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Freedom Communications Announces Sale of Florida, North Carolina Properties Has Closed

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IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Freedom Communications announced today that the sale of all of its newspaper properties in Florida and North Carolina to Halifax Media Group has closed.

The properties involved in the transaction include Holmes County Times-Advertiser, Bonifay, FL; Times-News, Burlington, NC; Havelock News, Havelock, NC; The Daily News, Jacksonville, NC; Free Press, Kinston, NC; The Star, Port St. Joe, FL; The Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, FL; Washington County News, Chipley, FL; The Crestview News Bulletin, Crestview, FL; The Destin Log, Destin, FL; Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach, FL; The Gaston Gazette, Gastonia, NC; Jones Post, Kinston, NC; Santa Rosa Press Gazette and Santa Rosa Free Press, Milton, FL; Sun Journal and The Shopper, New Bern, NC; The News Herald, Panama City, FL; The Star, Shelby, NC; The Times, Apalachicola, FL and The Topsail Advertiser, Surf City, NC.

Providing value for our shareholders was a major goal of this transaction and the others weve undertaken, said Mark McEachen, Freedom Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. At the same time we wanted to make sure current employees would transition to the new owner and that the new owner shared our view of the importance of community journalism.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP acted as legal advisors to Freedom.

About Freedom Communications

Freedom Communications Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Irvine, CA, is a national privately owned information and entertainment company of print publications and interactive businesses. The Companys print portfolio includes approximately 50 print publications, including seven daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, plus ancillary magazines and other specialty publications. The Companys news, information and entertainment websites and mobile applications complement its print properties. For more information, visit http://www.freedom.com.

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N.C. eugenics compensation out for now

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Victims of North Carolinas former eugenics program will have to wait for compensation from the state.

Legislators recently approved a $20 billion budget that excluded funding for eugenics programs. The new budget goes into effect July 1, setting those who have pushed for state compensation back another budget year.

Gov. Beverly Perdue included $10 million in her budget proposal to go towards $50,000 lump sum payments for verified living victims and continued operations of the N.C. Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation to provide outreach and clearinghouse services. A bipartisan group of legislators in the House approved Perdues proposal to compensate living victims, but the package did not make the Senate budget.

I think when it got down to it on the Senate side there were two things that happened: First, belief that the budget was so tight this year that some of Republican majority didnt feel as if this was a year to begin that process, said Sen. Floyd McKissick, D-Durham. Then, there is a group that feels an apology itself would be sufficient. They believe it was a terrible thing, but theyre afraid to go down the path of compensating victims.

The Governors Eugenics Compensation Task Force found that 7,600 North Carolinians many of whom were poor, sick or disabled were sterilized by force or coercion under the authorization of the states Eugenics Board from 1929-74.

Survivors told gut-wrenching stories of being robbed by the state of the opportunity to bear children at public meetings held by the Task Force in the past year.

Elaine Riddick, a Winfall, N.C., native, has been one of the most vocal victims. Riddick said she was sterilized after giving birth to a son as the result of being raped at age 13. She had health complications, but didnt find out about the sterilization until a doctor told her she had been butchered, when she was trying to conceive when she married at age 19.

Females made up 85 percent of sterilization victims in North Carolina. Blacks and Native Americans made up 40 percent, according to the task forces report. Task force researchers found some victims or their families were threatened with losing welfare benefits.

Don Akin, a statistician for State Center for Health Statistics, estimated that there were between 1,500 and 2,000 living victims at a task force meeting last summer.

The N.C. Justice for Sterilization Foundation verified 161 victims in 57 counties, including 146 living victims.

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'Eco-landscaping' Protects Against Flooding

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From street lamps and sidewalks to storm drains and sewers, civil engineering projects designed to be environmentally friendly are under way in communities across the United States.

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Jeanette Stinson has lived on Maywood Avenue, a lower income neighborhood on the north side of Toledo, for 58 years. Shes seen a lot of changes in that time, but says some of the best have come in the last year and a half.

With money from the federal government, the city transformed the existing grassy areas between the sidewalk and street into a natural storm water drainage system, and landscaped it with native plants, flowers, and shrubs. Stinson added some of her own perennials.

These new areas, or bioswales, as theyre known, are actually designed for floods, not flowers. Before they were put in, most of the basements on Maywood would flood whenever the city experienced a heavy rainfall. That caused sewers to back up, sometimes spilling raw sewage into the area rivers.

Slowing runoff with bioswales

Engineer Andy Langenderfer worked on the project to slow the runoff by diverting it into the bioswales. "We dug out the existing [area] behind the curb, which used to drain from behind the sidewalk, over the curb and then it would go directly into the storm sewer. Now were taking off all that direct runoff to the storm sewer. "

To create a bioswale, they dug a shallow ditch, then filled it with layers of gravel and soil that permit rainfall to drain into the ground instead of overflowing into the sewers. These strips were planted with grasses and deep-rooted groundcover to further aid absorption. New sidewalks and driveways were built behind the bioswales with a water-permeable type of concrete that also slowed run-off.

Coordinators chose Maywood Avenue because there was already a community garden on the street, so they believed the neighbors would embrace the project. But, resident Jonathan White remembers being uncertain about the project when the organizers went door to door to explain the plan.

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‘Eco Villa’ project launched

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Eco Villa, a contemporary dwelling featuring traditional Qatari architecture, culture and heritage, has been launched by a research and development organisation promoting sustainable development. The project, presented by Gulf Organisation for Research and Development (GORD) reinforces Qatars reputation as a leading advocate for sustainable development, said Qatar News Agency (QNA). The Eco Villa is designed to win high star rating based on the Global Sustainability Assessment System (GSAS), as it offers a genuinely sustainable, smart and healthy living environment for residents while preserving the Qatari architectural motifs, GORD said yesterday. The sustainable features of the Eco Villa include on-site renewable energy generation system, water-efficient plumbing fixtures and irrigation system, energy reduction, indoor lighting design, and intelligent building control system. It will also be constructed using sustainable and recycled building materials that have low volatile organic compounds (VOC) emission rates, GORD said. The villas design is a modern interpretation of traditional Qatari architecture, reflecting the culture and heritage of Qatar, GORD said.

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Qatar- GORD Launches Eco Villa Featuring Qatar's Traditional Motifs

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(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) Eco Villa, a modern contemporary dwelling featuring traditional Qatari architecture, culture and heritage has been launched by a research and development organisation promoting sustainable development.

This landmark project, presented by Gulf Organization for Research and Development (GORD) reinforces Qatar s reputation as a leading advocate for sustainable development.

The eco villa is designed to win high star rating based on the Global Sustainability Assessment System (GSAS), as it offers a genuinely sustainable, smart and healthy living environment for residents while preserving the Qatari architectural motifs, GORD said Wednesday.

The sustainable features of the eco villa include on-site renewable energy generation system, water-efficient plumbing fixtures and irrigation system, energy reduction, indoor lighting design, and intelligent building control system.

The eco villa will also be constructed using sustainable and recycled eco-friendly building materials that have low Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) emission rates, GORD said.

The villa's design is a modern interpretation of traditional Qatari architecture, reflecting the culture and heritage of Qatar whilst being contemporary in character and function - it creates a new aesthetic for sustainable development in Qatar, GORD informed.

GORD has selected three consulting firms; LSI Architects, MYAA Architects and RHWL Architects to design the sustainable Qatari Modern villa.

A committee consisting of representatives from the Qatar Museum Authority, Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage, Qatar University and Private Office has been formed in addition to GORD's experts to manage the bidding process and oversee the design of the eco villa, GORD added.

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Lib Tech launches eco-friendly surfboard line

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Updated: June 27, 2012, 5:20 PM ET

After more than three decades spent refining an eco-alternative to the traditional high performance surfboard, Mike Olson and Lib Tech have officially announced the release of their long-anticipated line of surfboards, the Lib Tech Waterboards.

Lib Tech is highly regarded in the snowboard and skateboard industries for its environmental board building practices and original, artistic board designs, but the company's roots are actually in surfing. It is a little-known fact that Mike Olson, co-founder of Lib Tech, generated a large portion of the original funds he used to finance his early snowboard projects by shaping and selling surfboards in the Pacific Northwest in the late 70s and early 80s. Unhappy with the toxicity of the materials used to create surfboards, Olson set out to find alternatives.

Though almost every component in the Waterboards, from the fins, fin boxes, (non-rusting) leash plugs, foam, fibers, resin and graphics, is an original design -- with many components having only been dreamed into existence by Olson himself in the last two years -- the crowning achievement is that the boards are virtually "unsinkable."

If you were to get a ding that penetrated all the layers you wouldn't have to ever take [your board] out of the water...

"If you were to get a ding that penetrated all the layers," says Olson, "you wouldn't have to ever take [your board] out of the water -- which I hate." This, Olson explains, is due in part to the unique layering technology utilized in making the boards.

Instead of fiberglass, Lib Tech uses something called Volcanic Organic Basalt Honeycomb Technology. Basalt is an organic fiber that is damp, impact resistant, and unlike traditional fiberglass, contains no boron and other harmful additives.

Unsatisfied by the limitations of epoxy and the toxicity of polyester, Olson came up with what he refers to as LVR43 High Rebound Matrix, a chemistry of his own design that has higher elongation, extreme ding resistance, and what he refers to as "responsive rebound." Rails are wrapped in rubberized metallic fibers called Elastomatrix Perimeter 2D2D Dampening Web, which give the boards a smooth, chatter-free ride. According to Olson, the Waterboards feel like a polyester board underfoot but have more durability than a Surftech.

Board cores made with materials that won't lose their pop and won't absorb water means less broken boards in landfills. Additionally, the foam core contains up to 50-percent recycled content, using ozone-friendly blowing agents, and 100-percent of the off-cut foam produced while shaping is recycled into new blanks.

Tim LawlerLib Tech's Mike Olson (right) delivers the very first shipment of Waterboards to the shop he was working at when he first developed his passion for surfboard design.

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Eco-Tec Opening Western Office

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Western Canadian Office in Calgary, AlbertaOpens July 1st

Design and manufacturing company Eco-Tec Inc. is pleased to announce a new sales office in Calgary, Alberta. As of July 1, 2012, Eco-Tec's 'Western Canadian Office' will begin providing greater services to the growing region, which is currently the hub of Canada's natural resources and oil sands sector.

"Our new Calgary office will allow us to fully meet the needs of operators based in Western Canada and allow us to better communicate the benefits of Eco-Tec's ion exchange and filtration technologies," says Mehdi Surury, Eco-Tec's Western Regional Manager, who will be directing efforts at the new location."

"In recent years, the heavy oil community in California has been the source of considerable success as they have accepted Eco-Tec's advanced filtration and softening systems. We are now delivering our seventh produced water treatment system in that market. From our discussions over the past year in the Western Canadian market, we are confident that the benefits of this technology wil come to be realized here as well. In addition to the operational benefits of the technology, we will be able to serve the market in terms of equipment delivery since our Ontario manufacturing facility already designs and constructs the equipment in compact, pre-assembled, pre-tested modules. For the Alberta market, these modules will be shipped to Alberta and consolidated in even larger modules and building structures, and then moved to site to minimize site construction," Surury added.

The Western Canadian Office is conveniently located in the heart of Calgary's downtown core, where most Alberta oil and gas operations are based. Oil sands projects, in particular, currently face various produced-water treatment challenges that can be addressed through Eco-Tec's advanced RecoPur Ion Exchange and Spectrum Micro Media Filtration technology.

The new Western Canadian Office will serve the market for Eco-Tec's water demnineralization systems used in power generation and steam production, amine purification systems (AmiPur), Metal Recovery and Chemical Purification Systems, and Gas Processing equipment - sold worldwide and proven reliable for over 40 years. Eco-Tec equipment is developed, designed and manufactured in Pickering, Ontario,Canada.

About Eco-Tec Inc. Eco-Tec products incorporate advanced, proprietary designs that provide clients with improved performance, economy, and reliability in their operations, while facilitating environmental responsibility.We aredesigners, developers, and manufacturers of equipment for industrial water treatment and purification of chemicals and gases. In business since 1970, Eco-Tec has supplied over 2,000 systems in close to 60 countries.

SOURCE: Eco-Tec Inc.

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A Guide To The Cleanest And Filthiest U.S. Beaches

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San Juan Creek meets the Pacific Ocean at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, Calif. The poor water quality off Doheny State Beach put in a list of worst beaches in the U.S.

San Juan Creek meets the Pacific Ocean at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, Calif. The poor water quality off Doheny State Beach put in a list of worst beaches in the U.S.

If you thought sharks were the scariest threat at the beach, you might consider the lowly bacteria lurking in shore waters instead.

For the 22nd year in a row, the Natural Resources Defense Council has issued a report on the nation's filthiest and cleanest beaches. And the group found that the number of days beaches were closed or under health advisories last year hit 23,481. That total is the third-highest in the report's history, only one notch better than last year's results.

Bacteria in the water are the main safety issue. The group's beach ratings factor in various potential health hazards, including pollution levels and the quality of beach monitoring.

In findings that echo rankings released in the last few years, Avalon and Doheny beaches in California and several beaches in Louisiana were among the worst again.

Newport and Bolsa Chica beaches in California, Hampton Beach in New Hampshire and Gulf Shores Public Beach in Alabama were lauded for keeping dangerous bacteria levels low and aggressively monitoring water quality. In all, 12 beaches got 5-star ratings from NRDC.

Despite the group's reports, there's been little improvement in water quality. "The rate at which beach samples are worse than the recreational national standards is static," NRDC's Jon Devine said in a briefing about the findings. "Unfortunately, what we think that indicates is a real need for policy shifts to move those numbers."

Harmful water bacteria often come from animal or human waste. The germs can cause diarrhea, skin rashes, stomach flu and respiratory problems. The risks are higher for young children, according to the report, who generally spend more time swimming and dunk their heads underwater more often.

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Florida beaches rank high in water quality, escape nation’s dirtiest list

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Florida beaches ranked fifth out of 30 states surveyed for beach water quality, according a new report by the National Resources Defense Council.

The study, which compiles beach water monitoring data from public health officials from across the country, ranked 30 states based on the frequency of water monitoring and the level of bacterial and environmental pollutants in beach water.

Based on national beach water standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency, the report ranked Delaware with the some of the nation's cleanest beaches and Louisiana with some of the dirtiest. The report also individually ranks 12 of the cleanest beaches and 16 of the dirtiest.

While no Florida beaches rank among the cleanest beaches, none ranked amongst the dirtiest. Overall, the state's beaches received high marks for frequency of monitoring and reporting and for clean water quality.

However, the report highlighted concerns over the elimination of Florida state's beach monitoring program, a trend occurring across the country as state budgets shrink.

"It is a concern that some states are cutting back on testing," said Jon Devine, the environmental advocacy groups senior water attorney. "Congress has chronically underfunded the beach act in previous years and that cuts support for beach monitoring and notification."

The Natural Resources Defense Council issues the report every year just before the July 4 holiday to inform beachgoers about the water quality at beaches.

With nearly 10 trillion gallons of untreated waste water spilling into the nations beaches, the health risks associated with swimming in contaminated water are real and include minor sickness like stomach flu, diarrhea, skin rash, and ear infections to more serious problems which involve neurological disorders.

Steven Fleischli, the acting director of the water program at the council, urged beachgoers to use the study as guide for which beaches are safe to swim in this summer. He also asked that the public do its part in keeping beaches clean.

"In their own lives the public can be stewards of the beach," Fleischli said.

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How clean are South Florida beaches? National environmental group issues ratings

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Beaches in South Florida scored high for cleanliness compared to their counterparts around the United States, according to the latest annual scorecard by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The report released Wednesday, which may surprise those who have picked their way past cigarette butts, fast-food wrappers and other debris on South Florida beaches, focused on bacteria counts from water sampled by state and local governments around the United States.

Of 46 testing sites in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, 18 had perfect scores. Of the rest, the vast majority failed to meet health standards 2 to 4 percent of the time, a much better record than the national average.

You can look up your beach by address, zip code or state here.

Nationwide, water samples exceeded national bacteria standards 8 percent of the time. But the vast majority of South Florida beaches scored well below that number, with many racking up no high bacteria counts at all. Of the 19 worst offenders among the nations beaches, in which more than 25 percent of water samples exceeded national bacteria standards, none were located in Florida. California and Louisiana dominated that list.

The main source of high bacteria counts, which indicate the present of human or animal waste, is stormwater runoff, although sewage breaks have also caused bacteria to spike. Swimming in contaminated water can put you at risk of gastrointestinal illnesses.

The worst beaches in Palm Beach County were Phil Foster Park, which exceeded safe bacteria levels in 19 percent of water samples, and Dubois Park, which exceeded them in 7 percent of samples. But several beaches had no high bacteria counts, despite regular tests.

Broward didnt have any major offenders, but one reason for this may be that the county's water isn't tested as frequently. Broward's water was tested twice a month, while inMiami-Dade Countythe water is tested once a week and in Palm Beach County it is tested twice a week.

The worst beaches in Broward, with high bacteria counts in 4 percent of tests, were at Commercial Boulevard, Custer Street in Hollywood, Minnesota Street in Hollywood and Northeast 16 Street in Pompano Beach. Several beaches never had high bacteria counts, including Bahia Mar, Deerfield Beach, John U. Lloyd Beach State Park and Oakland Park Boulevard.

Miami-Dade had a few beaches with high counts, including, not surprisingly Hobie Beach (aka Dog Beach), with high bacteria counts in 10 percent of water samples, Samson Park in Sunny Isles Beach, 7 percent and Crandon Park-South, 7 percent. Among the cleanest beaches were Cape Florida Park, Golden Beach, Matheson Hammock and 93rd Street in Surfside.

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Volusia, Flagler beaches get high marks for water quality

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Jump in, the water's fine

Daytona Beach got four out of five stars in a national water quality report on 200 popular vacation beaches. It scored high marks for:

- Less than 5 percent of water samples had bacteria levels higher than national standards in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

- Local officials post advisories without re-sampling.

- Closings/advisories are posted online and at the beach.

The city's beach only got four stars because water quality is monitored less frequently than once a week, a result of budget cuts in the Health Department.

The report also showed that sites in Flagler County, Ormond Beach and New Smyrna Beach never had bacteria levels higher than state standards in 2011.

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DAYTONA BEACH -- Beaches in Volusia and Flagler counties received high marks again this week from a national environmental group that rates water quality at vacation beaches around the country.

Daytona Beach -- one of 200 popular U.S. beaches highlighted in the survey -- was given four out of five stars in the report released Wednesday by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Dirtiest Beaches In US

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Before you take that plane, train, or car ride this summer to the seaside, you may want to make sure the beach you are planning to visit is clean.

According to the Natural Resources Defense Council's annual beach quality report, some of the country's most popular beaches are contaminated by storm water runoff and sewage that could cause stomach flu, skin rashes, pink eye, ear nose and throat problems,

The NRDC, in Testing the Waters: A Guide to Water Quality at Vacation Beaches, looks at 2011 data collected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from test results taken at more than 3,000 beaches nationwide and examines pollution factors, water testing practices and public notification systems.

The biggest reason for pollution is sewer runoff that can be laden with bacteria from animal and human waste, noted NRDC Water Program Director Steve Fleischili, who along with Jon Devine, the groups senior attorney, gave the report. As a result Americas beaches had the third-highest number of closings or advisories in the reports 22-year-history.

Our beaches are plagued by a sobering legacy of water pollution, said Devine. Luckily, today more than ever, we know that much of this filth is preventable and we can turn the tide against water pollution. By establishing better beachwater quality standards and putting untapped 21st century solutions in place we can make a day at the beach as carefree as it should be, and safeguard Americas vital tourism economies.

The reports findings shouldn't keep all beach lovers away. The NRDC includes a guide that ranks 200 popular vacation beaches on a scale of one to five. Those that exceed the standards get 5 stars.

The NRDC also created a list of the top 12 cleanest beaches and the top 15 repeat offenders, along with an interactive map of 3,000 other beaches in the nation, that can be searched by zip code.

Some of the dirtiest

Some of the top offenders in NRDCs 2012 report are popular beaches in tourist areas such as California, Illinois, New York, and New Jersey, and they violate public standards for health, upwards of 25 percent of the time, Devine explained. The list is as follows:

--Avalon Beach in Los Angeles County, Calif.

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The galaxy that shouldn’t be there | Bad Astronomy

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Its generally said that discoveries in science tend to be at the thin hairy edge of what you can do always at the faintest limits you can see, the furthest reaches, the lowest signals. That can be trivially true because stuff thats easy to find has already been discovered. But many times, when youre looking farther and fainter than you ever have, you find things that really are new and can (maybe!) be a problem for existing models of how the Universe behaves.

Astronomers ran across just such thing recently. Hubble observations of a distant galaxy cluster revealed an arc of light above it. Thats actually the distorted image of a more distant galaxy, and its a common enough sight near foreground clusters. But the thing is, that galaxy shouldnt be there.

This picture is a combination of two images taken in the near-infrared using Hubble. The cluster is the clump of fuzzy blobs in the center left. The small square outlines the arc, and the big square zooms in on it.

The cluster is unusual. Its at a distance of nearly 10 billion light years away. Clusters have been seen that far away, so by itself thats not so odd. The thing is, its a whopper: the total mass in all those galaxies combined may be as much as a staggering 500 trillion times the mass of the Sun, making this by far the most massive cluster seen at that distance.

But that arc First, things like this are seen pretty often near clusters. Theyre gravitational lenses: the gravity from the cluster bends the light from a more distant galaxy in the background, bending its shape into an arc. See Related Posts below for lots of info and cool pictures on these arcs. In this case, Ill note the shape of the arc implies the biggest galaxy in the cluster, the one right below the small square, is doing most of the lensing.

But heres the problem: the galaxy whose light is getting bent has to be on the other side of the cluster, and that cluster is really far away. Note only that, the galaxy has to be bright enough that we can see it at all. Combined, this should make an arc like this rare. Really rare.

So rare, in fact, that it shouldnt be there at all! The astronomers who did this research worked through the physics and statistics, and what they found is that the odds of seeing this arc in this way are zero. As in, what the heck is it doing there at all?

Now we have to be careful here. What we have is one observation of one arc, and it happens to be behind an extraordinarily massive cluster. Its hard to extrapolate exactly what this means. Maybe galaxies formed more vigorously than we thought in the early Universe, so there are more than we might suppose. Maybe its a huge coincidence, with a bright galaxy behind a massive cluster. Maybe the galaxy in the cluster doing most of the heavy lifting is surrounded by more than the usual amount of matter, making it an even stronger lens. Interestingly, using the arc itself, astronomers calculated the mass of that one big galaxy is something like 70 trillion times the mass of the Sun, making it bigger than most entire clusters at that distance!

If you get one weird thing happening, you might be able to shrug it off as coincidence. But two? In this case the existence of the arc at all coupled with the huge mass of this galaxy and cluster make me think theres more going on here than we see. Still, its not clear what it might be.

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Teachers: help your kids detect cosmic rays | Bad Astronomy

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One thing I like to see is kids getting their hands on doing science. Theres something about being involved with something, actually doing it for yourself, that gives you a sense of ownership over the knowledge, makes you part of something bigger.

Heres another chance to do that for students across the world: the ERGO telescope project. ERGO stands for "Energetic Ray Global Observatory" and the idea is to build simple cosmic-ray detectors that can be sent to classrooms all over the world. Heres a short video describing the project:

Cosmic rays are energetic subatomic particles that come blasting in from space. Theyre created by the Sun, by exploding stars, but distant galaxies basically, by cool, interesting objects. By distributing these detectors across the world, students can share their data and come up with their own ways of examining them.

If youre a teacher and you want your students to not just learn science, but to experience it, then this sounds like a good way to do it! They even have a simple form you can fill out to apply for a grant to get started.

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