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2010 Class Calendar 
  
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  Home Self-Reliance Skills Workshop  (March 12,13,14)
  4 Individual Classes (take one or all)
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March 21 Spring Begins:  Spring Equinox (Equal Daylight and Night - 12 hours each)

 		  
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 Survival 1 Weekend Class - Taneytown, Maryland (April 9 - 11)
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 Fire Making (April 15, 16)
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April 13 - Analemma crosses itself
April 15/16 - Sun Dial time and Clock time are the same
 
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 Spring Plant Class (May 15)
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 Learn Bee Keeping (May 18-19) / Boy Scout Fair in Berea, Ohio (May 22)
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    Survival 1 (6 Day) Class (May 23-29)
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May 14/15 - Sundial time is 3.7 minutes (3 min, 42 seconds) behind of "clock time".
 
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  Scout Class Stealth, Evasion & Invisibility (June 11 - June 17)
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  Private Class - KOA Camp Fire Presentation (June 19)
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 Father's Day
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 Private Class (June 25-28)
June 14 - Earliest Sunrise of the year
June 14 - Sundial time corresponds with "clock time"
June 21 - Summer Solstice -  Summer Begins (Longest Day of the year)
June 26/27 - Sundial time is 6.4 minutes (3 min, 42 seconds) ahead of "clock time
June 27 - Latest Sunset of the year
June 30 - Date a 200ft. wide stony asteroid exploded 5 mi. over Tunguska, Siberia, at 7:15 AM - 1908

 		  
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 Summer Plant Class (July 10)
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 Private Class / Survival 1 Weekend Class NE Ohio (July 16-18)
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July 4 - The earth is the farthest away from the sun in its orbit (+/- 2 days), a point astronomers call
           "aphelion."

 
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  Survival Skills 2 Applications & Techniques (Aug 15-21)
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 Private Class (Aug 27 - 29)
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Aug 13 - Perseid Meteor Shower PEAK (60/hr) - Parent comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle
Aug 30 - Analemma crosses itself

 
     
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  Rabbitstick Rondeaveau - Rexburg, Idaho (Sept 12-18)
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  Fall Plant Class (Sept 25)
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Sept 1 - Quadrantid Meteor Shower (60 - 100 per hour) Radiant just below Big Dipper
Sept 1/2 - Sun Dial time and Clock time are the same
Sept 21- Fall Begins - Fall Equinox (12 hours of daylight & 12 hours of darkness)

 
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    Survival 3 Advanced Survival Skills (Oct 3-9)
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    Private - Ohio Search & Rescue Survival Workshops
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 Halloween
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    Shamanic Journeys 1  (Nov 6-7)
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    Home Self-Reliance Skills Workshop  (Nov 19, 20, 21)
  4 Individual Classes (take one or all)
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 Thanksgiving
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Nov 3/4 - Sundial time is 16.4 minutes (16 min, 23 seconds) behind of "clock time".
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 Christmas
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Dec 9 - Earliest Sunset of the year
Dec 21 - Winter Begins:  Winter Solstice (Shortest day of the year) 
Dec 25 - Sundial time corresponds with "clock time"
January 2011
    
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Jan 3 - Quadrantid Meteor Shower (60 - 100 per hour) Radiant just below Big Dipper
Jan 4 - Latest Sunrise of the year and approx. date Earth is closest to the sun in its orbit (+/- 2 days),  
           point astronomers call "perihelion."
 
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Feb 11/12 - Sundial time is 14.33 (14 minutes 20 seconds minutes ahead of "clock time"
 
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March 21 Spring Begins:  Spring Equinox (Equal Daylight and Night - 12 hours each)

 		  
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April 13 - Analemma crosses itself
April 15/16 - Sun Dial time and Clock time are the same
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May 14/15 - Sundial time is 3.7 minutes (3 min, 42 seconds) behind of "clock time".
 
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 Father's Day
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June 14 - Earliest Sunrise of the year
June 14 - Sundial time corresponds with "clock time"
June 21 - Summer Solstice -  Summer Begins (Longest Day of the year)
 June 26/27 - Sundial time is 6.4 minutes (3 min, 42 seconds) ahead of "clock time
June 27 - Latest Sunset of the year
June 30 - The date a 200ft. wide stony asteroid exploded 5 mi. over Tunguska, Siberia, at 7:15 AM - 1908
 
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July 4 - The earth is the farthest away from the sun in its orbit (+/- 2 days), a point astronomers call
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Aug 13- Perseid Meteor Shower PEAK (60/hr) - Parent comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle
Aug 30 - Analemma crosses itself

 
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Sept 1 - Quadrantid Meteor Shower (60 - 100 per hour) Radiant just below Big Dipper
Sept 1/2 - Sun Dial time and Clock time are the same
Sept 21- Fall Begins - Fall Equinox (12 hours of daylight & 12 hours of darkness)
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Nov 3/4 - Sundial time is 16.4 minutes (16 min, 24 seconds) behind of "clock time".
 
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Dec 9 - Earliest Sunset of the year
Dec 21 - Winter Begins:  Winter Solstice (Shortest day of the year) 
Dec 25 - Sundial time corresponds with "clock time"
January 2012
   
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Jan 3 - Quadrantid Meteor Shower (60 - 100 per hour) Radiant just below Big Dipper
Jan 4 - Latest Sunrise of the year and approx. date Earth is closest to the sun in its orbit (+/- 2 days),  
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Feb 11/12 - Sundial time is 14.3 minutes ahead of "clock time"
 
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March 21 Spring Begins:  Spring Equinox (Equal Daylight and Night - 12 hours each)

 		  
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April 13 - Analemma crosses itself
April 15 - Sun Dial time and Clock time are the same
 		  
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May 14/15 - Sundial time is 3.7 minutes (3 min, 42 seconds) behind of "clock time".
 		  
 
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June 5 - 6 - Transit of Venus across Sun (Begins 6/5 @ 22:09--Midpoint 6/6@1:29 -- End 6/6@4:49)
June 14 - Earliest Sunrise of the year
June 14 - Sundial time corresponds with "clock time"
June 21 - Summer Solstice -  Summer Begins (Longest Day of the year)
 June 26/27 - Sundial time is 6.4 minutes (3 min, 42 seconds) ahead of "clock time
June 27 - Latest Sunset of the year
June 30 - Date a 200ft. wide stony asteroid exploded 5 mi. over Tunguska, Siberia, at 7:15 AM - 1908

 
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Aug 13- Perseid Meteor Shower PEAK (60/hr) - Parent comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle
Aug 30 - Analemma crosses itself 		 
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Sept 1 - Quadrantid Meteor Shower (60 - 100 per hour) Radiant just below Big Dipper
Sept 1/2 - Sun Dial time and Clock time are the same
Sept 21- Fall Begins - Fall Equinox (12 hours of daylight & 12 hours of darkness)		  
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