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Look, Grandma! Ni, Elisi! by Art Coulson and illustrated by Madelyn GoodnightBo and his family are preparing for the Cherokee National Holiday and the craft booth they will have at the festival. Bo needs to find a container to hold the marbles they will sell in the booth. He tries a round bowl, a low rectangular tray, and a tall cylindrical vase, but none of them work. Finally he finds just the right thing: a special square basket his grandmother made. The basket of marbles fits perfectly on the table at the craft booth and they sell well. At the end of a long day, Bo and his family celebrate by playing marbles together. This is a story of family, Cherokee culture, and math; when Bo is trying to find a container for his marbles, he is experiencing hands-on learning about volume, capacity, and area. The backmatter explains the significance of Cherokee marbles and gives translations of Cherokee words used in the book.
POD: Preparing for Picture day
A shot like that is one that you either slam on the brakes for....or you're rewarded with because you sat out there for 2 hours in the cold preparing for the 30 seconds of after sundown color you get....Well done!
Every day is a working day in the spacecraft business and this Sunday was allocated to some more integrated system testing. The joy of the day was testing the on-board camera. This procedure required all of our combined expertise in the field of optical systems in order to position and orient a mirror above the camera lens which would enable us to photograph Graham standing in the assembly facility. After numerous attempts we finally obtained a beautiful picture down the radio-link.
Not only did the successful photo session raise the team's spirits, it also allowed us to fix a communications problem which was discovered when using S-Band to download pictures from the spacecraft. The problem was in the ground segment and it was successfully resolved, leaving us with a perfect downlink via the AMSAT-UK radio. Happy integrators!
Why PodCastle miniatures? According to wikipedia, the word miniature is derived from the Latin minium, red lead, and is a picture in an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript. We thought it was a good way to describe very short stories with a fantasy theme: a word that indicates brevity, manuscripts, and a medieval atmosphere. 2ff7e9595c
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