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NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft now together in lunar orbit

Nasa’s twin GRAIL (Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory) spacecraft are now in orbit around the Moon. Having achieved lunar orbit at 2 pm PST on New Year’s Eve, GRAIL-A was joined by GRAIL-B at 2:43 pm PST on New Year’s Day. The twin spacecraft are now in a near-polar, elliptical orbit with an orbital period of approximately 11.5 hours. In readiness for the science phase of the mission which is due to start in March 2012, both spacecraft will undergo a series of burns to place them in a near-polar, near-circular orbit with an altitude of about 34 miles (55 km) and orbital period of just under two hours. http://www.gizmag.com/nasa-grail-spacecraft-lunar-orbit/20984/

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He signed it. We’ll fight it.

President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law. It contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision. The dangerous new law can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield. He signed it. Now, we have to fight it wherever we can and for as long as it takes. https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageServer?s_subsrc=120103_NDAA_mar&pagename=120103_NDAAGOLAsk&JServSessionIdr004=b00dvac3i5.app224a

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TEDxIowaCity – Dr. Terry Wahls – Minding Your Mitochondria – One Doctor's Recovery from MS

Dr. Terry Wahls learned how to properly fuel her body. Using the lessons she learned at the subcellular level, she used diet to cure her MS and get out of her wheelchair. Shrinking brains are common to Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and MS. Fish oil, creatine and CoQ10 are beneficial in protecting the brain. More great data at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc

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Weight Loss Tip 8 – Think Quality of Calories, Not Number

Hey, yet another person has the same philosophy as yours truly! Just maybe there’s some truth in it.
Let’s face it, counting calories or grams of this and that is impractical. It is not very useful when trying to lose weight because not all calories are created equal. A 300-calorie candy bar is not equivalent to a 300-calorie turkey wrap. Your body responds differently to these foods. The sugary candy bar is likely to feed your fat cells, whereas the high-protein wrap will feed muscle, fostering a chain of events that result in a higher metabolism, preserved lean muscle mass, and blood sugar balance. http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2011/12/30/kathy-smith-laws-lean-living.aspx

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Another year, another Telstra privacy slip

Telstra, which hasn’t yet gotten over the privacy breach that required 60,000 password resets in December, has suffered another embarrassment involving customer data.
This time, according to Musicfeeds.com.au, the breach involves customer data being posted to a cloud-based spreadsheet service. The site says the data was apparently put on the Editgrid.com site by a consultant in training (apparently and stupidly using live data).
Telstra has said the data was deleted within an hour of the telco becoming aware of the breach, and access to Editgrid.com has been disabled for all staff.
The Sydney Morning Herald today says customers are complaining that they have yet to hear from the Telco, which is already being investigated by the Federal Privacy Commissioner over the earlier breach.
The new data breach includes customers’ contact details and dates of birth, but according to Telstra, no credit information or passwords.
Editgrid appears to be a feast of private information. While the Telstra spreadsheet has been removed, Google has crawled a large number of spreadsheets containing full names, telephone numbers, physical addresses, e-mail details and business information for a host of individuals who probably aren’t aware that their information is published on the site. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/01/telstra_data_on_stupid_insecure_cloud_spreadsheet/