People Find Inspiration through Popular Top Hits(PRWEB) August 06, 2012 Music acts as a conduit for different purposes but most notably as a source of inspiration. Beliefnet, the comprehensive multi-faith online resource for inspiration and spirituality, recently released its list of top 100 inspiring songs, based on data gathered by its writers and editors. No.1 on the list is “Somewhere over ...
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NASA picked three aerospace companies Friday to build small rocketships to take astronauts to the International Space Station.
This is the third phase of NASA's efforts to get private space companies to take over the job of the now-retired space shuttle. The companies will share more than US$1.1 billion. Two of the ships are capsules like in the Apollo era and the third is closer in design to the space shuttle.
Once the spaceships are built, NASA plans to hire the private companies to taxi astronauts into space within five years. Until they are ready, NASA is paying Russia about US$63 million per astronaut to do the job.
In a statement, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said the move "will help keep us on track to tend the outsourcing of human spaceflight."
NASA hopes that by having private firms ferry astronauts into low Earth orbit, it can focus on larger long-term goals, like sending crews to a nearby asteroid and eventually Mars. The private companies can also make money in tourism and other non-NASA business.
The three companies are the Boeing Co. of Houston, Space Exploration Technologies, called SpaceX, of Hawthorne, Calif., and Sierra Nevada Corp. of Louisville, Colorado
They are quite different companies. Boeing is one of the oldest and largest space companies with a long history of building and launching rockets and working for NASA, going back to the Mercury days. SpaceX is a relatively new company started by Elon Musk, who helped create PayPal and runs the electric car company Tesla Motors. Sierra Nevada has been in the space business for 25 years but mostly on a much smaller scale than Boeing.
NASA's commercial crew development program started with seven companies. The other companies that were not chosen can still build private rocketships and NASA still has the option to hire them to ferry astronauts at a later date, NASA spokesman Trent Perrotto said.
Boeing is slated to get the most money, US$460 million for its seven-person CST-100 capsule. It would launch on an Atlas rocket, with the first test flight 2016. The company won't say how much it would charge NASA per seat, but it will be "significantly lower" than the Russian price, said John Mulholland, Boeing vice president. He said Boeing's long experience in working with NASA on human flight gives it a "leg up" on its competitors.
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Hundreds of people have watched the historic Mars landing at Canberra's Deep Space Station.
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05-08-2012 08:16 NASA attempts to safely land Curiosity rover on surface of the red planet. Related Story: Mars Rover On Final Approach for Landing Tonight NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover closed in on its target today, all systems go for a landing on Mars late tonight (Monday morning at 1:31 am EDT). If there's anxiety at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., which controls the mission, one can understand. Curiosity (the mission's formal name is Mars Science Laboratory) is the largest, most expensive and most ambitious Mars probe sent by the United States in a generation. It's been a decade in the making and ran up bills of $2.5 billion. NASA is playing down expectations, but if the building blocks of life are buried in the Martian soil, Curiosity's miniature onboard chemistry laboratory is designed to pick them out. "Can we do this? Yeah, I think we can do this. I'm confident," Doug McCuistion, head of the Mars exploration program at NASA headquarters, said Saturday. "We have the A-plus team on this. They've done everything possible to ensure success, but that risk still exists." For more, click here:
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PASADENA, Calif. — NASA's next Mars rover is just hours away from its harrowing Red Planet touchdown, an unprecedented landing attempt that is leaving some of its handlers "emotionally terrified."
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Provided NASA's 'Curiosity' Mars rover can survive an extremely difficult landing process, the biggest machine we've ever sent to Mars will spend the next two years trying to prove that life once existed on the red planet.
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The most high-tech rover NASA has ever designed was speeding toward Mars on Sunday to attempt an acrobatic landing on the planet's surface.
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The spectacular landing of a car-size NASA rover on the surface of Mars late Sunday (Aug. 5) won high praise from U.S. President Barack Obama.
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With a mixture of tense nerves and confidence, NASA counted down to the landing of its largest ever robotic rover on Mars, where it will search for signs that life may once have existed.
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NASA has successfully landed its $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity rover on the surface of the red planet, breaking new ground in US-led exploration of an alien world.
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity successfully landed on the Red Planet late Sunday night (Aug. 5), marking a historic moment in the history of robotic Mars exploration.
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Global Advances in Health and Medicine (http://www.GAHMJ.com) is proud to announce that Integrative Medicine in America: How Integrative Medicine Is Being Practiced in Clinical Centers Across the United States has been published in the July 2012 issue of GAHMJ.Portland, OR (PRWEB) August 06, 2012 Sponsored by The Bravewell Collaborative (http://www.bravewell. ...
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Los Angeles, Aug 5 (IANS) Actress Liberty Ross hopes to meet Robert Pattinson whose girlfriend Kristen Stewart had a fling with her husband Rupert Sanders.
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The Irish Times - Monday, August 6, 2012
CIARN HANCOCK, Business Affairs Correspondent
US INSURER Liberty Mutual has held talks with the Royal Dublin Society about acquiring the naming rights to the RDSs main arena, which hosts Leinsters home rugby matches and the annual Dublin Horse Show.
The RDS is believed to be seeking about 15 million for the rights for a period of 10 years.
These funds would be used to help fund a 17 million redevelopment of the existing stadium into a 23,000 capacity arena from the current 18,500.
In turn, this would help to fund the foundation activities of the RDS, which includes funding for the arts, and science and technology.
The RDS intends to knock the existing, and ageing, two-storey Anglesea Stand and replace it with a new structure offering modern hospitality and spectator facilities.
Liberty is on a short list of potential sponsors that the RDS is negotiating with. Dubai-based airline Emirates has also been linked with the rights.
In May, RDS chief executive Michael Duffy said it was negotiating with four parties.
The US insurer has made no secret of its desire to secure sponsorship to help build recognition of its brand here since its takeover of Quinn Insurance in late 2011 and its rebranding of the business earlier this year. It is also believed to be in talks with RT about sponsoring the Late Late Show.
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Argentina has set itself on another collision course with Britain by planning to use seized energy company YPF to search for oil around the Falkland Islands, according to reports.
State-controlled YPF, formerly owned by Spain's Repsol, is teaming up with Venezuelan oil giant PDVSA to explore the area.
"We discussed the need for oil and gas exploration in the territory and offshore areas, adjacent to the Falklands, but we have to analyze the costs and time," PDVSA president Rafael Ramirez Carreno told Argentine newspaper Pagina12 .
The executive said he spoke with the president of YPF, Miguel Galuccio, in Buenos Aires last Wednesday.
Argentina's move threatens to further antagonise the UK government on the 30th anniversary of the war the two fought over the Falkland Islands .
Earlier this year the Argentine government sent a letter to 15 British and American banks threatening them with legal action for advising companies exploring for oil around the islands.
The British government tabled a White Paper in June officially pledging to defend the islands and declared there would be "no weakening" in the country's resolve.
Mr Carreno said the prospective investments are the result of joint-ventures in Venezuela between the two South American (Frankfurt: A0MLL6 - news) countries.
"We have a field in the [Venezuelan] Orinoco [Heavy-Oil] Belt, which produces 130,000 barrels a day," he said. "We will increase that production to 160,000 barrels and develop another field, which would produce another 200,000 barrels."
The Orinoco Belt is an area of 21,357 square miles (55,314 square kilometers) in the east of the country that has some 235,000m barrels in proven reserves.
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President Ma Ying-jeou yesterday proposed a peace initiative to address territorial disputes over the Tiaoyu Islands, urging neighboring countries to show restraint and to seek peaceful means to settle the issue.
Under what he called the East China Sea Peace Initiative, Ma urged all parties to refrain from taking antagonistic actions, shelve controversies, observe international law and resolve disputes via peaceful means.
All sides should also seek consensus on a code of conduct in the East China Sea and establish a mechanism for cooperation on exploring resources in the region, the president told a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Peace between the Republic of China and Japan.
Ma also reiterated Taiwan's claim to sovereignty over the islands, also known as the Diaoyu Islands in China and the Senkaku Islands in Japan.
Taiwan, Japan and China have been involved in heated disputes due to competing territorial claims over the Tiaoyu Islands located in a resource-rich region for several years.
According to experts, Ma's remarks yesterday were effective in declaring Taiwan's stance to the international community concerning the controversy.
Ma is voicing his hope to the United States and Japan that the Tiaoyu Islands issue can be resolved peacefully, at the same time expressing his stance to China that Taiwan will not back down from its declaration of sovereignty over the islands, said Huang Chieh-cheng, assistant professor with Tamkang University and former vice chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council.
Ho Si-shen, Japanese professor with Fu Jen Catholic University, said Ma's intentions were to prevent the territorial row from escalating and to make the government's stance on this issue clearer.
Ma wants the Tiaoyu Islands to become islands of opportunity, not catalyst of conflicts, he said.
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Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou yesterday proposed a peace initiative to address territorial disputes over the Tiaoyu Islands, urging neighbouring countries to show restraint and to seek peaceful means to settle the issue.
Under what he called the East China Sea Peace Initiative, Ma urged all parties to refrain from taking antagonistic actions, shelve controversies, observe international law and resolve disputes via peaceful means.
All sides should also seek consensus on a code of conduct in the East China Sea and establish a mechanism for cooperation on exploring resources in the region, the president told a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Peace between the Republic of China and Japan.
Ma also reiterated Taiwan's claim to sovereignty over the islands, also known as the Diaoyu Islands in China and the Senkaku Islands in Japan.
Taiwan, Japan and China have been involved in heated disputes due to competing territorial claims over the Tiaoyu Islands located in a resource-rich region for several years.
According to experts, Ma's remarks yesterday were effective in declaring Taiwan's stance to the international community concerning the controversy.
Ma is voicing his hope to the United States and Japan that the Tiaoyu Islands issue can be resolved peacefully, at the same time expressing his stance to China that Taiwan will not back down from its declaration of sovereignty over the islands, said Huang Chieh-cheng, assistant professor with Tamkang University and former vice chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council.
Ho Si-shen, Japanese professor with Fu Jen Catholic University, said Ma's intentions were to prevent the territorial row from escalating and to make the government's stance on this issue clearer.
Ma wants the Tiaoyu Islands to become islands of opportunity, not catalyst of conflicts, he said.
With reports from CNA
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GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands - One among thousands of lawyers, accountants and other workers from around the globe, Paul Fordham is escaping cold weather and the taxman by working in a sunny British territory in the Caribbean. He and many others, however, worry they soon may be looking for another haven.
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In Cayman Islands, planned tax on expats triggers worries that sun is setting on tax haven