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2014 NASA Racing Season
The start of all the races I recorded from the 2014 season. Wish I had them all but this is still fun to watch.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Spacewalking astronauts replaced a failed electrical unit at the International Space Station on Wednesday, restoring full power to the orbiting lab. The space station had been operating since spring with only seven of its eight solar-power channels. Wednesday's work by Reid Wiseman and Butch Wilmore NASA's second spacewalk in two weeks brought the energy capability back up to 100 percent. The spacewalkers encountered balky bolts but still managed to complete the job in the allotted time, with less than two minutes to spare. "Yoo-hoo!" they cheered as NASA declared victory.
With their main job completed, the spacewalkers installed a new camera, and moved around various camera and wireless radio systems. The relocations are needed to get ready for the eventual arrival of new commercial crew vehicles. That's still a few years away. "It's been a very successful day," Mission Control said as the 6.5-hour spacewalk drew to a close. A Russian spacewalk, meanwhile, is on tap for next Wednesday.
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NASA has had little flying robots called SPHERESon board the InternationalSpace Stationsince 2006. Thats closing in on a decade of successful operations, in that theyve mostly behaved themselves and done everything that their astronaut masters have asked them to do. So thats all well and good, but the idea (or one of the ideas) behind putting robots on the ISS was to get them to do useful things, ultimately freeing up the astronauts to look out the windows more often. And, you know,science.
Neither the little SPHERES robots nor Robonaut 2 have been able to contribute to inspection and basic maintenance tasks. NASA has just announced a contest to name a new, ISS-bound robotic system calledthe Free Flying Robot, which will be the next step towards robots that are useful in space.
As the push for manned and automated exploration of the solar system expands, NASA & the NASA Ames Research Center are creating controlled and autonomous robotic devices capable of supplementing flight crew. These Free Flying Robots will eventually extend the research & exploration capabilities of Astronauts, as they are capable of working during off-hours and (eventually) in extreme environments.
NASA says that these robots will carry mobile sensors such as an RFID reader for logging inventory & inspect items using a built in camera, which sounds useful to me, and the agency also suggests at least one other scenario for the bot:
While we dont have any more technicaldetails (yet), were expecting that the Free-flyerwill incorporate all the incremental upgrades that weve seen with SPHERES, including a smartphone-ish brain (which you can sort of make out in the illustration) and a suite of sensors potentially including Project Tango, which would allow the robots to keep track of where they are and avoid obstacles in their way. One notable departure from the SPHERES design is that the free-flyer robot uses fans to propel itself, as opposed to CO2 jets, which allows it to run without a finite fuel source. Self-recharging is planned, too.
Acting as a mobile camera is only one scenario; the important thing is that the robots be reliablycontrollable in real time by a ground operator, so that they can get stuff done independently of any direct astronaut assistance of supervision.Eventually, more robust versions ofrobots like these may even be able to exit the station entirely, taking over exterior inspection and maintenance tasks as well.
If you want a shot at naming these robots and designing a patch for the mission (US $1,000 if you win!), you can submit your ideashere. Submissions are due 22 October, and the winner will be chosen 2 November.
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Astronauts Reid Wiseman, 38, and Butch Wilmore, 51, replaced a failed electrical unit at the International Space Station Spacewalkers encountered balky bolts but still managed to complete the job in the allotted time They traveled 260 miles from earth to reach ISS
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Published: 14:01 EST, 15 October 2014 | Updated: 19:51 EST, 15 October 2014
NASA's spacewalking astronauts replaced a failed electrical unit at the International Space Station on Wednesday, restoring full power to the orbiting lab.
The space station had been operating since spring with only seven of its eight solar-power channels.
The work by Reid Wiseman. 38, and Butch Wilmore, 51, NASA's second spacewalk in two weeks brought the energy capability back up to 100 percent.
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman (right) and Barry Wilmore (left) seen working inside the International Space Station previously on October 1, 2014
The spacewalkers encountered balky bolts but still managed to complete the job in the allotted time, with less than two minutes to spare.
'Yoo-hoo!' they cheered as NASA declared victory.
The voltage regulator shorted out in May but could not be replaced until now because of a yearlong hiatus in non-emergency spacewalks by NASA.
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PITTSBURGHUniversity of Pittsburgh researchers recently received another $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to continue a combined multi-university, private-industry effort to develop implantable medical devices made from biodegradable metals.
Body-degradable metalsusually magnesium basedare not new, having been originally considered in the late 19th century. But, says Pitt's William Wagner, deputy director of the project and a principal investigator, "the question comes when you start to design medical devices for a specific application and a clinical partner says, 'We want that to be gone in a month, or a month-and-a-half, or we want that to be there for a year.'" Then you have to figure out how to meet those specifications, he says.
To that end, the Pitt team as well as collaborators at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. A&T) are creating new alloys and new manufacturing processes that suit clinical demands. The consortium seeks to design devices that can adapt to changes in a patient's body and dissolve once healing has occurred, reducing the follow-up procedures and potential complications of major orthopedic, craniofacial, and cardiovascular procedures and sparing millions of patients worldwide added pain and medical expenses.
Thus far, the consortium has created novel screws and plates for facial reconstruction, a stent to be used in kidney dialysis, a nerve guide, and a ring that will assist in pulling together and healing ruptured ligaments. The group has also created a tracheal stent for pediatric patients whose tracheas are underdeveloped at birth and prone to collapse. Once the stent is implanted, Wagnerdirector of Pitt's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and professor of surgery, bioengineering, and chemical engineering in the School of Medicine and Swanson School of Engineeringsays it would dissolve, obviating the need for a second procedure on the young patient.
The consortium's original grant, received in 2008, was for a total of $18.5 million over five years, shared by Pitt, UC, and the project's lead institution, N.C. A&T. The total of the grant extension is $4 million, including the $1.5 million received by Pitt.
Wagner says the project can be funded for up to 10 years, with the hope that the group effort will become self-sustaining. "Several devices are fairly far along in pre-clinical testing and are on the third, fourth, or fifth prototype," he says.
N.C. A&T, a Historically Black College and University with expertise in metallurgy, is serving as the lead institution on the project through its National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials. The University of Cincinnati has brought cutting-edge nano- and sensor technology to the table. Pitt's strength lies in biomaterials, bioengineering, and regenerative medicine.
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Newswise Stony Brook, NY, October 15, 2014 The proteins that drive DNA replicationthe force behind cellular growth and reproductionare some of the most complex machines on Earth. The multistep replication process involves hundreds of atomic-scale moving parts that rapidly interact and transform. Mapping that dense molecular machinery is one of the most promising and challenging frontiers in medicine and biology.
Now, a team of scientists from Stony Brook University, the U.S. Department of Energys Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and the Imperial College in London have pinpointed crucial steps in the beginning of the replication process, including surprising structural details about the enzyme that unzips and splits the DNA double helix so the two halves can serve as templates for DNA duplication. Their findings are published today online in the journal Genes and Development.
The genesis of the DNA-unwinding machinery is wonderfully complex and surprising, said study coauthor Huilin Li, a Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Stony Brook University and a biologist at BNL. Seeing this helicase enzyme prepare to surround and unwind the DNA at the molecular level helps us understand the most fundamental process of life, and how the process might go wrong. Errors in copying DNA are found in certain cancers, and this work could one day help develop new treatment methods that stall or break dangerous runaway machinery.
The research combined electron microscopy, perfectly distilled proteins, and a method of chemical freezing to isolate specific moments at the start of replication. It picks up where two previous studies by Li and colleagues left off. They first determined the structure of the "Origin Recognition Complex" (ORC), a protein that identifies and attaches to specific DNA sites to initiate the entire replication process. The second study revealed how the ORC recruits, cracks open, and installs a crucial ring-shaped protein structure (Mcm2-7) that lies at the core of the helicase enzyme.
But DNA replication is a bi-directional process with two helicases moving in opposite directions. The key question, then, was how does a second helicase core get recruited and loaded onto the DNA in the opposite orientation of the first?
To our surprise, we found an intermediate structure with one ORC binding two rings, said Brookhaven Lab biologist and lead author Jingchuan Sun. This discovery suggests that a single ORC, rather than the commonly believed two-ORC system, loads both helicase rings.
One step further along, the researchers also determined the molecular architecture of the final double-ring structure left behind after the ORC leaves the system, offering a number of key biological insights.
We now have clues to how that double-ring structure stably lingers until the cell enters the DNA-synthesis phase much later on in replication, said study coauthor Christian Speck of Imperial College, London. This study revealed key regulatory principles that explain how the helicase activity is initially suppressed and then becomes reactivated to begin its work splitting the DNA.
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Scientists Map Key Moment in Assembly of DNA-Splitting Molecular Machine
The proteins that drive DNA replication -- the force behind cellular growth and reproduction -- are some of the most complex machines on Earth. The multistep replication process involves hundreds of atomic-scale moving parts that rapidly interact and transform. Mapping that dense molecular machinery is one of the most promising and challenging frontiers in medicine and biology.
Now, scientists have pinpointed crucial steps in the beginning of the replication process, including surprising structural details about the enzyme that "unzips" and splits the DNA double helix so the two halves can serve as templates for DNA duplication.
The research combined electron microscopy, perfectly distilled proteins, and a method of chemical freezing to isolate specific moments at the start of replication. The study -- authored by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Imperial College, London -- published on Oct. 15, 2014, in the journal Genes and Development.
"The genesis of the DNA-unwinding machinery is wonderfully complex and surprising," said study coauthor Huilin Li, a biologist at Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University. "Seeing this helicase enzyme prepare to surround and unwind the DNA at the molecular level helps us understand the most fundamental process of life and how that process might go wrong. Errors in copying DNA are found in certain cancers, and this work could one day help develop new treatment methods that stall or break dangerous runaway machinery."
The research picks up where two previous studies by Li and colleagues left off. They first determined the structure of the "Origin Recognition Complex" (ORC), a protein that identifies and attaches to specific DNA sites to initiate the entire replication process. The second study revealed how the ORC recruits, cracks open, and installs a crucial ring-shaped protein structure (Mcm2-7) that lies at the core of the helicase enzyme.
But DNA replication is a bi-directional process with two helicases moving in opposite directions. The key question, then, was how does a second helicase core get recruited and loaded onto the DNA in the opposite orientation of the first?
"To our surprise, we found an intermediate structure with one ORC binding two rings," said Brookhaven Lab biologist and lead author Jingchuan Sun. "This discovery suggests that a single ORC, rather than the commonly believed two-ORC system, loads both helicase rings."
One step further along, the researchers also determined the molecular architecture of the final double-ring structure left behind after the ORC leaves the system, offering a number of key biological insights.
"We now have clues to how that double-ring structure stably lingers until the cell enters the DNA-synthesis phase much later on in replication," said study coauthor Christian Speck of Imperial College, London. "This study revealed key regulatory principles that explain how the helicase activity is initially suppressed and then becomes reactivated to begin its work splitting the DNA."
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ListStuffFast, the new home inventory app for use on iPhone and iPad is likely the fastest way to create a workable home inventory. The app is also helpful in moves or in simple Estate and Divorce Divisions. ListStuffFast takes a different approach to home inventory listing needs than existing apps on the market. The app creator, David MacMahan says keeping it simple and fast to complete was the best way to help people be prepared for a loss from natural disaster, or ready to create item lists for estate planning, moving, downsizing, etc. The app is touted by the company "as a great all-purpose home inventory solution that a person may really use". $4.99 in the Apple Store provides for up to three properties, and unlimited rooms, photos and items per property. ListStuffFast Lite is also available to test or for small homes or apartments for free.
David MacMahan, founder of DivvyMaster.com, the developer of ListStuffFast, says he was a guest speaker at an estate planning seminar with around one hundred home owners in the audience last year. At that event he asked to see a show of hands of those who have a current home inventory. Only one hand raised.
He then asked: "Given that we live in fire and earthquake prone areas, how many of you have thought about or wished you had a home inventory?" He says pretty much all hands were raised. In follow up discussion, some attendees indicated they had started a home inventory, but found it too overwhelming and time consuming to get very far, so they never finished.
That's when MacMahan tested several available apps and found that they were designed to be a "perfect world wish list" of insurance company requested information on each item. After researching, he found all those item details were not actually required by insurance companies to file a claim, just requested if available. Several insurance sites actually noted that the main problem for consumers filing claims was an inability to remember all that was lost. He wondered if there wasn't a way to make a home inventory so simple it would seem silly not to have it if needed, and easy enough to just be an easy "honey-do list" item.
The key, MacMahan says, ended up being the idea of creating a photo inventory room by room. The specific item and item details can be added "when or if" ever needed, and to the level needed. Focusing on taking detailed photos of the rooms and any documents laid out together so the reference information is available is critical. For some uses, like divorce asset listings, heir distributions, downsizing, moving or probate asset listings, much less detail is typically needed to generate the reports needed. A unique photo tagging system allows multiple items to be detailed within each room photo and a wide array of reports and ways to sort the lists.
Soon the photos and item information created in ListStuffFast will be able to upload to DivvyMaster.com. There additional services, including assistance identifying, listing and valuing items, online appraisals and access to the newly patented DivvyMaster online division tools for estates, divorces and downsizing are found.
DivvyMaster.com, was founded in 2011 by entrepreneur David MacMahan to create innovative online solutions to the practical and emotional challenges of death, divorce and downsizing. A U.S. software patent was issued to DivvyMaster in August of this year. The new DivvyMaster online division solutions to compliment the new ListStuffFast iOS app are expected to be available in early 2015.
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The mind always wanders, and Mount Allison professor Leah Garnett's Drawing on Air has encouraged daydreaming since she began the project in 2002. With a broadcast station at King's Wharf and a listening room at The Nook, Garnett will read stories that invite drawing what the mind imagines.
"I have always been intrigued by how radio demands that listeners imagine visuals for what they are hearing," she explains. "In that respect, listeners contribute to the broadcast by 'drawing' the content in their minds. When I began Drawing on Air, I wanted to explore the differences between verbal and visual communication, and what would happen when listeners translated verbal descriptions into images," Garnett says. "I was interested tosee how differently listeners would interpret verbal descriptions. Inevitably, there was tons of variation."
During Nocturne, Garnett and a team of assistants will upload the drawings online if listeners choose to share them, as a growing live gallery in real time.
Garnett has had an interest in the power of aural communication and radio since childhood. "I grew up without a television and my family listened to the radio every day. We lived in Maine where the public radio station played fantastic children's programming, so I became an early fan of hearing stories and radio dramas on air," she says. "I hope that Drawing on Air encourages people to draw no matter their abilities. Technical skill shouldn't stop anyone from giving vision to their imaginations."
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The most important regulator of fall color change is the lengthening of night. Longer, cooler nights and less intense sunlight during the day trigger leaves to prepare to fall from the tree. Chlorophyll production slows and eventually stops, and the veins that carry fluids into the leaf close off, trapping sugars in the leaf and promoting production of anthocyanin, a pigment that produces red colors. The green chlorophyll in the leaves is eventually destroyed, leaving behind the yellows, oranges and reds that signal fall.
Weather and climate conditions also impact when leaves begin to change color, how intense color is, and how long color lasts. A warm wet spring followed by typical summer weather and a fall with warm, sunny days and cool (but not freezing!) nights generally produce the best color. A late spring or severe summer drought can delay the onset of color, while a warm period during the fall season may dampen fall colors. Wind and rain storms can bring leaves down early, shortening the fall foliage season. Other environmental factors, like damage from insects or wildfire, can also impact tree foliage.
Enjoy what fall has to offer. Take a walk in your neighborhood, visit a local park, or hit the road on one of Americas National Scenic Byways, many of which were planned with fall color in mind. Use this illustration to identify some common trees and their fall foliage where you live and dont forget to upload your fall foliage photos to the Eyes on Central PA Mission!
Want to go a step further? Fall into Phenology with Project Budburst by observing plants in your community during September and October and sharing your observations to help scientists study trends in how plants change in the fall. Dont know much about plants or need help with identification? No problem. Project Budburst has tips for beginners and experts alike. Learn more.
(Sources: U.S. Forest Service Science of Fall Colors. http://www.fs.fed.us/fallcolors/2012/science.shtml; William Deedler, National Weather Service. Faster Fall Foliage? http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/foliage.php Project BudBurst, http://www.budburst.org)
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US Stoner Doom Metal band Into The Cellar "Medicine" From the album "Into The Cellar" (Oct 2014) https://www.facebook.com/intothecellar http://intothecellar.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-cellar.
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Search For Missing Man Continues On Medicine Lake
Paul Myklebust was kayaking on Medicine Lake early Saturday morning when the kayak flipped. Crews have been looking for him since, Rachel Slavik reports. WCCO Sunday Morning Oct. 12, 2014.
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Dr. Steve Bittorf from Green Bay Integrative Health in Green Bay, Wisconsin explains Integrative Medicine and Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy via pellet therapy for men and women...
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Comics, medicine and memory | Dana Walrath | TEDxBattenkill
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. With a spirit of curiosity, compassion, and humor, Walrath weaves t...
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Medicine Ball workouts for strength and cardio
This video introduces a couple of dynamic, strength building workouts to effectively work the entire body with a core emphasis. Lunges,
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