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CMU Silicon Valley welcomes Daphne Koller
Date/Time: September 12, 2017, 1:30 pm (PT) / 4:30 pm (ET)
Location: CMU Silicon Valley Campus: Bldg 23, Rm 118
Open to Carnegie Mellon students, faculty, and staff only
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Source: Daphne Koller
Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and co-founder of Coursera
A Chat with Daphne Koller, Chief Computing Officer at Calico Labs Co-Founder of Coursera
This event will be a fireside chat with Daphne Koller, in which we will discuss the different stages in her career, which started from core machine learning, spanned a range of applications in computer vision, biology, and healthcare, and included her work in founding Coursera.
Daphne is the Chief Computing Officer at Calico Labs, an Alphabet (Google) company that is using advanced technology to understand aging and design interventions that help people lead longer, healthier lives. She is also the Co-Chair of the Board and Co-Founder of Coursera, the largest platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs). Previously, she was the Rajeev Motwani Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where she served on the faculty for 18 years. She is the author of over 200-refereed publications appearing in venues such as Science, Cell, and Nature Genetics. Daphne was recognized as one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in 2012 and Newsweek's 10 most important people in 2010. She has been honored with multiple awards and fellowships during her career including the Sloan Foundation Faculty Fellowship in 1996, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 1998, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 1999, the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 2001, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2004, and the ACM Prize in Computing in 2008. Daphne was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 and elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014 and of the International Society of Computational Biology in 2017. Her teaching was recognized via the Cox Medal for excellence in fostering undergraduate research at Stanford in 2003, and by being named a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.
Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera, gave a fireside chat with CMU Silicon Valley faculty member Anupam Datta.
She discussed the different stages of her career, starting from core machine learning and spanning a range of applications in computer vision, biology, and healthcare, to her work in founding Coursera.
Daphne is the Chief Computing Officer at Calico Labs, an Alphabet (Google) company that is using advanced technology to understand aging and design interventions that help people lead longer, healthier lives.
Daphne Koller is also the Co-Chair of the Board and Co-Founder of Coursera, the largest platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs).


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Tangential — Cheerleader breaks neck, keeps cheering.
I found this story to be pretty damn warped.
It also made me remember going to Pitt basketball games as a kid and my dad screaming at the cheerleaders, "That's dangerous! Someone is going to break their neck!" It was sort of embarrassing, but I guess he was right.
Tangentially, it also was not unusual for him to roll down the window at a traffic light and indicate to the car beside us to do the same, if he saw a kid standing or walking in the vehicle, not an uncommon occurrence in my youth. "That child should be restrained" he would say to the confused and often quite pissed person.
Cheerleader continues cheering after breaking neck
ST. LOUIS — Kristi Yamaoka wasn't about to let a broken neck and concussion keep her school spirit down.
The Southern Illinois University cheerleader lost her balance during a routine Sunday and fell about 15 feet onto her head, hushing the crowd of about 14,000 as she was placed in a back and neck brace.
But the 18-year-old sophomore, in fair condition Monday and expected to make a full recovery from chipped neck vertebra and a concussion, let the stunned fans and national television audience know right away that she was going to be OK.
When the pep band fired up SIU's fight song "Go Southern Go," Yamaoka gave a two-handed thumbs up from the gurney, then moved her arms — the only things not strapped down — in time to the music and cheered.
"As long as my arms were functioning, I could do the fight song," a groggy Yamaoka told The Associated Press by telephone Monday morning from Saint Louis University Hospital.
"I just knew that it would be a little easier for my team and squad to concentrate if they knew I was OK and not worrying about me," she said. "I didn't want the team to get distracted. I needed them to win for me."
They did. The Salukis beat Bradley 59-46 in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament final, earning their fifth-straight berth in the NCAA Tournament.
Yamaoka's routine from the gurney got her a standing ovation at the Savvis Center and mention later on national sports TV highlights packages. She said her season is over — doctors have told her not to perform for six weeks.
Yamaoka, of Springfield, Ill., said she doesn't remember the midcourt tumble during a timeout with 3:25 left to play. She was supposed to dismount to the front of the human pyramid, where two cheerleaders were ready to catch her, said the squad's cheerleading coach, Jennifer Graeff.
But Yamaoka lost her balance and tumbled off the back, landing on her head.
"It's a little bit scary falling from 15 feet," Yamaoka said. "That kind of thing doesn't happen often."
Yamaoka was motionless for a few minutes on the court, but says she recalls hearing SIU's fight song and couldn't resist leading the cheer as she was taken away in a brace.
"I do remember that, the fight song," she said.
Graeff urged Yamaoka to stay still, fearing her cheer could hurt her more. But Graeff saw that the medical crews at Yamaoka's side didn't seem to have much of a problem with the impromptu show of spirit, so Graeff let it go.
"She didn't want to leave the floor. She said, 'Just let me finish the game,"' Graeff said Monday. "That's Kristi — 100 percent school spirit."
Yamaoka asked about whether anyone had videotaped the game, specifically the last 4 minutes, Graeff said.
"I just thought she wanted to see the fall," Graeff said. "But she wanted to see how the Salukis did."
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When I was booking the holiday to Canada I had one thought in mind – book Eden. I've heard incredible things about this little gem that I had to find out for myself and boy was I blown away. Eden is based in the Rimrock Resort Hotel surrounded by incredible mountain views which take you away as you pour over their delectable menu choices.
I have to say, the restaurant itself is just simply beautiful, from the napkins and tablecloth to the decorative plates and cutlery – it's these little touches that scream 'welcome' at the softest most welcoming voice.
Eden specialises in perfectly crafted French Cuisine headed by Chad Greaves Maitre d'Hotel and Sommelier and is renowned for using fresh local ingredients. Eden has received honours sinse 2003 for its incredible food and service and now enjoys a well-deserved AAA/CAA 5-Diamond and "Best of Award of Excellence" Wine Spectator awards.
The menu is astonishing and incredibly varied, from a 6-course Chef's Tasting Menu, and a 3 and 4-course Table D'hote menu to a wonderful 10-course Grand Degustation menu designed to offer the ultimate in dining experiences.
I was thrilled when I contacted Eden and they were more than happy to assist me with a Tasting Menu designed for me because I am Pescatarian. This made my day. The menu was diverse, imaginative and perfected the dishes to my taste, removing items that contained gelatin and always going above and beyond to replace items or re-design them for me especially.
You can't not come to a restaurant like Eden and not get the Tasting Menu. As mentioned above – Eden went above and beyond to assist me in making my stay at Eden perfect and that they did. To start I had the Tempura Oyster with Black Caviar, Caramelised White Chocolate and Champagne which was simple, delicious and had multiple beautiful flavours that worked so well – who knew that caviar and white chocolate could work so well together?
I then had the lobster which was just perfection on a plate. Lobster can be so hard to get right and it can often be overdone or a bit 'muddy' in flavour but this was sweet, rich and delicious. The pineapple and asparagus worked so well giving it a sweet and savoury taste that hit all the right spots.
We were treated in between each meal with a selection of lovely amuse bouche and whilst they were all delicious, my favourite was the beautiful handmade bread. The taste of warm smokey bread and delicious hand crafted butter was to die for. When our lovely server asked if we would like more it was unbelievably tempting to say 'GOD PLEASE' but we didn't want to fill ourselves up too much. Can I get the recipe though?!
On to the main part of course Tasting Menu. As I am Pescatarian, I didn't have the Lamb Belly, instead I was treated to the Tofu served with Zucchini, Farro Gratin and with a gorgeous hint of Vanilla. Tofu can be notoriously boring and it can be hard to dress up as anything remotely delicious but I wasn't fazed because I knew it was going to have such talented hands making it taste wonderful so I was looking forward to finally having Tofu that tasted fab and it ended up being one of the best dishes of the night. The flavours were extraordinary and had a smokey and sweet taste that took my senses to different places. I have been reminded that not all Tofu is boring!
Next up – Sturgeon with Tomato, Squash and Vodka. This blew my mind and is one of the best fish dishes I have ever had. For me, sometimes tomato and fish doesn't really work but this was incredible. The tomato was so sweet but mixed with the vodka took it to another edge – the flavour combination worked so well with the delicious flaky fish. Such a treat.
We then moved on to a yummy little plate of cheddar. It's so difficult to dress cheese up as pretty but they did a great job. It was sharp, tangy and worked as a bit of a cleanser in a way. Most of the dishes were on the 'sweet' side so having something a tad salty and sharp really alleviated the whole dinner to another level.
Then we had dessert. By now, I'm feeling a bit full but there's always room for dessert, right? This was out of this world good. Salted Chocolate with Blueberry, Pistachio and Coffee – easily one of the best flavour combinations I've ever had the pleasure to experience. The blueberry took the salted chocolate to a whole another level and simply tasted wonderful.
Restaurants are a big thing in my life but so is the service. The food could be the best I've ever had but if the service doesn't match then it's a big let down but Eden went above and beyond. We were treated to impeccable service from the moment we arrived to the moment we left. We were given a tour of their beautiful wine cellar and then given a lovely little gift bag with two delicious jam sponge cakes as a little thank you. I couldn't recommend Eden enough and would travel back to Banff just to go to this restaurant again.


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Movies · Reviews
Uncovering the Romantic Bond: Thoughts on Casino Royale
Charles Lord
"By describing a conscience for James Bond the character, the story has provided a subconscious for James Bond the movies"
What do James Bond movies and American Football have in common? Well, for starters, no one comes out of the womb liking either. Both are too convoluted, too counter-intuitive to be natural pleasures. They are hyper-sexist, escapist spectacles within which we (men and women alike) have somehow managed to see ourselves and, on occasion, even be entertained.
Casino Royale, the latest installment in the James Bond saga, is a remarkable and enjoyable achievement outshining the ones that came before it. So brilliant by comparison we are left a bit puzzled, if not embarrassed, by our enthusiasm for bygone Bonds. Like football, maybe we learned to appreciate those earlier Bonds Environmentally, so to speak — from the enthusiasms of others around us (or in the case of us post-baby boomers) from the inescapable importance these movies just already seemed to have? Assuming they entertained you in the first place, comparing the old Bond and the new is the difference between gratification and pleasure.
In Casino Royale James Bond (Daniel Craig) has just achieved "00" status. Yet no sooner does he get his license to kill than London becomes concerned he's using it too cavalierly. Ordered to take a "holiday" while M (Judi Dench) decides his fate, Bond, unrepentant and undeterred, follows a lead to the Bahamas. Eventually he uncovers what is essentially a bank for global terrorists headed by a nefarious financier named Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen). Instead of investing his clients' loot in the no-risk, interest-generating portfolios they expect, Le Chiffre uses it to speculate in markets he intends to manipulate (ruthlessly and catastrophically, of course). Bond foils the plot.
This alone sums up many a Bond tale, yet it's only the first, and arguably least important, part of Casino Royale. Le Chiffre's otherwise foolproof scheme ruined, he must earn back the money before the terrorists can find him and repay his betrayal. A math genius with a penchant for poker, he convenes an ultra-high-stakes Texas Hold'em card game into which James Bond (as if bankrolled by the British nation itself) is entered. Next come accountant and Bond-girl Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), sent to oversee Bond's gambling with government funds. The competitive foreplay between the two, each painting the other as their intellectual and emotional inferior, while common enough for romances, works to uncommonly entertaining effect in a Bond movie.
By comparison, pre-Casino Royale Bonds were essentially comedies. comedic tales told in terms of espionage — of farcical villains, preposterous plots, and gee-whiz gadgetry all interwoven with a chauvinism designed to be laughable. Yet Casino Royale bears witness to Bondthe comedy transformed into Bond the romance, from Bond the lothario to Bond the lover (1969's On His Majesty's Secret Service with George Lazenby and Diana Rigg notwithstanding). Still, adrenaline junkies needn't worry that this touch of romance will rob them of their action fix. The frenetic opening chase that sees James Bond and a bomb-making mercenary race up and down construction cranes and girders high above a Madagascar coast should soothe any skeptics as to this movie's Bond credentials.
Bond's speedy improvisations, fearless jumps, and stone punches betray the instinctual responses of a professionally trained, albeit blue-collar agent — embodied in Daniel Craig's hard drill-sergeant jaw, chiseled abs, large unflinching blue eyes, and lips made pouty by fury. In Craig, Bond the gladiator succeeds Bond the matador. Where the matador but for his sword and cape is clearly inferior to the bull, this more martial Bond (bereft of gadget or gimmick) is the equivalent of his adversaries, cut of the same cloth, just better. Through admittedly genius casting, the Bond brand, with its hallmark cartoonish violence and caricatured sexuality, slides gracefully from slapstick to hyperreal, becoming what Umberto Eco calls an "authentic fake." Experiencing Casino Royale, at last we genuinely get lost in a simulated world of espionage — one that of course has never existed.
The earnest note struck in the opening chase suggests that director Martin Campbell's Bond is turning upon its comedic legacy (arguably presaged in his earlier Bond effort,Goldeneye). Instead of relying on formula, Campbell (with screenplay provided ultimately by the team of Purvis, Wade, and Haggis) has made an honest-to-goodness story: a world where relationships develop; a script whose intricacies are meant to be followed, that drives to a climax defined by a hero's choices rather then simply how close he is to catching the bad guy.
Interpersonal relationships make this story tick. Casino Royale succeeds at telling a romantic tale (complete with operatic ending) in terms of espionage. The attraction of Bond girls past was presumed to be visual if not visceral, stunning its perceiver the moment it was revealed. However, the allure of Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) is more complex. Again, between Bond girls old and new is the difference between good looks and beauty. Like her relationship to Bond, Vesper's beauty grows. That said, Campbell certainly wasn't hamstrung directing a woman who the master of erotica Bernardo Bertolucci once said is "so beautiful it's indecent." Like Craig, Green too is a casting marvel.
New "Bond" and new "Bond woman" are Adam and Eve for a new Bond era. But as the Viennese bard of psychic (and Oedipal) dramas recognized a century ago, interpersonal dynamics are considerably more than the superficial back and forth between two people. They emerge from deeper and prior love triangles. It is Judi Dench's M who completes this triangle. Allow me to suggest that the M stands for "mother" or maternal, and that together with James and Vesper, the formative (yes) Bonds at the root of the Bond story are now exposed! Casino Royale segues between the gendered nature of Bond's past and future. Ultimately Casino Royale is a story in two parts: Bond the developed professional and Bond the developing person.Combining the two, the series is rejuvenated, if not reborn. By describing a conscience for James Bond the character, the story has provided a subconscious for James Bond The movies — on which more superficial sequels may now legitimately be based.
New Bond supersedes old, but no bona fide turnabout or revolution casts all that went before as mere bunk. You must transcend the past, give it new meaning; you certainly can't deny it. New Bond Suggests that the chauvinist nature of the Bond character reflects its origins in a particular romance (or in romance itself if you prefer).
Still, some are not easily weaned from formula. Perhaps Bonds were never meant to be anything but comedies. The comparative lack of a strong nemesis figure might be too unsettling for some. The bad guy is well played by Mads Mikkelsen, but alas he is not part of our love triangle, and in a way he is less essential to the film and certainly less essential to the James Bond myth the film is creating. Perhaps if Casino Royale were experienced strictly as a romance and evaluated in terms of the romance genre alone, it might begin to seem too light. However, most of us will see this as a Bond film and judge it as such. We leave the theatre mulling over the differences between old and new, startled by the movie's simple pleasures, intrigued by what future installments could now entail, and pondering whether external forces really could have compelled our enjoyment of inferior Bonds.
— Charles Lord
Charles Lord grew up in Montreal and has spent a questionable amount of time in graduate studies. He has a master's degree in cultural anthropology and in social work, and is working on a PhD in higher education. He confesses to a passion for film, travel, and anthropologically oriented essays about his discoveries.
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Evolution Speakers
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Futurist, author, economist and business consultant inspiring companies to take advantage of future possibilities
Keynote speaker Peter van der Wel loves the future and has a passion for making other people love it as well. Peter helps you plan and prepare for the future. He has delivered keynotes, lectures and presentations for more than 20 years and describes...
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Our keynote speaker Christina "CK" Kerley has been a forerunner in tech revolutions for 20 years. The innovation speaker and specialist leads Fortune 500 executives through the jungle of emerging technologies that are transforming our world today...
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Hebrews 9:27 reminds us that after death, we will all face judgment. It isn't a particularly uplifting thought, but just because it is "unpleasant" to think or talk about does not make impending judgment any less real. In Habakkuk 2:6-20, God describes the crimes and punishment coming to Babylon (and all who act according to their ways). "Whoa and Woe" is the title of this fifth message from the prophet with a funny name but a very serious message. "AudioLineIn_001_0" by Habakkuk Whoa and Woe. Genre: Blues.
Oct 29, 2017How Are You Living?
"How Are You Living?" is the title of message #4 from "Habakkuk: Funny Name, Serious Message." In chapter 2, verse 4, God is speaking and He says something that makes all the difference in the world: "But, the righteous shall live by his faith." It matters how we live."04_LiveByFaith" from 06_Habakkuk by G. Scott Patterson. Released: 2017. Genre: Other.
For two weeks I have been promising this Sunday's message to be "the one" not to miss. Habakkuk has twice cried out to God and how awaits God's answer. It begins in 2:2-3 and so the promise will come to pass: "Wait For It""22-17 - Habakkuk Wait For It_" by 10. Genre: Blues.
Oct 15, 2017How Well Do We Know God?
These are trying times. Why doesn't God do something about all of the problems in the world? Have you ever asked that? You are not the first. 2,600 years ago, the prophet Habakkuk asked that same question. If you have ever wondered how to face the disappointments of this life and wondered what God was doing, the message of Habakkuk is for you."01_NotMakeSense" from 06_Habakkuk by G. Scott Patterson. Released: 2017. Genre: Other.


A new breed of entrepreneurs is fueling and firing up the city state's once humdrum lifestyle of mass market and luxury, carbon copied city life.
I am not referring to the government initiated Art Stage, Gillman Village, Singapore Arts Festival, even Kampong Glam (if the government designates it to be a "hip" area, it no longer bears the pureness of a grassroots driven 'creative' society. It is more a 'creative' government!) etc.
Dig deeper into the streets off Singapore's mainstream neon lit shopping strips (Haji Lane included by the way) and you will find hip ideas from a fresh generation of hoteliers and F&B enthusiasts. They are the new blood who have been creating an alternative culture to the otherwise a-typical modern city.
As more Singaporeans come home from their travels from abroad and foreigners flocking the city for new opportunities, the culture and lifestyle of the city dwellers (i.e. the entire 4 million in population!) are also changing.
Surprisingly, the road less travelled is being explored amongst the locals. Many no longer consider the conventional occupation as the only way of life. Lawyers turned Chocolate Cake Connoisseur; Banker turned Tailor, Gaming Business Developer; Accountant (Auditor! Gasp!) turned music teacher/keyboardist/composer/performer; Web and Mobile Application entrepreneurs are in abundance, and in a recent news article, two top students decided against becoming doctors in favour of becoming engineers, so that they can design useful equipment And she got it right – she can still design medical equipment to contribute to the practice, if being in the medical industry means so much to her parents.
I must point out that these "deviants" of typical Singapore stereotypes are not results of the Singapore Design University, or the SOTA, or the many design schools that have popped up in the last two to three years as a result of the government's revelation that the country lacked creative people. Those who have been pigeonholed into being designers and artists have yet to graduate and they have no idea what lies in store when they finish (that you don't need to study creativity to be a creative person).
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In Western classical music, a symphony is an extended musical composition, scored almost always for orchestra. "Symphony" does not necessarily imply a specific form, though most are composed according to the sonata principle. Many symphonies are tonal works in four movements with the first in sonata form, which is often described by music theorists as the structure of a "classical" symphony, although many symphonies by the acknowledged classical masters of the form, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven do not conform to this model.
1 History of the form
1.1 Origins
1.2 18th-century symphony
History of the form
The word symphony derives from Greek συμφωνία, meaning "agreement or concord of sound", "concert of vocal or instrumental music", from σύμφωνος, "harmonious" (Oxford English Dictionary). This Greek word was used to describe an instrument mentioned in the Book of Daniel once identified by scholars as a bagpipe (this is identified as the root of the name of the Italian zampogna) (Stainer and Galpin 1914,[page needed]). However, more recent scholarly opinion points out that the word in the Book of Daniel is siphonia (from Greek siphon, reed), and concludes that the bagpipe did not exist at so early a time, though the name of the "zampogna" could still have been derived from this word (Marcuse 1975, 501 & 597). In late Greek and medieval theory, the word was used for consonance, as opposed to diaphonia, which was the word for dissonance (Brown 2001). In the Middle Ages and later, the Latin form symphonia was used to describe various instruments, especially those capable of producing more than one sound simultaneously (Brown 2001). Isidore of Seville was the first to use the word symphonia as the name of a two-headed drum, and from ca. 1155 to 1377 the French form symphonie was the name of the organistrum or hurdy-gurdy. In late medieval England, symphony was used in both of these senses, whereas by the sixteenth century it was equated with the dulcimer. In German, Symphonie was a generic term for spinets and virginals from the late 16th century to the 18th century (Marcuse 1975, 501). In the sense of "sounding together," the word begins to appear in the titles of some works by 16th- and 17th-century composers including Giovanni Gabrieli (Sacrae symphoniae, 1597, and Symphoniae sacrae, liber secundus, 1615), Adriano Banchieri (Eclesiastiche sinfonie, 1607), Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (Sinfonie musicali, 1610), and Heinrich Schütz (Symphoniae sacrae, 1629).
In the 17th century, for most of the Baroque period, the terms symphony and sinfonia were used for a range of different compositions, including instrumental pieces used in operas, sonatas and concertos—usually part of a larger work. The opera sinfonia, or Italian overture had, by the 18th century, a standard structure of three contrasting movements: fast, slow, fast and dance-like. It is this form that is often considered as the direct forerunner of the orchestral symphony. The terms "overture", "symphony" and "sinfonia" were widely regarded as interchangeable for much of the 18th century.[citation needed]
Another important progenitor of the symphony was the ripieno concerto—a relatively little-explored form resembling a concerto for strings and continuo, but with no solo instruments. The earliest-known ripieno concerti are by Giuseppe Torelli (his set of six, opus five, 1698). Perhaps the best-known ripieno concerto is Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3.
18th-century symphony
Early symphonies, in common with both overtures and ripieno concertos, have three movements, in the tempi quick-slow-quick. However, unlike the ripieno concerto, which uses the usual ritornello form of the concerto, at least the first movement of these symphonies is in binary form. They are distinguishable from Italian overtures in that they were written to stand on their own in concert performances, rather than to introduce a stage work, although a piece originally written as an overture was sometimes later used as a symphony, and vice versa.
Symphonies at this time, whether for concert, opera, or church use, were not considered the major works on a program: often, as with concerti, they were divided up between other works, or drawn from suites or overtures. Vocal music was dominant, and symphonies provided preludes, interludes, and postludes.
The "Italian" style of symphony, often used as overture and entr'acte in opera houses, became a standard three movement form: a fast movement, a slow movement, and then another fast movement. Mozart's early symphonies are in this layout. The early three-movement form was eventually replaced by a four-movement layout, through the addition of an additional middle movement (Prout 1895, 249), which was dominant in the latter part of the 18th century and most of the 19th century. This symphonic form was influenced by Germanic practice, and would come to be associated with the "classical style" of Haydn and Mozart. "Normative macro-symphonic form may be defined as the four-movement form, in general, employed in the later symphonies of Haydn and Mozart, and in those of Beethoven" (Jackson 1999, 26).
The normal four-movement form became, then (Jackson 1999, 26; Stein 1979, 106):
an opening sonata or allegro
a slow movement, such as adagio
a minuet with trio or "Beethoven four-movement solo sonata": scherzo
an allegro, rondo, or sonata
Variations on this layout were common, for instance the order of the middle two movements, or the addition of a slow introduction to the first movement. Older composers such as Haydn and Mozart restricted their use of the four-movement form to orchestral or multi-instrument chamber music such as quartets, though since Beethoven solo sonatas are as often written in four as in three movements (Prout 1895, 249). Tchaikovsky's Third Symphony has a five-movement form through the addition of an "Alla tedesca" 'movement' between the first and the second (Jackson 1999, 26).
The composition of early symphonies was centred on Vienna and Mannheim. Early exponents of the form in Vienna included Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Wenzel Raimund Birck and Georg Monn, while the Mannheim school included Johann Stamitz.
Later significant Viennese composers of symphonies include Johann Baptist Vanhal, Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf and Leopold Hoffmann. The most important symphonists of the latter part of the 18th century are Joseph Haydn, who wrote at least 108 symphonies over the course of 36 years (Webster and Feder 2001), and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who wrote at least 56 symphonies in 24 years (Eisen and Sadie 2001).
With the rise of established professional orchestras, the symphony assumed a more prominent place in concert life between approximately 1790 and 1820.
Beethoven dramatically expanded the symphony. His Symphony No. 3 (the Eroica), has a scale and emotional range that sets it apart from earlier works. His Symphony No. 5 is arguably the most famous symphony ever written. His Symphony No. 9 takes the unprecedented step (for a symphony) of including parts for vocal soloists and choir in the last movement, making it a choral symphony (however, a minor composer, Daniel Steibelt had written a piano concerto with a choral finale four years earlier, in 1820). Hector Berlioz, who coined the term "choral symphony," built on this concept in his "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette while explaining his intent in the five-paragraph introduction in that work's score (Berlioz 1857, 1). In Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, a program work, the composer inserted a "storm" section before the final movement; Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, a work famous for its exceptional orchestration is also a programme work and has both a march and a waltz and five movements instead of the customary four.
Notable early-romantic symphonists include Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Schumann. Late-romantic symphonists include Bruckner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Dvořák.
By the end of the 19th century, some French organists (e.g., Charles-Marie Widor) named some of their organ compositions symphony: Their instruments (many built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll) allowed an orchestral approach (Thomson 2001).
At the beginning of the 20th century, Gustav Mahler wrote long, large-scale symphonies (his eighth is nicknamed the "Symphony of a Thousand" because of the forces required to perform it). The 20th century also saw further diversification in the style and content of works that composers labeled symphonies (Anon. 2008). Some composers, including Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Carl Nielsen, continued to write in the traditional four-movement form, while other composers took different approaches: Jean Sibelius' Symphony No. 7, his last, is in one movement, whereas Alan Hovhaness's Symphony No. 9, Saint Vartan (1949–50) is in twenty-four.
There remained, however, certain tendencies: symphonies were still, almost always, orchestral works. Designating a work a "symphony" still implied a degree of sophistication and seriousness of purpose. The word sinfonietta came into use to designate a work that was "lighter" than a symphony, such as Prokofiev's Sinfonietta.
There have also been diversification in the size of orchestra required. While Mahler's symphonies call for extravagant resources, Arnold Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1 and John Coolidge Adams's Chamber Symphony are scored for chamber groups.
In the 20th- and early-21st-century symphonies have been written for wind ensemble and band. Notable examples are Paul Hindemith's Symphony in B-flat for Band (1951) (Hansen 2005, 95), and Alan Hovhaness's Symphonies Nos. 4, 7, 14, and 23, which are symphonic works for school and college wind bands.
Choral symphony
Symphonies by number, name, and key
No. 0 · No. 1 · No. 2 · No. 3 · No. 4 · No. 5 · No. 6 · No. 7 · No. 8 · No. 9 · No. 10 · No. 11
No. 12 and higher: Haydn · Mozart · M.Haydn · Shostakovich · Hovhaness · Myaskovsky ...
List of symphonies by name · List of symphonies by key · List of symphony composers
See also: Sinfonia · Sinfonia concertante · Unfinished symphony · Curse of the Ninth
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Berlioz, Hector. 1857. Roméo et Juliette: Sinfonie dramatique: avec choeurs, solos de chant et prologue en récitatif choral, op. 17. Partition de piano par Th. Ritter. Winterthur: J. Rieter-Biedermann.
Brown, Howard Mayer. 2001. "Symphonia". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Bukofzer, Manfred F. 1947. Music in the Baroque Era: From Monteverdi to Bach. New York: W. W. Norton.
Eisen, Cliff, and Stanley Sadie. 2001. "Mozart (3): (Johann Chrysostum) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
Hansen, Richard K. 2005. The American Wind Band: A Cultural History. Chicago, Ill: GIA Publications. ISBN 1579994679.
Jackson, Timothy L. 1999. Tchaikovsky, Symphony no. 6 (Pathétique). Cambridge Music Handbooks. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052164111X (cloth); ISBN 0521646766 (pbk).
Marcuse, Sybil. 1975. Musical Instruments: A Comprehensive Dictionary. Revised edition. The Norton Library. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-00758-8.
Newman, William S. 1972. The Sonata in the Baroque Era. New York: W. W. Norton.
Prout, Ebenezer. 1895. Applied Forms: A Sequel to 'Musical Form', third edition. Augener's Edition, no. 9183. London: Augener. Facsimile reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1971. ISBN 0404051383
Schubert, Giselher. 2001. "Hindemith, Paul." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
Stainer, John, and Francis W Galpin. 1914. "Wind Instruments - Sumponyah; Sampunia; Sumphonia; Symphonia". In The Music of the Bible, with Some Account of the Development of Modern Musical Instruments from Ancient Types, new edition. London: Novello and Co.; New York: H.W. Gray Co.
Stein, Leon. 1979. Structure & Style: The Study and Analysis of Musical Forms, expanded edition. Princeton, N.J.: Summy-Birchard Music. ISBN 0874871646.
Tarr, Edward H. 1974. Unpaginated editorial notes to his edition of Giuseppe Torelli, Sinfonia a 4, G. 33, in C major. London: Musica Rara.
Thomson, Andrew. 2001. "Widor, Charles-Marie(-Jean-Albert)", 2. Works. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
Webster, James, and Georg Feder. 2001. "Haydn, (Franz) Joseph". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
A Chronology of the Symphony 1730-2005 A list of selected major symphonies composed 1800-2005, with composers of 18th century symphonies
The Symphony - Interactive Guide
A fairly detailed list of symphonists, mostly active after 1800 - Part 1
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Symphony". Allthough most Wikipedia articles provide accurate information accuracy can not be guaranteed.
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When you discover and obtain a Djinn, it is allocated to one of your party members. The Djinn will be in Standby mode and is effectively just taking up space; it will have to be put into Set mode in order for the character to gain the attribute and Psynergy boost provided by the Djinn. Djinn which are Set can also be used for summoning. After a Djinn has been used to summon, it will be put into Recovery mode, and will be unavailable for use for a number of turns when in battle, or a small period of time when in the overworld.
As previously mentioned, any new Djinn that is obtained will be automatically set to the party member who has the lowest number of Djinn. If you wish to set it to another character, you can trade your Djinn among your party members whenever you like when outside of battle; select the Djinn using the stylus and drag the icon to the character that you wish to trade the Djinn to. You may observe the effects that the trade will have on the two characters on the top screen of your DS - the attribute changes will be clearly identified as losses or gains, and the following page will detail the changes in the characters' Psynergy.
It is important to keep several things in mind when setting up your party's Djinn: giving a character Djinn of a single element will result in that character gaining stronger attribute bonuses but a limited range of Psynergy abilities, but giving a character Djinn from multiple elements can provide access to different classes with a greater range of Psynergy skills at the expense of smaller attribute bonuses. Consider this before important Boss battles, and remember that your Djinn setup will effect the Psynergy that you are able to use out in the field as well; you may find that your ideal setup does not provide you with a particular skill that is required to solve a puzzle, and might have to make alterations.
If you wish to mix up your Djinn, but are unsure of which elements would work best with which characters, you can bring up the character's Status page and view his or her elemental power. The higher the value, the stronger your character will become when set with a Djinn of that element. An adept will always be strongest with a Djinn of his element, but you might find that some characters may also be relatively strong with a Djinn of another element as well, so take this into consideration when setting your Djinn.


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Atlantic Council Launch of Tallinn Manual 2.0
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Estonian names remain in the forefront of cyber security, as demonstrated by the launch of the Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations. The new volume was introduced this month at the Atlantic Council by members of the international team of experts that helped create it and other experts in the field. It's a relevant and comprehensive work at a time when cyber issues have become a major national security consideration.
NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence Director Sven Sakkov
The original Tallinn Manual was published in 2013 as a non-binding analysis of how existing international law pertains to cyber warfare and cyber conflicts. It concentrated on cyber operations that were targeted at the state level and were significant enough to allow nations to respond in self-defense. Since cyber attacks that don't meet the threshold for armed response have become more prevalent, the updated edition is expanded to focus on a wider range of international law and cyber operations.
The drafting of the manual and its predecessor was led by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCD COE) in Tallinn. The team of expert authors in international law and information technology came from member nations of the CCD COE. Both editions of the manual were published by Cambridge University Press.
Liis Vihul, Tallinn Manual 2.0's Managing Editor
The launch was attended by several notable Estonians and friends of Estonia. The Centre's director, Mr. Sven Sakkov, former Estonia Ministry of Defence Undersecretary for Defence Policy, and the director of the Tallinn 2.0 initiative, Professor Michael Schmidt of the U.S. Naval War College and the University of Exeter, were among the presenters. The Centre's legal advisor, Ms. Liis Vihul, served as the manual's Managing Editor and also briefed on its creation. Former President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, addressed the launch's audience at the reception following the event.
The manual is intended as a reference source for nations' legal advisors interested in the application of international law to cyber operations. It provides agreed-to norms and principles informed by states and international organizations rather than actual legal code. The authors were careful to capture all reasonable views on the issues to guide interpretation by states to help them make appropriate legal decisions on cases in their jurisdiction.
Former President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, speaking at the reception
The CCD COE is a research, education and training facility accredited by NATO. It currently has 17 sponsoring member nations that staff and finance the Centre, and as such, it is not part of NATO's military command structure. The manual represents the views of its authors and is not an official publication of NATO, its member nations or any other state or organization. More information on the Centre and manual is available at https://ccdcoe.org. The write-up and webcast of the launch event is posted at Atlantic Council's website under Recent Events.


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Q: Movement arrows in linguex in XeLaTeX I need to draw (simple) movement arrows in linguex examples. I would normally use the tree-dvips package for that (as in the LaTeX example below) but this time I must use XeLaTeX, which is incompatible with tree-dvips. What is an alternative that you can recommend? Note that I do not need to use arrows more complex that what's in the example.
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Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
by Frank Sinatra
Album: Sinatra's Sinatra (1944)
Former broadcast executive and music historian Rick Busciglio tells this story: "In 1979, I was working with songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen on a TV special with Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope that was never produced. Jimmy told me that one day (circa 1942) he and his lyricist Johnny Burke were working at 20th Century-Fox composing for a film. While Burke was out of their writer's bungalow, Phil Silvers, the comedian, a friend to both, entered and suggested to Jimmy that they write a song for Johnny's wife, Bessie, who was soon to celebrate a birthday. Silvers provided the lyrics, later revised by Van Heusen and Burke. At the party they sang "Bessie... with the laughing face" It was such a hit that they used it at other female birthday events.
When they sang it as "Nancy... with the laughing face" at little Nancy Sinatra's birthday party, Frank broke down and cried thinking that it was written specially for his daughter - the trio wisely didn't correct him. Jimmy assigned his royalties to Nancy after Frank recorded it for Columbia."
Charles Pignone, Vice President of Frank Sinatra Enterprises, also recalled the story of how "Bessie (With the Laughing Face)" evolved into "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" in a Songfacts interview: "Van Heusen was a pianist/songwriter and was friends with Frank, and at one point Frank heard him noodling on the piano and asked him what that was. Frank was with Phil Silvers, and he played it - they made a bet and Phil Silvers said, 'I bet that you if you give me a day I can write a better set of lyrics to that and I'll write it in honor of Nancy,' Frank's daughter."
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Kevin from Reading , PaFrank liked the song so much that he recorded it a bunch of times, the earliest being 1944 or '45 and the last version in the late 70s. A funny story told in one of the Sinatra biographies centers around his then-flame, Ava Gardner, protesting Frank's decision to sing this song at a nightclub engagement that Ava was planning on attending in the early '50s. Even though the "Nancy" in the song is his daughter, Nancy was also the name of Sinatra's first wife, so Ava didn't like him singing it anymore, particularly since Frank had very publicly dumped her and left his family for the beautiful movie siren. Despite her protests, Frank performed the song anyway, telling her it was a "good luck charm" for him.


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Because of an editing error, an article on Tuesday about federal elections in Canada described incorrectly, in some copies, the political career of Michael Ignatieff of the Liberal Party. He was making his debut as party leader -- not as an elected politician.
The article also misstated in some copies the previous record number of seats won by the New Democratic Party, which broke that record by winning 105 seats and finishing in second place. It was 43, not 45.


The Shevchenkovsky district court of Kiev at the meeting on 31 January officially divorced Ukrainian singer Ani Lorak and Turkish businessman Murat Nalchajian. The meeting was held behind closed doors and lasted no more than five minutes. Another 15 minutes later, the judge Elena of Pehur made the decision. After the meeting the crowd went to the court clerk and confirmed that Lorak and Murat officially divorced.
"Marriage is broken. Today addressed only the question of divorce", — quotes the Secretary of the "Komsomolskaya Pravda".
Caroline Murat at the meeting was not present. The documents were signed by lawyers who said that questions about property division and the custody of daughter Sophia will be considered later.
This Union lasted 10 years. Meeting of former lovers occurred in the hotel where Lorak rested, and her future chosen one worked as a Manager. Courtship charismatic Turk made an impression on the Ukrainian singer, but the real feeling came when she again after a year returned to the same hotel. When it came to the wedding, which is pop star with the chic said in Kiev, lorac has created the myth that her husband is a successful businessman, rich and noble. Subsequently, she this legend is destroyed, admitting that the main income in the family lies with her, and Murat is just the father of her daughter. The man tried to open a restaurant business in Kyiv, led a secular lifestyle until he was caught with 26-year-old brunette — designer Yana Belyaeva. After the publication of the photo of the girl with her husband Ani Lorak in an embrace, which is noticed by all the fans and friends of the singer, the wife filed for divorce. Court hearing postponed several times, but now the case is dead. It remains to decide who will be the guardian of a 7-year-old daughter and who will get the property acquired during the marriage.
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Christie: Mary Pat refused to move to D.C. for Trump White House job
Updated Jan 18, 2017 ; Posted Jan 18, 2017
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By Claude Brodesser-Akner | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
TRENTON -- Gov. Chris Christie on Wednesday disclosed that first lady Mary Pat Christie had refused to move with the governor to Washington D.C. should he take a job in the Trump cabinet, and that this informed the governor's decision to turn down several cabinet-level slots.
"He didn't offer me a job that I thought was exciting enough for me to leave the governorship, and my family," Christie said on WFAN's "Boomer and Carton" morning show. "Because Mary Pat made really clear she wasn't coming to D.C."
On Wednesday, co-host Craig Carton, interjected, "You would have had to given at least a two-year commitment to be there."
"Correct," answered the governor.
In December, Trump transition sources told NJ Advance Media that Christie was offered cabinet-level posts like secretary of Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs, as well as a slot as a top White House aide and U.S. ambassador to Italy, but declined them all.
The Christies have four children, two of whom are in high school and still living at home.
In declining to relocate from their home in Mendham, Mary Pat Christie is taking a similar stand as Trump's wife, Melania, who in November decided to remain in New York City until their 10 year old son Barron finished out the school year.
Guadagno's running for N.J. governor, and away from Christie
The lieutenant governor didn't mention Christie's name at all in launching her bid to replace him.
However, earlier this week, citing anonymous sources, Politico reported that Christie was still being considered as a mid-term replacement for when Trump's first-string cabinet picks either resign or are sacked.
Late on Monday, the Wall Street Journal confirmed as much in an interview with Trump, who said that "at some point, we're going to do something with Chris."
Christie also insisted that reports that his political career been demolished by Trump were false, and the result of media bias against him.
"Whenever you've been extraordinarily popular, the media want to make you extraordinarily unpopular, because that's part of their gig," the governor said.
Christie currently has a 18 percent approval rating, the second-lowest in modern New Jersey history.
His lieutenant governor, Kim Guadagno, formally declared her candidacy to replace him on Tuesday, and notably failed to mention Christie at all in her speech.
Claude Brodesser-Akner may be reached at cbrodesser@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @ClaudeBrodesser. Find NJ.com Politics on Facebook.


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Emma Martínez de la Torre Shelton (a veces y Shelton) (15 de enero de 1889, La Habana (Cuba) – 1981, Madrid) fue una pianista, profesora y compositora española.

Biografía
Emma Martínez nació en La Habana. Su padre, Emilio Martínez de la Torre y de Assis, era capitán de la Armada española y su madre la pianista cubana Altagracia Shelton Favre. Se trasladó con su familia a Cádiz a la edad de tres años. Realizó sus estudios en el Conservatorio de Santa Cecilia de esa ciudad, acabándolos a los trece años con premio extraordinario. Condiscípulos suyos fueron José Cubiles y Carmen Pérez. Completó sus estudios son Rafael Toniasi Requena en Madrid. Después viajó a Roma para trabajar en la Academia Nacional de Santa Cecilia.

En 1903 empezó a componer con Sara, su hermana, algunas obras para piano y varias canciones. En 1908 se instaló en Tenerife, donde continuó sus estudios con Santiago Sabina Corona.

Trabajó como acompañante del barítono grancanario Néstor de la Torre entre 1909 y 1917, compaginándolo con sus enseñanzas en la academia de canto de este.

También fue muy activa en la vida musical de la comunidad como compositora, intérprete y organizadora de conciertos benéficos donde daba a conocer sus obras. En 1917 fundó la agrupación artística Caricato, junto a músicos e intelectuales de la época, con la que organizó obras teatrales y óperas.

En 1919 se casó con Virgilio Díaz Llano.

Durante las décadas de los 30 y 40 dio recitales de piano y participó en grupos de cámara; tocó en la Orquesta de Cámara de Canarias, y la dirigió en el estreno de algunas de sus obras. Es la primera mujer directora en Canarias.

Obra
Muchas partituras las compuso de forma autodidacta. Su labor creadora se concentra a finales de su carrera, a partir del año 1935. Entre sus obras cabe destacar:

 Estampa canaria
 Danzas gitanas
 Danza andaluza
 Estampa canaria
 Copla
 Estampas del siglo XVIII
 Canciones infantiles
 Marionetas
 Tenerife 1942
 Mañana de abril

Además escribió numerosas piezas de música de cámara y canciones. Ella misma escribía los textos.

Su labor docente fue extensa y fructífera. Formó parte del claustro de profesores del Conservatorio de Santa Cruz de Tenerife y, al jubilarse, fue sustituida por una de sus discípulas más destacadas, Amor Lozano.

Véase también

 Mujeres en la música

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Bibliografía

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Mujeres
Nacidos en 1889
Fallecidos en 1980
Tinerfeños
Músicos de Canarias
Compositoras de España
Compositoras de música clásica
Mujeres pianistas
Mujeres músicas de España
Músicos de España del siglo XX
Españolas del siglo XX
Fallecidos en Madrid
Nacidos en La Habana

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Space Sunday: the Sun, Venus and snippets
Posted on June 7, 2021 by Inara Pey
An annular eclipse with the Sun's horns. Credit: unknown
Thursday, June 10th will bring forth an annular eclipse of the Sun that will be visible from Western Europe and North America (weather permitting!).
An annular eclipse is when the distances from the Earth and the Moon and the Earth and the Sun are such that as the Moon comes between Earth and Sun, its disk is too small to completely "blot out" the Sun's disk.
The event on June 10th will occur at a time when Earth is approaching aphelion – the point in its orbit furthest from the Sun (which it will reach on July 5th), and when the Moon has just passed apogee – the point in its orbit around the Earth when it is furthest from our world. This means that when seen from Earth, the Moon will have an apparent diameter of 29' 34", and the Sun 31' 30".
Note: you should never, under any circumstances look directly into the Sun, even when wearing sunglasses. Not even during an eclipse.
While annular eclipses are regarded as being less spectacular than a total eclipse, they do have a beauty of their own, and are actually far more common – and will become more and more common in the aeons to come, due to the fact that the Moon is very slowly edging ever further from Earth, and so is ever so gradually forever slipping beyond the "Goldilocks zone" where its apparent diameter will at times almost match that of the Sun's to present us with a total eclipse.
Not that this will be any time soon – astronomers estimate that it will be another 1.4 billion years before this planet witnesses its last ever total eclipse.
For the event on June 10th, the good news is that the eclipse will be above the horizon for North America from Florida and in an arc curving through the western and central United States and Canada to reach the Bering Strait, whilst in Europe a similar curve will run from the southern tip of Spain across all of Western Europe and parts of Eastern Europe before turning tightly over Russia to also reach the Bering Strait.
Path of the June 2021 annular eclipse
The bad news is the path of annularity, which offers the very best views of the eclipse, lies along a sparsely populated arc that runs across remote regions of Ontario, Hudson Bay, Northern Quebec and North-western Greenland before crossing the North Pole and ending at dusk on the Arctic shores of Siberia.
Even so, millions across the north-eastern half of North America, nearly all of Europe and Russia will see various stages of a partial solar eclipse, with parts of the United States being especially fortunate in being is the sweet spot for witnessing the a 'sunrise horns' eclipse, which will be visible for those up and about in the early hours in the Great Lakes down through the New Jersey-Pennsylvania/Delaware tri-state region..
Speeded-up 'eclipse-rise' as seen from Toronto, Canada. Credit: Stellarium
Those within this arc can project an image of the Sun onto a plain white surface using a telescope or binoculars in order to see the "horns" – an effect caused as the Moon passes partially across the Sun's disk (see right).
Those outside the path of greatest impact should still notice a dimming in daylight during their local period of eclipse (times on the images here are all UTC, so adjust for your time zone).
Or, for possibly the easiest and safest way to view the eclipse – again, weather permitting – is to hop over to the Virtual Telescope Project, who will be hosting a live broadcast of the event starting a 09:30 UTC on Thursday, June 10th.
NASA to return to Venus
For the first time in more than three decades, NASA plans to send robotic mission to Venus, with two mission proposals selected for funding in the latest round of the agency's Discovery programme.
DAVINCI+, or Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging, will be led by the Goddard Space Flight Centre. It will send a probe into the planet's atmosphere, measuring noble gases and other elements that can provide information on how its runaway greenhouse effect developed. Cameras on the probe will hopefully provide high-resolution images of massive geological features known as "tesserae" on the planet's surface that may be similar in form to Earth's continents.
VERITAS, or Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy, will be run out of the Jet propulsion Laboratory, and will map the planet from orbit using a synthetic aperture radar system. It will also search for infrared emissions that could help scientists determine if there is active volcanism on Venus.
Hardware for both missions will be built by Lockheed Martin at an estimated cost of US $500 million per mission, with both set to be launched between 2028 and 2030, although NASA will not award actual launch contracts for either until later in their development.
NASA is off to Venus with DAVINCI+ (l) and VERITAS (r). Credit: NASA
In being selected, the Venus missions elbowed their way past the Io Volcano Observer and Triton Trident missions which had also been under consideration for Discovery funding.
The first of these would have sent an orbiter to study the most volcanic place in the solar system, Jupiter's moon Io, in and attempt to understand the role tidal heating plays in planetary formation. Meanwhile, the Trident mission would have sent a robotic vehicle on a flyby through the Jovian system en route to Neptune, where it would fly by the planet – and through the atmosphere of it's geologically active moon, Triton.
While Io Volcano Observer may get to fly in the near future, things are a little more complex for the Trident mission, as this requires a particular planetary alignment between Earth, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune, that allows it to use their gravities to gather the velocity needed to reach Neptune without the associated fuel load. Such alignments only occur once every 13 years. , with the next occurring in 2026/27, meaning the next opportunity for the mission will not come until 2039/40.
The DAVINCI+ mission entry and descent at Venus. Credit: NASA
However, NASA sees value in funding two Venus missions as both DAVINCI+ and VERITAS are very different in their science objectives, offering the potential to massively increase our knowledge of Venus for a comparatively small cost.
Another aspect that weighed in their favour is that both of the Venus missions can function as technology demonstration missions. VERITAS will host an updated version of a deep space atomic clock first flown on an Earth-orbiting spacecraft in 2019. This will assist in radio science observations and autonomous spacecraft manoeuvres. Meanwhile, DAVINCI+ will fly a new ultraviolet imaging spectrometer.
The decision to go ahead with DAVINCI+ and VERITAS marks the first time dedicated US missions to fly to Venus have been funded since the Magellan radar mapper orbiter, which operated between 1989 and 1994. It also marks an interesting contrast: since 1989, NASA has spent some US $28 billion on missions to Mars, whilst science spending on Venus has barely passed the US $3 billion in the same period.
"Percy" Snaps "Ginny"
I've covered the flights of the Mars 2020 helicopter Ingenuity across several Space Sunday reports. These have included videos and stills of its flights as captured by the Mastcam and Navcam systems on the Perseverance rover. However, in most of those, the helicopter has appeared small and blurry.
Ingenuity as seen in high-resolution by the SuperCam system on the Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/JPL / Kevin Gill
However, using raw images captured by the rover's SuperCam system, former NASA imaging expert Kevin Gill has published the above image of Ingenuity in high-resolution as it sits on Mars.
SuperCam is a remarkable suite of instruments: a laser system that can zap rocks (as with the ChemCam system on the Curiosity rover), a suite of spectrometers that can analyse the resultant vapour, and a high-resolution imager. It is the latter that was used to produce the raw versions of the images Gill used to produce this colour and lighting corrected image of little Ingenuity, bringing to life the little helicopter's vitality.
Nelson to Speak to Russian Opposite about ISS Future
As I recently reported, senior officials in Russia have suggested the country could leave the partnership operating the International Space Station at the end of 2024. In April, the head of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, indicated that it was no longer in Russia's interest to remain involved in the ISS.
While it was not the first time Putin hardliner Rogozin had indicated the country could leave the ISS programme – he made a similar threat in 2014 whilst serving as Russia's deputy prime minister. As with 2014, his comments came at a time of increasing strain in Russia-US relations; however, his current comments are being looked at more seriously for a number of reasons.
For one thing, America is now able to support crewed flights to / from the ISS, reducing the large payments the country has been making to Russia for Soyuz launch vehicle seats, and Russia has already indicated it will not be supporting the development of the Lunar Gateway station, but will instead partner with China in developing a base in the Moon's south polar regions.
Further, Rogozin's comments were indirectly supported by Russia's current deputy prime minister, Yuri Borisov, who has indicated that not only will his country withdraw from ISS, it will actually divert a new power module that should be destined for launch to the ISS in the mid-2020s and use it as the core module of a new Russian space station to be completed by 2030.
NASA's new Administrator and former astronaut and senator, Bill Nelson, is to discuss Russia's longer-term involvement in the ISS with his opposite number, Dmitry Rogozin
In order to gain clarification on Russia's intent, NASA Administrator Bill Nelsen has indicated he will be speaking directly with Rogozin, and hopes to gain Russia's extended involvement in the ISS. How successful he might be is hard to say; the day after Nelson indicated he would be talking to Rogozin, the latter indicated to the Russian news agency TASS that he felt Russia had completed all the research it could aboard ISS, and would be better served moving operations to its own space station operating in a Sun-synchronous orbit around Earth.
Axiom Contracts Three more SpaceX Dragon Flights
Axiom Space has signed a contract with SpaceX for three further missions to fly private astronauts to the space station through until at least 2023.
An artist's impression of the Axiom Space Ax-1 mission arriving at the ISS in 2022. Credit: Axiom Space
The first Axiom mission Ax-1 was agreed to in 2020, and will take place in early 2022 utilising the Crew Dragon vehicle launched via Falcon 9. The Ax-2 through Ax-4 missions will follow-on from that mission, with Ax-2 commanded by former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who holds the record for the most time spent in space by an American, and is the most experienced female space walker in the world.
NASA's low Earth orbit commercialisation strategy, announced two years ago, allows two private astronaut missions a year to the ISS, and Axiom intends to use these opportunities to fly personnel to the station as they prepare to develop their own orbital facility, initially using the ISS prior to operating independently from 2030 onwards.
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2 thoughts on "Space Sunday: the Sun, Venus and snippets"
Orca Flotta says:
That graphic tho. What weird alien planet is that? 🙂
Took me a while to figure out where the Atlantic was. From there on things got easier. But it's really weird to see our colourful marble in 3D and East-West alignment. Where did you find that pic?
It's just a matter of perspective. We're far too familiar with seeing the Earth in Mercator project from over the equator and with Africa centre – all of which presents an utterly distorted view of the globe – such as making Greenland appear pretty much as big as Africa.
The graphic uses Peter projection, which draws the continents in their correct size relative to one another / the Earth as a whole. It then rotates the globe so that the northern hemisphere is dominant and centred on the North Pole. This is to show the area of influence of the eclipse, complete with the path of annularity (the path marked in yellow) where the annular eclipse can be most fully observed as the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun.
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