Global Defense & Aerospace Expert John Niehaus Joins Avascent

WASHINGTON, DC–(Marketwired – May 20, 2013) – Defense expert John Niehaus has joined Avascent, bringing over twenty five years of experience in corporate, business level competitive strategy, M&A transaction and investment, commercialization efforts, and deep expertise in defense and national security markets. John’s portfolio includes formulating growth and investment strategies, identifying and exploiting critical market trends and drivers, and developing strategies that enable sustainable competitive advantage in Aerospace & Defense markets. Continue reading

Can NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Mission Be Saved?

There’s a chance that NASA’s Kepler space telescope can recover from the malfunction that has halted its wildly successful search for alien planets, mission team members say. The second of Kepler’s four reaction wheels devices that allow the observatory to maintain its position in space has failed, depriving Kepler of the ability to lock precisely onto its 150,000-plus target stars, NASA oficials announced Wednesday (May 15). But mission engineers are not conceding that Kepler’s planet-hunting days have come to an end, vowing to try their best to recover the failed reaction wheels over the coming weeks. Continue reading

F-35 Lightning II – Video




F-35 Lightning II The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. The F-35 has three main models; the F-35A is a conventional takeoff and landing variant, the F-35B is a short take off and vertical-landing variant, and the F-35C is a carrier-based variant. The F-35 is descended from the X-35, the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program Continue reading

Hair Loss PRP-Stem Cell Therapy-2 month comparison- Large.m4v – Video




Hair Loss PRP-Stem Cell Therapy-2 month comparison- Large.m4v www.newininstitute.com.au PRP Therapy was chosen instead of a Hair Transplant to treat an area of hair loss in a female. Continue reading

John Goodman on Curing the Health Care Crisis – Video




12-10-2012 12:40 “The problem is that we’ve so completely surpressed the marketplace in healthcare that none of us ever sees a real price for anything,” says economist John Goodman. Reason magazine’s Matt Welch sat down with Goodman at FreedomFest 2012 to discuss solutions to healthcare discussed in Goodman’s book, “Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis.” Held each July in Las Vegas, FreedomFest is attended by around 2000 limited-government enthusiasts and libertarians a year Continue reading

Aéro Montréal and Ohio Aerospace Institute sign a strategic collaboration agreement

MONTREAL, Sept. 27, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – Aro Montral, Qubec’s aerospace cluster, and the Ohio Aerospace Institute (OAI), signed a framework agreement on cooperation during the second edition of Aro Montral’s Global Supply Chain Summit – aerospace taking place at the Palais des congrs de Montral. Suzanne M Continue reading

Launch of UNESCO-IAU Astronomical Heritage Web Portal

A new UNESCO-IAU online Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy has been launched today at the IAU’s 28th General Assembly in Beijing, China. The site, which resides at http://www.astronomicalheritage.net, is a dynamic, publicly accessible database, discussion forum and document repository on astronomical heritage sites throughout the world, even if they are not on UNESCO’s World Heritage List Continue reading

Healthcare Futurist: Supreme Court Can't Stop Healthcare Reform

SAUSALITO, Calif., June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — With the Supreme Court’s decision on the healthcare reform act expected within the week, both hope and fear are building that the Court will stop healthcare reform in its tracks. Continue reading

Liberty Mines Receives Government Approval of the Hart Mine Closure Plan

– Liberty on track to start production at Hart in Q1 2014 – TSX: LBE TORONTO , June 7, 2012 /CNW/ – Liberty Mines Inc. (“Liberty” or the “Company”) announced today that an important planning phase necessary for launching production at its Hart Mine has been approved and filed by the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. The plan, which is a necessary requirement for mines operating in Ontario, provides details and financial assurance on the rehabilitation measures that Liberty will take during operations and after the life of the Hart Mine has been exhausted Continue reading

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Over the coming months we hope you enjoy listening to the many voices of Materials Today. You will hear fascinating and thought provoking sound bites from a plethora of speakers from academia and industry, explaining the motivation behind their work and their visions of the future Continue reading