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The University was highlighted for its alumni success, as well as the number of faculty who have started, bought or run a successful business. |
The University supports new ventures through its Flyer Pitch competition, among the the largest business plan contests at the collegiate level with more than $100,000 in cash prizes and $100,000 of in-kind support awarded. It is the only global competition with sites in the U.S., China and Vietnam. The University also ... |
Undergraduates also can gain experience through Flyer Enterprises, the fourth-largest student-run business in the country with annual revenues of more than $1.2 million and nearly 200 employees. Flyer Angels allows students to run a $1 million angel investment fund and Flyer Consulting gives them the chance to work wit... |
All entrepreneurship students start and run micro-businesses during their first year in the program. The Crotty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership provides $60,000 in venture capital for the year-long business. Proceeds go to charities, with about $10,000 donated last year alone. The center also regularly connects s... |
The University, in partnership with the Dayton’s Entrepreneurs Center, also is an anchor in the redevelopment of the city of Dayton’s downtown Arcade, which will provide a space to bring students and local entrepreneurs together with a focus on creating new start-up opportunities in the region. |
“The University’s continued recognition as a leading program in entrepreneurship is a credit to the Crotty Center and its leadership, to the faculty and students of UD, and to the entrepreneurial ecosystem that is developing in the Dayton area,” said School of Business Administration Dean John Mittelstaedt. |
The Screen Actors Guild said they are "extremely disappointed" by a federal judge's decision Tuesday to strike down as unconstitutional a California law that allowed actors to censor their age on the website IMDb, also known as the Internet Movie Database. |
Assembly Bill 1687, which went into effect in 2017 after being signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, was a "direct restriction on speech," according to US District Judge Vince Chhabria. |
"The law prohibits certain speakers from publishing certain truthful information — information that, in many instances, is supplied by members of the public — because of concerns that a third party might use that information to engage in illegal conduct," he wrote in his decision. |
Judge Chhabria characterized the problem the law was seeking to address as a gender issue, and not an age one, noting the defendants' main arguments for AB 1687 was how young women are often cast opposite older males. |
"[This is] a manifestation of the industry's insistence on objectifying women, overvaluing their looks while devaluing everything else," the judge wrote. "If the government is going to attempt to restrict speech, it should at least develop a clearer understanding of the problem it's trying to solve." |
The judge also found the law to be both simultaneously under-inclusive and over-inclusive. He said it was under-inclusive because it doesn't protect actors who don't have an IMDbPro account, which costs money, or who haven't asked IMDb.com to take their age down. The judge also found it to be over-inclusive in how it c... |
Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, chief operating officer and general counsel for the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), told BuzzFeed News in a statement they would appeal the decision to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. |
"The Court unfortunately fails to understand or recognize the massive impact gender and age discrimination has on all working performers," he said. "That discrimination is facilitated by IMDb’s insistence on publishing performers’ age information without their consent." |
The IMDb age discrimination argument was first made in 2011 when an actor sued the Amazon-owned website, which is an online database that collects all information related to films, television programs, and video games, including details on the cast and production crew. The woman alleged she was not getting work after t... |
The actor's lawsuit was unsuccessful, but with the backing of the Screen Actors Guild, state lawmakers passed a law allowing actors to censor their age on IMDb, which then sued both SAG and the state. |
"SAG-AFTRA is extremely disappointed with today’s ruling in IMDb v. Becerra and SAG-AFTRA. The Court unfortunately fails to understand or recognize the massive impact gender and age discrimination has on all working performers. That discrimination is facilitated by IMDb’s insistence on publishing performers’ age inform... |
THE SUN - Jose Mourinho is waiting in the wings to take over from Louis van Gaal at Manchester United in the summer. |
DAILY STAR - Antonio Conte is preparing for life at Chelsea after Euro 2016 and will replace interim boss Guus Hiddink with the Blues ready to splash the cash. |
DAILY EXPRESS - Newcastle have named former Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez as their manager as they look to avoid relegation. |
DAILY MIRROR - Wayne Rooney faces another month on the sidelines as he struggles to recovery from a knee injury. |
DAILY EXPRESS - Chelsea manager Hiddink has backed Eden Hazard to get back to his best for the Premier League champions before the end of the season. |
DAILY STAR - Van Gaal insists his plan is still working at Man United despite losing 2-0 to arch-rivals Liverpool in the Europa League on Thursday. |
DAILY MAIL - Bargain buy John Stones was signed by David Moyes for £3m at Everton by accident, it has emerged. |
Consumer sentiment must improve to keep this economy going. |
Despite ballooning Fed reserves to bail out banks, money supply -- as measured by the growth in money supply with a zero maturity (MZM) (notes and coins, check accounts, savings deposits, and money-market accounts collectively) -- continues to slow. |
The slowing growth is contra to what normally happens when the Fed lowers the federal funds rate. |
In real terms, the growth rate is also slowing. |
The slowing in MZM growth is a consequence of US banks' tight lending standards. The trend is likely to continue until the banks relax these standards. |
Velocity of MZM in the economy is, at long last, picking up after it started falling in the first quarter of 2007 -- six quarters before economic growth slumped. The increase in MZM velocity effectively points to increased economic activity. Further increases in this velocity are essential for sustained economic growth... |
Bottoms in consumer sentiment and MZM growth coincide, emphasizing the importance of improved consumer sentiment to get the economy going. |
Lastly, the US bond market is an excellent indicator insofar as MZM velocity is concerned. Currently, the yield on the 10-year note is pointing to further improvements in money velocity in the US. The US bond market, therefore, also suggests that consumer sentiment is likely to continue improving and that the current i... |
File image of self-help guru Tony Robbins. |
World-renowned self-help guru Tony Robbins is under fire for comments he made about the #MeToo movement at a Mar. 19 event in the SAP Center in San Jose. |
At Robbins' The Power Within event last month, he brought up #MeToo saying, "What you're seeing is someone making themselves significant by making someone else wrong." |
Nanine McCool, who paid $3,000 to be in the audience, decided to question Robbin’s stance, "I think you misunderstand the #MeToo movement," she said. |
Robbins then replied saying he doesn’t have anything against the movement but opposed what he called "victim hood." |
"I totally disagree with everything he said about #Me Too - all of it," McCool said. |
A survivor of sexual abuse as a child, McCool said she felt compelled to speak even though she was afraid, but found strength from the SAP Center crowd when they began cheering for her. |
"That was so empowering for me to know that there were women in the crowd who were with and I suddenly didn't feel alone," she said. |
She hopes the man who she paid to seek advice from might be a little wiser now about what #MeToo really means. |
"Maybe Tony Robbins will learn something from his visit to San Jose huh?" McCool said. "I hope so." |
Two rockets slammed into a US military base in northeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday as local fighters kept up their attacks on the foreign forces in the country. |
A military spokesman for the US-led International Security Assistance Force said the US troops responded to the attacks near the city of Asadabad and sent a B-52 bomber and two fighter jets scrambling in the air to pound a suspected rebel position. |
“A B-52 responded first, then two AV-8 Harriers. The B-52 dropped a joint direct attack munitions bomb and the Harriers dropped one 1,000-pound laser-guided bomb on enemy fighters observed at the suspected location,” the spokesman Colonel Rodney Davis said. |
He further said the US-led troops were assessing the scene of the battle to determine whether any of the Afghan fighters had been killed by the bombing raids. |
Davis said a group of Afghan fighters had been spotted “on the ground, in the open,” but it was not clear how large the group was. |
Meanwhile, a rocket was fired at another US base at Ghecko to the northwest of Kandahar. |
The rocket landed harmlessly and no casualties were reported. |
The latest attacks came as US Central Command chief General, John Abizaid was on a visit to Afghanistan. |
General Abizaid landed at the Bagram air base to the north of Kabul on Wednesday. He is scheduled to meet Afghanistan’s interim leader Hamid Karzai on Thursday. |
Despite having toppled the Taliban in December 2001, US-led forces in Afghanistan have come under increasing attacks in recent months. |
About 11,5000 troops, the majority of them Americans, are scouring Afghanistan’s countryside for Taliban forces and their allies. |
Financial firms say they are addressing problems that research firm found with security of mobile apps. |
A security firm disclosed holes today in mobile apps from Bank of America, USAA, Chase, Wells Fargo and TD Ameritrade, prompting a scramble by most of the companies to update the apps. |
"Since Monday (11/01/2010), we have been communicating and coordinating with the financial institutions to eliminate the flaws," research firm viaForensics wrote in a post on its site. "The findings we published reflect testing completed on 11/03/2010. Since that time, several of the institutions have released new vers... |
The company had reported its findings to The Wall Street Journal earlier in the day. Yesterday, viaForensics went public with problems in PayPal's iPhone app, spurring the online payment provider to action. |
Specifically, viaForensics concluded that: the USAA's Android app stored copies of Web pages a user visited on the phone; TD Ameritrade's iPhone and Android apps were storing the user name in plain text on the phone; Wells Fargo's Android app stored user name, password, and account data in plain text on the phone; Bank... |
Meanwhile, the iPhone apps from USAA, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Vanguard and PayPal's Android app all passed the security tests and were found to be handling data securely. |
As a result of the report, Wells Fargo released an update to its Android app yesterday, USAA updated its Android app today, TD Ameritrade's apps will be fixed in the next version, and Bank of America is addressing the issue in its apps in the next few days, according to the newspaper report. A Chase spokesman declined ... |
Spokespeople from several of the financial institutions told the newspaper that the supposed holes, in and of themselves, would not necessarily put users at risk because other safeguards are in place and that an attacker would need to know the user ID and password in many cases to access accounts. |
Update 8:50 a.m. PDT Nov. 5 Andrew Hoog, chief investigative officer at viaForensics, offered this statement in response: "Our appWatchdog service clearly highlights the secure aspects of the financial apps we tested. Unfortunately, in the security world (especially when you access your bank account or provide credit c... |
Bill C-393 is a beacon of hope in the quest to fix CAMR. This “little bill that could” has overcome hurdle after hurdle to get this far, thanks to the support and concern of thousands and thousands of Canadians. |
What might the Arab uprising mean for the world? No one knows the answer to this question. But this should not prevent one from making a guess at the range of uncertainty, Martin Wolf writes. |
The future of health care in Canada? |
Ignatieff’s plans for democratic reform would include a reduction in the size of the PMO, an overhaul of the malfunctioning Access to Information system, and a restoration of freedom of speech for the public service and the foreign service. |
Therefore, as it stands, your article lets the Commissioner get away with disclosing only partial, and therefore misleading, numbers, which is the exact problem with what she has disclosed in her annual reports and committee testimony since July 2008. |
The caseload brought before Christiane Ouimet suggests that some of the cases, if pursued, may have brought embarrassment to the government. |
Some caution about the “Facebook Revolution” is in order. Egypt faces a very uncertain future, even if it is a democratic one. |
Bandwidth caps an urban issue? |
The events in the Middle East should be seen as a generational change and must be embraced by Western leaders. Failure to do so risks turning another generation of educated moderates into enemies. |
THIS is the house filled with loving family snaps where tragic Mylee Billingham was stabbed to death just minutes after her dad pictured her eating pizza in bed. |
Mylee's dad Bill, 54, is the only suspect in the investigation into his daughter's death and moved into the property in Brownhills, West Mids, a few weeks ago after splitting up with her mum Tracey, 33. |
Billingham posted a picture of the eight-year-old eating pizza less than an hour before he is believed to have stabbed her to death in a bedroom before turning the knife on himself. |
The father-of-four is set to undergo surgery today as he fights for his life in hospital after being found with what is believed to be a self-inflicted stab wound to his stomach. |
He posted the touching image on Facebook at 8:16pm on Saturday with the caption: "Pitza on bed lv moo x [sic]". |
Tragically, her mum Tracey Taundry had "liked" the picture on Facebook along with eight other doting friends and family members. |
Within minutes little Mylee was being rushed to hospital with serious knife wounds after police were called at 9.15pm. |
Tracey is currently being comforted by family members at her home nearby. One relative said: "We are just shell shocked, we need some time to get our heads around it." |
Bill shared pictures of the home on January 5, writing: "Getting there slowly so f it for now!!" |
Alongside the post are pictures of the bungalow which has been decorated with pictures of Mylee including a sofa cushion which has the schoolgirl's face printed on it. |
Chilling screams were heard by neighbours in Brownhills, West Mids before officers arrived to find the girl covered in blood and Bill with severe stab wounds. She sadly died a short time later. |
Distraught mum Tracey was heard screaming that her little girl had been stabbed as neighbours tried to comfort her on Saturday. |
Graham Greatrex, 74, told how emergency services rushed to the street of terraced bungalows to be met by "hysterical" Ms Taundry shouting: "They stabbed my baby." |
A friend of Mr Billingham said he had recently been made redundant from a factory job. |
Bill is the brother of special forces hero and Brad Pitt's former security guard Mark Billingham. |
Mark shot to fame as one of the stars of Channel 4's SAS Who Dares Wins where he is a ruthless instructor to the hardened recruits competing to see if they are tough enough for the elite regiment. |
He deleted his Twitter and Facebook accounts following the incident and has since said in a short statement: "Please respect my family's privacy. There will be no further comment at this time." |
A neighbour had earlier said: "She was in shock and she couldn't say anything else. |
"It was a bit of a shock. You can't imagine it happening on our doorstep, especially when it's a little girl." |
Andy Nicholls, headteacher at Mylee's school St James' Primary described her as a 'lovely girl who lit up every room'. |
He said: "Mylee was dearly loved by us all. Her smile lit up the room - in fact it never left her face. |
"She was a fun loving, happy eight year old who should have had her whole life in front of her. |
"She took a full part in school life, particularly enjoying singing and performing. She was just a lovely little girl. Our hearts go out to her family. |
Neighbours told of their shock while family and friends paid tribute to the young Ed Sheeran fanatic. |
Dannie Meegan who lives a few doors away said she could “hear the screams” before the police arrived. |
SPECIAL Air Service hero Mark Billingham served in the Regiment for 27 years. |
He hunted down IRA snipers and Balkan war criminals, and was awarded the MBE for leading the 2006 Iraq mission that rescued British hostage Norman Kember. |
He quit to provide security for celebs including Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Kate Moss. |
He is now a no-nonsense instructor on Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins. |
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