New Book Combines Spiritual Principles to Address Life’s Greatest Questions – Benzinga

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Rabbi Karmi Ingber shows how to find contentment, order and happiness in today's world

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The most significant issues in life are often the most difficult to comprehend. Questions of destiny, life, happiness and freewill plague each of us and are often met with superficial clichs. Rabbi Karmi Ingber looks to explore these subjects and provide tangible answers to some of life's toughest questions in "Where the Heavens Kiss the Earth: Mystical Insights for Personal Growth."

"Where the Heavens Kiss the Earth" is a spiritually broad guide that educates readers on how to attain self-enlightenment, peace and happiness. Ingber shares his insights and those of other spiritual Sages on life's existential questions and presents his findings in an easily understood manner.

"People feel the world is an unfair, random and illogical place that is false," Ingber said. "Where the Heavens Kiss the Earth shows the world, as well as each individual person, is important and has a purpose. Everything is moving towards an ultimate good. My book teaches readers how to recognize and move towards that good."

The book is broken into two distinct sections, the first elaborating on various spiritual structures of the world. While the second, takes these insights and shows readers how to uses these systems to improve life. At the conclusion of each chapter, Ingber features exercises that can be employed to everyday routines and help audiences better understand the universe and their souls.

"A penetrating look into the mysteries of the universe by a charismatic, funny, gracious, and knowledgeable teacher. Reading this book was like having a long and enthralling conversation with one of the most talented teachers and scholars of Jewish Mysticism today." -Joseph Skibell, Author, Winship Distinguished Professor Emory University

For more information, please visit Karmiingber.com.

"Where the Heavens Kiss the Earth: Mystical Insights for Personal Growth" By Rabbi Karmi Ingber ISBN: 9781504360890 (hardcover) 9781504360876 (softcover) 9781504360883 (ebook) Available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Balboa Press

About the author Rabbi Karmi Ingber lived in Israel for 20 years where he studied with leading scholars and taught in many institutes of higher learning. He also founded an outreach training organization for Rabbis called Talmidei Aharon (later known as Ner LeElef) where he trained over 300 individuals who now serve in leadership roles throughout the world.

Rabbi Ingber attended NYU and has a master degree from Newport University in Counseling Psychology. He served as a staff member at the Shotz Family Counseling Center in Israel and combines his knowledge of psychology, Neuro-Linguistic programming, hypnotherapy and other counseling systems with his deep understanding of spirituality to translate wisdom into personal growth. He is also the Rabbi of the Kehilla in Sandy Springs and the director of the Inner Spark Foundation, a program designed to teach the universal laws of spirituality to people from different and diverse backgrounds. ###

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In reality, jihad is suppose to be a spiritual struggle within oneself on the journey toward spiritual enlightenment. Jihad is prayer; it's sacrificing to help mankind; it's making the moral choices. This is the jihad we need these young Muslims to ...

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The Spiritual Mission of America’s Founding Fathers – CBN News

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In Gods unchanging order, a nations security is determined by means of seeking virtue. Solomon advised: Covenant loyalty and truth preserve the king and by righteousness, his throne is upheld. (1) Loyalty and fidelity to Jehovah safeguard the nation.

Solomon went on to say that Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. (2) Other proverbs herald virtue as the prescription to maintain the stability, prosperity, and liberty of a nation. The glory of a nation lies in its righteousness, not its military prowess or Gross Domestic Product.

Thus, the Biblical foundation devised by Americas Founders achieved unprecedented stability, prosperity, and liberty produced by the institutions and policies based on concepts, such as God-given inalienable rights, individualism, limited government, full republicanism, separation of powers, and an educated and virtuous citizenry. (3) Where do you suppose the Founders happened upon these unique ideas?

Dr. Daniel L. Dreisbach writes, The first English settlers in New England were engaged in building Bible commonwealths; accordingly, they looked to the Bible in establishing political and legal institutions. The Bible was often the explicit basis of early colonial codes, and colonial judges frequently cited Scripture as legal authority. And the work of these legal craftsmen gives evidence that they were well acquainted with the Bible. (4)

Following an extensive survey of American political literature from 1760 to 1805, political scientist Donald S. Lutz reported that the Bible was referenced more frequently than any European writer or even any European school of thought, such as the Enlightenment or Whig intellectual traditions. Indeed the Bible accounted for about one-third of all citations in his sample. According to Lutz, Deuteronomy is the most frequently cited book, followed by Montesquieus The Spirit of the Laws. (5)

It would be difficult to overstate the importance of the role that the Book of Deuteronomy played in the life, law and culture in American history. That said, when is the last time that one heard a sermon from the Book of Deuteronomy? Or studied the Book of Deuteronomy? Moses pointed out in the Book of Deuteronomy the way forward for America: one route leads to life, health, and blessings, the other to sickness, curse, and death. (6)

American wasnt founded upon secularism, paganism, or religious neutrality. Yet secularists, steeped in public education and higher learning, advance the notion that the birth of America happened by chance; just a lucky role of the dice. Os Guinness explains the defect in the underpinnings of Secularism:

Freedom requires a framework of order, which means restraint, yet the only restraint proper to freedom is self-restraint, which freedom undermines.

Freedom can no more take a holiday from history than from gravity, the plain fact is that it is harder to be free than to not be free, for freedoms fire has not only to be lit once but must be kindled and rekindled all over again in each succeeding generation. How else are we to understand the fact that freedom never lasts and that freedom always becomes the greatest enemy of freedom? (7)

Americas Founders believed that they were on a spiritual mission as they deposited Christianity in the New World. For two and a half centuries, orchestrated by the Divine, they stoked virtue as the way to establish righteousness in the public square. Righteousness is the key component of freedom.

For the last three generations or so, every vestige of the once dominant Christian content in public education has been blotted out. Government established their own religion in 1963, antithetic to the views, values, politics, and culture of Biblical Christianity. America now drifts aimlessly, void of the engine that established, and then produced, the greatest rise and most advanced society in the history of the world.

A favorite story in American history is of George Washington. He recorded in his diary on Wednesday, June 1, 1774, Went to church, fasted all day. (8) What happened on that day in 1774?

Well, as a result of the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, the British responded with the Boston Port Act, blockading Bostons harbor on June 1, 1774.

Supposed Deist Thomas Jefferson introduced A Day of Fasting and Prayer into the Virginia House of Burgesses on May 24, 1774, imploring, Divine interposition, for averting the heavy calamity which threatens destruction to our civil rights

George Washington spent thatWednesday fasting and praying for America. Two centuries ago, prayer and tears were celebrated by Americas political leaders as the weapons of Heaven.

Evangelicals now find themselves battling in a two-fronted war:

1) The battle with secular Leftists in the Democrat Party, who treat orthodox Christians as second-class citizens (9); embodied by Senator Bernie Sanders. Bernie might require a refresher course in civics.

2) Republican Party establishment chieftains and lieutenants, who run as principled conservatives to be elected, only then to govern as Obama-lite moderates; embodied by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker Paul Ryan.

The good news is that Gideons and Rahabs are beginning to stand. Men and women of Issachar are hustling to the public square, a Resurrection is on the way.

David Lane is Founder of the American Renewal Project

(1) Proverbs 20:28

(2) Proverbs 14:34

(3) The Founders Bible

(4) Dr. Daniel L. Dreisbach, Reading The Bible With The Founding Fathers

(5) Ibid.

(6) Deuteronomy 30:19-20, I call on heaven and earth as witnesses today that I have offered you life or death, blessings or curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants will live.Love the LORD your God, obey him, and be loyal to him. This will be your way of life, and it will mean a long life for you in the land that the LORD swore to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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Lockheed Recycles Shuttle Parts For Deep Space Station – WMFE

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Lockheed Martin artist rendering of the NextSTEP habitat docked with Orion in cislunar orbit as part of a concept for the Deep Space Gateway. Orion will serve as the habitats command deck in early missions, providing critical communications, life support and navigation to guide long-duration missions. Photo: Lockheed Martin

NASA awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) habitat study contract.

The plan is to put a space station near the moon as a kind of cosmic rest-stop for deep space missions to places like Mars. Its called the Deep Space Gateway and NASA asked Lockheed Martin to design a prototype at Kennedy Space Center.

Lockheed engineers are using theDonatello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM), an old space shuttle cargo container that was once used to send supplies to the International Space Station.

Using recycled parts will lower the cost of the prototype, and speed up development. Making use of existing capabilities will be a guiding philosophy for Lockheed Martin to minimize development time and meet NASAs affordability goals, said Bill Pratt, Lockheed Martin NextSTEP program manager. The team will also use a mix of virtual and augmented reality to test the tech that will keep the astronauts safe.

The Deep Space Gateway will receive crews from NASAs Orion spacecraft also in development with Lockheed Martin.

Work on the prototype will last about 18 months.

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The International Space Station visits the Lowcountry sky this week. Here’s when to see it, starting Sunday – Island Packet

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Astronaut describes surviving fire on the space station during Comic-Con 2017’s NatGeo Nerd Nite – OCRegister

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Astronaut Jerry Linenger has looked down upon Earth from space, but as he prepared to speak to the crowd at Nerd Nite, NatGeos annual event at Comic-Con 2017, he saw something hed likely never seen before.

A mermaid. With a trident. Sitting up front to watch his talk.

Perhaps due to the incredible things Linegers done as an astronaut who lived on the Mir space station for nearly 5 months and survived a fire on it, Linenger took everything the loud music, swirling planetary lightshow and costumed crowd in stride.

I learned a lot about living in isolation and being off the planet removed from mankind, said Lineger, who spent 2 years prior to his time on Mir living in Russia learning the language before going up.

There were other challenges, too.

I had a little one-and-a-half-year-old and my wife was pregnant. We had the worst fire ever in an orbiting spacecraft, and during that fire my survival instinct kicked in, Lineger said, adding that during the fire he was determined he would get home to his son. That parental instinct, survival of the species, kicked in.

Lineger was on hand, along with JPLs Bobak Ferdowsi and Mallory Lefland and fellow astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman, to talk about NatGeos series Mars and One Blue Planet while guests ate, listened to a DJ and watched a dancer in a flight suit perform inside a clear inflated ball.

Hoffman, an astronomer and MIT professor who repaired the Hubble Telescope during one of his five Shuttle flights, spoke to the crowd about the elements of a Mars mission.

Afterward Hoffman gave a short interview in which he said what had been most memorable about his work in space: Fixing the Hubble.

That was incredibly satisfying, because that was such a complicated mission he said. Many people thought it was too much, but we actually did it. And of course it worked.

Did he miss anything during his time in space? Since he was busy and the shuttle missions werent longer than a few weeks, he says he didnt really miss the Earth. Other than wanting to see his family and friends, there was only one thing he could think of hed missed.

To munch down on a nice, crunchy salad, he said. All the space food is really mushy.

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Japanese robotic camera welcomed aboard space station – Nikkei Asian Review

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TOKYO -- Japanese astronauts on the International Space Station have been joined by a floating camera drone developed by the space agency as an important -- and cute -- partner for the crew.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) started building the JEM Internal Ball Camera, or Int-Ball, in June 2016. The robot was launched into space this past June 4 and now operates in the Japanese Experiment Module as the first-ever working drone on board a spacecraft, according to JAXA.

The Int-Ball measures less than 15cm in diameter -- around the size of a large grapefruit -- thanks to a miniaturized control module with built-in sensors developed by the agency. Bursts of air from fans propel it through the zero-gravity environment, either autonomously or via commands from an earthbound operator.

A central camera sits like a nose between LED "eyes" that light up when images are being shot or an error is encountered. This is meant to make it easy to tell which way the Int-Ball is facing, JAXA says. The drone's internal components and exterior casing were all produced via 3-D printing.

The lack of gravity means that the Int-Ball can get by without the bulky motors needed by drones back home. Instead, stability is key -- if the camera-bot can be blown around by small air currents, its images could turn out blurry or it could get in the crew's way in the narrow spaces where they operate. The Int-Ball's control module allows for the fine control over the propulsion fans needed for this purpose.

The drone's sole job for now is taking pictures and video of astronauts' experiments and onboard equipment, which are sent to Earth in real time. Astronauts typically use hand-held cameras for photography -- a task that eats up 10% of their work time, according to JAXA. Having the Int-Ball take on some of this will save time and effort. The goal is to spare the human crew from having to spend any time on photography.

JAXA is thinking about expanding the Int-Ball's duties to include such tasks as managing supply inventories and surveying onboard problems. Adding voice recognition would let nearby crew members give commands. The little ball could become a trusty astronaut's companion like the "Gundam" science fiction franchise's Haro spherical robot, to which the Int-Ball bears a striking resemblance.

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New Horizons team obtains wealth of data from 2014 MU69 occultation – SpaceFlight Insider

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July 24th, 2017

A 2014 MU69 occultation campaign telescope. Photo Credit: NASA / JHU-APL / SwRI

NASAs New Horizons team captured crucial data on Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) 2014 MU69 the spacecrafts second target during a third organized observation of the KBO occulting a star on Monday, July 17, 2017.

Mission scientists traveled to a remote area in Argentina to catch MU69 pass in front of a star after analysis of observations made with the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gaia satellite determined the location where the KBO would cast a shadow on Earths surface.

Now you see it, now you dont: NASAs New Horizons team trained mobile telescopes on an unnamed star (center) from rural Argentina on July 17, 2017. A Kuiper Belt object 4.1 billion miles from Earth known as 2014 MU69 briefly blocked the light from the background star, in whats called an occultation. The time difference between frames is 200 milliseconds (0.2 seconds). This data helps scientists to better measure the shape, size, and environment around the object; the New Horizons spacecraft will fly by this ancient relic of Solar System formation on Jan. 1, 2019. Animation & Caption Credit: NASA / JHU-APL / SwRI

Led by Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), more than 60 scientists braved cold weather and high winds, setting up a line of 24 portable telescopes in Chubut and Santa Cruz, Argentina.

They received support and logistical assistance from Argentinian government officials, scientists, and members of the public, including a two-hour closure of a highway to prevent headlights from impeding the observation.

Located 4.1 billion miles (6.6 billion km) from Earth and one billion miles (1.6 billion km) beyond Pluto, MU69 blocked the light of a bright background star for just 0.2 seconds, but that was enough for at least five observation teams to capture the event.

It was the most historic occultation on the face of the Earth, said NASA director of planetary science Jim Green, who called the team to congratulate them. You pulled it off and made it happen.

Mission co-investigator Amanda Zangari was the first to detect the signature of the 1425 miles (2240 kilometers) wide KBO, which the spacecraft will fly by on January 1, 2019.

MU69 will then be the most distant object to be visited by a spacecraft.

The July 17 event was the last of three stellar occultations by the KBO. The other two occurred on June 3 and July 10. Mission scientists traveled to Argentina and South Africa to observe the June 3 event, then flew above the clouds in NASAs Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft over the Pacific Ocean from New Zealand for the second one in an effort to study the KBOs environment.

That study centered on detection of any potential hazards near MU69 that could pose a threat to New Horizons.

While it will take scientists weeks to analyze all the data collected during the occultations, that data will play a key role in helping them discover its size, shape, orbit, and environment.

MU69 was detected in 2014 by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the New Horizons teams search for a second flyby target after Pluto, but it was too remote for any constraint on its size and shape.

Buie praised the Argentinian community of Comodoro Rivadavia for assisting the team by turning off street lights and even parking trucks to act as windbreakers.

The local people were a major team player, he emphasized. He specifically thanked Argentinas National Commission on Space Activities and the Argentinian people for their assistance, noting the effort is an example of space exploration bringing out the best in everyone.

Principal Investigator Alan Stern said: This effort, spanning six months, three spacecraft, 24 portable ground-based telescopes, and NASAs SOFIA airborne observatory was the most challenging stellar occultation in the history of astronomy, but we did it. We spied the shape and size of 2014 MU69 for the first time, a Kuiper Belt scientific treasure we will explore just over 17 months from now.

LEFT: Marc Buie, New Horizons occultation campaign lead, holds up five fingers to represent the number of mobile telescopes in Argentina initially thought to have detected the fleeting shadow of 2014 MU69. The New Horizons spacecraft will fly by the ancient Kuiper Belt object on Jan. 1, 2019. RIGHT: New Horizons Co-Investigator Amanda Zangari was the first occultation campaign scientist to see the telltale signature of MU69 while analyzing data from July 17, saying, We nailed it spectacularly. Credits: NASA / JHU-APL / SwRI / Adriana Ocampo

A video depicting preparations for the July 17 occultation is available for viewing here, and reports on all three occultation observations can be viewed here.

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Laurel Kornfeld is an amateur astronomer and freelance writer from Highland Park, NJ, who enjoys writing about astronomy and planetary science. She studied journalism at Douglass College, Rutgers University, and earned a Graduate Certificate of Science from Swinburne Universitys Astronomy Online program. Her writings have been published online in The Atlantic, Astronomy magazines guest blog section, the UK Space Conference, the 2009 IAU General Assembly newspaper, The Space Reporter, and newsletters of various astronomy clubs. She is a member of the Cranford, NJ-based Amateur Astronomers, Inc. Especially interested in the outer solar system, Laurel gave a brief presentation at the 2008 Great Planet Debate held at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, MD.

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Our SpaceFlight Heritage: The Shuttle replacement that never was – SpaceFlight Insider

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In this artists depiction, NASAs Shuttle C spacecraft opens its payload bay doors. Image Credit: Nathan Koga / SpaceFlight Insider

When the Space Shuttle was first proposed it was meant to be all things to all users, a replacement for all U.S. launch vehicles. All the expendable launchers, Atlas, Titan, and Delta would retire and the shuttle would be responsible for all U.S. launches from its three pads, LC-39A / B at Kennedy Space Center, and SLC-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

The shuttles launch rate was expected to be 100 launches a year. Enormous amounts of money would be saved through the Shuttles reusability.

Unfortunately, this plan fell apart. The shuttle never came close to its predicted launch rate. Officials in the Air Force doubted that a human-rated system would ever save money. However, after the Challenger (STS-51L) disaster, the military almost totally abandoned the shuttle and restored the expendable systems it had nearly abandoned, for its part, as noted by Astronautix, NASA thought the shuttle would only fly about 14 times per year after 1986 (a number of annual flights the agency never came close to reaching).

What was more, the space station that NASA wanted to build was slowly growing in mass. Two modules had already become too heavy for the agencys fleet of orbiters to launch.In the face of these problems, a solution was sought. Shuttle-C was one of the answers proposed.

A NASA Shuttle-C vehicle roars to orbit in this artists depiction. Image Credit: Nathan Koga / SpaceFlight Insider

Shuttle-C was designed as a pure cargo launcher, able to launch much more cargo than the Space Shuttle itself. Since the shuttle was intended to return to Earth with its crew, it necessitated an aerodynamic form, heat shielding for that form, and a crew cabin as well as all of the prerequisites to allow astronauts to live on orbit. Shuttle-C would be an expendable vehicle, enabling much larger cargoes to be delivered to orbit.

The configuration that NASA settled into for Shuttle-C involved an unmodified External Tank and Reusable Solid Rocket Boosters, with a cylindrical cargo container attached to the Shuttles boattail engine housing. Two Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) would be mounted on the boattail, along with the Shuttles Orbital Maneuvering System.

While SSMEs are expensive and were designed to be reusable, they had a limited life span. NASA usually planned for a maximum of ten flights for each SSME. If Shuttle-C was only launched with engines that already had 9 flights under their belts, no money would be lost in expending them.

NASA also thought about making Shuttle-Cs avionics reusable. By replacing the aerodynamic nose cone over the cylindrical cargo carrier with a Mercury-style reentry vehicle, the avionics could be returned to Earth after launch and reused. NASA studied this system and released a technical report to document this study, entitled, Preliminary design of the Shuttle-C avionics recovery system.

Other versions of Shuttle-C were envisioned, both by internal NASA documents and Martin-Marietta studies. Many included an in-line launch vehicle, with SSMEs mounted under a modified External Tank, and included the option for upper stages. However, NASA disliked these versions, since they required modifications to the External Tank. NASA desired a system that would be a drop-in replacement for their orbiters for cargo-only launches.

Shuttle-C never came into existence. Despite NASAs desire for a heavy-lift cargo launch vehicle, the fusion of Space Station Freedom and Russias Mir-2 station into the International Space Station changed much of the shuttle-station centered planning at NASA.

However, Shuttle-C nearly got another chance at life when NASA started plans to send their fleet of orbiters off on their next mission, as monuments in museums and tourist destinations.

One option presented to the Augustine Committees study of shuttle replacement options in 2009 was Shuttle-C. The proposal was essentially to mount the Orion capsule and its Launch Escape System on top of the Shuttle-C cargo carrier. This would allow both crew and cargo launches to the ISS, and the Shuttle-C cargo carrier had room for both a Delta Cryogenic Second Stage derived upper stage, a J-2X powered Earth Departure Stage as well as additional cargo. This version of Shuttle-C would have mounted three SSMEs and have no additional Orbital Maneuvering System. The proposal suggested an initial cargo-only launch in 2013, and a first crew launch in 2014 after the Shuttles expected retirement in 2010-2011.

Shuttle-C was an often-discussed option, both in and outside of the space agency, though it never came to anything. It might also be considered a symptom of the Shuttle systems success.

However, the independent value of the Shuttle-C system itself is difficult to evaluate in the shadow of NASAs now-retired fleet of shuttle orbiters. It does seem clear in hindsight that a dedicated cargo heavy-lift vehicle would have been a powerful supplement to the orbiter fleet, perhaps enabling a crewed mission to the Moon, or heavier and more-capable robotic missions to other planets, including possibly a dedicated Europa orbiter akin to the Europa Clipper mission now scheduled for an SLS launch.

Regardless of Shuttle-Cs utility or value, NASA is subject to many forces that influence its decision-making, perhaps most potently the whims of elected officials. In the past 13 years, presidents and congresses have come and gone and NASAs directive has been altered several times with many of its programs and efforts rising and falling. Shuttle-C would was joined by other cancelled initiatives, such as Venturestar and Constellation and will, doubtlessly, as new political winds blow in and out of Washington, be joined by others.

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Christopher Paul has had a lifelong interest in spaceflight. He began writing about his interest in the Florida Tech Crimson. His primary areas of interest are in historical space systems and present and past planetary exploration missions. He lives in Kissimmee, Florida, and also enjoys cooking and photography. Paul saw his first Space Shuttle launch in 2005 when he moved to central Florida to attend classes at the Florida Institute of Technology, studying space science, and has closely followed the space program since. Paul is especially interested in the renewed effort to land crewed missions on the Moon and to establish a permanent human presence there. He has covered several launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral for space blogs before joining SpaceFlight Insider in mid-2017.

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Preparing to paint the town red for world record attempt and Huntington’s Disease fundraiser – Daily Advertiser

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Orange set to paint the town red for world record attempt and Huntington's Disease fundraiser.

SHADES OF RED: Austin, Rachael and Finn Brooking (front) joined other redheads at Wade Park on Saturday ahead of their September gathering. Photo: JUDE KEOGH

RED PRIDE: Adults and children with red hair gathered on Saturday to encourage others to join them at their world record attempt in September. Photo: JUDE KEOGH

Redheads from infants to adults gathered at Wade Park, Orange,on Saturday in bid to encourage other redheads to join them in aGuinness World Record attemptin September.

Event organiser Rachael Brooking is hoping more than 1672 red heads,from people with strawberry blonde hair through to those with dark auburn locks, will gather at Wade Park by 1pm on September 30 for the attempt.

Mrs Brooking said the event is also about raisingmoney to support NSW families of people living withHuntingtons disease, which claimed her mother Frances Kelly, also a redhead.

She said there will also be childrens activities including a jumping castle and face painting, a red beard competition for all men with red beards, live music, food and drinks from 11am to 3pm.

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NASA Has a Way to Cut Your Flight Time in Half – Bloomberg

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Artists concept of a possible Low Boom Flight Demonstration Quiet Supersonic Transport (QueSST) X-plane design.

For almost a half-century theres been a clear speed limit on most commercial air travel: 660 miles per hour, the rate at which a typical-size plane traveling at 30,000 feet breaks the sound barrier and creates a 30-mile-wide, continuous sonic boom. The ground-level disturbances that resultshattered windows, cracked plaster, maddened farm animalshave kept supersonic travel mostly off-limits since 1973, when the Federal Aviation Administration banned its use over U.S. soil.

That may be changing. In August, NASA says, it will begin taking bids for construction of a demo model of a plane able to reduce the sonic boom to something like the hum youd hear inside a Mercedes-Benz on the interstate. The agencys researchers say their design, a smaller-scale model of which was successfully tested in a wind tunnel at the end of June, should cut the six-hour flight time from New York to Los Angeles in half. NASA proposes spending $390 million over five years to build the demo plane and test it over populated areas. The first year of funding is included in President Trumps 2018 budget proposal.

Over the next decade, growth in air transportation and distances flown will drive the demand for broadly available faster air travel, says Peter Coen, project manager for NASAs commercial supersonic research team. Thats going to make it possible for companies to offer competitive products in the future. NASA plans to share the technology resulting from the tests with U.S. plane makers, meaning a head start for the likes of Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Boeing, and startups such as Boom Technology and billionaire Robert Basss Aerion.

Lockheed helped create NASAs design, using fluid dynamics modeling made possible in the past decade or so by increasingly powerful computers. Together, Lockheed and NASA tested and mapped how subtle differences in aircraft shapes affect the supersonic shock waves they create. The design theyve settled on keeps sound waves from merging into the sharp N pattern of a sonic boom, according to Peter Iosifidis, Lockheeds design program manager on Junes small-scale model. Instead, the waves are kept dispersed across a wide range of points behind the plane, leaving the resulting supersonics a mere hum.

NASA is targeting a sound level of 60 to 65 A-weighted decibels (dBa), Coen says. Thats about as loud as that luxury car on the highway or the background conversation in a busy restaurant. Iosifidis says that Lockheeds research shows the design can maintain that sound level at commercial size and his teams planned demo will be 94 feet long, have room for one pilot, fly as high as 55,000 feet, and run on one of the twin General Electric Co. engines that power Boeing Co.s F/A-18 fighter jet. Now youre getting down to that level where, as far as approval from the general public, it would probably be something thats acceptable, he says.

By comparison, the Concorde, that bygone icon of the Champagne-sipping, caviar-scarfing supersonic jet set, was 50 percent louder at 90 dBa. The planes advent in the 1970s helped lead Congress to pass the overland ban in the first place; its takeoffs and landings generated hundreds of noise complaints and wouldnt come close to meeting todays regulations. Partly because of the ban, the Concorde wound up being a money pit for Air France and British Airways and was mothballed in 2003.

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Of the three major obstacles to supersonic travel, which also include high carbon emissions and airport engine noise, the boom has been the toughest to clear, Coen says. GE is working on designs that can quiet its engines, including by placing them above a planes wings, and NASA has funded a MIT study on ways to address the environmental impact. Manufacturers will not take the lead in developing an aircraft that they cant fly, Iosifidis says. Thats where NASA said weve got to go change the rule, and this is the path to making that happen.

Dont pack your bags for a supersonic trip just yet. The fourth major obstacle may be Washington, because the language of the 1973 ban will require the FAA or Congress to explicitly undo it even if technology renders it obsolete.

Whats more, while established aerospace companies, such as General Dynamics Corp., which owns Gulfstream Aerospace, have been researching supersonic jets for years and startups (Boom, Spike Aerospace) have reignited interest in solving the technical challenges, all their efforts remain in the planning stages. Theres a lot of work left to be done.

Still, if everything goes as planned, NASA will test the demo plane over as many as six communities beginning in 2022, Coen says. Thats the first step toward appealing to lawmakers and regulators to lift the ban. This time, he says, is different, because the toughest technical challenge has been solved. Weve got a lot of support in NASA and the administration and in Congress for making this happen. Im pretty excited about our prospects.

BOTTOM LINE - NASA and Lockheed say their design makes a supersonic plane as quiet as the inside of a Mercedes on the highway. Theres $390 million up for grabs to make and test a demo.

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NASA backs deep space habitat made with old ISS cargo module – Engadget

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NASA launched the NextSTEP program in 2016 in an effort to develop a suitable habitat for astronauts traveling farther than low-Earth orbit. The idea is to create a vehicle with living quarters that can also carry enough supplies to support spacefarers' journey that could last months, or even years. Since it could be used as a homebase for astronauts visiting cislunar orbit, as well, it must be able to fly on its own and be rugged enough to survive if there's nobody onboard. NASA's Orion spacecraft will transform it into livable environment when docked.

Bill Pratt, Lockheed Martin's NextSTEP program manager, explained:

"It is easy to take things for granted when you are living at home, but the recently selected astronauts will face unique challenges. Something as simple as calling your family is completely different when you are outside of low Earth orbit. While building this habitat, we have to operate in a different mindset that's more akin to long trips to Mars to ensure we keep them safe, healthy and productive."

Lockheed Martin isn't the only company that's building a NextSTEP prototype for NASA. In June, the agency also signed a Phase II contract with NanoRacks, which plans to turn the upper stages of a rocket into a deep space habitat.

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NASA may be the star of air and space exploration and innovation, but in recent years, theyve been making it easier for tech entrepreneurs here on earth to harness many of the agencyspatented technologies. To do this, theyve tackled one of the major problems entrepreneurs face paperwork.

Small business owners end up wasting a lot of time on tedious tasks (perfect example: they spend an average of 33hours searching for business financing).Obtaining licenses, particularly from government-run or affiliated agencies, can be a hassle, but when it comes to NASA tech, all of that just changed.The Automated Technology Licensing Application System, conveniently known as ATLAS, debuted this past June, and now those attempting to acquire a NASA patent technologies license can look forward to a much more streamlines and efficient process.

Utilizing NASA technologies can put your product at the forefront of your industry by showing consumers that youve taken the time and initiative to implement tested solutions. Additionally, by harnessing technologies already tested and approved by NASA, companies can eliminate some development burdens while boosting brand integrity. That can translate into better products and stronger margins.

NASAs patent portfolio is extensive and encompasses a wide variety of disciplines. With more than 1,4000 patented technologies available for licensing, its worth checking out their site. Heres a quick glance at the categories that are included in their portfolio:

If your product or necessary product components fit into any of those categories, your next question is likely how do I get started?

Assuming youre just becoming acquainted with the patents NASA has to offer, the first stage, as with many processes, is research; more specifically, youll want to dig into relevant portfolios to identify what patents are available.

For example, if you are producing a cyber communications or storage device, and its imperative that your product incorporate an enclosure or container that can withstand extreme temperatures , you would likely want to consider reviewing the Materials and Coatings category, which is broken down even further into different sub-divisions, including High-Temperature Materials and Smart Materials.

Once you figure out what technology solution would best fit your needs, its off to the next part of the ATLAS process: the application.

ATLAS is extremely user friendly, and as advertised, its streamlined and guides applicants quickly and efficiently through the entire process. Its likely, with a bit if preparation, you can complete the application in a single, short sitting.

To get you started, here are a few of the things youll need to consider to submit your NASA technologies license application through ATLAS.

Once your application is submitted, it is reviewed by a license manager who will contact you for more information as its needed.

NASAs ATLAS provides entrepreneurs with easy access to licensing that can have a big impact on their brand, and with so many innovative and NASA-tested technologies available, utilizing these patents can help create stronger products, mitigate development risks and increase overall profits.

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You probably have a mental image of what NASA's space missions look like rockets blasting off into the sky, fiery clouds of exhaust after liftoff but what do they sound like?

That's what inspired Wilco keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen and art historian James Merle Thomas to form the duo Quindar, named after the signal tones used in radio communication during NASA's Apollo space missions. The duo's new album, Hip Mobility, incorporates archival sound recordings from the Apollo and Skylab eras.

"One of the conversations we had early on was maybe we could use this material as it would sort of take the place of lyrics," Jorgensen says. "It would provide a story: some of the more humanizing, smaller moments of what life in space might be like, [such as] looking out the window as you catch a moment between some rigorous note-taking or scientific duties, and looking down at the earth hundreds of miles below."

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VIDEO: NASA F-18 Flights From Kennedy Space Center Will Produce Sonic Booms Across Brevard – SpaceCoastDaily.com

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ABOVE VIDEO: NASA is expecting to fly the F-18 two-to-three times per day over Brevard, starting Monday, Aug. 21 and will conclude the end of the month or early September, focusing on collecting data on a targeted minimum of 33 sonic booms.

BREVARD COUNTY KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA (NASA) NASAs research to advance supersonic flight will take wing over the launch site for the agencys storied space program in August.

Teams and aircraft from NASAs Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, and Langley Research Center in Virginia, two of the agencys centers that conduct extensive aeronautical research, will deploy to Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a nearly two-week flight series campaign.

The historic spaceport will play host to the second series of Sonic Booms in Atmospheric Turbulence flights, or SonicBAT, continuing from 2016s successful supersonic research flights flown at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

SonicBAT helps NASA researchers better understand how low-altitude atmospheric turbulence affects sonic booms, which are produced when an aircraft flies at supersonic speeds, or faster than the speed of sound.

The upcoming flight series is a key initiative in validating tools and models that will be used for the development of future quiet supersonic aircraft, which will produce a soft thump in place of the louder sonic boom.

ABOVE VIDEO:Why is a sonic boom so loud?NASA is expecting to fly the F-18 two-to-three times per day over Brevard, starting Monday, Aug. 21 and will conclude the end of the month or early September, focusing on collecting data on a targeted minimum of 33 sonic booms.

In SonicBAT, were trying to figure out how much atmospheric turbulence changes sonic booms, said Ed Haering, SonicBATs principal investigator at Armstrong.

Theinitial series of SonicBAT flightsprovided NASA with data on the effect of atmospheric turbulence on sonic booms in a dry climate. The upcoming flights will continue that effort by collecting data in the same fashion to measure the effect of the humid climate of Florida.

Turbulence can make sonic booms quieter, or it can make them louder. Last summer we tested in the hot, dry climate of Edwards Air Force Base. We know that humidity can make sonic booms louder, so we need to test some place wetter, and Kennedy fits that bill, Haering said.

Sonic boom signature data will be collected from these tests using audio equipment to capture noise levels both above and below the turbulence layer, which will provide a comparison of the sonic boom both before and after it travels through atmospheric turbulence.

To do this, a NASA Armstrong F-18 will take off from Kennedys Shuttle Landing Facilty and fly off the coast of Cape Canaveral at an altitude of 32,000 feet. The F-18 will fly a designated flight path where it will exceed Mach 1, the speed of sound, and produce a sonic boom.

Meanwhile, NASA also will fly a TG-14 motorized glider, equipped with a wingtip microphone, at an altitude between 4,000 to 10,000 feet, which is above the low-altitude turbulence layer. At the test point, the TG-14 will temporarily shut down its motor and glide.

NASAs F-18 will fly at or above 32,000 feet when it goes supersonic off the eastern coast of Florida. The F-18s flightpath is positioned in efforts to keep the strongest-sounding sonic booms away from residential areas. (NASA image)

This will eliminate any unnecessary noise, ensuring that the wingtip microphone will pick up a clean, accurate sonic boom signature before it travels through any turbulence.

To collect signatures of sonic booms that travel through the turbulence layer, NASA, along with partners Wyle Laboratories and Gulfstream Aerospace, will arrange two microphone arrays on the ground at Kennedy, each with 16 microphones to collect data.

The project aims to collect data in three different conditions, including low turbulence, medium turbulence and significant turbulence, to obtain a stronger understanding of how the variations impact sonic booms.

To monitor these conditions, NASA meteorologists will be on-site using anemometers to measure wind speed, a sonic wind profiler to measure wind conditions at low altitude, and a flux sensor to measure changes due to humidity.

NASA is expecting to fly the F-18 two-to-three times per day, starting Monday, Aug. 21 and will conclude the end of the month or early September, focusing on collecting data on a targeted minimum of 33 sonic booms.

While communities nearby Kennedy and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station may be able to hear traces of the sonic booms being produced over the NASA center, Haering said residents have no reason to worry.

At the altitudes we are flying, sonic booms from aircraft have never been dangerous to people, animals or buildings, but they can be startling, said Haering.

Due to the flight path of the F-18 being taken over the Atlantic Ocean east of the Space Coast, some publicly accessible beaches to the north of Kennedy that are part of the Canaveral National Seashore will be able to hear the sonic booms louder than other surrounding areas.

We have carefully planned our flights so that there is little chance that people in larger communities such as Titusville to the west, or Cocoa Beach to the south, will be disturbed.

Residents might hear a distant sound similar to a rumble of thunder. If the actual winds at the time of our tests are much different from predicted, they might hear a boom sound like those heard when the space shuttle landed. That may be startling, but there is no reason to be alarmed.

Due to the flight path of the F-18 being taken over the Atlantic Ocean east of the Space Coast, some publicly accessible beaches to the north of Kennedy that are part of the Canaveral National Seashore will be able to hear the sonic booms louder than other surrounding areas.

Because we are trying to minimize the impact to larger communities, beachgoers on beaches such as Playalinda will definitely hear booms like those of the shuttle, said Haering, but again, there is no reason for concern.

Sonic booms can be heard as the result of shockwaves created by aircraft flying through the atmosphere faster than the speed of sound.

In February 2016, NASA awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin for a preliminary design of a quiet supersonic X-plane called the Low-Boom Flight Demonstration aircraft, or LBFD.

The Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, currently prohibits supersonic flight over land due to previously flown supersonic aircraft and their associated loud, disruptive sonic boom.

Decades of NASA research in supersonic flight, however, has now resulted in a unique aerodynamic design and technological advances for an aircraft that will mitigate the sonic boom, making it considerably quieter.

In February 2016, NASA awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin for a preliminary design of a quiet supersonic X-plane called the Low-Boom Flight Demonstration aircraft, or LBFD.

This effort recently completed a successful preliminary design review, and NASA will soon initiate the next phase of the LBFD concept through a new contract competition.

This second phase will focus on the detailed design and fabrication of the aircraft. When completed, the goal will be to fly the X-plane over communities throughout the country to test and demonstrate a quiet sonic thump.

These flight tests will also provide data to the FAA for the development of potential noise standards for future supersonic flight over land.

If the FAA establishes that new sound standards based on the sonic boom research has become acceptable to the public, commercial flights that can carry passengers at supersonic speeds, reducing commercial flight times considerably, could be just years away.

Teams and aircraft from NASAs Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, and Langley Research Center in Virginia, two of the agencys centers that conduct extensive aeronautical research, will deploy to Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a nearly two-week flight series campaign.

Supersonic flight offers the potential to improve the quality of life of those that fly, by greatly reducing travel time, said Peter Coen, NASAs Commercial Supersonic Technology project manager.

Building supersonic aircraft in the U.S. offers a potential for growth and high-quality jobs in the aerospace and air travel industries, all of which contribute significantly to the economic welfare of our country.

In the nearer term, NASAs development of quiet supersonic flight technology needs support, interest and engagement from the community to ensure that the potential sound is acceptable to those on the ground, Coen said.

The SonicBAT flights in Florida will mark a rare opportunity for NASAs aeronautics and space operations to comingle, and for Kennedy, showcases the centers transformation into a 21st century multi-user spaceport.

This shows that, as NASA, we are all striving for the same thing, said SonicBAT Project Manager Brett Pauer.

Were willing to work together and help each other in any NASA mission that may be happening, whether it be space-based, which we do a lot of at our aeronautics centers, or the space centers to help us out with aeronautics. I think theres a great amount of cooperation, even more than may be expected, between NASA centers.

Coen added. It seems to me that one NASA is the best way to describe the cooperative spirit that makes it possible for teams to reach out across the agency, and receive the kind of support SonicBAT has received from Kennedy Space Center.

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There's no denying that the ancient art of origami paper folding has given the world reams of brilliant miniature sculptures, and now NASA wants to take that intricate craftiness off-planet.

The space agency is teaming up with crowdsourcing site Freelancer to find origami experts that can help it come up with a design for radiation shielding to protect future spacecraft from dangerous galactic cosmic rays (GCRs).

As we know, cosmic rays remain one of the biggest, unsurpassed obstacles in the dream of long-haul space exploration, and finding a way to shield spacecraft and astronauts from the effects of this damaging radiation is a huge priority for NASA and other space scientists.

Researchers are currently working on a range of technological approaches that could potentially defend space travellers from radiation in the void, but as NASA has previously stated, erecting a working defence against cosmic rays is easier said than done.

"GCRs permeate interplanetary space and include particles with high ionising energy," the space agency's website explains.

"Shielding against GCRs is much more difficult than shielding against terrestrial radiation because a greater mass of shielding material is required and GCRs can penetrate shielding material."

Now, NASA thinks one way of amassing a sufficiently great volume of such shielding could be by leaning on origami techniques due to how effectively and intricately the paper-folding art manages to collapse and conceal its structures.

The crowdsourcing campaign kicks off on Freelancer on July 26, with NASA seeking origami-inspired ideas for how to develop a 3D folding concept for radiation shielding, which would be used to cover the human habitation sections of future spacecraft during deep space voyages and even in off-world habitation.

"The theory is that there will be a lot of people who have expertise in folding techniques or origami and [NASA] want to find a very efficient way to pack a radiation shield," Freelancer founder and CEO Matt Barrie explained to Nicola Davis at The Guardian.

"NASA want something that is sufficiently packed and compact so that when you actually land on a planet you can expand it and it will provide maximum efficiency and protection from radiation."

The winning design would help mitigate cancer risks from prolonged exposure to radiation in space, and while solving the issue will definitely be a tall order, NASA has enjoyed success crowdsourcing designs in the past.

Previous Freelancer campaigns run with NASA have resulted in almost 7,000 entries from participants in 123 countries, with volunteers contributing ideas for all sorts of space-based tools and technologies, like last year's callout for how to build an arm for NASA's free-flying Astrobee robot.

So basically, despite the challenge here, you've got nothing to lose by giving this a shot, and humanity has everything to gain.

Because until NASA can figure out how to launch giant magnetic fields that can shield entire planets, cosmic rays are a problem that isn't going away meaning our Mars dream could be on hold until somebody who's totally awesome at paper folding (and probably other crafty things) steps up to the plate.

Is that somebody you? Could be. We'll be closer to finding that out when Freelancer's origami challenge opens up later this week.

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NASA is uploading hundreds of rare films from its archives to YouTube, and here are the best ones – BGR

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We live in a world where delivering supplies to a space station orbiting our planet is handled by a tech startup, but expertise in flight hasnt always been so easy. NASAs Armstrong Flight Research Center has an incredible wealth of video footage showcasing the many trials, successes, and failures of the United States various military and scientific programs, and the group has decided to make it all available to the world via YouTube. The videos, which range in age from a few months to over fifty years, are a glorious look at the steady progress of flight engineering, and weve collected some of the best for you to enjoy.

Is that a UFO? Nope, its a very early prototype of the wingless M2-F1.

Testing a lunar lander on Earth is tricky business, but NASA test pilots make it look easy.

Drones arent a new concept to NASA. The agency has been flying remotely piloted aircraft for decades, like this Hyper III from 1969.

Ever wonder what kind of damage a world record-breaking flight can do to an aircraft? This X-15A-2 set a new high mark by achieving mach 6.7, and when it landed it looked like it had been through a war.

A plane that carries planes?! Thats what the Super Guppy does, and it looks very odd while doing it.

Flying saucers really do exist, as long as you count the unmanned X-45A.

The SR-71 is one of the US Air Forces most iconic aircraft of all time, and NASA borrowed a pair of them to conduct high-altitude research because of their amazing capabilities.

Still hungry for more? Head over to NASAs YouTube portal to check out the huge archive for yourself.

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Contributing Writer, Computerworld | Jul 24, 2017 3:00 AM PT

When considering the future of CPU architecture, some industry watchers predict excitement, and some predict boredom. But no one predicts a return to the old days, when speed doubled at least every other year.

The upbeat prognosticators include David Patterson, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who literally wrote the textbook (with John Hennessy) on computer architecture. This will be a renaissance era for computer architecture these will be exciting times, he says.

Not so much, says microprocessor consultant Jim Turley, founder of Silicon Insider. In five years we will be 10% ahead of where we are now, he predicts. Every few years there is a university research project that thinks they are about to overturn the tried-and-true architecture that John von Neumann and Alan Turing would recognize and unicorns will dance and butterflies will sing. It never really happens, and we just make the same computers go faster and everyone is satisfied. In terms of commercial value, steady, incremental improvement is the way to go.

They are both reacting to the same thing: the increasing irrelevance of Moores Law, which observed that the number of transistors that could be put on a chip at the same price doubled every 18 to 24 months. For more to fit they had to get smaller, which let them run faster, albeit hotter, so performance rose over the years but so did expectations. Today, those expectations remain, but processor performance has plateaued.

Power dissipation is the whole deal, says Tom Conte, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and past president of the IEEE Computer Society. Removing 150 watts per square centimeter is the best we can do without resorting to exotic cooling, which costs more. Since power is related to frequency, we cant increase the frequency, as the chip would get hotter. So we put in more cores and clock them at about the same speed. They can accelerate your computer when it has multiple programs running, but no one has more than a few trying to run at the same time.

The approach reaches the point of diminishing returns at about eight cores, says Linley Gwennap, an analyst at The Linley Group. Eight things in parallel is about the limit, and hardly any programs use more than three or four cores. So we have run into a wall on getting speed from cores. The cores themselves are not getting much wider than 64 bits. Intel-style cores can do about five instructions at a time, and ARM cores are up to three, but beyond five is the point of diminishing returns, and we need new architecture to get beyond that. The bottom line is traditional software will not get much faster.

Actually, we hit the wall back in the 90s, Conte adds. Even though transistors were getting faster, CPU circuits were getting slower as wire length dominated the computation. We hid that fact using superscalar architecture [i.e., internal parallelism]. That gave us a speedup of 2x or 3x. Then we hit the power wall and had to stop playing that game.

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Bernard Haufiku

LINDA-GAIL Bekker, the president of the International AIDS Society (IAS), yesterday said crucial evidence is needed to inform global policy change on the HIV pandemic.

Bekker was speaking at the start of the ninth IAS conference on HIV science, which started in the French capital early yesterday.

According to her, impending anxiety about funding cuts has necessitated the establishment of how we use what we have in the wisest possible way.

The conference, also attended by health minister Bernard Haufiku and other ministry officials, brought together approximately 6 000 leading scientists, researchers and human immune-deficiency virus professionals from across the globe to take stock of the virus and its continued impact.

In the conference programme, Bekker said: Almost 15 years after Paris last hosted the conference, we return to the city renowned for groundbreaking discoveries in HIV science for the largest open scientific conference on HIV.

This year, it is more critical than ever to highlight the importance and impact of prioritising and investing in research. This will be demonstrated over the next three days, as leading investigators present novel science and new resolutions in HIV prevention, treatment and cure.

Bekker, a South African professor and the deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine at the University of Cape Town, said at the start of a session on HIV and how it relates to young people that the challenges persist to scale up timely HIV testing, treatment and quality care for children and adolescents worldwide.

During the second session, which dealt with the challenges key populations men who have sex with men, sex workers, members of the transgender community, people who inject drugs and people detained in correctional facilities face, Tiffany Lillie, senior technical adviser at an international HIV organisation dealing with these communities emphasised that the care continuum consists of prevention, testing, treatment and viral load suppression.

Lillie said there is an increasing need to focus on key populations in particular in the fight against HIV because they carry a disproportionate burden of HIV as a total of 44% of new infections arise among these communities. In Africa, 25% of new infections are from key populations.

During this same session, Dr Cameron Wolf, an international infectious disease specialist, said key populations remain subjected to pervasive stigma, violence and criminalisation.

In Namibia, consensual anal sexual intercourse between two males remains a criminal offence in terms of the country's common law, despite no successful prosecutions.

This is generally regarded as a benign crime, although human rights activists have criticised it as being unconstitutional.

Other conference objectives include accelerating basic science and clinical innovation for the development and application of new HIV prevention, treatment and care technologies to advance precision medicine, strengthening the implementation science and research agenda to address key barriers and challenges structural, service delivery and policy across HIV to cascade in a variety of epidemic scenarios and amplify the synergies between HIV and co-infections, as well as emerging co-morbidities and other non-communicable diseases.

Furthermore, strengthening research towards cure/treatment remission and vaccine, and demonstrating the links between HIV and other public health and human rights emergencies and identifying strategies for integrated responses, are also on the agenda.

The conference, which ends on Thursday, is organised by IAS, in partnership with France REcherche Nord & sud Sida-hiv Hpatites.

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