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If you don't have the resources of Richard Branson there are still plenty of inexpensive ways to launch something into space, writes our space columnist Richard Hollingham.
I once stood on a hillside in northern England watching a group of enthusiasts attempting to launch a rocket. A small crowd gathered in the rain as we waited for the countdown. Nothing happened for a while…and then nothing happened again…and then we all went home. Anyone who ever turned up for a Shuttle launch will be familiar with the experience.
Even small rockets are hard to build and even harder to launch successfully. After all, it took Wernher Von Braun the resources of the Nazi war machine and thousands of slave labourers to successfully develop the V2, and the equivalent of almost $100 billion (in today's money) to put men on the Moon. Even now, it costs at least $12 million to charter the cheapest launch vehicle to orbit.
Rockets are hard. So how can us enthusiasts ever get to launch anything? Do not despair, here at BBC Future we've been investigating the options for you and it turns out you do not have to have the resources of Richard Branson or Elon Musk to get something into space. And to prove it, we even have launch plans of our own.
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One of the least expensive options to start your career as a rocket scientists is to blow up a balloon. A very big balloon. Amateur clubs, such as the Cambridge University Spaceflight society in the UK, fly helium-filled meteorological balloons up to an altitude of 30km (19 miles) with payloads as varied as teddy bears, cameras, computers and scientific instruments. They can even be used to send a man… well, a Lego man. The recent launch of a Lego Man into space by two Canadian teenagers has become a big hit on YouTube.
The technology involved in flying a legonaut or cosmoteddy is relatively simple – inflate your balloon, attach payload and watch it go. The trick is getting them back. As your balloon rises through the atmosphere, the air pressure decreases and the balloon expands. There comes a point where the latex fabric is stretched so thin, that it bursts and the payload (toy) is released. As long as you've got a parachute between the payload and the balloon, your toy of choice should float safely back to Earth. If you've put a tracking device on board, you might even be able to find it.
Here's the important bit: if you're planning on launching a weather balloon you will almost certainly need permission from the aviation authorities. The Cambridge club, for instance, has a permanent licence but still needs to call air traffic control before launch. Balloons and planes don't mix.
The images sent back of the curvature of the Earth by Lego Man are stunning and you can certainly see the blackness of space. But the fact is, weather balloons don't go high enough and are still well within the atmosphere. Only one tiny step for Lego-kind I'm afraid. So how do you go higher?
"Typically when you want to go into space, you launch a rocket," says Edward Cunningham, a third year physics undergraduate at Cambridge. "To launch a rocket from the ground requires lots and lots of thrust, quite a large rocket and lots of money." The challenge is not just overcoming gravity but air resistance. "So, what we've been thinking," he says, "is whether we can get past all this atmosphere and then launch a rocket. So, we're building a rockoon."
The concept of a rockoon (from rocket and balloon, if you've not worked it out) is almost as old as modern rocketry and was conceived in the 1940s by the US military during the development of ballistic missiles. The Cambridge students hope to fly rockoons in a parabola up to 100 km (62 miles) – well into space – at a cost of less than $1500.
"What you end up with is your large helium balloon with your rocket suspended beneath it," Cunningham explains. "Then, before the balloon bursts, you send a command to launch the rocket and it'll penetrate the balloon and, if all the calculations work, get into space."
All well and good. But to get into orbit you need a lot more power and a good deal more cash.
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Until recently, your best bet for flying a spacecraft in orbit was to build a CubeSat. These miniaturised satellites are based on a 10cm (4 inches) cube and usually "piggyback" on other satellite launches to keep costs down. You can buy kits for CubeSats, which are increasingly popular amongst academic groups, and Nasa even has a programme to launch some of them for free. However the price of putting a mission together, at upwards of $30,000 (excluding launch), is still well beyond most of us. Fortunately Zac Manchester, from Cornell University in New York, has designed a way for lots of people to get onboard a CubeSat.
He has plans to launch an alternative, smaller spacecraft called a sprite. Little bigger than a thumbnail, these are as simple as spacecraft get – consisting of a few solar cells, a microprocessor and a transmitter. They are the modern equivalent of a beeping Sputnik. Zac's mission packs multiple sprites into a single CubeSat. Once in orbit the tiny craft will spring from their mothership to orbit the earth on their own (over a few weeks their orbit will decay so they burn up in the atmosphere). What's really cool about this scheme is the price: each sprite costs just $300. The whole project has been funded through donations and anyone who pledged the full $300 gets a sprite to call their own.
"It's not just that people can say 'I own 2% of this big monolithic satellite,'" says Manchester. "It's 'I own this little thing in space that has my name on it, it's mine'. I think that personal ownership aspect of it makes it very exciting." So exciting, that he's captured the imagination of the worlds' space geeks and sold the lot.
Over the next few months, the Cornell team will be building the sprites and putting the satellite together. Here at Space Station, we'll be following their progress with a vested interest because we've managed to secure one of the last remaining sprites on your behalf. We plan to follow the project in more detail as we get closer to launch date. But if all goes to plan, this time next year, readers of BBC Future and listeners to my podcast will have a satellite to call their own. And it won't cost you a cent.
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All eyes of economists looking at the meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday of the Federal Reserve's interest-rate setting committee will be on the dot plot, the chart that shows the committee's projections of the path of interest rates through 2016.
But the dot plot is an odd duck (it doesn't distinguish between voters and non-voters) and won't answer all the questions Fed watchers want answers about from the central bank. Here are five of the questions that might be answered by the statement, the forecasts or Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen's press conference. The statement and forecasts come Wednesday at 2 p.m. Eastern, followed by the Yellen press conference at 2:30 p.m.
Any new worries about inflation?
Inflation has been stirring. Just before the start of the Fed meeting on Tuesday morning, the Labor Department reported U.S. consumer prices rose sharply in May for the second straight month and the rate of inflation over the past year reached 2.1%, its highest level since late 2012. After worrying about low inflation last year, has there been any change in attitude about higher prices from Fed officials?
Any less optimism over the economy?
In April and March, Fed officials knew that the first quarter was going to be weak but they had no idea it was going to be this weak. Economists have now penciled in a 2% drop in GDP in the first three months of the year. Beyond causing the Fed to lower its growth projections for 2014 (currently, 2.8% to 3%), has the data made the Fed more worried about the outlook? In the last two Fed meetings, officials were pretty sure confident the economy would bounce back to a sustained period of strong growth.
How much slack in the economy?
Was there any progress bridging a key divide among hawks and doves about how much slack there is in the economy, specifically the labor market? The U.S. created 217,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in May and the unemployment rate held steady at 6.3%. Doves argue that several indicators like the number of workers employed part-time even though they want full time jobs suggest there is more slack than the unemployment rate alone suggests. Other Fed officials think the labor market is as tight as the unemployment rate suggests.
Which way is the exit?
For a few years, the Fed has said that it would start shrinking its balance sheet before it hiked short-term interest rates. But in a speech last month, New York Fed President William Dudley said the Fed might hike rates first before tackling the$4.3 trillion balance sheet.
Is the Fed itself a big headwind?
In the same speech last month, Dudley suggested that the higher capital standards for banks might be one reason why the economy is straining to grow about 2%. This is not something that other Fed officials have talked much about, at least in public. Is this a factor in why the Fed thinks that it expects to keep short-term interest rates below normal even after it has reached its goals of 2% inflation and low unemployment?
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FILM REVIEW: 'The Big Short' falls short on substance
Two years after The Wolf of Wall Street dazzled us with its epically energetic portrayal of adrenaline-fuelled amoral stockbroking, Paramount puts forward a different take on Wall Street – this time not from the perspective of the hard-partying profit spinners, but rather of four 'weirdos and outsiders', who manage to make a mint from predicting the 2008 financial collapse. While the film bursts with charismatic performances and cleverly penned quips, presenting a smokescreen of diverting gags and images, The Big Short doesn't handle its subject matter in any real or meaningful way, begging the question of why, asides from the pursuit of almighty profit, this film was made at all.
The irresistible line up of Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt is sure to guarantee an audience for the comic drama, regardless of whether those viewers understand the difference between a synthetic collateralised debt obligation and a single-tranche collateralised debt obligation or not. Employing clever – if somewhat jarring – devices to translate this vital jargon, such as Margot Robbie explaining CDOs and subprime mortgages to the camera while sipping champagne in a bubble bath, the writing allows even the most clueless of viewers to get whipped up in the drama. Meanwhile, rapid-cut montage sequences interspersing each year in the 2005 – 2008 timeframe are effective in giving us a quick and satisfying sense of context. Details such as these should serve to elevate director Adam McKay from his prior filmography of Will Ferrell-led titles.
Primary acting credits go to Bale and Carell for their respective leading performances as Michael Burry – antisocial one-eyed mastermind behind the whole scheme, whom we never see interacting with the other characters – and Mark Baum – guileless and neurotic FrontPoint money manager who joins in on the big bet. Meanwhile, John Magaro (Carol) and Finn Wittrock (American Horror Story) are compelling in their Silicon Valley-reminiscent roles as eager young investors who find themselves managing multi-millions while barely out of college. One of the film's most striking moments comes from these two as they sneak into the offices of recently bankrupt investment company Lehman Brothers. "This isn't how I pictured it", sighs Magaro's character. "What did you think we'd find?" asks Wittrock. "Grownups", replies Magaro. Exchanges such as these help to pin down the message the film attempts to deliver; a message that unfortunately spends too much time flailing around in the wind.
Had the film focussed on any one of the individual stories of Bale, Carell or Magaro and Wittrock's characters in its own right, it could have delivered an interesting portrait of the real people behind the 'big short'. Instead, it spreads itself too thinly across each thread to achieve any significant exploration of any of them.
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by Chris Braithwaite
copyright the Chronicle 12-26-2012
Part of my DNA is walking around West Glover in African-American skin.
Part of my DNA is in first grade in Ridgefield, Washington, dealing with Down syndrome.
Part of my DNA is in two children in Leeds, England, who talk to me, when I can get anywhere near them, in broad Yorkshire accents.
Part of my liver is in a woman in Ontario who is doing valiant battle with ovarian cancer.
Who knew?
A dozen years ago, before I had any grandchildren, I thought being a grandfather would be a calming experience. Mostly a matter of doting.
I guess I pictured an assortment of blond, blue-eyed kids who would be parented much better than their parents were parented and not go to Harvard or Yale but to the sort of schools their parents — my kids — went to which were, in no particular order, the University of Chicago; Lewis and Clark in Portland, Oregon; Colby in Maine; Tulane in New Orleans; Sheldon Jackson in Sitka, Alaska; Reed in Portland; Brooklyn University; Mills in Oakland, California; New York University; Northeastern Law School in Boston; and the Banks Street College of Education in New York City. Not a bad list for four kids, but they did tend to wander.
I hasten to add that it is far from beyond the realm of impossibility that any and all of my grandchildren will end up at any or all of these fine institutions, not to mention Harvard and Yale and Oxford and Cambridge. Life is all about possibilities, and my granddaughter Adara, who lives in Ridgefield, is already pressing the envelope and, I believe, will continue to do so throughout her happy and already very useful life.
Her brother Corwin, who is about to turn three, faces the prospect of developing abilities that may be beyond the reach of someone who is now, and will always be, his only big sister.
And my grandson Isaiah has the courage to deal with what one very articulate Vermonter, Robert Walsh, called "unaware-unintentional racism." That's not the stuff of deeply imbedded racial hatred. It's the stuff of "I thought you people couldn't survive in this climate."
And I hasten to add — I'll be hastening to add a lot of things in this piece — that there seems to be a critical mass of Black children in our schools now, and they have collectively put some of this kind of prejudice quietly to rest.
I don't know if Phoebe and George in Leeds will have to clean up their North Country accents before they go to Oxford. I don't really know a damn thing about what remains of the class structure over there.
And as for Clara in New York, maybe it will be tough to deal with being a native of Brooklyn. So far, she's just a month-old bundle of promises.
Anyway I didn't set out to write about my grandchildren, but about myself.
What I wanted to say is that grandchildren have a way of backing you in to groups of people you know nothing about and never thought, at this advanced stage in life, that you would have much to do with.
And the important thing to say about that is that it's a remarkable experience. In fact it's a gift of considerable value.
My sister Shari, the person walking around Canada with half my liver, raised this point when I visited her last week. She said there must be an odd sense of inclusion in another group, when you have a grandchild who is a full-fledged member.
I agreed, but it occurs to me now that I have an odd sense of inclusion in the group of women with cancer of a female nature. Shari mostly startled me by coming down her stairs with straight hair, something she told me she has always wanted to have.
I hasten to say that she looked very good in her new wig. But I must confess that it startled me, who has known her as my curly-haired sister for 68 years, even more than her loss of so much weight.
I have no ovaries and have never undergone chemotherapy. But there it is. Part of me has, in fact, undergone chemotherapy. And that part of me sustains a woman of enormous courage.
That doesn't make me courageous, any more than it makes my skin black or my brain and body subject to the effects of Down syndrome.
So why do I feel like I'm in the club?
A writer named Andre Solomon has recently gained a lot of attention for his book, Far From the Tree.
I bought the book as soon as I heard about it on the radio, but so far have only worked through his first chapter.
I know from his table of contents that he writes about parents who give birth to children who are deaf, children who are dwarfs, children with Down syndrome, children with autism, children with schizophrenia, and children who are the result of rape, among others.
The structure he introduces in the first chapter is about direction. What parents look forward to is passing on the best in themselves vertically.
What fate may have in store for parents is a child who introduces something entirely unexpected, something that comes at them sideways, something horizontal.
He says it better than I can:
"Having anticipated the onward march of our selfish genes, many of us are unprepared for children who present unfamiliar needs. Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult, we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do."
Perhaps Mr. Solomon writes so well about this because he is gay, and so has put his own parents to this test.
I would hasten to add that none of my grandchildren are gay, but that would be politically incorrect. I would then attempt to redeem myself by saying that, should I have a gay grandchild, I would expect that same, odd sense of inclusion that I have already mentioned. And I believe I would welcome it.
Mr. Solomon's powerful prose makes one thing obvious: Grand-parenting is far, far easier than parenting. Every grandparent knows that, and every parent looks forward to it. The horizontal gifts my children have been given are challenging. They require a level of courage that, as a parent, was not required of me. My children have inspired in me a respect that, in turn, arouses great and quite undeserved parental pride.
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Emmanuel P. Giannelis is the Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering in the College of Engineering at Cornell University. He received a BS degree in chemistry from the University of Athens, Greece, and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Michigan State University. His research interests include polymer nanocomposites, nanoparticle fluids, and nanomaterials for fuel cells and batteries. He is currently the Director of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the co-Director of the KAUST-CU Center for Energy and Sustainability.
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After several tumultuous years, it seems 2011 has been very good to Britney Spears. As an example, the pop-diva looks to be in fine form in the October issue of UK's edition of Glamour, on newsstands September 8.
The cover features Spears in a glittery, feather-adorned mini-dress, while the sexy shots inside reveal that while she may have had two children, all the hours she's logged in the gym to get her famous figure back have clearly paid off.
In the story that accompanies the photos, Spears says she's not afraid of turning 30 this December, and that the 2008 public meltdown that caused her father to ultimately take over her finances in a court-ordered conservatorship is nothing but a distant memory for her now. These days, she's happy, healthy, and planning a big party for her upcoming milestone birthday.
"I think the older you get, the wiser you get," she said. "I can't wait. I'm really excited and definitely gonna celebrate and do something spectacular. I'm gonna be in South America so I'll have to do something pretty fun. A carnival of Britney?"
With her personal and professional life on track — Spears has a thriving two-year relationship with talent agent Jason Trawick, and her seventh studio album, this year's 'Femme Fatale,' is her first to yield three top 10 singles in the United States — the singer certainly has a lot to celebrate.


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DescriptionThe mobile version of Spore initially has two game modes, Evolution, where the player creates a spore which he has to help climb to the top of the food chain, and Arena where the player can use the spore created in the Evolution mode to battle against other spores. A third mode, Survival, is unlockable.
The Evolution mode is similar to games like flOw. Starting out with a small organism, the player has to eat even smaller creature to grow. As he do so, a DNA bar will be filled, and once it is full the current level is completed. One will also come across larger creatures that have to be avoided, if not the player will take damage and shrink. Throughout the levels, the player will find different kinds of symbiotes that will have a positive effect on the spore. These can either protect the player, increase the speed or poison enemies that come close. The action is shown from a top down perspective, and the d-pad is used for controlling the spore.
Between levels the player will be able to customize his spore with an editor. The further in the game the player gets, the more changes to the spore he can make. He will be able to resize each body part of the spore, add new parts that enhance its abilities, and change its' colour and texture. After finishing the Evolution mode, the player will get the DNA code of the spore, which can be used to share the creature with other players.
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Originally from Mexico, Damiana (Turnera diffuse and Turnera aphrodisiac) is an aromatic shrub from the Turneraceae plant family, endowed with aphrodisiac properties. This plant with small yellow flowers grows on rocky hillsides in south Texas, California and Central America and is widely used for medicinal and culinary purposes. Today you can find Damiana leaves in the form of tea, smoking blends or capsules. Now we are going to talk about the Damiana tea bags recipe health benefits.
Diamana Tea as An Aphrodisiac
If we talk about the history of Damiana, such people as the Maya surely need to be mentioned. Maya and other inhabitants of the northern Mexico have been using leaves and flowers in medicine from prehistoric times and Damiana was the main ingredient of the beverage that incited amorous passion. Centuries ago, the Mayans were using Damiana leaves as an aphrodisiac, which had the same sexual effect, both on men and women. This herb not only improves libido but also enhances the pleasure of intimacy. These properties were confirmed by scientists from the Mexican National Institute of Psychiatry in 2009.
Damiana is used to boost sexual potency (decreased erectile function and libido), as well as to improve the general mood.
Here is how to make Damiana tea for improved libido:
Pour 1 liter water over 10-15 gram of herb. Boil for 5-10 minutes, then strain. It's recommended to drink 2-3 cups of tea each day. Drinking Damiana tea can be combined with smoking a pipe with Damiana leaves.
Damiana Tea for A Better Mood
Damiana leaves can be used as a mild sedative. It improves mood, reduces anxiety, fights against panic attacks. This Mexican shrub is not such a powerful adaptogen as Schizandra (Chinensis), but can also add to your well-being. Sometimes it is used to treat mood disorders, including neurosis, hypochondria, obsessive-compulsive disorder and paranoid states.
Damiana Tea for Those Who Suffer Headaches
In folk medicine, Damiana herbal tea is used as natural remedies for headaches. The drink is very popular in the Caribbean. For maximum effect, it is recommended to actively inhale the steam coming from the hot tea for a few minutes. Damiana herbal smoke is also reported to have a slight euphoric feeling.
Drinking Damiana Tea
Damiana herbal tea is produced by traditional infusion, boiling and cold extraction methods. You can add some orange flowers into infusion and steep for 3-5 minutes. A stronger decoction can be produced by boiling Damiana leaves a bit less than an hour. For getting a cold extract, you'll need about 24 hours.
To prepare as a traditional tea, you'll need one tea bag for a cup or glass of boiled water, however, this amount can be increased to taste. Damiana herbal tea high is reported to be essentially the same as from smoking Damiana herbal smoke or pills.
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andylenz needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 316 designs submitted by 59 freelance designers.
t3n, the leading German print magazine for Web 2.0 and Open Source, is completely changing its cover artwork and wants you to be our art director! Our policy of openness makes us open enough to let you design the whole cover with a minimum of default requirements. Take the chance and add a German print magazine cover to your portfolio!
The cover story of the next issue will be something we would translate like "Agile & effective" or "Getting Real". Many articles in this issue will deal with this topic or are somehow connected to this cover story (e.g. Enterprise 2.0, Cloud Computing, Guerilla Usability-Testing, CSS-Frameworks). It's all about working smart, realicing projects fast and lean and beeing flexible.
The t3n magazine is the leading print magazine around Open Source and Web 2.0. It focusses on free software, web development, Web 2.0 and E-Commerce. It has a national distribution of 20.000 copies each issue with a target group of webworkers, freelancers, agencies, IT-Managers, designers, coders and geeks.
t3n for example reports about current developments in Semantic Web, Social Networks, Online Marketing, Web Frameworks like Ruby on Rails or Zend Framework, PHP, CSS, AJAX, informs comprehensively about free-of-license-fee content management systems and visualizes relevant open source projects and solutions for administrators and developers.
Although we are a German magazine, we have translated the text on the cover to make it easier for you to get in touch with the topics.
- t3n cover archive - cover template, available in Adobe InDesign file format (.zipp 3,4 MB + .indd)
We want a completely new cover art work. We want white space, clean headlines together with a striking illustration matching the main topic of the issue. We want the main topic to be big on the cover and a smaller second headline beneath (look at the cover draft).
We are looking for a DINA4 (with 3mm bleed) InDesign file using the template provided. You can change and rearange nearly everything, except the logo. Elements like the barcode, the issue number, the prices and the subline under the logo can be freely designed and positioned by you aswell, as long as they are on the cover. In the bottom region, we would like to feature six topics with the name of the topic (e.g. "Cloud Computing") and a short text. You can design that aswell as you like (horizontal, vertical). Also you should incorporate a pointer that indicates the CD ROM that is included with each issue.
It is possible to have certain parts of the cover UV lacquered!
Our in-house font is Myriad Pro (see attached zip for specific styles) but you're not necessarily bound to using it for your cover design (we also like fonts like Officina and others).
t3n's covers have always been excessive and full of text. Now we want a cleaner cover! However, our covers have always been laid out creatively and we want to continue this. The Cover should be a real eyecatcher at the point of sale!


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For those of you lucky enough to be sporting a Nokia Lumia 1020 along with the addon Camera Grip (PD-95G), you may have noticed that sliding on the accessory is easy as can be. However, removing the grip can be a tad finicky with users feeling like they may snap it or even damage their device. We know we've experienced this and we're sure others have too.
Now, user antiochian2010 in our forums has kindly posted a quick 90 second video (see above) showing his method for removing the grip. It's worth taking a peek to see if his method is better than yours and if it helps to alleviate any worry over stressing the plastic accessory.
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Two electricians receive burns while using a poorly designed test instrument with inadequate leads.
Just before the arc flash severely burned the two electricians, they were searching the textile mill for a 480V feed to power the facility's new sewing machine. When they found an available fused disconnect switch, one of the electricians opened the panel door with the trip device - which allowed the downstream end to remain hot. With both hands on the tester, he applied the small leads to the hot terminals in the electrical panel to identify any present voltage. Almost immediately, the insulation in the tester failed - causing a 3-phase flashover arc that resulted in severe burns to the electrician's hands and face. It also burned the other electrician standing close behind.
After the accident, the electricians filed a personal-injury suit against the switch-panel manufacturer, whose counsel retained me to study the case. The principal allegation was that the separator bar (made of a synthetic material offering a very high electrical resistance) in the panel was designed to become conductive. Unfortunately, the arc destroyed the tester. We could not identify any remains in the residual at the vicinity of the incident. Fire residual coated the entire inside of the switch panel and the separator bar of the switch disconnect mechanism.
Because the mill had changed hands several times since the incident occurred 13 years before, we couldn't find any eyewitnesses. The few photographs taken at the time of the accident did not give a clear picture of the situation. Based on these facts, we finally persuaded counsel to arrange a visit to the site. We were surprised to find the mounting of the adjacent switch boxes were unchanged after all those years. Some of the fire's residual were still present, but we found only one switch changed. We took measurements and photographs of the scene.
A detailed study of the fused disconnect switch revealed no evidence it had caused the flashover. It was very clear that the switch itself was a victim of an intrusion of some sort. The flashover had badly melted the fuses and brackets at the lower end of the panel and burned the finish on the inside and outside of the box. There were no holes in the box - which could have indicated a direct short to the box itself. Because the separator bar had to be in permanent and direct mechanical contact with all three lines, it had to be mechanically strong and a very good electrical insulator. The arcing left it undamaged, except for some surface discoloration.
We bought a tester of the same make and model the electrician used during this incident. Designed to indicate potentials of 120V, 240V, 480V, and 600V, the unit was about 5-in. long, 5/8-in. wide, and 3/8-in. thick - with the test leads entering at one end. The leads were only 3-in. long - including the probes! After dissecting the unit, we found that less than 1/8-in. separated the lead terminals. Neon bulbs indicated measured voltage levels. The very close unprotected terminals for the leads offered easy access to any intruding pollution, which could easily cause a short.
Both electricians carried one of these instruments in a "head-down" position in tool pouches on their belts, with the leads extending upward. As they worked that day in the hot, humid climate, it was likely that perspiration dropped into the tool pouches and into the tester terminals - thus creating highly conductive "shorts" in the unit. However, no one attempted to duplicate the incident.
For the trial, the construction of an imitation electrical panel reflected the same configuration as the switch box in question. The construction of another electrical panel, similar to a switch box close to the panel where the incident occurred, was also used as a visual aid at the trial. The imitation panels were in the same relative positions as they were during the incident. Recreating the setting showed the switch box in question was so close to its left-hand neighbor that its door would only open about 45. This made it very inconvenient for the electrician to perform his work. Because he had large hands, he also found it difficult to apply the very short leads of the tester.
The manufacturer's representative tested the actual separator bar with a 10kV source in the courtroom, demonstrating to the jury that the unit was indeed designed as a good insulator (not as designed to fail - as the plaintiff alleged).
It seemed very clear that something - probably perspiration - had intruded into the terminals of the tester leads. When the electrician touched the 480V conductors, the leakage current escalated and caused the flashover. When using the rms values of voltage, the peak values are substantially greater. In the case of 480V subscript rms, the peak value is 678V. Ohm's law stipulates that the higher the voltage the more the current flow.
Looking at the scene and the switch itself, it became clear what had happened. Although the tight placement of the switch panels was a serious aggravating factor, the electricians should have used better judgement by choosing a better designed test instrument with leads of a reasonable length. The jury agreed with me and denied the plaintiff's claim.
Note: The manufacturer of this tester was an offshore firm - and thus unassailable in court.


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Dont buy any other mini goal. This is one the best mini nets I have ever seen. I coach my sons squirt team and all of the kids have a set. this is the best by far. Collapsable, cushioned posts, metal, ton of sticks and balls...how they can sell this for this low price is a mystery.
Great Hockey Goal. This Hockey Net helps with all kinds of shots. It rebounds back if you miss the goal and hit the sides. The pockets help with corner shots. This is just a great tool for kids who love to play hockey.
Very Satisfied! I purchased this product for my sons who both play hockey, one at the highschool level and one at the squirt level and it has work wonderfully for both. No more broken siding or dents in the garage doors! I'm very happy!
Best Hockey Net you could ask for. Best hockey net ever. Great product and this website is the best deals around. got this net for a great price and its worth every penny.
Improve your game with this product. Very useful in improving my son's shot (he's 11 and plays AA hockey). Since where I live icetime is at a premium it's great to have him shoot 100 or more pucks a day. It has made a big difference over time in his shot.
Works well once it's set up. My son uses it to practice all the time. When he misses the net, there is protection from the hockey pucks going wide and high. The shooting targets work just ok.
Perfect Gift for Our Slap shooters. Great net to shoot pucks with side nets saving a "few" wild shots.
Great Product. Great for my 7 year old son, he loves it. Should last for years.
Great Setup. I bought this for my kids who have cracked ever other plastic hockey net I have bought them. This metal net can stand up to pucks hitting the posts. Also it folds very easily for something so big and heavy. The nets on the side and top keep them playing instead of chasing pucks. My kids love this net.
A Labor of Love. As a former college level ice hockey goalie, this product is hands down the absolute best of its kind for street hockey use only! The netting is not of a high enough grade mesh material to to survive ice hockey play. Am also concerned that net piping not sufficiently durable for ice hockey. Perfect for street hockey games and practices.
Great net! This Is a great net. Its pretty easy to put together and holds up extremely well for ball hockey.
Worth every penny. My kids use the net almost everyday. Well made although I have owned it only a month so I can't comment on durability
GREAt. It really helps it you are trying to get ur accuracy better because it stops them from going everywhere. PERFECT
Mostly Durable. There's a lot of great things about this goal. It was the best price on the net for how heavy duty the posts and netting are. I'm a 26 year old male who plays with pro puck brand pucks in the street and the posts have taken a beating in the first two weeks i've had it. Only a couple shots slightly dented the posts. And you really can't tell unless you catch it at the right light. So it's very durable. My only complaints would be how long it takes to put the netting on the goal and backstops. The good news is the netting is pretty thick, but you have to lace all of it to posts which is time consuming if you want it done right. My only other complaint is all of the small metal click buttons on the inside bottom posts that keep the posts together have been broken off from low shots. The goal still stays together but it does shift a little when you move it in and out of the house/garage. It hasn't been a problem yet. It helps to keep in mind that no goal will be completely durable..which is why this would be your best option for your kids and adults that want a durable goal with plenty of backstop on the sides and top of the goal. It's only been played with for about 6 hours, but it seems like it would last for quite a while.
Perfect addition to EZ Goal. Practice corner shots
Great product at a great price. Very well constructed. Have used the net and backstops daily for 2 weeks and still holding together very well. Using regulation hockey pucks off a shooting pad. Netting and pipes are extremely durable.
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PLEASE NOTE: Names CAN NOT be printed on the hats that have a print on them. I do have some offerings that include either a plain gray or plain black hat which include names on them. Please see my shop to see those options.
Looking for a sweet, hip and comfy outfit to bring home your sweet little bundle... look no further. Can be gender neutral or for your baby boy.
Our Christmas Wish!
Red and Black Buffalo Plaid! Lumberjack goodness for your baby boy or girl! There is an option for a headband instead of knot hat.
Bodysuit has heat pressed silver name with stars.
Leggings main fabric is a lightweight cotton spandex with gray cotton/spandex comfort (no elastic) waistband and ankle cuffs.
Knot Hat/ Headband made with same fabric as leggings.
Choosing the Personalized Option: Leave the personalization info in the notes section at checkout.
All maine girl creations are made using designer fabrics. All fabrics are washed and dried before using to reduce and shrinking. I use a serger on open seams giving mgc handmade items durability and professional look.
Caring for your maine girl creations: wash in Cold Water using Phosphate Free Detergent. If you can turn it inside out please do! Blankets, hoodies, dresses, skirts can be dryer on Low. Leggings & Onesies/Shirts with metallic or glitter should be line dryed.
PLEASE NOTE: Fabric used within this shop can differ from a lightweight 4 way stretch material that is primarily cotton and a tiny bit spandex to get the 4 way stretch, 100 % organic cotton interlock which has a 2 way stretch and medium weight (these particular fabrics are all printed in the USA with inks that are organic and environmentally friendly because of that they are easy to fade so it is best to wash inside out on gentle in PHOSPHATE FREE Natural Laundry Detergent) and new in the shop is a great primarily cotton with a bit of spandex medium weight sweatshirt material. Please be sure to read under Leggings below which material you are getting.
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Ship items back to me within: 7 days of delivery
Request a cancellation within: 24 hours of purchase
But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Because of the nature of these items, unless they arrive damaged or defective, I can't accept returns for:
Returns and Exchanges are handled on a case by case basis. I DO NOT accept returns for gender, meaning you can't purchase a boy and girl outfit then return the one that wasn't needed. I am so sorry about this but it is a small handmade business where items are made to order. I do have a few gender surprise options in my shop that may work for you. I hope you check them out!
Things you may want to know:
What are all these letters mean in the drop down menu of options in each listing:
We only get a certain amount of characters to use when providing options which can be tough. You will see a mixture of words and letters in mgc options... Here is a cheat sheet for what the letters mean:
O- oneise
B- bodysuit
H- hat
HB- headband
LS- Long Sleeve
SS- Short Sleeve
Personalized- means adding a name to the onesie like under Hello World or Little Brother, etc. If you would like to eliminate what is on the onesie completely and just have the name please leave a note in the notes section at checkout stating omit... add just name ______________________.
Where do you get your fabrics? I procure the fabrics used from a number of different designers and vendors. Quite a few are designed by me and the organic interlock knit is printed in the USA by Spoonflower using designers Andrea Lauren and Little Arrow Design and some I design myself. The fabrics from Spoonflower are 100% organic cotton interlock using a environmentally safe ink, please take this into consideration and care for this fabric as instructed, the darker fabrics can easily fade. I also use an array or organic and non organic commercial fabrics by Birch and Art Gallery these are mostly 95% cotton with a 5% spandex giving them a 4 way stretch, cotton interlock only has a 2 way stretch. Just like you are supporting small business by purchasing from maine girl creations I support those same values as a consumer.
Why is the production time so long? I am so grateful for each and every order that I receive. These are handmade made to order pieces. Fabric arrives: I wash, dry, iron and cut it. Hats and Pants are sewn, surged and turned. Onesies are purchased I use Carter's brand because they in my opinion are the best made and the best fit. All vinyl appliques are designed, cut and heat pressed by me. Shipping labels are printed and packages are shipped. These items are not cookie cutter items shipped from another country by the thousands when you purchase from maine girl creations you are purchasing unique handmade goodness made with love.
Do you send proofs? I am so sorry but at this time I am unable to send proofs. The way I use my vinyl cutter I traditionally work on 20 onesies at the same time. Thank you for your understanding of this.
I want to change the saying on the onesie! The best part of this handmade business is you get to customize as you wish! Please leave any change to the onesie in the notes section at checkout. Also if you want the personalized option please leave the name in the notes section at checkout.


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Personnel Chiefs on the Hook for Hiring Reform
Alyssa Rosenberg | Government Executive
June 22, 2010
In early May, President Obama released a long-anticipated hiring reform memorandum, replacing a requirement that federal job applicants respond to essay questions with a resume-based approach more in line with private sector practices. The memo also outlined new responsibilities for managers and supervisors, requiring them to get more involved in the hiring process.
The job of making sure the hiring reform effort and the Obama administration's other personnel priorities are implemented falls to the government's chief human capital officers.
"This is going to be proving time for the [Chief Human Capital Officers Council], for the CHCOs and for the Office of Personnel Management," says Max Stier, president of the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service. "They're going to be asked to change a broken system. That's a big demand, and how they respond to it is going to define their legacy."
But it's also a time of great opportunity. A new director of the CHCO Council hopes to galvanize its members to help address each other's problems. Experienced CHCOs have found new allies in their quest to shine a light on the needs of the human resources workforce. And new chiefs have found that with a little determination, they can get the resources they need, and by applying them right, can get more done than anyone thought possible. CHCOs are coming of age as a community at the precise moment their interests are converging with those of a young administration that's willing to back up some of its ambitions with resources.
In the June 15 issue of Government Executive, Alyssa Rosenberg outlines the issues chief human capital officers face.


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Amazon Kindle DX (Graphite)
What a difference a display can make. All it took was turning on the Amazon Kindle DX (Graphite) second-generation large-format e-reader to see that Amazon's claims of a higher-contrast display than its predecessor were true. The E-Ink display on the new Kindle DX ($380, price as of 7/9/2010) indeed reflects a significant improvement in contrast, as evidenced by the clarity of the crisp text, and the darker blacks of graphics and words alike.
The blacks, in fact, truly look black; by comparison, the blacks on the original Kindle DX appear dinghy and gray. Words on the Kindle DX (Graphite) appear to jump off the page, as you can see in this side-by-side photo. Unfortunately, the darker text means that you can also more clearly see the jaggies in the default, and only, text font of the Kindle DX (Graphite), at least at the default third font size. The Kindle DX (Graphite) has a lighter, more solid background to its E-Ink display than its predecessor. Where the original Kindle DX appears to have a patterned, very newspaper-like background, the new Graphite version appears lighter in color, with less distinct patterning.
Also of note is the Kindle DX's new cosmetics. The unit is housed in a dark gray ("graphite") case, as opposed to the off-white case of the original Kindle DX and Kindle 2. I have to say I prefer the darker chassis. While this model clearly also boasts the better display, in general I find the reading experience enhanced by having a dark border around the e-reader. Most e-readers, including the Barnes & Noble Nook and the Kindle 2, are light-colored; but of those I've used that have light and dark varietals (Aluratek Libre eBook Reader Pro,Spring Design Alex eReader, and now Kindle DX), the dark version consistently provides the easier-on-the-eyes reading experience.
To fully gauge the impact of Amazon's enhancements to the Kindle DX--including how it performs in sunlight--I'll be spending some quality time with my imagination this weekend, curled up with a Kindle. In the meantime, if you were holding off on buying the new Graphite version in order to get the skinny on the screen, well, wait no more: On first blush, it's impressive.
This story, "Amazon Kindle DX (Graphite)" was originally published by PCWorld.
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text: Ellis Wilson wrote: > Joe Landman wrote: >> Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote: >>> Do you, by any chance, have any substantial performance figure to make >>> us drool? :) >> Intel has asked that no benchmarks be published by people with units. > > One wonders why they distributed them in the first place if they didn't > intend to excite people about their performance prior to releasing them. They are exciting people. I can tell you its fast. I just can't tell you how fast. Its actually pretty good marketing. > With processors I don't think it's for "debugging" or stability checks > since that should be well simulated (owing to the high cost of CPU molds > costs millions itself). Its for (IMO) grass-roots word of mouth marketing. They want the buzz to be there. And it is. > > Ellis > > > > > > > -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com http://jackrabbit.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615


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NCN-SLC holds an NCN Student Research Symposium (NSRS) in Spring/ Summer each year. The purpose is to bring together students from the various research groups working on nanoscience and computational disciplines and provide a forum for sharing of ideas and knowledge.
NCN Student Research Symposium 2009 (NSRS 2009)
This year NSRS shall be held in conjunction with the NCN all hands review in Summer. This year the event shall be open to student presenters from all campuses affiliated with the NCN. See this [flier|File].
theoretical and experimental research related to Nanoscience/ technology and computational science useful for simulations in this area.
9:30 AM – 12:00 noon Paper Presentation Session I (MRGN 129)
12:00 noon – 1:30 PM Lunch and Poster Session (MRGN Lobby)
1:30 PM – 4:00 PM Paper Presentation Session II (MRGN 129)
Call for Papers:
Please email a short abstract (150 words) to email@example.com or to firstname.lastname@example.com. Only electronic versions in MS Word or pdf formats shall be considered. The deadline for abstract submission is 11:59 PM CST on Friday, June 5, 2009. There will be a total of 20 presentations, evenly divided between the two sessions. A computer with MS Powerpoint and projector shall be provided. The accepted presenters shall be notified by June 10, 2009 and they are highly encouraged to email a copy of the Powerpoint slides for their presentations by June 15, 2009 to avoid delays on the day of the symposium. Each speaker shall be provided a maximum of 15 mins for their presentation and question/ answer session. We recommend 11 mins of presentation and 4 mins of Q/A, but this distribution is solely at the speaker's discretion.
Call for Posters:
All students who will exhibit posters to the NCN Site Visit Team on June 17 are recommended to also participate in the Poster Session on Jun 16, which will act as a dry run for their posters. Other students are invited to exhibit posters showcasing their research. You can bring the posters along with you on Jun 16. We will have a stand and board ready for you. However, you need to RSVP to email@example.com by 11:59 PM EST on Friday, June 10, 2009 that you wish to exhibit a poster at the symposium.
NCN Student Research Symposium 2008 (NSRS 2008)
The first NSRS in 2008 was a success with very exciting and high quality research presentations from students across Purdue.
Date: May 27 2008 (Tuesday), 10:00am ~ 3:30pm
Venue: Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship (MRGN 121), Purdue University
Agenda and abstracts: nsrs_2008_agenda_abstracts_final.pdf (64 KB, uploaded by raseong kim 9 years 11 months ago)


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Sales of wine for $9 or less make up the fastest-growing segment of the wine market and sales above that price are starting to trend down, said Jon Fredrikson, a Woodside, Calif., industry analyst.Consumers are trading down to wine they consider "values," Fredrikson said.
In most years, store manager Diana Hirst considers herself lucky if she can snag six bottles of $265 Araujo Napa Valley cult Cabernet Sauvignon to stock in her Costa Mesa wine shop.This year she can get dozens -- a sign of how the Wall Street meltdown is rippling across the alluvial fields of Napa Valley to the chalky limestone vineyards of Champagne in France.
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Don't get me wrong, a person can make many cute and clever images by cutting out somebody else's photographs and gluing them together in interesting new configurations. Several publications with generally excellent art direction use photo-illustrations frequently:
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By starting with pre-fabricated building blocks rather than the basic elements of line and color, we gain speed and economy but we lose some of the potential for charm, grace and creativity. Obviously, this loss matters more to some people than to others.
Here, a Photoshopped cover effectively conveys the childish antics of the US House of Representatives:
However, it is also devoid of the design or elegance or class that a stronger human aesthetic role might have contributed.
When illustrator Peter de Seve was asked years ago to illustrate the squabbling Congress for another magazine cover, the picture required more time and preparation (note his preliminary draft below) but the result was more visually interesting and the humor more layered and sophisticated.
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When illustrator Bernie Fuchs died in 2009, Golf Digest published a touching tribute recognizing the "grandeur" that Fuchs' illustrations had brought to their pages over the years. Right next to that tribute, without the slightest hint of irony, was a cheap and crappy photo-illustration of the type that Golf Digest and so many others use today:


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The Hope College Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland will continue its tradition of showing contemporary and independent films with a Spring Film Series featuring four films from Monday, May 13, through Friday, June 8.
The series includes "Barbara" (May 13-18), "Girl Rising" (May 20-25), "Future Weather" (May 28-June 1) and "Triumph of the Wall" (June 3-8). All films will be shown at 7:30 p.m.
"Barbara," running Monday-Saturday, May 13-18, is set in 1980s East Germany and follows a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, she secretly prepares to defect, but as she sees the need around her she finds herself facing a painful moral dilemma that forces her to choose what she values. The film, which is in German with English subtitles, is rated PG-13 and has a run-time of 105 minutes.
"Girl Rising," running Monday-Saturday, May 20-25, is a documentary film that showcases the strength of the human spirit and the power of education to change the world. Directed by Academy Award nominee Richard Robbins, the film tells the stories of nine extraordinary girls from nine countries, written by nine celebrated writers and narrated by nine renowned actresses. "Girl Rising," which is in English, is rated PG-13 and has a run-time of 101 minutes.
"Future Weather," running Tuesday-Saturday, May 28-June 1, follows Lauduree, a 13-year-old loner and passionate environmentalist who clings to her rural home and a carbon sequestration experiment when her single mom runs off to California. However, her grandmother, Greta, a caustic nurse on the verge of moving in with her long-distance boyfriend, has other plans. The two women must learn to trust each other and leap into the unknown. The film, which is in English, is unrated and has a run-time of 100 minutes.
"Triumph of the Wall," running Monday-Saturday, June 3-8, is a documentary about expectations, and follows two artists who embark on an eight-week journey and instead spend the next eight years trying to finish what they started: a 1,000-foot wall and a film about the project. The film is a reminder that sometimes art (and life) is as much about the process of creation as it is about the finished product. "Triumph of the Wall," which is in English, is unrated and has a run-time of 102 minutes.
Tickets for all of the films are $6 for regular admission and $5 for senior citizens, Hope College faculty, and children. Updated information may be obtained by visiting hope.edu/arts/knick.
The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 E. Eighth St.


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Avoiding Armegeddon: The hunt is on for dangerous asteroids
NASA, others search for dangerous 'near-Earth objects'
More than 1,000 people were injured last February in Chelyabinsk, Russia, when a meteor exploded over the city. The collision shattered windows and pelted startled residents with shards of glass and debris. In the aftermath, the world was transfixed by extraordinary videos of the huge fireball as it streaked across the sky. Many wondered, why on earth did no one see it coming?
"The odds of asteroid impacts are much higher than people realize," said Ed Lu, a former astronaut and chief executive officer of the B612 Foundation, which searches for asteroids that could potentially hit the Earth and cause human devastation. He said that there is a 30 percent chance of a city-destroying asteroid hitting the Earth in the next 100 years.
The primary source of meteors like the one that exploded over Russia is the asteroid belt between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. The gravitational pull of giant Jupiter causes space debris to collide repeatedly, breaking into smaller and smaller fragments that became asteroids.
Jupiter interacts with these asteroids gravitationally, periodically throwing them out of their orbit and sending them further out into the reaches of the solar system. Or they can be tossed inward, toward the sun and Earth. These projectiles are the asteroids that pose a threat to Earth.
It's only recently that scientists even knew the scope of the threat posed by asteroids. "Fifty years ago, scientists, when they looked at the moon, they thought those craters were volcanic," said James Green, director of planetary science at NASA. Now, common knowledge holds that most of the craters on the moon were caused by asteroids. If they can hit the moon, they can hit the Earth, too.
But how will we know where the asteroids are in space? That's a question that has plagued scientists for a generation. Computer models were able to give estimates of how many asteroids were out there and with what frequency they were likely to hit the Earth. But simulations can't always tell us where actual asteroids are, nor when they will show up. Unlike stars or planets, asteroids are incredibly difficult to see—most look like dark lumps of rock or metal set against the shadowy backdrop of space.
In 1998, NASA began searching for potentially dangerous "near-Earth objects" such as asteroids and comets. The agency identified more than 90 percent of objects that are larger than one kilometer, and at least 90 percent of debris that spans more than 140 meters. Luckily, the trajectories of those asteroids aren't due to menace Earth for another 200 years.
The hunt is now on for smaller asteroids that can still cause immense amounts of damage. So far, scientists have found only a fraction of the city-destroying asteroids that are larger than 40 meters. There are estimated to be about 1 million of them in our area of the solar system.
One of those caused the Tunguska event in 1908. An asteroid approximately 37 meters in diameter exploded over the Siberian Wilderness, leveling more than 1,000 square miles of forest, an area larger than Washington, D.C., or New York. The recent Chelyabinsk meteor, by comparison, was only 17 meters in diameter and still caused considerable damage.
The likelihood of one of these city-killing asteroids actually hitting a city is low (most of the Earth is covered by oceans, not major metropolitan areas) but the effects could be devastating regardless. If an asteroid of that size did hit the ocean, it would certainly have the potential to cause a tsunami, but scientists are still trying to create accurate models for such an event.
To try to prevent such an incident, the nonprofit B612 Foundation is currently raising $450 million to send the Sentinel Space Telescope to orbit. Designed to search for asteroids, the telescope will be positioned in a way that mirrors Venus' orbit. The launch is planned for 2017-18.
The Sentinel is an infrared telescope that will search for heat signatures of asteroids, instead of relying on the faint reflections of sunlight cast off an asteroid's surface. Once in place, the telescope should be capable of locating nearly all of the million or so asteroids within range of Earth. By mapping their trajectories, scientists will be able to figure out which asteroids are capable of doing damage to the Earth.
"We're going to have far and away the most capable telescope in the world, and that's because it has been optimized for finding asteroids," Lu said.
Lu compares the need for these asteroid-detecting programs to the need for hurricane preparedness in cities like New Orleans.
City leaders and the Army Corps of Engineers once claimed that it was unnecessary to fix levees for 100-year floods. Then Hurricane Katrina struck.
In the same way, we need to prepare now for an asteroid event. "A hurricane is really child's play compared to an asteroid impact," Lu said. "You can't just hope for the best every year."
In August, NASA announced plans to reactivate the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and take up the hunt for asteroids. While not as specialized as the proposed Sentinel, the WISE telescope has already had asteroid-hunting success as part of a project called NEOWISE. The telescope was originally built to create a map of the night sky but has since been tasked with finding near-Earth objects. The NEOWISE mission ended in 2011. In the next mission, NASA hopes the telescope will locate 150 more near-Earth objects.
NASA also announced the Asteroid Grand Challenge. The agency hopes this program will be an interdisciplinary venture that brings together private businesses, amateur astronomers, space agencies and universities around the world to tackle the threat of asteroids.
"This is one of the only natural disasters that we have the ability to solve. We have the ability to prove that we are smarter than the dinosaurs," said Jason Kessler of NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist.
Kessler hopes to inspire people around the world by merging two topics that are almost universally beloved in science classrooms: dinosaurs and space.
"This is a marrying of the two. We can prove that we are smarter than the dinosaurs, and take our fate into our own hands," Kessler said. "They (the dinosaurs) didn't have the technology to defend themselves from planetary threats of this nature." j
NASA's ASTEROID RETRIEVAL MISSION
The NASA plan to lasso an asteroid might seem to be a punchline to a space cowboy joke, but the people at work on the program are serious about it.
"The president has set an objective that Mars is our ultimate destination, and asteroids are along that path," said James Green, NASA's director of planetary science.
Instead of hunting one down in the asteroid belt, the plan would be to find an asteroid in near-Earth orbit, target it and bring it between the Earth and the moon. It would be located and harnessed initially by an unmanned spacecraft. Once securely in place between the Earth and the moon, astronauts would be sent up to visit the asteroid, taking samples and bringing them back to Earth. The exercise might seem frivolous, but the astronauts would be practicing with technologies and developing skills essential to any future Mars missions, when explorers would have to rely on resources gathered from asteroids or the surface of Mars.
Budget decisions made by Congress this summer have stymied work on NASA's Asteroid Retrieval Mission.
The House Appropriations committee, concerned about the feasibility and cost of such a mission, called the proposed mission "premature" and refused to include any budget increases associated with the mission. They recommended that NASA "complete further concept studies, pursue the support of Congress through the authorization process and line up support from potential international partners before seeking new resources to carry out the mission."
This article is excerpted from USA TODAY's special publication NASA's Future in Space, available on newsstands or at nasa.usatoday.com.


text: Expedition 38 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, seated, and backup crew member Russian cosmonaut Max Suraev, are seen through glass as Tyurin and fellow crew mates, Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and, Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA, have their Russian Sokol suits pressure checked a few hours ahead of their launch, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Tyurin, Wakata, and, Mastracchio will launch in their Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft to the International Space Station to begin a six-month mission. Photo Credit (NASA/Bill Ingalls)


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Partnership & Accountability blog series
Partnership & Accountability blog series
Accountability to the women´s and to social justice movements is crucial for building collaborative and equitable partnerships. Accountability requires the development of a receptive capacity in men and others who have been placed in positions of power and privilege, so that they can listen to the perspectives and needs of oppressed groups in order to become authentic allies. Accountability and partnership building also require us to engage in respectful dialogues, and a willingness to constantly address issues and concerns raised by our partners.
We hope that this blog series contributes to these ongoing conversations and serves as another platform to share useful information.
Blog posts are written by member and partners of MenEngage, for whom we provide a platform for dialogue. The opinions expressed in the posts do not necessarily represent those of the MenEngage Alliance.
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Thursday, February 4, 2016
'She will say yes eventually, that's what happens in films'
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erinyoung7 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 657 diseños de 93 diseñadores freelance.
141 Industries
141 Industries is a start-up clothing line with a strong social mission (helping children). We are looking for both a way to write our name so that we can put it on the tags of our clothes and website and also for a logo that we will put on the clothes, website, etc.
We are open to all creative ideas and will be very involved throughout the process as your work will be instrumental in shaping our company and products. Have fun with it, we look forward to see what you can come up with.
Our product offering is clothes and for every one piece of clothing bought, we donate a similar article of clothing to an underserved child, most likely serving as a uniform shirt so that the child can go to school and get an education. This model is essentially a One for One model, thus the numbers 141.
Our website has not been developed yet, and the opportunity to do that will also be available to designers that we like.
Target Audience
We will have two routes to market; working with companies (sport teams, charities, and corporations) to supply them with their promotional/marketing clothing needs and directly selling to consumers.
We are looking for two things, a way to write our name, 141 Industries, and a logo.
For 141 Industries, we are looking for clear and creative ways to write the name. The purpose of the name of this form would be:
-to have it on the tag of our shirts (tag in the back of the collar where it says small, medium, large)
-to have it on our website and other marketing materials
In terms of logo, we are looking for something very simple, yet recognizable and memorable. We would like something that is classic, yet cool and trendy. Because our product is clothing we need something that is versatile and can be embroidered on a shirt or printed on a tag. The purpose of the logo would be:
-to have it on a polo shirt, either as a bigger logo on the front like a Lacoste, NIKE, etc shirt or a smaller version of the logo on a sleeve
-to have it on our website and other marketing materials
-if it works, we would add it to the tag on our shirt in a very small format, but this is not necessary
As mentioned, we would like to be able to use the name & symbol together, but also individually (i.e. only the name for marketing, or just the symbol as the logo on our shirts). However, they do not need to fit on top of each other, and we are very much open to have them just side by side as two separate pieces, combined when needed.
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The 141 stands for One for One, so feel free to spread each number out, have dashes or part of the name interwined, etc. We are not interested in 141 being spelled.
Symbol ideas:
Use your creativity. The key is that it is related to our One for One and/or helping children business model. We are open to all ideas and can work with logos in the format of the NIKE Swoosh or the Lacoste Alligator. We would like the logo to have some sort of meaning, but it can be as simple as an owl symbolizing wisdom, a fox symbolizing cleverness or some sort of infinity symbol symbolizing connections/eternity, etc.
We are looking for something simple for our logo, so we are not looking for more than a few colors in the logo. We need the logo to be visible when embroidered or printed on something small as well something large. Again, the logo would be printed on the shirt itself as well as the shirt tag.
For the name 141 Industries, no limit on colors. Be creative.
We will need it in the following files:
All standard files, such as
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
If possible, formats that work with embroidery machines, such as Tajima's ".dst", Melco's ".exp"/".cnd" and Barudan's ".fdr"
Thanks very much. We appreciate you being a part of shaping our company and look forward to all your creative ideas.
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