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Harper is guest on radio show to discuss 1968 explosion following Indianapolis tragedy
Jean Harper, associate professor of English, was a guest on the ?Afternoon Show? on WIBC 93.1 FM in Indianapolis. Harper talked about the 1968 Richmond explosion in relation to the gas explosion on the Southeast side of Indianapolis.

Additionally, Harper was recently awarded The Florida Review Editors Award for her essay, ?Colic.? The essay is a chapter from her book manuscript, Horses and Divorces. Harper?s essay will be published in the Winter 2012 issue of The Florida Review, making this the third chapter from the book to have been accepted for publication in 2012. The Florida Review is a literary journal published twice yearly by the University of Central Florida.

Harper has received support for the book including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Indiana Arts Commission grant, and an Indiana University East Faculty Fellowship.

Business associate professor presents on how to help leaders retool for the future
Fredricka Joyner, associate professor of business administration and organization behavior, presented at the International Leadership Association Conference held in Denver October 24-27. Her presentation was ?Bridging Past Perspectives into a New Future as 21st Century Leaders.? The conference is an international conference attended by individuals from 35 countries.

Earlier in October, Joyner also presented at the Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning held October 11 in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. She presented ?Models and metaphors: Developing critical thinking in asynchronous threaded discussions.?

Joyner also recently had an article, ?Storymining: Eliciting stories and mining their content for cultural levers,? published in Human Resource Development International.

Scales receives Distinguished Alumni Award
Tim Scales, lecturer in business administration, received a Distinguished Alumni Entrepreneur Award from his alma matter, Anderson University Falls School of Business.

The award was presented by the M.B.A. alumni chapter. The award recognizes alumni for outstanding professional achievement, continued dedication, and being an exemplary role model.

External Affairs administrators present on IU East?s successful campus campaigns at CASE Indiana
Rob Zinkan, vice chancellor for External Affairs, and John Oak Dalton, director of Communications and Marketing, presented at the CASE Indiana Fall Conference at Franklin College November 2.

The presentation, ?We Are Family: Maximizing Your Faculty/Staff Campaign,? outlined strategies for significantly increasing participation for an institution?s annual faculty/staff fundraising campaign.? The presentation shared the story of the tremendous support that faculty and staff provide each year to the Campus Campaign, with an 85 percent participation rate in giving each year.

IU East?s Campus Campaign has been recognized twice by CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) with Pride of CASE V awards. The successful annual campaign has not only generated important funds, but it has also created a buzz, built internal pride, and set the tone for external fundraising efforts.

On November 7, Zinkan presented ?Lifetime Relationships and Engagement in Higher Education? with Fran Zablocki, mStoner strategist.? The webinar was provided by mStoner, a national higher education marketing firm.

The presentation discussed the one-to-one, lifelong relationship between the university and an individual, not a many-to-one relationship between different departments of a university and a prospect, student, alumnus or donor.

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Registrar presents on FERPA at IACRAO conference
Dennis Hicks, registrar, recently attended the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Indiana Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (IACRAO) in Bloomington October 22-23.

During the conference, Hicks presented ?FERPA Unplugged: An overview and update on the FERPA regulations, followed by a Q&A on all-things FERPA.?? Hicks was a contributing editor to the AACRAO 2010 FERPA Guide.

Source: http://www.iue.edu/mediarelations/?p=3735

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Real Estate in ?Brokelyn?. | D I E H I P S T E R . C O M

This is too funny. You may or?may have not heard of or stumbled upon the website www.brokelyn.com. It?s supposed to be a site dedicated to finding good deals in Brooklyn. Before I list some of their ?good deals? on real estate, read their About Page Statement:

And so we present Brokelyn.com, a web mag founded in May 2009 in celebration of a place we?re endlessly enthusiastic about, no matter how [synonym for crummy] the [synonym for economy] gets.

We?re not going to dwell on that part around here?we?ll be too busy finding new ideas for bargain obsessives, stoop-sale sartorialists and wallet-aware foodies.?If you have ideas, tips, lavish praise, or fully conceived and photographed articles about budget-friendly Brooklyn, by all means, please send them our way.

***Bonus material***: On that same About page they list everyone associated with running that ?Brooklyn??site; from the founder, to some freelance belly dancing?video editing contributing correspondent?- none of which are from Brooklyn. The closest person to being from Brooklyn was some guy who was born in Canarsie and then moved out to Long Island. Amazing isn?t? What a joke Brooklyn has become;?purely a label for transient failures pretending to be in the media or creative class ? and at such saturating levels!

So let?s check out this week?s real estate deals (only ?kewel?nabes? are featured of course)?on the wallet-conscious ?Brokelyn.com?:

Link: Brokelyn.com Real Estate Section for great deals!

Williamsburg: 2BD ? $4,995 per month

Park Slope: 2BD ? $2,750 per month

Greenpoint: 4BD ? $3,400 per month

Williamsburg: 1BD ? $3,200 per month

Crown Heights: 1BD ? $1,800 per month

Hysterical that these are on a site that helps you find great deals in Brooklyn right? Now, someone might say ?hey DH, don?t turn them on to our still normal, non-hipster, relatively more affordable neighborhoods?. I say, don?t worry: I?m very confident these suckers will never focus their attention on places that are more than 25 minutes from Manhattan; that don?t have a snooty coffee shop with heavily tattooed baristas; and where there is actual culture from around the world. Plus they must?ve seen the RED LINE posts on here that threaten them having the hipster beater lodge a tire iron in their skull.

Source: http://diehipster.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/real-estate-in-brokelyn/

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Israel strike kills 11 in Gaza, including children

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) ? An Israeli missile ripped through a two-story home in a residential area of Gaza City on Sunday, killing at least 11 civilians, including four young children and an 81-year-old woman, in the single deadliest attack of Israel's offensive against Islamic militants.

The bloodshed was likely to raise pressure on Israel to end the fighting, even as it pledged to intensify the offensive by striking the homes of wanted militants. High numbers of civilian casualties in an offensive four years ago led to fierce criticism and condemnation of Israel.

In all, 73 Palestinians, including 37 civilians, have been killed in the five-day onslaught. Three Israeli civilians have also died from Palestinian rocket fire.

President Barack Obama said he was in touch with players across the region in hopes of halting the fighting, while also warning of the risks of Israel expanding its air assault into a ground war.

"We're going to have to see what kind of progress we can make in the next 24, 36, 48 hours," Obama said during a visit in Thailand.

On the ground, there were no signs of any letup in the fighting as Israel announced it was widening the offensive to target the military commanders of the ruling Hamas group.

The Israeli military carried out dozens of airstrikes throughout the day, and naval forces bombarded targets along Gaza's Mediterranean coast. Many of the attacks focused on homes where militant leaders or weapons were believed to be hidden.

Palestinian militants continued to barrage Israel with rockets, firing more than 100 on Sunday, and setting off air raid sirens across the southern part of the country. Some 40 rockets were intercepted by Israel's U.S.-financed "Iron Dome" rocket-defense system, including two that targeted the metropolis of Tel Aviv.

Israel's decision to step up its attacks in Gaza marked a new and risky phase of the operation, given the likelihood of civilian casualties in the densely populated territory of 1.6 million Palestinians. Israel launched the offensive Wednesday in what it said was an effort to end months of intensifying rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

In the day's deadliest violence, the Israeli navy fired at a home where it said a top wanted militant was hiding. The missile struck the home of the Daloo family in Gaza City, reducing the structure to rubble.

Frantic rescuers, bolstered by bulldozers, pulled the limp bodies of children from the ruins of the house, including a toddler and a 5-year-old, as survivors and bystanders screamed in grief. Later, the bodies of the children were laid out in the morgue of Gaza City's Shifa Hospital.

Among the 11 dead were four small children and five women, including an 81-year-old, Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra said.

More than a dozen homes of Hamas commanders or families linked to Hamas were struck on Sunday. Though most were empty ? their inhabitants having fled to shelter ? at least three had families in them. Al-Kidra said 20 of 27 people killed Sunday were civilians, mostly women and children.

Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, said that "the Israeli people will pay the price" for the killing of civilians.

Israel sought to place the blame on militants, saying they were intentionally operating in places inhabited by civilians. The military has released videos and images of what it says are militants firing rockets from mosques, schools and public buildings.

"Hamas is using the Gaza population as human shields," said Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the chief Israeli spokesman. "They are exploiting crowded residential urban areas."

He acknowledged, however, that it was not clear whether the militant targeted in Sunday's attack was killed, despite earlier claims of success. "I still don't know what became of him," Mordechai told Channel 10 TV.

The prospect of mounting civilian casualties could quickly change the momentum of Israel's operation. Israel launched the offensive on Wednesday with a lightning airstrike that killed Hamas' military chief. Since then, it has carried out a blistering campaign of more than 1,200 airstrikes, targeting suspected rocket storage and launching sites.

Israel also struck two high-rise buildings housing media outlets, damaging the top-floor offices of the Hamas TV station, Al Aqsa, and a Lebanese-based broadcaster, Al Quds TV, seen as sympathetic to the Islamists. Six Palestinian journalists were wounded, including one who lost a leg, the Gaza press association said.

Foreign broadcasters, including British, German and Italian TV outlets, also had offices in the buildings.

Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, an Israeli military spokeswoman, said the strikes targeted Hamas communications equipment on the rooftops. She accused the group of using journalists for cover.

Israeli officials expressed readiness to take the offensive even further with a ground invasion of Gaza. Israel has mobilized thousands of forces and columns of armored vehicles along the border ahead of a possible incursion.

"The Israeli military is prepared to significantly expand the operation," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting.

The threats come at an important crossroads ? with a fateful choice between further escalation or agreeing to a cease-fire with Hamas. Israel and the West consider Hamas, which seized control of Gaza in 2007, to be a terrorist group.

A ground operation would carry grave risks, given the likelihood of heavy casualties on both sides. The Israeli offensive into Gaza four years ago left hundreds of civilians dead, drawing fierce international condemnation and war crimes accusations.

Israel says its intelligence and technology have been perfected since then to minimize civilian casualties. But Gaza's crowded urban landscape makes it all but impossible to avoid them altogether, as Sunday's attack in Gaza City illustrated.

"In this case, you can't avoid collateral damage if they position the rockets in densely populated areas, in mosques, school yards," said Israeli Vice Premier Moshe Yaalon. "We shouldn't be blamed for the outcome."

Avihai Mandelblit, a recently retired chief advocate general in the Israeli military, said that from a legal perspective, "there's no immunity to anyone if you put weapons inside of civilian infrastructure."

But he acknowledged the sight of dead civilians could create a public relations debacle for Israel. "As more civilians will get hurt, the legitimacy clock is going to click faster to end this operation," he said.

Meanwhile, Obama and British Foreign Secretary William Hague cautioned against a potential Israeli ground invasion of Gaza.

Obama blamed Palestinian militants for starting the round of fighting by raining rockets onto Israel and said the U.S. supported Israel's right to protect itself. "Israel has every right to expect that it does not have missiles fired into its territory," Obama said. "We are fully supportive of Israel's right to defend itself."

Hague also said Hamas "bears principal responsibility" for initiating the violence, but made clear the diplomatic risks of an Israeli escalation. "A ground invasion is much more difficult for the international community to sympathize with or support," he said.

Obama said he had been in touch with Netanyahu as well as the leaders of Egypt and Turkey as international attempts to broker a cease-fire continued. Egypt, which often serves as a mediator between Israel and Hamas, has taken a leading role in the efforts.

Israeli TV stations said an Israeli envoy traveled to Cairo on Sunday, and was returning to Israel with details of cease-fire proposals. Channel 2 TV, citing American diplomats, said Netanyahu's personal envoy, Yitzhak Molcho, would be headed to Washington in the coming days.

Hamas officials said their supreme leader, Khaled Meshaal, also held talks with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, and that Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was to visit Gaza on Tuesday.

Izzat Rishaq, a senior Hamas official, said Egypt, Qatar and Turkey were continuing efforts to reach a cease-fire, but no "final results" had been reached.

Israel and Gaza's militant Hamas rulers remain far apart on any terms for a halt to the bloodshed.

Hamas is linking a truce deal to a complete lifting of the border blockade on Gaza imposed since Islamists seized the territory by force. Hamas also seeks Israeli guarantees to halt targeted killings of its leaders and military commanders. Israeli officials reject such demands.

They say they are not interested in a "time-out," and want firm guarantees that militant rocket fire into Israel will end. Past cease-fires have been short lived.

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Federman reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press Writer Lauren E. Bohn in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israel-strike-kills-11-gaza-including-children-224355895.html

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Amazon Lightning Deals on Electronics for 11/17 - Sisters Shopping ...

You can see a complete list of the Amazon Lightning Deals on Electronics HERE. Most likely the deals will qualify for Free Super Saver Shipping with a purchase of $25+ but we won?t know for sure until the deal goes live. Here?s the info so you can be ready and waiting when they go live:

Amazon lightning deals are deeply discounted and only available for a limited time or until the deal sells out, whichever comes first. If a deal is nearly sold out, sometimes you can join the waiting list in case other shoppers have the item in their cart and delete it or don?t complete the transaction in time.

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NOTE: Amazon?s links directly to the items seem to be acting up today. To ensure you don?t miss out on deals, click on any link above and it will take you to the daily deal page. There is a drop box where you can view products by category. Click on the drop box and select ?Electronics? and you can catch today?s deals. Sorry for the glitch! Gotta love computers!

Source: http://www.sistersshoppingonashoestring.com/amazon-lightning-deals-on-electronics-for-1117

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Bloomberg's Education Policy: More Nonsense - NYC Rubber Room ...

KEN GOLDFIELD/(KEN GOLDFIELD FOR NY DAILY NEWS

The Young Leaders Elementary School in the South Bronx.

Love Andujar was leading the small group of parents and children picketing outside the entrance to the Young Leaders Elementary School in the South Bronx.

Next to Andujar was her autistic 7-year-old son Aaron. The boy held high a placard scribbled with a big letter ?D? and the word ?determination.?

This was Thursday afternoon, around the same time that?Mayor Bloomberg?was over on Staten Island giving President Obama a glimpse of the devastation Hurricane Sandy left behind.

Luckily, hurricane damage to the South Bronx was slight. But Andujar and the other parents are confronting another kind of threat.

The same kind that thousands of school parents all over this city have faced during the Bloomberg era.

They are facing the mayor?s relentless rush to shutter neighborhood schools that his educrats deem to be failing.

The Young Leaders Elementary School (PS 369) is on the city?s most recent list of 36 public schools slated for possible closing because of poor academic performance. It received three consecutive D?s from the Department of Education?s almost inscrutable system of measuring performance.

?This was a school Bloomberg created back in 2008 to replace another failing school,? Andujar said. ?Now they say we?re failing, even though they never gave us the resources and help to succeed.?

Back in 2008, the Department of Education closed the old PS 220 in the same building because of poor academic performance.

Officials brought in a new principal and some new teachers and changed the school's name. And before PS 220, back in the 1990s, there had been another school in the building, IS 40.

?A lot of the families are from Mexico, and the parents themselves aren?t educated enough or know the language to help their kids,? said Teresa Hamilton, who has a daughter in kindergarten.

Department of Education records show 38% of the pupils in PS 369 are English-language learners and 24% receive special education. Both figures are much higher than the average for city public schools.

?We?ve made improvements the past few years, but not enough to please the city,? Andujar said.

For vulnerable special-education students like her son, she notes, sudden changes in teachers and staff can mean a setback in their learning process.

Moreover, many of the new schools Bloomberg?s people create are often worse than the ones they replace.

A recent Daily News investigation found that of the 154 schools opened under Bloomberg, nearly 60% had passing rates on reading tests that were lower than those at older schools of similar poverty level.

To the bean-counters at Tweed, shutting down a school and reopening it under new management is just good business practice.

But to parents, teachers and students, our local schools are the anchors to our neighborhoods. They are part of the fabric of community life. The local art or gym teacher is known by and appreciated by everyone. If a school is underperforming, you add an after-school program. If there are many English-language learners, you increase language instruction.

And that is why Andujar and the parents picked up their signs and marched.

jgonzalez@nydailynews.com

Source: http://nycrubberroomreporter.blogspot.com/2012/11/bloombergs-education-policy-more.html

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?We have what it takes to transform Africa? | Your Commonwealth

The challenge of developing good leaders is one of the most important issues facing Africa, writes Femi Asu, 27, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Lagos in Nigeria. He says youth have a responsibility to meet that challenge by casting off apathy and using their energy and new opportunities to jump-start Africa?s future.

The challenge of great leadership has bedeviled many African countries for years.

But where lies the cure for this leadership malady that has eaten deep into the fabric of our continent, translating our vast potential for greatness into continuing poverty and stagnation?

I believe the youths carry the solution, as the catalysts of change and sustainable development.

?The lack of true leaders has caused great pain and poverty in every sector of life,? says Mr. Linus Okorie, president of Guardians of the Nations International, a non-profit youth?leadership development organization with a passion to transform not just Nigeria, but societies in Africa and around the world.

It is no longer news that the need for positive leadership is the biggest challenge facing African nations. The recent Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa 2012 Conference heard from Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba,?Deputy Secretary-General of the Commonwealth that the leadership and resource deficit has been the undoing of many African countries.?

It?s high time we the youths realized that we have a special responsibility towards reshaping the future of this continent. We are the single most important determinant of the future of Africa.?

We must rise to rescue our nations from the grip of those who have been gang-raping our collective patrimony for years. We must stop running with their often-repeated slogan that we are the leaders of tomorrow. That sentiment is belied by brazen sit-tight, self-serving proclivities and cavalier attitudes to the plight of citizens, especially the youth.?

Yet we have the power to rescue Africa. Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, a former World Bank Vice President for Africa, declared at the 1000 Points of Light Summit in Lagos that youth have great opportunities. Our saddest course of action would be to sit by lamenting and complaining about obstacles, he says.

While we have to understand what we are up against, Dr. Ezekwesili describes today?s youth as ?the turning point generation?.

?You have tremendous opportunities. Don?t complain about the constraints. Access to technology is important for your generation as an opportunity. Technology has democratized know-how. Today what you know is without boundaries? The world of the internet opens you up to the lowest cost of knowledge,? Dr. Ezekwesili says.?

Yes, we have what it takes to transform Africa. It is therefore up to us to rise to the leadership challenge and not resign ourselves to the status quo. We must bring our energies, creativity, talents, skills and education to bear on this task. We can no longer afford the luxury of apathy and civic disengagement, born out of frustration. That will only deprive us of our dream Africa. We cannot afford to mortgage our future because some leaders have disappointed us. It is our responsibility not to disappoint ourselves.?

We must constantly be guided by the fact that youth is a marvelous period of life. We destroy ourselves and threaten the future if we allow socio-economic challenges like severe youth unemployment to drive us into vices such as cyber crime, prostitution, kidnapping, armed robbery and political thuggery.

The future of Africa?rests on our shoulders, and her transformation, to borrow the words of President Barack Obama in his 2012 acceptance speech, can only ?be done by us together through the hard and frustrating, but necessary work of self-government?.

We must continue to prepare ourselves for this task by constantly?improving ourselves, striving ceaselessly?to increase our knowledge and skills, broadening our horizons and maximizing our potential.?

We must be actively involved in the democratic?process if we really want to make a significant change in Africa. If each of us becomes active in our various circles of influence, together we can jump-start Africa?s greatness.?

Permit me to adapt the words of hope Obama spoke on his re-election night and apply them to the youth of Africa:

?I?ve never been more hopeful about our future. I have never been more hopeful about? Africa.

?And I ask you to sustain that hope. I?m not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path?the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight?.

Indeed blind wishfulness will take us nowhere except further on the path of mediocrity.

Instead Obama has these words that can apply to Africa.

?I have always believe that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better?awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.?

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About me:

Trained as an accountant, I live and breathe writing and journalism. I am an expert author with EzineArticles.com; an editorial consultant, inspirational speaker, youth empowerment advocate, social entrepreneur, blogger and publisher at?http://www.standoutandreign.com

?I am deeply passionate about excellence, committed to continuous self-improvement and adding value to others, helping them find their passion.?

I am a unique, never-to-be-repeated miracle of God; an evolving work-in-progress going places to manifest the glory of the Maker!

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Opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Commonwealth Youth Programme. Articles are published in a spirit of dialogue, respect and understanding. If you disagree, why not submit a response?

To learn more about becoming a Commonwealth Correspondent please visit: http://www.yourcommonwealth.org/submit-articles/commonwealthcorrespondents/

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Source: http://www.yourcommonwealth.org/2012/11/16/we-have-what-it-takes-to-transform-africa/

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Apple Grabs Over 1000 Patents From Rockstar Consortium to ...

A year ago Apple teamed up with Microsoft, RIM, and Sony to form Rockstar Consortium to bid on (and later successfully buy) over 6000 patents from Nortel. The group paid $4.5B for the patents (Apple chipped in $2.6B or almost half the cash) and now Apple has been buying the patents outright from the consortium. Why? To use as legal weapons.

What seems like an update of little note, could actually help Apple in its patent fights with Samsung, Google, and others:

Apple?s action came to light after a Korean regulator reported the transfer of 1,024 patents or patent applications from Rockstar to Apple, according to Yonhap News.
From:?Business Insider

Why?

But getting full rights to the patent likely helps Apple use the patents offensively in its ongoing lawsuits. If you do not own a patent, but merely have licensed it, you can?t go out and sue someone for using the patent. Having outright ownership of a patent allows Apple to use the patents offensively.

Since a judge just ruled that Samsung and include the iPhone 5 in its case against Apple and Apple?can include the Galaxy Note and Jellybean in its case:

Samsung Electronics Co. can add the iPhone 5 to its patent-infringement claims against Apple Inc. (AAPL), and Apple can add infringement claims against the Samsung Galaxy Note, the U.S. version of the Galaxy S III and the Jelly Bean operating system, a federal judge ruled.
From:?Bloomberg

Apple will almost certainly be tapping into this store of patents. And if not against Samsung, Motorola (since many of Nortel?s patents were communications related).

Like it or not, this is how the patent wars are fought. Buy patents from other folks that you can use against each other. I suspect, since Samsung has no intention of settling with Apple, this is going to be a long and bloody fight.

Scales of Justice by?mikecogh?from Flickr.

Source: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/11/apple-grabs-over-1000-patents-from-rockstar-consortium.html

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