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In my Morning Edition story today, I look at expectations — specifically, how teacher expectations can affect the performance of the children they teach.
The first psychologist to systematically study this was a Harvard professor named Robert Rosenthal, who in 1964 did a wonderful experiment at an elementary school south of San Francisco.
The idea was to figure out what would happen if teachers were told that certain kids in their class were destined to succeed, so Rosenthal took a normal IQ test and dressed it up as a different test.
"It was a standardized IQ test, Flanagan's Test of General Ability," he says. "But the cover we put on it, we had printed on every test booklet, said 'Harvard Test of Inflected Acquisition.' "
Rosenthal told the teachers that this very special test from Harvard had the very special ability to predict which kids were about to be very special — that is, which kids were about to experience a dramatic growth in their IQ.
After the kids took the test, he then chose from every class several children totally at random. There was nothing at all to distinguish these kids from the other kids, but he told their teachers that the test predicted the kids were on the verge of an intense intellectual bloom.
As he followed the children over the next two years, Rosenthal discovered that the teachers' expectations of these kids really did affect the students. "If teachers had been led to expect greater gains in IQ, then increasingly, those kids gained more IQ," he says.
But just how do expectations influence IQ?
As Rosenthal did more research, he found that expectations affect teachers' moment-to-moment interactions with the children they teach in a thousand almost invisible ways. Teachers give the students that they expect to succeed more time to answer questions, more specific feedback, and more approval: They consistently touch, nod and smile at those kids more.
"It's not magic, it's not mental telepathy," Rosenthal says. "It's very likely these thousands of different ways of treating people in small ways every day."
So since expectations can change the performance of kids, how do we get teachers to have the right expectations? Is it possible to change bad expectations? That was the question that brought me to the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, where I met Robert Pianta.
Pianta, dean of the Curry School, has studied teachers for years, and one of the first things he told me when we sat down together was that it is truly hard for teachers to control their expectations.
"It's really tough for anybody to police their own beliefs," he said. "But think about being in a classroom with 25 kids. The demands on their thinking are so great."
Still, people have tried. The traditional way, Pianta says, has been to sit teachers down and try to change their expectations through talking to them.
"For the most part, we've tried to convince them that the beliefs they have are wrong," he says. "And we've done most of that convincing using information."
But Pianta has a different idea of how to go about changing teachers' expectations. He says it's not effective to try to change their thoughts; the key is to train teachers in an entirely new set of behaviors.
For years, Pianta and his colleagues at the Curry School have been collecting videotapes of teachers teaching. By analyzing these videos in minute ways, they've developed a good idea of which teaching behaviors are most effective. They can also see, Pianta tells me, how teacher expectations affect both their behaviors and classroom dynamics.
Pianta gives one very specific example: the belief that boys are disruptive and need to be managed.
"Say I'm a teacher and I ask a question in class, and a boy jumps up, sort of vociferously ... 'I know the answer! I know the answer! I know the answer!' " Pianta says.
"If I believe boys are disruptive and my job is control the classroom, then I'm going to respond with, 'Johnny! You're out of line here! We need you to sit down right now.' "
This, Pianta says, will likely make the boy frustrated and emotionally disengaged. He will then be likely to escalate his behavior, which will simply confirm the teacher's beliefs about him, and the teacher and kid are stuck in an unproductive loop.
But if the teacher doesn't carry those beliefs into the classroom, then the teacher is unlikely to see that behavior as threatening.
Instead it's: " 'Johnny, tell me more about what you think is going on ... But also, I want you to sit down quietly now as you tell that to me,' " Pianta says.
"Those two responses," he says, "are dictated almost entirely by two different interpretations of the same behavior that are driven by two different sets of beliefs."
To see if teachers' beliefs would be changed by giving them a new set of teaching behaviors, Pianta and his colleagues recently did a study.
They took a group of teachers, assessed their beliefs about children, then gave a portion of them a standard pedagogy course, which included information about appropriate beliefs and expectations. Another portion got intense behavioral training, which taught them a whole new set of skills based on those appropriate beliefs and expectations.
For this training, the teachers videotaped their classes over a period of months and worked with personal coaches who watched those videos, then gave them recommendations about different behaviors to try.
After that intensive training, Pianta and his colleagues analyzed the beliefs of the teachers again. What he found was that the beliefs of the trained teachers had shifted way more than the beliefs of teachers given a standard informational course.
This is why Pianta thinks that to change beliefs, the best thing to do is change behaviors.
"It's far more powerful to work from the outside in than the inside out if you want to change expectations," he says.
In other words, if you want to change a mind, simply talking to it might not be enough.
It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep.
And I'm Renee Montagne. School is here again, which means teachers are teaching.
UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER #1: Excuse me. You're wasting your time if you can't pull it together.
MONTAGNE: And that piece of tape, which you're going to hear a lot in this next story, is part of an effort to improve teaching. Psychologists have been trying to understand the basic elements of good teaching, for years. And today in "Your Health," NPR's Alix Spiegel is going to look closely at one of those elements - the effect that teacher expectations can have on students.
ALIX SPIEGEL, BYLINE: To understand the anatomy of an expectation, it's good to start with Robert Rosenthal because he's the guy who first tried to dissect it. He began this work at a school out West.
ROBERT ROSENTHAL: It was south of San Francisco. They had a lot of Latino kids there. That was their large minority population.
SPIEGEL: Now, what Rosenthal was trying to figure out, was what would happen if you told teachers that certain kids in their class were destined to succeed. How would that expectation affect things? And so he decided to trick the teachers at this school. What he did was, take a normal IQ test...
ROSENTHAL: It was the standardized IQ test, Flanagan's "Test of General Ability." [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: The correct name of John Clemans Flanagan's book is "Tests of General Ability."]
SPIEGEL: And he dressed that test up as a different test.
ROSENTHAL: The cover we put on it, we had printed up on every test booklet, said "Harvard Test of Inflected Acquisition."
SPIEGEL: Then he told the teachers that this very special test had the very special ability to predict which kids were about to be very special; that is, which kids were about to experience a dramatic growth in their IQ.
ROSENTHAL: The kids that were going to bloom intellectually.
SPIEGEL: Rosenthal then tested all the kids in the school, chose some of them totally at random, and told their teachers that the test had showed that these kids were destined to bloom. After that, Rosenthal waited to see what would happen. And what happened was that those teacher expectations of rising IQs? They really affected the kids.
ROSENTHAL: If teachers had been led to expect greater gains in IQ, then increasingly over the first year, those kids gained more IQ.
SPIEGEL: So next, Rosenthal wanted to know how. How did this impact on IQ happen? So they did more research and over time discovered that expectations affect teachers' moment-to-moment interactions with kids. Say Billy is believed to be stupid, and the teacher asks Billy a question...
ROSENTHAL: And Billy doesn't answer quickly. And so you say, well, OK. Helen, you tell us what the right answer is. Not much time was given to Billy to answer. On the other hand, if Billy's one of the kids for whom there's favorable expectations, and there's a long pause before there's an answer, it's almost as though the teacher were thinking, wow, Billy is sure a thoughtful kid; and gives more time to reply.
SPIEGEL: Teachers also give the students that they expect to succeed more approval, and more specific feedback.
ROSENTHAL: The teachers say, oh, no, that's not quite right, Johnny. You had it almost right, but - and then Johnny is taught what the quite-right answer would be.
SPIEGEL: Essentially, in a thousand small, almost invisible ways, teachers teach kids they expect to succeed, more. And they're also warmer - they smile, touch and nod to those kids more.
ROSENTHAL: It's not magic; it's not mental telepathy. It's very likely these thousands of different ways of treating people in small ways, every day.
SPIEGEL: So since expectations can affect the performance of kids, how do you get teachers to have the right expectations? Is it possible to change the bad ones? That's the question that brought me to the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, where a man named Bob Pianta told me just how hard it truly is, for a teacher to control the expectations that they have.
BOB PIANTA: It's really tough for anybody to police their own beliefs, right? But think about being in a classroom with 25 kids. The demands on their thinking are so great.
SPIEGEL: Pianta says traditionally, the way that we have tried to change teacher expectations has been through talking to them.
PIANTA: For the most part, we've tried to convince them that the beliefs may be wrong, and we've done most of that convincing using information.
SPIEGEL: But Pianta has a different idea of what to do. And for him, the very first step is videotape.
UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER #1: Excuse me. You're wasting your time, and your grade, if you can't pull it together.
SPIEGEL: Maybe you recognize that clip from the beginning of this piece. It's one, tiny example of the thousands of hours of video that Pianta and his colleagues have collected of teachers teaching.
UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER #2: Decimals and fractions, they have ways that they are similar. You with me so far?
SPIEGEL: By analyzing these videos, the Curry School has been able to look really closely at how teacher expectations and beliefs affect classroom dynamics. Pianta gives me just one, very specific example.
PIANTA: Let's say that I have a belief that boys are disruptive, and they need to be managed.
SPIEGEL: When I carry that belief into a classroom, it subtly colors my interactions. So say I ask a question, and a boy tries to answer.
PIANTA: He jumps up sort of vociferously and starts, you know, wanting to be involved in the - you know - I know the answer! I know the answer!
SPIEGEL: Now, if I believe boys are disruptive, and my job is to control the classroom...
PIANTA: Then I'm going to respond with - you know - Johnny, you're out of line here. We need you to sit down right now. And in fact, we're going to call on the person next to you.
SPIEGEL: Which will likely make the boy frustrated; cause him to escalate his behavior, which then just confirms my beliefs. It's a loop. But let's say I don't have these beliefs. I encourage him.
PIANTA: Johnny, tell me more about what the - what you think is going on in the weather. But also, I want you to try to sit down quietly now, as you tell that to me.
Those two responses are dictated almost entirely by two different interpretations of the same behavior, that are driven by two different sets of beliefs.
SPIEGEL: So to find out the best way to change bad beliefs, Pianta recently did a study. He took a group of teachers, assessed their beliefs about children; then gave a portion, a standard pedagogy course, which included information about appropriate beliefs; and a portion, intense behavioral tutoring.
During my visit, I sat down with Sharon Deal, a staff member involved in that tutoring. And she pulled up a series of videos of one teacher she'd worked with. Deal can't release her name. She's one of many teachers who volunteered for their study. Deal and the woman had worked on many things, including how to respond to a boy in the class who was often disruptive. And in the early sessions, you can see the teacher being reactive. Here's that tape again.
UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER #1: Excuse me. You're wasting your time, and your grade, if you can't pull it together.
SPIEGEL: But as time goes by, you see her using different techniques to manage the class. And the dynamics start to change.
UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER #1: I'm going to show you my way, maybe another way, how to answer questions. But if you come up with your own way, like Precious just did - I didn't even think of this, OK? That's...
SPIEGEL: In particular, there's a striking evolution with the boy. The boy, Deal tells me, was fidgety; needed to move. And the teacher figured out a way to actually harness that quality. Deal shows me a video where the class is playing a math game, and the teacher has that boy standing at the blackboard. He's keeping score.
SHARON DEAL: The student's in the flow of the class, and no longer derailing the class.
UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT: Let's go team - our team was Hot Tamales.
UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER #1: Hot Tamales - they gained two points.
SPIEGEL: So after training like this, Pianta and his colleagues went back and measured the beliefs of the teachers again. And what he found was that the beliefs of the trained teachers had shifted way more than the beliefs of the teachers given the standard informational course. And so to change beliefs, Pianta thinks, the best thing to do is change behavior.
PIANTA: It's far more powerful to work from the outside in than from the inside out, if what you want to do is change expectations.
SPIEGEL: In other words, if you want to change a mind, simply talking to it might not be enough.
Alix Spiegel, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Everyday for a month the artist sculpted a bust of himself. His hope was to capture in clay the slight differences resulting from variations in his physical appearance and daily moods. During exhibitions the heads are displayed in a long row next to each other, standing at the artist's height and shoulder width apart. The subtlety of each expression becomes more apparent by comparisons to the other busts, while at the same time uniting them in a group context.


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- Where additional verification is required for security reasons before access is permitted, e.g. to protect alarm centres, archives and data centres.
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Land-a Panda Review
- Publisher: Big Pixel Studios
- Genre: Action
- Released: 10 Mar, 2011
- Size: 17.3 MB
- Price: $0.99
- Sharp stick-art style visuals and smooth animations.
- 80 levels to test your skills on.
- Bonus coin challenges add difficulty while also being immensely satisfying to complete.
- Easy to fail thanks to a minor timing errors.
What's black and white with a lot of red chunks? I don't know, but if you played Land-a Panda you might find out; a fun, refreshingly easy to enjoy puzzler for all ages.
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Big Pixel Studios have already garnered a reputation for their ability to combine clean, cute and amusing sticker-art style visuals with gameplay that's just as fun and their latest arcade-puzzle title Land-a Panda is no exception.
Apologies for my poor pronunciation, but Yang Guang is out to capture the heart of the lovely Tian Tian, but cannons, walls, spikes, ghosts and other hazards will conspire against these star-crossed lovers. This is where you jump in, taking control over the various cannons that range from fully automatic to requiring full manipulation of where you're fired in order to avoid hazards and maybe even collect coins in the process. The levels start out simply enough and new features are introduced successive as soon as you master them, but later levels can be a real challenge even without attempting to collect all the coins, especially when your entire progress is ruined by timing a tap a fraction of a second too late.
While it can be frustrating to lose your progress thanks to tiny mistakes, the levels are generally small enough that it's only a minor inconvenience. Also, it's hard to get too angry when you're exposed to the super-cute visuals and upbeat background music that are easy on the eyes and ears. 80 levels are currently available and more are on their way, so you certainly won't be wanting for content and if any level proves to be too challenging you can skip it before returning to it later.
Land-a Panda is simple, cute and fun - almost everything you could want in a mobile device game; definitely worth picking up if you're itching for something new.
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• GamePro [5/5] - "this is the best $0.99 I've spent in quite some time"
• AppSpy [5/5] - "simple, cute and fun - almost everything you could want in a mobile game"
• MobileTechReview [5/5] - "a must buy game, I recommend this to everyone"
• IGN [8/10] - "hours of endlessly re-playable fun"
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• TouchArcade - "you can't really go wrong with Land-a Panda"
• Kotaku - "cute, cuddly, and ready to both please and tease your mind for hours on end"
• QualityIndex.com's Top 10 games list of March 2011
The world's panda population is in decline, and your help is needed! Assist the lovestruck Yang Guang (male panda) to meet with his dream partner Tian Tian (female panda), in this highly innovative puzzle game. With a unique gameplay mechanic, a wide variety of levels, and beautiful High Definition graphics, Land-a Panda is one App Store title you won't want to miss!
Land-a Panda combines fast action based gameplay with puzzle mechanics, and a simple and intuitive touch control system. Launching Yang Guang from a cannon is as simple as tapping on it, although as you progress more complex objects are introduced, making your timing and planning ever more crucial.
Unfortunately it's not quite as simple as getting Yang Guang to meet with Tian Tian. If you don't collect any of the golden love coins on your way, Tian Tian will not be impressed! To get maximum points (and love!) you must collect all three golden coins in each level, while avoiding a variety of enemies and obstacles along the way.
Reaching Tian Tian will not always be easy, with a multitude of different cannons and obstacles to traverse Yang Guang through in order to reach his soul mate. From moving and rotating cannons, to teleports and spooky ghosts to avoid, you'll need to master a number of skills to impress this fine lady.
Yang Guang will travel through a number of different worlds, each of which is presented in bright and colourful High Definition Retina graphics. Easy to learn but difficult to master, can you collect all the golden coins and win the heart of the gorgeous Tian Tian?


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A reliable 18x zoom travel compact with a range of useful functions
While Canon's PowerShot SX600 HS is an easy-to-use camera with a long 18x zoom, performance and image quality resembles those from a lower-end camera.
Picks up where your phone leaves off without sacrificing easy sharing
versatile superzoom compact camera with good sharing features
Judged on image quality, the Samsung WB350F isn't the best. But throw in a 21x zoom, excellent Wi-Fi, and simple operation, and you get something unique.
Wi-Fi, filters and effects aplenty
Samsung's new travel compact offers Wi-Fi, 21x zoom, full manual controls and a brilliant touchscreen.
An affordable compact camera with plenty of creative shooting options
With new features for kids
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Though the economy has evolved over the last century, Fairbanks still remembers its origins. Italian immigrant Felix Pedro's initial 1902 gold strike coincided with Captain E.T. Barnette's goal of building a trading post on the banks of the Chena River and the gold rush to Fairbanks was on. Prospectors filled the area to pan and sluice, followed by small manual drift mines and draglines to the monster floating dredges and lode mines.
Today, historic visitor attractions and modern-day mining operations still celebrate the quest for gold. See the largest public display of gold in the state at the University of Alaska Museum of the North. Visit the Pedro Monument in tribute to gold's first discovery. Try your hand at gold panning and uncover your own Alaskan gold. Find that perfect gold nugget souvenir to take back home. Discover for yourself one of the many reasons Fairbanks is called the "Golden Heart" city.


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"The boundaries of the campus are the boundaries of the state."
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TACLOBAN, Philippines — Almost three months after Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines, Presiding Bishop Gary E. Stevenson, Philippines Area President Brent H. Nielson of the Seventy and other leaders for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints visited LDS Church members in Tacloban on Jan. 27 to see how principles of welfare and self-reliance are working in the storm-devastated area.
Their verdict: "Remarkable."
"One of the divinely appointed responsibilities from the Lord is 'caring for the poor and needy' while building self-reliance," said Bishop Stevenson. "This is what is special about what is taking place in the Philippines right now. The church is simultaneously doing this for the people there."
Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines on Nov. 8, destroying more than 1.1 million homes. The deadliest typhoon on record in the country, the storm left more than 6,200 people dead, injured 28,000 and displaced 3 million. Some 1,785 people remain missing.
After the disaster, in which 42 Latter-day Saints died, the church sent relief supplies and partnered with local and international relief organizations to assist with food, shelter, water purification, debris removal and livelihood restoration projects. To date, church members have constructed more than 250 shelters, with new homes being completed every day.
Working with the local Self Reliance Center — an international version of employment resource centers — and with the Perpetual Education Fund, members are receiving vocational training and learning skills as carpenters, electricians or plumbers. The LDS Church is also helping them obtain basic tools needed to construct shelters to house those who lost their homes during the disaster.
Church leaders expect that the members' training and hands-on experience will lead to jobs as the affected region's infrastructure is rebuilt.
"The principles in action right now are quite remarkable," he told the Church News. "We are seeing both the principles of welfare, which is caring for the poor and needy, and the principle of self-reliance in action. This is astounding, and something that will have a far-reaching impact upon Church members."
Elder Nielson said the highlight of the visit was the opportunity to see welfare and self-reliance come together in a remarkable way.
"Each family is given materials to build a new shelter and tools to assist," he explained. "The family builds their own home with the assistance of a carpenter and three other members. Once the shelter is built then the family assists nine other families in building their shelter. At the end of that experience, the family is given the tools to keep and a certificate of carpentry is issued certifying that they have learned basic carpentry skills. They are then able to apply for the many construction jobs that are now available in Tacloban. In the process, the church helps them help themselves. They help other members and in the process gain a marketable skill."
Elder Robert C. Gay, Chairman of the Church Perpetual Education Fund, expressed support for the self-reliance initiative. He explained, "The work of building shelters in the Philippines is an example of helping the poor and needy in the Lord's way. Welfare relief accompanied by training to help our members acquire longer term work skills that help them lift themselves while working as one under the direction of local priesthood."
Speaking of Bishop Stevenson's visit to Tacloban, Elder Nielson said, "He was able to see firsthand, the needs of the people and also participate in the work that is being done to assist."
He also said Bishop Stevenson — who was serving as president of the church's Asia North Area when a tsunami struck Sendai, Japan, in 2011 and coordinated the church's relief and recovery efforts after the disaster — was able to provide valuable insight gleaned from his experience there.
"The members and leaders in Tacloban were moved by his visit," said Elder Nielson. "They understood his role as the Presiding Bishop of the church in providing for those in need and in directing the work in Tacloban."
Despite losing so much in the disaster, the members have "smiles on their faces," Bishop Stevenson said. "They have hope; they have faith. It's an example for the world. It's an example for members of the church everywhere."
Bishop Stevenson and Elder Nielson were accompanied by Elder Abenir Pajaro, Area Seventy; Gary B. Porter, Secretary to the Presiding Bishopric; Todd Tapp, Director for Temporal Affairs for the Philippines Area and Nate Leishman, manager of emergency response for the Welfare Services Department.
After the visit Bishop Stevenson, Elder Nielson and Elder Pajaro presided over a leaders' meeting to answer questions regarding the shelter program of the LDS Church. The leaders assured the members that Heavenly Father loves them and knows each of them.
Quoting Alma 26:37, Bishop Stevenson said Latter-day Saints "understand that God is mindful of every people, whatsoever land they may be in; yea, he numbereth his people, and his bowels of mercy are over all the earth."
"Our Philippine members have hope now because they see they will have a roof over their head. They are going to help build that themselves. They will have a place for their children to sleep. This is what we saw and this is what we felt — that the Lord is aware of each and every one of their circumstances."


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Jeff Koons: A Retrospective at the Whitney Museum
Photos by G. Art by Jeff Koons.
If you are a fan of Jeff Koons (and perhaps even if you are not a fan), you should really head over to the Whitney Museum in New York to check out their retrospective on the man who is one of the world's most famous and also richest artists.
The comprehensive exhibit covers Koons' earliest work up through present day with his Gazing Ball series.
The infamous X-rated "Made In Heaven" series, where Jeff Koons became a temporary porn star with his then wife Ciccolina, are also on display, and you get to see another side of Koons (pun intended), an artist who was not afraid to get naked for his art.
The exhibit is organized by the various stages of Koons' career and when you see the diversity and vast body of work, I think it might even change the opinion of the haters. Well, if you're not a fan and you see the exhibit, tell us what you thought in the comments section.
As a person who likes to take my own photos for usage on this blog, I was thrilled that the Whitney loosened their no photos policy for this show, the last exhibit at their uptown Manhattan location before it moves down to Chelsea in 2015.
This show will be traveling to Paris in 2014 and Spain in 2015 and I hope there will be some sort of documentary on how this priceless art is transported and hung. Though it may not be obvious from the photos, in real life, many of these works are absolutely gigantic.
Personally, I love Jeff Koons' work and to see so many familiar artworks as well as so many I've never gotten to see in person was really an incredible experience for me.
And now, enjoy a few more pictures (which are only a tiny fraction of the over 150 works on display at the Whitney).
After the jump, see a few images that are not safe for closed minded people (NSFCMP).
If you choose not to go on, know that the Koons Retrospective is on display through October 19, 2014 at the Whitney Musuem, located at 945 Madison Avenue and 75th Street. Don't miss it!
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Ana Kraš, born in Belgrade and based in NYC, uses basic structures and everyday materials to design "what people would need and like to use." Her bonbon lamps or lanterns are handmade and no two are exactly alike. Kraš laboriously loops each bit of thread around the metal frames, creating a color-blocked pattern with a folk sensibility reminiscent of the 1970s.
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A volunteer from Italy, Andrea, speaks about his Teaching placement in Jamaica and what it was like to work with high school students.
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01:32Sports in Jamaica
A group of 6 students and 2 teachers from Stourpourt High School helping to teach the future starlets of Jamaican sport in Mandeville.
00:59Medicine in Jamaica
A Medicine volunteer, Katarina from Germany, talks about some of the activities she got the children involved in on a medical education and awareness outreach day at a local school.
01:48Volunteering in Jamaica
Learn more about the various Projects Abroad placements offered in Jamaica, ranging from Veterinary Medicine & Animal Care to Teaching.
00:48Journalism in Jamaica
A German volunteer, Violeta, talks about her reasons for volunteering at the Journalism project in Jamaica as well as her future plans.
01:34Community Farming in Jamaica
A German volunteer, Angelina, talks about her volunteering experience at the Community Farming placement in Jamaica.
01:53Veterinary Medicine & Animal Care in Jamaica
A Danish volunteer talks about her volunteering experience and making a difference at the Veterinary Medicine & Animal Care placement in Jamaica.
01:15Care in Jamaica
A volunteer talks about her experience at the Care project in Jamaica and the reason for her daily smile.
00:40Teaching in Jamaica
A video showing what it is like to teach adults in Jamaica on the rewarding Teaching project.
04:29Operation Get Ready in Jamaica
Operation Get Ready is an initiative of Projects Abroad and aims to help vulnerable communities in Jamaica to be prepared for hurricanes.
01:32Sports in Jamaica
Two volunteers from the UK speak about the Sports project and their experience volunteering in Jamaica.
00:53Building in Jamaica
A volunteer speaks about his experience volunteering in Jamaica and why he chose to do the Building project.
01:12Care in Jamaica
Volunteer, Lisa from Austria, speaks about her time in Jamaica and her volunteering experience at the Care placement.
01:33Music in Jamaica
A volunteer from Germany, Teresa Scharl, speaks about her experience in Jamaica and her time volunteering on the Music project.
01:44Care in Jamaica
A Care volunteer from Germany talks about his time in Jamaica and how he enjoyed working with the children at his placement.
02:08Short-term Specials Building in Jamaica
The 2 Week Special volunteers explain what it's like to work on the Building project and how they spent their time in Jamaica.
01:30Care in Jamaica
A Care volunteer talks about her time in Jamaica and how she enjoyed working with the children at her placement.
01:59Sports in Jamaica
A Sports volunteer as well as a project partner talk about the work they do at the Sports project in Jamaica.
01:59Veterinary Medicine & Animal Care
The project partner, as well as a volunteer from the UK talks about the beneficial work they do at their project.
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Tech Geoscientists at GSA Conference, Nov. 8, 2001
BOSTON, November 6, 2001 -- A group of ten Earth scientists from New Mexico Tech currently are presenting results of their recent research projects at the 113th Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA) in Boston's Hynes Convention Center.
In addition, one of the Tech researchers, Fred M. Phillips, professor of hydrology, is slated to receive the organization's prestigious "O. E. Meinzer Award," which is presented each year by the GSA Hydrogeology Division to the author of a published paper of distinction which advances the science of hydrogeology.
Approximately 6,000 geoscientists from around the world are in attendance at the week-long convention, titled Boston 2001: A Geo-Odyssey, which runs through Saturday, November 10.
The New Mexico Tech researchers presenting research papers and talks at the international conference and the titles of their presentations are listed as follows:
- Laurel B. Goodwin, associate professor of geology, "Competency Contrast, Kinematics, and the Development of Foliations and Lineations in the Crust;"
- Mitchell Plummer, doctoral candidate, "Simulation of Alpine Glaciers as a Means of Interpreting the Glacial Record;"
- Robert S. Bowman, professor of hydrology and coordinator of the hydrology program, "Diffusion Coefficients of Hydrologic Tracers Measured by a Taylor Dispersion Technique;"
- John L. Wilson, professor of hydrology and chair of Department of Earth and Environmental Science (and previous O. E. Meinzer Award winner), "Gas Mini-Permeameters;"
- Benjamin J. Lechler, graduate student, "Operator Errors and Gas Permeability Measurements;"
- William W. Weiss, field petroleum engineer at the Petroleum Recovery Research Center (PRRC), "Artificial Intelligence to Reduce the Risk of Oil Exploration and Production;"
- Bruce J. Harrison, assistant professor of environmental geology, "The Pedogenic Record of Hillslope Erosion and Deposition Processes;"
- Gabriel M. Gomez, graduate student, "Pressure Fluctuations at Taca Taca Porphyry Copper, Northwest Argentina;"
- Gabrielle E. Kurth, graduate student, "Cosmogenic Nuclide Dating of Pluvial Shorelines in the Western Great Basin;" and
- Fred M. Phillips, professor of hydrology and this year's winner of the O. E. Meinzer Award, "Correlation of Sierra Nevada Continental and Pacific Marine Paleoclimate Records over the Last Glacial Cycle."
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For pregnant women, supplements of an omega-3 fatty acid called Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) may help to reduce the likelihood of giving birth very prematurely, according to a new study.
The results add to evidence that omega-3 fatty acid supplements make pregnancy last a little longer, which means more development time for babies before birth, less hospital time after birth and a better long-term health outlook.
That's important for women in the U.S., who have shorter pregnancies and lower birth weights, on average, than in many other developed countries, lead author Susan Carlson told Reuters Health.
"It didn't reduce all preterm births, but reduced the riskiest preterm births," said Carlson, a nutritionist at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City.
Carlson and her colleagues recruited 350 women between eight and 20 weeks pregnant and gave half of them a supply of capsules, each containing 200 milligrams of algae-derived DHA, to take three times a day until giving birth. The other half of the women received identical-looking placebo capsules with mainly corn and soy oils.
When Carlson's team looked at the outcomes of the women's pregnancies, they found that overall, participants taking the DHA supplements tended to have slightly larger, heavier babies and to give birth about three days later than the placebo group.
Though there was little difference in the number of preterm births in both groups, the placebo group had considerably more births of very early preemies, according to results published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Normally, a full-term pregnancy lasts 39 weeks and babies born more than five weeks early are at the greatest risk for serious health problems and potentially long hospital stays.
Five percent of mothers in the placebo group had their babies at less than 34 weeks - similar to the early preterm birth rate in the U.S. population - compared to less than one percent in the omega-3 group.
The researchers credit DHA with the differences because they measured fatty acid levels in mothers' and babies' blood, and found that only the DHA-supplemented mothers had raised DHA compared to the study's outset, and DHA was the only fatty acid whose level had changed.
DHA is one of the essential fatty acids, important for brain and eye development, that can't be manufactured in the body and must be obtained by eating cold water oceanic fish. It is included in some prenatal vitamins and can be bought as a supplement on its own, costing about $30 for a bottle of 180 capsules, 500 mg each.
Though studies haven't found clear, consistent benefits for fetal brain development, as researchers once hoped, the evidence for prolonging pregnancy is sound.
"This one adds another brick to the foundation," Dr. Emily Oken, of the department of population medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, who was not involved in the study, told Reuters Health.
"It seems that one of the very few consistent effects of fish oil and other marine oil supplementation in pregnancy is to increase duration of pregnancy by 2-3 days," according to Maria Makrides, professor of human nutrition at the University of Adelaide in Australia.
A previous study in Mexico that used 400 mg per day did not lead to longer pregnancies. The newest results may indicate that at least 600 mg is necessary for the beneficial effect, Makrides told Reuters Health by email.
Birth before 34 weeks is one of the leading causes of infant death, Oken said, so these results are "definitely reason for enthusiasm."
Women in the U.S. tend to avoid fish during pregnancy because of the mercury, which can impair brain and nervous system development for the baby, so they may be missing out on some important nutrients, like DHA, selenium and protein, Carlson said.
"We shouldn't discount the benefits of eating fish," up to two times per week during pregnancy, Oken said. Just avoid fish high in mercury, like swordfish, tilefish, mackerel and shark.
SOURCE: bit.ly/XkQxmJ American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, February 20, 2013.


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Moonlighting van drivers are probably to blame for the growing problem of GPS jamming on Britain's roads, the latest survey of the problem by the Technology Strategy Board's Sentinel Project has suggested.
In advance of today's Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Vulnerabilities 2013 event, the organisation revealed its network of sensors had recently detected up to 100 potentially dangerous jamming incidents a day near one busy UK airport alone.
When trying to work out what might be causing such a high level of interference, the project engineers noticed that most of it occurred during the week, dropping off at weekends, which ruled out solar weather events that occur more randomly.
Jamming was also most marked during rush hour which pointed to commercial vehicles being the culprits rather than, as previously suspected, vehicle thieves trying to foil security tracking systems.
"The pattern of behaviour suggests it is likely to be civilian-sourced jamming and most likely the evasion of tracking within commercial vehicles for moonlighting activities or for other non-work purposes," said project head and Chronos Technology founder, Charles Curry.
The best guess is that van drivers want to hide unauthorised use of delivery vans, using jammers to confuse the central tracking software now used by all major delivery networks to optimise the supply chain.
A year ago, the Government-funded Sentinel Project first reported on the issue of GPS interference, using its network of sensors placed on bust roads to log what had previously been a largely anecdotal problem.
And problem it is; GNSS is critical for aviation and air traffic control, shipping, and specific applications such car tracking to deter theft; consumers also use it for SatNav. Jamming can cause significant problems for these applications.
The underlying cause is the easy availability of cheap 12-vollt jammers, which can cost as little as £30 each and a widespread ignorance about their unintended effects on critical systems.
The separate Stavog project ran simulations that confirmed that these devices could cause outages across all GPS systems on the market, causing data inaccuracies that commercial users might not realise was even occurring.
"Even the cheapest ones [jammers] available online can cause complete outages of the receiver signal," said Stavog project manager, Dr Chaz Dixon.
"It is in anticipation of this threat that we will be making this service available for any GPS users to understand and protect themselves against the vulnerabilities in their positioning and timing systems," he said.
Both Sentinel and Stavog will present their full survey findings at today's GNSS Vulnerabilities 2013: Countering the Threat event, held at the National Physical Laboratory.
"Our more complete understanding of the risks posed to GNSS systems is bringing forward new mitigation technologies and approaches," commented conference organiser and director of position, navigation and timing at the ICT Knowledge Transfer Network , Bob Cockshott.
"There is no one solution that fits all. Instead we need to combine the right protection and back-up technologies with legal reforms which punish the ownership and use of these jammers, and finally advise government and industry on new commercial and civil policies that will reduce the incentive to jam in the first place."


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Jets linebacker Bryan Thomas has resolved criminal assault and drug possession charges by entering into a pre-trial intervention program.
The arrangement was approved Monday by Judge Stuart Minkowitz. The program, for first-time offenders, requires Thomas to submit to two years of supervised probation, to perform 100 hours of community service, and to undergo any drug, alcohol, or domestic violence training deemed necessary.
Thomas, who was arrested in October 2012, allegedly pushed his wife with a chair and punched her in the stomach. He also was charged with possessing less than 50 grams of marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and 20 hydrocodone tablets not in a prescription bottle.
The player's wife attended Monday's hearing. According to the Morris County Daily Record, she was "visibly upset" and told reporters the situation is a "private matter."
Lawyer Joe Tacopina also declined to address the situation. "I don't want to give the incident life," Tacopina said. "They're a couple and like any couple they go through stresses."
More stress likely is coming. Even though the matter will be expunged from Thomas's record if he complies with the terms of the intervention program, the NFL surely will review the case under the league's personal-conduct policy and the substance-abuse policy.
UPDATE 4:51 p.m. ET: NFL spokesman Greg Aiello tells PFT that the situation will be reviewed under both the personal conduct policy and the substance abuse policy.


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With the help of volunteers throughout the state, Make-A-Wish Illinois will make over 700 wishes come true for Illinois children suffering from a life-threatening medical condition this year! Wish granters work with our wish children to help them determine their most heartfelt wish and with the staff to help make these wishes come true.
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February 11, 2010 in Washington, DC at the Omni Shoreham
This workshop was canceled due to inclement weather. Most of the sessions were rescheduled for the regular PTEC Conference. Below is the original agenda.
Program directors of three major programs that support the pre-service education of science and math teachers will discuss how to prepare strong proposals. The National Science Foundation Noyce session will include a mock review panel. An after-dinner talk will provide an overview of how these programs support teacher preparation at University of Colorado at Boulder. This workshop is open to PTEC members only. All workshop attendees must be registered for the PTEC Conference.
Schedule12:00 – 1:00pm (optional) meet for informal lunch in hotel restaurant
1:00 – 2:00pm PhysTEC Comprehensive and Pilot Site Proposal Preparation, Theodore Hodapp, American Physical Society
2:00 – 2:15 Break
2:15 – 3:15 UTeach replication, Michael Marder, University of Texas at Austin
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3:30 – 5:00 NSF Noyce RFP & mock review panel, Deborah Allen and Bert Holmes, National Science Foundation
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
The Obama Administration threatened what could be described as diplomatic and economic sanctions against the Palestinians if their leader, Mahmoud Abbas, goes through with his own threat to dismantle the Palestinian Authority.
Abbas hinted at such a move in an interview last week with Egyptian media, complaining that Israel's unwillingness to meet 100 percent of Palestinian demands meant a two-state solution was increasingly unlikely.
Over the weekend, Palestinian officials told Israeli media that Abbas and his senior aides were considering canceling the "Oslo Accords" and dismantling the Palestinian Authority, a move that would make Israel directly responsible for all Palestinian Arabs and dangerously tip local demographic figures.
It is not the first time Abbas has threatened to shut down the PA and cancel existing peace agreements with Israel.
"Of course [the PA disbanding] will have serious consequences," US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki told reporters. "Obviously, this is not in the interest of the Palestinian people, and all that has been achieved will be lost."
Psaki continued by noting that "a great deal of effort has gone into building Palestinian institutions by Palestinians as well as the international community, and it would certainly not be in the interests of the Palestinian people for all of that to be lost. We - the United States - has put millions of dollars into this effort. It would obviously have very serious implications for our relationship, including our assistance going forward."
Veteran Palestinian politician Qadura Fares told Israel's Army Radio that the Palestinian Authority was largely unconcerned by the American threat. But a day later, senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat belied that notion, insisting that reports of the PA's imminent demise were an "Israeli ploy."
"No Palestinian is speaking of an initiative to dismantle the Palestinian Authority," Erekat claimed in remarks to the AFP.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, took the opportunity to criticize the Palestinian leadership, saying that threats to quit the peace process were indicative of the true intentions of the Palestinian Authority.
"Today, we saw the Palestinian Authority speak of dismantling itself and also talking about unity with Hamas," Netanyahu told attendees at a post-Passover celebration. "They should decide - either dissolve, or enter into a union with Hamas. When they want peace, they should let us know. Because we want a genuine peace."
With only seven days to go until the April 29 deadline for the current US-brokered peace talks, Psaki said that her boss, US Secretary of State John Kerry, has no plans for yet another last-minute mission to the region to save the failing negotiations.
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Dukkah @ Duqqa Bread
Ingredients :
400gm bread flour
100gm wholewheat Bran
2 tspn yeast
2 tbsp sugar
1 tspn salt
1 small egg
230ml water
60gm butter
Dukkah mixture :
50gm toasted hazelnut, crushed
1-1/2 tbsp black sesame
1 tbsp black peppercorn, crushed
1 tbsp cumin seeds
1/2 tbsp corriander seeds, crushed
# 2 tin cans (D4" x H5-6")
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(1) combine flour, brans, yeast & sugar in a big bowl, mix well.
(2) now, stir in water, butter & egg and mix in the salt lastly to form a soft dough.
(3) leave to rest for 30 mins, covered.
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(7) then gently place dough to canned food tins/trays and let them rest for an hour or till double in size.
(8) finally, baked at preheated oven 180-185'C for 30 mins.
(9) leave the bread cool for 20 mins before removing them from the cans..
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Ten crowned on third day of cyclo-cross national championships
The day's racing opened and closed with the country's best 30-and-overs squaring off, with junior competition between riders 10-18 filling the mild day in between.
In the morning's first race, Stephen Tilford (Topeka, Kansas) bested the 46-rider masters men 50-54 field to earn the Stars-and-Stripes. On the third of the four-lap competition, Tilford and his closest chaser, Kevin Hines (East Wareham, Mass./Corner Cycle Cycling Club), opened a gap approaching three minutes on the third-place rider. Hines trailed Tilford by 21 seconds as they heard the bell for their last lap. In the end, Tilford crossed 10 seconds ahead of a hard-charging Hines.
In the afternoon, Andrea Smith (Somerville, Mass./Minuteman Road Club-LadiesFirst Racing), who sits in fourth in the United States International Cyclo-cross elite women's standings heading to Sunday's finale, held off Kari Studley (Bothell, Wash./Team Redline), the winner of Wednesday's B race, early in the race and a surging Crystal Anthony (Beverly, Mass.) late in the contest to earn the gold medal. Anthony was 11 seconds faster than Nicole Thiemann (Philadelphia, Pa./Team CF-Elite) to win the silver.
"I heard she (Anthony) moved into second and I can't count her out," Smith said. "So I just tried to ride steady, consistent and keep the pedals moving and keep it upright otherwise she would pass me."
The day's racing closed with the women 35-39 race, Sally Annis (Nashua, N.H./CrossResults.com) sprinted to an early lead before riding away with the coveted Stars-and-Stripes. On her first lap, Annis traversed the muddy course nearly 30 seconds faster than any other rider before turning her second of four circuits 45 seconds faster any competitor en route to winning the race by nearly two minutes.
"It was messy, so having bike that functioned and getting traction was key," Annis said. "You can never let up in 'cross. You never know what's going to happen. You can roll a tire. You could crash. You could break a chain. At one point, I had some chain stuck, so I had to stop and do a little maintenance. You never know. You always have to stay on the gas."
The women 13-14 competed in the second race of the day. Mina Anderberg (Louisville, Colo./Sports T.E.A.M.-T.E.A.M. Fuji) rode away with the third national title of her career by outlasting Wisconsin-native and multi-time national champ on the road Skylar Schneider (West Allis, Wisc.). Anderberg was able to open a gap on Schneider by riding up a run-up.
"It went awesome, I did exactly what I wanted," Anderberg said. "It was perfect conditions for me, I love the mud, and it was just really good."
In the women 10-12 race, 11-year-old Sydney Lach (Cincinnati, Ohio/Queen City Wheels-Lionhearts) credited a fast start to her winning the first national title of her career. Lach was over a minute faster than her closest competitor on the first lap and she completed her second lap two minutes faster than any other rider in her age group.
As the sun shone on the course and ground loosened further, the women 17-18 contested their three-lap race. Wisconsin-native Corrie Osborne (Mequon, Wisc./ISCorp Cycling Team) and Allison Arensman (Rutherford College, N.C./Fiets Maan Racing) turned in an opening lap 20 seconds faster than the next rider. Osborne's second lap opened a 26-second margin on Arensman before winning the race by 1:14 to secure the second national title of her career.
"My coach was building me up to this race so I'm at my peak right now." Osborne said. "So its really good."
The women 15-16 started just one minute after the women 17-18 group started. It took until the first climb of the first lap for Emma White (Delanson, N.Y./NYCross.com) to establish herself as the cream of the crop. She started passing riders in the 17-18 race by the first climb and crossed the line third with one lap remaining. Her strong start of her race allowed her to win by 31 seconds.
"I tend to have good starts, I feel strong in my starts," White said. "So I like to take advantage of them and see where I can go."
In the youngest men's age group, Andrew Schmidt (Lake Geneva, Wisc.) took the top prize finishing his two-lap contest in 24:04, 32 seconds faster than the silver-medalist, Scott Funston (Black Diamond, Wash./Old Town Bicycle).
Gage Hecht (Parker, Colo./International Christian Cycling Club) rode away with a win by 46 seconds in the men 13-14 race. Hecht's two lap times were within one second of each other, completing the first lap in 10:49 and the second in 10:50.
"It felt like I did everything just like I hoped it would go in practice. It felt like it should have." Hecht said.
In the day's last junior race, Austin Vincent (Simsbury, Ct./Team CF) turned in a stellar performance to win by 47 seconds. As the lone rider to keep each of his three laps under 11 minutes, Vincent led by 30 seconds after the first lap and did not relent, maintaining his advantage throughout the race.
"I've been working the whole season to get it," a visibly excited Vincent said. "I'm so happy."
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The event continues Saturday with masters men 30-49, junior men 17-18 and collegiate women before culminating Sunday, Jan. 8 with the elite men's and women's races.
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Watch the men's and women's race live online at at http://media.usacycling.org/2012CX-NatsStream.html or http://www.youtube.com/usacyclingorg.
More Info
Visit the official event webpage of the 2012 USA Cycling Cyclo-cross National Championships for more information on the event, including eligibility and call-up details, complete schedule, results, photo gallery and more. Follow the event on Twitter, using hashtag #CXNats.
2012 USA Cycling Cyclo-cross National Championships
January 4-8, 2012
Verona, Wisc.
Masters Men 50-54
1. Stephen Tilford (Topeka, Kansas) 47:38
2. Kevin Hines (East Wareham, Minn./Corner Cycle Cycling Club) 47:49
3. Wayne Simon (Lake Barrington, Ill./PISMET Racing-Enzo's PISMET) 51:30
4. Tim Hacker (Madison, Wisc./Planet Bike) 53:04
5. Ron Huebner (Waterford, Va./Evolution Cycling Club p/b Long and Foster) 53:13
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5. Benjamin King (Anacortes, Wash./Revel Consulting-Rad Racing NW) 26:52
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4. Sean Mcelroy (Palmdale, Calif./Team Specialized Racing Juniors) 23:47
5. Michael Owens (Richmond, Vt./Green Mountain Bicycle Club) 23:57
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5. Morgan Fortin (Albuquerque, N.M./Goathead Jr. Devo) 34:46
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BY SARAH PRIDE July 11, 2007
July 11, 2007
|David Halbrook
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Arriving on campus as a Literature major in fall of 2005, Patrick Henry College junior Peter Forbes had no idea that two years later he would be the Production Manager for an independent Christian film. Fascinated with moviemaking but aware that PHC didn't yet offer a film program, Forbes assumed he would dabble in small student projects at his new school. And yet he felt God calling him to this small Christian liberal-arts college in northern Virginia.
Now, two years later, Forbes found himself crowded with more than thirty other Christians from across the nation into PHC's Nash Auditorium for the first day of filming on a full-length feature.
"Quiet on the set!" calls PHC graduate Daniel Noa. Other graduates Ben Adams and Mike Holcomb are serving here as Associate Producers, while students Mari Davis, Daniel Silver, and Abby Cossette chart scenes or await further commands. Everyone waits for the word "Action" from the film's director, George Escobar, founder of the new Advent Film Group (AFG).
The soft-spoken Escobar, a long-time PHC friend and patron, considered the College a promising setting from which to launch an independent Christian film program. Though no formal business relationship exists between PHC and Advent, the proximity of a pool of talented students with sights on impacting the culture for Christ, many already producing videos and films, seemed like a perfect fit.
"Why is it that major 'Christian' films in Hollywood such as Amazing Grace and The Chronicles of Narnia are done by secular directors?" he asks. "Because no Christians are qualified to direct with $100 million budgets."
Since the Hollywood movie culture effectively excluded Christians., Escobar sought an alternative.
"Film school right now is a failure for Christians," he adds. "My thought has been, let's not just talk about movies or play around with poor-quality student films. Let's go make movies!"
And Escobar knows how. Former Producing Fellow from the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies, he spent many years in the Hollywood system before deciding that the nation's entertainment media needed something very different. Christian films in particular, he felt, needed a facelift.
"We don't want poor-quality movies that evangelize to Christians because nobody else can tolerate them," he explained. "We want to make authentic movies about Christians facing tough moral, real-life issues; imperfect people who happen to hold a Christian worldview."
Along those lines, AFG's first project, which bears the working title of Moot Courting, follows the story of Caleb, a recent transfer to PHC, caught in a moral tug of war between his parents—a newly Christian father, and a feminist Supreme Court attorney mother. As the PHC moot court team and the Supreme Court simultaneously grapple with legal cases involving abortion, Caleb clashes with his mother and his own conscience over difficult issues of truth, compromise, and success in the intense world of collegiate moot court.
Escobar plans to film and produce five such movies over the next three years in collaboration with PHC, following the model of Facing the Giants, a "microbudget" Christian feature filmed for less than $100,000. He has raised all the money for "Moot Courting" from independent investors, and he expects that it will pay for AFG's second movie from sales inside the homeschool community alone.
"We know this model works," he says. "We don't want to get ahead of the Lord." But then he leans forward, eyes bright. "I have the audacious vision that Christians can overtake and match the quality and quantity of Hollywood productions over the next few decades. And we need to."
PHC Trustee and AFG investor Paul de Pree agrees. "It also has always been a mission of PHC to get involved in cinema and change the way that industry presents reality. Our world is so in tune with video these days, that this is a great way to reach the common person. This also begins to share the story of PHC very effectively, in a way we had not been able to explore yet and may not be able to do otherwise."
Escobar invites any Christian interested in participating in or donating to AFG to visit adventfilmgroup.com for more information.


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Tech Leader Named Chairman Of National ConsortiumSOCORRO, N.M. August 8, 2011 – Dr. Dan Walsh, associate vice president of research at Tech, has a new hat to wear for the next three years. Walsh was elected the chairman of the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium, or NDPC.
|Dr. Dan Walsh (standing, center) officially took over as chairman of the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium during the quarterly meeting in late July in Socorro. Above, Dr. Van Romero addresses consortium members over dinner at the Magdalena Ridge Observatory. Walsh is the associate vice president of research at Tech.
|Dr. Dan Walsh (standing) chats with EMRTC and Tech employees during dinner at the MRO.
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"Dan Walsh has been involved since the beginning and now it's his turn to take charge," said Dr. Van Romero, vice president of research at Tech and a former NDPC chairman. "From an academic standpoint, he's been the Dean of Adult Education at LSU and he knows how adults learn. He's the expert. He also understands the first responder world. Not a whole lot of people have all those skills."
Ron Purvis is an advisory board member from Mississippi. He has been involved with the NDPC for many years, including the last three on the advisory board.
"Sometimes we need to operate within boundaries and Dan will be good about re-establishing boundaries," Purvis said. "He seeks input about the NDPC mission and the work at New Mexico Tech. He takes initiative and I'm impressed with his leadership skills."
Walsh was formerly the dean of adult education at LSU. He moved from Louisiana to New Mexico Tech about 11 years ago. Earlier this year, he won the Appreciation Award for a staff member from the Student Association at the May 2011 Commencement ceremony.
In 1997, New Mexico Tech, Texas A&M and LSU formed the Consortium to establish collaborative efforts to train the nation's emergency response personnel – police, firefighters, medical personnel and others. The Nevada Test Site and the Center for Domestic Preparedness in Aniston, Miss., are also charter members. The University of Hawaii joined soon after.
The group meets quarterly to share best practices, discuss budgets, new technology, the latest developments in terrorism and plan future training sessions. Typical meetings include representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, and members of the advisory board, who are typically emergency management directors from various states.
The Consortium's mission is to address the counter-terrorism preparedness needs for all hazards, including chemical, biological, radiological, natural disaster and explosive hazards. Each member hosts a training program that educates first responders about how to recognize dangers and how to react in manners that will save lives and property.
At $23 million annually, the First Responder Training Program at New Mexico Tech is among the most lucrative federal contracts on campus.
"We're making a significant contribution to our nation's ability to protect itself," Romero said. "The vast majority of what we do is prevention."
Purvis used different language: "We teach responders to stay alive and what better mission can you have?
"We support 1,000 percent what is done through the NDPC and here at New Mexico Tech. This is unique," Purvis said. "Nowhere else in the world can you get bomb awareness training in the way it's taught here in Socorro."
Consortium members have not experienced federal funding cuts in recent years, but they have their work cut out for them, thanks to federal budget cuts in other areas. For example, the feds cut $2 billion from the Urban Area Security Initiative. Instead of providing security assistance to the 100 largest metropolitan areas, the feds are now only serving the 10 largest cities, Walsh said.
"Those areas still need training," he said. "We need to see how effectively we can use new money to support those areas."
As chairman, Walsh will help direct the nationwide training efforts to give law enforcement officers the tools they need to combat terrorist threats.
Walsh points to the New York Police Department, which is the largest and most recognized in the world.
"They're the best in the world, but they come here to train," Walsh said. "They can't do it all themselves. Self-training is like an intersquad game. You don't know how good you are until you test your mettle in the big leagues."
The Consortium members assemble the most experienced educators in law enforcement to present customized training sessions that include classroom and field work.
"They learn things in New Mexico that they can take home," Walsh said. "We train the trainers. First responders learn new tactics here; they then teach the same class back home."
To track the efficacy of the train-the-trainer philosophy, Consortium members provide the supplies and materials for the off-site classes. Each off-site student must take a pre-test and a post-test, which are immediately submitted to the training site of origin, Walsh said. The Consortium members can then show FEMA and Congress how effective the training programs are – and how the federal funds are being well spent.
Walsh said one of his main goals as Consortium board chairman is to streamline business and get back to basics.
"We have hundreds of courses prepared," Walsh said. "We need to assess which ones are viable and relevant and sought after. Then, we'll take the rest and put them on the shelf."
The law enforcement sector experiences about 20 percent turnover each year, Walsh said, with much of that occurring among new recruits who leave for other jobs.
"We need to get back to the core courses for the foot soldiers," Walsh said. "We don't have much fluff in our organization, but we can do more and be more efficient. We're making our nation safer for everyone."
Purvis said the Consortium provides training that states otherwise would not be able to afford. All training provided by the Consortium members is free to the officers' home departments – including all travel costs.
"The NDPC does what we can't do back home," Purvis said. "Officers get 50 hours of training on how to keep themselves alive. It gives our responders the tools to be better at their jobs, while not pulling from our resources."
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Prison Settles Down To Routine Operation
Moundsville Daily Echo
March 24, 1973
Moundsville Daily Echo
Prison officials have reported that the prison population at the West Virginia Penitentiary has returned to its normal operation after the settlement of the uprising on Wednesday.
A few of the inmates, who are unidentified, have been confined to the maximum security while Sgt. Jess Higby of the Moundsville Barracks of the state police proceeds with the investigation into the death of one inmate and the stabbing of two others.
Acting Warden William Wallace announced Friday night that a number of National Guardsmen and some state police officers will remain at the institution for the next month while the investigation is underway.
No damage estimates have been released on the destruction of the education department and the athletic equipment, but it is expected to run into the thousands of dollars.
The stepfather of Willie Lee Hale, the inmate slain during this week's riot at the West Virginia Penitentiary, says he had to learn nearly everything about his son's death from the newspapers.
Charles Hale told The Associated Press Friday he is bitter because no state official has called him to offer condolences or explain the events surrounding the death of his 22-year-old stepson.
"I'm going to write the governor about it," said Hale. He said he was told of the death when "a state policeman came to the store the other night and told me."
Hale, a veteran employe of the G. C. Murphy Co. at Northfork, said he had to call three funeral homes in Moundsville before he located the one that had his son's body.
Hale said he blamed prison officials for his stepson's violent death. "I hold the warden responsible for my boy," he said.
The 22-year-old inmate had been hospitalized in the prison infirmary one year ago after being stabbed in the chest by another prisoner.
"The warden had to know Willie was in trouble," said his stepfather. "I think they should have taken him away from there."
Hale said his stepson was "kinda backward and slow" and theorized that prison officials may have used the youth to find out what was going on in the century-old facility.
A prison official who asked not to be identified said during the disturbance that Hale was disliked by both blacks and whites at the prison because he had a reputation of talking too much.
The slain inmate was black.
"They should have moved Willie out of there, even out of the state", if necessary, Hale said. "They say he was a 'rat.' I don't know about that, but I do know that he would do what you asked him to do and if you asked him something he would tell you the truth."
Hale was serving a life term with mercy on a charge of murder. He had served four years of a minimum 10-year term.
Hale said he would bring his stepson back to McDowell County for burial. The young inmate also is survived by two brothers and a grandmother.
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Amazing stuff. Thanks for getting this recorded for those of us who couldn't be there. I wish everyone I know would listen to this.ReplyDelete
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There hasn't been one that I've found, but I can type one up later. Or maybe my favorite husband (who is a much better typist than I) will help me do it. :)ReplyDelete
Although I am a Christian I find these podcast's very enlightening! I don't care for the very staunch atheism but I do love when I hear your hearts and those of people being interviewed opening up to reveal how they have come to the place they are now. I really love the honesty.ReplyDelete
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Moot Court Finals 7:30 Tonight in Salter Hallby Howard Hewitt • October 25, 2005 Share:
Two sophomores, a junior and a senior will compete for top honors tonight in the 12th annual Wabash College Moot Court competition.
The four finalists have been selected after a round of preliminary competition. Wabash alumni help tutor and prepare the men their arguments before a panel of judges. Tonight petitioners Kyle Cassidy '08 and Aaron Cook '06 will face respondents Jackson Price '08 and last year's winner Steven Rhodes '07. Zach Mulholland '06 was selected first alternate.
The finals begin at 7:30 p.m. in Salter Hall.
Each year a distinguished panel of judges is assembled to question the students and pass final judgment on their arguments. The Honorable James S. Kirsch, Indiana Court of Appeals Chief Judge, will preside. Hon. Terry A. Crone, a Court of Appeals judge, and Hon. Douglas B. Morton '68, Fulton Circuit Court, will hear the case. A Wabash faculty member always rounds out the panel. Kay Widdows, Economics Dept. chairperson, will also judge the contestants.
The case this year involves the constitutionality of a statute, called the Solomon Amendment, which requires the United States Department of Defense to deny federal funding to higher education institutions that bar military representatives for recruiting purposes. A group of law schools challenged the statute, claiming that it violates their First Amendment rights by forcing them to assist the military in recruitment, or associate with the military, when the schools' anti-discrimination policy is at odds with the military's policy on sexual orientation.


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Favorites and duds from today's commenting.
Favorites, in no particular order:
I was hoping someone would take the challenge in the Luge Video post, and there was Gene-Rayburner answering the call. It's funnier for the way it acknowledges the challenge in the post, and it's smart, too: with that acknowledgement, the joke can work both for being funny or for being not funny, because there's something automatically satisfying and charming about someone confidently bombing. Also, this is funny, in the Al Michaels post. I'm really not sure this joke needs the italicized reference text, but it doesn't hurt. Anyway, great job.
This is very cute, from cobra, brah! in the Carillo and Costas Drinking post. There's obviously plenty of juice left in the Bob Costas Is Tiny angle. This joke is about the picture, but there's also tons of character in the execution of the text part. Great job.
In the same post, I laughed at this twisting-and-turning joke from SavetoFavorites. Again, the angle isn't new, but it's the wildly circuitous route it takes in getting there that's so fun. I love that kind of thing. Also, I know it's just me, but I love this bizarre offering in the Japanese Knuckle Puck post. Wonderful.
Okay, this is silly and funny and I enjoyed it, from KiwiCrash in the Broken Ski post. It's just a simple little name gag, and it works! Keep it up, you.
Here's ye olde Idiot joke from Milo Minderbinder in the Men's Halfpipe Carnage post. The author gives his joke a certain gruff blowhard voice that really works. Nice work.
Total Fucking Duds
I can't believe how bad this thing is, from TheBeerNerd in Drew's Bob Costas post. If a person set out to make the worst possible Deadspin comment and this is what they came up with, well, it wouldn't be far off. I'm appalled that this was promoted.
If PopnLoads knocked on my door right now, I would kick him in the groin so hard his genitals would rocket out the top of his head and go sailing off into the woods. I hate this comment, in the Mary Carillo post, as much as I have ever hated any Deadspin comment. This is not commentary! It's not joking, it's not original thought, it's not interesting. Go away, you unbelievable loser. Also, I hate your handle enough to want you to fall down the stairs even before I see your stupid comments.
No Comment of the Day today. All the jokes are solid, but nothing knocked me over. Good night, everyone!