Obsidian plans to establish super-computer business in India

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Canada-based Obsidian Strategics is in discussions with technology companies to establish a super-computer business network in Asian markets, including India.

There are discussions underway with suitable groups that have the capabilities and technologies, said Bill Halina, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Obsidian Strategics.

As our company begins to grow in markets such as India, China and Australia, we see opportunities to manufacture wherever our product is being used, Halina told PTI.

Obsidian, which manufacturers its hardware and software in the US and Canada, has super computer-based technology to move data faster than anyone else.

We work with contract manufacturers and want to make sure the quality of the manufacturing is to our satisfaction, Halina said.

We will help bring jobs to a jurisdiction with the local economy that is in place and helping them to grow, he stressed.

We are also in the early days of exploring other markets, added Dr David Southwell, the groups Chief Visionary Officer.

The company prefers joint venture-based partnerships for operating in multiple markets, said at the recently held technology conference, EmTech Singapore.

Obsidian used its supercomputer, infiniband technology, on a trial basis on Tata Communications Trans-Pacific Subsea Cable from the US to Australia late last year.

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SINGAPORE: Canada-based Obsidian Strategics is in discussions with technology companies to establish super-computer business network in Asian markets, including India.

"There are discussions underway with suitable groups that have the capabilities and technologies," said Bill Halina, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Obsidian Strategics.

"As our company begins to grow in markets like India, China and Australia, we see opportunities to manufacture wherever our product is being used," Halina told PTI.

Obsidian, which manufacturers its hardware and software in the US and Canada, has super computer-based technology to move data faster than anyone else.

"We work with contract manufacturers and want to make sure the quality of the manufacturing is to our satisfaction," Halina said.

"We will help bring jobs to a jurisdiction with the local economy that is in place and helping them to grow," he stressed.

"We are also in the early days of exploring other markets," added Dr David Southwell, the group's Chief Visionary Officer.

The company prefers joint venture based partnership for operating in multiple markets, said at the recently held technology conference, EmTech Singapore.

Obsidian used its supercomputer, infiniband technology, on a trial basis on Tata Communications Trans-Pacific Subsea Cable from the US to Australia late last year.

Meanwhile, Obsidian has announced plans for a new platform that will complement its existing 10 and 40Gbits/s product offerings.

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Advanced stem cell treatments instead of surgery – Denver Regenerative Medicine – Video

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Neck and Shoulder arthritis two years after stem cell therapy by Harry Adelson, N.D. – Video

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Gordie Howe making dramatic recovery after stem cell therapy

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Hockey great Gordie Howe, part owner of the Western Hockey League's Vancouver Giants, looks on during a team news conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.(Photo: Darryl Dyck, AP)

Detroit Red Wings legend Gordie Howe has made such a dramatic recovery after having stem cell therapy in December in Tijuana, Mexico, that he's heading to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, this weekend for a dementia fundraiser involving Wayne Gretzky.

The Kinsmen Arena there will be renamed the Gordie Howe Kinsman Arena.

Dr. Murray Howe raced from Toledo, Ohio, to Lubbock, Texas, in late October, unsure whether his father, who had suffered a massive stroke, would still be alive when he got there. Gordie Howe was being cared for by his daughter, Cathy, and family members were advised to get there quickly if they wanted to see him again.

Murray Howe told the Detroit Free Press in a telephone interview Tuesday he was heading back to Lubbock on Wednesday to help accompany his father, along with other family members, to Saskatoon for the public appearance at a Friday night dinner.

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Gordie Howe's younger brother, Vic, who played for the New York Rangers in the 1950s, died Saturday at age 85 in Moncton, New Brunswick. Murray Howe said Gordie would not be able to attend his brother's funeral, but would be with two sisters, Helen and Vi, while in Saskatoon and the family would gather there for a memorial service for their brother.

Although the event in Saskatoon had been planned for more than a year, the Howe family told organizers in August that Gordie probably wouldn't be able to attend because of declining health. They definitely didn't think he'd be able to attend following a series of stokes that he had in the months that followed.

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Human stem cells repair damage caused by radiation therapy for brain cancer in rats

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For patients with brain cancer, radiation is a powerful and potentially life-saving treatment, but it can also cause considerable and even permanent injury to the brain. Now, through preclinical experiments conducted in rats, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers have developed a method to turn human stem cells into cells that are instructed to repair damage in the brain. Rats treated with the human cells regained cognitive and motor functions that were lost after brain irradiation. The findings are reported in the February 5 issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell.

During radiation therapy for brain cancer, progenitor cells that later mature to produce the protective myelin coating around neurons are lost or significantly depleted, and there is no treatment available to restore them. These myelinating cells--called oligodendrocytes--are critical for shielding and repairing the brain's neurons throughout life.

A team led by neurosurgeon Viviane Tabar, MD, and research associate Jinghua Piao, PhD, of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, wondered whether stem cells could be coaxed to replace these lost oligodendrocyte progenitor cells. They found that this could be achieved by growing stem cells--either human embryonic stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells derived from skin biopsies--in the presence of certain growth factors and other molecules.

Next, the investigators used the lab-grown oligodentrocyte progenitor cells to treat rats that had been exposed to brain irradiation. When the cells were injected into certain regions of the brain, brain repair was evident, and rats regained the cognitive and motor skills that they had lost due to radiation exposure. The treatment also appeared to be safe: none of the animals developed tumors or inappropriate cell types in the brain.

"Being able to repair radiation damage could imply two important things: improving the quality of life of survivors and potentially expanding the therapeutic window of radiation," said Dr. Tabar. "This will have to be proven further, but if we can repair the brain effectively, we could be bolder with our radiation dosing, within limits." This could be especially important in children, for whom physicians deliberately deliver lower radiation doses.

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At-home retreat brings Scripture, spirituality to seniors

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Ever since my two great-aunts spoiled me rotten as a child, I've had a soft spot in my heart for senior citizens. Aunts Rite (for Marguerite) and Bess were my own personal fairy godmothers. They delighted in taking me shopping every year for an unasked-for-but-much-needed new dress. They quietly slipped me a whole half-dollar when my younger sisters received only quarters. Aunt Bess shamelessly doted on me, marveling that at age 4, I loved jigsaw puzzles. My favorite was a 500-piece beauty showing a massive blue whale breaching in a white-capped sea. I spent many happy hours with Aunt Bess patiently fitting those lovely pieces together.

As an oldest and somewhat hyper-responsible girl-child, I must have needed their coddling. Anyway, that's what I tell myself today. (It helps with the guilt.) My great-aunts never married (though both had beaux) and held good jobs working in retail back in the day when locally owned department stores could still prosper. Since their sister, my mom's mother, died when Mom was 11, my sisters and I became surrogate grandchildren. With our parents, we regularly visited on weekends and holidays enjoying sumptuous home-cooked dinners lovingly prepared by Aunt Rite.

It broke my heart when Aunt Bess died in a nursing home three years after contracting Alzheimer's disease. I was 22, a registered nurse, and wondered what was up with this death thing anyway? A year later, I nursed Aunt Rite after surgery for what turned out to be ovarian cancer. I stayed with her for two nights at the hospital before departing for graduate school. When I went in to say goodbye, she looked at me with her steady blue eyes and imparted this succinct bit of advice: "Always stay true to your religion, kid."

I quickly (too quickly) responded: "You'll see me again Aunt Rite, I'll be home for Thanksgiving." She shook her head and didn't reply. Although the doctors had said death was months away, Aunt Rite joined Aunt Bess in heaven just three days later.

Because I had these really great great-aunts, I always enjoyed working with "the elderly" in my nursing career and thereafter. I admired their kindly wisdom and secretly envied such steady patience in the face of adversity.

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So I was intrigued to learn about a retired nurse's creative at-home spiritual companioning outreach to seniors. The Living Room Retreats project is the brainchild of Joanne Sheldon, a former hospice nurse educator. Working in hospice, Joanne frequently observed an unfolding spiritual component that she believes her clients didn't always know how to articulate.

"Noticing that spiritual component led me to recognize that elders -- not just the dying -- had similar needs," she said. Without knowing of her interest, Joanne's boss forwarded a serendipitous email she had received about the Ignatian Spirituality Institute at John Carroll University. Just a year away from retirement, Joanne decided to enroll in the two-year certificate program.

After completing her training, Joanne provided spiritual services to the Ignatian Volunteer Corps, a program designed for active folks 55 and over. "But then I got to thinking," she said. "There are lots of elderly people who are used to going to parish missions for Lent and can't get out anymore."

After talking it over with her pastor, Joanne placed a notice in her parish bulletin offering the Living Room Retreats to anyone who wished to participate during the six weeks of Lent.

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The NASA diet: It's food, but not as we know it

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Since the first crew arrived in November 2000, more than 200 astronauts from 15 different countries have visited the ISS. At its core, it's a floating lab, where for six months at a time six crew members work, exercise, sleep -- and eat.

Providing NASA astronauts with a nutritious diet is the job of food scientists at the Johnson Space Center, in Houston. There, Maya Cooper is part of the team responsible for about 40% of the food sent to the astronauts. She says her team tries to strike a delicate balance between providing home comforts and healthy food.

"There are many items that we've had on the menu that were great tasting items but recently we've had a big sodium reduction, trying to get the sodium content on the space menu down," Cooper says. "So we've had to reformulate a lot of those items, preserving the taste and the homely comfort food aspects of the food, while making sure that the nutrition is right where we need for it to be."

If Cooper makes space food sound like a science, that's because it is. Weightlessness requires more energy; your body is never truly at rest at zero gravity, so astronauts must eat accordingly, consuming 3,000 calories a day.

In the controlled environment of the ISS, scientists are able to study the astronauts' physiological processes with great accuracy. "We know exactly what they're eating," Cooper says, "so we have better data in terms of how food actually impacts the body."

Likewise, food is affected by the requirements of space. Food sent into orbit has to be preserved by heat processing which, paired with its long-term storage, causes food to lose some of its nutritional value due to vitamin degradation.

Overcoming these obstacles is one of the challenges facing Cooper, along with how to make such adulterated food appetizing.

Space food in popular culture ranges from liquid meals of various viscosities -- think Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" -- to a miracle pill containing a day's worth of nutrition.

In the space program's early days, NASA's Project Mercury did indeed experiment with "semi-liquids" in toothpaste-style tubes, and coated bite-sized cubes of solids with gelatine to stop crumbs escaping. Unsurprisingly, astronauts reported that "the food was unappetizing."

Today, space food is more "cordon bleu" than blender.

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NASA honors Amelia shipyard for work on barge

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NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen (right) views the controls of the Pegasus barge Thursday at Conrad Shipyard in Amelia. The company is modifying the barge to hold hardware and parts for the Space Launch System, NASA's new heavy-lift rocket that will carry future explorers to deep space.

Conrad Industries Shipyard in Amelia was recognized today for its work on one of NASA's barges.

The shipyard has been refurbishing the Pegasus, a barge that used to transport external space shuttle tanks from New Orleans to Florida, since September 2014.

NASA awarded the company the Space Flight Awareness of Excellence Award.

Steve Doering, director of center operations for Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., said he was thankful for the work the shipyard has put into this project.

A lot of what people think NASA does is rocket science, Doering said.

While that's true, the space program requires lots of other skills too.

The barge was lengthened from 260 feet to 310 feet to hold hardware and parts for the Space Launch System, NASA's new heavy-lift rocket that will carry future explorers to deep space. Doering said this made the barge 500,000 pounds heavier, requiring significant reinforcements.

The shipyard will complete the barge in summer 2015.

Steven G. Bowen, NASA astronaut, made the trip to the shipyard Thursday to express his appreciation.

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Moon Express Continues Lander Flight Tests Under NASA Lunar CATALYST Program

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Moon Express, Inc. (MoonEx) has announced that it will continue flight tests at Kennedy Space Center using the newest version of its lunar lander test vehicle later this month. The MTV-1A vehicle is an advanced version of the MTV-1X lander test vehicle that successfully completed a series of initial flights in December, earning the company a$1M awardfrom the Google Lunar XPRIZE. The MTV-1A vehicle utilizes flight software and a number of flight hardware components that will further demonstrate core features of the vehicles innovative propulsion and avionics systems, paving the way for the companys goal of developing the worlds first private spacecraft capable of landing on the Moon. The tests are being conducted at the Kennedy Space Center Moonscape test range located at the north end of the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF).

Moon Express MTV-1X during a tethered flight test at NASA KSC in December 2014. The rocket system is fueled by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) so its exhaust is invisible super heated steam. (Image: Moon Express)

On December 15th, 2014, NASAannouncedMoon Express as the first commercial user of Kennedys SLF for vehicle flight-testing, citing it as a cornerstone moment in the transformation of the center to becoming a multi-user spaceport. NASA posted anupdateon January 27th, congratulating Moon Express for the successful initial flight tests.

The Moon Express team shared facilities and coordinated range operations with theNASA Morpheuslander test vehicle, built and operated by the NASA Johnson Space Center, which also had a successful flight test series. Moon Express is one of NASA's three private sector partners competitively selected under its Lunar CATALYST program designed to spur commercial cargo transportation capabilities to the surface of the Moon.

"We congratulate Moon Express on the successful flight tests of their innovative lunar lander test vehicle," said Jason Adam, NASAs Moon Express Partner Manager under Lunar CATALYST. "Moon Express is the first private company to build and operate a lander test vehicle at the Kennedy Space Center, and we look forward to working with them as they develop new U.S. capabilities to land on the Moon."

Through an increasingly complex series of tests following vehicle integration, the Moon Express "MTV-1X" proved out its fundamental guidance, navigation, and control systems. Moon Express has published ahighlights videoof the initial flight test campaign. The successor MTV-1A lunar lander vehicle is currently being readied by Moon Express engineers at the Moon Express SLF hangar for the next series of flight tests.

"NASA has been a remarkably helpful and proactive partner supporting our goals," said Bob Richards, Moon Express co-founder and CEO. "The NASA Lunar CATALYST team is outstanding and our direct collaborations with Ames Research Center, Kennedy Space Center & Marshall Space Flight Center are providing us additional access to key resources that will help us reach the Moon."

Infrared (IR) image of the Moon Express MTV-1X lander test vehicle during hot fire test at the Kennedy Space Center. (Image courtesy: NASA)

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QinetiQ technology on board first European space taxi

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QinetiQ technology will be responsible for guiding the European Space Agencys IXV space taxi safely back to earth on its maiden test flight, due for launch on 11 February 2015.

QinetiQs space division has supplied the onboard computer, core of the flight control system with a reliability rate of 99.997 per cent, which will ensure IXVs fully automated return to Earth. This powerful computer supplies the spacecraft with the intelligence necessary for a safe return flight, calculating the optimum angle for re-entering the atmosphere and making a controlled landing possible.

Koen Puimge, business development manager for QinetiQs space division, said: We were selected thanks to our strong track record of pioneering roles in the development of similar systems. This project is an exciting opportunity to transfer our existing expertise in onboard computers for high-reliable autonomous satellites into the domain of high-reliable autonomous re-entry vehicles. Its a fascinating emerging market that challenges todays technology. The delivery of this contract further strengthens our position as a global supplier of important control systems for critical space applications.

The IXV space taxi is the first European initiative by the European Space Agency (ESA) to build a smaller alternative to the American Space Shuttle. The smaller format means lower costs linked to its construction and launch, while the controlled return to Earth, enabled by QinetiQs powerful and reliable system, means the spacecraft can be re-used. IXV could be a suitable alternative to expensive space missions in the future, transporting cargo as well as astronauts into space and back again more economically. Possible future uses include increasing the lifespan of existing satellites, monitoring the Earth, testing new technologies and performing fundamental research in space.

The spacecraft is scheduled for launch from Kourou in French Guiana on 11 February and demonstrate its new technologies before parachuting into the sea, where it will float until a boat picks it up. In a follow-on programme the craft will land on an airfield landing strip. QinetiQ has been commissioned for the ESA project by the Italian aerospace company Thales Alenia Space and Alenia-Aermacchi.

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England must silence Millennium Stadium – Back

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SILENCER: George Ford will start at first-five for England in their Six Nations opener against Wales in Cardiff.

England must "smash everything in red", maintain cool heads and silence a raucous Millennium Stadium crowd when they meet Wales in their Six Nations championship opener in Cardiff on Friday (Saturday NZT), England World Cup winner Neil Back said.

Stuart Lancaster's side suffered a humiliating 30-3 defeat on their last visit to the Welsh capital in 2013, a painful loss that ended their grand slam hopes and handed Warren Gatland's side a second successive title.

"England have got to silence the Welsh crowd. That's their job," Back, an integral part of England's 2003 World Cup-winning side, told Reuters.

"The first 15 minutes of each half will be absolutely critical to England's aspirations in this game.

"Drive the Welsh into their half, get on the scoreboard and smash everything that is in red. If they can create a quiet Millennium Stadium that will be a truly beautiful thing."

The Friday evening blockbuster is a pre-cursor to their World Cup pool meeting on September 26 and Back said it was vital for England to land a "psychological blow".

But the former flanker is concerned about England's preparations for the Six Nations, the number of injuries that have forced Lancaster's selection hand and the lack of settled players in key positions.

"England's major concerns at the moment are not necessarily with the level of injuries because we have quite a depth of players, better than anyone else," said the former British and Irish Lion.

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