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HUD Secretary joins HACA for Grand Opening of Education and Training Center | Austin Pathways | HACA
The Housing Authority of the City of Austin (HACA) and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julián Castro today (Nov. 21) hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for the agency’s new Henry Flores Education and Training Center at Meadowbrook Apartments, 1201 A. W Live Oak St.
“Brainpower is the currency of success in the 21st century global economy. The comprehensive training and resources now available will transform lives and uplift families,” said HUD Secretary Julián Castro. “Equipped with classrooms, a library, an outdoor amphitheater and green space for events, this center will cultivate community and a knowledge-based culture.”
The Flores Center, named in honor of HACA’s former Chairman who retired in 2013 after serving on HACA’s Board of Commissioners for 14 years, will help build resident self-sufficiency and serve as a community learning hub. The building is HACA’s first new construction in two decades.
“This new building is a cornerstone of HACA’s effort to move public housing residents to true self-sufficiency,” said HACA President & CEO Michael Gerber. “Children will have opportunities for after-school programs, a new Boys and Girls Club and other educational programs; adults will have a range of programs from job and skills training to parenting and financial literacy classes.”
In 2011, HACA was awarded $1.74 million in funds through the HUD Capital Fund Education and Training Community Facilities program to support the construction of an innovative learning facility in south Austin.
In addition, Google Fiber contributed a combined donation of $60,000 in support of digital inclusion to Austin Pathways, a nonprofit organization that supports HACA programming. Part of the donation included 25 refurbished desktop systems and 15 refurbished laptop computers.
In addition to the Boys and Girls Club housed onsite at the Flores Center, numerous other community-based partners will provide a range of services for the public housing community:
• Skillpoint Alliance – science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) youth programs and workforce training
• Austin Independent School District – Travis High School monthly parent group and other collaborations with the local schools
Tropical cyclone tracks developed by Michael Bath using data from the Joint Typhoon Warning Centre Best Tracks and Google Maps.
I'm Keith, and for the next year, I'll be living and working at the South Pole. I don't quite know what to expect, but with a 6 month long night, regular auroras, and temperatures which dip to -80C, it should be interesting.
There are two primary factors that mark life here at pole as completely different from life in the real world. The first of these is the year-long day, with only a single sunrise and sunset per year. The second is the cold. I've gone on at length over the past four months about the night, but haven't delved too much into the many effects of the cold.
By and large, no machinery works cold. Anything with moving parts takes oil or grease, and there doesn't appear to be any grease which won't freeze solid by -90F. We aren't allowed to take vehicles outside below -80F, not for fear of damage to the engine - running keeps it warm enough - but because if stopped for any length of time they tend to freeze solid to the ground.
As far as SPT goes, the telescope's primary motors are kept warm inside the building (which is heated by waste heat from our electronics, supplemented with heat from the DSL furnace), while the smaller ones sit in the receiver cab on the end of the secondary arm, kept warm by a battery of electric heaters. Without heat, the telescope is dead in the water, just like everything else down here.
With that as preface, at 3am this past Sunday, the telescope lost power. The alarms failed, and Sunday is the one day of the week both Dana and I tend to sleep in a couple of hours. The telescope was without power for 6 hours before we discovered the problem, by which time, it was cold. Very cold. The building and main motors were slightly below freezing, while the entire receiver cab had dropped to -80F.
At that point, simply restoring the power wasn't an option - motors would turn back on and seize, hard drives would fail, fans would stall - in essence, everything breaks if powered up cold.
Instead, the cab needed to be reheated before powering anything back up. That set up a bit of a catch-22 - the heaters are electric, but we couldn't restore power until things were warm again. Worse, the fans on the heaters were all frozen, so powered heaters were likely to melt or catch fire.
Well, after much crawling in and out of the emergency hatch on the back of the cab (the main doors require the cab to be docked against the building, which in turn requires that the motors in the cab be functional), flipping breakers, disconnecting electronics, and fiddling with heaters, we finally got things warming up. Six hours later, the cab was up to freezing, and we were able to begin turning stuff back on.
Several systems came online relatively easily, while others did not. Some metals' resistances drop precipitously when deep frozen, with the result that several of our external heating systems cannot be turned on cold - if you try, they draw too much current and trip a breaker. They work fine once warm, but again, that makes for somewhat of a catch-22. Many of our electronics failed to initialize properly cold, and had to be reset several times as they gradually warmed up from different systems coming online.
Last night at 3am, fully four days after losing power, we finally got everything back online and were able to resume normal observations. It's been a hectic week, all because an alarm didn't go off, and the temperature outside was so cold. This is the sort of thing that makes life and work down here so different from the real world.
With everything back online, it's been amazing to look up from our work and suddenly realize how bright it's been getting outside. The sunrise is starting to feel rather imminent.