Megabarchans on Mars

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Enriching Summer Work: An Evaluation of the Summer Career Exploration Program

To determine the impact of the Summer Career Exploration Program (SCEP), a privately funded summer jobs program for low-income teens, P/PV examined the lives of over 1700 applicants. These youth were randomly assigned to participate or to not participate in SCEP in the summer of 1999, and their outcomes were compared at four and twelve months after program application. Researchers found that implementation was strong, but program impacts were less impressive. While SCEPs participants got summer jobs at a substantially higher rate (92%) than the control group (62%), the programs ability to translate this large and immediate summer employment impact into intermediate gains (in terms of future plans, college enrollment, work success, sense of self-efficacy or reduced criminal activity) proved to be negligible. Although impacts were short lived, the report concludes that SCEP and similar programs have an important place in the larger mosaic of supports, programs and opportunities for young people

Less Safe, Less Free: A Progress Report on the War on Terror: Address to the Terrorism & Justice Conference at the University of Central Missouri

The Bush Administration since 9-11 has adopted a strategy, which in some sense depends upon the ability to predict with incredible accuracy at what will happen in the future. It was given its name by the U.S. Attorney General during the first Bush Administration, Missouri’s John Ashcroft, who argued that what we need in the wake of 9-11 is a “preventive paradigm.” The argument is understandable: when facing foes who are willing to commit suicide in order to inflict mass casualties on innocent civilians, it is not enough to bring them to justice after the fact. The perpetrators are dead--and so are many innocent civilians. Thus, the goal must be to prevent the next terrorist attack from occurring. The author makes three points about this preventive paradigm. The first is that it puts tremendous pressure on the values that we associate with the rule of law, the Constitution, and the American society at its best. Second, he argues that while this preventive paradigm has been adopted in the name of making us more secure, it has in fact made us less secure and more vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Third, he suggests that this was tragically unnecessary. Prevention is possible without compromising our most fundamental principles and without inspiring the kind of backlash that the preventive paradigm has occasioned

The Traveler, February 2004

News from the Iowa Tourism Offic

Notes on the Life Histories of \u3ci\u3eChlosyne\u3c/i\u3e (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) and \u3ci\u3eAgrypon\u3c/i\u3e (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

Ambrosia trifida is reported for the first time as a larval food plant of Chlosyne nycteis. Chlosyne nycteis and C. harrisii are reported as hosts of Agrypon prismaticum and A. alpinum, respectively; the first report of wasps in Agrypon parasitizing species in Nymphalidae

The Crescent Student Newspaper, October 7, 1941

Student newspaper of Pacific College (later George Fox University). 4 pages, black and white.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent/1925/thumbnail.jp

Impact of Deadlift and Power Clean on Vertical and Broad Jump Performance

A transfer between weightlifting and jumps is based on principles of increased demands being placed upon the muscular system while performing similar movement patterns. The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of power-clean (PC) and deadlift (DL) interventions on vertical-jump (VJ) and broad-jump (BJ) performance in college-aged males. The hypothesis stated PC intervention would show greater improvements in BJ and VJ than DL intervention. The null hypothesis stated no difference between DL and PC groups would be found in affecting VJ and BJ performance. Six males who were not D-I athletes and were experienced with required movements were recruited for the study. Participants were randomly assigned to DL intervention, PC intervention, or control group. ORPYX shoe pods were placed in participants shoes to measure force produced in jumps and lifts. All participants performed pre-intervention max VJ and BJ testing. Jump testing was followed by max PC and DL testing for respected groups. Participants in DL and PC interventions performed a training protocol three days a week for six-weeks. Post-intervention, subjects were re-evaluated in jumps and lifts. Data was analyzed through ORPYX and transferred to Excel for further analysis. Means and standard deviations for force, jumps, and lifts were calculated and analyzed through SPSS. A one-way ANOVA was used to analyze data. Improvements occurred, but no statistically significant difference was observed (p \u3c .05). The null hypothesis was accepted; no significant differences were found between DL and PC in affecting VJ and BJ performance