China will launch its first manned mission to an orbiting space laboratory in mid-June, according to state media reports and the country's human spaceflight agency.
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Shenzhou-9: China to make manned space flight mid-June
China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft will make a manned flight this month, the country's space agency has announced.
According to Xinhua, the spacecraft and its carrier rocket have already been moved to a launch pad at the Jiuquan space center in northwest China.
It is expected to take off "sometime in mid-June," a space agency official told the state news agency.
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Three astronauts will be aboard. The crew might include female astronauts, said Niu Hongguang, deputy commander of China's manned space program.
If so, they would be the first Chinese women to go into space, according to Agence France Presse.
The astronauts will dock Shenzhou-9 manually with China's orbitingTiangong-1 space laboratory, where two of them will board and conduct experiments.
It will be the first time a manned spacecraft has docked with Tiangong-1, which has been in orbit around earth since Sept. 2011. China hopes the space lab will help it one day develop its own space station.
This month's flight will be China's fourth manned launch since it became the third country to send a man into space in 2003, the BBC said.
In December, China said it was studying the possibility of landing one of its astronauts on the moon.
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China planning manned space flight
The Long March-2F rocket carries the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, which is set to launch in mid-June with a three-member crew. (Associated Press)
China will launch three astronauts this month to dock with an orbiting experimental module, and the crew might include its first female space traveller, a government news agency said Saturday.
A rocket carrying the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft was moved to a launch pad in China's desert northwest on Saturday for the mid-June flight, the Xinhua News Agency said, citing an space program spokesman.
The three-member crew will dock with and live in the Tiangong 1 orbital module launched last year, Xinhua said. The government has not said how long the mission will last.
Xinhua cited Niu Hongguang, deputy commander in chief of the manned space program, as saying the crew "might include female astronauts."
The government said in 2010 that two female air force pilots had joined the astronaut program but has disclosed no other details.
China's space program has made steady progress since a 2003 launch that made it only the third nation to put a man in space on its own. Two more manned missions have followed, one including a space walk.
China completed its first space rendezvous in November when the unmanned Shenzhou 8 docked with the Tiangong 1 by remote control. Tiangong 1 was launched on Sept. 29.
Over the next few days, scientists will test the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, the Long March 2F rocket and ground systems, Xinhua said, citing the spokesman.
During the flight, one crew member will remain aboard the Shenzhou 9 "as a precautionary measure in case of emergency" while the others enter Tiangong 1, Xinhua said.
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China in new manned space flight
9 June 2012 Last updated at 04:12 ET
China has announced it will carry out a manned space flight at some point in the middle of June.
A rocket carrying the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft has been moved to a launch pad in the north-west of the country.
According to state news agency Xinhua, it will carry three astronauts - possibly including a woman - to the Tiangong 1 space station module.
This will be China's fourth manned space flight and its first since 2008.
It became only the third country to independently send a man into space in 2003.
Last year, China completed a complicated space docking manoeuvre when an unmanned craft docked with the Tiangong 1, or "Heavenly Body", by remote control.
The astronauts onboard the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft will also dock with the Tiangong 1 - an experimental module currently orbiting Earth - and carry out scientific experiments on board.
Xinhua reported that Niu Hongguang, deputy commander-in-chief of China's manned space programme, said the crew "might include female astronauts".
The mission is part of China's programme to develop a full orbiting space station.
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Private Spaceflight's Rise Gives NASA a Boost
The recent rise of private spaceflight has stolen some of the spotlight away from NASA, but the space agency doesn't mind a bit.
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NASA Video Reveals Huge Asteroid Vesta's Complex Surface
A new video from a NASA spacecraft shows the huge asteroid Vesta's complex surface in dazzling and colorful detail.
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Don’t Mind If I Do – Mac Miller – Video
08-06-2012 23:16 I kinda like this but it's nowhere near as good as I wanted. I had to re-edit because the song was obnoxiously slow and the jumpcuts weren't on point and they were slow as mess 😛 I know I'm uploading kinda late but I started this at 9 and finished at around 12. I like how simple and fast it is. My best friend bought me that shirt for my birthday 🙂 -Inspired by balletshark0101- uhmmmmm. Idk what else to put. Comment: "I DO MIND" if you're reading this far. I'm kinda darker in this video because I go outside a lot at my job. I'm reuploading if this gets no views tonight. #awks
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"More Than Editors" A Dualtage By Lifestyle
09-06-2012 02:55 IT'S FINALLY HERE! Please leave a LIKE, Comment, and maybe even a FAVOURITE for all the hard work put into this! The Other Amazing Player/Editor! UPLOAD THE PROMO! And get your Name and channel in the description below as Thanks! Editing: Mainly by Lifestyle (me) with help from Keeir for the 3D intro etc, and obviously I walked through most of the clips with him as well. Info: Ok first of all, I am so happy this is finally finished! It has been such an effort but I'm glad how it came out :). Also, I realise that one of the songs had copyright, but we knew it would and we don't mind, it's better to only have a dualtage uploaded to one channel anyway, except for a clan channel or something, I wouldn't want this uploaded to like FLE or anything :S. So please I hope you enjoy the amazing amount of effort we put into this, from the idea 3 months ago to finally finishing, it's a great feeling! 🙂 Thanks guys, and to all my subs, if you're only going to watch a vid of mine once, let it be this one. Keeir: I like potatoes 🙂 Anyways... Record time: Roughly 1 month, exceptions to the two clips with the gamertag "Lifestyle4energy" Editing Time: about 1 week of planning, and 1 month of actual editing, roughly 60 hours including upload time. Original file size: 27.8 GB Compressed with mp4: 861 MB My Editing Teams! Thanks for Uploading the PROMO LINKED ABOVE! (Get your name here) Even if you only upload ...
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Persona 3 FES – Part 50 :: Old Timey Audio – Video
09-06-2012 03:56 It breaks my heart (and mind) to upload a video this lacking in quality, but luckily for us it's short. I am so grateful I happened to cut this one before the full moon, I don't know what I would have done if I had recorded the full moon with this audio. I attempted to record some post-commentary, but that just doesn't really work for my commentary style, and I couldn't even make it through three minutes of the episode. So, we'll leave it as is, I suppose. I'm at least understandable, but I do sound bad. So I'm sure I'll get a million dislikes on this video. Would that make me more disliked than Rebecca Black? Honestly, I'm too tired to tell. So I'm going to go to bed. Apologies in advance for the audio quality of this episode. 🙁 I do have a Facebook and a Twitter, if you guys are interested in following me! Facebook: Twitter: Check 'em out if you're interested!
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Alternative Medicine
Americans are increasingly looking for ways to improve their health and well-being.
If you're like others, you may consider your mental and spiritual health to be equally as important as your physical health. Alternative medicineor nontraditional health caremay meet your needs by caring for both the physical and spiritual aspects of your life.
What is alternative medicine? Alternative medicine is a holistic or whole mind/body approach to health care that complements, rather than competes with, conventional medicine. When diagnosing and treating a patient, an alternative medicine practitioner considers not only the patient's physical health, but his or her mental and spiritual condition as well. Many different alternative treatments exist, including some that are becoming accepted by practitioners of traditional medicine:
Should you use alternative medicine? People who use alternative medicine often believe that good health is not just the absence of diseaseit also means being physically, mentally, and spiritually fit. You may decide to use alternative medicine if you believe that:
What is the difference between conventional and alternative medicine? Conventional and alternative medicines share the same goalthey seek to cure patients. However, they go about treating the patient's symptoms differently. Alternative medicine will often stimulate the body's natural recuperative powersthe immune systemto assist in the healing process. Alternative medicine is more apt to treat with natural substances such as zinc.
Conventional medicine often uses medications that have an immediate impact on the patient's symptoms. These are often manufactured drugs containing synthetic chemicals. The side effects of these medications can be more severe than those of alternative medications.
Alternative medicine often works best when combined with conventional medicine. In some cases, you may have little choicealthough alternative medicine may work well over time, your condition may require immediate treatment, and more conventional methods of medicine may be your only option.
Is alternative medicine really safe? Although it may seem like alternative medicine is a recent development, it has actually been around for longer than conventional medicine. Many of the medications and practices considered nontraditional today have their roots in traditional African, American, Asian, and European medicine. Because of their widespread popularity overseas, some alternative medications used in the United States may have already been tested abroad.
Many alternative medicinesand many alternative treatmentsdon't receive official approval from the Food and Drug administration or conventional medical community because their effects are hard to quantify. Conversely, these same medications and treatments are usually not as dangerous or invasive as more conventional treatments.
Here are some commonsense ways to make using alternative medicine safer:
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Persistence pays off, World War II vet gets his diploma
In 1948, Alfred Sellers was 24 years old, a returned veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, and a handful of credits shy of completing an interrupted pre-med degree at Temple University when he was accepted to start immediately at Duke Medical School.
He went on to graduate first in his class and begin what would be a nearly 60-year career as a cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, retiring four years ago at the age of 84.
It always nagged at him a bit, filling out forms for the many professional organizations he would join over the years, that in the space for undergraduate degree, he had to write Incomplete.
As of June 1, though, that gap in his resume no longer exists.
In a special ceremony at his apartment at Waverly Heights in Gladwyne that afternoon, the longtime Penn Valley resident donned a cap and gown to receive a diploma presented by Dean Teresa Soufas of Temples College of Liberal Arts herself. Vice Dean Jayne Drake, also in full academic regalia, joined her to make Dr. Alfred Sellers Temples newest recipient of a bachelor of science degree in chemistry.
To be a full-fledged Owl delighted Sellers, who told his guests, My days at Temple were happy days.
It is Temples absolute honor to count you among our graduates and alums, said Soufas, as Sellerss two sons, Joseph and David, looked proudly on.
One of the things the dean and I do at every [graduation] ceremony is tell Temple stories: stories about the persistence of students, what theyve gone through to get their degrees, Drake remarked. Part of the legacy of Temple is persistence; the idea that youve done something worth doing and have done it through persistence.
It is hard to imagine a better example than Sellerss unique journey.
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21-year-old graduates medical school at U of C
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8:39 a.m. CDT, June 9, 2012
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A 21-year-old Chicago man becomes the youngest person to receive a medical degree from the University of Chicagos Pritzker School of Medicine.
Sho Yano graduated Friday with both a doctorate in molecular genetics and cell biology and a medical degree.
Yano scored a 1500 on his SAT when he was just 8 years old. He entered Loyola University Chicago at the age of nine, graduating summa cum laude three years later with a bachelors degree in biology.
He enrolled in the University of Chicago when he was twelve after several universities turned him down because of his age, according to the Chicago Sun Times.
The Sun Times also reports that Yano is a trained pianist who was composing music by the age of 5.
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Liberty University's Sounds of Liberty Invited to Washington, D.C. Conference
The Sounds of Liberty will have another chance to share the stage with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney when they perform for the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference June 14-16 in Washington, D.C.Lynchburg, VA (PRWEB) June 09, 2012 The Sounds of Liberty, Liberty University's premier touring ministry team, will have another chance to share the stage with Republican presidential ...
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Top 10 crosswords in fiction, no 8: The West Wing
Next in our countdown of crosswords in film, TV, books and song: Leo McGarry berates the New York Times We warm to President Jed Bartlet in The West Wing . Why? Because he kills time waiting for the first lady to get ready for a reception, not by squeezing in some affairs of state but by calling out some crossword clues: JED: 'Laissez-faire doctrine', fifteen letters. ABBEY: Social Darwinism ...
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When libertarianism fails
If you took all the clichs about horrible urban design and shoved them into 75 acres, youd probably end up with something pretty close to Dallas Victory Park. A pre-planned billion-dollar collection of imposing hyper-modern monumental structures, high-end chain stores, enormous video screens, expensive restaurants, a sports arena and tons of parking, completely isolated from the rest of the city by a pair of freeways, Victory Park is like the schizophrenic dream of some power-hungry capitalist technocrat.
Or in this case, his sons. The neighborhood? development? was built by Ross Perot Jr. as an urban lifestyle destination. But what it really is is an entertainment district: that swath of cityscape whose character has been preordained by a city council vote and is now identified by brightly colored banners affixed to lampposts. (The entertainment districts close cousin, the arts district, is often lurking somewhere nearby.)
What could be wrong with a district where nightclubs and galleries are encouraged to thrive? Nothing, necessarily; done right, a city can help foster these scenes with a gentle guiding hand. Constructing an entire milieu from whole cloth, however, is where cities get into trouble. The problem with these created-overnight districts is that youre trying to create a culture as opposed to letting one grow, says Nathaniel Hood, a Minneapolis-based transportation planner. Youre getting the culture that one developer or city council member thinks the city needs, as opposed to the ground-up culture that comes from multiple players.
Victory Park is an extreme example, hyper-planned right down to the performances to be held at its American Airlines Center. (A U2 concert is fabulous, Perot told the Wall Street Journal. KISS, not so good.) But the Dallas Arts District, though less micro-managed, has struggled with its identity as well. Conceived in the 1970s by design consultants in faraway Boston, it relocated the citys arts institutions to the northeast corner of downtown. Another planning consultancy drew the boundaries of the district, and one by one, the citys cultural icons were moved there. Today, it contains the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Winspear Opera House. Its home to buildings by Renzo Piano, I.M. Pei, Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster. In fact, youll find everything in the Dallas Arts District except a lot of people, says Patrick Kennedy, owner of the Space Between Design Studio and the blog Walkable DFW.
A district inherently becomes a single-use idea, says Kennedy. Everything has to be art. You end up with a bunch of performing arts spaces and when theyre not in use it becomes a vacuum. This vacuum has made the district itself a museum of sorts, something impressive to observe but strangely inert. (The Chicago Tribune called the area the dullest arts district money can buy.) It has few apartment buildings; one is the new Museum Tower, a 42-story condo residence that, as of last month, had sold only 16 of its 102 units. The Museum Tower recently made news when its glass facade began reflecting 103-degree sunlight directly into the Nasher Sculpture Center next door. Now the towers developers and the Sculpture Center are embroiled in a fight over which party should alter its building essentially, arguing over whether art or residents should reign supreme in the Dallas Arts District.
Thats a defeatist choice to have to make, but the monocultures created by urban districting make it almost inevitable. At last weeks 20th annual Congress for the New Urbanism, Hood spoke about the folly that is Kansas Citys Power & Light District, an $850 million entertainment district whose neon signage is as blinding as its eagerness to be hip. But no one would mistake Power & Light for a neighborhood created by cool kids. Land costs are higher downtown, so you have to create something genuinely unique, says Hood. It cant just be an outdoor mall with slightly cooler bars.
But thats exactly what you get in the Power & Light District: themed venues catering to neatly delineated tastes, Epcot-style: the Makers Mark Bourbon House & Lounge (Southern Hospitality rises to a new level), the Dubliner (true Irish ambiance), Howl at the Moon (a completely unique dueling piano entertainment concept) and PBR Big Sky (every cowboy and cowgirls nighttime oasis). The model suggests that city life is nothing more than a selection of personal consumption experiences. But at times, the district feels more like a very enthusiastic ghost town one with a $12.8 million budget shortfall.
Its not just that the developers are boring people the economics of single-owner districts incentivize blandness. Chain stores and restaurants can afford to pay higher rent, so they get first dibs. To boost rents even higher, tenants are sometimes promised that no competition will be allowed nearby. Starbucks will be willing to pay the higher rent if [the developer doesn't] let other cafes into the area, says Hood. And forget about occupying the Power & Light District youre on private property. For a full list of the rules (no bicycles, panhandling, profanity on clothing) you can consult its website.
A true [arts or entertainment] district is always sort of moving around, says Kennedy. Its wherever the bohemians find cheap real estate. For instance, compare Power & Light or Victory Park or even the Dallas Arts District with Bostons Kenmore Square, which developed in the 80s and 90s as a wildly diverse barrage of punk venues, rock clubs, dive bars, sports bars and beloved hole-in-the-wall restaurants, all anchored by Fenway Park, bringing together an unlikely cross-section of Bostonians into one spontaneous not-an-entertainment-district for freaks, foodies and sports nuts alike. And despite being unplanned and unsubsidized (or, more accurately, because of that), Kenmore eventually upscaled in exactly the way city leaders hope for.
Kenmore Square, by the way, also disproves the conventional wisdom that the presence of a stadium or arena automatically dooms neighborhoods. Fenway Park is a beautiful example of a large entertainment-type building sitting in a neighborhood thats very vital, says Dean Almy, director of the Dallas Urban Laboratory, and one of the things that makes it vital is that it isnt all about Fenway Park.
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Sen. Rand Paul Endorses Romney, Libertarian Party Accuses Him Of ‘Betray[ing] His Father’s Principles’
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul officially gave his support to Mitt Romney in the presidential election on Thursday, and already he is getting hit by libertarians, a group he and his father Ron Paul are particularly strong with, for supporting a candidate who has a decidedly non-libertarian philosophy. Paul praised Romney for his positions on SOPA and the Federal Reserve, among other things, but the Libertarian Party issued an official press release yesterday calling Pauls endorsement a betrayal of libertarian principles and of his own fathers politics.
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The Libertarians point out right off the bat that when Paul ran for Senate in 2010, he did a lot of reaching out to his fathers supporters and has made a name for himself as someone who values personal liberty. So the Romney endorsement came as quite a shock to them.
[N]o true libertarian, no true friend of liberty, and no true blue Tea Partier could possibly even consider, much less actually endorse or approve of, the Father of Obamacare, Big Government tax and spender, Republican Mitt Romney.
Especially the son of Ron Paul, who has no excuse.
Especially a medical doctor, who has even fewer excuses.
The press release does make note of the few reasons Paul gave for supporting Romney, but it emphasizes that there were many qualifying factors about Romney that Paul did not say, like that he would cut federal spending or never raise taxes. It concludes that Romney is unfit to be president and urges Ron Paul supporters to support the Libertarian Party over the Republicans because of the candidate they ended up with.
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Both Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have said that Ron Pauls supporters will unquestionably shake things up at the Republican National Convention in Tampa over the direction of the GOP and several key issues on its official platform.
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Women’s Health Town Hall – Video
07-06-2012 20:01 US Secretary of Health & Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, senior White House Officials, and a diverse array of media, organizations, groups and stakeholders engage in an open dialogue about women's health care and the Affordable Care Act. June 7, 2012.
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‘Labours of love’ for health care groups
The Donors: Lorne Swartz and friends
The Gift: $5-million and climbing
The Cause: Various health care groups
A few years ago, Lorne Swartz and some friends started talking about philanthropy and how to teach their young children the importance of giving.
We wanted to show them that the easiest thing in life is to write a cheque, the hardest thing is to actually donate your time and do something for somebody, said Mr. Swartz, president of Scout Logistics Corp., a Toronto-based transportation company.
The group organized a giant charity ball-hockey tournament and other sporting events. They raised about $1-million and donated the proceeds to the Canadian Cancer Society. They eventually created a charitable foundation to formalize the effort and launch an even more ambitious fundraiser a massive party at Mr. Swartzs home in Torontos exclusive Bridle Path neighbourhood.
Dubbed the Bridle Bash, the party attracts more than 1,000 guests and has featured performers such as Burton Cummings. Everything is donated and all the money raised, as much as $600,000 per event, goes toward various health care projects. The party is held every two years (there have been four so far) and Mr. Swartz and the foundation, called the Bridle Bash Foundation, are in the process of organizing the next one.
The group still holds a softball tournament and is developing a cook book with proceeds from sales going to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. So far the Bridle Bash charity has raised about $5-million in total and has supported projects at more than 20 not-for-profit organizations. We look for charities that need the money and are going to use the money right away, Mr. Swartz said.
The entire effort is driven by close friends who have stayed together for years, he note. Were a group of friends, about 40 of us, who grew up together and are actually still friends, he said with a laugh. The foundation, is one of those labours of love.
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Canada's Quebec sues tobacco giants for $60bn
The Canadian province of Quebec has announced that it is suing tobacco giants for more than $60 billionin a bid to recover health care costs associated with smoking-related illnesses.
The lawsuit targets the Canadian tobacco companies and their parent companies abroad and seeks damages related to the cost of treating patients from the 1970s until 2030, Quebec Justice Minister Jean-Marc Fourner said.
"These manufacturers neglected to warn consumers, including children and teenagers, about the harmful aspects of their products," Fournier said on Friday, blasting the tobacco industry for targeting young people in advertisement campaigns.
Big Tobacco had anticipated the filing, with Donald McCarty, Imperial Tobacco Canada's vice president of law, immediately condemning the move as a "cash grab" by the provincial government.
McCarty said the Quebec administration was "looking to score political points while conveniently forgetting that it has been a senior partner in the tobacco industry for decades.
"Governments have licensed us, have taxed us and our consumers, and have regulated us, all in full knowledge of the risks associated with tobacco use," he said.
Ontario, British Columbia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland have already launched similar lawsuits but Quebec's, for more than 60bn Canadian dollars ($58bn), is by far the biggest so far.
Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are to file suits shortly, and Alberta has indicated it will also seek damages.
'Burden on health system'
The Canadian Cancer Society said hefty settlements granted to state governments that have sued tobacco giants in the US convinced Canadian provinces to go after the industry.
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