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Lidia's Italy In America "California: Pesto Pronto!" On her trip to the Golden State, Lidia meets with Brady Whitlow, president of Corto Olive, to talk about their methods of producing Italian-style olive oil in California. Next, Lidia visits one of the longest-standing wine making families in Sonoma County, the Seghesio family, at their vineyards. Joe joins Lidia in the kitchen to give his take on how to use pesto in two easy recipes: Pesto Salmon BLT and Pesto Chicken Salad. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Norway's West: Fjords, Mountains and Bergen" Rick sails under towering fjord cliffs, hikes on glaciers and finds surviving traditions in remote farm hamlets. He delves into Hanseatic heritage and takes in the salty hospitality of Norway's historic capitol, Bergen.G


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Wen, J; Lai, X; Shi, XK; Pan, XD (2013). Numerical simulations of fractional vegetation coverage influences on the convective environment over the source region of the Yellow River. METEOROLOGY AND ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, 120(2-Jan), 1-10.
AbstractThe spatial distribution of fractional vegetation coverage (FVC) over the source region of the Yellow River (SRYR) shows heterogeneity and has changed much for vegetation degradation during the past 30 years. In this paper, three numerical tests were conducted using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model for a fair weather case and a rainy case over the SRYR. The first test used FVC derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data, the second test took a spatial constant FVC (=50 %), and the last one deployed the model default FVC. The results showed that simulated 2-m height potential temperature decreased and specific humidity increased as FVC increased for both cases. The magnitudes of the sensible and latent heat fluxes were different over the wetland at the fair day and the rainy day. There was a divergence center near the Zoige wetland in the fair weather case but a convergent center in the rainy case. As a conclusion, when the default FVC in the WRF model were replaced by the new MODIS-derived FVC data, the root-mean-square errors (RMSEs) between measurements and the simulated 2-m height air temperature and relative humidity decreased for both cases, the mean RMSEs between measurements and the simulated 2-m height air temperature and relative humidity declined by 0.3 K and 3.0 % in the fair day, 0.4 K and 3.4 % in the rainy case. The mean differences of simulated precipitation for seven ground stations were 1.1 mm for the fair day and 4.2 mm for the rainy case. Therefore, the updated MODIS FVC has influences on the convective environment over the SRYR.
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2009 Coach's Corner #1 - A Letter From The Desk Of Coach Priore
Sept. 4, 2009
Stony Brook, N.Y. -
I hope that everyone's summer has gone well. We are very excited about the 2009 football season here at Stony Brook. We have been hard at work on the field since August 10 and have had what I would call an above average preseason camp, with only minor injuries and no one out for any significant length of time. We have also increased the learning curve for our players this season and have installed the playbooks for all aspects of our game at a high level, which is what we need to do to be successful against the challenging schedule we are going to play in 2009.
This team has great leadership and a high level of work energy on the field. Our three senior captains, Tyler Santucci (New Kensington, Pa.), Josh Auerbach (Langhorne, Pa.) and Conte Cuttino (Uniondale, N.Y.) have been great role models and representatives of our university on and off the field. More importantly this program has 24 seniors, young men that have been in our program for a number of years and understand our team culture, expectations and goals.
Coming out of preseason our major goals are always the same; get our players prepared for a season, not just one game. We have to make sure that we build our depth on each side of the ball, work on fundamentals and put things together to have success for the long term.
Saturday's game against Hofstra is an important one for Stony Brook University and our football program. While that game is an important one, we also realize that we have an 11-game, competitive schedule ahead that has seven road games and four home games. So we have to prepare for the big picture. But this week Hofstra is certainly our focus. As we go into the Hofstra game one thing that is very apparent is for us to have the ability to understand how to compete at the level that Hofstra has during their time at the I-AA (FCS) level. In my three years here we have had two very competitive games with them and the one last year that you just want to put in the files and not open again.
This team's success will depend on our ability to play defense, our ability to control field position with special teams and our ability to make big plays on offense outside of the running game. We are not going to be able to line up and pound people with our running backs, the teams we are playing are too good for that. We are going to have to spread the field out and put the ball in the air with our quarterbacks and receivers as well as put our running backs in position to run the ball with less defenders in the run area.
I am excited about the 2009 campaign and as long as we perform to our ability and get a little luck on our side we will have success. I'm looking forward to the kick-off against Hofstra on Saturday and I hope to see everyone there and rooting for the Seawolves and wearing your RED!
As always, wear red and Go Seawolves!
Chuck Priore


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Volume 122, Issue 23, 15 June 2005
- Theoretical Methods and Algorithms
Development of a relaxation-inducing cluster expansion formalism for treating strong relaxation and correlation effects122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1935509View Description Hide Description
We present in this paper a comprehensive account of an explicitly spin-free coupled clustertheory for treating energy differences of open-shell states relative to a closed-shell ground state, where the open-shell states of interest are dominated by a few simple configuration state functions. We develop a valence-universal coupled cluster formalism to achieve this via a novel cluster expansion ansatz for the valence part of the wave operator, where the orbital relaxation and the correlation relaxation accompanying ionization/excitation from the ground state are taken care of to all orders in compact, efficient, and explicitly spin-free manner. The essential difference of our proposed ansatz from the ordinary and the normal-ordered cluster ansatz in vogue is that (a) we allow the valence cluster operators to be connected among themselves with spectator valence lines only and (b) we use suitable combinatoric factors accompanying powers of cluster operators thus connected, which are equal to the number of ways the operators can be joined, leading to the same excitation (the automorphic factor). We emphasize that such an ansatz does not generate terms (diagrams) with chains of cluster operators joined among themselves via spectator lines only. Barring only a few, almost all the terms in the working equations determining the cluster amplitudes involve contraction of the Hamiltonian with the cluster operators via at least one nonspectator line, leading to what we call a "strongly connected" series. The structure of the working equation is remarkably similar to the single-reference closed-shell equation, with a few additional terms. The presence of contractions among cluster operators via spectator lines introduces the additional physical effects of orbital and correlation relaxation using low-body cluster operators. As an illustrative application of the new multireference coupled cluster (CC) theory, we consider in this paper computation of ionization potentials (IPs) of one-valence problem with only one active orbital. The numerical applications are made for both the core- and the inner- and outer-valence IPs for several molecular systems. The numerical values demonstrate the superiority of the relaxation-inducing CC theory, as compared to the normal-ordered ansatz.
The Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof exchange-correlation functional applied to the G2-1 test set using a plane-wave basis set122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1926272View Description Hide Description
Present local and semilocal functionals show significant errors, for instance, in the energetics of small molecules and in the description of band gaps. One possible solution to these problems is the introduction of exact exchange and hybrid functionals. A plane-wave-based algorithm was implemented in VASP (Vienna ab-initio simulation package) to allow for the calculation of the exact exchange. To systematically assess the precision of the present implementation, calculations for the 55 molecules of the G2-1 quantum chemical test set were performed applying the PBE and PBE0 functionals. Excellent agreement for both atomization energies and geometries compared with the results obtained by GAUSSIAN 03 calculations using large basis sets (augmented correlation consistent polarized valence quadruple zeta for the geometry optimization and augmented correlation-consistent polarized valence quintuple zeta for the energy calculations) was found. The mean absolute error for atomization energies between VASP and the experiment is 8.6 and , as calculated with the PBE and PBE0 functionals, respectively. The mean deviations between VASP and GAUSSIAN are 0.46 and for the PBE and PBE0 functionals, respectively.
At the boundary between reduced density-matrix and density-functional theories122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1929729View Description Hide Description
Here, we revisit the problem of finding the ground-stateenergy of an -fermion fluid under an external field, with molecular structure as the ultimate target. Density-functional methods only have to deal with electron density, but require an empirical functional; reduced density-matrix methods involve a matrix on pair space and do give exact bounds, but require very complex linear programming to achieve their results. The polydensity representation that we introduce has the advantage of dealing only with densities, requires no empirical information, and also gives exact bounds; the major problem is that of accumulating and utilizing conditions on the densities that iteratively improve their realizability in the class of -fermion systems. We indicate several directions along these lines and make some primitive applications.
Undoing static correlation: Long-range charge transfer in time-dependent density-functional theory122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1924599View Description Hide Description
Long-range charge-transferexcited states are notoriously badly underestimated in time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT). We discuss how exact TDDFT captures charge transfer between open-shell species: in particular, the role of the step in the ground-state potential, and the severe frequency dependence of the exchange-correlation kernel. An expression for the latter is derived, that becomes exact in the limit that the charge-transfer excitations are well separated from other excitations. The exchange-correlation kernel has the task of undoing the static correlation in the ground state introduced by the step, in order to accurately recover the physical charge-transfer states.
The reaction path intrinsic reaction coordinate method and the Hamilton–Jacobi theory122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1927521View Description Hide Description
The definition and location of an intrinsic reaction coordinate path is of crucial importance in many areas of theoretical chemistry. Differential equations used to define the path hitherto are complemented in this study with a variational principle of Fermat type, as Fukui [Int. J. Quantum Chem., Quantum Chem. Symp.15, 633 (1981)] reported in a more general form some time ago. This definition is more suitable for problems where initial and final points are given. The variational definition can naturally be recast into a Hamilton–Jacobi equation. The character of the variational solution is studied via the Weierstrass necessary and sufficient conditions. The characterization of the local minima character of the intrinsic reaction coordinate is proved. Such result leads to a numerical algorithm to find intrinsic reaction coordinate paths based on the successive minimizations of the Weierstrass -function evaluated on a guess curve connecting the initial and final points of the desired path.
Accounting for correlations with core electrons by means of the generalized relativistic effective core potentials: Atoms Hg and Pb and their compounds122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1914770View Description Hide Description
A way to account for correlations between the chemically active (valence) and innermore (core) electrons in the framework of the generalized relativistic effective core potential (GRECP) method is suggested. The "correlated" GRECP's (CGRECP's) are generated for the Hg and Pb atoms. Only correlations for the external 12 and 4 electrons of them, correspondingly, should be treated explicitly in the subsequent calculations with these CGRECP's whereas the innermore electrons are excluded from the calculations. Results of atomic calculations with the correlated and earlier GRECP versions are compared with the corresponding all-electron Dirac–Coulomb values. Calculations with the above GRECP's and CGRECP's are also carried out for the lowest-lying states of the HgH molecule and its cation and for the ground state of the PbO molecule, as compared to earlier calculations and experimental data. The accuracy for the vibrational frequencies is increased up to an order of magnitude and the errors for the bond lengths (rotational constants) are decreased in about two times when the correlated GRECP's are applied instead of earlier GRECP versions employing the same innercore-outercore-valence partitioning.
Comparing polarizable force fields to ab initio calculations reveals nonclassical effects in condensed phases122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1931653View Description Hide Description
In a recent work [Giese and York J. Chem. Phys.120, 9903 (2004)] showed that many-body force field models based solely on pairwise Coulomb screening cannot simultaneously reproduce both gas-phase and condensed-phase polarizability limits. In particular, polarizable force fields applied to bifurcated water chains have been demonstrated to be overpolarized with respect to ab initio methods. This behavior was ascribed to the neglect of coupling between many-body exchange and polarization. In the present article we reproduce those results using different ab initio levels of theory and a polarizable model based on the chemical-potential equalization principle. Moreover we show that, when hydrogen-bond (H-bond) forming systems are considered, an additional nonclassical effect, i.e., intermolecular charge transfer, must be taken into account. Such effect, contrarily to that of coupling between many-body exchange and polarization, makes classical polarizable force fields underpolarized. In the case of water at standard conditions, being H-bonded geometries much more probable than the bifurcated ones, intermolecular charge transfer is the dominant effect.
A simulation method for the calculation of chemical potentials in small, inhomogeneous, and dense systems122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1931663View Description Hide Description
We present a modification of the gauge cell Monte Carlo simulation method [A. V. Neimark and A. Vishnyakov, Phys. Rev. E62, 4611 (2000)] designed for chemical potential calculations in small confined inhomogeneous systems. To measure the chemical potential, the system under study is set in chemical equilibrium with the gauge cell, which represents a finite volume reservoir of ideal particles. The system and the gauge cell are immersed into the thermal bath of a given temperature. The size of the gauge cell controls the level of density fluctuations in the system. The chemical potential is rigorously calculated from the equilibrium distribution of particles between the system cell and the gauge cell and does not depend on the gauge cell size. This scheme, which we call a mesoscopic canonical ensemble, bridges the gap between the canonical and the grand canonical ensembles, which are known to be inconsistent for small systems. The ideal gas gauge cell method is illustrated with Monte Carlo simulations of Lennard-Jones fluid confined to spherical pores of different sizes. Special attention is paid to the case of extreme confinement of several molecular diameters in cross section where the inconsistency between the canonical ensemble and the grand canonical ensemble is most pronounced. For sufficiently large systems, the chemical potential can be reliably determined from the mean density in the gauge cell as it was implied in the original gauge cell method. The method is applied to study the transition from supercritical adsorption to subcritical capillary condensation, which is observed in nanoporous materials as the pore size increases.
Second-order quantized Hamilton dynamics coupled to classical heat bath122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1931666View Description Hide Description
Starting with a quantum Langevin equation describing in the Heisenberg representation a quantum system coupled to a quantum bath, the Markov approximation and, further, the closure approximation are applied to derive a semiclassical Langevin equation for the second-order quantized Hamilton dynamics (QHD) coupled to a classical bath. The expectation values of the system operators are decomposed into products of the first and second moments of the position and momentum operators that incorporate zero-point energy and moderate tunneling effects. The random force and friction as well as the system-bath coupling are decomposed to the lowest classical level. The resulting Langevin equation describing QHD-2 coupled to classical bath is analyzed and applied to free particle, harmonic oscillator, and the Morse potential representing the OH stretch of the SPC-flexible water model.
Hybrid correlation models based on active-space partitioning: Correcting second-order Møller–Plesset perturbation theory for bond-breaking reactions122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1935508View Description Hide Description
Møller–Plesset second-order (MP2) perturbation theory breaks down at molecular geometries which are far away from equilibrium. We decompose the MP2 energy into contributions from different orbital subspaces and show that the divergent behavior of the MP2 energy comes from the excitations located within a small (or sometimes even the minimal) active space. The divergent behavior of the MP2 energy at large interfragment distances may be corrected by replacing a small number of terms by their more robust counterparts from coupled-cluster (CCSD) theory. We investigated several schemes of such a substitution, and we find that a coupling between the active-space CCSD and the remaining MP2 amplitudes is necessary to obtain the best results. This naturally leads us to an approach which has previously been examined in the context of cost-saving approximations to CCSD for equilibrium properties by Nooijen [J. Chem. Phys.111, 10815 (1999)]. The hybrid MP2–CCSD approach, which has the same formal scaling as conventional MP2 theory, provides potential curves with a correct shape for bond-breaking reactions of BH, , and HF. The error of the MP2–CCSD method (measured against full configuration-interaction data) is smaller than that of MP2 at all interfragment separations and is qualitatively similar to that of full CCSD.
Nonlinear optical property calculations by the long-range-corrected coupled-perturbed Kohn–Sham method122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1935514View Description Hide Description
The long-range correction (LC) scheme for the exchange functional of density-functional theory(DFT) was combined with the coupled-perturbed Kohn–Sham (CPKS) method to calculate nonlinear optical response properties. By using this LC-CPKS method, we calculated the hyperpolarizabilities of typical molecules and the dipole moments,polarizabilities, and hyperpolarizabilities of push–pull -conjugated systems: -nitroaniline, 4-amino--nitrostilbene, and -nitroaminopolyenes. It was found that the LC scheme clearly improved the calculation of these optical properties for all of these systems, which have been significantly overestimated by conventional DFTs. We therefore concluded that the long-range exchange interaction played an important role in calculating the optical properties using the DFT formalism.
- Gas Phase Dynamics and Structure: Spectroscopy, Molecular Interactions, Scattering, and Photochemistry
Time-dependent density-functional theory for molecular photoionization with noniterative algorithm and multicenter -spline basis set: and case studies122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1937367View Description Hide Description
In this work a new direct (noniterative) algorithm to solve the time-dependent density-functional theory equations for molecular photoionization has been proposed and implemented, using a multicentric basis set expansion of -spline functions and complete exploiting of the molecular point-group symmetry. The method has been applied to study the photoionization dynamics of and : the results confirmed the expectation of large screening effects in . For the screening effects have been found to play a minor role than in , however, also in this case the quality of the final results is definitely improved. The method has proven suitable to study with confidence molecules of medium size, and there is still room for further improvement working on more elaborate treatment of the exchange-correlation functional.
Mapping rotational coherences onto time-resolved photoelectron imaging observables122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1926282View Description Hide Description
We explore the information content of time-resolved photoelectron imaging, a potentially powerful pump-probe technique whose popularity has been rapidly growing in recent years. To that end, we identify a mapping of the alignment properties of time-evolving wave packets onto the moments of the photoelectron images and investigate its origin and consequences theoretically and numerically.
Photoionization of vibrationally hot and122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1931507View Description Hide Description
Vibrationally hot and were produced by the photodissociation of and , respectively, and probed by single-photon ionization at . Comparison of the ion images of the and fragments with those of the complementary I atoms, and with previous measurements of the product branching fractions, allowed the determination of the relative photoion yields as a function of the vibrational energy of the molecular radical. Some general ideas about the internal-energy dependence of photoionization cross sections are also discussed.
Elastic electron scattering by122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1927524View Description Hide Description
Recent measurements [R. Panajotovic, M. Jelisavcic, R. Kajita, T. Tanaka, M. Kitajima, H. Cho, H. Tanaka, and S. J. Buckman, J. Chem. Phys.121, 4559 (2004)] and calculations [C. Trevisan, A. E. Orel, and T. N. Rescigno, Phys. Rev. A70, 012704 (2004)] of the elastic electron cross section for differ materially from our earlier calculations [C. Winstead and V. McKoy, J. Chem. Phys.116, 1380 (2002)]. Some of the differences are readily attributed to approximations made in our computations, but an overall difference in cross section magnitude above ca. 10 eV was surprising. Here we report a reexamination of the electron-elastic cross section. After eliminating or minimizing various possible sources of error, we continue to predict a substantially larger cross section at higher energies.
Importance of vibronic effects on the circular dichroism spectrum of dimethyloxirane122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1927519View Description Hide Description
We present a theoretical study on the vibrational structure of a circular dichroism (CD) spectrum using time-dependent density-functional theory in combination with a Franck–Condon-type approach. This method is applied to analyze the complex CD spectrum of dimethyloxirane, which involves delicate cancellations of positive and negative CD bands. Our approach reveals that these cancellations are strongly affected by the shapes of the CD bands, and that it is vital for an accurate simulation of the spectrum to take the different envelopes of these bands into account. One crucial point in some former theoretical studies on this compound, which were restricted to vertical excitations, was the appearance of a strong negative CD band in the energy range of , which is not present in the experimental spectrum. We can explain the disappearance of this band by a strong vibrational progression along normal modes with C–O stretching character, so that the band extends over an energy range of almost . Thus, it overlaps with many other (mostly positive) CD bands, leading to a cancellation of its intensity. The dominant vibrational features in the experimental spectrum can be assigned to the , , and bands, which show several clear vibrational peaks and a total bandwidth of only . In order to obtain close agreement between the simulated and the experimental spectrum we have to apply small shifts to the vertical excitation energies that enter the calculation. These shifts account both for possible errors in the time-dependent density-functional theory calculations and for the neglect of differential zero-point energy between ground and excited states in our gradient-based vertical Franck–Condon approach.
Four-mode quantum calculations of resonance states in complex-forming bimolecular reactions:122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1924406View Description Hide Description
The vibrational resonance states of the complexes formed in the nucleophilic bimolecular substitution reaction were calculated by means of the filter diagonalization method employing a coupled-cluster potential-energy surface and a Hamiltonian that incorporates an optical potential and is formulated in Radau coordinates for the carbon-halogen stretching modes. The four-dimensional model also includes the totally symmetric vibrations of the methyl group (C–H stretch and umbrella bend). The vast majority of bound states and many resonance states up to the first overtone of the symmetric stretching vibration in the exit channel complex have been calculated, analyzed, and assigned four quantum numbers. The resonances are classified into entrance channel, exit channel, and delocalized states. The resonance widths fluctuate over six orders of magnitude. In addition to a majority of Feshbach-type resonances there are also exceedingly long-lived shape resonances, which are associated with the entrance channel and can only decay by tunneling. The state-selective decay of the resonances was studied in detail. The linewidths of the resonances, and thus the coupling to the energetic continuum, increase with excitation in any mode. Due to the strong mixing of the many progressions in the intermolecular stretching modes of the intermediate complexes, this increase as a function of the corresponding quantum numbers is not monotonic, but exhibits pronounced fluctuations.
Four-dimensional quantum study on exothermic complex-forming reactions:122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1924407View Description Hide Description
The exothermic gas-phase bimolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction and the corresponding endothermic reverse reaction have been studied by time-independent quantum scattering calculations in hyperspherical coordinates on a coupled-cluster potential-energy surface. The dimensionality-reduced model takes four degrees of freedom into account [Cl–C and C–Br stretching modes (quantum numbers and ); totally symmetric modes of the methyl group, i.e., C–H stretching ( and ) and umbrella bending vibrations ( and )]. Diagonalization of the Hamiltonian was performed employing the Lanczos algorithm with a variation of partial reorthogonalization. A narrow grid in the total energy was employed so that long-living resonance states could be resolved and extracted. While excitation of the reactant umbrella bending mode already leads to a considerable enhancement of the reaction probability, its combination with vibrational excitation of the broken C–Br bond, (0, 1, 1), results in a strong synergic effect that can be rationalized by the similarity with the classical transitional normal mode. Exciting the C–H stretch has a non-negligible effect on the reaction probability, while for larger translational energies this mode follows the expected spectatorlike behavior. Combination of C–Br stretch and symmetric C–H, (1,0,1), stretch does not show a cooperative effect. Contrary to the spectator mode concept, energy originally stored in the C–H stretching mode is by no means conserved, but almost completely released in other modes of the reaction products. Products are most likely formed in states with a high degree of excitation in the new C–Cl bond, while the internal modes of the methyl group are less important. Reactants with combined umbrella/C–Br stretch excitation, (0, 1, 1), may yield products with two quanta in the umbrella mode.
Ab initio kinetics of the reaction of HCO with NO: Abstraction versus association/elimination mechanism122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1917834View Description Hide Description
The kinetics and mechanism for the reaction of HCO with NO occurring by both singlet and triplet electronic state potential-energysurfaces (PESs) have been studied at the modified Gaussian-2 level of theory based on the geometric parameters optimized by the Becke-3 Lee–Yang–Parr/ method. There are two major reaction channels on both singlet and triplet PESs studied: one is direct H abstraction producing and the other is association forming a stable HC(O)NO (nitrosoformaldehyde) molecule. The dominant reaction is predicted to be the direct H abstraction occurring primarily by the lowest-energy path via a loose hydrogen-bonding singlet molecular complex, ON⋯HCO, with a 2.9-kcal/mol binding energy and a small decomposition barrier (1.9 kcal/mol). The commonly assumed HC(O)NO intermediate, predicted to lie below the reactants by 27.7 kcal/mol, has a high HNO-elimination barrier (34.5 kcal/mol). Bimolecular rate constants for the formation of the singlet products and their branching ratios have been calculated in the temperature range of 200–3000 K. The rate constant for the disproportionation process producing , found to be affected strongly by multiple reflections above the well of the complex at low temperature, is predicted to be for 200–500 K, and for 500–3000 K in units of . The high- and low-pressure rate constants for the association process forming HC(O)NO can be represented by (200–3000 K) and (200–1000 K) and (1000–3000 K) for -buffer gas. The absolute values of total rate constant, predicted to be weakly dependent negatively on temperature but positively on pressure, are in close agreement with most experimental data within their reported errors.
Dynamics of the reaction: A comparison of crossed molecular-beam experiments with quasiclassical trajectory and accurate statistical calculations122(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1930831View Description Hide Description
In this paper we report a combined experimental and theoretical study on the dynamics of the insertion reaction at collision energy. Product angular and velocity distributions have been obtained in crossed beam experiments and quasiclassical trajectory(QCT) and rigorous statistical calculations have been performed on the recent and accurate ab initio potential energy surface of Bussery-Honvault, Honvault, and Launay at the energy of the experiment. The molecular-beam results have been simulated using the theoretical calculations. Good agreement between experiment and both QCT and statistical predictions is found.


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St. George Island, FL -- June 24, 2012
A local motorcycle group "Chrome Divas," rode to St. George Island for an annual event. The group couldn't get off the island before the bridges closed. A mandatory evacuation was put in place, but because they could not ride in the inclement weather, the Chrome Divas were allowed to stay. The group is hoping high tide doesn't get to the bikes and that they can go home tomorrow.


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Golden Boy Promotions and Fox Deportes will present four modern classic title bouts – Oscar De La Hoya's two fights with Julio Cesar Chavez and Israel Vazquez-Rafael Marquez I and II – to fight fans on Black Friday, Nov. 23, beginning at 7:00 p.m. ET/4:00 p.m. PT.
The main event of the telecast showcases the two-fight series between De La Hoya – then the sport's undefeated "Golden Boy" – and Mexican legend Julio Cesar Chavez with replays of their 1996 and 1998 title bouts. In the first fight De La Hoya, only four years removed from his 1992 Olympic gold medal performance, rose from the lightweight division, where he held two major titles, to challenge Chavez, the reigning WBC 140-pound champ.
In their anticipated rematch, Chavez assumed the role of challenger to De La Hoya, then the WBC welterweight titleholder, and the two most popular fighters in the sport at the time put on a spirited battle.
The telecast will also revisit one of boxing's great rivalries with the bouts No. 2 and No. 3 of the action packed four-fight series between Mexican countrymen Israel "El Magnifico" Vazquez and Rafael "Rafa" Marquez.Both the rematch, which took place in 2007, and the rubbermatch, which took place in 2008, were contested for THE RING's 122-pound title and both earned Fight of the year honors from the magazine and every other boxing publication.


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After two months of pursuing a purchase of Illumina for $44.50 per share, Roche is increasing its offer to $51 per share. The acquisition is now valued at about $6.53 billion. Illumina has responded by advising its stockholders to take no action at this time while it reviews Roche's revised proposal.
"Based on our discussions with Illumina shareholders we have seen interest to accelerate the takeover process," says Severin Schwan, CEO of Roche. "As a result, we are increasing our offer price to $51.00 per share. Roche's preference continues to be a negotiated transaction. We look forward to the possibility of a swift completion that offers immediate value to Illumina's shareholders."
In a letter sent to Jay Flatley, Illumina's president and CEO, on March 29, Franz B. Humer chairman of Roche said, "Our revised offer represents a 15% premium to our offer on January 25, 2012, and a substantial premium of 88% over Illumina's closing stock price on December 21, 2011, the day before market rumors about a potential transaction between Roche and Illumina drove Illumina's stock price significantly higher. It also represents a 34.1x multiple of Illumina's projected forward earnings based upon analysts' current consensus estimates for 2012.
"If you continue to decline to negotiate with us, we will have no choice but to continue our effort to effect a transaction unilaterally," Humer added. "However, I strongly hope that you will either agree to commence discussions with us now or remove all obstacles so that your shareholders can make their own determinations about the adequacy of our increased offer."
Humer had previously claimed that the company has "other options" if its hostile takeover bid to acquire Illumina proves unsuccessful. "Illumina is not the only gene sequencing company, and there are other companies making quantum leaps in this field.
"Roche is also working on gene sequencing technologies of its own," he further commented as Illumina shunned Roche's initial $5.7 billion bid as "grossly inadequate." Nonetheless, analysts believe that Illumina holds the lead in installed bases of sequencer instruments even as other companies introduce new technologies.
On February 27, Roche extended its $44.50 per share offer until 6:00 pm ET, March 23 after failing to win over adequate shareholders. The number of shares tendered at that time amounted to 102,165 shares, and Illumina had roughly 121.4 million shares outstanding, according to filings.
Illumina has put in place a poison pill to try and block Roche's takeover. The company also outlined a "golden parachute" compensation plan for its executives if they lose their jobs within two years of an acquisition, according to a regulatory filing, Bloomberg reports. Flatley would be paid double his annual salary plus a bonus, stock, and other benefits valued as of January 27 at $10.7 million. Five other executives would receive benefits valued from $2.6 million to $3.2 million, Bloomberg adds.
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Adina Allen is a second year rabbinical student in Hebrew College's transdenominational program in Boston, MA and is a current Wexner Fellow. Adina graduated from Tufts University ('05) with degrees in Environmental Studies and Anthropology. After graduation was accepted as member of Adamah: the Jewish Environmental Leadership Fellowship. As an Adamah Fellow she was part of a spiritually rich, pluralistic, and environmentally minded Jewish community and spent her time learning Jewish texts, farming, and exploring her Jewish identity. She has served as an Adamah Board member since 2007. In 2006 Adina moved to the Bay Area where she served as the Executive Assistant to the writer/activist Rabbi Michael Lerner. Subsequently, Adina became the Assistant Editor of Tikkun magazine and helped to lead the magazine during its shift towards being a Jewish publication focused on progressive interfaith issues. Adina moved back to Boston in 2008 to begin her rabbinic studies. In 2009 she envisioned and co-created Emunah v'Omanut: an interactive event and multi-media art exhibit at Hebrew College that gave voice to the myriad ways that members of that community explore, integrate and wrestle with Judaism. Adina also co-founded The Movement Minyan to explore the complex dynamics of prayer through the body. This summer Adina earned her yoga teacher certification and she currently teaches classes in the Boston area. In the spring of 2010, with the help of the PresenTense Fellowship, Adina co-founded Attar with her husband Jeff Kasowitz. Attar is a spiritually grounded, community-based approach to sustainability that engages the Jewish community in reimagining the world we want to live in by combining text study, innovative ritual practice, and sustainable living skill development. In her free time she enjoys baking, fermenting, gardening, and making music.
Michael J. Altman is a doctoral student in the American Religious Cultures program of study within the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Religious Studies and English from the College of Charleston (2006), as well as a Master's of Arts degree in Religion from Duke University (2008). As his program of study indicates, Michael is particularly interested in the relationship between religions and culture. How is this thing called "religion" constructed in culture? Does it work as a cross-cultural category? He argues that any inter-religious dialogue must first come to terms with the ways religion is imagined in public discourse. We create the terms for what counts as "religion" as we discuss it in our public discourse. So, any conversations about the role of religion in a plural society or world must take account of the ways religion is imagined. Michael also tries to historicize inter-religious dialogue and public discourse about religion by drawing upon his training in American religious history. He believes that discussions, conflicts, and disagreements of today are connected to those of the past and that we must bring a historical consciousness to contemporary debates. Currently, Michael is doing research for a dissertation analyzing the representation of Hinduism and India in 19th century American culture. In short, his project asks, "What did Americans know about Hinduism and how did it shape their sense of what counted as 'American'?" Besides his academic research, Michael is also a guest blogger for Religion Dispatches and a contributor to the Religion in American History Blog. In the future, Michael hopes to finish his doctorate and continue his academic research into American religious history and the history of Asian religions in American culture. Twitter: @MichaelJAltman Website: http://michaelaltman.wordpress.com.
Brad Bannon is a student at Harvard Divinity School studying comparative theology (Hindu-Christian). After studying music and finance at Furman University ('97), he moved from South Carolina to Manhattan to work on Wall Street. Becoming disenchanted with the 'ethics' (ahem) of institutional finance, he entered seminary at Drew Theological School (MDiv '06). He and his wife, Elizabeth, then moved to Bangalore, India where he studied Sanskrit and Indian Philosophy (LPh, '08) and she volunteered with an NGO in a nearby village. A full week before starting his doctorate at Harvard, Elizabeth and Brad gained a new companion in this journey of life: their daughter Leela Mae. On deck is the newest member of the family, currently nicknamed "Cashew," due in March 2011. In other words, the Bannons are in a State of Formation! Brad is a candidate for ordination in the United Church of Christ. His doctoral research explores epistemology through a comparative study of the apophatic theologies of Nicholas of Cusa and Sankaracarya.
Elizabeth Bonney is a seeker, devoted to questioning faith and challenging oppressive social systems. Raised in Overland Park, KS, she attended an all-female Catholic high school and was ordained as an Elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA) at age seventeen. During high school, Elizabeth began advocating for the rights of LGBT persons and other oppressed communities; social activism remains a driving force as she discerns her vocation. She graduated from William Jewell College ('09)–a historically Baptist institution–with majors in Religion, Philosophy, and Gender Studies & Human Sexuality. Elizabeth is currently in the process of converting to Judaism, and draws much spiritual inspiration from Hasidic teachings. Much of her faith and dedication to matters of social justice have been impacted deeply by her international experiences in more than twenty countries around the world. Her passion for interfaith and inter-cultural engagement brought her to the Parliament of the World Religions in 2009, and she envisions a vocation that includes service within a multi-faith context. Named as the William Sloane Coffin, Jr. Scholar, Elizabeth is pursuing a Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School and currently serves as an intern for the Yale Chaplain's Office.
Tim Brauhn is an interfaith activist commonly found at the intersection of copywriting, social media, and big-picture pragmatism (a by-product of his youth on a farm in northern Illinois). After slam-dunking a BA in English at Aurora University, he stayed on in a resident fellowship at the Helena Wackerlin Center for Faith and Action, where he represented the university to area religious groups and civic associations. Tim worked closely with students to build interfaith dialogue on campus, and presented public lectures on topics of interreligious interaction to the campus community. These lectures led him to the University of Denver's prestigious Josef Korbel School of International Studies, where in 2009 he received his Master of Arts degree in International Studies with a concentration in Religion and Politics in the Middle East and Central Asia. He was eyeing a career at a think tank when he fell in with The 1010 Project, a humanitarian agency that promotes business education in Kenya. He coordinated grantwriting and social media with The 1010 Project for a year before heading off to San Jose, California as an inaugural Faiths Act Fellow, a partnership of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and Interfaith Youth Core. In addition to periodically dressing up as a Mansquito (the Fellowship targeted malaria as a social action issue), Tim also worked to build an intercollegiate interfaith network in the Bay Area. He has recently returned to the Mile High City and spends most of his time making fake meat (seriously, he runs the Denver Seitan Company). Tim identifies as a Catholic Hindu, or perhaps a Catholic and a Hindu, or perhaps Catholic/Hindu. Punctuation and semantics are obviously very important to him as he moves through the State of Formation crowd. Tim is 29 years old if he's a day, and drinks copious amounts of tea and maté. He can be emailed at firstname.lastname@example.com, his website is http://timbrauhn.com, and his Twitter is @timbrauhn.
Joshua Eaton is an editor, writer, and translator. He has served as co-editor-in-chief of Cult/ure: The Graduate Journal of Harvard Divinity School and as a writer with the Natural Dharma Fellowship, where he founded Dana Wiki, which helps Buddhist organizations get involved in social service. His writing has appeared in Tikkun Daily, Cult/ure, HBomb, Flagpole, and other publications. Currently, Joshua is a contributor to the Zen Peacemakers' Bearing Witness Blog and is working on translating several works on Buddhism from Tibetan into English. He is also editing a book-length anthology of Buddhist teachings on social justice. Joshua holds a MDiv in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University and a BA in Psychology from the University of West Georgia. His resume, samples of his writing, and a complete list of his publications can be found at his website.
Anthony Fatta is currently a 2nd year Master of Divinity candidate at Vanderbilt Divinity School (VDS) in Nashville, TN and a member of the United Methodist Church (Christian). He holds a BA from Syracuse University with concentrations in Political Science and Religion. He co-founded Mosaic, a VDS student group seeking to expose future leaders to other faith traditions and instill the importance of interfaith cooperation in any facet of ministry. Currently, Mosaic educates Divinity students about Islamophobia, especially in Nashville and surrounding areas. Anthony's academic and vocational interests include: theologies of religious pluralism, comparative theology, interfaith marriage/families and pastoral care, Jewish-Christian relations and congregational ministry in a religiously diverse world. Anthony is very excited to be writing for State of Formation and hopes that this endeavor will be a challenge to wrestle with critical issues, which in turn will encourage readers to do the same. Follow him on Twitter and check out his blog.
Stephanie (Steph) Louise Fisher is from Napier, New Zealand. She has never not lived by the sea — within spitting distance of a beach, at least — until she won a scholarship from Nottingham University and came to the UK to complete her PhD. Her cat, Delilah, came too, went back with her to New Zealand for a while, but they both returned to Nottingham for her final year. She studied music, psychology, education and other things at Massey University down under, then after a few years mainly working in theatres, she studied World Religions at Victoria University in Wellington, NZ. She swims every day, sometimes up to 5 km, and loves the mountains, the sun, the moon, starlit night skies, the bush, birds and horizons. Naturally, she prefers swimming in the sea; she has a passion for the sea.
Oliver Goodrich is currently pursuing an MEd in Religious Education at Boston College's School of Theology and Ministry. Prior to his study at Boston College, he worked for six years in higher education at Gordon College. His main research/professional interest is in the faith formation of college students. Though he has been doing ecumenical dialogue informally in Christian circles for years, he is brand new to the interreligious dialogue scene. He is excited to be a part of the State of Formation community and looks forward in particular to exploring the pedagogical implications of interreligious/ecumenical dialogue. Oliver graduated with a summa cum laude BM in voice performance from Gordon College in 2004, where he was honored as Collegian of the Year. After graduating he went on to serve as director of the Gordon College Choir and Symphonic Chorale. Oliver has also held numerous music ministry positions, including the post of organist at First Baptist Church in Danvers, Massachusetts and director of music at Boston's historic Tremont Temple Baptist Church. Since joining the Greek Orthodox Church in 2005, he has developed an interest in Byzantine Chant and liturgical theology. You can follow him on Twitter @ogoodrich.
According to family lore, the East Indian side of Saumya Arya Haas's family has been involved with interfaith work since the 1600s and the West Indian side of her family has been doing social equity projects for at least four generations. Saumya does both, and has followed a non-traditional trajectory in her life and studies. She is a Manbo Asogwe (Priestess of Vodou) and hereditary Hindu Pujarin who has lived and been educated on three continents. She studied in the Western school system and with her parents, scholar-priests and mystics in the philosophically diverse traditions of the Indian sub-continent. Some of these traditions do not draw a firm a distinction between theist and non-theist approaches, and neither does she. Today Saumya is the Executive Director of Headwaters/Delta Interfaith. Although she lives on a horse-farm in Minnesota, she regularly flies down the Mississippi River to work on holistic and sustainable revitalization in New Orleans. In addition, she advises local, national and international interfaith and social equity organizations such as Hindu American Seva Charities and The New Orleans Healing Center. Saumya lectures about religion, and writes for The Huffington Post; in her spare time she is an ALB (undergraduate) candidate in Religious Studies at Harvard University, School of Extension Studies. She tweets and blogs about her work and life.
Bilal Hassam is a British Muslim involved in a plethora of community activism and engagement across the UK and Europe. He is currently in his final year of training to be a Doctor at the University of Nottingham; obtaining his first degree in BioMedical Sciences (he wrote his dissertation on Traditional Chinese Medicine.) In addition to his Medical degree he is concurrently in the second and final year of his Master's of Arts in Inter-Religious Relations at De Montfort University, Leicester. Bilal spent a year as one of 30 worldwide Faiths Act Fellows for the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and the Interfaith Youth Core (Chicago.) Working to mobilize faith communities across the UK/US and Canada, Bilal and his colleagues served as Inter-Religious Ambassadors for the UN Millennium Development Goals. As an Alum he continues to work with and represent both the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and the Interfaith Youth Core in various capacities. He is involved in various organisations and charities in the UK, serving as trustee for the Muslim Community Fund and also on the advisory panel for the Muslim Youth Helpline. Bilal has a breadth of experience with British Muslims, especially in the student world, previously serving on the National Executive Committee for the Federation of Student Islamic Societies, as well as being on various other boards and committees. He is increasingly exploring work in Europe and has advised various European bodies including the Council of Europe. He was recently appointed as a Digital Advocate for Malaria No More UK, assisting the charity with their various campaigns, and has previously worked on social media and e-campaigns for both charities and businesses (most recently with Samsung.) Bilal has a keen interest in Faith and the Arts and helps manage and promote Muslims groups and artists across the world. He is currently working on an exciting project on promoting positive lyricism in popular music. You can catch Bilal on Facebook, Twitter and he also has some writing up www.MuslimsInEngland.com. He regularly advises and consults both governmental and non-governmental bodies and is contactable for speaking engagements or general enquiries via firstname.lastname@example.com.
Joey Heath is a Master of Divinity student at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. As part of his seminary education Joey also serves as a pastoral intern and youth pastor for the Silver Spring United Methodist Cooperative Parish in Silver Spring, Maryland. Joey is currently pursuing ordination as an elder in the United Methodist Church and hopes to enter into local parish pastoral ministry. He is originally from southern Georgia (a small town outside of Savannah, Ga.) and holds a Bachelor's degree in political science from Valdosta State University. He is strong believer in justice and equality for all people and in calling out and breaking down systems of oppression. In particular he is focused on the cause of lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender, and queer people. The primary organization that he is involved with it the Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN), an organization dedicated to the inclusion of all people in the life and ministries of the United Methodist Church. Additionally Joey has been blessed with a number of formative life experiences including participating in the 2007 Soulforce Equality Ride and traveling the world on a cruise ship working for Celebrity Cruises. These experiences have help to shape Joey's view of the world by introducing him to many diverse people, cultures, and religions. Joey is very excited to contribute to State of Formation and hopes to challenge the others to work together and be change in the world.
Rachel Heath graduated from Lee University ('07) with degrees in English and Theology and minors in philosophy and psychology. She spent the next year teaching high elements activities at a sports camp for inner-city youth, backpacking around South America, working for a non-profit organization in South Africa, and making cappuccinos for the tourists of Destin, Florida. In 2008, Rachel left Florida to attend Yale Divinity School, where she will graduate in Spring 2011 with a Masters of Divinity degree. While at Yale, Rachel has been a community organizer for public housing residents in Hartford and an interfaith chaplain at a local hospital. She also currently serves as an intern for the Yale Chaplain's Office, where she is involved in a number of activities that seek to nurture interfaith dialogue in the campus community and the city of New Haven. One of the most formative experiences for her as an intern has been working with an LGBTQIA group, which seeks to be a safe space where students can discuss intersections between their spirituality and sexual/gender identity. As a 25-year old Christian (newly confirmed in the Episcopal Church), her faith is founded on the idea that "all real life is meeting", and she believes that her generation is uniquely poised to figure out how to creatively dialogue through our differences. In the future she plans to be pursue chaplaincy in its many forms. Follow her on Twitter: @lifeismeeting.
Robyn Henderson-Espinoza was born to a Mexican woman and an Anglo man in Northern Mexico, the Republic of Texas (San Antonio), and moved to Chicago, IL for graduate school, completing a master's in theological ethics at Garrett-Evanglical Theological Seminary (on the campus of Northwestern University). Following graduate school, Robyn worked in domestic violence & sexual assault fields before joining the Office of the Illinois Attorney General. In 2009, Robyn began doctoral work at the University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology to study Social Ethics and Latino/a Studies. Robyn hopes to teach at the University level and shape the discourse concerning Ethics and Latino/as through teaching, writing, and being involved in varying communities where Latin@s are present. Robyn is 34 years old and self-identifies as a Christian Agnostic and Queer Mestizo (of Mexican & Anglo heritage). She lives with her partner, Stephanie, who is a Clinical Research Coordinator for pediatric clinical trials at The Children's Hospital, Aurora, CO. They enjoy the company of their two dogs, Lily and Cricket. Robyn begins research in the intersecting realities of discourse focusing particularly on the intersection of Ethics and Society, exemplified in the discipline of Social Ethics. Robyn seeks a critical and discursive reflection with particular attention to the ways in which queer, feminist, borderland, women of color critiques, and spatial theories, along with intersectional analysis, extends the discipline of Social Ethics. Robyn was nominated as a doctoral fellow for Princeton Theological Seminary's Hispanic Theological Initiative and was also chosen to participate in the Human Rights Campaign Summer Institute for LGBTQIA students in Religious/Theological Studies, hosted at Vanderbilt Divinity School. In her spare time, Robyn works for the University of Denver's Latino/a Center for Community Engagement & Scholarship (DULCCES). Robyn blogs at www.iRobyn.com, and her twitter feed can be found at @irobyn. To learn about Robyn's academic work, please see www.iEspinoza.com.
Hannah Kardon is a first year Master's in Divinity student and Ministry Fellow at Harvard Divinity School, pursuing ordination as an elder in the United Methodist Church. She spent the last two years working at the Interfaith Youth Core, where she wrote interfaith service curricula, trained young people, and coordinated interfaith social action programs. She has also worked in the fields of rape crisis and educational enrichment. She grew up in East Asia and the Central Illinois in a non-religious family, and recently married her college sweetheart, Matt. Hannah graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in Economics and Religious Studies, and is interested in finding innovative church structures and social change ideas that can bring people into passionate relationship with Jesus while equipping them to live out His call in the world. You can find Hannah on Twitter @hannahkardon, where she always welcomes comments, arguments, and plain old hellos.
Valarie Kaur is a third-generation Sikh American who grew up in California's Central Valley, on land her grandfather farmed when he first sailed by steamship to Pacific shores in 1913. She grew up with deep roots in America but also a strong connection to her ancestral home in India and her Sikh faith. Valarie's childhood experiences with religious intolerance in her hometown led her to study religion and international relations at Stanford as an undergrad. She was a junior there when 9/11 happened — and decided to respond to the hate violence against her community by grabbing her camera and taking a roadtrip across the country, capturing stories that weren't making the evening news. Five years later, her journey became the award-winning film Divided We Fall, which sent her on a whirlwind tour to 150 cities worldwide, delivering lectures and workshops on interfaith and interracial dialogue through storytelling. It's been a humbling and breath-taking journey. In the mean time, she studied narrative ethics at Harvard Divinity School (2007) under Michael Jackson and Diana Eck, examining the problem of violence through the lens of ethics. Valarie went on to Yale Law School, in order to learn how to respond to post-9/11 violence on the streets and by the state through legal advocacy. She is now in her third year there, and she has been able to explore the law as a powerful tool – including working with a church to defend Latinos from racial profiling, traveling to Guantanamo to report on the military commissions, and working on civil rights issues in the Senate. She has come to believe that storytelling and advocacy together produce social change. She would like to continue to harness multiple tools – lawyering, filmmaking, interfaith dialogue, writing, and speaking – to respond to injustice. Valarie is excited to be connected to an extraordinary community of other young people doing the same. Here's her blog: http://www.valariekaur.com/blog and film: http://www.dwf-film.com.
Nate Kratzer is currently the Outreach and Congregations Fellow at Jubilee USA Network, a non-profit dedicated to international debt relief and a Biblical vision of economic life. He is a member of the Lutheran Volunteer Corps, a volunteer organization emphasizing simplicity, justice, and community. Volunteers live together to help form community and practice living simply while working for established non-profits. Nate graduated from Centre College in 2010 with a Bachelor's degree in Religion and Philosophy and a minor in Spanish. His primary academic interest is Latin American Theology and he has traveled to Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvador.
Jenn Lindsay is a third-year graduate student ('11) at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. At Union Theological Seminary, she has served as co-chair of the Interfaith Caucus and her program focus is Interfaith Relations and Ecumenics. She hails from San Diego, raised in a religiously eclectic family whose members draw from progressive Jewish, Christian Scientist, Presbyterian, Unitarian Universalist, Hindu and secular humanist traditions. At Union, she is studying interreligious family systems, the interaction of religious, cultural, and secular law, US liberation theologies, public and secular discourse about "mixed" families (in terms of religion, sexuality and race), and how progressive/liberation theology affects congregational lives and everyday experiences of faith. She is also very interested in "secular spirituality" and contemporary "seekers," and engages various social scientific methodologies to participate and interact with religious and secular spiritual communities. Her theological work is presently in conversation with Reinhold Niebuhr, Dolores Williams, Sallie McFague, Paul Tillich, Robert Goss, and Ada María Isasi-Díaz. This past summer Jenn worked at The Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies and conducted ethnographic research in the field of interfaith studies, focusing particularly upon interfaith couples and families as a context for interreligious collaboration, conflict mediation and dialogue. Prior to attending Union Theological Seminary, Jenn played folk music throughout North America; her music is available on iTunes and at www.JennLindsay.com. Jenn majored in playwriting at Stanford University ('01) and attended graduate school at Yale School of Drama ('05).
Ben Maton is a husband of one, father of three, and a PhD candidate in "Scripture, Interpretation, and Practice" at the University of Virginia. Before coming to UVA, for 6 years he pastored two small Lutheran congregations (Missouri Synod) in New England. Prior to and in preparation for that ministry, he earned a BA in history from Concordia College in Seward, Nebraska and the MDiv and STM degrees from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. He is currently interested in the scriptural reading practices of different communities of Christians and how these practices give rise to distinct homiletical performances of those scriptures. His study of scripture as that which is for proclamation continues to be enriched by his appreciation of the deeply performative nature of rabbinic/midrashic study of Torah. While at UVA he has been involved in the practice of "Scriptural Reasoning" with faculty and student members of the three Abrahamic traditions. While only God knows what his life after UVA will look like, his hope is to teach Christian scriptural interpretation (and perhaps homiletics), while staying actively involved in nurturing inter-Abrahamic friendships through non-reductive dialogue and study.
Joshua Oxley is a 2nd-year Master of Divinity student at the University of Chicago's Divinity School. He serves as the Humanist Advisor for the University of Chicago, under the auspices of the Spiritual Life Office, serving the secular community on campus. As a Secular Humanist and Atheist, Joshua is working to both foster a sense of positive secular community, as well as encouraging secular individuals to engage in interfaith efforts. He is also interested in improving the public image of Atheists and other freethinkers within the United States, while also challenging the political power that some larger religious organizations have publicly wielded. Joshua is convinced that there is a strong, unique and ethical basis to a secular identity, and wants to help others also become comfortable in their identification as secular. Joshua is a member of the American Humanist Association, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and the Foundation Beyond Belief. He serves as the Graduate Advisor to the Secular Student Alliance chapter at the University of Chicago. His website is sleepinginsundays.com.
Lee Paczulla didn't grow up going to church, but she did grow up in another kind of religious heartland: the commercial capital of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, home to one of the biggest malls in America. After earning her undergraduate degree in psychology and women's studies at Swarthmore College, Lee moved to Washington, DC where she spent five years working with the DC Primary Care Association, a community-based health action organization – and she also started going to church. Lee is pursuing ordination as a Unitarian Universalist minister, within a tradition that has deep roots in Christianity, but which has evolved over its 300-year history in this country into a pluralistic tradition that makes space for science, reason, and humanism while embracing the variety of personal religious histories its congregants carry when they walk through our doors. Lee is currently interning with Social Action Ministries, a program of the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance which seeks to involve diverse communities of faith and spiritual practice in statewide efforts to end homelessness. Lee has a particular interest in the ways that today's "spiritual but not religious" young adults understand their spirituality, and her vocational goals include building transformative, healthy spaces for multiracial and multicultural community, and engaging people to work across religious boundaries for broad-based social change. Lee attends Harvard Divinity School and tweets @leepaczulla.
C. Nikole Saulsberry graduated from Syracuse University in 2009 where she received a B.S. in Communications and Rhetorical Studies with minors in Religion and Strategic Management. As an undergraduate student, Nikole served as a Peer Minister for the Protestant Campus Ministry for 7 semesters, led pluralist initiatives as an inaugural member of the Interfaith Youth Core's (IFYC) Fellows Alliance in 2007-2008, and participated in Hendricks Chapel's final installment of their Three Faiths: On Humanity Study Travel Experience in Jerusalem in March 2009. After graduation Nikole worked was the Christian Coordinator for the Chautauqua Institution's Abrahamic Program for Young Adults during their 2009 season. In October of the same year, Nikole began a 10 month commitment to national service by joining AmeriCorps National Community Civilian Corps as a member in the Pacific Region. In February 2010, Nikole became a panelist for the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue's InterView series started coaching 2010-2011 class of IFYC Fellows in October 2011. Currently she is serving another AmeriCorps term with New Sector Alliance, Inc. as a Resident in Social Enterprise where she serves as the Communications Specialist for the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose. Nikole is particularly interested in fostering religious pluralism through simultaneous efforts of common action, policy engagement, liberation theology and hermeneutics of social justice.
Sara Williams Staley is a student at Yale Divinity School, where she is working toward a Master of Religious Studies with a concentration in ethics. Her research interest lies broadly in the role of faith communities in religiously charged conflicts, which has led her to Colombia, Northern Ireland, Germany and Poland. More particularly Sara is interested in the conversation between American evangelical and postliberal theologies as it relates to the construction of an evangelical ethic for interreligious engagement. In addition to her studies, Sara works as the Development Coordinator for The Veritas Forum, a nonprofit that creates university forums to explore life's hardest questions and their relation to the person and story of Jesus Christ. She has previously worked with International Justice Mission as an Aftercare Fellow in their Uganda Field Office, creating new programmatic and funding partnerships to benefit victims of illegal property seizure. Sara has also worked in fundraising development at The Carter Center, the nonprofit founded by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and as a social worker with low-income families in Chicago. She earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Georgia, a B.A. from Moody Bible Institute and recently completed three semesters of coursework at the Boston University School of Theology. Sara identifies as a progressive evangelical and hopes that her somewhat tortuous journey to this point will enable her to be an effective prophetic voice and agent of reconciliation in the evangelical community.
G. Ali Swaby is currently completing his master's degree at Hartford Seminary in Islamic Studies and Muslim-Christian Relations before an anticipated entry into the seminary's international PhD program in the fall of 2011. He is preparing a master's thesis that will focus on eschatology and its implications on ethics and theodicy (divine justice). He recently completed a year-long clinical internship with Cultural Wellness, Marriage & Family Therapy, LLC (CWMFT) where he focused on pastoral counseling and family therapy. The internship eventually overlapped into Cultural Wellness' policy formation & advocacy and interfaith outreach concentrations, as he worked with the organization's partners to develop strategies related to advocacy for Muslim children and families and the state of New York Foster Care system's continued non-compliance with the Adoption and Safe Family Act of 1997. G. Ali's academic interests include modern and medieval philosophy ("Arabic Philosophy"), theology (Kalaam and Liberation), as well as their empirical mediation and particularizing through ethics. He holds that if theology is the human endeavor to etch the divine into word constructions through the use of reason and logic, then theology operates at a tension between human understanding and the divine. Ethics must be applied to polish and make the tension pliant enough for human experience, as well as render it recognizable for contemporary consumption. His blog will explore these ethical implications at these various crossroads in which he is situated and continues to walk the earth. G. Ali is married with children and currently resides in the New York City area. You can email G. Ali at garswa[at]gmail.com, visit his website at http://www.garswa.com and follow him on Twitter: @garswa.
Allana Taylor is a recently graduated Magna cum Laude from the University of Oklahoma with a B.A. in Anthropology and Religious Studies. She is currently pursuing an M.A., and planning to pursue a Ph.D., in Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her academic interests are primarily focused on the interactions between Islamic Law, government and culture in both Western and Muslim-majority countries. As an undergraduate she was a fellow with the Xenia Institute, a community dialogue and social action organization, and interned for the Middle Prairie Institute for Religion and Public Life. As the current communications intern for the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, she works to support PeaceNext (the official social networking site of CPWR) and further the Council's engagement with the greater public through social media. She is an atheist who values the role of religion in the human experience and is committed to being part of the religious conversation.


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Our take: Romney has a net worth of $250 million, but Bloomberg suggets he's a "pauper" among buyout firms, and if he had stayed at Bain Capital LLC, he'd be worth much more.
"While private-equity peers Stephen Schwarzman, Henry Kravis and David Bonderman have each accrued a 10-figure net worth, the Republican presidential nominee missed out on his industry's most lucrative era, a decade when he managed the Winter Olympics, served as governor of Massachusetts and ran for president. Had he stayed at Bain Capital LLC, he'd be worth more than $1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
"The Republican candidate, while still reaping some profits from Bain as an investor, was far from the center of the action and negotiated his exit from Bain before private-equity firms started going public.
"Buyout firms like Bain from 2000-2010 saw their funds, deals and paychecks reach record-setting sizes as they snapped up name-brand companies such as Toys "R" Us Inc. and Dunkin' Brands Group Inc. Schwarzman's Blackstone Group LP (BX) led an effort to take the firms public, locking in personal gains for founders. In 2007, KKR's Kravis labeled the era a "golden age" for the industry."
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Introductory course into medical records which integrates all phases of the records management cycle while complying with state and federal regulations and laws. Topics include: privacy and access laws, component and procedures of patient charting, upkeep of information system, and security audits.
Prerequisites: BUSN 170.
BUSN 188 Business Calculations (3)
Introduces various quantitative computational procedures used in accounting and finance such as present and future value concepts, payroll, inventory, and international currency exchange rates. Utilization of the electronic 10-key pad as a tool for calculating will be stressed.
Recommended Preparation: Completion of MATH 1 or MATH 1B with a CR grade or equivalent and completion of, or concurrent enrollment in, ENG/ESL 21 or equivalent.
BUSN 192V Business Practicum (1–4)
Business Practicum integrates the skills and knowledge students have learned in the classroom within their chosen program of study and apply them in a professional environment. Students will be required to work 60 hours minimum per academic credit. This course can be repeated for up to nine (9) total credits. BUSN 192V cannot be used as a substitute for BUSN 193 in the Business Technology Certificate of Completion, Certificate of Achievement, and/or Associate in Science degree.
Prerequisites: 1. Declared program of study in the Business Technology Program, except the Business Technology Certificate of Completion, Certificate of Achievement, or Associate in Science degree. 2. Completion of six (6) credits in the declared program of study. 3. Grade point average of at least a 2.0 in the program of study required courses. 4. Student in good academic standing. 5. Eligible for employment—U.S. citizen or have the legal right to work in the U.S. 6. Approval of instructor or program of study coordinator.
BUSN 193B/C/D/E Cooperative Education (1–4)
Cooperative Education provides practical career-related work experience through a program used nationally in colleges and universities to apply classroom knowledge and to develop job competencies. Full-time or part-time work in private and public sectors of the business, government and industrial communities is utilized for this program. The number of credits earned depends upon the number of hours spent at the job station during the semester.
Prerequisites: Business major or Department/instructor approval. Completion of, or concurrent enrollment in, ENG 100 or ENG 21 or
ENG 22 or equivalent with a grade of C or better or equivalent and approval of the instructor and additional requirements by the University of Hawai'i, Leeward Community College Business Division.
BUSN 242 Business Presentations (3)
Provides skills and competencies relating to the demands of professional business presentations including use of Microsoft® Word and PowerPoint, desktop publishing, and other media. Competencies encompass reporting as well as presenting information, data, and evidence using current technologies. (formerly BUS 270)
Prerequisites: BUSN 121, OAT 121, BUSN 123, OAT 123, BUS 127, or BUS 101 with a grade of C or better or equivalent or keyboarding or typewriting skills and computer knowledge or instructor's approval.
Recommended Preparations: ENG 100 and SP 151 or SP 200 or equivalent
BUSN 269 Supervision (3)
Develops effective communication techniques while strengthening supervisory skills. Students apply oral and written communication skills while studying topics on basic concepts in administrative office management, managing human resources and administrative services, and controlling administrative office systems. (formerly BUS 259)
Recommended Preparation: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in ENG 209 or BUS 270; SP 151.
Introduction to specialized functions, current technology, international issues, and other advanced topics in Records and Information Management (RIM). Topics covered include: Forms Management, Vital Records Protection, Disaster Prevention and Recovery, Micrographics, Mail and Reprographics Management, Optical Disk Technology, and International Standards. Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA) International rules are reviewed. A database such as Microsoft® Access may be used to introduce and practice RIM program controls such as records inventory.
Prerequisites: BUSN 170 or work experience in RIM and Microsoft® Access and Microsoft® PowerPoint
BUSN 279 International Business Analysis (3)
Analyzes international corporate environments and their impact on business dynamics. The focus is on business practices in the Asian/Pacific region; but other regions may also be included. (formerly BUS 272)
Prerequisite: Completion of ENG 100 with a grade of C or better or equivalent or instructor's approval.
BUSN 284 Medical Terminology & Office Procedures (3)
Presents the skills needed to perform activities required in a medical office setting. Offers a broad spectrum of medical terms, concepts, and principles. Designed to familiarize the student with various types of documents, activities, and situations in a medical environment. (formerly BUS 282)
Rec Preparation: ENG 100 or equivalent, and keyboarding and word processing skills.
BUSN 286 Legal Terminology and Procedures (3)
Presents the skills needed to perform activities required in a law firm or other legal setting. Offers a broad spectrum of legal terms, concepts and principles required in a law office. Designed to familiarize the student with various types of legal documents; emphasis is on creating, formatting, and editing common types of legal documents. (formerly BUS 283)
Recommended Preparation: ENG 100 or ENG 100E or equivalent.
Other Courses contained in the Business Technology degree and certificate programs:
BUSN 131 Computerized Spreadsheets–MS® Excel (2)
BUSN 137 Computerized Databases– MS® Access (1)
BUSN 200 Speech Recognition (3)
BUSN 250 Expert Business Computing (3)
BUSN 270 Advanced Records and Information Management (3)
BUSN 277 International Business Protocol (3)
BUS 101 Business Computer Systems (3)
BUS 120 Principles of Business (3)
BUS 201 Microsoft® Office Advanced (3)
BLAW 200 Legal Environment of Business (3)
MGT 121 Customer Service (3)