NCS playoffs: Freedom 33, Monte Vista 28

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OAKLEY -- Senior running back Sean Pinson had 162 yards and two touchdowns on the ground to lead the Falcons past the visiting Mustangs.

Pinson scored twice within four minutes early in the third quarter as Freedom built a 27-14 lead. Monte Vista sophomore quarterback Jake Haener rallied his team, though, twice closing the gap to within a touchdown.

Haener found Alex Brown for a 44-yard touchdown on third-and-25 to draw the Mustangs within 27-21 with three minutes left in the third. After a Sebastian Correia 1-yard run boosted the Falcons' lead back to 12 points, Haener connected with Traehome Banda for a diving 18-yard touchdown, narrowing the deficit again, this time to five points.

Haener drove the Mustangs inside the Freedom 10-yard line with under two minutes remaining and a chance to win the game, but a holding penalty was followed by two incompletions and a sack to end the game. Haener finished 32 of 50 for 376 yards and four touchdowns, including two to Brown. Banda had 16 catches for 198 yards and a score.

-- Nate Smith, correspondent

Freedom 33, Monte Vista 28

Monte Vista 7 7 7 7-- 28

Freedom 0 13 14 6-- 33

MV -- Brown 31 pass from Haener (Henry kick)

F -- Fauolo 5 pass from Sweeney (kick failed)

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App intended to save wildlife from dogs

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Doc ranger Simon Alefosio-Tuck and Otago Polytechnic bachelor of information technology students Sam Stuart and Aaron McGrouther hope the new app will help dog owners visiting beaches like Smails. Photo by Gregor Richardson.

One of the greatest dangers to the sea lions and penguins on Otago's beaches is uncontrolled dogs, Department of Conservation ranger Simon Alefosio-Tuck said.

It was hoped the app would help educate and warn dog owners about wildlife on the region's beaches.

Student Sam Stewart said the app was aimed at dog owners and would help them identify beaches nearby and whether or not they could take their dogs there and what wildlife was in the area.

They hoped to include the ability for the app to use GPS to locate the dog owner and link them to Doc so they could report sightings of wildlife or wayward dogs.

Then dog owners looking up a location could see where wildlife was and make the decision to go to another beach instead.

The app had passed the proof of concept stage so next year the students, including Aaron McGrouther, Lauren Parker and Rickie Kewene, would develop it.

Mr Alefosio-Tuck said the big thing Doc hoped to get out of the process was being able to warn dog owners of no-go beaches, as often wildlife turned up on beaches where dogs were allowed.

''So they get a text via the app that there is a sea lion at Tomahawk Beach so they decide to go to Smails instead.''

Dunedin City Council dog control, Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust and Sea Lion Trust had been consulted on information to go on the app, he said.

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Fancy a table on the beach?

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Real estate agent Lucy Cole. Source: News Corp Australia

ONE of the Coasts leading businesspeople has called for silver service to be allowed to make its way to our golden beaches.

Property queen Lucy Cole has rattled the cutlery by urging the council and the State Government to allow restaurants to set up tables on Gold Coast beaches.

But its a call that is finding very little support among both council and the restaurant industry.

Ms Cole, who is the founder and managing director of Lucy Cole Prestige Properties, said the Gold Coast needed to do more if it wanted to retain its place as Australias No. 1 holiday destination.

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We need to take more advantage of our natural assets and cater to the desires of the tourist market, she said.

There is no reason why portions of our beaches could be used of an evening to create restaurants on the beach.

If you go to the Greek Islands you will find chairs and tables all the way down to the water of a night time.

I am not saying we should do the same but we should be doing more with what we have got.

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CSUNs new celestial astronomy club

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Published on November 15, 2014 in Features By Lisette Rosales

Illustration by Kristine Delicana/Illustrations Editor

The members of the CSUN Astronomy Club share a passion for anything and everything celestial and host numerous activities that engage the whole CSUN community, from movie nights to discussions.

I noticed that we had no astronomy clubthere was no place for anyone thats into astronomy to get together, Michael Artinian, 24, senior astrophysics major and club president and founder said. I thought it was kind of a shame.

Although Artinian started the club just last semester it increased to 15 members who regularly attend the events.

Weve gotten together for two lunar eclipses, said Garrett Limon, 21, senior physics major and vice president of the astronomy club. We do movie nights and those are always fun, last time was The Fifth Elementand we use the planetarium for the movies.

For members, the club is a way to socialize, learn and discuss issues pertinent to the community.

Its great to get together with a group of people who are passionate about the same things I am, Wolgast said. Sometimes we have heated debates about which series is better: Star Wars or Star Trek. Sounds like a nerd clich, but its actually very fun.

Artinian is currently getting trained to work the campus observatory and would like to hold more events there as soon as he is allowed to operate it.

For the members, the Astronomy Club is more than just an occasional extra-curricular activity it also helps them develop life skills.

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NASA's Hubble telescope finds young galaxies on track to becoming 'red and dead'

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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have uncovered young, massive and compact galaxies that are dying earlier than expected.

The researchers said that the firestorm of star birth has blasted out most of the remaining gaseous fuel needed to make future generations of stars and are on track to possibly becoming so-called "red and dead galaxies," composed only of aging stars.

Scientists had earlier believed that powerful monster black holes lurking at the centers of the galaxies triggered the gaseous outflows and shut down star birth by blowing out any remaining fuel, but the recent study shows that the stars themselves are turning out the lights on their own star-making party, which happened when the universe was half its current age of 13.7 billion years.

Paul Sell of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, lead author of a science paper, said that the common belief was that stars cannot drive high-velocity outflows in galaxies; only more powerful supermassive black holes can do that, however, it was found that the stars can actually produce the velocities of the outflows alone without needing to invoke the black hole.

Team member Christy Tremonti of the University of Wisconsin-Madison first identified the galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as post-starburst objects spouting high-speed gaseous fountains. The sharp visible-light views from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 show that the outflows are arising from the most compact galaxies yet found. These galaxies contain as much mass as our Milky Way galaxy, but packed into a much smaller area. The smallest galaxies are about 650 light-years across.

One reason for the stellar shutdown is that the gas rapidly heats up, becoming too hot to contract under gravity to form new stars. Another possibility is that the star-birthing frenzy blasts out most of the star-making gas via powerful stellar winds.

The researchers said that the biggest surprise from Hubble was the realisation that the newly formed stars were born so close together and the extreme physical conditions at the centers of these galaxies explain how they can expel gas at millions of miles per hour.

They found that it was the powerful stellar winds from the most massive and short-lived stars at the end of their lives, combined with their explosive deaths as supernovae. Based on their analysis of the Hubble and Chandra data, team members suggest that the "party begins" when two gas-rich galaxies collide, funneling a torrent of cold gas into the merging galaxies' compact center. The large amount of gas compressed into the small space ignites the birth of numerous stars. The energy from the stellar firestorm then blows out the leftover gas, quenching further star formation.

The study was published in the Royal Astronomical Society.

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Lead Appointed on Proposed Wide Field Space Telescope

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The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has appointed Dr. Roeland van der Marel to lead its work on a proposed NASA space telescope that will provide images as sharp as the Hubble Space Telescope, but over a hundred times larger area. The space observatory, called the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets (WFIRST-AFTA), is being studied for launch in the mid-2020s, pending program approval by NASA.The telescope will be used to probe the distribution of dark matter, which is most of the matter in the universe, and the characteristics of dark energy, a repulsive force that is pushing the universe apart at an ever-faster rate. The telescope will also be used to measure the abundance and characteristics of planets orbiting other stars. As a general-purpose observatory with a large survey program, it will also yield fundamental progress in many other astrophysical subjects.STScI is presently the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope and the science and mission operations center for the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2018.WFIRST-AFTA will produce large-scale maps of the night sky at the highest resolution we have ever had. Our Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) already holds the astronomical data from some 20 astronomy missions. The addition of the enormous WFIRST-AFTA dataset would add considerably to its scientific discovery potential, STScI Director Matt Mountain said.A wide-field infrared survey telescope was the highest-ranked large space mission recommended by the National Academy of Sciences 2010 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey. WFIRST-AFTA would fulfill this recommendation. The heart of the proposed telescope is already built. It features a 2.4-meter-diameter mirror (the same size as Hubbles mirror), which was donated to NASA in 2012 by the United States National Reconnaissance Office.WFIRST-AFTA will have a wide-field, near-infrared imaging camera and also a visible-light coronagraph, an instrument specially designed for studying planets orbiting other stars. These instruments share many characteristics with instruments on Hubble and the Webb telescope, with which STScI has extensive experience.We will be extremely excited to help the astronomical community use WFIRST-AFTA to further revolutionize our understanding of the universe, van der Marel said. The Hubble data and analysis tools provided by STScI have already enabled astronomers around the world to make many ground-breaking astronomical discoveries. Building on that experience at STScI will make WFIRST-AFTA a powerful complement to the Webb telescope, and will further expand our knowledge.Van der Marel earned a doctorate in astronomy in 1994 from Leiden University in the Netherlands and joined the STScI staff in 1997. He previously led teams dealing with the scientific operations of Hubbles Advanced Camera for Surveys, and dealing with the structure, optics, and pointing of the Webb telescope. Van der Marel is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.Van der Marel is an expert on black holes and the structure of galaxies. His research, which includes using the Hubble telescope to study galaxies, has contributed to the discovery that supermassive black holes exist in the centers of most galaxies. In 2005, he won the Pirelli International Award for developing an educational website that explains black holes to students and the public.STScI is collaborating with NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, Maryland), NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory (La Canada Flintridge, California), the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (Pasadena, California), and other partners on preparations for the WFIRST-AFTA mission.Contact:Ray VillardSpace Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.+1 410-338-4514villard@stsci.eduImages and more information about WFIRST:http://hubblesite.org/news/2014/49NASAs WFIRST Portalhttp://wfirst.gsfc.nasa.gov/STScIs Brochure Pushing Astronomys Boundshttp://hubblesite.org/pubinfo/pdf/2014/49/pdf.pdfWFIRST Video Trailer on YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtKmBMmpWvwQ&A Session about NASAs WFIRST Mission:http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/qa-session-about-nasas-wfirst-mission/

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