Workshop 1B Spirituality, Ritual, and Music - 2015 68th Annual NW Buddhist District Convention
NWConvention2015 Spirituality, Ritual and Music The Shin Buddhist Service is imbued with a rich and deep array of ritual practice. These awaken and direct our spiritual path. The proper...
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Stuart Olyott #39;s Sermon on Spirituality: 9 Family Worship
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The Center of Spirituality and Sustainability, on the SIUE campus, will be celebrating the 90the day of the year on Tuesday, March 31, with yoga, a talk on sustainability, discussions of the building's designer, Buckminster Fuller, with his former architectural partner Thomas Zung, and the launch of a new art project.
Ben Lowder, Creative Director at the center, explained the significance of the 90th day. The center was designed by Fuller, also known for designing the Climatron at the Missouri Botanical Garden and the dome at Disneys EPCOT Center in Orlando. Although he is well known as a designer, Fuller started as a map maker and is considered one of the fathers of sustainable design, Lowder said.
He was in World War I, and that got him thinking, why do we fight wars, which led him to think that we were fighting over resources, and we needed to manage the earths resources better, Lowder said. To do that, you need an accurate picture of the world, so he set about trying to get the globe into an accurate two dimensional map.
The Mercator map, sometimes known as the classroom map, is the most common map of the world. This map uses the equator as the center point. Fuller thought that this map reinforced borders and an east/west divide, as well as being Euro-centric. It also distorts sizes, Lowder said, making Greenland, for instance, look much larger than it really is. Fuller developed his own map, using the 90th meridian as a starting point. He called his map the Dymaxion map, and he was awarded the first patent in 200 years for mapmaking for it.
Lowder said that Fullers work in mapmaking led to his geodesic domes. To make the maps, he visualized cutting the world into triangles and flattening them out. The geodesic dome is the process in reverse. It is the most efficient means for enclosing a volume of space, Lowder said.
In 1971, when SIUE was being built, Fuller was a professor at SIU Carbondale. Campus planners wanted a religious center on the campus. A building was proposed by a St. Louis architecture firm, but there was not money in the budget to build it. Word came through the grapevine that a building design was needed, Lowder said, and Fuller heard about it. This provided an opportunity for his entire life work to come full circle - a geodesic dome with a map straddling the 90th meridian with an exact surveyor-rendered replica of earth.
The building is designed with the site of the SIUE campus on top of the globe. When you stand in the center, Lowder said, Its like looking from the core of earth to the spot where youre standing. You see your place in the world in relation to everything else.
Because the dome is clear, you can see through to the night sky. For example, if you look at London on the globe, and through the globe to the stars beyond, those are the stars in zenith at London, Lowder said.
The whole building is an amazing metaphor for global unity and seeing the world as a whole, Lowder said. Fuller wrote an essay outlining his view of the world and his desire for a more accurate world view. This building is everything he worked for, his manifestation, his cathedral, his love letter to the planet.
Lowder said the building is largely overlooked when discussing Fuller. He said that unlike the Climatron or EPCOT, it is not in a well-known location, but it is the most important to his legacy. The center, Lowder said, is trying to put the building back on the map. We just applied for and got a recommendation from the state for the National Register of Historic Places. They are continuing with the application for the National Register.
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ASTON >> When the Church and Sport seminar convenes at the Vatican in May, Neumann University director Lee DelleMonache will be among the 100 athletes, coaches, university professors and faculty and sports missionaries and experts from around the globe to attend.
DelleMonache, director of the Neumann University Institute for Sport, Spirituality and Character Development since 2013, will attend the "Coaches: Educating People" conference at the Vatican on May 14-15, as part of an initiative launched by John Paul II 10 years ago to examine the integration of sports and faith.
"It's such an immense, immense privilege to go to a seminar sponsored by the Vatican," DelleMonache shared. "I want to be fully present for those two days and soak it all in and bring back the wonderful things that people are doing all over the world."
DelleMonache said her trip to Rome began about a month or so when Michael Galligan-Stierle, president of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, visited the Delaware County campus with the Rev. Friedrich Bechina, Undersecretary of the Pontifical Congregation for Catholic Education.
During their visit, they met DelleMonache in Neumann's Mirenda Center for Sport, Spirituality and Character Development.
There, she told them about the institute's purpose to transform perspectives, inspire behavior and deepen awareness of self, others and God through the chaplain's program, the leadership development program and digital content highlighting positive sports stories.
"We have the privilege of shining the light on the positive things," DelleMonache said. Giving examples such as Cincinatti Bengals wide receiver Devon Still's experience with his 4-year-old daughter's struggle with neuroblastoma, she said sports can be more than the latest domestic violence or DUI incident. "With the digital content, we just try to draw attention to these wonderful stories and sports."
While on their tour, Bechina said to DelleMonache, "Well, you'll be in Rome in May."
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A ROLL OF TOILET PAPER
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Eyes on the Sky - Full Episode: 1419
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Russia Will Start Sending Tourists to Space Again in 2018
Russia officials say they will resume space tourism in 2018 after years of sending only professional cosmonauts and astronauts into space. Russia had sent seven paying guests to the International...
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Alien: Isolation - Episode #42 - The Nest
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The International Space Station now plays host to an experiment that could help scientists unlock the mysteries of Alzheimer's disease.
The devastating disease a type of dementia that affects memory currently plagues more than 5 million people in the United States alone. It's a number so great that a new diagnosis is made every 67 seconds. But before scientists can find a cure, they need to better understand the origins of the disease in detail.
Alzheimer's likely advances when certain proteins assemble themselves into long linear fibers that ultimately strangle nerve cells in the brain. In laboratories, however, these fibers collapse under their own weight before they can grow large enough to study. That's where the space station's unique position as a weight-free laboratory comes into play. [Watch a video about the Alzheimer's experiment]
A four-inch cube containing an autonomous space station experiment better known as SABOL, or Self-Assembly in Biology and the Origin of Life basted off to the orbiting outpost on SpaceX's cargo launch to the station in January.
"Everybody wants a cure, but without knowing the actual cause of the disease, you're basically shooting in the dark," Dan Woodard, a project consultant from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, said in a statement. "We don't understand the true mechanism of the disease. If we're lucky, then we'll find out whether proteins will aggregate in space. Only in weightlessness can you produce an environment free of convection so you can see whether they form on their own. We expect to learn incrementally from this."
In the body, these protein fibers take decades to form. But in theweightless conditions on the International Space Station, they'll likely form much quicker, scientists think. And without gravity to pull them to the bottom of the container, they're expected to grow in a way that shows how they wrap around each other to form those long fibers that wreak havoc on the brain.
Although SABOL won't directly lead to a cure, it could help researchers learn more about how to slow down the rate at which the harmful fibers grow.
"We've got to understand why some people get these conditions and others don't," Woodard said. "There have to be chemicals or processes that hinder or encourage the growth of protein fibers. It may be something as simple as temperature or salt concentration of the fluid in the brain."
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Space Experiment Hunts for Key to Alzheimer's Disease in Weightlessness
Hamid Ansari talks on the phone with his wife, Anousheh Ansari, during her first moments onboard the International Space Station, on September 20, 2006 in Korolev Russia. Ansari and the Expedition 14 crew docked to the International Space Station September 20, 2006. A Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan September 18, 2006. Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA/Getty Images
Russia officials say they will resume space tourism in 2018 after years of sending into space only professional cosmonauts and astronauts.
Russia had sent seven paying guests to the International Space Station since 2001 before curtailing the program in 2009. Sending a tourist has been all but impossible since 2011 when the United States shut down its Space Shuttle program and had to rely on Russian Soyuz rockets in order to get into orbit.
Russia, however, has made an exception for British soprano Sarah Brightman who is due to blast off on Sept. 1.
American enterprises aimed at space tourism were stymied last fall after a Virgin Galactic craft crashed during a test flight over the Mojave desert. The SpaceShipTwo crash, on Oct. 31, 2014, killed one pilot and left another injured. It also slowed Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson's plans of getting paying customers to the edges of space, for $250,000 a pop.
Virgin Galactic CEO said soon after the incident that the company could resume test flights this summer.
Russia's RKK Energia, a state-controlled rocket manufacturer, said in a quarterly report released on Tuesday that it plans to make up for an expected drop in demand for manned flights by resuming space tourism in 2018.
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American astronaut Scott Kelly, left, and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, play billiards at the Cosmonaut hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Photograph: Bill Ingalls/AP
Their respective countries may be going through one of the worst periods of hostility since the end of the cold war, but this week an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut will fly up to the International Space Station to spend a year on board together.
Despite the enmities of the cold war and the frigid relations of their governments today, scientists and astronauts from Nasa and its Russian equivalent, Roscosmos, have a fruitful and friendly history of recent cooperation. As the US government has cut space program funding, for instance, Nasa has turned to its Russian counterpart to assist with mission logistics such as sharing a launch pad.
The mission beginning this week for American Scott Kelly, 51, and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko, 54, will also feature experiments necessary to plan for a manned mission to Mars and an opportunity to compare Kellys health in space with that of his twin brother, Mark, back on earth.
Mark was also an astronaut, and is the husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot and seriously injured in 2011.
Kelly and Kornienko will fly from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, one of the oldest launch facilities on Earth, on Friday (Saturday on the steppes).
Kelly will be the first American to spend a continuous year in space; Russian Valery Polyakov spent more than a year on the Mir space station in the 1990s.
During their year-long mission, 12 other astronauts will join them for shorter stints including Gennady Padalka, a Russian who has spent more than 700 non-consecutive days in space. Padalka will spend six months on the space station this time, after which he will have spent more days in space than any other human being.
More than 40 years after Americans landed on the moon, many in the US consider spaceflight relatively routine, but its dangers remain as destructive to human beings as ever, and sometimes as mysterious: eyeballs distended by brain fluid floating weightless around the skull, pathogens made more virulent by the variables of space, bone loss, muscle atrophy, radiation.
During their year on the ISS, Kelly and Kornienko will perform daily cognitive, visual, physical, microbial and metabolic tests, and will also keep journals that will help their respective space agencies study the psychological toll of a year in orbit.
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In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut Scott Kelly sits inside a Soyuz simulator at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC), Wednesday, March 4, 2015 in Star City, Russia. On Saturday, March 28, 2015, Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will travel to the International Space Station to begin a year-long mission living in orbit. (AP Photo/NASA, Bill Ingalls)(The Associated Press)
In this Sept. 5, 2014 photo provided by NASA, cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, left, of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and astronaut Scott Kelly stand together for a picture at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. In late March 2015, Kelly and Kornienko are scheduled to travel to the International Space Station to begin a year-long mission living in orbit. (AP Photo/NASA, Stephanie Stoll)(The Associated Press)
In this Thursday, March 19, 2015 photo provided by NASA, astronaut Scott Kelly, left, plays pool with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. On Saturday, March 28, 2015, Kelly and Kornienko will travel to the International Space Station to begin a year-long mission living in orbit. (AP Photo/NASA, Bill Ingalls)(The Associated Press)
This August 2010 photo provided by the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center shows NASA astronaut Scott Kelly in a Russian Sokol launch and entry suit in Star City, Russia. On Saturday, March 28, 2015, Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will travel to the International Space Station to begin a year-long mission living in orbit. (AP Photo/GCTC via NASA)(The Associated Press)
This Feb. 6, 2015 photo provided by the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) shows cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko in Star City, Russia. On Saturday, March 28, 2015, Kornienko and astronaut Scott Kelly will travel to the International Space Station to begin a year-long mission living in orbit. (AP Photo/Roscosmos and GCTC)(The Associated Press)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. An American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut are moving into the International Space Station this week and staying for an entire year.
After more than two years of training, Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko are eager to get going. It will be the longest space mission ever for NASA, and the longest in almost two decades for the Russian Space Agency, which holds the record at 14 months.
Their Soyuz rocket is scheduled to blast off from Kazakhstan on Friday afternoon in the U.S. (early Saturday morning in Kazakhstan.)
The world's space agencies want to know how the body adapts to an entire year of weightlessness before committing to even longer Mars expeditions. The typical stint at the space station is six months.
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What's one thing NASA astronaut Scott Kelly can't do without when he moves into space this week for a year? A belt.
Kelly went beltless during his five-month mission at the International Space Station a few years back, and he hated how his shirttails kept floating out of his pants. So this time, the 51-year-old retired Navy captain packed "a military, tactical-style thing" that can hold a tool pouch. He calls it a "superhero utility belt."
Meanwhile, Kelly's 54-year-old partner on the yearlong stay at the space station Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko can't do without his vitamins. When their Soyuz rocket blasts off from Kazakhstan on Saturday (Friday afternoon in the U.S.), three bottles of over-age-50 vitamins will be on board.
After more than two years of training, Kelly and Kornienko are eager to get going. It will be the longest space mission ever for NASA, and the longest in almost two decades for the Russian Space Agency, which holds the record at 14 months. Medicine and technology have made huge leaps since then, and the world's space agencies need to know how the body adapts to an entire year of weightlessness before committing to even longer Mars expeditions.
More yearlong missions are planned, with an ultimate goal of 12 test subjects. The typical station stint is six months. "We know a lot about six months. But we know almost nothing about what happens between six and 12 months in space," said NASA's space station program scientist, Julie Robinson. Among the more common space afflictions: weakened bones and muscles, and impaired vision and immune system.
Then there is the psychological toll. Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, a frequent flier who will accompany Kelly and Kornienko into orbit, predicts it will be the psychological not physical effects that will be toughest on the one-year crew.
Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka team up with NASA astronaut Scott Kelly for a photo op in front of their Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft during a final preflight check on Monday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Kelly and Kornienko will spend a year on the International Space Station, while Padalka is due to set a record for cumulative time in space (900 days) during his stint on the station.
NASA actually got a 2-for-1 deal with Kelly. He is teaming up with brother Mark for a battery of medical tests so researchers can compare the physique and physiology of the space twin with his genetic double on the ground. Raised by police-officer parents, they've lived parallel lives as Navy fighter and test pilots and space shuttle commanders.
Mark Kelly, a four-time space flier, will be at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for his brother's launch; wife Giffords will watch from Houston with Johnson Space Center friends. He's already endured numerous blood draws and ultrasounds in the name of space science.
As for what Scott will endure, "Imagine if you went to work where your office was and then you had to stay in that place for a year and not go outside, right? Kind of a challenge," Mark said in an AP interview.
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Sierra Nevada Corporations (SNC) Space Systems and the Houston Airport System (HAS) announce a new follow-on agreement to utilize Ellington Airports Spaceport as a future landing site for SNCs Uncrewed Dream Chaser spacecraft - SNCs solution for NASAs Cargo Resupply needs and other critical space operations.
Entering into this new agreement with HAS will lead to enabling all variants of the Dream Chaser spacecraft to land in Houston, offering the ability to return cargo and science to Houston directly from space, said Mark Sirangelo, corporate vice president of SNCs Space Systems. Through this agreement, we want to promote broad awareness of the importance of utilizing low-Earth orbit as a source of research, science and the expansion of space flight that are critical to Houstons ongoing position as a Space City. Houston has earned its place at the forefront of space exploration with such institutes as NASAs Johnson Space Center, Rice Space University, the Texas Medical Center, the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership and many other organizations.
The objectives of this new agreement include exploring the applications and opportunities between HAS and SNC utilizing the Uncrewed Dream Chaser spacecraft to serve the needs of government, science, research, consumer and commercial enterprise while also building awareness of the positive economic impact of the Ellington Airport/Spaceport to the state of Texas. The new agreement is in anticipation of HAS receiving its spaceport license approval for Ellington Airport.
The Houston Airport System is pleased to continue working with Sierra Nevada Corporation as a landing site for their Dream Chaser spacecraft, said Arturo Machuca, general manager, Ellington Airport. As we move into the final phase of receiving our spaceport license it is important that HAS work with private industry to ensure the sustainability of the Houston Spaceport. The Dream Chaser spacecraft, with its unique horizontal runway landing capability, low-g entry and use of non-toxic propulsion, makes it an ideal test bed for biomedical, pharmaceutical, cellular and genetic research payloads. Houston, a leader in space-based biomedical research, is eager to work with SNC to sustain and advance these research opportunities in low-Earth orbit, then gently return them directly to Houston for immediate unloading.
The Dream Chaser Cargo System is an autonomous system developed to provide cargo transportation services to the International Space Station (ISS). The Dream Chaser Cargo Systems is a mission variant of the Dream Chaser Space System that exceeds NASAs goals for cargo transportation to the ISS, including rapid return of critical science.
About Sierra Nevada Corporations Space Systems Sierra Nevada Corporations Space Systems business area based in Louisville, Colorado, designs and manufactures advanced spacecraft, space vehicles, rocket motors and spacecraft subsystems and components for the U.S. Government, commercial customers, as well as for the international market. SNCs Space Systems has more than 25 years of space heritage and has participated in over 400 successful space missions through the delivery of over 4,000 systems, subsystems and components. During its history, SNCs Space Systems has concluded over 70 programs for NASA and over 50 other clients. For more information about SNCs Space Systems visit http://www.sncspace.com and follow us at Facebook.com/SNCSpaceSystems and Twitter @SNCspacesystems.
About Sierra Nevada Corporation Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), headquartered in Sparks, Nevada, is among the Worlds Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Space. Over the last 30 years, under the leadership of President Eren Ozmen and CEO Fatih Ozmen, SNC has become one of Americas fastest-growing private companies and the Top Woman-Owned Federal Contractor in the United States. With a workforce of over 3,000 personnel in 31 locations in 17 states and three locations in Europe, SNC has a reputation for rapid, innovative, and agile technology solutions in electronics, aerospace, avionics, space, propulsion, micro-satellite, aircraft, communications systems and solar energy.
SNC has six unique business areas that are dedicated to providing leading-edge solutions to its dynamic customer base. SNC has a proven track record of success spanning more than five decades. It is focused on providing its customers with the very best in diversified technologies and continues to focus its growth on the commercial sector through internal advancements in dual-use applications and outside acquisitions including the emerging markets of telemedicine, Cyber and net-centric operations.
For more information on SNC visit http://www.sncorp.com and follow us at Facebook/Sierra Nevada Corporation. Sierra Nevada Corporation and SNC are trademarks of Sierra Nevada Corporation.
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STATEMENT BY
MR. JEFFREY D. GRANT SECTOR VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER SPACE SYSTEMS NORTHROP GRUMMAN AEROSPACE SYSTEMS
BEFORE THE
SUBCOMMITTEE ON SPACE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HEARING ON JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE
FIRST SESSION, 114TH CONGRESS MARCH 24, 2015Statement by Jeffrey D. Grant, Sector Vice President and General Manager Space Systems, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Before the Subcommittee on Space Committee on Science, Space, and Technology James Webb Space Telescope
Chairman Palazzo, Ranking Member Edwards, and distinguished Members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to appear before you today on behalf of the men and women of Northrop Grumman supporting the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) next great observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Before I begin, I would like to thank the Committee for its leadership of our nation's civil space programs. Your steadfast support, especially with regards to JWST, is critical not only to our success, but to that of the nation's scientific and exploration programs.
I am honored to appear before you today with two NASA leaders, Associate Administrator Dr. John Grunsfeld and Dr. John Mather, Nobel Laureate and Senior Project Scientist for JWST, both leading this tremendous scientific achievement for our nation. JWST represents a technological challenge in support of a scientific objective beyond anything attempted before, and without NASA's leadership, specifically the Goddard Space Flight Center, this would simply not be possible. I am also honored to appear with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management, Cristina Chaplain, whose agency's oversight helps ensure the success of this program. As with any program, especially one this technologically complex, independent reviews are essential. We have, and will continue, to benefit from GAO's candid and straightforward assessments. I appreciate the relationship we have developed and maintained during the course of this program.
I also need to recognize NASA's international partners on this effort, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, who are providing key scientific instruments and the launch vehicle for JWST, and the invaluable contributions of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which serves as the Science and Operations Center for the mission. It is truly the dedication of thousands, who are contributing to the success of the mission.
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It was mixed feelings for the cast of Mad Men on Sunday night as the handsome bunch came out to celebrate the screening of their final season. January Jones, John Slattery, Jon Hamm , Elisabeth Moss and Christina Hendricks all looked stunning as they excitedly posed for photos together at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, although it sadly marked one of their final appearances as a group.
Christina Hendricks turned heads as always, showing off her curves in a shimmering red sequined off-the-shoulder dress reminiscent of cartoon character Jessica Rabbit. She paired the outfit with patent leather heels and a blue clutch. The 39-year-old debuted a new look showing off her strawberry blonde locks instead of her typical deep red hue. The actress arrived with actor husband Geoffrey Arend, who wore a dark grey suit and patterned light blue tie.
Christina was not the only star from the hit AMC drama to dazzle on the red carpet. January Jones rocked a navy strapless midi-dress with orange floral detailing and paired it with orange heels. The 37-year-old kept her blonde hair slicked back into a chic ponytail and added another pop of color with bright red lipstick.
Meanwhile, Elisabeth Moss chose a classic black and white ensemble a low-cut dress and red suede pumps. And although she's not part of the cast, model Coco Rochacame out to the event wearing a tight black sleeveless dress that showed off her best accessory: her baby bump! The 26-year-old showed off her imitation of main character Don Draper to her over 900,000 followers on Instagram.
One leading lady that was missing from the event was Jessica Par, who welcomed her first child with husband John Kastner on March 21. The Canadian actress announced the arrival via her Instagram account.
But it wasn't just the women who dazzled on the red carpet. Jon Hamm looked handsome in a black suit with matching patent leather shoes, a crisp white shirt and dark blue tie. His bearded look was a certainly the opposite of how his character Don Draper would have shown up to an event. John Slattery, on the other hand, looked like a modern day version of his character Roger Sterling wearing a black suit, grey shirt and patent leather dress shoes.
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Astronomy - Ch. 7: The Solar Sys - Comparative Planetology (28 of 33) Asteroids 1
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The search for geothermal energy under the dormant Hualalai volcano is moving forward.
A University of Hawaii researcher has asked the state Board of Land and Natural Resources for a geothermal exploration permit to conduct a noninvasive geophysical study of the west rift zone of Hualalai, just north of Kailua-Kona.
The project is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, researcher Nicole Lautze, with the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, said in her application. She did not return a phone message left at her office by press time Monday.
The Land Board is scheduled to consider the application Friday. The meeting is held in Honolulu and begins at 9 a.m.
Lautze said in her application that the Hualalai exploration is the first exploration permit in what will be an overall effort referred to as the Geothermal Resources Exploration Plan for Hawaii.
Researchers plan to conduct their surveys on nine parcels of land, all zoned agriculture. Theyve gotten permission from the landowners, which are the state, Kamehameha Schools, Makalei Golf Club, the Queen Liliuokalani Trust and Palani Ranch.
Researchers will use a standard technique called magnetotelluric survey that maps the electrical conductivity of rocks at depths from several hundred feet to as much as 20,000 feet below the surface.
The vast majority of developed geothermal systems in the world are located in regions where water can flow naturally through the heated rock formations, Lautze said in her application. Being able to identify the subsurface heat source and fractured zones allows us to begin to address some of the problems of geothermal exploration and development.
The system uses antennas and electrodes to measure naturally occurring, very low frequency electromagnetic waves. The apparatus does not generate electrical signals or transmit energy, Lautze said.
The islands geothermal production is currently limited to one 38-megawatt power plant, Puna Geothermal Venture, outside Pahoa.
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