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Dr. Jesse Arman
Vice President of Regulatory and Government Affairs
College for Financial Planning Presentation: Avenues for Enhancing Student Retention in CFP Board Registered Certificate Programs
Dr. Jesse Arman is Vice President of Academic Affairs at the College for Financial Planning, where he is responsible for overseeing master's, certification, and designation programs in financial planning, financial analysis, asset management, and retirement planning. Previously, he spent 20 years managing campuses for Columbia College (Columbia, MO) and he concurrently taught accounting, investments, and finance. He continues to teach in graduate programs both online and on ground. Dr. Arman is a peer reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and also serves on the Commission's finance committee. He previously practiced as a financial advisor and has published and provided interviews throughout financial services media. Dr. Arman's involvement with the financial planning profession includes currently as Chair of CFP Board's Council on Education.
Elissa Buie, CFP®
Adjunct Professor
Golden Gate University Presentation: Conversations in Financial Planning Education and Practice
Elissa Buie, CFP® earned an MBA from The University of Maryland and a B.S. in Commerce from The University of Virginia. She has been practicing financial planning since 1983.
Elissa sits on the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Financial Planning and is the Foundation's current Chair. Elissa is a past Chair of the Financial Planning Association (US) and is also a Dean for FPA's Residency Program. She has been named as a top advisor by Worth, Washingtonian, and Bloomberg Wealth Manager magazines. Elissa has appeared on The Today Show, CNBC, CNNfn, NBC News and McLaughlin One-on-One. She has been quoted in The Washington Post, Time and Businessweek magazines.
Elissa's article, "To Feel . . . Like a CFP®", was published in July 2000 in The Journal of Financial Planning (JFP). Her article, co-authored with Dr. Dave Yeske, CFP®, "Policy-Based Financial Planning Provides Touchstone in a Turbulent World", was published in the July 2006 issue of the JFP, where their most recent collaboration, "Evidence-Based Financial Planning: To Learn . . . Like a CFP®" also appeared in November, 2011. Elissa contributed 17 chapters to the CFP Board's first-of-its-kind Financial Planning Competency Handbook, published by John Wiley & Sons.
Elissa holds an appointment as adjunct professor in Golden Gate University's Ageno School of Business, where she teaches the capstone Cases in Financial Planning course.
Graduated from Virginia Tech - Finance, 1976
Graduated from Old Dominion University - MBA, 1978
US Peace Corps- Korea Tuberculosis Control, 1978-80
Graduated from the College for Financial Planning, 1993
Brian practices as one of the financial planners at HSC Wealth Advisors in Lynchburg, VA. He specializes in retirement planning, insurance and the eventualities we all face as we age.
Brian holds the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certification administered by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards and he is a Virginia licensed insurance consultant for life and health. Brian was a former licensed nursing home administrator, a position which acquainted him with geriatric issues, including age-associated illnesses and the complexities of Medicare and other insurances.
Dr. Charles Chaffin
Director of Academic Programs and Initiatives
CFP Board Presentations: Opening Session: How Do We Define Success?; Tracking Degree to Certification Success: An Analysis of Student Histories
Dr. Charles Chaffin arrived at CFP Board in March, 2010, where he provides guidance and oversight to the 340 CFP Board Registered Programs. He holds a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with an additional graduate degree from the University of Michigan. His educational background has focused upon teaching pedagogy, curriculum and instruction, educational and cognitive psychology, learner assessment, and higher education administration. He has taught all levels of learners, from elementary school through graduate and doctoral study, as well as classroom-based, online, and blended instructional platforms. Dr. Chaffin has worked with a variety of colleges and universities in developing and revising curricula to enhance student achievement in both degree and non-degree programs of study. He has published several papers that have focused upon the cognitive workload of learners in different task settings, reflective practice, and best practices in higher education curriculum and instruction. Dr. Chaffin is the editor of the Financial Planning Competency Handbook from CFP Board published by John Wiley & Sons.
Benjamin F. Cummings, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the financial planning program at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, PA. He received a Ph.D. in Personal Financial Planning from Texas Tech University. While at Texas Tech, Benjamin led a team of graduate students in a retirement planning competition focused on addressing the lack of adequate retirement preparation of the Millennial generation. Upon winning the competition, Benjamin and his team went to Washington, D.C., to share their ideas with policymakers. His research interests include the use and value of financial advice and regulation within the financial planning industry. Previously, Benjamin was the Scholar in Residence at CFP Board, and he also worked briefly for a fee-only financial planning firm in Northern Virginia.
Dr. Lukas Dean
Financial Planning Program Director
William Paterson University Presentation: Integrating Financial Planning Software in the Classroom
Dr. Lukas Dean has been the Financial Planning program director in the Cotsakos College of Business at William Paterson University in New Jersey since August 2008. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Finance, and Global Business. His research interests are Registered Investment Advisers in the U.S. based on type of compensation, type of clients, agency costs, and potential conflicts of interest and how financial matters impact family relationships. He has a bachelors and masters degree from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He received his Ph.D. in Personal Financial Planning from Texas Tech.
Ryanne Enyeart is a senior staff member in the Community and Member Resources team at the 23,000+-member Financial Planning Association® (FPA®). In this new and evolving role, she oversees programming that serves soon to be and new CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNING™ professionals.
She has worked in the association and not-for-profit sector since 2004. Prior to assuming her current position, Enyeart served as FPA's Assistant Director, Consumer Services. In that role, she developed and implemented a variety of programs to increase public awareness about the value of financial planning, including the award-winning campaign Financial Planning Week®. Previously, Enyeart was employed by VICORP Restaurants, Inc. where she recommended, developed and implemented a variety of marketing programs to increase brand awareness.
Enyeart received her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Kansas.
Dr. Joseph W. Goetz
Associate Professor
University of Georgia Presentation: Communication Essentials for Financial Planners: Teaching Techniques and Strategies
Joseph W. Goetz, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Family Financial Planning Program at the University of Georgia. He currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in financial counseling, financial plan development, and a practicum course in financial planning. His research areas of focus include experiential education in financial planning, financial risk tolerance, and financial therapy. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and completed graduate degrees in the areas of psychology and financial planning at Texas Tech University. He was recently selected as a University of Georgia Lilly Teaching Fellow and Service-Learning Fellow. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, Journal of Personal Finance, and the Journal of Financial Therapy.
Dr. John Grable, CFP®
University of Georgia Presentation: Communication Essentials for Financial Planners: Teaching Techniques and Strategies
John E. Grable, Ph.D., CFP® holds an Athletic Association Endowed Professorship at the University of Georgia. Dr. Grable served as the founding editor for the Journal of Personal Finance and the co-editor of the Journal of Financial Therapy. His research interests include financial risk-tolerance assessment, financial planning help-seeking behavior, and psychophysiological economics.
Mike Greene is a 2013 Member of the CFP Board of Directors and the Senior Vice President responsible for Financial Planning and Advisor Business Development at Ameriprise Financial. As the leader of financial planning, Mike works to engage advisors in ongoing financial planning relationships with their clients. Ameriprise is proud to have more CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professionals than any other firm. Mike's Advisor Business Development Group team is responsible for driving revenue growth through financial planning as well as client acquisition and sales strategies.
Mike has been with Ameriprise since 2002, working in various roles within the broker-dealer. He is a Director on the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, and serves on the internal board of IDS Property and Casualty Insurance Company. Prior to Ameriprise, he worked for McKinsey & Company as an associate consultant serving various financial services clients. After graduating from West Point in 1989, Mike served as an engineer officer in the U.S. Army. In addition, he holds a Masters degree from London School of Economics. Mike and his wife Stephanie have two children and live just outside Minneapolis.
Kevin R. Keller
Chief Executive Officer
CFP Board Presentation: General Session
Kevin R. Keller is Chief Executive Officer of Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board), the certifying and standards setting organization for personal financial planning.
Since joining CFP Board, Mr. Keller has established CFP Board as a strong advocate for consumer and investor protection by implementing a fiduciary level of accountability; built a public policy infrastructure to ensure policy makers understand and appreciate the benefits to the public of a credentialing model built on examination, education, experience and ethics predicated on the fiduciary duty of care – the baseline standards established by CFP Board; and led the reengineering and implementation of the organization's disciplinary and enforcement process to increase transparency and accountability.
Mr. Keller joined CFP Board in May 2007 after serving 16 years with the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP), a membership organization for the finance profession that provides products, education and training for treasury and corporate finance. At AFP, he held the position of senior vice president and chief operating officer and had management responsibility for programs and services for the 16,000-member organization. He led the organization's strategic planning process and enhanced and grew the Certified Treasury Professional credential. Mr. Keller has held senior staff positions at several associations and earned the Certified Association Executive (CAE) credential in 2000. He holds a B.S. in agriculture and an M.S., both from Ohio State University.
Dr. Ruth Lytton
Director, Financial Planning Program
Virginia Tech Presentation: Conversations in Financial Planning Education and Practice
Dr. Ruth Lytton is the Director of the Financial Planning Program at Virginia Tech. She also provides student services (e.g., academic/career advising, internship supervision, and job placement coaching) and teaches three courses in the curriculum. Dr. Lytton has received various student association, university, and professional association awards for her contributions as a teacher, researcher, and career/academic advisor. Over 5,000 students took her introductory personal finance course, which she taught for much of her career. She is an academic member of FPA, NAPFA, and the Society of Financial Service Professionals and serves on the FPA Academic Committee. In 2009 she was awarded the John H. Cecil Lifetime Service Award from the Central Virginia Chapter of FPA and in 2012 was awarded the FPA Heart of Financial Planning Award.
Dr. Jerry Mason
Professor of Financial Planning
Utah Valley University Presentation: Using Internships to Enhance Engaged Education
Dr. Jerry Mason has been teaching financial planning (most of the time since 1979). He taught at Brigham Young University, Texas Tech University, the College of St. Rose and now Utah Valley University. When he was not teaching, he served at the Director of Education for the IAFP (now FPA) and worked for Ric Edelman's financial planning firm.
Michael G. McCarthy, CFP®
DePaul University Presentation: Conversations in Financial Planning Education and Practice
Since 1983, Mike McCarthy has achieved a rewarding career in financial services by putting his clients' interests first and providing exceptional personal service. He combines experience and knowledge to provide appropriate and customized investment strategies. In addition to serving his clients, Mike has been a Branch Manager for Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC since 1996.
Mike earned his bachelor's degree in finance from Loyola University of Chicago in 1982 and received his CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional certification in 1990. His teaching experience includes serving as an instructor for the investments section of DePaul University's CFP® certification courses since 2000. He currently serves as the Director of the Financial Planning Education Center for the university. Mike has served in various capacities over the years for the Financial Planning Association (FPA). He is a member of the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) and a member of the ESOP Association.
In addition to his corporate and executive service capabilities, Mike specializes in thorough retirement and investment planning and believes a good investment program enhances personal wealth by helping to increase income consistent with each client's risk tolerance.
Dr. Palmer received his bachelor's and MBA degrees from University of Utah and his doctorate degree from Utah State University. He is a co-founder of the University of Georgia (UGA) Family Financial Planning Program where he teaches courses in financial planning with a focus on retirement and tax planning. He is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM professional and Certified Public Accountant. He has served on multiple editorial boards and currently serves as President-Elect of the Academy of Financial Services. He was selected as a 2007 Lilly Teaching Fellow, a recipient of the 2010 Richard B. Russell Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, and the 2013 Engaged Scholar Award. Working in tandem with Tom Cochran and Georgia United Credit Union, Dr. Palmer has helped to expand the service-learning Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program in Athens, Georgia. This partnership has provided several hundred students, at UGA and throughout the state, with hands-on professional training and experiences, while providing thousands of hours of financial education and planning assistance to these households. Dr. Palmer is also affiliated with the University of Georgia ASPIRE Clinic. Dr. Palmer's research seeks to identify effective ways of motivating financial behavior change through brief intervention strategies. His research has focused on motivating savings among low and moderate-income tax filers.
Dr. Ronald A. Sages, CFP®
Kansas State University Presentation:Teaching and e-Learning Personal Financial Planning in an Online Environment (with emphasis on "Real World" experiences)
Ron Sages serves as an Instructor in the Certificate and Master's in Family Financial Planning Programs in Personal Financial Planning at Kansas State University, and is also a co-founder and President of Chapin Asset Management, a wealth management firm, based in Greenwich, Connecticut and Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Ron earned his Ph.D. in Personal Financial Planning from Kansas State University in 2012, his MBA in Finance and Taxation from the University of Connecticut in 1979, and his undergraduate degree in liberal arts from Ohio University in 1973. His research interests are in behavioral finance, risk management, and financial literacy. As a financial planning practitioner and researcher, Ron aspires to bring applied research to financial planning practitioners in an effort to provide practical solutions to client-focused challenges. Prior to starting his own firm in 1993, Ron spent twenty years as an executive in private banking and global wealth management at Bankers Trust Company (now Deutsche Bank) and The Connecticut Bank and Trust Company (now Bank of America) in New York City and Fairfield County, Connecticut, respectively. Ron has published research in the Journal of Financial Services Professionals, the College Student Journal, and the Global Journal of Human Social Science, and has published in various professional journals including Trusts & Estates, Trusts and Trustees & International Asset Management, Trust and Investments, and Institutional Investors' Private Asset Management. Ron is a member of the Stamford (CT) CFA Society, Estate Planning Council of Lower Fairfield County (CT), the National Association of Estate Planning Councils, American Council on Consumer Interests, and the Financial Therapy Association.
Joyce Schnur, CFP®
Vice President
Kaplan University School of Professional and Continuing Education Presentation: Avenues for Enhancing Student Retention in CFP Board Registered Certificate Programs
Joyce joined Kaplan University School of Professional and Continuing Education in October 2006 as a Vice President and is currently responsible for the Financial Services businesses at Kaplan including the CFP(r) designation as well as the securities and insurance product lines. Currently, Joyce is an adjunct Professor for Duquesne University in the School of Leadership and Development in the CFP® certification program and teaches many of the Kaplan CFP® education and review courses.
Throughout her career, Joyce has been a frequent lecturer on many financial planning topics including Investments, Stock Options and Estate Planning at many corporate training events and has been a featured speaker at several regional and national training conferences. Joyce has been quoted in various publications, including the Journal of Financial Planning, Registered Rep magazine and Pittsburgh T.E.Q. and has published in Executive Tax and Management Report where she served as an editor for several years.
Prior to joining Kaplan, she had over 20 years of financial counseling experience. Joyce served as the practice leader for Deloitte Tax LLP's Private Client Advisors Group in Pittsburgh, Buffalo, and Rochester. She directed the comprehensive financial planning services offered by the firm, including investment, insurance, retirement, estate, and income tax planning. She began her career with the Ayco Company LLP where she served as an Account Manager, directly responsible for providing comprehensive tax & financial planning services to corporate executives.
Dr. Hyrum Smith, CFP®
Assistant Professor of the Personal Financial Planning
Virginia Tech Presentation: Integrating Financial Planning Software in the Classroom
Dr. Hyrum Smith, CFP® is Assistant Professor within the Personal Financial Planning program at Virginia Tech since December 2009. He received his Ph.D. in Personal Financial Planning from Texas Tech University. His dissertation entitled "Three Essays on Financial Sophistication and Effective Decision Making," received the Robert O. Herrmann American Council of Consumer Interests (ACCI) Dissertation award in 2010. He also holds a B.S. in Accounting from Utah State University and a MBA from the University of Utah. His research interests include the influence of qualitative factors, such as access to financial sophistication or behavioral biases, on financial planning decisions in addition to improving effectiveness of student learning. He was the advisor for the team of students that won 1st place overall in the 2011-2012 national iOMe Savings Challenge. Prior to entering the academic profession he worked in the public accounting sector for KPMG, LLP, and as a treasury analyst for SuperValu, a Fortune 500 grocery retailer.
Dr. Jacob Sybrowsky
Personal Financial Planning Program Director
Utah Valley University Presentations: Using Internships to Enhance Engaged Education; Integrating Financial Planning Software in the Classroom
Dr. Jacob Sybrowsky currently serves as an Assistant Professor and Personal Financial Planning Program Director for the Woodbury School of Business at Utah Valley University. He holds a Ph.D. in Personal Financial Planning from Texas Tech University. Sybrowsky also attended Brigham Young University where he earned a Master's degree in Marriage, Family, and Human Development and a Bachelor's degree in Linguistics with a minor in Korean. Prior to joining the Woodbury School of Business, Dr. Sybrowsky taught in the Personal Financial Planning program at Texas Tech University. His research focuses on inheritance and wealth transfers with a focus on personal and behavioral characteristics that can predict changes in wealth accumulation. He also works as an Associate Planner for Evensky and Katz Wealth Management in Coral Gables, Florida.
When not working, Jacob enjoys spending time with his wonderful wife, Carrie, and "most beautiful little girl in the world"- daughter, Elizabeth. They spend time running together and are currently training for the Boston Marathon. They enjoy developing their organic garden and growing their collection of heirloom seeds. Most recently they have added beekeeping to a growing list of family hobbies. When it's time to get away, they fish and ski in the mountains surrounding their Provo, Utah home.
James Tissot is a CFP® professional, currently practicing in New York City, Westchester County and the Hudson Valley. He is the President and Founder of Prism Planning, Inc., a fee-only Registered Investment Advisor.
Tissot pursued a B.A. in Liberal Arts at the University of Michigan. He left prior to earning his degree to follow the dream of an acting career in NYC. He came to a Financial Planning career due in large part to the AIDS crisis. James started attending seminars offered at the NYC Lesbian and Gay Center on financial planning for the disabled and terminally ill in order to help friends with HIV/AIDS. He went back to school to complete his studies at SUNY Empire College and gained a certificate of financial planning from NYU.
In addition to his practice, he is an SME (subject material expert) at Keir Educational Resources where he writes, edits and teaches review classes for the CFP® Certification Examination as well as for FINRA/NASAA exams. He has authored a book on financial calculators and was the chief architect and contributing author of Keir's "Financial Plan Development" textbook.
He has been a member of FPA since 2000. He served on the Board of the FPA-NY from 2002 – 2009 after serving as President and Chair. At the national level, he has served on the Chapter Leadership Resource Council from 2007 – 2009 and was elected to the national Board of Directors in 2011. He resigned from the Board in October of 2012 to accept a staff position at FPA as the Director of Professional Education.
In some of his other incarnations, he was a bartender at Studio 54, had a catering company ("Not Necessarily Martha"), co-owned a restaurant in Manhattan and was Robert Maxwell's event planner in the U.S.
Carolynn Tomin, CFP®
Financial Planning Program Director
Boston University Presentation: Conversations in Financial Planning Education and Practice
Carolynn is the Program Director for Boston University's Financial Planning programs and has augmented the development of these programs for the past ten years. She has taught estate planning courses, online reviews and CFP® Certification Exam courses at universities in Massachusetts and Florida, as well as for many banks and financial service companies in both states.
Carolynn is co-author of an estate planning textbook, Principles Of Estate Planning, published by National Underwriter in 2012. She served as a member of CFP Board's Council on Education from 2009-2012, and was appointed Chair in 2012.
Former positions include Program Director for Merrimack College and co-founder of a continuing education company, Beacon Hill Financial Educators.
Dr. Tom Warschauer, CFP®
Professor of Finance Emeritus
San Diego State University Presentation: Tracking Degree to Certification Success: An Analysis of Student Histories
Dr. Tom Warschauer, CFP® is Professor of Finance Emeritus at San Diego State University's College of Business Administration. He is Director of SDSU's personal financial planning master's program. He is also Director of its Center for the Study of Personal Financial Planning. He was a member of CFP Board's Board of Examiners and was a founder and first President of the national Academy of Financial Services. The Academy is the nation's pre-eminent academic organization dealing with individual finance issues. Early in his career Warschauer practiced financial planning for fifteen years and was NASD Principal for a regional securities firm in Colorado, Maine, and California. Warschauer earned his CFP® certification in the second year it was available. He has been the Academic Editor of the Journal of the Institute of Certified Financial Planners and is an Associate Editor of the Financial Services Review. He is a member of the Financial Planning Association's Academic Council. His areas of research include a variety of topics related to personal financial planning and portfolio management. Dr. Warschauer has published articles in both academic and practitioner journals, such as the Financial Services Review, the Financial Review and the Journal of the ICFP. He earned CFP Board's 2003 Academic Article Award. Warschauer holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Dr. Walt Woerheide, CFP®
Vice President of Academics/Dean
The American College Presentation: Avenues for Enhancing Student Retention in CFP Board Registered Certificate Programs
Walt Woerheide, Ph.D., ChFC®, CFP®, is VP of Academics and Dean at The American College. He also serves as the Frank Engle Distinguished Chair in Economic Security Research and Professor of Investments. He has held appointments as a professor of finance at the Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, the Univ. of Michigan - Flint, and Rochester Institute of Technology, as well as Visiting Scholar at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. He has served as President of the Academy of Financial Services and the Midwest Finance Association. His books include Introducing Personal Finance, published by John Wiley & Sons, and Investments, published by The American College. He has published articles in the Financial Counseling and Planning, Journal of Financial Service Professionals, the Financial Services Review, and the Journal of Financial Planning. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Financial Service Professionals and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Financial Services Review and on the Journal of Financial Planning.
Dr. David B. Yeske, CFP® holds a doctorate in finance from Golden Gate University. He also earned an M.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Applied Economics from the University of San Francisco. He has been practicing financial planning since 1990.
Dave is a past Chair of the Financial Planning Association (US) (FPA) and has been named a top advisor by Bloomberg Wealth Manager. He has been quoted in national media including The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Newsweek, The New York Times, USA Today, Investor's Business Daily, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Journal of Financial Planning. Dave appears regularly on CBS, CNBC, CNN and NBC News. In 2009, Dave was profiled in The Wall Street Journal.
Dave has written feature articles for Research Magazine, San Francisco Magazine and The Journal of Retirement Planning. He co-authored with Elissa Buie, CFP®, "Policy-Based Financial Planning Provides Touchstone in a Turbulent World", which was published in July 2006 in The Journal of Financial Planning. The results of Dave's doctoral research were published in the Journal of Financial Planning in September 2010 under the title "Finding the Planning in Financial Planning." In 2011, the article, "Evidence-Based Financial Planning: To Learn … Like a CFP®", co-authored with Ms. Buie, was published in The Journal of Financial Planning. Dr. Dave contributed 13 chapters to the CFP Board's Financial Planning Competency Handbook, published by John Wiley & Sons in April of 2013.
Dave holds an appointment as Distinguished Adjunct Professor in Golden Gate University's Ageno School of Business, where he teaches the capstone Cases in Financial Planning course.
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Cameron University President
"Dr. Masters and Dr. Nalley exemplify the outstanding faculty we have at Cameron," says President Ross. "It is gratifying to recognize these dedicated professors with Endowed Chairs, knowing that they will continue to contribute to the quality education that we are providing our students."
The Board of Regents for The University of Oklahoma, Cameron University and Rogers State University approved the appointments today during its regularly scheduled meeting, held at the McMahon Centennial Complex on the Cameron campus.
The Virginia Brewczynski Endowed Chair in Business Leadership was established in July 1994 by the Lawton Retail Merchants Association. Proceeds from this chair advance the teaching of leadership in business. The Clarence E. Page Endowed Chair in Math and Science Education was established in July 1992 by the Clarence E. Page Foundation. Income from the endowment is used to explore innovative ways to teach science and math to elementary and secondary school students.
"Donors like the Lawton Retail Merchants Association and the Clarence E. Page Foundation make a powerful impact at Cameron University," says Ross. "Their contributions live on in perpetuity, providing students with enhanced educational opportunities and affording Cameron the ability to attract and retain some of the best faculty in the nation."
As the Virginia Brewczynski Endowed Chair in Business Leadership, Dr. Masters will utilize funding from the endowment for prizes awarded students in competitions designed to improve business knowledge, business ethics and leadership with a particular emphasis on the role of women in business. Funding will also be used for student, staff and faculty travel and supplies in support of business, ethics, and leadership activities.
As the Clarence E. Page Endowed Chair in Math and Science Education. Dr. Nalley will provide outreach for area public schools, implementing activities to improve math and science education from K-12. She will also receive funding to support math and science summer camps for both children and teachers.
Dr. Masters joined the Cameron School of Business faculty in Fall 2006. He earned a Ph.D. in Organization Theory and Policy from the University of North Texas after receiving an M.B.A. from McNeese State University. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Louisiana State University. He previously taught at Louisiana State University in Shreveport and at Western Illinois University. Dr. Masters has been honored with the Outstanding Faculty Award from Cameron's Office of Student Support Services and the Distinguished Reviewer Award from the Southwest Academy of Management Conference. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Beta Gamma Sigma and Sigma Iota Epsilon.
Dr. Nalley earned a B.S. in 1965, an M.S. in 1969, and a Ph.D. in 1975, all in chemistry, from Texas Woman's University. She joined the Cameron faculty in 1969. In 1995, Nalley received Cameron's highest service honor, the Distinguished Service Award, becoming the first professor to be so honored. She was inducted into the Cameron University Alumni Association's Faculty Hall of Fame in 1996 and was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame in 2010. In 1992, she was honored by the five sections of the American Chemical Society as the Oklahoma Chemist of the Year, the first and only woman to be so honored. In 1996, she was honored by the American Chemical Society when she was presented with the Henry Hill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Professionalism. Dr. Nalley served as the National President of the American Chemical Society in 2006 and as the National President of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi from 1995-1998.
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The Andes Travel Guide
Cordillera de los Andes © Zuarin
Skiing in Argentina has a thrilling appeal to it, and the eastern slopes of the Andes especially are particularly popular with those seeking exhilarating skiing. Ski season in Argentina runs from June to September, with July and August bringing the largest crowds to the resorts with the promise of fresh snowfalls. Snow conditions vary from year to year, but there is usually excellent powder snow.
Most prestigious of the resorts for downhill skiing is Las Leñas, which once hosted the World Cup, while Los Penitentes near Mendoza boasts some of the best compact powder snow. The oldest resort, Bariloche, offers good après ski and beautiful views of the Nahuel Huapi region, while Chapelco is a snowboarders paradise. Enjoy the breathtaking views from Mount Castor out across the South Atlantic near Ushuaia, which offers fantastic cross-country skiing.
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Leaked Moto 360 Specs Impress, Price Point Iffy
Aug 20, 2014 6:51 AM PT
Photos and specs of the forthcoming Moto 360 smartwatch from Motorola appeared briefly on a Best Buy Web page this week, sparking increased chatter about the device.
Concerns about price -- the watch was listed at US$250 on the page -- tempered the usual gasps of delight from geeks. Amazon lists a Samsung Galaxy Gear for $150, a Gear Live for $180, a Gear 2 Neo for $200, a Pebble Steel for $230, and an LG G Black Titan for $233.
This raises the question: Given that Android device users are notoriously less willing to spend money than their iOS counterparts, who will purchase the Moto 360? And will it sell enough to be profitable?
"The pricing is not out of bounds," Tom Mainelli, a program vice president at IDC, told TechNewsWorld.
"It's clearly a well-designed device, and it doesn't have the sort of square display that the first round devices have," he pointed out. "A square display makes the most of the limited real estate you have, but that makes it feel more like a geek's watch -- and, in that regard, the Moto 360 is unique. Clearly, they've put a lot of thought into the design.
What the Moto 360 Offers
The Moto 360 was listed on Best Buy as having a 1.5-inch backlit LCD touchscreen with 390 x 290 pixel resolution of 250 ppi.
The screen is made of Gorilla Glass 3.
It is water resistant in up to 3.3 feet of water for up to 30 minutes. It has an ambient light sensor, WiFi connectivity, 512 MB of RAM and an ambient light sensor.
The Moto 360 is compatible with most devices running Android 4.3 or later. It supports Bluetooth 4.0, enables wireless syncing, has a built-in optical heart rate monitor and a built-in pedometer, is voice activated, and has a vibration alert.
It has a stainless steel case and a plastic case back.
The Moto 360 runs on a built-in Li-ion battery pack and has a battery-strength indicator.
Users swipe up a block at the base of the screen to see messages.
"From a technical standpoint, [the] Moto 360 appears to be on par with other devices running Android Wear that came before," Ryan Martin, an analyst at 451 Research, told TechNewsWorld.
"The common thread of Android Wear should allow potential customers to focus just as much on the physical aspects of the device as on the OS itself," he observed.
Deconstructing the Smartwatch
"The block at the bottom is not viewable," Mainelli pointed out. Motorola "might be selling it that way -- this is where you know to put your finger to swipe up -- but I think it breaks the elegance of the design a bit."
Another problem is that like Android devices in general, the Moto 360 "buzzes nonstop," he noted. "How does this device learn when I don't want to be disturbed?"
Despite those shortcomings, Mainelli's thumb is at least sideways, if not up.
"Apple is likely to get this thing correct right out of the gate," he said, but "from the design and wearability perspective, the Moto 360 is the best-looking Android watch we've seen yet."
Still, a lot of hopes for smartwatches to catch on with consumers are pinned on Apple, which hasn't launched anything yet.
"When they do," said Mainelli, "it will add legitimacy to the category. Apple does design really well."
Talk to the Watch
The Moto 360's voice control might be a major plus.
"There's a big emphasis on voice control functions through wearable devices running Android Wear," 451's Martin said. "For the wearable tech market as a whole, it will be important to track the degree to which end users are taking advantage of such channels to interact with the devices."
However, device makers "still haven't made it clear whether they ultimately intend wrist-based wearables to be used as output rather than input devices," he pointed out, "although I think a winning strategy will center on tapping into a combination of the two."


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Part of the bestselling SingStar karaoke series, SingStar Latino features popular Latino singers and Spanish language hits. Players sing along with music videos that feature a variety of Latin American recording artists. Score points by matching the pitch and duration of notes displayed on the screen. The game features 30 chart-topping singles and music videos from today's hottest Latin artists and legends including David Bisbal, Natalia Lafourcade, Jon Secada, La Oreja de Van Gogh, Paulina Rubio, Heroes del Silencio and others. As with previous SingStar titles, SingStar Latino provides an interactive social singing experience by incorporating technology that recognizes pitch, tone and rhythm to accurately score players as they perform to original songs featuring music videos.
This package of SingStar Latino is only available in retail stores across Latin America. The bundle packs in two microphone accessories for instant play right out of the box.
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Morning commutes, STEM education dual focuses of new census release
The largest-scale public analysis ever undertaken of science, technology, engineering and mathematics/computer science specialization in Canada will be released Wednesday, with Statistics Canada providing first-time data on the number of people with degrees in "STEM" fields nationwide, as well as the share of women and immigrants in that group.
The findings, which are based on National Household Survey responses from 2.65 million Canadians in 2011, will be unveiled as part of a broader examination of labour and education trends.
"Frankly, the labour market literature for STEM fields in Canada has been very, very thin," said Michael Hawes, CEO of Fulbright Canada, the foundation behind a number of prestigious science and technology awards.
"We need this data for making decisions about immigration policy; we need the data for planning future educational changes or innovations or program renewals; and we need the data to get a sense of how, and under what circumstances, we're competing in an increasingly globalized economy."
Hawes expects Wednesday's report will prove especially useful in guiding education initiatives related to women in STEM occupations – for instance, addressing spatial reasoning early in girls' schooling – and for highlighting the value of attracting skilled immigrants, many of whom come from countries biased toward STEM disciplines.
"The question is, do we provide the necessary opportunities and training for new Canadians to segue from, say, the tech environment in India to a tech environment here?" said Hawes. "We're going to hear, I suspect, lots of anecdotal evidence about high-tech folks from pick-a-place driving cabs. How do you get them from the cab to the lab?"
Equally anticipated in the report is StatsCan's look at morning commutes, which will include unprecedented data on the time Canadians leave for work and whether or not they carpool, in addition to other factors.
Researchers say the findings will provide a critical snapshot of how commuters are coping with traffic, the extent to which alternate transportation methods are being used, and the relationship between metropolitan growth and drive time.
"We can actually get at the issue of drive-alone versus passenger versus public transit or walking – something we can't do right now with the current 2006 census data," said Darren Scott, a professor and transportation researcher at McMaster University in Hamilton.
"It will (also) be interesting to see who is an 'extreme commuter' (90-plus minutes) and what factors drive this behaviour. Is it simply housing costs? I think it's more than that, but we haven't had data to investigate this problem at the necessary scale before."
Ajay Agarwal, who studies the role of public transit investments in urban environments, will approach the NHS data as a kind of national report card.
"I want to see how the system is doing overall," said Agarwal, an assistant professor at Queen's University in Kingston. "People make their travel decisions based on how they perceive conditions, either travelling before or after the busy period, choosing a different mode of transportation, or taking a different route."
Factors Agarwal will be watching for include travel trends by geography – for instance, Toronto versus Edmonton, and how the results correlate with public transit initiatives; the travel characteristics of urban versus rural households; and the use of public transit by new Canadians versus established immigrants.
The June 26 release, to be extensively covered by Postmedia, will also include breakdowns of the top 20 jobs among men and women; the most popular occupations for workers aged 55 and older; the demographic and geographic distribution of educational achievement (that is, who's racking up the most degrees, and where do they live?); and the labour, education and transportation patterns of Aboriginal Peoples.


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The cat is back, this time with energy efficiency in its sights.
Indian-owned, British car maker Jaguar said it will return to its iconic sports car business with a new "F-type" convertible 2-seater that succeeds the iconic "E" model that went out of production in 1976.
The new car is based on the C-X16 concept car that Jaguar unveiled in September at the Frankfurt Auto Show, and marks a return to a market that "we have been absent from for too long," said Jaguar global brand manager Adrian Hallmark at the New York Auto Show (I guess you have to have a name like "Hallmark" to get a job like that).
Jaguar released a video (below) of the car racing around a track, heralded by former Formula 1 driver and Daytona and Le Mans champion Martin Brundle.
What's not entirely clear is why Jaguar is now hailing the F-type as a return to the sports car market, when a year ago it announced it would build a plug-in hybrid electric/gasoline-powered sports car, the C-X75 (Jaguar wasn't immediately available for comment). The reason probably relates to the public's hesitance to buy electric cars and to instead purchase efficiency-improved, conventionally fueled vehicles.
Unlike the C-X75, the F-type does not have plug-in electric capability. Jaguar is giving the gasoline-powered car an aluminum chassis, lightening its weight and contributing to fuel efficiency.
"The car could be considered a spiritual successor the convertible Jaguar E-type, which was produced between 1961 and 1975," said Autoweek. "The E-type is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful cars ever produced."
According to the BBC, Jaguar said last September that the C-X16 concept - now the F-type - accelerates from zero to 62 mph in 4.4 seconds and emits 165 grams of CO2 per kilometer, comparatively low for that sort of car - but environmentally worse than the hybrid C-X75, rated at 99g/km.
The concept car included a regenerative braking system that charged lithium ion batteries by converting braking energy using the Kinetic Energy Recovery System developed for the Formula 1 racing circuit, the BBC said. Presumably the F-type includes the same.
Jaguar, owned by India's Tata Motors, will build the car in Birmingham, England, for sale in 2013.
C-X16 image from Jaguar website.
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An interesting all electric sports car from Croatia
An interesting all electric sports car from Croatia
you are bit wrong, the cars battery is 92kWh, not 75kWh.
and you forgot to mention price: $1,000,000 :-)
I think someone posted this before. I don't really care for sport/exotic/super cars, but the lighting on this car is really awesome. I thought I saw a video of the blinkers in action somewhere, but now I can't find it.
The battery is lithium iron phosphate, which is interesting, because they are using liquid thermal management anyway.
It does not look like they have any kind of mass production capability. I would expect these things to be essentially hand built.
But I have to say that the web site is well done and this Rimac guy looks like a complete design maniac. The fit and finish on the power train is pretty serious. The motor location is pretty much identical to the Model S (or X really, since it has a motor up front as well), so the biggest difference is the battery architecture.
I wish them luck. Anything that enhances the stature of electrics is a good thing. On the other hand, like all others, the big leap is not from zero to prototype, but from prototype to manufacturing.
I am still amazed that Tesla has pulled it off, and that took both execution and luck. Go to Google Earth and zoom in on the Tesla factory. It's huge. It boggles the mind that they got it for $50 million, and that, once they got it, they knew what to do with it!
It really seems that automobile design is to the point where it is not a mystery. People know how to do it. Computers can do the heavy lifting, 3D printers can damn near print out a prototype car now.
Likely we will see a lot of boutique electric cars and I'll bet they will be very good for the most part. Of course, the exotic market is the place to start as you don't have to make a lot of them and you can price them high.
And all this is much easier to do with electric cars than with, say, a W-16 motor! So, a smart guy in a small country can compete in some ways with the best and most exotic cars in the world, made by multi-bilion dollar companies. Awesome!
An interesting POV is that the NUMMI plant was free; at about the same time as it was bought, Toyota purchased, for almost the identical $$, a block of shares from the TM treasury. It was therefore a wash.
Brian, that's true in terms of Tesla's finances at the time. On the other hand, how much are those shares worth now? Not free, that's for sure.
Point being, Toyota was not stupid. They played a bad hand as best they could, and have benefited. But Tesla has benefited far more, and the timing could not have been better.
looks and sounds a lot better than the BMW :) and it's not that much more expensive than that :)
I don't recall any street legal BMW that costs million bucks.
Still, that is one cool car. I would like to see it in proper quartermile drag race against some street legal ICE car. It wont beat nitrodragsters, but with that amount of power it should beat pretty much any "normal" ICE car in short drag race.
@Timo Sorry I actually ment the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric not the BMW. That car is $550,000. But again I was wrong in my memory as I thougt it's Euro 575k wich would have been closer to the 1Mio.. So it's only half of the price :) cheeeeap
No net cash/asset outlay was involved then (or now), I think. Current shares outstanding don't cost TM anything!


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Bush, Krugman, and the Old Deal
Today's NY Times article by Paul Krugman, "Not the New Deal," gave me a few chuckles.
With George W. Bush projecting a huge federal government effort to reconstruct Louisiana and Mississippi and other areas affected by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, fiscal conservatives are already murmuring. But little stands in the way of this vast projected increase in government spending.
As my colleague Mark Brady has asked: "Did You Really Expect Anything Else?"
A Bush critic such as Paul Krugman is busy objecting to a Heritage Foundation-inspired plan that would include "waivers on environmental rules, the elimination of capital gains taxes and the private ownership of public school buildings in the disaster areas." But he also believes that "even conservatives" must recognize that "recovery will require a lot of federal spending." Since this will have an appreciable effect on the deficit, Krugman wonders "how ... discretionary government spending [can] take place on that scale without creating equally large-scale corruption." Given the Bush administration's penchant for awarding so much pork to favored corporations in places like Iraq, Krugman is understandably concerned about "cronyism and corruption."
This, says Krugman, is in marked contrast to the efforts of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose "New Deal" provided "a huge expansion of federal spending" without corruption or cronyism. The New Deal, says Krugman, "made almost a fetish out of policing its own programs against potential corruption. In particular, F.D.R. created a powerful 'division of progress investigation' to look into complaints of malfeasance in the W.P.A. That division proved so effective that a later Congressional investigation couldn't find a single serious irregularity it had missed." For Krugman, FDR was committed to "honest government," because he understood that "government activism works. But George W. Bush isn't F.D.R. Indeed, in crucial respects he's the anti-F.D.R."
Is Krugman kidding me?
Throughout his presidency, Bush has looked to such American Presidents as Woodrow Wilson and FDR for inspiration. Bush believes that FDR himself "gave his soul for the process" of taking America out of the Depression and into a world war against authoritarianism.
As for the New Deal: There are no "honest government" spending programs that don't involve some kind of structurally constituted cronyism and corruption. That's just the nature of the beast. And FDR's New Deal is no exception. It was, in many ways, a paradigmatic case, no different from the "war collectivism" policies of World War I or World War II, all of which entailed using the vastly expanding power of government to privilege certain groups at the expense of other groups. Not even Herbert Hoover's response to the government-engendered Great Depression was "laissez faire" (see Rothbard's "Herbert Hoover and the Myth of Laissez-Faire" in A New History of Leviathan, and, of course, his fine book on the subject).
A cursory look at Jim Powell's recent book, FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression reveals "why so much New Deal relief and public works money [was] channeled away from the poorest people." From its inception, the New Deal was inspired by the corporatist model of Italian fascism. Even Krugman's beloved Works Progress Adminstration was constructed on the basis of patronage schemes. Citing economic historian Gavin Wright, Powell tells us that "a statistical analysis of New Deal spending purportedly aimed at helping the poor" gives us evidence that "80 percent of the state-by-state variation in per person New Deal spending could be explained by political factors."
Mainstream politics offers no genuine opposition to FDR's Old "New Deal" or Bush's New "Old Deal," not when "conservatives" and "liberals" are united in their support for massive government intervention.
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Friday, October 02, 2009
Empirically Measuring Class DPS
For example, if you took two classes that did 5000 DPS, one with a 50% crit rating, and the other with a 20% crit rating. If each class did 100 fights, and you picked the Top 20 fights, the class with the 50% crit rating is going to be on the top. This is because the Top 20 fights are fights with a greater than average critical strike rate, inflating the damage done.
So if the Top 50 boards aren't a reliable way to measure Class DPS, what would be?
One idea is to look at the average DPS across *all* parses. The problem here is that as you drop lower and lower, skill and gear becomes dominant factors. At least the Top 50 parses are probably going to be equally skilled and geared, so you're only looking at the differences between classes. But maybe you can make the assumption that each class is equally likely to have under-skilled and under-geared players. Is that a good assumption? I'm not sure.
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My suggestion would be to add the item level of players wearing all purple, divide the player base into ranges about 50 or 100 item level difference wide and publish and average for each range. Being sure to include a standard deviation so we can see how much variance exists inside each range.ReplyDelete
And, if each range contains a large enough number of players it fine to assume each class will have a reasonably similar distribution of geared toons.
I'd go for a wider sample and then slice it up into ranges. Maybe the top 100 are balanced, but the 100-200 is dominated by moonkin, and then the 200-400 is filled with BM hunters.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:40 AM, October 02, 2009
If you created a cut-off, such as all parses where the player didn't die and was in reasonable gear and maybe even already had the achievement, then you just randomly selected 50 of those you'd end up with a better estimate.ReplyDelete
Selecting the highest adds some selection bias to your results. Selecting randomly would eliminate a lot of that. If the number of samples was reasonably high (say 50), then the chance of accidentally getting ones that weren't representative would be fairly low.
Statistics has solved this problem already. Sadly, I'm not a statistician.
- Sucellus12:17 PM, October 02, 2009
I would sugest the following procedure: take the entire universe of parses, and then calculate the average DPS per player, that is for player xyz calculate his average DPS across all parses available for that character (so in a sense calculate his average lifetime DPS rather than his average DPS for a single instance run). Do this for every character in the sample.ReplyDelete
Then take the top 50. By Chebyshev's Weak Law of Large Numbers, you are assured convergence to the true mean, so if there are enough parses for a character (20 or so should be more than enough), then the effects of variance should be eliminated (since you will likely have both higher-than-average crit rates and lower-than-average crit rates in your lifetime DPS history).
Problem solved.
- Sucellus12:22 PM, October 02, 2009
I just realized something: in the procedure you have above you would have a natural upwards drift in DPS as an individual character gears up, so you would not be taking IID samples, but autocorrelated and heteroskedastic samples (since the variance depends in how much SP/AP you have).ReplyDelete
Nonetheless, the procedure should still hold if you correct for the above.
I did a post, a while back, on why I didn't think the 5% Hybrid DPS tax didnt work, but its conclusion lends its self to your topic as well.ReplyDelete
The answer is that it is difficult to even parse an "average" dps. Fight mechanics, different assignments, all can lead to parses that vary wildly from one day to another. I know that I can pull nearly 5k in certain bosses in naxx 10 man. But others, only mayve 2.5 - just because I am assigned to be at the back kiting the zombie chows.
- Anonymous11:24 AM, October 03, 2009
1. The original EJ assumption is probably incorrect because critical rates don't actually vary that much from the mean due to the number of times the player launches any given attack. It would take a truly enormous number of player parses to generate the kinds of extremes being speculated.ReplyDelete
2. Averages across large bodies of data wouldn't work all that well because the further you get from the leading edge performance, the more room there is for 'junk data' including under -geared/-skilled players.
3. Your 'all classes have an equal chance to be geared' assumption has at least one flaw: healing/tanking classes. DPS variants of classes that can otherwise tank or heal have two possibilities - someone geared for pure DPS, and someone who is using their secondary gear because they normally tank/heal.
4. The Top 20 lists are meaningless for another reason: the results are all 'fake' since they almost certainly involve inefficient use of various buffs/abilities to magnify the individual's dps.
Ummm, I think your wrong about whether the 20% or 50% crit rate would be higher in the skewed sample.ReplyDelete
If they are equal when they get average crit rate, then if they both went up 1% the lower crit rate class should increase by more. I expect that the high crit rate class will start to saturate its proc on crit abilities.
Also the lower crit rate has a larger ability to get "lucky" streaks of crits.
Although you could be correct if what you mean is that the crit dependent class will have the most data points that scatter high. IF a class is highly crit dependent then presumably the players will stack crit.
I think Yyidth has the right idea - split it up by item level, and generate a range of values for each average item level step.ReplyDelete
The real problem with "Top 50" isn't a freak variation in number of crits seen or some other RNG luck, it's that you can't generalize "the best players in the best gear" to "good players in decent gear", much less "average players in marginal gear". The question you're wondering about when you're measuring class DPS is "are good, geared Xs being sat in favor of less-skilled or less-geared Ys".
I don't think anyone in that Top 50 chart is gonna find themselves on the bench, and I don't expect to be able to compete with them for a raid spot, so Top 50 isn't a good standard here. What we're looking for is "70% of AIL 200 rogues are out-dpsing the average AIL 207 shadow priests", and for that math we need to factor in gear and skill, not just focus on the ultra-high-end.
Perhaps take the top 1000 parses, take off the top- and bottom 100 and average the rest, should give a good indication.ReplyDelete


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Editorial: Sydney and Beyond
Editorial SYDNEY AND BEYOND
Writing now in the autumn of the Northern Hemisphere — and looking back a few short weeks to Sydney and the Fifth World Congress of Accounting Historians — it all seems so distant but ever more memorable. The efforts of Murray Wells, Alan Craswell and their colleagues at the Univesity of Sydney (and from the Australian profession all the more) to host those of our number of over 120 registrants who attended sessions, were greatly appreciated.
We were able to reestablish and make new acquaintances with our colleagues from Poland, China, Japan, Australia, the United States, Canada, Norway, Spain, Italy, Finland, Sweden, Hungary, and New Zealand. The opportunity to celebrate Ed Peragallo's 80th birthday at the Congress was also very special.
The "Internationals" are now firmly organized to follow the tradition which is becoming established since the first Congress of 1970 hosted by Ernst Stevelinck. Mr. Stevelinck, who will now be Secretary Emeritus of the International Committee, has been succeeded by Professor Roberts of Geor-gia State University. Roberts is stepping down from his 15-year role as an officer and Secretary-Treasurer of the Academy and will assist the Conveners of Future Congresses in facilitating the increasing activities related to planning and coordinating functions of this type.
The International Committee, having met in Sydney de-cided to consider favorably a proposal from the Canadian accounting history delegation to sponsor the 7th Congress in 1996 at Queens University.
The 6th Congress has been planned and approved for some time to be held in Kyoto in August, 1992 under the sponsorship of Professors Kojima and Hirabayashi.
Furthermore, the Committee approved a proposal to plan a special international history conference to be sponsored jointly with the European Accounting Association in the Spring of 1994 in Venice. This event would serve to commemorate the quincentennial anniversary of the publication of Pacioli's Summa.


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Ravai laddu or sooji laddoo (ravai and sooji being different names for semolina) is one of the few fool-proof Indian sweets you will ever find. Growing up, this was the only type of laddu my mother used to make and as a result, not only do I have an affinity for it, I also learned how to make this on my own at a young age. I can't believe it has taken me so long to post it here. My mother always made these with sweetened condensed milk, not granulated sugar, and that's how I prefer my laddus too. I like the more creamy texture you get from the condensed milk versus the 'grainy' texture you get from granulated sugar. If you have all the ingredients to make these, it wont take you more than 15 minutes to make them and these laddus also have a relatively long shelf life.
Also, I want to apologize for the half written 'almond cookie' post that I posted sometime back. It was a future post that I was preparing and oopsie .. I pressed the publish button by mistake. I'm really sorry about that!
1 1/2 cup semolina
3 tbs unsalted butter/ghee/or coconut oil
3 tbs desiccated coconut
2/3 to 1 cup sweetened condensed milk
2 tbs cashew nuts
2 tbs golden raisins
1 tsp cardamom powder
Wwater (or as required)
Heat the butter (ghee or coconut oil). Add the cashew nuts and saute until nice golden, then add the raisins and saute until the raisins start ballooning. Remove the cashew nuts and raisins from the pan and keep aside in a small bowl. Add the desiccated coconut in the same pan and roast until aromatic. Remove once done. Add the semolina in the same butter (ghee or coconut oil) you sauted the cashew nuts. Roast the semolina, on below medium heat, until light golden and aromatic. Keep stirring the semolina continously while roasting it because otherwise it will get burnt at the bottom.
Once the semolina is ready, switch off the flame. Add the sauted cashew nuts, coconut, raisins and the cardamom powder. Mix well. Spoon in the mixture into a bowl. Then add the sweetened condensed milk while stirring with a fork or a spoon, little by little, and mix until the milk is corporated into the mixture. Wait a couple of minutes if it is too sticky and then stir again (it's a difficult to say how much condensed milk you will need - you might need more or less depending on how warm your mixture is and how quickly it absorbs the moisture and what kind of semolina you use). Start gathering balls from the mixture. Semolina is very thirsty on water and is good at absorbing all the moisture. If the semolina absorbs all the water, to the point that it is difficult to gather balls, you could add a tad more water (as required) later. When gathering the balls, try to press the balls as tight as you can, so that they don't fall apart later. Let them cool down before serving. I prefer keeping mine at room temperature (but as I understand, they can be refrigerated as well) and can be stored for up to 2 weeks.


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Human Genome Sciences Inc., which was acquired for $3.6 billion by London-based GlaxoSmithKline Plc in August, intends to lay off 97 employees in mid-December, and an additional but unspecified number of cuts are planned for next year, the company warned Maryland labor regulators this week.
The Rockville-based biopharmaceuticals company, which employed as many as 1,000 people up until the acquisition, is in the process of integrating with GSK, a spokesman said.
Previously, the company disclosed in September it would cut 114 positions by the end of this month. A third round of cuts are planned for early next year, but the company did not disclose a precise figure to the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, which tracks mass layoffs among employers in the state.


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Coffret D'or Bright Up Rouge Creamy Long Lasting Lipstick (a mouthful) is one of CD's newest lip colour releases.
This lip colour is a creamy liquid lipstick, with a very soft texture and is supposed to stay put on the lips. I randomly chose RS-269 which is a warm rose – in hindsight I should've went for a cooler toned mauve rose (one of my favourite types of shades ever) but there you go, I am trying new things this year!
The packaging looks like this – a very smart looking tube with a sponge applicator:
I love the idea of liquid lip colours because you get that softness and hydration to it and colour too.
I like the Coffret D'or sponge applicator, it's quite flat and fits the curve of the lips nicely.
Despite the fact this is supposed to be like a lipstick, it's not as opaque as I thought it'd be which is a shame. It still leaves a semi-opaque glossy finish to the lips which is quite grown up and pretty. It lasted around 3/4 hours on me which isn't a very long time, decent for a glossy lipstick but hardly longwearing. I also didn't see any stain left over on my lips.
On the lips:
This wasn't the cheapest lip colour (around £20), so because it's not that opaque or long lasting, I won't be buying any more of these even if I am quite fond of this one.
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Guangzhou, also known as Canton, is a city in south China and the capital of the province of Guangdong. It lies at the head of the Pearl River delta. Historically, it was the Chinese city most open to foreign influence through trade; the events leading up to the Opium War of 1839-42 took place here. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the city was a hotbed of nationalist and revolutionary activity, and it became the seat of Sun Yat-sen's government in the early 1920s. The Northern Expedition set off from Guangzhou in 1926, and in 1927 there was a Communist-led uprising in the city.
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Most of the city's inhabitants are of Cantonese ethnicity. They are indigenous to Guangdong province and are of Tai origin. Contrary to assertions made by many academics (many being affiliated with organizations that are strongly left-wing), extensive DNA testing and historical research have proven that the Cantonese people have no relations to ethnic Chinese at all.[Citation Needed]
The local language spoken in Guangzhou is Cantonese.


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Investors are searching for easily tradable or highly liquid stocks, here we screened Compass Group PLC stock with recent volume of 2228745 shares. Particularly for day traders, high volume is crucial, as the higher the volume the more liquid the stock is. Looking around last three track record, it holds trading capacity of 3214428 shares on average basis. If you own a stock that has extremely low daily volume, it may be difficult to get free of in a short time period. CPG registered activity of relative volume at 0.69.
Compass Group PLC (CPG) belongs to Consumer Discretionary sector that received attractive attention from Investors and traders. It is going under observations and created a move of 3250.00% at recent price at GBX 1854 in most recent Trading session. Compass Group PLC stock price identified moved of 215000.00% from its 52-week maximum price level and marked a change of 157550.00% from its 52-week minimum price level. These 52-week values data help to compare its recent price with high or low prices inside a one-year framework.
CPG has a market cap of GBX 38875097747.8656. Market capitalization refers to the total dollar market value of a company's outstanding shares. The company holds Outstanding share with figure of 1588070016 and noted 1581638500 floating shares. Beta factor detected at 0.046661. Beta measures stock's price volatility relative to the market.
CPG stock's RSI is standing at 35.71. RSI is a momentum oscillator that measures the speed and change of price movements. The RSI oscillates between 0 and 100. Traditionally the RSI is considered overbought when above 70 and oversold when below 30. When the RSI reading is between 30 and 0, the security is supposed to be oversold and ready for an upward correction. When the security reading is between 70 and 100, the security is supposed to be heavily bought and is ready for a downward correction.
The objective of using RSI is to help the trader identify over sold and overbought price areas. Overbought implies that the positive momentum in the stock is so high that it may not be sustainable for long and hence there could be a correction. Likewise, an oversold position indicates that the negative momentum is high leading to a possible reversal.
The company made a return on asset (ROA) of 7.89% and return on equity (ROE) of 37.25% in past twelve months period. Price to book ratio was 884.4508 while price to sales ratio of the stock was 1.187318.
ADX value stands at 60.17. Average directional index (ADX 14) is a technical indicator that quantifies the strength of a trend regardless of its direction or momentum. The values of ADX range from 0 to 100 and are also important for distinguishing between trends and non-trends. Many traders will use ADX readings above 25 to suggest that the trend's strength is strong enough for trend trading strategies. Conversely, when ADX is below 25, many will avoid trend trading strategies.
Compass Group PLC (CPG) stock price is trading at distance of 197643.05% from the its 50-Day SMA. SMA 50 is an average stock price from the last 50 days calculated as an unweighted mean of the previous 50 stock closing prices. The current stock price is moving with difference of 197399.66% to its 200-Day SMA. Simple moving average of 200 days for a stock is an unweighted moving average over the past 200 days.
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