by Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff WriterDate: 09 March 2011 Time: 05:42 AM ET
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – As the space shuttle Discovery glided toward its final landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the astronauts and ground teams were focused on one thing: bringing the storied space plane down safely to end a successful mission.
But after landing, when the Discovery's crew emerged from the ship to be greeted by NASA's flight controllers, a gamut of emotions began to sink in.
"It's a pretty bittersweet moment," shuttle commander Steve Lindsey said as he stood on the runway following Discovery's picture-perfect final landing. "As the minutes pass, I'm actually getting sadder and sadder about this being the last flight."
For mission specialist Nicole Stott, the moment was particularly poignant. Before she joined NASA's astronaut corps to fly in space, she worked to keep the shuttles flying as an engineer at the Kennedy Space Center.
"I feel like I have an emotional tie to Discovery, to the space shuttles, and to KSC especially," Stott said. "Walking around under the vehicle, I saw so many familiar faces. The more time I have to talk to more of those people, the more emotional and more of an impact it's going to have."
Ending on a high note
Discovery's final mission to the International Space Station was nearly flawless, NASA officials said, and no major issues cropped up during the orbiter's 13 days in space. [Photos: STS-133: Discovery's Final Mission]
"The vehicle looks really good," Mike Leinbach, NASA's shuttle launch director, said in a post-landing news briefing today (March 9). "It's a good day. Discovery is home safe, the astronauts are down. I was looking in their eyes as they were looking back at the ship, and they had some special feelings, I'm sure."
The success of Discovery's STS-133 mission is enough to make its rocky start a distant memory.
The mission was delayed several months due to repeated issues with the shuttle's massive external fuel tank. Yet the eventual success of the mission shows the hard work and dedication of those who work in the space shuttle program, Leinbach said.
"It just played out the way we wanted it to," Leinbach said. "We wanted to go out on a high note, and Discovery has done that. We couldn't ask for more. It was virtually a perfect mission."
And credit for that success belongs to both the astronauts and those who work behind the scenes, NASA officials said.
"It's really a testimony to how focused and how diligent the teams are at processing the vehicle," said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for space operations. "We talk about finishing strong, and that's exactly what we wanted to do."
Getting some help from the ground
Astronaut Tim Kopra became an unexpected member of the shuttle's behind-the-scenes team when he was forced to sit out the STS-133 mission after being injured in a January bicycle accident. Steve Bowen, a veteran spacewalker, joined the crew in his place, but Kopra remained involved in the mission by providing support on the spacewalks from Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
"He was with us every day, the whole time that we were there – he was a big part of the mission," Lindsey said. "Everything we did, Tim touched. We really wish he could have been with us."
Discovery will now be rolled to the Orbiter Processing Facility here at KSC, where teams will begin the months-long task of preparing the vehicle and making it safe for its future life on public display in a museum.
And with Discovery's final mission now over, the sadness of the milestone is mixed with pride. Mike Moses, NASA's shuttle launch integration manager, called the mission a triumph for the entire Discovery team.
"It's a fantastic mission, a really fantastic vehicle, and a great way for Discovery to end its career," Moses said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A strong quake of magnitude 6.6 struck the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Wednesday.
The epicenter of the quake, which was fairly shallow at a depth of 26.8 miles, was only 17 miles north-northeast of the town of Kandrian. It struck at 7:24 a.m. on Thursday (4:24 p.m. ET on Wednesday), the USGS said.
(Reporting by Sandra Maler, Editing by Eric Walsh)
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Consumer Reports found Volt battery range limited to 23 to 28 miles in cold weather, far below the 40 miles advertised
By Julie Wernau, Tribune reporter 9:05 p.m. CST, March 3, 2011
It's a tough week to be the guy who led development of the Chevy Volt's battery. Consumer Reports on Monday said its tests showed the battery's range at a paltry 23 to 28 miles in cold weather, far below the 40 miles originally promised.
"The financial payback is not there," said Jake Fisher, a senior automotive engineer at Consumer Reports Auto Test Center. A hybrid, he said in an interview, would make more sense. (The Volt — which runs as a fully electric plug-in vehicle and switches to gasoline power once that battery is depleted — cost Consumer Reports $48,000 at a dealership before a $7,500 federal tax credit. Toyota's Prius is about half that price.)
Then on Tuesday, Ford Motor Co. seized on the negative press for the Volt by issuing its own press release: "Weather Climates No Problem for Ford Focus Electric's Liquid-Heated Battery System."
But Bill Wallace, director of Global Battery Systems for General Motors Corp., didn't flinch.
The researchers said three types of diet emerged: Processed diets which were high in fat, sugar and convenience foods, traditional diets of meat, potato and vegetables, and health conscious diets of salads, fruit and fish.
The children all took IQ tests when they were eight and half.
Brain development
The researchers found a link between IQ and diet, even after taking into account other factors such as the mother's level of education, social class and duration of breast feeding.
A diet high in processed food at the age of three was linked to a slightly lower IQ at the age of eight and a half, suggesting early eating habits have a long term impact.
Dr Pauline Emmett, who carried out the study at Bristol University, said: "Brain development is much faster in early life, it's when it does most of its growing. It seems that what happens afterwards is less important."
Although the relationship between diet and IQ was very strong, the impact was quite small. Processed foods were linked with IQs only a few points lower.
Experts in the field said the results had confirmed common sense.
Fiona Ford, spokesperson for the British Dietetic Association, said: "It's well worth looking at the long term impact of diets, everyone's familiar with the short term.
"The research confirms the type of advice we already know, but that's not always enough. Sometimes a society has to help a person change, we need to be educating more young parents about healthy eating."
Kristian Bravin, dietician at Leicester Royal Infirmary, said: "Most people know what they should do, some people don't have the inclination to cook good meals.
"I'm all in favour of a little bit of what you fancy, but when you're doing it every week it's a problem.
"People should seek advice from a registered dietician, but simply it's a message of moderating fat intake, five fruit and veg a day and whole grain starchy foods."
But instead she repeated and mangled an earlier line, singing: "What so proudly we watched at the twilight's last reaming".
Following the performance, she said: "I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of its anthem still came through."
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Bob Feller, who came off an Iowa farm with a dazzling fastball that made him a national celebrity at 17 and propelled him to the Hall of Fame as one of baseball’s greatest pitchers, died on Wednesday in Cleveland, where he had played for the Indians for 18 years. He was 92.
By the CNN Wire Staff November 29, 2010 -- Updated 1021 GMT (1821 HKT)
(CNN) -- Leslie Nielsen, whose longtime career as a square-jawed dramatic actor took a sudden turn into comedy with gut-busting spoofs like "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun," has died at age 84, his family said Sunday.
The Canadian-born Nielsen's career reached back into the early days of television, when he made frequent appearances on live drama series like "Goodyear Playhouse." He played the earnest starship captain in the 1956 science-fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and made regular appearances on a wide range of TV dramas into the 1970s, including "Hawaii Five-O." He also played the captain of an overturned ocean liner in the 1972 disaster movie, "The Poseidon Adventure."
Much of that changed in 1980, when he was cast as a doctor aboard an endangered jetliner in the gag-a-minute disaster-movie parody "Airplane!"
Nielsen's deadpan response to the question "Surely, you can't be serious?" with "I am serious -- and don't call me Shirley" helped launch a second career.
The film's producers went on to cast him in their short-lived television series "Police Squad!" He reprised that show's bumbling lead character, Lt. Frank Drebin, a decade later in three "Naked Gun" movies, in which he shared the screen with O.J. Simpson and Priscilla Presley.
Nielsen appeared in several similar but less-acclaimed spoofs following those films.
Nielsen was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2003. The medal is awarded to "Canadian citizens for outstanding achievement and service to the country or to humanity at large."
Nielsen died of complications of pneumonia in a hospital near his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, surrounded by family and friends, a family statement said.
Doug Nielsen called his uncle's death a "great loss."
"He was extremely funny," the younger Nielsen said in an interview with CNN affiliate Global Network News in Vancouver.
"At all of our family get-togethers, he was always the life of the party and a great-natured guy," Nielsen said. "He was a very good friend to me."
Apple 1, the original computer model hand made by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, was bought by Mario Boglione a collector from Turin, Italy, at the Christies sale on Tuesday.
The lot, still in its original box, comprised a fully assembled motherboard, a handful of extra components including a microprocessor and extra RAM, and a letter signed by Mr Jobs, CEO of Apple.
Apple 1 was the first personal computer to feature a pre-assembled motherboard, representing a significant step forward from contemporary models which buyers had to solder together.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Mazda Motor Corp (7261.T) said Chief Executive Takashi Yamanouchi will hold a news conference at 6 p.m. (0900 GMT) in Tokyo on Thursday regarding the prospective change in its main shareholder.
The carmaker will issue a news release on the change at 0800 GMT (3:00 a.m. ET).
Sources have said Ford Motor Co (F.N), its top shareholder, had lined up investors to sell most of its 11 percent stake in the Japanese automaker.
A's win bidding for Japanese ace Hisashi Iwakuma John Shea, Chronicle Staff Writer
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When a car comes with a 48-page press release, well, you know its maker has some special things in mind for it. The 2011 Ford Mondeo, in five-door and wagon styles, is just such a car, with The Blue Oval calling it "the most stylish and technologically advanced Mondeo ever." Visually, the car's main lines haven't changed, but the details have been made sharper: a sleeker front bumper with new LEDs and more aggressive lip, the twin character lines down the side, the chrome trim all around the windows and the new chiseling in the rear valance.
Inside is the familiar story of upgraded materials wrapped around new techno bits. Ambient LED illumination falls from overhead, where also resides a new woven headliner. Driver aids include Lane Departure Warning system, Auto High Beam, Driver Alert, Smart Regenerative Charging and Active Grille Shutter, which opens and closes the grille aperture automatically to promote either cooling or increased aerodynamic efficiency.
Under the hood are new engines, including the Mondeo's first crack at Ford's 237-horsepower, 2.0-liter, four-cylinder EcoBoost. That will be an option alongside the current, 203-hp version. There's also a reworked 2.2-liter Duratorq TDCi diesel putting out 197 hp, the most powerful such engine yet.
It goes on sale as soon as next month at the same starting price as the current Mondeo, £17,295 ($26,842 U.S.), although the Titanium trim gets bumped up £200 to £19,945 ($30,958 U.S.). Follow the jump for an abridged version of the presser, and take your time perusing our huge gallery of high-res photos below.
TORONTO -- Ichiro Suzuki stroked a fifth-inning single to center to collect his 200th hit Thursday, extending his own record with his 10th straight season reaching the milestone. He set the record last year, passing Wee Willie Keeler. Ichiro also tied the record for 200-hit seasons in a career, with 10, which he now shares with Pete Rose.
自尊和自我意識 John M. Grohol, Psy.D.約翰 M Grohol,Psy.D. March 17, 2003 2003年3月17日 What is a healthy sense of self?什麼是健康的自我意識? What is self-esteem and happiness?什麼是自尊和幸福? Where do we get it from and how can we lose it?我們在哪裡,以及如何得到它從我們失去它?
I think we get it from a variety of processes.我認為我們得到它從一個不同的進程。 Some of it is innate, but I believe that most of it comes from growing up and learning from our families and our friends and teachers and classmates, from the joy they bring us, and the achievements we have along the way.有些是與生俱來的,但我相信,大部分是來自哪一方面的成長和學習我們的家人和我們的朋友和老師,同學,從他們給我們帶來的快樂和成就,我們前進的道路。 We get it from praise and criticism, but it's the praise that builds a healthy sense of self.從我們得到它讚美和批評,但它是構建一個健康的讚美自我約束意識。 The criticsm might appear to lead to the same results, but it will not be a healthy sense of self because it is built upon a false foundation.在備受攻擊可能會出現導致相同的結果,但它不會是一個健康的自我意識,因為它是建立在一個虛假的基礎。
It is this sense of self that you need to consider when thinking of self-esteem. What is self-esteem except a sense of self that is balanced and whole? Self-esteem isn't about thinking you're the best and that you can do anything (that might be better termed narcissism or egotistical).正是這種自我意識,你需要考慮當思想的自尊。什麼是自尊感,除了一個是自我平衡和整體利益?自尊是不是想你是最好的,而且你可以做任何事情(可能更好或稱為自戀自負)。 Instead, self esteem is fundamentally based upon knowing what you do well, and what you aren't as good at.相反,自尊,根本依據知道你做什麼好,你是不是擅長。 It's about knowing how far you can go, but also about the boundaries of your competence, knowledge and skills.它是關於如何知道你可以去遠,而且對你的能力範圍,知識和技能。
Feeling like you're better than everyone else, that you have knowledge or skills that others lack will readily lead to eventual feelings of inferiority.感覺就像你的比別人好,你有知識或技能,其他人將很容易導致缺乏最終感情的自卑感。 A person who feels this way may not initially realize it, but they have low self esteem.一個人誰認為這種方式可能最初沒有意識到這一點,但他們對自己沒有自尊。 They may not appreciate their own skills (within context) without having to put other people's skills and knowledge down. Supposedly "harmless" observations about life could be masking not only a low self esteem, but also poor social skills or the inability to make conversation that isn't value-based.他們可能不明白他們自己的技能(在中)在不具有將其他人的技能和知識了。所謂的“無害”觀察人生可以掩蔽不僅低自尊,但也poor社交技巧或無法使對話這不是以價值為基礎。
The issue of self esteem and a sense of self is further complicated by feelings of depression.這個問題的自尊和自我約束意識進一步複雜感情抑鬱症。 Depression can mask poor self-esteem, and poor self-esteem can act as a mask for depression.抑鬱症可以掩蓋貧困自尊,差自尊可以作為治療抑鬱症的面具。 It cannot be said which is which without knowing more about the person and their situation.這不能說哪個是哪個不知道有關的人,他們的狀況。 Typically, though, low self esteem is something a person experiences early on in their life and it affects nearly every social interaction they have -- at school, at work, at home, and with friends.通常情況下,雖然,低自尊是人所經歷的事情早在他們的生活,而且影響到幾乎每一個有社會互動-在學校,工作,家庭,和朋友。 Depression tends to be more situationally-based in nature, that starts at a specific time in a person's life and often ends a few months or a year later.抑鬱症往往是更符合客觀情況的性質,即在一個特定的時間開始在一個人的生命結束了,往往幾個月或一年之後。
To help one's self esteem, a person needs to look at themselves in a realistic and open manner.為了幫助一個人的自尊,一個人需要看看自己在現實和開放的態度。 A person needs to understand that they are worth something in this world, that people are inherently good and try to do well by others.一個人必須明白,他們是值得的東西在這個世界上,人們本來就很好,嘗試做好別人。 They cannot do it all, or meet everyone's expectations, nor is it reasonable or right for them to think they can.他們不能做這一切,或滿足所有人的期望,也不是合理的或正確的他們認為他們可以。 Solid self esteem starts with a solid understanding of one's strengths and weaknesses.固體自尊啟動了堅實的了解自己的長處和弱點。 Not good at small talk?不擅長閒聊? That's fine, because you might be really good at playing games or cooking or even eating!這很好,因為你可能擅長玩遊戲或做飯,甚至吃! For everything you can think of that you're horrible at, you can also imagine another hundred things you are good at.對於一切你能想到的,你是可怕的,你也可以想像另一個100事情你擅長的。
Sometimes the trouble is that people put more value on the things they are not good at, and less value on the things they do well with.有時候,麻煩的是,人們將更多的價值的東西他們不擅長,而較少價值的事情,他們做好了。 This is inherently unfair to ourselves.這是對自己不公平的本質。 Why can't we give ourselves credit for our strengths? Because we don't spend enough time on ourselves and helping to ensure that we have a balanced sense of self.為什麼我們不能給自己的信用為我們的優勢是什麼?因為我們沒有花足夠的時間對自己和幫助,以確保我們有一個平衡的自我約束意識。 How can we help others in their lives if we can't first learn to help ourselves?我們如何能幫助別人在他們的生活,如果我們不能首先學會幫助自己?
In Europe and other countries adhering to ECE Regulation 48, vehicles must be equipped with one or two bright red "rear fog lamps" (or "fog taillamps"), which serve as high-intensity rear position lamps to be energised by the driver in conditions of poor visibility to enhance vehicle conspicuity from the rear. The allowable range of intensity for a rear fog lamp is 150 to 300 candelas,[15] which is within the range of a U.S. stop lamp.
- Boeing and Space Adventures have not yet set a price per seat for spaceflight participants, but will do so when full-scale development is under way. Boeing continues to advance its design for the CST-100 spacecraft under NASA's Commercial Crew Development Space Act Agreement. The spacecraft, which can carry seven people, will be able to fly on multiple launch vehicles and is expected to be operational by 2015.
"We are excited about the potential to offer flights on Boeing's spacecraft," said Eric Anderson, co-founder and chairman of Space Adventures. "With our customer experience and Boeing's heritage in human spaceflight, our goal is not only to benefit the individuals who fly to space, but also to help make the resources of space available to the commercial sector by bringing the value from space back to Earth."
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