Free to Breath Baltimore - Lung Cancer Yogathon

Today many yoga patrons participated in the Fourth Annual Free to Breath Baltimore Yogathon.? The event raises awareness and support to defeat lung cancer.? The fundraising event took place in Pikesville, Maryland from 1 to 4pm offering two yoga sessions.

All of the event?s proceeds benefit the National Lung Cancer Partnership?s research, education, and awareness programs.?

?For a physical challenge participants were about to participate in the 108 sun salutations.? The number 108 is significant in India, the birthplace of yoga; it represents wholeness of the individual, universe, and life; while a sun salutation is a flowing series of yoga poses.

For a less demanding afternoon of yoga the fundraiser also offered a gentle yoga session. Free to Breath Baltimore - Lung Cancer Yogathon

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Cirque de'Mystyre

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"Cirque de'Mystyre"
Cirque de'Mystyre is a traveling circus with an eerie Ring Master with a dark past. Long ago, he made a deal with a handsome stranger that promised to make his circus famous...for a small price. Money? No, money can be earned on ones own. He wanted souls. So it was the Ring Master traveled, gathering workers who unknowingly sighed their souls over to a gentle man with a handsome smile.

Here in this tent, everyone has a story to tell, and everyone has a past that they might or might not want to speak of...but don't be afraid, you are treated like a family. Now that you know about our circus, care to tell your story?


What are the type of roles I could apply for?
Typical circus acts you may use:
Ring Master (GM)
Fire Breathe
Animal Tamer
Freakshow(s) [Bearded lady, giant, mermaid, mutant, etc]
The Magician (and assistant if need be)
Sword Swallower
Clown
Skill Toy Artist
Aerial Silk
Contortionist
Tightrope Walker
Fortuneteller
Space Wheel Acrobat
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How many players are you looking for?
Between 3-5 literate role players who are willing to double and post 2-3 times a week.

Will you be doubling?
Yes, I will actually be playing two males (one being the Ring Master) and possible a female.

Qualifications to be approved
* This is a Literate role play. I ask that you use correct grammar and spelling to the best of your abilities. I can understand slight mistakes. I make them myself.
* Once again, literate, three paragraphs would be the mere minimum. Keyword, mere
* I am including non-human characters, but do not give me a sparkling vampire -_-
* I will not accept typical female personalities. Everyone wants to play a girl, so I will be extremely choosy about accepting the female roles.
* I will ask you to write in third person. "Dialogue will be put in quotes please and thank you." Thoughts will be in italics
* Willingness to double
* Clearly active in role plays.
* Willingness to add to plot
* Must use only a description in the profile sheet for your character. An anime image may be used for the icon, but that is it [/center]

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Scarlett_Rose
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Oh my, now this looks fun. I just don't know what I'd to be.

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DarlingRapture
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PM me haha maybe we can come up with a good part for you

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Scarlett_Rose
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Can I reserve the animal tamer?

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Kumori-San
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No need for reservations. This is a circus, and multiple characters may have the same job. The only exception is the Ring Master...which is played by me.

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Scarlett_Rose
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Hm... gosh, this is hard. Any ideas for me? I was thinking of perhaps someone who throws around and does tricks with venemous snakes or, perhaps knives and other sharp objects OR.

Someone who can't die, someone who is... unable to die. Like, if you blow off their head, it reforms but they still feel the agonizing pain. It would be perhaps a good show for people who lie that sort of thing to watch? Someone getting killed over and over again? I don't know, just an idea.

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Interesting. So no reservations huh?
I think I'll make a Fire Breather, they sound fun to play :D

So may I ask - just to clarify - do we create one character or two?

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Benghazi becoming political cudgel for GOP

In campaign 2012, both President Obama and Mitt Romney are preparing for Tuesday's second presidential debate: No fund raisers, no major appearances, mostly study.

While that takes place, Republicans continue hammering the president on the administration's handling of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya.

To say that the stakes are high in Tuesday's town hall debate could well be an understatement. The president's performance in the first debate was widely criticized, and Romney surged in the polls. He now holds a slight lead over the president.

Under pressure to turn it around, Mr. Obama will also have to defend his response to last months attack in Benghazi, which killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. The administration is under increasing criticism for initially refusing to call the attacks terrorism.

In an exchange with Bob Schieffer on "Face the Nation," Senator Lindsey Graham, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was harsh.

"I think they have been misleading us, but it finally caught up with them," Graham said.

The senator then acknowledged that he was leveling a very serious charge against the Obama administration.

"Either they are misleading the American people or incredibly incompetent. They're very political when it comes to foreign policy," Graham said. "When something goes bad, they deny, they deceive, and they delay."

Amb. Stevens' father wants politics out of his son's death
Rep. Cummings: Benghazi probe turning into witch-hunt
Sen. Graham: Libya is "exhibit A of a failed foreign policy"

Libya became an issue last week, especially after Thursday's vice presidential debate when Vice President Joe Biden said the White House wasn't informed of multiple requests for more security at the consulate.

"We weren't told they wanted more security there. We did not know they wanted more security again," Biden said.

Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod, trying to deflect criticism, pointed the finger at Romney: "From the beginning of the issue, before any facts were known, he was cravenly trying to exploit it. And look, that's politics."

For the past month, in his campaign rallies, Romney hasn't really been hitting the administration's evolving response to the attacks -- though he did at the end of the week.

On Sunday, the slain ambassador's father weighed in, telling Bloomberg News in a phone interview: "It would be really abhorrent to make this into a campaign issue."

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Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk dies at 89

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2004 file photo, Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk, left, introduces his son and successor, King Norodom Sihamoni upon their arrival at Phnom Penh airport, in Cambodia. Sihanouk, the former Cambodian king who was never far from the center of his country's politics through a half-century of war, genocide and upheaval, has died. He was 89. (AP Photo/Andy Eames, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2004 file photo, Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk, left, introduces his son and successor, King Norodom Sihamoni upon their arrival at Phnom Penh airport, in Cambodia. Sihanouk, the former Cambodian king who was never far from the center of his country's politics through a half-century of war, genocide and upheaval, has died. He was 89. (AP Photo/Andy Eames, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2004 file photo, Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk and Queen Monineath wave at Phnom Penh airport, in Cambodia. Sihanouk, the former Cambodian king who was never far from the center of his country's politics through a half-century of war, genocide and upheaval, died of natural causes early Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, in Beijing. He was 89. (AP Photo/Andy Eames, File)

FILE - In this July 29, 1941 file photo, Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk smiles at an unknown location. Sihanouk, the former Cambodian king who was never far from the center of his country's politics through a half-century of war, genocide and upheaval, has died. He was 89. (AP Photo)

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2011 file photo, Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk, center, speaks during a ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of the former monarch's return to his homeland after years of civil war, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Sihanouk, the former Cambodian king who was never far from the center of his country's politics through a half-century of war, genocide and upheaval, has died. He was 89. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Philong Sovan, File) NO SALES

FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2006 file photo, Cambodia's retired King Norodom Sihanouk greets well-wishers before departing for China from Phnom Penh International Airport, in Cambodia. Sihanouk, the former Cambodian king who was never far from the center of his country's politics through a half-century of war, genocide and upheaval, has died. He was 89. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

(AP) ? Norodom Sihanouk, the revered former king who was a towering figure in Cambodian politics through a half-century of war, genocide and upheaval, died Monday. He was 89.

Sihanouk saw Cambodia transform from colony to kingdom, U.S.-backed regime to Khmer Rouge killing field and foreign-occupied land to guerrilla war zone ? and finally to a fragile experiment with democracy.

He was a feudal-style monarch who called himself a democrat. He was beloved by his people but was seldom able to deliver the stability they craved through decades of violence.

Sihanouk abdicated the throne in 2004, citing his poor health. He had been getting medical treatment in China since January and had suffered a variety of illnesses, including colon cancer, diabetes and hypertension.

Prince Sisowath Thomico, a royal family member who also was Sihanouk's assistant, said the former king suffered a heart attack Monday at a Beijing hospital.

"His death was a great loss to Cambodia," Thomico said, adding that Sihanouk had dedicated his life "for the sake of his entire nation, country and for the Cambodian people."

Sihanouk's successor, Norodom Sihamoni, flew with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to Beijing on Monday to retrieve the body, said Col. Chhay Bunna, a senior police officer in charge of security at Phnom Penh's international airport.

State flags flew at half-staff, and Cambodian government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said an official funeral will be held once the former king's body is repatriated.

While officials said they expected as many as 100,000 to line the route from the airport to the Royal Palace for the return of Sihanouk's body, the immediate reaction in the capital seemed muted, partly because it was a holiday, which took many people out of town.

One of those mourning the loss was 67-year-old Yos Sekchantha, who said she offered prayers that his soul would rest in peace.

"I don't know much about politics, but the king father was really a good leader and cared about his county and people," she said as tears welled in her eyes.

But many Cambodians are too young to have emotional ties to a man who in the past two decades has been overshadowed by Hun Sen, the country's current political strongman.

"I'm focused mostly on my studies, but as a Cambodian, I feel sorry that he died," said Sieng Hom, 20-year-old student majoring in hotel management.

Born on Oct. 31, 1922, Sihanouk enjoyed a pampered childhood in French colonial Indochina.

In 1941, the French crowned 19-year-old Sihanouk rather than relatives closer in line to the throne, thinking the pudgy, giggling prince would be easy to control. They were the first of many to underestimate him, and by 1953 the French were out.

Two years later, Sihanouk stepped down from the throne, organized a mass political party and steered Cambodia toward uneasy neutrality at the height of the Cold War.

Sihanouk accepted limited U.S. aid and nurtured relations with Communist China. He was also a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement.

Sihanouk was a ruthless politician, talented dilettante and tireless playboy, caught up in endless, almost childlike enthusiasms.

He made movies, painted, composed music, fielded a palace soccer team and led his own jazz band. His large appetite extended to fast cars, food and women. He married at least five times ? some say six ? and fathered 14 children.

After 1960, Sihanouk drifted toward the communist camp, seeking assurances from his powerful neighbors, China and Vietnam, that his country's neutrality would be respected.

In 1965, Sihanouk broke off relations with Washington as U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War shifted into high gear. But by 1969, worried about increasing Vietnamese communist use of Cambodian soil, he made new overtures to the United States and turned against China.

Sihanouk's top priority was to keep Cambodia out of the war, but he could not. U.S. aircraft bombed Vietnamese communist sanctuaries in Cambodia with increasing regularity, and his protests were ignored.

Internally, Cambodia was a one-man show. Sihanouk's sharpest critics accused him of running a medieval state as an ancient Khmer ruler reincarnated in Western dress.

"I am Sihanouk," he once said, "and all Cambodians are my children."

Nonetheless, the country was at relative peace and some attempts were made to better the life of the peasants, who adored Sihanouk as a near-deity.

Outsiders saw a country of shimmering temples and emerald green rice fields that seemed a chapter from an Oriental fairy tale. But that face of Cambodia would soon vanish.

In 1970, a U.S.-backed coup sent the prince to Beijing for years of lonely, if lavish, exile. Within weeks, war broke out, beginning a systematic destruction of Cambodia that killed millions and impoverished the survivors.

Sihanouk, seeking to regain the throne, joined the Khmer Rouge-dominated rebels after his overthrow. They had numbered only a few hundred until then, but his presence gave them a legitimacy they had never before enjoyed.

The alliance left Sihanouk open to subsequent criticism that he opened the way for the Khmer Rouge holocaust. But his relations with the rebels were always strained.

"The Khmer Rouge do not like me at all, and I know that. Ooh, la, la ... It is clear to me," he said in a 1973 interview. "When they no longer need me, they will spit me out like a cherry pit."

When the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975 and Sihanouk returned home, they detained him and ordered his execution. Only the personal intervention of Chinese leader Zhou Enlai saved him.

With Sihanouk under house arrest in the Royal Palace, the Khmer Rouge ran an ultra-radical Maoist regime from 1975 to 1979, emptying the cities to create a vast forced labor camp. An estimated 1.7 million Cambodians were executed or died of disease and hunger under their rule.

Vietnam invaded Cambodia in December 1978 and toppled the Khmer Rouge a few weeks later. Freed as the Vietnamese advanced on Phnom Penh, Sihanouk found exile in Beijing and North Korea.

From there, he headed an unlikely coalition of three guerrilla groups fighting the Vietnamese-installed puppet government. The war lasted a decade.

In a mix of politics and theater ? bringing his French poodle to negotiations, singing love songs over elaborate dinners ? Sihanouk engineered a cease-fire and moves toward national unity and peace.

Sihanouk headed the U. N.-supported interim structure that ran Cambodia until the 1993 elections, lending his prestige to attempts to unite Cambodia's factions.

The election was won by the royalist FUNCINPEC party of Sihanouk's son Prince Norodom Ranariddh. But it was forced into a coalition with the Cambodian People's Party of former Khmer Rouge officer Hun Sen.

In September 1993, Sihanouk re-ascended the throne in a traditional Khmer coronation.

But the bright promise of the elections soon faded.

Four years after the polls, Hun Sen ended his constant bickering with Ranariddh by overthrowing the prince in a violent coup that shattered the results of the election.

International pressure forced Hun Sen to accept Ranariddh's return for a second election in 1998, which was narrowly won by Hun Sen, but ended in more bloodshed as the royalists and other opposition parties forced a constitutional crisis by refusing to join a coalition with the CPP.

Sihanouk stayed on the sidelines for most of the two-year crisis, but as demonstrators clashed in the streets of Phnom Penh, he finally intervened by urging Ranariddh to accept a new coalition with his enemy Hun Sen.

During his last years, Sihanouk's profile and influence receded. While old people in the countryside still held him in reverence, the young generation regarded him as a figure of the past and one partly responsible for Cambodia's tragedy.

Rarely at a loss for words, he became for a time a prolific blogger, posting his musings on current affairs and past controversies. Most of his writing was literally in his own hand ? his site featured images of letters, usually in French in a cramped cursive script, along with handwritten marginalia to news clippings that caught his interest.

His production tailed off, however, as he retreated further from the public eye, spending more and more time under doctor's care in Beijing.

The hard-living Sihanouk had suffered ill health since the early 1990s. He endured cancer, a brain lesion and arterial, heart, lung, liver and eye ailments.

Ailing and weary of politics, Sihanouk stepped down from the throne in 2004 in favor of Sihamoni, a well-liked personality but one with little of the experience needed to negotiate Cambodia's political minefields.

Senior officials in Hun Sen's party were said to favor Sihamoni, a one-time ballet dancer and cultural ambassador, rather than a more combative figure to sit atop the influential throne.

In late 2011, on his return from another extended stay in China, Sihanouk dramatically declared that he never intended to leave his homeland again. But true to his mercurial reputation, he flew off to Beijing just a few months later for medical care.

During the same period, some of the defendants at Cambodia's U.N.-assisted genocide trial of former senior Khmer Rouge figures sought to divert blame from themselves by suggesting that Sihanouk, as their collaborator, shared responsibility for their actions, despite his powerlessness as their virtual prisoner.

In January, Sihanouk requested that he be cremated in the Cambodian and Buddhist tradition, asking that his ashes be put in an urn, preferably made of gold, and placed in a stupa at the country's Royal Palace.

Associated Press

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Actual & Engineered Hardwood Floors Vs Laminate Hardwood ...

Actual & Engineered Hardwood Floors vs Laminate Hardwood Floors

Let?s first distinguish the variations between real, solid hardwood flooring and engineered hardwood flooring. Actual hardwood is just how it sounds, actual wooden. It arrives in boards or strips, can be pre-completed or unfinished, and can be refinished many occasions over the life time of your wood flooring. Natural, solid hardwood floors can be eternal since they have a lengthy lifespan and really boost the value of your property. Engineered hardwood is made of actual wood as well but whatever wood your trying to install, whether or not it be oak, cherry, etc., won?t be accurate throughout the whole plank like strong hardwood. Rather, engineered hardwood only uses a skinny layer of the wood surface area you want on the leading layer of the plank. This means you can refinish engineered wooden flooring only once all through it?s use. Nevertheless, engineered wood floors are more versatile than solid wood flooring simply because you install it correct more than concrete, use it with flooring heating systems, and either at or beneath ground level. Irrespective of the flooring you pick, just keep in thoughts that each types of wooden flooring are topic to extreme dampness and drinking water harm, so try to maintain it out of truly moist areas in your house as well as the kitchen area and rest room. Of all the accessible flooring, strong hardwood is most likely heading to be the most expensive, and you will have to spend a pretty penny to have them professionally set up.

Laminate wood flooring just do a great job of looking like wood. It does not include any wood at all, in contrast to engineered flooring that has a skinny layer of it. Laminate floors instead utilizes a laminated image of whatever texture desired, from wooden to ceramic to terracotta, and lays that image more than a higher density fiberboard. Then that layer is place in between two levels of strong plastic which outcomes in a sturdy flooring materials. Laminates are perfect of higher traffic locations simply because they are highly resistant to stains, dents, simple to clear, and won?t fade from continuous daylight. The only draw back of this hardwood option is that it can?t be refinished if the surface area gets broken, and just like all-natural wooden, also much moisture will harm the top layer as nicely. Laminate floors are certainly a good, cheaper alternative to hardwood, and set up could arrive cheap because it?s truly easy to install these types of floors your self.

Porcelain Tiles vs Ceramic Tiles

Porcelain tiles and ceramic tiles are categorized in the same family of ?ceramic? clays. Nevertheless, it?s the minor small variations that tends to make these two differ in cost. Porcelain tiles have the colour from the top running via the entire tile. Ceramic tiles, on the other hand, have the colour baked correct on leading of the tile creating the inside a different colour than the exterior. Porcelain clays are much more durable, difficult sporting, and resistant to moisture and weather than ceramic clays because of its dense naturel creating porcelain a great choice for outside or in. Ceramic clays would be better for indoor use since the porous, less dense nature tends to make ceramic prone to climate harm and cracking as quickly as the temperature drops low sufficient. Since porcelain tiles are porcelain all the way through the tile, if you chipped a small little bit of it, you could hardly notice. Simply because ceramics only have the colour baked on leading of the tile, you?ll certainly notice the colour distinction of the leading and interior if you chip the tile. The gentle, much more porous attributes of ceramic tiles makes this the best tile to use if you are a Do-it-yourself person because you can cut the tiles yourself. But porcelain is much harder and denser, so you really need a professional to reduce them for you. In the end, your decision is all primarily based on preference, but ceramic tiles are the affordable option to porcelain. As long as ceramic tiles are well maintained, no one will place the distinction when you stand on them.

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Festive Halloween Tombstone Cookies Recipe

Entry #1719, October 13, 2012

How about a tombstone cookie treat for Halloween? It will surely be exciting. Not just with its looks and presentation but the taste. It?s very delectable and mouth-watering recipe for a Halloween dessert. You can allow your kids to explore and use their creativity to add creepy and spooky designs for the cookies.

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Create these fun cookies for your Halloween party

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  • 2 tablespoons cocoa nibs
  • 6 tablespoons butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup sugar, plus extra for sprinkling cookies
  • 1 large egg
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • Melted semisweet or bittersweet chocolate

1. Preheat oven to 400?. In a blender, whirl cocoa nibs until each is about the size of a grain of rice.

2. In the large bowl of an electric mixer, beat butter and 1/2 cup sugar until creamy; beat in egg and vanilla.

3. In another bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoa nibs; gradually add to butter mixture, blending thoroughly, to form a soft dough. Divide dough into thirds, cover each portion tightly with plastic wrap, and refrigerate until firm (at least 1 hour), or up to 3 days.

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Add scary RIP Halloween cupcakes to your cookies for a fun party!

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4. On a floured board, roll out dough, a portion at a time, to a thickness of 1/8 in. (keep dough refrigerated when not in use). With a sharp knife, cut out free-form tombstone shapes (about 1 1/2 by 3 in.; cut bottom edges at an angle to make them easier to poke into the pots de cr?me, and place slightly apart on ungreased baking sheets. Sprinkle generously with sugar.

5. Bake cookies until edges are lightly browned, about 8 to 10 minutes. Transfer to racks and let cool completely before handling.

6. Using a pastry bag with a very fine tip, pipe the letters ?RIP? in chocolate on at least 8 of the cookies. Stick these cookies into the Dark Chocolate Graveyard Pots de Cr?me and serve the rest of the cookies alongside.

This can be prepared ahead of time like 2 ? 3 days. Just ensure that you store in in an airtight container. The tombstone cookies recipe will definitely be something to look forward to in every Halloween celebration.

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Source: http://stagetecture.com/2012/10/festive-halloween-tombstone-cookies-recipe/

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Satellite left stranded by SpaceX rocket falls from space

PARIS ? Satellite messaging service provider Orbcomm on Oct. 11 said its prototype second-generation satellite, launched Oct. 7 into a bad orbit by a Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket, had fallen out of orbit but had provided enough data to proceed with the launch of the full constellation starting next year.

Fort Lee, N.J.-based Orbcomm, which plans to launch all 18 second-generation satellites aboard two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets, said it would be filing an insurance claim of $10 million to cover the loss of the satellite and the cost of the launch and the insurance policy.

In its statement, Orbcomm suggested that its satellite prime contractor, Sierra Nevada Corp. of Sparks, Nev., had enough access to the satellite in less than four days in orbit to validate the performance of its major subsystems.

If Orbcomm?s insurance underwriters accept this, then Orbcomm will not need to launch another prototype, but will be able to proceed with the launch of two groups of second-generation spacecraft on two Falcon 9 rockets. [ SpaceX to Space Station: Complete Coverage ]

Orbcomm said that, had its satellite been the primary payload on SpaceX?s Oct. 7 flight, the mission would have been a success. The main mission for the Falcon 9 was the delivery into orbit of the SpaceX Dragon space station cargo vehicle, which was berthed to the station on Oct. 10.

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SpaceX and NASA, which is SpaceX?s customer for the space station resupply missions, hailed the launch as a success, saying the Falcon 9 rocket?s flexibility was demonstrated by the fact that one of its nine Merlin first-stage engines shut down early in the flight.

It was that engine shutdown that forced SpaceX not to proceed with a reignition of the Falcon 9 engines later in the flight out of respect for NASA space station safety guidelines. With no reignition, the Falcon 9 left Orbcomm?s OG2 satellite in a too-low orbit.

?Notwithstanding the shortened life of the OG2 prototype, the OG2 program engineering teams ? made significant strides in testing various hardware components,? Orbcomm said. ?The solar array and communications antenna deployments were successful. ? The OG2 satellite bus systems including power, attitude control, thermal and data handling were also tested to verify proper operation.

?With this verification data, Orbcomm can focus on completing and launching the OG2 as the primary mission payloads on two planned Falcon 9 launches, the first in mid-2013 and the second in 2014, directly into their operational orbit.?

In an Oct. 8 statement describing the first-stage engine shutdown, SpaceX sought to highlight the Falcon 9 rocket?s robustness given that it delivered the Dragon capsule to the required orbit. Neither Orbcomm nor the OG2 satellite was mentioned in the SpaceX statement.

SpaceX spokeswoman Katherine Nelson on Oct. 11 issued a follow-up statement that dealt with the Orbcomm payload.

"The goal of this mission was to transport cargo to the International Space Station for NASA," the statement said. "Orbcomm requested that SpaceX carry one of their small satellites (weighing a few hundred pounds, vs. Dragon at over 12,000 pounds) on this flight so that they could gather test data before we launch their full constellation next year.

"The higher the orbit, the more test data they can gather, so they requested that we attempt to restart and raise altitude. NASA agreed to allow that, but only on condition that there be substantial propellant reserves, since the orbit would be close to the space station.

"It is important to appreciate that Orbcomm understood from the beginning that the orbit-raising maneuver was tentative. They accepted that there was a high risk of their satellite remaining at the Dragon insertion orbit. SpaceX would not have agreed to fly their satellite otherwise, since this was not part of the core mission and there was a known, material risk of no altitude raise."

This story was provided by Space News, dedicated to covering all aspects of the space industry.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49403078/ns/technology_and_science-space/

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Meteorite delivers Martian secrets to University of Alberta researcher

Friday, October 12, 2012

A meteorite that landed in the Moroccan desert 14 months ago is providing more information about Mars, the planet where it originated. University of Alberta researcher Chris Herd helped in the study of the Tissint meteorite, in which traces of Mars' unique atmosphere are trapped.

"Our team matched traces of gases found inside the Tissint meteorite with samples of Mars' atmosphere collected in 1976 by Viking, NASA's Mars lander mission," said Herd.

Herd explained that 600 million years ago the meteorite started out as a fairly typical volcanic rock on the surface of Mars when it was launched off the planet by the impact of an asteroid.

"At the instant of that impact with Mars, a shock wave shot through the rock," said Herd. "Cracks and fissures within the rock were sealed instantly by the heat, trapping components of Mars' atmosphere inside, and forming black, glassy spots."

The team estimates that for a period between 700,000 and one million years the rock floated through outer space until July, 2011 when it streaked through Earth's atmosphere landing in Morocco.

This is only the fifth time a Martian meteorite landing was witnessed. Herd says the fact that it was picked up just a few months after landing and was not subjected to weathering or contamination on this planet is the key reason why this meteorite is so important.

The Martian weathering involved water, which means water was present on the surface of Mars within the past few hundred million years. But Herd says this meteorite sample does not carry any evidence the water supported any life forms.

"Because the Martian rock was subject to such intense heat any water borne microbial life forms that may have existed deep within cracks of the rock would have been destroyed," said Herd.

Curiosity, NASA's current Mars Rover mission is moving around the Red Planet searching for more information on the history of Mars.

The team's study makes a return mission to Mars that will bring rocks back to Earth all the more crucial, "Martian rocks delivered to Earth by a space craft would provide the best opportunity to see if life was ever clinging to the surface of Mars."

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Published online Oct.11 in the journal Science.

University of Alberta: http://www.ualberta.ca

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Our Academic Vision | Seattle Girls' School Blog

After attending this year?s ERB Conference, I was struck by the fact that educators, business professionals, leaders, and families are ALL asking the same question?? What should we teach and how should we measure outcomes? As we embrace new jargon like ?21st century skills? or ?design thinking? we will need to connect the classroom laboratories with leaders in business, non-profit work, philanthropy, and education. SGS learning experiences are often described as that ?rare class? where academic content is used to develop students? core competencies, where complex, multi-step problems are regularly featured, where students seek multiple solutions that require creativity and imagination; and where success requires team work.

Our academic vision keeps Four Essential Questions at its core:

  • How should we teach?? Student and team-centered, by doing, by constructing meaning through expert teachers who guide and question.
  • How should we assess? Outcomes
  1. For Students ? Hard and ?soft? data supporting the Graduate Profile
  2. For Staff ? Annual Performance Planning and Evaluation
  3. For the School ? The Accreditation Cycle
  • How do we embed this vision? Transformational Leadership at all levels

Our vision is ?Future-Focused? and recognizes shifts that are already happening in education today. Doing is becoming more critical than Knowing. Teacher-centered classrooms are becoming more and more Student-centered. The Individual finds greater success within The Team. Consumption of Information is being replaced by the need to Construct Meaning.? Schools are fast becoming part of local and global Networks. Crowd Sourcing (Wikipedia) has already replaced Single Sourcing (Encyclopedia Britannica).

I invite you to take a look at a presentation that provides a high level look at the SGS academic vision, a vision that is responding to an evolving landscape for teaching and learning.

Our Academic Vision

Source: http://www.seattlegirlsschool.org/blog/2012/10/13/our-academic-vision/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=our-academic-vision

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Henry VIII's country mansion to be sold

London, Oct 12

p>One of British king Henry VIII's country estates, built in the early 1500s, has been put up for sale for 26 million pounds.

The Old Rectory is a Tudor mansion in Wimbledon Park, the Daily Mail reported.

Spanning 16,200 square feet, the palatial building has 10 bedrooms, nine bathrooms, eight reception rooms and a medieval chapel.

Norman Plastow, president of The Wimbledon Society historical group, said: "I have been there several times. There are interesting things like a tunnel by the study."

"To get up to the top floor attic, you opened a cupboard and inside the cupboard was a staircase which finished at knee level and you pulled a handle and out came two more steps," he said.

Over its 500-year history, the mansion has played host to many kings and lords.

Henry VIII had dozens of properties across the country, including castles, palaces, hunting lodges and defensive fortresses. He died at Whitehall Palace in 1547.

The monarch is best known for his six wives and his imposing figure after becoming morbidly obese in later life.

Some of Henry VIII's other places still well known today are Windsor Castle, Tower of London, Dover Castle, Eltham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Hall, Leeds Castle, Hampton Court Palace, St James Palace and Whitehall Palace, among others.

Source: http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a333978.html

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