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Master of Arts in Social Change (MASC)
Meet MASC program faculty Gabriella Lettini, Rebecca Parker, and Ibrahim Farajajé, and MASC recent grad Shannon Frediani, as they talk about the Master in Social Change program at Starr King.
Students, faculty, staff, and trustees participated in the Occupy Wall Street movement during 2011 and 2012, as well as in 2010 Phoenix, AZ actions protesting anti-immigrant legislation. Watch the story through their eyes. Special thanks to photographer Suzi Spangenberg, MASC 2012 graduate.
Starr King was among the first institutions of higher learning to formalize a counter-oppressive pedagogical focus in the form of a master's degree. The M.A.S.C. program is a professional 2-year degree designed to cement your skills in:
Your degree program is individually designed to integrate theology, spiritual practice and professional development in a way that responds to your particular interests, gifts and challenges.
M.A.S.C. emphasizes not only theological knowledge, but also practical experience in community organizing, media relations, non-profit management, political action and social service ministry. In addition, the M.A.S.C. program aims to foster your personal growth, spiritual practice and deepened commitment to social justice.
MASC program graduate Betty-Jeanne Rüters Ward shares how she is applying the skills she learned at Starr King in her role as a social justice organizer in California. (6 mins.)
Degree and Residency Requirements
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The ability to act with integrity and knowledge in all these areas is foundational to religious leadership in society. Competence in religious leadership is not limited to academic ability or professional skills. It will also foster personal qualities and habits, such as mature judgment, self-awareness, spiritual practice, integrity, responsibility, sensitivity and ethical discernment.
Educating to Counter Oppressions (ECO) Course
Educating to counter oppressions and to create just and sustainable communities is a priority. There are four guiding principles: 1) To be what we want to see in the world; 2) To shelter prophetic witness in the world; 3) To counter white supremacy; and 4) to work for the common good. You meet the ECO requirement by taking an ECO-focused course as suggested by the academic advisor.
Read about MASC internships and projects in Celebrating our Leaders for Social Change: 2012 MASC Graduates Choose to Bless the World. See a current listing of MASC interns and sites.
The MASC degree recognizes that individual students have particular interests and abilities. The student, in consultation with the advisor, will identify an area of specialization. Possible areas include:
To accomplish this work, MASC students will draw on
Starr King and Graduate
Theological Union resources, GTU-affiliated advanced
centers for research and study, and the course offerings,
libraries, research institutes and faculty of the University
of California, Berkeley.
Free cross-registration in this array of educational
institutions will make possible an individualized course
of study, tailored to your professional interests,
experience and calling.
Portfolio Conference
Portfolio Conferences are an assessment process designed to review your program of study and spiritual growth approximately mid-way through the degree program. You and your advisor determine when the conference should happen. You coordinate its planning (time, participants and location). The conference should be done well before you petition to graduate.
Community Placement
In your second year, M.A.S.C. students participate in a six-month community placement designed to integrate religious leadership abilities with practical skills required for social change. Your placements may be local, national or international and includes supervision from a seasoned progressive activist mentor.
Community placement examples:
Readiness to Graduate
Readiness is assessed through conversation with your primary advisor, who will help determine if your degree requirements have been met and review your written self-assessment of readiness. Next, your advisor makes a recommendation to the core faculty that votes on the recommendation and presents a list of approved students to the Board of Trustees. The Board votes to confer degrees.
Professional Roles Graduates
Might Assume
You will graduate from the M.A.S.C. degree program prepared to assume a professional role in institutions and organizations that work for progressive social change. The employment field includes non-profit organizations, social service agencies, political action organizations, administrative and leadership positions in denominational bodies and religious associations, church staffs, educational programs, health organizations, community centers, interfaith organizations and research institutes.
We dedicated two newsletters to the successes of our MASC grads, so you can see exactly how they are using their degrees to change the world:
MASC: Transformative Leadership for
Just and Sustainable Communities
Celebrating our Leaders for Social Change: 2012 MASC Graduates Choose to Bless the World
Listen to a podcast of two MASC students, Som Pourfarzaneh (pictured at right) and Betty-Jeanne Rüters Ward, discussing what drew them to the program, what they've learned about the skills and commitment of leadership and the important role in their program of SKSM's commitment to Educating to Counter Oppressions.
Click to view the Starr King catalog in PDF format.M.A. | MASC | M.Div.


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By BRAD KELLAR
Herald-Banner Staff
The Hunt County Fairgrounds will be filled with cars and parts this coming weekend, as it hosts the 14th annual Greenville Swap Meet and Eighth Annual Greenville Car Show.
The Greenville Swap Meet was begun in 2000 by the Northeast Texas Region of the Antique Automobile Club of America as a way to allow automobile enthusiasts to display and/or sell their automobiles and parts and has grown to include more than 350 vendors.
The Greenville Swap Meet will be operating between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Friday, Saturday and next Sunday, April 7.
The Car Show is scheduled Saturday, with registration from 8 a.m. until noon and the judging starting at 1 p.m., with the awards presented two hours later.
There is a $20 entry fee, with dash plaques presented to the first 75 entries and trophies for first and second places in all classes.
Entry to both events are free, with $3 parking.
Those wanting more information can visit the event's Web site at www.greenvilleswapmeet.com.

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Thomasenia Adams
Professor of Mathematics Education
College of Education, School of Teaching and Learning
The time had come to make a choice. Thomasenia Lott Adams – then an 18 year old from a South Carolina town known for its chicken farms, daughter of an illiterate father and a mother who graduated high school at the age of 35 – spent the first two weeks of college hiding in her dormitory room. She had no idea what to major in – or what classes to take.
"I'll get you kicked out of here if you don't figure it out," her roommate said, urging Adams to see a mathematics professor known for propelling freshmen into action.
Adams' choice became clear: Return to a life of physical labor or register for the professor's math class. She registered for the class.
"Lo and behold," she recalls, "I found something I could love."
Four years later, she graduated magna cum laude from South Carolina State College with a bachelor's in mathematics and computer science. She went on to earn her master's and doctorate at UF's College of Education.
Adams eventually became the first African-American woman to earn a full education professorship at UF. She and two colleagues recently received a $400,000 National Science Foundation grant to study how schools subtly discourage African-American girls from pursuing careers in science, math and other technical fields. She co-authored a state and national math series. She served on a state Department of Education panel to develop the Next Generations Sunshine State Standards for math. And she plays a key role at the UF Lastinger Center for Learning.
Adams oversees an ambitious extension of the center's award-winning elementary school Florida Master Teacher Initiative into middle schools and high schools. Working with the Helios Education Foundation and Lastinger colleagues, she's enlisted dozens of Pinellas County secondary school teachers into a version of the Master Teacher program that concentrates on science, technology, engineering and math.
"I still see too many children who are not achieving in mathematics and science, and that is very disturbing," says Adams, who recently graduated from the Higher Education Resource Services Institute for Women in Higher Education. "Mathematics is the gateway to a lot of other disciplines."
UF education doctoral student Joanne Laframenta credits Adams with giving her the tools and support to become a researcher.
"Dr. Adams has always emboldened her students to follow their own path," Laframenta says. "The academic professional that I am today is a result of this intensive and caring nurturing."
Adams spends a great deal of time in the field, working with teachers and students to improve math instruction. She recently co-authored the "GO Math! Florida" elementary school textbook, which has been adopted by many Florida school districts.
"Thomasenia Adams has the central gravitas that is so important to our program," Lastinger Center Director Don Pemberton says. "She's making quite a difference."
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- Pour 1 can of tomatoes into a blender, and add the jalapeno pepper, onion, cilantro leaves, lemon juice, and salt. Blend until fairly smooth. Pour in the second can of tomatoes and blend briefly. Adjust seasonings to taste by adding more lemon juice and salt. Let the salsa rest for 1/2 hour before serving to allow the flavors to blend.
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This is a super easy recipe. You can substitute Rotel (Original Flavor) instead. With Rotel you don't have to add any jalepeno peppers and Rotel is super cheap. I would definately use limes instead of lemons and adding a couple cloves of garlic will make this salsa even better.
The only reason this recipe didn't get 5 stars is because it doesn't call for garlic. Try that next time...makes it even better!!
Try this recipe, you won't believe how easy or how good! I make it for my co-workers and they are always impressed. The differences in mine are the following: I use green onion instead of yellow, I add two cloves of garlic, I use lime instead of lemon juice, I add half a red or green bell pepper, I use a large can of whole peeled tomatoes including the juice. I put all dry ingredients in the blender first and the tomatoes on top. Do not over blend unless you like it like juice instead of chunky. Enjoy!
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Mother's Day Weekend arrives this weekend and South Boston Speedway has the perfect present for the racing mom in your life — a night of NASCAR Whelen All American Series racing action at America's Hometown Track.
Many of the region's top NASCAR Whelen All American Series competitors will invade South Boston Speedway for the second straight weekend on Saturday for the running of the CenturyLink presents Bojangles Night Late Model 150 racing program.
In honor of Mother's Day on Sunday, all moms will be admitted to Saturday's event for $5.
Five races are planned as part of the CenturyLink presents Bojangles Night Late Model 150. The engines will roar to life for the opening event of the evening at 7 p.m.
The featured attraction of the night will be a 150-lap race for the drivers in the highly competitive NASCAR Whelen All American Series Late Model Stock Car Division.
There have been four different winners in the opening four points races of the campaign for the Late Model Stock Car Division competitors.
One-time winner Matthew Bowling of Ridgeway currently sits atop the division standings and is being pursued by former South Boston Speedway and NASCAR Whelen All American Series national champion Peyton Sellers, who is still seeking his first victory of 2012.
One-time winners Deac McCaskill and Darrell Gilchrist are third and fourth in the standings, while Dennis Holdren occupies the fifth-place spot in the standings.
Also scheduled as part of Saturday night's racing action will be an event for the Limited Sportsman Division, twin races for the drivers in the Budweiser Pure Stock Division and a shootout for the touring Legendary Ford Flatheads Racing Association.
After scoring a pair of victories last weekend, Danny Willis Jr. has surged atop the point standings in the Limited Sportsman Division. He is seven points ahead of Bobby McCarty, who finished second in twin racing action last week. Mike Jones is third in the standings and is followed by Chris Crosby in fourth and Blake Stallings in fifth.
Joe Allred III is the leader in the chase for the Budweiser Pure Stock Division. Courtney Crosby owns the second-place position and is six points ahead of a third-place tie between Stuart Crews and Trey Crews.
Pit registration will begin at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Practice for all divisions will be held from 3 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. and qualifying time trials will get underway at 5:30 p.m. Grandstand gates will open at 5 p.m. and admission will be $10 for adults and children six and under will be admitted free with a paid adult.


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If you live on Grand Island, have $20 in your pocket and want to plant a garden with some of your neighbors this spring, the new Grand Island Community Garden program is just the spot for you.
The project, undertaken with help from the nonprofit Wellness Institute of Greater Buffalo, still has plots available at a 6-acre site at Ransom and Stoney Point roads.
Volunteer gardeners are encouraged to come out the site at 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday during the holiday weekend and help the group build raised garden beds with donated wood and soil.
Grand Island High School students will tend to three raised beds as part of a school project this growing season. Several other community groups and individuals also plan to cultivate gardens, said John Drehs, president of GI Community Gardens.
The cost of a garden plot is $20 until June 1 and $30 after that. Plots vary in size and much of the produce grown will be offered for sale during a Saturday farmers market at the site.
Drehs still has some donated seeds available for gardeners who sign up soon, but they're limited.
"We also have an area nursery about a half-mile down the road, so someone can go and buy potted plants to grow," he said.
For more information on plots or to volunteer for landscape work, call 601-5972, or visit the group's website.
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By Bob Hertzel
Times West Virginian
Basketball at the highest collegiate level is a game of a complicated mix of talents — athletic, mental and coaching, probably as much or more so than any other sport.
Indeed, the players must play offense and defense, unlike their football counterparts, and while a football play can be complicated in that there are 11 men on a team rather than just five, basketball has every bit as many variations off its plays, and when you mix in the number of defensive philosophies that can be used to counter, it becomes an amazing maze of options.
Certainly, basketball is a game that can be dominated by one player's talents more than any other game as Michael Jordan and LeBron James have shown us, but in most circumstances, the key man on the court becomes the point guard.
That is why Bob Huggins feels his West Virginia University team has a chance to be really good this season because, for his first time since taking over for John Beilein, Huggins is deep and rich at the position which makes the offense run and which finds the paths to the defense no matter what the defense throws at you, from a man-to-man to a zone, to a matchup zone, to a zone-press, to combination zone and man defense.
Transfer Juwan Staten from Dayton may be the missing ingredient that turns the Mountaineers from a borderline NCAA team a year ago to a team that looks as though it legitimately may develop into one with a chance to go deep into the tournament.
"Some of the guys we've added give us weapons we didn't have before," is the way Huggins put it. "We now have a true point guard."
A year ago circumstances were such that Huggins had to take Truck Bryant and move him into the shooting guard spot while playing a pair of freshmen in Jabarie Hinds and Gary Browne, each a talented player but not really an experienced point.
"Staten has been a point guard all his life whereas Jabarie wasn't and Gary wasn't," Huggins said. "But in saying that, those guys played point a year ago so now we have more people who can handle the ball."
Staten will be the engine that makes this team go, a nifty passer who loves to run. At Dayton in 2010-11 he started 34 games as a freshman and led the Atlantic 10 in assists for the season.
This is exactly what Huggins is looking for, because now there is depth as well as promise at the most crucial position.
"It helps us, because we have more than one guy that you trust with the ball," Huggins said.
And he can rest that guy, Staten, and use both Hinds and Browne on the floor together, if he wants.
"We played Jabarie and Gary together some last year, so they are used to being on and off the ball," Huggins said.
These riches at the point have been denied Huggins since he arrived from Kansas State in 2007-08, returning to his alma mater to what he hoped would be his final job.
"Really, when I got here Darris Nichols was my only point guard," he said. "He played just a ton of minutes because Joe Mazzulla had no idea how to play the point then."
Huggins, however, felt he had to teach Mazzulla how to play the position and put him on a crash course with Nichols doing a lot of the teaching.
"As Joe started to learn, and he learned a lot from Darris, we brought Truck along … and that's when Joe got hurt," Huggins said.
Mazzulla hurt his shoulder, an injury which almost cost him his career and which took much of a full year away from him. So determined was he to play, and so necessary to the team, that he played even though he could not get his left arm over his shoulder, the left-hander even shooting free throws with his right hand.
"So, with Joe out, we had to throw Truck in the fire, and we didn't even have a backup," Huggins said. "Think about it, Da'Sean Butler was our backup point guard."
Then, just before the NCAA Tournament, Bryant broke a foot and was out, but he had filled in long enough for Mazzulla to battle his way back. Still, the depth was nowhere in sight at the NCAA's in which WVU went to the Final Four.
"If you watch the Kentucky game, after Joe fouled out, it was awful. We had Devin Ebanks and Da' bringing the ball up the floor," Huggins said.
They held on to win, but last year it came down to starting all over as Huggins had to play the freshmen at the point.
Now, the problem seems to be solved, and what was a shaky position has become a strength, maybe the biggest strength on this WVU team.
"This is the first time we've had more than one guy who has done it more than a couple of times," Huggins said. "It's kind of refreshing, really."
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Dampyr: Skeleton Coast
Harlan Draka travels to Africa, where the South African Himba tribe revere the undead. With the help of Mujaive, a clairvoyant, our three vampire slayers–Draka, Tesla, and Kurjak–get involved in a no-holds-barred war in the diamond lands of Namibia. On the track of Omùlù, the monstrous God of the Plague, the Dampyr finds himself besieged in the ghost town of Brandenmund by the Lost Legion of cruel Jan Vathek… will this be the end of the road for Harlan?


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Numbers have begun to come in from the Sedgwick County Election office, following a delay blamed on a software problem.
Preliminary election numbers began showing up on Sedgwick County's website shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
The polls closed at 7 p.m. Tuesday, but there are still no election numbers coming in from Sedgwick County.
According to Sedgwick County Election Commissioner Tabitha Lehman, there's a problem shutting down a polling site due to a software issue.
The result of the software problem is that it shows all precincts reporting, when only some numbers have been put in. A call has been placed to the voting machine vendor, as they continue to try to resolve the problem.
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Ford Excursion Prices Paid and Buying Experience
grumpy4x4 Posts: 1to the people who bought the excursion at elm ford in woodland. how did you get such a great deal and how did you get so many responses for your request? all the fleet dealers here in the sacramento area seem to think it is bogus . i showed them the post you put up and they laugh thanx, glen @ email@example.com
tourguide Posts: 188In answer to post #22 - There are two types of invoice - Retail invoice (what you and I see on the website) and Dealer invoice (what the dealer pays and what you DON'T see).
Suffice it to say that nobody is loosing money by selling at those prices. No dealership would be in business long if they didn't make money on every unit that rolls off the lot.
The only varialbe as to how much below retail invoice you can get them is the Ford incentive package at the time of purchase.
e350v10 Posts: 92While that is true with GM, the Ford invoice is the Ford invoice. The dealer usually gets a 3% holdback and factory-to-dealer incentives - which the consumer doesn't always see.
3% is still nice margin and it is usually only brokers and fleet buyers that can get the dealer to give some of the holdback back.
sales101 Posts: 1this is to all. It is all relative, how much you pay new versus how much you get on a trade. All consumers want to pay nothing for it new but want retail when it is traded. I work for a dealer and am in sales and it baffles me how some people think!! be fair to all. We must make money just like you. I understand that you want a good deal, that's fine, so do I when I shop for something. But I keep in mind that they need to make money too. I have to pay my bills and put food on the table just like all of you do. The biggest misconception is that we make a ton of money. I do make good money, I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't, but not as much as most consumers think. Please keep this in mind when you shop for your next car.
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palbert Posts: 2I am looking into buying a 2000-2001 Ex with anywhere from 78k-100k miles. I am hesitant in buying such a large engine vehicle, 10Cy. but am looking forward to the extreme size of the SUV. I am looking for advice and opinions of past owners.
Is there a big difference between the 6.8 vs 7.3?
Any problems with electrical or engine/trans?
8cy vs 10cy? Preference?
Any know reoccuring issues with used Exs?
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mtrctygrl Posts: 1Test drove a 2000 X. It was marked for $9800, but the sales person dropped to $8800. Its gonna need new brakes and tires. Rear A/C does not work. 87,150 miles. I drove it to a transmission shop and they checked the truck out and said everything was fine besides the brakes. I'm not sure if its a V10 or V8. Do you all think this is a good price. The interior is in excellent condition and the exterior looks brand new. All black with gray leather.
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The project team is headed up by Wayne Spencer, Ph.D. mammalogist at the Conservation Biology Institute; James Diffendorfer, Ph.D. mammalian ecologist and assistant professor at Illinois Natural History Survey; and Scott Tremor, mammalogist at the San Diego Natural History Museum. In addition, Greg Nichols of Technology Associates International Corporation is the lead on GIS tasks.
The project involves extensive collaboration between public and private institutions and individuals. Numerous other scientists have contributed data and assisted with mapping, fieldwork, and other tasks. The following individuals and organizations have committed time or money to the project:
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Special thanks also to Kirsten Winter (U.S. Forest Service) for her assistance in securing funds essential to the daily operation of this project.
Specimen preparation and other routine collections management tasks are carried out by carefully selected, skilled volunteers. Anyone interested in volunteering in this or any other museum department should talk to the Museum's Director of Volunteers at 619.255.0245.


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By Nicole Ostrow
Bloomberg News
A planet about 400 light years away has a similar density and size to Earth, yet is much hotter and can't support life, two studies found.
Kepler-78b, discovered earlier this year using data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Kepler Space Telescope, is probably made of rock and iron like Earth, according to two studies in the journal Nature. The planet, which orbits a star in 8.5 hours rather than a sun in a year like Earth, is the smallest for which the radius and mass are accurately known, the researchers said.
"Every new detection is a piece of a larger puzzle," said Francesco Pepe, lead author of one of the papers and an associate professor of astronomy at Geneva University, in an e mail. "All these pieces of puzzle are important to get a global picture of how planets form, live and die."
Researchers from Geneva University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu determined the mass of Kepler-78b and then its density.
Pepe said they found that the planet's mass was about 1.86 times that of Earth, while its density was nearly identical to Earth's, implying the planet is made up of iron and rock. Andrew Howard, lead author of the University of Hawaii paper, found that Kepler-78b's mass was 1.69 times that of Earth and its density was similar to Earth's as well. Both authors said their findings released yesterday weren't significantly different.
Drake Deming, a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Maryland in College Park, wrote in an accompanying article that the results show that Kepler-78b is "a virtual twin of Earth by astronomical standards."
"Kepler-78b thereby foreshadows leaps forward in the search of life beyond the Solar System," he wrote.


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Exercise 1
Two particles of same mass, move with same speed along two parallel lines in opposite directions as shown in the figure. Then, magnitude of net angular moment of two particles about the origin of coordinate system :
|Two moving particles
Here, moment arms of the particles are and . Let the mass of each particle be "m" and speed of each particle is "v". Then, the angular momentum of the individual particles about the origin of coordinate system are :
Since angular momentum are along the same direction, we can find the net angular momentum by arithmetic sum as :
We see that the magnitude of net angular momentum is directly proportional to the perpendicular distance between the parallel lines. Further, the perpendicular distance is fixed for a given pair of parallel paths. Hence, net angular momentum is constant for a given pair.
Hence, options (a) and (c) are correct.
Exercise 2
A particle of mass "m" is moving with linear velocity v = (2i – j + k) m/s. At an instant, the particle is situated at a position (in meters) given by the coordinates 0,1,1. What is the angular momentum of the particle about the origin of coordinate system at that instant?
This question can be evaluated using cross product in component form as :
ℓ = | i j k |
| 0 1 1 |
| 2 -1 1 |
Hence, option (b) is correct.
Exercise 3
A projectile of mass "m" is projected with a velocity "v", making and angle "θ" with the horizontal. The angular momentum of the projectile about the point of projection, when it reaches the highest point is :
The velocity of the projectile at the highest point is equal to the horizontal component of velocity as vertical component of velocity is zero. Further, there is no acceleration in the horizontal direction. Therefore, horizontal component of velocity is same as the horizontal component of the velocity at projection. It means that velocity of projection at the highest point is :
|Projectile motion
Here, the moment arm i.e. the perpendicular drawn from the point of projection on the extended line of velocity is equal to the height attained by the projectile. Thus,
The angular momentum as required is :
Hence, option (a) is correct.
Exercise 4
If "m","p" and "ℓ" denote the mass, linear momentum and angular momentum of the particle executing uniform circular motion along a circle of radius "r", then kinetic energy of the particle is :
From the alternatives given, it is evident that we need to find kinetic energy in terms of linear and angular momentum. Now, the kinetic energy of the particle is expressed as :
The magnitude of linear momentum is given by :
Squaring both sides, we have :
Combining equations,
Now, the magnitude of angular momentum is given by :
Squaring both sides, we have :
Combining equations,
Hence, options (a) and (c) are correct.
Exercise 5
Dimensional formula of angular momentum is :
In order to find dimensional formula, we use the expression of angular momentum :
The dimension of angular momentum is :
Hence, option (c) is correct.
Exercise 6
Two point masses "m" and "2m" are attached to a mass-less rod of length "d", pivoted at point "O" as shown in the figure. The rod is free to move in vertical direction. If "ω" be the angular velocity, then the angular momentum of two particles about the axis of rotation is :
|Angular momentum of particle
This is a case of rotation. We can solve this problem using either the general expression or specific expression involving moment of inertia. When we use general expression, we should measure moment arm from the axis of rotation.
Since rod is rotating in anticlockwise direction, angular momentum of each particle is positive.
The angular momentum of first particle of mass "m" is :
The angular momentum of second particle of mass "2m" is :
Hence, option (b) is correct.


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What is the "Tis the Season"? Is it Jesus Birth? Is it Santa Claus? Is it Gifts? Is it Giving? Is it Snow? Is it cold weather? Is it all the above? What does "Tis the Season" mean to you? Have you really ever gave it a thought?
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Update 6:40 p.m. Nov. 9
Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack released this statement Friday night, conceding the race for the 36th Congressional District to Raul Ruiz:
Dear friends,
Thank you for giving me the distinct honor of serving in the United
States House of Representatives for 14 years. Today, I called Dr.
Ruiz and congratulated him on his impressive victory. Dr. Ruiz will
do a fine job if he is guided as well by the people of the
congressional district as I was. Please give him the opportunity to
After 25 years of public life in the beautiful desert, it is now time
for me to start a new chapter in my life. My family and I are very
excited about the prospect. It was almost 15 years ago that Sonny
died and I became a Congresswoman. Honestly, nobody worked harder or
gave more since then than my two amazing children. They, along with
my stepson Chaz, my grandson Sonny and my beloved husband Connie have
been so supportive of me this week. I simply couldn't ask for more.
Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support.
With love to all and may God continue to bless the United States of
Ruiz followed up by releasing his statement:
"I believe that this election sends a message that it's time to put an end to partisan gridlock," Ruiz said. "I'm excited to go to Washington and represent the entire district -- including supporters of Congresswoman Bono Mack. The issues that we have to work on are clear -- the high cost of health care, bringing jobs to the Coachella Valley and investing in education and renewable energy."
Ruiz, an emergency room doctor, had seen his lead increase over the past few days as provisional, mail-in and damaged ballots continued to be counted.
Bono Mack has represented the 45th district since 1998, when she won a special election after her husband Sonny Bono died in a skiing accident.
Update 6 p.m. Nov. 9
Raul Ruiz's lead over Mary Bono Mack is now 7,268 votes, according to the registrar's latest release. Ruiz has 52% of the vote to Bono Macks 48%.
181,998 total votes have now been counted, with Ruiz sitting at 94,633 and Bono Mack at 87,365.
The Desert Sun reported today that rumors of a Bono Mack concession are false.
A tweet was sent out from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee today that read: "BREAKING: Mary Bono Mack has just conceded in CA-36. Congratulations Raul Ruiz, California's newest Congressman."
However, Bono Mack chief of staff Frank Cullen said that he was unaware of any concession call, according to The Desert Sun.
Bono Mack put out a statement on Wednesday stating that she will be awaiting the impact of this large number of remaining ballots before making any further statements.
Update 6:15 p.m. Nov. 8
The latest update provided by the Riverside County Registrar of Voters shows challenger Raul Ruiz has slightly widened his lead over Rep. Mary Bono Mack.
Early Thursday, Ruiz was leading 51.40% to 48.60% and a total of 4,557 votes.
The current update, released after 5:30 p.m., shows Ruiz increasing his lead by 122 votes, giving him a total of 85,419 to Bono Mack's 80,740.
"We are confident that when the remaining vote-by-mail and provisional ballots are counted we will maintain our lead and win this election," Kyle Layman, campaign manager for Ruiz, said Friday night in a statement.
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Despite the current preliminary results that put Dr. Raul Ruiz in the lead to be the next congressman for the Coachella Valley and San Gorgonio Pass areas, the Mary Bono Mack campaign is holding out a bit longer before any concessions will be made, to ensure all votes are tallied up.
Bono Mack Campaign Political Director Marc Troast said Wednesday:
"With more than 180,000 ballots still to be counted around Riverside County, it is premature to consider any election results final. Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack and her campaign will be awaiting the impact of this large number of remaining ballots before making any further statements on the 36th Congressional District race."
Original story as follows:
The latest results in the heated race for the 36th congressional district show that Dr. Raul Ruiz has managed to pull out ahead of incumbent Mary Bono Mack.
Bono Mack had been holding onto a lead of a hundred or so votes through the night, but as of the 7:30 a.m. update posted by the registrar of voters, Ruiz closed the hundred-vote gap-- and then some.
At 7:30 a.m., he had 78,880 votes, or 51.43%. Bono Mack had 74,494.
Those numbers were updated a little while later to show 100% of the district's 448 precincts reporting:
- Ruiz: 83,402, or 51.40%
- Bono Mack: 78,845, or 48.6%
There are still some ballots left to count, according to the registrar's office.
"Approximately, 105,000 vote-by-mail, 60,000 provisional, and 18,000 damaged ballots that require duplication still must be processed," a message from the registrar says online. "Work on those ballots begins today. The next updated results will be posted at 6pm on Thursday."
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When election night parties wrapped up on Tuesday, Bono Mack was holding onto a 280 vote lead.
"It's a tight race, we were expecting a tight race," Bono Mack said at the Republian gathering in Palm Desert. "We're also used to kind of slow races. The results kind of trickle out slowly here. But you know, we're in for the long haul. It's a spirited race, a close race but still feeling very optimistic. Of course a night like this you'd like to have it over sooner rather than later and have a huge number but that's not the case it's a tight race, and again we're feeling very optimistic."
Meanwhile, at the Democratic party in Cabazon, Ruiz was also hopeful that the night would be in his favor, since his campaign was counting on in-person votes, versus mail-in ballots.
"And here in the Coachella Valley, we have a chance of doing something that few people thought we could do just a few months ago," he said to the gathering at Morongo Casino Resort & Spa. The most recent count has us down by a few hundred votes, and every count brings us closer."
"Tonight, we wait," he continued. "But tomorrow, no matter what the results, the hard work begins tomorrow. Tomorrow, we begin anew, committed to creating new jobs, protecting secure retirements for our seniors, and building a promising future for our young people."
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Hey there, Chris. You still got snow on the ground, ours is all gone.
I can attest to the used amp thing as my Parasound HCA 2200 came from Chris in the land of the cows and it powers my LSI 9's quite nicely...nice and tight with mellow tone. I have picked up some MIT Shotgun S3's for speaker cables and Shotgun S2 interconnects and when I get the living room back together (paint job) I will have an even nicer system.
On Emo and HT my XPA-5 worked flawlessly however I changed it out for a Parasound 5250 for more power and warmer sound. So far it's Proven to be a wise up-grade. I listen to music about 60% of the time on my big HT rig and while I had my SDA's in the system it was truly a wonderful sound. I have since moved in my RTI-A9's as fronts and for HT they are great but I miss my SDA's for music. I really like the petite graceful look of the RTI-A series over the large box style of the SDA's. I need a new place for my SDA's and I'm running out of room.
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MOOERS FORKS — Harriet L. Veivia, 93, of the Davison Road, Mooers Forks, went into the arms of our Lord, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013, from her home. At the time of her passing, she was under the loving care of her daughter and son-in-law, Shelba Jean and Francis Miller; grandson, Bruce St. Andrew; and Hospice of the North Country.
She was born Dec. 10, 1919, in Mooers, daughter of Delbert and Lena (Garrand) Garrow. She grew up in Mooers with her large family of 13. Harriet married Frank Veivia, May 29, 1938. He predeceased her March 23, 2003, following 65 years of marriage. Together they loved and raised six children, Shelba Jean Miller of Mooers Forks, Frank Veivia Jr. of Mooers, Wayne (Joe) Veivia of Rouses Point, and Jenny Veivia of Mooers Forks; sister, Dorothy Rabideau of Mooers, and Betty Robert of Plattsburgh.
She was predeceased by her parents; husband, Frank; son, Raymond Veivia; and daughter, Joan Decoteau.
Harriet worked at the old slipper factory in Mooers when it first opened. She also worked at Cedar Hedge Nursing Home in Rouses Point, and at CVPH for eight years. Lastly, she was employed at NCCS for a couple of years.
Harriet loved to read, and play bingo. However her greatest joy was spending time with her children and grandchildren.
At Harriet's request, there will be no public calling hours or services. A graveside service will be held at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Mooers. Donations in her memory may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Arrangements are in the care of the Hamilton Funeral Home, 793 Gilbert Road, Mooers. To light an online candle and offer condolences in the memory of Harriet Veivia, please visit www.hamiltonfuneralhome.com


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Health insurance programs, which are being promoted by some donor agencies and governments in developing countries, are excluding the poorest and most vulnerable people.
New evidence revealed by Oxfam shows that women in India are being exploited and facing serious health problems, due to under-investment in healthcare by the Indian government and the proliferation of private for-profit clinics.
110 global civil society organizations from 40 countries have signed a letter to World Bank president Jim Kim asking him assist all people, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, to access health services.
The Zambia general elections will be held on 20 September to elect a president and representatives to the National Assembly. Civil society organizations in Zambia have identified the elections as an opportunity to ensure key health issues are a priority during the upcoming elections.
Sierra Leone used to be the worst place in the world to give birth. On 28 April last year, the government of Sierra Leone took a huge step in the fight to reduce maternal and child deaths by making health care free for pregnant and lactating mothers and children under the age of five.
A major health insurance scheme in Ghana that the World Bank is pushing as a success model for other developing countries is severely flawed and not working for most Ghanaians, according to a new report by international agency Oxfam and Ghanaian NGOs.
In 2008, Ghana made healthcare free for pregnant women, partly thanks to foreign aid money. These photos show how this has already helped hundreds of thousands of women – and what else aid can achieve.
New York - Millions were thrown a lifeline at special session at the United Nations today, when world leaders unveiled a plan for free health care in poor countries.


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Plenty of area boys' high school teams have loud cheering sections---but it's tough to find a better girls' basketball cheering section than Bobby's Boys--the Morton Lady Potters' cheering section.
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The Economic Impact of Hurricane Sandy
Repair and reconstruction efforts will replace infrastructure with newer buildings, but no one should think natural disasters are good for the economy.
Chad Stone is chief economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Hurricane Sandy's devastating effects on people and property will likely be large—though, at the moment, they seem unlikely to approach those from Hurricane Katrina. Economic forecasters expect a dip in economic activity followed by a recovery that's fueled by repair and reconstruction efforts that, in some cases, could replace old buildings, machines, and infrastructure with newer, better ones. But no one should think that natural disasters are good for the economy.
The Wall Street Journal reports estimates from the disaster-modeling firm Eqecat Inc. of $10 billion to $20 billion in losses insured by private companies, plus additional losses insured by the National Flood Insurance Program as well as uninsured losses, bringing total estimated losses to $30 to $50 billion. By contrast, the two costliest storms on record were Katrina, in 2005, which racked up over $100 billion in losses, and Hurricane Andrew, in 1992, which generated $46 billion in inflation-adjusted losses, according to NOAA estimates. For Sandy, we have only informed guesstimates at this point.
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Of Sandy, Eqecat wrote,
Economic damages include property damage from wind, rain and flood, and also include intangibles such as business interruption and additional living expenses. Damage to infrastructure utilities include roads, water and power, and municipal buildings which may or may not be insured. Economic damages are by their very nature very approximate [emphasis added].
Natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes damage or destroy productive physical assets like factories, stores, housing, and public infrastructure (the capital stock); they interrupt economic activity (the flow of goods and services produced in a quarter, as measured by gross domestic product or GDP). During the disaster and in its immediate aftermath, economic activity will likely be depressed below what it otherwise would have been, and it takes time to repair and replace damaged physical assets.
Some of the depressed spending during the crisis is merely postponed and made up later. Meanwhile, the repairing and rebuilding of housing, buildings, and infrastructure generates jobs and greater demand for building materials and other goods and services. Those activities may well generate enough jobs and economic activity to boost GDP above what it otherwise would have been for a while after the initial dip. Obviously, these effects are largely concentrated in the affected region and, for Sandy, economic forecasters expect only a modest effect on overall GDP in either the fourth quarter or early next year.
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How quickly the capital stock, especially New York and New Jersey's transportation infrastructure, is repaired could affect how quickly the regional economy bounces back. On one of my favorite economics blogs, Econbrowser, Jim Hamilton makes that very point, noting evidence of Katrina's lasting damage to offshore oil-producing infrastructure and the Louisiana economy. Repaired and rebuilt homes, stores, and infrastructure may well be better built and sounder than what they replace but, in the meantime, the economy will not be as productive as it would have been without the damage.
People will get back to work and economic activity should start to rebound fairly quickly in the areas that Sandy hit hard. But, we should remember that, while it's welcome, the GDP generated by repairing damage is not the same as economic stimulus; that is, it mostly just returns the affected region to where it was before the storm, rather than giving it—much less the economy writ large—an economic boost.


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Even with uncertainty hovering over the future, a contrast of old and new came together to make the 2009 season a memorable one. PFW examines the 10 stories that dominated the NFL in the past year.
Johnson already looking toward new deal
Titans RB Chris Johnson wants to be the highest-paid offensive player in the NFL, but he isn't demanding a new contract, he indicated at Super Bowl XLIV.
Titans hire Pola as RB coach
The Titans hired Jaguars RB coach Kennedy Pola to the same position on Monday. He replaces Earnest Byner, who was fired over the weekend, according to the club.
Titans' return game in need of repairs
The Titans' return game was a major problem in 2009, and Tennessee can be expected to address it in the offseason, whether in free agency or the draft, the way we hear it.
Titans' CB depth chart could be shuffled
Cornerback could be a position of flux for the Titans in the offseason.
Young the Titans' starter, but Collins' status remains to be seen
Vince Young will be the Titans' starting quarterback next season, but will Kerry Collins be his backup?
Hall: Patience pays off for Titans' Johnson
Titans RB Ahmard Hall has had a front-row view of RB Chris Johnson's remarkable push for 2,000 yards rushing, and he's played a key role in Johnson's special season.
The Tennessee Titans have agreed to a one-year contract with Pollard, the second safety the team has added in free agency this offseason.||||||| A seven-year veteran, Pollard spent the past two seasons with Baltimore. The 6-foot-1 Pollard also has played with Kansas City and Houston starting 85 of his 105 career games with nine interceptions, nine sacks, 10 forced fumbles and seven recovered fumbles.
Pollard has been released by the Baltimore Ravens, the latest move driven by the Super Bowl champion's offseason salary cap purge.||||||| Pollard announced his departure Wednesday on Twitter, writing, "Well Ravens Nation. it's been fun. My time in Baltimore is done." The 28-year-old Pollard signed a three-year extension with Baltimore last season, but his release saves the Ravens an estimated $1 million against the salary cap.
Pollard started Sunday's playoff game after being inactive for the Ravens regular-season finale.||||||| Pollard was dealing with a chest injury.
The Baltimore Ravens and Pollard have agreed to a two-year contract, a move that fortifies a secondary weakened by the loss of free agent Dawan Landry.||||||| Pollard has played five NFL seasons, the last two with Houston. Last season he led the Texans with 111 tackles and four forced fumbles. The 6-foot-1, 224-pound Pollard will compete with Tom Zbikowski and Haruki Nakamura for the starting position. Landry, who held the position last season, signed with Jacksonville as a free agent.
The Houston Texans have tendered offers to Pollard and six other restricted free agents.||||||| Pollard joined the team in late September and immediately stepped into a starting role to become a key piece of Houston's improving defense. He had 102 tackles, 1 1/2 sacks and four interceptions to help the Texans to their first winning season.


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CHICAGO — It's mid-August and parents across the country are breathing a sigh of relief that their tours of duty as surrogate educators finally will end.
It's a burden that many parents bear because they know that the only effective prevention against what's commonly known as "summer learning loss" — the erosion of academic skills, particularly in reading and math, that happens when kids veg out all summer — is to keep kids actively engaged in mind-sharpening recreation. Yet it is mostly those parents who are middle-class or wealthy who can plow money into making this happen.
For children whose parents can afford it, there really isn't the kind of lazy, relaxed summer you and I might remember from our childhoods — back when getting into a good college was not a goal set at birth. Kids from families with resources effectively go to school year-round because their summers are filled to the brim with enrichment activities.
This year, with one son going into the treacherous, teachers-take-the-gloves-off seventh grade and my oldest entering the college-prep track at our public high school, "summer" at my house has been a whirlwind of activity.
There were multiple book-reading projects, crafts for rainy days, a few week-long day camps for each boy and some half-day activities — archery, Lego engineering, leadership skills — plus a month-long academic institute for our soon-to-be-freshman, not to mention the year-round commitments to boxing classes and music lessons.
Oh, and we went on a family vacation specifically chosen to expose the boys to a part of the country they'd previously only read about in textbooks. This on top of our regular summer trips to visit extended family and enjoy local cultural events.
It was wonderful, but though the kids were near home and not in elite, private sleep-away camps, it was still pricey. Even though we bought used books, took advantage of discounted resident-only rates at our local school, park district and community college, used frequent-flier miles and clipped many coupons, it was a stretch.


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MULTI-PLATINUM Grammy winning artist Alanis Morissette will be performing songs from her new album in a show at Echo Arena Liverpool on November, 30.
Tickets go on sale at 9am tomorrow.
She released Havoc And Bright Lights on Monday.
Alanis said: ""This record is a snapshot of what I currently obsess about, care about, and what strikes me at 4 in the morning in my most introspective moments.
"It is my emotional, psychological, social and philosophical commentary through song. I can't wait to share it with this fun and funny planet, and to tour, and can't wait to have the lively, engaging and challenging conversations that these songs may invite."
Since 1995, Alanis has been one of the most influential singer-songwriter-musicians in contemporary music.
Her deeply expressive music and performances have earned vast critical praise, 12 Canadian Juno Awards, 7 Grammy® Awards, a Golden Globe nomination and sales of over 60 million albums worldwide.
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It's frustrating and depressing to realize how many people buy into our government's propaganda, hook, line and sinker, such as Carole Lutness, who explained "the reasons why people are protesting" in a letter to the editor on Oct. 13.
This past weekend, the "99 percenters" were still protesting in streets across America, and the "Occupy Wall Street" movement was still growing and going global with its concerns over corporate influence in politics, the lack of jobs and opportunity and the fact that the rich are getting richer while everyone else is just treading water.
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One person was injured in a two-car collision Monday near Decoro Drive and Copper Hill Drive in Valencia.
An adult male was killed Monday and another was in critical condition after a multi-vehicle pileup on Highway 126 near Commerce Center Drive.
Retailer M. Fredric is coming to the Westfield Valencia Town center Tuesday, Oct. 18. A special opening will be held from 8 to 10 p.m. at the Shops at The Patios.
MannKind will present at the 18th Annual Newsmakers in the BioTech Industry conference Friday, Oct. 21. The Friday announcement said the Valencia-based company will appear at the conference presented by Thomson Reuters and BioCentury at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York.
As a continuation to the City of Santa Clarita's Heroin Kills campaign, the City and ACTION Family Counseling Inc. invite parents to attend the "Addiction in Today's Youth: What Parents Need to Know About Drug & Alcohol Abuse" workshop on Thursday, October 20, 2011 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Santa Clarita Activities Center, located at 20880 Centre Pointe Parkway.
The Rt. Rev. Mary Glasspool, Suffragan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, will lead an "Evensong" service at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church on Saturday.
County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich will appoint retired federa Judge Dickran Tevrizian to the "Citizens' Commission on Jail Violence" when the Board of Supervisors considers establishing the commission at tomorrow's Board meeting.
Castaic Lake will again host one of the nation's best-known charity motorcycle ride Sunday when the Love Ride returns to the lake to raise money for Autism Speaks.
The city and county will host a community job fair Thursday for foster youths, seniors and others, according to a statement released today from Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich's office.
Parents are invited to sign up for the Hart district's third free online drug awareness seminar slated for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon died Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway after his car became ensnared in a fiery 15-car pileup, flew over another vehicle and landed in a catch fence just outside turn 2.
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From the beginning, I have wanted to expose some of the issues and concerns our service members past and present face. I find it disgraceful the way our military and veterans are portrayed in the media; they are either PTSD-afflicted ticking time bombs or they are homeless wretches, addicted to drugs or alcohol. Occasionally, just occasionally, there is a story of a wounded warrior who has overcome nearly insurmountable odds. Those stories are the ones that bother me the most, not because I think those wounded in war don't deserve all the accolades and recognition they can get, but because they are too often treated like a side show freak – "Look! Come see the guy with no legs and one arm walk! He even speaks!"
I've wanted to write to my community, to remind my neighbors that there is a war, that men and women are dying, not just on the battlefield but also here at home. The number of active duty suicides has surpassed the number of those killed in action, a sentence it makes me sick to write. But not as sick as I am over the apparent apathy of the VA, the military and the civilian community in general when confronted with that fact. What is even more upsetting is that no one knows how many suicides have taken the lives of our veterans. The best estimate is about 6,500 a year or one every 80 minutes. These men have survived battles in some of the most inhospitable places on the planet, yet they can't survive once they are home, in one of the most affluent countries in the history of mankind. Why is not everyone else as outraged by this as I am?
Then there are the inexplicable cancer deaths. Young, otherwise healthy men and women with no risk factors and no family history are succumbing to some of the most aggressive and unusual cancers ever seen. The one commonality is their exposure to the toxic fumes from the Burn Pits at nearly every U.S. military base around the world. Again, where is the outrage? Because these men and women volunteered, does that mean their deaths don't count? What about the staggeringly high and rising incidences of birth defects among the children born to these veterans? Do theses children not count either, because their parent voluntarily signed on the dotted line?
Not everything I wanted to write about is doom and gloom, negative and harsh. There are some remarkable people and organizations out there doing incredible things for our military and veterans. There are people who are saving dogs from being euthanized and training them to be companions to our veterans. Others are collecting, packing and shipping care packages to our troops, boxes filled with items donated by thousands of people who support our men and women in harm's way, who want to remind them that people back home are thinking about them and want to make their service just a little bit easier.
I've written about a group of women whom I had the great good fortune to meet. I spent several days with these military wives and mothers and through them learned the meaning of the words resiliency and grace.
Still, for every story I've told, there have been ten more equally important ones I've yet to tell. In time, perhaps I will but for now I need to take a break from the need to choose just one each week.
When I started this series, I knew I would tell it, the story of the worst day of my life, the day my life changed forever. But, I didn't want it to be a sob story, to tell the world to feel sorry for me. Yes, my loss is unimaginable, but the real tale is the one that was told to me by those who were there, those who lived it. They are true heroes, each and every one of them and without them, without their support, I know I wouldn't have had the courage to write this one, or any of the stories I've told. It is for them, and for my son that I write. It is for them, and all who have put on our nation's uniform past and present that I will continue to write. Until they all come home.
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