Stem Cells May Provide Major Anti-Aging Breakthroughs

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Recently, stem cells have been identified as potentially the biggest breakthrough in the beauty industry. Dr. Simon Ourian of Epione Beverly Hills sees great potential in stem cells' ability to reverse the signs of aging.

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Dr. Simon Ourian, Medical Director of Epione Medical Corporation in Beverly Hills sees great potential in the use of stem cells for cosmetic purposes. With more research," he says, "I expect well uncover a plethora of uses for stem cells in preserving the appearance of youth.

Anti-aging treatments are already among the most popular elective procedures performed around the globe and billions of dollars are spent every year on cosmetics and topical creams. While admitting that the science is still not conclusive, some physicians have reported excellent results with fat injections, the idea being that fat contains the human bodys largest reservoir of adult stem cells and growth factors.

Im a proponent of evidence-based medicine, says Dr. Ourian, "and Ill wait to see what truly works before I offer it to my patients. I do believe, however, that stem cells will be at the forefront of our treatments in the near future. The possibilities are endless.

Other scientists are extracting stem cells from plants and animals for use in creams and cosmeceuticals. Its important to note that the majority of creams on the market contain growth factors and not live stem cells because the technology to keep stem cells viable in that state does not yet exist.

Stem cells may prove to be a major feature in the development of beauty treatments and it appears we are only at the beginning of this revolution.

Epione offers a number of cutting edge aesthetic treatments. Please see their website for more information about these treatments and the use of stem cells in anti-aging treatments.

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Omega World Travel Joins GlobalStar Travel Management

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LONDON, January 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

We are delighted to announce that Omega World Travel USA has joined GlobalStar Travel Management. Omega World Travel, founded in 1972 and ranked by Business Travel News as the fourth largest travel management company in the U.S. realizes an annual turnover of over US$ 1.2 billion. Headquartered in Washington DC, Omega employs over 720 staff in over 100 office locations and is recognized for its personalized service to a diverse clientele from individual leisure travelers to Fortune 500 companies and the US federal government.

Omega will be a Tier One partner in GlobalStar from January 1st 2013, a position which gives Omega a seat on the GlobalStar board and help influence the direction of the organization.

"We considered several other networks but GlobalStar definitely is the closest match when it comes to the entrepreneurial spirit of Omega as a company and the direction we are heading," said Omega's MD Goran Gligorovic. "We are confident that joining GlobalStar will give our clients a fresh approach with the best in class global reservation and reporting packages. GlobalStar has made great strides in the last few years and has an excellent hotel program which will complement the Omega portfolio. It is run by a very entrepreneurial group of people who fit well with Omega's ethos."

GlobalStar's President Steve Hartwell stated; "Omega World Travel joining GlobalStar provides further strength to our partner network and will generate new business opportunities as the United States still are the main driver of new business opportunities globally. We are delighted to have Goran Gligorovic on our Board where he will assist with the continued development of our rapidly emerging organization."

Please visit GlobalStar (booth 330) and Omega World Travel(booth 336) at the Business Travel Show 2013 in London where the Omega team will also be celebrating the company's 40th anniversary.

About GlobalStar Travel Management:

GlobalStar is a worldwide travel management company owned and managed by local entrepreneurs. Over 85 market leading enterprises, representing over US$13 billion in sales, combine their local expertise, strength and commitment to deliver cohesive, multinational solutions through an innovative technology platform. http://www.globalstartravel.com

About Omega

Omega World Travel is a woman-owned, diversity supplier and the fourth largest travel management company in the U.S. Headquartered in Fairfax, VA. Omega World Travel services corporate, government, meeting and leisure clients throughout the U.S, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Omega World Travel also owns Cruise.com, one of the largest sellers of cruises on the Internet, and TravTech, a software development company.

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Insomnia Sleep Video Cure – Transhuman Trance Singularity (subtle noise ambiance) – Video

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Some delightful meditation relaxation music to ease the insomnia and anxiety out of your mind, body, and soul. Let this video ease you into a comfortable and safe place to sleep. Put it on during the day to ease your stress. Relax and Enjoy from the PDXVoiceteacher! Music and Photo art copyright 2013 Thomas Prislac All Source Materials are public domain or the original creation of Thomas Prislac

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AOL to host Corporate Culture & Spirituality conference

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Tenth edition of the CCS Conference series aims to provide a platform to global leaders to find holistic growth models

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Art of Living (AOL) is ready to host the tenth edition of the Corporate Culture and Spirituality (CCS) conference at The Art of Living International Centre, Bangalore, on the February 8 and 9.

Organised in collaboration with the Federation of the Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FKCCI) and the World Forum for Ethics in Business, this edition aims to provide a platform to global leaders to find holistic growth models.

CCS Conference is an annual event, in which leaders of business, governance, academia, civil society and faith-based organisations come together to share their expertise on an ethics-based approach and its impact on the bottom-line through the integration of spiritual values in business.

Highligting on the CSS conference, spiritual guru and AOL founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said, "Today, where the boundaries of economics, politics and religion have all but disappeared, we must work towards building a holistic society, which simultaneously addresses individual growth and societal challenges."

At the Corporate Culture and Spirituality Conference, leaders from different disciplines meet to engage in dialogue, network and explore business potentials and discover the benefits of emerging paradigms in leadership.

"A special focus on Karnataka will be initiated at the conference with the session, 'Advantage Karnataka', which will highlight Karnataka as a major investment destination aimed towards development of industry and commerce in the state," said K. Shiva Shanmugam, president of FKCCI.

As part of the conference, leading minds from corporate, government and international speakers will share their experiences and expertise on the value of ethics-based approach and its impact on the bottom-line through the integration of spiritual values in business practices.

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Lecture Series speaker Tippett addresses spirituality, science in the modern world

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In the third part of the Miami University Lecture Series, journalist Krista Tippett spoke about spirituality in the modern world yesterday.

Tippett wrote for The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Newsweek and the BBC, among other news outlets, and worked as a special assistant to the U.S. ambassador to West Germany in the 1980s. She has also written two books: Speaking of Faith (2007) and Einsteins God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit (2010). The books address the broad themes of science, religion and spirituality. Tippetts weekly radio program, On Being, covers similar topics and has won a Peabody and two Webby Awards. She earned a bachelors degree in history from Brown University and a masters degree in divinity from Yale University.

Tippett spoke about the challenges the media faces when covering religious topics.

What religious people have often done in order to be heard is skew their message and squeeze what they have to say into these political boxes, Tippett said. I think whats very dangerous about that is both the spiritual and intellectual content of these ideas can be lost.

Tippett said while current news coverage of religious topics has improved in the last decade, the media still has room for improvement in the way it approaches religious topics.

Theres a bias that goes a long way back among a lot of really smart good people in journalism that this just doesnt belong in news and its not as rational or as easy to be objective about as other things, Tippett said. I think theyre right that its tricky, but I think theres a problem with saying our economic lives or our political lives are more rational it is hard to cover it and to know how to cover it but its important enough that we have to innovate ways to cover it and we have to be innovative about that.

Tippett lived in Germany for five years as a journalist and said she saw a very different view of spirituality and religion in European society. She said there was a fundamental difference in the collective values of Europeans who often pay high taxes for social safety nets.

Tippett said she believes the separation of church and state in the U.S. has actually led to a more vibrant religious society than it might have been otherwise.

The institutions of religion are experiencing the same kind of implosions that all of our institutions are experiencing, Tippett said. 50 years from now I dont think our workplaces will look like they do now, I dont think our education systems will look like they do now and I dont think our churches will look like they do now.

One of the fundamental places Tippett said she sees change is within American youth. This youth places emphasis on service, but not service with a religious affiliation.

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Space Station Crew Uses Laser Channel to Beam Data

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MOSCOW, January 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russian astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have transferred scientific data using a laser communication channel for the first time in international practice, the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday.

The information was transferred through the earths atmosphere at a rate of 125 megabytes per second from an onboard laser terminal, the agency said.

The total of 400 megabytes of data included earth imagery and telemetric information.

The transfer operation was part of the Laser Communication System project to exchange data between the ISS and the ground station Arkhyz in the North Caucasus.

Flight engineers Oleg Novitsky, Yevgeny Tarelkin and Roman Romanenko are Russian team members of ISS Expedition 34. NASA astronaut Kevin Ford is the commander, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield and NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn are also flight engineers.

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NASA Seeks Ideas For Repurposing The International Space Station

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January 29, 2013

Image Caption: Tracy Caldwell Dyson in the Cupola module of the International Space Station observing the Earth below during Expedition 24. Credit: NASA

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NASA is opening up the floor for suggestions, asking for proposals about how the International Space Station (ISS) can be used as a technological test tube.

The space agency said it is asking for proposals on how the space station may be used to develop advanced or improved exploration technologies. NASA is looking for proposals as to how new approaches, technologies and capabilities could utilize the unique research environment provided by the space laboratory.

The space station is a world-class facility and critical to NASAs plan to extend humanitys presence beyond low-Earth orbit, Andrew Clem of the Technology Demonstration Office in the International Space Station Program at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston said in a statement. This is an opportunity for researchers, inventors and designers to demonstrate a technology needed for future human spaceflights or to improve an existing space station capability.

NASA said it will be reviewing submissions throughout the year as they are received, and will cover launch and integration costs for selected proposals.

Proposed technologies could help advance exploration and research capabilities aboard the space station. NASA said concepts must fit within its standards for mass and volume to meet requirements for current launch vehicles.

Suggested areas include in-space propulsion; space power and energy storage; components of highly reliable, closed-loop, human health, life support and habitation systems; thermal systems; robotics, telerobotics, and autonomous systems; and human exploration destination systems, the space agency wrote.

According to NASA, the proposals for new exploration technologies could include strategies to reduce mass, maintenance and power requirements for the space station, or to help improve existing space hardware. Acceptable proposals may also have the potential to produce benefits for humanity, such as testing valuable new materials or stimulating economic growth.

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NASA to launch ocean wind monitor to space station

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Jan. 29, 2013 In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA's QuikScat satellite, the agency will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean surface wind speed and direction.

The ISS-RapidScat instrument will help improve weather forecasts, including hurricane monitoring, and understanding of how ocean-atmosphere interactions influence Earth's climate.

"The ability for NASA to quickly reuse this hardware and launch it to the space station is a great example of a low-cost approach that will have high benefits to science and life here on Earth," said Mike Suffredini, NASA's International Space Station program manager.

ISS-RapidScat will help fill the data gap created when QuikScat, which was designed to last two years but operated for 10, stopped collecting ocean wind data in late 2009. A scatterometer is a microwave radar sensor used to measure the reflection or scattering effect produced while scanning the surface of Earth from an aircraft or a satellite.

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have studied next-generation replacements for QuikScat, but a successor will not be available soon. To meet this challenge cost-effectively, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and the agency's station program proposed adapting leftover QuikScat hardware in combination with new hardware for use on the space station.

"ISS-RapidScat represents a low-cost approach to acquiring valuable wind vector data for improving global monitoring of hurricanes and other high-intensity storms," said Howard Eisen, ISS-RapidScat project manager at JPL. "By leveraging the capabilities of the International Space Station and recycling leftover hardware, we will acquire good science data at a fraction of the investment needed to launch a new satellite."

ISS-RapidScat will have measurement accuracy similar to QuikScat's and will survey all regions of Earth accessible from the space station's orbit. The instrument will be launched to the space station aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft. It will be installed on the end of the station's Columbus laboratory as an autonomous payload requiring no interaction by station crew members. It is expected to operate aboard the station for two years.

ISS-RapidScat will take advantage of the space station's unique characteristics to advance understanding of Earth's winds. Current scatterometer orbits pass the same point on Earth at approximately the same time every day. Since the space station's orbit intersects the orbits of each of these satellites about once every hour, ISS-RapidScat can serve as a calibration standard and help scientists stitch together the data from multiple sources into a long-term record.

ISS-RapidScat also will collect measurements of Earth's global wind field at all times of day for all locations. Variations in winds caused by the sun can play a significant role in the formation of tropical clouds and tropical systems that play a dominant role in Earth's water and energy cycles. ISS-RapidScat observations will help scientists understand these phenomena better and improve weather and climate models.

The ISS-RapidScat project is a joint partnership of JPL and NASA's International Space Station Program Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, with support from the Earth Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

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A sounding rocket was launched from Wallops Island Flight Facility on January 29th, 2013. It released chemical tracers creating red vapor trails in Space. The vapor trails were not seen in this video, but could be observed in the Mid-Atlantic region.

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Condensing Rain NASA | SOT | Space | Sun This movie, taken with the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) aboard the Hinode satellite, shows the chromosphere above Active Region (AR) 11620, which was rotating out of sight on the West limb on 01 Dec 2012. Taken in the light of ionized calcium, the movie shows plasma at roughly 8000 - 20000 degrees C above the surface of the Sun. The bright areas in the AR on the disk (foreground) are saturated so that the faint material high above the surface is visible. Several charicteristic features of the active chromosphere can be seen clearly because of the high cadence of the observations -- 1 frame every 8 seconds. #39;Coronal rain #39; falls down along linear trajectories from higher levels, following the magnetic field lines as plasma cools and gravity pulls it back to the surface. Bright, low loops appear in the active region, rising up and falling back. Some of the loops appear to form coherent tube-like structures that twist or untwist as they rise. Credit: NASA / Hinode Satellite | Solar Optical Telescope / SOT http://WWW.NASA.gov (Source Link)

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Record Close Asteroid Flyby Only Weeks Away | 2012 – DA14 | NASA Space Science HD Video – Video

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Visit my website at http://www.junglejoel.com - on February 15th, 2012, an asteroid named 2012 - DA14, about half the size of a football field, will fly within 17200 miles of Earth - that #39;s closer than many man-made satellites. Astronomers have never seen an object this large come so close to our planet. Please rate and comment, thanks! Video Credits NASA

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How NASA satellite will boost communications

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A NASA communications network used to track satellites and spacecraft orbiting the Earth is about to get an upgrade with the launch of a new satellite on Wednesday.

The space agency is set to launch the new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite K (TDRS-K for short) on Wednesday at 8:48 p.m. EST from a pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will boost the satellite into an orbit 22,300 miles (35,888 kilometers), where it will join a network of other relay spacecraft high above the planet.

The TDRS-K satellite isthe first of three new satellites to launch between now and 2015 to bolster the TDRS communications satellite network that relays data and messages between spacecraft in orbit and ground stations. Without factoring in the cost of the vehicles used to transport it, the TDRS-K satellite costs anywhere from $350 million to $400 million.

"Any day we support over 100 missions," Badri Younes, a scientist in the Space Communications and Navigation office in NASA, said of his division. "Anything you see going to space has to be enabled by us." [NASA's New Comsat: TDRS-K Spacecraft in Photos]

While the TDRS system isn't responsible for all communication between crewed spacecraft, satellites and NASA, it does make up part of the agency's Space Network. By using the network's seven satellites currently in orbit around the Earth and some ground-based elements, NASA can monitor the full treks of every satellite in low-Earth orbit.

The large TDRS-K satellite is the 11th spacecraft to join the TDRS network since the first TDRS satellite was launched in 1983. The most recent TDRS launch before now was in 2002. Five TDRS satellites are still functioning in orbit today. According to a NASA mission description, the TDRS-K satellite is expected to last at least 15 years in orbit.

"All of the beautiful images looking at galaxies, looking at weather trends, providing support to the International Space Station are because of TDRS," Younes said. "Science couldn't be performed the way you expect it today without it."

If the space agency only used ground-based antennas to keep watch on the satellites, it would be impossible to constantly monitor spacecraft, and that creates problems. The International Space Station, for example, sends all of its data through the TDRS satellites.

Since the orbiting science laboratory is always in motion, sometimes it leaves the direct range of ground-based telescopes. The TDRS satellites are positioned in such a way to keep communication lines open between the crew and NASA on the ground.

The Hubble Space Telescope also transmits its data through TDRS first before the data is beamed back down to Earth. The network of satellites functions as an intermediary between NASA's White Sands Complex in Las Cruces, N.M., and the various spacecraft that use it to send information back to the ground.

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NASA rocket to spur dazzling light show

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NASA will launch a rocket Tuesday night on a mission that promises to put on a spectacular, albeit brief, light show over the U.S. East Coast that may be visible to stargazers along the Atlantic Seaboard, weather permitting.

Unsuspecting observers of the artificial night sky display may be puzzled and amazed, so before you make that phone call to your local media outlet or police station, here is why this is happening and when you might see it.

The bright phenomenon will be caused by an experiment aboard a NASA sounding rocket. As part the mission, the rocket will release a chemical tracer that should create two bright, red-colored lithium vapor trails in space that may be seen by observers across the mid-Atlantic region, and possibly from even further away.

The rocket will be fired from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility on Virginia's Atlantic coast. Liftoff is slated to occur as early as 5:30 p.m. EST. The suborbital rocket, which can launch high above Earth but not orbit the planet, will be launched to test technology for gathering science data during future projects. [ NASA Rocket Launches Light Up Night Sky (Photos) ]

You can watch the launch live on Space.com here via a webcast that will begin at 4:30 p.m. EST.

By rocket's red glare The launch window for tonight's NASA night light show opens at 5:30 p.m. EST and extends to 6:50 p.m. EST, but the optimum target time is 5:45 p.m. EST. NASA intends to photograph the resulting red luminescent trails from Wallops Island and from an aircraft as well.

You can submit any amazing photos of the launch or the resulting night sky show to Space.com here: spacephotos@space.com.

Should weather conditions be unfavorable, the firings will be deferred to another night. Alternate dates run from Thursday through Friday (Jan. 30 to Feb. 1).

The sounding rocket that will be used to create the two NASA-made glowing cloud trails will be a Terrier-Improved Orion. In this technology test launch, two canisters in the rocket's payload section will contain solid metal lithium rods or chips embedded in a thermite cake. The thermite is ignited and produces heat to vaporize the lithium.

Once the vapor is released in space, it can be detected and tracked optically. The rocket will eject two streams of lithium that will be illuminated at high altitudes by the sun (which will be below the local horizon at ground level).

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