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Gabrielle Tarbert
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Major/Minor: Political Science
Campus Involvement
- Major: Political Science
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- Presidential Fellow
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- Habitat for Humanity
Japanese Politics
When I came to Washington College, I knew I wanted to major in political science. I had never had a big interest in international politics, choosing instead to focus on domestic political issues. So studying Japanese politics for the entirety of my junior year was not something I pictured myself doing. Because Washington College is a liberal arts school, we are required to fulfill distribution requirements. This requirement was the reason I found myself seated in Dr. Oros' International Politics of East Asia class in the fall of my junior year. A small class of only nine students, half of whom were international students from East Asian countries, I was overwhelmed and intimidated.
Thanks to an excellent professor who was passionate about his subject area, as well as my new international friends, my interest in the region expanded. After being assigned to give an in-class briefing on Japan security issues, I became more attuned to current events related to Japan.
When Dr. Oros approached me with an opportunity to take a course in Japanese Politics and Foreign policy, supplemented with a spring break trip to Japan, I immediately applied. I was accepted into the course for the spring semester, along with 18 classmates. After only a short time studying Japanese culture and politics, I was boarding a flight to Tokyo. This trip was funded by a generous grant from the Japan Foundation.
My experience in Japan was incredible. We did everything: explored Tokyo, experienced the nightlife of downtown Shinjinku, visited ancient shrines and museums, volunteered in the disaster-struck Tohoku region, and made connections with alumni currently living and working in Japan.
I never imagined my experience at Washington College would include two courses on the politics of East Asia and travel to Japan. But being introduced to different things is a trademark of a Washington College education, and oftentimes leads students to expand their worlds in ways they never thought were possible.
My experience came full circle April 11, 2012 when I traveled to the nation's capital to talk about our group's volunteer efforts in the Tohoku region, the tsunami-struck area that lies north of Tokyo. Three of my classmates and I gave a presentation to Japanese policy makers and specialists from the DC area at the Stimson Center, a foreign policy institute focused on international peace and security.
I cannot fully express my appreciation for the political science department at Washington College. The professors are personally invested in the growth and development of each student, both in and out of the classroom. The faculty consistently drives you to expand your learning and seize upon unique opportunities.


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Doris Lee "Dori" Robinson
Doris Lee "Dori" Robinson, 79, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009, in Denton, Texas, surrounded by her family. She was born Doris Lee Mock, Sept. 12, 1929, in Kansas City, Mo., daughter of George Edward and Corrine Frances Hale Mock.
She was a graduate of Shawnee Mission North High School in 1947, and St. Luke's School of Nursing in 1950. She was married to Alvin Ray "Robbie" Robinson in 1951. They were married for 55 years. They moved to Fort Scott in 1952. She worked as a registered nurse for Dr. James Basham, the Fort Scott Public Health Department and then for Dr. Michael (Mike) McKenna for more than 20 years. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Fort Scott, for more than 50 years.
Dori and Robbie loved to travel and share the experience with others. They included many young people in their adventures from New York to Hawaii. Dori was chief cook, nurse, and mother for all. She spent her life nurturing and caring for others.
She was preceded in death by her brother George Edward Mock Jr.; her parents; and her husband Robbie. She leaves three daughters, Beth Ann Black and husband Brad, of Libby, Mont., Dianna Robinson, of Denton, Texas, and Louann Hanson and husband Danny of Lawrence, Kan., and one son Joseph Edward Robinson, of Fort Scott; two brothers, Edward Mock and wife Pat and Gary Mock and wife Willie, all of Gravois Mills, Mo.; three granddaughters, Natalie Steinel of Philadelphia, Grace Steinel, of Denton, Texas, and Cara Ann Black, of Libby, and three grandsons: Seth and Gabe Black and Josh Hanson and his wife Megan, all of Denver; and one great grandson Zachary Taylor Sciarrotta of Libby.
Memorial Services will be announced at a later date. Contributions can be made to the Christian Children's Fund or Habitat for Humanity. Fond memories and stories may be e-mailed to the family at email@example.com or mailed to P.O. Box 573 Fort Scott, KS 66701-0573.

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Rand McNally and the Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association of North America (RVDA) are working on a project that should help RV enthusiasts easily find service providers and RV dealers while they're on the road. The information, available this summer, will be included in new mobile phone apps and website maps and directions, as well as on board Rand McNally's TripMaker RVND GPS units.
"RVers have unique service needs while on the road; providing RV dealer information across North America in a variety of formats will certainly assist them whether it's an emergency or a routine visit," says Dave Muscatel, CEO of Rand McNally. "RVers will be assured of top-tier service provided by RVDA member organizations."
Rand McNally is developing a dealer-locator application for iOS and Android mobile phones. This app is designed to enable users to access a listing of nearby RVDA member dealers across the U.S. and Canada. Each listing will include critical information such as hours of operation, contact information, and services provided, as well as up-to-the-minute deals and specials available. Marketed by RVDA to their membership, this app will be available mid-summer, 2012.


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Daily Sound Off: A multitude of problems in ArizonaFriday, June 25th, 2010
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Subject: payroll/wages and hours/overtime; proxies, etc./data integrity v. pr-driven deadlines
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Denials of overtime claims similar to those reported in Houston (Monday's
post) – coupled with demands to actually work as long as necessary to meet
artificial deadlines and the resultant spillover of hours into the next pay period -
have occurred in the Phoenix area. Other responses to the deadlines, some
potentially affecting data reliability, have included directives to change field
procedures (e.g.: seek a proxy on first unsuccessful visit; complete interviews on
the basis of very limited data from proxies; etc.). The pressures for sudden wrap
up of Census tasks – usually at the eleventh hour – have coincided with pending
local office visits from the regional office, and have increased in intensity as
close-out (and visit) dates neared, resulting in multiple, contradictory directives
from day-to-day and even within a single day. As a result, both all or most
non-response followup interview and re-interview ("quality" assurance) closure
deadlines have been met ahead of their original schedules. The question of data
reliability, however, remains open but usually unasked. It sure as hell has felt like
pressure from the top downwards to finish by or ahead of deadlines and under
budget, presumably to deflect increasing public scrutiny of past delays, computer
problems, mapping errors, etc.). Whatever the cause, it has not been pretty.
And more from the same person:
Well, four new reinterview ("RI") enumerators have joined our QA (aka "RI") crew for a total of 16 – or 15 (see below) -, reputedly because,
having been trained (and paid for going through 40 hours of training), they MUST be utilized. The rub is that our original 12-person team
has not had enough cases referred to us over the past 2-and-a-half weeks in the field to satisfy each of our minimum 20-hour work week
"requirement." Reputedly (this is what the mid-level echelon tells us), the new crew members were trained in anticipation of enumerator attrition that has not occurred. Nonetheless, apparently, the new enumerators must be employed now, despite the fact that the reason they were hired and trained (at taxpayer expense) has not materialized, and despite the further fact that there isn't sufficient work even for those of us who were trained three weeks ago. Also, reputedly (we're ALL mushrooms in this cellar!), training of new RI enumerators is STILL ongoing, and we can expect more new crew members next week.
I should add that one of our enumerators has been promoted to "crew leader assistant" status; so, we now have a ratio of 1 leader or
assistant leader to every 5 enumerators. Thus, our enumerator crew actually is 15, formerly 12: 12 -1 + 4 = 15.
What does a crew leader or crew leader assistant do? Mostly sit in fast food and storefront restaurants 5 hours per day and fill out
paperwork or, lacking that (something NONE of us often lack) just shoot the shit, so that we all can log our minimum 20-hours per week (just
by attending meaningless meetings!) while the actual casework dribbles out at a slower rate than BP's rate of contained oil per day.
Oh, yah, and some of us use meeting time to (still) "project" our hours and mileage at essentially mid-day each weekday workday, so
that our CL and CLA's can get the daily pay logs into Payroll early enough to keep them happy. They appear to be the only OVER-worked
Census workers in Central Arizona these days! Meanwhile, the trainees keep on comin'. The casework does not. Meanwhile, I still wonder,
when does "projection" become falsification? But, sadly, I'm caring less these days. I know that I will not – ULTIMATELY – claim unworked hours; but I also KNOW that shit rolls downhill.
I hasten to add that I respect our CL totally. But, like us all, that person's caught in what increasingly appears like a shabbily jerry-rigged
As far as an "actual count"???
So, why is there no work? Reputedly (mushroom factor again) because the outsourced PBOX or PBACHS or Whatever computer system
server can't support the volume of LOC logins per day nationwide. So, if that's true, the problem is nationwide and worthy of a Proxmire Golden Fleece Award, for those of us old enough to remember.
But, hey, I'm just a happy mushroom in these economically troubled times. Pity the Gulf of Mexico's nesting birds! Pity the U.S. taxpayers!
Technically, we are a crew, now, of 15 enumerators and 3 administrators (crew leader and 2 crew leader assistants). We have no cases to work
and the food at Denny's sucks but, in the afternoon, we meet someplace with bagels, bean dip or baklava!


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Live Nation Aims to Unify Ticketmaster, Resales
Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino says the company can't afford to sit on the sidelines any longer. He discussed the ins and outs with Peter Kafka Tuesday at D: Dive Into Media.
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I would wanna be bidding on the YouTube for today ... coming off that ... so ... um ... hey we are just a little bit upfront to get long-term tourer and was right we still do that ... of the flawed car that model was we should of never ... uptick in any of the record writes along with those deals why not ... um ... to think we just gotta keep focused on what we do right and what we do right is put shows on the Mana ties that show ... seems like being in the record businesses ... should be pretty easy right they recorded you distributed tightened up ... simple ... um ... you know I think is you've seen in the collapse of the rebuilding of it's not that simple ... um what's the parables of homie records one sells nowadays in excess or so when we have no desire to bigger of the soul ... CDs are ... digital ... digital music to to famines you need scale ... like other record companies have ... having three random records in the middle of nowhere ... doesn't do much good if it's you to Madonna and Jay-Z given to us ... you know so we sold goes back to the record labels ... have you to to Breckenridge who sold secure back to Sony ... sold though Ahmed on a back to Universal for money off the table about peace ... and a wheat exporter of the piece that we do well toward site chance ... to share this icicle question in terms of where nobody gets go ... I can never the last time any high demand and Ticketmaster actually enable the tickets ... and I knew going into the secondary market came to three times he knew the concert I actually want to do ... and Moyes case like are all the kids can upfront are reserved for the artists like this Apple Singapore ... the question that it's the Number one ... the ... challenge we have right now the ... can we can we fix the spirits of Ticketmaster or ... the Slough a bunch of people in ten oh one ... um ... so no limits remember ... eighty five percent shows don't softness lots of tickets for twenty ... fifteen percent of the park like Lady GA GA shows ... um forces the supply demand province or even of twelve thousand tickets for MST work William L was ten o'clock ... two million people are trying to get him you just never gonna make it ... but you are right in general ... the challenge is how many tickets are available ten oh one ... was twelve thousand or was it four thousand or eight thousand ... and today there are lots of Merrick expressed pre sells sponsored holds ... they're a lot of economics the business ... of around that ticket ... so some man's decide to maybe do an American Express and give them a thousand tickets were pre sale ... they might do some of their own website ... um for different credit card company ... said generally from what he is given an economic incentive to the artist to do a pre sale ... and takes some of the walk up ... of that of that inventory off ... the tiny get to the show ... um it's a pretty you know it's a pretty transparent clean system today you are ... an ... artist has their ... lawyers and business managers and accountants looking over every ticket making sure ... the promoter no one's holding fifty so it's up ... to like the goings some more secret ... probably have gotten some pre sale done a really ... up for their fan club of some sense that's usually the biggest piece of the ... of the manifest that doesn't make it to go on sale but he's not being delusional is a Christian we are not available he wants to buy them even when you ... say they want and then distributed other people yet there are some of the ministered and to lose only is the talent of ten o'clock even of twelve thousand were there at our problem is ... a million people are trying to buy them so ... a lot of people feel the same way ... but generally us be on sale right now past to get cleaned up and we have to grow ... at least be transparent ... on onthe on school day ... the better ... I was in a disruptive ... every couple months or so I will or someone also say so and so's raise X amount of money to disrupt Ticketmaster ... um our really understand other than to do it because it seems like you control ... the menus in ... the chores etc then again it does really matter if I'd like somebody more than Ticketmaster one of those who ... see them so what what's the threats he has been undermined ... well you know I think you are right to think that ... the reason we did the Ticketmaster merger for says to herself ... um what was I given the resilience of the Ticketmaster brand is fairly amazing ... when hundred and twelve percent renewal rates cluster of cells can contracts ... renewed ... um fans still trust the total of seventy plus percent ... satisfaction rate when you got the ticket you trust that you know what's real ... to get the money back ... um so they have a very very ingrained platform and Dom ... when our son or the content was Tuesday's together is a strong eco system that is ... is hard to replicate ... um what we worry about ... when I were able to get a good of the street trying to replicate us ... like access ... we worry about ... um ... like everyone words what is the only when your apples or Goebbels or somebody on the front door ... given a better search ... and experience to buying those tickets and getting the tickets ... um ... and ... we would ... you know I think we have that with our new platform ... we have to start you know ... here's the irony ... today Ticketmaster you have an API ... he couldn't do anything you want very closest them ... with open up that system ... a bit more we have throughout our new platform will be an open platform ... that will let customers build apps ... and business platforms on top ... but we also have to take our business ... um and we have to integrate into Facebook unsold tickets and Amazon's in Apple's another place you face your fear is that someone invents Instagram ... it takes off and did Poser business weighed by a billion bucks that can happen to you why Orkin is can someone build a better ticketing system and ... true with distributed by Sparta both of them all Veronica around the castle with with the cat masters ... anybody can put a ticket sign up today that says ... you know all the seats are available due one of my ... heart Carnival Queen and taking businesses in the store front ... the hard part is ... Paul thousand clients in the venue contracts and the infrastructure TVB thousand employees in every city dealing with ... the venue down the street with a box office ... printer broken someone's gonna call ... of service that help but infrastructure ... can do to secure the contracts and servers those concerts where platform ... on upbeat is really the ... the asset base ... I wouldn't do much better job of the store front ... door and other platforms ... um but most customers come to was because of our market share ... and would love us to be selling tickets at their front door ... coupe which show ... I think eventually we're going have to ... open up some distribution and reach more customers and get that to customers up to three ... one of Ms I sit is ... forty percent of the fans will tell you the weather what the show but didn't know what it ... um so we have is a company to increase the number of ... there's a better reach more customers both actual happen next after it so what's the lesson was just relax ... thank you Michael


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Launched at the CES "Consumer Electronics Show" at the start of this year, the newly established Application Developers Alliance (ADA) has been mustering itself and trying to form something of a discernible voice. The group has been established under a remit to provide cross-platform language-agnostic collaboration, education, cloud hosting, and application testing services.
Although initial developer interest saw 600 programmers sign up during the CES show itself, subsequent additional attention may now depend on the group's initial promise to establish device labs in select cities across the US so that applications can be tested in real time on real devices. According to the ADA website, "We're partnering with manufacturers to make a wide array of devices available, from the newest phones and tablets to Smart TVs and more."
ADA founding member Jake Ward has grand hopes for ADA in that it might become the "connective tissue" between existing communities of developers. Ward has also said that ADA was set up because a need existed in Washington DC to crystallize a group capable of lobbying politicians on the needs of the software application development community in light of the increasingly "technically-related legislation" that is now being considered by Congress.
Initial direction for ADA encompasses the Apple iOS, Android, and BlackBerry operating systems — and so is undeniably mobile focused. ADA says it is also "wide open" to developers who hold desktop and cloud-based applications dearest to their hearts. The group has selected Rackspace hosting as one of its key cloud platforms of choice.
With the constantly shifting emphasis to develop for Android 4.0 Ice-Cream Sandwich, Apple's OS X platform group, other strains of open source, and the Windows (soon to become Windows 8) platforms, ADA has arguably come together at a time when additional cohesion is needed at every level.
Membership in the ADA is also open to individual developers, independent software vendors, and corporations, the latter of which are supplying most of the initial funding for the group.


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