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Eland originally planned to re-enter Opuama-7 and drill a horizontal sidetrack in the D2000 reservoir. However, the recompletion of well Opuama-3 in 2016 demonstrated that vertical wells could provide high flow rates from the D1000 and D2000 reservoirs. It was therefore decided to abandon well Opuama-7 and drill a near-vertical sidetrack (Opuama-7 ST) a short distance to the north of the original well, in a location where interpretation of seismic data indicated both the D1000 and D2000 reservoirs were present. The initial production rate from the D1000 and D2000 reservoirs was forecast to be about 6,000 bopd gross.
The OES Teamwork drilling rig was used to drill the Opuama-7ST sidetrack. The sidetrack encountered both the D1000 and D2000 reservoirs. Both reservoirs are of excellent quality, although their thickness was lower than forecast due to faulting. However, both reservoirs were encountered at shallower depths than was predicted and structural interpretation indicated the presence of a previously unrecognised structural high immediately to the north of the sidetrack.
Opuama-7 ST was completed in the D2000 reservoir and was brought into production at an initial rate of 7,500 bopd. The potential exists to complete the D1000 reservoir at a future date, helping to maintain production. At a cost of $14.1 million, the payback on the well was 65 days.


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“Hi my name is Abha and I’m a writer,” is what I said when I walked into my first writer group meeting.
Not to sure what I would get from it, I decided to go anyway. I was lacking inspiration and didn’t have anyone to brag to, so thought I’d see how other writers were managing themselves.
It was the best decision I made in a long time. To have access to a group of published and trying-to-get-published writers did great to my moral. I met travel-writers, novelists, comic book writers, news-reporters, script-writers, short-story writers, journalists, just-feel-like-writing-but-haven’t-yet writers, every type really. Young, old, very-old, American, Danish, English, Spanish, African, South African, Canadian – a really interesting multicultural group actually.
We meet once a week at a super cool cafe in the centre of Madrid where we talk, drink, share experiences, get inspiration, share contacts and critic each other’s writing.
When you hear that all the published writers there, write atleast 1000 words a day, it makes you kick yourself and go yikes that’s what I need to do. When I decided to give the group a piece of mine to read, whilst looking through whatever I have written, I didn’t feel comfortable sharing anything, it all seemed like crap. But then I thought:’this is my writing’, let me see what other professionals think – they might rape it, but atleast I will get some feedback I might be able to improve from.
We also get notified on when famous/semi-famous writers are visiting Madrid, and sometimes get discounts on book fairs and other literary events.
So yeah, open the yellow pages and find a writers group, you won’t regret it.

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It’s hard to believe that forty years have passed since Audi introduced the Quattro to the world. The car not only reinforced Audi’s image as a high-quality brand, but drastically changed the scene of the World Rally Championship. Audi first released the Quattro Coupe in 1980 as a roadside rally car homologation and introduced the Quattro to the North American market in 1983.
Audi had planned to build four hundred units for competitive racing only. However, due to high demand, the Quattro entered full production to become one of the most iconic production cars of all time. Indeed, the word “Quattro” sums up the excitement and glamor of 1980s motorsport.
Among the fire-breathing legends of Lancia, Peugeot and Ford, the Audi Quattro offered speed, balance and agility thanks to its all-wheel drive system, which revolutionized rallying forever. Additionally, the Quattro’s phenomenal turbocharged inline-five engine generated the most evocative soundtrack unique to the Quattro with whistles, pops and booms that add drama and excite maniacal viewers.
The Quattro conjured up images of rally legends such as Mikkola, Mouton and Rohrl skillfully dancing the Quattro through the rally stages to victory. Without a doubt, the Quattro has captured the hearts of rally fans around the world.
The Audi Quattro was the first rally car to take advantage of rule changes allowing four-wheel drive in motorsport. As a result, this five-cylinder rally weapon produced many victories in the early years of rallying, wiping out the competition. Most of the victories came in 1982 with a total of seven wins, earning the constructors’ title of the World Rally Championship.
In addition, the shorter-wheelbase Audi Sport Quattro, introduced in 1984, achieved a triple victory that year, winning both the driver’s and manufacturer’s titles. Finally, without forgetting Walter Rohrl who won the most famous hill climb, Pikes Peak, in a record sprint. This time, however, with a specially modified Quattro S1 producing over 600 horsepower.
It’s true to say that there aren’t many road cars that can boast such a rich motorsport history. Indeed, Audi has become synonymous with four-wheel drive technology. Its reputation as a maker of fast, well-built cars was undoubtedly bolstered by the most influential sports car – the Audi Quattro.
Five cylinder magic
Although an all-wheel drive system was not new in the late 1970s, the concept of applying the same technology to road cars was unknown at the time. Under the hood of the original 10-valve Ur-Quattro was a 2.1-liter inline-five turbocharged engine mated to a five-speed transmission.
Developing 197 horsepower and 210 lb-ft of torque, the Quattro sprinted from 0 to 100 km / h in 6.5 seconds and reached a top speed of 140 km / h. Weighing 2,811 pounds, the performance figures back then were impressive as there was nothing quite like it on the scene.
Additionally, the latest cars incorporated a 20-valve unit, which boosted horsepower to 227bhp, making it faster at 60mph in 5.9 seconds. Despite its size, the Quattro had predictable handling and punchy performance, with old school turbo lag, of course! In addition, the rumble of the five-cylinder was mesmerizing and very recognizable.
The Audi Sport Quattro, developed for Group B homologation in 1984, was and remains the extreme version of the Quattro. Weighing only 2,645 pounds, it developed 302 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque. Plus, the massive turbocharger catapulted the car to 60 mph in just 4.4 seconds. Indeed, the most visible change on the Sport Quattro was the reduction of the wheelbase by 12.6 cm. Only 214 were built in total, of which 160 were road cars.
Development of a 1983 Audi Quattro
The angular design of the Audi Quattro remains attractive and determined. Additionally, the slightly pronounced wheel arches gave the car an aggressive stance that separated the Quattro from the standard car. However, the Quattro was constantly updated until 1991 with an improvement in the quality of the interior trim, although exterior changes were kept minimal with an update to the headlights.
The Quattro was generally well built and had a spacious interior. In addition, the equipment was clear and functional. Later cars incorporated the spectacular digital instrumentation display, anti-lock brakes and a stiffer suspension.
Interestingly, at the pre-development stage the rally legend was almost called “Audi Carat”, which was sort of an abbreviation for “Coupe All-Wheel-Drive Turbo”. However, since there was already a fragrance of the same name, Walter Treser, Audi’s project manager in the late 1970s, suggested “Audi Quattro” – a name that would soon become the most well-known all-wheel drive system in the industry. .
Here is what it costs today
Around 11,500 units of the Quattro rolled off the Audi production line in Ingolstadt. Apparently, the Audi Quattro seems to increase in value every year, with the 20-valve version being more desirable. For example, a 1993 Audi ‘Ur-Quattro’ 10v was sold at RM Sothebys at the start of this year for $ 61,600.
On the other hand, a perfect example of a 1991 “Ur-Quattro” 20v recently sold to Silverstone auctions for a record $ 222,829, considered one of the last right-hand drive models to leave the Audi factory. In comparison, the Audi Sport Quattro has been estimated at half a million dollars!
Here is the first official look at the highly anticipated sports car.
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“Men Who Cry At Their Weddings Have Psycho Tendencies” – Nigerian Lady
Controversial Nigerian feminist, Ozzy Etomi has revealed her theory about men who cry at their weddings.
According to her, she believes wholeheartedly that they have tendencies to be psychos.
“I have a theory about men who cry at their weddings.
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The fail is profound.God help us all.
The big black swan just had a cygnet!
And a $38 egg...
For those who are just catching up on FairWinds take on all this, there is a fuel rail laying on its side next to an exposed core. The core is emitting a buttload of gamma rays that are raining back to earth in a thing called skyshine and this makes working around the area lethal. Add to that there is aerosolized radioactive elements from the exposed core AND all that water they are pumping in. Then there is the problem of the radioactive water that is around the reactor in canals and the leakage into the ocean. Add to this clusterflock, there appears to be no staging going on, ie they are not about to fix this problem, because (gulp) anyone who goes near the place other than Marvel's Wolverine, is going to die in a short period of time. And now there is the neutron problem, as if this problem couldn't get any worse.
I don't think spraying Corexit is going to cover up this mess any time soon.
Thank you. We are proud.
And yet, the fail has actually not occurred yet. It looks like it is going to. But it hasn't happened yet. Don't get frozen into inaction by the fear of the future before it has actually happened. Do something now that might change how things turn out.
So any and all workers and visitors to the site may have been "neutroned"... "and how's that ache all over feeling coming along Mr. Prime Minister?"
NHK isn't saying shit about it. In fact, they're talking about people returning home in the exclusion zone.
Also, why wouldn't they be putting borated water in the reactors/SFPs anyway? Are they out? And if there's criticality occurring in the #1 core, how are neutrons escaping confinement? That doesn't sound right to me.
I believe when they attempt to inject water into a reactor's primary cooling system (core, torus, turbine, condenser) it leaks out and ends up in the ocean or flashes to radioactive steam.
The spent fuel pools are hard to hit with hoses, except #4
Best bet is to waterflood all four reactors and turbines, cool everything down, then start pouring concrete.
Start with this,
Spent fuel rod assemblies can take over 18 months to cool down enough to move into permanent storage. I wish it were as simple as pouring water, but a year and a half of radioactive steam sounds like a nightmare.
Though I don't work in the power industry, I have a background in physics; and I've been scratching my head at what can be done to mitigate radiation release. Its clear much will have to be buried, but they might have to dig a hole big enough to bulldoze everything in, might take less time than waiting for everything too cool.
First thing they need to do is work some borax into the mess. It's going to be hard, because the borax needs to be right in the sputtering mess of white hot, near-critical jumbled fuel pellets and radioactive fission-product, cladding, control-rod, oxidized crud.
Bummer. I was hoping to add this to the long list of shit I'd like to forget about while watching Survivor. //Sarcasm off//
Great...because between Tokyo becoming Cancer Central, and the American Treasury market about to reach uncontrolled fission...I did not yet have enough shit to disturb my sleep tonight...Tyler.
Thanks. //sarcasm function offline entirely//
But it ain't so bad if you have first access to freshly printed money. After returning from the desert this weekend on virtually empty freeways (by LA standards), I explained to my wife (she of the 'ha, ha, MERS isn't collapsing chain-of-title, so there') the basic theory of why monetization is so pernicious.
You see, certain parts of PS entertain those who enjoy "first access", as exhibited by differerent direct & indirect fed.gov contractor functions. Then, when you leave the resort(s), you once again enter the world where people who can't afford gas simply stay home, watch TV and drink some beer.
Tongue in cheek, I mentioned that I hope gas goes to $5-6/gal - imagine how empty the roads would be then. Of course, the revolution would kick off beforehand, so alas, I guess I won't get to experience a completely empty freeway.
One last note: in the 'good 'ole days', there would be 200 mile long trains of F350s, boats, sand rigs, RVs, etc returning back to the city. Today, only older retired guys in tricked out RVs, still pulling down whatever pensions are keeping them in the lifestyles to which they have become accustomed. Regular working stiffs don't get to play anymore.
I used to live in Venice and coming back from Gorman was a bitch on Sundays, We would sit on the 405 coming over the supulveda pass for about 2 hours , but it did give us chance to finish all the beers
Celebration of Persian New Year today. Big-time celebration in Balboa Park in S.F. Valley. Maybe kept a few folks off the freeways today.
Do some googling for updates on workers dying in the Gulf Cdad. And then add that to the list. Media's on mum about our situation down south but people cleaning up the Gulf mess are getting sick.. As in very sick. When I re-find the link I'l post it.
Next season: Survivor Japan.
If that happens, I may actually watch the f---in stupid shop for the first time. ;-)
The first person to make a lead tent wins.
Sometimes I'm glad to be old, and this is one of them.
I am glad to have evacuated to Costa Rica several years ago, cannot imagine going back
You and Jim Willie both.
So, if I may ask, are you retired or if not, how do you make a living?
retired on ss, while it lasts
Radioactive elements abound in nature. This article has a list of radioactive elements which are arranged in the order of increasing atomic number along with their decay modes. Before we have a look at the radioactive elements list, let us understand what do we mean by a radioactive element first! That is, we must understand the phenomenon of radioactivity.
Radioactivity arrived on the scene of world physics in the 19th century, just when people thought they knew everything in physics! With its discovery in 1896, radioactivity opened up a Pandora's box of questions and revealed a new world, waiting to be explored in the microcosm of the atomic nucleus.
Let us understand radioactivity and how it led to developments which culminated into the invention of nuclear energy and nuclear bomb! We will also get introduced to certain terms like isotopes and ideas like half life, which will help us understand radioactivity better. Then we will make a list of radioactive elements and study their individual properties.
What is Radioactivity?
Radioactivity is a very interesting phenomenon in nature. Classical Electromagnetism cannot explain radioactivity. It's a spontaneous and random phenomenon whereby nuclei of certain chemical elements like Uranium, radiate gamma rays (high frequency electromagnetic radiation), beta particles (electrons or positrons) and alpha particles (Helium Nuclei).
By the emission of these particles and radiation, the unstable nucleus gets converted into a stabler nucleus. This is called radioactive decay. In the list of radioactive elements, all the elements which undergo decay are listed. Find more information on radioactivity through the articles, 'What is radioactivity?' and meaning of radioactivity decay.
The Term 'Radioactive' - A Misnomer
A radioactive element is a fundamental element whose atomic nuclei demonstrates the phenomenon of radioactivity. The name 'radioactive' may suggest to you that radioactive elements radiate radio waves, but unfortunately that is not so! The name 'radioactivity' is a misnomer because the radioactive elements have nothing to do with radio waves! The reason is that energy and frequency of a gamma ray which is emitted by a radioactive element, is far beyond that of the radio band of electromagnetic spectrum! So, we are just stuck up with the name!
What Makes an Element Radioactive?
To understand radioactivity, we need to explore the structure of an atomic nucleus. Every nucleus contains neutrons as well as protons. Neutrons are neither positively charged, nor negatively charged, they are neutral particles. Protons are positively charged. As you might remember from high school physics, like charges repel each other while unlike charges attract each other. In the nucleus, protons and neutrons are cramped together in a really very small space.
The protons in the nucleus, all being positively charged, repel each other! So if all the protons repel each other, how does the nucleus stay glued together and remain stable? It is because of the 'Nuclear Force'.
This force is more stronger than the electromagnetic force, but the range of this force is only limited to size of the nucleus, unlike electromagnetic force whose range is infinite! This nuclear force acts between the protons and neutrons, irrespective of the charge and its always strongly attractive! However, it has limitations of range! So, in the nucleus, there is a constant tussle between the repelling electromagnetic coulomb force of protons and the attractive strong nuclear force.
In a nucleus like Uranium, which has almost 92 protons, coulomb repulsive force becomes too much for the nuclear force to contain. Subsequently, the nucleus is very unstable and radioactive decay occurs, while Uranium decays into a more stable element. Such an unstable nucleus like Uranium, when gently tapped by a neutron, splits up into two other nuclei through nuclear fission, releasing tremendous amount of energy in the process! This is the principle on which nuclear energy and nuclear weapons are based!
The radioactive elements listed below shows all the decay modes of Uranium. A full explanation of radioactivity can only be given, if we plunge deep into quantum physics and elementary particle physics!
Types of Radioactive Decay
This decay may occur in any of the following three ways:
Alpha Decay: Nucleus emits a helium nuclei (called an Alpha Particle) and gets converted to another nucleus with atomic number lesser by 2 and atomic weight lesser by 4.
Beta Decay: Beta decay could be of two types. Either through emission of an electron or positron (the antiparticle of electron). Electron emission causes an increase in the atomic number by 1, while positron emission causes a decrease in the atomic number by 1.
Gamma Decay: Gamma decay just changes the energy level of the nucleus.
A radioactive element may have more than one decay mode. The list of radioactive elements below will give the decay modes of all radioactive elements.
When two nuclei have the same atomic number, but different atomic weight or mass numbers, then they are said to be isotopes! Isotopes have the same chemical properties but different physical properties! For example, carbon has two isotopes, 6C14 and 6C12. Both have the same atomic number, but different number of neutrons. The one with the two extra neutrons is radioactive and undergoes radioactive decay.
The radioactive isotope of carbon was used to develop carbon dating tool, which has made the dating of various elements possible! In the radioactive elements' list below, all the radioactive isotopes of elements are presented.
Half Life of a Radioactive Element
Another term that you need to understand, if you want to understand radioactivity is 'Half Life'. Those of you from a chemistry background might have heard about half life in nuclear chemistry. Half life is the amount of time required, for half quantity of radioactive element to decay! For example C14has a half life of 5730 years. That is, if you take 1 gm of C14, then half of it will have been decayed in 5730 years! In the list of radioactive elements below, half lives of all the radioactive elements are presented.
Radioactive Elements List
Here is a detailed and comprehensive list of radioactive elements along with their atomic and mass numbers, decay modes and half lives. Here 'Beta Decay (?-)' denotes Electron emission while Beta Decay (?+) denotes Positron emission.
Radioactive Element Atomic Number Atomic Mass Number Decay Type Half Life
Hydrogen (H) 1 3 Beta Decay (?-) 12 years
Beryllium (Be) 4 10 Beta Decay (?-) 2,700,000 years
Carbon (C) 6 14 Beta Decay (?-) 5,730 years
Calcium(Ca) 20 41 Beta Decay (?+) 100,000 years
Iron (Fe) 26 59 Beta Decay (?-) 45 days
Cobalt (Co) 27 60 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 5 years
(Ni) 28 59 Beta Decay (?+) 80,000 years
Zinc(Zn) 30 65 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 145 days
Selenium (Se) 34 79 Beta Decay (?-) 70,000 years
Krypton (Kr) 36 85 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 10 years
Krypton (Kr) 36 90 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 33 seconds
Rubidium (Rb) 37 87 Beta Decay (?-) 47 billion years
Strontium (Sr) 38 89 Beta Decay (?-) 53 days
Strontium (Sr) 38 90 Beta Decay (?-) 28 years
Yttrium (Y) 39 90 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 64 hrs
Yttrium (Y) 39 91 Beta Decay (?-) 58 days
Zirconium (Zr) 40 93 Beta Decay (?-) 950,000 years
Zirconium (Zr) 40 95 Beta Decay (?-) 65 days
Niobium (Nb) 41 93 Gamma 4 years
Niobium (Nb) 41 95 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 35 days
Molybdenum (Mo) 42 93 Beta Decay (?+) 10,000 years
Technetium (Tc) 43 99 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 210,000 years
Ruthenium (Ru) 44 103 Beta Decay (?-) 40 days
Ruthenium(Ru) 44 106 Beta Decay (?-) 1 year
Palladium (Pd) 46 107 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 7 million years
Silver (Ag) 47 110 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 249 days
Tin (Sn) 50 126 Beta Decay (?-) 100,000 years
Antimony (Sb) 51 125 Beta Decay (?-) 2 years
Tellurium (Te) 52 127 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 105 days
Tellurium (Te) 52 129 Beta Decay (?-) 67 minutes
Iodine (I) 53 129 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 17.2 million years
Iodine (I) 53 131 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 8 days
Iodine (I) 53 134 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 52 minutes
Xenon (Xe) 54 133 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 5 days
Xenon (Xe) 54 137 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 4 minutes
Xenon (Xe) 54 138 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 14 minutes
Cesium (Cs) 55 134 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 2 years
Cesium (Cs) 55 135 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 2 million years
Cesium (Cs) 55 137 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 30 years
Cerium (Ce) 58 144 Beta Decay (?-) 285 days
Promethium (Pm) 61 147 Beta Decay (?-), Gamma 2 years
Europium (Eu) 63 154 Beta Decay (?-), Beta Decay (?+), Gamma 16 years
Europium (Eu) 63 155 Beta Decay (?-) 2 years
Lead (Pb) 82 210 Beta Decay (?-), Alpha 21 years
Bismuth (Bi) 83 210 Alpha 3 million years
Polonium (Po) 84 210 Alpha 138 days
Radon (Rn) 86 220 Alpha, Beta Decay (?+) 1 min
Radon (Rn) 86 222 Alpha 4 days
Radium (Ra) 88 224 Alpha 4 days
Radium (Ra) 88 225 Beta Decay (?-) 15 days
Radium (Ra) 88 226 Alpha 1,622 years
Thorium (Th) 90 228 Alpha 2 years
Thorium (Th) 90 229 Alpha 7,340 years
Thorium (Th) 90 230 Alpha 80,000 years
Thorium (Th) 90 232 Alpha 14 years
Thorium (Th) 90 234 Beta Decay (?-) 24 days
Proactinium (Pa) 91 226 Alpha, Beta Decay (?+) 2 minutes
Uranium (U) 92 233 Alpha 162,000 years
Uranium (U) 92 234 Alpha 248,000 years
Uranium (U) 92 235 Alpha 713 million years
Uranium (U) 92 236 Alpha 23.9 million years
Uranium (U) 92 238 Alpha 4.51 billion years
Neptunium (Np) 93 237 Alpha 2.2 million years
Plutonium (Pu) 94 236 Alpha 285 years
Plutonium (Pu) 94 238 Alpha 86 years
Plutonium (Pu) 94 239 Alpha 24,390 years
Plutonium (Pu) 94 240 Alpha 6,580 years
Plutonium (Pu) 94 241 Beta Decay (?-), Alpha 13 years
Plutonium (Pu) 94 242 Alpha 379,000 years
Plutonium (Pu) 94 243 Alpha 5 years
Plutonium (Pu) 94 244 Alpha 76 million years
Americium (Am) 95 241 Alpha 458 years
Americium (Am) 95 242 Beta Decay (?-), Beta Decay (?+), Alpha, Gamma 16 hours
Americium (Am) 95 243 Alpha 7,950 years
Curium (Cm) 96 242 Alpha 163 days
Curium (Cm) 96 243 Alpha 35 years
Curium (Cm) 96 244 Alpha 18 years
Curium (Cm) 96 247 Alpha 40 million years
Hope this comprehensive list of radioactive elements will be useful to you. These radioactive isotopes have a lot of applications today, ranging from medicine to atomic energy. Since these radioactive elements are harmful, burning up radioactive waste or disposing it, is difficult. Every development in science and technology brings in new developments and problems. Now, it's for us to decide, how we want to use the power of technology placed in our hands.
Let me smoke a bag of weed and get back to you.
so, its no great secret that energy does not have a "decay rate" but more simply a "tranfer rate" knowing this, to find the "negitve attractor"(more aggressive the better) for these elements, creates a situation for a new high energy source...to remove the atmoshpereic contaminates in a harnessed/directed force......maybe akin to a rail-gun design, ive even seen rail gun like plans, for launching solid mass into orbit.
downside....if you find that negitive, by accident, in an uncontrolled situation, bigger issue's i could see
Yes, very useful, thank you. I always wanted to know all the diferent ways I AM GOING TO DIE!!!!
I know zilch about physics. But if all ratioactive elements have half lives, why haven't they already naturally decayed given the enormous length of time since the creation of the solar system? Is there a natural process that continually re-constitutes radioactivity in elements?
radioactive. not ratioactive.
the time since the creation of the solar system is not relevant. what's relevant is the time since the last nearby supernova that created these heavy elements that cause so much trouble.
why aren't they all gone, given that they all have half-lives? um...becuase some of their half-lives are long enough that they haven't decayed to non-detectability yet. Like U-238, whose halflife is 4.5 billion years.
plutonium, on the other hand -- if you ever see any of that -- it was definitely made by people. longest half-life of any of its isotopes is 80 million years -- which means that if any of that stuff was made when our solar-system's stuff got made -- it has lived though at least 60 half-lives since then. Which means it is reduced by a factor of a million trillion. Give or take.
Plutonium is good for you
It facilitates ocular beams as noticed in X-Men
Bob - Trav said not to panic so shut up and eat your plutonium like a good sheep
Trav is legit.
We are all people sharing ideas, we won't always agree, and I hope we never do.
What a borring and unproductive world that would be if everyone agreed.
Contrarianism is the purview of innovation.
I completely agree with you that it is boring and unproductive.
The process or the product?
I hope to be infinately bored by both as I will always be in the process of learning.
The process and the product are tolerable for now, its some of the people who insist on unproductive, boring behavior that detract from the quality.
I actually tried out for the X-Men once.
Dr. Xavier: And ... (looks up) your power is?
Dr. Xavier: Excuse me?
Mick: Oh, yeah. Like you've never heard sarcasm before.
Dr. Xavier: I ... see. Yes. Well, thank you, very much for coming! Next?
Me too, at the interview I placed a small rock and on the table and glared at it and guess what happened... as if by magic... it didn't, then the whole building started shaking.
Which proves beyond doubt that I have the innate ability to force rocks to do well, nothing...
and so rests the case for the defence M'lord...
Of course, then the 40 foot tsunami hit and you could just make out a couple of exploding nuclear reactors in the background. Needless to say I withdrew my application 'cos I'm clearly far too powerful and didn't get the job, even with my new sideburns and snazzy specs, but I did get arrested by the Japanese police for walking home through downtown Tokyo with my underpants on the outside...
well, the bus driver wouldn't let me on...
and you probably still think there's a HAARP conspiracy... I still say it's not my fault, honest...
hahahah that's awesome
Thanks for the spelling lesson. Let me return the favor. It's 'Radioactive', not 'radioactive': the first word in a sentence is always capitalized.
He spelled "because" wrong as well.
oh no. not if i don't feel like it. i'm an artist.
Just because people do not understand you, does not make you an artist.
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Torticollis, also known as a crooked neck, is common in pet rabbits. This condition can occur because of serious health problems, including bacterial infections of the inner ear, parasite infections and head trauma. Fortunately, torticollis is treatable. When you notice that your bunny's head is turned to the side, immediately take him to the veterinarian for the animal to receive treatment - the sooner the torticollis is detected, the better the chance of a good recovery.
Part 1 of 3: Diagnosing Torticollis in Rabbits
Step 1. Notice if the rabbit is turning its head
A crooked neck is an indicator of torticollis, with the animal bending its head to the affected side. Torticollis can start small or occur suddenly.
Step 2. Observe the animal's movements
Torticollis itself is not a disease - it is a symptom that can indicate balance problems. A rabbit with inflammation of the inner ear and brain has serious symptoms of balance, which is controlled by precisely these areas. If a rabbit's inner ear is inflamed or if it has brain damage (such as trauma or stroke), it loses its sense of balance. Therefore, you can lose coordination when walking or starting to walk in circles.
- The rabbit can stagger a lot.
- If the animal is unable to get up, it may start rolling on the ground.
- If you hold him in your lap, he may start to twirl around in your arms.
Step 3. Examine the rabbit's face
Since the brain is the organ that exerts the most control over balance, damage to the nerves that control facial movements can affect the face. For example, he may not be able to close his eyelids, making him unable to blink. Also, the pet's eyes may look sunken in, or it may drool and have a crooked mouth.
The pet's eyes may start moving sideways quickly. This movement is known as nystagmus and indicates nerve damage
Step 4. Observe changes in the amount of food and water ingested
With an altered sense of balance, the rabbit may feel nauseous and start eating and drinking less than normal. Anorexia can cause serious gastrointestinal problems, so pay attention to your pet's eating habits.
Even if he wants to eat, it can be difficult to bring something to his mouth with a crooked neck
Step 5. Take the animal to the veterinarian for examination
Don't wait around to take you to the vet - an early diagnosis is critical in treating torticollis. Torticollis can be easily noticed because of the animal's characteristic head tilt, but the veterinarian needs to identify the specific cause of the problem. The effectiveness of the treatment depends on it.
- Take it to a professional experienced in treating rabbits. Look for experts in the region, on the internet and asking for referrals from friends.
- As there are several possible causes, the veterinarian must carry out a series of diagnostic tests in addition to the physical exam to go through the options one by one.
- Among the diagnostic tests are blood tests, urine tests and X-rays.
Part 2 of 3: Treating Torticollis
Step 1. Treat according to the underlying cause
After the veterinarian has identified the cause of the torticollis, he will devise a specific treatment for the condition. For example, if the rabbit has an inner ear infection, it is necessary to start a long and aggressive treatment with antibiotics. If it's trauma, steroids are used to help with recovery, in addition to other emergency treatments.
For torticollis caused by the E.cuniculi parasite, antiparasitic drugs such as fenbendazole and albendazole are indicated
Step 2. Follow the instructions carefully
The veterinarian can prescribe various remedies for the rabbit. Confirm that you understand the recommendations correctly and follow the treatment to the letter. If you're not sure how to administer medications, ask the vet to show you first.
Treatment for torticollis can take several months or even a lifetime. Administering the medication correctly, whether in the long or short term, helps the animal to recover
Step 3. Feed the bunny healthy food
Offer lots of fresh vegetables, including green leaves. With a crooked neck, he probably won't be able to eat much on his own. In addition to whatever foods he can ingest, you should supplement him using a syringe. The veterinarian can teach you how to proceed. Also try cutting food into smaller pieces and feeding it by hand.
- Even if the feed is part of the rabbit's normal diet, do not offer it during the treatment.
- The rabbit needs to eat cecotrophs, that is, fecal droppings that contain important nutrients. If he can't reach them on his own, put them in an easily accessible place. Wear gloves to catch the cecotrophs.
- The veterinarian can show you how to feed the pet using a syringe.
Step 4. Encourage him to drink water
Hydration during treatment is as important for the animal as healthy food. Buy a heavy, shallow bowl from which the rabbit can drink water without tipping over. If he is not able to drink himself, it is necessary to put water in the pet's mouth with a syringe.
Step 5. Exercise the rabbit
Exercise is an important component in the treatment of torticollis. Once he's stable, build a play area so he can exercise. Some examples of toys that can be placed in this location are cardboard boxes and shredded newspaper. Stay with the rabbit while he plays.
Step 6. Be patient with the animal
As it may be necessary to take care of him for a long time, you need to be patient until he recovers. In a few days, you can already notice some improvement. For example, he may start to eat and drink more, he may try to do his own hygiene and move around more.
Be aware that the rabbit can have a crooked neck even after the treatment is finished. Fortunately, he can have a happy life anyway, as long as the other symptoms pass and he returns to normal
Part 3 of 3: Taking care of a rabbit with stiff neck
Step 1. Make the place where the rabbit lives comfortable and safe
If he falls when he walks or rolls on the floor, he could get hurt by hitting the corners of the cage. Also, it can create sores and bruises from lying in the same position for too long. Place a fleece blanket lining in the cage to further cushion the floor.
- Remove all items (water bottle with straw, for example) from inside the cage so he doesn't get hurt.
- Consider putting it in a smaller location so there isn't a lot of room to stagger and roll. Place towels or blankets wrapped around the sides of the cage so it has something soft to lean against.
- A rectangular plastic box is an ideal small cage. Line the bottom with some urine-absorbing pillows and a blanket, and cover the sides with rolled-up towels.
Step 2. Protect the rabbit's eyes
If it can't blink, change the hygienic granules from the place used to make the necessities for an option without residues, thus preventing the powder from getting into the pet's eyes when it's there. To keep his eyes moisturized, your veterinarian may prescribe eye ointment or artificial tears. Trim your pet's nails or have your veterinarian cut them so he doesn't scratch his eyes.
Step 3. Hygiene the pet
With a crooked neck, he may not be able to do his own cleaning, which can generate an accumulation of feces and urine in the anus region, leaving the area irritated and causing bacterial infections. Gently clean the anal area to keep it dry and remove stool.
- Pet diapers are another good option for keeping your rabbit's fur clean. Look for the product in pet stores.
- Brush the rabbit twice a week with a soft bristle brush.
- If he's trying to clean up on his own, let him. This is a sign that he is getting better.
Step 4. Handle it as little as necessary
If you keep catching the rabbit too many times, it can make it feel shaky. If necessary, hold him firmly against your chest so that he feels more stable. Change its position slowly to prevent sores from forming on the pet's body.
- Think about buying stuffed animals. This 'company' can reassure you during treatment.
- Even if the rabbit has its head turned forever after treatment, it can still have a happy life. Do not euthanize the animal just for this reason.
- Symptoms may get worse before there are signs of improvement. This is normal.
- If your rabbit's symptoms don't improve after a long treatment and he seems depressed, talk to your veterinarian about the next step. Euthanasia can be an option if the animal does not have a good quality of life.


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This tab is to introduce Free beta versions of FPS creations.
All created using UDK, Hammer W.E. & FPS Creator X9 & FPSC Reloaded
(when full program is released).
All Beta game programs introduced are in current development and created by the DSEGTeam and some of it's affiliates.
like other creations of any sort, we will eventually have a forum and we will read all feedback of our beta prototype programs from all of our testers out there, and also,
we wont forget you too, the critics.
We will keep you updated on more of the development program on the next post.
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Kids Killed By Guns
38,942 fatalities among 5- to 18-year-olds, from 1999 to 2017
Portions of the U.S. have become like the “wild west,” and in many ways even worse than that. A CNN headline from earlier this year reads, “More US school-age children die from guns than on-duty US police or global military fatalities, study finds.”
This blog post is not about being pro-2nd-Amendment or anti-2nd-Amendment. The sheer quantity of guns in the U.S., and the gap between the virtuous man’s right to bear arms and the vicious criminal’s ill use of that right (not to mention the degraded character of our throw-away culture), means America’s gun problem has no easy solution. So, philosophical arguments and unrealistic ideas about solutions are here put aside.
The link below presents data for your consideration. Although the CNN headline mentions the word school-age, bear in mind this is not data on school shootings only. It includes all types of gun deaths for victims up to age 18. Before the link, some highlights:
– National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data show 38,942 fatalities among 5- to 18-year-olds from 1999 to 2017.
– The gun deaths included 6,464 children between the ages of 5 and 14 years old (an average of 340 deaths per year).
– The remaining 32,478 deaths were teens between 15 and 18 years old (an average of 2,050 deaths per year).
– Of the deaths, 86% involved boys. Black children accounted for 41% of those killed, though in recent years they’ve comprised just 14% of the US population.
Further data breakdowns can be found in the article:
May God pour His mercy on all the dead and their families, and even on the guilty.
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U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday hammered U.S. companies that avoid federal taxes by shifting their tax domiciles overseas in deals known as "inversions" and called on Congress to pass a bill to end the practice.
During remarks to a rowdy crowd at the Los Angeles Technical College, Obama promoted what he called "economic patriotism" and made clear he believed the companies that were engaging in such practices were not being patriotic. The president is in California on a three-day fund-raising swing for Democrats.
So-called inversion deals occur when a U.S. company acquires or sets up a foreign company, then moves its U.S. tax domicile to the foreign company and its lower-tax home country.
Nine inversion deals have been reached this year by companies ranging from banana distributor Chiquita Brands International Inc to drugmaker AbbVie Inc, and more are under consideration. The transactions are setting a record pace since the first inversion was carried out 32 years ago.
"Even as corporate profits are higher than ever, there’s a small but growing group of big corporations that are fleeing the country to get out of paying taxes,” Obama said.
"They’re technically renouncing their U.S. citizenship, they’re declaring their base someplace else even though most of their operations are here. You know some people are calling these companies 'corporate deserters.'”
Several Democrats have offered bills to curb inversions, which let companies cut their taxes primarily by putting foreign earnings out of the reach of the Internal Revenue Service.
Obama threw his weight behind the Democratic bills, calling for a rule change that would deem any company with half of its business in the United States to be U.S.-domiciled.
The proposed changes, already put forward in the president's annual budget, would be retroactive to May of this year and implemented independently of moves to achieve broader tax reform.
"We have seen increased activity from companies in the inversion space and as a result the president's view ... is that we should be acting as quickly as possible," a White House official told reporters on a conference call.
"That will buy us more time and space to ... reform our tax code as a whole."
Republicans prefer a change to inversions to be part of an effort to reform the U.S. tax code.
“Under President Obama, the United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world. It doesn’t have to be that way: Comprehensive tax reform would reduce deductions and lower tax rates for everyone," said Michael Steel, spokesman for the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner.
The White House supports broad tax reform but argues that action on inversions is needed now.

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Space Groups: A primer on topics significant for powder diffraction
- Introduce symmetry concepts important for Rietveld analysis,
particularly of inorganic materials.
Knowledge of symmetry operations and space groups,
as covered in any crystallography textbook, is assumed.
- Format: PDF slides or a RealPlayer video of the slides with
- Space group naming
- Common tripping hazards
- Rhombohedral vs. hexagonal settings
- Origin 1 vs. Origin 2
- Inputting space groups to GSAS
- Phase transformations
- Terminology & relation to symmetry
- Subgroups & Supergroups
- Systematic absences

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Google has performed a u-turn on its strategy to sell its own-brand Android smartphone, the Nexus One. In a statement yesterday, the company announced that Vodafone will from this Friday start selling the device in the UK via its stores, online and over the phone. “Soon after,” Google said, it will be available via SFR in France, as well as via Vodafone’s other subsidiaries in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. More operator launches look to be on the horizon, as Google noted that Vodafone is the “first European partner to distribute the Nexus One.” The move is a direct contrast to Google’s original retail model for the device; when it launched the high-profile phone in January Google surprised many industry watchers with plans to only sell the product via its own online store. Such a move broke heavily with traditional mobile industry business practices, bypassing the mobile operator retail stores that serve as a key distribution channel for mobile phones. Meanwhile, US operator Verizon Wireless has been dropped as a partner for the device; despite being touted as an initial partner at launch, Google is now advising customers to instead “pre-order the Droid Incredible by HTC, a powerful new Android phone and a cousin of the Nexus One that is similarly feature-packed” and available in stores on 29 April. The Nexus One remains available to T-Mobile USA customers.
Reports have been quick to cite analysts as stating that the actions represent a setback for Google’s plans to carve a role for itself in the mobile business and to redefine industry practices in the process. The move is also likely to fuel speculation that Google has been forced to change its strategy due to less-than-stellar demand for the Nexus One; analysts believe Google sold about 150,000 Nexus One devices in the first quarter. By contrast, Apple sold 1 million iPhones in the first 74 days after releasing the gadget in 2007. However, earlier this month Google’s CFO Patrick Pichette said Nexus One is “a profitable business for us”, whilst Jeff Huber, SVP for enginnering, added that the company is “very happy with the device uptake and the kind of impact that’s had across the industry in terms of raising the bar for what devices can do.” Huber added that Google’s Android system is powering 34 devices and that more than 60,000 Android devices are sold and activated each day. Android also had 38,000 apps in the previous quarter, up 78 percent from the last quarter.
Source: GSMA Daily
Google is planning to launch a branded smartphone that will bypass mobile operators and compete with handset vendors running its own Android platform, reported TheStreet yesterday citing an analyst source. Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar, who claims to have talked to Google’s design partners about the plan, says the device will be sold via retailers rather than operators. By bypassing the operators, Google is aiming to offer a device that lets users determine the functions. The rumoured “unlocked, low-cost, Web-friendly touchscreen device” is also likely to undercut the Android phones being developed by the likes of Motorola, the report says. “It’s a bit of a departure from Google’s strategy, but I think the speculation is valid,” says Michael Cote of the Cote Collaborative.
Kumar predicts that the device could be launched by year-end, though others think this timeframe is optimistic. He adds that the device is likely to be based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform but it is unclear who will actually build the device. The report noted that Google already has plans with computer-maker Quanta to build its own netbooks that will run on a Linux-based Google Chrome operating system (OS) and be available next summer. But TheStreet says that Taiwan’s HTC is the most likely vendor to build Google its own Android phone. HTC was an early supporter of the Android platform and already has four Android phones available in the marketplace. Neither Google, HTC nor Quanta were available to comment. A report this week by AdMob claims that Android has secured a 7 percent share of the smartphone OS market since launching a year ago.
Mobile advertising market is emerging as a huge growth area with the rise of web phones like the iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Palm. According to the Kelsey Group, a market research firm, the mobile advertising market will balloon from $160 million in 2008 to $3.1 billion in 2013.
Of course, that is just an educated guess which will turn out wrong. But there is no doubt that mobile advertising will be much bigger in four years, perhaps even ten to 20 times bigger than it is today.
Where will all of that mobile ad money go to? Display ads are projected to go from 13 percent of the total to 18 percent, while SMS ads will decline as a percentage from 63 percent to 9 percent (see charts). So once again it looks like search is going to be the big winner. No wonder Google is so focused on mobile search as one of its major sources of growth.
Think about it. Display ads take up precious real estate on your phone screen and tend to just get in the way and be an annoyance. That’s whymost people don’t like them . But when you are doing a search on your phone, you are often looking for something nearby?a store, a restaurant, a dry cleaner. You are more open to ads, especially if they are relevant to your search. As reported by TechCrunch, the Kelsey Group also projects that mobile search will go from 24 percent of the total mobile ad market last year to 73 percent of the much larger pie in 2013, according to a recent research note put out by Citi Analyst Mark Mahaney. He said that Mobile search is particularly tuned for local search ads. “Given the nature of mobile devices, local queries on mobile should, over time, be greater than local queries on the desktop,” he added.
Indeed, the Kelsey Group predicts that local searches will rise from 28 percent of all mobile searches in 2008 to over 35 percent by 2013. And as a percentage of mobile search ad revenues, local search is already half so that it will be a $1.27 billion market opportunity in four years just for local mobile search.
Source: Silicon India, Washington Post
Giving a firm release date to one of the most anticipated new mobile devices to run on the Android operating system, from Google Inc.(GOOG), Amazon’s United Kingdom site is listing the HTC Hero for pre-ordering. The smartphone will begin shipping on July 15; it’s expected to become available in the U.S. later this year.
Based on the mobile O.S. developed by Google, the Hero also features HTC Sense, the Taiwanese company’s new user-interface, which offers a 3.2-inch capacitive touch screen along with gesture controls and customizable widgets and icons that can be quickly launched from the home screen. If you have missed on the promises, you could check them out at the video link in youtube.
The Hero, which will be offered by the U.K. through Orange and T-Mobile, will also be sold in an unlocked version that’s not tied to a single carrier. The dual-band cellular/WiFi device will cost $712 with no carrier contract.
The Hero is the third Android-based device to hit the market. Several other manufacturers are hurrying to get Android mobile devices to market before the Christmas gift season this year.
Windows store to launch with 600 apps Microsoft will offer around 600 certified applications when it opens its mobile app store later this year, according to a Washington Post report, despite the Windows Mobile platform having more than 20,000 applications developed for it overall. Consumers will be able to buy applications on their credit card or through their operator bill, and will also be able to return apps within 24 hours if they are not completely satisfied. Microsoft has already signed up a number of software partners, including web music service Pandora, games publisher Electronic Arts and social network site Facebook. Other partners include another games publisher, Gameloft, weather website Accuweather.com, and News Corp’s MySpace social network. The store was officially unveiled in February and is scheduled to launch in the first half of this year on smartphones running Microsoft’s new Windows Mobile 6.5 platform. Microsoft’s app store will compete against a raft of rival platforms launched in response to the phenomenal success of Apple’s App Store, which offers around 50,000 apps.
Google’s Android store offers around 5,000 apps whilst Palm reportedly only offers around 30 at present. Microsoft said in an earlier statement that Windows Marketplace would launch in 29 countries and offer third-party developers a 70 percent cut of revenue-share, the same rate offered by Apple and Google.
In separate app store news, Dow Jones Newswires reports that China Telecom plans to launch a mobile app store for its 3G network, though no details on timescales were released. Operators including rival China Mobile and Vodafone have been quick to jump on the application store bandwagon, going head-to-head with software and handset vendors.

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Sterling Silver Multilayer Leaf Open Ring For Women
The Sterling Silver Multilayer Leaf Open Ring For Women comes in a unique design, making it a perfect gift for birthdays, anniversaries, or any other special occasion. With its timeless design and superior quality, this ring is sure to be a treasured piece in your jewelry collection for years to come.
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SHAFAQNA – Israeli forces on Tuesday demolished three commercial stores belonging to a Palestinian in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. Locals said that the demolitions were carried out after municipal inspectors decided early Tuesday morning that the stores had been built without license, although no prior notice was given.
Large numbers of Israeli forces reportedly stormed the Ein al-Luzah area of Silwan together with Jerusalem municipality inspectors, The soldiers blocked off an alley, while a bulldozer demolished the three stores.
Anis Karama, the Palestinian owner of the stores, told Ma’an that when he arrived Israeli officers denied him access to his property before forcing him from the site.
According to Karama the stores measured 200 square meters and were built two months ago.
Separately on Monday, municipal inspectors delivered demolition warrants to four Silwan residents, and were also reported to have taken photos of buildings in the al-Bustan, Euin al-Luzah and Beer Ayyub areas of Silwan.
The densely populated neighborhood of Silwan to the south of Jerusalem’s Old City has been a repeated site of Israeli incursions and attempts to evict Palestinian locals.
East Jerusalem has been under Israeli military occupation since 1967, and today around 300,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements constructed between existing Palestinian neighborhoods.


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G7 finance ministers and central bankers have dealt a new blow to Facebook's planned new cryptocurrency Libra, issuing a barrage of withering warnings about its dangers for the global economy at their two-day meeting outside Paris that wrapped up Thursday.
Facebook last month unveiled its plans for Libra in an announcement greeted with concern by governments and critics of the social network behemoth whose reputation has already been tarnished by its role in spreading fake information and extremist videos.
Ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major global economies "agreed that projects such as Libra may affect monetary sovereignty and the functioning of the international monetary system," France, the current G7 chair, said in a statement.
It said projects like Libra with a "global and potentially systemic footprint... raise serious regulatory and systemic concerns, as well as wider policy issues, which both need to be addressed before such projects can be implemented."
- 'Too many questions' -
At the G7 meeting in Chantilly north of Paris, marked by tense talks between European ministers and the United States over taxation, the ministers were able to easily agree on the potential menace of Libra.
The G7 members expressed "very strongly and in a unanimous way a desire for vigilance... and rapid action" said Bank of France governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau.
He denied that finance ministers and central bankers were looking to rein in any form of financial innovation but said: "It simply cannot be done in a way that harms the security of consumers and introduces uncertainty into the value of their transactions."
"There are many questions about this project and there is no question that it can start before there are precise answers to these questions," he told BFM Business.
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said all the ministers and central bankers present had serious reservations about Libra.
"We are talking about currency stability, security, data protection and democratic control," he said.
Libra is widely regarded as a challenger to dominant global player bitcoin. Expected to launch in the first half of 2020, Libra is designed to be backed by a basket of currency assets to avoid the wild swings of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
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A report prepared for the G7 by a working group headed by Benoit Coeure, an executive board member of the European Central Bank, also contained stark warnings about cryptocurrencies.
The report said such assets have "generally suffered from severe price volatility" with "limited capacity" to process transactions compared with existing arrangements.
"Consequently, they function primarily as risky investments or a shadowy means to pay," it said.
Such currencies posed a risk to priorities including "anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism, as well as consumer and data protection, cyber resilience, fair competition and tax compliance."
The report concluded that "significant work" by developers of cryptocurrencies was needed "before they can expect approval by relevant authorities".
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said his concerns about Libra and other cryptocurrencies -- which he had made clear in White House news conference this month -- were shared by G7 counterparts.
"The conclusion we all have is that although we believe in financial innovation, although we believe there is a need to reduce the cost of payment processing, there are very strong concerns about Libra and stablecoins in general," he said.

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Stapleton Digs Deep For Revamped Elton John Tune
As Elton John braces for the busiest year of his career, the rest of the music world is celebrating accordingly. Along with longtime songwriting partner Bernie Taupin, John is days away from being honored with a pair of tribute albums – just in time for fans to gear up for the start of John’s epic farewell tour later this year.
Titled Restoration and Revamp and due out April 6th, the tribute albums find the biggest names in rock, pop, and country music reimagining some of John’s most career defining songs; it wouldn’t be complete, though, without perhaps the biggest name – and voice – in country music, Chris Stapleton.
Stapleton dug down deep into John’s catalogue, bringing forth a soulful cover of 2001’s “I Want Love” from Songs from the West Coast; while it’s not a classic in the vein of, say, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” or “Bennie and the Jets,” “I Want Love” is a classic in its own right, one that proved to be a gorgeous fit for Stapleton.
Here’s the original, complete with a music video starring Robert Downey Jr….
…Now Get Ready For The Brand New Version
Featured on Restoration, the country portion of John’s upcoming tribute albums, “I Want Love” stands steadily on its own two feet as a track that could by all rights be a country song (and a damned good one, too). Stapleton stays faithful to the original blueprint, scaling back his usual howls and exchanges them for a steady, measured delivery that brings out the loneliness and isolation in the song.
The strings, twinkling piano and soaring guitar solos of the original remain, providing a nice little foundation for Stapleton to build on, allowing that powerhouse voice to do what it does best: shake loose the cobwebs of your soul and get you feeling things you’ve forgotten.
It’s not every day that a cover eclipses the original, but Stapleton’s version of “I Want Love” absolutely does, if not come frighteningly close. Check it out in the audio below!


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Proclaiming himself “proud, yet humbled,” Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr., was officially installed Aug. 6 as the Air Force’s 22nd Chief of Staff, becoming the first African-American in history to lead a military service as its highest ranking officer. In remarks following the formal “Change of Responsibility” ceremony in which he took over from retiring Gen. David L. Goldfein, the 21 st Chief of Staff, Brown acknowledged an array of people who influenced his life. Among them were his wife Sharene and his parents as well as a list of Air Force colleagues, including Goldfein and other “extraordinary leaders.” Yet, cognizant of the moment in history, Brown also noted, “Today is possible due to the perseverance of those who went before me serving as an inspiration to me and many others.
“Those like the Tuskegee Airmen, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Chappie James, African-American leaders across our Air Force and military, past and present to include today’s special guest Mr. Ed Dwight, America’s first African American astronaut candidate,” he said. “It is due to their trials and tribulations in breaking barriers that I can address you today as the Air Force Chief of Staff.”

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Albanian man caught with over £175,000 worth of cocaine and cash
An Albanian man has admitted to being involved in the supply of illegal drugs after police seized cocaine worth £120,000
Admerin Beu, 41, pled guilty to the offence at Edinburgh High Court
Beu, who had been under police surveillance, was stopped in Edinburgh in November last year carrying £55,000 in cash.
Police then searched his flat and discovered the drugs and related items.
After stopping Beu in a vehicle in which he was a passenger, police found more £700 in cash on his person as well as £2000 in the back seat, along with £38,000 in an airbag compartment and £15,000 in suitcases.
On the same day, police searched the flat he rented and found almost a quarter kilo of high purity cocaine.
They also found 20 kilos of an adulterant used to cut heroin and traces of that drug on an electric grinder and parts of an industrial press.
The prosecutor told the court that Beu was providing a safe house for the drugs and related items.
Advocate depute Stephen O'Rourke said the Crown accepted that Beu was acting as a courier for the cash which he was aware came from organised crime, but the money was not his.
Beu admitted being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs, possessing false documents and transferring criminal property.
Sentence was deferred on him until next month and he was remanded in custody.
The Crown has begun moves to seize any profits of crime from him.

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In the Netflix show Chambers, out April 26, there's something wrong with 17-year-old Sasha's (Sivan Alyse Rose) heart. We're not speaking metaphorically, here — Sasha's a kind person. But after she gets
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Robinson Reserve has a picturesque southern view that overlooks Birubi Beach and the Stockton Bight to Newcastle. There is direct access to Birubi Beach and car parking. This is a great location to have a picnic before having a swim at beautiful Birubi Beach. This is also the location of Anna Bay Skate Park.
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On 18th May this year, I wrote the first notes about a book I wanted to write. Today, on 5th July, I finished a good draft, 110,000 words. I had forgotten how very satisfying it can be to have completed a long story from beginning to end.
Lots of work, yet, to improve the manuscript, but I am satisfied I have the bones of a decent book.
Perhaps now I’ll have time to put more interesting stuff on this blog?

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- Thousands of breadfruit trees are to be planted at schools across the island under a project aimed at boosting the school feeding programme, while aiding in reforestation.
- The project dubbed: ‘Trees That Feed in Schools,’ was officially launched on Friday (September 19) at the Ocho Rios High School, where a number of trees were handed over for planting
- Approximately 5,000 breadfruit plants will be distributed to schools island-wide over the next six months.
Thousands of breadfruit trees are to be planted at schools across the island under a project aimed at boosting the school feeding programme, while aiding in reforestation.
The project dubbed: ‘Trees That Feed in Schools,’ was officially launched on Friday (September 19) at the Ocho Rios High School, where a number of trees were handed over for planting.
Approximately 5,000 breadfruit plants will be distributed to schools island-wide over the next six months.
Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, in a speech delivered by Custos of St. Ann, Hon. Norma Walters, hailed the project, noting that it provides a good example of sustainable development.
“Planting trees is healthy for the environment and is a positive contribution to future generations. In addition, the planting of breadfruit trees, in particular, has the benefit of increasing food supplies for the Jamaican population while promoting national food security,” he noted.
He said that the launch of the project is “very timely,” as it coincides with the Ministry’s revamped school feeding programme, and its mandate to increase school attendance and enrollment.
Under the programme, over 200,000 students in the early childhood age group began receiving breakfast and lunch free or at a subsidised price, at the start of the new school year. This is expected to assist in increasing the ability of children to concentrate, learn, and perform specific tasks.
Stating that the Government has allocated $4 billion toward the school feeding programme during this financial year, Minister Thwaites said local farmers and commodity suppliers will benefit from the expenditure, while providing scope for employment. “Through the programme, we want to help to stimulate the rural economy,” he added.
Regional Director, Ministry of Education Region 3, Maxine Headlam, told JIS News that to date, some 60 schools in St. Ann have been presented with breadfruit plants, and all the other schools in the parish will receive by the end of the year.
“I love this project, because it’s a vision that will outlast even the persons, who thought of it, initiated it. For us (at the Ministry of Education) it means food supply for the school feeding programme,” she said.
She said the project also represents economic solutions for small communities, as the schools will not be able to absorb all the produce from the trees planted and as such, persons, from nearby communities, will benefit.
Trees That Feed in Schools involves collaboration among the Ministries of Education, and Agriculture and Fisheries; Trees That Feed Foundation; Rotary Club of St. Catherines South in Ontario, Canada; and the Rotary Club of Ocho Rios East.
The variety of breadfruit that is being planted under the project is the Ma’afala, which is very high in nutrition. The trees are smaller than other varieties, which makes the fruit easier to reap, and leads to less waste.

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Press Release: Officials with NOAA’s National Weather Service forecast office in Las Vegas are looking for interested volunteers to help better protect residents of the Lake Havasu area by providing quality storm reports during severe weather.
The LHC Fire Department will be hosting a two-hour Severe Weather Spotter Training class beginning at 6:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 14, at Fire Station #2 located at 2065 Kiowa Boulevard North. The class is free of charge and open to all area residents interested in weather, thunderstorms, or public safety. All course materials are provided.
The training session is complete with videos and digital images to assist volunteers in learning to identify important thunderstorm characteristics, types of severe weather, weather safety, and reporting procedures.
“Organized in a partnership between National Weather Service Offices and local county emergency management agencies, volunteer weather spotters play an integral role in assisting forecasters in the weather warning process,” according to Dan Berc, Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the Las Vegas National Weather Service office.
“The low population density across much of the area makes our volunteer network a vital cog in obtaining reports of severe weather,” Berc said. “Real-time reports from trained volunteer spotters can improve weather warnings for hail, thunderstorm, wind gusts, and flash flooding. These reports can help us accurately locate weather hazards and assist us in providing timely notification of where storm damage is likely to occur. We are fortunate to have dedicated individuals to help us better protect residents of northwest Arizona.”
Over 1,000 trained spotters assist forecasters at the Las Vegas office by being those eyes on the ground across the area. Berc encouraged current spotters to attend the training as a refresher course.
Additional information on storm spotting is available on the local National Weather Service website at http://www.weather.gov/lasvegas or by calling the Las Vegas office at (702) 263-9744. For class information, contact Fire Administration at (928) 855-1141.


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Brazil Moves Closer to Regulating Online Gambling with Lower House ApprovalPublished September 14, 2023 by OCR Editor
In a landmark move, Brazil's Chamber of Deputies has approved a government bill to regulate online gambling and sports betting in the country, marking a significant step towards legalization.
Brazil, the world's 10th largest economy, has moved closer to fully regulating its online gambling sector. The Chamber of Deputies recently approved Bill 3626/23, which has undergone several amendments since its introduction by Deputy Adolfo Viana. The bill still awaits the Federal Senate's input, which has 45 days to comment.
One of the key provisions in the proposed law is the exclusion of foreign operators from offering regulated gambling services in Brazil. To comply with this, businesses must be incorporated under Brazilian legislation and have their headquarters and administration within the country. It remains to be seen how much of a barrier this would be for foreign operators who might need to collaborate with local businesses to enter the market.
The bill mandates that operators must also satisfy various technical requirements, including minimum share capital and membership in a sports integrity body. Moreover, they must adhere to strict anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing policies.
The proposed legislation keeps the 18% tax on revenue, which commentators note rises to around 31-34% when additional contributions are considered. Furthermore, there are specific allocations for the gaming revenue. While previously 10% was proposed for social security, it has now been reduced to 2%. Other assignments include 1.82% for the Ministry of Education, 6.63% for sports, and 5% for tourism.
Operators must pay a license fee of $R30m (£4.89m/€5.69m/$6.10m) to offer gaming through a single betting app. Any additional offering would require another license. The bill also shortens the license term from five to three years.
Another significant aspect of the legislation is its prohibition of bonus bets and credit lines to customers. Additionally, the bill mandates that all advertisements comply with new guidelines, and any violation would necessitate removal upon order from the Ministry of Finance.
The bill also includes stringent payment rules aimed at countering offshore gambling. Only Central Bank-authorized institutions can offer payment services, and a player can only transfer money to a bank account headquartered and administered in Brazil.
This legislative movement marks the latest milestone in Brazil's complex journey to regulate its online gambling industry. After years of failed attempts, including outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro's reluctance to sign off on new rules, the newly elected, industry-friendly President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has revived hopes for the sector's formalization.
Now, all eyes are on the Federal Senate as Brazil waits to see if the bill will receive the final approval to bring regulated online gambling to one of the world's most significant economies.

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I hadn't thought of the Vis angle. He's saying his kid's procedure's a minor one.
Hopefully, it all goes smoothly.
The deal for Thomas, in which the Islanders gave up a conditional second-round pick in either 2014 or 2015 to the Bruins, is purely a salary-cap transaction. As of Friday, the 20th day of the league season, all teams must be cap- compliant, which means over the $44.3-million floor.
The Islanders activated Lubomir Visnovsky yesterday after he passed his physical, which made them compliant.
The move for Thomas, who carries a $5-million cap hit despite his being suspended by the Bruins, guards against Visnovsky's possible departure to tend to his son, who is due to have surgery in Slovakia this weekend.
Thomas' cap hit still counts because the four-year, $20-million contract he signed in 2009 is an over-35 deal, which means the cap hit still is active even if the player is not.
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Lunar Research Service (LRS) and Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA) signed a launch services agreement for the LRS 3U satellite to be launched in December 2022.
Among the features of the mission are proprietary satellite design and a developed in-house deployment system.
LRS will use the results of the mission to improve its ground-orbit communications and test a solar concentrator that will be used in the upcoming lunar mission launched with space in 2023-2024.
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Below is a technology demonstration for long-term missions of small lunar rovers using the DMI Curtain System.
LRS proposes a lunar night survival method for small rovers using the DMI (Dome Multilayer Insulation) curtain system for long-term missions.
Until recently, it was difficult to install Radioisotope Heating Units or other temperature maintenance devices on small lunar rovers to enable lunar night survival, and so such rovers could only perform short two-week missions.
Thermal analysis results show that small rovers could survive during lunar nights by moving into a shelter located inside the DMI curtain of the lander without mounting temperature maintenance devices. In order to enhance the feasibility of the DMI curtain system, we also propose ideas for a double-layer DMI.
Lunar Research Service (LRS) offers hardware testing for extreme environments. LRS evaluates all aspects of structural dynamics, including vibration, vibroacoustics, modal characteristics, sound transmission loss, and shock testing.
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