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Lone Star College: Student Group Threatened with Probation and Derecognition for Posting Flyer
Category: Free Speech
Schools: Lone Star College-Tomball
The Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) were among a variety of student organizations distributing flyers at Lone Star College – Tomball during an event for student groups to recruit new members. YCT's flyer included a satirical list of "Top Ten Gun Safety Tips" including, "If your gun misfires, never look down the barrel to inspect it." Program Manager for Student Activities Shannon Marino reportedly told the YCT Chairman that the flyer was inappropriate and confiscated the flyers. Comer appealed to Dean of Student Development E. Edward Albracht, but Albracht also said the flyer was inappropriate and invoked the prior year's shootings at Virginia Tech. Marino informed Comer that the school's legal department would be reviewing YCT's flyers and that afterward, the school might disband YCT or put the group on probation for the year. FIRE contacted the Lone Star administration about its violations of YCT's rights. Brian S. Nelson, General Counsel for the Lone Star College System. replied that any "mention of firearms and weapons" is inherently a "material interference with the operation of the school or the rights of others" because such language "brings fear and concern to students, faculty and staff." Nevertheless, YCT was allowed to remain a student organization without any disciplinary consequences.
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Young Conservatives of Texas' flyer on 'Top Ten Gun Safety Tips'
Why can't students say 'guns' in school?
April 21, 2009
by Glenn Garvin Miami Herald Media snicker of the day: those crazy gun nuts, worried that the government is out to snatch their constitutional rights along with their AK-47s. 60 Minutes is the latest to have a chuckle, playing a commercial for a Washington, D.C.-area firearms show that that urges viewers to "Celebrate the Second Amendment and get your guns while you still can!" My own hunch is that the sheer number of Americans who own guns (the low estimate is something over 40 million) will keep their Second Amendment rights off the endangered-species list for the foreseeable future. […]» Read More
Big gun on campus
November 10, 2008
If you want to go to college, you'd better check your funnybone at the door. And if you think there might be even the slightest possibility that there could be something humorous about guns, don't go anywhere near a campus. Specifically, don't go anywhere near Lone Star College-Tomball, a public college near Houston. (Don't worry if you're not from Texas, most Texans never heard of this school either.) Several students, initially guilty of no offense greater than being members of a group called Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT), passed out a flyer designed to recruit new members into their club […]» Read More
College threatens students for even discussing guns
October 26, 2008
The Young Conservatives of Texas branch at the Houston-area Lone Star College-Tomball has been censored and threatened with campus-wide de-recognition for passing out a humorous pamphlet with gun jokes at a campus fair. The dispute is being addressed by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, which has written college officials reminding them of the college's constitutional obligation to respect the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and to acknowledge the flyer's contents are protected speech. "Distributing a joke-filled top-ten list at a student activities fair is a creative way for a student group to educate its peers […]» Read More
Top one reason to censor unfunny lists
October 23, 2008
When a list of "Top Ten Gun Safety Tips" begins with "Always keep your gun pointed in a safe direction, such as at a hippy or a Communist," you know two things: 1) Some conservative group is involved. 2) You won't be rolling in tears of laughter by the time you finish the list. ("Hippy"? Why, you can't tell the boys from the girls these days, what with the long hair and all….) A third thing is now known, however: If you distribute the list at a college, you're going to get threatened with punishment. Officials at Lone Star College-Tomball […]» Read More
FIRE Launches New Video Series With Short Film on Censorship of Gun-Related Speech
June 30, 2010
PHILADELPHIA, June 30, 2010—Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is proud to release a new short film, "Empty Holsters: Gun Speech on America's Campuses," highlighting widespread campus censorship of student speech about guns. The film is the first in a new FIRE series focusing on how colleges and universities across America are preventing students and faculty members from speaking out on the weightiest political issues of the day. "In the wake of Monday's Supreme Court decision in McDonald v. Chicago, debate about the Second Amendment and gun rights is sure to be hotter than ever," said FIRE […]» Read More
Jefferson 'Muzzle' Awards for Censorship Given to Two Colleges Involved in FIRE Cases
April 7, 2009
Every year, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression awards the "Jefferson Muzzle" to a few of the year's most egregious violators of free speech rights. For the second year in a row (and three out of the last four years), the Center has selected one or more of the malefactors in FIRE cases to receive this symbol of dishonor. This year, the administrations of Lone Star College–Tomball and Tarrant County College, both in Texas, received Muzzles for censoring gun-related speech in FIRE cases. As the Center reports: For suppressing on a community college campus several types […]» Read More
Speech Code of the Month: Lone Star College
December 1, 2008
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for December 2008: Lone Star College in Texas. FIRE recently addressed the suppression of free speech at one of the colleges in the Lone Star College System, when Lone Star College–Tomball censored a student group for distributing a jocular flyer listing "Top Ten Gun Safety Tips." The flyer, which was obviously intended to be a humorous David-Letterman-style top-ten list, included entries such as "no matter how responsible he seems, never give your gun to a monkey" and "if your gun misfires, never look down the barrel to inspect it." Despite the authors' […]» Read More
Stop Invoking Virginia Tech to Punish Protected Speech
November 24, 2008
Of particular note in the court order in Barnes v. Zaccari, the federal civil rights lawsuit filed after former Valdosta State University (VSU) student Hayden Barnes was expelled for posting a collage on Facebook.com protesting the construction of new parking facilities at VSU, is this excerpt: For purposes of the motion to dismiss, the court determines that the inclusion of the word "memorial" by its mere utterance in a photo collage that was posted on an internet website simply cannot be rationally construed as likely to incite immediate violence, even in the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy that the […]» Read More
Does Lone Star College–Tomball Really Fear the Word 'Gun'?
November 12, 2008
Monday at Examiner.com, writer Garry Reed ridiculed Lone Star College–Tomball for its outlawing of any mention of "firearms" or "weapons" because of the "fear and concern" that such language apparently brings to people on campus. Here's most of his good piece: [I]f you think there might be even the slightest possibility that there could be something humorous about guns, don't go anywhere near a campus. Specifically, don't go anywhere near Lone Star College-Tomball, a public college near Houston. (Don't worry if you're not from Texas, most Texans never heard of this school either.) Several students, initially guilty of no offense […]» Read More
Victory at Temple College Explained in Today's Podcast
November 10, 2008
Last Thursday, FIRE's press release described our latest victory for freedom of expression at Temple College (Texas), where the school's president quickly reversed the censorship of a religiously themed cartoon and the Nietzsche quotation "God is dead" after receiving a letter from FIRE. In today's episode of FIREside Chats, Adam Kissel, Director of FIRE's Individual Rights Defense Program, discusses this case in further detail and calls on administrators at Lake Superior State University and Lone Star College–Tomball to follow Temple's lead by undoing the censorship of controversial posted materials on campus. To listen to the entire podcast, click here.» Read More
'Top Ten Gun Safety Tips' Censored at Lone Star College in Texas
October 20, 2008
The stifling of parody on college campuses in recent years is a sad tale of censorship, oversensitivity, and overreaction in the wake of actual incidents of violence. The latest case, as we document in today's press release, occurred over nothing worse—be careful, and don't be alarmed!—than a Letterman–style "top ten" list of "Gun Safety Tips." The official student organization that published this list on a recruiting flyer, Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) at Lone Star College–Tomball, had its flyers confiscated during Lone Star College–Tomball's "club rush," and shortly afterward the group was told that it was under investigation and probably […]» Read More
"Top Ten Gun Safety Tips" Censored at Lone Star College in Texas
October 20, 2008
HOUSTON, October 20, 2008—After distributing a jocular flyer listing "Top Ten Gun Safety Tips" at the school's "club rush," a student group was threatened with probation and derecognition at Lone Star College–Tomball, a public college near Houston. After college officials banned the Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) from distributing the flyer, the school's general counsel invoked the specter of the Virginia Tech shootings, suggesting that even a "mention of firearms and weapons" is inherently a "material interference" with the school's operations. The group has turned to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help. "Distributing a joke-filled top-ten […]» Read More


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President Obama made a wise political move to include the vote of Congress on what action the United States will take against the Assad regime for allegedly using chemical weapons on women and children in Syria.
Friday, Sept. 13, will be an historic day in Henry County. That evening, both of Kentucky's United States Senators — Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul — along with 4th District United States Congressman Thomas Massie, Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture James Comer, State Senators Ernie Harris and Paul Hornback, State Representative David Osborne and other area Republican leaders will all come out to Pendleton for a multi-county Grand Ol' Party Rally.
The General Assembly returned to re-draw the geographic lines that govern the 100-member House and the 38-member Senate.
It's something we and every other state are called upon to do each decade, to reflect the differences in population found by the Census.
Hello. I'm Paul Hornback, and I am honored to be your new state Senator, representing Carroll, Henry, Shelby and Trimble Counties, as well as part of Jefferson.
You may be wondering how this has happened, especially since my friend, Senator Ernie Harris, has served you well, so let me explain. After each U.S. Census, it is the Constitutional duty of the state legislature to realign voting districts according to population shifts. This week, we did just that as the Senate and the House passed legislation that drew new district lines.
By Joseph Yates
By Jon Clark
Monday, the General Assembly began a special session called by Governor Beshear, to finish what should have been done a year ago. Redistricting. The Governor hopes the special session, which will cost over $60,000 a day, will only last five days, to "minimize the cost to taxpayers."
By law, the Commonwealth must reassess census data, and move House, Senate and Judicial districts as the population moves, so that districts have about the same population, across the state, to assure balanced representation.
In today's data-driven age, there is no shortage of comparative lists that states can use to check the progress they're making. The rankings may not shed much light individually, but when enough are brought together, a much clearer picture begins to emerge.
With that in mind, Kentucky and 14 of her fellow southern states got a chance earlier this summer to see how each stacks up in some especially crucial areas.
By Joe Yates
We may be a little more than halfway through 2013, but in Washington and state governments across the country, the focus is increasingly on federal actions taken in 2011.
The issue can be summed up in one word: sequestration.
I latched onto music at the same time my interest in literature exploded.
Everyone has their own taste in music and literature, and each genre serves an individual purpose. I relax listening to Chopin or Nick Drake and rock out to the Rolling Stones or the Black Keys. When it comes to country though, I don't put on this terrible pop fluff that everyone calls new country. My attendance at the Froggy Field Party 5 confirmed that.
Over the years, I've rented many apartments and a house or two. If I'd known then what I learned Monday night during the Pleasureville City Commission meeting, I surely could've gotten a break on my rent.
For example, any time I'd not spent every day in the place I was renting, my landlord should've given me a break.
I also learned that simply by cleaning the apartment once a week, my landlords could have taken a little more off.
By Jon Park
Saturday I traveled to Western Kentucky to a political junkie's Woodstock—Fancy Farm.
The St. Jerome Catholic Church Picnic, in Fancy Farm, Kentucky, began in 1880. Happy Chandler is credited for making it the political event it has become known as today, when he visited the picnic in 1931, campaigning for lieutenant governor. He won that year, and believed Fancy Farm was his good luck charm, so he kept going back.
By Candy Clarke
Why on earth do we go out on a hot day with mosquitoes buzzing us and tiring ourselves picking berries? It would be so much easier just to purchase them at the grocery store. And it certainly would be less work. Why do we do it? Because they're blueberries!
It would be different if it was berry picking for the wonderfully delicious blackberries grown in Kentucky. Never mind the chiggers, the heat, and snakes; blackberries are worth all the inconveniences.
You will find in this week's issue my one tank trip to Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill.
Shaker Village isn't exactly somewhere one would go to for a high-octane night on the town or expect to find anything on the cutting edge. I refute that expectation. Shaker Village gives something new to the visitor each time they visit.
The Shakers stood on the cutting edge of technology when it came to farming and household goods. We all know that, but the less commonly known cutting edge elements of their culture lies in their society.
"Can I ask you a question about the Trayvon Martin thing?"
"That happened in Florida. Why are they rioting in Los Angeles? Sometimes I think they just like to riot out there."
Why? Principle.
Because had the tables been reversed, the shooter might still be sitting in jail.
Because racism in this country still is very, very much alive.
Because a kid went to the convenience store for iced tea and candy and didn't return home.
By John Parks
Growing up, my dad subscribed to Popular Mechanics. I loved going through the issues and seeing the things that would be around when I became an adult. The issues predicted things like hover cars, personal jet packs and condos on the moon. I'm still waiting for my jet pack.
Something that is more startling, and grounded in reality, is what Henry County will look like in the year 2050.
Some stories are just meant to be told. Some grow more outlandish each time they are repeated. As listeners, we often are left wondering what to believe and what not to believe.
"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
That old saying is attributed to Mark Twain. Obviously, he was never around that trembling, drooling little chihuahua that would perch atop the arm of my aunt's couch when we would visit, yapping loudly and incessantly at nothing in particular, and irritating everyone (but my aunt) to no end.
In this issue, I wrote a story about Port Royal Baptist Church.
I conducted interviews, collected anecdotes and researched the church's history.
What I hope comes out of the story is what a foundation a church can serve in a rural community.
I don't dare write a persuasive argument for your attendance, but I write this out of my own gratitude.
I don't think I would be the same person I am today without growing up in a church.
The church served so many purposes in my childhood and my community.
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TAUNTON — Three new cases of drug overdoses were recorded by police this week over the course of two days and nights.
The first incident at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday was a report of a man who apparently overdosed while sitting in his pickup truck parked in front of Benjamin's Restaurant on Bay Street.
A police report for that incident was not immediately available.
The second incident occured Wednesday at 5 p.m., when police responded to an apartment house 40 Tremont St.
Police said the male subject initially was unconscious on the floor but was revived after paramedics administered Narcan, a narcotic commonly used as an antidote to revive overdose victims.
Three other people in the apartment, police said, claimed they were not there when the 38-year-old victim overdosed.
The third incident occurred just after 1:15 a.m. Thursday when police responded to 278 Whittenton St., where they said a man was unconscious in the driveway and being treated by medical personnel.
Police said it took several doses of Narcan to revive the 38-year-old man, who eventually became "alert and responsive."
The victim, police said, had possibly "ingested a bag of heroin." A man on scene told police he had picked up his friend from work and was unaware that he'd taken drugs.
Police advised the victim's girlfriend to speak to staff at Morton Hospital, where he was brought for a follow-up evaluation about getting him help for his addiction.
Since the beginning of the year, Taunton police and other emergency response personnel have been dealing with what officials have described as an epidemic of heroin-related overdoses in the city.
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It is an undeniable fact of system administration that programs and data operate well, most neatly, just after they have been first deployed. Over time components have a nasty habit of degrading, of transforming themselves into non-optimum configurations, or simply not working as well as they might. And so it is with Database Availability Groups (DAGs), which brings us nicely to RedistributeActiveDatabases.ps1, a script that's provided for your use with the Exchange 2010 kit.
DAGs have proven to be the big success story for Exchange 2010 and are a major motivating factor in the decision that many companies have made to upgrade from previous releases. For the first time, Exchange includes native high availability features that scale past two nodes, a limitation that's been in place ever since the introduction of the original "Wolfpack" clusters on Windows NT 4.0 with Exchange 5.5 in late 1997. DAGs scale to sixteen nodes, a limitation imposed by the underlying Windows Failover Clustering technology, and can accommodate hundreds of active databases if you run the enterprise edition of Exchange 2010. The standard edition supports DAGs too, but a server can only mount up to five databases at a time rather than the hundred supported by the enterprise edition.
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Of course, things don't always run smoothly and over time there's a fair chance that the database copies with the highest activation preferences can't be brought online for some reason. For instance, a server might be taken offline for maintenance such as the installation of a new service pack or roll-up update. In these cases, Active Manager will do the best that it can by selecting the database copy with the highest available activation preference. If you leave Exchange to do its thing, it's possible to end up with an unbalanced DAG where some servers host more active database copies than others because of a series of non-optimal activations. You might have one server hosting four active database copies and another hosting ten while a third is not doing too much because it only hosts one. The ideal condition is for each server to host five active databases as this divides the workload evenly across the three.
Although this is a somewhat unrealistic example (hopefully the system administrator would have noticed that one server was doing twice the work that it was supposed to handle), it's conceivable that it might happen. Handling situations like this is just what RedistributeActiveDatabases.ps1 is designed to do.
Essentially, the script looks at the available DAG members and the active databases that are currently mounted on each server. It then compares the current state with the best possible state using database activation preference as a guide. The best state is obviously to have the database copies with activation preference of one (1) mounted and active, so that's what the script will attempt to do by activating the necessary databases.
The script supports a number of parameters to control how it operates, all explained in an informative TechNet article. Even equipped with this knowledge, RedistributeActiveDatabases.ps1 is not a script that you'd run on a whim, just because Friday afternoon has turned out to be boring and you have time on your hands. This is definitely a script to be tested before it can be appreciated by running at a well-chosen time when the resulting database transitions will exert no baleful influence over the affections of users.
DAG transitions are quick. In fact, they're so quick that most users don't realize that a transition has occurred, especially if they run Outlook in cached Exchange mode. But it only takes one user who doesn't like losing service to complain to ruin your day. If only the user realized that you're only running the script to rebalance the DAG and put everything back to where it should be. Alas, all they care about is a reliable email service. Where's the fun in that?
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The Green Bay Packers have released TE Eric Lair (knee) from the Injured Reserve list after the two sides reached an injury settlement.
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Minnesota TE Eric Lair ran consecutive 40-yard dashes in the 4.5-range Monday, March 5, in workouts held by the team for a couple dozen players from smaller schools in the region. Lair also posted a 36 1/2-inch vertical leap and spoke with scouts from three teams afterward. "Today went fantastic," Lair said. "Better than I thought it would be. I did well in my position drills, even though I didn't catch many balls over the break. But year, I did better than I thought I would."
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Face-to-face time with your doctor is often a matter of minutes. The fast pace of the U.S. health care system leaves patients feeling confused and uncertain about how to participate in their own healing. Physicians feel rushed and overwhelmed by seeing upwards of 25 patients a day. But some say it doesn't have to be that way. Doctors and researchers are using online tools to open up new lines of communication that improve the doctor-patient relationship and let patients make the most of their brief, but important, time at the doctor's office.
In Rochester, N.Y., in 2001, Dr. L. Gordon Moore started a nonprofit model for patient care called the Ideal Medical Practice (IMP). One of its main goals is to reduce the number of patients primary care physicians see each day. The IMP model helps physicians afford to see fewer patients by using technology like electronic medical records, Internet scheduling, and email to lower overhead costs. More than 500 physicians across the United States use the IMP model.
"[These physicians] need more time to better engage with people who are coming to them for all sorts of reasons," Moore said. "They want to get off the treadmill, spend more time with their patients, and make themselves more accessible."
Dr. Moore said that the emphasis placed on productivity leaves doctors short of time for explaining things or diving into issues that come up during a visit. Poor doctor-patient communication has negative effects, Moore said, including higher medical bills and worse health care outcomes. One of the key components of IMP is an online system that measures how patients feel about the quality of their care. HowsYourHealth.org, developed by Dr. John H. Wasson, provides Moore and other physicians in the IMP network with reports directly from their patients, whom Moore calls the "ultimate arbiters of the practice."
"Doctors are using this tool to unmask a whole bunch of stuff that gets between people and the outcomes they want," Moore said, "and then using that information as part of the mix to inform the clinical team on what they can do to help people to get good outcomes."
Here's how it works: After their appointments, patients log on to HowsYourHealth.org and respond to questions about access, affordability, clarity, and comfort. The system's metrics quickly show physicians what matters most to patients and how confident they are in managing their own health problems. According to Wasson, physicians can also customize the HowsYourHealth tool to get concise information from each individual patient and real-time information from their entire clientele.
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Dr. Rodney Hornbake, of Essex, Conn., commented on the HowsYourHealth website that he was better able to treat a recent patient because he could identify the patient's lack of confidence in managing his condition. This led to a discussion of the patient's concern over his newly implanted defibrillator. Hornbake said the patient left feeling much more confident about his health.
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Jan Walker, R.N., and Tom Delbanco, M.D., would like to see this type of access expanded, giving patients everywhere the ability to see not just their records but also their doctors' notes. Walker and Delbanco are the principal investigators behind the OpenNotes Project, a one-year experiment in medical record transparency conducted at three major U.S. hospitals in 2010–2011. More than 100 primary care physicians and 200,000 patients participated. Patients were given secure online access to their doctors' notes. "Even if you have your lab results and your medication list, it's that note that ties it all together," Walker said. "If patients can get access to that and read it, it makes them much more knowledgeable about what's going on. And it also gives them a glimpse into what's going on in the doctor's mind."
Walker described the doctors who participated in the yearlong study as "cautiously optimistic." They said they could see the benefit in sharing their notes with their patients, but were hesitant because notes can be easily misinterpreted and can contain sensitive information.
But Walker insisted that all patients should be able to access their information, if they wish, to be completely involved in their own healing. She also commented on how helpful access is, as it's easy to forget what happens during a hospital visit.
"People leave the office and they just don't remember. And sometimes it's important stuff, but you forget," Walker said. "That's another reason to have access to this note that the doctor writes after the visit. If you get home and you don't remember, and it's online, you just look it up."
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November 23. 2012 8:00PM
Man charged with reckless driving
By BRENDAN CLOGSTON
Union Leader Correspondent
Todd Goodman is charged with reckless operation and conduct after an accident, after a road rage incident in Candia he failed to report. (Candia Police Department)
CANDIA - A Candia man has being charged with reckless operation and conduct after an accident after hitting another vehicle during an illegal pass and attempting to flee the scene, police said.
According to the police affidavit, Todd Goodman, 46, of Candia, was driving behind Deborah Deslongchamps on Merrill Road in Candia on the night of Nov. 6 when he became frustrated, believing she was driving too slowly and braking too frequently.
He attempted to pass Deslongchamps on the left, despite the fact that there were no legal passing zones on Merrill Road.
As he was completing the pass, Goodman pulled back into the lane prematurely, scraping the front of Deslongchamps' vehicle with his rear right bumper and tire, according to police.
No one was hurt, and both cars remained on the road. According to the affidavit, Goodman made no attempt to stop or contact police.
Deslongchamps took down Goodman's license plate number and called Candia police around 7 p.m. A registration check identified Goodman's Jeep Wrangler.
Candia Police Officer Daniel Gray found Goodman's Jeep in the garage; it had damage consistent with the accident, according to police.
Goodman has been charged with conduct after an accident (hit-and-run), reckless operation and unlawful passing on the left.
He was released on $750 personal recognizance bail on Nov. 13. He will appear before the 10th Circuit District Division Court in Candia on Dec. 5.


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We have three small children who love watching movies after breakfast. However, we find that one movie turns into three which makes it almost lunch time. They aren't dressed, their hair is a mess, their breath stinks from not brushing, and, well, basic hygiene is out the window. So, this year my husband and I enacted the Family No-Movies-Until-You-Are-Ready-For-The-Day Act. This has been clearly established as: no movies until you have eaten breakfast, gotten dressed, and brushed your hair and teeth. It has worked wonders in our family because by the time the movie is done we are up and ready to go wherever the day takes us. It is the dose of spice that I need in my life to know that although we are a family of "rules" (most made rashly in the heat of the moment that are impossible to maintain), this one is working! It was thought out, it was rational and most importantly it is teaching our kids cleanliness and hygiene and we parents get to pat ourselves on the back that it is working!


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- No need to remind Chris Walker how difficult his job is this season at Texas Tech. He may have inherited one of the messiest situations in major college basketball after the resignation of Billy Gillispie, but he's likely just happy to have the interim job at this point. With no expectations whatsoever, Walker is now pledging to get out and run with his new roster this season. Walker says he likes the Red Raiders' athleticism, but as the article points out, his up-tempo style may depend on how well his new point guards perform. Last year, Gillispie's point guards were nothing short of abysmal, and he did not ever find a viable option to take care of the basketball and facilitate offense. Those who've seen freshman Josh Gray say he'll be a difference-maker at the point, but it's hard to rely on a frosh for leadership and immediate production. No matter who takes the reins as the point guard, though, it's nice to see Walker attempting to create an identity for this program. That's the first step in the recovery process after the Gillispie debacle.
- Two former Kansas basketball players joined the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame over the weekend, placing a Jayhawk stamp on the state with Bud Stallworth and Wayne Simien. As younger folks, we had to google Stallworth to make sure to cover all of our facts. He starred in the early '70s, reached the Final Four in 1971 and saw his number retired by the school in 2005. Googling Simien was not necessary, however. Simien played in two Final Fours under Roy Williams and blossomed into one of the nation's top forwards as an upperclassman, averaging a double-double as a senior in 2004-05. He played briefly in the NBA before heading to Europe, and he's now listed as retired by Wikipedia. A bit surprising, sure, but Simien built quite a basketball pedigree in his short career.
- We're a little late on this, but Bill Self signed an extension last week to stay at Kansas through 2022. We're not sure what we'll be doing in 2022, but if Self makes it that far, he'll rake in millions. The deal increases his annual salary, too, which begs the question: Is Bill Self still underpaid? Forbes took a look at the situation and makes a decent argument. The economic impact Self has made at Kansas is stunning. Forbes claims Self has increased the Jayhawks' financial stock, from the eighth-most valuable college basketball program to the third-most valuable in just a few years. That alone is enough to justify Self's salary.
- Speaking of money, Kansas State just shelled out $18 million for a new practice facility. It's 50,000 square feet and gives the basketball program luxurious courts, offices, locker rooms and other facilities. It may not translate directly to a national championship, but it's the sort of thing that helps in the recruiting business and adds an extra benefit to potential prospects. It'll also make Bruce Weber's job a little easier as he begins to mark his place in Manhattan.
- Oklahoma State represents Travis Ford's fourth coaching stop, and he's had an interesting tenure with the Cowboys. After immediate success on the shoulders of the likes of Byron Eaton and James Anderson, he's fallen on hard times lately and needs a rebound. As this piece points out, he's slowly rebuilt the three previous programs at which he coached, but he's now attempting to bounce back from an injury-riddled season and two straight seasons without an NCAA Tournament. It's odd to say, but the pressure might be on Ford with Marcus Smart joining the crew this season. It's silly to say he's on the hot seat, but the direction of his program probably depends on how his team fares in 2012-13.


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Prionailurus planiceps
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Prionailurus planiceps (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827)
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|Taxonomic Notes:
|Taxonomy is currently under review by the IUCN SSC Cat Specialist Group. One of only two felids lacking any classically described subspecies (Nowell and Jackson 1996). Placed in Prionailurus according to genetic analysis (Johnson et al. 2006, O'Brien and Johnson 2007).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Endangered C1 ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Wilting, A., Brodie, J., Cheyne, S., Hearn, A., Lynam, A., Mathai, J., McCarthy, J., Meijaard, E., Mohamed, A., Ross, J., Sunarto, S. & Traeholt, C.
|Nowell, K., Hunter, L., Duckworth, J.W., Breitenmoser-Würsten, C., Lanz, T. & Breitenmoser, U.
|Duckworth, J.W. & Sanderson, J.
The Flat-headed Cat has a restricted and patchy distribution around wetlands in lowland forest on the islands of Sumatra, Borneo and the Malayan Peninsula. It was formerly also distributed in southern Thailand but the last confirmed observation was almost 20 years ago (Wilting et al. 2010). Current status distribution is limited to presence data, and there are few records in comparison with sympatric small felids. The extent to which this reflects patterns of survey design and effort rather than patterns of distribution is unclear. Wetland destruction and degradation and the very high deforestation rate in southeast Asia is the primary threat faced by the species (Wilting et al. 2010). Since 2010 there have been few new photo captures of this species with camera traps. The reason for this can be due to the special wetland-based ecology of the species, but as they have been previously photographed on main roads, as well as in the forest and along trails, it is believed unlikely to be the sole reason. It was photographed only a few times in the Kinabatangan area of Sabah, of Borneo (an area thought to have the best habitat for the species), despite hundreds of camera traps (A. Hearn pers. comm. 2014).
Over 45% of protected wetlands and 94% of globally significant wetlands in Southeast Asia are considered threatened (Dugan 1993) and although the situation today is unknown, it is unlikely to be radically better and may be much worse. Causes include human settlement, draining for agriculture, pollution, and excessive hunting, wood-cutting and fishing. In addition, clearance of coastal mangroves over the past decade has been rapid. While there have been observations of the Flat-headed Cat in secondary forests (Bezuijen 2000, Meijaard et al. 2005, Mohamed et al. 2009), Wilting et al. (2010) could not find any support that the Flat-headed Cat can also live in oil palm plantations. According to their distribution model, over 70% of its predicted historical suitable habitat has been transformed to unsuitable habitats (Wilting et al. 2010). Between 2000-2010 the Flat-headed Cat lost over 20% of potentially suitable habitat (10% in Peninsular Malaysia, 17% in Borneo and 41% in Sumatra; extracted from Miettinen et al. 2011). Based on these rates of habitat loss and together with other threats such as pollution of wetlands and hunting it is very likely that the Flat-headed Cat population declined by at least 20% in the last 12 years (two generations; Pacifici et al. 2013) and will also continue to decline over the next 12 years by more than 20%.
It is difficult to estimate population size given its patchy distribution and lack of any density estimates. However the low number of camera-trapping records and direct sightings compared to other Southeast Asian cat species seem to support the notion that the Flat-headed Cat is very rare and/or very specialized in its habitat requirements. An area of occupancy map predicted a species distribution area of about 61,000 km² for Borneo (Wilting et al. unpublished data of the Borneo Carnivore Symposium). For Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra we inferred that additional 10,000 km² and 8,100 km², respectively, could be occupied. If we take a density of four individuals per 100 km² within this 80,000 km², and assuming that not all individuals of a population are mature individuals we would infer a population size which is plausibly fewer than 2,500 mature individuals. For the Flat-headed Cat with its very patchy distribution and its close associations to water resources the average density of four individuals per 100 km² is rather conservative, although in some well suitable areas the density might also be much higher than this. Using a higher average density (>5 mature individulas per 100 km²) would lead to population estimates which would qualify the species as Vulnerable (C1). The IUCN Red List Guidelines (vers. 11, Feb 2014) caution that multiplying density times area extent often leads to "gross overestimation" of the number of mature individuals. Although density estimations of Flat-headed Cats would be needed to verify the inferred numbers, the great threat to Southeast Asian wetlands further supports the classification as Endangered under the precautionary principle.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The Flat-headed Cat has a restricted distribution, found only on Sumatra, Borneo and the Malayan Peninsula (Malaysia and extreme southern Thailand). It is a lowland species strongly associated with wetlands (Nowell and Jackson 1996, Sunquist and Sunquist 2002). The range map is adapted from Wilting et al. (2010) and from data of the Borneo Carnivore Symposium; Wilting et al. (2010) and Wilting et al. (in revision) include other more detailed maps.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Brunei Darussalam; Indonesia (Kalimantan, Sumatera); Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak)
Possibly extinct:Thailand
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The Flat-headed Cat is closely associated with wetlands and lowland forests, habitats which are increasingly being occupied and modified by people (Wilting et al. 2010). It has never been studied, there are few records of the species, and it is generally considered rare, with a highly localized distribution around bodies of water (Nowell and Jackson 1996, Anonymous 1996, Bezuijen 2000, Sunquist and Sunquist 2002, Meijaard et al. 2005, Yasuda et al. 2007, Barita and Boeadi pers. comm. 2006, Mohamed et al. 2009). Although fishermen along the Merang River in south Sumatra (which has relatively intact peat forests) described it as common (Bezuijen 2000), they tend to use a single generic term for both Flat-headed Cat and Leopard Cat Prionailurus bengalensis, a more abundant species (Bezuijen 2003). Most of the recent records come from Sabah in northeastern Borneo, where it can be frequently be observed along the Kinabatangan River (Wilting et al. 2010), and where it has been several times recorded by camera-traps in Deramakot and Tangkulap Forest Reserve (Mohamed et al. 2009). Recently camera-trapping records come from a mixed-used plantation area, which includes conservation reserves within the oil palm estates in East Kalimantan (Wahyudi and Struebing 2013) and from Pasoh Forest Reserve in Peninsular Malaysia (Wadey et al. 2014).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Very little is known about this species, and the available information suggest that, like its close relative the fishing cat, the Flat-headed Cat is strongly associated with wetlands and preys primarily on fish. Stomach contents of two dead animals contained mostly fish, and also shrimp shells. They may also take birds and small rodents, and have been reported to prey on domestic poultry (Nowell and Jackson 1996).
Most records for the Flat-headed Cat are from swampy areas, lakes and streams, and riverine forest (Nowell and Jackson 1996, Yasuda et al. 2007). They also occur in peat-swamp forest (Bezuijen 2000), and have been observed in secondary forest (Bezuijen 2000, Bezuijen 2003, Meijaard et al. 2005, Mohamed et al. 2009). All published observations of live animals have taken place at night or early morning, near water (Nowell and Jackson 1996, Bezuijen 2000, Bezuijen 2003, Meijaard et al. 2005, Yasuda et al. 2007). Over 80% of the records gathered by Wilting et al. (2010) were from elevations below 100 m asl, and over 70 % were recorded within a distance of three km to larger water sources.
The Flat-headed Cat takes its name from its unusually long, sloping snout and flattened skull roof, with small ears set well down the sides of its head. It has large, close-set eyes, and relatively longer and sharper teeth than its close relatives. Its claws do not fully retract into their shortened sheaths, and its toes are more completely webbed than the Fishing Cat's, with long narrow foot pads. Muul and Lim (1970), commenting on the cat's feet and other features, termed it the ecological counterpart of a semi-aquatic mustelid.
|Terrestrial; Freshwater
|Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat:
|Generation Length (years):
|Use and Trade:
|E. Bennett (in Sunquist and Sunquist 2002) reported that skins were frequently seen in longhouses in the interior of Sarawak, Malaysia.
|Major Threat(s):
Wetland and lowland forest destruction and degradation is the primary threat faced by the species (Nowell and Jackson 1996, Wilting et al. 2010). Causes of this destruction include human settlement, forest transformation to plantations, draining for agriculture, pollution, and excessive hunting, wood-cutting and fishing. In addition, clearance of coastal mangroves over the past decade has been rapid in Tropical Asia. The depletion of fish stocks from over-fishing is prevalent in many Asian wetland environments and is likely to be a significant threat. Expansion of oil palm plantations is currently viewed as the most urgent threat (Wilting et al. 2010). Trapping, snaring and poisoning are also threats: E. Bennett (in Sunquist and Sunquist 2002) reported that skins were frequently seen in longhouses in the interior of Sarawak, and the Flat-headed Cat has been captured in traps set out to protect domestic fowl (Nowell and Jackson 1996).
|Conservation Actions:
Included on CITES Appendix I. The species is fully protected by national legislation over most parts of its range, with hunting and trade prohibited in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand (Nowell and Jackson 1996). It is currently not protected by the Wildlife Protection Act of 1984 in Brunei Darussalam. Wilting et al. (2010) and Wilting et al. (in revision) provide details about areas where this species has been recorded and also suggested key sites which should receive conservation priority. However, currently any further information about the status of any Flat-headed Cat population (population sizes and trends) is missing.
|Wilting, A., Brodie, J., Cheyne, S., Hearn, A., Lynam, A., Mathai, J., McCarthy, J., Meijaard, E., Mohamed, A., Ross, J., Sunarto, S. & Traeholt, C. 2015. Prionailurus planiceps. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T18148A50662095. . Downloaded on 23 September 2018.
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Study Abroad
The German Department sponsors a summer study abroad program in Kassel, Germany, for students at all levels.
Summer Study Abroad
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• Rolling 4-week sessions from June through August.
• Students with previous knowledge of German may register for any 4-week period during the summer.
• Students with no previous knowledge of German may begin only on June 3, July 1, and July 29 (Dates vary slightly from year to year).
Study German in international classes of approximately 15 students at DIALOG-Institut in the City of Kassel, in the center of Germany. Classes, afternoon activities, field trips, discussions with host families and other students. Immerse yourself!
Participants live in single rooms in German homes.
COST: approximately $1,600 plus 6 credits CUNY tuition plus air fare
Total cost subject to change only if there is an extreme fluctuation in exchange rates.
Price includes:
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(3) instruction and textbooks
(4) 6 hours of Hunter German credits
Financial Aid available: Pell grants, STOCS grants (Study/Travel Opportunities for CUNYStudents)
Max Kade Scholarships for Study Abroad: Through the generosity of the Max Kade Foundation, we are able to offer approximately 15 travels grants of up to $1,500.- Apply for these grants in the office of the German Department (West 1405) in early April.
Deadline for STOCS program is usually March. Inquire with Study Abroad office.
Visit, call, or write
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Hunter West 1404
(212) 772-5068
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695 Park Avenue
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Monday - Friday 10am - 1pm
Saturdays by appointment
Pictures taken by Julia Williams, who went to Kassel in the Summer of 2012, 2013, and 2014. She also took pictures of day trip excursions to Erfurt, and Marburg.
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tool will save you time and money - we will show you how!
The workshop demonstrates how to use the app as well as explaining how the app can improve your listings.
Topics include:
Introduction to Bulk Revision
How to find and replace (Titles & Descriptions)
Item Condition
to your listings per new eBay policy
Bulk altering prices
Altering your PayPal address
Change quantities
Add eBay Parts Compatibility to your listings
Typical scenarios
Frooition has currently developed three eBay Apps; check them out in the
eBay App Center
Create eBay Motors Parts Compatibility Listings with Auctiva
Auctiva has added support for
eBay Motors Parts Compatibility
Learn about Auctiva's new Parts Compatibility Tool, which gives users a fast and simple way to create parts compatibility listings on eBay Motors. We'll walk you through two different ways to create these listings, including screen shots of what the process looks like.
Get all your questions answered about Auctiva's new Parts Compatibility Tool as well as their other products and services.
How to 'Jump Start' eBay Motors Sales with Parts Compatibility.
A "how-to" workshop with solutions & services for all eBay Motors sellers
Shifting your business to utilize
eBay Parts Compatibility
can be an intimidating prospect. This "how-to" workshop presents 'Jump Start' services for
and non-Infopia eBay sellers.
The workshop will also include demonstrations of Infopia's unique manual fitment functionality, including the ability to map the fitments of Brand Name parts to their generic equivalents. Infopia Fitment products have been designed for ease of management and long-term maintainability.
Topics and demonstration will include:
One time and on-going EPID Matching to both
Manufacturer or Brand for any Seller
Structured fitment data upload for manual fitment
Use of "similar to" capabilities to match fitments of Brand Name parts to Generic Equivalents
Creation of new fitment-enabled listings utilizing
Ad Factories and Custom Schedules
Using Product Catalogue
Auto-generation of multiple listings optimized for eBay maximum fitments per listing
Founded in 1999, Infopia provides (Software as a Service) eCommerce solutions-helping eBay sellers grow their business efficiently and effectively.
to learn more about eBay Certified Providers and the services and solutions they offer to help an eBay seller grow their business.
What is Your Real Cost of Selling on eBay?
The Vendio team will be hosting an eBay workshop focused on helping eBay sellers better understand a product's profitability and success on eBay.
Vendio will discuss the cost of keeping obsolete inventory (and how to get rid of it), which listing formats to use for different products and other factors eBay sellers should consider when deciding what to sell and how to sell it on eBay.
An eBay Certified Solutions Provider since 2004, Vendio provides an ecommerce solution for eBay sellers of all sizes.
to learn more about eBay Certified Providers and the services and solutions they offer to help an eBay seller grow their business.
eBay Listing Design Clinic
Debbie Levitt, CEO of
As Was
In this workshop, Debbie Levitt, CEO of As Was (an eBay Certified Provider since 2004), will take a look at one listing from workshop participants, and offer free advice on how to make that listing more likely to make a sale. She'll be looking at design, layout, pictures, description, policies, and more ingredients that go into converting shoppers into buyers.
to learn more about eBay Certified Providers and the services and solutions they offer to help an eBay seller grow their business.
Hybrid Mailing Services: Can they help your shipping?
More choices in shipping: Are you ready?
Formerly only for high volume warehouses, new "hybrid" shipping services are available to lower volume sites, home based shippers and small businesses. If you are an active seller, you probably qualify. These services give the benefits of a full service carrier (like end to end tracking, accessible customer service, weekly net terms billing) at costs similar to the Postal Service (no residential fees, no extended area fees, free Saturday delivery, etc.).
In other words: If you ship, pay attention, because this is interesting.
Come to this session to learn about "hybrid" shipping services--what the benefits are, what it costs, and how you can get started.
Hope you can join us (right here) on March 18th!
What to Sell on eBay, Keep or Give Away when Spring Cleaning
Lynn Dralle,
The Queen of Auctions
It's the time of year for Spring Cleaning. Why not learn how you can make money on eBay by turning your household items into cash when cleaning out your closet, house or garage.
Please join Lynn Dralle, The Queen of Auctions and published author of the "100 Best Things I've Sold on eBay" book series, as she shares her tips, success and insight for new eBay sellers, part-time sellers and even experienced sellers seeking additional advice.
New Auctiva Features to Help eBay Sellers Save Time and Money
In this workshop, the Auctiva team will introduce us to the new features, enhancements and solutions they created to help eBay sellers increase listing efficiency and save money on fees. Auctiva will also help answer questions and guide eBay sellers on how to use their Auctiva solution for eBay.
5 Strategies to Increase the Visibility of Your eBay Listings
As Was
In this workshop, Debbie Levitt, CEO of
As Was
, will outline what you can do to maximize the visibility of your eBay listings. Learn more about Best Match and how you can create more effective listing strategies to save on fees and show up higher in search results.
Founded in 1995, As Was is a full-service consulting firm specializing in branding, design, sales and marketing strategies, operations management, and training. As Was is an eBay Certified Service Provider and has been working with eBay sellers since 2001.
5 Tips to Prepare for a Successful 2010
Lisa Suttora, Founder/CEO of
The holiday selling rush is over and the new selling season has just begun. It is a great time to look at your 2009 selling and plan for your 2010 selling strategy. NOW is the time to review, plan and refresh your eBay business for a successful new year.
Please join Lisa Suttora, ecommerce strategist and Founder/CEO of
, as she shares her advice and insight on what you can do to prepare for a successful year selling on eBay.
Making Shipping Insurance Cheaper, Easier & Faster
In this workshop, the inkFrog team will show/demo how you can use
ShipSaver Insurance
(by inkFrog) to insure your packages for less than you are paying to USPS and UPS.
ShipSaver Insurance
is a discount shipping insurance application now available in "My eBay" as part of Selling Manager Applications, eBay's App Store. ShipSaver allows eBay sellers to receive great shipping insurance coverage at a discount.
InkFrog is an eBay Certified Solutions Provider and one of the third party providers included in the new eBay Selling Manager Applications, eBay's App Store.
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Enhancing Your Holiday Sales with Up-Sales and Cross-Sales
Enhancing Your Holiday Sales with Up-Sales and Cross-Sales. How eBay sellers can merchandise and identify opportunities for increased profit margins by up-selling complimentary items.
, an eBay Certified Provider providing drop shipping services, as they discuss how eBay sellers can use drop shipping as a means of selling complimentary items for increased sales on eBay.
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New Selling Manager Applications - "
Top 5 Last minute Christmas Research Tips
The busiest shopping days of the year are rapidly approaching (Saturday before Christmas, Black Friday, Cyber Monday...) and you're going to want to be ready to sell! What are the hottest items and opportunities for your eBay business this holiday?
Spend an hour with us and discover how to use research to plan your biggest sales month of the year! We'll review the top five research tips that can help your sales soar.
Join Matt and Denise from
Terapeak Marketplace Research
to learn about last minute Christmas research. After the material is presented we'll open the board for discussion and questions.
Terapeak is an eBay Certified Service Provider and one of the third party providers included in the new
Selling Manager Applications
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12 Sales Boosting Strategies to Put More Jingle in Your Holiday Season
Lisa Suttora, Founder/CEO of
The holiday season is upon us! And holiday shoppers are headed your way. But will YOU be ready when they arrive? With new holiday shoppers coming online each year and return buyers coming back for more, NOW is the time to ready your store, listings, and marketing for prime time!
Please join Lisa Suttora, ecommerce strategist, and Founder/CEO of
as she shares 12 sales boosting marketing strategies that will get you ready for holiday buyers and put more jingle in your holiday sales!
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New Selling Manager Applications -
Save Time on Shipping: For Bulk and One Off Printing! Right from My eBay!
After the buyer checks out, the seller's work starts! Reliable post-sale order processing is a must-have. It can be quite exhausting managing the information, getting packing lists and shipping labels dealt with, etc.
streamlines the whole post-sale process from shipping to communication. Saving eBay sellers a lot of time (and time is money!). Please join Rafael Zimberoff, ShipRush Product Manager for Z-Firm to learn how My.ShipRush can help eBay sellers easily manage all shipments and communications.
New to the eBay Selling Manager Applications, or commonly referred to as eBay's App Store, is My.ShipRush. My.ShipRush was created by the folks at Z-Firm and is a new version of ShipRush, embedded in My eBay or Selling Manager.
ShipRush is an eBay Certified Solution Provider and one of the third party providers included in the new Selling Manager Applications feature. To learn more, visit
Selling Manager Applications
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Increase Your Repeat Sales with Buyer Rewards and Email Marketing
It is more cost effective to retain a buyer than it is to attract new buyers. In this workshop, we'll look at how eBay sellers can drive repeat sales, build buyer loyalty and expand their buyer base with
is a simple marketing solution enabling eBay sellers to offer cash back and coupons to buyers. eBay sellers can also create custom campaigns and directly market to previous customers and encourage repeat purchases. Sellers can do all of this direct from Selling Manager in My eBay!
MyStoreRewards is an eBay Certified Solution Provider and one of the third party providers included in the new Selling Manager Applications feature. Click here to learn more about
Selling Manager Applications
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New Selling Manager Applications -
Research and Find Products to Sell on eBay, within eBay!
Worldwide Brands
Finding drop ship suppliers and wholesale suppliers that allow their products to be sold on eBay just became 1 GIANT step easier. Now you can
Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool
for eBay quickly and easily to your eBay account with the release of
Selling Manager Applications
for Selling Manager and Selling Manager Pro.
Join us in this workshop to discover why finding drop ship and wholesale suppliers is much simpler than you think. We have video, images, and lots of educational content to show you exactly how it works.
Worldwide Brands
is an eBay Certified Solution Provider.
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Save Time by Answering Buyer Questions Fast and Easy with Advanced FAQs and Automated Email Responses
Hosted Support
Don't lose a sale due to slow responses to buyer questions. ezSupport for eBay, by
Hosted Support
, lets sellers create a knowledge base to be used either as a FAQ (buyers can search for and find their own answers) or if they email sellers directly, ezSupport for eBay will automatically respond to the buyer email based on information the seller has already supplied.
Now you can add ezSupport for eBay quickly and easily to your eBay account with the release of new selling applications for Selling Manager and Selling Manager Pro.
Hosted Support
is an eBay Certified Solution Provider and one of a handful third party providers included in the new
Selling Manager Applications
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Save Time & Money Shipping and Increase Repeat Purchases
Wes Clayton, CEO and Co-Founder of
by Interapptive
In this workshop, we'll look at how ShipWorks helps you save time shipping with their quick, automated printing of address labels, posting of tracking info in My eBay and shipping tracking notification emails sent to your buyers for multiple carriers. Plus, ShipWorks will show you how they can help you manage, organize and report on customer interactions and their purchase volume with you. You'll be able to understand who YOUR top buyers are and market more effectively to those buyers in order to increase repeat purchases.
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Save Time Listing and Gain Insightful Understanding into Your Buyers
In this workshop, we'll look at how Auctiva can help sellers:
List efficiently with one page lister and profiles. One-page listing tool automates much of the eBay listing process. Profiles save commonly used listing information.
Market Items with cross-promotions and supersized photos. Showcase your other items for sale and up-sell.
Understand your visitors, buyers and sales with tracking and reporting. Learn which search terms generate the most traffic and purchases for YOUR eBay listings.
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5 Easy Steps to Increase Your eBay Profits Using Marketplace Research
Denise, Product Manager, and Matt, Customer Support Manager, from
In this workshop, we'll look at 5 easy steps you can take to increase the values of your eBay sales, all using Terapeak's market research for eBay. We'll review some free and subscription tools from Terapeak that will help you gain a better understanding of the eBay marketplace, develop new ways of understanding your business, and increase your profit! After the material is presented we'll open the board for discussion and questions.
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Easy Listing Revisions - Edit LIVE eBay Listings in Bulk
inkFrog, an eBay Certified Provider, has developed two features to help eBay sellers edit listings in bulk. Including live listings! inkFrog's bulk editing features are known as Globals and Find & Replace. Attend our eBay Certified Provider workshop to learn how inkFrog can help you easily edit, update, revise and change listing strategies with their bulk editing tools.
Globals provides eBay sellers the ability to bulk edit and revise live listings.
Find & Replace allows eBay sellers to "find" specific words/text within their item descriptions and "replace" with new updated text/information.
inkFrog's tools do adhere to eBay policies on revising listings. Read our Listing Revision Policy for more information -
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Selling on eBay using Drop Shippers: How to Make a Profit
Colette Marshall, President of
Worldwide Brands
Competing against other sellers on eBay using drop shipping can be a challenge. Join Colette Marshall, President of Worldwide Brands, to learn some tips about selling on eBay using drop shipping and how Worldwide Brands can help eBay sellers find the best profit margins when drop shipping.
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Turn Your Household Items Into $Cash$ on eBay
Lynn Dralle,
The Queen of Auctions
New to eBay? Learn how to sell on eBay by turning your household items into cash on eBay. Plus, Lynn will share her tips on how you can find items in your local area to sell on eBay and start generating an extra income. Please join Lynn Dralle, The Queen of Auctions and published author of the "100 Best Things I've Sold on eBay" book series, as she shares her tips, success and insight for new eBay sellers, part-time sellers and even experienced sellers seeking additional advice.
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Product Trends for 2009 & Beyond
Lisa Suttora, Founder of
What will your customers buy? Next week? Next month? Next year? The answer to these questions can be found in looking at emerging product trends. No matter what category you sell in, product trends will influence the inventory you buy in 2009 and beyond. Please join Lisa Suttora, Founder of eBay Certified Provider WhatDoISell.com, as she discusses the 7 product trends that will impact your online sales this year. A noted trend authority, Lisa will introduce you to the year's top consumer trends and show you how to apply them to YOUR business!
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Monday, December 28, 2009
How To Strip US Health Insurance Companies of Their Power Forever in 1 Easy Step
If you support a "public option," single payer system, and/or the Democrats' health bills in Congress, you probably believe that health insurance companies have too much power and not enough competition to keep prices low and quality high. You are absolutely correct.
Health insurance is too expensive, not enough people have access to it, and insurance companies bail on their customers and deny them the coverage they paid for at the worst possible times. Something has got to be done!
But Why?
But let's examine the root causes of these disorders in the market for health insurance to see if a public option is really the solution.
It seems as if the health insurance companies can charge whatever they want, bully their customers around when they have legitimate claims, and set all the terms of insurance contracts. Why is that?
The most important reason is that Americans cannot buy health insurance across state lines. States prohibit the purchase of health insurance that does not comply with their state regulations.
Regulations Empower Insurance Companies
These regulations usually consist of a long list of ridiculous coverage mandates that require customers to be covered for all kinds of things whether or not they want or need it.
So even if a woman in Maryland doesn't want to pay $500/month to be covered for in-vitro fertilization, morbid obesity treatment, smoking cessation, substance abuse, and hair prosthesis, she has no choice.
And she can't purchase more affordable insurance without any unnecessary coverage from another state because it would be non-compliant with Maryland's regulations and mandates.
Robbing You to Enrich Corporations
The reason states do this is to provide kickbacks of money to their campaign donors in the insurance industry without overtly raising residents' taxes- a corrupt and vicious policy.
So the reason health insurance companies have so much power and are so corrupt, is not an unregulated, dog-eat-dog market for health insurance, but a tightly regulated and controlled market- a government-protected cartel for health insurance.
If there were a way to put an end to this disgusting situation in one fell swoop- it would immediately make health insurance far more affordable, a better fit for people's real needs, and a quality industry that works hard to please its customers.
The Solution in One Easy Step:
And there is such a way! The U.S. Congress merely needs to pass a bill prohibiting the states from requiring residents to purchase health insurance from within their state and according to state regulations/mandates.
The beautiful thing is it doesn't take a whole lot of words to say this, certainly not thousands of pages! It's a simple, elegant, and profoundly effective solution.
A Constitutional Health Care Reform
It's also Constitutional. Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution says Congress has the power to: "To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes. [emphasis mine]"
This Commerce Clause has been misused for decades as the justification for sweeping Federal powers that clearly do not fall under the scope of the clause.
In Wickard v. Filburn for instance, the Supreme Court ruled that even wheat grown on one's own land for one's own consumption can be regulated under the category of interstate commerce because it affects interstate commerce(!).
Yet in the instance of health insurance, we have a perfect example of exactly what the Founding Fathers wanted the Federal Government to be able to prevent states from doing- interfering with trade across their borders.
The Result:
If Congress were to pass this one piece of simple legislation on just a few short pages, it would create revolutionary changes in the provision of health insurance and grant millions access through more affordable prices.
If an insurance company in Connecticut charges too much or has a reputation for bullying its customers when they need coverage, then its customers can leave and buy insurance from a more affordable, less corrupt insurance company based in Nebraska.
A Free Market Health Care Reform
This way companies will truly be forced to compete with each other for once. They will have to provide good service at affordable prices or they'll lose customers and go out of business. No more hiding behind state lines and corrupt state laws.
And that's how to end the monopolistic power of the insurance companies quickly, cleanly, and without diminishing our civil liberties or adding to the already insane national debt. It's a non-partisan solution that members of both party can agree to. Who's with me?
Take action
E-mail this article's web address to as many people as you know! Educate your friends and family. If you want to strip the health insurance companies of their monopoly power, then you must empower yourself with knowledge and solutions!
Also share a link to this article across various social media if you're web-savvy: Facebook, Twitter, and Digg would make a good start!
Last of all, send this article to the people who need to read it the most: your Congressman and Senators!
15 comments:
- AnthonyDecember 29, 2009 at 7:33 PM
I also wonder if it will be necessary to break the tie between employment and health insurance. How about employer provided health insurance but then giving a refundable credit to buy insurance?ReplyDelete
Absolutely, Anthony! That would be number two (if not number one) on my list of solutions to our ailing healthcare system.ReplyDelete
...to clarify- I agree with your identification of employer-based insurance as a major problem. I'm not sure about your solution. I might prefer a reform of some of our tax laws to remove the perverse incentives that create this problem.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 24, 2010 at 11:23 AM
This article is absolutely ridiculous. Buying insurance across state lines doesn't guarantee the best insurance practices, it guarantees the worst. The cheapest, WORST insurance is what people will be buying. This is corporate policy dressed in populist rhetoric...very clever "libertarians". What a joke.ReplyDelete
Why is that? Why will this policy result in worse insurance?ReplyDelete
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Woman stabbed during jog on beach in Fairhaven
No arrests made in Fort Phoenix Beach attack
FAIRHAVEN, Mass. —
A 26-year-old woman is recovering from stab wounds after being attacked by a man while she was out for a jog on Monday.
Emily Baumgart told the New Bedford Standard Times that she was running at Fort Phoenix Beach in Fairhaven at about 9 p.m. Monday when a man charged at her from the trees.
The man stabbed her in the abdomen with a jagged object and ripped off her iPod armband, she said.
Baumgart said the man was wearing a sweatshirt and gym shorts, the paper reported.
Police from Fairhaven, Mattapoisett and Acushnet, along with K-9 teams from the sheriff's department, searched the area after the attack, but came up empty, the paper reported.
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The Pokémon Company International has today announced the winners of its Pokémon World Championship, which took place in San Diego, California.
The 2011 Pokémon World Championships brought thousands of the world's best Pokémon players together to battle for the title of World Champion, after advancing through nearly a year of regional and national tournaments around the world.
Following an intense final round of Trading Card Game and video game battles, six seasoned individuals were crowned World Champions, proudly representing their family, supporters, and home countries. The 2011 Pokémon World Championship winners are as follows:
- 2011 Pokémon TCG Junior Division World Champion, Gustavo Wada from Brazil
- 2011 Pokémon Video Game Junior Division World Champion, Brian Hough from the USA
- 2011 Pokémon TCG Senior Division World Champion, Christopher Kan from Australia
- 2011 Pokémon Video Game Senior Division World Champion, Kamran Jahadi from the USA
- 2011 Pokémon TCG Masters Division World Champion, David Cohen from the USA
- 2011 Pokémon Video Game Masters Division World Champion, Ray Rizzo from the USA
Speaking on the Pokémon World Championship website, Pokémon TCG Senior Division World Champion Christopher Kan admitted: "I got pretty lucky. Marco [Facchin, Senior Division Runner-Up] got a lot of tails in the first game that allowed me to catch up after being down. Then in the second game, it looked like I was out of it again, but this time he ran out of Energy and eventually his deck ran out of cards."
Director of Consumer Marketing J.C Smith said: "The Pokémon World Championships is more than a tournament; it's a global event for our entire community to compete, have fun, and create lifelong friendships".


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Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887a1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an expansive global history of the movement that came to be known as Garveyism. Offering a groundbreaking new interpretation of global black politics between the First and Second World Wars, Adam Ewing charts Garveyismas emergence, its remarkable global transmission, and its influence in the responses among African descendants to white supremacy and colonial rule in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Delving into the organizing work and political approach of Garvey and his followers, Ewing shows that Garveyism emerged from a rich tradition of pan-African politics that had established, by the First World War, lines of communication among black intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic. Garveyas legacy was to reengineer this tradition as a vibrant and multifaceted mass politics. Ewing looks at the people who enabled Garveyismas global spread, including labor activists in the Caribbean and Central America, community organizers in the urban and rural United States, millennial religious revivalists in central and southern Africa, welfare associations and independent church activists in Malawi and Zambia, and an emerging generation of Kikuyu leadership in central Kenya. Moving away from the images of quixotic business schemes and repatriation efforts, The Age of Garvey demonstrates the consequences of Garveyismas international presence and provides a dynamic and unified framework for understanding the movement, during the interwar years and beyond.After the family reunited with his stepfather in West virginia, Washington worked in a salt furnace, and then a coal mine, and traveled several ... for the virginia freedmena#39;s Bureau, Armstrong considered himself an expert in the character and needs of ainferiora peoples. ... His need was the sober discipline of manual labor.
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