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Dec. 12, 2012 ? Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted what appears to be a miniature, extraterrestrial likeness of Earth's Nile River: a river valley on Saturn's moon Titan that stretches more than 200 miles (400 kilometers) from its "headwaters" to a large sea. It is the first time images have revealed a river system this vast and in such high resolution anywhere other than Earth.
Scientists deduce that the river, which is in Titan's north polar region, is filled with liquid hydrocarbons because it appears dark along its entire length in the high-resolution radar image, indicating a smooth surface.
"Though there are some short, local meanders, the relative straightness of the river valley suggests it follows the trace of at least one fault, similar to other large rivers running into the southern margin of this same Titan sea," said Jani Radebaugh, a Cassini radar team associate at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. "Such faults -- fractures in Titan's bedrock -- may not imply plate tectonics, like on Earth, but still lead to the opening of basins and perhaps to the formation of the giant seas themselves."
The new image is available online at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia16197.html .
Titan is the only other world we know of that has stable liquid on its surface. While Earth's hydrologic cycle relies on water, Titan's equivalent cycle involves hydrocarbons such as ethane and methane. In Titan's equatorial regions, images from Cassini's visible-light cameras in late 2010 revealed regions that darkened due to recent rainfall. Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer confirmed liquid ethane at a lake in Titan's southern hemisphere known as Ontario Lacus in 2008.
"Titan is the only place we've found besides Earth that has a liquid in continuous movement on its surface," said Steve Wall, the radar deputy team lead, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "This picture gives us a snapshot of a world in motion. Rain falls, and rivers move that rain to lakes and seas, where evaporation starts the cycle all over again. On Earth, the liquid is water; on Titan, it's methane; but on both it affects most everything that happens."
The radar image here was taken on Sept. 26, 2012. It shows Titan's north polar region, where the river valley flows into Kraken Mare, a sea that is, in terms of size, between the Caspian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea on Earth. The real Nile River stretches about 4,100 miles (6,700 kilometers). The processes that led to the formation of Earth's Nile are complex, but involve faulting in some regions.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and ASI, the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the US and several European countries. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
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As I mentioned in my initial post about Rantmedia's mobile rejuvenation effort, I lost my Vectrex to a game of Russian Roulette. Every game, every colored plastic overlay gone in a tragic flash of teenage stupidity.
I've pondered purchasing the console on eBay, hunting down all of the games and then constructing a shrine. Perhaps one day I will. Until then, the combination of the iPad app and the iCade will do quite nicely.
Vectrex Regeneration, a free app available now on iTunes, features nearly every game made for the original system (Minestorm is free, a mega pack containing everything else is $6.99), as well as several fan creations that weren't. The system is emulated perfectly; even the hot spots where the vector lines meet are intact. You can even turn the colored overlays off to simulate an irresponsible original Vectrex owner.
The app also features a collection of original commercials for the doomed system, full of promise never realized. It's a lovely tribute.
The iCade Bluetooth arcade controller, reviewed by Mr. Brian Crecente last year, is a sexy little bit of retro goodness, built on technology that's catching on among iOS developers. It's amazingly solid for its size. The buttons are loud and the stick a bit stiff, but that's nothing that won't work itself out over time. ThinkGeek has the iCade on sale right now for $69.99 ($79.99 for shop-exclusive retro side art). Even at the regular price of $99 it comes highly recommended.
Source: http://kotaku.com/5967763/with-ipad-and-icade-combined-a-classic-game-console-is-reborn
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December 12, 2012 at 8:40 am
It is that time of the year when your employees can be expected to spend time (virtually or in-person) with family such as older loved ones.? Employers that provide employees company-sponsored adult/elder care and caregiving resources should not miss this window of time to communicate.? From now through the first quarter on 2013, employees are getting an up close (for many, annual) look at how well older loved ones are faring.
As they return to work after the new year, many will reflect on what they should, could, wished they did, wonder if they should..? Basically?just overall worry about how to support the realities associated with aging loved ones and family care responsibilities.? While this is going on, ?incidents of presenteeism and lost productivity can be expected to follow.
We know from AARP ?that employees experience caregiving challenges because?45 to 64-year-olds make up the biggest age group in the workplace to care for a parent (22%).? And with people delaying retirement (often for financial reasons),the?aging and/or?medically fragile spouse represents an emerging segment of the family care population in need of current or future caregiving support.
Did you see ?Silent Scream, the PSA sponsored by AARP and the Ad Council?? It is designed to raise awareness about the caregiving challenges in the US,?how complex and destructive unsupported careginging can be to?families.? It is so important that employers? address these realities.
If you work in an organization that is providing some kind of support to employees with elder care giving responsibilities THANK YOU (that is from society)!? But as with any and all employee benefits, they are only as useful as employees are aware of and can access the resource.? This is the time when you have employee?s attention.? Consider it a teachable moment.? Speak with your vendor and explore ways to communicate and promote these important resources so that employees get the help they may need.? And employers benefit from an engaged workforce.
If however, your company has not begun to explore the needs of employees with adult care and elder caregiving responsibilities, now is the time.? We have learned a lot about best practice approaches to supporting employee caregiving responsibilities.? SHRM released an interesting report Best Practices in Workplace Eldercare that offers several options.? At Bright Horizons we know the impact supports can have through a company sponsored back-up program.??the employer will benefit from reduced absenteeism and increase loyalty.
As an employer, perhaps it begins with an assessment of current need.? And if you just want to check in with your managers and C-suite folks, I can almost guarantee that there is pent up demand for resources, information, guidance and/or services that can make it easier for these high potential employees to manage work responsibilities and family care challenges outside of work.? However you choose to proceed, wait until after the holidays to ask employees about their adult/elder care concerns.??After they have been with family and had first- hand experience of an older relative who is, well, getting older?
Hey- any good ideas for reaching your workforce with reminders and promotions of your existing adult/elder care resources?? We would love to hear about it.
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The US Air Force's aims with each X-37B mission continue to be shrouded in secrecy, but we're learning a little more now that it has launched the autonomous space plane for a third time. In once more flying the OTV-1, the original vehicle that reached orbit in 2010, the military branch is clear that testing reusability is a major goal: it wants to know if these spacecraft can take more than one trip without suffering ill effects. We likewise know that navigation, re-entry and other basics will be under scrutiny, even if the military won't talk about the payload. Just when we'll see OTV-1 back on Earth is another matter. The USAF is still standing by its official line that the X-37B is built to stay spaceborne for nine months, but it's remaining open to longer missions if conditions permit. Given that OTV-2 took more than a year to return, we wouldn't be surprised if we're just becoming comfortable with 2014 by the time the vehicle's sibling touches down.
Continue reading USAF relaunches its first X-37B on a slightly less mysterious spaceflight
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>>> not to spoil your next birthday party , but a british chemist is urging a ban on the use of helium for party balloons . he says helium is a rare gas and it's too precious to be wasted on nonessential items. he says it's vital to medical procedures including mri scans, and it's naturally occurring and can't be manufactured. dr. peter olvers says in 50 years time our children will say i can't believe they used such a precious material to fill balloons. no reaction as of yet from british 5-year-olds.
Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/50152653/
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