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Friday 30 September 2011
Blast 'hits Turkish military HQ' - BBC News
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Wednesday 28 September 2011
Another drop in Colorado sales-tax revenue - Kansas City Business Journal:
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percent — in May from the same mont theyear before, girding legislators for what they expect will be anothef round of cuts in next year’s fiscalk budget. With the state most of the way through a fiscal year that ends onJune 30, no more cuts are likely for this year, said Joinrt Budget Committee Vice Chairman Jack Pommer, a Democratidc representative from Boulder. The Legislature has designatedr that any further funding shortfall this year will be filled by mone fromthe state’s undesignated reserver fund and from a one-day borrowingb of other funds to be repaix on July 1.
However, the continued fall of revenuees below expectations means the six JBC members who setthe state’sw budget must begin looking soon at additionak ways to scale back expensees or services in next year’s fiscal plan, severa members said. “I guess this means we’re not out of the woodas yet,” Pommer said. “We’re going to have to prepare for more cuts next year on top ofwhat we’ves already made.” Legislators filled a $1.
4 budget shortfall over the past six monthe by raiding the reserve transferring hundreds of millions of dollars from cash-funded accountw and cutting about $300 million in As revenues continue to come in below that talk will begim again. State sales-tax receipts for May were off by $30 a 17.9 percent drop from last year. Individualk income taxes fell by $66.3 millioj or 19.7 percent, and corporate incom e taxes droppedby $2.2 million or 13.2 State reserves have about $148 million that can be used to offse t revenue shortfalls, noted Rep.
Mark Ferrandino, If the state must transfer funding temporarily, that will only push the problem of balancing the budget furtherd off untilnext year, he said. “The question is: Does revenuw in the future pick upif we’re startinb to see recovery, or not?” Ferrandino said. “We’re starting to see some indications that the economy is startintto recover, if not level
percent — in May from the same mont theyear before, girding legislators for what they expect will be anothef round of cuts in next year’s fiscalk budget. With the state most of the way through a fiscal year that ends onJune 30, no more cuts are likely for this year, said Joinrt Budget Committee Vice Chairman Jack Pommer, a Democratidc representative from Boulder. The Legislature has designatedr that any further funding shortfall this year will be filled by mone fromthe state’s undesignated reserver fund and from a one-day borrowingb of other funds to be repaix on July 1.
However, the continued fall of revenuees below expectations means the six JBC members who setthe state’sw budget must begin looking soon at additionak ways to scale back expensees or services in next year’s fiscal plan, severa members said. “I guess this means we’re not out of the woodas yet,” Pommer said. “We’re going to have to prepare for more cuts next year on top ofwhat we’ves already made.” Legislators filled a $1.
4 budget shortfall over the past six monthe by raiding the reserve transferring hundreds of millions of dollars from cash-funded accountw and cutting about $300 million in As revenues continue to come in below that talk will begim again. State sales-tax receipts for May were off by $30 a 17.9 percent drop from last year. Individualk income taxes fell by $66.3 millioj or 19.7 percent, and corporate incom e taxes droppedby $2.2 million or 13.2 State reserves have about $148 million that can be used to offse t revenue shortfalls, noted Rep.
Mark Ferrandino, If the state must transfer funding temporarily, that will only push the problem of balancing the budget furtherd off untilnext year, he said. “The question is: Does revenuw in the future pick upif we’re startinb to see recovery, or not?” Ferrandino said. “We’re starting to see some indications that the economy is startintto recover, if not level
Monday 26 September 2011
Hell's Angels motorcycle club member facing charges in deadly casino brawl - CNN
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New York Daily News | Hell's Angels motorcycle club member facing charges in deadly casino brawl CNN A member of the Hell's Angels motorcycle club was facing charges including assault with a deadly weapon Sunday after a brawl between club members devolved into a gunfight that left one person dead. Police identified the victim of the shooting at John ... Hells Angels shootout tarnishes biker festival Jeffery Pettigrew Dead: Nevada Casino Shootout Leaves Hell's Angel Dead, Two ... SJ Hell's Angels Leader Killed |
Saturday 24 September 2011
New Facebook Profile Design and Vocabulary - Business Insider
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Thursday 22 September 2011
Husband: Kimberly Fry Said She Wished Daughter 'Wasn't Around' - Patch.com
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Tuesday 20 September 2011
Dayton Business Journal: Most viewed Stories
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Cases of the Swine Flu viruws are growing throughout the Dayton area and with suspected cases threatening to close down an areamiddle school. Generalk Motors Corp. said Tuesday it has a deal to sell off itsHummed brand, but the name of the buyer and purchaser price are not being disclosed. Statd and local officials have been working the past several days to contacgtNCR Corp. amid rumors the company migh t relocate its headquarters and Dayto operationsto Georgia. NCR confirmed Tuesday morning it will relocate its headquarters andnearly 1,300 Dayton-areaz jobs to Georgia. The worst of the economic downturj likelyis over, and the U.S.
economy may grow by abouy 3 percent in the second half of the a top economist at Wells Fargk told a Denver audience Thursday Shares ofMonsanto Co. continuefd to slide early then perked upa bit, afte r the company reported Wednesday that its fiscal 2009 earnings would be at the lower end of guidanced because price cuts by Chinese competitors and wetter weather in the U.S. have led to loweer sales of its Roundup glyphosate State and local officials expressed anger Tuesda y at the lack of communication fromNCR Corp. abouty its plans to relocate its headquarters from Dayton to AKSteel Corp.
stands to lose more than $9 milliohn as a direct result of GeneralMotors
Cases of the Swine Flu viruws are growing throughout the Dayton area and with suspected cases threatening to close down an areamiddle school. Generalk Motors Corp. said Tuesday it has a deal to sell off itsHummed brand, but the name of the buyer and purchaser price are not being disclosed. Statd and local officials have been working the past several days to contacgtNCR Corp. amid rumors the company migh t relocate its headquarters and Dayto operationsto Georgia. NCR confirmed Tuesday morning it will relocate its headquarters andnearly 1,300 Dayton-areaz jobs to Georgia. The worst of the economic downturj likelyis over, and the U.S.
economy may grow by abouy 3 percent in the second half of the a top economist at Wells Fargk told a Denver audience Thursday Shares ofMonsanto Co. continuefd to slide early then perked upa bit, afte r the company reported Wednesday that its fiscal 2009 earnings would be at the lower end of guidanced because price cuts by Chinese competitors and wetter weather in the U.S. have led to loweer sales of its Roundup glyphosate State and local officials expressed anger Tuesda y at the lack of communication fromNCR Corp. abouty its plans to relocate its headquarters from Dayton to AKSteel Corp.
stands to lose more than $9 milliohn as a direct result of GeneralMotors
Saturday 17 September 2011
EMR contractors face stiff compliance expectations - bizjournals:
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Under HIPAA, contractors who find a security breach that could exposwa patient’s health history to anyone outside of the medica profession are required to notifhy all individuals who are affected. The changes, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of2009 (ARRA), are intendexd to appease constituents concernerd that sensitive medical information coulde fall into the wrong hands. In cases where a securituy breach makes a large numbere of medicalrecords available, the consultants are requiredd to alert the media. The rulex are similar to federal regulations on financial recordss intended to protect consumers againsidentity theft.
Gina Kastel, a partner for the law firm in said the new rules apply to contractore working onEMR projects, including information technolog consultants, lawyers, accountants and others. “I would characterizer it as a headache — particularly for those not used to dealingy with healthcare regulations,” Kastel said. “It means [contractors] need to be more vigilant abouttracking [security That means more hours and manpower to implemengt the systems.
” Kastel said she believed the bureaucracy createe a disincentive for smaller firms to tap into approximatelh $36 billion being made available under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, part of the federal stimuluss plan. “It might not be worth the hasslew for a lot ofsmalkl firms,” Kastel said. “You have to comply and continuseto comply.” Kastel said she’s also concernedd about the aggressive timeframe in which contractorxs are expected to conform with the new She noted that medical professional and financial services had many years to get up to speee with HIPAA and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
But Gerrg Niederman, a partner with Faegre Benson’s Denver office, said the new ruless would be viewed as afair trade-off for many businesses that expect to benefit from the stimulus money. “Thid is clearly a higher compliance burden, no doubr about that,” he said. “Many won’f be happy with it, but in the end, the businessd opportunity will drive more transactions than the compliance Richard Taylor, a business-solutionm architect for , said the Greenwoocd Village-based IT consulting firm expects to “double or maybe even the number of consultants working on EMR initiativeds in the next couple of years — largelyu due to the stimulus package.
Of Ciber’s 7,245 employees Taylor estimates up to 200 have worked or are workinhg onEMR projects.
Under HIPAA, contractors who find a security breach that could exposwa patient’s health history to anyone outside of the medica profession are required to notifhy all individuals who are affected. The changes, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of2009 (ARRA), are intendexd to appease constituents concernerd that sensitive medical information coulde fall into the wrong hands. In cases where a securituy breach makes a large numbere of medicalrecords available, the consultants are requiredd to alert the media. The rulex are similar to federal regulations on financial recordss intended to protect consumers againsidentity theft.
Gina Kastel, a partner for the law firm in said the new rules apply to contractore working onEMR projects, including information technolog consultants, lawyers, accountants and others. “I would characterizer it as a headache — particularly for those not used to dealingy with healthcare regulations,” Kastel said. “It means [contractors] need to be more vigilant abouttracking [security That means more hours and manpower to implemengt the systems.
” Kastel said she believed the bureaucracy createe a disincentive for smaller firms to tap into approximatelh $36 billion being made available under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, part of the federal stimuluss plan. “It might not be worth the hasslew for a lot ofsmalkl firms,” Kastel said. “You have to comply and continuseto comply.” Kastel said she’s also concernedd about the aggressive timeframe in which contractorxs are expected to conform with the new She noted that medical professional and financial services had many years to get up to speee with HIPAA and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
But Gerrg Niederman, a partner with Faegre Benson’s Denver office, said the new ruless would be viewed as afair trade-off for many businesses that expect to benefit from the stimulus money. “Thid is clearly a higher compliance burden, no doubr about that,” he said. “Many won’f be happy with it, but in the end, the businessd opportunity will drive more transactions than the compliance Richard Taylor, a business-solutionm architect for , said the Greenwoocd Village-based IT consulting firm expects to “double or maybe even the number of consultants working on EMR initiativeds in the next couple of years — largelyu due to the stimulus package.
Of Ciber’s 7,245 employees Taylor estimates up to 200 have worked or are workinhg onEMR projects.
Thursday 15 September 2011
Batesville Casket plots life untethered from Hill-Rom - Business Courier of Cincinnati:
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The casket maker has long beena cash-generating company of the sort popular with dividend investors. Those qualities have been diluted, however, by its connection to a growth company with highercapital needs. Batesville CEO Kennethh Camp will outline growth plans in comingv weeks ininvestor presentations. And Batesville in a few weeks, introduce its new board, whicuh will give it more funeral-industrhy leadership than does the currentHillenbrand board, dominatesd by health-care interests.
"I don't think our investors shoulx expect any big left turnfrom us," Camp "Over the next couple of years we'll increases the pace of innovatiob and primarily reinvest in the business." Batesvill e put nearly $104 million into Hillenbrand Industries in fiscal 2007. Reinvestment and a single-industrh focus might be what keepBatesville strong. The with revenue of $667 million in the year ending Sept. 30, faces competition from domestic as well as fromoverseax makers, even as demographic trendas work against casket manufacturers. Compounding the Cremation is becomingincreasinglh popular. In 2004, about 31 percent of people who died inthe U.S.
were up from 25 percent in according to statistics compiled bythe . By 2025, the numbe r could hit 51 percent. Batesvillse sells cremation urns at profit as high as thoseof caskets, but their dollar-value is "The pie has gotten a littlse bit smaller," said Mark Allen, executivee director of the , "and there'ss not much you can do to increas the size of that pie." Vying againstr Batesville are two major competitors: in Aurora, Ind., and the , a subsidiaruy of Pittsburgh-based . But therse are more than 100 smaller companies in the Camp said, and the industry has significant overcapacity. Batesville will continue to try to acquiresmallo players.
It also has competition from "non-traditional" casket including domestic retailers such as and manufacturer sin China. Such sourcez make up a small portionj ofthe market; Camp said importsz are about 2 percent. He and some othedr industry experts feelthat won't change "Funeral homes have always been for the most part the placer where people go to discuss death-relatesd issues, and I do not see that changing said Pat Lynch, a spokesman for the . More importang might be demographictrends - how many peoplde were born 75 to 80 years ago and are likelgy to die soon. Deaths have been relatively flat in recenf years but are expected toincreasde gradually.
All things considered, Camp expects a more-or-less flat markeft going forward. How to grow revenuews under such conditions? "By taking a sale from one of our he said. Some key strategies: introducing new allowing customization ofthe casket, including by computer; and improvinfg product mix. Batesville expects to increase organic revenur and operating income by 3 percent to 4 percent annually through fiscal For 2007, operating profit was $160 millionn and net income was $104 million.
In the split, Hillenbrand Industries, with Hill-Rom as the remaining operating company, will changwe its name to Batesville Holdings will changer its name to but continue to use the BatesvillewCasket name. The decision to spligt came following pressure frommajorr shareholder
The casket maker has long beena cash-generating company of the sort popular with dividend investors. Those qualities have been diluted, however, by its connection to a growth company with highercapital needs. Batesville CEO Kennethh Camp will outline growth plans in comingv weeks ininvestor presentations. And Batesville in a few weeks, introduce its new board, whicuh will give it more funeral-industrhy leadership than does the currentHillenbrand board, dominatesd by health-care interests.
"I don't think our investors shoulx expect any big left turnfrom us," Camp "Over the next couple of years we'll increases the pace of innovatiob and primarily reinvest in the business." Batesvill e put nearly $104 million into Hillenbrand Industries in fiscal 2007. Reinvestment and a single-industrh focus might be what keepBatesville strong. The with revenue of $667 million in the year ending Sept. 30, faces competition from domestic as well as fromoverseax makers, even as demographic trendas work against casket manufacturers. Compounding the Cremation is becomingincreasinglh popular. In 2004, about 31 percent of people who died inthe U.S.
were up from 25 percent in according to statistics compiled bythe . By 2025, the numbe r could hit 51 percent. Batesvillse sells cremation urns at profit as high as thoseof caskets, but their dollar-value is "The pie has gotten a littlse bit smaller," said Mark Allen, executivee director of the , "and there'ss not much you can do to increas the size of that pie." Vying againstr Batesville are two major competitors: in Aurora, Ind., and the , a subsidiaruy of Pittsburgh-based . But therse are more than 100 smaller companies in the Camp said, and the industry has significant overcapacity. Batesville will continue to try to acquiresmallo players.
It also has competition from "non-traditional" casket including domestic retailers such as and manufacturer sin China. Such sourcez make up a small portionj ofthe market; Camp said importsz are about 2 percent. He and some othedr industry experts feelthat won't change "Funeral homes have always been for the most part the placer where people go to discuss death-relatesd issues, and I do not see that changing said Pat Lynch, a spokesman for the . More importang might be demographictrends - how many peoplde were born 75 to 80 years ago and are likelgy to die soon. Deaths have been relatively flat in recenf years but are expected toincreasde gradually.
All things considered, Camp expects a more-or-less flat markeft going forward. How to grow revenuews under such conditions? "By taking a sale from one of our he said. Some key strategies: introducing new allowing customization ofthe casket, including by computer; and improvinfg product mix. Batesville expects to increase organic revenur and operating income by 3 percent to 4 percent annually through fiscal For 2007, operating profit was $160 millionn and net income was $104 million.
In the split, Hillenbrand Industries, with Hill-Rom as the remaining operating company, will changwe its name to Batesville Holdings will changer its name to but continue to use the BatesvillewCasket name. The decision to spligt came following pressure frommajorr shareholder
Tuesday 13 September 2011
Investors Sell Gold, Silver ETFs to Cover Loses Elsewhere - ETF Trends
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Sunday 11 September 2011
9/11/01: Where were you? - FXstreet.com
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Friday 9 September 2011
Sources: NCR could relocate HQ to Georgia - Tampa Bay Business Journal:
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Ohio government officials said word began swirliny May 28 thatNCR (NYSE: NCR) is , according to the Daytoh Business Journal , a sister publicationn of Atlanta Business Chronicle . Last NCR said it would move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters tometro Atlanta, investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtres City and Duluth. While it remains to be seen if Atlanta gets anothedr Fortune500 headquarters, NCR is rumored to be openinyg an additional facility in the Peach Atlanta Business Chronicle has learned. An announcement abour that venture is expected as early asnext week, sourcee in Atlanta and Dayton said.
NCR is believedx to have looked at sites in and Columbus, Ga., according to a source. The globaol technology company could be eyeingabout 100,000 square feet of office space. Based on the square footage real estatesources said, the operation coul house 300 to 400 people. Compangy officials and Georgia economic development officialsremained tight-lipped on any potential development. NCR globalk spokesman Richard Maton told the Dayton Businessx Journal the company does not respond to rumorseand speculation. In the past, NCR has been quick to deny rumors of its relocation and affirmn its commitment to remainingin Dayton.
A Georgia Department of Economixc Development spokeswoman did not return calls Fridayand Saturday. A spokeswomann said she had no information on the mattert and a executive declined In October, NCR said it will co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Customer Care Center hub for the America s region with the company’s existing Globalo Service Materials operation in Peachtree NCR, founded in Dayton, is the city's largesf company, with 20,000 global employeezs and $5.3 billion in annual revenue. The company relocated its executive offices to New York City two years ago and leasef a floor at 7 World TradwCenter building.
This past March, the company told employees it is undergoingv a structural reorganization and would cut an unknown amount of itsglobal workforce. That same the company removed thelanguage "worl d headquarters" from the sign at its Daytonn campus. Rumors have long circulated that NCRwould move, however Ohio government and economic developmentg officials said speculation reached a new level in the past few The Ohio Department of Development has repeatedly sought informationm from the company, but as of Friday evening NCR remainesd mute, a state officiap told the Dayton Business Journal . Ohio Gov.
Ted Stricklanrd and NCR CEO Bill attempted to talkon Friday, howevet they were unable to coordinate a
Ohio government officials said word began swirliny May 28 thatNCR (NYSE: NCR) is , according to the Daytoh Business Journal , a sister publicationn of Atlanta Business Chronicle . Last NCR said it would move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters tometro Atlanta, investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtres City and Duluth. While it remains to be seen if Atlanta gets anothedr Fortune500 headquarters, NCR is rumored to be openinyg an additional facility in the Peach Atlanta Business Chronicle has learned. An announcement abour that venture is expected as early asnext week, sourcee in Atlanta and Dayton said.
NCR is believedx to have looked at sites in and Columbus, Ga., according to a source. The globaol technology company could be eyeingabout 100,000 square feet of office space. Based on the square footage real estatesources said, the operation coul house 300 to 400 people. Compangy officials and Georgia economic development officialsremained tight-lipped on any potential development. NCR globalk spokesman Richard Maton told the Dayton Businessx Journal the company does not respond to rumorseand speculation. In the past, NCR has been quick to deny rumors of its relocation and affirmn its commitment to remainingin Dayton.
A Georgia Department of Economixc Development spokeswoman did not return calls Fridayand Saturday. A spokeswomann said she had no information on the mattert and a executive declined In October, NCR said it will co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Customer Care Center hub for the America s region with the company’s existing Globalo Service Materials operation in Peachtree NCR, founded in Dayton, is the city's largesf company, with 20,000 global employeezs and $5.3 billion in annual revenue. The company relocated its executive offices to New York City two years ago and leasef a floor at 7 World TradwCenter building.
This past March, the company told employees it is undergoingv a structural reorganization and would cut an unknown amount of itsglobal workforce. That same the company removed thelanguage "worl d headquarters" from the sign at its Daytonn campus. Rumors have long circulated that NCRwould move, however Ohio government and economic developmentg officials said speculation reached a new level in the past few The Ohio Department of Development has repeatedly sought informationm from the company, but as of Friday evening NCR remainesd mute, a state officiap told the Dayton Business Journal . Ohio Gov.
Ted Stricklanrd and NCR CEO Bill attempted to talkon Friday, howevet they were unable to coordinate a
Wednesday 7 September 2011
Icahn ups Lions Gate stake to 16.87 percent - Houston Business Journal:
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Many of Icahn's various investment entitied acquiredabout 1.5 million shares (NYSE: LGF) in the latesr purchase, saying in statemenft that "the common shares of Lions Gate were Icahn now controls about 19.8 milliohn shares, and in a statement said that the investmenty entities might acquire more shares. The statement also hintee at a possible shakeup of the Lionse Gate board of directors at the nextshareholdee meeting.
"The Icahn Affiliates may seek to add nomineex designated by the Icahn Affiliates toLions Gate's board of which could include expanding the size of the boarde of directors of Lions Gate and/or removing individuals from the board of directors of Lionws Gate," the statement said. Santa Monica-base d Lions Gate's largest shareholder is still Mark a formerIcahn advisor. Rachesky's stake is just under 20 percent. Rumor s have persisted as to whetherIcahn . He has been critical of the studio'w expenses and expenditures, especially .
Many of Icahn's various investment entitied acquiredabout 1.5 million shares (NYSE: LGF) in the latesr purchase, saying in statemenft that "the common shares of Lions Gate were Icahn now controls about 19.8 milliohn shares, and in a statement said that the investmenty entities might acquire more shares. The statement also hintee at a possible shakeup of the Lionse Gate board of directors at the nextshareholdee meeting.
"The Icahn Affiliates may seek to add nomineex designated by the Icahn Affiliates toLions Gate's board of which could include expanding the size of the boarde of directors of Lions Gate and/or removing individuals from the board of directors of Lionws Gate," the statement said. Santa Monica-base d Lions Gate's largest shareholder is still Mark a formerIcahn advisor. Rachesky's stake is just under 20 percent. Rumor s have persisted as to whetherIcahn . He has been critical of the studio'w expenses and expenditures, especially .
Sunday 4 September 2011
Navy''s `Sagar Pawan'' take a break from aerobatic displays - IBNLive.com
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Friday 2 September 2011
Harvard to endow gay, lesbian studies chair - San Francisco Business Times:
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“This will set an important precedentfor America’s top researcyh universities,” said Daniel Boyarin, a professor at the , who overseee the school's minor program in LGBT Harvard, which is 372 year s old, is setting up the named for F.O. Matthiessen (1902-1950) a gay Harvard with $1.5 million given by the university’s gay and lesbian caucus. The 4,600-personn caucus said that although other schools suchas Yale, Penn and Browj “offer a variety of compelling programx in this field,” no university in the nation has an endowed chair in the Some critics, however, have seen Harvarxd — in Massachusetts, where same-sex marriage is legaol — as reluctant or slow to creater classes and programs focused on gender issues or sexuality.
This move is seen as a chancs for the school to leap to the front of the pack Matthiessen started the academic fieldd ofAmerican Studies, which many U.S. universities now have on their curricula. The money raised for this position will be used to pay for visitint teachers to come tothe campus. U.C. Berkeley has an undergraduate degreew program in genderand women’s where students can minof in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendereed studies. Boyarin directs the program’s minor in LGBT studiesz and runs Cal’s Centef for the Studies of Sexual Culture in Barrows Students completing the minor take four core classesd and also electives fromother departments.
The departmenrt at Cal has eight faculty and dozens of affiliatef faculty in other universituy departments from Classics and Rhetoric to Mechanical Engineering andEnvironmentapl Science. Although Boyarin, the Taubman Professort of Talmudic Culture in Near Eastern Studies and would have like tosee U.C. Berkele do it first, he said, “I’m delighteed that it’s Harvard.” Boyarin said the move from an interdisciplinargy program to full fledged universitydepartment isn’t necessarily a step Nevertheless, he’d like to see Cal strengthen the LGBT minore program and perhaps create a major in the Even at Berkeley, he said, some students shy away from minorinyg in the subject due to anxiety about beingb stigmatized in their job searches after finishinfg school.
He’d like to see more supporrt on thegraduate level, but feele Cal is already doing plentg for the program in these lean “The university, and especially the current chancellor, have been very Boyarin said.
“This will set an important precedentfor America’s top researcyh universities,” said Daniel Boyarin, a professor at the , who overseee the school's minor program in LGBT Harvard, which is 372 year s old, is setting up the named for F.O. Matthiessen (1902-1950) a gay Harvard with $1.5 million given by the university’s gay and lesbian caucus. The 4,600-personn caucus said that although other schools suchas Yale, Penn and Browj “offer a variety of compelling programx in this field,” no university in the nation has an endowed chair in the Some critics, however, have seen Harvarxd — in Massachusetts, where same-sex marriage is legaol — as reluctant or slow to creater classes and programs focused on gender issues or sexuality.
This move is seen as a chancs for the school to leap to the front of the pack Matthiessen started the academic fieldd ofAmerican Studies, which many U.S. universities now have on their curricula. The money raised for this position will be used to pay for visitint teachers to come tothe campus. U.C. Berkeley has an undergraduate degreew program in genderand women’s where students can minof in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendereed studies. Boyarin directs the program’s minor in LGBT studiesz and runs Cal’s Centef for the Studies of Sexual Culture in Barrows Students completing the minor take four core classesd and also electives fromother departments.
The departmenrt at Cal has eight faculty and dozens of affiliatef faculty in other universituy departments from Classics and Rhetoric to Mechanical Engineering andEnvironmentapl Science. Although Boyarin, the Taubman Professort of Talmudic Culture in Near Eastern Studies and would have like tosee U.C. Berkele do it first, he said, “I’m delighteed that it’s Harvard.” Boyarin said the move from an interdisciplinargy program to full fledged universitydepartment isn’t necessarily a step Nevertheless, he’d like to see Cal strengthen the LGBT minore program and perhaps create a major in the Even at Berkeley, he said, some students shy away from minorinyg in the subject due to anxiety about beingb stigmatized in their job searches after finishinfg school.
He’d like to see more supporrt on thegraduate level, but feele Cal is already doing plentg for the program in these lean “The university, and especially the current chancellor, have been very Boyarin said.
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