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Tech's staff: (L-to-R: Joe Hughes, Ray Hayward, Tim Tadlock, J-Bob Thomas, Russell Raley)
March 12, 2013
by: Taylor Fortney
For the fifth straight time, the Texas Tech defense lined up to run the same bunt drill, despite executing the previous four times. Once more, the batter laid the bunt down, but this time, the runner beat the throw to the bag.
"Let's do it again!" Coach Tim Tadlock said.
This repetition and attention to detail perhaps displays first-year head coach Tim Tadlock best.
The first-year head coach brought the same ideology and attention to detail to selecting his coaching staff.
"Simplest thing is," Tadlock said. "We wanted these guys."
The staff Tadlock sought after includes pitching coach Ray Hayward, recruiting coordinator J-Bob Thomas, assistant coach [infield/outfield] Russell Raley and director of baseball operations Joe Hughes.
Ray Hayward left behind the life of a major league scout to come to Lubbock, and relishes the opportunity to get back to coaching.
"Well that's what my true love is," Hayward said of his opportunity to return to coaching. "Being on the field, working with the kids, being around kids, being around parents. I love the feelings of helping ballplayers and making them better."
Hayward looks to use his past experience as a scout to help evaluate his own pitchers at Tech, while also admitting that it will be a change evaluating a player in college versus the long-term prospects of scouting for an MLB organization.
"Well it's going to help tremendously," Hayward said. "Although, I think from a scouting standpoint, we look for so many things, like red flags, mainly for longevity. We have a guy for four years, so hopefully with Shawn (Lindsey), our trainer, we can fix some mechanical things, if needed. Sometimes it's good scouting wise, sometimes you see things and you don't want them or you can say that guy is going to be pretty good, and that helps in that respect.
Along with using his experiences as a scout, Hayward also notes that he can help the younger coaches on the staff with his deep experience from the dugout.
"The experience comes from coaching and being around people in baseball and life," Hayward said. "So I think experience wise, me just being able to have been through it and realize that guys are not going to be perfect. They're not going to have perfect games or perfect innings. I think that's the main thing."
When asked about the value of Hayward to the staff, Tadlock echoed Hayward's thought on experience.
"Coach Hayward brings a ton of experience," said Tadlock. "Big league playing experience, coaching at the division one level, and a pro perspective. But the biggest thing he brings is that he is a teacher and he loves being on the field and it's what his passion is and you're not going to find a better man in baseball."
While others on the staff might not have Hayward's deep and varied experience, each has qualities and tools they have used to get to the top of their profession. This is especially true for recruiting coordinator J-Bob Thomas.
Thomas comes from Howard Junior College after a successful seven-year run building the program to its current strength. One of the main reasons for Howard's success comes from the recruiting of Thomas, a strength he looks to replicate at Tech.
"I've got a passion for recruiting." Thomas said. "I love getting good players and establishing relationships. I love knowing that you're bringing them into a really good place."
Thomas will lead Tech's recruiting efforts as the recruiting coordinator for the Red Raiders, and remarked on the advantages of recruiting at the division one level, as compared to the junior-college level where the turnover is much greater and having to fill an entire new team every year is the norm.
"It's definitely refreshing," Thomas said, "To not have to go out there and fill a whole new team every year. Here, there is a three or four-year process, so the player development side is really exciting because you get to see each player grow."
Thomas is seeing his recruiting efforts already for Tech this year, as his first recruiting class is taking the field for the Red Raiders this spring.
"I really like them." Thomas said of the current players he helped bring to campus for this year. "There's a lot of blue-collar work ethic, everyone is ready to get after it and work. It's definitely the foundation not just for what we're going to do this year, but in years to come."
Tadlock has witnessed Thomas' recruiting abilities for the past seven years while they became familiar with each other on the recruiting trail.
"He's a tireless recruiter," Tadlock said of Thomas, the first individual he added to his coaching staff. "He loves to recruit, always has. He's a guy I felt like when the time came, he was deserving of the position. I think he is going to be a great recruiting coordinator."
While Thomas takes care of recruiting, volunteer assistant coach Russell Raley will play a large role with the Red Raiders while working with the team's hitters and position players. Raley is a veteran in the Big 12 having been one of the top players in the league for four years at Oklahoma and also serving as an assistant coach at his alma mater for three years.
"It was very important," Raley said of his role with the team. "One of the deciding factors in coming here was that I was going to get a large responsibility regarding the daily work with hitters and infielders and outfielders and that meant a lot to me, that Coach Tadlock was going to give me that position and the value that my word was going to mean something in the locker room with the players each day."
After coaching at Oklahoma from 2008-2011, Raley came to Tech after a brief stint at Oklahoma Christian, and is looking forward to getting back into the bigger stage of Big 12 baseball.
"The opportunity to work in the Big 12 again was an opportunity I couldn't pass up," Raley said. "So I wanted to get back into this conference and work with Coach Tadlock again, and the rest of the staff that was already in place."
Tadlock looks for Raley to better the Red Raider hitters, and to bring the same tools that he used to make Oklahoma a high-power offense.
"He understands what it takes to be successful as a hitter." Tadlock said. "He brings Big 12 experience, pro experience, and the main thing is he has been successful in the Big 12. I have a lot of comfort knowing we got a college guy teaching college guys how to hit."
While Hayward, Thomas, and Raley take care of the coaching and recruiting, Joe Hughes is the man behind the scenes, making sure everything runs smoothly as the Director of Baseball Operations.
After working his way up the chain of administration to event management at Oklahoma, Hughes headed to Tech in the operations role due to his relationship with his former coach, Tim Tadlock, who he played for in junior college at Grayson County and also during his division I career at Oklahoma.
"I have the ultimate respect of Coach Tadlock as a person, as well as who he is as a coach." Hughes said. "We had built a relationship over the years, that as soon as I got the phone call, it was a no-brainer."
Hughes also remarked on how dynamic his job is, and even though he isn't working specifically with the players during practice, he is able to have a great impact on the Texas Tech baseball team.
"It's the type of job where you have to be on your toes." Hughes said. "Whether that's travel, lining up food, or making sure our players are taken care of. Just making sure our program is in shape to be the best it can possibly be."
Always looking out for the Tech players, Hughes is someone Tadlock wants on his team. "From an operations standpoint, he's a tireless worker." Tadlock said. "He knows how we want to do things, whether it's eating or practicing, he understands which makes things much easier for all of us. He's a person I trust in any situation."
Each member of Tadlock's staff has a clear role, and all have the common goal of getting the program better and competing in the Big 12 conference. Tadlock points out, however, that the players make the program.
"My initial thought process once becoming head coach was to get players," Tadlock said. "At that point, I knew it would come together, but it was a lot more important to me to secure baseball players."
Tadlock had little trouble convincing his coaches to join the staff in Lubbock. "There is something to be said that all of these guys joined the program when we asked them." Tadlock said. "That's pretty neat."
Texas Tech looks to capitalize on each coach's strengths, and build the foundation for Tech to be a winning program for years to come.
"It's really meshed together." Hayward said. "We have good personalities here that's worked together well and I've really enjoyed it, and I think there's nothing but good things ahead."


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BOULDER - It's mid-season quiz time. Identify the college football coach who said the following about this week's opponent:
"They are deep, they are talented, they just change jersey numbers every year but the guys all look the same . . . . They draft, we recruit. And they get the first 25 picks of the draft."
That could be Colorado's Jon Embree as he (star) gazes at Southern California, but it's not. Embree might think it, but he didn't say it. USC features the probable No. 1 NFL draft choice in quarterback Matt Barkley, receivers Robert Woods and Marqise Lee, tailback Silas Redd . . . and that's merely the headliners on offense.
The quotable coach was Tennessee's Derek Dooley, who was truthfully hyping No. 1 Alabama - the Vols' opponent Saturday in Knoxville.
Embree, meanwhile, is prepping his Buffaloes for Saturday's trip to the Los Angeles Coliseum to meet the No. 11 Trojans. USC is a 41-point favorite, a hideous but hardly surprising spread that Embree claimed he wasn't aware of until being briefed shortly before his weekly media luncheon on Tuesday.
Embree contends that he doesn't fret over that ugly figure seeping into the Buffs' locker room and doing early week psychological damage: "I don't really worry about that; it doesn't change how you prepare. You try and do everything that you would do normally. I don't read the papers or any of that stuff, so it doesn't affect me, and as coaches we just have to be positive on the field and do a good job of leading (players) and preparing them and then going out and playing. Go out and play the game."
That this game is being played in an area the Buffs recruit heavily and that the oddsmakers' inkling that the contest won't be close don't faze Embree either. In fact, he's viewing the Buffs' first visit to the Coliseum as Pac-12 Conference members as "a good opportunity . . . we (signed) ten kids last year out of California. I don't know how many we have committed now (from California), but there are a few more that are close. It's always good to go back out there and let kids play at home. That's one of the advantages of getting in this conference, going out and playing in Los Angeles or the Bay area every year so that kids can learn more about your program.
"Anytime one of our teams is out there, whether it's men's basketball or soccer, whatever, that's huge. We have a lot of alumni out there and we get a lot of kids in our general student population from California. It's a win-win."
Embree is basing that assessment as much on exposure as he is on results - and maybe more so this season. He believes CU prospects or potential prospects who attend or tune into Saturday's game can't help but see an opportunity to help the Buffs. He voiced the same thought last week before the nationally televised Thursday night game against Arizona State, which perhaps underscored his belief with a 51-14 win that actually was close for a half.
Although CU has been outscored 93-31 in its past two games, Embree doesn't see that lopsided total or the Buffs' other three losses as seriously damaging the reception he and his staffers are receiving from prospects.
"They need to understand there are different things going on within your program and how they fit," Embree said. "They need to understand that we're not instant oatmeal, we're not just adding water and get going. If that's what they're looking for, then this isn't the place for them.
"But if they want to be part of something special and help build something, if they want to get a great education, then they'll continue to want to be a Buff. Those are the things to talk about . . ."
Through games of Oct. 6, CU was tied for fifth nationally with Akron in the number of true freshmen played (13). Punch in the number of redshirt freshmen playing and the Buffs' first-year participant total goes to 21.
The same chart lists USC at 11 true freshmen and 25 first-year participants, which brings us back to Dooley's quote on the Crimson Tide. USC is in that "we recruit, they draft" mode, too. Eventually, Embree wants CU in that same conversation, but for now this has to be among his best opening lines in living rooms: "I ask kids, 'Is it your dream to play college football or watch someone else do it? Do you want to go stand in someone's line and wait a couple of years? If that's what you want, great. If you want a chance to play early and be a part of something special, then you'll come here.'"
When Embree elected to stay in-state - he was a nationally recruited Cherry Creek High School tight end prospect - and signed with former Buffs coach Bill McCartney in the mid-80s, he said he "dreamed of playing college football; I didn't dream of watching anyone else play."
Now, he might be dreaming of recruiting like an Alabama or a USC. But he's realistic enough to know that kind of cachet in the recruiting world is not going to materialize overnight. Instead, he and the Buffs must stay with the chase and keep hustling and grinding and talking up academic and athletic opportunities. (Several more wins along the way wouldn't hurt the sales pitch either.)
"There's a process; you have to be patient," Embree said. "You've got to get players in who can help you climb that ladder. You have to do a good job of developing players. You have to get some guys that maybe they (USC) don't take, and they may turn out to be better than the guys they do take.
"You have to have a little bit of that happen to give yourself that chance. There's no doubt there's some programs that have it rolling. But the great thing about college football is that it's cyclical. You just have to continue to develop your players, continue to recruit and get guys in who can do what you want to do . . . you just have to keep taking shots at those (upper tier) guys and eventually you start getting them."
Eventually, your program also must progress past the point of having "opportunity" as its top selling point - and that's certainly a point not lost on Embree.
BUFF BITS: Sophomore linebacker Brady Daigh, who was taken from the field Thursday night on a stretcher, returned to the team Sunday but did not practice then or Tuesday (Monday was a day off). Embree said Daigh "is fine, but he still has soreness in his neck." Daigh is listed as probable for USC . . . . Ray Polk (high ankle sprain) is officially questionable, but the senior safety's prognosis isn't that dire. Polk believes he can play . . . . Freshman tailback Christian Powell, the team's leading rusher, didn't play against ASU because of a deep thigh bruise but is probable for USC . . . . Embree celebrated his 47th birthday on Monday. His best gift? Being with his family and being able to celebrate another birthday. Also, "I'm blessed to be doing what I'm doing," he said . . . . Freshman receiver Gerald Thomas calls the chance to play USC in the Coliseum "cool; it's one of the things I was looking forward to (at CU). I grew up as a big Reggie Bush fan. I used to follow USC and now I get a chance to play against them. It's exciting . . . with the right mindset maybe we can pull the big upset."
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Mary Kay Kenney, PhD
Health Statistician
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Maternal and Child Health Bureau
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5600 Fishers Lane, Room 18-41
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 301-443-0755
Fax: 301-443-9354
Dr. Mary Kay Kenney is a Health Statistician with the Maternal and Child Health Bureau in the Health Resources and Services Administration. She has a special interest in Children with Special Health Care Needs. She began her career working on multi-disciplinary Early Intervention teams as a certified Speech-Language Pathologist, treating developmental speech and language disorders in the special needs population. She obtained a doctorate from Northwestern University in 1998 studying developmental speech production and held a position as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke between 1998 and 2004, investigating genetic speech disorders. Currently Dr. Kenney is involved in several different projects related to statistical analysis of national data from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs and the National Survey of Children's Health. In addition, Dr. Kenney is project officer on federal grants and contracts that build data capacity and data analysis of child health information and preterm birth.
Ronald J. Iannotti, PhD
Staff Scientist
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development,
National Institutes of Health
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Ronald J. Iannotti, PhD, received his doctorate in Developmental Psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has held teaching and research positions at Marietta College in Ohio, the National Institutes of Mental Health, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and Miami University and has been a visiting scholar at Trier University in Trier, Germany, and the Miami University European Center in Luxembourg. His current position is at the Prevention Research Branch of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, serves on editorial boards of two professional journals and is currently the treasurer of the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. Dr. Iannottis research interests include social and environmental influences on the development of childrens eating and exercise patterns and their relationship to obesity and cardiovascular risk factors and improving management of childhood chronic illnesses. His current research projects include a national survey of adolescent health behaviors which is part of an international collaboration involving more than 40 other countries and several clinic-based interventions to improve family and adolescent management of Type 1 diabetes.
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I hadn't read Gia Kourlas's
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the DI e-mail. I avoid the NYT at all costs and only glance at the
home page online once in a while, never clicking the "arts" link.
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lies, you wonder to yourself, does anyone believe a word of this
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'The Great Beauty' opens at the Music Box Theater on Friday, January 3rd.
Paolo Sorrentino is a superb filmmaker; his ongoing partnerships with cinematographer Luca Bigazzi (since 2004), and the wonderful Italian actor Toni Servillo, have produced a pretty interesting variety of films. From his debut film, One Man Up (2001) to 2008's Il Divo to 2010's This Must Be The Place (his English-language debut with Sean Penn and Frances McDormand), Sorrentino's films are ripe with tangential detail, both narratively and visually, and those details have a way of forming into a foundation underneath the surface of the story being told and the settings those stories occur in. There's rarely an uninformative or unmotivated shot, rarely an uninteresting character or unimportant event, and the films seem exactly as long as they need to be. Which is why, for all of its formal beauty, its complex but efficient narrative structure, and some wonderful acting from its principals, I was deeply disappointed in The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) (Italy, 2013).
The Great Beauty chronicles the present-day adventures of Jep Gambardella (Servillo, marvelous here), a practicing journalist and long-ago fiction writer who is turning 65. He's an effortlessly amiable and stylish bon vivant, and we meet him at a raucous society party that's being thrown for the occasion. The party is, cinematically, superbly choreographed, giving us a cross-section of the Roman high-life circa 2013 and introducing a number of the people who are important in his life. At the crack of dawn, walking through the side streets of Rome (with ordinary citizens walking their dogs, flocks of birds cavorting through the sky, ancient monuments looming around him, and laughing schoolgirls peering through the gates of a convent), Gambardella returns home to his lush apartment (with its gigantic balcony overlooking the Colosseum), chats up his housekeeper and cook, and goes to bed. The following days involve interviews, parties, dinners, parties, news of the death of dear friends, parties, museum visits, parties, funerals, parties… but Jep realizes that the wine, women and song are no longer a buffer between himself and his own impending mortality. One of the deaths he's informed of is the passing of Elisa, who may very well have been the love of his life, even though they hadn't seen each other for over thirty years. He is loyal to old friends, even when they have profoundly hurtful disagreements, but amenable to making new ones; after being introduced to the daughter, Ramona (Sabrina Ferilli, who we'll discuss later), of one of his more shadowy acquaintances, Egidio (Massimo De Francovich), he begins an uncharacteristically platonic friendship with her. But, even with her tagging along here and there, the Gambardella personal tour of old friends, familiar places and sociable cynicism continues unabated.
Anyone making films in Italy creates them between the long shadows of Rossellini, Visconti, Fellini, and Antonioni, and Sorrentino here takes his shot at the Fellini side of things. The character of Gambardella has been compared by many others to Marcello Mastroianni's Marcello Rubini in La Dolce Vita, another practical journalist surveying both the absurdity and beauty of life in Rome (and western civilization). But the big thing missing here is Fellini's generosity – Marcello was always of Rome, moving effortlessly between people of all classes, all stations, all occupations, all temperaments. Gambardella's nostalgia comes with pretty heavy doses of regret for how many things he's taken for granted, but his nostalgia is a luxury he can afford; the world we're presented with as his is exclusively populated with well-off publishers, national-treasure poets, opportunistic art collectors, bored housewives of rich husbands, tenured professors and a cast of hundreds who obviously don't have jobs to go to the next day. Marcello's problems reflected The World, or at least The World as seen from Rome. But Gambardella's problems are rich-people's-problems, white people's problems, and the view from Jep's privileged perch gets inescapably monotonous as the film progresses. Along with the intermittent appearances of mortality reminders (...OK, we get it...), Sorrentino threads his film with a lot of other arcs and motifs; Flaubert writing a book "about nothing," the ubiquity of Catholicism, the slow but sure disintegration of relationships and marriages, and a few metaphorical references to magic. But by the time Sister Maria (Giusi Merli) shows up (an elderly Mother Teresa figure seemingly destined for sainthood), Sorrentino has boxed himself in so indulgently, yet so superficially, that he doesn't know whether to make her an instructive Luis Buñuel-ian parody of earnestness, or another jaundiced example of the gullibility of the average Italian, or a genuinely profound figure of simplicity and grace. Gambardella arrives at an epiphany about what "the great beauty" actually represents, but it's interesting that the other most interesting character in the film has simply vanished from Gambardella's life, and Sorrentino's script. (There's a quick line, almost thrown away, that reveals the fate of this other character, but I only picked it up on the second viewing, and it just became one more thing that infuriated me about the film.)
Sorrentino's a pro, and he will make other wonderful films down the line, I have no doubt. There are individual performances here that are impressive: Toni Servillo is among the world's best actors, Galatea Ranzi does a lot with a little as Jep's old friend Stefania, and Sabrina Ferilli is quite wonderful as Ramona. (Ferilli is the politically active daughter of the former Speaker of Italy's Communist Party, an accomplished actress, the advertising face of De Cecco pasta, a famously devout fan of Rome's AS Roma soccer team, and one of the most beloved celebrities in Italy.) And Luca Bigazzi's camerawork is seamlessly beautiful. But despite the artistry on display here, The Great Beauty isn't just an excusable near-miss; it's an extraordinarily condescending film masquerading as a stylishly nostalgic examination of Mamma Roma and The Big Questions. People like Jep Gambardella don't have problems; people like Jep Gambardella are the problem.


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3 UI divers will compete in Maryland this weekend
3 UI divers will compete in Maryland this weekend
Hawkeyes open season at Michigan
Oct. 18, 2013 CRWC Pool
2015-16 -- NCAA qualifier off the platform... placed 36th at NCAA Championships with a score of 206.95... earned NCAA bid by placing ninth off platform at NCAA Zone D Championships with a score of 261.45... posted Zone Diving standards on 1-meter (271.85), 3-meter (311.70), and platform (256.90)... led the team in 3-meter, was second off platform, and third off 1-meter... dove to a 3-meter win in dual against Western Illinois (2/5).
2014-15 -- Dove to NCAA Zone Qualifying Standards on the 1-meter (279.35), 3-meter (312.00), and platform (312.20)... broke the school record off the platform at the Big Ten Championships (312.20)... led the team on the platform... finished 11th on the platform at the NCAA Zone D Championships... posted 11 top-5 finishes... posted wins against Northwestern on the 3-meter (273.08) and Western Illinois off the platform (270.05)... competed at the 2014 USA Diving AT&T Senior National Diving Championships in the senior women's platform, finishing 20th with a score of 235.25 in the quarterfinals... letterwinner.
2013-14 -- Posted an NCAA Zone Diving Standard on the 1-meter springboard (288.60), ranking 10th in program history... recorded a collegiate-best on the platform (253.55) to rank third in school history... posted collegiate-best on the 3-meter springboard (289.73) at Iowa State... finished in 12th place on the platform at the NCAA Zone D Diving Championships... four top-five finishes... letterwinner.
High School -- Competed for Frederick County, Md., at the regional and state level as a junior and senior... county champion as a sophomore en route to first team all-county honors... finished third as a freshman en route to second team all-county honors... holds the girls county diving record of 296.50 (6 dives), set in 2011... won the platform (413.6) and finished third in the 1-meter (388.3) and 3-meter (418.5) at the 2013 USA Diving Summer Junior Region 3 Championships... won the platform (384.2) and was third in 3-meter (356.5) at the 2013 Junior East National Championships... was runner-up on 3-meter (422.0) at 2013 USA Diving Spring Junior Region 1 Championships ... competed at the 2012 Junior National Diving Championships and USA Diving Age Group National Championships... finished fourth in the synchronized platform (220.6) and eighth in platform (234.4) at 2012 USA Diving National Preliminary Zone A Championships...finalist on all three events, finishing third in the platform (423.6) at the 2012 USA Diving Summer Junior Zone A Championship... placed third on the 1-meter (364.4) and fourth on 3-meter (401.8) at the 2012 USA Diving Summer Junior Region 2 Championships... finished eighth in synchronized platform (406.7) at 2012 USA Diving Winter Nationals... also competed at the 2010 Level 8 USA Gymnastics Maryland State Championships, finishing third in the all-around and second on the floor... member of the National Honor Society and was on the Highest Honors Honor Roll all four years... received the Minds in Motion Athletics and Athletics in 2010 and 2011... coaches by John Smith (deceased) and Douglas Beavers (club).
Personal -- Born Feb. 15, 1995, in Leesburg, Va... daughter of Erich and Sandy Lehnert... has two siblings, Jordan and Griff... father, Erich, played college lacrosse at Western Maryland College... grandfather, Edwin, played lacrosse at John Hopkins University... majoring in biology.
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Today was the day – the Railroad Park Dog Park in Lewisville was reopened after over two weeks of locked gates! If you haven't been yet, you should really make the trip – your dogs will love you for it. It's got separate areas for small and large dogs, covered benches for the humans, with drinking water for dogs and humans, and the sod is in great condition. Plenty of parking and nice visual vistas make the pleasant for humans too.
You can get more information and maps at the City of Lewisville's website, just click on the link above.
I also received great news for those of you that live in Frisco – the city has moved up your proposed Dog Park up the priority list. This news was spread via email from Sarah Perham, President of Frisco Dog Park, Inc., and she credits your emails of support sent to the Mayor and City Council for helping to convey how important this issue is for the residents of Frisco. The next Council Meeting is on March 11th, so continue the good work and keep those emails coming.
There are many great dog parks in the area now, hopefully we will soon have one in every city so that dog socialization and exercise are convenient for everyone. I've recapped the area dog parks below.
White Rock Dog Park
8000 Mockingbird Lane, Dallas
Unleashed Dog Park
5151 Samuell Blvd., Dallas
Bark Park Central
Good Latimer Expressway and Commerce (under Hwy 75), Dallas
Downtown Dog Park
Liberty near Swiss Ave in Deep Ellum, Dallas
Main Street Garden Urban Dog Run
1900 Main St, Dallas
Central Dog Park (at Central Christian Church)
4711 Westside Dr, Dallas
Wagging Tail Dog Park
5841 Keller Springs, Dallas
Addison Dog Park (at Dome Park)
Le Grande Dr, Addison
Addison Dog Park (at Les Lacs Linear Park)
Sidney Dr and Woodway Dr, South end of Les Lac Trail, Addison
Canine Commons Dog Park
US 75 and Stacy Rd (parking lot north of Petsmart), Allen
Tails and Trails Dog Park
950 SE Green Oaks Blvd, Arlington
Wiggly Field Dog Park (at Lake Forest Park)
1400 Ryan Rd, Denton
Villages of Bear Creek Dog Bark Park
1951 Bear Creek Pkwy, Euless
Fort Woof Dog Park
4500 Gateway Park, Fort Worth
Central Bark Grand Prairie Dog Park (at Veterans Park)
2222 W Warrior Trl, Grand Prairie
Railroad Park Dog Park
1301 S. Railroad Street, Lewisville
Tipps Canine Hollow (at Northfield Park)
7804 Davis Blvd, North Richland Hills
Jack Carter Dog Park
6500 Roundrock Trail, Plano
BooBoo's Buddies Dog Park (at Bob Jones Park)
3901 N. White Chapel (near the softball fields), Southlake
There are several websites that list dog parks by area like www.dogparkusa.com, but they are not all kept up-to-date, so check more than one to be safe. They list general information, so that you don't have to visit each city's website to get hours of operation, locations and maps, and hotline numbers.
Most of the dog parks have a published phone number to call for information, be sure and call first if you aren't sure the park will be open because of weather or maintenance. Dog parks are typically open six days a week and closed one day for maintenance – check the website for which day of the week for your park.
For more info: If you are interested in learning more about dog training or different ways to solve problems and communicate with your dog, there are many places you can start, including the link to www.clickertraining.com. As always, you can email me at firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions or comments, or for help with specific issues that you are having with your dog. There are links to more resources at http://tinyurl.com/tracimurdock .


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Oct. 13, 2006
SEATTLE (AP) -- Two Washington seniors, a junior and a highly regarded freshman are hurt. Sophomore Jon Brockman is the only player that coach Lorenzo Romar is declaring a starter.
The Huskies, coming off an NCAA Sweet 16 appearance that was seconds from something magical, begin "a new era, a changing of the guard," Romar said, with a preseason basketball practice late Friday night that will be open to the public.
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Replacing them will be what one scouting service has rated the nation's third-best freshman class, led by Washington state high school player of the year Spencer Hawes -- the most notable of the preseason injuries.
Nine of the 13 players on the roster are either freshmen or sophomores.
"This is the youngest team I've ever coached," Romar said. "We are going to have to get real old, real quick."
The aches and alterations already have the fun-on-the-run Huskies in an odd mode: Slow.
"It's going to be slower, because you don't have the full complement of players from your team," Romar said of progress from the first weeks of practice, prior to a Nov. 3 exhibition against Saint Martin's and the Nov. 12 opener against Pepperdine.
Hawes, the 7-foot would-be phenom from Seattle Prep, had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee on Wednesday.
He said Thursday that doctors told him the removal of a particle in the knee was a success. They also told Hawes he could begin riding an exercise bike on Friday and that he may be able to begin running in two weeks.
"When they said that, that left me pretty optimistic," Hawes said, adding he expects to practice well before the opener.
Junior Joel Smith and redshirt freshman Joe Wolfinger are out with stress fractures, Wolfinger likely for the entire season. Brandon Burmeister, one of only two Husky seniors, has a foot injury. And Hans Gasser is recovering from a shoulder separation suffered during the summer, though he is expected to practice Friday.
Romar downplayed the injuries, saying some of the ailing will be back within a couple of weeks. But Brockman, a heralded high school star from Snohomish, Wash., went through his first month of practicing Romar's system 12 months ago. He said those absent will be missing a key stretch.
"The first month is really important because it's the time to perfect everything you are going to do in the season, without the games going on," Brockman said. "And the conditioning is going to be hard this time of year, because conditioning is a big part of what we do."
Yet it's not as if Romar will be cobbling together an intramural team from the campus playgrounds to practice these first weeks.
Point guard Justin Dentmon is back following a debut season in which he started all but one game. He made some crucial mistakes -- including ones that cost his team a win at Stanford -- but also made beyond-his-years plays late in huge wins such as at home against Arizona.
Ryan Appleby returns following a transfer season in which the Stanwood, Wash., native made a team-best 42 percent of his 3-point shots and was the Pac-10 newcomer of the year while coming off the bench. He may have that role again this season.
Beyond Hawes, the freshmen include forward Quincy Pondexter, rated among the nation's top 30 recruits. Brockman calls the Fresno, Calif., native an "extraordinary athlete." Since June, the 6-foot-6 Pondexter has added 20 pounds to reach 212 -- and vaguely resemble the rugged, departed Williams, a fellow front-line force.
"Eating," the muscular Pondexter said when asked how he added the pounds.
Adrian Oliver has arrived from Modesto, Calif., to precociously declare himself as a candidate for a starting shooting guard spot.
Oliver also said he has plans of jumping over as many as three people in Friday night's dunk contest.


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A Potter County grand jury on Wednesday indicted an 18-year-old on a charge of aggravated assault, court records show.
Jabarei Tarvell Weatherton of Amarillo was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after police said he stabbed a 15-year-old relative in October.
About 9 p.m. Oct. 29, police were dispatched to a disorderly conduct call in the 2400 block of Irene Drive. A caller informed dispatchers people were yelling and running down the street, authorities said. Dispatchers received another call for an ambulance in the same location, police said.
Witnesses told police a fight had occurred at 2402 Irene Drive. Police said officers approached the home, which had no cars in the driveway even though the porch light and several lights in the house were on.
Officers spotted a large amount of blood in the driveway and knocked on the door, but no one answered, police said. Officers then entered the home to look for possible victims or suspects, but no one was there, authorities said.
Police learned the victim was transported to the hospital by a private vehicle. Department spokesman Cpl. Jerry Neufeld said the 15-year-old suffered multiple stab wounds to the neck, chest and arms, but was released from the hospital after a couple of days.
Police spotted more blood in the home and the yard and found a pocket knife next to the pool of blood in the yard, officials said.
Police issued a warrant for Weatherton's arrest in mid-November, and he turned himself in on Nov. 14.
He was booked into the Potter County jail with a $10,000 bond, but bailed out on Nov. 23, jail records show.


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Thor the Bassis
A bit off topic but how cool would this be as a RPG internet world. Redevelop it with a load of planet worlds and have something like world of warcraft. You customize your character and then play a role like smuggler or a stormtrooper working for the imperials. Played on Xbox360.
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i agree with Rolo58
This group seems to be going nowhere.
I want support, stories and just general friends that experience this disease to contribute some thoughts.
I first discovered my vitiligo on my knees after falling and being tripped by my brothers. When the scabs finally cleared the pigment was gone.
What is your story what makes you happy, do your children have it how does you other react to it?
Lets talk
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i had a white spot on the top of my thumb that never went away, i showed my dr. he asked if i ever had blood work done for thyroid , i told him that i had not, we did the test and it was off he charts for hypothyroid, dr. said sometimes it manifests itself through the skin and boy did it ever, being on medication for thyroid didn't help repigment , i became totally depigmented naturally ,and now am starting to repigment , and i don't know why ,
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i also have thyroid problems - it and viitigo are strongly linked. So is intolerance to gluten
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My son had a scab on his knee and when it fell off the pigment was gone. We didn't think too much about it until a few months later when the white area seemed larger. A year later and it has to a number of areas on his body. It is hard to find information about it and other people with the condition. I started a fb page trying to find other people with the same condition. Hopefully, that will become a support outlet.
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so far no suport from any one . I first started this I sent out a message this was back in aug. still no reply or feed back.
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I was diagnosed 14 years ago at the age of 11. Another kid noticed a white patch on my back. Every doctor I've seen in the last 14 years has dismissed my vitiligo as irrelevant and so I've never seen any kind of specialist.
I've very recently found out it could be related to a number of other problems I have. Does anyone else have any related problems?
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Think a facebook page on this is a great idea.
An other good link and is free to join is
Vitiligosupport.org. I get a yearly news letter from then and it is amazing how many people have this.
I was laying in be this morning looking at my knees and thinking about my grandson. Hopping he never gets this and praying some cure is found.
I know it sounds selfish as there are so many other disease out there that need cures, but why not help this one too?
Iynz, mine also started on my knee when i had scabbed it from many falls.
Girllunder, check out the vitiligo support, they have much research on what vitiligo is related too.
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all my ancestor and my families did not have Vitiligo ,the cause of my Vitiligo seems have some relationship with the mood , i was t
oo depressed befote I got it .
There is a very good forun ,a website created by Vitiligo patients in 2and runs very well now .
All the people there shaing their stories ,helping people get out of the Vitiligo's shadow ,and held activities at different cities spontaneously by the menbers there ,just like a big family .
But it is Chine forum ,all things written in Chinese ,so it will be a little difficult for your foreigners .
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The forum :http://www.bbsls.net
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Teachers need ICT training
By Harriet Ayugi,
Posted Saturday, June 14 2014 at 01:00
Posted Saturday, June 14 2014 at 01:00
I went to some schools where "digital hubs" are set up by the British Council under the "Badiliko" project as one of the ways to promote ICT in government-aided schools. Thanks to the concerned parties for creating such an amazing ICT platform! However, my concern is, some of these computer laboratories are redundant or underutilised because some of the teachers are computer illiterate. I appeal to the government to train all the teachers. That way, it will be much easier to adopt e-learning methods in schools.


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The Latest Release of Oracle's Primavera Unifier Improves Project Lifecycle Management in Four Important Ways
By Sylvie MacKenzie, Director, Marketing-Oracle on Aug 12, 2014
The latest version of Oracle's Primavera Unifier
offers a wide range of enhancements that improve project lifecycle
management for capital planning, project delivery, cost control, and
other areas.
The new release consolidates three previous standalone products— Primavera Project Delivery Management, Primavera Cost Controls, and Primavera Capital Planning—into a single application, Primavera Unifier Project Controls.
A new on-demand webcast featuring Ray McEntee, Oracle's senior principal product manager, explores what's new in Oracle's Primavera Unifier.
Highlights include four key enhancements.
- Support for additional browsers. Earlier releases worked only with Microsoft Internet Explorer. The latest version supports Explorer as well as Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome.
- Improved navigation tools. New top and left navigation capabilities reduce the number of clicks required to navigate within the product. In addition, a new function helps users quickly locate projects using search rather than moving through a menu hierarchy to find the desired destination. Users can now also customize their experience and retain tabs to use again in subsequent sessions—in earlier releases, only company administrators could configure the display and sequence of tabs, and the number of tabs displayed was limited to six. The new tabs model allows users to move directly to frequently visited locations, such as home, company workspace, or individual projects. The new model also supports an unlimited number of tabs and multiple tabs for a single location, which makes it easy to navigate in different areas within a location.
- New mobile capabilities. In the latest release, users can utilize their smartphones and tablets to attach photos to business process records, such as requests for information and punch list tasks required to fulfill project obligations. Photos are often needed to augment text descriptions in order to clearly describe requirements or issue areas.
- Additional improvements. Other new capabilities in the solution include the ability to display cash flow in two scales, incremental and cumulative results.
View the on-demand webcast " Discover What's New in Oracle's Primavera Unifier 10.0" and see a variety of other resources devoted to the solution.


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It's a waggin' good time for Santa Claus and all his furry, four-legged friends when First Colony Mall hosts St. Nick's Pet Pics. On three Mondays during the holiday season, pet owners are invited to bring cats and dogs for a visit with Santa Claus and capture a holiday-hugging photograph with Old St. Nick.
St. Nick's Pet Pics will be held from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. on the following Mondays:
November 29,
December 6 and
December 13.
The Workshop elves even have some cute accessories to get Santa's animal friends into the spirit of the holidays. Photo packages start at $20.00.
Cats and dogs on a leash or in an appropriate carrier only, please. Animals, other than those servicing the disabled, are not allowed in the shopping centers other than during St. Nick's Pet Pics. Pet owners are asked to use the entrance between Macy's and Pottery Barn, located on The Courtyard side of the shopping center.
For gift ideas, party themes, stress-free shopping tips and more holiday fun, visit www.merriershopping.com <http://www.merriershopping.com> . First Colony Mall is in Sugar Land at U.S. 59 south and Texas 6. For more information, call 281.265.6123 or visit www.firstcolonymall.com <http://www.firstcolonymall.com> .


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Volume 117, Issue 1, 01 July 2002
- Theoretical Methods and Algorithms
A second-order, quadratically convergent multiconfigurational self-consistent field polarizable continuum model for equilibrium and nonequilibrium solvation117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1480871View Description Hide Description
We present a new implementation of the polarizable continuum model (PCM) at the multiconfigurational self-consistent field (MCSCF) level. This new MCSCF-PCM implementation is based on a second-order algorithm for the optimization of the wave function of the solvated molecule. The robust convergence properties of this approach allows for fast convergence of the PCM-MCSCF wave function for large MCSCF expansions as well as for excited states of solvated molecules. Our implementation also enables us to treat nonequilibrium solvation—that is, to treat excited molecular states generated in a fast excitation process such that not all degrees of freedom of the solvent have relaxed. To demonstrate the applicability of the approach we present calculations of solvation effects on 1,3-dipolar systems and on the ground and excited states of methylenecyclopropene.
Bessel discrete variable representation bases117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1481388View Description Hide Description
Discrete variable representation (DVR) basis sets on the radial half-line, based on Bessel functions, are presented. These are Hankel transforms of the eigenfunctions of the particle in a spherical box in space, but there is no box or bound on the radial variable The grid points extend to infinity on the axis. The DVR functions are exactly orthonormal and exactly satisfy the interpolation properties usually associated with DVR functions. The exact matrix elements of the kinetic energy are computed, and the use of the Bessel DVR functions in radial eigenvalue problems is illustrated. The phase space or semiclassical interpretation of the Bessel DVR functions is presented, and variations on these functions, corresponding to alternative boundary conditions in space, are discussed. An interesting feature of Bessel DVR functions is that they are based on a finite basis representation that is continuously infinite.
An Airy discrete variable representation basis117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1481389View Description Hide Description
A new discrete variable representation (DVR) basis is presented, one that is based on Airy functions. That is, the functions of the "finite basis representation" (actually infinite in this case) are energy eigenfunctions in a constant force field. The exact matrix elements of the kinetic energy are computed. The use of the Airy DVR functions in diagonalizing a one-dimensional Hamiltonian is illustrated.
New developments in the polarizable continuum model for quantum mechanical and classical calculations on molecules in solution117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1480445View Description Hide Description
The polarizable continuum model (PCM), used for the calculation of molecular energies, structures, and properties in liquid solution has been deeply revised, in order to extend its range of applications and to improve its accuracy. The main changes effect the definition of solute cavities, of solvation charges and of the PCM operator added to the molecular Hamiltonian, as well as the calculation of energy gradients, to be used in geometry optimizations. The procedure can be equally applied to quantum mechanical and to classical calculations; as shown also with a number of numerical tests, this PCM formulation is very efficient and reliable. It can also be applied to very large solutes, since all the bottlenecks have been eliminated to obtain a procedure whose time and memory requirements scale linearly with solute size. The present procedure can be used to compute solvent effects at a number of different levels of theory on almost all the chemical systems which can be studied in vacuo.
On the oscillator strength sums of atoms and ions117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1481758View Description Hide Description
Using rigorous relations discovered recently, the Hartree–Fock limit values of the dipole oscillator strength sums and are obtained for the 102 neutral atoms He through Lr, singly charged 53 cations through and 43 stable anions through in their experimental ground states. The present results for the ionic species are the first compilation of the sums. For heavy neutral atoms, the literature values are found to be insufficiently accurate.
Tetrahedrally invariant discrete variable representation basis on the sphere117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1482697View Description Hide Description
This paper explores the difficulties of constructing multidimensional discrete variable representation (DVR) basis sets and the strategies that can be used to overcome them. A parameter count shows that the conditions on a DVR basis set cannot be satisfied on most spaces of wave functions. One-dimensional, orthogonal polynomials are an exception, but the on the sphere only go 3/4 of the way, in a certain sense, toward supplying enough parameters to satisfy the DVR conditions. It is shown that DVR sets involving rotationally invariant subspaces of wave functions on the sphere (consisting of complete subshells only) exist only for small values of the angular momentum cutoff. However, an exploration of DVR sets invariant under subgroups of the full rotation group leads to the discovery of a 12-point DVR set that is invariant under the tetrahedral group, whose grid points are the vertices of an icosahedron.
Variational density matrix functional theory calculations with the lowest-order Yasuda functional117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1481384View Description Hide Description
Fully variational density matrix functionaltheory calculations reveal a critical flaw in the Yasuda functional derived from the contracted Schrödinger equation and the lowest-order cumulant expansions of the reduced density matrices. Although it yields finite energies in conjunction with finite basis sets, it appears to be unbound from below even for one of the simplest two-electron systems, namely, the helium atom at the s limit, once a complete basis set is employed. This observation casts serious doubts upon its practical usefulness in electronic structure calculations.
Correlation in time-dependent density-functional theory117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1479349View Description Hide Description
The exact time-dependent correlation energy in time-dependent density-functional theory is shown to sometimes become positive, which is impossible with most present TDDFT approximations. Both the correlation potential and energy can be strongly nonlocal in time. A new inequality is derived for the time-dependent exchange-correlation energy. The correlation energy appears to scale to a constant function of scaled time in the high-density limit. In the linear response regime, the correlation energy is shown to become purely adiabatic, but the correlation potential is generally nonadiabatic. The usefulness of the virial theorem as a test of numerical accuracy is demonstrated. All results are found or inspired by exact numerical solution of a simple model system (Hooke's atom), and inversion of the corresponding Kohn–Sham equations.
- Gas Phase Dynamics and Structure: Spectroscopy, Molecular Interactions, Scattering, and Photochemistry
Theoretical and experimental studies of the structures of 12-, 13-, and 14-atom bimetallic nickel/aluminum clusters117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1481386View Description Hide Description
The structures of clusters of all compositions with 13, and 14 are studied both experimentally and theoretically. Experimental reactions of the clusters with are used to determine the number of Ni atoms residing in the cluster surfaces. In agreement with the theoretical predictions, the saturation levels are consistent with clusters having icosahedral and icosahedral-based structures. The various adsorption channels seen in the experiment are explained in terms of the computed composition-dependent patterns of the configurational energies of the different structural forms.
Locating the Al atom in clusters117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1481387View Description Hide Description
Reactions of with clusters, are used to determine the location of the Al atom within the cluster framework. saturation levels are consistent with cluster structures in which one surface atom of the corresponding cluster is replaced with an Al atom. For and 17–19 it is possible to precisely locate the Al atom within the surface. In general, its placement maximizes the number of Ni–Al bonds for a surface Al atom.
Stereodynamics and control effects in the ultraviolet photolysis of Ar–HBr117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1480866View Description Hide Description
The ultraviolet photolysis of the Ar–HBr cluster is studied by means of quasiclassical trajectory simulations. The goal is to investigate the effect of the initial distribution of intracluster orientations on the photolysis process. Cluster photolysis is simulated starting from two different initial states of namely the ground and the first excited van der Waals states corresponding to the Ar–H–Br and Ar–Br–H isomers, respectively. These two states represent different initial situations for hydrogen dissociation, which in the first case is hindered to a large extent, and in the second case is not. The probability for the fragmentation pathway into H and Ar–Br radical fragments is found to be substantially higher (and therefore the efficiency of the total fragmentation pathway, into is lower) for the cluster initial state where H dissociation is less hindered. The effect of the angular distributions shape of the initial state is also clearly manifested in the state distributions of the different photofragments. It is concluded that selecting the initial state of the cluster on the basis of the shape of its angular distribution provides an efficient means to control the yield of the different fragmentation pathways, and the final states of their corresponding photolysis products.
The hydration structure of the lithium ion117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1480875View Description Hide Description
The hydration structure of has been studied by means of hybrid quantum-mechanical molecular mechanical molecular dynamics simulations at Hartree–Fock and density-functional level of theory. The size of the quantum-mechanical region and the form of the potential function are shown to be of crucial importance for reliable results. Radial distribution functions, coordination number distributions, and various angular distributions have been used to discuss details of the hydration structure, together with bond lengths and bond angles of the water molecules in the first hydration shell. The lithium ion is found to be mainly fourfold coordinated with some smaller amounts of fivefold coordination. The lithium–water cluster exhibits a nearly perfect tetrahedral but still very flexible structure, in which coordinated water molecules are considerably tilted away from planarity. Water molecules in the first hydration shell are shown to be considerably polarized compared to gas-phase structures.
Electronic and rotational energy transfer in collisions at ultracold temperatures117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1480004View Description Hide Description
The dynamics of scattering at ultracold temperatures is studied. It is shown that both the rotational and vibrational excitation of molecules decrease substantially the efficiency of spin–orbit relaxation in collisions. It is observed that the near-resonant electronic transition leading to rotational excitation of is of the same magnitude at high energies as the off-resonant transition in which the rotational angular momentum of is preserved but becomes dominant in ultracold collisions. The zero temperature rate constant for spin-orbit relaxation of F is computed and suggestions are made as to the chemical reactivity of atoms at ultracold temperatures. It is found that rotational relaxation of excited molecules is significantly enhanced by electronic transitions in F atoms and the electronic relaxation in collisions is suppressed by rotational relaxation of
Dissociation dynamics of gauche and anti conformations of 1-iodopropane ions prepared selectively by vacuum–ultraviolet mass-analyzed threshold ionization spectrometry: Photodissociation at 426 and 355 nm117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1480006View Description Hide Description
Mass-analyzed threshold ionization with coherent vacuum ultraviolet radiation was used to generate the gauche, or alternatively anti, ion beam of 1-iodopropane ion. Conformation-selectivephotodissociation of these ion beams was studied at 426 and 355 nm which correspond to excitation to the second and third electronic states appearing in the photoelectron spectrum, respectively, and compared with dissociation in the first excited state reported previously. Conformation-specificity was not observed at 426 and 355 nm unlike the dissociation in the first excited state. Plausible mechanisms for dissociations from the excited electronic states are discussed based on the presence/absence of conformation-specificity,dissociation anisotropy, and kinetic energy release.
Guided ion beam studies of the reaction of with Nickel cluster-deuteride bond energies117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1481855View Description Hide Description
The kinetic-energy dependences of the reactions of with are studied in a guided ion beam tandem mass spectrometer. The products observed are for all clusters and for Reactions for formation of are observed to exhibit thresholds, whereas cross sections for formation of exhibit no obvious barriers to reaction.Rate constants of chemisorption on the cationic clusters are compared with results from previous work on neutral nickel clusters. bond energies as a function of cluster size are derived from threshold analysis of the kinetic-energy dependence of the endothermic reactions, and are compared to previously determined metal–metal bond energies, The bond energies of generally increase as the cluster size increases, and parallel those for for many clusters. These trends are explained in terms of electronic and geometricstructures for the clusters. The bond energies of for larger clusters are found to be close to the value for chemsorption of atomic hydrogen on bulk phase nickel.
High-spin electronic interaction of small lithium and sodium cluster formation in the excited states117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1480869View Description Hide Description
We have carried out the MRCI ab initio calculations for small lithium and sodium clusters, and elucidate the interaction between atoms in various high-spin electronic states, in terms of the quantum mechanical energy densities based on the regional density functional theory [Tachibana, J. Chem. Phys. 115, 3497 (2001)]. When the separated two electronic drop regions, where the electronic kinetic-energy density is positive, connect to each other, it is observed that ratios of occupation on configurations change rapidly in the molecule. These results are considered as one of the evidences that valence electrons can move around both two Li atoms freely in the meaning of classical mechanics. The shape of electronic drop region depends strongly on the electronic state and represents the characteristics of interaction clearly, and the electronic tension density also gives new images of microscopic electronic stresses. Furthermore, we have clarified the most stable structures of and for the high-spin electronic state, which are respectively different from the most stable structures for the low-spin electronic state. The stabilization energy due to taking in a Li atom is raised gradually as the number of atoms in cluster increases in the initial stage of cluster propagation. The formation energies of and clusters are much smaller than that of the corresponding lithium clusters.
Photodissociation dynamics of cyclopropane at 157 nm117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1481390View Description Hide Description
Photodissociationdynamics of cyclopropane at 157 nm has been investigated using a new molecular beam apparatus based on vacuum ultraviolet ionization by synchrotron radiation. Four distinct dissociation pathways have been observed. The observed channels are the H formation process, the formation process, the formation process, and the formation process. Experimental results indicate that the H atom products are possibly produced via a synchronous, concerted 2H elimination process, while other channels are all binary dissociation processes. Product kinetic energy distribution of each dissociation channel has been determined from simulating the experimental time of flight spectra. Relative branching ratios for all observed dissociation channels were also estimated based on all detected products.
Absolute cross sections for electron impact ionization of117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1480867View Description Hide Description
Absolute partial cross sections for electron impact ionization of nitrogen dioxide are determined using Fourier-transform mass spectrometry in the energy range from threshold to 200 eV. Data are presented for the production of the major ionic species, and Ion intensity dependence on the trapping potential is studied for the purpose of probing the kinetic energy of the product ions from the electron impact ionization. and are found to have significant kinetically excited ion populations. The cross-section data are corrected for loss of energetic species from the trap and the results are compared with previous data.
Resonance and reversibility of vibrational relaxation of HF in high temperature Ar bath gas117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1482373View Description Hide Description
The Boltzmann averaged rate constants for total vibrational relaxation of in collisions with Ar are computed in the range of temperatures between 100 and 1500 K. The computed rate constants overestimate the experimental measurements at high temperatures by a large factor. It is concluded that the deviation between theory and experiment cannot be explained by inaccuracy of the PES or dynamical approximations made. It is shown that increasing initial rotational energy enhances a resonant character of the vibrational energy transfer to a great extent. An assumption is made that total vibrational relaxation of at high temperatures is determined by competition between vibrational relaxation to a resonant level vibrational excitation from the resonant level, and purely rotational relaxation of It is demonstrated that at high temperatures the latter process can be significantly slower than vibrationally inelastic transitions and rotational relaxation of may in fact be a rate-limiting stage of vibrational relaxation.
Time-dependent quantum wave packet study of reaction117(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1481385View Description Hide Description
Time-dependent quantum wavepacket calculations for the H+HCN reaction are carried out on the ab initiopotential energy surface of ter Horst et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 105, 558 (1996)]. The dynamics calculations are performed using both the semirigid vibrating rotor target (SVRT) model [J. Chem. Phys. 111, 3929 (1999)] as well as the pseudo atom–diatom model. Total reaction probabilities from the initial ground state of the reagent are calculated for various values of the total angular momentum quantum number J. Reaction cross sections and rate constants are also calculated. The dynamical result from the SVRT calculation is compared with that from a pseudo atom–diatom calculation in which the HCN is treated as a pseudo diatom. Both the SVRT and pseudo atom–diatom calculations involve three degrees of freedom for the H+HCN reaction due to linearity of the HCN molecule at both reactant and transition states. The results from these two calculations are generally close to each other with some difference at high collision energies. The two models for the current system are essentially the same except that the rotational constant used is different. In particular, the SVRT model uses the correct rotational constant for the linear HCN molecule while the pseudo atom–diatom model produces a rotational constant which is much larger than the correct one.


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Henry Petroski will be the Plenary Speaker at the opening session of the Covered Bridge Preservation: National Best Practices Conference held June 5-7, 2003 at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt. Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. He has written on many aspects of engineering and technology, including design, success and failure, error and judgment, the history of engineering and technology, and the use of case studies in education and practice. His books on these subjects, which are intended for professional engineers and general readers alike, include: To Engineer Is Human, which was adapted for a BBC-television documentary; The Pencil; The Evolution of Useful Things; Design Paradigms, which was named by the Association of American Publishers as the best general engineering book published in 1994; Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America - Engineers of Dreams; Invention by Design; Remaking the World; and The Book on the Bookshelf.
In addition to having published the usual technical articles in the refereed journals of his field, Petroski has published numerous articles and essays in newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsday and Scientific American. Since 1991 he has been writing the "Engineering" column in American Scientist, and since 2000 has been writing a bimonthly column on the engineering profession for ASEE Prism. He also lectures regularly to both technical and general audiences, in the U.S. and abroad, and has been interviewed frequently on radio and television. In addition to appearances on NPR's All Things Considered and other public radio shows, he has been a guest on television shows like CNN's Talk Back Live and NBC's Today.
Before moving to Duke in 1980, Henry Petroski was on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin and on the staff of Argonne National Laboratory. He is a professional engineer licensed in Texas and a chartered engineer registered in Ireland. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, and a Fellow of the National Humanities Center. Among his other honors are the Ralph Coats Roe Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Civil Engineering History and Heritage Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers, honorary doctoral degrees from Clarkson University, Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.), and Valparaiso University, and distinguished engineering alumnus awards from Manhattan College and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (whose History and Heritage Committee he chairs), a fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland, an honorary member of the Moles, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
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Reader's theater is an excellent way to build comprehension and fluency because it gives students an authentic reason to read and reread text. But with so many concepts to cover, how can teachers find the time? Easy – practice reading, cover history and celebrate Black History Month with one reader's theater script.
TeachersPayTeachers has a number of scripts and some free resources for February's Black History Month. Check them out below.
The Trolley Car Case – a single civil rights trial reader's theater script about the struggle for equal access to public transportation.
Seven Civil Right's Trials in reader's theater format. Choose one for an easy to produce parent night production.
Covers the Post-Civil War period emphasizing W.E.B. DuBois, Ida Wells and Booker T. Washington.
ABC Order and Make-a-Word printables featuring African American Heroes. Students also practice handwriting on answer blanks with handwriting lines.
Check out previous articles featuring more resources for Black History Month, African American Scientists and free reader's theater scripts.


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Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology
Chapter 9 - Nervous System
1. What is the difference between the Central Nervous System (CNS) & the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)?
The brain and the spinal cord are considered to be the CNS. The nerves that branch out from the CNS and send communications back & forth with other parts of the body make up the PNS.
The PNS can
be further subdivided into the somatic nervous system and the autonomic
nervous system. The somatic system includes nerves that connect the brain
& spinal cord to receptors in the skin and skeletal muscles & is
involved in conscious activities. We can think of the autonomic nervous
system as an "automatic" system of nerves that connect the brain &
spinal cord to various organs to control unconscious activities. It includes
nerve fibers that arouse the body for stress or "fight or flight" responses
and then returns the body to a resting state. (See question 4 for more
information on the autonomic nervous system.)
2. Is there a difference between the terms "neuron" & "nerve" or can either word be used?
Yes, there is a difference between a neuron & a nerve. The term "neuron" refers to a single cell that has the ability to become "excited" & pass a nerve impulse along to a muscle, gland or another neuron. Figures 9.2, 9.3, 9.4 & 9.5 illustrate several features of neurons & other cells that support them.
The term "nerve"
actually refers to a structure made up of the fibers of many neurons.
These fibers are bundled up in connective tissue. The fibers may be carrying
impulses only toward the CNS, in which case the nerve will be a
sensory nerve. An example of a sensory nerve is the optic nerve which carries
impulses from the retina to the brain. If a nerve contains both sensory
fibers & motor fibers (impulses traveling away from the CNS),
the nerve is referred to as a mixed nerve. An example of a mixed nerve
is the sciatic nerve which serves the lower limb. Figure 9.14 in your textbook
is an illustration of the structure of a nerve.
3. What are the main parts of the brain and their general functions?
You can refer to Chapter 9 in your textbook to view drawings of the major parts of the brain & their locations from pages 236 to 243.
a. cerebrum
In humans, the cerebrum is the largest portion of the brain. It is involved in conscious motor functions, reception & analysis of sensory input, & conscious thoughts such as judgment, memory & reasoning. It is separated into a right & a left hemisphere. Each hemisphere has 5 lobes, 4 of which are named according to the skull bone they lie under: frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal. The fifth lobe of each hemisphere is called the insula ("island"), which is folded toward the inside & covered by sections of the frontal, parietal, & temporal lobes. The outer approximately 1/4 inch of the cerebrum is the cerebral cortex, which contains nerve cell bodies. Each region of the cerebrum has very specific functions. Figure 9.24 of the textbook points out the specific functions of several parts of the cerebrum.
b. diencephalon
The diencephalon includes the thalamus, hypothalamus, & epithalamus. It also includes the fibers of the optic nerve where they are part of the optic tract & optic chiasm and the mamillary bodies. Structures in this same general area are involved with the limbic system, or "emotional brain". Here's a brief description of the functions of the thalamus, hypothalamus & epithalamus:
thalamus: is a "relay" point for in-coming (sensory) impulses forwarding those responses on to the cerebral cortex for interpretation. The thalamus has been shown to be an area of general interpretation of the quality of various sensations such as pain, touch & temperature. It also seems to be tied to the anticipation of pain, etc.
hypothalamus: links to various parts of the body & maintains homeostasis by regulating body temperature, heart rate & arterial blood pressure, hunger, thirst, production of certain hormones, water balance, & other activities.
includes the pineal gland which is involved in circadian rhythms (body
activity cycles that occur about every 24 hours).
4. How is the autonomic nervous system (ANS) different from the somatic nervous system?
The motor division of the somatic nervous system (the fibers that carry impulses away from the CNS) is under voluntary control, but the autonomic nervous system operates at an unconscious level. In other words, you don't have to think about the activities the ANS needs to accomplish, they will occur automatically.
The ANS has 2 subdivisions. The sympathetic division prepares the body for what generally might be thought of as stress situations where energy may need to be expended for survival or emergency situations, although they may not be as extremely dire as this implies. The parasympathetic division restores the body to a more relaxed condition. Each division has a specific inhibitory or stimulating effect on the organ it innervates.
The somatic nervous system usually has just one motor neuron in a pathway from the brain or spinal cord to a skeletal muscle. The autonomic nervous system will have 2 neurons in a given pathway. (See figure 9.32 in the textbook.) These 2 neurons are referred to as the preganglionic neuron & the postganglionic neuron. The ganglion of a sympathetic fiber will be located close to the spinal cord. The ganglion of a parasympathetic fiber will be located close to the organ it will innervate & stimulate.
Another difference between the ANS & the somatic nervous system is the location of the nerve cell bodies of each of the 2 divisions. The primary somatic motor area is located in the precentral gyrus of the cerebrum. The 2 subdivisions of the ANS are located ôlowerö in the central nervous system:
Sympathetic division: neuron cell bodies are located in the gray matter of the thoracic & lumbar regions of the spinal cord.
Parasympathetic division: neuron cell bodies are located in the brain stem and in the sacral region of the spinal cord.
Figures 9.33 and 9.34 show the locations of preganglionic & postganglionic fibers of the sympathic and parasympathetic divisions and the organs they innervate.
Another difference between the somatic motor nervous system & the ANS is the neurotransmitter substances they use. The individual voluntary motor neurons of the somatic nervous system release the neurotransmitter acetylcholine at neuromuscular junctions to simulate skeletal muscles. The 2 neurons found in an ANS pathway however may differ from this pattern:
Sympathetic division: the preganglionic fiber releases ACh, but the postganglionic fiber releases NE (norepinephrine).
division: the preganglionic fiber AND the postganglionic fibers both release
ACh, as was seen in the somatic motor system. (See figure 9.35)


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