Anything goes: 2011: A concert of Cole Porter Songs (additional material)

Develop new material for concert for the Orpheus Choir Wellington for performance at the Wellington Town Hall on Oct 7, 2011. The project requires researching, devising and arranging 2 new extended medleys, "You're Sensational Medley" and "It's Too Darn Hot Medley" (a total of around 18 minutes,for Concert Choir and small orchestra editing and preparing score and parts for printing, and adapting existing concert format

International publication of compositions and arrangements for jazz choir: Hey Cinderella; Hold my heart to blame; Anything goes: From the songbook of Cole Porter (2009); Who wants to be a millionaire; and You're sensational medley

Research and develop original compositions “Hey Cinderella” arranged for Adv, Int, and Beginner levels of Jazz Choir (dur. Approx 4-5 minutes) "Hold My Heart To Blame"(selected for the Wisconsin Choral Competitions Song List) and "The Gift Of Love" for publication by Really Good Music LLC., WI., USA. Also arrangements from the concert "Anything Goes: From the songbook of Cole Porter (2009)" - "Cole Porter Latin Medley", "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" and "You're Sensational Medley" devised and arranged for The Orpheus Choir Wellington NZ, for publication by Really Good Music LLC., WI., USA

Responsible Environmental Behavior: Metaphoric Transference of Minimum-Impact Ideology

This abstract represents a thesis research project that studied changes in National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) students\u27 attitudes, intentions, and behavior, as they pertain to the environment, resulting from participation in NOLS\u27 Wind River Wilderness course. It was hypothesized that an increase in these concerns would result from the metaphoric transference of minimum-impact ideology to daily life. Prominent theories from the fields of social psychology and environmental education relating attitudes, intentions, behavior, and other considerations were incorporated into the theo­retical framework of the study

Teaching Educators Basic Fruit Tree Grafting Methods

Hands-on education has proven to be successful in teaching basic grafting methods. MSU Extension developed and conducted eleven statewide workshops teaching Extension Agents and Master Gardeners preferred fruit tree grafting methods. The hands-on workshops provided specialists, agents, and Master Gardeners training on teaching fruit tree grafting classes for clientele. Each workshop consisted of a pre-test, a PowerPoint presentation, a post-test, and a grafting demonstration. Post-test scores showed a significant gain in knowledge over pre-test scores. This training can be replicated/adapted by other organizations to conduct educational outreach

Further experiments with the Iowa air blast seed separator for the analysis of small-seeded grasses

In recent years attempts, have been made in Europe and North America to improve seed laboratory machines used for the separation of chaff from heavy seeds in grasses. The most important European contribution is probably the Gilchrist seed separator used at the seed testing station in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Holland (Leendertz) separator has some merit, but its chief weakness as shown by Porter (7) was the inconstant speed of the motor which made it. impossible to deliver the same volume of air through the separator tube each time the valve was opened to a given point. Replacement of the motor by one that operated at constant speed was found by Brown and Porter (1) to correct the defect reasonably well. The use of bolting cloth in place of a metal screen is also a disadvantage. Following the initial work Porter (8) described a new seed separator equipped with a combined motor\u27 and fan unit of standard specifications which made uniform separations of bluegrass, redtop and orchard grass samples either by repeated blowings of the same sub-sample or by a single blowing for each of many replicate sub-samples. He also employed synthetic samples to check the accuracy and uniformity of separation. These results were obtained with samples from the same lot and indicated that for any given lot of seed it was possible to obtain uniform results if care was used in reading the dial opening on the valve or the manometer which indicated pressure in the compression chamber. It is noteworthy that in his experiments Porter (8) showed that if the weight of sample varied from 112 to 2 grams of blue-\u27 grass seed, the dial reading was more dependable than pressure as measured in the compression chamber, and further that pressure as measured in the blowing tube was about as reliable as the dial reading. He showed, however, that with samples having a low weight per bushel the amount of germinable seed removed at a given opening was greater than with samples having a high weight per bushel

Making the Secular Sacred: An Analysis of Linguistic Devices Used to Give Religious Perspective to Ordinary Events.

It has been suggested that human beings do not possess social reality so much as they actively and cooperatively construct it by means of language in interaction with others. The manipulation of symbols, the creation of inferences, the posturing of one\u27s personal identity all work together to enable participants (both speakers and hearers) in a given speech event to create social reality and reaffirm and maintain their social relationships. In religious speech communities, like the one investigated in this study, participants seek to create a different kind of social reality--one that encompasses all of the individual and corporate experiences of the group and interprets and reconstructs those experiences, transforming their secular nature into something of sacred significance. The speech community I investigated is radically committed to a worldview which understands the invisible, spiritual, sacred world as the fundamental reality within which everything else must be understood and interpreted. Everyday events only have meaning as they can be fitted into the larger schema of sacred reality. In this speech community, speakers work cooperatively and interactively together via a variety of linguistic devices to give sacred perspective to secular events and, in so doing, additionally create new spiritual experiences that augment their shared group knowledge and serve to strengthen their social harmony

Long Range Fires in Degraded and Denied Environments

NPS NRP Executive SummaryThe employment of long range fires is a high priority for the U.S. Navy. Long range fires address the capability of U.S. forces to coordinate an emerging arsenal of deep strike weapons against enemy targets that can be launched from an array of joint assets, to include submarines and surface ships, land platforms, and airplanes. This concept means launching ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and hypersonic missiles from multiple, extremely dispersed locations, against critical enemy assets at sea or hardened facilities on land. Additionally, the long range fires process must be resilient in a degraded or denied environment. Coordinating long range fires encompasses a complex set of actions, to include target prioritization and development, command and control, tasking, kinetic and non-kinetic fires, battle damage assessment, rearming and contested logistics. Our approach leverages experience gained by applying systems engineering and analysis to recent research involving the operational Navy, to include projects involving joint fires within Distributed Maritime Operations and the deployment of hypersonic missiles on a current U.S. Navy surface ship. We apply a similar approach here but augment it with a system of systems analysis of applying long range fires in a degraded and denied environment as part of a timely and relevant joint operational scenario. We will examine significant design decisions and operational parameters, as well as appropriate measures of effectiveness, in generating successful long range fires through systems architecture development and simulation analysis.N2/N6 - Information WarfareThis research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.