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URL: http://www.entrepreneur.com/answer/221681First off, I would go and get a job in a restaurant to learn more about the business, preferably in a franchised restaurant environment. The reason for this is that the odds of you getting financial backing with no industry experience are slim, and if you hire a restaurant expert and a franchise expert to replace that knowledge, there will be very little, if anything, left for you to own.
Also, I would go the International Franchise Associations annual convention and talk with companies that run franchise restaurant concepts. You will get better insight as to the realities of the marketplace, and you may come to understand a new set of numbers that will either propel the idea further or cause you to re-evaluate your original plan.
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Just how much are people taking advantage of the XBox 360 shortage? If you thought selling these things for over $1,000 on eBay was bad, you haven't seen caitlincutie's auction.
This seller put up a listing for an "XBOX 360 PREMIUM PACKAGE" and gave a complete description of the item. The only catch? In the last few lines they snuck in:
This auction is not for a Xbox 360 game system, but instead a picture of one.
Wow. One hell of a sneaky fraud. This seller stole £470 from some poor guy who ended up with a photo at the end of the day.
Is that all your soul goes for caitlincuite? £470?
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As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a
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Deirdre Kane Steps Down as Head Women's Basketball Coach at West Chester
West Chester University's head women's basketball coach Deirdre Kane stepped down last month. In her tenure at WCU, Kane has a record of 428-302 and is the winningest coach in the program's history. Additionally, she helped negotiate the first union contract for all coaches, an accomplishment that she considers to be one of her greatest victories.
While the coach is currently reacquainting herself with her kitchen, she looks back at her "amazing journey."
Kane might have been shooting hoops since she was in the second grade, but she never thought her career would land her on the court. Originally, Kane dreamt of being a veterinarian. A rejection letter from veterinary school and a job offer to coach at a Catholic high school marked the beginning of Kane's career.
After stepping foot onto a few university campuses including Salisbury University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Swarthmore College, Kane decided to choose a division 2 school for a more permanent position.
"Choosing West Chester was a no brainer," she said. "It was much more family-oriented. "
Confronting a field that is dominated by males is not something you want to do alone. The coach's family ended up being the team's biggest fans. Her son and husband never missed a game. "They not only supported it, they lived it with me," she said.
Off the court, Kane leaves West Chester University having established a lasting legacy as a leader in the movement to advance women's athletics and in the ongoing fight for the fair treatment of her coach colleagues.
Keith White settles in as APSCUF's first Coach Executive Leader
Hard work is valued over everything else. That is something that Keith White learned a long time ago.
White is currently Kutztown University's Track and Field Coach, and he has just started his term as APSCUF's first Coach Executive Leader. In this position he will also be the first coach to serve on State APSCUF's Executive Council.
On the council, White will be the voice of the coaches at the 14 universities. He plans on listening and learning from "the top level leadership in the union."
He might be new to his position and the Executive Council, but White is no stranger to the State System. When he was eighteen, all he wanted was to get out of the steel mills in his hometown Lebanon, PA. When White got accepted into Millersville University, he packed his bags and headed for college. Four years later, White became the first member of his family with a college degree.
The coach did not have to travel far from the graduation stage; he started his career in the Track and Field Department at Millersville. After several successful years at Millersville, White decided to stay within the PASSHE system and took a job at Kutztown.
While the coach thinks he made the right decision to stay within the PASSHE system, he worries about the present-day cost of higher education.
"With higher education costs sky rocketing, I hope we do not lose our way," he said.
White believes coaches play a vital role in recruiting and attracting students to all 14 universities. He says a coach's job is much more than what you see on the field.
"Coaches give students guidance, mentoring, and structure," White said.
Coaches play an instrumental role in the life of collegiate athletes. It is for that reason that White spends his summers recruiting, fundraising, and trying to get a head start to the next season.
Regardless of what he is doing, White simply loves being a coach.
"The coaching life is an amazing profession, and it enriches my life daily — I could not be any luckier," he said.
Former APSCUF President, Dr. Steve Hicks, Reflects on "Realignment"
By Dr. Steve Hicks, Past President of APSCUF and Lock Haven University Faculty Member
I don't know about you, but I get tired of hearing politicians, board members, and university administrators toss around the buzzwords like "workforce planning" and "program realignment" in what they claim is a need to "reform" higher education.
Rarely do you hear anyone elucidate the meaning of these buzzwords.
In fact, program realignment was the central point of Chancellor Brogan's missive to "everyone" on July 30th – right before the collective bargaining agreement's deadline for the initial retrenchment letter.
It was on our local Meet & Discuss agenda at Lock Haven University that week ("workforce planning").
What does it mean? How can the fourteen state system universities realign and reform to get -- what?
I have heard this twaddle for years. Some of the gall was hearing it at Governor Corbett's post-secondary education commission hearings two summers ago – they changed the name from "higher education commission" when they realized they weren't talking about higher ed – as at multiple hearings testifiers stood and decried the Commonwealth's lack of welders!
[A note on welders: according to a source I'll repeatedly use, the PA Labor & Industry Department High Priority Occupation List, we need all of 528 more welders, cutters, solderers and brazers in the Commonwealth per year.]
Here's what the Labor & Industry list tells us: there are 27 occupations designated as needing a Bachelor's degree or more on the list of 106. How many jobs per year? 10,853. PASSHE graduates more than double that every year, as do the state-relateds (Pitt, Penn St, Temple); that number is non-sustaining. What are we reshaping for?
The most needed bachelor's degree occupation? 1,668 accountants and auditors. We already do that.
Second? Marketing research analysts (889). We already do that.
Third? Computer system analysts. We do that. Maybe not everywhere and in the numbers we need (though there are only 670 jobs per year in PA in this) but it's not something we need to reform to do.
So, what are we realigning to or for?
This question is even more perplexing when you look at studies about what employers want. Like this one from the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU) from 2013. Like many other such studies, it turns out executives hiring care more about the generic skills learned at a university, critical thinking, computation, written and oral communication, problem solving, than a specific major. The much maligned philosophy major, or French major, shockingly! has what they want. Much reinforced by quality general education (core curriculum) courses and by multiple years of reinforcement in multiple disciplines and multiple courses.
I ask again: what is it we are missing and what are we supposed to "align" with?
Administrators keep saying things like "we need to match the faculty with our student demand." They talk about investing in the "high demand programs."
But universities respond to "high demand" – or anything else – slowly. This year's "high demand" is tomorrow's "out of demand" – remember when journalists were in demand (post-Watergate)? Remember when school teachers were in high demand (state budget cuts have killed that)? Instead, universities, as PASSHE schools do, should educate students broadly so they can supply those "soft skills" no matter what the major and adapt from job to job as their lives, our economy, and their goals change – they all will change careers three times. Worrying about nailing that first job seems short-sighted, which is one thing universities aren't supposed to be.
I won't speak here as to why all these "leaders" think higher education needs to reform, but I will say this clearly and soundly: it's a misguided attempt to get four-year universities to do what they aren't supposed to (welding?!?!?) and to forget our core aptitude: no matter the major, teaching students to think critically, communicate well, and solve the problems of any prospective employer. Literally tens of thousands of jobs need those skills and those graduates – we need to keep "forming" students like that and the Commonwealth will be in fine shape.
Instead of program realignment and workforce planning, let's have some innovative thoughts about how to get more high school graduates into to college, to keep them in college (we need to spend money so high risk 18-year-olds have a real chance of succeeding on campus), and how to mitigate the ever-increasing cost of public higher ed – even as we received flat funding from the state for the third straight year (after the 18% cut in 2011), students are asked to pay 3% more tuition and 15% more in tech fees, when they already average almost a welder's annual wage in debt when they graduate. THIS is what politicians, administrators and board members should be focused on: more accessibility, not on the next "hot" (a relative term) program. The market will take care of that, thank you.
Dr. Seth Kahn, APSCUF Member and Adjunct Advocate, Summarizes Lessons Learned at the COCAL Conference
Dr. Seth Kahn is an APSCUF and faculty member from West Chester University. As a guest blogger, his views reflected below do not necessarily reflect the views of the organization as a whole.
First, a loud thank you to APSCUF for sending me to New York City August 4-5 for the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor's 11th biennial conference. If you're unfamiliar with COCAL, the organization has emerged since the late 1990s as a--if not the--central venue in which adjunct activists collaborate to develop strategies and tactics to win better working conditions for contingent faculty. COCAL brings together contingent/adjunct activists from Canada and Mexico (both of which have hosted conferences) with their US counterparts, understanding contingency as a globalizing phenomenon.
I learned a lot at this conference, and before getting into the details, maybe the most important lesson is something I already realized (perhaps the most forceful statement of it by and for adjunct faculty comes from Keith Hoeller) but had reinforced more palpably than I could have imagined--
Lesson #1: While tenured and tenure-track faculty should and can be helpful advocates/allies for adjunct faculty equity, the real push for equity comes directly from adjunct faculty. I'm not sure how many other tenured/tenure-track people were there (I recognized a couple but expect there were some I just didn't know), but the energy, talent, and commitment in the room were almost entirely adjunct-driven. If I could bring anything back to APSCUF from this conference, it's a dose of that commitment for all adjunct members of the union; we know the talent and energy are here. The struggle for equity is everybody's, including yours.
Other people have covered the conference's proceedings. This post from the Chronicle of Higher Education's Vitae section offers a coherent overview of events. Inside Higher Ed's coverage of the opening plenary session addresses the need to take direct action, including strikes (Stanley Aronowitz argued strongly for wildcat strikes; Cindy Oliver, president of the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of British Columbia, contended that any public employee besides emergency responders has a moral right to strike) and better to articulate the (academic) labor movement in terms of non-financial issues. Other panelists and audience members considered tactics available to faculty in non-union states. The second plenary, which I'll say more about below, focused on specific strategies and tactics (mostly in union environments) for gaining and protecting contingent faculty power. The third plenary focused on linking arguments about contingent academic labor to issues of contingency in other labor sectors.
At that second plenary, called "Inside the Academy: The Cutting Edge," I learned about a variety of efforts that I think translate pretty directly into possible APSCUF positions/actions:
Lesson #2: We need to support in every way we can SEIU's Adjunct Action campaign, along with similar AFT and USW metro organizing efforts, even in areas that don't directly affect our members. USW has been working in Pittsburgh, and AFT is organizing across the Philly metro area as well as one campus in Pittsburgh. While APSCUF adjunct faculty are members of our bargaining unit already and won't be targets of those efforts, there's no reason that we can't and shouldn't offer support--to the extent that it's welcome. Not only are better conditions for contingent faculty an obvious good, but often APSCUF adjunct faculty work at multiple institutions, and we're benefiting them by working to improve those institutions.
Lesson #3: Genuine adjunct equity goes beyond compensation. Donna Nebenzahl, representing the Concordia University Part-time Faculty Association (CUPFA), described their successes on two important fronts. In their last contract, they negotiated a $240,000 (Canadian dollars, but still) professional development fund specifically for part-time faculty. The dollar amount aside, the key concept is the commitment the union and university have made. I strongly call on APSCUF to make a similarly strong commitment to our adjunct faculty, as members of our bargaining unit. Likewise, Condordia part-time faculty have (to borrow Nebenzahl's words) "permeate[d] the governance of the university" by winning representation on hiring committees, curriculum committees, and other governing bodies. APSCUF permanent faculty members need to support our adjunct colleagues in this regard--there's simply no good reason not to.
Alternating with the plenaries, the other major events at the conference were three breakout meetings of "interest groups" focused on specific strategic problems: working with media; negotiating equity; legal issues (Affordable Care Act; discrimination issues; etc); building a national agenda (working with unions and other organizations across institutions and regions); and organizing (with) students. The charge for the interest groups was loose, but the gist was to develop a short strategy statement, and if there was time to develop whatever tactical recommendations we could in order to operationalize the strategy. I joined the student group, learning at the beginning of the first session that organizers expected us to stay in a group for all three (I had planned on attending the media and national agenda groups as well, but deferred to the preference of the people who had done the work of putting the conference together).
I wasn't able to attend the closing session at which all five groups presented their final results, but (with the permission of our group members and facilitators) I can share what the student group developed, and one member of the national agenda group has already blogged theirs, a project they call the Democracy Index. That group is undertaking an effort that resonates with and builds from what many contingent labor activists have been trying to do for years--develop a method for praising institutions that do well by their adjunct faculty, and just as importantly, calling out institutions that do wrong. There have been attempts in my field (Composition/Rhetoric/English) to push our professional organizations (MLA, CCCC, NCTE) to censure departments/programs with bad labor practices, and the response has always been that bylaws (and, they argue, laws about non-profit status) prevent them from censuring/punishing anybody. The Democracy Index doesn't call for censure, specifically, but instead proposes to publicize rankings and reports on institutions' treatment of adjunct faculty: compensation, but also access to professional resources, academic freedom, and shared governance (see Lesson #2, above).
Lesson #4: Throughout the conference (and certainly in other adjunct activist venues), one of the common tensions is over how to prioritize compensation vs governance and professionalization issues. Is it more important to make sure everybody can pay their rent and buy food first, even if that comes at the expense of governance rights, or do we establish governance rights first in order to demand compensation equity more effectively? The answer to that is largely local, of course. APSCUF does reasonably well in terms of compensation, particularly for full-time adjunct faculty, but adjunct access to governance rights and professional development is inconsistently supported. We must do better.
The interest group on organizing with students produced a statement of Core Principles and Practices (click this link to download the file, which we saved as Student Strategy Document). Our conversations focused on the need to balance the ethics of democratic organizing (not coercing students into supporting adjuncts), the common issues that students and adjunct faculty face, and the needs of adjunct faculty.
Lesson #5: The work we did in the student group reinforces the need for our Student-Faculty Liaisons, at both local and state levels, to be involved in efforts for faculty equity of all statuses, including adjuncts. Many of our students already work contingent jobs. Many will graduate and, without a tectonic shift in the economy, find other contingent jobs. We can fight contingency in unison, without exploiting students to do it, if we're careful and attentive to the ethics of what we ask for.
Again, I'm very grateful to APSCUF for sending me to New York, and I'm grateful to all the organizers and participants at the conference for their welcome, their energy, and a commitment I hope I can share across the union and with adjunct activists and sympathizers everywhere.
I'll end with this request, a campaign I'm involved in that garnered some attention and support at the conference too. A few weeks ago, the good folks at State APSCUF posted a piece I wrote about this petition to David Weil at the Department of Labor , calling for signatures from faculty at all ranks/statuses, managers, staff, students, parents/guardians, families, anybody with an interest in quality higher ed. As of August 10, we're approaching 6800 signatures. Please sign and share.
Potential Faculty Retrenchment is about Funding, Not Realignment
APSCUF issued the following press release today in response to yesterday's retrenchment letters:
Harrisburg – Yesterday, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) announced that five of the 14 state-owned universities are considering faculty layoffs at the end of the upcoming academic year.
The universities considering retrenchment include Mansfield, Edinboro, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, and Cheyney. These five universities account for over 20 percent of the approximately 6,000 faculty the State System employs. APSCUF remains hopeful that the administrations and PASSHE will reconsider this potentially devastating path to "fiscal solvency."
During the '11 – '12 fiscal year, Governor Corbett slashed the budget for the State System by $90 million, and the System has been flat funded since. The consequences of that cut are again being realized now as students may see a loss of faculty and a reduction of key programs and courses.
"We thought we were done," said Dr. Kenneth M. Mash, APSCUF President. "Our universities and faculty have been consistently asked to do more with less. The reality is that we can't. Faculty have been laid off, programs have been eliminated and put into moratorium. We have reached the point of doing less with less to the detriment of our students and their educational experience."
Over the last five years, PASSHE has placed approximately 160 programs in moratorium, reorganized another 90 programs, and created a mere 56 new academic programs. The eliminated programs included, among many others, foreign languages and other programs traditionally in the liberal arts.
"Public higher education is clearly not one of the Governor's priorities," said Mash. "You can't remove $90 million in funding from a system and expect that system to continue sustaining the caliber of education that our students deserve."
"We received Governor Corbett's anti public higher education message loud and clear," said Mash. "Our students and their families deserve quality, affordable higher education at an affordable price tag. His cuts have not only destroyed programs and reduced faculty, but he has also taxed students and their families through increased tuition."
PASSHE Chancellor, Frank. T. Brogan and the university presidents stated that the current possibility of layoffs is also due to program realignment to better serve the Commonwealth's needs in workforce readiness. "Talking about program realignment and strategic vision in a vacuum is unreasonably simplistic. It is not coincidental that these are the same universities that wanted to retrench last year because of 'financial considerations.' We are cutting faculty and programs that CEOs say students need in the workforce."
"Eighty percent of our graduates remain in Pennsylvania, and we absolutely want them to be prepared for the workforce. The only sensible answer is that the System needs to be properly funded. We need our legislators and our Governor to truly support the Commonwealth's future," said Mash.
Consider Adding Your Voice to the Adjunct Labor Movement
There is a national trend in which institutions of higher education deny their adjunct faculty quality wages and benefits. The calculation of credit hours results in pay almost equal to the minimum wage at most fast food and retail locations. With such inequalities, many adjuncts are left to wonder how to make ends meet.
At this moment, there is an online petition asking David Weil, Director of the Wage and Hour Division in the U.S. Department of Labor, to "open an investigation into the labor practices of our colleges and universities in the employment of contingent faculty." Please read Dr. Seth Kahn's guest blog on Academe titled Why you should sign a petition calling for the Department of Labor to investigate contingent faculty working conditions. Dr. Kahn is an English professor and APSCUF member at West Chester University.
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text: Ötzi20: 20 Years of science, media and mysteries Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00 - Wednesday, 04 January 2012, 00:00 by Francesca Vella When two hikers came across a human corpse in the Ötztal Alps 20 years ago, speculation raged over the age of the body, and the life and death of the man who became known as Ötzi – the name coined by an Austrian journalist. The oldest, most well-preserved, frozen Neolithic mummy soon became a world sensation. Francesca Vella recently visited the special exhibition 'Ötzi20 – Life. Science. Fiction. Reality' at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy, which was set up to mark the 20th anniversary of the discovery and which has been extended by a year The interactive exhibition captures the sense of curiosity generated by the so-called "wet mummy", whose discovery provided a snapshot of Stone Age life in Europe. People all over the world watched on in amazement two decades ago as the intact body of a man from the Copper Age, along with his clothing and equipment, was recovered from a glacier in the Ötztal Alps where it had been preserved for 5,300 years. Long after his death, Ötzi now holds humans in his spell with ever more insights into his life and death. More than three million people have visited Ötzi in the museum so far, and numerous scientists have examined him. The South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano is thus this year dedicating the special exhibition 'Ötzi20 – Life. Science. Fiction. Reality" to Ötzi. The exhibition will run until 13 January, 2013. The South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology presented the new reconstruction of the iceman during the opening of the exhibition. The special exhibition occupies the entire exhibition area of the museum building. Each of the four floors is dedicated to one of the themes: Life, science, fiction and reality. The exhibition details the discovery of the mummy, the circumstances of his life, the results of the research and the way the archaeological find was featured in the media, as well as stories that have emerged since the iceman was discovered. With its interactive stations, as well as films, interviews and hands-on displays, the exhibition is an exciting, educational and entertaining experience for children and adults alike. Sophisticated modern measurement techniques have confirmed that Ötzi lived between 3,350 and 3,100 BC. Stonehenge had not yet been built in England and the pyramids of Giza would not be constructed for a further 600 years. It was on 19 September, 1991 when Erika and Helmut Simon from Nuremberg discovered the corpse at an altitude of 3,210 metres above sea level in the Ötztal Alps near the Italian-Austrian border in a narrow gulley about two to three metres deep. Initially, it was assumed that the site was in Austria, but when a survey of the border was carried out in October 1991, it turned out that the find was 92.56 metres from the border in South Tyrol, in Italy. An archaeologist, Professor Konrad Spindler, who was consulted five days after the corpse was discovered, said that the body was at least 5,000 years old. The body was preserved thanks to a chain of extraordinary coincidences. Ötzi died high up in the eternally cold glacier region, where he remained lying in a protective gully. The mummification process began. When winter set in, Ötzi was covered by a layer of snow and he remained frozen. Over the course of centuries the glacial ice continued to flow above him, but he remained protected, because the gully ran at right angles to the flow of the glacier. Until the September 1991 find, archaeologists could only reconstruct the Neolithic period on the basis of relatively scanty remains such as skeletons, burial sites and burial objects. Ötzi, however, lay as he died and is perfectly preserved as a wet mummy complete with clothing and equipment. Wet mummies are very rare and, if they are well preserved, extremely valuable. Ötzi's skin, hair, eyes, tissues, internal organs, and even the content of his stomach, are all intact. Ötzi gives us insights into an age we thought had been lost forever. For the first time in the history of medicine it was possible to apply the most modern examination methods to a 5,000-year-old mummy. CT scans provided three-dimensional images and made it possible to construct an accurate model of Ötzi's skull. Deformations caused by the pressure of the ice were visible. For the endoscopic examinations a special titanium instrument was developed which took snapshots of the inside of Ötzi's body. Samples were taken and sent to laboratories around the world. For over 5,000 years, Ötzi lay encased in glacial ice, where he was protected from light in a chilled, humid state. These conditions must now be artificially maintained in order to preserve this unique find for science and research. A cooling system unique in the world was developed which also allows the mummy to be displayed to the public. To prevent the mummy from drying out, it is sprayed with water, causing a fine ice layer to form on the surface. It was established that Ötzi died from an arrow wound. For a long time the arrowhead remained hidden. It was not discovered until 2001 when new X-rays were analysed. The arrow had been shot from behind and from a considerable distance. It penetrated his left shoulder blade and injured a major artery, causing massive bleeding. He died shortly afterwards. Ötzi also had an injury to his temple and brain trauma. It's unclear whether the arrow caused him to fall to the ground or whether someone struck him down. Ötzi was evidently fleeing. This is indicated, for example, by his unfinished pieces of equipment. Before he met his death, Ötzi tried to quickly fashion a new bow and several arrows. A deep cut in his right hand reveals that he had been in hand-to-hand combat shortly before his death. The reason for the shot in the back remains unknown. A tribal war? A personal conflict? A raid? None of Ötzi's equipment, not even his copper-bladed axe, was stolen. Was the fight about a herd of sheep or goats? Research on the corpse is ongoing. In a New Scientist report published last month, Andy Coghlan wrote: "It's time to rethink Ötzi the iceman's last hours. The theory that he was caught and killed after a lengthy and exhausting chase through the Alps clashes with new evidence that he sat down for a leisurely meal no more than an hour before his violent death. "A previous analysis of Ötzi's stomach concluded it was almost empty of food, leading to the idea that the iceman spent his final moments running on an empty stomach. But when Albert Zink of the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman in Bolzano and colleagues took a closer look, they realised that the empty "stomach" was in fact a section of Ötzi's colon. They found that the real stomach had been forced upwards, and now lies wedged under the iceman's ribs. "Zink's team has now examined its contents, which include plenty of partially digested ibex meat, probably suggesting that Ötzi enjoyed a hearty meal shortly before his death (Journal of Archaeological Science)." Sources: South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, New Scientist


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Charles R. Drew was a great surgeon who introduced the concept of blood bank. Read further and learn about the profile, childhood, life and timeline of this great surgeon.
Charles R. Drew
Famous as: Surgeon
Nationality: American
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Born in: Washington, D.C.
Died on: 01 April 1950 AD
place of death: Burlington
father: Richard Drew
Spouse: Minnie Lenore Robbins
children: Charlene Drew Jarvis
education: Amherst College, Columbia University, McGill University, Dunbar High School, McGill University Faculty of Medicine
discoveries / inventions: Blood Banking; Blood Transfusions
Works & Achievements: Charles R. Drew developed the concept of blood bank. He also conducted many researches in the field of blood transfusion and invented improved techniques for storage of blood.
awards: Spingarn Medal
Charles Richard Drew was a famous American physician, surgeon and medical researcher, who is still remembered for his outstanding innovations and researches on blood transfusions. His innovative techniques for better blood storage and researches in blood transfusion helped saving several lives during the World War II. His innovations revolutionized the medical profession and inspired many medical aspirants to follow his path. He was the director of 'Blood for Britain', the first blood bank project organized in the year 1940 to help British civilians and soldiers. He also served as director of the American Red Cross Blood Bank, which was established by him. Though he had an untimely death at the age of 46, his contributions had significant impact in the field of medicine, and provided a strong base for the rest of the research in similar lines. Rightly referred to as the 'Father of the blood bank', this outstanding personality played a major role in organizing, conceiving and directing the first blood banking program in the history of America. Read further to know more about Charles Richard Drew.
Charles Richard Drew was born on 3 June.
Joined McGill University, in Montreal, Canada.
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23 September, Charles got married to Minnie Lenore.
Acquired the Doctor of Medical Science degree.
Blood Transfusion Betterment Association in New York appointed Dr. Drew as director of the 'Blood for Britain' project.
He returned back to Howard University; served the position of Chief of staff and medical Director at the Freedmen's Hospital.
Received several honors such as the Spingarn Medal of the NAACP
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A man in Pennsylvania was arrested after claiming to be a country singer and allegedly making repeated threats toward authorities during six calls to 911 Monday morning.
According to WTAE-TV, Daniel Hendrie, 64, made the threats between 4:50 a.m. and 8:15 a.m. in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, a town 13 miles west of Pittsburgh, saying he was going to shoot a police officer.
Reports say Hendrie also claimed he was famed outlaw country artist Merle Haggard.
Eventually, authorities used Hendrie's cell phone to locate him at a nearby Days Inn.
Officers reported they found nothing suspicious inside his room, and that Hendrie told them he was in the area to see Governor Tom Corbett.
Police placed a nearby school district on lockdown due to Hendrie's violent threats.
"When this person made threats, especially threats of violence, then we didn't want to take any chances," Monroeville police Sgt. Rob McConnell told the news station.
Police stated Hendrie's threats continued in the police car and inside the courtroom Monday.
WTAE said he also yelled profanity at the judge after his bond was set at $250,000, saying he didn't have the money and was just a poor man.
He is due back in court October 1.
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The last time we did the Mondo Mystery Movie dance, it was October of 2011. For that event, the good folks at Mondo/the Alamo Drafthouse arranged for a dozen charter busses' worth of film geeks and poster fans to be ferried (via police escort) across Austin to a nearly-abandoned mall swarming with "zombies", at which time we were all shown an extremely special screening of George Romero's Dawn of The Dead. Nine months later, the Mondo Mystery Movie returned to Austin, and—as you might've already heard—the results were fantastic. Read on for my report from Mondo Mystery Movie 10, my fellow limited paper enthusiasts.


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Heavy snowfall and strong winds were expected through northern Utah until Friday morning, according to a Winter Storm Warning issued by the National Weather Service.
Valley rain was predicted to change to snow in the valleys by Thursday morning, tapering off by Friday morning.
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A trace to 2 inches of snow on the valley floors Thursday will bring the possibility of slushy roadways during the morning commute, the weather service said.
In the mountains, anywhere from 10 to 20 inches could fall.
Winds took down power lines on the Wasatch Front and cause a blackout to about 4,800 customers near Bear Lake, according to Rocky Mountain Power. Gusts overnight were expected to reach 75 mph.
The Utah Avalanche Center issued an avalanche watch for all mountains of northern and central Utah, down to the Fishlake Plateau.
The really good news, though, is the atmospheric cleansing the storms bring. The Utah Division of Air Quality graded all areas of the state at "green," or healthy, beginning Thursday.
Salt Lake and Tooele counties looked for plentiful rainfall Thursday, with high temperatures around 40 degrees.
Southern Utahns had cloudy skies and a chance of rain, but otherwise enjoyed spring-like weather. Highs on Thursday were to range into the mid-60s.
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Holiday Giveaway 2010
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High octane offense led by Logan Thomas and David Wilson propels Tech against Miami, while Hokies defense struggles
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As far as fakes go, Virginia Tech running back David Wilson had to believe his run fake in the waning moments Saturday against Miami would be worthy of an A grade in his academic world at Tech. Wilson's run fake on quarterback Logan Thomas' 19-yard touchdown run with 56 seconds left in Tech's 38-35 win against Miami brought several Hurricane defenders over to the right side of the field, leaving a huge hole in the middle for Thomas to sprint to the end zone. "I'm taking an Introduction to Acting class," said Wilson, who ran 23 times for 128 yards, marking the fifth time this season and the seventh time in his career he has run for 100-plus yards. "My teacher always says whenever she sees me doing a fake, she tries to take


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Sugared Maraschino Cherries and Mint Sprigs
This recipe goes with Pecan Divinity Cake
Yield: Makes 20 cherries and 16 mint sprigs
- 16 to 20 maraschino cherries with stems, rinsed and well drained
- 12 to 16 fresh mint sprigs, rinsed
- 1 1/3 cups powdered sugar
- 1/3 cup water
- 1 tablespoon meringue powder
- 1/2 cup sugar
- Place cherries and mint on paper towels, and let stand until completely dry.
- Beat powdered sugar, 1/3 cup water, and meringue powder at medium speed with an electric mixer 2 to 3 minutes or until smooth and creamy.
- Brush cherries and mint sprigs with meringue mixture, using a small paintbrush; sprinkle with sugar, and place on a wire rack. Let stand 2 to 3 hours or until dry.
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Fighting iodine deficiencies in Russia and Ukraine
On October 30-31st, GAIN and UNICEF hosted the CEE-CIS Regional Bread Industry Forum in Lviv, Ukraine. The forum called together Russian and Ukrainian bread producers with public health and control agencies to discuss using iodized salt in mass-produced bread to improve iodine intake.
Presenters shared evidence about iodine deficiency in Russia and Ukraine and its public health consequences, highlighted examples of using iodized salt in bread and resulting decrease in iodine deficiency from other countries, and provided practical information to producers about how they can use iodized salt. Russia and Ukraine have the greatest numbers of people in the CEE-CIS region unprotected from iodine deficiency disorders.
For Russians and Ukrainians, bread is a central part of the diet. Based on the average consumption of bread per day (which is among the highest in Europe), this vehicle could provide about 30% of the population's daily iodine requirements. While it is legal to use iodized salt in both countries, producers mentioned this involves a complicated and costly administrative process. However, some producers, such as Concern Khlibprom, have already started.
The meeting was a follow up to the 2011 Belgrade Forum, which identified concrete steps to reaching optimal iodine nutrition through strategies focused specifically on using iodized salt in mass staple foods such as bread. Since Belgrade, GAIN and UNICEF have continued to engage with the bread industry in both countries. This meeting focused on applying the principles of corporate social responsibility and use of social marketing to communicate the importance of iodized salt to deliver benefits for both business and consumers. Participants in Lviv voiced their willingness to use iodized salt but had concerns about obtaining permissions and challenges associated with declaring iodine content on labels. Follow up steps include closely working with producers while continuing to engage with policymakers and institutions in order to create a supportive enabling environment to move forward.


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