While the war has not ended, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin Delano Roosevelt met on the Black Sea in Crimea, to decide the fate of Germany and Japan after the war. United States are offered support from the USSR to finally defeat the Japanese on the Asian front.

It was agreed that Germany would be demilitarized and divided into three zones of occupation (later France, will also get an area).

Finally, the three powers agree to allow European countries issued choose their own destiny. In practice, however, Stalin would impose communism all (except Austria) to be issued by the Red Army.

Today’s NASA Breaking News:

• NASA Glenn To Host Tweetup Celebrating 50th Anniversary Of First American To Orbit Earth
  NASA’s Glenn Research Center (GRC) in Cleveland will host a special event on March 2 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of John Glenn’s first orbital flight by an American.
• NASA Receives Second Highest Number Of Astronaut Applications
  More than 6,300 individuals applied to become a NASA astronaut between Nov. 15, 2011 and Jan. 27, the second highest number of applications ever received by the agency.

Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain – 60 years anniversary of the enthronement – will be celebrated from February to June, with its royal splendor of Windsor, but also consider the context of this period austerity.

British Sovereign wants to exempt the subjects of “extravagant spending”, according to advisers to Buckingham. Prime Minister David Cameron estimates that “bill” for Jubilee Queen will be “9,000 times lower than the Olympics,” which will be held in London this summer (July 27-August 12).

In turn, the wife of Prince Charles, Camilla, highlights “simple tastes” of the Queen and suggested creating a special recipe for the event, after the famous “Coronation Chicken” chicken salad designed in 1953 for Queen coronation ceremony.

Monday, February 6, date of death of King George VI and the beginning of the reign of his daughter Elizabeth, crowned the following year, the queen will have a common program. Will visit the medieval town of King’s Lynn and a kindergarten in Norfolk County, “things would not have to do at her age,” commented Prince Harry, emphasizing the sense of duty that his grandmother at 85 years.

However festivities will take place in crescendo until June. On March 20, the queen will record the important moments of his reign in a solemn speech in British Parliament. These historical moments will also be evoked in an equestrian show, with about 500 horses from thoroughbred Arabs, the American mustang, and 900 extras from different nations – Maori, Zulu, Inuit, etc., at Windsor Castle on 10 , 11 and 13.

The main celebrations will take place moments but on June 2, Queen coronation day for four days. The first day will be Epsom Derby, only the Queen’s horses have not been awarded yet. Sunday, June 3, will be “Big Lunch”, when millions of people will be in parks, pubs and streets of the kingdom. The same day, about 1,000 boats on the Thames will provide a grand spectacle, that has not occurred since the time of King Charles II, in the eighteenth century.

The next day, 2,012 lanterns will be lit in succession, from Tonga, the Pacific, to London. The latter will turn even the Queen, Boulevard Mall will be the UK flag. On the evening of this day, the BBC Orchestra will give a concert in front of Buckingham Palace.

On June 5, the last day of celebration will be held a job at St Paul’s Cathedral, where the queen will ride chariot through the streets of London and will then make their appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has successfully test fired SuperDraco, a powerful new engine that will play a critical role in the company’s efforts to change the future of human spaceflight.

SuperDraco engines will provide the Dragon spacecraft with the capability to perform on target propulsive landings anywhere in the solar system. Credit: SpaceX

“SuperDraco engines represent the best of cutting edge technology,” said Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO and Chief Technology Officer. “These engines will power a revolutionary launch escape system that will make Dragon the safest spacecraft in history and enable it to land propulsively on Earth or another planet with pinpoint accuracy.”

The SuperDraco is an advanced version of the Draco engines currently used by SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft to maneuver on orbit and during reentry. As part of SpaceX’s state-of-the-art launch escape system, eight SuperDraco engines built into the side walls of the Dragon spacecraft will produce up to 120,000 pounds of axial thrust to carry astronauts to safety should an emergency occur during launch.

SuperDraco engines will power a revolutionary launch escape system that will make SpaceX’s Dragon the safest spacecraft in the world. Eight SuperDraco engines built into the side walls of the Dragon spacecraft will produce up to 120,000 pounds of axial thrust to carry astronauts to safety should an emergency occur during launch. Credit: SpaceX

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program awarded SpaceX $75 million in April of last year to begin work developing the escape system in order to prepare the Dragon spacecraft to carry astronauts. Less than nine months later, SpaceX engineers have designed, built and tested the engine.

In a series of recent tests conducted at the company’s Rocket Development Facility in McGregor, Texas, the SuperDraco sustained full duration, full thrust firing as well as a series of deep throttling demonstrations.

SpaceX’s launch escape system has many advantages over past systems. It is inherently safer because it is not jettisoned like all other
escape systems. This distinction provides astronauts with the unprecedented ability to escape from danger at any point during the launch,
not just in the first few minutes. The eight SuperDracos provide redundancy, so that even if one engine fails an escape can still be carried
out successfully.

SuperDracos can also be restarted multiple times if necessary and the engines will have the ability to deep throttle, providing astronauts with precise control and enormous power. In addition, as a part of a recoverable Dragon spacecraft, the engines can be used repeatedly, helping to advance SpaceX’s long-term goal of making spacecraft more like airplanes, which can be flown again and again with minimal maintenance between flights.

Trilulilu launched an application, called Zonga, that allows users to access, computer or mobile phone, over 1,700 hours of music and over 5,800 artists, through three subscription options, the most expensive being 4.99 euro / month.

The new application is a music player that users can install on any computer or mobile phone, listen to any song.

“The product that we launch today will fundamentally improve the way in which Romanian music. Zonga most important thing is that you listen streaming, or download files without computer. All your favorite music is already there, simply select the want to listen and enjoy music. It’s like having music from anywhere in the world with you always, “he said at a conference, founder Trilulilu, Sergiu Biris.

Zonga is currently available in private beta version, 500 users are invited to test the product and provide suggestions for improvement. The official launch is expected for April.

Besides the website, Zonga will be available through desktop applications, and mobile devices – now on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android versions are in development for other mobile phone with internet access.

The application developed can be interconnected with platforms Facebook, YouTube and Trilulilu, by which users can listen to what their friends listen to music and automatically import their favorite artists.

Service can be accessed on the Internet at www.zonga.ro, through an application built on Adobe Air desktop and mobile.

Counterfeiting and piracy are a growing threat for the economy. Between 2005 and 2010, the number of registered cases at the EU borders of goods suspected of infringing intellectual property rights (IPR) increased from 26,704 to over 80,000¹. Meanwhile, the creative industry estimates that piracy has cost the European music, movie, TV and software industry €10 billion and more than 185,000 jobs in 2008 alone. In order to draw attention to this phenomenon the European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy launched an EU-wide contest named “Hands off my Design”. Design students and professionals were asked to submit posters and videos that highlight the negative impact of counterfeiting and piracy on Europe’s economy and society.

The Award Ceremony for this competition was held today in the European Parliament.

In his speech, Commissioner Michel Barnier, said:

“This competition is an important step in bringing the attention of policy makers and society to the complexity of intellectual property rights’ protection. I am very pleased to see that young designers have engaged in it so enthusiastically. This year, I will be making important proposals in the field of IPR: some of the ideas expressed will be a useful contribution to our thinking“.

The EU’s Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) President, António Campinos, said:

“In the digital era, we need to find a fair way to remunerate artists, musicians, authors and film-makers. This competition represents the personal perspectives of designers working in every part of Europe. Whether or not everyone agrees with the messages, I am confident they will play a valuable role in helping to stimulate the kind of constructive debate on this issue that we need in the EU”.

The EU-wide “Hands off my Design” competition, which took place over the course of 2011, was aimed at both design students in third level colleges and professionals. In both categories, the posters and videos submitted from across Europe highlighted the implications of counterfeiting and piracy on Europe’s economy and society. Almost 60 students and professional designers put forward proposals to an independent jury.

The prizes awarded by the jury in each category were € 8,000 (1st prize), € 2,500 (2nd prize) and € 1,500 (3rd prize).

The winners are:

In the category of design students:

1st Prize: Julien Moreau, from the ECV Atlantique School in France

2nd Prize: Nejc Levstik, from the Academy of theater, radio, film and television in Slovenia

3rd Prize: Lauri Särak, Daniel Levi Viinalass and Elmo Soomets, from the Tartu Art College in Estonia

In the category of professional designers:

1st Prize: Gergely Szőnyi and Tamás Helényi, Hungary

2nd Prize: Christoph Brehme, Italy

3rd Prize: Dimitris Haidas, Greece

All the winners were invited to Brussels, where they received their prizes from Members of the European Parliament who are active in the fight against counterfeiting and piracy (Edit Herzog, Antonio Masip Hidalgo, Andreas Schwab and Bill Newton Dunn), the Internal Market and Services Commissioner, Michel Barnier, and the President of OHIM, António Campinos.

Background information

The Competition

The event was organised by the European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market and Services, with the assistance of the EU’s Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM). It was also supported by Members of the European Parliament. It was endorsed by the Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media.

The winners were selected by an international panel including independent figures from the design industry and academia as well the stakeholders of the Observatory.

Following the competition, the videos and posters will be available to be used as potential marketing tools in campaigns highlighting the dangers of counterfeiting and piracy.

The videos will be posted on the following site: www.handsoffmydesign.com

The Observatory

The Observatory was created by the Commission in 2009 as a platform to facilitate cooperation and exchange of experiences between public and private stakeholders as well as enabling collection of data on the infringements of intellectual property rights within the EU.

OHIM, which is based in Alicante in Spain, is the only EU agency exclusively devoted to intellectual property (IP) matters. It administers Community trade mark and design rights, which are valid throughout the EU and is working closely with national IP offices to create an EU Trade Mark and Design Network. It also provides technical support and cooperation to the Observatory, based on a Memorandum of Understanding agreed with the Commission in April 2011. This is pending the adoption of a Regulation transferring the Observatory to the Office, which is due to be voted on at the European Parliament’s plenary session in February.

Counterfeiting and Piracy

Over the past ten years the global explosion in counterfeiting and piracy has become one of the most devastating problems facing world business. Twenty years ago, counterfeiting might have been regarded as a problem chiefly for the manufacturers of fashion wear, watches and expensive handbags. But nowadays, counterfeiters have broadened their production to include not only fake electrical appliances, car parts and toys, but also medicines. According to the most recent figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the international trade in counterfeit and pirated goods is estimated to have reached USD 250 billion in 2007. In 2010, EU customs officials intercepted more 80,000 shipments of counterfeited and pirated goods, with an estimated value of over €1 billion. This was almost double the number of shipments intercepted in 2009 .

With the signature of further contracts for satellites and launchers in London today, Galileo is firmly on track for the provision of improved satellite navigation services to citizens in 2014. In total, 3 contracts were signed: the contract signed with OHB System AG (DE) comprising 8 satellites for an amount in the order of €250 million. A second contract was signed with Arianespace (FR) for a booking option of up to 3 launches using Ariane 5 (booking fee of €30 million). A third contract was signed with Astrium SAS (FR) to enable the current Ariane 5 launcher to carry 4 Galileo programme satellites per launch into orbit, for an amount in the order of €30 million. Galileo satellites are currently launched in pairs aboard the Russian Soyuz rocket. Thanks to the highly competitive proposal of the contractor and increasing the number of satellites which will be launched in orbit by 2014, the Commission has been able to accelerate the process.

Antonio Tajani, European Commission Vice-President, responsible for industry and entrepreneurship said: ”For Galileo, today’s signing signifies the concrete roll-out of the programme is on time and within budget. I am proud that we could manage to speed up the delivery of satellites and launchers. This means that Europeans will be able to exploit the opportunities of enhanced satellite navigation provided by Galileo in 2014. I am also proud to see that Europe has a highly competitive space industry capable of realising such an ambitious high tech programme.”

Galileo Navigation system

Galileo will allow users to know their exact position in time and space, just like GPS, but with greater precision and reliability. Under European civilian control, Galileo will be compatible and, for some of its services, interoperable with the American GPS and Glonass (Russia), but independent from them.

Galileo will underpin many sectors of the European economy through its services: electricity grids, fleet management companies, financial transactions, shipping industry, rescue operations, peace-keeping missions will all benefit from the free Galileo services.

The 8 satellites ordered today will join the 18 satellites already contracted, of which 2 are in orbit since October 21st 2011, bringing to 26 the number of satellites by end 2015. A second launch of a further 2 Galileo satellites will take place later this year.

The Galileo programme has been structured in two phases:

• The in-orbit validation (IOV) phase consists of tests and the operation of four satellites and their related ground infrastructure. This phase is ongoing.
• The full operational capability (FOC) phase consists of the deployment of the remaining ground and space infrastructure. It includes an initial operational capability phase of 18 operational satellites. The full system will consist of 30 satellites in orbit, as well as 2 satellites on the ground to replace ones in orbit if necessary, and include control centres located in Europe and a network of sensor stations and uplink stations installed around the globe.

GE Healthcare Life Sciences yesterday announced the winners of 2011 IN Cell Analyzer Image Competition. Geoffrey Grandjean from the United States, Marie Neguembor from Italy, and Lesley Caron from Australia, each took first place in a regional category. The winning images will be displayed on NBC Universal’s high-definition screen in Times Square, New York at a special event held April 20-22 2012.

More than 8,000 votes were cast on 30 shortlisted entries, all of which were acquired using an IN Cell Analyzer system. Finalists’ images included stained rat neurons, HeLa cells and human ovarian cancer cells, used in a wide range of applications such as toxicology screening and research into the molecular mechanisms underlying cancer and neuronal diseases.

The full details of the winners are;

1st place Americas

Geoffrey Grandjean, MD Anderson Cancer Center, US . Cancer therapeutic target identification

1st place Europe

Marie Neguembor, ALEMBIC, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy. Molecular Biology – Cell differentiation studies

1st place Asia/Rest of World

Leslie Caron, Genea, Australia. Inheritable muscle disease research

Dr Amr Abid, General Manager of Cell Technologies, GE Healthcare Life Sciences, said “Every year we receive entries which are visually stunning and artistic but, importantly, also feature data generated at the forefront of research and development. This competition showcases both the cellular imaging capabilities of the IN Cell Analyzer systems and the inherent beauty of science.”

This year’s shortlist was selected by a panel of judges comprised of Dr. Kristie Nybo, Assistant Editor at BioTechniques, Dr. Nick Thomas, Principal Scientist at GE Healthcare and former Image Competition winner Carmen Laethem of Aerie Pharmaceuticals.

The images from the 2011 IN Cell Analyzer Competition can be seen here and will be available in a limited edition calendar and screen saver, both free* by registering at www.gelifesciences.com/incellcompetition

*Offer available to eligible registrants unless prohibited by applicable local law, regulations or General Electric’s internal policies or rules relating to governments and healthcare professionals.

About the 2011 IN Cell Analyzer Image Competition
The IN Cell Image Competition, supported by BioTechniques, celebrates the outstanding research enabled by the superior image quality that IN Cell Analyzer systems deliver. Voting started on 7 November and continued online until 14 December. Attendees at two conferences (ASCB, December 3-7, USA and MBSJ, December 13-16, Japan) were also able to vote for their favourite. The votes were combined to select 3 winners, one from each region (Americas, Europe, Asia/Rest of World). Details of the judging panel can be found here and full terms and conditions can be found here. To view images from past winners, go to www.gelifesciences.com/incellcompetition

About GE Healthcare’s IN Cell Analyzer system

IN Cell Analyzer automated high content cell imagers, IN Cell Investigatorimage analysis software and IN Cell Miner data management software combine to provide a system that represents a total solution for high content sub cellular analysis in research and drug discovery. High-performance hardware, powerful software, and expert instrument and applications support are harmonized to transform the cellular workflow.

IN Cell Analyzer 2000 is a highly flexible, lamp-based high-content imaging instrument impressively enabling for a wide range of assays and techniques. The latest addition to the IN Cell Analyzer family, IN Cell Analyzer 6000 is a high-end, laser based confocal imaging platform for the most demanding high-content assays and screens. Featuring a novel and proprietary optical system that incorporates an iris-like variable aperture design and next-generation sCMOS technology, IN Cell Analyzer 6000 balances speed and image quality for challenging and variable assays.

For more detailed information visit www.gelifesciences.com/incell

About GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, performance improvement and performance solutions services help our customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, we partner with healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable healthcare systems.

Our “healthymagination” vision for the future invites the world to join us on our journey as we continuously develop innovations focused on reducing costs, increasing access and improving quality around the world. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employees are committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries.  For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com.

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces that it has been granted a new patent in the USA. Patent № 8104090 covers a “Method and System for Detection of Previously Unknown Malware Components”. The patented technology was developed by Mikhail Pavlyushik.

The newly patented technology detects multi-component malicious programs. This is done by restoring the parent-child relationships between such components using a special analyzer, which keeps a journal of system events and saves them all in its database.

Each event in the system is given a parameter of relevance using a separate monitor, that is, the importance of information connected with this event is determined for the analyzer. Such events include file operations, operations with the registry or with processes, etc.

If the antivirus program subsequently finds an infected file in the system, all the information related to that file goes into the analyzer, which looks up all the objects connected with that file in the event journal (which processes addressed the file, which process created or modified it, etc.). The analyzer then checks the time criteria of all the objects discovered, which permits, for example, malicious programs with delayed activation to be located.

At present Kaspersky Lab has been granted 49 patents covering its advanced technologies in Russia, 42 in the United States, one in Europe and another in China. A further 35 patents are currently pending in Russia, 45 in the United States, 37 in Europe, and 23 in China.

Niels Bohr

A number of researchers at The University of Copenhagen have achieved such remarkable research results that they have been awarded the Nobel Prize. Click on the names to read more about their research at the Nobel prize website.

• Niels Finsen, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1903

• August Krogh, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1920

• Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize in Physics 1922

• Johannes Fibiger, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1926

• Henrik Dam, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1943

• Aage Bohr, Nobel Prize in Physics 1975

• Ben R. Mottelson, Nobel Prize in Physics 1975

• Niels K. Jerne, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1984

Read more about the awards, Alfred Nobel, and all the laureates at the Nobel Prize official website.