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"We are excited to come to an agreement on an extension with Jurrell," said Titans general manager Ruston Webster. "This is something Jurrell has earned not only with his play on the field but his work ethic as well. We appreciate Jurrell's professionalism through this process and look forward to many good years to come."
Entering his fourth season, Casey has established himself as one of the best young interior defensive linemen in the NFL. Last season, he posted 10.5 sacks, which ranked second among all NFL defensive tackles and was the second-highest total by a defensive tackle in franchise history (Ray Childress, 13.0 sacks in 1992). He also established career highs in tackles (90), quarterback pressures (10) and passes defensed (3). His tackle tally last year, ranked sixth on the team and second among defensive linemen. Casey was named second-team All-Pro in 2013 by the Associated Press.
Casey has logged 45 starts during his Titans career and has registered 16.0 sacks, 244 tackles, 22 quarterback pressures, 14 quarterback pressures, four forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries.
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Summary: Methylaspartate ammonia-lyase C-terminus
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Methylaspartate ammonia-lyase C-terminus Provide feedback
Methylaspartate ammonia-lyase EC:126.96.36.199 catalyses the second step of fermentation of glutamate. It is a homodimer. This family represents the C-terminal region of Methylaspartate ammonia-lyase and contains a TIM barrel fold similar to the PF01188. This family represents the catalytic domain and contains a metal binding site [2].
Literature references
Goda SK, Minton NP, Botting NP, Gani D; , Biochemistry 1992;31:10747-10756.: Cloning, sequencing, and expression in Escherichia coli of the Clostridium tetanomorphum gene encoding beta-methylaspartase and characterization of the recombinant protein. PUBMED:1420191 EPMC:1420191
Asuncion M, Blankenfeldt W, Barlow JN, Gani D, Naismith JH; , J Biol Chem 2002;277:8306-8311.: The structure of 3-methylaspartase from Clostridium tetanomorphum functions via the common enolase chemical step. PUBMED:11748244 EPMC:11748244
Internal database links
SCOOP: | Enolase_C MR_MLE_C |
Similarity to PfamA using HHSearch: | MR_MLE_C |
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SCOP: | 1kko |
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InterPro entry IPR022662
Methylaspartate ammonia-lyase EC catalyses the second step of fermentation of glutamate. It is a homodimer. This domain represents the C-terminal region of methylaspartate ammonia-lyase and contains a TIM barrel fold similar to the . This domain represents the catalytic domain and contains a metal binding site [PUBMED:11748244].
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Pfam Clan
This family is a member of clan Enolase_TIM (CL0256), which has the following description:
This clan contains enzymes which adopt a TIM barrel fold.
The clan contains the following 3 members:
Enolase_C MAAL_C MR_MLE_CAlignments
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Seed source: | COG3799 |
Previous IDs: | none |
Type: | Family |
Author: | Bateman A, Moxon SJ |
Number in seed: | 13 |
Number in full: | 161 |
Average length of the domain: | 245.90 aa |
Average identity of full alignment: | 52 % |
Average coverage of the sequence by the domain: | 60.43 % |
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Model length: | 249 | ||||||||||||
Family (HMM) version: | 10 | ||||||||||||
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Below is a brief summary of activities participated in and attending at IMPACT, the American Academy of Physician Assistants annual national conference in Las Vegas, from May 31-June 4, 2011. The primary day of attendance was Friday, June 3; however, the poster presentation was on display in the hall from June 1 until June 3. Set up was set for June 1 by functions organizers.
June 1:
After arriving in Las Vegas and checking into the hotel, the poster had to be placed in the exhibit hall on the first. Meeting up with the chair of my research committee, Dr. Theresa Bacon-Baguley, the poster was placed on the assigned board and left on display until the third day.
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The scheduled poster presentation time was from noon until one in the afternoon. Although the session time was short, I arrived earlier in the day to review the other posters on display and answer questions that pertained to my presentation as well as review the other informational sessions offered on that day. I arrived at the exhibit hall around 10 in the morning. After checking in with the program organizers, I explored the other research projects on display, below I highlight a few of the ones I found most interesting. As a side note, not all research presented at the poster session was student research and although over 120 projects submitted for presentation, less that 90 were accepted. Also, all research projects submitted by GVSU were accepted!
The Safety and Efficacy of Physician Assistants as First Assistant Surgeons in Cardiac Surgery
The Importance of Tissue Biopsy in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Necrotic Wounds
Endovascular Stent Placement in a Patient with a Type B Aortic Dissection and an Aberrant Subclavian Artery
Retrospective Analysis of Urinary Excretion Levels of Deoxypyridinoline and Suppressed TSH Levels from Thyroid Hormone Supplementation
An Unusual Case of Hyponatremia
Aside from reviewing the various presentations available at the exhibit hall, I was also available at my poster to answer questions during the question and answer session. This proved to be the most interesting part of the experience. Having spent so much time developing my project, it was exciting to answer questions pertaining to my labor of love. Having various professionals and students stop by to enquire about the project was great practice in public speaking and challenged me to succinctly define the study and highlight its importance and future direction. Once this session was completed, the poster was removed and I returned home the next morning.


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Funded by the Henry Luce III Foundation, this study explores the significance of the ancient creation traditions of the Hebrew Bible in light of the discoveries and perspectives of science. The aim, however, is not to seek an artificial harmony that forces Scripture to fit science or science to fit Scripture. Rather, the goal is to facilitate a constructive dialogue between two independent disciplines that are rooted in wonder — biblical theology and science — in order to gain new wisdom about how to live responsibly in the world, to care for creation. The overarching question is: How do we in ... More
Keywords: creation, Bible, science, biblical theology, hermeneutics, interpretation, ecology, wisdom, wonder, faith
Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199730797 |
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I know, I know….we are stretching it with Rob, but there seems to be a drought. Bear with the Editors as they discuss the shortage and the disaster after the jump.
J.Harvey: He actually looked better in Lindsay Lohan drag. The hat and the shirt are having a battle of wits that I can't stomach.
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By Eric Savitz
The Street has begun sorting through Tuesday's data from Apple's (AAPL) earnings report for the fiscal first quarter ended December, and its outlook for fiscal second quarter ending in March. As noted in previous posts, the December quarter results beat both Apple's previous guidance and the Street consensus for both revenues and profits. But the stock dropped more than 10% in after hours trading, as investors focused instead on two troubling factors: weaker-than-expected guidance for the March quarter, and iPod sales that came in several million shy of Street expectations. Some analysts are rallying to the stock's defense, but even the bulls find the light iPod sales troubling. I'll follow up with another round of comments tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, here are some excerpts from the first round of reports:
- UBS' Ben Reitzes repeated his Buy rating on the stock, but cut his target price to $200 from $235 to reflect "increased risks" for iPods. "Apple usually provides conservative guidance, but investors seem to be more worried this year given weakness in iPods & the economy overall," he writes. "In short, Apple needs Macs & iPhones to pick up the slack for a maturing iPod category."
- Credit Suisse's Robert Semple repeated his Outperform rating. He notes that the stock in recent years has found support at about 20x forward EPS, implying support at $131 a share. "We would be buyers of the stock at that level," he writes, "but are cognizant that the stock may be poised for a breather without near-term catalysts until the summer and a potential 3G iPhone."
- Bank of America's Scott Craig keeps his Buy rating on the stock, but cuts his target to $180 from $200. "Apple seems to have reverted back to its guidance policy of revenue/EPS below consensus, after management actually guided F1Q08 above original consensus," he writes. "This has created a good buying opportunity for the stock, given more reasonable valuation and fairly modest EPS cuts."
- Bear Stearns' Andy Neff maintains his Outperform rating on the stock and advises buying the shares of weakness. "Though concern remains on potential for slowing consumer, we view the stock�s after-market weakness as a buying opportunity as AAPL is on the cusp of multiple product cycles," he writes. However, he cut his target price to $220 from $233, and he trimmed estimates to $5.10 from $5.20 for FY '08 and to $6.50 from $6.60 for '09.
I'll have more tomorrow.
In after hours trading, Apple was down $17.71, or 11.4%, at $137.93. Including the after-hours drop, the stock is down more than 30% since the end of 2007.


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Just watched the live coverage of the Curiosity rover landing on Mars. It was very cool to see the USA land another, much larger this time, rover on Mars. The two small rovers we landed there many years ago were designed to last about 90 days. One of them is still going. This rover, about the size of an SUV where the other two were the size of large microwave ovens, is designed to last a long time. Conceivably, this one could be driving around on Mars for decades.
I did have to laugh at one interview after the landing took place though. It was with president Obama's science adviser. He stated that the USA is the only country that has landed what he called "landers" on another planet. I guess he is unaware that the former Soviet Union landed several "Landers". missions called "Venera", on the surface of Venus that returned data and pictures before being destroyed by the harsh conditions on that planet after being on the surface for some time. One would expect a presidential science adviser to know things like that wouldn't one??
Soviet Venus Images
http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observations_and_explorations_of_Venus#Early_landi ngs
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ROME (Reuters) – Pope John Paul (news – web sites) spent a restful night in hospital after throat surgery and was breathing unassisted but doctors have advised him not to speak for several days, the Vatican (news – web sites) said on Friday.
The Vatican's first medical bulletin, issued some 16 hours after the Pope had a tracheotomy to open his windpipe and help him breathe, aimed at soothing a worried Roman Catholic Church. Spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls told reporters the 84-year-old Pope's heart and blood circulation were good and he had no bronchial pneumonia infection — a possible complication of the operation on Thursday to ease his breathing problems.
"The Holy Father spent a night of tranquil rest. This morning he ate breakfast with a good appetite," he said, adding that it consisted of milk with coffee, biscuits and yogurt.
"The post-operative situation continues regularly. He is breathing on his own and cardio-circulatory conditions remain good … he does not need respiratory assistance, that means no mechanical device was used either yesterday or today," he said.
Among the world's many relieved Catholics was Sister Maria Pinni, a 92-year-old Italian nun walking in St Peter's Square.
"What anxiety he put me through!" she said when told that the Pope appeared to be doing well. "That's good news and gives us reason to hope he will recover fully and remain well." The Pope was rushed to hospital for the second time this month on Thursday with a relapse of acute breathing problems.
In the evening doctors cut a hole in his windpipe to prevent him from choking and placed a tube into his throat to allow air to flow directly to his lungs.
Navarro-Valls said that when he awoke from surgery the Pope asked for paper and wrote jokingly: "What have they done to me."
I wish him well, of course.
Quick question: Why would it be a bad thing for the Pope to die? I mean, he's a true believer in the Christian faith, right? And therefore he gets to go to heaven, right? And he won't be sick or feel any pain in the afterlife, right?
So why shouldn't devoutly religious persons wish for a quick and relatively painless death instead?
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I have a relative who insists that the door from a public bathroom must be opened with a paper towel. She has her reasons, explaining that when people don't wash their hands, they touch the doorknob and...you get the picture. The first time she told me this I stared at her with goggle-eyed wonder. And then it started to make sense. And then it started to make too much sense, and I found myself opening a bathroom door with my foot. Urinetown is the Tony award-winning answer to those who wonder what the world would be like with only public toilets. Set in the near future, the world's population has grown to the point that private toilets have been banned (so I guess bathroom reading has become a thing of the past) and the Urine Good Company controls all of the pay-per-pee services. This is a concerned story with a message--in a musical comedy send-up's clothing. So you can giggle at pee jokes and ponder the dangers of capitalism and social irresponsibility all at the same time. Repertory Company Theatre presents Urinetown 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays, Friday through October 19 at the Promenade Theatre, 650 N. Coit Road in Richardson. Tickets are $14 to $25. Call 972-690-5029.
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The 21st lecture from the Master, held on in front of the Youthful occult class on 14th of March, 1923, Sofia. Salute: The only way of Wisdom leads to the Truth. The truth. Meditation. We are read the resume of the theme The use of the rivers, seas, oceans. I will give you in the future the following task: You will get two lectures from last year, you will take out resumes in writing and you will read them in class. Two disciples by wish have to be engaged with the two lectures. Meanwhile you will repeat the exercises, given in the lectures. If you find something you can not understand, we will add it here. The lectures must be studied well, applied, and they have to be able to give the necessary result. If the disciple is not ready, he cannot be used by Nature. This is especially necessary for the occult disciple. The brain of the disciple must be developed, well formed; it has to be able to come into connection with the forces of Nature, to make use of them. If he does not work for himself, he cannot use the knowledge, given in the School. Imagine that you are travelling at night with your friend, he gives you an apple, but you cannot see it properly through the darkness - is it healthy or decayed and immediately you spit it out. Therefore what the rotten apple is for you, such things are your unclear thoughts and wishes for the Invisible world. It is enough for you to design such a thought of feeling in the Invisible world to spit it out quickly. That is the way to make use of the forces of the Nature, by the Knowledge, given to you, it is essential an absolutely purity of the hearth by your side. The one who understands what purity means will make use of it, the one who can not understand it, will have to take an exam and to experience himself the uncleanness of his hearth and to get purified. Everything, given and which requires from the occult disciples at its place, nothing is arbitrary here. Many people think that the occultism is something dangerous. On the contrary, the occult science makes sense of the Life, it gives a stimulus, impulse to Knowledge, it shows the disciple the way to the Truth, it teaches him how to use the forces energies of Nature and how to get them transformed. Figure one shows tree shames, which represent the different deeds or movements of the energies in Nature. The first shame represent the harmonized energies of the mind, hearth, will. The man in whom those energies are well balanced is distinguished by a big sensibility - before he starts setting any work or before he says something he rationalizes everything good and then begins the work. The second shame represents the young energy of a young man or a child for whom everything is shining as gold. They look at things optimistically; they think that everything is blooming. The third shame represents the energy of old. If you observe an old tree and an old man, you will notice that they resemble the old tree branches are hanging down as the energy of the old man. The old tree and old man are much more under the influence of the forces of the Earth, then under the influence of the Sun. It is said for the old tree and old man that they have lost their flexibility and quickness and that is why they are hanging down. By the understanding and ideas of the man depends if he is going to be young or old, if the energies of his body will be rising or decreasing. That is so you can see by the cases in life: you meet a young, twenty year old man in whom the physical energies are rising, but his spirituality is decreasing - he things, feels and acts as an eighty year old man. This man will speak only about death, about negatives things of life. The energies of that man are taking a direction to the Earth; they say for him that he became old prematurely. And the opposite: you meet an old man, but with eminent ideas, with a high ideal, he does not bend with age, but he walks standing upright and lively. Why? His ideas attracts him to the Sun. Therefore in Nature there exists two main kinds of energies: descending, called the energies of darkness in Life (scheme three), and ascending or energies of Light (scheme two). Shame one represents cross energies of Light and darkness. Where these energies are equal, there starts the sensible Life. In this Life there are Light and dark places, peaks and valleys, and as a consequence, shades appear. The shades are the subjects, which a man has to study. How we can understand if a man is living in Light or darkness? If I have to answer this question, I will use the following explanation. At shame two the rising forces of Nature are represented, or the Life of the Light. The highest point of the Sun is the zenith - then the sunny rays are the strongest and they fall exactly perpendicular to the Earth. If at that time a man looks at the Sun, his eyes could not stand up to this Light, they will go straight away to screw up, they will have an elliptical form. Simultaneously, with his eyes he will screw up his eyebrows. The one who looks at him will say that this man is a very serious one. So the serious man lives in Light, in the day of Life. It is true, that if a man is born during the day, when the Sun shines brightly he has elongated eyes, not too much opened. If this person comes into a dark room, he will strain his eyes; will open them to be able to distinguish the subjects. From here, we say that everyone born at night has big opened eyes. All the people who live in darkness have opened eyes and high eyebrows. When they want to tell a person to be careful, they advice him to open his eyes on the fourth. This is a proverb in which something is missing, it is not completed enough. A man has to open his eyes on the fourth, but in the evening, when it is dark, during the day there is no way for him to open his eyes on the fourth. Therefore, this proverb is related to people, who live at night. If a man lives for long time at night, his eyes are going gradually to stand out. People, whose eyes are opened wide and stand out, are very rude. The cold, hail, snow, frost, are all due to the dark forces of Nature. The hatred, envy, malice - in general are all negative feelings and are due again to the dark forces in Nature. If someones eyes stand out, but are elliptical, not too much opened, this thing shows that this man is born in darkness but he has a desire to come in the Light. He understands his rudeness, but he restrains, he has an aspiration to reveal his softness. Some people are born in darkness but live in Light, working for their kindness; others are born in Light, but live in darkness, working with the rude forces of Nature. When you know all this, try not to change your condition - to fall from the forces of Light into the forces of darkness. When you fall into the dark forces, and then start working to transform them into positive ones, into forces of the Light. This means to harmonize the forces in your body, keeping yourself away from the darkness without being afraid of it. The forces of darkness are necessary to grow - all life existences grow, they collect energy and rest in darkness too. To allow your thoughts to develop you have to move by any means between the forces of darkness and Light - the first one will form the reflection, the second will give power and movement of the thought to be realized. The dark forces are related to the white rays of Light, but the light forces are related to the white rays of Light. Now, keep in your mind the idea that the Natural laws are not overbearing. They are sensible and strongly defined. There are laws of the necessity, but there are laws and of Freedom. Both of them and of course the others are sensible as a result of which you have to reckon with them. The task of the occult science is to show the disciples the methods of how to cope with the forces of Nature and laws. When you arrive on the Earth, you will have sufferings, probations, unhappiness with which you must deal reasonably. There is no point in being disappointed or dispirited. Discouragement does not bring anything. Be glad, that a light is given to you to understand the things and to know how to solve your own difficulties. If you did not have this Light, the difficulties could deter you. As disciples, you could reasonably liquidate with your karma. The karma of man represents a sum of the forces of darkness, which you have to destruct. When a man deals with his karma, he will live according to the low of diharma. What is it diharma? The diharma is the Gods blessing, for which Jesus Christ says: Everybody will be saved by bless. The diharma is a sum of the forces of Light, it represents the Light of Life. You are the architects of your fortune - the iron is in your hands, the fire is among you. What remains then? Nothing else, except you to take the iron, to put it in the fire, and carefully to turn it from one side to the other, taking out something from it. What are you going to take out from the hot iron? Whatever you want - nails keys, doors locks and ploughs and hoes. When you work with the hot iron, you have to be careful. Attention is required from you! If you are attentive and sensible, you will liquidate well with your karma and will enter in the diharma. If you are not attentive and reasonable, your karma will carry you off. Now we are coming to an area, called the black area of amusements. If you remain more time in that area, the creatures which are living there will stop their development. They are creatures, who have not fully evolved; they are creatures without any moral, without any culture. Whom do they see, they are starting to praise, to say, that he is a hero, a talented man - they will tell him some different legends, traditions, while they knot him. When they have knitted (unclear use of words knot/knit!) him, they will leave him alone to recount. When he finds himself among them, he will get into a situation of the cock, for which is said in the legend The cock and fox. A cock found a piece of cheese on the ground and it took and took it up a tree - to eat it there. At this time a fox saw the cock and began to think how to take the cheese from its mouth. To carry up on the tree next to it - it cannot. Then the fox went under the tree and started to talk with the cock. Cock, you are a pretty bird! When I look at your comb, red, fleshy, as a crown on your head, I am wondering who made you so pretty, so bonny and sprightly. I havent met such a pretty bird before like you. But you are and a song - bird, your voice - is a whole music. I am happy, if you could sing to me, to hear your voice. Flattered by the words of the fox, the cock opened its mouth and crowed, the cheese feel over the ground. The fox was waiting exactly for this - it came down to the cheese, grasped it and run away. Now I am telling you: do not yield to endearments and praise, because as the cock you will crow and you will drop the cheese from your mouth. In this case the cheese represents the conditions, necessary for your development. You may not loose the conditions, but how much you lose, after that you must wait a little bit for the same favourable conditions to come again. The favourable conditions come periodically. The occult science gives a lot of mathematical formulas, from which calculations can be done, to determine in which year, which day and hour during the day the favourable conditions will come for each separate person. These conditions will be expressed by sort of increasing energy with a determined intensity and quickness of movement. This energy will raise the man and will give him a life. This is determined and by the favourable combination of the planets. As disciples, you have to study those things, to guess inside what will come and to create the good conditions to use for good, with the bad ones - to deal reasonably. Someone comes from outside or inside you and tells you: Do not stay at that place! - Why? - Do not stay at that place, nothing else! This place is dangerous. - Improve, that it is dangerous. How could it be improved? If you do not listen you will try it. You are sitting on a stone in the middle of a dry river, playing quietly and you do not want to know about anything. But in the mountain it is raining heavily, which gradually is going down. From the slopes of the mountain big torrents are starting to come down and soon the river is rising, pouring over the surrounding area. While you run away, the water will take you away and will drag you off with its current. Now, do you believe at my words? Therefore you must know, that such dangerous places exist in the occult sphere as well. There are also dry rivers, which can rise from the big torrents. When you know this you have to be obedient. When someone tells you to leave the place, where you are sitting, to stop playing and to go to a safe place, do not ask why and what for, do not even wait to be improved. Once you are in the School, you have to study the occult forces, to fight, to take predominance over them. Some of these forces are like the fox: when someone starts to praise you, you have to know that your cheese will go. Listen to him carefully, but do not hurry to show your voice like the cock. Say: Now I am busy, I have some work. When I finish my work, then I will sing to you. Eat your cheese in tranquillity and then crow. Do not hurry up to crow; do not hurry up to show your voice. If you first eat your cheese and after you crow, then the works are going to be good. Now from everybody obedience is required. Obedience is the first quality of the occult disciple. He must show obedience to the sensible laws and forces in Nature. Obedience is a condition for the disciple to become strong. It enforces his belief in the great laws of Nature, among which God works. When you know this, everything you do, has to be in Gods name, so you can use yourself, and your relatives from His blessing. The disciple must work consciously, to achieve a perfection, to which he strives. Everybody could be perfect. It is said in the Scripture: Be perfect, as is perfect your Father, who is in the heavens. When you gain perfection, only then you will find out what Love, Wisdom and Truth are. If you want to become perfect, you have to obey the great law of God. When you gain perfection, you will understand the words, put into the salutation, which I gave this evening: Only the light way of wisdom leads to the Truth. Work, study is required from everybody. Study your acts and movements consciously. Study your handwriting, because to be able to find out in which forms you are expressing your energies. When some people write, they start well, but finish badly: in the beginning, their letters are big, when they get to the end, they become smaller. Such people at the beginning are strong, but at the end they are getting weak: you cannot rely on them. The letters have to be if possible more oval, but not monotonous ones. Each shape of the letter has to be equivalent to the energy of man. When there is coordination between the shape and the energies of man, he is satisfied alone from his handwriting. The handwriting has to be legible, not to be necessary to be made out. As disciples of the occult school, you must have nice handwriting. If your handwriting is not processed well, you must practice your writing everyday from ten to thirty minutes. If in your youth your handwriting is not nice, then when you get old it will remain the same. You have to know, that the handwriting reflects the character of man. Work consciously by yourself, to be good disciples. Only the light way of the Wisdom leads to the Truth. Petar Deunov (Beinsa Douno) http://www.beinsadouno.org |
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Tennis' Patrick Carney-produced sophomore album, Young & Old, is due out on Feb. 14, but we've only gotten a listen of lead single "Origins" so far, so we're not sure what production changes he made to the band's sound. The band just put out a beautifully shot live video, but unfortunately, it's for "Origins." So, while it's nice to see the band do this solid track, we're not going to know if Carney made Tennis add some kick ass blues to their mannered pop. I guess we'll have to wait till February for that. Watch it below:
Blondes - "Wine" | The War on Drugs "Brothers" (Video) |


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2 officers resign, cutting Blanding's police force nearly in half
04/02/2014 6:32am
The resignations last month of two Blanding
police officers have the
department's chief and two remaining officers
working hard to cover
the tiny southeastern Utah community of 3,500.
Teens arrested after car break-ins
04/02/2014 6:57am
Police believe two teenagers may be responsible for a string of car break-ins in West Jordan.
Murder suspect's statements obtained legally, judge rules
04/02/2014 7:23am
Statements made to police by a Guatemalan man
accused of killing his cousin in Uintah County
were obtained legally, a judge has ruled.
Preschool years a critical time for learning, education official says
04/02/2014 7:49am
Libby Doggett, deputy assistant secretary for
policy and early learning at the U.S.
Department of Education, participated in a
panel discussion Tuesday in Salt Lake City on
the benefits of technology and early education.
'Mountain Man' faces 4 new charges
04/02/2014 8:07am
Just as one case appears to be headed toward a
conclusion, a new one is just beginning for the
suspected burglar known as the Mountain Man.
Homeowner struggles to cancel contract with alarm company
04/02/2014 9:03am
Imagine if your cable or cellphone company
said, "Sure, you can get out of your automatic-
renewing contract when it's up. Just contact
us." But then they left no way to actually
contact them, and money continued to be taken
out of your bank account.
Man survives accident that put chainsaw into his neck
04/02/2014 10:01am
A 21-year-old Pennsylvania man survived a work
accident that sent the razor-sharp teeth of a
chainsaw blade deep into his neck and shoulder,
and barely a centimeter from a vital artery.
How to ride like a pro: 5 tips for motorcycle safety
04/02/2014 10:08am
Look cool and keep safe on the road with these five motorcycle safety
Hill's arm will determine BYU's success
04/02/2014 10:29am
For BYU to be relevant in college football next season, Taysom Hill
must improve his completion percentage. With a full season of
experience and a year removed from a serious knee injury, Hill will
improve enough to be a good passer.
Artist paints colorful scenes on baby helmets
04/02/2014 10:38am
A Washington State woman is working to bring creativity and humor to
corrective helmets made for babies.
'Social combat': Competition for social status increases bullying risk
04/02/2014 10:46am
Improved popularity also increases the risk that an adolescent will be
bullied, according to a new study that calls it "social combat."
Utah hunters can get coyote contracts worth up to $10K
04/02/2014 11:48am
Utah's controversial bounty program provides funding for more than a
dozen coyote hunting contracts of up to $10,000. Here's an insider
look on how to get one.
A mother's love: Woman gives life to deliver baby
04/02/2014 11:55am
A woman chose her baby instead of terminating
her pregnancy to
undergo treatments for cancer. As a result, the
mother gave her life so
that her daughter would have one.
Firefighter rescues 7-foot snake from blaze
04/02/2014 12:41pm
Firefighter rescues 7-foot snake from Michigan blaze, says he 'would
do it for any creature'
Have you seen this? Roly-poly puppy
04/02/2014 1:15pm
An English bulldog learned to roll down hills, and it's the most
adorable thing you'll see all day.
$50M worth of cocaine seized near Puerto Rico
04/02/2014 1:45pm
Federal authorities have seized $50 million worth of cocaine after intercepting a boat off Puerto Rico's north coast.
High court loosens reins on big campaign donors
04/02/2014 1:51pm
The Supreme Court's conservative majority voted Wednesday to free wealthy donors to give to as many political candidates and campaigns as they want, further loosening the reins on giving by big contributors as the 2014 campaign moves into high gear.
Live performance opportunities for musicians who live for the applause
04/02/2014 1:57pm
There are plenty of chances for budding bands and aspiring pop stars
to experience performing in front of a crowd. Here are some upcoming
and ongoing opportunities.
Do you know the warning signs of a stroke?
04/02/2014 2:05pm
Strokes. You don't know when they'll strike but you should know how
to recognize them.
Judge not: An insight on suicide
04/02/2014 2:31pm
I fell into the same category as people who see suicide as a selfish,
self-centered and self-serving escape from facing life. Then,
happened that showed me not everyone may have the mental tools
deal with life.
10 superheroes who need their own movie
04/02/2014 2:47pm
It seems all we get these days are superhero movies and sequels to
superhero movies, but apparently we can't get enough. Here are 10
superheroes who deserve their own film.
Man arrested after car chase, accident in Logan
04/02/2014 3:06pm
A man was tased and arrested Wednesday after leading police on a car
chase and causing an accident.
Amazon unveils Fire TV streaming device
04/02/2014 4:08pm
Amazon is making a bid to enter living rooms with Amazon Fire TV, a new streaming device that delivers online video, music and other content to televisions.
Live-in nanny arrested for stealing from employer, police say
04/02/2014 4:35pm
A nanny was arrested Monday for stealing $2,000 worth of goods from
her employer, police said.
Body of missing Tooele woman found
04/02/2014 5:21pm
A woman who police said had been missing for several days was found
dead Wednesday.
Quest to ID remains brings mystery after mudslide
04/02/2014 6:11pm
As medical examiners painstakingly piece together the identities and lives of the 29 people known killed when a mudslide wiped out a small Washington community, one mystery troubles them.
Police optimistic about solving homicide of former detective
04/02/2014 6:14pm
Two months ago, a retired Salt Lake police
officer was found dead in his Sandy home.
Wednesday, police said the death of Kevin Meik,
63, remains under investigation, but they are
optimistic the crime will be solved.
Deputy's car rammed twice by fleeing suspect, police say
04/02/2014 6:31pm
A woman in a stolen car rammed a deputy's vehicle twice near the end
of a police chase on I-15 Wednesday, police said.
Herbert signs bill to beef up adoption rules
04/02/2014 6:51pm
Single mothers will no longer be able to travel to Utah to put kids up for adoption without first notifying their children's fathers now that state legislators have changed a law that critics said cleared a path for kidnapping and fraud.
Venting can make your anger worse, study says
04/02/2014 7:31pm
Following a study to determine if venting helps
diffuse anger, Brad Bushman, one of today's top
researchers on anger and aggressive responding,
found that venting to reduce anger is like
using gasoline to put out a fire — it feeds the
Larry H. Miller Group saves $300K per year with new energy plan
04/02/2014 7:53pm
Rocky Mountain Power is raising awareness about
energy efficiency,
saying there are many things homeowners and
business owners can
do to save money.
Camperworld changes fees after customer complaints
04/02/2014 8:16pm
Camperworld campgrounds are closed, the
company's awash in debt, and now many of its
3,000 members are up in arms over a "surprise"
fee. KSL Investigators looked into the problem
and got answers from company leaders.
FBI seeks suspected child sexual predator
04/02/2014 8:17pm
The FBI is asking for help to locate and
identify a man who they
suspect sexually exploited a child.
Woman finds memory card near state capitol, searches for owner
04/02/2014 8:22pm
A Salt Lake City woman is hoping to reunite a lost camera memory
card with its owner.
Wednesday's Child: Jasmine
04/02/2014 8:51pm
The foster care system isn't supposed to be a
permanent situation, but some children in Utah
have spent most of their life in state custody
waiting for adoption. Wednesday we introduce
you to Jasmine.
8 books to put in the Easter basket
04/02/2014 9:12pm
This Easter, fill your child's basket with more than sweets and toys. Give the gift of a new book he or she can enjoy over and over. Exciting choices for all ages: a Book Matters list.
Herbert signs new bill on World Autism Awareness Day
04/02/2014 9:33pm
Gov. Gary Herbert signed a bill Wednesday that
provides insurance
coverage for thousands of Utah kids with
13-year-old alerts police to burglary, 2 arrested
04/02/2014 10:09pm
A 13-year-old girl and her younger sister are
safe after hiding inside a
closet and calling 911 Wednesday as burglars
broke into their home.
Student chefs economics lesson in preparing food for governor's summit
04/02/2014 10:47pm
If you had a chance to cook for The Governor's
Utah Economic Summit Thursday, what would you
prepare? Some Utah high school students just
helped with quite a complex menu, and their choices in the kitchen are helping Utah's economy.
Man accused of defrauding clients faces 12 felonies
04/02/2014 11:01pm
Layton police arrested a man Tuesday who is
charged with collecting
more than $70,000 by soliciting numerous
businesses to buy custom
T-shirts without delivering.
USGS: 7.8 aftershock shakes Chile's north coast
04/02/2014 11:08pm
The U.S. Geological Survey says a powerful 7.8-magnitude aftershock has rocked Chile's northern coast, which was hit by a powerful magnitude-8.2 earthquake Tuesday night.
Gunman kills 3, wounds 16 at Fort Hood Army base
04/02/2014 11:08pm
A soldier opened fire Wednesday on fellow service members at the Fort Hood military base, killing three people and wounding 16 before committing suicide at the same post where more than a dozen people were slain in a 2009 attack, authorities said.


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The Berlinale announces the second set of ten films competing at the 62nd annual festival. Among the new titles are Billy Bob Thornton's "Jayne Mansfield's Car, "Angelina Jolie's "In the Land of Blood and Honey" and several German and European titles (listed below). Benoit Jacquot's "Farewell My Queen" will open the fest, which runs February 9-19.
The first ten titles and jury members listed here.
The ten newly announced competition titles:
"Aujourd´hui" France/Senegal By Alain Gomis (L´Afrance, Andalucia) | World premiere
With Saül Williams, Aïssa Maïga, Djolof M'bengue
"Barbara Germany" By Christian Petzold (Yella, Jerichow, Dreileben)
With Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld | World premiere
"Cesare deve morire" (Caesar Must Die) Italy By Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Padre padrone, La notte di San Lorenzo, La masseria delle allodole, San Michele aveva un gallo) | World premiere
With Fabio Cavalli, Salvatore Striano
"Gnade" Germany/Norway By Matthias Glasner (The Free Will, Sexy Sadie) | World premiere
With Jürgen Vogel, Birgit Minichmayr, Henry Stange
"Jayne Mansfield's Car" Russian Federation/USA By Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade, The King of Luck, All the pretty Horses) | World premiere
With Billy Bob Thornton, Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon
"L´enfant d´en haut" (Sister) Switzerland/France By Ursula Meier (Tous à table, Des épaules solides, Home) | World premiere
With Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Gillian Anderson, Martin Compston
"Metéora" (Meteora) Germany/Greece By Spiros Stathoulopoulos (PVC-1) | World premiere
With Theo Alexander, Tamila Koulieva
"Tabu" Portugal/Germany/Brazil/France By Miguel Gomes (The Face You Deserve, Our Beloved Month Of August) | World premiere
With Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira, Carloto Cotta
"Csak a szél" (Just The Wind) Hungary/Germany/France By Benedek Fliegauf (Dealer, Rengeteg, Tejút, Womb) | World premiere
With Lajos Sárkány, Katalin Toldi, Gyöngyi Lendvai, Géza Jungwirth
"Was bleibt" (Home For The Weekend) Germany By Hans-Christian Schmid (Storm, Requiem, Distant Lights) | World premiere
With Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch, Sebastian Zimmler, Ernst Stötzner
Berlinale Special : "In The Land Of Blood And Honey" USA By Angelina Jolie (directorial debut) | German premiere
With Zana Marjanović, Goran Kostić, Rade Šrbedžija, Vanesa Glodjo


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Music to Your EarsNext-level Mayhem During the early aughts, Santa Fe arts and multimedia production collective High Mayhem hosted a yearly festival over one sprawling weekend, featuring dozens of acts from far and wide. Its organizers eventually found that level of activity counterproductive to long-term efforts but wanted to keep the music going. The Fall Series, now in its third year, maintains the spirit of those fests in a more finite manner with evening shows on consecutive weekends. 2012's experimental, genre-blurring series begins on Friday, Nov. 2. The first weekend's theme is "electroacoustic," used in a broader sense here than its academic origins. Organizer Carlos Santistevan defines the term simply, as "a combination of acoustic sources and electric manipulation of those sources." Black Iron Trio opens the show, pitting a fully acoustic upright bass against electronically manipulated lapsteel dulcimer and drums. Audience members engaged in attentive listening will be rewarded with an experience that is both avant garde and utterly simple. GoGo Snap Radio, a trashy quirk-pop duo, take the evening in a radically different direction with their junkyard orchestra aesthetic married to sweetly deranged female vocals. Take note, Tom Waits and Throwing Muses fans. GoGo Snap Radio just released an album and should have it with them at the show. Pray for Brain follows, jamming a polyglot mashup of world music with funky jazz and rock modalities, melding electric guitar, oud, drums and upright bass. The Proxemics close out the night with deceptively simple art rock that combines a singer / songwriter style with composer tendencies. Alex Neville is the author of these sinuous and complex pop manifestos and performs them with a rotating cast of collaborators from the High Mayhem stable. This time around, the project is a duo with We Drew Lightning's Michael Smith. Additionally, Neville may perform solo. The Saturday, Nov. 10 installment is dubbed Me & My Shadow, and showcases solo sets by Santa Fe's Johnny Bell, Burqueños Drake Hardin and Jeremy Barnes, and Denver's Laura Goldhamer. The Saturday, Nov. 17 event is Loud<Louder<Loudest, a rock-to-noise climax featuring We Drew Lightning, Pitch & Bark, roots-rockers Young Lungs and The Late Severa Wires' annual reunion show. It's nice to see some locals on this northerly roster. Sometimes, it seems like Santa Fe and Burque are separated by more than just minimal geography. Insular scene mentalities are indulged in both cities, and it's good to know open minds are active in both as well. All three events take place at High Mayhem Emerging Arts Studio (2811 Siler Lane) at 7 p.m. The all-ages concert series has a suggested donation of 10 bucks, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. For more info, visit highmayhem.org | Today's EventsStanlie Kee & Step In • blues, funk, jazz at Tractor Brewing Wells ParkConcepts • post hardcore • Unwill • Words From Aztecs • Taking Heart • The Other 99 at Duke City Sound StageTylor Brandon • acoustic, variety at Blue Grasshopper Brew Pub TaproomMore Recommended Events ›› | |
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Oil pastels and I have not exactly been on good terms over the past couple of days. I don't know, maybe I should switch brands or something, or perhaps increase my color palette. Then again, a good workman shouldn't blame his tools.
So I decided to try something new: oil pastel studies, using the sticks as I would a sketching pencil.
This was my first attempt, a monotone sketch using my favorite orange-brown color.
For my second attempt, I used two colors, orange-brown and light brown for the sketch, and rounded out the details with a colored pencil.
And finally, a study in black-and-red, which lent a decidedly sinister atmosphere to the subject.
Sigh. I think I've gotten as good as I'm going to get on my own. It's really time for some classes.


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Excerpt: Crafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900, by Catherine W. Bishir
For most black artisans in the antebellum South, being born into slavery placed clear limits on their future. No matter how skilled they might be, seldom could enslaved artisans expect to trace the customary path from apprentice to master that white artisans pursued. For Montford, as for a remarkable number of his fellows in New Bern, however, the timing and circumstances of his birth together with his skills, industry, ambition, and relationships enabled him to realize such hopes as he moved from slavery to freedom and became a master of apprentices and slaves, a property owner, and a voting citizen. Only as Montford's life drew to its close in the 1830s did he and his fellow artisans of color witness the onset of oppressive racial laws that chilled the hopes of New Bern's black craftsmen for themselves and for their children.


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SHSS off to strong start at home tournament
The Stanley Humphries Secondary Rockers got off to a good start in their home tournament on Friday. SHSS got off to a good start and cruised to a 60-17 win over Rossland. Rachael teBulte earned player of the game honours with 18 points and 16 rebounds.
"I think we played very good," said teBulte. "We worked on our fast break and our defence was good. We definitely played better than the last time we played them."
SHSS was able to work the ball around and get good shots against the Rossland 2-3 zone.
"Our shots were pretty good," said teBulte. "It was some of our best shooting of the year. We were trying to shoot more from the outside as well against the zone."
The Rockers second game of the tournament is tonight (Friday) at 6 p.m. at the school against Osoyoos Secondary. The South Okanagan school is a darkhorse in the six team tournament as the only participant from outside the West Kootenay/Boundary area.
Games go all day today at SHSS with the last one starting at 7:30 p.m. Semi-finals go at 8:30 and 10 a.m. on Saturday. The final runs at 1 p.m. and pits the two semi-final winners.


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- Dr. Yong Wang, Ph.D.
- Dr. Travis Davidson, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor of Operations Management
Ashley Metcalf has a background in chemical engineering with work experience in the management of high volume manufacturing at Kraft Foods and determining manufacturability of next generation products in R&D at Johnson & Johnson. Prior to her position at Ohio University, Dr. Metcalf's doctoral work included process improvement in Healthcare, specifically examining cost-reduction and value-creation process changes in hospital respiratory care services. Dr. Metcalf currently teaches courses in Operations Management and engages with hospitals nationwide on process improvement efforts. Ashley Metcalf is originally from South Carolina and currently resides in Athens, Ohio with her husband, Eric.
Ph.D. Production/Operations Management, University of South Carolina
MBA Management, Jacksonville University
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina
JP Morgan Professor of Finance
John Stowe is the JPMorgan Professor of Finance at Ohio University. He joined the OU College of Business faculty in June 2008. For the prior five years, he served as Director of Exam Development and Head of Curriculum Development for the Chartered Financial Analyst Program at CFA Institute. From 1980-2003, he was a faculty member at University of Missouri-Columbia (associate professor of finance, professor of finance, finance department chair, and associate dean). From 1976-1980 he was assistant professor of finance at the University of Oklahoma, and from 1972-1976 he was assistant professor of finance at Florida International University.
He is a coauthor of Corporate Financial Management (2010, fourth edition) and coauthor of Equity Asset Valuation (2016, third edition). He has published research papers in journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Financial Analysts Journal, Financial Management, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Investing, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Applied Finance, Journal of Portfolio Management, Financial Review, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and others. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst. His teaching interests include corporate finance, equities, and investment management, and his research projects usually are empirical studies of issues in these same areas.
Ph.D., University of Houston
M.A., University of Houston
B.A., Centenary College
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Strategy
Ikenna Uzuegbunam (Ph.D.) is a visiting assistant professor of strategy in the College of Business at Ohio University. Previously, he taught at the University of Kentucky. Ike has been honored for his teaching and research including an honorable mention for teaching in the University of Kentucky MBA program; best paper nomination at the Strategic Management Society Conference; and the best paper in track award at the Southern Management Association Conference.
Ike's industry and consulting experience include stints in medical devices, oil & gas, electronics, software, and the social sector. He is the founder and chief strategy officer of Luno Ventures, LLC; a strategy and innovation consulting firm.
Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Management
M.Sc., University of Sussex – Technology and Innovation Management
B.Eng., University of Nigeria, Nsukka – Electronic Engineering (with Honors)
Dr. Ewy is the CEO of a non-profit international pharmaceutical repackager labeler, and wholesaler, where he is responsible for operational and financial leadership including all aspects of operations, human resources, and donor relations. Prior to his current role, Dr. Ewy was the CEO of a specialty acute care hospital. Dr. Ewy also had a private law practice for several years that focused on the areas of personal injury and medical malpractice. In his law practice, Dr. Ewy participated in arbitrations and mediation, negotiated and drafted settlement agreements, participated in depositions, conducted legal research, and drafted and argued motions and briefs.
Dr. Ewy has spoken on the topic of health care law and policy to various pharmacy, optometry, and missions groups. He has also presented lectures on health care law, health care policy, health care ethics, policy and procedure development, and organizational structure and control.
Pharm.D., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Pharmacy
J.D., University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, School of Law
M.H.A., A.T. Still University
Don H. Smith is an accomplished banking industry executive with extensive experience in finance, operations and technology, mergers and acquisitions, risk management, program management, training, cost reduction, and investment securities. After a successful career with PNC, he formed his own consulting company to help financial institutions increase operating efficiency and improve enterprise risk management. Don earned a B.S. in Physics and an M.B.A. from Case Western Reserve University. He retired as a Major in the United States Air Force Reserve. He currently serves as treasurer on two boards of nonprofits in Cleveland, Ohio, where he resides. Don is beginning his third year teaching at Ohio University.
M.B.A., Case Western Reserve University
B.S., Case Western Reserve University – Physics
Accomplished leader with over 20 years of broad expertise managing projects and multi-million dollar budgets in the private and government sectors for key stakeholders, including the Department of Defense (DoD). Builds strong multidisciplinary teams to provide solutions for seamless operations.
Currently engaged in my dream profession of teaching at the university level. I teach Business Analytics and Data Analysis in the Ohio University College of Business undergraduate and masters programs. I also provide project management consulting services to local companies. Recently, I worked as a data analyst for a major DoD contract service company and spent 16 months on location supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Kuwait. During my military service, using my masters in meteorology, I provided meteorological support services to various organizations in the US Air Force, US Army and NATO. My favorite and most interesting Air Force position was as a Space Launch Weather Officer, I really enjoyed being "on console" for 29 space launch missions. Those were some pretty stressful but exciting time. Also, in other positions, I had the opportunity to visit over 18 countries over my military career and still enjoy travel and meeting new people.
Core strengths: Project Management/Evaluation, Data Analytics, Quality Control/Problem Solving, Research & Analysis Team Building/Staff Supervision, Budgets/Cost Reduction, Microsoft Suite (Super User), Proposals/Grants/Technical Writing, Domestic/International Military Experience
Certification: Project Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute
M.B.A., Ohio University
M.S., Air Force Institute of Technology – Meteorology
Master Certificate in Applied Project Management from Villanova University
B.S., University of Arizona – Atmospheric Science
Associate Professor
Dr. Taylor-Bianco earned her Master's degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is an Associate Professor of Management at OU's College of Business, the Executive Academic Director of the Robert D. Walter Center for Strategic Leadership and a Fellow of the Voinovich School for Leadership and Public Affairs. Her research and teaching focus on strategic leadership and change, cross-cultural education and executive development and self-regulation of leaders. Dr. Taylor-Bianco has experience as an international compensation consultant with Price Waterhouse Coopers, J.P. Morgan and other for-profit companies. More recently, she has been consulting and studying organizational transformation and change management in public and not-for-profit organizations. She has been with Ohio University since 2002 and considers herself an honorary Bobcat.
Ph.D. (with distinction), Columbia University, Organizational Psychology
M.A. (with Honors), Columbia University, Organizational Psychology
B.A., Dickinson College
Exchange Student (with Honors), University of East Anglia, England
Adjunct Professor
Dr. Gretchen Schaupp started teaching for Ohio University in the Fall of 2012. She completed her doctoral studies just before that in the Department of Management at Virginia Tech University. Her focus of research and teaching is in the area of Organizational Behavior and her current research interests include the psychological contract, leadership styles, international and expatriate management as well as employee socialization.
Before completing her doctoral studies, Gretchen lived and worked in Germany for eight years. She wrote her master's thesis at the Siemens Corporation in Erlangen, Germany while working in their corporate logistics department. After that, she was employed at the Volkswagen Corporation in Wolfsburg, Germany for several years. There, she started in the areas of logistics and production and moved on to the areas of international marketing and sales. Her international work experience and prior education led her to pursue her Ph.D and enter academia. Gretchen has international teaching experience, and recently completed the e-version of her book, "More than Manners", which she wrote with a German colleague to help expatriates navigate cultural differences while working in Germany. Gretchen lives in Wolfsburg, Germany with her husband, Christian.
Ph.D., Virginia Tech University, Department of Management
M.B.A., Sheffield Hallam University in Great Britain
M.A., University of Applied Sciences in Fulda, Germany – European Management
B.A., West Virginia University – Foreign Language
Associate Dean
Christopher R. Moberg is the Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Professor of Marketing in the College of Business at Ohio University. He joined the Marketing Department in 1999 and has served in a variety of leadership roles for the department, college, and university. In addition, Chris has served on the Board of Directors for the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals since 2009, leading the efforts to develop a comprehensive Supply Chain Management Certification Program.
His research and teaching interests include supply chain management strategies, integration, business ethics, sales performance, buyer-seller relationships and services marketing. His research has been presented at several national conferences and appeared in many journals, including the Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, International Journal of Logistics Management, Supply Chain Quarterly, Supply Chain Management Review, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, and Journal of Services Marketing.
Chris is passionate about sports and music and loves to plan travel with family and friends around sporting and live music events. He also recently began collecting vinyl records and has accumulated well over 200 hundred albums.
DBA, Cleveland State University
MBA, Miami University
BBA, University of New Mexico
Dr. Martin grew up in the neighborhood of Ohio University in nearby Wellston, Ohio. He earned a BS degree in Mathematics and an MS degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering at Ohio University. Subsequently, he completed MS and Ph. D. degrees in Operations Research from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie-Mellon University. He served on the faculty of the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Ohio State University before coming to Ohio University in 1985. He has served as a consultant to several companies in the areas of production planning, scheduling, forecasting and facility configuration including LTV Steel, Sumitomo Metals, USX Steel, Whirlpool Corporation, Owens-Corning Fiberglas and Technology Group International. He has also consulted with NASA, Paine Webber and EDS Deutschland. He has been granted five patents.
PhD, Carnegie-Mellon University – Operations Research
MS, Carnegie-Mellon University – Operations Research
MS, Ohio University – Industrial and Systems Engineering
BS, Ohio University – Mathematics
Associate Professor
Gabe Giordano teaches Information Systems courses in undergraduate, MBA, and executive programs in the College of Business. He also directs and teaches in the Sogeti(NL)-Ohio professional program, and he is site director of the Barcelona Global Consulting Program. His current research looks at challenges associated with use of new communication media in the workplace, deception in computer-mediated communication, and leadership strategies for transformational IT projects
Ph.D., Florida State University – Management Information Systems
B.B.A., New Mexico State University – Business Computer Systems (with Honors)
Associate Professor of Accountancy
Connie Esmond-Kiger, Ph.D., CPA, is an Associate Professor in the Ohio University School of Accountancy where she has been teaching for seventeen years. Connie's passion is curriculum innovation with the goal of engaging and challenging her students as they trek through their learning journey in Accounting. She has a reputation of having high expectations of her students, and also of herself. Connie is the current author of the BAM curriculum for teaching Intermediate Accounting.
Connie served as the Director of the School of Accountancy from 2007 to 2012 and as the faculty advisor for the Ohio University Alpha Kappa Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi from 2001 to 2015. Under her watch, the Chapter consistently won regional and national awards, achieved Superior status annually, and completed more than 13,000 cumulative hours of community service in Athens. In recognition for her service, Connie was named one of five Beta Alpha Psi Outstanding Faculty Advisors at the national level for 2013.
Connie was awarded the 2014 Outstanding Ohio Accounting Educator of the Year by the Ohio Society of CPAs and the Ohio Region of the American Accounting Association. Other awards include the College of Business Senior Class Faculty Recognition Award for 2010, 2007, 2006 and 2005; the Ohio University Presidential Teacher Award for 2007-2010; the College of Business Society of Alumni and Friends Faculty Contribution Award for 2008, the College of Business Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award for 2015, 2006 and 2001,the Ohio University University Professor Award for 2005, the School of Accountancy Advisory Council Faculty Innovation/Activity Award for 2004, and First Place in the Ohio University Center for Teaching Excellence Best Practices Award competition in 2000.
Connie earned her doctorate from Indiana University and her MBA from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. She has six years of public accounting experience, including two years with Price Waterhouse in Chicago, and served for two years as the Associate Controller at Dartmouth College. She is married to John Kiger and is the proud mom of two dogs. She attributes much of her success to the support of her family and her great colleagues, and will be forever grateful for their love and friendship, and high expectations. She would also like to give kudos to her fabulous Ohio University students and alums who have allowed her to push them to their limits, and have made her very proud to be a part of their life journey.
PhD, Indiana University – Accounting
MBA, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
BS, Illinois State University – Accounting
BS, University of Illinois – Interior Design
Assistant Professor of Business Analytics
Dr. William A. Young II is the Director of the Online Masters of Business Administration (MBA) program at Ohio University's College of Business. He is also an Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the Department of Management, a Director of the Sogeti-Ohio Young Professional Development Program, and a Site Director in the Global Consulting Program (GCP) at Ohio University's College of Business. Young earned his doctorate degree in Mechanical and Systems Engineering from Ohio University in 2010, where he won the 2009/2010 Outstanding Graduate Doctoral Student Leader Award at the university's annual Awards Gala. William also received a bachelor's (BSEE) and master's (MSEE) degree in Electrical Engineering at Ohio University in 2002 and 2005 respectively.
William has collaborated with multidisciplinary teams of faculty, students, and professionals on projects and programs that have been funded by General Electric Aviation, the National Science Foundation, Sogeti Netherlands, and Ohio's Department of Labor. Young's primary research is focused on descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics, where he has developed and deployed a variety of statistical and machine learning-based methodologies and applications. Based on his multidisciplinary endeavors, Young has various peer-reviewed articles related to operation management, healthcare services, and environmental systems, as well as specific interests in quantitative sports analysis, and educational technologies and techniques for innovative teaching instruction.
Ph.D., Ohio University, Russ College of Engineering and Technology – Mechanical and Systems Engineering (Specialization: Systems Engineering)
M.S., Ohio University, Russ College of Engineering and Technology – Electrical Engineering (Concentration: Engineering Management)
B.S., Ohio University, Russ College of Engineering and Technology – Electrical Engineering (Concentration: Digital Systems); Minor: Mathematics
Robert H. Freeman Professor of Strategic Marketing
Associate Professor
Dr. Yong Wang is an associate professor of marketing at Ohio University. He teaches Foundations of Professional Sales, Marketing Research, Business-to-Business Marketing, International Marketing, and Marketing Strategy.
Prior to teaching at Ohio University, Dr. Wang held research positions in international organizations, WTO and UNCTAD, both in Geneva, Switzerland. He was a contracted consultant for consulting firms such as McKinsey, AC Nielsen, Roland Berger, and Thomson Reuters-Round Table Group. His consulting expertise includes international marketing research, international trade, sourcing, and FDI, cross-cultural negotiations, strategic planning and branding, and B2B relationship marketing.
Dr. Wang earned his PhD in Marketing and International Business from the University of Texas-Pan American, an LLM in Trade Law from the Amsterdam Law School at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and an LLB in Business Law and International Relations from Qingdao University in China.
Ph.D., University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, Texas – Marketing/International Business
LL.M., Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Trade Law
LL.B., Qingdao University, Qingdao, China – Business Law/International Relations
Assistant Professor
My name is Travis Davidson and I am an Assistant Professor in the Finance Department at Ohio University. I have taught at Ohio University since obtaining my PhD in Finance from Oklahoma State University in 2012. I also earned a MS in Quantitative Financial Economics from Oklahoma State University and a bachelor's degree in MIS with a minor in Accounting from Southern Illinois University. I have experience teaching a variety of courses including: Corporate Finance, Bank Management, Risk and Insurance, and Markets and Institutions. My primary area of research is banks, but I am also interested in studying other financial institutions, corporate governance, and a variety other financial topics. I have published peer reviewed research on the Federal Home Loan Bank, bank owned life insurance, board of director busyness, and tracking stocks.
In my free time I enjoy spending as much time as possible with my 2 daughters and my wife. My hobbies include outdoor activities (hiking, backpacking, canoeing, skiing, etc.), watching live music, and traveling.
PhD from Oklahoma State University
MS in Quantitative Financial Economics from Oklahoma State University
BS in Management Information Systems from Southern Illinois University
Minor in Accounting from Southern Illinois University
Assistant Professor of Finance
I am an Assistant Professor of Finance and Robert H Freeman Fellow at Ohio University. I hold a Ph.D. in Finance with minor in Economics, Masters in Business Administration and Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. I have taught courses on Managerial Finance, Financial Statement Analysis and Financial Modeling, International Finance, and Financial Management. I am fortunate to be the recipient of 2014-2015 Senior Class of College of Business Faculty Recognition award as well as Finance Department Teacher of the Year Award for 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 academic years. Prior to entering academics, I did project management on the corporate side. Currently, I am actively involved in investment and wealth management products. My practitioner oriented research focuses on sell-side and buy-side equity analysts, asset management and investment banking divisions as well as corporate finance and governance of public firms. I occasionally collaborate with several leading investment professionals and research executives in bulge bracket investment banks and brokerage houses on research in these areas. My work received University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School-WRDS Outstanding Paper in Empirical Research in 2014. My papers have been published in several elite and distinguished finance and real estate journals, including The Journal of Finance, Financial Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Real Estate Research, and also got presented at numerous high ranked research institutions.
Ph.D., Mississippi State University – Finance
M.B.A., University of Louisiana at Monroe
B.S., Istanbul Technical University – Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor
Dr. Marco Habermann is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management Science at Ohio University. Prior to that, he worked at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Marco received his Ph.D. in Operations Management from the University of Minnesota. He also received an MS in Economics from the University of Frankfurt, and an MBA in Finance from the University of Wisconsin.
He has primarily taught graduate MBA courses in operations management and decision analysis at the Ohio University, University of South Carolina and the University of Minnesota. He has received several awards for his excellence in teaching at these institutions.
Marco's primary research interest is in the area of Supply Chain Disruptions. He also has an interest in two other research areas: supply chain design (and its relation to system reliability), and organizational learning within supply chains. Marco frequently publishes and serves as a referee for leading journals in these areas and is an active member of several professional organizations, including the Decision Sciences Institute, INFORMS, and the Production and Operations Management Society.
Prior to academia, Marco worked in Consulting, Investment Banking, and Economic Research with Deutsche Bank Investment Banking, McKinsey & Company, Lands' End, and the Financial and Economic Research Institute (FERI).
Professional Experience
- Ohio University, College of Business – Assistant Professor
- University of South Carolina, Moore School of Business – Assistant Professor
- University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management – Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant
- Deutsche Bank Investment Banking – Research Assistant
- McKinsey&Company, Inc. – Research Assistant
Selected Publications
Mackelprang, A., Habermann, M., Swink, M., How Firm Innovativeness and Unexpected Product Reliability Failures Affect Profitability. Journal of Operations Management. Forthcoming
Metcalf, A., Stoller, J., Fry, T.. Habermann, M. Respiratory Therapists' Job Perceptions: The Impact of Protocol Use. Respiratory Care Journal. Forthcoming.
Habermann, M., Blackhurst, J., Metcalf, A. Keep your friends close, or far away? Supply chain design and disruption risk. Decision Sciences Journal. 2015. Vol.46(3)
Metcalf, A., Stoller, J., Fry, T.. Habermann, M. Patterns and Factors Associated with Respiratory Care Protocol Use. Respiratory Care Journal. 2015. Vol.60(5)
Habermann, M." Supply Chain Disruptions – Theory and Practice for Empirical Research" Proceedings HICL Conference, 2012.
Habermann, M., Bernardes, E. In Kersten, W. S., Blecker, T., Luethje, C. (Ed.), Complexity In Supply Chains and the Management of Sustainability Risk (pp. 15). Schmidt Publishing. (September/October 2010).
- Outstanding Core Professor PMBA (Professional MBA) – Winner 2012 – Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
- Academy of Management Doctoral Consortium. 2007 – Selected Presenter
- Institute of Supply Chain Management Doctoral Consortium, 2006 – Selected Presenter
- Center for Advanced Procurement and Supply Research (CAPS) Travel Fellowship 2006
- Carlson School of Management Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching During Academic Year 2005-2006
- Carlson School of Management Summer Fellowship 2006
- University of Minnesota Graduate Fellowship 2003, 2004, 2005
- McKinsey Fellowship 2001
- University of Wisconsin/University of Frankfurt Fellowship 1999-2000
Ph.D., Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
M.B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Master's (Diplom-Kaufmann), Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Bachelor's (Vor-Diplom), Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany


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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A judge's dismissal of many claims against the federal government over levee breaches in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina leaves few storm-related legal battles left to fight.
The ruling two weeks ago by U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. essentially was a formality. The fate of those cases was sealed more than a year ago, when a federal appeals court reversed itself and overturned Duval's landmark ruling that the federal government wasn't immune from lawsuits blaming flood damage on the Army Corps of Engineers' operation and maintenance of a New Orleans shipping channel.
Few major Katrina-related civil cases linger. A notable example is a jury trial scheduled to start this month for claims against Jefferson Parish over its evacuation of drainage pump operators just before Katrina's landfall.