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Let all the worrying begin.
It was the first quarter of Seattle Seahawks-San Diego Chargers. Ryan Mathews took the handoff and bucked it up the middle for a few yards. A simple running play -- and I thought he was hurt already.
Too soon? Hey it's not just the reputation of the Chargers running back for, uh, not being available. For a two-week span, it seemed like tons of players were going down ... Jeremy Maclin, Dennis Pitta, Dan Koppen and on and on. Fans have been cringing -- understandably -- with each gloomy video clip from camp. See: A.J. Green taking a tumble on HBO's "Hard Knocks." Thankfully, the Cincinnati Bengals' star wideout turned out to be OK, merely tweaking his knee.
All of which is to say that our first non-offseason Power Rankings were heavily influenced by the franchise health-o-meter. That starts right at the top, as the last time we took stock of all 32 clubs, there was a different team at No. 1. You'll see that has changed -- because of the loss of a slot receiver. Take a look at that and the rest of the NFL totem pole after a week of preseason action.
Remember, we welcome your thoughts ... @Harrison_NFL is always the dropbox. Let the dissension commence!
NOTE: The following pecking order reflects changes from the June 25 Power Rankings, which were compiled at the close of minicamps.
Even the most diehard
San Francisco 49ers fan has to wonder about this secondary right now. Who's starting? Obviously,
Dashon Goldson is with the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
Chris Culliver is out and
the great unknown --
Nnamdi Asomugha -- is wearing No. 24, not the No. 21 he made famous playing for that other team in the Bay Area. Will
Tarell Brown hold his own at one corner spot? Did (or do) the
49ers want to dump
Carlos Rogers on any level? Going a step further -- or, rather, back -- will the club go with an unproven rookie over
Craig Dahl at safety? If so, first-round draft pick
Eric Reid had better ball out, because we saw what can happen to this secondary when the pass rush isn't clicking (see: the end of last season).
All that said, we still have the 49ers on top ...
... partially because the
Denver Broncos took a key hit on the injury front, much like the team that follows them on our rankings.
Losing center Dan Koppen hurt, no doubt. Just ask the
Green Bay Packers or
Dallas Cowboys how important it is to have an effective player at center -- or at any of the interior line spots, for that matter. Now, did Koppen have a great 2012? No. But finding a veteran center who can handle protection changes and maintain chemistry with
Peyton Manning is big. That's why bringing in
Ryan Lilja was a smart move, even if
Manny Ramirez ends up starting.
Wait. Not happy that we devoted the entire Broncos blurb to a conversation about centers? Here's a fantasy prediction: Demaryius Thomas > Wes Welker > Eric Decker. You're welcome.
Seattle Seahawks and
Broncos both failed to nab the top spot mostly because of health issues, which is unfortunate. When you
lose a player of
Percy Harvin's caliber, it's going to affect the standings. And on the defensive side of the ball ... Irrespective of how fans feel about
Bruce Irvin's upside, this club must get defensive end
Chris Clemons back. The tricky deal is that Clemons wants to return -- like,
now. The Seattle brass must be careful here, as Clemons turns 32 in October. Better to have him fully healthy in Week 3 or Week 5 than to rush him back for Week 1.
The guy we're watching? Doug Baldwin. He can play, and he should be a primary option in the slot sans Harvin. There's a reason teams inquired about Baldwin's availability this offseason.
The Atlanta Falcons stand pat at the cleanup spot. Speaking of power hitters, the Falcons could still use some oomph on that defensive line, particularly in the middle, where Jonathan Babineaux and Corey Peters have blown away approximately no one. Remember, this defense gave up 123 rushing yards to the Seattle Seahawks and 149 to the San Francisco 49ers during the playoffs last season, despite having huge leads in both games. While I understand general manager Thomas Dimitroff shying away from the aging, slightly unmotivated Richard Seymour, the proven vet sure could be a nice addition for a team with Super Bowl aspirations.
Houston Texans rookie
DeAndre Hopkins' touchdown catch
against the Minnesota Vikings on Friday night, all one could really say was, well ...
Kevin Walter might have perfect hair -- it's a beautiful coif -- but he would never, ever make that play.
Watch it again.
By the way, with the New England Patriots' passing game still in flux and Denver losing its center, this is the year to get it done in Houston.
The only thing more uncomfortable than seeing
A.J. Green spill awkwardly on "Hard Knocks" was
watching Cincinnati Bengals offensive coordinator Jay Gruden wilt after attempting to admonish
James Harrison about hitting players. The nervous laughter didn't seem to help much.
On the subject of Green, awkward spills involving little-to-no contact have destroyed guys' careers. Jamal Anderson in 1999 at Texas Stadium comes to mind. Robert Edwards, who rushed for 1,000 yards as a rookie with the New England Patriots in 1998, was an up-and-coming player like Green before leaping for a ball in a beach -- yes, beach -- flag football game. He was never the same. Anyway, disaster averted here for the Bengals.
If most of the teams ranked below the Baltimore Ravens weren't having serious issues or carrying RGIII-esque question marks, Baltimore would probably fall another spot. Since we last rated the Ravens, they lost tight end Dennis Pitta for the season -- a huge development. Look, is Pitta the second coming of Jason Witten? No. But he's pretty doggone good, and he was slotted to easily be the most favored target on third down, what with Anquan Boldin having been traded away. Now the Ravens are down a possession receiver. That means running back Ray Rice -- who many felt would be in a time share with Bernard Pierce this season -- will be on the field more. Rice is sure to eclipse his 61 catches from last year.
While the Green Bay Packers also suffered a Pitta-like blow, perhaps there shouldn't be an overreaction to tackle Bryan Bulaga's season-ender. After all, Green Bay's offensive line was already in the bottom half of the league. While coach Mike McCarthy treats the outcomes of preseason games with the seriousness of a 49-year-old man playing "The Legend of Zelda" on wine coolers, the Packers' complete lack of an explosive run game against the Arizona Cardinals the other night was a bit noticeable. The positive news: The Chicago Bears' O-line still stinks.
Everyone wonders exactly who Tom Brady will throw the football to this year; it's been a storyline for over a month now. But don't sleep on those New England Patriots running backs. Stevan Ridley (eight rushes, 92 yards against the Philadelphia Eagles on Friday) continues to show he is a premium back, and Shane Vereen made a sweet catch over Eagles linebacker Mychal Kendricks in that same game. Did you see LeGarrette Blount's touchdown run? Very Tony Dorsett-ish.
Last season,
Robert Griffin III was mostly healthy, but we didn't know who was going to step up in the passing game from one week to the next. If you started a
Washington Redskins receiver in fantasy, well ... you lost that week in fantasy. Different deal in Washington now, as tight end
Fred Davis is healthy,
Pierre Garcon has been absolutely tearing it up (figuratively, not in terms of ligaments) and
Aldrick Robinson has folks imagining 60-yard bombs off of play action. Robinson had
a rough preseason opener, but it was
the first preseason game.
As with many teams, health is the mitigating factor here. But if all goes well, the Redskins are the favorites in the NFC East.
Minnesota Vikings fans are pretty convinced that this is an 11-win team. It's possible. But did you see Christian Ponder's second toss on Friday night? Not good. That's OK ... Matt Cassel's interception was worse. The Vikes will go as far as their quarterback takes them, as this is a pretty solid ballclub otherwise. Thankfully, an MRI revealed no damage to the knee of Sharrif Floyd after the first-round pick was injured against the Texans.
Like the Vikings, who are stuck at 11 until they get something out of the quarterback position, the Indianapolis Colts will reside at 12 until the defense proves it can play. There are a lot of new faces in Indy, but they got some old results in their preseason opener. The defense was poor -- whether we're talking about the starters, the second-stringers or the future Olive Garden employees playing toward the end of the game. Yes, it was the first week of preseason. But at some point, this group has to show something.
Well, the Chicago Bears' defense still looks as disruptive as ever. (What a pick-six by rookie Jon Bostic against the Carolina Panthers.) The offensive line is still rough. (Did you see the seven sacks allowed Friday?) And, as if we needed any more recurring themes ... who knows what to make of Jay Cutler? It sure looked like Alshon Jeffery should've run through Cutler's first pass of the game. And it still is so difficult to judge the Bears starting quarterback when the line struggles as much as it has over the past few years ... or decade.
Neither Ryan Tannehill nor the Miami Dolphins as a whole looked particularly strong in the Hall of Fame Game, but things went much better in the follow-up. A huge key for this football team will be the protection of Tannehill, and there were some breakdowns in Jacksonville. But then Tannehill bought time and hit Dustin Keller on a 22-yard touchdown pass. The announcers called it a poorly thrown pass, but watch it again. Looks like the second-year quarterback knew exactly what he was doing, putting the ball behind the defensive back, where only his tight end could get it. Or maybe it was blind luck. Miami is still 14th.
Tom Coughlin's three favorite things: a) running late, b) a VHS copy of the 1999 AFC Championship Game, and c) running backs who fumble. Here's to New York Giants running back Andre Brown not getting the David Wilson treatment.
It wasn't the smoothest of starts in Cleveland. If you watched the St. Louis Rams' preseason opener, you saw their youth -- especially on defense. Browns quarterback Brandon Weeden took 'em apart. Then there was Isaiah Pead putting the ball on the ground. This kid got beaten out by a supremely motivated Daryl Richardson last preseason, and he's not doing himself any favors this time around. Still, there were bright spots, starting with Sam Bradford's play.
Sean Lee looks so solid at middle linebacker, word is the Dallas Cowboys would like him to play some guard. OK, maybe not, but finding a guard who is affordable and hasn't decided to go fishing for the entire fall has been a problem. Until that's solved -- Brian Waters? -- look for DeMarco Murray and the run game to struggle.
No one knows what to make of the Pittsburgh Steelers right now. The last time the club entered the season in a similar spell of mediocrity -- coming off a somewhat lackluster, playoff-free 2009 campaign -- Pittsburgh surprised many by making it all the way to Super Bowl XLV. Many in this bidness believe rookie running back Le'Veon Bell could be the key to the Steelers turning things around, providing Ben Roethlisberger some much-needed ground support. The kid was held out of action last weekend with knee stiffness, but we should get a long look at him next Monday night in Washington.
Took in a fair amount of the San Diego Chargers' preseason opener against the Seattle Seahawks, and I can't help but think that the Bolts could be a sleeper team in 2013 -- a true sleeper. (If everyone keeps chatting up the Kansas City Chiefs, then you can't really say they're under the radar, right?) San Diego's offense made some plays against Seattle's stout D. Meanwhile, the defense stifled Russell Wilson and the Seahawks' first-team offense -- two drives, two punts. Thinking former Dallas Cowboys tight end John Phillips can bring this club some value in 2013.
Well, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers got thumped by the defending Super Bowl champs. OK, but as my colleague Dave Dameshek says, watching preseason ball is like watching Civil War reenactments. (My cousin looks like one of those re-enactor guys, with his gray, permed half-mullet, but I digress.) It would be nice to see the Bucs supply Josh Freeman with an effective target at tight end. In theory, Luke Stocker could be that guy, but he just got activated from the PUP list and hasn't done much since entering the league in 2011. Yes, that was Tom Crabtree you saw running for 60-some-odd yards Thursday night.
Given how cocky Rob Ryan has been, it's difficult to ever feel sorry for the guy. And yet, here comes some sympathy. As the
Cowboys' defensive coordinator last season, he lost half his troops to injury -- which led to the defense forcing no turnovers and allowing gobs of yards. This season, the newly minted
New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator already has lost two guys brought over from his
Cowboys regime:
Victor Butler and
Kenyon Coleman. While neither is a premier player, the
Saints' defense needs all the help it can get after giving up 454 points in 2012 (
second-worst in the league). And it was a bit worrisome seeing the
Kansas City Chiefs starters march 80 yards to pay-dirt
on the opening drive of Friday's preseason opener.
Word is Ryan was so desperate for healthy ex- Cowboys that the team signed Patrick Crayton.
When it comes to training camp, most coaches feel competition is the key to everything. Yet that axiom doesn't seem to apply to the Carolina Panthers' receiving corps. Oh, sure, Domenik Hixon, Ted Ginn Jr., Armanti Edwards and some other receivers whose jerseys you'll never buy are competing at WR3. But what about the deuce? Brandon LaFell has done very little thus far at the pro level, yet he sits atop the depth chart opposite Steve Smith. The latter has enjoyed a fantastic career, but he's 34. Hey, if the Panthers can ride this group to a wild-card berth, more power to 'em.
Yes, that was Brandon Weeden you saw making plays the other night. The soon-to-be 30-year-old went 10-for-13 Thursday night, with no less than 10 throws coming out of the 'gun. That Norv Turner is one smart football mind; the offensive coordinator routinely had Weeden in comfortable positions. Even Bernie didn't think it was horrible.
OK, so it might have come off the hand of Mark Sanchez -- doesn't mean Ziggy Ansah's pick-six wasn't sweet. The fifth overall pick in the 2013 NFL Draft also got in on two tackles during his time on the field against the New York Jets on Friday night. As much pub as the Detroit Lions' defensive front has received over the past few years, the actual results have been mostly underwhelming. If Ansah plays like that, and Nick Fairley plays more than the 500 snaps he logged in 2012 (a low number), we might see some disruptive football in Detroit after all.
On the set of
"NFL Fantasy Live" on Monday, my colleagues gushed over
Larry Fitzgerald's potential with
Carson Palmer at quarterback. Of course, it all depends on protection -- the
Arizona Cardinals gave up nearly 60 sacks last year. Well, so far, so good: Arizona allowed just one sack in 30 drop-backs
at Green Bay.
On a sad note ... I mentioned Cardinals rookie wideout Ryan Swope in this space last time. Unfortunately, Swope had to call it quits before he ever got started due to lingering concussion symptoms. Hate to see a kid have to give up the dream -- his dream -- so quickly.
Lost in the Riley Cooper shuffle: how much losing Jeremy Maclin means to coach Chip Kelly's offense. Maclin was often the "X" receiver in the Eagles' offense, a spot that the aforementioned Cooper will have to fill, especially with Jason Avant now manning the slot. And with Arrelious Benn (knee) also out, tight end Clay Harbor has logged some reps outside. The passing game in Philly should be interesting come opening night at Washington, and not just because of whoever's at quarterback.
At first glance, it appeared Chris Johnson's home run in the preseason opener against the Redskins was more the result of an overambitious upfield rush by Brian Orakpo than it was an epic run by CJ2K. But take a second look. Johnson saw a backside hole with his peripheral vision and, after taking a few steps toward the onside hole, went against the grain in an instant -- definitely too quick for Orakpo to recover from his exuberance. If the Titans have a determined Chris Johnson this season, look out.
Let the
Alex Smith bandwagon-boarding begin. That was a nice opening outing for Smith and the
Kansas City Chiefs' first-string offense
down in New Orleans. Almost as important is how well
Dontari Poe comes on at nose tackle in his second year, as well as what free-agent acquisition
Mike DeVito can give new defensive coordinator Bob Sutton up front. Kansas City got beat at the point too often last year.
Power Rankings side note: This is the squad most primed for a surge, at least among the bottom-tier teams.
Amazing how standards have changed for rookie quarterbacks. EJ Manuel was 16-for-21 and posted a passer rating of 102.7 against the Colts on Sunday ... only to receive reviews of "He looked pretty good." Dude, it was his first dance in the NFL! Manuel went 9-for-9 with a touchdown in the two-minute drill -- who cares if it wasn't against starters. More than any other franchise in the NFL, the Buffalo Bills need something to galvanize the organization. It's here.
I don't want to jinx a New York Jets club that's been somewhat jinxed since 1969, but first-round draft pick Dee Milliner sure looked good when the Detroit Lions tested him deep Friday night. Fans are still excited about rookie quarterback Geno Smith -- never mind the recent criticism, or the fact that his popularity likely stems from the fact that his name isn't Mark Sanchez -- but the reality is that Milliner will likely be the superior player this season. On the subject of young players, receiver Stephen Hill stepping up his game should be huge for the Jets.
How do we feel about seeing those new Jacksonville Jaguars uniforms in action? It's tough wrapping your brain around that wraparound gold fade over the backside of the helmet. Thinking it's growing on me ... would love to hear your take ( @Harrison_NFL is the place). Meanwhile, irrespective of stats or the starting wideouts not playing, Chad Henne looks better out on the field than the other guy. It's that simple.
General manager Reggie McKenzie and the Oakland Raiders' coaching staff are developing a bunch of pups, which is exactly what the organization should be doing. One of those guys is seventh-round draft pick Brice Butler, who ran a 4.36-second 40-yard dash at his pro day. Against the Dallas Cowboys last Friday, Butler had a 40-yard catch-and-run, followed by a delicious 30-yard touchdown grab. Yo Delicious!!! Watch this kid.
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VISION-BASED STUDIES FOR STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING AND CONDITION ASSESSMENT by Mohammad Reza Jahanshahi A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CIVIL ENGINEERING) August 2011 Copyright 2011 Mohammad Reza Jahanshahi
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|Automated health monitoring and maintenance of civil infrastructure systems is an active yet challenging area of research. Current structure inspection standards require an inspector to visually assess structure conditions. A less time-consuming and inexpensive alternative to current monitoring methods is to use a robotic system that can inspect structures more frequently, and perform autonomous damage detection. Nondestructive evaluation techniques (NDE) are innovative approaches for structural health monitoring. Among several possible techniques, the use of optical instrumentation (e.g., digital cameras), image processing and computer vision are promising approaches as nondestructive testing methods for structural health monitoring to complement sensor-based approaches. The feasibility of using image processing techniques to detect deterioration in structures has been acknowledged by leading researches in the field. This study represents the efforts that have been taken place by the author to form, implement, and evaluate several vision-based approaches that are promising for robust condition assessment of structures. ❧ It is well-recognized that civil infrastructure monitoring approaches that rely on visual approaches will continue to be an important methodology for condition assessment of such systems. Part of this study presents and evaluates the underlying technical elements for the development of an integrated inspection software tool that is based on the use of inexpensive digital cameras. For this purpose, digital cameras are appropriately mounted on a structure (e.g., a bridge) and can zoom or rotate in three directions (similar to traffic cameras). They are remotely controlled by an inspector, which allows the visual assessment of the structure's condition by looking at images captured by the cameras. By not having to travel to the structures site, other issues related to safety considerations and traffic detouring are consequently bypassed. The proposed system gives an inspector the ability to compare the current (visual) situation of a structure with its former condition. If an inspector notices a defect in the current view, he/she can request a reconstruction of the same view using images that were previously captured and automatically stored in a database. Furthermore, by generating databases that consist of periodically captured images of a structure, the proposed system allows an inspector to evaluate the evolution of changes by simultaneously comparing the structure's condition at different time periods. The essential components of the proposed virtual image reconstruction system are: keypoint detection, keypoint matching, image selection, outlier exclusion, bundle adjustment, composition, and cropping. Several illustrative examples are presented to demonstrate the capabilities, as well as the limitations, of the proposed vision-based inspection procedure. ❧ Visual inspection of structures is a highly qualitative method. If a region is inaccessible, binoculars must be used to detect and characterize defects. Although several NDE methods have been proposed for inspection purposes, they are nonadaptive and cannot quantify crack thickness reliably. A contact-less remote-sensing crack detection and quantification methodology based on 3D scene reconstruction (computer vision), image processing, and pattern recognition concepts is introduced. The proposed approach utilizes depth perception to detect cracks and quantify their thickness, thereby giving a robotic inspection system the ability to analyze images captured from any distance and using any focal length or resolution. This unique adaptive feature is especially useful for incorporating mobile systems, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), into structural inspection methods since it would allow inaccessible regions to be properly inspected for cracks. Guidelines are presented for optimizing the acquisition and processing of images, thereby enhancing the quality and reliability of the damage detection approach and allowing the capture of even the slightest cracks (e.g., detection of 0.1 mm cracks from a distance of 20 m), which are routinely encountered in realistic field applications where the camera-object distance and image contrast are not controllable. ❧ Corrosion is another crucial defect in structural systems that can lead to catastrophe if it is neglected. A novel adaptive approach based on multi-resolution wavelet analysis, color analysis and depth perception is proposed that drastically improves the performance of the defect detection algorithm. 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Tiburon to record every car coming and going
A novel anti-crime surveillance program that will record the license plate number of every car entering and leaving Tiburon should be up and running within six months, officials said Thursday.
The Town Council voted 4-0 late Wednesday - with Vice Mayor Miles Berger absent - to install six cameras that recognize license plate characters on Tiburon Boulevard and Paradise Drive. Those are the only two roads that feed into the Tiburon peninsula, which also includes the smaller city of Belvedere on its southwestern edge.
Tiburon will be the first community in the Bay Area, and perhaps the country, to line its borders with the cameras, which have drawn criticism from privacy rights advocates.
Plates will be compared to databases of stolen or wanted cars, with matches triggering an immediate alert to local officers. If detectives are investigating a crime, they will be able to search the records to try to find possible suspects.
"I think it makes the community safer," Police Chief Michael Cronin said. He said the town still needs to select a camera vendor and secure construction permits before installing the system.
Tiburon and Belvedere are affluent communities with low crime rates, and some residents at Wednesday's meeting said the cameras would help keep it that way.
"If it lowers the crime rate even a little bit, then it's a great idea," said Yami Anolik, a 64-year-old real estate investor whose husband, Al Anolik, spoke in favor of the cameras at the meeting.
She said she did not share the privacy concerns of some of her neighbors, explaining, "If you're driving on a public road, you gave up your privacy already. If you want to be private, stay at home."
William Rothman, a 72-year-old retired physician from Belvedere, spoke against the cameras, saying he had concerns that went beyond the "creeping invasion of our privacy rights."
He said he was concerned that detectives armed with a list of hundreds of cars that entered Tiburon around the time of a crime would profile suspects based on where they were from and what they drove.
He also worries that a stolen car alert could prompt a dangerous confrontation on busy Tiburon Boulevard. Noting the low crime rates in Tiburon and Belvedere, he said, "This is overkill. It's like going after a flea with a cannon."
Cronin said the license plate data will be kept for 30 days and then erased. It will not be available to the public. Officers can mine the data only in connection with crimes, Cronin said, and the program will keep a record of exactly what information police examine.
License plate readers have become a common police tool in the past several years. Agencies have primarily mounted the cameras on patrol cars, not at fixed locations, but that may be changing.
The project is expected to cost from $137,000 to $197,000. Tiburon will spend $45,000 to $85,000, Town Manager Peggy Curran said, after grants and contributions from two other governments that could benefit - Belvedere and Marin County.


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An arc is a segment of the perimeter of a given circle. The measure of an arc is measured as an angle, this could be in radians or degrees (more on radians later). The exact measure of the arc is determined by the measure of the angle formed when a line is drawn from the center of the circle to each end point. As an example the circle below has an arc cut out of it with a measure of 30 degrees.
As I mentioned before an arc can be measured in degrees or radians. A radian is merely a different method for measuring an angle. If we take a unit circle (which has a radius of 1 unit), then if we take an arc with the length equal to 1 unit, and draw line from each endpoint to the center of the circle the angle formed is equal to 1 radian. this concept is displayed below, in this circle an arc has been cut off by an angle of 1 radian, and therefore the length of the arc is equal to because the radius is 1.
From this definition we can say that on the unit circle a single radian is equal to radians because the perimeter of a unit circle is equal to . Another useful property of this definition that will be extremely useful to anyone who studies arcs is that the length of an arc is equal to its measure in radians multiplied by the radius of the circle.
Converting to and from radians is a fairly simple process. 2 facts are required to do so, first a circle is equal to 360 degrees, and it is also equal to . using these 2 facts we can form the following formula:
, thus 1 degree is equal to radians.
From here we can simply multiply by the number of degrees to convert to radians. for example if we have 20 degrees and want to convert to radians then we proceed as follows:
The same sort of argument can be used to show the formula for getting 1 radian.
, thus 1 radian is equal to
- Geometry
- Part I- Euclidean Geometry:
- Chapter 1. Geometry/Points, Lines, Line Segments and Rays
- Chapter 2. Geometry/Angles
- Chapter 3. Geometry/Properties
- Chapter 4. Geometry/Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
- Chapter 5. Geometry/Proof
- Chapter 6. Geometry/Five Postulates of Euclidean Geometry
- Chapter 7. Geometry/Vertical Angles
- Chapter 8. Geometry/Parallel and Perpendicular Lines and Planes
- Chapter 9. Geometry/Congruency and Similarity
- Chapter 10. Geometry/Congruent Triangles
- Chapter 11. Geometry/Similar Triangles
- Chapter 12. Geometry/Quadrilaterals
- Chapter 13. Geometry/Parallelograms
- Chapter 14. Geometry/Trapezoids
- Chapter 15. Geometry/Circles/Radii, Chords and Diameters
- Chapter 16. Geometry/Circles/Arcs
- Chapter 17. Geometry/Circles/Tangents and Secants
- Chapter 18. Geometry/Circles/Sectors
- Appendix A. Geometry/Postulates & Definitions
- Appendix B. Geometry/The SMSG Postulates for Euclidean Geometry
- Part II- Coordinate Geometry:
- Two and Three-Dimensional Geometry and Other Geometric Figures
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The Crew were almost too patient defensively and waited until the late stages of the match on the offensive end, but a goal from Andres Mendoza in the 87th minute was enough for a 1-0 victory over Mexico's Santos Laguna in a Group B CONCACAF Champions League match on Tuesday.
The result gave the Crew their third win of the tournament and a two-point edge over Santos atop Group B with just two matches left in group play. It's increasingly likely that the Crew – who avenged a 1-0 loss to Santos during the teams' first match in Mexico on Aug. 24 – are on their way to the quarterfinals for the second straight year if they can avoid a meltdown from here on out.
Mendoza's goal came with the help of teammate Jason Garey, as well as Santos defender Jonathan Lacerda. Garey fed a pass to Mendoza who promptly flubbed it, but the ball skipped off Lacerda and back to Mendoza, who pounced with a shot from 23 yards into the lower right corner of the goal.
Columbus improved to 3-5-1 against Mexican teams all-time in CONCACAF competitions.Both team's next tournament games are Sept. 29 with the Crew at Municipal (Guatemala) and Santos hosting Joe Public of Trinidad.
The Crew's best scoring chance prior to Mendoza's goal came in the 71st minute, and was one of the few scoring chances for either team in the match. Garey outraced goalkeeper Miguel Becerra for a through ball from Emmanuel Ekpo, but his left-footed toe-poke rolled slowly across the goalmouth and out of harm's way.
There was little action in front of the Crew net until Jose Cardenas put a free kick from 25 yards toward the right post only to see goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum in perfect position for the easy save in the 83rd.
There's always a question of how teams will approach these midweek matches, and Santos left leading scorer Christian Benitez at home. They did start four who also were in the first XI on Saturday for a Primera Division win over Necaxa.
For Tuesday's match, Los Guerreros' starting lineup had eight players who did likewise in the first meeting with the Crew on Aug. 24 as well as two substitutes who saw the field vs. Columbus. One of those reserves in Mexico was defender Jorge Estrada, who scored the only goal of the match in the 93rd minute.
The Crew had a few revisions beginning at the top with top goal scorer Guillermo Barros Schelotto on the bench alongside his partner Steven Lenhart. They were replaced by Renteria and Mendoza.
Gruenebaum started his fourth straight Champions League game for William Hesmer and rookie left back Shaun Francis returned as a starter after Danny O'Rourke got the nod Saturday vs. Seattle Sounders FC. O'Rourke is out because of back spasms.
The Crew suffered a blow in the 65th minute when Oribe Peralta kicked Chad Marshall in the head and the MLS Defender of the Year in 2008 and '09 had to leave the match.
Scoring summary:
CLB – Andres Mendoza 87'
Misconduct summary:
CLB – Eddie Gaven (caution: delay,) 41'
SAN – Oribe Peralta (caution: dangerous play) 64'
CLB – Kevin Burns (caution: Dissent) 73'
CLB – Frankie Hejduk (caution: Reckless tackle) 93'
SANTOS – Miguel Becerra; Jorge "Ivan" Estrada, Rafael Figueroa, Juan Santiago, Jose Olvera (Jose Cardenas, 65'); Jaime Toledo, Francisco Torres (Fernando Arce, 71') Jonathan Lacerda; Rodrigo Ruiz, Oribe Peralta, Carlos Quintero (Daniel Luduena, 46').
COLUMBUS – Andy Gruenebaum; Frankie Hejduk, Chad Marshall (Eric Brunner, 67'), Andy Iro, Shaun Francis; Emmanuel Ekpo, Kevin Burns, Brian Carroll, Eddie Gaven; Emilio Renteria (Jason Garey, 46'), Andres Mendoza (Steven Lenhart, 88').
Referee: Courtney Campbell
Referee's Assistants: Anthony Garwood, Ricardo Morgan
4th Official: Baldomero Toledo
Weather: Partly cloudy, 86 degrees
Attendance: 6,298
Recap: Crew vs. Santos Laguna
The Crew were almost too patient defensively and waited until the late stages of the match on the offensive end, but a goal from Andres Mendoza in the 87th minute was enough for a 1-0 victory over Mexico's Santos Laguna in a Group B CONCACAF Champions League match on Tuesday.


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I've seen other movies with Elizabeth Taylor in them. She is particularly wonderful as a sickly child serenely accepting her impending death in the Orson Welles version of Jayne Eyre. Still, her performance as Maggie in Tennessee Williams's steamy Southern melodrama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is what I'll always remember most vividly.
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There's not much girls hockey playoff history between Mounds View High School and White Bear Lake but they're making up for it quickly. The Mustangs and Bears squared off in the Section 4AA semifinals for the second consecutive season and they are now 1-1 in those two meetings.
White Bear Lake evened the score by beating Mounds View 2-1 in overtime on Feb. 14 at Aldrich Arena.
Mounds View won last year's playoff match-up against White Bear Lake 2-0 and then lost to Hill-Murray in the section final.
White Bear Lake opened the scoring in this year's meeting just 2:22 into the game. Mounds View answered nine minutes later on Rachel Anderson's power-play goal that was assisted by Annika Brodt and Kaiya Quam.
That would be it for the scoring until overtime. Mounds View outshot the Bears 22-12 in the second and third periods but couldn't get anything past White Bear Lake netminder Calla Frank.
In the overtime, White Bear's Sydney Shearen got free in the Mounds View zone and tucked a shot inside the far post to beat Mustangs' goalie Teagen Johnson for the game-winner.
Johnson finished with 20 saves on 22 shots faced while Frank stopped 33 of Mounds View's 34 shots.
Mounds View gained the semifinals by rolling past Woodbury 5-0 in the quarterfinals on Feb. 11.
The win sent the Bears to the section final, where they lost 4-1 to Hill-Murray.
Hill-Murray advances to this week's state tournament and is the No. 3 seed. The Pioneers open the tournament on Feb. 23 against unseeded Eastview.
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SHANGHAI, May 20 (Reuters) - Humor may not always translate well, but Jon Stewart is picking up millions of fans in China, where his gloves-off political satire is refreshing for many in a country where such criticism is a rarity - especially when directed at their own leaders.
A recent segment on North Korea scored over 4 million views on microblogger Sina Weibo, and even stodgy state broadcaster CCTV has used Stewart's "The Daily Show" in a report, though they wouldn't let a Chinese version of him near their cameras.
Recent popular sequences have included one in which Stewart lampooned the Chinese hackers who hacked into the New York Times computer system earlier this year, wondering if that was the best they could do.
But far from squelching Stewart, CCTV even used one of his sequences on Guantanamo Bay to criticise Obama in a regular broadcast - a move widely derided by netizens.
In China, however, such criticism tends not to be welcomed by the government. Dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who regularly criticises the government for what he sees as its flouting of the rule of law and human rights, was detained for 81 days in 2011, sparking an international outcry.
"There's nothing like political satire here," said David Moses, who studies and writes about Chinese humour.
Though the exact timing of Stewart's entrance to China is unclear, many have been watching him for four or five years, mainly through the Internet and Weibo.
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Recent articles about lavish benefits and ketchup choices have sparked many conversations in our community about the lack of understanding of the military lifestyle. Many feel that our civilian friends just don't understand what it's like. There are feelings of frustration and anger pitted against the sacrifices made during these past 12 years of war. As a military spouse, I can identify with the emotions these conversations evoke.
However, I'll be the first to admit that I don't know what it is like to be the wife of a firefighter or police officer. I don't know what it is like to have a long haul truck driver, a pilot, a teacher, or a chef in my family. My point is no one knows what it is really like on the other side. There are many inaccuracies and misunderstandings, but as military families, we have to face the fact that we hold some responsibility. We need to share our story, educate the community, and speak up for ourselves.
There are several resources to help. One in particular is the movie, Flat Daddy, now available on DVD. Flat Daddy follows four families who used "Flat Daddies," life-sized cardboard cutouts of their loved ones to ease the pain of separations. Filmed over the course of a year, the film explored the impact of war on those left behind. The filmmakers' primary goal was to raise awareness about the challenges military families face and the long-term effects war can have on families.
Other great tools include the How to Help Military and Veteran Families print series that offers valuable information to families, friends, neighbors, and teachers to assist and support members of the military, their families, and veterans. Also, check out our Community Toolkit with action items and useful resources for anyone who wants to stand behind military families. For a lighthearted take, read Sarah Smiley's Dinner with the Smileys, the story of an adventurous mission Sarah embarked on with her sons to fill the empty chair at the dinner table during her husband's deployment. Each week the Smileys invited a guest for dinner and learned important lessons about families and the community.
What I've learned in the last several years is that I need my family and friends. They understand what my life is like, but that is only because they've had the chance to learn. We have to be brave enough to share and educate.
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Yes there are many misconceptions on the benifits that the military get. One of the may things that upset me about these benifits is that they are abused not only by the lower enlisted but also by the middle ranks. I've seen pictures in the local paper of a SSG picking up his holiday Thanksgiving meal from a church because he was a solider in need and get into his 2009 Chevy Impala. Who can figure. Or how about the few people that live in Gov quarters and live like pigs tear up the quarters and then coomplain about having to pay for the damages. I must be out of room but there is more,.


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Time Travel and Timeslip books I've reviewed, sorted by time period
A regular feature here at my blog is "Timeslip Tuesday," a day on which I try to review a timeslip, or time travel, book. I prefer "timeslip," at term more commonly used in the UK, because of its connotations of the slippiness of time (things reverberating across the centuries), whereas "time travel" has a much more solid feel of people moving from one time to another. So in some of the books I call timeslip stories, there isn't much time travel qua travel at all... However, the title of this page is "time travel books" just because I think more people are familiar with that term.
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The ancient past (8):
Dinosaur Dream, by Dennis Nolan (1990) picture book
Katy and the Dinosaurs, by James Mayhew (1991) picture book
Charlie and Kiwi, an Evolutionary Adventure, by Peter H. Reynolds (2011) picture book
Terra Tempo: Ice Age Cataclysm, by David Shapiro(2010) elementary/mg graphic novel
Stig of the Dump, by Clive King (1962) mg (travel to Stone Age England; also travel to the present)
11,000 Years Lost, by Peni R. Griffin (2004), mg
Hawksbill Station, by Robert Silverberg (1968), adult
*The Many-Colored Land, by Julian May (1981), adult (but with lots of ya appeal)
Ancient Egypt
Cat in the Mirror, by Mary Stolz (1975) mg
Abracadabra Tut, by Page McBriar (2014) mg
The Long Lost Map, by Pierdomenico Baccalario (2006) mg
Ancient Europe (Pre-Romans/Greeks) (3):
On Etruscan Time, by Tracy Barrett (2005) mg
Helping Hercules, by Francesca Simon (2014) elementary/mg
The Iron Empire, by James Dashner (2014) mg
Romans (1):
The Green Bronze Mirror, by Lynne Ellison (1966) mg
Running Out of Time, by Elizabeth Levy (1980) mg
The Dark Ages of Europe, ie up to about 1000 A.D. (7):
Knights of the Kitchen Table, by Jon Scieszka (1991) elementary/mg
The Hill Road, by William Mayne (1968 UK, 1969 US), mg
The Sword of Culann, by Betty Levin (1973) mg
Ravine, by Janet Hickman (2002) mg
The Taker and the Keeper, by Win Coleman and Pat Perrin (2009) mg
Divide and Conquer (Infinity Ring 2), by Carrie Ryan (2012) mg
*A String in the Harp, by Nancy Bond (1976) mg/ya
Lest Darkness Fall, by L. Sprague De Camp (1939) adult
The European Middle Ages (18):
The Gauntlet, by Ronald Welch (1951) mg
Astercote, by Penelope Lively (1970) mg (although no-one goes quite all the way back in time, and possibly the echoes of the medieval village are coming forward)
Over the Sea's Edge by Jane Louise Curry (1971) also travel to North America in that time period
In the Keep of Time, by Margaret J. Anderson (1977)
The Trolley to Yesterday, by John Bellairs (1989) (Constantinople, 1453) mg
A Well-Timed Enchantment, by Vivian Vande Velde (1990) mg
The Battle for Duncragglin, by Andrew H. Vanderwal (2009) mg
The Puzzle Ring, by Kate Forsyth (2009) mg
Sent, by Margeret Peterson Haddix (2009) mg
Ghost Knight, by Cornelia Funke (2012) mg
The Mysterious Manuscript, by Lars Jakobsen (2012) mg graphic novel
The Secrets of Hexbridge Castle, by Gabrielle Kent (2016 in the US); the time travel to the past happens when the main character is a baby, and sets things in motion, but isn't the point of the book.
Crusade in Jeans, by Thea Beckman (1973 in Holland, 1975 in the US) mg/ya
The Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis (1992) ya/adult
The Sterkarm Handshake, by Susan Price (1998) ya
Old Magic, by Marianne Curley (2001) ya
Black Powder, by Staton Rabin (2005) ya
Wildwing, by Emily Whitman (2010) ya
My Unfair Godmother, by Janette Rallison (2011) ya
Renaissance Europe (2)
Mutiny in Time, by James Dashner (2012) mg
Saving Juliet, by Suzanne Selfors (2008) ya
Elizabethan/early Stuart British Isles (9):
The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard, by Gregory Rogers (2004) picture book
A Traveller in Time, by Alison Uttley (1939) mg
The Bassumtyte Treasure, by Jane Louise Curry (1975) mg
The Time Tangle, by Frances Eager (1976) mg
Poor Tom's Ghost, by Jane Louise Curry (1977), mg
Webster's Leap, aka Castle Gryffe, by Eileen Dunlop (1995) mg
The Black Canary, by Jane Louise Curry (2005) mg
Kissing Shakespeare, by Pamela Mingle (2012) ya
In the Garden of Iden, by Kage Baker (1997) adult
Historic Near East
Cave of Wonders (Infinity Ring 4) by Matthew Kirby (2013)
Historic India (1):
The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2005) mg
Historic China (1):
Along the River, by Adeline Yen Mah (2010) ya
16th Century Mesoamerica (1)
Curse of the Ancients (Infinity Ring 3), by Matt de la Pena (2013) mg
17th century Europe (4):
Phyllis Wong and the Return of the Conjuror, by Geoffrey McSkimming (2014 Australia)
Children of Winter, by Berlie Doherty (1985) mg/ya
Requiem for a Princess, by Ruth M. Arthur (1976) ya
The Devil on the Road, by Robert Westall (1978) ya
*1632 by Eric Flint (2000) adult
Late 16th/17th-century USA (6):
Lavendar-Green Magic, by Andre Norton (1974)
Parsley Sage, Rosemary & Time, by Jane Louise Curry (1975) mg
The 13th Floor, by Sid Fleischman (1995) mg
Sabotaged, by Margaret Peterson Haddix (2010) mg
Torn, by Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011) mg
Another Whole Nother Story, by Dr. Cuthbert Soup (2011) mg
18th-century USA (2):
George Washington's Socks, by Elvira Woodruff (1991) mg
Look Ahead, Look Back, by Annette Laing (2012) mg/tending YA
18th-century Europe (5):
The Mysterious Girl in the Garden, by Judith St. George (1981)
Gideon the Cutpurse (US title The Time Travelers), by Linda Buckley-Archer (2006) mg
The Time Travelling Fashionista at the Palace of Marie Antoinette, by Bianca Turetsky (2012) mg
The Crimson Shard, by Teresa Flavin (2011 in the UK, 2012 in the US), mg/younger YA
The Middle Window, by Elizabeth Goudge (1939) adult
19th-century (40)
The Snowstorm, by Beryl Netherclift (1967) mg
Twin Spell, aka Double Spell, by Janet Lunn (1969) mg
*The Court of the Stone Children, by Eleanor Cameron (1973) mg
Come Back, Lucy (American title Mirror of Danger) by Pamela Sykes (1977) mg
Sky Pony, by Elaine Breault Hammond (2010) mg
A Stitch in Time, by Penelope Lively (1976) mg
The Secret of the Ruby Ring, by Yvonne MacGrory (1994) mg
A Different Day, a Different Destiny, by Annette Laing (2009) (also 19th cent. USA) mg
Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms, by Lissa Evans (2012) mg
Mira's Diary: Lost in Paris, by Marissa Moss (2012) mg
The Other Face, by Barbara C. Freeman (1976) ya
Beyond Silence, by Eleanor Cameron (1980) ya
Prada and Prejudice, by Mandy Hubbard (2009) ya
The River of No Return, by Bee Ridgeway (2013) adult
Playing Beatie Bow, by Ruth Park (1980) ya
The Locket of Dreams, by Belinda Murrell (2009, 2013) mg (also time travel to 19th cent. Scotland)
Twin Spell, aka Double Spell, by Janet Lunn (1969)
Just in Time, Abraham Lincoln, by Patricia Polacco (2011) picture book
Dayshaun's Gift, by Zetta Elliott (2015)
Time at the Top, by Edward Ormondroyd (1963) mg, and its sequel, All In Good Time (1975)
Mazemaker, by Catherine Dexter (1989) mg
Friends in Time, by Grace Chatwin (1992) mg
Double Spell, by Janet Lunn (2003, but originally 1971 as Twin Spell) mg
Stonewall Hinckleman and the Battle of Bull Run, by Michael Hemphill & Sam Riddleburger (2009) mg
Freedom Stone, by Jeffrey Kluger (2011) mg
Bridge of Time, by Lewis Buzbee (2012) mg (there's brief time travellings to other periods, but it's mainly set in 1864)
The Fire Chronicle, by John Stephens (2012) mg
*The Wells Bequest, by Polly Shulman (2013) mg
The Trap Door (Infinity Ring Book 3), by Lisa McMann (2013) mg
Turning on a Dime, by Maggie Dana (2014) mg
The Book That Proves Time Travel Happens, by Henry Clark (2015) mg
Flashback Four: the Lincoln Project, by Dan Gutman (2016) mg
Trapped Between the Lash and the Gun, by Arvella Whitmore (1999) mg/ya
The Freedom Maze, by Delia Sherman (2011) mg/ya
Little Women and Me, by Lauren Baratz-Logsted (2011) mg/ya
Silent Echoes, by Carla Jablonski (2007) ya
Tennyson, by Leslie Blume (2008) ya
A Wish After Midnight, by Zetta Elliott (2009) ya
Always a Witch, by Carolyn MacCullough (2011) ya
The Queen Must Die, by K.A.S. Quinn (2010) ya
Kindred, by Octavia Butler (1979) adult
Late 19th/early 20th century Europe and North America (13):
The Secret Box, by Barbara Lehman (2011) picture book
Fog Magic, by Julia L. Sauer (1943) mg
*Caterpillar Hall, by Anne Barrett (1950) mg
Tom's Midnight Garden, by Phillipa Pearce (1958) mg
Jessamy, by Barbara Sleigh (1967) mg
House in the Wood (US title A Sound of Crying), by Rodie Sudbery (1968 UK, 1970 US) mg
*The Ghosts (retitled The Amazing Mr. Blunden in 1972), by Antonia Barber (1969) mg
In a Blue Velvet Dress, by Catherine Sefton (1973) mg
Romansgrove, by Mable Esther Allan (1975) mg
*A Flute in Mayferry Street, (US title The House on Mayferry Street) by Eileen Dunlop (1976) mg
Can I Get There by Candlelight? by Jean Slaughter Doty (1980) mg
The Doll in the Garden, by Mary Downing Hahn (1989) mg
Stonewords, by Pam Conrad (1991) mg
One Way or Another, by Annette Laing (2016) mg (Georgia and London)
"Young Woman in a Garden" by Delia Sherman (2014) adult
The Titanic (2)
The Time-Travelling Fashionista, by Bianca Turetsky (2011) mg
Ghost of the Titanic, by Julie Lawson (2011/2012) mg
World War I (4):
*Charlotte Sometimes, by Penelope Farmer (1969) mg
Day of the Assassins, by Johnny O'Brien (2009) upper mg/YA
The Jewel and the Key, by Louise Spiegler (2011) YA
Crow Country, by Kate Constable (2012) YA -- just after WW I in Australia
World War II (17):
Crocuses Were Over, Hitler Was Dead (Now and Then in the UK), by Geraldine Symons (1977) mg
The Devil's Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen (1988) mg
Johnny and the Bomb, by Terry Pratchett (1996) mg
At the Firefly Gate, by Linda Newbery (2004) mg
Don't Know Where, Don't Know When, by Annette Laing (2007) mg (also a bit of WW I)
Ghost of Heroes Past, by Charles Read (2010) mg (also a bit of WW I)
Behind Enemy Lines (Infinity Ring 6), by Jennifer A. Nielsen (2013)
Haunters, by Thomas Taylor (2013) mg/ya
Time to Go Back, by Mabel Esther Allan (1972) ya
London Calling, by Edward Bloor (2006) ya
The Clearing, by Heather Davis (2010) ya
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs (2011) ya
Dark Mirror, by M.J. Putney (2010) ya
Dark Passage, by M.J. Putney (2011) ya
*"Fire Watch", by Connie Willis (1982) adult
Blackout, by Connie Willis (2010) adult
All Clear, by Connie Willis (2010) adult
20th-Century Europe (9):
The Children Next Door, by Jean Ure (1994)
Beswitched, by Kate Saunders (2010) mg
Tilly's Moonlight Garden (UK Title: Tilly's Moonlight Fox), by Julia Green (2012) mg
North of Nowhere, by Liz Kessler (2013) mg
Back to Blackbrick, by Sarah Moorse (2013) mg/ya
The Truth Against the World, by Sarah Jamila Stevenson (2014) mg/ya
Changing Times, by Tim Kennemore (1984) ya
Frannie in Pieces, by Delia Ephron (2007) ya
Still She Wished For Company, by Margaret Irwin (1924) ya/adult (although it also has a bit of time travel back to the late 18th century)
20th-Century North America (19):
The Backwards Watch, by Eric Houghton (1991) picture book
Harlem Renaissance Party, by Faith Ringold (2015) picture book
The Girl Who Slipped Through Time, by Paula Hendrich (1978) mg
The People in Pineapple Place, by Anne Lindbergh (1982)
Building Blocks, by Cynthia Voight (1984)
Time Windows, by Kathryn Reiss (1991)
Dreamer, Wisher, Liar, by Clarise Mericle Harper (2014)
The Magic Half, by Annie Barrows (2008) mg
On the Blue Comet, 1920s to 1940s, by Rosemary Wells (2010), mg
Roberto and Me, mostly 1969, but also the future, by Dan Gutman (2010) mg
Saving Lucas Biggs, 1938, by Marisa de los Santos and David Teague (2014) mg
Seven Stories Up, 1937, by Laurel Snyder (2014) mg
Backtracked, by Pedro de Alcantara (2009) ya
Small Eternities, by Michael Laurence (2004) ya
TimeRiders, by Alex Scarrow (2010) mg/ya
Timeless, 1910, 1920s, 1940s, by Alexandra Monir, (2011), ya
Wishful Thinking, by Alexandra Bullen (2011) ya
Yesterday, by C.K. Kelly Martin (2012) ya
Are You Experienced? by Jordan Sonnenblick (2013) ya
Until We Meet Again, by Renee Collins (2016) ya
A variety of time periods (45):
The Magic Mirror, by Zetta Elliott (2014) elementary
*The Story of the Amulet, by E. Nesbit (1906) mg
The House of Arden, by E. Nesbit (1908) mg
Harding's Luck, by E. Nesbit (1909) mg
Sun Slower, Sun Faster, by Meriol Trevor (1955) mg
*The Time Garden, by Edward Eager (1958) mg
The Ship That Flew, by Hilda Lewis (1958) mg
Time Cat, by Lloyd Alexander (1963) mg
Dragon Magic, by Andre Norton (1972) mg
The Driftway, by Penelope Lively (1972) mg
The Stones of Green Knowe, by L.M. Boston (1976) mg
A Swiftly Tilting Planet, by Madeline L'Engle (1978) mg
The Time Bike, by Jane Langton (2000) mg
The Book of Time, by Guillaume Prevost (2007) mg
Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London (2008) mg (the Late Cretaceous, Atlantis, and tiny bit before the actual present)
Any Which Wall, by Laurel Snyder (2009) mg (5th century Britain, 18th and 19th century America)
A Walk Through a Window, by kc dyer (2009) mg (aspects of Canadian history)
Facing Fire, by kc dyer (2010) mg (aspects of Canadian history)
The Sixty-Eight Rooms, by Marianne Malone (2010) mg
Timecatcher, by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick (2010) mg
Noah Zarc: Mammoth Trouble, by D. Robert Pease (2011) mg
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time, by Frank Cottrell Boyce (2013 in the US) mg
Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp, by Nathan Bransford (2013) younger mg
The Inventor's Secret, by Chad Morris (2013) mg (primarily the Titanic)
The Alchemist War, by John Seven (2013) mg (primarily 17th century Prague)
The Ninja Librarians: The Accidental Keyhand, and its sequel, The Sword in the Stacks, by Jennifer Swann Downey (2014, 2016)
The Shadow Lantern, by Teresa Flavin (2014) mg
Magic in the Mix, by Annie Barrows (2014) mg (primarily the Civil War)
The Time of the Fireflies, by Kimberley Griffiths Little (19th and 20th cent. US)
In Due Time (Books 1-3) by Nicholas O. Time (2016) (20th century, ancient Egypt, travel from past to present) mg
Tomorrow's Guardian, by Richard Denning (2010) mg/ya
The History Keepers: The Storm Begins, by Damian Dibben (2011) mg/ya
Time Snatchers, by Richard Ungar (2012), and its sequel, Time Trapped (2013) mg/ya
Blood Secret, by Kathryn Lasky (2006) ya (persecution of Jews from 1391 Spain to colonial Mexico)
Once a Witch, by Carolyn MacCullough (2009) ya
Hourglass (2011), Infinityglass (2013), by Myra McEntire (2013) ya (the 2nd book is Timwpiece, 2012)
Ruby Red (2011), and Sapphire Blue (2012), by Kerstin Gier, ya
Amber House (2012) by Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed, and Larkin Reed, ya
The Obsidian Blade by Pete Hautman (2012) ya
The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare, by MG Buehrlen (2014) ya
The Devil's Intern (2014) , and The Devil's Dreamcatcher (2015) by Donna Hosie, ya
Earth and Sky, by Megan Crewe (2014) ya
Loop, by Karen Akins (2014) ya
Traveling from the past to the present of the book or its characters (more or less) (19):
Dino-Mike and the T-Rex Attack (2015) elementary
Black Hunting Whip, by Monica Edwards (1950) mg
A Game of Catch, by Helen Cresswell (1969) mg
Catweazle, by Richard Carpenter (1970) mg
Up the Pier, by Helen Cresswell (1971) mg
The House in Norham Gardens, by Penelope Lively (1974) mg
Wild Robert, by Diana Wynne Jones (1989) mg
Three Lives to Live, by Anne Lindberg (1992) mg
Archer's Quest, by Linda Sue Park (2006) mg
Crashing the Party, by Perdita Finn (2007)
Frozen in Time, by Ali Sparks (2009) mg
*The Hotel Under the Sand, by Kage Baker (2009) mg
The Prince of Fenway Park, by Julianna Baggott (2009) mg
Benjamin Franklinstein Lives! by Matthew McElligott and Larrry Tuxbury (2010) mg
The Witchy Worries of Abbie Adams, by Rhonda Hayter (2010) mg
The Dead Gentleman, by Matthew Cody (2011) mg
Once Was a Time, by Leila Sales (2016)
Dot to Dot, by Kit Bakke (2011), mg/ya
Time Piper, by Delia Huddy (1979) ya
Warped, by Maurissa Guibord (2011) ya
Time Travel From the Future to the book's Present (6)
School for Sidekicks, by Kelly McCullough (2015)
The Long Wait for Tomorrow, by Joaquin Dorfman (2009) ya
The Future of Us, by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler (2011) ya
Time Between Us, by Tamara Ireland Stone (2012) ya
Yesterday, by C.K. Kelly Martin (2012) ya
After Eden, by Helen Douglas (2013) ya
The Here and Now, by Ann Brashares (2014) ya
No True Echo, by Gareth P. Jones (2015 in the US) ya
Time traveling to different presents/reliving the same present more or less/reliving bits of ones own recent past life/time travel to the near future (16):
The Old Powder Line, by Richard Parker (1971) mg
The Power of Un, by Nancy Etchemendy (2002) mg
Counterclockwise, by Jason Cockcroft (2009) mg
11 Birthdays, by Wendy Mass (2009) mg
Justin Thyme, by Panema Oxridge (2011) mg
A Year Without Autumn, by Liz Kessler (2011) mg
Odessa Again, by Dana Reinhardt (2013) mg
Wish You Weren't, by Sherrie Petersen (2014) mg
The First Last Day, by Dorian Cirrone (2016) mg
Secrets of Valhalla, by Jasmine Richards (2016) mg
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, by Yasutaka Tsutsui (1967, 2011 English translation) ya
Alice in Time, by Penelope Bush (2011) ya
Tempest, by Julie Cross (2012) ya
All Our Yesterdays, by Cristin Terrill (2013) ya
The Walls Around Us, by Nova Ren Suma (2015) ya
23 Minutes, by Vivian Vande Velde (2016) ya
The Girl From Everywhere, by Heidi Heilig (2016) ya
The Book of Tomorrow, by Ceceila Ahern (2011) adult
Time Travel to the future
Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-a-Lot, by Dav Pilkey (2015) not quite mg
Time Travel to the very recent past (1):
Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers, by Dav Pilkey (2012) not quite mg
Not set on Earth/set in fantasy/sci fi version of Earth (20):
A Tale of Time City, by Diana Wynne Jones (1987) mg
The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, by Dav Pilkey (2010) not quite mg
Ancient Fire, by Mark London Williams (2001) mg
Kendra Kandlestar and the Crack in Kazah, by Lee Edward Fodi (2011) mg
Smasher, by Scott Bly (2014) mg
Maddigan's Fantasia, by Margaret Mahy (2007) mg/ya
The Navel of the World, by P.J. Hoover (2009) mg/ya
The Timekeeper's Moon, by Joni Sensel (2010) mg/ya
*The Only Ones, by Aaron Starmer (2011) mg/ya
The Glass Sentence, by S.E. Grove (2014) mg/ya
Singing the Dogstar Blues, by Alison Goodman (1998) ya
When the King Comes Home, by Caroline Stevermer (2000) ya
The Tomorrow Code, by Brian Faulkner (2008) ya
Pathfinder, by Orson Scott Card (2010) ya
A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan (2011) ya
Growing Disenchantments, by K.D. Berry (2012) ya
Echo, by Alicia Wright Brewster (2013)
*The Keeper of the Mist, by Rachel Neumeier (2016)
Dragonflight, by Anne McCaffrey (1968) adult
*Three Stories from The Wind's Twelve Quarters, by Ursula Le Guin (1975) adult
*"Another Story," by Ursula Le Guin (1994) adult
*Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett (2002) adult
Time Travel to sci fi futures
(Cleopatra in Space (2014), The Thief and the Sword (2015), Secret of the Time Tablets (2016) by Mike Maihack, mg graphic novel
No Time Like Tomorrow, by Ted White (1969) mg/ya
The Time Traveller's Handbook, by Wylie, Acton, and Goldblatt (2016)


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Money and politics
Jim Voss has spent 202 days aboard the Space Shuttle and the Space Station. He trained as a backup US astronaut for the Russian Space Station Mir and helped investigate the Challenger accident. He now works as SNC's Vice-President of Space Exploration Systems. Explaining Dream Chaser to Euronews in July, he says, "We believe that if we continue to receive funding from the government that we will be ready to fly in 2016. And that will be our first orbital demonstration flight."
In the interview, Voss speaks slowly and patiently; he's accustomed to speaking in front of audiences. He describes Dream Chaser as a program that can't be rushed—that is, "if it is funded." Voss spent the majority of his long career at NASA, where programs come and go according to the whims of Congress.
"Sirangelo made a promise that, when Dream Chaser was finished, he would put the names of the Russian team right next to those of the American teams."
Congress also has a say about NASA's commercial space efforts. This year, the appropriations committees in both houses of the US Congress pared back NASA's Commercial Space request for a third straight year. After the very public success of the SpaceX Dragon, Frank Wolf (R-VA), chair of the House subcommittee that sets NASA's budget, agreed to support the slightly larger Senate budget for the program, all but assuring that the Senate's $525M allocation for NASA's Commercial Crew program will be finalized.
That agreement compelled NASA to cut the Commercial Crew program down to "two and a half" competitors; two companies would be fully funded, while the third would receive only half its funding request. When NASA considered its Commercial Crew choices for 2013-2014, SpaceX was closest to having its Commercial Crew vehicle ready—the cargo-carrying Dragon has already flown twice—and the company received $440 million as a full NASA partner. Boeing was also chosen, receiving $460 million. Dream Chaser survived in part because of its usefulness as an emergency crew vehicle. On August 3, NASA announced that Dream Chaser had received the "half" allocation of $212.5M.
Mark Sirangelo guesses that the program could possibly be done for approximately $1 billion to develop using the "lots-of-subcontractors" management style that has been typical of traditional US space efforts. That's cheap by some standards, but not easy to fund themselves.
Although SNC is not a small company, that's still a huge amount of cash to spend. According to Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, speaking at the award announcement, NASA's new set of milestones for SNC were carefully chosen to retire most or all of Dream Chaser's technical risk. Still, the lower level of federal funding may push Dream Chaser's first launch past the hoped-for 2016 flight. (Ideally, SNC would like to build many vehicles, using each one for 25 to 50 flights.)
SNC might accelerate development by taking on an investment partner, as Virgin Galactic has done. Some of the attributes that make Dream Chaser a great potential emergency crew vehicle would arguably make it a more comfortable vehicle for commercial space travelers, too, a fact that might help attract investors in today's space-friendly environment. Visitors to any future low Earth orbit space station (such Bigelow Aerospace's proposed commercial stations) might very well prefer a ride on Dream Chaser over any of the capsule vehicles.
The dreamers
Ending his NewSpace 2011 talk, Mark Sirangelo added his own story to Dream Chaser's history. Several years ago, he visited Russia and met with three of the five Russian engineers from the BOR-4 program. Unaware until then that their little lapot lived on in another country, the engineers gave Sirangelo pictures of the P-3 surveillance plane, taken by the soldier on the trawler that recovered the BOR-4. Sirangelo made a promise to them that, when Dream Chaser was finished, he would put the names of the Russian team right next to those of the American teams. And he invited all of them to Dream Chaser's first launch.
"I got a note from the daughter of one of the guys who died since I went there," Sirangelo said, "and she said that one of the last things that he wanted to do was have her send me a letter reminding me of the promise I made to put his name on the Dream Chaser when we flew. And that's what I think the space industry's all about."
That day last spring in Broomfield, one of the people watching the Dream Chaser hoisted to the sky was Steve Lindsey, former Chief of the Astronaut Corps., now SNC's Director of Flight Operations and one of many people who hope to travel aboard Dream Chaser to orbit some time in the next few years. Wearing his orange coveralls, standard astronaut dress, he watched the craft cautiously rise, probably wishing it was further along, wondering whether the budget will carry the program through. He knows he's not the first person to want to see the Dream Chaser in orbit.
For 50 years, three clever and highly dedicated groups of dreamers have fed, nurtured, evangelized, refined, and defended the ideas behind the Dream Chaser as it inches toward becoming a reusable! orbital! mini-spaceplane! Those words are heavenly manna for true believers, the dreamers within the space industry and the would-be vacuum visitors in every country. The Dream Chaser has survived so many false starts, and has made so much progress, that the unthinkable now looks almost likely: the Dream Chaser will soon travel all the way to orbit.
This post has been updated to correct errors regarding some of the expenditures made on Dream Chaser and SNC's corporate structure.


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Sure, you've been reading about the new Mustang for like a week solid already, but it's not enough. Right? You have so many other senses to indulge. Well, if you're around LA, you're in luck, because our pals at Hoonigan will have a captive one for you to meet.
Tomorrow, from 8:00-9:30 you can head down to Hoonigan HQ in downtown LA and see, smell, touch, and, if you play it cool, lick a nice shiny new 2015 Mustang. The Hoonigan guys are great, and they'll have everyone's favorite drifter who's last name rhymes with kitten, Vaughn Gittin Jr, there as well.
I'm not sure if you can lick him. Probably best if you didn't.


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On our trip to Ireland my boyfriend and I decided to get tea for the kitchen in our lodge room. We picked this on a whim from the nearest centra. It has become his favorite tea on earth. I have since been trying to get it for him online, but it has been a challenge. This tea is a really nice black that's not too bitter and is quite smooth. We're fans of adding cream and sugar. I like my tea piping hot and strong so it can be a bit too smooth for me. It's nothing compared to PG Tips in terms of strength and briskness.


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This Big Beautiful Doll P-51 Mustang metal clock measures approximately 14-inches by 14-inches. This clock was designed and made in the United States using 24 gauge American steel and a process known as sublimation, where the image is baked into a powder coating for a durable and long lasting finish. This clock includes an American clock movement for years of accurate time keeping and is covered with a clear acrylic lens. Requires 1 AA Battery (Not Included).
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