SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) -Big crowds and big waves at our local beaches are keeping lifeguards on alert. They have already performed dozens of rescues Saturday.
Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to pack San Diego's beaches over the three day weekend.
In this video report, News 8's Shannon Handy is at La Jolla Shores with more on what steps they're taking to keep everyone safe.
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A Northwest Arkansas company is in the national spotlight for its nanotechnology innovation.
NanoMech has won an Innovator of the Year Award from the NanoBusiness Commercialization Association (NanoBCA).
NanoMech is an international material science company based in Springdale.
"We are very proud of this recognition," said Jim Phillips, NanoMech Chairman and CEO. "The breakthrough technologies the NanoMech team has developed, such as nGlide, TuffTek, and TriboTuff, have led to this tremendous honor for our family of loyal employees and very supportive investors. NanoMech is focused on innovating by applying breakthrough novel science into "must-have" products bringing immediate and drastic improvement into existing major markets."
The NanoBCA is the industry's top trade organization dedicated to promoting the advancement and commercialization of nanotechnology while helping companies bring affordable, life-improving nanotech products to the market.
Mr. Vincent Caprio, the CEO of the NanoBusiness Commercialization Association said, "We are very proud to single NanoMech out of the vast field of up and coming emerging nanotechnology companies in America. NanoMech is a clear leader in converting massive brainpower and applied research to market-ready products that will disrupt huge companies overnight in the energy and manufacturing sectors, bringing immediate efficiency and performance improvements to these global industries! They are clearly a company to watch and at the top of our list."
Dr. Ajay P. Malshe, the CTO of NanoMech said, "In 2012 NanoMech commercialized two nano-engineered product platforms never achieved before. TriboTuff is a nano-inspired industrial lubricant which reduces friction (to near zero) and wear of mechanical parts by orders of magnitude allowing hundreds of percent enhancement in wear reduction in machines, vehicles, and components such as valves, gears and much more. These performance increases also produce incredible energy savings. Our second nanotechnology platform of products is TuffTek coated cutting tool inserts and wear parts made of carbides, metals and ceramics. As natural resources such as metals and ceramics are depleting nationally and globally, TuffTek radically transforms surfaces with nano engineered coating solutions, that increase the life of cutting tools and wear parts by as much as 1000% while enhancing their performance and sustainability."
NanoMech Inc. was founded in 2002 and creates advanced engineering materials through patent and patent-pending nano-inspired and nano-manufactured product development.
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Newswise A monoclonal antibody therapy developed by MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) and tested in an animal model at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, prevents infection by the hepatitis C virus (HCV).
Researchers found that the human monoclonal antibody targeting the virus protected chimpanzees from HCV infection in a dose-dependent manner in a study conducted at Texas Biomeds Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio. Chimpanzees are the only species other than humans that can be infected by the hepatitis C virus and therefore the results from this study were critical in the development of the monoclonal antibody. The new report by scientists from MassBiologics; Texas Biomed; the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and Merck Research Laboratories, and funded by MassBiologics and NIH, appears in the August 30th issue of PLOS Pathogens. Researchers had previously demonstrated that the monoclonal antibody, called HCV1, blocks HCV from infecting liver cells in laboratory tissue culture.
This is an important proof-of-concept study demonstrating a high dose of neutralizing antibody can protect the liver from HCV infection using monoclonal antibodies in a study that was designed to mimic the transplantation setting, said study co-author Robert E. Lanford, Ph.D., of Texas Biomed.
One can envision improving on these results with a cocktail of antibodies or by using this antibody with some of the newer antivirals currently in clinical trials. Infection of the new donor liver by residual virus in the patient is one of the major obstacles preventing a full recovery in these patients, Lanford added.
MassBiologics has been pursuing the development of HCV1 as a therapy for patients with end-stage liver disease undergoing liver transplantation as a result of HCV infection. HCV1 is a monoclonal antibody that binds to the surface of the HCV virus and blocks the ability of the virus to enter liver cells.
HCV damages the liver and is the leading indication for liver transplantation, diagnosed in about half of the 6,000 patients who receive liver transplants each year in the United States. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 3.2 million Americans are chronically infected with HCV and approximately 10,000 die annually of the disease. Globally, as many as 170 million people are estimated to suffer from HCV infection. The CDC recently recommended that everyone born from 1945 to 1965 should be screened for HCV regardless of whether they have known risk factors.
For patients with end-stage liver disease from HCV infection, liver transplantation is the only option. While it can be a life-saving treatment, transplantation does not cure the disease. In nearly all cases, the patients new liver is eventually infected by HCV because the virus remains in the patients bloodstream during surgery. The course of recurrent HCV disease is accelerated after transplantation and up to 20 percent of transplant patients develop cirrhosis within five years. Unfortunately, the standard antiviral drugs currently used to treat HCV prior to the onset of end-stage liver disease are poorly tolerated after liver transplantation, leaving these patients with few options.
This research was supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH. The chimpanzee studies performed at the Southwest National Primate Research Center were supported by the NIH primate center grant P51 RR13986 and the NIH facilities grants C06 RR 12087 and C06 RR016228.
___________________________________________________________________ About MassBiologics MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School is the only publicly owned, non-profit FDA-licensed manufacturer of vaccines and other biologic products in the United States. The laboratory was established in 1894 by the state Board of Health to produce diphtheria antitoxin. Since that time, the focus at MassBiologics has been to improve public health through applied research, development and production of biologic products. In 1997, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts transferred MassBiologics operations from the Department of Public Health to UMass Medical School to maintain their public purpose, preserving their ability to compete in an increasingly competitive marketplace and to maximize their value to the Commonwealth.
About the University of Massachusetts Medical School The University of Massachusetts Medical School, one of the fastest growing academic health centers in the country, has built a reputation as a world-class research institution, consistently producing noteworthy advances in clinical and basic research. The Medical School attracts more than $250 million in research funding annually, 80 percent of which comes from federal funding sources. The mission of the Medical School is to advance the health and well-being of the people of the commonwealth and the world through pioneering education, research, public service and health care delivery with its clinical partner, UMass Memorial Health Care. For more information, visit http://www.umassmed.edu/.
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A monoclonal antibody developed by MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) and tested in an animal model at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, prevents infection by the hepatitis C virus (HCV).
Researchers found that the human monoclonal antibody targeting the virus protected chimpanzees from HCV infection in a dose-dependent manner in a study conducted at Texas Biomed's Southwest National Primate Research Center. Chimpanzees are the only species other than humans that can be infected by HCV and therefore the results from this study were critical in the development of the monoclonal antibody.
The new report by scientists from MassBiologics; Texas Biomed; the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and Merck Research Laboratories, and funded by MassBiologics and NIH, appears in the August 30th issue of PLoS Pathogens. Researchers had previously demonstrated that the monoclonal antibody, called HCV1, blocks HCV from infecting liver cells in laboratory tissue culture.
"This is an important preclinical proof-of-concept study demonstrating a high dose of neutralizing antibody can protect the liver from HCV infection using monoclonal antibodies in a study that was designed to mimic the transplantation setting," said study co-author Robert E. Lanford, Ph.D., of Texas Biomed.
"One can envision improving on these results with a cocktail of antibodies or by using this antibody with some of the newer antivirals currently in clinical trials. Infection of the new donor liver by residual virus in the patient is one of the major obstacles preventing a full recovery in these patients," Lanford added.
MassBiologics has been pursuing the development of HCV1 as a therapy for patients with end-stage liver disease undergoing liver transplantation as a result of HCV infection. HCV1 is a monoclonal antibody that binds to the surface of the HCV virus and blocks the ability of the virus to enter liver cells.
HCV damages the liver and is the leading indication for liver transplantation, diagnosed in about half of the 6,000 patients who receive liver transplants each year in the United States. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 3.2 million Americans are chronically infected with HCV and approximately 10,000 die annually of the disease. Globally, as many as 170 million people are estimated to suffer from HCV infection. The CDC recently recommended that everyone born from 1945 to 1965 should be screened for HCV regardless of whether they have known risk factors.
For patients with end-stage liver disease from HCV infection, liver transplantation is the only option. While it can be a life-saving treatment, transplantation does not cure the disease. In nearly all cases, the patient's new liver is eventually infected by HCV because the virus remains in the patient's bloodstream during surgery. The course of recurrent HCV disease is accelerated after transplantation and up to 20 percent of transplant patients develop cirrhosis within five years. Unfortunately, the standard antiviral drugs currently used to treat HCV prior to the onset of end-stage liver disease are poorly tolerated after liver transplantation, leaving these patients with few options.
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30-08-2012 20:28 University of Tennessee chemistry professor Al Hazari gives a science demonstration to kindergarten and first grade students at Green Magnet Math & Science Academy Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012.
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31-08-2012 15:43 Event date: July 3, 2012. Some coffee tastes better than others, but how can farmers ensure that their coffee tastes as delicious as possible? Join Seattle University's Susan Jackels to discover how she trains local coffee farmers in Nicaragua to use chemistry and scientific investigation to produce quality coffee.
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H. Samuel Case, who taught human physiology and exercise science at what is now McDaniel College for four decades, died Aug. 22 of complications from leukemia at Carroll Hospice Center's Dove House in Westminster.
The longtime Westminster resident was 70.
"I've been here for two years, but I very quickly came to see how much Sam embodied the essence of McDaniel College. His death is such a painful loss, " said Roger Casey, president of the college.
"In my speeches to prospective students, I tell them that the faculty is not in your life for just four years, but 40. And I got that from observing Sam," he said. "He lived life to the fullest, and his death reminds us of our own mortality and that we only have a short time to make a difference, as Sam did."
"Sam's life is a life worth celebrating. He was a fine human being and totally selfless," said Joan Develin Coley, former McDaniel College president and friend of 40 years.
"When I think of Sam, he led a life that was exemplary and one of service. He never needed or wanted to toot his own horn," she said. "People were just drawn to him. The students loved him and the faculty loved him."
The son of a farmer and an educator, Howard Samuel Case, who never used his first name, was born and raised in Three Bridges, N.J.
After graduating in 1959 from Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, N.J., where he played football and wrestled, he earned a bachelor's degree in 1963 in physical education at what was then Western Maryland College.
"The starting line of his career emerged by accident while he was still an undergraduate at Western Maryland College," said Joyce Muller, associate vice president of communications and marketing at McDaniel.
"He suffered a concussion while playing football in his sophomore year and opted to assist with coaching, and by the time he graduated, had racked up three years of coaching experience," said Ms. Muller.
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MINSTER, Ohio, Sept.1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --The Dannon Company, Inc. today awarded the Minster Athletic Boosters a Dannon Next Generation Nutrition Grant totaling $30,000 in support of the Minster Memorial Field improvement project, Honoring the Past While Building for the Future. Dannon presented Minster Athletic Boosters with the award during a ceremony that preceded Minster High School's first 2012-2013 home varsity football game.
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Honoring the Past While Building for the Future will provide Minster High School students and the broader town of Minster with a fully renovated athletic complex, new track, field space and additional revamped physical facilities. The award builds upon existing nutrition and fitness programs that began at Minster Local Schools through a partnership with the Auglaize/Mercer County YMCAa partnership that, in 2006, was awarded the very first Dannon Next Generation Nutrition Grant in Ohio.
"With this grant, Dannon is helping provide all of Minster's residents with an essential means of reaching their healthy lifestyle and fitness goals," said Bruce Thobe, president of Minster Athletic Boosters. "We're honored to have Dannon as our partner in our efforts to promote active lifestyles for all of Minster's residents."
"The Dannon Company is happy to support the Boosters' efforts to provide a safe fitness facility for all of Minster's residents," said Gayle Binney, Dannon's corporate responsibility manager. "For the last 70 years, Dannon has created great-tasting yogurt that provides essential daily nutrients like calcium, protein and potassium while also promoting healthy lifestyles and initiatives that blend nutrition with fitness. We encourage people to eat one yogurt every day as part of their three recommended servings of low-fat dairy every day."
Dannon established the Dannon Next Generation Nutrition Grant to promote childhood nutrition education in each of the four communities where a Dannon facility is located. As part of the program, Dannon contributes $30,000 to one non-profit organization in each of the following communities ($120,000 in total) Auglaize, Mercer, Darke, or Shelby County, Ohio; Salt Lake County, Utah; Tarrant County, Texas; and Westchester County, New York, for programs that nurture healthy eating habits among children. Over the last seven years, programs funded through the Dannon Next Generation Nutrition Grant have reached more than 17,000 children in Ohio.
Today's grant ceremony, held just prior to Minster High School's first varsity football home game, was attended by Ohio State Representative John Adams, Auglaize County Commissioner John Bergman, Auglaize County Commissioner Don Regula, Minster Athletic Boosters President Bruce Thobe; Dannon Corporate Responsibility Manager Gayle Binney; and Dannon's Minster, Ohio Senior Plant Director Doug Roy.
About the Minster Athletic Booster ClubThe Minster Athletic Booster Club has been in service for more than 30 years, and is dedicated to providing support for Minster's student athletes and financial backing to improve athletic facilities and equipment for all sports teams in the school district and community. The Minster Athletic Booster Club serves all seventh through twelfth graders (455 students) in the Minster school district, and has to date been responsible for the construction of a full athletic complex, latex track, strength facility, football stadium, baseball field and more. The Minster Athletic Booster Club help the children of Minster, Ohio understand that good nutrition and physical activity go hand-in-hand in creating a healthy lifestyle.
About Honoring the Past while Building for the FutureThe Minster Athletic Booster Club's Minster Memorial Field improvement project, Honoring the Past While Building for the Future, is a program designed to assist the youth of Minster Local Schools in their efforts to maintain personal fitness and healthy living. The program provides the local community with a fully renovated athletic complex, set to open in the fall of 2012. This award builds upon existing nutrition and fitness programs initiated at Minster Local Schools when they partnered with the Auglaize/Mercer County YMCA to receive the first Dannon Next Generation Nutrition Grant awarded in Ohio in 2006. Today, the Minster Local Schools include healthy meal programs, nutrition label reading, taste tests, and more during the school year to ensure that Minster students know how to build a strong body by eating healthy foods and staying active.
About The Dannon Company, Inc.Celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2012 and headquartered in White Plains, New York, Dannon has plants in Minster, OH, Fort Worth, TX, West Jordan, UT, and Portland, OR. Dannon makes more than 200 different flavors, styles and sizes of cultured refrigerated and frozen dairy products to serve its retail and foodservice customers. In its pursuit to bring health through food to as many people as possible, Dannon is committed to Americans enjoying yogurt every day as one of the three recommended daily servings of dairy.
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This week, two astronauts worked outside the International Space Station hundreds of kilometres above the Earth in the second of two space walks in as many weeks.
After years of construction work, the space station is formally complete, and with the station running well, space walks are becoming less common.
Meanwhile, the death of the astronaut Neil Armstrong and the presence of the rover Curiosity on the Martian surface, has led to renewed questions about the goals and visions of the orbiting space platform.
Sam Scimemi, deputy director for the International Space Station Programme at the US space agency Nasa, spoke to BBC News about the future of the ISS.
First of all the programme, which began in 1984 - if you can believe it's been that long - has spanned a long history of international collaboration beginning first during the Cold War with our European, Canadian and Japanese counterparts. When the programme was changed in 1995, we brought the Russians on, combining their space station programme with our space station programme. So as far as international collaboration, it's been a huge success even though it started off... difficult in so many technical, diplomatic (ways) and the like. It has really matured in a way that no-one's ever really expected, it's had a really deep and profound relationship between all the partnership.
Scientifically, for the most part, the space station has been concentrating on how micro-gravity affects the human body and we've also just begun doing studies on other areas such as technology development for extending human presence beyond low-Earth orbit. We've also spent many years to date on micro-gravity effects for biological and the physical sciences, we've begun to see results in things like bone density and bone disease, that may be coming out soon. We've also seen other effects on bacteria and its effects in zero gravity and how that might affect vaccines here on the Earth.
Human life and everything here on Earth has evolved in a gravity environment. To escape that gravity environment is expensive, and it's difficult, it's dangerous. The cost to make sure that it's safe and viable for humans to operate in - there's a high price for that. And the research that follows on to humans being in space adds to all that. The cost is quite high compared to doing that same type of research here on Earth. So in order to get the benefit of taking gravity away, there is a high price. But we believe that in the research to come that we will see benefits... of taking gravity away from the research we do here on the Earth.This is a peaceful endeavour - the largest peaceful endeavour in history - and the benefits have been tremendous, here on Earth on a diplomatic level and on a cooperation level that you really can't get a cost out of.
The space station's still being used to develop all the operational techniques, the technology, and experience of sending humans beyond low-Earth orbit. As far as a "jumping off point", like you'd use from an airport or the like, that's still under investigation.
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It's almost Labor Day in the United States and while many Americans across the country will enjoy a three-day holiday weekend, astronauts in space are gearing up for a potential extra spacewalk next week.
Astronauts living on the International Space Station will likely spend Labor Day weekend preparing their spacesuits and tools for a possible spacewalk to finish a repair job that was cut short by a jammed bolt on Thursday (Aug. 30).
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese spaceflyer Akihiko Hoshide spent more than eight hours spacewalking outside the space station on Thursday to perform repairs. But, a single sticky space station bolt prevented them from replacing a faulty piece of power system hardware. NASA engineers are now discussing plans for an extra spacewalk to finish the job, an excursion that could occur early next week.
Williams and Hoshide will not perform the spacewalk on the Labor Day holiday on Monday (Sept. 3), but they may have to get their spacesuits ready and discuss plans for the orbital repair work with flight controllers and engineers on Earth, NASA spokesperson Kelly Humphries told SPACE.com.
During Thursday's spacewalk, Hoshide's spacesuit experienced higher-than-normal temperatures near the end of the excursion. So, he will spend the weekend re-sizing Williams' spacesuit in order to wear it on the next spacewalk. Williams, meanwhile, will assemble a backup spacesuit for her own use while engineers discuss the glitch with Hoshide's original suit.
The International Space Station is currently home to six people making up the orbiting laboratory's Expedition 32 crew. The crew includes two Americans (Williams and NASA astronaut Joe Acaba), one Japanese astronaut (Hoshide) representing the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka (the commander), Yuri Malenchenko and Sergei Revin.
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WALLOPS -- Campers at the Virginia Space Flight Academy's six co-ed, residential camps this summer experienced "brain-stretching fun," according to Executive Director Nancy Marasco.
More than 150 campers learned about science, math, robotics and rocketry. In that number were 10 local middle-school students who were awarded scholarships to attend the camp.
The VSFA partnered with Accomack County public schools to offer the scholarships. Students entered an essay contest with the topic being what they would like to see be the next space mission and why. Winners received full scholarships to a weeklong camp.
The winning entries represented Arcadia, Chincoteague and Nandua Middle Schools.
"These students truly appreciated what is in their own backyard," Marasco said.
Among actitivies campers enjoyed were seeing the day-to-day operations on many active sites on Wallops Island including NOAA, NASA and the U.S. Navy.
They saw the Antares rocket, which is scheduled to go to the International Space Station later this year, the machine shop, Aegis, Payload T&E, the Range Control Center, the Wallops Fire Department and the NASA Visitor Center.
Additionally, campers launched their own water bottle rockets, Alpha one-stage rockets and Mongoose two-stage rockets.
They also competed in a robotics challenge each week.
One week saw the launching of the BrandtXI sounding rocket -- counselors woke them up at 4 a.m. to make sure they didn't miss it.
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Flying the flag for redheads in Holland is Breagha Gowans.
HOLLAND is getting hot for flame-haired Highlanders after inviting them to help break the record for the worlds largest gathering of natural red heads.
A plane-load of people flew out from Inverness on Thursday ahead of Roodharigen one of the worlds only festivals celebrating red hair.
Among the passengers jetting-off to this years event which takes place today and Sunday, and proudly flying the flag for the Highlands an area home to more red heads than anywhere else in the UK were kilted two-year-old Breagha Gowans, from Westhill, Inverness, and eight-year-old Euan MacIvor from Dingwall.
An official invitation had been extended to Highlanders by organisers of the Roodharigen festival, which takes place in the town of Breda - less than an hour from Amsterdam.
The current world record for the biggest gathering of natural red heads is 890 people, which was set in Washington in July 2010, but more than 5,000 red heads from over 60 countries are expected to attend this years festival.
Organiser Mike Klassen said: "The highest density of redheads is found in the United Kingdom, more specifically the Highlands of Scotland, and we extended a warm welcome to red heads living in Scotland to come to the festival."
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NASA's twin, lunar-orbiting Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft began data collection for the start of the mission's extended operations.
At 9:28 a.m. PDT (12:28 p.m. EDT) yesterday, while the two spacecraft were 19 miles (30 kilometers) above the moon's Ocean of Storms, the Lunar Gravity Ranging System -- the mission's sole science instrument aboard both GRAIL twins -- was energized.
"The data collected during GRAIL's primary mission team are currently being analyzed and hold the promise of producing a gravity field map of extraordinary quality and resolution," said Maria Zuber, principal investigator for GRAIL from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. "Mapping at a substantially lower altitude during the extended mission, and getting an even more intimate glimpse of our nearest celestial neighbor, provides the unique opportunity to globally map the shallow crust of a planetary body beyond Earth."
The science phase of GRAIL's extended mission runs from Aug. 30 to Dec. 3. Its goals are to take an even closer look at the moon's gravity field, deriving the gravitational influence of surface and subsurface features as small as simple craters, mountains and rilles. To achieve this unprecedented resolution, GRAIL mission planners are halving the operating altitude - flying at the lowest altitude that can be safely maintained.
During the prime mission, which stretched from March 1 to May 29, the two GRAIL spacecraft, named Ebb and Flow, orbited at an average altitude of 34 miles (55 kilometers). The average orbital altitude during extended mission will be 14 miles (23 kilometers), which places the GRAIL twins within five miles (eight kilometers) of some of the moon's higher surface features.
"Ebb and Flow, and our mission operations team, are both doing great, which is certainly notable considering all the milestones and challenges they have experienced," said David Lehman, GRAIL project manager from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "The twins have endured the lunar eclipse of June 4, 2012, and 26 rocket burns since arriving in lunar orbit at the beginning of the year. Down here in our control room, with all the planning and mission operations we have been doing, it feels as though we've been riding right along with them. Of course, they have the better view."
Science data are collected when the Lunar Gravity Ranging System transmit radio signals between the two spacecraft, precisely defining the rate of change of distance between Ebb and Flow. The distance between the twins change slightly as they fly over areas of greater and lesser gravity caused by visible features, such as mountains and craters, and by masses hidden beneath the lunar surface.
Mission scientists calculated that even as the last data were downlinked, four of the mission's six principal science measurement goals had already been achieved. The objective of the GRAIL mission is to generate the most accurate gravity map of the moon and from that derive the internal structure and evolution of Earth's natural satellite.
JPL manages the GRAIL mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The GRAIL mission is part of the Discovery Program managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver built the spacecraft.
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NASA launched two satellites Thursday that will spend the next two years exploring the Earth's radiation belts, a highly charged zone that poses dangers to communications, GPS satellites and other electronics and is generally avoided by spacecraft.
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HOUSTON NASAs plans to send astronauts to an asteroid by 2025 moved 10 days closer to being a reality this week, even though the target of that mission has yet to be found in space.
The agencys Research and Technology Studies (RATS) 10-day simulated asteroid mission, which ended Wednesday, involved scientists and flight controllers at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston evaluating new operations and exploration techniques for how astronauts might work above and on the surface of one of the small, rocky, solar system bodies.
The test used a variety of simulation technologies, including virtual reality and a custom rig that helped re-create the microgravity environment found at an asteroid.
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Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: First moonwalker Neil Armstrong's family has specified at least four ways you can pay tribute to the man who took a giant leap into the cosmos.
Potential manned mission President Barack Obama set the goal for a 2025 asteroid mission during remarks he delivered two years ago at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Earlier this week, he restated that aim during a question-and-answer session on the website Reddit.com.
As we continue work with the International Space Station, we are focused on a potential mission to (an) asteroid as a prelude to a manned Mars flight," Obama said. [Photos: President Obama and NASA]
The presidents use of potential to describe the asteroid mission may have been in recognition of the scientific and engineering challenges that NASA has already encountered in early planning for such an endeavor.
Going to an asteroid was a bigger step than I think we thought, because it is a very challenging mission to do, astronaut Michael Gernhardt told Space.com.
In addition to the uncertainty created by changing budgets and still-to-be-decided launch vehicle designs, the space agency has yet to find any candidate asteroids that pass close enough to allow for a roughly 90-day mission.
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Solar Blocker helps to avoid sun damage to products while reducing energy costs
BRAMPTON, ON, Aug. 31, 2012 /CNW/ - Hy-Power Nano Inc. has launched its first nanotechnology enabled product, the Hy-Power Clear Liquid Solar Blocker, and demonstrated it to a group of customers at the International Conference Centre in Mississauga. The solar blocker is the first in a series of products to be developed by Hy-Power Nano and marks a key milestone in the company's progress in creating nanotechnology enabled products.
"While we all love sunlight, ultraviolet (UV) rays can be damaging and infrared (IR) rays are a source of energy costs," says Joseph Grzyb, President and CEO of Hy-Power Nano. "Our Clear Liquid Solar Blocker is so clear you can't see it on glass, yet it blocks 99.99 per cent of UV and 40 per cent of infrared rays. Since the product is liquid-based, it can be applied on a variety of glass surfaces and geometries."
"There are many applications for this product. For example, for retailers, that means products in windows won't fade from sunlight while allowing customers a completely unobstructed view of the goods in the window. Skylights coated with our product allow people to enjoy the comfort and natural light without any negative impacts. There are actually quite a range of needs addressed by this product," adds Grzyb.
Today's announcement is the culmination of two-and-a-half years work after Hy-Power's Grzyb recognized the potential impact of combining 46-years of industrial coating expertise with the promise of nanotechnology.
"We've had a tremendous response both from customers and investors who were in the room to see our product in action first-hand," adds Gryzb. "Companies have already approached us about partnerships and customers want to trial it on a variety of their properties. It's very exciting."
Hy-Power has already activated a sales campaign using internal and external sales teams and is working toward establishing strategic partnership to supply the Liquid Solar Blocker within Canadian, U.S. and global markets.
About Hy-Power Nano Inc.
Hy-Power Nano Inc. (www.hy-powernano.com) of Brampton, ON, is a subsidiary of Hy-Power Coatings Limited, Southern Ontario's premier coatings service provider with a 46-year track record of innovation and application of industrial coatings. Hy-Power Nano is developing "next generation" nanocoating products that can deliver exceptional solar blocking and thermal insulation benefits. Hy-Power has attracted the interest of a number of commercial partners seeking the use of nano-enabled coatings and paints to enhance the energy efficiency of their products and the growing demand for high quality nano oxides used as transparent conductors to enable touch screen functionality.
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MEDICINE PARK, OK._The main stage in downtown Medicine Park was littered with lawn chairs Friday night at the opening night of the Mayor's Blues Ball.
Six years ago, the event started as a way to raise funds after fires or ice storms, but now the events purpose is simply to bring folks together to celebrate music, friends and the unique town nestled into the Wichita Mountain Range.
It may be the Mayor's Blues Ball but he takes no credit.
He says the weekend would not be possible without the long list of sponsors, and of course, the local and regional talent that people from all over the region come to dance to.
Medicine Park Mayor Dwight Cope loves a good party, and his parties are becoming more and more well-attended.
The small art community is getting some national recognition.
"Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, in the region and it's even starting to...some neighbors have some friends from Ohio down," said Cope.
Mayor Cope loves the notoriety, but he loves the music more.
To the mayor, it does not get any better than the blues.
"Well, BB King said it ain't nothin' but a good man feelin' bad," said Cope.
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The Liberty University School of Engineering and Computational Sciences announced this week it has received accreditation from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) for its Electrical Engineering and Industrial & Systems Engineering programs.Lynchburg, Va. (PRWEB) August 31, 2012 The Liberty University School of Engineering and Computational Sciences announced this week ...
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LIBERTY HILL, Texas, Aug. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mike Byrum, owner of Docks and Decks, located at 15390 Hwy. 29, recently added UHaul truck and trailer rentals to the marina services business he has been operating since 1998.
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Families needing the finest in moving services now will have increased convenience and a shorter distance to travel when moving, which not only will make their move easier but also will have the positive effect of reducing the amount of carbon emissions released into the atmosphere. U-Haul partnering with business owners across North America to increase convenience for customers while helping our environment is just one of the programs that support U-Haul Company's Corporate Sustainability initiatives.
Docks and Decks can now offer its customers a variety of moving equipment and supplies designed specifically for moving household furnishings, including moving vans, open trailers, closed trailers, furniture pads, appliance dollies, furniture dollies, tow dollies and auto transports. Docks and Decks also will offer sales items to protect their customers' belongings and make moving easier, such as heavy-duty boxes, which are made of up to 90 percent recycled content and are available in a variety of sizes.
"We decided to add U-Haul rentals to our business because we knew that it would not only benefit our business but also would benefit the city of Liberty Hill as well as surrounding areas. We look forward to the future with U-Haul," Byrum said.
"U-Haul is proud to be partnering with a quality independent business such as Docks and Decks," exclaimed Gary Bouillion, president, U-Haul Company of Austin. "Mike is a great example of the type of successful business relationship UHaul has established in order to build and maintain a strong network of more than 15,000 independent dealers across North America."
For more information, or to rent your moving equipment today, call 512-565-9982. Business hours of operation are: Mon. Fri. 9 a.m. 5 p.m. and Sat. 9 a.m. 1 p.m.
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