Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Elton John: 'I shouldn't be here today'

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Monday, July 23, 2012

Landsat celebrates 40 years of Earth-watching

NASA highlights the top five "Earth as Art" images from Landsat satellite, as determined by more than 14,000 Internet votes.

By Alan Boyle

Forty years ago today, the first in a string of Landsat satellites was launched to keep continuous track of our planet?? and on the 40th birthday, Landsat's handlers demonstrated that satellite observations are the gifts that keep on giving. But for how much longer?

"Landsat has really become the gold standard of remote sensing from space," Anne Castle, the Interior Department's assistant secretary for water and science, said during a birthday celebration at the Newseum in Washington. "It's provided an invaluable, indelible record of the recent history of our planet."


From the beginning, Landsat was designed as a system that would provide freely available data about Earth's condition ??documenting agricultural shifts, urban development,?deforestation, floods and the impact of climate change and natural disasters. On the flip side, Landsat has chronicled the planet's ability to bounce back from disaster.

The Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980 serves as a perfect example: This time-lapse video shows how the blast created a dead zone around the volcano in Washington state, and how Mother Nature slowly crept in to reclaim the gray terrain:

The Interior Department's Anne Castle traces 10 important environmental phenomena documented by the 40-year-old Landsat satellite constellation.

Castle said Landsat has provided a "thoroughly objective, continuous look at ourselves in the mirror since 1972," when the first Landsat satellite was launched into polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on July 23. In a NASA news release, she went even further, calling Landsat's data archive "the world's free press, allowing any person, anywhere, to access vital information without charge."

Landsat's past and future
This "free press" is paid for by the federal government, at an estimated cost of 80 cents per person per year. The seven-satellite Landsat project is the result of a long-term collaboration between NASA and the Interior Department's U.S. Geological Survey as well as the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

"Landsat has given us a critical perspective on our planet over the long term and will continue to help us understand the big picture of Earth and its changes from space," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in the news release. "With this view we are better prepared to take action on the ground and be better stewards of our home."

The eighth satellite in the series, now known as the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, is due for launch from Vandenberg in February 2013. Once it's in orbit, LDCM is to be renamed Landsat 8, joining the 28-year-old Landsat 5 and the 13-year-old Landsat 7 spacecraft on the job.

And then what? That's the problem. The most important benefit of the Landsat program is the continuous, long-term monitoring of the planet's ups and downs?? and some observers worry that not enough money or attention has been devoted to what comes after Landsat 8. If, heaven forbid, one or both of the other satellites should go on the blink before LDCM is launched, a 40-year-plus chain would be broken. And Landsat 5 is?already faltering.

In May, the National Research Council issued a report saying that U.S. earth observation systems were in an increasingly precarious position due to budget shortfalls, launch failures and shifts in mission plans. "The projected loss of observing capability will have profound consequences on science and society," University of Washington atmospheric scientist Dennis Hartmann, the chair of the committee that wrote the report, warned at the time.

Even during today's Newseum celebration, concerns about the future cast a bit of a pall over the party. Tom Loveland, a USGS senior scientist at the Earth Resources Observation and Science Center in Sioux Falls, S.D., acknowledged during the press briefing that LDCM was currently cast as the last of the Landsat line.

"We still are on a tenuous path, in which we don't know when the next mission takes place," Loveland said.

New ways to use the data
Amid Landsat's midlife crisis, scientists keep finding new ways to use the database that's been built so far. Waleed Abdalati, chief scientist at NASA Headquarters, touted the NASA Earth Exchange, or NEX, which can help scientists easily put together mosaics of satellite imagery "like a giant jigsaw puzzle."

Google is in on the celebration as well: On its Lat Long Blog, the company highlighted its work with USGS and Carnegie Mellon University to create a monster series of interactive time-lapse videos.?"With them you can travel through time, from 1999 to 2011, to see the transformation of our planet ... whether it?s deforestation in the Amazon, urban growth in Las Vegas or the difference in snow coverage between the seasons," Google's Eric Nguyen and CMU visiting scholar Randy Sargent wrote.

Google video traces the history of the Landsat program.

The Google Earth Engine?is among the new?tools being developed for mining the quadrillions of bytes of data in the Landsat archive.

Will Landsat still be going 40 years from now? Maybe there'll be a whole new approach to Earth observation that will make the current system and data set look laughably obsolete. But for at least the next couple of decades, if we're going to chronicle the effects of climate change on Earth's surface in a methodical manner, we're going to need Landsat.

"I don't think it's an overstatement to say the success of humanity hangs in the balance," NASA's Abdalati said. Do you agree? Feel free to weigh in with your views, or birthday wishes, in the comment space below.


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Follow These Tips To Get Bigger Muscles | Technology Reviews

When you are trying to build muscle to improve your health and fitness, it is essential to recognize that rest is just as important as the exercise in encouraging muscle growth. Muscles need recovery time to repair damage and build new fibers. Working out too frequently or too aggressively can work against you in the long run.

Try varying your grips. Once you become experienced in working out, your muscles will start to resist any growth on exercises that are familiar to them. Different grips can help to make these familiar exercises different, which can cause additional muscle growth. Examples of exercise where you can change the grip are barbell rows, barbell curls, pull-ups, and bench presses. Try using wide grips, close hand grips, reverse grips, and even mixed grips that include having one hand up and one hand down.

Although some bodybuilders disdain them, body weight resistance exercises, such as push-ups and pull-ups, can play an important role in a good weight-lifting routine. These exercises can be combined with lifting exercises that target the same muscle groups in order to build ?super? sets that really push the muscles to perform. Body weight exercises can also ?prime the pump? by loosening up muscles prior to weight lifting.

Even though you might believe lifting heavy weights is the best method of building muscle, this isn?t always the case. Lifting light weight is also very important when it comes to building muscle. Lifting different amounts of weight work different muscle fibers, which can help you ensure that your muscle gain is of higher quality.

Before launching yourself into a muscle-building program, work on your overall strength and stability. You need a strong core and strong stabilizing muscles?which support your larger muscles?before you should attempt to bulk up. Try some general flexibility exercises, as well as those that work your back and abs, before beginning your mass-building regimen.

Eating in the middle of the night can help you to grow the muscles you really want. Eating at different times of the day can help your body to increase the amount of nutrients that it is absorbing and help it to be able to burn through fats more efficiently.

Diversify your training routine. You will get bored quickly if you are always repeating the same exercises, and you will not be able to build all your muscles. You will look in shape if you develop every muscle of your body. You can focus on one area if you want to make it more prominent later.

If you desire to build muscle, one of the most important things to consider is a pre-workout meal. This meal should be filled with protein and carbohydrates, which will give you the energy that you need for your workout. Also, foods that contain these nutrients can help to convert fat to muscle as you lift weights.

Consider drinking a protein shake before starting your weight-training workouts. Liquid minerals tend to be absorbed quicker in the body than solid food, so think about having a shake filled with protein, about 10 to 20 grams. The protein shake will help give you a boost of protein to encourage protein synthesis, which is the way to building muscles.

At most, you need to complete between twenty-five and fifty reps for each body part, roughly two or three times a week to gain the most muscle mass. This is going to be very beneficial to serious lifters. If you strive to do more than this, you may be wasting your time because overdoing it can lessen the results that you see.

Do not skimp on the amount of sleep you get. The process of building and repairing your muscles happens while you sleep, and without adequate recovery, you run the risk of hurting yourself during workouts. Get 7-9 hours of sleep each night to maximize the benefits of the exercises you perform.

It is difficult to lose weight and build muscle at the same time. You have to have a high-protein diet to support your muscle growth, but reduce your fat intake at the same time. Eat foods that are high in protein and low in fat and refined carbohydrates to reduce weight and gain muscle at the same time.

Do not let working out become an obsession. Exercise is a healthy and fun activity but some people become obsessed with their weight or muscle mass and exhaust their bodies to reach their ideal. If you find you are pushing yourself to your limits every day because you are not satisfied with your body, it is time to take a break.

If you are wanting to add more muscle definition to your body, try compound exercises. This is especially important when you are just starting to build muscle mass. Compound exercises are ones that exercise several muscle locations simultaneously. Once you have built your base muscle mass and strength, it is okay to start introducing more isolation exercises into you muscle building workout regimen.

Don?t try to focus on both cardio and strength at the same time. This is not to say you should not perform cardiovascular exercises when you are attempting to build muscle. In fact, cardio is an important part of physical fitness. However, you should not heavily train cardio, such as preparing for a marathon, if you are trying to focus on building muscle. The two types of exercises can conflict, minimizing effectiveness on both fronts.

Information is going to help you make the most of the time that you spend working on building muscle. The information that you have gained from this article will, hopefully, help you gain the muscle mass that you are working toward. Use the advice and tips learned here to find the productive routine that works for you.

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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Hulu rolls out a simplified player UI for the web, takes a few cues from mobile

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The web player for Hulu added some more acreage just a few months ago, and now the company has updated it with a new "chromeless" look that's stripped down for less complexity than the old one seen here. Similar to the changes Netflix recently made to its web player UI (and looking particularly reminiscent of the iOS video player), Hulu has concentrated all the transport controls into a single bar including options like a 10-second rewind and bringing up the time left in a video when it's paused. As seen in the screenshot above, quality and buffering options have their own submenu now, while the toggles for closed captions, pop-out and lower lights have been moved into a box below the player. Once the show is over, there's a new screen before the player either automatically picks another video, lets you replay what you just watched or browse through other recommended selections. You should be able to see it on the site now, give it a quick spin and let us know if the changes are for the better.

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