| AWAITING THE QUEEN MARY 2 / Ready for biggest ship ever in bay / NAVIGATION: Bar pilot has a 70-foot margin of error as ... | | Posted Sunday, February 04, 2007 2:51:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | It is one of the trickiest jobs in the maritime business -- bringing a ship as big as a skyscraper under the Golden Gate Bridge, turning it in San Francisco Bay and then docking it along the San Francisco waterfront in a space so tight that the margin for error is less than 70 feet. The ship is the Queen Mary 2, which displaces 151,000 tons and is 1,131 feet long. The ship, arriving this afternoon, is the largest vessel to sail into San Francisco Bay. Though the ship's captain, Christopher Rynd, will be on the Queen Mary 2's bridge, the officer who will bring the ship in will be Capt. Tom Miller, a San Francisco bar pilot. Despite what most people think, the captain of a ship never touches the helm -- he leaves that job to a sailor. Nor does he guide the ship into port. That job is done by the pilot.... | |
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| | | KDS CEO in the list of most influential people in business travel | | Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:00:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | Yves Weisselberger, co-founder and CEO of KDS has been named one of the 25 Most Influential Executives in business travel in 2006 by top US trade magazine Business Travel News. Alongside leaders including Sir Richard Branson, Chairman of Virgin Atlantic, Hubert Joly, CEO of Carlson Wagonlit Travel, and Doug Parker, CEO of US Airways, Mr Weisselberger has been cited as having exerted great sway over the industry's development in the past year. The top 25 decision makers were named on January 22, 2007 by the editors of Business Travel News, based on nominations received from industry professionals. According to Business Travel News, KDS' influence in travel technology "has always been formidable". It says, "Business travel in Europe is more complex than the United States, and this consequently has required its self-booking tools to be more complex.... | |
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| | | Criminal Justice Degrees are in Demand | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:53:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | (ARA) - As America wages the war on terrorism, the need for criminal justice professionals is growing quickly. From police officers to border guards to homeland security experts, there are many ways to put a criminal justice degree to work for you.If you're intrigued by a career in criminal justice, but are currently working full-time, an online degree program can put you on the fast track to a new line of work while still allowing you to keep up with your other responsibilities to family and friends.Online courses can be a terrific way to both pick up the education you need and still be able to work, parent, or juggle the many commitments that define most adult lives. There are currently over 1,500 online degrees offered by over 130 online colleges. .... | |
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| | | Double business, law degrees tops at MSU Law | | Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 12:53:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | More students at Michigan State University College of Law are opting for a joint M.B.A. and law degree program than any other specialty the law school offers, according to the East Lansing admissions office. Many of them are starting the program at MSU College of Law's Grand Rapids branch campus at Grand Valley State University. Through GVSU, law students can earn either an M.B.A. or a master's degrees in taxation. But because they are counted either as GVSU students or MSU law students, Tami Passeno, law school counselor and admissions officer for the Grand Rapids branch, could not cite exact enrollment figures. The law school also offers a master's degree in taxation with GVSU, she said. "It was a great route," said Rick Williams, one of the first half-dozen graduates from the M.B.A.... | |
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| | | UVSC accredited by business association | | Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:52:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | Utah Valley State College is one of 12 institutions of higher education to recently earn international accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the accrediting body announced last week. To earn AACSB accreditation, a business school must undergo meticulous internal review, evaluation and adjustment ? a process that can take from three to seven years, according to the AASCB. During this period, schools develop and implement a plan to help it meet the 21 AACSB standards that require highly qualified faculty, as well as a commitment to continuous improvement and keeping curricula responsive to the needs of business. Only 10 percent of the world's business schools have been accredited by the AACSB.... | |
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| | | Getting to Know - Lori Thursby | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:52:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | Born Oct. 29, 1963. She and her husband, Mark, live in Dyer. Bachelor's degrees in international business, secondary education and elementary education, all from Purdue University Calumet. Employed by School City of Hammond since 1994. Loves reading, exercising, gardening and spending time with her dog, Scout and cat, Fluff. Accomplishments: Lori Thursby teaches fifth grade at Orchard Drive Elementary School. She previously was the ESL teacher at Lafayette, Morton, Harding and Orchard Drive elementary schools. She also taught Spanish at Scott Middle School for a year. Thursby teaches all subjects. "I want the kids to leave thinking about what they've learned and understanding the process," she said. Thursby shares her own love for math and reading with the class. She incorporates hands-on activities and games whenever possible and focuses on reading and comprehension with the Four Blocks balanced literacy program: writing, guided reading, sustained silent reading and working with words.... | |
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| | | Capella University Selects Three Students to Run in the Antarctica ... | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:55:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--One received a Purple Heart after being wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq. One lost 150 pounds through a commitment to running and healthy eating. And one had to learn to walk again after breaking her neck in a car crash, and is a recent cancer survivor. They represent the three Capella University (www.capella.edu) students chosen to compete in the upcoming Antarctica Marathon. Capella, which is an accredited online university, is the presenting sponsor of the marathon, which will be held on King George Island on Feb. 26, 2007. Wesam Mahmoud is a recent graduate of Capella's MBA program and is now pursuing a PhD at Capella in educational psychology. Wesam, who works as a foreign language coordinator at Camp LeJeune in North Carolina, recently retired from the Marines.... | |
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| | | Stewart Connector's New ARJ45(TM) Connector Series Meets Proposed Category 7a Standards as Defined by IEC | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 10:53:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | GLEN ROCK, Pa., BUSINESS WIRE -- Stewart Connector, a subsidiary of Bel Fuse Inc. (NASDAQ:BELFA) (NASDAQ:BELFB), today announced the release of the ARJ45(TM) Series of high-speed Category 7a modular plugs and jacks. The new Series joins the Company's extensive portfolio of connectors engineered for higher-speed networking and computing applications, and will initially consist of a cable-mounted plug, and single-port, PCB-mounted jack. The ARJ45 Series is specifically engineered to meet the proposed Category 7a performance parameters of up to 1000 MHz, far exceeding IEC's current Category 7 standards (IEC 60603-7-7 and IEC 61076-3-110). The robust components' design is based on the proven reliability of the industry-standard RJ45 interface, and provides enhanced mechanical properties to accommodate the higher data transmission speeds.... | |
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| | | On prairie, high winds a way of life | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 6:53:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | A high-wind warning means different things to Ohioans and folks living out on the prairie. In Ohio, were told to head for a safe spot and hunker down. Folks in South Dakota simply go about their business. They even combine their corn in the high winds. I witnessed this while pheasant hunting near Brookings, S.D., the home of the South Dakota State University Jackrabbits. The wind was forecast to blow 25 to 30 mph one day, with gusts of more than 50 mph. The high winds make the pheasants reluctant to fly, but if they do, they fly like rockets with the wind. Pieces of cornstalk blew across the fields and roads. I couldnt see anything different in the behavior of the local inhabitants "Look out there," said Jim Grommersch, the man who owned the property we were hunting on. I looked and could see only grass and empty fields where soybeans and corn had been harvested.... | |
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| | | Uganda: Kenyan College Forges Makerere Degrees | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 6:59:01 PM by Blog57 Team | | A Nairobi-based college has been awarding fake Makerere University degrees, the Kenyan Parliament heard on Wednesday. The education assistant minister, Kilemi Mwiria, stunned Parliament when he confirmed that the Regional Business Management College had been offering fake Makerere degree programmes. The Kenya government's admittance of the existence of fake Makerere degrees sparked off acrimony among legislators who wanted an explanation as to why a respected university in the region was being reduced to a "paper" institution. Answering a question by Mwandawiro Mghanga (Wundanyi, Ford-People), the minister said the institute had not been authorised to operate on behalf of or in collaboration with Makerere University. "The degrees offered by the institute are not genuine since it has not been inspected by the Commission for Higher Education to ascertain its capacity in terms of its human, capital and other resources necessary to support a degree programme," he said.... | |
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