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By Christian V. Esguerra Philippine Daily Inquirer
Former Senator Ernesto Maceda. FILE PHOTO
AGOO, La Union, PhilippinesThanks to the wonders of science, the oldest candidate in the May 13 senatorial election has managed to keep up with the grueling campaign.
So far, 78-year-old former Senate President Ernesto Maceda said Friday, he has not gotten sick despite a tough campaign schedule that usually requires him to travel from one province to anotherall thanks to the stem cell therapy he got for P600,000 at a medical facility in Germany in March last year.
I am now convinced that my stem cell therapy is effective and thats the reason why Ive been able to keep up with the rigorous campaign schedule, he told reporters before climbing the campaign stage at the Eriguel compound.
Maceda said the therapy was relatively cheap, noting that it would have cost him around P2.5 million if he had it in the Philippines. And it was worth it, he said.
I feel 20 years younger, he said.
Maceda joined a growing list of aging politicians who have resorted to stem cell therapy. They include Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, 89, and former President Joseph Estrada, who celebrated his 76th birthday Friday.
Responding to a question by a TV reporter, Vice President Jejomar Binay said he does not need it yet.
The UNA campaign schedule is no walk in the park.
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Excerpts from the Vespers at the Sixth edition of the Symposium of Romanian Orthodox Spirituality
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Personal and spiritual expirences have influenced three authors in writing their book, which talked about the relationship between white supremacy and the incarceration of colored people.
Authors Alex Mikulich, assistant professor for the Jesuit Social Research Institute, Laurie Cassidy, assistant religious studies professor at Marywood University and Margaret Pfeil, assistant theology professor at the University of Notre Dame, presented their book The Scandal of White Complicity and U.S. Hyper-incarceration: A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance on Wednesday, April 10, in Millar 114. The Jesuit Social Research Institute, Gillis Long Poverty Law Center, and Department of Sociology sponsored the discussion, which went over the relationship between white people and the uneven incarceration of minorities.
Mikulich, Pfell and Cassidy organized this discussion panel in parallel to the construction of the book. Mikulich began the discussion by talking about structure, defining exactly what the authors mean by hyper-incarceration, which is the over incarceration of a certain group of people, and white complicity, which is interchangeable with white supremacy.
One of the great benefits of working on this book is that its really three books in one, Mikulich said. From a Catholic perspective, its very Trinitarian because we have three co-authors who have been in conversation with each other, interrelating questions of structure, culture and spirituality.
Pfell, as did the other speakers, spoke about her experience and how it led to a self-realization that they needed to spread awareness of the current state of white privilege, especially in terms of incarceration.
What Im finding in my research is that, that picture in your head of the dangerous black man goes all the way back to Thomas Jefferson, that we needed that idea of the dangerous black man in order to do what we did with slavery and again right now with incarceration, Pfell said.
The discussion ended with Cassidys take on the spirituality concerns surrounding this issue. Cassidy brought the issue back in relevance to Loyolas Jesuit ideals when she spoke on spirituality and the role it plays in this issue of hyper-incarceration of minorities.
Many sociology students, like sociology freshman Sammy Ybarzabal, attended the panel discussion to relate the topic back to themselves and their class.
Because we live in New Orleans and theres a lot of crime, I feel like we need to have this talk, Ybarzabal said. Even when people walk in the streets, theres this sense of fear when theyre around people of color in the city. Why are we like that?
Mary Graci can be reached at megraci@loyno.edu
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Space Station Live: April 15, 2013
The Space Station Live recap video for April 15, 2013. Watch the full Space Station Live broadcast weekdays on NASA TV at 10 a.m. CDT.
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The International Space Station.
The ISS flying by over were i live tonight.
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A fascinating video from the International Space Station shows Earthlings what it's like to wring out a wet washcloth without gravity's help.
Where does the water go in space?
Thanks to astronaut Chris Hadfield and a series of videos from the Canadian Space Agency, we've had incredible access to all aspects of life on the International Space Station. Activities that are so mundane here on Earth (like clipping nails and heating up some spinach) become things of wonder in zero gravity. That's why we're all going ga-ga over Hadfield wringing out a washcloth.
If I told you nearly 600,000 people would tune into YouTube to watch a piece of cloth get wrung out, you would probably laugh and tell me to take the day off. Fortunately, we're not all suffering from a mass delusion. Hadfield soaking up a washcloth with water and then wringing it out really is that cool.
He starts with a compressed puck of official NASA-issue washcloth. After shaking it out, he soaks it with drinking water squirted out from a flexible plastic bottle.
Once the cloth has absorbed all it can, we get the moment of truth. Tiny blobs of water float out free into the ISS, but most of it just gathers in a liquid tube around the cloth and Hadfield's fingers. Space! Science! Astronauts! It's the best kind of viral video hit.
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Russian cosmonauts Roman Romanenko (bottom) and Pavel Vinogradov float outside the International Space Station on Friday during a spacewalk.
By Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A 59-year-old Russian cosmonaut became the world's oldest spacewalker Friday, joining a much younger cosmonaut's son for a little maintenance work outside the International Space Station.
Pavel Vinogradov, a cosmonaut for two decades, claimed the honor as he emerged from the hatch with Roman Romanenko. But he inadvertently added to the booming population of space junk when he lost his grip on an experiment tray that he was retrieving toward the end of the 6-hour spacewalk.
The lost aluminum panel 18 inches by 12 inches (45 by 30 centimeters) and about 6 pounds (3 kilograms) contained metal samples. Scientists wanted to see how the samples had fared after a year out in the vacuum of space.
Otherwise, the spacewalk went well, with the spacewalkers installing new science equipment and replacing a navigation device needed for the June arrival of a European cargo ship.
Collecting the experiment tray was Vinogradov's last task outside.
The tray drifted toward the solar panels of the main Russian space station compartment, called Zvezda, Russian for Star. Flight controllers did not believe it struck anything, and the object was not thought to pose a safety hazard in the hours and days ahead.
"That's unfortunate," someone radioed in Russian.
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During space station fix-up, Russian becomes world's oldest spacewalker
The six-hour spacewalk involves upgrading the orbiting lab with new experiments to measure charged particle interactions and the effects of microbes on spacecraft materials
By Megan Gannon and SPACE.com
Russian cosmonauts Roman Romanenko (bottom) and Pavel Vinogradov flout outside the International Space Station on April 19, 2013, during the first spacewalk of their Expedition 35 mission. The two men will spend six hours upgrading the station' Image: NASA TV
Two Russian cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station Friday (April 19) to begin a six-hour spacewalk to upgrade the orbiting lab with new experiments.
Clad in their bulky Orlan spacesuits, veteran cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Roman Romanenko began their spacewalk just after 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) to install a space weather experiment to the space station's hull and prepare the outpost for the arrival of a robotic cargo ship later this year. You can watch the spacewalk live on SPACE.com, courtesy of NASA TV.
"It's dark outside," one of the cosmonauts said after they opened the hatch of the Pirs docking module, which doubles as a spacewalk airlock and spacecraft parking spot at the station. [Space Station's Expedition 35 Mission in Photos]
The spacewalk's first task is the installation of a new Russian experiment called Obstanovka, which will measure charged particles interact with a variety of materials kept outside of the space station. Obstanovka could offer scientists new insights about how space weather affects the ionosphere, an active region of the Earth's atmosphere, NASA officials explained in a spacewalk description.
Vinogradov and Romanenko also plan to retrieve a Biorisk canister, an experiment that measures the effects of bacteria and fungus on spacecraft materials, as well as part of a materials exposure experiment called Vinoslivost.
"All this is hard work," Romanenko said of the spacewalk in a NASA interview before launching to the station in December. "Also I'm supposed to collect information from other experiments that were installed outside the station."
Vinogradov and Romanenko are also expected to replace a faulty retro-reflector device needed to guide the upcoming arrival of the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle 4 an unmanned cargo ship named "Albert Einstein." That robotic spacecraft will launch toward the space station in Juneand park itself at the orbiting laboratory's Russian-built Zvezda service module.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A pair of Russian cosmonauts wrapped up a 6-1/2 hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, the first of up to eight outings this year to install experiments and prepare the orbital outpost for a new module, officials said.
Flight engineers Pavel Vinogradov, 59, a veteran of seven spacewalks and Roman Romanenko, 41, a second-generation cosmonaut on his debut spacewalk, floated outside the station's airlock at 10:03 a.m. EDT/1403 GMT as the station soared 262 miles over the southern Pacific Ocean.
The primary purpose of the 6-1/2 hour excursion was to set up an experiment that monitors plasma waves in Earth's ionosphere, the outer layer of the planet's atmosphere that extends to about 370 miles into space.
Instruments on two boxes attached to handrails on the forward portion of the station's Zvezda module will measure low-frequency electromagnetic radiation, which, among other triggers, has been tied to earthquakes.
At the other end of the Zvezda module, Vinogradov and Romanenko replaced a faulty laser retroreflector that is part of an automated docking system used by the European Space Agency's cargo transports. The next ship is due to launch in June.
Before heading back into the station, the cosmonauts retrieved another experiment designed to study how microbes affect spacecraft structures and whether microbes are affected by solar activity.
The day's only glitch occurred just before the men wrapped up their six-hour, 38-minute spacewalk. Vinogradov lost his grip on a science experiment that was slated to be returned to Earth. It floated away in the gravity-free world of space.
The lost aluminum panel, which measured about 18 inches by 12 inches and weighed about 6.5 pounds (3 kg), had been anchored outside the station to test how various metals wear in the harsh space environment.
It floated off in the direction of the Zvezda module's solar arrays, but engineers determined it did not hit or threaten the station, NASA mission commentator Rob Navias said.
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Russian cosmonauts Roman Romanenko (bottom) and Pavel Vinogradov float outside the International Space Station on Friday during a spacewalk.
By Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A 59-year-old Russian cosmonaut became the world's oldest spacewalker Friday, joining a much younger cosmonaut's son for a little maintenance work outside the International Space Station.
Pavel Vinogradov, a cosmonaut for two decades, claimed the honor as he emerged from the hatch with Roman Romanenko. But he inadvertently added to the booming population of space junk when he lost his grip on an experiment tray that he was retrieving toward the end of the 6-hour spacewalk.
The lost aluminum panel 18 inches by 12 inches (45 by 30 centimeters) and about 6 pounds (3 kilograms) contained metal samples. Scientists wanted to see how the samples had fared after a year out in the vacuum of space.
Otherwise, the spacewalk went well, with the spacewalkers installing new science equipment and replacing a navigation device needed for the June arrival of a European cargo ship.
Collecting the experiment tray was Vinogradov's last task outside.
The tray drifted toward the solar panels of the main Russian space station compartment, called Zvezda, Russian for Star. Flight controllers did not believe it struck anything, and the object was not thought to pose a safety hazard in the hours and days ahead.
"That's unfortunate," someone radioed in Russian.
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'Hard work': Russian spacewalkers swap experiments on space station
Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov, left, and Roman Romanenko perform a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to gather old science experiments and install new ones, and replace a navigation device.AP Photo/NASA
SPACE STATION A 59-year-old Russian cosmonaut became the world's oldest spacewalker Friday, joining a much younger cosmonaut's son for maintenance work outside the International Space Station.
Pavel Vinogradov, a cosmonaut for two decades, claimed the honor as he emerged from the hatch with Roman Romanenko. But he inadvertently added to the booming population of space junk when he lost his grip on an experiment tray that he was retrieving toward the end of the 6 1/2-hour spacewalk.
The lost aluminum panel -- 18 inches by 12 inches and about 6 1/2 pounds -- contained metal samples. Scientists wanted to see how the samples had fared after a year out in the vacuum of space.
Otherwise, the spacewalk had gone well, with the spacewalkers installing new science equipment and replacing a navigation device needed for the June arrival of a European cargo ship.
Collecting the experiment tray was Vinogradov's last task outside.
The tray drifted toward the solar panels of the main Russian space station compartment, called Zvezda, Russian for Star. Flight controllers did not believe it struck anything, and the object was not thought to pose a safety hazard in the hours and days ahead.
"That's unfortunate," someone radioed in Russian.
Another panel of similar experiments will be collected on a future spacewalk.
This is the first of eight spacewalks to be conducted this year, most of them by Russians. Two will be led by NASA this summer.
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Two Russian cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station Friday (April 19) to begin a six-hour spacewalk to upgrade the orbiting lab with new experiments.
Clad in their bulky Orlan spacesuits, veteran cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Roman Romanenko began their spacewalk just after 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) to install a space weather experiment to the space station's hull and prepare the outpost for the arrival of a robotic cargo ship later this year. You can watch the spacewalk live on SPACE.com, courtesy of NASA TV.
"It's dark outside," one of the cosmonauts said after they opened the hatch of the Pirs docking module, which doubles as a spacewalk airlock and spacecraft parking spot at the station. [Space Station's Expedition 35 Mission in Photos]
The spacewalk's first task is the installation of a new Russian experiment called Obstanovka, which will measure charged particles interact with a variety of materials kept outside of the space station. Obstanovka could offer scientists new insights about how space weather affects the ionosphere, an active region of the Earth's atmosphere, NASA officials explained in a spacewalk description.
Vinogradov and Romanenko also plan to retrieve a Biorisk canister, an experiment that measures the effects of bacteria and fungus on spacecraft materials, as well as part of a materials exposure experiment called Vinoslivost.
"All this is hard work," Romanenko said of the spacewalk in a NASA interview before launching to the station in December. "Also I'm supposed to collect information from other experiments that were installed outside the station."
Vinogradov and Romanenko are also expected to replace a faulty retro-reflector device needed to guide the upcoming arrival of the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle 4 an unmanned cargo ship named "Albert Einstein." That robotic spacecraft will launch toward the space station in Juneand park itself at the orbiting laboratory's Russian-built Zvezda service module.
Today's spacewalk is the first for Romanenko and the seventh for veteran space man Vinogradov. Before launch, Romanenko said he was worried he would not get a chance to perform the spacewalk since he is due to return to Earth in May. He is a second-generation spacewalker; his father, former cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko, logged more than 10 spacewalking hours in his career.
The spacewalkers are two members of the six-man Expedition 35 crew currently living aboard the International Space Station. The others are Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, and NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Chris Cassidy.
This is the 167th spacewalk dedicated to the construction and upkeep of the International Space Station, which was built by five different space agencies representing 15 countries. Construction of the $100 billion space station began in 1998 and it has been permanently staffed with rotating crews since 2000. It is roughly the size of a five-bedroom house with a wingspan the size of a football field.
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WASHINGTONNASA's planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. They are just the right size and in just the right place near their star.
The distant duo are the best candidates for habitable planets that astronomers have found so far, said William Borucki, chief scientist for NASA's Kepler telescope.
The discoveries, published online Thursday in the journal Science, mark a milestone in the search for planets where life could exist.
The new discoveries, called Kepler-62-e and Kepler-62-f, circle the same star, an orange dwarf, and are next to each other closer together than Earth and Mars.
The planets are slightly wider than Earth, but not too big. Kepler-62-e is a bit toasty, like a Hawaiian world, and Kepler-62-f is a bit nippy, more Alaskan, Borucki said.
"This is the first one where I'm thinking, 'Huh, Kepler-62-f really might have life on it,' " said study co-author David Charbonneau of Harvard.
The planets are 1,200 light years away. The planets circle a star that is 7 billion years old about 2.5 billion years older than our sun.
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LOS ANGELES, April 19 (UPI) -- Members of Congress say they've urged NASA to spare planetary science funding and resist pressures to make disproportionate cuts to the science budget.
In a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., urged the space agency to protect the funding for missions to Mars and the outer planets allocated by Congress this spring.
"While we fully understand that the funding levels ... are subject to change to reflect across-the-board and sequester cuts, we expect that the balance among programs will remain consistent with the structure directed by Congress," they wrote.
NASA will have to move some money around to make up for shortfalls related to the automatic federal budget cuts that went into effect earlier this year.
Schiff, whose district includes NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, said the science funding could possibly see reductions in the space agency's new operating plan.
"We're hearing disturbing sounds that they're going to raid planetary science, and seriously degrade Mars missions -- even though sample return is the highest priority" of the official plan for scientists in the field, he told the Los Angeles Times.
Schiff expressed concern taking money away from ongoing, high-priority science projects could hamper institutions such as JPL in their efforts to hold on to experienced staff for future missions.
"We lose the people who have the ability to land on the martian surface," he said. "It's a unique skill set. We're the only people who can do this. We don't want to be led on by NASA setting up the mission and then setting it up to fail."
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