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INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis Emergency Management Services lost two of its own over the weekend and is hoping to honor them by having streets renamed in their honor.
Shortly after 3:30 a.m. Saturday, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and the Indianapolis Fire Department were dispatched to the intersection of Senate and St. Clair streets after receiving reports that an IEMS ambulance had been involved in a serious crash with entrapment.
The ambulance had rolled onto its side from the force of the impact and slid into an unoccupied, parked vehicle. The IFD began the process of extricating the ambulance crew. The driver and the medic in the ambulance were extricated and transported to Wishard Hospital in critical condition.
Paramedic Cody Medley and EMT Timothy McCormick were riding in their ambulance when they were hit.
McCormick, 24, died shortly after the accident. Originally from New York state, he lived in Greenwood and trained as an EMT in New York. He joined the IEMS team in June 2010. He and had recently attended IUPUI and was an Eagle Scout.
Medley, 22, died early Sunday as a result of the injuries sustained in the accident. He joined the IEMS team in June 2010. He lived in Indianapolis and enjoyed volunteering and being outdoors. He did his EMS training through IEMS and the IEMS Academy. He was a member of the Sunman Fire Department in Sunman prior to joining IEMS.
Multiple resources are being made available to IEMS staff through the Department of Public Safety, Midtown Mental Health Center's crisis support team, and the IEMS Employee Assistance Program.
In honor of thier fallen brothers, IEMS has drafted a proposal and petition to the City County Councilor requesting that the City of Indianapolis change the names of North Senate Avenue between 11th Street and West North Street to "Medley Street" and West St. Clair Street between North West Street and North Meridian Street to "McCormick Street."
Indianapolis public safety personnel will be given the chance to sign the written petition first. The general public may sign the petition online at http://www.change.org/petitions/the-indianapolis-city-county-council-change-2-city-street-names-in-indianapolis-in-honor-of-fallen-ems-heroes.
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"forhayley" on PokerStars is a Russian player, at least he or she registered the account from Russia, one can never know these days.
We first discovered "forhayley" at stakes of $25/$50 and above in August 2011, after that he has been active at the highest stakes available on PokerStars. So far it's been all about No Limit Hold 'em for him, both heads up and six max tables.
Looking at his graph from the early stages of his High Stakes Carrier on Stars, it's fairly flat, things first started moving in late 2011.
Worth mentioning is that in October 2011, he was playing considerably lower, at the $3/$6 NLHE tables and was crushing the opposition. After around 57K hands he made almost a $40K profit. Playing that many hands at NLHE 600$ doesn't leave much time for higher stakes.These facts indicates that "forhayley" is a true grinder and not just some successful businessman seeking another challenge, but it's not like there would be anything wrong with that.
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Star Wars fans are known to have props and costumes and even be able to recite the movies word-for-word, but one Nashville man has many of them beat. He's jumpstarted a global effort to build a 114-foot tribute to his favorite film.
Chris Lee has launched the building of an up-to-scale replica of the Millennium Falcon, the ship piloted by Han Solo and Chewbacca in the Star Wars films.
Already, a team working out of Mindgear Labs in Madison, AL are assembling a prop cockpit, complete with navigation chairs, levers and throttles.
"I expect someday for the halls of this thing to feel like you're in an actual spaceship with that engine rumble beneath you where you can feel it, hear it, even smell it," said Daniel Valdez of the Full Scale Falcon Project.
"It hasn't been done before," added Greg Dietrich of the Full Scale Falcon Project. "No one's ever done it. We're really part of an effort I really can't even wrap my hands around. It's pretty special."
Other crews are making pieces across the country, in England and in New Zealand. The project is planned to find a home on a patch of land Lee has bought in Humphreys County.
"There's this whole subculture or community out there of like-minded dreamers that want to achieve these kinds of things," said Lee.
As huge as it all sounds, Lee said he's following the words of Han Solo, "Never tell me the odds."
"I thought for the longest time I was the only crazy Star Wars fan with this kind of drive, but over the past 15 to 20 years I've realized, I'm nowhere near the craziest," said Lee. "There are so many people in this pursuit, I just really am glad I bought that ticket and saw that film."
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Life cycle assessment (LCA) harmonization helps lenders, utility executives, and lawmakers get the best, most precise information on greenhouse gas emissions from various sources of energy. LCA has been used to estimate and compare GHG emissions from utility-scale power systems for three decades, often with considerable variability in results. Harmonization provides more exact estimates of greenhouse-gas emissions for renewable and conventional electricity generation technologies, clarifying inconsistent and conflicting estimates in the published literature and reducing uncertainty.
Highlights of Recent Studies
NREL's Life Cycle Assessment Harmonization Project evaluated the LCA literature on solar—both photovoltaic and concentrating solar power, wind, nuclear and coal technologies. Overall, this study shows that:
- The harmonization process increased the precision of life cycle GHG emission estimates in the literature while having little effect on the median, or central tendency, of these estimates.
- From cradle to grave, coal-fired energy releases about 20 times as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere per kilowatt-hour as solar, wind, and nuclear energy.
To learn more about this study, please visit the Life Cycle Assessment Harmonization webpage.
Find out more about NREL's LCA Harmonization approach (tools, data):
- Open EI LCA Harmonization App provides visualizations of the results, and access to data and bibliographies for the LCA Harmonization Project
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Myers has signed with the New York Giants as a free agent.||||||| Myers spent the first four seasons of his career with the Oakland Raiders. He's played in 58 career games with 28 starts and posted his best season in 2012, when he started all 16 games and had career-high totals of 79 receptions for 806 yards and four touchdowns.
Myers hauled in a career-high 14 receptions for 130 yards and a score in Sunday's 20-17 loss to Cleveland.||||||| Myers continues to post very impressive numbers and now has 69 catches - the third-most in the league among tight ends.
Myers is emerging as a fantasy sleeper for owners looking for help at tight end.||||||| Myers has been targeted 40 times in his last five games to rank within the league's top 15. If you are looking for an unheralded player who can make some fantasy noise and provide an extra edge, it could be Myers - the kind of player who can make a difference in close leagues.
Myers will not return to Oakland's game at Denver because of a concussion.||||||| Myers caught a 6-yard pass from Charlie Frye with 5:19 left before halftime, his only reception of the game. Myers has four receptions for 19 yards in nine games this season.
The Raiders have agreed to a four-year contract with Myers.||||||| The tight end, a sixth-round pick from Iowa, is the first of Oakland's seven selections to sign a contract. The Raiders already cut ties with one of their picks, releasing defensive end Stryker Sulak last week. Myers is a blocking tight end, who was brought in to allow starting Zach Miller to spend more time as a downfield receiver.


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How unpredictable is this year's NFL draft? We're just two days away from the start of the first round, and we still don't have a firm grasp on which of the two elite offensive tackles the Kansas City Chiefs are leaning toward with the No. 1 overall pick — Central Michigan's Eric Fisher or Texas A&M's Luke Joeckel.
And if there's that kind of uncertainty at the top, imagine how difficult it is to forecast what the Indianapolis Colts will do some three hours later Thursday night when they go on the clock at No. 24.
There are several factors complicating this draft. Chief among them, the fact so many players are graded so closely together while there appears to be few, if any, franchise cornerstones available.
The class is strongest along the offensive and defensive lines, but there's little consensus about the order. Fisher, Joeckel and Oklahoma's Lane Johnson widely are considered the three best offensive tackles in the draft, but analysts have flip-flopped between Fisher and Joeckel at the top throughout the spring.
Behind them come guards Chance Warmack of Alabama and Jonathan Cooper of North Carolina, with the better player again in the eye of the beholder.
On the defensive line, Florida State end Bjoern Werner has been projected anywhere from No. 2 overall to out of the first round altogether — which illustrates the lack of consensus in this draft as well as anything.
There's even disagreement as to whether Werner can transition to outside linebacker in a 3-4 defensive front, further muddying the picture of which teams might have interest.
Is Werner the draft's best pass rusher? Or is it Georgia's Jarvis Jones? Perhaps Oregon's Dion Jordan? LSU's Barkevious Mingo? Or maybe raw BYU prospect Ziggy Ansah?
Any one of them could go somewhere in the top 10 or fall to the Colts and even beyond.
This draft appears to be ready to break all the rules. For the first time in 50 years, the first round could go off without a single running back selected — unless, of course, the Cincinnati Bengals really love Alabama's Eddie Lacy.
There could be two offensive guards taken in the first 15 picks, which also hasn't happened in a half-century, and the first wide receiver off the board could be 5-foot-8, 173-pound slot speedster Tavon Austin of West Virginia.
The man who threw Austin the football with the Mountaineers, Geno Smith, might be the only quarterback selected in the first round. Or he might not even be the first signal-caller taken. Depends on who you ask.
Colts general manger Ryan Grigson says he's sifted through some 12,000 possibilities and come up with about 300 names on his draft board. He could call one of them at No. 24 Thursday or trade down into the second round and extend the suspense into Friday evening.
Uncertainty is the order of the day.
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As an example of image
fusion, pan-sharpening describes a process of
transforming a set of coarse (low) spatial resolution
multispectral (colour) images to fine (high) spatial
resolution colour images, by fusing a co-georegistered fine
spatial resolution panchromatic (black/white) image.
Typically, three low-resolution visible bands - blue,
green and red - are used as main inputs in the process
to produce a high-resolution natural (true) colour
image. Figure 1 illustrates this: the middle image is
a natural colour image with a spatial resolution of
2.4 m (resampled 400%), and the left image a
panchromatic image with a spatial resolution of 0.6 m;
by combining these inputs, a high-resolution colour
image is produced. In the fused output, spectral
signatures of the input colour image and spatial
features of the input pan image, as the best
attributes of both inputs, are (almost) retained. The
spectrally and spatially enhanced image is often
visually appealing, starting to compete with
high-resolution aerial photographs.
Image fusion is a concept of combining multiple images into composite products, through which more information than that of individual input images can be revealed.
Figure 1: Image pan-sharpening with QuickBird images. The left and middle input images are obtained from DigitalGlobe, and the right-hand image is the fused result from HighView. All images are subject to the same histogram stretch.
|Figure 2: Image pan-sharpening with IKONOS images. The left and middle input images are obtained from Space Imaging, and the right-hand image is the fused result from HighView.
The past few decades have seen quite a few image fusion and pan-sharpening methods in the public domain, including those based on multi-resolution wavelet transforms, PCA (Principal Component Analysis) transforms, and IHS (Intensity-Hue-Saturation) transforms. These methods, however, largely disregard important spectral characteristics of specific satellite sensors, therefore no consistent, colour-preserving results can be achieved. In other words, a simple data-driven approach without referring to spectral evidence can hardly produce satisfactory outcomes. This becomes more apparent when the recent generation of high- and medium-resolution satellite images is available, where there are marked spectral disparities between colour bands and the panchromatic band.
For more information
on spectral features and curves of recent satellite
sensors, please refer to websites of major image
www.digitalglobe.com (QuickBird, WorldView-2)
www.geoeye.com (IKONOS, GeoEye-1)
Aerospace Research Institute (KOMPSAT-2)
Taiwan National Space Organization (FORMOSAT-2)
Japanese Advanced Land Observing
Satellite (ALOS, or "Daichi")
www.spot.com (SPOT-5)
(Landsat ETM+)
(Landsat 8)
HighView searches
physical evidence of spectral characteristics and
applies optimisation methods to perform ideal image
pan-sharpening. While the fused imagery at a finer
spatial resolution still retains the mean of the
coarse-resolution input, its standard deviation
should naturally become larger due to
increased details and heterogeneity of image
features at finer resolutions (Figure 3). These
important characteristics set HighView apart
from other pan-sharpening methods on the market that
incorrectly claim the preservation of standard
deviation of the fused imagery at a finer
Figure 3: Statistical changes from
coarser-resolution input to fused,
finer-resolution imagery in HighView.
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London Welsh head coach Lyn Jones was always confident it would only be a matter of time before the Exiles registered a historic first Premiership win.
Welsh recovered from 14-0 down to beat Exeter Chiefs 25-24 at the Kassam Stadium on Sunday with Ed Jackson's late try and Seb Jewell's conversion securing the win at the death.
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FIRST-PERSON: The 12 lessons of fatherhood, part one (lessons 1-6)
Thom S. Rainer
Posted on Jul 24, 2012
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- I once did an interview for an online publication, and one of the questions was: "Who has been the greatest leadership influence in your life?" Without hesitation, I wrote: "My three sons: Sam, Art, and Jess."
Fatherhood has been an educational journey that no school could provide. I have learned so much. And even to this day, I listen to my sons. They may think that I am offering them words of wisdom, but I am learning from them as well.
I do not see myself as the great expert on fatherhood. I hope I have been transparent and honest in my self-assessment, especially with the weaknesses and faults that I have.
I also realize that the far superior parent in our family is my wife, Nellie Jo. I have never seen such sacrificial and unconditional love flow from one human to another. She is the true instrument of God who raised our three sons so well.
But this is a column about fatherhood. At the end of the day, I have several lessons that I have learned about the great challenge of being a dad. Thank you for allowing this fellow struggler the opportunity to share these lessons.
Lesson 1: Children are precious gifts from God.
If we parents ever fully recognize the incredible gift we have been given in our children, our attitude about them will be one of unceasing praise. I realize that not every couple has been given children. And I realize that I do not deserve my sons any more than husbands and wives who have not been blessed with children. They are gifts of grace. Undeserved and unmerited.
Have you ever assessed a situation and realized how completely blessed you are? That is how I feel about my boys. One of the reasons that I have not failed completely as a father is that my sons know how much I treasure them. They have a confidence and assurance that they are wanted. They know that I see them as precious gifts from God. They know that I feel like I am the most blessed man in the world to have them as my sons.
On those occasions where I have been weary and irritable, I often remind myself of this gift. Such thinking really puts minor issues in perspective. Children are gifts. Never, ever forget that truth.
Lesson 2: We must love our children unconditionally, and they must know it.
A child who grows up with unconditional love is more secure and more joyous. He or she does not have to earn the love of a parent. It is there no matter what.
The analogy of the heavenly Father's love for us through Christ is a fit comparison. We did not earn His love. We did not merit His love. But we can be secure in His love. The Apostle Paul said it clearly in Ephesians 2:89: "For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God's gift -- not from works, so that no one can boast." Paul spoke of the security of Christ's love in Romans 8:3839: "For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!"
Our children can take a lot from this world if they know that Mom and Dad are there for them no matter what. The love of Christ is the greatest security. And the unconditional love of a parent is a child's greatest earthly security.
Lesson 3: Love your children's mother.
I am not a perfect father. Not close. And I am not a perfect husband. Far from it. But do you know what Art, Sam and Jess know? Despite my imperfections as a husband, despite my stupid anger, despite my self-centeredness, I love their mother. I am with her until death do us part. My sons can live in the assurance and the confidence that, not only do I love them, I love and adore my wife, their mother.
Nellie Jo and I are blessed with three daughters-in-law. God gave Art a wife named Sarah, Sam a wife named Erin, and Jess a wife named Rachel. These three young ladies are the answers to our prayers. They are beautiful physically but, more importantly, they are beautiful spiritually. And they love our sons. And we love them for that. I pray that my boys will show their children what it is like to love and adore their mothers.
Lesson 4: Time can never be recaptured.
Art often tells a story of his baseball team when he was 7 years old. One day I was coaching at third base when Art hit the ball into the infield. Seeing that he was a certain out at first base, he did not run all the way to the base, a cardinal sin in baseball. The coach gave him several sentences of reprimand, which irked me. I was about to say something to the coach when Art came running across the field, holding back tears. He looked at me with hurt all over his face and said, "Daddy, that coach hurt my feelings."
I swept my son into my arms. He already knew that he had made a baseball mistake, so I did not dwell on that issue. After a few minutes, Art was fine, having fun again with his teammates.
Why did I tell that story? I simply remember how good I felt when I held my son. And I remember how great it was to be able to soothe hurt feelings with a hug and a few sentences. I also remember how much fun I had coaching the team with both Sam and Art on it.
That was yesterday ... or so it seems. Actually it was nearly 20 years ago. Where has the time gone? The time that we have our children at home is so incredibly brief. Make the most of it. Enjoy each year of their lives. Celebrate each moment. It will be over before you know it.
Lesson 5: Discipline is a sign of love.
Neither Nellie Jo nor I enjoyed disciplining our sons, but we did so anyway. To do less was to tell our boys that we didn't care what they did, that we had no boundaries. They did not like the discipline when they were children, but now they tell us how much they appreciate it.
The writer of Hebrews tells us that discipline is a sign of love, and he points to God's love as a disciplining love in Hebrews 12:511: "My son, do not take the Lord's discipline lightly, or faint when you are reproved by Him; for the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and punishes every son whom He receives. Endure it as discipline: God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there whom a father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline -- which all receive -- then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Furthermore, we had natural fathers discipline us, and we respected them. Shouldn't we submit even more to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time based on what seemed good to them, but He does it for our benefit, so that we can share His holiness. No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields the fruit of peace and righteousness to those who have been trained by it."
There were times when I was tempted to avoid the hassle and pain of disciplining Art, Jess and Sam. I am glad that I avoided that temptation.
Lesson 6: Encouragement builds up a child.
Sam was driving his truck one day, and I was in the passenger seat. "Dad, what one piece of advice would you give me on being a father?" Now that question really hit me for a couple reasons. First, my son was really asking for my advice. Second, I love this adult-son age where they really listen to me.
I can't say that I thought through the answer with any great depth, but the answer that came most quickly to my mind was: "Encourage your kids. Let them know how proud you are of them. Many children go through their entire lives seeking and not getting their parents' approval."
Sam responded, "Yeah, Dad, that's what you have done with Art, Jess and me. And it has worked!"
The blessing. That's what a parent's approval is. And for whatever reasons, fathers seem to withhold such encouragement and approval more than mothers do. I thank God that I learned the lesson of the blessing.
Thom S. Rainer is president of LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. This column first appeared on his website, www.ThomRainer.com. It was adapted from the book "Raising Dad" (B&H Publishing Group, 2007). Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (
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Jessica A. Heybach, EdD, Assistant Professor of Education, served as the program chair for the 66th Annual Southeast Philosophy of Education Society. She is currently also serving as the President-Elect for the 2014-2015 year.
Susan Trestrail, M.A., M.S.Ed., who teaches in the Department of English, won an honorable mention for her essay on John Steinbeck that was awarded by the Louis Owens Essay Prize contest.
Kristen Esposito Brendel, PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Work, presented two papers at the Society for Social Work and Research conference in San Antonio in January. One paper was entitled Psychosocial Interventions for School Refusal Behavior: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Her second paper, Effects of Interventions with Military-Connected Students: A Systematic Review, included co-author Mary Bellomo, a 2013 MSW graduate. The latter study began when Bellomo was a student at AU.
Martin Forward, PhD, Professor of History, authored "Birth Narratives", "Burial of Jesus", "Chariot of Fire", "Children of God", "Christian Identity Movements", "Cosmos and Cosmology", "Covenant", "Jesus speaking in the Cradle", and "Creation and Cosmogony", in Ziolkowski, E. et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
In December, Mark Soderstrom, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, was elected to a three-year term on the Executive Board of the Midwest World History Association.
Angela O'Bryant, MSN, RN, APHN-BC, who teaches for the School of Nursing in the RN to BSN program, received her ANCC board certification in Advanced Public Health Nursing in the fall.
Jane Davis, DVM, Associate Professor of Biology, was among just 150 participants nationwide to be selected to participate in the first American Veterinary Medical Association's (AVMA) seminar about animal welfare, entitled "The Conversation." Dr. Davis was also chosen to be a member of the small working group that planned and implemented the presentations and follow-up activities for the event. It is hoped that the outcomes of this meeting will formulate the AVMA's future policies on animal welfare.
In early November, fourteen AU faculty presented at the 2013 Associated Colleges of the Chicago Area (ACCA) Symposium. This year's theme was "The Future of Education." The annual symposium brings faculty from the fifteen ACCA institutions together to exchange effective teaching strategies and innovations and/or to present their scholarship on teaching and learning. Presentations included the following:
Patrick Dunn, PhD, Assistant Professor of English - Chalk and Talk: Educational Technology Changes (Almost) Nothing
Libby Karlinger Escobedo, PhD, Assistant Professor of Art History - Beyond the Slide Lecture: Using Active Learning in Art History
Sara Gerend, PhD, Assistant Professor of English; Julie Hipp, PhD, Assistant Professor of English; and Miriam Ojaghi, MA, Adjunct Instructor of English - Teaching for the Times: How Incorporating Technology Has Updated Our Teaching
Susan Hammack, EdD, Accreditation Coordinator - Multiple Exposures + Variety of Ways = In-Depth Learning
Jean Hess, EdD, Assistant Professor of Special Education; Brian Husby, PhD, Professor of Education; and Stephanie Whitus, PhD, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice - Strategies to Incorporate Active Learning into Web-Enhanced and Online Teaching
Johnny Lloyd, PhD, Professor of Biology - A Virtual Cadaver Dissection in an A & P Laboratory
Terri Schroth, PhD, Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages - Getting Students Involved: Using Short Films and Authentic Media to Facilitate the Discussion of Social Issues
Mark Soderstrom, PhD, Assistant Professor of History - "Big" Thinking in the General Education Core: "Trajectories of Human History" at Aurora University
Pamela Wicks, EdD, Assistant Professor of Communication; Chetna Patel, PhD, Professor of Chemistry; and Stephanie Whitus, PhD, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice - Cheap (FREE!) and Easy Ways to "Carrot" Students through the Use of Digital and Web-based Technologies
Christina Bruhn, PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Work, co-authored Prevalence of Disabilities and Abilities in Children Investigated for Abuse and Neglect, an article published this fall in the Journal of Public Child Welfare.
Regina Rahn, PhD, Chair of Mathematics and Computer Science, and Chetna Patel, PhD, Professor of Chemistry, presented "'Effectiveness of a Corporate Partnership on the Success of "Engineering Now'– A Multi-Dimensional Inquiry-Based Professional Development STEM Immersion Experience for Teachers," at the NSTA STEM Forum and Expo in St. Loius, Missouri.
Martin Forward, PhD, Professor of History, authored the "Foreword" to Ann Bossingham's Scarcely Christians: Looking at Difficult Questions with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The book was published by Market Deeping.
Mark Soderstrom, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, presented "Enlightened Man v. Nineteenth-Century Man: Ivan Kalashnikov's Autobiographical Novel Automaton" at the Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies in Boston, MA.
Stephanie Whitus, PhD, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, presented two papers at the American Society of Criminology conference in Atlanta, GA in November. Her presentations were titled, "What Works for Reentry: Evaluation of Reintegrative Programming," and "A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Non-traditional Methods to Measure and Improve Student Learning."
Debra Zahay-Blatz, PhD, Professor of Marketing, was honored with the Silver Award for the Jacobs and Clevenger CaseWriter's Workshop at the Annual Marketing EDGE Research Summit in October. This an international case writing competition for cases in direct, database and digital marketing. Her case, ECB.com, used real-life company data, with the company name veiled, to teach students how to analyze customer data and create meaningful customer segments. The case will be published in the IMC Handbook and the International Journal of Integrated Marketing Communications. Dr. Zahay-Blatz has competed in previous years and has been honored with one Gold and two Silver Awards.
In October, Meredith Harvey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Writing and English at GWC, presented "From Parlour to Prairie: A Woman's Journey from London to the Canadian Plains" at the Western Literature Association Conference in Berkeley, CA. The essay and corresponding presentation discussed her current writing project, which focuses on the combination of archival research, oral histories and the "truth" of family mythologies. Additionally, during the conference she was elected to serve a three-year term on the Executive Council of the Western Literature Association.
Martin Forward, PhD, Professor of History, wrote the "Postlude" to Edward Kessler's book entitled, Jews, Christians and Muslims in Encounter. London: SCM.
Stephani Richards-Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Social Entrepreneurship at GWC, recently received her second doctorate from the German Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her first doctorate was earned in 2003 from the University of San Diego in Higher Education-Leadership Studies.
Mark Zelman, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology, co-authored Human Diseases: A Systematic Approach (8th ed.), a book published by Pearson Prentice-Hall (2014). The text is an introductory pathophysiology text for students in health career and nursing programs.
Kristen Esposito Brendel, PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Work, co-authored "Child-Parent Interventions for Childhood Anxiety Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis," which appeared in the September issue of Research on Social Work.
Ryan Chapman, MA, who teaches in the Department of Physical Education and is Head Coach of Aurora University's Cross Country and Track and Field Teams, authored and had published a collection of poetry entitled, The Secret Language of Pamela.
Bruce Rittenhouse, who teaches in the Religion and Philosophy Department, had a new book published entitled Shopping for Meaningful Lives: The Religious Motive of Consumerism. In his book, Rittenhouse analyzes economic, sociological and psychological evidence to demonstrate that consumers behave differently than the current theories predict. More specifically, he explains his beliefs that consumerism deforms individual character, our sense of obligation to one another, and our concern for future generations and the environment.
Sara Gerend, PhD, Assistant Professor of English, published a review of the play, The Iceman Cometh, in the Eugene O'Neill Review. The performance was at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and was directed by Robert Falls.
Stephanie Whitus, PhD, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, was interviewed by Illinois Cops Magazine to discuss the university's online Criminal Justice program and two Special Topics courses that she teaches: "Serial & Mass Murder" and "Criminal Profiling." Appearing in the publication's September and October issues, the articles were entitled "A Killer Course: Getting Inside the Minds of America's Serial Killers and Mass Murderers Has Never Been So Accessible" and "Update Your Profiling."
Don Danner, CPA, CGMA, Assistant Professor of Accounting, had an article published in the September issue of The Asset entitled, "Contribute to the Success of Our Profession's Future."
Jay Thomas, EdD, Associate Professor of Education, was an invited panelist at the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children. The symposium, which was led by Dr. Julia Link Roberts, Executive Director for the Center for Gifted Studies at Western Kentucky University, considered the current research on the viability, sustainability, outcomes, and impact of specialized schools of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology.
Martin Forward, PhD, Professor of History, wrote the expert's commendation on the back cover for Clinton Bennett's (ed.), The Continuum Companion to Islamic Studies. London: Bloomsbury.
Meredith Harvey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Writing and English at GWC, and Richard Boniak, PhD, Assistant Professor of Environmental and General Science at GWC, presented "An Applied Approach to Environmental Composition: Service Learning, Living Laboratories, and Literature in an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Classroom" at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Conference in Lawrence, Kansas in May. The presentation discussed their experiences co-teaching IDS 2000 Wellness and Social Responsibility. Within the presentation, Dr. Harvey highlighted the ways in which the course utilized the theme of Society and the Natural World in order to teach composition within the scientific, creative, research-oriented, analytic and service-reflection modes. Additionally, she shared the ways in which the interdisciplinary classroom provided opportunities for field studies beyond the classroom walls, while the workshop environment in the classroom led to a well-rounded learning community.
Bridgitte Barclay, PhD, Assistant Professor of English, presented "Circus or Science?: Eden, Evolution, and Akeley's Influence in Two Early SF Films" at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Conference in Lawrence, Kansas in May. In her paper, she analyzed Field Museum taxidermist and explorer Carl Akeley's ideological and technical influence on science and science fiction of the early 20th century.
Mark Zelman, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology, and Carrie Milne-Zelman, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology, had their book, Infection Control: A Guide for Health Professionals (2013) published by Pearson/Prentice-Hall. The text is a guide for biological, chemical, and radiation safety in the healthcare workplace.
Faith Agostinone-Wilson, EdD, Associate Professor of Education, published a new book, Dialectical Research Methods in the Classical Marxist Tradition, with Peter Lang Publishers, in June 2013. Included in the text are issues related to social justice, what distinguishes Marxist research from other liberal-left paradigms, how mainstream research is used to support imperialism, re-evaluating ethics and various forms of data collection.
Kristen Esposito Brendel, PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Work,, and Jeff Bulanda, PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Work, co-authored an article with additional colleagues that was published in the February issue of Campbell Collaboration. The article is entitled, "Psychosocial Interventions for School Refusal Behavior with Elementary and Secondary School Students."
This past May, Christina Bruhn, PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Work, was appointed by the Governor of the State of Illinois to serve as a member of the Children's Mental Health Partnership (ICMHP). ICMHP strives to provide easier access to more effective programs and services that will better meet the mental health needs of all Illinois children and their families.
Mark Zelman, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology, was elected as Councilor to the Illinois State Academy of Sciences, serving through 2016. This leadership board of the state's scientific society promotes undergraduate science research and education.
Brian Vander Schee, PhD, Associate Professor of Marketing, was recently presented with the Academy of Marketing Science Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award. The award recognizes excellence in teaching, providing a forum for outstanding teachers to share their classroom success with colleagues.
Don Danner, CPA, CGMA, Assistant Professor of Accounting, has been named Chairman of the Board for the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants (MSCPA). Danner began serving his one-year term on July 1, 2013.
Mark Soderstrom, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, was selected to attend three seminars this summer, Each seminar focused on developing teaching skills and enhancing the role of world history and cultures in the undergraduate curriculum. The first two workshops, the Japan Studies Association Freeman Institute and the East-West Center's Institute on Infusing Asian Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum, each help faculty members to more effectively integrate Japanese and Chinese content into their teaching and curricula. The third seminar, the Big History Summer Institute, took place at Dominican University of California. This unique five-day seminar was designed for university faculty interested in learning and teaching Big History, which attempts to provide an interdisciplinary view of history that combines both human and natural history into a single narrative.
Bridgitte Barclay, PhD, Assistant Professor of English, presented, "'Always as a movement forward': Feminist Science in The Green Kingdom (1957)" at WisCon in Madison, Wisconsin in May, analyzing a mid-century women's text depicting new empirical feminist science.
Joan Fee, PhD, Professor of Education, authored an article published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Education (JIE). The article is entitled, "Teachers' Perceptions Regarding the Impact of Sustained ESL/Bilingual Professional Development."
Sara Gerend, PhD, Assistant Professor of English, presented her paper, "Super-Sizing the Sweet Fifteen: Ritual as Affluenza in Julia Alvarez's Once Upon a Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the U.S.A.", as part of the MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.) panel on "Urban Ethnicity: Work, Protest, and the American Dream" at the Modern Language Association Conference.
Jessica A. Heybach, EdD, Assistant Professor of Education, won the Critics Choice Award from the American Education Studies Association (AESA) for her work on Dystopia and Education: Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy in an Age of Utopia-Gone-Wrong. The recently published book was co-edited by Heybach and Eric C. Sheffield of Missouri State University. Annually, a committee of AESA members review a number of titles that have been peer-nominated to select outstanding books that may be of interest to those in educational studies.
An article authored by Mark Zelman, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology, was published by the Illinois State Academy of Sciences, Springfield: ISAS. The article was entitled, "Catalase Enhances Antibiotic Resistance Transactions," and describes research showing how bacteria may augment their resistance to drugs normally used to control bacterial infections.
Bridgitte Barclay, PhD, Assistant Professor of English, organized a panel for the Eaton and Science Fiction Research Association Conference in Riverside, California in April. There she presented "Formaldehyde Fish and Drivable Ducks: SF Form and Environmental Themes in a Global Speculative Fiction Course," analyzing how two recent Korean films disrupt kaiju and post-apocalytpic genre conventions to make environmental arguments.
In January, Kristen Esposito Brendel, PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Work, presented "Effectiveness of Child-Parent Interventions for Childhood Anxiety Disorders" at the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research in San Diego, California.


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From the refugio, head to the saddle between the two peaks. From here you can see the trail through the scree to the left of the ridge. As you get closer to where the ridge meets the saddle below and right of the summit spires, the trail becomes discontinuous and you can take several different ways, all requiring short sections of scrambling over often loose volcanic rock before you reach a small level area, with a steep downhill gully on the right and the short steep face on the left. From here, head up between the large rock outcrop (left) and top of the gully (right), making your way to a small but steep talus slope above a short cliff at the top of the gully.
In dry conditions you wouldn't need any unless you have some people in your party who feel a little unsteady on steep scrambles, in which case you might bring a rope. It's a good idea to bring an ice axe up to the refugio in case there might be snow on the peak, and you can leave it there if there isn't. If you know for sure there's going to be snow, you might bring crampons and even a rope depending on how much is there and if anyone's been there yet to kick steps.


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Witnesses say a man carrying a pellet gun entered the store then pointed the gun at an employee and demanded the keys to the store's pharmacy.
20-year-old Juquin Gallardo was seen at Walmart last night for two hours with witnesses saying he was acting strangely.
"He pulled out a pistol wrapped in a bandana, and told everybody to get down on the ground," says witness Gavin Lister, who was shopping at Walmart at the time.
Gallardo attempted to break the glass to gain access into the store's pharmacy, pointing the handgun at two different clerks, demanding the keys to the pharmacy.
"The first thing I was thinking is I didn't want to die, I didn't want anyone else to die in the store, I had daughters to come home to," Lister says.
"He just went crazy, point the gun at my father, had all of us terrified," says Lister's daughter Britney.
Then Lister made a remarkable decision.
"I was like this is not going to happen. The world is not going to end tonight. I grabbed him, rushed him and we started tussling all over the store," he says.
What Lister didn't know, but what police found out, was that the gun was a pellet gun.But immediately his mind went to events of last week.
"We just had a big loss in Sandy Hook," he says.
Lister kept Gallardo pinned down until police arrived and arrested him.
Gallardo is charged with robbery and is held on a $10,000 bond.
Police say Walmart has requested off-duty police officers for security at their Gilmer Road location.
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Authorities say a small earthquake struck near Dalton, in northwest Georgia.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports (http://bit.ly/10zgySz) that the quake hit at 7:39 Tuesday about four miles northwest of Dalton.
The U.S. Geological Survey reports that it was a 2.9-magnitude earthquake. There were no immediate reports of any damage.
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