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Radio astronomer at NRAO, posting on a personal basis. Affirming Christian (Episcopalian). Alumnus of Durham (MSci) & Cardiff (PhD). He/him.
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If I'm at multiple services, I'll receive at all of them.
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It’s fine. I certainly don’t hate it, but there are elements that are less than great, particularly in its English style, but I’ll take an imperfect inclusive-language Bible over a more poetic but non-inclusive translation any day.
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At least it gives "In the beginning God created" in a footnote. And everyone knows you can judge the academic quality by the number and importance of footnotes, so I guess they fulfilled their primary mission?
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I looked at this recently for various reasons, and it seems GC (somewhat bizarrely) authorised the 1978 version shortly after the 1984 revision came out, despite it not having the deuterocanonical/apocryphal books and so not being recommended for authorisation.
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That's one of my favourites. It feels like how the NRSV could have been if done by people with better English writing skills!
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There are Collects in the BCP (no. 15 in "various occasions" on p. 205 or p. 256, depending on linguistic taste).
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2013. Welby had been elected but not yet installed when Benedict resigned.
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Like many modern liturgies, it is well intentioned but poorly executed.
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It tries to make up for praying for the conversion of the Jews in the past by instead praying for unity with the Jews using words taken from the prayer for Christian unity in the prayer for the Church Militant. Which looks remarkably like praying for the conversion of the Jews using different words.
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I'd probably go for Faith of our Fathers for the RC fight song – it was basically written to be this after all! I never, in over forty years as an RC, came across Pange Lingua.
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Yes. And if the article had been using it in this way I might have recognised it!
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I’m “delegates to diocesan convention”.
We also have regional deaneries here. Another one to tag with “doesn’t do much”!
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My previous parish used to do the readings for the saint of the day for noonday prayer
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Possibly the Didache? “Don’t let your fasting coincide with those of the hypocrites.
“They fast on the 2nd [Monday] and 5th [Thursday] days of the week.
So, you should fast on the 4th day [Wednesday] and the preparation [Friday] day of the week.”
(From kimberlinglutheran.com/2012/03/20/t...)
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That's baaad
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Final talk for the session is Jessie Runnoe, on “Nanohertz Gravitational Waves and Their Electromagnetic Counterparts”.
Last parsec problem – how do smbh binaries cross the last pc to the centi-pc scale where GW emission drives orbit decay?
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ngVLA will contribute by resolving GW emitting smbh binaries and their progenitors. Can resolve smbh binaries in nearby clusters like Virgo and Fornax. Further away, use ngVLA + space VLBI. To resolve 3,000 au separation at 100 Mpc – separation 30 μas, so need 70,000 km baseline at 3mm!
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Next up is Joe Lazio, talking about “Ground- and Space-Based Long Baseline Interferometry” – in particular its relationship to pulsar timing arrays and merging black holes.
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After Paul telling us how ngVLA will find and measure Galactic centre pulsars, next is Thankful Cromartie on “Probing the Extremes of Physical Laws with Pulsars” – and how ngVLA will make this possible. Not just sensitivity but also sub-arrays, beam forming and high freq capability.
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First speaker is Paul Demorest, talking about “Sgr A* and Its Neighbors: Fundamental Physics with Galactic Center Pulsars”. Pulsars around Sgr A* would measure the gravitational field around the smbh, testing GR predictions such as “cosmic censorship” and the “no hair theorem”.
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More DSA-2000 with Gregg Hallinan speaking again in the Exhibit Hall theatre #AAS245 is just full of #RadioAstronomy!
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Yes, with interferometry at telescopes like the VLA we can get sub-arcsecond resolution and with very long baseline interferometry with telescopes like the VLBA we can get to a few milli-arcseconds!
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Closing out the session, Liam Connor talking about strong lensing synergies. Fewer than 100 currently known in the radio. Want fast survey speed, deep redshift distribution, and sub-arcsec resolution. DSA-2000 expected to find 50-100k sources. Science needs resolution – ngVLA delivers this.
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ngVLA will have unique high frequency coverage. Follow-up step spectrum sources to identify new pulsars – hybrid imaging and timing.
Also constrain “pulsar term” with high precision astrometry.
High freq obs also allow pulsar searches near Galactic centre – pulsar binaries and tests of GR.
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DSA-2000 will have a lot of NANOGrav time. Increase number of pulsars from ~80 to ~200, with 2–4 well cadence. Close to Arecibo sensitivity – will become NANOGrav’s workhorse instrument. Look to start identifying single-source GWs.
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