from details of story posted at NASA dot-gov website:
NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin launched to the International Space Station at 11:14 p.m. EST Sunday (10:14 a.m. Kazakhstan time, Monday) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Burbank, Shkaplerov and Ivanishin are scheduled to dock their Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft with their new home at 11:33 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, and join Expedition 29 Commander Mike Fossum of NASA and Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov. Fossum will hand over command of the station to the new crew within four days.
On Tuesday, coverage of the Soyuz docking will begin on NASA Television at 11 p.m. NASA TV coverage of the hatches opening and the welcoming ceremony aboard the orbiting laboratory will begin at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Fossum, Furukawa and Volkov launched in June and are scheduled to return to Earth in their Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft at 8:24 p.m. Nov. 21 (8:24 a.m. Kazakhstan time on Nov. 22). Expedition 30 begins when the current crew undocks, leaving Burbank in command. A formal change of command ceremony is planned for Nov. 20 and will be aired on NASA TV during a video file Nov. 21 at 8 a.m.
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/nov/HQ_11-381_Expedition_29_launch.html
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Gov. Snyder calls for "Michigan Version 3.0" (Michigan Emerging Conference 2012)
Gov. Rick Snyder wants to upgrade Michigan to its 3.0 version.
“We were the entrepreneurial and innovation capital of the world,” he said in a keynote address at the 2012 Michigan Emerging business conference at Cobo Hall in Detroit. “It goes beyond anything Silicon Valley is today.
“The challenge became we were too successful in many respects. We built these huge companies and we somewhat became complacent about it.
“We’ve gone downhill probably for the last 40 or 50 years because of the great success we had.”
The former Gateway executive said Michigan’s two previous editions -- primarily led by natural resources such as fur, mining and timber in the 1800s, then the automotive, cereal and chemical industries in the 1900s or so -- were founded on the belief of entrepreneurship.
Snyder laid out five important things that will upgrade Detroit to its newest version: Technology, talent, capital, infrastructure and culture.
“My call to action to you, in addition to succeeding at your entrepreneurial efforts, is to help change our culture,” he said. “Get to a culture that is positive, that’s forward looking, that’s inclusive.
“It’s about Michiganders winning together,” he continued. That’s the spirit that made Michigan 1.0 and Michigan 2.0.”
The https://twitter.com/#!/onetoughnerdalso added that legal immigration is a good thing to drive business innovation, and tax incentives are not the way to build business.
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2011/11/snyder_time_to_create_michigan.html
“We were the entrepreneurial and innovation capital of the world,” he said in a keynote address at the 2012 Michigan Emerging business conference at Cobo Hall in Detroit. “It goes beyond anything Silicon Valley is today.
“The challenge became we were too successful in many respects. We built these huge companies and we somewhat became complacent about it.
“We’ve gone downhill probably for the last 40 or 50 years because of the great success we had.”
The former Gateway executive said Michigan’s two previous editions -- primarily led by natural resources such as fur, mining and timber in the 1800s, then the automotive, cereal and chemical industries in the 1900s or so -- were founded on the belief of entrepreneurship.
Snyder laid out five important things that will upgrade Detroit to its newest version: Technology, talent, capital, infrastructure and culture.
“My call to action to you, in addition to succeeding at your entrepreneurial efforts, is to help change our culture,” he said. “Get to a culture that is positive, that’s forward looking, that’s inclusive.
“It’s about Michiganders winning together,” he continued. That’s the spirit that made Michigan 1.0 and Michigan 2.0.”
The https://twitter.com/#!/onetoughnerdalso added that legal immigration is a good thing to drive business innovation, and tax incentives are not the way to build business.
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2011/11/snyder_time_to_create_michigan.html
Free $1 Presidential Coins (James Garfield) to be given away at Mentor, OH (birthplace of President G.)
from http:// the hiramcollege.net - NEWS:
- Thursday, Nov. 17: The James A. Garfield Presidential $1 coin will be unveiled at the James A. Garfield National Historic Site at 8095 Mentor Ave. in Mentor, Ohio. The ceremony runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and will feature a keynote speech by Allan Peskin, professor of history (emeritus) at Cleveland State University and the author of Garfield, the definitive biography of the man. The first 500 children in attendance will receive a free $1 Garfield coin and the Cardinal Community Credit Union of Mentor will be on hand to exchange cash for the coins. The Garfield coin unveiling is part of the U.S. Mint’s gradual release of a $1 coin for each of the nation’s presidents.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Born on this date in A.D. 354 (St. Augustine of Hippo) - birth and upbringing (U. Michigan Great Books Chronology)
354 — Born November 13 in Thagaste in the province of Numidia in North Africa (today Souk Ahras in Algeria), Aurelius Augustinus was the son of a pagan father, Patricius, and a Berber Christian mother, Monica. The family, which included two brothers and a sister, was respectable but somewhat impoverished.
354-365 — The infancy and early schooling of Augustine. Determined to secure a future for his intelligent son, Patricius made great financial sacrifices to see that Augustine received a classical Latin education in the local school. Augustine delighted in Latin literature, but he detested the brutally enforced rote learning of arithmetic and Greek.
GREAT BOOKS 202
354-365 — The infancy and early schooling of Augustine. Determined to secure a future for his intelligent son, Patricius made great financial sacrifices to see that Augustine received a classical Latin education in the local school. Augustine delighted in Latin literature, but he detested the brutally enforced rote learning of arithmetic and Greek.
GREAT BOOKS 202
Chronology of the Life of Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (A.D. 354-430)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rdwallin/syl/GreatBooks/202.W99/Augustine/AugustineChron.htmlCandidates for nomination (2012) spar over "Torture definition" and "Waterboarding" of detained suspects
from the Nov. 12 CBS News & National Journal sponsored TV broadcast debate from Wofford College, South Carolina (8 - 9 p.m. Eastern )
Cain, along with Michele Bachmann, said he supports the use of waterboarding, which Cain said isn't torture but an "enhanced interrogation technique." Paul disagreed, saying "waterboarding is torture" and "torture is illegal" under both U.S. and international law as well as "immoral." Jon Huntsman sided with Paul, saying waterboarding is torture and the U.S. abdicates its values by engaging in it.
from longer story -- http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57323686-503544/romney-gingrich-at-gop-debate-wed-go-to-war-to-keep-iran-from-getting-nuclear-weapons/?tag=pop;stories
Cain, along with Michele Bachmann, said he supports the use of waterboarding, which Cain said isn't torture but an "enhanced interrogation technique." Paul disagreed, saying "waterboarding is torture" and "torture is illegal" under both U.S. and international law as well as "immoral." Jon Huntsman sided with Paul, saying waterboarding is torture and the U.S. abdicates its values by engaging in it.
from longer story -- http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57323686-503544/romney-gingrich-at-gop-debate-wed-go-to-war-to-keep-iran-from-getting-nuclear-weapons/?tag=pop;stories
Sunday Nov. 13 (11:14 a.m.) - New Astronaut crew - engineers to launch aboard Soyuz spacecraft
A new trio of International Space Station residents, Expedition 29 Flight Engineers Dan Burbank, Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, are set to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:14 p.m. EST Sunday (11:14 a.m. Baikonur time Monday) aboard the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft.
In preparation for Sunday’s launch, the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft is scheduled to roll out to the launch pad Friday morning. The rollout will not be seen live on NASA TV. Video of the rollout will be played on NASA TV at 12 p.m. Friday. Photos of the rollout will be posted on http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/ when they become available.
Burbank, Shkaplerov and Ivanishin will join Expedition 29 crewmates Commander Mike Fossum and Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa and Sergei Volkov when their spacecraft docks to the Poisk mini-research module at 12:33 a.m. Wednesday.
Five days later Expedition 29 will end when Fossum, Furukawa and Volkov return home inside the Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft. The trio is scheduled to undock from the Rassvet mini-research module Nov. 21 and land in Kazakhstan at 9:25 p.m. Expedition 30 will officially begin when the Soyuz TMA-02M undocks. Burbank will take over station command in a ceremony scheduled to take place on Nov. 20.
Aboard the orbiting International Space Station Thursday, Fossum, Furukawa and Volkov continued preparations for their upcoming departure, gathering and packing gear for return to Earth inside the departing Soyuz spacecraft. They also performed a series of leak checks on their Sokol launch and entry suits.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/living/index.html
In preparation for Sunday’s launch, the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft is scheduled to roll out to the launch pad Friday morning. The rollout will not be seen live on NASA TV. Video of the rollout will be played on NASA TV at 12 p.m. Friday. Photos of the rollout will be posted on http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/ when they become available.
Burbank, Shkaplerov and Ivanishin will join Expedition 29 crewmates Commander Mike Fossum and Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa and Sergei Volkov when their spacecraft docks to the Poisk mini-research module at 12:33 a.m. Wednesday.
Five days later Expedition 29 will end when Fossum, Furukawa and Volkov return home inside the Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft. The trio is scheduled to undock from the Rassvet mini-research module Nov. 21 and land in Kazakhstan at 9:25 p.m. Expedition 30 will officially begin when the Soyuz TMA-02M undocks. Burbank will take over station command in a ceremony scheduled to take place on Nov. 20.
Aboard the orbiting International Space Station Thursday, Fossum, Furukawa and Volkov continued preparations for their upcoming departure, gathering and packing gear for return to Earth inside the departing Soyuz spacecraft. They also performed a series of leak checks on their Sokol launch and entry suits.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/living/index.html
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Pizza and Potatoes in the School Lunch Program (how will Congress "count" the vegetables?) - Politico Posted article (11/12)
HOW Will POTATOES & PIZZA be counted ? Does it matter that Schwan's and ConAgra are lobbying for their "count" as far as Vegetables in Nutrition minimums? (Nov. 12 online details: Politico dot-com)
The white potato loophole in new dietary rules for school lunches just got bigger – about the size of a slice of pizza.
That’s the latest from the green vegetable front as the Food and Nutrition Service tries to stay on track with its proposal, while also coping with major corporations piling on behind the House and Senate Appropriations committees that govern the Agriculture Department’s budget.
The potato and French-fry industry scored the first breakthrough last month when the Senate adopted an amendment that voided the proposed FNS limits on starchy vegetables. Now negotiations with the House have expanded to help pizza makers preserve their claim that tomato paste packs a much outsized wallop as a vegetable.
The precise legislation isn’t expected to be made public until late Monday, but the outlines were confirmed to POLITICO by two persons familiar with the draft conference report, which reflects the strong influence of ConAgra Foods and the Schwan Food Company, both of which sell pizza served in the school lunch program.
Barring a major reversal, the provision will become law as part of a compromise spending bill that Congress hopes to send to the White House within a week and which includes an estimated $19.6 billion for the Agriculture Department and Food and Drug Administration.
House Republicans have agreed to restore billions previously cut from President Barack Obama’s budget request, including funds for child nutrition programs and food aid overseas. But as part of the horse trading, the Senate’s potato amendment opened the door for lobbyists seeking additional changes in the nutrition rules.
The added provisions touch broadly on new whole grain and reduced sodium content standards in the rules – all relevant to pizza. But the most immediate issue is how much credit should be given to the tomato paste on a typical pizza slice.
Currently, pizza enjoys a one-to-four multiplier, allowing one slice – with two tablespoons of tomato paste – to be counted as eight tablespoons or half a cup of vegetables, the equivalent of one serving on school menus.
The new proposal seeks to apply a stricter volume standard and thereby take away a valuable marketing tool for companies like Schwan, which boasts of its improved pizza products for school meals.
“Basically Congress is fighting to keep pizza and French fries on the school menus when we have an obesity problem nationally,” said Margo Wootan, director for Nutrition Policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. “It’s shameful.”
Read more:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68206.html#ixzz1dXAdelVS
The white potato loophole in new dietary rules for school lunches just got bigger – about the size of a slice of pizza.
That’s the latest from the green vegetable front as the Food and Nutrition Service tries to stay on track with its proposal, while also coping with major corporations piling on behind the House and Senate Appropriations committees that govern the Agriculture Department’s budget.
The potato and French-fry industry scored the first breakthrough last month when the Senate adopted an amendment that voided the proposed FNS limits on starchy vegetables. Now negotiations with the House have expanded to help pizza makers preserve their claim that tomato paste packs a much outsized wallop as a vegetable.
The precise legislation isn’t expected to be made public until late Monday, but the outlines were confirmed to POLITICO by two persons familiar with the draft conference report, which reflects the strong influence of ConAgra Foods and the Schwan Food Company, both of which sell pizza served in the school lunch program.
Barring a major reversal, the provision will become law as part of a compromise spending bill that Congress hopes to send to the White House within a week and which includes an estimated $19.6 billion for the Agriculture Department and Food and Drug Administration.
House Republicans have agreed to restore billions previously cut from President Barack Obama’s budget request, including funds for child nutrition programs and food aid overseas. But as part of the horse trading, the Senate’s potato amendment opened the door for lobbyists seeking additional changes in the nutrition rules.
The added provisions touch broadly on new whole grain and reduced sodium content standards in the rules – all relevant to pizza. But the most immediate issue is how much credit should be given to the tomato paste on a typical pizza slice.
Currently, pizza enjoys a one-to-four multiplier, allowing one slice – with two tablespoons of tomato paste – to be counted as eight tablespoons or half a cup of vegetables, the equivalent of one serving on school menus.
The new proposal seeks to apply a stricter volume standard and thereby take away a valuable marketing tool for companies like Schwan, which boasts of its improved pizza products for school meals.
“Basically Congress is fighting to keep pizza and French fries on the school menus when we have an obesity problem nationally,” said Margo Wootan, director for Nutrition Policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. “It’s shameful.”
Read more:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68206.html#ixzz1dXAdelVS
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)