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FutureSTATE 2015
A strategy for Mississippi State University to become
the region's most respected land-grant institution
The Plan
The purpose of this university and community agenda is to marshal our resources and expertise to achieve the greatest benefits for the State of Mississippi and the nation as we navigate our way into the future. In an effort to identify centers of excellence, emerging centers of excellence, institutional qualities that we should reinforce, and areas that may require special attention, an inclusive and comprehensive strategic review was undertaken in April 2006. Representatives of every part of the university and community participated, and no subjects or possibilities were excluded from consideration. The effort resulted in more than 100 recommendations and observations that form the basis for this plan.
The strategic review was broad in scope, but FutureSTATE 2015 encompasses numerous specific action plans for the next 10 years that are consistent with the major priorities of the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning and supportive of the needs of the state. The plan is intended to help us make effective decisions about the use of existing resources and to articulate for internal and external decision makers and policymakers the desired directions for future growth in support. Although this document will be the cornerstone of our plans for the future, it is not etched in stone. It will be open to review and modification as Mississippi State responds to emerging opportunities and adapts to a changing environment. On the other hand, strategies based on sound logic and valid assumptions should not be altered frequently or without careful consideration.
A strategy for the future must take into account assumptions about the internal and external environment that will enable or constrain our progress. The most fundamental assumption underlying FutureSTATE 2015 is that Mississippi State should aspire to be the most respected land-grant institution in the Southeast, dedicated to improving the lives of Mississippians by building on its traditional strengths in engineering, science, agriculture, and natural resources and capitalizing on the excellent programs that have emerged in numerous other areas, and by adhering to its deep roots as the People's University and its statewide missions of learning, research, and service. Other major assumptions that establish parameters for the milestones noted in FutureSTATE 2015 include:
- Our first responsibility and our top priority is to provide a credible education to students from every segment of Mississippi's population.
- MSU will collaborate with communities and agencies throughout the state in keeping with its land-grant mission and the long history of the MSU Extension Service, and will provide outreach and service to business, industry, agriculture, and public education that promotes economic growth and enhances the quality of life in Mississippi.
- MSU will continue to build on its position of national prominence in research and development in agricultural sciences and engineering, focusing on initiatives in those and other areas that bring direct benefits to the state and its people.
- MSU will operate as a TEAM, taking an integrated and cohesive approach to challenges and opportunities.
- MSU will expand its cooperative ventures and interactions with other state colleges and universities.
- Enrollment will grow at a measured and manageable rate consistent with increases in faculty and other resources, and research activity will expand. Increased revenue will result from contracts, grants, and licensing associated with a larger research program and from the tuition generated by a larger student body.
- Economic circumstances will permit growing fiscal support consistent with the spirit and intent of the FY 2007 state budget, and funding from state, federal, and private sources will grow at a logical rate to permit continued investment in our most valuable resource—our faculty and staff.
- FutureSTATE 2015 will evolve as circumstances require so that our strategy for accomplishing our mission remains relevant to the needs of Mississippi.
Our primary goals are to:
- Enhance student growth and development by providing excellent academic programs, building character, and ensuring an accessible, caring, and diverse environment.
- Recruit and retain a highly qualified and diverse faculty, providing them with an environment that supports excellent teaching, research and service while offering opportunities for professional growth and pursuing salaries, benefits and other rewards that recognize success.
- Achieve fiscal stability by encouraging private, corporate, and government financial support and by recruiting and retaining qualified students through a sustained campaign that also allows us to expand and stabilize our tuition base.
- Expand research opportunities and promote economic development.
- Expand research opportunities and results by supporting the institutional components and infrastructure that enable beneficial discovery and application of new knowledge and by identifying emerging opportunities.
- Promote economic development that contributes to a better quality of life in Mississippi by integrating and organizing the university's extensive capabilities and forming relationships with communities and corporations throughout Mississippi to support creation and retention of high quality employment opportunities for the state's citizens.
- Strengthen pride and involvement with MSU among students, faculty, staff, administrators, alumni, friends, retired faculty, and others who make up the Great Bulldog Nation with a successful athletics program, a vibrant social and cultural environment, and a campus infrastructure and physical appearance that is inviting and pride-inspiring.
Strategies for attaining our goals
FutureSTATE 2015 is not a short-term plan, but a strategy for realizing the vision for the university's long-term future and its mission of service to the state. Milestones that will mark progress toward our major goals reflect a timeframe consistent with that approach. The success of FutureSTATE 2015 will depend on how effectively our TEAM works together. Each goal in this plan is linked with others, and every member of the TEAM has a role to play. There will be times when what is best for the Mississippi State TEAM will require disproportionate contributions from some. But as we meet our goals and as respect for the university rises, all of us will benefit. Our energy and enthusiasm, along with our commitment to the "One STATE – One TEAM" concept, will help ensure our success.
Goal: Enhance student growth and development by providing excellent academic programs, building character, and ensuring an accessible, caring, and diverse environment.
The most important thing that Mississippi State can accomplish for Mississippi and the nation is to prepare our students to be productive citizens and effective leaders. We must never lose sight of our most basic mission—fostering both academic and character development. To implement our strategy of developing competent and informed citizens and professionals who are equipped to lead in the world of work and in their communities through traditional academic programs, experiential learning, and opportunities for leadership development and community service, we are committed to:
- Recruiting and retaining a highly qualified and diverse faculty, providing them with an environment that supports excellent teaching, offering opportunities for professional growth, and pursuing salaries, benefits, and other rewards that recognize success.
- Ensuring value-added educational outcomes that include competence in critical thinking and problem solving, facility with written and spoken language, understanding of scientific principles and methods, understanding of history and culture, tolerance for opposing viewpoints, and commitment to life-long learning.
- Promoting citizenship and leadership and equipping our students with the knowledge, understanding, and skills to make character a foundation of their personal and professional lives.
- Recruiting qualified students from a diversity of backgrounds and economic conditions who are prepared to take advantage of Mississippi State's programs and uphold its academic standards, providing financial assistance to those in need, and helping them make smooth transitions from their high school or community college.
- Providing mentoring and support to the students admitted to maximize their chances of success and to help Mississippi reach and surpass the national average in the percentage of our population that holds a college degree.
- Assisting students in reducing the time required to earn a degree by offering more courses during winter intersession and Maymester and by various distance learning methods.
- Enhancing the quality and reputation of the university by pursuing membership in national organizations that recognize academic excellence.
- Providing access for working and place-bound adult learners and other non-traditional students, such as members of the armed forces, particularly through distance learning programs and the Meridian Campus.
- Pursuing cooperative ventures and interactions with other state colleges and universities.
Goal: Recruit and retain a highly qualified and diverse faculty, providing them with an environment that supports excellent teaching, research and service while offering opportunities for professional growth and pursuing salaries, benefits and other rewards that recognize success.
The overall success of the university is inextricably tied to the quality and commitment of the scholars who perform the teaching, research and service at the heart of our mission. To implement our strategy of ensuring an outstanding faculty, we are committed to:
- Improving faculty compensation and other rewards.
- Providing opportunities for professional development.
- Pursuing an infrastructure and environment that is conducive to scholarly productivity.
Goal: Achieve fiscal stability by encouraging private, corporate, and government financial support and by recruiting and retaining qualified students through a sustained campaign that also allows us to expand and stabilize our tuition base.
Implementation of FutureSTATE 2015 requires financial stability. While state funding will continue to provide the essential support for many core operations of the university, our emphasis will be on helping ourselves by increasing revenue from other sources, particularly including private fund raising. To help achieve financial stability and predictability, we are committed to:
- A continuous campaign to encourage increased financial support from private individuals, corporations, foundations, and federal and state agencies.
- A robust student recruiting and retention campaign that ensures access and opportunity for students from every sector of the state's population; attracts students from throughout the region, state, and world; and helps to expand our tuition base and avoid the flat or declining enrollment trends that would sap the institution of required resources.
- Continuous efforts to measure and manage costs to maximize productivity and efficiency.
Goal: Expand research opportunities and results by supporting the institutional components and infrastructure that enable discovery and application of new knowledge and by identifying emerging opportunities.
As a land-grant university, MSU has a fundamental responsibility to pursue research that is useful to Mississippi and the nation, building on existing strengths in engineering and agricultural sciences and pursuing emerging opportunities in other fields that match the university's areas of expertise and the needs of the state, including automotive research and development, computational sciences, biotechnology, early childhood learning, biological engineering, remote sensing, and alternative energy sources, among others. We are committed to:
- Providing the services, equipment, and opportunities needed to attract outstanding researchers and major research grants.
- Developing programs and resources to take advantage of emerging opportunities, including expanded cooperative efforts with other state universities.
Goal: Promote economic development that contributes to a better quality of life in Mississippi by integrating and organizing the university's extensive capabilities and forming relationships with communities and corporations throughout Mississippi to support creation and retention of high quality employment opportunities for the state's citizens.
Mississippi State has the capability to be a catalyst for economic development and improvements in the quality of life in communities across the state; to provide direct assistance to citizens through the MSU Extension Service and other units of the university with major outreach and service missions; and to support other agencies working to attract new investment to Mississippi. To encourage and sustain economic and community development and service, we are committed to:
- Organizing and making accessible to business and industry, the agricultural sector, and schools the varied capabilities within the university that can aid economic development throughout the state, enhancing employment opportunities for our citizens while preserving a healthy and sustainable natural environment.
- Teaming with communities in responsive and enduring fashion to help achieve their goals.
- Helping produce highly qualified teachers and other school personnel for K-12 schools and community colleges throughout Mississippi, particularly in areas of critical needs.
- Working with state and local economic development organizations to recruit high-wage and high-tech industry to Mississippi, and encouraging the creation of spin-off companies from MSU research in engineering and other fields.
- Reaching out to youth through 4-H and other programs targeting youth development.
Goal: Strengthen pride and involvement with MSU among students, faculty, staff, administrators, alumni, friends, retired faculty, and others who make up the Great Bulldog Nation with a successful athletics program, a vibrant social and cultural environment, and a campus infrastructure and physical appearance that is inviting and pride-inspiring.
Social and leadership opportunities that enrich an individual's college experience and build school spirit and unity among students from varied backgrounds find expression in an active student association, organizations including fraternities and sororities, and intercollegiate athletics. An aesthetically pleasing campus and efficient living and working environments increase productivity and satisfaction. The dedication of more than 100,000 alumni and friends is a source of strength that can help MSU achieve its goals and earn the respect of the country. To support a healthy and stimulating campus environment and encourage the active involvement of alumni and friends, we are committed to:
- Enhancing the quality of the living, learning, social, and cultural environment for MSU students.
- Sponsoring an intercollegiate athletics program that is committed to winning with character, ensuring that student-athletes succeed academically, and strengthening the image of the university in support of recruiting, fund raising, and reputation building.
- Improving the physical appearance and functionality of the campus to instill pride in the Bulldog family and create a welcoming and appealing environment for visitors and newcomers.
- Organizing and informing alumni, friends, and families to better enable them to help tell the MSU story and achieve greater national respect and reputation.
- Implementing a "make a difference" strategy that mobilizes alumni, friends, and families as force multipliers for university recruiting and fund raising efforts.
- Strengthening university-community relationships through increased consultation and cooperation with local governments and organizations.
Initiatives to implement our strategy
Achieving the goals of FutureSTATE 2015 requires that specific action-oriented steps be planned, funded, and implemented. Current and anticipated revenues allowed us to begin the process with these key initiatives during 2006-2007 or 2007-08, although full implementation will be a long-term process in many cases. Other recommended initiatives (See Appendix C) will be undertaken or further evaluated in succeeding years.
To enhance student growth and development by providing excellent academic programs, building character, and ensuring an accessible, caring, and diverse environment, we will:
Academic excellence
- Increase course offerings and programming through the Shackouls Honors College, developing additional sections of honors courses and increasing staff to meet expanding program needs, and expand efforts to recruit and mentor future scholars and leaders through the Distinguished Scholars Program.
- Enhance library resources and services by developing a plan of action that will lead to membership in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).
- Increase funding for freshman class sections in the College of Arts and Sciences, which provides core education foundation courses for all university students.
- Strengthen the College of Arts and Sciences to acknowledge the central role of the liberal arts and sciences in the educational experience of all students, including hiring additional faculty and devoting resources to other initiatives that enhance undergraduate study. To further expand academic opportunities for students in the liberal arts and sciences, seek to shelter a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa honor society.
- Expand the scope of the Pathfinders retention program to include upper classmen as well as freshmen. The program has had a significant positive effect on both retention and graduation rates.
- Support efforts to intervene academically with students who are scheduled for suspension due to low GPAs by funding the Learning Skills Support Program, contributing to improved retention and graduation rates.
- Establish and fund the Mississippi State Promise grant program to provide access to the People's University for academically qualified freshmen and community college transfers who might otherwise be unable to attend. Establish an African-American Studies minor and/or certificate program to build on and further encourage diversity among students.
- Establish the Mississippi State International Program (MSIP) to recognize the global nature of almost everything we do and enhance the educational experience of students through exposure to other cultures, including development of a strategic initiative that focuses on recruiting international students.
- Submit a request to receive funding and participate in the National Security Language Initiative by offering language and experiential learning opportunities related to Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, and Farsi.
- Establish a Mississippi State Center for America's Veterans (MSCAV) to recruit and support students who have served in the armed forces, make MSU the university of choice for veterans and their families who desire to complete a college degree, and perpetuate the legacy of Rep. Sonny Montgomery of Mississippi, MSU graduate and author of the Montgomery GI Bill.
- Create a core curriculum based first year experience program that provides students with individualized attention, leadership service experiences, and help in making the transition to college life.
- Utilize the MSU Riley Center in Meridian to complement the academics on the Starkville campus in the areas of theater, public relations, and broadcasting. Additional opportunities at the Riley Center should be explored for regional conferences associated with departmental disciplines.
- Increase emphasis on programs that focus on other higher education institutions, including community colleges, and programs such as Upward Bound to facilitate transfer of undergraduate students from underrepresented groups to MSU.
- Develop relationships with colleges that have a high percentage of students from underrepresented groups.
- Further strengthen the commitment to quality undergraduate teaching by providing additional support to the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) for learning communities, additional staff, and additional programming. (2007-08)
- Expand the scope and mission of the University Academic Advising Center. (2007-08)
- Establish a Study Abroad Office that reports to the Office of the Provost in order to increase study abroad participation at MSU. (2007-08)
- Continue efforts to improve the degree audit and registration systems to make them more student-friendly and staff-friendly, including facilitation of the transfer process from the community colleges. (2007-08)
- Integrate the Meridian Campus strategic plan with the plan for the Starkville campus. Explore special and niche programming opportunities at Meridian. Encourage closer interaction between the Meridian and Starkville campuses. (2007-08)
- Strengthen assessment efforts to ensure institutional effectiveness. (2007-08)
Leadership and Character Development
- Establish an Institute for Leadership and Service to coordinate and expand leadership and service opportunities. Establish the Sonny Montgomery Chapter of the Appalachian Leadership Honors Program; establish a minor in Leadership Studies to provide a marketable enhancement to existing degree programs; and expand informal and formal programs to include diversity components for developing student leaders.
- Promote honor and academic integrity. Create an Honor Council with widespread representation from all colleges, educate students and faculty about issues related to academic misconduct, increase enforcement of penalties for academic misconduct, and provide a remediation step that would encourage students to make reparations for past poor behaviors.
To recruit and retain a highly qualified and diverse faculty, providing them with an environment that supports excellent teaching, research and service while offering opportunities for professional growth and pursuing salaries, benefits and other rewards that recognize success, we will:
- Work to make faculty salaries nationally competitive with those of peer institutions.
- Increase the number of tenure-track faculty (with terminal degrees and postdoctoral experience where appropriate) and fund new positions to support new and expanding academic programs.
- Establish a faculty honors and awards program to recognize and reward faculty. Expand faculty recognition thorough lower levels of awards, such as college awards, to recognize shorter term successes and younger faculty.
- Use proactive approaches to increase the candidate pool for faculty positions, providing competitive start-up packages, salaries, and required infrastructure.
- Revise the reward system to promote and recognize outstanding faculty productivity. Faculty members who have outstanding publication, presentation, grant-getting records, and numbers of Ph.D. advisees should be appropriately rewarded as part of an overall accountability system for all colleges, departments, and faculty members.
- Provide a mentoring program to assist new faculty with research in each department.
- Foster more effective communication with faculty by scheduling annual meetings between the upper administration and the combined leadership of the Faculty Senate, University Promotion and Tenure Committee, and the University Committee on Courses and Curricula; scheduling meetings between the provost and department heads and deans to discuss promotion and tenure standards and procedures; scheduling meetings each fall between the University Promotion and Tenure Committee and representatives of college and departmental promotion and tenure committees; and communicating changes in policies and practices in a timely manner.
- Conduct seminars sponsored by the University Promotion and Tenure Committee and by college promotion and tenure committees to assist faculty members preparing applications for promotion and/or tenure. Explore the advisability of changing from department heads to department chairs.
- Evaluate the faculty annual review process using a broad-based committee. The annual review process should provide evaluations of faculty work that are consistent across the university. Reviews should include constructive advice on how individual faculty can achieve promotion and/or tenure.
Teaching, research and service and their relation to promotion and tenure
The strategic review identified a number of overlapping or competing concerns related to the appropriate division of effort among teaching, research, and service responsibilities, and how the university acknowledges and rewards contributions in each area in the promotion and tenure processes. These issues are of sufficient importance, breadth, and complexity to warrant further detailed study and recommendations. A broadly representative Task Force on Faculty Activities and the Promotion and Tenure Process will be appointed for this purpose. The charge to the task force will include, but will not be limited to, further consideration of the following recommendations generated thus far through the strategic review:
- Discuss with the campus community the appropriate emphasis that will be placed on teaching/learning, research/scholarship, and service/outreach for annual reviews, merit-pay increases, promotion and tenure decisions, and post-tenure review.
- Investigate ways to put more emphasis on teaching in the promotion and tenure process.
- Place more value on the importance of quality teaching. The Center for Teaching and Learning should examine current teaching practices.
- Increase the proportion of undergraduate courses taught by tenured or tenure-track faculty.
- Discuss ways to make research efforts more focused. Identify areas of excellence and emerging research areas. Build core faculty in new and emerging areas of research strengths.
- Improve the infrastructure to assist and enable faculty research.
- Develop faculty research committees in every department and center. Committees would meet regularly with the associate deans for research, and the associate deans would meet regularly with the vice president for research and the dean of graduate studies. Associate deans would identify opportunities and resources at the college level. The vice president for research and the dean of graduate studies would identify opportunities and resources at the university level.
- Define service and outreach as follows:
- Service is largely dedication of our time and effort in support of university based, professional, civic, educational, and faith-based activities. (Other mutually agreed upon activities may be included in this definition.)
- Outreach delivers to clientele educational and research programs that strengthen their capacity to address critical agriculture, business, family and youth, community, and economic development issues impacting them. (Other mutually agreed upon education and research activities may be included in this definition.)
- Promote service and outreach relationships by portraying respect for internal and external participants in the service and outreach areas and enhancing communication within the MSU community to encourage collaboration and teamwork that strengthen service and outreach effectiveness.
To achieve fiscal stability by encouraging private, corporate, and government financial support and by recruiting and retaining qualified students through a sustained campaign that also allows us to expand and stabilize our tuition base, we will:
- Engage private, corporate, and foundation sources to establish a "Reach for Excellence" endowment in support of academic excellence.
- Increase tuition revenue through an integrated recruiting and retention campaign to attract students to the main campus, the Meridian Campus, degree-granting centers, and courses and programs offered through distance learning.
- Synchronize enrollment growth with increases in faculty numbers and other resources. Incremental growth of 300 to 500 undergraduate students per year should be maintained for a period of four to five years.
- Develop creative approaches to increasing revenue that can be used to augment faculty salaries and departmental budgets. A more direct link between revenues and salaries would encourage faculty to be more entrepreneurial.
- Develop a plan to encourage departmental involvement in recruitment and retention by returning 75 percent of new tuition revenue to academic departments and colleges as enrollments grow beyond current levels.
- Increase the number of top scholarships available by providing additional resources for the scholarship pool in Admissions and Scholarships.
- Increase the number and quality of graduate students, with the number of doctorates awarded growing by 5 percent a year.
- Continue to improve compensation for graduate assistants.
- Develop a strategic initiative that focuses on recruiting graduate and undergraduate international students from specific regions, retaining those students by helping them to feel welcome at Mississippi State and in Starkville, and developing strong, continuing relationships with international alumni.
- Implement an energy conservation plan with specific reduction goals based on FY 2006 usage and return cost savings to units achieving reductions.
- Review and adjust pricing of revenue-generating services.
- Continuously measure and manage costs to maximize productivity and efficiency.
To expand research opportunities and results by supporting the institutional components and infrastructure that enable beneficial discovery and application of new knowledge, and by identifying emerging opportunities, we will:
- Heighten the overall impact of the university and advance issues important to its constituents in Mississippi and beyond by identifying centers of excellence that can help focus resources to enhance our service to the state and nation and build our national and international reputation. Centers of Excellence are characterized by interdisciplinary clusters and areas open to all faculty members who have interest and expertise, rather than centering on specific colleges, departments, or other units. Centers of Excellence should be further strengthened by encouraging the participation of current faculty, targeting new hires, and providing enhanced support as resources become available.
- Invest the resources and energy required to recognize and solidify the national reputations of centers of excellence in Agriculture and Natural Resources Systems; Computational Science and Engineering; Transportation Systems; Applied Social Sciences; and Materials and Devices. (See Appendix A for descriptions and participating areas.)
- Invest the resources and energy required to establish and solidify the national reputations of emerging centers of excellence in Energy Systems; Global Information Systems and Natural Disaster Preparedness; Natural Resources, Environmental Science, and Environmental Toxicology; Bioimaging and Biomedical Sciences; Early Childhood Education, Health and Development; Community Engagement and Economic Development; Public Policy and Administration; the Center for America's Veterans; the Shackouls Honors College; and the Sonny Montgomery Chapter of the Appalachian Leadership Honors Program. (See Appendix A for descriptions and participating areas.)
- Invest the resources and energy required to realize the potential as national centers of excellence in the areas of Internationalization and International Programs; Humanities; African-American Studies; and Leadership. (See Appendix A for descriptions and participating areas.)
- Identify additional interdisciplinary clusters and areas that demonstrate the quality and growth potential to become centers of excellence.
- Appoint associate deans for research and graduate education to serve collectively as a council of academic administrators to assist and advise the Dean of Graduate Studies and to provide day-to-day oversight of graduate programs in their colleges.
To promote economic development that contributes to a better quality of life in Mississippi by integrating and organizing the university's extensive capabilities and forming relationships with communities and corporations throughout Mississippi to support creation and retention of high quality employment opportunities for the state's citizens, we will:
- Establish a Mississippi State Community Action Team (MSCAT) to assist communities across the state in economic development, ensuring the optimum utilization of university capabilities.
- Recommit to strong economic development teamwork and communication with the local community.
- Team with the city and county school districts to attain higher levels of accreditation for all schools.
- Communicate the importance of service and outreach at the campus level and enrich students' experiences through service learning.
- Enhance and expand the Thad Cochran Research, Technology and Economic Development Park to create high-wage jobs.
- Work with the city and county to create a public transit system.
To strengthen pride and involvement with MSU among students, faculty, staff, administrators, alumni, friends, retired faculty, and others who make up the Great Bulldog Nation with a successful athletics program, a vibrant social and cultural environment, and a campus infrastructure and physical appearance that is inviting and pride-inspiring, we will:
- Take advantage of the enthusiasm of alumni and friends across the nation and beyond by working with them to enhance the nature and character of the MSU family in support of recruiting throughout the state, the nation, and the world.
- Increase resources, re-emphasize winning with character, ensure compliance, and continue to focus on academic progress and the success of student-athletes in intercollegiate athletics programs.
- Tell our story by aggressively informing the university community, government leaders, and the public about MSU's accomplishments, and involve them in telling our story to others.
- Develop an information process to ensure that alumni and supporters are regularly updated on university events, initiatives, and successes, recognizing the vital contributions of alumni and friends to recruiting, fund raising and other efforts.
- Continue to conduct town meetings involving the administration, faculty, and staff in each division to receive input and establish points of action.
- Simplify and improve the performance appraisal process for staff to allow for effective communication about job performance between supervisors and the staff members.
- Make effective use of performance appraisals a consideration in evaluating supervisory staff. Enforce the Human Resources Management policy requiring evaluations and implement a mechanism for anonymously reporting failure to adhere to the policy.
- Provide broad-based diversity/sensitivity training.
- Provide chairs of search committees with training in how to conduct a search.
- Ensure viable, productive social outlets for our students, building on the good will, friendship, and service provided by student organizations.
- Commit to a strong Student Association vested with appropriate responsibility and authority and strong discipline- and interest-based student organizations, taking advantage of the skills and character of student leaders and ensuring their participation as part of the TEAM.
- Develop and implement a Mississippi State Campus Appearance Program (MSCAP) including the use of sculpture and other art to help attract new students, faculty, and visitors and provide a more pleasant living and working environment.
- Implement the MSU Diversity Plan and use it as a management tool. (2007-08)
- Modernize the process for allocating classroom space and better utilize technology already in place. Purchase or develop software that provides a complete inventory of classroom space, the rated occupancy of classrooms, and the average size of classes.
- Schedule more classes during off-peak times. Designate all rooms with lecture facilities as general classrooms that are available to all departments.
- Construct or remodel large lecture classrooms and require that these be general use facilities that are available to all departments.
- Establish safety as a top priority and reinforce it through frequent messages, safety training for supervisors and workers, and investigations of all safety incidents. Establish a coordinated effort for identifying safety issues and overseeing regulatory requirements.
- Continue to improve campus accessibility for students, faculty, staff and visitors with disabilities, including improved access to technology and electronic information.
- Evaluate every element found in the campus landscape, including buildings, plantings, and paving, from a sustainability standpoint, and increase the application of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards in new construction. Involve appropriate university expertise as well as external expertise in these evaluations. Update and monitor implementation of the Campus Master Plan.
- Continue to improve environmental safety by enhancing the emergency phone system and campus lighting. Continue to improve environmental safety by enhancing the emergency phone system and campus lighting.


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stir it, scrape it, make it, bake itPosted: May 23, 2012 | Author: Jena | Filed under: Developmental Themes, Literacy, playing with our food, Small Motor Skill | Leave a comment »
"Milk in the batter! Milk in the batter! We bake cake and nothing's the matter!"
On a rainy day, the boys put in a request in for a favorite treat of Friend A, pumpkin muffins. His mommy shared the recipe and the flour did fly. The boys help to add ingredients, stir and even scoop the batter into the muffin tins. We made a mess, and the muffins never tasted better.
This recipe makes A LOT of Pumpkin Muffins. You can easily half the recipe, or freeze half of the muffins.
3 1/3 cups flour
3 cups sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground ground ginger
2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp nutmeg
Mix Dry ingredients and add,
1 cup oil
2/3 cup water
4 eggs
2 cups of pumpkin (We did not have any pumpkin, so I used organic sweet potatoes from my CSA loot. Worked great)
Grease and flour muffin tin. Fill with batter, 3/4 full. Cook at 350 for a out 15 minutes for mini muffins, 20-30 for regular size.
"So he skipped from the oven and into bread dough all ready to rise in the night kitchen."
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
Farm Theme: Books, Yoga and CraftPosted: April 13, 2012 | Author: Jena | Filed under: Artsy Fartsy, body/mind/spirit, Community, Cut and Paste, large motor skill, Literacy, Printing | Leave a comment »
If your kids enjoy farm play, you might be interested in what our local CFCE, Coordinated Family and Community Engagement program, had in store for us this Thursday. The CFCE program is funded by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education & Care.
We read 3 farm books that are very silly and highly recommended.
Then, we spread out our beach towels and use them as yoga mats, as we explore a handful of animal yoga poses. The teacher has the children use a small foam ball to help inspire certain movements. The ball is meant to help the kids focus.
Here are yoga animal poses from YoungYogaMasters.com:
Camel Ride – a basic warm-up in Kundalini Yoga, sit in easy pose, hold your ankles, inhale lift your spine forward and up, exhale and relax your spine back – as if you were riding on a camel.
Elephant taking a Shower: stand up and make a trunk with your arms, keep your legs straight and dip your trunk into the imaginary watering hole in front of you, then lift your trunk up and spray the water like a shower.
Frog: squat and stretch your legs like a frog warming up and then jump!
Butterfly Drinking Nectar: sitting, put your feet together and knees bent wide apart. Flutter your legs up and down like a butterfly. Then move your chest to your feet and drink the nectar from a flower in front of you.
Cheetah: move quickly on all fours like a cheetah running across the land
Unicorn: Make your hands into a magical unicorn horn over the centre of your head then gallop.
There is also a craft set out on the table. The materials are farm animals stamps, large stamp pads, glue sticks, construction paper cut out into barn shapes.
Little Sheep, Hand Tracing CraftPosted: April 6, 2012 | Author: Jena | Filed under: Artsy Fartsy, Community, Cut and Paste, Literacy, Small Motor Skill | 1 Comment »
The theme for library story time is sheep.
We start by tracing the kids little hands.
Then we cut out the hand shape,
and glue cotton balls on the palm part of the paper and a little googly eye for tip of the thumb.
Here are some good books about sheep.
– No Sleep for the Sheep! by Karen Beaumont
– Feeding the Sheep by Leda Schubert
– Where Is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox
– Sneaky Sheep by Chris Monroe
Teddy Bear Story TimePosted: March 27, 2012 | Author: Jena | Filed under: Artsy Fartsy, Community, Developmental Themes, Imagination, large motor skill, Literacy | 2 Comments »
We go to a teddy bear story time with our little stuffed animals. This story time is hosted by our local CFCE, Coordinated Family and Community Engagement program. The CFCE program is funded by the Massachusetts Department of Early Education & Care.
We read 2 books: Teddy Bears' Picnic by Jimmy Kennedy and Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury.
Then we get up and move. We launch our teddies in the air with a rainbow parachute.
To end the story time, we munch on teddy grahams and sip on juice boxes as we work on a teddy bear mask craft.
This is a great way to continue to positively support the kids' stuffed animal play.
My Stuffed Animal Made Me Do ItPosted: March 26, 2012 | Author: Jena | Filed under: Developmental Themes, Imagination, Literacy, Outside | 2 Comments »
Playing with little Beanie Baby Stuffed animals has been a favorite game here for about a month.
At first I am irritated because of the manic loudness and agressiveness of the play. The boys struggle with turn taking. They have the stuffed animals at the lunch table and accidentally knock over food with them, they constantly crash them into things, throw them across the house and car, and they yell in very high pitch voices when they pretend the animal is talking.
They are so engrossed in the play that they cannot hear me when I try to communicate with them about the mundane business of the day: meals, getting out the door, reminding them to use the bathroom, correcting behavior.
Instead of banning it, I try to understand it.
Friend A has a very special stuffy named Ducky. When he's sad or sleeping, Ducky is a great comfort to him.
Little K cuddles with a little white stuffed cat named Blancita at sleepy time.
We used the animals to help Little J feel protected from bad guys at night.
I notice that the boys sometimes talk out, act out social challenges through their stuffed animal play…"I'm sad, I need to be saved, I'm being bad right now." They name them, eat with them, hold them in the car, while they watch TV and they sleep with them. We even take them outside in the sandbox, afterwards washing them in with a load of laundry.
There are some boundaries that we have established: Sometimes we regroup to talk about noise and energy levels. I bring to their attention ANY time they communicate or negotiate successfully using the stuffed animals. We also use them during calm times.
My favorite little story:
Friend A doesn't like me to cuddle him too much, but he'll let me give his stuffed animal a kiss on the nose, and then he'll receive the kiss from the stuffed animal.
We love these books about Lily and her blue kangaroo.
Coils, Letters and Soft Pretzels.Posted: March 2, 2012 | Author: Jena | Filed under: Artsy Fartsy, Developmental Themes, Literacy, playing with our food, Sculpture, sensory, Small Motor Skill | Leave a comment »
The kids are masters with the play dough. Why not try out our coiling skills with real bread dough?
While I'm busy making half of our soft pretzel dough into traditional pretzel shapes, the boys stay busy turning their coils into letters, and for Little K, knots.
When we have a wide open day, it's always fun to throw in some cooking or baking activities.
The pretzels land on a pretty plate and we brush it with butter and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.
We take the special homemade treat to our friends house for a play date and the plate is cleared off in seconds.
I've posted a great soft pretzel recipe for Valentine's Day when we made them into hearts. If you'd like to make some soft pretzels, you can use this recipe:
1 cup warm water
1 package of active dry yeast
1/4 cup sugar
2 Tablespoons butter, softened
1 egg
3 – 3 1/2 cups flour
1 egg yolk
1 Tablespoon of water
course salt, sesame seeds, cinnamon, sugar
In large bowl, sprinkle yeast over warm water. Stir to dissolve. Add sugar, butter, salt, whole egg and 2 cups of flour. Blend at low speed until moistened. Beat 2 minutes at medium speed. By hand, stir in 1 to 1 1/2 cups flour to form stiff dough. Knead dough on lightly floured surface until smooth and elastic. Place dough in greased bowl. Cover tightly with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 2- 24 hours. Heat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly grease a cookie sheet. Divide dough into 20 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a 20 inch rope. Shape into pretzel, (or heart, or letters or other fun shapes.) Place pretzels on cookie sheets. In small bowl, combine egg yolk and water. Brush pretzels with egg mixture. Sprinkle with salt and, or sesame seeds. or cinnamon and sugar. Let rise in warm place until doubled in size. Bake for 10-15 minutes until golden brown. If making cinnamon sugar pretzels, leave pretzels bare, bake, then brush with melted butter and dust with cinnamon sugar.
We Love Libraries.Posted: March 1, 2012 | Author: Jena | Filed under: Community, Developmental Themes, Field Trip, Imagination, Jena's work, Literacy | 1 Comment »
"The library allows so much space for daydreaming…the hand to hand exchange at the issue desk – taking the books, opening them, date-stamping them, handing them back – is a soothing ritual of community…inscribed in the stone above the entrance were the words 'free to public,' which made her nostalgic for the idealism of another era." ~paraphrased from The London Train by Tessa Hadley.
This is book I'm currently reading for my book club.
We spend a lot of time at the library, not so much for it's exceptional nature in comparison to other libraries, but because it's OUR library and a part of our local community. There are so many wonderful resources, aside from being able to barrow books with only a little plastic card. The boys are all involved in story time every week. We sing songs, do finger plays, read many books on a chosen theme and then work on a craft. It's simple and wonderful. My boys LOVE to read, and I think being involved with the library since before they could crawl or walk is a big part of that.
During school vacation, the library has a visit from the famous Farmer Minor and Daisy the Pig, who love libraries. Daisy has hundreds of library cards from all over the United States, and I think some from the outside of the US as well. Farmer Minor, a great storyteller, brings with him his story of how Daisy became part of his family. He also brings a table full of books about pigs. Our current favorite pig book is Peaceful Piggy Yoga by Kerry Lee MacLean.
At the end of his story, Farmer Minor has us make an oath. It goes something like this:
"I promise Daisy that I'll read lots of good books!
I'll visit my Library often! I'll watch a little less TV and PIG OUT ON READING!"
What's your favorite pig book? What programs do you love at your local library?
Cats: A guest post from Friend HPosted: February 24, 2012 | Author: Jena | Filed under: Imagination, Jena's work, Literacy, Small Motor Skill, Working Together | 2 Comments »
Friend H and her little brother, friend A, spend some time at our crazy little casa during the week when their parents are bringing home the bacon.
Friend H sometimes likes to see what I'm up to on HappyLittleMesses…she likes that I write stories about our adventures.
She tells me that when she gets older, she'd like to have a blog of her own. She wants her blog to be about cats.
This is school vacation week on our side of the world, so we're spending an exceptional amount of time adventuring together.
I ask Friend H if she'd like to have a guest post on my blog.
Here it is:
"I have a friend, her name is Jena.
She has 2 cats. Their names are Ansel and Cassidy.
Ansel loves to cuddle me. She waits for me to get off the bus every day.
Cassidy is very shy, but I am a cat whisperer.
I meow a special meow, and he lets me pet him on the nose.
This is how you make the special meow:
Block the air from your throat.
Make a humming sound.
Make a "meeeooow" sound in a high pitch voice."
Beginners' Yoga for our FamilyPosted: February 16, 2012 | Author: Jena | Filed under: Artsy Fartsy, Developmental Themes, Experimentation, Field Trip, Imagination, Jena's work, large motor skill, Literacy, sensory | 3 Comments »
"With great love and respect, I honor my heart, my inner teacher."
The library has a kid focused yoga class once a month. Little K and I go and we love it. Well, I love it, and am pretty certain it's right up my family's alley, but they need to warm up to it, like anything new. I'd like to gently introduce yoga and yoga practices into our everyday lives.
I rent a yoga dvd for kids to take home, and we watch it and try some of the breathing techniques and animal poses. I buy a deck of yoga flashcards that describe yoga moves for children. I take these to the gym with me in wee hours of the morning and practice a couple of poses after cardio. I also find a simple little kids' yoga app for my iphone, that tells a story and teaches about 10-12 poses.
After I had my boys, my body went into nurture / hibernation mode, but before I had kids, I was a regular at yoga class. Prenatal yoga was my all time favorite because I felt that the stretches and mantras were so great for my changing body and life.
The teacher in all classes would share beautiful madras with us.
"Be aware of the feelings in your body.
Be at peace in the mind.
It doesn't have to be perfect…
Just who you are."
Respecting the body and honoring the spirit are important lessons for me to teach my kids. We pay a lot of attention to our cognitive and emotional and social selves, challenging the mind every day, using I statements and sharing our feelings, playing with friends every day, but it's time for our bodies to come out of hibernation…time to focus on the spirit in other ways than simply going into nature for tranquility.
There's one exercise in particular that catches our attention.
We call it the "Sun Belly."
Little J sometimes gets "spooked." The Sun Belly breath is supposed to help you feel empowered.
Reach for the sun high up in the sky, and breath out hard as you quickly bring the sun down into your belly.
I tell Little J that he can try this whenever he needs to feel brave.
"The spirit in me respects the spirit in you."
Salt Tray: Part 2Posted: February 15, 2012 | Author: Jena | Filed under: Artsy Fartsy, Drawing, Experimentation, Literacy, playing with our food, sensory, Small Motor Skill | Leave a comment »
Part 1 of Make Your Own Zen Tray for Sand Drawing was hosted by Artful Parent.
We use a found bottle of sand art on a cookie sheet and the boys make hatch marks with their fingers and feet.
There is a comment in response to the first post on Artful Parent, about the sand art stuff being toxic, so we throw out the old stuff and give dying sand a try.
You can make your own colored sand art medium with sand or salt and food coloring:
1. Pour half a cup of salt or sand into a tupperware with some food coloring.
2. Shake it up.
3. Pour the salt or sand in a thin layer on the newspaper and let it dry.
4. Repeat this for each color, giving each its own piece of newspaper.
5. When all colors are dry, pick up the papers one at a time and pour the salt into containers to store.
I write out some number cards that the kids can use to practice their number recognition.
Little K likes to draw in the sand, pretending he's writing letters.
The 4 year old boys practice numbers 1-10,
and Friend H wants something more challenging, so we write up some bigger numbers for her.
When you want to erase, you shake the tray gently like an etch a sketch.


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11-year-old electrocuted at Triad pool
An 11-year-old girl was electrocuted at a Davidson County pool. Two other girls escaped.
Officials say Lauren Cecil was electrocuted at Brookside Swim Club on Queens Road shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday. Davidson County EMS and lifeguards performed CPR at the scene, but Cecil died at Lexington Medical Center.
The girls were in the pool when a lifeguard heard a loud pop and saw a power line fall into the grass next to the pool. The power line was carrying 7,200 volts of electricity, according to reports.
"The investigation is being handled by the Davidson County Sheriff's Department and fire marshal, and we are working in full cooperation and conjunction with them," said Lexington City Manager Alan Carson. "I don't know if they have found the cause of what happened. They think it will take a while to piece together what happened."
According to Carson, when the electrical wire fell, it was 50 feet from the pool and was not in close proximity to the pool or the concrete.
The other two girls got out on the side of the pool. Cecil was electrocuted when she grabbed a metal ladder, according to authorities.
Calls to Brookside Swim Club were unanswered Wednesday.


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While the whole month of May was slightly volatile for Monster as reflected by its price chart for the said month, it picked up quickly towards the end of the month.
The company's shares closed at $66.92 on May 2, skyrocketed to 70.10 on May 12, then inched up by .45 percent to $70.55 on May 16. Its shares rode a downward trend by May 28 at $68.47 then rebounded on Friday to $69.38, a 0.52 percent increase from its previous close. Analysts expect Monster's pricing to reach $77.09 this year based on latest market data.
The shares of Pepsico, Inc. (NYSE: PEP), maker of Amp energy drink, are on an uptick, starting at 85.52 in May 2, then edging up to 86.54 on May 16. Its shares dipped back to 85.53 on May 23, then peaked at 88.33 by May 30, up by 0.68 percent from its previous close.
Relentless energy drink maker The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) also ended May on a positive note, albeit slightly lower by 0.50 from its May 2 close. KO reached 41.11 on May 13 before it plunged swiftly two days after to 40.52. The growth stock has since recovered though, closing May at 40.90.
Significant improvements are yet to be seen from micro-cap energy drink manufacturers such as Jones Soda Co. (OTCMKTS: JSDA) and Reeds, Inc. (OTCMKTS: REED), which both sell premium craft sodas and natural energy drinks in the U.S. and Canada.
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Monster Beverage Corporation continues to increase its share in the energy drink market in each global region, based on a report from Citi analyst Wendy Nicholson. Nicholson added Monster's market share has steadily increased from 2009, while Red Bull is heading the other way.
Red Bull still leads the industry as Nicholson found. However, as Monster's share of the market grows, Red Bull's is on a steady decline as competition gets stiffer. It has been since 2009, during the global financial crunch, and as new players in the market—PepsiCo, Inc. and The Coca-Cola Company—released energy drink brands Amp and Relentless respectively, Business Monitor reported in 2010.
Price competition also continues to pose a threat to Austria-based Red Bull— which is still run as a privately-held company—as new entrants in the market introduce products that offer more value for money. For example, Coca-Cola's Relentless sells at a same price point as Red Bull although it is definitely bigger in size than Red Bull. Additionally, private label companies sell products at 50 percent less.
Another player that continues to threaten Red Bull's market share is growing competition from smaller energy drink companies offering natural and organic energy drink choices (i.e. alternative beverage). Promising brands making up this segment include Pacific Shores Holdings, Inc.'s (OTC: PSHR) Energy X, and private-label offerings such as Viso, Scheckters, FRS, and Little Big Shot.
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Rochester, N.Y. - "It was an adventure" said Charles Roelle about the night he and his 9-year-old son Hunter were stranded on Lake Ontario.
The father and son on a sailboat, reported missing, were found Monday morning on the shore of Durand Eastman Beach, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
They were out for a evening of fishing and had just cooked steaks on the grill when a gas can fell overboard in rough waves.
They were able to retrieve it but were not able to restart the boats engine because of the water intake.
They eventually beached off Lake Shore Boulevard and spent the night there.
They had no idea that when they did not return as planned Sunday night their family called the Coast Guard and a large scale rescue and search operation was underway.
Roelle is an experienced sailor Who piloted his boat here from Florida at the beginning of the summer. He says Lake Ontario is one of the most difficult waterways to maneuver even more so than the ocean.
"If you can sale Lake Ontario you can sail anywhere" said Roelle.
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Caterham had a solid afternoon, finishing 16th and 17th, and again ahead of Marussia and HRT while Williams retired...
Vitaly Petrov: "That was a really interesting race, particularly at the start when there was a lot of overtaking and it was good to be right in the middle of the early battles. We made some very good pitstops, quicker than in China and good enough to help me stay out ahead of Ricciardo who I had a good battle with for quite a lot of the race. It was only towards the end when we had to let the leaders pass that we started losing a bit of time but today's performance shows again how strong we can be on Sundays. This has been a good weekend all round and a great way to end the first four flyaway races. We have a couple of weeks now until the next race in Spain and we'll head there feeling very positive about how we keep progressing."
Heikki Kovalainen: "I had a good start but then had contact with a car behind in turn 10 which caused a rear left puncture. We pitted immediately and from then on it was basically about putting in as strong a race as I could. I passed Glock quickly and pulled out a good gap to him and then went after my team mate and Ricciardo. It's obviously a bit frustrating to have had the puncture on the first lap, but we can take a number of positives from this weekend, particularly from the pace we showed in qualifying and from the way we were able to look after the tyres, so overall it's been pretty good."
Timo Glock: "It was a very difficult race today. I had no balance in the car, no speed and no chance to push after the second or third la. The rear tyres dropped off massively and every time I did try to push, the rears locked under braking and I had no braking stability. Unfortunately this is a weekend to learn from then put behind us quite quickly. We have had a complex journey from Friday to Sunday and we need to retrace our steps and look at the set-up decisions we made in order to understand how we can improve and apply the updated package from Spain."
Charles Pic: "Naturally I am disappointed, as the race was tough but I was quite happy with the car and managing the tyre wear quite well. Despite the challenging track conditions I was still able to push and I think we were sitting quite well versus the pace of the Caterhams. Unfortunately on lap 24 I had a problem with the Air Valve System and I had no option but to retire the car, which is frustrating for me and the team as they have worked very hard to keep us moving forward here all weekend. As we head to Europe now I have to be pleased with the opening few races in general, but we need to be focused now on improvements for Spain."
Pedro de la Rosa: "It was a tough race, but we finished with both cars and that is positive for the team. The truth is that our rhythm wasn't what we'd hoped for. We have to gain some speed per lap, more than anything because we want to be fighting our rivals on a consistent basis. In today's race we didn't have sufficient rhythm. Looking back it's true that we've taken a giant stride but we can't be satisfied with just that. We've improved a lot but we're at the starting blocks, where we should have been in Australia. We've got very good individuals on board, a new workshop where we can build on a solid base, and that is the most positive thing. Now we want to get back to work on the car and try new things out. We're really looking forward to Europe.'
Narain Karthikeyan: "The start today was good, but then the first few laps were quite tough because there was dust everywhere. I settled behind Pedro but I think I pushed too hard in the first stint because my tyres were dead very quickly. After my first pitstop, I improved a lot and from there my lap times were consistent. We did a four-stop strategy, which I think went very well, and in the end we were only half a second behind Pedro at the checkered flag. My race performance was extremely good, I'd say it was my best Grand Prix so far this season, so I'm very happy about that."
Bruno Senna: "We did everything right on the first lap but unfortunately I was struggling to keep the pace to the cars in front. I think we were quite aggressive with the set-up today but sometimes you don't get it right. Towards the end I started feeling a lot of vibration in the brake pedal. The engineers were looking at it, so I kept pushing as you never know what will happen, but the vibration got worse and the decision was made to pit to avoid risking an accident. It's disappointing after two points finishes, but it's a long season."
Pastor Maldonado: "I had a puncture in the exit of Turn 1 and then spun on the straight. I'm disappointed for the team as the performance was there. Starting from the back of the pack I was fighting every lap. The car was responding well and I was able to make up many positions. I feel today we could have scored more points but unfortunately it wasn't to be."
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Brandon Nozaki Miller – A.K.A. the Electric Cowboy – is on a mission: to prove you don't need big-time money to have big-time fun competing on an electric motorcycle. To help make his case, he's just set several land speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats.
Aboard his Zero S steed (affectionately named Foxie Cleopatra), he reached an averaged speed of 101.652 miles per hour over a mile distance, placing himself in the record books of both the FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme) and AMA (American Motorcyclist Association), in the category of electric motorcycles under 150 kilograms. The effort also landed him the FIM record for the kilometer distance at 102.281 miles per hour.
Pretty cool, right? But this leads us to an obvious question: how do you get a battery-powered bike that's rated for a top speed of 88 mph to break the ton? Answer: Modifications. Lots of them.
Perhaps the biggest gain came from a simple swap of the stock rear 108-tooth sprocket with a slightly smaller 98-tooth disc. Other hardware changes included the addition of a steering damper and other bits to make it AMA compliant at the higher speeds, as well as little tricks like sawing off over five inches from his handlebars.
The Cowboy also employed some high tech savvy in his high-speed bid. Hacking into the bike's controller, he bumped up all the parameters, especially torque in upper range, to feed more power from the Zero ZF6 pack. While this is risky business – the magnets in permanent magnet motors can lose their attractive/repulsive properties if exposed to too much heat – Miller managed to come out on the winning end of the equation.
Good thing, because after the benefit of some TLC from the crew down at Hollywood Electrics and a new set of handlebars, Foxie is going up against the gassers of the Chuckwalla Valley Motorcycle Association this weekend. Though Miller wouldn't predict how he would fare against the 250cc bikes, we expect he will, at least, have lots fun while spreading his EV-positive message.


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Climate Progress called it a "Science Stunner" when they ran the story two months ago. Joe Romm quoted from a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) news release about "the most comprehensive and accurate assessment to date of ice sheet losses in Greenland and Antarctica and their contributions to sea level rise."
"An international team of experts," consisting of nearly 50 researchers from 26 different laboratories supported by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) "has combined data from multiple satellites and aircraft to produce" a report that tells us "the combined rate of melting for the ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica has increased during the last 20 years."
Taken together, these two massive ice sheets "are losing more than three times as much ice each year as they were in the 1990s." While the ice in Antarctic is melting, the ice in Greenland is melting twice as fast.
According to Erik Ivins from the JPL, "Both ice sheets appear to be losing more ice now than 20 years ago, but the pace of ice loss from Greenland is extraordinary, with nearly a five-fold increase since the mid-1990s. In contrast, the overall loss of ice in Antarctica has remained fairly constant, with the data suggesting a 50-percent increase in Antarctic ice loss during the last decade."
You can find this on the Fox News website regarding this study: "Between 1992 and 2011, Antarctica lost 1,320 metric gigatons (plus or minus 980) of ice, while Greenland lost 2,940 metric gigatons (plus or minus 940). Western Antarctica is losing significant amounts of ice, while eastern Antarctica is compensating somewhat by gaining some ice. That's consistent with patterns climate scientists have found that show climate change driving increased snowfall in eastern Antarctica."
Also, "When averaged out over the past 20 years, ice-sheet melting has contributed about 20 percent of the overall sea-level rise, but when looking at the past few years...it has accounted for 30 percent to 40 percent of continuing sea-level rise."
And, "This year, the summer Greenland ice melt broke a 30-year record, losing more ice than it ever has since record keeping began."
Dr. Jason Box is a climate scientist and "an expert on Greenland who has traveled 23 times to the massive, mile thick northern ice sheet," according to Chris Mooney recently in Mother Jones. When Greenland's "surface almost completely melted" last summer, Box said it signaled "the beginning of the end for the ice sheet."
The temperature of the planet is increasing. Anyone want to blame melting ice on something other than increased temperature? And the cause? Anyone want to produce any science that attributes this to anything other than humans and their fossil fuels?
Box said, "Those who claim it's all cycles just don't understand that humans are driving the cycle right now, and for the foreseeable future."
Mooney writes, "And the coastal consequences of allowing Greenland to continue its melting--and pour 23 feet's worth of sea level into the ocean over the coming centuries--are just staggering."
Box said, "If you're the mayor of Hamburg, or Shanghai, or Philadelphia, I think it's in your job description that you think forward a century. They're completely inundated by the year 2200."
Take a look at a map of the United States. Find Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and imagine what our nation will look like with the Atlantic Ocean covering The City of Brotherly Love, "the second largest city on the East Coast of the United States, and the fifth-most-populous city in the United States."
I know most of us aren't worried about Greenland melting, but this could be humanity's last chance to act. There will be a point of no return, when an ice-free planet will become inevitable. We may have already crossed that line but what if we haven't? What will future generations think about Americans who lived in the last decades of the 20th Century and the first decades of the 21st Century? What will they think about our refusal to act when we still had something they no longer have, precious time to stop the ice from melting?


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Doukhobor Immigration: The Potato Dilemma
by Victor O. Buyniak
In the months prior to the Doukhobors' arrival in Canada in 1898-1899, the Immigration Branch of the Department of the Interior worked ceaselessly to coordinate the necessary arrangements for their settlement. The following article by Victor O. Buyniak, reproduced by permission from Saskatchewan History (38, 1985, No. 2) deals with one aspect of the settlement arrangements: the exigency of providing foodstuffs, namely potatoes, for the vegetarian settlers arriving in large numbers on the Prairies in winter. It documents the many tasks in which immigration officials were engaged as they worked with Doukhobor organizers and the need for cooperative effort over very long distances. It also reflects the inner workings of a government department which played a pivotal role in the opening of the West.
The 1890's was a decade of accelerated settlement of the Canadian North-West
by new immigrants arriving in groups or on an individual basis. Many came
from Eastern Europe. The mass migration of the Doukhobors occurred at the
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on the Prairies were finalized in 1898. The very first train carrying
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In preparation for their arrival, provisions had to be purchased and stored.
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spring, including reserves for spring planting.
James A. Smart, Deputy Minister of the Interior wrote William F. McCreary,
the Commissioner of Immigration, who was then located in Winnipeg, on 8
October, 1898, regarding the expected arrival of the Doukhobors and the
purchasing of food supplies.
Commissioner McCreary informed his superior Frank Pedley, Superintendent of
Immigration on 4 November 1898 that it was possible to arrange with the
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but he could not make the same arrangements with another company. Writing to
Pedley again on 16 November 1898 he outlined developments.
This article originally appeared in the pages of Saskatchewan History, an award-winning magazine dedicated to encouraging both readers and writers to explore the province's history. Published by the Saskatchewan Archives since 1948, it is the pre-eminent source of information and narration about Saskatchewan's unique heritage. For more information, visit Saskatchewan History online at: http://www.saskarchives.com/web/history.html.


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The Tekonsha Prodigy P2 would install exactly as shown in the video you referred to (see link).
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Tinseltown, meet the heartland. According to a nationwide Gallup poll commissioned by Entertainment Weekly, 91% of Americans have never heard of hotter-than-hot director Quentin Tarantino, whose upcoming black-comic Pulp Fiction is the talk of Hollywood. (Of those few who say they have heard of Tarantino, 10% believe he's a soccer player.) Think America loves Tom Hanks because he makes us laugh? Think again: His last three films were among moviegoers' most mentioned weepies. Sure, you can bank on some things-the nation's favorite actress has held the title for four years now-but from popcorn consumption to comedians' careers, tastes keep changing, as this latest accounting shows.
Who is your favorite actress working today? 1. Julia Roberts
2. Meg Ryan
3. Meryl Streep/Susan Sarandon/Michelle Pfeiffer
The hearts of 35- to 44-year-olds are with Ryan. Among men, Pfeiffer takes second place.
Who is your favorite actor working today? 1. Mel Gibson
2. Tom Hanks
3. Harrison Ford
4. Kevin Costner
5. Clint Eastwood/Arnold Schwarzenegger
Women pick Hanks, while men salute Ford, but Gibson's across-the-board appeal prevails-and all three beat last year's leader, Eastwood.
Do you think the career of any of the following actors is in
EddieMurphy 56%
Billy Crystal 39%
Macaulay Culkin 36%
Julia Roberts 19%
Kevin Costner 14%
The lessons here? Don't make sequels to box office smashes, and avoid puberty at all costs.
Do you plan to see Tom Cruise in Interview With the Vampire?
Definitely/probably 38%
Probably not/definitely not 58%
Bad news for Cruise? Not really: 56% of moviegoers under 24-and almost two thirds of frequent moviegoers-say they won't miss it.
Which of the following movies are you most excited about seeing?
Tim Allen's The Santa Clause 36%
Star Trek: Generations 26%
1995's Mission: Impossible 15%
1995's The Brady Bunch Movie 8%
Do you think Pierce Brosnan is a good choice to play James Bond?
Yes 65%
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''there were more interesting and enjoyable movies.'' 71%
''there were less explicit sex.'' 49%
''there were less violence.'' 49%
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About the same amount 45%
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Queen and Adam Lambert's London gigs in 2012 have been named Gigwise readers' favorite live shows of 2012.
After their performance at Sonisphere was cancelled, the band performed two shows at London's Hammersmith Apollo with Lambert filling the shoes of the late Freddie Mercury.
"It was such a tremendous honor to take the stage with Rock and Roll royalty earlier this year," Lambert told Gigwise. "Brian May and Roger Taylor are true gentleman who inspired magical moments onstage and off. In paying deep respect to the late, great Freddie Mercury, I feel I have evolved into a better artist. Thank you to all the fans who supported me in this venture. It was your fervent energy that fanned the flames and set the stage on fire!"
The Lambert-fronted-Queen beat out the Killers for the top slot, while Muse placed third, with Animal Collective and the Foo Fighters rounding out the top five.
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