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You may remember a few months ago when I posted about a new trend in American bars and restaurants: drinking and eating both responsibly AND sustainably. The Huffington Post devoted an article to highlighting nine of America's greenest bars. One of these bars was Bambara located in Cambridge just across the Charles River from Boston. Bambara is conveniently located within walking distance of the Green Line's Lechmere T Station and is tucked into Hotel Marlowe on Edwin H Land Blvd. Autonomie Project is fortunate enough to have Bambara in its backyard and I could not resist visiting the restaurant this past weekend.
Bambara is listed on EcoDrinking, a website devoted to establishing bars and restaurants as being green based on numerous factors such as sustainability, organic food/drink options, energy efficiency, and other green initiatives. The website specifically notes Bambara's use of local ingredients to create organic drinks and entrées as well as their LED lighting and recycling program. Bambara lists numerous "environmentally friendly practices" they are currently using to further their mission of creating a "greener future".
From the wine list to the take-out containers, Bambara has it covered when it comes to sustainable business practices. Their wine list only features wines that are sustainable, organic, or biodynamic. Recycled cane fiber makes up the content of Bambara's take-out containers. In addition, the restaurant refuses to use disposable packaging when storing food. Styrofoam is essentially banned from the restaurant. Better yet, Bambara prides itself in its use of local ingredients purchased from local farms, ranches, and fisheries. Bambara has every reason to pride itself in its ingredients; my entire dinner was outstanding.
Thankfully, my friend, Christine, and I chose to venture to Bambara during Boston's Restaurant Week. We made our reservation on a Saturday evening at 7:00 p.m., but we found that it was unnecessary. We were able to choose a nice high-top table across from the bar along the restaurant's windows. For $33, we had numerous options to choose from for an appetizer, entrée, and dessert combination. It was immediately confirmed that the ingredients of their dishes were completely organic and fresh when we took our first bites. Christine and I raved to each other about the pasta we ordered. In fact, our waitress kindly noted that all of Bambara's pasta is made from scratch in-house. You sure can tell!
Bambara's dinner menu was extensive and impressive, but I think they could definitely improve their selection with additional vegetarian and vegan options. Many of the salads would satisfy a vegetarian's needs as well as a vegan's needs sans the various cheeses. However, every dinner entrée has some kind of meat or fish. New vegetarian and vegan options would definitely improve the menu and attract a larger market of customers. It would also add to Bambara's green mission! I also noticed that the drink menu contains only conventional beers. Local breweries like Harpoon or Peak Organic would be excellent additions to the drink menu. It would also further Bambara's mission to partner with local businesses. Despite this, Bambara's cocktails sure do catch your eye on the menu. Bambara's 'Mother Earth' is dubbed as an eco-friendly cocktail. It contains organic Tru vanilla vodka, Makers Mark Aperol, agave nectar, and orange juice. With more cocktails like 'Mother Earth', Bambara is sure to expand their customer base.
Overall, our experience at Bambara was outstanding. We did not feel too guilty about the food we ate since we knew we were being a bit greener and more sustainable by dining at Bambara! What more justification do you need? So next time you're in Boston, take the T just one stop into Cambridge for a great drink and meal. There is no better way to enjoy time with friends and family than over an ethical and superbly tasting dinner out on the town.
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In his remarks today to the General Assembly on his Five-Year Action Agenda: "The Future We Want", Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon announces that he will appointment a new Special Representative for Youth.
He says: "Let us start with young people. Today we have the largest generation of young people the world has ever known. They are demanding their rights and a greater voice in economic and political life. We will do all we can to meet their needs and create opportunities. We will deepen our youth focus and develop an action plan across the full range of UN programmes, including employment, entrepreneurship, political participation, human rights, education and reproductive health. And I will appoint a new Special Representative for youth to develop and implement our agenda and spearhead a UN youth volunteers programme."
That announcement from UN Secretary-General is a proof that UN is ready to put youth at the heart of its agenda. The Organization should do more for young people by creating for example a UN Youth entity. Why not?


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LIKE many coaches, Marcus Borden would gather his East Brunswick, N.J., High School football team in the locker room before a game and say a prayer.
It wasn't a long one or a particularly fervent one, just something he said he believed would promote team unity and remind his players that life was about more than winning or losing a football game. A typical prayer would ask that his players show courage and determination on the field, that they represent their families and community well and that both sides escape the game injury-free.
"It was never a matter of my trying to impose my religious beliefs on anyone," said Mr. Borden, a high school Spanish teacher who has been East Brunswick's head coach since 1983. He said he never thought he was doing anything controversial, but has since found out how wrong he was.
Last fall, Mr. Borden was ordered by the East Brunswick Board of Education to avoid taking part in any pregame prayer, an activity it believed violated court rulings banning school-sponsored prayer in public schools.
The board, which acted after hearing complaints from parents, went so far as to prohibit Mr. Borden from bowing his head and bending down on one knee while players led the team in prayer. Mr. Borden quit, but rescinded his resignation after deciding to take his fight to court.Continue reading the main story
After the East Brunswick Board of Education ruling, several other New Jersey school districts told their coaches to stay clear of prayer, an issue some districts had largely ignored over the years.
"When I was told I could no longer pray with the team, it affected me, and I know it affected a lot of other coaches," said Warren Wolf, the coach in Brick Township, N.J., who has won more football games than any other coach in state history. "I was raised to believe in certain principles and ideals, and prayer has always been a part of that."
But this season, his 49th as Brick's head coach, Mr. Wolf can at least take part in student-led prayers. Late last month, Judge Dennis M. Cavanaugh of the United States District Court for New Jersey ruled that Mr. Borden could bow his head and bend his knee when the team captains lead the players in prayer. Mr. Borden did not seek the court's permission to conduct the prayers himself.
Still, Barry Lynn, the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said he did not believe Mr. Bordon should be permitted to be involved in any prayer before or after games, student-led or otherwise.
"I have no problem with students deciding to do this on their own or the coach praying by himself," Mr. Lynn said. "The problem is when you get a connection between a school official and the promotion of religion; that's when you run into constitutional problems. In the case of this coach, the bowing of the head and bending a knee does go over a line."
Mr. Lynn said that high school players know that the football coach is the boss and that he decides how much playing time a player gets. "If you don't go along with his religious beliefs, there's reason to fear you won't get to play as much as someone who does," he said.
While the decision was hailed as a victory by Mr. Borden's many supporters and religious groups, it left some questions unanswered. What exactly can and can't a coach at a public high school do when it comes to prayer?
And why do high school football coaches believe that team prayer is a building block to success?
Grant Teaff, the former football coach at Baylor University who heads the American Football Coaches Association, estimates that 50 percent of the nation's high school football teams engage in some form of team prayer. He says he sees no evidence that the rate is any lower here than in other parts of the country.
"As a football coach, you're striving to have everybody on the same page," said Mr. Borden, who guided his team to the 2004 Central Jersey Group IV championship. "The great coach Bear Bryant said everybody on a team has to have the same heartbeat.
"To win championships takes a special team, players who join together and play as one. The prayers are a small portion of the whole total preparation of a football team. There are many things we as do as coaches do to get our kids to bind and believe in each other."
STEVE Filippone, the head coach at Daniel Hand High School in Madison, Conn., said his job involved more than winning. He said that he was trying to create well-rounded young men and that faith was a big part of that process.
"We, as coaches, have a special window into a lot of these kids," Mr. Filippone said. "We are with them four hours a day for most of the year, and we develop really strong relationships. Part of being a good man is having faith in something. I don't care if it is Jesus Christ, Allah, God, whatever. You have to have faith in something.
"I think it's important that people understand they will be held accountable some day, that there's somebody bigger out there than yourself, your team, your parents. That's what drives us to do what's best for others and do the right thing. I'd love to be able to share that with the kids in a meaningful way."
Mr. Filippone said he used to lead his team in prayer, but was told by school officials to stop. Now, his captains lead a prayer after a game and he will be among those taking part. The team also holds a short religious service before games that is voluntary and conducted by a guidance counselor. Mr. Filippone said about one-third of his players took part.
He said no one had made an issue of the current practices. But what if someone did? Rules governing prayer and public high school sports teams remain open to interpretation. Often, the issue does not come up unless parents object to team prayers or the involvement of a coach.
In 2000, in a case involving a school district in Santa Fe, Tex., the United States Supreme Court ruled that public schools could not begin football games with organized prayer, even if the prayers were recited by students. But Ron Riccio, the lawyer who defended Mr. Borden, contended that the ruling did not necessarily prohibit coaches from praying with their teams.
"You can't look at any of these cases in a vacuum," Mr. Riccio said. "You can't come up with any absolute rules, saying a coach can't do this or that. In the Santa Fe case, you were dealing with a school in Texas in the Bible Belt where the school itself was handing out Gideon Bibles and was engaging in all sorts of religious activities. It had nothing to do with what Marcus was doing and nothing to do with East Brunswick, New Jersey.
"We never asked the court to allow Marcus to lead the team in prayer. We thought we could make that argument and win it, but Marcus said to me that he didn't need to do that. All he wanted to do was to participate by bowing his head and taking a knee when the kids prayed."
Cass Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago and an expert on constitutional law, agrees that the courts have been less than explicit when it comes to matters involving prayer and coaches at public schools.
"Basically, the Supreme Court has never spoken to the question of what can be done in the sports world," Mr. Sunstein said.
He said that he would advise a high school, though, to tell their coaches to stay clear of theology and "speak instead in terms of gratitude for our blessings."
For his part, Mr. Borden said he just wanted to move on. A new season beings Sept. 8 at home against Perth Amboy. His said his goals this year will be the same as always -- success on and off the football field, and the safety of his players and their opponents.Continue reading the main story


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Kidnapped Baseball Player Wilson Ramos Found Alive: 'I Prayed to God Throughout Abduction'
Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos was rescued alive Friday after being abducted and said he was in touch with God throughout his kidnapping.
"I was always praying to God, and thanks to God, He gave me the miracle of sending me these wonderful people," Ramos told Venezuelan state television. "I'm alive thanks to them."
Ramos was kidnapped by gunpoint outside his house in Valencia, Venezuela, on Wednesday night. Authorities found the kidnappers' car on Thursday.
On Friday, he was rescued alive and well after a gunfight between his abductors and police in the mountainous region of Montalban.
"The truth is I'm still very nervous, but thanks to God everything turned out well," Ramos said.
He also thanked authorities involved in his rescue operation.
Ramos' mother, Maria Campos, was ecstatic when reunited with her 24-year-old son.
"Thanks to God!" she yelled on television.
Mike Rizzo, general manager for the Nationals, was also happy to hear the news.
"Though details are limited and we have not yet talked directly with Wilson, we are thrilled with reports that he has been rescued," Rizzo said in a statement.
Rizzo added: "We greatly appreciate all the prayers and thoughts of all who have joined us in wishing for this conclusion to what has been a nightmarish 48 hours. We are eager to see Wilson and let him know just how many all over the world have been waiting for this news."
Information Minister Andres Izzara said the rescue operation was authorized by President Hugo Chavez.
Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said three men were arrested in the abduction, including a Colombian with ties to paramilitary and kidnapping groups.
Kidnapping has become an increasing threat to the middle and upper-classes in Venezuela, according to The Associated Press. Ramos' kidnapping is the first known abduction of a major league baseball player. However, relatives of baseball players have been kidnapped in Venezuela. Relatives were killed in two previous cases.
Ramos originally signed with the Minnesota Twins but was traded to the Washington Nationals in July 2010. In his rookie season with the Nationals in 2011, Ramos hit .267 with 15 home runs and 52 RBIs in 113 games.


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Because one summer was not enough, I returned to SMU-in-Taos this year to take Business Law classes. Although I knew what to expect this time, Taos did not fail to provide me with new experiences and opportunities to build great friendships.
One of the coolest things about school out in Taos is that some days I would wake up before 6 a.m., hike the trail up to the ridge of the mountain behind campus, and then descend in time for breakfast at 7:45 a.m. Remarkably, I'd easily be in time for my 8:30 a.m. class. The quiet and serene climb provided me with personal time for prayer or contemplation. Sometimes friends came along, and I can assure you that you get to know your companions well on the tough and rocky ascent up a mountain.
In fact, I believe a group of people cannot help but become friends after they've worked together to accomplish a common goal. Conquering mountains has that effect on people. For this reason, I believe my hiking adventures were my favorite part of my May term.
One Sunday, I woke up early and drove with my friends Danny, Stephen, and Kyle to the base of Wheeler Peak, which is the highest peak in New Mexico. I had climbed this mountain the previous June and knew it took around seven hours to make the entire trip. Although there was a trail that led to the top, we heard snow made the path undesirable so an alternative route up the mountain was necessary.
We determined that the best method would be to climb straight up the mountain. It was a sunny 70 degree day, we had phones, a GPS, and all essentials to safely get to the top, so we began our climb. When the incline got too steep, we put on work gloves and continued on all fours.
Generally, climbing straight up a mountain is a bad idea. Switchbacks are usually used to make a climb manageable; however, without a trail we disregarded this convention and dealt with the consequences as they came.
I'll readily admit that I was the slowest of our group. After climbing for over an hour, we passed the tree line. Each time we thought we were nearing the top, we'd cross over a ridge and see that an entire mountain still lay ahead. We looked below and could see the minuscule people walking at the base, and soon the people, too, disappeared.
As we were climbing over rocks, the wind picked up because we no longer had the trees to protect us. I had been using the long grass pull myself up, and soon it disappeared into rocks. We would never be able to climb down this way because the mountainside grew much too steep.
With each pause in our journey, we'd just stare out at the beautiful, mountainous region around us. We were walking through entirely untouched land, and I remember my friend Stephen said to me, "Monica, you're probably one of the only girls to ever hike this way!"
No sooner had he said that than an older woman came trotting down the mountainside by herself with no hesitation in her step. She was practically a mountain goat. Humbled, we realized that we were not exactly pioneers of this land. But this did not dampen the sense of adventure we felt.
Thus, we made our way to the top, where we had to walk along the ridge to reach Wheeler Peak, which was still a far way off. With our jackets on and the wind pushing against us, we made our way to our destination. Once there we ate lunch together and enjoyed the view from 13,167 feet.
On the way down, we determined that we should follow the path of previous hikers. We saw vast expanses of snow and decided that sliding down snow would be fun and efficient.
Let me tell you that sledding down that mountain in the summer was one of the most fantastic adventures I've had at SMU-in-Taos. Together we cheered each other on as we quickly made our way down from Wheeler Peak just in time for the volleyball tournament and bonfire that evening.
Sharing that extraordinary day brought our hiking group closer in an unspoken way. Not everyone who goes to Taos has to hike massive mountains, raft in the Rio Grande, or horse ride through the New Mexican desert. But the greatest gift that the campus gives its students is the opportunity to have these great adventures each day if we wish.


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I was just reading this planetary society article on the Astropulse project and I couldn't help but notice the following:
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In other words, if you wanted to communicate across interstellar space you would almost certainly use the exact same technology that has worked so well for us in the much shorter distances of Earth: continuous narrow-band radio transmissions. Wouldn't aliens do the same?
I can think of some reasons why they might not.
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But then again, maybe they wouldn't. Perhaps the aliens, for their own reasons, would choose to communicate using a very different type of signal. For example, instead of sending a continuous narrow-band transmission they might choose to send distinct broad-band pulses. These would stand out against the background noise not because they are precisely centered on a particular wavelength, but because they are very short and punctuated bursts of energy. Why would the aliens choose this method over our own? Who knows, after all we are not aliens and cannot begin to imagine the technological choices they face.
Is the idea of sending short, low duty cycle, periodic pulses really so silly? So silly that the only explanation we can come up with for why they might do so is: "Well, they are aliens. Who knows how they think?" So what makes it so ridiculous? The greater bandwidth? The interstellar dispersion? I'd love to know.
Couldn't the bandwidth problem be mitigated by using somewhat longer pulses and a gaussian filter for a more gradual pulse power gradient so that the wave modulation is not so square? Something like a cross between a sine wave and a square wave? Does anyone have a link or an explanation on how to do bandwidth calculations for short pulses with varying shapes?
As for interstellar dispersion could this not be mitigated by using higher frequencies? If I had to transmit from the surface of a planet (as opposed to a space based observatory) through a nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere like ours I would transmit at just under 10 Ghz or at 77 Ghz to mitigate atmospheric attenuation as well as interstellar dispersion and scintillation while allowing the highest possible EIRP for a given antenna diameter. From a space based dish I'd either transmit on the highest frequency possible which would still have rf properties to communicate solely with other space based dishes or I might hedge my bets and transmit at around 77 Ghz or 10 Ghz to penetrate nitrogen-oxygen and water vapor atmospheres at the highest possible frequencies.
The cost of building a dish is proportional to its diameter. Even more so for a space based dish which has to be launhced from the planet surface piece by piece. So you would expect them to choose as high a frequency as possible limited only by their ability to create mathematically perfect parabolic surfaces. For this reason I would consider 77 Ghz transmissions to be even more likely than 10 Ghz ones. And depending on how optimistic they are about our abilities they might even be transmitting at 150 Ghz or more, possibly with the (not unreasonable) assumption that we have the technology to build space or lunar based radio telescopes so that we don't have to worry about atmospheric absorption. This would also have the side effect of filtering out the most primitive technical civilizations like us who don't yet have orbiting or lunar millimeter wave telescopes actively listening for transmissions. Something they may or may not find desirable.
So would sending 75 Ghz pulses with pulse durations between 1 and 5 microseconds using something like amplitude shift keying, pulse position modulation, or pulse duration modulation really be so crazy or stupid of them? I guess that somewhat depends on how much more bandwidth pulses actually use compared to modulated or unmodulated CW, whether they have figured out a way around that bandwidth limitation, and what their energy costs are.
I was recently pricing out transmitters that might be suitable for sending interstellar messages. Pulsed transmission can be many, many orders of magnitude cheaper both in initial cost and in use. A 35 kW Toshiba CW traveling wave tube (TWT) costs around $150,000 USD. Klystrons with even less power output start at around $100,000 USD. A pulsed 75 kW magnetron can be found on Ebay for something like $150 USD. A new 350 kW CPI pulsed magnetron costs around $6000 USD. Pulsed klystrons and gyrotrons can reach much higher powers than (commercially available) magnetrons and have much better frequency stability. So you would probably expect at least the alien government (or equivalent organization) to use those designs in preference to the cruder magnetron, but what about amateur alien METI? For all we know transmitting to other planets may be taboo in that world (as it sort of is here) and only a few rogue amateurs ever attempt it. They might not be able to afford a klystron or gyrotron or the electricity to run a CW device.
In terms of cost of electricity, a 350 kW CW transmitter with a 50% efficiency would use up 504,000 kWH per month. Around the world most electricity costs between 7 US cents and 20 US cents per kWH. Some places are slightly less expensive and some places are slightly more. So the monthly cost to operate the CW transmitter would be somewhere between $35,280 and $100,800 USD. Or between $423,360 and $1,209,600 USD per year. And that's just for a measly 350 kW.
In comparison, consider a 50% efficient 2 megawatt pulsed magnetron with an average pulse duration of 3 microseconds and an average pulse frequency of about 1 pulse per second resulting in a duty cycle of about 0.000003. The peak input power of 4 MW becomes 4000,000 x 0.000003 = 12 watts average power usage resulting in 8.64 kWH and a monthly cost between 60 US cents and $1.73 USD per month or between $7.26 and $20.74 per year.
So a pulsed transmitter with an output power of 2 MW is nearly 60,000 times less expensive to operate than a CW transmitter with only 350 kW. By going pulsed you not only might save a lot of money on the initial purchase depending on the tech, but you can also afford to broadcast at almost 6 times the power for almost 1/60000 the operating cost.
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The problem is a black hole can create short pulses. I think there is a good chance they would broadcast on the frequency of the hydrogen line in space, because hydrogen is a very common element in the universe and they would use normal radio signals because sending 2 or 3 normal radio signals at least 3 minutes apart would never be caused by anything else in space. If there power resources are scarce that might be a problem, but an advanced planet probably has figured a way around that.
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To give a simplified expanation:
Communication involves a "Carrier" that is at a constant center frequency. It is usually at a frequency that is easily transmitted and propagated over long distances. The Carrier is "Modulated" either by varying the frequency of the Carrier slightly at the Audio rate or in Amplitude also to carry the audio message. It could also be switched on and off or otherwise shifted in phase and amplitude to transmit data digitally as a representation of analog or digital information.
It might be interesting to try to figure out what scheme might be used by others or even ourselves to transmit an intelligent message to the cosmos
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The correct link to the article is http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/setiathome/setiathome_20080827.html. I'd like to fix the original link, but I can't seem to find an edit button.
Except for the fact that light is not supposed to be able to escape the gravity well of a black hole (that's why it's called a "black hole") it would certainly seem plausible that black holes would create pulsed signals like pulsars since neutron stars are sort of the little brother to the black hole and both tend to spin very fast. But in the case of either stellar object any pulses would have precise and equal time intervals. There is the occasional strange pulsar with changing pulse durations and frequencies. Maybe those are being artificially modulated by an ETI. Whether we should be listening to those particular pulsars with an eye towards detecting some kind of modulation is a good topic for another thread. Also in the case of these stellar pulses it is a lighthouse effect of a rotating beam. I believe that will give you a different kind of pulse signature from one created artificially and sent directly toward you. Also I don't believe we have observed many pulsars with pulse durations or pulse positions or amplitudes which vary in an interesting way.
The way that I used the term 'modulation' could be a little confusing. In order for an electromagnetic wave to contain any kind of specific information other than "I'm here." it has to be altered in some way. And that alteration is what modulation traditionally refers to. I was also using the term to describe how a pulse of voltage and current from an energy storage bank of capacitors and inductors (a pulse forming network) is transferred to the magnetron/klystron/gyrotron which transmits the actual waves to the antenna. If you plot the rise in voltage/current with time on the horizontal axis a nearly instantaneous rise/fall will give you a square wave. That square wave 'modulates' the amplitude of the sine waves being created by the oscillator by turning the device on or off.
The problem with that system is that something about a square wave modulating a sine wave gives you a large bandwidth. That's something I really have to look into more deeply since I don't quite understand it, but square waves + sine waves = bad. A more bandwidth efficient system is to modulate the sine wave with another sine wave. This is what gaussian filtered minimum shift keying (GMSK) attempts to do. Basically you would try to put the square voltage pulse through a (low pass) filter which rounds off the square wave before it modulates the carrier wave. Pulsed communication is itself really a form of amplitude modulation. Except that it doesn't convey any information. Further modulation has to be used in order to send a message. The problem with using sine wave shaped pulses to control the transmitter is it can make designing a receiver to detect the signals more difficult. It also means that your pulses stay at full power for less time. Instead of transmitting at full power for 4 or 5 microseconds, it may only transmit at full power for 1 microsecond before the power starts dropping again.
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Here's the fun part of sending a signal out. If you don't know the direction the galaxy is spinning and don't account for the speed of the star you are attempting to send you message. Then you'd most likely wind up sending a message to empty space. Lets also not forget that we aren't attempting to contact the star but a planet that may or may not be spinning around that star. Talk about hit or miss.
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To my knowledge we are not sending a signal to the stars other than what radiation escapes from our radars. radio and television. Let's hope that if there are other civilizations in the Galaxy that they are sending such a signal.
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61 Cygni is a double K class orange star in the constellation Cygnus. It is 11.36 light years away and one of the best nearby candidates for life in the northern hemisphere. It has high proper motion with a tangential velocity of 316,800 kph. It's also traveling towards the earth at 231,480 kph. Every year its declination changes by 3.26 arcseconds or 0.0009 degrees of arc and its right ascension changes by 4.16 arcseconds or 0.0016 degrees. So if it will take 11.36 years for the message to reach them you would have to aim not where it is but where it will be in 11.36 years. In this case you would adjust your declination by 37 arcseconds and your right ascension by 47.26 arcseconds so that your message beam intercepts their solar system. Obviously you would have to continually update your coordinates to account for the movement of the star with respect to you.
But it gets worse. If you are on a planet orbiting a sun then you also have to deal with the parallax created by the planet oscillating back and forth every year with respect to the star. If the communication is planet to planet then you have two parallaxes to deal with. Luckily this variation, which is proportional to the orbit of each planet, can generally be ignored due to the relatively small distances involved.
As far as having to aim at the exact planet, you could simply aim for the 'goldilocks zone' or the distance from the star necessary for liquid water to exist, but at frequencies under 10 Ghz this probably isn't much of a concern. The beam spread at large distances is quite large. An RF beam with a 3.25 cm (9.3 Ghz) wavelength transmitted from a 20 meter dish would have an angular divergence of .00163 degrees or 5.87 arcseconds. With a bit of trig (11.36tan(divangle/2)*2) it seems that the 61 Cygni system would be hit with microwave radiation in a disc with a diameter of 3.23 x 10-4 ly or 20.4 AUs. So if my calculations were correct such a transmission sent from 61 Cygni to us would cover the solar system out to about Saturn. Using a smaller transmitting antenna or a longer wavelength would give you greater coverage. For a closer system like Alpha Centauri you really would have to aim a bit more at that frequency. Transmitting in the water hole should negate this issue, but you would reduce your EIRP significantly.
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William Rothamel wrote:
To my knowledge we are not sending a signal to the stars other than what radiation escapes from our radars. radio and television. Let's hope that if there are other civilizations in the Galaxy that they are sending such a signal.
According to wiki a message will be reaching the Gliese 581 system in 2029.
I'm hoping to start transmitting myself sometime in the next 3-5 years. Unlike previous efforts which only lasted a short time due to the scarcity of large telescope time, I hope to transmit continuously for at least a year to each candidate. I see METI more as something amateurs or amateur organizations with smaller homemade dishes should do on their own. It's really too controversial for governments to spend a lot of money on anyway. It's hard enough to get funding for traditional passive SETI.
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William Rothamel wrote:To my knowledge we are not sending a signal to the stars other than what radiation escapes from our radars. radio and television. Let's hope that if there are other civilizations in the Galaxy that they are sending such a signal.
Ok, good luck with your future broadcasts. One thing though, how do you know that, by our comparisons, you will connect with an Abraham Lincoln, rather than a Mr A Hitler? And what about Mr intestellar H's ability to arrive here PDQ, having the knowlage that we are still using primitive radio communication?
Godwins Law should be suspended in this case, I hope. :-)
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According to wiki a message will be reaching the Gliese 581 system in 2029.
Sadly I won't be around then. If we get a reply, would you answer it for me?
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I think the chances of any nearby star systems having life are astoundingly low. I'm not really expecting to reach anyone. But I still want to try because:
1. It's exciting. I would like my life to be more like a science fiction novel and this was the only idea I had. It's super cool and would add a dose of awe to my daily life.
2. Being the first person to transmit to a particular star is kind of like being the first person to step foot on another planet. I'd love to walk on Mars or Titan or even the moon, but it's just not gonna happen.
3. I could try to do passive SETI on frequencies that the SETI community is not currently listening on. Like say 77 Ghz. But I can't possibly build a dish big enough to even remotely compare to any of the government owned ones. It seems like there are enough people already doing passive SETI. Although if I couldn't convince any of them to listen to my targets after the message round trip time. I'd have to listen for myself anyway. Unfortunately most SETI installations aren't really set up to listen to the frequencies I'd be transmitting on: between 9 and 10 Ghz.
4. It pisses off people like David Brin who don't believe I have the right to speak for the entire planet or expose everyone else to the risk of alien invasion and planet-wide extermination. But I see it as a freedom of speech issue. You know, human rights. Haha. I wonder if he would advocate having me killed or imprisoned to stop me from transmitting.
Despite all this it looks like I may not be able to do amateur METI after all. I hadn't realized how wideband short pulses really are and CW transmitters are super expensive. Received noise is proportional to receiver bandwidth. I see this as a kind of cosmic censorship. So I may be stuck. Or I may transmit anyway and just hope that the aliens have greatly superior receiver technology that can bypass the wideband SNR problem. At the moment I am torn between that option, giving up on the project, or learning to design my own high powered microwave devices, which I have to assume would take at least 10 years of intense study. I am somewhat leaning toward the latter.
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Given a sufficiently advanced receiver technology at the other end, almost any VHF or higher frequency transmitter at our end might suffice, provided its signals could penetrate the atmosphere. There have been serious scientific proposals to use the gravity of the Sun to focus radio waves from the cosmos. The gain would be immense. What we can contemplate, other civilizations might well accomplish. The trick might not necessarily be to have a technically conspicuous signal, but to transmit content likely to be of particular interest to cosmic anthropologists studying our (relatively) primitive planet. Michael
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Part One of this strongly worded, informed, and wide-ranging collection examines key issues for the future of Canadian criticism. Part Two offers new readings of important works by Grove, Wilson, MacLennan, Davies, Laurence, Hood, Wiebe, Hodgins, and Atwood. As W.J. Keith argues, `We still have a mission: to have our literature recognized as an essential reflection of our national life. This is what I mean by retrenchment and consolidation. Literature can survive without literary criticism but it cannot survive if it is unknown and unread. It is criticism's prime function at the present time to see that it is both known and read with that mature enjoyment which is a combination of emotional sensitivity and humane intelligence. As critics, scholars, editors, we shall not be fulfilling our responsibilities or justifying our existence if we attempt anything less.' Or as Keith modestly observes in his introduction to this collection, `If this book is of any interest, it will be because Canadian literature is an important subject. Literary commentators like myself are middle-men, and should be prepared to admit the fact. If this book succeeds in helping readers to appreciate the works of Canadian writers that I discuss, and to derive increased pleasure and insight from them, it will have served its purpose. I can see no other justification for it -- or for any other work of criticism.'Essays on English-Canadian Criticism and Fiction W. J. Keith. The Thematic Approach to Canadian Fiction This paper was first presented at the Calgary Conference on the Canadian Novel in 1978, and published with the rest of theanbsp;...
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HAVANA (AP) — Colombia's main rebel group is appealing to U.S. President Barack Obama to free a guerrilla leader serving a long prison term in the United States.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia says Simon Trinidad's presence at the current peace talks with the Colombia government in the Cuban capital of Havana would be an "immense" help to negotiations.
The FARC rebels named Trinidad to their negotiating team in September, even though he is serving a 60-year prison term. Last week, the rebels brought a life-sized cardboard cutout of Trinidad to a negotiating session. But American officials say it's unlikely any FARC rebels imprisoned in the US will be freed.
The rebels made the appeal to Obama on Friday. The FARC has waged war on the Colombian government for a half century.


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If you are reading this with a sense of nostalgia then you no doubt owned a Sega Dreamcast and remember the halcyons days of the previous generation of console gaming.
Still, rather than reminisce about gaming days gone by, you should relish the fact that Sega has released Virtua Tennis Challenge for the iPad and iPhone just in time for Wimbledon. So is it any good?
Virtua Tennis Challenge
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- iPad (version tested), iPhone, iPod touch
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- £2.99
- Where
- iTunes
Serve up the app and you are presented with various options: Quick Match, which involves a you playing for a single point' SPT World Tour, the campaign mode; Exhibition Match, that lets you practise in game; Multiplayer, that lets you involve others; and Training to let you hone your skills.
Exhibition Match is the quickest way to get to the action, allowing you to pick a quick game to experience the tennis action on several different courts, including clay at Madrid, grass at Wimbledon or hard at Melbourne.
If you have more patience you can opt for the SPT World Tour and it is here you'll find the single-player campaign element to the game, playing for coin to advance in the game and become world No 1.
Whichever route you choose, you get to play plenty of tennis - no bad thing considering this is a tennis game - and that means you've got to hone your racquet skills.
With dozens of competitors there is plenty of variety - even if on the surface they all look the same - and the main focus is to learn the trade of the control mechanisms put in front of you.
Sega has opted to give you plenty of choices on this front and there are four different ways to control Virtua Tennis. Making the right choice will depend on whether you feel that this game is worth the pennies you paid or not.
Sega will from the offset suggest "Swipe", which sees you perform a number of gestures on screen to serve your way to victory. Trouble is, unless you have the skills of a ninja and reactions to match you will be struggling to return serve at any chance let alone when it is important.
After getting frustrated we switched to a different control mode, and got far better results from a more traditional setup. While it might litter the screen with buttons it did mean we could at least return the volley.
You'll know which one is best for you, but it is worth pointing out that if you might fail at one, you'll succeed at another, so don't give up hope.
In game and the graphics are just as we remember from the Dreamcast, with the tennis flowing wonderfully. Forget the menu graphics - which are appalling, by the way - and focus on the gameplay, which is great.
Virtua Tennis isn't by any means as polished as previous Sega offerings on the consoles, but for an iPad app we have to admit this is pretty good fun whether you like tennis or not, and perfect to let you relive the joys of Wimbledon.


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At the age of ten Johannes Brahms became known as a child prodigy at the piano in his hometown of Hamburg * Early works composed by 1853 include two Piano Sonatas (op.1 and 2) * On a concert tour, he met Schumann in Düsseldorf, who declared Brahms to be he "who was bound to come" * Failed with the first performance of his first "symphonic" Piano Concerto in Leipzig in 1859 * Afterwards he composed Piano Quartets op.25 and 26, Piano Quintet op.34 * From the fifties onwards he wrote numerous quartets, quintets and sextets for various instruments * From 1863, director of the Wiener Singakademie, 1872-75 directed the concerts of the Wiener Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde * In Vienna, composition of the Paganini Variations op.35, Symphony No.1, cantata-like choral compositions such as Triumphlied and Deutsches Requiem * 1877-79 Symphony No.2, Violin Sonata and Violin Concerto * 1883-85 Symphony No.3 and Symphony No.4 * In his final years he wrote a number of chamber-music works (piano, clarinet) and songs.
Works by Johannes Brahms include:
Haydn Variations op.56 (1873) for orchestra
Violin Concerto op.77 (1877-78)
Symphony No.4 op.98 (1884-85)
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West Credit: By Blaine Harden
Even though North Korea's government won't admit they exist, the country's prison camps can be seen via satellite imagery. The camps hold nearly 200,000 prisoners which receive lifelong punishment, work for over twelve hours a day, withstand various means of torture and dozens of them die on a daily basis due to chronic malnourishment.
Families serve time together, and children who are born into the camps never know a life beyond the prison walls. That is, except for the lone case of Shin Dong-hyuk, the only known case of someone born in a no-exit camp to escape and survive. In Blaine Harden's new book "Escape from Camp 14," he tells the story of how Shin made it over an electric fence by climbing over the corpse of a dead inmate, escaped into China and eventually found his way to the United States. Harden not only focuses on Shin's struggle, but expands his story to an exploration and commentary of North Korea's totalitarian government, isolation from other countries and extreme secrecy.
How did Shin escape from North Korea in the first place? What was his life like inside the prison? How did he adjust to the outside world? What is North Korea's response to his story?
Blaine Harden, author, "Escape From Camp 14: One Mans' Remarkable Odyssey From North Korea to Freedom in the West" (Viking Press) Blaine is a contributor to The Economist, Frontline on PBS and former Washington Post bureau chief in East Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa.
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Cemetery desecration decried
Written by Linda (Keiser) McHenry, Aurora Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:27
Three days before Memorial Day I returned to Gothenburg to place two candlestick solar lights on my parents graves, only to have them stolen by some yellow-bellied coward that must be a thief to steal one's tribute by desecration of a holy place.
I only hope that the Almighty will bring justice to the thief for such a cold, calculated, cowardly act of stealing and violating my rights to pay tribute to my parents. Dad was a World War II veteran that defended our country, for what—that cowards can steal from the dead?
It is a sad day in America when people steal from dead people's graves, and it seems strange that the thief or thieves did not steal a solar light from a grave less than 25-feet from my parents graves.
In the end, people who steal rights away from others have not gained a single pleasure, and they must have the backbone of a chocolate eclair.
Thank God there are still some good people in this world, that I hope will help to rid our land of thieves, and report these kinds of acts to the law.


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Ending the Trance, Answering the Call
In each and every generation, each person needs to personally experience the redemption from the enslavement in an ancient Egypt . . .
-From the Passover Haggadah
The essential invitation of the Passover season is the call to awaken not only to the historical experience of enslavement, but to the ways we are stuck in our lives right now. We are called to transcend the limiting stories that we have wittingly or unwittingly accepted for ourselves, and to take the next step toward our personal and communal evolution.
In the ancient story, related in the Book of Exodus, our enslavement was so deep that we were not even fully aware of it. We had lost our identity and forgotten the fuller nature of our being; we had forgotten that we could live in any other way. Then, like now, the pain sometimes gets severe enough for us to cry out, and it was that outcry that began the process of our redemption. At first, when we awakened to the pain, that was all we knew. In the story, we were not even able to hear the possibility of freedom that Moses revealed to us. Our anguish was too great, inhibiting our ability to see beyond it. The vision that Moses presented finally pierced the shells of our forgetting.
Awakening to the possibility of a freedom that transcends our current self-definition and leads us beyond our current story and role in life is really an inside job. It requires remembering that we are more than our current story, that we are more than the limitations we have accepted. Moses provided for us the paradigm of such awakening when he met the Presence at the burning bush in the wilderness.I am convinced that his meditation in the wilderness included the intrusion of a Light that shattered the field of reality he perceived. What got referred to as the "burning bush" was more like a radiance threatening to consume the whole of reality. The Light burst forth with unlimited energy to awaken him to the fuller dimensions of his own being.
From that Light he heard a call to greater purpose and meaning in his life: he was to lead a people from enslavement to freedom. When he asked the Voice for its Name, he heard: Eheyeh asher Eheyeh, I AM as I AM. He awoke to the absolutely unlimited "I" that is the ground for each of our individual identities. He met the "I" through which the deepest meaning always flows.
Acting from the authenticity of that greater Identity, Moses brought an integrity to his actions that was beyond question. When we awaken to the call from an Identity behind our identity, from the Self behind our individual self, we, too, step into greater authenticity. We move beyond the desire to serve our lesser selves, and find meaning in serving others. We awaken to the ways in which we are called to serve.
Each year, the energies of Passover call me to the next level of transcendence. Sometimes I want to read that word, trance-end-ness, reflecting the need to awaken from the current trance of forgetfulness and of limitation. Our task is to become conscious of the state of our current stuckness, the ways in which we have identified ourselves with the current conditions of our lives and believe ourselves limited by them. We are called to remember, and to open to greater purpose in our lives.
For me, the Passover is a Jewish observance, but it also speaks a universal message meant for all. This focus on the rebirth of meaning is reflected in many great spiritual traditions, and we can learn from each other and be supported by each other. For those who wish, matzah is available at food markets, and you don't have to be Jewish to experience unleavened bread and symbolically release the puffed-up claims of ego. With the energies of spring, we share a universal human yearning to open to the greater flowering of our being.
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Every writer faces rejection. The key to success? Keep at it.
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"Writing has become for me a type of meditation, that hour or two that I spend in the mornings every day. I wouldn't want to give that up even if I couldn't publish books or I had never sold my book."
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In her debut novel, Vaddey Ratner looks to her personal memories about fleeing the Khmer Rouge and to creative spirit as an artist to honor the lives of the fallen.
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THE Prime Minister, David Cameron, has accepted an invitation to tour the Ribble Valley and 'broader Lancashire constituencies'.
Nigel Evans, MP for Ribble Valley, asked the PM to visit his constituency during the weekly Prime Minister's Questions yesterday.
The move comes as a boost to Mr Evans who is seeking reselection to contest the region for the Conservatives in next year's general election.
It also comes after the Conservative whip was restored to Mr Evans following his acquittal of all rape and sexual assault charges at Preston Crown Court last month.
No further details on the visit or when it will happen have been released.
Mr Evans told the House of Commons: "Ribble Valley Council has recently approved its core strategy.
"Will he reassure local councillors that this will give them extra powers to protect these areas within the Ribble Valley that are not already earmarked for development?
"Will he come and visit the Ribble Valley and see for himself why the Ribble Valley is consistently voted one of the best places to live in the UK and why local people want to keep it that way."
Mr Cameron replied: "I look forward to visiting my honourable friend's constituency and broader constituencies in Lancashire as well.
"I think that assurance I can give him is this; when local councils put in place their local plan they will have far greater ability to determine how much housing, what sort of housing and where it goes.
"That is what we are trying to put in place and the faster local councils can put in their local plan the more power and responsibility they will have." However, the visit hasn't been welcomed among some housing campaigners in the Ribble Valley with some saying that the 'damage has already been done'.
Sarah Parry, of the Barrow Action Group, said: "I think a lot of people won't be too bothered that he's coming because the government has let us down.
"The damage has already been done and I don't think he will have enough time to visit all the areas that are going to be affected by large housing developments."