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Museum of Me is an exciting online exhibition brought to you by PACHEDU The School of African Culture and Paisley Museum Creative Learning Team.
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With the help of expert tutors, the Centre for Lifelong Learning at University of Strathclyde have developed an exciting range of classes to help keep you busy this Autumn!
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For Scotland's Year of Coasts and Waters, Galoshans Festival programme explores the deepest darkest depths of the sea & spine-tingling tales of Inverclyde's bewitching waters!
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Come and join us at Stirling Distillery as our team take you on a virtual tour and tasting from the comfort of your own home!
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There's plenty of Halloween fun to be had in Paisley town centre this October with this fun Pumpkin Halloween Trail from Paisley First!
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Cycle your purple socks off this October with by taking park in Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity's brand new cycling challenge... Pedal It Purple!
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Alzheimer Scotland's Dementia Advisor is now delivering free, interactive and informative online Dementia Friends information sessions throughout East Renfrewshire.
Beat the Street is a fun, free game that will see communities in East Renfrewshire transformed into a giant game! See how far you can walk, cycle and run in just 6 weeks!
Move More is a programme of physical activity, advice and support for people at all stages of the cancer journey, contact the Macmillan East Ren team and find out how to get involved.
Take a journey into the dark side of old Edinburgh's history touring the haunted underground vaults with Auld Reekie Tours!
The 1920s was a period of contrasts and this exhibition explores the styles, ideas and events that shaped Scottish art during this influential decade.
Due to Covid-19 we are are unable to perform our normal live auction event in your area therefore we will now offer an online collection at way below the auction estimates.
Conifox Halloween Spooktacular is on from 17th October to 1st November, follow the spooky trail around the park then get creative and carve your own pumpkin!
Looking to entertain the kids? Come and spot our cuddly corgis hiding around Britannia's tour route.
Have fun discovering Edinburgh on this quirky, self-guided, heritage walk with a treasure hunt theme from Curious About!
ECHO is Michael Craik's first solo exhibition at &Gallery and he presents a new collection of contemplative, minimal acrylic paintings.
The Hairy Coo offers the best family fun day out this October with their day trip to Loch Ness from Edinburgh. See if you can spot Nessie!
First Bite Junior Youth Theatre is run by Live Drama and is for all 7 - 11 year olds with a love of drama and the performing arts and starts on 17th September!
Round up your pals and get the ball rolling for your next night oot as Fore Play Crazy Golf Edinburgh pop-up has found a new home!
Global Lab offers inspiring examples of creative practice in the arts, education and frontline activism, with the opportunity to share, question and dialogue.
Wondering how to celebrate Halloween this year with the latest restrictions? Get your costume ready and head to 'The Anatomist' - a brand new immersive escape room by Escape The Past.
Make your dream home a reality with the IKEA Interior Design Service. It's a tailored and hassle free shopping experience for your convenience!
Invisible Cities offer family friendly guided walking tours of Edinburgh that showcase some of the city's historical landmarks and explore the social projects that make the city what it is!
The Scottish Ornithologists Club is hosting a joint exhibition of paintings, prints and sculptures by three specialist wildlife artists: Robert Greenhalf, Matt Underwood and Anthony Theakston!
The Royal Yacht Britannia has attained VisitScotland's 'We're Good To Go' certificate, so step aboard and follow in the footsteps of Royalty this October!
Visit the Mana Poke pop-up shop in Leith for your dose of healthy food and a good chat! Open Fridays - Sundays from 16th October – 29th November.
Explore the furniture, fashion, textiles, lighting, ceramics, and printed material that defined Mid-Century Modern in this exhibition on now at Dovecot Studios!
St Marys Music School Edinburgh is delivering various online music classes for children age 4 to 12 years starting in September.
O for light is a new body of painterly text pieces based on the changing sky, created during spring and summer 2020 by Edinburgh text artist Catherine Sargeant.
Enjoy an online Pilates workout with Jane from Happy Being! Perfect if you are working from home sitting at a desk all day.
The Festival's famous Open Hearth sessions move online in a ceilidh of cultures and featuring some of the finest traditional storytellers from around the world.
Enjoy a virtual tour of 'Paths to Other Places: Drawing Parallels' and see this fantastic new exhibition by Scottish artist James Cosgrove!
To celebrate the Year of Coasts and Waters, this small exhibition explores Scotland's diverse sea life and the many threats facing our marine life.
Scots Music Group is running its autumn term online! Check out the full list of weekly classes available through Zoom!
Follow the winding footpaths and venture into the lost lands of the Calder Witches at Almond Valley Heritage Centre this October!
Rediscover the joy of 'eye to eye, mind to mind, and heart to heart' storytelling at the Scottish Storytelling Centre as part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival.
The Big Escape is a brand new interactive outdoor experience, played on your smartphone, which will turn Edinburgh City Centre into a giant escape game!
Claire Hewitt's images are a response to the abundant natural and mythological landscape around her.
The brilliant original production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera arrives at the Festival Theatre for the first time ever in 2020!
Edinburgh's deepest secret, the Real Mary King's Close is buried deep beneath the Royal Mile... a warren of hidden streets that has remained frozen in time since the 17th Century!
Theatre Uncut and the Traverse Theatre present digital reimaginings of three plays from the Theatre Uncut archive that explore racism, censorship, power and identity.
Traverse is delighted to present brand new, specially created, pieces from nine Young Writers online, with performers filming in their own homes under lockdown conditions.
What happens to your digital life after you die? If there was a magic button, would you delete your online existence?
Check out ComputerXplorers SEScotland's online kids computing clubs, the perfect way to learn the latest technologies and develop invaluable tech skills.
Join the search for Wally with your family this October half term at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh!
YogaBellies Edinburgh North is holding LIVE classes, starting from Wednesday 5th August and bookings are now open!
Everything in the garden's lovely as we explore the wonderful world of wildlife and plants through our colourful and entertaining family-friendly exhibition!
Fife's biggest annual arts competition will be going ahead in 2020 with a new theme and in a brand new venue!
Pregnancy Pilates helps to reduce those aches and pains, keep you active and benefit from some social time with other expectant women.
Join Sam Mace Wellness for an online weekly Pilates class for the over 60's and strengthen your back and core, rebalance your body and improve posture through re-alignment!
Through a combination of art, literature, advertising and movies, this exhibition highlights smoking as a social practice, focusing on the period from the 1800s onwards.
Using the labyrinth, earthship, yurt and lochside gardens to mindfully connect with nature, be with others in a like minded community and get creative in a simple and easy way!
Join the search for Wally with your family this October half term at the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther!
Have fun discovering Glasgow with a self-guided, heritage walk with a treasure hunt theme from Curious About!
Glasgow Central Tours offer you the chance to explore behind the scenes of Glasgow's most iconic and busiest landmarks, Central Station!
This is a 2.5-3 hour tour that will take you around all the main sites of the city, giving you an excellent opportunity to find out about Glasgow's rich history and culture!
Glasgow Science Festival are back with a digital programme of hands-on activities, talks, shows and more, to entertain and inspire!
Good Move Glasgow run Health Walks right across the city which are suitable for all ages and abilities!
Invisible Cities offer friendly walking tours of Glasgow that showcase some of the city's historical landmarks and explore the social projects that make the city what it is!
This October, just in time for Halloween, Loch Lomond Faerie Trail will again be transformed into the Scary Faerie Trail!
Local artist Lee Robertson has been working on 'Love Letter to Glasgow' an exhibition which was due to be held in Sogo Arts on the Saltmarket, he's now taken his exhibition online!
Join NYCOS for their Mini Music Makers Online classes, providing an opportunity for you and your child to make and enjoy music together!
Check out the new 'taking part' season at Platform Glasgow, on now until December 2020!
Join Simply Yoga By Laura for her seasonal yoga classes on Zoom and increase your flexibility and feel healthier and fitter with a regular yoga practice from the comfort of your own home!
The Scotia Gallery welcomes you to a solo photography exhibition featuring an impressive series of macro photography created by Scottish Artist and photographer David Gilliver!
The Big Escape is a brand new interactive outdoor experience, played on your smartphone, which will turn Glasgow City Centre into a giant escape game!
Do you love Glasgow and want to get fit? Then why not try Beat Your Goal's virtual event and get your hands on this stunning medal!
Performance art & mobile technology converge in Walking:Holding, a meditative journey through urban landscapes focusing on LGBTQ+ experience.
From the 10th until the 31st of October ALL children visiting Clyde Valley Family Park will get to choose their own FREE pumpkin as part of their ticket and the park's Pumpkin Festival!
Don't miss Anarchy, a terrifyingly unforgettable experience where terror rules and your fate can change with every turn, at M&Ds Scotland's Theme Park!
You can celebrate the life of someone special and make a difference to the lives of patients and their loved ones this Christmas by supporting St Andrew's Hospice 'Light Up a Life' campaign!
Tenement Through Time is a new, innovative and interactive exhibition which explores tenement life in New Lanark between 1881-1971!
Join the search for Wally with your family this October half term at the Museum of Rural Life in East Kilbride!
The Stirling Smith is delighted to welcome back the Stirling and Districts Embroiderer's Guild for their latest exhibition 'Flights of Fancy'.
Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park is going PUMPKIN-tastic this Halloween. It might be smaller in scale, but will still be big on family fun!
This immersive installation explores the way distant or invisible phenomena can have a tangible effect on our day-to-day lives.
Woodland Experience has launched Santa@Home, a fun-filled experience that will ensure your family can still enjoy Santa's magic this year from the comfort of your own living room!
Under The Trees is offering the chance for families to undertake the John Muir Award with them. It's a fantastic outdoor learning award, and is easy to achieve - even under our current situation!
Celebrate the Year of Coasts and Waters locally by walking on the wildside and exploring RSPB's Black Devon Wetlands Reserve with our interactive trail!


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Alhamdolillah I have read your encouraging advice to those with English as a first language who are seeking to memorise the Quran. I am well past my 20s so perhaps it will be more difficult for me – Inshallah Allah will make it possible. My question is, although I can now read the Quran with a little fluency, I still cannot pronounce many of the letters properly (although a listener could probably tell which letter I am trying to say). So is this in any way a reason why I should not memorise? I feel that if I wait until I have corrected my tajweed, then my whole life could pass before I am able to master the correct pronunciation of the alphabet. On the other hand, is there any virtue in memorising the Quran to the best of your ability, knowing that some will be incorrect? What is your advice please?
Jazakallahu khair wa Assalamu alaikum wa Rahmatullah.
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
Our first advice to you is not to think about your age as a barrier. There are many non-Arabs we know that have memorized all the Qur'an or a good portion of it after their 20's. If you seek Allah's help through constant dua', keep your intention solely for Allah, and work hard, you will insha' Allah reach your goal. Never give up.
We do not know the degree of the inaccuracy in the letters you have, but you should memorize and at the same time work very hard to fix the articulation points that you cannot pronounce correctly. The point is not to accept the incorrect letters, but move forward in your plan to memorize. There are two links that may help you as to rulings on this:
http://www.abouttajweed.com/Why%20should%20we%20read%20the%20Quran%20tajweed.pdf particularly page 5. It is not considered sinful as long as you are trying your best to correct the problem. Again we emphasize that you should work on both at the same time and do not stop working on the tajweed aspect until you have perfected it, by Allah's will.
May Allah grant you the memorization of the Qur'an with complete accurate tajweed. Ameen.
Wa iyyaaakum. Wa assalaam alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.


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Kyrgios 'hates' his behaviour, says Woodbridge
TENNIS: Australian tennis great and former Tennis Australia talent development chief Todd Woodbridge has claimed Nick Kyrgios hates it when he loses control of his emotions as he did at the Shanghai Masters.
Kyrgios was on Monday whacked with an eight-week suspension that can be reduced down to three if he meets strict conditions after an ATP Tour investigation found him guilty of conduct contrary to the integrity of the game for failing to provide his best effort in his loss to German Mischa Zverev.
It was the tour's first suspension for behavioural issues since American John McEnroe was ousted in 1987.
Woodbridge said he believed Kyrgios still had the ability to turn his career around and become a popular player in the same way Andre Agassi did.
The 16-time doubles grand slam champion defended his role in the development of Kyrgios, saying Tennis Australia provided support with coaching and access to sports psychology.
"Right now I can promise you, he does not like behaving the way he does," Woodbridge told SEN radio.
"He actually hates it. Part of his behaviour is because of that. He doesn't at this point control that well enough.
"I think that's where seeking this help properly - and I think that he has to buy into it properly - it will improve him both on and off the court so that he'll enjoy his opportunities better and he'll understand why he's feeling that way."
One-time Wimbledon champion Pat Cash, however, said he was adamant the ATP should have acted sooner when punishing the 21-year-old, who has had a string of controversial on-court incidents.
Writing in a column for Fox Sports, Cash said the suspension and additional $32,900 fine wasn't "particularly harsh" and was "overdue".
"Nick has been putting the ATP in an awkward position for years by generating at least as many headlines for his on-court meltdowns as his incredible tennis," Cash wrote.
"Ultimately, one may wonder if the ATP has done him a disservice by not acting sooner.
"He probably isn't all that disappointed, either. It would be a relief in a way and a good time for him to rest and reflect."
ATP president Chris Kermode defended the length of the ban, declaring the sport wants to see Kyrgios return stronger than before.
"Nick's conduct in Shanghai was unacceptable, disrespectful to the sport and its fans," he said.
"We take these matters very seriously and he has since apologised for his actions.
"Nick is a phenomenal talent and our hope is that he uses his time away from the tour constructively and - with some support - is able to return to competition with an improved mindset and stronger than ever before."
While he won't play again in 2016, Tennis Australia declared Kyrgios had agreed to consult with a sports psychologist in order to reduce his suspension down to three weeks, and would be available for the summer of tennis at home.
As a non-ranking points tournament, Kyrgios is expected to make his return to tennis at the Hopman Cup, beginning January 1.
"Nick's health and well-being is a priority and the ATP has offered a reduced penalty on the provision that he seeks appropriate professional advice, which he has agreed to do," Tennis Australia said in a statement.
"Nick understands the gravity of his actions, has shown remorse and expressed a willingness to improve.
"We believe it's our responsibility to help Nick, along with all our young athletes, improve both professionally on court as a player, and personally. We have always offered assistance and advice to Nick and his team and will continue to do so."


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Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by Charles Darwin and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.
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- There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism.
- Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 9 "Puncturing Punctuationism" (p. 250)
- The world becomes full of organisms that have what it takes to become ancestors. That, in a sentence, is Darwinism.
- Richard Dawkins River out of Eden (1995)
- Ultimately the Darwinian theory of evolution is no more nor less than the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century.
- I think it is not helpful to apply Darwinian language too widely. Conquest of nation by nation is too distant for Darwinian explanations to be helpful. Darwinism is the differential survival of self-replicating genes in a gene pool, usually as manifested by individual behaviour, morphology, and phenotypes. Group selection of any kind is not Darwinism as Darwin understood it nor as I understand it. There is a very vague analogy between group selection and conquest of a nation by another nation, but I don't think it's a very helpful analogy. So I would prefer not to invoke Darwinian language for that kind of historical interpretation.
- Richard Dawkins Darwin's Dangerous Disciple: An Interview by Frank Miele (1995)
- The fact is that for complex systems like the bacterial flagellum no biologist has or is anywhere close to reconstructing its history in Darwinian terms. Is Darwinian theory therefore falsified? Hardly. I have yet to witness one committed Darwinist concede that any feature of nature might even in principle provide countervailing evidence to Darwinism. In place of such a concession one is instead always treated to an admission of ignorance. Thus it's not that Darwinism has been falsified or disconfirmed, but that we simply don't know enough about the biological system in question and its historical context to determine how the Darwinian mechanism might have produced it.
- William A. Dembski "Is Intelligent Design Testable — A Response to Eugenie Scott", The Golden Spiral, 24 January 2011, retrieved on 2011-10-23
- Whenever Darwinism is the topic, the temperature rises, because more is at stake than just the empirical facts about how life on Earth evolved, or the correct logic of the theory that accounts for those facts. One of the precious things that is at stake is a vision of what it means to ask, and answer, the question "Why?" Darwin's new perspective turns several traditional assumptions upside down, undermining our standard ideas about what ought to count as satisfying answers to this ancient and inescapable question. Here science and philosophy get completely intertwined. Scientists sometimes deceive themsevles into thinking that philosophical ideas are only, at best, decorations or parasitic commentaries on the hard, objective triumphs of science, and that they themselves are immune to the confusions that philosophers devote their lives to dissolving. But there is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.
- The Darwinian Revolution is both a scientific and a philosophical revolution, and neither revolution could have occurred without the other. As we shall see, it was the philosophical prejudices of the scientists, more than their lack of scientific evidence, that prevented them from seeing how the theory could actually work, but those philosophical prejudices that had to be overthrown were too deeply entrenched to be dislodged by mere philosophical brilliance. It took an irresistible parade of hard-won scientific facts to force thinkers to take seriously the weird new outlook that Darwin proposed.
- Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone has ever had, I'd give it to Darwin, ahead of Newton and Einstein and everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning, and purpose with the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and physical law. But it is not just a wonderful scientific idea. It is a dangerous idea. My admiration for Darwin's magnificent idea is unbounded, but I, too, cherish many of the ideas and ideals that it seems to challenge, and want to protect them. … The only good way to do this—the only way that has a chance in the long run—is to cut through the smokescreens and look at the idea as unflinchingly, as dispassionately, as possible.
- Daniel Dennett Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995), from Chapter 1, "Is Nothing Sacred", p. 21-22:
- The idea of Darwinian natural evolution was paramount in Hayek's early development. His family background was primarily in the natural sciences. While his maternal grandfather, Franz von Juraschek, was an economist and friend of some of the original mem bers of the Austrian school of economics, Juraschek died in 1910, when Hayek was ten or eleven. Despite Hayek's precociousness, he could not have been much influenced by this grandfather. A far greater intellectual influence on Friedrich was his father, August, who was a medical doctor for the City of Vienna and a part-time professor of botany at the University of Vienna. Hayek mentioned the intellectual influence of his father on him in a late interview: "We have talked... about my contemporaries and to some extent about the influence of my father, which was of some importance."
- Alan Ebenstein, Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003), Ch. 1. Darwinian Evolutionary Theory
- The intellectual milieu of Hayek's youth was Darwinian. Hayek remarked that both his father and paternal grandfather were Darwinians and that everyone with whom his family associated through his fa ther's university connections was secular. He recalled that, when he was about fourteen, his father gave him a substantial treatise on the theory of evolution. If he had received the work a year later, he noted, "I probably would have stuck with biology. The things did interest me immensely."
Hayek was extremely interested in botany until he was fifteen or so. It is easy to imagine that conversations regarding his father's botanical work were a frequent topic around the Hayek family dinner table. August traveled extensively on plant expeditions and had a small business selling and exchanging plant specimens with which young Fritz (Hayek's nickname, which he disliked) assisted him. The two also went to meetings of the Vienna Zoologic and Botanical Society together. It is possible that three generations of von Hayeks sometimes attended these meetings—Gustav, August, and Friedrich.
- Alan Ebenstein, Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003), Ch. 1. Darwinian Evolutionary Theory
- The fittest survive.
What is meant by the fittest?
Not the strongest; not the cleverest —
Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive.
There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive.
"Fitness," then, is only another name for "survival."
That survivors survive.
- Charles Fort, The Book of The Damned (1919) Ch. 3
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- What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
- George Gilder Interview with the Boston Globe (July 27, 2005)
- I'm not familiar that they're dodging it. Maybe they are. But I think schools also ought to be fair to all views. Because, frankly, Darwinism is not an established scientific fact. It is a theory of evolution, that's why it's called the theory of evolution.
- Mike Huckabee Arkansans Ask, 1 July 2004 , quoted in Wiles, Jason (1 January 2005), "Is Evolution Arkansas's Hidden Curriculum?", Reports of the National Center for Science Education 25 (1-2): 32-36, retrieved on 2011-03-01
- What if the orbit of Darwinism should be a little too circular? What if species should offer residual phenomena, here and there, not explicable by natural selection? Twenty years hence naturalists may be in a position to say whether this is, or is not, the case; but in either event they will owe the author of "The Origin of Species" an immense debt of gratitude...... And viewed as a whole, we do not believe that, since the publication of Von Baer's "Researches on Development," thirty years ago, any work has appeared calculated to exert so large an influence, not only on the future of Biology, but in extending the domination of Science over regions of thought into which she has, as yet, hardly penetrated.
- Thomas Henry Huxley. "ART. VIII.- Darwin on the origin of Species," Westminster Review, April 1860, p. 541–70
- Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to put down God.
- Phillip E. Johnson, Interview with Claire Cooper, Legal Affairs Writer, published in "Berkeley Law Professor Finds Darwin Wanting: Author Calls Evolution 'Imaginative Story' ", Sacramento Bee, 3 June 1991, p. B5
- In the animal world we have seen that the vast majority of species live in societies, and that they find in association the best arms for the struggle for life: understood, of course, in its wide Darwinian sense-not as a struggle for the sheer means of existence, but as a struggle against all natural conditions unfavourable to the species. The animal species, in which individual struggle has been reduced to its narrowest limits, and the practice of mutual aid has attained the greatest development, are invariably the most numerous, the most prosperous, and the most open to further progress. The mutual protection which is obtained in this case, the possibility of attaining old age and of accumulating experience, the higher intellectual development, and the further growth of sociable habits, secure the maintenance of the species, its extension, and its further progressive evolution. The unsociable species, on the contrary, are doomed to decay.
- Peter Kropotkin. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902), Conclusion.
M - REdit
- The row was over Darwinism, but before it ended Darwinism was almost forgotten. What Huxley fought for was something far greater: the right of civilized men to think freely and speak freely, without asking leave of authority, clerical or lay. How new that right is! And yet how firmly held! Today it would be hard to imagine living without it. No man of self-respect, when he has a thought to utter, pauses to wonder what the bishops will have to say about it. The views of bishops are simply ignored. Yet only sixty years ago they were still so powerful that they gave Huxley the battle of his life.
- H. L. Mencken in "Thomas Henry Huxley" in the Baltimore Evening Sun (4 May 1925).
- There is an old Qabbalistic axiom which runs as follows: "The stone becomes a plant; the plant a animal; the animal a man; and the man a god." So it is; but the literal form of these words should not be construed as expressing a perfect Darwinism; not at all... We must not imagine for a moment that the natural truth of progressive development, modernly called evolution, is something new in our age or in the age of our immediate fathers, nor that it originated in the mind of Charles Darwin, whose great work, The Origin of Species, was published in 1859...
The psychology of the times following the publication of Darwin's works was so strong that most thinking men could not then be brought to admit that there were any alternative explanations of the phenomena of progressive development in life — human, animal, or plant life — to the scheme of transformism which he set forth...
This idea of a progressive development of all animate entities on earth in present and past geological periods is, indeed, a very old one.
- G. de Purucker, Man in Evolution, (1941)
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- Darwin seems to lose out with the public primarily when his supporters force him into a mano-a-mano Thunderdome death match against the Almighty. Most people seem willing to accept Darwinism as long as they don't have to believe in nothing but Darwinism. Thus, the strident tub-thumping for absolute atheism by evolutionary biologists like Richard Dawkins, whom the new issue of Discover Magazine rightly criticizes as "Darwin's Rottweiler," is self-defeating.
- The Left Doesn't Like Darwin Either, by Steve Sailer, VDARE, August 7, 2005
- Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.
- John Maynard Smith The Theory of Evolution (1958) p. xv
- Natural selection is the only workable explanation for the beautiful and compelling illusion of 'design' that pervades every living body and every organ. Knowledge of evolution may not be strictly useful in everyday commerce. You can live some sort of life and die without ever hearing the name of Darwin. But if, before you die, you want to understand why you lived in the first place, Darwinism is the one subject that you must study.
- John Maynard Smith The Theory of Evolution (1958) p.xvi
- Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
- Ben Stein Darwinism: The Imperialism of Biology?. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (31 October 2007). Retrieved on 2008-02-26.
- [The] Third [problem with Darwinism], which I think is overwhelming, and just sort of blows the whole theory of Random Mutation out of the water, is, at least, let me say, raises big questions, that is. Assuming it all did happen by Random Mutation and Natural Selection, where did the laws of gravity come from. Where did the laws of thermodynamics come from? Where did the laws of motion and, of heat come from? Where, I guess that's the same as thermodynamics. Where did all these laws, that make it possible for the universe to function, where did they all come from? Why isn't all just chaos and everything collapsing in on itself and killing everything?
- Ben Stein The Search for Truth, God and Braver Scientists in 'Expelled'. 'Expelled' Press Conference Transcript (27 March 2008). Retrieved on 2008-04-18.
- Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We're not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it's called Darwinism.
- Ben Stein Citizen Link: Friday Five: Actor Ben Stein. Citizen Link: Friday Five: Actor Ben Stein (4 April 2008). Archived from the original on 2008-04-08. Retrieved on 2008-04-18.
- The truth is Darwinism is not a scientific theory, but a materialistic creation myth masquerading as science. It is first and foremost a weapon against religion – especially traditional Christianity. Evidence is brought in afterwards, as window dressing.
- Science follows the evidence wherever it leads, but Darwinism does not. So the present controversy over evolution is not a war between science and religion. It is primarily a war between Darwinism and evidence--and the evidence will win.
- I experience the same sense of absurdity when I listen to a cosmologist like Stephen Hawking telling us that the universe began with a big bang fifteen billion years ago, and that physics will shortly create a 'theory of everything' that will answer every possible question about our universe; this entails the corollary that God is an unnecessary hypothesis. Then I think of the day when I suddenly realized that I did not know where space ended, and it becomes obvious that Hawking is also burying his head in the sand. God may be an unnecessary hypothesis for all I know, and I do not have the least objection to Hawking dispensing with him, but until we can understand why there is existence rather than nonexistence, then we simply have no right to make such statements. It is unscientific. The same applies to the biologist Richard Dawkins, with his belief that strict Darwinism can explain everything, and that life is an accidental product of matter. I feel that he is trying to answer the ultimate question by pretending it does not exist.
- Colin Wilson (1998) Alien Dawn pp. 301-302


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The American Indian Heritage Week consists of five days of events that share and celebrate the Native traditions with the general community.
The week long event includes story telling, arts and crafts vendors, demonstrations, traditional Native foods, the Inter-Tribal Show, and a family arts and crafts night. All events are free to the community to enjoy aside from the Inter-Tribal Food Feast and Inter-Tribal show.
All events are held in the Edminster Student Union Building unless otherwise stated.
The Inter-Tribal Food Feast event is a lunch held in the Edminster Student Union Building featuring traditional Native food and is $6 a plate.
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I've microarrayed samples after a gene knock-down (KD confirmed by qRT-PCR to be 95%) with Affymetrix Gene 1.0 ST arrays and Biotique XRAY software. The problem is, that this well expressed gene does not show up among the differentially expressed genes. My suspicion is that the expression in the KD samples drops below the background and is therefore not recorded by the software. Absolute, unmodified intensitiy of the probe for this gene can be found and is significantly lower in the knock-down samples. Could anyone give me some tips on this or e.g. tell me how to get the results from genes which are expressed in one control and completely silenced in the other?
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When you are getting into a short detoxification program, you can assist to remove a dangerous toxin from your body, applying healthier life pattern, starting diet target, and the new fitness practice. Detox Diet is consuming only some unprocessed food type during some times. Drink much water and the herb tea. This diet will throw away dangerous toxin from body system, bringing back your energy and make body return newly. Healthy life
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Fitness practice is another important matter of detox program. This activity will stimulate limfa system, making heart become active, racing blood circulation, removing unnecessarily matter and supplying oxygen to all body cell. Fitness practice not only merely forming body muscle, but also stimulates zest of life, releases chemical matter called endorphin. That matter will overcome stress effectively, even after the exercise. There is aerobic practice type which will pump heart activity, like cycling, jogging and dance. There is also the anaerobic practice type which will assist a forming bone density and muscle network in a short time, like burden lifting and squash. Practice variedly will train all muscle and prevent your feel boring. Healthy life
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There are 30 national parks in Sweden. Find more information about each national park in the alphabetical list.
You will find all 30 national parks in the alphabetical list above. Click on the first letter of the national park you are looking for.
Established: 1909. Location: south of Lake Torneträsk, Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County. Area: 7,700 hectares.
Established: 1991. Location: in the south of Västerbotten County and Lappland, close to the municipalities of Fredrika and Åsele. Area: 1,100 hectares.
Established: 1926, extended 1988. Location: in the middle of northern Kalmar Sound, Oskarshamn Municipality, Kalmar County. Area: 198 hectares, of which 132 hectares are water.
Established: 1918. Location: approximately 30 kilometres east of Lund in Lund Municipality, Malmöhus County. Area: 36 hectares.
Established: 1991. Location: in the middle of Lake Vänern, Västra Götaland County. Area: 2,400 hectares.
Established: 2002. Location: Municipality of Älvdalen in northwestern Dalarna County. Area: 385 km2.
Established: 1998. Location: South of Gysinge, at the juncture of Västmanland, Dalarna and Gävleborg counties. Area: 10,100 hectares (ca. 24,957 acres), of which 4110 hectares consists of water surface.
Established: 1909. Location: Just over 15 kilometres west of Örebro close to the slopes of the Kilsbergen mountains in Lekebergs Municipality, Örebro County. Area: 111 hectares.
Established: 1909, extended in 1963 and 1988. Location: In the middle of the Baltic Sea 38 kilometres north of Fårö and 85 kilometres south-east of Landsort in Gotland Municipality, Gotland County. Area: 4,490 hectares, of which 842 hectares are water.
Established: 1909, enlarged in 2011. Location: in Ljusdal municipality, Gävleborg County. Area: 1 400 hectares.
Established: 1995. Location: In the archipelago south of Haparanda and Kalix municipalities. Area: 6,000 hectares.
Established: 2009. Location: Kosterhavet Marine National Park is in northern Bohuslän and can be reached from several towns along the coast. Area: 38,878 hectares.
Established: 1942, extended 1984. Location: Between highway 97 and the Stora Lule river south-west of Gällivare and Jokkmokk municipalities, Norrbotten County. Area: 49,340 hectares.
Established: 1927, extended 1989. Location: Approximately 10 kilometres north of Rumskulla in Vimmerby Municipality, Kalmar County. Area: 114 hectares.
Established: 1962. Location: Between the Norwegian border and Sarek national park in Jokkmokk Municipality, Norrbotten County. Area: 198,400 hectares.
Established: 1909. Location: Approximately 10 kilometres south of Jäkkvikk in Arjeplog Municipality, Norrbotten County. Area: 15,340 hectares.
Established: 1909. Location: Between the source lakes of the Stora and Lille Lule rivers, fifty kilometres east of the Norwegian border in Jokkmokk Municipality, Norrbotten County. Area: 197,000 hectares.
Established: 1984, extended 2009. Location: Approximately 40 kilometres south of Örnsköldsvik in Örnsköldsvik and Kramfors municipalities, Västernorrland County. Area: 3 062 hectares.
Established: 1909, extended 1989. Location: Approximately 15 kilometres south of Hede in Härjedalen Municipality, Jämtland County. Area: 10,300 hectares.
Established: 1986. Location: Approximately 2½ kilometres south-east of Kivik village in Simrishamn Municipality, Kristianstad County. Area: 390 hectares.
Established: 1909. Location: North and south of the lake system of the Stora Lule river in Jokkmokk and Gällivare municipalities, Norrbotten County. Area: 127,800 hectares.
Established: 1982. Location: Just over 10 kilometres north-west of Värnamo in Gnosjö, Vaggeryd and Värnamo municipalities, Jönköping County. Area: 7,850 hectares.
Established: 2001. Location: Ca. thirty kilometres east of Helsingborg, Skåne County. Area: 1625 ha. (ca. 4015 acres).
Established: 1983. Location: Between lakes Vänern and Vättern in Laxå and Karlborg municipalities, Örebro and Västra Götaland County. Area: 1,350 hectares.
Established: 1996. Location: In Dals-Ed Municipality in north-western Dalsland, along the Norwegian border. Area: 2,897 hectares.
Established: 1993. Location: 20 kilometres south-east of Stockholm in Haninge Municipality, Stockholm County. Area: 2,000 hectares.
Established: 1930. Location: Just over 35 kilometres north of Idre in Älvdalen Municipality, Kopparberg County. Area: 1,615 hectares.
Established: 1920. Location: West of lake Torneträsk near Riksgränsen in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County. Area: 2,630 hectares.
Established: 2018. Location: in Tingsryd and Alvesta municipality, about 35 kilometers south of Växjö, Kronobergs county. Area: 1868 hectares, 75 % of the area is water.
Established: 1909, extended 1988. Location: approximately 8 kilometres east of Bergshamra in the inner Roslagen archipelago in Norrtälje Municipality, Stockholm County. Area: 190 hectares.


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Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. Wilderness Society
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In Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. Wilderness Society, 421 U.S. 240 (1975), the U.S. Supreme Court adhered to the American Rule and declined to award attorneys' to the prevailing party in a civil rights action under Section 1983. The Court overturned an award of such fees by the appellate court.
Justice Byron White wrote the opinion for the 5-2 Court. He described the context:
- This litigation was initiated by respondents Wilderness Society, Environmental Defense Fund, Inc., and Friends of the Earth in an attempt to prevent the issuance of permits by the Secretary of the Interior which were required for the construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline. The Court of Appeals awarded attorneys' fees to respondents against petitioner Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. based upon the court's equitable powers and the theory that respondents were entitled to fees because they were performing the services of a "private attorney general." Certiorari was granted, 419 U.S. 823 (1974), to determine whether this award of attorneys' fees was appropriate. We reverse.
Congress effectively overturned this ruling by passing the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act the following year.


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Two New(ish) Ramens Worth Slurping in Seattle's Other Japantown
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While Seattle's original Japantown is in the International District, I've written about how the Wallingford neighborhood is quickly becoming a bit of a culinary Nihonmachi (Japantown), anchored by Musashi's sushi at one end and Miyabi 45th's soba at the other. In the strip of Japanese restaurants in between, there are two ramen joints worth investigating.
4649 Restaurant (aka "Yoroshiku," which is a way to read the numbers aloud, and translates to "pleased to meet you") opened in late 2012, but recently upped its game by making ramen the focus for lunch, and serving only half-bowls for dinner, when the menu turns more izakaya-style. Shio and shoyu ramen are available, but as the restaurant is influenced by Hokkaido, Miso Ramen ($9.50) is the one you want. Quality has improved substantially since the the restaurant switched gears, with good depth of earthy flavor from the miso. Kudos for the steaming broth, which is a pleasant departure from the many Seattle restaurants who are apparently unable to send out a legitimately hot bowl.
The chashu (braised pork) is quite good, with a decent amount of fat, though if you want more than the one small slice that comes with the regular order, you'll need to upgrade to the meatier chashu-men, with four slices for $12. Typical of miso ramen, this comes with moyashi (blanched bean sprouts), menma (seasoned bamboo shoots), and corn (adding sweetness), but no pat of butter. Green onions (cut a little large for my taste) and ito togarashi (shredded chili pepper garnish) top the bowl. Egg lovers can add a soy-marinated, soft-boiled one for $1.50. But I'd stick with the regular noodles instead of upgrading to the locally hand-made ones; their chewiness doesn't warrant the $1.50 upcharge.
Steps away from 4649 sits Ramen Man, a newish restaurant from the izakaya chef at local favorite Issian. There's a very limited menu, which I find desirable in a ramen shop, with a focus on tori-paitan ramen. Paitan is Chinese, with "pai" meaning "white" and "tan" meaning "broth," the goal being a kotteri (thick and rich) milky broth made by boiling animal bones—in this case "tori" (chicken)—instead of the pork that makes the popular tonkotsu broth.
I ordered the Original Tori-Paitan Ramen ($8.50), and it's mission accomplished—the broth is extremely creamy and full of chicken flavor. You'll likely want to add pickled ginger to cut the fatty richness. The ramen comes with kikurage (wood ear mushrooms), onion chips, and thin slices of green onions, plus a sprinkling of sesame seeds. Each bowl has two slices of chashu, one chicken and one pork. (As at 4649, you can upgrade to a meatier "char siu" version for $3 more.) For me, the meat is too lean (and cold), though those who are looking for a lighter alternative to tonkotsu ramen may appreciate this. The noodles are the thin variety—not my favorite, but typical of the broth style. In an interesting twist, you can order as many hard-boiled eggs as you'd like. Most people eat them on the side, but you can also put them in the broth, though note that peeling the eggs takes time, which will make your broth colder (the bowls come quickly but not as hot as I'd like) and noodles softer.
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MONTREAL – The Sacred Heart men's basketball team won its second straight game in Montreal Monday night, holding on for a 79-70 win over club team Brookwood Bounce Elite. Louis Montes led the Pioneers with 16 points and added seven rebounds.
Sacred Heart had five players score in double-figures Monday night. Freshman Leo Vincent had 14 points in 17 minutes off the bench. Chris Evans had 13 points and a game-high eight rebounds. De'von Barnett added 12 points as Steve Glowiak chipped in 11. Phil Gaetano led all players with seven assists.
Brookwood took control of a back-and-forth opening six minutes with an 11-4 run to take a 19-12 lead with 12:49 to play in the first half. The Pioneers trailed by as much as six before a Barnett dunk sparked a 16-0 run over 5:14 to take a commanding 36-23 lead. Evans had five points in the run as Barnett and Vincent each had four. Brookwood closed the gap to five, 38-33, with 3:26 remaining in the half before a Montes three kicked off a 12-6 run for the Pioneers, taking a 50-39 lead at halftime. Sacred Heart scored 20 points off turnovers in the first half.
The Pioneers offense went cold to start the second half, allowing Brookwood Bounce Elite to go on an 8-1 to cut the deficit to four, 51-47, with 16:52 to play. Sacred Heart got the lead back into double-digits with a 7-1 run highlighted by a Vincent three-point play to take a 59-48 lead with 14:21 remaining. Brookwood got as close as five points in the second half, but back-to-back layups by Montes and Evans in the final 1:45 helped put the game out of reach and secure Sacred Heart's second win in Montreal.
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When her senior year of high school starts there will be no prom, although Ashley Vastag never cared much for dancing anyway.
She will miss the football games and playing flute in the marching band. And graduation? Well, that too would be skipped.
School will start at Riverview High School on Aug. 19, but by then, Ashley will already be in Europe.
She is eager to hike the Alps, nibble on French pastries and explore Berlin as she spends the next 10 months studying abroad in Germany.
Her new life as a high school senior.
"I'm so much more excited about what I'm going to be doing than what I'm going to be missing," said the tall and soft-spoken Ashley, 17.
For the teenager who was once so shy she often hid behind her mother as a child, this is her chance to "break out of (her) shell."
In Sarasota County Schools, only four or five students study abroad each year, according to district spokesman Gary Leatherman.
"It's kind of sad. I've known her forever, and now she's going to be gone. But I'm really happy for her," said her best friend, Sarah Wagler, a Riverview student who has never traveled to Europe before.
Ashley will live with a host family who has a 16-year-old daughter, Sabrina, who just like her, is tall and loves animals and reading books.
On a recent day, Ashley eyed her suitcase, a growing monster, on her polka-dotted bedspread as Mozart the kitty played next to her.
Her German dictionary and a pair of plastic spatulas — presents for her host family, who could not find the kitchen items in Germany — were like puzzle pieces, daring her to find enough space in a 50-pound bag.
Her mother, Marina Vastag, looked on.
The pair are close.
They are roller-coaster junkies, using their season passes at Universal Studios and Busch Gardens. At home, they watch Harry Potter movies.
Vastag juggles multiple jobs. When she comes home, Ashley has often made dinner. Ashley knew how to make cordon bleu and fresh ravioli.
It was just the two of them, ever since Vastag's husband, her partner for 20 years, died from brain cancer in July 2010.
With Ashley leaving, "It's like I'm losing her a year early to college," Vastag said.
But the mother knew she could Skype — or video chat — and a visit to Europe was already in the works. Vastag will do her best to stay busy at work, planning book fairs and decorating bulletin boards for her young students.
"I'm just thrilled at the opportunity she's going to have," Vastag said. "It's a once in the lifetime opportunity to go abroad for 10 months. I can't imagine doing that at her age."
She hoped Ashley will become fluent in German as the teenager takes classes at a Germany public school.
"It's something I want so much," Ashley said. "When I'm out there, I'm going to break out of my shell."
Riverview senior eager for Germany studies
When her senior year of high school starts there will be no prom, although Ashley Vastag never cared much for dancing anyway.


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text: Black Wizard #1 Posted October 18, 2009 Realistically, the most likely location for any scenes from the AGOT pilot to be filmed at would be somewhere in the North-West (where the way of life is pretty similar still). I am perched right on the East coast so there's be no chance of me catching a glimpse of anything. :(On the subject of what scene(s) would be filmed I'd expect it to be the prologue scene as the Scottish Highlands are the same type of setting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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From a deserted shampoo temple to words like "hydrolicious" and "prismatic," hair product commercials elevate beautiful hair to something to die for, Sarah Haskins finds.
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The Houma Police Department says a motorcyclist died days after being severely injured in a hit-and-run crash.
Police say a vehicle left the scene after striking a motorcycle driven by 33-year-old Glynn Mangum Aug. 30 at about 11:45 p.m.
Police said Tuesday night that Mangum had died as a result of his injuries.
Mangum was traveling north on Howard Avenue at a high rate of speed when his motorcycle struck a blue Ford Expedition that was backing into a private parking lot, according to police.
The Expedition then left the scene, police say.
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(PopSci.com) -- There's something disconcerting about driving a high-speed oval for the first time, and it's easy to identify: As you approach either of the steeply banked turns, you don't slow down.
PopSci goes pedal-to-the-carbon-fiber in Honda's next-gen prototype fuel cell car.
Trust me when I tell you it's easier to nod and say "Sure, I get it" than it is to blast into those perfect semicircles at full speed. Especially when you're only the second civilian in the world to drive the next-generation Honda FCX prototype, a one-of-a-kind, multimillion-dollar, zero-emission fuel-cell car that you always assumed was made of duct tape and posterboard gussied up with a nice paint job, as is so often the case for auto-show concepts.
Surely the rules are different for this car.
"Dondon dondon osaete kudasai." Huh? I mentally check and then recheck my Japanese. There's no question: The clipboard-clutching engineer next to me just told me to floor it. So I floor it. And the car goes -- fast.
Though Honda will not give official numbers for acceleration, my silent mental stopwatch puts the FCX's 0-60 time at about seven seconds, on par with an Audi A4. And around the steep banks, the car is completely surefooted, with no shakes or scary suspension moments. It seems a lot closer to production-ready than its "limited release" date of 2008 (which refers to the year when, like, one guy in California gets to lease the car) would suggest.
The FCX's driving traits are attributable to Honda's new vertically oriented fuel cell. Instead of lying flat under the floor like all the other hydrogen vehicles out there, Honda's new stack stands upright where a normal car's transmission would go.
The advantage of this is that the water created as a by-product of converting hydrogen to electricity doesn't need to be aggressively pumped out of the fuel cell; gravity does much of the work, so there's much less need for a power-sucking, efficiency-stealing pump to move the moisture.
The orientation also makes for a much lower center of gravity than a typical fuel-cell car. Almost all of the ones before the FCX looked like mini SUVs: high off the ground for their size. This is because most of the area under their floors was taken up by their fuel cells and the massive cooling ducts meant to keep them from overheating. This design made the cars nail-biters anywhere north of 75 mph.
At least, that's how the currently available version of the FCX felt when I drove it for comparison. While I slowed it waaaay down before entering the curve, I pushed the low-slung prototype into the bank at more than 80 mph. The high-off-the-ground '05 FCX felt skittish even on the straightaway at its maximum speed of 140 kph (about 87 mph). The FCX prototype, which looks like a sleeker and more stylish Accord, is low to the ground, sporty, and well-behaved at 92 mph, my maximum speed in it.
"And how do you like the ball display?" the engineer asks, referring to the computer-rendered glowing green ball in the middle of the instrument panel.
"What's it do?" I ask.
"Under full acceleration, when you are using the maximum amount of hydrogen, it will turn red. Try it and see."
I watch the ball change color as I mash the pedal, and then quickly look up to see a banked corner approaching rapidly. Uh-oh. In this case, it's best not to keep your eye on the ball.
"I don't like it at all," I say, forgetting for a minute the tact I should be using toward a man who has dedicated the last few years of his life to creating this car.
"Why not?" he asks, business-like but clearly concerned.
"I was so busy watching the ball change color that I almost put the car into the wall."
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Ulysses is a decommissioned robotic space probe whose primary mission was to orbit the Sun and study it at all latitudes. It was launched in 1990, made three "fast latitude scans" of the Sun in 1994/1995, 2000/2001, and 2007/2008. In addition several comets were studied by the probe. The space probe was a joint venture of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). The last day for mission operations on Ulysses was June 30, 2009.[1][2]
To study the Sun at all latitudes the probe needed to change its orbital inclination and leave the plane of the Solar System – to change the orbital inclination of a spacecraft a large change in heliocentric velocity is needed. However the necessary amount of velocity change to achieve a high inclination orbit of about 80° far exceeded the capabilities of any launch vehicle. Therefore to reach the desired orbit around the Sun a gravity assist manoeuvre around Jupiter was chosen, but this Jupiter encounter meant that Ulysses could not be powered by solar cells – the probe instead was powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG).
The spacecraft was originally named Odysseus, because of its lengthy and indirect trajectory to study the solar poles. It was renamed Ulysses, the Latin translation of "Odysseus", at ESA's request in honour not only of Homer's mythological hero but also with reference to Dante's description in Dante's Inferno.[3] Ulysses was originally scheduled for launch in May 1986 aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger on STS-61-F. Due to the loss of Challenger, the launch of Ulysses was delayed until October 6, 1990 aboard Discovery (mission STS-41).
- 1 Mission
- 2 Results
- 3 Spacecraft
- 4 Instruments
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 External links
Until Ulysses, the Sun was only observed from low solar latitudes. The Earth's orbit defines the ecliptic plane, which differs from the Sun's equatorial plane by only 7.25 degrees. Even spacecraft directly orbiting the Sun do so in planes close to the ecliptic because a direct launch into a high-inclination solar orbit would require a prohibitively large launch vehicle.
Several spacecraft (Mariner 10, Pioneer 11, and Voyagers 1 and 2) had performed gravity assist manoeuvres in the 1970s. Those manoeuvres were to reach other planets also orbiting close to the ecliptic, so they were mostly in-plane changes. However, gravity assists are not limited to in-plane maneuvers; a suitable flyby of Jupiter could produce a significant plane change. An Out-Of-The-Ecliptic mission (OOE) was thereby proposed. See article Pioneer H.
Originally, two spacecraft were to be built by NASA and ESA, as the International Solar Polar Mission. One would be sent over Jupiter, then under the Sun. The other would fly under Jupiter, then over the Sun. This would provide simultaneous coverage. Due to cutbacks, the US spacecraft was canceled in 1981. One spacecraft was designed, and the project recast as Ulysses, due to the indirect and untried flight path. NASA would provide the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) and launch services, ESA would build the spacecraft assigned to Astrium GmbH, Friedrichshafen, Germany (formerly Dornier Systems). The instruments would be split into teams from universities and research institutes in Europe and the United States. This process provided the 10 instruments on board.
The changes delayed launch from February 1983 to May 1986 where it was to be deployed by the Space Shuttle Challenger, however, the Challenger disaster pushed the date to October 1990.
Ulysses was deployed into low-Earth orbit from the Space Shuttle Discovery. From there, it was propelled on a trajectory to Jupiter by a combination of solid rocket motors.[4] This upper stage consisted of a two-stage Boeing IUS (Inertial Upper Stage), plus a McDonnell Douglas PAM-S (Payload Assist Module-Special). The IUS was inertially stabilised and actively guided during its burn. The PAM-S was unguided and it and Ulysses were spun up to 80 rpm for stability at the start of its burn. On burnout of the PAM-S, the motor and spacecraft stack was yo-yo de-spun (weights deployed at the end of cables) to below 8 rpm prior to separation of the spacecraft. On leaving Earth, the spacecraft became the fastest ever artificially-accelerated object, and held that title until the New Horizons probe was launched.
On its way to Jupiter the spacecraft was in an elliptical Hohmann transfer orbit with perihelion near 1 AU and aphelion near 5 AU, Jupiter's distance from the Sun. At this time Ulysses had a low orbital inclination to the ecliptic.
Jupiter swing-by
It arrived at Jupiter on 8 February 1992 for a swing-by maneuver that increased its inclination to the ecliptic by 80.2 degrees. The giant planet's gravity bent the spacecraft's flight path southward and away from the ecliptic plane. This put it into a final orbit around the Sun that would take it past the Sun's north and south poles. The size and shape of the orbit were adjusted to a much smaller degree so that aphelion remained at approximately 5 AU, Jupiter's distance from the Sun, and perihelion was somewhat greater than 1 AU, the Earth's distance from the Sun. The orbital period is approximately 6 years.
Polar regions of the Sun
Between 1994 and 1995 it explored both the southern and northern polar regions of the Sun, respectively.
Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)
On May 1, 1996, the spacecraft unexpectedly crossed the ion tail of Comet Hyakutake (C/1996 B2), revealing the tail to be at least 3.8 AU in length.[5][6]
Comet C/1999 T1 (McNaught-Hartley)
An encounter with a comet tail happened again in 1999 when Ulysses flew through the ion tailings of C/1999 T1 (McNaught-Hartley). A coronal mass ejection carried the cometary material to Ulysses.[6][7]
Comet C/2000 S5
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Solar southern polar regions
Between 2000 and 2001 Ulysses explored the southern solar polar regions, which gave many unexpected results. In particular the southern magnetic pole was found to be much more dynamic than the north pole and without any fixed clear location; instead, it is diffusely located.[citation needed]
Second Jupiter encounter
Ulysses approached aphelion in 2003/2004 and made further distant observations of Jupiter.[8]
Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught)
In 2007 Ulysses passed through the tail of comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught). The results were surprisingly different from its pass through Hyakutake's tail, with the measured solar wind velocity dropping from approximately 700 kilometers per second to less than 400 kilometers per second.[9]
Extended mission
ESA's Science Program Committee approved the fourth extension of the Ulysses mission to March 2009[10] thereby allowing it to operate over the Sun's poles for the third time in 2007 and 2008. After it became clear that the power output from the spacecraft's RTG would be insufficient to operate science instruments and keep the attitude control fuel, hydrazine, from freezing, instrument power sharing was initiated. Up until then, the most important instruments had been kept online constantly, whilst others were deactivated. When the probe neared the Sun, its power-hungry heaters were turned off and all instruments were turned on.[11]
On February 22, 2008, 17 years 4 months after the launch of the spacecraft, ESA and NASA announced that mission operations for Ulysses would likely cease within a few months.[12][13] On April 12, 2008 NASA announced that the end date will be July 1, 2008.[14]
The spacecraft operated successfully for over four times its design life. A component within the last remaining working chain of X-band downlink sub-system failed on January 15, 2008. The other chain in the X-band sub-system had previously failed in 2003.[15]
Downlink to Earth resumed on S-band, but the beamwidth of the high gain antenna on S-band was not as narrow as on X – so the downlink signal was much weaker, thereby reducing the achievable data rate. As the spacecraft traveled on its outbound trajectory to the orbit of Jupiter, the downlink signal would have eventually fallen below the receiving capability of even the largest antennas (70 m in diameter) of the Deep Space Network. Even before the downlink signal was lost due to distance, the hydrazine attitude control fuel on board the spacecraft was considered likely to freeze, as the radioisotope thermal generators failed to generate enough power for the heaters to combat the cold of space. Once the hydrazine froze, the spacecraft would no longer be able to maneuver to keep its high gain antenna pointing towards Earth, and the downlink signal would then be lost in a matter of days. The failure of the X-band communications sub-system hastened this, because the coldest part of the fuel pipework was routed over the X-band TWTAs which, when one of them was operating, kept this part of the pipework sufficiently warm.
The previously announced mission end date of July 1, 2008 came and went but mission operations continued albeit in a reduced capacity. The availability of science data gathering was limited to only when Ulysses was in contact with a ground station due to the deteriorating S-band downlink margin no longer being able to support simultaneous real-time data and tape recorder playback.[16] When the spacecraft was out of contact with a ground station, the S-band transmitter was switched off and the power was diverted to the internal heaters to add to the warming of the hydrazine. On June 30, 2009 ground controllers sent commands to switch to its low gain antennae which ceased communications with the spacecraft along with previous commands to schedule the shut down of its transmitter entirely.[1][17]
During cruise phases, Ulysses provided unique data. As the only spacecraft out of the ecliptic with a gamma-ray instrument, Ulysses was an important part of the InterPlanetary Network (IPN). The IPN detects gamma ray bursts (GRBs); since gamma rays cannot be focused with mirrors, it was very difficult to locate GRBs with enough accuracy to study them further. Instead, several spacecraft can locate the burst through triangulation (or, more specifically, multilateration). Each spacecraft has a gamma-ray detector, with readouts noted in tiny fractions of a second. By comparing the arrival times of gamma showers with the separations of the spacecraft, a location can be determined, for follow-up with other telescopes. Because gamma rays travel at the speed of light, wide separations are needed. Typically, a determination came from comparing: one of several spacecraft orbiting the Earth, an inner-Solar-system probe (to Mars, Venus, or an asteroid), and Ulysses. When Ulysses crossed the ecliptic twice per orbit, many GRB determinations lost accuracy.
Additional discoveries:[18]
- Ulysses discovered that the Sun's magnetic field interacts with the Solar System in a more complex fashion than previously assumed.
- Ulysses discovered that dust coming into the Solar System from deep space was 30 times more abundant than previously expected.
- In 2007-2008 Ulysses determined that the magnetic field emanating from the Sun's poles is much weaker than previously observed.
- That the solar wind has "grown progressively weaker during the mission and is currently at its weakest since the start of the Space Age."[17]
The spacecraft body was roughly a box, approximately 3.2 × 3.3 × 2.1 m in size. The box mounted the 1.65 m dish antenna and the GPHS-RTG radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) power source. The box was divided into noisy and quiet sections. The noisy section abutted the RTG; the quiet section housed the instrument electronics. Particularly "loud" components, such as the preamps for the radio dipole, were mounted outside the structure entirely, and the box acted as a Faraday cage.
Ulysses was spin-stabilised about its z-axis which roughly coincides with the axis of the dish antenna. The RTG, whip antennas, and instrument boom were placed to stabilize this axis, with the spin rate nominally at 5 rpm. Inside the body was a hydrazine fuel tank. Hydrazine monopropellant was used for course corrections inbound to Jupiter, and later used exclusively to repoint the spin axis (and thus, the antenna) at Earth. The spacecraft was controlled by eight thrusters in two blocks. Thrusters were pulsed in the time domain to perform rotation or translation. Four Sun sensors detected orientation. For fine attitude control, the S-band antenna feed was mounted slightly off-axis. This offset feed combined with the spacecraft spin introduced an oscillation to an S-band radio signal transmitted from Earth when received on board the spacecraft. The amplitude and phase of this oscillation was proportional to the orientation of the spin axis relative to the Earth direction. This method of determining the relative orientation is called CONSCAN and was used by early radars for automated tracking of targets and also very common in early infra-red guided missiles.
The spacecraft used S-band for uplinked commands and downlinked telemetry, through dual redundant 5-watt transceivers. The spacecraft used X-band for science return (downlink only), using dual 20 W TWTAs until the failure of the last remaining TWTA in January 2008. Both bands used the dish antenna with prime-focus feeds, unlike the Cassegrain feeds of most other spacecraft dishes.
Dual tape recorders, each of approximately 45-megabit capacity, stored science data between the nominal eight-hour communications sessions during the prime and extended mission phases.
The spacecraft was designed to withstand both the heat of the inner Solar System and the cold at Jupiter's distance. Extensive blanketing and electric heaters protected the probe against the cold temperatures of the outer Solar System.
Total mass at launch was Script error: No such module "convert"., of which 33.5 kg was hydrazine (used for attitude control and orbit correction).
Radio/Plasma antennas. Two beryllium-copper antennas unreeled outwards from the body, perpendicular to the RTG and spin axis. Together this dipole spanned 72 meters. A third antenna, of hollow beryllium-copper, deployed from the body, along the spin axis opposite the dish. It was a monopole antenna, 7.5 meters long. These measured radio waves generated by plasma releases, or the plasma itself as it passed over the spacecraft. This receiver ensemble was sensitive from dc to 1 MHz.[19]
Experiment Boom. A third type of boom, shorter and much more rigid, extended from the last side of the spacecraft, opposite the RTG. This was a hollow carbon-fiber tube, of 50 mm diameter. It can be seen in the photo as the silver rod stowed alongside the body. It carried four types of instruments. A solid-state X-ray instrument, which was composed of two silicon detectors to study X-rays from solar flares and Jupiter's aurorae. The GRB experiment consisted of two CsI scintillator crystals with photomultipliers. Two different magnetometers were mounted: a vector helium magnetometer and a fluxgate magnetometer. A two axis magnetic search coil antenna measured AC magnetic fields.
Body-Mounted Instruments. Detectors for electrons, ions, neutral gas, dust, and cosmic rays were mounted on the spacecraft body around the quiet section.
- SWOOPS (Solar Wind Observations Over the Poles of the Sun) measures positive ions and electrons.[20]
Lastly, the radio communications link could be used to search for gravitational waves[21] (through Doppler shifts) and to probe the Sun's atmosphere through radio occultation. No gravitational waves were detected.
Total instrument mass is 55 kg.
See also
- ^ a b "Ulysses: 12 extra months of valuable science". European Space Agency. 30 June 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
- ^ The odyssey concludes ...
- ^ "Inferno of Ulysses' urge to explore an uninhabited world behind the Sun. In Jane's Spaceflight Directory 1988, ISBN 0-7106-0860-8
- ^ ESA - Space Science - Sun to set on Ulysses solar mission on 1 July
- ^ Jones GH; Balogh A; Horbury TS (2000). "Identification of comet Hyakutake's extremely long ion tail from magnetic field signatures". Nature 404 (6778): 574–6. Bibcode:2000Natur.404..574J. PMID 10766233. doi:10.1038/35007011.
- ^ a b c Ulysses Catches Another Comet by the Tail
- ^ a b G. Gloeckler et al. Cometary Ions Trapped in a Coronal Mass Ejection
- ^ Ulysses - Science - Jupiter Distant Encounter Selected References
- ^ Neugebauer, Gloeckle et al. (October 1, 2007). "Encounter of the Ulysses Spacecraft with the Ion Tail of Comet McNaught" (ABSTRACT). The Astrophysical Journal 667 (2): 1262–1266. Bibcode:2007ApJ...667.1262N. doi:10.1086/521019.
- ^ ESA Science & Technology: Ulysses Mission Extended
- ^ ESA PortalTemplate:Spaced ndashUlysses scores a hat-trick
- ^ "Ulysses mission coming to a natural end". European Space Agency. 2008-02-22. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- ^ "International Solar Mission to End Following Stellar Performance". NASA. 2008-02-22. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- ^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080612/ap_on_sc/sci_solar_probe
- ^ "February 2003 Operations". European Space Agency.
- ^ Ulysses Mission Ops - No more data playback
- ^ a b "Ulysses Spacecraft Ends Historic Mission of Discovery". June 30, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
- ^ NASA : International Mission Studying Sun to Conclude
- ^ Unified Radio and Plasma Wave Investigation, JPL
- ^ Goldstein, Bruce. SWOOPS/ElectronTemplate:Spaced ndashUser Notes, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- ^ The Gravity Wave Experiment, Astronomy and Astrophysics
External links
|Wikinews has related news: Ulysses spacecraft retires after 17 year mission
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ulysses (spacecraft).
- ESA Ulysses website
- ESA Ulysses mission operations website
- ESA Ulysses Home page
- NASA/JPL Ulysses website
- Ulysses Measuring Mission Profile by NASA's Solar System Exploration
- ESA/NASA/JPL: Ulysses subsystems and instrumentation in high detail
- Where is Ulysses now!
- Max Planck Institute Ulysses website
- Interview with Ulysses Mission Operations Manager Nigel Angold on Planetary Radio
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