Sentences with phrase «of ska»

You may or may not know this, but I am a rock and roll lover through and through - I grew up in an era of rock - from the over the top glam rockers from the seventies to the eighties, the hair bands, right up to grunge in the nineties along with a bit of ska, punk and later more independent, relaxed rock.

The two keynoters Philip Diamond, Director General of SKA, and Rosie Bolton, SKA Regional Centre Project Scientist and Project Scientist for the international engineering consortium designing the high performance computers, took turns outlining radio astronomy history and SKA's ambition to build on that.

Or are we preparing a generation of SKA users to blindly extract data from catalogues to produce plots?

DS5: The construction of an engineering demonstrator low frequency array resembling our vision of an SKA station and exploration of the practical issues involved in multi-beam acquisition and signal - processing concepts The operation of links in SKADS (using the European research fibre network GÉANT) to join a number of SKADS multi-beaming demonstrators separated by distances up to many hundreds of kilometres, to demonstrate the high angular resolution imaging capabilities required by the SKA community.

Although the core of the SKA will not be sited within Europe, long - baseline stations could be sited in Europe and it is certain that, with advances in communications technology over the next ten years, the overall SKA will in part be controlled, and observations collected and analysed from within Europe.

Given that a few ESO member countries are also part of the SKA, providing partial overlap, a merger has been considered, although it is unlikely to go through.

But funding, technical, and bureaucratic challenges have forced planners to downsize the first phase of the SKA — envisioned to include hundreds of dishes in South Africa and thousands in Australia — and delay completion by at least 2 years, to 2026.

«The members agreed this was the best way forward,» says Michiel van Haarlem, interim director general of the SKA Organization.

The idea of SKA is to create a radiotelescope with a collecting area of 1 square kilometer.

«ASKAP is a really important scientific project in its own right but it will be more important when it is part of the SKA, which will be one of the most important scientific projects of the 21st century,» says Chris Evans, Australia's minister for science.

After a few years, the lyrics of ska songs began to reflect Rastafarian themes, with slower beats and chants.

Speaking of that ska cow, no band milked it better than Five Iron Frenzy, who were just about the best band of the short - lived ska revolution, Christian or otherwise.

Not exact matches

By Professor Owen Skae, President of the South African Business Schools Association (SABSA), Director of Rhodes Business School & Global Opportunity Panelist in Johannesburg 2015.

On the surface of it, ska bands and improv troupes have little in common, outside of both being brands of entertainment that are more fun to produce than consume.

But, as someone who attended Cornerstone, Isaac remained involved in music: Throughout high school, he played in a variety of punk and ska bands.

Staci Orrico showed up in 2000 with a sound that approximated the current mainstream pop - trend of Latin - tinged pop music better than a lot of CCM, which was still trying to milk that ska cow.

Remember back in the simpler times when all you needed was a hypercolor shirt, a stack of POGs, and a 36 - piece ska band?

This recipe come straight from the ska checkered oven mitted hands of Terry Hope Romero.

Heck, I was in a ska band in middle school and we did a cover of «Changes» by Bruce Hornsby.

This is a bit of a break in the RFPL in terms of close encounters in the table, although, aside from Loko and SKA, and the gap between 5th (CSKA) and 6th (Ufa), not a single team in the whole league is more than two points ahead of behind their... [Read more...]

Although the other Premier League clubs are no doubt annoyed by SKA's appearance in the top flight this season, there is also a lot of intrigue which has gathered interest... [Read more...]

Based in the Far East, near China, Japan and North Korea, SKA Khabarovsk was the team that none of the Premier League clubs wanted promoted from the FNL last season.

In fact, two of the three goals he has scored for Zenit so far are spectacular, in the opening game of the season against SKA Khabarovsk and against Spartak Moscow.

Seven of the players involved come from CSKA or Anzhi after their respective impressive 6 - 0 and 4 - 0 results at home to Tosno and SKA.

Zenit will kickoff their 2017/18 Russian Premier League campaign this weekend with a 8,800 km trip eastward to the city of Khabarovsk (near the Chinese border) to take on SKA.

SKA Marin is the developer and prime sponsor of the redevelopment, as it was for the original project 22 years ago.

Fabulous food & drink for purchase by Fables Cafe & Catering Live upbeat, dance music by The Rockaz Unique blend of Rockin Soul, Dub, Reggae, R&B, SKA and Funk.

The SKA will be 50 times as sensitive as its predecessor, capable of registering booming «we are here» broadcasts from civilizations halfway across the Milky Way.

The border - jumping Ebola outbreak and development of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope prove science diplomacy is essential for Africa and beyond.

When SKA is completed in the late 2020s, it will be the world's largest radio telescope and science infrastructure, with the total area of the dishes measuring one square kilometer.

Nemaungani sold the SKA committee on South Africa's clear skies (necessary for precision radio astronomy), the promised political support of its president and cabinet — who have passed legislation to strictly limit the amount of radio noise in the remote site area — and its expertise in engineering and infrastructure.

To get an idea of just how much data that is, if the SKA data archive was built using today's high - capacity 3 - terabyte hard disc drives, the telescope would fill 330 drives a day, or an unmanageable 120,000 drives a year.

«We kind of took them by surprise but we did our homework very well,» says Takalani Nemaungani, an engineer at South Africa's Department of Science and Technology who led his country's SKA lobbying campaign.

«SKA will be the premier project of the coming decades, completely revolutionizing radio astronomy,» said Ted Williams, director of the South African Astronomical Observatory.

We don't want brain and data drain from Africa to the U.S.» The biggest game - changer on the continent will be the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the world's largest network of radio telescopes designed to survey the sky faster than any instrument before it.

But the real debut for this technology is likely to be the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world's largest radio telescope, whose thousands of antennas will be strewn across the southern hemisphere (New Scientist, 2 June, p 4).

Once it's up and running in 2024, the SKA is expected to pump out 1 petabyte (1 million gigabytes) of compressed data per day.

«To nail it, you'd need this next generation of telescopes like the SKA,» says van de Weygaert.

Australia will have 60 dishes added to its Australian SKA Pathfinder and a large number of omni - directional dipole antennas.

The decision was announced at a meeting outside of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, following a vote by SKA's international board.

Measuring the atomic hydrogen signal emitted by distant galaxies is one of the main scientific drivers behind the billion dollar Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, for which technology demonstrators like the Australian SKA Pathfinder are under construction.

The SKA will take us to within a few hundred million years after the big bang, and probe the universe's dark ages — an epoch invisible to today's optical telescopes — to glimpse the birth of the first stars and galaxies.

Some day very soon, scientists and government representatives from the handful of countries that fund the SKA will decide whether the winner is Australia or South Africa.

«Big science needs a lot of compute power — right now we're designing systems to manage data for several large facilities around the world and the next generation of radio telescopes, including China's 500m radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array and the SKA's pathfinder telescopes that are already up and running in outback Western Australia.»

If the new technique works, then in that regard «it does somewhat obviate the need for an SKA,» says Chris Carilli of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico.

Chang says it would cost about $ 20 million, a tiny fraction of the $ 2 billion radio astronomers want for the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA) of radio telescopes, which aims to trace large - scale structure by locating individual galaxies.

The Australian SKA Pathfinder telescope (ASKAP), a precursor to the much larger Square Kilometre Array (SKA) which will begin construction later this decade, today released its first images of the southern sky.

He says that SKA's member countries (Canada, China, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand) will spend the next 6 months working out how to incorporate the precursor arrays into SKA and fine - tuning the cost implications of having two sites.

Both of the bidders are already building so - called precursor arrays to demonstrate their capabilities and these will now be incorporated into the two SKA arrays.

SKA will consist of two arrays, one collecting high - frequency signals to be built in southern Africa, and an array for low frequencies in Australia / New Zealand.