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Advanced Wind Turbine Test Facility
Agriculture and Sciences Building
The Agriculture and Sciences Building was completely renovated in 2007, with the inclusion of smart classrooms and updated laboratories. Home to the Department of Agricultural Sciences and the Department of Life Earth and Environmental Sciences, the three-story building is situated on the corner of Fourth Avenue and 26th Street. The building's most attractive interior feature is the center atrium lobby, a favorite between-classes stop. The atrium is surrounded by 13 classrooms, 41 labs and 47 faculty offices.
Alumni Banquet Facility
The Alumni Banquet Facility, formerly the South Dining Hall, was expanded and renovated by the Alumni Association to gain a more permanent presence on campus. The facility houses the Dr. Hazel Kelley Wilson Banquet Hall, the Buffalo Room and Isley Terrace for dinners, dances and formal occasions.
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Amarillo Center
WTAMU offers select upper-level and graduate classes in downtown Amarillo at the WTAMU Amarillo Center. Those who enjoy the face-to-face classroom experience will find the WTAMU Amarillo Center to be the perfect option for building a résumé or completing a degree with less drive time. View our Amarillo Center course offerings.
Faculty offices, Counseling (M. Ed.) and the Center for Learning Disabilities on 7th floor.
Bain Athletic Center
Bivins Nursing Learning Center
Boiler Plant
The Boiler Plant north of Cornette Library keeps University buildings comfortably warm no matter what the weather is like outside. Five boilers generate steam that runs through tunnels to most campus buildings. The Power Plant is manned around the clock.
Buff Hall
Buff Hall, built in 2008, features "super suites" for 176 upperclassmen. Each suite has a common living area, a mini-kitchen equipped with a full-size refrigerator, and four private bedrooms and two baths. Each bedroom offers wireless internet and cable-TV access. The hall also has laundry facilities, group study room, multimedia room, and a full community kitchen. Residents have all the advantages that on-campus housing offers as well as all the freedom and privacy that upperclassmen desire. Buff Hall is the only residence hall that features year-round housing.
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Buffalo Courts Alumni Center
Buffalo Courts has been home to the WTAMU Alumni Association and Campus Tours for several years, but the rock and limestone structure first served as a dormitory for WT athletes.
Buffalo Sports Park
Buffalo Sports Park is the home to a variety of West Texas A&M University programs. The $21.8 million student funded-project not only provides valuable new space for WT but also for the entire community. In addition to being the location of WT's brand new Division II intercollegiate complex for competition in baseball, softball, soccer and track and field, Buffalo Sports Park also will be the site for University intramural activities as well as community events and area high school sports.
The project involved a complete renovation of campus from east of Jarrett Hall and north to the former site of the University's Wind Test Center. The sprawling complex includes:
Centennial Hall
Centennial Hall opened its doors to 340 students in 2011. This four-story residence hall features double rooms with individual sinks. This co-ed facility is designed to provide residents with the privacy they desire, as well as a strong community environment. Residents enjoy a formal lobby, multiple study lounges, three gaming lounges, a full community kitchen, and wireless internet. Additionally, the Office of Residential Living is housed in the facility and is the starting place for daily Residence Hall tours.
The Office of Residential Living maintains the University?s eleven residence halls which house approximately 2,200 undergraduate and graduate students each year. Each hall has its own unique appeal for a "home away from home" to meet each student's personality, living style and location preference. The Office of Residential Living strives to create an atmosphere that promotes academic success, personal growth and social awareness for each of its hall residents.
Charles K. and Barbara Kerr Vaughan Pedestrian Mall
Completed and dedicated at Homecoming 2007, the pedestrian mall is located directly north of Old Main where Wisdom Road and University Drive would intersect. These cross streets between Old Main, Killgore Research Center and the Jack B. Kelly Student Center are gone. In its place is a newly landscaped green space with the new Hayward Spirit Tower and the magnificent marble statue "The Original Texans."
Jack and Helen Hayward graciously donated the funds for the spirit tower, which is currently the tallest building on campus. Every day when the tower's clock strikes noon, the WT fight song echoes forth in a powerful display of school spirit.
The mall features copious landscaping and a marble sculpture of a buffalo and calf by artist Doug Scott of New Mexico. The "Original Texans" sculpture sits prominently along Buffalo Walk north of Old Main and is encased in a cascading water feature.
The beautiful pedestrian mall is a great place for student gatherings, outdoor functions and activities. It also features wireless Internet access.
Classroom Center
The Classroom Center has undergone a complete transformation, giving WTAMU students access to the most up-to-date educational possibilities. Each of the more than 40 classrooms is equipped with smart-classroom technology.
The remaining three stories of the CC house numerous classrooms and labs as well as the Departments of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Computer Information and Decision Management, Management, Marketing and General Business and the Department of Math, Chemistry and Physics.
Computer Center
The computer center is the central hub for information technology staff, their offices and daily operations. The computer center does not facilitate computers for the use of students. Students can find open access computer use in the Hastings Electronic Learning Center in the basement of the Cornette Library.
Conner Hall
Conner Hall is home to University honors students. It is a co-ed hall and offers 47 private rooms available only to students participating in the Attebury Honors Program. Each private room offers cable and ethernet connections, carpeting, built-in furniture, and a game room. Being a smaller residence hall contributes to Conner's feeling of community. Students congregate in the air-conditioned lobby to visit or watch the big screen television. Laundry facilities are also available.
Cornette Library and Hastings Electronic Learning Center (HELC)
Spacious 100,000-square-foot Cornette Library is located in the center of campus and serves as cultural and intellectual resource for both the University community and surrounding region. The Hastings Electronic Learning Center (HELC) is in the library's basement and contains more than 375 computers loaded with the latest software.
The library proper has approximately 350,000 and bound periodicals and 650,000 government documents. It is a depository for both the U.S. and Texas documents. A well-stocked coffee shop was installed on the library's first floor in 2007.
The HELC is open 24 hours a day and contains an open-access computer lab, five computer classrooms, two compressed video classrooms, a compressed video conference room, instructional support areas, offices and lounges. Several courses are taught in the HELC like CIS, art, music, science and physics. It also hosts media services and training opportunities.
Cousins Hall
Cousins Hall, named after the University's first president, is considered the most historical residence hall at West Texas A&M University. It is the first dormitory built by the state of Texas on the campus of a teacher's college. It retains its early charm as the only hall with its own ballroom. It also features a grand piano, private wings, ping pong and pool tables, big screen television, carpeted rooms and laundry facilities. It is a card-access hall and offers cable and internet access for its female residents.
Cross Hall
Cross Hall is an air-conditioned, high-rise residence hall that is home to 190 female students. The card-access hall offers residents the convenience of elevators, carpeted rooms and cable and ethernet connections. The hall features individual floor lobbies, floor balconies, and a main lobby with ping pong and pool tables. Laundry facilities and a community kitchen also are available.
East Dining Hall "The Caf"The East Dining Hall, more commonly known as The Caf, might possibly be the most popular building on campus. The 700-seat circular facility is the place for everything from pancakes and cultural favorites to fat-free, sodium-free entres and hamburgers. Plus, there's a dessert station for those with a sweet tooth. Meals are prepared and served by Dining Services by ARAMARK. The Dining Hall also houses smaller, more intimate rooms for meetings and banquets.
Engineering and Computer Sciences Building
The Engineering and Computer Sciences Building was abated and renovated in 2011. It is home to Computer Science, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Engineering Technology and Mechanical Engineering. State-of-the-art laboratories and smart classrooms allow for the optimum learning experience for WT students.
Fieldhouse "The Box"Affectionately known as "The Box," the WTAMU Fieldhouse is home to the Lady Buffs volleyball program, and three Division II national championship banners attest that it has been a very good home, indeed. The Fieldhouse is renowned for the close proximity of the fans to both the playing surface and the player benches.
Over the years (prior to construction of the First United Bank Center) the box was a venue for numerous performances by entertainers with household names—Steve Martin, John Denver, Willie Nelson, George Strait, Crystal Gale and Tina Turner, just to name a few.
First United Bank Center
President Bill Clinton, Karl Rove, Maya Angelou, Blake McKowski, Big & Rich, Elie Wiesel, Martina McBride, Willie Nelson, Pat Green, Cross Canadian Ragweed and superstars of World Wrestling Entertainment are just some of the headliners who have performed at the First United Bank Center.
Home to Buff and Lady Buff basketball, the facility has seating for 5,000 and a scoreboard with a large video screen.
Used for WTAMU commencement exercises and a host of other public events—high school playoff games, conventions, freshmen convocation. The FUBC parking lot is the primary place to park and ride on the Shuttle Bus to the WTAMU campus.
Founders Hall
The WTAMU greenhouse complex, located on the north side of campus, provides research opportunities and hands-on experience for students of plant science.
Guenther Hall
Guenther Hall is an air-conditioned, 12-unit residence hall for WTAMU's male students. The hall, built around a shady courtyard, offers its residents extra-long twin mattresses, built-in furniture, and carpeted floors. Cable and ethernet connections are available along with laundry facilities, foosball, a dart board, a pool table, and a big screen television. The close proximity of this hall to the classroom center and the JBK Student Center allows for a quick walk to class.
Health Partners Clinic
The University's Health Partner's Clinic opened in 2003 as part of a federal initiative known as "Healthy Neighborhoods" to meet the primary care needs of the medically underserved in southeast Amarillo. Today the nurse practitioners operated clinic serves children and adults from across the city of Amarillo with services ranging from health assessments and physicals to preventative care and immunizations.
Horse Center
Students can stable their horses at the WTAMU Horse Center, home to the highly competitive women's equestrian team. The Horse Center is situated on an 80-acre spread just north of campus and features a 200' x 105' indoor arena, two lighted outdoor arenas, a round pen and a Hitchcock pen. Horses graze in adjacent pastures laced with shade trees and the historic Tierra Blanca Creek.
Jack B. Kelley Student Center
The newly renovated Jack B. Kelley Student Center is the center of campus activity at West Texas A&M University. The JBK plays home to Legacy Hall, a brand new campus venue for programs and activities. Legacy Hall can seat 750 people theater style, has its own stage, built-in sound system, programmable lighting and projectors with two 21-foot screens. The expansion also features several smaller meeting rooms to accommodate student groups and a student gathering space that features "collaborative" furniture on wheels with electrical charging stations.
The JBK is also home to The Legends Club, Starbucks Coffee, a convenience store, Sushic Sushi, Chick-Fil-A, Home Zone Homecooking, Grillworks Grill and Quizno's Sandwich shop.
The JBK Student Center offers many different options for hosting events on campus. Whether it's a small meeting for your organization or a large-scale event in Legacy Hall, we are here to help. We are ready to help you plan every detail of your event. For information on services and prices visit www.wtamu.edu/JBK. We look forward to working with you on your next event.
Use of the JBK is free to registered student organizations and departments. A small group rate will be applied to individual students, faculty, and staff wanting to reserve space. The JBK is also available to community members and outside entities that are looking to host an event.
Jarrett Hall
Jarrett Hall is one of the largest residence halls on campus. It is comprised of 24 units built around a divided courtyard. The rooms offer carpeting and cable and ethernet connections. The air-conditioned lobby features a big screen television and foosball, ping pong and pool tables. Laundry facilities are available. The hall also provides accommodations for students with disabilities. Jarrett Hall is also close in proximity to the Dining Hall and the Virgil Henson Activities Center.
Jones Hall
Jones Hall is the high-rise, air-conditioned residence hall for male students. The hall offers its residents easy access to the Virgil Henson Activities Center. The card-access hall features elevators, a television room, individual floor lobbies, floor balconies, and accommodations for students with disabilities. Rooms are carpeted and cable and ethernet connections are provided.
Joseph A. Hill Memorial Chapel
The Joseph A. Hill Memorial Chapel is named after the University's second president and stands as a testament to Dr. Hill's determination to provide a place for student mediation and reflection. "Its very presence on the campus would be a message of faith in Deity, and would suggest comradeship between education and spiritual values," he said.
The chapel's first cornerstone was laid June 9, 1950, and dedicated in a special ceremony on Oct. 21, 1950. The red sandstone building with stained glass windows and country steeple changed the landscape of the campus and provided a place for student prayer, Bible studies, meetings and inductions, memorials, worship services and weddings. Carillon bells ring daily from the refurbished building. It remains Texas' only privately funded chapel located on state university property.
For reservation information call 806-651-2323 or checkout the Room Reservation Information.
Killgore Research Center
The site for the WTAMU Graduate School, Killgore Research Center is the focal point for ever-expanding student and faculty research at West Texas A&M University. Right in the center of campus, Kilgore is where you can find the Attebury Honors and McNair Scholars Programs along with Sponsored Research Services. It is also home to essential offices such as the WTAMU Academic and Research Environmental Health and Safety offices and the Title IX office.
Kimbrough Memorial StadiumThe second-largest stadium in NCAA Division II, Kimbrough Memorial Stadium has a seating capacity of 20,000, which isn't always enough. A Lone Star Conference record 23,276 fans packed the stadium for the homecoming game Oct. 13, 2007, a victory that helped propel the Buffs football team to a perfect 11-0 regular-season record.
The University's live buffalo mascot, escorted by the Herdsmen, leads the Buffs out onto the field before each game.
The stadium features a synthetic, all-weather playing surface, Happy State Bank Field, and the scoreboard is equipped with a Daktronics ProStar high-definition large video screen, an updated version of the Sony JumboTron.
Besides WTAMU football, the stadium is used for high school football and soccer games and band competitions.
McCaslin Hall
McCaslin Hall was built in 1946 and became the privatized McCaslin Hall Apartments in 1997. Residents of the apartment complex are primarily WTAMU graduate students, married students and students with more than 60 credit hours along with WT professors and staff members. Call 806-651-5800 for more information.
Mary Moody Northen Hall
Mary Moody Northen Hall was built in the 1970s to accommodate the University's increasing number of fine arts students, and today the facility boasts even more space with its Northen Hall Addition.
Meat Lab
Nance Ranch
The Nance Ranch maintains approximately 475 acres of cultivated land which is in two roughly equal fields. All farming is strictly dryland, as there is no irrigation water available at the Ranch. The farming operation acts as a working laboratory for the Dryland Agriculture Institute and the Integrated Pest Management program, and provides numerous research and teaching opportunities for faculty and students.
Old MainOld Main, the oldest building at West Texas A&M University, remains as much as an integral part of the campus scene as it did when it first opened in 1916. The four-level structure houses numerous administrative offices including the University president as well as classrooms, laboratories and learning resource centers. Offices for enrollment management and human resources also are located in Old Main along with the College of Education and Social Sciences and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences.
Even though the building is more than 100 years old, it retains the same early-century charm that prompted onlookers in 1916 to declare Old Main "the greatest building in Texas, the Capitol only excepted."
Old Student Union Building "Old SUB"
Once a haven for student activities, the "Old Student Union Building" is a name that better describes the building's historic use. Today, though the name Old SUB stuck, this facility is home to the University Police Department and its Parking Services, the International Student Office and the Office of Education on Demand.
The north portion of the building is home to a weight room used by West Texas A&M University student athletes.
The West side of the building houses Panhandle AHEC, a USDA office, a Texas Parks and Wildlife Office, English as a Second Language office and the Texas Forestry Commission
Palo Duro Research Facility
The newly renovated Palo Duro Research Facility opened in August 2010 and is located at #2 Hospital Drive. The facility is intended to become the hub of the West Texas A&M University Campus Research District and promote collaborative research and alliances for research collaboration.
The facility has controlled access/monitored entry and exit for the laboratories and secure entry for the offices. The laboratories have 100% fresh air and filtering of all air, fume hoods, emergency showers, eye wash stations, fire blankets, and chemical resistant surfaces and are equipped with RO/DI water. All waste water flows through a filtering system to remove any hazardous chemicals prior to being disposed of as sewage. The facility is energy efficient with energy efficient windows, efficient insulation, and motion-detection lighting. Heating and cooling is harvested from the exhaust air system.
Presently, the research facility's occupants are:
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
Visitors are amazed at all the things that can be seen under one roof at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum. This is the largest history museum in Texas with a collection of more than three million artifacts. Twenty-two different galleries take visitors back in time through art, history, archeology, paleontology, petroleum, transportation and textiles. The museum's collection of Texas art is considered one of the best in the state.
Physical Plant Complex
The Physical Plant employs approximately 140 people for building maintenance, custodial service and grounds keeping. The Physical Plant services 2,300,000 square feet of building space and 114 acres of landscape.
President's Home
The President's Home, built in 1986, is located just north of the Virgil Henson Activities Center. The house is much more than just a home for the first family—it's also a place for meeting and entertaining. The home's tri-level design features a designated area on the first floor for public entertaining. The O'Brien's graciously open their home to students and others for dinners and social activities throughout the year.
Print Shop, Central Supply and Purchasing
The Print Shop is where many of the University's printing needs are taken care of. Print Shop Online Order Form
Residential Living
The Office of Residential Living maintains the University's eleven residence halls which house approximately 2,200 undergraduate and graduate students each year. Each hall has its own unique appeal for a "home away from home" to meet each student's personality, living style and location preference. The Office of Residential Living strives to create an atmosphere that promotes academic success, personal growth and social awareness for each of its hall residents.
Rodeo Arena
The West Texas A&M University rodeo arena is just south of Kimbrough Memorial Stadium. It is home to the men's and women's rodeo teams, which compete in the highly competitive Southwest Region of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association. The men's team captured a national championship in 2005
Shirley Hall
Students living in Shirley Hall have easy access to the University's Dining Hall, Cornette Library, Terrill Lawn, and Virgil Henson Activities Center. The female residence hall features a family atmosphere consisting of 12 air-conditioned units arranged around an attractive courtyard. Three additional units house the Greek Social Sororities. Shirley is a card-access hall with spacious study areas, a big screen television, a community kitchen, and laundry facilities. Residents also enjoy cable access and ethernet connections in each room.
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Stafford Hall
Stafford Hall is a two-story residence hall for female students at West Texas A&M University. It is one of the first buildings you will see as you arrive on the WTAMU campus. Stafford Hall is conveniently located near Mary Moody Northern Hall, the Classroom Center, and the Fine Arts Complex. Its traditional look carries on the historic WTAMU spirit on which this University was founded. It offers residents both cable and modern internet access in each room. The hall features an air-conditioned lobby, big screen television, piano, pool table, a community kitchen, and laundry facilities.
Stanley Schaeffer Agriculture Education Learning Lab
Built and christened in 2007, the Stanley Schaeffer Agriculture Learning Laboratory is tooled for ag mechanics and home to the University's Agriculture Education Program. This pre-engineered metal building, northeast of campus, has approximately 10,000 square feet of mechanical laboratory space and plenty of equipment that students use in preparation for teaching careers in agriculture.
Sybil B. Harrington Fine Arts Complex
The Sybil B. Harrington Fine Arts Complex opened in August 2006 as WTAMU's first new academic building in 30 years. The building features smart classroom technology to actively engage students in the learning process. Other special features include state-of-the-art radio and television studios, a 304-seat Branding Iron Theatre, the Happy State Bank Studio black box theatre, an acting studio, recital hall, music studios and choir rehearsal rooms. The Sybil B. Harrington Fine Arts Complex is home to the Department of Music, the Department of Art, Theatre and Dance and the Department of Communication.
Victory Circle One of the latest changes to the WTAMU campus is the completion of Victory Circle. Construction crews have been working for months on a landscaped divider down the road leading into campus from the west entrance. They also are creating a new home for the Eternal Flame in a roundabout at the intersection of University and Victory. The Eternal Flame, a common symbol for the University, was constructed in 1966 by the WTAMU Alumni Association to represent the burning desire and quest for knowledge. It's often seen depicted on the University logo and seal, and its new location will be a fitting home for this time-honored symbol. Construction is expected to be finished by Homecoming so be sure and stop by for a visit and you'll be amazed at all the latest changes at WTAMU.
WT Enterprise Center The WT Enterprise Center operates under the auspices of the WTAMU College of Business to foster economic growth and entrepreneurial development through business incubation for Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle. Located at 2300 N. Western in Amarillo, the Enterprise Center houses offices, production space, conference rooms and even commercial kitchen facilities to help businesses succeed.

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During the past 20 years, many things have helped mold college football into the game that it is today. Near the top of that list is the increased importance of the kicking game.
It used to be that place-kickers were local, non-scholarship athletes who made good. Now, top high school and prep kickers are as highly recruited as some quarterbacks and wide receivers.
With national championships often won or lost on one swing of the leg, the importance of having a top kicker cannot be understated.
The Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award annually recognizes college football's top place-kicker.
Maryland Place-Kicker Brad Craddock
Wins The Lou Groza Award
During Thursday night's live The Home Depot College Football Awards, the Palm Beach County Sports Commission announced University of Maryland Junior Brad Craddock as the winner of the 2014 National Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award.
"I'd like to thank the Palm Beach County Sports Commission for this honor," said Craddock. "I am proud to be nominated this year along with Roberto and Josh, two very talented kickers. Winning this award means the world to me, and I thank everyone who has supported and believed in me."
The University of Maryland has fielded a football team for 122 years and in 2014, Brad Craddock was a star on the first Terrapins team to play in the Big 10 Conference. The junior kicker ended the regular season with a nearly perfect stat sheet, connecting on 18 field goals in 19 attempts and is 41 for 41 on PATs. 9 of Craddock's 18 field goals were from 40 yards or beyond. His 95 total points led his team in scoring. Craddock's longest field goal of the year sailed through the uprights from 57 yards against Ohio St. Craddock was the key to success against two marquee Big 10 opponents. During a showdown at Penn St., Craddock hit a 43 yard game winning field goal to complete a come from behind victory for the Terps. His three field goals were the difference in a 23-16 victory in the inaugural Big 10 showdown against Michigan at Ann Arbor. No other FBS kicker, with more than 5 attempts, has made 100% of their field goals. Head coach, Randy Edsall, recruited Brad while he was playing soccer and Australian Rules Football at Tabor Christian College in Adelaide Australia. These sports helped develop Brad into the dynamic football kicker he is today.
Craddock beat out Florida State Sophomore Roberto Aguayo and West Virginia Sophomore Josh Lambert for the award. Lambert's powerful leg aided him in connecting 4 field goals from beyond 50 yards and 11 more than 40 yards. Aguayo also had a great season making all of his 49 extra point attempts and 22 of his 24 field goal tries.
Craddock is the first kicker from the University of Maryland to ever win the Lou Groza Award in its 23 year history. The national panel of 750 voters is comprised of college football media, FBS coaches and SIDs, and previous Groza finalists.
About the National College Football Awards Association
The Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award (www.LouGrozaAward) is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA). The NCFAA was founded in 1997 as a coalition of the major collegiate football awards to protect, preserve and enhance the integrity, influence and prestige of the game's predominant awards. The NCFAA encourages professionalism and the highest standards for the administration of its member awards and the selection of their candidates and recipients. For more information, visit the association's official Web site, www.NCFAA.org.
About the Palm Beach County Sports Commission
The Palm Beach County Sports Commission is a private, not-for-profit organization contracted by Palm Beach County to promote and market the County as a sports and sports tourism destination. The Commission brings sporting events and activities to the County, enhances economic impact, stimulates bed tax revenues (primarily in the off-season), and maximizes utilization of County facilities. The Commission offers a full range of event service support, corporate partnerships, sponsorships and a local membership program that support its goals. Local, regional, national and international marketing efforts are ongoing by the Commission with sports organizations and event owners. The Commission also produces sports-related programs for the residents of Palm Beach County including the annual Lou Groza Awards program, the Sports Hall of Fame and the Kids Fitness Festival For more information on the Palm Beach County Sports Commission go to www.PalmBeachSports.com.
Photos from this years banquet COMING SOON!
The video below is the announcement of the 2011 Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker winner during the Home Depot College Football Awards Show as broadcast live on national television on December 8, 2011. (Video supplied and used with permission of ESPN.)


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Last week I had a conversation with my kids I never could have imagined.
I overheard them talking about pictures a friend had posted on a popular website, and it occurred to me that I hadn't been paying close enough attention to their electronic lives.
"You guys aren't posting pictures of your body parts on the Internet, are you?" I asked.
As soon as it came out of my mouth, I realized what strange parenting times these are.
The kids assured me that they only post pictures of their face — "selfies" — but never other parts of their bodies. And that their profiles are secure, which means only their friends can view them.
I feel a little better, but not much. The truth is, I don't have the time or the technical savvy to monitor all of their electronic communications.
Like so much of parenting, I just take a deep breath, do what I can and hope for the best.
Between texting, Facebook, emails, Snapchat and Instagram, my kids have sometimes hourly connections with dozens of people, maybe more. Some are people they actually hang out with. Others are former teammates and classmates or friends of friends of friends.
Here's what I'm not sure they understand: Someone "liking" your comment on a Facebook page is not the same as someone looking you in the eye, asking how you're doing and caring about the answer.
A smiley face emoticon does not convey the emotion of a real smile. And there's no substitute for a real hug or shared laughter.
I suspect I'm preaching to a like-minded audience. If you're reading this column, you're probably already in the demographic of folks who don't rely solely on computer-aided friendship.
Balance is the solution to steering the next generation into having meaningful connections with people.
Enjoy your social media and then put down your phone, close your laptop, unplug and go hang out with your friends. "Like" as many photos as you want of cute cats, brilliantly hued skies and friends having fun.
Then go out and have some yourself. Use your senses. Savor the experience.
Photos of sunsets are beautiful. Seeing one in person can take your breath away.
Daily News Assignment Editor Wendy Victora can be reached at 315-4478 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Remember Dan Wilson's book, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising"?
Well, the uprising is already
one day in the near future ,
(Us)"let me in". I cant do that dave...I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over -Hal
Too funny... I guess we all need to keep one eye on our NXTs at all times now.
Is this a joke?
he must have stretched the truth a little bit.
Good thing the NXT is slow.... if mine ever uprises...... I'll just put it on its back....
The Onion is pure satire... they imitate a real online news website, but sometimes they publish stuff that borders on reality...
for all us "older people" it took me way back to when i first seen "2001 a space odyssey" well we did not get to that point by 2001, but it seems that we are at the early stage of robotics and who knows Hal might be watching. GREAT artical made my day.


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Feature Square Dancer - Nebraska, 1956
Tucson Square Dance (1950 article)
Two excerpts…
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Square Dances for White Collars (1941 article)
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Northern Junket and Ralph Page
Square Dance ~ Where?
Square-'n-Round (Les Gotcher)
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Rosin the Bow (Rod LaFarge)
The 1950 issue contains a detailed set of instructions for the quadrille, among other dances.
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Midwest Dancer
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Hoosier Square Dancer
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Footnotes (Washington)
New England Caller (Charlie Baldwin)
Let's Dance (northern California)
Foot 'n' Fiddle (Texas)
Desert Squares (Southwest)
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To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt
- Dates: February 12, 2010 through May 2, 2010
- Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
To Live Forever Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt
All ancient Egyptians desired to live after death. To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt illustrates Egyptian funerary beliefs and customs observed over nearly four thousand years by both the rich and the poor. The exhibition answers questions often asked about the afterlife, mummies, funerals, and tombs as it illustrates the variety of strategies used to evade death and, ultimately, to live forever.
After surveying Egyptian beliefs through papyri and works of art, the exhibition addresses many of the practical considerations an ancient Egyptian faced when preparing for burial. Not everyone had access to the elaborate funeral equipment made for a king. The exhibition therefore illustrates how middle-class artisans and some poorer people made use of cheaper materials and secondhand items in providing for their tombs. In place of vast wealth, they substituted their own creativity to reach the afterlife. Objects belonging to the middle and poorer classes are shown here near the luxurious goods used by the rich to guarantee their eternal lives, often in side-by-side comparisons.
Osiris and Rebirth
Ancient Egyptian understanding of the afterlife is reflected in the story of the god Osiris. The story also explains why certain objects were desired in an Egyptian tomb.
Osiris and his wife Isis were Egypt's beloved first rulers. Osiris's jealous brother, Seth, invited the king to a party only to trap him in a special human-form box—like a coffin—exactly in Osiris's dimensions. Seth and his co-conspirators threw the box into the Nile, and Osiris drowned. Seth claimed the throne. Isis retrieved Osiris's body and magically revived him long enough so that they could conceive a child. She also built temples for him where he could receive food offerings after death, establishing the precursor of the tomb.
Osiris became king of the afterlife while Isis raised their son Horus. Horus later defeated his uncle Seth and became king of Egypt. But all Egyptians wanted to imitate his father, Osiris, at their death by being reborn into the afterlife. Many of the objects in an Egyptian tomb helped the deceased achieve this goal.
The Voyage of the God Re
Egyptians believed that the sun god Re traveled in a boat across the sky from east to west in the world of the living. Reaching the west, he entered the afterlife and then traveled across the sky of the underworld going eastward. Each hour that the god traveled in the underworld he was attacked by Apophis, a dragon-like demon. Only during the fifth hour of his journey was Re safe in the realm of Osiris. At the end of the twelfth hour of his underworld journey, Re was reborn into the eastern horizon of our world. Many of the decorations in royal tombs and on papyrus reveal that Egyptians also desired to travel with Re in his boat after death.
The stories about Re and about Osiris, plus a series of magic spells that protected the deceased from danger, provided the knowledge an ancient Egyptian needed to enter, and thrive in, the afterlife.
The Non-Royal Elite
The non-royal elite included people who were literate and worked as high officials in the government bureaucracy or in the temples as priests. This group could afford tombs and all their contents rather than simpler burials in graves dug into the desert sand—the fate of poorer Egyptians. The elite either built stone tombs as small, freestanding buildings or excavated tombs in the side of a mountain. But even within this group, there were degrees of wealth. When they commissioned statues for their tombs, they often had to make choices between more or less expensive materials in order to make the most of their resources. Limestone is soft and easier to carve than black granite or granodiorite. Limestone is also relatively plentiful in Egypt while black granite and granodiorite are more rare and thus more expensive. The statues in this section demonstrate some of the choices wealthier Egyptians made in statuary.
Substitute, Imitate, Combine, Reuse
Furnishing a tomb was the biggest expense in an ancient Egyptian's life. The coffin alone could cost more than one year's salary for an artisan. At least four strategies were available to those planning to furnish a tomb on a budget: they could substitute, imitate, combine, or reuse. Often evidence of more than one of these strategies is visible in the same object.
Substitution involved choosing a cheaper material where the elite owner would use a precious one. One might use faience, made mostly from sand, in place of gold or a hard, rare stone.
Imitation meant decorating one material as if it were something more expensive. For instance, a terracotta mummy mask could be painted yellow to imitate costly gold.
Combining involved bringing together in one object two or more elements that would have been separate in an elite tomb. This was especially common in the case of coffin sets.
Finally, reuse included removing the name of a previous owner and reinscribing an object for a new user. A government program of recycling tomb objects is known from the end of the New Kingdom, around 1070 b.c.e.
These methods of economizing reveal tremendous creativity among those who did not have the means to furnish a tomb according to elite standards.


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Liriano, sidelined since June 10 with a strained left oblique, was activated from the 15-day disabled list to pitch Sunday's game against the Reds.
The 2013 National League Comeback Player of the Year had been struggling prior to the injury, posting a lackluster 1-6 record with a 4.60 ERA in 14 starts. Liriano went 16-8 with a 3.02 ERA last season to help the Pirates reach the playoffs for the first time since 1992.
Liriano tuned up for Sunday's assignment with a sharp six-inning stint for Triple-A Indianapolis on Monday, yielding no runs and just three hits while striking out eight.
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During any event track conditions can change and drivers and their respective crews need to adjust accordingly to make the best of any given situation. Whatever the case may be, these modern day cowboys make it work and more often than not, tend to prevail with consistent timeslips. A collection of factors are involved when tuning. They can range anywhere from keeping an eye on tire pressure to programming a complete timing ramp to manage the engine's power levels.
At this year's LSX Shootout at Memphis Motorsports Park in Memphis, Tennessee, Mother Nature provided a racing environment that would prove to be challenging for anyone, with bouts of light rain and the bone-chilling winds. Making it worse, Sunday night's finale ended with 44 degree temperatures, and it was only getting worse with a slippery tarmac.
Given the less than ideal weather, the degree of personal self-tuners across the field and quick passes was proof that it could be handled. In True Street, a class that requires a prerequisite cruise with three back-to-back passes, it was a game for some, who attempted to best their own reaction times. We found many feathering the clutch at higher than normal rpms in an attempt to average out their first two time trials for the quickest time, all the while trying to manage to not break out of their index. On the opposite end of the spectrum, there was the heads up Extreme Street class that were going all out with big mills and a power adder on top of a 10.5 slick.
To showcase the tuning efforts within this event, we combed the infield and found four cars that ranged from daily drivers to full blown race car status. We picked the drivers and tuners brains to find out what they do to ensure a clean and drama-free pass; some did nothing but stick the key into the ignition while others performed more in depth tunes as their class was significantly quicker with much more horsepower to harness. While some may think drag racing is easy, we certainly challenge anyone who thinks it's as simple as stabbing the throttle and holding on. Follow along; you may be surprised to learn at how difficult it really is.
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Running in True Street was this base '09 Corvette with minimal modifications. "The car is completely stock aside from the rims," claimed 22-year-old Justin Keith of Blue Springs, MI. Sporting a base LS3, the Corvette in factory form makes 430 hp right out of the box. So why no modifications? "It's my daily driver and all I have to do is start the ignition and make a pass. I just swap the rears to drag radial tires," he explained. Since this class is dominated by everyday street cars, Justin's tune would rely mostly on eliminating driver error and unnecessary wheelspin. True Street averages out the three passes to get your final time, which means it's vital to make sure you don't break out of the index. In the end, Justin averaged 12.05 at 119 mph, which was very respectable, only it wasn't enough to make this year's field.


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Angels: Jered Weaver looks back, ahead
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Barnes and Noble has announced the launch of the Nook Color, a 7-inch colour ebook reader that aims to bring colour to your reading, and guess what? Pocket-lint was there at the launch in New York City to see what all the fuss was about and get a bevy of photos so you can see what's what.
The new model will come with an 8GB storage capacity letting you store up to 6000 books, magazines or newspapers, Facebook and Twitter support for sharing quotes, and Wi-Fi so you can download books without the need to be connected to a computer.
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Every Halloween, sleepy Fairhaven, Massachusetts erupts with the most ambitiously creative spookery in the world. Endless styrofoam tombstones and backyard beasts come courtesy of a few supremely dedicated local "home haunters" who've devoted their lives to the art of handmade monster making. "The American Scream" follows three of these horrific households to uncover the triumphs and tragedies that come with carrying the blackened banner of true Halloween spirit.
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- is regarded as having such an impairment.
The ADA Handbook published by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Department of Justice states:
"examples of physical or mental impairments include, but are not limited to, such contagious and noncontagious diseases and conditions as orthopedic, visual, speech, and hearing impairments; cerebral palsy, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, mental retardation, emotional illness, specific learning disabilities, HIV disease (whether symptomatic or asymptomatic), tuberculosis, drug addiction, and alcoholism. Homosexuality and bisexuality are not physical or mental impairments under the ADA."
"Major life activities" include functions such as caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working. Individuals who currently engage in the illegal use of drugs are not protected by the ADA when an action is taken on the basis of the recurrent illegal use of drugs.
"Qualified" individuals are defined as follows:
- A "qualified" individual with a disability is one who meets the essential eligibility requirements for the program or activity offered.
- The "essential eligibility requirements" will depend on the type of service or activity involved.
The stated mission of the case management program in nursing at Samuel Merritt University is to train entry-level nurse case managers with advanced theory and practice in a systematic case management approach to the delivery of health care to populations. Potential nurse case managers are expected to complete all academic and clinical requirements of the professional case management program. The purpose of this document is to delineate the cognitive, affective and psychomotor skills deemed essential to the completion of this program and to perform as a competent nurse case manager.
If a student cannot demonstrate the following skills and abilities, it is the responsibility of the student to request an appropriate accommodation. The University will provide reasonable accommodation as long as it does not fundamentally alter the nature of the program offered and does not impose an undue hardship such as those that cause a significant expense, difficulty or are unduly disruptive to the educational process.
Cognitive Learning Skills The student must demonstrate the ability to:
- Receive and interpret information in the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains of learning: remember it, reproduce it, and use it to solve problems, evaluate work, and generate new ways of processing or categorizing similar information as listed in course objectives.
- Evaluate patient status and make responsible decisions regarding appropriate course(s) of action/treatment within given time constraints.
- Effectively synthesize data from the patient, charts, verbal reports, medical history and observing the physical status of the patient for the purpose of recommending or maintaining treatment.
- Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Differentiate multiple patient situations simultaneously.
- Interpret and implement a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Apply critical reasoning and independent decision making skills.
Psychomotor Skills
The student must demonstrate the ability to:
- Sitting: Maintain upright posture.
- Standing: Maintain upright posture
- Locomotion: Ability to:
- Get to lecture, lab and clinical locations, and move within rooms as needed for changing groups, partners and work stations, and perform assigned clinical tasks;
- Physically maneuver in required clinical settings, to accomplish assigned tasks.
- Manual task:
- Competently perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (C. P. R.) using guidelines issued by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross.
- Reaching:
- Ability to extend arm(s) over and under individuals and equipment as required by each clinical setting.
- Small motor/hand skills:
- Legibly record/document evaluations, patient care notes, referrals, etc. in standard medical charts in hospital/clinical settings in a timely manner and consistent with the acceptable norms of clinical settings.
- Legibly record thoughts for written assignments and tests.
- Document communications in written form in charts, compose reports and correspondence.
- Apply a firm grasp.
- Operate a push-button telephone.
- Perform precision movements (i.e., venipuncture, catheterization, IV regulation, dressing changes, instrument usage), which may further include invasive procedures into the central circulation or highly specific body cavities/spaces.
- Sense through palpation changes in an individual's muscle tone, soft tissues, skin quality, and temperature and sense responses to environmental changes and treatment.
- Manipulate a blood pressure cuff, stethoscope, thermometer (digital, tympanic, glass); insert catheters, IVs, NG tubes; perform injections and adjust IV drips or other equipment as required.
- Visual acuity to:
- Legibly record/document evaluations, patient care notes, referrals, etc. in standard medical charts in hospital/clinical settings in a timely manner and consistent with the acceptable norms of clinical settings.
- Perform precision movements.
- Identify tiny markings and inscriptions (i.e., on syringes, thermometers, IV bags, etc.).
- Identify color changes and codings.
- Hearing or ability to receive and:
- Effectively respond to verbal requests from patients and team members.
- Interpret the language used to communicate lectures, instructions, concepts, narratives, questions and answers.
- Ascultate and percuss for internal body sounds, e.g., heart, bowel, lungs.
- Communication ability:
- Effectively communicate with team members in both verbal and written formats.
- Communicate on the spot to other students, teachers, patients, peers, other staff and personnel to ask questions, explain conditions and procedures, teach home programs and safety, within a reasonable time period.
- Self Care ability to:
- Maintain general good health and self-care in order not to jeopardize the health and safety of self and individuals with whom one interacts in the academic and clinical settings.
- Arrange transportation and living accommodations for/during off-campus clinical assignments to foster timely reporting to the classroom and clinical center.
Effective learning skills
The student must be able to:
- Demonstrate appropriate control of affective behaviors, verbal, physical, and emotional levels to ensure the emotional, physical, mental and behavioral safety of the patient in compliance with the ethical standards of the American Nurse's Association.
- Sustain the mental and emotional rigors of a demanding educational program in nursing which includes academic and clinical components that occur within set time constraints, and often concurrently.
- Acknowledge and respect individual values and opinions in order to foster harmonious working relationships with colleagues, peers, and patients/clients.