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Here is a display font, based on a 3x3 modulo, and inspired on the mechanism of a knee. ROTULA allthough is a display font, was made a 8 points legibility, comments and critiques please. CG
I found that there is an interesting background you made for this font. I like it. Also you can see it just like molecule things. Have you set the kerning yet? Cause it seems a bit hard to read when you set the text sample above, though it is a display font. Like the ‘L I’ that can be misreading to ‘U’. Well that’s it for this time. I’ll make more suggestions next time. I’ll just wait for the other to critique. Great! Keep up the good work! +ep+
This is really very pretty. The colors, the bones, everything. The strong grid constraint seems to be getting you in the case of some letters, and this type of thing has been done before, but maybe not as tastefully. I think this design will be popular — you might even make some money from it! hhp
BTW, you might try selling exclusive rights to this design to Tech-TV* or Cingular**. You’d need to write a nice dry piece of snailmail, and send it to the right people, like maybe the creative directors? * http://www.techtv.com/techtv/index.html/ ** http://www.cingular.com/ hhp
Sorry Hrant in order to do everything right, and excusing my english, ¿what is a snailmail====???? thanks a lot CG
Regular ground mail (like on paper, in an envelope, with a stamp, etc.) — as opposed to email. hhp
I have to say I like the patterns more than the type itself. There’s an elegance in the patterns that doesn’t come through in the glyphs themselves… Maybe that’s the juxtaposition you’re going for?
i think that the ﬁnal result doesn’t show an important aspect of rotation, that is movement. i say it because the ﬁnal result of many of the typos are too ortogonal. i like more the J,G,V.
It took me a moment of thought to recognize the dollar sign. My eye just saw xx and I had to examine the symbol closely to ﬁgure out the intended paths. Perhaps a vertical stroke would be preferable.
If it were modeled after the internals of my knees, it’d be a grunge font. :-)
Nice. Shows some originality. Some letters I like more than the rest. Is that thing between the N and the O an
Hi Huasamaco, Nice display font, i like this idea but i am agree with alejandro soﬃa. see ya in the msn, mh


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I wonder how this will stack up against the Sigma 50/1.4, which I hear is of superior design to the current Canon 50/1.4. The Sigma has a 77mm filter and is a BIG chunk of glass - I wonder if the new Canon 50/1.4 will be as big.
It should have no trouble beating the Sigma, since the existing 50mm f/1.4 beats the Sigma on FF cameras, but is better on crop cameras.http://www.photozone.de/canon-eos/522-sigma50f14eosff
The new Sigma AF 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM showed pretty impressive results in our APS-C review. However, it's not quite as convincing on full format cameras. The center quality of the lens is certainly fine and even great from f/2 onwards. Unfortunately the border & corner performance is rather disappointing. It's downright soft at large apertures and never really better than good even at the very best setting (f/8). The amount of vignetting is quite heavy at f/1.4 but that's rather typical for such lenses. If you stop down to f/2.8 this will not be a real issue anymore though. The lens produces moderate barrel distortions which is a tad more than the standard in this lens class. Lateral CAs are very well controlled and not really field relevant. The bokeh is quite decent although not perfect either.
A real highlight of the lens is certainly its build quality. Unlike most 50mm f/1.4 it features a metal body and a good focus ring. The HSM AF drive is very fast and virtually silent. Unfortunately the lens suffers from residual spherical aberrations (focus shifts) when stopping down so accurate focusing can be tricky.


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Fungi play a dominant role in terrestrial environments where they thrive in symbiotic associations with plants and animals and are integral to nutrient cycling in diverse ecosystems. Everywhere that moisture and a carbon source coexist in the terrestrial biosphere, fungi are expected to occur. We know that fungi can be devastating to agricultural crops, both in the field and during their storage, and cause mortality in immunocompromised patients in numbers that rival the deaths from malaria. Yet fungi can also be harnessed as sources of food, chemicals and biofuels when humans exploit fungal metabolism. Despite their central role in the health and disease of the terrestrial biosphere, much less is known about the function and potential of marine fungi. Are fungi ubiquitous in marine environments as they are on land? Do they play the same or similar roles in these ecosystems? Here we describe the state of knowledge about the abundance and functions of fungi in the marine environment with a goal to stimulate new inquiry in this very open area.
Fungi in the ocean
Although you will not find them on restaurant menus or on the album covers of psychedelic rock bands, marine fungi do exist. In fact, they exist in every marine habitat where researchers have bothered to look: from hydrothermal vents, subsurface deep-sea sediments, and arctic ice, to surface waters, salt marshes and sandy beaches at low tide (Figure 1). Marine fungi are especially adept at living on or inside other living things like algae, corals, sponges and even other fungi. Even primary producers like dinoflagellates and diatoms are commonly infected by marine fungi, a dynamic that might play an important role in global carbon cycles. Although few researchers have tried to quantify their actual biomass, it seems that this can even exceed that of bacteria, particularly in habitats rich in organic carbon.
Given their widespread distribution and abundance, it may be surprising that marine fungi receive considerably less attention than either their terrestrial counterparts or other marine microbes. However, marine fungi are easily overlooked. Only a handful, so far as we are aware, form anything remotely resembling the conspicuous fruiting bodies, like mushrooms, in their natural habitat. Throughout the twentieth century, a handful of pioneering researchers used time-consuming culturing techniques to characterize marine fungal diversity, although inherent biases in this process greatly limited the assessment of their true diversity. In particular, obligate biotrophs and unculturable so-called ‘early diverging lineages’ were just not detected.
Challenges to assessing fungal diversity in the marine environment
Paradoxically, most major fungal groups diversified long before their plant and animal counterparts invaded land, yet there are only about 1,000 or so described species that are largely derived from terrestrial ancestors. Although it is thought that potentially as few as 1% of marine fungi have been identified, what we do know thus far is, in large part, because of the pioneering work by Jan, Erika and Brigitte Kohlmeyer, who identified over 150 new species and 50 genera of marine fungi through the arduous work of collecting in diverse habitats around the world. They painstakingly developed methods and preserved 25,000 specimens along with field notes in the New York Botanical Garden herbarium, which remains today a vast resource for understanding marine fungal biodiversity. In today’s world, there is vanishing support for such classic collection endeavors, which have been replaced by more high-tech and high-throughput identification methods.
It wasn’t until the advent of DNA-sequencing technology that the extensive diversity of marine fungi began to be appreciated. But large-scale DNA-sequencing projects are not the panacea that marine mycologists once hoped for. Although a handful of high-profile ocean expeditions (for example, the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition, the International Census of Marine Microbes, and the Tara Ocean Expeditions) have provided an impressively broad molecular sampling of marine microbes, their methods tend to exclude or minimize fungal identification. Because the typical bacterium is roughly an order of magnitude smaller than the typical fungal spore (and smaller still than the typical hypha), size fractionation achieved by ‘pre-filters’ excludes fungi before nucleic acids are even extracted. Primer bias is also problematic: so called ‘general’ eukaryotic primers miss much of fungal phylogenetic diversity, and even the most ‘fungal-specific’ primers tend to co-amplify zooplankton and other invertebrates that collect on filters and swamp out fungal data. Shotgun-sequencing approaches, which mitigate priming biases, nevertheless tend to overlook fungi, which are underrepresented in reference databases. In addition to the comparatively limited collection effort, the relative low abundance of fungal DNA (as compared to bacteria) and the tendency for fungi to be patchy in space and time have frustrated large-scale assessments of diversity and distribution of marine fungi.
Discovering new marine fungi
Despite these difficulties, researchers continue to make progress towards uncovering marine fungal diversity by exploring new habitats and leveraging modern techniques. Although global biodiversity hotspots such as the coral triangle or ‘unexplored’ regions of our deep ocean trenches and subsurface surely harbor exciting and unanticipated surprises, DNA metabarcoding shows that numerous undescribed marine fungi exist even in the most accessible habitats, such as the near coastal surface waters and sediments. The pioneering work of the Kohlmeyers preceded similar cultivation efforts around the world, and innumerable cultures abound in freezers and slants at universities and research institutes, including popular repositories like the Westerdyk Institute, the American Type Culture Collection, or the marine culture collection at Geomar. Many of these efforts have been buoyed by funding to search for novel natural products. To date there has been little effort to coordinate these living collections, much less interrogate them systematically for novel species. Lamentably, very few isolates from the Kohlmeyers’ collections, nor other large marine fungal collections, are linked to publically available DNA-sequence data.
Although isolation into pure culture remains the gold standard for discovery and description of new marine fungi, novel methods in imaging and genome sequencing might be an expedient way to infer something about the lifestyles, ecological roles, and evolutionary history of newly discovered fungal taxa. For example, the use of fluorescent stains and clade-specific DNA probes have been used to visualize and describe the size, flagellation, host association, and cell-wall composition of members of Cryptomycota, a phylum that is common in aquatic habitats but which lacked cultivated isolates. Such imaging techniques, coupled with advances in microfluidics and flow cytometry, make it possible to isolate single targeted cells from a natural environment, subject them to various physiochemical conditions, and sequence their expressed genes or even entire genomes. Such strategies may be essential for understanding the functions of 99% of undocumented marine diversity, much of which is composed of as-yet unculturable species.
Fungal contributions to the marine environment
In the transition zones of salt marshes and mangrove swamps, the functions of marine fungi are likely quite similar to those of their counterparts in terrestrial ecosystems: establishing symbioses with flowering plants, playing key roles in nutrient cycling and degradation of cellulose materials. The functions of fungi in the deep sea, the water column, in coral reefs and within plankton communities is less well established; however, there is evidence of fungal activity throughout these diverse regions of the marine environment.
Pathological associations are easiest to identify, and fungal infection has been associated with disease in macroalgae, coral, crustaceans and even marine mammals. Around the world, fungi have been blamed for coral death in reefs that are likely already stressed. In the case of coral, knowledge of mycobiome composition and function is limited, although it is clear that fungi associate with healthy reefs, reside in the calcium skeleton, and likely decompose senescent rubble. Fungal pathogenesis of phytoplankton is well established in freshwater where infection is thought to be critical for nutrient cycling. The extent of marine fungal pathology of phytoplankton is less established in salt water; however, evidence is mounting from direct microscopic observations (Figure 2) and intriguing spatial and temporal correlations that population cycles may be synchronized in several ocean contexts. These dynamics could ultimately be central to reallocating atmospheric carbon to sediments and might implicate marine fungi as a critical player in ocean carbon sequestration. There is also evidence of fungal activity in the sediments of the deep sea, where they may play a similar role in nutrient cycling as in terrestrial environments. As assays for activity become more sensitive and it becomes clear how to identify fungal-rich habitats, functional roles of fungi in marine environments as well as global geochemistry cycles should become more evident.
Adaptations required to survive in the marine ecosystem
Aquatic and marine fungi face substantial challenges compared to their terrestrial counterparts. Namely, they must tolerate high salinity, exposure to ultraviolet light, limited access to substrates for growth, and in some cases substantial hydrostatic pressure. Furthermore, being in water brings distinct dispersal challenges.
The most obvious stressor in the oceans is the high salinity leading to osmotic and ionic stress. At ∼0.6 M NaCl, seawater might conceivably halt the growth of most fungi, which have rigid cell walls and grow and divide under substantial turgor pressure. However, marine fungi are not typically halophilic; although some can tolerate very high salinity, they do not show a preference for it, and similarly, most non-marine fungi can grow to some degree in near-seawater concentrations of salt. How do fungi control turgor in a hypertonic environment? The answer seems in part tied to a conserved pathway known as the high-osmolarity-glycerol signaling pathway that upregulates salt efflux pumps and creates osmolytes compatible with cellular functions. Another factor may be that fungi evolved for growth at high environmental osmolyte concentrations because they grow within their food and compete for uptake of sugars and other osmolytes generated by enzyme activity.
Life in the sea requires additional adaptations, in addition to a tolerance for salinity. High ultraviolet exposure may explain the prevalence of so-called black yeasts in marine environments that produce high levels of melanin in saline conditions. Gels and slimes are produced by wood-decaying marine fungi that may be involved in retaining secreted enzymes at the substratum. Another obvious adaptation for dispersing in an aquatic environment is the presence of a flagellum; indeed, that may account for the abundance of flagellated fungi (chytrids and cryptomycetes) in some aquatic ecosystems. However, the efficiency of the flagellum may be debated in coastal ecosystems where tidal forces should provide a much greater movement. In these habitats, marine Ascomycota and Basidiomycota are known to have spore adaptations, such as extensive appendages that keep them in the water column longer (Figure 2B). Finally, extreme hydrostatic pressures found in the deep ocean require adaptations at the transcriptional or protein-coding level, as proteins are less stable and membranes less fluid. Interestingly, relatives of the human pathogen Candida albicans (which changes morphology in response to a host) change shape in response to hydrostatic pressure, indicating that not only are fungi tolerating extreme pressure, they are reacting and using this cue for cell-fate decision making.
Are marine fungi amphibious?
These intense environmental parameters raise an important, and at this point unresolved, conundrum about the origin of marine fungi and the possibility that some fungi are truly amphibious. One of the most unusual characteristics of marine fungi is that many of the same families, even some of the same species, are found both above and below the high tide line. This is particularly true of members of the Dikarya (Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes), which are well characterized from habitats like soils and plants. Transitioning from land to a habitat such as a deep sea sediment requires tremendous physiological dexterity given the above-mentioned factors. Remarkably, fungi appear to have made such transitions repeatedly, and phylogenetic analysis shows that many marine fungi, even the most abundant or common, are nested within lineages known from terrestrial habitats.
An easy explanation for the high overlap in species between land and sea is the physiology of fungal spores, which can be produced in high numbers and are easily dispersed. If a spore originated on land and was somehow blown or washed into the ocean, its DNA would be detectable, regardless of whether or not it was still viable or metabolically active. By analogy, we should not consider Velella jellyfish (by-the-wind-sailors) amphibious, even though they regularly wash up on the beach. So, it is only fair to consider fungi as ‘marine’ if they are able to perform some of life’s basic necessities (for example, forage for food, grow, manufacture proteins, reproduce) whilst underwater. By way of example, let’s consider one of the most common apparently amphibious species, Malassezia restricta, which is found in habitats as wide ranging as hydrothermal vents, corals, Antarctic soils and human skin. Is it really alive underwater?
Presumably, Malassezia, and other fungi with comparable distributions, must be innately tolerant of a range of environmental conditions that few other organisms can match in order to survive on both land and in sea. In the case of Malassezia, multiple lines of evidence indicate that this is the case: a high abundance and prevalence of DNA (including from locations thousands of kilometers from a shoreline) indicates likely reproduction, putatively novel diversity indicates evolution, and detection of RNA transcripts involved in basic ‘housekeeping’ functions suggest that Malassezia in the ocean are alive and active. Although other species have received less scrutiny, available evidence suggests that marine fungi, on the whole, are actual contributing members of their aquatic ecosystems. Several studies have shown that marine fungi are partitioned by habitat, by environmental variables like temperature, salinity, and oxygen, and by nutrient levels such as dissolved inorganic carbon and sulfide, indicating that fungi are responsive to their environment. In a global study of marine fungi, proximity to land did not predict which fungi would be present, suggesting that terrestrial input is not a major component of marine fungal diversity.
Applications of marine fungi
The potential applications of marine fungi are vast, and their utility may pave a way forward for increased interest and funding in the field. The greatest effort in applied marine fungal research relates to the discovery and isolation of novel natural products, including secondary metabolites with antibacterial and anticancer properties. Although published research has focused primarily on a handful of readily cultivated ascomycetes such as Aspergillus, Penicillium and Fusarium, novel phylogenetic targets from a greater diversity of hosts and habitats are increasing steadily as is the discovery of new compounds. Future collaborations between marine fungal ecologists, evolutionary biologists and natural-product chemists may be a fruitful endeavor for all involved.
Considerably less studied are the potential roles that fungi might play in buffering the impacts of the anthropocene. Fungi are highly abundant in keystone marine species such as reef-building corals and sponges. Aside from their comparatively well-documented role in pathology, the functional roles of most of these symbionts are unknown. Nevertheless, coral microbiome compositions, including fungi, are impacted by, and likely impact, bleaching as a response to warming ocean temperatures. Studies involving experimental evolution and probiotic microbial transplants are seen as one of the last hopes for thermo-susceptible coral species. Might fungi be the help these animals need?
If fungi have a superpower, it is their ability to degrade and metabolize recalcitrant polymers. Fungi, as a matter of fact, were the first organisms to degrade lignin: leading to a period of rapid diversification and reallocation of global carbon. Might marine fungi have another trick up their sleeves? Fungi are effective at metabolizing hydrocarbons, and can be used in bioremediation of contaminated sites following oil or petroleum spills. Even without active management, fungi quickly dominated sediments in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Evidence suggests that some fungi even degrade plastics such as polyurethane. In fact, the ‘plastisphere’ is a large and growing habitat in the ocean, whose associated microbial diversity — and its potential role in plastic removal — is vast and little explored. A marine fungal solution to marine plastics has not yet been discovered, but plastic-eating species almost certainly exist in our oceans. It is therefore possible that the powers of this microbial community could potentially be engineered to degrade the Great Pacific garbage patch. We can only hope that if humans are unable to solve this environmental crisis on our own, fungi might eventually evolve to do it for us.
Leveraging single-cell genomics to expand the fungal tree of life.
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Not since Dean Winchester have I wanted to smack and hug - but mostly hug - a character as often as I did Jimmy Dorset.
Jimmy is a drifter. He's been on his own since he was 14 and being kicked out of the home was probably the best thing that happened to him up to that point. His mother never cared much for him, his half-brothers bullied him, his mother's string of boyfriends barely gave him any notice, and he never knew his father's name. He had a crappy upbringing and an even crappier adulthood. He's convinced himself he doesn't need anything other than the clothes on his back. He doesn't need attachments, he doesn't need affection and he sure as hell doesn't need hope. For nearly thirty years, he moves from town to town, barely staying in one place for more than a few days. He's a ghost in his own existence, surviving one day at a time. Then one day he picks up an old hitchhiker named Tom and everything changes.
Shane has his own past and issues to deal with. He was in a car accident several years back that nearly ended his life and left him battered and broken. Every move is a pain, he has trouble remembering the simplest things, he has seizures, and he has a three-week gap in his memory surrounding the accident. He doesn't let that hold him back. He takes his opportunities where he can get them, and he has an easiness about him that even the skittish Jimmy can't resist.
This is a slow-paced book, and it needs to be. As a reader, you get to see inside Jimmy's head and experience his evolution as he comes to Rattlesnake and slowly falls in love with the town and its charming bartender. You see all the ways he plans to leave the next day, and all the ways he starts making excuses to stay on just one more day.
I wanted this book to last forever, but since it couldn't I'll smile fondly whenever I think of Jimmy Dorset and Shane Little and imagine how their life continues after the last page ends.


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Omar has more twist than turns in her marriage relationships. It was confusing to read from different news sources of the events leading up to what she claimed to have fully explained her situation and has refused to talk about it any longer. But these reporters from different news sites are telling me, “There’s Something Rotten in Denmark”. Mostly from what I have read, I have been confused about her Marriage timelines they just don’t make sense. She's being Deceitful:
- Marriage 1st. Husband - Ahmed Nur Said Elmi 2009 - 2017; and has been reported to be her Brother !!!
- Marriage #2 - Ahmed Hirsi - Married in 2018, but is the father of her 16 year old child. ( Now I'm hearing she has 2 other siblings) = 3 - More confusion;
From many of the articles I’ve read, here’s a summary of her marriage timelines. Also, I would think that Shria Law forbids marriage between brother & sister. Maybe she is Moslem in appearance only. Her perspective of her marriage events points her finger at reporters as being Islamophobic in her viewpoint.
Clarification: Thank Goodness,
The Star Tribune, Minnesota’s largest newspaper, broke down Omar’s marriage history once its gained more Facts:
- Omar married Hirsi in a religious ceremony in 2002, but the couple never legally wed.
- She and Hirsi split in 2008, citing that the couple had met an “impasse in [their] life together.”
- The congresswoman legally married Elmi in 2009. The couple split in 2011, but did not legally divorce until 2017.
- In 2012, Omar reconnects with Hirsi and the couple have their third child.
- Omar legally married Hirsi in 2018.
** The Minnesota Campaign Finance Board found that Omar had filed joint-taxes with Hirsi in 2014-2015, though the two were not legally married.
* In 2016, a small Minnesota outlet, Alpha News, put together a report that alleged that Omar and Elmi were siblings and had only gotten married to game the immigration system.
The report struggled to gain mainstream traction in the state, as reporter David Steinberg explained.
The Alpha News report cited social media reports where Elmi and Omar appeared to be siblings, rather than spouses, including one post from 2012 congratulating Hirsi and Omar on the birth of their third child, who Elim referred to as his “nieces.”
Overall, Folks from Minnesota may be more proud of the “My Pillow Guy” than Ilan Omar. But I could be wrong...Minnesotans voted for her.

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Tropical Storm In-fa was becoming an extra-tropical storm as it tracked toward the island of Iwo To, Japan in the western North Pacific Ocean. NASA's Terra satellite captured an infrared image of the small storm that is battling ...
Tropical Cyclone Annabelle ran into adverse atmospheric and oceanic conditions and was fading quickly on Nov. 24. But the day before, NASA's RapidScat instrument saw some dying bursts of wind from the weakening Southern Indian ...
NASA's Terra satellite flew over Typhoon In-fa on Nov. 23 and imagery showed the storm had become elongated to the northeast.
NOAA's GOES-West satellite provided images of the birth of the latest tropical depression in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Tropical Depression 21E formed well southwest of the Coast of Mexico.
Yemen's Socotra Island just endured Cyclone Chapala and just a week later is facing a second tropical cyclone: Megh. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Megh and captured data on the strengthening storm on Nov., 6.
Typhoon Champi appeared to be the victim of vertical wind shear in infrared imagery from NASA's Terra satellite. Champi has become elongated while moving through the western North Pacific Ocean and is expected to become extra-tropical ...
The Global Precipitation Measurement mission, or GPM, core satellite is getting a workout in the western North Pacific Ocean as it gathered rainfall and cloud height data on Typhoon Champi.
Tropical Storm 02P developed about 300 miles away from Fiji as NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured a visible image of the storm.
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite spotted Tropical Storm Champi dealing with wind shear in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. A Tropical Storm Warning is currently in effect for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
An infrared satellite image of Tropical Depression Nora taken early on October 15 showed the storm was still holding together south of Hawaii, despite strong wind shear.


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What Stress and Anxiety do to the Brain Over Time
This survival response is helpful and necessary when we encounter a real threat, but in excess, can cause long-term damage to our bodies. The effects of chronic stress have been linked to a weakened immune system, weight gain, and heart disease, among other issues.
But new research is finding a possible correlation between prolonged stress and anxiety, and structural degeneration of the hippocampus and impaired functioning of the prefrontal cortex. This means that the wear and tear caused to the brain by chronic stress or anxiety could be tied to an increased risk of depression and dementia.
The good news is that some of the damage incurred from chronic stress and anxiety is “not completely irreversible,” according to some experts. It was long believed that once a brain lost volume, it was gone forever, but we now know that’s not entirely true. Our brains are plastic, meaning they’re capable of change. This plasticity allows our brains some degree of regrowth and regeneration.
The best way, however, to protect your brain and body from the effects of chronic stress and anxiety is to find a way to manage it before it begins to affect your health. Luckily, there are many different treatment options for these conditions.

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Nanomaterials based electron sources are omnipresent in modern flat panel displays. Multi walled carbon nanotubes (MWNT) are the well studied electron emitter among the carbon materials. Since the surface modification of MWNT with low work function materials would have a positive impact on the field emission property of MWNT, cerium oxide (CeO2,nanoparticles dispersed multi walled carbon nanotubes (CeO2/MWNT) were synthesized by catalytic chemical vapour deposition followed by chemical reduction and its field emission property was investigated. The high-purity MWNT as well as CeO2/MWNT showed crystalline structure conformed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Further characterisation was done with Raman spectroscopy, UV-Visible absorption spectra and Fourier transform IR spectroscopy (FT-IR). The morphology and structural details of CeO2/MWNT composite was probed by field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) and energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX). The direct evidence of the formation of CeO2/MWNT composites was given by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The synthesized sample was coated over a flexible carbon paper using spin coating technique. The experiment was performed under a vacuum of 1×10?6 Torr and Fowler-Nordheim equation was used to analyse the data. The turn-on voltage for the cerium oxide dispersed MWNT was found for a current density of 10μA/cm2. The emission current density from the CeO2 nanoparticles dispersed MWNT reached 0.2 mA/cm2 at a reasonable bias field of 2.58 V/μm. The results were compared with those of pure MWNT and pure CeO2 nanoparticles with literature values. Copyright © 2012 American Scientific Publishers.


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Former MP and Congress leader Ponnam Prabhakar alleged that several irregularities were taking place in the Telangana voter list, and said that he had already taken the issue to the notice of the Election Commission several times.
Ponnam said while there were 15,50,834 voters in the Karimnagar Parliamentary constituency in 2014, the number had now come down to to 13,23,433. He said that the names of over 2.20 lakh voters were thus missing from the electoral rolls in the Karimnagar Parliamentary constituency alone, and asked the Election Commission who would take the responsibility for it.
Speaking to the media on Tuesday at Gandhi Bhavan, Ponnam that said that the names of more 90,000 voters were missing in the Karimnagar Assembly constituency. The situation was the same everywhere across the state, he claimed, and demanded that the Election Commission respond seriously on the issue.
Ponnam also found fault with the state government for not providing buses to the candidates appearing for the VRO examination. The former MP pointed out that the same government had provided lakhs of buses for the public meeting at Kongara Kalan. Some VRO examination invigilators had also insulted women by making them remove their mangala sutras at several places, he said. He asked the government to initiate action against the officials who had done that.

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ARIU hosted a Rare Disease Conference 2023
Mkhitar Gosh Armenian-Russian International University recently hosted a "Rare Disease Conference 2023", which was attended by medical professionals and experts from various parts of the world. The conference was aimed at providing a platform for in-depth discussions on rare diseases and their impact on individuals and society.
Rare diseases are medical conditions that affect a small number of people, typically fewer than a million worldwide. Despite their rarity, these diseases can be devastating for individuals and families who are affected by them. Research into the prevention, cure, and treatment of rare diseases is essential, but it can be challenging due to their low prevalence and complexity.
The conference was inaugurated by Dr. Faizan Balawala, Director & Rector of ARIU, along with Dr. Yana Troynich, Vice Chancellor of ARIU. The event featured presentations from the Vice-Chancellor, professors, and students of ARIU, who shared their insights and knowledge on rare diseases across the world.
The conference emphasized the need for increased awareness, research, and collaboration in the field of rare diseases to improve the quality of life of those affected by them. The event also provided an opportunity for networking and exchanging ideas among medical professionals and experts from different parts of the world.
Overall, the Rare Disease Conference 2023 at Mkhitar Gosh Armenian-Russian International University was a significant step towards advancing research, increasing awareness, and improving the lives of those affected by rare diseases.

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Endless Legend Factions[postad]
Endless Legends features many different factions. The interesting thing here is that a lot of these factions have unique affinities and traits that require you to completely change your strategies and tactics.
Do not expect a few unique units or building but expect completely different ways to play Endless Legend.
A very traditional faction. Starts with ranged archer units. The starting techs are Seed storage (food) and Sewer system (approval). Their unique traits are related to forests. You will gain +1 production on forest tiles. Later in the game you can research a 25% defence bonus on forest tiles. Their affinity allows them to detect enemy empires within and around your borders.
This faction is all about dust (gold). Due to their affinity the Broken Lords cannot gather food, so their city’s can’t grow. Instead they use dust to purchase population. Their armies have no health regeneration, instead they can be healed by spending dust. They start with the Advanced armor technology unlocked. Broken Lords get additional dust on terrain that already has dust.
The Necrophages are a very unique but aggressive faction. Their affinity provides them with cadavers for each unit killed. For every 8 cadavers you will be granted a resource stockpile (resource boost that can be applied to your cities). They cannot have peace, alliances, diplomatic technologies or trade techs. “One does not debate with one’s next meal”. They gain an attack bonus for each war they are fighting. On the city side you will notice -1 food per tile. However they gain +2 food per worker for each pacified village. So this bonus can become huge.
Adrent mages are a traditional faction with a twist. Their affinity allows them to use magic in two ways. First of all booster pillars can be purchased with dust. At the start of the game these pillars will provide +1 science per tile. With techs this can be increased. Furtheremore you will be able to unlock dust, culture and food boosting pillars.
Secondly they can use spells (at cost of dust) during combat. For example heal, stun, damage, etc. This will require you to manually resolve combat.
The Vaulters select one strategic resource as “holy” every 20 turns. This resource will act as a booster to the empire (e.g. +20% science, dust, production, food, etc). During winter you will gather the selected “holy” resource at a 200% rate. The holy resource also allows them to instantly teleport armies between cities. Furthermore selecting a holy resource lowers expansion disapproval (unhappiness) by 50%(!). Their unique techs are related to buildings that boost your cities but cost “holy ” resources to construct.
Read more about the vaulters in the Endless Legends Guide – The Vaulters.
The Roving Clans are an extremely mobile faction. Their affinity allows them to relocate cities at will. Basically this means your entire city (including all its buildings) gets packed up on a giant beetle. Now you can move it and deploy it somewhere else you like. Their military units tend to have a lot of movement points.
Besides their mobility the Roving Clans are all about trade. For example they will recover 8% of all dust that OTHER empires spend on the market place. They can also ban other empires from using the market place at all. Furthermore they can start commercial and research agreements for free.
Keep in mind that they cannot declare war (!).
The Drakken are masters of statecraft. Their affinity allows them to force truce, peace or even an alliance on targetted empires. Their trait allow them to view the starting locations of all other empires. They can also unlock empire plans 1 tier earlier and gain additional science and culture from ruins.
Their starter military units have a lot of health and defence but little attack. Because armies are measured in hitpoints they always appear strong.
The Cultists affinity disables the production of settlers. Meaning that you can only have one city. To compensate for this disadvantage you can gain level 3 districts that have increased tech boosts. Thanks to your traits there is another way to grow. You can convert villages at a cost of culture. After conversion the tiles around the village will provide their income to your capitol (!). Furthermore they will regularly spawn a new military unit. These cannot be upgraded but they can be usefull. They can also be sold for dust. Razing another city will provide you with an industry stock pile. You can also research a tech boost from city razing.
Keep in mind that you can develop your own faction based on one of the primary affinities listed above. This will also determine your technology tree and unit types. However you can spend 80 points on customization. You can spend them on starter techs, traits and disadvantages. If you choose disadvantages (such as the inability to declare war) you will gain additional points. Even some mechanics that could be concidered to be faction specific can be chosen. For example the cultist ability to convert villages (40 points) or the Boosting pillars from the Adrent Mages (+3 for each type). Obviously this allows you to create extremely overpowered factions.

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As I had mentioned in our last update, pretty much all of June and July for me were tied up with taking 3 seminary-level classes that are part of my ongoing theological education for Cru, and with attending Cru’s biennial U.S. Staff Conference in Colorado.
For the record, I passed all 3 classes. I probably read over 2000 pages’ worth of textbooks, articles and research papers and listened to at least 30 hours of audio lectures and podcasts. Not a terrible way to spend some focused time learning, but I’m glad it’s done.
Out in Colorado, I attended Cru’s conference where ~5000 staff members from all of Cru’s U.S. ministries gather for training, and to hear from our leadership. We also hear from other ministry leaders on topics related to our ongoing ministry and how to address various issues in our culture with a posture that is both biblical and loving. So overall, it was a full summer of listening, learning and having my thinking challenged and knowledge expanded.
But… the thing I was most personally excited by during our conference was completely unrelated to all of that. During the conference for Cru’s missionary staff, there was another conference called “Getaway” that Cru hosts for the several hundred middle- and high school-aged children of Cru staff members that are there.
The Getaway conference had its own speakers and activities, and it had its own worship team. The worship team was made up of recent college graduates, all of whom have been through the Worship Arts Training weekends we have hosted in Minneapolis over the last dozen years. They had all served in the worship band for the Minneapolis Winter Conferences at various times and have remained connected; now they volunteered to go to Colorado to serve the Getaway event.
I was able to attend some their conference sessions and watch them in action, and I got to spend some time hanging out with them as well. I felt very blessed to see them continuing to serve as worship leaders and servants by ministering to children of the Cru staff. It was really rewarding to know that our team had a small part in their growth. Many of them have been, and will continue to be, people we will engage as volunteers for other worship and outreach projects.
In small ways like this, as well as in larger ways, our heart is to multiply our efforts as we use music to accelerate the work of building God’s kingdom. We’re grateful to God for letting us see it working, and also grateful for the part you play in it as well!
…for our daughters as they go back to college! Rachel (21) starts her senior year at Indiana University this week, and Sarah (19) has already moved back to Purdue University to begin her sophomore year. Jennifer and I can’t believe that we’re already halfway through their college years! Please pray as they get started in their studies this year.

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WASHINGTON — NASA announced on Wednesday that a 12-mile-wide underground lake has been detected near the Martian south pole, leading many in the scientific community to speculate about the possibility of an upcoming underwater level.
“We believe this area will likely feature some kind of breath-holding mechanic,” said Mars Exploration Program Director Alice Hao. “We’re already hard at work maxing out the oxygen meter and all relevant endurance skills for our nation’s astronauts.”
Hao reminded the gathered press that astronauts won’t be playing the level any time soon. Currently, mankind has only completed half of the “Man On Mars” quest chain that unlocks the red planet as a playable world.
“We’ll definitely play it eventually. But it’ll be later in the game, a few years from now,” said Hao. “In the meantime, there are plenty of underwater levels here on Earth that our astronauts can speedrun to prepare for it.”
Though the news of a potential underwater level on Mars has been met with excitement worldwide, many are aware of the potential risks that could come with playing such a traditionally challenging environment on a foreign planet.
“Historically, there’s no shortage of dangerous enemies in underwater levels,” said Gareth Stern, an analyst at the Office of Naval Intelligence. “You’ve typically got sharks, squids, electric eels, cheep cheeps, and jellyfish, all with different swimming patterns. But because this level is on Mars, we really don’t know what to expect. We may find entirely new categories of enemies we haven’t yet encountered in our playthrough. Not to mention we have no idea how to disarm underwater Martian bombs.”
More worrisome still, says Stern, is the potential boss fight that could be awaiting at the end of the level.
“Bosses have never been easy, and underwater it’s no exception. On the other hand though, the defeat of any giant underwater Martian villians will no doubt offer us a huge XP reward, and would be a very worthy adversary to any member of our newly formed Space Force.”
At press time, NASA engineers, complaining of low funds, were preparing their astronauts for the possibility of getting hit by sharp object, causing hundreds of valuable rings to fly off their bodies.


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Are you ready to be the next costume winner for your upcoming Halloween party? Ready to wow your friends with some “spooky” nails? If so, then this Halloween pack is made for you or any nail art enthusiast! Literally, can you say hats, bats, and cats :).
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India and US Agree to Build 6 US Nuclear Reactors in India
India and the United States have reached an agreement to build six new US nuclear reactors across India. Vijay Gokhale, the Indian Foreign Secretary, and Andrea Thompson, the US Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, met on Wednesday, March 13, to finalize the deal.
Various American developers have been pushing for federal approval to manufacture more efficient nuclear reactor models. Developers also want the White House’s assistance in selling nuclear energy internationally.
Among the manufacturers is Westinghouse Electric Corporation, which received the approval to build six AP1000 nuclear reactors in Andhra Pradesh from State Secretary Rick Perry. President Trump has expressed a growing interest in selling more energy resources to India.
International investment in nuclear development in India had sped up since 2005 when the US lifted its prohibition of investment in Indian nuclear energy and signed a nuclear deal with the country. A civil nuclear liability law deterred other countries from investing as the law allowed for unlimited legal recourse to operators for up to 80 years following an accident.
At this time, India is the seventh largest nuclear producer, with 22 operating nuclear reactors. It is also the third biggest buyer of oil and plans to reduce its consumption of fossil fuels. India plans to do so by expanding its nuclear energy sources.
“Perhaps the most important source of energy for India in the coming decades is the nuclear power, given its huge potential for growth, emission-free nature and consistent nature of production,” explained Aniruddh Mohan, a climate and energy policy researcher. “A significant expansion of nuclear power can both enable the connectivity of millions of Indians who currently lack access to the power grid and help it contribute to global efforts to tackle climate change by curbing its total carbon emissions.”
By 2024, India plans to triple its nuclear power in attempts to decrease its consumption of non-renewable resources. India’s NDC, Nationally Determined Contribution, intends to reduce the economy’s carbon emissions by 35 percent by 2030. In the same timeframe, it also wants to increase its reliance on clean energy electricity usage by 40 percent.
Russia has also signed a deal with India to build six nuclear reactors in the country. Leaders of the countries approved of the deal in October of 2018.
“There was a notion in the room that this is very much competition with Russia and China and there are strategic benefits to the U.S. being involved in overseas nuclear programs and there are strategic losses if they aren’t,” commented Seth Grae, president of Lightbridge Corp, an American nuclear energy developer.


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succulent ring: small in bronze for April
Succulents, everyone's favorite indestructible fickle household plant. This floral shaped echeveria succulent was propagated in my office window, then cast in bronze on a sterling silver hammered band.
Size 7 currently but can be resized to fit, with one free alternative sizing.
Shipping this exact piece!
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Nancy and Stephanie explain how you should treat the cracks on your windshield to avoid hurting your wallet!
Nancy: Have you noticed a chip or a small crack in your windshield?
Stephanie: Mm-hmm (affirmative).
Nancy: I know you have one Steph.
Stephanie: But Mom, I know you have one too.
Nancy: You’re not supposed to tell. We’re you thinking to yourself, “Wow, how much is that going to cost for that whole windshield to be replaced?” Or maybe you were thinking of putting off that repair because it’s only a small chip or crack and it’s not blocking my view. Hi, I’m Nancy at Kneble’s Auto Service Center.
Stephanie: And I’m Stephanie. Are you aware that when you get a chip it can possibly lead into a large crack or even spider? Therefore, you’re going to need your whole windshield replaced. Or, dirt can manage to get into the chip-making it unable to be flushed out.
Nancy: I didn’t think of that. I had no idea.
Stephanie: And, even though it’s spring, we’re still getting winter weather-
Nancy: Oh God yes.
Stephanie: … and water can freeze in the chip causing the chip to turn into a crack big enough to yet again, the whole thing’s going to be to replaced.
Nancy: You know what? So a good rule of thumb is, if you have a crack that’s smaller than six inches or a chip that is smaller than a quarter in size or even the three or fewer chips in your windshield, you may only need a minor repair instead of having the whole windshield replaced. Chips clearly show a point of impact. Whereas a crack is a definite line in the glass.
Stephanie: But did you know that the glass is actually made up like a sandwich?
Nancy: Oh, I had no idea.
Stephanie: There are two glass layers and they’re sandwiched between a plastic inner layer and if the damage to your windshield is through the plastic layer, then it’s probably too deep to be repaired. And, if the damage is close to the edge of the windshield, then the structural integrity could be compromised and may again, be unable to be repaired.
Nancy: You know, I never thought of that. That definitely makes sense.
Stephanie: And if damage to the windshield is in the view of a sensor such as a rain sensor-
Nancy: Or how about an automated assistance system sensor?
Stephanie: … then the windshield may not be repaired.
Stephanie: Sensors, they require a clear view to operate properly.
Nancy: Ahh, makes sense. So next time you experience that horrible sound of that rock or stone hitting your windshield and chipping it, have it assessed immediately for what may turn out to be a simple repair instead of having your whole windshield replaced.
Stephanie: Yep. So thank you for watching. Like us on Facebook and share the information with others so they know the importance of not putting off that chip, crack or nick in the windshield.
Nancy: Absolutely, have it assessed immediately.


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Two films that premiered at the world’s most prestigious film festival… and one that raided it.
This week’s viewing tips celebrate the end of this year’s Cannes Film Festival with spotlights on two past highlights available for viewing: Anchoress, Siam Sunset. And then there’s Con Man, which also took part in Cannes (in a manner of speaking):
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Now there’s a simpler way to protect eelgrass and still let dock owners dredge, Newport says
Newport Harbor dock owners who for years have refrained from dredging sediment because of the cost of preserving eelgrass could soon see less mud under their boats.
In December, Newport Beach received a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers and the California Coastal Commission for a program that allows small-scale maintenance dredging under and adjacent to private, public and commercial docks and piers in Newport Harbor. It also allows regulated effects on eelgrass.
Although marine biologists consider the underwater grass with its green, slender blades to have an important role in the development of habitat for marine life in the harbor, protecting the plant has kept many dock owners from dredging under their slips for decades.
Dock owners apply to the city for dredging to be done by a city contractor at the owners’ expense. In 2014, the city received dredging applications from fewer than 10 people among about 1,200 dock owners, according to city data.
The new permit’s arrival wraps up more than a decade of studies led by the city with the goal of simplifying the dredging process by removing some of the costly red tape associated with eelgrass. The permit also allows the use of certain dredge material to replenish some bayfront beaches.
Mayor Diane Dixon called the issuance of the permit a “huge accomplishment” for the city and the harbor.
“It required a collaborative solution among regional, state and federal agencies … to approve this innovative permit, which will allow more small dredging projects to get done on a regular, ongoing basis while effectively protecting eelgrass in a way that’s much less burdensome to residents,” she said.
Every five years, the city applies for a permit from state authorities to allow dredging under boat slips. The permit prevents dock owners from having to perform often-expensive sediment testing in order to dredge, according to city Harbor Resources Manager Chris Miller.
Under the new permit, dredging can be deeper than before — up to 10 feet — and the annual volume of dredging can increase from 20,000 cubic yards of sediment to 75,000, according to harbor officials.
The city’s plan also lessens the requirements for eelgrass replenishment after dredging.
The amount of eelgrass that can be harmed in a specific year will depend on how much is present in the harbor at the time, according to the permit.
The federal government established eelgrass protections in the 1980s after several communities destroyed the plants during dredging projects.
For years under the Southern California Eelgrass Mitigation Plan, Newport Beach dock owners who wanted to dredge would be responsible for replanting eelgrass somewhere in the harbor to make up for the plants they disrupted by moving sediment from beneath their slips.
Dock owners also would be responsible for making sure the eelgrass grow in the new location for up to five years. If it died, an owner would have to plant again.
Hiring a biologist to conduct tests, write reports and plant eelgrass cost some owners tens of thousands of dollars, which dissuaded a lot of people who would normally dredge, according to harbor officials.
Now, dock owners likely will be asked to transplant eelgrass through seed bags or other measures that would not be nearly as costly as previous mitigation efforts, according to city staff.
“This is a real service from the city to those that are faced with the need to dredge,” said Newport Beach Harbor Commissioner Brad Avery.
After listening to concerns from dock owners and residents, city officials in 2003 authorized a survey of eelgrass in the harbor. In the past 10 years, the city has conducted four surveys mapping the locations and amounts of eelgrass.
As of the latest survey in 2014, officials found 90 acres of eelgrass throughout the harbor.

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Welcome to the Bangor Mathematics Web Pages
Mathematics was one of the founding departments when the University
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When the University was reorganised into Colleges in August 2006, what was
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Othello Jealousy Character Analysis
You are pictures out of door, bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens, saints in your injuries, devils being offended, players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds (Shakespeare. Othello. The Moor of Venice. 2. 1, 118-121).
Here, Iago is saying that all women are the same, and they are good for nothing because turn into aggressive for poor reasons. He has also twisted the mind of Othello about his wife having an affair with Cassio to the point where his sternness and mental fortitude is completely broken. Until Othello learns the truth about Iago 's false stories, he completely withdraws any honor that he has once gained by giving his wife, Desdemona, both physical and psychological wounds in front of a variety of people. Iago makes all these characters suffer because he is compensating what he feels on the inside, which is nothing but jealousy. This is known because literally every single motive that Iago with goes is from the sentiment of jealousy. Iago 's ego is so shrouded by his envy that he refuses to even attempt to say anything polite about his own wife, Emilia:
I am about it, but indeed my invention
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But my Muse labors
And thus she is delivered
If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit,
The one’s for use, the other useth it (Shakespeare. Othello, the Moore of Venice. 2. 1, 135-138).
Here, Iago was saying that women will use their good looks to get whatever it is they want making them twisted and evil. Without a doubt, Iago is by far the most tragically jealous character in all of Othello. Iago kills everyone he secretly envies to compensate for the lack of character that resides in him. In fact, his root of jealousy originally comes from his burning love for Desdemona, which in turn had an equal and opposite reaction that turns him into a man of hatred and acrimony. Iago even allows his jealousy to affect him so dramatically that he destroys every form of love, compassion, and sympathy that he ever had, leaving his heart as an empty shell with only the torment of others to temporarily fulfill it. William Shakespeare wrote Othello with a message in mind, that everyone has the potential to fall in some way if they rely too heavily on any specific thing. This also means that he wants others to learn to stay faithful, but not to the extreme that it makes anybody unfaithful in the


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Internal Microsoft documents revealed the terms for certain exclusive Xbox games like STALKER 2, which will be exclusive to Xbox for three months. As part of the internal Xbox documents acquired by The Verge, Microsoft shared a snapshot of newly signed ID@Xbox games including terms of their exclusivity. In these documents, Xbox confirmed that the upcoming STALKER 2 will be an Xbox console exclusive for three months when it is released in Q4 2021. The Gunk will be a permanent Xbox exclusive when it is released in Q3 2021. [widget path=”global/article/imagegallery” parameters=”albumSlug=confirmed-xbox-series-x-games&captions=true”] The other game included in the snapshot was Tetris Effect Connected, an enhanced version of Tetris Effect. The Connected features are exclusive to Xbox for six months. While limited console exclusivity is typical in many cases, the terms of these exclusivity periods are usually not disclosed. Some games can remain a console exclusive for a year or more. Elsewhere in these documents are Microsoft’s plans to cut its share of the revenue on PC games to an 88/12 split. Meaning Microsoft will take just 12 percent of the revenue on PC games starting on August 1. This is the same model as the one Epic has and is considerably less than the standard 30 percent cut taken by Steam. There are details in the document that suggested Microsoft considered lowering its revenue share on consoles as well, but the company has since confirmed there will be no change to the revenue share model for systems like the Xbox Series X. Instead, it will remain 30 percent, just like on other systems like the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation. Microsoft VP of Xbox business development Lori Wright has been called by both Epic and Apple as a third-party witness in the court case between the two companies. Check out our rundown of the first day of the Epic vs. Apple case which we’ll update as the case continues through the coming days and weeks. [poilib element=”accentDivider”] Matt T.M. Kim is IGN’s News Editor.
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G3 Live in TokyoDVD - 2005
A live concert filmed in Tokyo during the 2005 G3 tour with the three featured guitarists for that year being: Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and John Petrucci.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Epic Music Video,
Copyright Date: ℗♭2005
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Characteristics: 1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) :,sound, color ;,4 3/4 in.
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SAIR NECATI FLATS
Ortaköy is a very dense and one of the most problematic districts of Beşiktaş, Istanbul, with a population of around 10.000 people. The inadequate infrastructure, the traffic, mostly and supposedly preserved historical texture that goes as far as the Ancient times causing limitations with unsoluble situations, the attached buildings all along the old river line, the lack of spacey apartments and green areas around makes the district unbearable, however it is very close to the main transportation lines, right under one of the giant columns of Bosphorus Bridge which make it an attractive place to hang around especially for the weekend and nighttime events (which actually affects the residents of the district), and the cosy mediaeval streets that accommodate small cafes and shops, make a big difference to create redundant price ratio of real estates and trading, which can be explained with the pain and joy model of Hinton, shortly and roughly referring to ‘enduring or ignoring the pain with the hope of promised joy’ showing unwillingly the sacrifices that the city dwellers face to face and have to make every day.
In that matter, Şair Necati Apartment is no different from any other urban renewal projects, however, it is a very small one due to the ownership and the contractor, which is actually one of the main problems of this supposedly urban renewal approach. However some cases can be taken into consideration one by one like this, the motto should have been ‘destruct to construct much better-living conditions integrated with the surrounding’. In most practices, it is not the case, as in this one unit building renewal. There are some other elements that make it so, like the historical building on the next parcel which also adds extra limitations for the project to be taken into consideration.
Three stories from the street side, basement floor reveals a small garden facing the Bosphorus Bridge. The entrance floor accommodates a 2+1 flat, first floor two units of 1+1 flat and the second floor two units of 2+1 flats combined with the rooftop. The strategy was to use the rectangular plan at its most efficient way. The facade delivered wide and simple openings accordingly with the functions.
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Scientists using the Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea have found a second star in a remarkably fast orbit around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
The finding, published today in the journal Science, may help astronomers discover if Einstein was right in his fundamental prediction of how black holes warp space and time, said UCLA physicist Andrea Ghez, leader of the discovery team.
The star, known as S0-102, orbits the black hole in 11.5 years, a relative sprint that allows astronomers to study an entire orbit for perturbations that offer clues to the black hole’s structure.
Before this discovery, astronomers knew of only one star near the black hole with a very short orbit: S0-2, which completes a circuit in 16 years. Both are in the constellation Sagittarius.
“I’m extremely pleased to find two stars that orbit our galaxy’s supermassive black hole in much less than a human lifetime,” Ghez said in a statement. “It is the tango of S0-102 and S0-2 that will reveal the true geometry of space and time near a black hole for the first time.”
She has been studying 3,000 stars that orbit the black hole, most of which have orbits of 60 years or longer.
S0-102 has the shortest known orbit.
“The pivotal research by Ghez’s UCLA group using the Keck Observatory has evolved from proving that a supermassive black hole exists in the center of our galaxy to testing the very fundamentals of physics,” said Taft Armandroff, director of the Keck Observatory. “This is truly an exciting time in astronomy.”
Black holes form out of the collapse of matter to such high density that not even light can escape their gravitational pull. They cannot be seen, but their influence on nearby stars is visible and provides a signature, said Ghez.
Leo Meyer, a researcher on Ghez’s team and lead author of the study, said, “Today, Einstein is in every iPhone, because the GPS system would not work without his theory. What we want to find out is, would your phone also work so close to a black hole? The newly discovered star puts us in a position to answer that question in the future.”


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