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Ultima Ratio Regum, Scene II
"After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave — a gruesome, terrible shadow. God is dead, but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we, we still have to vanquish his shadow, too."
Friedrich Nietzsche
When I am asked how many demons there are, I answer with the words that the demon himself spoke through a demonic: 'We are so many that, if we were visible we would darken the sun."
Fr. Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Tells His Story
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
The dawn was close at hand. All the Kindred of London had returned back to their hovels and havens to wait for the first rays of light. The Lady of London had left, and so had the Seneschal, and so had the High Sheriff, and so had gone all the Great and Good and Vile and Foul. Yet Bartholomew's Hospital was not yet empty of its nightly denizens, for two remained.
Perched high in the rafters of the Great Hall was a blackbird. This was the first of the nightly denizens. He had spent much of the evening there, a tiny blackbird with gleaming eyes -- one black, one blue -- watching all that had happened. This had always been one of his favorite vantage points, for he could see and not be seen, but mostly it was just a game. A magpie's curiosity consumed the god (for, when he thought of himself, he considered himself a god, and named himself after a god), but tonight he had seen something that actually mattered.
What had happened so many years ago? The blackbird frowned, trying to work through the shards of what might be charitably called its mind to piece together a picture. The big man had been there -- his name was Solomon -- and he had driven the god because machines were complicated, operating with cause and effect, and gentle touches, and strange requests. But the big man had stayed outside? Yes, yes he had. And the little girl, she'd been so beautiful, he'd loved her then, and loved her hatred, and he set her forth -- he was a god, he had made her a saint, yes? -- but she had eaten her brother's soul. He had made her a saint. That was the important part. So she could go and murder and debauch and destroy. And the big man had only driven the car? Or had he come inside? He had come inside. Or was the god's memory playing tricks on him? And now the big man wanted credit for the god's work. And the other one... Othello? Why did that name stick so... he had... he had lied! They were going to steal the credit for his work!
The blackbird shook its little head, the difficulty of connecting so much time and space wearying. He'd see the amber-eyed woman. She was always so very good at explaining things... There. That was a decision. The blackbird took flight, and flew away, out of the darkness and into the night sky. But one thing was certain to the god. He wasn't going to take this lie sitting down.
Were Eddie Treadwell mathematically inclined, he might have noticed that when he had arrived, he had brought sixteen of his mortal herd. He also left with sixteen of his mortal herd. If he was particularly clever, and had been paying very close attention, he might have noticed that given how mortals went in and out of the main room, sometimes one of them came back a bit more quickly than expected. And how that one always seemed to go away whenever Erin and her friends came near.
Right now, the seventeenth meal -- though he'd never actually gotten around to being bitten, funny how that had worked out -- was unwrapping the ribbon and barely managing not to burst out laughing. Really, did anyone expect him, who had engineered this entire drama, to sit back and get second hand reports?
"Erin, you wonderful girl!" He chortled, shaking his head and letting his usual dark skin tone flood his face. "You delightful, devious little girl, that was sheer genius. I'm going to buy you a pony. Green Park!"
This time he did laugh, and when he opened closet door, he stepped through into a Land That Was Not. He had friends and allies in the Hedge and in the Goblin Markets, they'd keep him under wraps for the moment. And then, he'd need to get ready. There was still so much work to do!
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Squick -- Lydia's boyfriend -- had consented to take Lauren to the Ebon Engine, though this had first required Lauren to visit the Battersea Water Tower and ask Lydia for a favor. Squick was a nice guy, anyway, and he took Lauren to a station in the Hedge, a little platform surrounded by marble statues and ancient Roman mosaics, ice-encrusted vines crawling about them. There, they had awaited the Ebon Engine, and it was there that Lauren had her first glimpse of the Unseelie Court's headquarters.
Ten massive cars of carved black steel and prismatic crystal, racing down a set of icy steel tracks. It was huge, and it looked somehow ever so faintly alien, like a train out of a dream, or possibly out of some opium nightmare. The carvings on the outside of the train had been repaired, and they reminded Lauren of something not quite right, something not quite human, a little too organic to be natural.
A helpful, if rather sardonic, crow-faced woman had taken Lauren to the Archives, and this was where Lauren found Rebecca and Horus, working in the great library. It wasn't actually very large, as libraries went (the entire train car, though wide, was still only some ten feet across), with the shelves stacked so close together that one couldn't slip so much as a hand between them. They were on a set of rails, and had wheels on them, so that they could be pushed apart when access was necessary, and then pulled shut to save space. It was an ingenious system, certainly.
Rebecca was sitting at a little table, copying out the writing of some ancient scroll into a typewriter -- electronics tended to perish in the Hedge, and even a typewriter was pushing it. In the background, Horus puttered about, sorting books. "Hi Lauren." Rebecca had smiled when the vampire had entered.
Outside, the Thorns shot by at great speed, covered in snow and frost. The Ebon Engine was at the heart of its own personal blizzard, always and forever, and Rebecca was wearing long sleeves to ward off the chill.
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Erin, Underwood, Cynthia, Mary
Erin had told Mary Mack what Birch had said -- in very, very, very vague terms. Using very generous terminology. And being very vague. So it was that Mary didn't kill anyone, hadn't broken anything, and hadn't even frenzied, though Cynthia had taken one look at the other vampire and spent the rest of the day keeping Underwood between her and Mary. Cynthia was many things, but she had a keen sense of self-preservation.
Right now, she was sitting on the other side of Underwood from Mary in the attic of the Russell House, while the Harbinger's in-house occultist searched through dozens of books for the diabolic sigil that had been inscribed on the door of Mary's home, in that dream so long ago.
"Erziel... no, that has ten points..." Rakesh Morgan, the aforementioned in-house occultist, was muttering to himself. There was a stuffed hyena standing in the corner, a new addition, and Erin noticed a row of human skulls on which Rakesh had been apparently practicing trepanation. One didn't ask. "The Rider in Dreams has the ends bent counter-clockwise..."
"Where did you find this sigil?" Cynthia asked, very quietly. Her eyes flicked to Erin and Underwood, and then to Rakesh, lost in his work, and to Mary Mack, who had been singing softly to herself for the last hour and staring off into the distance.
The Ebon Engine was nothing like Lauren had expected. She'd known it would be a huge, black train, but not quite that huge and not quite that... otherwordly.
When they entered the Archives, Lauren's first thought was that this place must turn into a disaster area if they ever had to hit the brakes. Or maybe there was some magic keeping it all in place.
"Hi, Rebecca." Lauren returned the smile and took a seat at her table. "Sorry to interrupt you." She glanced at Horus. "I wanted to talk about the letter." She guessed that Rebecca would know which letter she was referring to. If not... well, she wasn't sure what she should mention in front of Horus.
"Trade secret," Underwood quipped. If Mary wanted to spill about their mutual dream-travel, that was fine, but again: her prerogative. "Should be accurate, though."
The reporter casually flipped through some of Rakesh's back catalog, while Sparky eagerly (and literally) scanned some more books in the corner shelf. Underwood had to hand it to Mr…Morton, or whatever his name was again. The guy was one heck of a resource.
Underwood Academics:
Dice Roll: 3d10s8ez
d10 Results: 5, 3, 3 (Total Successes = 0)
Sparky Academics:
Dice Roll: 10d10s8ez
d10 Results: 10, 5, 3, 7, 1, 6, 6, 9, 9, 1, 2 (Total Successes = 3)
...And what's the Glamour roll for commiserating with the sad drunks at a bar?
Erin sat next to Mary, peering at the symbols. She did not particularly feel like divulging these sources either. In fact, the Harbingers had spent all morning making it very difficult for anyone else to find out said sources. A large number of libraries were now missing bits of their newspaper archives, courtesy of some bleary-eyed fetchesques carrying scissors. Very fortunate that libraries were never open at night. Some very very go-getter vampires might have already gotten on the scent, though Erin wondered if any of them would care enough to go to such lengths.
In the meantime, Lauren had been sent off with a chocolate box (not containing chocolates), and Underwood had been given a hat box which did not contain a hat. He'd been firmly told by a serious looking ant-girl that he was not to open it in the presence of anyone else, nor was he to tell anyone where he'd gotten it, and Erin was not dealing with it if he disobeyed. What the hatbox contained was a pair of gloves. They weren't quite Underwood's style, but the iron shot in the knuckles made them his speed.
Int+Academics - Assisting Rakesh?
Dice Roll: 8d10s8e8
d10 Results: 3, 1, 9, 3, 5, 3, 4, 2, 3 (Total Successes = 1)
Rebecca looked at Lauren, her expression inscrutable. She sighed and rolled up the scroll once more, carefully slipping it back into its case -- a leather tube like thing. Lauren noticed that there weren't really very many books here. They were all folders and scrolls and notebooks, many of them with little mechanical locks.
"So they actually read it out loud?" Rebecca said, looking away for a moment. Nearby, Horus jotted down a few numbers onto a slip of paper, looking up to favor Lauren with a smile. He was a genial-seeming man, old Horus, with his carefully inscribed skin and snail-like horns. A less-intimidating faerie was hard to imagine.
"I'm not certain why you're surprised. My friend has ever been gifted with a silver tongue." Horus said, smiling gently. "It gets him out of trouble almost as often as it leads him into it."
"Yeah... Okay, look, Lauren, I'm pledged, I can't say anything about what will happen," Rebecca put a certain emphasis on the words. "So there's no use asking me about Othello or Mary's sire or cults or Bar--" Rebecca stopped, realizing what she was giving away. "F***."
"Watch your language, miss." Horus wagged his finger.
"Sorry." Rebecca muttered.
Erin, Underwood, Cynthia, Mary
"Miss Mary Mack / All dressed in black..." Mary whispered to herself, staring at a scrap of leather that was hanging from the wall in front of her. There was a tattoo on the leather, like a sinuous emerald worm burrowing through the body of a naked woman, while lightning flashed behind it. It took one a moment to realize that the leather was human skin, and old.
"I'd hate to be wasting my time." Cynthia snorted, stretching. She had only gotten a few winks in the Thames before coming here to help Rakesh, and the sun was up, and she was feeling sleep-deprived and antsy. Not that it showed in her wardrobe -- or lack thereof. Last night, Cynthia of the Mara had at least been wearing a gown of black water. Now she was wearing what amounted to, in Underwood's eyes, a pair of skin-tight shorts that barely covered half her thigh, and an equally painted-on top that left most of her pale, blueish midriff exposed. In Underwood's day, it would have gotten her arrested, and even now it was just barely decent. It was pretty much a bikini, really. "Does working for you gentlemen cover meals?" She smirked.
"EUREKA!" Rakesh suddenly crowed, the lanky werewolf looking up. He seemed singularly young for such a serious occultist, just past thirty, a scrawny, dusky-skinned Indian man with unusually pale blue eyes and blue tattoos scrawled over his arms. "Nine-pointed star, in blood... painted on a door."
"The Dweller Behind the Night, known as Chachradin in certain parts of Central Asia and as Messaltricé in northern Italy." Rakesh peered at the old English grimoire he had open before him, a translation of an earlier French work. "Associated with skill-at-arms, blood and strife."
Lauren tapped her fingers on the table. "What does the pledge cover, exactly?"
"I have bloodwort, if you're into that sort of thing," Erin replied to Cynthia, setting her arms around Mary's shoulders. Were Cynthia dying, or badly starving, Erin might consider opening a vein. Until then, she could eat strange goblin plants.
"Are there any particular groups, or persons, that would know of this demon in particular?" Erin asked, wondering if they could trace the murderer via the sigil. "Or is it a demon for hire?"
Horus merely sat off to one side and smiled. He knew something, of that there was no doubt.
"I can tell you about stuff that's already happened, because it doesn't really matter and you'll find out soon enough anyway. But I can't tell you what Othello's planning, or... another thing. And he doesn't tell me everything." Rebecca said, then blew out a breath slowly. "Are you sure you want to know? Horus knows, but some of this... it's going to be dangerous to know. Really dangerous."
Erin, Underwood, Cynthia, Mary
"So signing the sigil on the door is a way of attracting the demon's attention to what happened inside, and offering it the energy of those crimes." Rakesh said. He clicked his tongue against his teeth -- quite a lot of energy. "Presumably this would either be an act of worship, or as part of some kind of demonic pact."
"There are historical cults in Italy and Central Asia, I mentioned those... they're the ones that did most of the writing..." Rakesh was talking, mostly, while he picked through his many books and computer files. He was looking for something. "The Dweller is also regularly invoked in spree killings and serial killings, some of which have happened centuries ago. Mostly out and around Limehouse... And here we go. There was another such killing just last month, two brothers got into an argument and knifed each other, but the police found the Dweller's sigil daubed in blood not far."
"You could talk to Detective Chavez for more details, she forwarded me some of the information about a month ago." Rakesh said.
"And of course, I'm helping Mack, Erin, and Underwood, too."
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By Amy HoakRISMEDIA, Sept. 13, 2007-(MarketWatch)-Some of the mortgage advertisements currently appearing in Web sites, newspapers, magazines, direct mail and unsolicited e-mail and faxes may be violating federal law, and on Tuesday the Federal Trade Commission said it was sending warning letters to more than 200 advertisers and media outlets informing them of the possible violations.
Some of the claims made in the ads are "potentially deceptive," or violating the Truth in Lending Act, according to a FTC news release. The advertisements were identified in June during a review of claims that touted very low monthly payments or interest rates without fully disclosing other important loan terms.
"Many mortgage advertisers are making potentially deceptive claims about incredibly low rates and payments, without telling consumers the whole story — for example, that these low rates and payments apply for a short period only and can go up substantially after the loan's introductory period," said Lydia Parnes, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, in the release.
"Homeownership is the American dream, but it can become a nightmare for consumers who don't have the information they need to understand the terms of their mortgage."
Some of the ads were for rates as low as 1%, but didn't disclose that the stated rate was a "payment rate," and not the interest rate, which applied only during an initial period, according to the release. Also not disclosed in some of these ads was the loan's annual percentage rate, the uniform measure of the cost of credit that consumers can use to comparison shop for mortgages.
Other ads that promoted very low monthly payments failed to give adequate disclosure of payment increases or final balloon payments.
The letters sent to advertisers advised them to review their ads and read up on relevant laws and requirements. Media outlets were given guidance on screening ads for questionable claims.
The FTC said it brought 21 actions against companies in the mortgage lending industry over the past decade, with particular focus on the subprime market. Some of the cases resulted in monetary judgments, "with courts collectively ordering that more than $320 million be returned to consumers," according to the release.
The actions targeted deceptive or unfair practices in various stages of the lending process — from advertising and marketing to loan servicing.
Amy Hoak is a MarketWatch reporter based in Chicago.
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Henri Quenette is a 27-year old French documentary filmmaker. After obtaining a Master of Films at university Paris III- La Sorbonne in 2011, he specialized in documentary films and co-directed the documentary film A Tiny Drop of Change in 2012. He moved to San Francisco in April, 2013 where he shot the documentary film Love Me Tenderloin. Between June and September 2014, he lived in NYC where he shot a new documentary about the Bronx Wrestling Federation.
Love Me Tenderloin
The Tenderloin has long been known as the "heart" of San Francisco. It is the last refuge for elderly, disabled and low-income working people striving to stay in the city. This area is perhaps the last frontier in SF's ever-expanding gentrification trend. It has a high density population and has prominent issues with drugs. San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood can be a difficult place in which to live. Almost a quarter of the neighborhood's residents live below the poverty level. It can be painful to look at how hard life is for some people. We think of that existing in some far-off country or continent, but it's in our own backyard, right in downtown San Francisco. At the same time, we're talking to people about how much love there is among the residents of this neighborhood and the people who work there in order to improve the life of the Tenderloin residents.
Love Me Tenderloin shows the everyday life of four inhabitants living in the Tenderloin. A typical sequence will illustrate each interviewee as he/she goes about a typical day. I already have a variety of people representing a range of homeless or very-low income situations. These stories will be coupled with interviews and footage of social workers and people living in the Tenderloin. The homeless and low income subjects will be purposefully given a majority of the speaking time in the film, prioritizing their own story and voice.
See Love Me Tenderloin trailer here.
For a short video of his current project on the Bronx Wrestling Federation, see the following link.


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Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica
Spiral Galaxies:
Where do you live? There are many ways that you might respond to that
question. You may say any of the following:
At 4310 Ellis
In Chicago
In Cook County
In Illinois
In the United States
In North America
On the planet Earth
All of those answers would be perfectly acceptable. How often, though, do you think of
responding to the question by telling people you live in the Milky Way Galaxy?
"Well, duhh", you think. Why would you give your location in such a general
manner? After all, if someone wants to know where you live they want you to be quite
specific about location. But if you were responding on a universal level to a fictional
intergalactic traveler, the galaxy answer would be quite specific. Since we are
only one of hundreds of billions of galaxies in our universe, your
information would certainly facilitate the traveler's challenge to find us. Actually
though, you're right. It wouldn't help that voyager any more than if you told Uncle Radie
from Haiti that you live on the North American continent and asked him to come visit.
Without additional information, he isn't going to be locating you in the near future.
This image is of the NGC 2997 galaxy. It is used here to show our position in relation to the nucleus of the Milky Way Galaxy. We believe our Galaxy to be a spiral one, like this one.
|Our Galaxy is more than one billion billion kilometers in diameter. That is about 120,000 light years (one light year is the distance that light travels in one year). Our intergalactic friend must locate, out of some 100 billion stars, a single star - our Sun - around which the planets, asteroids, satellites, and comets that make up our solar system revolve. You may suggest to the traveler that her search shouldn't begin near the center (nucleus) of our Galaxy. Actually, we are about 30,000 light years away from the center. Even with that information, she, like Uncle Radie, won't be coming for a visit very soon.
If you happen to travel away from the atmospherically and light-challenged areas (due to pollution and lights) of cities and suburbs, you might look up into the night sky and see a wondrous faint band of light arcing high above the horizon. It is the glow from some of the billions of the stars in our universal home, the Milky Way Galaxy. If we travel a great distance into space beyond our Galaxy, we would look back on it and see a shape not unlike what alien spaceships have been depicted to look like. A galactic disc surrounds a bulge. A hundred billion stars form this specter that is approximately 120,000 light years wide but only about 1,000 to 3,000 light years thick. At the center, the nucleus or galactic bulge is made of old stars and extends out a few thousand light years from the galactic center.
A galaxy is a large system of one million to one trillion stars along with dust and
gases. However, almost 90% of the material in a galaxy is some totally unknown form called
dark matter because it doesn't shine like stars. These groups are held together by
a mutual attraction. This attraction is one of gravitational pull. In a galaxy, each star
has its own orbit around the galaxy. Think of our solar system, each planet has an orbital
path around the Sun. That orbit is affected by the gravitational pull from the Sun the way
that the center of the galaxy attracts the stars and other matter that orbit around it.
|If we could orient ourselves above the Galaxy we would look down upon an enormous pinwheel similar to the one on the left. There seem to be arms swirling about the "dancer" nucleus.
|If we could orient ourselves above the Galaxy we would look down upon an enormous pinwheel similar to the one on the left. There seem to be arms swirling about the "dancer" nucleus.
Based upon the work done by many astronomers in the early part of the twentieth century, we now classify galaxies into three basic types, spiral, elliptical, and irregular. The spiral galaxy is the type that has been described above. Two or more arms wind away from the center. We believe that our Milky Way Galaxy is this type.
|Another type of galaxy is one that has been called elliptical. These galaxies don't have spiral arms nor the "spaceship" bulge and disk structure They seem to be groups of stars that form a round or elliptical shape when viewed through a telescope.
|Finally, there are galaxies that are called irregular. These are all of the other kinds of galaxies that have been identified. They may be unusually shaped galaxies, galaxies that are colliding, or galaxies that are going through violent energy outbursts.
The mystery of the "arms" of a spiral galaxy has been a question that astronomers have been concerned with for a long time. Assuming that the arms were always made up of the same matter (stars and other material) rotating around the galaxy's center, they would eventually wind up. To try and understand the astronomer's dilemma, let's imagine a poorly planned, rather ridiculous track meet . We will have a bird's eye view of the track from a helicopter above the track. Now, in this fictional meet, all of the runners run at the same speed. As we observe the runners, we will visualize the alignment of each runner along the track at three points during the race. Our alignment line will look like this .
At the START, all of the runners are aligned. At alignment point A, the runner on the inside track had gone half way around, while the runner on the outside track has only gone around about 1/6 of the track. It appears that the alignment line is arcing. At alignment point B, the inside track runner has almost reached the starting point once again, while the outside track runner is only about half way around the track. (Can you see why runners in actual races start at staggered points?)
Let's say that the runners continue running, even when they get back to the starting point. They are all still running, but the runner on the inside is completing the revolutions around the center of the track much sooner than the other runners. From our view in the helicopter, we would see the field continue to rotate, but the arcing alignment arms would wind up more and more.
Stars that are farther from a galaxy's center take a longer time to go around the center as did the outside track runner. Eventually, after a few galactic rotations* we would no longer see the spiral structure of the galaxy because the arms would have wound up. That brings us to the question that puzzled astronomers: Why are there so many galaxies that are not wound up? Just what are the spiral arms?
Galaxies take 100 - 200 million years to rotate (depending on galaxy, and the particular part of the galaxy). That is a galactic year. If galaxies are 12 billion years old, how many times have they rotated?
The explanation came through the Density-Wave Theory of Galactic Spiral Structure. This theory, proposed by the C.C. Lin and Frank Shu, states density waves in the disk of a galaxy cause material to "pile up" temporarily. Remember the discussion, in the introduction of this booklet, about the motion of waves? Vibrations cause particles to "bang" into one another. As they bang, energy is passed from one particle to another.
Have you ever been in line when you were in elementary school and you stopped suddenly because there was a huge glob of bubble gum on the floor? What happened? As you slowed down to step over the gum, classmates behind bumped into you, and the kids in back of them bumped into them, etc. At the point of all this bumping, your line was squished together. When you started walking again, each person going over the gum slowed down to step over it and the process would repeat. Different classmates were "clumping" but until your whole line passed or the gum was picked up, there was always a "squish" pattern. Once everyone was past the gum, your teacher turned around and gave you all "that look" and your line straightened out again. Everyone was still in his or her correct place. You and your classmates formed a density wave.
|Astronomers understand the spiral patterns in galaxies to be fixed Ñ not winding up Ñ while the stars and other materials move through a point of clumping. By analyzing data gathered from observations of spiral galaxies, you will begin to understand how the density-wave theory has resolved the puzzle of galactic arms. You will have a chance to use the 10 inch telescope in the Yerkes South Building to obtain digital images of some spiral galaxies. All types exist in nature, and the "10-inch sample" will illustrate some of them (see pitch angle diagram) The telescope, camera, and computer that you will be using are small compared to equipment used by professional astronomers. However, the process that you will be involved in will closely reproduce the work of actual research programs being carried out by astronomers.
"pitch angle" of spiral patterns
During this lab you will learn:
The CCD camera has a field-of-view that is 9 x 6 arc minutes. The field of vision means the "piece" of area that you or your instrument can see.
As magnification increases, the field of view decreases.
When we are standing on solid ground we can easily measure distances in standard units like meters, kilometers, feet and miles, etc. Objects in the sky can't be measured the same way. Astronomers use degrees to give the relative placement of objects. Let's refer to diagrams to help us visualize this. Remember: you're considering the whole distance around the planet to be 360o (A). Let's say that there were two objects that are on opposite sides of the horizon, they would be 180o apart (B). If one object is now directly overhead and one is on the horizon, they would be 90o apart. Since many astronomical measurements are smaller than a degree, even smaller units have to be used. If we divide a degree into sixty equal parts, we get an arc minute. If we divide that arc minute into 60 equal parts we get an arc second.
The Universe is a very big space. Since time is limited, here are some suggestions for galaxies to image.
Note: During the Yerkes Summer Institute, 1999, CARA Space Explorers imaged: M51, M101 and NGC 6946.
Right Ascension (RA)*
Declination (dec)**
Distance (D)
13 29 . 9
47 12
14 03 . 2
54 21
20 34 . 9
60 09
* Right ascension is a coordinate for measuring the east-west location of astronomical objects. This can be compared to a line of longitude on the earth.
** Declination is the angular distance north or south of the celestial equator. It can be compared to a line of latitude on the earth.
We have a two-dimensional image of a galaxy. Each pixel represents the relative amount of light (that is intensity) from stars and glowing gas coming from that spot in the galaxy. In our investigation, we will plot the intensity versus position in the galaxy of many pixels along a straight line, or slice. Our slice will go through at least two spiral arms. If you recall from the background information and other labs, the wavelength is the distance from one wave crest to the next. In our investigation, the crest to crest measurement is from spiral arm to spiral arm. One question that you will think about during this lab is, "With the information we now have, how would we determine the amplitude of the wave?"
When we complete the challenge above, we will have a measurement of the apparent wavelength (crest to crest separation) based on pixel units of measurement. We must now express the wavelength on a physical basis that will give us the actual wavelength. That means we will be converting our pixel data into thousands of light-years. Here's how:
Think of the proportional relationship of our image of the galaxy to the real galaxy: (Hint:
Think of similar triangles)
Define the variables with symbols:
wavelength (actual) is W
distance to galaxy is D
wavelength (apparent) is w
focal length of the telescope is d
Set up the proportional relationship of these quantities.
Remember we can do this as long as W and D are measured in the same units and r and d are measured in the same units.
Our goal here is to find the actual wavelength (W), it is our unknown. In order to do that with the proportion we set up above, we have to know the values for D, w, and d. So,
|Depends on the galaxy. Use the table you were given with the night lab, SPIRAL GALAXIES Gathering Data: Observations and Images, # 3. The units are given in millions of light years.
|Number of pixels from one spiral arm to another times the size of each pixel. Each pixel in high resolution mode is 0.009 mm; in medium resolution mode is 0.018 mm; in low resolution mode is 0.027 mm.
|100 inches or 2540 mm
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Let's apply this to an example image. Suppose you have an image obtained in medium-resolution mode, and you count 80 pixels from one wave crest to the next.
The value for w is: 80 x 0.018 mm which equals 1.44 mm.
Suppose the galaxy is at a Distance (D) of 32.6 million light years.
The focal length of the telescope is 2540 mm.
With these numbers, we can now set up our proportion:
W = D x (w/d)
W = 32,600 thousand light years x (1.44 mm / 2540 mm)
W = 18.5 thousand light years Let's check to see if this is sensible. Recall we said that the Milky Way is 120,000 light year in diameter. So, about 120/18.5 equals 7 wavelengths across. Look at an image of a spiral galaxy, does this check out?
CARA Space Explorers too these images during their night lab: M51, M101, NGC6946
Analyze the data in the .fts images of M51, M101 and NGC6946 to calculate the actual wavelengths of the spiral galaxies' density waves.
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The City of Virginia Beach on Thursday purchased the 18-acre London Bridge Commerce Center to protect Naval Air Station Oceana from incompatible business development.
This is an important acquisition for the city's APZ-1 purchase program because the site has three commercial buildings with multiple tenants, many of which are incompatible with the city's zoning ordinance. The property is in Oceana's Accident Potential Zone 1 (APZ-1) on London Bridge Road, between Potters Road and Virginia Beach Boulevard. The property is also encumbered by Navy restrictive easements.
With this acquisition, the city will continue to reduce the number of nonconforming commercial uses in APZ-1. Ultimately, the city plans to redevelop the site for new uses compatible with the Navy easements and the city's APZ-1 Ordinance.
"The decision by City Council to acquire this strategic property off the new London Bridge exit ramp will allow us to advance our YesOceana economic development program," said Warren D. Harris, director of Virginia Beach Economic Development. "The YesOceana program was created as an incentive to encourage the roll-back of nonconforming uses and also to encourage conforming uses to relocate within APZ-1. This site will add to our available inventory of property for companies looking to locate or expand in the City of Virginia Beach."
The city paid $6 million for the property. The money comes from $7.5 million awarded to Virginia Beach by the state – part of the commonwealth's annual contribution to help protect Oceana. This is the second large purchase by the city in recent months to protect Oceana. In August, the city bought the 516-acre Brown Farm near the Municipal Center from Kempsville Presbyterian Church for $7.84 million.
"We take our commitment to Oceana very seriously," Mayor William D. Sessoms, Jr. said. "In 2005, we promised the Base Closure and Realignment Commission that we would spend $15 million a year to stop new development and roll back existing development around Oceana. Today's purchase is tangible proof that Virginia Beach is keeping its promise."
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Mr. Hardwick had been a tool and die maker for Arvin Industries in Franklin and Ogleville for 34 years and then working for Overton Carbide Tool and Die Engineers in Franklin for seven years retiring in 2007. He was an avid golfer and enjoyed playing at Deer Valley Golf Course, where he was a member of the men's league.
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Topic: Biking and Walkable Communities / Nature-Deficit Disorder
Location: Spring House
Convened: 10:45
Attendees and Affilitiations:
Grayson Pritchard, Shen Dao Clinic; Mike Newcomb, Pathways of Hope and Healing; Lewis Driver, Shaklee; Kathy Winters, Virginia Organizing Project; Eric Bendfeldt, VA Cooperative Extension; Mike Ballato, Boy Scouts of America; Cory Partlow, Shenandoah Eye Care; John Eckman, Valley Conservation Council; Holly Cooper, RMH; Melissa Waite, First Step;
Sarah Fleck; Melissa Aleman, JMU; Will Koons; Diana Woodall, A Quiet Place Yoga and Shiatsu; Jeannine Cinco; Leah Rosenwasser, OCY; Kristen Wall; Judith Trumbo, RMH
First Topic: Bike and Walking Safety/Paths
While a number of the participants were cyclists who wished there were better paths and routes in the area, most in the group were not formally involved with some of the existing groups working on these issues. Discussion focused on sharing some of the good work that is already being done to help make streets safer, from Bike to Work Day and Critcal Mass rides to Walk to School days other efforts with youth.
-Recent bike fatality on Port Republic Road brought immediacy to issue
-Group feedback: "No walking/biking paths from my home to school or work"
-Distracted drivers—major players in the game
-Political will and money key
-US 33, Port Republic and Reservoir identified by group as unsafe areas to ride
-Central Shenandoah Planning District Commission www.cspdc.org has created a website for cycling in the area: www.bikethevalley.org
-The City of Harrisonburg has both a Bike Plan and a Pedestrian Plan available for download at: http://www.harrisonburgva.gov/index.php?id=1091 Several maps are available there as well.
-Bike Walk VA—www.bikewalkva.org coalition advocating for bikers in VA
-Safe Kids Coalition— http://uwhr.org/safekids/ distributes 1,000s of helmets to kids
-The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Metropolitan Planning Organization is charged with developing broad regional plans for both the city and county www.hrvampo.org We have reached a level of urbanization such that federal regulations require an urbanized area to create and maintain an ongoing transportation planning process that is comprised of representatives of the local jurisdictions as well as state and federal transportation officials.
-The League of American Bicyclists releases an annual report grading the states and also designates Bike friendly communities. Learn more at www.bikeleague.org
-Cyclists who rode from Harrisonburg to Uruguay are giving a presentation at Our Community Place next Friday (Sept. 4)
One attendant said she heard recently the city widened sidewalks to get riders off the street. This needs verification with City. Are city riders expected to ride on road or sidewalk?
Proposed Actions
Critical mass ride—organize a city ride to garner awareness or possibly in memoriam of cyclist who died on Port Republic
Courses in bike safety—possible to offer through Shenandoah Valley Bike Coalition?
Second Topic: Nature Deficit Disorder
-No access to wildness/wilderness in urban areas
-Mentality of stranger danger, not letting children outside to play
-Psychological and learning issues over time—we are hardwired to be in nature
-The brain functions differently outdoors than when surrounded by four walls
-Observation: "Children of immigrants play outside a lot; those who have the means to get out may not actually be doing so."
-Nationwide, 16 percent decrease in participation in Boy Scouts
-Systemic change
Harrisonburg's Comprehensive Plan is – "a vision of what kind of community the City would like to be in the future. It identifies the steps required to move toward that vision by providing information about the city's current conditions, long-term goals and objectives, and recommended implementation strategies." Visit http://www.harrisonburgva.gov/index.php?id=1448 to learn more about the current update process and to have input in the plan.
"Last Child in the Woods" Richard Louv is a book which brought the phrase "nature-deficit disorder" widespread attention.
-Children & Nature Network www.childrenandnature.org was created to encourage and support the people and organizations working worldwide to reconnect children with nature. C&NN provides access to the latest news and research in the field and a peer-to-peer network of researchers and individuals, educators and organizations dedicated to children's health and well-being.
-Girl and Boy Scouts of America is a leading organization already working throughout the region to provide outdoor experiences for local youth.
-It was reported that recently the City schools added 15 minutes to school day to allow more time for exercise and time outside. www.harrisonburg.k12.va.us
-Shenandoah National Park (www.nps.gov/shen/index.htm) is one of the under utilized resources available in our region
-"Wild at Art"—art display, high-risk city schoolchildren's photography from structured nature outings, @ Hanks' Smokehouse on Route 33 East in McGayhesville.
-Harrisonburg is designated as a "Tree City" by the Arbor Day Foundation. (www.arborday.org/programs/treeCityUSA/index.cfm)
-Possibility of education outdoors rather than indoors? Beyond the few Standards of Learning that encourage outside investigation, are there ways to allow more time for children to explore and interact with nature in play and unstructured activities?
-What effect does being outside have on the brain? (further learning opportunity)
-The City's Parks and Recreation folks do a fine job, but when Harrisonburg grows to 100,000 people, will we have the open space and natural areas needed to give everyone easy access to nature?
Proposed Actions
-Participate in the Comprehensive Plan review and encourage policies that give incentives for conserving open space areas throughout the City.
-Support your local Girl and Boy Scout troops
-Support local 4H extension
-Support local camps (Highland Retreat, etc.)
-Organize further learning around effects outdoors/nature has on the brain
-Wherever possible, "Bring green into town"
Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition, www.svbcoalition.org
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The vitriolic opposition to the proposed Cordoba House Islamic center in Lower Manhattan (the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque") has been nothing short of shameful – Newt Gingrich labeled it "deliberately insulting," Sarah Palin called it a "provocation" and Cal Thomas described it as a celebration of 9/11 (seriously!). But defenses of the center have been as moving as the attacks have been ugly. Today's New York Times editorial praising New York's Landmark Preservation Commissions approval of the project said it well:
It has been disturbing to hear and read the vitriol and outright bigotry surrounding the building of a mosque two blocks from the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. So it was inspiring when New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 9 to 0 on Tuesday to reaffirm one of the basic tenets of democracy: religious tolerance.
Instead of caving in to the angry voices — many but not all of them self-promoting Republican politicians — commissioners paved the way for construction of the mosque and Islamic center. It was not just the right thing to do, it was the only thing to do.
And New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave an inspiring speech yesterday in response to the commission's decision, saying
Of course, it is fair to ask the organizers of the mosque to show some special sensitivity to the situation – and in fact, their plan envisions reaching beyond their walls and building an interfaith community. By doing so, it is my hope that the mosque will help to bring our City even closer together and help repudiate the false and repugnant idea that the attacks of 9/11 were in any way consistent with Islam. Muslims are as much a part of our City and our country as the people of any faith and they are as welcome to worship in Lower Manhattan as any other group. In fact, they have been worshiping at the site for the better part of a year, as is their right….
Political controversies come and go, but our values and our traditions endure – and there is no neighborhood in this City that is off limits to God's love and mercy, as the religious leaders here with us today can attest.
The contrast between this embrace of America's highest ideals and the Right's pandering to our society's most shameful instincts could hardly be more stark.


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- A plan for a job, career path or at least some type of productivity (possibly work or school) to stay busy and contribute to society.
- A good, drug-free group to associate with for support. This could include family, people at work, athletics, church, community clubs, or other organizations. A place where someone can feel as though they are busy.
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When someone enrolls in a private drug rehab facility, part of the program includes figuring out how to handle high-risk situations that would otherwise leave the patient vulnerable to a relapse. However, as most people can imagine, practicing these situations in a treatment facility, surrounded by staff and in a supportive setting, is quite a bit different from encountering the same situation in the real world. That is why these skills are not only taught while enrolled in the program, but also honed during aftercare. During aftercare meetings the patient can learn from fellow participants, talk about strategies for dealing with real-world problems and talk about experiences they may have had. As the individual progresses through the stages and becomes keenly aware of problems they may face, they start to learn how to:
- Manage emotions research published in Alcohol Research & Health demonstrated that emotions could make a person vulnerable to drinking and using illicit substances. This includes negative emotions (something most people would assume) but includes positive emotions as well. Emotions may increase the risk for relapse, it is important to learn how to manage them.
- Handle social situations Even though many people assume it would be easy enough to avoid alcohol or drugs, it may be more difficult. While no longer hanging out with friends who use drugs seems logical, what happens at a birthday party or when the person goes out to dinner? There is likely to be alcohol. It is important to learn how to deal with social situations where the person may feel pressured or inclined to relapse.
- Find friendships and activities Many people that struggled with addiction find that they suddenly have a great deal of free time. They may also find that people that they considered friends were merely acquaintances that the patient hung out with because of his or her addiction. It is important to find activities and friendships that support the sober lifestyle.
- Find work and housing It is important to transition from a program into the real world. Both housing and work can help with that.
- Prevent further problems Sometimes a person has a moment of weakness and has a single drink. It is important that these small problems do not backslide into larger incidents. A single drink can be a mistake, but it may also be the trigger for long-term relapse. The patient needs to understand the difference. When a person builds a support system, it can help them recover from a temporary slip if they do have one.
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MARSHALL COUNTY, OK - A topic not discussed in the open forum at the Marshall County legislative breakfast was Ardmore's hopes for a branch university campus.
That bill has been hotly debated this session, but managed to pass the Senate and is now pending in conference committee.
"I have grave concerns about it, especially as it relates to Murray College. And like I said the bill passed over my objections and we'll see what happens"
Senator Gumm represents District 6, which does not include Ardmore.
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A man charged last week with sexually assaulting two teen girls had served as bishop of a Menifee Mormon church the victims attended, authorities said Monday, June 3.
Todd Mitchell Edwards, 48, of Murrieta, was arrested May 28 and charged with three felonies —– sexual battery, sexual penetration with a foreign object and witness intimidation, authorities said.
He pleaded not guilty to all charges Friday in Riverside Superior Court and was being held at Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside with bail set at $65,000, jail and court records show.
Edwards was bishop of the Menifee Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
John Hall, a spokesman for the Riverside County district attorney's office, said the victims attended Edwards' church.
George Kramer, a spokesman for the Menifee Stake of the LDS church, said Edwards was removed from his position in the church when the allegations against him came to light. Kramer could not immediately provide the dates Edwards served as bishop.
"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has zero tolerance for abuse of any kind," Kramer said in a written statement. "Anyone who abuses a child is rightfully subject to both criminal prosecution and formal Church discipline."
Allegations against Edwards were reported to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department in December, said Sgt. Glenn Williams. He said the assaults occurred in remote areas in Menifee but declined to elaborate. One case occurred in November 2006 when the girl was 16. The other was in February 2012 with another teen girl, he said. Edwards was friends with the families of both girls, Williams said.
Investigators identified a possible third victim but the statute of limitations on filing criminal charges had run out on that case, he said. Details about the date of that incident were not available Monday.
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Canadian basketball phenom Andrew Wiggins won't be playing for the junior men's national team this summer.
Wiggins, the early frontrunner to go No. 1 overall in next summer's NBA draft, was a member of the national team in 2010 and 2012 but this time has decided to focus on his upcoming freshman season at the University of Kansas. His recent choice of U.S. college was the subject of unprecedented media speculation.
"At 18 years old, Andrew has a long basketball career ahead of him. Andrew's decision to prepare himself this summer for the upcoming season is a decision we acknowledge," said Rowan Barrett, executive vice-president and assistant general manager of Canada Basketball's senior men's program. "Our team will miss Andrew this summer, but we remain focused on Andrew's long-term development and our organizational goals for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and beyond."
The junior men's team began training camp Sunday under coach Roy Rana and will play a Red and White game at Ryerson University on Tuesday night.


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I feel for you. My machine broke a couple of months ago and a friend lent me her machine. It skipped stitches. Not so completely horrible if all you're doing is piecing, but I was trying to quilt my sister's quilt. Good luck getting it fixed!ReplyDelete
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School starts slowly. The first few days are half days; in the afternoon are appointments for the teachers to do beginning-of-the-year testing with each child individually. I've never heard of another school that does it this way. But maybe I'm not a very good listener.
The nervous energy comes home with Noah at noon. It spins off him and slaps the walls of house repeatedly. All afternoon. Sometimes, the reverberation collides with Mattias or Trixie. I find myself issuing time outs on top of Times Outs! Even though the time outs are obviously not working. "Be gentle! Slow down! Think about what you are doing!" Lately, I find it most effective to take Noah aside, ensure eye contact at eye level, and appeal to his sense of greatness. "Maybe you see other kids doing that, but that doesn't mean you should do it, too. I want you to be a loving, caring person. I want you to take care of other people, for your whole life. How can you do that if you aren't practicing now, at home, with your brother and sister?"
Until I hear otherwise, I choose to believe that the kids save their most angelic behavior for other adults and keep The Rest for me, the person with whom they are most comfortable. It's an HONOR, I try to convince myself, eyebrows raised. Well, at least this way, I can see IT, know IT, address IT. Now is my chance, I think, while I still have influence.


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- Broncos notes: Tracy Porter returns for Denver, but not for long
- Denver defense too much for Browns; McCoy grateful he wasn't knocked out
- Broncos Manning, Thomas, Decker too tough, too tall for Browns defense
- Von Miller sets Broncos' single-season sack record in second NFL year
- Peyton Manning, Broncos streak past Cleveland with AFC No. 1 seed in sight
- Paige: Denver Broncos are winging their way to a super season
- Dec 22:
- Chris Harris provides big bang for Broncos' free-agent bucks
Given their remaining schedule, the Minnesota Vikings will likely miss the playoffs. And if they do fall short, all this racket about Adrian Peterson for MVP must be silenced.
"It's either Peyton or Adrian," said Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas. "But if the Vikings don't make the playoffs, then it has to be Peyton."
Peyton Manning put the Broncos into the playoffs weeks ago and was seemingly the slam-dunk choice for league MVP until Peterson started going Pop Warner on NFL defenses. The superstar running back leads the NFL in rushing by a large margin and with enough rushing yards to name a war — 1812.
But a player from a team that misses the playoffs cannot be the league's most valuable player. To wit: How valuable can he be?
It would be like the NBA awarding its MVP to the league's leading scorer. George Gervin was never the MVP when he won three consecutive scoring titles in 1977-78, 1978-79 and 1979-80. The MVPs those seasons were Bill Walton, Moses Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Had the NFL season ended before Sunday's games, the Vikings would have made the playoffs and Peterson most likely would have rode enough momentum to his first MVP award. Minnesota has the final No. 6 playoff seed with an 8-6 record and holds tiebreakers against Chicago, Dallas and the New York Giants. But there are two games left in this season and there's a good chance the Vikings will lose both. They are big underdogs Sunday at Houston, where the Texans must win to clinch the AFC's No. 1 playoff seed. Minnesota then will host the Green Bay Packers in the finale. The Packers may need to win that game to overtake San Francisco for the NFC's No. 2 playoff seed, which brings a first-round bye and second-round home game.
Tell you what, if the Vikings make the playoffs and Peterson gets the final 294 yards needed to break Eric Dickerson's NFL season record of 2,105, he not only will receive the MVP, he will deserve it.
But I think Peterson will be lucky to get 50 yards Sunday against Houston. And if the Vikings finish 8-8, Peterson should get as many MVP votes as Chris Johnson did in 2009 when the Tennessee tailback rushed for 2,006 yards: zero.
In fact, I think Manning's primary MVP competition should be New England quarterback Tom Brady. Not only does Brady have a better TD-interception performance than Manning (30 and six vs. 31 and 10), and is throwing for more yards (305 per game vs. 287), New England beat the Broncos head to head.
But Brady seems to be a distant third in the MVP discussion, apparently because he doesn't have the comeback-from-devastating- injury boost.
"Adrian Peterson is balling now," said Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno. "But the MVP should be Peyton. You've got to go with the quarterback."
Moreno and Thomas are biased, of course, but similar arguments would be stated by the objective. It's nothing but water-cooler stuff anyway. One thing about individual NFL awards: They don't carry the same weight as, say, baseball awards.
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Records and awards are dignified in baseball because of its 162-game season marathon. The NFL is all about the Super Bowl. I couldn't tell you who was the NFL coach of the year last season (Google told me it was San Francisco's Jim Harbaugh), but I do know it was the Tom Coughlin-led Giants who won the Super Bowl.
Manning didn't come back from four neck surgeries at 36 years old to win a fifth MVP. He came back to win a second Super Bowl.
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Colin Kaepernick, QB, 49ers
When: 6:20 p.m. MST on Sunday night, as the 49ers play at Seattle in an NFC West showdown.
What's up: Kaepernick has replaced Robert Griffin III and Andrew Luck as the NFL's most exciting young quarterback. He had a four-touchdown passing game at New England in a prime-time upset Sunday that gave the Broncos an opportunity to grab the AFC's No. 2 playoff seed.
Background: Kaepernick was raised in the central California town of Turlock. At 6-foot-5 and 170 pounds as a high school senior, he was considered a better pitcher than quarterback. But he accepted his lone college football scholarship offer to Nevada. The Chicago Cubs drafted him in the 43rd round in 2009, but by then he was a redshirt junior quarterback with Nevada. Operating the pistol offense (which is only halfway back from center as the shotgun) at Nevada, Kaepernick passed for 2,000 yards and rushed for 1,000 yards in each of his final two seasons with the Wolf Pack.
Klis' take: Jim Harbaugh had just taken the 49ers' head coaching job in January 2011 after leading Luck's Stanford Cardinal to an Orange Bowl victory over West Virginia. At the NFL scouting combine a month later, Harbaugh set his sights on Kaepernick, watching extensive film on the lanky, multitalented athlete. Even though incumbent 49ers quarterback Alex Smith had done nothing to lose the starting job, it was clear to most that he wasn't good enough to win a playoff game by himself. Kaepernick might implode in the playoffs, but as he proved last Sunday in New England, he has the skills that can carry a team all the way to a victory in New Orleans.
1. Redskins: Shanny is 5-0 since his concession speech. The past two wins were led by backup QB Kirk Cousins.
2. Panthers: DeAngelo Williams in past two wins: 39 carries, 149 yards; four catches, 107 yards, two TDs.
3. Vikings: Team is ranked last in passing, but tailback Adrian Peterson ranks off the charts in rushing. An astounding 1,313 yards in his last eight games, 164.1 per.
1. Ravens: Joe Flacco's contract is up, and he will command at least $16 million a year for five years. Would you pay him?
2. Bears: Jay Cutler ranks 26th with 202 yards passing per game (17 touchdowns, 14 interceptions).
3. Steelers: 0-2 since Big Ben's return. Top rusher the past two games had 30 yards (Redman) and 32 (Dwyer).


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THE EDITOR, Sir:The absence of classroom teachers, leaving students unsupervised and using volunteers from parent groups in certain schools to act as substitute teachers is unacceptable.
Storm in a teacup, Mr Thwaites
THE EDITOR, Sir:I have seen where the goodly minister of education, Mr Ronald Thwaites, is going to seek parliamentary intervention to stop the recruitment of high-school athletes by 'brand-name' high schools.
Parents must get more involved in kids' schooling
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Saint Casimir, son of the king of Poland, was born in 1458. He practiced the Christian virtues with special regard to chastity and kindness to the poor and was zealous in the faith, particularly in his devotion to the holy eucharist and the Virgin Mary. Casimir died of consumption in 1484.1
Saint Casimir Jagiellon (October 3, 1458 – March 4, 1484), was a Polish-Lithuanian prince from the Jagiellon dynasty who became a patron saint of Poland, Lithuania, and youth.
St. Casimir was the grandson of Jogaila and was the second son of king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Casimir IV and Queen Elisabeth of Austria. His grandfather was Albert II Habsburg, king of Bohemia, king of Hungary, and "King of the Romans" in the Holy Roman Empire.
From the age of nine, St. Casimir received his education from Fr. Jan D?ugosz and Filippo Buonaccorsi (also known as Filip Callimachus). When Casimir was thirteen he was offered the throne of Hungary by factions discontented with king Mattias Corvinus. Casimir, who was eager to defend the Cross against the Turks, accepted the call and went to Hungary to receive the crown. His uncle W?adys?aw III, king of Poland and Hungary, had earlier been killed in battle at Varna in 1444. Casimir was unsuccessful in his undertaking and returned as a fugitive. He again became the pupil of Fr. D?ugosz in 1475. His father, King Casimir IV, had initiated him well into public affairs and when his brother W?adys?aw, ascended to the Bohemian throne, Casimir became heir-apparent to the throne of Poland. In 1479, the king went to Lithuania for five years, and Casimir was left in charge of Poland. From 1481-1483 he administered the state with great prudence and justice. His father tried to arrange a marriage with a daughter of Emperor Frederick III, but Casimir preferred to remain single. Weakened by excessive fasting, he developed severe lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. On a journey to Lithuania in 1484, he died at Hrodna, Belarus. His remains were interred in Vilnius, Grand Duchy of Lithuania. There is a Chapel of Saint Casimir in Vilnius Cathedral where his remains rest.
St. Casimir lived and reigned with great dignity and possessed great charm and character. Several miracles are ascribed to him. He was canonized by Pope Adrian VI in 1522 and is the patron saint of Lithuania. On June 11, 1948, Pope Pius XII named Saint Casimir the special patron of all youth.
The towns of Kv?darna and Nemunaitis in Lithuania have Saint Casimir depicted on their Coat of Arms.1
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Newborn Declared Dead: Found ALIVE in Morgue!Serge Bielanko
Down in Argentina, they are calling her a miracle baby.
In fact, her parents have even named her Luz Milagros, or "Miracle Light". And it's fairly impossible to argue with their choice.
Twelve hours after the young infant girl was born prematurely and declared dead by doctors, nurses and other officials her mother and father, Analia Bouguet and Fabian Veron, ventured down into the hospital morgue to lay their eyes and hands upon their fifth child one last time.
That's where the miracle part comes in.
According to a report on Yahoo! ,Veron spoke at a press conference once this unstoppable story broke.
"The baby was there and they put the little casket on a stretcher. We looked for a bar to pry it open," he recounted. "My wife looked and uncovered it slowly. She saw the little hand and then uncovered the face. That's when it let the first little cry out."
There are many emotions listed in the dictionar, a galaxy of feeling and reaction we can pin to nearly any sort of situation we encounter on our journey through this life. But, I will be damned if I can find the words to describe what these two mourning parents must have felt the other day when all of this went down.
What do you feel half a day after you have lost a baby, after you have been wrestling with grief and burden and the deepest kinds of saddness, only to suddenly be thrust back into the land of hope?
Was it elation? Or panic? Were they overjoyed right away or did they feel touched by the supernatural?
Did it seem like a ghostly encounter in that instant…or were they pummeled by an avalanche of happiness?
As of this morning, little Luz Milagros is still being listed in critical condition, but according to the Yahoo! report, she is also improving at a satisfactory rate. Jose Luis Meirino, the hospital director where the baby was delivered told Argentina's Clarin newspaper, "The baby was attended to by obstetricians, gynecologists and a neonatologist. They all reached the same conclusion, that this girl was stillborn."
Luz Milagros' mother has indicated that she will pursue a medical malpractice suit.
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Things to Talk About Before You Begin
Before you have your
group start making inclinometers, we suggest you show them an inclinometer,
if you've made one, and talk a little bit about it. Tell them that the
inclinometer is a tool that lets them measure the height of something
too tall to measure directly.
To make an inclinometer,
follow the directions on Making Your
Inclinometer. You can photocopy these instructions for your group
or explain the steps one by one while members of your group follow your
If one person finishes
before the others, we suggest you ask him or her to help people who are
working more slowly.
When you demonstrate
how to use the inclinometer, be sure to look through the end of the tube
that sticks out from the card. Otherwise, the weight will swing back and
tap you in the face, amusing all the people in your group. You can either
look through the tube or place the tube on your cheek and sight along
the top of the tube.
The angle a person
reads on the inclinometer depends partly on how far the person is from
the object he or she is measuring. To make sure people understand this,
you might want to have two people sight on the same tall objectwith
one person standing several feet closer to it than the other. The person
whos closer will get a larger angle. Calculating the height of an
object requires knowing both the angle and the distance to the object.
We suggest that people
work with partners. One person sights on the object being measured while
the other person reads the angle.
We also describe how
to read the angle without a partner. Pinch the string against the card
to hold it in place. This takes a little practice. Be sure everyone tries
this method. They'll need it if they use their inclinometers to measure
the height of a rocket's flight.
Have the whole group
stand the same distance from a tall object, sight on the top of the object,
and read the angle using one of the two methods described above. Have
everyone compare their angles.
If people are standing
at different distances from the object, they will get different readings.
If people are the same distance from the object, there will still be slight
variations among the readingsbut they should be within 5 or 10 degrees
of each other. Its normal to have some variationthats
what a scientist would call experimental error. (In the Bottle Blast-Off! activity, we suggest that you have three people measure
the height of each rocket's flight. By averaging the readings of three
people, you'll get a more accurate result.)
On the Height Calculator
Grid, people will draw a triangle that's exactly the same shape as the
same triangle out in the world.
Suppose one of the
people in your group measured a flagpole and drew a diagram like this
one. At the lower left corner of the triangle is the measurer's eye. At
the top corner of the triangle is the top of the pole. At the third corner
is part of the flagpole thats at the measurer's eye level.
The triangle on the
diagram is the same shape as the triangle in the world because the angles
of these two triangles are exactly the same.
The second angle that
is the same in both triangles is the 90-degree angle formed by the intersection
of the vertical and horizontal lines. In this case, thats the vertical
line of the flagpole and the horizontal line that marks the measurers
eye level.
If two triangles have
two angles that are the same, then these triangles are exactly the same
shape. If a side on the little triangle is half as big as the same side
on the big triangle, then the other sides of the little triangle must
be half as big as the corresponding sides of the big triangle.
The triangle on the
diagram is a scaled-down version of the triangle in the world. How much
smaller is the triangle in the diagram? The side of each square on the
grid paper represents 100 cm in the real world. The squares on the grid
are about 1 cm tall, so the diagram is about 100 times smaller than the
triangle in the world. By drawing a triangle that's exactly the same shape
as the triangle in the real world, people can measure something indirectly
that they can't easily measure with a ruler.
When people use their drawings to find the heights of objects, remind them to count the height of each square as 100 cm. You should also point out that the horizontal line on the bottom of the grid represents the eye level of the measurer. To find the real height of an object, people need to add the height of their eye level to the height above eye level they got from the grid drawing.
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