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Travel and Lifestyle Press Releases Friday October 18, 2013 10:04
Bangkok--18 Oct--Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas
Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas scooped multiple awards at the World Travel Awards Asia & Australasia which took place in Dubai on October 1st. Anantara Lawana in Koh Samui was named Asias Most Romantic Resort, Anantara Hua Hin was awarded Asias Leading Green Resort, and Anantara Bangkok Sathorn was named as Thailands Leading Lifestyle Hotel. In addition, Mr. William E. Heinecke, Chairman and Chief Executive of Minor Hotel Group, Anantaras owning company, was honoured as Asias Leading Travel Personality.
The prestigious awards ceremony was attended by His Highness Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum and was hosted at Anantara Dubai The Palm Resort & Spa, the most recent addition to the Anantara fold, which opened in September marking the upscale Asian operators first opening in Dubai. Bill Heinecke was also present at the ceremony to accept his honorary Asias Leading Travel Personality award, recognising him as the driving force behind the leading global brands under the Minor Group umbrella, including Minor Hotel Group.
Named as Asias Most Romantic Resort, Anantara Lawana Resort & Spa Samui is nestled on the quiet, pristine northern end of Chaweng Beach, one of Koh Samuis most famous and longest beaches. Modern luxury in the style of the islands original Chinese merchant settlers, the resort offers 122 spacious guest rooms and pool villas. Leisure facilities include a beachside infinity pool, an award-winning Anantara Spa, a fitness centre, whilst its exquisite restaurants include beachside Ocean Kiss and Tree Tops restaurant, the most romantic and exclusive dining journeys within the resort. For a dream evening, the resort offers Dining by Design that gives guests the opportunity to dine in blissful privacy anywhere in the resort with a menu custom-designed in discussion with a personal chef.
With its 14 acres of luxuriantly landscaped gardens and lagoon pools, Anantara Hua Hin Resort & Spa has received Asias Leading Green Resort. Echoing the design of an ancient Thai village, the resort features 187 garden and sea-view guest rooms and suites, plus a range of facilities and activities to suite every traveller, including meeting facilities, seven restaurants and bars, an award-winning Anantara Spa, a fitness centre, tennis courts and two infinity-edge pools. Its renowned tropical gardens were the creation of globally acclaimed landscape designer Bill Bensley who describes the results as biologically interesting by making five distinct sub-gardens; the white garden, the heliconia garden, the red garden, the palm garden and the yellow garden.
Providing the perfect urban sanctuary for both leisure and business travellers, Anantara Bangkok Sathorn has been named as Thailands Leading Lifestyle Hotel. The hotel is conveniently positioned in the heart of the Thai capitals business, shopping and entertainment areas with 310 guest rooms and suites, each offering the luxury of separate living and entertainment areas with balconies opening onto city or river views. The hotel also offers four restaurants and bars, including Londons award-winning Italian restaurant, Signor Sassi, a choice of four meeting rooms, a Childrens Club, spa and fitness and a large infinity edge swimming pool.
Thai Airways International Public Company Limited (THAI) held its Board of Directors Meeting, chaired by Mr. Ampon Kittiampon, THAIs Chairman of the Board of Directors, with the following results. 1. Operating Results for September...
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The problem with Spirituality (Part 2)
Have you notice that the Spiritual movement is beginning to look a lot like the religious establishment? Why is that? Perhaps they all have the same source. ...
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M.I.A.'s upcoming, long-delayed fourth album shares itsname with Matangi, the Hindu goddess of music and learning. The title may reflect a newfound spirituality for the Sri Lankan artist (whose birth name, Mathangi, also derives from "Matangi"), but M.I.A. didn't find faith through some fit of divine inspiration. She discovered it where else? through a search engine."I just found spirituality on Google," she told Faderrecently, "Which I hate."
The singer-rapper explains further, saying, "I Googled 'green,' andMatangipopped up. When I typed in 'Matangi,' it was me and then her on the two top links. Hers was like: 'She's got four arms and carried a sword because she fights for truth, but, like, lives in the ghetto and in the hood and has intoxicated eyes,' which kind of sounds like she smokes weed.I was like, 'Wow, she sounds pretty cool.' I sort of stopped thinking about my own life and I started thinking about hers, and spent time in India, going to universities and temples, looking for things that I could figure out, about women."
The idea of a hood-dwelling goddess fascinated M.I.A., who says she "never knew anything about spirituality" before. "[Matangi]was a gangster, she was from the hood, but she was a goddess and hangs out in the jungle," the 38-year-old says. "Loads of things about her werent like the roles in spirituality that were used to in the West, that youre either a whore like Mary Magdalene, or a Virgin Mary and conceive a child without having sex. Those two roles were not an option for me. In Hinduism, theyve got women who are into time-bending quantum physics... I became interested in all the multi-faceted ways a woman can exist, what the options for being a woman are."
But M.I.A. wants to clarify that the follow-up to 2010'sMAYAisn't explicitly "about women." That said, she tells Fader that she "wanted to make another way for women to exist that wasnt competing with Miley Cyrus who can be more slutty or to present it as, 'Im this completely clean person'...Matangiis more like, reproduction, feminine power and celebrating life."
Read the entire Q&A over at Fader, and for an extended preview of M.I.A.'s next LP (out November 5), listen to previously released tracks"Come Walk With Me,""Bring the Noize,""Only 1 U,""AtTENTion,"and"Bad Girls."And also check out a just-released snippet of new song "Y.A.L.A."
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7 Fireballs to Intersect Earth! All Found on New NASA All-Sky Cam System!
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October 18, 2013
Image Caption: The center of the Milky Way galaxy imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is displayed on a quarter-of-a-billion-pixel, high-definition 23-foot-wide (7-meter) LCD science visualization screen at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
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If youve ever downloaded a movie from the Internet, you know that large amounts of data can take time to transfer and process using a standard computer. Now imagine the herculean task NASA faces in trying to process the constant flood of data streaming in from the simple Voyager probe signal emanating from outside our Solar System to the hi-res images being downloaded from various orbiting telescopes.
Scientists use big data for everything from predicting weather on Earth to monitoring ice caps on Mars to searching for distant galaxies, said Eric De Jong of NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and principal investigator for NASAs Solar System Visualization project.
De Jongs project team converts NASA mission science into visualization products that researchers can use for various projects.
We are the keepers of the data, and the users are the astronomers and scientists who need images, mosaics, maps and movies to find patterns and verify theories, De Jong said.
To manage the massive amount of data from space, NASA first needs a place to store the data. After the torrents of information are stored, the space agency needs a way to visualize the data in a palatable way.
Thats where De Jongs team comes in. The staff at the Solar System Visualization project is continually developing new ways to visualize data. For example, each image from NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which contains about 120 megapixels apiece, is used by the project to create a movie. De Jongs team also creates countless computer graphics and animations that allow scientists and the public to better understand the Red Planet.
Data are not just getting bigger but more complex, said De Jong. We are constantly working on ways to automate the process of creating visualization products, so that scientists and engineers can easily use the data.
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Oct 17, 2013 by Rob Gutro NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of Typhoon Francisco on Oct. 17 at 04:05 UTC in the Pacific Ocean as it started turning to the northwest after passing Guam. Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team
NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Typhoon Francisco on Oct. 17 after it had passed the eastern side of Guam and started to head on a track that would take it past the western side of Guam. Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect for Guam on Oct. 17 and 18 (local time).
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of Typhoon Francisco on Oct. 17 at 04:05 UTC in the Pacific Ocean as it started turning to the northwest after passing the eastern side Guam. The MODIS image clearly showed Francisco's eye, indicating its strength and organization.
On Oct. 17 at 1500 UTC/11 a.m. EDT Francisco had maximum sustained winds near 85 knots and was moving to the north-northeast, but is expected to take a turn to the northwest. Francisco's center was located about 147 nautical miles southwest of Guam, near 12.5 north and 143.1 east.
On Oct. 17 and 18 (local time), a Tropical Storm Warning was in effect for Guam. The National Weather Service bulletin on Oct. 17 at 3 p.m. EDT noted: as Typhoon Francisco (26w) passes...sustained tropical storm force winds are expected. Maximum winds are still forecast to be in the 30 to 40 mph range with gusts to 60 mph. Minor damage may occur to poorly constructed homes. Isolated power outages will be possible. Choppy seas of 12 to 14 feet will persist through tonight.
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Powerful thunderstorms wrapped around Tropical Storm Usagi's center and its southern quadrant in visible data from NASA's Aqua satellite on Sept. 18.
Tropical Depression Sepat formed in the northwestern Pacific Ocean and NASA's Aqua satellite captured infrared data on the storm, revealing some strong thunderstorms.
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NASA's newly launched lunar probe has begun testing what could eventually become an outer space Internet.
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) observatory said the probe on Thursday night began a limited test of a high-data-rate laser communication system. It's the U.S. space agency's first laser communications test.
If it works as planned, NASA plans to use similar systems to speed up future satellite communications and deep space communications with robots and human exploration crews.
The spacecraft, which launched on Sept. 6 from the Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va., reached lunar orbit on Oct. 6. A series of maneuvers put the probe into the proper orbit for engineers on Earth to check out its instruments and set up the laser communications test.
The test is expected to run through the middle of November, said Dewayne Washington, a spokesman for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
"They're testing from different vantage points, different weather conditions," Washington said. "We want to gauge how well it would work under different conditions. it'll take a while to do that."
"Everything, so far, is going well," he added.
The space probe's main mission is to study the moon's atmosphere, though officials say testing the laser communications system also a major undertaking.
Using laser communications instead of radio systems would enable robots, such as the Curiosity Mars rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and astronauts to send and receive far greater data loads fron space, whether in orbit around Earth, on the moon or on a distant asteroid.
Two-way laser communications systems can deliver six times more data with 25% less power than the best radio systems, Don Cornwell, Lunar Laser Communications Mission Manager at Goddard, said in an earlier interview.
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The end of the government shutdown may have brought NASA back online, but it will take the space agency a few days to get back up to speed, officials say.
NASA Headquarters and all 10 of the agency's research and operations centers were open by Thursday afternoon (Oct. 17), a day after the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives reached a deal to end the 16-day shutdown that had sent huge numbers of federal employees home, including 97 percent of NASA's 18,000-member workforce.
One of the first orders of business for the space agency is figuring out how the work stoppage may have affected planning and operations going forward, officials said. [NASA's Space Exploration and Tech Goals for 2014 (Photos)]
"It will take a couple of days to get back to more normal operations," NASA spokesman Allard Beutel told SPACE.com. "At the same time, we're doing those initial assessments of what impact we have beyond the obvious the majority of NASA was not working for 16 days."
Some of this work involves relatively simple activities such as catching up on email and rescheduling meetings, Beutel added. But some of it will be more complex, like potentially re-assessing timelines for future space missions.
The shutdown went into effect at midnight on Oct. 1 when the Senate and House couldn't agree on an emergency spending bill to keep the government funded. NASA was forced to furlough all but 550 or so employees, keeping a skeleton crew around to protect the lives of the astronauts aboard the International Space Station and safeguard currently operating scientific spacecraft such as the car-size Mars rover Curiosity.
After the government shutdown ended on Wednesday night (Oct. 16), NASA had to conduct safety walkthroughs of its buildings and facilities before allowing people to come back to work. But that didn't pose too much of a problem, Beutel said at least compared to walkthroughs performed under different circumstances.
"A lot of the infrastructure wasn't completely shut off," he said. "It's a bigger concern when you have a weather situation like a hurricane, where you're really looking for downed wires and flooded buildings and, if you're at Kennedy [Space Center in Florida], alligators in buildings."
With the shutdown finally over, relief and excitement are palpable throughout the NASA workforce, Beutel said.
"People are very eager to get back to work and dive back into the jobs in their areas," he said.
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NASA Television will provide live coverage of the departure of the newest U.S. commercial cargo spacecraft to deliver supplies to the International Space Station and undocking of the fourth European Space Agency cargo vehicle.
Coverage for departure of the Cygnus spacecraft begins at 7 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Oct. 22. The spacecraft has been attached to the space station since Sept. 29 on a demonstration cargo resupply mission by Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va.
Coverage for departure of the fourth European Space Agency (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-4) cargo spacecraft begins at 4:45 a.m. Monday, Oct. 28.
Cygnus delivered about 1,300 pounds (589 kilograms) of cargo, including food, clothing and student experiments to the Expedition 37 crew aboard the space station. Future flights of Cygnus will significantly increase NASA's ability to deliver new science investigations to the only laboratory in microgravity.
Astronauts will load Cygnus with items no longer needed and detach the spacecraft from the station's Harmony module using the orbiting complex's robotic arm. The crew will release Cygnus at 7:30 a.m. Orbital engineers then will conduct a series of planned burns and maneuvers to move Cygnus toward a destructive re-entry in Earth's atmosphere Wednesday, Oct. 23.
Cygnus was launched on the company's Antares rocket on Sept. 18 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Orbital is the second of NASA's two partners taking part in the agency's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. The goal of COTS is to develop safe, reliable and cost effective cargo transportation systems. Following a successful demonstration mission, the company is poised to begin regular resupply missions.
The ATV-4 spacecraft, named Albert Einstein by ESA in honor of the 20th century theoretical physicist and icon of modern science, launched atop an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana June 5. The spacecraft docked to the aft port of the Russian Zvezda Service Module June 15, delivering more than 7 tons of supplies.
ATV-4 also will be loaded with items no longer needed aboard the space station. The spacecraft will back away from the station to a safe distance for an engine firing that will enable it to make a planned destructive return through Earth's atmosphere Sunday, Nov. 2.
Preparations also are under way for launch of a new expedition crew to the space station. Launch is scheduled for 11:14 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Nov. 6, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. New video of launch preparations will begin airing on NASA Television Oct. 22.
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Blood clots, often unexposed until they break away and result in a stroke or heart attack, can form for a number of reasons in anyone. But now, researchers from MIT have developed a simple urine test that uses nanoparticles to detect thrombin, a major blood-clotting element.
The researchers, who published the details of their system in the journal ACS Nano, hope this test could be used to monitor patients who are at high risk for blood clots.
Though we often associate blood clots with elderly patients, anyone who sits on a plane for prolonged periods of time, lies in a bed while recovering from surgery, or who takes certain medications can be at risk.
In 2012, Medical News Today reported that contraceptives containing Drospirenone have a higher blood clot risk, for example.
In the recent past, young celebrities who have died from blood clots - celebrity stylist Annabel Tollman - or who have been hospitalized due to them - Mariah Carey's husband Nick Cannon - have brought attention to the fact that anyone is at risk.
And the researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), led by Professor Sangeeta Bhatia, say that until now, there has not been a fast or easy way to diagnose these blood clots.
Prof. Bhatia says that "some patients are at more risk for clotting, but existing blood tests are not consistently able to detect the formation of new clots."
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Much of Rebecca Schwartz's cutting-edge nanotechnology research at Lockheed Martin is classified, but her work is generally geared toward developing technical solutions to reduce the physical burden of troops in combat. It is part of a larger vision she holds of increasing situational awareness for warfighters while making their equipment smaller, lighter and less power-hungry.
She manages the funding of her research and development projects and has provisional patents for solutions based on her ideas. In short order, Schwartz took her division's first nanotechnology pursuit from concept to a potential real-world application. As she works to support the Defense Department, she is also helping grow nanotechnology as a business at Lockheed Martin.
"Not only are we looking to advance technology solutions to reduce the burden for warfighters one of the biggest problems for them today but we're looking at strategiesand interfacing with customers to get feedback and really understand what their challenges are," Schwartz said. "I'm proud seeing a lot of innovations we're coming up with that are truly things that will help our customers and keep them safe. We're all about the soldiers, and we're there to provide technology they need to do their missions."
Schwartz has been at Lockheed Martin for two years, and the projects she leads often have turnaround times about that long, though some extend for five and even 10 years.
So although she can't talk about it in detail now, American warfighters might well display and use some of her finest work in the near future.
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Sri Lanka's first ever nanotechnology park 'Nanotechnology Centre of Excellence' (NCE) put up with state and private investment will be opened by President Mahinda Rajapaksa at 10.30 a.m. on October 21.
It was constructed under the first phase of the Science Park being built in Pitipana in Homagama.
The park was constructed with an investment of Rs. 2,081.5 million, of which the government's investment was Rs 1,771.5 million, with the private sector investing Rs 310 million. MAS, Brandix, Dialog, Heyleys, Loadstar and Lankem are the private stakeholders of the project. The Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (SLINTEC) was established in 2008 and it started research work in 2009. The SLINTEC has obtained 8 international patents and 2 local patents as at present and it hopes to provide commercial scale services using these patents in the near future.
The SLINTEC team is comprised of 23 young research officers, four engineers and four senior professors and it is headed by Prof. Weranja Karunarathna and Prof. Nalin de Silva.
Technology and Research Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said the Science Park once completed will play a decisive role in sustainable development and economic advancement.
The NCE aims to produce new products based on natural materials suitable for the competitive world market, and to implement research and development programmes to identify and solve local and international issues in the fields of agriculture, health and water purification etc.
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