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Mercedes, Texas 78570 Wednesday, June 7, 1995
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GOD’S FIVE MINUTES
THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYTHING Ecclesiastes 3:1. The Living Bible, Tyndale House
White Heat to the Heart
By Barry Evans
veryday Wonders...
Inversions months of the year, consider a pot of higher it goes, the cooler it becomes.
My wife Louisa and I recently re- water boiling on the stove, until a point is reached when it’s
turned from vacationing and studying A gas flame or or an electrical heavier than the air below and it starts
Spanish in Oaxaca, in southern element warms the metal bottom of down again. Like water in apoton the
Mexico. En route home, we spent a the pot, which transfers heat, by con- stove, most of the time our atmosphere
few hours in downtown Mexico City, duction, to water in the bottom of the is in a continuous state of convection.
Between gasps, I asked our cab pot. Warm water weighs less than cold This natural mechanism normally
driver if we d hit the city on a particu- water (you can establish this by weigh- transports car fumes and other pollu-
larly badday as far as the air pollution ing identical glasses of hot and cold tion up and away from ground level
went. Oh, this is pretty good,” he water), so the heavier cold water at the into the upper atmosphere.
said. You should be here on one of top of the pot tries to displace the Normally. Inversion occurs when
our bad days in December or Janu- lighter warm water at the bottom, push- cold air is trapped below warm air.
ary! i Las inversiones? I asked, ing it out of the way. The atmosphere is then stable: heavier
“Si, senor, exactamente.” The only place the warmer water air at the bottom, lighter air above.
You don t have to go to Mexico has to go is up. However, as it gets to everything in equilibrium, no air move-
City to experience the phenomena of the top of the pot, it’s exposed to cold ment.
atmospheric inversion. If you live in air, so it cools off and becomes heavier This often happens after a cold
Los Angeles, for example, you’re cer- than the now warm water below. The night in natural geographical basins,
tainly familiar with inversions. That’s result is a continuous circulation: warm like LA and Mexico City, where the
what, on too many occasions, causes water moving up the center of the pot, walls shade the valley floor and trap
smog to be trapped in the LA basin, cool water descending down the sides, the cool air close the ground. Until the
making the city not just uncomfort- This method of heat transfer through- ground warms up to start the convec-
able but downright unhealthy for air- out the pot is called convection. tion process, there’s not a whole lot
breathing organisms like ourselves. The same process happens with you can do other than look at bro-.
To understand why LA and Mexico the atmosphere. Sunlight warms the chures advertising vacations in Ha-
City suffer from temperature in ver- ground, which in turn heats air close to waii and dream of a utopian world free
sions, particularly during the coldest ground level, causing it to rise. The of pollution.
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This Series Made Possible by
These Business Firms and Individuals
Who Support Our Right to Worship Freely.
TOP ATTENDANCE CLASSROOMS AT KENNEDY
— Kennedy Elementary classes shown here
posted the best percentages for attendance dur-
ing the fifth sixth week. Students of Lori
Wuebben’s room above posted the highest per-
centage, and they are, in front row, from left,
Victoria Dominguez, David Cruz, Jr., Joshua Nieto,
Philip Garcia, Lianna Esparza, Linda Casarez and
Lucy Gomez. In second row are, in same order,
Estella Torres, Stephanie Salinas, Jessica Estrada,
Stacy Carr, Adriel Presas, Jovette Lopez and
William Dunn. In back are Ms. Wuebben, Jessica
Urbina, Daniel Garcia, Tammy Sierra, Daniel
Cordova, Mark Rios, Matthew Lozano and aide
Elia E. Nieto. Second place classroom, just be-
low, was that of Irma Ramirez, whose students
were, in front, Rosanne Casas, Roxann Contreras,
Erica Trevino, Jennifer Hernandez, Abel Flores
and Christine Chavez. In second row are Briana
Jilpas, Denise Garza, Eric Andrade, Anthony :
Valdez, Angie de la Garza and Victoria Garza. In .
back are Paraprofessional Dora Medrano, Madi-
son Kilcourse, David Moreno, Manuel Rios, Pedro :
Hinojosa, Arturo Hernandez, Maria Cano, Carlos
Torres and Ms. Ramirez. Third place classroom, .
that of M. Pearcy, is seen at bottom. Students are,
in front, Nicollette Cantu, Venessa Elizondo, Vic- :
tor Vasquez, Alishia Wegner and Erica Vizcaino. *
In middle row are Angelica Reyna, Aaron Noriega, :
Sasha Paynter, Crystal Moore, Adrian Garza, -
Ruben Cano and Juan Morales. In back are Para-
professional Elia E. Nieto, Jackie Rhodes, Tiffany -
Whitney, Lisa Quintanilla, Rita Flores, Amanda
Hinojosa, Donald Derryberry, Daisy Salud, Michael
Chavez and teacher substitute Z. Zavala. (Enter- i
prise Photos.)
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In Times Like These
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MERCEDES, TEXAS 78570
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Sunday Worship: 10:30 A.M. & 7 P.M.
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The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 7, 1995, newspaper, June 7, 1995; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1632110/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.