In New Bestseller, Renowned Musician Documents Journey to Spiritual Enlightenment and Encourages Others to Follow

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Concert pianist, jazz musician, academician and all-around musical genius, Jeffrey Chappell has published a new book charting the path he took to discover what he calls his Enlightened Self. The purpose of Answers from Silence, he says, is to encourage others to make the same journey to the place inside themselves where they can find all the answers they need to lifes big questions.

Answers from Silence achieved bestseller rankings internationally on Amazon.com in March, becoming a bestseller in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy, and the Washington Independent Review of Books has put Answers from Silence on its "Best Books for April" list. In a unique marketing combination, Chappell simultaneously released Enlightening Inspirational Quotes, an iPhone app with quotes from his writings and a soundtrack of him playing one of his piano compositions.

Answers from Silence is packed with Chappells own answers to lifes big questions, arrived at in the course of his spiritual quest. And while he invites readers to dip into the book for guidance in a broad range of life issues from relationships, to money, to finding contentment and beyond he is hopeful that many will follow his example to seek their own Enlightened Selves and find their own answers, purpose and fulfillment.

I think people need to understand that gurus and spiritual guides dont have some sort of monopoly or special claim to enlightenment or truth, says Chappell. Theres an Enlightened Self within each one of us, and the greatest adventure in life is to meet and converse with this Self and assimilate its innate wisdom.

There will be those who read my book looking for guidance in some area of their life, or just a deeper, richer, happier life, and I address a huge range of important issues in the book that will help them, he continues. There will be others who are looking to discover their own innate wisdom, and for them, the book can serve as a guidebook for the journey to meet their Enlightened Selves.

Rose Rosetree writes in the Midwest Book Review: This twinkly-eyed jazz composer and concert pianist has found the best way to communicate spiritual connection Ive ever read. Move over, Bhagavad-Gita.

Jeffrey Chappell is a lifelong student of spirituality, a meditator and a practitioner of the MariEl healing method. But he is better known for his career as a professional concert pianist, composer, recording artist, jazz musician and academician.

Chappell has been a soloist with the symphony orchestras of Philadelphia, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Houston, Indianapolis and Baltimore, including concerts at Carnegie Hall and Wolf Trap Park. He has recorded on the Telarc, Centaur, Albany, MMC, and Petrichor labels, and has written music for solo piano, piano and orchestra, and various instrumental ensembles. His solo piano composition American Sonata won the Keyboard Magazine Soundpage Competition.

Chappells numerous articles have been published in Keyboard Companion Magazine, Clavier Magazine, and Piano & Keyboard Magazine, where he was a contributing editor.

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Robonaut: A robot assistant for space station astronauts

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On Easter Sunday, SpaceX will deliver a pair of legs to 'Robonaut.' This is the next big step in NASA's quest to develop robotic helpers for astronauts. With legs, the 8-foot Robonaut will be able to do chores for the human crew on the International Space Station.

Robonaut, the first out-of-this-world humanoid, is finally getting its space legs.

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For three years, Robonaut has had to manage from the waist up. This new pair of legs means the experimental robot now stuck on a pedestal is going mobile at the International Space Station.

"Legs are going to really kind of open up the robot's horizons," said Robert Ambrose from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

It's the next big step in NASA's quest to develop robotic helpers for astronauts. With legs, the 8-foot Robonaut will be able to climb throughout the 260-mile-high outpost, performing mundane cleaning chores and fetching things for the human crew.

The robot's gangly, contortionist-bending legs are packed aboard a SpaceX supply ship that launched Friday, more than a month late. It was the private company's fourth shipment to the space station for NASA and is due to arrive Easter Sunday morning.

Robonaut 2 R2 for short has been counting down the days.

"Legs are on the way!" read a message Friday on its Twitter account, @AstroRobonaut. (OK, so it's actually a Johnson Space Center spokesman who's doing the tweeting.)

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After Confrontation, Red Sox Have Last Word, Beat Orioles

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BOSTON Whether the Orioles dust-up with the Boston Red Sox on Saturday afternoon at Fenway Park galvanizes their clubhouse remains to be seen over the course of a season still in its infancy.

Regardless, the dugout-emptying confrontation between Orioles pitcher Bud Norris and Red Sox catcher David Ross in the Orioles 4-2 loss is an example of the intensity of life in the American League East no matter the calendar date.

All was normal until Ross stepped to the batters box with a man on first and no outs in the seventh inning with the game tied at 2. Looking to bunt, he believed some of Norris deliveries were coming close to his head, and he didnt like that.

So after Ross squared around and a 90 mph 2-1 pitch rode high and in, the veteran catcher twice yelled out to Norris, Make an adjustment, as he stepped toward the mound.

The Orioles 6-foot-5 catcher, Matt Wieters, stepped in front of the 6-2 Ross quickly and exchanged words with him before anything could escalate. Players and coaches flooded out of both dugouts, but cooler heads prevailed.

The emotions are running high, Orioles first baseman Chris Davis said. Its the Red Sox. Its a rival. Its a part of the game. We dont back down. Thats our thing. We have each others backs. If somebody wants to run their mouths, well stand up to them.

This wasnt the knockdown, drag-out Kevin Gregg-David Ortiz brawl of three seasons ago at Fenway, but rather a reminder to the Red Sox that under manager Buck Showalter, these Orioles arent going to back down to the defending World Series champions in any situation.

I guess he thought somebody was throwing at him after two breaking balls and a fastball away, Showalter said. I don't know. It's emotional. Ross is a good player, a good catcher and a pro. But I know Matt. He's not going to allow somebody to yell at his pitcher like that, especially when [Ross] doesn't have any reason to.

Showalter was more frustrated by the fact that both teams received warnings after Ross outburst but nothing happened after Davis was plunked with a 2-0 fastball in the top of the seventh.

We got a warning because of Ross' reaction, Showalter said. Go figure.

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After confrontation, Red Sox have last word in crucial 7th inning of 4-2 win vs. Orioles

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BOSTON Whether the Orioles dust-up with the Boston Red Sox on Saturday afternoon at Fenway Park galvanizes their clubhouse remains to be seen over the course of a season still in its infancy.

Regardless, the dugout-emptying confrontation between Orioles pitcher Bud Norris and Red Sox catcher David Ross in the Orioles 4-2 loss is an example of the intensity of life in the American League East no matter the calendar date.

All was normal until Ross stepped to the batters box with a man on first and no outs in the seventh inning with the game tied at 2. Looking to bunt, he believed some of Norris deliveries were coming close to his head, and he didnt like that.

So after Ross squared around and a 90 mph 2-1 pitch rode high and in, the veteran catcher twice yelled out to Norris, Make an adjustment, as he stepped toward the mound.

The Orioles 6-foot-5 catcher, Matt Wieters, stepped in front of the 6-2 Ross quickly and exchanged words with him before anything could escalate. Players and coaches flooded out of both dugouts, but cooler heads prevailed.

The emotions are running high, Orioles first baseman Chris Davis said. Its the Red Sox. Its a rival. Its a part of the game. We dont back down. Thats our thing. We have each others backs. If somebody wants to run their mouths, well stand up to them.

This wasnt the knockdown, drag-out Kevin Gregg-David Ortiz brawl of three seasons ago at Fenway, but rather a reminder to the Red Sox that under manager Buck Showalter, these Orioles arent going to back down to the defending World Series champions in any situation.

I guess he thought somebody was throwing at him after two breaking balls and a fastball away, Showalter said. I don't know. It's emotional. Ross is a good player, a good catcher and a pro. But I know Matt. He's not going to allow somebody to yell at his pitcher like that, especially when [Ross] doesn't have any reason to.

Showalter was more frustrated by the fact that both teams received warnings after Ross outburst but nothing happened after Davis was plunked with a 2-0 fastball in the top of the seventh.

We got a warning because of Ross' reaction, Showalter said. Go figure.

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NASA: Engineer Vital To Moon Landing Success Dies

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SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) John C. Houbolt, an engineer whose contributions to the U.S. space program were vital to NASA's successful moon landing in 1969, has died. He was 95.

Houbolt died Tuesday at a nursing home in Scarborough, Maine, of complications from Parkinson's disease, his son-in-law Tucker Withington, of Plymouth, Mass., confirmed Saturday.

As NASA describes on its website, while under pressure during the U.S.-Soviet space race, Houbolt was the catalyst in securing U.S. commitment to the science and engineering theory that eventually carried the Apollo crew to the moon and back safely.

His efforts in the early 1960s are largely credited with convincing NASA to focus on the launch of a module carrying a crew from lunar orbit, rather than a rocket from Earth or a space craft while orbiting the planet.

Houbolt argued that a lunar orbit rendezvous, or lor, would not only be less mechanically and financially onerous than building a huge rocket to take man to the moon or launching a craft while orbiting the Earth, but lor was the only option to meet President John F. Kennedy's challenge before the end of the decade.

NASA describes "the bold step of skipping proper channels" that Houbolt took by pushing the issue in a private letter in 1961 to an incoming administrator.

"Do we want to go to the moon or not?" Houbolt asks. "... why is a much less grandiose scheme involving rendezvous ostracized or put on the defensive? I fully realize that contacting you in this manner is somewhat unorthodox, but the issues at stake are crucial enough to us all that an unusual course is warranted."

Houbolt started his career with NASA's predecessor in Hampton, Va., in 1942, served in the Army Corps of Engineers, and worked in an aeronautical research and consulting firm in Princeton, N.J., before returning to NASA in 1976 as chief aeronautical scientist. He retired in 1985 but continued private consulting work.

Born April 10, 1919, in Altoona, Iowa, Houbolt grew up in Joliet, Ill., and earned degrees in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned a doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich in 1957.

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NASA's Space Station Robonaut Finally Getting Legs

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Robonaut, the first out-of-this-world humanoid, is finally getting its space legs.

For three years, Robonaut has had to manage from the waist up. This new pair of legs means the experimental robot now stuck on a pedestal is going mobile at the International Space Station.

"Legs are going to really kind of open up the robot's horizons," said Robert Ambrose from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

It's the next big step in NASA's quest to develop robotic helpers for astronauts. With legs, the 8-foot Robonaut will be able to climb throughout the 260-mile-high outpost, performing mundane cleaning chores and fetching things for the human crew.

The robot's gangly, contortionist-bending legs are packed aboard a SpaceX supply ship that launched Friday, more than a month late. It was the private company's fourth shipment to the space station for NASA and is due to arrive Easter Sunday morning.

Robonaut 2 R2 for short has been counting down the days.

"Legs are on the way!" read a message Friday on its Twitter account, @AstroRobonaut. (OK, so it's actually a Johnson Space Center spokesman who's doing the tweeting.)

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s unmanned capsule, Dragon, holds about 2 tons of space station supplies and experiments, Robonaut's legs included.

Until a battery backpack arrives on another supply ship later this year, the multimillion-dollar robot will need a power extension cord to stretch its legs, limiting its testing area to the U.S. side of the space station. Testing should start in a few months.

Each leg 4 feet, 8 inches long has seven joints. Instead of feet, there are grippers, each with a light, camera and sensor for building 3-D maps.

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NASA Names Six New Members To Advisory Council

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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has announced the appointment of six new members to the NASA Advisory Council (NAC). The group advises NASA's senior leadership on challenges and solutions facing the agency as it unfolds a new era of exploration.

The six new members are Wanda Austin, Wayne Hale, Scott Hubbard, Miles O'Brien, Thomas Young, and Kathryn Schmoll. The group has a wide range of expertise in the aerospace field. They are joining NAC Chair Steven Squyres and continuing members Marion Blakey, Kenneth Bowersox, David McComas, William Ballhaus, Charles Kennel (ex officio) and Lester Lyles (ex officio).

Wanda Austin is president and chief executive officer of The Aerospace Corporation, a leading architect for the nation's national security space programs. She is internationally recognized for her work in satellite and payload system acquisition, systems engineering, and system simulation and served on President Obama's Review of Human Spaceflight Plans Committee in 2009.

Wayne Hale is a consultant for Special Aerospace Services of Boulder, Colorado. He retired from NASA in 2010 as the deputy associate administrator of strategic partnerships at the agency's Headquarters in Washington after serving in the senior leadership of the Space Shuttle Program from 2003 to 2008.

Scott Hubbard is a consulting professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, where he focuses on planetary exploration, especially Mars, and also serves as the director of the Stanford Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation. He is the former director of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., served on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board and was director of NASA's Mars Exploration Program.

Miles O'Brien is a veteran independent journalist who focuses on science, technology and aerospace. He is the science correspondent for the PBS NewsHour, a producer and director for the PBS science documentary series NOVA, and a correspondent for the PBS documentary series FRONTLINE and the National Science Foundation Science Nation series. He was also the science, environment and aerospace correspondent and anchor on CNN for 17 years.

Thomas Young served as executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Corporation and is the former director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., former president and chief operating officer of Martin Marietta and former chairman of SAIC. He began his NASA career at the Langley Research Center in Virginia, was deputy director of NASA's Ames Research Center, and also was a member of the Lunar Orbiter Project Team, mission director for Program Viking, and director of the Planetary Program at NASA Headquarters.

Kathryn Schmoll is the vice president for finance and administration at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. She also has served as comptroller for the Environmental Protection Agency and assistant associate administrator in the NASA Headquarters Office of Space Science and Applications, among other NASA positions.

The NAC and its members are assisting the agency on its path to Mars -- a stepping stone approach to exploration that encompasses successful expansion of commercial cargo services to commercial crew, full utilization of the International Space Station until at least 2024, and development of new technologies and the Orion crew vehicle and Space Launch System to travel to an asteroid and the Red Planet.

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