Operation of the University of Hawaii 2.2M telescope on Mauna Kea

NASA's planetary astronomy program provides part of the funding for the 2.2 meter telescope. The parameters for time on the telescope are laid out. A major instrumental highlight has been the commissioning of a 256 x 256 near infrared camera which uses a Rockwell NICMOS-3 array. At the f/10 focus, image scales of 0.37 and 0.75 arcsec/pixel are available. A new, high quantum efficiency Tektronix 1024 x 1024 CCD saw first light on the telescope in 1991, and was available regularly from April 1991. Data from both of these detectors are transmitted directly to the Sun workstation for immediate analysis by the observers. The autoguider software was enhanced to permit guided tracking on objects have nonsideral motions (i.e., solar system objects)

Rusticus: Notes on Class and Culture in Rural New Hampshire

Old New Hampshire Highway Number Four was incorporated by an act of the New Hampshire legislature in the autumn of 1800. It wound out of Portsmouth, a seaport that once rivaled Boston, drove west through Concord, north past Penacook, through Boscawen, Salisbury, Andover, and Wilmot on its way to Lebanon and the Connecticut River. These names string history like beads. The Penacook tribe assembled each year on the banks of the Merrimack at the site of the present town that bears their name. I grew up thinking Boscawen an unusual Indian name; it is Cornish, surname of an admiral victorious over the French in the eighteenth century. Andover\u27s land was granted to veterans of the Louisburg Expedition against the French, but the first house did not go up until 1761, a year after the English conquest of Canada put an end to Indian raids. We need no reminding in 1985 that Lebanon turns up in the Old Testament

Evaluating Missionary-Care Responsibilities: A Guide for Sending and Supporting Churches

A thoughtful approach to global missions requires a team of support personnel. This team, composed of the sending church, the supporting churches, the missions agency and other supporters, is effective when it works together to recruit, train, and maintain a healthy missionary workforce, but a sub-standard support structure jeopardizes the mission. Sadly, many sending churches do not properly understand or fulfill their missionary-care roles and responsibilities. This project provides a biblical, philosophical, and practical methodology by which churches can properly evaluate their responsibilities and address gaps in their missionary-care ministry. In the model presented in this paper, the sending church functions as the lead entity. This thesis is divided into five sections: (1) a survey and synthesis of scholarly missionary-care literature; (2) the results and analysis of a survey and interview of local church missions leadership; (3) an extensive list of missionary-care responsibilities; (4) a proposal for a sending church-led team model; and (5) instruments to facilitate the sending church’s understanding and evaluation of its roles and responsibilities. The analysis of the research portion of this paper indicates that some churches have a smaller sending and supporting capacity than is reflected in their practice. Because the current agency-led missionary-care model is so deeply ingrained in the psyche of the missionary-care team, however, a thorough evaluation, especially one that appears almost certain to recommend significant changes, is strongly resisted. This project’s missionary-care task lists and tables can assist the church in deciding the missionary-care tasks for which it is responsible and determining the number of missionaries, supporting churches, and agencies for which it can faithfully fulfill those tasks. To the extent that the principles of a local church-led approach to fulfilling the Great Commission are biblical, they demand a recalibration of any other model

Going Out”

Donald Hall\u27s most recent books are Life Work (essay) and The Museum of Clear Ideas (poems), both published in 1993. He lives in Danbury, New Hampshire