Christmas entertainment has begun at Whitford City Shopping Centre.
CHILDREN with special needs can meet Santa in a private and comfortable environment at Whitford City shopping centre.
Sensory Santa will be at Santa's Enchanted Garden in Centre Court, near the concierge, every Sunday until December 18 from 10am to 11am.
These sessions are outside of normal centre hours, giving children who are sensitive to crowds and loud noise the opportunity to meet Santa.
Limited spaces are available so bookings for each 10-minute session are essential on 9308 2751.
For more information, go to www.westfield.com.au/whitfordcity/events.
Whitford City welcomed Santa to the shopping centre on November 13 with its inaugural Christmas community market.
The family event had more than 60 market stalls, children's games and rides, festive foods and live music.


Located steps away from Lionshead Village, this is luxury living at its finest! This amazing property has four bedrooms plus a den, including 2 Master Suites, and features a private hot tub, outdoor fire pit, 2 indoor fireplaces, a 2 car garage and 2 washer/dryer sets. Set in the mountainside residential development of Lionshead Village, steps away from the Eagle Bahn Gondola, this amazing property is just a short walk away from Vail Village, and easily accessible to both Vail gondolas as well.
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Q: Disable AMD module loading I'm using a swagger-generated api in a stack that uses webpack with babel-loader. webpack tries to load the files as AMD modules and fails.
ERROR in D:/project/src/javascripts/api/location/model/Location.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'ApiClient' in D:\project\src\javascripts\api\location\model
 @ D:/project/src/javascripts/api/location/model/Location.js 22:4-34

When I remove the amd-part in the swagger files (below) it works:
if (typeof define === 'function' && define.amd) {
 // AMD. Register as an anonymous module.
 define(['superagent'], factory);
}

I know that webpack loader "imports" supports a parameter define->false to solve such issues. But I could not find a solution for bable-loader.
Can anyone suggest a solution?

A: In my case, I added another rule to my webpack config. I import my swagger-generated client as a separate package, so I only wanted the imports-loader to run through node_modules.
Note that the code below uses webpack 2 syntax. You will need to tweak it if you're using an older version of webpack.
module: {
  rules: [
    {
      test: /\.js$/,
      use: 'babel-loader',
      exclude: /node_modules/,
    },
    {
      test: /\.js$/,
      use: 'imports-loader?define=>false',
      include: /node_modules/,
    },
  ],
}

I'm not sure what your situation is, but you might need to do something similar. The code generated by swagger may not need to run through babel.

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AACE established this Early Career Award in 2014 to honor the beloved Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cancer Education, Joseph F. O'Donnell MD, after he retired from his editorial post.
Joseph F. O'Donnell, MD: educator, physician, mentor, husband and father. Dr. O'Donnell is a long standing member of the AACE and has held numerous positions including that of President of AACE and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cancer Education. His service to the AACE was recognized in 2007 when he was awarded the Margaret Hay Edwards Award. His medical career has included service as Chief of Medical Oncology at the White River Junction VA Hospital, Associate Dean for Student Affairs at Dartmouth Medical School (DMS), and Senior Advising Dean and Director of Community Programs (DMS). Joe is known as a man of compassion, insatiable curiosity, and wisdom. It is in his capacity as a mentor to early investigators that this Award is named in his honor. Dr. O'Donnell first came in contact with the AACE during his fellowship training. This experience instilled in him a lifelong commitment to cancer education and passing along the mentorship he received to other young investigators.
Each year, the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cancer Education chooses an attendee of the International Cancer Education Conference who is in their early career and who is presenting a work focused in cancer education to receive a travel scholarship to attend the conference.
The Joseph F. O'Donnell Early Career Investigator Award will provide a grant, not to exceed $1,500.00, to support attendance to the International Cancer Education Conference (ICEC) to present papers, posters or creative work focused in the area of cancer education for a candidate in the first five years of his/her first faculty appointment or equivalent. This program provides financial assistance to U.S. and international applicants. Applications are now closed.
See also the R. Davilene Carter Young Investigators Presidential Prize that was awarded in 2010 and discontinued.


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Israeli lunar landing planned for 2019 We will plant Israeli flag on the moon. Unmanned Israeli spacecraft to launch for lunar landing mission in 2019.
An Israeli spacecraft will land on the moon early in 2019, the SpaceIL corporation announced Tuesday, in a mission which would make Israel the fourth country to make a lunar landing.
The SpaceIL spacecraft will be launched from the United States on a Falcon 9 orbital launch vehicle, built by Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX.
At a press conference on Tuesday, SpaceIL representatives announced that the unmanned lunar landing craft will be transferred to the US in November, with a launch date in December.
According to SpaceIL, the unmanned space vessel will reach the moon and complete the lunar landing on February 13th next year.
If successful, the mission would make Israel the fourth country to make a soft-landing by an unmanned vehicle on the moon. The USSR, US, and China have landed unmanned vehicles in "soft landings" since 1966. The US remains the only country to have undertaken a manned mission to the moon, with six successful Apollo mission lunar landings from 1969 through 1972.
During its mission, the unmanned SpaceIL vehicle will plant the Israeli flag on the moon, SpaceIL CEO Dr. Ido Anteby said.
"We will plant the Israeli flag on the moon," said Anteby. "This is a small but smart spacecraft. It is 2 meters (6.6 feet) in diameter and about half a meter (1.65 feet) tall. It weighs 600 kilograms (1,323 pounds). When it lands on the moon, it will weigh 180 kilograms (397 pounds).
After its launch, the SpaceIL spacecraft will be carried into an Earth orbit at some 60,000 kilometers (37,282 miles) from the surface of the Earth.
From there, the spacecraft will gradually make its way to the moon from an elliptical orbit around the Earth. This will make the travel time far longer than on past missions to the moon, while saving on fuel and thus reducing launch weight.
SpaceIL first announced plans for a lunar landing ahead of Google's 2012 Lunar X Prize, which promised $20 million for the first team to successfully land a vehicle on the moon.
While the contest ended with no winner, in 2014 SpaceIL launched a fundraising campaign, and received $16.4 million from American Jewish donors Miriam and Sheldon Adelson.
Quelle: ARUTZ SHEVA 7
Israel announces mission to land spacecraft on the Moon
Organisers hold a press conference on July 10, 2018 ahead of the planned launch of Israel's first lunar spacecraft
THOMAS COEX (AFP)
Israel announced on Tuesday that it will launch its first lunar mission in December, with the hopes of becoming the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon in February 2019.
Israeli space exploration firm SpaceIL, together with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), will launch a spacecraft into orbit via a SpaceX rocket in December, which they intend to land on the moon in February 2019.
"We will all remember where we were when Israel landed on the moon," Morris Kahn, one of the project's leaders, said announcing the mission.
So far, only the US, Russia and China have landed spacecrafts on the moon.
The project began as part of the Google Lunar XPrize, which offered $30 million (25 million euros) in prizes to encourage scientists and entrepreneurs to come up with relatively low-cost moon missions.
With its 585 kilograms, two meters in diameter and a meter and a half high, the Israeli spacecraft will be the smallest to ever land on the moon, Ido Anteby, the CEO of the nonprofit SpaceIL said on Tuesday.
It will be launched via a rocket from American entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX firm and its mission will include research on the moon's magnetic field.
Its first task however will be to plant an Israeli flag on the moon, organizers said.
The IAI-built spacecraft, which was build in 2013, will be transferred to the United States in November, ahead of the launch.
The overall cost of the project is estimated to be around $95 million.
The first Israeli astronaut for NASA was Ilan Ramon, who was among those killed when Space Shuttle Columbia crashed on February 1, 2003.
Ramon became the first foreign recipient of the US Congressional Space Medal of Honor, which he was awarded to him posthumously.
Space Shuttle Columbia was a 16-day flight dedicated to experiments and research.
Before embarking on a career as an astronaut, Ramon was an elite pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and among the few pilots who took part in the 1981 airstrike on Iraq's nuclear reactor.
Quelle: i24NEWS
Israeli moon lander to ride SpaceX rocket in Spaceflight's first move beyond low Earth orbit
An artist's conception shows SpaceIL's Sparrow lunar lander on the moon's surface. (SpaceIL Illustration)
SpaceIL's lunar lander is go for launch as a secondary payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that's due to send a telecommunications satellite into geosynchronous orbit, Seattle-based Spaceflight announced today.
The launch, expected early next year, would represent the first Spaceflight rideshare mission to go beyond low Earth orbit. And Israel-based SpaceIL's mission would represent the first non-governmental landing on the moon.
Spaceflight timed its announcement to coincide with Euroconsult's World Satellite Business Week conference in Paris. It said rideshare opportunities to geosynchronous transfer orbit, or GTO, would be made available every 12 to 18 months, or as customer demand requires.
Although Spaceflight didn't identify the primary payload for Spaceflight's first GTO mission, it's thought to be the PSN-6 telecommunications satellite, which was built for Indonesia's PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara by SSL, a Maxar Technologies subsidiary. This would be the first combined launch for Spaceflight and SSL.
"We're focused on getting our customers' spacecraft into orbit in the most expeditious, cost-effective manner possible," Spaceflight President Curt Blake said in a news release. "The rideshare model is beneficial to everyone; the primary spacecraft as well as all the secondaries pay less than if they contracted to launch individually. In addition, working with a reliable partner like SSL to fulfill our first GTO mission increases our ability to service this growing destination. We're looking forward to making GTO a routine and affordable destination for our clients."
The mission plan calls for several of Spaceflight's rideshare payloads to be deployed from geosynchronous transfer orbit. SSL's host spacecraft would then continue onward to geosynchronous orbit, where the remaining rideshare satellites would be separated.
Spaceflight didn't identify any of the payloads other than SpaceIL's, and didn't disclose the prices that were paid. Spaceflight, which provides satellite rideshare and mission management services in league with a wide range of launch providers, is a subsidiary of Seattle's Spaceflight Industries.
David Bernstein, senior vice president of program management at SSL, hailed Spaceflight's "innovative approach to aggregating launches and bringing a more cost-effective launch model to the industry as a result."
"Working as a team with Spaceflight and SpaceX, we are enabling a unique mission that ultimately accomplishes a translunar injection, prior to dropping off other payloads on our way to geostationary orbit for the primary communications satellite," Bernstein said.
SpaceIL was one of the competitors in the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize, which was terminated early this year when organizers determined that none of the teams could get to the moon before the March deadline.
During a July news conference in Israel, SpaceIL's team leaders said they expected to have their spacecraft launched by the end of this year, kicking off an energy-efficient, two-month trip to the moon. At the time, their schedule called for the 600-kilogram (1,300-pound) lander to touch down on the lunar surface on Feb. 13, 2019, but that schedule may have to be revised to reflect a later time frame for the launch.
After landing, the spacecraft would send back photos and videos as well as data about the moon's magnetic field.
SpaceIL's organizers say about $88 million has been invested in the effort, mostly from private donors but also from organizations including the Israel Space Agency; Israeli's Ministry of Science, Technology and Space; and the Weizmann Institute of Science. SpaceIL President Morris Kahn, an Israeli billionaire investor, reportedly has donated $27 million.
Quelle: GeekWire
Billionaire gives Israel's space effort £3.8m boost before moon launch
Canadian-Israeli philanthropist Sylvan Adams gives the Jewish state's high-tech imitative cash injection ahead of most ambitious project
Israel's first spacecraft is expected to take-off for the moon next month
A Canadian Jewish billionaire gave Israel's space effort a $5 million boost this week, a month before the country's first spacecraft is expected to take-off for the moon.
Sylvan Adams, who made aliyah in 2015 and later brought the Giro d'Italia bike race to Israel, committed the money on his 60th birthday during a tour of the facilities in which the spacecraft is being assembled.
The project aims to make Israel the fourth country to land a craft on the surface of the moon, and is being led by SpaceIL, a non-profit initiative led by three friends who refused to give up after failing to win a $20 million lunar prize from Google in March.
The trio hope to create an "Apollo effect" in Israel, to encourage the next generation of Israeli children to choose to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and Adams said this played a big part in his reasoning.
"I believe that sending the first Israeli spacecraft to the moon will inspire Israeli school children to take up STEM studies and think about space exploration, and especially to believe that everything is possible," he said.
The main funder of the SpaceIL project is South Africa-born Israeli billionaire Morris Kahn, who has donated $27 million. He thanked Adams this week, adding: "We are now in the final stretch."
The Israeli craft is expected to launch from Florida's Cape Canaveral next month, with a two-month journey to the moon ahead of touchdown on 13 February 2019.
Quelle: JEWISH NEWS
First private Israeli lunar mission will launch in February
An Israeli organization says that it has pushed back its launch of the first private spacecraft aiming to land on the moon
An Israeli nonprofit on Monday said it has pushed back the launch of what it hopes will be the first private spacecraft to land on the moon until February.
Officials from SpaceIL and its project partner, the state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries, announced that the landing craft, dubbed "Beresheet," or Genesis, will ship in February to Florida. Propelled by a SpaceX Falcon rocket launch, the robotic lander will then commence its months-long voyage to the moon. It had been slated to launch this month.
SpaceIL said it had no control over the launch's delay, and that SpaceX, the private space exploration company founded by entrepreneur Elon Musk, notified them that its rocket will now lift off in February 2019 without providing an explanation.
Israel Aerospace Industries manager Opher Doron stressed that the small craft, roughly the size of a washing machine, faces a "difficult, arduous journey" because it will have to make several orbits before touching down on the moon. Upon landing, the craft is to relay photographs and collect data about the moon's ever-changing magnetism for research by Israel's Weizmann Institute and NASA.
On Monday, SpaceIL representatives presented a time capsule that will accompany the spacecraft to the moon.
The capsule, in the shape of a DVD, holds pictures of the Israeli public, interpretive drawings by Israeli children and other pieces of national memorabilia, including stories of Holocaust survivors.
"We hope that far in the future, when travel to the moon is as common as trans-Atlantic travel, that children will be able to understand the lives of their Israeli ancestors through this archive on the moon," said SpaceIL co-founder Yonatan Winetraub.
A crowd of Israeli reporters, clad in sanitized white coats, burst into applause as Winetraub fastened the capsule to the underbelly of the craft.
SpaceIL was founded in 2011 and originally vied for Google's Lunar Xprize, which challenged private companies to try to land an unmanned spacecraft on the moon.
But the $20 million competition was scrapped by the tech giant earlier this year when it became clear none of the five companies would meet a March deadline.
SpaceIL has vowed to continue the mission and hopes that its ambitious $95 million project, largely funded by South African-Israeli billionaire Morris Kahn and other donors, will spur a new wave of commercial missions to the moon and jump-start new companies.
Israel would become the fourth country to land a craft on the moon, after the U.S., the Soviet Union and China.
First Israeli Spacecraft Transported to Florida by SpaceIL – Historic Moon Mission to Take Place Next Month
The spacecraft, inside a temperature-controlled shipping container, was loaded into a cargo plane at Ben Gurion Airport and then flown to Florida. (Photo credit: Eliran Avital)
Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)'s first lunar spacecraft began a historic journey to the moon earlier this week, when it was transported in a cargo plane from Ben Gurion Airport to Orlando, Florida, ahead of launching from SpaceX Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station next month.
SpaceIL and IAI recently packed the 180-kilogram spacecraft into a special temperature-controlled, sterile shipping container, built to protect the spacecraft and ensure it arrives safely at the launch site. After landing at Orlando International Airport, the spacecraft – named Beresheet (the Hebrew word for in the beginning) – will then be driven to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, where it will be added as a secondary payload by launch service provider Spaceflight. It will be launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket together with a geostationary communications satellite built by SSL. The launch is targeted for no earlier than mid-February.
"After eight years of hard work, our dream has come true: We finally have a spacecraft," said SpaceIL CEO Ido Anteby. "Shipping the spacecraft to the United States is the first stage of a complicated and historic journey to the moon. This is the first of many exciting moments, as we look forward to the forthcoming launch in Cape Canaveral."
IAI Director of Logistics Eyal Shitrit said that though IAI has extensive experience in complex shipping projects, "the transporting of Beresheet is a unique challenge since this is a once-in-a-lifetime mission and there is no backup plan – this spacecraft must arrive safely."
In addition to the container holding Beresheet, two more containers will be included in the cargo plane, which itself is temperature controlled. SpaceIL and IAI engineers will accompany the spacecraft on the flight to Florida, and more engineers will join them in Cape Canaveral. Beresheet will undergo final tests before being launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Upon completing its lunar mission ¬– the first in Israel's history and the first that's privately funded – Israel would join superpowers China, Russia and the United States in landing a spacecraft on the moon.
Since the establishment of SpaceIL, the task of landing an Israeli spacecraft on the moon has become a national project, with educational impact, funded mainly by Morris Kahn, a philanthropist and businessman who took the lead in completing the mission, serving as SpaceIL's president and financing $40 million.
"The excitement we all feel today will only intensify moving forward, and I can't wait for the next milestone," said Kahn. "This is only the beginning."
Additional donors include Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson – whose $24 million contribution enabled the project to continue – and Lynn Schusterman, Steven and Nancy Grand, Sylvan Adams, Sami Sagol and others.
Please find below photos and a video of SpaceIL and IAI packing Beresheet, the first Israeli lunar spacecraft, into a special shipping container and then into a cargo plane.
Quelle: The Jewish Voice
Exclusive: An interview with the co-founder of Israel's historic moon mission
Just days before liftoff, Yonatan Winetraub reveals what sparked the idea, the planned lunar experiments and what surprising gifts are onboard.
Like many good ideas, it was hatched after an evening of drinking.
Three young Israelis – Yonatan Winetraub, Yariv Bash and Kfir Damari – were at the only bar in Holon, a small town just south of Tel Aviv. They made for an intriguing ensemble: a space engineer, a cyber security expert and a drone maker.
As the night wore on, they came up with an audacious plan to build a spacecraft that could land on the moon. "As the alcohol level in our blood rose, we got more and more determined to do this," Winetraub recalled during a recent interview with From The Grapevine. "And it never faded away."
Nearly a decade later, their alcohol-infused idea is about to make history. Their spacecraft will lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida next week. If all goes as planned, the trio's ship carrying the flag of their native country will make Israel only the fourth country to ever successfully land on the moon – after the U.S, Russia and China. Moreover, it will mark the first-ever privately funded trip (i.e. not paid for by a government) to land on the lunar surface.
"It's going to be the conclusion of 8 1/2 years of really hard work," Winetraub said. "When we started it, we had no idea if it was actually going to succeed." To paraphrase the old Chinese proverb: The journey of thousands of miles begins with one step. Or a beer.
Yonatan Winetraub (left) points to the spacecraft at a media event in December in Israel. (Photo: Jack Guez / AFP/Getty Images)
Their lunar aspirations came at a propitious time. For years, NASA has been moving away from moon missions, opting instead for routine trips to the International Space Station as well as hyping a glitzier journey to Mars. Billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have stepped in to help fill the void. As did Google.
Back in 2007, the Silicon Valley tech giant established the Google X Prize. It offered $20 million to the first team to land a rover on the moon and send back high-definition video. Groups from all over the world signed up, hoping to take part in this modern-day space race.
The three Israelis – who called their team SpaceIL – excelled in the competition, quickly separating themselves from the pack by becoming one of the top three teams. (Bash played double duty during this time, also launching a company that builds drones that deliver burgers to golfers.) As the contest waged on, Google had to keep pushing back the deadline to allow more time for the teams to work. In early 2018, with no team able to meet the latest deadline, Google withdrew the prize money.
But SpaceIL was so close to finishing the project, only months away from completion. They decided to keep going, and that bet paid off. In total, thanks to around $100 million in private donations, they pulled off the unthinkable.
The ship was completed in late 2018. A dedication ceremony in December christened the spacecraft the Beresheet, Hebrew for "Genesis." In January, it was shipped from Israel to the United States, where it has taken up residence at Cape Canaveral to undergo final tests before the launch.
The spaceship was driven from the factory to Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, where it was packed into a cargo plane. (Photo: Eliran Avital)
It's no surprise that the ship, which is about the size of a smart car, will be the smallest spacecraft ever designed for a lunar landing. Since the launch of Israel's space program during the 1980s, the Mediterranean country has been forced to innovate. Most countries launch rockets eastward, in conjunction with the Earth's rotation. "The Earth's rotation has some velocity to it and that can give you an extra push to go to space," Winetraub explained.
But due to geographic limitations, Israel launches its spacecrafts westward, toward the Mediterranean Sea. "Not only don't we get the extra push from the Earth's velocity, but we get the push in the opposite direction." To counteract this takes more fuel and more efficiency. Israel has become so successful at making lightweight space equipment and satellites that other countries – like the U.S., Germany and France – have entered into cooperating agreements with Israeli space companies.
Another cost-efficiency method is not flying to space on your own. Instead, SpaceIL will be hitching a ride aboard a SpaceX rocket. Think of it like an Uber carpool ride into space. "It's less of a piggyback, and more like a ride-share," Winetraub told us. "There are passengers in the front seat and passengers in the back seat all going up to space. Because we're getting off last, other payloads get dropped off first. So it takes a while." A trip to the moon would normally only take days. But because SpaceIL will be the last passenger to be dropped off, it will take about 2 1/2 months. Winetraub predicted it would be around late April before their ship lands on the moon.
Winetraub will be in Florida next week to watch the launch firsthand, while others from SpaceIL will be stationed at a ground control center in Israel, where they will begin receiving signals from the Beresheet. "In a sense, it's like the birth of a spacecraft. There's a lot of work to be done."
Despite all their rigorous pre-launch testing, there's only so much they can do to prepare. The ship has never been exposed to the actual rigors of interplanetary space travel, so anything is possible. "It's a complicated engineering process with so many parts," Winetraub said. "We have the best engineers in Israel working on this. We're hoping everything goes smoothly, but you actually don't know."
The trip is more than just a history-making venture and will embark on some scientific research. Once it lands, it will conduct experiments on the moon's magnetic field. NASA recently installed some of its own monitoring devices onto the ship as well. Equipped with an external camera, the craft will also be able to broadcast video of what it's seeing back to mission control here on Earth.
A journalist films the spacecraft during a presentation for the media on Monday. (Photo: Jack Guez / AFP/Getty Images)
This will be a one-way trip, as the spacecraft will remain on the moon for future explorers to discover. SpaceIL has placed a time capsule aboard the ship consisting of three discs – each containing hundreds of digital files. Among them are drawings by Israeli children, MP3 files of Israeli songs and photos of Israeli landscapes. "It is very possible that future generations will find this information and want to learn more about this historic moment," Winetraub mused.
SpaceIL is also hoping their lunar landing becomes an educational calling card, something akin to JFK's inspirational "We choose to go to the moon" speech. "Kids today in Israel and also in the U.S., they're not as interested in science and engineering because it's harder. It's much easier to watch reality TV," said Winetraub, who himself admitted to watching "The Real Housewives" in his spare time. "But especially here in the Startup Nation, we need scientists and engineers. So we wanted to shift the attention towards that direction."
He hopes this message resonates with the next generation. "We live in an era when these kids are going to be able to make their own rocket ships, or solve global warming, or clean up the oceans or whatever it is that they want to do. The technology is going to catch up with their dreams," he said. Through public lectures and other activities, SpaceIL has already reached more than a million kids. They've also created an online course for students about space travel, and a children's book called "The Little Spacecraft" will be published. "This is something we're very proud of," Winetraub told us. "When you see the spark in the kids and you see how excited they are, it affects you as well. It kind of fills you up to see the sparks in their eyes."
As if shepherding a space journey wasn't enough, it's only one of the big-ticket missions in Winetraub's life. The countless hours of work on the SpaceIL project has put the 32-year old Tel Aviv native a tad behind in his schoolwork. He's currently a Ph.D. student at Stanford, researching ways to detect cancer at a much earlier stage. "The sooner you detect it the more likely you are to be cured from it," he said.
He sees parallels between the two paths of his life's work, pointing out that both cancer research and space travel have seen incredible progress in the past decade. When asked which field he considers harder to crack, he didn't have to think long. "As much as a spaceship is complicated machinery, the human body is much more complicated and well engineered."
He also said he hopes to himself travel to space one day. But, for now, that trip is on the back burner as he makes final preparations for the Beresheet's launch. Before hanging up, he left us with this plea: "Please cross your fingers because this is a hard mission and we need all the help that we can get."
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First private Israel lunar mission to be launched this week
A nonprofit Israeli consortium hopes to make history this week by launching the first private aircraft to land on the moon
In this Monday, Dec. 17, 2018 file photo, technicians stand next to the SpaceIL lunar module, an unmanned spacecraft, is on display in a special "clean room" where the space craft is being developed, during a press tour of their facility near Tel Aviv, Israel. SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries told a news conference that the landing craft will take off from Florida, to its weekslong voyage to the moon this week. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)
A nonprofit Israeli consortium said Monday that it hopes to make history this week by launching the first private aircraft to land on the moon.
SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries told a news conference that the landing craft — dubbed "Beresheet," or Genesis — will take off from Florida, propelled by a SpaceX Falcon rocket on its weekslong voyage to the moon.
The launch is scheduled late Thursday in the United States, early Friday in Israel. It had been originally slated for last December.
SpaceIL CEO Ido Anteby and Opher Doron, general manager of the IAI's space division, said the spacecraft will slingshot around the Earth at least six times in order to reach the moon and land on its surface on April 11.
If the SpaceIL mission is successful, Israel will become the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon, after the Soviet Union, United States and China.
SpaceIL has attempted to drum up public excitement for the lunar mission in Israel in recent months, visiting classrooms around the country and sponsoring television advertisements that put Israel on par with global powers.
The small craft, roughly the size of a washing machine, is equipped with instruments to measure the moon's magnetic field, as well as a copy of the Bible microscopically etched on a small metal disc.
Israel's space program chief Avi Blasberger said he hopes SpaceIL will create a "Beresheet effect" in Israel, akin to the Apollo effect, to promote science among a new generation.
SpaceIL was founded in 2011 and originally competed for Google's Lunar Xprize, which challenged private companies to try to land a robotic spacecraft on the moon. But the $20 million competition was scrapped by the tech giant last year when it became clear none of the five companies would meet a preset deadline.
The SpaceIL project has ballooned in cost over the years to around $100 million, financed largely by South African-Israeli billionaire Morris Kahn and other donors from around the world.
Kahn said he believes that "every Jew, not only every Israeli, will remember where he was when Israel landed on the moon."
SpaceX test fires twice-flown Falcon 9 for world's first commercial Moon mission
Likely to be the third orbital-class launch for the booster in question, SpaceX's next launch – led by primary customer Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) – has the potential to lay claim to multiple major spaceflight "firsts", ranging from the first time a twice-flown Falcon 9 has launched on the East Coast to the world's first attempt to land a commercial spacecraft on another planetary body – the Moon, in this case.
SpaceX has completed the final critical test milestone of the mission's flight-proven Falcon 9, filling the rocket with propellant and successfully static firing the booster on the evening of February 18th. According to SpaceX, all remains on schedule for a February 21st launch attempt from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) Launch Complex 40 (LC-40), with liftoff currently targeted for 8:45 pm EDT (01:45 UTC).
In this case, that commercial entity is the Israeli company SpaceIL in support of the world's first commercially-developed Moon lander, a ~600 kg (1300 lb) spacecraft known as Beresheet (Hebrew for "In the beginning"). Designed by SpaceIL and constructed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the craft has since been installed atop PSN-6 and encased in Falcon 9's payload fairing along with one much smaller copassenger, an Air Force Research Laboratory-funded (AFRIL) microsat known as "S5". The latter spacecraft weighs roughly 60 kg (130 lb) and is an experiment designed to determine whether small satellites can be used in geostationary orbit (GEO), with S5 focusing on cataloging and tracking GEOsats
SPACEFLIGHT INDUSTRIES AIMS FOR NEW MARKET CREATION
Shepherded by rideshare industry leader Spaceflight, the PSN-6 rideshare – known by SI as GTO-1 – has the potential to open up a new and highly useful realm of spaceflight previously all but closed off to customers lacking tens of millions of dollars for launch costs. While it's unclear how exactly Spaceflight worked with SSL and/or PSN to make it happen, the mission profile and its potential are both fascinating and complex.
"What we're doing with [GTO-1] is really cool, cause this is a type of mission that hasn't really been available [commercially] in the past – taking a ride all the way to GEO and then separating in GEO as an independent spacecraft . . . We're really excited about testing the market and proving – really, making – a new market here with the GEO [and GTO] rideshare." – Ryan Ostello, Spaceflight (Jan. 2019)
In a late-January interview with Spaceflight's Mission Director Ryan Ostello, the senior manager was audibly excited about the future potential of Spaceflight's new GTO (and GEO) offerings and the many ways that they could change the game for a number of companies and startups with far smaller but no less capable spacecraft. Including startups Astranis and Terran Orbital and industry stalwart SSL, interest in small geostationary satellites has never been higher, and a number of pathfinder missions in 2020 and 2021 – if successful or at least promising – could mark a paradigm shift for the geostationary satellite communications industry as a whole. Often sized perfectly (100-500 kg) for a handful of in-development smallsat launch vehicles like Relativity's Terran, Firefly's Beta, and ABL Space's RS-1, it will likely be several years before those new rockets are capable of reliably supporting these much smaller launches, leaving rideshare missions as the only real route for interested customers until the early to mid 2020s.
In the process of undertaking this milestone geostationary rideshare, Spaceflight had to design, build, and test custom hardware needed to protect the AFRL's S5 spacecraft on its multi-week ridealong from geostationary transfer orbit to PSN-6's geostationary orbit destination, as well as unique mounting hardware needed to load SpaceIL's Beresheet spacecraft atop the main satellite host. In fact, GTO-1's mission profile is impressively complex, requiring multiple mission-specific maneuvers and separation events to detach Beresheet shortly after the entourage separates from Falcon 9, carry S5 to a geostationary graveyard orbit (GEO + ~300 km) to separate Spaceflight's custom hardware, return to a lower orbit to deploy the Air Force satellite, and finally insert PSN-6 into its final operational orbit.
"We actually have to open up our adapter system to allow the [AFRL S5] spacecraft to come out, so we have about a half-day time window that we're aiming for where we will separate the top off of our cone adapter system and then drop [the orbit] back down a little bit [because we can't drop that junk off in GEO – you have to use the GEO graveyard slot]." – Ryan Ostello, Spaceflight
"GTO is pretty cool because you can do all sorts of positive C3 missions [to] Lagrange points or just about [anywhere] in the solar system you want to go to … With SpaceIL, potentially in the future [Spaceflight will also] be able to partner with them to bring things to the Moon if they've got customers that want to bring payloads to the Moon." – Ryan Ostello, Spaceflight
The fact that the first primary passenger (by weight) of GTO-1 is a mission as groundbreaking as the commercial Beresheet Moon lander is also by no means a coincidence according to Ostello, a feeling that was rapidly backed up by an agreement between IAI and European company OHB to potentially use Beresheet-derived landers to deliver European payloads to the Moon. Ostello expressed a similar interest and optimism a few weeks prior to that announcement. While not directly involving Spaceflight, the fact that IAI (Beresheet's manufacturer) is interested in producing more landers for other customers essentially opens the door for Spaceflight or other commercial or governmental entities to purchase future landers for customer payloads or arrange their launch to the Moon.
SECOND TIME'S THE THIRD-TIME CHARM
Set to launch on an unspecified Falcon 9, process of elimination (i.e. which boosters are in Florida) implies that PSN-6/GTO-1 will feature either Falcon 9 booster B1047 or B1048, two flight-proven boosters with no know missions assigned that are also known to be in Cape Canaveral. B1047 last launched the Es'hail-2 satellite in mid-November, while B1048 completed its second launch (from California) in early October before shipping to Florida for unknown reasons. With B1048 situated in 39A's hangar, the lack of any reports of a booster moving from 39A to 40 suggest that B1047 was the Falcon 9 that successfully conducted its third on-pad static fire last night.
Shortly after launch, the Falcon 9 booster will make its way to drone ship Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) – located ~650 km (400 mi) off the coast of Florida – for what will be the second time ever that SpaceX has successfully launched and landed the same Falcon 9 booster three times, following on the heels of B1046's third launch last December. SpaceX fairing recovery vessel Mr. Steven also arrived at Port Canaveral last week after a nearly 8000 km (5000 mi) journey from Port of Los Angeles, raising the possibility of his first attempt at a fairing catch on the East Coast.
With sights set on the moon, Israel to launch privately funded spacecraft Friday
Beresheet set to touch down in the Sea of Tranquility on April 11; $100 million project, paid for mostly by Jewish donors, would make Israel 4th country to land a craft on the moon
ariv Bash, right, Yonatan Winetraub, middle, and Kfir Damari, the founders of SpaceIL, inserting a time capsule into the Beresheet spacecraft, December 17, 2018 (Yoav Weiss)
Israel hopes to become the fourth country in the world to land a spacecraft on the moon, with the launch of the unmanned spacecraft Beresheet from Florida's Cape Canaveral this Friday. If successful, the 160-kilogram (350 pounds without fuel), four-legged spacecraft will also be the smallest and cheapest spacecraft to land on the moon.
The $100 million (NIS 370 million) spacecraft is a joint venture between private companies SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries, funded almost entirely from private donations from well-known Jewish philanthropists including South African billionaire Morris Kahn, Miriam and Sheldon Adelson, Lynn Schusterman, and others.
Previously, Russia (as the Soviet Union) and the United States have landed on the moon. China landed an unmanned spacecraft on the far side of the moon in 2013.
Beresheet will lift off from Cape Canaveral at approximately 3:45 a.m. IST on Friday (8:45 p.m. Thursday EST), catching a ride on one of Elon Musk's SpaceX commercial space launches.
Once airborne, the spacecraft will detach from Musk's Falcon 9 rocket after about half an hour and begin its seven-week journey to the moon. Beresheet will circle Earth six or seven times in a series of growing ellipses before jumping into the moon's orbit on April 4.
Beresheet will land on the moon in between the detritus left from the Apollo 12 and 15 missions in the Sea of Tranquility, on April 11 around 8 p.m., give or take an hour, according to SpaceIL CEO Dr. Ido Anteby.
"This is the first mission of a small country to the moon, but it's a non-government mission to the moon, which is privately financed," Anteby said on Monday at a press conference in Tel Aviv ahead of the launch. "It will open new horizons to the moon for commercial opportunities."
"Usually, these kinds of projects come from government agencies of major superpowers," Anteby added.
SpaceIL was the only Israeli contestant in the international Google LunarX PRIZE competition, which offered participants a chance to win $20 million by landing an unmanned spacecraft on the moon. Google ended the contest officially on March 31 with no winner. But the group behind SpaceIL decided to continue its mission, turning to donors to help fund the bare-bones operation.
The Beresheet spacecraft will measure magnetic fields on the moon, data which will be transferred to the Weizmann Institute to help scientists study how the moon was formed millions of years ago. Beresheet will send information for approximately two to three days before the sun's rays are expected to melt parts of the communication system, ending the mission.
Although scientists are interested in the hard data that Beresheet is expected to gather, Dr. Ofer Doron, the general manager of the Space Division at Israel Aerospace Industries, said one of the main goals of the spacecraft is education.
The Beresheet team hopes that the excitement around Israel's first moon landing will have an "Apollo effect," when space travel in the 1960s inspired hundreds of thousands of children in America to study science and aerospace engineering.
"The most exciting part is getting Israeli kids super excited about technology, to see that they can do everything," said Doron. "It's a great technological achievement, but it's also a huge educational achievement."
The Beresheet team is rolling out a number of educational initiatives along with the Education Ministry to help students follow the spacecraft's journey, including special kits for teachers and a free smartphone app.
President Reuven Rivlin will host a pajama party with students on Thursday night, staying up until 3:45 to watch the launch at the President's Residence in Jerusalem. The project employs more educators than engineers, in an effort to ensure that the spacecraft's journey and moon landing reach as many students as possible, said Daniella Geron, a ground segment system engineer responsible for coordinating between the various teams and the spacecraft.
The spacecraft is carrying a Hebrew Bible inscribed with nanotechnology on a small metal circle the size of a 5 shekel coin, and a time capsule with Israel's Declaration of Independence and national anthem, the memories of a Holocaust survivor, children's drawings of space and the moon, the Traveler's Prayer and a note from the late former president Shimon Peres.
The founders of SpaceIL and members of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) displaying the time capsule that was inserted into the Beresheet space craft scheduled to land on the moon in 2019; Dec. 17, 2018 (Yoav Weiss)
The Beresheet Command Center is in Yehud, about 10 miles southeast of Tel Aviv, where the spacecraft was built and tested, including spending 10-day periods in a massive vacuum that blasted the spacecraft alternately with extreme heat and cold in order to ensure it can stand up to the wide temperature fluctuations in space.
In order to cut down on cost and weight, the Beresheet does not have duplicate systems. Most spacecrafts carry duplicate solar panels, communication systems, and other technology, so that if there is a failure, the backup system can kick into place and the mission can continue. With Beresheet, if any piece of equipment fails, the whole project is lost.
Beresheet will travel at speeds of 36,000 kilometers per hour. When it is at its farthest point, approximately 400,000 kilometers away from Earth, the team will be able to communicate with the spacecraft only if Beresheet's location can be pinpointed within a few meters. A team of engineers is currently training with NASA satellites to help prepare them for the lunar landing.
The team will have just one opportunity to land on the moon, though it might be able to try again if it misses the first window, Anteby said.
The project almost didn't happen, a near-casualty of US President Donald Trump's extended government shutdown. The spacecraft was packed and ready to go in Israel in late December, but still waiting for customs clearance, when disagreements over Trump's border wall shuttered the American government for 35 days.
If Beresheet hadn't arrived in America in time to be assembled for the SpaceX launch, the entire project would have fallen apart, said Morris Kahn, the 89-year-old president of SpaceIL. Kahn worked a number of contacts to obtain approval from US Customs despite the government shutdown, and the spacecraft arrived in Florida in time to make the launch.
The moon landing also opened new avenues for cooperation with Israelis and NASA, which is excited about the project's low cost and hopes to make it a prototype for future moon landings if the operation is successful.
In 2011, Israeli President Shimon Peres gave SpaceIL a biblical verse to insert into the time capsule. It says: "And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth." (Genesis, Chapter 1, verse 15)
"How much hutzpah [arrogance] is it to think you can get to the moon with $100 million?" Doron asked. "Maybe we should have named it hutzpah instead of Beresheet." The public chose the name Beresheet, the Hebrew name of the Book of Genesis, in a poll run by SpaceIL in July 2018.
SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries have also signed agreements with German space agency OHB in addition to NASA.
"There is a trend that now a lot of space agencies want to go back to the moon, so there's an opportunity here for commercialization," said Doron. He noted that Israel's moon landing will bring enhance national pride as well as bring commercial opportunities.
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Conflict in the Kyrgyz-Tajik Border – a Potential Turning Point for Central Asia
By Filippo Costa Buranelli
May 5, 2021, the CACI Analyst
The armed conflict of last week between the armed forces of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan is the culmination of years of low-level violence. While having an impact on the development, prosperity, and security of border communities and local villagers, these limited confrontations have not directly affected relations between the two countries. However, with some 50 dead, hundreds of injured, and thousands of displaced people, the current conflict could become a turning point not just in their bilateral dealings, but also and especially in the construction of a regional order in Central Asia.
BACKGROUND: Between April 28 and May 1, a violent armed conflict erupted between the armed forces of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan near the Golovnoy water distribution point in Kok-Tash village of Batken region, located at the source of the water canals replenishing Tortkul reservoir on the territory of Kyrgyzstan.
This escalation was preceded by a long history of skirmishes and spats along the 970-kilometre-long border, of which only half is demarcated. Yet in contrast to previous clashes, which usually involved stone-throwing and other forms of low-level violence, this time armored vehicles, military helicopters, mortar shelling, and other heavy military equipment were utilized in what could be considered a short war between the two neighboring countries, especially (but not only) in the areas of Maksat, Leilek, Kulundu, and Khoja Alo.
Kyrgyzstan's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ruslan Kazakbaev, immediately held talks with his Tajik counterpart Sirojiddin Mukhriddin and other representatives, during which the discussed further joint actions aiming to resolve the situation in the borderlands. Finally, on May 1, Saimumin Yatimov, head Tajikistan's State Committee for National Security and his Kyrgyz counterpart Kamchybek Tashiev agreed to formalize a ceasefire, arguing that "The tragedy that happened in the border regions of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan should never be repeated".
In the wake of the violence, some 50 people lost their lives, almost 200 were injured, and almost 60,000 displaced.
IMPLICATIONS: This and other episodes of violence leave marks in the common memory and conscience of Central Asia. Together with the violent clashes in 1990, 2005, and 2010 in Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan's civil war between 1992 and 1997; the Tashkent bombings in 1999 and the Andijan events in 2005; and the violence in Kazakhstan's Zhanaozen in 2011 and Masanchi in 2020; the recent border clashes will likely be remembered as one of the darkest days of the region since its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Skirmishes, shootings and occasional low-level violence along the borders in Central Asia, especially in the Fergana Valley, have been quite frequent over the past 30 years. Yet, what makes the events of last week unique is that they involved a clash between the military forces of two Central Asian states, thus constituting the first inter-state conflict of this magnitude in the region since independence. For a region that has taken pride in the absence of inter-state violence, in contrast to the neighboring South Caucasus or former Yugoslavia, these recent events are an alarm bell. While the two governments were indeed able to cool down the violence in a relatively short time and a ceasefire was agreed fairly quickly, the fact remains that inter-state conflict in Central Asia is not just a possibility but has now happened. The Kyrgyz-Tajik conflict can thus be viewed as a potential turning point in the kind of regional order that Central Asia intends to develop, especially in terms of conflict-resolution mechanisms.
Central Asia now faces four distinct options. First, the region can remain stuck in the status quo. Notwithstanding the recent ceasefire and the joint protocol on the delimitation and demarcation of the Kyrgyz-Tajik border, as well as overly optimistic declarations that a section of the border will be demarcated by May 9, problems of demarcation and delimitation will persist. This is due partly to insufficient resources allocated to the process, and partly to the unwillingness of state leaders to make concessions. Moreover, these issues have a low priority on the agenda of the involved governments and their control over border areas remains relatively weak.
The second option is that Russia addresses the matter, either single-handedly or through CSTO channels. This would imply an intervention by Moscow, taking advantage of the relative negotiating weakness of the two conflicting parties and playing a mediator role while also tweaking the conflict in any direction it pleases. In particular, this would open for an increased Russian military presence in both countries. Some sectors of politics and civil society in Kyrgyzstan have already made appeals to Vladimir Putin to personally mediate in this conflict.
The third option is for Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to find a pragmatic solution to the matter among themselves, based on the principles of good-neighborliness and mutual respect. The model here would be the recent improvement in Kyrgyz-Uzbek relations, as discussed in detail by Farkhod Tolipov through the example of the Sokh enclave. Resorting to both formal and informal rules and codes of conduct, establishing mutual trust, and carefully balancing diplomacy, international law, and political willingness, the Kyrgyz-Uzbek breakthrough could be replicated with Tajikistan, but this would require proactive leadership and serious investments in the border region, which are presently missing.
The fourth and final option, which could potentially work in tandem with the third one, would be the realization among the Central Asian republics that the existing border issues, and the violence related to them, are best resolved by the regional countries themselves. This would amount to the first steps towards a Central Asian order with respect to dispute-resolution mechanisms, which may well include both formal and informal practices.
In the course of a few days, all leaders and foreign ministers of the region, including Turkmenistan, have had phone conversations over the Kyrgyz-Tajik conflict. Uzbek and Kazakh Presidents Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Kassym-Jomart Tokayev have both recently offered to mediate, and Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov was promptly invited to Dushanbe by Tajik President Emomali Rahmon. These are all indications that Central Asian governments desire to resolve this conflict at the regional level, without involvement of third parties, be they states or organizations. Tokayev mentioned that he considers it "possible to develop a mechanism for settling such border incidents within the next Consultative Meeting of the Heads of State of Central Asia." This would be in line with the spirit of the renewed consultative meetings of Heads of State of Central Asia, where it was first discussed that regional countries should "sync their watches on matters of common relevance." The rationale for these meetings has referred to regional closeness as "an unstoppable process," where Central Asian countries are "increasingly dealing with regional issues with a regional mindset." According to Elbasi Nursultan Nazarbayev, "there is a broad range of topics specific to the region that could only be discussed among the Central Asian states."
Crucially, however, this process of regional mediation and construction of "regional sovereignty" should also involve local people. A positive example in this regard is the recent trilateral meeting of the three governors of the Fergana region. Hosted in the city of Ferghana by Governor Hayrullo Bozorov, the meeting was attended by the Governor of Tajikistan's Sughd Province, Rajabboi Ahmadzoda, and the Governor of Kyrgyzstan's Batken Province, Omurbek Suvanaliev. Nearly 30 years after the three countries became independent, the meeting marked the first gathering of the heads of the three neighboring provinces. Moreover, positive initiatives towards a local approach to the resolution of border issues are coming from civil society organizations of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and members of the Valley of Peace network, united by membership in the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, who appealed to the residents of the two countries in connection with the bloody events in the border zone.
CONCLUSIONS: The armed conflict on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border that began on April 28 and ended only in the evening of May 1 will leave a scar in the collective memory and common imaginary of Central Asia, having already caused a large number of casualties, as well as injured and displaced people. These events marked the culmination of accumulated low-level violence over the years, whose significance and premonitory character has been neglected and downplayed for far too long.
The region is now at a turning point. In order to eschew the status quo and embrace conflict resolution and the creation of communities of peace in border areas, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, but also the other regional states, have three options. They can resort to enhanced bilateralism, supported by political will, a good-neighborly spirit and mutual trust. They can leave the matter to Russia, which can use its privileged position as a security guarantor in the region to instrumentalize the tension along the border, thus enhancing its position in the area and potentially creating another convenient frozen conflict. Or they can work towards the formation of a regional order by acting in concert within Central Asia through formal and informal mechanisms for entrenched consultation, conflict resolution, and the advancement of peace without the interference of third parties. The recent events are much more than a border incident between two states. In fact, is a call to the region to decide on the way ahead.
Dr Filippo Costa Buranelli is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. His interests include International Relations theory, international history, global governance, Eurasian politics, and regionalism.
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Anti-malaria drug could make tumors easier to treat
OXFORD, U.K.—An anti-malaria drug could help radiotherapy destroy tumors, according to a Cancer Research UK-funded study published in Nature Communications recently. The study, carried out at the Cancer Research UK Radiation Research Centre in Oxford, looked at the effect of the drug, called atovaquone, on tumors with low oxygen levels in mice to see if it could be repurposed to treat cancer.
As Cancer Research UK explains the rationale behind this effort, radiotherapy works by damaging the DNA in cells. However, a good supply of oxygen reduces the ability of cancer cells to repair broken DNA. So when a tumor has low levels of oxygen, it can repair itself more easily after radiotherapy.
This means that tumors with low oxygen levels are more difficult to treat successfully with radiotherapy. They are also more likely to spread to other parts of the body. The recently published research showed for the first time, Cancer Research UK said, that an anti-malaria drug slows down the rate at which cancer cells use oxygen by targeting the mitochondria, the powerhouses of the cell that make energy, a process that uses oxygen.
By slowing down the use of oxygen, this drug reverses the low-oxygen levels in nearly all of the tumors. The fully oxygenated tumors are then more easily destroyed by radiotherapy.
The drug reportedly was shown to be effective in a wide range of cancers, including lung, bowel, brain and head and neck cancer. This older medicine is no longer patented and is readily and cheaply available from generic medicines manufacturers.
"This is an exciting result. We have now started a clinical trial in Oxford to see if we can show the same results in cancer patients," said lead author Prof. Gillies McKenna at the Cancer Research UK/Medical Research Council Institute for Radiation Oncology in Oxford. "We hope that this existing low-cost drug will mean that resistant tumors can be re-sensitized to radiotherapy. And we're using a drug that we already know is safe."
Dr. Emma Smith, Cancer Research UK's science information manager, added: "The types of cancer that tend to have oxygen-deprived regions are often more difficult to treat, such as lung, bowel, brain and head and neck cancer. Looking at the cancer-fighting properties of existing medicines is a very important area of research where medical charities can make a big impact and is a priority for Cancer Research UK. Clinical trials will tell us whether this drug could help improve treatment options for patients with these types of tumor."
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Whether your car was parked or you were driving on the open road, you are able to claim damage caused by a storm, including wind, hail, flooding and more, if you have comprehensive coverage. Learn what you're covered for and the steps to take to make a successful claim if your vehicle is damaged by a storm.
First, you need to know if your car insurance policy actually covers storm damage. Typically, you will be covered if you have purchased comprehensive coverage. Just liability, the minimum amount of coverage required by most states, won't protect you from storm damage.
Many insurers provide your policy information online. Sign in to your account and navigate to the page that lists your coverages. For example, if your provider is Progressive, click on your auto policy, then click on "View" under "Coverages." All of the information that is listed on the declarations page is included here. If not, you can always call your insurance provider to get help with finding out if you have comprehensive coverage.
When won't I be covered for storm damage?
If you don't have comprehensive car insurance, you won't be covered against storm damage to your vehicle. Other exclusions may also apply.
General storm damage caused by intense weather can come in many forms. Your part of the country might be susceptible to hurricanes. Or your state might frequently be subject to hail storms. Here are some types of storm damage that are generally covered under comprehensive. No matter what was the source of the storm damage, filing a claim is the same.
Wind: Comprehensive covers damage directly caused by wind, such as windows broken by debris. Or if severe wind gusts topple a tree onto your car, comprehensive should cover you.
Hail: A powerful hail storm can leave dents on the entire body of your car, as well as broken windows. If you don't have comprehensive, you won't be covered.
Flood: If a severe storm causes flooding that damages your auto, comprehensive can help cover the costs. However, if your car is damaged due to a window being left open, you will not be covered.
Hurricane: A hurricane can bring strong winds and flooding — a double whammy. Hurricane damage falls under the general storm damage covered by comprehensive.
Filing a claim for storm damage is done the same way as filing a claim after a car accident. Depending on your insurer, there are different ways of making a claim. You will need to send in a claims form and the documentation, either online or through the mail. Online will usually get you a faster response.
Fill out the claims form provided by your insurer. It will have sections for all the relevant information.
Send in your photos using the tools provided. In many cases your insurer will simply specify an email address you should send them to.
Your comprehensive car insurance policy may also cover a rental car while your vehicle is being repaired. If the storm has also damaged your home, you will need to check your homeowners insurance policy to see what types of storm damage are covered.
Stay safe. Check your surroundings. Is there broken glass or down power lines? Don't put yourself in harms way. Call for help if necessary.
Don't drive the damaged car. It's not safe, and the insurer may reject your storm damage claim if you do.
Don't remove debris without documenting it. Ideally, avoid removing any debris until you have the go-ahead from your insurer. If you need to clear away dangerous glass or metal, or attempt a quick fix for safety reasons, take a photo with your phone first.
Call your insurer as soon as possible. Note that if large areas were affected by the storm there may be long wait times for customer service.
Don't authorize repairs without contacting your insurer first. Unapproved repairs might not be covered by your insurance policy.
Can hail cause enough damage to total my car?
Yes. It's surprisingly easy for hail damage to cost more to repair than the vehicle is worth.
One of the main reasons is that hail damage will typically be spread across the entire body of the car, so it can't be fixed by just replacing a single panel or without a huge amount of work.
The easiest way to document the damage in detail is with photos.
Take full scene photos that show what happened, where your car was parked and the surroundings.
Take close-ups to show specific damage. You don't need to take a separate picture of each dent, but you should make sure that all damage is clearly shown in the photos.
Where necessary, you might want to label the photos with information such as "driver side door" to make them clearer.
Remember to check the interior. It's important to document the damage as fully as possible.
Want to prevent future damage to your car? If you know what's coming, you can take steps to protect your car the next time there's a bad storm.
Stay on top of the news with services like the National Weather Service, which has up-to-date weather warnings. You can also sign up to receive warnings from insurers. A lot of insurers have started offering storm warning services. If your insurer offers one of these, it might be worth subscribing to.
If there's a hailstorm rolling in, you might want to get your car under cover. Pull your car into your garage or under the carport, or look for an underground parking garage, like in a shopping center. If you're expecting heavy rain and have cause to be concerned, you might want to look for higher ground.
Think twice before parking under a tree. Falling branches can cause just as much damage as hail, and are often the result of heavy winds. Also watch out for loose roof tiles, TV antennas and anything else that might come from above.
If there's no time for anything else, this might be the way to go. Layers of blankets and heavier tarps generally work better. But remember to secure them so they don't just blow away.
A severe storm can cause a great amount of damage, including to your car. If this happens, filing a claim with your insurance provider is straightforward. Just be sure to follow the tips and steps laid out here.
Does a red weather alert void my car insurance?
No, driving during dangerous weather is sometimes a must, so your claim shouldn't be denied even if you knew conditions were bad. However, your claim might be denied for any standard reasons not related to weather, like if you were driving irresponsibly in bad weather and hit another car.
How long does it take for a storm claim to be paid out?
The process typically takes a few weeks. After making your claim, insurers typically have 15 days to respond and 30 days to accept or reject your claim. After a natural disaster or a regional storm, like Hurricane Harvey or the recent California wildfires, insurers typically take longer to process because of the number of claims.
Thanks for reaching out! Since she is parked in an open parking, she bears the risks of unforeseen accidents such as this. It would be best to contact her insurance provider to see if she will be covered for repair in this instance. Hope this was helpful. Don't hesitate to message us back if you have more questions.


On March 24th, 2018, Grey Faction protested outside and inside of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation's (ISSTD) annual conference at the Hilton Palmer House in Chicago, IL.
What did the protest involve?
Protesters symbolically demonstrated the dysfunctional and harmful relationship between ISSTD therapists and their patients. The mission of the demonstration is to expose the ISSTD organization and instigators of pseudoscientific practices that have been directly connected to the harm of their patients. See photos of the protest below.
Read the script from the protest on Google Docs here.
The Satanic Temple's Grey Faction is opposed to licensed mental health professionals in the creation and continuation of the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s – 90s and seeks to bring public attention to the problem of conspiratorial thinking and pseudoscience into the wider discussion of mental health.
Why did Grey Faction protest the ISSTD?
Today's protest action is intended to draw awareness to the issues surrounding pseudoscience Recovered Memory Therapy, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and the hazards of an insular therapeutic community self-policing against harmful practices against their own economic interests.
Chicago has a unique connection to pseudoscientific mental healthcare leading to abuse. Bennett Braun, head of the Dissociative Disorders Unit at Rush Hospital was one of the founders of the ISSTD. Under his treatment, patients came to believe they were ritualistically abused by Satanists with Illuminati bloodlines. His license was suspended for 18 months related to a lawsuit by former patient Patty Burgus. She alleged his prompting and implanting false memories tore apart her family. Learn more about Rush Hospital in Chicago Mag.
Self-described as a "non-profit, professional association" that promotes "clinically effective, empirically based resources" for Mental Health professions, the ISSTD's professional and scientific facade does not conceal their continued history of using therapy to promote debunked and discredited notions of international conspiracy. Dissociative Identity Disorder treatments, which many ISSTD members and presenters continue to be proponents of, disproportionately impacts the lives of women by exploiting the inherent power imbalance of the doctor-patient relationship. The ISSTD's professional and scientific facade does not conceal their continued history of propagating conspiracy theories of organized Satanic abuse in therapy.
Learn more about our work ending pseudoscience in mental health at greyfaction.org.
To support ending pseudoscience in the mental health field, donate to Grey Faction here.


A puppy in Hampton County that lost both of his eyes but survived being shot point blank is recovering at a temporary home.
A Bacon County volunteer firefighter has been arrested and charged with arson after an investigation into a fire on Sunday.
Georgia's governor wants to see mental health professionals in public schools to help students and possibly save lives.
In his campaign, Governor Kemp made mental health and school safety priorities in his platform. On Monday, he announced more funding for a plan to bring mental health professionals to your child's school.
Farmers need rain to grow their crops, but timing is everything.


In case you needed any.
In case you needed more proof the Model S is the quickest stock sedan in the world, both DragTimes and a guy named Chris recently posted videos of a Tesla Model S P100D putting its Ludicrous + mode to the test by setting record quarter-mile runs. According to electrek, the quarter-mile runs took place within a day of each other. Ludicrous + was introduced with Tesla's Software v8.0 release. More acceleration is achieved by sacrificing gearbox and battery longevitity. Prior to launch, it also cools the motors using the car's a/c and heats the battery to optimal temperatures.
In the DragTimes video, the P100D went up against a modified Camaro ZL1 and BMW 550i, setting a record time of 10.723 seconds, at the Pam Beach International Raceway in Jupiter, Florida.
Quarter mile times have been steadily improving with every new iteration of the Model S: 12.3 seconds (P85), 11.6 seconds (P85D), 11.2 seconds (P90D Ludicrous Mode), 10.7 seconds (P100D Ludicrous Mode) and now 10.6 seconds (P100D Ludicrous+ Mode). Whether the next-generation Tesla Roadster will beat that time with its "Maximum Plaid" acceleration mode remains to be seen.


Turn onto Washington Avenue (9G) from route 9. Go past the entrance to St. Francis Hospital. We are on the left across from the Palace Diner.
From North: (Poughkeepsie) Take route 9 South (pass Shop rite of Fishkill) Make left onto route 52 at light Go ¾ miles on route 52 you will pass the 1401 two story red brick building on left You must go to light and make a left onto summit court Make an immediate left and building 1401 is on your right We are suite 200-2nd Floor.
From South: (I-84) Take route 9 north (pass Wal-Mart) Make right onto Route52 Go ¾ miles on route 52 you will pass the 1401 two story red brick building on left You must go to light and make a left onto summit court Make an immediate left and building 1401 is on your right We are suite 200- 2nd Floor.
From Beacon & Village of Fishkill: Continue on Route 52 East and cross over Route 9 Go ¾ miles on route 52 you will pass the 1401 two story red brick building on left You must go to light and make a left onto summit court Make an immediate left and building 1401 is on your right We are suite 200- 2nd Floor.


In lieu of a government tourist office, you can go to the offices of Sunshine Services, Calle del Carmen 151 (tel. 809/240-6164), a travel agency. The staff here is very helpful and will provide information about the area and assist you in your travel needs. There's a TOURIST INFORMATION sign posted outside. Of course, this is a profit-making organization, and the English-speaking staff hopes to make some money off you by helping you in your travel arrangements. Hours are Monday to Saturday 9am to noon and 4 to 7pm.
A Western Union office is at Calle Principal 165 (tel. 809/240-6551), open Monday to Saturday 8am to 6pm, Sunday 8am to noon. For the local phone company, head for Verizon, Calle Principal s/n (tel. 809/220-7412), open daily 8am to 10pm. Internet access is also possible here, costing RD$23 for 30 minutes or RD$45 for 1 hour.
For a police, fire, or medical emergency, dial tel. 911.
The most central pharmacies are Farmacia de La Plaza, Calle Principal 6 (tel. 809/240-5708), open Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm, and also Farmacia R y R, Ramon Matia Mella 8 (tel. 809/240-6135), open Monday to Thursday 8am to 7pm, Friday 8am to 6pm, Saturday 7am to 10pm, and Sunday 8am to 10pm.
To exchange money, go to Banco del Progreso, Calle Duarte at Plaza El Paseo de la Costanera (tel. 809/240-6409), open Monday to Friday 9am to 3:30pm and Saturday 9am to 1pm.


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1/5/2022 January 5, 2022 - 1/18/2023 January 18
January 5, 2022 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PST
Design for Cognitive Bias: Using Mental Shortcuts for Good Instead of Evil – with David Dylan Thomas
Your Own Home via Zoom OR
Users' minds take shortcuts to get through the day. Usually they're harmless. Even helpful. But what happens when they're not? In this talk I'll use real-world examples to identify some particularly harmful biases that frequently lead users to make bad decisions. I'll then talk about some content strategy and design choices we can use in our apps, designs, and platforms to redirect or eliminate the impact of those biases. Finally, I'll explore our own biases as designers and some methods to prevent our own blind spots from hurting users.
February 2, 2022 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PST
Artifacts From the Future: The Impact of Time Travel on Design – with Leo Frishberg
"To predict the future, invent it." So goes the quote from Alan Kay in 1971 and Dennis Gabor before him. But inventing the future is fraught: it's risky, expensive and time consuming. With the future arriving faster than we can create it, how can an innovator stay ahead? The most direct approach relies on time travel: simply bring the desired solution back from the future. In this talk, Frishberg reveals how designers can leverage the superpower of time travel they may not know they have.
March 2, 2022 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PST
Design to Change Behavior: Using Psychological Frameworks to Drive Outcomes – with Amy Bucher
Digital technology can support people in making all kinds of positive behavior changes, but in order to do that, it has to be compelling and address the reasons why people struggle to achieve their goals. Behavior science offers several frameworks that can layer onto a design process to create products that are not just engaging to use, but actually help people perform the behaviors that lead to better outcomes for health, wealth, and happiness. Learn about best practices from COM-B and self-determination theory of motivation to help you design to change behavior.
April 6, 2022 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
Designing for Safety: Key Considerations – with Eva PenzeyMoog
There are no silver bullets when it comes to designing for safety, but knowing and understanding of some of our most
common blind spots as designers helps. This brief talk covers the domestic violence threat model as well as specific
areas of concern, including trouble with shared accounts, Internet-connected harm, location data, and surveillance.
We'll also discuss what designers can learn about authentic consent from the anti-sexual assault space. Finally, the
audience will walk away with a high-level overview of implementing a practice of designing for safety into their
everyday work.
May 4, 2022 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
Designing for a Crypto Future – with Jackie Scherer
We've seen cryptocurrency adoption soar higher than ever in the past few years. Looking beyond the hype and fad coins, there is a legitimate opportunity for a major shift in how money moves around the world. Holistic design plays a key role in addressing user needs during this time of flux, improving financial empowerment and inclusivity.
June 1, 2022 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
Navigating Digital-Social Transformation: How to Script the Unscriptable – with Thor Madsen
"While the science of explanation can give us a roadmap, the art of the story is with us on the journey."
How does a rapidly changing world change us? In what ways might we navigate and design our future in it? In this collaborative session, we will explore the social effects of digital transformation and how improvisational theater and storytelling can help us creatively navigate them. Recent studies find that digital transformation is affecting our personal and collective sense of identity as our activities are increasingly tracked, made into data, and managed algorithmically. Researchers claim that the impact on "who we are" will be the most significant – more than privacy itself. We will explore several examples of these effects in the space of the human-computer interface. As we do, we will use elements of improv and story to uncover possibilities for designing a space for the "human" as our interface becomes a relationship.
July 6, 2022 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
disAbility, diversity and privilege. How to design a world that embraces differences – with Nechama Katan
We will talk about how people with "disAbilities" add value and privilege to the diversity discussion. Supports and services for the disabled focus on what they can't do and what they will probably never do well. This includes the non-neurotypical, learning disAbled as well as those with visual disabilities. Let's explore together a world that sees everyone as having gifts and that helps people focus on those gifts. Sometimes that world requires providing support for many traditionally "normal" things that typical people do without thinking. The presentation will be interactive and hands on, so bring a project that you are working on and be prepared to think about Ability differently.
August 3, 2022 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
Members Appreciation Social – Picnic In Sellwood Park
Sellwood Park, Portland OR 714 SE Miiller, Portland, OR
The time has come for our annual social event in August and we can gather together in person again! This year we are returning to Sellwood Park for a lovely summer outing under the trees. The event will be catered and alcohol will be allowed on a BYOB basis. Non-members and guests can attend for $10. Bring the kids!
September 7, 2022 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
Canceled CANCELLED – Getting Started with NFTs and the Blockchain – with Jason Wright
In this presentation, we'll talk about the rise of NFT's and their association with the blockchain. We'll cover platforms, strategies, and projects that will change the way we think about physical and digital assets beyond 2022.
October 12, 2022 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
How Design Makes the World – with Scott Berkun
Do you wish more people understood good design and valued good designers? Or that your organization gave more power and influence to UX roles? Author Scott Berkun's new book, How Design Makes The World shows the way, with inspiring new stories about the importance of design, and tactics for helping everyone appreciate good design and why it matters in their work and daily lives.
November 2, 2022 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
"You're on mute!" Pandemic Lessons for Technology Design and Use – with Elizabeth Churchill
"You're on mute!" How many times have you heard someone say this sentence in the last few years (almost 3!)? Any apps on your personal devices that you downloaded during the pandemic to keep sane, exercise, start a new hobby, keep in touch? Did you use telehealth solutions for the first time during the pandemic?
January 18 at 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST
The Serendipity Social
White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave, Portland, OR
CHIFOO invites you to join us at the White Owl Social Club for a casual meet and greet to kick off our exploration of Serendipity in our 2023 lecture series. […]


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One of two sisters of Eva Braun, Hitler's wife.
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Braun, Ilse Ruth, born in 1909 in Munich, was one of two sisters of Eva Braun. Ilse was the oldest daughter of school teacher Friedrich "Fritz" Braun and seamstress Franziska "Fanny" Kronberger.
She became the sister-in-law of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler following his marriage to Eva on 29-04-1945, less than 48 hours before the couple committed suicide together on 30-04-1945. moved out of her parents' home in 1929 and took a position as an assistant to Martin Levy Marx, a Jewish otolaryngologist and surgeon. She was provided with a room at the office of her employer, and left his employ only when he made preparations to emigrate to the United States in 1937 in the face of persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. Non-Aryan doctors had been excluded from payments under the national health insurance plan in April 1933, and the passing of the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour in 1937 meant he and Braun risked arrest on charges of "defiling the race".Marx's licence to practice medicine was revoked in 1938 and he was expatriated in April 1939. His doctorate was revoked in October 1939; he had already emigrated to the United States by then. Ilse Braun stated after the war that she and Eva had tried unsuccessfully to intercede on his behalf.
Eva overdosed on sleeping pills on 28 May 1935 in a suicide attempt.[a] Ilse discovered her that night, gave first aid, and called a doctor. Ilse removed the relevant pages from Eva's diary to protect Eva's relationship with Hitler; the diary indicated that he had failed to make adequate time for Eva. This was Braun's second suicide attempt—she had shot herself in August 1932. Eva had taken only twenty tablets of vanodorm, an amount that had little chance of killing her. Hitler was shocked and turned up at her home asking for forgiveness. She recorded in her diary on 18-02-1935, that he promised to buy her a house: "Dear God, please let them come true and let it happen in the near future… I am infinitely happy that he loves me so much and I pray that it may always remain so. I never want it to be my fault if one day he should cease to love me." However, in her diary on 28th May she complains: "Is this the mad love he promised me, when he doesn't send me a single comforting line in three months?"
Hitler provided the sisters, with a three-bedroom apartment in Munich in August 1935, and the next year with a villa in Bogenhausen.
Braun began working in the Berlin office of Albert Speer on 15-03-1937. Speer, Hitler favorite architect, had just been appointed General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital. Braun was one of his first employees. She left Speer's employ and married a lawyer named Höchstetter in October that same year. Braun and Höchstetter divorced after three years of marriage. She lived with her second husband in Heidelberg. After graduating from a journalism programme, Braun began work as an editor at Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, a conservative newspaper that folded in 1945.. She remarried in 1941 to another lawyer named Fucke-Michels, both her husbands were much older than herself and moved to Breslau, where she was employed by the Schlesische Zeitung.
Braun had no involvement in politics. Unlike her sisters Eva and Gretl, she was not a member of Hitler's inner circle or a regular visitor to the Berghof in Bavaria, though she fled there at the end of the war. She loved to dance, and became a European amateur champion in ballroom dancing. As Soviet forces approached the city in January 1945 Ilse fled by train to Berlin where she was collected by car and driven to the Hotel Adlon where Eva was staying. Over dinner she told Eva about the refugees fleeing from the east and warned her that Hitler was dragging the country into an abyss, but her sister apparently did not appreciate that disaster was imminent.
Death and burial ground of Braun, Ilse Ruth.
Ilse Braun lived with her mother in the family home in Ruhpolding in Upper Bavaria after her father's death in 1964. She died of cancer in Munich on 28-06-1979, age 70, and is buried there, next to her sister Gretl and her niece, Eva "Evi" Barbara Fegelein
(daughter of Gretl Braun and Hermann Fegelein) on the Waldfriedhof Neue Teil, new section in Munich. She had no children. A website friend, Gerrit Kempas from Germany, found the grave side and sent me the grave photo's.
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