Interfaith 2 - Pagan Paths/Alternative Spirituality, Calvinism, Origins of Celtic Christianity
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Sarychev Volcano Eruption From The Space Station - Visto Desde La Estacion Espacial Internacional HD
Sarychev Volcano Eruption From The International Space Station Islas Kuriles - Matua ( Russia ) - Volcan Sarychev En Erupcion Visto Desde La Estacion Espacia...
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TORONTO Moments after David Avino turned on an espresso machine in the middle of the International Astronomical Congress exhibition floor here Monday (Sept. 29), more than a dozen bystanders stopped in their tracks to watch it brew.
The machine called ISSpresso is a prototype similar to one that will fly to the International Space Station in April 2015 aboard Orbital Sciences' robotic Cygnus cargo vessel. It will take astronauts only minutes to set up ISSpresso on the orbiting lab all they'll need to do is take out the box, secure the machine to the wall with bungee cords and get some water in a standard pouch.
Avino, managing director of Italian engineering and software firm Argotec, inserted a standard Lavazza espresso capsule into the top of the device. He placed a water pouch in the bottom and put in a second, smaller pouch to collect the coffee. [Watch a video about the space station espresso machine]
Only a minute after Avino turned on the machine, coffee began filtering into the pouch. When the pouch was full, Avino offered samples for people to sip. Beside him, Lavazza USA CEO Ennio Ranaboldo said the machine is already attracting attention at NASA, even from Administrator Charles Bolden, who stopped by the exhibition floor earlier Monday which was, appropriately enough, International Coffee Day.
"People were dragging him away," Ranaboldo joked.
ISSPresso, a joint Argotec-Lavazza-Italian Space Agency project, was already underway last year when Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano said in an interview that the thing he missed most in space was a good cup of coffee.
"I was calling people, asking, 'Were you talking to Luca?'" Avino said.
Argotec modeled ISSPresso after a previously existing espresso machine. That process saved a great deal of development time; it took 1.5 years to get the machine ready, compared to about six years to design and build an espresso maker from scratch, company representatives said.
But Argotec did make some changes to the existing design, altering the brewing system to make it leak-free in orbit. (The exact changes are not being released for proprietary reasons.) The space-bound machine is so different, in fact, that only three parameters are the same as Earth-based espresso makers: the capsule of coffee, the brewing temperature of 167 degrees Fahrenheit (75 degrees Celsius) and the water pressure.
The inside was revamped to fit standard water pouches on the space station, and attachments were added to the outside so bungee cords could be used to secure the machine to a wall.
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NASA is embarking on a new mission to utilize the International Space Station as a science platform for studying the Earth.
The $150 billion ISS gives scientists and engineers a unique vantage point to use Earth-observing instruments to collect data.
NASA currently plans to mount six Earth science instruments to the ISS by the end of this decade.
"We're seeing the space station come into its own as an Earth-observing platform," said Julie Robinson, chief scientist for the International Space Station Program in a statement. "It has a different orbit than other Earth-observing satellites. It's closer to Earth, and it sees Earth at different times of day with a different schedule."
Astronauts working aboard the ISS have observed and photographed several phenomena that typical orbiting satellites were unable to get. One example is detailed images of a massive ash plume from the fresh eruption of the Pavlof Volcano in May 2013.
The first instrument used for this new decade of discovery is ISS-RapidScat, which was launched on Sept. 20 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station by Space Exploration Technologies.
ISS-RapidScat will monitor the changes in direction and velocity of ocean winds, which will directly impact the accuracy of hurricane predictions around the world, officials said.
Also see: Mother Nature giving no break to rain-weary residents
The next Earth science instrument to launch to the ISS in December will be the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System. It will monitor airborne particles such as pollution, mineral dust, and smoke with a laser radar.
"With the space station we don't have to build a whole new spacecraft to gather new data -- it's already there, said Stephen Volz, associate director of flight programs in the Earth Science Division at NASA Headquarters. Designing instruments for the space station also gives us a chance to do high-risk, high-return instruments in a relatively economical way."
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Beltsville, MD, Sept. 30, 2014 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has selected ASRC Federal Space and Defense for the Wallops Engineering Services Contract. The five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a maximum value of approximately $45 million. ASRC Federal Space and Defense will provide a wide range of engineering and technical support services for NASAs Wallops Flight Facility, located on Virginias eastern shore.
Were excited and honored to get this new opportunity to support the Wallops Flight Facility, one of NASAs most dynamic and rapidly developing facilities, said Mark Gray, ASRC Federal president and CEO. Our team is well-suited to provide engineering expertise that will support NASA Wallops extensive array of launch and scientific research operations.
Programs supported under WESC include sounding rockets, research balloons, unmanned aerial systems and satellite launches. Support includes systems, electrical, mechanical and software engineering; technology development; guidance, navigation and control systems; metrology; and project management.
About ASRC Federal
ASRC Federal comprises a family of companies that deliver engineering, information technology, logistics and technical services and solutions to U.S. civil and defense agencies. ASRC Federal companies have employees in over 40 locations across the U.S. focused on providing reliable, cost-efficient services that help government customers achieve mission success. Headquartered in Beltsville, Md., ASRC Federal is a wholly owned subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation. For more information, please visit:www.asrcfederal.com
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Syamantak Payra, 2014 Speller 239, Explores NASA
ESPN interviewed Syamantak Payra, 2014 Speller 239, at NASA.
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Educators Fly On Board SOFIA with the GREAT Spectrometer
Michael Maccarone and Elizabeth Rosenberger from Avenues: The World School in New York City, along with Margaret "Missy" Holzer, Chatham High School, Somerset, N.J., and Theresa Roelofsen Moody,...
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NASA Northeast at Watkins Glen 9-28-14
Some of my final laps of my final session with NASANE at Watkins Glen International this past weekend. This day was my first day on track with this car and my first time driving The Glen....
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Awesome Eruption video with NASA Plane or UFO! (10x speed)
I have a video link that will confirm it was a NASA plane during this time I recorded this they were flying a Photographer over the Fissure here #39;s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGMHD6-aV34)...
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NASA Sonoma Raceway Spec Miata Sept 27 2014
Ryan Wellman #91 starting 8th. Get hit in Turn 7 by the blue #69. Ended finishing 12th.
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NASA - Emergency Plans: Coronal Mass Ejections hitting Earth
This video features two model runs. One looks at a moderate coronal mass ejection (CME) from 2006. The second run examines the consequences of a large coronal mass ejection, such as The Carrington-...
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TIME Science space NASA Is 3D-Printing a Better Rocket Test engineer Ryan Wall, left, and propulsion systems engineer Greg Barnett prepare a rocket injector made using the 3-D printing or additive manufacturing process for a hot-fire test at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Emmett GivenMSFC/NASA NASA and the U.S. Army are now using additive manufacturing to manufacture lighter, cheaper, and better-performing aircraft parts
Consider the injector. Its a lowly little engine part about as big as a basketball, small compared to the more photographic components that surround it. Its job, however, is big. On a rocket, it shoots hydrogen gas and liquid oxygen into a combustion chamber to create the thrust needed to send that rocket into space. It also needs to endure the trip.
A conventional rocket engine injector may be comprised of a hundred different pieces, making it costly to assemble. On an object that costs several hundred thousand dollars per launch, and billions in development costs, any savings are welcome. Its one reason why the cash-strapped National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been toying around with rocket parts made using an additive manufacturing process, better known as 3D printing.
In August, the agency test-fired a 3D-printed injector that withstood a record 20,000 pounds of thrust, which actually isnt all that impressive. Paired with rocket boosters and the rest, the complete Space Launch Systema new heavy-lift vehicle that will power NASAs deep-space missions starting in 2017will create 9.2 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, the equivalent in horsepower of 208,000 Corvette engines revving up at once. What is impressive is the fact that the injector had just two parts and could produce 10 times as much thrust as any previously 3D-printed injector.
For NASA, additive manufacturing represents a way for the agency to stretch its technological capabilities and its $17 billion budget as it looks to build the next class of rocket engines to take its aircraft onto asteroids and to Mars. The advances in the technology are finally getting to the point where we can see parts additively manufactured for demanding NASA applications, says Dale Thomas, associate technical director at NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., where NASA has been trying out a variety of 3D-printed propulsion parts for more than a year. What the agency lacks, however, is the knowledge required to judge just how well 3D-printed engine parts will stand up during space flight. We dont understand the material properties really well and how they behave under stress, Thomas says.
Enter the Integrated Product Team, a partnership formed in late May between the Marshall Center, the University of Alabama in Huntsville (as in Go Chargers, not Roll Tide), and the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center, known as AMRDEC. The question at the central of the partnership: Is there a way to 3D-print material strong enough to insert into a working aircraft?
There is good reason to be uncertain about3D-printing parts that can be used in missiles topped with warheads or rockets ferrying astronauts. Which powdered metals will be easiest to print and strongest to deploy? What 3D-printing machines will work the best? The three groups believe that, by pooling their resources and trading notes, they will save time and taxpayer dollars developing additive manufacturing processes useful to the private sector, the military, and space exploration. They also believe they will manufacture higher-quality partslighter, strongerthan those created today through conventional machining techniques.
For the military, that means lighter missile components that can still handle vibrations during flight.
You always want to save weight for an aviation platform. How do you save weight? Machine the part in a way to minimize frequency vibrations, says James Lackey, acting director of AMRDEC in Huntsville. Only through additive layering can you take advantage of what a mathematical formula tells you this design solution needs.
Conventional machining can be thought of as subtractive manufacturing. You begin with a block of some material and gradually chop some off, a process that constrains the types of parts that can be designed. Additive manufacturing is different. Imagine instead a laser-centering machine that heats up and fuses together successive layers of powdered metalsinconel alloys, grades of steel, titanium, aluminumto construct simpler rocket engine components. This is how NASA created the injector it test-fired a year ago.
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A series of NASA satellite images has revealed the shocking decline of water levels in the Aral Sea, a massive environmental disaster dubbed the quiet Chernobyl.
NASAs Terra satellite began capturing the images in 2000, when the vast central Asian lake known as the Aral Sea was already a fraction of its 1960 size (as shown by the black line in the images).
It shows the power of long-term satellite observation from space, a NASA spokesman told FoxNews.com, noting that the Terra satellite will have been in space for 15 years in December.
The victim of a Soviet era water diversion project in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, the Aral Sea was once the fourth largest lake in the world, but now holds less than 10% of its original water volume.
By 2000 the body of water had already separated into Northern and Southern Aral Seas, also known the Small and Large Seas. As the satellite image taken in 2000 shows, the Southern Sea was split into tenuously-connected eastern and western lobes, or basins.
Within 12 months, however, the southern part of the connection had been lost, and the shallower eastern basin began to quickly retreat over the subsequent years. Dry conditions in 2014 caused the basin to completely dry up for the first time in modern times, according to NASA.
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Because heart cells cannot multiply and cardiac muscles contain few stem cells, heart tissue is unable to repair itself after a heart attack. Now Tel Aviv University researchers are literally setting a new gold standard in cardiac tissue engineering.
Dr. Tal Dvir and his graduate student Michal Shevach of TAU's Department of Biotechnology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, have been developing sophisticated micro- and nanotechnological tools -- ranging in size from one millionth to one billionth of a meter -- to develop functional substitutes for damaged heart tissues. Searching for innovative methods to restore heart function, especially cardiac "patches" that could be transplanted into the body to replace damaged heart tissue, Dr. Dvir literally struck gold. He and his team discovered that gold particles are able to increase the conductivity of biomaterials.
In a study published by Nano Letters, Dr. Dvir's team presented their model for a superior hybrid cardiac patch, which incorporates biomaterial harvested from patients and gold nanoparticles. "Our goal was twofold," said Dr. Dvir. "To engineer tissue that would not trigger an immune response in the patient, and to fabricate a functional patch not beset by signalling or conductivity problems."
A scaffold for heart cells
Cardiac tissue is engineered by allowing cells, taken from the patient or other sources, to grow on a three-dimensional scaffold, similar to the collagen grid that naturally supports the cells in the heart. Over time, the cells come together to form a tissue that generates its own electrical impulses and expands and contracts spontaneously. The tissue can then be surgically implanted as a patch to replace damaged tissue and improve heart function in patients.
According to Dr. Dvir, recent efforts in the scientific world focus on the use of scaffolds from pig hearts to supply the collagen grid, called the extracellular matrix, with the goal of implanting them in human patients. However, due to residual remnants of antigens such as sugar or other molecules, the human patients' immune cells are likely to attack the animal matrix.
In order to address this immunogenic response, Dr. Dvir's group suggested a new approach. Fatty tissue from a patient's own stomach could be easily and quickly harvested, its cells efficiently removed, and the remaining matrix preserved. This scaffold does not provoke an immune response.
Using gold to create a cardiac network
The second dilemma, to establish functional network signals, was complicated by the use of the human extracellular matrix. "Engineered patches do not establish connections immediately," said Dr. Dvir. "Biomaterial harvested for a matrix tends to be insulating and thus disruptive to network signals."
At his Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Dr. Dvir explored the integration of gold nanoparticles into cardiac tissue to optimize electrical signaling between cells. "To address our electrical signalling problem, we deposited gold nanoparticles on the surface of our patient-harvested matrix, 'decorating' the biomaterial with conductors," said Dr. Dvir. "The result was that the nonimmunogenic hybrid patch contracted nicely due to the nanoparticles, transferring electrical signals much faster and more efficiently than non-modified scaffolds."
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New Suite Includes Easy to Use Video Tools for Capturing, Creating, Recording, Uploading, Editing, Annotating, Segmenting and Adding Calls to Action to Video Content, All Available Within Kaltura's Full Range of Education Video Products
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - September 30, 2014) - EDUCAUSE Conference 2014- Kaltura, provider of the leading video technology platform and most widely used institutional video management solution in education today, announced its new Video Creativity Suite.
The new suite includes tools for capturing, creating, recording, uploading, editing, annotating, segmenting and adding calls to action to videos. The suite includes Kaltura CaptureSpace, which is the company's simple to use personal capture tool, presented for the first time at Kaltura Connect 2014 - The Video Experience Conference, in New York City this past June. CaptureSpace allows faculty, students, and instructional designers to easily create multi-source video recordings in-class, at home or on the go, and automatically upload the videos to the Kaltura Platform, making them available for publishing in all leading Learning Management Systems and in the Kaltura MediaSpace social video portal.
In a recent survey of educational technology leaders and faculty by Kaltura, close to 50% of faculty responded there are no sufficient tools available to support easy incorporation of video into their class workflow.Based on that feedback Kaltura has designed its Video Creativity Suite with an intense focus on ease of use, accessible design and single click capabilities. Kaltura CaptureSpace, for example, allows users to capture a variety of recording situations, from formal in classroom lecture capture scenarios to ad hoc on the go capture of learning experiences, all with just a few clicks of the mouse. Additional tools in the suite include video recording, uploading, clipping and trimming, annotating, cue-point insertion, segmenting, adding calls to action and more.
"The power of video is mind-blowing, especially in the context of teaching and learning where video engages and educates more effectively than any other method, by far," said Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura Co-founder, Chairman and CEO. "But video is also quite complex, and our new Video Creativity Suite takes that complexity away. The Suite allows professors and students to focus their creativity on the content, rather than on the technology. Video Literacy is a critical aspect of digital literacy now days, and we hope to further simplify the use of video with these new tools."
Kaltura's Video Creativity Suite fully complements the company's video management solution for cross-campus media deployment, and opens new and exciting ways for institutions to leverage video for live events, alumni outreach, course material for teaching and learning, media based student assignments, training videos, video demonstrations, and the management and playback of licensed content.
Kaltura's market leading video player now supports multi-device publishing of synchronized videos and slides that are captured by CaptureSpace or by other third party lecture capture products. Kaltura's automated metadata extraction, editing and chaptering tools also facilitate deep search and effective utilization of the captured content which, when combined with in-player quizzing, enable immediate assessment of learning outcomes.
"Simplicity and ease of use for maximum creative expression are our goals in expanding our video management solution to include these new engagement tools," shared Justin Beck, VP Education at Kaltura."The new suite of tools is now available in all our products, allowing institutions to unleash personal creativity education at a highly affordable institutional investment point."
About KalturaKaltura's mission is to power any video experience. Provider of the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform, Kaltura simplifies the creation of video experiences, and provides tools that facilitate innovative and engaging experiences that create value. The Kaltura platform engages hundreds of millions of viewers by providing media companies with advanced video management, publishing, and monetization tools that increase their reach and monetization and simplify their video operations. Kaltura improves productivity and interaction among millions of employees by providing enterprises with powerful online video tools for boosting internal knowledge sharing, training, and collaboration, and for more effective marketing. Kaltura offers next generation learning for millions of students and teachers by providing educational institutions with disruptive online video solutions for improved teaching, learning, and increased engagement across campuses and beyond.For more information: http://www.kaltura.com, to join Kaltura's community visit: http://www.kaltura.org and http://www.html5video.org.
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Individualizing Medicine: Benefactor Impact
Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine Director Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., Mayo Clinic Campaign Chair James L. Barksdale and Mayo Clinic in Florida Lea...
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