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"A lot of people, especially toward the beginning, were scared," said Jared Brumfield, a 19-year-old freshman from Culpeper, Va., who was locked in the Squires Student Center. |
White said he didn't panic, thinking instead about a false alarm involving a possible gunman that locked down the campus in August. White used an indoor walkway to go to a computer lab in an adjacent building, where he checked news reports. |
The shooting came soon after the conclusion of a hearing at which Virginia Tech appealed a $55,000 fine by the U.S. Department of Education in connection with the university's response to the 2007 rampage. |
The department said the school violated the law by waiting more than two hours after two students were shot to death in their dorm before sending an email warning, and the message was too vague because it mentioned only a "shooting incident." By then, student gunman Seung-Hui Cho was chaining the doors to a classroom b... |
The school has since expanded its emergency notification systems. Alerts now go out by electronic message boards in classrooms, by text messages and other methods. Other colleges and universities have put in place similar systems. |
Andrew Goddard, who has crusaded for stiffer gun control laws since his son Colin was wounded in the 2007 shootings, said Virginia Tech's response seemed substantially better this time. |
"It sounds like things moved very, very fast this time as opposed to the time before," said Goddard, whose daughter and nephew go to the school. "That doesn't surprise me. Virginia Tech really did get the message in the sense that when bad things are happening, you have to ask quickly." |
"It just brings up a lot of bad feelings, bad memories," said O'Dell, who was at his home a couple of miles from campus at the time of the shootings. |
"At first I was just hoping it was a false alarm," he said. "Then there were reports of two people dead, and the second person shot was in the parking lot where I usually park to go to school, so it was kind of surreal." |
Includes a daily brain workout mini-game for Apple Watch (please update to watchOS 3). |
Stop the onslaught of frogs. |
Jump with your Froggy into the Galaxy and beyond by bouncing from one platform to another. |
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Guide your frog home within a certain period of time. |
Through grueling practices and long seasons, the only person more dedicated to their team than the players are the coaches. |
Although coaches might put in the same amount of work, the difference in salaries between men and women are reflected even when leading a team. |
Coaches in women’s sports make an average salary of $70,604, while coaching men’s sports pays $76,135. The salaries remained consistent despite having a losing record. |
The $6,000 gap is experienced across sports, and at the Division I level can exceed $1 million. The pay gap is clear statement that in the world of sports, women are still the trespassers, whether it’s on the court or the sideline. |
Even at Chico State, the coaches receive a difference in pay despite the success of their sports. The head coach of the softball team, Angel Shamblin, receives $65,052 and coaches a team that is ranked third at the Division II level. |
The men’s baseball coach Dave Taylor has a salary of $87,144. Despite $12,000 difference in salaries, the baseball team is not ranked according to the NCAA. |
The salary gap is the forgotten player on the field, and it looms across every sport. Even in soccer, differences in wages are a clear issue. |
Head coach of men’s soccer, Felipe Restrepo, has coached for 9 years and has a successful record of 87-43-25. Restrepo was able to turn his team around this season to post a successful winning record and compete in the California Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament. |
The women’s soccer team has also enjoyed success under its head coach Kim Sutton. Sutton has a 280-144-61 record and has won 57 percent of the games she has coached in 16 seasons. |
While Sutton has coached at Chico State for a longer time, Restrepo has a 56 percent win likelihood based on his record. For their commitment to Chico State, Sutton is paid a total of $4,056 more than Restrepo. |
The drastic differences in wages that exist across sports need to be changed, as they fail to represent the effort that winning coaches put into their teams. Whether its divisional or gender based, differences in pay between coaches in the same sport provide an image of inequality. |
Lexi Heodt can be reached at [email protected] or @theorion_sports on Twitter. |
November 20 [14:00 EDT] -- It looks like the Spice Girls aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Contrary to rumors that it was splitsville in Spice world last week, The Gals categorically denied rumors in Paris earlier this week when the Spice Five were swarmed by reporters with inquiring minds, wondering if they were bre... |
"Spiceworld," the album, did better in its second week. Though it still remains at #8 on the Top 20 "Billboard" album charts, sales increased by 21%, topping 100,000 units, from 83,266 that sold last week. No doubt the Spice Girls are feeling cheered by this mini-coup. |
But who is that Funny Girl fab fingernails taking the #1 spot -- bumping Mase's "Harlem World" to #5? It's Barbra "Please Don't Call Me Babs" Streisand with the perhaps aptly named, "Higher Ground." |
Debuting at #3 is Mystikal with "Unpredictable" on Master P's No Limit label, but Master P's own "Ghetto D" is now out of the Top 20. Also new at #4 is LSG with "Levert Sweat Gill," which leaves both last week's #3 and #4, Jay-Z, with "In My Lifetime, Vol. 1" and Rakim's "The 18th Letter" at #18 and #14 this week, resp... |
Some may be feeling a little less lucky this week, though, like those who fell out of the Top 20 to make room for the newcomers, such as Janet Jackson's "The Velvet Rope," the Dave Matthews Band's "Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95," and NAS Escobar, Foxy Brown, A-Z, and Nature, with "The Firm -- The Album." |
University of Wyoming staff, faculty and students can vote online for the staff employee of the year. The deadline is 5 p.m. Monday, March 19. |
The candidates are the four individuals selected as the 2011 Employees of the Quarter: Diane Gerhart; Tonya Gerharter; Vonnie Jenkin; and Beverly Sanchez. The winner will be recognized during Staff Recognition Day Wednesday, April 18, in Crane-Hill dining hall. |
To vote, click here and fill in your UW username and password. The domain is UWYO. |
Today at 2 p.m., bike-loving ladies are getting together for Pedal, Pussykat!, formerly known as Dirty and Pink. The party (and registration) begins at the Ann Morrison Park fountain and the all-girl alley cat race—pedaling around solving puzzles, collecting clues, undertaking challenges—starts at 3:30 p.m. |
The race ends at 5:30 p.m., and is followed by a finish line party with a whole lot of beverages, prizes and a costume contest. The hungry can satisfy their growling stomachs at Archie's Place, which will be parked nearby. |
Registration is $10, but bring pocket change just in case. T-shirts designed by Erin Ruiz can be purchased at the end for $15. And, as always, don't forget to bring a helmet and bike lock. |
Thousands of women are expected to gather July 12-13 for the Women of Faith Conference at the United Center, 1901 W. Madison St. |
An interdenominational women's ministry, Women of Faith aims to spread the word to all women that God loves them--and so do lots of girlfriends. |
It's a message of hope, comfort and inspiration, shared through music, drama, personal stories and laughter. Among the speakers at the event are author, artist and mother Sheila Walsh; author, radio personality and mother Patsy Clairmont; and businesswoman, mother and author Thelma Wells. |
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Friday and again at 8 a.m. Saturday. Admission is $67, with group discounts available. |
Note: Today is the fifth in a series of posts that detail Eurasia Group’s Top Risks for 2013. |
There are now three big unfolding stories for international politics and the global economy: China’s rise, Middle East turmoil, and the redesign of Europe. The three countries with the most to lose from these trends are, respectively, Japan, Israel, and Britain. These three also happen to be America’s most reliable all... |
China’s expansion leaves Japan in a tough spot. The broadening and deepening of China’s consumer market creates opportunities for Japanese companies, but Beijing’s new assertiveness, particularly on territorial disputes involving Japan, is fueling nationalist anger inside both countries. The risk is not that the two co... |
Israel’s worries bear more directly on the country’s national security. Syria’s civil war has already generated unrest in Lebanon. As international pressure over Iran’s nuclear program intensifies, the risk is rising that Tehran will lash out in unpredictable ways, including at Israel via proxies like Lebanon’s Hezboll... |
In Britain, David Cameron’s government faces growing pressure to hold a referendum on the country’s future in the European Union. A plurality of British voters now favor exit, and Tory politicians worry that if they hedge on the question, the increasingly popular UK Independence Party will grab a sizable share of their... |
Washington’s renewed focus on reducing spending will force the architects of U.S. foreign policy to lean more heavily on steady friends to help advance and defend U.S. interests around the world — at a moment when these three most important allies have serious problems of their own. |
On Monday, we’ll profile Risk #6: Europe. |
The dramatic events of “Refugees” loom large over “The Shore,” but rather than focus on these turns, “The Shore” uses its story shakeups to examine character. Two bottles deep, Cal brings Silas’ body out to Eddie’s hole and buries him, but he doesn’t stop there. After another bottle, he’s in Delaware, picking up Sean. ... |
While Cal is active through most of the episode, Sarah spends much of “The Shore” responding to those around her, whether it’s Cal, who shows up drunk in her back yard, or Nicole and her baby, whose birth she midwifes. Sarah’s most intriguing scene is her dream, which sees first Hawk and then Summer in danger of being ... |
Eddie’s visions this episode are far more grounded. Exhausted after a long couple days of walking and little food, Eddie and Hawk find themselves at Coney Island and Eddie is flooded with memories of his brother, eventually seeing him as he stands on the shore. Eddie clearly has unresolved issues around his brother’s d... |
As for Hawk, the writers do a great job balancing his inexperience with the intense conflict he’s feeling between his upbringing and home and love for Ashley. Eddie’s respect for Hawk’s struggle and willingness to let him make his own decisions is heartening; Eddie really is a great father. Paul and Kyle Allen are trem... |
Even more lost than Hawk is Mary, who is overjoyed upon Sean’s return, but can’t bring herself to flush her stash of Buprenorphine. Sean’s jealousy of Cal may have been calmed, but it’s doubtful he’ll take the news of Mary’s redheaded hookup particularly well. Emma Greenwell continues her excellent work as Mary; it’s i... |
This episode is directed by Roxann Dawson, who deserves special mention along with series cinematographer Yaron Orbach for the gorgeous visuals found throughout. As Cal drunkenly makes his way across the compound early on, mist clings to the ground and moonlight illuminates his way. Later, when Mary and Sean meet up by... |
Another scene with fantastic lighting is Cal and Sarah’s make out session, which ends with Sarah and Cal talking in close proximity, half of Cal’s face illuminated, half in shadow. Usually on television or in film when a character is lit like this, the contrast between the two sides of their face is dramatic and glarin... |
I didn’t mention it above, but the birth scene is truly lovely and all of the actors give strong, moving performances. |
Cal’s heavy breathing for the first chunk of the episode feels appropriate. He’s wasted and under tremendous strain, struggling to maintain control over his body. However, him still breathing heavily hours later, when we cut back to Silas in Eddie’s hole, is confusing. If he hasn’t rested between getting Silas into the... |
Abe shoots his career in the foot with his reaction to being taken off the Meyerists. Who wants to bet he stays on them anyways, and that his boss or someone else higher up has ties to the movement? |
Score Study: The scoring as the episode opens features organ and feels funereal, appropriate for Silas. This continues as Cal moves to dispose of Silas’ body, with whirring and half-step sliding elements layered overtop. As Cal is burying Silas’ body, the percussion motif prominent in the previous two episodes returns,... |
As Hawk talks about Ashley at the shelter and later, while Eddie prays, the score falls into a clear three pattern, the steady rhythm giving the scene a comforting feel. The predictability of this pattern and the regular chord changes that go with it is reassuring. Both scenes feature harp, a warm, inviting sound, with... |
The score for Sarah’s dream is neat, a strong sound of air combined with distortion, a heartbeat motif, and percussion. This is called back later, with a cello added in, when Sarah and Felicia talk and Sarah sees Silas’ Pachamama figurine. When Cal sees the figurine later, the score turns ominous, and the half-steps re... |
Notably missing for the past two episodes has been the sliding perfect fifth doubt motif that memorably popped up in several earlier episodes. We’ll see whether it returns by the season finale. |
More than 57.6 million people, or 28.5% of estimated eligible voters, voted in the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries that all but wrapped up Tuesday – close to but not quite at the record participation level set in 2008. |
For a while it looked like this year’s primaries, driven by high turnout on the Republican side, might eclipse the turnout record set in 2008, when 30.4% of voting-age citizens cast ballots. The GOP did indeed have the highest primary turnout since at least 1980, according to our analysis – 14.8%, compared with 11% in ... |
Turnout in the first 29 GOP primaries – up to and including Indiana – averaged 16.6%, according to our analysis. But turnout in the final nine contests, after Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, averaged only 8.4%. |
The overall Democratic turnout of 14.4% was well below the record 19.5% in 2008, but it was still the second-highest since 1988’s primary season. |
All told, 39 states held primaries for one or both major parties this year (38 Republican and 37 Democratic, including next week’s D.C. primary), with the remaining states using caucuses or conventions to select national party delegates. For each primary state, we calculated turnout by dividing the number of votes repo... |
A few caveats: We didn’t try to measure turnout in caucus states, because caucus attendance isn’t always reliably recorded and reported. Puerto Rico did hold Republican and Democratic primaries (the other U.S. territories held caucuses), but we didn’t calculate turnout because the CPS doesn’t include Puerto Rico. |
Also, because states don’t always hold both Democratic and Republican primaries, the turnout rates for the two parties individually may not equal total turnout. In most states, total turnout was calculated as the total number of votes cast in the Republican and Democratic primaries divided by the estimated voting-eligi... |
Digital payments firm PayPal has announced on Wednesday a partnership with Brazil's biggest private lender Itaú Unibanco Holding SA to offer its services to the bank's clients. |
SAO PAULO: Digital payments company PayPal Holdings Inc on Wednesday announced a partnership with Brazil's biggest private lender Itaú Unibanco Holding SA to offer its services to the bank's card clients. |
PayPal's general-director in Brazil, Paula Paschoal, said the company expects to add 1 million users to its current 3.8 million client base in Brazil in two years as a result of the partnership. |
Itaú is PayPal's first partner in Brazil, but Paschoal said the company is open to new agreements with other financial institutions in the country. |
The announcement underscores PayPal's strategy of partnerships and acquisitions to stay ahead of rivals in the increasingly competitive digital payments market. In April, PayPal announced a partnership with British bank Barclays. |
Under the terms of the Brazilian agreement, PayPal will offer its online digital account to Itaú card holders and also to merchants that use the Itau's card processing unit, known as Rede. Currently, 300,000 merchants in Brazil use PayPal. |
PayPal expects to raise its payment acceptance after partnering with Itaú, as it will analyze the bank's clients profile before accepting or denying a transaction, Paschoal said. |
The rain also cleaned summer dust and grime off foliage, making leaves look brighter. More importantly, a lack of strong wind has allowed leaves to linger a little longer on their branches. |
The foliage on trees turns color as days get shorter, signaling the onset of winter and dormancy. Chlorophyll – which helps plants produce their food and gives leaves their green color – dissipates. That allows the leaves’ yellow and orange pigments, usually masked by green chlorophyll, to show through. In addition, gl... |
The brightest hues are triggered by warm daytime temperatures and chilly – but not freezing – nights. So far, this November has been sunny and mild, with daytime temperatures hovering in the mid- to high 60s while lows have flirted with the high 30s. |
But enjoy all that gold, orange and red while you can. This fall show may be short. |
Many observers expected California’s prolonged drought to also cancel our fall color show. Foliage on drought-stressed trees tends to turn crunchy brown and drop early. That made this fall’s brilliant color show a pleasant surprise. |
U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open Wednesday, as Wall Street looked to build on a strong performance from the previous session. |
Dow Jones industrial average futures gained 75 points, while S&P 500 futures gained 1.75 points. Nasdaq 100 futures traded flat. |
In the previous session, U.S. stocks closed at record highs, with the Dow Jones industrial average closing 255.93 points higher at 23,836.71. Equities were boosted after news emerged that the Senate took a step towards passing a bill aimed at reforming the U.S. tax code. |
On Tuesday, the Senate Budget Committee approved the Senate's tax plan, bringing the upper chamber closer to a floor vote. This vote is slated to occur Thursday. Investors have been eagerly awaiting tax reform since the election in 2016, yet doubts over whether the Republican-led Congress could achieve this before the ... |
Stocks briefly pared gains on Tuesday after North Korea fired a missile that landed into the Sea of Japan — an intercontinental ballistic missile that state media said was capable of reaching the U.S. mainland. President Donald Trump responded to the news, stating that they would "take care of it." |
On the data front, weekly mortgage applications fell 3.1 percent, while the second read on third-quarter GDP showed the U.S. economy grew at an annualized rate of 3.3 percent. |
The pending homes sales index is due to be released at 10 a.m. ET, while the U.S. central bank's Beige Book is expected at 2 p.m. ET. |
Speaking of the U.S. Federal Reserve, current Fed Chair Janet Yellen is expected to testify on the outlook of the U.S. economy before the Congressional Joint Economic Committee. |
Meanwhile, San Francisco Fed President John Williams will be speaking at the 54th Annual Economic Forecast Luncheon, set to take place in Phoenix, Arizona. New York Fed President William Dudley will be in New Brunswick, participating in a fireside chat. |
Fed Chair nominee Jerome Powell had a confirmation hearing on Tuesday, where he said that he favors "tailoring" regulations in order to alleviate the burden on smaller banks. |
Looking to markets in other regions, trade in Europe ticked higher in early trade Tuesday, while markets in Asia finished the session mostly higher. Oil prices meantime were trading in the red. |
On Monday, Texas State University's student senate passed a controversial resolution to bar the conservative group Turning Point USA from campus — a move shut down by the student body president and campus administration. But the resolution caught the attention of Gov. Greg Abbott. |
Abbott, who could not be reached for comment, was responding to a video surfaced by TPUSA’s national President Charlie Kirk on Wednesday night. In the video, students boo and shout expletives at Stormi Rodriguez, the university TPUSA chapter leader, during and after the discussion on the resolution. Kirk called the mov... |
Texas State President Denise Trauth defended the student government’s ability to bring forward the resolution — but she expressed similar frustrations. |
"The governor and I want the same things. We want freedom of expression at public universities, and we want respectful language when we disagree," she said. "On the other hand ... That behavior on the video — that’s what prompted the comment by the governor — is absolutely unacceptable. The vast majority of our student... |
In one of the longest meetings in the organization’s history, the student senate passed the resolution on Monday after hours of heated debate and public testimony — a move that was vetoed by the the student body president on Thursday. Shortly after the resolution was approved, the university issued a response from Dean... |
The statement echoed previous remarks from earlier this month, including an April 4 email to students from Vice President of Student Affairs Joanne Smith. |
“I urge all students to be mindful of the First Amendment rights that each of you are guaranteed,” she wrote. |
Some proponents of the resolution said university officials incorrectly framed the discussion. |
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