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5 bedroom house to rent Windmill Road, Ealing
An exceptional and unique five bedroom Edwardian family home located within walking distance to Little Ealing and Mount Carmel primary schools as well as Northfields tube station (Piccadilly line) Presented in good decorative order through out the property boasts two large reception rooms, a larg... More details ›
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2 bedroom flat to rent Inspire Court, Wellmeadow Road, Hanwell, W7
Inspire Court is an architecturally designed small block of apartments conveniently situated moments from Boston Manor (Piccadilly Line) station with its frequent services to the West End and Heathrow, local bus services, local shops and Boston Manor and Elthorne Park. More details ›
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3 bedroom flat to rent Deans Road, LONDON
A lovely family home located in a quiet residential road just minutes from Boston Manor Tube Station (Piccadilly Line). The property comprises of three good size bedrooms, a modern kitchen, large lounge/dining area and a private garden. More details ›
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Beautifully refurbished 2 double bedroom ground floor flat in an attractive development, close to Boston Manor tube, Brentford station, the A4 and Ealing. Wood floors, new kitchen & bathroom, off street parking with permit, gardens, decorated & furnished to a very high standard, available 1st Jan. More details ›
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1 bedroom apartment to rent Oakland Road, Hanwell, London
Chestnut Estate Agents are delighted to market this well presented ONE bedroom .It is conveniently located just off the Uxbridge Road, with easy transport links to Ealing Broadway. This is a residential area and within the Oakland's School catchment area. Suit professional family. More details ›
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House Share to rent Montague Road, Hanwell, HANWELL
Double Room In Hanwell, Available 28th October, All Bills Inclusive, New Carpets, Double Glazed, Furnished or Unfurnished, 1st Floor Double Room, Communal Kitchen, Washing Machine, Garden, Well Presented, Close To Boston Manor Rd & Uxbridge Rd Minutes away from Gold's Gym & Uxbridge Road, E (cont.) More details ›
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4 bedroom semi-detached house to rent Manton Avenue, Hanwell
Attractive 4/5 bedroom house, situated in the catchment area for Oaklands Primary School, the property is just short walk from Elthorne Park and is within walking distance of the many shops, cafés and restaurants that are clustered around the Art Deco clock tower in Hanwell. The transport l (cont.) More details ›
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3 bedroom semi-detached house to rent Boston Road, HANWELL
Charming 3 Bedroom House, With Large Kitchen / Diner, Driveway, Garden, Very Well Presented, 2 W.C's, Furnished, Charming Semi-detached House, (No Students) Looking For Professionals Only, Washing Machine, Gas Central Heating, Well Presented, Good Transport Links, Close To Local Shops, 2 Dou (cont.) More details ›
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Studio flat to rent Boston Gardens, Hanwell
Devonshire Estate Agents are delighted to market this newly refurbished STUDIO flat in Hanwell. The property is situated within a 5 minute walk to Boston Manor Tube Station and sainsbury's is opposite the flat. The studio flat is fully furnished with built in wardrobes and the kitchen is wel (cont.) More details ›
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And Cody Ross is nuts.
8/10 hits for him have been HRs.
And Cody Ross is nuts.
8/10 hits for him have been HRs.
When he and Reyes are going good we are a different team.
Beltran is so smooth in center. He actually made that catch look easy.
9/11 last hits for HR as Perez implodes again. Get this bum out of NY.
He should not know he ever has a lead put him in the dugout blindfolded and dont let him see the scoreboard, when he pitches with no score or tied he is lights out...but give him a lead and watch him tumble like a house of cards.
Chavez of all people ties it up bottom 9.
wow Chavey...
Is Delgado that damn slow?
Game OVAH.
This team is showing come back ability for the first time in what seems like forever. Nice to see.
Mets Win!!!!!!
Looks like Tatis won the lottery.
What a huge win.
Whoa, almost forgot what it feels like to be able to come back and win.
Hopefully this can propel them, great win!
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I think all these data are pointing out that there surely can be benefit from the vaccine by different age groups, but that it's more limited than we had often led the public to believe," said lead author Dr. Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota.
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My Apologies, Jackass
Dems bear brunt of "misspeaking" by TV news outlets
By Zachary Roth Jun 13, 2008 at 03:30 PM
Kudos to The Wall Street Journal for being among the first to identify an interesting new development in the TV... More
McCain and Iraq
Press misses chance to engage a real policy debate on U.S. presence
By Zachary Roth Jun 11, 2008 at 03:22 PM
Today's big news is that, during an appearance on NBC's "The Today Show", John McCain said that the question of... More
Clinton's Iraq Vote, Take II
NYT and its 'experts' confirm the important political lessons
By Zachary Roth Jun 9, 2008 at 02:35 PM
Last week, I wrote about how the press, in its various post-mortems on the Clinton campaign, all but ignored Hillary's... More
Turning Point: The Supreme Court
The court is political, and more than Roe v. Wade is at stake
By Zachary Roth Jun 9, 2008 at 10:13 AM
This is part three of a series on the start of the 2008 presidential election's general campaign. Links to the... More
What About Clinton's Iraq Vote?
Press consumed with her poor strategy, not her poor choice in public office
By Zachary Roth Jun 5, 2008 at 07:55 PM
Now that the Democratic primary fight is (finally!) over, we're seeing a spate of postmortems from the press, analyzing how... More
Distorting Iran's Nuke Program
Press should remind Obama, McCain about NIE report
By Zachary Roth Jun 3, 2008 at 04:06 PM
Yesterday, McClatchy's excellent Washington bureau published a piece by Jonathan Landay noting that both John McCain and Barack Obama, in... More
McCain's Flawed Iraq Policy
Makes Al Qaeda the central villain, but reality suggests otherwise
By Zachary Roth Jun 2, 2008 at 05:58 PM
What if one presidential candidate's position on the most important issue at stake in the election was based on an... More
The Post on McCain's Evangelicals
Lots of bark…but where's the bite?
By Zachary Roth May 29, 2008 at 03:31 PM
Ever since John McCain formally rejected the support of the controversial pastors John Hagee and Rod Parsley last week, I'd... More
Is Obama Experienced?
The press shouldn't just repeat the criticism as fact
By Zachary Roth May 29, 2008 at 12:53 PM
It has become clear that one of John McCain's major lines of attack against Barack Obama will be that the... More
Parsing Parsley
ABC's Brian Ross delivers on McCain's "spiritual guide"
By Zachary Roth May 22, 2008 at 04:12 PM
Good for ABC News and Brian Ross, who are finally giving Pastor Rod Parsley, an important Christian conservative ally of... More
Edwards As Working-Class Hero?
The polls don't support the press's narrative
By Zachary Roth May 15, 2008 at 04:28 PM
The press is playing John Edwards's endorsement of Barack Obama as giving the presumptive Democratic nominee a boost in attracting... More
Tapper Gets It Right
Eschews neutrality for truth on Boehner-Obama-Israel flap
By Zachary Roth May 13, 2008 at 03:01 PM
Good for Jake Tapper of ABC News, for handling the fake controversy over Obama's recent comments on Israel in exactly... More
Hillary's Technical Truth
A small example of a much larger press problem
By Zachary Roth May 12, 2008 at 03:56 PM
The Washington Post reports today that Hillary Clinton, still doggedly making her case, told West Virginia voters today: It's a... More
The Obama Uncertainty Factor
David Broder points a finger at the wrong candidate
By Zachary Roth May 9, 2008 at 08:10 AM
David Broder wrote yesterday: I'd like to know what kind of people Obama would bring into his White House and... More
Toobin Got It Right
But rest of TV news perpetuated a fiction in the service of suspense
By Zachary Roth May 7, 2008 at 09:21 AM
As we all waited for those final results to come in from northwest Indiana last night, everyone on TV seemed... More
Serial creators don't know what will happen to Adnan Syed - New developments in his legal case suggest that the outcome is wide open
The press is responsible for ignoring Bill Cosby rape allegations - Where were journalists 10 years ago when claims originally surfaced against him?
Journalism has a plagiarism problem. But it's not the one you'd expect - Fareed Zakaria's case highlights news organizations' ethical grey areas
4 topics John Oliver explained more clearly than television news - The political satirist brings explainer comedy to HBO viewers
Will radio save science journalism? - WNYC will soon have a new health unit
My take: The end of an era in Tampa (14)
Serial creators don't know what will happen to Adnan Syed (14)
Beware labeling Pope Francis a liberal (8)
The press is responsible for ignoring Bill Cosby rape allegations (6)
Journalism has a plagiarism problem. But it's not the one you'd expect (4)
Email blasts from CJR writers and editors
CNN reporters in Ferguson provide coverage of CNN reporters in Ferguson (Slate)
"[T]here was little that justified CNN's egocentric coverage"
Which media outlets use 'illegal immigrant'? (Fusion)
"[I]n spite of all the good reasons not to use the phrase, it is still very easy to find in the US press, even in headlines"
Jack Shafer on losing his job (Capital New York)
"Right now, my immediate plan is to go to work as a lay therapist at The Intercept to bring the healing there so John Cook and Matt Taibbi can return. I have great interpersonal skills."
On outlets that continue to call unknown drone victims 'militants' (The Intercept)
"Like the US drone program itself, this deceitful media practice continues unabated"
Greg Marx discusses democracy and news with Tom Rosenstiel of the American Press Institute
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
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How the Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart and David Bowie Ran from the Taxman
We look at three British rock legends who became tax exiles in the '70s.
We look at three British rock legends who became tax exiles in the '70s.
The Rolling Stones have released a "video postcard" from their recent tour of Asia.
The managers who helped the Rolling Stones and the Beatles start their careers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Original Rolling Stones manager and producer Andrew Loog Oldham has announced he will not be attending the Hall of Fame ceremony.
In his first public comments since the tragedy, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger says he's "still struggling to understand" why his girlfriend, L'Wren Scott, apparently committed suicide yesterday.
In March of 1994, the Rolling Stones made their final (so far) lineup change.
The Rolling Stones are still able to get into trouble with their lyrics.
Bon Jovi, the Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac were among the Top 10 money makers for 2013, based on touring, music sales, publishing royalties and streaming revenue for the past year.
The Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney each won awards for their big packages at the Grammy Pre-Telecast Ceremony today. Hang on, it's not as dirty as it sounds...
Hey everybody!!! It is time for me to share one of my favorites with you. Every day I cruise the internet looking for whatever tune floats my boat at the moment! Today my favorite is The Rolling Stones
For today's lesson we are going to do some open g tuning. And you will learn that there are a lot of Rolling Stones songs in open g tuning. But today's song is Honky Tonk Woman. Open g tuning is not to bad and a lot of bands use it often so it is a good thing to learn
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Effingham County Cloverleaf 4-H'ers recently camped at Rock Eagle 4-H Center, the largest 4-H center in the world, in Eatonton.
The Effingham County Health Department will be open July 22 and 29 from 8 a.m.-7 p.m. for parents to bring their children in for back-to-school immunizations. The health department is located at 802 Highway 119 South in Springfield.
Honor rolls for the fourth nine-week grading period for Effingham County's two high schools:
Honor rolls for the fourth nine-week grading period for Effingham County's three middle schools:
STATESBORO - Georgia Southern University recently recognized 1,162 students for excellence in academics on the 2014 spring semester president's list.
Wilson graduates from CSU
Honor rolls for the fourth nine-week grading period for Effingham County's eight elementary schools:
SAVANNAH - Armstrong Atlantic State University recently announced dean's list honors for the spring 2014 semester. Armstrong's dean's list students earned a grade point average of 3.6 of higher for the semester.
WALESKA - Two students from Effingham County were among the 367 named to Reinhardt University's dean's list for spring semester 2014.
The Effingham County Board of Education will use $2 million from its general operations account to balance its budget for the 2015 fiscal year.
Beth Helmly sat quietly as the Effingham County Board of Education adopted its budget for the 2015 fiscal year, but she assures she will have plenty to say during her tenure on the board.
Danica Pearson's quick thinking paid off with the grand prize at the Exchange Club's Georgia District Convention on St. Simons Island.
Unit GA-938, the Air Force Junior ROTC at Effingham County High School, has been selected by the Air Force to receive the 2013-14 Air Force Junior ROTC Distinguished Unit Award.
MACON - Mercer University conferred bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees to more than 1,900 students representing all 12 schools and colleges at five spring commencement ceremonies during May in Macon, Atlanta and Savannah.
COVINGTON - This summer 90 students from the Effingham County High School and Effingham County Middle School FFA chapters were challenged to find the "hero within." They were part of more than 2,500 students who attended the FFA-FCCLA Summer Leadership Camp 2014 at the Georgia FFA-FCCLA Center in Covington.
Effingham County school officials hope students will be attending a new Rincon Elementary School in August 2017.
Effingham County High School and South Effingham High School both celebrated homecoming Friday night.
South Effingham High School will host its fifth annual Marching Mustang Invitational on Saturday at The Corral.
The South Effingham Middle School competition cheer team won first place at the Peachtree Ridge Invitational.
South Effingham High School will host a Georgia Apply to College program Nov. 4-5 in the media center from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. both days.
The Effingham College and Career Academy has continually expanded its programs and enrollment since opening in 2010, and Georgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle sees many more good things ahead for the school and its community.
Effingham County's 2015-16 school year would start Aug. 6, end prior to Memorial Day, take spring break the last week of March and have Veterans Day as a holiday, under a calendar school system officials have proposed.
Two students were recognized as 2014 Work-Based Students of the Year at the Career, Technical and Agricultural Education (CTAE) Advisory Committees Meeting dinner held Oct. 7 at the Effingham College and Career Academy.
This is National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, and Georgia Southern University's Office of Alcohol and Other Drugs Programs has a variety of student events planned throughout the week to bring attention to the public health issues posed by excessive drinking among college students.
Armstrong State University will host an open house event for prospective students and their parents.
Three students represented the Effingham County School System in a statewide poster contest to promote Georgia School Bus Safety Week.
Effingham County Middle School recently hosted a sixth-grade parent night.
TIFTON - Leslie Lamb, a student at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, will compete for the title of Ms. ABAC at the 46th annual pageant Oct. 23. Sponsored by the Ag Business Club, the theme of this year's contest is "Timeless Elegance."
The Effingham County School System saw its best-ever results on the ACT college admissions test this year, according to data provided by school officials.
Special guests from the community are visiting Effingham County schools this week and reading books to pre-kindergarten students for Georgia Pre-K Week.
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Join with the Songtime family each week as we pray together for the hand of God in our Life.
This excerpt was taken from Erwin Lutzer's "Covering your Life in Prayer"
|A Prayer That We Not Be Afraid
"Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act… Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him"—Psalm 37:1-5, 7
There are several commands in these verses that, if we were to obey them, we would find many heavy burdens lifted from our hearts. In this Psalm, David was musing on a number of themes, always returning to the basic truth that we can trust God to come to our aid in His own time and in His own way. In short, God comes through for those who trust Him.
"Fret not" in Hebrew literally means, "don't get heated." Then the words follow, trust, delight, commit and be still. The bottom line is that we should change our focus from looking at our enemies and our fears to looking at God. We think, for example, of Stephen who, when he was being stoned, gazed into heaven and God graciously gave him a vision of Jesus standing at the right hand of God. His last words were "Lord, do not hold this sin against them" (Acts 7:54-60). Or we think of Paul and Silas in prison, not focused on their plight, but singing praises and praying at midnight (Acts 16:25). Consider a more contemporary example, that of Dietrich Bonheoffer who, before he was hung, was able to say, "O God this is the end, but for me the beginning of life."
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Join with the Songtime family each week as we pray together for the hand of God in our Life.
This excerpt was taken from Erwin Lutzer's "Covering your Life in Prayer"
|A Prayer That We Worship God in Our Trials
"I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know…I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."—Job 42:2-3; 5,6
Last time, we saw Job's despair in trying to find God in the midst of his unforeseen trials, and yet he also saw the light of hope, that no matter what happened, he would continue to believe and "come forth as gold." Now, after his friends cease their moralizing, a young theologian by the name of Elihu shows up and rebukes Job for suggesting that God has been unjust or dealt with him unfairly.
Then finally, God comes on the scene to speak to Job one on one, granting His servant's wish to speak directly to the Almighty. However, rather than answering Job's questions, God came with a few dozen questions of His own—questions about the created order that Job could not answer. God's point: if you don't understand the created, physical realm, what makes you think that you can understand what I am doing in the moral realm; what makes you think you can understand My purposes for you or anyone else, for that matter?
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Auto GP champion to get F1 test
November 7th, 2014
A prize Formula 1 test will be offered to the Auto GP drivers' champion next season, the series has announced. Auto GP also plans to introduce performance upgrades and reduced budgets for its sixth season in 2015. The Enzo Coloni-promoted championship hopes modifications will bring around a one and half second improvement over the current spec machine. A reduced race calendar from eight to seven rounds and other cost-saving measures are intended to bring the average full-season budget down to 400,000 euros. Auto GP will continue to act as a support series to the World Touring Car Championship, a relationship that can be traced to 2010. "We worked really hard to make Auto GP the best possible choice by improving the car's performance, consolidating the media exposure thanks to the [...]
Michimi claims first Auto GP win
October 19th, 2014
Shinya Michimi scored his first Auto GP race victory in the final race of 2014 at Estoril. The Euronova Racing driver took the chequered flag 3.698s ahead of Zele Racing's Luis Sa Silva. Michimi took the lead of the race with five laps remaining when Francesco Dracone made his mandatory pitstop, paving the way for Michimi to stretch out a slight gap to Sa Silva, who put behind him a tardy first race to score his first Auto GP podium despite a damaged front wing. Completing the podium was Antonio Pizzonia in the other Zele Lola. The former Jaguar and Williams Formula 1 driver put in a late charge but could not replicate his race one runner-up position. Tamas Pal Kiss, came home in fourth place in his Virtuosi UK [...]
Kiss claims runner-up spot with win
October 19th, 2014
Tamas Pal Kiss took a well-judged victory in the first Auto GP race at Estoril. It was the Hungarian's third win of the 2014 season, and his second with the Virtuosi UK squad. The win confirmed Kiss as the series runner-up behind Kimiya Sato, who was crowned champion at the Nurburgring in August. The race began under some confusion as an apparently clean initial start was red flagged due to what appeared to be a procedural issue involving the medical car at the back of the grid. The cars made the second start under safety car, with Kiss leading away and soon opening up a four second gap. Behind Kiss, ex-Formula 1 racer Antonio Pizzonia used all of his experience at the restart to sweep ahead of 2013 Auto GP [...]
Kiss on pole for Auto GP finale
October 18th, 2014
Tamas Pal Kiss will start from pole position for the penultimate round of the Auto GP season at Estoril. The Virtuosi UK driver beat returning 2013 champion Vittorio Ghirelli's Super Nova Lola by just 0.083s. Ex-Formula 1 driver Antonio Pizzonia got to within a tenth of a second of being on the front row in his Zele-entered car but ultimately had to settle for third place after his tyre performance dropped off on the notoriously abrasive surface. Markus Pommer's Super Nova-run machine completes the second row of the grid as he endeavours to overturn Pal Kiss for second in the title standings. The first session was interrupted by Luis Sa Silva stopped in his Zele Racing car with a suspected electrical problem. The Angolan was forced to park his car [...]
Kiss quickest in Auto GP practice
October 18th, 2014
Tamas Pal Kiss topped the times in Auto GP free practice at Estoril on Saturday morning. In damp conditions the Hungarian set a best time of 1m42.601s in his Virtuosi UK-run Lola to head Markus Pommer by 0.7 seconds. Kiss is aiming to cement the runner-up in the 2014 Auto GP series this weekend, and currently has a 13-point cushion over Super Nova driver Pommer. 2013 champion Vittorio Ghirelli was third fastest on his return to the series with Super Nova. He replaces the injured Michela Cerruti this weekend. Antonio Pizzonia registered the fourth quickest time, setting his best lap of 1m43.558s on his final tour of the session. The former Williams and Jaguar Formula 1 driver is http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/116375 this weekend after winning the final race of the 2012 Auto [...]
Pizzonia makes single-seater return
October 16th, 2014
Ex-Formula 1 driver Antonio Pizzonia will return to Auto GP for the last round of the season at Estoril this weekend. Zele Racing will field Pizzonia alongside Angolan Auto GP debutant Luis Sa Silva in a completely revised line-up. The Austrian team and Pizzonia previously worked together at the 2012 Auto GP finale at Sonoma in the United States. Pizzonia had arrived at Zele fresh from an impressive maiden outing in the series, scoring a victory at his home round at Curitiba for Ombra Racing. The forthcoming meeting at Estoril marks Pizzonia's return to single-seaters. The Brazilian was an LMP2 class winner in the World Endurance Championship for Delta-ADR last season, and has focused on the Stock Car Brazil series this year.
Cerruti to miss Auto GP finale
October 15th, 2014
Auto GP race winner Michela Cerruti will miss this weekend's season finale at Estoril to undergo back surgery. The 27-year-old, who became the series' first female winner at Imola earlier this year, tested at the former Portuguese Grand Prix Formula 1 venue earlier this month in preparation for the event, but has now had to withdraw. "Following a medical check, I was strongly advised not to race due to a recurring back injury," said Cerruti. "This is an issue I had been dealing with for a while. "In order to solve the problem and be at 100 per cent for the next season, the doctors advised me to stop and undergo a surgery procedure that will keep me parked for the next month." The Super Nova driver is currently sixth [...]
Sa Silva joins Auto GP with Zele
September 30th, 2014
Zele Racing will field GP3 racer Luis Sa Silva for the Auto GP season finale at Estoril next month. Although the Angolan has considerable knowledge of the Portuguese ex-Formula 1 venue, it will be his first time behind the wheel of the 550bhp Auto GP machine. "I'm happy to drive such a powerful racing car," said Sa Silva. "It will be a tough challenge but I'm happy that it will happen at Estoril. "It's one of the tracks I know the best as I've run a lot of laps there. I also consider it my home circuit because I live not too far away it in my second house." The 24-year-old is 18th in this year's GP3 drivers' standings, having recorded a highest finish of seventh at Monza. BATTLE FOR [...]
Sato learned from 2013 errors
August 18th, 2014
Kimiya Sato put his 2014 Auto GP championship win down to learning lessons from his title defeat last year. Sato wrapped up the title with a third place in race two at the Nurburgring on Sunday. "I'm really happy," said the 24-year-old Japanese driver, who races for Vincenzo Sospiri's Euronova team in Auto GP alongside a GP2 programme with Campos. "Last year I lost because of my stupid mistakes, so it's a special feeling to come back from that experience." The Nurburgring event was a challenging one for Sato, who suffered brake failure in qualifying and started race one from last place before charging through the field to win despite pain from a bruised chest. The reverse-grid second race was also tough, as Sato had to start eighth. He lost [...]
Kiss wins race, Sato clinches title
August 17th, 2014
Tamas Pal Kiss won the second Auto GP race at the Nurburgring, but could not stop Kimiya Sato wrapping up the championship with one event still to come. Kiss took the lead of the reverse-grid race at the first corner, despite starting fifth in his Virtuosi UK entry. Sato's progress was slower after starting eighth, but he had worked his way up to third place by the end. The bottom step of the podium was enough to give him the Euronova Racing driver the title. Second was home driver Markus Pommer, who never quite had the speed to challenge Kiss, and had to fight off Sato at the end of the race.
Kiss stripped of Nurburgring win
August 16th, 2014
Tamas Pal Kiss has been stripped of his win at the Nurburgring, after officials decided that he too was guilty of setting a fastest sector time under yellow flags early in the race. Kiss, who celebrated victory on the podium after most of his major rivals received drive-through penalties for the same offence during the race, was demoted shortly after post-race formalities. The 25-second penalty means victory in fact goes to Kimiya Sato (pictured), ahead of Kevin Giovesi and Markus Pommer. Kiss has been reclassified fifth following the correction, which means Sato stretches his championship lead over Kiss after all. His lead is now 60 points, and maintaining that after race two would easily be enough to seal the title with the Estoril finale still to come. Kiss will need [...]
Kiss beats determined Sato to victory
August 16th, 2014
Hungarian Tamas Pal Kiss took victory for Virtuosi UK at the Nurburgring, with Kimiya Sato scoring a fine second place after starting at the back of the grid. It was Kiss' good behaviour that really set up this win, which allowed him to slightly close the points gap to his Euronova Racing rival Sato. Most of the field were given drive-through penalties for setting fastest sector times as they went past the clean-up operation of Salvatore de Plano's car, which went off the track at the final corner on lap two. Kiss was the only front-runner to escape sanction, which set up his comfortable 10-second win. NEWS UPDATE: Kiss stripped of Nurburgring win On pace alone Sato could not be matched, despite driving with some pain after a bruising in [...]
Giovesi quickest in Auto GP practice
August 15th, 2014
Kevin Giovesi topped Auto GP practice at the Nurburgring after recording the fastest time for FMS Racing at the end of a soggy morning session. The session was almost free of incident despite taking place in on-off rain, which ultimately meant that the damp track conditions did not change much during the 45 minutes. Tamas Pal Kiss (Virtuosi UK) held fastest time for much of the session with his lap of 1m32.951s, before points leader Kimiya Sato took three tenths off that with eleven minutes to go. Sato remained at the top of the timing screens until Giovesi put in his lap at the very end of the session, going two tenths quicker than the Japanese Euronova Racing driver a couple of minutes before the chequered flag. Sato has a [...]
Sato dominates Imola opener
June 28th, 2014
Kimiya Sato cruised to a conclusive victory in the ninth round of the Auto GP series at Imola. It was Sato's fourth race win of the 2014 season and stretched his points lead to 33 over Markus Pommer. The Japanese driver, who sat out the last rounds at Monza earlier this month, dominated proceedings once title rival Pommer had retired from the lead on the first lap. The unfortunate German lost all power to his Super Nova run Lola-Zytek and was forced to pull off the track at Acque Minerale. Sato needed no invitation to maximise his inherited lead and soon pulled a gap on second placed Kevin Giovesi, with the race was effectively won by half distance. Sato had the luxury of a leisurely pitstop and took the chequered [...]
Pommer beats Sato to Imola pole
June 28th, 2014
Markus Pommer grabbed his third pole position of 2014 for Saturday afternoon's ninth round of the Auto GP series at Imola. The German dominated qualifying, registering several mid-1m31s laps before peaking with a 1m31.401s. In taking pole, Pommer secures two points and brings the gap to championship leader Kimiya Sato down to just seven points. Sato could only get within four tenths of a second of Pommer's time, but remains confident for the race having saved valuable Kumho tyres by sitting out the first 12 minutes of Q1. The only other runner to get in to the 1m31s bracket was Pal Varhaug, who is making a one-off appearance in a Virtuosi UK run Lola-Zytek. The Norwegian GP3 racer was visibly more confident on the brakes in the qualifying session and [...]
Sato, Pommer share practice honours
June 27th, 2014
Kimiya Sato and Markus Pommer shared the honours in the two Imola Auto GP practice sessions on Friday. Reunited with the Euronova Racing squad after missing the last event at Monza, Sato, who heads Pommer in the championship by just nine points following the German's Monza win, had initially set an identical time to his title rival. It took until the final minute of the afternoon session for the Japanese to move ahead on a 1m32.349s, just over five hundredths of a second faster. Pommer had earlier topped the timesheets in the morning session with a 1m32.380s lap in his Super Nova run Lola-Zytek. Michela Cerruti continued to show encouraging pace following her Monza podium with the third-best time in the morning session. Monza race two victor Kevin Giovesi, now [...]
Giovesi takes race two win at Monza
June 1st, 2014
Kevin Giovesi took a serene Auto GP race two win at Monza, controlling the 15-lap event from start to finish to emulate his Paul Ricard success from April. Converting his reverse grid pole position, Eurotech's Milanese driver delighted his home circuit fans by managing a steady gap to second-placed Andrea Roda, who followed Giovesi home 2.4 seconds adrift in his Virtuosi UK run Lola-Zytek. While the first two positions were never in serious doubt, behind there were battles aplenty as front row starter Giuseppe Cipriani created a bottleneck in the early running when he defended stoutly from the chasing pack. This blockage enabled race one winner Markus Pommer to pick off several rivals in the opening laps and set up his podium challenge. An early pitstop when his Super Nova [...]
Pommer takes comfortable Monza win
May 31st, 2014
Markus Pommer took his second victory of the 2014 Auto GP season at Monza, converting his pole position into a comfortable win on Saturday afternoon. The Super Nova driver resisted initial pressure from Eurotech's Kevin Giovesi in the first three-quarters of the 17-lap sprint. That pressure dissipated after Giovesi was significantly delayed at his mandatory pitstop when a recalcitrant left-rear wheel caused the Italian to tumble down the order, eventually finishing in a lowly eighth position. There was some solace for Giovesi though as he will start Sunday's second race from pole position. Pommer headed home Tamas Pal Kiss in the Zele entered Lola by just over a second and the German always looked in control during the final laps despite the Hungarian closing to within a second at one [...]
Pommer seals second straight pole
May 30th, 2014
Markus Pommer secured an impressive second consecutive pole position for the seventh round of the 2014 Auto GP season after a tense qualifying battle with series debutant Christof von Grunigen. With light raining falling on the track throughout the 10-minute session, Pommer and von Grunigen swapped fastest times in what became their own private battle for pole. The German won out by just over three tenths of a second to banish technical problems in the earlier practice session. Starting on the second row is Eurotech driver Kevin Giovesi who just shaded Super Nova's Michela Cerruti, equalling her performance at the last round in Hungary to start fourth again after an assured performance. Tamas Pal Kiss starts in fifth position and is still playing catch up after a broken damper hampered [...]
Karthikeyan to contest Auto GP opener
March 21st, 2013
HRT Formula 1 refugee Narain Karthikeyan is set to continue his career in single-seater racing after securing a late deal to contest the Auto GP series opener with Austrian team Zele Racing. AUTOSPORT understands the former Jordan and HRT grand prix driver could expand his deal and race in the full eight rounds of this year's series.


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Cyclists will get £200m to improve road safetyPublished 1 minute ago
The autumn statement next week will include a £114 million boost for eight cities around England to improve their cycle networks
Most drivers think there are not enough cycle lanes even though spending money on special cycle facilities could reduce the road space available for motorists, a survey of more than 20,000 drivers has revealed.
A majority of drivers also think cyclists have good grounds to feel aggrieved at the way they are treated by motorists.
Edmund King, president of the AA, told The Times that the findings of the AA-Populus survey of members of the biggest motoring organisation may seem counter-intuitive.
But the growth of cycling in recent years had left many motorists feeling "insecure" and unsure how to interact with cyclists. Clearly-defined cycle lanes would put motorists at ease and remove cyclists from danger.
Mr King, himself a keen cyclist, told a major road safety conference yesterday breaking down down the hostility between cyclists and drivers was vital in reducing the casualty toll. He paid tribute to the Cities fit for Cycling campaign, which he said had helped to bring the issue into the mainstream.
He highlighted the shocking level of hatred and abuse exposed by the @cyclehatred Twitter feed, which compiles a daily list of threats from motorists to run over cyclists and drive them from the roads.
The AA poll shows that 57 per cent of drivers agree that cyclists have good grounds to feel upset at the way motorists treat them. Women are more sympathetic (61 per cent, compared to 55 per cent of men).
Sixty-two per cent of the 20,261 AA members who responded to the poll said that there were not enough cycle lanes. Female drivers were more amenable to more cycle lanes (67 per cent, compared to 58 per cent of men).
The great majority of drivers (69 per cent) feel that police ignore cyclists' misbehaviour.
"Some drivers would rather see more cycle lanes on the road because lots of cyclists on the road intimidate them somewhat,"Mr King said. "I don't think it's a case of 'I don't like you cyclists'. It is more a case of 'As a driver, I don't know what to do.'
"Rather than being anger, it is insecurity of the driver, and I think that is why 62 per cent would rather see more cycle lanes. Where things are clear and defined, drivers tend to like that generally. When it is unclear, that sometimes leads to confusion and I think that may be one of the issues."
The fact that 18 per cent of its members, equal to 1.5 million people, say that they cycle regularly, may be another reason for the strong support for building new cycle infrastructure.
Mr King said that a minority of drivers, particularly those aged 18-24, displayed a dangerous disdain for cyclists.
"It appears that there is this minority that have a problem with cyclists and we have to do more to address that. It is almost like racial discrimination, there is no good reason for it," he said. "It is a road safety issue. If you have got a minority of drivers and a minority of cyclists who hate each other they will take dangerous risks on the road and that can lead to more conflict and more accidents."
Apparent acts of aggression are recorded every day on the internet. One cyclist tweeted: "This morning I witness a man lean out of a van and push a (female) cyclist off her bike. 10 secs later was dragged out of van by a policeman."
The Twitter feed identified by Mr King records daily threats. Stuart Burge tweeted: "Cyclists do my head In when they stick out in the road. I WILL run you over if you don't move."
Another, Joe Cross, wrote: "Cyclist should not be allowed on the road #iwillrunyoudown"
Lora Davis tweeted: "Cyclists are w***ers! Unless you have a death wish get off the f***ing road at rush hour #muppets"
Official figures published in the summer showed the first increase in the number of deaths on the roads for eight years in 2011 and sharp increases in the numbers of pedestrians killed and cyclists seriously injured in Britain.
Cuts to police numbers, road safety budgets and speed cameras are being reflected in worse casualty figures, safety campaigners claim.
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How to calculate how much cellulose for a dense-packed wall?
For the life of me I can't figure out how to calculate how much blown in cellulose we will need for the walls. 2X6 2ft on center with 8 ft ceilings. Applying Insulweb and dense packing.
I hear 3.5lbs per cubic feet
If I just knew how much one cavity would take I could get it figured.
How do is this calculated?
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To calculate volume, you multiply width by depth by height.
A typical 2x6 stud cavity might measure 14.5 inches by 5.5 inches by 92 inches.
Multiply the three numbers together, and you get 7,337 cubic inches.
Since 1,728 cubic inches equals 1 cubic foot, we divide by 1,728 to get cubic feet, so:
7,337 cubic inches = 4.2 cubic feet
So, to fill a stud cavity of this size, you'll need 4.2 cubic feet of cellulose. If you are installing the cellulose at a density of 3.5 pounds per cubic feet, you multiply the number of cubic feet by 3.5 to determine how many pounds of cellulose you need.
That means that you need 14.7 pounds of cellulose to fill a cavity measuring 4.2 cubic feet.
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How to market a negativeMonday, October 20th, 2014 by Guest blogger
The demise of the marketing director?Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 by Guest blogger
It was Shakespeare who posed the question, "What's in a name?" before handily going on to supply the answer, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
Maybe the bosses at Procter & Gamble have been brushing up on their bard as they recently moved to ditch the title of marketing director. From now on, all marketing directors across its global network are to be known as brand directors or associate brand directors.
P&G has history here. The title of marketing director actually only came into being with the household brands giant in 1993. Previously the role was covered by that of "advertising manager".
The rationale behind the latest name change is that it is part of a global effort to simplify the P&G marketing structure and enable faster decision making. Agility is the latest must-have in marketing services as we all know. In scrapping the title of marketing director and converting them to brand directors, P&G says it will ensure the department has "single point responsibility for brands".
Indeed, in February this year it announced that the marketing department would be renamed as brand management. Apparently this was done to improve P&G's ability to deliver marketing efficiency and effectiveness by integrating four disciplines – brand management, consumer & market Knowledge, communications, and design – into one department.
According to a spokesperson for P&G: "These changes will help us unify brand-building resources to focus on delivering better brand and business results."
The changes mean that P&G's lauded corporate marketing director, now becomes brand director for Northern Europe.
There can be a bit of a trend for fatuous job title inflation in some sectors, and a bit of grounding never did anybody any harm, but does the title of brand director truly reflect the broad commercial responsibilities the former marketing director holds?
This isn't just an argument about titles, but about roles and influence within the organisation. At a time when there are fewer and fewer marketing directors or chief marketing officers sitting on executive boards, the move to demote marketing directors – and that is what this feels like – will have a wide impact on the standing of the discipline.
Coming as it does from one of the undisputed colleges of marketing, the move will have an even greater impact. P&G is widely heralded as turning out some of the best FMCG marketers in the industry. So when they act, others generally follow.
In some ways the sentiment of single point responsibility for the commercial performance of "a brand" in FMCG makes sense. As the tools and channels at marketers' command become ever more complex, and the array of agencies and suppliers used, ever more numerous, there has to be a strong hand on the tiller.
But to those outside of the marketing/brand fraternity it could be seen as a reductionist move. Does this imply that the focus of marketing is limited to advertising, POS and conceptual brand strategy? Coming at a time when marketing as a discipline is anxious to be seen as helping businesses listen to their consumers and therefore direct overall business strategy, this sounds dangerously like putting marketers back in their box.
In this light, P&G's highly publicised change is somewhat more questionable, short sighted and potentially damaging to the credibility and reputation of marketing directors and CMOs.
Marketing, in a dynamic business, isn't just about the comms. It requires a much broader understanding of the first principles, practices and science – and a broader commercial sense. Marketers need to be able to understand profit and loss, financial ratios, how to read financial sheets and the bottom line. Failure to use all of these assets is like having a Ferrari but never taking it out of third gear.
There has been a lot of discussion about the future of marketing. The role of the CMO has changed as a result of technology and IT becoming so important – are we seeing the merging of the CMO and CIO title, or can they work together?
Mondelez International recently scrapped its CMO role for a chief growth officer responsible for global marketing, corporate strategy, global categories, global sales and research, development and quality. Tesco has abolished the chief marketing officer role and instead have a chief creative officer and chief customer officer.
Is the role of marketing being enhanced or diminished here? Time will tell. What should be obvious is that marketing is a management discipline that is strategic and commercially accountable. It's not just about branding and advertising.
Why B2B needs to target smarterWednesday, August 27th, 2014 by Guest blogger
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Multichannel is about persuasionMonday, August 11th, 2014 by Guest blogger
There is a common misconception in modern post digital marketing, which stems from a view that because it is difficult to track which media and devices a consumer uses, it's difficult to ensure they're always getting the same message. (more…)
Mind your terms and conditions: the battle for plain EnglishThursday, June 12th, 2014 by Guest blogger
I doubt you got into marketing with a burning desire to shake up the way brands write their terms and conditions. You might not think they have a role to play in attracting or keeping customers. You might not think about them at all. Leave them to the legal department and you've followed the rules – and covered your backs.
No one reads them anyway.
Ah. But they do.
Well, they try to.
The Writer recently asked just over 2,000 people if they ever bothered to read the small print before accepting terms and conditions when buying or signing up for things online. Just 9 per cent said they didn't read Ts&Cs at all.
So, nine out of ten customers take a quick peek, at least. In fact, the average time spent reading Ts&Cs turned out to be 4 minutes 42 seconds. That's almost five whole minutes of undivided attention.
I was amazed. Because I'm the one out of ten who doesn't bother. But I wasn't surprised by what we found when we looked at how long Ts&Cs take to read and how hard they are to understand. We had a look at the small print of a random selection of brands, including Amazon, Barclays Bike Hire, Spotify, nPower, LV Insurance and Tesco Direct.
Using a reading rate of 250 words a minute, we found the average time it takes to read a set of Ts&Cs in full is 28 minutes. Vodafone's would take three days if you read all their different sets of Ts&Cs.
And if you stopped off to read PayPal's small print, it would be an hour and 42 minutes before you could go through with your payment. The battle to get terms and conditions for financial services into something approximating to "plain English" has been going on for decades, so it was good to see an insurance company scoring well for keeping it brief. LV Insurance's small print took six minutes to read.
To measure how difficult Ts&Cs can be to read, we used the Flesch-Kincaid readability test. Most business writing should have a score of around 65. That's like The Economist magazine, the BBC news website, and this blog. It equates to the "reading age'' of a 13 to 14-year-old. When we crunched the numbers, the scores for these Ts&Cs were mostly in the 30s. That's like The Harvard Law Review, equating to a university-level "reading age".
One of the worst culprits, Spotify, actually broke the system with a negative score for its impenetrable legalese. A business based on 21st-century technology with 19th-century Ts&Cs. Take a look. I'm not kidding.
But some brands are making an effort: the best terms and conditions we looked at were short, structured so you could easily skim-read, and written in clear, natural English. We like LinkedIn's upfront summaries, Vodafone's clear subheadings and BT's short paragraphs – and Facebook has inventive ways of explaining difficult ideas.
By and large, these improvements were small tweaks in what's still a sea of legalese. But it's clear that Ts&Cs are a serious stopping-off point on every "customer journey".
You've got their attention for around five minutes. Make that count. Start that revolution.


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NEW YORK (AP) - Paul McCartney is adding his voice to Tony Bennett's campaign against gun violence.
The former Beatle recorded a voice message that's part of a text-to-call operation Wednesday for Bennett's Voices Against Violence campaign. McCartney and others are encouraging Americans to send a text, which will lead to the singer's message and connect the caller to their local Senate office after providing their zip code.
The Senate will vote Wednesday on a proposal to expand background checks, the linchpin of the effort to curb gun violence. In December, 20 children and six aides were shot and killed at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, propelling gun violence into a national issue. Families of the Newtown victims have been lobbying lawmakers.
Other celebrities supporting include Alec Baldwin, Gloria Estefan, Josh Groban and Juanes.
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You guys came out with a great Italian-American line-up, but where's the mostaccioli? Whattsamattayou? Don't you know that it's hard to find a big Ital-Am dinner in the St.Louis area without it? But then again. it's hard to find the traditional mostaccioli, with the stripes. Just about everyone nowadays is mistaking penne for it.


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please pray for my son and his family that their family can be healed. there is a long history of troubles and this summer separated he spent a couple of months with me. He went to church with me and says he is willing to do whatever it takes to save his family. She says she has found the lord and is happy but has filed for divorce, won't let him talk to their 14 yr old son and won't talk to him. She is very angry and takes pills he says. Who knows the truth but the Lord? I only know he is my son and he is suffering and I don;t have the words to help him. I even tried to call and talk to her mom or her and they would not take my call either. I would like to reach out to my grandson but I guess I am going to be cut off also. I just don't know how to pray for him in this circumstance. I want peace in his life. he is so broken and depressed I am afraid for him, Please send prayers of strength and forgiveness out to him and cover him with the blood of Jesus. also I ask for the words to be given to me by the Lord to know how to help my son when he cries out.
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An anonymous reader writes: The European Space Agency is gradually sorting through the data collected during the brief window Philae was alive and transmitting on the surface of a comet. Analysis of that data has provided another interesting clue about what happened to the probe as it bounced across the comet's surface. According to results from the on-board magnetometer, immediately after the first touchdown, the lander's spin rate increased somewhat. It continued to spin for about 36 minutes until another event dramatically changed its spin rate. This suggests it collided with something, because there was no corresponding vertical deceleration to indicate it had landed once more. Scientists think Philae likely grazed the rim of a crater with one of its landing legs. 65 minutes later, it landed again, and bounced to its final resting place just a few minutes later. The ESA's article has some interesting graphs showing how the data changed as the lander progressed through these different events.
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Zothecula writes: It may sound like the first chapter of a Quatermass thriller, but scientists from the University of Zurich have discovered that DNA can survive not only a flight through space, but also re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere and still remain active. The findings are based on suborbital rocket flights and could have considerable impact on questions about the origins of life on Earth and the problems of terrestrial space probes contaminating other planets.
53 comments | 6 hours ago
AaronW writes Engineers at Stanford University have developed an ultrathin, multilayered, nanophotonic material that not only reflects heat away from buildings but also directs internal heat away using a system called "photonic radiative cooling." The coating is capable of reflecting away 97% of incoming sunlight and when combined with the photonic radiative cooling system it becomes cooler than the surrounding air by around 9F (5C). The material is designed to radiate heat into space at a precise frequency that allows it to pass through the atmosphere without warming it.
134 comments | yesterday
astroengine writes: While on its long road to restart, yet another milestone was reached at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) over the weekend. Protons were generated by the LHC's source and blasted through a "daisy-chain" of smaller accelerators before being intentionally smashed into a metaphorical brick wall. The particle beam didn't reach the LHC's famous 17-mile (27-kilometer) accelerator ring — they were stopped just short — but the event was used to begin calibration efforts of the massive experiment's detectors before the whole system is powered back up again early next year. "These initial tests are a milestone for the whole accelerator chain," said the LHC's chief engineer, Reyes Alemany Fernandez. "Not only was this the first time the injection lines have seen beams in over a year, it was also our first opportunity to test the LHC's operation system. We successfully commissioned the LHC's injection and ejection magnets, all without beam in the machine itself."
50 comments | 2 days ago
An anonymous reader writes: NASA reports that the 3-D printer now installed on the International Space Station has finally finished its first creation. After it was installed on November 17th and calibrated over the next week, ground control sent it instructions yesterday to build a faceplate for the extruder's own casing. The process was mostly a success. "[Astronaut Butch Wilmore] Wilmore removed the part from the printer and inspected it. Part adhesion on the tray was stronger than anticipated, which could mean layer bonding is different in microgravity, a question the team will investigate as future parts are printed. Wilmore installed a new print tray, and the ground team sent a command to fine-tune the printer alignment and printed a third calibration coupon. When Wilmore removes the calibration coupon, the ground team will be able to command the printer to make a second object. The ground team makes precise adjustments before every print, and the results from this first print are contributing to a better understanding about the parameters to use when 3-D printing on the space station."
69 comments | 2 days ago
Zothecula writes: NASA has released a video depicting the initial deployment of an undertaking designed to study a phenomenon known as magnetic reconnection. "Reconnection happens when magnetic field lines explosively realign and release massive bursts of energy, while hurling particles out at nearly the speed of light in all directions. Magnetic reconnection powers eruptions on the sun and – closer to home – it triggers the flow of material and energy from interplanetary space into near-Earth space." The launch of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will see four identical spacecraft deployed from a single Atlas V rocket, set to lift off from cape Canaveral, Florida, no earlier than March next year.
29 comments | 3 days ago
An anonymous reader writes It's the oldest rock on Earth--and it's from Mars. A 4.4-billion-year-old martian meteorite, found in a dozen pieces in the western Sahara, has ignited a frenzy among collectors and scientists; prices have reached $10,000 a gram, and museums and universities are vying for slivers of it. It is the only known martian meteorite made of sediment, a conglomerate of pebbles and other clumps of minerals from when the planet was warm, wet, and possibly habitable. The story of the discovery of the rock and its significance is fascinating, as well as the details presented about the economics of rare space materials. Apropos, this older story about missing moon rocks.
65 comments | 3 days ago
sciencehabit writes The universe may be a lonelier place than previously thought. Of the estimated 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe, only one in 10 can support complex life like that on Earth, a pair of astrophysicists argues. Everywhere else, stellar explosions known as gamma ray bursts would regularly wipe out any life forms more elaborate than microbes. The detonations also kept the universe lifeless for billions of years after the big bang, the researchers say.
305 comments | 4 days ago
An anonymous reader writes "Two private companies, Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources, have received contracts from NASA to study asteroid redirection and will pursue their plans of asteroid mining. From the article: "Deep Space Industries is planning to build a number of dense spacecrafts called FireFlies, and they plan on sending the satellites on one way missions to gather information about the density, shape, composition and size of an asteroid. They also have plans to build a spacecraft called Dragonfly, which has the purpose of catching asteroids. The asteroid material will be collected and returned to Earth by 'Harvesters'. Planetary Resources, on the other hand, plans to build a number of middle sized and small telescopes that will be capable of examining asteroids near the planet Earth for economic potential. They already have the telescopes Arkyd 300, Arkyd 200 and the Arkyd 100, each having its own specific systems."
153 comments | 4 days ago
An anonymous reader writes A Russian capsule carrying three astronauts from Russia, the United States and Italy has blasted off for the International Space Station. Aboard the capsule are Russian Anton Shkaplerov, Nasa's Terry Virts and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, Italy's first female astronaut. "I think that 100 years from now, 500 years from now, people will look back on this as the initial baby steps that we took going into the solar system," Virts told a pre-launch press conference. "In the same way that we look back on Columbus and the other explorers 500 years ago, this is the way people will look at this time in history."
69 comments | 4 days ago
sciencehabit writes When it comes to small space rocks blowing up in Earth's atmosphere, not all days are created equal. Scientists have found that, contrary to what they thought, such events are not random, and these explosions may occur more frequently on certain days. Rather than random occurrences, many large airbursts might result from collisions between Earth and streams of debris associated with small asteroids or comets. The new findings may help astronomers narrow their search for objects in orbits that threaten Earth, the researchers suggest.
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An anonymous reader writes with news that NASA has released remastered pictures of Europa taken by the Galileo spacecraft. "Scientists have produced a new version of what is perhaps NASA's best view of Jupiter's ice-covered moon, Europa. The mosaic of color images was obtained in the late 1990s by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. This is the first time that NASA is publishing a version of the scene produced using modern image processing techniques. This view of Europa stands out as the color view that shows the largest portion of the moon's surface at the highest resolution. An earlier, lower-resolution version of the view, published in 2001, featured colors that had been strongly enhanced. The new image more closely approximates what the human eye would see. Space imaging enthusiasts have produced their own versions of the view using the publicly available data, but NASA has not previously issued its own rendition using near-natural color."
38 comments | 4 days ago
An anonymous reader writes Elon Musk sent a number of tweets recently in which he detailed a program to test the function of "X-Wing" style grid fins that could help spacecraft navigate upon re-entry. The tweets describing how it would work, also include an autonomous seafaring platform, which can hold its position within three meters even in a heavy storm, that would act as a landing pad. From the article: "The SpaceX reusable rocket program has been progressing with varying results, including an explosion over Texas back in August. While the incident didn't result in any injury or even 'near injuries,' Musk conceded in a tweet that this was evidence that '[r]ockets are tricky.' An earlier test flight from this summer involving an ocean splashdown was considered more successful, proving that the Space X Falcon 9 booster could re-enter earth's atmosphere, restart its engines, deploy its landing legs and make a touch down at 'near zero velocity.'"
96 comments | 5 days ago
An anonymous reader writes "Officials of New Mexico's Spaceport Authority were grilled by lawmakers about the now vacant Spaceport America following the deadly crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo. The spaceport was built as a hub for commercial space flights. Its immediate future is uncertain since Virgin Galactic has indefinitely pushed back the launch date of its space tourism flights. From the article: "Christine Anderson, the authority's executive director, learned last week that she might have to do so one legislator at a time. Anderson was called out by Rep. Patricia Lundstrom, D-Gallup, for handing members of an interim legislative finance committee a presentation filled mostly with photographs. Lundstrom and other lawmakers wanted hard numbers and more details about what plan the authority has to get past the Virgin Galactic mishap and get the taxpayer-financed spaceport off the ground. 'It just made all of us look like idiots, like we don't do our homework,' Anderson said. 'That's not the case whatsoever.'"
46 comments | 5 days ago
jones_supa writes: Eizo has introduced an interesting new PC monitor with a square aspect ratio: the Eizo FlexScan EV2730Q is a 26.5-inch screen with 1:1 aspect ratio and an IPS panel with resolution of 1920 x 1920 pixels. "The extended vertical space is convenient for displaying large amounts of information in long windows, reducing the need for excess scrolling and providing a more efficient view of data," the firm writes. The monitor also offers flicker-free (non-PWM) backlight and reduced blue light features to avoid scorching users' eyes. Would a square display be of any benefit to you?
329 comments | about a week ago
HughPickens.com writes: Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are studying a mysterious ecosystem at one of the world's deepest undersea hydrothermal vents to get clues about what life could be like on other planetary bodies, such as Jupiter's icy moon Europa, which has a subsurface ocean. At the vents, tiny shrimp are piled on top of each other, layer upon layer, crawling on rock chimneys that spew hot water. "You go along the ocean bottom and there's nothing, effectively," says Max Coleman. "And then suddenly we get these hydrothermal vents and a massive ecosystem. It's just literally teeming with life." Bacteria, inside the shrimps' mouths and in specially evolved gill covers, produce organic matter that feed the crustaceans. The particular bacteria in the vents are able to survive in extreme environments because of chemosynthesis, a process that works in the absence of sunlight and involves organisms getting energy from chemical reactions. In this case, the bacteria use hydrogen sulfide, a chemical abundant at the vents, to make organic matter. The temperatures at the vents can climb up to a scorching 842 degrees Fahrenheit (450 degrees Celsius), but waters just an inch away are cool enough to support the shrimp. The shrimp are blind, but have thermal receptors in the backs of their heads.
According to the exobiologists, these mysterious shrimps and its symbiotic bacterium may hold clues "about what life could be like on other planetary bodies." It's life that may be similar—at the basic level—to what could be lurking in the oceans of Europa, deep under the icy crust of the Jupiter moon. According to Emma Versteegh "whether an animal like this could exist on Europa heavily depends on the actual amount of energy that's released there, through hydrothermal vents." Nobody is seriously planning a landing mission on Europa yet. But the European Space Agency aims to launch its JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission (JUICE) to make the first thickness measurements of Europa's icy crust starting in 2030 and NASA also has begun planning a Europa Clipper mission that would study the icy moon while doing flybys in a Jupiter orbit.
75 comments | about a week ago
MarkWhittington writes: As many have expected, Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) has been elevated to chair the House Appropriations Subcommittee for Commerce, Justice, and Science. The subcommittee has charge of NASA funding, something of keen interest for the congressman, whose Houston district is close to the Johnson Spaceflight Center. Moreover, Culberson's enthusiasm for space exploration goes far beyond what would be expected from a Texas representative.
Culberson is a champion of a mission to Europa, a moon of Jupiter. Europa is an ice-covered moon that is thought to conceal an ocean of water, warmed by tidal forces, which might contain life. Using the heavy-lift Space Launch System, NASA could launch a large-scale probe to study Europa and ascertain whether it harbors alien life or not. Culberson's elevation makes such a mission far more likely to occur.
57 comments | about a week ago
An anonymous reader writes with news that Russia may be building its own space station to replace the ISS. Russia may be planning to build a new, independent national space station rather than prolong its participation in the $150 billion International Space Station (ISS) program beyond its current 2020 end date. The U.S. space agency NASA proposed last year to extend the life of the ISS — the largest international project ever undertaken by nations during peacetime — beyond its currently scheduled 2020 end date to at least 2024.
235 comments | about a week ago
reifman writes Amazon's hiring so quickly in Seattle that it's on pace to employ 45,000 people or seven percent of the city. But, 75% of these hires are male. While Seattle women earned 86 cents per dollar earned by men in 2012, today, they make only 78 cents per dollar. In "Amageddon: Seattle's Increasingly Obvious Future", I review these and other surprising facts about Amazon's growing impact on the city: we're the fastest growing — now larger than Boston, we have the fastest rising rents, the fourth worst traffic, we're only twelfth in public transit, we're the fifth whitest and getting whiter, we're experiencing record levels of property crime and the amount of office space under construction has nearly doubled to 3.2 million square feet in the past year.
495 comments | about a week ago
StartsWithABang writes After successfully landing on a comet with all 10 instruments intact, but failing to deploy its thrusters and harpoons to anchor onto the surface, Philae bounced, coming to rest in an area with woefully insufficient sunlight to keep it alive. After exhausting its primary battery, it went into hibernation, most likely never to wake again. We'll always be left to wonder what might have been if it had functioned optimally, and given us years of data rather than just 60 hours worth. The thing is, it wouldn't have needed to function optimally to give us years of data, if only it were better designed in one particular aspect: powered by Plutonium-238 instead of by solar panels.
520 comments | about a week ago