2022 Central Bank of Kenya Internship Program for young graduates.

2022 Central Bank of Kenya Internship Program for young graduates.

Do you want to gain insights into the Kenyan financial system and build your career in the commercial banking operations as a financial expert? Then apply for the Central Bank of Kenya Internship Program for young graduates. The objective of the internship program is to develop and prepare young talents to take up employment opportunities that come up in the Kenyan Banking and Financial Sector.…

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Kuwait: CBK to Provide ATMs for “Eidiyah” in Shopping Malls

Kuwait: CBK to Provide ATMs for “Eidiyah” in Shopping Malls

Kuwait: CBK to Provide ATMs for “Eidiyah” in Shopping Malls Due to the increasing demand on all KD denominations for distributing Eidiyah (monetary gift), the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) announced the provision of Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) in a number of shopping malls during the Eid. Read- Kuwait: PAM mulls 3-month iqama for expats to find new jobs In a statement, the CBK said that…

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A Comprehensive Guide to the Best Bread Making Kits - Get Ready for Delicious Home-Baked Bread!

Introduction: What is a Bread Making Kit and What Benefits Does it Offer?

There’s nothing quite as satisfying as fresh, homemade bread, and a bread-making kit can make the process incredibly simple. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced baker, there’s a bread-making kit out there that’s perfect for you. Here are some of the most common benefits of using a bread-making kit:

Some kits come with all the ingredients you need to get started- including yeast, flour, salt, and water- while others require only that you add flour and water. Either way, you can be sure that your finished products will be delicious. Many kits also come with detailed instructions, so there’s no need to worry about ruining your dough or failing to follow a recipe. In addition to great-tasting bread, many kits also offer other benefits such as improved health and weight loss. If you're looking for an easy way to create delicious home-baked goods without any fuss, a bread-making kit is the perfect solution!

The Top 5 Best Bread-Making Kits on the Market

There are many bread making kits available on the market today. Some kits have more bells and whistles than others, but all of them offer some great tips and recipes for a delicious home-baked loaf of bread. Here are the five best bread making kits on the market:

The Hamilton Beach Set 'n' Bake Deluxe Bread Maker offers a simple and easy to use design with pre-measured ingredients that make baking bread a breeze. Plus, it has an automatic shutoff feature to ensure that your bread doesn't overcook.

The Nordic Ware No-Knead Bread Kit is another great option for beginners or anyone who wants an easy and foolproof way to make delicious homemade bread. This kit includes everything you need including an recipe book with variations and tips for perfect results every time.

The Cuisinart CBK-200 Customizable Breadmaker lets you choose your own recipe or choose from one of Cuisinart's awesome pre-made doughs that are designed specifically for this machine. You can also customize your crust color, shape, and thickness with this machine, which makes it a great choice for those who want to create their own unique loaf of bread.

The Oster CKSTBM1050 Smart Touch Automatic Bread Maker is a top quality machine that offers many features not found on other bread makers on the market today such as gluten free options, multiple crust settings, and even a delay timer so you can wake up to freshly baked bread

A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Your New Bread Making Kit

If you're ready to take your bread-making skills to the next level, you'll want to check out one of the many bread making kits available on the market. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced baker, a kit will help you make delicious, homemade bread quickly and easily.

Here's a step-by-step guide to using your new bread making kit:

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

Place all of the ingredients into the bowl of your bread maker. (Note: Some baking powder capsules may require mixing with a little water before adding them to the dough.)

Select the recipe you wish to follow and hit start.

Depending on the type of bread maker you have, your dough will likely need to be mixed every 30 minutes or so in order to ensure even baking throughout. If it has an electronic timer, be sure to set it for this time period!

When the timer goes off, remove your dough from the machine and let it cool slightly before shaping into loafs or rounds. Enjoy!

What Ingredients Should You Use when Baking with Your New Kit?

Bread baking kits come with a variety of ingredients and instructions.

The best bread making kits will include yeast, salt, sugar, oil, and flour. Many also come with a mixer or an electric hand-held one. The ingredients you use will depend on the type of bread you want to make. For instance, for French bread, you’ll need eggs and butter. For white bread, you’ll need only flour and water.

Most best bread baking kits come with recipes that will guide you through the process of making the perfect loaf of bread every time. Make sure to read through the recipe before starting so that you have a good understanding of what to do and how to do it. Once everything is prepared, put the dough in a greased bowl or onto a floured surface and let it rise until it doubles in size. Then, punch down the dough and shape it into a loaf or round shape. Place the loaf on a greased baking sheet or on a silicone mat if using an electric hand-held oven, and let it rise again for about 20 minutes before baking.

Bread baking kits are great for beginners because they make the process of bread making very simple. Just follow the recipe and you’ll be able to produce delicious homemade bread in no time at all!

Troubleshooting Tips When Working with Your

When you're working with your bread making kit, there are a few things to keep in mind. Here are some troubleshooting tips when working with your bread making kit.

Make sure all of the ingredients are properly stirred together before beginning to knead the dough. This will help to ensure that the dough is fully mixed and will not be sticky or difficult to work with.

If your dough is becoming too wet or sticky, try adding more flour, one tablespoon at a time, until you have a mix that is manageable but still soft and elastic. Do not over-knead the dough or it may become tough and cracky.

If your dough does not rise as expected, it may be because of incorrect proportions of yeast and sugar. Try increasing the yeast by half or by one teaspoon, if needed, and see if that helps to get the desired rise in the dough. Alternatively, try using another type of bread flour instead of all-purpose flour for a different resulting texture and flavor in your breads.

If your bread does not look or taste as expected after baking, it may be due to incorrect temperatures or humidity levels during baking; again, test this by varying these settings until you get the results that you desire. In addition, make sure that all oven racks are set at the same level before starting baking; otherwise some parts of the loaf may bake faster than others resulting in an uneven texture or

Google to ban unlicensed loan apps in Kenya as new rules take effect • TechCrunch

Google’s new policy requiring digital lenders in Kenya to submit proof of license to operate in the East African country takes effect today. The policy aims to clamp down on rogue loan apps, which are pervasive in the country. This means that only providers with licenses from the country’s pinnacle bank, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), will be listed on Play Store, Google’s digital distribution…

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Advocate General of Odisha Ashok Kumar Parija Is New KIIT Chancellor

Advocate General of Odisha Shri Ashok Kumar Parija today took over as the new Chancellor of KIIT Deemed to be University. Shri Parija took charge of office from Professor Ved Prakash who completed his tenure on August 10, 2022.

Welcoming Shri Parija, Dr. Achyuta Samanta, Founder of KIIT & KISS said, “Shri Parija is a renowned Odia person. In the capacity of Chancellor, Shri Parija will advise the University for the next five years. KIIT Deemed to be University will continue its journey towards educational, research and all-round excellence with renewed vigour under the able leadership of Shri Parija”. Shri Parija was welcomed to the campus by Dr. Samanta in the presence of Prof. S. K. Acharya, Pro-Chancellor, KIIT DU; Prof. Sasmita Samanta, Vice Chancellor; Prof. Saranjit Singh, Pro-VC; Dr. CBK Mohanty, Pro-VC and other senior functionaries of KIIT-DU.

Since the Chancellor’s position is honorary, it will not hamper Shri Parija’s day-to-day work as the Advocate General. Shri Parija is among the most respected advocates in the country with a long distinguished service spanning over 38 years. He was designated as a senior advocate by the High Court of Orissa in 2003 and appointed as the Advocate General by the Government of Odisha in 2019. He served as the Chairman of the Bar Council of India in 2011, the apex regulatory body for the legal profession and education, and took several steps to improve legal education in India.

Before Shri Parija, many eminent personalities and academicians have been in the charge of Chancellor in KIIT DU from its inception. Earlier Prof. Hari Gautam, former UGC Chairman, Prof. N. L. Mitra, eminent legal academician, and Prof. Ved Prakash, former UGC Chairman were the Chancellors of KIIT DU.

Advocate General of Odisha Ashok Kumar Parija Is New KIIT Chancellor

Advocate General of Odisha Shri Ashok Kumar Parija today took over as the new Chancellor of KIIT Deemed to be University. Shri Parija took charge of office from Professor Ved Prakash who completed his tenure on August 10, 2022.

​​​​​​​Welcoming Shri Parija, Dr. Achyuta Samanta, Founder of KIIT & KISS said, “Shri Parija is a renowned Odia person. In the capacity of Chancellor, Shri Parija will advise the University for the next five years. KIIT Deemed to be University will continue its journey towards educational, research and all-round excellence with renewed vigour under the able leadership of Shri Parija”. Shri Parija was welcomed to the campus by Dr. Samanta in the presence of Prof. S. K. Acharya, Pro-Chancellor, KIIT DU; Prof. Sasmita Samanta, Vice Chancellor; Prof. Saranjit Singh, Pro-VC; Dr. CBK Mohanty, Pro-VC and other senior functionaries of KIIT-DU.

Since the Chancellor’s position is honorary, it will not hamper Shri Parija’s day-to-day work as the Advocate General. Shri Parija is among the most respected advocates in the country with a long distinguished service spanning over 38 years. He was designated as a senior advocate by the High Court of Orissa in 2003 and appointed as the Advocate General by the Government of Odisha in 2019. He served as the Chairman of the Bar Council of India in 2011, the apex regulatory body for the legal profession and education, and took several steps to improve legal education in India.

 Before Shri Parija, many eminent personalities and academicians have been in the charge of Chancellor in KIIT DU from its inception. Earlier Prof. Hari Gautam, former UGC Chairman, Prof. N. L. Mitra, eminent legal academician, and Prof. Ved Prakash, former UGC Chairman were the Chancellors of KIIT DU.

One Year of Prompts!

As of today, CBK Creative has hit the milestone of 365 prompts – that’s one full year! Although I missed a few days of posting here and there, we have not completed a full year of prompts together. I hope you’ve found them inspiring. I hope they’ve helped you find your love of writing again. I hope they’ve stirred the creative spirit in you to put new words on the page. Let’s continue inspiring…

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Elise Cooper Interviews Christina Baker Kline

The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline brings to life five women in nineteenth century Australia.  All faced similar hardships struggling for redemption and freedom in this new society. They were mistreated and taken from a culture they knew. These women were all brought to their new lives against their will but showed strength and courage.

Evangeline, orphaned after her Vicar father died, found a job as a Governess.  But the stepson living in the manor seduces her and shows her affection by giving her a family heirloom ring.  The maid, Agnes, finds it and accuses her of stealing it.  To make matters worse, she pushes Agnes and is now also accused of attempted murder.  Found guilty she is sentenced to fourteen years in an Australian prison.

Olive, also a prisoner, befriends Evangeline. Accused of stealing, she received a sentence of seven years and transport to the Australian prison.  She was street wise and knew what was needed to survive.

Hazel, a sixteen-year-old, was accused of stealing a silver spoon and sentenced to seven years in the Australian prison. She is a skilled midwife and herbalist, bartering her skills for goods and favors.

All three women are transported to Australia on the ship, Medea.  They must struggle with sea sickness, avoiding sailor’s advances, and the harshness of the journey.  Evangeline also must deal with being pregnant, the father being the stepson.  She knows she will give birth to her baby while at sea.

Mathinna, the Aboriginal native, an orphaned daughter of the Chief of the Lowreenne tribe, has been adopted by the new governor of Van Diemen’s Land the setting for the Australian prison. She is used by the Governor’s wife as an experiment in civilization, trying to make her into a “lady.” Her life intersects with Hazel’s about two-thirds of the way through the book.  Although Mathinna is not a convict, she like the other women is a prisoner with no control over their life.

Caleb Dunne is the doctor on the ship.  Because of a misdiagnosis of a prominent woman, he decided to escape and signed up for the ship.  Shy and feeling out of place he first forges a friendship with Evangeline, both enjoying the discussion of books.  But later he and Hazel become friendly after he realizes her worth as a mid-wife.  Their relationship becomes stronger as the story progresses.

The story fascinatingly allows the reader to follow the lives of these women in 19th Century Australia as they forge a new life with new opportunities.  People will have their eyes open to pieces of history that are still pertinent today. It is obvious the author did her research and intertwined it into a riveting novel. Readers’ take a journey with these women and root for them as they gain strength and resilience.

Elise Cooper:  How did you get the idea for the story?

Christina Baker Kline: I was inspired by a small article I read in a newspaper about criminal ships.  The point of the article is how convicts then had it harder than today.  I thought how parts of my life intersected with this story. I had a life-changing six-week Rotary fellowship to Australia. I taught in women’s prisons.  I also wrote a book with my mother about the second wave of the women’s movement.  A lot of the issues in this book are relevant today including the needed reform of the criminal justice system and the role of women in society.  I think it is a hopeful story.

EC:  Why the map in the front of the book?

CBK: I wanted to show the route from London to Van Diemen’s Land, renamed Tasmania.  It is from the mid 19th Century.  I hope readers get a sense of the wide-open places including the placement of the ports, an understanding of the geography. This is the setting where the convict women stayed.  

EC: Why the Lowreenne Tribe?

CBK: I went to Australia and Tasmania before Covid.  I learned when I arrived about the Aboriginal people who were essentially being pushed into open air concentration camps.  By the late 1860s there was no full-blooded Aboriginal people left in Tasmania, out of thousands.  I felt it would be irresponsible if I did not address it.  Mathinna was a real person who died tragically at the age of seventeen.  Everything I described in the novel actually happened to her.

EC:  How would you describe Evangeline?

CBK:  She was the perfect person to lead the reader into the story, in some ways a stand-in for the reader.  Evangeline was naïve and emersed herself in books.  The convict world was a shock for her.  She was inquisitive, thoughtful, brave, and very lonely.  She did not know how to survive as a convict because she was not tough so depended on Olive and Hazel.

EC:  How about Hazel?

CBK: She had this “superpower” of healing; a knowledge learned as a mid-wife.  Hazel knew how to balance things really well.  She was savvy, caring, and angry at being abandoned.  I think she goes through a change in the novel.  At first, she was a mistrusting teenager, betrayed by her mother.  As the story unfolds, she begins to trust more people and comes to love the baby, Ruby.

EC:  How would you describe Olive?

CBK: Funny, irreverent, a comic relief, and does what it takes to get by in prison.  

EC:  What about the relationship between Dr. Dunne and Hazel?

CBK: He is called the “hot doctor.” As with Hazel, he also changes over time.  He went on the convict ship because he needed work.  At first, he befriends Evangeline who is more like him.  Yet, over time Hazel and he realize they share an interest in medicine.  He comes to respect her.  All the class restrictions fall by the wayside.

EC:  How would you describe the doctor?

CBK:  A complex character.  At times he could appear to be a jerk because he was dismissive, a snob, but overall caring.

EC:  What was the role of the Quakers?

CBK:  They believed the convicts were worthy of redemption.  Elizabeth Fry was a real person who helped them.  She was very judgmental because she thought they were sinners.  She gave them a sense of dignity and treated them as human beings but was never 100% accepting.  

EC: There are similarities with today’s topics?

CBK:  Most of these women sent to Australia committed crimes of poverty.  They stole to feed themselves and their family since there was no social safety net.  These women fell through the cracks.  The criminal justice system was brutal then. Back then the poor had no rights and were considered expendable.  Legal counsel was only for the rich and the poor had no recourse. Evangeline was an example of someone without allies, resources, and representation.

EC:  Why did the British courts sentence these women to prisons in Australia?

CBK:  The goal of the British government was to populate Australia. It had a ratio of nine men to every woman.  They were sent there under flimsy pretenses. Today, 20% of Australian descendants come from convicts.  The Australian personality was forged within their convict past: irreverent, willing to take changes, and never took themselves very seriously.  When out of prison, these women had opportunities they would never have had in Britain.

EC:  Why the drowning scene?

CBK:  I wanted to show how no life is sacred.  I read books on drowning.  Sebastian Junger who wrote the non-fiction book, The Perfect Storm describes in detail how someone drowns.  This was very helpful to me with those scenes in the book.

EC:  A powerful quote, “People we love live inside us, even after they’re gone.” Please explain.

CBK: In my novels I often talk about this. In Orphan Train the book begins with the line, “I believe in ghosts.  They are the ones who haunt us.  They are the ones that left us behind.” With both quotes I thought about the tree metaphor. I love the idea of years that pass, giving us a core of strength.  The convict women were alone and had to draw on what they had internally.  Even though they lost someone they still had a piece of them in their memories.

EC:  What about your next projects?

CBK:  My next book, probably out in 2023 will be set in the Civil War era in North Carolina.  This novel has been optioned for a TV series by Bruna Papandrea.  I will be an executive producer.

THANK YOU!!

Can you imagine being so lame that you're stuck in the 1990's trying to cosplay Diana and CBK? Because let's be honest, the minimalism of that decade today, with all the resources and new trends is just boring. Trading a nice dress, for some jeans and a t-shirt? Oh God. Trading emeralds and pearls for horoscope jewelry. I admire her loyalty to that style, because that just shows she has no creativity or fashion knowledge whatsoever.

She will die as a 90s girl. It’s admirable in its own way.

A year of surprising science from NASA's InSight Mars mission

A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission. Findings described in a set of six papers published today reveal a planet alive with quakes, dust devils and strange magnetic pulses.

Five of the papers were published in Nature Geoscience. An additional paper in Nature Communications details the InSight spacecraft's landing site, a shallow crater nicknamed "Homestead hollow" in a region called Elysium Planitia.

InSight is the first mission dedicated to looking deep beneath the Martian surface. Among its science tools are a seismometer for detecting quakes, sensors for gauging wind and air pressure, a magnetometer, and a heat flow probe designed to take the planet's temperature.

While the team continues to work on getting the probe into the Martian surface as intended, the ultra-sensitive seismometer, called the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS), has enabled scientists to "hear" multiple trembling events from hundreds to thousands of miles away.

Seismic waves are affected by the materials they move through, giving scientists a way to study the composition of the planet's inner structure. Mars can help the team better understand how all rocky planets, including Earth, first formed.

Underground

Mars trembles more often -- but also more mildly -- than expected. SEIS has found more than 450 seismic signals to date, the vast majority of which are probably quakes (as opposed to data noise created by environmental factors, like wind). The largest quake was about magnitude 4.0 in size -- not quite large enough to travel down below the crust into the planet's lower mantle and core. Those are "the juiciest parts of the apple" when it comes to studying the planet's inner structure, said Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator at JPL.

Scientists are ready for more: It took months after InSight's landing in November 2018 before they recorded the first seismic event. By the end of 2019, SEIS was detecting about two seismic signals a day, suggesting that InSight just happened to touch down at a particularly quiet time. Scientists still have their fingers crossed for "the Big One."

Mars doesn't have tectonic plates like Earth, but it does have volcanically active regions that can cause rumbles. A pair of quakes was strongly linked to one such region, Cerberus Fossae, where scientists see boulders that may have been shaken down cliffsides. Ancient floods there carved channels nearly 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) long. Lava flows then seeped into those channels within the past 10 million years -- the blink of an eye in geologic time.

Some of these young lava flows show signs of having been fractured by quakes less than 2 million years ago. "It's just about the youngest tectonic feature on the planet," said planetary geologist Matt Golombek of JPL. "The fact that we're seeing evidence of shaking in this region isn't a surprise, but it's very cool."

At the Surface

Billions of years ago, Mars had a magnetic field. It is no longer present, but it left ghosts behind, magnetizing ancient rocks that are now between 200 feet (61 meters) to several miles below ground. InSight is equipped with a magnetometer -- the first on the surface of Mars to detect magnetic signals.

The magnetometer has found that the signals at Homestead hollow are 10 times stronger than what was predicted based on data from orbiting spacecraft that study the area. The measurements of these orbiters are averaged over a couple of hundred miles, whereas InSight's measurements are more local.

Because most surface rocks at InSight's location are too young to have been magnetized by the planet's former field, "this magnetism must be coming from ancient rocks underground," said Catherine Johnson, a planetary scientist at the University of British Columbia and the Planetary Science Institute. "We're combining these data with what we know from seismology and geology to understand the magnetized layers below InSight. How strong or deep would they have to be for us to detect this field?"

In addition, scientists are intrigued by how these signals change over time. The measurements vary by day and night; they also tend to pulse around midnight. Theories are still being formed as to what causes such changes, but one possibility is that they're related to the solar wind interacting with the Martian atmosphere.

In the Wind

InSight measures wind speed, direction and air pressure nearly continuously, offering more data than previous landed missions. The spacecraft's weather sensors have detected thousands of passing whirlwinds, which are called dust devils when they pick up grit and become visible. "This site has more whirlwinds than any other place we've landed on Mars while carrying weather sensors," said Aymeric Spiga, an atmospheric scientist at Sorbonne University in Paris.

Despite all that activity and frequent imaging, InSight's cameras have yet to see dust devils. But SEIS can feel these whirlwinds pulling on the surface like a giant vacuum cleaner. "Whirlwinds are perfect for subsurface seismic exploration," said Philippe Lognonné of Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), principal investigator of SEIS.

Still to Come: The Core

InSight has two radios: one for regularly sending and receiving data, and a more powerful radio designed to measure the "wobble" of Mars as it spins. This X-band radio, also known as the Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment (RISE), can eventually reveal whether the planet's core is solid or liquid. A solid core would cause Mars to wobble less than a liquid one would.

This first year of data is just a start. Watching over a full Martian year (two Earth years) will give scientists a much better idea of the size and speed of the planet's wobble.

About InSight

A division of Caltech in Pasadena, JPL manages InSight for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built the InSight spacecraft, including its cruise stage and lander, and supports spacecraft operations for the mission.

A number of European partners, including France's Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES), the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA), are supporting the InSight mission. CNES provided the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument to NASA, with the principal investigator at IPGP (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris). Significant contributions for SEIS came from IPGP; the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany; the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in Switzerland; Imperial College London and Oxford University in the United Kingdom; and JPL. DLR provided the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument, with significant contributions from the Space Research Center (CBK) of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Astronika in Poland. Spain's Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) supplied the temperature and wind sensors.

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Mars InSight Lander Seen in First Images from Space

NASA - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) logo. Dec. 13, 2018

Image above: NASA's InSight spacecraft, its heat shield and its parachute were imaged on Dec. 6 and 11 by the HiRISE camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona. On Nov. 26, NASA's InSight mission knew the spacecraft touched down within an 81-mile-long (130-kilometer-long) landing ellipse on Mars. Now, the team has pinpointed InSight's exact location using images from HiRISE, a powerful camera onboard another NASA spacecraft, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The InSight lander, its heat shield and parachute were spotted by HiRISE (which stands for High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) in one set of images last week on Dec. 6, and again on Tuesday, Dec. 11. The lander, heat shield and parachute are within 1,000 feet (several hundred meters) of one another on Elysium Planitia, the flat lava plain selected as InSight's landing location.

Image above: NASA's InSight lander on the surface of Mars imaged by the HiRISE camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona.

Image above: NASA's InSight parachute on the surface of Mars imaged by the HiRISE camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona.

Image above: NASA's InSight heat shield on the surface of Mars imaged by the HiRISE camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona. In images released today, the three new features on the Martian landscape appear teal. That's not their actual color: Light reflected off their surfaces causes the color to be saturated. The ground around the lander appears dark, having been blasted by its retrorockets during descent. Look carefully for a butterfly shape, and you can make out the lander's solar panels on either side. This isn't the first time HiRISE has photographed a Mars lander. InSight is based largely on 2008's Phoenix spacecraft, which the camera aboard MRO captured on the surface of Mars as well as descending on its parachute. While the HiRISE team at the University of Arizona also tried to take an image of InSight during landing, MRO was at a much less opportune angle and wasn't able to take a good picture.

Image above: An annotated image of the surface of Mars, taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) on May 30, 2014. The annotations — added after InSight landed on Nov. 26, 2018 — display the locations of NASA's InSight lander, its heat shield and parachute. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona. About InSight JPL manages InSight for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built the InSight spacecraft, including its cruise stage and lander, and supports spacecraft operations for the mission. A number of European partners, including France's Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), are supporting the InSight mission. CNES and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) provided the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, with significant contributions from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany, the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) in Switzerland, Imperial College and Oxford University in the United Kingdom, and JPL. DLR provided the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument, with significant contributions from the Space Research Center (CBK) of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Astronika in Poland. Spain’s Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) supplied the wind sensors.

Image above: The red dot marks the final landing location of NASA's InSight lander in this annotated image of the surface of Mars, taken by the THEMIS camera on NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter in 2015. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU. The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Related links: InSight Mars Lander: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/insight/main/index.html HiRISE: https://www.uahirise.org/releases/insight/hardware Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO): http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/main/index.html 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter: https://mars.nasa.gov/programmissions/missions/present/odyssey/ Images (mentioned), Text, Credits: NASA/Tony Greicius/JPL/Andrew Good. Greetings, Orbiter.ch Full article

NASA's Mars InSight Flexes Its Arm New images from NASA's Mars InSight lander show its robotic arm is ready to do some lifting. With a reach of nearly 6 feet (2 meters), the arm will be used to pick up science instruments from the lander's deck, gently setting them on the Martian surface at Elysium Planitia, the lava plain where InSight touched down on Nov. 26. But first, the arm will use its Instrument Deployment Camera, located on its elbow, to take photos of the terrain in front of the lander. These images will help mission team members determine where to set InSight's seismometer and heat flow probe - the only instruments ever to be robotically placed on the surface of another planet. "Today we can see the first glimpses of our workspace," said Bruce Banerdt, the mission's principal investigator at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "By early next week, we'll be imaging it in finer detail and creating a full mosaic." Another camera, called the Instrument Context Camera, is located under the lander's deck. It will also offer views of the workspace, though the view won't be as pretty. "We had a protective cover on the Instrument Context Camera, but somehow dust still managed to get onto the lens," said Tom Hoffman of JPL, InSight's project manager. "While this is unfortunate, it will not affect the role of the camera, which is to take images of the area in front of the lander where our instruments will eventually be placed." Placement is critical, and the team is proceeding with caution. Two to three months could go by before the instruments have been situated and calibrated. Over the past week and a half, mission engineers have been testing those instruments and spacecraft systems, ensuring they're in working order. A couple instruments are even recording data: a drop in air pressure, possibly caused by a passing dust devil, was detected by the pressure sensor. This, along with a magnetometer and a set of wind and temperature sensors, are part of a package called the Auxiliary Payload Sensor Subsystem, which will collect meteorological data. More images from InSight's arm were scheduled to come down this past weekend. However, imaging was momentarily interrupted, resuming the following day. During the first few weeks in its new home, InSight has been instructed to be extra careful, so anything unexpected will trigger what's called a fault. Considered routine, it causes the spacecraft to stop what it is doing and ask for help from operators on the ground. "We did extensive testing on Earth. But we know that everything is a little different for the lander on Mars, so faults are not unusual," Hoffman said. "They can delay operations, but we're not in a rush. We want to be sure that each operation that we perform on Mars is safe, so we set our safety monitors to be fairly sensitive initially." Spacecraft engineers had already factored extra time into their estimates for instrument deployment to account for likely delays caused by faults. The mission's primary mission is scheduled for two Earth years, or one Mars year - plenty of time to gather data from the Red Planet's surface. About InSight JPL manages InSight for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built the InSight spacecraft, including its cruise stage and lander, and supports spacecraft operations for the mission. A number of European partners, including France's Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), are supporting the InSight mission. CNES and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) provided the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, with significant contributions from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany, the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) in Switzerland, Imperial College and Oxford University in the United Kingdom, and JPL. DLR provided the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument, with significant contributions from the Space Research Center (CBK) of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Astronika in Poland. Spain's Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) supplied the wind sensors. TOP IMAGE....This image from InSight's robotic-arm mounted Instrument Deployment Camera shows the instruments on the spacecraft's deck, with the Martian surface of Elysium Planitia in the background. The color-calibrated picture was acquired on Dec. 4, 2018 (Sol 8). In the foreground, a copper-colored hexagonal cover protects the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure instrument (SEIS), a seismometer that will measure marsquakes. The gray dome behind SEIS is the wind and thermal shield, which will be placed over SEIS. To the left is a black cylindrical instrument, the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe (HP3). HP3 will drill up to 16 feet (5 meters) below the Martian surface, measuring heat released from the interior of the planet. Above the deck is InSight's robotic arm, with the stowed grapple directly facing the camera. To the right can be seen a small portion of one of the two solar panels that help power InSight and part of the UHF communication antenna. CENTRE IMAGE....NASA's InSight spacecraft took a color-calibrated image of its robotic arm using its Instrument Deployment Camera on Dec. 4, 2018 (Sol 8). The camera still has a transparent dust cover on it, but the robotic arm can clearly be seen above the Martian soil. There is a dark scoop at the end of the arm. Above the scoop is the stowed grapple, the claw that InSight will use to grab and move its instruments from its deck onto the planet's surface. InSight will be the first Mars mission to use a robotic arm to grasp objects and deploy them onto the surface of another planet. JPL manages InSight for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. LOWER IMAGE....A partial view of the deck of NASA's InSight lander, where it stands on the Martian plains Elysium Planitia. The color-calibrated image was received on Dec. 4, 2018 (Sol 8). InSight's robotic arm with its stowed grapple can be seen above the deck, and jutting out from the front of the deck is one of the boxy attitude control system thrusters that helped control the spacecraft's landing. The circular silver inset of the propellant tank can also be seen in the middle of the image, as well as one of the connections for the aeroshell and parachute, which looks like a cupholder in the foreground. Next to the propellant tank is the UHF antenna, which helps the lander communicate with Earth. In the background, part of one of InSight's solar panels is visible.

New Benchmarks In Healthcare Services CM Inaugurates KIMS Super Specialty Hospital & Cancer Centre

Odisha Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik on Friday inaugurated the KIMS Super Speciality Hospital and the KIMS Cancer Centre with state-of-art infrastructure and high-end facilities in the presence of Naba Kishore Das, Minister Health and Family Welfare Govt. Of Odisha, Dr. Achyuta Samanta, Founder, KIIT, KISS & KIMS.

During his visit, the CM undertook a trip around the KIMS campus on a battery-operated vehicle and appreciated the new facilities. The CM appraised the patient-friendly initiatives that have been developed in KIMS. Today, KIMS has expanded its infrastructure with 1600 beds fully air conditioned hospital for general public and economically weaker section people. The modern complexes will offer the most advanced healthcare services to patients coming from Odisha and neighbouring states such as West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand.

The addition of the new facilities will give a major boost to the quality healthcare services in affordable price, set new benchmarks and strengthen KIMS commitment to offering the best treatment for all ailments in Odisha itself. The 300-bed Super Speciality Hospital will have 12 Super Speciality departments. They are Cardiology; Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Surgery (CTVS); Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Surgical Gastroenterology; Nephrology and Kidney Transplant; Urology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Endocrinology, Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology; Orthopaedics and Spinal Surgery and Plastic Surgery.

The 300-bed Cancer centre will be headed by acclaimed radiation oncologist Prof Bidhu Kalyan Mohanti. The Centre will immensely help the people from Odisha and outside with five distinct Super Speciality Departments, namely, Medical Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Oncology and Palliative Care. It is the only centre to possess some high-end medical equipment in Odisha. The hospital has pioneered complex procedures to aid in faster patient recovery and has been recognised for its services by premier ranking agencies in India and abroad. Most of the departments are headed by acclaimed doctors and Padma awardees, established names who command awe and respect in equal measures. Evidently so, it has become the first choice for countless people in Eastern India.

Among others Smt. Saswati Bal, President, KIIT & KISS; R. N. Dash, Secretary, KIIT & KISS, Prof. Subrat Acharya, Pro-Chancellor, KIIT DU; Prof. Sasmita Samanta, VC, KIIT DU; Prof Dr. CBK Mohanty, Pro-Vice Chancellor;  Padma Shri Prof Dr Y.K. Chawla ; Prof Bidhu Kalyan Mohanti; Prof Ramnath Misra; Prof Anil Chandra Anand; Prof (Brig) Dr Ambika Prasad Mohanty, Prof. Ram Chandra Das; Prof (Brig) Dr Sudhanshu Kumar Rath; Prof Dr Narendra Kumar Das and Prof.  Dr. Hemant Kar were also present on the occasion.

New Benchmarks In Healthcare Services CM Inaugurates KIMS Super Specialty Hospital & Cancer Centre

Odisha Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik on Friday inaugurated the KIMS Super Speciality Hospital and the KIMS Cancer Centre with state-of-art infrastructure and high-end facilities in the presence of Naba Kishore Das, Minister Health and Family Welfare Govt. Of Odisha, Dr. Achyuta Samanta, Founder, KIIT, KISS & KIMS.

During his visit, the CM undertook a trip around the KIMS campus on a battery-operated vehicle and appreciated the new facilities. The CM appraised the patient-friendly initiatives that have been developed in KIMS.

Today, KIMS has expanded its infrastructure with 1600 beds fully air conditioned hospital for general public and economically weaker section people. The modern complexes will offer the most advanced healthcare services to patients coming from Odisha and neighbouring states such as West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand.

The addition of the new facilities will give a major boost to the quality healthcare services in affordable price, set new benchmarks and strengthen KIMS commitment to offering the best treatment for all ailments in Odisha itself.

The 300-bed Super Speciality Hospital will have 12 Super Speciality departments. They are Cardiology; Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Surgery (CTVS); Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Surgical Gastroenterology; Nephrology and Kidney Transplant; Urology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Endocrinology, Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology; Orthopaedics and Spinal Surgery and Plastic Surgery.

The 300-bed Cancer centre will be headed by acclaimed radiation oncologist Prof Bidhu Kalyan Mohanti. The Centre will immensely help the people from Odisha and outside with five distinct Super Speciality Departments, namely, Medical Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Oncology and Palliative Care.

It is the only centre to possess some high-end medical equipment in Odisha. The hospital has pioneered complex procedures to aid in faster patient recovery and has been recognised for its services by premier ranking agencies in India and abroad. Most of the departments are headed by acclaimed doctors and Padma awardees, established names who command awe and respect in equal measures. Evidently so, it has become the first choice for countless people in Eastern India.

Among others Smt. Saswati Bal, President, KIIT & KISS; R. N. Dash, Secretary, KIIT & KISS, Prof. Subrat Acharya, Pro-Chancellor, KIIT DU; Prof. Sasmita Samanta, VC, KIIT DU; Prof Dr. CBK Mohanty, Pro-Vice Chancellor;  Padma Shri Prof Dr Y.K. Chawla ; Prof Bidhu Kalyan Mohanti; Prof Ramnath Misra; Prof Anil Chandra Anand; Prof (Brig) Dr Ambika Prasad Mohanty, Prof. Ram Chandra Das; Prof (Brig) Dr Sudhanshu Kumar Rath; Prof Dr Narendra Kumar Das and Prof.  Dr. Hemant Kar were also present on the occasion.