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After picking up several World Travel Awards last year, Indian tour organisations and destinations have a number of automatic nominations for this year.
Known as the Oscar for the international travel industry, WTA has opened the regional nominations for 2014. Nominations will close on March 31.
Indias nominations as the Asias leading destination was automatic as the 2013 runner up. Taj Mahal also got automatic nomination as the Asias leading tourist attraction along with the Great Wall of China and Borobudur temple.
Incredible India, last years winner as the leading tourist board, has an automatic entry. For responsible tourism award category, Spice Village, Thekkady, and for the airport hotel segment, Radisson Blu Plaza, Delhi, has also been nominated because of their runner up status in the respective categories.
Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi, (leading conference hotel), Tree of Life Hotel Resort & Spa (experimental holiday resort), The Oberoi Amarvilas (green resort), Trident, Gurgaon and Taj Mahal Palace (leading hotel brand), Maharaja Pavilion, Raj Palace (leading suite), Taj Hotels, Resorts and Palaces (lifestyle hotel brand), Oberoi Gurgaon (luxury hotel), Taj Exotica, Goa (luxury resort) and Rambagh Palace (most romantic resort) are also among the automatic nominations list.
Palace on Wheels (luxury train), Kuoni India (travel agency) and Carzonrent India (leading car hire) found their place in the list by virtue of their ranking last year.
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David Robinson grew up in Tenafly, N.J., harbors a rooting interest in football and is a trained climatologist.
Robinson saw those three unrelated threads of his life geography, sports and weather woven uniquely together when the National Football League decided to hold Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium on Feb. 2, 2014 the first-ever outdoor, cold-weather site for the game.
Given the heightened interest about game-day conditions for this Super Bowl, Robinson, a Rutgers University professor and New Jerseys state climatologist, has launched a website to help satiate fans curiosity about all things Feb. 2 climatologically speaking. The site, designed by Robinsons research assistant, Dan Zarrow, is at biggameweather.com.
When I heard the Super Bowl would be held here I knew we had to do something weather-related, Robinson said. We started piecing the data together this past fall.
Then the New Jersey State Police contacted Robinson and asked him to prepare a report on what they might expect from the weather. Robinson and his team at Rutgers gathered data looking at weather for the week leading up to the game day as well as Feb. 2. Reliable data stretch back more than 80 years. Robinsons team generated about 50 pages of data, which he used to brief the state police.
Some of the data have been rendered into colorful bar graphs, pie charts and line graphs on Robinsons weather site.
Robinson is quick to note that while meteorology has made significant improvements in recent years, it is impossible to predict the weather for a particular day with any accuracy more than a week or so away from that date.
Maybe a week ahead you can start to see a potential storm threat, and only a couple of days out at best can you zero in on what the actual conditions are likely to be, he said.
His site shows what has historically occurred on Feb. 2, using data for Newark Liberty International Airport, which is close enough to MetLife Stadium to be representative.
If Feb. 2, 2014, turns out to be a typical Feb. 2, one might expect a temperature of 34 degrees at game time, with winds of 10 miles per hour out of the northwest, and only a 26 percent chance of precipitation certainly not Miami or Phoenix, but not unbearable.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- We've told you about two stand-alone, super-affordable DACs (Digital-to-analog Audio Converters) from the company with an attention-grabbing name. And about the newly upgraded version of Audioquest's DragonFly.
External DACs are designed take the place of cheap integrated circuits inside your computer which translate digital audio files into an analog form that you can actually listen to.
There is another plug-in USB DAC you'll want to consider: the brand-new Audioengine D3. The company has made its name by offering incredible value with every product it offers. The self-powered A5+ speakers ($399 to $469) are terrific. The new smaller A2+s (starting at $249) set the standard for desktop speaker systems at any price.
Audioengine's newest converter, the D3, is the third such device designed by the company and the first to plug directly into a computer's USB port. Although it is somewhat similar in size and shape to the DragonFly, it's very different in a number of ways.
First, it's made from aluminum not plastic. It's small, but solid. There are few frills past the cute little carrying case and an adapter for headphones (with big plugs) which come in the box. There are no multi-colored lighting schemes, just an LED to show that the D3 is on and another to show you when you're listening to a higher resolution (24/88 or 24/96) digital music file. Those files are much better sounding than the usual Amazon (AMZN) or Apple (AAPL)iTunes download.
The D3 plugs into any free USB port on a PC or Mac. The computer automatically recognizes, installs and configures it. Plug in a set of good headphones (it's also a headphone amplifier) and you're all set.
What does set the D3 apart from the competition is the sound. After a sufficient break-in period (as with most sound gear) I found the Audioengine to sound terrific, especially when it comes to reproducing those low, bass notes which are the anchoring foundation of recorded music. Not overblown. In short: tiny device but big, accurate bass.
The D3 is available through the Audioengine Web site and retails for $189. Add a pair of Audioengine's speakers and a computer source and you'll have yourself one heck of a great sounding, 21st century music system.
-- Written by Gary Krakow in New York.
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Human embryonic stem cells have the capacity to differentiate into a variety of cell types, making them a valuable source of transplantable tissue for the treatment of numerous diseases, such as Parkinson's disease and diabetes.
But theres one major issue: Embryonic stem cells are often rejected by the human immune system.
Now, researchers from the University of California San Diego may have found an effective way to prevent this rejection in humans. Utilizing a novel humanized mouse model, the scientists have revealed a unique combination of immune suppressing molecules that stop the immune system from attacking the injected stem cells without shutting the system down completely.
This discovery could ultimately help resolve some of the major problems currently limiting the use of embryonic stem cells for certain conditions, paving the way for the development of more effective human stem cell therapies.
This is a generic way of immune suppression, so it could potentially be applied not just for stem cells therapies, but for organ transplants as well, Yang Xu, a professor of biology at UC San Diego and lead author of the study, told FoxNews.com. It can be very broad.
Embryonic stem cells are different from the other cells in a patients body, making them allogenic. This means the immune system will recognize them as foreign agents and attack them.
One way of overcoming this rejection problem is to give patients immunosuppressant drugs, which suppress the entire immune system. While short term use of immunosuppressants has been successful for many organ transplants, embryonic stem cell therapies for chronic diseases require long term use of these drugs which can often be very toxic and increase the risk of cancer.
In order for the patient to really use this therapy, they have to decide: Do they want a lifelong use of immunosuppressant drugs, or are they willing to live with the symptoms of their disease, Xu said.
To figure out a way of bypassing this issue, researchers needed a relevant model that could closely mimic the human immune systems response to embryonic stem cell transplantation. To do this, they took immune deficient lab mice and grafted them with human fetal thymus tissues and hematopoietic stem cells derived from the fetal liver.
Essentially, this created a highly specialized mouse model with very robust T cells capable of effectively rejecting foreign embryonic stem cells just like human T cells.
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Bishop Brian K. Hodges: A Hunger For Greater Spirituality
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In the present day Bhikkhu society, the revered Thera is a beacon of hope and example. The Thera with great conviction and devotion continues his journey exactly in the manner that the Buddha had recommended for his disciples to follow. His exceptional qualities are well portrayed in the fact that he never handles money in a world people, even monks cant do without it.
He goes from house to house barefooted to obtain alms with his Bowl in the manner the Bhikkhus were accustomed to in the past. He always advises the importance of the value of following the practice of Pindapatha and encourages the student monks to follow it. Thus devotees not only in Maharagama, but also in Unuwathura Bubule, Bowelawatte, Ambakotte, Matale, Peradeniya, Kandy, Mihintale, etc. consider it as a fortunate opportunity bestowed on them to serve a spoon of rice into the Theras bowl during his various journeys.
This revered Buddhist prelate, Ampitiye Sri Rahula Maha Thera or Loku Hamuduruwo, residing at the Sri Vajiranana Dharmayatanaya, in Maharagama, reached his 100th birthday on December 24, 2013.
The Thera was born to a wealthy and reputed family in Ampitiya, a suburb of Kandy. His Father Simon Rajapaksa named him as Dharmadasa and after been ordained in the Bhikkhu sasana came to be known as Venerable Ampitiye Sri Rahula Thera.
He received his primary education at St. Marys College (a seminary) at Ampitiya. Since his parents were devoted Buddhists they were keen that their son gained knowledge in Buddhism.
Subsequently he was sent to the Daham Pasela in Dalukgolle temple. Having had gained sufficient knowledge in Buddhism, Christianity and English language, he entered the Order of the Sangha on 4th May 1936. His preceptor was Ven. Sri Saddhamma Jothipala Kavidhaja Vinayachariya Weragampita Sri Revatha Maha Thera, the Chief incumbent of Kamburugamuwa Devagiri Temple.
Ven. Rahula Thera attended Vajiraramaya temple while he was residing at the Dodanduwa hermitage and received his higher ordination at Udakukkhepa Seema Malakaya at Kelaniya, on 30th June, 1936.
He didnt attend any pirivena, but received his preliminary education Dhamma Vinaya, languages from Ven. Revatha Maha Thera.
The mentors of Sri Rahula Thera were Venerable Pelene Sri Vajiranana Maha Thera, Venerable Thalangama Indrasara Maha Thera and Venerable Ahangama Sri Pragnaloka Maha Thera.
Due to his vibrant interest in acquiring knowledge, wisdom and discipline, Ven. Ampitiye Sri Rahula Thera was chosen as the Disciple in Attendance of Venerable Sri Vajiranana Maha Thera.
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Phlebotomist Haley Hampton, right, helps Lee Ann Denham donate blood Wednesday at the Blood Assurance office on Third Street in Chattanooga. In the background, LPN and phlebotomist Kathy Garcia assists donor Jeremiah Lynn.
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Turns out, altruism isnt dead after all.
A new study completed in part by UTC researchers shows that those who donate blood often do so out of a genuinely altruistic motivation. That may seem obvious. But for years, many academics have argued that altruism is a facade, that even when people act selflessly, they often have other self-centered motivations.
Blood donors never know who they are helping. They are giving their blood but they have no idea about the patient and who gets their blood, said Sevdenur Dzgner, a visiting scholar at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. It seems like an altruistic behavior. But we cannot easily say all blood donations are altruistic.
Dzgner studied the motivations of blood donors in the U.S. and in her native Turkey for doctoral research, which found similar altruistic motivations from donors in both countries, with religious motivations playing a role in both Chattanooga and Turkey. But Dzgner did find distinctions between the two as the very nature of altruism varied across the continents. In the religiously diverse U.S., donors reported a feeling of personal responsibility to give blood. In predominantly Muslim Turkey, the act of giving was viewed as more of a societal responsibility.
The American mind was more individualistic and the Turkish mind was more collective, she said. In America, people say this is my own responsibility and this is my own decision. While in Turkey, most people say this is a kind of personal responsibility but the way they perceive them as responsible is a little different. They think as human beings we should help others, that living in a society this is important not just for them as an individual.
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Russian astronauts set a new record for a space walk
Two Russian astronauts have set a new record for a space walk. The space walk lasted eight hours and seven minutes, setting a new Russian record. Two astrona...
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Orion moves towards its first EFT-1 spaceflight later this year. (Credit: NASA)
Theres an old Chinese proverb that says, May you live in interesting times,and 2013 certainly fit the bill in the world of spaceflight and space science. The past year saw spacecraft depart for Mars, China land a rover on the Moon, and drama in low Earth orbit to repair the International Space Station. And all of this occurred against a landscape of dwindling budgets, government shutdowns that threatened launches and scientific research, and ongoing sequestration.
But its a brave new world out there. Here are just a few space-related stories that well watching in 2014:
An artists conception of ESAs Rosetta and Philae spacecraft approaching comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. (Credit: ESA-J. Huart, 2013)
Rosetta to Explore a Comet: On January 20, 2014, the European Space Agency will hail its Rosetta spacecraft and awaken it for its historic encounter with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko later this year in August. After examining the comet in detail, Rosetta will then dispatch its Philae lander, equipped complete with harpoons and ice screws to make the first ever landing on a comet. Launched way back in 2004, Rosetta promises to provide the cosmic encounter of the year.
The October 19th, 2014 passage of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Springs past Mars. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
A1 Siding Springs vs. Mars: A comet discovery back in 2013 created a brief stir when researchers noted that comet C/2013 A1 Siding Springs would make a very close passage of the planet Mars on October 19th, 2014. Though refinements from subsequent observations have effectively ruled out the chance of impact, the comet will still pass 41,300 kilometres from the Red Planet, just outside the orbit of its outer moon Deimos. Ground-based observers will get to watch the +7th magnitude comet close in on Mars through October, as will a fleet of spacecraft both on and above the Martian surface.
A recent tweet from @NewHorizons_2015, a spacecraft that, ironically, launched just weeks before Twitter in 2006.
Spacecraft En Route to Destinations: Though no new interplanetary missions are set to depart the Earth in 2014, there are lots of exciting missions currently underway and headed for worlds yet to be explored. NASAs Dawn spacecraft is headed towards its encounter with 1 Ceres in February 2015. Juno is fresh off its 2013 flyby of the Earth and headed for orbital insertion around Jupiter in August 2016. And in November of this year, New Horizons will switch on permanently for its historic encounter with Pluto and its retinue of moons in July 2015.
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Signature Flight Support Corporation, a BBA Aviation company, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of the assets of Maguire Aviation Group, LLC at Van Nuys Airport (KVNY). Through this acquisition, Signature Flight Support has expanded its FBO facility at Van Nuys Airport with a combined footprint of 1.17 million sq. ft. of hangar, ramp, passenger lounges and office space. The expanded Signature Flight Support footprint at Van Nuys provides customers with the added convenience of multiple locations on the field for FBO services and aircraft storage.
Since 2005, Maguire Aviation has offered a full range of flight support services to both tenant and transient business and general aviation customers. In 2012, Maguire Aviation also completed the construction of a dedicated NetJets facility at Van Nuys.
Maria Sastre, President and Chief Operating Officer of Signature Flight Support stated, Maguire Aviation is an excellent flight support provider at one of the premier airport locations in the world. The expanded Signature Flight Support footprint created by this acquisition provides our customers with additional world-class flight support services at Van Nuys. We are excited to welcome the staff of Maguire Aviation to the Signature Flight Support global family. We also look forward to serving an expanded base of Signature Flight Support customers
Commenting on the acquisition, Robert Maguire, Founder and CEO of Maguire Aviation stated, We have a great franchise at Van Nuys Airport and Signature Flight Support was our clear choice. It is an outstanding company and we have found them excellent to work with. We are thrilled that our customers will enjoy the world-class customer service Signature Flight Support is known for. While Signature will operate the campus of FBOs and hangars, Maguire Investments will develop a combined footprint totaling 900,000 sq.ft. of hangar, office and passenger lounge space, as well as ramp area, in coordination with Signature.
The newly acquired entity will be branded Signature Flight Support, except for the NetJets facility, and will offer exemplary customer service and facilities. Signature Flight Support customer network benefits will be offered including Signature Status and Signature TailWins customer rewards programs.
Van Nuys Airport serves the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area and currently ranks as the sixth busiest airport in the world with over 250,000 total aircraft movements in 2012. Its proximity to downtown Los Angeles makes Van Nuys a convenient and attractive gateway for business and leisure travelers including the Hollywood entertainment industry.
Signature Flight Support Corporation, a BBA Aviation plc company, is the worlds largest fixed-base operation (FBO) and distribution network for business aviation services. Signature services include fueling, hangar and office rentals, ground handling, maintenance and a wide range of crew and passenger amenities at strategic domestic and international locations. Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, Signature currently operates at more than 100 locations in the United States, Europe, South America, Africa and Asia. For more information, please visit: http://www.signatureflight.com or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/signatureflightsupport. Follow Signature Flight Support on Twitter: SignatureFBO.
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While our spaceflight missions come to fruition in the heavens, they all have to start here on Earth. The next year in space will see a lot of changes, as new technologies get tested and exciting missions get going.
National space agencies and, increasingly, private companies are preparing for their next adventures in space. There will also be great celestial phenomena to enjoy and, very likely, a number of unexpected surprises cropping up. To help prepare for it all, we take a look at what next year holds for spaceflight.
Last year wasnt a particularly great one for the agency. Yes, it accomplished many great things, including scientific exploration of Mars, Saturn, other planets, and even the outer reaches of the solar system. But the agency has also been struggling for a while to find a sense of direction and is looking to make do with budgets that have flat-lined. The effects of the sequester and a government shutdown have further eroded its ability to execute all the impressive missions on its plate.
Last month, the NASA Office of the Inspector General, which checks on and audits funding for the agency, released a report on the top nine challenges facing NASA this year. These included deciding whether or not to extend the lifetime of the International Space Station which is scheduled for retirement in 2020 for eight additional years. Many researchers would like to continue using the ISS but NASA might like to use that money to start supporting different projects.
Other major challenges include securing a method to transport its astronauts to the ISS. NASA currently relies on Russian launch vehicles, which are expensive and subject to the increasingly frosty international relationship between the U.S. and Russia. The agency is looking forward to the debut test flight of Orion, its new manned spacecraft (seen above), in September but human crews wouldnt board the vehicle until after 2020. A domestic rocket company, such as SpaceX, might be a cheaper and better alternative. The OIG also wants NASA to make sure it has the costs and scheduling of the James Webb Space Telescope under control, a project that has run billions over budget and is set to launch in 2018.
In 2013, NASA released a plan to capture an asteroid and bring it back to Earth, perhaps sending astronauts to explore its surface at some future date. But the mission hasnt been fully embraced by the spaceflight community, who wonder (and sometimes snicker) about the value of such an expedition. NASA will likely release more information in 2014 about exactly how it wants to go about accomplishing this venture.
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After a 10-year journey, the European Space Agencys Rosetta spacecraft will finally be reaching its target, comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko, in August. The mission will be the first to orbit a comets nucleus, staying with the icy ball for months to see how it changes as it approaches the sun and heats up. Rosetta is carrying a tiny lander named Philae, which will be the first man-made object to softly land on a comets surface and, hopefully, beam back some amazing pictures from the surface.
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Smaller is better, especially in space. Over the last decade, miniaturized electronic components have found their way onto mini-sized satellites known as cubesats. Measuring 10 centimeters a side, cubesats have the advantage of being cheap to build and easy to launch they just piggyback on an existing rocket carrying larger satellites.
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Only 550 or so people have ever flown into space. Its remarkable, then, that almost 700 clients have already signed up with Virgin Galactic, Richard Bransons private space-tourism company, which has yet to begin offering commercial space flights. The year 2014 will be big for Virgin Galactic. If all goes according to plan, Branson and his adult children, Holly and Sam, will be the first private passengers to travel into space aboard Virgin Galactics SpaceShipTwo craft, ushering in a new era of space flight for the masses.
Virgin Galactic charges $250,000 for a ride. This isnt cheap, but for space travel, its a bargain: In 2009, when Canadian billionaire and Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Lalibert blasted off aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, he paid a reported $35 million for the privilege. Soon, a ticket into space will cost less than a Toronto condo. Clients will spend three days preparing at Spaceport America in New Mexico, the first space hub in the world to host private businesses such as Virgin Galactic; day four is the flight, a two-hour suborbital trip at an altitude of 50,000 feet. Clients experience the blackness of space, zero gravity, fabulous views of Earth, and you come back an astronaut, says Stephen Attenborough, Virgin Galactics commercial director. The spaceship is equipped with extra-large windows to capitalize on the view.
Virgin Galactic isnt the only private company with ambitions in space. Earlier this year, Elon Musks SpaceX successfully flew its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station (ISS) on an unmanned resupply mission, becoming the first private company to reach the station. Orbital Sciences Corporation, another U.S. company, is scheduled to start a series of eight cargo resupply missions to the ISS late this year. Private companies could be ferrying NASA astronauts there as early as 2017. (The U.S., which has had no way to reach the ISS on its own since the Space Shuttle fleet retired in 2011, is using the Soyuz to transport its astronauts.)
Virgin Galactics suborbital flights wont go as high as the ISS; theyre intended to be more affordable and accessible. We know it will blow people away, Attenborough says. And its a doable first step.
The commercial space industry has been plagued by setbacks and delays. Attenborough admits there are no guarantees, yet after years of preparation, the Virgin Galactic team is quietly confident that its reached the home stretch before launching its commercial service with the Branson family aboard. That first flight will be televised on NBC; the company is also planning a reality show, Space Race, in which people compete for a ride on the Virgin Galactic spaceship. Today, the astronauts among us are the rarest of the rare; years, or decades, from now, many of us will know a co-worker, neighbour or relative whos been into space. We may even have a trip booked there ourselves.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The Toronto Maple Leafs particularly enjoyed a picturesque but cold and snowy outdoor hockey game that probably broke an all-time attendance record.
Left winger Joffrey Lupul and center Tyler Bozak scored in a shootout to give Toronto a 3-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday afternoon at Michigan Stadium in the 2014 Winter Classic.
The game was expected to break the hockey attendance record of 104,173, which was also set at Michigan Stadium on Dec. 11, 2010, at the Big Chill at the Big House college game between Michigan and Michigan State. There were 105,491 tickets sold Wednesday.
"I don't know if we set the official Guinness (World Records) ticket record, but I know we set our own (NHL) record," NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said.
The old NHL record was 71,217, set in the 2008 Winter Classic at Ralph Wilson Stadium outside of Buffalo.
Bettman added that because of the weather, it took some fans 2 1/2 hours to get to Ann Arbor from Detroit. The cities are about 45 miles apart. Bettman said some fans didn't arrive until the second period.
The game was played in a steady snowfall, and the temperature was a little above 10 degrees with a below-zero wind chill. Both goalies regularly had their water bottles replaced because the water was freezing. Due to the snow, the ice surface was shoveled during breaks more than usual.
"It was a little chilly out there, but it got warmer during the game," Maple Leafs coach Randy Carlyle said. "I spent 18 years in Winnipeg, so I know cold."
Left winger James van Riemsdyk and Bozak scored for Toronto (21-16-5) in the first 60 minutes. Maple Leafs goaltender Jonathan Bernier stopped 41 shots.
"Obviously, we needed the two points. We kind of had to stay focused," Bernier said. "We wanted to have a fun game, but we were able to come out of it with two points."
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