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by Janet Spencer • On August 21, 2017, a total eclipse of the Sun will pass across the U.S. It will begin at 10:16 a.m. PDT, starting at the Pacific coast of Oregon, crossing 12 states, over an estimated ten million residents. At any given spot, the eclipse will last only a minute or two. However, the period when the Sun is only partly obscured will take much longer. It will exit over the Atlantic Ocean at Charleston, South Carolina at 2:47 EDT, exactly 93 minutes after it started. Everyone in the continental U.S. should be able to see at least a partial eclipse on August 21st.

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• A solar eclipse is when the Moon blocks the Sun, casting a shadow across Earth. The word “eclipse” comes from the Greek “ekleipsis” meaning “fail to appear.” This is also the root of the word “ellipsis” which is the name for the three dots (…) indicating something has been omitted.

• Imagine holding your arm fully extended and pretending to pinch the Moon between your thumb and forefinger. How big is it? The size of an apple? A walnut? Or a pea? Actually, it’s the size of a pea. Now imagine you’re looking at the Sun, trying to pinch it as well. How big is it? It’s also the size of a pea. And this is why the Moon is completely able to block out the Sun. The Sun is 400 times larger than the Moon, but the Moon is 400 times closer to Earth than the Sun. • The orbit of the Moon around Earth is elliptical, like an egg. When the Moon comes between the Earth and the Sun, sometimes it’s close to Earth, called perigee, and sometimes it’s farther away from Earth, called apogee.

When it’s at apogee, the Moon appears smaller and so it can’t block the Sun completely. A ring of light appears around the circumference of the Moon called the annulus (from the Latin word for “little ring”), and this is called an annular eclipse. When it’s near perigee, the Moon appears relatively large, so it covers the Sun completely in a total eclipse. The eclipse on August 21 will be a total eclipse. Annular eclipses outnumber total eclipses 5 to 4.

• If the Moon orbited Earth in the identical plane that Earth orbits the Sun, there would be a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse every month. But the Moon’s orbit is tilted at a five degree angle, making eclipses less common.

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Illinois and Kentucky. Other areas will see the eclipse for slightly shorter times.

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• The longest a total eclipse can last is 7 minutes, 31 seconds. The reason eclipses vary in length is because the Earth is not always the same distance from the Sun, and the Moon is not always the same distance from Earth.

• On average, any given point on the planet will see a total eclipse of the Sun about once every 375 years. But that’s just an average. Some places will see an eclipse twice in a single decade such as Carbondale, Illinois, which has a front-row seat for the 2017 eclipse, and an eclipse on April 8, 2024.

• There are about 66 total solar eclipses per century. If you include partial eclipses of the Sun, that number rises to 238 per century, meaning an eclipse occurs about once every six months. Many are not visible, either because they track across the oceans, polar regions, or areas where the weather is frequently cloudy.

• Most people see a lunar eclipse at one point or another during their lifetime. Far fewer have ever seen a solar eclipse. There are two reasons for this. First, when there’s a total eclipse of the Moon, it can be seen by almost half of the planet. Anyone who can look up and see the Moon at night can see a lunar eclipse. But the path of a solar eclipse is usually only about 100 miles (160 km) wide, because that’s the size of the shadow of the Moon. Only the people who are under that narrow path get to see the solar eclipse.

• The second reason is that a lunar eclipse generally lasts for hours because the Earth is large and it takes a long time for the shadow of Earth to cross the Moon. But during a solar eclipse, the shadow of the Moon is moving at over 1,000 mph (1,609 k/h), and it’s only 100 miles wide, so it takes just a few minutes to cross any point on Earth.

• During a solar eclipse, the Moon throws two different shadows over Earth: an inner cone-shaped shadow, and an outer funnel-shaped shadow. The inner shadow is called the umbra, after the Latin word meaning “shade” which also gives us the word “umbrella.” The umbra is completely dark and very narrow, never being more than 167 miles (268 km) wide. The umbra in the 2017 eclipse will be only 65 miles (104 km) wide. You must be underneath the track of the umbra to see a total eclipse.

• The outer shadow, which is broader and less dense, is called the penumbra, from the Latin “paene” meaning “almost.” If you are standing under the penumbra, you will see only a partial eclipse. Almost the entire continental U.S. will be under the penumbra.

• The 2017 event will last 2 minutes and 40 seconds at its longest, which will be just as it passes over southern

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• The reason the eclipse will be shorter in Oregon than in Kentucky is because the umbra travels at different speeds in relationship to its position on the surface of Earth. The umbra travels at the rate of 2,100 mph in relationship to the center of the Earth. However, the Earth is also moving, rotating in the same direction that the umbra is traveling. At the equator, Earth is moving at 1,040 mph. But 40° north of the equator, which is in the middle of the U.S., Earth is spinning at only 790 mph. An umbra traveling at 1,100 mph at the equator would be moving at 5,000 mph near the poles. The closer to the equator an observer is located, the longer the eclipse typically lasts.

The umbra will be moving at nearly 3,000 mph on the coast of Oregon, but only about 1,500 mph over Kentucky.

• The length also depends on where an observer is standing in relation to the umbra, which is oval. The eclipse lasts longer for a person standing under the fattest part of the oval than it does for someone under the skinnier ends of the oval.

• The eclipse on August 21 will be the first total eclipse of the Sun to be seen in the U.S. since 1979, unless you count the one that could be seen only from Hawaii in 1991. The eclipse in 1979 clipped only the Northwestern U.S. and the weather was mostly cloudy that day. The last time an eclipse occurred in the U.S. that spanned the entire continent was in the year 1918. But the next one will occur in 2024, traveling from Texas all the way to Maine.

• From the moment when the Moon first begins cutting across the Sun, it will be about 75 minutes before totality is achieved. About 15 minutes before totality, the shadow of the Moon will be visible on the western horizon. As totality occurs, there will be many features to watch for: • When a ray of light from a distant star encounters the atmosphere of Earth, it travels through successive layers of hot and cold air, which bend and distort the light.

This is what causes stars to appear to twinkle. During an eclipse, the same thing happens to the beam of light coming from the Sun. When there is only a tiny sliver of light still visible from the Sun, the light appears to shimmer and twinkle just as stars do. This is called shadow bands. Shadow bands are only visible for a few fleeting moments. It’s easier to see this occur if there is a large

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• As the Moon moves to cover the Sun, you may see a string of bright points of light around the circumference of the Moon. The Moon is not perfectly round. There are mountains, valleys, and craters on the surface. The light of the Sun shines through these cracks and crevices. These points of light are called Baily’s beads after an astronomer who described them.

• You may also see what’s called the diamond ring effect, with one brilliant spot of light shining out from the circumference of the Moon, both as the totality begins, and then again as it ends.

• Then the Sun’s corona appears, with sheets of pearly light fluctuating all around the darkened circle. “Corona” comes from the Latin word meaning “crown” or “garland.”

• A total solar eclipse is not noticeable until the Sun is more than 90% covered by the Moon. Even at 99% coverage, daytime light looks like twilight. It is tempting for observers to look directly at the Sun when the eclipse is in progress. This is a stupid thing to do.

• One percent of the Sun still shines about 4,000 times brighter than the full Moon. Permanent eye damage can result after 60 seconds of viewing the Sun. Even the smallest sliver of sunlight passing through the eyeball will literally fry the retina, causing thermal damage in the same way focusing sunlight with a magnifying lens will fry an ant. You won’t feel the burn and there will be no pain, but there will be a blank spot in your vision for the rest of your life, impairing your ability to read, sew, or drive.

Lasers and welder’s arcs cause the same sort of damage.

• Do not view the eclipse through makeshift items such as dark glass, silver candy wrappers, CDs or DVDs, or sunglasses. Although they make the Sun look dark, they do not block infrared or ultraviolet radiation that can permanently damage the retina and lead to blindness. The only time it is safe to look directly at the Sun is when it is completely obscured by the Moon. Use 14 grade welder’s glasses or inexpensive Mylar eclipse glasses available on the internet.

• It’s easy to make a simple pinhole camera using two pieces of stiff cardboard. (Do not view the eclipse through the pinhole.) Leafy trees, woven hats, interlaced fingers, kitchen colanders, cheese graters, or any other place where tiny pinholes allow the Sun to shine through will cast crescent-shaped shadows.

• When Dr. Peters of Hamilton College was asked what single item he would select for observing an eclipse the best, he responded, “A pillow.” Don’t forget to enjoy your eclipse.

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Cross your fingers: We're likely to get a 2.2 percent increase in Social Security benefits for 2018. With the average monthly benefit of $1,360, the increase would average $29.92 per month.

This is quite a jump, considering the pitiful increases of the past few years: 1.7 percent in 2012, 1.5 percent in 2013, 1.7 percent in 2014, 0.0 percent in 2015 and 0.3 percent in 2016. While 2011 was a big 3.6 percent, it followed two straight years of no increase whatsoever.

What shall we do with our extra $29.92 each month?

We could save our windfall for two months and buy a pair of walking shoes. We could pay for one month of

a no-contract plan for a cellphone. Or, we could keep our expenses as they are and stash the extra away for emergencies.

An important change coming in 2018: The full retirement age for those born in 1956 is going up by two months, for a new age of 66 years and four months. If you file for benefits before then, you'll end up collecting reduced payments for the rest of your life.

If you're just signing up for Social Security, here is a fact you should know: The benefits don't necessarily arrive on the first day of the month. If you planned to pay your rent or mortgage payment that day, beware. The day the benefits arrive depends on your birthdate, and will arrive on either the 2nd, 3rd or 4th Wednesday in a month. Go online to www.ssa.gov to see where you fall in the month. Search for Schedule of Social Security Benefit Payments 2018.

Keep an eye on the news in October when the official Social Security increase for 2018 will be announced.

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If ever there was a more relevant irrelevant athlete in the history of sports, it is Pete Rose.

Everyone remembers that kid in class when we were growing up who just couldn't seem to control himself or stay out of trouble but was the first guy you'd pick for your kickball team. Wherever Pete Rose went to school, he was that guy.

Pete Rose manages to stay in the news, and he does it better than any other player with the exception of Jackie Robinson. Nobody sits around these days and talks about, say, Walter Johnson, George Sisler, Johnny Mize or Nap Lajoie. But we still talk about Pete Rose. The kid stays in the picture.

The Philadelphia Phillies wanted to induct Rose into their hall of fame a week ago, and they had planned on passing out little bobbleheads of his likeness to all the fans in attendance. As per the norm, the deal didn't go down because Rose has some alleged NSFW issues. The Phillies had good intentions, but if there's anything Pete Rose does better than hitting a ball with a bat, it's staying out of halls of fame.

I love Philadelphia, and I love Philadelphia fans. I can relate a story about the time I was in a very famous resort town in New Jersey, and one day, over ice-cream sodas, conversation occurred with a few darling tourists from Dallas.

2. Which Baltimore Orioles pitcher in the 1960s tossed shutouts in his first two major-league starts?

3. Which team ended the NFC's run of 13 consecutive Super Bowl victories?

4. When was the last time before the 2016-17 season that Valparaiso had a men's basketball coach who did not have the last name of Drew.

For dangerous fun, I pointed out one of the patrons in an Eagles hat and said to the Dallas fans to pay close attention.

5. Name the last No. 1 seed in the NHL playoffs before Chicago in 2017 to be eliminated in the first round.

"At least we're not EAGLE fans," I said with exaggeration, and like clockwork, within a microsecond, the Eagle fan's head shot up.

6. Who was the last American male boxer before Shakur Stevenson in 2016 to win a gold or silver medal at the Olympics?

"DON'T EVEN GO THERE!" In context, it wasn't a very genial reply, but it did beg my next question.

7. In 2017, Justin Thomas recorded the lowest-ever score for a 72-hole PGA event (253). Who had held the record for the lowest score?

"Go where? The Super Bowl? Where the Eagles will never go in your lifetime?"

The barstool screeched across the floor. He tried to make a rush, but just like the Eagles front line he was subdued with ease, and the staff quickly punted him out the door.

"See?" I said to the Dallas fan. "That's a Philadelphia fan.

Half of that city will literally fight you if you talk smack about their team." And this is the town that won't stand

by Pete Rose and toss around a little doll?

I'm not in any way suggesting that the allegations regarding Rose are something to make light of, but they are just that -- allegations. We don't know what happened in his private life, but I think we all know far too much about Pete Rose's life anyway. And seriously, Pete ... Philadelphia didn't back you up? That's hall of fame stuff right there.

We know you're the hit king, but after a while you have to admit that you've taken too many hits, too. Sooner or later you have to call the game.

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Answers 1. Oakland won 20 in a row in 2002.

2. Tom Phoebus, in 1966.

3. Denver, in Super Bowl XXXII after the 1997 NFL season.

4. It was the 1987-88 season.

5. The Vancouver Canucks, in 2012.

6. Andre Ward won a gold medal in 2004.

7. Tommy Armour III shot 254 in a tournament in 2003.

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A multi-pronged approach is needed here. A higher fence and stronger latch are good solutions, but so is curbing that wanderlust. If Fergus isn't neutered, get that taken care of. It can dampen his tendency to wander, particularly if he's on the hunt for a female.

He'll also need to be supervised every time he's outside.

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* On Aug. 22, 1851, the U.S.-built schooner America bests a fleet of Britain's finest sailing ships in a race around England's Isle of Wight. The ornate silver trophy won by the America was later donated to the New York Yacht Club on condition that it be forever placed in international competition.

* On Aug. 21, 1959, President Dwight Eisenhower signs a proclamation admitting Hawaii into the Union as the 50th state. He also issued an order for an American flag featuring 50 stars arranged in staggered rows: five sixstar rows and four five-star rows.

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Gathering guests around the grill is an easy way to entertain and providing a barbecue menu that your vegetarian guests will enjoy is simple when using eggplant as the main course.

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pared. Clean your grill and prepare the vegetarian menu items first, or if you have a large grill, make sure that the meat and the vegetables are separate.

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I like to first prep the eggplant using a salt-extraction method to remove any bitter liquid. This technique guarantees that the eggplant will be crispy and brown on the outside, and creamy and sweet inside.

First, cut the eggplant lengthwise into thick slices, or you also can cut it into cubes and use them to make kabobs. Layer the pieces of eggplant in a colander and salt them generously. Place the colander on top of a bowl to catch the liquid the eggplant will give off.

1 teaspoon onion powder 1/3 cup olive oil 1. Clean the grill and lightly oil the grate with a foodsafe paper towel. Heat the charcoal or gas grill to medium-high heat. You'll know the grill is ready if you can hold your hand about an inch above the grill for 3 to 4 seconds.

Next, place paper towels on top of the eggplant. Then weigh everything down to extract as much liquid as possible. You can use heavy cans wrapped in foil, or a heavy pot with a few cans inside of it. Let the eggplant drain for about an hour.

2. Drain the eggplant and pat dry with paper towels or a clean kitchen towel. Lay the eggplant and the bell peppers on a large baking sheet or tray. Brush both sides of the eggplant and the peppers with olive oil, and sprinkle both sides with the Italian Seasoning, pepper, and the garlic and onion powders.

When you remove the eggplant from the colander, you'll notice that a lot of water has been released from the vegetable.

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3. Lay the vegetables on the grill. Close the lid if using a gas grill and cook until grill marks appear, about 3 to 5 minutes. Turn the slices over and cook until grill marks again appear and the vegetables are tender, about 2 to 3 minutes.

Serve hot or at room temperature. Makes 8 servings.

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