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Strategy to Fight Salmonella Outlined; TTU Part of $700,000 USDA Grant
Texas Tech's International Center for Food Industry Excellence (ICFIE) in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources is part of a broad effort to develop detection and surveillance networks to protect against future outbreaks of salmonella bacteria. Earlier this year Texas Tech, Angelo State University and California State University-Fresno received a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture totaling more than $700,000. The grant establishes a partnership among the academic trio with Port Washington, NY-based Pall Corp., a global microbiology equipment manufacturer.
Through the three-year project, "Building Laboratory and Intellectual Capacity in order to Effectively Detect and Reduce Salmonella in the Food Supply," the ICFIE research team aims to achieve four objectives:
- Create permanent collaborative partnerships.
- Identify and effectively recruit high-ability undergraduate students into graduate programs through organized opportunities in undergraduate research.
- Prepare graduate students to become future agents of change in the food industry.
- Provide university faculty with the opportunity, means and locations to learn, teach and cooperatively share information with organizations and academic institutions in multiple Latin American nations.
As part of their contribution to the project, Pall Corp. donated an annual $1,000 student travel scholarship and $150,000 worth of equipment and supplies, including a GeneDisc, which allows for up to six pathogens to be tested at once.
Texas Tech Chemist Studies How Breast Cancer Breaks into the Brain
A Texas Tech University bioanalytical chemist recently received a $1.2 million grant from The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to study how breast cancer may metastasize to the brain.
The research also may discover a key to early detection of breast cancer cells that may have the ability to invade the brain. Yehia Mechref, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, will study how certain sugar signatures on breast cancer cells might gain them entrance past the blood-brain barrier and allow them to metastasize in the brain. The blood-brain barrier is semi-permeable and allows some materials to cross into brain tissue but prevents others. Mechref said his preliminary research has shown that perhaps these cancer cells contain a sugar compound that tricks pathways in the barrier into letting the cancer cells pass into the brain.
Texas Tech Receives $19.3 Million from Bayer CropScience
Texas Tech University received a $19.3 million contribution from Bayer CropScience to benefit research programs and projects in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. The funds will support significant research developments in the Department of Plant and Soil Science, including an endowed chair, a fellowship endowment for graduate students and new research facilities and space.
The contribution has been submitted for an equal amount of state matching funds from the Texas Research Incentive Program, which would increase the total impact to $38.6 million and be the largest cash investment for research in the history of Texas Tech University.
Texas Tech Part of Multi-Million Dollar Transportation Grant
Researchers from the Texas Tech Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Transportation (TechMRT), in the Whitacre College of Engineering, have been named as part of a consortium that will conduct cutting-edge research on transportation infrastructure in the region, with a specific focus on the impact of extreme climates on infrastructure.
The study, "State of Good Repair," is funded by a $2.5 million University Transportation Center grant provided by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration.
The TechMRT research team joins seven other universities led by the University of Oklahoma. The Southern Plains Regional Transportation Center (SPTC) will represent Region 6 (Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and New Mexico).
Planned research includes the study of innovative highway materials, geotechnical structures and data integration for intelligent transportation systems, the impact of weather extremes on bridge infrastructure, innovative monitoring to quantify climate impacts on damage accumulation in transportation infrastructure, and innovations in materials and construction of asphalt pavements to resist extreme temperatures.
Researchers to Study Regional Responses to Climate Change
Two projects underway by Texas Tech University researchers will receive $157,000 in funding from the South Central Climate Science Center led by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Dylan Schwilk, an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, will receive $99,937 to fund a two-year project titled "Predicting Sky Island Forest Vulnerability to Climate Change: Fine Scale Climate Variability, Drought Tolerance, and Fire Response." Working with postdoctoral researcher Anne Stoner, biology Professor Scott Holaday, and Helen Poulos, a consultant with Poulos Environmental Consulting, the team will investigate how different tree species survive in semi-arid and fire-prone landscapes.
Also, Stoner will receive $56,700 for a year-long project titled "Expanding a Standardized Framework for the Evaluation and Intercomparison of Statistically Downscaled Climate Projections," which includes comparing different statistical downscaling methods using the same framework in order to identify the most accurate methods.
Researchers Awarded $640,000 from National Science Foundation
A pair of Texas Tech researchers will use a near $640,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to seek out more cost- and energy-efficient ways for biofuels to power the world.
Ronald Hedden and Rajesh Khare, associate professors of chemical engineering in the Whitacre College of Engineering, have embarked on a collaborative effort to enable the recovery of biofuels through pervaporation–a process that combines aspects of filtration and evaporation through a membrane to separate the biofuel from the other components in a mixture.
The team will apply combinatorial synthesis and theoretical modeling to enable rapid prototyping of new polymeric membrane materials for improved pervaporation processes. Their approach involves combinatorial, high-throughput screening methods, which permit rapid, matrix-based testing of large numbers of polymer compositions to find an optimal membrane material quickly. Computational modeling will help target the molecular factors underlying the good performance of the most promising membrane materials.
The team hopes to develop a methodology that can realistically be implemented on-site at biorefineries to prepare designer membranes in a short amount of time, offering clear benefits to the biofuels industry.
Researchers Discover Youngest Neutron Star in Binary System in Our Galaxy
A Texas Tech University postdoctoral researcher was part of an international team of astronomers who recently discovered the glowing wreckage of the youngest-known neutron star in a binary system in our Milky Way galaxy.
Neutron stars are the densely packed, collapsed cores of massive stars that sometimes are left after a supernova explosion.
Paul Sell, the astronomer who contributed to the research and currently is studying X-ray binaries at Texas Tech, said younger neutron stars exist. However, none of these are in a binary system that still has the visible nebulous debris around it from its supernova. Sell says that finding a very young neutron star is important because it provides a unique laboratory to test key theories of stellar evolution, especially about the stage of a star's life just after most of it has been obliterated in a supernova explosion. At about 26,000 light years from Earth, the binary system that the researchers studied is called Circinus X-1. It is the brightest source of X-rays in the constellation of Circinus.
The results were published in The Astrophysical Journal.
Rawls College of Business Unveils STEM MBA
Texas Tech University's Rawls College of Business has developed a STEM MBA program focused on the competencies that science, technology, engineering and math students need to move forward in their careers.
The one-year program is designed to help STEM students increase their marketability and gain the leadership and insights needed to succeed in the business world. The courses in the program will be unique to STEM students in two ways:
- MBA core courses will include content, cases and examples that focus on industries that typically employ STEM students, with less emphasis on the financial and retail sectors and greater focus on the high-tech, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and energy industries.
- Several courses will be STEM-based and taught by professors with STEM backgrounds.
The first cohort starts in summer 2014.
Free Market Institute Receives $1.7 Million Grant
Texas Tech University's Free Market Institute (FMI) received a $1.7 million three-year grant from the John Templeton Foundation to study the origins of economic freedom and prosperity.
The grant also will fund postdoctoral fellowships, visiting professors, doctoral student fellowships, guest lecturers, summer research stipends and a major conference.
The grant is the largest FMI has received since the initial pledge of $4 million that founded the institute.
Texas Tech Celebrates New Burkhart Center
The Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research has moved to a new building. The two-story autism education and research facility showcases the impressive growth the program has experienced since its establishment and now includes 28,458 square feet of space for clinical facilities.
The center is home to the Behavior Clinic and Transition Academy, which focuses on developing life and job skills for autistic students who have graduated from high school. The second floor is reserved for research and support space, as well as academic offices. The new facility also features an outdoor play area, public art and landscape enhancements.
Additionally, the building houses the Early Intensive Intervention Center, which is available to patients from diagnosis to 6 years old. The program focuses on rigorous one-on-one therapy for up to three hours a day per child.
The purpose of the Burkhart Center is to provide services for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their families, train regular and special education teachers, and conduct applied research that will increase the quality of life of those affected by ASD.
Texas Tech Receives $706,000 Grant for Quail Research on Parasitic Worms
Researchers at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) at Texas Tech recently received a $706,000 grant from The Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation to study how parasitic worms may be impacting the game bird's recent precipitous decline on the Texas Plains.
The research is part of "Phase 3" of Operation Idiopathic Decline–the largest, most comprehensive disease and contaminant research study ever conducted on quail populations. The total grant of $781,000 funds a project titled "Treatment of Eyeworms and Cecal Worms in Bobwhites: Clinical and Field Studies," led by Ron Kendall, a professor of environmental toxicology at TIEHH.
The objective of Phase 3 is to evaluate methods to control eyeworms and cecal worms in native bobwhite quail, and evaluate efficacy of treatments in laboratory and field settings. The project will involve scientists from TIEHH, Texas A&M University-Kingsville and the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch.
Desert Catchments May Harbor Hidden Water Danger
Texas Tech researchers say manmade catchments in the Sonoran Desert area of the U.S. originally built to help wildlife may be doing more harm than good, as ammonia levels found in them may be hazardous to animals and to humans.
The research team is composed of Kerry Griffis-Kyle, assistant professor of wetland ecology in the Department of Natural Resources Management, and Cristina Bradatan, associate professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, both of Texas Tech. Jeffery Kovatch, an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Marshall University also was a member of the research team.
In 2012, they monitored water quality and amphibian and dragonfly use of wildlife waters in southwestern Arizona. They found that manmade water catchments constructed in the desert often have levels of ammonia that are in the lethal range for aquatic organisms and may be high enough to impact terrestrial wildlife as well as humans. The team measured ammonia concentrations that exceeded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's guidelines for aquatic life and were well above concentrations that cause mortality in amphibians and other aquatic organisms.
Griffis-Kyle said both amphibians and dragonflies had lower species richness, and amphibian species richness was negatively associated with ammonia concentration. The concentrations of ammonia alone cause concern for the management of biodiversity, specifically for wetland-dependent organisms. Also, she said, ammonia concentrations may be high enough to impact terrestrial organisms of economic and conservation importance, including humans.
Their findings are published in The Wildlife Society Bulletin.
College of Media and Communication Introduces Communication Research Center
The College of Media and Communication recently opened the Center for Communication Research (CCR). CCR houses state-of-the art technology for studying all facets of audience response to media messages–video, audio, online, commercial, informational and more. The center contains more than 6,000 square feet of research labs and provides research services to those both within and beyond the Texas Tech community.
Center director Glenn Cummins says the center supports the college's mission of education and research by not only teaching students how to be message creators, but also teaching them how to produce messages to achieve specific results.
CCR provides comprehensive research solutions using tools such as dial-testing, eye-tracking and biometric measurement of audience response. The center comprises an Audience Testing Lab, Content Analysis Lab, Experimental Lab, Eye-tracking Lab, Focus Group Room and Psychophysiology Lab.
Administrators hope the center will draw not only students, but also prospective faculty and partners to the university.
Physicist's Camera Captures Day-Old Supernova
With the help of a special spectroscopic camera developed by a Texas Tech University physicist, researchers at Caltech and Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network captured rare images of a star in another galaxy going supernova within a day of the star's explosion.
David Sand, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics who developed the camera, says this is the first time scientists have pinpointed a star that eventually exploded as a stripped-envelope supernova, called a type Ib.
Sand led the development and operations of the special camera, the FLOYDS spectrograph, which was used to help identify the specific kind of supernova. Taking a spectroscopic image helps scientists to tell what kind of supernova they're looking at by splitting the supernova's light up into the colors of the rainbow.
The FLOYDS spectrographs, of which there are only two in the world, are attached to two-meter telescopes located in Hawaii and Australia. The cameras operate completely robotically, allowing scientists to confirm supernovae earlier than ever before.
In the last six months, Sand and others have confirmed 25 supernovae with the camera. The aforementioned stripped-envelope supernova is one of the first published results.
The global team of astrophysicists, led by Yi Cao of Caltech, found the supernova on June 16, 2013. Their research was published in the peer-reviewed journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters.


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Year In Review 2014
New at the College of Charleston
- In 2014, the College unveiled a new logo, and updated the mission statement to recognize the College's separate component, the University of Charleston, South Carolina (UCSC), as a research university.
- In July, we welcomed President Glenn F. McConnell '69 as the 20th president. Read about his first 100 days.
- The School of Professional Studies was launched along with undergraduate majors in supply chain management and African American studies.
- Two new basketball coaches were hired – Candice M. Jackson is the women's head coach and Earl Grant is the men's head coach.
- Additionally, the College's North Campus moved to a new location, the Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library was renovated and the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture was founded.
We're Boundless
- Boundless: The Campaign for the College of Charleston launched on November 1, 2014.
- Our professors are boundless – Olivia Thompson's Farm-to-School initiative is going statewide, Julie Swanson earned $500,000 to help teachers grow gifted and talented students, and Jim Bowring snagged NSF funding to look into big data.
- Computer science major Will Jamieson continues his success with mobile apps – he secured $10M in venture capital.
- Internationally-known street artist Shepard Fairey took part in the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art's 30th anniversary. Watch a video of him installing art throughout Charleston.
Only at CofC
- In December, crews working on the new vegetarian/kosher kitchen on campus discovered a cannon ball.
- The College is one of just a handful of universities that host a Cuba study abroad program. 2014 marked 15 years for the program.
- The College also enjoyed a few rare snow (or ice) days, during which the Weather Channel's Jim Cantore broadcast live from campus.
In the Lead
- For the fourth year in a row, Conde Nast Traveler readers named Charleston the best city in the U.S. Travel & Leisure also named Charleston the top city.
- Three College of Charleston athletic teams won conference championships during their inaugural year in the Colonial Athletic Association. Both golf teams and baseball played in the NCAA tournament. The new offshore sailing team won the prestigious Kennedy Cup.


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Inspired by many popular movies, Movie Looks alters the shading, contrast and tints of scenes to resemble the rich look of film. Users can choose any one of the installed presets from a pop-up menu to add glow, make a scene more distant or inviting, or apply tints to make their projects stand out.
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INDIANAPOLIS, IN., April 15. OLYMPIC gold medalist (2000) Ed Moses and five-time world champion Michael Phelps made recent visits to Conseco Fieldhouse, site of the 2004 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m).
The Fieldhouse, which will house two temporary pools for the Oct. 7-11 event, made a strong impression on two of the world's best swimmers. Both indicated a high level of anticipation and excitement about competing in the home of the NBA's Indiana Pacers. Each is committed to swim in the event provided he qualifies for the U.S. team. More than 900 athletes from as many as 120 countries are expected to participate.
"This is the third time I've been here, and it is just an awesome facility," said the 23-year-old Moses, a native of Burke, Va. "To swim in front of thousands of people in this arena, I don't think I will ever have experienced an event like this."
"We had the same situation in Barcelona for the 2003 (FINA) World Championships with a temporary pool in an arena," said Phelps, who set five world records in last year's FINA World Championships. "But this will take place in an arena everyone knows, and I think that will make it much more exciting."
Phelps and Moses, in Indianapolis for the Counsilman Classic Grand Prix meet at the IU Natatorium in early April, received an "Olympic champions" welcome from members of the Pacers organization.
Moses was the honorary captain for a Pacers game versus the Milwaukee Bucks. Indiana Coach Rick Carlisle, like Moses a University of Virginia graduate, gave Moses a post-game tour of the Pacers' locker room and introduced him to President of Basketball Operations Larry Bird. Moses also traded gifts with Pacers star and 1996 Olympic gold medalist Reggie Miller. Moses received an autographed ball from Miller, while Moses returned the favor with a Speedo FASTSKIN suit. Made to fit Miller's 6-foot, 8-inch frame, it is the largest such suit ever manufactured by Speedo.
Phelps, a native of Baltimore, Md., also received a gift from another Olympic gold medalist – Bird, who presented Phelps a Pacers' Number "7" jersey – "7" being the number of gold medals Phelps would have to earn at the Olympics to equal the swimming record set by Mark Spitz at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.
The 18-year-old Phelps won six medals (four gold) at the 2003 FINA World Championships and became the first man to break to world records in different strokes in the same day.
"I hope you have more competition in Athens than I had in Barcelona," Bird said to Phelps. Bird was a member of the famed "Dream Team" that won by an average of 43.8 points while winning gold at 1992 Olympic Games.
The World Championships (25m) will be a new event for both Moses and Phelps, but neither is a stranger to 25-meter competition and both had considerable success in short course pools in the 2003/2004 FINA World Cup Series.
Moses won the World Cup Series after dominating the 50-, 100- and 200-meter breaststroke events in Moscow, Berlin, Stockholm and New York. He broke his own 200-meter world record in Berlin with a time of 2:02.92. Phelps won six gold medals at the World Cup meet in Melbourne, Australia, in November of last year.
"I'm not a short course world champion yet," said Moses. "I would love to add that to my resume."
Both Moses and Phelps also were pleased about the event taking place in Indianapolis – a city that has hosted numerous national and international meets, including the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in 1984, 1992, 1996 and 2000.
"It will be great to come back to Indianapolis," said Phelps. "I made my first Olympic team (2000) here. I set a world record in the 400 (individual medley) here last year at the Duel in the Pool. So I've been pretty good throughout my career here."
All-session tickets are on sale World Championships through TicketMaster.
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Coast Salish Territory/Vancouver - The First Nations Leadership Council applauds Premier Gordon Campbell's commitment to making the mountain pine beetle emergency a top priority and supports a coordinated effort to ensure the federal government's participation in addressing this crisis.
As Premier Campbell hosts a Council of the Federation meeting this week as part of ongoing efforts to create a provincial-territorial position on adapting to existing and developing effects of climate change, BC First Nations are working on their own campaign to convince the federal government to deliver on overdue promised federal funding assistance.
"The devastating effects of the mountain pine beetle on BC's Interior is the biggest natural disaster in the province's history and we welcome Premier Campbell's commitment to making this the focus of BC's contribution to CoF meeting with other premiers," said Shawn Atleo, Regional Chief for the BC Assembly of First Nations.
"But we cannot afford to wait forever for the provinces and territories to come up with a unified position to take to Ottawa on the entire issue of adapting to the many aspects of climate change. In terms of responding to the BC mountain pine beetle crisis we need to take action", added Regional Chief Atleo.
The Conservatives promised during the last election campaign to provide $1 billion to help BC address this crisis, and Premier Campbell's government has an understanding with First Nations, known as the Commitments Document, that 20%should be directed to helping our communities that are on the front lines of this disaster.
This Commitments Document was drafted in April 2006 and the federal government has not honoured this important understanding. Instead, they manage the funds from federal agencies, and resources are not getting to the First Nations communities.
The situation has become far more urgent in the past two years, with 103 First Nations now situated in beetle ravaged areas that have become a massive tinderbox awaiting fires that could obliterate everything in their paths.
Protecting their communities as the main fire season approaches this year is their overriding immediate priority. Finding ways to adapt and survive - culturally and economically - in the post-infestation forest areas is their next priority.
While the beetle infestation and its compounding effects on the economic crisis created by the U.S. housing-market meltdown and high dollar is a province-wide crisis, it is even more acutely felt in the First Nations communities on the front lines of this epidemic, where unemployment rates can be as high as 80%.
As the federal government prepares to deliver a new budget, we need to deliver the message that it's time for Ottawa to stop handing out funding in a piecemeal fashion based on initiatives that it chooses to support.
Funding must be transferred directly to both the BC government and BC First Nations to be spent on efforts they already know to be priorities after years of studying and living with the consequences of this emergency.
"We welcome a coordinated effort with the BC Government and BC First Nations to obtain this funding and we hope to have the opportunity to work with Premier Campbell to pursue this goal," said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs.
A key part of the challenge ahead is to raise national awareness of the true extent of the emergency in BC.
Despite the fact that 10 million hectares of forests - a land area greater than that of New Brunswick - is now infested in the BC Interior, there appears to be real little national understanding of what this means for the provincial and national economy or for the environment.
"This is a clear issue where the BC Government and BC first Nations can see eye to eye and coordinate efforts in a common goal to obtain meaningful direct federal funding that allows them to do what needs to be done," said Grand Chief Edward John of the First Nations Summit political executive.
The First Nations Leadership Council is comprised of the political executives of the BC Assembly of First Nations, First Nations Summit, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs.
The Council works together to politically represent the interests of First Nations in British Columbia and develop strategies and actions to bring about significant and substantive changes to government policy that will benefit all First Nations in British Columbia.
For more information please contact:Grand Chief Stewart Phillip President, UBCIC: 250-490-5314 Ryneld Starr BC Assembly of First Nations: 604-922-7733 Colin Braker Communications Director Office: 604-926-9903 First Nations Summit: Cell: 604-328-4094
ORIGINAL IN PDF:http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/files/PDF/FNLC_MPBCrisis_012808.pdf
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Jeffrey A. Miron on Legalizing Drugs
Recorded: Friday, November 20, 2009
Originally aired on 11/20/09 on FoxBusiness.com Live. Jeffrey A. Miron, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and author of Drug War Crimes, argues in favor of legalizing marijuana and other drugs in the U.S.
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Officials at Fort Bragg plan to hold an anti-terrorism exercise that will include a simulated attack on the base Wednesday.
The exercise, called Orbit Comet, starts Wednesday afternoon at Fort Bragg, where officials say the exercise will involve the Linden Oaks community and Womack Army Medical Center. A statement said emergency vehicles will be used in and around the area.
The exercise is held annually to test the post's emergency preparedness.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense officials say military suicides have dropped by more than 22 percent this year, but they're reluctant to give credit to detection and prevention efforts.
Officials say they don't fully understand why troops commit suicide, and since many who've taken their lives in recent years had never served on the warfront, officials are not attributing the decrease to the end of the Iraq war and the drawdown in Afghanistan.
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Jan Booth is a Multiplayer character featured in Red Dead Redemption.
Jan Booth is one of the American Army characters that can be selected in the Outfitter. His character model is unlocked upon reaching Multiplayer Level 45.
He is recognizable by his large frame and a small mustache.
- "Ever seen a soldier kill somebody? It's time to see!"
- "You missin' me, you won't be risin' in the world no more."
- "I never lost a fight, ever!"
- "Ain't nobody gonna hurt me without getting hurt more."
- "Wanna see me punchin' out a man with one hook?"
- "I was born violent, just my nature!"
- "Good thing I'm on the right side. I think I'm official's criminal."
- "Ain't nothin' making your enemy suffer!"
- "God made me a good fighter, nothin' I can do about it!"
- "A darn good killer's what I am!"
- He has the aspects of an American Army Officer, meaning he is the highest ranking unlockable character in Red Dead Redemption from the American Army. His shoulder insignia indicates that he is a First Lieutenant.
- His face resembles Jimmy Saint's face from the "Funny Man" Side-mission.
- His first name, Jan, is a very common name in the Netherlands and Denmark, hinting that he may have Dutch or Danish ancestors.
- His name may be a reference to John Booth, the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
- Just like Eric Morganson and the American Army Captain, Jan Booth wears boots instead of the low-ranking soldier leggings, and also wears a black hat, indicating that he's a member of the U.S. Cavalry.
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Monty de Graff was a notable comedian.
In 2365, Data attempted to locate a comedian to help him better understand the concept of "what is funny?". De Graff was among the holodeck program files that were contained aboard the USS Enterprise-D. (TNG: "The Outrageous Okona")
This character was named after production staff member Monty de Graff. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion 2nd ed., p. 69)


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Pitch Perfect's Anna Camp and Skylar Astin Are Engaged, News They Sadly Did Not Announce Through Song
This wedding will surely be pitch perfect.By Jackson McHenry
This wedding will surely be pitch perfect.By Jackson McHenry
She's also signed on to direct the upcoming Charlie's Angels reboot.By Nate Jones
Kay Cannon is writing a script.By Nate Jones
I'm also guessing Kendrick did not want to come back. I've never seen her so flat-out bad.By David Edelstein
She is really into The Secret.By Matthew Giles
It's Rebel, Pitch.By Greg Cwik
If you're a teen, you already know this.By Amanda Dobbins and Linsey Fields
All a cappella, of course.By Margaret Lyons
It's the Treblemakers versus Jason Jones and Donald Faison's tonehangers.By Carrie Bell
An unexpectedly modern Lincoln, the mercilessly gripping Zero Dark Thirty, the happy submission of Pitch Perfect, and more.By David Edelstein
"I've got talent oozing out of my pores."By Jennifer Vineyard
Plus: Anna Kendrick has mastered the cup clap game, and more, on our daily late-night roundup.By Caroline Shin
Plus: Rashida Jones taught Conan Amy Poehler's game of "Mustache TV," and more, on our daily late-night roundup.By Caroline Shin
And campus comedy Pitch Perfect surprises.By Andre Tartar
It's the year's most exhilarating pick-me-up.By David Edelstein
Look Ma, no instruments!By Eliot Glazer
Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson star.By Margaret Lyons
It's an a cappella college comedy.By Kyle Buchanan
Will have "the tone of 'Old School,'" according to Deadline.By Andre Tartar
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It shouldn't come as a big surprise that I am in fact not a doctor. Besides taking a CPR training class a couple years ago and once successfully removing the "bread basket" piece in the Milton Bradley game Operation, my medical knowledge is pretty limited. That being said, a couple biology courses through grade school should be just enough of a foundation to highlight our bodies relationship with the changing atmosphere.
Take a minute and look straight up. What do you see? White ceiling? Blue sky? Perhaps some wallpaper because you just fell over trying to look straight up? Don't be alarmed but there is a 2,000 pound elephant in the room we need to talk about.
The atmosphere not only moves weather systems horizontally west and east/north and south, but the atmosphere also moves up and down, kind of like a liquid. In fact, in a stable environment the air above our head is constantly pushing down on our bodies to the tune of roughly 2,000 pounds (or one metric ton). I know it sounds like, well, a ton, but before we start claiming we maxed out at 2,000 pounds on the bench last week at the gym, we have to keep in mind that we've been under pressure for a very, very long time. Over the course of many years we have adapted a body that is used to this daily embrace. There is a Queen reference in there someplace.
Despite the adaptation, we are still very sensitive mammals and the slightest change in atmospheric pressure can set-off indicators, aches and pains, that the weather is changing. The slight "up and down" fluctuations in the air pressure is what may cause your arthritis or fibromyalgia to flare-up. Additionally, it may also be the reason behind the nagging pain located in the same area as your once broken arm. The most common occurrence for these irritants to become aggravated is when lower pressure advances into the area. Since there is a better chance of a thunderstorm when lower pressure is around, we can see why a joint will ache well before the onset of rain. Pretty cool.
In the video you'll see one example I've come across that helps to correlate low pressure and the cells in our bodies. Are there any weather changing aches and pains you would like to add to the list?
-Broken bone pain
-Sinus frustration
Oh and please consult your physician before making any lifestyle changes to your health regiment when reviewing our 7 day forecast :)
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1. Summary: DHS/BCIS has informed CA that they will offer
participation in the Orphan First Pilot Program to
prospective adoptive parents on July 1, 2003. The Orphan
First program is an effort to prevent situations in which
prospective adoptive parents travel overseas, complete
adoption/custody arrangements for a child, and then find
that they cannot bring the child to the Untied States
under U.S. immigration law. Orphans adopted in Haiti,
Honduras, the Philippines, Poland, and Sierra Leone will
be the initial participants in the pilot program. End
2. The Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services
(BCIS) in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and
Consular Affairs have agreed on the terms of the Orphan
First Pilot Program. The goal of the Orphan First program
is to make a determination on an orphan's eligibility
under the INA prior to the prospective adoptive parents
(PAP) traveling to post or incurring legal responsibility
for the orphan. We expect that early adjudication of the
orphan status elements of the I-604 investigation will
mitigate potential issues to prospective parents, adoptive
children, and consular and immigration officials in
processing adoption cases. BCIS will begin offering some
prospective parents the option of participating in the
Orphans First Pilot Program as of July 1, 2003.
3. The pilot program involves five countries: Haiti,
Honduras, the Philippines, Poland, and Sierra Leone. DHS
officials at post will administer the Orphan First program
in Port au Prince, Tegucigalpa, and Manila. Consular
officers will administer the Orphan First program in
Warsaw and Dakar. These five missions should be prepared
to implement the Orphans First program as of July 1. All
prospective parents enrolling in the Orphan First program
will do so through their local BCIS office, unless they
are residing overseas. Amcit residents of these five
countries will have the option of participating in the
Orphans First pilot program through the Embassy.
4. Orphan First cases will be processed as follows:
-PAP(s) submits a Form I-600A to BCIS.
-If the I-600A is approved, BCIS will send the PAP a
letter explaining the Orphan First program along with the
I-600A approval notice.
-The PAP may opt to participate in the program so long as
no final adoption or legal custody arrangement for the
child has taken place. PAPs who choose to participate
will submit their I-600 orphan petition and all required
supporting documents except a final adoption decree or
custody decision to the appropriate domestic BCIS field
office (or if the PAP resides overseas, to the Embassy's
DHS office or consular section).
-The I-600 will be reviewed for prima facie eligibility.
If the supporting documents establish that the identified
child is prima facie eligible as an orphan, BCIS will send
the supporting original documents with an Orphans First
cover letter to the NVC for forwarding to the appropriate
overseas post.
-The receiving office will review the case and complete
the non-medical aspects of the I-604 investigation, giving
such cases the same high priority as other cases involving
immediate relatives of U.S. citizens. The essential I-604
processing standards remain unchanged under Orphan First:
I-604 investigations that would normally be completed
based on the documentation submitted would continue be
completed in the same fashion under Orphan First
procedures. Cases that currently would lead to follow-up
questions and field investigations likewise would be
pursued according to existing standards.
-If the I-604 investigation leads to an assessment that
the child would qualify as an orphan, the overseas post
will return the completed I-604 and original supporting
documents to the appropriate BCIS domestic field office.
BCIS will notify the PAP of the findings and invite the
PAP to continue processing the case. Following submission
of the final adoption decree/legal custody order, BCIS
will approve the I-600 petition and notify posts as per
current practice. If the relinquishing country's law
requires the petitioner to travel overseas to complete
adoption/custody proceedings, BCIS will forward the I-600
packet to the overseas post adjudicating the petition.
-If the I-604 investigation indicates that the child is
not an orphan under U.S. law, the completed I-604 and
original supporting documentation will be returned to the
appropriate BCIS domestic field office. BCIS will notify
the PAP of the findings.
5. The Orphan First program will also have a Quality
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participating posts separately. Questions from the field
regarding the Orphan First program can be directed to Mark
Strege in CA/VO/F/P.
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Repetitive motion injuries, also called repetitive stress injuries, are temporary or permanent injuries to muscles, nerves, ligaments, and tendons caused by doing the same motion over and over again. A common repetitive motion injury is carpal tunnel syndrome. This disorder occurs when the median nerve, which travels from the forearm to the hand through a "tunnel" in the wrist, is compressed by swollen, inflamed ligaments and tendons. It is often seen with people who use computer keyboards or work on assembly lines.
The injury can be quite painful and can also cause numbness, clumsiness, and a loss of motion, flexibility, and strength in the area. It can worsen over time without treatment, and can result in a complete loss of function.
According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the dominant hand is most commonly affected and causes the most severe pain. Women develop carpal tunnel syndrome three times more frequently than men. Carpal tunnel is likely more common in people with a congenitally smaller tunnel space. Trauma or injury to the wrist, thyroid disease, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, and pregnancy can also contribute to the disorder. It usually occurs only in adults.
A rehabilitation program for repetitive motion injuries is designed to meet the needs of the individual patient, depending on the type and severity of the injury. Active involvement of the patient and family is vital to the success of the program.
The goal of rehabilitation after a repetitive motion injury is to help the patient return to the highest level of function and independence possible, while improving the overall quality of life — physically, emotionally, and socially.
To help reach these goals, repetitive motion injury rehabilitation programs may include:
Occupational therapy
Exercise programs to stretch and strengthen the area
Conditioning exercises to help prevent further injury
Heat or cold applications
Use of braces or splints to immobilize the area
Pain management techniques
Patient and family education, especially regarding proper ergonomics for the workplace (ergonomics is the science of obtaining a correct match between the human body, work-related tasks, and work tools)
Rehabilitation programs for repetitive motion injuries are usually conducted on an outpatient basis. Many skilled professionals are part of the repetitive motion injury rehabilitation team, including:
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The UK's Trunk Animation completes a video for "Doom and Gloom," the new single from the Rolling Stones' soon-to-be-released album, "Grrr."
LONDON -- Trunk Animation recently completed animation for a video for "Doom and Gloom," the new single from the soon-to-be-released album, Grrr, from the Rolling Stones.
Recorded in Paris and produced by long-time Rolling Stones collaborator Dan Was, Grrr is the first album in seven years to be released by the legendary rock band. Record label Polydor wanted a simple lyric video to accompany the song, and to tie the video in with the great new album cover.
Trunk's Rok Predin and illustrator Sara Savelj created a loose paintbrush-based type for the video using a mix of brush strokes and scanned in marks with real dripping paint footage all mixed together with loads of splatters, drips, and flecks. The new single is full of dystopian lyrics commenting on contemporary issues and driven by a pounding score, and the feel of the video reflects that with the passionate paint splatters and drips that feel like someone is actually there, furiously painting away with the song in the background.
By using black-on-white ground interspersed with color and negative interplays to emphasize phrases and words, the video perfectly reflects the mood of the song. During a musical interlude the iconic Rolling Stones tongue logo makes an appearance, beautifully illustrated by Savelj. The video was created using hand-painted textures and scans intermixed with live action elements and composited together using Adobe After Effects.
Trunk producer Richard Barnett noted, "It was an unbelievable opportunity to work for literally Rock Legends, and on such a great track as well! We were able to turn around the video in an incredibly short time helped enormously by the guys at Polydor, and after Elton John, the projections on the palace for Madness, and now this, it's been a great year."
The results of Trunk's work have been well received by the band, including front man Mick Jagger, who noted he "loved it."
Source: Trunk Animation
Jennifer Wolfe is Director of News & Content at Animation World Network.


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FOURTH OF JULY: America, the exceptional nation
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)—America has been blessed by God in unique ways — we are not just another country, but neither are we God's special people. I do not believe that America is God's chosen nation. God established one chosen nation and people: the Jews. We are not the new Israel. We do not have "God on our side." We are not God's gift to the world.
America does not have a special claim on God. Millions of Americans do, however, believe God has a special claim on them — and their country.
America has been blessed in manifold ways. When you look at our resources, our protection by two oceans, our standard of living, can you argue that America has not been uniquely and providentially blessed? The natural resources that lie within the confines of our borders are without parallel anywhere in the world: not just rich, arable land, but vast resources of iron, coal, and oil under the ground. We didn't put them there; we were just led to the place where they were.
We have had the opportunity to enjoy them and to benefit people around the world with them. Perhaps the most fertile land on the planet is our Great Plains.
We have become the breadbasket for the world. We feed much of the world's population, in part because we are good farmers, but also because we believe in private ownership of land and property. Can you name a nation that in any way can claim to have been the recipient of God's unearned blessings to the measure that we have been?
The blessings are not just material, however. It is remarkable that the one generation that produced our Founding Fathers emerged and put together the Constitution that has served us so well for more than two centuries and has brought unparalleled freedom for an unparalleled number of people — unequaled by any other country in the world.
We enjoy freedoms that most of us have not risked our lives to establish, protect or preserve. All of us, unless we are immigrants to this country, have by the providence of birth been bequeathed an incredible legacy. Over the last two and a half centuries, there has been no other country in the world within which such a high percentage of the population has had the guaranteed freedoms we possess: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom of assembly. We have guaranteed freedoms in our Constitution that even Canadians and Britons don't have.
There was either a fortuitous or a providential set of circumstances in the development and rise of this nation. Since I'm a Christian, I believe in providence more than fortune. I believe that it was a uniquely providential set of circumstances that allowed the flourishing of this triumph of freedom and the dignity of human beings. It certainly didn't happen that way in the French Revolution, and I believe it is no coincidence that the philosophy and convictions fueling that revolution were not based on a transcendent divine authority. They were based in human reason (or what the revolutionaries mistook for reason) alone, and the upheaval quickly degenerated into a maelstrom of chaos, violence, and power struggles.
The Founding Fathers of the American Revolution, by contrast, affirmed that human rights are not mere human constructions, but are unalienable rights conferred by God. Government could not create those rights; all it could do was recognize them and support them. This idea of divinely ordained rights had not taken root anywhere else in the world. It was a new and unique concept.
Because it has been around our whole life as a nation, we tend to take it for granted.
From the richness of our undeserved legacy comes obligation. If we have been given much, we are obligated to give much to others. If we love our neighbors as ourselves, we will seek not only to preserve and protect our liberties, but to assist others in their efforts to attain these same liberties.
If America's legacy is freedom, some ask, then why is American history built on the back of subjugated races such as African-Americans and Native Americans?
Belief in God had a lot to do with bringing an end to the evils of slavery — and, a century later, correcting much of its lingering effect through the biblical ideals that drove the Civil Rights movement.
Unfortunately, misuse of Scripture had a lot to do with perpetuating the institution of slavery, and it also played a role in our unconscionable treatment of Native Americans. This in no way excuses our abhorrent treatment of Native Americans and our culpability in the severe cultural problems they have suffered since.
America has failed at key points to live up to our ideals of liberty and justice for all human beings. We have worked to rectify our failings; however, we have sometimes disagreed on how to do so. We need not make perfection the enemy of the good. We fought a terrible war on our own soil to overcome the horrors of slavery. I don't see many minorities emigrating to a better life elsewhere. Instead, they continue to come to the United States, not just for better material lives, but also for a freedom that many of them do not have in their countries of origin.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman describes an experience in which the special influence of the United States in extending freedom around the world was vividly manifest to him:
"The most electric moment of my sixteen months in Washington came during Lech Walesa's speech to the Congress, when he described how the American ideal of freedom had inspired and sustained him and the rest of the Solidarity movement during their darkest days. We're finding the same response in the rest of Eastern Europe and throughout the world. This is our strength, this powerful two hundred-year-old democratic idea of our Founding Fathers, and it must be the foundation of our foreign policy. Any time we sacrifice principles for what appear to be short-term international political gains, we lose — if not in the short term, then eventually."
As Dr. Martin Luther King called upon us to do, we are living out the legacy of our founding documents. We are continuing to expand the concept that "all men are created equal" to ever greater numbers of our own citizens — first to slaves and then to women — so that even today we have a far more inclusive definition of freedom and a far more inclusive practice of freedom than any other country in the world.
But America has never been just a geographic place; it has always been an idea. That is why people can become American in a way that they cannot become German, French or Japanese. People from all ethnic backgrounds come to America, and when they embrace and pledge their allegiance to American ideals, they become Americans.
It is my moral conviction as an individual citizen that America does have a special role to play in the world. As a Christian, I believe in providence, and so I affirm that God has providentially blessed the United States of America. I am also responsible to obey Jesus' teaching that to whom much is given, much is required (Luke 12:35-49).
That doesn't give me the right to say, "We should do this because God said so." It is my responsibility in the public square to translate my religious argument into a moral argument that others can understand regardless of their religious differences. One doesn't have to be a Christian to believe that America has a special role to play in the world. Whether and how we will fulfill that role is a decision that will be made collectively, by the people, democratically. That's how we decide things in America.
America is not just a country with national interests. It is a cause, and that cause is freedom.
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The Complete Writer: Writing With Skill
|Publisher: Peace Hill Press
Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Review last updated: May 2013
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Writing With Skill
The Writing With Skill series continues The Complete Writer series that began with four courses for grades 1 through 4 titled Writing With Ease. Writing With Skill Level One (WWS) is the first of four courses that target grades five through eight, although they might be used with older students who have not yet developed their composition skills. While developing composition skills is the primary goal, reading comprehension and analysis also receive a great deal of attention.
For each course, there are a student workbook and an instructor text. (Both are available in either print or downloadable PDF formats.) Unlike Writing With Ease, WWS is designed for students to complete a significant amount of their work independently but not all. Parents might need to work with students to help them develop independent study skills so that they take the time to complete those parts of the lesson properly rather than skimming over instructions or questions.
The instructor text provides the parent with the student's instructions so the parent knows what the student is supposed to do. However, it also adds suggestions for the parent if a student is struggling with a particular assignment. For example, if a student has trouble identifying main events as they take notes for a narration, the instructor text provides some leading questions a parent might use to help their child tune into the main events rather than the details.
While students might complete much of their work independently, the parent or teacher plays an important role. He or she needs to ensure that students understand lessons, assist them as directed with some activities, lead discussions, provide extra assistance as directed in the instructor text, provide students with the rubrics, and check student work according to the rubrics. To accomplish this, the parent or teacher needs to read through each lesson in advance. The instructor text has teaching instructions as well as the content of the student book except for the literary pieces. The parent or teacher needs to refer to the student book to read the literary works.
The instructor text for Level One is a hefty 607 pages, so you can see that teaching the course requires a substantial time commitment just to prepare for each lesson. However, lessons are laid out in a step-by-step fashion that should make it easy for both student and teacher/parent to understand what is to be done. The occasional discussions are often scripted with questions to read plus suggested answers. Examples of composition work are provided so that the teacher or parent has a clear idea of what to expect from each assignment.
The detailed lesson instructions are helpful, although I suspect it might become cumbersome to read along in the instructor text through the teaching instruction at times when you are interacting with a student. Advance preparation might allow you to set the guide aside and work more casually with your student, but you would have to become thoroughly familiar with the lesson to do so.
Specific rubrics are included in the instructor text for each of the various forms of composition. Rubrics specify expectations, but these are not grading or recording forms. Susan Wise Bauer explains in the instructor text, " In my opinion, giving a "grade" is not useful at this level. Use the rubric to decide whether the student has done an adequate job by following the instructions for the assignment. If the student has not followed the instructions, show him specifically where his composition falls short, and ask him to revise the assignment" (Level One, p. xxiv).
Each course should take one school year to complete. Courses are designed with lessons for four days per week. Students might progress more quickly or more slowly depending upon their ability. Parents might also tailor the assignments themselves to make them more appropriate for a student— tailoring such as requiring a shorter or longer composition.
Students are encouraged to use a word processing program, but parents should pay attention to the instruction guide when it says that grammar and spell check options in the program must be turned off so that they don't become a crutch for students at a stage where they need to be developing their own editing skills.
Students create a composition notebook in a three-ring binder that is divided into six sections to use with each course. Students will need a comprehensive thesaurus for use throughout all of the courses.
Level One of WWS—the only course available in the series thus far—teaches paragraph construction, topic sentences, note taking, writing narrative summaries, outlines, word choices and the use of a thesaurus, chronological narratives (particularly from science and history), descriptions of places, scientific descriptions, descriptions of people, biographical sketches, literary criticism applied to prose, literary criticism applied to poetry, and researching, footnoting, and citing works that were used. Students apply research skills and documentation in brief compositions then write a thousand-word researched composition at the end of the year.
While at first this might sound a bit dry and demanding for students at fifth grade level, it really isn't because students frequently use literary excerpts as source material for the activities. These vary from a few paragraphs or stanzas to two or three pages in length. A few lengthier literary works such as "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" from The Jungle Book run as long as ten pages; these are in an appendix rather than within the pertinent lessons. Sources might be used in unusual ways. For example, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles is used as one source from which students work to write scientific descriptions. Some of the literary works are certainly more interesting than others. Some are public domain works on science or history that would be read for information but not for entertainment. Some are from more interestingly-written non-fiction such as Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World. In addition to the literary excerpts, the 568-page student book includes some activity pages on which students will write which helps account for the large number of pages.
WWS Level Two should be available by early September 2013. Books for Level Two can be preordered through Amazon.com.
As with other resources from Susan Wise Bauer, the perspective is secular but supportive of a Christian outlook.Writing With Skill offers substantive instruction in composition—more than you find in most programs for students in the middle grades. You might need to adapt a course to a slower pace if it is too demanding for your child. Keep in mind that students are covering a substantial amount of literature study while developing composition skills. You might omit any other reading or literature program, perhaps having your child instead read some of the complete works from which excerpts are drawn for the lessons. Eliminating the redundancy of another reading program should free up time to fully utilize this course and make the most of the literary connections.
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- Suitable for: group or one-on-one instruction
Audience: grades 5-8
Need for parent/teacher instruction: moderate
Prep time needed: moderate to high
Teacher's manual: essential
Educational approach: modified classical
Religious perspective: secular but "Christian friendly"
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