Most of the nine stories in Last Known Position were written upon James Mathews’ return from combat deployment to the Middle East with the D.C. Air National Guard. Life under fire provided the author with both dramatic events and a heightened sense of observation, allowing him to suggest the stress of combat as the driving factor behind extreme yet believable characterization and action. Military experiences and settings cause certain human elements and truisms to emerge more profoundly and dramatically. These stories portray desperate characters driven to make desperate choices. Always on the edge of a dark and unpleasant reality, Mathews’ characters survive by embracing fantasy, humor, violence, and sometimes redemption. Each story bears its own brand of hopeless quirkiness. Four teenagers on an army base steal a grenade and are stalked by a parade horse. A drifter returns home to rob the grandparents who raised him. A national guardsman faces a homicidal superior officer in Iraq on the eve of war. An elderly man worries that his wife’s new house guests are unrepentant cannibals. Always tense, sometimes ridiculous, and never dull, Last Known Position brings the reader to places unknown before and unforgettable after.

This project has focused on the simulation of Arctic clouds in CCSM3 and how the modeled cloud amount (and climate) can be improved substantially by altering the parameterized low cloud fraction. The new formula, dubbed 'freeezedry', alleviates the bias of excessive low clouds during polar winter by reducing the cloud amount under very dry conditions. During winter, freezedry decreases the low cloud amount over the coldest regions in high latitudes by over 50% locally and more than 30% averaged across the Arctic (Fig. 1). The cloud reduction causes an Arctic-wide drop of 15 W m{sup -2} in surface cloud radiative forcing (CRF) during winter and about a 50% decrease in mean annual Arctic CRF. Consequently, wintertime surface temperatures fall by up to 4 K on land and 2-8 K over the Arctic Ocean, thus significantly reducing the model's pronounced warm bias (Fig. 1). While improving the polar climate simulation in CCSM3, freezedry has virtually no influence outside of very cold regions (Fig. 2) or during summer (Fig. 3), which are space and time domains that were not targeted. Furthermore, the simplicity of this parameterization allows it to be readily incorporated into other GCMs, many of which also suffer from excessive …

Semi-weekly newspaper from Bastrop, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Report on State Democratic Executive Committee Meeting on November 15, 2008. A breakdown of various topics discussed including highlights announcement, committee appointments, and plans for the TSDC statewide convention on February 28 and March 1, 2019 in Austin.

There are currently great needs to develop low-cost inorganic materials that can efficiently perform solar water splitting as photoelectrolysis of water into hydrogen and oxygen has significant potential to provide clean energy. We investigate the Si/TiO2 nanowire heterostructures to determine their potential for the photooxidation of water. We observed that highly dense Si/TiO2 core/shell nanowire arrays enhanced the photocurrent by 2.5 times compared to planar Si/TiO2 structure due to their low reflectance and high surface area. We also showed that n-Si/n-TiO2 nanowire arrays exhibited a larger photocurrent and open circuit voltage than p-Si/n-TiO2 nanowires due to a barrier at the heterojunction.

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Funeral program for Mr. Walter (Pete) Cockrum, born August 25, 1934 and died November 7, 2008. The funeral was held November 15, 2008 at D. W. Brooks Funeral Home Chapel, officiated by Rev. C. E. Murray. The funeral arrangements were made through D. W. Brooks Funeral Home and he was buried in Ridley Cemetery in Seguin, Texas.

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall in partial fulfillment of the Graduate Artist Certificate in Music Performance.

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during National Touring Productions "South of Where We Live" live performance on November 15th, 2008. The footage shows a drama comedy about six high power black professionals trapped in an a conference room together where secrets, fights and hunger strikes come out in big ways.

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the 2008 24-hour filmfeast featuring actress Regina Taylor on November 15th at the Black Academy. The footage shows Taylor engaging in a dialogue with an audience about her career, awards, and time in the industry.

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.