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Steve Korch
|www.educationalfraud.com - site concerning the fraud by Western Seminary, Steve Korch, Gary Tuck and others
|link to the people section of the educational fraud site
|Hot link to Steve Korch
|Time line of various events concerning the educational fraud, Se xual misconduct of Steve Korch, Section 504 fraud, etc
|Se xual misconduct of Steve Korch, etc
|Steve Korch info
|Jane Doe to Steve Korch. Korch is confronted about being a child molester
|Steve Korch responds and does not deny it
|Jane Doe's statement regarding how Steve Korch molested her.
Western Seminary, Steve Korch, My Soul Thirsts, My Soul Thirsts An Invitation to Intimacy With God, Teacher, Speaker, Outstanding Writer, Coming to Your Senses, Jesus Christ, Spiritual Leader, Misconduct, biola university


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Now Available: Innovators Under 35 2013 See The 2013 List »
Alice Ting, 31
Lighting cellular movies
Alice Ting's movies won't fill any theaters, but they are breaking ground in using what's called "fluorescence imaging" to reveal the minute inner workings of cells in unprecedented cinematic detail.
To make her biology-in-action movies, Ting, an assistant professor of chemistry at MIT, needed a bright and efficient light source. So her lab developed a way to, effectively, glue superbright fluorescent "tags" directly to proteins of interest. The standard way to make proteins glow is to use green fluorescent protein (GFP), originally isolated from jellyfish, and cousins that fluoresce in different colors. But these proteins produce relatively dim light, making it difficult to see single molecules or in vivo processes. They also have to be genetically fused to the proteins being studied; this can alter the proteins' behavior and prevent them from freely moving around and into cells. In contrast, Ting used quantum-dot tags that are up to 100 times brighter than GFP and interfere less with the observed proteins.
Other labs had labeled proteins with quantum dots--nanocrystals that fluoresce in different colors depending on their size--but attached them with the help of bulky antibodies. Ting's lab did away with these clunky connectors and, at the same time, created far more secure ones, fusing small protein "linkers" to both the quantum dots and the proteins of interest. Ting then used an enzyme to join her two linkers, and voilà--she could observe a living cell in action. Nor is the linking system limited to quantum dots: it can be used for any tag.
"Alice Ting is a true innovator and is one of the best chemists of her generation," says Timothy Swager, chair of MIT's chemistry department. "Scores of research groups around the world are already applying her methods." One of Ting's latest projects is to fluorescently image the junction between nerve cells, illuminating a biochemical process that appears to play a key role in learning and memory. So it may be possible one day to see an actual film of how a brain learns. "Mammalian cells are so beautiful and funky," says Ting--with the appreciation of a true director.
--Jon Cohen
2006 TR35 Winners
Apostolos Argyris
Disguising data as noise
Prithwish Basu
His passion is finding ways to connect mobile devices, sensors, and robots directly--without the need for a base station. It's called "ad hoc" networking.
Seth Coe-Sullivan
Making screens crystal clear
Stefan Duma
Better virtual crash dummies
Christina Galitsky
Simple technologies save energy and lives
Ram K. Krishnamurthy
Cooler computers
Jane McGonigal
Designing games with new realities
Michael Raab
Making fuel ethanol more cheaply
Anand Raghunathan
Making mobile secure
Sumeet Singh
Faster defenses against computer viruses
Paris Smaragdis
Teaching machines to listen
Alice Ting
Lighting cellular movies

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Those in the creative field still have a chance to make a living doing what they love.
According to a wage index released today by Payscale, media and publishing jobs experienced the largest growth in wages in the past year.
This is a huge shift compared to the industry's "little to no growth" between 2008 and 2011.
The Payscale Index reported that those in the media industry — which includes public relations jobs, entertainers and performers and media and communication workers — saw a wage increase of 4.6 percent between 2011 and 2012. This is higher than the 4.4 percent that those with IT jobs experienced.
Here are other jobs that experienced substantial pay increases in the past year:
Rapid growth in mobile technology has made the engineering industry highly valuable— and workers in this industry are still making a decent living. Payscale defined these job titles as "software developer, database administrator and computer help desk specialist" with responsibilities ranging from "getting a website built to making a computer network more secure."
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs for software engineers are projected to increase by 30 percent from 2010 to 2020. This is faster than the average for all occupations.
Furthermore, the Payscale Index said wages in construction jobs have also experienced a substantial increase due to more homes being built this year than in the past four years. Between Q1 of 2011 to Q4 of 2012, wages for those with construction jobs experienced a salary increase of more than four percent.
On the other hand, workers in social services — which includes substance-abuse counseling to discussing spiritual matters — and jobs in business operations experienced the lowest wage growth.


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If you're looking for a range of giant stemware, look no further than the LSA Maxa glassware range of oversized stemware. This range of novelty jumbo glasses and novelty jumbo stemware from LSA glassware make the ideal party centrepiece glass. Each designer glass is handmade glass, offering unique and elegant finish.
The LSA Maxa glasses range includes the LSA Maxa Giant Cocktail Glass, LSA Maxa Giant Wine Glass, LSA Maxa Giant Champagne Saucer and the LSA Maxa Giant Brandy Glass. This range of giant wine glasses, giant cocktail glasses, giant champagne glasses and giant brandy glasses are available with fast UK delivery.


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AUSTIN — After reaping several prestigious honors for his combination of on-field and off-field accomplishments during his career at Texas, former Longhorns defensive end Sam Acho received one more Tuesday by being named the Big 12's sportsperson of the year.
Acho, who received the award along with Baylor women's basketball player Melissa Jones, is the second UT player to be named Big 12 sportsperson of the year, joining 2004-'05 winner Ahmard Hall.
In addition to his prolific career as a defensive end, in which he had 23.5 sacks (No. 10 on UT's career list), 37 tackles for loss, eight forced fumbles and nine fumble recoveries, Acho was a business honors student twice named an academic All-American.
He made multiple trips to Nigeria on medical missions, during which he helped doctors provide assistance to people in need in his parents' native country. Acho also organized fundraisers for the missions, mentored elementary school students in Austin, helped teach adults English as a second language and worked for Habitat for Humanity.
Acho, a fourth-round draft pick of the Arizona Cardinals, also won the Campbell Trophy (known as the "academic Heisman"), the Wuerffel Award (honoring college football's best all-around student athlete) and the ARA Sportsmanship Award.


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2012 had the drought to send prices sky-high. Jerry Gulke says 2013 will need its own problem to resuscitate the markets.
2012 will be remembered as the year of the drought. The devastating drought left many farmers with scant yields, which caused grain prices reached historic highs. A classic weather market was the overriding theme for the year.
But, that's now history. And, many are relieved to leave the challenging year behind.
"I was just as anxious as anybody to put 2012 behind me," says Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group.
So, what does 2013 have in store in terms of prices?
Gulke says the grain markets started a rally in December, but it fell apart. An improving economy and healthy South American crops are some of the reasons for the price slide.
"Now we are trading at levels we haven't seen since early July," Gulke says. "We basically wiped out all the benefits of the drought price impact."
The market is now trying to decide the prospects for 2013, he says. "We have destroyed prices in the first week of January." Grain prices slid once again during the second straight holiday abbreviated session. Read more about this week's market movements: Grain Markets Hit Hard by the Holidays
Gulke says the market needs new information jolt prices. "We have to get some bad news out there, production-wise, to make someone believe we need to pay $7 for corn and $14 for beans again. Now we are in a position where we need a problem, and that's not where we want to be."
Listen to Gulke's full analysis:
New Information on the Horizon
Market-jolting material could be in store next week. USDA will release five reports Friday, Jan. 11: Crop Production, Annual Crop Production, Winter Wheat Seedings, World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, and Grain Stocks. These reports will include USDA's final estimates on corn and soybean production and acreage for the 2012-13.
Note, these will be the first reports released at 11 a.m. CDT, not at 7:30 a.m. as in the past. AgWeb will have full coverage and analysis of the reports.
Here's what you need to know going into the Jan. 11 reports. Read AgWeb's Pre-Report Analysis, News of Jan. 11 Reports.


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North Korea's Lil' Kim poses dangerous model for Iran (Column)
North Korea may be an economic basket case, with a gross domestic product less than half that of Ethiopia, much of the population malnourished and lacking even an electrical light to turn on when darkness falls. North Koreans may enjoy no freedoms or human rights, with an estimated 200,000 confined to concentration camps. But North Korea has nuclear weapons and missiles, so when Kim Jong Un, its 30-year-old "supreme leader" -- a status inherited from his father and grandfather before him -- issues threats, the United States and other nations listen up.
There are lessons here, and we should assume that among those learning them is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader. In talks last week in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Khamenei's negotiators offered no serious compromises to the United States and five other Western powers.
It has become clear to all but the most credulous that Iran's theocrats will soon have "critical capability" -- the means to produce enough weapons-grade uranium or separated plutonium to make a nuke so quickly that neither the International Atomic Energy Agency nor any Western intelligence service would detect it in advance.
During last week's talks, the Iranians told the Western powers that they want economic sanctions lifted as part of a "confidence-building" process. What Iran would do to build confidence was left unclear. Iran's chief negotiator, Saeed Jalili, also demanded recognition of Iran's "right" to enrich uranium.
No such right exists. On the contrary, by installing advanced centrifuges and enriching uranium, Iran has violated multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions requiring that it suspend "all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities." Iran is in violation of its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty safeguards agreement as well.
At the end of the latest round of talks, even such dovish Western negotiators as Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, could see no path to progress. The two sides, she said, remain "far apart on substance." They could not even agree on a date to resume talks.
Had Iranian negotiators been willing to set their sights a bit lower, they might have walked away appearing reasonable -- without actually limiting their options. In the previous round of talks, in February in Almaty, Western diplomats were reportedly prepared to lift some of the economic pressure in exchange for Iran curtailing its production of 20 percent enriched uranium, and exporting some of its existing stock. Additional sanctions relief was contingent on Iran meeting all of its obligations under international law.
The problem with that approach from a Western perspective: After pocketing the concessions, Iran easily could have resumed enriching and accumulating 20 percent uranium; then, within a week or two, enriching further to about 90 percent weapons-grade, which it could, at a time of its own choosing, clandestinely turn into nuclear devices.
Why didn't the Iranians strike that bargain? Perhaps because Khamenei has seen North Korea repeatedly besting the West. After the Korean War ended in a draw in 1953, North Korean dictators Kim Il Sung and his son, Kim Jong Il, made fools of a list of American presidents, using threats to extort benefits. Lil' Kim is now attempting to do the same. Could Iran's Big Kahuna, heir to the great and glorious Islamic empires of history, settle for less?
There's also the fact that Khamenei is a man with a plan. "I'm not a diplomat; I'm a revolutionary," he recently said. I suspect that means he does not intend to play games with those he regards as mortal enemies. He intends to defeat them thoroughly and unambiguously, in negotiations, battles and other encounters.
His confidence needs shaking. Sanctions should be ratcheted up to the level of economic warfare whether or not that term is used. The threat of military force, which President Barack Obama has been careful never to "take off the table," must be made credible in Khamenei's eyes. At the moment, it is not.
Time is not on our side. By the estimates of David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, and my colleagues, Orde Kittrie and Mark Dubowitz, Tehran could reach critical capability before mid-2014.
At that point, the North Korean threat will seem like small kimchi in comparison with the perils posed by an oil-rich state, the world's leading sponsor of terrorism, intent on spreading its Islamist revolution -- and no doubt proliferating nuclear technology -- globally. The moment Iran achieves "critical capability" is the moment the world of the 21st century becomes a more dangerous place than most of us can imagine.
Clifford D. May is president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on national security.


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Nestled amid 45 acres of picturesque parkland with 3 fishing lakes, Lakeview Manor is a charming country hotel boasting a tranquil and relaxed environment within the natural beauty of Dunkeswell, Devon. During your stay at Lake View Manor you can enjoy a stroll through the surrounding meadows, listening to the birds and admiring the beautiful trees and wild flowers. Alternatively you can explore the 3 private lakes, where you can often see leaping carps.
Whether you are here for a short break, holiday or business trip, you'll find 17 comfortable rooms to suit individuals, couples and families. All our rooms have en-suite bathrooms, tea/coffee making facilities, and include free internet access. There are excellent facilities and idyllic views, perfect for families, fishing trips or last minute getaways. After a long day of exploring the area, you can return to the friendly and welcoming Manor to enjoy traditional home-cooked meals in a relaxed environment. The Restaurant at Lakeview Manor is open to residents and non-residents. The 'hog roasts' are fast becoming legendary, with a whole west country pig roasted on a spit, and serving up to 80 guests at a time. Pride of place on the well stocked bar is a selection of locally brewed Otter Ales offering a true taste of Devon, full of individual flavour and aromas. The main lake at Lakeview Manor covers two acres and is well stocked with carp, tench, rudd and perch. Both fishing lakes are open to residents and club members only. There are many outstanding sea-fishing venues nearby, particularly recommending the mackerel fishing or booking a boat trip from Beer, Exmouth or Lyme Regis, nothing quite beats deep-sea fishing for an exhilarating day out. Devon has over 40 golf courses to choose from including Heath, Parkland, Links golf and a championship course at Saunton Sands. The hotel is happy to arrange trips for Golf Societies including club recommendations and bookings.
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Slider phones seems to be my latest bag. So I am happy to present that PT-S280 slider from Pantech & Curitel. What makes this phone stand out from the usual slew of crap Korean phones is the included Moneta software. Moneta is a banking application capable of performing money transfers, balance checking, etc. The mobile banking project has been around in Korea for some time, but it is just now really taking off overseas. If trends follow the same path, then maybe some better Moneta-esque applications can hit mobile handsets stateside soon.
This phone also has a 2-inch display, camera, and more.
PT-S280, the new P&C [Akihabara]


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This is a fantastic loop that utilizes excellent trails in both Huddart County Park and Wunderlich County Park, and the Skyline Trail that runs between the parks. It's one of those loops that just makes sense! The elevation ranges from 400 feet at the base to ~2,300 feet at the top of Wunderlich Park.
The trails in Huddart are singletrack and the trails in Wunderlich are generally wider but still soft (the Bear Gulch trail is a nice single track variation in Wunderlich). The run is virtually all forested with redwood forest, mixed forest, and some spots of deciduous forest. The section of pavement at the bottom between the parks was much shorter then expected thanks to the horse pathways along the road.
Logical places to start the run are at Wunderlich County Park or near the Woodside Store Historic Site. I chose to start at historic Woodside Store and I think this is preferable if you do the loop counterclockwise because it gives a couple miles of flat terrain at the end of the run to shake the legs out from the long downhill in Wunderlich.
I felt far less than optimal at the beginning and on the first part of the hill climb in Huddart, but things loosened up, especially by the time I got to the Skyline Trail. A nice part about this run is that the vast majority of the hill climbing comes in the first part of the run.
The route outlined below is essentially the shortest loop you can make utilizing trails. The are numerous variations within Wunderlich Park and Huddart Park that would increase the mileage (i.e. Crystal Springs Trail at Huddart and Bear Gulch Trail at Wunderlich). A longer loop would utilize the Phleger Estate and the steeper Lonely Trail (20+ miles).
Also of note is the trail development along the Skyline Trail between Huddart and Wunderlich. The existing trail is narrow single track, but trail crews are currently widening and improving the trail to meet Bay Area Ridge Trail specifications. Current plans are to continue the Bay Area Ridge trail all the way to the gap along the Half Moon Bay Rd. (Hwy 92). I like the narrow trails, but at least this development will hopefully net several more miles (~8 miles) of new ridge trail that will provide a nice connection to the North Ridge area of Purisima Creek redwoods, the and scenic vistas of the entire Bay Area from the San Francisco Watershed Lands.
Route: 17-17.5 miles, ~2,600 ft of elevation gain
- Start – Historic Woodside, trail along Kings Mountain Road
- Right on trail along Greer Road
- Left in Huddart Park
- Take the Bay Tree Trail at the East Meadow area
- Right on Crystal Springs Trail
- Left on Dean Trail
- Left on Chinquapin Trail
- Straight onto the Skyline Trail
- Left on Alambrique Trail
- Left on Woodside Road (Hwy 84) – short section of road, then horse paths on the left side
- Straight on Tripp Road & paths along road
- Finish at Historic Woodside junction with Kings Mtn. Road
- Start (turnoff before Historic Woodside) – 0:00
- Top of Chinquapin Trail (intersection with Skyline Trail) – 40:30
- Junction with Alambrique Trail in Wunderlich Park – 1:22:30
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|Warda in March 2012
The French born half Algerian half Lebanese singer is part of Egyptian culture singing scene memory , a true legend when I remember her songs which new generations ignore. I feel so sad.
I loved her songs , her voice and her style , she was a true diva.
Now I know my words will make some Algerians angry but I consider her Egyptian as much as they consider her Algerian. I can't forget how she sang for Egypt after 1973 war chanting "How beautiful my country is", this love in her voice in Egypt was just incredible.
Baligah Hamdy as they presented some of the best romantic Arabic songs.
In time of Mubarak she became unwelcomed in Egypt for awhile because an incident during a concert in mid1990s that was organized by armed forces. I remember that concert very well because I had seen on air then later in the re-run after it was edited. In brief Warda told Mubarak "Come on and sing with us Mr. President". To be honest both Mubarak and Warda did not look well on that night , I can't forget that concert or how Warda made the young officers in the backseats dance on the beat of "Haramt Ahebak" while the supreme commander of armed forces was sitting in the front seat like a mourner.
Here is "Haramt Ahebak" or "I stop loving you" from a concert in France in mid 1990s.
Warda Facebook Page"
May Allah bless your soul dear Warda for joy you spread through the Arab world with your voice.


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Durian is from one of the world's largest fruit trees. They are a preferred food of wild elephants, orangutans and tigers. Fruit bats feet upon the nectar of durian flowers. They are considered aphrodisiac, a longevity food, and a vermifuge (worm dispelling). Durians are a strong blood cleanser, and consuming them can alter the urine's odor. A saying in Malaysia is "When the durians fall, the sarongs rise." They are high in oleic fats, vitamin E, and sulfur and contain more protein than any other fruits.
Select durians with a brown, greenish or yellowish color, rather than green. Yellowish tends to be overripe, though not in some cases. Avoid any with soft spots or holes, indicating mold or worms. The aroma should be sweet and pungent to indicate ripeness. If the spines flatten a bit, that indicates ripeness. Tapping the bottom with a heavy knife and a hollow deep sound indicates ripeness. Frozen durians must be thawed eight to twenty four hours before consumption. Select one heavy for its size. Look for a durian that is beginning to split longitudinally and heavy from its size. They will continue to ripen, when left at room temperature. Enjoy durian by itself or share with a group of friends.


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Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online
with the irc logs here.
Review ACTION points from previous meeting
- mathiaz to send out a call for ideas on ubuntu to the puppet community: carried over
- ALL to mark maverick assigned specs as "Implemented" or Deferred: carried over
jjohansen to look into virtual kernel bug status (658461): carried over
jjohansen to look into t1.micro java lockup bug (634487): in progress
Natty development
- It's Syncs and merges season, please cover your bits.
UDS sessions relating to server are listed at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/~ttx/+specs?role=subscriber
- All blueprints should now be filed.
- We may consider an extra blueprint about openvswitch, need to define use cases first.
- For good scheduling, everyone should mark themselves essential to the sessions where they are indeed essential. That is done through Subscribing to the blueprint and marking yourself essential to the discussion.
- Set yourself as drafter on UDS sessions you want to lead. If you can't do that, ask ttx to do it for you.
Maverick SRUs
Bug 661547 – Existing patch gssapi.diff makes guess_service_principal produce garbage: blocked by other fix in -proposed
Bug 657149 – squid fails to upgrade: incomplete
Bug 658227 – openldap fails to upgrade: in -proposed
Bug 660227 – php5-pgsql crash on getting an error back from postgres: in -proposed
Bug 600174 – axis2c fails to build from source on maverick/i386: Daviey will ping doko about it at UDS
- We need to revive the SRU tracker for Maverick to ease SRU work tracking.
Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (jjohansen)
- smoser proposed kernel bug bounties under a beer form.
- kernel version for natty should be 2.6.37 or .38
smoser raised Bug 662842 (remove linux-ec2 from natty): jjohansen said it was on his TODO alraedy
Open Discussion
- robbiew is now Canonical server team interim manager.
- ScottK mentioned a discussion on the ML that wasn't translated into a spec yet: fixing hostname detection/setting. This is a foundations spec, but of great interest for server. Robbie filed it and subscribed Scott to it.
Meeting Actions
mathiaz to send out a call for ideas on ubuntu to the puppet community (carry over)
ALL to mark maverick assigned specs as "Implemented" or Deferred (carry over)
jjohansen to look into bug 634487 and bug 658461 (carry over)
ttx to check if a session is needed around openvswitch
ALL to subscribe to BPs where their attendance is required
ALL to set themselves as drafter where they want to lead sessions
zul to check SRU tracker status
Agree on next meeting date and time
Next meeting will be Tuesday 2010-11-02 at 1800 UTC – #ubuntu-meeting (10/26 cancelled for UDS).


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Along with your decision to put up a business, you must have thought of what marketing strategy you are going to use in order to make it sell and grow over time. Although the traditional way of marketing a business has been proven to be very effective in the recent years, businessmen these days have decided to move on to a more innovative way of marketing their business which is through the use of the internet. They believe that this newer business marketing strategy is able to give them a lot better results than the traditional ones which make use of the television, radio and newspapers. Most businessmen create their own website to effectively market their business over the internet. However, internet marketing is not solely about having a website. There are a lot of things that effective internet marketing services should include.
Creating a website is just the first and most basic things that internet marketing services should have. Next to that is their SEO strategy or what is known as the search engine optimization strategy. With this strategy, reliable internet marketing services include your business website on the search engine results in order for it to get found by your potential customers who research about your products and services using the large search engine sites that the internet have today like Yahoo, Bing and Google.
Internet marketing services should also include Social Media Marketing. This marketing strategy takes advantage of the free social media networking sites which are being used by a lot of people these days to communicate with their friends from all over the world. By using this as a marketing strategy you allow your business to be noticed by millions of people from all over the world in just a few click or a few seconds.
Another very effective marketing strategy that internet marketing services should include is email marketing which make use of your potential customers' email to directly get in touch with them. This is done by sending them informative educational and convincing reading materials usually when they subscribe to your website. Our potential customers inevitably have quite a lot of questions about our products and services before they do business with us. They feel important when they see that we address every important question they have. Email marketing would allow us to address their questions and eventually move them into doing business with us.
Online video content marketing is also a very important marketing strategy that internet marketing services should include. Perhaps you have already heard and seen YouTube and how often it gets visited by a lot of online users. This is because whether we admit it or not, there are still a lot of people who are never satisfied with just written contents. They would like to see things before they decide to purchase. It would definitely be a good idea to show your potential customers your products and services through videos from free online video streaming sites to effectively market them.


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When Webinars Attack!: Getting from Tedious to Terrific
An Infopeople Webinar
Presenter: Laura Solomon
You've been asked (or maybe you actually volunteered) to do a webinar. Now what? You've sat through your share of horrendous webinars, and you don't want to inflict one on anyone else.
- How do you prepare?
- How is a webinar different from giving an in-person presentation?
- How do you keep people interested so they don't just go spend the whole time on Facebook?
The questions can be overwhelming and the challenges numerous. Find out what works and what doesn't, and how to keep your audience engaged. Learn how to avoid the common mistakes that newbie presenters make. Discover what it takes to get asked to do it again--you can make your first (or next) webinar ROCK!
At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will be able to:
- Name the six reasons that cause webinars to go poorly
- Define common mistakes that novice webinar presenters make and how to avoid them
- Identify at least three strategies to help your webinars be successful
- Identify 3 or more tech tips to prevent technical issues during a webinar
This webinar will be of interest to anyone who plans to give a webinar or wants to improve his/her online presentation skills.
Webinars are free of charge and registration is only done on the day of the event on the WebEx server. No passwords are required.
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The oil production of the United States is on a sharp upward climb, and that should please anyone who is rooting for American energy independence.
The oil production of the United States is on a sharp upward climb, and that should please anyone who is rooting for American energy independence.
That won't happen in the next year or two, but the experts predict that within the next decade, the nation's oil imports could decrease by half.
Right now, the U.S. is producing about 10.9 million barrels of crude and other hydrocarbons — representing a 7 percent increase from last year until this year.
That is strong growth that even the experts didn't foresee.
"Five years ago, if I or anyone had predicted today's production growth, people would have thought we were crazy," said Jim Burkhard, head of oil markets research at IHS CERA, an energy consulting firm.
The recent growth in America's oil production has placed the U.S. in the running for worldwide leader, a distinction that would have us pass Saudi Arabia and Russia, which have led the world for a decade.
The current upward trend is likely to continue.
The U.S. government predicts that the figure for next year will be 11.4 million barrels a day, just less than Saudi Arabia's 11.6 million barrels.
The numbers for production are strong and increasing. But they aren't anywhere close to what America uses just yet. That sizeable figure is about 18.7 million barrels a day.
But with the strong growth we have seen and many expect to continue, the gap between what we use and what we produce will steadily decrease.
That is good news for a nation that depends for much of its energy imports on nations that despise us and on regions of the world that are politically unstable.
The increase in domestic production is not enough to make a dent in the world market, which is the largest determining factor behind retail gas prices.
But if the trends continue, America could become less dependent on foreign oil. That decreased dependency should eventually make U.S. gas prices more stable.
The most important gain from these trends, though, is that the U.S. will have less at stake in volatile world conditions such as instability and conflict in the Middle East.
America will not be independent of the world energy market anytime soon. But it is good to see an increased domestic production fueling a healthy trend away from foreign oil and toward the oil that's produced right here in the Gulf of Mexico and across the U.S.
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What do you get when you cross a Renaissance fair with a Las Vegas spectacle and a few hundred Roman gladiators, swashbuckling musketeers and marauding Vikings?
The one-of-a-kind Puy du Fou historical theme park in the French countryside.
PHOTOS: Puy du Fou historical theme park in France
After three decades of entertaining audiences with live-action chariot races, sword fights and epic battles, France's Puy du Fou will be recognized on March 17 as a "classic" theme park by the Themed Entertainment Assn. during an awards ceremony at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim.
The industry group's highest honor, known as the Thea Classic Award, has been previously bestowed on such archetypal theme parks as Denmark's Tivoli Gardens, the Netherland's Efteling and the original Disneyland in California.
Located on France's west coast about four hours by car from Paris, the historical theme park's picturesque villages take visitors back in time through the history of the region and set up the stories told in a series of arenas where visitors watch 30-minute shows with dozens of performers.
The marquee Puy du Fou shows include:
Triumph's Sign - After a parade of pagentry, the show unfolds in a series of gladiator battles, chariot races and prisoner executions set in a 375-foot-long Roman coliseum.
The Secret of the Lance - Set against the battlements of a Middle Ages castle, the story focuses on a young shepherdess, armed with a magical spear, who must protect her home from an attacking band of knights.
The Vikings - Interrupting a wedding ceremony, a Viking longship attacks a 1,000-year-old fortress in a special effects-laden show complete with fiery explosions and a saint walking on water.
Richelieu's Musketeers - Set in a 17th century theater, the park's only indoor show features swashbuckling sword fighting, flamenco dancing and horse-riding stunts.
The Ball of the Phantom Birds - A ballet of birds swoops low through the ruins of an old castle in an audience participation show featuring owls, falcons, eagles and vultures.
The Organs of Fire - The nightly symphony of fire and water on the old Puy du Fou lake combines the theatrics of Cirque du Soleil with the skyrocketing fountains of the World of Color water show at Disney California Adventure.
Cinescenie - The world's largest nighttime show features 800 actors and hundreds of animals as well as fountains, water projections, pyrotechnics, stunts and battles in front of the ruins of a castle. With seating for 14,000 people, the separate-admission Cinescenie is held on select weekend nights each summer.
Other theme park attractions receiving Thea Awards for Outstanding Achievement include: Star Tours: The Adventure Continues motion simulator (Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios), "The Magic, the Memories, and You" nighttime castle projection show (Magic Kingdom), Space Fantasy spinning roller coaster (Universal Studios Japan), "The Crane Dance" nighttime spectacular (Universal Studios Singapore), FoodLoop restaurant (Europa Park in Germany) and Barnas Brannstasjon children's fire station (Kongeparken in Norway).


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Skip to comments.Checking out: Why celebrities die in hotel rooms
Posted on 07/20/2013 4:21:15 AM PDT by rickmichaels
When Cory Monteith died alone in a room at Vancouver's Fairmont Pacific Rim last weekend, he took up permanent residency in a sad but famous corner of popular culture: A celebrity registry of bitter suite ends.
Fortunate stars that grow old naturally can look forward to meeting their maker covered by monogrammed sheets and framed by pictures of their younger-selves on nearby walls. Their families will gather to remember and mourn perhaps later to fight over the estate.
But troubled and addicted celebrities are continually found by demons as they sit alone, not sheltered inside fine homes or a back seat of a limo or even beyond the velvet ropes of a RIP section. Instead, it's time and again in the rented accommodation of a hotel room. A transient space designed as a stopover.
In hotels in countless cities across different continents, the final scene has been played out before. Not just for the stars, of course, but often for suicide victims who we will never read or talk about.
Through the lobby and into the elevator. Then down the hall, past the ice machine and then a key-card swipe that welcomes you with a green light.
Magazines fanned on a desk. TV remote waiting patently by the bed. Fresh, white towels piled next to instructions on what to do with dirty ones.
A room that seems like home, but is only clever set dressing. Privacy that is assured but slightly impersonal.
And a number on a door rather than a name on a mailbox.
New York-based addictions counsellor Stephen Lewis says he teaches users especially heroin users to use a buddy-system.
"We talk about doing it in pairs and never being alone, so there's someone to call 911," he explains.
Away from others, he adds, there's also a potentially toxic mix including shame, doing a higher dose and especially after rehab, not having the same tolerance.
Other than his addiction, Monteith reportedly very giving with a low-key Canadian style seems an odd addition to the usual rouges gallery of celebrity hotel deaths.
After a day of partying hard, comedian John Belushi did one last speedball in 1982 at the Chateau Marmont on Hollywood's Sunset Strip. INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence, under the influence of drugs and alcohol while inside Sydney's then-Ritz-Carlton Hotel in '97, wrapped a snakeskin leather belt around his own neck with such force the buckle cracked.
The registry of those who rent a room to die-for is voluminous, including Sid Vicious, David Carradine and Janis Joplin.
It hardly surprised anyone when fame-monster Anna Nicole Smith died in a Florida hotel room of an overdose in 2007. It was almost a natural death for her.
Monteith seemed better destined for a familiar room circled by family at an old age.
Even the hotel rooms themselves take on the smear of celebrity.
After Whitney Houston died in one of their bathtubs last year cocaine swimming in her system Beverly Hilton officials took the room out of service. The L.A. management even unscrewed '434' from the door.
"I think there's an element of boredom and the anonymity of a hotel room ... along with the disease of addiction," says Scott Michaels, who nine years ago founded Hollywood's Dearly Departed Tours, which takes visitors on rides to last stops of the stars. That includes hotels, such as the one where Joplin died -- her music playing in the tour bus as it rolls by.
Michaels says being an actor sitting and waiting to deliver moments of dialogue can be a boring life.
"In a hotel room, you close the door and draw the drapes and let loose."
Couples take off to lodges because it sets a romantic atmosphere. Celebrities often seek a different kind of escape, reasons Michaels.
A room taken for a night doesn't judge, he says, and it doesn't cast guilt.
It's also continually wiped clean of hints of the faceless, transient tenant who last checked in. Then checked out.
And the best part...your family doesn't get to clean up the mess.
It's the pressure of taking one's self too seriously.
"DO NOT EVER SPEAK TO ME OR ANYONE WHO KNOWS ME OR ANYONE WHO KNOWS THEM " Kanye West is in yet another meltdown
Kanye West
FELONY Suspect for Attempted Robbery
If you live in a toilet, most likely you will die in one.
I can think of several celebrities who need to check in and never check out...
Shouldn't Mike Bloomberg, or Congress, or somebody be clamoring about the need to micromanage the lives of celebrities? /S
Who was the American author who famously said right before his death (he was not a suicide), "Born in a damn hotel room, now I'm going to die in a damn hotel room"? That's a paraphrase.
Death's Suite Embrace
Reminds me of the line in Hotel California "You can check out any time you like but you can never leave".
Isn't this why the Gideons put Bibles in hotel rooms?
"Velvet ropes of a RIP section", what's a RIP section? It would make more sense if he said VIP section. Don't people proofread anymore?
It may just be as simple as a hotel room is the only place they can go to be by themselves.
I always figured it was because they were out of their local area and didn't have any idea the local dope was a lot stronger.
Maybe they're buying drugs in an unfamiliar city and unsure of the toxicity or purity of what they consume. Who knows...
Considering the subject of the article, that's an easy enough of a substitution for an editor to miss.
Ask anyone who works at a five star hotel the number of people who checked for good at them.
It's a dirty little secret at fine hotels,
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A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body travelling through space. Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in size from small grains to 1 meter-wide objects. Smaller objects than this are classified as micrometeoroids or space dust.[1][2][3][4] Most are fragments from comets or asteroids, whereas others are collision impact debris ejected from bodies such as the Moon or Mars.[5][6][7][8]
When such an object enters the Earth's atmosphere at a speed typically in excess of 20 km/s, aerodynamic heating produces a streak of light, both from the glowing object and the trail of glowing particles that it leaves in its wake. This phenomenon is called a meteor, or colloquially a "shooting star" or "falling star". A series of many meteors appearing seconds or minutes apart, and appearing to originate from the same fixed point in the sky, is called a meteor shower. Incoming objects larger than several meters (asteroids or comets) can explode in the air. If a meteoroid, comet or asteroid or a piece thereof withstands ablation from its atmospheric entry and impacts with the ground, then it is called a meteorite.
Around 15,000 tonnes of meteoroids, micrometeoroids and different forms of space dust enter Earth's atmosphere each year.[9]
- 1 Meteoroids
- 2 Meteor
- 2.1 Fireball
- 2.2 Atmospheric remains of meteor passage
- 2.3 Seasonal variation in meteor sightings
- 2.4 History
- 2.5 Gallery of meteors
- 3 Meteorite and meteoroid impacts
- 4 See also
- 5 References
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In 1961, the International Astronomical Union defined a meteoroid as "a solid object moving in interplanetary space, of a size considerably smaller than an asteroid and considerably larger than an atom".[10][11] In 1995, Beech and Steel, writing in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, proposed a new definition where a meteoroid would be between 100 µm and 10 meters across.[12] Following the discovery of asteroids below 10 m in size,[clarification needed] Rubin and Grossman refined the Beech and Steel definition of meteoroid to objects between 10 µm and 1 m in diameter.[2] According to Rubin and Grossman the minimum size of an asteroid is given by what can be discovered from Earth-bound telescopes, so the distinction between meteoroid and asteroid is fuzzy. The smallest asteroid ever discovered (based on absolute magnitude) is 2008 TS26 with an absolute magnitude of 33.2,[13] and an estimated size of 1-meter.[14] Objects smaller than meteoroids are classified as micrometeoroids and cosmic dust. The Minor Planet Center does not use the term "meteoroid".
Meteoroid composition
Almost all meteoroids contain extraterrestrial nickel and irons. They have three main classifications, irons, stones and stony-irons. Some stone meteoroids contain grain-like inclusions known as "chondrules" and are called "chondrites." Stoney meteoroids without these features are called "achondrites", which are typically formed from extraterrestrial igneous activity; they contain little or no extraterrestrial iron.[15] The composition of meteoroids can be inferred as they pass through the Earth's atmosphere from their trajectories and the light spectra of the resulting meteor. Their effects on radio signals also give information, especially useful for daytime meteors which are otherwise very difficult to observe. From these trajectory measurements, meteoroids have been found to have many different orbits, some clustering in streams (see Meteor showers) often associated with a parent comet, others apparently sporadic. Debris from meteoroid streams may eventually be scattered into other orbits. The light spectra, combined with trajectory and light curve measurements, have yielded various compositions and densities, ranging from fragile snowball-like objects with density about a quarter that of ice,[16] to nickel-iron rich dense rocks. The study of meteorites also gives insights into the composition of non-ephemeral meteoroids.
Meteoroids in the Solar System
Meteoroids travel around the Sun in a variety of orbits and at various velocities. The fastest ones move at about 42 kilometers per second through space in the vicinity of Earth's orbit.[citation needed] The Earth travels at about 29.6 kilometers per second. Thus, when meteoroids meet Earth's atmosphere head-on (which only occurs when meteors are in a retrograde orbit such as the Eta Aquarids, which are associated with the retrograde Halley's Comet), the combined speed may reach about 71 kilometers per second. Meteoroids moving through Earth's orbital space average about 20 km/s.[17]
On January 17, 2013 at 05:21 PST, a 1 meter-sized comet from the Oort cloud entered Earth atmosphere over a wide area in California and Nevada.[18] The object had a retrograde orbit with perihelion at 0.98 ± 0.03 AU. It approached from the direction of the constellation Virgo, and collided head-on with Earth atmosphere at 72 ± 6 km/s[18] vapourising more than 100 km above ground over a period of several seconds.
Meteoroid collisions with Earth and its atmosphere
When meteoroids intersect with the Earth's atmosphere at night, they are likely to become visible as meteors. If meteoroids survive the entry through the atmosphere and reach the Earth's surface, they are called meteorites. Meteorites are transformed in structure and chemistry by the heat of entry and force of impact. A noted meteoroid, 2008 TC3, was observed in space on a collision course with Earth on 6 October 2008 and entered the Earth's atmosphere the next day, striking a remote area of northern Sudan. It was the first time that a meteoroid had been observed in space and tracked prior to impacting Earth.[10]
NASA has produced a map showing the most notable Asteroid/Meteoroid collisions with Earth and its atmosphere from 1994 to 2013 from data gathered by U.S. government sensors.[20] <div class="thumb tnone" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right:auto; width:99%; max-width:Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".px;">
- "Meteor" and "Meteors" redirect here. For other uses, see Meteor (disambiguation).
A meteor or "shooting star" is the passage of a meteoroid or micrometeoroid into the Earth's atmosphere, incandescent from air friction and shedding glowing material in its wake sufficiently to create a visible streak of light.[10][21] Meteors typically occur in the mesosphere at altitudes between Script error: No such module "convert"..[22] The root word meteor comes from the Greek meteōros, meaning "high in the air."[21]
Millions of meteors occur in the Earth's atmosphere daily. Most meteoroids that cause meteors are about the size of a grain of sand. Meteors may occur in showers, which arise when the Earth passes through a stream of debris left by a comet, or as "random" or "sporadic" meteors, not associated with a specific stream of space debris. A number of specific meteors have been observed, largely by members of the public and largely by accident, but with enough detail that orbits of the meteoroids producing the meteors have been calculated. All of the orbits passed through the asteroid belt.[23] The atmospheric velocities of meteors result from the movement of Earth around the Sun at about 30 km/s (18 miles/second),[24] the orbital speeds of meteoroids, and the gravity well of Earth.
Meteors become visible between about Script error: No such module "convert". above the Earth. They usually disintegrate at altitudes of Script error: No such module "convert"..[25] Meteors have roughly a fifty percent chance of a daylight (or near daylight) collision with the Earth. Most meteors are, however, observed at night, when darkness allows fainter objects to be recognised. For bodies with a size scale larger than (10 cm to several meters) meteor visibility is due to the atmospheric ram pressure (not friction) that heats the meteoroid so that it glows and creates a shining trail of gases and melted meteoroid particles. The gases include vaporized meteoroid material and atmospheric gases that heat up when the meteoroid passes through the atmosphere. Most meteors glow for about a second. A relatively small percentage of meteoroids hit the Earth's atmosphere and then pass out again: these are termed Earth-grazing fireballs (for example The Great Daylight 1972 Fireball). The visible light produced by a meteor may take on various hues, depending on the chemical composition of the meteoroid, and the speed of its movement through the atmosphere. As layers of the meteoroid abrade and ionize, the color of the light emitted may change according to the layering of minerals. Colors of meteors depend on the relative influence of the metallic content of the meteoroid versus the superheated air plasma, which its passage engenders:[26]
- Orange-yellow (sodium)
- Yellow (iron)
- Blue-green (magnesium)
- Violet (calcium)
- Red (atmospheric nitrogen and oxygen)
|Reported Fireballs[27]
A fireball is a brighter-than-usual meteor. The International Astronomical Union defines a fireball as "a meteor brighter than any of the planets" (magnitude −4 or greater).[28] The International Meteor Organization (an amateur organization that studies meteors) has a more rigid definition. It defines a fireball as a meteor that would have a magnitude of −3 or brighter if seen at zenith. This definition corrects for the greater distance between an observer and a meteor near the horizon. For example, a meteor of magnitude −1 at 5 degrees above the horizon would be classified as a fireball because if the observer had been directly below the meteor it would have appeared as magnitude −6.[29] For 2013 there were 3556 fireballs recorded at the American Meteor Society.[30] There are probably more than 500,000 fireballs a year,[31] but most will go unnoticed because most will occur over the ocean and half will occur during daytime.
Fireballs reaching magnitude −14 or brighter are called bolides.[32] The IAU has no official definition of "bolide", and generally considers the term synonymous with "fireball". Astronomers often use "bolide" to identify an exceptionally bright fireball, particularly one that explodes (sometimes called a detonating fireball). It may also be used to mean a fireball which creates audible sounds. In the late twentieth century, bolide has also come to mean any object that hits the Earth and explodes, with no regard to its composition (asteroid or comet).[33] The word bolide comes from the Greek βολίς (bolis) [34] which can mean a missile or to flash. If the magnitude of a bolide reaches −17 or brighter it is known as a superbolide.[32][35]
Atmospheric remains of meteor passage
Entry of meteoroids into the Earth's atmosphere produces three main effects: ionization of atmospheric molecules, dust that the meteoroid sheds, and the sound of passage.
During the entry of a meteoroid or asteroid into the upper atmosphere, an ionization trail is created, where the molecules in the upper atmosphere are ionized by the passage of the meteor. Such ionization trails can last up to 45 minutes at a time. Small, sand-grain sized meteoroids are entering the atmosphere constantly, essentially every few seconds in any given region of the atmosphere, and thus ionization trails can be found in the upper atmosphere more or less continuously. When radio waves are bounced off these trails, it is called meteor burst communications. Meteor radars can measure atmospheric density and winds by measuring the decay rate and Doppler shift of a meteor trail. Most meteoroids burn up when they enter the atmosphere. The left-over debris is called meteoric dust or just meteor dust. Meteor dust particles can persist in the atmosphere for up to several months. These particles might affect climate, both by scattering electromagnetic radiation and by catalyzing chemical reactions in the upper atmosphere.[36] Larger meteors can enter dark flight after deceleration where the meteorite (or fragments) fall at terminal velocity.[37] Dark flight starts when the meteorite(s) decelerate to about Script error: No such module "convert"..[38] Larger fragments will fall further down the strewn field.
Sounds of meteors
Sound generated by a meteor in the upper atmosphere, such as a sonic boom, typically arrives many seconds after the visual light from a meteor disappears. Occasionally, as with the Leonid meteor shower of 2001,"crackling", "swishing", or "hissing" sounds have been reported,[39] occurring at the same instant as a meteor flare. Similar sounds have also been reported during intense displays of Earth's auroras.[40][41][42][43]
Sound recordings made under controlled conditions in Mongolia in 1998 support the contention that the sounds are real.[44]
Theories on the generation of these sounds may partially explain them. For example, scientists at NASA suggested that the turbulent ionized wake of a meteor interacts with the Earth's magnetic field, generating pulses of radio waves. As the trail dissipates, megawatts of electromagnetic energy could be released, with a peak in the power spectrum at audio frequencies. Physical vibrations induced by the electromagnetic impulses would then be heard if they are powerful enough to make grasses, plants, eyeglass frames, and other conductive materials vibrate.[45][46][47][48] This proposed mechanism, although proven to be plausible by laboratory work, remains unsupported by corresponding measurements in the field.
Seasonal variation in meteor sightings
A meteor shower is the result of an interaction between a planet, such as Earth, and streams of debris from a comet or other source. The passage of the Earth through cosmic debris from comets and other sources is a recurring event in many cases. Comets can produce debris by water vapor drag, as demonstrated by Fred Whipple in 1951,[49] and by breakup. Each time a comet swings by the Sun in its orbit, some of its ice vaporizes and a certain amount of meteoroids will be shed. The meteoroids spread out along the entire orbit of the comet to form a meteoroid stream, also known as a "dust trail" (as opposed to a comet's "dust tail" caused by the very small particles that are quickly blown away by solar radiation pressure).
The frequency of fireball sightings increases by about 10-30% during the weeks of vernal equinox.[50] Even meteorite falls are more common during the northern hemisphere's spring season. Although this phenomenon has been known for quite some time, the reason behind the anomaly is not fully understood by scientists. Some researchers attribute this to an intrinsic variation in the meteoroid population along Earth's orbit, with a peak in big fireball-producing debris around spring and early summer. Others have pointed out that during this period the ecliptic is (in the northern hemisphere) high in the sky in the late afternoon and early evening. This means that fireball radiants with an asteroidal source are high in the sky (facilitating relatively high rates) at the moment the meteoroids "catch up" with earth, coming from behind going in the same direction as Earth. This causes relatively low relative speeds and from this low entry speeds, which facilitates survival of meteorites.[51] It also generates high fireball rates in the early evening, increasing chances of eye witness reports. This explains a part, but perhaps not all of the seasonal variation. Research is in progress for mapping the orbits of the meteors to gain a better understanding of the phenomenon.[52]
Although meteors have been known since ancient times, they were not known to be an astronomical phenomenon until early in the 19th century. Prior to that, they were seen in the West as an atmospheric phenomenon, like lightning, and were not connected with strange stories of rocks falling from the sky. Thomas Jefferson wrote "I would more easily believe that (a) Yankee professor would lie than that stones would fall from heaven."[53] He was referring to Yale chemistry professor Benjamin Silliman's investigation of an 1807 meteorite that fell in Weston, Connecticut.[53] Silliman believed the meteor had a cosmic origin, but meteors did not attract much attention from astronomers until the spectacular meteor storm of November 1833.[54] People all across the eastern United States saw thousands of meteors, radiating from a single point in the sky. Astute observers noticed that the radiant, as the point is now called, moved with the stars, staying in the constellation Leo.[55]
The astronomer Denison Olmsted made an extensive study of this storm, and concluded it had a cosmic origin. After reviewing historical records, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers predicted the storm's return in 1867, which drew the attention of other astronomers to the phenomenon. Hubert A. Newton's more thorough historical work led to a refined prediction of 1866, which proved to be correct.[54] With Giovanni Schiaparelli's success in connecting the Leonids (as they are now called) with comet Tempel-Tuttle, the cosmic origin of meteors was now firmly established. Still, they remain an atmospheric phenomenon, and retain their name "meteor" from the Greek word for "atmospheric".[56]
Notable meteors
1992—Peekskill, New York
The Peekskill Meteorite was filmed on October 9, 1992 by at least 16 independent videographers.[57] Eyewitness accounts indicate the fireball entry of the Peekskill meteorite started over West Virginia at 23:48 UT (±1 min). The fireball, which traveled in a northeasterly direction, had a pronounced greenish colour, and attained an estimated peak visual magnitude of −13. During a luminous flight time that exceeded 40 seconds the fireball covered a ground path of some 700 to 800 km.[58] One meteorite recovered at Peekskill, New York, for which the event and object gained their name, had a mass of Script error: No such module "convert". and was subsequently identified as an H6 monomict breccia meteorite.[59] The video record suggests that the Peekskill meteorite had several companions over a wide area. The companions are unlikely to be recovered in the hilly, wooded terrain in the vicinity of Peekskill.
2009—Bone, Indonesia
A large fireball was observed in the skies near Bone, Indonesia on October 8, 2009. This was thought to be caused by an asteroid approximately 10 meters in diameter. The fireball contained an estimated energy of 50 kilotons of TNT, or about twice the Nagasaki atomic bomb. No injuries were reported.[60]
2009—Southwestern US
A large bolide was reported on 18 November 2009 over southeastern California, northern Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Colorado. At 00:07 local time a security camera at the high altitude W. L. Eccles Observatory (2930 m above sea level) recorded a movie of the passage of the object to the north.[61][62] Of particular note in this video is the spherical "ghost" image slightly trailing the main object (this is likely a lens reflection of the intense fireball), and the bright fireball explosion associated with the breakup of a substantial fraction of the object. An object trail can be seen to continue northward after the bright fireball event. The shock from the final breakup triggered seven seismological stations in northern Utah; a timing fit to the seismic data yielded a terminal location of the object at 40.286 N, -113.191 W, altitude 27 km.[63] This is above the Dugway Proving Grounds, a closed Army testing base.
2013—Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
Over 1,500 people were injured mostly by glass from shattered windows caused by a meteoroid explosion during meteor event in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia on 15 February 2013, when a meteoroid exploded approximately 25 to 30 km above the environs of Chelyabinsk, Russia. An increasingly bright streak was observed during morning daylight with a large contrail lingering behind. At no less than 1 minute and up to at least 3 minutes after the object peaked in intensity (depending on distance from trail), a large concussive blast was heard that shattered windows and set-off car alarms, which was followed by a number of smaller explosions.[64] Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) estimated the meteoroid to have an initial mass of 11,000 tonnes, and to measure approximately 17 to 20 metres across, as it entered the earth's atmosphere.[65][66]
Gallery of meteors
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Two Orionids and Milky Way
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Multi-colored Orionid
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The brightest meteor, a fireball, leaves a smoky, persistent trail drifting in high-altitude winds, which is seen at the right-hand side of the image left by Orionid.
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A fireball seen over the desert of Central Australia. Although this occurred during the Lyrids, its North-East entry angle indicates it is sporadic.
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Looking down from the International Space Station at a meteor as it passes through the atmosphere
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Possible meteor photographed from Mars, March 7, 2004, by MER Spirit
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A sequence of Galileo images, taken several seconds apart, showing the appearance of the fireball of fragment W on the dark side of Jupiter
Meteorite and meteoroid impacts
A meteorite is a portion of a meteoroid or asteroid that survives its passage through the atmosphere and hits the ground without being destroyed.[67] Meteorites are sometimes, but not always, found in association with hypervelocity impact craters; during energetic collisions, the entire impactor may be vaporized, leaving no meteorites. Geologists use the term, "bolide", in a different sense from astronomers to indicate a very large impactor. For example, the USGS uses the term to mean a generic large crater-forming projectile in a manner "to imply that we do not know the precise nature of the impacting body ... whether it is a rocky or metallic asteroid, or an icy comet for example".[68]
Meteoroids also hit other bodies in the solar system. On such stony bodies as the moon or Mars with no or little atmosphere, they leave enduring craters.
Frequency of large meteoroid collisions with Earth
The diameter of the biggest impactor to hit Earth on any given day is likely to be about Script error: No such module "convert". in a given year about 4 meters, and in a given century about 20 meters. These statistics are obtained by the following:
Over at least the range from Script error: No such module "convert". to roughly Script error: No such module "convert"., the rate at which Earth receives meteors obeys a power-law distribution as follows:
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where N (>D) is the expected number of objects larger than a diameter of D meters to hit Earth in a year.[69] This is based on observations of bright meteors seen from the ground and space, combined with surveys of near Earth asteroids. Above 300 meters in diameter, the predicted rate is somewhat higher, with a two-kilometer asteroid (one million-megaton TNT equivalent) every couple of million years — about 10 times as often as the power-law extrapolation would predict.
Meteorite and meteoroid impact craters
Meteoroid collisions with solid Solar System objects, including the Moon, Mercury, Callisto, Ganymede and most small moons and asteroids, create impact craters, which are the dominant geographic features of many of those objects. On other planets and moons with active surface geological processes, such as Earth, Venus, Mars, Europa, Io and Titan, visible impact craters may become eroded, buried or transformed by tectonics over time. In early literature, before the significance of impact cratering was widely recognised, the terms cryptoexplosion or cryptovolcanic structure were often used to describe what are now recognised as impact-related features on Earth.[70] Molten terrestrial material ejected from a meteorite impact crater can cool and solidify into an object known as a tektite. These are often mistaken for meteorites.
Gallery of meteorites
- Esquel pallasite partial slice.jpg
A slice of a pallasite meteorite fragment of what was once a meteoroid before it collided with Earth, discovered in Esquel, Argentina; on display at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Canada.
- Willamette Meteorite AMNH.jpg
Willamette Meteorite, discovered in the US state of Oregon
- Meteorite Lapham.jpg
Meteorite, which fell in Wisconsin in 1868.
- Murnpeowie meteorite.jpg
Murnpeowie meteorite, a thumbprinted iron meteorite, discovered on Murnpeowie Station, South Australia in 1910.
- Meteorito Marília.jpg
Marília Meteorite, a chondrite H4, which fell in Marília, São Paulo state, Brazil, on October 5, 1971, at 17:00
- Meteorite Tindouf NWA 869.jpg
Meteorite is from the NWA 869 strewn field, near Tindouf, Algeria. Classified as a L5 COMMON CHONDRITE it shows brecciation and carbon inclusions.[71]
See also
Relating to meteoroids
Relating to meteors
- North American Meteor Network
- American Meteor Society
- Green fireballs
- Hydrometeor
- International Meteor Organization
- Leonids
- List of meteor air bursts
- List of meteor showers
- Lyrids
- Orionids
- Perseids
- Tollmann's hypothetical bolide
Relating to meteorites
- Baetylus—Sacred stones made from meteorites
- Impact crater
- Impact event
- Meteorite
- Micrometeorite
- Stratospheric micrometeorites
- Tektite
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Groups looking to hold special events and organizations interested in bringing sporting events to Flagler County could one day have more flexibility with county tourism development funds.
BUNNELL — Groups looking to hold special events and organizations interested in bringing sporting events to Flagler County could have more flexibility with county tourism development funds.
Members of the Flagler County Tourist Development Council discussed possible changes to the council's funding formula for special events and overnight stays during a Wednesday workshop.
The workshop at the county's Emergency Operations Center focused on broadening the kind of things for which TDC grant money can be used. The funds are generated by bed-tax collections at county hotels, motels and campgrounds.
Rules for disbursement of bed-tax funds are set by state statute, an issue that brought an immediate comment from TDC member Bob DeVore.
"We went through this before," DeVore said. "We weren't allowed to do this. I know we plowed this ground before and we were turned down."
Flagler County Commission Chairman Nate McLaughlin said there might be some room to allow different uses for the funds other than out-of-county advertising, which is the only permitted use of funds for special events and overnight stays under current TDC rules.
"We think there's some gray area," said McLaughlin, who also serves as TDC chairman.
McLaughlin said it's possible that county staff could find a way to broaden the use of funds to include things like paying for sporting event officials, printing score sheets and programs, and other expenses not covered under current rules.
"As long as it's used to bring tourists here, that's an umbrella you can hang a few things under," he said.
Georgia Turner, vice president of tourism development at the Flagler County Chamber of Commerce & Affiliates, said the proposed changes are designed to keep the county competitive with other areas looking to attract more tourist events and sports competitions.
"We want to make it more friendly for sports groups and other events that bring in room nights," she said.
Turner said the current system has "worked well" but "times are definitely changing."
Tourist council members identified sports niche events as an area of special focus for tourism development efforts. In recent years, the county has approved funding for projects to improve athletic facilities, including a $150,000 grant to the city of Palm Coast for the athletic fields at Indian Trails Middle School.
Much of the day's discussion centered on adjusting the verified room-night requirements tied to grant disbursement. Under current tourist council rules, the amount of awards that groups seeking grant funds for overnight stays can receive is tied to the number of people staying in local hotels, motels and campgrounds directly because of the event.
Council members agreed to have county staff research the options, including broadening the list of allowable expenses and adding a sliding scale of reimbursement to overnight-stay awards.
Not every council member was on board with the idea of changing the grant system.
"I don't think we need to change anything," said member Bill McGuire, who is also a Palm Coast city councilman.
Tourism board members will discuss specific changes at a future meeting. Any proposed changes must be approved by Flagler County commissioners.