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William Booth Leader's Guide
Leader’s Guide to accompany the DVD The Torchlighters: The William Booth Story Table of Contents Introduction to the Torchlighters Series . 3 Synopsis of The Torchlighters: The William Booth Story . 4 Teaching Plan for The William Booth Story . 5 Session 1 - No Compromise: Called! . 6-8 Session 2 - No Compromise: Courage! . 9 Session 3 - No Compromise: Commitment! . 10 Session 4 - No Compromise: Continue! . 11-12 Letter to Parents . 13 Supplementary Materials Key People in The William Booth Story . 14 The Nineteenth-Century World of William Booth . 15-16 Timeline of the Booths and The Salvation Army . 17-18 Additional Materials . 19 The Torchlighters Series . 20 Answer Key for Select Student Pages . 21 © Christian History Institute Learn more about The Torchlighters: Heroes of the Faith programs at www.torchlighters.org.2 Leader’s Guide to accompany the DVD The Torchlighters: The William Booth Story Introduction to the Torchlighters Series Torchlighter: One who commits to serving God and passing on the light of the Gospel, even if the going gets tough. Kids today have no shortage of heroes. From Hollywood celebrities to music artists and sports figures, it would seem that there are plenty of heroes to go around. The heroes being offered by popular culture are teaching children that physical perfection, financial success, and fame are the most important goals in life. The morals and values presented by these heroes are often in direct opposition to the standards parents want to pass on to their children. So, while there is no shortage of heroes, there is a dreadful shortage of heroes worth emulating. -
The Institute of Physics
REGIONAL NEWS 21 The Institute of Physics The forerunner of the Institute of do involves physics - switching on a light, physicists in commerce and industry. The Physics, the Physical Society of London, making a phone call or even baking a Council has established several Profession was created in 1874 at a time when the potato in a microwave oven. In industry, al Groups in areas such as consultancy, understanding of the physical world had physicists are helping companies to devel engineering physics and advanced been given an enormous impetus with the op novel materials that have physical prop systems. publication by James Clerk Maxwell of his erties more versatile that those previously In these days of shrinking science theory of electromagnetism. The creation developed, and they are designing new budgets, the academic physics community of the Physical Society was the response of generations of microchips which are has turned increasingly to its professional the embryonic society of professional and smaller and hence faster. The information representative, the Institute of Physics, to amateur physicists in Britain to what they revolution within which we are currently lobby Government about the importance believed was a major progression of their being buffeted would have been impos and relevance of physics. In common with ideas. Indeed, one could say that it was at sible without physicists and their research other science subjects, calls to justify Gov this time that much of physics began to - transistors, liquid crystal displays, mag ernment expenditure have increased in take on the appearance we recognize netic discs, optical fibres, semiconductor recent years. -
2013 January
Online Newsletter January 2013 Issue no 24 Branch committee REMS At Home - An Environmental Miscellany Dr Mark Telling CPhys MInstP, Chair On 10 January 71 members and guests were educated and entertained E-mail [email protected] by 5 invited speakers. The meeting was organised and orchestrated by Bob Boutland CPhys MInstP George Freeman, who unfortunately could not attend during Treasurer recuperation following an operation. Mike Quinton, (pictured below) Education representative introduced the speakers. and online newsletter editor E-mail [email protected] David Parkes CPhys MInstP Berkshire Centre representative E-mail [email protected] Stephen Elsmere Berkshire Centre representative E-mail [email protected] Leonard Lewell CPhys MInstP, London Centre Representative E-mail [email protected] Prof. R Mackintosh CPhys FInstP Milton Keynes Centre representative E-mail [email protected] Dr Diane Crann MInstP Hertfordshire Centre representative E-mail [email protected] J A Belling MInstP REMS visit secretary E-mail [email protected] The Barometer and its early use in forecasting on land and on sea” Marta Caballero E-mail [email protected] Anita McConnell Provided a very detailed story from the early days. It Student Representative was Torricelli and Viviani who showed in 1643-4 that there is such a thing as a vacuum noting that the height of the column mercury varied James Kneller daily with changes in the weather, but also with temperature. Pascal E-mail [email protected] Student Representative noted that a barometer recorded a lower pressure when taken up a mountain, the Puy de Dôme. -
Peter Kalmus, Rubab Khan, Luca Matone, Szabolcs Márka
Search Method for Gravitational Wave Transients Associated with the SGR 1806-20 Giant Flare We describe a method for searching for transient gravitational waves associated with the SGR 1806-20 T Peter Kalmus, Rubab Khan, Luca Matone, Szabolcs Márka C giant flare of 27 December 2004 using data collected by the LIGO 4 km detector located at Hanford, WA. A We create an excess power time series from a time-frequency tiling by projecting elements in the R T frequency band of interest onto the time axis. This time series is calibrated with injections of known Columbia University Experimental Gravity Group S strength. An upper limit estimate can then be obtained by selecting the loudest event in the on-source B A region. Validations for the search and estimated sensitivity, obtained by performing the search on realistic simulated LIGO data, are presented. 7. Estimated Sensitivity From Simulated Data 5. The Search Algorithm Simulated Noise 1. An Extraordinary Event To create simulated noise, a segment of LIGO noise is taken as a model. The individual On 27 December 2004, SGR 1806-20, a 'Soft Gamma Repeater' located 6-15 kpc Creation of Tiling and Band Plot data samples are randomly shuffled. The amplitude spectral density of the result is then away [1, 2], emitted the brightest transient ever observed [1, 6, 8, 11, 15]. Data Conditioning Conditioned data is transformed into a spectrogram, which is a linear time- matched to the LIGO noise bin by bin in frequency space, and the resulting series is frequency tiling. We take the complex magnitude of the resulting matrix. -
27862 Jesuit Mag F1KC200 F2-4MC200
Jesuit High School • Portland, Oregon • Summer 2009 Age Quod Agis Graduation Issue Michael Walczyk ‘09 plays the trumpt at a JHS band concert in spring 2009, the last concert for the seniors. Many seniors found a piece of music, taught it to the band, and directed the piece at the concert. Highlights included the use of a taiko drum in a Japanese folk song, violin players from the orchestra club, and choir students who added to the night’s unforgetable performance. The seniors presented Mr. Kato with a gift of a ham as their thanks for four years of patience, friendship, and donuts. Features 24 Departing Faculty BY PAUL HOGAN, JHS ACADEMIC VICE PRINCIPAL 28 The Class of 2009 Graduation Awards & Statistics 32 Honorary Graduation Awards Awards Given to Alumni, Friends & Supporters of JHS 38 Career Day BY KATHY BAARTS, ALUMNI DIRECTOR Departments 4 President’s Message 6 Campus Corner 10 Student & Educator Spotlights 12 News of JHS Jesuits 13 Spirit Store Update 14 Student Diversity 18 Athletics 19 The Legacy Club 20 Development News 36 In Memoriam 44 Class Notes ©2009 Jesuit High School, Portland, Oregon ADMINISTRATION This magazine is for and about alumni, President John J. Gladstone parents, and students of Jesuit High School. Principal Sandra L. Satterberg It is published three times a year by the Vice President for Development communications office. Opinions expressed Michael J. Schwab ‘86 in specific articles are those of the individual Superior, Jesuit Community authors. If you would like to author an article, Fr. J.K. Adams, S.J. please contact the communications office. -
Symposium Celebrating CERN's Discoveries and Looking Into the Future
CERN–EP–2003–073 CERN–TH–2003–281 December 1st, 2003 Proceedings Symposium celebrating the Anniversary of CERN’s Discoveries and a Look into the Future 111999777333::: NNNeeeuuutttrrraaalll CCCuuurrrrrreeennntttsss 111999888333::: WWW±±± &&& ZZZ000 BBBooosssooonnnsss Tuesday 16 September 2003 CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Editors: Roger Cashmore, Luciano Maiani & Jean-Pierre Revol Table of contents Table of contents 2 Programme of the Symposium 4 Foreword (L. Maiani) 7 Acknowledgements 8 Selected Photographs of the Event 9 Contributions: Welcome (L. Maiani) 13 The Making of the Standard Model (S. Weinberg) 16 CERN’s Contribution to Accelerators and Beams (G. Brianti) 30 The Discovery of Neutral Currents (D. Haidt) 44 The Discovery of the W & Z, a personal recollection (P. Darriulat) 57 W & Z Physics at LEP (P. Zerwas) 70 Physics at the LHC (J. Ellis) 85 Challenges of the LHC: – the accelerator challenge (L. Evans) 96 – the detector challenge (J. Engelen) 103 – the computing challenge (P. Messina) 110 Particle Detectors and Society (G. Charpak) 126 The future for CERN (L. Maiani) 136 – 2 – Table of contents (cont.) Panel discussion on the Future of Particle Physics (chaired by Carlo Rubbia) 145 Participants: Robert Aymar, Georges Charpak, Pierre Darriulat, Luciano Maiani, Simon van der Meer, Lev Okun, Donald Perkins, Carlo Rubbia, Martinus Veltman, and Steven Weinberg. Statements from the floor by: Fabiola Gianotti, Ignatios Antoniadis, S. Glashow, H. Schopper, C. Llewellyn Smith, V. Telegdi, G. Bellettini, and V. Soergel. Additional contributions: Comment on the occasion (S. L. Glashow) 174 Comment on Perturbative QCD in early CERN experiments (D. H. Perkins) 175 Personal remarks on the discovery of Neutral Currents (A. -
Newsletter, November 2017
ISSN 1756-168X (Print) ISSN 2516-3353 (Online) Newsletter No. 35 November 2017 Published by the History of Physics Group of the Institute of Physics (UK & Ireland) ISSN 1756-168X IOP History of Physics Newsletter November 2017 Contents Editorial 2 Meeting Reports Chairman’s Report 3 Rutherford’s chemists - abstracts 5 ‘60 Years on from ZETA’ by Chris Warrick 10 Letters to the editor 13 Obituary John W Warren by Stuart Leadstone 15 Features Anti-matter or anti-substance? by John W Warren 16 A Laboratory in the Clouds - Horace-Bénédict de Saussure by Peter Tyson 18 On Prof. W.H.Bragg’s December 1914 Letter to the Vice- Chancellor of the University of Leeds by Chris Hammond 34 Book Reviews Crystal Clear - Autobiographies of Sir Lawrence and Lady Bragg by Peter Ford 54 Forthcoming Meetings 69 Committee and contacts 70 61 2 Editorial A big ‘Thank you’! Around 45 people attended the Bristol meeting on the History of Particle Colliders, in April. It was a joint meeting between the History of Physics Group, the High Energy Physics Group, and the Particle Accelerators and Beams Group. With a joint membership of around 2000, that works out at well under 3% - and that was a good turnout. The Rutherford’s Chemists meeting held in Glasgow attracted probably a similar percentage - not very high you might think. But time and travel costs to attend come at a premium so any means by which the content of our meetings may be promulgated - reports in our newsletter and in those of the other groups - is a very worthwhile task. -
Peter Kalmus, Rubab Khan, Luca Matone, Szabolcs Márka Columbia
Search Method for Gravitational Wave Transients Associated with the SGR 1806-20 Giant Flare We describe a method for searching for transient gravitational waves associated with the SGR 1806-20 giant T Peter Kalmus, Rubab Khan, Luca Matone, Szabolcs Márka C flare of 27 December 2004 using data collected by the LIGO 4 km detector located at Hanford, WA. We create A an excess power time series from a time-frequency tiling by projecting elements in the frequency band of R T interest onto the time axis. This time series is calibrated with injections of known strength. An upper limit Columbia University Experimental Gravity Group S estimate can then be obtained by selecting the loudest event in the on-source region. Validations for the search B A and estimated sensitivity, obtained by performing the search on realistic simulated LIGO data, are presented. 7. Estimated Sensitivity From Simulated Data 5. The Search Algorithm Simulated Noise 1. An Extraordinary Event To create simulated noise, a segment of LIGO noise is taken as a model. This noise On 27 December 2004, SGR 1806-20, a 'Soft Gamma Repeater' located 6-15 kpc Creation of Tiling and Band Plot vector is randomized. The amplitude spectral density of the result is then matched to the away [1, 2], emitted the brightest transient ever observed [1, 6, 8, 11, 15]. Data Conditioning Conditioned data is transformed into a spectrogram, which is a linear time- LIGO noise bin by bin in frequency space, and the resulting series is inverse transformed frequency tiling. We take the complex magnitude of the resulting matrix. -
Original Writings of 19Th Century Religious Restoration and Renewal Movements in the United States
Original Writings of 19th Century Religious Restoration and Renewal Movements in the United States Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 2 1. Peace Societies .......................................................................................................................................... 2 David Low Dodge (1774-1852)................................................................................................................ 2 2. Stone-Campbell Movement (Churches of Christ)..................................................................................... 4 Barton W. Stone (1772-1844)................................................................................................................... 4 Alexander Campbell (1788-1866) ............................................................................................................ 5 Adin Ballou (1803-1890)........................................................................................................................ 23 3. Wesleyan Movement............................................................................................................................... 28 Jonathan Blanchard (1811-1892)............................................................................................................ 28 Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899).............................................................................................................. -
IOP Newsletter 7.Indd
Summer 2005 the HEPP Group Newsletter ISSUE 2: BURSTING WITH CHEERS & APPLAUSE! ANNUAL CONFERENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK INSIDE THIS ISSUE 10TH TO 12TH APRIL 2006 We are proud to introduce a new addition to your newsletter: fter our 2005 Dublin meeting, we wish to thank all involved for A ‘Outreach Stories’ (on page 4). making it such a success - thanks! After the appointment of Anna Now it’s time to announce Starkey to the position of Outreach our 2006 Annual Conference. Officer for PPARC, we approached It will be hosted by the her about writing for us. Hopefully Elementary Particle Physics this will become a regular spot to Group at the University of showcase the marvelous work by Warwick. As another young people in our field to reach out to group (featuring some familiar the community and inform them faces) we are very happy to be about the world of high energy welcomed to Warwick. particle physics. So, if you are involved in outreach work, or have Closer to the date, further details of the conference will be posted at: been inspired by someone else’s project (including ‘Travels with a http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/epp/iop06/ Spark Chamber’) please contact Anna at [email protected]. Perhaps we will be featuring you THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY’S in an upcoming edition?! 2005 OUTREACH PRIZE Staying on the ‘outreach’ theme, has been awarded jointly to please join us in congratulating Peter Kalmus and Dave Barney on ave Barney for promoting his fascination of particle physics to the D being jointly awarded the EPS’s public, in parallel to his research work in the CMS collaboration at 2005 Outreach Prize. -
"In Darkest England and the Way Out" the Salvation Army, Social Reform and the Labour Movement, 1885-1910*
VICTOR BAILEY "IN DARKEST ENGLAND AND THE WAY OUT" THE SALVATION ARMY, SOCIAL REFORM AND THE LABOUR MOVEMENT, 1885-1910* The British bourgeois [...] finally [...] accepted the dan• gerous aid of the Salvation Army, which revives the propa• ganda of early Christianity, appeals to the poor as the elect, fights capitalism in a religious way, and thus fosters an element of early Christian class antagonism, which one day may become troublesome to the well-to-do people who now find the ready money for it. F. Engels1 In the past decade a prominent theme in the historiography of nineteenth-century Britain has been the imposition of middle-class habits and attitudes upon the populace by means of new or re-invigorated mechanisms of "social control". To the apparatus of law enforcement and to the disciplines of the factory and wage labour, historians have added the less overt instruments of social welfare, education, religion, leisure and moral reform. Philanthropists, educators, clergymen and moralizers have all become soldiers in a campaign to uproot the "anti-social" character• istics of the poor and to cement the hegemony of the elite.2 Not surprisingly, the concept of "social control", and the depiction of the activities and institutions of the propertied as effective instruments of social discipline, have run into opposition. Most significant, for present purposes, is F. M. L. Thompson's objection that the idea of social control * The research for this paper was greatly facilitated by the R. T. French Visiting Professorship, which links the University of Rochester, New York, and Worcester Col• lege, Oxford. -
Towards a New Enlightenment?
Towards a New Enlightenment? A Transcendent Decade Preface This book, Towards a New Enlightenment? A Transcendent Decade, is the eleventh in an annual series that BBVA’s OpenMind project dedicates to disseminating greater knowledge on the key questions of our time. We began this series in 2008, with the first book, Frontiers of Knowledge, that celebrated the launching of the prizes of the same name awarded annually by the BBVA Foundation. Since then, these awards have achieved worldwide renown. In that first book, over twenty major scientists and experts used language accessible to the general public to rigorously review the most relevant recent advances and perspectives in the different scientific and artistic fields recognized by those prizes. Since then, we have published a new book each year, always following the same model: collections of articles by key figures in their respective fields that address different aspects or perspectives on the fundamental questions that affect our lives and determine our futu- re: from globalization to the impact of exponential technologies, and on to include today’s major ethical problems, the evolution of business in the digital era, and the future of Europe. The excellent reaction to the first books in this series led us, in 2011, to create OpenMind (www.bbvaopenmind.com), an online community for debate and the dissemination of knowle- dge. Since then, OpenMind has thrived, and today it addresses a broad spectrum of scientific, technological, social, and humanistic subjects in different formats, including our books, as well as articles, posts, reportage, infographics, videos, and podcasts, with a growing focus on audiovisual materials.