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A rare short story about mankind during Christmas time before there was a Christmas. This version features illustrations and pictures.

This is the story of the trial in People of the State of New York versus Daniel Penny, to the closings. Onto a subway car like this one he got on, a muffin in his jacket pocket wrapped in plastic, a spleen speckled, it would turn out, by sickle cell disease. But that is not what killed him, Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran would say. Was it an improper blood choke, or the terror he inspired, in a lady from Park Slope with her baby, a Nike brand ambassador on the way to Rucker Park? Even the Bronx school girls said they were frightened, even if one did later drop the dime on the white man. That was prosecutor Jillian Shartrand''s doing, to call the victim by his name and the defendant merely the white man. Of the decedent there was more, not only the mother stuffed in a suitcase but the channeling of Michael Jackson, dreams. Now to see a man lifeless on the subway''s floor, liquids flowing out of his pants, his eyes rolling back -- here in the courtroom, a woman starts to cry and the anonymous jurors look over, a lady in a COVID mask, her eyes suddenly big. Another woman next to me is typing loudly, two fingers only, stopping to fan herself and shake her head. It is not possible to know if she is for a guilty or not guilty verdict: either way, she doesn''t like it. The defendant sits stiffly straight, not looking at the jurors. A Marine who misapplied the air choke? A racist or a hero or both. The subway door is closing. This is the story to the end.

Fluorochlorozirconate (FCZ) glass ceramics are versatile materials whose optical properties may be tuned through compositional or processing changes. For this work, FCZ glasses were synthesized, and then subsequently heat treated to create optically-active glass ceramics. The glasses and glass ceramics were characterized using a number of methods including differential scanning calorimetry, phosphorimetry, x-ray diffraction, and spectrophotometry. Samples were evaluated for applications in photovoltaics and computed radiography–especially those pertaining to intraoral dental radiography and portal imaging. The ability of FCZ glass ceramics containing hexagonal barium chloride nanocrystals doped with the rare earth elements, holmium and europium, to downshift ultraviolet light to wavelengths more usable by polycrystalline silicon photovoltaic cells was investigated. The excitation spectra of FCZ glass ceramics doped or co-doped with divalent europium more closely match the solar spectrum at the earth’s surface than an undoped sample. The addition of holmium gives rise to additional emission nearer to the band gap energy of polycrystalline silicon photovoltaic cells. These materials may increase the efficiency of photovoltaic cells in solar energy applications. The sodium fluoride content in FCZ glass-ceramic storage phosphor plates was varied to determine the effect on sample properties, including photostimulated luminescence (PSL) light output for computed radiography applications, including intraoral dental radiography. The percentage of sodium fluoride used in each sample composition had a marked effect on glass stability, transparency, thermal characteristics, and PSL performance. The PSL light output of the samples may be suitable for nondestructive testing, where dose is not a primary concern. An FCZ glass ceramic was evaluated for use as a storage phosphor in gamma-ray imaging. Test images were made at 2 MeV energies using gap and step wedge phantoms. Gaps as small as 101.6 μm [micrometers] in a 440 stainless steel phantom were imaged using the sample imaging plate. Analysis of an image created using a depleted uranium step wedge phantom showed that PSL emission is proportional to incident energy at the sample and the estimated absorbed dose. The sample imaging plate has potential for nondestructive testing, as well as portal imaging applications, where it may provide geometric and dosimetric verification.

A thoughtful perspective of thirty years in ministry of Keith Russell Lee.

Brief history of the Lade School in Fosston, Minnesota, from 1889 to 1952. Includes pictures of students and teachers from 1902, 1915, 1928, 1934, 1951, and 1952; a list of every teacher and their pay; and memories from alumni of the Lade School.