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NCAR's voices to the world: Marlene Brown, Judy Green, and Dolores Boyd. (Photo by Curt Zukosky.)
In this new column, Staff Notes takes you where few staff have gone before, those out-of-the-way corners where the gears of our institution turn. This month we visit the telephone operators' area, located at the foot of the stairwell just south of the Mesa Lab lobby.
"We don't predict the weather. We study it." Judy Green gives this succinct explanation of NCAR's mission like a pro, as well she should. It is the standard answer to one of the most common questions encountered by NCAR's three telephone operators.
Judy (oft confused with Judy Brown, Bob Serafin's secretary) is the senior member of the operator crew, with her 16 years of experience here. However, the entire group has plenty of experience handling with tact, finesse, and good cheer the hundreds of calls that pour into NCAR daily.
Each workday, Judy--our only full-time operator--is joined by either Dolores Boyd or Marlene Brown, who share the other full-time position. (Long-time operator Marguerite Adkisson died in August.) Dolores works Mondays and Tuesdays, Marlene on Thursdays and Fridays, and the two alternate on Wednesdays. It's a congenial arrangement, giving them both time for life beyond the switchboard. Not that their NCAR life is a chore: all three women insist they like their work. "It's so relaxed. I enjoy talking to all of the different people," says Judy, a native of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Dolores, who has been with the group off and on since 1976, is an expatriate Texan, and Marlene grew up in Arvada and Longmont, moving from Finance to join the group earlier this year.
The operators' lair is a windowless, semicircular, paneled room, with the women facing a counter that runs into the center of the room. For years, this room held the cord-based switchboard on which the operators inserted and removed plugs, answering each and every call and routing it through to its respective line. Only in 1984 was this comparatively ancient technology replaced by ROLM, the current switching mechanism that permits PhoneMail and other niceties (or aggravations, depending on your perspective).
While on the job, Judy, Dolores, and Marlene each can get up to 10 calls at one time. Typically, they juggle 5 to 10 calls a minute while performing other duties; on a given day, they may each greet anywhere from 200 to 600 callers. The most frequently sought folks, according to Judy: Mickey Glantz, Bob Serafin, Rick Anthes, and Human Resources, in no particular order. Mickey, head of the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group, gets many calls because his internationally networked group corresponds with colleagues around the globe. Judy says the end of the cold war has made our life easier in at least one way: "It was difficult trying to connect to Russia before we could dial direct." These days, UCAR incurs $15,000 or so in long-distance charges each month.
Most callers know what or whom they need, but Judy notes that there are plenty of others who would throw the usually unflappable Patty Prompter into a tizzy. "People call when they have a new barometer and want to know how to set it. Lots of people call during windstorms. People ask for extended forecasts for outdoor wedding receptions." On the darker side, "One time a caller threatened a scientist and his family." A more common circumstance: people often call NCAR when they need NOAA, or vice versa. The operators keep a NOAA directory handy for just such cases. (In case you've ever wondered, UCAR holds all of the 497-1000 and -8000 exchanges and has most of the -2000s on reserve. The -3000 through -6000 numbers belong to NOAA.)
If there's one thing people in-house can do to make the operators' job easier, it's skipping initials and nicknames. "When you leave your name with someone for a return call, please don't ask them to call 'Jim' or 'Pat' or 'Liz' at 497-1000," pleads Judy. "Either leave your full name and 497-1000 or your first name and extension. Otherwise we won't know which Jim or Pat or Liz is being called." Along with using the printed white, yellow, and blue pages of the UCAR directory, staff who are on line can avail themselves of the electronic directory that provides phone numbers and e-mail addresses; it's found inside Gopher or by telnet at ncar.ucar.edu, with the login "email."
The operators' sunny dispositions bring lots of reciprocal friendliness. "Walt Roberts would call us just to say hi and ask how we were doing," recalls Judy. "Mickey Glantz sends us goodies and postcards from all over the world." Any staff who want to see the operators in action are welcome to drop by their space. Expect equal helpings of interruptions and smiles. --BH


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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) A contingent of Marines landed in Port-au-Prince to restore order after Jean Bertrand-Aristide resigned as president and left for exile in Africa under pressure from the Bush administration and a rebel uprising.
The fewer than 100 Marines that arrived Sunday night took up defensive positions around the capitals airport to prepare for the arrival of French forces and additional American troops. Three Humvees and three large trucks guarded the airport.
Early Monday, U.S. and French officers worked together to prepare for the arrival of the full multinational force approved late Sunday by the U.N. Security Council. Nearly 300 soldiers and police were headed for Haiti on Monday.
Aristide, accompanied by his wife and three other people, arrived in the Central African Republic Monday for what will be at least temporary asylum, said Communications Minister Parfait Mbaye.
Their departure from Haiti was secured by U.S. forces at Aristides request, U.S. officials said.
Shortly after arriving in the Central African Republic, Aristide gave a brief address to Central African Republic state radio his first public comments since leaving Haiti.
In overthrowing me, they cut down the tree of peace, the exiled leader declared. But it will grow again, because the roots are well-planted.
Haitis first democratically elected president, who was pressured to leave by the United States and the rebels, would travel next to South Africa, according to state radio and a senior Caribbean Community official.
South Africa, however, did not confirm the reports. We are still not aware that he is coming here. I would have thought by now we would have known if he was, presidential spokesman Bheki Khumalo said in Johannesburg.
Back in Haiti, the U.S. troops came to prop up the new government headed by Boniface Alexandre the chief justice of Haitis Supreme Court. A second contingent of Marines was to arrive Monday.

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Why Are Indifference Curves Downward Sloping
Why are indifference curves in economics slope downward?
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An indifference curve is a line that shows all the "consumption bundles" that yield (and here's the important part) the same amount of total utility for an individual.
So what an indifference curve does is shows what combinations of two goods or services you can consume without changing the amount of utility that you gain from the consumption.
In order to consume more of one of the goods without getting more total utility, you have to give up some of the other good. Because of this, the curve has to slope downwards.
Samuelson and Nordhaus define indifference curve as:
A curve drawn on a graph whose two axes measure amounts of different goods consumed. Each point on such a curve, indicating different combinations of the two goods, yields exactly the same level of satisfaction to a given consumer.
It is quite true that law of diminishing marginal utility ensures that indifference curves are downward sloping. Further it also ensures that the indifference curves are convex to the origin. But downward sloping curve is possible also when the marginal utility is constant rather than diminishing with the total quantity consumed.
To ensure a downward sloping curve it is enough that reduction in quantity of one of the two goods represented on indifference curve must be accompanied by some increase in the quantity of the other good represented. Similarly increase in quantity of first good mus be accompanied by decrease in quantity of the other good. It is not possible for quantity for both the goods to increase or decrease simultaneously and still have the same combined utility of the two. If it was possible for combined utility of two goods to behave in this way than the indifference curve would have been an upward sloping curve.
When marginal utility of both the goods on indifference curves is constant then the indifference curve is a downward sloping straight line. When one of the two good has constant marginal utility and the other has diminishing marginal utility the indifference vurve is a curved line concave to the origin. When both the goods have diminishing marginal utility, the indifference curve is a curved line convex to the origin.
Samuelson P.A. and Nordhaus W.D., Economics, Eighteenth Edition, 2005, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi


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2016 Looking at People ICPR Challenge
Sergio Escalera
Computer Vision Center (UAB) and University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Sergio Escalera obtained the P.h.D. degree on Multi-class visual categorization systems at Computer Vision Center, UAB. He obtained the 2008 best Thesis award on Computer Science at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He leads the Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis Group at UB, CVC, and the Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics. He is an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Universitat de Barcelona. He is an adjunct professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Aalborg University, and Dalhousie University. He has been visiting professor at TU Delft and Aalborg Universities. He is a member of the Visual and Computational Learning consolidated research group of Catalonia. He is also a member of the Computer Vision Center at Campus UAB. He is series editor of The Springer Series on Challenges in Machine Learning. He is Editor-in-Chief of American Journal of Intelligent Systems and editorial board member of more than 5 international journals. He is vice-president of ChaLearn Challenges in Machine Learning, leading ChaLearn Looking at People events. He is co-founder of PhysicalTech and Care Respite companies. He is also member of the AERFAI Spanish Association on Pattern Recognition, ACIA Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence, INNS, and vice-chair of IAPR TC-12: Multimedia and visual information systems. He has different patents and registered models. He has published more than 150 research papers and participated in the organization of scientific events, including CCIA04, CCIA14, ICCV11, AMDO16, FG17, and workshops at ICCV11, ICMI13, ECCV14, CVPR15, ICCV15, CVPR16, ECCV16, ICPR16, NIPS16, CVPR17. He has been guest editor at JMLR, TPAMI, IJCV, TAC, PR, and Neural Comp. and App. He has been area chair at WACV16, NIPS16, AVSS17, FG17, and ICCV17, and competition and demo chair at FG17 and NIPS17. His research interests include, between others, statistical pattern recognition, visual object recognition, affective computing, and HCI systems, with special interest in human pose recovery and behavior analysis from multi-modal data.
Hugo Jair Escalante
INAOE, México
Hugo Jair Escalante is researcher scientist at Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica, INAOE, Mexico. He holds a PhD in Computer Science, for which he received the best PhD thesis on Artificial Intelligence 2010 award (Mexican Society in Artificial Intelligence). He was granted the best paper award of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2010 (IJCNN2010). He is a director of ChaLearn, a nonprofit dedicated to organizing challenges, since 2011. He has been involved in the organization of several challenges in computer vision and automatic machine learning. He is reviewer at JMLR, PAMI, and has served as coeditor of special issues in IJCV, PAMI, and IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. He is serving as area chair for NIPS 2016, and has been member of the program committee of venues like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NIPS, IJCNN.
Xavier Baró
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya & Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, Spain
Xavier Baró received his B.S. degree in Computer Science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2003. In 2005 he obtained his M.S. degree in Computer Science at UAB, and in 2009 the Ph.D degree in Computer Engineering. At the present he is a lecturer and researcher at the IT, Multimedia and Telecommunications department at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He is involved on the teaching activities of the Computer Science, Telecommunication and Multimedia degrees of the UOC, and collaborates as assistant professor on the teaching activities of the Computer Science degree at the Applied Mathematics and Analysis of the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). In addition, he is involved on the Interuniversity master on Artificial Intelligence (UPCUBURV). He is cofounder of the Scene Understanding and Artificial Intelligence (SUNAI) group of the UOC, and collaborates with the Computer Vision Center of the UAB, as member of the Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis (HUPBA) group. His research interests are related to machine learning, evolutionary computation, and statistical pattern recognition, specially their applications to generic object recognition over huge cardinality image databases.
Isabelle Guyon
University Paris-Saclay, France and ChaLearn USA
Isabelle Guyon ( http://guyon.chalearn.org/ ) is chaired professor in "big data" at the Université ParisSaclay, specialized in statistical data analysis, pattern recognition and machine learning. She is one of the cofounders of the ChaLearn Looking at People (LAP) challenge series and she pioneered applications of the MIcrosoft Kinect to gesture recognition. Her areas of expertise include computer vision and and bioinformatics. Prior to joining ParisSaclay she worked as an independent consultant and was a researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where she pioneered applications of neural networks to pen computer interfaces (with collaborators including Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio) and coinvented with Bernhard Boser and Vladimir Vapnik Support Vector Machines (SVM), which became a textbook machine learning method. She worked on early applications of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to handwriting recognition in the 1990's. She is also the primary inventor of SVMRFE, a variable selection technique based on SVM. The SVMRFE paper has thousands of citations and is often used as a reference method against which new feature selection methods are benchmarked. She also authored a seminal paper on feature selection that received thousands of citations. She organized many challenges in Machine Learning since 2003 supported by the EU network Pascal2, NSF, and DARPA, with prizes sponsored by Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Disney Research, and Texas Instrument. Isabelle Guyon holds a Ph.D. degree in Physical Sciences of the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France. She is president of Chalearn, a nonprofit dedicated to organizing challenges, vicepresident of the Unipen foundation, adjunct professor at NewYork University, action editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research, editor of the Challenges in Machine Learning book series of Microtome, and program chair of the upcoming NIPS 2016 conference.
Martha Larson
Multimedia Information Retrieval Lab Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Michael Alexander Riegler
Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway
Henning Müller
University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Switzerland
Jun Wan
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA)
I have graduated from Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China. Since Jaunary 2015, I have joined in Center for Biometrics and Security Research (CBSR) & National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA). I am interested in machine learning, computer vision, image processing, especially for gesture/action recognition, hand tracking and segmentation. You can find the published papers and the current and finished projects in MY RESEARCH.


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The Ocala City Council agreed to take the Marion County School Board to court in an attempt to collect $462K in Fire Service User Fees.
By a 3-1 vote Tuesday, the Ocala City Council agreed to take the Marion County School Board to court in an attempt to collect $462,000 in Fire Service User Fees the city says it is owed.
Councilman Kent Guinn was the dissenting vote. Councilman John Priester was absent.
"I don't want an adversarial position," Guinn said. "I would like to sit down one more time to see if we can come back with some decision."
By law, before two governmental bodies go to court, they are required to go through a mediation process.
Similar arguments are being fought throughout the state of Florida.
The argument about the fee has been dragging on in Ocala since 2006, when the city instituted both a Fire Service Impact Fee and a Fire Service User Fee.
Shortly after the fees were enacted, the School Board said it was not obligated to pay either charge.
After researching the matter, City Attorney Patrick Gilligan agreed the School Board was not obligated to pay the impact fee, but said it was responsible for paying the user fee.
The City Council at the time elected not to pursue the user fees.
Instead, as a way to avoid going to court, the city proposed getting an opinion from the State Attorney General about whether the fees are owed the city.
Gilligan learned that the Attorney General would not give an opinion on a dispute between two governmental bodies without the direction of both entities, and the School Board had not agreed to do that.
School Board Attorney Beverly Morris said Tuesday the School Board was waiting for a decision in the Gainesville/Alachua County case.
Regardless, the Attorney General's opinion would not be binding on either party, Morris said.
Because the opinion is not binding, and because there is a considerable amount of money at stake, the "losing" side of the Attorney General's opinion likely would ignore the decision and the parties would wind up in court anyway.
"If the Attorney General doesn't do any good, why go that route?" Councilwoman Mary Rich asked rhetorically.
In a memorandum to the City Council, Gilligan opined that, by statute, the city was owed the fire user fee.
Morris disagreed.
Morris told the council Tuesday night there is no written agreement between the city and the School Board requiring her board to pay a Fire Service User Fee.
"It doesn't matter if it is a user fee or not. There has to be a written expressed contract between the School Board and the city of Ocala for the School Board to be required to pay Fire Service Fees or any other type of fee like that," Morris said. "Today Florida courts are in agreement; in the absence of an expressed contract, sovereign immunity prevents the School Board from having to pay the fire service fees the city has been asking to pay."
Assistant City Attorney W. James Gooding III told the City Council on Tuesday the user fees have been in effect for years and the longer the city waits, the more fees the city is losing.
"There is a legitimate interest on both sides," Gooding said. "We are looking out for city taxpayers. They are looking at school board taxpayers."
Gooding said the law is not clear.
Morris said the case is adversarial, but there is understanding and civility on both sides.
The council agreed with Gooding's recommendation to sue the School Board.
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The Race for Riley is a 5K run/walk, 1 Mile fun run and Tot Trot created to raise awareness and funding for those at the forefront in dealing with and promoting research for cures and treatments of mitochondrial disorders and to provide support to affected individuals and families. On a daily basis the staff at The Joseph Sams School are helping in the fight. Again this year - bike the smooth,silk backroads of the Hill Country of south Fulton County. Choose either a 10 mile, 30 mile or 62 mile ride.....great fun and exercise! There will be food, fun and activities for kids of all ages. Awards in the 5K to overall male and female, overall male & female master, and the top 3 finishers in 14 age groups (male and female). Ribbons to all finishers in the 1 mile and Tot Trot. AGAIN IN 2013! CHIP TIMING for 5K and 1 mile - no more cards to fill out or tearoff tags or crowded finish chute! Online registrations ends at midnight 4/25/13.
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1. On the verge of disaster?
2. Mixing and matching genes
3. Responding to infection
4. Science fights flu
Women pray during a mass cull of chickens
on the Indonesian island of Bali. The Balinese Hindu "ngaben" cremation
ceremony, usually reserved for humans, was performed to demonstrate
the island's determination to stop the spread of bird flu among
poultry. AP Photo
This 15-month-old girl died of avian influenza
in Hanoi, Vietnam, in mid-January. The H5N1 virus has killed at
least 13 people in Vietnam during the current outbreak.
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Even without the benefit of the 747, the virus still managed to leave a wake of death from Europe, through the Americas, all the way to Alaska, where entire native villages were consumed. The "Spanish flu" killed more than twice as many as the conventional weapons, poison gas and trench mouth of World War I. Combined.
Shifty, infectious and deadly, flu kills an average of
36,000 Americans in the average year. But avian flu could
be far more deadly -- if it ever becomes able to spread
from one person to another.
A pandemic -- a global epidemic -- could mean global catastrophe, according to Webster, who has been sounding the alarm for years. He maintains that a 1997 outbreak of avian flu in Hong Kong was a close call: "If this particular virus had attained the ability to spread from person to person, the pandemic might have taken along the lines of a third of the human population."
Looking back at 1918, wrote Webster, "Many epidemiologists believe that a similar scenario will happen again. But this time it will be worse." Those words were written just before the latest outbreak was announced in Asia.
So here's the question: Will this time be the time?
Fluky flu?
The new flu virus, now scourging poultry in eight Asian countries, has already caused the death of dozens of millions of domestic birds. Many were killed directly by the virus. Others were killed to keep the virus from spreading.
Although avian influenzas usually don't infect people, this one has already killed 13 in Vietnam, and a smaller number in Thailand.
The new virus is called H5N1 for the structure of proteins
on its surface. Already, says World Health Organization (WHO), "The outbreaks of H5N1 avian
influenza in poultry, currently reported in eight Asian countries,
are historically unprecedented in their scale, geographical spread,
and economic consequences for the agricultural sector."
An influenza ward in Aix-Les-Bains, France
during the 1918 epidemic. You don't see these wards during "normal"
flu outbreaks because the virus is a familiar one. The H5N1 now
running rampant in Asia is not familiar ... Courtesy
National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute
of Pathology, Washington, D.C.
Only a matter of time
To most who are not elderly or suffering immune deficiencies, flu can be a serious, but survivable, infection. But flu-obsessed scientists and doctors take a much darker view of unfamiliar flu viruses. "Experts agree that another influenza pandemic is inevitable and possibly imminent, cautions the WHO. Even before the current outbreak, Webster was warning, "We've seen enough incidents over the last three or four years to make us very alarmed" about the transfer of deadly flu viruses from pigs and birds to people.
As the world's public-health experts gear up, we Why-Filers are wondering:
What is so scary about bird flu?
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Michael has been working with cars for over 40 years, 33 of those are owning and managing Tri-City Import.
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Preventive car maintenance is a necessary expense to keep your vechile in good running conditionMore
Tire normally needs balance when they cause your vechile to shake or vibrate. Balancing is achived by positioning weights on the wheel.More
From the first time you first call, you'll speak directly to the mechanic working on your vechile.More
Elen S.
Fremont, CA
For auto repair for German cars or other imported cars, you will be very happy with Tri-City Import. If you're looking for the best auto repair with the best mechanic in Fremont, look no further!! And even if you live a little further away it is worth your time and money to come here.
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I've been taking my two older German cars (a Mercedes and BMW) to this auto repair shop for foreign cars for about 8 years and could not recommend Mike's repair shop more highly.
John K.
Union City, CA
He carefully diagnoses tricky problems (like electrical problem on my older Mercedes), makes sound/practical recommendations on what to fix or leave alone. His results are far superior than my prior repair shops and his prices are VERY fair. He fixed things that the other shops said were fixed but were not (and they charged me an arm-and-a-leg for too).
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Mike carries lots of parts and/or procures them quickly and his turn around is often same day. I sometimes also use Tri-City Import for oil changes instead of going to Jiffy Lube or Oil Changers. It's a little more expensive for oil changes but on the other hand sometimes Mike finds small things that need fixing and just does them for free!
Pleasanton, CA
I actually look forward to taking my car in. He is reliable, courteous and as honest as they come. I shall be a lifelong customer for Mike's Tri-City Import.
History Established in 1979 Tri-City Import is your independent source for quality auto care. We do everything from diagnostics and engine overhauls to electrical, brakes, suspension, general maintenance and more! What's more, we've been skillfully serving the community since 1979. That's over 33 years of exceptional service. Michael has been working with cars for Over 40 years, 33 of those years owning and managing Tri-City Import. He is excited to provide the best quality workmanship and service to all customers. You will always know you are in good hands when working with Michael.


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Affiliated Programs
The Hopwood Writing Program—offering some of the most prestigious financial awards available to students at the University—has helped launch the careers of many successful authors including Marge Piercy, Arthur Miller, Nancy Willard and X.J. Kennedy.
Outreach programs like the New England Literature Program, Bear River Writers' Conference, and the Prison Creative Arts Project continue to lead to curricular innovations, productive community alliances, and deep learning experiences for our students.
Other programs like Camp Davis and the Biological Station offer English students the opportunity to supplement their English studies through unique and interesting alternatives to the typical classroom environment.
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NELP is a University of Michigan academic program that takes place off-campus during the Spring half-term. UM faculty and other instructors teach the courses, and students earn nine regular UM credits in upper-level English classes.
The program takes place at Camp Kabeyun on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. For six and a half weeks, 40 students and 13 UM instructors live and work together closely, reading New England authors, writing, and exploring the New England countryside, its people, culture, and history.
In addition to formal academic work in literature and writing, the intellectual experience of the program often includes art, camping, nature-study, canoeing, music, cooking—and many other interests brought each year by students and staff. Student-teaching, where students work with instructors to teach classes on topics they choose, is another important part of the program.
See the program website for more information.
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The Bear River Writers' Conference is defined by its own particular geography, situated as it is at the intersection of the natural and creative worlds. Populated by an eclectic collection of writers of all levels of experience, it offers community members a hiatus from daily routine and the chance to find a space for themselves and their words.
Find your place at Bear River.
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Biological Station
The University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) was founded in 1909. UMBS students and faculty have been studying environmental change since day one. Today, UMBS students engage in and learn about biology and environmental science by studying directly in the field and by developing relationships with some of the world's most respected experts. UMBS is a highly interactive community where students, faculty and researchers come together to learn about the natural world, to examine environmental change, and to seek solutions to the critical environmental challenges of our times. UMBS inspires collaboration and cross-disciplinary interactions, both of which help foster a greater understanding of the natural world.
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Camp Davis
Nestled in the mountains just south of Jackson Hole, Wyoming and tucked between the Hoback River and Bridger Teton National Forest, the Department of Geological Sciences Rocky Mountain Field Station has provided an unparalleled learning experience each summer, since 1929. Camp Davis hosts courses in Introductory Geology, Geological Mapping, Ecosystem Science and the History and Literature of the West. Located within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and nearby Grand Teton National Park, our location provides a wealth of instructional opportunities. Students from the University of Michigan as well as other colleges and universities are invited to attend.
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Prison Creative Arts Project
The Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) was founded in 1990 with the mission to collaborate with incarcerated adults, incarcerated youth, urban youth and the formerly incarcerated to strengthen our community through creative expression. University of Michigan faculty and students work with community members both inside and outside prisons to engage in workshops in theatre, dance, visual art, creative writing, slam poetry, and music. Annually, PCAP hosts the largest prisoner art exhibition in the world and publishes a literary journal of writing by incarcerated authors. With arts programming and events year round, the organization serves as a creative hub for those with links to the criminal justice system, community volunteers, faculty, students, and university staff.
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Victoria's Secret Angels Bring Holiday Spirit to Herald's Square
Getting into the holiday spirit, four Victoria's Secret Angels were on hand at the Herald Square storefront in New York City this afternoon (November 19).
Miranda Kerr, Candice Swanepoel, Adriana Lima, and Lily Aldridge looked gorgeous as they posed with the season's latest lingerie while blowing kisses to the photographers.
Candice prepped her adoring fans for the exciting appearance yesterday afternoon when she shared, "I'm going to be at herald square @VictoriasSecret tomorrow 12-2pm. Come!"
Miss Lima was also thrilled about the Big Apple appearance as she tweeted a photo from her airplane window along with the caption, "#VSHeraldSquare NYC here I come...✈✈✈.... My window view :)))"
Make sure to catch these gorgeous girls on the runway on December 4th for the anticipated Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, which airs on CBS.
Enjoy the pictures from the Victoria's Secret Angels Celebrate Holiday 2012 in NYC (November 19).
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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Jeff Gordon visits Dogfish Head Brewery and Rehoboth Beach, Del.
Four-time Dover International Speedway winner Jeff Gordon spent the day exploring downstate Delaware yesterday while in town to promote the Sept. 28 âAAA 400â NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race in Dover.
Joined by Sam Calagione, founder of Dogfish Head Brewery and ambassador for Coastal Delaware for the day, Gordon visited the famous Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, Del. before heading to Rehoboth Beach for a public question-and-answer session on the bandstand at the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk.
Throughout the tour of the brewery, which included a glimpse inside the brew house and bottling line, Gordon and Calagione were able to find similarities in their respective trades, comparing the art of brewing beer to the mechanics that go into making a great racecar.
âWhen I look at this, I think somebodyâs going to buy that beer, or buy that by the case, and for us, we have a facility that buys our engines and engine parts but we donât link it to a person, we link it to a performance,â Gordon said.
âThere are so many little things you can do to affect how the car handles,â continued Gordon. âItâs kind of the same with making beer. One small amount of an ingredient can change the entire outcome of the taste.â
Calagione then compared his brewery to Gordonâs team, Hendrick Motorsports, and both companies desire to be at the top of their game so they can keep their support structure in place.
âIâd say both of our companies are equally obsessed with engineering and performance,â he said.
Gordon also said he sees a great benefit in getting to see the inner workings of an operation like the Dogfish Head Brewery, as it always serves as motivation to help him take his craft to the next level.
âYou can always draw from these experiences,â said Gordon. âSeeing how people go about their work and how passionate they are about what they do truly inspires you to turn around and perform at your highest level.â
Following the brewery tour, Gordon and Calagione headed to Rehoboth Beach, where they met with approximately 400 fans for a question-and-answer session hosted by Mike Bagley, of the Motor Racing Network and host of The Morning Drive on SiriusXM NASCAR radio.
Gordon talked about everything from the new Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series format to his visit earlier in the day to the brewery. The duo concluded the event with the newest social trend, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Designed to help raise awareness and funds for those living with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrigâs Disease, the challenge sees a participant pour a bucket of ice cold water over their head, and subsequently make a donation to the ALS Association.
Gordon poured the bucket over Calagioneâs head to the delight of the crowd, a fitting close to the day as earlier Gordon had met with Jamie Melvin, a fan living with ALS. They dedicated their challenge to Melvin.
âALS is such a big topic right now with all the attention itâs getting,â Gordon said. âItâs very powerful to be able to meet someone who is actually affected and see what the awareness for the cause can really do for a person. Iâm honored to have met Jamie.â
Gordonâs visit to Delaware comes just three races ahead of the newly formatted Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup and five races before the first-ever âknockout raceâ at the Monster Mile, the Sept. 28 âAAA 400â NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race. The field of 16 championship contenders will be reduced to 12 by racedayâs end in Dover.
With the new format, Gordon is hoping to put himself in a position to win one of the first two Chase races, which would guarantee advancement in the championship field beyond Dover.
âYou hope that you do your job ahead of the elimination round so that you donât have that added pressure,â Gordon said. âBut we are very capable of performing at a high level and winning those key racesâ¦I think with the new Chase format, the best team will win, and I do think that is our team.â
NASCAR returns to Dover International Speedway Sept. 26-28, 2014 for the Sept. 28 âAAA 400â NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, the third event in the 10-race Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, the Sept. 27 NASCAR Nationwide Series race and the Sept. 26 âDrive Sober 150â presented by the Delaware Office of Highway Safety NASCAR K&N Pro Series East race.
For tickets or more information, call 800-441-RACE or visit DoverSpeedway.com. You can also keep up with the Monster Mile at Facebook.com/DoverInternationalSpeedway or on Twitter at @MonsterMile.
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Comcast Corporation and Time Warner Cable, the first and second largest cable operators in the United States, have agreed to merge in a $45bn (£27bn) deal.
The surprise agreement comes as a major blow to Charter Communications, a rival cable operator backed by John Malone and which made its own offer for Time Warner last month.
Charter had indicated that it would pay around $132.50 a share for Time Warner, but the company's board quickly dismissed the informal offer as "grossly inadequate". It said it would consider a bid closer to $160 a share.
Charter was expected to raise its offer, but its rival Comcast beat it to the punch.
Late on Wednesday evening, it sealed an all-share deal with Time Warner Cable, which valued the latter at nearly $159 a share – an 18pc premium on its closing share price that evening. The agreement is due to be announced on Thursday morning in New York.
The landmark deal would create a cable operator with an audience nearly seven times the size of its nearest competitor, and is likely to face close scrutiny from competition regulators before it is cleared.
It could also yet be derailed by a rival bid from Charter, which has already made three attempts to buy Time Warner within the past six months. The company is 27pc owned by Liberty Media, the television and internet operation which is controlled by billionaire John Malone.
When Time Warner's chief executive Rob Marcus rejected Charter's proposed bid last month, he accused the company of trying "to get a premium asset at a bargain basement price".
Charter had vowed to take its fight to shareholders but has failed to make much visible headway so far.
Mr Malone is no stranger to audacious transactions, however. Last year, he used his position as the largest shareholder in Liberty Global, another US cable giant, to orchestrate the acquisition of Virgin Media for $16bn.


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Palmetto College chancellor candidates to visit campus
Four candidates for chancellor of Palmetto College at the University of South Carolina have been invited to visit the campus for interviews in the coming weeks. Each will meet with faculty, students, staff and administrators.
The candidates:
Thomas B. Cavanagh, Ph.D.- Assistant Vice President of Distributed Learning, University of Central Florida (Dec. 7)
John H. Dozier, Ed.D.- Vice President of Operations, Umatch, Inc., Greenville and Columbia, SC (Dec. 19)
Susan Elkins, Ed.D.- Vice President of Extended Programs and Regional Development and Dean of the College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Tennessee Technological University (Dec. 18)
Monica J. Orozco, Ph.D.- Assistant Provost for eLearning, Florida Atlantic University (Dec. 12)
The university is conducting a nationwide search for the Palmetto College Chancellor. The new chancellor is expected to assume the job in spring of 2013.


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University of Texas Faculty Advisory Council
Board of Regents Meeting November 8 & 9, 2007
Meeting Highlights
BOR Meeting Agenda
Thursday, November 8, 2007
8:30am Oath of Office Ceremony
10:00am Student, Faculty and Staff Campus Life Committee
11:00am Finance and Planning Committee
12:00pm Recess for Lunch
12:30pm Facilities Planning and Construction Committee
1:30pm Health Affairs Committee
2:30pm Academic Affairs Committee
3:30pm Meeting of the Board in Executive Session
5:30pm Recess
BOR Meeting Agenda (Cont'd)
Friday, November 9, 2007
9:00am Audit, Compliance, and Management Review Committee
10:00am General Meeting of the Board in Open Session
12:30pm Recess for Lunch
1:30pm General Meeting of the Board in Open Session
4:00pm Adjourn
Oath of Office Ceremony
Three new Regents were given the oath of office
Mr. James Dannenbaum – Houston
Mr. Paul Foster – El Paso
Mr. Printice Gary - Dallas
Student, Faculty, and Staff Campus Life Committee
The officers of the UT System Employee Advisory Council presented their annual report to the Regents. They summarized past and present activities.
Executive Vice Chancellor Shine gave an update on student diversity at UT System Health Institutions. The Joint Admissions Medical Program (JAMP) is helping to increase minority students in our medical schools, but dental schools are having difficulty getting minority applicants into the pipeline.
Finance and Planning Committee
Dr. Kelley reported on the key financial indicators for the UT System.
A contract with Huron Consulting Group was approved to support an online effort reporting system. UT Austin will be the first campus to use it.
Mr. Aldridge presented the Fiscal Year 2007 Energy Utility Task Force Report
Revisions to the UTIMCO compensation plan were approved.
Mr. Zimmerman the administrator for UTIMCO presented performance summary and investment reports for the fiscal year and quarter ended August 31, 2007.
Facilities Planning and Construction Committee
The Board amended six projects that were part of the FY 2008-2013 Capital Improvement Program
Approved parking garage for UTA South Campus
Approved phase two of a Computer Science building for UT Austin
Approved the Houston Research Center Warehouse Addition for UT Austin
Approved an Indoor Tennis Facility for UT Austin
Approved the renovation of the EP Schoch Building on the UT Austin campus
Approved the Phase I finish out of the Biotechnology Development Complex at UT Southwestern Medical Center
Facilities Planning and Construction Committee (Cont'd)
Approved a renovation project for the Center for Clinical and Translational Science at UTHSC Houston
Approved a Library and Artifact High-Density Repository at UT Austin
Approved additional parking levels for the San Antonio Garage at UT Austin
Approved a Student Living/Learning Center at UT Dallas
Approved phase I of a Biotechnology Development Complex at UT Southwestern Medical Center
Approved a Center for Targeted Therapy Research Building at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Approved a Student Activity Center for UT Austin
Health Affairs Committee
Authorized UT MD Anderson to purchase 28,195 sq ft of unimproved land and 24,829 sq ft of land and improvements for future use for campus administrative and support functions
Approved a deferred compensation plan for UTMB for use with certain administrators
Approved a revised mission statement for UTHSC San Antonio
Approved a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree program at UTHSC San Antonio
Dr. Shine reported on the governance of the faculty practice plans
Health Affairs Committee (Cont'd)
Dr. Shine reported on health issues, including:
A new Code Red Report will be issued in March
He noted that $1.8 billion has been authorized to provide dental and medical care to the children of Texas
They are developing ways to utilize the $5 million for Health Science Education
12 Distinguished Teaching Professors have been named
Significant opportunities will be provided by the new cancer fund approved by the voters
Academic Affairs Committee
Approved a request for expansion of degree planning authority on 5 campuses
UT Arlington, UT El Paso, UT Permian Basin, UT San Antonio and UT Tyler
Approved revised mission statements for UT El Paso, UT Permian Basin and UT Tyler
Authorized UT Arlington to purchase 0.93 acres and improvements for initial use as parking
Authorized UT El Paso to ground lease 0.73 acres to the City of El Paso for construction and operation of a transit terminal
Academic Affairs Committee (Cont'd)
Authorized UT El Paso to purchase 4.6 acres and improvements for the relocation of UT El Paso's child care center
Authorized UT Pan American to purchase 4.5 acres for UT Pan Am's Starr County Upper Level Center
Dr. Prior reported on enrollment management including potential changes in admission standards, retention and graduation rates
Audit, Compliance, and Management Review Committee
Auditors from Deloitte & Touche reported that UTIMCO received a clean audit
Bruce Brown from UTHSC Houston gave a report on Environmental Health and Safety at UT System Institutions
Mr. Chaffin from UT System and Mr. Reeves from UTMB gave the Annual Report on the System-wide Compliance Program and Institutional Compliance at UTMB
They noted that hotlines are available on each campus and that the majority of calls involve H&R issues
Audit, Compliance, and Management Review Committee (Cont'd)
Ms Barrett reported on the UT System Financial Statements Audit
There are no significant variances or internal control problems
Computer program security continues to be a concern
Mr. Chaffin from UT System and Ms. Salvador from UTHSC San Antonio reported on the System-wide internal audit activities and Internal Audit Department report for UTHSC San Antonio
Open Meeting of the Board
Election of officers
Regent Caven was elected chair
Regents Rowling and Huffines were elected as vice chairs
Mr. Richard Holland from UT Austin presented a historical perspective of former Board Chairman Frank C. Erwin, Jr
Chancellor Yudof gave his quarterly update
Vice Chancellor McDowell gave the annual report on research and technology transfer
Open Meeting of the Board (Cont'd)
Five amendments to the Regents' Rules were approved
Concerning veteran's employment preferences
Concerning UT System-wide discipline and dismissal of classified employees
Related to private development campaigns
Concerning restrictions on credit card marketing
Regarding special interest projects
Accepted and approved the final report from the Task Force on Doctoral Education and the Postdoctoral Experience and authorized implementation of the recommendations
Open Meeting of the Board (Cont'd)
Authorized the chancellor to submit a report concerning designated tuition
Approved the list of individuals authorized to negotiate, execute, and administer classified government contracts
Approved additional funds for the Dell Pediatric Institute
Approved all standing committee recommendations
Provided opportunity for public comment and discussion on the Brackenridge Tract Task Force Report
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With his curling, claw-like fingernails, his habit of leaving corpses in his wake, and predilection for morbidity both on and off the screen, Jose Mojica Marins seems more a creation of one of his own films than the person who might make them.
Yet during the 1960s, he (along with his alter ego, "Coffin Joe") was one of Brazil's best-known popular figures, a prolific director and star of macabre horror films, whose career and reputation are only now spreading outside of his homeland.
In the 1960s he had a handful of massive hits, one of which remains in Brazil's box-office top 10. He had a television show and lent his celebrity to a comic strip and a range of consumer goods.
But after a military crackdown and political censorship that sent many of his filmmaking colleagues to Europe, he was forced into bankruptcy.
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The reclaiming of Mojica's career took off in 1991 when Barcinski showed a distributor in Seattle some of his films. Thirteen of his 30-odd films were released on video, becoming hits on cult circuits and attracting the notice of European cinephiles.
Barcinski's mission is not only to get Mojica's work back into circulation, but to convince people that he is a good filmmaker. "People tend to see him as a folk character, a maverick, an adventurous guy (but) who is pretty incompetent. He did a lot of bad films too, but I think the films he did for himself as Coffin Joe, where he had complete control and freedom, are really good.
"The great thing about him is . . . Mojica, who still can't read or write very well, made these films very instinctively. Primitivism in art is one thing, but film is probably the hardest medium in which to be primitive because of the processes in making them. From thinking about a scene to its existence can take two years," Barcinski says.
"The whole essence of primitivism is that it comes directly from your heart and your brain, and that is very hard to do in movies. When I watch his films it always strikes me how primitive they are."
Barcinski admits that it's not easy separating myth from fact in Mojica's colourful life and exploits, many of which, such as the alarming death-rate of Mojica's cast and crew, are covered in his film. He included only stories and anecdotes he could confirm with people more reliable than Mojica, who at age 68 increasingly confuses himself with Coffin Joe.
They may be tall tales, but most are true, says Barcinski. He once ran for parliament, but because he registered as Jose Mojica Marins rather than Coffin Joe, voters failed to recognise the name when they arrived at polling booths.
"He's a magnet for strange people," adds Barcinski. "When you meet him he's very normal, but he's come to see himself as Coffin Joe. Every strange person in Brazil likes him and tries to get close to him."
On Thursday SBS is also screening At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul, filmed in 13 days in 1964. "He filmed it like a radio serial," explains Barcinski. "The soundtrack is radical, he tells you where people are and how they're dressed. This is his most conventional horror film because it has a beginning, middle and end, and there's a basic structure in the story," Barcinski says. "But if you watch his later films you see how they become more experimental in their editing, cinematography and setting. He also becomes more psychedelic, and if you have a chance to watch Awakening of the Beast, you should."
Coffin Joe: The Strange World of Jose Mojica Marins screens on SBS on Tuesday at 10pm. At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul screens on Thursday at 10pm.
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Tehran (AFP) Jan 16, 2013
Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) were back in Tehran early Wednesday to try to resolve long-running differences with Iran over its controversial nuclear programme.
The eight-strong team, led by the UN agency's chief atomic inspector and deputy director Herman Nackaerts, was greeted at the airport by Iran's envoy to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, the ISNA news agency reported.
It was not clear who would represent Iran in meetings on Wednesday, but the office of top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili is in charge of decisions regarding Tehran's atomic programme -- on behalf of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who has final say on all key state matters.
On Tuesday, before flying out from the agency's base in Vienna, Nackaerts had called on Iran to be "constructive".
"Throughout this process, the director general has always said that we are approaching these talks in a constructive spirit," he told reporters.
"Also this time we are approaching it in the same spirit, and we trust that Iran will work with us in the same spirit," he added.
But the IAEA's hopes of reaching a deal are not high.
IAEA head Yukiya Amano said Friday he was "not necessarily optimistic," while a Western diplomat told AFP on Sunday "there still remain some pretty big disagreements" with Tehran.
The agency wants Iran to respond to what it calls "overall, credible" evidence of nuclear weapons research having been carried out until 2003 -- and possibly since then.
Iran vehemently denies having ever sought an atomic bomb.
Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said on Tuesday that the government hoped to conclude a comprehensive agreement with the IAEA on Wednesday.
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Mehmanparast appeared to play down the chances that the IAEA team might get access to Parchin, a military base near Tehran where the agency's experts suspect Iran could have carried out experiments with explosives capable of triggering a nuclear weapon.
"Parchin has no connection with Iran's nuclear activities," Mehmanparast said. Access to it could be discussed, but only in the context of a possible agreement, he added.
But the IAEA has pointed to new information uncovered since its last visits to the site in 2005.
They include satellite evidence that the earth has been scraped and removed over a 25-hectare (62-acre) area, leading to Western accusations that Iran is destroying evidence.
Wednesday's talks will be closely monitored by the so-called P5+1 group -- Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany. Their parallel negotiations with Tehran over the nuclear programme are currently stalled.
At their last meeting, held in June 2012 in Moscow, Tehran rejected P5+1 calls for it to scale back its nuclear enrichment activities, while asking for substantial sanctions relief.
Iran's economy is struggling to cope with punitive measures adopted by the US and the EU targeting its vital oil income and access to global financial systems.
On Tuesday, top lawmaker Aladin Boroujerdi repeated Tehran's demands, ISNA reported.
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Mehmanparast added on Tuesday that a much-debated religious decree against nuclear weapons by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was binding.
"The fatwa is of utmost importance in clarifying Iran's nuclear activities," he said, dismissing Western doubts that the fatwa only served a religious purpose and was not necessarily an obligation for the government.
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On behalf of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Biomedical Research, the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program (EGRP) announces the Transformative Research Projects Program (T-R01). This Program is designed to provide a more flexible and engaging avenue for support of investigators testing novel concepts and truly transformative ideas. The primary objective of the T-R01 initiative is to create a program that is specifically designed to support exceptionally innovative, high risk, original and/or unconventional research with the potential to create new or challenge existing scientific paradigms. The T-R01 program is a High Risk/High Reward Demonstration Project supported by the NIH Common Fund, in which novel approaches to peer review and program management will also be piloted.
The NIH Common Fund intends to commit $25 million (total costs) in Fiscal Year 2009 to fund up to 60 applications submitted in response to this FOA. Applicants to this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) must clearly articulate (1) the fundamental issue to be addressed and its overarching importance to the biomedical/behavioral research enterprise, (2) how the studies will either establish new or disrupt existing paradigms, and (3) how the proposed rationale and/or approaches significantly differ from state of the art in the field.
Projects in any area of NIH interest that meet the transformative criteria above are encouraged and will be considered responsive to this FOA. Areas of highlighted need that have been identified through an NIH strategic planning process include functional variation in mitochondria in disease. In addition to their central role in energy metabolism, mitochondria are involved in many key cellular processes such as the formation of reactive oxygen species and apoptosis. Mutations in mitochondrial DNA lead to a diverse collection of diseases that are challenging to diagnose and treat, and where precise mechanisms of disease pathogenesis remain elusive. Mitochondrial dysfunction has also been implicated in aging and in many chronic disease states including cancer. The emphasis should be in the role of mitochondrial mutations in cancer etiology to identify high risk populations.
There is no budget limit per application up to the amount of funding provided for the program as a whole. This FOA uses "Just-in-Time" information concepts (see SF424 (R&R) Application Guide). It also uses the modular as well as the non-modular budget formats. Specifically, a U.S. organization submitting an application with direct costs in each year of $250,000 or less (excluding consortium Facilities and Administrative [F&A] costs) must use the PHS398 Modular Budget component. U.S. applicants requesting more than $250,000 in annual direct costs and all foreign applicants must complete and submit budget requests using the Research & Related Budget component.
December 29, 2008 is the opening date for this announcement as well as the Letter of Intent Receipt Date. Applications are due by January 29, 2009.
For general questions about cancer epidemiology contact EGRP's Mukesh Verma, Ph.D., Chief, Methods and Technologies Branch, and Acting Chief, Host Susceptibility Factors Branch.
- Access the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts for details: RFA-RM-08-029 (R01)


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