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21:12:45 02/07/12
Amy Bezunartea - "Amy's Spring Tune": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
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Amy Bezunartea - "Amy's Spring Tune": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
Amy Bezunartea is a Brooklyn, New York based singer and songwriter whose debut album Restaurants & Bars will be released on Kiam Records on November 2, 2010. Hailing from the American Southwest, Bezunartea grew up in a musical family with a mother who sang and played guitar and a father who sang and played the harmonica. \"My family had Indian jewelry stores and souvenir shops throughout Arizona and New Mexico and we spent a lot of time in the car traveling from store to store,\" Amy commented. \"We listened to 8 tracks - Patsy Cline, Slim Whitman, Loretta Lynn, Sons of the Pioneers - and that\'s how I started singing.\" When she received a guitar for her 13th birthday - the same guitar she writes on today - it was these songs she taught herself to play. It was with this sense of tradition and history that Bezunartea began to write her own songs. In the years that followed, Amy began a series of jobs waiting tables - first in Tucson, then in San Francisco and finally in NYC. Restaurant work became a constant in Bezunartea\'s life as well as in the songs that she was quietly writing. In 2005, Amy met Clint Asay and joined the band Clint Michigan - Amy contributes vocals, guitar, harmonica and banjo. Their debut record Hawthorne to Hennepin was released on Kiam Records in early 2009. The duo garnered rave reviews including a Band of the Week nod from Paste Magazine and a placement for the album\'s title track on Grey\'s Anatomy. Of her involvement in Clint Michigan, Amy ... From: sxsw Views: 34 4 ratings Time: 02:24 More in Entertainment
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21:12:45 02/07/12
Amy Bezunartea - "Amy's Spring Tune": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
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Amy Bezunartea - "Amy's Spring Tune": SXSW 2012 Showcasing Artist
Amy Bezunartea is a Brooklyn, New York based singer and songwriter whose debut album Restaurants & Bars will be released on Kiam Records on November 2, 2010. Hailing from the American Southwest, Bezunartea grew up in a musical family with a mother who sang and played guitar and a father who sang and played the harmonica. \"My family had Indian jewelry stores and souvenir shops throughout Arizona and New Mexico and we spent a lot of time in the car traveling from store to store,\" Amy commented. \"We listened to 8 tracks - Patsy Cline, Slim Whitman, Loretta Lynn, Sons of the Pioneers - and that\'s how I started singing.\" When she received a guitar for her 13th birthday - the same guitar she writes on today - it was these songs she taught herself to play. It was with this sense of tradition and history that Bezunartea began to write her own songs. In the years that followed, Amy began a series of jobs waiting tables - first in Tucson, then in San Francisco and finally in NYC. Restaurant work became a constant in Bezunartea\'s life as well as in the songs that she was quietly writing. In 2005, Amy met Clint Asay and joined the band Clint Michigan - Amy contributes vocals, guitar, harmonica and banjo. Their debut record Hawthorne to Hennepin was released on Kiam Records in early 2009. The duo garnered rave reviews including a Band of the Week nod from Paste Magazine and a placement for the album\'s title track on Grey\'s Anatomy. Of her involvement in Clint Michigan, Amy ... From: sxsw Views: 34 4 ratings Time: 02:24 More in Entertainment
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23:00:00 01/15/12
Technology and the Human Body - Bionics
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TEDxSF - Berkeley Bionics - Merging Technology and the Human Body More than anything else, Eythor Bender is a team builder. You want to be on his team. And that's good news for bionics, a nascent industry that Eythor has championed and grown, taking bionic prosthetics from unconventional approaches to sustainable, approved products that merge man and machine, and enhance individuals' participation in their community. Today and as CEO of Berkeley Bionics -- developer and maker of wearable robots - Eythor is leading his company's charge to boost everyone's potential through personal bionics. This year, Berkeley Bionics is introducing two new exoskeletons to the market that augment mobility, strength and endurance: eLEGS powers wheelchair users up to get them standing and walking again; and HULCTM (Human Universal Load Carrier) enables users to carry up to 200 lbs. for hours and over all terrains, while reducing the likelihood of back-injuries. Eythor is a native of Iceland, with a Masters in Business and Economics from Germany, where he began his career with Hewlett Packard in medical diagnostics and computer imaging. He went on to join Nordic-European Ossur, which pioneered the field of commercial bionics. Eythor led Ossur's Americas division, taking it from a start-up to a world leader in the field of wearable, non-invasive technologies designed for amputees, injury prevention, rehabilitation and pain relief. He lives in San Francisco and most recently spoke at TED2011 in Long Beach, California. event video by: repertoireproductions.com Background information Bionics (also known as biomimicry, biomimetics, bio-inspiration, biognosis, and close to bionical creativity engineering) is the application of biological methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology. The word bionic was coined by Jack E. Steele in 1958, possibly originating from the technical term bion (pronounced bee-on) (from Ancient Greek: βίοĎ), meaning 'unit of life' and the suffix -ic, meaning 'like' or 'in the manner of', hence 'like life'. Some dictionaries, however, explain the word as being formed as a portmanteau from biology + electronics. It was popularized by the 1970s television series The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, which were influenced by Steele's work, and feature humans given superhuman powers by electromechanical implants. The transfer of technology between lifeforms and manufactures is, according to proponents of bionic technology, desirable because evolutionary pressure typically forces living organisms, including fauna and flora, to become highly optimized and efficient. A classical example is the development of dirt- and water-repellent paint (coating) from the observation that the surface of the lotus flower plant is practically unsticky for anything (the lotus effect). The term "biomimetic" is preferred when reference is made to chemical reactions. In that domain, biomimetic chemistry refers to reactions that, in nature, involve biological macromolecules (for example, enzymes or nucleic acids) whose chemistry can be replicated using much smaller molecules in vitro. Examples of bionics in engineering include the hulls of boats imitating the thick skin of dolphins; sonar, radar, and medical ultrasound imaging imitating the echolocation of bats. In the field of computer science, the study of bionics has produced artificial neurons, artificial neural networks, and swarm intelligence. Evolutionary computation was also motivated by bionics ideas but it took the idea further by simulating evolution in silico and producing well-optimized solutions that had never appeared in nature. It is estimated by Julian Vincent, professor of biomimetics at the University of Bath's department of mechanical engineering (Biomimetics group), that "at present there is only a 12% overlap between biology and technology in terms of the mechanisms used". (Source Wikipedia)
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16:21:47 10/10/11
Learning from Bacteria about Social Networks
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Learning from Bacteria about Social Networks
Google Tech Talk (more info below) September 30, 2011 Presented by Eshel Ben-Jacob. ABSTRACT Scientific American placed Professor Eshel Ben-Jacob and Dr. Itay Baruchi's creation of a type of organic memory chip on its list of the year's 50 most significant scientific discoveries in 2007. For the last decade, he has pioneered the field of Systems Neuroscience, focusing first on investigations of living neural networks outside the brain. en.wikipedia.org Learning from Bacteria about Information Processing Bacteria, the first and most fundamental of all organisms, lead rich social life in complex hierarchical communities. Collectively, they gather information from the environment, learn from past experience, and make decisions. Bacteria do not store genetically all the information required to respond efficiently to all possible environmental conditions. Instead, to solve new encountered problems (challenges) posed by the environment, they first assess the problem via collective sensing, then recall stored information of past experience and finally execute distributed information processing of the 109-12 bacteria in the colony, thus turning the colony into super-brain. Super-brain, because the billions of bacteria in the colony use sophisticated communication strategies to link the intracellular computation networks of each bacterium (including signaling path ways of billions of molecules) into a network of networks. I will show illuminating movies of swarming intelligence of ... From: GoogleTechTalks Views: 11287 99 ratings Time: 01:04:56 More in Science & Technology
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16:21:47 10/10/11
Learning from Bacteria about Social Networks
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Learning from Bacteria about Social Networks
Google Tech Talk (more info below) September 30, 2011 Presented by Eshel Ben-Jacob. ABSTRACT Scientific American placed Professor Eshel Ben-Jacob and Dr. Itay Baruchi's creation of a type of organic memory chip on its list of the year's 50 most significant scientific discoveries in 2007. For the last decade, he has pioneered the field of Systems Neuroscience, focusing first on investigations of living neural networks outside the brain. en.wikipedia.org Learning from Bacteria about Information Processing Bacteria, the first and most fundamental of all organisms, lead rich social life in complex hierarchical communities. Collectively, they gather information from the environment, learn from past experience, and make decisions. Bacteria do not store genetically all the information required to respond efficiently to all possible environmental conditions. Instead, to solve new encountered problems (challenges) posed by the environment, they first assess the problem via collective sensing, then recall stored information of past experience and finally execute distributed information processing of the 109-12 bacteria in the colony, thus turning the colony into super-brain. Super-brain, because the billions of bacteria in the colony use sophisticated communication strategies to link the intracellular computation networks of each bacterium (including signaling path ways of billions of molecules) into a network of networks. I will show illuminating movies of swarming intelligence of ... From: GoogleTechTalks Views: 11287 99 ratings Time: 01:04:56 More in Science & Technology
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02:40:08 12/21/10
Did Chimps and Humans Inherit Common Social Behaviors?
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/15/Dr_Anne_Pusey_The_Leakey_Foundation
Anne Pusey discusses how female chimpanzees leave the communities in which they were born upon reaching adolescence, a habit likely developed to avoid inbreeding. Sharing similarities to many human societies, does this chimp practice point to a shared trait passed down from a common ancestor?
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2010 marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Louis Leakey sending Jane Goodall to Gombe Stream, in Tanzania, to begin her groundbreaking study of chimpanzees in the wild. The chimpanzee behavioral research she pioneered there has produced a wealth of scientific discovery. This significant and vital part of scientific history will be celebrated by The Leakey Foundation, in partnership with the California Academy of Sciences. Anne Pusey, former Director of Jane Goodall Institute's Center for Primate Studies, will discuss this important project, which spans 50 years and is still running today.
Dr. Pusey reviews how the Gombe study has revealed the basic structure of chimpanzee society, the nature of social relationships within and between the sexes, life history patterns, and how these resemble and differ from those of humans.
Despite 50 years of study, chimpanzees are slow to give up their secrets and continue to surprise us. Pusey will discuss how long-term data, coupled with new technologies, have facilitated investigations of previously intractable questions and how new observations of unexpected behavior continually generate new questions.
The evening is illustrated with rarely seen archival photographs, video and recent stories of the Gombe chimpanzees. - California Academy of Sciences
Anne Pusey is Professor and Department Chair of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University. She is interested in understanding the evolution of sociality, social structure, and the patterns of competition, cooperation and social bonds in animal species, including humans.
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02:40:08 12/21/10
Did Chimps and Humans Inherit Common Social Behaviors?
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/15/Dr_Anne_Pusey_The_Leakey_Foundation
Anne Pusey discusses how female chimpanzees leave the communities in which they were born upon reaching adolescence, a habit likely developed to avoid inbreeding. Sharing similarities to many human societies, does this chimp practice point to a shared trait passed down from a common ancestor?
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2010 marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Louis Leakey sending Jane Goodall to Gombe Stream, in Tanzania, to begin her groundbreaking study of chimpanzees in the wild. The chimpanzee behavioral research she pioneered there has produced a wealth of scientific discovery. This significant and vital part of scientific history will be celebrated by The Leakey Foundation, in partnership with the California Academy of Sciences. Anne Pusey, former Director of Jane Goodall Institute's Center for Primate Studies, will discuss this important project, which spans 50 years and is still running today.
Dr. Pusey reviews how the Gombe study has revealed the basic structure of chimpanzee society, the nature of social relationships within and between the sexes, life history patterns, and how these resemble and differ from those of humans.
Despite 50 years of study, chimpanzees are slow to give up their secrets and continue to surprise us. Pusey will discuss how long-term data, coupled with new technologies, have facilitated investigations of previously intractable questions and how new observations of unexpected behavior continually generate new questions.
The evening is illustrated with rarely seen archival photographs, video and recent stories of the Gombe chimpanzees. - California Academy of Sciences
Anne Pusey is Professor and Department Chair of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University. She is interested in understanding the evolution of sociality, social structure, and the patterns of competition, cooperation and social bonds in animal species, including humans.
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00:17:50 11/01/10
Exciting News from Cura Romana
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Hi. I’m Leslie Kenton. As some of you know, for the past three years, I have been personally mentoring hundreds of men and women throughout the world on Cura Romana - weightloss for body and soul. The results have been phenomenal - both in terms of rapid, safe hunger-free weight loss and in the transformation in health and lives and spiritual growth that participants report. The close connections which I‘ve been able to forge with those on the program - people from all walks of life - some with little weight to lose and others with a great deal of weight to let go of — this has enabled me to devise a unique, powerful, and effective method for helping them to make weight lost permanent. Together my son Aaron and I created Leslie Kenton’s Cura Romana to make this available to those who wanted to work with me.
We are now ready to expand the power of our Cura Romana program. And I am thrilled to share this news with you. Two impending events are soon to take place. I am really excited about both.
The first is a book.
The second is a new guided website like nothing else you will find anywhere.
More about all this in a moment.
The research and clinical procedures behind Cura Romana are nothing short of revolutionary, yet they were developed more than half a century ago by a brilliant British researcher and clinician, ATW Simeons, who after many years of study and clinical work, believed he had discovered the cause and cure for obesity.
I was first introduced to Simeons‘ protocol almost 20 years ago by a wonderful Bavarian doctor and dear friend. At first highly skeptical about Simeons’ discovery - which was first published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet in 1954. But when I discovered how powerful and effective Simeons’ protocol was first hand, I longed to make it available to everyone who, like myself, had long struggled with their weight and who were determined to end that struggle once and for all.
So for years, I researched Cura Romana —reading everything that had been written about it - the good, the bad, and the ugly. I interviewed and worked with doctors worldwide who were using it with integrity. I longed to write a book about the programme but felt I could not do so while Simeons’ wonderful protocol was still “medical” in its approach — needing injections. I searched everywhere for a new approach that would make the protocol available at low cost to anyone who wanted to use it. Finally, I found the answer to make this possible. Together with a few pioneering doctors and naturopaths who, like me, were seeking to abandon the use of injectable and oral hGC in drug form, we discovered it. Combined with Simeons’ highly specific food protocol, we were able to develop and test a simple, easy to use at home program. Leslie Kenton’s Cura Romana relies on a unique non-medical homeopathic formula derived from the original, natural, substance combined with Simeons’ highly specific food plan which brings about the same remarkable weight loss that his original medical approach did.
Now let me tell you why I am so excited about the two new events coming soon. I think about them as two fresh, unique children which Aaron and I are bringing to birth:
THE BOOK:The Cura Romana Weightloss Plan is appearing on January 6, 2011. Full of well-referenced scientific information, it also sets out my own unique Consolidation protocol — three years in the making and testing — which helps make your weightloss last. The book is a step by step self-help guide for any reader to follow on their own. Such a book is sorely needed with all the hype, exaggerated claims, misinformation and disinformation being tossed about these days in relation to what many call the hCG diet. my Cura Romana Weightloss Plan set’s the record straight.
THE BRAND NEW ON-LINE GUIDED PROGRAM:
The Leslie Kenton’s Cura Romana® comes on line towards the end of December. Our Cura Romana Journey is the only interactive programme available for body, mind and spirit weightloss you’ll find anywhere. It is based on daily videos, audios, written materials, tools, techniques, information and spiritual practices led by me personally. In addition to safe, rapid weightloss, it has also been designed to bring enhanced health, regeneration, and spiritual growth to men and women all over the world,.
Thanks to both of our exciting new babies - finally, the protocol in all its purity and power will soon be readily available to anyone who wants to explore the wide variety of opportunities on every level that Simmons’ method — at its very best — has to offer. At last, thanks to Aaron and all of the wonderful participants who have worked with me to make all of this possible. I am finally able to turn my 20 year old dream of sharing the transformative power of his work with more and more people everywhere.
Revolutionary, safe, fast and effective, Leslie Kenton’s Cura Romana can transform not only the way you look and feel, but the way you live your life now and long into the future. More information about our soon to arrive The Cura Romana Journey, will be appearing regularly on the Cura Romana web site. Meanwhile my own personal mentoring Cura Romana program is still available. Click here to find out more about both.
Thanks for watching.
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14:07:24 10/16/10
BPM 2010 - Part 3 - James Zabiela, Matt Cooper and Ben Bristow
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In Part 3 of our BPM coverage we catch up with James Zabiela at the unofficial BPM after party at the HMV Institute in Birmingham; he tells us about life with the 2000 set up and how he uses an iPad in the DJ Booth!
Dirty Disco resident Matt Cooper from Leeds held court in the booth on our stand at BPM; he tells us how his life has changed now he has his DJ set on his key ring!
Meanwhile Ben Bristow from the Point Blank DJ School enlightens us about the Pioneer Point Blank DJ Course. DJs from any level can learn how to master the essentials on the 350 series up to the CDJ & DJM-2000s.
You can never be too young to learn how to DJ as Lorna speaks to a 13 year old BPM veteran who has already been playing for two years!
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10:48:30 04/02/10
Live Performance By British Singer Milli Moonstone At New Delhi
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Milli Moonstone is a Western girl with an Eastern heart. She is a sarangi player, a flutist and a singer who hails from Britain. Deeply influenced by Indian music, she plays a brand of fusion that is deeply inspiring. She has been on tour in India with Pakistani pop star Najam Sheraz, with whom she sings and plays Violin, Flute, Sarangi and Guitar. She gave up her medical degree to study Asian and African music where she had the incredible opportunity to learn instruments and vocal styles from all around the world. But the instrument that truly stole her heart was India’s sarangi. Milli Moonstone’s musical life began properly at 7 years old, when she started studying classical flute, and singing in the Hampshire County Childrens’ Choir. A year later she took up the violin and joined local and county orchestras, and wind and string ensembles. At 11, she hit headlines and caused a national controversy by applying to be a girl chorister in Winchester Cathedral (under her birth name, Emily Edmondstone). For over 900 years, the choir had consisted only of boys, so she confronted head-on a long-established tradition. She was the centre of another wave of press years later when she eventually won her fight and the first girls’ choir was pioneered in the Cathedral. In the meantime, Milli had continued to study classical voice, flute and violin, was singing in the National Children’s Choir, and had started writing her own songs on the keyboard since the age of 13. She joined Westminster School at 15, where A Level Music opened her eyes and understanding of various genres further- from classical to jazz to musicals. After A levels, Milli left her instruments behind and set off alone on a voyage of discovery around the world. Not to be without music for long, she bought a cheap guitar in Indonesia and immediately started writing songs on it. This culturally-enlightening trip inspired a deep-seated interest in musical styles from a plethora of places. Milli also has a creative input in all sorts of other musical projects. She has sung, and played flute in Congolese bands Zongzing All Stars and Kasai Masai, the latter of which took her on tour in Oman and Bahrain and invited her to feature on their latest album, and she has also played with gypsy-jazz band Haila Drum, a Zimbabwean fusion band lead by Zuzana Novak. She has also just recently embarked on a new project with producer Chameleon, which fuses traditional acoustic sounds from around the world with driving dance beats. - H.S Communication
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02:38:47 04/03/09
Aero Tv Wai Perspectives Equality In Aviation (Part 1)
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A Three Question Survey Of This Year's Amazing Women In Aviation Conference At a number of the more intriguing special events that ANN and Aero-TV partake in, we engage in an interesting exercise in which we pose at least three questions to a dozen or so of those attending to gauge the mood on a range of issues pertaining to the subject at hand. This year's Women In Aviation Event was ripe for another such pursuit. Of the three topics raised this year, one was the obvious issue of whether or not there was still a perceptible level of discrimination against women in the aviation industry, the second was whether or not the current economic issues might make it easier or more difficult for women to enter this industry -- and finally, what advice our respondents might have for a women looking to the aviation world with her feet on the ground but stars in her eyes... The theme for the 20th Annual International Women in Aviation (WAI) Conference was "A New Approach for Your Tomorrow," but the Conference's underlying thrust was unquestionably jobs and the economy. Despite furloughs, fears and dwindling retirement funds, Conference-goers were full of determined optimism about their futures. Those WAI members who have spent their careers in the aviation industry were quick to assure younger attendees that the aviation industry operates in cycles and this one, too, shall pass. "Companies and organizations continue to hire, and we had active career recruiting by many of our exhibitors, especially for mechanics and technicians, but also for pilots, air traffic controllers and other positions as well," said WAI President Dr. Peggy Chabrian. "Our members and Conference attendees are proactive and steadfast; they are the top-tier candidates that any employer would want to hire." Conference highlights included: Attendance reached nearly 3,000 women and men, including representatives from 15 countries. The Exhibit Hall displayed 125 separate companies and organizations, representing all aspects of the aviation community $459,450 in scholarships was distributed to WAI members at every stage of life from university students to mature members seeking a mid-life career change to aviation. The WAI silent auction raised $18,500 for WAI's Endowment Fund, bringing the total in the Endowment Fund to $629,500. The money in the WAI Endowment Fund is used for scholarships. Five women were inducted into WAI's International Pioneer Hall of Fame including Jacqueline Cochran, the first woman to break the sound barrier; Patricia Malone, a US Navy WAVE who trained aircraft carrier-based pilots on instrument flight procedures; Ruth Nichols who holds more than 35 women's aviation records; Dawn Seymour, the first woman accepted into the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) at Cornell University, and who later was chosen for the WASP program; and Anna Timofeyeva-Yegorova, one of the most famous Soviet women to fly in a male combat regiment during World War II and holder of the Hero of the Soviet Union award. Added Dr. Chabrian, "This Conference was a celebration of 20 years of Women in Aviation conferences, and a rededication of our commitment to look forward by providing career opportunities for women in all aspects of the aviation community while looking back to recognize and honor the accomplishments of the determined women who made today's accomplishments and career choices possible." The 21st Annual International Women in Aviation Conference will be held at Walt Disney World's Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, near Orlando, from February 25-27, 2010. As always, ANN will be there. Aero-TV Asks Three Questions At The 2009 Women In Aviation Conference (Part 1)! FMI: www.wai.org, www.aero-tv.net, www.youtube.com/aerotvnetwork, http://twitter.com/AeroNews Copyright 2009, Aero-News Network, Inc., ALL Rights Reserved.
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02:38:15 04/03/09
Aero Tv Wai Perspectives Assessing Economic Equality (Part 2)
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A Three Question Survey Of This Year's Amazing Women In Aviation Conference At a number of the more intriguing special events that ANN and Aero-TV partake in, we engage in an interesting exercise in which we pose at least three questions to a dozen or so of those attending to gauge the mood on a range of issues pertaining to the subject at hand. This year's Women In Aviation Event was ripe for another such pursuit. Of the three topics raised this year, one was the obvious issue of whether or not there was still a perceptible level of discrimination against women in the aviation industry, the second (today's episode) was whether or not the current economic issues might make it easier or more difficult for women to enter this industry -- and finally, what advice our respondents might have for a women looking to the aviation world with her feet on the ground but stars in her eyes... The theme for the 20th Annual International Women in Aviation (WAI) Conference was "A New Approach for Your Tomorrow," but the Conference's underlying thrust was unquestionably jobs and the economy. Despite furloughs, fears and dwindling retirement funds, Conference-goers were full of determined optimism about their futures. Those WAI members who have spent their careers in the aviation industry were quick to assure younger attendees that the aviation industry operates in cycles and this one, too, shall pass. "Companies and organizations continue to hire, and we had active career recruiting by many of our exhibitors, especially for mechanics and technicians, but also for pilots, air traffic controllers and other positions as well," said WAI President Dr. Peggy Chabrian. "Our members and Conference attendees are proactive and steadfast; they are the top-tier candidates that any employer would want to hire." Conference highlights included: Attendance reached nearly 3,000 women and men, including representatives from 15 countries. The Exhibit Hall displayed 125 separate companies and organizations, representing all aspects of the aviation community $459,450 in scholarships was distributed to WAI members at every stage of life from university students to mature members seeking a mid-life career change to aviation. The WAI silent auction raised $18,500 for WAI's Endowment Fund, bringing the total in the Endowment Fund to $629,500. The money in the WAI Endowment Fund is used for scholarships. Five women were inducted into WAI's International Pioneer Hall of Fame including Jacqueline Cochran, the first woman to break the sound barrier; Patricia Malone, a US Navy WAVE who trained aircraft carrier-based pilots on instrument flight procedures; Ruth Nichols who holds more than 35 women's aviation records; Dawn Seymour, the first woman accepted into the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) at Cornell University, and who later was chosen for the WASP program; and Anna Timofeyeva-Yegorova, one of the most famous Soviet women to fly in a male combat regiment during World War II and holder of the Hero of the Soviet Union award. Added Dr. Chabrian, "This Conference was a celebration of 20 years of Women in Aviation conferences, and a rededication of our commitment to look forward by providing career opportunities for women in all aspects of the aviation community while looking back to recognize and honor the accomplishments of the determined women who made today's accomplishments and career choices possible." The 21st Annual International Women in Aviation Conference will be held at Walt Disney World's Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, near Orlando, from February 25-27, 2010. As always, ANN will be there. Aero-TV Asks Three Questions At The 2009 Women In Aviation Conference (Part 2)! FMI: www.wai.org, www.aero-tv.net, www.youtube.com/aerotvnetwork, http://twitter.com/AeroNews Copyright 2009, Aero-News Network, Inc., ALL Rights Reserved.
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02:37:47 04/03/09
Aero Tv Wai Perspectives Advice For New Aviators (Part 3)
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A Three Question Survey Of This Year's Amazing Women In Aviation Conference At a number of the more intriguing special events that ANN and Aero-TV partake in, we engage in an interesting exercise in which we pose at least three questions to a dozen or so of those attending to gauge the mood on a range of issues pertaining to the subject at hand. This year's Women In Aviation Event was ripe for another such pursuit. Of the three topics raised this year, one was the obvious issue of whether or not there was still a perceptible level of discrimination against women in the aviation industry, the second was whether or not the current economic issues might make it easier or more difficult for women to enter this industry -- and finally (today's episode), what advice our respondents might have for a women looking to the aviation world with her feet on the ground but stars in her eyes... The theme for the 20th Annual International Women in Aviation (WAI) Conference was "A New Approach for Your Tomorrow," but the Conference's underlying thrust was unquestionably jobs and the economy. Despite furloughs, fears and dwindling retirement funds, Conference-goers were full of determined optimism about their futures. Those WAI members who have spent their careers in the aviation industry were quick to assure younger attendees that the aviation industry operates in cycles and this one, too, shall pass. "Companies and organizations continue to hire, and we had active career recruiting by many of our exhibitors, especially for mechanics and technicians, but also for pilots, air traffic controllers and other positions as well," said WAI President Dr. Peggy Chabrian. "Our members and Conference attendees are proactive and steadfast; they are the top-tier candidates that any employer would want to hire." Conference highlights included: Attendance reached nearly 3,000 women and men, including representatives from 15 countries. The Exhibit Hall displayed 125 separate companies and organizations, representing all aspects of the aviation community $459,450 in scholarships was distributed to WAI members at every stage of life from university students to mature members seeking a mid-life career change to aviation. The WAI silent auction raised $18,500 for WAI's Endowment Fund, bringing the total in the Endowment Fund to $629,500. The money in the WAI Endowment Fund is used for scholarships. Five women were inducted into WAI's International Pioneer Hall of Fame including Jacqueline Cochran, the first woman to break the sound barrier; Patricia Malone, a US Navy WAVE who trained aircraft carrier-based pilots on instrument flight procedures; Ruth Nichols who holds more than 35 women's aviation records; Dawn Seymour, the first woman accepted into the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) at Cornell University, and who later was chosen for the WASP program; and Anna Timofeyeva-Yegorova, one of the most famous Soviet women to fly in a male combat regiment during World War II and holder of the Hero of the Soviet Union award. Added Dr. Chabrian, "This Conference was a celebration of 20 years of Women in Aviation conferences, and a rededication of our commitment to look forward by providing career opportunities for women in all aspects of the aviation community while looking back to recognize and honor the accomplishments of the determined women who made today's accomplishments and career choices possible." The 21st Annual International Women in Aviation Conference will be held at Walt Disney World's Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, near Orlando, from February 25-27, 2010. As always, ANN will be there. Aero-TV Asks Three Questions At The 2009 Women In Aviation Conference (Part 3)! FMI: www.wai.org, www.aero-tv.net, www.youtube.com/aerotvnetwork, http://twitter.com/AeroNews Copyright 2009, Aero-News Network, Inc., ALL Rights Reserved.
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00:10:44 03/16/09
Aero Tv Women In Aviation 2009 Uplift Outreach Aviation
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Aviation's Most Positive Gathering Takes Atlanta by Storm The theme for the 20th Annual International Women in Aviation (WAI) Conference, concluded late last month, was "A New Approach for Your Tomorrow," but the Conference's underlying thrust was unquestionably jobs and the economy. Despite furloughs, fears and dwindling retirement funds, Conference-goers were full of determined optimism about their futures. Those WAI members who have spent their careers in the aviation industry were quick to assure younger attendees that the aviation industry operates in cycles and this one, too, shall pass. "Companies and organizations continue to hire, and we had active career recruiting by many of our exhibitors, especially for mechanics and technicians, but also for pilots, air traffic controllers and other positions as well," said WAI President Dr. Peggy Chabrian. "Our members and Conference attendees are proactive and steadfast; they are the top-tier candidates that any employer would want to hire." Conference highlights included: o Attendance reached nearly 3,000 women and men, including representatives from 15 countries. o The Exhibit Hall displayed 125 separate companies and organizations, representing all aspects of the aviation community o $459,450 in scholarships was distributed to WAI members at every stage of life from university students to mature members seeking a mid-life career change to aviation. o The WAI silent auction raised $18,500 for WAI's Endowment Fund, bringing the total in the Endowment Fund to $629,500. The money in the WAI Endowment Fund is used for scholarships. o WAI member Arlynn McMahon was named the 2009 National Certificated Flight Instructor of the Year. She is a chief flight instructor, a ground instructor, and the training center manager for Aero-Tech, a Part 141 Cessna Pilot Center at Lexington's Blue Grass Airport (LEX). McMahon is the first woman in 14 years to achieve this distinction. In another positive development, the Experimental Aircraft Association announced at the Conference that the organization will continue its partnership with Women in Aviation, International, to manage and host WomenVenture during EAA AirVenture 2009. This is the second year for WomenVenture, a week-long initiative to showcase women's aviation achievements while attracting more women to aviation by making resources and information more accessible and visible to them. Five women were inducted into WAI's International Pioneer Hall of Fame including Jacqueline Cochran, the first woman to break the sound barrier; Patricia Malone, a US Navy WAVE who trained aircraft carrier-based pilots on instrument flight procedures; Ruth Nichols who holds more than 35 women's aviation records; Dawn Seymour, the first woman accepted into the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) at Cornell University, and who later was chosen for the WASP program; and Anna Timofeyeva-Yegorova, one of the most famous Soviet women to fly in a male combat regiment during World War II and holder of the Hero of the Soviet Union award. Added Dr. Chabrian, "This Conference was a celebration of 20 years of Women in Aviation conferences, and a rededication of our commitment to look forward by providing career opportunities for women in all aspects of the aviation community while looking back to recognize and honor the accomplishments of the determined women who made today's accomplishments and career choices possible." The 21st Annual International Women in Aviation Conference will be held at Walt Disney World's Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, near Orlando, from February 25-27, 2010. As always, ANN will be there. Aero-TV Enjoys The Positive Energy At 'Women in Aviation 2009' FMI: www.wai.org, www.aero-tv.net, www.youtube.com/aerotvnetwork, http://twitter.com/AeroNews Copyright 2009, Aero-News Network, Inc., ALL Rights Reserved.
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21:16:55 02/14/08
Interfaith Blessing Of The Garden Native Plants Are New Lawn In 21st Century
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During 2008 a solar fountain will flow - and wild flowers will bloom - in a native plants garden that has replaced the lawn at the Lutheran Campus Ministry “Lothlorien” house for students at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan.An interfaith “Blessing of the Garden” ceremony was held in late 2007 that included chanting, incense and other religious traditions from several faith communities.A member of the Earth Keeper Student Team managed the project that received a grant from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.Earth Keeper Initiative volunteer media advisor Greg Peterson has the story.Time: 9:59---Sue RabitailleMarquette County Conservation DistrictNative Plants Coordinator/Administrative Assistant The producers thank Lutheran Campus Ministry student leader Sarah Swanson, NMU sophomore from Rapid River, MI for her videography and photography talents that helped make this video possibleThrivent Financial for Lutherans, Central Upper Peninsula Chapter, awarded a $1600 grant to native plants project. Students convert Lutheran Campus Ministry lawn into eco-friendly Native Plants Garden; Rainstorm ends for Blessing of the Garden ceremony(Marquette, Michigan) - A "Blessing of the Garden" ceremony was held in October 2007 at Lothlorien - the Northern Michigan University Lutheran Campus Ministry house near Lake Superior.Performing the ceremony was Rev. Jon Magnuson, director of Lutheran Campus Ministry (LCM) at Northern Michigan University (NMU) in Marquette, MI; and Rev. Tesshin Paul Lehmberg, head priest of Lake Superior Zendo, a Marquette Zen Buddhist temple.The Lothlorien lawn has been turned into a native plants garden that includes rocks from three of the Great lakes and a solar fountain.A heavy rain poured the entire day almost causing the ceremony to be moved inside, but the sun came out for 20 minutes and the rain resumed just as the blessing and a tour were completed.The LCM house name, Lothlorien, comes from Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien.The garden includes numerous different plants from Michigan and others from the Boreal border regions of the northern United States including Black Eye Susan and aster, dogbane, bluestem, and Sensitive fern.Prayers, incense, bells, and chants were part of the ceremony that included a tour of the garden by NMU Student Michael Joko Rotter, who is a member of Lake Superior Zendo."Lothlorien is a magical kingdom part of what Tolkien called Middle-earth - where time passes differently," said Rev. Jon Magnuson, a Lutheran pastor, who founded the NMU EarthKeeper Student Team. Many of the campus ministry students belong to the interfaith NMU EK Student Team."One of the first images of the Old Testament around the beauty of God's creation is a garden," Rev. Magnuson said."Our natural native plants landscaping - our Lothlorien garden - is a sign of a new way of living with the world," Magnuson said. "It honors the indigenous and native plants of our region."The garden and the name of the LCM house reflect the way the students feel about nature."Lothlorien came into being first as a song," Rev. Magnuson said. "The garden will need little - if no artificial watering - no fertilizers and will be a haven for birds and other small creatures.""There is going to be a solar fountain - the fountain represents the water of Lake Superior and the waters of our baptism," Magnuson said.The Central Upper Peninsula Chapter of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans donated $1,600 to the LCM native plants project in Marquette because “it’s breaking new ground” and involved dedicated university students.“Students are involved - and we like to support things that young people are going to be enthusiastically involved in like this native plants garden,” said Judy Quirk, president of the Thrivent central U.P. chapter.Turning the LCM lawn into an eco-friendly garden “was a project worth doing, they had the students to do it and there was the enthusiasm,” said Quirk, adding the chapter awards about $52,000 in grants each year “usually to fundraisers for someone with a catastrophic illness” and other efforts like the Greater Ishpeming Pioneer Kiwanis Club wheelchair ramps project.Quirk said the native plants garden “is a unique project - we had never done anything like this” and said the chapter recently grant the “food pantry and meals program” at Victory Lutheran Church, which is the U.P. feeding site for Lutheran World Relief, located on the former K.I. Sawyer Air Force base.A fountain in the garden is going to be converted to solar power in the spring of 2008 and the sun will charge a battery allowing the water to flow in cloudy weather."In the back of the house there are rocks from the Lake Superior watershed," Rev. Magnuson said. "The pebbles represent the different worlds of the individuals who make up the region - and the people in the Great Lakes basin," Magnuson said.Rotter, who manages the garden, said the students hope neighbors will enjoy the beauty of the native plants and use it as an example for their lawns."We hope this will allow people to learn about the amazing diversity of out native plant communities and inspire people to learn the benefits that native plants have, such as requiring a third less water, and no pesticides or fertilizers," said Rotter, a Zen Buddhist member of the NMU EK Student Team."The Zen garden represents our interconnected lives in nature,: Rotter said. "The stones from each of the great lake watersheds represent the flow of water, the substance that gives us life, and shows us how all of us are ‘downstream' and depend on our connection to the earth for life."Rotter said the "garden represents the hope of the future.""It's a powerful symbol of the future of people living in the environment," Rotter said. "Hopefully as the garden grows the area near the house will help us return to our original nature and realize the dynamics of nature and the role we play.""Native plants are important parts of the ecosystem but because we have introduced new horticulture and many different types of plants, and sprayed our lawns with chemicals and destroyed areas with lawn mowers - we have lost our sense of being part of nature," Rotter explained. The October 5, 2007 blessing happened a couple hours after Rotter received the bad news about the nearby five-acre Native Plants Project that he manages on campus with other students.NMU planners are proposing that the four-year-old Outdoor Classroom and Native Plants Research Area be uprooted to build dorms, however the university president says final decisions have not been made.---related links:---The Cedar Tree Institute:http://www.cedartreeinstitute.orgThe Lake Superior Interfaith Communication Network:http://www.lakesuperiorinterfaith.com/Thrivent Financial for Lutherans:http://www.thrivent.com/Michigan Chapters:https://service.thrivent.com/apps/FraternalOnline/public/RegionalFinancialOffice?action=GetChapters%RegionalFinancialOfficeId=283---The Central Upper Peninsula Chapter of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans:http://www.lutheransonline.com/servlet/lo_ProcServ/dbpage=page%gid=00018000001064232660724081%newsletter_id=20071078409678118401111555%mode=display%expanded=1http://www.lutheransonline.com/servlet/lo_ProcServ/dbpage=page%mode=display%gid=00018000001064232660724081Judith Ann Quirk, presidentMarquette, MI 49855-3335906-228-6729juqu@charter.net---Victory Lutheran Church at K.I. Sawyer:Victory Lutheran Church315 ExplorerK.I. Sawyer, MichiganChurch: 906-346-7405Pastor: 906-346-3407Cell: 906-360-6623---Lutheran World Relief:http://www.lwr.org/---Greater Ishpeming Pioneer Kiwanis Club wheelchair ramps project:http://www.kdfonline.org/kdf-board.htmhttp://www.co.marquette.mi.us/humanservices/COA%20Manual/community_organizations.pdf---Michigan Kiwanis Club:www.michigankiwanis.org---Find a Kiwanis club:http://www.kiwanis.org/FindaClub/tabid/84/Default.aspx/---
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21:31:54 11/18/07
"Shrimp"
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Long known for his big animal cinematography, underwater imaging pioneer Chuck Nicklin explores the colorful and fascinating world of the Indo-Pacific's tiny shrimp species. Many shrimp are commensal with other sea creatures, meaning that they derive food or benefit from other species without harm or benefit to those other creatures. Some shrimp species have symbiotic relationships with other sea creatures where both species derive a benefit from the interaction. Chuck Nicklin is one of the pioneers of underwater cinematography. His credits include "The Deep," "The Abyss," and a couple of James Bond classics, in addition to work on a vast array of nature-related feature presentations for television and cinema spanning nearly five decades. He was among the first underwater cinematographers to film whales, including the first to film a singing Humpback Whale. Now eighty years young, Chuck continues to lead dive trips all over the world, produce his own short videos, and inspire and mentor a whole new generation of underwater imagers. To learn more about Chuck, his work, travels and history, please visit his website: ChuckNicklin.com
