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"Insanligin Sifreleri" / "The Codes of Humanity": Selcuk ARSLAN at TEDxAnkaraCitadel – Video

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Planet X – Mystery Planet Discovered Hidden as Comets Colliding reveal its existence. – Video

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Credit: NASA #39;s Goddard Space Flight Center An international team of astronomers exploring the disk of gas and dust the bright star Beta Pictoris have uncover...

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Workington Comets lift first silverware of season

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Workington Comets lifted their first silverware of the season after winning the Ian Thomas Shield with a 77-73 aggregate victory over Newcastle Diamonds.

Comets' Josh Grajczonek leads Diamonds Stuart Robson and Ludvig Lindgren

The lead changed hands throughout the two legs but Comets just edged the contest in the final few heats at Brough Park last night.

Workington won the first leg 33-27 at Derwent Park, on Saturday, after the match was abandoned after heat 10 following heavy rain.

Diamonds won the second leg by 46-44 but lost out by four points overall.

The second leg saw several re-runs after riders fell from their bikes and either side could have clinched the contest in the final heats.

With the aggregate score at 66-66, heat 13 proved the turning point for Comets.

Workington recorded a 5-1, with new captain Rene Bach bagging first and number one Josh Grajczonek securing second.

Comets went on to win 77-73 on aggregate.

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Group says policy changes would boost Cdn travel and tourism

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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) Would you be more likely to take a trip to another part of Canada if travel taxes were lower?

A group that looks at tourism and travel globally says the government needs to do more to cash in on the industrys potential.

The World Travel and Tourism Council argues certain policies are making it tough for visitors to get here. President and CEO David Scowsill says travel taxes and visa policies are among them.

He says travel and tourism is expected to grow by around four per cent in 2014, but the industry is basically static in terms of people coming here.

The statistics we look at show about 10 years ago, around 20 million people would come to Canada every year, for both business and leisure; that number has dropped to around 16 million.

One of the biggest changes Scowsill recommends is a freeze or reduction of some tourism taxes because the taxation levels are pretty high compared with other destinations at the moment and that makes it very expensive to travel both to Canada and within Canada.

The Council adds domestic tourism accounts for two thirds of Canadas travel and tourism economy. It says lower prices would be a positive, adding taxes tack on a lot to the price of travelling to and within the country.

Scowsill says measures like a plan to introduce e-visas next year are a step in the right direction, and advocates the visa process continuing to be simplified and sped up to make it easier for people to visit.

He also recommends the government look at providing incentives for investors to develop new services and products for tourists.

Scowsill adds tourism and travel provides 4.5 per cent of GDP to Canadas economy.

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Tourism revenues seen to rise

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Sector to contribute P490B this year, says report By Amy R. Remo Philippine Daily Inquirer

MANILA, PhilippinesThe contribution of the travel and tourism sector to the Philippine economy is seen to increase by 3.8 percent to P490.2 billion this year, a report released by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) showed.

Last year, travel and tourism contributed P472.3 billion, equivalent to 4.2 percent of the countrys gross domestic product.

According to the Travel and Tourism Economic Impact 2014 report, the direct contribution of this sector to the GDP is seen further growing by 5.6 percent year on year up to 2024 to an estimated value of P843.3 billion.

Direct contribution reflects the economic activity generated by affected industries such as hotels, travel agents, airlines and other passenger transportation services.

Total contribution to GDP, which includes wider effects from investment, the supply chain and induced income impacts, is seen rising by 3.8 percent to P1.34 trillion this year from P1.29 trillion in 2013.

The report further showed that the employment generated by this sector is seen growing by 1.7 percent this year, to account for 1.25 million of the total jobs. By 2024, travel and tourism will account for 1.6 million of the direct jobs, reflecting an increase of 2.5 percent yearly over the next decade.

For this year, the Philippines is expected to post a 2-percent increase in visitor exports from the P221 billion posted in 2013, and is expected to attract 4.7 million international tourist arrivals, the WTTC said. By 2024, international tourist arrivals are forecast to reach 7.88 million, generating an expenditure of P455.7 billion.

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Bolaris: Super cyclone will graze Philly

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The very latest models indicate that a storm now slowly developing along the Southeast coast will move generally northeastward and "bomb," or rapidly intensify, into a super Western Atlantic cyclone by very late tonight.

Luckily all the major cities from Washington, D.C. to Philly to New York City & possibly even Boston look to avoid any heavy snow accumulations.

But coastal sections of New Jersey, and central and southern Delaware stand an increasing chance of heavier snow amounts, perhaps in a few places exceeding 4 inches.

The capes of New England have blizzard watches posted and will be dealing with a dangerous and very powerful storm with winds in excess of 50mph and snows of 6-12 inches depending on the storm's exact placement.

The set-up

The storm, now slowly developing along the Southeast coast, will merge with some very explosive energy diving down into the base of an energized trough, which will phase the Northern and Southern Jet energy (bring them together as one powerful jet) at the same time the trough (deep atmospheric valley in the East which enhances storm development) will take on a negative tilt (as the trough valley actually tilts back toward the coast). This will act as the final explosive mechanism allowing for a super cyclone to form.

Latest computer guidance keeps this storm far enough off the Northeast coast to limit its impact in the Philly region.

But with that being said, as this storm begins its transition into a superstorm, an enhancement of snow growth should start to take place along the Southeast coast of New Jersey, especially Cape May County and central and southern Delaware, south of Dover.

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Computer Scientists & Multidisciplinary Team Receive Grant to Build Faster, More Efficient Supercomputer Prototype

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Newswise The National Science Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to researchers at Texas Tech University to develop a new supercomputer prototype that could lead to more efficient data-intensive computing - and speed-up the scientific discovery cycle.

Yong Chen, assistant professor of computer science and Director of Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Laboratory at Texas Tech University, is leading a team of researchers in a project titled, Development of a Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Instrument (DISCI) for High Performance Computing.

High performance computers traditionally are designed for computation-intensive problems, Chen said. They are not a good fit for the increasingly important data-intensive applications.

Imagine trying to use a 35 year old computer to perform modern day tasks, such as streaming a movie. It would be impossible because that particular device was only meant for computations.

In computing technology, advancement in software has always lagged behind hardware, said Rattikorn Hewett, department chair and professor of computer science. Just like having a modern home running an old plumbing system, sophisticated high performance computers alone cant perform well without advanced mechanisms for Data movement and Data access. Dr. Chens project attempts to unlock this problem with software solutions that would potentially have great impacts on anyone who uses data intensively.

Chen says existing supercomputers experience comparable behavior, but on a much larger scale, for many data-intensive scientific and enterprise computing problems.

Data generation has become so cheap and so easy, Chen said. Almost everyone has a smartphone capable of taking pictures or video. Gene sequencers have never been so cheap. The proliferation of sensors, embedded devices and mobile devices has led to data generation easier than never before. The problem comes with data storage, retrieval and utilization.

The teams goal is to create a supercomputer that will enable academic departments, cross-disciplinary units and collaborators to analyze and utilize their data, and put them to use with accuracy, speed and efficiency.

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Mariachi Assassins – Call of Duty Ghosts Xbox One Campaign Walkthrough Ep. 1 w/ Kosko – Video

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NASA Marshall Kicks Off Game Changing Composite Cryotank Testing

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NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., is set to begin a series of structural and pressure tests on one of the largest composite cryogenic fuel tanks ever manufactured. Advanced composite cryotanks will help enable NASA's future deep space exploration missions.

Media are invited to view the unloading of the 18-foot-diameter (5.5-meter) composite cryotank from NASAs Super Guppy aircraft onMarch 27 at 7 a.m. CDTat Redstone Army Airfield. In addition, journalists are invited to interview John Vickers, NASA project manager, Composite Cryotank Technology Demonstration (CCTD), and Dan Rivera, Boeing program manager for CCTD.

For more than 50 years, metal tanks have carried fuel to launch rockets and propelled them into space. NASA is pursuing composite cryogenic fuel tanks, a potentially game-changing technology, because the tanks could yield significant cost and weight reductions on future launch vehicles. Once installed in Marshalls test facility, the composite cryotank will undergo a series of tests at extreme pressures and temperatures, similar to those experienced during spaceflight.

Reporters interested in covering the tank arrival should contact Janet Anderson (janet.l.anderson@nasa.gov) of the Marshall Public & Employee Communications Office at256-544-0034.

Journalists must report to the Redstone Visitor Center at Gate 9, Interstate 565 interchange at Rideout Road/Research Park Boulevard no later than6 a.m., Thursday, March 27, for escort to the Redstone Army Airfield.

Vehicles are subject to a security search at the gate. Journalists will need a photo identification and proof of car insurance.

For more information about how the Composite Cryotank Technologies and Demonstration project will revolutionize tank design, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/news/releases/2014/14-043.html

The project is part of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, which is innovating, developing, testing and flying hardware for use in NASA's future missions. For more information about NASA's investment in space technology, visit:

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Despite US-Russia tensions, space station launch to go as planned

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The political acrimony following Russia's annexation of Crimea hasn't extended into Earth's orbit, as a US astronaut and two Russian astronaut prepare to fly to the International Space Station on Tuesday.

The tense political relationship between the United States and Russia will not affect the planned launch of a NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts to the International Space Station Tuesday (March 25), NASA officials reiterated last week.

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The situation in the Ukraine has led to heightened tensions between Russia and the United States recently. Russian President Vladimir Putin annexedCrimea, a region of the Ukraine, making the peninsula a part of Russia on Friday (March 21). President Barack Obama and other world leaders have condemned Putin's decision, bringing sanctions against Russia in response.

NASA's Steve Swanson and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev are set to launch atop a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station Tuesday, and thepolitical climatewill not disturb this event, NASA officials have said. The political situation has not affected the relationship between the Russian and U.S. space programs, NASA spokesman Josh Byerly wrote in an email to Space.com Friday (March 21). [See views of Earth taken by astronauts in space]

"We have a great relationship with all of our international partners, and the crew is focused on launch," Byerly told Space.com.

Since the end of NASA's space shuttle program, the agency has relied on Russia'sSoyuz spacecraftto ferry astronauts to and from the space station. By 2017, NASA officials hope to start using private spacecraft now under development in the United States to deliver astronauts to orbit.

International cooperation plays a huge role in the space station program, Mike Fossum, deputy director of flight crew operations for the International Space Station, said during an interview on March 23.

"I think the international cooperation of the 15 nations we have participating in the International Space Station program is really important," Fossum said. "It's great as we share our resources from the different countries, our skills and our teamwork, our experience come together to make these kinds of things happen. It's important to us now to have the Russian Soyuz spacecraft as our way of getting people to and from theInternational Space Station."

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