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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kenney Space Center in Florida, the company's 11th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 5:07 p.m. EDT from the historic launch site now operated by SpaceX under a property agreement with NASA. The Dragon spacecraft will deliver 6,000 pounds of supplies, such as the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, designed to study the extraordinary physics of these stars, providing insights into their nature and behavior.
Photo credit: NASA/Tony Gray
'Autism' editorial cartoon by Jeff Langcaon for Island Insights hosted by Dan Boylan. Island Insights is a live, one-hour discussion program which addresses issues affecting life in our Hawaiian Islands. Island Insights can be seen on Thursday evenings at 7:30 on PBS Hawaii.
The State Library’s Talking Book Services partners with the SC School for the Deaf and Blind to sponsor an informational workshop for library staff, educators, and others who work with individuals who are blind or low vision. Participants will learn ways to accommodate patrons or students as well as agencies to contact when they encounter someone in need of services. Approved for teacher recertification credit!
The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Events:
Keynote speaker Erica Powell
ADA and Accommodation--How small adjustments can make a difference in access
Blindness Sensitivity and Service Animal Etiquette
JAWS software demo and computer accessibility
Exhibits and informational materials from state and local agencies who serve the needs of the visually impaired
Keynote speaker Erica Powell:
Erica Powell graduated from Clemson University in 2015 where she earned a Bachelor's degree in Psychology. During her time at Clemson, Erica was a scholarship student athlete on the Clemson Cheerleading team. Erica is a cancer survivor and has had progressive vision loss since childhood as a result of her cancer treatment. As a student athlete with a visual disability, Erica recognized the opportunity to advocate for disability pride and self-advocacy during her time at Clemson. Since making that realization, Erica has become an entrepreneur, is the EQUIP Coordinator for the EQUIP Leadership Group with ABLE SC, and travels the country as a Professional Inspirational Speaker. Through speaking, Erica gets to use her personal story of overcoming barriers in life to teach audiences how to create an unstoppable mindset and reach their greatest potential! Erica is a marathon runner, fitness enthusiast, business owner, and lover of her crazy lab puppy named Grant!
For:
Librarians, library staff, teachers, media specialists, and anyone who works with individuals who are blind or low vision
Trainer:
South Carolina State Library staff
Cost:
Free (registration required)
Parking is free at the museum, and the museum will be open until 8:00 for participants to visit.
Location:
South Carolina State Museum, 301 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Questions about the session? Contact:
Kaitlyn Hodges
South Carolina State Library
803-734-4625
khodges@statelibrary.sc.gov
Governments around the world are drawing on behavioural insights to improve public policy outcomes: from automatic enrolment for pensions, to better tax compliance, to increasing the supply of organ donation.
But those very same policy makers are also subject to biases that can distort decision making. The Behavioural Insights Team has been studying those biases and what can be done to counter them, in collaboration with Jill Rutter and Julian McCrae of the Institute for Government.
The report was launched with remarks from Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
Dr Michael Hallsworth, Director of the Behavioural Insights Team in North America presented the key findings.
The findings, their relevance to policy making today, and what they mean for the way governments make decisions were discussed by:
Polly Mackenzie, Director of Policy for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2010–15 and now Director of Demos
Dr Tony Curzon Price, Economic Advisor to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
#IfGBIT
Photos by Candice McKenzie
a westerner who surrendered himself to buddhism, occupied in morning prayers. view on black @ better view
see his portrait here
Launch of the NASA Mars InSight mission, May 5 2018, from Tucson Arizona.
I didn't think there was too much chance of catching it, since it was very far away (off the California coast) and might not be high enough to be visible. But there it is, across the bottom of the frame.
RAW Live Composite file (618 one second exposures at f5.6,, OM 50mm f1.8 lens) processed with RAW Therapee.
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Der erste Insight ist eine zweisitzige Schräghecklimousine. Er war das erste massenproduzierte Hybridauto, welches in den USA verkauft wurde (in Japan jedoch wurde die erste Generation des Toyota Prius bereits 1997 eingeführt). Mit einem DIN-Verbrauch von 3,4 l auf 100 km und einer CO2-Emission von nur 80 g/km war er das erste serienmäßige 3-Liter-Auto mit Ottomotor.
Von den ca. 12.000 bis 2006 produzierten Einheiten wurden im Jahr 2000 ca. 100 Fahrzeuge an deutsche Händler für Präsentationszwecke ausgeliefert. Offiziell hat Honda dieses Niedrigenergiefahrzeug nicht auf dem deutschen Markt angeboten.
Der Insight verfügt über einen 3-Zylinder-Ottomotor und einen bürstenlosen Elektromotor auf der Kurbelwelle. Hinter dem Fahrer- und Beifahrersitz befindet sich ein Akkupack aus NiMH-Akkumulatoren mit einer Nennspannung von 144 V. Während der Beschleunigung und Bergauffahrten stellt der Elektromotor zusätzliche Leistung bereit; beim Abbremsen oder Bergabfahren fungiert der Elektromotor als Generator und lädt die Akkumulatoren in Art einer Rekuperation. Ein Computer steuert dabei, welche Leistung vom Verbrennungsmotor und welche vom Elektromotor abgegeben wird; in der CVT-Variante zusätzlich die optimale Übersetzung.
Im Insight ist die erste Generation der Hybridtechnologie von Honda verbaut, während im Honda Civic IMA die nächste Generation, welche weniger Platz benötigt, zum Einsatz kommt. Auf dem Armaturenbrett wird der Ladestand der Akkus angezeigt, ebenso der Zustand des Elektromotors: ob er den Verbrennungsmotor unterstützt oder als Generator die Akkumulatoren auflädt. Das manuelle 5-Gang-Getriebe ist extrem lang übersetzt, sodass die Höchstgeschwindigkeit knapp im 3. Gang erreicht wird, im 5. jedoch nicht. In jedem Fall regelt die Motorsteuerung die Spritzufuhr bei 185 km/h ab. Theoretisch ist bei ausreichendem Gefälle eine Höchstgeschwindigkeit von weit über 220 km/h möglich, da die Vollaluminium-Karosserie mit einem c_w-Wert von 0,25 einen Spitzenwert erreicht. Nach dem Honda NSX 1990 war der Insight der zweite Honda in Vollalu-Bauweise und konstruktiv eng verwandt mit dem Audi Space Frame. (Wikipedia)
DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 24JAN14 - William H. Gates III, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA, gestures during the session 'An Insight, An Idea with Bill Gates' at the Annual Meeting 2014 of the World Economic Forum at the congress centre in Davos, January 24, 2014.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch/Photo Michael Buholzer
May 2018 will see the launch of the NASA Insight mission, in which a lander will carry out geophysical measurements directly on the surface of Mars to explore the planet's inner structure and thermal balance. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has contributed to this mission in the form of the HP3 instrument.
More about NASA & DLR's mission on DLR.de/insight
Credit: DLR (CC-BY 3.0)
Tema: Design de Guerrilha - ONGs
Sub-tema: Rede Interferência
Integrantes: Daniel Biazuzo, Julio Vieira, Karine Sampaio Oliveira, Ricardo Garcia, Sidnei Cavalli e Victor Melo.
Semestre: 2º DD
Ano: 2009
Catherine got me this book because she thought I should cultivate a spiritual path of some sort. She didn't want to be the only one studying a spiritual path. She recognized that my spiritual inclination was more shamanic and earth based than Buddhist, so she got this book because of some other book my mother mentioned that had turned her onto synchronicity. One of the reviews of that book said it was too vague and mentioned this book.
I liked that it wasn't completely wu wu like many of these create your own reality books even though it does have a similar message. Because the author had a background in psychology, but then embraced shamanism it was easy to follow how he first understood the mind and then learned to fathom something much broader and interconnected with the planet.
We've heard of the reptilian brain because it was explained in the New Yorker article by the French guy who marketed the SUV. Known here as the Serpent level, it is primarily interested in survival. This author adds three more brain levels. The next one up is Jaguar which is the intellectual brain interpreting how our thoughts influence our experience of reality. This is the realm of psychology differentiating elements of reality, explaining the world with science and knowledge. Then we come to Hummingbird where the soul experiences itself as sacred and the journey is described in myth by artists, poets, musicians and dreams. Finally there is Eagle where the soul becomes one with the universe.
These three new brain levels gave me all I needed to lay to rest my argument with the psychological approach to the human condition and confirmed for me that the interpretations of artists and writers was a more evolved picture of the soul. Given this new tool, I immediately turned to the nearest psychologist I was having trouble with and bludgeoned her with it. So much for my maturity.
He then offers a summary of the 9 chakras and what they do plus exercise to cleanse the chakras. The next step is to get a hold of our stories. Because Western culture is so obliterated by the warped tales of Christian dogma, our stories generally involve a victim (usually us), a perpetrator (them) and a rescuer (knight in shining armor). He has the reader write their life story; one story as the victim of all that life dished out for us and one as the recipient of gifts along the way that provided exactly the right lessons we needed to learn. Luckily I did this already and also included the next exercise which is one to honor the gifts of our ancestors.
He talks about shedding all the cultural stories and expectations, including how we will die. Also how to overcome fear. This all points to how we can rethink our lives by becoming the creators, the story tellers of our lives. This makes much more sense to me than the whole make your own reality sloganeering. I understand stories. I understand that they are journeys of the imagination that once created with language, give back with insight and firm up intention. He talks about praying, not for a certain outcome but for the life force to take over and create with us. This is much more appealing to me since I never believed the bit about how the client has all the answers and the coach just has to help them get to the answers. That just makes me feel like I'm trapped in the pinball machine of my own limited mind.
Finally he comes to the moment of nothingness in which he shows us where to look for our inner sage by asking two questions. The first applying to what one is doing or experiencing i.e. "who is writing this book review?". Then ask "who is asking this question." And look at who or what that is.
After that you dream the world you want, i.e. be the change you want to see in the world and stop using those god damn plastic bags. But to really get it he describes how to rethink time not as cause and effect in linear time, but by stepping out of that timeline and seeing all time at once. Once we step out of time we can see the most desirable outcome and choose it. To grasp this concept I saw time as a story teller would, in that I could write a story from beginning to end by going back to the past and highlighting those events which led to the present and then foreseeing the events that would lead to the outcome I wanted. For instance if I wanted to live a long life and die the day after a lovely hike in the mountains what would that story look like? I would have to be the sort of person who would go hiking indefinitely. Which means I would have to be hiking right now. And that of course makes the present very important.
Then I went to karate class and was so psyched that I was going to live in peak physical condition until the day before I died that I experienced an extraordinarily focused hour and a half that went by like it was half an hour. Wow. More like this please.
Nicole Bastian Handelsblatt Teamleiterin Ausland, Stefan Schilbe, Chefvolkswirt HSBC Deutschland, Mohan Murti, Managing Director Europe, Reliance Industries Limited, Prof. Dr. Markus Taube, Mercator School of Management Universität Duisburg-Essen, (l-r) aufgenommen im Rahmen der Asia Business Insights 2016 Veranstaltung der Handelsblatt Verlagsgesellschaft am Montag den 25.1.2016 in Düsseldorf
The State Library’s Talking Book Services partners with the SC School for the Deaf and Blind to sponsor an informational workshop for library staff, educators, and others who work with individuals who are blind or low vision. Participants will learn ways to accommodate patrons or students as well as agencies to contact when they encounter someone in need of services. Approved for teacher recertification credit!
The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Events:
Keynote speaker Erica Powell
ADA and Accommodation--How small adjustments can make a difference in access
Blindness Sensitivity and Service Animal Etiquette
JAWS software demo and computer accessibility
Exhibits and informational materials from state and local agencies who serve the needs of the visually impaired
Keynote speaker Erica Powell:
Erica Powell graduated from Clemson University in 2015 where she earned a Bachelor's degree in Psychology. During her time at Clemson, Erica was a scholarship student athlete on the Clemson Cheerleading team. Erica is a cancer survivor and has had progressive vision loss since childhood as a result of her cancer treatment. As a student athlete with a visual disability, Erica recognized the opportunity to advocate for disability pride and self-advocacy during her time at Clemson. Since making that realization, Erica has become an entrepreneur, is the EQUIP Coordinator for the EQUIP Leadership Group with ABLE SC, and travels the country as a Professional Inspirational Speaker. Through speaking, Erica gets to use her personal story of overcoming barriers in life to teach audiences how to create an unstoppable mindset and reach their greatest potential! Erica is a marathon runner, fitness enthusiast, business owner, and lover of her crazy lab puppy named Grant!
For:
Librarians, library staff, teachers, media specialists, and anyone who works with individuals who are blind or low vision
Trainer:
South Carolina State Library staff
Cost:
Free (registration required)
Parking is free at the museum, and the museum will be open until 8:00 for participants to visit.
Location:
South Carolina State Museum, 301 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Questions about the session? Contact:
Kaitlyn Hodges
South Carolina State Library
803-734-4625
khodges@statelibrary.sc.gov
Recycled recolour of the Matchbox 2010 Honda Insight now appearing in the latest MBX Electric Drivers five vehicle set, nicely stock with detailed front and rear detailing. I know many collectors don't like seeing recycled recolours but they are very useful for collectors who missed them first time around. Mint and boxed.
The State Library’s Talking Book Services partners with the SC School for the Deaf and Blind to sponsor an informational workshop for library staff, educators, and others who work with individuals who are blind or low vision. Participants will learn ways to accommodate patrons or students as well as agencies to contact when they encounter someone in need of services. Approved for teacher recertification credit!
The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Events:
Keynote speaker Erica Powell
ADA and Accommodation--How small adjustments can make a difference in access
Blindness Sensitivity and Service Animal Etiquette
JAWS software demo and computer accessibility
Exhibits and informational materials from state and local agencies who serve the needs of the visually impaired
Keynote speaker Erica Powell:
Erica Powell graduated from Clemson University in 2015 where she earned a Bachelor's degree in Psychology. During her time at Clemson, Erica was a scholarship student athlete on the Clemson Cheerleading team. Erica is a cancer survivor and has had progressive vision loss since childhood as a result of her cancer treatment. As a student athlete with a visual disability, Erica recognized the opportunity to advocate for disability pride and self-advocacy during her time at Clemson. Since making that realization, Erica has become an entrepreneur, is the EQUIP Coordinator for the EQUIP Leadership Group with ABLE SC, and travels the country as a Professional Inspirational Speaker. Through speaking, Erica gets to use her personal story of overcoming barriers in life to teach audiences how to create an unstoppable mindset and reach their greatest potential! Erica is a marathon runner, fitness enthusiast, business owner, and lover of her crazy lab puppy named Grant!
For:
Librarians, library staff, teachers, media specialists, and anyone who works with individuals who are blind or low vision
Trainer:
South Carolina State Library staff
Cost:
Free (registration required)
Parking is free at the museum, and the museum will be open until 8:00 for participants to visit.
Location:
South Carolina State Museum, 301 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Questions about the session? Contact:
Kaitlyn Hodges
South Carolina State Library
803-734-4625
khodges@statelibrary.sc.gov
Edited InSight panoramic self-portrait of herself with a light coating of dust. Color/processing variant.
Image source: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23203
Original caption: This is NASA InSight's second full selfie on Mars. Since taking its first selfie, the lander has removed its heat probe and seismometer from its deck, placing them on the Martian surface; a thin coating of dust now covers the spacecraft as well.
This selfie is a mosaic made up of 14 images taken on March 15 and April 11 - the 106th and 133rd Martian days, or sols, of the mission - by InSight's Instrument Deployment Camera, located on its robotic arm.
InSight's first selfie showed its instruments still on the deck. Now that they're removed, the viewer can see the spacecraft's air pressure sensor (white object in center), the tether box for its seismometer and the tether for its heat probe running across the deck. Also visible is its robotic arm and grapple.
JPL manages InSight for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built the InSight spacecraft, including its cruise stage and lander, and supports spacecraft operations for the mission.
A number of European partners, including France's Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), are supporting the InSight mission. CNES provided the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument to NASA, with the principal investigator at IPGP (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris). Significant contributions for SEIS came from IPGP; the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany; the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in Switzerland; Imperial College London and Oxford University in the United Kingdom; and JPL. DLR provided the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument, with significant contributions from the Space Research Center (CBK) of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Astronika in Poland. Spain's Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) supplied the temperature and wind sensors.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Image Addition Date:
2019-05-06
May 2018 will see the launch of the NASA Insight mission, in which a lander will carry out geophysical measurements directly on the surface of Mars to explore the planet's inner structure and thermal balance. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has contributed to this mission in the form of the HP3 instrument.
More about NASA & DLR's mission on DLR.de/insight
Credit: DLR (CC-BY 3.0)
The State Library’s Talking Book Services partners with the SC School for the Deaf and Blind to sponsor an informational workshop for library staff, educators, and others who work with individuals who are blind or low vision. Participants will learn ways to accommodate patrons or students as well as agencies to contact when they encounter someone in need of services. Approved for teacher recertification credit!
The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Events:
Keynote speaker Erica Powell
ADA and Accommodation--How small adjustments can make a difference in access
Blindness Sensitivity and Service Animal Etiquette
JAWS software demo and computer accessibility
Exhibits and informational materials from state and local agencies who serve the needs of the visually impaired
Keynote speaker Erica Powell:
Erica Powell graduated from Clemson University in 2015 where she earned a Bachelor's degree in Psychology. During her time at Clemson, Erica was a scholarship student athlete on the Clemson Cheerleading team. Erica is a cancer survivor and has had progressive vision loss since childhood as a result of her cancer treatment. As a student athlete with a visual disability, Erica recognized the opportunity to advocate for disability pride and self-advocacy during her time at Clemson. Since making that realization, Erica has become an entrepreneur, is the EQUIP Coordinator for the EQUIP Leadership Group with ABLE SC, and travels the country as a Professional Inspirational Speaker. Through speaking, Erica gets to use her personal story of overcoming barriers in life to teach audiences how to create an unstoppable mindset and reach their greatest potential! Erica is a marathon runner, fitness enthusiast, business owner, and lover of her crazy lab puppy named Grant!
For:
Librarians, library staff, teachers, media specialists, and anyone who works with individuals who are blind or low vision
Trainer:
South Carolina State Library staff
Cost:
Free (registration required)
Parking is free at the museum, and the museum will be open until 8:00 for participants to visit.
Location:
South Carolina State Museum, 301 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Questions about the session? Contact:
Kaitlyn Hodges
South Carolina State Library
803-734-4625
khodges@statelibrary.sc.gov