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Welcome to a special edition of Search the Scriptures Daily, a radio ministry of The Berean Call featuring Dave Hunt and T. A. McMahon. I'm Gary Carmichael, we're glad you could tune in. Coming up in this week's program in our Understanding the Scriptures segment, Dave and Tom will continue their in-depth study of the Doctrine of Salvation, and, "Should the Serpent Be Cursed or Worshiped?" In Religion in the News: "Crossing Over with John Edwards." We'll take a look at that story and examine the question: "Did Jesus Arise on the Eighth Day?" We hope you can stay tuned. Our ministry, The Berean Call, offers a wide variety of teaching materials, including books, tracts, audio and video disks, and copies of our weekly broadcast on compact disk. You may also subscribe to our monthly newsletter, which we offer free of charge. We'll let you know how to order later in the program. Now, this week's Cover Article. We continue our revisit to our 2000 radio series based on Dave Hunt's book, An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith . Today we focus on the question, Is Bible Prophecy Accurate? Along with Dave Hunt, here's Tom McMahon:
Thanks Gary . In our ongoing discussion of Dave Hunt's book An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith , we've been addressing just what the title states: a serious faith. And serious faith has content; it is neither wishful thinking nor a baseless hope, but rather a trust that is formed because of factual evidence, because of solid reasons that would motivate us to regard the object of our faith as trustworthy. And of course serious faith can only be placed in God who alone is completely trustworthy. So how do we go about attaining a serious faith in God? Well the way we highly recommend is to go straight to the Bible which is unequivocal in claiming that it is the written Word of God and examine it to see if its claims hold up. The Bible declares itself to be God's specific revelation to mankind about himself, about His creation, about how things began, where they are going—things we couldn't figure out without His insights. In previous programs we've discussed how the Bible is and must be absolutely accurate in all that it addresses and we gave examples with regard to history, archeology, and to other areas. If the Bible is truly the word of the all-knowing, all powerful Creator, then you would have every right to expect that the Bible reflect God's supernatural qualities and perfect accuracy is just one of them. However no supernatural aspect of the Bible is more obvious than fulfilled prophecy which is the primary subject for this program. Dave, I want to start off with some verse from the prophet Isaiah. These verses make it as clear as it can be that God is using prophecy to demonstrate that He alone is God. So jump in when you feel you want to make a comment on this. Isaiah 41 starting with verse 22: "Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; for declare us things for to come. 23) Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods…."
Yes, well God is saying that if you believe in a lot of gods, you know you've got some gods—well let's have them tell us what's going to happen before it happens. In Isaiah 48 for example, verse 5, flip over there real fast. He says, "I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them." God says look I told you what's going to happen, I'm not going to let you give credit to your phony gods, your graven images and so forth, and I am telling you what's going to happen before it happens. In the very next chapter there Tom—and this is so powerful, so tremendous because prophecy is unique to the Bible. It's not in the Bhagavad-Gita, the Qur'an—Joseph Smith did a little prophesying and missed every time; Benny Hinn has tried it and (sorry, I don't want to offend any of his followers out there) but we can document you false prophecy after false prophecy after false prophecy by Benny Hinn. For example he said that the homosexual community—that God would destroy it by fire by '93 or '94 at the latest. Benny said there wouldn't be a place in America in the mid '90s that would be safe from earthquakes, I mean I could go on and on, so God says that one of the marks of a false prophet, Deuteronomy 18, when they say something in the name of the Lord and it doesn't come to pass that is the very thing that I didn't say God says because He doesn't make any mistakes, so in Isaiah:42:9 He says, "Behold, the former things are come to pass, (that is the things He has already told you about) and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them." I think you had in mind going over to Isaiah 46.
Well 45:21 as well. "Tell ye and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have I not told the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside me." I mean this is the mark of God and He presents it as a challenge.
Over and over He says this is the proof that He is God. Isaiah:46:9-10: "Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, 10) Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:…" Of course Tom it raises a lot of other questions which I don't know what you have planned for this program, but probably—
I plan to follow you where ever you go Dave.
No, no I am following you where ever YOU go—
Were in trouble!!
But it does raise questions, does man have any choice? I mean if God can tell you what's going to happen before it happens—or is God outside of time? He's not part of time. We don't even know what time is. Einstein tried to tell us a few things about time but we don't really know what time is. It seems to be part of this functioning universe that we have and it is essential if you are going to have movement, you've got to have some means of measuring it and so forth. But the Bible doesn't really explain what time is. But maybe God is outside of time, I don't know. But He is the only one who can do this. Maybe He can just observe it before it happens. I don't believe that it means that if God tells me ahead of time
what's going to happen He makes me do that. In other words, Tom I can play that game a little bit in my feeble way. I know that when this program is done sometime you're going to walk out that door.
Well Gary our producer/engineer, he knows about time. He tells us about time—but that's a different thing.
Yes, so the fact that I know you're going to walk out that door doesn't mean that I have determined that you're going to walk out that door. But anyway from God's standpoint, however He does it, He knows what is going to happen before it happens. And that is the mark that He says proves that He is God! And now He challenges anybody else to do it, you false Gods, okay. I think that's a great start to the program here Tom.
Well the program—
Where are you going to take us now?
Well I want to back up just a little bit. The program for our listeners, maybe if for the first time, the heart of the program is to encourage people to read God's Word.
Amen. And the proof that it is God's Word is just what we are talking about.
That's exactly what we are about.
You will not find these prophecies anywhere else. And Tom I often say it—these are not cheap psychic predictions, these are actually—God has foretold the events that have shaped history. And they have been observed by historians, we are observing them today, you cannot deny that this is God's Word. These are the events that have made history, foretold in advance and there it is laid out in the Bible and no where else.
And that is why, I hate to say that we exude confidence, but we are confident. We have read the book and we encourage people not to follow Dave Hunt or T.A. McMahon, but to at least take our encouragement to read the book [and] check it out for yourself and see if— It's almost as if what we say about the book doesn't do service to it. You've got to do it yourself. God himself will help you to understand the things that we are talking about.
This is our standard Tom. This is the guide post, this is our anchor, [and] this is everything. We go by the Bible. Now that doesn't mean that my interpretation is better than somebody else's. We must each examine it for ourselves. I think generally we should agree on the interpretation. There are some things hard to be understood the Bible says, but in the final analysis when we each stand before the Lord we can't say well I took that interpretation because that's what my concordance said or that's what my commentary said, or that's what T.A. McMahon said, you know, or Dave Hunt or Billy Graham or the Pope or anybody. Each one of us is morally accountable to God to understand the Word of God for ourselves. It's the only way it can be. For God to speak to me He's got to speak to me and if He can only do it through someone else who must then interpret what God says, I am not in touch with God at all and now I have to rely on someone else—no, God has given us His Word. He has given proof, He has given us evidence and now we go to the Word itself and that's all we're trying to do is search the scriptures daily.
Right and the best that we can do is just to keep pointing and urging people to go there. This is the work of the Holy Spirit. If you know Christ, if you are a believer, a true believer in God He will demonstrate through helping you to understand—He'll demonstrate that. Well Dave in previous programs we've talked about the accuracy of the Bible from a scientific standpoint in those areas where it just touches upon science in terms of history, archeology, certainly logic, but now I think we're at the big enchilada here which is prophecy. Now we've talked about these scriptures in which God declares that He alone is the God of prophecy. Now let's give them some examples, specific scriptures that deal with things to come. Things that is, historically. Things that have been—
Yes, well we've given a lot of examples, I can't remember what we've talked about, but I like some of the more obscure ones to begin with, but I also, [and] if we have time we need to come to Jerusalem because this is big in the news right now. Exodus:12:14, God says that the Jews will keep the Passover forever. Do they keep it today? They do, most of them—30% of the Israelis claim to be atheists, the rest of them are New Agers, there are very few orthodox—very few who even believe in God, who even believe in the Bible and yet they keep the Passover. I think 99.something percent in Jerusalem kept the last Passover, 96.4% down in Tel Aviv, or whatever. Now that's amazing and you say well give me some comparisons—well, the prophets of the goddess Vesta in Rome, they said the sacred fires tended by the Vestal Virgins would never ever, ever, ever go out. They went out. The great prophets of the Zoroastrians said the sacred fires in Persia would never go out—the Muslims extinguished them in their invasion in the 7 th century. But God said you keep the Passover forever and they do, even though they don't believe. And then well maybe that's a lucky hit. Did He ever say something wouldn't happen? And we can track that—yes! Hosea:3:4-5, God says Israel will be without priesthood, without a sacrificial system, without a king, obviously then without a temple for many, many years. You mean something would prevent the temple from being rebuilt? That's amazing! And Jesus told us how long it would be. In Luke 21:24 Jesus said that Jerusalem would be destroyed again, the people will be scattered to every nation on this earth and then He said Jerusalem would be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. Did it happen? It happened! I mean UN Resolution 181 1947 when they partitioned so-called Palestine . UN Resolution 181 says Jerusalem must never be out of the control of the Jews. It must be an international city. Theodor Herzl, founder of the Zionist Movement—he records in 1904 in his diary [that] he asked Pope Pius X for help for support of the Zionist Movement. Pope Pius X said we cannot prevent the Jews from returning to Jerusalem . We will never support it and in 1919 Secretary of State Karl Gasparri said the thing that frightens us the most is the thought of the Jews returning to Jerusalem . And you know that the UN today, the European Union, this is the big thing right now. Why did the Peace Talks break down in Camp David recently? Because the argument was over Jerusalem and the holy sites and the whole world wants to have control over Jerusalem and they do not want Israel to have authority over Jerusalem . It's astonishing and the holiest part of Jerusalem , the Temple Mount is under the control of the PLO today. A Jew can't even pray up there and a Christian can't pray up there. Isn't that something? So God said—we have a book about that right out of the prophet Zechariah: "I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling, a burdensome stone around all the necks of the nations of this world." Who could have foretold that 2500 years ago that prophecy was uttered? Jerusalem had been destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar; it lay in ruins surrounded by wilderness. Today it's a little nothing place. Why didn't God say I'll make Moscow or New York or Paris ? He said Jerusalem will be the number one problem the world will face and I think everybody in the world knows that if you don't solve that problem, you've got a nuclear holocaust on your hands.
Dave I want to take our listeners all the way back.
I want to go back to Genesis because there are a lot of prophetic ministries out there that and I think an occupational hazard with that is to sort of get into speculation. But my favorite aspect of prophecy has to do with the first coming and all of the prophecies that predicted the coming of the Messiah, the Christ. Because we can look at that and say here are the prophecies, this is where the prophecies came, here's where it was fulfilled and with regard to what's going to—prophecies that haven't been fulfilled yet—hey if you're 100% so far, then you can put your confidence in the prophecies that have been given—
See the reason I mentioned Jerusalem is because it is an ongoing fulfillment of prophecy today and has been for many, many years. What would keep the Temple from being rebuilt? That's astonishing, the Jews wouldn't have a sacrificial system and so forth, but anyway let's get back to Genesis.
Well let's start with Genesis:3:15. I know we've been dealing with Genesis in the latter part of our program, but we'll keep doing that. That has to do with salvation and the gospel. But this is Genesis:3:15 where God declares that there will be conflict down through the ages with those who follow Satan, the one who helped bring about the fall of mankind, and those who would follow the Messiah, the Christ of God. And although Jesus would be bruised by Satan, meaning our Lord's suffering leading up to the cross, ultimately His death in payment for the sins of mankind would fully destroy the works of Satan. Now this—do you know of a prophecy prior to this? This is the solution to the fall.
No, this is the seed of the woman also, which is the first promise of a virgin birth. The seed of a woman would bruise the serpent's head, a deadly wound. The serpent would bruise his heel and as you know, you were a Catholic— you remember? I don't know if we've talked about it but Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal appeared to Catherine Labouré in 1830, supposedly in Paris with her heel upon the serpent's head—mint a medal—millions of Catholics still wear that medal today. I know that some of the—particularly the older Catholic Bibles didn't say the seed of the woman; it said the woman would bruise the serpent's head which is not true.
Yes, they say she instead of he correct?
Right, right but that is the first promise of a virgin born Messiah who would destroy the works of the devil.
Then as we go through the Old Testament, we find prophecy after prophecy, not only types of or examples or types of the Messiah to come, but prophecies very specific. For example, you mentioned the virgin birth, Isaiah:7:14- "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." And then we have Luke:1:34-35- "Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? 35) And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God."
Now Tom many of the seminaries today don't even believe this—a virgin birth? Come on! Part of their problem is that they approach the Bible with the idea that miracles can't happen. Wait a minute! Miracles must happen for there to be salvation. I don't know what god they believe in, but whatever god they believe in can't do miracles. Yes, a virgin birth is a miracle. A virgin birth is a sign and He must be virgin born otherwise He would be an ordinary man and an ordinary man couldn't pay for the sins of the world. He would have to pay for his own sins and Isaiah:9:6 very clearly says (and I hope that our Jewish listeners out there if we have any will just pay attention here, not to me, but to what your prophet Isaiah said). "For unto us a child is born, (now that's the babe born in Bethlehem ) unto us a son is given: (that's the Son of God, the eternal Son of God who comes and takes this body, becomes this man) and the government shall be upon his shoulder;…" (you cannot deny then this is the Messiah, because the next verse says, "…of His kingdom and peace there will be no end) but it says His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the Everlasting Father. So there is a babe who is going to be born in Bethlehem who is the eternal Son and He is the everlasting Father and when Jesus said I and my Father are one, He didn't mean one in purpose, intent and meaning and interest and so on like the cults teach—one in essence. And furthermore right where we were reading in Isaiah God says I am the only Savior, beside me there is no Savior. Now the Messiah cannot be Savior unless He is God himself. So we have to take what the Bible says and here is the prophecy that God himself would become a man and pay for the sins of the world. And only He could do it.
We've got about a minute left and I want to quote from Romans. This is Romans:1:1-3-"Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, 2) (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) 3) Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;….)
Declared to be the Son of God with power by the resurrection of the dead.
And this is what again—I probably shouldn't use the phrase this is the big enchilada, but prophecy is so important. It demonstrates so clearly that the Bible is supernatural and that God is speaking to us through it.
And Tom this is why I can say with Paul, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ because we didn't make this up. Paul didn't make it up. He said this is the gospel of God that He promised by His prophets. We can go there; we can prove that this is the truth because the prophets foretold it. The gospel, the very gospel that we preach, they foretold. Praise God! That gives you confidence!


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Byron Case and his girlfriend, Kelly Moffett, were just teenagers, in autumn of 1997, when their close friends Anastasia WitbolsFeugen and Justin Bruton, another young couple, died suddenly and brutally. The four were out as a group one evening when, as often happened, Anastasia and Justin got into a heated argument about their on-again, off-again romance. Early the next morning, Anastasia's body was found in an area cemetery by a sheriff's deputy on patrol. Her once-pretty face had been marred by a powerful pointblank gunshot. Anastasia's body was not identified for hours, but by the time it was, Justin had already taken drastic steps: his corpse was discovered two days later, behind an abandoned warehouse in a neighboring state. He'd put a shotgun in his own mouth and pulled the trigger.
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Not that it was hard to see this coming, but The Business That Is Tiger Woods is starting to lose a grip on its multinational corporate backers. In fact,
one two of them have gone down! Can you guess who?
Gillette: Gone, baby, gone. They've got enough options to put their resources behind someone else, and now, we're gonna see who's about to follow suit with PR-friendly dismissals like this:
"As Tiger takes a break from the public eye, we will support his desire for privacy by limiting his role in our marketing programs," said Gillette, a division of Procter & Gamble.
Who does he have left?
Gatorade: The bug juice empire's been there, done that, we got nothin' to do with nothin approach is fairly clever. Maybe they knew something was going on?! Conspiracy. Chances are, probably not. Noted AdAge earlier this week:
As reported last month, we decided several months ago to discontinue Gatorade Tiger Focus, along with some other products to make room for our planned series of innovative products in 2010," the company said in a statement. Now, we're all for being skeptical, especially when it comes to massive companies with products to shill and reputations to protect. But as the company points out, this is old news.
Nike: Side-by-side, the sweatshop sticks with Tiger. "Tiger has been part of Nike for more than a decade. He is the best golfer in the world and one of the greatest athletes of his era. We look forward to his return to golf. He and his family have Nike's full support."
Playing coy. Tiger has vanished from their website. "Accenture spokesman Alex Pachetti didn't return calls seeking comment." Interestingly, Accenture's stock was downgraded by a firm earlier this week. Update: Looks like that was more than enough to do the job. Accenture announced the end of their Tiger Woods sponsorship today.
"After careful consideration and analysis, the company has determined that he is no longer the right representative for its advertising," Accenture said in a statement on Sunday...Of all Mr. Woods's sponsors, Accenture has the most at stake, marketing experts have said. Mr. Woods was the centerpiece of the company's ad campaigns, which included print, cable and TV advertising in 27 countries, as well as display ads in airports.
Yeah, and considering that small fact, nobody in their right mind would take stock in a company whose prime pitch-person was making a hasty, full-on retreat from the thing that made him one in the first place. Wonder how much that stock rating helped the decision-making process?
AT&T: Trying to figure out what to do.
"We support Tiger's decision and our thoughts will be with him and his family," AT&T said in a statement. "We are presently evaluating our ongoing relationship with him."Tiger's statement yesterday will probably push them in the way of "dropped."
Tag Heuer: On ice, but following suit towards "dunzo." Tag's removed ads of Tiger from Australian stores—just as those Gillette ads started vanishing—and chalk their cooling of Woods-related press to coincidence...just like Gatorade.
EA Sports: Stickin' with Tiger, because they've got nobody better. Writes our man Owen Good at Kotaku:
EA Sports' latest guidance is this stand-by-your-man news release. It's got a major release coming up with Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online, a free-to-play browser-based product that's been in a closed beta already, with another coming up soon. And as said above, if Woods is so toxic that he can't rep a game, EA Sports would have no reasonable fallback.
Congress: Dunzo. Okay, so not technically a "corporation"—technically—or a "sponsorship," Tiger was going to be awarded a Congressional Gold Medal sponsored a California Democrat, Rep. Joe Baca. And then Baca dropped it. Ouch:
In a statement, Baca said, "In light of the recent developments surrounding Tiger Woods and his family, I will not pursue legislation awarding him the Congressional Gold Medal this session."
Where he's coming from, though, this is so clearly—as evidenced above—far less a matter of family values, and much more an issue of Tiger's potential contributions to the conglomerate brand economy. Like the many places he, uh, spread his seed, Tiger's opportunities to be one of Corporate America's perfectly functioning, healthy, and powerful performers are—uh, like his seed—drying up fast.


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Volume 131, Issue 6, 14 August 2009
We present a plane-wave basis set implementation of charge constrained density functionalmolecular dynamics (CDFT-MD) for simulation of electron transferreactions in condensed phase systems. Following the earlier work of Wu and Van Voorhis [Phys. Rev. A72, 024502 (2005)], the density functional is minimized under the constraint that the charge difference between donor and acceptor is equal to a given value. The classical ion dynamics is propagated on the Born–Oppenheimer surface of the charge constrained state. We investigate the dependence of the constrained energy and of the energy gap on the definition of the charge and present expressions for the constraint forces. The method is applied to the electron self-exchange reaction in aqueous solution. Sampling the vertical energy gap along CDFT-MD trajectories and correcting for finite size effects, a reorganization free energy of 1.6 eV is obtained. This is 0.1−0.2 eV lower than a previous estimate based on a continuum model for solvation. The smaller value for the reorganization free energy can be explained by the fact that the Ru–O distances of the divalent and trivalent Ru hexahydrates are predicted to be more similar in the electron transfer complex than for the separated aqua ions.
Propagation lengths of surface plasmon polaritons on metal films with arrays of subwavelength holes by infrared imaging spectroscopy131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3204693View Description Hide Description
Metalfilms with arrays of subwavelength holes (mesh) exhibit extraordinary transmission resonances to which many attribute a role for surface plasmonpolaritons (SPPs); others debated this point. Experimental measurements of propagation lengths are presented under conditions that pertain to the use of SPPs for surface spectroscopy. The lateral extent of electromagnetic propagation along the mesh surface is measured by recording absorption spectra of a line of latex microspheres as a function of distance away from the line along the mesh. Measurements reveal an exponential functional form for decay of absorption signal laterally from the absorption source. Results at , which are closest to the strongest transmission resonance of the mesh, reveal a propagation distance along the surface of . This is 40% larger than the lattice spacing implicating the holes as the SPP damping mechanism, however, this is significantly shorter than smooth metal expectations.
Cis-trans switchable metallosupramolecular polymers: Computer modeling131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3187937View Description Hide Description
Using computer simulations we study linear oligomers end functionalized with ligands that can form trans- or cis-2:1 complexes with metal ions in a salt-screened good solvent. We show that trans-cisisomerization of ligand-metal complexes can significantly increase the average molecular weight as well as trigger formation of reversible metallosupramolecular network based on 3:1 ligand-metal complexes acting as cross-linkers. We predict the conditions under which the most dramatic changes in the properties of metallosupramolecular polymers, such as network formation or increase in elastic plateau modulus of the network, occur upon isomerization.
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- Theoretical Methods and Algorithms
Charge constrained density functional molecular dynamics for simulation of condensed phase electron transfer reactions131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3190169View Description Hide Description
We present a plane-wave basis set implementation of charge constrained density functionalmolecular dynamics (CDFT-MD) for simulation of electron transferreactions in condensed phase systems. Following the earlier work of Wu and Van Voorhis [Phys. Rev. A72, 024502 (2005)], the density functional is minimized under the constraint that the charge difference between donor and acceptor is equal to a given value. The classical ion dynamics is propagated on the Born–Oppenheimer surface of the charge constrained state. We investigate the dependence of the constrained energy and of the energy gap on the definition of the charge and present expressions for the constraint forces. The method is applied to the electron self-exchange reaction in aqueous solution. Sampling the vertical energy gap along CDFT-MD trajectories and correcting for finite size effects, a reorganization free energy of 1.6 eV is obtained. This is 0.1−0.2 eV lower than a previous estimate based on a continuum model for solvation. The smaller value for the reorganization free energy can be explained by the fact that the Ru–O distances of the divalent and trivalent Ru hexahydrates are predicted to be more similar in the electron transfer complex than for the separated aqua ions.
Time-reversible molecular dynamics algorithms with bond constraints131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3194785View Description Hide Description
Time-reversible molecular dynamics algorithms with bond constraints are derived. The algorithms are stable with and without a thermostat and in double precision as well as in single-precision arithmetic. Time reversibility is achieved by applying a central-difference expression for the velocities in the expression for Gauss' principle of least constraint. The imposed time symmetry results in a quadratic expression for the Lagrange multiplier. For a system of complex molecules with connected constraints the corresponding set of coupled quadratic equations is easily solved by a consecutive iteration scheme. The algorithms were tested on two models. One is a dumbbell model of Toluene, the other system consists of molecules with four connected constraints forming a triangle and a branch point of constraints. The equilibrium particle distributions and the mean-square particle displacements for the dumbbell model were compared to the corresponding functions obtained by GROMACS. The agreement is perfect within statistical error.
Efficient and accurate approximations to the local coupled cluster singles doubles method using a truncated pair natural orbital basis131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3173827View Description Hide Description
A production level implementation of the closed-shell local quadratic configuration interaction and coupled cluster methods with single and double excitations (QCISD and CCSD) based on the concept of pair natural orbitals [local pair natural orbital LPNO-QCISD and LPNO-CCSD) is reported, evaluated, and discussed. This work is an extension of the earlier developed LPNO coupled-electron pair approximation (LNPO-CEPA) method [F. Neese et al., Chem. Phys.130, 114108 (2009)] and makes extended use of the resolution of the identity (RI) or density fitting (DF) approximation. Two variants of each method are compared. The less accurate approximations still recover 98.7%–99.3% of the correlation energy in the given basis and have modest disk space requirements. The more accurate variants typically recover 99.75%–99.95% of the correlation energy in the given basis but require the Coulomb and exchange operators with up to two-external indices to be stored on disk. Both variants have comparable computational efficiency. The convergence of the results with respect to the natural orbital truncation parameter has been studied. Extended numerical tests have been performed on absolute and relative correlation energies as function of basis set size and as well as on reaction energies, isomerization energies, and weak intermolecular interactions. The results indicate that the errors of the LPNO methods compared to the canonical QCISD and CCSD methods are below 1 kcal/mol with our default thresholds. Finally, some calculations on larger molecules are reported (ranging from 40–86 atoms) and it is shown that for medium sized molecules the total wall clock time required to complete the LPNO-CCSD calculations is only two to four times that of the preceding self-consistent field (SCF). Thus these methods are highly suitable for large-scale computational chemistry applications. Since there are only three thresholds involved that have been given conservative default values, the methods can be confidentially used in a "black-box" fashion in the same way as their canonical counterparts.
Construction of basis sets for time-dependent studies131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3202442View Description Hide Description
The common basis sets constructed for use in electronic structure calculations have been found inadequate for the representation of electrons participating in nonadiabatic time-dependent dynamics calculations. In this paper we outline an approach to construct electronic bases better suited for dynamical processes such as energy deposition and charge transfer in binary collisions of ions, atoms, and molecules. Since electrons of many-atom systems commonly are represented by orbitals formed as linear combinations of atomic orbitals, the focus is on atomic basis sets. The main idea is to construct basis sets that adequately reproduce the first few excitation energies of neutral atoms. In this paper we outline a method for such basis set construction of various levels of accuracy for first-row atoms and give a few illustrative examples.
Full-configuration-interaction calculation of three-body nonadditive contribution to helium interaction potential131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3204319View Description Hide Description
The three-body nonadditive interactionenergy between helium atoms was calculated at 253 trimer configurations using the full-configuration-interaction (FCI) method. The analytic potential fitted to these energies is the best current representation of the three-body nonadditive interactions between helium atoms. At the equilateral triangle configuration with , near the minimum of the total potential, the nonadditive three-body energy calculated at the FCI level amounts to −88.5 mK, compared to −98.5 mK at the coupled cluster with single, double, and noniterative triple excitations [CCSD(T)] level. The uncertainty of the former result resulting from basis set incompleteness is estimated to be 1.5 mK. The relative uncertainty of our present complete three-body fit, including the uncertainties resulting from the fitting procedure, is estimated at 2%, a fivefold improvement over the previous best potential. Overall, the FCI contribution beyond CCSD(T) is rather important, being of the same order of magnitude as the uncertainty of the sum of two-body interactions. The inclusion of this contribution makes uncertainties of the total trimer interactionenergies dominated by the uncertainties of the two-body component.
Transient hydrodynamical behavior by dynamical nonequilibrium molecular dynamics: The formation of convective cells131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3174392View Description Hide Description
We present a method based on dynamical nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (D-NEMD) that allows one to produce rigorous ensemble averages for the transient regimes. We illustrate the method by describing the formation of convective cells within a two-dimensional fluid system of soft disks in which a gravity field and a thermal gradient are present. We analyze two different physical settings, with the thermal gradient orthogonal or parallel to the gravity field. In both settings, we follow the formation of the convective flows from the initial time, when the perturbation is turned on, to the steady state. In the first setting (orthogonal fields) we investigate several different cases, varying the initial stationary ensemble and the perturbing field. We find that the final steady-state convective cell is independent of the specific sequence of perturbation fields, which only affects the transient behavior. In all cases, we find that the convective roll is formed through a sequence of damped oscillations of the local fields (density, temperature, and velocity), superimposed to an overall relaxation toward the local steady-state values. Then, we show how D-NEMD can be applied to the Rayleigh–Bénard (RB) setting (parallel fields). In these conditions, the convective flow only establishes above a threshold, without a preferred verse of rotation. We analyze only the response to the ignition of the gravity field in a stationary system under the action of a vertical thermal gradient. Also in this case we characterize the transient response by following the evolution of the density, temperature, and velocity fields until the steady-state RB convective cell is formed. The observed transients are similar to those observed in the case of orthogonal fields. However, the final steady states are quite different. Finally, we briefly discuss the conditions for the general applicability of the D-NEMD method.
On the use of shifted Jacobi polynomials in accurate evaluation of roots and weights of Rys polynomials131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3204437View Description Hide Description
In this paper it is shown that shifted Jacobi polynomials can be used in connection with the Gaussian quadrature modified moment technique to greatly enhance the accuracy of evaluation of Rys roots and weights used in Gaussian integral evaluation in quantum chemistry. A general four-term inhomogeneous recurrence relation is derived for the shifted Jacobi polynomial modified moments over the Rys weight function . It is shown that for this general four-term inhomogeneous recurrence relation reduces to a three-term -dependent inhomogeneous recurrence relation. Adjusting to proper values depending on the Rys exponential parameter , the method is capable of delivering highly accurate results for large number of roots and weights in the most difficult to treat intermediate range. Examples are shown, and detailed formulas together with practical suggestions for their efficient implementation are also provided.
Efficient exact and -skip methods for stochastic simulation of coupled chemical reactions131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3204422View Description Hide Description
Gillespie's direct method (DM) [D. Gillespie, J. Chem. Phys.81, 2340 (1977)] for exact stochastic simulation of chemical reactionsystems has been widely adopted. It is easy to implement but requires large computation for relatively large systems. Recently, two more efficient methods, next reaction method (NRM) [M. A. Gibson and J. Bruck, J. Phys. Chem. A105, 1876 (2000)] and optimized DM (ODM) [Y. Cao et al., J. Chem. Phys.121, 4059 (2004)], have been developed to improve simulation speed. It has been demonstrated that the ODM is the state-of-the-art most efficient method for exact stochastic simulation of most practical reactionsystems. In this paper, we first develop an exact stochastic simulation algorithm named ODMK that is more efficient than the ODM. We then develop an approximate method named -skip method to further accelerate simulation. Using two chemical reactionsystems, we demonstrate that our ODMK and -skip method can save 20%–30% and 70%–80% simulation time, respectively, comparing to the ODM. We also show that our ODMK and -skip method provide almost the same simulation accuracy as the ODM.
Analytic gradients for the state-specific multireference coupled cluster singles and doubles model131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3204017View Description Hide Description
The general theory of analytic energy gradients is presented for the state-specific multireference coupled cluster method introduced by Mukherjee and co-workers [Mol. Phys.94, 157 (1998)], together with an implementation within the singles and doubles approximation, restricted to two closed-shell determinants and Hartree–Fock orbitals. Expressions for the energy gradient are derived based on a Lagrangian formalism and cast in a density-matrix notation suitable for implementation in standard quantum-chemical program packages. In the present implementation, we exploit a decomposition of the multireference coupled cluster gradient expressions, i.e., lambda equations and the corresponding density matrices, into a so-called single-reference part for each reference determinant and a coupling term. Our implementation exhibits the proper scaling, i.e., with as the number of reference determinants and as the number of orbitals, and it is thus suitable for large-scale applications. The applicability of our multireference coupled cluster gradients is illustrated by computations for the equilibrium geometry of the 2,6-isomers of pyridyne and the pyridynium cation. The results are compared to those from single-reference coupled cluster calculations and are discussed with respect to the future perspectives of multireference coupled clustertheory.
Optimizing the hyperpolarizability tensor using external electromagnetic fields and nuclear placement131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3205309View Description Hide Description
We investigate the effects of an external electric and magnetic field on the first hyperpolarizability tensor of a quantum system, such as a molecule or nanoparticle, whose nonlinear response is well below the fundamental limit. We find that the intrinsic hyperpolarizability is optimized when the applied electric and magnetic fields are comparable to the internal molecular fields. Indeed, the nonlinear response is just as large for an electron in the presence of the external field without the nuclei as it is for an electron bound to a molecule and in the presence of the applied field. We find that all combinations of fields and molecular structures that optimize the largest diagonal component of the intrinsic hyperpolarizability share the same universal properties: The three-level ansatz is obeyed, the normalized transition moment to the dominant state is about 0.76, the ratio of the two dominant excited state energies is about 0.48, the electron density tends toward being one-dimensional, and the intrinsic hyperpolarizability is less than 0.71. Thus, strategies for optimizing the hyperpolarizability should focus on ways to achieve these universal properties. On the other hand, when is optimized, the three level ansatz appears to hold for a pair of degenerate states. In this case, the energy ratio between the pairs of degenerate states is 0.42 and the normalized transition moment to the pair of dominant states is 0.87. Most importantly, the intrinsic hyperpolarizability is 0.9, the largest ever calculated for a system described by a potential energy function.
- Gas Phase Dynamics and Structure: Spectroscopy, Molecular Interactions, Scattering, and Photochemistry
The Stark effect in Rydberg states of a highly polar diatomic molecule: CaF131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3179942View Description Hide Description
The Stark effect in molecular Rydberg states is qualitatively different from the Stark effect in atomic Rydberg states because of the anisotropy of the ion core and the existence of rotational and vibrational degrees of freedom. These uniquely molecular features cause the electric-field-induced decoupling of the Rydberg electron from the body frame to proceed in several stages in a molecule. Because the transitiondipole moment among the same-Rydberg states is much larger than the permanent dipole moment of the ion core, the decoupling of the Rydberg electron from the ion core proceeds gradually. In the first stage, analyzed in detail in this paper, and are mixed by the external electric field, while is conserved. In the further stages, as the external electric field increases, , , and are expected to undergo mixing. We have characterized these stages in , states of CaF. The large permanent dipole moment of makes CaF qualitatively different from the other molecules in which the Stark effect in Rydberg states has been described (, , , NO, and ) and makes it an ideal testbed for documenting the competition between the external and dipole electric fields. We use the weak-field Stark effect to gain access to the lowest- rotational levels of , , and states and to assign their actual or nominal quantum number. Lowest- rotational levels provide information needed to disentangle the short-range and long-range interactions between the Rydberg electron and the ion core. We diagonalize an effective Hamiltonian matrix to determine the -characters of the core-nonpenetrating states and to characterize their mixing with the core-penetrating states. We conclude that the mixing of the , state with lower- states is stronger than documented in our previous multichannel quantum defect theory and long-range fits to zero-field spectra.
Time-dependent quantum wave-packet description of H and D atom tunneling in N–H and N–D photodissociation of methylamine and methylamine-131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3204000View Description Hide Description
The degree to which tunneling through a barrier in the N–H and N–D photodissociation channels of methylamine and its deuterated variant , respectively, plays a role was investigated by time-dependent quantum wave-packet dynamics calculations. Two dimensional potential energy surfaces (PESs) of methylamine, presenting the N–H stretch and the HNC bend, were constructed employing multireference ab initio electronic-structure methods, allowing full description of the H motion on the plane. The time-dependent Schrödinger equation was solved employing the Fourier method for calculating the Hamiltonian operation together with the Chebychev polynomial expansion of the evolution operator. The results show that tunneling and decay to vibrational resonant states on the first excited electronic PES are faster for the H atom than for the D. The decay into two of the resonant states found on the first PES strongly depends on the initially excited vibrational state on the ground electronic PES.
A model Hamiltonian to simulate the complex photochemistry of benzene II131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3197555View Description Hide Description
The photophysics and photochemistry of benzene is a classic example of the richness of competing pathways available to a molecule after photoexcitation. Computer simulations are one way to provide a molecular picture for the dynamics behind the experimental observations. In this paper we develop a vibronic coupling Hamiltonian prepared in a previous paper [G. A. Worth, J. Photochem. Photobiol., A190, 190 (2007)]. Using CASPT2 we add dynamic correlation to the description of the excited states, improving their accuracy dramatically. Seven coupled states and all vibrational modes are included in the model and the parameters are obtained by fitting to points provided by the quantum chemistry calculations. The model is shown to be a good fit of the adiabatic surfaces and its accuracy is demonstrated by the calculation of three absorption bands, which compare favorably with the experimentally obtained spectra.
Photoelectron spectroscopy of small cluster anions131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3200941View Description Hide Description
We report the photoelectron spectra of small cluster anions . The vibrational state-resolved spectrum of permits reliable identification of the origins of the excited and states of neutral IBr through a high-quality Franck–Condon spectral simulation. As a result, we directly determine several important spectroscopic parameters: the adiabatic electron affinity (EA) of IBr, , the ground electronic state bond strength of , , its equilibrium bond length, , and its vibrational frequency, . These values represent a substantial improvement over existing experimental information and are in good agreement with recent theoretical studies. The photoelectron spectra of the first three cluster anions, , do not exhibit resolved vibrational structure, but the similarity to the photoelectron spectrum indicates minimal electron delocalization onto the solvent. The cluster anion spectra shift to progressively higher electron binding energies, providing information on the magnitude of the solvent perturbation and estimates of the EA of .
Gas phase electronic spectrum of T-shaped radical131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3186758View Description Hide Description
Gas phase electronic transitions for the and band systems of T-shaped radical have been measured in the 345–475 nm range. Vibrational analyses of both band systems are reported. Simulation of several rotationally resolved bands confirms previously obtained rotational parameters for the state. The radical is produced by ablating an aluminum rod in the presence of acetylene gas. The resulting supersonic molecular beam is probed using both mass-selective resonant two-color two-photon ionization and laser induced fluorescence.Ab initio calculations and vertical electronic excitation energies help the assignment. Vibrational frequencies for the , , and states have been determined. Rotational analysis of a number of bands yields spectroscopic constants for one vibronic state in the manifold and the origin band of the system.
A systematic search for minimum structures of small gold clusters and their electronic properties131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3204488View Description Hide Description
A systematic search for global and energetically low-lying minimum structures of neutral gold clusters is performed within a seeded genetic algorithm technique using density functional theory together with a relativistic pseudopotential. Choosing the energetically lowest lying structures we obtain electronic properties by applying a larger basis set within an energy-consistent relativistic small-core pseudopotential approach. The possibility of extrapolating these properties to the bulk limit for such small cluster sizes is discussed. In contrast to previous calculations on cesium clusters [B. Assadollahzadeh et al., Phys. Rev. B78, 245423 (2008)] we find a rather slow convergence of any of the properties toward the bulk limit. As a result, we cannot predict the onset of metallic character with increasing cluster size, and much larger clusters need to be considered to obtain any useful information about the bulk limit. Our calculated properties show a large odd-even cluster size oscillation in agreement, for example, with experimental ionization potentials and electron affinities. For the calculated polarizabilities we find a clear transition to lower values at , the first cluster size where the predicted global minimum clearly shows a compact three-dimensional (3D) structure. Hence, the measurement of cluster polarizabilities is ideal to identify the transition at low temperatures for gold. Our genetic algorithm confirms the pyramidal structure for .
and radical-molecule van der Waals complex131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3204980View Description Hide Description
OH and SH radicals are important in atmospheric chemistry because of their high reactivity. We examine the Van der Waals radical-molecule complexes formed by OH and SH radicals with molecular nitrogen. The van der Waals radical-molecule complex between OH and CO, which is isoelectronic to OH and , is also examined as a calibration of the computational results to literature experimental findings. In this work, we employ high level ab initio methods to investigate the stability and spectroscopic properties of these complexes. Natural bond analysis is also performed in order to study their bonding features.
Influence of the carrier gas molar mass on the particle formation in a vapor phase131(2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3204780View Description Hide Description
The influence of the molar mass of a carrier gas on the formation of nanoparticles in the vapor phase is investigated. The function of the carrier gas atmosphere is the regulation of the particle temperature by collisions with the cluster surface. The aim of this work is to optimize the carrier gas in a simulation in order to mimic a large amount of carrier gas atoms by few gas atoms with effective parameters. In this context the efficiency of the heat exchange with the carrier gas depending on its molar mass is analyzed. As a result one finds for varying molar masses and unchanged interaction parameters a competition between the efficiency and the number of the collisions. For too small molar masses the energy exchange per collision is too small while for too high masses the carrier gas atoms become very slow, decreasing the number of collisions.


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Academics . Community Works . Project Leaders
Dozens of CIA faculty and staff members, in numerous capacities, have contributed to the success of Community Works: Artist as Social Agent. The following faculty members are the projects leaders of the various components of CIA's year of social agency.
Title Professor
Degree MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art; BA, Barnard College, Columbia University
Tina Cassara received a BA in urban studies, emphasis in sociology from Barnard College, Columbia University. Following graduation, she moved to Viques, in the Juan region of Peru, and studied with Francisca Mayer from Black Mountain College, teaching natural dyes derived from indigenous plants to local weavers. Her travels continued through the Collao Altiplano region of Bolivia. While living in New York City, Cassara was co-editor of Sing Out! magazine before attending Cranbrook Academy of Art, where she received an MFA from the fiber department. Cassara has since conducted extensive research into women's labor in the American textile industry, issues of European migration and relocation, and more recently, the assigned value of labor in historically women-dominated textile industries in the South. In the late 1990s, Cassara began exploring the history of textile production. A strong advocate for organized labor, she began conducting interviews in LaGrange, GA, and nearby mill towns, speaking with retired textile workers, factory owners, surviving union organizers, and members of textile heritage societies. In 2008–09, Cassara was awarded a sabbatical to further her research in the network of textile heritage societies, including travel to Cooleemee, NC, working with organizers of the Textile Heritage Initiative and members of the Troop County Historical Society. Cassara's research also continues in Scranton, PA, where she is examining documents and photographs related to the growth of the mining and silk textile industriesexpand collapse
Title Associate Professor
Degree MFA, Painting, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa); MA, Art History, University of Alabama at Birmingham; BS, University of North Alabama
Lane Cooper is an artist, who works through painting, sound, video, text and, on occasion, performance. Her work has been presented in venues ranging from Birmingham, AL, to Madrid, Spain. In 2009 she participated in a residency at The Banff Centre located in Alberta, Canada, and in the fall of 2010 she was an artist-in-residence at Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ, where she exhibited as part of the 2011-12 season. She holds a master's degree in art history with an emphasis in contemporary art and an MFA in painting. She has been teaching since 1989, and since the spring of 2001 she has taught full-time at the Cleveland Institute of Art.expand collapse
Title Associate Professor/Chair of Sculpture + Expanded Media
Degree MFA, Visual Studies, University of New York at Buffalo; BS, Mathematics, University of New York at Albany
Born on the edge of the Berkshire Mountains in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Sarah Paul is now an artist based in Cleveland, Ohio. She received her BS in Mathematics from the University at Albany, and MFA in Visual Studies from the University at Buffalo, before swimming west along the southern coast of Lake Erie. After stopping to rest, mesmerized by the flaming smokestacks, she wandered inland and fell in love and lust with the smokestacks, the city, and the lake. Sarah is making work that embraces and celebrates this lush rusty belt. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions and performances include the Front Yard at Burchfield Penney Art Center, SPACES Gallery, Sculpture Center Cleveland, MOCA Cleveland, Albright-Knox Gallery, UB Art Gallery, and the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art; her video work has been screened around the U.S. and abroad. In 2013, Sarah was generously supported by a Creative Workforce Fellowship granted from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture in Cleveland, Ohio. Sarah is presently an Associate Professor and Co-Chair of Sculpture + Expanded Media at the Cleveland Institute of Art.expand collapse
Title Professor of Art + Design History/Chair of Liberal Arts
Degree PhD, Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara; MA, Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara; BA, Art and Art History, California State University, Northridge
Gary Sampson teaches art and design history and theory at the Institute. He is also adjunct in art history and occasional SAGES faculty at Case Western Reserve University. His areas of scholarship are in history of photography, urban design and representation, and media arts and visual culture. His publications include Imag(in)ing Race and Place in Colonialist Photography, with Eleanor Hight, Photographs at St. Lawrence University, with Catherine Tedford, and "Landscape and Fluid Imaging of the Emerging City," in Emerging Landscapes: Between Landscape and Representation. Sampson also engages in practice-based research in photography and video; one of his ongoing projects investigates city environments, infrastructure, and media.expand collapse
Title Academic Director, Cores + Connections; Adjunct Professor of Art
Degree BA, Studio Art, Ursuline College; MA student, Advanced Inquiry, Miami University
On faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Art since 2006, Barbara Chira has also been Academic Director of CIA's burgeoning academic vision, Cores + Connections, since July, 2013: core values of faculty mentorship, studio and academic rigor, and state-of-the-art curriculum, all power extensive connections for student engagement in community-based learning, real-world professional projects, and socially engaged practices in art and design. Chira is also a practicing artist, having maintained a studio in the Superior Arts Corridor since 2002. Her commitment to the ideals of a social practice has included projects with homeless women and children at the Salvation Army's Harbor Light Complex and with HIV-positive children in Youngstown (exhibited at the McDonough Museum of Art). In more recent years, she has created temporary spaces in public and facilitated strangers coming together in meaningful conversation. At CIA, Chira has been championing new socially engaged project courses for students, related to poverty, homelessness, health care, and the environment, with partners including the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Metroparks, and Cuyahoga County's homeless service organizations. This commitment to socially engaged art is also informed by Chira's previous 12-year career in community health and human services in the County, including several years as a case manager working with people in their homes in Cleveland's highest-poverty neighborhoods.expand collapse
Title Associate Professor
Degree MFA, Ceramics from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University; BFA, Studio Art from Kent State
Kautenburger's sculpture functions to contain sensations of the natural environment, housing and presenting natural phenomena as an invitation for anyone so inclined to poetic ponderance. Work often involves insect habitats (crickets and honeybees), natural material from the Rocky River basin, as well as substances collected from his bee yard, such as propolis, wax, and pollens.
He is a recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and has exhibitited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Allentown Museum of Art, among others. He has an MFA in Ceramics from Tyler School of Art, and a BFA from Kent State University.
He has been teaching at CIA since 2001, where he teaches Foundation Design and Environment, Art and Engaged Practice.expand collapse
Title Director, Reinberger Gallery/Adjunct Faculty
Degree MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BA of Science from Kutztown University.
As curator for Reinberger Galleries for more than 20 years, Checefsky has been responsible for developing distinct exhibitions for CIA. He oversees the cultivation of new and unique shows for the galleries' fall and spring shows, as well as the coordination of annual shows including the Faculty Exhibition, Student Independent Exhibition and the Student Summer Show. He has curated over 80 national and international exhibitions of contemporary art, film and design, and he has published articles, reviews and essays on contemporary photography and film. He is an adjunct professor in the Liberal Arts department, teaching courses in film and museum studies.expand collapse
Title Adjunct Faculty
Sai Sinbondit comes from a family of immigrants who came to the United States when he was a child. On their journey here, his family of six went through three refugee camps and finally settled in a small community in the northwest corner of Ohio. While growing up, his father's and mother's diligence, commitment and self-reliance to get his family to a better place inspired Sinbondit to not only experience the world, but to explore and question it.
Sinbondit's work looks toward architecture as a vehicle to explore the world and it's dynamic relationships among people, cultures, systems, settlement and displacement. It is in this area of boundaries and this place where opposites meet that he tests the idea that architecture is not a political haven, not a world apart from the world, but generator for social change.
He earned a master of architecture degree from Syracuse University and graduated with honors in painting and printmaking from the University of Toledo's bachelor of fine arts program. Sinbondit also spent some time abroad living and working with organizations such as UNICEF, UNHCR (the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), and USAID (United States Agency for International Development), in various countries such as Turkey, El Salvador, Thailand, India, France, Italy and Darfur.
Title Champney Family Professor of Art
Degree MFA, Interdisciplinary Studio, University of California Los Angeles; BFA, School of Fine Arts, University of Porto (Portugal)
José Carlos Teixeira is currently the Champney Family Visiting Professor at Case Western Reserve University Art History department, and at the Cleveland Institute of Art. His interdisciplinary work involves primarily video-essay, photography, installation, text, and performance. Notions of identity, otherness, language, boundary, exile and displacement, are recurrent themes in his creative and theoretical investigation. Through performative strategies, his pieces explore issues related to locational identity, global diaspora, the limits (or overlapping) of personal and social territories, and the definition of physical and psychological spaces. They attempt to generate not a set of conclusions, but a continuous process of inquiry. Usually coming from a subjective and contextual approach, the artist focuses on collaboration, participation, and dialogue, therefore incorporating multiple voices into his moving image projects.
His work has been shown in exhibitions, festivals, and screenings both in Europe (Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, UK, Norway, Sweden, Russia, and Lithuania) and in the USA (New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Atlanta, Tucson, Madison, to name a few), as well as in Brazil, Singapore, China, Mozambique, Angola, and South Africa. Teixeira has been the recipient of the Fulbright Grant, Gulbenkian Foundation Grant, UCLA Fellowship, Samuel Booth Award, D'Arcy Hayman Award, Fuso Video Festival Jury Prize 2011, and the 2005 EDP New Artists Prize nomination. In 2008-09, he was a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, and he recently developed residency projects at the MacDowell Colony (NH), and the Headlands Center for the Arts (CA).expand collapse


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About AFROTC Detachment 450
The 450th AFROTC Cadet Wing is the local Air Force ROTC Detachment for Montana. We
are located at Montana State University.
AFROTC Detachment 450 was officially activated on 1 August 1952. Today Det 450 at MSU continues to be dedicated to providing the Air Force with quality leaders and officers. We come from all backgrounds of ethnic, religous, race, and creed, but we all have one thing in common; we are all here to make a difference and provide a service to this country that so few people stand up for.
Some Facts:
We encourage our cadets to hold a 3.0 or higher Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring of 2015, our cadet's GPA average was a 3.262 ranking Det 450 in the top 27% nationally! Our cadets receive awards and recognition for making the dean's and president's lists. Det 450 holds high academic standards for our cadets to be competitive for scholarships and field training enrollment allocations.
Although academics are every cadet's first priority, the cadets of Det 450 excel in other areas as well. Each cadet works hard every Tuesday and Thursday morning at mandatory Physical Training. This paid off in the 2014-2015 academic year when Det 450 was ranked in the top third nationally with an average cadet fitness score of 94.88!
Det 450 is not the biggest, but we produce outstanding Air Force officers. When Det 450's cadet's commission into the Air Force they become 2nd Lieutenants. This is the beginning to a successful future. Roughly 1/4 of cadets graduating from the program commission to become pilots, navigators, or air battle managers. Two former Det 450 Cadets have risen to the rank of Lieutenant General, one to the rank of Major General, and two to the rank of Brigadier General.
ROTC is known for creating excellent students and officers. As a cadet, not only are you furthering your education, but you are preparing yourself for a career directly out of college.
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Saturday, March 2, 2013
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP) -- Lawyers for a Chinese immigrant whose premature baby died after the pregnant woman tried to kill herself by eating rat poison are asking an Indianapolis judge to bar the infant's autopsy photographs from her murder trial.
Bei Bei Shuai's attorneys said in documents filed Friday that the photos are overly gory and inflammatory.
They say a medical examiner from Delaware who reviewed the photographs called them "appallingly unprofessional."
Shuai's lawyers also renewed their call for the judge to dismiss murder charges against her. That motion comes a few weeks after Judge Sheila Carlisle barred key testimony from Shuai's trial.
Prosecutors said this week they wouldn't appeal that ruling.
Shuai attempted suicide by eating rat poison in December 2010, when she was eight months pregnant.
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WILKES-BARRE — An Edwardsville man was arraigned Saturday for the shooting that happened around 8 p.m. Friday along Grove St., Wilkes-Barre.
Rahsheim Tayou Blackmon, 23, of the Eagle Ridge apartment complex in Edwardsville, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault and a single count of carrying a firearm without a license, according to court reports.
Brad Coleman, the victim, was taken to Geisinger Wyoming Valley Hospital Friday for a gunshot wound to the abdomen according to the police report. A hospital spokeswoman said Coleman is still considered to be in critical condition as of 3:45 p.m. Saturday.
District Judge Rick Cronauer set bail at $50,000, but Blackmon was unable to post it and was committed to the Luzerne County Correctional Facility. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for April 14.
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Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program
As the countries of the world become more interdependent, the Robert Bosch Foundation recognizes the importance of familiarizing American professionals with the political, economic, and cultural environment of Europe and of the Federal Republic of Germany. To further this goal, and to strengthen the ties of friendship and understanding between the United States and Germany, the foundation sponsors a fellowship program that enables young American professionals to participate in an intensive work and study program in Germany. Although a prime goal of this program is the advancement of American-German/European relations, it also contributes to the participants' professional competence and expertise, and broadens their cultural horizons.
U.S. citizens age 23-34 with a graduate degree or equivalent training in business administration, journalism, law, public policy, international relations, or a closely related field. No German language skills are required, but the willingness and commitment to participate in language training based on the results of an evaluation at the selection meeting is essential.
Award Amount
One year of executive-level internship in German government or private sector


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ANMT hires composer Bryan Blaskie
Enci | Jan 10, 2013 | Comments 0 |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Scott Guy
Executive Director, ANMT
North Hollywood, CA
[email protected]
The Academy for New Musical Theatre is once again defying the odds, expanding its staff, rather than cutting back. This month, they're hiring a new administrative assistant, Bryan Blaskie, to help with daily workload, as well as special projects.
Bryan's responsibilities include sexy stuff like supervising the online Catalogue for New Musicals, overseeing new technology and social media, and then…LESS sexy stuff like office management, database supervision, and daily/weekly communication with composers, lyricists and bookwriters. And maybe a little bit of tidying and janitorial assistance thrown in, just for good measure.
"It's exciting working in such a creative place!" beams Blaskie, "coming into work and hearing the place buzzing with singing, rehearsals, auditions, and hearing folks testing out new songs in progress and taking workshops in how to write musicals. I look forward to coming in every time!"
Bryan first joined ANMT as a composer during 2011-2012's Core Curriculum. After successfully completing the program, he wrote the music for "iWish" as part of the Academy's 2012 15-Minute Musicals program. In addition to his work as a composer, Bryan is an accompanist for various programs in Los Angeles. He played Keyboard II for ANMT's production of "A Ring in Brooklyn". He is a staff accompanist for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. He also performs around the LA area in his blues duo, Torch Note. Bryan is from Columbus, Ohio, where he studied music composition and piano performance at Denison University.
"Bryan's starting as a part-time employee," says the Academy's Executive Director, Scott Guy, "but there is definitely room to grow into a full-time position, or even a whole new department. Bryan's a smart, funny, and artistic composer, but he also has the skills and drive of an entrepreneur, and he knows there are opportunities to launch whole new departments at the Academy: the world is his musical theatre oyster…if that metaphor makes any sense."
In the past decade, the Academy for New Musical Theatre has experienced a period of astonishing growth, expanding from a three-day-a-month writers' workshop with a volunteer staff, to a bustling professional organization with a staff of seven, and hundreds of writers, actors, directors, and music directors workshopping and developing more than forty musicals annually, for producers and theatres across the country.
The Academy offers online and live curriculum in from the professional producer to the enthusiast who is just learning how to write musicals.
"I'm really a lucky guy," says Blaskie. "I've wound up in the right spot and the right time. I love my bosses — we have a gas working together; lots of laughter and clowning around. But at the end of the day, I take this job very seriously. I know the opportunity they're giving me here. But now it's up to me to make something exciting happen."
Musical theatre writers interested in creating new musicals should contact Bryan at [email protected] or 818.506.8500.
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