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At a school with mainly technical majors, the importance of writing skills is often overlooked. However, writing is important for everyday matters, college classes, and your future career. Join The Avion on Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. in IC 201 for a special presentation by Assistant Professor of Communication Steven Master on journalism and improving your writing skills. The workshop will include topics such as AP Style and journalistic writing, interviewing skills and during heating, NASA of current or past extraoverall spelling, grammar and style tips. It is open to all students and faculty, and students scientists were capable of terrestrial life, however. will receive 10 Bonus Bucks for attending declaring that water does Despite these carbon-based If you’re not familiar with journalism and news writing, this is also an opportuniindeed exist on the face of organic compounds being ty to learn a new skill and improve on old ones. Because written communication is so the Red Planet, and at a the building blocks of life important in the workplace, highlighting your resume with these skills could push surprising concentration of here on Earth, the organyou to the top. News writing also shares similar style qualities with technical writtwo percent by weight. That ics which were discovered cium ing, which is common practice in engineering and other STEM occupations. measurement works out to on Mars are no more than per Steve Master is an assistant professor of communication and pronearly 2 pints of water per simple, chlorinated organ- chlorate, a gram coordinator for the Communication degree at here at Embry-Ridcubic foot of soil. ics that are likely not con- deadly toxin. dle’s Daytona Beach Campus. He joined the faculty after a 20-year SAM, which heats nected with any form of At concencareer as a professional newspaper journalist, winning awards samples to 1,535 degrees life. trations of up to including the 2007 national award from the Associated Fahrenheit (835 degrees In contrast to the news one percent calcium Press Sports Editors. Prof. Master spent the majority of Celsius) in order to detect of the presence of water perchlorate by weight, his newspaper career with the Daytona Beach News-Jourchemical boil-off, was able comes confirmation of this issue will become an nal, and now writes a monthly column for NASCAR to identify a plethora of another challenge against obstacle in need of a soluIllustrated magazine. On campus, he has taught compounds from the sam- future human explorers: tion for astronauts. ing classes such as Introduction to News Writing, ple including significant the presence of wideNot all is lost, though. breaIntroduction to Media, Aviation/Aeroamounts of carbon dioxide, spread terrestrial perchlo- Despite its deadly impli- thing oxyspace Communication, Journalism, oxygen, sulfur, water and rate. Initially discovered in cations if consumed in gen for future Introduction to Sports Writing, organic compounds. The 2008 by NASA’s Phoenix the form of contaminated explorers. ComTechnical Writing and Mass organic compounds found lander at the Martian north water, some forms of per- monly used today in Media & Current on the Martian surface are pole, Curiosity has con- chlorate can be used as an scenarios such as Events. not likely direct indicators firmed the presence of cal- instrumental tool in creat- Continued on B04 >>
Curiosity Discovers Water on Martian Surface To what has been a high-priority question through the decades, Curiosity has provided an answer. NASA’s one ton rover, which touched down inside Mars’ Gale Crater on Aug 5, 2012, has officially discovered water embedded in the planet’s soil. Using its Sample Analysis at Mars instrument, better known as SAM, Curiosity performed a detailed analysis of a sample taken in Nov. 2012. The results of this analysis is a definitive answer to our question. By using finely tuned sensors to discover chemical decompositions
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The Lonely Land of Lost Data Barbara Chearney Information Technology
Photo Courtesy: NASA Curiosity Self-Photo
Students, we’ve all been there: that sad, lonely land of Lost Data…located somewhere North of My Computer Crashed and East of The File Was Here! Luckily, I have some tips to help guide you toward backing up your data, and away from that solemn place of abandonment. Before you select a data backup option, it’s important to consider a few points: the size of the files, your financial resources,
your needs for accessing the files and how sensitive your information is. You may also want to ask yourself, “do I really need all of this data?” Sometimes backup time can also be a good clean-out time. USB Flash Drive – Recently, a 1 TB flash drive was unveiled, although most people will have enough storage with 16 GB. Most new flash drives have built-in security tools to protect data if your drive is lost or stolen, but you can go online and encrypt a drive you already have
with tools like TrueCrypt or BitLocker To Go. USB External Hard Drive –This is an actual hard drive just like the one that operates within your computer, but it plugs into the outside of your computer (or another computer). The size of an external hard drive can match or exceed your computer’s hard drive. Most people use externals to back up larger amounts of data than they do with flash drives and select storage capacities from 500 GB – 4 TB. Be Continued on A02 >>