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Church of England to start again on female bishops
Associated Press
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 11:06 AM
LONDON (AP) ? The Church of England has taken a tentative step toward trying again to get its governing General Synod to approve female bishops.
The church said Wednesday the Archbishops' Council agreed this week that the issue needed to be resolved "as a matter of urgency" and should be restarted when the General Synod next meets in July.
A brief statement from the 19-member council did not indicate when another vote could be taken. The council recommended that all the bishops, at their meeting next month, "put in place a clear process for discussions in the new year with a view to bringing legislative proposals before the Synod in July."
Church legislation authorizing female bishops failed last week when laity in the General Synod failed to muster the necessary two-thirds majority, falling just six votes short.
Prime Minister David Cameron has expressed his disappointment and last week urged the church to "get on with it."
He said it was a matter for the church to resolve, but some lawmakers have suggested forcing the issue by abolishing the church's exemption from the law against gender discrimination.
Much of the debate in the General Synod was about provisions for church members who believe only men can be priests and bishops, and do not want to be supervised by a female bishop. A compromise proposal to "respect" the views of opponents was opposed by some people on both sides of the debate.
The Times newspaper has reported that William Fittall, the secretary general of the Synod, has proposed that the next vote be on a simpler measure, which simply says yes or no to allowing women to be consecrated as bishops without any provision for opponents.
The Church of England has refused to confirm or deny that report.
Source: http://www.wwltv.com/news/world/181192451.html
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#GivingTuesday Shines a Light on Philanthropy, Service and American Generosity and Creates Opening Day for the Giving Season
2,500+ Partners Harness Social Media to Get People Talking about Causes, Needs and Innovative Ways to Give Back. Blackbaud reports 53% increase in online donations on inaugural #GivingTuesday compared to same day last year.
New York, NY (PRWEB) November 28, 2012
An unprecedented partnership of more than 2,500 charities, volunteer organizations, corporations, community centers and foundations made history yesterday with the inaugural #GivingTuesday, marked by activities and campaigns in all 50 U.S. states. The #GivingTuesday movement created a new day on the calendar to mark the opening of the Giving Season, with volunteer projects, online fundraisers, and collections for the needy with many focusing on Superstorm Sandy victims. The movement's goals of inviting more people to think about giving and encouraging generosity of time and resources were embraced by grassroots organizers, corporate and retail leaders and an emerging cadre of entrepreneurial philanthropists. The #GivingTuesday message was also echoed in statements from Mayors of Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit and New York, philanthropy leaders including Bill Gates, and the White House. Early indicators point to the promise and potential of the movement. Blackbaud (http://www.blackbaud.com), a global provider of software and services to nonprofits and a founding partner of #GivingTuesday, processed $10 million in online donations on inaugural #GivingTuesday ? a 53% increase when compared to the Tuesday after Thanksgiving the previous year.Organizers hope this outpouring of giving and awareness will catalyze a sustained period of robust and creative giving during the holiday season.
An "Opening Day" for Giving
Coming on the heels of the country's biggest shopping days, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday was designed to help change the national dialogue about giving and mobilize an "opening day" for charitable giving and volunteer support for causes large and small. Born from conversations at New York City's 92nd Street Y, and supported by a Team of Influencers including some of the nation's leading foundation executives, philanthropy experts, public relations professionals and social media leaders, #GivingTuesday asked people to support their favorite charities and do something special to give back on November 27. Next year, #GivingTuesday will fall on December 3, 2013.
Social Media Helps Power a Movement about Generosity
The #GivingTuesday conversation reached millions of people on November 27 through a coordinated social media effort that included a Social Media Ambassadors program; special blog series; innovative platforms designed to help participants share information, tools and best practices; and a sustained Twitter and Facebook conversation. The social media conversation included thousands of posts and photos showcasing the variety of ways that people donated or gave back on November 27 and the plans they have to support causes throughout the holiday season.
The robust conversation resulted in #GivingTuesday becoming a trending topic on Twitter in the United States for much of the day on November 27 and intermittently trending as a global topic, as well. In addition, media outlets reaching all 50 U.S. states covered both local and national initiatives, fueling discussions about how organizations can make giving more accessible and relevant for future generations and emerging leaders.
Increased Support Points to a Promising Start to the "Giving Season"
In addition to the nationwide surge in conversations about giving, #GivingTuesday partners reported strong response to calls for increased support, volunteer efforts and matching grants. Many organizations have already started reporting the impact of their efforts on #GivingTuesday to their supporters and donors, encouraging them to maintain this momentum throughout the holiday season. From supplies to volunteer hours to pints of blood donated, or even miles walked or jogged for charity, the #GivingTuesday community asked people to help "Get out the Give" in thousands of ways that will have lasting impact.
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About #GivingTuesday
#GivingTuesday is a movement to celebrate giving, invite more people to think about meaningful ways to give their time and talents, and provide incentives to give. This first-of-its-kind effort, starting with the November 27, 2012 kick-off day for the giving season, harnesses the collective power of a unique blend of partners?charities, families, businesses and individuals?to transform how people think about, talk about and participate in the giving season.
#GivingTuesday calls on inspiring, entrepreneurial people to take collaborative action to improve their local communities, to give back in better, smarter ways to the charities and causes they celebrate and to help create a better world. #GivingTuesday is harnessing the power of social media to create a national moment around the holidays that is dedicated to giving, similar to the way Black Friday and Cyber Monday have become days synonymous with holiday shopping.
A team of recognized experts and influencers, initially convened by leaders of 92nd Street Y and supported by a core group of founding partners, are spearheading this effort. Founding partners include the United Nations Foundation, Case Foundation, DonorsChoose.org, Mashable, Blackbaud, charity: water, GlobalGiving, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Kiva, Darden Restaurant Group, Groupon, Unilever and VentureThree Capital. Leaders in philanthropy, social media, innovative giving, grassroots organizing, marketing and communications are providing counsel and resources to help build this movement.
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Fire suppression systems urged in all cargo planes
FILE - This Sept. 3, 2010 file photo shows smoke rising from the site of a cargo plane crash in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The government should require fire suppression systems in all cargo containers or compartments of planes to prevent the kind of ferocious in-flight blazes that have killed four cargo pilots over the past six years, federal accident investigators said Wednesday. Lithium batteries are suspected to have caused or contributed to the severity of the fire in the crashes of a UPS jumbo freight airplane in Dubai in 2010. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
FILE - This Sept. 3, 2010 file photo shows smoke rising from the site of a cargo plane crash in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The government should require fire suppression systems in all cargo containers or compartments of planes to prevent the kind of ferocious in-flight blazes that have killed four cargo pilots over the past six years, federal accident investigators said Wednesday. Lithium batteries are suspected to have caused or contributed to the severity of the fire in the crashes of a UPS jumbo freight airplane in Dubai in 2010. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The government should require fire suppression systems in all cargo containers or compartments of planes to prevent the kind of ferocious in-flight blazes that have killed four cargo pilots over the past six years, federal accident investigators said Wednesday.
The National Transportation Safety Board didn't specify what kind of technology the Federal Aviation Administration should require airlines to install. But the board's letter to the FAA came a day after United Parcel Service said it has developed systems that can prevent or contain even fires in shipments of lithium batteries, which burn at very high temperatures.
Lithium batteries are suspected to have caused or contributed to the severity of the fire in the crashes of a UPS jumbo freight airplane in Dubai in 2010 and an Asiana Cargo plane off the coast of South Korea in 2011. In 2006, two UPS pilots were able to escape a plane shortly after landing in Philadelphia before it was consumed by flames. That plane also contained lithium batteries.
Current fire protection regulations for cargo planes are inadequate, according to the board's letter.
"These fires quickly grew out of control, leaving the crew with little time to get the aircraft on the ground," NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman said in a statement. "Detection, suppression and containment systems can give crews more time and more options; the current approach is not safe enough."
FAA rules say airplane fire warning systems must be able to detect fire in a cargo container within a minute of its ignition. But the NTSB said its tests of two types of cargo containers showed a time lapse between ignition and detection ranging from 2 1/2 minutes to more than 18 minutes.
In the tests, the fires "grew very large, capable of causing significant damage to an aircraft" before they were detected, the letter said.
Current FAA regulations require halon gas fire suppression systems in below-deck cargo holds, but not in the main cargo compartment above deck. The main strategy for fighting fires above deck is to deprive them of oxygen by taking the plane to an altitude where depressurization is achieved.
In the case of the UPS plane that crashed in Dubai, however, there was a lapse of 2 1/2 minutes between detection of the fire and depressurization, which was enough time for the fire to damage the plane and affect the pilots' ability to control the aircraft, the NTSB said.
Also, halon systems don't work on fires involving lithium metal batteries, which are found in watches, calculators and a wide range of consumer goods.
Unlike other kinds of batteries, lithium metal batteries can spontaneously ignite if exposed to air. Also, the positive and negative poles in some lithium batteries are close together, leading more easily to short circuiting, which can cause a fire.
Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which power devices such as laptop computers, cellphones and MP3 players, are a fire concern, too. Fires involving lithium-ion batteries can reach 1,100 degrees, close to the melting point of aluminum, a key material in airplane construction. Lithium-metal battery fires are far hotter, capable of reaching 4,000 degrees.
The FAA said in a statement that it will review NTSB's recommendations. The statement noted that FAA has been researching alternatives to halon suppression systems for a number of years. A report two years ago by the agency concluded that the cost of installing fire suppression systems in main-deck cargo compartments was too expensive to justify requiring airlines to add them.
UPS said tests last month of a new type of cargo container it has developed showed the container can suppress and contain lithium-ion battery fires for as long as four hours , which is enough time in most instances for pilots to safely land the plane. The tests were conducted at the FAA's technology center in Atlantic City, N.J., with FAA and NTSB officials looking on.
The container is made from fiber-reinforced plastic akin to materials used in body armor and suits for race-car drivers. Temperatures during the test reached as high as 1,200 degrees, but a powdered flame suppressant released inside the container prevented most of its contents from being damaged, UPS said. The airline is also testing a new type of flame-suppressing cover for cargo pallets.
While the new technologies require further testing, "we believe they have the potential to revolutionize cargo safety," UPS spokesman Mike Mangeot said.
Separately, the FedEx Corp. has developed a fire-suppression system that, once a fire is detected in a cargo container, punches a hole into the top of the container and injects an argon-based foam capable of smothering a fire, as well as absorbing toxic fumes, officials for the airline said.
FedEx has installed the system on its Boeing 777s and MD11s, which fly long routes over water and to remote areas of the globe. "We will continue installation on our entire long-haul fleet," FedEx spokeswoman Maury Donahue said.
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Telehealth Network to be Built in New England
November 29, 2012
According to a recent survey from the New York-based PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute, 42 percent of voters want cuts in health IT. The survey, which was based on the thoughts of 1,202 consumer son their post-election thoughts on healthcare, found that 69 percent of respondents said President Barack Obama has to rein in healthcare costs.
November 29, 2012
A new report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has determined that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) faces obstacles in the Medicare EHR incentive program because it does not verify whether the self-reported information from providers is accurate and thus the integrity of the program is in question. The OIG charges CMS with not implementing ?strong prepayment safeguards,? in the 38-page report, released this week.
November 28, 2012
More than 400 healthcare facilities across Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont will participate in a new telehealth network. The effort is buoyed by Ethernet services from the Portland, Maine-based FairPoint Communications, a broadband internet network provider. It will aim to strengthen the New England Telehealth Consortium?s (NETC), which is a three-state group that has been awarded a $24.6 million Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Rural Health Care Pilot Program award to bring telemedicine to the region.
November 28, 2012
A group of researchers from Kansas State University are exploring the effect social media platforms could have on preventing infectious diseases from spreading. The researchers say that a tweet from an influential source could be just as effective as a flu shot.
November 28, 2012
According to a report from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), nearly half of doctors using an EHR are e-prescribing, a sharp increase from just four years ago. In June of this year, ONC said 48 percent of doctors using an EHR were e-prescribing. In December of 2008, this number was at only 7 percent.
November 27, 2012
Alere Home Monitoring, a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of patient home monitoring services, recently disclosed that a company-owned laptop containing protected health information including Social Security numbers and diagnosis codes, was recently stolen from a locked vehicle that belonged to one of the firm?s employees. The company says it has notified approximately 116,000 individuals of the incident.
November 27, 2012
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), a large academic medical center, recently announced a data breach that affected approximately 1,500 patients. UAMS says a former physician, who was fired in 2010, kept patient lists and notes after leaving the hospital in June of that year.
November 27, 2012
According to a recent report from the Mountain View, Calif.-based research company, Frost & Sullivan, the health information exchange market is set to grow significantly over the next 18-24 months thanks to various regulatory factors. The report, U.S. Health Information Exchange Market: A Comprehensive Guide to Market Dynamics, Technology Vendors, and Future Trends, looks at the specific opportunities in this space.
November 27, 2012
In addition to its recently announced patient engagement framework, the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) is releasing an affiliated online assessment tool that will help providers and payers evaluate where they stand in this area. NeHC, which worked with HealthCAWS on the platform, says its Consumer eHealth Readiness Tool (CeRT) can be used as a real-time progress evaluator for payers and providers looking to gauge their patient engagement activities. It also can give recommendations to providers on how they can improve.
November 26, 2012
Improving medication adherence remains one of the healthcare system?s greatest challenges. According to a recent study from the Oakland, Calif.-based integrated system, Kaiser Permanente, patients who receive automatic reminders are 1.6 times more likely to fill prescriptions for cholesterol-lowering statins than those who don?t get one.
November 26, 2012
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the first three participants in a new data sharing initiative aimed at getting more information to consumers to improve healthcare quality. The organizations in the Medicare Data Sharing for Performance Measurement program are Health Improvement Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati, Kansas City Quality Improvement Consortium (serving the Greater Kansas City area in Missouri and Kansas), and Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation.
November 26, 2012
Intermountain Healthcare, a Salt Lake City-based healthcare system with 22 hospitals, recently announced it signed a multi-year contract with Siemens Healthcare (Malvern, Pa.) for $11.7 million to improve upon the system?s enterprise-wide imaging system. The agreement will allow Intermountain to deploy a vendor neutral archive from Siemens, which will allow images of multiple modalities to be stored in a Dell data center and managed with Dell?s clinical data management software.
November 26, 2012
A recent report from the Orem, Utah-based KLAS Research, indicates that as the market for picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) grows, providers are looking for vendors that can rapidly improve in the middle of a changing industry. The report, Radiology PACS Technology: The World Looks Under the Covers, looks at various PACS-related feedback from customers and finds the top vendors are those who can offer ?meaningful and timely upgrades with expanded usability.?
November 21, 2012
Pediatricians are not as up to par in the usage of EHRs as some of their fellow doctors, a recent survey led by researchers at Seattle Children's Hospital and East Carolina University with accompanying data from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), revealed. According to the researchers, pediatricians are up to two years behind the overall rate of EHR adoption, while those that have systems are without basic functionality.
November 21, 2012
Deloitte and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) recently conducted a study and found that for providers, life sciences companies, and payers there is clear correlation between return on investment (ROI) from clinical IT systems and high organizational support from health informatics. The organizations where respondents didn?t buy into the idea that health IT leads to significant ROI didn?t have as strong organizational support, alignment, and executive sponsorship as those that did.
Source: http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/news-item/telehealth-network-be-built-new-england
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Sugar Plums! The Pope Did Not Cancel Christmas!
Did you hear? Did you hear? I'll tell you everything, my dears. The pope didn't cancel Christmas after all!?
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Roughly one week ago, you were probably thought the Pope was a big, mean, grinchity old Grinch. What, with his green, wrinkly face, and all that snarling he does. "I hate that annoying Cindy Lou Who," he said during his weekly speech once. And don't forget the news?stories that?disparaged?the Pope's name because, they explain, in the Pope's new book he says Jesus was never born in a manger, and instead it was probably a cave. Jesus was born in a cramped, cold, dark cave and not a small, adorable, romantic and cozy manger. In case you don't know, people love mangers. On top of all that, some writers just made up that he disapproved of caroling, too! People love caroling, too. So, it was bad for the Pope. People weren't happy with him. Not one person was one bit happy with Mr. Benedict. He was not getting any of Gladys' fudge, that's for sure.?
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But, as Reuters' Phillip Pullella explained today, none of that is true. The thing the people writing those stories failed to do was keep reading the Pope's book. Like, past the line where he said the thing about the cave.?"What some neglected was that just a few sentences down, the pope states that even today, 'No representation of the crib is complete without the ox and the ass,'" Pullella tells us. The Pope actually approves of your traditional mangers, complete with your donkeys, and your oxes, and your three kings, and your Mother Marys, and whatever else people put in manger scenes theses days.?"The tradition of the ass and ox came from reflecting on parts of the Old and New Testaments. Christian iconography then adopted the motif early in Church history to show that even animals knew Jesus was the son of God," Pellula says. Oh, well, sorry Mr. Benedict.?
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And the whole thing about him hating caroling wasn't true, either. The Pope loves caroling, obviously, because he is a human with a real human heart and emotions and feelings. ?It even says so, in his book, on the record. It says that he approves of caroling, because angels spoke in song.?Only a real Grinch would hate caroling. Gladys is making a special batch of fudge right away.
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Thursday, 29 November 2012
Nexus 4 get its first CM10.1 nightly build
If you're already got your Nexus 4 (or if you've recently had one ship) and are eagerly awaiting some CyanogenMod 10.1 love with Android 4.2, the first nightly build has been released. As a quick reminder, nightly builds are the bleeding edge, aren't the same as "stable" builds, and likely have a bug or three. But they're damn cool, too. Have at it at the link below.
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Outsourcing: 5 Business Activities Entrepreneurs Can Outsource to ...
November 29, 2012
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Have you identified your company?s weaknesses and strengths?
Once you?ve identified what you?re good at and areas that you lack specific skill sets, you are one step closer to deciding who you need to hire (in terms of talent) and what business activities you need to outsource.
The crux of the matter is knowing where your company is ?weak.? It is also one of the largest deciding factors between outsourcing success or failure. What types of business tasks you outsource is just as important as to whom you outsource.
For example, let?s say that you are a small business owner who runs a software development company with a client base that is slowly expanding. While you are an expert in your field of work, essential but tedious tasks including accounting and payroll, customer feedback, and creating an active presence on various social media platforms are not really your ?cup of tea?.
The question you?ve likely been considering is: ?Should we outsource some of our necessary yet tedious business activities.?
My answer is simple: Yes, you should.
Rather than waste your precious time getting bogged down in the daily business details let an expert manage them ? far more efficiently.
The Truth About Outsourcing Small Business Tasks
Often, outsourcing skeptics would prefer to wear all hats at once rather than entrust a stranger with their work.
But, take a look around.
Many business owners can share their outsourcing experiences ? good and bad. Keep in mind, not all outsourcing experiences are bad. More and more small businesses across various industries consider outsourcing to reduce costs, gain access to limited resources, free up internal resources, improve business or customer focus, accelerate projects, reduce time to market and much more.
The global outsourcing market size continues to grow. For example, in 2005 the revenue of the global outsourcing market was 76.3 billion U.S. dollars. Last year, the market size of outsourced services was approximated at 95 billion.
Find more statistics at Statista.
So, as a small business owner what types of business activities should you outsource? Here are 5 commonly outsourced job functions that small businesses outsource:
1. Video production and editing.
Not considering your family vacation videos, what true expertise do you have in creating professional videos, which can be used as marketing and sales assets for potential clients and customers? This is an example of a common business task that should be outsourced to an experienced professional who can really add value to your company website and marketing efforts.
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Messi, Ronaldo, Iniesta up for FIFA award
By TALES AZZONI
AP Sports Writer
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updated 9:22 a.m. ET Nov. 29, 2012
SAO PAULO (AP) - Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Andres Iniesta are the finalists for FIFA's world player of the year award.
They were picked from a list of 23 candidates for this year's Ballon d'Or, with Messi looking to become the first player to win the award four times. The Argentina and Barcelona playmaker won the award last three years.
The winner will be announced in Switzerland on Jan. 7.
The finalists for the women's world player award are five-time winner Marta and United States duo Alex Morgan and Abby Wambach.
Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque, former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola and Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho were in the running for the world coach of the year award.
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Skype for iPhone and iPad updated with Microsoft accounts, animated Retina emoticons
Microsoft's Skype communications apps for iPhone and iPad have been updated to version 4.2. New features include the ability to chat with Messenger, Hotmail, and Outlook.com, and merge them all together into one, happy, mega-Microsoft account. If you're a first timer, you can also create an account from within the app now. You can also tap and hold to edit messages now, choose emoticons while typing, and -- terrifically or horrifically, depending on your point of view -- use animated emoticons in full on Retina quality. (I'm firmly in the latter camp -- I'd pay good money for a Skype update that killed animated emoticons dead. For everyone. Because, my eyes. My eyes.) There's also the usual round of bug fixes.
If you haven't used Skype yet, it remains much like democracy -- terrible except when compared to everything else. It's cross-platform, more reliable than most, and enjoys full background access on iOS (though keep an eye on your battery while it's active). If you're already a Skype user, it's a no-brainer update. Go get it.
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Balloon test shows space tourism on horizon
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Not all space tourism is rocket science. A newly successful test of a balloon could allow paying human customers to enjoy stunning Earth views and the weightless astronaut experience by 2014.?
The test balloon carried a humanoid robot up to an altitude of almost 20 miles (32 kilometers) on Nov. 12 ? just a few miles shy of where skydiver Felix Baumgartner leaped from during his "space dive" in October. Startup Zero 2 Infinity wants to eventually offer hours of flight time for space tourists to do whatever they want in a near-space environment.?
"Some people will want to tweet," said Jose Mariano Lopez-Urdiales, founder and CEO of Zero 2 Infinity. "Some will want to put down a carpet and pray to mecca. Some people will want to eat their favorite buffalo wings while they're up there."
Video: Near-space balloon soars in flight test
The Spanish company already has customers on its wait list?who paid an early deposit of almost $13,000 (10,000 euros) as the first installment out of a total ticket price of $143,000 (110,000 euros). It has also attracted funding from the world's second-largest balloon manufacturer, Spain's third-largest bank, and several angel investors by proving its concept step-by-step and by relying on proven helium balloon technologies.?
Flight testing took place at an Air Force base near Virgen del Camino in Spain. But Lopez-Urdiales envisions future flights launching from many other locations in the country.?
The balloon experience?
A typical predawn flight would take several hours to reach maximum altitude, so that passengers could enjoy seeing the sun rise against the blackness of space and see the curvature of the planet Earth. Luckily, the balloon would not need to get anywhere near the 62-mile (100 km) altitude that marks the official edge of space for its riders to enjoy stellar views.?
"You would spend two hours at the floating altitude of 36 kilometers (22 miles)," Lopez-Urdiales told TechNewsDaily. "We could do it higher, but it would not make any difference, because you already see the same visual cues at 39 kilometers or even 100 kilometers."?
Getting back down would mean cutting the cord between the balloon and the enclosed passenger capsule. Passengers could experience about 40 to 60 seconds of weightlessness during free fall, before parachutes and a parafoil carried them safely down to Earth.?
The recent test flight gave Zero 2 Infinity its first successful test of a balloon capsule large enough to carry humans, but only if the two people spent the entire trip lying down. An earlier flight test scheduled in May was canceled after?wind gusts damaged the test balloon.?
Robot test pilots?
Future versions of the balloons, called "bloons" by the company, would have donut- or bagel-shaped capsules with plenty of standing room for two pilots and four passengers. But the test capsule proved just right for the humanoid robot named Nao ? made by Aldebaran Robotics ? that stands at knee-height compared to adult humans.?
The robot rode as a passive passenger, but could someday become an active pilot that tests the controls and life-support technologies meant for humans.?
"Little by little, we're teaching it how to pilot, but that's at a very early stage," Lopez-Urdiales explained. "The idea in the future is to have?humanoid robots?testing future complex aerospace vehicles."?
The company has almost finished building a bigger test balloon that could comfortably carry two people standing up. That larger balloon could make an attempt at breaking the manned high-altitude balloon record set in the 1960s ? a record that requires the pilot to take off and land in the balloon. (Space diver Baumgartner intentionally disqualified himself by leaping out of his high-flying balloon.)?
The inner journey?
But Zero 2 Infinity doesn't just want to make money. Lopez-Urdiales envisions his balloons carrying scientific experiments or scientists high into Earth's atmosphere. His inspiration for creating the startup company came from his dad, an astrophysicist who worked on an experiment that went with the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn's moon Titan.?
"I was growing up around balloons, rockets and telescopes," Lopez-Urdiales said. "My dad tested a Huygens scientific instrument on a high-altitude balloon."?
The balloon space tourism's relatively more affordable price tag could also open the eyes of many more people through the "overview effect," Lopez-Urdiales said. Frank White, a communications director at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, coined the term to describe how astronauts gained a better appreciation of global and environmental issues after seeing the Earth surrounded by the darkness of space.?
"That's probably the biggest benefit?private spaceflight?will offer to civilians and members of the public," Lopez-Urdiales said. "The overview effect is personal experience, but then you share it. I think it goes a much longer way than bragging rights."?
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Gargantuan black hole baffles scientists
Astronomers on the hunt for supermassive black holes have discovered one so monstrous that its mass dominates the central hub of its galaxy in a way that defies scientists' expectations about how typical black holes behave.
Described in Thursday's edition of the journal Nature, the black hole may push theorists to revamp their ideas of how these mysterious structures grow and evolve.
Astrophysicists said they were scratching their heads at how thoroughly this gargantuan black hole ? seated in the galaxy NGC 1277, about 220 million light-years away ? hogs its galactic bed.
Supermassive black holes typically account for just 0.1% of the mass in a galaxy's stellar bulge, the cluster of older stars huddled around the center. This particular black hole, by contrast, takes up 59% of that central mass, shattering the previous record of 11%.
"This is an oddball," said Chung-Pei Ma, an astrophysicist at UC Berkeley who was not involved in the research. "It's a very big black hole for a small galaxy ? that's the most surprising part. It's a very interesting discovery."
An international team of scientists documented the giant black hole while peering at the centers of about 800 of the biggest galaxies in the local universe, using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at the University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory. The assumption was that the biggest galaxies would hold the biggest black holes, which is what the researchers were really looking for.
The team measured the speed of the stars close to the galactic heart as they orbited around the black hole ? the faster they traveled, the more massive the black hole. Their calculations revealed that the black hole at the center of NGC 1277 held the mass of 17 billion suns. (The Milky Way's black hole, by comparison, is a mere 4 million solar masses.) And yet this black hole, one of the largest known, dominates a galaxy that is only one-tenth the size and mass of the Milky Way.
At first, the researchers thought they had a mistake.
"We were looking at it and we said, 'That's got to be wrong,'" said study coauthor Karl Gebhardt, an astrophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin. "So we kind of analyzed it to death."
The size of a galaxy and the size of its central black hole are thought to be linked, but scientists aren't exactly sure how. Assessing the mass of a black hole is a time-consuming process, and as a result, fewer than 100 of them have been examined properly. (Gebhardt's team had logged hundreds of hours of telescope time peering at galaxies for its survey; a typical experiment will get only a few dozen hours at the controls.)
Part of the reason for believing that black holes typically weigh in around the 0.1% mark is that there's a limit to the amount of matter a black hole can take in at one time, like a crowd trying to push through a doorway. When there's too much material, the black hole ejects some of it in jets, effectively limiting its growth rate, Gebhardt said.
If that's true, something strange has been happening in this galaxy to allow the black hole to keep feeding ? and the researchers aren't sure what it could be.
It's possible, Gebhardt said, that given the team's large sample of black holes, "of course we're going to find the weirdest weirdos out there."
But if they find more, he said, it could mean there's a whole new class of galaxies that requires fresh explanation. There are already signs that NGC 1277 may have siblings ? the researchers have identified other galaxies with similar properties, and they're currently analyzing the mass of their black holes.
Even if it's a new class of galaxies, it's a pretty small one.
"In the observable universe, there's about 100 billion" galaxies, Gebhardt said. "So this isn't even the tip of the iceberg. This is a snowflake on top of the tip of the iceberg."
amina.khan@latimes.com
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Wednesday, 28 November 2012
High School Football Playoffs This Weekend
Here is a list of the Central Georgia teams that are still alive in the playoffs and taking the field this weekend.
GHSA Class AAAAA: Quarterfinals
Tucker at Northside
GHSA Class AAAA:? Quarterfinals
Mary Persons at Ridgeland
GHSA Class AAA:? Quarterfinals
Peach County at North Hall
Washington County at St. Pius
GHSA Class AA:? Quarterfinals
Lamar County at Lovett
GHSA Class A, Private:? Second Round
FPD at Landmark Christian
GHSA Class A, Public:? Second Round
Wilkinson County at Lincoln County
Dooly County at Seminole County
Marion County at Wilcox County
GISA Class A:? Championship
Robert Toombs at Frederica
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Developing Fine Motor Skills - MyLearningSpringboard.com
Written by, Yael Khan Pinto, Early Childhood and Special Education
Writing is an important skill, and one?that can be?encouraged?from an early age. As a teacher of young children,?there are several ways?that?I work to foster a love of writing in my classroom. Here are a?few?suggestions for setting up a fun, inviting and engaging ?office? area for your young child?at home.
- Have materials such as single hole punches, scissors, staplers and tape available. In addition to being lots of fun, these items help children develop dexterity while strengthening their hand muscles.
- Short markers (such as crayola pip-squeaks) short colored pencils and triangular crayons help foster proper tripod grip.
- Alphabet and number cards are a great reference for children who are ready to begin writing letters and numbers independently.
- Offer children a variety of types and sizes and paper allows them to practice drawing and writing in different scales.
Having these materials available for your children will help?to set?the stage for a lifetime of writing! If you are looking for extra support at home, contact us, to set up a meeting with one of our elementary educators who can help you and your family support early learners in your family.
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What Will NASA Do With Its Gifted Spy 'Scopes?
Because there is a requirement to maintain a certain amount of capability (so if a spy satellite fails, they need to have a spare to launch to replace it in short order), and the long lead times (say 5 to 10 years) to build these satellites, the DoD orders a number of satellites, and some of them may possibly never actually end up being flight vehicles.
These two satellite 'cores' are just such spares. They weren't launched because a new generation of spy satellites were put into operation before these were needed. There are probably no other examples of these things still in orbit, though the model was probably used for a decade or more.
Remember, NASA wasn't given two completed satellites, they were given two mirror assembly's and the associated bus and structure. It is up to NASA to design and build a useful science satellite with them.
As to the DoD having something better, they probably do, but it isn't the mirror that is better, it's that the bus and structure will be of a different design. Optically, the limitation on a downward looking spy satellite will be the atmosphere, not the mirror or other associated optical components.
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Microsoft launches new Outlook.com email app with old design
Microsoft has just released a new version of its email app to coincide with its overall email rebranding to Outlook.com from Hotmail.com today. While the app brings a lot of features that Outlook users will like -- ActiveSync, Contacts and Calendar sync, multiple account support -- it is wrapped up in a very bland and outdated design that reminds us all of Android 2.3. We had high hopes that Microsoft would bring something more striking. Maybe wrapped up in a "holo" UI, or at very least something of the metro "modern UI" style that has won many people over on Windows Phone.
Nevertheless, if you're an Outlook user, you'll probably be getting one of the better experiences out there using this official app right from Microsoft. You can take a look via the Google Play Store link above.
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When It Pays To Refinance Your Mortgage ? Literally | DALLAS ...
To refinance a mortgage means to pay off your existing loan and replace it with a new one.
There are many reasons why homeowners opt to refinance, from obtaining a lower interest rate, to shortening the term of the loan, to switching mortgage loan types, to tapping into home equity.
Each has its considerations.
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Among the best reasons to refinance is to get access to lower mortgage rates. There is no ?rule of thumb? that says how far rates should drop for a refinance to be sensible. Compare your closing costs to your monthly savings, and determine whether the math makes sense for your situation.
Shorten Your Loan Term?
Refinancing your 30-year fixed rate mortgage to a 20-year fixed rate or a 15-year fixed rate is a sensible way to reduce your long-term mortgage costs, and to own your home sooner. As a bonus, with mortgage rates currently near all-time lows, an increase to your monthly payment from a shorter loan term may be negligible.
Convert ARM To Fixed Rate Mortgage
Homeowners with adjustable-rate mortgages may want the comfort of a fixed-rate payment. Mortgage rates for fixed-rate mortgages are often higher than for comparable ARMs so be prepared to pay more to your lender each month.
Access Equity For Projects, Debts, Or Other Reasons
Called a ?cash out? refinance, Frisco homeowners can sometimes use home equity to retire debts, pay for renovations, or use for other purposes including education costs and retirement. Lenders place restrictions on loans of this type.
A refinanced home loan can help you reach specific financial goals or just put extra cash in your pocket each month ? just make sure that there?s a clear benefit to you. Paying large closing costs for small monthly savings or negligible long-term benefit should be avoided.
Many lenders offer low- or no-closing costs options for refinancing. Be sure to ask about it.
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Collinsville To Allow Video Gaming Machines | FOX2now.com ? St ...
COLLINSVILLE, IL (KTVI) ? The Collinsville City Council voted to allow video gaming machines in the area?s bars and taverns, despite one councilwoman?s opposition.
?I?m not going to go into all the reasons why I don?t support this,? Nancy Moss said.
Before the 3-1 vote was even taken, she told the council she expected to give the ?only ?no? vote?.
?I?ve said at all the meetings we?ve had I believe it is not in the best interest of our citizens,? she explained. ?It carries so many ? I believe ? impacts on our community.?
But, the council would not be able to vote on the measure if citizens had not allowed the vote in the November general election.? Moss said the ballot language was confusing.? The language reads:? ?Should video gaming be prohibited in the City of Collinsville??
?At this point, it?s moot as to whether people meant to vote for it,? Moss admitted.? But, she cited one voter?s email.? ?It was very ?unusual? ? is what he called it ? to ask a question in the negative and require a positive response in the vote.
With a 56% ?no? vote, video gaming was allowed in Collinsville.? By contrast, the language for Glen Carbon voters read:? ?Should video gaming be permitted in the Village of Glen Carbon??? With a 57% ?no? vote, the video gaming proposal died at the ballot box.
Councilmen went on to amend the Offenses Against Public Decency ordinance.? The amendment would allow video gambling in Collinsville as long as the machines only operated in businesses that had liquor licenses and served no food.? The council also approved licensing fees for the games.
$250 / year for license stickers on each machine in each business.
$500 / year licensing fee to be paid by the business to operate all the machines.
$1,000 / year licensing fee to be paid by the company that installs and operates the machines.
$2,000 / year licensing fee for manufacturers, suppliers or distributors of the machines, if those companies are located in the City of Collinsville.
25% of game revenue will go to the state.
5% goes to the city.
35% goes to the bar owner
35% goes to the machine owner.
Source: http://fox2now.com/2012/11/27/collinsville-to-allow-video-gaming-machines/
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Lions' Suh gets traffic ticket in Detroit suburb
DETROIT (AP) ? Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh was issued a traffic citation by a police officer who said Suh was driving fast and passing cars from the right lane of a suburban Detroit roadway.
The Lathrup Village officer gave Suh the ticket on Nov. 15 for driving without due care and caution, but Police Chief William Armstrong told The Associated Press on Tuesday he was not sure the citation would hold up.
The chief was awaiting a call back from the city attorney to discuss the case, which he said was "in limbo."
"From my bird's eye view, taking a quick glance at it, I'd say the charge doesn't fit," Armstrong said after watching video footage of Suh's driving that day. "Just looking at the tape, Mr. Suh was traveling faster than the cars around him, but I don't think it was to the extent of driving without due care and caution."
Messages seeking comment were left for representatives of Suh and the Lions. Word of the traffic stop was reported Monday by Detroit-area TV station WJBK.
Armstrong's comments came a day after the NFL announced it wouldn't suspend Suh for a low blow he delivered to Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub on Thanksgiving. Suh was on his chest after being taken down by an offensive lineman and extended his left foot to hit Schaub below the belt.
Suh, 25, was suspended for two games a year ago after he was ejected for stomping on the right arm of Green Bay offensive lineman Evan Dietrich-Smith, also during a game on Thanksgiving. He has been fined in previous seasons for roughing up quarterbacks.
Suh, whom the Lions selected with the second overall pick out of Nebraska in 2010, has been involved in several traffic incidents over the past year.
He was ticketed for speeding, improperly signaling and not carrying proof of insurance during a March stop in his hometown of Portland, Ore. Police said he was driving a BMW 91 mph in a 55 mph zone.
In December 2011, Suh lost control of a car and crashed into a drinking fountain and tree in Portland. A woman has filed a civil lawsuit seeking $1 million from Suh in the crash.
He also was involved in a traffic accident last month in Dearborn. Police in the Detroit suburb said the accident was minor and fault could not be determined. When Suh played at Nebraska he pleaded guilty to negligent driving and paid a $60 fine after crashing into three parked cars.
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Associated Press writer David Runk and AP Sports Writer Larry Lage contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lions-suh-gets-traffic-ticket-detroit-suburb-165950546--nfl.html
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alcohol sergeant: makaskarler: World Racquetball News: no 1
Donna Ryder from Newport, Co. Mayo, is a Sports Scholarship student at IT Sligo and is currently ranked the no 1 racquetball player in Europe. She was conferred with a Bachelor of Business in Recreation and Leisure at the 2012 IT Sligo Conferring.
Mayo graduates were among more than 1,800 graduates conferred at IT Sligo at its annual Conferring Ceremonies last week. President of IT Sligo, Professor Terri Scott, said encouraged the graduates to be entrepreneurial in their outlook.
She quoted the President of the USA Barak Obama who said that ?focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it?s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realise your true potential.?
Mayo graduates were among more than 1,800 graduates conferred at IT Sligo at its annual Conferring Ceremonies last week. President of IT Sligo, Professor Terri Scott, said encouraged the graduates to be entrepreneurial in their outlook.
She quoted the President of the USA Barak Obama who said that ?focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it?s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realise your true potential.?
Source: http://mauro-racquetball.blogspot.com/2012/11/no-1-racquetball-player-in-europe.html
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Lake life survives in total isolation for 3000 years
It is seven times as salty as the sea, pitch dark and 13 degrees below freezing. Lake Vida in East Antarctica has been buried for 2800 years under 20 metres of ice, but teems with life.
The discovery of strange, abundant bacteria in a completely sealed, icebound lake strengthens the possibility that extraterrestrial life might exist on planets such as Mars and moons such as Jupiter's Europa.
"Lake Vida is a model of what happens when you try to freeze a lake solid, and this is the same fate that any lakes on Mars would have gone through as the planet turned colder from a watery past," says Peter Doran of the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is co-leader of a team working in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica where Vida is situated. "Any Martian water bodies that did form would have gone through this Vida stage before freezing solid, entombing the evidence of the past ecosystem."
The Vida bacteria, brought to the surface in cores drilled 27 metres down, belong to previously unknown species. They probably survive by metabolising the abundant quantities of hydrogen and oxides of nitrogen that Vida's salty, oxygen-free water has been found to contain.
Co-research leader Alison Murray of the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada, is now investigating this further by growing some of the extracted cells in the lab. "We can use these cultivated organisms to better understand the physical or chemical extremes they can tolerate that might be relevant to other icy worlds such as Europa," she says.
Surprise composition
Murray and her colleagues were surprised to find so much hydrogen, nitrous oxide and carbon in the water. They speculate that these substances might originate from reactions between salt and nitrogen-containing minerals in the surrounding rock. Over the centuries, bacteria denied sunlight may have evolved to be completely reliant on these substances for energy. "I think the unusual conditions found in the lake have likely played a significant role in shaping the diversity and capabilities of life we found," she says.
But the existence of life in Lake Vida does not necessarily increase the likelihood that life exists in much older, deeper lakes under investigation in Antarctica, most notably Vostok and Ellsworth, which are 3 kilometres down and have been isolated for millions rather than thousands of years.
"It doesn't give us clues about whether there's life in Vostok or Ellsworth, but it says that under these super-salty conditions, life does OK," says Martin Siegert of the University of Bristol, UK, and leader of an expedition to Ellsworth which set off on 25 November. "We'll be drilling down 3 kilometres into the lake," he says.
Journal reference: PNAS, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208607190
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