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BELVIDERE — City and county services are among the potential casualties of Illinois' delinquent payment of hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to municipalities.
The state owes Illinois municipalities a share of income tax revenue totaling $293 million, which is doled out on a per-capita basis. That's just a slice of the $6.5 billion in unpaid bills owed to vendors, service providers and local governments.
The payment delays force local officials to play a nerve-wracking waiting game during lean periods in the fiscal cycle, as they hope to avoid unplanned, big-ticket expenses. If such expenditures arise, local governments must defer less urgent spending on goods or services or, worse yet, seek a loan.
"Rather than taking steps to permanently solve their structural budget problems, (state officials) push money around to patch holes," said Joe McCoy, the legislative director for the Illinois Municipal League, which lobbies for local governments.
Come May, Boone County leaders will scrape the bottom of the general fund unless Illinois pays the county its share of delinquent income tax revenue. County Administrator Ken Terrinoni said the state owes the county $436,000, or three months' worth of proceeds.
Boone County relies on the state revenue in May. The county is flush again in June, when local property taxes arrive.
During that period, the state's delinquency drives the county's general fund balance — which starts at $3 million at the beginning of the fiscal year — below $100,000, a dangerously low level.
"We know the choke point is May," Terrinoni said.
The state has agreed to provide income tax revenue to municipalities each month, although it cannot make up for three months' worth of payments skipped in past years. Brad Hahn, spokesman for the Illinois comptroller's office, acknowledged that the delinquency is unacceptable, but noted that the monthly checks provide some predictability for local governments.
"While they are still behind, they are still seeing revenue every month, which is a little bit better than what many vendors see right now," Hahn said.
There is hope.
The Illinois Municipal League is behind House Bill 961, which would prevent the state from delaying payments owed to cities and counties.
The legislation would bar the state from holding local money in the state general revenue fund. Instead, it would require the money to be deposited into the local government distribution fund and thus, expedite payments to municipalities.
The bill is awaiting a second reading on the House floor; municipal leaders are eager for legislators to approve it.
"As long as the state is experiencing a budget crisis, local government revenues are going to be threatened," McCoy said.
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By the numbers
$6,472,028,330.82 General fund payments backlogged as of April 6.
153,158 Total vouchers delayed
Source: Illinois comptroller
Note: Includes vouchers and transfers to other state funds


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Soon after my conversion, a young man, who had accompanied me to places of amusement, and for whom I had formed quite an attachment, professed faith in Christ and united with the same church to which I belonged. A few months after, he made me on offer of marriage. I struggled not a little to banish the thought from my mind, chiefly because he was not sanctified. But my feelings were so strongly enlisted that I felt pure he would some day be my husband. I read to him and talked to him on the subject of a cleansed heart. He assented to all my argument,
The few weeks that he remained with us I labored hard with him for his deliverance, but he left us to go to Boston, Mass. We corresponded regularly, he telling me of his religious enjoyment, but that he did not hear anything about sanctification. Great was my anxiety lest the devil should steal away the good seed out of his heart. The Lord, and he only, knows how many times I besought him to let the clear light of holiness shine into that man's heart. Through all this my mind was stayed upon God; I rested in the will of the Lord.
One night, about a month after his departure, I could not sleep, the tempter being unusually busy with me. Rising, I prostrated myself before the Lord. While thus upon my face, these words of God came to me: "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but in all points was tempted like as we are, yet without sin." (Heb. iv. 15.) I at once rose up, thanking God for his precious words: I took my Bible and read them over and over again; also the eighteenth verse of the second chapter of Hebrews. I was not conscious of having committed sin, and I cried out: "Leave
"Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
Praise him all creatures here below,"
The day following this night of temptation was one of the great peace--peace flowing as a river, even to overflowing its banks, and such glory of the Lord appeared as to almost deprive me of bodily powers. I forgot all toil and care.
This was just a year after my heart was emptied of sin. Through faith I received the Saviour,
and in the same have continued ever Since and proved him able to kept from sin. Bless God! all
my desires are satisfied in him. He is indeed my reconciled God, the, Christ Jesus whose precious
blood is all my righteousness.
"Nought of good that I have done,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus."
Glory to the blood that hath bought me! glory to the blood that hath cleansed me! glory to the blood that keeps me clean!--me, a brand plucked from the fire.
George returned in about a year to claim me as his bride. He still gave evidence of being a Christian, but had not been cleansed from the carnal mind. I still continued to pray for his sanctification, and desired that it should take place before our union, but I was so much attached to him that I could not resist his pleadings; so, at the appointed time, we were married, in the church, in the presence of a large number of people, many of whom followed us to my father's house to offer their congratulations.
We staid at home but one day after the ceremony. This day I spent in preparing for our departure and in taking leave of my friends. Tenderly as I loved my parents, much loved the church, yet I found myself quite willing to leave them all in the divine appointment.
The day following, accompanied by several friends, we started for Boston, in an old fashioned stage-coach, there being no railroads at that time. As I rode along I admired the goodness of God, and my heart overflowed with gratitude to him, who had blessed me with power to choose his will and make me able to say with truth, "I gladly forsake all to follow thee."
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Guilty plea: Crider charges could be dropped at 21
In a plea agreement that keeps him out of jail and allows the charges to be dropped when he turns 21, Patrick Crider, the former Western Albemarle High School student who was arrested in January for threatening on Facebook to kill four classmates and then himself, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of making threats.
According to Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Darby Lowe, the parents of the threatened teens "had a great concern he not be convicted as a felon," she told Judge Paul Peatross in court June 8.
"He did not have a gun," said Lowe. "He did not take steps to get one. I feel strongly this young man with no criminal record be given treatment."
She noted that Crider was barely 18 when he posted the January 13 threats on Facebook to kill four teens and then himself, and she told the court that Crider has undergone psychiatric evaluations.
"All have concluded Mr. Crider is not a threat to himself or others," said Crider attorney David Franzen, who urged the judge to keep Crider on "a short leash" until he's age 21.
Peatross took a night to read the psychological reports and returned to court June 9 to accept the plea that will allow Crider to avoid the five-year sentence that can follow a felony threat conviction.
Crider was arrested a day after threatening to kill the other Western Albemarle High teens on Facebook. Bail initially was denied, and he remained jailed until March 8.
Peatross inherited the case after Judge Cheryl Higgins determined–- via a bizarre hearing in which she had Crider play violin–- that she knew him and therefore had a conflict of interest. Crider was scheduled to enter a plea May 5, but Higgins closed the too-hot courtroom in Albemarle Circuit Court, postponing the hearing again to June 8 inside a Charlottesville courtroom.
Invoking Columbine, Judge Peatross noted to Crider, "You weren't intending to carry out the actions you said. If that weren't the case, I wouldn't accept this plea."
Among the conditions of the agreement, Crider will live with his mother, stay in school or employed, stay off social-networking sites like Facebook, and he's banned from contact with Albemarle County schools, especially Western Albemarle, except to get transcripts.
"I want him engaged in constructive activities, either at work or at school," ordered Peatross.
Lowe pointed out that threats to kill classmates have to be taken seriously. "We're balancing the need for safety and the need for rehabilitation," she says.
Through home schooling, Crider recently finished high school and should get a diploma this week, says his attorney, who pronounced his client regretful for the harm he's caused others.
"We're very pleased the judge accepted the plea," says Franzen. "We feel Patrick can now turn to his future."
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"Blue blazer, khaki pants, oxford button collar shirt, is that some kind of charlottesville uniform????"
No, it's a WASP uniform.
Blue blazer, khaki pants, oxford button collar shirt, is that some kind of charlottesville uniform????
Wow, I was sure this was an Al Queda thing!
how do you know it was "hollow"?
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I bet those over-protective, entitled wahs parents rose quite a stink trying to shelter their babies from a hollow, empty online threat. So typical of today's ridiculous fears, anxieties and over-reactions.
Nope, I'm not "one of those people," whoever they are. I couldn't pick Jim Camblos out of a police lineup.
Just call me an intrigued professional who has occasional business in Charlottesville and wonders often about the competence of individuals who have been entrusted with great power over the lives of other people.
Who the hell is JJ Malloy, what does he/she/it know, and why should we believe you?
Yes, you could. Cop shoppes have very unique and interesting methods by which to lay photo lineups in front of you, and they pretty much indicate which picture you are to pick out. :)
But I share the same concern as you do, individuals entrusted with great power by which to mess with others. And trust me, intentional misuse and abuse of these powers does take place. Not so much by judges, but at the lower levels of the food chain in the criminal justice system.
What I do know is that only the prosecution can have warrants sealed (there is the case of national security issues also-but that has nothing to do with this case). There are several reasons for this. The main ones are to protect an ongoing investigation and to avoid a tainted jury pool (esp in cases with much media attention).
This is from the Commonwealth's attorney on why he wants the warrants to stay sealed: "The public dissemination at this time of highly detailed information such as contained in the affidavit, the search warrant, and any return made thereon may prejudice the ability in any subsequent trial to select an impartial jury that is free form the influence of any pretrial publicity, especially information about specific evidence or potential evidence"
Yesterday they released some of the data. There is a hearing set later this month as some media outlets are pushing for the full warrants being unsealed.
Roman Lifson, an attorney for the media companies, argued that "generalized and unspecified fears" about jury selection and compromising the investigation were insufficient to justify the sealing orders. He said many higher profile cases have been tried before an unbiased jury that was properly vetted.
"We've heard absolutely no evidence that impanelling an impartial jury will be impossible in this case," Lifson said.
"Who the hell is JJ Malloy, what does he/she/it know, and why should we believe you?"
JJ Malloy seems to be someone who actually reads the news before commenting on it. "Interesting" to say the least that many of those who cry the loudest around here don't bother with that important first step.
Judge Cheryl Higgins does some curious things in the courtroom: getting suspects to play violin, issuing orders to seal the ought-to-be-public records in the lacrosse-killing case (she is a former law partner of the lead attorney defending the alleged killer).
I wonder how many times her rulings have been tossed aside on appeal?
C'mon Hook; do some of that investigative reporting.
Interesting, are you one of those people who are still upset because Cheryl Higgins came out on top in the selection process? I would much rather see her sitting up there than Jim Camblos. It's my opinion that Jim Camblos had a tendancy to believe EVERY word that came out of a cop's mouth. I don't think they pull the wool over Judge Higgin's eyes as easily though.
"issuing orders to seal the ought-to-be-public records in the lacrosse-killing case"
The prosecution doesn't want a tainted jury pool. They requested them to be sealed. No one else has that power.
Plus, they have been released (with some redacted info)


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That voodoo's real. When the "Four Corners Salute" gets cranking, it's like listening to a 747 made entirely of fired clay crashing into a field of shattered glass. Getting a snap off effectively is in itself a game ball-worthy achievement. Combined with the orgy going on outside the stadium for five miles in any direction, it's the gold standard for any other college gameday experience. Any of them. It is peerless in terms of demonstrated intensity, lunacy, commitment, flair, and menace. At several points in the day, we were convinced we were going to be killed, injected with creole butter, and thrown in a deep fryer...but only in the most festive and accommodating of ways, of course.
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No one weirds up the holidays like Doctor Who, as this new trailer for the Christmas special, Doctor Who: The Snowmen, makes quite clear. Matt Smith and newcomer Jenna-Louise Coleman introduce a sneak peek at the holiday special that will also serve to introduce Coleman as the Doctor's new companion. This will be the
first second episode featuring Coleman, though perhaps she'll be playing a different character entirely.
Written by executive producer Steve Moffat, the special also features the return of Silurian Madame Vastra (Neve McIntosh) and her cohort Jenny (Catrin Stewart). Doctor Who's The Snowmen airs Tuesday, December 25 at 9 p.m. ET on BBC America. Hit the jump to check out the sneak peek.
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Vonn, U.S. Women Continue to Crush
Lindsey Vonn, the third-winningest racer in World Cup history, got back into the record-chasing business over the weekend with a win in the downhill at Cortina, Italy, and the American women continued to crowd the top of the speed-event leaderboards.
On the men's side, it was Lauberhorn weekend in Wengen, Switzerland, where Italy's Christof Innerhofer won the tour's longest downhill. Marco Sullivan was the top American finisher in 13th. GS points leader Ted Ligety appeared headed for a second-place finish in the Wengen combined but skied out near the finish of his slalom run.
Vonn's win Saturday was No. 58 in her career, bringing her to within four of the winningest woman ever, Austria's Anne Marie Moser-Pröll. With good snow and excellent visibility, she showed no signs of the illness and fatigue that have dogger her in recent weeks, edging overall points leader Tina Maze of Slovenia by .43 seconds. U.S. teammate Leanne Smith was third—her second podium finish of the season—.89 seconds behind Vonn. Julia Mancuso was ninth, Alice McKennis was 11th and Stacey Cook was 15th in yet another very strong day for the American women.
Battling heavy snowfall a day later, Mancuso led the U.S. women's 5-6-7 sweep in super G. Mancuso was .69 seconds behind winner Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany. Maze was third. Smith was sixth, Vonn was seventh.
After the race, Smith was asked about the dominace this season of the women's speed-events team, which holds four of the top six spots in the downhill rankings.
"We were joking about this yesterday on how to best answer this question. First we were like, 'We listen to Justin Bieber together,' or 'We all sleep in one big bed every night,' or 'We have these rituals....' But, no. There's a lot of hard workers on this team. Everybody wants to help each other out and see each other do well."
The speed-event women now set their sights on the World Championships next monthCK in Schladming, Austria. U.S. slalom phenom Mikaela Shiffrin gets back into action this weekend in GS and slalom races at Moribor. Ted Ligety and the U.S. men head to Kitzbuhel, Austria, for the famed Hahnenkamm weekend, which features downhill, super G and combined races.


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A look at Sept. 11 commemorations in US, abroad
A look at events marking the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks:
In a sadly familiar ceremony, friends and relatives of World Trade Center attack victims gathered at the National Sept. 11 Memorial plaza to call out the names of the dead and read messages to lost loved ones.
A bell chimed to mark the moments when four hijacked jets crashed into the twin towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, and again to mark the moments when the two skyscrapers collapsed.
Several politicians attended, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former New York Gov. George Pataki, but none gave an address.
The ceremony also recognized victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
President Barack Obama held a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. on the White House's South Lawn to mark the first attack in New York. He was joined by wife Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden. A bugler played taps.
Then, the president traveled to the Pentagon Sept. 11 memorial in Arlington, Va., where victims' families, attack survivors and military officials laid a wreath and held a moment of silence at 9:37 a.m. to mark the moment that Flight 77 hit the building. Obama said, "Our hearts still ache for the futures snatched away, the lives that might have been."
More than 200 people gathered at the Flight 93 National Memorial to read the names of 40 passengers and crew killed when the airliner crashed into a field near the small town of Shanksville.
Recalling the passengers and crew who had fought the hijackers, U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told the assembled families and spectators, "We never know when we'll be called to lay down our lives for others."
A wreath-laying ceremony in the city's Public Garden was followed by a commemoration at the Statehouse, during which participants read the names of more than 200 attack victims with ties to Massachusetts.
During the ceremony, a civilian bravery award named after 9/11 flight attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney was given to Carlos Arredondo, a Boston Marathon spectator who assisted a man who lost both legs in the April 15 bombing.
British princes William and Harry participated in a charity event organized by Cantor Fitzgerald, the brokerage firm that lost 658 employees in the World Trade Center collapse. The company and its affiliate BGC Partners are donating all of their Sept. 11 revenue to charity.
The princes, along with celebrities including Rod Stewart and actor Idris Elba, spent an hour working the phones on BGC's London trading floor. The U.S. version of the event featured Julianne Moore, Billy Crystal and Brooklyn Nets coach Jason Kidd.
APPLETON, Newfoundland.
A monument made from a piece of World Trade Center steel was unveiled in the town of Appleton to mark the area's role in helping stranded air passengers following the attacks. Residents in the region took travelers from around the world into their homes when American air space was closed after the 9/11 hijackings. More than 6,500 passengers and crew were diverted to nearby Gander, Newfoundland.
KABUL, Afghanistan
Some 300 U.S. and other coalition troops in Afghanistan gathered at noon for a memorial ceremony at Bagram Airfield to remember those lost on Sept. 11, 2001. The service was held near a nine-foot beam that is from the World Trade Center site and which many of the troops here pass on their way to their duties. Attendees saluted as a band played "The Star-Spangled Banner." The speeches focused on the sacrifices of troops in the years since the attacks, but also touched on some of the progress made in rebuilding Afghanistan.
At a Navy graduation ceremony in northern Israel, President Shimon Peres paid tribute to 9/11 victims, saying the attack was among the worst terrorist crimes in history. "The mourning of the United States of America is also the mourning of Israel," he said.
The U.S. embassy in Israel held a ceremony in conjunction with the Jewish National Fund at the 9/11 Living Memorial in a Jerusalem forest. The memorial is among the largest commemorating 9/11 outside of the U.S.
TIRANA, Albania
Albania's prime minister-elect, Edi Rama, began an important policy address to that country's parliament by remembering the 9/11 attacks. "Sept. 11 dead are our dead too," he said, adding, "Even the Aug. 21 dead from the chemical weapons in Syria are our dead."


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Building on the tips and other points explained elsewhere, this workflow has the following advantages relative to always working on the master branch:
- It is easy to keep track of upstream changes even when working on a protracted task.
- The change tree remains simple, easy to understand at a glance and even (mostly) linear (revision trees with multiple developers can quickly start looking like a train switch yard)
- Unsightly "merge with branch" commits are minimized.
- It is easy to keep separate unrelated tasks upon which you may be working simultaneously.
- Commits related to each other can be kept together or merged for increased clarity.
For the purposes of having an easy-to-remember label, I will refer to this workflow as the "No Switch Yard" (NoSY) workflow.
Details of NoSY
For each specific, well-defined task:
- Create a local branch and switch to it:
git checkout -b <local-branch>
- Work on the branch, both committing regularly and keeping up-to-date with the remote (eg):
git fetch origin; git rebase origin/master
- When ready to push back to the main remote, squash related commits (see above).
- Change back to your master branch:
git checkout master
- Make sure your master is up-to-date:
git pull
- Merge with the branch:
git merge --ff-only <local-branch>
- If this operation fails:
- Swap back to the other branch
git checkout <local-branch>
- Rebase again (upstream must have changed since your last rebase):
git rebase origin/master
- Go back to step 4.
- Push changes to the master:
git push
- Delete the branch:
git branch -d <local-branch>
Converting to NoSY half-way through a given set of changes.
Imagine that you have been making some commits to your local repository on the master branch, and you realize (perhaps because your project is turning out to be a bit more involved than you thought, or because a slew of changes have just appeared upstream) that you might have been better using NoSY. It's actually quite easy to swap to using NoSY without any disruption to your already-committed changes. Starting from your current position on the master branch:
Stash your current changes if appropriate:
git stash
Create (but do not switch to) a branch which will contain all your local commits up to this point:
git branch <local-branch>
Download the latest metadata from the remote:
git fetch origin
Now, reset your local master branch directly to the current state of origin/master:
git reset --hard origin/master
Note that you have not lost your local commits: they are on your local branch already.
Switch to your local branch:
git checkout <local-branch>
Do an initial sync between your local branch and the remote, resolving conflicts if necessary:
git rebase origin/master
Apply your stash, again, resolving conflicts if necessary:
git stash pop
Pick up at step 2 of the NoSY workflow above.
Reproduced with permission from the following page: https://cdcvs.fnal.gov/redmine/projects/cet-is-public/wiki/GitTipsAndTricks by Chris Green


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Skin color is a significant factor in the probability of employment for male immigrants to the United States, according to a new study by two University of Kansas (KU) researchers.
Research documents that lenders discriminate between loan applicants in traditional and peer-to-peer lending markets, yet we lack knowledge about the mechanisms driving lenders' behavior. I offer one possible mechanism: When lenders assess borrowers, they are implicitly guided by cultural stereotypes about the borrowers' status. This systematically steers lenders toward funding higher status groups even when applicants have the same financial histories.
We argue that the mismatch between data and analytical methods, along with common practices for dealing with "messy" data, can lead to inaccurate conclusions. Specifically, using previously published data on racial bias and culture of honor, we show that manifest effects, and therefore theoretical conclusions, are highly dependent on how researchers decide to handle extreme scores and nonlinearities when data are analyzed with traditional approaches.
This article contests the contention that sociology lacks a sound theoretical approach to the study of race and racism, instead arguing that a comprehensive and critical sociological theory of race and racism exists. This article outlines this theory of race and racism, drawing from the work of key scholars in and around the field.
What is the relationship between white children's interpretations of racial phenomena and dominant racial ideology? Do children passively adopt dominant racial ideological positions, the result of a "deep cultural conditioning" that happens to children? Do kids assertively challenge ideologies, rejecting adults' authoritative worldviews through enacting child agency? Or is something more dialectically complex occurring that includes both reproduction and reinvention?
This article uses archival research to explore important differences in the discursive and institutional positioning of Mexican American and African American men during World War II. Through the focal point of the riots that erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities in the summer of 1943, I examine the ways in which black and Mexican "rioters" were imagined in official and popular discourses. Though both groups of youth were often constructed as deviant and subversive, there were also divergences in the ways in which their supposed racial difference was discursively configured.
The concept of colorblind racism has been developed in recent years to explain racial attitudes held by white Americans in the post–civil rights era. The authors use data from a new nationally representative survey with an oversample of black Americans to investigate the prevalence of core elements of colorblind ideology and to see the extent to which both black and white Americans adhere to three core dimensions of colorblindness theory: (1) abstract liberalism, (2) minimization of racism, and (3) cultural racism.
In this article, I explore different forms of perceived threat posed by the presence of minority groups and how threat impacts residential segregation and neighborhood preferences. I extend previous research by exploring non-Hispanic white residents' preferences regarding black and Latino neighbors using qualitative data from in-depth interviews with white adults conducted in multiple neighborhoods in Buffalo, New York, and Ogden, Utah. My findings suggest that white residents perceive threat differently for blacks and Latinos.
This research is an initial investigation into the ways community-based learning increase the cognitive skills central to the exercise of the sociological imagination. In addition to identifying a means to reveal that learning had occurred, we looked for evidence that the students were mastering sociological content, especially the concepts and habits of the sociological imagination.
Law enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border region has significantly changed since the 1970s. Currently, Latinas/os make up more than half of the agents who patrol the southern border region. The Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley, in particular, has transformed from a predominantly Anglo police establishment to one with a heavy presence of Mexican American agents within local and federal agencies.


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August 7, 2015: Further to AAVSO Alert Notice 525, we are entering the critical period of observations for KIC 02856960. Time series observations are urgently requested for this eclipsing binary beginning immediately (2015 August 07, JD 2457242) and continuing for the next five days, through the end of 2015 August 12.
August 4, 2015: Dr. Gregory Sivakoff (U. of Alberta) has requested optical monitoring of the galactic microquasar V4641 Sgr beginning immediately, and continuing for the next 120 days, or until it is no longer observable from your location.
December 6, 2013: Observer Carlo Gualdoni reports via the cvnet-outburst mailing list that the WZ Sge-type dwarf nova AL Comae is in outburst, with a magnitude of V=12.74 on 2013 December 6.185 (JD 2456633.1185). Gary Poyner notes on the BAAVSS mailing list that this is the first observed outburst of AL Com since October 2007. Both visual observations and CCD time series are encouraged.
The paper "Optical and X-ray Variability of the Peculiar Cataclysmic Variable FS Aurigae with a Magnetic and Freely Precessing White Dwarf" by Vitaly Neustroev and collaborators is now available on arXiv.org. The paper was co-authored by several AAVSO observers, and involves data taken during the 2010-2011 observing campaign.
October 25, 2011
Event: Outburst of the UGWZ Candidate BW Scl
September 16, 2011: Dr. Bradley Schaefer (LSU) requests fast time series of SN 2011fe over the next several weeks to attempt the detection of fast optical variations in supernova light.
The following request was prepared by Dr. Schaefer which we forward at his request:
February 14, 2011: Further to AAVSO Alert Notice 428 (2010 Nov 30), the dwarf nova FS Aurigae appears to be in outburst. The current outburst was detected simultaneously by P. Lake (Wonga Park, Victoria, Australia) at m(vis)=14.5 on 2011 Feb 14.0969 (JD 2455606.5969), and confirmed shortly after by G. Lubcke (Middleton, WI, USA) at around V=14.4 in time-series observations made simultaneously to the observation of Lake. Follow-up photometry of this star is encouraged.


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No matter what your level of interest in astronomy, everyone seems to enjoy the brief and sometimes dazzling streaks of light from meteors, sometimes called "shooting stars." These can occur at any time on any night. On most nights a half dozen of these sporadic (random) meteors appear hourly.
However, several times each year Earth encounters a stream of debris left by a passing comet, and the result is a meteor shower. You'll notice the difference if you watch the sky for a half hour or so: not only do the number of meteors you'll see go up, but also the meteors seem to fly away from a common point in the sky called the radiant.
A shower gets its name from the constellation where this radiant lies — for example, August's well-known Perseid shower has its radiant in Perseus. One notable exception to this rule is the Quadrantid shower, named for the now-defunct constellation Quadrans Muralis. Instead, its radiant lies in the constellation Boötes. In any case, the higher a shower's radiant, the more meteors it produces all over the sky.
Meteor showers peak during the predawn hours on the dates listed below, though they're typically active a few nights before and after the peak date. Note that the rates are for ideal conditions: very dark skies free of moonlight or light pollution; most likely you'll see somewhat lower rates than those listed. Following the table are specific predictions for each shower's prospects during 2012.
For the best possible viewing experience, find a dark location, make yourself comfortable in a reclining chair, and wear plenty of warm clothing. And for more information on watching and studying meteors, see Meteors: A Primer and the other articles in the Meteor section of our website.
|Major Meteor Showers in 2012
|Radiant and direction
|Morning of maximum
|Hourly rate
|Draco (NE)
|Jan. 4
|Lyra (E)
|Apr. 22
|Thatcher (1861 I)
|Eta Aquarid*
|Aquarius (E)
|May 5
|Boötes (NW)
|June 27
|Delta Aquarid*
|Aquarius (S)
|July 28
|Perseus (NE)
|Aug. 12
|Orion (SE)
|Oct. 21
|Leo (E)
|Nov. 17
|Gemini (S)
|Dec. 14
|3200 Phaethon
* Moonlight will wash out fainter meteors in these showers.
January 4: The Quadrantids
Although a waxing gibbous Moon will be competition for this year's "Quads," it will set by about 3 a.m., providing a few dark hours for meteor watching before dawn. The peak for this short, sharp shower favors North Americans, especially in the eastern half, where viewers can expect to see 100 meteors per hour. Unlike most other showers, there's practically no activity on the days just before or after the Quadrantids' maximum. This shower's radiant is in northern Boötes, which rises in the northeast about 1 a.m. and climbs higher hour by hour.
April 22: The Lyrids
Although this isn't one of the year's strongest showers, the Moon is new when the Lyrids peak. Count on seeing roughly a dozen or so meteors per hour emanating from a radiant near the Hercules-Lyra border. As with the Quadrantids, this shower puts on a fairly brief performance — one that this year favors observers across North America, especially those on the East Coast.
May 5: The Eta Aquarids
This shower is spawned by none other than Halley's Comet. It's typically a good one for Northern and Southern Hemisphere observers, though the radiant, in the Water Jar of Aquarius, rises late for northerners. This year strong light from a full Moon will wash out most of them, so don't expect to see more than 20 or so per hour.
June 27: The Boötids
Ordinarily observers wouldn't expect much from either of the Boötid displays (there's another weak one in January). This shower's parent comet has an orbit outside Earth's that comes no closer than 0.24 astronomical unit, but some modest outbursts have been noted that were likely due to dust ejected during the 19th century. So you might catch one or two dozen Boötids per hour during this year's maximum. The waning crescent Moon won't be a problem, and the shower's radiant has a declination of +48° — placing it above the horizon almost all night for mid-northern observers.
July 28: The Delta Aquarids
Conversely, the Aquarid showers are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere because their radiant is below the celestial equator. Light from a waxing gibbous Moon will be a factor and probably wash out many of the predicted 20 or so Delta Aquarids per hour.
August 12: The Perseids
The Perseid shower is a popular display because it offers up to 60 an hour under a summer sky. Showtime usually begins as soon as the radiant (near the Double Cluster in Perseus) clears the horizon, an hour or so before midnight, and it climbs higher in the sky throughout the night. Unlike last year's display, which was spoiled by a full Moon, there'll be only a waning crescent hanging around during this year's maximum. The Perseids' parent comet is 109P/Swift-Tuttle.
October 21: The Orionids
This is another modest shower due to Halley's Comet. A waxing crescent Moon won't be a problem in 2012, so watch for 10 to 15 hourly meteors that stream from the shower's radiant, located above Orion's bright reddish star Betelgeuse.
November 17: The Leonids
Typically the Leonid shower is a weak display, with fewer than a dozen meteors per hour radiating from Leo's Sickle. But the parent comet, 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, tends to create narrow concentrated streams that produced brief but prodigious displays in the late 1990s, when it last swung through perihelion. Since then the shower's activity has varied from year to year, but despite moonless skies the 2012 edition is unlikely to deliver much beyond its usual trickle.
December 14: The Geminids
With an average of 100 meteors per hour radiating from near the bright star Castor, this end-of-the-calendar shower is usually one of the year's best. Each year the Geminids reach their maximum just four days later in the lunar cycle than the Perseids do. So, for this year's performance, the Moon will be new. Better still, you don't have to stay up until the wee hours to see them — at mid-northern latitudes, the radiant is well up in the sky by 9 p.m. Geminid meteors come from 3200 Phaethon, an asteroid discovered in 1983.
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One of my favorite poet/songwriters, Utah Phillips, once wrote:
"I'll sing about an emptiness the East has never known,
Where coyotes don't pay taxes and a man can live alone.
And you've got to walk forever just to find a telephone.
It's sad, but the tellin' takes me home."
The West was and is and should always be about silence and space. Lots of it. About endless landscapes that stretch to infinity, and skies so vast and unbroken that they defy description, and moments of such incredible beauty and clarity that you think you'll burst if you don't share this extraordinary moment with someone right now.
And what makes the West so special is that you can't.
The West has always been about remoteness and unimagined quiet and sometimes it made us crazy trying to decide if we loved it for its solitude or loathed it for its isolation. We really did have to walk forever to find a telephone. No one can truly know the West and love the West without also hating it. But it was the West's unforgiving nature that also made us feel stronger. We chose to live here with all its emptiness and hardship and unforgiving space. Somehow being able to survive the West, on its terms, gave us a leg up on the world.
Still the West overwhelmed us and filled us with unbridled joy and crushing loneliness, all at once. Like a bear hug from the Universe, we'd stand on the summit of a favorite peak or stretch out on our backs in the middle of a desert valley and for a moment we'd almost be giddy. This, we said, is pure unadulterated joy!
And then the silence would sweep over us and we'd search for some sign that we aren't as insignificant as we feel, and we couldn't. We'd look around and think—it's so…big. And suddenly our laughter would sound like the hollow giggles of a mad man let loose in a coliseum and we'd start to cry. Because this is as good and as bad as it gets.
And we feel so alone and we want to tell someone. We want to hear a voice. But we can't. Because this is The West—the big, hard, breathtaking, heartbreaking, unrelenting, unforgiving American West. Or at least, it was…
It can be fairly argued that the demise of the "Old West" has been a century-long lament. Ever since Fremont re-discovered South Pass and Marshall found gold at Sutter's mill, the Pristine West has been chopped and whittled and re-shaped by its conquerors and, for those of us who still suggest there is something more to be lost, our laments increasingly fall upon deaf ears. The truth is, most of us like the New West. Or to be more precise, we "LIKE" it….
This is fast becoming the "Facebook West," where a man never looks for a telephone and where no one ever needs (or wants) to be alone. Where you can bring the world to your favorite "lonely spot." Or at least your "friends." And maybe even your "friends of friends." Facebook is just a click away from the most remote places on Earth.
I've always wished I talked less and listened more, but the world today has little use for the archetypical Westerner—that laconic, taciturn Individual, who only spoke when he had something worth hearing, and maybe not even then. Nobody measures their words now. It goes from brain to keyboard to…everyone. The Facebook West is strikingly similar to the rest of the world.
Facebook has grown to almost a billion members in just a few years and its homogeneity—its same-ness—is stunning. Nobody is ever out of touch. No personal thought is ever too intimate.
A century and more ago, early travelers to the West disappeared for months or years. Friends and family waited for news and when it came, the letters were like cherished relics. Sometimes no news came at all. And legends began.
As a 19 year old wandering the West for the first time, so many years ago, I was gone for three months. It felt like longer. I'd never felt so far away. Before I left home, my grandpa gave me a stack of pre-addressed post cards.
"Send me one a week," he advised me and when I came back safe and sound, my cards sat in a stack on the kitchen table, where he read and re-read them each morning.
Today, a traveler to the West posts hourly updates…
Tonight's sunset? It's just too lovely not to "SHARE." Post it on the Wall.
You just got a sense of your own immortality? Please tell the world.
We "LIKE" this.
You're in Durango…or Sedona…or Flagstaff…or Taos…and you have a taste for Thai tonight? Post your culinary desires and someone out there will help you satisfy that hunger.
The West's icons—its landscapes and its heroes—are celebrated in the Facebook West. It makes the perfect gallery for photographs because, after all, the medium is more visual than thought-provoking. And many of the images are stunning. What often gives pause is the way its viewers embrace those images. As lovely as a photograph might be, it cannot be a substitute for the real thing and sometimes it's not clear if Facebookers know the difference.
Environmental heroes are honored by Facebook in its own inimitable way. The poet/conservationist John Muir can claim that 4190 Facebook users "LIKE" him. Henry David Thoreau is embraced by 18,037 fans. Not bad for men who have been dead for decades or centuries.
Wendell Berry (who is still quite alive and kicking) has 4,616 fans, despite the fact that he doesn't own a computer and has, by choice and design, never logged onto the internet.
On a page "to promote and discuss the writings and life of Edward Abbey," his role as a naturalist (one he loathed) usually trumps any serious discussion of Abbey's more controversial positions like immigration and his membership in the NRA.
Occasionally a contributor to the Abbey page asks the question no one wants to consider: "What would Abbey think of Facebook?" The consensus is always that he would have hated it and then a swarm of Facebookers click the "LIKE" button. Even Cactus Ed's assumed revulsion for the medium gets a "thumbs up" from its most ardent users and his most enthusiastic admirers.
Nobody seems to notice the contradiction.
In the end, the Facebook West is coming for us all. There is an inevitability about it now that I refused to consider even a few years ago. The banality that we've hoped to avoid is now perched on our shoulders and lulling us into submission. It's comforting to many. We get to be participants, even stars, in what passes for a public discussion in the 21st Century.
And everything is public. A Facebooker recently chastised one of her "friends" for posting "inappropriate comments" on her Wall. "Even if it doesn't offend me," she explained, "You never know who is in your audience."
This is what facebook is really about—we've become willing performers, playing to an "audience" full of "friends" who "LIKE" us. Andy Warhol and his "15 minutes" were spot on.
That explains, I suppose, our willingness to abandon the privacy we claim is so precious. We're asked to list our favorite books and we eagerly comply. Which great actor do we most resemble? We answer without hesitation. What car would we be? Why…the car that suits our personality, whether it's Mucho Macho or New Age Sensitive.
We unwittingly give the world every detail of our private lives, manufacturing a persona for ourselves in the process. And while we voluntarily spew all the details, somebody out there is taking notes, compiling our profile and we keep making their job easier.
"Yup" and "Nope" just wouldn't work in the Facebook West. This is no place to be reticent or understated…Gary Cooper wouldn't stand a chance.
Then it occurs to me. I lament the loss of the empty West and its remote and lonely vistas. And then I think of millions upon millions of solitary little figures, all around the West and the World, all of us hunched over our keyboards, wishing we were anywhere but where we are, typing our most private thoughts to whoever will listen, and hoping that somebody will reply—that somebody will "LIKE" us.
And I think, Damn, what could be lonelier than that?
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Once upon a time in rural Michigan, where I grew up, people used to stop what they were doing when an airplane flew over and watch it until it was almost out of sight. Many of the flights we saw were made by Sherman Edgar, a farmer who lived in an adjacent township.
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Edgar had taught himself to fly by building a tail assembly and a wing, then attaching them to a truss-shaped fuselage to make a glider. One day in the early 1930s, my dad took me to watch Edgar's friend tow him furiously across a field with a Model A Ford. After all the fuss, Edgar gained enough altitude for only a few moments of flight.
Before long, though, the glider morphed into a wood-and-fabric high-wing monoplane constructed from a set of mail-order plans and powered by a Model A Ford engine. Throughout the 1930s, on quiet summer evenings after the chores were done, we became accustomed to the sight and sound of Sherm puttering overhead. As I stood watching Edgar sail past one night in 1938, our last year on the farm, I couldn't have imagined that four years hence I would be wearing a U.S. Army Air Forces flightsuit while training to fly some of the nation's newest fighters.
Several years ago, in a hangar discussion with other pilots, I was reminded of the story of Sherman Edgar's marvelous homebuilt aircraft. "Oh yeah," somebody said, "that was a Pete 'n' Paul." Of course, he meant "Pietenpol," as in Bernard H. Pietenpol, who in 1929 designed and built the first of this type. Furthermore, I soon found out that an airplane I had thought was ancient history still existed and even thrived, like a population of rare birds nesting next to dirt and grass strips and the runways of small-town airports.
To many of the people who build and fly them, the Piet, as it is affectionately known, is an almost mystical symbol of two intrinsically American values—self-reliance and freedom—and a time machine back to the early days of aviation.
The Piet's story began in the hamlet of Cherry Grove, in southeast Minnesota, near Iowa. In 1919, with little more than an eighth grade education and an innate talent for mechanics, Pietenpol opened an auto repair shop in his father's barn. He soon developed a reputation for being able to fix anything, from farm equipment to motorcycles.
Along the way, he discovered airplanes. He experimented with constructing a series of biplanes by working with materials purchased from lumberyards and hardware stores, including unbleached muslin, which he used to cover the fuselage and control surfaces. Since he couldn't afford to buy an aircraft engine for his first biplane—a shaky, hardly airworthy contraption—he decided to power the aircraft with an engine from a Model T Ford automobile.
Pietenpol took a few flying lessons in a Curtiss JN-4D, the World War I-era biplane, and even bought one when they were sold off as military surplus. But he never liked it, and soon got rid of it.
The fourth aircraft that Pietenpol built was a single-place, high-wing monoplane. Chet Peek, an engineer, pilot, restorer of antique airplanes, and aviation historian, whose book The Pietenpol Story is the definitive history of Pietenpol's career, surmises that Pietenpol's design was inspired by the Heath Parasol, a small kitplane that was popular at the time.
By May 1929, Pietenpol had completed a second version of his high-wing monoplane, adding another cockpit. This time he had the power he wanted: In late 1927, the Model A Ford, with its 40-horsepower engine, had arrived. Pietenpol replaced the engine's heavy battery, distributor, and generator with a magneto, and the exhaust manifold with short, straight stacks. He mounted the engine backward, attaching the prop to the forward-facing flywheel, and the radiator aft, where it stuck up prominently just ahead of the front cockpit.


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I Love to Learn of Jesus Christ
1. I love to learn of Jesus Christ.
I love the gospel story—
How God sent down His firstborn Son
To teach us of His glory.
My parents teach me how to pray
To Heav'nly Father daily.
They teach me of Christ's suffering
And how He came to save me.
2. My Savior is my constant guide,
Though I may seem to wander.
He teaches me to love the truth
And lifts my eyes beyond here.
And when I walk down lonely roads,
He does not leave me friendless.
He gave His very life for me;
His love for me is endless.
3. When Jesus rises o'er the hills
His many thousands bringing,
I, too, would join the angel throng
And lift my voice in singing.
So when I leave this life behind,
I will not, will not sorrow,
For I shall meet at Jesus' knee
With loved ones on the morrow.
Text: Carol Lynn Pearson
Music: Janice Kapp Perry
Artist: Pearson/Perry
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: Friend
Composition Date: 1999-01-01
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The Ceiling Fan gyrated off-kilter, making an irritating "clank" on each pass, syncopated with every second tick of the Therapist's watch. thatcher kaid on the couch, mind locked on the loose threads coming out of the leftmost seams, where the tag once resided.
The Therapist leered through Thatcher's ambivalence with an icy, focused stare, absent of remorse or any sign of empathy. thatcher hadn't said a word since the appointment started, and already the Therapist knew so much about Thatcher. the body language, as if the appointment was trial for a shameful act Thatcher didnt even commit. The appearance, long, bushy hair, rough, abused jeans, an acid-washed shirt depicting a band that gave up long before the wearer did, and the pain and torment those darkened glossy eyes failed to hide. Thatcher Freeman was a classic juvenile delinquent. The Therapist finished scratching fleeting sentences into his moleskin tumbler and his hands in his lap. He inhaled softly, and asked in calm vibrato,
"You can tell me what happened. I know it might be hard to think about, but I'm Here to help you. Let's start back to beginning of freshman year. What feelings were most prevalent?"
Thatcher wasn't exactly paying attention, but he had comprehended everything that Dr. Fjaskar said. Thatcher had grasped the concept early on not to trust grown-ups, but something in the Doctor's voice contradicted Thatcher's belief. Thatcher found a level of comfortably with Dr. Fjaskar that he never saw in anyone else. Thatcher turned to face the doctor. This man deserved his due of attention. Thatcher nervously opened his mouth to speak.
"I was fifteen at the time. I remember I didn't have much of a choice for my elective courses on account that I couldn't make up my mind. I had no drive, no interest and, most of all, no friends. I hung around the outside of the school, I felt... Scabbed-over. It was like I was An immigrant, fresh off the boat... Except instead of having no belongings, I had no dreams. No Push. No... Mind..."
Thatcher paused for quite some time. He had just opened himself up more than he ever had to anyone, to a man he had never met. Dr. Fjaskar finished scrawling i his tumbler and asked a very deep question.
"So... When did the drugs come in?"
Thatcher's heart stopped and an icy, sharp feeling swelled across his figure. Thatcher paused for a seeming eternity before answering.
"About a week after registration. I got in with a group of crazy hippie kids and they showed me a world of enlightenment through substance. We never called it "Dropping acid" or "slinging E", we called it "Enlightenment through substance,"
Thatcher felt naked after explaining, divulging what the last six years of his life was like. He had nothing to hide behind anymore. The doctor frantically scrambled to smush everything into one page. There was an awkward silence that felt endless. No patient had ever been that open with Dr. Fjaskar before. The doctor poured over the diagnostic the Attorney had given him earlier. He asked another question.
"After experiencing these changes, did your ambitions change?"
Thatcher felt more confident about his past suddenly, as he slowly sat up and said
"I began to see life differently, I found my destiny through substance, I became more loving and open to most things! but..."
Dr. Fjaskar dropped his pen and his eyes met Thatcher's.
"But?" The Doctor inquired
"...I became addicted." thatcher admitted, his voice cracking, like a dam that sprung a leak, now pouring years of regret, "my many loves and passions becoming pipe dreams with every door that slammed in my face."
Tears were welling in Thatcher's eyes. Dr. Fjaskar felt a familiar burden on his shoulders. He didn't want to destroy Thatcher's mental threshold, but the hurting was mandatory for the healing to begin.
"What did you end up doing?" the Doctor asked, his voice leaded with reluctance.
"I became crushed, working a full-time, souless job, in order to fulfill my disgusting habit, When it became too much I-..."
Thatcher stopped. As if there were a rock in his throat. Tears were almost cascading down his face, but his expression remained neutral.
"You... What?" The Doctor asked, knowing full-well he was steadfastly disintegrating Thatcher.
"I resorted to a life of crime!" Thatcher burst out. "I lied, cheated, stole, beat all to fuel the blackened husk of what I had become!"
Thatcher dropped to his knees, crying deeply. He had fully realized what had happened. Dr. Fjaskar closed his tumbler. "Now the healing can begin," he said.
Dr. Fjaskar saw a rebirth for Thatcher. It would take time, but this dried husk of a man would live again and rise from the ashes, living out his dreams.
...Can anyone believe i got 100% on that?
Quote from: Fluoxetine on January 20, 2013, 06:23:14 pm
If you're gonna do that shit, do it about one of those ontario elections that always end in the cops chasing a rapist around a tim hortons or some shit.
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