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Filmmaker Greg Heister Shoots Fox Sports Net's Seasons on the Fly with Panasonic P2

Fly-fishing enthusiasts will recognize Montana’s Smith and Missouri rivers, and Alaska’s Stikine River, Bradfield Canal and Katmai National Park as premier destinations for their sport. Veteran outdoors filmmaker (and fly-fishing guide) Greg Heister recently captured the beauty and drama of fishing these waters with Panasonic’s AG-HPX500 P2 HD camcorder for the second season of Seasons on the Fly, an all-season, documentary-style show that airs on Fox Sports Net (FSN) Northwest.

The Whip-Like Physics of Fly Fishing

Joan Wulff handles a fishing rod with grace and explosive power. In 1960 she set the women’s unofficial world record for distance casting—an astonishing 161 feet. Now the grande dame of fly-fishing at age 81, Wulff has not lost her touch. Standing on the banks of the Beaverkill River near her fabled fishing school in New York’s Catskill Mountains, she raises and points the tip of an 8½-foot rod just over her shoulder, gives a sudden backward snap of the wrist and sends 40 feet of line sailing straight back behind her. As the line hangs in the air, she drops her arm down toward her waist. Then she launches the line forward, depositing a feathery fly silently out on the water exactly where she wanted it. “If you do it right,� Wulff says, “the fly shoots by your head like a bullet.

Leishmaniasis Parasites Evade Death By Exploiting Immune Response To Sand Fly Bites

Cutaneous leishmaniasis, a disease characterized by painful skin ulcers, occurs when the parasite Leishmania major, or a related species, is transmitted to a mammalian host by the bite of an infected sand fly. In a new study from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, scientists have discovered L. major does its damage by not only evading but also by exploiting the body's wound-healing response to sand fly bites, as reported in the August 15 issue of Science.

Leishmaniasis parasites evade death by exploiting the immune response to sand fly bites

Cutaneous leishmaniasis, a disease characterized by painful skin ulcers, occurs when the parasite Leishmania major, or a related species, is transmitted to a mammalian host by the bite of an infected sand fly. In a new study from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, scientists have discovered L. major does its damage by not only evading but also by exploiting the body's wound-healing response to sand fly bites, as reported in the August 15 issue of Science.

Fly's Brain 'Senses Swat Threat'

Researchers in the US say that they have solved the mystery of why flies are so hard to swat. They think the fly's ability to dodge being hit is due to its fast acting brain and an ability to plan ahead.

CRICKET: Aussies fly to Bangalore for Test

The Australians fly to Bangalore on Monday to begin preparations for Thursday's first Test against India but Ricky Ponting's team appear less ready for the task than they would like to be.

Film Review: 'Fly Me to the Moon' Launches in 3-D

At its heart, the new film "Fly Me to the Moon" offers immersive 3-D effects that will likely entertain kids with visions of America's first lunar landing of even if its story falls flat with parents.

People On No-Fly List Can Sue In District Court

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "According to a new ruling, those put on the No-Fly List can challenge their inclusion in federal court. Previously, they had to go directly to an appellate court, which would deprive them of any chance to subpoena documents or witnesses and make gathering evidence difficult or impossible. Knowing the government, they will get around this by creating a 'No-Sue' list and making it even harder to change your name."

NASA chief: Can shuttle fly after 2010?

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said he wants to know if the U.S. space shuttle can fly beyond its planned retirement in 2010, an e-mail shows.

TrueCrypt - Free Opensource on the Fly Disk Encryption Tool

SUSE & OpenSUSE: "TrueCrypt is a free opensource software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume http://newsadmin.linuxtoday.com/(data storage device).

NASA: Shuttle replacement won't fly until 2014

(CNN) -- NASA has put off the planned launch of its next-generation Orion spacecraft for a year, a setback to efforts to fly a successor to its aging space shuttles, the space agency announced Monday.

McAfee Artemis Claims Protection Online, On-the-Fly

Seems like McAfee has created a new Internet-based service to provide active protection on the fly when a PC gets hit by malicious computer code. "[Artemis] is a lot faster than traditional methodologies and it closes the gap between when a piece of malware is written, discovered, analyzed and protected against ... Artemis is available at no charge as part of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise or McAfee Total Protection Service for small and medium-sized businesses. Artemis is also available for McAfee's consumer products, where the functionality is called Active Protection."

Veteran Space Station Crew Ready to Fly

An American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut are preparing to blast off from their home planet Sunday to fly to the International Space Station next week.

Computer game for flies drives robotics forwards

HOW does a fly fly? Exactly how the insects control their flight, using only a few hundred neurons, is a bit of a mystery. But now roboticists are hoping to work out how they do it - using a system that lets fruit flies "drive" a remote-controlled car.

Videogame for flies lets them pilot a robot

HOW does a fly fly? Exactly how the insects control their flight, using only a few hundred neurons, is a bit of a mystery. But now roboticists are hoping to work out how they do it - using a system that lets fruit flies "drive" a remote-controlled car.

Video game for flies may unlock secrets of insect flight

HOW does a fly fly? Exactly how the insects control their flight, using only a few hundred neurons, is a bit of a mystery. But now roboticists are hoping to work out how they do it - using a system that lets fruit flies "drive" a remote-controlled car.

Spacecraft Buzzes By Mercury

Riding with Robots writes "The robotic spacecraft MESSENGER is making its second fly-by of the first planet today, skimming just 200 kilometers above the surface. The fly-by will reveal portions of the planet that have never been seen before, but the main purpose of the maneuver is to prepare for an orbital insertion in 2011. The mission site offers extensive information, along with the first pictures that are already arriving on Earth, with many more expected in the coming hours and days."

Rosetta: rendezvous with an asteroid - Video

Asteroid Steins belongs to the rare, largely unknown intermediate E-class, very bright and probably with a much-weathered surface. Steins' orbit was only known from ground observations, so Rosetta is conducting Europe's first-ever optical tracking campaign, providing highly accurate position data to Flight Dynamics specialists who are planning a series of trajectory corrections for an accurate fly-by. For over a year, Rosetta scientists and leading asteroid experts have been planning this encounter, and all the probe's science instruments will be active at some point in the fly-by. Reception of the first images is expected at the European Space Operations Centre some two hours after the encounter on 5 September 2008.

Hubble servicing mission delayed

7PM UPDATE: NASA just held a teleconference for reporters to discuss the Hubble mission delay. The basic facts we gave you earlier in the day still hold up. The part that has failed is called the Control Unit/Science Data Formatter. There is a replacement part housed at the Goddard Space Flight Center, where Hubble operations are based. The Hubble team will be putting that part through a series of tests to make sure it is operational and ready to fly, and they say they are confident it will pass.  If all goes as planned, Atlantis could be ready to fly by mid-February.

Fly studies reveal immune cell responses to tumor and tissue damage

Study of tumor growth and tissue disruption identifies key components in the immune response to cancers

Fly high robot style

Glider pilots harness upward-moving thermal air currents to keep them aloft for hours, while soaring birds use them to save energy.

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