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Locally made film wins again

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WENATCHEE M&M Productions won another award last week as its documentary, The Lost Secret of Immortality makes the rounds on the film-festival circuit.

The Great Lakes International Film Festival selected Lost Secret as Best Religious/Spiritual/Christian film Saturday.

The film also won a Silver Palm award at the Mexico International Film Festival in June and best spiritual documentary at the New York International Film & Video Festival last year.

The Lost Secret of Immortality was based on a book by Barclay Powers that explores the theory of the Philosophers Stone, enlightenment and Eastern belief systems.

M&M cameraman Brett McGinnis traveled to China and the Philippines to film martial arts and meditation experts in remote villages. Powers directed the film.

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Astronauts Will Start Spending A Full Year On The Space Station In 2015

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Sunlight glints off the International Space Station with the blue limb of Earth providing a dramatic backdrop in this photo taken by an astronaut on the shuttle Endeavour just before it docked after midnight on Feb. 10, 2010 during the STS-130 mission.

Under the plan, two astronauts one Russian and one American would blast off in March 2015 on an experimental endurance mission that's twice as long as current space station stays, officials with Russia's Federal Space Agency (known as Roscosmos) said Tuesday (Oct. 3).

"The principal decision has been made, and we just have to coordinate the formalities," said Alexei Krasnov, head of manned space missions at Roscosmos, according to Russian news agency Ria Novosti. "If the mission proves to be effective, we will discuss sending year-long missions to ISS on a permanent basis."

Krasnov added that the space station's partner agencies have already devised a scientific program for the long-duration mission, Ria Novosti reported. [Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records]

Krasnov did not name the two astronauts who will launch on the marathon mission in the Ria Novosti report. Russia's Interfax news agency reported in August, however, that the NASA crewmember will likely be Peggy Whitson, who stepped down recently as the agency's chief astronaut in order to rejoin its active spaceflying ranks.

A year-long stay aboard the orbiting lab could help lay the groundwork for manned missions beyond low-Earth orbit, by allowing scientists to study how long-term spaceflight affects the human body.

That objective may be of great interest to NASA, which is currently working to send astronauts to destinations in deep space. In 2010, President Barack Obama directed the agency to get people to a near-Earth asteroid by 2025, then on to the vicinity of Mars by the mid-2030s.

According to some mission concepts, a manned roundtrip journey to Mars would take about two years to complete.

While nobody has yet resided aboard the International Space Station for a complete year, such a long orbital stay is not unprecedented. Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, a medical doctor, lived aboard Russia's Mir space station for 438 consecutive days during a mission that began in January 1994 and ended in March 1995.

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Space Station ferry burns up on re-entry

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The European Space Agency's (ESA) third Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ferry has completed the final part of its successful six-month servicing mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

Indeed, the Edoardo Amaldi burned up as planned on Wednesday over an uninhabited area of the southern Pacific ocean as it reentered Earth's atmosphere.

The ESA describes its lineup of Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATVs) as "the most complex" space vehicles ever developed in Europe - which are the largest and most capable resupply ships to dock with the Space Station. They are also the heaviest spacecraft in the world, weighing more than 20 tons at launch. Their cargo load and propellant transfer capacity is unmatched and they can be used as space tugs to maneuver the entire 400-ton ISS either to higher altitudes or to move it out of the way of space debris.

The Edoardo Amaldi was lofted to orbit on March 23 by an Ariane 5 launcher and docked with the Space Station five days later. During its mission, Edoardo Amaldi delivered nearly 7 tons of propellant, oxygen, air and water, as well as scientific equipment, spare parts, supplies, clothes and food to the astronauts orbiting Earth. The dry cargo consisted of more than a hundred of bags packed into eight racks two more racks than on previous ATV missions.

So far, ATVs and Russian vehicles Progress and Soyuz are the only vehicles capable of docking with the Station fully autonomously, with built-in redundancy. While docked, the ATV-3 performed nine reboosts to keep the Space Station in orbit, counteracting the effects of atmospheric drag. Without reboosts by ATV and Russia's Progress vehicles, the Station would eventually fall back to Earth. On 22 August, ATV-3's eighth boost lasted for 40 minutes (nearly half an orbit) and raised the Station to new heights a record-breaking 405 x 427 km above Earth.

During the six months that ATV-3 spent at the Station, it provided 48 cubic meters of extra space for the astronauts. Before its departure, the crew loaded its pressurized module with waste material. Its successor, ATV Albert Einstein, is already slated to deliver the next round of supplies to the Station. It arrived by boat at Europe's Spaceport, in Kourou, French Guiana on 19 September and is scheduled for launch in April 2013. ATV Georges Lematre is currently being assembled and is scheduled to be launched in April 2014.

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How 'The Big Bang Theory' Sent Howard Wolowitz to Space

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The fictional aerospace engineer and Expedition 31 crew member was seen floating aboard the International Space Station (ISS) during last week's season premiere of the CBS hit television series "The Big Bang Theory." On this week's episode, airing tonight (Oct. 4), Wolowitz is still off the planet, 250 miles (400 km) up.

Of course, he is not really on the space station. The real ISS Expedition 31 ended in July. Wolowitz, or rather actor Simon Helberg, was on a sound stage at the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank, Calif.

His spacecraft surroundings never orbited the Earth, but they did play previous host to the Energizer Bunny for a Super Bowl commercial and were seen in the 2004 feature film, "The Day After Tomorrow."

But Helberg's, or rather Wolowitz's crew did include a real life NASA astronaut, Mike Massimino, and, further blurring the lines between art and life, the fictional Expedition 31 crew patch that they wore on the show placed Wolowitz's and Massimino's names side-by-side. [Photos: TV's "Big Bang Theory" Geek Chic]

Behind the scenes, the job of delivering Wolowitz to the orbiting outpost didn't fall to a Russian rocket but rather to The Big Bang Theory's production designer John Shaffner, set decorator Ann Shea and their teams.

Scavenging for space parts

As it turns out, you can rent a space station.

Last May, when the show's fifth season finale called for Wolowitz to launch onboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Shaffner went looking for one.

"The first thing that we always do in this business is ask, 'Well, can we rent it? Did somebody make one first?' And unfortunately, we discovered that there weren't any Soyuz replicas to be found," Shaffner told collectSPACE.com in an interview.

For the Soyuz, Shaffner and Shea received photos from NASA, turned to a Kansas museum to find dimensions, and scavenged parts from an aerospace junkyard in Los Angeles to piece together a realistic capsule. But in the course of his seeking out the spacecraft, Shaffner found a space station.

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Red Bluff's Harris commits to UC Riverside softball

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The north state's softball talent continues to turn heads at the collegiate ranks.

Red Bluff High senior Haley Harris has verbally agreed to accept a scholarship to play softball for University of California at Riverside, an NCAA Division I school in the Big West Conference.

Harris' offer comes in a third straight year that an area high school softball player has accepted a scholarship before playing their senior season. Anderson's Cheridan Hawkins, now at Oregon, did it in 2011 and West Valley's Molly McWilliams (Nevada) did it in 2010.

For Harris to have her school of choice locked up before taking the diamond in her final year as a high school athlete eases the pressure of her senior year.

"It's definitely relieving," Harris said. "That's what I was mostly stressed about not knowing where I was going."

UC Riverside so far has been the only school that offered Harris a scholarship, though, she received interest from plenty of other D-I and D-II schools before deciding to be a Highlander.

"They have a beautiful campus," Harris said. "The coaches are different; they're down to earth. Not only will they make me better on the field but with life lessons too."

Harris has been a varsity star for the Spartans the past three years, being selected as a first-team All-Record Searchlight and first-team All-Northern Section pick every season. She is coming off her best season where she hit .462 with four home runs, 55 hits, 40 RBIs and 42 runs.

"One of her best attributes is how competitive she is and how she's not satisfied at any level," Red Bluff softball coach J Howell said.

"It's been her goal as a freshman to get a scholarship to play in college and it's one thing for a kid to say that but it's another thing to put in the long hours of hard work that she has done to do that," Howell said. "It shows her determination, commitment and drive to accomplish something that she's wanted to do since she was a freshman."

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NASA | Earth Science Week: Discover Your Career – Video

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03-10-2012 12:51 For more information, visit Join us during Earth Science Week (ESW) 2012 to meet an incredible group of NASA Earth Explorers -- from scientists and engineers, to multimedia producers, educators and writers. Find out about their careers, why and how they study the planet, and what their typical days are like. From video interviews to blog posts and more, there will be a variety of multimedia activities that will allow Explorers to tell their stories. Have questions of your own? Participate in live Twitter interviews and Google+ Hangouts held throughout the week, as well as during a radio interview and webinar in Spanish. On October 18, learn about the many contributions of women at NASA to Earth science as part of Female Geoscientists Day. The 2012 NASA ESW website will be your one-stop-source for Earth science careers and resources during ESW and beyond. There you will find a collection of articles, information about events, links to blog posts, transcripts of Twitter interviews, and educational products in English and Spanish.

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Industrial Nanotech, Inc. Signs Exclusive Agreement with Boral Roofing, LLC

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NAPLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets: INTK), an emerging global leader in nanotechnology based energy saving and sustainable solutions announced today that the Company has signed an agreement granting Boral Roofing, LLC the exclusive rights to market Nansulate(R) Crystal, the Companys patented clear roof coating, in the US, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Nansulate(R) Crystal is manufactured and sold exclusively by Industrial Nanotech, Inc.

We look forward to working with Boral Roofing, LLC to make the benefits of Nansulate(R) Crystal, combined with the extraordinary performance qualities and aesthetic beauty of concrete roof tile, the standard for fine quality roofs, states Francesca Crolley, VP of Business Development for Industrial Nanotech, Inc.

About Boral Roofing:

Boral Roofing LLC is a subsidiary of Boral USA, the country's largest premium provider of complete roofing and re-roofing solutions for architects as well as commercial and residential builders. Boral Roofing operates 15 clay and concrete tile manufacturing plants throughout the U.S. and Mexico.

About Boral USA:

Headquartered in Roswell, Georgia, Boral USA is a leading manufacturer in the building material industry. Boral USA's subsidiaries include Boral Bricks: #1 manufacturer of brick in the United States, Boral Roofing: the nation's leading manufacturer of clay and concrete roof tiles, Boral Stone Products, manufacturer of Cultured Stone: #1 Brand of manufactured stone veneer, Boral Composites Inc., manufacturer of Boral TruExterior Trim: #1 Brand of poly-ash exterior trim products.

About Nansulate(R)

Nansulate(R) is the Company's patented product line of award winning, specialty coatings containing a nanotechnology based material that provides the combined performance qualities of thermal insulation, corrosion prevention, resistance to mold growth, chemical resistance and lead encapsulation in an environmentally safe, water-based, coating formulation.

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Grant to aid nanotechnology training

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JOHNSTOWN - Fulton-Montgomery Community College will use federal grant money to help train people in nanotechnology.

The program, which is still being designed, will help workers who lost their jobs as a result of increased imports or shifts in production out of the United States. The program also will help unemployed veterans.

"What we are looking to do is find a way to put together a one-year program in nanotechnology and get them ready for a new job, versus our typical two-year curriculum," FMCC President Dustin Swanger. "I expect this could help 50 or more students locally over the next two years."

A Fulton-Montgomery Community College student works on the Atomic Force Microscope in May at FMCCs clean room classroom. The Leader-Herald/Amanda Whistle

The college will receive nearly $100,000 from the federal government for the job-training program.

Swanger said the program will be designed to aid people that have technology backgrounds and out of work by adding to their existing knowledge in the field. As a result, this program will only be offered to those with experience and not brand new, incoming students.

Swanger said he hopes to have the program available to the community by the fall semester next year.

Richard Prestopnik, a professor of electrical technology at the college, will head the program.

"Part of the funding is to allow us to do some curriculum development work," Prestopnik said. "We are concentrating on nanotechnologies and semiconductor manufacturing. We are attempting to design a program that will grant a one-year certificate targeted toward individuals with experience in advanced technical fields."

He said the course will include a lot of hands-on work so students can be prepared for what it will be like in the actual job.

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Nanotechnology Hits the Rushing, Roaring Mainstream

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As the nano-knowledge base expands crowd-source thinking makes it clear that connecting more resource partners is the key.

Scott E. Rickert is the Chief Executive Officer of Nanofilm Ltd.

I just got my nanotechnology world view expanded by an order of magnitudeor three. After 20+ years in field, I didnt think much of anything could surprise me. Yet, a simple webinar -- where I expected to give more insight than I got -- has me thinking bigger than ever about the future of nanotechnology.

The impetus? A webinar by the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, sharing plans for and soliciting views about a redesign for the National Nanotechnology Initiative website, http://www.nano.gov. Dont roll your eyes. This wasnt about color palettes or typefaces. The crux of the discussion was fundamental: who wants to know what about nanotechnology?

The explosive answer: everyone wants to know more of everything. Scientists and congressmen. Third graders and PhD candidates. Environmental health specialists and their employees on the assembly line. News reporters and job seekers. Start-up funders and ordinary consumers.

And thats the aha-moment. The quest for knowledge across so many audiences shows that nanotechnology is in the rushing, roaring mainstream of our thinking. And I believe thats the beginning of feedback loop in which answers come from everywhere and all kinds of people -- a crowd-sourcing process, as innovation gurus call it.

Today, were creating a community where researchers can hear consumer voices. Funders and manufacturers can view markets more clearly. EHS professionals can see the big picture on concerns and educators can find a road map for classrooms.

Oh, were not there yet. But let me share five fundamental shifts I took away from the nano.gov webinar that suggest were well on our way.

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2 in Charlotte face fake ID charges

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Two Charlotte residents remain jailed Thursday after being arrested earlier this week and charged with making fake identification cards.

The N.C. Department of Motor Vehicles says its inspectors arrested Ingrid Ramirez Ayala, 18, and Isacc Perez Guzman, 27, on Monday afternoon at a home in the 400 block of Milburn Court. That is in a neighborhood off Moores Chapel Road in west Charlotte.

Authorities say the two were charged with eight felonies and seven misdemeanors, and investigators allege the two ran a document lab from the Milburn Court residence.

The arrests followed a two-month investigation, according to the DMV, and they say agents from the Department of Homeland Security also were involved in the case.

Authorities say each was charged with three counts of common law forgery; two counts of manufacturing a counterfeit government identification card; one count of manufacturing a counterfeit driver license; and one count of selling a counterfeit driver license. In addition, authorities say, Ayala was charged with resisting arrest.

In addition to the arrests, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has asked for detainers on the two suspects, according to the DMV.

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Mawson West Limited and Bellatrix Exploration Ltd Under Current Evaluation

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Keep in mind that central bank buying, investor demand, and mine strikes in Africa could cause supply constraints and force gold higher, even in a month where gold has often been down.

Should gold prices follow historical trends for October along with stocks, it would represent a great buying opportunity. Over the past 40 years, November has generally been one of the best months for gold, second only to September. However, in the last decade

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Digital Medicine at Scripps Health Boosted With $3.75 Million Grant

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Digital medicine just got a boost because Scripps Health announced a $3.75 million grant from the Qualcomm Foundation. Some are saying this will help the push to revolutionize healthcare.

The Scripps Translational Science Institute will use the money to develop innovative digital technologies.

Dr. Eric Topol, chief academic officer of Scripps Health and director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, said the money will help advance clinical trials of wireless bionsensor systems, diagnostic tests and embedded sensors for predicting certain types of illnesses.

Three of the high-priority programs include:

The wireless sensors are expected to be able to predict and track heart attacks, Type 1 Diabetes and certain types of cancer. Topol said although the idea is futuristic, these sensors could help predict a heart attack one or two weeks before it would even happen.

He said the money to help fund a three-year program is important because it allows for thorough testing of these devices.

One of the most important parts of this whole program of our digital medicine is to prove that these very exciting technologies fulfill their promise, he said.

Topol also said San Diego is at the forefront of digital medicine in the country.

"We're just in a great area to tap into many of these innovative technologies to test them and hopefully advance them into daily care, Topol said.

He said not only are the healthcare technologies becoming more efficient, they are also becoming more affordable due to wireless technology. For example, sleep laboratories in hospitals charge about $3,000 a night, Topol said. Instead of having to spend a night in an unfamiliar room strapped to equipment, wireless technology can make the same diagnoses for less than $100.

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CMU College of Medicine reveals early drawings of two Saginaw buildings

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CMU officials revealed schematic designs Thursday morning for the two buildings in Saginaw.

The designs include facilities at Covenant HealthCare, at 800 Cooper, and at St. Mary's of Michigan hospital near Hoyt and South Franklin.

A panel discussion featured Dr. Ernest Yoder, College of Medicine dean; Linda Perkowski, College of Medicine associate dean; Steve Lawrence, CMU facilities management associate vice president; Doulas Iles, CMU foundation development board member. The event at the Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce October Percolator Breakfast was moderated by Kathleen Wilbur, CMU development and external affairs vice president.

Lawrence said CMU doesn't yet have a cost estimate for the Saginaw sites, which officials are calling the medical school's East Campus, and CMU will start next week interviewing construction management firms.

Combined, the two Saginaw facilities will be 120,000 to 130,000 square feet, he said.

The facility at Cooper has two stories with clinical space, classrooms and a simulation lab. At St. Marys, CMU will renovate and add space to the existing Health Education Center. That facility will have classrooms and office space.

CMU is partnering with Saginaw hospitals Covenant HealthCare and St. Mary's of Michigan. The three organizations formed a 501(c)3 corporation, Central Michigan Medical Education Partners, to manage five residency programs, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery and plan a sixth in psychiatry.

The medical school has preliminary accreditation, step three of five from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. It allows the College of Medicine to operate, Yoder said. The university is on track to receive full accreditation by 2017, the first year it will graduate students.

The CMU College of Medicine aims to create a new model of health care and implement patient-centered medical care. Medicine is about a team, and it includes the person receiving the care, Yoder said.

CMU's focus is on training physicians to work in under-served rural and urban areas, and that includes recruiting students from those areas and who want to work and live in Michigan, Perkowski said.

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Chinese Medicine In Dilemma

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Chinese Medicine In Dilemma

BEIJING, Oct 4 (Bernama) -- In a consulting room in the Jinan Chinese Medicine Hospital, east Shandong Province, a brown-mustached caucasian in his white uniform is taking the pulse of a patient.

The doctor, Peter Knithof, is a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) student from the Netherlands. He has been studying in China for five years. Along with him is Lee Jae Hak from the Republic of Korea.

The pair said Chinese medicine has become quite popular in both of their countries, which is part of the reason why they decided to come to study Chinese medicine, reports China's Xinhua news agency.

Lee suffered from an illness during his childhood. After using Chinese medicine he became much stronger. "My family and I have seen the wonders of Chinese medicine," Lee said.

After four years' language and professional training at a Chinese university, they now speak fluent Chinese and are taking part in internship at the Jinan hospital. To them, studying Chinese medicine is also an important aspect of understanding the traditional Chinese culture.

Like Taichi and Shaolin Kungfu, the doctrines of Chinese medicine are rooted in the ancient Chinese culture. While Western medicine conducts research based on anatomical structures, TCM perceives health as a harmonious interaction of the body and the outside world.

Traditional Chinese medicine is not supported by evidence-based modern medicine. It, nonetheless, traces symptoms by checking the pulse and inspecting the tongue and meridians, which the Western world views as a mysterious concept and has long been reluctant to accept.

Chen Qiguang, who leads a TCM research group in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that the Chinese and the West use distinct systems and theories regarding medication, which is why non-Chinese have difficulty in trusting the TCM.

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'Medical emergency': School bus crashes into house

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A school bus leaving a Catholic elementary school crashed into a house on Long Island Wednesday afternoon, NBCNewYork.com reports.

Syosset Fire Chief Peter Silver said the driver "had a medical emergency of some kind." Newsday reported that he was airlifted to a hospital in East Meadow, where he was admitted in a serious but stable condition.

The five children on the bus ranged in age from 5 to 8, but none was injured, police said. Read the full story at NBCNewYork.com.

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UC Riverside Medical School gets preliminary accreditation; to begin enrolling future doctors next summer

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KABC) -- After years of hard work, and last-minute fundraising, the University of California, Riverside's School of Medicine can finally open its doors.

On Tuesday, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) -- the national accrediting body for programs geared to M.D. degrees in North America -- gave preliminary approval to UCR's proposed courses.

"There certainly was a lot of cheering and a lot hugging by the way," said Dr. G. Richard Olds, UCR vice chancellor for health affairs and the dean of the School of Medicine.

Until now, the only way for medical students at UCR to become doctors was to spend two years at the university and then finish up at an accredited medical school, like UCLA.

"I'm just as excited as everyone else," said medical student Michael Castillo. "We've been waiting for this for a long time, and it's finally happening."

LCME's decision paves the way for the university to begin accepting applications for its charter enrollment of 50 students in the fall of 2013. UCR students are excited about the possibility of actually getting their medical doctorates without having to transfer.

"I'm actually from Riverside. I was born in Riverside. So I was hoping that the school got its accreditation and I'm glad it did," said medical student Janel Gracia.

Efforts toward establishing a medical school have been ongoing since 2006.

In 2011, the LCME withheld accreditation approval when it became clear the state would not be making annual funding available to UCR because of California's gaping budget deficit.

However, over the last year, the university has secured tens of millions of dollars in private donations, government grants -- including $20 million from Riverside County -- and UC system appropriations, enabling it to move ahead with opening its doors next fall.

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Andy Warhol ‘Statue of Liberty’ May Fetch $35 Million

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Andy Warhols 1962 Statue of Liberty could fetch more than $35 million when its auctioned on Nov. 14 at Christies in New York.

The statue is depicted 24 times, in four rows of six images. Silkscreened in red over green ink on white background, the work has a three-dimensional effect.

If you put on 3-D glasses, it becomes a grainy, black and white 3-D photograph, said Brett Gorvy, chairman and international head of postwar and contemporary art at Christies. Well be giving 3-D glasses with our catalogs.

Two other examples of Warhols 1962 experimentations with 3-D are Optical Car Crash, which is in the collection of the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland, and another Statue of Liberty from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

In the 1960s, 3-D was known from the horror movies, Gorvy said. Warhol actually made a 3-D movie in the 1970s. It was about Frankenstein.

The choice of colors is connected to works in Warhols Death and Disaster series, which often are in strong greens or strong reds. A painting from the series, Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I), (1963) sold for $71.7 million in 2007 and remains Warhols auction record.

Statue of Liberty had belonged to German entrepreneur Erich Marx, whose art collection became the core of the Hamburger Bahnhof contemporary-art museum in Berlin. The work was later acquired by the Daros Collection in Zurich, which sold it privately in the past decade to the current consigner, according to Gorvy.

Statue of Liberty will appear in the same sale as Warhols 1966 portrait of leather-clad Marlon Brando on a motorcycle, expected to bring about $20 million. Titled Marlon, the work comes from the collection of Donald L. Bryant, a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art who bought it for $5 million at Christies in 2003.

So far, the highest estimate of the November auctions in New York belongs to Rothkos 1954 No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue), valued between $35 million and $50 million. It will be offered at Sothebys evening sale of contemporary art on Nov. 13.

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Liberty Knocks Off Gators

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Posted: Oct. 4, 2012 | 2:02 a.m.

Liberty sophomores Tristan Hoyle and Matthew Drongesen had one objective in the third round of Wednesday's Division I Sunrise Region semifinal at Green Valley.

Their job was to stave off the Gators' Matthew Chen and Isaac Wellish in the final match. In doing so, the Patriots would punch their ticket to the team final.

"We knew going into the final game we had a good chance to break their serve," Hoyle said. "We were up close within the past couple of games, but we figured if we stepped it up and kept it away from their better player, we would have a good shot at it."

The duo did exactly that, outlasting Chen and Wellish 6-4 in the deciding match to secure Liberty's 10-8 victory and a spot in the Sunrise final against Coronado at 8 a.m. Saturday at Darling Tennis Center.

"We're happy with the win," said Liberty coach Kih Gourrier, whose team reached its first region final. "I knew it would be a close match; 10-8, 11-7, it didn't really matter as long as we came out with the win."

Hoyle and Drongesen went 3-0, including a 7-6 victory decided on the tiebreaker against Green Valley's Jake Johnson and John John. After splitting six matches in the first round, Liberty (10-2) grabbed four points in the second round to take a 7-5 lead.

"We know we had some important matches that we knew we had to take care of today to keep us on top," Hoyle said. "I figured right off the bat that we were going to have to go 3-0 in doubles for us to pull it off."

Liberty's Dylan Ihmels and Chitnarong Sopat each went 3-0 in singles.

The doubles teams of Chen and Wellish, Johnson and John, and Parker Phelps and Amar Shah each went 2-1 for the Gators (12-1).

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