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For many of us, Super Mario World shifted the Mushroom Kingdom from numbered, sequential stages to something more organic. The term "world" never felt more appropriate. New Super Mario Bros. U is the first 2D Mario game not only to return to that approach, but to take it subtly to the next level. The vast, seamless overworld not only houses the requisite levels, fortresses and castles, but also features items that can be picked up off the ground, roaming enemies that must be defeated, secrets, alternate paths and even some boss fights that occur within their own context, outside of any platforming sequence. Why Nintendo ever moved away from this approach seems even more baffling now that it's returned.
I'm glad I got rid of the 3DS version because this one actually seems better than the 3DS version. It has a world map like SMW(SNES) and it isn't all about coins like the 3DS version, (which I really didn't like). All in all, I guess I'll be picking this one up at launch... Great job on keeping a classic fresh, now focus on Metroid and Zelda please, I would love it if they had a 3DS or Wii U version sometime in the near future...
Out of the gates Nintendo delivers another AAA quality exclusive offering. I had my eyes set on this gem from the very beginning when it was announced, and knew that it would come correct. Day one purchase for New Super Mario Bros U.
As YoungPlex stated above, the Super Mario World SNES throwback map is a blast from the past. Bringing a true feeling of nostalgia from the good ol days. Its warming to see that Nintendo has not forgotten where they came from, but also know where they are going. A fresh and positive start for the Nintendo Wii U entertainment system.
Rated E For Everyone
I'm going to co-op this with my older brother next week. Just like the good old days... but this time, we don't have to switch off.


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Yu-Gi-Oh Gladiator's Assault 1st Edition German Booster Box. Contains 24 packs with 9 cards in each.
Key Cards - Necroface, Soul Taker, Gladiator Beast Heraklinos, Test Tiger, and many more!
Gladiator's Assault, the newest booster pack for the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME, is bigger and better than ever, with more of what every player loves! This 95-card set has more cards to collect, more new Deck types to build and more exciting foil insert cards. This is the largest set in the GX era. Gladiator's Assault introduces 10 special cards designed just for North and Latin American and European players, plus 5 highly anticipated Shueisha cards previously available only in Japan.
Featuring 26 cards from the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX animation, including Jaden's sinister Evil Heroes and the indestructible Cloudians, Gladiator's Assault will delight every Yu-Gi-Oh! GX fan. Gladiator's Assault also introduces the Gladiator Beasts, fearsome fighters who tag in and out of the Duel with each other, so they can alter their strategy on the fly. Gladiator's Assault has something for every Duelist, no matter their experience level or play style.
-95 card set, the largest since 2004, brings more exciting cards to collect, and
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The Marketing & Communications Department develops and implements strategic communication plans in a variety of media. To further the mission of Fort Lewis College, we also collaborate on qualifying projects initiated by campus clients, providing consulting, guidance, project management, and creative services in:
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Note that this request form is for single, specific, clearly defined projects. Proposed projects need to be focused and thought-out -- a single brochure, poster, postcard, webpage, social media account, etc. We have only a limited amount of time to offer, and that time needs to distributed across the many departments and programs requesting our help. Again, we hope this online form will provide a fair access point for those projects to be considered and queued up.
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This is a database of Hamilton, Ontario Impaired Driving Law information contributed by Ontario drinking and driving lawyers who practice impaired driving law in and near Hamilton, ON and who are members of the International Referral Database of DUI, DWI, Impaired and Drunk Driving, Drinking and Driving, Lawyers & Attorneys. Participation in the database is free to Impaired Driving Defence lawyers. The aim of the database is to provide the public and colleagues in other states and provinces with a great deal of good quality information about local impaired driving laws and practice. If the data below is incomplete, please encourage local attorneys to join and add helpful information. If a particular impaired driving attorney's name is not mentioned, he or she may not yet have joined the database or they may not have specifically listed "Hamilton" in the region field of their profile. If a particular impaired driving courthouse is not detailed, it may not yet be entered in the database or no one has listed "Hamilton" in the cities or towns served field of that courthouse.
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Why is ILM such a failure?
Unsuccessful and impractical software
Comment Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) promised much but delivered very little in practice; it was complex to implement and patchy in its coverage of a business's information assets. Now HP is having another canter around the ILM block... Will it succeed?
Here's HP's ILM vision: "HP brings a holistic approach to information management to help executives harness the power of information to make better decisions, manage for cost and compliance, and deliver the right information to the right users at the right time."
Right, terrific, but how do you know the right users get the right information at the right time? Define "right time". Define "right information". Is there a user information delivery service level agreement (SLA)? Obviously not: it's a logistical measurement and monitoring nightmare.
Let's put that aside and say for the sake of argument: "Okay. I buy into it. Let's buy the product." There's the trouble: there isn't a single ILM product. Instead there are many components, a portfolio – no converged ILM stack of code here.
What HP has done with an announcement today – one which involves six separate products – is "updated its Information Management portfolio to enable organisations to reduce risk, increase efficiency and simplify the way they manage their business information".
We're told that "Instant-On Enterprises embed intelligence into everything they do for a transparent, real-time view of information across the organisation to service customers, employees, partners and citizens with what they need instantly."
This global vision of ILM sounds wonderful, but you just know it will be the same old inadequate and overly complex ILM mish-mash as before. I mean, do we actually believe that HP's ILM portfolio will detect and alert the powers that be to the late delivery of Montague Middle-management-man's weekly production spreadsheet for one of Mega Corp's gazillion products? Of course not: there's no SLA, and if there's no defined delivery criterion then there's nothing to monitor, measure and manage. Even Mark Hurd could have told HP that.
This ILM stuff is just market-ecture, a brochure copy writer's imaginings, not real, practical deliverables that enable global, practical and provably cost-effective ILM.
There is no abstraction layer providing a virtualised information silo for all of the business information of each enterprise. There is no general corporate information storage utility which provides, as HP would say, "an integrated, complete view of how they capture, monitor, protect, retain, find and implement information".
It can't even be done inside a single storage array, because that array is only concerned with delivering data to and from host servers. There are the beginnings of raw, basic ILM primitive services visible in the automatic placement of data across storage tiers in an array.
When we can automatically tier data between multiple, heterogeneous arrays, within and between enterprise datacentres, which may be in private or hybrid clouds, and public clouds, classify it according to its information value, understand and monitor who gets access to it, implement information delivery SLAs, have instrumentation to monitor what goes on, and identify root causes of problems, etc, etc, then we might have a working global ILM scenario, and it would still be a nightmare to implement and maintain.
Until then, ILM is a over-arching theme against which stepwise improvements in areas such as archiving, compliance, backup and backup-reporting products can be presented as bricks in an ILM wall.
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Morris College is an historically black, coeducational, liberal arts college, operated by the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina. The College is committed to promoting the intellectual and personal development of every one of its students.
The mission of Morris College is to produce graduates who can pursue useful and productive careers and in so doing enhance their own lives and the society in which they take their places. That mission is being successfully implemented by the thousands of Morris College graduates throughout the nation who are continually making significant contributions.
Disclaimer: Morris College does not sanction the use of its name or image on any social media sites nor for the promotion of personal and business enterprise without explicit written permission by the college. The college is not liable for any violation of this policy.


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RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - The Richmond Spiders football team won its third-straight game Saturday afternoon, defeating the Delaware Blue Hens, 23-17, at a sold-out Robins Stadium. The victory moves Richmond's record to 7-3 overall and to 5-2 in the CAA, tied for second place in the conference.
FB Kendall Gaskins and LB Darius McMillan made the most of Senior Day on Saturday afternoon, helping lead the Spiders to the win. Gaskins was a workhorse in the backfield, carrying the ball a career-high 27 times for 83 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Defensively, McMillan led the team with game-high 13 tackles while fellow seniorDarryl Hamilton had a pair of interceptions.
Not wasting any time, the Spiders took the opening kickoff and marched down the field for the game's first score. Strauss was sharp in the 14-play drive, completing 6-of-8 passes for 43 yards. Gaskins finished the drive off with an 8-yard touchdown run, giving the Spiders an early, 7-0 lead.
After a 25-yard field goal off the foot of Remington Hinshaw, Gaskins pushed the Richmond lead to 17-0 with his second touchdown of the day. Finishing off a six-play, 39-yard drive, Gaskins rumbled in from 6-yards out for his 14th TD of the season.
Delaware cut into the Richmond lead on a 2-yard run from Julian Laing, but the Spiders still took a 17-7 advantage into the locker room at halftime.
The story of the second half was the play of the Richmond defense, which continued to force turnovers at an incredible rate. After intercepting five Rhode Island passes last week, the Spiders picked off four more on Saturday against the Blue Hens while also forcing a fumble.
With Richmond leading 20-7 headed to the fourth quarter, the Blue Hens made a game of it on a 77-yard interception return for touchdown in the fourth. After the teams exchanged field goals midway through the quarter, Delaware had one last shot to steal the victory away from Richmond.
Two seconds remained on the clock when Delaware heaved a last-ditch pass into the end zone, but the UD attempt was intercepted by senior DB Cooper Taylor, clinching the 23-17 win for the Spiders.
The interception for Taylor capped another stellar day for the Atlanta, Ga., native, as he finished the game with eight tackles, an interception, one sack, one forced fumble, two pass breakups and a quarterback hurry. JuniorWayne Pettus also had a pick for Richmond, his fourth of the season.
Offensive standouts on the day included QB Michael Strauss and WR Rashad Ponder. Strauss completed 25-of-41 passes for 267 yards, while Ponder posted career highs with five receptions and 84 yards.
The Spiders renew their rivalry with William and Mary when Richmond travels to Williamsburg next Saturday for a 1:30pm kickoff.
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Ulrich B. Wiesner
Uli Wiesner studied Chemistry at the Universities of Mainz and California, Irvine. He received his Chemistry Diploma in 1988 from the University of Mainz, Germany, and gained his Ph.D. in 1991 with work on optical information storage in liquid crystalline polymers in the group of Prof. H. W. Spiess at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz. After his Ph.D. he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielle de la ville de Paris (E.S.P.C.I.), France, with Prof. L. Monnerie studying the morphology and dynamics of aromatic terpolyesters. In 1993 he returned to the group of Prof. H. W. Spiess were he finished his Habilitation in 1998 with work on structure, order, and dynamics in self-assembled block copolymer systems with additional interactions. He joined the Cornell MS&E faculty in 1999 as an Associate Professor and became a Full Professor in 2005. Since his arrival at Cornell he works at the interface between polymer science and solid-state chemistry. The goal of his research is to combine knowledge about the self-assembly of soft materials with the functionality of solid-state materials to generate novel hierarchical and multifunctional hybrid materials. Uli Wiesner is the author of about 100 articles in peer-review journals and books and is currently an editorial and advisory board member of multiple scientific journals. Based on work at Cornell in 2003 he co-founded Hybrid Silica Technologies, Inc., Ithaca, NY, with the goal to provide "green" multifunctional hybrid nanomaterials for life science applications and beyond. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including a Ph.D. Award of the Hoechst AG, the Carl Duisberg Memorial Award of the German Chemical Society, an IBM Faculty Partnership Award and Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Tucker'50 Excellence in Teaching Award of Cornell University. Since 2007 he is a member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group (nTAG) of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). In November 2008, he was elected Spencer T. Olin
Professor of Engineering.
Research Interests
The goal of current research in the Wiesner group is to combine knowledge about the self-assembly of soft polymeric materials with the functionality of solid-state materials to generate novel hierarchical and multifunctional hybrid materials. Research results of the group on the use of blocked copolymers as structure directing agents for inorganic materials suggest that in analogy to biology, the sequence information of higher order blocked synthetic macromolecular architectures may be used to encode information about hierarchical structure of co-assemblies with ceramic or other materials. These principles may permit the design of entirely new classes of functional materials that have no analogue in the natural world with potential applications ranging from power generation and energy conversion all the way to the life sciences.
As a particular model system to understand structure formation principles, silica-based hybrids from block copolymer mesophases have been studied extensively over the last ten years. One of the main working principles involves utilizing the thermodynamics of amphiphilic block copolymers, i.e., knowledge about their self-assembly behavior (bottom-up) to structure direct precursors for silica-type oxides. In the meantime these principles have been extended to other oxides as well as to non-oxide ceramics (e.g., SiCN). Synthesis results in mesostructured hybrid materials with structure control down to the nanometer length scale that upon, e.g., thermal processing can subsequently be converted into purely ceramic materials with preserved structure (e.g., mesoporous materials). The final materials have a broad range of potential applications in, e.g., catalysis and separation.
A second major current research direction of the Wiesner group focuses on a novel class of fluorescent core-shell silica nanoparticles, now referred to as C-dots, with potential applications, e.g., as fluorescent labels in biolabeling and bioimaging. Water-soluble C- dots encapsulate multiple organic fluorophores into a solid-state silica environment, thereby improving their photophysical properties as compared to the free dye in water. C-dots have narrow size distributions and in the 20-30 nm size range achieve brightness levels reaching those of semiconductor quantum (Q-) dots with simultaneously enhanced photostability over free dye in aqueous solutions. They are synthesized through a modified Stöber process and overcome toxicity and disposal issues of competing Q-dot technologies. As a result of their optical property profiles they constitute an attractive alternative to existing materials platforms for applications in information technologies and the life sciences requiring bright fluorescent probes. Fundamental studies are aimed at understanding and controlling optical phenomena of this novel class of radiative nanoparticles and of optical structures and devices that integrate them.
Research Projects
Some of the research projects that are currently pursued in the group include:
1. formation mechanisms of nanostructured polymer-inorganic hybrid materials from diblock- and triblock-copolymers and nanoparticles 2. mesoporous oxides and non-oxides for power generation and energy conversion 3. novel dendron derived structure directing agents for functional materials 4. nanostructured block copolymer-silica hybrid thin films 5. synthesis and characterization of C dots from various organic fluorophores 6. preparation of multifunctional C dots 7. C dots as labels and probes in bioimaging 8. locomotive motion in hydrogels from symmetry breaking of gel volume phase transitions
Selected Publications
- 2015. "Transient Laser Heating Induced Hierarchical Porous Structures from Block Copolymer Directed Self-Assembly." Science 349 (6243): 54-58. .
- 2014. "Clinical translation of an ultrasmall inorganic optical-PET imaging nanoparticle probe." Science translational medicine 6 (260): 260ra149. .
- 2013. "Hierarchical porous polymer scaffolds from block copolymers." Science 341 (6145): 530-534. .
- 2013. "Multicompartment mesoporous silica nanoparticles with branched shapes: An epitaxial growth mechanism." Science 340 (6130): 337-341. .
- 2012. "A silica sol-gel design strategy for nanostructured metallic materials." Nature Materials 11 (5): 460-467. .
Selected Awards and Honors
- Elected PMSE Fellow (American Chemical Society) 2015
- Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award (Cornell University) 2015
- EMD Millipore Scientific Advisory Board Member 2015
- Plenary Lecturer (International Mesostructured Materials Symposium, IMMS9, Brisbane, Australia) 2015
- Plenary Speaker (3rd International Symposium: Frontiers in Polymer Science) 2013
- Diploma (Chemistry), Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, 1988
- Ph D (Physical Chemistry), University of Mainz and Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, 1991


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After Hopper
Brick apartments with a shade or cloned pair
Of blank curtains, the middle dark between them
Above a short row of storefronts, no perspective,
Everything near, and the empty street nearer—
Only the light that touches them appears
At all unique, sidelong and full of bias,
Intense in its calm attention to a place
No one would visit unless he lived there.
But you see no one, which forces you to be
That person who admires the lucidity
Of an ungodly hour, the world embellished
By removing distraction. It's this the paperboy
Bicycles past, what the tired nurse or night
Watchman sees coming home, nothing abstract,
No drama beyond the understanding of light,
Which, merciless, yet just, falls upon the hydrant,
The barber pole, with as much indifference
As it might an odalisque, a wheat field. The shops
Will sleep all day with their windows black. In art
Nothing happens, maybe this hard enough,
Yet the aura of possibility hangs like a vow
That comes from within, a stubborn denial
Of a flat on view so limited and limiting
It must be mood coloring your expectations,
Not just air the same shade as marigolds.
Their absence blooms from them in the way you face
Your hands, your own body straight up, no companionship
To dilute your thoughts, the long shadowed chances.
This is life which consists of one city block,
Happy brooding, loneliness you love
Because you have plans that may finally go right
Beneath the plain old sky that isn't poetic
Pap, religious diatribe, but clear and real and bright.
—David Moolten
Note: This new poem is a response to a prompt to "mash" together material from two other poems. I wound up "mashing" just two lines, which I altered slightly as I drafted the poem.
1. whose absence blossoms from it
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Q: How do I know if my relative is in the best nursing home? My mother went from the hospital to a rehab setting. I did not have a choice in facilities because there were not too many openings. Now my mother needs to stay long term and I do not know if I should keep her there or if I should move her.
A: It is important to look beyond the size of the room, color of the walls, and space within a facility. What is important when comparing facilities is to watch the staff as they interact with residents. Does the staff smile, are they courteous, are they rushing people, are they being disrespectful etc. The way the staff interacts with the residents is how your mother will be treated. Talk to families in the parking lot and ask them their opinion, ask them when a problem has arisen does the staff apologize and try to resolve a problem or do they never get back to you and minimize a situation? Look at how long the key staff/team have worked together. A team that is together for a long time tends to have happier employees which filters down to the residents. Also, there are established systems in place that are working.
Q: My mother is not taking her medications properly. At least that is what I think. I asked my mother for her medications and she could only name two. She told me she takes them from the bottles. When I asked her for a current medication list she had a list from 2014 and another list from 2015. I found over the counter vitamins in the kitchen and dining room. My mother said sometimes she takes these medications. She picks and chooses her over the counter meds and I wonder if they are beneficial or if they are contraindicated with her prescriptions. What ideas do you have for me to make sure my mother is taking her meds?
A: First call the primary care physician for an appointment and if your mother will allow, go to the visit with her. Before the appointment go through the house and write down all the prescribed medications and the over the counter medications. Review them all with the physician. At the end of the appointment ask for a medication list. Keep one copy with you and post one on the refrigerator. EMT's are trained to go to the refrigerator and look for a med list to take to the hospital. Then go the pharmacy and have them print out a medication list. Check that all meds are on both lists. When a medication has been stopped the doctor's office should call the pharmacy to tell them the medication has been stopped. Without that order the pharmacy med list can have meds that are no longer taken. This can be confusing for everyone. Next consider filling a weekly pill box for your mother and checking on it often to see if she is taking her medications on time. There are also medication dispensing machines that will announce when it is time to take medications. Your mother would need to push a button and the medications would come down a shoot for her to take. All the9 AM meds would be in together and this would again occur at the next time she is scheduled to take her meds. A family member or nurse can fill this machine. Some pharmacies deliver medications to the house in special bubble wrapped cards. Your mother would need to push out the 9 AM pills from the card. In this situation the pharmacy would be responsible for filling the bubble wrap card. There would be another card for the next time your mother takes her medications. Your mother would need to remember when it is time to take her meds. With the machine that talks, if your mother forgets a dosage, you can be called that your mother missed a dose. Lastly, if your mother is having forgetfulness you can consider hiring a companion or home health aide into the house to help your mother and this person can remind your mother to take her medications.
Debbie Gitner, LCSW, C-SWCM, is vice president of the New England Chapter of Geriatric Care Managers. Linda Sullivan, R.N., C.M.C., is a registered nurse and certified care manager. Together they are owners of ElderCare Resource Services in Marlborough, helping families navigate resources for seniors. Contact them at 508-879-7008; toll free at 866-280-2308 or visit eldercareresourceservices.com.


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Flexner on Finishing: Choosing a Finish for Color
Different finishes look different on different species.
By Bob Flexner
Pages: 70-71
From the June 2009 issue #176
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There are many reasons to choose one finish over another. Usually the most important is for protection and durability – how well a finish protects the wood from moisture and how resistant the finish is to being damaged by coarse objects, heat and solvents.
Other significant factors include drying time (you don't want a fast-drying finish if you're brushing) and odor (some finishes have a less irritating aroma than others).
There's also color. Finishes differ in color, or the amount of color, they add to wood. For example, clear paste wax adds the least amount of color and the least amount of darkening to wood. Wax adds a little shine, but otherwise leaves the wood looking very close to natural.
Water-based finishes don't add color either, but they do darken the wood noticeably. The lack of color can be an advantage on "white" woods such as maple or ash or a disadvantage on darker woods, making them look "washed out."
Nitrocellulose lacquer and blonde or clear shellac add a slight yellow/orange tint to wood. But not nearly as much as does orange or amber shellac. (Shellac in flake form is usually labeled blonde and orange. In prepackaged liquid form the equivalent to blonde is "clear" or "SealCoat." The equivalent to orange is "amber.")
Oil-based varnish, including polyurethane varnish, and boiled linseed oil add a darker yellow/orange tint than lacquer or blonde/clear shellac. More significantly, varnish and oil continue to darken as they age – boiled linseed oil considerably more than varnish.
Mixtures of varnish and oil, often sold as "Danish Oil," fall in between varnish and oil in their tendency to darken depending on the ratio of each that is included.
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Required Coursework Option 1
Our program will prepare you to be a science education leader in the K-12 setting or to be a university science educator through approximately equal components of education and science with supporting work in additional science fields.
Option1 requires 90 graduate hours distributed in the following manner:
Science – 30 hours in two or more fields. You will select a science major field of study from:
Computer Science
Geological Sciences
Natural Resources and Environmental Management
Physics and Astronomy
Science Education – 18 hours.
Research Methodologies – 17 hours. These courses consist of Design, Quantitative, Qualitative and Advanced courses.
Choose 2 from:
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Industry data models serve as maps to an organization's information. Whether you're traveling or designing a data warehouse, maps and models can help you navigate the environment and home in on the details that could influence or affect your journey.
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Technology today is converging from all sides, bringing you new challenges and opportunities daily with blending of voice, video, and data; digitization of content; DVR time-shift programming; and broadband distribution.
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Immigration Enforcement Agency Lacks Interest in Immigration Enforcement
Jan 02, 2013, 01:10 EST
Report Finds Deficient Regulation of Foreign Student Program
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) Backgrounder finds that the agency responsible for overseeing educational institutions hosting foreign students rarely exercises its enforcement authority.
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The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), a subset of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within the Department of Homeland Security, oversees nearly 1.2 million foreign students and their dependents, plus close to 7,000 educational institutions. The new report finds that despite a substantial budget and wide regulatory responsibility, SEVP rarely rejects an institution's application for the authority to issue the Form I-20, the document allowing a potential foreign student to secure a visa from an American consulate abroad. Even more worrisome, the agency averages a mere 2.2 indictments a year of "visa mills", groups posing as bona fide educational institutions but which exist mainly to collect "tuition" in exchange for visas.
The report is online at http://cis.org/sevp-migration-enforcement-agency-discourages-funds-for-Its-own-work.
Report author David North, a CIS fellow and respected immigration policy researcher, comments, "It is incredible that after the would-be Wall Street bomber, the Times Square bomber, and the two 9/11 pilots were all found to have student visas, the Department of Homeland Security makes so little effort to pursue corrupt visa mills, flight schools not authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration, and needless language schools. National security requires the enforcement of our immigration laws."
The Backgrounder describes the assessment process: "There is no direct governmental screening of the I-20s within the United States; it is up to the consular or the USCIS officers to determine if the alien is eligible for the visa or adjustment. Nor is there any routine face-to-face contact between the SEVP and foreign students after their arrival in the United States."
The SEVP, staffed by 750 workers and armed with $120 million in fee revenue, has ignored Congress' mandate to recertify all of its institutions every two years. As of March 2012, the agency had only recertified 19 percent. Since one out of eight institutions approved for the issuance of I-20s has no accreditation, recertification is of particular importance. Mr. North notes, "Limited resources, the agency's excuse for not seeking or challenging fraud, is not credible with a 2012 end of the year cash balance of 135.2 million."
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Adults with higher vitamin D levels had better mental ability, and doctors ponder the link between low vitamin D levels and autism, in three new studies.
Doctors in a brain study explained that with age, the body absorbs less vitamin D from the sun, and that the elderly living in areas with dark winters typically don't get enough of the sunshine vitamin. Researchers measured vitamin D blood levels and mental (cognitive) ability in about 1,800 men and women, aged at least 65, and found that as the level of vitamin D declined, the chances of being cognitively impaired rose. About half of those who were cognitively impaired had the lowest levels of vitamin D, and were more than twice as likely to be impaired as were those with the highest vitamin D levels.
In another brain study, doctors said that animal studies have found vitamin D increased brain nerve signals and protected nerves, and wanted to test vitamin D and mental performance in older men. Researchers tested over 3,000 men, average age 60, and found that those with high vitamin D levels could copy objects and recall better, and process information faster than men with low levels. While the difference was modest, doctors noted, "If cognitive function could be improved by a simple intervention such as vitamin D supplementation, our results would have potentially important implications for population health."
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Posted June 21, 2012
Obesity, a prevalent threat among one-third of the adult
population in the United States, is associated with cardiovascular
disease and metabolic disorders such as diabetes. A major
contributor to this danger is inflamed adipose tissue, or body
fat. A recent study by a team at the Texas A&M College of
Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) indicates that
small RNAs, or microRNAs (miRNAs), which are part of a person's
genetic code, can guide inflammatory or anti-inflammatory action of
macrophages - a special type of cell - in the adipose tissue that
are crucial for our immune defense and important regulators once
permeated into tissues. The study, led by Dr. Beiyan Zhou,
assistant professor of physiology and pharmacology at the CVM, was
recently accepted for publication by Circulation, the leading
journal of the American Heart Association (AHA).
Macrophages are a type of immune cell which often responds to
infections or wound repairings. Zhou said the study focuses
on understanding how microRNA influences these cells when
regulating the "good" and "bad" fat cells.
Cong Meng, a graduate student in Zhou's laboratory and the
co-first author of the article, said adipose tissue
infiltrated by macrophages can be polarized to M1,"bad," and
M2,"good," macrophages.
Zhou said macrophages in fat tissues act in a protective,
anti-inflammatory role in people who are not obese. For those
that are obese, or have plaque on their blood-vessel walls,
macrophages infiltrate the tissues, try to correct the problem, and
become inflamed.
"Both M1 and M2 macrophages are regulators in atherosclerotic
lesions that play a critical role in the development of
cardiovascular diseases. One miRNA can regulate many genes
simultaneously. By harnessing one-crucial miRNA, you can shift the
network to either direction: inflammatory or anti-inflammatory,"
said Guoqing Zhuang, the co-first author for this study and
postdoctoral fellow in Zhou's lab.
Xin Guo, a graduate student in Assistant Professor Chaodong Wu's
laboratory in the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at
Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, validated
the adipose tissue signaling pathways.
"In this study, we demonstrated that miR-223 is a novel and
crucial regulator of macrophage polarization and is indicated for
suppressing pro-inflammatory and enhancing anti-inflammatory
responses," Guo said.
Dr. Stephen Safe, collaborator on the study and professor at the
CVM, said the results hold great promise in the development of
treatments for metabolic disorders.
"This study has identified a new microRNA-based paradigm for
regulation of insulin sensitivity," Safe said. "The results may
ultimately provide the basis for using microRNA analogs or
chemicals for microRNA regulated genes to treat insulin
resistance-related diseases," he added.
While this study represents a starting point in developing new
therapeutic drugs for diabetes, Dr. Robert Chapkin, collaborator on
the study and a Regent Professor in the Department of Nutrition and
Food Sciences, explained there is currently a need for new drugs
since most are no longer sold due to severe side effects.
"Their highly novel finding suggests that because macrophages
play an important role in mediating metabolic disorders including
obesity-induced insulin resistance, that microRNA-223 may be a
metabolic target for therapies designed to regulate systemic
inflammation and energy metabolism," he added.
The paper sparked positive feedback from the science community
including an editorial introduction (published on the same issue of
Circulation) by Dr. Jiandie Lin from the University of
"Previous studies have implicated different miRNA members in the
regulations of innate and adaptive immune responses as well as
immune cell differentiation," Lin said. "However, a role for miRNA
in macrophage polarization has not been explored and this research
is the first one to link macrophage function and obesity related
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Computer To Land Drone On Air Craft Carrier
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Can a computer program perform land a drone the size of a fighter jet on the deck of an aircraft carrier? The Navy is going to find out today when the X-47B experimental aircraft leaves Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland for the USS George H.W. Bush, operating off the coast of Virginia. If all goes as planned, a successful landing of the drone will green-light the Navy's plans to develop another unmanned aircraft to join the fleet alongside traditional airplanes that provide around-the-clock surveillance with strike capability.


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Has anyone been to this... looking for opinions before pulling the trigger...
Interesting -- That's nearly a stone's throw from where I live, seriously. So the five minute drive would be a plus.
Never heard of it before though. They're not much for giving info about it on their site, are they?
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It is so hot here in Chicago, as I am sitting in my fully air-conditioned house, the place where my back meets the chair is screaming for MERCY!
We are the Land of the BIG Shoulders here and not built to be citizens of the Land of Hella…
Yesterday, while shooting pictures of the twin demons ASPHALT/CONCRETE (oh yeah, talk about yer basic Heat Sponges), my face turned beet red. OVERLOAD! Red Alert! I have drank (grammar?) so much water in the last 24 hours it is insane (but necessary).
And what ya gonna knit when the Devil Himself is standing over you with a Blow Torch?
Here is my little Ribby Pulli, made from ggh Bali (I love this stuff) in the color Kahki. I am almost up to the armscye bind offs. It is light and lovely – but if ever, oh ever, I've been glared at on the bus for knitting, now is the time. Fascinated glares, however.
I will KNIT – damn ye, Heat Demons!
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Mary Commons and Campus Bookstore
Mary Commons, 2007 (click thumbnails for larger image)
For historical images of Mary Commons and the Bookstore, click here.
The building of Mary Commons was the College's first major construction project. Until construction began, there were only two buildings that constituted the whole of the campus. The Commons was built simultaneously with Aurora Hall, the first-year dormitory. Both buildings were designed by Richard Hammel and Curtis Green of St. Paul, designers who became long-standing partners to the College. The estimated cost for the necessary expansion was $1 million. To help with this financial obligation, the Sisters of St. Benedict called upon alumnae, friends, and all supporters of Christian education to donate to this project. Mary Hall, a twenty-three inch walking doll and her wardrobe of handmade clothes, was a fundraiser sponsored by the Minnesota Valley Chapter of the CSB Alumnae Association to add to the funds already raised for the project. Ground was broken on April 6, 1955, the cornerstone was laid on April 30, 1955, and the first group of students moved into Aurora Hall in September, 1956.
Mary Commons was to serve as a social center and also provide provisions for campus visitors. It originally held social rooms, visitors' lounges, commuters' accommodations, guest rooms, a snack bar and recreation room.
In 1998, Mary Commons underwent an expansion and a renovation. The Grace Donovan Center for Student Development was a two story addition, providing space for Residential Life, Personal and Professional Development and Multicultural/International offices. The student lounge on the south side of the first floor was renovated to include large couches and a big screen TV. The north side was expanded to provide space for a new campus bookstore. The campus mail center was also moved into the new space, adjacent to the Mary Commons information desk.
The bookstore and mail center had been housed in Loretto Hall, a building that used to stand between the Teresa Reception Center and the Monastery's garage building. In 1974, a campus center that included the bookstore and mail center was built. Later, the campus center would become the Academic Services Building. In 1997 it was decided that the Bookstore needed to move because of the lack of space. Both the Haehn Campus Center and Mary Commons were considered. The main goal was of the move would be to allow the bookstore to expand, eliminate clutter and create an inviting space. Mary Commons was chosen because there was already too much going on within the HCC.
On April 9, 2000, the refurbished Mary Commons and new bookstore were dedicated.
Selected Bibliography
"The College of St. Benedict Plans Needed Expansion," Building Fund, 1959
"Student center nears reality," Vitae, October 25, 1973, p. 8.
"Board approves construction of student center," Vitae, May 10, 1973, p. 1.
Piatz, Karen, "3.2 invades campus," Vitae, September 26, 1974, p. 2.
Kodan, Taryn, "CSB bookstore is up for improvement," Independent, April 25, 1996, p. 3.
Bowen, Amy E. "CSB Reconstruction Provides New Look for Campus," The Record, September 2, 1999, p. 3.
"CSB dedicates new bookstore," St. Benedict's Today, Winter, 2000, p. 7
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Menu in French and English. Menu bright pink in color. Circular illustration on front cover, copyright by Robinson Eng. Co., Boston, 1881, no. 141. Poem by Owen Meredith on back cover.]]>
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Includes wine list. Cover illustration of milkmaid signed "Edwards;" copyrighted 1882 by the printer. "No. 10 L" next to printer's name on cover. "Corkage 50 cents and $1.00 per bottle." Ovid quote on menu: "Non opus est verbis, credite r[e]bus."]]>
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On the back cover is handwritten "Compliments of Jno. A. Vickery"]]>
Stated at bottom of menu: Telephone, Telegraph Service and Telegraphic Communication at Office. Corkage 50 cents a bottle.]]>
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Dec. 5, 2008
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The Schedule
Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 2:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara (2-3) vs. Gonzaga (8-1) at UCSB's Thunderdome
Game broadcast on KTMS 990-AM
Game broadcast on KCSB 91.9 FM and online at kcsb.org
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Sunday, December 14, 2008 at 2:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara (2-3) at Pepperdine (3-3) at Pepperdine's Firestone Fieldhouse
Game broadcast on KTMS 990-AM
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The Match-Ups
When UCSB and Gonzaga tip off, it will only be the second time in history the two schools have faced each other. The previous time, 12/30/1999, was a 76-58 UCSB victory at Gonzaga. Following a week off, the Gauchos travel down the coast to face Pepperdine, a team they have a 13-12 overall mark against. The Gauchos have not lost to the Waves since 1993, a streak of three straight wins - all accomplished in the last three seasons. UCSB defeated Pepperdine 65-63 on 12/17 last season.
Pedersen Adds to School Record
Lauren Pedersen has not missed a free throw yet this season, going 20-for-20 from the line. The senior's free throw perfection is the best start to a season by any player in UCSB history and her perfect mark currently leads the nation.
20-Point Wins
UCSB notched its first 20-point victory of the season when it defeated Nevada, 59-37 on Thursday. Last season the Gauchos had just two wins of at least 20 points. Until last season, UCSB had at least four 20-point victories since 2000-01, with a high of 13 done both in the 2002-03 and 2003-04 seasons.
Another Nevada Knockout
The Gauchos continued their overall domination against Nevada, running their overall record to 16-3 vs. the Wolf Pack, including five straight wins.
Free For All
The Gauchos entered the week sixth in the nation in free throw percentage and have shot an incredible 77.2% from the line this season, going 61-for-79. Along with Pedersen, Emilie Johnson (8-8) and Ashlee Brown (5-5) have also been perfect from the line. Last season UCSB finished with a 70.7% mark from the free throw line - third-highest in school history - while the UCSB all-time mark is 73.9% set in the 2002-03 season.
Block Party
Sixth-year senior Jenna Green - who leads the team with a .516 field goal percentage - swatted five shots in the win over Nevada, one off her career-high. Green leads the team with nine blocks this season.
Led by Lauren
Lauren Pedersen has led the Gauchos in scoring in four of the team's five games and the senior leads the Gauchos in just about every category. Pedersen paces the Gauchos in points (14.8 per game), rebounds (5.8 per game), assists (3.4 per game) and steals (2.6 per game). The Brea native also leads the Gauchos in field goals made and attempted as well as free throws made and attempted. Her five steals vs. Nevada also tied her career high.
Margaret Makes Her Mark
Making her first start of the season - and her first since 3/8/08 vs. Long Beach State - Margaret Johnson led the team with six rebounds. The Lake Oswego, Ore. native led the team in rebounding three times last season.
After hitting just 15 three-pointers in their first 53 attempts - including a mere 5 for 30 in their previous two games - the Gauchos nailed 6 of 11 from beyond the arc against Nevada. It improved UCSB's three-point percentage by more than four points to its current 32.8% Last year the team shot 30.4% from downtown.
Third Time, No Charm
The last time UCSB lost three games in a row came during a five-game winless streak that lasted from Nov. 12, 2006 until Dec. 4, 2006 when the Gauchos opened the 2006-07 season 1-5.
Bulldog Bits
The Bulldogs enter Sunday's game receiving votes in both the ESPN/USA Today and the Associated Press polls. Gonzaga last defeated Eastern Washington, 71-56, and has won three in a row. The Zags are led by junior forward Heather Bowman, who has twice been named the West Coast Conference's Player of the Week and is averaging 19.1 ppg, 8.0 rpg and 2.0 spg. Sophomore guard Courtney Vandersloot missed the team's last two games with a sprained ankle. Vandersloot was named the WCC's Player of the Week to open the season and is averaging 19.4 ppg, 4.4 rpg and 7.3 apg.
War on the Boards
Whitney Warren is second on the team with 23 total rebounds. The senior, who averaged 3.8 rebounds per game last season has a 4.6 average through the first five games.
Fresh Legs
Freshman Emilie Johnson leads the team in minutes played so far this season, averaging 35.2 minutes per contest. She has played 176 of a possible 200 minutes thus far after playing 68 of a possible 85 minutes in the Gauchos' two exhibition games. Johnson leads the team with nine three-pointers and is second on the team with 9.0 points per game.
Congrats to Courtney
By sinking both free throw attempts vs. Nevada, Courtney Collishaw scored her first career collegiate points. The sophomore missed last season with a knee injury.
Malibu's Most Wanted
In accordance with the NCAA transfer rules, junior Christine Spencer must sit out a full year before being able to don the blue and gold. When the Gauchos face Pepperdine on Dec. 14 in Malibu, Spencer will be eligible to play her first game at UCSB after transferring from Wisconsin.
Sorry for Sha'Rae
Senior Sha'Rae Gibbons had successful surgery last week to repair a fracture in her left pinkie and will miss a portion of the 2008-09 season. Gibbons was expected to be the team's starting point guard after averaging 9.5 points per game last year while leading UCSB with 107 assists.


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By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent
LONDON (Reuters) - Peter Piot was 27, newly qualified and working in a microbiology lab in Antwerp when he received a flask of human blood contaminated with a mysterious pathogen that had been killing people in the forests of Zaire.
If he'd known then what he was to discover - that inside was Ebola, one of the most lethal infectious diseases now known in humans - he would have taken more safety precautions.
As it was, Piot and his colleagues wore only latex gloves and white cotton lab coats as they unscrewed the top, took out its contents - vials of infected blood taken from a Flemish nun in Zaire, stored in a blue thermos flask and couriered to Belgium on a passenger plane - and began analysing them.
"Looking back, that was probably quite irresponsible. But we didn't know then what we were dealing with," the now 65-year-old said in an interview from his office at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he is director.
"These are dangerous moments - particularly when you don't know what you've got. Such blood can contain very high levels of virus."
That tale dates from Belgium in 1976, when Piot and his team became the co-discoverers of Ebola. The young Belgian scientist then went to Zaire, now Congo, in central Africa to work in the rainforests among dying villagers and missionaries to collect samples and investigate the epidemic.
Yet almost four decades on, the disease Piot describes as "a spectacular virus - and one of the most lethal infections you can think of", has continued to rise up in the region, causing frightening but sporadic outbreaks that kill poor and vulnerable people with gruesome haemorrhagic fevers.
In Guinea, health authorities said on Monday that an outbreak there - the first known in a west Africa country - already involves scores of suspected cases.
The Geneva-based World Health Organisation said on Tuesday Guinea had reported at least 86 cases reported, including 59 deaths.
Six suspected Ebola cases, including five deaths, in neighbouring Liberia were also under investigation, it said.
Piot says he's saddened and frustrated by this and other outbreaks - partly because they should be easy to prevent, or at least to contain, and partly because the scientific detective work behind the Ebola virus has not yet revealed its main host.
"What we're seeing is a pattern that's been repeated in nearly every single Ebola outbreak," he told Reuters.
"It started in people who live in the forest, or in close contact with it, and it's then transmitted around hospitals....and then spreads further either at funerals or in households though close contact."
The virus initially causes a raging fever, headaches, muscle pain and conjunctivitis, before moving to severe phases that bring on vomiting, diarrhoea and internal and external bleeding. It kills up to 90 percent of those who become infected.
That there is no treatment or vaccine against Ebola suggests people are helpless in the face of this vicious virus, but Piot insists that is not the case.
"Fundamentally, Ebola is easy to contain," he said. "It's not a question of needing high technology."
"It's about respecting the basics of hygiene, and about isolation, quarantine and protecting yourself - in particular protecting healthcare workers, because they are very exposed."
The problem in Guinea, and in other countries in Africa where Ebola has reared up in the past few decades, is that health systems are in bad shape, he said, communications are limited, and the people are fairly mobile and very poor.
As a doctor and researcher whose life has been dedicated to the pursuit of deadly viruses - (after his Ebola discovery Piot became one of the world's leading scientific experts on HIV and AIDS) - Piot is also frustrated that scientists have not yet been able to pin down the main host of this lethal fever.
While the virus is known to be transmitted to people from wild animals, before spreading in humans through person-to-person transmission, its main animal host - or what virologists often call the "reservoir" of a virus - is not totally clear.
Piot, like others, suspects fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family are the most likely natural host, yet the uncertainty leaves scientists unable to get ahead of fresh outbreaks.
"This is a virus that is highly unpredictable," he said. "This time it popped up in Guinea where it has never been detected before.
"Why there? Why now? That's what I find frustrating. If we knew for sure the host of this virus, we could do more to say where people are more at risk."
(Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)


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Infamous: Second Son's second power is 'neon'
Infamous Second Son's second power has been revealed. And it's called "neon"
Infamous: Second Son has you playing as a new character--one that can absorb the powers of other mutants. So far, developer Sucker Punch has focused exclusively on Delsin's smoke ability, which lets him hover across long distances, jump up buildings through pipes, and cause things to explode.
His second power? Neon.
"When you're playing as a neon powered hero, it's not like playing like a smoke guy," creative director Nate Fox told IGN. "The smoke powers are all about speed and getting in and out quickly, whaling on guys, and zipping up the sides of buildings. But as a neon player, the tempo is different."
Exactly what "neon" will let you do is still unclear, as Fox shied away from actually explaining it further. However, you can see a tease at the end of the game's last trailer. It appears to let you access memories somehow--presumably seen through a purple haze of sorts.
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Infamous Second Son's second power has been revealed. And it's called "neon"


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Peavey Vypyr VIP 1 Modelling Combo Amp
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The Peavey Vypyr VIP 1 Modelling Amp is the world's first amp that contains bass guitar, acoustic guitar and electric guitar amplifier models. With Peavey's Variable Instrument Input, a single amp can provide amplification for a variety of instrument types.
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The first game to reintroduce the Might & Magic universe to the public will be Heroes of Might and Magic V. Gamers will delve into a more mature, consistent fantasy universe that will appeal to fans of all fantasy genres. One of the most successful turn-based strategy franchises, the Heroes of Might and Magic series, with its distinctive touch of RPG, is a benchmark in the Heroic Fantasy genre, with considerable commercial and critical acclaim. The new game will benefit from the features and characteristics that established the success of the initial saga while offering a wealth of innovations such as a highly immersive scenario, a variety of appealing factions, modern 3D graphics, a revolutionary tactical combat system, and a story-based campaign mode.
Developed by a seasoned team at Nival Interactive (Blitzkrieg, Silent Storm, Etherlords), the unique Might & Magic experience can be relived on PC by gamers worldwide in early 2006.


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Understanding Multiracial America
Great Resources for Teaching
from the March 2010 YES! Education Connection Newsletter
Read the newsletter: (Multiracial) America the Beautiful
Many youth develop their assumptions and beliefs based on stereotypes and limited experience. It's not unusual for children and young adults to have little exposure to people different than themselves. Here are two resources that explore race and the experiences of multiracial people.
Teaching the Multiracial Experience
Read the "Bill of Rights" and "50 Experiences" with your students. Use these documents as a platform to explore stereotypes, ignorance, judgments, and even rudeness. Ask them what it might be like for kids who don't fit in a single racial box, who straddle dual and sometimes multiple races and cultures. Then, brainstorm ways your students can be more inclusive and ethnically aware.
Bill of Rights for Mixed Race People
Dr. Maria Root wrote the foundational "Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People." The U.S. Census referred to these texts in their deliberations that resulted in a historic 'check more than one' format to the race question for the 2000 census.
DOWNLOAD: Bill of Rights for Mixed Race People (PDF, 76k)
50 Experiences of Mixed Race People
You've been told you look exotic. You're asked What are you? People look between you and your parents to figure out if you're related. These are common experiences of mixed race people.
DOWNLOAD: 50 Experiences of Mixed Race People (PDF, 72k)
Dr. Maria Root, a clinical psychologist and leading authority and lecturer in the field of racial and ethnic identity, has written books and documents to bring positive awareness of interracial and multicultural identities. She published the first contemporary volume on mixed race people, Racially Mixed People in America (1992).
LEARN MORE: MAVIN Foundation's work with mixed race issues is a significant way to create supportive and inclusive communities for all people.
Helping Students Understand Race
SEE WEBSITE :: Understanding Race
While there is no such thing as a biological race, we do see differences in people as a result of marriage, migration, and adaption to environment. Unfortunately, these perceived differences tend to set the foundation for social labeling and often, discrimination.
Through the prisms of history, science, and living experience, the RACE Project helps your students better understand differences and similarities among people. Additional lesson plans (grades 6-8, 9-12) will challenge your students' beliefs and assumptions about race, and connect them with the idea that race is about culture, not biology.
Events and accomplishments from 1600 to present day are captured in this fascinating timeline on the history of race, with links to articles providing more detail. The Story of Race video provides your students with an overview of how prevailing ideas in science, government, and culture have shaped our concept of race today.
EXPLORE: History - Race in the U.S.A.
Human Variation
Current science tells us that we share a common ancestry and are not as different as we seem. Human Variation invites your students to explore the science behind varieties in skin color and how genetics plus environment affect health. Take the quiz on human variation and race to see who scores a 10!
EXPLORE: Human Variation
Lived Experience
Race is the least important aspect in determining character, yet it is often the most significant factor in how we are perceived. In Lived Experience, your students will be exposed to and asked questions they may not normally face in their everyday lives. Take a sports quiz that tests your knowledge of facts and stereotypes. Guess "Who is white?" Play the game of "Life" in someone else's shoes and find out how likely you are to be frisked at random by the NYPD.
EXPLORE: Lived Experience
Teacher Resources
Lesson plans and other related websites will augment the vast knowledge and new perspectives learned from the RACE Project. Teachers guides for middle and high school grades offer lessons, such as Culture Shapes How We See the World and Classifying Relatives, with an integrated approach to the topic of race and human variation.
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The RACE Project is an award-winning education program of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) that includes a nationwide traveling museum exhibit, interactive website, and education materials for middle school and older. AAA's mission is to support archaeological, biological, ethnological, and linguistic research, and to be a chief disseminator of anthropological knowledge for solving human problems.