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MINNEAPOLIS - The Minnesota Vikings won't be able to leave the 35-10 defeat to the Carolina Panthers completely behind, as defensive players Harrison Smith, Desmond Bishop and Xavier Rhodes all suffered injuries that removed them from the game on Sunday.

Coach Leslie Frazier said Smith is dealing with a turf toe injury, Bishop has a knee sprain and Rhodes sprained his ankle - each player will have a MRI procedure to determine the severity of their injuries.

"Hopefully we don't lose those guys for an extended period of time," Frazier said.

Bishop started at weak-side linebacker for the first time this season, which was also his first start in the NFL since the 2011 season. However, he went down in the first quarter after spraining his knee and did not return.

Rhodes came up limp after defending a deep ball that fell incomplete in the second quarter. He was looked at by trainers on the sidelines and returned in the second half, but ultimately left the game in the fourth quarter for good.

Smith left in the second half as well after hurting his foot deep into another Panthers drive. The Panthers finished with a 36:27-of-60:00 edge in time of possession.

The Vikings just had safety Jamarca Sanford and cornerback Chris Cook return to the lineup from injuries on Sunday only to have three more defensive players exit with new issues.

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“Dear Kraftwerk, I’m quite good with Vocoders & Electronics, like dressing up like a robot & know all of your songs by heart, just in case.”

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The message had come through. Florian Schneider, the co-founder of Kraftwerk had left the band.

Since the mid 1980s Kraftwerk had critically been called a self-remix project, with the ultimate remix their 2005 ‘live’ album Minimum Maximum. Recorded during the bands taking to the stage with laptops period and ironically one of the best live albums ever since it was recorded by, in the traditional sense, something that could not by further removed from a live band.

But lets go back to where it began…

BBC Television, Tomorrow’s world – 25th September 1975.

Four gentlemen dressed more for the office than the pop charts surrounded by neon lights, with knitting needles for drumsticks produce melodies by seeming to press buttons and turns dials. They smile unnervingly, obviously gaining a great sense of satisfaction from their interaction with the machines. The BBC voice announces :

“Kraftwerk have a name for this, it’s machine music. Sounds are created at their laboratory in Dusseldorf, programmed, then recreated on stage with a minimum of fuss. This is ‘Autobahn’ – based, say the group, on the rhythm of trucks, cars and passing bridges heard while driving through Germany… year Kraftwerk want to eliminate the keyboards altogether, and build jackets with electronic lapels which can be played by touch.”

Unless you were a religious follower of the German artrock movement, this would be your first exposure to the band, Kraftwerk in the UK. It would possibly also be the first time you had seen a synthesizer, or certainly a band whose only instruments numbered these strange new metal boxes with wooden panels and wires coming out the back, Moogs, home-made tinfoil drums and ARPs.

But lets go back to where it really began…

The Beach Boys from Düsseldorf, Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter met at the Düsseldorf Conservatory where their interest in improvised live music, fixation with Iannis Xenakis, John Cage and Pierre ‘all art of the past must be destroyed’ Boulez drew them together.

1969 – An Organisation

As Organisation Ralf and Florian perfomed as a quintet, joined at various times by Basil Hammoudi, Butch Hauf , Alfred “Fred” Mönicks, Charly Weiss, Peter Martini and Paul Lorenz, releasing the 1969 album Tone Float for RCA Records, produced by Konrad “Conny” Plank.

Tone Float’s 20 minute A-side of the same name is far from the sound of Kraftwerk most people would recognize, with live drums, bass, flute, organ and violin. The atmosphere has more in common with the freakout improvisations of Lightning Bolt or Oneida than any of the synth pop bands most listeners normally associate with Kraftwerk. There is not a synthesizer in site.

Organisation – Vor Dem Blauen Bock

Vor Dem Blauen Bock pre-emanates a sound later to be associated with Neu! (but more in that in another listening party). The album as a whole places Organisation firmly in the post-psychedelic experimental sound of their German contemporaries.

“The studio was in the middle of an oil refinery. When we came out of the door we could hear the sound of those big flames burning off the fumes – all kinds of industrial noises.” – Ralf Hütter

Ralf and Forians studio in Düsseldorf, which later became known as Kling Klang, had been established and in their live guise as Organisation they performed a groundbreaking piece of music Ruckzuck, later to appear on a 1970 self titled album by a band called Kraftwerk.

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VAN WERT, Ohio (www.incnow.tv) – Ohio could very well be the state the whole nation's keeping an eye on. As a swing state it could be the deciding factor on who becomes our nation’s next President. Because of this, there seemed to be a sense of pride amongst Ohio voters.

Election officials said this is the highest voter turn out they've seen in Van Wert County, including a number of first-time voters. Linda Stutz, Director of the Van Wert Board of Elections said, "We’ve just been swamped all day. I thought when I kept saying with the early vote that would be it. And obviously it hasn't been."

Polls opened at 6:30 this morning and closed at 7:30 tonight. Many of the precincts boasted over 64 percent turnout.

Officials believe the impact their state has on who will be named President is the main factor for the high numbers at the polls.

Rita Hurless, Presiding Judge at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds said, "These people should be very proud. It makes it very important for them to get out and to vote. And I think Van Wert County can say they did their share."

Jessica from Van Wert agreed, saying, "It makes me feel like my vote counts. Because I know we are a swing state and both candidates have been here a lot. That to me means a lot knowing that they know that our votes count."

Nick McIntosh, also from Van Wert added, "I guess it feels like we have an actual decision in the matter. You know, it feels good."

On Tuesday night Election officials reported over 25,000 votes in Van Wert County. They say nearly 6,000 people voted early.

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The wiring diagram is from a shaker model. I think that is a a amp addon and uses the J4 connector. Mine only has the J1 & J3 connectors. I think the pinouts are the same on all of these connectors.

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I have a 1993 Honda Del Sol, 170000 mi, D16z6. My radiator fan doesn't work with the car running. There is voltage going to the fan. When I turn on the a/c, if I sit in one spot, the car will overheat and the fan never turns on. But as soon as I shut off the engine, but keep the ignition open, the fan kicks in. Otherwise, the car never overheats, only with the a/c on, and the car sitting still. What could be causing this?
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Have a similar problem with my 95 del sol 1.5l S. With 136,000 miles on it. Sometimes when the car is idling, the engine starts to overheat. I've taken it to a few mechanics but they haven't been able to replicate the problem. I was told maybe the radiator fan motor isn't working, and the next time it happens to pop the hood and see if the fan is working. It wasn't. Took it back, they checked the fan and said it worked when they supplied power to it. Now, they say it might be the sensors.
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Think the zombie apocalypse shown in numerous movies and TV's The Walking Dead are just fiction? Not so fast. Researchers have now created "zombie" mammalian cells that may function better after they die at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico.
Think the zombie apocalypse shown in numerous movies and TV's The Walking Dead are just fiction?  Not so fast.   Researchers have now created "zombie" mammalian cells that may function better after they die at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM).

The technique coats a cell with a silica solution to form a near-perfect replica of its structure. The process may simplify a wide variety of commercial fabrication processes from the nano- to macroscale.

The work, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), uses the nanoscopic organelles and other tiny components of mammalian cells as fragile templates on which to deposit silica. The researchers then heat the cell to burn off its protein. The resultant hardened silica structures are faithful to the exterior and interior features of the formerly living cell, can survive greater pressures and temperatures than flesh ever could, and can perform some functions better than when they were alive, said lead researcher Bryan Kaehr, a Sandia materials scientist.

Kaehr offers what may be the first distinction in scientific literature between a mummy cell and a zombie cell: “King Tut was mummified,” he said, “to approximately resemble his living self, but the process took place without mineralization [a process of fossilization]. Our zombie cells bridge chemistry and biology to create forms that not only near-perfectly resemble their past selves but can do future work.”

—“It’s very challenging for researchers to build structures at the nanometer scale,” said Kaehr. “We can make particles and wires, but 3D arbitrary structures haven’t been achieved yet. With this technique, we don’t need to build those structures — nature does it for us. We only need to find cells that possess the machinery we want and copy it using our technique. And, using chemistry or surface patterning, we can program a group of cells to form whatever shape seems desirable.”

UNM professor and Sandia Fellow Jeff Brinker added, “The process faithfully replicates features from the nanoscale to macroscale in a robust, three-dimensionally stable form that resists shrinkage even upon heating to over 500 degrees Centigrade [932 degrees Fahrenheit]. The refractoriness of these delicate structures is amazing.”

The unusual but simple procedure may serve as a model for creating hardier classes of nanoscopic products.

Because a cell is populated by a vast range of proteins, lipids and scaffolding, its interior is ready-made to model catalysts, funnels, absorbents and other useful nanomachinery, said Kaehr, a former Sandia Truman Fellow.

Sandia Labs Zombie Cell

Catalysts that evolve in cells are enzymes that have to retain a certain shape for their chemistry to work. Since structure is important to function, stabilizing a catalyst in the shape it evolved is important, Kaehr said. Heat-hardened silica would stabilize and protect the still-present protein as it did its work.

UNM post-doctoral student Jason Townson said the most immediate use for silicification may be as a simple way to preserve the structure of organic materials for imaging.

“Formerly, for internal preservation and subsequent imaging, a cell would be fixed in formaldehyde or some other preservative. But many of these methods are labor-intensive,” Townson said. “This method is simple. The preserved cells will never get sloppy in decay. And when we cracked open the resulting structure, we were blown away by how well the cell was preserved, down to the minor groove of the cell’s DNA.”

Heating the cell to still higher temperatures (greater than 400 degrees C) evaporates the organic material of the cell — its protein — and leaves the silica in a kind of three-dimensional Madame Tussauds wax replica of a formerly living being. The difference is that instead of modeling the face, say, of a famous criminal, the hardened silica-based cells display internal mineralized structures with intricate features ranging from nano- to millimeter-length scales.

The construction process is relatively simple: Take some free-floating mammalian cells, put them in a petri dish and add silicic acid.

Through the action of methanol, a byproduct of the acid, the cell’s lipid layers — the protective casings that keep the cell intact — are softened and made porous enough for the silica to flow in at about the temperature of the human body.

The silicic acid, for reasons still partially obscure, enters without clogging and in effect embalms every organelle in the cell from the micro- to the nanometer scale.

If the cell isn’t heated, the silica forms a kind of permeable armor around the protein of the living cell. This may support it enough to act as a catalyst at temperatures and pressures undreamed of by nature.

“Once we’ve used silica to stabilize the cellular structure, it can still carry out reactions and, more importantly, that reaction is stable enough to work at high temperatures,” Kaehr said. “The method is also a means to take a soft, potentially valuable biological material and convert it to a fossil that will stay on our shelves indefinitely.”

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Ok. First, before assigning any IK to the arms, we need to go over a few things. First, let me explain a bit about the architecture behind my rig. The arm rig uses some complex controls and behaviours to control both IK behaviour, and inheritances. Take for example, a character doing pushups. You'd like to animate the rotations on the hips and spine, without worrying about the hands sliding all over the place. I've set some inheritance controls so that the wrists can or cannot inherit the arms movement and rotations. It is, however, not as simple (I wish) as setting standard inheritances. I achieved this by using two goals in the arm, and using weighted constraints on the wrists, so that you could alternate between an 'inherit' object, and a 'no-inherit' object. The constraint's weights are controller through a custom attribute I set on my arm control object. This object, which is the one you'll use to move the arm, also has some other custom controls to drive finger curling, IK swivel angles, wrist rotations, etc. That way, I can animate almost anything in my arm rig from this object, without having to select other objects, animate them, re-select the arm control object, etc. This makes animating characters a breeze. Therefore, there are some things we need to do prior to creating anything here, so that the whole thing will work perfectly. Let's get to it.

First, select the last bone in the arm chain (in my case, it'd be the 'Bone_ikterminator_arm' small bone). In the hierarchy panel, pivot tab, turn on the 'Don't affect children' button. Move the bone so that it's pivot point meets exactly the pivot points of the bones that start the hand assembly. This is crucial, or the hand will slide when the torso moves. Ok.

Select the arm bone (not the forearm one). Now, in your perspective view, really zoom in onto the ikterminator bone. Switch to a wireframe view if necesary (the hand bones are most likely getting in the way). Now, with the arm bone still selected, go into the animation menu (I have a toolbar for most of these operations), and select IK Solvers - HI Solver. Now, select the ikterminator bone. You'll see a blue cross at the ikterminator's pivot, and a line running from the cross to the pivot of the arm bone. The line is the IK solver. The blue cross is the goal. Whenever you move the goal, the IK solver will try to rotate the bones encompassed by it in order to meet the goal. These rotations are dependant on something called the rotation plane. You can't see it, but it's there. It's a plane that serves as a 'grond plane' to the IK chain, and it's originally parallel to the bones in the chain (that's why it's very important that the bones are aligned). This plane is controller by something called the swivel angle. By modifying this angle, you rotate the plane, thus rotating the bone chain, using the goal as a pivot. It's very much like moving your elbows while having your hands placed at your waist.

Now that we've gone over some IK basic concepts. Let's rig our arm.
Let's create some nodes we'll need for our arm rig. I used one spline object (just like the rotator, but pointy), and two point objects. Align them to the ikterminator bone (pos and orientation).Ok. Here we go.

Select the rotator (mine is colored purple). Link it to the forearm bone (not the ikterminator bone). In the hierarchies panel, link info tab, turn off the rotate inheritances in all axes. Name it NoInherit_arm.
Select the first point helper. Name it HandOrient. Link it to the NoInherit_arm spline object. Turn off the rotation inheritances. Now, apply an orientation constraint to it. Selec the forearm bone as a first target, and the NoInherit spline obj as a second target. For now, set the forearm's weight at 100, and the NoInherit object's to 0.

Select the second point object. Name it WristControl.Link this one to the HandOrient point object. Now, select each root bone in the arm and link it to the WirstControl obj. Here's a shot of my schematic view.

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Create a new point helper object. Name it Control_arm, and align it with the IK WirstControl obj. Now, add the following custom attributes to it:

Name: Thumb Curl. Type: Float spinner. From -15 to 70, default 0. Object's base level.
Name: Index Curl. Same params as before.
Name: Mid Curl. Same params as before.
Name: Pinky Curl. Same params as before.
Name: Finger spread. Type: Float spinner. From -15 to 15, default 0. Object's base level.
Name: Inherit Arm. Type: Float slider. From 0 to 100, default 0. 4 ticks. Object's base level.
Name: Swivel Angle. Type: Float spinner. From -360 to 360 default 0. Object's base level.

As you might have guessed, most of these are hand-related controls. You'll see how easy is to animate both the arm and hand with these controls. Link the IK chain you created to it.

First, we'll wire the Swivel Angle parameter to the chain's swivel angle. Just select the point object (A_Control_arm), go to Animation/Wire Paramters/Wire Parameter, and select the IK chain (my point object has the cross option turned off so the IK chain underneath can be selected. I used instead the Axis Tripod option). The wire parameters dialogue will appear. Wire the point's object Swivel Angle Parameter to the IK chain's swivel angle parameter. Set the direction from the point object (driver) to the IK chain (driven). In the expression textbox, enclose the current expression in parenthesis, and add the following to the beggining of it... 'degtorad'. This tells the expression to convert the value from degrees to radians. This is necessary to have the results you expect.

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If you could prepare 20 meals for your family for $150 would you do it? Guess what? I have done it many times and you can do it, too! For the month of February I am featuring several of my favorite Pinterest boards to give you the recipes and shopping list so you can do the same thing at Sam’s Club and Costco.

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If the late Dreyfus were still among us, he would have been slapped down by the high priests of Politifact.

Consider:  Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin has made the explicit declaration that “I was for a government take-over of medicine. I was for a single-payer plan.  (See video here:

In a single payer plan, government pays for everything – for doctors, treatments, surgeries, hospitals.

But, for Politifact, this is not be confused with a " take-over" – even though that was precisely the word Baldwin used.

Politifact stands firm in its dogma that government-funded health care system is never ever, ever to be called a “government controlled” health care system. So when Tommy Thompson said that Baldwin supports a law "in which government will take over your decisions on medicine, on doctors and on hospitals” Politifact rushed to deem it FALSE.

Thus sayeth Politifact: “He[Thompson]  provides no evidence that Obama’s health care reform law would bring about such a change, and offers only speculation that such a change would occur under a single-payer system. Experts were unpersuaded by his claim.”

Whatever would we do without experts? Especially experts apparently unaware of the reality of government-run health systems in countries like Great Britain.

Let’s stop to recall what the non-single payer Obamacare demands.  The bill includes the words “shall” roughly 3000 times, generating thousands of pages of mandates, regulations, and assorted state decrees. The Heritage Foundation notes that the law includes 18 new taxes and penalties, costing taxpayers $836 billion through 2022.

But this pales next to the costs and control in a system where the government pays (or refuses to pay) every bill.

Dr. Robert Book (apparently not experty enough for Politifact) notes that under a single payer plan, “the federal government would amass greater power over the financing and delivery of medical services; it would also determine the benefits and medical procedures that Americans would get and the prices providers are paid for them. This concentration of government power over health care would have a profound impact on all Americans, especially members of the medical profession.”

But Politifact assures us this is not government  control. And anyone who suggests that it is control--  is lying.

This is “Through the Looking Glass” stuff, but it is now dogma at Politifact which has shifted from adjudicator of fact to ideological enforcer.  That’s nowhere clearer than on this issue, which marks a fundamental ideological divide.

For the left a single payer system means free health care for all. For conservatives, it means state control.

The left argues that government subsidies are inherent goods handed out by a beneficent and government. Conservatives believe, and have long argued, that government funding inevitably diminishes freedom becomes it comes with government regulation, mandates, and ultimately control.

Although it has been frequently attributed to Thomas Jefferson, it was Gerald Ford who observed: "A government big enough to give you everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have...." Or as Dennis Prager puts it: “The bigger the state, the bigger the government - the smaller the citizen.’

Put simply: whoever controls the purse strings controls the service.  In Tammy Baldwin’s system, every aspect of the health care system is beholden to the government – read bureaucrats and politicians – for their livelihoods. In a single payer system, it is government fiat that determines how resources are allocated; what treatments are offered; how they are offered; and what will be paid for… not the free market.

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Distances in the universe are so vast that we do not have a simple way of measuring them.  For distances within the solar system we can measure them directly, using radar for example, and some very straightforward trigonometry.  But radar is hard to use when it takes light minutes or hours to cross the solar system; and the nearest star is four light years away!  A more difficult but straightforward method is trigonometric parallax, the derivation of distances to nearby stars by measuring by how much they appear to shift relative to background stars during the course of a year.  This method is the most direct way that we have of measuring the distances to the stars, but only for those within about a thousand light years.  The measurement of parallaxes requires very precise measurements of the positions of stars on the sky.  The largest parallax -- that of alpha Centauri -- is less than one arcsecond, and that is the closest star to us (4.3 light years away).  For comparison, the full moon is 1800 arcseconds across!  The size of the parallax decreases the farther away the star is, until eventually it is smaller than we can measure.

Beyond this point, we have to start relying not just on observation but also on our understanding of astrophysics.  As an example, after parallaxes we can use open clusters -- groups of stars formed at the same time having the same ages but different masses, temperatures, and luminosities --  to make educated guesses as to the absolute brightnesses (and hence distances) of the cluster members.  We calibrate those guesses using clusters for which we can measure parallaxes, and then extend them outwards to where we can't measure parallax.  Our understanding of the size of the universe is dependent upon The Cosmic Distance Ladder, a series of measurements of different kinds of objects and phenomena, each building upon the previous step in the ladder.  By extending the ladder with different kinds of measurements (and intelligent guesses), we can measure larger and larger distances in the universe.

Several of these steps are critically dependent upon variable stars, and the physical study of the Distance Ladder is in some ways a physical study of variable stars.  How have variable stars contributed to the Distance Ladder, and why?  Here, we'll discuss two of them: the Period-Luminosity relation of pulsating stars, and the use of Type Ia supernovae as standard candles.

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Harvard Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt made a critical observation about Cepheid variables observed in the Small Magellanic cloud.  After measuring the periods of the Cepheids and the relative brightnesses of each, she found a relation between the period and apparent brightness for all of the stars; the stars with longer periods were brighter than those with shorter periods.  Making the reasonable assumption that the Small Magellanic Cloud is far enough away that all the stars are at approximately the same distance, you can assume that there is a relation between the period and the absolute brightness as well.  This was a critically important discovery in modern astrophysics; it meant that one could make an easy measurement -- the pulsation period of the Cepheid -- and obtain the distance, which is otherwise impossible to obtain.

Leavitt's measurements of periods and apparent brightnesses for SMC CepheidsWhile stars in the Magellanic cloud are much too far away to measure distances using parallax, there are enough well-calibrated, in-between steps in the Distance Ladder to let you calibrate the Cepheid Period-Luminosity relation for nearby Cepheids.  The PL relation has become one of the most critically important tools for distance measurement in the cosmos.  Leavitt's 1908 discovery was confirmed to work not only for Cepheids but for a number of other pulsating variables as well.  One of these types were the RR Lyrae stars commonly found in globular clusters, and measurement of distances to the globular clusters formed part of the argument that allowed astronomers to finally understand the size and shape of the Milky Way galaxy and all other "spiral nebulae" in the universe.  One measurement changed the our understanding of the size of the universe by many orders of magnitude -- from thousands of light years to millions (and eventually to billions).

Why does this relation exist?  One way to think about it is to consider why stars have different intrinsic brightnesses.  The amount of light a star will give off is dependent on two things: its physical size, and its temperature.  Cepheids lie in a fairly narrow range of temperatures, and so the primary difference between one Cepheid and another is its size.  You can prove, using simple dynamical arguments, that the amount of time it takes a star to complete one pulsation cycle is directly proportional to the size of the star -- the bigger the star, the longer it takes for it to complete a pulsation cycle.  But since we know bigger stars are more luminous, then we can determine a relation between the period and the luminosity.

Folded visual light curves of two Cepheids, SV Vul and T Vul.  The period of SV Vul is about 10 times longer than that of T Vul.  If they were the same distance from us, T Vul would appear to be fainter than SV Vul; since it is not (T Vul is about 1.5 magnitudes brighter at maximum), it must be much closer.

We've used the period-luminosity relation to measure distances to Cepheids in the Milky Way, the local Group, and out to galaxies about 60 million light years distant (M100 is the most distant galaxy with measured Cepheids).  We continue to refine and recalibrate the Cepheid period-luminosity relation as we get better data, but distances obtained with it are probably good to around five percent.  Thus we have a good measure of the distances to nearby galaxies.  Critically, we can then use Cepheids to calibrate another rung of the distance ladder, redshifts.  Using Cepheids, we can obtain measures of distances to nearby galaxies with redshifts showing a clear direct relationship between distance and redshift.  Redshifts are in turn used to measure distances of hundreds of millions or billions of light years, rather than the tens of millions possible with Cepheid variable observations.

In recognition of Henrietta Swan Leavitt's discovery of and early work on the period-luminosity relation, the Cepheid P-L relation is now referred to as the Leavitt Law.  It was one of the most important astrophysical discoveries of the 20th Century, but it may not be the most important discovery in the story of the Cosmic Distance Ladder.  That distinction might go to what we talk about next.

Type Ia Supernovae, Dark Energy, and the Acceleration of Cosmic Expansion

Those who measure distances in the universe often use the term "standard candle" as a metaphor for a calibrated light source in a distant target.  In order to measure large distances you need a very, very bright candle.  The supernovae are among the brightest variable stars there are, and we can see supernovae in galaxies hundreds of millions of light years distant.  There are a number of different types of supernovae, but they originate primarily from two different types of progenitors: the collapse and subsequent explosion of massive white dwarf stars in cataclysmic variable binary systems, and the collapse of massive stars at the ends of their lives.  The most interesting systems for the current discussion are the collapsing white dwarf systems, known as supernovae of "Type Ia".

One-day averages of visual observations of the Type-Ia supernova SN 1994D (discovered March 9, 1994).

In Type Ia supernovae, a white dwarf in a binary system is accreting matter from the secondary star of the binary.  White dwarfs have limits on how massive they can be (about 1.4 times the mass of the Sun), which is known as the Chandrasekhar limit after its discoverer, Subramanyan Chandrasekhar.  If a white dwarf becomes more massive than this (by accreting matter from a companion, for example) then the atomic forces that hold the star up against gravity can no longer support the weight of the outer layers and the star collapses.  In so doing, the core of the star undergoes violent nuclear reactions that generate an enormous amount of energy, and the star explodes, disrupting it entirely.  Since all type Ia supernovae are caused by the same physical process, type Ia supernovae behave in roughly the same way and release the same amount of energy when they explode.  This is exactly what one needs when looking for a standard candle.  And better still, type Ia supernovae are bright, and can outshine all of the other stars in a galaxy combined.  You can detect supernovae in galaxies hundreds of millions of light years distant, giving us a powerful tool for calibrating redshifts at larger distances than Cepheids can.

But now the story gets interesting.  In the late 1990's, there were two independent teams of astronomers trying to find and record type Ia supernovae in distant galaxies as part of a larger study trying to understand the fundamental nature of the cosmos.  It was assumed that the relationship between redshift and the peak brightness of supernovae should be constant since it was also assumed that the expansion of the universe has been constant since the big bang.  However, the two teams discovered that type Ia supernovae at higher redshifts were fainter than one would expect from this constant expansion, meaning they were further away.  This implies that the universe has not been expanding at a constant rate, but is accelerating.  This is the first observational hint of the existence of something called "dark energy", something predicted by Albert Einstein but whose cause and origin remains largely unknown.  If dark energy is real -- and multiple lines of cosmological evidence are pointing toward that conclusion -- it represents a fundamental reworking of our understanding of the universe, its origins, and its ultimate fate.  While the Leavitt Law represented a new way to measure the size of the Universe, the measurement of cosmic acceleration might bring about an entirely new understanding of cosmology.

Variable Stars help tell the story

Distance measurement in the universe has been an important advance in astronomical history, and it's not only telling us how big the universe is, but what the universe is fundamentally like and how it will evolve over time.  These two classes of variable stars -- pulsating Cepheids and exploding supernovae -- have provided key steps in the Cosmic Distance Ladder.  They're just one example of how variable stars have helped to advance the science of astronomy, and taught us more about the cosmos in which we live.  It's hard to predict what future advances will be, but it's likely that variable stars will provide many more insights into the nature of our universe.

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A Minneapolis trial lawyer sees opportunity in debt collection litigation—and in teaching others how to pursue it.

Lawyer Peter Barry holds several debt collection “boot camps” each year to help other lawyers interested in pursuing litigation against debt collectors and the attorney fees that winning cases can bring, the New York Times reports.

Barry is charging about $2,500 a person for his next two-and-a-half-day seminar, scheduled for early May in San Francisco, the Times says. He and others in a small group of lawyers suing for violations of the Fair Debt Collections Act are apparently contributing to an uptick in the litigation.

The article cites statistics collected by WebRecon, which tracks litigation for debt collectors. Last year, 8,287 federal lawsuits cited violations of the debt collections act, an increase of 60 percent over the previous year, WebRecon says.

The numbers will likely continue to grow, as a result of a Supreme Court ruling last week. The decision held that debt collectors who violate the act aren’t shielded from liability if they misinterpret the legal requirements of the federal law. That’s a boon for Barry and other lawyers who pursue the litigation.

“I can’t sue every illegal debt collector in America, although I’d like to try,” Barry told the Times.

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Camel burgers capture Christmas spirit

Disadvantaged far north Queenslanders have been treated to a delectable Christmas lunch by a Cairns restaurateur and a gang of merry volunteers.

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More than 130 pensioners, homeless and new migrants spent Christmas at Mark Schmitt's tapas bar in Edge Hill feasting on camel burgers and salt and pepper calamari.

Mr Schmitt says he approached several charities last month to see if he could make Christmas day special for those most in need.

"My wife suggested we do something special for Christmas," he says.

"She wanted to do some volunteering but pretty quickly we realised that was a silly idea when we have the restaraunt that we could use.

"We got a lot more out of our Christmas than we ever have in the past. We saw smiles and people were just so appreciative. It's really changed me."

Over two sittings diners were treated to lunch and dessert with several touching 'thank yous' along the way Mr Schmitt says.

"A single mother came up to me and said she'd had a really bad year and that this put a lovely bookend on some tough times," he says.

"Some people were crying and they couldn't shake my hand enough."

13 volunteers, some normally customers helped out on the day, with suppliers chipping in with food and beverage.

Mr Schmitt says even a random Christmas well-wisher got in on the act.

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Mention the word billycart and generally anyone over the age of 30 follows it with a stream of childhood stories, but has the wonder of the billycart been lost on our current generation?

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As part of their school holiday activities, the Mitcham City Council hosted a billycart building course at the Mitcham Community Shed.

Volunteers created a test model cart, and it wasn't long before the program places were filled and the mad rush was on to source materials.

Timber was recycled from local building sites, nuts, bolts and wheels sourced from local suppliers, and what couldn't be found was made.

"We were pretty certain that the families in the community would like a chance for the kids to be involved as much with the making, as with the prospect of being able to use it later," community shed facilitator Terry Stead said.

Old fashion nails were swapped for safer screws, hammers traded for drills, and the volunteers worked on developing a way to construct the carts that would minimise risk and be easy for all involved to finish.

"There was a lot of same twinkle in the eye, but for different reasons."

Terry felt the building of the carts helped to challenge parents and children individually and provide a special experience they could both share.

"They very much enjoyed it.

"We certainly got a lot of feedback at the end about how nice it was for the kids and parents to be sharing something at a level of almost equality."

He said the looks of accomplishment from the 60-odd participants at the end of the course were somewhat expected.

"I can appreciate just what it is to achieve something at the end of the day."

It what can often be termed as the most time-poor generation of our time, Terry said it was great to see something as humble as the simple billy cart provide a challenge, quality family time, and a result that can be shared for those who joined in.

And does he think the romance of the age of the billycart will see it make a comeback?

"I don't think it needs us to keep the billycart going, but I'm sure we'll do our part."

The Mitcham Community Shed is a workshop operated by the Mitcham City Council for residents to utilise woodworking tools and machinery.

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Updated March 08, 2010 11:12:00

The wild weather in Victoria has calmed down, after heavy rains battered the state for a second day in a row.

On Saturday large hail storms, heavy rain and strong winds lashed Melbourne, damaging homes and flooding the streets.

On Sunday, storms travelled from Victoria's north, dumping hail the size of golf balls in Numurkah.

The storms weakened as they travelled south, although there were heavy downpours in Melbourne's north, including 50 millimetres of rain recorded at Mernda.

The weather bureau's Richard Carlyon says the storms affected the central areas of Victoria including Echuca and Shepparton.

"Not quite as intense as yesterday in terms of hail and wind damage but we've had some fairly hefty rain totals of around 30 to 40 millimetres in quick time as these storms have moved through," he said.

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Around 100,000 homes lost power in Melbourne on Saturday, while major infrastructure was damaged including Docklands Stadium, the Arts Centre and Southern Cross Railway Station.

Fifteen families from Melbourne and the state's east have been relocated due to flooding or building damage.

Victorian Premier John Brumby says the Government does not have a damage bill for Saturday's severe storms yet.

"Southern Cross Station was closed for a little while," he said.

"The hail stones there actually punched some holes through the roof there. It was evacuated, it remains partially closed. The Alfred Hospital also took considerable amounts of water.

"The Arts Centre ... roof has actually collapsed under the weight there, the bill there will clearly run to hundreds of thousands, if not to millions of dollars, to repair that.

"In the case of schools most of the damage is minor to modest there's no major structural damage that I'm aware of at the moment."

The weather bureau's Kevin Parkyn says Saturday's storms will go down in the history books, characterised by the large amounts of hail.

"I think we have to go back a long way in Melbourne's records to find a similar event where Melbourne recorded hail stones the size of lemons, 10 centimetres in diameter," he said.

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Australian troops could be casualties of cluster bomb ban

Updated March 24, 2011 15:42:37

The Parliament’s Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee is due to report today on the implementation of legislation to ban cluster munitions.

While a delay in Australia passing the legislation has been attacked by lobby groups and figures like Malcolm Fraser as being subservient to United States interests, this could not be further from the truth.

The reality is that the only interests the government is interested in protecting are those of our men and women in uniform while being careful to uphold the principles of this important convention.

The legislation in its current form would risk Australian troops serving overseas being prosecuted for carrying out their duties, even if they did not personally employ cluster munitions or endorse their use.

Yet this isn’t to say that the Government does not also believe that cluster munitions are one of the world’s greatest evils. They are and the figures speak for themselves. Cluster munitions are indiscriminate bombs dropped from an aircraft that contain a cartridge of smaller bombs designed to disperse over a large area destroying critical installations like runways and bridges. They are highly unreliable and a third do not explode on impact but remain dangerously strewn across the landscapes of countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Kosovo and Chechnya.

Laos alone has between nine and 27 million unexploded sub-munitions which the Red Cross estimates has killed or injured around 11,000 civilians. This includes three million children, many of whom inquisitively sought them out given their tragic similarity in appearance to an Easter egg.

Given this, it is hardly surprising that the government worked hard to help deliver the 2008 International Convention on the Banning of Cluster Munitions. This outlawed not only their use and possession but any assistance provided to countries not satisfying these two criteria. Some, like Fraser, have rightly described this as “the most significant disarmament and humanitarian treaty negotiated in more than a decade”.

The foreign minister at the time, Stephen Smith, not only played a pivotal role at the negotiations in Dublin, he also made the 16,000 kilometre venture to snowy Oslo for the elaborate signing ceremony as a signal of our commitment to the treaty.

Since then 53 states have ratified the document and a further 55 have signed it. The United States, Russia, China and Israel who manufacture and store a majority of the world’s cluster munitions continue to hold out alongside India, Pakistan and Brazil. Others, like Australia, have sought to amend it to better protect its soldiers from prosecution.

Critics of Australia’s actions, like Human Rights Watch, have said the legislation in its new form would “essentially allow Australian military personnel to load and aim the gun, so long as they did not pull the trigger”.

While a literal reading of the text may contend as much, this flagrantly disregards the moral turpitude of our forces to act according to the spirit of the convention and in accordance with basic principles of human decency.

Independent MP Andrew Wilkie, a former army and intelligence officer, has rightly pointed out that “there are any number of scenarios where we might brush up against the use of cluster munitions”.

Such instances would include if a troop commander called in air strike as part of target identification or protection that then involved cluster munitions without his knowledge; or if a soldier was to refuel a truck carrying cluster munitions as part of our supply chain, or indeed provide air traffic control to an offending aircraft.

The possibility of a United States military base in Australia, as floated by the Prime Minister this month, would also see innumerable instances of inconsequential moral interaction with cluster munitions by our forces in the lines of logistical coordination that would forge.

Finding the right balance between our irreproachable commitment to banning cluster munitions and protecting the interests of our troops will take time. And we should be patient. It took several years for the Howard Government to ratify the instruments of the International Criminal Court as a similar debate waged. By 2002 it was satisfied it had the necessary protections in place.

Ultimately we must remain committed to the eradication of cluster munitions from this world. They are in nobody’s interests. But in doing so we should be careful to ensure the men and women serving our nation are able to do their job in making this world a safer place without fear from unintended prosecution.

Thom Woodroofe is a foreign affairs analyst who has studied both international humanitarian law and air power.

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Call to cut red tape on baiting of wild dogs

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The Northern Territory Opposition says the Government must make it easier for beef producers to get permits for baiting wild dogs.

The NT Cattlemen's Association says producers have lost 60,000 calves and weaners to dogs during the past year, at a cost of $80 million.

Shadow Primary Industries Minister Kezia Purick says two different baiting permits are required, through two departments.

"These wild dogs, they're prolific breeders, they're breeding up," she said.

"A lot of these pastoral properties are losing up to 10 per cent of their stock, of their herd, per year, which is an extraordinary figure.

"Pastoralists have not been able to get on top of the problem, the feral animal problem.

"They are applying for permits ... but by the time they get their permit to do the baiting, it (a permit) has almost expired."

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Alleged drunk driver 'left kids at crash site'

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Police in the north of New South Wales have charged a driver with serious traffic offences after he allegedly crashed into a power pole and fled the scene, leaving his teenage children there.

Officers arrested the 39-year-old Emmaville man twelve hours after the accident at Waratah Avenue in Inverell.

It is alleged the driver lost control of his Tarago van, before it rolled and hit a power pole, cutting off electricity to much of the town.

The driver then allegedly fled the scene, leaving his 13-year-old and 15-year-old children in the vehicle.

The man has been charged with drink-driving, leaving the scene of an accident, driving while disqualified, and driving an uninsured vehicle.

He has been remanded in custody to appear at Inverell Local Court this morning.

The man's children were taken to hospital for observation, but later discharged.

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Office of Water says Mudgee, Gulgong water safe

Posted April 09, 2013 09:18:30

The state's Office of Water says the town water supply in Mudgee and Gulgong is not under threat.

The Mid-Western Regional Council is concerned high security water licences attached to proposed mines in the region will take precedence over domestic supplies.

It has asked that the minimum storage level in Windamere Dam be increased to 120,000 megalitres to ensure all industry sectors have reliable access to water.

In a statement in the Office says a review into Bulk Water Transfer rules is underway, and that town water supply in New South Wales has the highest priority under the Water Management Act.

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Vandals attack Hobart's Botanical Gardens

Updated June 13, 2013 12:00:58

It has been revealed almost 1,000 books and archival records at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens are water damaged due to an act of vandalism.

Police say closed circuit television footage shows four young men jumping the boundary fence of the gardens and placing a hose under the front door of the Visitor Centre shortly after midnight on Wednesday.

The hose was left running for more than seven hours, damaging carpet, stock and hundreds of horticultural and botanical books.

Archival material recording the history of the gardens was also affected.

Inspector Glen Woolley says the crime is frustrating.

"There's no sense or rhyme or reason as to why this has occurred," he said.

"The damage is wanton, it's wilfull and it's caused significant damage and disruption to the gardens."

The books will be taken to Launceston's museum and art gallery to be freeze dried in an attempt to salvage them.

Police are appealing for anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers.

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