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Business Management Associate Degree
An Associate's Degree in Business Management from the Professional Studies Department of the University College of WKU will prepare you for a career in business and will provide you the opportunity to make a seamless transition from an Associate Degree in Business to a Bachelor's degree in Business through the WKU Gordon Ford College of Business.
The Business Management Associate Degree requires the following courses in addition to the core courses and general education courses:
Business Management Curriculum
Business Management Courses
- BUS 214C - Business Communication - 3 hours
- BUS 250C - Business Entrepreneurship - 3 hours
- BUS 257C - Management of Human Resources - 3 hours
- BUS 270C - Labor Relations Management - 3 hours
- Business electives - 6 hours
Subtotal 18 hours
Business Core Courses
- ACC 200C - Accounting - Financial - 3 hours
- ACC 201C - Accounting - Managerial - 3 hours
- CSCI 145C - Introduction to Computing - 3 hours
- BUS 100C - Introduction to Business - 3 hours
- FINC 161C - Personal Finance - 3 hours
- BUS 210C - Organization and Management - 3 hours
- BUS 212C - Principles of Marketing - 3 hours
- BUS 253C - Business Seminar - 3 hours
Subtotal 24 hours
General Education Requirements
Category A
- ENGL 100C - Intro to College Writing - 3 hours
- COMN 161C - Business and Professional Speaking - 3 hours
Category B Elective - 3 hours
Category C
- ECO 202C - Micro Economics - 3 hours
- ECO 203C - Macro Economics - 3 hours
Category D
- Math 116C - College Algebra - 3 hours
General Education Subtotal 18 hours
Total Hours in the Program 60 hours
Why Select A Concentration In Business Management?
If your interests lie in the field of business and you desire to obtain a Bachelor's degree, the Business Management Concentration provides the opportunity to make a seamless transition from an Associate Degree in Business to a Bachelor's degree in Business through the Gordon Ford College of Business at WKU. This program prepares you for current and future employment in any business capacity as well as a solid foundation for upper level classes in a bachelor program. The focus of the Business Management Associate Degree is to provide comprehensive knowledge and skills for today's rapidly changing business environment. With the current demand for high-tech and high finance, it is now more important than ever to develop these business and technical skills to succeed in the world of business.
Employment Information:
Potential Job and Salary Opportunities
After completing this program, you may find an entry-level position in business, industry, or government. These positions tend to pay well, and with experience you may expect to move into higher-level management roles in these various fields. If your interest is to start and operate your own business, entrepreneurs define their own job description and set their own salaries. In other words, you can create your own job.
Numerous graduates have benefited greatly from this program. Many are currently working in established careers, and several have become successful entrepreneurs who own and operate their own businesses. This is a list of what several of our past graduates are currently doing: supervisors, managers, team leaders, Executive Director of Economic Development, Human Resource Management, Insurance Agent, Financial Analyst, and Director of Training and Development.
Program Philosophy
The philosophy of the Business Management Concentration program is that graduating students should have the knowledge and skills needed to enter the job market and be able to upgrade for promotions to higher levels of management or be successful in a Business Bachelor program.
Is This Program For You?
Working in the business management field, you will draw upon your creative, analytical and problem solving skills. Good communication, teamwork, leadership, time management, and social skills are also important for savvy business people. If you enjoy new challenges and learning opportunities, this may be the right field for you.
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Bipasha Basu has tasted success with "Raaz 3", and is already working on horror film named "Aatma". She might soon sign another
horror-thriller, being scripted by Vikram Bhatt.
Post "Raaz 3", the director is frantically scripting a horror-thriller for Bipasha.
This project would be launched as soon the scripting is done.
In fact, Bhatt, who was supposed to next direct the true-life medical thriller entitled "The Ankur Arora Murder Case", has handed over the directorial reins of that project to Suhail Tatari, who is currently shooting the thriller with K.K. Menon, Tisca Chopra and Arjun Mathur in the lead.
But the problem is how to take Bipasha's image of the demoniacal diva beyond 'Raaz 3'?
"Vikram already has a germ of an idea which he will develop on his holiday with his daughter in London and Scotland next week. It will be an out-and-out grey role and will give Bipasha an even more shocking image than 'Raaz 3'. But no, it isn't 'Raaz 4'," said a source close to both the celebrities.
Confirming his plans for a movie for Bipasha, Bhatt said: "I think I owe to myself and to her to do another film with Bipasha right away. It's amazing how hard she worked on the film and look at the end-results. Like they say, no pain no gain. Both of us have gone through our share of turmoil." Seeking the Lord's blessings
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However even when unwell she made sure that she visited temples in each and every city she visited and prayed for the success of her film.


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Jewish Aleppo, Lost Forever
The Syrian diaspora in Israel watches its once-vibrant ancestral home fall to ruin in the country's civil war
The northern Syrian city of Aleppo, once a pillar of Jewish existence worldwide, is slowly being destroyed by the fighting that has engulfed Syria for the past 17 months. Last week, a Free Syrian Army rebel warned that soon "there will be nothing left to destroy in Aleppo." Imagine Rome or Paris destroyed by civil war in the social media age.
Coincidentally, Aleppo had already been in the news thanks to a new book and a lengthy New York Times Magazine article about one of the city's most famous claims to recognition: the Aleppo Codex of the Hebrew Bible, said to have been complied in Tiberias in the 10th century and ransomed by the Jews of Cairo from the Crusaders after their conquest. After a short but monumental stay in the hands of Maimonides, it wound up in Aleppo, where it was kept hidden in a crypt lining the walls of the city's great synagogue for the next 600 years. The codex, believed to be the oldest manuscript containing the entire Hebrew Bible, was smuggled out of Syria in the 1950s thanks to the courageous efforts of a handful of Aleppine Jews. Like a segment of Aleppo's Jewish community, the codex found a home in Jerusalem, where it sits under lock and key at the Israel Museum.
What made Jewish existence in Aleppo so unique and vibrant? For thousands of years, Aleppo was an unofficial capital of the Sephardic Jewish world. Fueled by wealth from international trade and waves of Jewish immigration, the city's Jews sustained a pious community revered for educational excellence and as a guardian of traditions with roots in ancient Israel. Aleppine folklore—some even say that one of Kind David's generals personally laid the foundation for its great synagogue, now located at the heart of fighting—hints at the prestige of the city in Jewish history.
But the city is lost, and Jewish existence has been all but erased from its cobbled streets. Remarkably, what has not disappeared is the Aleppine way of life in diaspora communities spanning the globe.
"I would say without any hesitation that the [community of Jews from Aleppo] is the strongest Jewish community in the world in the sense of solidarity," Yom Tov Assis, a professor of medieval history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, told me in his book-saturated office. Assis was born in Aleppo and briefly experienced the violence in the city that accompanied Israel's independence. He recently founded the center for the study of Aleppine Jewry at the Hebrew University in an effort to preserve and study the traditions of his vibrant community. "There is hardly any Jewish community apart from the Haredim, the ultra-Orthodox, that is so strongly attached to its past and traditions," he said.
Outside of Israel, few cities in the Middle East have a richer history of Jewish cultural activity, education, and trade than Aleppo. Legend has it that the city, which is referred to as Haleb in both Hebrew and Arabic, derives its name from a story of Abraham guiding a flock of sheep through the fleecy shrubbery of the surrounding mountains. He is said to have distributed his sheep's milk (halev in Hebrew) to the local residents of the city, nestled in Northern Syria's rolling hills, which thereby was known as Haleb.
Starting in the late 10th century, Aleppo grew to serve as a passageway between the Jewish communities of the Babylonian center and Israel. Its geographic position and impressive sphere of influence bridged the divide from Persia to the lucrative markets of southern Europe. The city held an almost mythic or legendary status among Jews worldwide. Visiting the city in the late 16th century, Italian monk Pietro Della Valle observed in a travel journal that, "Here, in one district [in Aleppo], converges all the Orient, with its jewels, silks, drugs, and cloths; and it is also joined by the Occident, namely France (in force), Venice, Holland, and England." Aleppine Jews also used their wealth to establish prominent educational institutions and were recognized for their carefully kept traditions in line with the biblical practices of ancient Jews. In a letter to the Jewish community of Lunel in Southern France, Maimonides noted that "in all the Holy Land and in Syria, there is one city alone and it is Halab in which there are those who are truly devoted to the Jewish religion and the study of Torah."
Historically, Aleppo found itself at the crossroads of two of Jewish history's major developments: the expulsion of Jews from Spain and the rise of the Zionist movement. As refugees from Iberia flooded the Eastern Mediterranean in the early part of the 16th century, Aleppo became one of the most important centers of absorption. When Aleppo fell under Ottoman rule in the 16th century, the Caliphate maintained a relatively warm relationship with the Jewish community. Provisions ensuring that synagogues were not built taller than mosques and that Jewish religious behavior was performed quietly—part of their status as Dhimmis—meant that Jews found a fragile entente.
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Mom–Me Time: Shopping Gone Wrong
Yesterday, I shared my dressing room disaster and then coincidentally, came across another mum's dressing room debacle on Jezebel. Unfortunately, this one ended up much worse.
To read this mama's embarrassing moment, read more.
A woman went shopping at Forever 21, a favorite haunt of mine, accompanied by her eight–year–old son. As most moms do, she brought him into the dressing room while she tried on items. The store has a "one person per fitting room" policy, which the shopkeepers applied to this mommy–son duo. According to Jezebel:
The dressing room attendant ordered the mom to leave her child unattended while she tried on clothes. When she refused and brought her son into the dressing room, a manager called security and told the mother she had thirty seconds to scram. She calls it as "the most embarrassing and humiliating moment of my life."
Having worked retail, I understand the store's policy and imagine some moms do use their kids to shoplift. However, I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. And, it seems there could have been a better way to handle the situation than force the pair out of the store.
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Tiger Woods is reportedly staying at the Pine Grove treatment center in Jackson, Mississippi, being treated for his sex addiction. Read more on Tiger Woods' sex rehab below.
There have been rumors swirling that the golfer was in a treatment program for sexual addiction in Arizona, but RadarOnline reports that Woods is currently being treated at the Pine Grove Behavioral Health & Addiction Services in Mississippi.
Pine Grove caters to sex addicts and is a residential treatment plan that lasts about six weeks.
The treatment center has recently stepped up it's security as word of Tiger Woods being there is getting out.
But is Tiger trying to blame his numerous affairs and mistresses on sex addiction? Or is he just getting help in the treatment center to improve his badly-tarnished image?
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Royal Winnipeg Ballet landed its extravagant "Moulin-Rouge - The Ballet" last weekend at Chicago's Auditorium Theatre.
The production, choreographed by Jorden Morris, proved stunning with lavish costumes, standout sets and a blend of dynamic and graceful choreography.
Royal Winnipeg Ballet didn't falter in any way as it brought the romantic yet tragic storyline to life with dance. Throughout the piece, the troupe told the tale of Nathalie and Matthew as they find love, and deal with loss and heartbreak at the famed Parisian cabaret Moulin Rouge. In this production, cabaret owner Zeidler and famed artist Toulouse-Lautrec also figure into the storyline.
Among outstanding segments of the show was the lovely pas de deux performed poignantly by Matthew and Nathalie as the lights of the Eiffel Tower twinkled behind them. Also fascinating was seeing the corps de ballet do the "Can-Can" on pointe.
A diverse musical score helped make the production soar. The troupe danced to everything from Debussy's "Claire de Lune" and Guglielmi's "La Vie En Rose" to Offenbach's "Can-Can."
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More about Woody
Well hello there fellow summercampers. I hope you are as
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Summercamp, though it wasn't my first festival, I've always considered
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Karen Smuland has always been an anxious person. But after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York's World Trade Center, she had her first panic attack and ended up in an emergency room, convinced that she was dying.
The 48-year-old architect from Bend, Ore., was quickly diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.
In the years since then, she has struggled to gain mastery over the condition through a mixture of therapy, medication and a lot of trial and error.
She tried several medications before settling on the anti-anxiety drug Effexor, the only one that didn't give her troublesome side effects. She visited several counselors: One made her talk incessantly about her feelings — it made her feel worse — and another wanted her to deal with her vulnerabilities by facing them head on, which terrified her.
A third's approach was somewhere in between, and it has helped her improve, she says.
Smuland's experiences are par for the course. Treatment for anxiety typically includes medication, therapy or a combination. And because people vary a lot and the exact roots of anxiety are unknown, it's hard to know what treatment plan will work until one experiments and finds out.
Experts have yet to pinpoint why anxiety occurs in some people and not others. "There are a lot of questions but not a lot of definitive answers," says Dr. Brian Brennan, associate director for translational neuroscience at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. People who undergo trauma or intense stress at an early age may be more prone. And there probably are a number of genes that contribute through their influence on levels of key brain chemicals, serotonin and norepinephrine, which are thought to be linked to depression and anxiety.
Though doctors are fuzzy on the precise cause, they know that an array of medications can help with the disorder.
Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, which increase the amount of serotonin available to the brain, are one of the most commonly used classes of medications for anxiety. Initially used to treat depression, doctors noticed that anxiety in the treated patients also seemed to diminish.
Benzodiazepines such as Valium (diazepam) and Xanax (alprazolam) also are commonly used. They increase the activity of a neurotransmitter called gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA, inducing relaxation.
Brennan says these medications, particularly the popular SSRIs, are generally safe for most patients. Some, however, experience fairly common side effects, such as sexual dysfunction, weight gain, sedation and gastrointestinal issues.
"All of these things are going to be potential deal-breakers, especially if someone isn't getting much benefit from the medications," Brennan says. "And I wish I could say they are frequently helpful, but there is a fairly sizable population that gets partial or no benefit from them."
Katie Linn, a 29-year-old who works at the National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City as a youth and programs coordinator, takes Lexapro (escitalopram), one of the SSRIs, for her anxiety. She'd dealt with mild anxiety most of her life and had a full-fledged panic attack upon coming home from her first year of college. Her family assumed she was stressed, and Linn saysshe "suffered silently" for about six years before seeking treatment.
Though she was working at National Alliance on Mental Illness and was surrounded by supportive colleagues, she said she initially felt like a failure for taking medication. She at first had problems getting her dosage right but eventually figured out her baseline.
She also sought counseling. "What the medication did was level out my [emotional] roller coaster, but it didn't solve any problems. And that is where therapy came in," she says. "Recovery for me wouldn't have been possible without both."
Linn underwent cognitive behavioral therapy, the most common type of approach used for anxiety disorders. Usually short-term, lasting about 20 sessions, it teaches a person to identify a situation that might be causing problems, understand their thoughts about the situation, identify negative thinking patterns and challenge those thoughts. The goal of the therapy is to view problems clearly and respond to them more effectively.
"Therapy is really helping the patient to deal more appropriately with normal daily life stresses and not make them a big thing," saysDr. Karl Rickels, professor of human behavior and reproduction at the University of Pennsylvania. "We teach them a molehill is only a molehill, and if we can do this, they will get better."
Along with changing the way a person responds to situations, brain imaging studies show that there are physiological changes that occur in the brain when someone goes through cognitive behavioral therapy, says Dr. Rebecca Gladding, a psychiatrist at the UCLA Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital and coauthor of the book "You Are Not Your Brain," aimed at helping people retrain negative thinking patterns that can cause panic and anxiety.
She says the amygdala — involved in the so-called fight-or-flight response — starts to calm down. And the lateral prefrontal cortex, which helps with empathy and understanding, becomes more active.
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I'm finally getting around to posting Donovan's birth story. I think the delay was mostly due to the fact that I had a long scary labor, an extremely difficult delivery, and a slow painful recovery.
On Wednesday February 16th, I went to labor and delivery because I thought my water was leaking. I got checked out, and was told it wasn't time. Struck me as odd, because I know my body and I knew I wasn't pissing myself. The doctor only did the visual test, not the swab test or fern test. At least I don't think he did. But who am I to tell the doctor how to do his job, right?
Anyway, we went home and the leak continued for days until finally on Sunday night, it was so bad that I had to sleep on a towel. Went back to labor and delivery on Monday February 21st with the same complaint, half expecting them to tell me the same thing. This time, a different doctor did all three tests to see if it was my water and confirmed it was.
They immediately started me on penicillin and pitocin saying since it had been leaking for so long, we were at extreme risk of infection and baby needed out now. I was freaking out but still wanted to try to do it without the epidural. I was started on pitocin at 6:10pm and labored pain med free through the night and into the morning.
Around 10am on Tuesday February 22nd, they decided to place an internal contraction monitor because for whatever reason, my pit induced contractions were just kind of petering out and not being very effective. The doctor went in and noticed my waters were still bulging a little so she broke them and it was all blood. I had an immediate anxiety attack. My first thought was, there's an infection and my baby is at risk. Then I thought maybe it's placental abruption. At the height of my anxiety attack, the full strength contractions from my water breaking hit me like a mac truck. They asked if they could please give me the epidural to calm me down and try to relax me. I agreed. Needless to say, they did not place the internal monitor.
The epidural was a total flop. It only worked on the left half of my body, so I was able to feel the full ferocity of every contraction on the right half of my body. They waited a bit to see if it would eventually take on the right half, but it didn't. I was progressing very quickly at this point and was too far dilated to have it re-placed in my back.
It was 1pm and it was time to start pushing. Around 2pm the half assed epidural wore off. So it was 100% natural from there on out. No biggie I thought, I've been pushing for an hour already, he'll be here in no time. Yeah right. He was stuck under my pelvic bone AND he was presenting with his forehead. Great. Now I'm at a pretty high risk of needing a c-section. I pushed for another couple hours and he finally came down. I was exhausted. It was nearing 4pm and I hadn't eaten since Monday afternoon. I had been laboring nearly 22 hours. I was broken down from the anxiety attack and I had almost given up. I was sobbing and saying I couldn't do it anymore. I felt absolutely defeated. Just when I thought he would never come out, the doctor came in and I knew I was almost there. He did a mediolateral episiotomy on me because of the baby's forehead presentation. And then finally, after exactly 22 hours of labor, my son was plopped on my chest. It was the greatest moment of my life.
But the worst moment of my life was about to happen. My body was not delivering the placenta. And of course the doctor wasn't about to wait to see if it would happen naturally after a little bit of time. No, no. He reached in my vagina and straight up into my uterus and snatched it out. Keep in mind, I had NO pain medication at this point. Hadn't had any since 2 hours earlier. The best way I can describe what was happening to me is it was like gutting a pumpkin. The doctor was elbow deep in my uterus scraping around getting my placenta out. Not once. Not twice. But three times. Why? Well lucky me had a double lobed placenta. Meaning, there were 2 very large separate parts to my placenta. He had to make sure he got every piece. The pain was excruciating. Like none other on the planet. I screamed bloody murder and my nails did serious damage to poor Brian's arm.
Good news is (believe it or not, there is some good news), we got the delayed cord clamping we wanted and Donovan came out in perfect health. It was the most relieving news I've ever heard.
When we came home, I noticed I was in more pain than the previous day. And each day that passed, I had increasing pain in just one spot on my episiotomy. Bravely, I took a mirror and checked it out. I looked mangled. A stitch was busted out. I called the doctor and they told me it probably wasn't busted out, and it would heal. And even if it was busted out, they can't re-stitch it. I was pissed. I felt blown off. Just like I felt blown off when I went in on the 16th with a leaky water and was sent home. I know my body dammit, and I know when something isn't right. The home visit nurse came by for the mom and baby well visit, and took a peek at my cut for me and confirmed what I already knew. The stitch was indeed busted out. And it was not looking good. I called the doctor and insisted that I be seen and she was quite surprised at the severity of it. She had to remove the busted stitch and sort of tighten up the others. She put me on antibiotics to help speed the healing process and get rid of any infection that may be there, although it didn't look infected yet, phew! She also gave me percocet for pain but I'm not planning on taking much of that due to the fact it causes constipation. And pooping is a bitch as it is. I have to go back Friday to make sure it's healing. If I'm not on the road to healing, they will have to put me under general anesthesia to fix me. Fucking great. Just what a breastfeeding mom wants to hear. Really hoping to avoid all that mess.
Other than the fact that I'm in extreme pain, me and baby are doing well. He's a breastfeeding pro, he's gaining weight already, not a speck of jaundice, and he very rarely cries. He is so full of personality and makes the greatest facial expressions. He is the light of my life. Even though the labor, delivery, and recovery is the hardest thing I've ever endured, I would do it all again for him. I never thought I could love another living thing as much as I love my son. There's times I look at him and just cry because I'm so overjoyed and bursting with pride and love.
Oh, and here's his stats: Born 2/22/11 at 4:10 pm after 22 hours of labor, 7lbs 15oz, 21 & 1/2 inches long and in perfect health.
It's been quite an eventful week so let's recap.
Our baby shower was Sunday and it was great. Both of our families made it out as did my girlfriends. Little Donovan got more gifts in that one day than I think I've gotten over my whole lifetime. This child is already well loved and cherished by so many and it makes me well up with tears just thinking about how blessed we truly are. Oh, and the food was awesome. I ate until I almost puked. Score.
We had our tour of L&D and it was pretty standard stuff. It was nice to see where I would actually be having the baby. It is on the third floor though. This could pose a problem. I have a serious elevator issue that I won't delve into right now. I am confident that I will be able to hike three flights of stairs when I'm in labor. Only problem is that if I go into labor after hours and have to enter the hospital through the ER, they will force me to get into a wheelchair and stuff me in the elevator up to L&D. I think if I threaten their lives perhaps they will let me take the stairs. But I'm hoping I can hold him in until normal operating hours. Listen to me. Hold him in? Like he's a turd or something. Well, it's worth a shot. Brian's scared that if I try to 'hold him in' that we'll end up having him at home. He seems to be getting more comfortable with this idea actually. Bless his pea pickin' heart, he's such a trooper.
Anyway, there were some really stupid questions asked during the tour. Like, can we bring our own pillows? I immediately wanted to say to that woman, "No. You must use the awful hospital pillows. No outside pillows allowed." What an idiot. There were some good questions asked too. Of course I was the one to ask them but that's besides the point. I asked how long we have to stay in the hospital for after we have the baby. Or guide seemed a bit confused by this question for some reason. She said it depends on my insurance company. I said, "Ok then I'd like to go home right away because I don't want to sleep over with yall." She then told me that I would be required to stay overnight. I replied with, "Like jail. Just what I thought." She didn't like that response. What can I say? Hospitals gross me out. It's a building full of germs.
One thing that did entertain me about the tour was that our guide answered a few questions with, "It's going to get messy." After the second or third time hearing her say that, I really had to fight off the urge to say something to the effect of, "But if you vajazzle your va-jay-jay then then maybe the mess will at least be accompanied with smiles." Ya know, just to give the tour some pizazz because our group was pretty lame.
I was scheduled to have my weekly doctors appointment. My normal doctor is on vacation so I was going to see a different doctor. I look forward to every appointment because it's like a small milestone and it means I'm just that much closer to having this baby.
Anyway, the doctor I was scheduled to see was delivering a baby when I arrived and there were like six people waiting for her so I had to reschedule. No biggie. The receptionist was completely unconcerned as to making sure I got in this week. I told her that evening was best at the location we were currently at (they have three). Nada. So I told whatever time they have is fine. Still nothing. So then I said I would go to one of the other locations if I had to. Nothing. I was getting VERY frazzled at this point because I'm supposed to be seen every week and she didn't give a damn. Last time I was seen was when I was 32 weeks, and she decides to schedule me for when I'll be 36 weeks. Nice.
So I started crying. She looked at me like I was the dumbest person on the planet. Everyone in the waiting room was staring at me. I got all sweaty and dizzy, probably from humiliation, and I ran out of there and lost it in the stairwell (I have that elevator thing, remember?) Sobbing, bawling, big fat tears, drippy snot, and trying to catch my breath type of lost it. Poor Brian was trying not to laugh at me. He could NOT believe that I was such a wreck over a dumb doctors appointment. He kept saying it's not a big deal and just call in the morning and talk to someone different when I'm calm blah blah. It's a big deal to me! There was a brief moment where I wanted to push him down the stairs. Those of you that know me, know I'm impulsive. Thank goodness I didn't act on that impulse because I don't want to be a single mom. We stood in that stupid stairwell for a good ten minutes while I had my 'episode'. Leave me alone you pesky hormones. I'm sick of looking like a damn fool.
End of story is that I did end up calling in the next morning and talking to someone who was much nicer. I got squeezed in that week. Shame on that girl that made me upset though. Doesn't she know that an 8 month pregnant woman needs to feel the warm fuzzies?
We met the pediatrician I picked out. Nothing too exciting to report. They have a cool fish tank in the waiting room.
Had my rescheduled doctors appointment in the morning. It was pretty routine. It was the doctor I was supposed to see two days prior, and I'm glad I got to meet her in case she's the one on call when I go into labor. I had an ultrasound on my legs a few weeks back. No, my legs aren't pregnant, they're freakishly swollen and they had to make sure I didn't have any clots. I don't. I'm just a freak. She reviewed the results of my leg scan, as if they hadn't been reviewed with me four times already, and looked at my legs and ankles and gave 'em a squeeze. She called me a sweller and suggested a prescription prenatal that may or may not help with my swelling. It's supposed to help with bloating and constipation and in turn, that could ease the swelling a bit. Wait, back up. Did she say it helps with constipation? Where do I sign? Pregnant pooping should be awarded. I'm not kidding you. There's times I've broken a sweat trying to push out some poops only to turn up with a couple of turds no bigger than a marble. It's incredibly disappointing. So when someone tells me something will help me make poops, I'm all in. I will update if I see results.
And that brings us to today. A quiet boring day. I did hide a donut in my pocket today. No, not because I was stealing it. But because I didn't want any of my co-workers to see me with my third donut. I know what you're thinking. But you're pregnant, it's ok. Well no, no it is not ok. Not when the donuts are the size of your face. It is never ok to eat three donuts that big. So I stuffed the third in my sweatshirt pocket and wolfed it down at my desk behind the privacy of my cubicle walls. Now if I have the runs tonight I'm going to automatically give credit to the new pooping pills the doctor gave me, when in fact, it'll probably be due to the 3 enormous donuts I had no business eating. Sigh, only 37 days to go…
Ta ta for now friends.
From the moment I found out I was pregnant, I was convinced I had a little girl growing inside me. Not for any particular reason either. I just couldn't imagine having a boy. My mom had all girls so I just assumed I would too. Having a boy was never a thought in my mind. Well, at least not in my conscious mind. I had several baby dreams before we found out the sex, and in every single one of them, my baby was a boy. The very first dream I had of him, I can vividly remember seeing him at the age of 4 or 5 months playing with my sister Chelsea in my kitchen. But I brushed these dreams off as nonsense. What did my asleep brain know? Pssssh, nothing. Because I was having a girl. Now don't get me wrong, it's not like I didn't want a boy or anything like that. I really didn't care. As long as baby was healthy. That's such a cliche thing to say I know, but it's true. Since I was convinced it was a girl, so was Brian. We had a name picked out and everything.
So you can imagine our surprise when we saw a little wiener on the screen at our anatomy ultrasound. I'll never forget it. We had a student doing our ultrasound, and she wasn't comfortable telling us the sex since she was still in training. She wanted to wait until the certified tech came in the room to finish the ultrasound and have her tell us. While she was measuring all of baby's pieces parts, Brian (my darling orthopedist) was peeking around at the screen and asked her, "Is that the femur?" She seemed a bit surprised and said, "Why, yes it is." Brian's eyes lit up and he said to me, "I think I know what it is!" I knew he saw a wiener and I was shocked. Sure enough, when the tech came in and took over the ultrasound duties, she confirmed that it was indeed a little boy growing in my guts.
I was beside myself. And so was Brian. He asked if I was disappointed. Gone from my brain were the images of pigtails and My Little Ponies. Now my imagination was filled with dinosaurs and mohawks. I said to him, "Are you kidding me?! Having a boy is going to be awesome! I never thought about it before, but this is seriously going to rock." And I meant every word. We had another ultrasound at 28 weeks to check his growth progress, and I asked the tech to make sure he was still a he. I told her, "I've gotten to know this little guy and I'll be devastated if 'he' isn't in there anymore, know what I mean?" He was still in there thank goodness.
I made a short list of why I'm glad to be having a boy.
1) Boys like bugs. I like bugs! I can't wait to dig in the dirt with my little dude.
2) Boys are tough. They 'shake it off' better than girls. Which is a good thing, because not only am I very clumsy, but so is our large dog.
3) Speaking of shaking it, boys can pee outside. I happen to be extremely jealous of this. I'm going to encourage him to go behind a bush when a bathroom is just too far away.
4) Boys have cooler toys than girls. No, seriously. My little cousin just got a pair of night vision goggles for Christmas and those things kick ass.
5) I can teach him to be chivalrous. Think about it ladies, when's the last time a guy our age stood up out of his chair and told us to have his seat? Or opened the car door for you? My kid's going to be a lady killer…
6) No matter how many kids I have after him, they will always have their big brother to look after them. This is a big deal to me. Matter of fact, I hope my next is a boy as well. I'll take the girl last please.
I could go on all day with this list but I'll leave it at that. I really and truly feel like the luckiest girl on the planet to be having a little boy. My very own little boy. My flesh and blood. My son. It's still hard to wrap my head around sometimes.
I named this blog 'I Drank The Water' because, well, apparently I did. I'm knocked up. I'd been saying that I was going to start a blog since the beginning of this pregnancy. I thought it would be fun to write about my journey into motherhood and beyond. Here I am, 33 weeks 3 days along (out of 40 weeks) and just now getting around to it. Sadly, since I procrastinated for so long, you have missed out on some fantastic pregnant stories. I will try to slip in the good ones from the past from time to time though.
Being pregnant has been the hardest yet most rewarding thing I've ever experienced. I won't be making this blog all about the miracle of life and the beauty of pregnancy because that's fucking boring. Wait, can I swear in my blog? I don't know the rules of the blog world. I only follow one and that's my sisters and she never swears in hers. I can't promise that I'll never get sappy though, because these hormones are no joke. One minute I'm tough as nails and embracing my inner bitch, and the next minute I'm sobbing over the fact that my armpit has been itchy for an unusually long period of time.
I'd also like to apologize in advance if my writing style seems a bit erratic. It's following my thought process, and this late in the pregnant game, calling my thought process erratic would be the understatement of the century. My syndrome is commonly known as pregnancy brain. I call it the stupids. I forgot how to spell vagina once. Argued with Brian until I was blue in the face over it. Ok that's a lie, I argued with him until I got off my fat ass and googled it. Ever google vagina? Do it, you won't be disappointed. Anyway, I will never live that down. You will be hearing about the stupids a lot in this blog.
My icebreaker post is drawing to a close. I guess the next time I post will be the next time something interesting, hilarious, eventful, disgusting, or awesome happens. At the rate I'm going, that could very well be this evening. My evening last night ended with a dropped glass of sweet relish that shattered on the kitchen floor since I can no longer feel my hands thanks to this baby. So I cried. And my darling Brian decided to clean the mess up for me using a rubber spatula. When questioned about his choice in cleaning utensils, he simply said, "What am I supposed to use?" I could have thought of several ways to clean that mess that would have been far more effective than a rubber spatula.
My world is not right, but at least it's not lame.


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de Blasio, the NYS Nurses Association, Concerned Physicians at L.I.C.H., 1199SEIU and other civic groups helped lead the charge to keep the hospital open and the new order puts in place a regime to preserve vital services and prevent further violations of the law until litigation is resolved.
An independent monitor will assure SUNY Downstate and the NYS Health Department compliance.
"SUNY tried to padlock this hospital four weeks ago. We've watched it violate court orders in broad daylight. Now, the court is putting all that to an end. These steps will ensure this community will have continuity of care for the immediate future," said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio. "This is a huge step forward."
The judge's order requires SUNY to immediately restore services in the hospital's emergency rooms, intensive care unit, radiology, social work and pharmacy departments.
Last month, state health officials approved closing L.I.C.H. over operating costs. de Balsio and the civic groups charge SUNY of unlawfully curtailing medical services, putting staff on leave and obstructing patient care.
SUNY says it's complying with the court order and remains committed to its patients' health and safety.


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Miranda (moon)
|Discovered by
|Gerard P. Kuiper
|Discovery date
|February 16, 1948
|/mɨˈrændə/ mi-RAN-də
|Uranus V
|Mirandan, Mirandian
|Orbital characteristics
|129390 km
|1.413479 d
Average orbital speed
|6.66 km/s (calculated)
|4.232° (to Uranus's equator)
|Satellite of
|Physical characteristics
|480 × 468.4 × 465.8 km
Mean radius
|235.8±0.7 km (0.03697 Earths)[1]
|700000 km2
|54835000 km3
(6.59±0.75)×1019 kg[2](1.103×10−5 Earths)
Mean density
|1.20±0.15 g/cm3[2]
|0.079 m/s2
|0.193 km/s
Miranda is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five major moons.
It was discovered by Gerard Kuiper on February 16, 1948 at McDonald Observatory. It was named after Miranda from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest by Kuiper in his report of the discovery.[5] The adjectival form of the name is Mirandan. It is also designated Uranus V.
So far the only close-up images of Miranda are from the Voyager 2 probe, which made observations of the moon during its Uranus flyby in January 1986. During the flyby the southern hemisphere of the moon was pointed towards the Sun so only that part was studied. Miranda shows more evidence of past geologic activity than any of the other Uranian satellites.
Physical characteristics[edit]
Miranda's surface may be mostly water ice, with the low-density body also probably containing silicate rock and organic compounds in its interior.
Miranda's surface has patchwork regions of broken terrain indicating intense geological activity in the moon's past, and is criss-crossed by huge canyons. Large 'racetrack'-like grooved structures, called coronae, may have formed via extensional processes at the tops of diapirs, or upwellings of warm ice.[7][8] The ridges probably represent extensional tilt blocks. The canyons probably represent graben formed by extensional faulting. Other features may be due to cryovolcanic eruptions of icy magma. The diapirs may have changed the density distribution within the moon, which could have caused Miranda to reorient itself,[9] similar to a process believed to have occurred at Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus.
Miranda's past geological activity is believed to have been driven by tidal heating at a time when its orbit was more eccentric than currently. Early in its history, Miranda was apparently captured into a 3:1 orbital resonance with Umbriel, from which it subsequently escaped.[10] The resonance would have increased orbital eccentricity; resulting tidal friction due to time-varying tidal forces from Uranus would have caused warming of the moon's interior. In the Uranian system, due to the planet's lesser degree of oblateness, and the larger relative size of its satellites, escape from a mean motion resonance is much easier than for satellites of Jupiter or Saturn. Miranda's orbital inclination (4.34°) is unusually high for a body so close to the planet. Miranda probably escaped from its resonance with Umbriel via a secondary resonance, and the mechanism of this escape is believed to explain why its orbital inclination is more than 10 times those of the other large Uranian moons (see moons of Uranus).[11][12]
Miranda may have also once been in a 5:3 resonance with Ariel, which would have also contributed to its internal heating. However, the maximum heating attributable to the resonance with Umbriel was likely about three times greater.[10]
An earlier theory, proposed shortly after the Voyager 2 flyby, was that a previous incarnation of Miranda was shattered by a massive impact, with the fragments reassembling and denser ones subsequently sinking to produce the current strange pattern.[7]
Scientists recognize the following geological features on Miranda:
- Craters
- Coronae (large ovoid features)
- Regiones (geological regions)
- Rupes (scarps)
- Sulci (parallel grooves)
See also[edit]
- ^ Thomas, P. C. (1988). "Radii, shapes, and topography of the satellites of Uranus from limb coordinates". Icarus 73 (3): 427–441. Bibcode:1988Icar...73..427T. doi:10.1016/0019-1035(88)90054-1.
- ^ a b Jacobson, R. A.; Campbell, J. K.; Taylor, A. H.; Synnott, S. P. (June 1992). "The masses of Uranus and its major satellites from Voyager tracking data and earth-based Uranian satellite data". The Astronomical Journal 103 (6): 2068–2078. Bibcode:1992AJ....103.2068J. doi:10.1086/116211.
- ^ "Planetary Satellite Physical Parameters". JPL (Solar System Dynamics). 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-08-10.
- ^ Hanel, R.; Conrath, B.; Flasar, F. M.; Kunde, V.; Maguire, W.; Pearl, J.; Pirraglia, J.; Samuelson, R.; Cruikshank, D. (4 July 1986). "Infrared Observations of the Uranian System". Science 233 (4759): 70–74. Bibcode:1986Sci...233...70H. doi:10.1126/science.233.4759.70. PMID 17812891.
- ^ Kuiper, G. P., The Fifth Satellite of Uranus, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 61, No. 360, p. 129, June 1949
- ^ "PIA00044: Miranda high resolution of large fault". JPL, NASA. Retrieved 2007-07-23.
- ^ a b c Chaikin, Andrew (2001-10-16). "Birth of Uranus' Provocative Moon Still Puzzles Scientists". Space.com. Imaginova Corp. Retrieved 2007-12-07.[dead link]
- ^ Pappalardo, Robert T.; Reynolds, Stephen J.; Greeley, Ronald (1997-06-25). "Extensional tilt blocks on Miranda: Evidence for an upwelling origin of Arden Corona". Journal of Geophysical Research 102 (E6): 13,369–13,380. Bibcode:1997JGR...10213369P. doi:10.1029/97JE00802.
- ^ Pappalardo, Robert T.; Greeley, Ronald (1993). "Structural evidence for reorientation of Miranda about a paleo-pole". In Lunar and Planetary Inst., Twenty-Fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 3: N-Z. pp. 1111–1112. Retrieved 2006-08-05.
- ^ a b Tittemore, William C.; Wisdom, Jack (June 1990). "Tidal evolution of the Uranian satellites: III. Evolution through the Miranda-Umbriel 3:1, Miranda-Ariel 5:3, and Ariel-Umbriel 2:1 mean-motion commensurabilities". Icarus 85 (2): 394–443. Bibcode:1990Icar...85..394T. doi:10.1016/0019-1035(90)90125-S.
- ^ Tittemore, William C.; Wisdom, Jack (March 1989). "Tidal evolution of the Uranian satellites: II. An explanation of the anomalously high orbital inclination of Miranda". Icarus 78 (1): 63–89. Bibcode:1989Icar...78...63T. doi:10.1016/0019-1035(89)90070-5.
- ^ Malhotra, Renu; Dermott, Stanley F. (June 1990). "The role of secondary resonances in the orbital history of Miranda". Icarus 85 (2): 444–480. Bibcode:1990Icar...85..444M. doi:10.1016/0019-1035(90)90126-T. ISSN 0019-1035.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Miranda (moon).
- Miranda Profile at NASA's Solar System Exploration site
- Miranda page at The Nine Planets
- Miranda, a Moon of Uranus at Views of the Solar System
- Paul Schenk's 3D images and flyover videos of Miranda and other outer solar system satellites
- Miranda Nomenclature from the USGS Planetary Nomenclature web site


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SEC's Schapiro will move on
Supporters says she kept the Securities and Exchange Commission alive and rebuilt its image as tough cop. Critics say the SEC still isn't aggressive enough.
There are two schools of thought about Mary Schapiro's tenure as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Schapiro announced she will leave the job on Dec. 14, and President Obama named Elisse Walter to succeed her. He may name a permanent chairman later.
- Schapiro did much to restore the SEC's credibility after what is said to be eight wasted years in during the George W. Bush administration.
- She was a pansy for Wall Street.
There's no question the SEC had an image problem when Schapiro came on board in early 2009.
The commission regulated with the lightest of hands during the Bush years. A result was the forced merger of Bear Stearns into JPMorgan Chase (JPM) in March 2008 and the Lehman Brothers collapse six months later, key contributors to the 2008-09 financial crash.
The commission also totally missed the signs that Bernard Madoff was bilking investors of millions of dollars.
Schapiro did beef up the SEC's enforcement efforts. The SEC filed dozens of enforcement actions related to the financial crisis. The SEC sued Goldman Sachs (GS) in 2010, accusing it of fraud when it sold investors a mortgage security without disclosing that hedge fund Paulson & Co. helped pick the loans and bet against them. Goldman paid a record $550 million fine.
It did force the prosecution and conviction of hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam on inside-trading charges. Former Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo was penalized $22.5 million to settle SEC charges that he and two other former Countrywide executives misled investors as the subprime mortgage crisis emerged. Mozilo also agreed to disgorge $45 million in stock profits. Countrywide is now part of Bank of America (BAC).
There was talk after the financial crisis about abolishing the SEC. No more.
And yet critics say Schapiro didn't make the most of the bully pulpit of the agency. The SEC extracted large settlements from the likes of Bank of America, Goldman and Citigroup, but the commission chose not to -- or was unable to -- obtain admissions of wrongdoing from top executives personally.
Bank of America also agreed in 2010 to a $150 million settlement of charges it lied to shareholders about its financial condition and its prospects after agreeing to buy Merrill Lynch. But federal Judge Jed Rakoff refused to approve the first suggestion of a $33 million penalty and thought the $150 million settlement too small. In his opinion, Rakoff wrote, "While better than nothing, this is half-baked justice at best."
At the same time, the SEC struggled to show it has a grasp on an increasingly fragmented market dominated by electronic and high-speed trading. Schapiro supervised adjustments of trading practices and set the stage for a future computer surveillance system after a computer program employed by one firm sparked a 20-minute plunge in stock prices, temporarily erasing $862 billion of market value.
Schapiro was also unable to get a majority of the five-member SEC to back tightened rules for money-market funds. The $2.6 trillion piece of the mutual-fund industry is believed by many to pose a large risk to the nation's financial system.
While Walter is the chairman for the foreseeable future, there is apparently talk that Obama will name a permanent chairman. It could be Walter.
Names also being floated include Mary Miller, a senior Treasury Department official; Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Chairman Richard Ketchum; former SEC commissioner Harvey Goldschmid and William Brodsky, chairman and CEO of the CBOE Holdings (CBOE), operator of the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
The New York Times said that Sallie Krawcheck, the former head of global wealth management at Merrill Lynch and a top executive at Citigroup (C) is in the running as well.
One last note: After Schapiro leaves, the commission will have four members. Two will be Democrats and two Republicans. Yes, that means gridlock is a real possibility.
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