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A spiral that can beat you with two arms tied behind its back
Messier 106 is an elongated spiral galaxy, seen by us at a low angle, in the constellation of Canes Venatici (CANE-eez ven-AT-ih-sigh, the hunting dogs). It's about 25 million light years away, give or take. That may sound far — 250 million trillion kilometers! — but for Hubble, that's considered close. So if you take a stack of Hubble images of M106 and put them together, as amateur astronomer Andre vd Hoeven did, you get a lovely picture it!
[Click to galactinate and get access to a zoomable version — and you want to. I shrank the image considerably to get it to fit here. (UPDATE: there's a HUGE version at Flickr.)]
M106 looks a bit odd to my eye. The overall structure is pretty typical for a two-armed spiral seen at this low angle, but still… those red spots mark the location of busy star formation. The hot young stars heat up their surrounding gas, and the hydrogen in them reacts by glowing. Usually you see star formation that intense over a large region of the galaxy, or a small region, but not somewhere in between like this.
Not being familiar with the galaxy, I looked it up, and found the image inset here (which I've rotated to better match the Hubble image above). Right away we see something really weird: there are two more arms invisible in the Hubble shot!
What the what?
The inset picture is a combination from a lot of telescopes and wavelengths: visible light (displayed as gold), infrared (red), radio (purple) and X-ray (blue). The visible and IR line up well with Hubble's view, but the radio and X-ray clearly show those extra arms. X-rays are emitted by very hot gas — like, million degrees hot — and radio is emitted by gas with a strong magnetic field permeating it. That's a hint about what's going on. Another is that the core of the galaxy is very bright, glowing more fiercely than you'd expect from a normal galaxy.
That adds up to one thing: an actively feeding black hole in the galaxy's heart. And it's big: about 40 million times the mass of the Sun. Material from the galaxy is falling onto the black hole, and piling into a huge disk just outside the Final Plunge. This disk is incredibly hot, and for reasons still not entirely understood (but which involve intense magnetic fields) powers twin beams of energy and matter which blast out at high speed in opposite direction. These beams are slamming into and heating up the gas in the galaxy, and that's what's lighting up those extra arms. The beams are cone-shaped (think beams from a light house), which is why we only see some of that gas lit up.
Weirdly, the beams are blasting through the disk of the greater galaxy. Usually, the disk of the black hole is roughly aligned with the exterior galaxy itself, so the beams travel "up and down", right out of the galaxy, but clearly that's not the case here! Also, judging from the power in those beams, if they were aimed at us the core of that galaxy would be really bright, and M106 would be a heckuva lot more famous than it already is. I wonder if it would be naked eye visible? It's possible.
Funny. There's hardly a hint of all that incredible energy blasting out, all that drama, in the Hubble image. As detailed and high-resolution as it is, it shows we still need as many eyes on the sky as can muster if we really want to uncover the secrets of the Universe.
Image credits: Hubble: Andre vd Hoeven & Adrian Zsilavec and Michelle Qualls/Adam Block/NOAO/AURA/NSF & enhanced with a ground-based image by Adam Block; X-ray:NASA/CXC/Univ. of Maryland/A.S. Wilson et al./Optical: Pal.Obs. DSS/IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Radio: NRAO/AUI/NSF
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Related: What does that mean for all the planets in the path of the beams in that galaxy? In my completely unscientific wondering, if the black hole is arranged in such a way that the beams are crossing the galaxy like that wouldn't that indicate that it is "tipped" over and is rotating in such a way that those bright spots you point out could be on the leading/trailing edge of the rotation? Could the rotation of a supermassive black hole at such an odd angle relative to the rest of the galaxy cause the gravity distortions expected to interact with the disc strangely?
Unrelated: I gave Abbie crap about how Physics related stuff is a better subject than Biology during your talk due to the distinct lack of duck anatomy. Unfortunately, subsequent jokes have ruined my ability to look at spiral galaxies without remembering Darrel's talk…
Two beams blasting out through the galactic disk?
Sort of makes me wonder… if there is life in that galaxy, is it subjected to periodic death rays leading to mass extinctions?
Incredible image, zooming in to so many huge associations of hot, young stars. Hubble rocks!
Shouldn't it be "KHAN-ays way-NOT-ee
Is the black hole in the center of that galaxy just tipping over because it's gyroscopically unstable, like they say Earth would be without the Moon? But if that's the case – why does everyone look for an impactor to have tipped over Uranus, which is without a significant (relatively) moon to stabilize it?
Grr, stupid browser posting my comment prematurely.
ShouldnŌĆÖt it be ŌĆ£KHAN-ess way-NOT-ih-chee"? Or is there a guidebook somewhere for how astronomers are supposed to mangle Latin?
(I wonder the same thing about all the anglicized Spanish place names in California.)
The large version on Flickr looks amazing on the new iPad, with its high resolution. I can zoom in almost far enough to see some alien ships.
Whoah! That is one stunning galaxy image – love the aerial perspective there – and then the second extra arms surprise shot – wow! ¤śĆ
Marvellous, thankyou BA & Andre vd Hoeven – & Hubble and the others too.
It's wikipedia page (linked to my above comment ) notes that Messier 106 is a Seyfert galaxy and has a water vapour maser as well as a possible companion galaxy NGC 4217 an edge on spiral with another fainter one visible in the amateur astronomer's image there. (Also directly linked to my name here – taken by Wilson – can't find first /last name there.)
That second smaller and fainter one almost reminds me of the Large Magellanic Cloud in relation to our Galaxy – wonder if there's any connection with M106's shape and AGN dynamism? No idea though whether that second smaller companion – NOT NGC 4217 – is physically associated with M106 or just a backdrop line-of-sight galaxy. Anyone here able and willing to shed any light on that or know what that apparent companion's designation is by any chance, please?
There are a number of other faint background galaxies in that Wilson picture too – a pair that the smaller galaxy there that the smaller LMC look-alike points too in the top centre of the astrophoto and a small spiral below diagonally left of NGC 4217 and a faint elleptical witha starlike core and faint milky halo below M106 and in line with NGC 4217 plus several others.
Also, judging from the power in those beams, if they were aimed at us the core of that galaxy would be really bright, and M106 would be a heckuva lot more famous than it already is. I wonder if it would be naked eye visible? ItŌĆÖs possible.
Messier 106 – seen from 25 million light years distance – currently has an apparent magnitude of 9.1 — so it'd certainly need to increase its apparentluminosity multifold times to reach sixth magnitude. Still I've read in one of Tim Ferrises excellent works that a ceryain type of AGN would shine as brightly as our Sun if were located in our Local Group of galaxies so, yeah, maybe -even if it isn't exactly that sortof AGN! ¤śē
ŌĆ£Quasars are so luminous that if one was in action in a local group galaxy its brilliance would rival that of the Sun.ŌĆØ
– P.284, Ferris, ŌĆśSeeing in the DarkŌĆÖ, Simon & Schuster, 2002.
(Also directly linked to my name here ŌĆō taken by Wilson ŌĆō canŌĆÖt find first /last name there.)
D'oh! Sometimes the things right in front of your eyes that you miss. Aaaaarrrgh!
Make that HunterWilson who took the photo. Not sure if that's one hyphenated surname or a first and last name combo. My apologies to the individual in question and thanks for posting that astrophotograph on wiki for us all.
Apologies too for the typographical errors that I could swear my computer adds in after I've clicked the submit button. Honestly! ¤śē
Charles- try saying it in Old Entish, but, as per usual, take your time…
So if solar systems have a goldilocks zone, is there a similar "galactic goldilock zone" where stars a certain distance from the center of a galaxy are more likely to be favorable for solar systems such as our own?
That system you're looking at near M106 is the small companion galaxy NGC 4248. NED(NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database) pegs its' distance at 7.3 Mpc (the distance to M 106 is given as 7.4 Mpc).
Intriguingly, despite the info noted in the wiki entry(and SIMBAD), NGC 4217 appears NOT to be a companion to M 106. NED gives its' distance as 19.6 Mpc, over 10 Mpc more distant than M 106. Also, a 2010 study of the satellite galaxies of M 106 found over a dozen companions, including NGC 4248 but, alas, not NGC 4217(an interesting read, btw): http://arxiv.org/pdf/1011.2830v1.pdf
@ ^ Jon Hanford : Cheers for that – much appreciated.
@13. eric : Yep. I think I've heard /read that GHZ idea mentioned a few times. Ideally a star isn't in the dangerous galactic bulge region too close to an occssionally active and crowded nucleus and not too far away and hence likely to be too "metal" poor to enable life and technology to develop. Mind you its just an educated extrapolation and we've gathered far too little data at this stage to tell whether it has much validity or not.
@12. Jess Tauber : "Charles- try saying it in Old Entish, but, as per usual, take your timeŌĆ""
LOL. Have you finished saying it yet then? (I won't ask you to repeat it! Come to think of it, I shouldn't interupt you should I?) ¤śē
I'll try to cover the basics, Charles, using the IPA in the pronunciations.
1) Vowels are pronounced as in English for the most part (hard to tell whether they will be long, though; compare "d─üta" and "d─āta"), but since "-es" involves a silent e in English, the pronunciation in anglicized Latin is /iz/.
2) Consonant sounds are "modernized" to match Modern English, meaning c sounds like /s/ before an e, i or y, g sounds like /dʒ/ before the same vowels, j and v are consonants, instead of semivowels. Some palatization occurs, such as in "ratio", and "fasces".
3) Vowel length is ignored, but the placement of stress is retained from Latin, so for instance, "Eridanus" is e-RI-da-nus, not e-ri-DA-nus.
4) The diphthongs ae and oe are pronounced the same as an e in the same place would be, and even affect c and g in the same way (e.g. "Caesar" and "algae").


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These teams have split the first two entries in this series with Detroit taking a 10-4 victory on Friday and Cleveland squeaking out a 7-6 victory on Saturday.
The Indians had a 6-1 lead going into the bottom of the seventh inning and nearly let that lead slip away, but an RBI sacrifice fly from Jason Giambi in the eighth inning gave them enough breathing room to escape with the win.
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Prior to this season, McAllister has made three starts all-time against Oakland. He is 1-1 with an ERA of 4.50 in those appearances though he has pitched just a combined 18 innings in those starts. He has no record and a 2.04 ERA in three career starts against Detroit.
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I have not done one yet, but I would recommend Reach for the Stars from Usborne Books. (I feel I must admit I am an Usborne consultant so I am biased...) If you can get a few other families to do it together it would be even better because you could encourage each other. But it is totally win-win. Your children read for 30 or minutes each day for two weeks. They get people to sponsor them in the read-a-thon. They get 70% of the money to invest in Usborne books (a total win for a homeschooling family) and you get the other 30% cash! Anyone who wants more information (I don't want to turn this into a huge advertisement...) please email me at email@example.com
betterley wrote:I went to the Usborne site and the program sounds good but it seems to be more for younger age children. My kids are 6th and 7th grade so I don't think this would help but thank you anyways.
Gosh we do this in public Middle schools all the time... I certainly would not see why you could not do it with a 6th or 7th grader. (I'll have to take a better look at what we publicize on our web site to see how they are gearing this...) We do have books on those levels as well. (We have a whole surviving middle school set...) but if you don't feel this would work with your specific children, obviously you know them better than me and I would never say anything is "one size fits all"
try getting some fund raising ideas from this site, i bookmarked this a couple of months back...
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While in prison, before his execution at Lahore, Guru Arjun had sent a message to his son, Guru Hargobind, then aged only eleven, that he should henceforth maintain an army. At the very time of his installation as Guru, he insisted that he should wear two swords, one representing his spiritual leadership and the other his temporal and political leadership. Soon after it, he constructed in front of the Amritsar temple, another building called the Akal Takht (God's throne) as the seat of temporal power. This place continues to the present day as the centre of every sociopolitical deliberation and power of the community. There, like the two swords he wore, he raised aloft two flags representing the two aspects of his activities. He told his followers, "My rosary shall be my swordbelt and on my turban I shall wear the emblem of royalty." The Sikhs were already engaged in the trade of horses and the Guru advised every Sikh to keep a sword and maintain a horse, wherever possible. He started recruiting a regular army. He had a personal bodyguard of 57 horsemen and kept 700 horses, 60 gunmen and 500 infantry men. Thus a state within a state, started and developed by the earlier Gurus, was consolidated by him. When this news reached the Emperor, he demanded from the Guru the fine imposed on his father. The Guru was imprisoned in the Gwalior fort along with other political prisoners of high status. Later he was released.
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"Oh whisper me words in the shape of a bay; shelter my love from the wind and the waves." – Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo
Members of area crews rowed in the rain last Friday on the first day of the Scholastic Rowing Association of America's 2013 National Regatta, but they were more adversely affected by the weather on Saturday, when strong gusts of wind raked the course and help cause numerous mishaps and schedule changes.
Penn Charter seniors Spencer Grant, Kevin Kelly, Maria Georgiou and Heidi Zisselman won gold medals at the SRAA's in 2012, when they were paired off in the boys' and girls' junior doubles events. Competing in senior doubles this season, they did not even get to race in the championship round last weekend on the Cooper River course in Camden, N.J.
After semifinal round on Saturday morning, windy conditions caused regatta officials to cancel the finals for all one-person and two-person boats, and the final rankings in these categories were based solely on the times recorded during the semifinals. Kelly and Grant still came away with the bronze medal, while Zisselman and Georgiou were placed fifth.
Meanwhile, Germantown Academy junior Kate Horvat and senior Alex Takei were very happy they'd charged away from the rest of the field in their senior double semifinal race; the effort netted them the gold medal.
Another double that was originally entered at SRAA's, the girls' lightweight boat from Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, never got underway at the regatta. One athlete was over the 130 lb. weight limit, reflecting a major discrepancy between the school's certified scale and the ones used at the regatta site. The best Blue Devils boys' double fell one spot short of advancing out of the qualifying heats, but the girls in the SCH junior varsity quad made it to the finals, finishing sixth.
Mount St. Joseph Academy rowers fared well overall in Friday's rains, then struggled on windy Saturday. A total of seven different Mounties from three different boats – the varsity eight, second eight and freshman eight – wound up in the river instead of just on top of it.
Three of the eight total entries by the Magic reached the championship round. The freshman eight and lightweight each finished fifth, while the Stotesbury Regatta champion second eight, which had two of its rowers go into the drink near the end of the final race, came in sixth. The Mount's varsity eight made it to the petite final, which features the crews ranked 7-12 coming out of the semifinal round. Here, the Magic once again had a fifth-place finish.
In Friday's three qualifying heats for the boys' varsity double, the four fastest boats went on to the semifinals, and Penn Charter advanced easily, winning its heat. There were fewer entries for the girls, so the Quakers' Georgiou and Zisselman were able to start right out in the semifinal round, and ended up racing only once the entire weekend.
Both twosomes would have altered their strategy if they had known that their final placings were going to be based solely on their semifinal times. Their main goal was to become one of the top three boats in their section, and thus advance to the championship contest.
In the boys' second semifinal, Grant and Kelly were the runners-up behind New Jersey's Don Bosco Prep (a crew they'd beaten at Stotesbury), with times of 5:17.059 and 5:20.090. Roman Catholic was a close third at 5:21.422, but there was little danger of any of these three not earning a berth in the final, since the fourth-place boat, Virginia's Western Albemarle High School, was far back at 5:36.234.
Bosco, Charter, and Roman wound up second, third, and fourth in the final standings, since Stotesbury champ Ridgewood (N.J.) High School won the other semifinal with a time of 5:15.141. Fifth and sixth went to Haverford School (5:26.075) and Conestoga High (5:29.130).
On this blustery afternoon, when team tents shuddered in the gusts and some came loose from their moorings entirely, weather conditions on the water changed from one race to the next.
In the girls' senior double, GA's Takei and Horvat ran away from everybody in the second of the two semifinals, the first and only race of the weekend for these crews. The pair of Patriots put up a time of 5:50.846, winning their own race by more than eight seconds. Their time also easily overshadowed the figure of 5:58.530 that ultimately won the silver medal for Ridgewood, the victor in the first semifinal contest.
The next two boats in the final standings came out of GA's section, bronze medalist Conestoga (5:59.002) and Cincinnati Country Day School (5:59.895). Unaware that the final grading would be done using the semifinal results, Penn Charter cruised to second place in the other semifinal in 6:05.457, comfortably ahead of the third qualifier, Episcopal Academy (6:10.457).
As in the PC boys' race, the fourth-place female duo was no threat to the top three in this semifinal group; Egg Harbor arrived at the finish line in 6:21.390. In the end, PC and Episcopal were positioned fifth and sixth, respectively.
First thing Friday morning, SCH lightweight double rowers Maddy Canning and Alana Noble thought they were good to go. A couple days before the race, they'd each weighed in well below the limit for lights on the scales at their school, which are certified by the Department of Weights and Measures not only for rowers, but also for the boys on the wrestling team. The lithe ladies knew they would be weighed again over in Camden, so in the interim they obviously weren't over at Bruno's Restaurant stuffing down hoagies and cheese fries.
Lo and behold, when the Blue Devils stepped on the scales at the SRAA's, one of them (we're not telling) went from four pounds under the mark to four pounds over. Obviously, the on-site measurements had to be given priority, and it was "regatta over" for these two. They could finally chow down, but not for too long, since they've qualified to race at the U.S. Rowing Youth National Championships next month.
There was also some disappointment for Springside Chestnut Hill's most successful boys' double, the JV boat staffed by James Meadows and Matt Miller. In their sparsely-populated category, a finish in third place or higher early on Friday morning would've have taken them straight into the finals. They came in fourth in one of the two first-round races, just half-a-second behind the last qualifier, Fox Chapel, from Pittsburgh.
There was a similar format in the girls' JV quad, and here the Blue Devil quartet (Henney Hambrose, Comora Love-Mitchell, Emily Zuckerman, Courtney McElwee) made the cut, coming in third in their initial outing. The field was spread out in the championship race on Saturday, with Conestoga clinching the gold medal in 5:31.681, while SCH was sixth in 6:19.126.
First-year SCH coach Julia Rorer was pleased with their effort.
"They're all sophomores, so they were probably the youngest boat out there," she pointed out. "They all have another year together just in the junior quad."
She said that the four tenth-graders are dedicated to honing their skills in practice and racing beyond just the three-month spring season.
In the first-round SRAA racing on Friday, three Mount St. Joseph fours missed the qualifying cut. The JV eight [Megan Mirabella (cox), Caroline Carbone (stroke), Quinn Devore, Jocelyn Ziemniak, Jenny DiPietro, Christina Vosbikian, Alaina Hunt, Brynn McGillin, Ariene Merkle] made it past this stage, coming in second in the last of four opening heats to reach one of two semifinals. Another finish of third place or higher would be required for a spot in the finals, but the Magic were fifth this time around.
The MSJ freshman eight [Lindsey Maiale (cox), Demi Simms (stroke), Christina Knox, Olivia Tice-Carroll, Maddie Lauinger, Julianna Hunt, Maddie Carlton, Katelin Cordero, Zoe Ramos], the silver medalist at Stotesbury, won its SRAA debut by two seconds over Midwest power New Trier High School, from suburban Chicago.
In the semis, the young Mounties earned a spot in the finals by coming in second in their race (two-tenths of a second behind Virginia's T.C. Williams), but just after crossing the finish line, they encountered an officials' motor launch that had stalled and had not been cleared from the path of the competitors.
In an effort not to strike the craft with her oar, one of the Mounties got it jammed up and was flipped out of the boat. Another rower was levered up out of her seat, but managed to stay aboard. Come the final, the ninth-graders seemed a little off their game, winding up fifth ahead of the New Yorkers from Manhasset (5:25.162 to 5:31.193).
Saratoga Springs High School, the Stotesbury gold medalist, won easily over runner-up New Trier (5:03.357 to 5:12.972). Next came T.C. Williams (5:18.337), and Ohio's Upper Arlington (5:20.525).
Mount St. Joe's lightweight eight [Annie Tenzinger (cox), Emily McHugh, Liz McKernan, Maura O'Donnell, Bridget Fitzpatrick, Kate Mirabella, Josie Marrocco, Lexi Meister, Abby Shreero], which has had its ups and downs this season, needed to race only once to make it into the championship round last weekend.
They began well, winning the second of three semi-finals over Florida's Plant High School by almost one-and-a-half seconds. However, the Magic had a tougher go in the finals, ending in the fifth position in 5:14.871. They were still ahead of Plant (5:18.491), but were behind two-time champ Holy Spirit (5:04.138), as well as Merion Mercy Academy (5:07.640), Florida's Winter Park High School (5:10.710), and Montclair (5:13.305).
Coming off their Stotesbury victory, the Mount's second eight crew [Alyssa Pagliaro (cox), Emily Ruddy (stroke), Maddie Wescott, Gwyn Kieffer, Fiona Kelly, Danielle Kosman, Jacqueline James, Marissa Mulligan, Rachel Heller] won their opening heat at SRAA's by a little over four seconds, easily joining the other 11 semifinalists. On Saturday morning, they became the second of the three boats in their semi that earned passage to the championship race in the afternoon.
Even in the early stages of the final, things weren't going as well as hoped for the Mount. A few hundred meters from the finish, the top medals were now out of reach, but the Magic appeared to be straining hard to achieve the best place possible. The Mounties seemed to get a little out of sync, then Heller, the bow seat rower and a Norwood Fontbonne Academy grad, caught a crab (when the oar becomes "stuck" in the water, often dislodging the rower) and was flipped out of the boat entirely. Fortunately, her head quickly popped above the water's surface, but as onlookers glanced back at the boat itself, it was now apparent that an additional seat was empty. Heller's senior classmate, seven-seat Maddie Wescott, had plunged into the river after her comrade.
"She's my best friend, and instinct just sort of took over," explained Wescott, who will continue her crew career at Lehigh University.
Heller, who's headed for St. Joseph's, related, "As soon as I came up, I could see Maddie standing up to dive in after me."
The rowers were soon plucked from the water, chilled, but ultimately no worse for wear. However, a last place finish (in 5:55.762) for the crew was inevitable. Preceding them were gold medalist Saratoga (5:05.739), Maryland's Walt Whitman (5:13.109)), T.C. Williams (5:16.467), James Madison (5:16.811), and Bethesda-Chevy Chase (5:34.811).
Still, long after the undesirable outcome of the final race has lost its sting, the Mounties can look back with fondness on the selfless actions of one of their own, and the bond of friendship formed in their boat.
The Mount varsity eight had engaged in a four-stage competition that began with six qualifying heats on Friday. In each group, the boats taking the top two places moved directly into the semifinals, while the next two went into the repechage, a sort of play-in round that allowed middle-of-the-pack crews an opportunity to reenter the main draw.
In its first-round race, Mount St. Joe [Mary Raggazino (cox), Maddie Lawn (stroke), Natalie Simms, Steph Eble, Kierra McCloy, Lauren Matchett, Kait Loftus, Michela Karrash, Leah Ramos] avoided the "reps" by placing second to Saratoga, which recorded the fastest time overall in qualifying. Later, the top crews out of the repechage fed back into the main bracket to complete the field for three six-boat semifinals.
Here, the first two in each section would punch their ticket to the medal race, while the next two finishers went into the petite final. Following closely on the heels of the freshman eight mishap, four varsity Mounties were swept off the dock when a gust of wind buffeted their boat as they were lowering it into the water to head up for the start of their semifinal.
In the race itself, eventual gold medalist James Madison won in 5:00.62, while the Magic came in fourth in 5:10.458. They were less than four-tenths of a second out of third place, but at number three they would have been consigned to the "petite" nonetheless. Racing in a different semifinal section wouldn't have helped either, since the slowest time of any of the qualifying finalists was a 5:04.779 put up by Holy Spirit.
Near the end of the afternoon, Mount St. Joe finished fifth in the petite final (5:10.040), which was won by Bethesda Chevy Chase (5:04.970). Saratoga, which had been the fastest boat on the Cooper in both the heats and the semifinals, was edged out for the gold medal by James Madison, 4:50.477 to 4:51.337. New Trier (4:58.909) took the bronze medal, and was followed in by defending champ National Cathedral (5:01.705), Spirit (5:03.722), and Walt Whitman (5:09.816).


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Godley & Creme were once part of 10CC, of course, and video directors of quite some renown in the 1980s, but they also delivered a string of haunting, emotional electro pop hits like this one, a tale of tragic spousal abuse as overheard on a commuter train.
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This performance is epically camp, and was undoubtedly inspired by some of the finest marching powder. Kevin Godley tosses his mullet and gurns as if trapped in a lost Douglas Sirk classic, while all around bright shiny lights create a vaseline-heavy haze that will have you checking your eyeballs for cataracts. The tune is rather lovely, with synths that sound more like vintage 60s electronica than early 80s electro, but I can just hear the producer now, frothing at the mouth and screaming that what this needs is "MORE DRAMA!!!"
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Read this blog, and then write whatever you want about Speaker Lessons Learned. Be sure to mention in your blog that you're writing for Un-SQL Friday, and link to this post. Oh, and have it up any time before midnight on Monday, June 6. That'll give me time to do the roundup before I'm off on a cruise ship for a week. (No, not a #SQLCruise ship, just a regular one.)
Your assignment isn't necessarily to write about a presentation FAIL, though you can certainly do that. Anything that you think of when I say "speaker lessons learned" is fine…and that could be things you learned when you started speaking, or things you learned NOT to do by watching OTHERS speak, or…well, anything. This is Un-SQL Friday, after all.
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Former Liberty University men's soccer players Darren Amoo and Phillip Aseweh were selected in the third round of the 2012 Major League Soccer (MLS) Supplemental Draft held Tuesday, Jan. 17.
Amoo and Aseweh become the sixth and seventh Flames soccer players to be drafted by a MLS team. Liberty has had six players taken in the MLS Supplemental Draft, and one player, Josh Boateng, selected in the Super Draft in 2008.
Amoo, a forward, was taken by the Columbus Crew with the 10th pick of the third round of the draft, while Aseweh, a midfielder, was chosen with the 18th pick of the same round by the Houston Dynamo. Both players were key contributors for the Flames, who posted a 11-6-3 record this past season, claiming the Big South title.
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Professor Robert Gehrz is on the scientific steering committee for the 3 billion dollar NASA project which mounted a telescope aboard a jet airplane. Gehrz appears in a video about the stratospheric observatory for infrared astronomy (SOFIA) project.
SOFIA made it's first in flight airborne nighttime observations on May 26, 2010. The heavily-modified Boeing 747 took off and returned to NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, California. Astronomer's are now taking proposals for the astronomical community to use SOFIA. Expected to fly for 20 years, SOFIA will offer more than 1,000 cloud-free observational hours per year, far more than what is possible for ground-based telescopes. SOFIA has several advantages over satellite telescopes, in that it will allow astronomers to fly on board, controlling all aspects of the observation and it can be easily repaired. SOFIA will also be used an "ambassador" for NASA since educators, young scientists and members of the press will occasionally be allowed to fly on board.


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31243, Hymns, Sweet Is the Peace the Gospel Brings, no. 14
1. Sweet is the peace the gospel brings
To seeking minds and true.
With light refulgent on its wings,
It clears the human view.
2. Its laws and precepts are divine
And show a Father's care.
Transcendent love and mercy shine
In each injunction there.
3. Faithless tradition flees its pow'r,
And unbelief gives way.
The gloomy clouds, which used to low'r,
Submit to reason's sway.
4. May we who know the sacred Name
From every sin depart.
Then will the Spirit's constant flame
Preserve us pure in heart.
5. Ere long the tempter's power will cease,
And sin no more annoy,
No wrangling sects disturb our peace,
Or mar our heartfelt joy.
6. That which we have in part received
Will be in part no more,
For he in whom we all believe
To us will all restore.
7. In patience, then, let us possess
Our souls till he appear.
On to our mark of calling press;
Redemption draweth near.
Text: Mary Ann Morton, 1826-1897
Music: Alfred M. Durham, 1872-1957. © 1948 IRI
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At any one time, the Jones Institute for Educational Excellence has a number of programs operating to encourage people thinking about becoming teachers or supporting veteran teachers. Besides workshops and conferences offering professional development, JIEE houses the following programs.
Center for Innovative School Leadership
The Center for Innovative School Leadership (CISL) conducts efficiency reviews of individual school districts, helping them realize greater efficiencies and identifying good practices that can be shared with other school districts. This will allow districts to put savings back into the classroom for a greater investment in our children.
CISL was a part of Emporia State University and the Jones Institute for Educational Excellence from 2004 until 2017.
Great Plains Center for National Teacher Certification
The Great Plains Center for National Teacher Certification offers a program of professional development at no cost for teachers in Kansas going through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) assessment process.
Jones Distinguished Lecture Series
Established in 1986, the Jones Distinguished Lecture Series brings to the campus of Emporia State University nationally recognized leaders in education. While on campus, the Jones Lecturers meet with small groups, visit classes, conduct open forums, and deliver a formal address that is open to the public. (Learn more about who has served as a Jones Distinguished Lecturer.)
Jones Distinguished Professor Program
The Jones Distinguished University Professor Program provides a unique opportunity for a nationally respected scholar to spend a semester or more at Emporia State University. While in residence, the distinguished professor is required to do a policy study of a pertinent issue in education. Through teaching, writing, research, and consulting, the Jones Professor provides leadership in areas of interest to educators across the state and region.
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The mission of the Kansas Migrant and English Language Learner Academy is to provide research-based professional development for educators who would benefit from additional training to ensure success for Kansas's diverse K-12 migrant and English language learning population.
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Box Embed Tools Tear Down Content Walls
Oct 9, 2012 3:54 PM PT
Box on Tuesday unveiled Box Embed, a new HTML5-based framework, at its Boxworks 2012 conference in San Francisco.
This lets users embed Box's various features -- uploads, search, comments, sharing and file edits -- easily in their website, forum or blog.
The company also announced that 10 enterprise software partners, including Oracle, SugarCRM, NetSuite and Zendesk, will use Box Embed in their apps.
This "makes it easier for enterprises to break out of their data silos," Michael King, director of enterprise strategy at Appcelerator, told TechNewsWorld.
About Box Embed
Users can grab an embed code from the sharing options to the right of any file or folder on Box to add Box features to their website. Shared link permissions let users add or restrict collaborators directly within Box Embed for security.
Enterprise users with Oracle, SugarCRM, Zendesk or any of Box's other 10 enterprise software partners will be able to access Box's features and work with their content from within those companies' applications.
Box is rolling out updated versions of its application for NetSuite and SugarCRM featuring the Embed technology to customers this week. The other partners will get their updated versions soon.
Box is reportedly working on setting up partnerships with more than 100 other software vendors.
"The Box guys are pretty sharp and they're doing exactly the right thing to make their technology accessible with more sophisticated services," Al Hilwa, program director, applications development software at IDC, told TechNewsWorld. "Supporting developers is a key approach to taking their business to the next level and achieving stickiness in what is otherwise a fairly fungible market which will be hammered hard by major software players."
Providing HTML5 access to more granular content services is a plus and "will be leveraged assuming it works well," Hilwa suggested. "Generally it will speed collaboration projects to market for enterprises if vendors provide this kind of interoperability."
Box and HTML5
Box began working with HTML5 in 2010 when it debuted the HTML5-based ability to drag files from users' desktops into Box at its first Box Hack Olympics.
Last year, Box rewrote its mobile website in HTML5, CSS3 and JQuery Mobile.
"HTML5 is perfectly suited for the type of transactional use that file-sharing services offer," IDC's Hilwa remarked. "It's essential for them to support a universal Web model access."
HTML5's No Longer for Only the Lonely?
The problem with HTML5 is that it's a set of standards, not a platform. That lets vendors implement HTML5 as they want to, and has led to fragmentation. There can be up to a 30 percent difference in the way different browsers deploy HTML5 in mobile devices, King said.
"HTML5 is all those things and more," IDC's Hilwa commented. "It is still the only way to achieve universal access in a standards-compliant way. However, it not the best fit for every application. Nothing is."
"In the desktop, a browser is a browser, whereas with mobile browsers or apps, you do call on services," Appcelerator's King pointed out. "Access to services such as cameras or Siri or anything else are not being standardized right now and, due to vendors' implementation of standards either in their browsers or devices, it's difficult to standardize."
Is HTML5 Support Wise?
Google, Apple and Facebook have turned away from HTML5 to some extent, which raises the question of whether Box's emphasis on HTML5 is a good idea.
"I wouldn't say these three have turned their backs on HTML5, but there's a rationalization of where to use HTML5 emerging in the industry," IDC's Hilwa said. "Universal, light-weight access is very well-suited for HTML5. Deep engagement and complex support for mobile device features is likely going to continue to use native runtimes."
Perhaps the situation for HTML5 will improve. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) , Google, Microsoft and Mozilla have set up Web Platform Docs, a wiki that's a community resource for developers who use HTML 5, CSS and other standards, to build websites. It will serve as a reference site, and may lead to standardization.


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USC researcher surveys 150 best-selling games, finds zero Hispanic or Native American protagonists; women, children, and the elderly also disproportionately rare.
USC researcher surveys 150 best-selling games, finds zero Hispanic or Native American protagonists; women, children, and the elderly also disproportionately rare.
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An African Election
Last night, I attended a screening of Jarreth Merz's trending documentary, An African Election, as part of Columbia University's Institute on African Studies' yearlong series on African elections and democracy. I have long awaited this film. Not simply because it has received nods from Sundance, Spirit Awards, and other film critic bodies, but because it tells a profound story of African leadership, self-sufficiency, hope, and democracy. Indeed, those interested in democracy, elections, or just a riveting political story will be enthralled by this intimate exposé of an election passionately felt by an entire country and continent.
An African Election chronicles Ghana's 2008 presidential election that marked the country's historic double alternation in power and solidified its status as a maturing democracy. Ghana has been hailed a beacon of democracy in West Africa for over a decade—and for good reason. Former President J.J. Rawlings, who took power through the barrel of a gun in two successive military coups, organized democratic elections in 1992. He ceded the presidency to the elected winner of the rival party in 2000 after a term-limited eight years in elected office. Eight years later, the reigns of power passed again in the highly anticipated election that is the subject of the film.
The first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence, Ghana's economy and global prominence is growing by leaps and bounds. After giving the U.N. its first black Secretary-General in 1996, Ghana has been visited by each of the three most recent American presidents, and recently began off-shore oil drilling. Last year, Ghana's economic growth outpaced that of many higher income nations, including China. To understand the story of the 2008 election, in many ways, is to understand the recipe for Ghana's success, a key ingredient of which is a spirited citizenry that holds itself accountable for the future of the country. An African Election captures this essence of the Ghanaian people with great artistry.
The film vividly portrays the prize democracy holds in the eyes of Ghanaians as an integral part of the country's larger aspirations for sustained self-empowerment as seen in the trailer here. Scenes of determined voters languishing in ten-hour queues and crowds jubilantly chanting the ballot count underscore that the act of voting in Ghana is more a community celebration of nationhood than a mere act of individual civic duty. In addition, the deference, respect, and trust placed in Ghana's electoral commission are refreshing reminders that neutral agents are vital in the structural design of successful election systems.
With Ghana's next presidential election just months away, An African Election, released last year, serves as an important visual reference and testimonial of Ghana's democratic achievements. The upcoming election will undoubtedly present a variety of new challenges. From developing factions within the incumbent party to the new administrative responsibility of registering and enabling prisoners to vote for the first time per Ghana's 2010 court decisions enforcing the constitution's right to universal suffrage, which I've written about here, Ghana will not have a easy road. However, the stronger its history as a democracy, now archived and distributed for international consumption, the more Ghana has at stake. More important, An African Election creates discussion points for elections beyond the continent by raising important questions and offering instruction on the electoral process and democracy in general. In watching the film, one can't help but wonder to what degree the internalized expectations of Ghana by it citizens and the international community served as a check on the integrity of its elections. The film also illuminates aspects of structural design, such as the role that an effective and political electoral commission can play as a crucial powerbroker in resolving the most delicate and uproarious of democratic tensions.
Indeed, as we approach the U.S. presidential election even sooner that Ghana's in December, there is much we can learn from the unbridled enthusiasm and, at times, cautious optimism,that democracy engenders in this important African country. And, while democratic concepts are not new to Ghana or its counterparts on the continent, it is Ghana's ability to grapple with the challenges of the democratic process as a post-colonial nation in a region rife with pockets of grave conflict that makes this country's election worthy of the big screen.