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Eric Berg, a Wayne State University Law School Public Interest Law Fellow, is dedicated to serving the underserved. His experience as a sixth-grade teacher at an inner-city Miami school significantly impacted the course of his career and life, leading to his current summer position with the Department of the Attorney General of Michigan, Division of Child and Family Services.
Looking for a good reason to spend just a few more hours on the links this summer? Look no further. Grab your clubs and come out to support Wayne Law students and reconnect with alumni and friends at the 19th annual Alumni/Student Golf Outing on Aug. 28, 2009.
Wayne Law is upholding its promise as a law school of opportunity with an urgent appeal to our alumni and friends - the Wayne Law Aim Higher for Students campaign.
The days of hard copies, snail mail and, yes, even phone calls, are over as we once knew them. While these remain effective, high quality methods of communication, they don't have the immediacy that today's technology-driven consumers have come to demand with their iPhones and BlackBerrys. Let's face it, today you're a bit out-of-touch if you don't e-mail, blog, tweet, text or IM. Fortunately, Wayne State University Law School is doing its part to keep up with its tech savvy students, alumni and friends.
The Wayne State University Law School Class of 1999 will host its 10-year reunion on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009, beginning at 3 p.m. at the Law School.
Thanks to what seems to be a recent increase of corruption on Wall Street, Main Street and everywhere in between, Wayne State University Law School Professor Peter Henning's phone is now ringing more than ever. Professor Henning, a former senior attorney with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) and trial attorney with the Department of Justice, is contacted almost daily to give his expert legal advice and opinions on issues related to white collar crime, securities law and professional responsibility.
Do you live or work in the Traverse City area? If so, please join fellow Wayne Law alumni, colleagues, friends and Dean Robert M. Ackerman for hors d'oeuvres, cocktails and conversation.
Professor Paul Dubinsky wrote an op-ed in the Detroit Legal News titled "What the demise of Eliot Spitzer reveals about us." Click the below to read the column.
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The Law School is in search of yearbooks dating back to its earliest years of operation. If you'd like to donate a yearbook, please contact the Arthur Neef Law Library at (313) 577-6181.
Wayne Law Class of 1999 Reunion, Aug. 8Federal Bar Association Mock Interview Program, Aug. 17Wayne Law Alumni Association Alumni/Student Golf Outing and Annual Meeting, Aug. 28LL.M. Student and Faculty Reception, Aug. 28Women in the Law Panel, Sept. 3Traverse City Wayne Law Alumni Reception, Sept. 10Wayne Law Reception at State Bar of Michigan annual meeting, Sept. 17More Events
Robert A. Berlow, '71, was presented with the C. Robert Wartell Distinguished Service Award by the Real Property Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan at the Section's Annual Summer Conference held at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Mich., July 15-18, 2009. Berlow, of counsel to the Farmington Hills, Michigan law firm of Taubman, Nadis and Neuman, PC, is a past chairperson of the Real Property Law Section and also chaired the Section's Commercial Leasing Committee. More Alumni Accomplishments
Professor of Law Stephen Calkins testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection at a hearing on the proposed Consumer Protection Agency Act of 2009. Click here to read Professor Calkins' recommendations and full statement. More Faculty Accomplishments
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Stepping into the late afternoon sun at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Braves outfielder Dale Murphy starts his short walk to the batting cage for a few pre-game practice swings. This may be the toughest distance he travels today. Television crews and newspaper reporters suddenly appear at his side, along with a young college student who has just won a contest to meet Murphy. In the stands nearby, early-arriving fans are shouting his name, scores of autograph-hungry kids are waving programs and pennants, and some middle-aged women are trying to unfurl a bedsheet hand-lettered with the slogan, "Murph's bat is where it's at." Murphy beams his best aw-shucks smile and gracefully makes his way through the fray, somehow managing to leave no one offended, no one feeling ignored. Moments later, his 6'5" frame poised at the plate in the batting cage, he finally starts doing what he does best—batting baseballs into oblivion.
Last year the 29-year-old Atlanta center fielder hit .290 and blasted a league-high 36 home runs (he tied with the Phillies' Mike Schmidt). This year, off to his fastest start despite his slumping team, he leads the league in home runs(12) and slugging percentage (.603) and is third in runs batted in (34). Former Atlanta hero Hank Aaron figures "there's no player in the game today who is as complete a player: base-stealing, hitting with power, catching, all of it." And Chuck Tanner, manager of the rival Pittsburgh Pirates, says, "Dale Murphy is the best player in baseball. Hands down, no question, no discussion."
In a world where baseball drug busts can overshadow box scores, Murphy's style seems no less distinguished. A converted Mormon, he doesn't drink, smoke, snort, chew tobacco or even imbibe coffee or tea. He's the kind of guy "who goes out and paints the town beige," as one reporter cracked after Murphy earned his second straight National League Most Valuable Player award in 1983. "When you come right down to it," concedes the star, "I guess I really am pretty bland."
The younger of two children born to Charles Murphy, a retired G.E. engineer, and Betty, a housewife, Dale grew up in a leafy section of Portland, Oreg. Drafted in the first round by the Braves right out of high school, he began his pro career in 1974 as a catcher. But Murphy's gun of an arm proved scattershot at best, and even his father once joshed him, "Don't worry, Dale. If they'd been trying to steal center field, you'd have thrown 'em out every time."
It was during grueling minor-league bus rides that he became friendly with Barry Bonnell, a Mormon who now plays for Seattle. The two talked late into the night and, at 19, Murphy, born a Presbyterian, decided to convert. He now gives the church 12 percent of his $1.6 million annual salary. Murphy says earnestly that "the church is everything to me," but shies away from crediting his faith for success on the field. "I don't really think the Lord is concerned with batting averages," he says simply.
In 1978, following his first full year in the majors, Murphy enrolled for a semester at Brigham Young University. His roommate, basketball player Steve Craig, was dating a cheerleader named Nancy Thomas, the daughter of a California physician. In what finally became known as the "Mormon Celebrity Soap Opera," Craig and Nancy broke up. Dale married Nancy. Craig married Marie Osmond.
Although the Craig-Osmond union is now on the rocks, the Murphy marriage produced three children in the first three years (Chad, 4, Travis, 3, and Shawn, 2), and a fourth is expected New Year's Eve. The family has settled into a brand-new, 10,000-sq.-ft. English country-style house on 10 acres in Roswell, Ga. "We have this little pond," says Murphy happily. "I've been down there fishing with Chad and Shawn. I go around with them exploring the new place, watching them ride their tricycles."
Murphy's own set of wheels belongs to a gleaming, gray 1983 Corvette. "I always said I'd never spend that kind of money on a car, but, well, it just seemed to find me," he says somewhat apologetically. Perhaps to pay for gas money, he has recently filmed some TV endorsements for a Georgia company. The products? Milk and ice cream. But of course.
Dale Murphy's Plate Runneth Over with Fan Adoration—and Home-Run Pitches
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Five members of an East Side gang pleaded guilty to drug charges, U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced Tuesday.
Tramell McGee, 30; Kevin Battles, 46; Jerome Brown, 40; Terrell Moore, 33; and Nikita Burt, 29, all of Buffalo, pleaded guilty of cocaine trafficking, stemming from their arrest on Jan. 11, Hochul said.
The five are members of the "Camp Street Boys," and McGee was one of the leaders, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael L. McCabe. McGee is accused of obtaining "kilogram quantities" of cocaine, then redistributing the drug to other gang members who sold it as crack in the city's Jefferson Avenue-Genesee Street neighborhood, according to McCabe.
The five took a plea just prior the jury trial scheduled Tuesday before Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny, Hochul said.
McGee and Burt face a maximum of 40 years in prison, while Battles, Brown and Moore face a maximum of 20 years in prison.
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The brother of Detroit Lions defensive lineman Grady Jackson has been convicted of second-degree murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend.The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office says a jury Friday found Javorris Jackson guilty of killing 26-year-old Courtney Solomon of Lathrup (LAY'-thrup) Village, who died May 4 after being shot at a Dearborn hotel. Jackson survived a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.Jackson could receive up to life in prison at a sentencing hearing scheduled for Dec. 21 before Circuit Judge Michael Hathaway.Jackson graduated from Lathrup High School in Southfield and played football for two seasons at Savannah State in Georgia. He served as team captain during the 2008 season.
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By Sgt. 1st Class E. L. CraigJanuary 2, 2014
NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Jan. 2, 2014) -- In a dark room, with only small hints of light shining through the windows on Forward Operating Base Connolly, in western Nangarhar Province, Sunday, advisors from 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, gathered with 4th Brigade, 201st Afghan National Army Corps, or ANA, leaders to discuss the details of a mission that's expected to contribute to a successful Afghan presidential election for Nangarhar, in 2014.
The mission, named Shaheen 25, is now in full swing.
Soldiers from the 4th Brigade, 201st ANA Corps, have been tasked with providing security for other Afghan National Security Forces, or ANSF, in order to establish checkpoints in the city of Wazir in the Khugyani district.
"There has been a lot of insurgent movement in the corridor of Khugyani district and [the ANA] are using this operation to provide security for the Afghan Local Police to build a checkpoint in the Wazir area," said Capt. David Hubbard, an operations advisor to 4th Brigade. "Establishing this checkpoint should shut down some of the enemy traffic."
At one time, many operations were planned and executed in a vacuum. Coalition Forces realized the importance of establishing synergy between ANA leaders and leaders from the other ANSF Pillars in order to plan and operate together early on.
During this ANA operation, as with many conducted recently, planning and coordination included the Afghan National Chief of Police, Nangarhar District Chief of Police, Afghan Local Police, Afghan Border Police, Afghan Uniformed Police, or AUP, and the National Defense Service from the start.
"According to President Karzai's order... whenever we do operations or missions, we sit together in coordination centers and we share the plan, our thoughts and exchange ideas," said Afghan Lt. Col. Hokomat Sati, 4th Brigade, 201st ANA Corps Operations Officer.
The joint mentality between the ANSF pillars didn't stop at the planning phase. Execution on the ground was just as much of a combined effort.
"The ANA have an area cordoned off [for ALP to build the checkpoint] and within that cordon, the AUP are leading a joint element through the villages and searching for caches or safe houses or for anything nefarious," said Hubbard, of Terrell, N.C.
Although the ANSF have been working with each other closely on this mission and depending on each other, they have not relied heavily on Coalition Forces.
"They're not asking us for anything ... they're asking us for some ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) and some air cover," said Maj. Stuart Chapman, operations officer with 2nd Battalion. "[The ANA] is only asking for our advice as a safety blanket. They are, essentially, fully functional without us."
This mission was not just about ending current insurgent activity in the area.
"This mission is about disrupting the insurgents future planning and building relationships with the local Afghan people," said Afghan Brig. Gen. Dadan Lawang, commander, 4th Brigade, 201st ANA Corps. "The people of Khugyani should not be concerned about security, because the three polling stations there that were in higher threat areas have been dropped into medium threat levels and will get even better."
As the ANSF display their self-reliance through coordinating and accomplishing missions with limited support, their ability to secure the Afghan people and their voting locations is becoming more prevalent.
"As the ANA continues to support the checkpoints by doing patrols and setting up other positions, this will help in providing security for Afghan people going to the polling sites near this new checkpoint," said Afghan Maj. Aqa, public affairs officer, 4th ANA Brigade.
Although this mission initially set out to produce one checkpoint, it ultimately resulted in three checkpoints being established in the Kyughani corridor.


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Morsels For The Mind – 28/03/2014
Every day we provide you with Six Incredible Things Before Breakfast to nibble away at. Here you can fill your brain with the most intellectually stimulating "amuse bouches" from the past week – a veritable smorgasbord for the cranium. They're all here for you to load up your plate – this week's "Morsels for the mind". Enjoy!
If you do nothing else, make sure to check out the "Reads / views / listens of the week".
Feather, fur & fin – birds, beasts, fishes, and the things they do
The first four morsels this week are spectacular pieces by Mark Deeble, on his experience in Tsavo with elephants. Read all his posts. Reads of the week.
"I think the old bull knows that poachers want his tusks, & I hate that he knows." Genius post, by Mark Deeble.
Making scents of it all. The odour of petrichor, & evocation of savannah. Incredible post, by Mark Deeble.
Agony & ivory. The beauty of elephants, & our impact in them. Brilliant read, by Mark Deeble.
"There are many different ways to kill an elephant." All of them foul. Stunning read, by Mark Deeble.
Playing to win. Mary Bates expertly describes how play helps primate brains grow.
Great plan for great apes. John Platt on an action agenda for gorilla conservation that holds much promise.
Have you herd? Elephant density does not improve ecotourism. And works against ecology. Roberta Kwok on a surprising find.
Seeing things? Do non-human animals see the same optical illusions we do? Intriguing possibility considered by Laura Kelley.
Depth of experience. Beaked whale dives to almost 3 km, reveals Henry Nicholls.
How low can you go? For these deep diving whales, the answer is "exceedingly low", as Jane Lee finds.
Perfume purr-fection. Big cats like their scents from big name perfumieres. Yes, really, as Bec Crew reveals.
Creature comforts? Careful snuggling with pets - you might catch something. Rebecca Kreston looks at the evidence.
Pet peeve. Our prescriptions are poisoning companion animals. Important article, by Deborah Blum.
Channeling behaviour? Could DogTV television channel enrich lives of lonely canines? Julie Hecht takes a look.
Gone to the dogs. Understanding canine (& other animal) health can aid human medicine, as Lizzie Crouch reveals.
Curious canine copulation. How dogs "do it". Fascinating bit of biology, by Jason Bittel.
For your viewing pleasure. Carin Bondar's new video series brings science to sex, as Anaiis Flox reveals.
Bearably sweet. Henry Nicholls on how pandas have a taste for sugar.
Making traffic bearable. How to design roadways to accommodate koala safety. Good lessons learned, as Jason Goldman reveals.
Hoofing it. Darren Naish on remarkably fleet footed pronghorns.
Going squirrelly. How the fox squirrel invaded the west. Great story by Jason Goldman.
Get outta here! Bethany Brookshire reveals that bats warn others to back off.
You should't juggle hibernating squirrels. But you could do it without waking them, as John Metcalfe finds.
Of mice and men. Erika Check Hayden on how some medical research on mice has been a big waste.
Mickey Mouse science. Disney created the lemming suicide myth. Excellent debunking by Annalee Newitz
What's that, Flipper? New software translates dolphin & primate "speech". Yes, really. Hal Hodson on real life Dr. Doolittle.
By gosh or by golly. Spectacular flight of a goshawk. Must view.
Phenomenal falcons. Red-throated caracaras. Sean McCann on some beautiful birds.
Tremendous tunesmiths. Hummingbird song in slo-mo. Amazing biology, shared by Kim Moynahan. View of the week.
Breath taking. How birds breathe is amazing, as Eldon Greij reveals.
It's complicated. Sarah Zielinski on how gender ratios mess up bird relationships.
Contraception & conception. How frog pants led to understanding fertilisation. Fun stuff by Katie Burke & Bethann Merkle.
Poisoning the kids…for their own well-being. Sarah Zielinski on some phenomenal frogs.
Under the sea. Turtles & sharks. Gorgeous photoessay, by Thomas Peschak.
Look. Don't touch. Poking, prodding, & petting sharks is just wrong. Important issue, perfectly considered by David Shiffman.
Making piece. Oarfish break up as a defence. Matt Simon continues his look at bizarre critters.
Taking a stand. Tripod fish has fins for "standing". Bec Crew on a curious critter.
A fresh start. Phenomenal freshwater fish, beautifully pictured by Michel Roggo.
Betta test sight. Spectacular Siamese fighting fish.
Phenomenal flatworms. Ah, Platyhelminthes. Joseph Jameson-Gould shares a gallery of beauty.
Clutch call. Octopus parasite shifts egg production by season. Tony Leung describes a remarkable relationship.
Animal or vegetable? Sea anemone genome has hallmarks of both.
Devilishly cute? A parasitic worm. Francie Diep on a face only a mother could love. Maybe.
What the shell? Nadia Drake on awesome snail species that are disappearing as fast as they're discovered.
A laughing matter? Do animals experience a sense of humour? Intriguing question, considered by Peter McGraw & Joel Warner.
Just kidding? When animals act like people in kids stories, we mess up kids' understanding of biology. Jason Goldman explains the evidence.
Are insects animals? Of course, but they don't figure prominently when folks think about animals. This Zazie Smith post about how people think about animals is fascinating.
Bugs' life – insects and other things that creep, crawl and otherwise delight – the arthropods
Hard to beat. James Gorman on how flies do calculus with wing beats.
Buzz kill? If you could kill all mosquitoes, would you? Should you? A real head-scratcher. Superb podcast, by Radiolab, featuring David Quammen. Listen of the week.
When life sucks…and it's a good thing. Feeding mosquitoes your own blood…for science. Great story, by Ed Yong.
Magnificent mimic. Spider? No. Moth. Simply amazing mimicry, shared by Carly Brooke.
Nothing to sniff at. Dragonflies' hidden sense of smell. Nsikan Akpan's story is nothing to sniff at.
Mighty munch. Behind beetles big bite. Victoria Gill looks into it.
This makes scents. Arachnid odour-generating leg glands. Chris Buddle describes some amazing arthropod anatomy.
Tremendous tolerance. Tardigrades are robust critters, as Matt Simon reveals.
Oh, behave! Linking particular neurons to particular behaviours in fly larvae. Cool piece of work, nicely described by Kate Yandell.
Anger management. The control of aggression in fruit flies. Fascinating biology, nicely explained by Jason Goldman.
The enemy of my enemy… Invasive crustacean kept in check by its persistent parasite, as Tony Leung reveals.
Sowing a better future. Gwen Pearson on planting a garden for pollinators, especially bees.
Root for the underdog! Dare you not to cheer for this upended wood louse. Awesome video, shared by Rose Eveleth.
Hips don't lie. Tell tale of weevil locomotion.
Fossil finds – organisms of times past – palaeontology, archaeology, anthropology, history and the like
Can you dig it?! Why palaeontology is important. Oh, and awesome! Jon Tennant makes a perfect case.
Fantastic fossil fern features. Jurassic chromosomes! Simply spectacular discovery, nicely explained by John Timmer. Read of the week.
Fern, golly! Stunning fossil plant cell preservation. Tia Ghose shares an astonishing palaeobotanical find.
Tremendous Tyrannosaurs. They ruled for 100M years. Brian Switek reviews the fearsome beasts.
Happy reunion. Two pieces of fossil turtle leg bone reunited create big story. Awesome discovery, wonderfully described by Brian Switek.
Boning up on things. Gigantic turtle leg fossil parts reunited. Amazing story on many levels, by Jonathan Amos.
A sort of homecoming. Cockroach deemed invasive resided there 49M years ago, as Rachel Nuwer reveals.
On the right track? Did an ancient spider leave fossil footprints behind? Cool find, wonderfully explained by Nadia Drake.
Sound solution. The emergence of echolocation in whale evolution. Excellent post on an amazing discovery, by Travis Park.
Taking a ribbing. Mammoths with extra ribs. Wasn't good for mammoths, as Beth Skwarecki expertly reveals.
Hand it to them. Did men or women make palaeolithic handprint cave paintings? Greg Laden considers the evidence at hand.
They chose…poorly? Some folks think they've found the Holy Grail. Yes, really. It belongs on a museum.
Done & dusted. Beer brewed from yeast from fossil dust. Yep. Kalliopi Monoyios on a new brew, created by Lost Rhino Brewing & Paleo Quest.
Beautiful botanicals – wonders of the photosynthesising world – that is, mainly plants
That's what fronds are for. A cycad makes its first cone. Cool find, nicely described by Tim Entwisle.
Roots of a solution. Breeding cassava to feed more people. Marissa Fessenden on the potentially profound impact of plant breeding.
Phenomenal flowers. Beautiful blooms, photographed by Andrew Zuckerman.
Microscopic marvels – smaller than the eye can see, but big in action – bacteria, fungi and viruses
This will mess with your mind. In the best way. Genius TED Talk by Ed Yong on parasites that alter host brains. Seriously, please do yourself a favour & set aside 14 mins to view this. It's pure gold. View of the week.
The drugs don't work. Drug-resistant malaria & the battle against it. Amazing, must read, by Ed Yong. Read of the week.
The kids are alright? Serious drug-resistant infections in children on the rise. Maryn McKenna on an important issue.
Gonorrhea grapples. Nsikan Akpan on the microbe that has hooks for transmission.
Resurrecting a giant. Huge, ancient virus revived from suspended animation. Cool discovery. Great explanation by S.E. Gould
When sex goes viral. Ed Yong on how a sexually-transmitted virus makes crickets amorous.
Love sick. Jalees Rehman on how a virus ramps up cricket mating.
All together now! Bacteria engineered to do extraordinary things when they aggregate. Cool bit of synthetic biology, beautifully described by Nadia Drake.
Molecular machinery – the toils of the macromolecules of life – nucleic acids and proteins (and others) – from molecules to cells to organs to organisms (including genetics & genomics)
It all started with a quagga. A snippet of ancient equine DNA changed science. Brilliant review of the discoveries made using ancient DNA, by Ewen Callaway. Read of the week.
"Sexual preference is one of the most strongly genetically determined behavioural traits..." Quote by Kevin Mitchell from a superb consideration of the genetics of sexual preference. Read of the week.
Have you herd? Vaccination & value of herd immunity. Excellent (comic) explainer, by Parasite Ecology.
Missing the shot. Global cost of people not being vaccinated. Important post by Michaeleen Doucleff, with an outstanding illustrative gif.
Piecing life together. Ewen Callaway on how undergrads have helped build an edited, synthetic, yeast chromosome.
Write on! Heavily edited, functional, synthetic yeast chromosome written from scratch. Awesome piece of research, expertly described by Ed Yong.
Take a stand. Doing desk work while standing seems to have benefits, as Joseph Stromberg explains.
Oh, the irony. Homeopathic product recalled. It contained real medicine. Super critique, by Steven Novella.
Up close & personal. Life under a microscope. Beautiful.
Forces of nature – big-ticket items – ecology, evolution & extinction
Madam, I'm Adam. Nope. There was no "first human". Super explainer, by Joe Hanson.
"Spring can really hang you up the most." So crooned Ella Fitzgerald. But she probably didn't know about birch trees and wood frogs, which embrace spring's icy grip. I wrote this.
Word to the wise. Holly Dunsworth on wisdom teeth and evolution. Great stuff.
Everything's gone green? Sometimes urban greening isn't great. Thought provoking find, nicely explained by Roberta Kwok.
Water works. It makes remarkable biology, as Elizabeth Pennisi reveals.
Ripples in snow. Microbe evolution. Gravitational waves. What kind of fool tries to connect such things? This kind. I wrote this.
Earth, wind and fire – planet shaping – geology, meteorology, oceanography, the environment & climate
Reef or madness. The Great Barrier Reef. Brilliant, must read by Oliver Milman, Christian Bennett, & Mike Bowers. Read of the week.
Rocky road. The history of mapping geological features. Interesting post, by David Bressan.
The Earth is exhausting. Literally. It's venting carbon dioxide all the time, as Robin Wylie reveals.
What's up? Paintings of the sky hold record of what was in the air. Emily Gertz on another value of art.
Spring sprung. In some places, the seasons have moved on…beautifully. Lovely ode to the emerging spring, by Sarah Boon.
Star attractions – the final frontier, space
Across the universe. Remarkable size of the cosmos. Awesome animated explainer, by Beakus. View of the week.
One giant amount giants. Our galaxy.
Surprise! Space holds some spectacularly surprising stuff. Nadia Drake discovers astronomers' picks of the most surprising.
Smashing outcome! In 4 billion years the Milky Way & Andromeda will collide, but our Sun will survive. Nadia Drake is very reassuring!
Our days are numbered. The expanding Sun will make Earth uninhabitable in 1B years, as Astroquizzical explains.
A star is born. Actually, many are born & nurtured in a gorgeous nebula. Awesome picture of the cosmos, shared by Nadia Drake.
Galaxies galore. Galactic pile on.
'Round they go. Stars' clockwise orbits at 90km/s. Phil Plait spins a great story.
Spectacular spiral. Resides in Virgo Cluster. Ethan Siegel takes a long look.
It's got flare. The Sun's powerful blasts, shared by Lizzie Gibney.
Plume with a view. Eruptions on Io & Venus. Erik Klemetti looks into them.
An asteroid with a side of rings. Jonathan Amos on some delectable disks.
A little lord of the rings. Tiny asteroid has its own ring system, as Lizzie Gibney reveals.
Ring of truth to it. Nicola Jenner describes a rocky asteroid travelling with its own ring system.
Asteroid with bling. Adam Mann beautifully describes a ringed wonder.
Way out there. Alexandra Witze on a dwarf planet at solar system's edge.
Here be monsters? Might a distant "super Earth" be lurking distantly in our Solar System? Ian Sample considers the evidence.
Distant relations? Nicola Jenner on how a new planet suggests existence of "super-Earth" in outer reaches of Solar System.
Far out! Jonathan Amos describes a new dwarf planet that has a huge orbit around Sun.
Think Pluto is lonely? It's got nothing on the distant orbit of this new dwarf planet, as Michael Wall reveals.
'Round they go? Are other undiscovered planets orbiting sun like newly discovered distant dwarf world? Stuart Clark takes a look.
Explosive discovery. Irene Klotz looks at the recent volcanic activity on Venus.
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It comes naturally. Nature may look unnatural sometimes. It isn't. Superb look at the cosmos, by Sean Carroll. Read of the week.
Touched by time. We are awash in the remnants of the Big Bang. Wonderful, beautiful description, by Brian Koberlein. Read of the week.
The incredible being of lightness. How photons work is phenomenal. This Matthew Francis piece will blow your mind. Read of the week.
Holey moley! The term "black hole" had a curious origin, 50 years ago, as Tom Siegfried describes.
Ripple effect. Gravitational waves create ripples of excitement for physics. Ian Sample gets the views of folks in the know.
Making waves. Gravitational waves create tides of change in physics, as Ron Cowen reveals.
Path of least resistance. Light, animals, & the speediest route. Brilliant comparison of how nature takes the easy route, by Aatish Bhatia. Read of the week.
In pools, the p is not silent. Urine & chlorine make for bad chemistry, as Julie Beck describes.
Unknown known. Rare earth elements are ubiquitous, yet few are aware of them. Justin Rowlatt on a rarely discussed, and important, topic. Read of the week.
Buy the numbers? If kaiju emergence really followed math, Pacific Rim would have been, oh, 25 min long. Kyle Hill finds thing just add up. Great fun.
Dance, dance revolution. How to hack a Kinect to create an awesome dance video. Cool home project, by Aatish Bhatia.
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"I once had a friend who was almost suffocated by cheesecake." Quote from a brilliant piece by Tania Browne on cancer, cheesecake & the stigma of mental illness. Read of the week.
Err conditioning? The good & bad of Skinner's behaviourist thinking. Thought-provoking look at the famous psychologist, by George Dvorsky.
All in your head. Inside your brain. Carl Zimmer shares the "wow!".
Gut reaction. Virginia Hughes finds that the effect of weight-loss surgery might be due to bile acids & microbes.
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Sex sells. The sexiest part of the brain is, well, the sexiest, as Christian Jarrett reveals.
This rocks! People convinced that their hands are made of stone. Elizabeth Preston on our perception of self.
About face. Face-blind folks still discriminate other objects. Foils expertise hypothesis, as Andreas von Bubnoff reveals.
Read all about it! "Spritzing" is the latest thing in speed reading. Here's the science, by Dana Smith.
Not so smart. Does taking "smart pills" really make you smarter? What do you think? Camilla d'Angelo has a smart take on this.
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Bah, humbug! Want to ruin a classic children's story? Bring modern medicine into the mix. Elizabeth Preston does the killjoy thing.
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A force of nature. Jane Goodall turns 80 next week. She is a wonder. Super homage for an amazing person, by Barbara King.
Leading the wild life. Wonderful profile of teenage wildlife photographer Will Nicholls, by Victoria Gill.
Going natural. Advantages of natural history for science & society are plentiful. Superb review, by Terry Wheeler and colleagues.
In this week's Cosmos, Robert Hooke was depicted harshly. Was this fair? Hmm. He was complicated, as Alisdair Wilkins describes.
Letter perfect. Wonderful exchange between Benzer, Monod, Jacob & Lwoff on Nobel Prize. Great fun, shared by Matthew Cobb.
Some like it hot? The "sexing up" of science. Is this a good thing? Dean Burnett bring the humour to a serious issue. Great stuff.
Getting it write. How to generate a news story based on a scientific paper. Great advice by Ian Sample.
Class act. What happens when science communication is brought into the classroom? Matt Shipman takes a look.
Letter perfect? When it comes to capturing a researcher's worth, the h-index gets an F. Compelling case, by Stacy Konkiel.
The show must go on? Narratives of why people leave, or stay in, PhD programs. Crucial consideration, by Inger Mewburn.
Making it big time? Flex in science work schedule may not be all it's cracked up to be, as Sarah Shailes finds.
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Yuwa uses team sport to combat child marriage and human trafficking, empowering young women in rural India. Founded in January of 2009 with 15 girls in one village, Yuwa now trains over 250 girls from 15 villages, with average daily attendance of 150, six days a week. From that first team of 15 girls – sisters, cousins and friends from a tiny tribal village – three have already made it onto the Indian national junior women's team. Yuwa's girls have changed the expectation of a woman's role in their communities.
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CAPE CANAVERAL - NASA is resuming shuttle flights to the International Space Station despite a known problem that could trigger the loss of both spacecraft and their crews, a risk deemed unacceptable by an agency safety panel.
There is a remote chance -- between one in 10,000 and one in 1 million -- that one of the shuttle's steering jets could inadvertently ignite while the orbiter is docked at the station, generating enough force to rip the joined spaceships apart.
Air would rush out of the station. There would be no time to escape. Astronauts on the shuttle and station likely would be killed, according to NASA documents obtained by FLORIDA TODAY under the Freedom of Information Act.
NASA's Station Safety Review Panel said the steering jet hazard is a "must fix" before shuttles return to flight. It withdrew support for a longstanding waiver that enabled shuttles to fly despite the problem. The safety panel and the independent NASA Engineering and Safety Center propose the agency replace wiring that could cause the thrusters to fire on their own before station construction resumes later this year.
No permanent fix will be in place by the time shuttle Discovery blasts off next month.
Agency documents and interviews show NASA is taking interim steps to protect crews from accidental thruster firings on the first two post-Columbia missions. Managers wonder whether it is worthwhile to replace the wiring or to spend $36 million and three years to redesign the thruster system, given the low probability of failure. The shuttles are scheduled to retire in 2010.
"We're still working through understanding exactly what the situation is, and understanding the exact risks, and debating and discussing what's the best possible action to take," NASA shuttle program manager Bill Parsons said.
"This is not an easy one, where you just make a decision and move on. This is in a gray area," he said. "So it's requiring a lot more attention and a lot more analysis to make sure we're doing the right thing."
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The problem lies within the shuttle's reaction control system.
Made up of 44 steering jets in the orbiter's nose and tail, the system is designed to control shuttles in space and also helps guide the ships to safe landings as they plummet through Earth's atmosphere.
Two electronics boxes, called reaction jet drivers, route firing commands to the thrusters from the shuttle commander's stick, the ship's onboard computers or engineers at NASA's Mission Control in Houston. A deadened thump, like muffled cannon fire, resounds outside cockpit windows when thrusters fire, shaking the shuttle's crew cabin.
NASA managers have known since the early 1980s that thrusters could fire inadvertently. It's happened five times when shuttles were not docked to another spacecraft. NASA deemed the risk acceptable then because the crew could recover if the shuttle were accidentally propelled through open space. The consequences increase when two ships are linked because crews would have no time to react before the craft rip apart.
Since 1995, when shuttles began docking at Russia's former Mir space station, astronauts have controlled the hazard by turning off jet power when spaceships are joined in orbit. NASA has continued that practice during dockings at the international station.
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New fears arose after the Columbia accident. The station's safety review panel started looking at every known catastrophic risk to the 206-ton space complex. They identified one they deemed unacceptable: the possible uncommanded thruster firing by a visiting shuttle.
They ordered further study in mid-2003, and the analyses showed a thruster could fire even when power to the system is turned off. That meant the method NASA had used for years to control the risk could not be guaranteed to prevent the problem.
Frayed wiring and the resulting electrical shorts could trigger an unintended firing. The failure of transistors within the electronics boxes could, too. So could erroneous commands from shuttle computers, or devices that relay firing commands from the computers to the suspect electronics boxes.
The engineering reviews also showed that an inadvertent firing lasting 1.5 seconds or longer could produce enough force to break off the station's solar wings or radiators or even fracture the hardware holding the docked shuttle to the station. Those and other scenarios could easily destroy the space complex and the docked shuttle, killing all aboard.
The problem now is considered one of the most serious threats to the $100 million station, on par with a collision with a visiting spacecraft, a deadly strike from orbital debris or a medical emergency.
"This ranks right up there," said NASA station program manager William Gerstenmaier. "It's in that range of things."
Short-term fixes
The shuttle program determined the chance of inadvertent firings is so low that the risk is acceptable.
But at the behest of the station program, shuttle engineers developed a software patch for NASA's first two post-Columbia missions. Shuttle computers will automatically detect an unordered thruster firing, then shut it down before damage could be done.
The station's power-producing solar wings also will be repositioned to reduce structural loads when shuttles are docked at the outpost. That would prevent them from being damaged in a firing.
The measures are meant to protect crews on the two upcoming test flights, when the station's size and configuration will remain the same as it is today. The half-built station, however, will become more susceptible to serious damage from inadvertent firings once astronauts resume construction.
As the station grows, so too will the stress the structure must bear. Consequently, shuttle computers no longer will be able to shut down the thruster system quickly enough to prevent potentially catastrophic damage.
Safety engineers determined the new software patch would be inadequate once a second American power tower is erected during a shuttle mission set for launch in December. Once unfurled in space, its massive solar arrays will have a wingspan greater than that of a Boeing 747. And both the arrays and its base -- a skeletal truss -- won't be able to take the force imparted during an inadvertent firing.
The gleaming blue-and-gold solar wings and the tower's base could snap off and slam into the hull of the station's living and laboratory modules.
"This is becoming a more serious issue," said NASA Engineering and Safety Center deputy director Rick Gilbrech, who headed a group looking into the thruster concerns. "Our main focus as we see it is to lay out the facts to the decision-makers . . . so their eyes are wide open about the risks they are taking."
Those risks also include potential dangers under other circumstances.
Propelled by an unintended firing, a 100-ton shuttle orbiter could strike a spacewalking astronaut. A jet plume could, too. Or a 50-foot shuttle robot arm could crack off at its base with a spacewalker anchored to its end, both floating toward oblivion. Even ground technicians at Kennedy Space Center could be killed if a steering thruster suddenly ignited while they were servicing the jets.
The station review panel wants shuttle managers to take action in addition to the software patch. They want NASA to inspect or replace thruster system wiring and order a redesign of the suspect electronics boxes.
At the same time, the group from the safety center -- an organization created after the Columbia accident to provide impartial analyses on safety issues -- also recommends that shuttle managers inspect or replace wiring before resuming ISS construction after the two post-Columbia test flights.
About 4,000 feet of thruster system wiring is in each of NASA's three shuttle orbiters. All of it is sheathed in Kapton, a material that tends to fray, which could induce electrical shorts. Much of the cable is either inaccessible or buried in bundles that can't be reached easily.
"We originally recommended 100 percent inspections because there was uncertainty as to the condition of the wiring. But they can only see the outside of the bundles. They said (complete inspections) would be too intrusive," Gilbrech said.
"We said, 'If that's the case, to eliminate doubt, we recommend replacing the wire.' "
The safety center group also intends to make a recommendation on a redesign of the electronics boxes after it finishes testing aged internal transistors. The electronics boxes, designed to last 10 years, are more than 20 years old. No program had been initiated to requalify the devices for extended use.
The agency is planning to inspect the wiring, but it is unlikely 100 percent of the recommended work could be done in time to resume station construction by the end of the year. A decision is pending on wholesale replacement, and NASA will make a call on a redesign of the electronics boxes after the NASA safety center issues its recommendation.
Parsons and Gerstenmaier are confident the safety review teams from the station and shuttle programs ultimately will come to a consensus on the right course of action. If not, they'll take the matter up with more senior NASA officials.
"I think the good thing is we're discussing this at length and we're not jumping to any conclusions. We're trying to get the appropriate data to make the right decisions," Parsons said. "We're willing to go do what we think is the right thing. But we're also willing to bump it up to a higher authority if we can't come to an agreement."
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National Weather Service meteorologists eyeballing Hurricane Sandy now are looking at a 21-hour window of mayhem for all of Western New York, with strong winds and saturated ground combining to topple trees, block roadways and take out power lines.
Water surges along Lake Ontario and Lake Erie also are anticipated.
The latest high-wind warning went into effect at 5 p.m. and remains until 2 p.m. Tuesday for all of Western New York.
As most of Western New York braced for the spin-off effects of Hurricane Sandy, consequences already were being felt, with about half of today's flights already canceled at Buffalo Niagara International Airport.
But it will be hours until anybody learns how extensive any power outages might be.
The remnants of Hurricane Sandy will bring an unusual guest to Western New York – northerly winds, rather than the usual southwest or west.
"There definitely are going to be issues with power," National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Mitchell said. "We've never seen winds from the north, northeasterly direction at this speed. We've never seen this before."
Forecasters are calling for sustained north winds of up to 40 mph, with gusts up to 65 mph. Those speeds, while high, usually aren't enough to create major headaches.
But there are two additional factors that will make things worse this time.
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Equally important is the wind direction that makes our trees more vulnerable to winds from the north or northeast, as opposed to the normal southwest or west.
"Their root structure, by its nature, is stronger on the west side of the trees, to anchor them in better," Mitchell explained. "Some of them actually tilt slightly to the east, due to the sustained westerly winds. So they're built to withstand the west wind. The way they're anchored, the north and east sides of the trees aren't as strong."
The National Weather Service issued the high-wind warnings, even though the projected winds speeds barely qualified for those warnings.
Mitchell cited the damage left here in August 2011 by Tropical Storm Irene, which ushered in lighter winds than are expected in this storm.
"We were getting sub-warning winds that were taking down trees," he said.
As of shortly after noon today, the airport reported 56 out of about 110 daily flights already canceled today.
"We're still flying to Lauderdale and Atlanta, and everything west is leaving on time and coming in," said C. Douglas Hartmayer, Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority director of public affairs. As expected, the cancellations have been concentrated in the flights to and from the New York City airports, Newark, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington.
Details on any disruptions in Metro Bus service later today and Tuesday can be found on the NFTA.com website, Hartmayer said.
During a briefing on the storm today, Mayor Byron W. Brown said the city does not anticipate moving Halloween trick-or-treating away from Wednesday night.
Brown also doesn't think the city will issue any travel advisories, but warned drivers that the strongest winds are predicted from 8 tonight to 2 a.m. Tuesday.
He also urged residents to bring in patio furniture or Halloween decorations that could blow away in the wind.
City crews are out clearing storm drains, and the presence of leaves on the trees could make damage from the storm worse, said Public Works Commissioner Steven J. Stepniak.
Brown warned residents to stay away from power lines that have fallen to the ground and to treat them as if they are electrified. He also advised motorists to abide by all road closures.
Parking rules in the city have not changed, though city parking enforcement will use "common sense," said Parking Commissioner Kevin Helfer.
Meanwhile, schools, colleges and many civic organizations are beginning to cancel events for tonight and Tuesday, including Buffalo State College canceling all evening classes and events beginning at 4:30 p.m. or later today. A decision on Tuesday classes will be posted on the Buffalo State website between 5 and 6 a.m. Tuesday.
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This November, our [Words Without Borders] book The Wall in My Head, will commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, but also, the wave of revolutions that preceded and followed it. The book will look back on the great change that came with 1989 and examine how the promise of that decade has weathered the twenty years since then.
The Wall in My Head dwells extensively; humorously, poignantly, quirkily, on different views of the fall of the Iron Curtain—that of the generation of writers that witnessed it and often, had played a role in bringing it down, and more recently, the generation that inherited a memory of the Cold War and who write in the shadow of its monuments of division.
We hope that the publication of this book will prompt discussion about the events of '89 and their relevance to today's world, one in which the prospect of change has once again assumed a vital importance. To encourage this exchange of ideas, we have asked a variety of people; writers, translators, scholars, and witnesses to the events of those last years of the Cold War, to blog for us for the next several months. Their dispatches will range from discussions of the contents of the book to observations about current events and important anniversaries, as well as posts on the art, photography and film of the last years of the Cold War. I hope you'll follow along, and that you'll join in with your comments, as well as your own recollections, observations and news about this important anniversary.
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After 20 years of photoemission research at Beamline 7, ALS Senior Scientist Eli Rotenberg has taken on a new role in overseeing a complete rebuild of the beamline and its endstations. The project will expand Beamline 7's footprint to include three endstations, three preparation chambers, and space to expand. The new setup will offer 1000-times better spatial resolution and at least 10-times better energy resolution.
"Beamline 7 wasn't initially built for very high energy resolution," says Rotenberg. "When it was built it was very good in other regards – high brightness and small spot size – but after 20 years the beamline and endstations were a bit mismatched."
The endstations at Beamline 7 had evolved over the years to be pretty state-of-the-art; users come from around the world to do electronic structure research here. Rotenberg has always seen the potential for improving the 50-micron beamline resolution. About 10 years ago, he began building support for a proposal to get the resolution to less than a micron and bring the energy resolution up to current standards at the same time.
"We're always trying to keep up with the state-of-the-art," says Rotenberg. "At the time our proposal was submitted, it was revolutionary."
Users have come to rely on Beamline 7 as a top-of-the-line facility for growing their own crystals and measuring them in place, a capability that Rotenberg says has been perfected in large part because of close collaboration with users. The rebuild will expand these capabilities with advanced spatial resolution, which will benefit users and Rotenberg's own graphene research.
"There won't be anything in the world this comprehensive," says Rotenberg. "We'll be able to grow anything and look at non-homogeneous samples in amazing detail."
Rotenberg also sees the renovated Beamline 7 (modeled at right) fitting in really well with the Lab's new mesoscale science initiative because it will offer the spatial resolution necessary to study emerging phenomenon.
"We know a lot about what electrons and materials do at the atomic scale and large scale," says Rotenberg. "This would be the first time that we'd be able to look at complex materials at the medium scale and understand what's happening."
If everything falls into place as planned, Rotenberg says the ALS should see the first light down the new Beamline 7 this summer, and light to the endstations in the fall. See some photos of Sector 7 upgrade on the Shutdown 2013 Update page.
Steve Kevan, ALS Deputy Division Director for Science
ALS Deputy Division Director of Science Steve Kevan has a long and collaborative history with the ALS – he's been involved with the facility since its planning stages, is a veteran user, a longtime member of the ALS Scientific Advisory Council, and was the first chair of the Users' Executive Committee.
It's fitting then that Kevan joined the ALS in July shortly before our historically significant 20th anniversary. He brings insights drawn from his many years working with the ALS, his experience as a professor of physics at University of Oregon since 1986, and his own research, which is focused on undulator radiation. Kevan worked on the team that built the first beamline at the ALS and led the construction of Beamline 12.0.2 in 2001, which was a first step toward a dedicated and flexible coherent soft x-ray scattering and imaging beamline and has led to the construction of the COSMIC beamline.
In his new role at the ALS, one of Kevan's primary directives has been to explore career development opportunities for beamline scientists and graduate students. Kevan says he started looking into professional development for scientists even before he joined the ALS – he describes it as an area that's difficult to define at a facility devoted to serving users.
"As the ALS approaches middle age, many of our beamline scientists are approaching middle age as well," says Kevan. "We need to make sure we are fostering an entrepreneurial, collaborative approach that serves them well."
Kevan sees the ALS scientists as an integral part of the user experience. "We offer tools, but our beamline scientists are the experts in using those tools," he says. "People need help using our tools and analyzing data, and our people are the keys to providing that service."
Kevan is also focusing his initial efforts on building collaboration and community among scientific staff. At the urging of senior scientist Elke Arenholz, Kevan has created collaborative groups of beamline scientists organized by interest areas rather than management structure. Many of the scientists in these groups came together recently for a brainstorming workshop to discuss how the ALS might contribute to the DOE's recent mesoscale research initiative.
"I've already seen beamline scientists discovering through these groups that some of their colleagues were doing things that they didn't know about but found interesting," Kevan says.
This collaborative approach focused on research areas will guide some of Kevan's other big-picture projects this year as well. Most immediately, he's working on the ALS strategic plan, which he's organizing by scientific subject areas that will align with internal "cross-cut" reviews, which are focused on subject areas rather than beamlines. Kevan hopes to have cross-cut reviews for each subject area every three years.
"Our goal is to be a 'collaboratory,' not just a user facility," says Kevan. "We want to help people solve problems, use our facility better, make progress, and collaborate with them."
Doug Taube, ALS Chemical Safety Specialist
As a chemical safety specialist, Doug Taube oversees chemical safety and experiment review for both ALS scientists and users. A natural result of his job description is his broad knowledge of all the techniques and experiments taking place around the experiment floor. Because of this and his affable and enthusiastic demeanor, Taube has become a go-to ALS tour guide. It's a role he enjoys and views as an opportunity to enlighten others about the amazing and important scientific research underway here.
Taube, who holds a PhD in chemistry and worked as a catalyst chemist for ten years, joined the ranks of the ALS two and a half years ago. He estimates he's given more than 150 tours since then, with groups ranging from distinguished guests from the Office of the UC President to fifth graders. He enjoys them all, but says that the best tours are really those with people who engage with him. "Regardless of their knowledge, it's more interesting when there's some give and take," says Taube.
When he's not entertaining tour groups with ALS history quizzes and accelerator science trivia, Taube is busy ensuring experiment safety at the ALS. The signs posted around the facility that inform users wondering about experimental procedure: "Better Call Doug!" pretty much say it all. Before users can access the ALS User Chemistry Labs or proceed with experiments on the beamline floor, they need Doug's approval.
"I get the rare treat of visiting with just about every user who comes through the ALS. I make sure they're doing their experiment safely then I get to ask them the big-picture questions about why they are doing their work" says Taube.
Taube earned his PhD in inorganic chemistry at UC Santa Barbara and then spent three and a half years at UC San Diego doing post-doc work before moving into industry. He worked as a catalyst chemist for ten years and another ten years in safety at Catalytica in Mountain View before coming to the ALS. Taube also taught freshman chemistry at Cal State Hayward for several years. His broad background has given him the ability to appreciate the many types of scientific research at the ALS, and to explain and elaborate upon it for his tour groups.
Steve Rossi, Project and Facility Management
Around this time of year, Steve Rossi, project and facility management group leader at ALS, shifts his focus to shutdown mode. Preparation and planning for the weeks that the ALS is out of commission is a huge part of Rossi's job. While much of this is invisible to users, all of it is absolutely essential to the maintenance and growth of the ALS.
"This is a pivotal shutdown," says Rossi. "We have many multi-year projects that are finally coming to fruition."
The ALS shutdown is scheduled for February 4 through April 8, 2013, which is slightly longer than usual to accommodate this year's to-do list. Rossi's list includes work on the ALS controls upgrade, sextupole magnet installations, MAESTRO front-end and beamline installation, an RF power supply upgrade and replacement of the storage ring bend magnet power supply.
"At the ALS we're always chasing an increase in performance and reliability," says Rossi. "And shutdown is when we work towards reaching those goals."
The RF upgrade, a $4.8 million project, and the controls upgrade, a $7.6 million project, have been many years in the planning stage, says Rossi. The work on these two projects will largely be transparent to users, but they are essential to the future of the ALS – the controls upgrade will update and replace an aging controls system and the RF upgrade will give the ALS vastly improved backup capabilities in addition to the ability to provide more RF power to the storage ring.
"We're doing our job right if users never notice the work we've done," says Rossi, "because that means we're identifying our vulnerabilities and investing in them before our users see them."
This forward-looking viewpoint is what much of Rossi's work is based on. He describes his position as "an inch deep and a mile wide," which is apt when taking into consideration what he's responsible for – the overall project portfolio of the ALS and the oversight and coordination of maintenance and facility projects. As such, Rossi often serves as a bridge between operations and technical staff – coordinating projects and the players involved in carrying them through to fruition. He describes his management philosophy as "not looking into the past, but projecting into the future."
Elke Arenholz, Senior Scientist, Scientific Support Group
Senior scientist Elke Arenholz has seen a lot of changes at Beamlines 4.0.2 and 6.3.1 since she arrived at the ALS in 2000, but what brought her here initially is still what keeps her passionate about her work – designing new instrumentation and working with the user community to optimize research capabilities.
Arenholz's first big project at the ALS ended up becoming her "claim to fame" – an eight-pole electromagnet that provides magnetic fields up to 0.8 T in arbitrary directions relative to the incoming x-ray beam.
"It was really exciting to build and it had a huge impact right away because we were able to use it characterize materials in a way that no one had before," says Arenholz. "It was the first device installed at a synchrotron that could apply the magnetic field in any direction, instead of just having it parallel to the x ray beam."
Arenholz has continued with this theme ever since, always asking: "How can we extract some new information?" Typically, the answer involves working with engineering to create a new experimental configuration.
"I want to understand very fundamentally the interaction of x-rays with magnetic materials, and to do that I build new systems that people haven't used before," says Arenholz. "It's a lot of fun, and we are really lucky to have a wonderful engineering department here at the Lab with lots of experts."
In 2011, her group, which includes Beamline Scientists Catherine Jenkins and Padraic Shafer, completed work on a first-of-its-kind, ARRA-funded superconducting vector magnet. The magnet, which is a superconducting version of Arenholz's eight-pole electromagnet, provides fields up to 5 T in arbitrary directions.
Arenholz has focused on spectroscopy for much of her career, but she has recently turned her attention to scattering—studying x ray diffraction patterns from periodic structures on the nanoscale. Once again, this shift required building a new endstation. The LDRD-funded system that was installed at Beamline 4.0.2 last fall uses a superconducting disc of 0.8" diameter to generate 4T at the sample while still allowing maximum flexibility for the scattering geometry.
While Arenholz enjoys her own research and the continual process of advancing beamline and endstation capabilities, she also finds her interactions with users at the beamline very rewarding. She describes her work life as consisting of two experiments: the scientific ones and the anthropological experiment of working with users.
"There's a lot of teaching involved," says Arenholz. "I am constantly thinking 'How can I explain things better to users and make the system operation easier so that they make the best use of the experimental capabilities and beamtime?'"
In addition to her work at the ALS, Arenholz is an academic editor for AIP Advances, on the editorial board of the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (JMMM), and program co-chair for the 2013 Joint MMM/Intermag Conference.
David Shuh, Senior Scientist, Chemical Sciences Division
For the past decade, David Shuh has led one of the most in-demand beamlines at the ALS. In addition to his position as a Senior Scientist in Berkeley Lab's Chemical Sciences Division (CSD), Shuh is Project Leader at ALS Beamline 11.0.2 , the Molecular Environmental Sciences (MES) Beamline, a leading national resource in the field of soft x-ray synchrotron radiation research. Research at the MES Beamline has provided some of the first significant molecular-level understandings of important chemical and physical processes taking place at interfaces under real or more realistic conditions than ever before possible.
Run by the LBNL CSD in partnership with the ALS, Shuh credits the MES Beamline's popularity and success to multiple factors, a primary one being its initiation with a strong, innovative, and sufficiently developed scientific program proposed by the initial core research team members (Hendrik Bluhm-CSD, Mary K. Gilles-CSD, and Tolek Tyliszczak-ALS). Secondly, the needs of the scientific programs were expertly translated into a revolutionary general-purpose beamline operating from 75 eV to about 2100 eV downstream of an elliptical polarization undulator (EPU) and flagship endstations. The beamline construction team was led by Tony Warwick and they did a fabulous job including the development of a fantastic monochromator.
"The contributions and dedication of the core research team and the scientists at the MES Beamline have been key to the development of scientific programs, endstations, support of general users, and general user scientific programs," says Shuh.
Shuh also notes that it was the strong and unwavering support of the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, through the Divisions of Materials Science and Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences, that enabled the construction of the MES Beamline.
"The strong operational support provided early on from of the DOE's Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences served as a solid foundation for all the developments that have followed at the MES Beamline," says Shuh. "And the partnership and support we've received from the ALS has also been key to our success."
The MES Beamline Scanning Transmission X-Ray Microscope (STXM) endstation is a top worldwide resource for a diverse set of scientific investigations utilizing soft x-ray STXM. The endstation pair – the MES Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (APXPS) endstations are leaders in surface studies of interfaces at pressures approaching 10 Torr for a wide range of energy research. Shuh notes that several other synchrotron radiation facilities have built similar beamlines and endstations, adding that "imitation is the highest form of flattery."
The MES research team's significant scientific diversity and history has also been a major contributor to the success of the beamline, says Shuh. Physicists Tolek Tyliszczak and Hendrik Bluhm, as well as chemist Mary K. Gilles, were all involved early on in the MES Beamline effort.
"The scientific diversity of the staff, their expertise, dedication, and years of experience are invaluable to the wide range of users at the MES Beamline and in general to the ALS as well," says Shuh.
The MES Beamline scientists have been recognized over the years for their development of beamline endstation instrumentation. Tolek Tyliszczak has been awarded two ALS Klaus Halbach Awards for Innovative Instrumentation as part of two teams for STXM developments in 2002 and 2010. Similarly, Hendrik Bluhm was part of a team awarded a Halbach Award in 2004 and an R&D 100 Award in 2010 for the development of ambient pressure photoelectron spectroscopy.
Shuh and the MES team have seen many accomplishments over the years at the MES Beamline – he notes that they've had a tremendous impact in magnetic dynamics, the development and use of in-situ reaction cells for science in the soft x-ray regime, environmental science, and a significant impact on realistic catalysis and interfacial science across the board.
In addition to his role at the MES Beamline, Shuh is the Director of the Glenn T. Seaborg Center and is a co-lead on the Berkeley Lab Critical Materials Initiative. Shuh, along with Frances Houle (CSD), will work toward reducing current shortages and preventing future shortages through advances in nanoscience, chemistry, materials science, computation and theory, physics, materials genomics, and energy analysis techniques. The project will make use of Department of Energy national user facilities located throughout the country.
Mike Martin, Infrared Beamlines Leader and Deputy Group Leader, Scientific Support Group
I have been at the ALS for 15 years now, and continue to enjoy being a part of this dynamic and always interesting facility. My main job continues to be the primary Beamline Scientist for the ALS infrared beamlines (BL 1.4 and BL 5.4). Together with Hans Bechtel, we help a diverse array of scientists perform FTIR spectromicrsocopy on their samples. We continue to push the boundaries of the science that synchrotron infrared beamlines can enable, recently exploring two new directions. Taking spectral imaging into the third dimension, we are developing FTIR spectral microtomography, and on the nano scale, well sub-diffraction limited probing via scattering the light off an AFM tip.
I wear a number of other hats around the ALS and Berkeley Lab. I am proud to be a Deputy Group Leader for the ALS Scientific Support Group (SSG) under Zahid Hussain. The SSG's primary mission is to support the efforts of researchers at the ALS through scientific and technical collaboration and scientific outreach. We run and develop many of the ALS beamlines, organize a variety of seminars, help grow the pool of future synchrotron scientists via the ALS Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowship programs, and pioneer many technical developments. The SSG plays an important role in keeping ALS science ahead of the game and maintaining the ALS as an outstanding national user facility.
I participate actively in several safety efforts for the ALS division and the Lab. I am the current chair of the ALS Staff Safety Committee which helps write safety policies by investigating whenever an incident provides opportunities to learn, and making sure that the division follows through with effective corrective actions. I also co-chair the ALS Beamline Review Committee which ensures beamlines are designed, built, and maintained for safety as well as technical excellence. I am the ALS representative on the LBNL Safety Advisory Committee and am also a member of the LBNL Institutional Biosafety Committee. I have recently been working on a Lab-wide effort to recognize and enhance our safety culture, and if you're a Berkeley Lab staff member you'll soon hear more about how "Safety is Elemental."
For the broader synchrotron community, I will soon be taking over as US Editor for Synchrotron Radiation News starting with Volume 26. SRN provides review articles on specific areas of synchrotron research, project updates of new light sources, meeting reports, and a new product section. I am looking forward to working with many of you in keeping this publication a widely read and useful journal for the synchrotron community! I welcome your suggestions and comments (
Musa Ahmed, Senior Scientist, Chemical Dynamics Beamline
At more than 17 years old, the Chemical Dynamics Beamline (ALS Beamline 9.0.2) is one of the oldest beamlines at the ALS. Over those years, the scientific thrusts at the beamline have evolved from performing state-of-the-art reaction dynamics studies to probing and understanding the physical and chemical principles that govern complicated phenomena in nature. Strongly coupled with this interest is a realization that research should be guided by the grand scientific challenges of the 21st century. Gaining a molecular level understanding of alternative carbon neutral energy sources and how to mitigate the effects of global climate change are themes that currently drive a number of users and beamline staff.
The beamline has four terminals—two with monochromators—which deliver vacuum ultraviolet light in the range of 7.4-25 eV. A number of endstations, all configured with mass spectrometers, measure and quantify processes which are relevant to a broad range of fields, particularly combustion and aerosol science, electronic structure of radicals, molecules and clusters in the gas phase and analysis of complicated systems, such as bacterial biofilms, atmospheric aerosols, fossil feathers and soil. Four of the endstations dedicated to molecular beams, aerosol studies, low-temperature reaction studies and imaging mass spectrometry are in-house facilities. Two "roll-up" endstations come from the Sandia Livermore combustion research facility where flame chemists and reaction kineticists probe complex molecules in exquisite detail and discover species never seen before using synchrotron radiation (see ALS Science Highlight "Direct Kinetic Measurements of a Criegee Intermediate"-ed.) . The home team, comprising students, post-docs and scientists discover the "glassy" nature of an organic aerosol, decipher the transfer of protons in the absence of hydrogen bonds (see this month's highlight, "A Surprising Path for Proton Transfer Without Hydrogen Bonds"-ed.) , and use lasers to blow sand and graphite up to get them into the gas-phase. In collaboration with outside users, the origin of the solar system is elucidated, the effects of cigarette smoke on walls quantified, and the nature of formation of organic molecules in distant Titan explained. Theoretical chemists can be seen working the owl shift, seeking to understand what happens when molecules relevant to biofuel production are heated to 1300 Celsius. Evolutionary biologists, paleontologists, environmental geochemists, and life science type folks have put 47-million-years-old bird feathers, dirt, pieces of wood, grass and leaves, and scum floating on top of a pond into the beautiful imaging mass spectrometer located right by the experimental walkway. Sometimes an old biodiesel running Mercedes can be seen in the parking lot outside, belching its exhaust into the synchrotron for study, and that is what the chemical dynamics beamline is all about. Seventeen years old and marching boldly on.
For more information about Musa and his team, and their research, visit the Beamline 9.0.2 Web site.


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During the 18th century, the absolutist state, which the Monarchy was, implemented a series of measures aimed at consolidating and modernizing the empire. Promoting the book and publishing trade was indeed a key ingredient in the programme of reforms which Ernst Wangermann has aptly described as "the Austrian Achievement". Within the short space of a few decades, the number of firms as well as actual book production increased by leaps and bounds.
The history of the book and publishing trade, which was almost solely responsible for the spread of information, knowledge and education, has been widely neglected by Austrian scholars of the Enlightenment. The aim of the conference "Communication and information in the 18th century: the Habsburg Monarchy" is to illuminate the history of the empire and focus in particular on the trans-national and multilingual character of book production.
Proposals for papers (not more than 400 words) with CV, objects of research and a short list of publications should be sent by normal mail or by electronic mail to the following address. The papers (length 20 min., conference languages: German, English, French) should feature one or more of the following aspects pertaining to the communication function of the book, especially in comparison with developments in other countries.
1. Concepts and conditions for writing
– aristocracy and free writers; lack of copyright protection; the book piracy debate.
2. Production of books, newspapers and periodicals
– state promotion (privileges), companies active at the local and regional level
– Oriental and Hebrew prints; works in foreign languages; translations
– Technical prerequisites (paper production, printing presses)
– bibliographical data and statistics
3. Distribution: Book selling, antiquarian book-sellers, auctions, book binders, sales at markets
– book trade links within the Monarchy; outside links (e.g. southern Germany; Leipzig Fair, etc.) commissioners, circulation of manuscripts
– shipment of books and duration, customs boundaries and excise taxes
– the beginnings of booksellers' organizations; beginnings of Book History.
4. The Dissemination of Information
– Institutions (schools, clerics, universities, free-mason lodges); travel; book reviews; links to theatre, music and the arts
– Nature and scope of the political information
– Censorship (system of restricted access to printed works; evasion of censorship through smuggling, and clandestine literature)
5. Access to reading material
– Promotion of literacy according to regions; public and private libraries; the literary canon and most widely read literature; the cost of books; cost of periodicals in relation to income
– Reading and writing (implementation of state norms, continuation of oral traditions; the popular approach to reading and writing)


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In 1964 the Lowell Institute sponsored a series of lectures at the Massachusetts General Hospital on "The Hospital's Responsibility to the Community." During the same period The New England Journal of Medicine published a series of articles on "The Social and Organizational Aspects of Medical Care." These concurrent explorations into the social, cultural, economic, and organizational aspects of medical and institutional practice are in the long tradition of inquiry that we have come to expect of The New England Journal and the "M.G.H." John H. Knowles, MD, General Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital, has gathered the Lowell Lectures into a provocative and timely volume, Hospitals, Doctors, and the Public Interest. The 15 authors have been drawn principally from the ranks of hospital and medical care administrators and Harvard professors of various medical specialties, who in their own careers have demonstrated the facility to combine practical accomplishment with theoretical conception.
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Choppy seas will postpone for two to three days BP efforts to remove a giant capping stack and damaged blowout preventer from atop the Macondo well and replace it with new well control equipment, National Incident Commander Thad Allen said in a noon briefing today.
Waves at six to eight feet are slightly too high for the complex switch-out, which is being done in preparation of a so-called bottom kill of Macondo with a relief well in coming days, he said.
"We are in a weather hold right now," he said during a teleconference from aboard the Development Driller III, one of two offshore rigs drilling relief wells into the now-infamous well.
Allen said he had hoped to be in a position to begin the bottom kill just after Labor Day, but now the procedure will be delayed for at least two to three days, which is all weather forecasts can currently predict. The rough seas are not related to tropical weather systems now churning in the Atlantic, he said.
BP first plugged its Macondo well on July 15 by fitting a giant capping stock on top of the well's failed blowout preventer. But that was a temporary solution.
In early August, the British oil giant permanently sealed the interior portion of Macondo by pumping heavy drilling fluid then cement from the top, forcing oil back into a reservoir nearly three miles below the sea floor.
But doubt remains as to whether the exterior part of the well called the annulus, between pipe-like casing and the rock well walls, is fully plugged. That's why Allen has pushed BP to finish the job by entering the well from the bottom — using a relief well started May 2– and pumping in more mud and cement.
New well control equipment is being installed in case there are complications with the bottom kill procedure and the well needs to be forced closed.
"Once the blowout preventer is in place, the well will be in a position to withstand the pressures expected on the interception of the annulus by the Development Driller III and the drilling mud that will be forced in there when that happens," Allen said.
When the waves settle down, the subsea equipment swap will resume in a three-step process. First, the Discoverer Enterprise drill ship will remove the capping stack. Then, another ship called the Helix Q4000 will pull up the existing blowout preventer — a key piece of evidence for investigations into the April 20 blowout of the Macondo well. In fact, a 12-member evidence team will be on board the ship when the BOP is brought up, Allen said. Finally, the Development Driller II, which has suspended drilling of a backup relief well, will lower the new BOP on top of the Macondo well head.
Rough seas have led BP to temporarily suspend operations to remove the capping stack and blowout preventer on the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a statement from the company this morning.
The Development Driller III "is on standby but maintaining full readiness to proceed when directed," BP said.