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Article 2 of 6 on Studying the Moon
Observing Along the T: Fastest way to learn Features & Crater Class
Michael Packer
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"Chance sunlight will find a fortune cookie filled with gold."
This witticism translates into a great night of observing if you read the last article. However, nightly observing along the terminator is by far the most economical technique for learning the moon and its wealth of geological features. This two part article examines craters first and then focuses on the remaining landscape. A few tips are also strewn in:
Tip 1: Observing lunar phases can be hard to nail down for the first time. You find a feature along the terminator (T) worth remembering, next month you look for it at the same phase (e.g. 1 day after 1st quarter), but it doesn't look the same or it's gone. The problem is not that your observation was a lucky or a rare event; you just needed to look for it 2 months later. Here's what's going on. A lunar month, from new moon to the next new moon, is about 29½ days and it turns out that the fraction ½ day is the issue. Say you saw the feature at 10pm. So 29½ days later you would need to look for the feature at 10am to be at the same phase. Of course that's the daytime so the best you can do is look hours earlier or later when it's dark. And doing that guarantees that you wont see the feature under the same light and phase. But if you wait 2 months, you'll find things are back pretty much the way you saw them at 10pm 2 months earlier, 1 day after 1st quarter. If you want to see the feature exactly as you saw it than you will need to account for libration (See Article 5 of 6) by noting the solar inclination and colongitude using VLA. With this data, you can search for this terminator position on later dates with VMA or other astronomy tools. Rükl's atlas also has tables in the back.
above is part of the reason why there's no field guide that faithfully represents
what you're seeing along the T. And, over the course of a day/hour,
observations at the moons equatorial center will see the T move about
360km/15km. The latter is the width of a plethora of central peaks and small
craters. All this made for a fairly long observing curve figuring out what
you're seeing let alone creating an observing plan. The development of virtual
moon software change this situation overnight.
Tip 2: Without a doubt, the fastest way to get up to speed on what you're seeing through the eyepiece is to have software like VLA running next to your scope. You can then quickly identify the craters you're observing in high relief – something that is not swiftly done even for the seasoned observer. Also, the software's ability to help observations at the limbs, particularly the poles, cannot be understated.
Lastly, if you're an amateur astronomer who's just turned the telescope to the the moon, you will discover that there's no field book that conveniently shows data that you've come to expect from deep sky catalogues (in this case crater size, age and classification). VMA provides a decent bit of this data for craters, rilles et cetera. If you want a handy sortable catalogue, you can open the VMA file (semicolon separated) "Nearside_Named_UK.csv" found in the Database folder using a spreadsheet. One can then sort craters or features by age, size and class – very informative!
Crater Morphology: (Skip ahead to Craters) Observing along the T brings out crater structure fantastically - from the kenematics of impact to the erosion process that begins seconds afterword. For instance, if you examine small craters whose floors are ½ cast in shadow, you can deduce how simple or complex the shape of the crater is. And the shape properties of craters relates to impact energy. If the half shadow cast on the floor looks oval (a. in the below figure)
Most information in this section is from Planetary Science: A Lunar Perspective
and the crater is < 20 km, the crater is classed as simple parabollic or simply bowl-shaped and lowest on the structure scale. If the half shadow casts on the floor looks truncated/flat, this indicates a simple crater with a little more structure (b. in above figure). In this case the steeper bowl walls succumbed to gravity leaving a partially filled floor with rim debris and melt rock. This is by far the most common crater you will see in the 10-20 km range. A good example is 15km Hortensius, in between Kepler and Reinhold. And there is a field of volcanic domes to the north! For this level of detail, I recommend a scope of 6 inches or larger and plan your observations with the T right next to this area.
Complex craters, on the other hand, exhibit structures such as central peaks, inner terraced rim walls and outer concentric faulted zones. These features along with crater size indicate a higher momemtem impact. Despite the dramatic physical differences between the two classes, however, the final morphology of both is currently understood to be from the collapse of a geometrically simple, bowl-shaped "transient crater" (below), which forms immediately after impact (Melosh and Ivanov, 1999).
Development of Luner Surface Into Complex Structure From High Momemtum Impact
Initially the impact looks simple bowl-shaped but the higher momentum impact results in an even higher impact energy (Impact KE = p = ½mv2) which compresses and melts more of the underlying surface causing it to rebound leaving a central peak system. The crater wall takes on terraced structure breached by vent systems formed through weak radial facture zones or concentric faults zones.
Charles Wood and Leif Andersson further fashioned (but did not publish) simple-complex crater classification scale based on crater diameter and looks like this:
See: http://lnk.nu/the-moon.wikispaces.com/pev
for more information.
Please note the generalization (diameter overlap) with these classifications: a complex crater could be the size of a simple crater although it is less likely. Also note that this scale is really only valid for the moon with its specific surface density and geology etc. Central peaks manifest themselves in craters above diameters of 15 km. Beyond a couple of hundred kilometers in diameter, the central peak of complex crater disappear and crater itself is classified as a basin which may exhibit an inner mountain ring system.
Distinct differences in crater age are noted while obseving craters so it is useful to note here the classification scale devise by Ralph Baldwin:
Craters Along the T: With the above in mind, here are 12 exceptional craters sites I like with sunrise and sunset colongitudes.
Hercules 71km & Atlas 90km
Posidonius 99km
Cassini 60km
Colongitude 133º or 322º
Colongitude 148º or 332º
Colongitude 175º or 356º
Hercules & Atlas: Both are complex craters noted by their terraced walls. But sometime after impact, magma clearly filled Hercules floor leaving only a tip of the central peak system. A subsequent impact struck the interior of this lava bed leaving a distinctive 13km simple crater. Within Atlas, magma failed to fill the crater but rather exerted pressure across the 99km plane distorting it upwards and leaving it fractured with a network of faults. This pressure also evidently eroded most of the central peak system. Look for these rilles across the floor as well as some dark areas that may hint at some magma breaching the surface.
Posidonius: Poseidon's interior has succumbed to magma pressure both fracturing and flooding the floor. In addition, a giant section of the Northeast terraced wall and crater floor look as if they have been uplifted and pealed away from the mountain rim. Under oblique light, remnants of the central peak system looks like a massive Stonehenge.
Cassini: For purely aesthetic reasons, this is one of my favorite craters either close to or some distance off the T. Even at 150x, I see it as a triumph of modern crater architecture. Perfectly circular with perfect bowls placed within a sleek floor, it sometimes looks like a jog dial of a video editing machine.
Lambert 31km
and Pytheas (south)
Kies (ghost)
46km with Dome Pi
Colongitude 54º or 220º
Colongitude 25º or 198º
Colongitude 26º or 200º
Aristarchus: Considered the brightest of the large impact formations on the lunar surface, Aristarchus has an albedo nearly double that of most lunar features. It is bright enough to be visible to the naked eye and is also identified when illuminated by earthshine. At the T, look at the detail in its external bench of blast material to the north. It is an awesome section of scree.
Lambert: Lambert is a lone crater one often runs into while viewing the First or Last Quarter Moon. Seen within the Imbrium Sea, it is bisected by Dorsum Zirkel. The combination reveals uncluttered crater-on-mare structure near the T. Look for the southern adjacent ghost crater Lambert R and Dorsa Stille leaving Lambert to the east.
Kies: Kies is another beautiful ghost crater that reminds me of either: an island atoll in the Nubium Sea, a crop circle, or the organic chemistry symbol for benzene. What make this area significant along the T are the fantastic rilles surrounding the crater and Dome Pi to the west. The dome needs to be observed under the right lighting and with sufficient aperture to see the central crater.
Sosigenes 19km
& Dionysius 19km
Messier 12km
& A 13x11km
Colongitude 160º or 347º
Colongitude 157º or 0º
Colongitude 127º or 322º
Sosigenes and Dionysius: 19 kilometer Sosigenes is a prototypical crater that represents a transition from the simple class of impact structure to the complex and is thus worth close study near (but not at the T). South of it lies Dionysius which is likewise worth comparison some distance away from the T as well. Dionysius is a dark halo crater that ejected buried mare basalts as seen in its conspicuous ray structure. The basalt is also visible on the walls of the crater to the south and east. There is also fairly bright ejecta surrounding Dionysius indicating that bright anorthositic rock makes up part of the subsurface crust.
Triesnecker: 27 kilometer Triesnecker exhibits the first elements of complex crater structure and is thus worth study at the T. It is also surrounded with perhaps the finest network of rilles on the entire moon. The network itself, like most rilles, benefits from both oblique and high angle illumination.
Messier and Messier A: This crater duo with its beautiful ray structure disserves high angle light. But close to the T more crater structure can be seen. The grazing, near tangintal, impacts may be the result of a single body first creating Messier and its butterfly ray pattern, and then a second piece breaking off and forming Messier A and its forward ejecta rays. Chuck Wood, "A grazing impact (1° to 5°) of a projectile coming from the east excavated Messier (explaining its elongated shape and classic butterfly-wing ejecta pattern) and another part of the projectile ricocheted downrange to form Messier A and its long rays."
Gassendi 114km
Clavius 231km
Colongitude 46º or 212º
Colongitude 46º or 212º
Colongitude 24º or 186º
Gassendi: Gassendi is spectacular crater that benefits from various phases in order to study its tormented "polygonal" frame but particularly its heavily fractured and flooded floor. The entire structure has suffered more stresses than Hercules, Atlas, and even Poseidon. Perhaps such is the fate of a crater that is named after a mere mortal! But in fact it is an older crater dating back to the Nectarian Epoch. Some call it a tortoise, 33km Gassendi-A is its head, climbing onto the North shore of Mare Humorum. Look for the extensive nework of rilles (best revealed with large aperture scopes) and the extensive material debris that fills the inside of the entire arena.
Schiller: Often referred to as "Schiller's Shoe" or simply "The Shoe", Schiller represents an outstanding oblique impact event and is likely the least circular crater on the Moon. Nearly identical impact shapes have been found on Venus and Mars and there is a shunted version of Schiller on the far side of the Moon as well. On Mars, Orcus Patera is a huge 380 x 140 km elliptical impact at 14ºN, 180ºE that is filled with mare and lacks a central peek system. Schiller's elongated central mountain range indicates where the impactor first hit from the Northwest as it continued to plow and blow out material to Southeast. While the impact can seen in great detail under direct light, shadows cast from opposing mountain rims at the T make for a breathtaking dimensional view that is enhanced by the crater's proximity to the limb. The adjacent area South of Schiller is a rather subtle low lying plain called Schiller-Zucchius Basin.
Clavius: At 231 kilometers, Clavius is better referred to as a walled plain. The interior is covered with smooth debris from Oriental Basin (see 5/6) and of course craters that spiral in size from 50km down to 0.5km (the limit of land based images anyway) toward the center. Clavius is thus a popular target to check the resolution limits of your optics. In addition to the craters, looking for detail in the central peaks is also gratifying along with noting the sloping landscape of ejecta from Rutherfurd crater on the plain. This is a terrific sketching site!
Clavius is also the site of the moon base in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. I mention this because it allows me to pitch the screenplay which is by far the best telling of the story and not just because it spotlights the Moon.
Final observing Tip: There should be a method to an evening of lunar madness. Before I focus in on any crater, I orient myself and quickly scan the T for highlights and beyond the T
for craters that are nicely shadowed to the floor. I also observe the poles and
E-W limbs for prominent features. However you start, try studying the T systematically from either North to South or S to N looking up names of prominent/interesting features that catch your eye. Doing so reinforces memory and those dark towering objects will eventually become familiar no matter the light.


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This weekend marked my due date with Noah. It really is just an indication that by this time he would have been born. And that by now, I would have had a wriggling, screaming, pooping little baby to cherish in my arms. But sadly, that was not meant to be.
Noah has left a gaping hole in our little family. One shared by his big brother Oliver... the two little boys who couldn't stay with us.
It's been nearly 7 years since Oliver passed away, fighting for his breath after 4 short hours of life. It's been 5 months since Noah was born... an event that we needed to experience as he had died in utero at 16 weeks gestation, without any warning, and without any known reason.
These are my babies that I cannot hold, and today, like everyday, I remember them.
A grieving mother carries her children with her all the time. She never forgets. When the holidays come around, and she's wrapping presents or decorating the house, she remembers them. When she goes to other children's birthday parties, or prepares cakes and balloons for her other children, she remembers the one's who are not here anymore. Grocery shopping, driving to school, sitting at the dinner table, doing the laundry... the lost babies are an ever and constant presence in her heart and mind. It doesn't matter if they passed quietly during the pregnancy, if they were born sleeping, or fought for their little lives in the NICU, these precious little babies are much loved, much cherished and always remembered. It doesn't matter if it was last week, 7 years ago, or 37 years ago, the pain of loss is there. This isn't just for me. It's for grieving mothers everywhere. Our babies aren't here, and we feel their loss always.
I'm writing this so that you won't forget either.
Noah is my son. He was as real as you are. Even though he didn't get to draw a sweet, life giving breath, every part of him was real, and my son. He lived inside of me. He was loved, nurtured, is loved and missed every single day.
Today I say his name, and I say his big brother's name, because I want you to remember them. I don't ever want them to be forgotten.


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Truly one of my favourite poets on poemhunter..
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This Life Is Hard But I Go On
Through broken glass and faded dreams,
I find a place where I can scream,
This pain is huge and takes me over,
I cannot smell the scent of clover,
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CNN's Candy Crowley adopted the pro-abortion lobby's talking points on Friday's Situation Room, as she asked Rep. Steve King about the House's vote to defund Planned Parenthood: "There's that term, 'penny wise and pound foolish.' Would you worry that, by cutting off those services, people...would have sicker babies, or certain people...wouldn't have HIV testing...and that would just cost us more?"
The journalist, who was substituting for regular anchor Wolf Blitzer, brought on the Iowa Republican and his Democratic colleague, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, to comment on the current budget debates at the state and federal levels. Towards the end of her interview, at the 42 minutes into the 6 pm Eastern hour mark, Crowley raised the 240-185 vote earlier that afternoon to eliminate federal funding of Planned Parenthood, and used an argument similar to that of liberal Fox News contributor Jehmu Greene, who emphasized on the February 3, 2011 edition of The O'Reilly Factor how the organization's employees "provide mammograms [and] provide birth control advice." The anchor also hinted that cutting off Planned Parenthood would end up costing more tax dollars in the long run:
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CROWLEY: Congressman King, you all voted to cut off fending (sic)- funding for Planned Parenthood as part of some of these votes you're taking. Now, Planned Parenthood has services like HIV testing, prenatal care. You know, there's that term, 'penny wise and pound foolish.' Would you worry that, by cutting off those services, people have- there are certain people that would have sicker babies, or certain people that wouldn't have HIV testing, and then pass it along to something (sic) else, and that would just cost us more?
An on-screen graphic echoed Crowley's question: "House Cuts Planned Parenthood Funds: What about health services for women?"
Note how Crowley doesn't once mention the most controversial procedure that Planned Parenthood provides: abortion. The organization's own annual report for 2008 notes that their facilities across the country performed 324,008 abortions that year. Yet, the CNN anchor shows more concern about infants that theoretically might end up ill due to the proposed cuts than the hundreds of thousands of unborn babies who were actually killed!
Rep. King answered by bringing up one of the key driving factors in the campaign to defund Planned Parenthood: the recent release of undercover videos by the pro-life organization Live Action:
KING: Well, I think of it in terms of Planned Parenthood is conducting the majority- the largest abortion provider, not the majority of abortions, but the largest abortion provider in the country, and some of the things that we've seen in the videotape inside the Planned Parenthood offices are just appalling, and they're revolting, and they're repulsive. And the culture inside the Planned Parenthood office, I think, is reflected in those videos, just like the culture of the ACORN offices was reflected in the videos that we saw then.
I've long been opposed to providing taxpayer dollars to organizations that do abortions or provide pro-abortion counseling, and I think that's a good plan.
Just days earlier, on the February 13, 2011 edition of CNN's State of the Union program, Crowley expressed a more general liberal concern about budget cuts as she interviewed the Obama administration's budget director, Jack Lew: "So let's get down to the basic question, who's going to get hurt in this budget?" One thing is certain: if the defunding of Planned Parenthood manages to survive the budget process, it will certainly hurt them in their large pocketbook, and it will dampen their efforts to butcher the unborn.


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Q. What is the plural of e-mail when it's used as a noun? Is it e-mail or e-mails? There's been a bit of controversy over this as a lot of people say "e-mails" but the plural form of mail, when used as a noun, is mail. Then, there's e-mailings. Thanks!
A. I would say that your sense of e-mail being grammatically equivalent to mail is sensible. And the following sentences work well:
Do you have any e-mail?
How much e-mail do you get each month?
How many e-mail messages did he send to you?
E-mail is great.
How many types of direct e-mailings have you considered sending?
The following sentences, if not incorrect, certainly sound less formal:
I got two e-mails today.
Send me some e-mails when you get a chance.
The latest versions of Webster's and American Heritage, however, endorse the use of e-mail as a noun (e.g., to send an e-mail), the latter dictionary including the plural form e-mails. Perhaps, however, e-mail will one day disappear, and we will say simply mail, or message, or note, or letter, having tired of pointing to the medium with each mention (notwithstanding Marshall McLuhan's observations).


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The registration of ADA launches a new phase in the development and maturity of the organisation as a disability-led technical agency deriving its mandate from the human rights movement of organisations of persons with disabilities that constitute its membership.
The change was necessitated by the need to communicate the real work/ mandate of the organisation, to shorten the name and de-link it from a 'decade' timeframe. There was also a need to adopt a name that communicates the fact that the organisation is an African, broad-based, continental technical agency that works through alliances and networks using a broad range of policy tools that emanate from the United Nations (UN), African Union (AU), Regional Economic Commissions (RECs) and other jurisdictions.
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Must Watch: First Official Trailer for The Adjustment Bureau
by Alex Billington
May 12, 2010
Source: Yahoo
After a lengthy delay, Universal has finally released a trailer for George Nolfi's The Adjustment Bureau starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt over on Yahoo. This supernatural-ish romantic drama is based on another Philip K. Dick short story and you'll see how his ideas play into the plot in a big way. Although I was unsure if this would be any good, I think this looks fantastic, maybe just because I'm a sucker for these sci-fi PKD stories, especially when it looks typically modern with a twist (like this). This does look a bit like Alex Proyas' Dark City, at least inspired by it, but I still think it could be awesome. Check out the trailer below!
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You can also watch The Adjustment Bureau trailer in High Definition on Yahoo
An affair between a politician and a ballerina is affected by "mysterious forces" keeping the lovers apart.
The Adjustment Bureau is directed by first-time director George Nolfi, who is best known as a screenwriter who wrote the screenplays for Timeline, Ocean's Twelve, The Sentinel, and The Bourne Ultimatum. Nolfi also wrote the script for this film, which is based on the Philip K. Dick short story "Adjustment Team" (you can read more about here). This was supposed to be released this July, but Universal has rescheduled The Adjustment Bureau to hit theaters on March 4th in spring. I am definitely still planning to see this. You?
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On 11.10.10 20.26, Brent Chapman wrote:
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Ed Kasky<ed @
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Have you looked at Mhonarc? http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc is great, but it isn't a web forum. It's an email archive publishing tool; it's what I use to publish the archives of this list and all the others here at GreatCircle.com,
I don't understand. MHonArc is a tool for making list messages browsable/searchable on a website? If that's the case I already have that, but I would like to make my archived messages part of a web-based forum (I'm currently considering MyBB although nothing's decided yet), transferring/merging them into the same format as the web forum.
MyBB has a "merge system" (http://www.mybb.com/downloads/merge-system) which allows data from a variety of web-forum software to be imported:
- Invision Power Board 2.1, 2.2, or 2.3 - MyBB 1.6 (Merge multiple copies of MyBB in to the one) - phpBB 2 - phpBB 3 - SMF 1.1, 2.0 - PunBB 1.2 - vBulletin 3.6, 3.7, or 3.8 - XMB 1.9As there aren't any plans of making a Majordomo import feature (apparently I'm one of the few migrating over to a web based forum) I've been suggested to see if any of the above web-forum software can import from Majordomo, then import that data further into MyBB. A longshot?
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John Mayer's tales of a quarter-life crisis are striking a chord with his army of fans, writes Matthew Thompson.
LA I get," says John Mayer over the phone from New York. "I get LA. LA is when you work all week and then at the weekend you definitely don't want anything to do with your work, so you drive up to the hills to your house. You have six people over; you drink wine; you go to sleep, and you go hiking. I don't want to do that yet."
Keeping it real is the message from this 25-year-old rising star of pop, whose wistful debut album Room for Squares has gone platinum in the US, selling more than a million copies since its release last year.
The album's gentle tales of a "quarter-life crisis" combine the glitz and swagger of Joe Jackson in his 1980s heyday, with the low-beat intimacy of early 1990s slacker bands such as Blind Melon.
The combination works a treat in songs like Why Georgia?, perhaps the theme song for the album with its graceful pondering of a "still-verdictless life".
The handsome young troubadour has been on the road with his band for all but two weeks of this year, ever-mindful of the bloating LA-ness of commercial success nipping at his heels.
"All the by-products of success are actually incredibly abrasive to the nature of the success you're trying to have," says Mayer, who has been compared with stadium-filler extraordinaire Dave Matthews (they also have producer John Alagia in common).
"I think the feeling of arrival - you have so many people telling you that you've arrived - that you kind of have to renegotiate with yourself where you were going to in the first place. You may have arrived to a port where you can dump off and load up, but you haven't 'arrived'."
Determined to keep the edge in his music - the whimsical sentiment that has connected with an audience demographic spanning twentysomething girls to fortysomething guys - Mayer recently moved from Atlanta, where he has lived for the past several years, to New York City.
"New York is incredibly conducive to playing music," says Mayer. "There's something about it that you can't conquer, [but] you know you'll always be working for it."
Mayer grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut, studied at Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music, and then, aged 19, moved south to Atlanta.
For the next few years he played live, and in 1999 recorded an EP, Inside Wants Out. Mayer's star began to rise and Colombia Records signed him on following a performance at the 2000 South by Southwest Musical Conference in Texas.
"Fans of music in the South are so unprejudiced: if it sounds good, they like it," says Mayer. "I love that! I love Justin Timberlake! You know why? Because he sounds good. I don't care about what he wears, or what he's affiliated with. He sounds good.
"If you're a girl in Atlanta and you're 20 through 30, and if you're single, instead of going out to dance clubs, these people go to songwriter clubs. They don't wait for something to get popular, they want to find it before it gets popular. They want, 'I saw him before'."
Not wanting to be left in the wake of the next wave of singing heart-throbs, Mayer has devoted plenty of energy to his evolution as an artist.
"Even though I'm in videos that are on MTV, I still stand in front of the mirror and pretend I'm in a video for my next song. It's important," says Mayer, who is compiling songs for his second album.
"Room for Squares is a first strike. It's a first move. It's like moving your rook over. It's one move. It's important for me to see it as one step in a much, much bigger, um, street."
While Mayer may be at ease with his success, it has come as a surprise to his parents.
"They always kept fighting it [his musical ambitions]," he says. "They wanted me not to become a musician. Anything but."
Yet his sceptical but loving parents helped him out in the early, lean years, and their support spared him from the grind of having to work a job or two while chasing his dreams. Perhaps for their protection, Mayer obfuscates when asked about his experiences on the road.
"You know, I think they're so esoteric that the problem is any anecdotes are pre-required with so much information that they really become this small kind of things."
Just sing it, John.
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Duck Down Records, "All We Got Is Us" (Originally Published July/August 2010)
"When we [originally] signed up with Priority, we excluded Black Moon and Smif-N-Wessun and said if we ever get those
[groups] out of Nervous, we'll come back to [renegotiate]," says Dru Ha. "The percentages changed, we owned the masters of the record—everything started changing, in terms of the structure of the deal."
With a better deal in place, Duck Down began to mature as a label. It maintained a staff that fluctuated between six and eight employees and gained complete control over its production and project marketing budgets. Dru and Buck received a lump sum of money from Priority, to operate their label. This allowed Duck Down to spend the budgets as they saw fit. The label soon released Smif-N-Wessun's sophomore album, 1998's The Rude Awakening (the group released the LP under the alias Cocoa Brovaz, due to a legal dispute with the Smith & Wesson firearms company in 1995, but have since retained the rights to use their original moniker), and a year later dropped Black Moon's second album, War Zone.
Duck Down's growth came to a halt when music giant EMI bought Priority in full for $125 million in 1998. Lost in the shuffle, Duck Down was dropped from Priority's roster the following year. "We lose everything," says Dru. "We lose overhead, we lose the office, we lose our funding, we lose our deals for the next albums."
Disappointed by being dropped, but spurred on by all they'd accomplished together so far, Dru and Buck moved the label's operations to Dru's house, in Manhattan's East Village, and by the new millenium, Duck Down had cut a one-off deal with Minnesota-based distribution company K-Tel to release Buckshot's solo debut album, The BDI Thug.
In 2002, DD partnered with Koch Entertainment (currently known as E1) for a three-year distribution stint. The first product of this new deal was The Chosen Few, Boot Camp Clik's second LP which moved about 40,000 units. The next year, Duck Down dropped the compilation album, Collect Dis Edition, and Black Moon's third album, Total Eclipse.
The Koch deal looked good on paper, but when the contract was up, in 2005, Duck Down actually ended up owing its distributor a chunk of change, somewhere in the six-figure range. Dru and Buck claim that Koch inflated their manufacturing costs and refused to match any discounts that Duck Down offered to large retail chains. "Little by little, your distribution deal that seemed like a 70-30 split in your favor, after you work that shit down, it turned to, like, a 20-80 for them, in their favor," Dru says.
DD refused to renew with Koch. Instead, they cold-called Navarre, a Minnesota-based computer-software distribution company with ties to major retailers like Best Buy and the now-defunct Circuit City, and later inked with them. "They gave us a great deal, a great deal," says Dru. "I spent so much time on that deal, making sure I understood all the ins and outs. They walked me through it, like, a hundred times."
In 2005, Duck Down released Monkey Barz (Sean Price's solo debut), Chemistry (a collaborative album between Buckshot and producer 9th Wonder) and Smif-N-Wessun: Reloaded with Navarre. Collectively, the three albums registered about 70,000 units sold with SoundScan, though Dru estimates that the unregistered and international sales bring that number closer to 100,000. Life was going well, but fate would bring Duck Down back to Koch's door, where things had ended ugly just two years earlier.
In 2007 Koch acquired Navarre for $6.5 million. As a result of the buyout, DD was once again in business with Koch, but this time the distributor had to honor the terms of the much-more-favorable Navarre deal. (Today, Duck Down renews with E1 on a year-to-year basis, slightly modifying the original Navarre deal each time out.) Soon after reuniting with Koch, Duck Down struck major look deals for themselves and entered into separate agreements with ESPN and the History Channel, for the label's artists to provide the cable stations with original music for programming.
Over the past three years, and during rough times, Duck Down has blossomed. It has expanded its roster and released albums such as Boston trio Special Teamz' 2007 Stereotypez and former Rawkus Records duo Kidz in the Hall's 2008 The In Crowd and this year's Land of Make Believe, as well as Cypress Hill front man B-Real's 2009 solo LP, Smoke and Mirrors—just a few examples of Duck Down's growing diversity. Now, for its 15th anniversary, the label will release 15 Years of Duck Down, a greatest-hits LP, in July. DD also plans to launch a nationwide tour and release albums from its current roster, including its newest acquisition, veteran Queens lyricist Pharoahe Monch.
When Dru Ha and Buckshot birthed Duck Down Records in 1995, they believed that, if they had the power over the money and the ultimate control, they would win as an independent record label. Fifteen years later, it seems like the partners might have known what they were talking about.
"It's not about money anymore, because our money is dictated on what we sell," Dru says. "It's about getting paid for what you sell the best way, so when you do have a home run or you do have a good record, that's how you stay in business."
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Birmingham-Southern College teams up with downtown churches for musical event
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Birmingham-Southern College will join Cathedral of St. Paul, First Presbyterian Church and Birmingham First United Methodist Church in concert at the Vespers service at Cathedral of St. Paul in downtown Birmingham on April 26 at 6 p.m.
Dr. Jim Cook, professor of music at BSC, will conduct the choirs, soloists and members of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in this performance of Mozart's Solemn Vespers, K.339. Dr. Jacqueline Leary-Warsaw, soprano and BSC associate professor of music, and Dr. David Smith, tenor and BSC professor of music, are among the featured performers. Choirs from all three churches will include a number of BSC students and alumni.
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Southern California police say three boys were assaulted by fellow summer school students in hazing incidents that were known about by their teacher.
Fontana police Sgt. Robert Morris said Monday the three victims were assaulted in three incidents that occurred in the classroom of 27-year-old teacher Emmanuel Delarosa at A.B. Miller High School since summer school began May 31. The alleged hazing was intended to enforce classroom discipline.
Delarosa was arrested during the weekend for investigation of child cruelty along with four of his students. One of them, 18-year-old Fernando Salgado, was arrested for investigation of assault with attempt to commit mayhem or rape and attempted sodomy. The other three students are minors.
Morris declined further comment.
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Israeli jet planes today participated in Air Force maneuvers for the first time. The jet planes joined other bombers in air-to-ground bombing exercises and were scored very high for precision bombing by the military experts and civilian leaders who witnessed the operations. The air show marked the seventh anniversary of the formation of the Israel Air Force.
The Air Force has made "great progress" in the past year both from an organizational and qualitative-quantitative point of view, Brig. Gen. Dan Tulkovsky, its commander-in-chief, declared. Gen, Tulkovsky, who stressed the progress made by Israeli airmen in the handling of jets, revealed that the Israel Air Force was constantly replacing older, obsolete plane models with newer units. He spoke of the need for further recruiting of air personnel and praised the high level of achievement of graduates of Air Force schools.


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At the opening of Stockholm art venue Bonniers Konsthall's Projections show, I sat in and listened to an artist talk with Dutch video artist Guido van der Werve. He's quite brilliant by the way, even though it's impossible to find decent evidence of it on-line. Both solemn Romanticism and sly humour at the same time, and with a healthy Chopin obsession, too.
Anyway, as he was talking about his latest film, in which he and chess Grandmaster Leonid Yudasin play a chessboard reworked into a piano, he mentioned this: the game of chess is too complicated for a Grandmaster to learn all strategies and possible outcomes with his logical, rational mind. Instead, what they do is that they train their aesthetic sensibility, they look for what feels and looks "right" to them. This part of the brain copes with those complex and quite mathematical chess problems much better than the rational part, in the Grandmasters' experience. Rather interesting, wouldn't you say?


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At its annual holiday luncheon Dec. 5, Keeneland announced it has given $705,260 in contributions to nearly 80 charitable organizations in 2003. With this year's contributions, Keeneland's charitable giving through the years totals more than $12 million. Recipient organizations provide vital services to the central Kentucky community and to the Thoroughbred industry. Keeneland's charitable grants program is supported primarily by profits generated by Keeneland's racing, simulcasting, and Thoroughbred sales. "It has become a holiday tradition for us to recognize those who serve our community," said Fran Taylor, executive director of the Keeneland Foundation. "Because of their efforts, thousands of central Kentuckians are able to improve their lives through these outreach programs. This is an
opportunity to show that their efforts are appreciated." The primary categories of funding for Keeneland's contributions program are health and human services, research, higher education, arts and culture, animal welfare and historic preservation.This year, more than $230,000 was contributed to 49 organizations that specialize in health and human services. Among the recipients in this category were the Family Care Center Volunteer Board which received $10,000 to renovate and expand its pediatric health clinic; $11,500 for various outreach programs aimed at assisting central Kentucky's growing Hispanic population; $1,500 to purchase a lawn tractor for Quest Farm, a Georgetown-based program for mentally challenged adults who grow and sell produce; and $2,000 to the Manchester Center to purchase a commercial oven to prepare meals for students in its preschool program. More than $213,000 was contributed to Thoroughbred organizations, the bulk of which was generated via Keeneland's ambitious partnership with Maker's Mark Distillery to construct a landmark retraining and adoption facility at the Kentucky Horse Park for retired Thoroughbreds. The project and its funding efforts are being spearheaded by the Keeneland Foundation. Through the foundation, Maker's Mark is contributing $100,000 from the sale of this year's commemorative bottle and Castleton-Lyons, a Lexington-based horse farm, also contributed $100,000. Arts and cultural organizations received $49,000, including $25,000 to the Kentucky Horse Park Foundation for its All the Queen's Horses exhibit and $7,500 to the Lexington Arts and Cultural Council to support its annual campaign. Educational organizations received $59,500 including $5,000 for the Fayette County Farm Bureau Education Foundation for its four-year scholarship program; $5,000 to the Pritchard Committee for Academic Excellence to fund a program to help parents become more involved in
schools; $9,000 in scholarships to the Kentucky Independent College Foundation and $20,000 to Transylvania University for scholarship endowment. The Henry Clay Memorial Foundation received $5,000 to replace trees at the Ashland Estate lost to the February ice storm. Other preservation organizations receiving funds included $10,000 for the Hopewell Museum in Bourbon County and $5,000 to the Nature Conservancy for the restoration of
native grasslands that will be used for hay and seed production. "The Keeneland Foundation strives to fund projects that are going to have a strong, positive impact on the community," Taylor said. "Usually we try to fund specific projects, not an organization's operational expenses. We feel we can be most effective when we can help an organization get that extra financial boost they need to accomplish a specific goal."
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Stuart and Maxine Goldblum of Langhorne announce the engagement of their son, Seth Ryan Goldblum, to Dana Michele Simon, daughter of Donna Simon and David Simon of San Antonio, Texas.
Dana, a graduate of the University of Arizona, is a human-resource consultant employed by the CIGNA Corporation.
A graduate of Temple University, Seth is a partner in the consulting firm of CMF Associates.
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Is it true that Edexcel is a lot easier than Cambridge(OCR)? I know in terms of examination method Edexcel is easier but in terms of syllabus and exam questions? I'm currently taking Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Further Maths under Edexcel but my peers are strongly recommending Cambridge because of it's 'higher standard' and 'tougher syllabus'.
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I don't think it makes a difference to be honest. Nobody will care what exam board you do so just go with the board that is the most popular/is the one your school does.
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I do not know for sure whether the Unis care whether you did CIE/AQA/OCR/Edexcel/CCEA/WJEC or any other board, as long as it's an A level it counts, but to answer your question, I am an international student and I do both Cambridge (CIE) and Edexcel papers. I've done the CIE A level Maths, and I just did the Edexcel A level Maths and AS Further Maths this Jan. Now having taken both exam boards, I have come to the conclusion that CIE is DEFINATELY harder than Edexcel, at least in the Mathematics Subject.
I mean, contentwise, there are some differences but not a HUGE difference, but with regards to level, the CIE A level P3 unit contains 1/2 of FP1 in Edexcel as well as C3 and C4, and CIE Mechanics M1 unit has all of M1 in Edexcel and 2/3 of M2. Mechanics 2 in CIE has the 1/4 from M2 of Edexcel and the whole of M3. So from what you can see in CIE you have to do 4 units to get an A level, P1, P3 M1, and M2 would be an example, that would be the equivalent in Edexcel for C1-C4, 1/2 of FP1 and M1-M3. So I'd say /YES with regards to Maths definately harder.
And as for Physics/Chemistry I am not in a position to comment since I am only doing CIE Physics and Chemistry and have never actually thought of switching to Edexcel, but possibly CIE's is tougher.
Btw you've got exactly the same subjects as I have Physics Chemistry Maths and Further Maths, only I also have Spanish and a few more A levels on my list
And also why would you want to change... I switched over after doing the CIE AS maths, because I found CIE too difficult, I did Edexcel this Jan, and got 578/600
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HI Xinolis
Wow You seem to know a lot about Alevels.
I could switch to Edexcel for the June exam but the exam dates
are the same as for OCR so its either one or the other.
Could u send me pastpapers from Edexcel please?
I ought to have a look before making a decision.
The only reason I am asking this is that I think OCR is a
bit hard. I need to do statistics.
Do u think it is worth switching? I am an international student.
Do OCR books cover the Edexcel material? How many papers are there
for a full A level Mathematics Edexcel?
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All of the British boards follow the same number of modules, you don't have to be an expert to know any of this just some experience... All british boards A levels consists of 6 Modules and 3 Modules for an AS. So Edexcel Mathematics as well as any other subject is still 6 modules. If you take a look at the specification that's on their website you will find some specimen past papers and the modules that are compulsory and those which aren't. So basically it's the same as OCR C1-C4 plus 2 application Units in your case S1 and S2 maybe... If you want my opinion in your case, stick with OCR, it's no harder than Edexcel, CIE is the hard board, I was trying to do Further Maths CIE and it nearly drove me crazy. Trust me, OCR is NOT as bad as CIE, it's the English version of CIE and it doesn't allow international centres to sit exams with them, (our school actually phoned them to ask because we found their physics exam to be much easier than CIE's and they told us to do CIE)... .
I have no idea whatsoever about the OCR board, so I can't comment on that unfortunately, but if you need papers there are some on internet if you look for them on the Edexcel website... There is this logo that says "free past papers" click on that and if you need a centre number PM me...
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I mean, contentwise, there are some differences but not a HUGE difference, but with regards to level, the CIE A level P3 unit contains 1/2 of FP1 in Edexcel as well as C3 and C4, and CIE Mechanics M1 unit has all of M1 in Edexcel and 2/3 of M2. Mechanics 2 in CIE has the 1/4 from M2 of Edexcel and the whole of M3. So from what you can see in CIE you have to do 4 units to get an A level, P1, P3 M1, and M2 would be an example, that would be the equivalent in Edexcel for C1-C4, 1/2 of FP1 and M1-M3. So I'd say /YES with regards to Maths definately harder.
The thing is with Maths and Further Maths in Edexcel I have to do C1-C4, FP1-FP3 and M1-M2, S1-S2 and either M3 or S3.
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Wait, yes CIE Maths compared to Edexcel/AQA/OCR.... blah blah blah mathematics is harder, and CIE Further Maths compared to again Edexcel/AQA/OCR.... is also harder, but I am NOT sitting Further Maths with CIE, that would be crazy... I could never do the Stats that yo HAVE to do for CIE Further Maths. (In CIE Further Maths you don't get a choice of doing either Stats or Mech, you HAVE to do both) So I'm doing it with Edexcel, I did FP1, M3, S1 this Jan, and FP2, FP3, M4, M5 this summer.
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Thank you for your reply. I was planning to take CIE but found out
that OCR is easier and since I am in the UK OCR was easier to take. I am a kind of transnational person who lives in two country at the same time.
you should try to do english boards then. I am an EU billy myself and in
my country back home we can take any alevel exam through british council.
. The board will send the paper there the day before the exam and they are
respected centre. You do it just like a language exam. If it is that much easier you
should do it. And the exam dates are different with CIE and english boards, so you can do both in one season.
You need to call them asap the deadline is within a month for entries.
Use your disadvantage to your advantage.
I have a question in the book here which is in the curved defined implicitly chapter.
The curve is y^3=(x-1)^2
By making the substitution x=1+X and examining the resulting equation between y and X, show that the curve is symmetrical about the line x=1. Please help me.
We should start a thread for EU candidates to help each other as Asians do.
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Firstly I have no idea whatsoever about that question you're asking me about, probably because we've never done such a thing before, or maybe it's just that I can't seem to understand the question, or maybe because I just can't think right now , but will get back to you as soon as I can.
With regards to the other stuff you said, I'm not quite sure what you mean. I can take any exam from any board I want to, i.e. AQA/Edexcel/CIE... but the only thing is as OCR and CIE are essentially the same board under diferrent names for different customers, I was told I couldn't do OCR that's all, but it doesn't make a difference at all, I think most of us are used to doing the hard stuff anyways... but thanks anyways
And I very much doubt that questions has got much to do with curves defined implicitly. Normally in that chapter what they ask you to do differentiate implicitly, find this or find that, I've never seen a question like the one you've just posted above.
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Any ideas about the difficulty of other subjects besides maths?
I'm an international student from Asia. Here we only have a choice between CIE and Edexcel.
Btw, if Edexcel is easier than CIE, then wouldn't the final outcome be very unfair since an A in CIE is harder than an A in Edexcel? Do universities take this into consideration during admission? If they do, wouldn't Edexcel candidates be seriously disadvantaged?
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I don't think it matters that much to them, you have to remember, the admissions tutors have piles and piles of applicants to read through each day, they ain't going to give a damn about your exam board, they'll be most interested in your subject and grades and UMS if you provide them with it...
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Quite a few people at oxford harp on that OCR is harder than Edexcel, but why would any school knowingly choose to do an exam board where their own pupils were going to get a lower grade than if they did another one? And anyway, how many people actually choose what exam board they do, it's the teachers that do that!
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No university gives a crap what exam board you choose. End of.
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Quite a few people at oxford harp on that OCR is harder than Edexcel, but why would any school knowingly choose to do an exam board where their own pupils were going to get a lower grade than if they did another one? And anyway, how many people actually choose what exam board they do, it's the teachers that do that!
Students can opt to continue their pre-u studies (A-levels, Canadian ICPU, AUSMAT, SAM) at private institutions/colleges if they wish to. As for A-levels, some colleges offer the CIE A-levels while some are doing Edexcel. A-levels courses here usually last only 1.5 years instead of 2 years. We're free to choose which college we want to enter and in other words, which exam board we want. CIE is generally more popular here but Edexcel is catching up. Most people here are biased against Edexcel as it is deemed as "lower standard" or "a lot easier" or even "not well recognised by top universities" compared to CIE.
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That last bit is simply a lot of bullcrap... not your bullcrap maybe, but people who say that clearly don't know what they're talking about. If that were to be true, then Edexcel will soon cease to exist. If Edexcel were not up to the standard required by regulatory bodies like QCA then, it probably wouldn't be a big a exam board as it is today. It is that big because people keep believing in them and they keep doing their exams. Edexcel Exams are aimed mainly at UK national standards. CIE on the other hand aims at international standards which obviously as you may imagine should be higher than the other one. Thus CIE exams are tougher, but still within the acceptable limits. If Edexcel exams were "not well recognised by top universities" then that means that anybody who sits edexcel and wants to go to the so-called "top universities" which is basically another word for oxbridge will have not a chance in the world, and that's probably very untrue... There are many many students at the "top universities" who do AQA/Edexcel/OCR/WJEC/CCEA....
So no worries, just as Aksan said, Unis don't give a damn about which exam board you sat, simply what you sat and what grade you got... and stop worrying about it, an A level is an A level no matter which board you're taking it with.
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Yup, CIE is tougher than Edexcel...which is quite bad actually because no one will actually care which exam board you do as long as you get good grades. And Edexcel is quite popular...so I'd rather go for the easier exam board. Honestly, no one cares. If there was an unknown gcse exam board named EQA or whatever and it was the easiest I would go for that too. People usually ask you, "How were your GCSE grades?" not... "What were you GCSE grades and which exam board did you do?" Unless they stalk you or sth haha.
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please any body tell me which one is easier 4 medical students edexcel(gce) or (gcse) or cambridge (igcse)
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please any body tell me which one is easier 4 medical students edexcel(gce) or (gcse) or cambridge (igcse)
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I have done both examboards and here's what I can say.
CIE is slightly tougher for maths but has less papers.
In terms of science, edexcel old syllabus might be easier but the 2008 and beyond syllabus is much tougher. Also cie repeats many high mark (15 mark essay qs) questions and has ridiculously low a-grades of around 60+ % compared to edexcels 80%. For biology I can almost say that if you do all the past papers twice over(about 16 of them) and read the textbook once, you can get an A easily. Thats because cie only focuses on some things in their papers with an obvious trend, coupled with repeated questions and low A grades, its a piece of cake. outside UK mostly take edexcel qualifications. I am not saying cie is really easy, no actually the questions can be really tough. But to score an A in cie is definitely easier due to low a grades, gross amount of repeated questions and only testing on specific stuff. Also, there ismuch less to learn for cie then edexcel in physics if you look at whats covered for both.
Anyway, they are both well recognised.Last edited by farhanyen; 20-01-2012 at 10:54.
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I agree that Cie is harder than edexcel in mathematics but for science edexcel is harder.
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Living Spiritually in the world today is not an easy thing. We are not like the saints in the Old Testament or the New Testament. The truth was more apparent to those who searched for it. We live in a generation where most people can read and write and have a voice on the web or in print. The truth has been twisted and bent and set to reinterpretation over and over again. It is very confusing and frustrating to find real truth. Even our Bibles have been used to twist truths into lies. It is impossible to know truth with out seeking it on your own time.
Many people go to church and get the rendition of scripture and its meaning from their pastors. And that is a good thing, unless that is all the food that you get. You can not eat out all the time. Sometimes, you have to prepare food at home. If you eat out constantly you will get sick. The food looks good and smells good and usually tastes really good, and is satisfying to the stomach. But, is it good for you? You don't really know what's in it and where the ingredients came from. Not really, not for sure.
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