Undefeated Comets Too Much for Tulsa Revolution

Posted on by

February 14, 2015 - Major Arena Soccer League (MASL) Missouri Comets INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (February 14, 2015) - The Missouri Comets (19-0) returned to the Independence Events Center to crush the Tulsa Revolution (2-15) 21-4 in front of 4,414 fans and are one victory away from finishing the regular season with a perfect record in the inaugural season of the Major Arena Soccer League.

For the second week in a row, forward Leo Gibson was named Borden Man of the Match after adding nine more points (four goals and five assists) to his name. Currently, the Monrovia, Liberia native leads the league totaling 82 points with 40 goals and 42 assists.

Comets defender Stefan Stokic returned from an abdominal strain injury, while Andre Braithwaite, Stephen Paterson and Cody Hoffman did not suit up for the game.

Only one minute into the match, Gibson scored his first tally of the evening followed by six goals scored by team captain Vahid Assadpour, Max Touloute, Alain Matingou and Ramone Palmer to end the first quarter 7-0.

Two more goals from Gibson and midfielder John Sosa's first one of the night gave the Comets a 10-0 lead before the visitors notched their first goal courtesy of Justin Hershey. However, Robert Palmer scored moments later ending the half 11-1.

The third quarter saw the Central Division Champions score six consecutive goals from Harris, Robert Palmer, Matingou, Perez, Sosa before Hershey scored again but Harris notched his second one of the evening ending the third quarter 17-2.

With fifteen more minutes left in the match, the Comets did not back off and continued attacking goalkeeper Richard Nolasco's goal. Josh Gardner's first one of the night followed by Sosa's hat trick tally made 19-2.

Two more goals from Tulsa's Dave Leung along with Gibson's fourth and Ramone Palmer's only tally ended the match with a final score of 21-4.

Next up, the Tacoma Stars visit the Comets for the regular season finale on Sunday at 3:00 p.m. CT.

Discuss this story on the Major Arena Soccer League message board... Digg this story Add to Del.icio.us

Here is the original post:

Undefeated Comets Too Much for Tulsa Revolution

Emirates celebrates the spirit of ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 in India

Posted on by

Continuing its association with International Cricket Council, Emirates airline, a global connector of people, places and sporting passions, is once again an official worldwide partner for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.

The competition is live on Emirates' official Facebook page and is open for its fans in India over 18 years of age: http://www.facebook.com/emirates

The winner of the grand prize will get two Category A match tickets to the final on Mar 29, three nights hotel accommodation including breakfast on a twin-sharing basis at a five star hotel and two Emirates Economy Class return flight tickets from India to Melbourne via Dubai. There are also 25 runner's up goody bags to be won containing Emirates ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 merchandise.

In order to win, participants just need to post the correct answer to the contest question on the Emirates' official Facebook page. The competition will close at 23:59 hours [Dubai time] on 16 February, 2015 and the winner will be announced the next day.

"The ICC Cricket World Cup is a first class sporting event that not only draws global audience to the stands but several millions watch it on screens across the world," said Essa Sulaiman Ahmad, Vice President - India & Nepal, Emirates.

"Partnering with the International Cricket Council demonstrates Emirates' ongoing commitment to cricket fans across the world. Sharing and supporting our customers' sporting passions is key to our sponsorship programme, and we hope this competition will allow us to share the excitement of the tournament with cricket fans across India," Ahmad said.

Earlier this year, the airline unveiled the first of its aircraft to feature the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Logo.

The Emirates Airbus A380 that set off to first to Australia and New Zealand recently, is the first of a number of "specially-dressed" Emirates aircraft that will fly around the globe, celebrating this major event with cricket-lovers and uniting fans around the world.

Emirates has been the official partner of the International Cricket Council since 2007 and all its major tournaments including the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.

Visit link:

Emirates celebrates the spirit of ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 in India

Top 5 Practical Travel Jobs for Filipinos

Posted on by

Are you planning to go on a big around-the-world trip? How are you planning to support your finances? Unless you want to fly home again to work and save money to go travel again, then your best option is to work while you travel. There are many careers that allow you work and travel at the same time; flight attendant; cruise ship worker; pilot; business consultant; but are these really the kind of jobs you want to be doing when youre backpacking? Is that even possible? Perhaps, but its definitely not ideal! There are great ways that we earn money on the road, whilst maintaining the flexibility of the backpacker lifestyle.

Teach English while Traveling

Teaching English is a great way to earn money all over the world. Filipinos are highly regarded worldwide as having the best English in Asia and plenty of Filipinos are taking full advantage of this. All you need to get started is a TEFL certificate TEFL stands for Teaching English as a Foreign Language and it means exactly what is says on the tin! Its one of the most fun and satisfying ways to make money on the road and one of the easiest to get into. In some countries, like Vietnam for example, you can earn $20 to $30 per hour! For more details on how Filipinos can get into this great industry, check out this article Teach English Abroad

Sustainable Travel Lifestyle for Travelers

Now we all know about the negative connotations that go along with massage therapy, particularly in the Philippines, but if youve been to Europe or the US, then youll know that there real, skilled massage therapy is a very well-respected form of treatment for manner of ailments. It also comes with a heavy price tag, even over $100 for a specialized therapy such as Swedish or Shiatsu massage. All travelers love a good massage while traveling, especially after all of the long-distance bus rides and mountain hikes. But remember, foreigners like to see a certificate that proves you know what youre doing!

Author demonstrating Ayurveda on TV

Yoga is a hot topic worldwide and is only getting hotter and news of its physical and mental health benefits spread from one country to another. In order to become a certified teacher, its best to study an intensive course in an ashram or yoga center in a country like India or Thailand, where prices are cheaper and the atmosphere and environment is much more relaxing and authentic. Once you have your certificate, all you need is a yoga mat and some peaceful space to people to lie down and flex themselves around. You can teach in the park, in community centers or even private lessons in peoples homes. Not only that, but in teaching and meditating every day, youll be the most zend out Filipino in whatever country youre in!

Work for a local hostel

This is far from the most glamorous of jobs available to travelers, but its definitely one of the most practical, both in terms of acquiring and performing. Often, this job will be a volunteer position in exchange for bed and breakfast, but you can also find paid work to. All types of travelers from all over the world work in hostels as a temporary option to allow them to stay in one place for a bit longer, without spending all of their money on accommodation.

Work in a Hostel

See the article here:

Top 5 Practical Travel Jobs for Filipinos

NOAA's new deep space solar monitoring satellite launched

Posted on by

A new mission to monitor solar activity is now making its way to an orbit one million miles from Earth.

DSCOVR, a partnership among the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA and the U.S. Air Force, will provide NOAA space weather forecasters more reliable measurements of solar wind conditions, improving their ability to monitor potentially harmful solar activity.

NASA received funding from NOAA to refurbish the DSCOVR spacecraft and its solar wind instruments for this mission. The work was completed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, where a team developed the command and control portion of the spacecraft's ground segment, and manages the launch and activation of the satellite.

Following successful activation of the satellite and check-out approximately 150 days after launch, NASA will hand over operations of DSCOVR to NOAA.

"DSCOVR is the latest example of how NASA and NOAA work together to leverage the vantage point of space to both understand the science of space weather and provide direct practical benefits to us here on Earth," said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

With DSCOVR in its distant orbit, it will become the nation's first operational satellite in deep space, orbiting between Earth and the sun at a location called the first Lagrange point, or L1. DSCOVR will join at this orbit NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) research satellite, and replace the 17-year-old satellite as America's primary warning system for solar magnetic storms. ACE will continue its important role in space weather research.

NOAA management of DSCOVR includes spacecraft operation and distribution of the mission's space weather data. These data, coupled with a new forecast model scheduled to come online later this year, will enable NOAA forecasters to predict geomagnetic storm magnitude on a regional basis.

Geomagnetic storms occur when plasma and magnetic fields streaming from the sun impact Earth's magnetic field. Large magnetic eruptions from the sun have the potential to bring major disruptions to power grids, aviation, telecommunications, and GPS systems.

In addition to the mission's primary space weather-monitoring instruments, DSCOVR carries two NASA Earth-observing instruments that will gather a range of measurements from the ozone and aerosols in the atmosphere, to changes in Earth's radiation budget. A NASA solar-science instrument, the Electron Spectrometer, will measure electrons in the solar wind.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Advanced Radiometer (NISTAR) measures the reflected and emitted energy from the entire sunlit face of Earth. This measurement is intended to improve understanding of the effects of changes in Earth's radiation budget caused by human activities and natural phenomena.

Read more here:

NOAA's new deep space solar monitoring satellite launched

Napa astronauts journey leads to International Space Station

Posted on by

Kate Rubins will go where no Napan has gone before 268 miles above the Earth.

The biochemist-turned-astronaut, who joined the NASA ranks in 2009, has been chosen for a mission to the International Space Station set to begin in May 2016. On Monday, the U.S. space agency formally announced the mission, which had begun to emerge in news reports last year.

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft will boost Rubins, the Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin, and Takuya Onishi of Japan from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in the remote steppes of Kazakhstan, to the space station, where Rubins will oversee more than 100 scientific experiments during her six months in microgravity.

For the 36-year-old Napa native, the journey will be the fulfillment of a dream born in childhood, in a bedroom patterned with glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling. More than a year before her first space flight, Rubins already was hoping simply to latch on to as many memories as possible amid the hectic rounds of training and preparation.

People have said even though its only six months, it goes by incredibly quickly, so pay attention to all the small things, she said Thursday by telephone from Friendswood, Texas, where she and her husband, Michael, Magnani live outside NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston. You can have so much work to do and you can get absorbed in it, so you have to stop every now and then and realize where you are.

Space and the stars held an early fascination for Rubins, through an upbringing that included stargazing events and a weeklong trip as a seventh-grader to the NASA Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. However, another scientific initiation would set her onto her early path: a visit at age 16 to a conference on recombinant DNA at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, which inspired her to study molecular biology at UC San Diego, after graduating from Vintage High School in 1996.

A career studying the genetics of viruses followed, starting with undergraduate work on finding HIV inhibitors for potential anti-AIDS treatments, and later studying the smallpox and Ebola viruses for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She earned a doctorate at Stanford University in 2005, then spent the next four years with the Whitehead Medical Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, leading a 14-member infectious disease laboratory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Still, when NASA began recruiting another group of space travelers in 2008 more than 3,500 candidates pursuing nine slots Rubins, almost on a lark, gave her original dream one more chance, though with no real expectations. Despite feeling I didnt think I had a shot at all, she made the cut in 2009 after a year of evaluation and interviews.

It was one of those childhood dreams I couldnt let go of, she told Nature magazine in March 2013. I thought that NASA didnt take biologists and so nothing would come of it, but I knew I would regret it if I did not apply.

I really thought that was her career trajectory and knew she loved her work as a research virologist, Rubins mother L. Ann Hallisey, an Episcopal minister in Davis, said in an email. It seems, however, that the space bug never left her ... I think the message here is, hold on to your dreams.

More here:

Napa astronauts journey leads to International Space Station

Biggest explosion in Sun happened in 5 years caught on tape by NASA – Video

Posted on by


Biggest explosion in Sun happened in 5 years caught on tape by NASA
Turkey February 11, 2015 marks five years in space for NASA #39;s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which provides incredibly detailed images of the whole sun 24 hours a day. Capturing an image more...

By: Cihan News Agency

Here is the original post:

Biggest explosion in Sun happened in 5 years caught on tape by NASA - Video