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	<title>The e-Astronomer</title>
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	<description>The Universe, the Internet, and Academic Life</description>
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		<title>Diamond Geezers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 11:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many weeks, I have had interesting and difficult conversations with fellow Physicists in Edinburgh who have a somewhat different perspective on the STFC situation - condensed matter physicists who are long term users of ISIS, SRS, ESRF, and now ISIS-2 and Diamond. These guys are fed up with us astro-pp folk acting as if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dinner at the Drones</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/dinner-at-the-drones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 09:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Freemasons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gorillas]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Royal Astronomical Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday afternoon I gave a talk to the Royal Astronomical Society on big astronomical surveys and the sociological changes they are driving.. It pluggged UKIRT/UKIDSS, WFAU and CASU,  and AstroGrid. I am proud to report these are all STFC Band 4 projects !! Woo hee. Keep going guys. The talk involved a live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Durham ahead of the game</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 10:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Higgs Boson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was at the fifth anniversary celebration for the Durham Ogden Centre. Maybe Carlos Frenk knows something we don&#8217;t, cos the Ogden Centre web page says that &#8220;ongoing support is provided by PPARC&#8221;. Of course, Carlos is on the Wakeham panel, so maybe the plan is to re-invent PPARC. Durham have got the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Willis Reports</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a UK astronomer or particle physicist, then two possible positions pertain. (a) You have been in a coma. (b) You are perfectly well aware that a Parliamentary Select Committee has been digging into the recent Science Budget Allocations.  Paul Crowther has all sorts of details, and my own reports of  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wakeham weirdness</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/wakeham-weirdness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wakeham Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This evening I have been drafting our submission to the Wakeham review - both the Departmental submission, and the Vice Chancellor&#8217;s submission, which of course I have the honour of having been asked to draft &#8230; The questions are quite striking. After Q1=&#8221;name please&#8221; (oooo der hard ones first eh&#8230;) we go straight into
Q2 Please [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Hundred and Fifteen and still counting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Archery]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oil is now $115 per barrel. We &#8216;re all going to hell in a handbasket.  By the time  STFC&#8217;s problems are sorted, Western Civilisation will have collapsed anyway. Sorry, got to go now, teaching my kids how to use a bow and arrow.
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		<title>Wakeham Up</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/wakeham-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[STFC cuts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The long awaited RCUK review of the Health Of Physics in the UK, aka the Wakeham Review, is now thoroughly underway. The panel had their first meeting Feb 29th; by May 2nd Physics Departments and VCs etc have to return their questionnaire submissions; there is a two day meeting with witnesses on June 23-24; the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VISTA mirror at last !</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/vista-mirror-at-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andyxl</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IR surveys]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LSST]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[synoptic surveys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am in Heidelberg, at a meeting of the PanSTARRS science consortium. PanSTARRS is a very ambitious project : four identical telescopes with very wide field of view cameras, scanning the sky repeatedly. Right now we are doing the pilot project with just one telescope. Its built and currently under test and should start a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon&#8217;s Final Word</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/gordons-final-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got another email from 10 Downing Street today. (Yes I know,  most of you did too..) I wrote  about Gordon&#8217;s initial response to the famous petition in this post. Here is the text of the final response :
You signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to &#8220;reverse the  decision to cut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World saved by the Wii</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/world-saved-by-the-wii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cloud seeding]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[energy crisis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wii]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry folks. Another title tease. Patience.
When I wasn&#8217;t at the STFC Community Forum on Thursday, I was instead at a really good seminar about renewable energy, given by David Mackay from the Cavendish. He gave a hard headed look at UK requirements and what various renewable schemes can deliver. (David has a marvellous book called [...]]]></description>
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