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In a statement Friday morning, Skelos acknowledged Ball's reputation for being something of a maverick in the chamber, adding he expects to retain the seat.

Additional speakers include Gary Chartrand, chairman of the Florida State Board of Education; Frank Biden, the president of Mavericks in Education and the brother of Vice President Joe Biden; Jeanne Allen, pioneering education reform champion and founder of The Center for Education Reform; Wendy Howard, the founder and executive director of the Florida Alliance for Choice in Education; Christie Bassett, 2015 Florida Teacher of the Year and a teacher at Highlands Park Elementary School in Polk County, Florida; Jason Fischer, member of the Duval County School Board; Lisa Graham Keegan, senior advisor to National School Choice Week and the former superintendent of public instruction for Arizona; and Randan Steinhauser, an advisor to National School Choice Week, who will join the event live via satellite from Austin, Texas.

In a Hopps exhibition, considerations of art history and scholarship are often present, along with ideas about style and influence and social issues, but the primary emphasis is always on how the art looks on the wall, and this, surprisingly, makes Walter Hopps something of a maverick in his profession.

Mounira al Solh is a bit of a maverick in the Lebanese art scene.

Schnarch is still something of a maverick in the field of sex therapy.

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¦ Mark Cuban, co-founder of Broadcast.com and owner of the Dallas Mavericks (and also a contestant on Dancing With the Stars, in 2007), has launched «The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan» on his website, at blogmaverick.com.

For the serial entrepreneur, «Shark Tank» investor and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, every morning starts with work — right from bed, Entrepreneur reported in 2014.

DALLAS, TX - NOVEMBER 18: Giannis Antetokounmpo # 34 of the Milwaukee Bucks reacts against the Dallas Mavericks in the second half at American Airlines Center on November 18, 2017 in Dallas, Texas.

«Getting paid through ski racing is very, very difficult,» she said in a conversation with Maverick Carter in an episode of «Kneading Dough,» a series by Chase and digital media company Uninterrupted.

China's steady growth in spending on robotics has even caught the eye of entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.

Billionaire investor and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban had some advice for Democrats in the wake of Trump's decision: call his bluff.

The signing comes just five days after Jordan verbally committed to the Dallas Mavericks and just hours after several members of the Clippers organization came to his home in Houston and didn't to leave until the contract was signed.

«Because we're going to eliminate the maverick, T - Mobile, from having the incentives to be so aggressive in terms of cutting prices,» Economides said Monday on «Closing Bell.»

But Republican strategist John Feehery said Obama was taking a gamble that could backfire, especially in light of resistance from some of the president's fellow Democrats to Hagel, a maverick moderate Republican.

Before her stint in Washington, Canales served as the executive director of the Maverick County Development Corporation in Texas and was an adjunct faculty member for Southwest Texas Junior College for seven years.

The departure of maverick founder Takao Yasuda has unnerved investors in Japanese retailer Don Quijote, the Financial Times reports.

One of them was the mid-1990s hit Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler, in which the author, a Brazilian CEO, describes running a democratic, open - book company in which people set their own salaries.

Flush with cash, Cuban started making a range of investments, most notably, forking over $ 285 million on January 4, 2000, to get a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks, a team that had just completed its 10th losing season in a row.

In an analysis penned by Andrew Warford, who is chairman of Maverick's stock committee, the fund set out its thesis for why the smartphone market has hit a «tipping point.»

As a result, Maverick said most of its capital dedicated to the trade is betting against companies in the supply chain.

It may have been the kind of environment in which a determined maverick like Ben Aïssa could thrive.

There were a lot of mavericks at our early conferences, but in the late 1980s, they began giving way to professional entrepreneurs.

This week, the billionaire tech entrepreneur, investor and owner of the Dallas Mavericks participated in a question and answer session on popular social news site reddit where he discussed all things business, basketball and, of course, Shark Tank.

As owner of the Dallas Mavericks, a star on ABC's «Shark Tank» and an investor in countless companies, that's a lot of emails.

«During my nearly 20 year tenure with the Mavericks, I am not aware of any sexual harassment complaints about me or any findings by the organization that I engaged in inappropriate conduct.

There are some good names on the list including: Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban (who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo in 1999), venture capitalist Adam Dell, two Hollywood heavyweights (former Universal chairman and CEO Frank Biondi and New Lines Cinemas co-chairman and CEO Robert Shaye) and, of course, none other that Carl Icahn himself.

He is on the Board of Directors of the US Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investing (US - SIF), he is on advisory boards of Real Impact Tracker and 1 - Earth Institute, on the steering committee of Institutional Investor Educational Foundation, is a member of the UN Green Finance Advisory Group that developed the recently released UN Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative, and was named one of 30 «Eco Rock Stars and Environmental Mavericks» in Origin Magazine.

In June 2016, it secured investment from Guy Oseary, CEO of talent management agency Maverick Records.

Each of the last three seasons, Heritage fell to the Mavericks in regional semifinals as McCarthy...

A collection of those newspaper columns was published by The Free Press in 1993 as Economic Principals: Masters and Mavericks of Modern Economics.

In an episode of The Thrive Global Podcast with iHeartRadio, the business mogul, Dallas Mavericks owner and Shark Tank star told Arianna Huffington about how he manages his kids» phone time.

Cityblock Health, the urban - focused public health startup that spun out of Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs in October, has raised $ 20.8 million in a round led by Maverick Ventures.

Learn what's next for a few of the many Mavericks at the UNO College of Business Administration earning diplomas in May 2018.

The famously maverick - ish junior minister from the Beauce, in Quebec, seems to think the country should decide the fate of its reddest chamber.

«The biggest problem is nobody could quantify the buying pool in the high - end community,» said Adi Chugh, head of real estate debt brokerage Maverick Capital Partners.

Oct. 03 — Billionaire investor Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, discusses the responsibilities of social media and his views on bitcoin with Bloomberg's Emily Chang at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in Los Angeles.

The song selection underscores the profound role faith played in Cash's life, while also demonstrating that his faith was fleshed out with the same maverick streak that epitomized other areas of his life.

As Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban wrote in «The Coming Meltdown of College Education,» «We freak out about the Trillions of dollars in debt our country faces.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

Holiness and Pentecostal folk are busily engaged in creating all those agencies and patterns of church life that their maverick forebears found too confining.

In my opinion all religious figures whom we worship today as God / Son of God / Holy messenger / Incarnation etc were just very wise, maverick and rebels of their age who challenged the entrenched corrupt social practices of their time.

A strong impulse toward ecumenical unity emanates from the personal and spiritual writings of this self - described «maverick Baptist working for the United Methodists» in search of «catholic» reality within the «basic unity of... the church as the Body of Christ» («Church History Is My Vocation.»

Out of the stresses of that Great time came the separating Baptists who dominate American Protestantism today and provided the tradition in which Goen is himself a maverick.

But Oregonians, enhancing their reputations as Western mavericks, have apparently ignored the advice of outsiders and made their state the first jurisdiction in the world to legalize doctor - assisted suicide.

The participants in this poll were those who chose to take part over a span of eight years in a seminar sponsored, not by one of the major scholarly societies such as the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas or the Society of Biblical Literature, but by Funk's maverick entrepreneurial venture, the Westar Institute, located in Sonoma, California.

A restless maverick driven from place to place by his determination to be part of whatever God was doing in the world, Bartleman singlehandedly turned the Azusa Street revival into a literary event of global magnitude by chronicling his impressions and assigning them meaning in a widely circulated book, How Pentecost Came to Los Angeles.

They were restored by Mayor Maury Maverick (a real name, folks — unbranded cattle were named after his dad) in 1939, but their stands were closed again shortly after the start of World War II.

With a maverick tagline («our ales are for outlaws»), Ironfire Brewing Company was established in 2012 with a mission of producing unique ales and lagers.

So as if to further showcase the maverick that she is in so many ways, my mother did not keep chocolate chips on hand (or any snacks in general — and you can just forget about the wheat grinder, although there was the occasional box of Jell - O).

The Mavericks forward exploded for 13 points in the third quarter, making all four of his shot attempts.