Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker president and CEO of Brown’s Superstores Inc. established the Pennsylvania 30 Day Fund to assist small businesses affected by the COVID-19 shutdown which was otherwise ineligible for government loans or grants Sean Wheeler ’89 is a senior partner at Kearney and managing partner for his firm’s Turkey He has spent more than 25 years living and working in London; Dubai supporting a variety of international clients He also is leading his firm’s regional social impact pro bono work working closely with charities and nonprofits to sponsor business incubation and new business development efforts and he recently partnered with Ashoka to support Syrian refugees in Turkey to establish startup businesses has been welcomed into the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) following its certification through the NGLCC Supplier Diversity Initiative The NGLCC is the only national not-for-profit advocacy organization dedicated to expanding the economic opportunities and advancements of the LGBT business community “Encouraging inclusivity in the workplace and supporting diverse communities is personally important to me,” McMahon said “and these objectives are fundamental to Illuminate’s mission and work culture as well.” Craig Vaream ’91 has written No Limits: Adventures and Lessons from Living with Diabetes which discusses his climb of Mount Kilimanjaro and running of the New York City Marathon to celebrate his 25th anniversary of being a Type 1 diabetic Proceeds from the book benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation MBA’99 (bottom left) and her college roommates—including and Joanne Saunders ’92—have been getting together for a virtual Zoom cocktail party once a month since the beginning of the pandemic All six were residents of Pietz 44 during their senior year Kristine Ball ’93 was appointed to the board of directors of Atreca a biotechnology company focused on developing novel therapeutics Ball previously was senior vice president of corporate strategy and chief financial officer of biopharmaceutical company Menlo Therapeutics “I am excited to join the team during an important phase for a growing company,” she said “and I very much look forward to being a part of Atreca’s continued progress and success.” Marci McCarthy ’93 was appointed to the board of directors of Spirion a company that enables businesses to take steps toward data protection She joins Spirion with more than 20 years of business management and entrepreneurial experience placed 146th in the 2020 Top 500 NGOs world ranking by NGO Advisor The Womanity Foundation’s mission is to invest in audacious solutions that accelerate gender equality and create sustainable social change Its purpose is to foster an inclusive world in which all women and men enjoy equal rights and opportunities Womanity has supported 22.6 million people and the foundation recently celebrated its 15th anniversary with a gala that raised about $3 million for its programs helped lead her company in repurposing part of its manufacturing to produce face masks Si02 Materials Science—led by Lawrence Ganti ’97 president of customer operations and chief business officer—unveiled a $143 million agreement with the U.S Department of Defense’s Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Nuclear Defense (JPEO–CBRND) to accelerate the production of the company’s state-of-the-art primary packaging platform for storing novel coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics “We’re dramatically ramping up capacity to meet customer demands and to ensure that the surge seen due to the COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutic developments can be accommodated,” Ganti said Hamilton Stolpen ’99 launched his line of barbecue sauces Bear Smoke BBQ even was featured in the summer issue of Martha Stewart Living as a trending new product “What grew from fulfilling requests from friends and charity events is my own business,” Stolpen writes “My Babson education and experiences have paid off.” Bear Smoke BBQ makes all of its hand-crafted sauces in North Carolina H’19 is serving on a diverse 27-person advisory panel to Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as the city progresses through its phased reopening Yan Katz ’00 of The Bulfinch Group was named an Executive Club qualifier by The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America one of the highest honors annually awarded by The Guardian to financial professionals who demonstrate outstanding service and dedication to their clients “Being recognized as an Executive Club qualifier is a true testament in regard to his exceptional client service,” said Seth Medalie president and founder of The Bulfinch Group Darcy Buck ’07 helped lead her family business in pivoting production from security bags and supplies Maja Stevanovich ’07 recently worked on a Netflix special on mental health in partnership with the U.S aims to eliminate the stigma associated with mental health through programming and support Harvest Hosts was featured in a Good Morning America story on the appeal of RV travel during the pandemic Harvest Hosts connects travelers with lodging in the United States and Canada and Holland said membership signups were up 400% compared to 2019 Ian So ’08 joined forces with Charlestown Face Shield Project to produce face shields in the Chicken & Rice Guys warehouse is donating one mask for every mask purchased Jamaal Eversley ’10 will host an art show in September at Beacon Gallery in Boston. Pieces featured have been created by Babson alumni, including Stephanie Ayotte ’10, LaShonda Cooks ’10, and Terence Musto ’10, as well as Babson friends and faculty Stephanie Osser, Professor Mary Pinard Ayotte and Eversley also are working on a fashion line for the show Mary Blackford ’11 was named the grand prize winner in the national ESSENCE and Pine Sol’s Build Your Legacy grant competition aimed at empowering Black female entrepreneurs is a community marketplace featuring several Black-owned businesses for the purpose of alleviating goods and retail deserts in Washington After being named one of three semifinalists Blackford won a public vote and was awarded a $150,000 grant Market 7’s food hall is slated to open in 2021 co-created a database of people willing to volunteer during the pandemic Xavinci specializes in the creative design and development of digital experiences launched a new program to help people navigate the challenges of social distancing Thomas Callahan ’14 and Alexis (Ferraro) Callahan ’15 were married September 21, 2019, on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. They met in Associate Professor Jon Dietrick’s class in the fall of 2012 and have been together ever since There were more than 30 Babson alumni at their wedding was among eight named an Ashoka Fellow for bringing actionable and breakthrough ideas to the table for the common good WeThrive has brought engaged learning and a culture of empowerment into schools by promoting entrepreneurial skills and spirit in classrooms across the nation Ashoka is the world’s pioneering and largest network of social entrepreneurs MS’16 and Tina Xiao ’17 co-founded the Feed Your Hospital initiative to provide meals for frontline hospital workers by supporting Asian restaurants during the pandemic The initiative began March 21 in New York City in coordination with TabeTomo a Japanese dipping noodle restaurant at 131 Avenue A in the East Village Wu and Xiao quickly expanded the initiative to 17 additional areas across the United States including more than $40,000 raised by Babson alumni and has delivered 13,000 meals to 110 hospitals nationally TabeTomo alone has delivered 1,950 meals to 17 hospitals also is fundraising for Feed Your Hospital Kitsby is a baking kit company with a dessert bar located in Williamsburg Also pictured: Chef Tomo and co-founder Ben Xue donated $15,000 worth of personal protective equipment and some of their earlier products that can be turned into face masks led by Jamie Steenbakkers ’18 and Michael Leahy ’18 has added hand wipes to its line of beauty products Beantown Blankets, a venture created by Maxwell Perry ’19 in Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME) has partnered with Subaru to donate 50,000 blankets to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) in August with another 50,000 blankets donated to homeless people around the United States Perry also collected donations during the early days of the pandemic in order to purchase and donate food to hospital staff working around the clock Posted in Community Tagged Alumni, Babson Magazine More from Babson Magazine » For patients with connective tissue disorders such as Marfan syndrome or systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) aortic root dilatation can be a leading cause of morbidity and mortality 2-D transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) has been the gold standard for determining if patients are at high risk for developing annuloaortic ectasia The Holy Grail of TTE was set out in a 1989 article by a group from New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York City Stolpen explained during a presentation at the 2003 RSNA meeting in Chicago They wrote that "aortic root dilatation is currently detected by nomograms based on M-mode echocardiographic data." Aortic root diameters are measured by TTE at the sinuses of Valsalva supra-aortic ridge and proximal ascending aorta and with M-mode findings and normal limits (American Journal of Cardiology which can limit application in some patients; blind spots such that the entire aorta isn’t always visualized; and limited capabilities in patients with Marfan syndrome who is an associate professor of radiology which is a well-established modality for studying the aorta offers a potentially more robust alternative or complement to TTE," Stolpen said "The purpose of our study was...to assess the agreement between MRI and TTE for aortic root measurements (and) to compare the robustness how often was the image quality sufficiently good to enable four-point measurements?" Stolpen and colleagues looked at 59 consecutive patients who underwent cine MRI with TTE correlation from September 2000 to April 2003 familial thoracic aortic aneurysm syndrome the scoliosis and pectus deformity can displace the heart to the left which makes it very difficult for TTE to select the correct imaging," Stolpen wrote in an e-mail to AuntMinnie.com TTE image quality in these patients tends to be poor." MR studies were performed on a 1.5-tesla scanner (Signa CV/i, GE Healthcare WI) using a breathhold-segmented k-space cine 2-D FIESTA protocol or a fast GRE protocol The mean time between MRI and TTE was 118 days the aortic root was imaged in the parasternal long-axis plane Standard measurements were obtained at the aortic annulus The Bland-Altman analysis was used to assess agreement between TTE and MRI out of 252 possible measurements (four sites in 63 exams) cine MRI failed to provide four measurements the exam was inadequate because of technical difficulties or a poor acoustic window "there was modest negative bias for MR at the sinotubular junction and a similar negative bias at the proximal aorta The problem has to do with the standard deviation which was large across the board (up to 18% of the aortic diameter) The problem is that there was considerable variability in agreement between (the modalities) of the aortic root location," Stolpen said Stolpen elaborated on the reasons for the negative bias "There are many reasons why MR and (TTE) aortic root measurements could differ Most have to do with incorrect positioning of the imaging plane," he wrote the parasternal long-axis view is one of the many long-axis views through the left ventricle I think this view shows the aortic valve annulus and sinus very well but the sinotubular junction and proximal aorta can be more difficult to see and the latter may be in a slightly different imaging plane." In addition there is no exact location for the proximal ascending aorta TTE makes the measurement as far from the sinotubular junction as possible with MR it is possible to see the entire ascending aorta and most likely a more distal measurement was obtained But in an effort to capture the parasternal long axis and optimally depict all four aortic root locations as well as the mitral valve an MR image may require the sacrifice of the left ventricular (LV) apex "Why should it matter if the measurements are different Because the decision to intervene surgically is based on aortic root size and on the rate of increase (and degree of aortic insufficiency) So differences between echo and MR could lead to inappropriate clinical management," Stolpen said While cine MRI did prove to be the better imaging modality in this study Stolpen cautioned that MR and TTE might not be perfectly interchangeable for measuring aortic root dimensions the real question is which modality provides more reproducible measurements," Stolpen said but our preliminary data indicates high variability for echo (which contradicts the echo literature) Also in MR’s favor: Pediatric and adult cardiologists at his institution who routinely see patients with connective tissue disorders have come to value the reliability and robustness of MR "(They) will make clinical decisions based on MR even when results disagree with TTE," he said Active bone formation may cause aortic valve stenosis, May 6, 2003 Transesophageal MRI improves evaluation of aortic plaque, April 4, 2003 MRI links carotid artery plaque inflammation to unstable angina, March 10, 2003 Copyright © 2004 AuntMinnie.com New Fairfield, CT The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to welcome Betty Stolpen Weiner as its new Director of Development. Weiner was previously the Major Gifts Officer at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she had worked in various fundraising roles since 2009. At the Whitney she cultivated new donors, secured major gifts and donations, planned special events, including domestic and international travel for high level donors, and managed a number of committees and patron groups. She began work at The Aldrich on March 22, 2021. HamletHub invites you to contribute stories, events, and more to keep your neighbors informed and connected. Don’t miss what’s happening in your community.Subscribe to receive a daily digest of the people, places and things that make our community great. Copyright ©2025 HamletHub™ This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page An iconic Pensacola home is on the market again after its owner backed out of a much-touted auction multi-story home in the Muscogee Wharf neighborhood sits at the end of a tiny spit of land that juts out into Pensacola Bay the New York-based auction company Concierge Auctions said it planned a no-reserve auction for the home Oct  The company touted the auction as a unique opportunity for potential bidders to get a good deal on a luxury home and said the auction was part of a growing trend of high-end property owners deciding to sell their homes through auctions said last month the property would go to the highest bidder Potential bidders would be required to make a $100,000 refundable payment to an escrow account But the home's current realtor said Wednesday that the auction never took place the owner pulled out and decided not to auction the home," said Gary Michaels operations manager for Mark Lee of Levin Rinke Realty He was not surprised by the auction company's big push to market the home before the auction "That's what auction companies do," he said The real estate company would not disclose the home's owner the home previously sold for $2.7 million in April a Florida attorney for the owner of the home "We do not comment on business decisions," Stolpen said in an emailed statement said the homeowner elected not to move forward with the auction under terms allowed in a contract with the auction company "Concierge Auctions was scheduled to auction 19 Wharf Drive without reserve on Oct the seller elected to withdraw the property from going to auction," Neering said in an emailed statement Neering said Concierge had previously sold two Vero Beach homes for the same owner through auctions the firm’s mandate is from the seller and in this case Chicago Magazine reported that Concierge attempted to sell basketball great Michael Jordan's Chicago-area home After getting tremendous media coverage of the home Concierge has faced lawsuits involving luxury home auctions in Idaho and Illinois Betsy Broun and Addison Anderson at Artrageous the Smithsonian American Art Museum's annual gala (Photo by Tony Brown/Imijination Photography) Blues Alley’s Jacques Johnson and Deejay Menan provided entertainment while special guest Project Runway contestant Nick Verreos and Karen LaMonte mingled with gala guests The highlights of the event were Verreos cutting a rug on the dance floor Kate Pynoos wearing an Isaac Mizrahi original in fuschia @NickVerreos1 and @WashPostFashion live-tweeting the event Female guests accessorized their cocktail dresses with arty jewelry and head pieces to make the night fun and memorable The American Art side of the first floor was open to guests where the museum is featuring its new exhibition ‘Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H Guests enjoy on the dance floor at Artrageous ( Photo by Tony Brown/Imijination Photography) Gala Co-Chair Sydney McNiff Ferguson with her son Duncan Ferguson at Artrageous Christine Stuckey and Brian Schiffer at Artrageous Selma Menden and Serene Arena at Artrageous Artist Karen LaMonte's art piece 'Reclining Dress Impression with Drapery' dramatically lit in the center of the Kogod courtyard at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's annual gala Pages: 1 2 Stroudsburg Middle School announces honor rolls for first marking period of 2021-22 yearSpecial to Pocono RecordOfficials at Stroudsburg Middle School have announced the honor rolls for the first marking period of the 2021-2022 school year More: Stroudsburg Junior High announces honor rolls for first marking period of 2021-2022 TRAVEL AGENTS LOYALTY PROGRAM Courtney Nevin made it two goals in two games with the opener as Hammarby won 2-0 over AIK in the Swedish Damallsvenskan on Sunday who netted in last weekend’s 5-1 win at Kalmar The 20-year-old Matildas defender put in a full shift meaning she has made nine starts in 10 appearances Matchens V.I.B:are mot AIK: Courtney Nevin👏🔗 https://t.co/0arqEIEwo8#Bajen pic.twitter.com/t4gRTvzdRR Remy Siemsen played a full game in attack for AIK who are bottom of the table with only three points from 12 games Teagan Micah conceded a late own goal but Rosengard still won 4-3 at Linkoping Micah played a full game while Charlotte Grant was an 88th-minute substitute 90’ LFC kommer till avslut och bollen studsar i stolpen och rullar sedan på mållinjen till andra stolpen Domaren dömer att bollen sedan passerar mållinjen innan Micah når den Katrina Gorry and Clare Polkinghorne both played full games as Vittsjo drew 0-0 away to Eskilstuna United on Sunday Angela Beard played a full game as Fortuna Hjorring lost 1-0 at Koge in the Danish Kvindeliga while Jenna McCormick played the first half as AGF beat Sundby 3-1 in the playoffs Emily van Egmond put in a full shift as San Diego Wave equalized late to draw 2-2 at Kansas City Current in USA’s National Women’s Soccer League Alex Chidiac started and played 67 minutes as Racing Louisville lost 3-0 at home to North Carolina Courage.