Red Cedar Watershed Conference set for March 12

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Keynote speakers from Wisconsin, North Carolina and Minnesota will head the Red Cedar Watershed Conference Thursday, March 12, at UW-Stout.

The fourth annual event, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., will be at the Memorial Student Center. Early registration ends Sunday, March 1. For more information or to register, go to the conference website at http://www.uwstout.edu/profed/redcedar/.

The conference examines point- and nonpoint-source pollution in watersheds. Blue-green algae blooms caused by an excess of phosphorous have compromised water quality in the Red Cedar River watershed, especially in lakes Menomin and Tainter.

The main speakers each will address a key aspect of the conference: water, land and people.

Water: Rod Olson, co-chair of the conference and representing the Red Cedar River Partnership, worked with neighbors and a DNR Lake Protection Grant to help restore the algae-choked Desair Lake in northwestern Wisconsin. In 2013, he received the Wisconsin Lakes Stewardship Award. He also received a good neighbor award from the Tainter-Menomin Lake Improvement Association. Heis a family doctor and emergency physician in Rice Lake. He will speak at 8:40 a.m.

Land: Ray Archuleta is a conservation agronomist and soil health specialist for the Natural Resource Conservation Service East at the National Technology Center in Greensboro, N.C. He teaches soil health and principles of agroecology across the country and is a certified professional soil scientist. He will speak at 12:45 p.m.

People: Sean Kershaw is executive director of the Citizens League of Minnesota and previously was deputy director for the St. Paul planning and economic development department. He advocates for active citizenship, civic organizing and good public policy. He will speak at 3 p.m.

Breakout sessions will include another 10 speakers, including UW-Stout Associate Professor Nels Paulson, applied social science, who heads the nationally funded LAKES Research Experience for Undergraduates; and Aaron Thompson, assistant professor of natural resource planning at UW-Stevens Point.

Other speakers will be from the Department of Natural Resources, Clean Wisconsin, Clean Lakes Alliance and UW-Extension.

Major sponsors of the conference are UW-Stout and the Tainter-Menomin Lake Improvement Association.

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Astronomy – Ch. 7: The Solar Sys – Comparative Planetology (3 of 33) Terrestrial vs Gas Planets – Video

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NASA African American History Month Profile – Shawn Goodman (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) – Video

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NASA Education Express Message Feb. 19, 2015

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New Educational Materials Available at NASA.gov Are you looking for a lesson plan that combines mathematics and space science? Do you need a set of images of objects in our solar system? Or maybe you're hunting for hands-on engineering projects to challenge your students. NASA Education has you covered!

The following items are now available for downloading. NASA Education Brochure -- All EducatorsNASA Education has a vision to advance science, technology, engineering and mathematics education using NASAs unique capabilities. This brochure explains the four initiatives for achieving that vision. Learn how you can get involved. http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/NASA_Education_Brochure.html

Space Math VIII Educator Guide Grades 5-12 Students apply problem-solving, algebra, geometry or trigonometry skills to a selection of 49 real-world problems involving Earth and space science. Each word problem includes background information. One-page teachers' answer keys accompany the one-page assignments. http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Space_Math_VIII.html

Space Math IX Educator Guide -- Grades 5-12This collection of activities is intended for students looking for additional challenges in the mathematics and physical science curriculum. The subjects of the problems include spacecraft, rovers and meteorites. Mathematical topics include algebra, geometry and calculus. Each word problem has background information. One-page teachers' answer keys accompany the one-page assignments. http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Space_Math_IX.html

Our Solar System Lithograph Set -- All Grade LevelsThis lithograph set features images of the planets, sun, asteroids, comets, meteors and meteorites, the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud, and moons of the solar system. General information, significant dates, interesting facts and brief descriptions of the images are included. http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Our_Solar_System_Lithograph_Set.html

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Looking for more? NASA's new Educational Resource Search Tool can help you find lesson plans, posters, educator guides and other materials to supplement your science, technology, engineering and mathematics curriculum. Search hundreds of resources by subject, grade level, type and keywords.

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NASA's Many Views of Australia's Tropical Cyclone Marcia

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The GPM core observatory satellite measured rainfall occurring at over 60 mm (2.4 inches) per hour near Tropical Cyclone Marcia's center on Feb. 17 at 2251 UTC.

Image Credit: NASA/JAXA

Tropical Cyclone Marcia is threatening eastern Queensland, Australia and NASA satellites and instruments have been providing forecasters with data on rainfall, cloud extent and temperature and winds speed.

On Feb. 17 at 22:51 UTC (5:51 p.m. EST) when NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM core observatory satellite passed over Marcia, it measured rainfall rates. An analysis from GPM's Microwave Imager (GMI) data showed that rain was dropping at a rate of over 60 mm (2.4 inches) per hour near the forming tropical cyclone's center.

This visible image of Tropical Cyclone Marcia was captured by NASA's Terra satellite on Feb. 19, 2015 at 00:10 UTC when it neared the Queensland coast.

Image Credit:NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team

The International Space Station's RapidScat instrument captured a look at Tropical Cyclone Marcia's winds as it neared eastern Queensland. RapidScat measured the winds from Feb. 18 at 00:08 UTC to 1:40 UTC and measurements revealed sustained winds to 56 mph/90 kph/25 meters per second, occurring near the center and southeastern quadrant of the storm.

By Thursday, Feb. 19, Tropical Cyclone Marcia had moved near the east coast of Queensland, Australia triggering warnings. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (ABM) noted on Feb. 19, "Severe tropical cyclone Marcia moving south-southwest, category 5 forecast at landfall this morning." The Warning Zone extended from Mackay to Double Island Point, extending inland to Blackwater, Moura, Biloela, Monto, Taroom, Mundubbera, and Murgon. For more information from ABM:http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65002.shtml

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NASA preps space station to handle more space taxis

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On Friday, two astronauts will begin the first of a series of spacewalks designed to ready the International Space Station to handle a growing number of space taxis ferrying supplies and humans to the orbiter.

NASA's Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts will head outside of the station at 7:10 a.m. ET tomorrow for a six-and-a-half hour spacewalk. They are scheduled to begin preparing cables and communication gear for two new docking ports, according to NASA.

Astronauts will also conduct spacewalks on Tuesday, Feb. 24, and Sunday, March 1, to continue their work on the space docks.

This is the first time in several years that NASA and its international partners working on the space station have reworked the design of the orbiter.

They are preparing for an increased number of spacecraft expected to carry food, water, scientific experiments and supplies to the space station. However, the extra space docks largely will be needed because in 2017, US.-based commercial companies are expected to begin carrying astronauts back and forth to the orbiting station.

NASA has awarded contracts to SpaceX, which already is running resupply missions to the station, along with Boeing, to build and operate human space taxis.

The space agency is looking to no longer have to depend on Russia and its Soyuz space capsules to carry NASA astronauts to and from the space station. The U.S. has been dependent on Russia since NASA retired its fleet of space shuttles in 2011.

NASA noted that a pair of docking adapters, built by Boeing, will be installed on the new docking spaces after they are carried up to the station on a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft later this year.

Making room for more spacecraft to dock with the station should enable the orbiter to be home to seven astronauts, instead of the traditional six, according to the space agency.

NASA TV is scheduled to provide coverage of Friday's spacewalk, beginning at 6 a.m.

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NASA Gearing Up to Reassemble the Space Station

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NASA this week begins work to reassemble parts of the International Space Station to create parking spots for two commercial space taxis.

The reconfiguration, which is expected to be finished before the end of the year, is the first major overhaul of the station, which was completed in 2011 after more than a decade of space shuttle-based assembly missions.

With station construction finished, NASA retired its fleet of space shuttles and turned to Russia for crew ferry flights, a service that costs the United States more than $70 million per person.

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NASA, which hopes to end its reliance on Russia before the end of 2017, awarded contracts to Boeing and Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, to develop, test and fly capsules that can taxi astronauts to and from the station, which orbits about 260 miles above Earth. The agency expects to pay its U.S. operators an average $58 million per person for transportation to and from the station, said Kathy Lueders, manager of NASAs commercial crew program.

Reconfiguring the station will open docking ports for Boeings CST-100 and SpaceXs Dragon capsules. One berthing slip will be at the front end of the Harmony connecting node, where the space shuttles used to dock. The other will be on Harmonys zenith, or up-facing, port.

The visiting ships also will need docking targets, communications systems and other gear, all of which will be installed during seven spacewalks planned for this year, said station operations manager Kenneth Todd.

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The spacewalks kick off on Friday when station commander Barry Butch Wilmore and flight engineer Terry Virts make the first of three outings to prepare cables and communications gear. They are scheduled for two more outings on Tuesday and on March 1.

Two new International Docking Adapters, which is what the space taxis will attach to, are due to arrive aboard SpaceX Dragon cargo flights later this year, but several pieces of the station need to be rearranged before then.

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Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology-The Next Generation of Innovation – Video

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Nanotechnology 'could signal the future of medicine', scientists claim

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ITV Report 19 February 2015 at 5:28am

Microscopic drones which can seek out and repair sections of artery damage could signal the future of treatments for heart disease and strokes, scientists claim.

Successful tests of the nanodrones have been carried out in mice - and researchers hope to conduct the first human trials soon.

The tiny particles are 1,000 times smaller than the tip of a human hair, and are designed to latch on to atherosclerotic plaques - hard deposits made from accumulated fat, cholesterol and calcium that build up on the walls of arteries and are prone to rupture, producing dangerous clots.

Once they have attached, they release a drug derived from a natural protein which can repair damage in the body.

In the mice, scientists found that just five weeks of treatment resulted in significant repairs to artery damage while the plaques were shrunk and stabilised, making it less likely for fragments to break off and cause clots.

Lead researcher Dr Omid Farokhzad, director of the Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston in the United States, said nanotechnology was a pioneering new area of research and treatment for a variety of conditions.

The inflammation resolving targeted nanoparticles have shown exciting potential not only for the potential treatment of atherosclerosis as described here, but also other therapeutic areas including wound repair, for example.

I'm optimistic that with additional animal validation we will also consider the human testing of the inflammation-resolving targeted nanoparticles for a myriad of unmet medical needs.

These are exciting times in medicine and the future of nanomedicine is incredibly bright.

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Angelica Panganiban slams netizens who watched pirated Tadhana

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MANILA. PhilippinesActress Angelica Panganiban hit netizens who watched a pirated copy of the film That Thing Called Tadhana that was leaked on Youtube.

On her Twitter account, the actress who played as the heartbroken Mace also commended those who paid to watch the film on cinema.

Sa lahat ng nanood ng pelikula sa computer Sana makatulog kayo ng mahimbing sa ginawa nyo.. according to Panganibans tweet that garnered 816 favorites and 325 retweets as of postingtime.

At sa lahat ng nagbayad sa sinehan, mabuhay kayo!! she added in a separate tweet that got at least 1,064 favorites and 278 retweets.

Panganiban was obviously outraged at pirated copies of the film uploaded on Youtube that was doing the rounds on social media. The pirated copies have since been taken down.

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Some netizens sided with Panganiban and said they did not regret paying for the film instead of watching it online.

Yes! We dont mind. Just by watching the movie in cinema means that we truly appreciate your craft! tweeted @mizy_sue.

Mas maganda manuod sa sinehan mas feel mo yung aww ng paligid! added @IamKayeAldrinM.

Nagbayad po ako.. ipinila ko yon ng isang oras sa Glorietta nung 14th makanuod lang mam! naka post pa sa IG ko <3, @ohohmartin also said.

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A New Way to Reduce Chronic Pain – Denver Regenerative Medicine – Video

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