Lecture given Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 10:00 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Girls attending gender exclusive congregations receive mixed messages about the role of females. This class reveals the dreams and disappointments of school-aged girls as they reflect on gender roles in church, at school and in culture."

Lecture given Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 10:00 AM at Abilene Christian University: "The prophet Isaiah warns those who create laws that create oppression and benefit few. These sessions examine the influence of this admonition on contemporary race relations among Christians."

Lecture given Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 10:00 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Isaiah's carefully shaped message about Yahweh's care for Israel has much to say to preachers. The participants in this panel will discuss the aims, practices and effects of prophetic preaching, with Isaiah as their model."

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

Lecture given Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 9:00 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Taking the United By Faith movement in Abilene as a case study, this session gathers people with varying expertise to share what they have learned about building fellowship among racially and ethnically diverse people."

Lecture given Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 4:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "Drawing from case studies of multilingual Hispanic churches that successfully evangelize, equip and empower multiple generations of Latinos for Christ, this class focuses on significant challenges and exciting opportunities facing those engaged in Hispanic ministry in the United States today."

The global and annual mean aerosol direct and indirect effects, relative to 1850 conditions, estimated from CESM simulations are 0.02 W m-2 and -0.39 W m-2, respectively, for emissions in year 2100 under the IPCC RCP8.5 scenario. The indirect effect is much smaller than that for 2000 emissions because of much smaller SO2 emissions in 2100; the direct effects are small due to compensation between warming by black carbon and cooling by sulfate.

Lecture given Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 3:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "The great promise of the Bible is that your story dwells in God's story. By understanding God's grand saga, we come to grasp the purpose and meaning of our own."

Lecture given Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 4:00 PM at Abilene Christian University.

Lecture given Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 4:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "Explore the reasons young adults are leaving organized Christian faith. Discover the new opportunities presented to local church leaders."

We present a new scalable volumetric reconstruction algorithm for multi-view stereo using a graphics processing unit (GPU). It is an effectively parallelized GPU algorithm that simultaneously uses a large number of GPU threads, each of which performs voxel carving, in order to integrate depth maps with images from multiple views. Each depth map, triangulated from pair-wise semi-dense correspondences, represents a view-dependent surface of the scene. This algorithm also provides scalability for large-scale scene reconstruction in a high resolution voxel grid by utilizing streaming and parallel computation. The output is a photo-realistic 3D scene model in a volumetric or point-based representation. We demonstrate the effectiveness and the speed of our algorithm with a synthetic scene and real urban/outdoor scenes. Our method can also be integrated with existing multi-view stereo algorithms such as PMVS2 to fill holes or gaps in textureless regions.

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.

The three-year project GPS-TTBP resulted in over 152 publications and 135 presentations. This summary focuses on the scientific progress made by the project team. A major focus of the project was on the physics intrinsic rotation in tokamaks. Progress included the first ever flux driven study of net intrinsic spin-up, mediated by boundary effects (in collaboration with CPES), detailed studies of the microphysics origins of the Rice scaling, comparative studies of symmetry breaking mechanisms, a pioneering study of intrinsic torque driven by trapped electron modes, and studies of intrinsic rotation generation as a thermodynamic engine. Validation studies were performed with C-Mod, DIII-D and CSDX. This work resulted in very successful completion of the FY2010 Theory Milestone Activity for OFES, and several prominent papers of the 2008 and 2010 IAEA Conferences. A second major focus was on the relation between zonal flow formation and transport non-locality. This culminated in the discovery of the ExB staircase - a conceptually new phenomenon. This also makes useful interdisciplinary contact with the physics of the PV staircase, well-known in oceans and atmospheres. A third topic where progress was made was in the simulation and theory of turbulence spreading. This work, now well cited, is important …

Progress in research during this year elucidated the physics of precession resonance and its interaction with radial scattering to form phase space density granulations. Momentum theorems for drift wave-zonal flow systems involving precession resonance were derived. These are directly generalizable to energetic particle modes. A novel nonlinear, subcritical growth mechanism was identified, which has now been verified by simulation. These results strengthen the foundation of our understanding of transport in burning plasmas

Weekly student newspaper from St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas that includes news and information of interest to the college community along with advertising.

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) required GAO to report on the relative independence, effectiveness, and expertise of the inspectors general (IG) established by the IG Act of 1978, as amended (IG Act), including IGs appointed by the President with Senate confirmation and those appointed by their agency heads in designated federal entities (DFE). GAO was also required to report on the effect that provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act have on IG independence. The objectives of this report are to provide information as reported by the IGs on (1) the implementation of provisions intended to enhance their independence in the IG Reform Act of 2008 (Reform Act), the IG Act, and the Dodd-Frank Act; (2) their measures of effectiveness, including oversight of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) funds; and (3) their expertise and qualifications in areas specified by the IG Act. GAO relied primarily on responses to its survey received from 62 IGs established by the IG Act. GAO also obtained information from the President's fiscal year 2011 budget, the IGs' annual report to the President for …

This report gives an overview of current intelligence issues of interest to the 112th Congress. It includes background and analysis including most recent development, ongoing Congressional concerns, specific issues for the 112th Congress, and a summary of related legislation from the 109th through the 112th Congresses.

Lecture given Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 9:00 AM at Abilene Christian University: "College ministry is one of today's most important and most challenging outreach ministries. American culture has deeply affected spiritual development. How do students think? What defines them? Hear how one veteran campus minister builds the Christian leaders for tomorrow's church."

Lecture given Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 4:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "Ministry can be exhausting as ministers plan programs and ministries that seem unfulfilling. The Allelon monastic community enters a third year of unexpected ministry."

Weekly newspaper from Edna, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

This fact sheet tracks the current heads of government in Central and South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. It provides the dates of the last and next elections for the head of government and the national independence date for each country.

Lecture given Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 9:00 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Learn what you need to make it in the marathon of ministry. From his work with more than 200 battle-weary ministers in crisis, discover what has sidelined and what has sustained ministers for the long haul."