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Schedule of Fees 2010-11
The CSU makes every effort to keep student costs to a minimum. Fees listed in published schedules or student accounts may need to be increased when public funding is inadequate. Therefore, CSU must reserve the right, even after initial fee payments are made, to increase or modify any listed fee, without notice, until the date when instruction for a particular semester or quarter has begun. All CSU listed fees should be regarded as estimates that are subject to change upon approval by The Board of Trustees.
The following reflects applicable systemwide fees for both semester and quarter campuses.
Information concerning the cost of attending CSU Dominguez Hills is available from the Information Center, WH D-245, (310) 243-3696, and includes fees and tuition (where applicable); the estimated costs of books and supplies; estimates of typical student room and board costs and transportation costs; and, if requested, additional costs for specific programs.
Application for Admission to the University
|Application Fee (nonrefundable), payable by check or money order at time application is made.
|Late Application fee
Fees Required at Registration (per semester)*
|Per Semester
|Per Academic Year
|6.1 or more
|0 to 6.0
|Credential Program Participants
|6.1 or more
|0 to 6.0
|6.1 or more
|0.0 to 6.0
|Doctoral Programs**
|All Students
|Student Activity Fee
|Fall Semester
|Spring Semester
|Student Center Fee
|Health Facilities Fee
|Health Services Fee
|Instructionally Related Activities Fee
*NOTE: All fees subject to
change based on further action by
the Trustees of the California State University and the California Legislature or the CSU Dominguez Hills President.
** NOTE: Applicable term fees apply for campuses with special terms, as determined by the campus. Total College Year fees cannot exceed the Academic Year plus Summer Term fees.
For summer session fees, please consult summer session Class Schedule.
Graduate Business Professional Fee (effective January 2011)
|Graduate Business Professional Fee Per Unit
Graduate Business Professional Fee shall be assessed to students for coursework required in state-supported professional master's of business degree programs that are subject to accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB International). The Graduate Business Professional Fee is paid on a per unit basis in addition to basic tuition fees and campus fees for the following graduate business programs:
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Nonresident Students ( U.S. and Foreign)
Nonresident Tuition Fee (in addition to basic tuition fees and other systemwide fees charged all students) for all campuses:
|Semester Charge Per Unit
|Foreign-Visa Students (students who are citizens and residents of a foreign country-per unit or fraction thereof)
The total nonresident tuition fee paid per term will be determined by the number of units taken.
Mandatory systemwide fees are waived for those individuals who qualify for such exemption under the provisions of the California Education Code (see section on fee waivers).
Students are charged campus fees in addition to tuition fees and other systemwide fees. Information on campus fees can be found by contacting the campus.
Fee Waivers
The California Education Code includes provisions for the waiver of mandatory systemwide fees as follows:
Section 66025.3 Qualifying children, spouses/registered domestic partners, or unmarried surviving spouses/registered domestic partners of a war period veteran of the U.S. military who is totally service-connected disabled or who died as a result of service-related causes; children of any veteran of the U.S. military who has a service-connected disability, was killed in action, or died of a service-connected disability and meets specified income provisions; any dependents or surviving spouse/registered domestic partner who has not remarried of a member of the California National Guard who in the line of duty and in active service of the state was killed or became permanently disabled or died of a disability as a result of an event while in active service of the state; and undergraduate students who are the recipient of or the child of a recipient of a Congressional Medal of Honor and meet certain age and income restrictions;
Section 68120 Qualifying children and surviving spouses/registered domestic partners of deceased public law enforcement or fire suppression employees who were California residents and who were killed in the course of active law enforcement or fire suppression duties (referred to as Alan Pattee Scholarships); and
Section 68121 Qualifying students enrolled in an undergraduate program who are the surviving dependent of any individual killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon building in Washington, D.C., or the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in southwestern Pennsylvania, if the student meets the financial need requirements set forth in Section 69432.7 for the Cal Grant A Program and either the surviving dependent or the individual killed in the attacks was a resident of California on September 11, 2001.
Students who may qualify for these benefits should contact the Admissions/Registrar's Office for further information and/or an eligibility determination.
Older Adult Fee Waiver
Students sixty years of age and older may be eligible for an Older Adult fee Waiver. Here's how to apply:
- Obtain a fee waiver form from the Admissions & Records office. Applicant must present documentation which establishes their identity and their age, i.e., California Drivers License, California Identification Card, etc.
- Students using the Older Adult Fee waiver may register at/or after the first day of the term.
- The Admissions & Records Office will send the Older Adult Fee waiver form to the Cashier's Office in order for the fee waiver to be posted to the student account.
Older Adult students not participating in the Older Adult fee waiver program will be required to pay fees by the posted due date.
Payment Methods
Fees can be paid by cash, check, money order, Visa, Master Card or Discover.
Parking Fees**
|Four wheeled motorized vehicles (per semester)
|Two-wheeled motorized
vehicles - includes mopeds
(per semester)
|Daily permit
|Summer permit (entire summer)
|Summer permit (per session)
|Summer permit (weekly)
** subject to change
Other Fees
|Course Material Fees (charged for certain courses in art, biology, chemistry, history, English, music, orthotics and prosthetics, and physical education. These courses are footnoted in the Class Schedule in their respective academic course listing)
|Diploma Fee
|Graduation Date Change Fee
|Graduation Fee
|Graduation Writing Examination
|Identification Card –
new and returning students
|Special Test Fees -a list of test fees is available in the Testing Office
|Certification of Enrollment and/or Degree
|Credential Evaluation Fee
|min $4
|Duplicate Document or Printout
|Emergency Graduation Clearance Processing
|Emergency Transcript Processing (less than 10 working days)
|International Student Matriculation and Orientation
|Resident Installment
Payment Service Charge
|Non-resident Installment
Plan Service Charge
|Petition for Exception to University Policy
|Refund Processing Fee and Service Charge
|Revised Evaluation
|Transcript (within 10 working days)
|Single Transcript
|Additional transcripts prepared at the same time up to ten (10) transcripts
|Additional transcripts prepared at the same time that exceed the first ten (10) transcripts
|Checks returned for any cause - Per AB1643, ch. 1000, there is a $25 charge on returned checks. NOTE: Students whose checks are returned by their bank are subject to disenrollment. Dishonored checks that are not paid may be sent to the L.A. District Attorney for prosecution.
|Late Payment Fee (per late payment)
|Library fines - a list of overdue fines is posted at the entrance to the library on the 2nd floor of the ERC Building
|Lost books and other Library items - replacement cost + posted service charge
|Late Registration (assessed the day instruction begins) (non-refundable)
|Petition for Missed Deadlines
Installment Payment of Nonresident Tuition Fees
A nonresident student who is a citizen and resident of a foreign country or of another state within the United States may pay the required nonresident tuition fee on an installment basis. (Installment plans available for Fall and Spring terms only.) This payment is limited to three equal installments.
- The first installment shall be due 30 days from the first date of classes as stated in the Class Schedule.
- The second installment shall be due 30 days following the first installment.
- The third installment shall be due 30 days after the second installment. A 7% service charge will be added to each installment payment to cover the cost of handling. Any student failing to make timely installment payments may be prevented from paying fees on an installment basis in subsequent semesters.
Nonresident students as defined above shall pay all registration fees required of resident students by the same date as required for resident students.
Tuition Fee Installment Plan
A Fee Installment Plan is available for fall and spring terms. See the Schedule of Classes for information.
Refund of Mandatory Fees, Including Nonresident Tuition Fee
- Refunds will be automatically processed for students who completely withdraw or make a change of program through the last day of the Add/Drop period (end of the third week).
- Not all fees are refundable.
- $10 is retained by the University to cover processing and the non-refundable portion of the tuition fees.
- Where applicable, the percentage of the refund is determined by the date the "Application for Refund" is received in the Office of Admissions and Records.
- Students whose unit load drops from 6.1 or more units to 6.0 or fewer units may be eligible for a refund of the difference in the tuition fee. See the Schedule of Classes for information.
Regulations governing the refund of mandatory fees, including nonresident tuition, for students enrolling at the California State University are included in Section 41802 of Title 5, California Code of Regulations. For purposes of the refund policy, mandatory fees are defined as those systemwide fees and campus fees that are required to be paid in order to enroll in state-supported academic programs at the California State University. Refunds of fees and tuition charges for self-support programs at the California State University (courses offered through extended education) are governed by a separate policy established by the University, available at http://www.csudh.edu/ee/policies.shtml
In order to receive a full refund of mandatory fees, including nonresident tuition, a student must cancel registration or drop all courses prior to the first day of instruction for the term. Information on procedures and deadlines for canceling registration and dropping classes is available in the Schedule of Classes.
For state-supported semesters and non-standard terms or courses of four (4) weeks or more, a student who withdraws during the term in accordance with the university's established procedures will receive a refund of mandatory fees, including nonresident tuition, based on the portion of the term during which the student was enrolled. No student withdrawing after the 60 percent point in the term will be entitled to a refund of any mandatory fees or nonresident tuition.
For state-supported non-standard terms or courses of less than four (4) weeks, no refunds of mandatory fees and nonresident tuition will be made unless a student cancels registration or drops all classes prior to the first day in accordance with the university's established procedures and deadlines.
Students will also receive a refund of mandatory fees, including nonresident tuition, under the following circumstances:
- The fees were assessed or collected in error;
- The course for which the fees were assessed or collected was cancelled by the university;
- The university makes a delayed decision that the student was not eligible to enroll in the term for which mandatory fees were assessed and collected and the delayed decision was not due to incomplete or inaccurate information provided by the student; or
- The student was activated for compulsory military service.
Students who are not entitled to a refund as described above may petition the university for a refund demonstrating exceptional circumstances and the chief financial officer of the university or designee may authorize a refund if he or she determines that the fees and tuition were not earned by the university.
concerning any aspect of the refund of fees policies of CSU Dominguez Hills,
including the he return of unearned tuition and fees or other refundable
portions of institutional charges, may be obtained from the Student Financial
Services Office 1000 E. Victoria St. Carson, CA 90747, (310) 243-3780 or see
web page at
http://www.csudh.edu/admfin/accounting_services_sfs.shtml. In addition, any debt owed to the University by an individual student will be subtracted from the refund due.
Parking Fee
Application for refund of parking fees may be obtained at the Cashier's Office (see section titled "Refundable Fees"). The Parking Decal must accompany the request for refund. For requests received before the fifth week of the semester, 75% of the fee will be refunded; from the fifth week up to the ninth week of the semester, 50%; and from the ninth week to the thirteenth week of the semester, 25%.
Fees and Debts Owed to the Institution
Should a student or former student fail to pay a fee or a debt owed to the institution, the institution may "withhold permission to register, to use facilities for which a fee is authorized to be charged, to receive services, materials, food or merchandise or any combination of the above from any person owing a debt" until the debt is paid (see Title 5, California Code of Regulations, Sections 42380 and 42381).
Prospective students who register for courses offered by the university are obligated for the payment of fees associated with registration for those courses. Failure to cancel registration in any course for an academic term prior to the first day of the academic term gives rise to an obligation to pay student fees including any tuition for the reservation of space in the course.
The institution may withhold permission to register or to receive official transcripts of grades or other services offered by the institution from anyone owing fees or another debt to the institution. The institution may also report the debt to a credit bureau, offset the amount due against any future state tax refunds due the student, refer the debt to an outside collection agency and/or charge the student actual and reasonable collection costs, including reasonable attorney fees if litigation is necessary, in collecting any amount not paid when due.
If a person believes he or she does not owe all or part of an asserted unpaid obligation, that person may contact the campus business office. The business office, or another office on campus to which the business office may refer the person, will review all pertinent information provided by the person and available to the campus and will advise the person of its conclusions.
Cancellation of Registration or Withdrawal from the Institution
Students who find it necessary to cancel their registration or to withdraw from all classes after enrolling for any academic term are required to follow the university's official withdrawal procedures. Failure to follow formal university procedures may result in an obligation to pay fees as well as the assignment of failing grades in all courses and the need to apply for readmission before being permitted to enroll in another academic term. Information on canceling registration and withdrawal procedures is available from the University Registrar's Office 1000 E. Victoria St. Carson, CA 90747. (310) 243-3648.
Students who receive financial aid funds must consult with the Financial Aid office prior to withdrawing from the university regarding any required return or repayment of grant or loan assistance received for that academic term or payment period. If a recipient of student financial aid funds withdraws from the institution during an academic term or a payment period, the amount of grant or loan assistance received may be subject to return and/or repayment provisions.
Average Support Cost per Full-Time Equivalent Student and Sources of Funds
The total support cost per full-time equivalent student (FTES) includes the expenditures for current operations, including payments made to students in the form of financial aid, and all fully reimbursed programs contained in state appropriations. The average support cost is determined by dividing the total cost by the number of FTES. The total CSU 2010-11 budget amounts were $2,617,435,000 from state General Fund appropriations (not including capital outlay funding), $1,244,603,000 from net basic tuition fee revenue, and $320,211,000 from other fee revenues and reimbursements for a total of $4,182,249,000. The number of projected 2010-11 FTES is 339,873 resident and 14,509 non-resident students. FTES is determined by dividing the total academic student load by 15 units per term (the figure used here to define a full-time student's academic load).
The 2010-11 average support cost per FTES based on General Fund appropriation and net basic tuition fee revenue only is $11,213 and when including all sources as indicated below is $12,117. Of this amount, the average net basic tuition fee revenue and other income & reimbursements per FTES is $4,416, which includes all fee revenue in the CSU Operating Fund (e.g. tuition fees, application fees, other miscellaneous fees, and reimbursements).
|Average Cost per FTES
|Total Support Cost
|State Appropriation 1
|Net Basic Tuition Fee Revenue 2
|Other Income & Reimbursements 2, 3
1 State Appropriation includes a decrease of $106 million reflecting a shift of costs on a one‑time basis to the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act State Fiscal Stabilization Fund.
2 Net Basic Tuition fee revenue and other income represents campus 2010-11 budgets submitted November 2010.
3 Other income and reimbursements represent campus "other fee" 2010-11 final budget revenues submitted, as well as reimbursements in the CSU Operating Fund.
The average CSU 2010-11 academic year, resident, undergraduate student basic tuition fee and other mandatory fees required to apply to, enroll in, or attend the university is $5,285. However, the costs paid by individual students will vary depending on campus, program, and whether a student is part-time, full-time, resident, or nonresident.
Procedure for the Establishment or Abolishment of Campus-Based Mandatory Fees
The law governing the California State University provides that fees defined as mandatory, such as a student body association fee and a student body center fee, may be established. A student body association fee must be established upon a favorable vote of two-thirds of the students voting in an election held for this purpose (Education Code, Section 89300). A student body center fee may be established only after a fee referendum is held which approves by a two-thirds favorable vote the establishment of the fee (Education Code, Section 89304). The student body fee was established at CSU Dominguez Hills by student referendum on December 17, 1965. The campus President may adjust the student body association fee only after the fee adjustment has been approved by a majority of students voting in a referendum established for that purpose (Education Code, Section 89300). The required fee shall be subject to referendum at any time upon the presentation of a petition to the campus President containing the signatures of 10 percent of the regularly enrolled students at the University. Once bonds are issued, authority to set and adjust student body center fees is governed by provisions of the State University Revenue Bond Act of 1947, including, but not limited to, Education Code sections 90012, 90027, and 90068. Student body association fees support a variety of cultural and recreational programs, childcare centers, and special student support programs.
The process to establish and adjust other campus-based mandatory fees requires consideration by the campus fee advisory committee and a student referendum. The campus President may use alternate consultation mechanisms if he/she determines that a referendum is not the best mechanism to achieve appropriate and meaningful consultation. Results of the referendum and the fee committee review are advisory to the campus President. The President may adjust campus-based mandatory fees but must request the Chancellor to establish a new mandatory fee The President shall provide to the fee advisory committee a report of all campus-based mandatory fees. The campus shall report annually to the Chancellor a complete inventory of all campus-based mandatory fees.
For more information or questions, please contact the Budget Office in the CSU Chancellor's Office at (562) 951-4560.


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INFS4150 - Web Applic Devel Using Asp.Net
Fall 2014
TThis course introduces Web Application Development using the Windows, Internet Information Server, SQL Server, and ASP.NET enterprise application platform. Students will develop an application web site using introductory and intermediate ASP.NET server standard, validation, navigation, data and login controls. VB.NET will be used to provide additional programmatic capabilities. This course will focus on the development and deployment of a dynamic database web application.
Prerequisites: INFS2150 and INFS2120
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Moravian College seeks to enroll students from a variety of academic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds and secondary school experiences. The following is a summary of information about admission to the College; for further information, contact the Office of Admission, Moravian College, 1200 Main Street, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18018 (610 861-1320 or 800 441-3191), or visit the admissions page of the College's website. The College's application form is available on the website as well.
Standards for Admission
From the students who apply to Moravian College, the Admissions Selection Committee identifies those who have demonstrated academic achievement consistent with the programs of study offered at the College. The committee also considers evidence that the students are willing to be intellectually challenged, to participate in college activities, and to contribute some special talent or skill. Admission to Moravian College is quite competitive, and the committee gives careful attention to each applicant.
Candidates for admission should be enrolled in a high school college-preparatory curriculum and should complete the following courses by the time they graduate: four years of English, three years of mathematics (four years for students planning to major in the natural sciences or in economics and business), four years of social science, two years of the same foreign language, three years of natural sciences (at least two of which must include a laboratory experience), and electives chosen to prepare for successful study in a liberal arts program.


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General Motors has told its dealers to stop delivering 60,000 new cars on their sales lots, including many of its most popular models, until they fix a glitch involving the OnStar communications system.
In addition, owners of the affected models will be sent a letter later this month telling them either that their cars already had had a software patch sent to them over the airwaves or that they should bring in their vehicle to a dealer for service.
Dealers were being told tonight to go ahead and start fixing the cars using the patch, a process that takes about 30 minutes per vehicle, GM spokesman Alan Adler says. Since Wednesday, when dealers were first informed of the problem, GM has been gradually fixing the problem remotely by sending the electronic message to the cars. It hopes to have all the affected cars fixed next week.
New vehicles affected include 2013 Chevrolet Cruze, Equinox and Volt; 2013 Cadillac XTS and ATS; GMC Terrain Buick Verano. Also included was the 2012 Cadillac SRX. The list includes many of GM's best-selling or newest models, but they are the only ones that Adler says have the particular component.
The problem involves the sensor that triggers the vehicle's air bags in the event of a crash. The part, called the "sensing diagnostic module," is working fine when it comes to know when to inflate air bags, Adler says. But tests last month found that certain models would not always receive a call from an OnStar operator to check to see if passengers are injured in cases where the air bags are not supposed to inflate, such as rear-end accident.
No recall is being contemplated, Adler says. Federal safety regulation don't require a system like OnStar, which goes over and above minimum federal requirements. He also says he doesn't think the issue will harm sales since it can be fixed relatively quickly. Cars that have the problem can be sold. They just can't be delivered to customers until they are repaired.
Chris Woodyard is an auto writer for USA TODAY who covers all aspects of motoring. He revels in the exhaust note of a Maserati and the sharp creases of a Cadillac CTS. Chris strives to live a Porsche life on a Scion budget. More about Chris


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Reference: Portsmouth Criterium Bicycle Race - Road Closures
On Sunday, September 20th, from 8:00 AM through 7:00PM, the Chief of Police will be invoking his emergency powers and prohibiting parking on specific streets in the downtown area of the City of Portsmouth for the Criterium Bicycle Race.
The following street will be closed for traffic and vehicles shall NOT be parked on these streets or they may be towed at the owner's expense:
Maplewood Ave from Hanover Street to Middle Street
State Street from Middle to Washington Street
Pleasant Street from Court Street to Market Square
Congress Street
Market Square
Fleet Street from Hanover Street to Court Street
Market Street from Bow Street to Market Square
Daniel Street from Chapel Street to Market Square
Penhallow Street
High Street from Market Square to Ladd Street
Ladd Street
Church Street
Court Place
Chestnut Street (both sections)
Porter Street
Haven Court
Sheafe Street
Violators will be ticketed and towed.
Vendors not properly licensed will not be allowed in the Criterium Bicycle Race area.
The High/Hanover Parking Garage will have flat fee of $3.00 dollars from 10:00 AM to 6:00PM.
Set up will take place from 8:00am with the first bike race beginning at 12:30pm. The races will continue until @5:45pm with roads expected to be reopened at 7:00pm.
This race may cause periodic to significant delays in traffic in the downtown area.
Residents and business owners needing access into the race area once the area has been closed must contact Race Director Susanne Delaney at 603-817-2736 or on the web at www.portsmouthcrit.com.
Due to the expected large crowds, pet owners are requested not to bring their pets. If pets are brought they must be properly restrained (leash required) and bring proper pet waste disposal. Skateboards, roller blades, and scooters will not be permitted.
There will be uniformed police officers and event volunteers present at the Criterium Bicycle Race to assist the public, and to ensure a safe environment for the participant's enjoyment. The Portsmouth Department of Public Works will also be assisting with barricades for street closures.
This is an alcohol free event.
Please refer to the Criterium web site at www.portsmouthcrit.org for an event map and further information.
The Portsmouth Police contact for this event is Captain Mike Schwartz. To contact him please call 603-610-7408.


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New album could be part of Guns N' Roses' future
Listen to Guns N' Roses on iHeartRadio
Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose doesn't appear to making the band's Las Vegas residency their swan song.
While rumors have surfaced that the singer is planning to break up the band and go solo after their Vegas run, his current remarks indicate plans to keep the band intact.
Rose tells Revolver magazine he intends to return to the studio with the group to work on a new album. He explains that they have a number of leftover tracks from their Chinese Democracy sessions, and have "written a few new things" since then. Axl describes the material as "kind of the second half of 'Chinese,'" and says once the band is finished in Vegas, they're "going to start looking very seriously" at what they're "doing in that regard."
A new album from Guns N' Roses would be their follow up to Chinese Democracy which was released in late 2008. The band will wrap up their "No Trickery! An Evening of Destruction" at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Saturday.
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LISTEN: Ed Sheeran Releases 'Don't' Remix Featuring Rick Ross
Listen to Ed Sheeran Radio on iHeartRadio | Listen to Rick Ross Radio on iHeartRadio
Ed Sheeran has enlisted the help of Rick Ross for the remix of his latest single "Don't."
Ed will be releasing a separate EP with the remix, and fans who pre-order it will receive another unreleased track as well.
The new version of "Don't" comes just as Sheeran's sophomore album x (Multiply) spends its eighth consecutive week at the top of U.K. album charts. His run is nearing closer and closer to the record set by Adele in 2011 with her best-selling 21 album.
Watch Ed's performance of "Don't" from his iHeartRadio Album Release Party, live from the iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles, below.
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1st since 1985: American wins Boston Marathon
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(NEWSER) – Kenya's Rita Jeptoo successfully defended her Boston Marathon women's title this morning, becoming the seventh three-time winner and setting a new course record in the process. She crossed the finish line at the 118th marathon with a time of 2:18:57, reports the AP. Meanwhile, 38-year-old Meb Keflezighi claimed the men's title for the Americans for the first time since 1983, finishing in 2:08:37. (A female American last won the race in 1985.) Click for more on today's marathon.
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Moore School taking care of international business
The University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business is not resting on its many laurels as it marks a milestone ranking from U.S. News and World Report.
"This news reaffirms our commitment to providing our students a top-quality education, thereby ensuring that we are providing a well-educated workforce for South Carolina and our nation."
In fact, three of the University's graduate programs--in international business, school-library media, and social psychology--have earned top rankings in the magazine's annual issue, "America's Best Graduate Schools."
The Moore School is recognized as the nation's top-ranked public-university MBA program for international business and No. 2 among all institutions. The school has recently developed two new innovative international programs--for interdisciplinary graduate study and undergraduate study in Hong Kong--and is awaiting accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
This marks the 20th consecutive year that the Moore School's International Master of Business Administration (IMBA) Program has been ranked either No. 1 or No. 2 in the publication.
"Over the past two years of my IMBA program, I have had the pleasure of working with students and faculty who are also passionate about international business, culture and travel, and it has contributed greatly to my overall MBA experience," says graduate student Chelsea Render of Tulsa, Okla.
"I could not have chosen a better program with an international focus" says Render, who begins a two-year marketing position with Bosch in late July.


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The Bob Hope Hollywood USO at LAX
Providing the USO's famous "Touch of Home" to military travelers
The Bob Hope Hollywood USO at LAX is one of the finest state-of-the-art USO Centers in the world. Open 24/7, this comfortable and welcoming "safe haven" for troops and their families is located on the Arrivals (lower) Level of LAX directly across the roadway and between Terminals One and Two.
The 4,000 square foot Center offers its famed "Hollywood Canteen" snack bar; a big-screen TV lounge with a library of thousands of Hollywood's current and classic films; The General Jimmy Doolittle Lounge and free lending library; a full-service Internet Computer Center; A Disney inspired family room, a nap room with leather recliners where troops can catch a few winks between flights or remain overnight; secure luggage storage room; men's and women's restrooms and showers; an outdoor patio and barbeque and more.
The Center features a large display area honoring famed comedian and USO entertainer Bob Hope, complete with some of his stage "uniforms," photos, awards and other memorabilia.
All services are provided without charge to military personnel and their families. Additional services include the free use of cell phones to call home; a team of volunteers to assist with onward transportation services; use of our nationwide fax service; short-term temporary parking for brief visits, passenger pick-up and delivery; free DVDs and music CDs from Operation DVD, as well as discount hotel reservations.
More than 50,000 troops and their families, as well as traveling military retirees, visit the Bob Hope Hollywood USO at LAX annually. This is the flagship operation of the USO-Greater Los Angeles Area, Inc., which also has a USO center at Ontario (CA) International Airport and a USO Lounge at Palm Springs International Airport.
Telephone: 310-645-3716. Fax: 310-645-0317.Website: www.BobHopeUSO.org E-mail: email@example.com Address: 203 World Way, Suite #200Los Angeles, CA 90045


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University Chorus to present spring concert April 16
The University of South Carolina Chorus will usher in the season with its annual spring concert Friday, April 16, at St. Andrew's Baptist Church, 230 Bush River Road.
The 7:30 p.m. performance is free and open to the public.
Led by Joseph Modica, the chorus will perform selections from several genres of choral music. Included will be Mozart's "Missa Brevis in d minor" accompanied by a string ensemble, as well as the "Prelusio" from Carl Orff's cantata, "Catulli Carmina," and selections from oratorios by Haydn, Handel and Mendelssohn. The concert will conclude with three of the most beloved opera choruses in the repertoire: "Va Pensiero" from "Nabucco," "The Humming Chorus" from "Madame Butterfly" and "Libiamo ne'leiti calici" (Brindisi) from "La Traviata."
For more information, contact Sara Beardsley at 803-777-5369.
University Chorus annual spring concert
- When: Friday, April 16, 7:30 p.m.
- Where: St. Andrew's Baptist Church, 230 Bush River Road in Columbia


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The clinic is seeking a federal grant, she said, and the application is due in Washington, D.C., by Dec. 15.
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Women customers behave differently. Is that true?
I was reading an article about what women want and how not to give it to them, and it got me thinking. In it, Alice Adams describes the behaviors that derail gender inclusion. To me, they derail effective work overall, man or woman. Further, they prevent an organization from serving its customers.
Adams lists:
- Decide not to do an assessment, build a plan, set goals, or establish benchmarks.
- Task a small group of committed, passionate people with designing and implementing a change initiative—and expect them to succeed without a clear mandate, significant resources, intelligent guidance, or visible support from above.
- Start implementation without the support of key people.
- Refuse to assign supervisors specific responsibilities; fail to reward those who follow through.
- Keep quiet about the initiative, allowing it to be perceived as low-priority or to be ignored altogether.
- Let negative talk or obstructive behaviors pass without comment or notice.
- Assume that efforts that are well received in one part of the organization (a mentorship program, employee resource group, or set of educational workshops) will translate seamlessly to other parts of the organization.
- Do the same things again and again, although they haven't resulted in the hoped-for outcomes.
That pretty much describes much of corporate life in the experience of many, I'm sure. From this kind of environment, you then have marketers who decide that women are one demographic, one big category they will market to and service as if we all acted, thought, and bought in the same way.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Women are different from each other as people. Treating women differently as customers based upon gender biases -- men and women are different -- and stereotyping them as all the same, continues to reinforce those biases, especially since marketing is about exciting people's emotional reflexes.
There is a thriving industry centered around marketing to women. In social media, there are women associations and groups like BlogHer and Mommy Bloggers. Yet not only are many of the women in those groups different from each other, I know many women who would not even fit into those categories, including me. There are plenty of independent women -- married or not -- who choose not to have children, for example.
Some of them choose to have a career, others don't fit particularly into the career thing, nor they're into having a big family. More and more I'm seeing diversity between individuals, not genders. Especially as we all embrace a cultural movement that has us reprioritize what we buy, we're all influenced by economical, functional, social, physical, and mental considerations.
Are women more emotional than men? I would not be able to make this generalization based upon my experience. Do women spend less time online? Again, another generalization hard for me to make given that my work and that of many friends and colleagues centers on social media.
If women buy differently, do they warrant a different treatment as customers?
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GSA Issues FTS Program Strategy and Business Plan Analyses Report to Congress
December 2, 1996
Contact: Bill Bearden
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GSA's Federal Telecommunications Service (FTS) has issued The GSA Report to Congress on the FTS Program Strategy and Business Plan Analyses. The report details GSA's strategy for expanding and replacing telecommunications services to Federal agencies after the current FTS2000 contracts expire in December 1998. The strategy will enable the Federal Government to take advantage of increased competition and regulatory changes as a result of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. It will also provide for near-term separate competitions for local and long-distance services, and a competition by approximately 2001 for nationwide end-to-end services.
"The strategy, which draws on our successful FTS2000 experience, uses market forces and competition to help provide the best quality telecommunications services at the lowest price," said FTS Commissioner Bob Woods. "The strategy also provides the Government with the flexibility necessary to deal with the changing telecommunications market and dynamic regulatory environment."
The released report documents the chronology of the development process, which began in 1993, and the evolution of the strategy. The report, prepared in accordance with the Conference Report accompanying the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Bill for 1997, also presents business plan analyses for the components of the strategy as requested in Senator Stevens' letter to GSA dated October 15, 1996. Various questions raised by Members of Congress during the past year were also addressed.
In his transmittal letter to Members of Congress, GSA's Acting Administrator David J. Barram wrote, "I know of no precedent in government acquisitions for the level of involvement by all interested parties, especially industry, which has actively participated in numerous conferences and forums designed to exchange substantive ideas, many of which have been incorporated within the approach described in the report. This strategy is as much industry's as the Government's."
The FTS strategy detailed in the report is comprised of several elements:
A near-term competition for long distance-services only (FTS2001), followed in four years (or as soon as nationwide markets for end-to-end services develop) by a competition for both local and long-distance services nationwide.
Near-term competitions for local services in major markets. These Metropolitan Area Acquisition (MAA's), the first of which is being held in New York City, are scheduled to begin in 1997. Additional MAA's covering about 80 percent of Federal users are to be completed by 1999.
Additional "niche" acquisitions for specific and limited telecommunications services where special conditions exist.
Contracts for support services.
By approximately 2001, concurrent with the expiration of the four-year base period for FTS2001, a new competition will be conducted to obtain end-to-end services from one set of contracts.
All competitions will be open to all companies.
The strategy is based on the principle of the Government as a "smart shopper" for goods and services that leverages the Government's buying power to strike the best deal for commercial-grade services.
The report will be available via the Internet on December 4, 1996, at http://post.fts2k.gsa.gov.


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With music technology cheaper than ever, many producers are transforming old gear into new and unpredictable instruments. RA's Jack O'Shaughnessy investigates.
Fireworks, vinyl and making edits in your underwear: Three gigs in the life of the Berlin-via-London DJ/producer.
RA goes to the German countryside to peek into the studio of the Kosmische legend.
RA journeys to the revered drum & bass producer's studio to talk synths, samples and sensimilla.
To celebrate the holiday this weekend, RA asked the mothers of some of our favorite artists to talk about their kids.


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- Troubles festering for some time
- Watson wastes no time in hitting out
- Captain's knock sends Watson to the outer
Australian coach Mickey Arthur says "back-chat" and "giving attitude" had become an unacceptable part of the Test team culture, leading to his decision to stand down four players for the third Test in Mohali.
Arthur has outlined in his latest blog on the Cricket Australia website the other indiscretions which led to his unprecedented decision to axe Shane Watson, James Pattinson, Mitchell Johnson and Usman Khawaja for not submitting requested feedback after Australia's humiliating defeat in the second Test.
High performance manager Pat Howard refused to divulge what the other behavioural issues were when he addressed the media on Tuesday.
Arthur hasn't named names, but offered detail on the culture problems in his blog.
"Being late for a meeting, high skinfolds, wearing the wrong attire, back-chat or giving attitude are just some examples of these behavioural issues that have been addressed discretely but continue to happen," Arthur wrote.
"If we're deadly serious about getting back to number one in the world, all players need to raise the bar and lift their game.
"If not, we must be content at being number three or four or five in world cricket because we won't get any better. The players won't learn and we'll continue a vicious cycle.
"Let's be absolutely clear.
"The decision to suspend Shane Watson, Mitchell Johnson, James Pattinson and Usman Khawaja for not adhering to a team request is the defining moment, but it has been a culmination of lots of small minor indiscretions that have built up to now."
It's not clear whether Watson, Pattinson, Johnson and Khawaja are responsible for any of these other breaches revealed by Arthur.
However, Howard said on Tuesday that some of the four had previously slipped up, while others had a clean sheet.
Corner-cutting, taking short-cuts or arriving with a bad attitude will no longer be tolerated
Arthur, the former coach of South Africa, said the past two days have been the toughest of his career.
"The last week and a half since the end of the Hyderabad Test has been the toughest in my 11 years coaching," he said.
"The media reaction to this decision was like none I've seen in my coaching career and has certainly divided opinion.
"It is a strong message to everyone in Australian cricket that if you want to play for the Australian cricket team, then we demand excellence. Corner-cutting, taking short-cuts or arriving with a bad attitude will no longer be tolerated.
"We want to be the Spanish football team, Manchester United or McLaren of world cricket.
"The absolute pinnacle where high standards are not expected, they are second nature.
"Australian cricket fans deserve nothing less."


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ETM-LA is a prominent organization making a difference in children's lives early on. They are an essential part in supporting the development of learning, encouraging talent, and building confidence. I am proud to have joined the ETM-LA team as a volunteer, and truly look forward to continued support in any way possible.
ETM-LA is a great organization that truly inspires the entire educational and music community. Its commitment to providing children with the opportunity not only to learn (and love) music, but to develop math, reading, and social skills, is unparalleled and exemplary. I am so honored to be a part of this organization and believe wholeheartedly in its mission.
ETM-LA is an amazing organization. They bring inspiration to everyone involved in the group. As volunteers, you see kid's eyes light up with excitement when they learn something new, or perform in front of people. The kind of confidence and learning excitement that ETM-LA gives children will affect so many other aspects of their learning. Music is such an important component of education and learning that often gets left out. Education Through Music - LA is bringing that to the students who need it most and they are doing it in a way that is inspiring and fun.
I was delighted to learn about ETM-LA and their inspirational work with keeping music in children's lives through schools, so it was without hesitation that I joined their ranks of volunteers. I was incredibly fortunate to grow up at a time when music was offered regularly in my public schools. It's such a loss when children don't have an opportunity to experience music classes as a standard part of their educations. ETM-LA Executive Director Victoria Lanier has impressed me with her sincere passion and tireless efforts to make this an excellent organization. I am not surprised at the outpouring of support and continuing involvement in ETM-LA by so many professionals in the music industry.
Education Through Music - LA is a frontrunner in positive change in our broken education system here in the greater Los Angeles community. As a professional musician and former educator I can truly attest that this program not only provides underserved children with the highest quality music education, but more importantly enhances all aspects of these children's academic experience through its incredible comprehensive curriculum. This program's primary focus is to use the key fundamentals of music (rhythm, pitch, reading, mathematical divisions, emotional expression, historical context, sequencing, scientific principles of sound and physics, foreign languages, eye/hand coordination and motor skills, public presentation/performance skills, artistic expression ...to name a few) to enhance and support the students grasp on essential life skills and academics. In addition, this is not an after-school program. This program is part of the regular school day for every child! I have seen first hand the profound difference they have made in children's lives over the years and am proud to say I will continue to support the wonderful work they do in the lives of our children and our community!
ETM-LA brings inspiration and personal development for not only its students, but parents, co-workers and volunteers alike. ETM-LA has created an environment that is focused on people connecting and learning on a face to face basis. They take great care in providing resources and tools to people that would otherwise be forgotten about. ETM-LA helps to remind us that people providing information in an intelligent, caring, and nurturing way will always aid in developing future intelligent, caring, and nurturing mentors.
Education Through Music-Los Angeles is a non-profit that truly believes in the mission to bring music to every child in Los Angeles. Glad to be a part of this wonderful organization.
If you are passionate about music and would like to get involved in bringing first hand music education to the future generation; then I highly recommend volunteering and supporting ETM-LA. Victoria and her staffs commitment, passion and energy to bring music as a core curriculum to the inner city school community is truly unmatched. I've been a regular volunteer for the past 2 years and couldn't have been more proud to have served this organization.
This is a great charity, I have been working with them for a couple years now and the first thing I noticed is how dedicated and passionate the whole team is towards bringing music to every school. They are extremely hard-working and make all the events genuinely fun and exciting for all the kids who participate. Definitely a great non-profit!
This wonderful organization is child, education and music focused. They believe in providing high quality training for their teachers and the benefits are evident in the quality of programs that they provide. I was able to observe an elementary music class and was impressed with the children's enthusiasm and pride in the music they were learning and performing.


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Their kids were their biggest motivation
The best home tech and gadgets to gift your old man
Richard Davies went above and beyond to support his baby
Skip the tie rack this year and get your old man something good
Consider these the fundamental laws of fatherhood
The Duke's youngest son explains how his dad taught him to be grateful, humble, and avoid pits full of snakes
You love to work out. So why is someone you care about stuck on the couch? Here's how to make the case for a more active life, without turning him off to exercise forever
It's not sexy. The dad bod is just stupid—and a little dangerous
To be a man your kid will truly look up to, take the advice of these successful fathers
You use this device 100 times a day, but your tykes are better off sticking with toy trucks
Do these things today and be fitter, healthier, and happier tomorrow


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Herald staff
The beach at Cama Beach State Park will sport about 50 quilts on July 27. No, not for sun-bathers, but for the fourth annual Quilts on the Beach event.
Many of the quilts and smaller quilted items will be for sale, and you can purchase raffle tickets for this year's queen-size quilt donated to the Cama Beach Foundation by the quilters. Proceeds from the sales support educational activities at the park.
The day's activities include events at the Cama Center: sewing quilt blocks, flower pounding and a bed-turning of antique quilts. For the unitiated, a bed-turning is where the quilts are displayed, turned back one at a time for viewing, and a quilter describes each quilt.
Admission is free but visitors must each buy a Discover Pass at the state park Welcome Center for parking. The Cama Cafe will be open for breakfast and lunch.
Quilts on the Beach goes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 27. Cama Beach State Park is at 1880 S. West Camano Drive, Camano Island. For more information contact Pam at 360-387-4550.


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Genomics and the Future of Cancer Treatmentby Edward J. Benz, Jr., MD
Filed under | Innovations in Science
Centuries ago, when disease was thought to result from a disruption of the body's four basic "humors" – fluids that collectively governed health – treatments were designed to bring them back into balance. "Therapies," some of them ghastly by modern standards, were intended to relieve patients of harmful surpluses of certain humors.
Thankfully, medicine has advanced far beyond that era. However, it's clear that how we understand or conceptualize a disease affects how we treat it. Those who will look back on our efforts decades from now may marvel at the limitations of our knowledge about the true nature of the diseases we sought to conquer.
Consider cancer. For more than a century, cancers have been classified by the organ or tissue where they begin – the breast, lungs, bone marrow, digestive system, and so on – and therapies have been geared to those specific areas. Fortunately, as we've learned more about the basic biological processes at work in cancer, a new perspective has emerged. Soon, we may regard the organ-based conceptions as being as outmoded as the "humors."
Increasingly, we're able to study cancer not only at the most fundamental, molecular level but also at the level of interacting systems and networks. We have gained crucial insights, for example, into how the immune system fights cancer and why that fight isn't always successful. We've learned how tumors tap into the body's bloodstream for nourishment and how those supply lines can potentially be shut off. We've learned how tumors communicate with healthy, surrounding tissue, and how that neighboring tissue sometimes abets the cancer process.
The best known of these advances in "systems" biology, perhaps, is genomics, which provides a "snapshot" of gene activity within a cell. As our knowledge grows, there has been a shift away from viewing cancer in terms of the organ where a tumor forms, and toward a concern with the genetic instructions that govern both the growth and division of individual tumor cells and the interaction of the tumor with the person who serves as its unwilling host.
To carry this work forward, we need a far more collaborative approach to research, with an emphasis on rapidly converting basic scientific insights into practical treatments that work in patients. By creating "Dream Teams" of scientists and specialists from different disciplines, Stand Up To Cancer is mobilizing precisely this kind of effort. It is one reason why the program holds so much promise for turning the tide against cancer.
The trend toward a genomic approach to cancer is gaining momentum every day. Research has shown, for example, that certain lung cancers have some of the same abnormal, or mutated, genes as some brain cancers. Gene mutations that sometimes show up in breast and ovarian cancers also occasionally appear in prostate cancers. Such similarities may turn out to be far more significant, from a treatment standpoint, than the fact that the tumors arose in different organs. A striking example of this occurred earlier this year. A patient with metastatic melanoma – an often fatal cancer that begins in the skin – came to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in Boston, for treatment. Genetic tests showed that her tumors harbored a mutated gene called KIT, which is often found in patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Her doctors treated her with the drug Gleevec, which was originally designed for CML patients with mutations in KIT. The result: her cancer went into complete remission – the first time that has ever been accomplished in metastatic melanoma. She and an increasing number of others like her provide another lesson: every person's tumor is unique. That is why the goal of "personalized medicine" is so compelling.
Cancer has always been known as an illness of many guises. When we talk about cancer today, we're actually referring to a family of diseases – more than 400 in all – characterized by the uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. As we begin to identify cancers by their genetic "signatures" – the specific set of mutated genes within their DNA – it may turn out that there are even more types and subtypes than we currently recognize.
The shift from an organ-focused to a gene-focused approach to cancer is already having a profound effect on the way cancer is treated. The impact can be seen particularly clearly in breast cancer. Not too many years ago, breast tumors were categorized and treated primarily by their size, the degree to which they had invaded surrounding tissue or sloughed off cells into the lymph system, and their appearance under a pathologist's microscope.
Today, breast tumor tissue is routinely analyzed to determine if it is "ER positive," meaning its growth is fueled by the hormone estrogen, and if it has an abnormality in the gene HER-2/neu. Patients whose tumors are ER positive can be treated with antiestrogen agents, and those with an HER-2/neu mutation may receive the drug Herceptin, which targets the malfunctioning gene. Genetic testing also enables doctors to identify women with inherited mutations in the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, which increases people's risk of breast and other cancers. Although no easy preventive treatment yet exists for those with BRCA mutations, women who test positive for them can take steps to ensure new tumors are caught as quickly as possible.
Together, these advances mean that about 85 percent of all breast cancers can now be distinguished as ER-positive or having BRCA or HER-2/neu mutations, or some combination of the three – and be treated accordingly.
This ability to match therapies to breast tumors' genetic vulnerabilities is a preview of what we hope to be able to accomplish for all cancers. Such "targeted" therapies have already had an enormous impact for three other groups of patients – those with chronic myelogenous leukemia, those with a rare digestive-tract cancer called gastrointestinal stromal tumor, or GIST, and the roughly 12 percent of lung cancer patients whose tumors have a defect in the gene EGFR. In all three cases, targeted therapies routinely produce remissions in patients who otherwise would have no effective options for treatment.
The capacity to "type" tumors by their genetic profiles will have other benefits as well. In prostate cancer, for example, we currently don't know which tumors are likely to spread – and therefore require urgent treatment – and which are likely to be so slow-growing they'll never pose a health threat. As a result, we tend to treat all prostate cancers as if they're of the most ferocious variety. By understanding which genes brand a tumor as especially aggressive, we'll be able to provide not only the right treatment, but the right degree of treatment, and at the right time.
The impact of these and other advances can be seen in increasing survival rates for a variety of cancers. Thirty years ago, the five-year survival rate for cancers in general was less than 50 percent. Today, it is higher than 66 percent.
For all its promise, the field of cancer genomics is less than a decade old. The progress in mapping out cancer's genetic variety, though substantial, is still at a relatively early stage. As we fill in the map and develop a new taxonomy for cancer – a new system for distinguishing tumor types and subtypes – the advances promise to be enormous. But we are still learning how to use these powerful new tools. Much remains to be done.
Nonetheless, the opportunity for a decisive push against cancer has never been more assured – and this is why support from the Stand Up To Cancer campaign is so crucial. By encouraging collaboration between eminent, established researchers and talented young scientists and by bringing people from many scientific fields together, the campaign encourages precisely the melding of innovation and experience, depth and breadth that is vital for continued progress. The elements of future breakthroughs are steadily coming into sight; we can be the generation that puts them together to finally break the back of cancer.
Edward J. Benz, Jr., MD, graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1973 and received his training at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the National Institutes of Health. He is president of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, CEO of Dana-Farber/Partners Cancercare, director of D-F/Harvard Cancer Center, and a member of the Governing Board of D-F/Children's Cancer Center. He is also a clinical hematologist and an active NIH-funded investigator.


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Events for August 8, 2014
Spanish Speaking Local Pastor Licensing School
July 28 - August 8, 2014
Description: Iliff will be hosting "Building Hispanic Leaders in the The United Methodist Church," the Spanish-Speaking Local Pastor Licensing School, for two weeks this summer. The school is sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Conference and supported by the Western Jurisdiction Hispanic Ministries of The United Methodist Church.
Auspiciado por la Conferencia Rocky Mountain 7 apoyada por los Ministerios Hispanos de la Jurisdiccion del Oeste de la lglesia Metodista Unida
Date: July 28 – August 8, 2014
Julio 28 – Agosto 8, 2014
Location: Iliff School of Theology, 2323 East Iliff Avenue, Denver, CO 80210
Website: http://www.rmcumc.org/SpanishLicensingSchool


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CLAREMONT - He was a colorful man. Grandfatherly, friendly, cranky, free-spirited and now missed.
Ray Collins, who died last month at age 75, may be known to the world as the man who co-founded the Mothers of Invention band, along with Frank Zappa, but to many in Claremont, he was a smiling fixture in the small, tight-knit college town.
"He was just comfortable with just being," said Richard Barnes, one of dozens who came out Sunday afternoon to Shelton Park to remember the old man with the long white beard who always enjoyed spinning yarns with those willing to take the time and interest to listen.
"It warms my heart to see so many people out here to remember Ray," said a woman who was one of many people who stood in front of the crowd of about 40 and shared their memories of Collins.
The crowd let out a collective laugh when one woman recalled her son telling her he liked Collins but thought he was cranky.
Many knew of Collins' musical past and his association with Mothers of Invention and Zappa, but most knew him as the smiling, but sometimes temperamental man with the long white beard who enjoyed spending time at the library.
Cynthia Allaire, who learned about Sunday's memorial through Facebook, brought her guitar and she shared her memories of Collins.
"I've known him for 10 years," she said. "He had a great friendliness."
She then began to play and sing "I'll Fly Away." People began to join in until at the end of the song their voices could be heard by sidewalk shoppers on the next block.
Two women who stumbled on the public memorial asked what was going on. While they didn't know Ray Collins' name, when someone described Collins to the woman, their eyes lit up and one said, "I think I know exactly who you're talking about. He seemed like a nice man."
There were some tears, but mostly smiles as they remembered and celebrated the life of their quirky town greeter.
Reach Beatriz via email, call her at 909-386-3921, or find her on Twitter @IEBeatriz.


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/ NEWS: Dunglung Khangri FA for Bass, Figg and Yearsley
Battling 'Scottish conditions' the trio bagged the 6365m peak after abandoning their initial objective of Rimo III (7,233 m) due to poor conditions.
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Most walkers or hikers like to keep a tally of the mountains they have climbed and for those of you who love ticking off or... Read more
By far the best crag on the Culm Coast some might say. Three precariously balanced yet magnificent fins of rock protrude out into... Read more
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After many months of debate over proposed revisions and an unprecedented number of public comment periods, the latest version of the USGBC's LEED green building rating system, dubbed LEED v4, will go into effect this fall after it was successfully passed by ballot vote of USGBC membership, the organization announced this morning. The final overall vote was 86 percent in favor of adopting LEED v4. The minimum overall percentage of votes needed for passage was 66.7 percent.
Of the votes cast in the ballot, which was open for the month of June, 90 percent of the user category of voters approved the system, as did 77 percent of the general interest category and 89 percent of the producer category of voters. As previously reported by Ecobuildingpulse.com, a number of the changes to the LEED system under LEED v4 drew passionate commentary and debate over the past year, with much of it centered around changes relating to materials. The system was originally dubbed LEED 2012, however, in June 2012 the USGBC postponed the ballot vote on the system in order to receive more public commentary on the proposed changed, to the delight of industry groups opposed to the version offered at the time. The final public comment period closed March 31, 2013.
With the LEED v4 ballot passed now, the USGBC will begin offering education on LEED v4 this summer in the form of webinars and the full program, along with associated reference guides, will be unveiled at this year's Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Philadelphia in November. Currently more than 100 projects are participating in the LEED v4 beta program and the first of these projects may receive certification this summer. Enrollment for the beta program remains open, and more information can be found via the LEED v4 User Guide.


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The adapter I have is an Alfa 802.11g USB AWUS036H and I'm running backtrack 4 Final Release.
Has anyone been able to set up an softAP (using dhcpd) with Bactrack 4 Final Release and Alfa AWUS036H/USB out of the box?
I have tried different howtos but they all end up with the same problem. I can't get an IP from the DHCP-server on the laptop where airbase is also running.
But I spot the AP and from the Airbase konsole I spot the client connect.
Right now, I also observed this in the syslog:
bt dhcpd: Wrote 0 leases to leases file.
bt kernel: hpet1: lost 1 rtc interrupts
Now when I got my hands on my girlfriend's Asus EEE notebook I was able to connect to the dhcp-service and get an correct IP address! (she wasn't as happy as I was)
But the SSID only shows up with empty squares (unprintable characters i windows). And besides this it is very strange why my other laptop will not connect but her laptop will.


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Avg.Rate: BRL 371.00 - 710.00
Rating: 3 stars
Sitting within Santo Antônio do Leverger's wide landscapes, this hotel features outdoor pools and a multi-sport court. It offers a daily buffet breakfast at the restaurant and free private parking. With a cable TV, minibar and private bathroom, all rooms are air-conditioned. Some feature a fireplace, while others offers a balcony with garden views. Hotel Mato Grosso Águas Quentes is 90 km from Cuiabá bus station, and 93 km from Varzea Grande Airport. citeşte mai mult


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GSA to Issue $5B RFP for Service-Disabled Veterans
February 23, 2005
Contact: Viki Reath (202) 501-1231
WASHINGTON – The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) today announced it will release a request for proposal in March for a government-wide acquisition contract (GWAC) that will be set aside for service disabled veteran owned small businesses. The GWAC, named Veterans Technology Services (VETS), will provide information technology (IT) services for federal government agencies. This GWAC responds to an Executive Order signed by President Bush in October 2004 that directed GSA to establish a GWAC for service disabled veteran owned small businesses, which GSA supported.
GSA has already submitted its business case to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the 10-year, $5 billion GWAC contract known as the Veterans Technology Services (VETS) contract, which will promote opportunities for disabled veteran small business owners to provide information technology (IT) services to federal government agencies. The Request for Proposal will be issued this spring for VETS, and contract awards are expected early in 2006. The GWAC will have two functional areas that serviced disabled veteran businesses can propose on, namely Information Systems Engineering and Systems Operations and Maintenance, and both will include IT Security.
"We believe that serving those who have served the Nation so ably is the right thing to do," said GSA Administrator Stephen A. Perry. "We are proud to partner with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Small Business Administration to provide this contract vehicle that will help our disabled veterans and also enable federal agencies to meet their statutory 3 percent goal for contracting with service disabled veteran owned small businesses."
The proposed VETS contract will be awarded to multiple companies for information technology services. Under this approach, agencies will have options to consider for the work they need accomplished. These contracts are the so-called "Multiple Award/Indefinite Delivery/ Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contracts. GSA provides this type of contract for federal agencies when the government knows it will need a variety of services, but cannot immediately specify the required services. When agencies identify their requirements, they award specific "task orders," under the contract terms. The agency task orders include final prices.
Brad Scott, GSA Heartland Regional Administrator, and also the designated GSA senior official for service disabled veteran matters, said, "GSA has made a commitment to help service disabled veteran owned small businesses, and the VETS GWAC is a big step in showing just how deep the GSA level of commitment goes. This is something we believe in, and GSA will continue to be a strong advocate for providing opportunities to disabled veterans."
GSA's Small Business GWAC Center in Kansas City, Mo., will manage the VETS procurement. Online information is available at www.gsa.gov/vetsgwac.
GSA is a centralized federal procurement, property management, and policy agency, created by Congress to improve government efficiency and help federal agencies better serve the public. It acquires, on behalf of federal agencies, office space, equipment, telecommunications, information technology, supplies and services. It also plays a key role in developing and implementing government-wide policies. GSA's 12,000 associates provide services and solutions for the office operations of more than one million federal workers located in more than 8,000 government-owned and leased buildings in 2,000 U.S. communities.


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"Shameful to legislate in favour of religious bigotry", writes a prominent British socialist politician who wants to stop the British government from allowing Christian Schools to teach students there are alternatives to evolution. In a scathing article in The Guardian, 19 May 2003, p18, Roy Hattersley claims allowing creationism to be taught in schools is the equivalent of allowing Hindus to burn widows and Muslims to kill "infidels". As part of his tirade he asks the following questions: "Should society tolerate - and subsidise from taxation - schools which teach that natural selection is a myth and that the world was created in six days, just over 4,000 years ago? Sir Peter Vardy, a motor sales tycoon, has already founded such a school in Gateshead and proposes to open two more. Is it right to allow religions which regard homosexuality as a sin to be absolved from the employment clauses in anti-discrimination legislation?"
Further along he makes the following statement: "It is surely self-evident that to teach in schools that Eve was created from Adam's rib injures children's interests. They either go into the world believing manifest nonsense, or spend their adolescence under the impression that their teachers are cranks." Hattersley also states "Questions of such moral complication cannot be answered in a philosophic vacuum."
Editorial Comment: Hattersley is particularly scathing about Peter Vardy and Gateshead school because last year Richard Dawkins and other prominent evolutionists tried but failed to get this school's official accreditation removed. UK education inspectors gave it a glowing reference as an excellent place of learning.
However, amongst his blustering Hattersley makes one correct statement: education cannot be conducted in a "philosophic vacuum". Exposing students to the evidence of a transcendent personal creator is a threat to Hattersley's philosophy of secular humanism. We shouldn't be surprised when such vitriolic attacks are mounted against us, but neither should we be discouraged.


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RICHARD M. KLEIN, Editor Department of Botany, University of Vermont, Burlington,
Jerry D. Davis, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, WI
Peter Heywood, Brown University, Providence, RI
Anitra Thorhaug, Florida International University, Key Biscayne, FL
Richard P. Wunderlin, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
The Plant Science Bulletin is published at the University of Vermont, Burlington,
VI 05405. Second class postage paid at Burlington, VT.
Plant Introduction and Botanic Gardens in China
1. Plant Introduction in Old China
Nearly as old as other centers of early agriculture in the world, China introduced
and domesticated cereal crops in the Neolithic age about 7000-10,000 years ago.
l4C measurements of rice grains from an archeological site in Chekiang pushed
back the history of cultivated rice in China to 5,000 BC; wheat domestication
was ascertained to be at least 4,000 years ago. The chronology of plant introduction
in China falls into three main stages: a) Stage of domestic introduction from
the beginning of proto-agriculture to the first century A.D. This stage was
characterized by domestication of wild crop plants and plant introduction from
neighboring countries. b) Stage of introduction via terrestrial routes (134
BC - 1368 AD). This stage included the introduction of plants from middle Asia
and from near-eastern countries. c) Stage of introduction via oceanic routes
(1368-1948) from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the founding of the People's
Republic. This stage was characterized by the introduction of plants from Central
and South America followed by North American trees, vegetables and garden flowers.
The earliest recorded Chinese plant hunter was Chan-Chien who brought alfalfa
and grapes in 126 BC when he served as ambassador of the Han Dynasty to the
"western territory." From then on, camel caravans on the long corridor
known as the "Silk Route" carried such economic plants as persian
walnut, pomegranate, safflower, garlic, sesame, etc. By the beginning of the
first century AD, broad bean and asiatic cotton were introduced from Central
Asia as was lotus, ginger and cucumber from India and sugar cane from tropical
Another long period of plant introduction commenced from the fifth to the fourteenth
centuries. African cotton, castor oil bean and watermelon, spinach from Central
Asia and vegetable sponge from India traveled to China by various routes. Domestication
of tree paeony and chrysanthemum became of interest to Chinese cultivators during
the tenth century and numerous cultivars were obtained with special treatises
on cultivation written, published and circulated.
Plant introduction from the fifteenth to the middle of this century turned
a new page after the opening of oceanic traffic and the discovery of the new
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Among the plant emigrants were maize, sweet potato, white potato, peanut, pepper,
bean, upland cotton and other plants. No one can underestimate the importance
and success of plant introductions in old China, but it took too much time and
was by no means efficient and scientific.
II. Plant Introduction in the People's Republic
Upon the founding of the People's Republic, plant introduction developed into
an organized and scientific enterprise. Since 1954, ten major botanic gardens
in different climates and vegetational regions were established under the sponsorship
of Academia Sinica. A Commission of Botanic Gardens was established under the
Academy and, according to the Rules of Botanic Gardens (1978), five functions
should be performed.
1. The exploitation of wild plant resources, introduction of indigenous and
exotic economic plants, breeding of new varieties so as to enrich the re- sources
of cultivated plants.
2. To study the new techniques and methods on plant introduction and acclimatization,
so as to improve the productivity, quality or tolerance of introduced plants.
3. To summarize the principles regulating the growth, development, adaptability,
economic characteristics and variation of introduced plants.
4. Extensive collection of plant resources, especially those of rare, threatened
and endangered species, followed by studies on their evolution, taxonomy, preservation
and utilization.
5. To mold a botanical garden with both pleasing landscapes and scientific displays,
to make the garden an important place to study modern botany and to popularize
botanic knowledge in the public.
For close to 30 years, Chinese botanic gardens and arboretums have worked to
fulfill these aims. Their major accomplishments might be briefly summarized:
1. Field surveys of plant resources, exploration for wild ancestors and related
2. Exploitation, introduction and utilization of indigenous wild species of
timber trees, medicinal plants and garden plants.
3. Introduction and acclimatization of exotic economic plants.
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4. Introduction of plants for special purposes, e.g., desert, aquatic, forage
ground covers, salt tolerant, seashore, etc. plants, plants as food adulterants,
5. Selection and breeding of woody plants.
6. Insect and disease control measures.
7. Studies on principles and methods of plant introduction including physiology
of cold resistance, seed physiology, tissue culture, surveys of flora, etc.
8. Investigations on precious, threatened and endangered species.
9. Phytochemical studies, compilation of floras, experiments on artificial plant
communities and study of the history of plant introduction in China.
Although plant introduction in China has had a history of thousands of years,
the institutions responsible for such matters were started less than 50 years
ago. We have to accumulate experience on problems of planning; construction
and management of efficient botanic gardens, study methods of plant introduction
and conduct scientific research. We also urgently need to study the experiences
of corresponding institutions abroad with the hope that botanic gardens in China
will progress faster and make more contributions to plant introduction and the
welfare of the people.
Hsip-Saungpana Botanic Garden - Mung Lun, Hsip-saungpana, Yunnan
Director: Prof. S. T. Tzai. Area: 86 ha.
Taxa: local and exotic tropical forest trees, fruit trees, woody oil plants,
medicinal plants, palms, bamboos
Garden: economic plants, artificial plant communities, tropical rain forest
Publications: catalog of plants, research papers
Kunming Botanic Garden - Kunming, Yunnan
Director: Prof. Y. Y. Wu Area: 40 ha.
Taxa: 2000 trees and shrubs of Yunnan
Garden: greenhouse, garden of ornamentals, systematic garden, olive Publications:
Index Seminum, Yunnan camellias, research papers
Kweilin Botanic Garden - Kweiling, Kwangsi
Director: S. R. Yi Area: 150 ha.
Taxa: 2000 fruit trees, medicinals, plants for rocky hills
Garden: Timber trees, woody oil plants, ornamentals, medicinals, bamboo Publications,
research papers
Kwantung Botanic Garden - Gouanzhou, Kwantung
Director: Prof. F. H. Chen Area: 300 ha.
Taxa: 3200 south sub-tropical and tropical trees, medicinals, ferns
Garden: displays, Ting-Hu Mountain Natural Reserve
Publications: Index Seminum, research papers
Lushan Botanic Garden - Lushan, Kiangsi
Director: not given Area: 290 ha.
Taxa: 3000 plants of sub-tropical mountains, conifers, alpine herbaceous
Garden: greenhouse, alpine flowers, arboretum, pinetum, rock garden, tea Publications:
Index Seminum, research papers
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Nanking Sun Yat-Sen Botanic Garden - Nanking, Kiangsu
Director: C. K. Shen Area: 120 ha.
Taxa: 2000 plants of north and central sub-tropics, timber, ornamentals
Garden: greenhouse, systematic garden, pinetum, medicinals, ornamentals Publications:
Index Seminum, Plant Introduction & Acclimatization, Domestication of Plants,
Fast-Growing Trees, Introduction of Olive
Peking Botanic Garden - Peking
Director: D. T. Yui Area: 58 ha.
Taxa: 3000 economic trees of northern provinces, garden trees, grapes
Garden: greenhouse, displays of economic and garden plants
Publications: Index Seminum, newsletter, research papers
Sian Botanic Garden - Sian, Shensi
Director: not given Area: 48 ha.
Taxa: 1200 plants of Ching-Ling, aromatics, medicinals
Garden: garden of evolution of plants Publications: research papers
Shenyang Botanic Garden - Shenyang, Liaoning
Director: not given Area: 24 ha.
Taxa: 200 Populus, Salix, Picea, non-legume N-fixers
Garden: greenhouse under construction
Publications: catalog of plants, research papers
Wuhan Botanic Garden - Wuhan, Hupeh
Director: T. T. Shan Area: 60 ha.
Taxa: Economic plants of Central China, fresh-water plants, medicinals
Garden: greenhouse, aquatics, arboretum, bamboos, medicinals
Publications: Index Seminum, research papers
Other Gardens
Desert Botanic Garden - Mingching, Kansu
Medicinal Garden - Hangchow, Chekiang
Medicinal Plants - Academia Sinica Medicinalis, Peking
Sub-Tropical Forestry - Fujan, Chekiang
Arboretum - Fuchow, Fukien
Garden - Hangchow, Chekiang
Forest Botanic Garden - Harbin, Heilongjiang
Hwangshan Arboretum - Shihsien, Kweizhow
Kweizhou Botanic Garden - Kweiyang, Kweizhou
Kwantung Institute of Tropical Crops - Hainan Island, Kwantung
Nanning Botanic Garden - Nanning, Kwansi
Pingyang Institute of Sub-tropical Crops - Pingyan, Chekiang
Pingtung Tropical Botanic Garden - Pingtung, Taiwan
Shanghai Botanic Garden (under construction) - Shanghai
Shongyae Arboretum - Shongyae, Liaoning
Tapei Botanic Garden - Tapei, Taiwan
Tropical Crops Experiment Station - Tzanchiang, Kwantung
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Dr. Umesh C. Banerjee has been appointed Director of the Benjamin Harris Herbarium
of North Texas State University in Denton. A graduate assistantship is available
in areas of plant taxonomy, botanical electron microscopy, palynology and protoplasm
fusion of winged beans and Parthenium.
An assistant professorship for tissue culture is available 1 September 1980
in the Dept. of Horticulture, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. The
Ph.D. in biology, biochemistry, horticulture or related fields is required with
training in tissue culture. The successful candidate is expected to initiate
and conduct a tissue culture research program related to the needs of New Mexico
agriculture. The position involves research, consulting and assistance to other
faculty and graduate students. Contact Dr. Fred B. Widmoyer, Dept. of Horticulture,
Box 3530, Las Cruces, NM 88003.
The Civil Service Commission announces openings for a Plant Physiologist, GS-0435
and an ecologist, GS-0408 for service at the Johnson Space Center; a Plant Physiologist,
GS-434-l4 at BARC, Plant Genetics and Germplasm Institute, Tobacco Laboratory
in Beltsville, MD; a Plant Physiologist GS-435-ll/l2 (temporary) at the Southern
Weed Science Laboratory in Stoneyville, Mississippi; and a Research Geneticist
(Plant) GS-440-l3-l5 in Cereal Genetics Research, Columbia, Mississippi. Information
and applications should be sent to the Special Examining Unit, Science and Education
Administration, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, 6505 Belcrest Rd., Hyattsville,
The Plant Science Bulletin is missing from its archives Volume 11, #2,3,4.
Members willing to let us photocopy these issues should contact the Editor,
Richard Klein, Dept. of Botany, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405.
Paul B. Conant, President of Triarch, Inc., a supplier of microscope slides
since 1926, has asked that members of the Botanical Society write to him to
assist in the decisions relating to the continuation of the firm. The squeeze
between rising costs and reduced educational budgets has placed the company
in the position where it is unable to meet increased salary requirements. Mr.
Conant would like to hear from members as to their needs for prepared slides
in years to come and other information on the problems associated with Triarch.
The Association of Systematics Collections, with funding from the National
Museum Act is undertaking an interdisciplinary survey and study of the use of
computers in management of collections. Further information can be obtained
from Lenore Sarasan, Survey Director, 2808 Sheridan Place, Evanston, IL 60201.
The Weed Science Society of America announces the publication of the revised
4th edition of the Herbicide Handbook. The paperbound text can be obtained for
$7.50 from the Weed Science Society, 309 Clark St., Champaign, IL 61820.
A special conference on fumigants for museum and herbarium collections was
held under the direction of the Association of Systematic Collections. The final
conference report will be available from Dr. Stephen R. Edwards, Museum of Natural
History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KA 66045.
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The Plant Collectors of Mexico by Irving W. Knobloch is available from the
Latin American Study Center, International Programs, Michigan State University
for $3.00. A Check List of the Crosses in the Gramineae by Irving W. Knobloch
is available from Lubrecht & Cramer at a special price of $5.00. Pteridophyte
Hybrids by Irving W. Knobloch is obtainable from the Museum, Michigan State
University for $2.50.
The National Association of Biology Teachers is hosting a conference on Molecules
and Ecology on 23-26 October 1980. Contact the Association at 11250 Roger Bacon
Drive Reston, VA 22090.
The Second Midwest Conference on Population Biology sponsored by the Department
of Biological Sciences, NSF and the RIAS Program will be held at Purdue University
on 12-13 September 1980. Contact Dr. Morris Levy, Dept. of Biological Sciences,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.
Propagation of Higher Plants Through Tissue Culture is the title of a conference
organized by the University of Tennessee. Contact Dr. Karen Hughes, Dept. of
Botany, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37916.
The Fifth International Congress on Photosynthesis will be held in Greece on
7-13 September 1980. Contact Dr. George Akoyunoglou, Nuclear Research Center
"Demokritos" Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece.
A Symposium on Mangrove Environment in Asia will be held 25-29 August 1980
in Kuala Lumpur. Contact Prof. A. Nawawi, University of Malaya, SAM 1, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia.
An International Meeting on Conservation of Threatened Natural Habitats will
be held in Cape Town, South Africa on 10-16 September 1980. Contact Ecosystems
Programmes, CSIR, P. o. Box 395, Pretoria 0001, South Africa.
Dr. Olga K. Lakela, retired curator of the Herbarium at the
University of South Florida died 17 May 1980. The family requests that donations
be made to the USF Foundation, Olga Lakela Research Fund, Office of Development,
Tampa, FL 33620.
Dr. Arde Jan Haagen-Smit, retired from the California Institute
of Technology, died early this year.
Dr. Franklin M. Turrell, Professor Emeritus of the Department
of Biochemistry, University of California, Riverside, died in May 1980.
LAETSCH, WATSON H. Plants. Basic Concepts in Botany. Little, Brown & Co.,
Boston. 1979. 510 pp. $17.95.
Intended as an introductory textbook for science or non-science majors, Plants
contains familiar examples to illustrate concepts from classical and applied
botany. The 15 chapters contain many vivid and attractive color photographs;
the black and' white photographs are generally instructive and interesting.
An excellent historical
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perspective pervades the text. Part I covers concepts of biosphere energy transfer,
ecosystems, food webs and a chapter on the agricultural revolution and food
production. The relationship of botany to the agricultural aspects are especially
well done. Part II presents a history of classification, review of the plant
kingdom, and lucid descriptions of special crop plants. Part III covers structure
and function, plant growth and development, regulation, metabolism, mineral
nutrition and transport systems. Part IV treats plant evolution, genetics reproduction,
horticultural propagation and ends on an ecological theme.
Drawings and illustrations are of high quality and are direct and clear. Short
supplements follow most chapters drawing attention to more technical information
and highlighting special topics such as Medicinal Plants, Soil, and Continental
An instructor's manual contains objectives, lecture and laboratory suggestions,
discussions, and examination questions.
The glossary seems too brief and word derivations are lacking although occasionally
cited in the text. There is disappointingly little on plant diseases. My overall
impression of the text is highly favorable. Introductory botany teachers seeking
an alternative to a comprehensive text should seriously consider this book.
Charles R. Curtis University of Delaware
UNDERWOOD, L.S., L. L. TIESZEN, A. B. CALLAHAN, and G. E. FOLK (eds.). Comparative
Mechanisms of Cold Adaptations. Academic Press, N.Y. 1979. 379 pp.
This book is the result of a symposium and a workshop held at the AIBS meetings
in August 1977 to discuss "Mechanisms of cold adaptation in the Arctic,"
(Chapters I-X) and research support facilities above the Arctic circle (Chapter
XI), and to present recommendations for further research (Chapter XII). Attention
is confined to homeo-thermic animals hibernating in the hypothermic but unfrozen
state, and plants, which due to their poikilothermy are of necessity in the
frozen state during winter months in the Arctic. Unfortunately, although processed
by "Rapid Manuscript Reproduction," it did not appear in print until
1979. The hope expressed by the editors, that this book "will summarize
our current knowledge", is not realized. The authors emphasize that no
real attempt was made to cover all aspects of cold adaptation, nor all literature
pertaining to their specific topics. The main purpose of the symposium was exploratory
-- to open lines of communication between the relatively few small groups of
investigators whose work may apply to Arctic animals and plants. Nevertheless,
anyone in the more general field of cold adaptation outside the Arctic is sure
to find something of interest in this book.
J. Levitt, Carnegie Institution of Washington
JONES, SAMUEL B., JR. and ARLENE E. LUCHSINGER. Plant Systematics. McGraw-Hill
Co., N.Y. 1979. 388 pp.
This book is for an undergraduate course in taxonomy and it is a thorough,
somewhat sketchy review of the field. The arrangement of chapters reminds one
of Lawrence's now classic text (Taxonomy of Vascular Plants, 1950) with an introduction
followed by historical background, discussions of nomenclature, principles of
plant taxonomy, and sources of taxonomic evidence. The authors bring up-to-date
information pertaining to the origin and phylogeny of the flowering plants in
particular and evolution in general. In a short appendix, the authors review
modern techniques
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available to the researcher in systematics. The last half of the book begins
with a fleeting glance at the Pteridophytes and GYmnosperms~ followed by a look
at 100 of the more important flowering plants. Experienced taxonomists might
consider this volume woefully incomplete in its treatment of the taxonomy of
vascular plants. Yet, the economy of detail and the numbers of plant families
treated makes this a very readable text for an introductory course.
Donald Hudson, Indiana University
METZNER, H. (ed.). Photosynthetic Oxygen Evolution. Academic Press, London.
1978. xvi + 532 pp.
The book contains all 31 papers presented at the 1977 Tubingen Symposium on
aspects of Photosystem II, the water oxidizing system of green plants. However,
a random pick from the more-than-a-hundred similar papers appearing each year
would have resulted in a similar collection. Six of the contributions deal with
non-biological systems; their relationship to the subject of the book generally
is rather superficial. Several papers discuss general aspects of photochemistry,
but it is doubtful that it is our ignorance about the detailed characteristics
of photo-oxidized chlorophyll which limits our progress toward understanding
the unique chemistry of biological water oxidation. A valuable concept, bi-nuclearly
bound peroxide as oxygen precursor, has emerged from studies of manganese complexes
discussed by Harriman, et al. and by Renger. There are some excellent papers,
especially "fluorescence and absorbance changes in Tris-washed chloroplasts"
by Van Gorkom et al. and the Akoyanoglous' treatment of the development of PS
II in greening leaves. Although the book's disorganization and imperfection
limit its use as a text, by containing information not published elsewhere,
it is valuable for specialists.
B. R. Velthuys, Martin Marietta Laboratories