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Sunjammer, World’s Largest Solar Sail, Passes Key Test for 2015 Launch
Sunjammer, World’s Largest Solar Sail, Passes Key Test for 2015 Launch
The giant Sunjammer solar sail, cleared a successful
design test that required the deploying beam to stretch a quarter of the sail completely open. Because the Sept. 30 test took place on Earth, gravity and atmosphere made conditions more challenging than they would be in the vacuum of space, the sail’s designers said.
Technicians at L’Garde, the primary contractor for the Sunjammer mission, work carefully with the enormous solar sail.Credit: Space Services Holdings, Inc.
“If this test succeeded under these stressing conditions, we certainly anticipate it will work exceedingly well in space,” Nathan Barnes, President of lead contractor L’Garde Inc, said in a statement.
When Sunjammer launches in 2015, it will be the largest solar sail ever flown. Covering an area of almost 13,000 square feet (1,200 square meters), the full sail will span approximately a third the length of a football field. Despite its size, the enormous sail will be only about five millionths of a meter thick, keeping its weight down to 70 pounds (31 kilograms).
The lightweight, reflective material will rely on the pressure generated by sunlight to maneuver it through space. Smaller sails at the end of each of four
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CSU’s Women & Gender Advocacy Center Observes Sexual Assault Awareness Month Throughout April
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
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CSU’s Women & Gender Advocacy Center Observes Sexual Assault Awareness Month Throughout April
FORT COLLINS – Colorado State University’s Women & Gender Advocacy Center will observe Sexual Assault Awareness Month throughout April with various events.
“Highlighting the importance of sexual assault awareness during the month of April allows us to put a spotlight on the conversation and the importance of the issues that our Center focuses on throughout the year,” said Kathy Sisneros, director of the Women and Gender Advocacy Center. “One of the most underrated aspects that I think the average person doesn’t realize is just how many people identify as a primary or secondary survivor of sexual assault. I think that if our campus community was more in tune with how many of our students enter CSU already affected, we would be more aggressive in trying to shift our culture of silence related to sexual assault and focus much more of our efforts on educating students as to what consensual sex is and isn’t.”
This year, the Women and Gender Advocacy Center is highlighting two specific events: a keynote event with Guante and a workshop on personal protection and empowerment.
Guante, a hip-hop artist, two-time national poetry slam champion, social justice activist, educator and writer, will speak at 8 p.m. April 8 in the LSC Theatre.
The Personal Protection and Empowerment workshop, set for 10 a.m.-2 p.m. April 26, will explore safety and different strategies for increasing freedoms rather than restricting them.
“We firmly believe that the only person responsible for preventing violence is the person who chooses to commit it. Having said that, we also recognize that for some students, walking across campus at night, declining a date, being away from home or navigating past trauma can feel daunting. Everyone deserves to feel safe on campus and this session will explore the gendered dynamics of ‘safety’ and teach interpersonal/psychological strategies that increase rather than restrict freedoms,” said Monica Rivera, assistant director for Prevention and Education Programs at the Women and Gender Advocacy Center.
Registration for this event is required. To register, email Monica Rivera at Monica.Rivera@colostate.edu.
Events throughout the month aim to educate and raise awareness about sexual violence:
Women and Gender Advocacy Open House
10 a.m.-3 p.m. April 9, Women and Gender Advocacy Center, 112 Student Services Building
Stop by WGAC to say hi, meet the staff, enjoy refreshments and check out some of our resources. We will have games, raffles, and snacks all day.
Porn: Would You Know It If You See It?
7-8 p.m. April 15, LSC 228
In this open session of Men in the Movement, we will discuss the pervasive mainstreaming of pornography in the U.S. To learn more about the messages and implications, come as you are.
Self-Compassion for Survivors: An Intro to Using Acceptance, Gratitude, and Mindfulness to Relieve Emotional Suffering
6-7 p.m. April 16, Behavioral Sciences Building 131
Pain is inevitable, but suffering is not. This workshop will explore ways to cope with pain in meaningful ways that may help you to live a life you value with — not in spite of — your past.
Take Back the Night
7-9 p.m. April 17, CSU Montfort Quad
This internationally recognized rally and protest creates an atmosphere of empowerment while raising awareness about sexual violence. The event begins with a speak-out and ends with a march to Old Town. No recording will be allowed at the speak-out prior to the march. This event is hosted by Campus Feminist Alliance.
Film Screening & Discussion: The Line
7-8 p.m. April 23, Natural Resources 113
Told through a “sex-positive” lens, The Line is a short documentary about the filmmaker, who confronts her rapist on film. Sex workers, survivors and activists discuss justice, accountability and today’s “rape culture.” The film asks: Where is the line defining consent? This event is co-sponsored by Fraternity and Sorority Life.
Clothesline Project
6-8 p.m. April 24, Durrell Center
The Clothesline Project is a visual display of shirts with messages and illustrations that have been designed by survivors of violence or their loved ones. T-shirt making sessions will allow survivors to make a free anonymous shirt for the exhibit.
Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (SaVE) Act & Title IX: Role and Responsibilities of Faculty and Staff
Noon-1:30 p.m. April 25, Clark A206
Please join the Women and Gender Advocacy Center, Support & Safety Assessment, and Conflict Resolution & Student Conduct Services to explore how federal legislation and guidance influence ways in which sexual misconduct cases are addressed at CSU. There will be time for Q&A for faculty and staff to better understand their role if a student discloses an account of interpersonal violence.
Rape: The Reality of Blurred Lines: Workshop by Cori Wong
Noon-1:30 p.m. April 28, LSC 224
Unfortunately, our cultural assumptions surrounding rape often don’t align with actual experiences of rape, sexual assault, and sexual coercion. Because of these misperceptions, many survivors might remain silent because they don’t know if their experience “counts” as rape, and many perpetrators may not realize how they are crossing sexual boundaries and harming others.
CTMO Consent Carnival
6-8 p.m. April 28, Corbett Hall
The annual consent carnival includes carnival games, prizes, snacks and the Consent Turns Me On photo booth. This event is sponsored by G
Humboldt State University Welcomes Lisa A. Rossbacher as Next President
| Humboldt State University Welcomes Lisa A. Rossbacher as Next President |
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We are excited to announce that Dr. Lisa A. Rossbacher has been selected as the seventh president of Humboldt State University.
Her appointment today at the CSU Board of Trustees meeting culminates a national search process and represents an exciting time for our university. She will assume her new role on July 1, 2014.
Dr. Rossbacher is currently serving as president at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Ga. She succeeds Rollin C. Richmond, who is retiring at the end of the academic year after 12 years as president of HSU. In the next few days, we hope you’ll join us in welcoming Dr. Rossbacher to the campus community. Please take a moment to share what is great about HSU or Humboldt County, or give some advice about the campus, on the website for the incoming president at humboldt.edu/president/incoming. You can also welcome her using your favorite social media and the hashtag #WelcomeHSUPres – then see what others are saying at humboldt.edu/social. More: |
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Dear Alumni & Friends,HSU set to host annual Blue Herron Redwood Sprints Regatta
March 26, 2014 HSU SID Christopher S. Myers
HSU Rowing “THE CREW”
HSU set to host annual Blue Herron Redwood Sprints Regatta
ARCATA – After a solid opening race day and encouraging training week, Humboldt State is set to host its annual Blue Herron Redwood Sprints Regatta this weekend on the Humboldt Bay waters.
The Lumberjacks will row against teams coming to the North Coast from Seattle Pacific, Mills College and Cal Maritime Academy.
The teams will have scrimmage races on Friday afternoon starting at 5 p.m. Prior to the scrimmage races, HSU will honor the Douglas Heller family by christening two new boats, one eight and one four-person, the supportive family purchased for the program at 4:30 p.m.
The Saturday competitive races will begin at 8 a.m. and continue through the final race starting at 11:30 a.m.
“We are really excited to have Seattle Pacific come this weekend as it has been seven years since the last time,” said HSU head coach Robin Meiggs. “They have a great coaching staff and their athletes are super respectful. It is a thrill for them coming all the way to Humboldt. We will also have Mills College and Cal Maritime Academy, which is also part of the CSU system.”
With this year’s addition of Seattle Pacific to the Regatta field, the home event will now be a NCAA Division II ranking competition.
The Jacks crew team comes off their first competitive ranking race two weeks ago at the Sacramento State Invitational. HSU prevailed over its DII foe UC San Diego in the Varsity Eight race, but fell short in the Varsity Four shell.
HSU stayed in the Sacramento area for its annual extended spring training work on other waters than Humboldt Bay.
“One of the things, we ran some time trails while we were there. We looked at our split times and worked on our race plan. It was good to get work done on a buoyed course,” explained Meiggs. “Being able to train in wind, it prepares you for how the racing season will be about. It was a couple days of epic training with the sun out and was one time I almost didn’t want to come back from it.”
With a quality week of spring training in the books, the Jacks rowers will look to build upon and carry it into the next few weeks.
“The pivotal point will be how we apply the training the next two weeks and how we get the momentum up again,” noted the Jacks coach. “The challenge is to direct all energy into training and academics over the last six weeks of the season.”
The HSU challenge will now begin this weekend at its home regatta to start the stretch drive of the 2014 season.
-GoJacks-
Colorado State University News Service
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More than 350,000 people have signed our petition against Citizens United.
Dear Ralph,
More than 350,000 people have signed our petition against Citizens United.
That’s a fantastic start, but Citizens United might be just the tip of the iceberg.
In the coming months, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on a case called McCutcheon vs. FEC, and that decision might unleash even more money into our elections.
By now, you probably know what Citizens United has done to our elections — dark money, anonymous donors, and billionaires like the Koch brothers spending tens of millions of dollars against progressive candidates.
Special interests spent more than $40 million in my race alone in the 2012 elections.
McCutcheon could expand the damage of Citizens United by allowing even more money into our democratic process.
I can’t predict how the Supreme Court will rule in McCutcheon, but I know we need to be ready for anything. Thank you for your support.
Sherrod
UCLA Women’s Soccer Team Heads to Japan for Goodwill Trip
UCLA Women’s Soccer Team Heads to Japan for Goodwill Trip
Fans can follow along on the #BruinsinJapan All-Access Trip Tracker.
The NCAA champion UCLA women’s soccer team will visit Japan for a 10-day goodwill trip that will include a game against one of the top club teams in the world, INAC Kobe. The Bruins will be in Japan during their Spring Break, Mar. 20-30.
UCLA will play International Women’s Club Champion INAC Kobe in Okinawa on Mar. 23 in a match that will be televised in Japan on BS Fuji. INAC Kobe features several Japanese National Team players, including Homare Sawa, captain of Japan’s 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup champion team and a former WUSA teammate of UCLA head coach Amanda Cromwell. The Bruins will also visit a U.S. military base to conduct a kids’ clinic during their stay in Okinawa before heading to Shizuoka, where they will play JFA Academy Fukushima on Mar. 27. The Bruins will also visit Tokyo prior to returning to Los Angeles.
“We’re super excited to go to Japan to play INAC Kobe,” Cromwell said. “This experience, not only with the level of soccer but the cultural aspect of visiting another country, is going to be very special for this team. As a former player who has traveled and played internationally, I know how much a trip like this can affect the life of an 18-19-20 year-old. It can have a lasting impact on them that will help them mature and be better people and players.”
In advance of the trip, UCLA women’s soccer has launched an interactive social media map to allow fans to follow the team as they traveled through Japan. The #BruinsinJapan All-Access Trip Tracker, accessible at www.uclasoccer.com/japan, is the first of its kind for social media and athletics. The Trip Tracker will allow fans to see all of the social media posts from the team, players and coaches on an interactive map as they travel in real-time. Fans can click on different stops in the team’s journey to see their live trip postings via Instagram and Twitter.
The map also allows fans to directly send messages or “postcards from home” to the team as they travel. Posts from fans sent through the map are posted on the site alongside the team’s activity. Fans can also participate in the trip conversation by using the official hashtag of the trip (#BruinsinJapan) from their social profiles.
“Traveling overseas, we wanted to be sure we all had a way to stay in touch with our fans, friends and family back home,” said Cromwell. “And with this program, we are excited to continue to give them a personal, behind-the-scenes look into our trip and team atmosphere.”
In collaboration with UCLA Women’s Soccer, Quantasy, a social media agency located in Los Angeles, helped bring the team’s vision to life by building the custom Trip Tracker. The social media technology was developed specifically for UCLA Women’s Soccer to provide a one-stop social environment for the team, coaches, players and fans to share their experiences.
Liza David UCLA Athletics Sports Information Director
UCLA Athletics Website: http://www.uclabruins.com
UCLA Athletics Twitter: @uclaathletics
UCLA Women’s Soccer Participates in Journey of The Ball
The NCAA Champion UCLA women’s soccer team participated in the journey of The Ball, which is traveling around the world to Brazil for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
The Bruins did a beach workout in Marina del Rey on Wednesday morning, which included playing footvolley, a hybrid game of soccer and beach volleyball, with the Ball. UCLA coaches were joined by former World Cup players Lorrie Fair and UCLA and U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame player Cobi Jones to play footvolley matches against the Bruin players.
After the workout, the team members were able to add their signatures to the Ball, but not before heading it, a ritual that is required before signing it.
The Ball is visiting 25 countries through the non-profit organization Spirit of Football, which celebrates the positive spirit of football around the globe and spreads the message of One Ball, One World. The Ball is a fair-trade ball that was made by prisoners in a Brazilian rehab program called Pintando a Liberdade.
This is the fourth journey of The Ball to the World Cup. It will visit 35 major cities along its route through 27 countries and will cover approximately 11,000 miles. By the time the Ball reaches Brazil, it will have been signed by over 20,000 people, including the Bruin team.
Spirit of Football is a non-profit based in the U.K. that supports K-12 education and inter-cultural communication.
Photos: http://ucla.in/MwqgiD
Liza David UCLA Athletics
Sports Information Director
UCLA Athletics Website: http://www.uclabruins.com
UCLA Athletics Twitter: @uclaathletics