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The Karoo site is scientifically excellent and very accessible to the world-class academic centres of Stellenbosch, Grahamstown and Cape Town. Its geographic location relative to Europe is another significant advantage. Telescopes in the Karoo can see the same sky as their counterparts in Europe. This makes it ideal for very long baseline interferometry. <a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/01.php">Read on</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:#4581B3;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td style='padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/02.php"><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:white;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Making the most of MeerKAT</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:white;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td width=180 style='width:135.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><img border=0 width=180 height=150 id="_x0000_i1028" src="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/images/pic02.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=15 style='width:11.25pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'>South African infrastructure means the first SKA phase is well underway. The response to MeerKAT by the international radio astronomy community is a signal of approval for South Africa's ability to host the biggest and most important science facilities. <a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/02.php">Read on</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:#4581B3;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td style='padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/03.php"><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:white;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>It doesn't get much quieter than this</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:white;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td width=180 style='width:135.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><img border=0 width=180 height=150 id="_x0000_i1029" src="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/images/pic03.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=15 style='width:11.25pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'>South Africa's proposed site for the SKA has been confirmed as one of the quietest places on Earth. Recent measurements of radio frequency interference, conducted by the international SKA consortium, confirmed the site's extremely low occurrence of radio frequency interference. <a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/03.php">Read on</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:#4581B3;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td style='padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:white'>Karoo i<a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/04.php"><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:white;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>nfrastructure</span></a> ready for the SKA</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:white;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td width=180 style='width:135.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><img border=0 width=180 height=150 id="_x0000_i1030" src="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/images/pic04.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=15 style='width:11.25pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'>The Karoo doesn't just have the radio silence required to host the world's most ambitious radio astronomy telescope. It also has the infrastructure to power the SKA, analyse and deliver the data, support its scientists and enable world-class science at the lowest cost. <a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/04.php">Read on</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:#4581B3;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td style='padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/05.php"><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:white;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>PAPER demonstrates suitability of SA site</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:white;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td width=180 style='width:135.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><img border=0 width=180 height=150 id="_x0000_i1031" src="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/images/pic05.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=15 style='width:11.25pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'>Further evidence of the Karoo's suitability for next-generation radio astronomy comes from the successful deployment of the PAPER project on the South African site selected as a candidate for the SKA. PAPER - the Precision Array to Probe the Epoch of Re-ionization - is a radio interferometer, a system of radio telescopes linked to create one larger telescope. <a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/05.php">Read on</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:#4581B3;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td style='padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/06.php"><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:white;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>C-BASS eye on the southern sky</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:white;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td width=180 style='width:135.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><img border=0 width=180 height=150 id="_x0000_i1032" src="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/images/pic06.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=15 style='width:11.25pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'>The proposed SKA site in South Africa's Karoo desert is demonstrating its next-generation radio astronomy credentials as the location for the southern hemisphere component of the multinational C-BASS project. C-BASS is the C-Band All Sky Survey, which will map the polarisation of galactic radio emissions from the Milky Way. <a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/06.php">Read on</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:#4581B3;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td style='padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/07.php"><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:white;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Moore for less</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:white;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td width=180 style='width:135.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><img border=0 width=180 height=150 id="_x0000_i1033" src="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/images/pic07.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=15 style='width:11.25pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'>African electronic engineers from the MeerKAT and SKA projects are at the forefront of digital signal processing which drives the next generation of radio telescopes.The innovative ROACH board is an electronic building block which increases computing capacity while reducing costs, making it ubiquitous in new astronomy instrumentation. <a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/07.php">Read on</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:#4581B3;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td style='padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/08.php"><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:white;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Top astronomy talent lights up African SKA bid</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:white;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td width=180 style='width:135.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><img border=0 width=180 height=150 id="_x0000_i1034" src="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/images/pic08.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=15 style='width:11.25pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'>Some of the world's most distinguished radio astronomers and cosmologists have taken up key academic posts dedicated to the African SKA project. Four of the five new university SKA research chairs have been filled with professors from the UK, South Africa, Italy and Canada. <a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/08.php">Read on</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:#4581B3;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td style='padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/09.php"><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:white;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Researcher response to MeerKAT demonstrates SKA potential</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:white;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td width=180 style='width:135.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><img border=0 width=180 height=150 id="_x0000_i1035" src="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/images/pic09.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=15 style='width:11.25pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'>The overwhelming response by researchers to MeerKAT has demonstrated South Africa's capacity to host and support world-class astronomy projects. "We knew that if we built it they would come," said Prof Justin Jonas, the SKA Africa associate director for science and engineering. "And five years before MeerKAT is finished we have already allocated 43 000 hours of observing time." <a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/09.php">Read on</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:#4581B3;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td style='padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/10.php"><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:white;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>A new generation of astronomers emerges in Africa</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:white;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td width=180 style='width:135.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><img border=0 width=180 height=150 id="_x0000_i1036" src="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/images/pic10.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=15 style='width:11.25pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'>The South African SKA Project has awarded 293 grants and scholarships since its human capital development programme was started in 2005, substantially boosting Africa's capacity to design, build, operate and upgrade astronomy facilities, to carry out astronomy and instrumentation research and to participate in the SKA. <a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/10.php">Read on</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:#4581B3;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td style='padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/11.php"><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:white;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Karoo workshop boosts astronomy capacity in Africa</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:white;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td width=180 style='width:135.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><img border=0 width=180 height=150 id="_x0000_i1037" src="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/images/pic11.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=15 style='width:11.25pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'>African and global collaboration in the training of future astronomers on the continent was the focus of a three-day workshop, held during May 2011 at South Africa's proposed SKA site in the country's Northern Cape Province. Having the workshop in the Karoo gave participants the opportunity to see the KAT-7 array and other scientific experiments that have already been installed in the area. <a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/11.php">Read on</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:#4581B3;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td style='padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/12.php"><span style='font-size:11.5pt;color:white;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>VLBI network to be deployed across Africa</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0cm;background:white;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'><td width=180 style='width:135.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'><img border=0 width=180 height=150 id="_x0000_i1038" src="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/images/pic12.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=15 style='width:11.25pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'>An African radio telescope network would fill in a major gap in the global VLBI network and that is what South Africa and its SKA partner countries are working towards. Such a network will also boost engineering and science skills development across the continent. <a href="http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/14/12.php">Read on</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:15.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#000033'>Printed copies of the newsletter are available. 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