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Benteke Files
The Value of Christian Benteke and his New Contract to Aston Villa
Matt Rogers
The Maths of Christian Benteke New Contract
Aston Villa F.C. centre forward Christian Benteke recently agreed a contract extension with the club through to 2017. This came less than two weeks after he had submitted a transfer request in an attempt to force a move away from the club. Below we will analyses the impact Christian Benteke has on and off the field for Aston Villa and why awarding the Belgian international a new and more lucrative contract over double his previous wage was a financially sound move for Villa.
On the field
Following his arrival from Belgian side Genk last summer Christian Benteke scored 23 goals in his first season at Aston Villa. Scoring 19 league goals Benteke was integral to keeping his club in the Premier League and avoiding relegation from the top-tier in English football for the first time in 26 years. Benteke was the fourth highest scorer in the Premier League last season and his chance conversion of 26% was only bettered by Frank Lampard's 28% according to Opta Stats.
The impact of Benteke's goal scoring ability off the field is perhaps not as well publicised. His presence and goals played a major part in ensuring Villa's place in the Premier League for the 2013/2014 season. The club is now set to benefit more financially than in any other previous year due to the increase in Premier League broadcasting money.
Premier League broadcasting money
Premier League broadcasting money includes television and prize money made up from domestic and overseas payments. The vast majority of the money is distributed among the 20 Premier League clubs whilst around 10% is given in 'parachute payments' to former Premier League clubs.
The Founder Members' Agreement of the Premier League rules that domestic revenue is distributed as follows: 50% is divided equally between the 20 clubs, 25% is awarded as a "merit payment" to each club according to where they finish in the league and the remaining 25% is paid in "facility fees" which are awarded every time a club's match is shown on television. Clubs also receive overseas revenue which is paid by countries outside of the United Kingdom for coverage of the Premier League.
2012/2013 Premier League season
In the 2012/2013 season the total broadcasting amount of £1.06bn was handed out with £972m distributed among Premier League clubs and the remainder as parachute payments. In the Premier League domestic television revenue and prize money accounted for just under £593.5m whilst overseas television income was £378.5m. Aston Villa received a total of just under £45m. The graphic below displays where Aston Villa finished in the league, how many of their games were shown live on television and how the total payment was made up.
The Merit Payment of just over £4.5m was awarded to Villa for finishing in 15th position in the Premier League. Christian Benteke had a major impact on Villa's final position and it is conceivable that Villa may have finished lower in the table without him resulting in less prize money being awarded. The following table demonstrates Benteke's importance to his club in the 2012/2013 season:
Without the 14 points contributed as a result of Benteke scoring Villa would have ended up on 27 points finishing 19th in the Premier League two points ahead of QPR who finished bottom and one point behind Reading in 18th. Instead of earning £4.5m for finishing 15th Villa would have received only £1.5m for finishing 19th: a loss of £3m. Facing relegation Villa would have missed out on the lucrative television and prize money the 2013/2014 Premier League season is set to offer.
The financial implications of Benteke's impact in his first season will be seen on a greater scale in the new 2013/2014 Premier League season. From this season onwards domestic revenue for Premier League television rights will increase from £1.7bn for the 2010-2013 seasons by just under double to £3.196bn for the 2013-2016 seasons following the league's new deals with Sky and BT worth £3.016bn in addition to the existing BBC rights worth £178m. This is on top of overseas television income believed to be worth in the region of £2bn. A staggering £1.73bn will now be distributed among the 20 Premier League clubs in the 2013/2014 Premier League season.
This means that each Premier League club will now receive in the region of £24m as an equal share and around £30m from overseas television revenue. The merit payment will rise in increments of approximately £1.2m with 20th place receiving this figure and the title winners being awarded around £23m. The "facility fee" will depend on how often a club's matches are broadcast live on television and are worth an estimated £900k per appearance; the star appeal of Benteke certainly makes Villa a more attractive TV proposition for the match selectors.
Using the figures from the 2012/2013 season and taking into account the increased parachute payments for former Premier League clubs I have estimated the expected television revenue and prize money for Aston Villa in the 2013/2014 Premier League season were they to finish in the same position. The table below indicates how much Villa could be expected to receive and gives an indication as to how vital Benteke's impact was last season in ensuring Premier League survival.
Aston Villa would therefore be set to receive around £70m for their participation in the Premier League this season should they finish in a similar position to last season. If Villa had been relegated to the Championship they would have received less than half the above amount. A parachute payment, yet to be confirmed following recent changes by the Premier League, is likely to have produced between £20m-£25m in the first season. Around £2m would also have been awarded from the Football League for television rights following the new broadcasting agreement with Sky Sports. This means Villa would have received in the region of £25m-£30m from television revenue and prize money for participating in the Championship this season; a figure which would reduce if any further seasons were spent in the second tier of English football.
The awarding of a lucrative contract extension to Christian Benteke believed to be in the region of £3m per year (including bonuses) makes financial sense for Aston Villa. The club is set to pocket between £65m and £100m for their participation in the 2013/2014 Premier League season from television revenue and prize money. This is more than double the amount of money Villa would have received by playing in the Championship. On the field Benteke's decision to stay will improve Villa's chances of progressing in the Premier League and in cup competitions after three difficult seasons. Off the field Benteke is a big name at Villa Park and his signature on the dotted line should lead to increased season ticket purchases and Benteke replica shirt sales.
Should Christian Benteke have another productive season and do well at next year's World Cup he may again be tempted to leave depending on the success of Villa's 2013/2014 campaign. Randy Lerner will not let go Benteke go cheap, however, and Aston Villa will be set to gain financially from the Belgian international once more.
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Q: Selecting any two values, and getting all documents associated with those two values I have a collection where there is a field "name". One name can be associated with multiple documents. I need to select any two names, and get all the documents associated with those two names.
This is what I have so far:
db.listings.aggregate({$group: {"_id": "$name"}},
{$limit: 2},{$match: {"name":"$_id"}})

Here are some example documents:
{ "_id" : 8751, "name" : "John", "copies" : 2 },
  { "_id" : 8752, "name" : "Dante", "copies" : 1 },
  { "_id" : 8645, "name" : "Dante", "copies" : 2 },
  { "_id" : 7000, "name" : "Chris", "copies" : 10 },
  { "_id" : 7020, "name" : "Chad", "copies" : 10 }

And my results would be something like this:
{ "_id" : 8751, "name" : "John", "copies" : 2 },
{ "_id" : 8752, "name" : "Dante", "copies" : 1 },
{ "_id" : 8645, "name" : "Dante", "copies" : 2 }

Any help would be much appreciated

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      names: [
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            _id: null,
            names: { $addToSet: "$name" }
          }
        },
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          $project: {
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            names: { $slice: ["$names", 2] }
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      all: [{ $match: {} }]
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    $project: {
      all: {
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            $in: [
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How to reduce global warming
Comment 04 Aug 2021 2 Comments
Grant Lewison FRSA
The devastating impacts of climate change are already being felt. Grant Lewison FRSA argues that in making the profound changes needed, the UK could learn from the leadership and public unity shown in the Second World War.
Although we are currently busy with the Covid-19 epidemic, the problems of climate change are far more serious and leading to many deaths. Some are from too much heat (as in the Pacific North-West), some from flooding from sudden downpours (as in western Europe), and some because of snowfall and cold (as in Texas earlier this year).
Climate change is causing many thousands, and probably soon tens or hundreds of thousands, of people to try to escape from Africa and the Levant and come to Europe. And it is clear that the situation is going to become much worse, with no end in sight. As an octogenarian living in London, I used to think that I would not be much affected by all this. But my grand-daughter would very likely still be alive in 2100. The long-term predictions of a much hotter world, with higher sea level, mass emigration, and huge conflicts, would not be an academic matter for her, but one of pressing concern.
The solution to this awful problem will involve three main sets of actors. The first set is ordinary people, who are now being encouraged to make changes in their lives. These could include fewer flights for foreign holidays, small electric cars instead of Range Rovers, less meat and dairy products, and second-hand clothes from charity shops instead of the latest fashions. But such changes are only likely to be made by a few, though their numbers are growing. There are also examples of farmers re-wilding their land, showing that nature can bring back many animals, fungi, and plants if helped to do so.
The second set of actors is business and financial people. The latter sector now realises that investments in fossil fuels, and firms that depend on their plentiful supply, are not good long-term prospects. Particularly in the USA there has been disinvestment and a switch to support for renewable products and services, and new ways to provide energy. A recent example is the election to the board of Exxon Mobil of three new directors. They are committed to change, and perhaps surprisingly, actually know about the energy business. There is some external public pressure on large companies to make their operations sustainable. Some are responding to this, although it is hard for them to disengage from existing operations if they are to meet the demand from their customers.
The third set of actors is, of course, governments. Many proclaim their good intentions, but their actual policies go the other way. An example close to home is the planned expansion of Heathrow. This assumes that flights will continue to grow without limit. The basic problem is that we in rich countries need to curb our excessive consumption, which is now the main driver of greenhouse gas emissions and the destruction of nature, and is very far from sustainable. However, a political party that offered the big reduction needed to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees above the pre-industrial level would hardly attract many votes, and it would be trashed by the mass media. This is because voters do not feel threatened in their ordinary lives by climate change. Perhaps my grand-daughter does, but she is not yet old enough to vote.
This might seem an impossible challenge to our (and other countries') political systems. However, there is precedent for an appropriate response. In 1939, this country was very fearful of an invasion because of the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 23 August. So Parliament passed the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, with all-party support. Petrol was rationed from 1939, food from 1940, and clothes from 1941. Food rations were designed to provide a well-balanced and nutritious diet. For example, vegetables and fruit were not rationed, nor was fish, but meat, eggs and dairy products were scarce. The health of the nation was very good. One consequence was that many poor people's diet actually improved, and obesity was banished by Act of Parliament.
Is there any chance that such a coming-together of political parties could occur again? Clearly the way forward would need to be agreed by party leaders from all sides who actually believe that we are in a situation comparable to the one we faced in 1939. They would need to go all out to persuade us of its gravity. The current example of President Joe Biden Jr is encouraging, as he has put climate change at the centre of his policies and has proposed many measures to mitigate it, but even he wants to let rich people continue to enjoy their huge automobiles and second houses. If we are to have a future, and the natural world to have a chance to recover, we need visionary politicians. They will need the persuasive powers of Winston Churchill but a philosophy akin to that of Mahatma Ghandi.
Grant trained as an engineer but switched to science policy in the 1970s, serving as Scientific Assistant to the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. He has worked for the European Commission in Brussels, at the Wellcome Trust in London, analysing medical research outputs and at City University, University College London. He is now at King's College London where he works mainly on cancer research publications. Since 2005 Grant has run Evaluametrics Ltd, a bibliometric consultancy firm. Grant was married for 47 years, has two children and two grand-children.
Norma Saunders
I am pleased to see mention of the vital concept of "less meat and dairy products". However, what is really needed is a mass change to vegan life styles. You also mention "examples of farmers re-wilding their land". This is usually achieved by "conservation grazing" that feeds into the meat industry & opposes the first progressive concept of the need for veganism. My expert experience of this matter is that grazing to increase biodiversity can only be achieved with barren grazing animals or truly wild interlinked species. This creates no conflict between conservation & income (something that we have seen lead to failure so often) & it also reinforces the vegan foundation on which to build the response to climate change.
Marilyn Mason
Agree completely - and the latest IPCC report just underlines how much we need to do about a problem we have known about for decades and not done enough about, e g "The costs of stabilising the climate are significant but manageable; delay would be dangerous and much more costly." Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change, 2005. Some things, such as renewable energy cost less than they did in 2005, and the cost of doing nothing is something like infinite! Meanwhile our leaders boast about being ahead of the rest of the world - they probably are on promises, targets, strategies etc but on real action and leadership I doubt it. On just one issue, I've thought for a while that air travel should be rationed - taxes and price rises affect poor people much more than rich people, but rationing is pleasingly egalitarian.

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In this post we will explore the low-code aspect of the platform and see how we can create a multi-device responsive dashboard containing Kendo UIcharts.
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Washington State Parks Board
February 8, 1922: "A.G. Rigg of the architectural firm of Rigg & Vantyne, will go to the summit of Mount Spokane as soon as the mountain road is passable in order to secure data for the erection of a proposed lookout building at the mountain top. Later he will draw plans for the structure, he stated.
The project is backed by the publicity bureau of the Chamber of Commerce and will be erected as a mark of accomplishment of the work of the committee. It is expected that all labor, material and plans will be given without cost through community and organization efforts." (Spokane Chronicle)
February 9, 1922: "A lookout tower is to be erected on the summit of Mount Spokane, under plans made by the Spokane Chamber of Commerce. Civic organizations will bear the actual cost of erection of the tower, and the central labor council has volunteered to furnish labor without charge." (Laramie Republican - Wyoming)
February 12, 1922: "A lookout tower is to be erected on the summit of Mount Spokane, under plans made by the Spokane chamber of commerce. Civic organizations will bear the actual cost of erection of the tower and the central labor council has volunteered to furnish labor without charge." (The Morning Oregonian)
August 6, 1931: "Fire protection for Mount Spokane state park was provided this week by the state forestry board. Two deputy state fire wardens are patrolling the mountain road and trails, according to information received today by Walter Andre, chairman of the Spokane county game commission.
The mountain is also being watched for fires by lookout stations at Newman lake, near Blanchard and on Half Moon." (Spokane Daily Chronicle)
July 20, 1932: "State assistance in establishing a forest fire lookout station atop Mount Spokane was asked today by the Chamber of Commerce.
The United States forest service has made a lookout building available, on condition that a man be placed in charge during the fire season.
In a letter to Earl J. Barnes, director of the state department of conservation and development. Eric A. Johnston, president of the Chamber of Commerce, today said:
'The area that can be covered by such a lookout is immense and no other location in this territory is as practical as the site on Mount Spokane.
Our investigation leads us to believe it would cost the state department very little and that a man could be hired and short wave radio communication with Fort Wright established at an expenditure of around $300. We have been assured free service of the base radio station at Fort Wright.' " (Spokane Daily Chronicle)
August 27, 1932: "John Nugent, state fire warden, and Mrs. Nugent attended the official dedication of the fire protection lookout house on top of Mount Spokane Sunday, the event being participated in jointly by the state and federal fire services. Deputy Warden Lawrence Dixon also went down from here. Mr. Nugent spoke during the program on the state's methods in fire control work. Major Evan W. Kelley, regional forester in charge of of region No. 1 of the U.S. Service, explained methods used in the feeding of the armies of fire fighters who are sometimes called into the forests. Alvin Collin, Spokane county commissioner, and Arthur Burch, city commissioner, also spoke. E.R. Edgerton presided.
A feature of the event was the luncheon, the crowd being given a regular serving of field rations such as are served to fire fighters. The meal consisted of soup, baked ham and sweet potatoes, garden peas, Washington plums, coffee and lemonade." (The Colville Examiner)
July 5, 1933: "Last year, a lookout was maintained by the federal government on top of Mount Spokane, but under the economy program it is not believed it will be kept up this year." (Spokane Daily Chronicle)
June 8, 1934: "Mount Spokane has a vista house and a forest fire lookout station, but is cut off from the rest of the world as far as telephone, radio,or telegraph communication is concerned.
This was revealed in discussion at the timber products bureau of the Chamber of Commerce at its meeting Wednesday. Several possible methods of obtaining telephone communication were discussed.
Only $600 is available for communication and the regular charges of the telephone companies for connecting their lines were considered to high. William Duffy and S.N. Wyckoff were appointed by Ralph Edgerton, chairman, to call on the telephone companies relative to finding a way out of the apparently prohibitive charges.
Connecting with Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company on the Washington side as well as connecting with the Interstate Telephone company lines on the Idaho side will be considered. Another proposal that will be considered is building the line into Elk and connecting with the Long Lake Lumber company's switchboard there.
CCC camp labor from the camp on the mountain would be used, reducing considerably the charges for the construction." (Spokane Daily Chronicle)
July 30, 1937: "After two days and nights without a wink of sleep, George H. Walberg, 22, forest service lookout on Mount Spokane, turned in early Wednesday night.
Fierce blasts of lightning, crashing into timber within the range of the 5808-foot lookout post, gave the young man plenty to do.
Lookout Walberg had an unexcelled, though unenvied view of Tuesday's storm. Lightning struck all around the lookout post. He telephoned in the location of four fires in his area, while lightning crashed overhead." (The Semi-Weekly Spokesman-Review)
June 7, 1941: "Rangers and technical employees of the Colville district of the state forestry division were busy this week perfecting their new radio network recently installed by R. M. Fuller, state radio technician.
Stationary two-way sets have been installed in lookouts on Mt. Spokane, Dunn mountain and Stranger mountain. The Colville and Deer Park offices each have a portable two=way set as part of their equipment." (The Colville Examiner)
June 24, 1943: "Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Hughes have moved to the summit of Mount Spokane where they will spend the summer. He will be employed as a lookout by the forestry department." (Deer Park Union)
June 24, 1944: "Installation of short wave radio sending and receiving sets linking up Stevens, Pend Oreille and Spokane counties was completed Monday by Bob Fuller, radio technician for the state division of forestry, and his assistant Max Giverson.
Sets were installed at the following lookout stations: Stranger Mt. In Stevens county, Mt. Spokane and Mica peak in Spokane county and on Saddle mountain in Pend Oreille county." (The Colville Examiner)
1947: A road to the lookout site at Mt. Spokane was cleared and constructed before winter set in, so that the new installation can be completed in the spring before the 1948 fire season. (Annual Report of the Division of Forestry)
July 7, 1948: "New 90-foot fire lookout tower on Mount Spokane." (was completed) (Spokane Daily Chronicle)
1948: "An 84' ring connected creosoted tower, with 14'x14' living quarters on top, was erected on Mt. Spokane. Because of the large number of visitors to Mt. Spokane State Park, an effort was made to make this an especially attractive lookout." (Annual Report of the Division of Forestry)
May 17, 1949: "An inspection of the wreckage of Mt. Spokane L.O. Tower which collapsed about February 15, 1949, was made May 9, 1949, for the purpose of determining, if possible, the cause of the failure.
History and Description:The tower was built in 1948 by the Washington State Park Board and State Division of Forestry from Forest Service plans secured from Region 6.
The tower is described as follows:
Height - 83 feet.
Cab - 14 x 14 - R-6 type.
Timbers - Ring connected creosoted Douglas fir, select structural grade.
Type - CT4.
Drawing No. - L-10700.
Guys - 4 - 7/8" - 6 x 10 plough steel wire rope placed at the top of the fourth panel. (The tower is five panels high.)
Elevation - 5800' at base of tower.
In addition to the guys specified the state added four additional 1/2" guys, near the top of the tower under the cab, presumably to secure greater stability.
On or about February 15, 1949, the tower collapsed during a severe storm accompanied by high winds. A wind velocity of 72 M.P.H. was recorded at Galena Airport near Spokane, at about that time.
A few days prior to February 1, 1949, or thereabouts, a horizontal projection of snow and ice extending 20' to 22' out from the cab was noted by skiers. A crew went to the tower to remove the snow and ice shortly after February 1, and at that time the projecting ice and snow had fallen off. However, the crew removed the acculated ice and snow from the tower, tunneling through the the top flight of stairs. Due to the accumulation of ice and snow on the catwalk the crew was unable to lift the trap door or gain access to the catwalk, and the snow from that portion of the structure was not removed.
It was also noted by the snow removal crew, around February 1, that one of the horizontal cross braces at the top of the first panel was split. This member consisted of two 2x8's with a 2x12 nailed over the top full length. The crew re-nailed this member.
The guy cables were all found intact and there was no evidence of cable clips slipping.
Additional post supports had been provided under the cables to take care of snow load on cables.
As far as the inspectors could determine, the material was of the grade specified: i.e., select structural Douglas fir. Diagonal grain was noted in some of the broken members but that was within the allowable limit for the grade. There were still six feet of snow on the ground at the time of the inspection.
1. The engineers are unanimous in their opinion that the failure of the tower was due to an extraordinary, heavy load beyond the design limits.
Whether or not another heavy projection of ice and snow was formed is not known, but the falling of the projection previously noted could have fractured various cross members to seriously weaken the structure.
2. These towers are designed to withstand a 100 M.P.H. wind but are not designed for the heavy ice conditions on this point. If these conditions had been known at the time, a tower of special design would have been recommended.
Photographs of some of the snow conditions encountered were shown the inspectors at the ski lodge. One of these pictures showed a flag pole with a horizontal projection of ice equal in length to about the height of the flag pole, for almost the full height of the pole.
3. Standard plans of either wood or steel towers, while satisfactory for 99 out of 100 sites, should not be used at those points where ice loading conditions are known to be severe.
Photographs of the wreckage are attached." (Inspection Report to Assistant Regional Forester from Structural Engineer)
1950: A 45-foot timber tower with a 14'x14' cab was constructed to replace the tower that collapsed. (Biennial Report of the Forestry Division)
October 12, 1950: "The heavy rain of last week so reduced the forest fire hazard that Mr. and Mrs. Blake are home from their look-out post on Mt. Spokane." (Deer Park Union)
June 24, 1960: "The Mount Spokane lookout was opened today by the state department of natural resources in preparation for the summer season.
Ciri Hansen, 20-year-old Walla Walla college student from Spokane, will handle the fire spotting duties at Mount Spokane." (Spokane Daily Chronicle)
1962-64: A replacement lookout tower was erected on Mt. Spokane in Spokane County. (4th Biennial Report of the Washington Department of Natural Resources)
2001: The tower was dismantled and moved. Later Major parts were used to erect the Quartz Mountain lookout.


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Ryan Netzley
Research, Teaching, and Upcoming Events
Posted on November 10, 2014 by ranetzley
Ryan Netzley is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is also the editor of Marvell Studies. His research focuses on Renaissance lyric poetry, critical and poststructuralist theory, poetics and reading practices, and Reformation theology. Continue reading →
Lyric Apocalypse
Posted on November 9, 2014 by ranetzley
Lyric Apocalypse: Milton, Marvell, and the Nature of Events is available via Fordham University Press's site. Reviews have appeared in Renaissance and Reformation, Renaissance Quarterly, Milton Quarterly, SEL: Studies in English Literature, Literature and Theology, and the Andrew Marvell Newsletter.
20 June 2019: I'll be presenting a portion of my new book project the 12th International Milton Symposium in Strasbourg. The paper, "Speculative Learning: Praise, Repetition, and Creative Destruction in Paradise Lost," examines moments of repetitive and reiterated valuing in the epic and focuses on the ways in which they challenge the notion that learning should be laborious.
March 2019: The most recent issue of Marvell Studies (vol. 4, no. 1) has just appeared. It's a special issue on theoretical approaches to Andrew Marvell's poetry, edited by Ben LaBreche and Ryan Netzley. It contains essays by John Garrison (on object-oriented erotics in Marvell's verse), Jason Kerr (on vulnerability as an ontological feature of humans), and Brendan Prawdzik (on "greenwashing" ecocriticism in Marvell studies). In addition, this issue contains reviews of Brendan Prawdzik's Theatrical Milton: Politics and Poetics of the Staged Body and Alex Garganigo's Samson's Cords: Imposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler.
March 2019: "This is Money," my review essay on Scott Ferguson's Declarations of Dependence, has just appeared in Provocations. Ferguson's book argues that the austerity and atomization characteristic of the classical definition of money stem from Duns Scotus' notion of haecceity ("thisness") and its challenge to Thomism's creative abundance. It also argues that Modern Monetary Theory gives art the capacity to do more than compensate for capitalism's rapaciousness (as in the formula "money enslaves, but art saves").
Video link to "Illuminating the Word: The Devotional Tradition and the Future of Poetry," a symposium on devotional lyrics at Brigham Young University, 20-21 November 2014. My paper, "Religious Formalism," is part of the first panel on early modern devotional lyrics.
Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist
Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Religious Poetry (2011) is available via the University of Toronto Press. It's been reviewed in the following journals: Modern Philology, Year's Work in English Studies, Seventeenth-Century News, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and Divinity Magazine.
Acts of Reading
Acts of Reading: Interpretation, Reading Practices, and the Idea of the Book in John Foxe's Actes and Monuments, co-edited with Thomas P. Anderson, is available from the University of Delaware Press, via Rowman and Littlefield. Contributors to the volume explore the relationship between digital and early modern texts and their impact on reading practices. It's been reviewed in Prose Studies, SEL, Renaissance Quarterly, and Renaissance and Reformation.


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LA's underground comedy hit, The Murge has been running in the same small theater in a Los Feliz strip mall for over 3 years. Live-directed by John Gilkey, The Murge is a showcase for The Idiot Workshop's unique style of wild and unpredictable comedy.
9:30-10:30pm • every 2nd Sunday of the month @ The Clubhouse
IDIOT DOME
Five teams enter. One team wins.
IDIOT DOME is unlike any other comedy competition you've experienced. Each team is made up of current and former students of The Idiot Workshop. They have only one mission - to be so memorable -- in success or failure -- that the audience votes for them at the end. There is no fourth wall. No rules. The only mandate is to use their Idiot training to take them into the deepest waters of pure idiocy to reign supreme.
The evening is hosted by Joe Mitchell and William Sheets.
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Hippodrome is an open jam from The Idiot Workshop led by John Gilkey. We invite everyone to come hang out for any or all of it. We're never quite sure who will get up, but we look to mix people who might not have played together before, try new things, and show what we're up to. We want to challenge what we do and see all the styles the Idiot thing can take.
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WOM
Both a satire and sincere attempt at feminist performance art.
WOM is simply put the word woman without man. A Wet The Hippo production in collaboration with visual artist Allison Honeycutt and directed by John Gilkey. A one hour long comedic, musical and movement manifesto within the WOMARIUM, a playground of shedded skin tapestries, dough, babies, mason jars, musical instruments that we actually know how to play, a mountain top from which to yell "I HAVE NO APOLOGIES," and a phone booth from which to say "I am so deeply sorry."
WET THE HIPPO
A completely new approach to live performance in which the ensemble is directed in real time right in front of the audience. Wet The Hippo will stop at nothing to make sure the audience is satisfied. The show featured nine performers including actors, improvisers, comedians, and one concert violist.
"This show should simply not be missed ...transcendent...absolutely hilarious ...beautiful ...the whole thing feels like a jazz symphony made up on the spot by Duke, Miles, Coltrane and Fitzgerald. Yes, the members of Wet The Hippo are that good."
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VIVIAN BECKLEY PERFORMING ARTS PLAYERS
Imagine a world without dinners. The void, the mixed messages, the lies. Now fast forward to 1994. Vivian Beckley, a self-made panic specialist, takes a good, hard look at her passion roadmap and says, "No more spinal injuries." Armed with a pillowcase and a few empty boxes, she gets into her Camry and begins serving up A-R-T to anyone with promising energy. Vivian's quest for creative power takes her to conference rooms, prisons, and dairy clubs across the Bible Belt. Her following grows rapidly and ferociously. Adults admire her fresh scent and accountability. Children cling to her sandals, and get dragged around in the dirt. After several decades of touring as a solo artisan, Vivian expands her vision to include a company of like-minded Art-chievers™. Today, the Vivian Beckley Performing Art Players continue to break the lungs of America as they prove over and over that art cannot exist in a teacup - we must break porcelain, shred evidence, and challenge the elderly if we are to be seen seeing. Vivian died in 2016, in three parts. She would have wanted it that way.
THE SIMPLE SIMPLES
Playing with language, the absurd, dance, and physical comedy in a variety show gone awry, The Simple Simples navigate the science of imaginary solutions, inviting the audience to accompany them to and from deep pools of pleasurable uncertainty.
"The Simple Simples is nuts, and I love it... the characters' mix of sincerity and stupidity transcends comedy to reveal some very basic, brutal truths about human nature. This is the kind of comedy we don't get enough of."
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TRANGLE
A new dance piece from Max Baumgarten, Pearl Marill, Tyler Watson, and Eli Weinberg.
It's dark out. Four strangers meet in a black box theater space to tell the world and each other what they really want. Absurdly sublime interactions, high stakes physicality, and brutal truths go face to face as the performers uncover the bizarrely poignant oddities that ultimately unite them.
THE INVENTION OF LANGUAGE
We find the structure of language, our experience and reason for it, in both the high aspiration of thought, and the familiar, minute to minute experience of language as a condition of subjectivity. It gives permission to find meaning in nonsense, and that nonsense is often the place where sense begins, and opens the door to an unhinged expression.
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The current status of the SKA Project will be summarised, highlighting progress toward a completed design, establishment of the Observatory and consolidation of a construction and comissioning plan. The many science areas in which the SKA is anticipated to make major contributions will be briefly reviewed, together with a discussion of the SKA Data Challenges that are now underway to maximise community engagement with SKA data products and the optimised science extraction from them.
The short presentation will present what we consider to be most important technical challenges for the SKA project. Before doing that, we need to put some context around and the current status of the project. The bridging phase and the adoption process to get to a successfully System CDR will be presented. The bridging phase will cover the gap between the Element CDRs and the System CDR, its main objective is to feed and support the system CDR of the observatory, currently plan for the end of next year. Because of the very high number of capabilities requested by the scientific community on the observatory we are facing many challenges starting from the availability of the observatory itself for the next 50 years of life. The availability requirement must be fulfilled with high quality hardware production, high stable hardware, easy to maintain and to verify. Each of this point is translated in one or more system requirements that are translated in technical and technical challenges for the specific element that comprises the system. The presentation will explore what "reliability" really means when we are dealing with high tech components and their high production number, offering a few examples for further discussion in the bridging phase.
The Italian contribution within the SKA1-LOW instrument and in particular on the Low Frequency Aperture Array (LFAA) Element has been important since the conception of the Square Kilometer Array project.
The Low Frequency Aperture Array is a key component of the SKA. Combining 128 thousands of antennas into up to 2048 stations, with multiple beams and an instantaneous frequency coverage of 50 to 350 MHz, it allows to observe this spectral region with unprecedented spatial and spectral resolution, but constitutes also a formidable technical challenge.
In this talk, I will present the experience that the INAF group has gained in the design of various parts of LFAA from the antenna to digitizer, including special test benches as UAV system. We participated to the system engineering aspects of the project, with a complete integrated solution for the signal processing sub-element.
In the last year a prototype array (AAVS1) was deployed at the SKA site. Experience gained in installation and operation of this facility has been essential in finalizing the instrument design.
National collaborations with Universities, research institutes and industries participating to those activities, will be highlighted during the talk.
This contribution deals with the SKALA4-AL antenna developed by INAF in collaboration with CNR-IEIIT and the industrial partner Sirio Antenne. This dual-polarized Log Periodic Dipole Antenna optimized to operate between 50 and 350 MHz is a candidate for the SKA1-LOW telescope. The main characteristics of the antenna are: aluminium material, 50 ohm single-ended feeding, screw fastening and grounding to the metallic plate. Besides the antenna, the Italian team worked also on developing a low noise amplifier (LNA) based on a 50-ohm single-ended solution to be installed on top of the antenna to amplify the signal before transmitting it to the front-end module. Two SKALA4-AL prototypes have been built, one of them used for tests in Italy, while the other antenna shipped to the Murchison Radio Observatory (MRO) site in Australia. Results from electromagnetic numerical analysis and experimental tests conducted in Turin with a hexacopter system and at MRO will be discussed. Finally, the current status and future perspectives of this activity will be presented.
INAF/IRA has a long and well established tradition with low frequency arrays thanks to the Northern Cross radio telescope, located in Medicina (Italy). Since the beginning of the Italian adventure in the SKA project, with the participation to the SKADS EC-FP6 program, INAF/IRA has been involved, as part of its general effort, to contribute into the design of RF receivers for low frequency (<2GHz) systems. From the first prototype in 2004, called BEST, IRA/INAF has introduced the RFoF technology, which allow to remote antenna arrays transporting all signals into a central facility. After about 15 years of work in this field, this technology is a key component of the Verification System (AAVS1) of the Aperture Array Design Consortium recently deployed in Western Australia and has been selected for the reference design of SKA1-LOW.
ITPM ADU is an international collaboration led by INAF team, whose goal is the realization of a digital equipment designed and produced for SKA-LFAA station signal processing. The project started in 2013 and led to the production of a digital platform consisting of 3 hardware upgrades (ITPM 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2), the processing and management firmware for LFAA and the station control software. Together with the design of a proper housing rack, made in Italy, the system ITPM mounting ADU 1.2 was adopted in AAVS1 experiment, held in Australia last year.
This work describes the new ITPM ADU 1.5 development to contribute to the implementation of final version of SKA-LFAA telescope, improving power consumption, clock distribution circuitry and cooling system; as well as the design and engineering of a digital platform ITPM-based for other projects related to radio astronomy, or signal processing for general applications.
The Square Kilometre Array is currently completing the pre-construction phase in which two arrays of radio antennas (SKA1-Mid and SKA1-Low), observing at different frequencies, are being designed to be installed in the South Africa's Karoo region and Western Australia's Murchinson Shire. The SKA1-Mid array will consist of 133 15-m diameter dish antennas observing in the 350 MHz-14 GHz range and remotely orchestrated by the SKA Telescope Manager (TM) system using the Dish Local Monitoring and Control (LMC) system. LMC interfaces with antenna instrumentation to provide a rolled-up monitoring view of the dish and high-level control functionalities to TM components operating at higher layers in the SKA control system hierarchy.
A Tango-based LMC software prototype is expected to be delivered to validate the designed software architecture and the SKA control system patterns and perform the Dish integration and qualification, expected in early 2019.
In this talk we describe the SKA dish instrumentation and control system designed for the Critical Design Review stage, recently approved by SKA organization.
The SKA Central Signal Processor represents the largest radioastronomical correlator ever designed, including a massive real time pulsar search and pulsar timing machine.
Italian contribution to this element is described. It includes a study of the element local monitor and control, with particular emphasis to the pulsar search machine, the final optimization stag of the pulsar search, and the modelling of the mid correlator signal chain, especially in the presence of radio frequency interferences.
Telescope Manager (TM) is the central element of the SKA. Its role (and responsibility) are the management of the preparation of astronomical observations, the execution of telescope operations and the control and monitoring of the overall telescope status.
To accomplish these functions, TM was originally structured as made of of specific sub-elements: Observation Management (OBSMGT, UK-led), Telescope Management (TELMGT, India-led), Local Monitoring and Control (LMC, Italy-led) and Local Infrastructure (LINFRA, Portugal-led). The TM Consortium, led by the NCRA team at Pune (India), also included South Africa for System Engineering as well as Australia and Canada for review and consultancy. The TM architectural design started on November 2013.
During the development of the final design an important change occurred after the adoption of the SEI architectural design standards by the SKAO. The TM PBS was redefined, in line with the change introduced at system-level, and three high-level products were foreseen: TM-Observatory, TM-Mid and TM-Low. Correspondingly, the design of TM was redefined as composed by two main software modules: Observatory Science Operations (OSO) software and Telescope Monitoring and Control (TMC) software. In addition to them, however, three cross-cutting modules were introduced: TM Services (SER) software; Authentication, Authorization and Auditing (AAA) software and User Interface (UI).
The groups from INAF led these three important modules, while collaborating with the UK team in the development of the Observation Data Archive (ODA), a crucial part of OSO software.
The TM consortium succesfully passed the CDR in April, 2018 (the very first CDR of the whole SKA project). A large part of the activities carried on during the Pre-construction Phase, especially those concerning INAF, are to be prosecuted during the Bridging Period and could possibly play an important role during the SKA Construction Phase.
High-sensitivity large-scale surveys are an essential tool for new discoveries in radio astronomy. A Phased Array Feed (PAF) placed at the focal plane of an antenna can increase the Field-of-View (FoV) and the mapping efficiency by fully sampling the sky. Multiple beams can be formed by adding signals from electrically small focal plane radiating elements of the array using different sets of complex weights.
Following an overview of PAF technologies, we will describe the design and architecture of PHAROS2, a cryogenically cooled 4-8 GHz PAF demonstrator with digital beamformer for radio astronomy application. The instrument is under development in the framework of the SKA (Square Kilometer Array) PAF Advanced Instrumentation Program as an international collaboration of the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF, Italy), the Jodrell Bank Observatory (University of Manchester, UK), the Netherland Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON, the Netherland), the Onsala Space Observatory (OSO, Sweden) and the University of Malta (Malta).
PHAROS2 will be capable of synthesising four independent single-polarization beams by combining 24 active elements of an array of Vivaldi antennas. The instrument features: a) commercial cryogenic Low Noise Amplifiers with state-of-the-art performance, b) a "Warm Section" for signal filtering, conditioning and single downconversion to select a ≈275 MHz Intermediate Frequency (IF) bandwidth within the 4-8 GHz Radio Frequency (RF) band, c) an IF signal transportation by analog WDM (Wavelength Division Mutiplexing) fiber-optic link, and d) a FPGA-based Italian Tile Processing Module (iTPM) digital backend.
PHAROS2 will be mounted at the primary focus of the 76-m diameter Lovell radio telescope (Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK) for technical and scientific validation.
co-authors: SCALAMBRA, Alessandro (INAF); MELIS, Andrea (INAF); CONCU, Raimondo (INAF); NALDI, Giovanni (INAF); ORTU, Pierluigi (INAF); SABA, Andrea (INAF); MONARI, Jader (INAF); MACCAFERRI, Andrea (INAF); CATTANI, Alessandro (INAF); RODA, Juri (INAF); PERINI, Federico (INAF); COMORETTO, Gianni (INAF); MORSIANI, Marco (INAF); RUSTICELLI, Simone (INAF); MATTANA, Andrea (INAF); MARONGIU, Pasqualino (INAF); SCHIAFFINO, Marco (INAF); CARRETTI, Ettore (INAF); PRANDONI, Isabella; SCHILLIRÒ, Francesco (INAF); URRU, Enrico (INAF); PUPILLO, Giuseppe (INAF); POLONI, Marco (INAF); LADU, Adelaide (INAF); PISANU, Tonino (INAF); NESTI, Renzo (INAF); ZARB ADAMI, Kris (University of Malta); MAGRO, Alessio (University of Malta); CHIELLO, Riccardo (University of Oxford); LIU, Lei (University of Oxford); GRAINGE, Keith (University of Manchester); KEITH, Michael (University of Manchester); VAN CAPPELLEN, Wim (ASTRON).
New-generation radio telescopes such as the SKA's aperture array require advanced techniques to confirm the desired performance and calibrate the instrument. At low frequencies, the strong mutual coupling between the array elements and the interaction of the antennas with the environment can drastically alter the expected response of the elements and compromise the calibration process.
In this context, an antenna measurement system consisting of a radio-frequency signal source mounted on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has been developed in Italy in order to perform tests at both subassembly and end-to-end level. Measurement campaigns have been successfully carried out on two prototypes of the SKA low-frequency instrument placed in United Kingdom and on a station of the LOFAR radio telescope in The Netherlands. Recently, near-field verification strategies have also been proposed.
I will discuss SKA-related work in the field of extragalactic HI astronomy. I will focus on recent, ongoing and upcoming science projects with a variety of telescopes -- including SKA pathfinders and precursors -- that will pave the way for SKA1 programs. I will discuss a few technical challenges such as RFI rejection/nulling, data volume and source finding; and I will present some exciting new recent HI results. FInally, I will describe how the extragalactic HI community has organised its activities towards the SKA.
The MeerKAT Fornax Survey (MFS, PI Paolo Serra) is a dedicated large survey project planned by the MeerKAT telescope, the South-African precursor of the SKA. The MeerKAT telescope was inaugurated in July 2018. As of early 2019, MeerKAT will observe for 900 hours the Fornax cluster to study its assembly of new gas-rich galaxies and groups and the physics of gas accretion occurring in its environments. In this talk, I will outline the main scientific goals of the MeerKAT Fornax Survey and the main challenges that we will face in the analysis of high resolution (~25 kHz) and sensitivity (0.1 mJy) MeerKAT observations. I will show new results from high resolution (8'') MeerKAT commissioning observations of the brightest cluster galaxy of Fornax (NGC 1399), of Fornax A, the extended radio source in the in-falling group of the cluster, and of the region connecting these two sources, where we detect neutral hydrogen gas (HI). I will focus on the challenges presented by the spatial extent of Fornax A (~1 degree in the sky) in correctly subtracting its continuum emission, and detecting the HI line with high signal to noise ratio. I will show how we solve these issues in the automated data reduction pipeline we developed for MeerKAT continuum and spectral line observations (MeerKATHI). The techniques for the reduction and analysis of MeerKAT observations will set an important starting point to plan and develop the SKA survey projects and data reduction strategies.
The Australia Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is a new radio interferometer that is pioneering revolutionary Phased Array Feed (PAF) receivers, which are under consideration for future SKA instrumentation. I will give an update on ASKAP status, rollout and commissioning, and present the first results from WALLABY, the main extragalactic ASKAP HI survey that has been using an ASKAP sub-array for early science. We have produced the highest resolution HI images of the nearby, gas-rich, spiral galaxy IC 5201 that has also revealed 3 gas-rich dwarf satellite galaxies. An additional 5 galaxies and 2 tidal features are detected in the same HI images due to the instantaneous wide-filed imaging capabilities of ASKAP. I will discuss the physical properties of these systems, focusing on the ratios of available HI gas, star formation rate and stellar mass in order to describe the galaxies and their environments.
SKA Data Challenger is only one of the IT technologies challengers in which the SKA project is involved. These imply all activities from data management, network transfer, (super)computing infrastructure to, last but not least, software pipeline development and workflow management. INAF, as Italy main actor in the SKA project, can play an important role, both in the evolution of the exascale computing and data as a partner/host of the European SKA Regional Center, and as an Excellence center in the field of the software development. INAF is already part of this process as involved in the AENEAS H2020 project, and SKA Science Data Challenger host.
On March 2018, INAF approved the participation to the International LOFAR Telescope (ILT) and the organization of a LOFAR-IT Consortium leaded by INAF itself aiming at coordinating at Italian level the participation to ILT.
The University of Turin (Department of Phyiscs: DP-UniTO) has recently formalised the participation to LOFAR-IT Consortium.
A Board of the LOFAR-IT project has been established to manage the whole participation of INAF to ILT.
INAF will contribute to the development of LOFAR2.0 with an agreement with AstroTec to purchase a LOFAR2.0 station in 2021- 22.
INAF and the LOFAR-IT Consortium have also planned to create an e-infrastructure for the reduction/analysis of LOFAR data for the Italian Astronomers. LOFAR-IT has established a working group that carried out a study for the LOFAR2.0 infrastructure participation.
In this talk we will present the LOFAR-IT organization and the main characteristics of the Italian e-infrastructure. We will finally discuss the preliminary tests performed on the LOFAR pipelines to study the computational and storage needs of the Italian community that are driving the design of the e-Infrastucture.
Training and support services will provide the pillars for the future SKA endeavour.
The AENEAS WP5 analysis identified the crucial aspects in preparing for the new frontier that is SKA: several challenges await our astronomical communities to proficiently face the opportunities offered by it. A preparatory plan based on coordinated training events that exploit current facilities and tests will accompany and prepare the community for the path ahead.
The ALMA Regional Centre experience has already proven that support facilities within large telescope projects are vital drivers not only for providing the preferential interface with the facility to any user (observers, data analysts, software scientists...), but also for improving the user SKA experience and getting the maximum benefit from its scientific exploitation.
In my talk I will present some of the possibilities for user-facility interaction schemes and community training plans for the European SKA community.
Although the Square Kilometer Array is by now an "old acquaintance" for the big community of scientists and technologists involved, this huge project is not as well known to the public of non-experts. The work package for outreach in the Italian PRIN-INAF project FORECast (FORmation and Evolution of Cosmic STructures with Future Radio Surveys) aims at presenting it in all its strength, in a joint effort with other projects supported as PRIN-INAF.
Building upon our great professional expertise in communicating radio astronomy to students and public, we are designing pioneering outreach activities aiming at showing both the fascinating science and the groundbreaking technology involved in SKA. Indeed, we believe that the great challenge for SKA-related communication is telling about the scientific opportunities and expectations (the "wow") while also communicating the peculiarities of studying the Universe through huge amounts of invisible radio data (the "how"). With this ambitious aim, within FORECaST we are designing activities for different targets, that we would like to present and discuss at the II National Workshop of SKA Science and Technology.
We have produced a set of educational activities for primary and middle schools, showing the specific observing techniques. High school students will on the other side experience observing with real radio telescopes and dealing with databases for data reduction and analysis. We have also designed an exhibit showing radio data converted into multisensorial stimuli, in order to i) show the need of conversion of invisible collected data into significant and understandable features and ii) create an effective mean of inclusion of a sensorial impaired public. Besides, we are working together with other national PRIN projects for designing a virtual reality experience based upon cutting edge technology, in order to bring SKA to people and let them effectively and emotionally get involved, though physically far away: the societal and human aspects of the story will play an important role into the narration.
All designed activities obviously include the presentation of the scientific goals of the FORECaST and other involved projects, in order to present their strategies for contributing to our understanding of the Universe.
The GENESIS-SKA project is supported as PRIN-INAF and its main goal is to study dust evolution, planet formation, and pre-biotic chemical complexity, in the context of preparation of SKA Key Programmes. The funding PRIN-INAF also accounts for communication, public and industrial outreach of the projects' scientific goals and results. This is the reason why the project has a dedicate outreach work package with a specific activities' plan that we would like to present and discuss with the scientific community. The scientific aspects of this project are especially well suited for outreach, being related to the fundamental question of broad interest: How did life emerge? But we can also take advantage of previous professional engagement in many outreach activities related to other science projects.
In this context we are therefore developing different activities for different targets and throughout different approaches: a website for peers, educational activities for schools, highly engaging talks for general public. For as regards industrial outreach we think that such activity is intended to enable businesses in general, from industry to SMEs and entrepreneurs, to be engaged in SKA-GENESIS and thus in the SKA project at large and their scientific and technological challenges.
In the talk we'll start from the analysis of different approaches in the engagement process which targets companies (e.g., industry days, conferences, participation to fairs), highlights the necessity of proposing new typology of activities applying innovative methodologies derived from other areas (e.g., barcamp, hackaton, experential laboratory) and customized for the business audience.
The aim is to promote SKA-GENESIS and SKA visibility. This activity and a specific event locally organized (e.g., a Barcamp) could contribute at creating science-businesses interdisciplinary links at a more territorial level, engaging the several productive sectors (e.g., mainly consisting of SMEs) and the local business organizations. New approaches to industrial outreach allow new networking and collaboration with companies, especially at local level, opening the way for benefit of EU regional funds for research and innovation.
SKA precursors are going to revolutionize our view of the Milky Way. ASKAP is entering its regime phase and one of its large program, EMU, is the largest radio survey ever designed at the planned depth of 10 μJy/beam. In the wide context of the preparation for EMU and ASKAP we present the SCORPIO project, an ATCA survey of a patch of the Galactic plane, originally covering a ∼5-square-degree. SCORPIO has recently been extended to ∼40-square-degree thanks to the first ASKAP early science data, being the first Galactic field ever imaged at this frequency by an SKA precursor. In this talk we show the major scientific results we are obtaining on point and extended sources in the general context of stellar evolution. We present also the first ASKAP early science observation of SCORPIO, carried out in January 2018 at a central frequency of 912 MHz. We highlight the surprising capability of ASKAP to image wide fields toward the Galactic plane also in view of EMU.
SKA precursors have just started to collect data, whose amount is so huge that is somehow overwhelming scientists. And the data stream is going to blow up once the precursors will be fully operational, not to mention SKA itself. How are we preparing for this? Automation in data reduction and analysis is mandatory but it is still far to be complete with respect to all the cases the radio astronomy community is going to encounter in the very next future. Data reduction pipelines and newly developed analysis tools are representing an intriguing challenge for scientists and a formidable test bench for super-computing facility. In this talk we present the use case of data reduction and analysis of ASKAP Galactic observations of the SCORPIO field, as representative of a series of issues for radio mapping. We first discuss how we fitted the ASKAP data reduction pipeline to the "Galactic needs". Then we present some algorithms we developed or are developing to analyse Galactic maps, in particular for source extraction and characterization. We finally propose and summarise some practical solutions to help shaping the ASKAP Galactic data processing strategy.
The ingredients for the recipe to make a "habitable" planet like our own Earth are: a relatively small rocky planet, at the right distance from the host star, with a not too thick atmosphere rich in volatiles and capable of developing interstellar complex organic molecules (iCOMs) chemistry. Searches for exoplanets have shown a large degree of diversity in the planetary systems, and as yet is unclear how common a System like our own is. Understanding the formation of planetary systems and the chemical processing of the volatiles that will form their atmospheres is key to understand the origins of the Solar System and how common the "habitable" planet outcome may be. More specifically key questions still to be addressed are: how chemically complex are the volatiles delivered on the pristine planetary atmospheres? What molecules are passed from the large-scale envelope to the disk in which planets, comets, and asteroids form?
(3) a pilot project for the preparation of a Green Bank single-dish large program (iCOMs and heavy C-chains, at 13-15 GHz).
The improvement in sensitivity of radio telescopes is disclosing a brand new method for searching and characterizing extrasolar planets. Mutual magnetic interaction between an exoplanet and its parent star (or even one of its satellites) can give rise to a electron cyclotron maser emission (ECME), known as auroral radio emission. The radio emission has a peculiar signature in time and in polarization. There are two scenarios: in one case the planet orbiting the star can trigger this emission leading to a ECME in the stellar magnetosphere; in tho other one the stellar wind can trigger the auroral radio emission directly above the planet. Information like the presence of a planetary magnetosphere or of different satellites can be inferred. Current observations of are however heavily hampered by the limited sensitivity, and we expect that a major step forward will be possible only with SKA. Despite this limitation we present two cases we recently studied: the ultra-cool dwarf TVLM 513-46546 and α Centauri. For the first star we used VLA observations at 4.9 and 8.4 GHz to constrain an auroral radio emission model and reproduce the cyclic circularly-polarized pulses of the star. Our model explains the observed radio emission, and in particular its anomalies at 8.4 GHz, as a possible interaction of the star with an external body (Leto et al. 2017). For α Cen, we successfully detected both the stars at 17 GHz, being the first detection ever at these frequencies. We used 2-GHz data to search for time-variable coherent emission as a signature of the claimed Earth-sized planet in close orbit to α Cen B, finding no results (Trigilio et al. 2018). We finally discuss the implication of this early pioneering study in planning and proposing observations with SKA and its precursor, when the unprecedented sensitivity could be unveiling hundreds of these cases.
I will illustrate recent developments in Galactic star formation and ISM studies from large panoramic surveys in the infrared and submillimeter. The amount and the quality of data now available over our entire Galaxy call for renewed efforts also in the radio. SKA allows a new leap in sensitivity and mapping capabilities at high spatial resolution both in continuum and spectroscopy to unveil new perspectives in the study of the atomic and ionised phases of the diffuse ISM and the initial stages in intermediate and massive star formation.
The LSST will be a wide-field 8m class telescope designed to obtain multi-band images over a substantial fraction of the sky every few nights. Multiple goals are expected in many relevant astrophysical areas, such as : (i) taking an inventory of the Solar System; (ii) mapping the Milky Way; (iii) exploring the transient universe; and (iv) probing dark energy and dark matter. The SKA and LSST offer significant synergies, in particular in time-domain astrophysics. Simultaneous observations of the transient sky carried out with SKA and LSST will allow us to study "known" and yet "unknown" classes of transient phenomena with unprecedented accuracy. The optical counterparts of a broad range of radio transients will be imaged by LSST in different bands and the spectroscopic follow-up of the most exciting candidates will be carried out with SOXS.
Understanding the interplay between the various components of the interstellar medium (ISM: dust, atomic and molecular gas) in galaxies of the Local Universe is of fundamental importance for studies of galactic formation and evolution. In the last decade, thanks in particular to Herschel, we made a considerable effort in the study of one of these components, the dust. In this framework, the DustPedia project has been devised aimed at performing a complete characterization of dust in the Local Universe. However, we need information on all the phases of the ISM, including the gas, to draw definitive conclusions on it.
Exploring the cosmic evolution of the gas content of galaxies is a key science driver for SKA, and DustPedia is supporting this providing a first important step in understanding how the cold ISM related to the dust content, and to galaxy ability to form stars. We present the main scaling relations between uniformly homogenized data of molecular and atomic gas, and dust for a sample of ~450 nearby (z<0.01), late-type galaxies extracted from the DustPedia sample. Only such a large and coherent dataset of all phases of the ISM can provide a definitive view of the ISM in the Local Universe and permit to link it with that at high redshift, tracing its evolution.
ALMA is revealing the molecular gas component through several tracers, as e.g. CO, detectable at millimeter wavelengths, while telescopes as JVLA and, in future, SKA detect the atomic gas component (21cm-HI). Our approach therefore represents a clear example of synergy between SKA pathfinder/precursors, ALMA, and Herschel, in addition to put us in a favored position for the forthcoming use of SKA.
I will present an overview of the ongoing and planned activities of the italian radioastronomical community related to pulsar and Fast Radio Burst science, in view of the SKA.
Globular clusters contain a large number of millisecond pulsars. Besides being extremely interesting by themselves, these pulsars are an invaluable tool to probe the cluster environment and dynamics. They can be used to search for the presence of an intermediate mass black hole in the center, ionized gas and its magnetic field. The SKA precursor MeerKAT is in a unique position as it is capable of observing all of the Milky Way globular clusters. Thanks to its large collecting area and wide bandwidth, MeerKAT will be able to time the pulsars in globular clusters with higher precision than now possible and to constrain better the structural parameters of the clusters. This will also lead to tighter limits on the mass of central black holes.
Radio observations of the first gravitational wave event with an electromagnetic counterpart (GRB170817) has shown unexpected features. The long lived, slowly rising, non--thermal radio emission (together with optical and X--ray observations), between 10 and 200 days after the BNS merger, is consistent with being produced by either a narrowly collimated or an isotropic outflow with geometrical and/or dynamical structure. Global-VLBI observations, owing to the exquisite angular resolution, hold the key to distinguish between these two models answering the question weather a relativistic jet emerged from the merger. Implications for the event rate and jet physics will be discussed.
The first joint gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) signals detection in August 2017 marked the dawn of GW+EM multi-messenger astronomy. The GRAWITA collaboration has been at the forefront of this new era providing the most impressive spectro-photometric optical/near-infrared data set on the EM source. These observations secured the first compelling evidence for the existence of kilonovae.
The GRAWITA team has been awarded time at several observing facilities and the project is representing an efficient operational framework capable of fast reaction on large error box GW triggers and direct identification and characterization of detected EM counterpart candidates. I will describe the GRAWITA collaboration and its activities and the contribution that the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will provide to the discovery and understanding of transient EM sources associated to GW signals.
to the current major arrays such as H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS by a factor of five to twenty, depending on the energy.
which will focus on major scientific cases, allowing us to provide legacy data-sets of high value to a wider community in a context of synergies with other major multi-wavelength facilities.
In this talk I will overview the current open and hot questions in the area of radio emission from active galactic nuclei, and will address the impact the SKA and its precursors and pathfinders will play/are playing. I will further highlight the relevance of the SKA-VLBI in this field.
Low frequency observations have finally opened the way to the search and study of remnant radio galaxies. These sources represent the last evolutionary stage of radio galaxies when the jets have switched off, and have remained elusive and poorly understood so far. For a long time there have been claims that new sensitive surveys would lead to the discovery of many more remnant radio galaxies, especially at low frequency, and LOFAR now gives us the opportunity to investigate whether this is the case.
In this talk I present an extensive search for remnant radio galaxies at 150 MHz in the Lockman Hole, a well-studied extragalactic field, and JVLA follow-up observations of the candidate sources. In addition to this, I will show the results from Monte-Carlo simulations that we have performed to predict the fraction of remnants that should be found in radio flux limited samples, to be compared with observations.
This study puts the basis for a statistical investigation of remnant radio galaxies over larger sky areas using new generation surveys performed with SKA precursors, such as the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey, The MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration and GAMA Legacy ATCA Southern Survey.
The Fermi-LAT Fourth Source Catalog (4FGL), based on 8 years of E>50 MeV photon data, will comprise about 5500 sources. This number corresponds to a 60% increase relative to 3FGL. The talk will describe the analysis improvements over 3FGL and the new catalog features. About 66% of the sources will have high-confidence counterparts detected at other wavelengths, both extragalactic (mainly blazars) and galactic (mainly pulsars). The nature and properties of the newly detected sources will be discussed, in particular with a description of the accompanying Fourth LAT AGN catalog (4LAC), which will comprise about 3000 sources, essentially doubling the number of sources published in 3LAC, and of the first Fermi-LAT low energy catalog (1FLE) of sources detected in the 30 MeV - 100 MeV range. Multiwavelength observations are key for the characterisation of the physical properties of the identified objects, as well as for the classification of the so-far unassociated gamma-ray sources. The SKA and its precursor can have a prominent role in this area, as I will point out in this presentation with some case studies.
Galaxy clusters are the host of complicated non-thermal phenomena, that are best visible at radio wavelengths. The current generation of radio instruments, such as the uGMRT, LOFAR, and the JVLA, are showing in these years new and interesting features regarding both the cluster magnetic fields and the non-thermal emission associated with the intra-cluster medium. In this talk, I will review the main milestones that the community has achieved in the last years, and show the main advances that we expect to obtain with the SKA.
During this talk I intend to present radio observations with the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) of a region of the sky of 8°x8°, likely associated with an over-density traced by nine massive galaxy clusters at z≈0.1. The combination of the SRT data with observations from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey revealed the presence of 28 new diffuse synchrotron radio sources with radio emissivity and X-ray luminosity 10-100 fainter than known diffuse synchrotron cluster sources (radio halos and relics). The comparison with magneto-hydro-dynamical simulations suggests that this population is potentially the tip of the iceberg of a class of diffuse large-scale synchroton sources associated with the filaments of the cosmic web and corresponding to magnetic field strengths of ~20-50 nG.
In the next years, thanks to the advent of the SKA we expect a revolution of our knowledge about cosmic magnetism. Its precursors and pathfinders are already pushing the current limits of sensitivity and resolution and they will allow us to study large scale magnetic fields with unprecedented details. In this talk, I will present a computational tool which can produce realistic synthetic full-Stokes images that we expect to detect with the SKA1-MID. The simulated data are used as a framework to investigate how we can constrain large scale magnetic fields hosted by galaxy clusters with this next generation instrument.
In this talk we will highlight the existing synergies between SKA and Athena in the framework of two major research fields: AGN physics and cosmic web studies.
A rich phenomenology of jets, winds, and accretion states has been observed in both active galactic nuclei (AGN) and X+ray binaries (XRBs), suggesting a connection between the accretion and ejection flows at different black hole masses, from supermassive down to stellar mass. In AGN, the radiation field from the disk and the outflows, both of winds and jets, are thought to play a fundamental role in the feedback invoked in galaxy formation and evolution. Notwithstanding their importance, our knowledge of the accretion and ejection phenomena and their interplay is still very limited. Single+object and population studies can explore the accretion/ejection mechanism in XRBs and AGN. The Athena X+ray observatory will be launched when the complete SKA array will be fully operative. The combination of these two facilities will provide fundamental improvements on several topics, revolutionizing our comprehension of the accretion/ejection phenomena at all scales (spatial, mass, radio power). The Athena+SKA synergy will allow us to disentangle the jet/disk flows based on their different contributions to the overall spectral energy distribution, expected to be different in ADAF, ADAF+jet and standard disk/corona models. The superbe SKA and Athena sensitivities will lead to high temporal resolution, allowing to test the coronal emission models where reconnection events produce relativistic electrons, which may produce both the radio and the X+ray emission, leading to correlated variability. Given the large number of AGN that SKA will observe/detect, it will be possible to reconstruct all the AGN accretion phases in the local Universe, from pure ADAF, to ADAF+jet dominated, to accretion efficient regimes.
The SKA promises to detect the synchrotron emission from shocked plasmas on scales beyond what is currently observed in galaxy clusters, finally imaging the location of the "missing baryons" of the cosmic web. This will have deep implications also for our understanding of how the magnetisation of cosmic structures has proceeded across cosmic epochs. By joining forces with the SKA, Athena should map the missing baryons in several regions: by observing with long exposures regions previously selected in the radio band, Athena will be able to collect enough X-ray photons to attempt first emission spectra from the missing baryons around galaxy clusters and in filaments. In particular, based on our ongoing campaign of simulations, we can predict that the interaction region of close pairs of galaxy clusters should emit enough radio waves to be detectable by the SKA, as well as enough X-ray photons to allow detections using the XIFU, which will allow us to capture these elusive baryons for the first time, and study their thermodynamical properties in detail.
The birth of the first stars, black holes and galaxies heralded the end of the cosmic Dark Ages and the beginning of the Cosmic Dawn. The light from these objects heated and ionized almost every atom in existence, culminating in the Epoch of Reionization: the final major phase change of the Universe. This final frontier of astrophysical cosmology is undergoing a transition from an observationally-starved epoch to a "Big Data" field. This process is set to culminate with upcoming Square Kilometre Array observations of the redshifted 21-cm line: providing a 3D map of the first billion years of our Universe. Currently, we are starting to get a handle on the timing of reionization. However with the SKA, we will be able to actually study the UV and X-ray properties of the first galaxies, which are encoded in the large-scale structure of the H I signal. I will discuss the innovative modeling techniques we are developing to tap into this bounty, allowing us to constrain astrophysical parameters in a fully Bayesian framework. With this framework, we can infer the star formation inside galaxies too faint to be seen even with JWST. Moreover, we can study high-energy processes in the early Universe, through their heating signature of the IGM before reionization. With SKA, the Italian astronomical community is in the position to become a world leader in the study of Reionization and the Cosmic Dawn.
The quest for the 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn and subsequent Epoch of Reionization has taken an unexpected turn with the reported detection of a sky-average absorption trough centred at 78 MHz (z~17, Bowman et al., 2018) whose explanation challenges any current theoretical model. In this talk I will present competing observations aimed to confirm the reported detection. I will also review the current status of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA), the most sensitive SKA precursor for observations of the 21-cm line from the Cosmic Dawn and subsequent Epoch of Reionization.
Observations of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) through the redshifted 21 cm line represent a new frontier in observational cosmology and have motivated the construction of several low frequency radio arrays.
Detection of the redshifted 21 cm line emission is complicated by the contamination from foreground sources that are brighter by several orders of magnitude.
The dominant foreground is Galactic synchrotron emission caused by cosmic ray electrons interacting with the galactic magnetic field. Synchrotron emission can also be polarized.
Every EoR experiment with an instrumentally polarized response, may have to face a leakage of polarization into intensity. In this case, the polarized synchrotron becomes a potentially problematic foreground emission with its complex frequency dependent structure. Dedicated simulations are needed in order to estimate the level of contamination of this foreground emission.
In this talk I will discuss how we tackle the issue of Galactic polarized emission, present our simulations and some applications to EoR studies down to Cosmic Dawn.
The synergy between current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) projects and the extreme sensitivity and resolution of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be crucial for a wide set of themes relevant for cosmology and astrophysics at different cosmic epochs, including cosmological parameter estimation, integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect and constraints on dark energy, primordial non-Gaussianity and magnetic fields, CMB spectrum and cosmological reionization. I discuss the instrumental requirements and the observational/data analysis approaches relevant for performing these scientific investigations.
Nowadays deep radio surveys reach micro-Jy level flux densities detecting mainly star-forming galaxies and radio-quiet AGN. These are the classes of objects which have been studied for decades in the infrared, optical and X-ray bands. Moreover, radio observations are unaffected by absorption and therefore are sensitive to all kinds of AGN indipendently of orientation (e.g. Type 1s and Type 2s) and provide a dust-unobscured view on star formation achieving a better resolution than that obtained in current deep far-IR surveys. For these reasons radio observations provide a complementary and important tool to investigate the galaxy/AGN co-evolution throughout cosmic time. In this presentation I will summarize some recent results obtained from the VLA-COSMOS 3 GHz Large Project.
In my talk, I will present results obtained using the state-of-the-art galaxy formation model GAEA, and its most recent version including prescriptions to partition the cold gas into its atomic and molecular components (Xie et al. 2017 - X17).
I will first discuss how the most recent observational measurements available for HI selected galaxies in the local Universe compare with prescriptions from six independently developed semi-analytic models (all run on the same cosmological N-body simulation, with X17 being the only one including an explicit treatment for the partition of cold gas in HI and H2).
I will show that the specific treatment adopted for satellite galaxies strongly affects the final HI content at low masses but that, contrary to naive expectations, instantaneous stripping of hot gas from infalling galaxies does not translate necessarily in lower HI masses.
In fact, I will demonstrate that stellar feedback and star formation can influence significantly the gas content of satellites.
Finally, I will discuss the origin of the correlation between HI content of model galaxies and the spin of the parent halos.
In the second part of my talk, I will focus on X17 and on its specific predictions for the sizes and specific angular momenta (j_*) of galaxies.
Our model includes an explicit treatment for specific angular momentum exchange between galactic components, and the scale radii of the gaseous and stellar disks depend directly on their specific angular momenta.
I will discuss how model predictions compare with recent observational estimates, and how they are affected by different prescriptions for cold gas accretion and stellar feedback.
The results I will present show that the X17 model is able to reproduce both the HI content and the dynamical properties of simulated galaxies, representing an ideal tool to create dedicated mock catalogues for the interpretation of existing surveys and the preparation of future ones.
We have developed a dedicated software to this aim.
A first preliminary all sky mock catalog has already been made available to the SKA cosmology group working on intensity mapping.
We plan to expand this work by extending this catalog up to higher redshift and including the 21 cm line emission of model galaxies.
We plan to make the catalogues available to the larger SKA community.
The results I will present have been published in Zoldan et al. (2017) and Zoldan et al. (2018).
Investigations of the population of radio-active AGN up to z=3.5 not only show that these sources are hosted by galaxies of very large, M*>10^10.5 Msun, stellar masses, but also that at all redshifts they reside in very massive dark matter halos, comparable to those associated with groups-to-clusters of galaxies. This result is found both via clustering studies and by directly pinpointing such sources to the cosmological structures they belong to. We also show how intense star-forming activity is encountered in the overwhelming majority of z>1 (massive) galaxies hosts of radio-active AGN, and how this activity is only halted by nuclear feedbacks in the relatively local universe. What emerges from our work is a scenario whereby physical processes at sub-pc/pc (e.g. AGN emission) and kpc scales strongly influence the large-scale structure behavior of the AGN and its host. Within this context, wider and deeper radio surveys are strongly foreseen in order to beat the uncertainties associated to studies confined to small regions of the sky, so to provide the ultimate answer on how these sources evolve with cosmic epoch.
The IDIA cloud is a cloud computing system being developed at the Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA). The IDIA cloud is a data intensive research facility whose main aim is to facilitate the reduction and the scientific exploitation of MeerKAT data. Building on the IDIA cloud, the HELP-IDIA Panchromatic Project (HIPPO) is developing an environment for the effective multi-wavelength characterization of radio sources detected by MeerKAT. In my talk I will introduce the IDIA cloud, detail the aims and the status of the HIPPO project and demonstrate some IDIA and HIPPO use cases in a Jupyter Notebook.


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Epic Mickey Mickey Mouse and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Character Development Original Art by Carson Van Osten Group of 3 (Walt Disney, 2007-10). In 2006, Walt Disney traded the services of sportscaster Al Michaels to Universal/NBC in return of the rights for Walt's first cartoon character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Oswald's first major appearance back at Walt Disney Studios was for the ground-braking video game for Disney Interactive Studios game Epic Mickey. Disney Legend Inductee, Mr. Carson Van Osten (1945 - 2015), began working on this game with character designs in 2007. Here are some of Carson Van Osten's original character development for the game, featuring BOTH Mickey Mouse and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit! This is historical artwork, including three graphite drawings on 9" x 12" onionskin paper. Two feature both characters, while a third is a series of Oswald action sequences. Mr. Van Osten has signed the third drawing as "Carson." Minor handling and edge wear. Good condition. From the Carson Van Osten Archives.
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Q: Why the sum value from mysql_fetch was double up? I have an 2 database.
1 is game_jnship_user, 2 is game_jnship_equip and the data as below:
Here is game_jnship_user
+-----+-----------------+
| ID  | uid             |
+-----+-----------------+
| 1   | 50              |
+-----------------------+

Here is game_jnship_equip
+-----+------------+---------------+--------------+
| ID  | uid        | ebonus        | etype        |
+-----+------------+---------------+--------------+
| 1   | 50         | 100           | 1            |
| 2   | 50         | 10            | 1            |
| 3   | 50         | 120           | 2            |
+-------------------------------------------------+

And I query as below:
$_G['uid'] = '50';
$ushuxing = DB::query("SELECT sum(t2.ebonus) AS equipatk, sum(t3.ebonus) AS equipdef FROM ".DB::table('game_jnship_user')." t1 LEFT JOIN ".DB::table('game_jnship_equip')." t2 ON (t1.uid = t2.uid AND t2.etype = '1') LEFT JOIN ".DB::table('game_jnship_equip')." t3 ON (t1.uid = t3.uid AND t3.etype = '2') WHERE t1.uid = $_G[uid]");
$rushuxing = DB::fetch($ushuxing);

After that, my output data as below:
$rushuxing[equipatk] = 110;
$rushuxing[equipdef] = 240;

Why the $rushuxing[equipdef] output is 240 not 120?
Thank you.
Here is the raw MySQL query from the example above:
SELECT sum(t2.ebonus) AS equipatk, sum(t3.ebonus) AS equipdef
FROM game_jnship_user t1
LEFT JOIN game_jnship_equip t2
    ON (t1.uid = t2.uid AND t2.etype = '1')
LEFT JOIN game_jnship_equip t3
    ON (t1.uid = t3.uid AND t3.etype = '2')
WHERE t1.uid = '50'

A: The record having etype = 2 is matched with 2 records having etype = 1 in the LEFT JOIN operation, so you get 240 instead of 120.
You can use instead the following query that makes use of conditional aggregation:
SELECT SUM(CASE WHEN etype = 1 THEN ebonus ELSE 0 END) AS equipatk,
       SUM(CASE WHEN etype = 2 THEN ebonus ELSE 0 END) AS equipdef
FROM game_jnship_equip
WHERE uid = 50

GROUP BY uid clause is not required since you are performing aggregation for a specific uid value.


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"Replica" has incorporated video projections, spatial elements, lighting sources, and architecture throughout its past iterations. These performances addressed challenges with each site, and this presentation faced challenges, too, taking place in the tall, narrow space of the Nerman's Galamba Gallery, the performance area flanked by the stairwell wall and a two-story bank of windows, the blinds drawn. The seating was 10 straight rows of chairs, 10 abreast for floor-level staging. These logistics created a viewing experience in which much of the audience couldn't see a portion of the dancers' movement (all floor work and anything below shoulder level in some cases).
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