International Space Station patch designed by astronomy buffs at Granada Hills' Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences

Narek Baghosian and Florian Storz, members of the Astronomy Club at Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences in Granada Hills, have designed a patch that will be carried on a privately funded flight to the International Space Station.

The patch was the winning entry in a contest sponsored by the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, which also selects student-devised research projects to carry into space.

The Astronomy Club meets Wednesdays, devising scientific experiments that could be conducted during deep-space missions within the future Orion program or future missions to Mars. The club's advisers are teachers Angel Ireys, Doug Pischell and James Emley.

The SSEP is a partnership between the National Center for Earth and Science Science Education and NanoRacks LLC.

Members of the Astronomy Club at the the Valley Academy of Arts and Science run by teachers Angel Ireys, Doug Pischell and James Emley.

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AI Artificial Intelligence (2001) Movie Review – Video


AI Artificial Intelligence (2001) Movie Review
This is my review of the 2001 movie A,I, Artificial Intelligence. Please leave comments and rate this video. Please subscribe to see more great videos. My website is at awesomemoviework.blogspot.com See more videos at http://www.youtube.com My Facebook: http://www.facebook.com My Twitter: twitter.com My Blip.tv: transformerkenny.blip.tv My Webs.com: kenrogersprimemovies.webs.com

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Engineers solve a biological mystery and boost artificial intelligence

Jan. 29, 2013 By simulating 25,000 generations of evolution within computers, Cornell University engineering and robotics researchers have discovered why biological networks tend to be organized as modules -- a finding that will lead to a deeper understanding of the evolution of complexity.

The new insight also will help evolve artificial intelligence, so robot brains can acquire the grace and cunning of animals.

From brains to gene regulatory networks, many biological entities are organized into modules -- dense clusters of interconnected parts within a complex network. For decades biologists have wanted to know why humans, bacteria and other organisms evolved in a modular fashion. Like engineers, nature builds things modularly by building and combining distinct parts, but that does not explain how such modularity evolved in the first place. Renowned biologists Richard Dawkins, Gnter P. Wagner, and the late Stephen Jay Gould identified the question of modularity as central to the debate over "the evolution of complexity."

For years, the prevailing assumption was simply that modules evolved because entities that were modular could respond to change more quickly, and therefore had an adaptive advantage over their non-modular competitors. But that may not be enough to explain the origin of the phenomena.

The team discovered that evolution produces modules not because they produce more adaptable designs, but because modular designs have fewer and shorter network connections, which are costly to build and maintain. As it turned out, it was enough to include a "cost of wiring" to make evolution favor modular architectures.

This theory is detailed in "The Evolutionary Origins of Modularity," published January 29 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society by Hod Lipson, Cornell associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; Jean-Baptiste Mouret, a robotics and computer science professor at Universit Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris; and by Jeff Clune, a former visiting scientist at Cornell and currently an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Wyoming.

To test the theory, the researchers simulated the evolution of networks with and without a cost for network connections.

"Once you add a cost for network connections, modules immediately appear. Without a cost, modules never form. The effect is quite dramatic," says Clune.

The results may help explain the near-universal presence of modularity in biological networks as diverse as neural networks -- such as animal brains -- and vascular networks, gene regulatory networks, protein-protein interaction networks, metabolic networks and even human-constructed networks such as the Internet.

"Being able to evolve modularity will let us create more complex, sophisticated computational brains," says Clune.

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I Work at UA: Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering Amy Lang – Video


I Work at UA: Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering Amy Lang
While most of us are hoping to just make it through four years of college, not everyone decides to leave. Some choose to stay and teach. Meet Dr. Amy Lang. She works at UA. Original Release Date: August 31, 2009

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AEROSPACE TUBING POLISHING MACHINE – Video


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AEROSPACE TUBING POLISHING MACHINE Orbital abrasive belt grinding machine for tube polishing, buffing, linishing and satin finishing on bent and straight pipes or taper poles made of stainless steel, iron, brass, aluminium, titanium, carbon fibre or plastic as well as round, oval, elliptical or irregular section tubes .

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PASSUR Aerospace Reports an Increase in Net Income of 9% to $2.9 Million for Fiscal Year 2012

STAMFORD, Conn., Jan. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --PASSUR Aerospace, Inc (PSSR), a business intelligence software and solutions company, announced that net income increased 9% to $2,861,000 or $.36 per diluted share for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2012, compared to $2,634,000 or $.39 per diluted share in the fiscal year ended October 31, 2011. Included in net income for fiscal years 2012 and 2011 was an income tax benefit of $1,776,000, and $1,572,000, respectively.

Total Company revenue decreased 8% to $12,507,000 for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2012, compared to $13,609,000 in the fiscal year ended October 31, 2011, despite all-time record revenue of slightly over $10 million from the Company's North American airline, airport, and business aviation sector. Fiscal year 2012 revenue from this sector was about 7% above fiscal year 2011's level of approximately $9,500,000. For the first time, PASSUR customers include all eight of the top eight North American airlines.

Revenue from PASSUR's international, professional services, and government sector dropped approximately 43%, to about $2.4 million, compared to approximately $4.3 million in fiscal year 2011, as a result of the completion of a government contract and of a professional service engagement.

Operating profit for fiscal year 2012 decreased approximately 30% to $1,378,000, compared to $1,974,000 in fiscal year 2011. Income before taxes increased $23,000, or 2%, to $1,085,000 in fiscal year 2012, compared to $1,062,000 in the prior year.

PASSUR's major achievements and developments during fiscal year 2012 are summarized below. The Company:

"We continue to experience growth in our core commercial markets," said Jim Barry, PASSUR Aerospace's President & CEO. "We are proud that revenue from our North American airline, airport, and business aviation sector reached a record level last year. We are also particularly pleased to announce that, for the first time, all eight of North America's top airlines are contracting with PASSUR. This is a major achievement for the company and testimony to the value of our new PASSUR Integrated Traffic Management platform and, we believe, its positive impact on our customers' overall system reliability as well as cash flow. Finally, our continued investment in collaborative industrial social networks introduces the PASSUR platform to a worldwide community of aviation professionals the next generation of PASSUR customers."

"We believe our customers can, using PASSUR's unique product suite, address costs and problems previously thought unsolvable, by leveraging Big Data, collaborative platforms, industrial social networks, and smart decision support technology," said G.S. Beckwith Gilbert, PASSUR Aerospace Chairman of the Board.

About PASSUR Aerospace, Inc. PASSUR Aerospace, Inc. is a business intelligence company that provides predictive analytics built on proprietary algorithms and the concurrent integration and simultaneous mining of multiple databases. We believe PASSUR is the industry standard in business intelligence dashboards and predictive analytics for aviation organizations. PASSUR serves dozens of airlines (including the top eight North American airlines), approximately 60 airport customers (including 22 of the top 30 North American airports), and approximately 200 corporate aviation customers, as well as the U.S. government. PASSUR's system provides coast-to-coast coverage and is driven by proprietary, patented, business intelligence software, which is powered by a unique North American network of 155 passive radars, company owned. Supplementary, detailed coverage is also provided at 98 of the top 100 North American airports. Other PASSURs are located in Europe and Asia. Flight tracks are updated between 1 and 4.6 seconds, thereby making available a system, which is user-friendly and useful for decision-making. Visit PASSUR Aerospace's website at http://www.passur.com for updated products, solutions, and news.

Forward-Looking Statements The information provided in this press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding the Company's future plans, objectives, and expected performance. The words "believe," "may," "will," "could," "should," "would," "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "project," "intend," "objective," "seek," "strive," "might," "likely result," "build," "grow," "plan," "goal," "expand," "position," or similar words, or the negatives of these words, or similar terminology, identify forward-looking statements. These statements are based on assumptions that the Company believes are reasonable, but are subject to a wide range of risks and uncertainties, and a number of factors could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements referred to above. These factors include, without limitation: the ability of the Company to sell data subscriptions from its PASSUR Proprietary Surveillance Network and to make new sales of its PASSUR and other product lines (due to potential competitive pressure from other companies or other products); the current uncertainty in the aviation industry due to terrorist events, the continued war on terrorism, changes in fuel costs, airline bankruptcies and consolidations; economic conditions; future changes in governmental regulation and the impact that such changes in regulation will have on the Company's business; the Company's ability to attract and maintain the personnel necessary to sell, manufacture, and service its products; the Company's ability to adequately protect its intellectual property; the Company's ability to secure future financing; the Company's ability to maintain the continued support of its significant shareholder and the risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which relate only to events as of the date on which the statements are made and which reflect management's analysis, judgments, belief, or expectation only as of such date. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements for any reason, even if new information becomes available or other events occur in the future. Readers are advised, however, to consult any further disclosures we make on related subjects in our Forms 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K.

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B/E Aerospace Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2012 Financial Results; Fourth Quarter 2012 EPS Up 30%; Full Year …

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B/E Aerospace, Inc. (BEAV), the worlds leading manufacturer of aircraft cabin interior products and the worlds leading distributor of aerospace fasteners and consumables, today announced fourth quarter and full year 2012 financial results.

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FULL YEAR 2012 HIGHLIGHTS VERSUS FULL YEAR 2011

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FOURTH QUARTER CONSOLIDATED RESULTS

Fourth quarter 2012 revenues of $803.2 million increased $148.5 million, or 22.7 percent, as compared with the prior year period.

Operating earnings were $138.1 million, an increase of 26.6 percent, and operating margin of 17.2 percent increased 50 basis points. The growth in operating earnings and the improvement in operating margin occurred primarily as a result of operating leverage at the higher sales volume and ongoing operational efficiency initiatives. Operating earnings and operating margin, adjusted to exclude acquisition, integration and transition (AIT) costs, were $142.2 million and 17.7 percent.

Net earnings and earnings per diluted share were $75.2 million and $0.73 per share, increases of 31.2 percent and 30.4 percent, respectively.

Commenting on the Companys fourth quarter and full year 2012 performance, Amin J. Khoury, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of B/E Aerospace said, I am pleased to report, our 2012 results which were the best in the Companys history. 2012 revenues, operating earnings, operating margin, bookings and backlog were all records, and net earnings and EPS, adjusted to exclude debt prepayment costs, were also records. Our revenue growth continues to be driven primarily by the robust new aircraft delivery cycle. Approximately 61 percent of fourth quarter and full year 2012 revenues was driven by demand for products for new-buy aircraft reflecting both robust new aircraft deliveries and weaker aftermarket demand.

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Sikorsky Aerospace Services Provides In-Country Depot Level Repairs to Colombian Army BLACK HAWK Fleet

SHELTON, Conn., Jan. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Sikorsky Aerospace Services (SAS) today announced plans to structurally repair seven damaged UH-60L BLACK HAWK helicopters for the Colombian Army (COLAR) at its base depot in Tolemaida, Colombia. To ensure sustained support for operations as mandated by the Colombian Army, the Colombian Army Aviation (part of the Army's Combined Arms Team) has continued to expand its in-country BLACK HAWK maintenance services tripling the size of the Sikorsky Depot Team. Sikorsky Aerospace Services (SAS) is the aftermarket business of Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (UTX).

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"Colombia has been our valued customer for over thirty years. Our ability to support the operational readiness of the Colombian Armed Services is paramount in their efforts to ensure national order and security," said Frank DiPasquale, SAS Vice-President of Sales & Strategic Relationships. "The capacity to perform these repairs in-country will represent significant savings to our customer and underscores our ability to be a full life-cycle service provider. The success of this program provides economical options for Sikorsky BLACK HAWK operators worldwide."

Colombia operates the world's fourth-largest BLACK HAWK fleet. The technical and tactical characteristics of the UH-60L fleet provide the mobility and penetration required by the Colombian Army to execute a variety of dynamic missions. To provide the requisite support to COLAR units, the Air Assault Aviation Division of the National Army requires optimum fleet readiness and airworthiness. The UH-60L aircraft support air assault, reconnaissance, supply and other missions.

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., based in Stratford, Conn., is a world leader in helicopter design, manufacture and service. Its Sikorsky Aerospace Services business designs and applies advanced logistics and supply chain solutions for commercial rotary, military rotary and fixed wing operators. United Technologies Corp., based in Hartford, Conn., provides a broad range of high technology products and support services to the aerospace and building systems industries worldwide.

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Silver Saver – Nanotechnology Keeps the Shine on Silver – Video


Silver Saver - Nanotechnology Keeps the Shine on Silver
Scientists from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland, have teamed up with conservators from the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Md., to develop and test a new, high-tech way to protect silver art objects and artifacts, using coatings that are mere nanometers thick. The technique, called atomic layer deposition (ALD), will be used to create metal oxide films which, when applied to an artifact, are both transparent and optimized to reduce the rate of silver corrosion. The project is funded by the NSF #39;s SCIART grant program, which supports research in the field of cultural heritage science through the funding of collaborations among conservation experts in museums and scientists in academia. In April 2011 the National Science Foundation #39;s Science Nation web site, which highlights scientific discoveries for the public, debuted this video segment about the project called "Silver Saver," narrated by former CNN chief technology and environment correspondent Miles O #39;Brien.

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