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Graduate Studies
Department of Women's Studies 2011-2012
Chairperson: Aimee Shouse
Office: Currens Hall 510
Telephone: (309) 298-2214
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Website: wiu.edu/Womens-studies/
Graduate Faculty
- Lori Baker-Sperry, Ph.D., Purdue University
- Aimee Shouse, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
- C. S'thembile West, Ph.D., Temple University
Associate Graduate Faculty
Assistant Professor
- Holly Stovall, Ph.D., CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Course Descriptions
405G Women's Spirituality. (3) This course will examine some of the predominant themes in women's experience from a multicultural perspective as a means of understanding how women develop their spirituality.
410G (cross-listed with SOC 410G) Women and Poverty. (3) The poverty of women in the United States, including factors of race, place of residence, and age are covered. Structural hierarchies that maintain poverty are examined from a sociological perspective.
420G (cross-listed with AAS 420G and SOC 420G) Race, Class and Gender. (3) The course will examine issues of race, class, and gender in historical, cultural, and contemporary societal contexts. Prerequisites: WS 190, or AAS 100, or SOC 100; or permission of the instructor.
430G (cross-listed with SOC 430G) Sociology of Women's Health. (3) Uses sociological theories and research to examine the gendered experience of illness. Includes sociological analysis of medical knowledge about women's health. Topics include medicalization of women's health, the gendered hierarchy of professions, and feminist critiques of scientific research.
435G (cross-listed with SOC 435G) Women and Crime. (3) Theories of female criminality, patterns of female crime and victimization, women in corrections, and women as criminal justice practitioners are examined. Prerequisites: SOC 100 or 510, or permission of the instructor.
494G (cross-listed with BC 494G and ENG 494G) Women and Film. (3) An overview of women in film and television that considers the on-screen images of women as well as the positions of women working behind the scenes (with laboratory).
501 Seminar in Feminist Theories. (3) This course offers an exploration of central theoretical perspectives to promote understanding of key tenets of second wave feminism, classical original feminist writing, and recent postcolonial and anti-essentialist feminist texts.
502 Advanced Feminist Research Methods. (3) This course explores feminist epistemology through the formation of particular methods and modes of analysis. Students will review the ways that feminist research is conducted, will be provided with examples of how classic methods have been infused with a feminist understanding, and will examine the ways that feminist theories of research have shaped existing methods within feminist work and elsewhere. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.
505 Seminar in Women's Studies. (3, repeatable) Special topics in women's studies to be announced. Prerequisite: WS 501; WS 502 recommended.
506 Graduate Readings in Women's Studies. (1–3, repeatable to 3) Readings selected in consultation with a member of the graduate faculty in women's studies. Prerequisites: WS 501; WS 502 recommended.
508 (cross-listed with ANTH 508 and SOC 508) Women and Social Movements. (3) This course covers women in social movements. Sociological, anthropological, and feminist theories are used to study women's movements and social change. Topics include, but are not limited to: suffrage, birth control, environmental, peace, child protection, and international human rights movements. Prerequisites: One previous undergraduate course in women's studies, anthropology, or sociology, or permission of the instructor.
536 (cross-listed with AAS 536) Graduate Colloquium in Womanist Theory. (3) This course provides advanced explorations into the African and African American women's perspectives and examines other feminine discourses pertaining to activism/contributions of black women in Africa, the U.S., and Europe.
571 (cross-listed with AAS 571) Women in Anglophone Caribbean: The Jamaican Experience. (3) This course examines the influence of race, class, and gender on women in the Caribbean, within a largely matrifocal society, and Caribbean women transnationally.
Table of Contents
- General Information
- Campus and Facilities
- University Services
- Special Programs
- Admission
- Academic Guidelines
- Graduate School Policies
- Costs and Financial Assistance
- Programs of Study
- Integrated Baccalaureate/Master's Degrees
- Post-Baccalaureate Certificates
- Other Departments Offering Courses for Graduate Credit
- Index


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text: Magellan 185 Posted September 10, 2012 In my games, we hardly ever get anyone playing a Priest or Seneschal - mostly because their special abilities are totally lame. With a reasonably intelligent and underhanded Rogue Trader, with some close combat ability, neither the Seneschal nor the Priest's abilities are ever required to make a well-rounded party. If someone felt like playing either of those classes, their fluff purposes can be approximated with alternate ranks, and why on Terra would we want one more DoS on a few tests when we can get a whole 'nother ship re-rolling all its pilot tests? As for Pure Faith - who has that many fate points to spare? So, what I'm getting at is this - what can these classes do that others cannot? If you have a suggestion (that is not "force players to play priests if they want to be religious figures") please reply. Otherwise, I'm looking for suggestions of what to do with these classes' special abilities. I think that the designers might have been on to something with the Dark Eldar pain tokens - since the Priest's powers mostly benefit others, giving him the ability to gain temporary fate points for use with his powers shouldn't cause him to become massively overpowered. As for the Seneschal, though, I got nothing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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My Christian grandmither sent me this link claiming that she was shocked that I actually did all of these things. Take a look:
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I'd like to point out that this person was definitely never an atheist and is trying to make others hate us.
On the site I only saw a bunch of jibber jabber that is not worth reading. I don't think that this can be an efective anti-atheist propaganda at all.
The person that wrote that load of horse ...... don't know atheists it is clear by the nonsens written.
Tell your granny that besides being deeply hurt that she has such little understanding in who you REALLY are she should also feel compelled to get information regarding your lifestyle from YOU, and only you.
Now that is just messed up. Somebody must have been off their meds when they wrote this.
Jesus H. CRIST!!! Where's the short version of that CRAP???
I ain't got the time to read shit like that.
Ain't nobody got time for that...
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I stopped reading that nonsense after the first sentence. Another imbecile christian pretending to be an "ex Atheist" to spread false lies and garbage libel


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Jobless Benefits Extension Clears One Hurdle, but More Remain — WASHINGTON — A Democratic push to extend unemployment benefits that have expired squeaked past a Republican filibuster Tuesday, setting off intense negotiations to find a way to pay for the program and win over a skeptical House leadership.
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Democrats get Republican help to get unemployment bill over first hurdle
Democrats get Republican help to get unemployment bill over first hurdle
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Income gap takes shape as central issue for both parties ahead of 2014 midterms
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After 43 years, activists admit theft at FBI office that exposed domestic spying
After 43 years, activists admit theft at FBI office that exposed domestic spying
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Dennis Rodman Screams at CNN's Chris Cuomo, Implies Kenneth Bae is Guilty in Bizarre Interview
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App could 'predict the future'
Each week a global thinker from the worlds of philosophy, science, psychology or the arts is given a minute to put forward a radical, inspiring or controversial idea – no matter how improbable – that they believe would change the world.
This week Israeli digital visionary Eyal Gever describes a machine that would give everyone a 'crystal ball'.
"My idea to change the world is a crystal ball app - a machine that would help us predict the future.
If you dropped all of the world's data into a black box, it could become a crystal ball that would let you see the future. When knowledge becomes a network, all is possible.
Imagine what happens to knowledge when very smart algorithms that grasp humanity analyze that content and visualize the data.
You could explore the past, present and prospective future of almost anything in a matter of seconds.
Having a super tool that can help us understand relationships between entities and events over time, that can foresee what may happen in the future and advise us on taking the best decision - even test what would happen if you chose option A over option B.
As Macbeth asked the witches - If you can look into the seeds of time and say, which grain will grow, and which will not, speak then to me."
You can listen to Eyal discuss his idea with American professor of mathematics Robert Kaplan and British ceramicist Edmund de Waal in more detail on the BBC World Service programme The Forum, where you can also download more 60-second ideas.
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Back to Work... and Worries
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
First, let me tell YOU how ecstatic I am that I have regular readers! I honestly do thank you from the bottom of my heart. Know why? Deep down, I've always wanted to be a writer. I used to write ALL the time when I was younger and my Twitter profile has mention of writing a book someday.
I have an awesome life story and I hope that if I ever publish it, that it prevents someone from doing some of the things I've done. Now... I don't regret a DAMN thing that I've done, from getting married at 16, to having 3 kids by the age of 22. It's been one Hell of a ride and I wouldn't change it for the world!
Someone left me a comment earlier and she said I was hilarious! I love that! That gives me validation! I've said here before, and I'm sure I'll say it again, here at my blog I share a lot with you because when I go to a blog I don't just want reviews and giveaways (although those are nice!), I was SUBSTANCE. I want to LEARN something, or just LAUGH, and I get that at every single blog I go to. I love reading about our struggles as mothers, our joys as mothers, every single bit of your life, because my ultimate goal here is to make friends. I also like to be heard, so this blog comes in handy!
Remember I was out of work with my kids being sick? (I even got a touch of it! I know you're like, no way! You're kidding?! but no, I'm serious! It only lasted a day or so... maybe three. Who's counting?)
Well I took my daughter back to the doctor yesterday because my son got sick on the 8th or 9th, had it for a day or so, then she got it, and her temp is still up and down. I'm kind of worried about it. I took her into the doctor originally (last week) because Strep was going around the school. Otherwise, I would not have, because LITERALLY the day BEFORE my son got sick, my daughter was in there so we could switch her ADHD medicine back to what she was taking before. But, I had to take her back because you just never know.
Basically, when I took her back yesterday, the doc said temps between 97 and 99 are pretty normal, and to not worry unless it goes over 100. Well this morning it was 95.7. Isn't that odd? I've never seen it so low. They did say that I could take her to get a blood test done if she's not more "normal" in the next couple of days, and gave me an order for that.
She's back in school, but I thought she was better last week and took her to school on Tuesday, and then the school nurse called and said her temp was 100 point something... So I'm a little worried I'll get called out of work to pick her up. It's bad enough I am only working from around 8:30 to 2:30 due to the issue with my son. (I haven't shared too much on that and I really can't until it's squared away, but someday I will.)
For now, I keep asking her how she feels, and keep checking her temperature. And I pray. Because without God I would not be here today!
Well I've got to close this for now! It's 11:19 and I gotta get up at 5:30.


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Picture Perfect
The Good: You hired a fabulous wedding photographer.
The Bad: Not so much with the baker.
The Ugly:
This has to be the most beautiful photo of a Wreck I've ever seen. The fact that the photographer submitted it - along with tales of watching the baker catch the toppling cake with her bare, unwashed hands before serving it - only adds to the beauty.
And really, what's a photographer tasked with making a wedding Wreck look good supposed to do? Well, after careful study, I've come up with a few options.
Option 1: Try an action shot in the background.
"Ok, bride, groom? You two stand behind the cake here. Now...reach for that wineglass!"
"Hmm, not quite enough action. Bride's dad? How about a running tackle?"
Option 2: Flowers
"We're gonna need another bunch for the middle tier, stat."
Option 3: Blend it with a busy background.
"Cake? What cake?"
Option 4: More flowers.
No, seriously. MORE FLOWERS.
You: But, Jen, those cakes look great!
Me: Exactly.
Option 5: When all else fails... PhotoShop
Take that Wreck from this...
...to this!
The irony, of course, is they'll pay more for the retouched photo than they did for the cake.
Oh, and to whoever starts a cake photo retouching service after reading this post: I want my cut.
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From the combination of two Italian greats in the fields of technology, innovation, care over detail and the quest for performance, the Abarth 695 Rivale is born, the special series conceived in partnership with Riva. This historical brand of the nautical world, which has always been synonymous with Italian elegance and style, contributed to creating the most sophisticated Abarth ever.
Available in a limited series of sedan and cabriolet versions, the Abarth 695 Rivale can be recognised by its exclusive livery: two-tone Riva Sera Blue and Shark Grey paintwork, embellished with an aquamarine double stripe that runs at waistline height, resembling the "beauty line" on yachts.
The satin chrome finish on the door handles, the "695 Rivale" name on the tailgate and rear bumpers, the satin chrome moulding on the tailgate, which evokes the sophisticated shapes of a yacht, making this model even more unmistakable thanks to its aesthetic affinity with the side grilles on the new Riva yachts.
So much charm comes from the usual quest for better performance through the constant technical upgrading that characterises every Abarth car: in fact, under the bonnet of the 695 Rivale, hides a 1368 cm3 engine, which guarantees a maximum power of 180 HP and a torque of 250 Nm. The power-to-weight ratio of the 695 Rivale is that of a real supercar (5.8 kg/HP with a mass of 1045 kg) and its performance is extraordinary: a maximum speed of 225 km/h and 6.7 seconds to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h. It is, therefore, a car that can satisfy sophisticated customers looking for elegance, sophistication and performance.
Together with the Abarth 695 Rivale, the 695 Rivale 175 Anniversary is also unveiled to celebrate 175 years of the Riva brand, which was founded in 1842. This "ultra-limited edition" accentuates the handcrafted finishes by adding customised elements, special wheel rims, celebratory logos and hand-finished blue and black leather front seats. 175 sedan and 175 cabriolet versions are available.
A car for hot asphalt that comes from the water
The aim of the 695 Rivale is to exceed Abarth's traditional values and embrace Riva's unmistakable charm to satisfy the need for exciting performance combined with a higher level of sophistication and elegance.
Its style is inspired by the very new open Riva "56 Rivale", one of the most agile and efficient yachts ever built by the boatyard in Sarnico. Traits that it has in common with the 695 Rivale, which also borrows some of Riva's typical stylistic aspects to highlight the concept of elegance and character that sets it apart. In fact, the yacht and the car share some aesthetic elements, like Riva's characteristic grey livery and the satin chrome mouldings.
Inside, the carbon fibre kick plates, blue leather seats and interior door panels, black mats with blue inserts and the carbon fibre or mahogany dashboard are variants available on request to give the car even more nautical look. Wood - the most natural of materials - is combined with most advanced technological solutions for a result of absolute excellence, just like on Riva yachts: the perfect combination of ultimate technology and expert craftsmanship. The mahogany variant allows you to embrace the Riva philosophy in greater depth: in addition to the dashboard strip, the special steering wheel is covered in blue and black leather with a mahogany badge, blue leather instrument panel cover and mahogany gear lever knob and kick plate.
The technological content is also excellent: as standard there is UconnectTM infotainment with a 7" HD touch screen, ready for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. There is also a hand-written numbered plate, which can be customised with the mane of your yacht on request: an original way of making the new Abarth 695 Rivale into a high performance land tender. Finally, the Abarth character is clearly visible in the Akrapović exhaust system with carbon tail pipes, in the Brembo brakes with black, 4-piston fixed callipers at the front, in the 17" Supersport alloy rims with special gloss grey finish and in the Abarth by Koni suspension with FSD (Frequency-Selective Damping) technology.
Thanks to its unique features, the Abarth 695 Rivale is an Instant Classic, with everything needed to become part of the tight circle of the Abarth Register, which only includes the most exclusive cars with the technical or historical requirements to make them "collector's pieces".
A tribute to Riva's 175 years
Abarth and Riva share a rich history, and consistently work on their heritage to shape their future. The stories of Carlo Abarth and Carlo Riva are two great Italian stories, of two men who had a dream, and who made it into a legend. Both of them had the courage to push their thoughts beyond the usual mould, thereby giving the world cars and boats of absolute excellence that over time have become global icons.
In 2017 Riva celebrates 175 years, a threshold that very few companies in the world can boast. To celebrate this special birthday, Abarth has come up with an ultra-limited production of the 695 Rivale, the 175 Anniversary: 175 sedans and 175 cabriolets. It is an edition to celebrate Italian know-how, with hand crafted details like the two-colour blue and black hand-stitched leather seats with a celebratory logo stitched onto the headrest, the carbon dashboard silk screen printed with the special logo, the special numbered plate inside and the celebratory badge on the outside of the pillar. The design of the 17" alloy rims is also special.
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(2:10) Major controversy over Bobby's presence at Whitney's funeral -- and this time ... he wasn't in the wrong.
(6:22) Kevin Costner's eulogy -- totally self-indulgent.
(8:00) The gravy dish found in Whitney's death tub -- would you eat out of it? Gary sure would.
(11:00) ESPN fires one employee and suspends another over the Jeremy Lin "chink in the armor" controversy -- but only one deserved punishment according to the people in the newsroom.
(18:05) Kobe Bryant promises Vanessa he'll never cheat again -- but she's already in a New York state of mind.
(26:05) Can "SNL" save Lindsay? Mike thinks it's totally possible, if...
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Big bombshell news of the day is that Pope Benedict will resign on February 28, citing his health.
So who will be the next pope?
Last April, Michael Brendan Dougherty put together a fantastic guide on the likely names, complete with the pros and cons for each name.
For a cruder look, here are the odds, via Irish betting side Paddy Power.
The top contenders by Paddy Power's odds:
- Cardinal Marc Ouellet (Canada)
- Cardinal Peter Turkson (Ghana)
- Cardinal Leonardo Sandi (Argentina)
A lot of the discussion about the next pope -- which will be decided by the Conclave Of The College Of Cardinals in a couple months -- will have to do whether the Pope is non-white, and comes from either an African or Latin country.


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It's no secret that America is getting fatter.
But these two maps from Bank of America strategist Sarbjit Nahal's report Globesity - The Global Fight Against Obesity show how fast the nation is shifting towards obesity.
The map on the left shows that in 1990, 10 states in the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System had an obesity prevalence of less than 10 percent, and no state had a prevalence more than 15 percent.
Fast-forward two decades to 2010, and no state has a prevalence of obesity less than 20 percent, and 12 states have an obesity prevalence of 30 percent or more.
Nahal notes:
The highest prevalence of obesity in the US is in the south. Mississippi, the most obese state (34%) for the sixth consecutive year, is also one of the poorest and suffers from low insurance coverage, a weak education system and high unemployment.
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I have Formica and already have 4 nanitics, since hibernation months are coming I try to give them protein and sugar power that can hold the queen for months.
First, I put honey inside the test tubs (dropped via tooth pick) and the queen and the nanitics swarmed around it.
Next, since it's been a while since the nanitics have hatched, I tried to put small roach ( pre crushed ) inside the out world to simulate foraging ( outworld is just a container) and they didn't care about it.
Next, I tried to put the roach closer to the test tube set up, still no results.
The question is: Should I be worried? Because there's no protein intake since the beginning of the colony, and the queen might not be able to survive the hibernation days
Additional: I live in apartment where whole building is heated, I don't know where should I put them, I live with my parents and no small fridge I can use.
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Specie: Formica sp.
Location: Mississauga Ontario, Canada
Set up: test tube set up connected to small container
Can be taken after I reach home.
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The protein needs of the adult ants are relatively low (not to say it is unnecessary). If they were looking for protein they would be eating the insect carcass. Protein is primarily required for brood development, since this is the only life-stage where ants "grow". Sugar is more important for adults than protein. I wouldn't be feeding them inside the tube, though, since this the leading cause of mold (feeding them in the outworld is ideal).
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Hours after cutting ties with Kyle Vanden Bosch, Stephen Peterman, and Titus Young, Detroit Lions general manager Martin Mayhew made it clear that he won't be standing on the sidelines once the free-agent market opens early next month.
"We were non-players in free agency last year. I do think that we plan to make some moves," Mayhew said, via the Lions' official website. "We need to make some changes. Obviously, things aren't going in the right direction."
Following Wednesday's transactions, the Lions are now roughly $5 million under the salary cap. The next major move of the offseason is expected to be a new deal for Matthew Stafford that could reach $100 million or more while shaving more money off the 2013 cap.
Despite the disappointing 4-12 record last season, head coach Jim Schwartz insists the club is not going through a rebuilding phase.
"When you say rebuilding it sounds like you're starting from the ground up," Schwartz said. "We have a quality quarterback. We have a pretty good wide receiver. We've got some good defensive tackles. We have some strengths on our team that we can build around."
Schwartz and Mayhew better hope their new acquisitions pull through this upcoming season, or they could both join Young as Detroit exiles.
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News reports that Americans are owed $33 billion or more in "unclaimed money" conjure up images of lottery-style windfalls. The reality is that if you are able to find something like a long-forgotten bank account, the amount you reap will probably be small.
The good news: It's a lot easier than it used to be to seek and find forgotten cash. Windfall or not, it doesn't hurt to poke around on Internet databases.
In the past decade, the rise of the Internet has made the process this simple: Enter your name and hit "go" on your state's unclaimed-property website. A list will pop up showing possible matches to be pursued, often with some hint of the amount of money involved.
Although states keep up the records, what we're talking about isn't tax-refund money. It's things like bank accounts, stocks, uncashed dividend or payroll checks, traveler's checks, insurance policies, customer overpayments, and contents of safe-deposit boxes. The state databases are the result of consumer-protection laws.
A search for "missing money" makes even more sense than usual at a time when many Americans are struggling financially.
CBS's "Early Show" reported Thursday morning that about $33 billion in unclaimed money resides with state treasuries and other agencies, waiting to be returned. This amounts to $280 per unclaimed payment, correspondent Rebecca Jarvis said.
That may be the average amount, but searches commonly turn up "less than $100."
"Unclaimed property laws have been around since at least the 1940s, but have become much broader and more enforced in the last 15 years," the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (NAUPA) says on its website, which represents the state-level programs.
If you want to hunt for this kind of buried treasure, here are some tips:
• Two key resources for easy Web-based searching are unclaimed.org and MissingMoney.com. Both charge no fee, are supported by NAUPA, and draw on state-based lists of unclaimed money. The MissingMoney site, created by NAUPA in 1999, allows one-stop searching of more than half the states plus Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. Although not all states participate in MissingMoney, the unclaimed.org site will link you to state-level search tools.
• Remember to widen your searches in appropriate ways. You can try variations of your name (before a marriage, for example). You may have rights to some money that was owed to deceased relatives, so you can search with their names as well. Also, it may pay to look in all the states where you or the relatives have lived.
• The NAUPA site offers a page of links to other resources that may be helpful, including Canadian and Swiss sites for unclaimed bank accounts and US federal agencies such as Veterans Affairs and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
Some of the government-backed websites also offer tips on avoiding scams. Some private services offer legitimate help in recovering lost assets, while others are trying to get your money unscrupulously.
On tax refunds, the Internal Revenue Service often finds you with an amount you're owed. Schedule M for income tax is a case in point: Thousands of Americans are receiving tax refunds based on the "making work pay" tax credit. For those who failed to claim it, the IRS made the correction for them.
Finally, all these reminders about lost money point back to a more basic reality: The best way to claim your money is not to lose track of it in the first place.
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H-P's Autonomy Write-Down: Remember Oracle's Accusations Too
In light of Hewlett-Packard's accusation of accounting fraud at Autonomy, an already pretty fascinating back and forth between Oracle and Autonomy's CEO last year becomes a bit more illuminating.
Recall that Oracle last year took the unusual step of confirming that its own Mark Hurd and Douglas Kehring, the head of Oracle's M&A team, had a meeting with Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch and his top banker, Qatalyst founder Frank Quattrone.
Oracle said it flat out rejected the idea of buying Autonomy because the market value of $6 billion was "extremely over-priced." (That was before H-P paid a whopping $10.25 billion.)
But Autonomy's Lynch denied that it had been shopped to Oracle.
That led to the following press release, which should go down in the Hall of Press Release Fame, if there was such a thing.
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Zachary Davis and Kendra Baker, 30-something co-owners of a small ice-cream manufacturing and retail shop in Santa Cruz, California, sat next to first lady Michelle Obama at the 2011 State of the Union address in honor of their entrepreneurship. They traveled a rocky road to their seats in the House gallery, one that reveals the parlous state of small-business finance—an endangered ecosystem whose diminished capacity to nurture new jobs is retarding the rebound from the Great Recession.
The two friends, he a computer-industry dropout, she a pastry chef, decided to open the Penny Ice Creamery in early 2009. Though it was during the depths of the downturn, they weren't crazy to start a new business. Entrepreneurs often see recessions as a time to start new businesses because downturns expose or sweep away inefficient, incompetent, or archaic incumbents. After surveying the chain-dominated local landscape, Davis and Baker saw a niche for ice cream made from locally procured organic ingredients blended in equipment sporting the "Made in the USA" label.
Armed with that patriotic dream and a carefully crafted business plan, Davis and Baker visited six banks. They brought to the table $100,000 from family and friends—the "angel capital" raised informally that often helps bankroll small-business start-ups. Four of the banks turned them down with minimal due diligence. "Wells Fargo tried to sell us a lot of products we didn't need," Davis recalls.
Finally, they found a receptive ear at a three-year-old community bank, itself a somewhat imperiled species. However, Lighthouse Bank insisted on securing the $250,000 loan not just with liens on the business's assets and the owners' homes—typical encumbrances for small enterprises—but with a Small Business Administration (SBA) guarantee made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). "The only way we could do a loan to a start-up company in this crazy environment was with the help of the SBA and its new 90 percent loan program," says Bob Dennis, vice president at Lighthouse. Since the expiration of the stimulus act, the SBA has returned to guaranteeing 75 percent of the value of asset-backed loans. Without the ARRA, there would have been no Penny Ice Creamery.
The business succeeded beyond everyone's expectations. Penny Ice Creamery last year racked up $800,000 in sales. In addition to employing 25 skilled workers during construction, Davis and Baker hired 40 full- and part-time employees, up from 3 when they opened in August 2010. Lighthouse "had a lot of people sign up to transfer money from the big banks," Davis says. "They're doing a tremendous service to our community."
Unfortunately, successful start-ups like Penny Ice Creamery are a rare phenomenon, a fact that's contributing to the dearth of new jobs in this fragile recovery. Commerce Department surveys show that small-business formation over the past five years has remained relatively stagnant at about 600,000 a year. That represents a long-term decline when adjusted for population and the size of the economy.
Moreover, the number of new businesses that hire people other than the proprietor has declined as a share of the total. In their place has come the rise of involuntary entrepreneurship—laid-off white-collar experts or blue-collar tradesmen who hang out a shingle as consultants or perform odd jobs while looking for full-time work. A new business today employs an average of 4.9 people compared to 7.5 in the 1990s. "People are starting self-employed businesses just to make ends meet," says Zoltan J. Acs, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy at George Mason University in Virginia. "We're not going to become a better society because of that."
The difficulty in financing start-ups parallels what is going on at many existing small businesses, which need working capital to grow. Lee Erickson, president of the VRX Company outside Knoxville, employs five people who design and market a device that links a surveillance camera to cash-register receipts in order to minimize employee theft—a major issue for retailers with mostly cash transactions like convenience stores. But with typically only about $20,000 cash on hand, he can order just 200 devices at a time from his contract manufacturer. That freezes him out of bidding on larger sales contracts with major retail chains.
"I wanted something in place where I could quickly double my inventory," Erickson says. "Banks essentially wanted the deed to my home—assets outside the company's assets. I talked to the regional bank where I do my checking and savings and got the same answer. When there are these opportunities for large orders, we have to tell [the retailer] they'll have to make a big payment up front. That makes it difficult for them, and they get cold feet."
Commercial and industrial lending to small businesses has stayed depressed even though the economic recovery is now more than two years old. Though GDP has now surpassed pre-recession levels, the roughly $1.3 trillion in outstanding commercial and industrial loans at the nation's financial institutions is nearly 15 percent below the levels of mid-2008, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). A recent analysis by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland showed that the decline was most severe in the small-business sector, with loans of less than $100,000 declining 18.1 percent and loans between $100,000 and $250,000 down 16.7 percent.
The latest data also showed that the small-business disadvantage is growing. In last year's third quarter, overall commercial and industrial lending grew by $44.8 billion, or 3.6 percent, over the previous quarter for its fifth consecutive gain. But smaller loans (those less than $1 million) fell by $3.1 billion, or 1.1 percent, according to the FDIC. Gains were "concentrated in loans to large and middle-market firms rather than in loans to smaller firms," the U.S. Federal Reserve noted in its October quarterly survey of bank-lending officers.
"Access to capital is just [a] huge [problem] right now," says John Arensmeyer, chief executive officer of Small Business Majority, an advocacy group that backed health-care reform and other progressive solutions to small-business problems. "It's always been a problem for small business, but now it's really about having working lines of credit. That's just gone away."
Economists employed by mainstream small-business and community-banking trade groups dismiss claims that access to credit is a major stumbling block for small business. "They tell us credit conditions are not their top problem," says William Dunkelberg, chief economist at the National Federation of Independent Business, which surveys its constituency monthly.
Some community bankers echo that view. "I don't see companies knocking on our door who can't get credit," says Scott Cote, the president of the $650 million Pentucket Bank, which has five branches in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. "A lot of businesses are fairly conservative right now. They don't want to hire people until they see demand pick up for their products."
Clearly, sluggish growth and high unemployment affect sales at small businesses, just as at large ones. But with consumer purchasing power returned to pre-recession levels and consumer confidence starting to rebound, there is mounting evidence that small businesses face a far tighter financing environment than is warranted by current economic conditions.
Interviews with government officials, economists, community bankers, small-business groups, venture and angel capitalists, and academics reveal a complex web of factors that limits many small businesses' access to capital. One major contributor is the steady decline of the community-banking sector. Over the years, community banks have been a major source of local small-business finance. But today there are 1,124, or 13.1 percent, fewer U.S. financial institutions than there were in 2007, and the disappeared consist entirely of banks with less than $1 billion in assets.
Financial assets have become concentrated in ever fewer large institutions, which have little appetite for financing new entrepreneurs, because the deals and fees are smaller and the transaction costs, higher. The top 106 banking giants, defined as institutions with more than $10 billion in assets, held 79.4 percent of the nation's $13.8 trillion in financial assets in 2011, up from 116 firms with just 69.1 percent of $12.7 trillion in total assets in 2007. Mega-banks like Citibank, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase are far more likely to finance a Fortune 1000 firm than a locally owned ice-cream shop.
Another factor dampening the lending environment for small businesses is the slow recovery in their balance sheets. Sales fell sharply during the downturn, so cash-flow statements for the past three years (the rearview mirror used by most bankers) may look far worse than current prospects. Just as important, many companies' primary assets—their land and buildings—fell sharply in value during the downturn and have only partially rebounded. "Fifty-six percent of loans are secured by real estate," says Richard Brown, chief economist for the FDIC. "When that real estate is in an underwater environment, it's harder to justify any new loans."
The weaker balance sheets and declining value of collateral in turn triggered tougher government oversight of community banks. Some local bankers say tougher standards are making it more difficult to extend credit, even to their best customers. Noah Wilcox, president of the Grand Rapids State Bank in Grand Rapids, Minnesota (population 10,000), claims his bank's small--business customers are rejecting the tougher demands of his overseers that he must pass along. "They're being told they need a quarterly accountant--prepared statement as a direct result of regulatory pressure," he says. "And they say to us, 'Forget it. I've been here for 25 years. I've never missed a payment. I'll give you a self-prepared statement and my tax return at the end of the year.' And we're saying, 'That's not good enough anymore.'"
Thanks to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which mostly helped the largest banks, bad loans at big banks by the end of the third quarter of 2011 were down to 1.3 percent of outstanding credits. But among banks in the asset range of $100 million to $1 billion, bad credits still totaled 2.3 percent of all commercial and industrial loans, unchanged from two years earlier.
That environment—where troubled local banks appear unable to meet re-emerging small-business credit needs—would normally be an ideal environment for new banking institutions to emerge. Historically, the FDIC issued anywhere from 100 to 200 new charters a year. But new community- or savings-bank entrants have all but evaporated in the aftermath of the Great Recession, falling to 11 in 2010 and just 3 in 2011. Six months recently went by with no new applicants—the first time that has happened in the 78-year history of the FDIC.
"We're not getting as many applications in, and those we take in we have to look at their economic prospects for success," says Serena Owens, associate director of risk-management supervision at the agency. "It's hard to justify when we've seen so many that failed." Perhaps, but the failure ratio isn't unique, only the agency's response. There were comparable losses to insured financial institutions during the S&L crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. But during the earlier crisis, the government set up the Resolution Trust Corporation to help community banks and savings institutions unload the nonperforming commercial real-estate loans, which made it easier for them to resume lending. Nothing comparable happened this time around.
Indeed, the government response to the current small-business financing crisis can best be described as half-hearted. The Obama administration's stimulus package did loosen requirements on SBA–backed loans, which allowed more lenders and borrowers to take advantage of its two main programs—section 7(a) working-capital loans and section 504 asset-backed loans. But while total loans from the two programs rose to $24.5 billion in 2011 from $20.6 billion in 2007, the average loan size soared to nearly $400,000, more than twice the average loan made before the recession, and some 50,000 fewer borrowers took advantage of the program.
Meanwhile, rather than focusing on the bulk of small businesses engaged in retail and wholesale trade, construction, and manufacturing, the administration is emphasizing an "innovation" agenda to spur new small-business formation. It launched the Startup America Partnership, headed by Steve Case, who founded AOL, and Reid Hoffman, who created LinkedIn. It poured $1 billion into an "early-stage innovation fund" to match start-up investments by small-business investment companies.
The focus on stimulating the fast-growing technology firms certainly has a compelling logic behind it. The pioneering work of MIT professor David Birch in the early 1980s recognized that most new small-business jobs came from high-growth start-ups, which he dubbed "gazelles." While not all such firms were technology driven, many were.
But the returns to Main Street America from such a strategy are limited. The American dream of launching the next science-driven new thing, whether in computers, software, telecommunications, biotechnology, or clean energy, lives on, but its benefits accrue to select precincts, generally found along the coasts or in a handful of university towns across the heartland.
"The information economy is a driver, but it's not a major factor in creating jobs," adds Rick Burnes, a partner at Charles River Ventures. Citing breakouts by companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter, Burnes says, "We're relatively early in this technology. It will shake out over the next ten years in ways we cannot see. But in terms of employing a lot of people, it's not going to."
To be sure, access to capital is not the only challenge faced by entrepreneurs. Clean energy should be a natural candidate for high-growth and technical innovation. But absent a radical change in federal policy like a carbon tax or cap-and-trade, clean-energy technology firms will continue to struggle. They face politically powerful entrenched incumbents in the oil, gas, coal, and electric-generation industries, whose allies in Congress want to kill various incentive programs (while seeking to expand fossil-fuel subsidies, which are ten times greater in value).
Health-care innovation firms—a huge emphasis for state and local economic-development efforts across the country—face their own set of constraints. The medical payoff from the huge government investment over many decades in molecular biology, cancer research, and the Human Genome Project is beginning to bear fruit. Angel investors and some venture-capital firms are pouring money into medical--device and boutique drug-development firms. But money is getting harder to come by, as health-insurance reimbursements face financial limits.
America remains the most entrepreneurial country on earth. Business schools report that courses on how to start a business are now the most popular offerings, not the financial-engineering classes that animated the last several generations of B-school students. "It used to be the smart guys went to Wall Street or consulting firms," says Burnes of Charles River Ventures. "Now they're starting new businesses." Across the country, the same spirit is animating young people, who are legitimately fearful that the future economy won't allow them to marry, raise children, and become part of a stable middle class.
But a lot more needs to be done. Beyond reversing the tilt in regulatory policy that favors large businesses and large banks, the government must rebuild both the research and financing infrastructure that sustains small-business development. A first step would be a major new commitment to investing in science through the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other agencies that over the last half-century provided the ideas and technologies that spawned the computer age, the Internet, new health-care technologies, and more.
The government should also make major new commitments to the Small Business Innovation Research grant program, where science-based agencies set aside money for private firms seeking to commercialize cutting-edge technologies. "The companies that got those grants are doing substantially better than others, at least if they were located in areas of the country with entrepreneurial clusters," says Joshua Lerner, a professor who studies innovation at the Harvard Business School.
The government also needs to rejuvenate the infrastructure that supports local entrepreneurship outside the innovation clusters, which is being eviscerated by the budget cuts imposed in last summer's debt-ceiling deal. For instance, the Economic Development Administration, which funds business start-up incubators across the country, saw its budget slashed from $133 million in 2011 to $112 million this year. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, which runs training programs for the nation's small manufacturers, saw its $750 million appropriation frozen and its technology-innovation program eliminated.
The coming debate over business taxes and tax reform provides a huge opportunity to promote small-business development. Current policy encourages debt-financed private-equity takeovers, which allow firms like Mitt Romney's Bain Capital to strip-mine companies' best assets, flip them to new investors, and pocket the proceeds at preferential tax rates. The code should end the interest deduction for debt-financed takeovers and reserve long-term capital-gains rates for legitimate long-term investments. While the costs of regulatory compliance are exaggerated, there are some deserving candidates for streamlining, such as simplified accounting standards for small businesses under the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Finally, government should confront the real-estate debt crisis head on and take steps to resolve the underwater loans that are burdening the balance sheets of small banks and businesses alike. "The government needs to guarantee pools of credit, not fully secured, based on the overall risk factors of the pool," says Small Business Majority's Arensmeyer. "Why should businesses with collateral have an advantage over those that don't? It should be a function of how worthy the business is." ª


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – T'Keyah Williams notched a double-double with 20 points and 11 rebounds and Diamond Henderson added 21 points, six assists and four steals as Tennessee Tech ran away from Rice, 78-65, Saturday night in women's basketball action in Eblen Center.
Both totals were career-high numbers for Williams, a sophomore from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., who was 10-for-13 from the field. Lashay Davis contributed nine points, five rebounds and four assists for the Golden Eagles.
Jessica Kuster led Rice (1-2) with 22 points and six rebounds, while Megan Palmer netted 17 and Jessica Goswitz added 12 points and five assists.
The Golden Eagles (2-1) host three more games in November, beginning Tuesday with a visit from long-time, arch-rival Middle Tennessee State. Tipoff is at 5:30 p.m. as the women open a doubleheader, to be followed by the Golden Eagle men hosting Evansville at 7:30 p.m.
For tickets, visit the Athletics Ticket Office in Eblen Center or call (931) 372-3940.
After a tight first half, the Golden Eagles found their shooting range in the second half to connect on 55.9 percent (19-for-34), including half (5-for-10) from long distance.
The Golden Eagles owned a lopsided 45-34 advantage in rebounds, and made just 11 turnovers in the game – six in the first half and five in the second.
Neither team could gain a foothold through the first 16 minutes, taking turns owning one- and two-point leads. Tech squirted out to a six-point edge, 26-20, on a layup by Williams with 4:19 to play in the half, and a Harris jumper made it six once more, with 3:14 to play. At the break, the Golden Eagles were on top by four, 30-26.
The Golden Eagles opened the second-half with a 12-1 run to build a 15-point advantage, moving on top by 42-27 with 16:05 to play. Williams had a couple of buckets and Davis nailed a 3-pointer to finish the run.
The Owls snapped back with a 9-0 run of their own, including two buckets by Kuster and five straight from Goswitz, closing the difference to four points, 42-38.
Katherine Barker's driving layup put a halt to the Rice run and ignited a rally by the Golden Eagles. Davis and Kellie Cook each drained long 3-pointers as Tech reclaimed a double-digit lead. Cook's trey from the left wing made it 53-41 for the Golden Eagles.
Once again, Tech took its lead out to 15 points when Williams' jumper made it 60-45, and Cook kept it at 15 with a jumper to make it 62-47 with 4:43 remaining.
But Rice wouldn't let up. The Owls pulled to within eight, 67-59, on a 3-pointer by Goswitz with two minutes left.
Henderson's floater in the lane put it back to 10, 69-59 and Davis snatched a defensive rebound that led to a spinning layup by Henderson at the other end for a 71-59 Golden Eagle lead with 1:40 remaining.
A 3-pointer from on top by Palmer sliced it back to nine points, 71-62, with 1:14 to play but the Golden Eagles came out of a timeout with a layup by Williams. Palmer nailed another 3-pointer, and the difference was eight, 73-65, with 50 seconds on the clock.
Henderson made three of four free throws down the stretch, and Williams got behind the defense for a layup with 11 seconds left for the final margin as Tech scored the last five points of the night.


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Konnan has risen from a troubled youth to the heights of stardom in pro wrestling, appearing in various Mexican organizations, ECW, WCW and he now can be found as a member of 3 Live Krew in NWA-TNA. But whether he was with the NWO or 3LK, he has never forgotten his lucha libre roots.
Konnan's young life was filled with hardship, as he struggled to survive on the streets of Miami. His involvement in street gangs led to jail time for Konnan. But after a four-year stint in the navy, he turned to boxing, winning the California Middleweight Amateur Boxing Championship in 1982 and 1983.
A man by the name of John Roberts, looking for new lucha talent, "discovered" Konnan and directed him to Rey Mysterio, Sr, who trained Konnan for the wrestling ring, as well as Rey Mysterio, Jr, Psicosis, Ciclope, Damien. After training for eight months, wrestling as El Centurion, Konnan began his career in Tijuana. After wrestling in Mexico and Southern California, Canek and Perro Aguayo brought him to their UWA/Lucha Libre Internacional promotion, the number two organization in Mexico at the time.
Konnan did a short stint with WWE, under his own name, as well as "Maximillion Moves", "Max Moon" and "El Electrico". Eventually, the organization settled on Max Moon, but before long a frustrated Konnan had left the organization and Paul Diamond replaced him in the role. Konnan had a short stopover in WCW, teaming with Rey Mysterio Sr, as "Team Mexico", competing in the Pat O'Connor Memorial International Tag Team Tournament. Team Mexico defeated Team UK (Chris Adams and Norman Smiley) but lost to the Steiners, representing the U.S.
Returning to Mexico, Konnan began wrestling in EMLL, where he feuded with Perro Aguayo, eventually losing his mask to his opponent. In 1992, Konnan became involved in the creation of AAA (Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion). He became embroiled in a vicious feud with Cien Caras that culminated in a retirement match at TripleMania (AAA's version of WrestleMania) in April of 1993. The match drew the all-time attendance record in Mexico as 48,000 fans jammed into the Plaze de Toros bullring in Mexico City, as Caras defeated Konnan due to the interference of Jake the Snake Roberts.
Konnan feuded with Roberts defeating him in a steel cage match in Los Angeles in March 1994 and a "hair vs. hair" match in Tijuana in May 1994 at TripleMania II. Later, Konnan turned on his tag partner, Perro Aguayo and formed a heel stable called Los Gringos Locos with Eddy Guerrero, the late Art Barr, Madonna's Boyfriend (the late Louie Spicolli) and others. Konnan's feud with Aguayo climaxed at AAA's only pay-per-view event, When World's Collide from Los Angeles, losing a bloody cage match
In 1995, Konnan headed back to the U.S. to ECW, engaging in series of matches against the Sandman and battling Jason Knight at November to Remember '95, with Taz as the referee. By the beginning of 1996, however, Konnan was headed to WCW, arriving as "Mexican Champion" and defeating Psychosis at Clash of the Champions XXXII.
While working as the booker for AAA, Konnan also helped book many of the organization's top stars (including Juventud Guerrera, Rey Mysterio Jr., Psicosis, and La Parka) for WCW. Almost immediately after arriving in WCW, Konnan unseated the One Man Gang on January 29, 1996 in Canton, Ohio for the United States Championship. Four days later, Konnan defeated the Killer to win the AAA Heavyweight Championship. Even as Konnan defended the U.S. title in WCW, he took part in the World Wrestling Peace Festival in Los Angeles, defeating Bam Bam Bigelow and Chris Jericho. At Bash at the Beach '96, however, he would lose the U.S. title to Ric Flair.
Konnan would join forces with the NWO and eventually defeat Jericho< for the WCW Television Championship on November 30, 1998. When the inevitable NWO split came, Konnan sided with the Wolfpac, donning the red and white of the Kevin Nash-led faction.
With the reformation of the NWO in January 1999, Konnan found himself on the outs with the supergroup. After battling the Outsiders and Lex Luger, Konnan also found himself being annoyed by Disco Inferno, but soundly defeated Disco at Spring Stampede.
Joining forces with Rey Mysterio, Jr. and the No Limit Soldiers against Curt Hennig and the West Texas Rednecks in a rap vs. country music feud. With the departure of Master P from WCW, Konnan continued to team with Mysterio, along with Billy Kidman and Juventud Guerrera and Eddie Guerrero as the Filthy Animals. The group brought Konnan some success as he and Mysterio defeated Harlem Heat on October 18, 1999 to win the WCW Tag Team titles. They were stripped of the titles due to an injury to Mysterio, but Konnan teamed with Kidman to once again defeat Harlem Heat and begin another reign as Tag Team Champion.
Konnan would spend much of 2000 on the outs with WCW, and would also miss time due to a tricep tear that required surgery in July 2000. In between those absences, Konnan led the Filthy Animals into battle against the Misfits in Action and, later, the Natural Born Thrillers and Team Canada.
After the demise of WCW, Konnan wrestled in Mexico (defending the AAA Championship), Puerto Rico (where he teamed with Carly Colon to win the WWC Tag Team titles and later defeated Colon for the WWC Championship), Australia and Ireland (with the World Wrestling All-Stars).
In mid-2002, Konnan became a part of NWA-TNA, becoming part of the Gauntlet for the Gold match (won by Ken Shamrock) on the inaugural show. In those early weeks, Konnan began to form the Authentic Luchatores with several lucha libre stars including Juventud Guerrera and Super Crazy. However, soon Konnan began teaming with Ron Killings and BG James as 3 Live Krew.
3 Live Krew began making appearances in the summer of 2003 and were used both as comic relief and serious contenders for the NWA World Tag Team titles, a championship won on November 26 when they defeated Simon Diamond, Johnny Swinger and Glen Gilbretti.
Even as 3 Live Krew finds itself in the midst of a lengthy feud with Team Canada, there is dissention in their ranks. Kip James turned up in NWA-TNA and seems to want to reteam with his former New Age Outlaw tag partner, 3LK member BG James, something that weighed heavily on Konnan's mind at present.
Kip James eventually proved his loyalty to BG James and Konnan inducted Kip into the group, turning 3 Live Krew into 4 Live Krew, but the good will didn't last for long.
In the middle of an 8-man tag match against Team Canada at Turning Point, Konnan attacked both Kip and BG James. In the weeks that followed, BG and Kips became the James Gang, while Konnan brought in Homicide and Apollo (later replaced with Machete) as the Latin American Exchange.
Konnan and LAX even went so far as to attack BG James' father, Bullet Bob Armstrong. The James Gang defeated LAX at Against All Odds but few expect this feud to be over anytime soon.
-- compiled by John Milner with files from John Molinaro


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Decision : CONF 010 VIII.39
Review of Nominations to the World Heritage List
The Committee further decided to defer consideration of all other nominations listed in document CC-78/CONF.010/7 until its third session. All these nominations, as well as those received after the Bureau meeting and listed in document CC-78/CONF.010/7 Add.1 (for which it had been impossible to complete the technical review, translation and transmission to all States members of the Committee in time before the second session) would be transmitted to the Bureau for examination prior to their consideration by the Committee at its next session.
DocumentsDecisions Report
Context of DecisionCC-78/CONF.010/7
CC-78/CONF.010/7 Add.1
Decision Code: CONF 010 VIII.39
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
A Self-Proclaimed "Accidental Pediatric Nephrologist" is Honored
Julie R. Ingelfinger, MDPediatrician and Senior Consultant in Pediatric Nephrology
A self-proclaimed "accidental pediatric nephrologist," Julie Ingelfinger, MD, is this year's recipient of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology's (ASPN) Founder's Award given annually to recognize persons who have made a "unique and lasting contribution to the field of pediatric nephrology."
"Getting this award causes one to reflect on 'why me?'" Ingelfinger says. "It is rewarding to be recognized for several decades of work. I was shocked though. I feel many other people in my field deserve this award."
Ingelfinger says she went to medical school at Albert Einstein College intending to become a pediatric psychoanalyst; she was enjoying a pediatric internship at Einstein when she learned she would be moving to St. Louis. There were by that time in the year no pediatric residency slots remaining at St. Louis Children's Hospital. But she was offered a fellowship in pediatric nephrology and fast tracking for residency because the chief of pediatric nephrology had heard her give a talk on some kidney-related research she had done for fun as a medical student. Although not what she originally planned, Ingelfinger says she pursued the fellowship, and after about six weeks decided the field interested her after all.
"I'm lucky to be in this field," Ingelfinger says, "in which one can meet, diagnose and treat children with diverse problems. By the discoveries we make, we can solve unanswered questions and improve the outcome for many patients."
Dr. Ingelfinger had passion for learning as a 5-year-old.
In addition to her role at MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC), Ingelfinger does basic and clinical research, is Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and has served as a Deputy Editor for the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) since 2001. MGHfC Chief of Pediatric Nephrology Harold Jueppner, MD, says Ingelfinger has especially thrived in her position at the NEJM.
"Her work at the Journal has helped the pediatric nephrology community gain more visibility," Jueppner says. "She's always struck me as someone who very quickly grabs new ideas and translates them into something a lay person can easily understand, and I think it's a wonderful honor for her to receive the award."
The ASPN Awards Committee chose Ingelfinger, an active member and one of the first female presidents of the society, from among 10 candidates and will present her with the award on April 30th at the annual Pediatric Academic Societies/ASPN meeting in Boston on April 28 – May 1.
"The most important reason she got this award is because of her accomplishments and her leadership," ASPN President William Schnaper, MD, says." She wrote an entire book on pediatric hypertension during an age when books are written by many experts and then edited by a few people. Instead, she took the time to master the field from beginning to end and shared that mastery with the rest of us. What I don't think many people know is how tirelessly and generously she shares her knowledge with others, regardless of the size or perceived importance of the particular group."
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Trying and searching for days to resolve this. Im trying to get this to work as a favor for someone but no luck whatsoever. :)
using the ASUS wl-167 usb adapter.
I have a windows vista pc, where all is working fine as soon as I plugin the usb adapter, a popup shows and the internet works..(took me a while since I am not familiar with Linux...at all). Also, I see the icon on the bottom of my screen.
Now, i'm trying to do the same on my friends laptop which is a brand new HP with windows 7. however I see no icon, have no internet yet when I go to host virtual network mapping it does see the ASUS adapter. Whenever I plugin the usb adapter I get a message that The network bridge on device VMnet0 is temporarily down because the bridged ethernet device ...... Same setting as on the pc but just cant get it to work
BTW I set both up according to the youtube tutorial by kiwi12k.
I don't know if i'm giving enough information but please help me out with this one. Maybe there is a simple solution that i'm just not seeing.
thanx in advance


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Precision De-Esser
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M. Daniele
Not only a corrective tool...
I practically use it on every vocal track, even the ones that wouldn't really need de-essing, because I love the smoothness and the "silky" natural feel it gives to vocals top-end, reducing harshness in a slightly different way you can do by simply equalising. Furthermore, it's very easy to be tweaked to find the optimal sweet-spot.
One of my top 10 "desert-island" plugins.
A. Kosinski
St.Petersburg's review
Ooooh! Russian is specific language. Listen to the Putin))). There are many "S" and "ch" (?)!!!! . Process of editing vocal tracks is very difficult. I tried to use popular de-essers of different brands. But…(
UAD2 Precisson De-esser easy to use and 100% works. Thank you, Universal Audio!
M. Smith
Most natural De -esser
This was an impulse purchase and i have to say is the most natural de-esser i have every worked with
A. Kotelnikov
soft and invisible work
Use it on vocals, blasting "S" movement cleaned only one knob, soft and invisible work.
V. Uhov
Precision De-Esser Plug-In
Works very well on hard consonants Russian ...
Most importantly does not consider the computer - all cheat DSP processor card
B. Weik
Fantastic De-esser, do not overlook this gem!
Want to know just how good this De-Esser is? Started the demo, and was ready to buy the next day. Been using the standard de-esser in Logic. It works OK but nothing like this. Within 3 minutes of starting the demo, I was able to perfectly De-es a male vocal. I was considering a different de-esser but decided to give this a shot. My other consideration did have a great looking UI and visual feedback, but that doesn't seem to matter. Use the SOLO to quickly find the frequencies, adjust the threshold and you're done! Easiest De-essing i've ever done. If you don't have a de-esser, definitely check this out! Works fantastic. Another winner from Uaudio!
M. Grojean
The most transparent de-esser I have ever used!
So simple to use! Other de-essers I have used don't even come close. I have been able to successfully and easily dial in this plugin without any audible side effects, bypass it and you hear the same transparency, the only difference when enabled is that it's doing EXACTLY what I need it to do! Precision is a very accurate description of this plugin, I wouldn't mix vocals without it!
I. Vidovic
At first I told myself I didn't need this but after demoing it, I think every studio needs this plug in. By far the best De-Esser on the market. Its very easy to use and transparent. WORTH EVERY PENNY!
The only think I don't like about UAD plug ins is that your Apollo has to be powered on to be able to use them! I would like to see future updates where my DAW can use all UAD plug ins by itself if need be.
R. Jones
Best DeEsser in the world
I am a music professional with over 25 years experience recording and mixing. The Precision DeEsser by far is the most precise at controlling and or eliminating excessive sibilance in vocals. After purchasing UAD plugs, I no longer use waves on any of the productions I record an mix.
R. Perez
I think it goes without saying that this product not only works, but works well, given UA's reputation. But I do want to add that I think the interface is very no-nonsense, and the sound is actually very natural. It's a huge plus to be able to track vocals with a zero-latency de-esser... it's such a great experience and really allows you to feel more comfortable and confident while recording your vocal takes. I used to de-ess after recording. This way is a night and day difference. I love the ability to solo the sibilant part, so I can hone in on exactly what I'm trying to remove. Very professional product.
M. Alton
Precision De Essser plug in
This plug in is working great for me
in my home studio environment !!!!!
In all my online reading it seems that folks with bigger budgets, have many brands of
De esser plug ins,
and choose whichever unit is working on thier particular problem.
I have a limited budget so .....
What has been working great for me.
is to sometimes use two instances of this plug in on a vocal track
with lots of sibilance problems.
First plug in I will set up a narrow band deeseer
Second instance of plug in can be a narrow or broadband as necessary
Ahhh that sounds better !!!!!!
G. Mckinney
The De-Esser is the sweetest De-Esser I've used. I originally purchased it because I needed something to buy with my $50 voucher and I didn't want to overshoot my budget considering I haven't used any of the plugs yet. This guy does the trick well. I set it to the sweet spot and it grabs the extra without being noticed in the mix. I've used it for a few other tricks as well. Like giving songs an "older" feel by pulling at some of the extra top end often rolls off of Reverbs and etc. I'm more than happy with this tool.
M. Åkesson
Just a de esser..?
Let´s be honest, There are all kinds of De essers out there. Why buy this one?
Well.. Besides all the functions it has, it really sounds great!
It´s not just the S:es that is important, it´s what happens around the treated freq. The level of transparancy is just silly...
I use it on OH:s if I need to tame some cymbals, guitars same thing. You can really use it anywhere!
Buy it!
J. Cox
Works great!
Sonnox Surpressor takes up to much CPU and wigs out sometimes, this thing is precise and works great!
So I had an AKG c414XLII and It was really harsh with every pre i used it with at 3.7k... Now this is probably my room, I hallucinate that it is but It was very irritating.
This thing got rid of whatever that annoying harshness was at 3.7k and did a good job on S's too.
C. Cardoso
One of the best De-Essers I've used
This is definitely one of my favorite de-essers, sounds very natural while doing what it was meant to do. It doesn't damage the source sound, however it's able to control the the S's in a very effective manner. It's now a must in my arsenal.
H. Williamson
Not just a De-esser
De-essing has been a part of my life for more than thirty years. I have cut more than 8000 12"acetates for almost everyone you'd care to mention and without that precious tool none of it would have gone into production. My first de-esser was the one that came with the Neumann VMS70 lathe, strong, silent, precise and - simple.
I quickly found that de-essing can be used for other things too. The basic principle of having a variable part of a signal compressed and limited independently of the rest is brilliant. These days I use it to sweeten a vocal track that might be a bit edgy when the voice is pushed or tired, to reduce the bite-through of a very variable instrument like trumpet or even sitar - there are no limits. I love this plugin.
P. Hird
Much more than just a vocal tool!!
UAs Precision De-Esser is a very versatile piece of gear.
Just for vocal sibilance?? On no!! Use it on harsh cymbals, horns, strident strings... Just to name a few.
Another very useful tool for my arsenal.
Thanks AGAIN UA!!
Paul Hird
C. Schneider
Works fine
Very good deesser, it does what it is supposed to do, easy to handle but still very flexible, smooth sound. My favorite deesser!
Y. Tovstogan
Precision De-Esser Plug-In
I like very accurate work of the plugin is good for processing vocals.
I had problems with the work on vocals, especially if the vocals had lots of letters "s".
The plugin is very correctly coping with the problems and the result is very good.
Thanks for the support!
Yuri TovSt'Gun
A. Smith
Best sounding De-Esser
In a world of a million different De-Esser's its nice to have one that works beautifully every time. It sounds sooo natural and smooth, it has become my go to De-Esser.