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Section 4.11 - Lunar Development< Space Transport and Engineering Methods
We developed our orbital infrastructure in earlier steps to avoid the overhead of a large gravity well. With that in place we can now go to and from the Lunar surface relatively easily. The advantages of using the Moon are that it is nearby and has very large available resources. So once the cost and difficulty of reaching it are reduced, we want to develop it as the next step.
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We assume that thorough prospecting has been done via orbiting spacecraft and surface rovers before a surface location is selected for mining and development. The Moon has a different origin than the Near Earth Objects and has undergone melting and separation, longer exposure time to the space environment, and extensive mixing from impacts. So its composition will be different than the NEO population. Certain locations are special, such as craters that could contain water ice or places in constant sunlight, both in the polar area.
We deliver a combination of robotic, automated, and remote controlled machines to the Lunar surface ahead of large numbers of humans to start preparing the site. Once mining, chemical processing, and parts production are operating, and you have a stockpile built up, then you can set up habitats and start having people there in larger numbers. You continue to use the machines in parallel to humans, but now they can be controlled locally rather than remotely. Taking this kind of approach will leverage the limited early human population. There might be as many as 50 to 100 machines per person.
We don't know for sure what the best starter kit is for Lunar development, but as an example we will assume an Iron-based economy. Whatever items cannot be made locally at any given time are brought from elsewhere, with an increasing amount of local production as the facilities develop. Metzger et. al. [1] have modeled bootstrapping industry on the Moon, and found 12 tons might be sufficient for a starter kit. Under a fairly wide range of assumptions, that starter kit could grow to a much larger installation.
Below we discuss three items for Lunar development in a general way: a Starter Kit, an Expansion Kit, and bulk delivery of materials from the Moon to Lunar Orbit. These are only some of the industrial infrastructure for the Moon, and does not include other end items you might want to build there.
Starter KitEdit
The starter kit includes the equipment to mine and process Lunar iron, and fabricate and assemble items from it. This gives an immediate return on hardware delivered to the Moon.
Iron MiningEdit
Iron-bearing meteorites have impacted the Lunar surface since Since it's origin. From Apollo mission rock samples we know around 0.5% of the broken material making up the Lunar surface, called the regolith, is bits of iron [2]. It is generally small particles attached to other minerals by melt glass formed during the impacts. This is in addition to 5-15% iron oxides in minerals, but metallic iron does not have to be chemically processed, which avoids complexity in a starter kit. All you need to extract the iron-bearing fraction is a magnet. So you send a solar-powered rover around the nearby lunar surface, sifting out the smaller rock particles, running them past a magnet, and saving the part the magnet attracts. Then carry that back to a central location and dump the collected iron enriched dust. Repeat as many times as needed.
Iron ExtractionEdit
The next machine has a large concentrating dish to focus sunlight, and some manipulator arms to smooth the ground and make slight depressions and grooves for molds. Spread your iron-enriched ore over them and focus the sunlight to melt it. This is essentially sand casting except the metal is melted in place rather than separately in a furnace and then poured into a mold. Iron is relatively dense, and will sink to the bottom of the mold, while the glassy and mineral parts will rise as a slag. It will end up as basic shapes like plates and bars, with slag stuck to it on both sides from melting. To prevent the mold from melting, you can optionally select minerals with high melting points as the mold material. The raw stock will need to be sand-blasted to clean off the slag. Fortunately there is no shortage of mineral grains on the Lunar Surface to do that with. You now have an inventory of iron stock to use for all types of construction and parts making.
Part FabricationEdit
Machine tools such as lathes and milling machines are designed to make metal parts from metal stock. Modern ones are computer controlled, and are themselves mostly made out of metal. Thus an initial set of machines supplied with raw stock can mostly make more machines. Given plans for a wider variety of machines, the initial set can increase in size in complexity. For example a forge press or rolling mill is useful for making some types of metal parts, but those are likely too heavy to bring to the Moon to start with. If you have a supply of raw materials, you can build them locally.
Standard assembly methods like bolts and screws can use robotic equipment. For some items that need to be pressure-tight processes like welding are preferred.
Welding - One process that may work on the Moon, since it is in vacuum, is to use articulating mirrors to direct a beam of concentrated sunlight at various angles. That could heat and weld parts to each other to make larger structures like habitats. If that does not work, then standard methods like vacuum plasma arc welding can be used.
Expansion KitEdit
Power and HeatingEdit
Electric Power - Solar power is abundant on the Lunar surface. While initial power devices will be brought from elsewhere, we can rapidly expand it using our metal supply. Since mass is not an issue for a stationary facility, you can deliver closed cycle generators based on a thermal cycle, and use concentrated sunlight to power it. The mirrors can be made locally of sheet metal with an evaporated coating of aluminum to make them more reflective. Later generators can be made entirely locally, but in the early stages making just reflectors is fairly simple. To supply power during the Lunar night, you can take a container filled with Lunar rock and a little gas for heat transfer, and surround that with more rock and insulation. Vacuum serves as a good insulator by itself. During the day you heat the container with concentrated sunlight, and at night run the thermal generator from the stored heat.
Process Heating - Many industrial processes need heating in some form. For this you can also use concentrated sunlight without an electrical generator.
Chemical ProcessingEdit
Unprocessed Lunar rock can be used for things like shielding, and with melting can be cast into blocks for roads or landing pads, but for other elements and compounds some chemical processing will be needed, such as for reducing oxide minerals to metals and oxygen. Some elements are rare in Lunar rock and would have to be brought from elsewhere.
Some items need protection from daily temperature variations, radiation, meteorites, and human-caused hazards such as lander rocket exhaust. Most of that can be met with a structural metal shelter covered with sufficient Lunar regolith either in natural form or sintered into blocks.
Bulk DeliveryEdit
A catapult system was mentioned earlier in the Space Elevator section as a method to deliver bulk Lunar basalt. This might be used to make high strength fibers for the Lunar Skyhook. With the Skyhook in place a bulk delivery method might not be needed any longer, but we will leave that choice to later analysis. Other bulk materials produced on the Moon could be delivered this way, but as a starting point for design, the calculations below assume basalt is the cargo.
Delivery Orbit - Any object thrown into an orbit from the surface will intersect the launch point one orbit later. Therefore your cargo needs a propulsion unit to raise the orbit, or you need something already in orbit to gather the cargo and change its orbit. One device in orbit is probably less expensive than one on every cargo, so for discussion we will assume a small Skyhook with a catcher device hanging down some number of kilometers from the main core. The offset allows the catapult to throw slightly slower than orbit velocity to match trajectory with the catcher. Missed catches will land somewhere else on the Moon instead of coming back to the launch site and doing damage. An equatorial location allows launching at about 108 minute intervals.
Tip Velocity = 1680 m/s - We don't yet know how much less than orbit velocity we will need, so for simplicity we assume the catapult reaches full orbit velocity.
Cargo Mass = 20 kg - Using basalt fiber as the main cable material, the Lunar Skyhook would have a nominal mass ratio of 20:1. If we want to deliver 10 ton payloads to the Lunar surface, that requires 200 tons of fiber. Assume we lost 1/3 of the basalt to processing, so the starter mass is 300 tons of raw basalt. We allow 10% extra time for maintenance and missed catches, so the average interval is 2 hours per cargo. If the catapult launches 20 kg at a time, that will be 43.5 tons per year if it only operates during the Lunar day, so about 6.9 years to launch enough cargo for the Skyhook construction. Larger versions would work proportionately faster.
Containers - Bulk Lunar rock will not hold together when tossed at high velocity. Two options are iron containers from Lunar rock, and Kevlar bags which are delivered and recycled.
- Iron Containers:
These would be made from local metallic iron, which could be used in orbit as another building material. Iron also gives the opportunity to fine tune the trajectory after the catapult throws the container using magnetic coils. Together with the catcher mechanically positioning itself during the 30-40 minute ballistic trajectory of the cargo, that should ensure a high percentage of catches. Lunar regolith has a density of about 3 g/cc, therefore a container holding 20 kg will have a volume of 7 liters. A cone 13 cm in radius and 42 cm tall has about this volume. The reason for a cone shape is so there can be a single attach point to the catapult. We restrict the container mass to 10% of the cargo, or 2 kg. The load will be constant across the cylinder height, so thickness will vary to maintain the stress, and the bottom will be domed for optimum strength, so we can model the structure as a 50 cm tall cylinder with an area of 4000 cm^2. With iron density of 7.8 g/cc, that gives a wall thickness of 0.64 mm. The cross section area is 5 cm^2, and with a working stress of 125 MPa, allowed load is 62 kN.
- Kevlar Containers:
Kevlar is a high strength material used on Earth. Bags made of Kevlar cloth with a capacity for 7 liters each would be delivered to the Lunar surface. A typical cloth ( 5 oz/yd^2, 650 lb/in strength ) of similar dimensions to the iron container would have a breaking strength of 21 kN, and a working strength of half that. We assume a 6 layer bag (or thicker cloth) to get the required strength, with steel wire mesh woven in for magnetic steering. Estimated mass is 0.45 kg/bag, or 2.25% of the cargo mass. Without an initial Skyhook the bags would need to be delivered with a lander, along with the rest of the catapult system. For 300 tons delivered, that would require 15,000 bags with a mass of 6.75 tons.
Radius = 1000 m - A force of 62 kN on a 22 kg loaded container implies a centrifugal acceleration of 2820 m/^2 ( 288 g's ). With a tip velocity of 1680 m/s, the radius is then 1.0 km, and it makes 0.267 rotations/s ( 16 rpm ). For accuracy and stability, the structure will need to be something like a truss frame, so it will support itself when not rotating. Added tension cables take up the acceleration load at full speed since cables can withstand higher stress.
Arm Mass = 92 kg - We used a working length of 126.4 g-km for carbon fiber in the Space Elevator section. We have an average of 144 g's over 1 km in the centrifuge, which produces a mass ratio of 3.1, and thus a cable mass of 2.1 times the loaded container. The centrifuge should be balanced so it does not move during operation, so a total of 4.2 times the container mass of 22 kg or 92 kg. The balance arm should be shorter, and release un-contained counterweight rock at the same time as the loaded container, but in the opposite direction, and aimed to hit a hill or travel far away ballistically.
Power = 11.5 kW - A 22 kg container moving at 1680 m/s has a kinetic energy of 31 MJ. If the catapult is operated once per 108 minutes when operating, it needs to supply 4.8 kW on average plus losses. This is doubled due to the counterweight rock. Additional energy is needed to spin up and down the rotating arm. If we use two catapults, the energy of one can be transferred to the other rather than wasting it as braking friction. The rotating arm has a mass of 4.2 times the thrown mass, and motor-generator conversions can be about 90% efficient. Thus we lose an additional 42% in energy in conversion losses. So the total average power supply needs to be 11.5 kW, and each motor-generator needs to transfer 30 kW when operating ( 40 hp ). An off the shelf 40 hp electric motor has a mass of 250 kg. Given the Lunar night, we need to double the solar array peak power to 23 KW. Modern arrays have a power level of about 100 W/kg, so the solar array mass would be 230 kg.
System Mass Estimate - Besides the bare rotating arm and power supply, there will need to be anchor structures, robots to collect the raw materials and put it in containers, the fine tuning magnets downrange, and communications and other support equipment. The total for this is unknown until more design work is done. For now, we will assume each of the two centrifuges will mass 1.25 tons total and total support equipment, including power, will be an additional 2.5 tons, for a total of 5 tons. Since the system can launch 168 times per lunar day, that means it can deliver 3.36 tons. Mass payback therefore takes 1.5 lunar days (1.5 Earth months).
- ↑ Preprint obtained from author, Apr 2012, to appear in Journal of Aerospace Engineering
- ↑ Morris, Origins and size distribution of metallic iron particles in the Lunar Regolith, 1980


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The Finance Ministry and Interior Ministry on Sunday formulated a financial aid package for the cash-strapped and rocket-battered town of Sderot.
The government proposal, which would provide Sderot with NIS 22 million ($5.6 million), was signed by Finance Ministry Director General Amram Kalaji, Finance Ministry Deputy Director of Budgeting Reuven Kogan, and Sderot Mayor David Buskila.
Buskila had been hunger striking since Wednesday in order to get the government to support a recovery program for his town, which has been buffeted by rocket attacks for the last decade. The program, signed by Buskila in December 2011, involved cutting the town's budget and accepting the oversight of a Finance Ministry auditor in exchange for millions of shekels in aid. The municipality said it fulfilled its part of the program and that the state pledged to fund the rest, but has yet to follow through.
According to Buskila, the municipality had only received only NIS 7 million out of NIS 70 million in aid money allocated for it under the recovery program.
"It's impossible to ignore the economic situation in Sderot and other outlying towns. I am glad that a solution has been formulated that allows essential funds to be transferred to the town," Interior Minister Eli Yishai said. "I fully hope that these funds will assist Sderot's advancement and provide for the needs of the town and its inhabitants' future."
Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz praised the resolution of Sderot's financial woes and said the government will continue to work to assist the residents of southern Israel financially.


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In its continued push to entice UK viewers with first-run series, Amazon Prime Instant Video has acquired exclusive rights to Halle Berry sci-fi thriller Extant. The CBS Television Studios and Amblin Television co-production will air on the service one day after the U.S. broadcast. It launches Stateside on CBS on July 9 and will be available in the UK on July 10. Subsequent episodes will follow the same pattern. Berry plays an astronaut trying to reconnect with her family when she returns after a year in space. Her experiences lead to events that ultimately change the course of human history. Goran Visnjic, Camryn Manheim, Michael O'Neill, Hiroyuki Sanada, Pierce Gagnon and Grace Gummer also star. Amazon folded its LoveFilm streaming service into its British website in February, combining it with Amazon Prime to effectively create the UK's largest digital TV and film streaming provider. With a catalog of over 15,000 movies and TV episodes, it's the main rival to Netflix. Among its TV offerings are The Walking Dead and Vikings which are also available the day after their U.S. broadcast. Amazon has pledged to increase its investment in original programming, and made good on the promise when it rode to the rescue of cancelled BBC drama Ripper Street earlier this year. The 3rd season commission started shooting last week in Manchester.
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Dear all,
I'm trying to calculate the bootstrapped skewness-adjusted t-stat proposed
by Lyon, Barber, and Tsai (1999), 'Improved Methods for Tests of Long-Run
Abnormal Stock Returns', The Journal of Finance, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp.
165-201, in order to correct the skewness inherent to stocks returns.
However, given that this a user defined function, I'm having some problems
with the programming and I wondering if anyone could give me some ideas of
to solve my problems.
The procedure is the following:
- Draw 1000 bootstrapped resamples from the original sample of size nb=n/4,
ie, 1/4 of the total sample; X is the variable of interest; Xb is the
variable of interest for the bootstrapped sample;
- adjusted t-stat calculated as: sqrt(nb)*(Sb+1/3*Sb^2+1/(6nb)*lambda)
- Sb=(mean(Xb)-mean(X))/std.dev(Xb)
- lambda=sum[(Xb-mean(Xb))^3]/(nb*std.dev(Xb)^3)
I've written the following program
*------ start program ------
cap tempvar drop all
cap program drop _all
cap local drop
cap global drop
sysuse auto,clear
summarize mpg, meanonly
global mu_ar=r(mean)
capture program drop boottstat
program define boottstat, rclass
summarize mpg
local mu_arb=r(mean)
local sd_arb=r(sd)
local n_arb=r(N)
tempvar diff
gen `diff'=(mpg-`mu_arb')^3
summarize `diff'
local sum_diff=r(sum)
local lambda=`sum_diff'/(`n_arb'*`sd_arb'^3)
local sb=(`mu_arb'-`mu_ar')/`sd_arb'
return scalar boottstat =
bootstrap "boottstat" r(boottstat), reps(100) size(18) trace
*------ end program ------
When I run this piece of code, I get the following programs:
- it doesn't run correctly. When it reaches the "local
sb=(`mu_arb'-`mu_ar')/`sd_arb'" line it gives me an error message "invalid
name" preceded with a lot of numbers(2972972972973). These numbers are the
decimal places of the results from `mu_arb'. I don't understand why this
happens. Any ideas? Could it be from the global `mu_ar'? Ive noticed that
the -summarize mpg- after -preserve- also returns the summary of what seems
a tempvar (the name is "__000004") and it already returns the 2972972972973
- I create the new tempvar diff in order to calculate lambda. However, I'm
not sure if Stata is creating this variable based on the subsample or all
the sample. Can anyone clarify this?
- In the bootstrap command I define size as 18 (1/4 of the auto sample).
However, according to the information provided by Stata with the -summarize-
command inside the program, all the statistics mu_arb, n_arb,and sd_arb
seem to use all the sample. Shouldn't Stata restrict the sample since I
define size as 18 and only pass the 18 observations to the program?
Any help anyone can provide is really welcome!
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Red Sox Minor League Roundup: Mickey Pena's perfect day, Jackie Bradley's perfect month
|05.09.12 at 12:03 pm ET
In both 2009 and 2010, Mickey Pena was drafted but did not sign. The left-hander turned down the Nationals when he was selected in the fifth round coming out of high school, and again could not find middle ground with the Padres when they selected him in the 13th round out of San Jacinto Junior College in 2010.
Both the decision to turn down offers to sign and the fact that he was kicked out of the Cape League in 2010 (reportedly due to issues with his host family) led to questions about the young pitcher's makeup off the field. But the Sox (led by former area scout Matt Dorey) did their homework on the pitcher, met with his family and got the sense that with the right structure in a professional environment, any off-the-field makeup concerns could be muted.
Meanwhile, on the field, the team loved his makeup. Pena is somewhat slight — he's listed at 6-foot-2, 175 pounds — and perhaps does not feature the prototypical pitcher's build, something that no doubt impacted his draft stock, but what he showed on the mound suggested a pitcher with obvious promise. Regional cross-checker Tom Allison felt particularly strongly about the left-hander based on his three glimpses of him at San Jac, offering steady, constant reminders in the draft room that the Sox should remain mindful of the possibility of taking the pitcher.
Allison and Dorey saw a pitcher who was fearless in throwing strikes with four pitches (an 89-92 mph fastball, slider, curve and change), had a smooth delivery with easy arm action and a feel for pitching as advanced than perhaps any other pitcher whom the Sox took out of college last year. In short, his on-field mound presence, arsenal and left-handedness made it easy to project Pena as a big leaguer so long as off-field issues (and, as is the caveat for all pitchers, health) did not get in the way. As a sixth-rounder who was willing to sign for a fraction ($85,000) of what he'd been offered the previous two times he'd been drafted, he represented a potentially excellent value.
And the fact that Pena was willing to sign for $85,000 in order to begin his pro career also counted as a plus in terms of his makeup. It showed evident determination to become a professional pitcher and to do everything he could to advance his career.
'I signed so quick just to get out here and start playing pro ball and start working my way up,' Pena explained last summer. 'I've felt that I've been ready since I got out of high school. I think my senior year and then my freshman year in college has been a major setback for me. I don't know where I could have been by now. It was definitely one of the reasons why I came out early.'
The left-hander had a strong performance in Lowell last year, recording a 2.35 ERA while striking out 22 and walking just three in 15 1/3 innings. This year, he has taken it up a notch, with a 1.72 ERA and 29 strikeouts against three walks with Single-A Greenville.
On Tuesday, Pena enjoyed a remarkable performance. He retired all 18 batters he faced, setting in motion the first no-hitter (a combined effort with Hunter Cervenka and Tyler Lockwood) in Greenville Drive franchise history. The 21-year-old struck out seven, walked none and got seven groundball outs.
"Everything was working for me, to be honest — my fastball, changeup, slider (and) curve," he told the Greenville News.
To date, he's been extremely consistent, allowing one or no earned runs in five of his six starts. He is living up to the reports that suggested that he projects as a big leaguer.
— For the second straight start, Ross Ohlendorf struggled with his command. The right-hander, who had walked one batter in each of his first four starts, issued three free passes for the second straight outing, and threw just 48 of 89 pitches (54 percent) for strikes while allowing three runs on five hits (including a homer) and three walks in five-plus innings while taking the loss. He struck out two. On the season, the 29-year-old is now 3-3 with a 4.55 ERA, 20 strikeouts and 10 walks in 31 2/3 innings.
— Jose Iglesias received a day off, though it is worth noting that if the injury to Will Middlebrooks is a concern for the Red Sox, they could make a move to call up the shortstop (just as they did initially when Kevin Youkilis was sidelined with his back stiffness) to protect their infield depth. Iglesias is the only player in the Red Sox minor league system on the 40-man roster who can play either short or third.
— It is an interesting commentary on Ryan Lavarnway's defense that, in his 24th game behind the plate on Tuesday, he finally committed his first error. It is an even more interesting commentary that the error in question was catcher's interference.
That speaks to the uncanny accuracy of Lavarnway's throws. Typically, a backstop can anticipate at least a handful of balls thrown away on stolen base attempts per season. A year ago, for instance, Jarrod Saltalamacchia committed six errors (he has three this year) and Jason Varitek had four. But Lavarnway doesn't throw the ball away, as he has no throwing errors this year, and he committed just two errors in 62 games a year ago. He's also throwing out 31 percent of runners on stolen base attempts (8-of-26), almost in line with his career average of 32 percent.
— On the Rochester side, it merits mention that Deolis Guerra tossed 2 1/3 shutout innings. Guerra was the key prospect whom the Twins acquired in the Johan Santana trade after the 2007 season, at a time when Minnesota chose to trade the left-hander to the Mets rather than the Red Sox. The Twins could have gotten a package that had far more major league impact had they dealt with the Sox (who, at various times, were discussing players such as Jon Lester, Justin Masterson and Jed Lowrie in their offers). Guerra is the only player left in Minnesota from the four-player package whom the Twins got from the Mets. Though now in the bullpen, it is worth noting that the hulking right-hander is now dealing in Triple-A. He's tossed nine scoreless innings with 10 strikeouts and a walk in Triple-A, after a promotion from Double-A, where he allowed one run in 12 2/3 innings while punching out 15 and walking one. So, for the year, he has a 0.42 ERA, 25 strikeouts and two walks in 21 2/3 innings, along with a .149 batting average against. All the same, that's likely little consolation for a Twins team that had a chance to impact its organization for years when dealing Santana, and instead has no better than one potential back-end bullpen arm to show for it.
— Jackie Bradley Jr. did not homer in his first 21 games of the season. And really, that wasn't a big concern for the Red Sox or for Bradley, given that he has a mature plate approach in which he lets the ball get deep and makes solid, all-fields, line-drive contact. The Sox saw the ability to drive the ball on occasion, but the ability to clear the fences is far from a defining element in terms of what he does in the batter's box.
"Certainly, in spring training you saw the ability to turn on the fastball middle-in when he gets it in the right counts," farm director Ben Crockett recently noted. "But primarily, he's a gap-to-gap hitter who has the ability to put his barrel on a lot of different pitches."
That said, Tuesday represented an interesting milestone of sorts for Bradley, since he drilled an opposite-field homer to left. After he did not homer in those first 21 contests, he now has three homers (plus a double) in his last six games. In three plate appearances before Salem's game was suspended (it will be completed this morning), Bradley was 1-for-2 with that homer and a walk.
He's leading all of the minors (and, in fact, all of pro baseball) with a .492 OBP. His .368 average is second in the Carolina League. His .538 slugging mark is fifth. His 1.026 OPS is second.
In spring training, there was some debate on the part of the Red Sox as to whether to assign Bradley to Single-A Greenville or to High-A Salem, the feeling being that there is merit to any player — even one with experience against top college competition like Bradley, who played on back-to-back NCAA championship teams at the University of South Carolina — starting at a lower level while getting his foothold in pro ball. For Bradley, who either would have been playing in Greenville — close to the college where he was something of an icon — or in Salem, Va. — the state where he was born and raised — it didn't matter.
"I didn't really look at it as where am I going to start," said Bradley. "Wherever I was going to start, I didn't want to be there for long."
Now, that might prove to be the case even though he opened the year in Salem. It hasn't happened for a while in the Red Sox system, but advanced college players often move up to Double-A (if not higher) in their first full pro seasons. Jacoby Ellsbury spent half a year in High-A before graduating to Portland in 2006. Dustin Pedroia actually opened his first full pro year in Double-A before advancing to Triple-A by the end of the year.
Bradley is showing all of the signs that he, likewise, will be a player whose performance could dictate a promotion sooner rather than later.
— Before the game was suspended, starter Miguel Celestino was enjoying a dominant outing. In four shutout innings, he allowed just one hit (a double) while striking out two and getting eight groundball outs. Celestino is a big, hard-throwing right-hander who works down in the zone with a powerful fastball that regularly touches the mid-90s. He doesn't get a ton of strikeouts (5.6 per nine innings this year), but he's been stingy with his walks totals (2.2 per nine innings) and home runs allowed (1 in 29 innings), key traits for someone who pitches to contact. He's big (6-foot-6) and durable (he led Sox minor leaguers with 140 2/3 innings), with both a performance track record and stuff to suggest a high likelihood of a future in the big leagues.
— Sean Coyle had an inside-the-park homer. He's now 11-for-35 (.314) in his last nine games.
— Michael Almanzar was 2-for-2 with two doubles. In 86 at-bats, he has nearly matched his home run (2) and doubles (7) totals from a year ago in Salem, when he had two homers and eight doubles in 220 at-bats before a demotion to Greenville.
— Hunter Cervenka struck out five batters in two innings of hitless work behind Pena. Though the left-hander allowed Rome's only baserunner of the day, issuing a leadoff walk in the eighth, he struck out the side in the seventh and, after a sacrifice bunt put a runner on second with one out in the eighth, punched out the next two batters to keep the no-hitter intact. All five of Cervenka's strikeouts were of the swinging variety. Though Cervenka has an 8.59 ERA this year, he has 23 strikeouts (along with 12 walks) in 14 2/3 innings, suggesting interesting stuff if the 22-year-old can ever hone his control.
— Tyler Lockwood struck out two in a perfect ninth inning to complete the no-hitter and earn the save, his second of the year.
— Keury De La Cruz had yet another big game, going 2-for-4 with a homer (5) and a double. The 20-year-old now ranks seventh in the South Atlantic League in average (.351), fifth in slugging (.595) and sixth in OPS (.995) while featuring a .400 OBP.
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I am not sure who this person is that claims they worked for my company. We can provide evidence that we have always paid all of our employees on time, and that all paperwork is provided to them as required by law on their first day of employment.
Since I do not know who this person is or when & how long they claim to have worked for my company, I must assume it is the following female who answered an ad we were running for a driver. She had two interviews with us. The first was in our retail store, the second was a test drive. Both our store and our vehicles have CCTV to protect our customers and staff. At the end of the second interview she was asked "if we hired you, is this a job you see yourself doing" she said "no, but I will do it until something else comes along". She stated that she had been unemployed for several years, and she had to go on interviews to continue to get her benefits. No job was ever offered to this woman with our company, and we went on to hire another applicant.
After the interview, the female in question filed a claim with the state of MN claiming that she worked for my company for one day and we owed her $600 for the interview. After we provided the state of MN with CCTV evidence and written statements, they advised us to pay her the state minimum wage for her time during the second interview. They advised this as it was not the first time this had happened in MN and it was cheaper to do this then go to court.
The state arranged a time for her to come back into the store and fill out the required IRS paperwork and collect her money. She never arrived at this time. After we contacted the state again, she arrived 2 hours late for her scheduled time. The state told us that she had been advised that she had to fill in all of the legal paperwork required by the IRS for us to pay her. She refused and started yelling at our staff and customers who were in the store at the time. She then tried to grab the cash and IRS paperwork from the desk and storm out.
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Families of Pike River miners will hit back today at claims it's too dangerous to recover the remains of their loved ones in a private meeting with officials.
The meeting between families, police, mine rescuers and receivers is set to take place at an undisclosed Christchurch location.
Spokesman for the families Bernie Monk said it was a "long overdue" chance for families to present expert advice on alternative ways to recover the 29 men still inside the Pike River mine.
They would attack official advice showing it is too dangerous to recover the men's bodies, he said.
"This is our first chance to sit around Roy's round table with them. Up to date they've had nothing to do with the families at all.
"The different excuses week after week after week we've been given. It's just weak. It's just pathetic.
"We've had nothing but let down after let down. We have had to pull strings to make this happen."
Mr Monk told TV3 Firstline families wanted more bore holes drilled and were looking at importing robots from the USA to investigate the mine - rather than the "breakdown ones" already in place.
He accused receivers of not being interested in recovering dead from the mine.
"Up to date they've had nothing to do with the families at all as to going in.
"Are the receivers getting in their experts to say it's too dangerous to go down so they can do the quick fire sale and sail away?"
Nicholas Davidson, a lawyer for the families, said they were looking at drilling another entrance into Pike River - either from the surface or around a rock fall obstructing the main tunnel.
He said they were concerned there was no plan to retrieve bodies despite receivers preparing to sell Pike River Coal's remaining assets.
Finding two suspected bodies in footage taken down a borehole had made the families even more determined to find a way into the mine, he said.
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(POCATELLO, ID) — A Pocatello dentist has reached a plea agreement on charges of Medicaid fraud. Carl Holm was indicted in August for allegedly charging clients for Medicaid services that he didn't provide, or that weren't medically necessary. By pleading guilty to on count of Medicaid fraud, all other charges against Holm were dismissed. Officials say Holm will likely spend three years on probation and pay a $10,000 fine.
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Anyways back on point. I felt the need to provide some background information in order to setup what is, I sincerely hope, a future in writing about games, comics, and potentially television. Not necessarily on a career basis, even though I would love that, but I want to start more casually and with no pressure. Ever since I graduated high school in the Spring of 2009, I have been trying to formulate a plan for my future. I always said to myself that I would not risk a foray into gaming/comics journalism, as it seems a field that is particularly hard to break into. I don't know many people, and the depth of my connections are the IGN podcasts that I write into, and I highly doubt those fine folks(except maybe the awesome Joey Esposito) even know my name. That's fine with me. I recently moved away from the town I spent most of my teen life in, and am now living on my own in Portland, OR. I had planned on majoring in English, but halfway through my first term I am finding that I no longer care about critical analysis of dusty old texts, I want to write about the here and now.
I am going to try to post a blog entry at least once a week, hopefully significantly more. I will be writing casual reviews and impressions for games I play, comics I read, and maybe my favorite shows. I have had an idea of a Vita-centric post formulating in my mind the past few weeks, and I think that will be the first blog post I tackle. Thank you to whomever should be reading this, as I don't expect a following or a large audience, but I hope that I can provide useful information that is a valuable use of your time.


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Facebook's roster of ex-Apple talent continues to grow.
(The original version of this post implied that Harper was leaving Apple for Facebook; I was unaware that he'd left Apple a year ago.)
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After at the ceremony »Ljubljana. Green for you." the city of Ljubljana turned on the green light, displayed the European Green Capital 2016 flag, opened a central information point "Point. For you.", started with rich year round program of events and now also officially assumed the title of the greenest capital in Europe. The title was handed down by Bristol, the previous holder of the title European Green Capital, at the ceremony held in Brussels on 9 February 2016.
Ljubljana as the first Central and Southeastern European country is now also officially the holder of the European Green Capital title. For 2016 that is. An official opening ceremony will follow on 10 March 2016 in Ljubljana.
Next year Ljubljana will hand down the prestigious title to the German city of Essen. At the same time in Brussels a panel of twelve independent experts are evaluating the cities competing for the title of European Green Capital 2018. The finalists will be chosen among the city of Arad (Romania), Ghent (Belgium), Nijmegen and 's-Hertogenbosch (both Netherlands), Tallinn (Estonia), Umeå (Sweden) and Warsaw (Poland). The winner will be announced in June in Ljubljana.
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We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.
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Edith Sullivan walked on to the Humboldt State University women's crew team during the fall.
She finishes the year a national champion.
Sullivan, a freshman out of Santa Cruz High, rowed in the third seat on the Lumberjacks' varsity eight team, which won the NCAA Division II title after a stirring rally.
Humboldt State trailed Western Washington -- the seven-time defending champions -- by seven seats at the halfway point of the race, held Sunday in West Windsor, N.J. With 500 meters remaining, the lead was down to two seats, and at 250 meters the Jacks took the lead -- and the win.
Humboldt claimed its first championship with a time of 6 minutes, 48.84 seconds. Western Washington was second in 6:50.45.
Here's how other former Santa Cruz County high school athletes fared last week at the collegiate level:
Amy Schnittger, Chico State junior [Aptos]: Took eighth place in the steeplechase at the NCAA D-I national championships, earning All-American honors in the event.
Nick Howe, UC San Diego senior [Aptos native]: Fell short in his pursuit of a third straight national championship in the javelin, finishing fifth. His throw of 223-11 was 12 feet shorter than that of winner Justin Shirk, a Bloomsburg sophomore. Howe finishes his collegiate career as the school record-holder in the event with a career best throw of 231-3.
Taylor Kientzel, Cal sophomore [Santa Cruz]: Finished in 22nd place in the triple jump at the NCAA West Regionals with a distance of 50-4. He did not qualify for nationals.
Kyle Anderson, Cal Poly senior pitcher [Aptos]: Was named to the All-Big West Conference second team in his final collegiate season. The left-hander went 10-1 with a 3.40 ERA and 61 strikeouts to become the first Mustangs pitcher to log double-digit wins since 2007.
Collin Ferguson, Saint Mary's freshman infielder [Santa Cruz]: Was named to the West Coast Conference all-freshman team. He batted .315 while leading the team with 58 hits. His 16 doubles tied for third all-time in a single season for the Gaels.
Breana Kostreba, Cal freshman outfielder [Aptos]: Went 1-for-2 in the Bears' 2-0 win over Washington that clinched a trip to the College World Series. Cal opens against LSU at 12:30 p.m. today.
With the end of the school year, this will be the last County Connections article until the fall.


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CONCORD, N.C. – After three consecutive top- 10 finishes, Aric Almirola and the No. 43 team are one of the most successful teams in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series right now. This weekend, they are hoping to extend their streak with the colors and branding of Gwaltney on the high-banks of Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway. The race will mark Gwaltney's first of two races this season. Almirola will make his seventh start at Talladega this weekend. He posted his best Sprint Cup superspeedway finish of 12th during the spring race at Talladega last season. At the 2.66-mile track, Almirola posted two runner-up finishes in the truck series in 2009 and 2010 and a ninth-place finish in the Nationwide series in 2011. Comments from Gwaltney Ford Fusion Driver Aric Almirola: "Talladega is a bit of a crapshoot. You go in knowing you of a one in 43 chance of winning the race, but also have a one in 43 chance of ending up on your roof and done for the day. Roush Yates has built a great engine package for this race and Todd (Parrott) and the guys worked on some aero with the chassis since Daytona too. I feel like we will have good speed this weekend. "This will be Gwaltney's first race with us this season, so hopefully we can continue our top-10 streak and give them a good showing this weekend. We have some really good momentum now. I think last week at Richmond really proved how good our team is. We took an okay car, worked on it all race, and by the end we had a top-10 finish. We're right in the thick of it for a Chase position. Although some think it's still early for that, maybe, but every race is important. Right now, we're taking advantage of all of them." Comments from Gwaltney Ford Fusion Crew Chief Todd Parrott: "We weren't too happy with our car in Daytona, so we came back and built a new chassis. I am very proud of the season we put together so far. If we keep putting ourselves in position for top-10 and keep improving, we'll start posting top-fives and really be in contention to win each week. That's our goal. Talladega is difficult because you really don't know what you are going to get until the last few laps. We just have to give Aric a fast car and try to be in the right place at the right time at the end." Chassis History: The No. 43 team has prepared chassis No. 780 for Talladega. The team built chassis No. 780 this season.
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Passover Recipe: How To Cook Like a Turk
There's a good reason we only eat Kalli'ah once a year. The Turkish inspired beef, eggs and potato dish is not for the faint of heart. Seriously, if you have high cholesterol, just stop reading now. But if you enjoy the succulent rich taste of confit, this is the perfect Passover dish for you.
This recipe was handed down to me by my husband's family. Israelis since long before Israel was a democratic nation, his ancestors originally emigrated from Turkey but identify their cultural heritage as Nashdidanim — a Jewish group from the secluded mountainous boarders of Turkey, Iran, and Azerbaijan that dates back to the Babylonian exile. Many of their food customs resemble those of the Turks and Kurds with dishes that include stuffed grape leaves known as dolma and meat filled kubbe dumplings poached in soup or served fried. Kalli'ah is one of the community's signature Passover dishes.
The word Kall'iah refers to the method of cooking the meat in Aramaic — it is fried in rendered fat or oil, also known as confit. The technique preserves meat, making it an excellent option for a long holiday like Passover. According to the website of the Nashdidan community, "Kalli'ah should be eaten with wet matza, alleviating the need for utensils," another plus when faced with limited kosher for Passover dishes.
The ingredient amounts for the recipe are enough to sever upwards of 30-40 people but the dish is meant to be divided up into multiple meals over the course of a week. It is alos easily divided or frozen. The leftover beef is excellent when added to stews or omelets. Store the beef in an airtight nonreactive container, preferably a glass jar, in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.
Safta Naomi's Beef Kalli'ah
10-12 pounds beef shoulder, cubed
½ pound reserved beef fat, cut into cubes
1 teaspoon salt 11 hard boiled eggs
3 pounds potatoes
1 bunch mint
salt and pepper to taste
1) Place the beef fat cubes in a large heavy stock-pot or a Dutch oven and cook on low-medium heat for 20-25 minutes until most of the fat has rendered into a liquid. Scoop out the remaining crispy brown bits with a slotted spoon, discard.
2) Add the beef cubes and teaspoon of salt to the rendered fat and cook on medium heat for 1 ½ to 2 hours, covered, stirring occasionally until beef is tender enough to be easily broken up with a spoon. Allow beef to cool in the pot until it is cool enough to handle. Transfer to a nonreactive airtight container, preferably a glass jar.
3) While the beef is cooking, peel and cut the potatoes into 16ths. Place in a large stock-pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil and cook for 10-15 minutes or until fork tender but not falling apart. Drain, cool, and store in an airtight container.
4) When ready to serve, heat a large skillet over medium heat. Add one cup of the cooked beef* to the skillet and break it up with a wooden spoon until beef resembles threads. Add 1 cup of potatoes, three chopped hard-boiled eggs, and one tablespoon freshly chopped mint. Cook until heated through, 8-10 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste.
5) Reserve the remaining beef, eggs, potatoes and mint for a future meal.
*This amount serves approximately four people. For a larger portion, simply double or triple the amounts.
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No foul play suspected in death of N.J. student in Jerusalem
LAKEWOOD — Family, friends and neighbors mourned the loss of a township man who went missing while hiking last week in Jerusalem and was found dead Thursday after a frantic six-day search that brought together a community in purpose and later in grief.
Aharon Sofer, 23, was found in the Jerusalem Forest, and authorities have said his death appears to have been an accident. His disappearance shook the tightknit Orthodox Jewish community in Lakewood, which took up collections, prayed and supported the family, while New Jersey politicians rallied top U.S. officials for help.
The family will bury Sofer tonight in Israel, and community members were planning to broadcast the service by audio at 21 Fourth St. in Lakewood around 2 this morning. A video feed was to be available for family and close friends.
"It's very sad," said Albert Akerman, the deputy mayor of Lakewood. "The family is a very upstanding family and they're hard-working. They wouldn't hurt a soul. Everybody really feels for them and people are walking around in mourning for them."
Sofer, like many of his peers in Lakewood, went to Israel to study at a yeshiva, a Jewish religious school. On an Aug. 22 outing, his friend lost sight of him as they hiked down a ravine, and reported him missing to police.
The disappearance set off a wide search, with hundreds of volunteers, aided by police dogs and helicopters, combing the 400-acre forest that is surrounded by both Jewish and Palestinian neighborhoods.
Sofer's parents flew to Israel from New Jersey to assist in the efforts to locate their son, who is one of 10 children. In a video posted online, they pleaded tearfully for his safe return and announced a $28,000 reward for information leading to his whereabouts.
New Jersey politicians held a news conference Tuesday in Lakewood to show support and call for U.S. and Israeli officials to step up the efforts to find Sofer.
Investigators said they were considering all possibilities, including that Sofer might have been the target of a politically motivated attack or abduction because of the fighting between Israel and Gaza militants. The Jerusalem Forest is where the burned corpse of a Palestinian teenager was found last month, after an apparent revenge attack for the slayings of three Israeli students three weeks earlier.
The family believes the death was accidental based on what authorities have told them, said the deputy mayor and Councilman Meir Lichtenstein, who both spoke with the family.
Sofer was found at the bottom of a cliff and it appears he fell, Akerman said. "They're assuming it's not foul play as of now," he said.
As days passed, Sofer's disappearance gained national attention, media coverage, and offers of assistance. Israeli volunteers put up posters and helped in search and rescue. The family despaired with each passing day but still held on to the hope that he'd be found alive.
"There was hope all along until his body was found," Lichtenstein said.
In Lakewood, businesses donated meals and services to the family while others helped to watch young children, said Ben Davidowitz, a volunteer who is helping with the assistance effort. They also held vigils to pray for Sofer and his family.
Davidowitz coordinated fundraising on behalf of the Chesed of Lakewood, a charitable organization, to benefit the family. By Thursday afternoon, some 400 people had donated more than $51,000 through a website that will be used to cover the costs of the search effort.
"The outpouring has been tremendous," Davidowitz said. "Monetarily, emotionally, physically, it's all been overwhelming."
He said the Sofer family is well known and respected in Lakewood's large ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.
"Everyone knows the Sofer family as being wonderful and caring, and this is just something that has hit home so hard," he said.
The family will hold shiva, a traditional seven-day mourning period, next week in Lakewood, Lichtenstein said.
Statements of condolence were issued from politicians throughout New Jersey, including Governor Christie, U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, state Sen. Robert Singer and Assemblymen Sean Kean and David Rible.
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Sister Elizabeth Henry Bellmer, SND, saved many a tree on Trinity's campus, long before the Green Movement was fashionable. Our remarkable landscape, originally designed by Olmstead, includes an astonishing variety of chestnut, beech, magnolia, pine, maple and other beautiful trees. But over the years, as building and maintenance needs evolved, the workers would occasionally think that progress required removing a tree. Not on Sr. Elizabeth's campus! This renowned botanist could shut down the chainsaws, saving, among others, an elegant tall evergreen near the library that was endangered for a while because it blocked a security light. Move the light, don't destroy the tree! She was right, of course, and the tree still lives, albeit with a chainsaw scar.
Many alumnae, faculty and friends of Sr. Elizabeth are recalling this remarkable scientist, colleague, teacher and sister today. She died earlier this week after a long life devoted to her faith, her community in the Sisters of Notre Dame, and her profession as a biologist working in the field of botany. She was a member of Trinity's faculty from 1959 through her retirement in 1995. She continued to live in Trinity's convent until several years ago when she moved to the SND retirement community. Read more about her professional work through this link to the UNC Herbarium website.
Sr. Elizabeth's former students are writing in with their memories of her. Following are just a few of their messages:
"Sister Elizabeth Henry was my inspiration. She was a fabulous teacher and scientist… I remember thinking that if she loved this work so much and had such a wonderful time with her chosen field there had to be somthing to this!!! I have been a Genetics Professor for the last 32 years… I have been lucky to have loved my work and I am still having a great adventure in my work. Sister Elizabeth Henry is in my scientist's soul ….My inspiration will live on. She had many many loving daughters." AnnMarie Catanzaro DiLorenzo, Ph.D, Class of 1964, Professor of Biology and Molecular Biology, Montclair State University
"Sr. Elizabeth Henry was one of the kindest, wisest, most supportive teachers I have ever known. During my senior year at TC (1963-4) I was an unregistered student in her class Genetics, Evolution and Ecology… She came to our wedding in the Trinity Chapel in 1976; sadly, that was the last time I saw her. I wish I could be there to join in celebrating her life and her contribution to biology at Trinity." Maura Geens Tyrrell, Ph.D., Class of 1964, Professor of Biology, Stonehill College
"I took many of Sr. Elizabeth's classes and also worked for her as a lab assistant. She was an amazing professor and an amazing person – she will be dearly missed." Isabel Galvan, Class of 1993
"Sr. Elizabeth… was a wonderful person and I will always remember her friendly demeanor and her passion for Botany." Rachel Ferrufino, Class of 1992
"Please forward my condolences to the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur for the loss of their beloved Sister Elizabeth Henry Bellmer. I was a biology major, Class of '67. I was inspired by Sister Elizabeth Henry to become a biology teacher and researcher. I am very sad to hear of her passing. Her kind and generous spirit and her caring personality meant a lot to me." Sandra Pierson, Class of 1967
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THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. - Anthony Machado, 20, was arrested in connection to three residential burglaries and a car theft. One burglary occurred in Indian Wells, while the other two burglaries and the car theft happened in Thousand Palms.
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