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GRANDVILLE, MI Not only has Rob Bell been profiled by the New Yorker, written a new book to follow up "Love Wins" and come out in support of gay marriage since he left the pastorate of Mars Hills Bible Church in early 2012, but he also has chatted with Oprah Winfrey.
At 11 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 3 - about the time scores of church services will be held across West Michigan Bell and Winfrey will discuss why more people are identifying with spirituality over religion, according to a promo on oprah.com. A brief video shows Bell saying that were wired for the mysterious, and Winfrey calling him a different kind of preacher.
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Bell nurtured the congregation that meets at the former Grand Village Mall into one of the areas largest churches, before leaving in early 2012 to pursue other ministries in southern California. On Wednesday night he posted a photo of Oprah and himself on his Facebook page, and tweeted this promo:
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International Space Station crews commuting to and from their orbiting laboratory will be busy this November, and NASA Television will provide live coverage of their launches, landings and relocations.
Traffic starts to pick up Friday, Nov. 1. Expedition 37 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineers Karen Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency will climb into their Soyuz spacecraft, back out of one Russian Earth-facing docking spot and fly a short distance to another one at the end of the station. NASA TV coverage starts at 4 a.m. EDT. The 24-minute maneuver begins with undocking at 4:34 a.m.
The Soyuz move opens up the Rassvet docking port for another Soyuz transporting Expedition 38/39 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA, Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to the station. Aboard their spacecraft is the Olympic torch, which is taking an out-of-this-world route -- as part of the torch relay -- to Fisht Stadium in Sochi, Russia. There, the torch will be used to light the Olympic flame at the stadium, marking the start of the 2014 winter games.
The trio is scheduled to launch at 11:14 p.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 6 (10:14 a.m. Kazakh time on Nov. 7) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA TV launch coverage begins at 10:15 p.m. Docking to Rassvet is scheduled at 5:31 a.m. on Nov. 7, with NASA TV coverage beginning at 4:45 a.m. Hatches are scheduled to open at 7:40 a.m., with NASA TV coverage starting at 7:15 a.m.
Mastracchio, Tyurin and Wakata will join Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano, plus Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos and Michael Hopkins of NASA. Their arrival will be the first time since May 2009 that nine people have served together aboard the space station without the presence of a space shuttle.
On Sunday, Nov. 10, after Yurchikhin has transferred command of the station to Kotov, the Soyuz carrying Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano will undock for a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan at 9:50 p.m. (8:50 a.m. Kazakh time on Nov. 11), wrapping up a 166-day mission. Hatch closure coverage begins at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 10 with a replay of the change of command ceremony. Undocking coverage begins at 6 p.m., and deorbit and landing coverage begins at 8:30 p.m.
Special video feeds of pre-launch activities by the crew will resume on Friday, Nov. 1, and continue through Wednesday, Nov. 6.
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One-hundred people from 22 U.S. states and some foreign countries will attend a two-day NASA Social on Nov. 4 and 5 at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
The attendees, who follow NASA and JPL on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and other social networks, will tour JPL, participate in interactive events and hear from scientists and engineers about current and upcoming space- and Earth-observing missions. Attendees will share their experiences with their followers through the various social media platforms.
The Nov. 4 events will highlight NASA's role in studying Earth and its climate and will preview three Earth-observing missions JPL is preparing for launch in 2014: the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) spacecraft, which will measure soil moisture from space; ISS-RapidScat, which will measure ocean winds from the International Space Station; and the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), which will study atmospheric carbon dioxide from space. Tour stops will include the Spacecraft Assembly Facility, where SMAP and ISS-RapidScat are being built, and JPL's Earth Science Center. The upcoming Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, which will measure snowfall from space, will also be discussed. GPM is managed by Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
The Nov. 5 events will focus on JPL planetary science missions, including the interstellar Voyager and the Curiosity Mars rover. Tour stops will include mission control for NASA's Deep Space Network and the Mars Yard, where rovers undergo test drives.
NASA Social attendees were selected from more than 475 people who registered online. Participants represent Canada, Croatia, Indonesia, Norway, Peru, the United States and the United Kingdom. Attendees from the U.S. come from 22 states: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.
NASA Television will broadcast a portion of the NASA Social, on Nov. 4 starting at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST) at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv and http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 .
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To cover the NASA Social, media must arrange access in advance through Courtney O'Connor in JPL Media Relations at oconnor@jpl.nasa.gov or 818-354-2274.
The specific deadline for media who want to join the Nov. 4, 1:30 p.m. tour is Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 1 p.m. Tour stops include the Spacecraft Assembly Facility and JPL's Earth Science Center. Non-U.S. citizens must also bring valid passports.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 31, 2013) - TopCoder, the world's largest professional development and design community, with NASA and the Harvard-NASA Tournament Lab (at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science), today announced the launch of a series of innovation challenges that will develop foundational technological concepts for disruption tolerant deep space networking.
NASA has made significant progress in developing Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocols that aide in deep space communication. DTN protocols are an approach to network architecture that seeks to address the potential for lack of continuous connectivity in deep space. It is meant to aid NASA in the exploration of the solar system by overcoming communication time delays caused by interplanetary distances, and the disruptions caused by planetary rotation, orbits and limited transmission power.
While DTN protocols are currently able to transmit information, the disruptive and time delayed environment in space makes secure communication difficult. TopCoder is challenging its members to create a mechanism by which cryptographic keys are initialized, distributed and validated while using DTN protocols in order provide secure communications over vast distances in space.
There are currently three DTN challenges available on the TopCoder website :
1. Security Key Challenge: Strengthen DTN communication by adding the ability to include cryptographic keys. 2. Delay-Tolerant Payload Conditioning (DTPC) Challenge: Validate an implementation of the DTPC protocol developed by Marshall Space Flight Center. 3. Licklider Transmission Protocol (LTP): Add "sender authentication" to the space flight implementation of the protocol.
TopCoder is inviting its members and anyone else in the world to help create the future of space exploration by participating in the DTN Challenge Series. Learn more at http://www.topcoder.com/dtn.
Comments on the news"Born out of a belief that 10 years in the future (i.e. about 2023) a richer networking environment than point-to-point radio links would be required to communicate, a small team of developers debated the architecture of an interplanetary Internet," said Vinton Cerf, Distinguished Visiting Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. "Today, that vision is being fulfilled with prototype operations on the surface of Mars and in orbit, on the International Space Station and on board the EPOXI comet-visiting spacecraft."
"Contest-based innovation has proven to be an important complement to existing internal efforts to solve important technological problems," said Karim R. Lakhani, Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Principal Investigator of the Harvard-NASA Tournament Lab. "The Disruption Tolerant Networking challenges represent an opportunity for citizens from around the world to make fundamental contributions to the future of space exploration and have a real impact on the space program."
"The TopCoder community is helping us build a secure networking protocol to hold and transmit information that provides privacy within a time-delayed space-network," said Rinat Sergeev, NASA Tournament Lab, Data Scientist and Institute of Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard. "This is the first time we have tapped the professional crowd to help develop a major keystone in the future era of space exploration and look forward to seeing the community's 600,000 member strong response."
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NASAs Global Precipitation Measurement mission wants to see your photos and videos of precipitation from unique perspectives!
There are many ways to view precipitation. Rain gauges collect water as it hits the ground. Weather radars detect rain and snow as it falls through the air. Research aircraft can measure moisture while flying through clouds, and satellites like the GPM Core Observatory can view precipitation from space.
How do you view precipitation? Get out your cameras and show us! Wed like to see weather from all angles far away, up close, above, below and inside the more creative and unique, the better. Post your coolest photos and videos of precipitation from unique perspectives, and well choose the best ones to post on the NASA Precipitation Measurement Missions websites (http://pmm.nasa.gov & http://www.nasa.gov/gpm).
While we welcome images of extreme weather, we dont want YOU to be too extreme. So before you take that photo, please make sure youre keeping safe.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/th6tv2/general_medicine) has announced the addition of the "Global General Medicine Education Publishing Market Report 2013-2018" report to their offering.
The specialists who deal with this branch of medicine are called internists and ones who work with children are called pediatricians. General Medicine is further specialized depending on the organ or organ systems, such as cardiology, anesthesiology, endocrinology, nephrology etc. On an average 75,000 medical students choose internal medicine as a career option annually around the world.
The global publishing market for general medicine education is highly dynamic in nature since there is a strong disparity in the availability and adoption of modern technology along with its cost. It is estimated that in the Asian and developing European regions along with RoW, more than half of the people do not have access to internet as a source of education in their homes. This severely undermines the quality of education. Printed books and literature are thus the major tools of spreading education here.
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ANN ARBOR As more and more discoveries made by University of Michigan Medical School researchers make their way toward becoming products that can help patients and health care providers, the school has named a new leader to accelerate that effort even further.
Data released last week show that UMMS researchers generated a wealth of technology transfer activity in the last U-M fiscal year, with a record 133 new inventions reported, and a record 41 patents issued. Both figures represent one-third of U-Ms total.
On other measures of how well ideas are moving from the laboratory to the clinical setting, the school posted solid results for FY2013.
According to U-M Tech Transfer, more than three-quarters of U-M FY2013 revenues from past patents and licensing agreements $11.1 million of $14.4 million came from technologies that began in the Medical School.
In addition, 44 of U-Ms 148 patent applications, 40 of its 108 new license agreements with industry, and two of its nine new business startups came from Medical School technologies in 2013. In all, 54 inventions from the Medical School were licensed as part of 40 license agreements with new and existing businesses
Now, the school has appointed Dr. Kevin Ward, a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine with an extensive innovation track record, to lead an effort that will unify Medical School efforts to nurture commercialization and entrepreneurship activity in close collaboration with U-M Tech Transfer.
Wards appointment is part of the schools strategic research initiative, Fast Forward to Tomorrows Cures. As the first executive director for the new Fast Forward Medical Innovation initiative, Ward will bring together a broad array of efforts to help UMMS biomedical research discoveries make the transition to clinical application and to industry and venture partners.
The new initiative integrates the Medical School Office of Researchs business and commercialization groups Business Development and the MTRAC for Life Sciences commercialization fund under the umbrella of Fast Forward Medical Innovation. Ward and his team will partner with key units across campus, such as the U-M Tech Transfer, the College of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship, the Business Engagement Center, and other schools and colleges -- as well as reaching beyond the university.
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At New York University, one of a handful of medical schools to offer three-year programs, Dr. Betty Chen instructs students on treating drug overdose. | credits: (Credit: Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times)
Sandwiched between three mind-numbing years of basic science courses and hospital rotations and the lockdown years of residency training, the fourth year of medical school has long been a welcome respite for future doctors. It is the only time in their medical education when students have few requirements and a plethora of elective course offerings and the time to go on vacation and spend time with friends and family.
Do it now, a mentor said as I was about to start my last year, because you may never get the chance again.
I followed that advice wholeheartedly. I spent most of my fourth year away from my medical school, caring for children with hematologic disorders one month, then shadowing cancer surgeons for another, in hopes of figuring out which specialty I liked more. I spent time working in a laboratory, something Id never done before, learning how to culture and freeze cells, care for mice, and critique studies. I attended national medical meetings, hung out with old friends, and slept and ate to my hearts content at my parents home.
For me, it was a pivotal, reassuring year.
But not all of my classmates felt the same. One friend interested in a particularly competitive residency spent much of the year in high-stress audition clerkships, four-week clinical tours at hospitals where she hoped to train; she resented having to pay tuition at our home school while paying travel and living expenses so she could learn at other institutions. Another, older classmate, who had already spent 10 successful years in another profession, was just eager to get on with his training; for him, a fourth year filled with electives and extended vacations was a waste of time and tuition money.
The fourth year is kind of bogus, one friend recently recalled. It might have been fun at the time, but Im not sure it made me a better doctor.
These disparate opinions came to mind recently when I read two perspective pieces in The New England Journal of Medicine on eliminating the fourth year of medical school.
For several years, medical educators have been engaged in an increasingly heated, and occasionally cantankerous, debate about streamlining medical education and training. Many experts have suggested lopping years off the residency training process, but surprisingly few have argued for such similarly dramatic changes in the medical school curriculum.
Established over a century ago as part of a sweeping change to a chaotic collection of schools, apprenticeships and fly-by-night training programs, the four-year medical school curriculum is the sacred cow of medical education. Like soldiers in lockstep, nearly all medical students over the last 100 years have spent their first two years in lecture halls learning the theory and basic science of medicine and their third and fourth years on the wards learning the practical clinical applications. Apart from a fewshort-lived experiments during World War II and in the 1970s to shorten the curriculum to three years, not even the most radical of educational reformers have dared stray from the norm, carefully integrating their changes well within the venerated four-year framework.
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Liberty Mutual Group, the global insurance company headquartered in Boston, said that four short films about the 1961 civil rights Freedom Riders will be available at the company's ResponsibilityProject.com website.
The Responsibility Project is an "organic evolution of the company's advertising campaign that has showcased personal acts of responsibility and daily examples of ordinary people making the decision to do considerate things for strangers," Liberty Mutual said in a press release.
Liberty Mutual has partnered with PBS to bring the "Freedom Riders" experience to its website. PBS plans to air an American Experience documentary on the Freedom Riders in May. Liberty Mutual has sponsored PBS' American Experience series for more than a decade. The launch of the short films celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides as well as mark February as Black History month, Liberty Mutual said.
In a statement, Paul Alexander, Liberty Mutual's senior vice president of communications, commented on the "Freedom Rider" films that are airing on ResponsibilityProject.com.
"We hope that by experiencing the film series through our Responsibility Project website, individuals will be inspired to discuss responsibility as it relates to history and the 1961 Freedom Rides," Alexander said.
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Liberty Ross is opening up in the latest issue of Vanity Fair about her husband Rupert Sanders' affair with Kristen Stewart.
In the extremely candid interview, the British model turned actress described the turmoil she felt when pictures of Rupert kissing Snow White and the Huntsman star surfaced in Us Weekly in the summer of 2012.
"It was horrible. It was really the worst," she told the magazine. "I have no words to describe what we went through. But I think, for me, something always has to completely die for there to be a rebirth. And I feel like I'm going through a rebirth."
The stunning brunette explained that her director husband had told her about the affair with Stewart 20 hours prior to the scandalous paparazzi shots making their way onto the internet.
NEWS: Liberty Ross says she felt "vulnerable" after affair news
Liberty's brother Atticus Ross, an Academy Award-winning composer and close pal of Rupert's, also spoke with the magazine at length about the highly publicized affair and subsequent split.
"It was f--cking crazy. Liberty didn't know what was going to happenI'm texting people because I know this is going to be huge. I knew this had all the makings of what our world has become. This is going to be f--cking big, and Liberty needs to be protectedI don't think people understand what being in the eye of the storm is like."
Atticus quickly went to his friend Jimmy Iovine, co-founder of Interscope Records, who helped Liberty find a publicist who could help her navigate through the heightened media frenzy.
But Atticus' quest to help his sister through the trying ordeal didn't end there. He also called upon a friend to provide Liberty and her two children a place to stay in California as an escape from the photographers.
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More than one year after husband Rupert Sanders was caught cheating with Kristen Stewart, Liberty Ross is still trying to cope with life after scandal. The 35-year-old British model speaks out on her now estranged husband's public affair and their subsequent divorce filing in the December issue of Vanity Fair.
"It was horrible," Ross tells the magazine. "It was really the worst, really the worst."
"I have no words to describe what we went through," she says. "But I think, for me, something always has to completely die for there to be a rebirth. And, for me, I feel like I'm going through a rebirth."
PHOTOS: Ruper Sanders cheats on Liberty Ross -- all the shocking photos
Director Sanders, 42, was caught cheating with his Snow White and the Huntsman star Stewart, 23, on July 17, 2012. Us Weekly broke news of the affair with exclusive photos, released on July 24.
Though the scandal may have left Ross speechless, her Academy Award-winning composer brother, Atticus, had plenty to share with Vanity Fair about what his sister went through. "It was f---ing crazy," he says. "To some extent at that moment, Rupert was in denial, and Liberty didn't know what was going to happen . . . I'm texting people because I know this is going to be huge. I knew this had all the makings of what our world has become. This is going to be f---ing big, and Liberty needs to be protected."
Rupert Sanders was caught cheating with Kristen Stewart on July 17, 2012. Credit: FameFlynet
The day after photos of his fling were released, Sanders issued a public apology to his wife of 11 years and their two children. "I love them with all my heart," he said in the statement. "I am praying that we can get through this together." But Ross tells Vanity Fair that she already made her decision to divorce. "I'm not a quitter. I've done everything I could to be the perfect wife and mother and really support my husband," she says. "But I just didn't have any more to give, you know?"
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Reflecting on their marriage, Ross also admits to the magazine that they weren't perfect even before the affair. "I knew that I wasn't feeling 100 percent right," she explains. "I found myself on a roller coaster, like, I'm going to keep things moving, keep things going. I'm going to keep up this amazing [facade], everyone looking at me and Rupert, thinking, Oh, wow, you guys have it all . . . Really, I had times when I felt very lonely, very disconnected from Rupert. We'd lost our real connection."
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With some polls showing the Virginia governors race tightening in its final days, Republicans and Democrats are looking to manipulate a bloc of libertarian voters who have withheld their support from the major parties but who could swing the hotly contested race if they return to the fold for Election Day.
A Quinnipiac poll released Wednesdayshowed Republican Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II trimming Democrat Terry McAuliffes lead in the Virginia governors race to 4 percentage points, suggesting the contest is much closer than some analysis has indicated.
The survey gave Mr. McAuliffe a lead of 45 percent to 41 percent, with 9 percent of likely voters opting for Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis. That advantage is down from 46 percent to 39 percent for Mr. McAuliffe in a Quinnipiac poll last week, when Mr. Sarvis had 10 percent.
Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said the results suggest that some people who committed to Mr. Sarvis might be coming home to Mr. Cuccinelli good news for the Republican who has had a difficult time throughout the race solidifying support among members of his own party.
In an overwhelmingly negative campaign, Mr. McAuliffe has refrained from making any critical remarks about the third-party candidate, apparently content not to upset the Libertarians backers, who are disproportionately pulling support from his main rival.
Mr. Cuccinelli, on the other hand, has made a point of brandishing his libertarian credentials to attract Sarvis supporters who would be crucial to pull out a win over Mr. McAuliffe.
The Republicans campaign announced Wednesday that former Rep. Ron Paul, Texas Republican and former presidential candidate, will rally Monday evening with Mr. Cuccinelli in Richmond. Mr. Paul, who often is described as a libertarian folk hero, endorsed Mr. Cuccinelli this month.
Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican and Ron Pauls son, campaigned with Mr. Cuccinelli this week.
The poll released Wednesday suggested that some crucial voters might not have settled on a candidate.
Political analysts have long speculated that Mr. Sarvis could be attracting disaffected voters turned off by what has been a contentious and unusually mean-spirited campaign.
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A last-minute Westville aldermanic candidate proposed a fix for New Havens street violence: take more young people to the gun range, and help them get more guns.
That way fewer potential shooters would mess with them, argued the candidate, Aaron Freeman.
Freeman just made the deadline to register as a write-in candidate in next Tuesdays election for alderman in Westvilles high-voting 25th Ward. Until a week ago, Democratic incumbent Adam Marchand was running for reelection unopposed. Then Michael Pinto, a prominent backer of mayoral candidate Justin Elicker, announced an 11th-hour candidacy as a write-in candidate. (Read about that here.) And now Freeman has entered the fray.
Pinto and Freeman are among two of five officially registered write-in candidates in next Tuesdays municipal elections. The others are perennial mayoral write-in candidate Roger Uihlein of the Neverending Books store; and aldermanic candidates Kevin Diggs and Patricia DePalma, who lost Sept. 10 Democratic aldermanic primaries in Beaver Hills/Westvilles Ward 27 and Fair Haven Heights Ward 11, respectively.
The candidates names wont appear on ballots. But because they registered, their votes will officially count if people write in their names. (West Havens incumbent mayor, John Picard, is running for reelection as a write-in.)
Aaron Freeman, a 59-year-old unemployed former pizza-delivery driver, is a registered Libertarian, he said, although I havent paid the $425 [the party] has been asking me for. He discussed his reasons for running the other evening in a conversation on a bench outside the Central Avenue apartment complex where he lives with his mother, a retired teacher and bookkeeper.
Want a Twizzler? he said, beginning the conversation by defying a a stereotypical criticism of Libertarians as selfish (as opposed to people who believe protecting individual rights produces the greater social good).
Politics today needs more initiative at the grassroots level, he said. I see so many 2nd Amendment advocates who dont take inner-city children out to the rifle range. We haven an entire constitution that needs to be brought into the spotlight to see what the moths have eaten away.
He said the rifle-range trips would help both the gun-owners and their young guestswhile offering a better alternative to city officials attempts to stem street shootings by seeking to ban guns.
It would make [the 2nd Amendment advocates] a lot of friends. It would give them better political clout, Freeman argued. It would demonstrate some willingness of outreach.
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USA (10) 32 Tries: Faraimo, Peterson, Joseph Paulo, Mark Offerdahl, Samoa, Priestly Goals: Joseph Paulo (4) Cook Islands (10) 20 Tries: Takairangi, Low. Lulia Lulia, Peyroux Goals: Rapana (2)
The USA created history by beating the Cook Islands for a debut victory in their first match at the Rugby League World Cup.
Former Castleford coach Terry Matterson's Tomahawks side ran in six tries at a wet and blustery Memorial Stadium in Bristol.
Mark Offerdahl and Craig Priestly went over in the final eight minutes of a close encounter to seal victory.
Priestly and kicker Joseph Paulo, who kicked four goals, proved key figures.
The Cook Islands looked to have struck first after three minutes when Tinirau Arona went over the line, but the video referee decided he was held up.
However, on the next tackle, Brad Takairangi crashed over and Jordan Rapana's kick made it 6-0.
The USA got themselves into the game with forwards Clint Newton and Wigan-bound Eddy Pettybourne causing problems - and they went over twice in the space of three minutes.
Priestly's 40/20 set up Bureta Faraimo, who held off the challenge of Keith Lulia to score before a high kick from Priestly and a delightful pass from Michael Garvey allowed Matthew Peterson to go in. But Joseph Paulo missed both conversions.
Paulo was successful with a penalty to edge the USA 10-6 before Drury Low went over to level the match with a try four minutes before the break which Rapana failed to convert.
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