Official WTM Responsible Tourism Opening Ceremony @ #WTM14 | Wed 5 Nov
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Spence describes his outcome from his "full-body make-over" by Harry Adelson, N.D.. Seven months ago, Spence had his own bone marrow stem cells injected into his low back, neck, hips, shoulders,...
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Contact: Lauren Woods lauren.woods@mountsinai.org 646-634-0869 The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine @mountsinainyc
Delivering stem cell factor directly into damaged heart muscle after a heart attack may help repair and regenerate injured tissue, according to a study led by researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai presented November 18 at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2014 in Chicago, IL.
"Our discoveries offer insight into the power of stem cells to regenerate damaged muscle after a heart attack," says lead study author Kenneth Fish, PhD, Director of the Cardiology Laboratory for Translational Research, Cardiovascular Research Center, Mount Sinai Heart, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
In the study, Mount Sinai researchers administered stem cell factor (SCF) by gene transfer shortly after inducing heart attacks in pre-clinical models directly into damaged heart tissue to test its regenerative repair response. A novel SCF gene transfer delivery system induced the recruitment and expansion of adult c-Kit positive (cKit+) cardiac stem cells to injury sites that reversed heart attack damage. In addition, the gene therapy improved cardiac function, decreased heart muscle cell death, increased regeneration of heart tissue blood vessels, and reduced the formation of heart tissue scarring.
"It is clear that the expression of the stem cell factor gene results in the generation of specific signals to neighboring cells in the damaged heart resulting in improved outcomes at the molecular, cellular, and organ level," says Roger J. Hajjar, MD, senior study author and Director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at Mount Sinai. "Thus, while still in the early stages of investigation, there is evidence that recruiting this small group of stem cells to the heart could be the basis of novel therapies for halting the clinical deterioration in patients with advanced heart failure."
cKit+ cells are a critical cardiac cytokine, or protein receptor, that bond to stem cell factors. They naturally increase after myocardial infarction and through cell proliferation are involved in cardiac repair.
According to researchers there has been a need for the development of interventional strategies for cardiomyopathy and preventing its progression to heart failure. Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States, with cardiomyopathy or an enlarged heart from heart attack or poor blood supply due to clogged arteries being the most common causes of the condition. In addition, cardiomyopathy causes a loss of cardiomyocyte cells that control heartbeat, and changes in heart shape, which lead to the heart's decreased pumping efficiency.
"Our study shows our SCF gene transfer strategy can mobilize a promising adult stem cell type to the damaged region of the heart to improve cardiac pumping function and reduce myocardial infarction sizes resulting in improved cardiac performance and potentially increase long-term survival and improve quality of life in patients at risk of progressing to heart failure," says Dr. Fish.
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Last year Vicki Pegalow, Buffalo, received bad news that she needed to have her left knee replaced. Having experienced total knee replacement of her right knee 14 years earlier, she was distressed about the anticipated surgery and the road to recovery she would be facing.
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WHITE GUY LAYS IT OUT - NO MAGIC, NO SPIRITUALITY, NO RELIGION - JUST FACTS
They already KNOW! "In one video I saw MORE WOMEN THAN I SAW MEN!" "The Caucasians - we got too much to lose." "You have to deny us a reason not to fight!" This video is embarrassing...
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MILFORD Local author Thomas Moore will speak at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30, at Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Milford on the topic of Soulful Spirituality.
During the presentation, Moore offers specific ways to create a deep religiousness in modern life, one that combines the holy and the sacred, the eternal and the worldly.
Moore is the author of the bestselling book Care of the Soul and 20 other books on soul and spirit.
He writes regular columns for Resurgence and Spirituality & Health magazines, and the Huffington Post.
He has been a monk, a professor of religion and psychology, a musician and a psychotherapist. He lives in the Monadnock region with his wife, artist and kundalini yoga trainer Hari Kirin, and his daughter, recording and kirtan musician Ajeet Kaur.
Moore will be recently returned from speaking in Ireland and England. Visit careofthesoul.net for more information about Moore.
A reception follows. The church is at 20 Elm St.
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Other side: Haryana, Punjab have history of clashes involving sects
The mayhem in Hisar has finally come to an end, but the unpalatable episode points to a more damning trend, that of godmen and politicians thriving on each other in Haryana and Punjab.
Both states have a history of bloody clashes involving prominent sects and communities, but the genesis of the problem lies not in the rise of the culture of the Deras, but in sects assuming increasing political relevance, much to the delight of politicians.
An estimated 9,000 big and small Deras and as many godmen exist in Haryana and Punjab. The prominent ones with massive followings are around a couple of dozens, like the Dera Sacha Sauda in Haryanas Sirsa, which has over the years worked as catalyst for change for good espousing an egalitarian ideology.
The growing influence of Deras poses a formidable challenge to mainstream cults and religions like Sikhism, which detest and disapproves the culture of the Deras.
But the fact remains that many Deras have been instrumental in providing a robust identity to Dalits and other social classes that feel alienated by mainstream religions and cults.
Chief spokesperson of Dera Sacha Sauda and consultant ophthalmologist Dr Aditya Insan told Deccan Herald: The generic mindset of clubbing all Deras together is a misguided notion. True saints have united believers of faith through meditation and self-realisation for spiritual consciousness. They criticise evil and not individuals.
The word from such Deras holds sway over the masses, the main reason behind politicians seeking their support and blessings, be it the 2014 Lok Sabha elections or the recently concluded Assembly elections in Haryana.
In denial, ignorantly or otherwise, it is this heady mix that leaves both the Deras and politicians with more muscle to flaunt.
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Born with extensive psychic gifts, Mr. Fassett is able to detect paranormal influences around individuals and provide them with the insight and tools to move them through life #39;s many challenges....
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Sage Enlightened Spiritual Teacher Sydney, Australia - Message from Maitreya
Spiritual Teacher Sage received this Message from Maitreya in February 2012. Ominous warning of the current crisis in global consciousness!! http://www.enlightenmentwithsage.com/ Here is the...
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Samantha Cristoforetti Italy - ISS International Space Station
ESA video dedicated to Samantha Cristoforetti from Italy will shortly fly to the ISS International Space Station. The final stage of her preparations happens in Star City, near Moscow, training...
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Minecraft Cube Evolution Episode 31: Space Station
In today #39;s episode of the Cube Evolution, we work on our space station and open some lucky blocks. Cube Evolution is a private, whitelisted server hosted by Mineplex.com. We are currently...
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Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham Walkthrough || Space Station Infestation Part 1 || PlayStation 4
Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham Bad guys, everywhere. This first part sees The Flash and Wonder Woman take on Firefly and Cheetah. It #39;s puntastic fun. B G Gaming ...
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Space Station Freedom was a NASA project to construct a permanently manned Earth-orbiting space station in the 1980s. Although approved by then-president Ronald Reagan and announced in the 1984 State of the Union Address, Freedom was never constructed or completed as originally designed, and after several cutbacks, the project evolved into the International Space Station program.
In the early 1980s, with the Space Shuttle completed, NASA proposed the creation of a large, permanently manned space station, which then-NASA-Administrator James M. Beggs called "the next logical step" in space. In some ways it was meant to be the U.S. answer to the Soviet Mir. NASA plans called for the station, which was later dubbed Space Station Freedom, to function as an orbiting repair shop for satellites, an assembly point for spacecraft, an observation post for astronomers, a microgravity laboratory for scientists, and a microgravity factory for companies.
Reagan announced plans to build Space Station Freedom in 1984, stating: "We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful economic and scientific gain."
The 1990 Space Exploration Initiative called for the construction of the Space Station Freedom. Following the presidential announcement, NASA began a set of studies to determine the potential uses for the space station, both in research and in industry, in the U.S. or overseas. This led to the creation of a database of thousands of possible missions and payloads; studies were also carried out with a view to supporting potential planetary missions, as well as those in low-earth orbit.
Several Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s and early 1990s included spacewalks to demonstrate and test space station construction techniques. After the establishment of the initial baseline design, the project evolved extensively, growing in scope and cost.
In April 1984, the newly established Space Station Program Office at Johnson Space Center produced a first reference configuration; this design would serve as a baseline for further planning. The chosen design was the "Power Tower", a long central keel with most mass located at either end. This arrangement would provide enough tidal forces to keep the station aligned with the keel pointed towards the Earth, reducing the need for thruster firings. Most designs featured a cluster of modules at the lower end and a set of articulated solar arrays at the upper end. It also contained a servicing bay. In April 1985, the program selected a set of contractors to carry out definition studies and preliminary design; various trade-offs were made in this process, balancing higher development costs against reduced long-term operating costs.
In March 1986, the System Requirements Review modified the configuration to the "Dual-Keel" design, which moved the modules to the central trussplacing them at the center of gravity, providing a better microgravity environment. However, the desire to maintain tidal alignment led to the use of increased truss structure, with two large "keels".
As the international involvement became more organized, the number of U.S. lab modules was reduced from two to one, taking into consideration the provision of space in the European and Japanese modules. Following this, the design was extensively "scrubbed" to remove inefficiencies; this led to a large number of subsystems being revised or removed, the deferral of plans for an Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle to be based at the station, and the use of only a single habitation module for a crew of eight.
In May 1986, NASA produced a report which had studied the assembly sequence with the intent of providing early "man-tended" capacity, ensuring that at an early stage, despite the station not being able to support a crew, research work could be carried out by occasional visiting Shuttle flights. Following the Challenger accident, a Critical Evaluation Task Force was set up to reassess the validity and safety of the Station design. While this validated the use of the Dual-Keel design, post-Challenger safety concerns led to changes in the assembly plans, as well as assorted minor changes. Johnson Space Center had previously expressed misgivings about the amount of EVA work needed to assemble the station, which were addressed, as were the Shuttle payload reductions stemming from safety improvements post Challenger.
In September 1986, a major cost review of the program was undertaken from the post-Challenger baseline; this review was intended to ensure that NASA had a solid basis for its commitment to cost and schedule. The review found that the total development cost for the Dual-Keel configuration would cost US$18.2 billion (in FY1989 dollars), and a slip in the first-element launch (FEL) date from January 1993 to January 1994.
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International Space Station with ATV-5
The International Space Station was threatened by space debris last week but ESAs Automated Transfer Vehicle saved the day by firing its thrusters to push the orbital outpost and its six occupants out of harms way.
Station with ATV-2
This is the first time the Stations international partners have avoided space debris with such urgency.
Ground stations continuously track space junk leftover hardware from defunct satellites for potentially life-threatening collisions. A fleck of paint can cause major damage travelling at 28 800 km/h. When they raise the alarm, ground teams can move the Station to a safer orbit.
The calculations sometimes take hours this is rocket science but fortunately, most of the time, the radar network gives ample warning. Sometimes a dangerous object can slip through the net or its erratic behaviour makes accurate predictions difficult.
ATV-5 approaching Station
This is where Europes ATV Georges Lematre came in on 27 October. A piece of Russias Cosmos-2251 satellite that broke up after colliding with another satellite in 2009 was on a collision course with the International Space Station. The object was around the size of a hand and calculations showed it would pass within 4 km too close for comfort.
Just six hours before potential impact, the five space Station agencies agreed to an emergency manoeuvre. The ATV Control Centre team in Toulouse, France, triggered a boost of 1.8 km/h, enough to raise the 420-tonne Station by 1 km and out of harms way.
Progress and Soyuz spacecraft docked to Station
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An artist's conception of the 3D maps of forest architecture that data from GEDI could produce.(NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)
A new laser instrument developed for the International Space Station is expected to generate incredible 3D maps of Earth's forests.
The instrument called Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) uses lidar, a special kind of laser technology, to create detailed 3D maps and measure the biomass of forests. NASA has already launched a satellite designed to measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but the new instrument, once launched, will allow scientists to estimate the total amount of carbon stored here on Earth inside trees.
"GEDI lidar will have a tremendous impact on our ability to monitor forest degradation, adding to the critical data needed to mitigate the effects of climate change," Patrick O'Shea, chief research officer at the University of Maryland, said in a statement.
Scientists already knew that trees absorb carbon. What scientists don't know is how much they store. This is a problem because scientists can't predict how much extra carbon would escape into the atmosphere if a forest was destroyed or if planting new trees would be enough to offset the emissions.
"One of the most poorly quantified components of the carbon cycle is the net balance between forest disturbance and regrowth," Ralph Dubayah, the GEDI principal investigator at the University of Maryland, said in the same statement.
GEDI's lidar instrument works by shooting streams of light particles at the Earth that then reflect back and are picked up by a detector. The time it takes the particles to reach Earth and bounce back is converted into a distance.
Every material that the light particles pass through on their journey leaves behind a "fingerprint" that the detector can read. That means that light particles that pass through leafy tree canopies will look different than the particles that pass through branches or trunks. The unique markers will allow scientists to construct detailed 3D maps of forest architecture.
The lidar pulses will measure the height of trees to about a 3-foot accuracy and allow scientists to estimate the total biomass in a forest and how much carbon it's storing.
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The orbital maneuvers of a mysterious object Russia launched earlier this year have raised concerns that the satellite may be a space weapon of some sort.
The speculation centers on "Object 2014-28E," which Russia lofted along with three military communications satellites in May. Russian officials did not declare the object as part of the launch, and it was originally thought to be space junk. But satellite trackers have watched it perform a number of interesting maneuvers over the past few weeks, theFinancial Times reportedMonday (Nov. 17).
Last weekend, for example, 2014-28E apparently met up with the remnants of a rocket stage that helped the object reach orbit. [The Most Destructive Space Weapons Concepts]
As a result, some space analysts wonder if Object 2014-28E could be part of ananti-satellite program perhaps a revived version of the Cold War-era "Istrebitel Sputnikov" ("satellite killer") project, which Russian officials have said was retired when the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s.
Military officials have long regarded the ability to destroy or disable another country's satellites as a key national-security capability. The Soviet Union is not the only nation known to have worked on developing such technology; China destroyed one of its own weather satellites in a 2007 test that spawned a huge cloud oforbital debris, and the United States blew up one of its own defunct spacecraft in 2008.
The concern about Object 2014-28E is legitimate, said Joan Johnson-Freese, a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. But she cautioned against jumping to conclusions, saying that Russia could have a number of purposes in mind for the technology that 2014-28E may be testing out.
"Anysatellitewith the capability to maneuver has the potential to be a weapon," Johnson-Freese told Space.com. "But does that mean necessarily that all maneuverable satellites are weapons? No."
The United States has also worked to develop maneuverable-satellite technology, she noted, citing the Air Force's Experimental Satellite System-11 (XSS-11) and NASA's DART (Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology) spacecraft, both of which launched in 2005. Further, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) managed a mission calledOrbital Express, which launched in 2007 to test out satellite-servicing tech.
"When we did DART and XSS-11, other countries went into panic mode you know, 'The U.S. has space weapons,'" Johnson-Freese said. "The first thing we did was assuage those concerns and say, 'No, no. That's not what it is. It's just a maneuverable satellite.' But any time you have dual-use technology, there are going to be concerns."
And pretty much all space technology is dual-use, said Brian Weeden, a technical adviser with the Secure World Foundation (a nonprofit organization dedicated to space sustainability) and a former orbital analyst with the Air Force. For example, spacecraft capable of orbital rendezvous operations could help a nation inspect, service andrefuel its satellites, or deorbit defunct craft to help mitigate the growing space-junk problem.
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Deep in the belly of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, lie "The Domes." Step into one of them and suddenly you're standing on the surface of Mars, or you're flying high above the Earth, looking out from the International Space Station. This is the Systems Engineering Simulator, where we learned to fly, drive, and design better space vehicles.
Gizmodo's Space Camp is all about the under-explored side of NASA, from robotics to medicine to deep-space telescopes to art. All this week we'll be coming at you direct from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, shedding a light on this amazing world. You can follow the whole series here.
The two spherical simulators, dubbed Alpha Dome and Beta Dome, are both set up to be extremely versatile. They perform simulations for crew training, engineering analysis for the two missions currently flying now that support the ISS, and for the prototype vehicles that may fly in the future.
Each dome is inside a large room with high ceilings. From the outside they look like huge spherical silos, gray and nondescript, with nothing that would tip you off to the host of technology within. Inside, it feels kind of like an IMAX theater, but warped. The screen has a very pronounced curve, designed to fill your peripheral vision when you're placed in the middle. Turn around and you'll see close to a dozen projectors mounted on various poles and catwalks, together weaving a tapestry of a single, gigantic image.
First there's the Alpha Dome. It's a 24-foot diameter dome and it has eight projectors that provide the visual models. Down the hall there's Beta Dome, also 24 feet in diameter but newer and a bit more advancedit has a wider field of view because it uses 11 projectors instead of 8, creating an extremely immersive view of the landscape before you.
Looking down on the cupola mockup inside Alpha Dome, with parts of simulated Earth and the ISS in the background
Alpha Dome is currently set up with a model of the cupola observatory module on the ISS. Out the windows you see what the astronauts would see: section of the space station flying high above a stunning view of Earth. Inside are all the same controllers and displays you'll find on the station. The cupola is where astronauts operate the ship's large robotic arm, so this setup gives them an idea place to practice those skills without, you know, breaking anything expensive. Like the ISS. Or an astronaut.
See, when a ship makes its way to the ISS, once it gets close enough, someone onboard the station uses the remote manipulator system (a.k.a. the Canada Arm 2) to reach out, grab the ship, and then line it up perfectly with the hatch. The arm is just a much more precise means of control that the small thrusters on the capsule itself, so once it's grabbed on it's far easier to guide it in. And that's how spaceships merge, boys and girls, now let's never speak of this again.
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