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Tribute given at the Memorial Service for Prof Edmund Zingu held on 25 April 2013 at the University of the Western Cape May 18, 2013Posted by International.Chair in : Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASTRO), Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (CMMP), History, Policy and Education (HPE) , 1 comment so far
by Prof Patricia Whitelock
I have been asked by Simon Connell, the current President of SAIP to pay tribute to Edmund on behalf of SAIP, but I have also been asked by Ted Williams, the director of the South African Astronomical Observatory to speak on behalf of SAAO. That is important for me as I first met Edmund Zingu in 1995 at the 175th anniversary of the observatory and I came to know him as a personal friend as well as a valued colleague. He was then head of physics at UWC and I had the pleasure of showing him around and was impressed and intrigued by his interest and perceptive questions. It was the start of a relationship between SAAO and UWC that has gradually strengthened over the years and which will ultimately allow the two organizations to do great things in astrophysics.
You will have your personal memories of Edmund but he was best known to the broader community through his service with SAIP and that is what I want to talk about. As you have already heard Edmund served on the Council of the SAIP for 8 years from 1999 to 2006, as VP from two years while I was President then as President from 2003 to 2004. It would not be an exaggeration to say that when Edmund joined the Council, physics in SA was in crisis. The numbers of undergraduate students enrolling had been dropping for several years, the image of physics among the public and decision makers was poor, finance for physics projects was very limited and the SAIP itself, particularly its leadership, was not representative of the community of physicists in SA, and people rightly wanted to know what SAIP was going to do.
By the time Edmund left the SAIP council, physics in SA was in a very different place. That was of course due to the combined efforts of a number people, but Edmund was without question was one of the most important. In 2001 Council set up a transformation committee with a very broad mandate to look at all aspects of the SAIP. Edmund and I both served on that committee. The initial driving force for transformation came from Nithaya Chetty, but Edmund, who chaired the committee while he was VP, was absolutely crucial in keeping the debate focused and most importantly keeping us all talking to each other.
These years were particularly exciting as we grappled with the problems in physics at the same time as attempting to restructure the SAIP to play a more relevant role in SA society. My entire experience of working with Edmund was a positive one. He was someone you could test ideas on and who would tell you very gently and very sympathetically when and why you had got it wrong. I don't know if we could have done what we did without him, but I very much doubt it. What I am certain of is that it would have been more difficult and there would have been many more casualties and more blood on the walls. I would like to quote from Jaynie Padayachee, who was secretary of the SAIP during my and Edmund's presidency and who was also secretary of the transformation committee: "The one thing about Edmund that will always stay with me, is that he personified diplomacy. It was really inspirational (in this world of too many words and opinions) knowing someone who took the time to think about what he was going to say before he said it. "
During my term as President I quickly came to rely on Edmund's judgment and his support above anything and anyone else. I suspect that there are many others who must have had similar experiences. He was never heavy handed or unpleasantly forceful, when things were said that he did not agree with he would gently point out that not everyone had the same experience and that there were other ways of looking at issues. It was quiet, it was gentle, it was undemonstrative and it dramatically effective. I quote from Jappie Engelbrecht, who is the treasurer of SAIP, as he was when Edmund and I were President: Japie after reading Simon Connell's words about Edmund responded "I have nothing to add except my sadness at the passing of a truly great South African, whose impact on my own life enabled me to transform to our new democracy."His words apply to many of us who worked with Edmund.
Those transformation activities resulted in a revised constitution and by-laws for the SAIP, more involvement of the specialist groups in council, a president who was directly elected by the membership, and a new mindset and symbolism of a new logo to prove it. That of course took several more years.
At roughly the same time that we started the transformation process, in fact really as part of the same initiative we established the process that culminated in an international panel review and the production of a document: "Shaping the future of physics in South Africa". This process was lead by Edmund during his presidency and must have taken up a huge amount of his personal time. This led to a new strategy for physics, and among other things establishment of the National Institute of Theoretical Physics (NITheP) and to the increased financial support from government that enabled SAIP to appoint an Executive Officer – which has been so important in allowing SAIP to do things more professionally.
One of the international participants in the shaping the future process, was Jim Gates, who as many of you know is now on USA President's scientific advisory panel. The following words were written by Jim Gates and express Edmund's role better than I can:
"I am certain now that the Shaping Report has served exceedingly well as a national strategy and planning document for the South African physics community in a manner that none of its authors had foreseen in terms of its scope, duration or effectiveness. Dr. Zingu's management of the entire Shaping process was a marvelous testament of his dedicated to the health of the physics field in South Africa. His skills as a manager of personnel were on direct display, from my perspective, in the assembly of the International panel. He chose persons from S.A., from Europe, and the U.S.A. as a reflection of his understanding of the international and global nature of the interaction required for physics to thrive in S.A. in the new millennium. He also saw the International Panel was assembled in such a way as to be a final executive part of the process that lived up to his high expectation and vision.
The Shaping Report is among the greatest of tributes to Dr. Zingu as it continues almost a decade latter to have a substantial impact on thinking about South African physics. The report challenged all of the stake-holding communities to plan on multiple levels. "
He goes on to describe his personal gratitude to Edmund as a mentor for giving him the skills that he has particularly needed and which prepared him for his role as advisor to President Barack Obama
Since leaving the SAIP Council Edmund has continued to serve the community. In particular he has again played the leadership role in the Review of Physics Teaching, which is currently underway – the next big hurdle in the success of physics in SA, or indeed globally. I have no direct experience of his work with this, but Simon Connell tells me that he handled the project magnificently. In fact has been so well constructed by Edmund that neither SAIP nor CHE have any concern about its completion.
There can be no doubt that Physics and South Africa are better off because Edmund Zingu was who he was, when he was. We,as physicists and as friends of Edmund, have every reason to thank his family and to join them in celebration of a life extraordinarily well lived in the service of our community.
In Memoriam: Edmund C. Zingu April 26, 2013Posted by International.Chair in : Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (CMMP), History, Policy and Education (HPE), Physics Education Research (PER), Technology Transfer, Business Development and Entrepreneurism (TBE) , 2comments
Professor Edmund Zingu served on the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP) Council from 1999 to 2006, and was President of the SAIP from 2003 to 2004. He was in fact the first black President in the history of the SAIP[1].
He played crucial leadership roles in many projects, particularly in physics related development issues. He was Vice President of the IUPAP, and Chair of the C13 Commission on Physics for Development. He was primarily responsible for bringing to South Africa the iconic 'Physics for Sustainable Development' conference in 2005[2] as a part of the International Year of Physics. This conference cast a distinct spotlight on physics as an instrument for development in Africa.
We would like to specifically mention his tremendous contribution to two extremely important projects of the Institute. The first was the highly successful Shaping the Future of Physics, where he contributed to the design of the project and also served as chair of the Management and Policy Committee that oversaw the international review in 2003.
The Shaping the Future of Physics in South Africa report was written by a body designated as the 'International Panel' or IP. The IP was composed of M. A. Hellberg (convenor), M. Ducloy, K. Bharuth-Ram, K. Evans-Lutterodt, I. Gledhill, G. X. Tessema, A.W. Wolfendale, and S. J Gates. The report has served exceedingly well as a national strategy and planning document for the South African physics community in a manner that none of its authors had foreseen in terms of its scope, duration or effectiveness.
Dr. Zingu's management of the entire Shaping process was a marvelous testament of his dedication to the health of the physics field in South Africa. His skills as a manager of personnel were on direct display in the assembly of the IP. He advocated for selection of representatives from South Africa (Bharuth-Ram, Gledhill, and Hellberg), from Europe (Ducloy, and Wolfendale), and the USA (Evans-Lutterodt, Gates, and Tessema) as a reflection of his understanding of the global nature of the interactions required for physics to thrive in South Africa in the new millennium. He also saw to it that the IP was assembled in such a way as to be a final executive part of the process that lived up to his high expectation and vision.
The Shaping Report is among the greatest of tributes to Dr. Zingu as it continues almost a decade later to have a substantial impact on thinking about South African physics. The report challenged all of the stake-holding communities to plan on multiple levels. Projects like the projects like the SAIP Executive Office, National Institute for Theoretical Physics (NiTheP), South African National Research Network (SANReN), SA-CERN, and SKA-Africa have become a reality. The report called also for the possibility of other 'flagship' projects such as a South African synchrotron, to drive the large scale development of the field, and there has been significant encouraging progress here. At the more granular level there was a call for transformation so that the field would be open to all citizens of the country. Physics in South Africa has grown significantly since then, largely because of the implementation of many of the recommendations from the Review. Also during this time Dr. Zingu authored the very influential article, Promoting Physics and Development in Africa, which appeared in Physics Today[3].
For one of us (Gates), the Shaping Report was preparation for service as a policy advisor for both the Governor of Maryland (via my role on the Maryland State Board of Education) and for President Barack Obama (via my role on the U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology – PCAST). These accomplishments are due in part to Edmund's confidence in me and his abilities as a mentor. I owe this great South African an enormous debt of gratitude for how he challenged me to grow professionally.
The second project was the Review of Undergraduate Physics Education. Once again he contributed to the design of the Review and chaired the Management and Policy Committee. He led the development of the South Africa Draft Benchmark Statement for Physics Training, and guided the Review process, including the partnership with the Council for Higher Education. The Review of Physics Training is well advanced but still in progress.
Professor Zingu began his physics career at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). He was a materials physicist, and with his collaborators at Cornell University invented a new method to study atomic diffusion by transmission electron microscopy[4]. Later he studied diffusion phase transitions in thin films due to induced thermal stress[5]. He had a period of employment at Turfloop, QwaQwa Campus, then as Head of the Physics Department and later Dean of Basic Sciences (1990-1993) at MEDUNSA. He later returned to UWC and served as Head of the Physics Department (1994-1998), and finally Vice Rector of Mangosuthu University of Technology in Umlazi, Durban until the time of his retirement.
Edmund was a pioneer for physics in post-apartheid South Africa, a visionary, a tireless campaigner for strengthening the discipline of physics* and, above all, a true gentleman. His leadership and contributions were characterized by sensitivity, perceptiveness, vision, ethics, wisdom, global standards and great industry. He will be sorely missed.
Simon Connell
President, South African Institute of Physics (2012-2014)
Nithaya Chetty
President, South African Institute of Physics (2007-2009)
S. James Gates, Jr.
President, National Society of Black Physicists (1996-1998)
More comments from Dr. Zingu's friends and colleagues
Professor Zingu was a dear friend and professional colleague over the past ten years. He was extremely helpful during the deliberations of the 2004 Review of iThemba LABS that I chaired for the National Research Foundation. During that time, Professor Zingu was President of the South African Institute of Physics. In another effort, he was one of the main drivers in working with Professor Alfred Msezane of Clark Atlanta University and a number of us at the African Laser Centre to organize the 1st US-Africa Advanced Studies Institute on Photon Interactions with Atoms and Molecules. That institute convened in Durban during November 2005, just after the World Conference on Physics and Sustainable Development, which was part of the United Nation's International Year of Physics. Professor Zingu leaves a tremendous legacy for all African and other peoples to emulate. We will miss his kind demeanor and tremendous insights into the future.
Sekazi K. Mtingwa
I met Prof. Edmund Zingu nearly 20-years ago in November 1995 at the University of the Western Cape, in Cape Town, where he was Chair of the Physics Department. Edmund invited me on my first travel to South Africa for nearly two-weeks to lecture on Ultrafast Optical Phenomena at several institutions — U. of Port Elizabeth, the National Accelerator Centre, U. of Cape Town, U. of Witwatersrand, U. of the Western Cape and the Foundation for Research Development (analog of the US National Science Foundation). This was the first and only time that I spent time away from my family during Thanksgiving, and Edmund provided a warm and inviting environment for my visit. I spent several days with Edmund's wonderful family and learned a great deal about South Africa and its people. Arriving not long after the release of Nelson Mandela and the official end of Apartheid, Edmund with his gentle, soft-spoken and brilliant nature alleviated my natural apprehension of visiting South Africa at that time. I had a truly wonderful visit and scientific exchange orchestrated by Prof. Edmund Zingu and I am truly saddened by the loss of this extraordinary individual — my deepest condolences go out to his family.
Anthony M. Johnson
Two weeks ago, at a diaspora gathering for STEM in Africa, the challenge that African scientists face on the continent was discussed. The critical question was "How can academics in Africa get the attention of the leaders?" The idea of international advisory panels modeled after the 2004 Shaping panel was received with much enthusiasm. The composition of the panel, the charge to the panel, and the implementation was such a testimony of the high quality of the leadership of SAIP under Edmond Zingu. May he rest in peace.
Tessema G.X.
To this excellent tribute, I would like to add my personal sadness at the passing of a truly great South African, whose impact on my own life enabled me to transform to our new democracy.
Japie Engelbrecht
[1] Physics Today, Vol 54 (9) Sept 2001, p 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1420507
[2] Physics World, October 2005, pp 12-13, http://physicsworld.com/cws/archive/print/18/10
[3] Physics Today, Vol 57 (1) Jan 2004, p 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1650068
[4] Chen, S. H., L. R. Zheng, J. C. Barbour, E. C. Zingu, L. S. Hung, C. B. Carter, and J. W. Mayer. "Lateral-diffusion couples studied by transmission electron microscopy." Materials Letters 2, no. 6 (1984): 469-476. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0167-577X(84)90075-2
Zingu, E. C., J. W. Mayer, C. Comrie, and R. Pretorius. "Mobility of Pd and Si in Pd2Si." Physical Review B 30, no. 10 (1984): 5916. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.30.5916
[5] Zingu, E. C., and B. T. Mofokeng. "Diffusional Phase Transformation under Induced Thermal Stress." In MRS Proceedings, vol. 230, no. 1. Cambridge University Press, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/PROC-230-145
Zingu, E. C., and B. T. Mofokeng. "Stress Relaxation During Diffusional Phase Transformation Under Induced Thermal Stress." In Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, vol. 308, pp. 85-85. Materials Research Society, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/PROC-308-85
Diale, M., C. Challens, and E. C. Zingu. "Cobalt self‐diffusion during cobalt silicide growth." Applied Physics Letters, vol. 62, no. 9 (1993): pp 943-945. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.108527
[6] P. Whitelock, Tribute given at the Memorial Service for Prof Edmund Zingu held on 25 April 2013 at the University of the Western Cape
Dr. Kartik Sheth, ALMA, and SKA March 19, 2013Posted by admin in : Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASTRO), Cosmology, Gravitation, and Relativity (CGR) , add a comment
by JC Holbrook
National Society of Black Physicists members Eric Wilcots and Kartik Sheth were part of a new initiative to foster radio astronomy collaborations with South African astronomers and students. Last week marked the official inauguration of ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array, in the high altitude Atacama desert of Chile, South America. I was able to sit down with Dr. Sheth to discuss the broader issue of radio astronomy and South Africa.
"I think this celebration was the culmination of thirty years worth of work from a lot of different people. The inauguration of the array was a chance for us to celebrate how much hard work has gone into it." Dr. Sheth said of the inauguration ceremony in Chile. "We started science operations September 30th of 2011. We have been collecting data for over two and a half years, because even with a small ALMA it is still the most powerful [millimeter/submillimeter] telescope in the world."
Since ALMA is an array of dishes similar to the radio dishes of the Very Large Array in New Mexico, even during construction as each dish was put into place and connected, the astronomers were already using what was available to collect data. Thus, the months of science data collection with ALMA before the official inauguration.
I pointed out, "You were not even there!"
Dr. Sheth laughed, "Only the dignitaries were invited, so a lot of people from the political arena in the twenty-five plus countries that are part of ALMA. President Piñera inaugurated ALMA…For me it doesn't mean much… but I'm kinda sad that I'm not there because I really wanted to be there. But I knew that I wasn't going to be invited, so coming here [to South Africa] really was driven by the NASSP deadline for Master's proposals." NASSP is the National Astrophysics and Space Sciences Programme in South Africa. In 2010, I began writing a book about NASSP. The program is a dramatic success story about educating underrepresented groups in astrophysics and space sciences. NASSP include one honor year and a two year masters of science degree. Nearly all NASSP students are funded by the program.
Dr. Sheth explained, "The idea is to foster bridges between the faculty here that are taking on students who eventually want to work with MeerKat and SKA. But MeerKAT and SKA are not built, yet. So, what we would really like the faculty to do is to think about including radio data from existing telescopes and NRAO operates four of them."
The SKA is currently under construction, yet the South African astronomy students need to learn everything about radio astronomy and the analysis of radio data. Dr. Sheth along with other American radio astronomers is here to encourage South African astronomers and their students the opportunity to learn by working with the existing facilities and their archival data. The four facilities are ALMA, the Robert C. Byrd Greenbank telescope a single dish in West Virginia, the Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA or EVLA) which is the enhanced VLA in New Mexico, and the Very Large Baseline Array (VLBA) which is spread across the Northern Hemisphere. Thus, the visit before the NASSP deadline for submitting Masters of Science thesis proposals. Dr. Sheth hopes that a few NASSP students will propose radio astronomy projects including using NRAO facilities for their Masters work.
According to Dr. Sheth the JVLA is the Northern Hemisphere equivalent of what MeerKat will be. MeerKat is the precursor to the SKA, the Square Kilometer Array. It is a new state of the art radio observatory currently being built in South Africa. The SKA array itself will consist of 3000 dishes spread across nine African countries: South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Zambia, Ghana, and Kenya. The SKA Africa headquarters are in Cape Town, South Africa, and they will be coordinating all of the African construction. A question I thought would be uppermost in the minds of South Africans was: Will ALMA be competition for SKA?
His response, "No, not at all. ALMA operates at higher frequencies than what the SKA will operate at. They are not looking at the same part of the electromagnetic spectrum but they will be looking at the same type of objects. EVLA is a mini version of SKA. With the SKA, it will be observing thermal emission and synchrotron emission from sources…" In an email he added, "We are looking at electrons energy as they cool around star forming regions or zip around magnetic fields. So you can get a real idea of the magnetic field that pervades the Milky Way and with the SKA across cosmic time. ALMA cannot really look at atomic gas unless its at very high red shift (i.e. the lines are red shifted into the regime that ALMA can observe) and only using atomic gas tracers like ionized carbon, nitrogen, or oxygen. ALMA cannot look at the atomic hydrogen gas which is emitting in the wavelengths that MeerKat and SKA will work at. So SKA & Meerkat are looking at the atomic gas from which molecular gas forms. And the molecular gas is what ALMA looks at which from stars form. And the stars are what HST and JWST look at. So it is a nice transition. Together these are giving you the full picture of what the universe looks like. Additionally there is a lot about magnetic fields and transient phenomena — these are also MeerKat and SKA's core strengths. For instance, these will be excellent instruments for looking at the timing of pulsars."
Trying to put it altogether I asked, "So, anything that is hot and has electrons moving around will be able to be studied by SKA?"
Kartik Sheth clarified, "No, I wouldn't call it 'hot'. The atomic gas is quite cold as well. It is hotter than the molecular gas but not hot compared to stars."
As a student of astronomy, I had always had a fascination with the connection between wavelengths of light or color, physical properties, chemistry, and celestial bodies. Planetary nebulae, which are mentioned in my last Vector blog, in visible light appear greenish in color. The color is the result of a specific atomic transition in the oxygen atom that occurs under very low density conditions. First the oxygen has to be ionized twice, i.e. it has to have lost two electrons, then it is through collisions that the transitions producing the characteristic green lines emit. A rule-of-thumb temperature for planetary nebulae is 10,000 degrees Kelvin. Thus, if there is a celestial body that appears 'green' in visible light you can conclude that it might include oxygen especially if it is a nebula which tends to have low density and it should be around 10,000 degrees Kelvin. Hydrogen is also found in planetary nebulae and the strongest transition line, known as H-alpha, occurs when its electron goes from an excited state to a less excited state releasing energy in the form of red light.
In the case of ALMA and SKA, they are probing two different sections of the electromagnetic spectrum similar to studying green light or red light. In the fullness of time, SKA will cover the same wavelengths and types of celestial bodies as the EVLA but focused on the Southern sky rather than the Northern, but also be more sensitive revealing more physical details. ALMA will add to our understanding of the same region of the sky but is studying different physical properties of celestial bodies. Both will add to our understanding of the Milky Way and the Universe.
NSBP members visit South Africa to strengthen ties March 15, 2013Posted by admin in : Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASTRO), Cosmology, Gravitation, and Relativity (CGR), History, Policy and Education (HPE), Technology Transfer, Business Development and Entrepreneurism (TBE) , add a comment
NSBP members Kartik Sheth and Eric Wilcots along with National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) astronomer Scott Ransom have been in South Africa to cement linkages for a NRAO's faculty bridge program. NSBP, the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP), NRAO and others are working together on the science dimension of the US-South Africa Bilateral Strategic Dialogue.
The visit is intended to foster partnerships in multi-wavelength astronomy research. Last week they had meetings with astronomers and cosmologists at University of Cape Town, University of Western Cape, SAAO, the SKA Africa Project Office and the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS). This week they will also meet with high energy astrophysicists at the Potchefstroom campus of North-West University, University of Johannesburg, and University of Witswatersrand, as well as astronomers at the North-West University campus in Mafikeng, and the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO).
As South Africa builds a second NASSP site, teaching and research partnerships with NRAO will be beneficial on both sides of the Atlantic. NRAO currently operates four premier radio astronomy observatories: ALMA, JVLA, GBT and the VLBA. NRAO is likely to also be a partner in helping to train scientists across the continent to be operators and users of the African VLBI Network (AVN). The AVN project consists of converting large, redundant telecommunications dishes across Africa for radio astronomy. The AVN will become part of the global VLBI network.
In addition to major radio astronomy successes, South Africa's strategic plan for astronomy calls for its institutions to be active in multiple wavelengths including radio, optical, gamma/x-ray, and near IR. South Africa is the host of the Southern Africa Large Telescope (SALT), the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere. Wilcots is a member of the SALT board. South Africa is also supporting the Namibian bid to host the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next generation success to the H.E.S.S telescope that has been in Namibia since 2002. Following an exchange at the 2011 NSBP conference, South Africa and the LIGO Collaboration have begun exploring opportunities in gravitational wave astronomy. Already LIGO and SAIP have convened a faculty workshop and a student summer school, both in Pretoria.
In a separate but simultaneous visit, Jim Gates participated in South Africa's National Science Festival (SciFest), giving talks at several venues around the country on science policy and supersymmetry. ScieFest was established in 1996 to promote the public awareness, understanding and appreciation of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and innovation. The main event in Grahamstown, held in March every year, attracts 72,000 visitors from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. Several government departments, listed companies, museums, NGOs, research facilities, science centers, science councils, universities, as well as small, medium and micro enterprises, both from South Africa and abroad contribute to the success of the event.
Gates was on the same program as South Africa's Minister of Science and Technology, Derek Hanekom. Each discussed science and innovation policy and gave their perspectives on aligning science with national priorities. Additionally Gates participated in three formal policy meetings, including one with Simphiwe Duma, CEO of the Technology Innovation Agency, and two more informal policy meetings. In a lecture at the University of South Africa (UNISA) he and Dr. Rob Adam, former head to South Africa's National Research Foundation, spoke on the efficacy of policy-formation surrounding STEM fields and the innovation cycle.
In other events around the country Gates met 45 students spanning the 8th through 11th grade levels at the Mae Jemison Science Reading Room in the Mamelodi township. At Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and the University of Johannesburg he gave talks on the strange mathematical objects found in the equations of supersymmetry.
These meetings and exchanges involving NSBP and South African colleagues are all part of the evolution from ideas put into motion by the Nobel Laureate, Abdus Salaam, and the founders of the Edward Bouchet-Abdus Salaam Institute (EBASI). Over a decade ago former NSBP president, Charles McGruder, traveled to South Africa to explore possible linkages between astronomers. That visit led to Khotso Mokhele's participation in the 2004 NSBP conference. At the time he was the head of South Africa's National Research Foundation. Later NSBP won a grant from the WK Kellogg Foundation to support NSBP's participation the NASSP program. In the year's since, NSBP has partnered with SAIP on a number of projects, and the relationship was codified in at MOU signed at the 2011 NSBP conference and witnessed by Minister Naledi Pandor. The relationships between NSBP, SAIP as well as colleagues across the entire continent continue to evolve and vistas are opening up in the realms of geophysics, biophysics and medical physics, nuclear and particle physics, mathematical and computational physics, as well as physics education at all levels.
Unfinished Business in Astronomy March 11, 2013Posted by admin in : Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASTRO) , add a comment
JC Holbrook
My master's thesis in astronomy at San Diego State University focused on the electron temperature structure of the ionized gas of planetary nebulae. I focused on two planetary nebulae: NGC 6572 and NGC 6543. I observed using the one meter telescope at Mt. Laguna Observatory with a CCD detector. Planetary nebula are created as low mass stars throw off their atmosphere during their transition to white dwarfs. My observations and analysis of NGC 6572 revealed a knot of high temperature gas well away from but connected to the nebula. I could not explain what the knot was but submitted the paper in 1992 to ApJ with my advisor Theodore Daub. The referee reports insisted that we take spectra of the knot. JPL's Trina Ray took spectra but we still could not identify the hot knot. The project was left behind as I left SDSU for NASA and a doctorate. However, a week ago I looked up images of NGC 6572 and got a big surprise! The Hubble Space Telescope image showed a far bigger nebula than what we could detect twenty years ago! Though it has been several years, looking at the contours I estimate that the hot spot I found, which at that point was at the edge of the nebula, I have marked with a circle in the second image. The structure of NGC 6572 is much more complicated than what I was working with and it is clear that some of the assumptions that went into the temperature would need to be updated to fully determine if the knot was indeed as hot as calculated. Certainly, some eager young astronomy student has already unraveled this bit of unfinished business!
NSBP members awarded National Medals by President Obama February 3, 2013Posted by admin in : Uncategorized , add a comment
In a White House ceremony Sylvester James Gates and George Robert Carruthers were awarded the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation, respectively. These awards are amongst the top honors that US bestows upon scientists and engineers.
Gates is known for his work on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory. He is currently the John S. Toll Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, a University of Maryland Regents Professor and currently serves on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the Maryland State Board of Education.
Carruthers is an astrophysicist at the Naval Research Lab. He first gained international recognition for his on ultraviolet observations of the earth's upper atmosphere and of astronomical phenomena. But he is perhaps best known for his work with the spectrograph that showed incontrovertible proof that molecular hydrogen exists in the interstellar medium.
Joint AfAS/NSBP Statement on Cheick Modibo Diarra January 14, 2013Posted by admin in : Uncategorized , add a comment
What are the top physics and astronomy stories of 2012? December 14, 2012Posted by admin in : Uncategorized , add a comment
Ah, the year that was. Did the Higgs discovery make it one the best years ever? Please take a moment to tell us your top 5 stories in physics and astronomy. Give your top ranked story a score of 5, next one 4, on down to 1. The results of this Borda voting will be announced before the end of the year.
If you need some help remembering all the physics and astronomy you enjoyed this year, here are some top stories from Waves and Packets.
Experiments prove nanoscale metallic conductivity in ferroelectrics
Ultrafast optical imaging of superconductors
Physicists achieve single-photon spectroscopy of a single molecule
1st image of single-molecule charge distribution
Sending messages with neutrinos
Spider silk conducts better than copper
1st observation of coherent quantum phase slip in Josephson junction
Sun's twin discovered — The perfect SETI target?
Pioneer anomaly explained with no new physics
1st results from BOSS
Gamma-ray outbursts shed new light on pulsars
Elusive Majorana fermions may be lurking in a cold nanowire
Have we observed the Higgs (imposter)? Signal may not be standard model Higgs boson after all
'Extremely Little Telescope' discovers unique bodies
Ed Witten explains why quantum mechanics says a black hole should be able to let some things out
Negative frequency photons: The impact of something we thought could not exist has now been detected
Discovery of Higgs-like particle opens new questions
Gravitational waves spotted from white-dwarf pair
New diffraction technique that mixes infrared and X-ray lasers maps chemical bonds
Mathematicians offer unified theory of dark matter, dark energy, altering Einstein field equations
Room temperature superconductivity found in graphite grains
Latest Planck results may resolve question about dark matter
How NSF allocates billions of federal dollars to top universities
Black holes constrain the mass of a photon
Astronomers announce most precise measurement yet of the Hubble constant
Possible cosmological solution to the Pioneer Anomaly
1st 'black widow' pulsar found from gamma ray observations
New form of matter, color glass condensate, possibly spotted by CMS
Electrons in solids may reveal intrinsic electron dipole moment
Cosmologists propose new paradigm for understanding early universe
Ultrafast light turns insulator into a conductor
The First Telescope Has Arrived for the Total Solar Eclipse in Cairns and "Black Sun" November 11, 2012Posted by admin in : Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASTRO), Earth and Planetary Systems Sciences (EPSS) , add a comment
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Dr. Alphonse Sterling arrived safely in Cairns with telescope, mount, filters, cameras, and a suitcase. His excess baggage fees were unmentionable. The blue case is the body of the telescope. Alphonse is staying about 30 minutes to the west of Cairns in the Trinity Beach area in a very swank three bedroom apartment with ocean views. He will be sharing the apartment with scientific teammembers students Amy Steele and Roderick Gray.
In preparation for the eclipse, Alphonse has to create a 'flat' image as part of the calibration of the flaws in the telescope. When doing traditional night observing at an observatory, flats are taken of the dome. That is, before you start observing you put diffuse light onto the dome of the telescope and take a series of images. What is revealed is any specs of dust in the optics and other flaws. Next, the astronomer would go on to observe the celestial bodies and at dawn take another series of flats. When processing the images of the celestial bodies these flats would be used to remove the optical flaws thus flattening the images. This way what you have is just what is found in space not some artifact left by the optics of the telescope.
When doing observations of the Sun, daytime observing, creating a flat is not so simple. Alphonse has experimented with multiple different light sources to determine which is the best for creating a good flat.
What he found is he has to rig something up himself. That meant that we had to go to the hardware store to find the parts he needed!
After a long search we found: exacto knife, white cardboard, LCD flashlight, masking tape, electrical switch, compass. He had his own wire to create an external switch for his new light source. Over the next couple of days he will be putting everything together. I can't wait to see what the final device will look like!
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Professor Mercedes Richards gives plenary talk, "The Incredible Tomography Imaging Technique".
Tomography is the reconstruction of a multidimensional physical field from its integral projections in different directions. Tomography can be used in astronomy for systems that are rotating, such as stars, binary systems, extrasolar planets and accretion disks. Rotation of the system allows astronomers to see multiple angles of the system. By observing light emissions from accretion disks and taking Doppler shift into account and other relativistic effects, it is possible to derive velocity profiles throughout the disk. It then possible to reconstruct a velocity space "image" into an actual spatial image of the accretion disk. Examples of systems include binary stars, and stars near black holes where the black hole is stripping off matter from the star. Tomography can also be used to study orbital mechanics.
Since the technique of Doppler tomography was introduced 18 years ago, it has been used to provide indirect images of accretion structures in close binaries which cannot be resolved spatially with the largest telescopes. The more general technique of tomography has been used successfully in medicine, geophysics, archaeology, and oceanography to construct 3D images from 2D pictures or "slices" through the object collected at many positions around the object. These slices or projections are represented by the Radon transform. The 3D image is recovered through a summation process called back projection; and the overall image reconstruction procedure is known as tomography. In astronomy, the technique can be readily applied to eclipsing binaries and rotating stars, which provide changing views of the system, and the process is called Doppler Tomography because the gas motions detected through Doppler shifts provide an image of the accretion flows in velocity coordinates.
Doppler tomography has been used successfully to produce images of accretion flows in a variety of interacting binaries including the cataclysmic variable stars and x-ray binaries. It would not have been possible to create these images otherwise since these systems and too distant to be directly imaged. The major highlights of Doppler tomography have been the discovery of spiral structures in accretion disks, and the comparison of gas stream tomography maps to hydrodynamics models.
Professor Mercedes Richards is in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State University. Originally from Jamaica, she attended the University of the West Indies where she graduated with special honors in physics. She attended graduate school in Canada, earning her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. She was recently elected president of the Close Binary Stars commission of the International Astronomical Union. At PSU she founded a 6-week summer research program for high school students.


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Although Robert Reed tells us he isn't really convinced that there will be a history of terraforming, he paints a vivid and convincing portrait of the sacrifices and triumphs that might take place over the next thousand years of one man's life. Bob is currently at work on his first YA novel. Like much of his fiction it will be a world mixing familiarity and strangeness, but this one will also have a dash of kids in peril.
MarsSimon's father started talking about nuts on walls, about how the seeds he was working with looked very much like wall nuts. Then he winked, handing over the wonder that he had been carrying in his big palm. "What do you think of this, Simon?" But before the boy could answer, his father cautioned him to use both hands and be especially careful. "Not because you might damage the seed," the man said. "Or because it would ever hurt you. But certain objects are important, sometimes even sacred, and they deserve all the consideration and respect that we can possibly show for them."
Considering how small it was, the seed was exceptionally heavy. It was black and hard as diamond but covered with small, sharp-edged pits. Against his bare palms, the object felt warm. Maybe the heat was left over from where the seed was kept, or maybe it was warm in the same way that little boys were warm. Either answer might be true. He didn't ask. He just held the object in his cupped hands and stared, wondering what would happen if the impossible occurred, if the seed decided to awaken now.
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I played the demo and holy christ this guy is a friggin demon, and here I thought Kratos was tough. Being as I only played the demo I'm wondering what where his most badass moments in the game?
What were his most badass moments?
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Well honestly the moments in the demo rank among them. Although the ending was really great too. You should check out some of the playthroughs that people have done on YouTube, as they're even better in context.
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Just finished chapter 12, and so far the coolest thing has been him essentially turning into one of the tailed beasts from Naruto.
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The moments from the demo are indeed pretty good- but the moment that stuck to my mind most clearly...
After Magus' sword grows to stake Asura to the ground and literally pierce through the planet to DESTROY AUSTRALIA (Literally!), Asura generates enough rage/strength/wrath to break Magus' sword- simultaneously freeing himself and staggering Magus. He then grabs the sword at its hilt with his mouth and almost cuts Magus in half with the remaining blade- promptly ending the fight.
Off-topic yet on-topic at the same time though, one other non-Asura related moment that I really remember:
Double warning here- this is a spoiler regarding the TRUE ENDING. Open at your own risk... >_>
The game seems to go out of its way to make Olga look like the weakest of all the demigods- and most annoying too. Asura doesn't get to kill her though- it is the GOLDEN SPIDER that gets the honor of killing the useless tool off. A fitting end for such a useless character who's only powers were 'calling in reinforcements,' being pompous, and being useless.
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It will probably come as no surprise that I was one of those kids who read, and finished, every book assigned to me in high school. It's not as if I actually enjoyed them all; I was just…dutiful. Dutiful to the tune of almost straight A's (I'm lookin' at you, AP US History) which got me into a well-regarded and very spendy college, which now has me paying 20% of my income to the government and various other lending organizations for the rest of my life. So, congratulations slackers. You win.
From what I heard, the boys in particular were always not finishing books. I'm not being sexist here–that's what they told me. Except Catcher in the Rye. For some reason, any young man I found bragging about all of the books he didn't read in high school always ended up qualifying his anti-literacy victory with, "except Catcher in the Rye." Something about the young angsty male griping about the "phony"-ness of the system just really resonated, I guess.
But those were guys my age, who went to high school around the same time that I did. Nowadays, I don't think they hardly even assign Catcher anymore. I know we don't in the school at which I work. And, I recently read this article for a class about how today's students, when they do have to read about him, find Holden Caulfield to be little more than a whiny, spoiled brat.
What gives? How did Catcher go from the epitomical expression of a society's youth–and the only book non-reading students are even willing to crack–to an anachronistic, irrelevant artifact of the old school? In the interest of
pure intellectual curiosity preparing for school, I decided was told to read it again, and here is what I found:
Catcher is a good book, but not for the reasons that were once treasured by ennui-touting teenagers. Salinger, I believe, was not celebrating the wild discontent that rears its head in all of us when we find ourselves in moments of in-between, and disconnect. He was not telling teenage boys to run away. Nor was he being entirely critical, of course. Rereading the book as an adult, Holden does turn out to be more annoying–certainly more hypocritical–than you probably remembered; but then, he is also quite genuinely misunderstood by those on whom he is dependent for stability and direction.
For all of his frustrations, Holden is a kid just trying to make it through. He has an idea of what is right and wrong, but he doesn't yet have the wherewithal to hold to it himself, and so he is deeply disappointed when the adults around him prove incapable of modeling what he considers to be a worthwhile lifestyle. We've all been there.
So what's the difference today, as opposed to fifty or even just fifteen years ago? Is Holden irrelevant? Yes and no. His experience at a fundamental, biological level is still applicable–you know, the hormones and the existential confusion and all that. But the difference, as far as I can tell, is the surrounding culture. Holden exists–and Salinger was writing–in a time when "teenagers" were relatively new. Adolescents were not necessarily being asked to grow up, get a job (or go to war), and start life, as it were. Yet–and this is where the whining comes in, I think–they weren't being given any other options.
At the time of the novel's publication–1951, to be exact–youth culture as we know it today had not yet been formed. Marketers, in all of their cunning, had not yet taken full advantage of the demographic with the most free time and the most spending money available. Today, kids Holden's age have things to entertain them–they have a world of their own. Holden had nowhere, and nobody. Today, students escape into virtual worlds via i-Products, or they take their medicine. Holden had no such tools of placation at his disposal.
Given all that, I suppose the challenge of teaching Catcher–or the challenge of reading it for fun if you're inclined to give it a go–is building a bridge for the reader from the text to meaning. The datedness of many of the book's references and Holden's slang can make it a long gap to span, but I do think it's worth it. Catcher in the Rye, while not Salinger's best work (that would be Franny and Zooey), is a fascinating, incredibly prescient portrait of the genesis of contemporary teenager-dom. Read it as a grown-up, if you haven't already, and open your heart to Holden's pain. See how this little book shifted everything.
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New International Version
In that day you will say: "I will praise you, LORD. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.
New Living Translation
In that day you will sing: "I will praise you, O LORD! You were angry with me, but not any more. Now you comfort me.
English Standard Version
You will say in that day: "I will give thanks to you, O LORD, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, that you might comfort me.
New American Standard Bible
Then you will say on that day, "I will give thanks to You, O LORD; For although You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, And You comfort me.
King James Bible
And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
On that day you will say:" I will praise You, LORD, although You were angry with me. Your anger has turned away, and You have had compassion on me.
International Standard Version
At that time, you will say: "I will praise you, LORD, for although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away, and you have comforted me.
NET Bible
At that time you will say: "I praise you, O LORD, for even though you were angry with me, your anger subsided, and you consoled me.
GOD'S WORD® Translation
At that time you will say, "I will praise you, O LORD. Although you had been angry with me, you turned your anger away from me, and you comforted me.
Jubilee Bible 2000
And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will sing unto thee; though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou hast comforted me.
King James 2000 Bible
And in that day you shall say, O LORD, I will praise you: though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away, and you comforted me.
American King James Version
And in that day you shall say, O LORD, I will praise you: though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away, and you comforted me.
American Standard Version
And in that day thou shalt say, I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away and thou comfortest me.
Douay-Rheims Bible
AND thou shalt say in that day: I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, for thou wast angry with me: thy wrath is turned away, and thou hast comforted me.
Darby Bible Translation
And in that day thou shalt say, Jehovah, I will praise thee; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou hast comforted me.
English Revised Version
And in that day thou shalt say, I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortest me.
Webster's Bible Translation
And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thy anger is turned away, and thou hast comforted me.
World English Bible
In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
Young's Literal Translation
And thou hast said in that day: 'I thank thee, O Jehovah, Though Thou hast been angry with me, Turn back doth Thine anger, And Thou dost comfort me.
Parallel CommentariesMatthew Henry's Concise Commentary
12:10-16 When the gospel should be publicly preached, the Gentiles would seek Christ Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, and find rest of soul. When God's time is come for the deliverance of his people, mountains of opposition shall become plains before him. God can soon turn gloomy days into glorious ones. And while we expect the Lord to gather his ancient people, and bring them home to his church, also to bring in the fulness of the Gentiles, when all will be united in holy love, let us tread the highway of holiness he has made for his redeemed. Let us wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life, looking to him to prepare our way through death, that river which separates this world from the eternal world.
Pulpit Commentary
Verses 1-6. - THE SONG OF THANKSGIVING OF THE UNITED CHURCH. On each of her deliverances the Church is hound to praise God. In some parts of the Church it is customary on every such occasion to sing a "Te Deum." The ordinary Israelite hymn of praise appears to have been the hundred and thirty-sixth psalm (1 Chronicles 16:34, 41; 2 Chronicles 5:13; 2 Chronicles 7:3; Ezra 3:11; Jeremiah 33:11; 1 Macc. 4:24); but on extraordinary occasions special thanksgivings were sung (Exodus 15:1-21; 1 Samuel 7:18-29, etc.). Isaiah is now inspired to give a pattern song, suitable for the Church to sing when she is reunited, enlarged, and restored to favor. Verse 1. - In that day. In the day of deliverance and restoration. Though thou wast angry; literally, because thou wast angry. Kay understands an actual hank-fullness for the severe discipline, which had checked them, and not allowed them to glide on smoothly to ruin. But perhaps the idiom is rather that of the passage, "Father, I thank thee that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes" (Matthew 11:25), where it is only the last clause that expresses the true object of the thanksgiving. Comfortedst; rather, hast comforted, since the effect continued.
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
And in that day thou shalt say,.... The following song of praise; just as Israel did, when they were brought through the Red sea, and saved out of the hands of their enemies; to which there are several allusions and references in it; that deliverance being typical of salvation by Christ; the Gospel day, or the times of the Gospel, are here meant:
O Lord, I will praise thee; or "confess thee"; to be my Lord, Redeemer, and Saviour, my Husband, Head, and King; or "confess to thee" (q), my sins and transgressions, and unworthiness to receive any favour from thee, and gratefully acknowledge all the favours bestowed upon me:
though thou wast angry with me; as it appeared to the church, and according to her apprehensions of things, though not in reality, or strictly or properly speaking; for anger is not to be ascribed to God; but it is a speaking after the manner of men; and the Lord seems to be angry when he hides his face from his people, when he refuses to hear their cries, when he afflicts them, and continues his hand upon them, and when he lets in a sense of wrath into their consciences:
thine anger is turned away; he granting his gracious presence; taking off his afflicting hand; manifesting his love, particularly his pardoning grace and mercy; peace and reconciliation being made by the blood of Christ, and justice satisfied, the effects of resentment and displeasure cease:
and thou comfortedst me; by shedding abroad his love in her heart; by discovering the free and full forgiveness of sin; by lifting up the light of his countenance; by an application of precious promises; and by means of the word and ordinances, through the influence of the blessed Spirit as a comforter; who leads in this way for comfort to the person, blood, righteousness, sacrifice, and fulness of Christ, and comforts with these, by applying them, and showing interest in them. The Targum is,
"and thou shalt say at that time, I will confess before the Lord; for that I have sinned before thee, thine anger is upon me; but when I am turned to the law, thine anger will turn from me, and thou wilt have mercy on me;''
or rather turned to Christ, and embrace his Gospel, which is the only way to have comfort.
(q) "confitebor tibi", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Isa 12:1-6. Thanksgiving Hymn of the Restored and Converted Jews.
Just as Miriam, after the deliverance of the Red Sea (Isa 11:16), celebrated it with an ode of praise (Ex 15:1-19).
Isaiah 12:1 Additional Commentaries
Joyful Thanksgiving
1Then you will say on that day, "I will give thanks to You, O LORD; For although You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, And You comfort me. 2"Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; For the LORD GOD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation."…
Cross References
Job 13:16
Indeed, this will turn out for my deliverance, for no godless person would dare come before him!
Psalm 9:1
For the director of music. To the tune of "The Death of the Son." A psalm of David. I will give thanks to you, LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
Psalm 30:5
For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.
Psalm 71:21
You will increase my honor and comfort me once more.
Isaiah 25:1
LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago.
Isaiah 26:1
In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts.
Isaiah 40:1
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
Isaiah 40:2
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
Isaiah 54:7
"For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back.
Isaiah 54:9
"To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke you again.
Isaiah 61:10
I delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Isaiah 64:5
You come to the help of those who gladly do right, who remember your ways. But when we continued to sin against them, you were angry. How then can we be saved?
Isaiah 65:18
But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy.
Isaiah 66:13
As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem."
Jeremiah 30:19
From them will come songs of thanksgiving and the sound of rejoicing. I will add to their numbers, and they will not be decreased; I will bring them honor, and they will not be disdained.
Hosea 14:4
"I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them.
Zechariah 8:11
But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as I did in the past," declares the LORD Almighty.
Zechariah 8:19
This is what the LORD Almighty says: "The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Therefore love truth and peace."
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The Badwater Ultramarathon is an 135-mile race through Death Valley in California, held in the heat of mid-July, which bills itself as "the world's toughest foot race."
80-Year-Old Will Run Badwater
Jack Denness wants to remain the oldest person to finish the 135-mile race.
Badwater Ultramarathon to Return to Death Valley in 2015
Race will accommodate National Park Service rules with night start.
New Rules Bar Usual Running of Badwater Ultramarathon
Summer daylight race in Death Valley conflicts with Park Service regulations.
38-Year-Old School Teacher Wins Badwater Ultra
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Badwater Ultra to Bypass Death Valley
The 135-mile race will start at Lone Pine instead of Badwater Basin.
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Think the Badwater Ultramarathon sounds tough? Lisa Smith-Batchen ran the course four times back-to-back to benefit clean water.
Races in National Parks Could Become Rarer
National Park Service newly scrutinizing running permits.
Races Temporarily Banned From Death Valley
The Badwater 135 will be rerouted during National Park Service safety review.
Portuguese, Australian Runners Win Badwater Ultra
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The Poteau Pirates will get their first taste of competition on the gridiron tonight when they will be in a three-way scrimmage at Catoosa with the host Indians and Tulsa Memorial beginning at 5 p.m.
"We're excited about this," Poteau Coach Jeff Broyles said. "Scrimmages are basically dress rehearsals in getting us ready for the season. This will be a good test for us. Catoosa went to the (Class 4A state) semifinals last year, and they're supposed to be a solid club once again. What I like about scrimmaging them is that they're in the (Class 4A) district up north, and they're the ones we cross bracket with in the opening round of the playoffs. We'll get a good look at them, and possibly see what future opponents might be like."
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In addition, our administrative staff seeks support with general office and clerical tasks (filing, telephone, data entry, and mailing).
Volunteers may serve Monday through Friday between the hours of 9 am to 6 pm.
BGCMC's volunteers are of all ages, from 16 to 85, with one volunteer reading tutor, Shirley Mauer, coming to the Cole-Clark branch in Hobe Sound every week for the past 11 years. An annual volunteer recognition ceremony is held each spring at BGCMC.
For more information on volunteering at BGCMC, please call Dianne Young, our friendly Volunteer Coordinator, at 772.545.1255. You can also email Dianne.To ensure the safety of our Club Members and in accordance with State laws, we require all volunteers to be fingerprinted. You may be fingerprinted at our administrative offices in Hobe Sound or at the Martin County Sheriff's Office.
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Thursday, August 21, 2014
Chief Warrant Officer 4 James Kay, an electromagnet aircraft launch system and advanced arrest gear officer from Charleston, S.C. and graduate of R.B. Stall High School, is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard Pre-Commissioning Unit Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78). Gerald R. Ford is the first ship in its class and the successor to the Navys Nimitz-class aircraft carriers that have been in operation for the last half century. Gerald R. Fords 1000-sailor crew is slowly bringing the ship to life, a crew that will eventually grow to more than 4,500 when the ship is at sea. When complete, the aircraft carrier, powered by two nuclear reactors, will measure more than three football fields long at 1,092 feet in length and will weigh more than 100,000 tons. It will be capable of sailing at nearly 35 mph and will carry more than 75 Navy aircraft. Like the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers that came before it, USS Gerald R. Fords mission is to protect and defend America on the worlds oceans. When the ship deploys it will bring four-and-a-half acres of survivable, sovereign U.S. territory increasing the Navys strike capability and defending the countrys interests in any region of the world. The ship is scheduled to commission in spring 2016. Chief Warrant Officer Kay is a graduate of R.B. Stall High School, and serves as an electromagnet aircraft launch system and advanced arrest gear officer aboard Gerald R. Ford.
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On our planet, more than 70 percent of which is covered by water, being there means having the ability to act from the sea. The Navy is uniquely positioned to be there; the worlds oceans give the Navy the power to protect Americas interests anywhere, and at any time. Your Navy protects and defends America on the worlds oceans. Navy ships, submarines, aircraft and, most importantly, tens of thousands of Americas finest young men and women are deployed around the world doing just that. They are there now. They will be there when we are sleeping tonight. They will be there every Saturday, Sunday and holiday this year. They are there around the clock, far from our shores, defending America at all times.
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Bremerton Council Says No to Chickens Inside City Limits
Residents who want to legally raise chickens in Bremerton will likely have to take changing the law into their own hands.
A Bremerton City Council committee voted 2-1 Wednesday against an ordinance allowing chickens in the city. The full council declined to discuss it any further.
City Councilman Roy Runyon had pushed the idea at the request of residents, many of whom lobbied for the chicken ordinance at a Wednesday city council meeting after it had already killed the idea earlier.
Runyon's ordinance would have allowed up to four hens and no roosters.
Members of the council's Public Safety, Parks and Planning committee voted 2-1 against Runyon's ordinance. Runyon was the lone supporter. Jim McDonald and Cecil McConnell voted against it.
Nick Wofford asked council members gathered in a briefing before the regular meeting of the full council if anyone was interested in having the issue come up before the entire group. No one except Runyon expressed any interest.
McDonald, one of the "no" voters on the committee, said he struggled with his decision and didn't make up his mind until the last couple of days.
He said he was swayed in part by talking to people who don't live in the city, but do live near chicken-owners and deal with noise or odor issues.
"If you end up with a neighborhood problem, it's so hard to enforce," McDonald said.
The city would likely have to pay for the Humane Society to add another enforcement officer, McDonald said.
Supporters of city chickens vowed they'll continue to lobby the council.
"We're not going to quit," said Jean Schanen, a major proponent of urban farming who provided a list of several cities in the nation and in Washington state that allow chickens. "We're going to keep after you."
Tamara Smith, who lives on Alder Street, criticized the city's stance against "sustainable living" and "healthy eating."
"I believe that this is a civil liberties issue," Smith said. "It's up to the city of Bremerton to demonstrate to us why the city shouldn't allow chickens."
Runyon said he was disappointed in the council's objection.
"I have to accept their decision," Runyon said. "I don't like it, but I have to accept it."
The chicken issue generated lots of public support and some dissent among Bremerton residents and became the dominant issue of a Manette district meeting earlier this month that was supposed to be a question and answer event with Mayor Patty Lent.
Runyon said he's unlikely to bring the matter back anytime soon.
"I think it would be a waste of energy for me to bring it up again. I would further raise the ire of my fellow council members and I need to work with them," Runyon said.
If citizens don't want to wait for the council to consider it again, he said they could launch a citizens initiative and put it on an election ballot.
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The Commission has observed major differences in the regulation of European wholesale call termination rates both within and across Member States. Termination rates are charged between operators for the transfer of a call to their network. The differences in the regulation of termination markets and resulting divergences in termination rates across the EU as well as the large gap between fixed and mobile termination rates seriously hamper the realisation of a single Telecoms market. Against this background, the Commission is currently preparing a Recommendation on voice call termination rates in the EU and seeks the views and contributions of all interested parties on all aspects of the draft documents.
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013
The City of Isle of Palms was named a 2013 South Carolina Outstanding Traffic Safe Community by the AAA Carolinas Foundation for Traffic Safety.
Captain Dawn Caldwell from the Isle of Palms Police Department accepted the award during a ceremony on Nov. 19, at Seawell's in Columbia.
In all, 15 South Carolina communities were honored, including three Grand Winners (Iva, Newberry and Mount Pleasant) during the 10th annual Traffic Safe Community awards luncheon hosted by the AAA Carolinas Foundation for Traffic Safety. Isle of Palms was one of five winners in the Under 10,000 Population category.
"The AAA Carolinas Foundation for Traffic Safety continues to tackle the deadly practice of texting while driving, especially among teen drivers, a group who has grown up continuously connected to cell phones and computers," said Angela Vogel Daley, president of AAA Carolinas Traffic Safety Foundation. "AAA Carolinas' goal is to create a culture change among teens concerning texting while driving."
The AAA Carolinas Foundation for Traffic Safety provides awards in an effort to recognize those cities that make a strong effort to make our state's roads safer.
One of the highlights of the ceremony was repeat Grand Winner Newberry, which has won the 10,000-30,000 population category seven out of 10 years. Additionally, only two communities have been in the top five for their population category every year – Newberry and Goose Creek.
Colonel Leroy Taylor, deputy director of the South Carolina State Transportation Police, and Phil Riley, from the South Carolina Office of Highway Safety, congratulated and honored local law enforcement and community representatives.
Mount Pleasant has been recognized as a Traffic Safe Community for nine out of 10 years; it was the Grand Winner in 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2011. The town recently enacted a no texting while driving ordinance and they visit the local schools to educate teens about the dangers of texting while driving. Mount Pleasant also operates under the TIPs program to prevent bars from over-serving alcohol.
The City of Mount Pleasant was named a Grand Winner in the 2013 South Carolina Traffic Safe Community Awards by the AAA Carolinas Foundation for Traffic Safety.
Corporal Traffic Bureau Eric Postell of the Mount Pleasant Police Department accepted the award during a ceremony on Nov. 19 at Seawell's in Columbia.
In all, 15 South Carolina communities were honored, including three Grand Winners (Iva, Newberry, and Mount Pleasant) during the tenth-annual Traffic Safe Community awards luncheon hosted by the AAA Carolinas Foundation for Traffic Safety. Mount Pleasant was the Grand Winner in the Over 30,000 Population category.
AAA Traffic Safe Communities are selected by looking at crash statistics, number of law enforcement officers per capita, and presence of a formal traffic safety program and/or existence of a special traffic division. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte provided the statistical analysis and the AAA Carolinas Foundation for Traffic Safety chose winners in each category giving extra emphasis to those communities that are proactive in enhancing traffic safety efforts.
The AAA Carolinas Foundation for Traffic Safety is a non-profit organization founded by AAA Carolinas and funded by AAA Carolinas' member contributions that works to promote traffic safety initiatives in North and South Carolina.
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