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Astronomy Forecast-Asteroids, Fireballs, Canis major, Orion, Camelopardalis, Eye of God
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Topics include basic concepts, observation tools and strategies for a successful observing session. Classes meet Tuesdays through March 4. Registration required. When: Tuesday, January 28, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Where: Millsaps College, Jackson Cost: $100 plus $5 materials fee Contact Phone: 601-974-1130 Categories: All, Community
Backyard Astronomy Tuesdays, January 28 March 4 (6 class mtgs.) 6:00 8:00 p.m.; Cost: $100 (plus $5 materials fee payable to the instructor at the first class meeting)
Astronomy is one of the most challenging, beautiful, and rewarding hobbies! This is your chance to learn about the subject in nonpressured, instructor-led meetings and through hands-on experience. Surveying some of the simpler concepts of astronomy, this intro class also focuses on what can be observed, the tools used, types of observation specialties available, and the strategies for a successful observing session. Resources are identified to continue the learning process and for help along the way. A field trip to the Russell C. Davis Planetarium, located in downtown Jackson, is planned toward the end of the course.
Retired computer consultant Jim Waltman is a past president and newsletter editor of the Jackson Astronomical Association, a member of the Planetary Society, and a member of the Astronomical League. A former adjunct professor of computer science, he has participated in the workshop for Mississippi astronomy educators at French Camp and has been an award-winning participant in local and regional Star Gatherings. Jim has 30 years experience in amateur astronomy.
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Tyler, Texas (KETK) The Tyler Junior College Astronomy Lecture Series will continue Thursday.
Fracking, climate change, the 'God particle', and other top science stories of 2013 will be discussed during the January edition of the Public Astronomy Lecture Series at TJC.
The event is set for 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 30, at the Center for Earth & Space Science Education at TJC which is located at 1411 E. Lake Street on the TJC main campus.
Admission is $5 per person or free with a valid TJC ID, the public is invited to attend.
Programp speaker, Dr. Tom Hooten, is the director of the Center for Earth & Space Science Education and professor of physics and engineering at TJC.
He holds degrees in physics, astronomy, and higher education from the Texas A&M University in Commerce and Vanderbilt University.
The Public Astronomy Lecture Series began in 2004 and continues today as part of the science and education outreach of the Center for Earth & Space Science Education at Tyler Junior College.
Other upcoming programs include:
For more information on TJC science center events, go to http://www.tjc.edu/cesse or http://www.facebook.com/TJCCenterforEarthandSpaceScience.
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Personalized Medicine: Applying Artificial Intelligence to Mental Healthcare - Session 2
Keynote by Casey Bennett, Research Fellow, CRI; Associate Instructor, Indiana University, Bloomington.
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LONDON, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- A British aerospace industry group said 2013 was a record year for commercial aerospace in the country, with orders for aircraft rising 28 percent over 2012.
A new monthly commercial aircraft and engine orders tracker also indicates that new orders have increased the backlog to more than 11,000 aircraft and 20,000 engines and that the continuity of demand will support many thousands of high value, skilled jobs in Britain, the ADS Group said.
"Global demand for new aircraft and engines is generating new demand and opportunity for the U.K. aerospace industry," said Paul Everitt, chief executive of ADS. "The 7 percent increase in new aircraft deliveries and the 17 percent increase in the aircraft order book makes 2013 one of the most successful years on record.
"To maintain the U.K.'s share of this fast growing market we must increase investment in technology, innovation and skills."
ADS said key findings from its data are: annual commercial aircraft orders rose to a record 3,182, almost 50 percent of which are for new aviation programs; Aircraft order backlog increased by 17 percent; Aircraft deliveries in 2013 rose by 7 percent year on year; 2,646 engines were delivered in 2013; and nearly 5,000 engine orders were placed.
"These figures highlight the opportunities for growth in the aerospace industry and the potential rewards that British businesses could reap," said Britain's Secretary of State for Business Vince Cable. "That is why government and industry are forming a long-term partnership to keep Britain at the forefront of the global aerospace market.
"Together we have committed 2 billion pounds (about $3.3 billion) over the next seven years to create an Aerospace Technology Institute to help us win work on developing and building the planes and helicopters of the future, here in the U.K."
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has completed integration of WorldView-3, the next generation commercial remote-sensing satellite being built for DigitalGlobe, a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions. WorldView-3, the fourth remote-sensing satellite built for DigitalGlobe by Ball, is scheduled to launch from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base in summer 2014.
With the imagery sensor and associated electronics now integrated, the completed satellite bus is ready for system-level performance testing, followed by thermal vacuum and environmental testing.
"Ball's third commercial platform in the WorldView series will equip DigitalGlobe with advanced technologies to enhance its high-resolution imagery constellation," said Cary Ludtke, vice president and general manager for Ball's Operational Space business unit. "Ball and DigitalGlobe have proven to be a strong team for providing government and commercial customers with some of the highest quality and resolution satellite imagery available."
WorldView-3 is the first multi-payload, super-spectral, high-resolution commercial satellite for earth observations and advanced geospatial solutions. Operating at an expected altitude of 617 km, WorldView-3 collects 31 cm panchromatic resolution, 1.24 m multispectral resolution, 3.7 m short-wave infrared (SWIR) resolution, and 30 m CAVIS resolution.
In addition to the satellite bus, Ball Aerospace is providing an atmospheric instrument called CAVIS, which stands for Cloud, Aerosol, Water Vapor, Ice, Snow. CAVIS will monitor the atmosphere and provide correction data to improve WorldView-3's imagery when it images earth objects through haze, soot, dust or other obscurants. CAVIS has also been integrated with the spacecraft.
"With each successive payload developed in partnership with Ball, DigitalGlobe has expanded the range of questions about the surface of the earth that can be answered with high-resolution satellite imaging," said Dr. Walter Scott, executive vice president, chief technical officer and founder of DigitalGlobe. "DigitalGlobe prides itself on owning and operating one of the most agile and sophisticated constellations of high-resolution commercial earth imaging satellites in the world, currently capable of collecting over 1 billion km2 of the highest quality imagery per year. WorldView-3 follows in this pioneering tradition with innovations like CAVIS that continue to enable DigitalGlobe to lead the industry and help our customers see things never before possible."
WorldView-3 builds upon WorldView-2 and WorldView-1 technology by carrying forward the satellites' advanced Control Moment Gyroscopes (CMGs). The CMGs reorient a satellite over a desired collection area in 4-5 seconds, compared to 30-45 seconds needed for traditional reaction wheels.
WorldView-3 employs the Ball Configurable Platform BCP 5000 spacecraft, designed to handle the next-generation optical and synthetic aperture radar remote sensing payloads and is currently meeting or exceeding all performance specifications on the WorldView-2 satellite. The high-performance BCP 5000 has a design life of more than seven years, and provides a platform with increased power, resolution, agility, target selection, flexibility, transmission capability and data storage. Ball provided the BCP 5000 under a fixed-price contract.
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. supports critical missions for national agencies such as the Department of Defense, NASA, NOAA and other U.S. government and commercial entities. The company develops and manufactures spacecraft, advanced instruments and sensors, components, data exploitation systems and RF solutions for strategic, tactical and scientific applications. For more information, visit http://www.ballaerospace.com.
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GOD The Irresistible (The End of Atheism and Agnosticism) By I.D.Campbell
This is the first of many speaking engagement of I.D. Campbell on the existence of God. This talk is based on one of his most profound books, "GOD the Irresistible." Mr. Campbell takes the...
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ELLSWORTH Visitors to the Bellaire pet crisis center With a Little help From My Friends get an official welcome from Moka.
The Labrador retriever was found behind a Bellaire restaurant in 2011 and now serves as the centers mascot.
Peforming her duties has been increasingly difficult for the dog, who suffers from severe arthritis in her hips. So recently the center turned to Ellsworth veterinarian Christian Randall of North Country Veterinary Services, the first in northern Michigan to offer in-clinic adipose stem cell therapy.
The procedure uses a pets own blood and tissue to produce plasma-rich platelets and stem cells that proliferate growth in damaged areas.
Dormant stem cells are separated from adipose -- fat tissue -- and activated with an LED technology that uses three different wave lengths of light. Then the cells are injected directly into the affected area or administered intravenously to help promote regeneration. The result is a decrease in pain and lameness and increased range of motion.
Its using the bodys own repair cells to repair damage, said Trey Smith, director of laboratory services for MediVet America, which developed the technology Randall uses.
The therapy is the first treatment to help heal and slow the progression of osteoarthritis and degenerative joint disease rather than just cope with the symptoms, said Randall, who saw the results while studying at Virginia Equine Imaging and now plans to use it on equine as well as canine and feline patients.
It concentrates, speeds up and amplifies the bodys own healing power, he said.
Stem cell therapy has been around for a while, but in-clinic availability of the technology is new. Only a handful of veterinarians in Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids offer the services, said Randall, who charges $1,800 to treat a dog or cat. Repeat injections are possible with banked plasma-rich platelets and stem cells.
Before the one-day procedure, veterinarians had to send blood and tissue to an outside lab for processing, a more costly three-day procedure that requires an animal's return visit to the vet for injection.
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The first facility in Ireland licensed to manufacture human stem cells opened in NUI Galway this morning.
The development will mean some patients suffering from certain diseases will be able to access clinical trials of stem cell therapies.
Stem cells are human cells that can develop into many types of tissue.
As a result, scientists are increasingly studying their potential for regenerating diseased or damaged tissue in people suffering the effects of certain illnesses, such as heart attacks, stroke, arthritis or diabetes.
Before they can be used widely in humans such therapies must undergo extensive clinical trials.
The first Irish licence to manufacture stem cells for this purpose was granted to the Centre for Cell Manufacturing Ireland at NUIG.
The custom-built facility will take small samples of bone marrow from adult donors and culture them in a specially designed laboratory to make billions of stem cells.
The cells will then be injected back into the donor or other patients as part of clinical trials.
The first of those trials will investigate their use in the treatment of diabetes patients who are suffering reduced blood flow to lower limbs, a symptom which often results in amputations.
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A new method allows for large-scale generation of human embryonic stem cells of high clinical quality. It also allows for production of such cells without destroying any human embryos. The discovery is a big step forward for stem cell research and for the high hopes for replacing damaged cells and thereby curing serious illnesses such as diabetes and Parkinson's disease.
Currently human embryonic stem cells are made from surplus in vitro fertilized (IVF) embryos that are not used for the generation of pregnancies. The embryos do not survive the procedure. Therefore it has been illegal in the USA to to use this method for deriving embryonic stem cell lines. Sweden's legislation has been more permissive. It has been possible to generate embryonic stem cells from excess, early IVF embryos with the permission of the persons donating their eggs and sperm.
An international research team led by Karl Tryggvason, Professor of Medical Chemistry at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore has, together with Professor Outi Hovatta at Karolinska Institutet, developed a method that makes it possible to use a single cell from an embryo of eight cells. This embryo can then be re-frozen and, theoretically, be placed in a woman's uterus. The method is already used in Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) analyses, where a genetic test is carried out on a single cell of an IVF embryo in order to detect potential hereditary diseases. If mutations are are not detected, the embryo is inserted in the woman's uterus, where it can grow into a healthy child.
"We know that an embryo can survive the removal of a single cell. This makes a great ethical difference," says Karl Tryggvason.
The single stem cell is then cultivated on a bed of a human laminin protein known as LN-521 that is normally associated with pluripotent stem cells in the embryo. This allows the stem cell to duplicate and multiply without being contaminated. Previously the cultivation of stem cells has been done on proteins from animals or on human cells, which have contaminated the stem cells through uninhibited production of thousands of proteins.
"We can cultivate the stem cells in a chemically defined, clinical quality environment. This means that one can produce stem cells on a large scale, with the precision required for pharmaceutical production," says Karl Tryggvason.
Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent and can develop into any kind of cell. This means that they can become dopamine producing cells, insulin producing cells, heart muscle cells or eye cells, to name but a few of the hopes placed on cell therapy using stem cells.
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New method increases supply of embryonic stem cells