketing Sustainability
Walmart believes that customers shouldn't have to choose between products they can afford and products that are good for their family and the planet. That's why sustainability is embedded deep into the DNA of Walmart's brand and business. While not an easy thing to do, it's the right thing to do, and sustainability is one of the ways Walmart is able to deliver low prices. Through their scale, they have the ability to bring affordability to more sustainable products, and influence our suppliers and their suppliers to look at the way they do business and how their practices impact the environment. Ultimately, the customer wins with lower prices and higher quality products, all while reducing the impact on the communities. Tony Rogers, SVP of marketing, explains Walmart's responsibility and challenge to bring greater transparency to customers, allowing them to make more informed purchasing choices.
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Building Your Company Culture
Marcie Zlotnik has more than seven years of experience in the energy industry. Prior to co-founding StarTex Power in 2004, she served as President and Director of Gexa Energy, a retail electricity provider Zlotnik co-founded in 2001. StarTex Power has received the J.D. Powers award for Residential electricity in Texas, Houston Business Journal Top 10 Best Places to Work and #30 Fastest growing Private Business in US. How does one company satisfy its customers, employees and shareholders? Corporate culture plays a significant role in StarTex Power's success.
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8 Keys to Building Lasting Enterprises
Gary Hoover, entrepreneur-in-residence at McCombs' Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship, has spent a lifetime studying business and entrepreneurship and has started four companies himself, including Bookstop and Hoovers. In this webinar, he speaks to the eight keys to building lasting, successful enterprises, giving vivid examples along the way, beginning with the importance of a robust curiosity.
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School Update & Economic Outlook
This webinar provides updates on the latest initiatives, programs and departments at McCombs, Dean Gilligan offers an economic forecast, and touches on topics like GDP growth and unemployment.
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Global Trade Outlook
We are in the eye of a hurricane in global trade unlike anything anyone has seen in recent history. Andy Grove calls this time a strategic inflection point, "a time in the life of a business [or country] when its fundamentals are about to change. That change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end," (Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive). Our rules of thumb and assumptions are no longer valid, and countries we hadn't considered to be competitors in the past are emerging ahead of the US. Listen and learn as Professor Doggett examines recent global trends and zeroes in on the future global economy as impacted by recent Chinese economic growth.
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Corporate Culture
How does one company satisfy it's customers, employees and shareholders? Marcie Zlotnik, BBA '83 and chairman and CEO of StarTex Power, answers these important questions. Zlotnik has more than seven years of experience in the energy industry. Prior to co-founding StarTex Power in 2004, she served as President and Director of Gexa Energy, a retail electricity provider Zlotnik co-founded in 2001. StarTex Power has received J.D. Power awards for electricity in Texas, Houston Business Journal Top 10 Best Places to Work and #30 Fastest Growing Private Business in US.
Texas Venture Labs & Innovation Using Market Validation
Rob Adams, lecturer, director of Venture Labs and Moot Corp, and IC2 Fellow covers the recent formation of Venture Labs, a cross-campus University of Texas at Austin program designed to increase innovation, technology commercialization and entrepreneurship for students and faculty. He reviews the process behind Venture Labs successful skunk-works format that has been used for the last five years to successfully identify, raise financing, and launch multiple student ventures. Rob also shares his insight on market validation, the primary business technique used to identify promising market opportunities in teaching entrepreneurship.
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Texas Athletics
In 1996 The University of Texas athletics programs languished in the Southwest Conference with an unimpressive record, coaching turnover and a $21 million budget. How Texas Athletics became a $138 million national powerhouse in 10 years is a story of focus, innovation and branding, with lessons for every enterprise. Ben Bentzin, lecturer in the department of marketing, formerly served as Director of Ballet Austin and was the CEO of World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) 2006 and Director of Marketing at Dell, Inc.
The New CIA: China, India & America
Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, John Doggett's research and teaching interests include international entrepreneurship, global competition and sustainability and energy. He teaches summer and winter courses on entrepreneurship and global competition in Austria, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. In this presentation, Doggett examines global trends and growth particularly in regards to Brazil, Russia, India, China and America.
Energy Issues & the Groundbreaking Research Being Conducted at the University's New Energy Institute
Ray Orbach, director of the Energy Institute at The University of Texas at Austin, sheds light on the groundbreaking research being conducted at the University's new energy institute and potential solutions to critical energy issues affecting our country.
Prior to his directorship, Orbach was the U.S. Department of Energy's first undersecretary for science. Orbach sees the Energy Institute as a unifying collaborator to help The University of Texas at Austin mobilize its faculty and academic resources, as well as talent from other institutions in The University of Texas System.
Social Media--Is It Good for Business?
Social Media is a phenomenon that has been talked about, debated, and complicated for a variety of reasons. Listen to Sean McDonald, BBA '86 & MBA '95, in this March 9 Knowledge To Go webinar where he shares observations of how social media can transform business (yes, small business too).
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Venture Capital & Private Equity--Past, Present & Future
Steve Dow, partner at Sevin Rosin Funds in Dallas, told the New York Times in 2006 that "the VC model is broken." A recent survey from executive search firm Polachi Inc. polled more than 100 venture capital executives, 70 percent of whom were partners or managing partners. It found that a majority, 53 percent of respondents, indicated the venture capital industry is "broken." Will the current funding gap affect the US' ability to develop new technologies and create new jobs? What will be the next "big thing" or growth driver in the next decade? This presentation discusses the golden years of private equity, the current environment and what the future holds for this industry and entrepreneurial activity.
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Is America in Moral Decline?
Marketing Professor Eli Cox speaks on whether America is in moral decline. He believes it is, and he's writing a book about it. In his lecture to alumni, Dr. Cox reviews several relevant resource books. He explains the economic concept of marginal utility in depth, and its effect on quality of life. Dr. Cox argues that there is a point of satiation for most individuals where marginal utility begins to decline. For some individuals, no amount of money is enough and that's when aberrant behavior kicks in.
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The Subprime Crisis: Who Is To Blame?
Professor Leeds, senior finance lecturer at McCombs School of Business, reviews a myriad of entities to blame for the subprime crisis, among them homebuyers, mortgage brokers, bankers, the Federal Reserve, U.S. Treasury and the Security Exchange Commission.
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Introductory textbook for courses in motor learning, motor performance,
and motor behavior; reference for movement practitioners including
coaches, teachers, therapists, athletic trainers, and human-factors
Richard A. Schmidt, PhD, is professor emeritus in the department
of psychology at UCLA. He currently runs his own consulting firm, Human
Performance Research, working in the area of human factors and human
performance. Known as one of the leaders in research on motor behavior,
Dr. Schmidt has more than 35 years of experience in this area and has
published widely.
The originator of schema theory, Schmidt founded the Journal of Motor
Behavior in 1969 and was editor for 11 years. He authored the first
edition of Motor Control and Learning in 1982 and the first
edition of Motor Learning and Performance in 1991, and he has
since followed up with new editions of both texts.
Schmidt received an honorary doctorate from Catholic University of
Leuven, Belgium, in recognition of his work. He is a member of the North
American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity
(NASPSPA), where he served as president in 1982 and received the
organization's two highest honors: the Distinguished Scholar Award for
lifetime contributions to research in motor control and learning (in
1992) and the President's Award for significant contributions to the
development and growth of NASPSPA (in 2013). He is also a member of the
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the Psychonomic Society and
received the C.H. McCloy Research Lectureship from the American Alliance
for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. His leisure-time
activities include sailboat racing, amateur Porsche racing, and skiing.
Timothy D. Lee, PhD, is a professor in the department of
kinesiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has
published extensively in motor behavior and psychology journals since
1979. More recently, he has contributed as an editor to both Journal
of Motor Behavior and Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport and
as an editorial board member for Psychological Review. Since 1984 his
research has been supported by grants from the Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Lee is a member and past president of the Canadian Society for
Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology (SCAPPS) and a member of the
North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity
(NASPSPA), the Psychonomic Society, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics
Society. In 1980 Lee received the inaugural Young Scientist Award from
SCAPPS, and in 2011 he was named a fellow of the society—its highest
honor. In 1991-92 he received a senior research fellowship from the
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and in 2005 he presented a prestigious senior scientist lecture at
In his leisure time, Lee enjoys playing hockey and golf. He has
maintained a lifelong fascination with blues music and is currently
putting years of research into practice by learning to play blues guitar.
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Graduate Assistant- Criminal Justice and Intelligence Studies
Point Park University
Department of Criminal Justice and Intelligence Studies
Graduate Assistant for the MS Criminal Justice Administration Program
Academic year: 2018-2019
POSITION DESCRIPTION: Graduate Assistant, Criminal Justice Administration Graduate Department of Criminal Justice and Intelligence Studies
Richard Linzer, JD Department of Criminal Justice and Intelligence Studies, School of Arts and Sciences: Determines project assignments, scope of work, meetings to attend, and project deadlines. Provides the Graduate Assistant with guidance, oversight and support for all projects undertaken.
Minimum eligibility requirements:
- Bachelor's degree and acceptance into Point Park University graduate program in Criminal Justice Administration or Intelligence and Global Security.
- 3.00 GPA in undergraduate major
- 3.00 GPA overall in undergraduate education
- Resume and letter to the Graduate Program Director describing the interest in the assistantship
- Two letters of recommendation; it is preferred that one letter be from a faculty member describing the applicant's academic abilities
- Full-time enrollment
- Excellent communication, computer, and research skills
Time Requirement:
20 hours per week; schedule to be determined by the Chair, CJIs and the Director, Criminal Justice Administration Graduate Program in conjunction with the Graduate Assistant.
Benefits: $10 an hour for a maximum of $800 a month.
Graduate tuition remission as determined by the University's policy for Graduate Assistants.
Duties/ Responsibilities:
- Assist full-time and adjunct faculty in their preparation for coursework, proctor exams and maintain the bulletin boards, and assists the Coordinator of the Undergraduate Intelligence and National Security Program, Director of the Intelligence and Global Security Graduate Program, the undergraduate Forensic Program, the Undergraduate Criminal Justice Program and the Graduate Criminal Justice Administration Program.
- Manage external and internal department projects and functions such as club events and, the Criminal Justice Lecture Series.
- Conduct research using a variety of sources (Internet sources, web sites and databases) to prepare written documents as determined by the particular project.
- Coordinate the meetings of the CJIS Advisory Board.
- Meet and established deadlines, attend meetings as directed, and maintain timely communication with the Chair, CJIS and the Director, Criminal Justice Administration graduate program.
- Provide administrative support to faculty/ adjunct faculty teaching on-line courses.
- Provide general administrative support for the Department of Criminal Justice and Intelligence Studies.
- Perform other related duties or special projects as required.
- Maintains professional conduct at all times.
- Maintains the academic standing (3.0 GPA) required for graduate students enrolled at Point Park University.
Deadlines for applications: July 31, 2018
Application materials should be sent by mail to:
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Gland, Switzerland 24.05.2000. IUCN-The World Conservation Union. The first ever Action Plan that aims to save the many parrot species threatened with extinction has been published after more than five years of research involving hundreds of scientists, organisations, and volunteers around the world.
Of the 330 known parrot species, 94 are listed in the 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals and the proportion of threatened parrot species (28%) is now one of the highest for any major family of birds.
For centuries parrots have been kept as pets because of their beauty, charm, hardiness, and supposed ability to talk. This has led to hundreds of thousands of birds being taken from the wild every year around the world; no other group of birds has been subjected to greater exploitation. Between 1990 and 1994 nearly two million parrots were traded on the world market.
The long-awaited publication Parrots: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan provides background on threats facing the survival of parrots, descriptive species accounts, over 50 distribution maps and photographs, and clear recommendations on conservation action.
Edited by Noel Snyder, Philip McGowan, James Gilardi and Alejandro Grajal, this is the 54th Action Plan to be released by the IUCN Species Survival Commission. The Plan has been produced through the cooperation of a range of organisations including IUCN - The World Conservation Union, the World Parrot Trust and BirdLife International.
Although trade is the biggest threat to parrots, there are many others. Predation by introduced species, habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation, and shooting for food are currently pushing many species towards extinction.
The Parrot Action Plan recommends increasing the current knowledge of parrots, raising public awareness of the threats that face them, and preventing illegal trapping and trade, whilst recognising the complex biological, social, political, and economic factors that surround parrot conservation.
"In an unprecedented spirit of co-operation among the world's field experts, this Action Plan reflects state-of-the-art knowledge of the threatened parrots of the world. The Plan provides valuable insight for everyone from government officials to conservationists to parrot fanciers, it is a "must-have" for anyone interested in the conservation of parrots around the world" says Dr Alejandro Grajal.
The IUCN/SSC Action Plan series assesses the conservation status of species and their habitats, and specifies conservation priorities. The series is one of the world's most authoritative sources of species conservation information available to nature resource managers, conservationists, funding donors and government officials.
"The information in the Plan is available to decision and policy makers, conservationists, and other interested parties around the world who now have the best available scientific information available on which to make decisions," says Dr Philip McGowan. "Effecting real conservation action is a massive challenge, but if approached with the same level of co-operation and assistance that resulted in publication of the Plan, the world's parrots will face a brighter future."
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Autodesk's iPad App designed to make engineering fun for teens
Autodesk TinkerBox is now available in the App Store, a free game designed to spark interest in mechanical engineering
Autodesk, Inc. created the Autodesk TinkerBox App for iPad, a game designed to playfully spark teens' interest in mechanical engineering, is available on the App Store. The app allows players to experience the fun and excitement of invention, while gaining confidence in their ability to excel in engineering.
To solve the challenging mechanical puzzles and physics problems presented in Autodesk TinkerBox, players insert gadgets, assemble components and test their inventions. Completing each challenge inspires players to create more and increasingly complex innovations. The game's Invent mode enables players to design their own contraptions and share them with friends.
Autodesk is committed to making science more accessible and fun for young people. In November 2010, Autodesk polled more than 1,000 American teenagers between the ages of 12 and 17 about their attitudes toward academic subjects that provide the foundation for a career in engineering. The survey findings suggest that teens understand the importance of engineering, but are concerned that the subject matter is too difficult:
- More than half of all teens surveyed believe science and technology (54 percent) and engineering and math (53 percent) are important to their careers and future prosperity.
- Students don't find the subjects boring or nerdy, but rank engineering and math doubly hard compared to other subjects (16 percent vs. 8 percent for English and languages).
In addition to this new app, Autodesk provides free access to its industry-leading 3D design, engineering and entertainment software and accompanying curricula though the Autodesk Education Community as part of its commitment to educating the next generation of designers and engineers.
- Edited by Gust Gianos, CFE Media, Consulting-Specifying Engineer, www.csemag.com
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Dan Lathitham, senior account supervisor, AbelsonTaylor
Dan Lathitham, 36, has been promoted to senior account supervisor at AbelsonTaylor. He will be leading accounts in the HIV and endocrine/metabolic categories. He previously served as an account supervisor for the company. Lathitham has 14 years of experience in healthcare advertising and public relations, medical education, integrated communications, issues and event management. With a strong background in the HIV/AIDS category, he has worked in the areas of oncology, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, gastrointestinal disease, urology and women's health. He joined AbelsonTaylor from Ketchum Public Relations, where he was vice president, account supervisor. Before that, he was senior project manager at Discovery Chicago, a medical education company part of the Publicis Healthcare Group (PHCG). He also spent four years at GolinHarris International in Chicago. Lathitham has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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A Cannon for Cooperation: A Review of the Interagency Cooperation Literature
This literature review encompasses a myriad of sources that offer a wide-ranging view of the subject of interagency cooperation. The review is thematic in nature and draws primarily on resources (i.e., books, academic databases, and EBooks & EJournals) available from multiple libraries. Interagency cooperation is an imperative part of the United States research and development (R & D) diffusion agenda, principally in the manufacturing sector. Nevertheless, the principles of realizing efficacious cooperative relationships are important. Thus, the review focuses on literature that can offer direction for policy stakeholders planning to establish, or re-evaluating governance oriented delivery structures. The components of this review include: a definition of interagency cooperation and essential elements of interagency cooperation-external (systematic and random) forces, shared problems, resources, and capacity building.
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