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Remember that it was the abusive behavior of your partner which caused you to leave in the first place. You were not happy in the relationship.
He will continue to abuse you even if he promises you that he will never hit you again. The abuse will continue and it could get worse.
Abusers seldom stop their abusive behavior unless they get some form of counseling or therapy. Don’t go back and expect him to change because he says he has changed. As soon as he gets comfortable with you being back he will start abusing you again.
Abusers like to instill fear in their victims. He will try to make you so fearful of him that you are less likely to leave him.
He may become more possessive and controlling and try t isolated you from your family and friends. He might start keeping tabs on you, watching you more closely for any sign that you might try to leave again.
He will do everything within his power to make it impossible for you to leave again. He might even threaten to take your life.
The most serious of all the reasons is that he may follow through on his threats. You may never get the chance to escape a second time with your life. Some abusers are prepared to take the lives of their victims and then their own. Don’t let this happen to you.
Once you get the chance to leave the relationship never return to an abusive partner no matter how persuasive he may be.
ps. Often times women find themselves caught up in these situation. Take any threat on your life serious. If he says he will kill you, don’t convince yourself that he won’t. Seek help. Get out. Save yourself.
In many abusive relationships the abuse doesn’t start right away. In fact when he is pursuing you he may be so charming that you feel you have won a prize. It is when he gets comfortable with you and he believes he has you hooked that he begins to show his true colors.
If he begins to have problem with you having a relationship with your former friends and even relatives, he may not have your best interest at heart. Abusers love to have their victims isolated. That way when the abuse begins, you have no one to turn to.
If he hits you and tell you he is sorry and it won’t happen again, don’t believe him. If he could not control his temper in that instance, what is to stop him from losing control again. Each time you forgive him, you give him more power over you and sad reality is that he is grooming you to accept abuse in the relationship.
In today’s society the emphasis is often on getting a good education. We teach our children that this is important. You got to do well in high school; you have to do well in college, we tell them. However ever so often we don’t tell them how to cope in a world where all is not what it seems to be. We don’t tell them what they should never accept in relationships.
They go out there all dewy eyed and innocent thinking that being in love is nothing short of paradise and they can dive in without even questioning how deep the water is. Let’s have the conversation. Talk to your children about domestic abuse. Let them know that love is not supposed to hurt.
No one can envision him or herself in an abusive relationship. Most people feel it can never happen to them. So when they see the signs they ignore them or make excuses. However domestic violence is too serious an issue not to pay attention to the signs.
One of the first signs that your partner may be abusive is if he or she wants to alienate you from your family and friends. An abusive partner wants to know that you have no one to turn to for help when the abuse starts and alienating you from the people you care about is the first step in achieving that go. Watch out for this sign!
Domestic violence is nasty, it is ugly and ever so often children become victims. It is sad when the lives of children are cut short because they are dragged into situations that have nothing to do with them.
Earlier this month another angel went home. A three year old girl was burnt alive in a car with the doors chained shut, in Queens. According to reports both parents were in a custody battle. Against the mother’s wishes the court granted the father a weekend visit with the child. It is reported that he told the mother, “You will never see your daughter again.” She however did not think he would have hurt the child. In what was apparently intended as a murder suicide, at the last minute he got out of the car and left his daughter to perish.
There has to be another way to resolve problems in relationships. This type of violence and vindictiveness has to stop. No one owns anyone. If a relationship is not working out it is best to walk away, go separate ways. Inflicting pain is never the answer.
Your silence is the greatest weapon your abuser has to use against you. The longer you keep silent and accept abuse the more he will break you down and rob you of your self-esteem. Soon you will believe you can’t do any better, no one else is going to love you and a little love with abuse is better than no love at all. Stop! Do not believe his lies. You deserve better!
Domestic violence is a global issue. It affects women all over the world and despite efforts many women lose their lives to domestic violence each year. According to a UN report over 50,000 women lost their lives to intimate partners or family members in 2018. This tells us that a solution is nowhere in sight. A part of the problem is that the approach to domestic violence is somewhat like trying to put a bandaid on a wound that need stitches. Many people wait until their situation becomes unbearable before they seek help.
We must begin to take a more proactive approach to the fight against domestic violence. We must take domestic violence awareness into the classrooms. We have to start educating our young people of the ills of domestic violence before they engage in relationships. We have to teach our girls as well as boys that abuse is not an acceptable behavior in a relationship.
Women alone cannot bring about change. The police alone are not going to bring about change. The government alone cannot bring about change. Everyone has to get involved. We have to get more men on board. Many are against domestic violence. We need them to speak to other men about this issue. We also need to talk about in church and in the workplace. Let us rewrite the script. Abuse in a relationship is not okay. Let us with a collective voice say NO to domestic abuse.
Do you believe that if you truly love someone it means that you will love them no matter what? Now I know people have mixed views about what true love entails however one must be quick to understand that a healthy relationship involves two people having mutual love and respect for one another. It should never be a one-sided thing so don’t fall for that trap where a partner hurts you and then tell you that if you truly love you would forgive him. How about him loving you enough not to hurt you in the first place?
The belief that true love last forever and it is worth fighting for is one of the reason why women remain in abusive relationship hoping that the more love they show the abusive partner, the more likely it is that he will change. This is a belief that often leads to disappointment for no amount of love that you show him will make him change. He has to feel that deep love inside for you and respect you enough not to hurt you. They change that you seek can only come from him. You can’t make him change and you should never settle for abuse. It is okay not to love your abuser. It is okay to walk away.
Abuse of women is a form of human rights violationthat affects women just about every where in the world. Ironically one of the thing which contributes to abuse is the lack of unity among women and the fact that in some societies women actually take part in abusing other women. In places such as India and Pakistan mother-in-laws and sister-in-laws often beat and torture a new bride if they are not satisfied with the dowry that the family receives. There is no unity among the sisterhood and they see nothing wrong with hurting one of their kind.
In countries where Female Genital Mutilation is practiced, it is often the women who carry out this gruesome operation. In the Cameroon and other places that practice breast ironing it is the women who hurt their daughters and inflict physical as well as psychological scars. Women disfigure and hurt their daughters in what they say is an attempt to protect them from rape and harassment by men. These women fail to grasp the understanding that what they are doing is just another form of abuse. It is a no win situation for many young girls; if the men don’t hurt them, their mothers will.
One of the biggest obstacle in eliminating abuse against women worldwide is the fact that in many countries women have been conditioned to accept abuse as a part of life. Women suffer abuse inforced marriages and do nothing to protect their daughters from experiencing the same fate. So the vicious cycle of abuse is allowed to continue. For many young girls there is no escape, no way out. There is no one to stand up for them and no one to protect them.
The change must start with women taking responsibility for protecting their daughters instead of hurting them. Women must unity in the fight forequal rightsfor women. Young girls must no longer be denied the right to an education and they should not be forced into child marriages for which they are not prepared physically, mentally or emotionally. Women must understand that abuse of any form is not acceptable.

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Utilising Random Content
As far as Roguelikes go, using randomness to increase playtime and quantity of gameplay possibilities is not exactly uncommon, it is, in fact, one of the core aspects of the game style.
One core reason why this is the case, is all about the difference between linear and exponential content generation, and how important it is for indie developers to grab onto all means of generating new and interesting content. Unfortunately, explaining why this is so useful is going to involve a little bit of maths, lets assume that any game update or feature added, is 'x' hours worth of content, then we are simply working out how much of that the player can spend playing the additional content. Linear content generation can be seen everywhere, it is when a game releases some new story element, or another quest; the nature of this is that it add x amount of content and the player gets x amount of gameplay time out of it, every hour of content is simply worth one hour of playing (this obviously doesn't include replay value of the same content). Then exponential content generation, is when there are y new features that can all be interchanged in the content, and x hours of actual different content, the content time will generally be less than linearly, however, because of the changing nature of the varying content, you have added x to the power of y content for the player to enjoy.
This is done through many ways, but the way I enjoy the best, is through something called Modularity. This is when all the content can swap in and out of specific elements, this is the reason Borderlands can boast millions of weapons, when developing that many unique elements would take way too much time for any team. Each element of Borderlands weapons can be swapped, each weapon has a Magazine, Stock, Barrel, Grip, Base and Name, if you have 5 of each type of attachment, you suddenly have 15,625 unique weapons to choose from (ignoring level differences as that just changes base stats and is hardly a 'unique' weapon).
We have done something similar with our cards, they each have a beat cost, used to decide how long the card will take to be played, and 3 abilities. These abilities have a strength and duration, determining their effectiveness, allowing us to have a huge number of cards and variations thereof to allow players to take 7 cards and craft truly unique decks.
Add onto this an elemental advantage, and randomly generated maps, means that every players experiences will differ, to the point of allowing for a dramatically larger amount of play time than the content takes to produce, something that is incredibly important for a small team, building a small game for mobile devices.
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It’s easy to get caught up in today’s hustle culture. There are always things to do, boxes to tick, arbitrary deadlines to meet, and bucket lists to make. But is this how you should be spending your time?
Most of us are familiar with the “always prepared” mentality. We’ve been told all our lives that what we do now should always be in service of a better future.
“Study hard to get good grades – it will help you when you’re applying to college.”
“Pick something useful to study, like law or business. That’s the only way you’ll be able to afford the perfect life.”
“Start thinking about finding the right partner now if you don’t want to be too old on your wedding day.”
“Don’t go on that holiday. Save up all your money instead to buy a house one day.”
While advice like this often comes from a good place, it isn’t always right. Of course, having a good degree and some money set aside can be nice. But sometimes, the price we pay to get there might just be a bit too high.
Yes, it’s important to think about your future. Being prepared isn’t a bad thing. But if you let it go too far, you might find that you’ve been living your life overly focused on the future. In the meantime, you’ve somehow forgotten about the present altogether.
Take this quote by the Japanese manga artist Ichigo Takano: “Every life is precious. Please treasure each and every day, the present, the moment, and yourself.”
There is a point to what she is saying here. Life is precious. Life is now. Preparing for the future isn’t wrong, but it shouldn’t keep us from cherishing the present moment. It shouldn’t keep us from experiencing life.
We often hear people talk about how we shouldn’t be stuck in the past and how important it is to move on. So, why do we rarely talk about how being stuck in the future is just more of the same thing? In both cases, we are completely missing the point of life – which is to live. Right here, right now.
Life is a wonderful and mysterious thing, and if we waste it on what-ifs and maybes, we might grow to regret it once most of it has passed.
Life is happening right now. It might or might not be here later, too, but it’s definitely here now. So, don’t let it pass you by. Embrace it. Enjoy it. Treasure every single moment you get to experience the wondrous gift of existence.
You may now be thinking: But how do I do that? How can I stay grounded and treasure every moment?
While the answer might slightly differ from person to person, here are some things you can try to make sure you always appreciate what’s right in front of you:
Slow down and breathe
For once, stop running around frantically, looking for the next chore on your to-do list. Instead, try standing still. Stretch your legs, your fingers, your neck.
Then, try closing your eyes. Take a deep breath in, and then slowly breathe out. Do this three to five times. Feel your heartbeat slowing down; feel the calm washing over you.
Open your eyes. Do you feel better now? More grounded? More relaxed? Good. Now you can continue with what you were doing before. This time, though, try doing it slower. Put more intention behind every action. Savor the feeling of being alive.
Most of us have certain routines in our day-to-day life that we might not even be aware of. We brush our teeth the same way; we make the same cup of coffee every morning; we take the same route to work every day.
Often, we’re so used to what we know that we do all these actions on autopilot. Unfortunately, this leads to us ignoring our surroundings most of the time. Even if you are taking the scenic route to work, chances are that you’re not really paying attention to where you are anymore. You’re so used to it that you don’t even notice that there are new flowers in your neighbor’s front garden or that the leaves have started growing back again.
It’s a shame, really. You’re missing a lot of life this way. You wouldn’t want that, right?
Next time you take the same route to work, try looking around. Name three small details you can see – something you may not have noticed or appreciated before. Just doing that can help you stay more focused and enjoy what’s in front of you.
It’s been proved time and time again that the act of smiling can actually make you happy. When you’re happy, you’re more likely to enjoy things – including the present moment.
When you’re feeling particularly lost and stuck in a rut, try forcing yourself to smile. It might feel awkward at first, but sooner or later, you’ll start feeling the effects of the small action wash over you. Then you can approach every moment with just a little bit more appreciation.
Smell the air
It’s not just about looking around and seeing things that can make you feel more grounded in the present. Engage your other senses, too.
Next time you’re outside, take a deep breath. What can you smell? How would you describe it? How does it make you feel? Simple actions like these can make you feel more connected to the life that’s all around you.
Finally, take your headphones off for once. I know we all have new music to listen to and podcasts to catch up on, but sometimes, it’s good to let all that go.
Instead of listening to that new Taylor Swift song, try listening to the sounds of nature or the city around you. Stop zoning out – tune in instead.
Life is what happens when you’re too busy making plans. So, stop making plans for once. Let go. Take a deep breath, smile, and enjoy each moment as it comes. You only get to live each second once, so make sure it’s a good one.

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New Delhi, Feb 25 (Calcutta Tube) India’s annual food inflation based on wholesale prices fell to 17.58 percent for the week ended Feb 13 from 17.97 the week before, as per official data released Thursday.
Prices of essential items continued to move up, with vegetables dearer by 13.57 percent, potatoes by 30.4 percent, pulses by 35.74 percent and fruits by 12.08 percent over the 52-week period, official data released by the commerce and industry ministry showed.
The limited data on wholesale price index showed a fall in the index for primary articles by 15.84 percent, while that for Fuel,Power, Light & Lubricants remained at last week’s level of 9.89 percent.
India’s annual rate of inflation, based on the wholesale prices index, had risen to 8.56 percent in January from 7.31 percent in the previous month, primarily due to galloping food prices.
The Reserve Bank of India also raised its projected annual inflation rate at the end of this fiscal to 8.5 percent from 6.5 percent.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Feb 17 said that the measures taken by the government to tame inflation will take some time to have their effect and that the country would see a moderate rate of inflation in the next two months.
The pressure of the continuing upward movement of food prices has also forced the government to postpone a decision on a proposed fuel price hike.
The price rise of some essential food items over the 52-week period:
– Pulses: 35.74 percent
– Potatoes: 30.4 percent
– Vegetables: 13.57 percent
– Wheat: 14.93 percent
– Rice: 9.5 percent
– Onions: 12.46 percent
– Milk: 14.16 percent
– Fruits: 12.08 percent

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In recent decades there has been considerable progress in physics and the technology necessary to exploit nuclear fusion as a source of energy. Through its programmatic activities, the IAEA not only continuously contributes to this global effort by facilitating international collaboration and the exchange of scientific and technical information, but also provides support in organizing relevant international conferences and symposia. The fifth International Conference on the Frontiers of Plasma Physics and Technology, held in Singapore from 10 to 22 April 2011, is a good example of successful collaboration. Approximately 110 delegates from all continents attended this conference. One of its main goals was to enable young researchers from developing countries to interact closely with international experts and to become acquainted with the latest developments in the field. The conference also helped initiate noteworthy collaboration between developing and developed countries.
This publication contains 54 manuscripts and presentations covering the material discussed during the conference. The conference organizers and the IAEA acknowledge the valuable contributions of all the experts who contributed to the scientific content of the conference. The IAEA officers responsible for this publication were R. Kamendje and T. Desai of the Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences.


ASCE has honored Chong Tang and Kok-Kwang Phoon, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, with the 2020 Norman Medal for their paper “Statistics of Model Factors and Consideration in Reliability-Based Design of Axially Loaded Helical Piles,” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, August 2018.
From the Abstract—
Geotechnical design codes have been migrating toward reliability-based (RBD) concepts. ISO 2394 identified the characterization of model uncertainty as one of the critical elements in the geotechnical RBD process. This paper collects a large number of field axial load tests on helical piles for model uncertainty assessment as required in developing RBD. At the ultimate limit state (ULS), the model uncertainty is represented by a model factor, which is defined as a ratio of measured resistance over calculated resistance. The measured resistance is interpreted from load test data using the methods recommended in the helical pile industry, while the existing empirical or semiempirical methods are applied for resistance calculations. A hyperbolic model with two parameters is adopted to fit the measured load-settlement data. The uncertainties within the load-settlement curves are captured by a bivariate random vector containing the hyperbolic parameters as its components. Statistical properties of the model factors such as means, coefficients of variation, and probability distributions are determined from the database. Moreover, several copulas are evaluated to establish the correlation structure within the hyperbolic parameters. Finally, the ULS model statistics are incorporated into the calibration of the resistance factor in the load and resistance factor design (LRFD) of axially loaded helical piles.
Tang is research fellow and Phoon is professor of civil and environmental engineering at the National University of Singapore.
The Norman Medal is bestowed upon the author or authors of a paper that is judged worthy of special commendation for its merit as a contribution to engineering science.


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My heart skipped a beat when I read this news on Mike Portnoy’s forum. And at this moment it feels like a truck hit me on the freeway. I have been listening to and following this band for nearly 20 years and I am stunned.
But let’s look at it in a more positive way. Hopefully this frees the way to more cool projects like a new Transatlantic album. Their last album was called “The Whirlwind” blew me away and their live performance was totally out of this world. The best progressive, symphonic rock band I have ever witnessed playing in my life.
So here’s to Mike, the genius, master of drummers, the hardest working musician in the music business.
Cheers, mate! Good luck on your future endeavors!
I am about to write something I never imagined I’d ever write:
After 25 years, I have decided to leave Dream Theater….the band I founded, led and truly loved for a quarter of a century.
To many people this will come as a complete shock, and will also likely be misunderstood by some, but please believe me that it is not a hasty decision…it is something I have struggled with for the last year or so….


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RedOrbit – Space – The Universe is Trapped in its Own Web
Astronomers from the University of Nottingham, UK, and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (Spain), have found the first observational evidence that galaxies are not randomly oriented.
This discovery confirms one of the fundamental aspects of galaxy formation theory and implies a direct link between the global properties of the Universe and the individual properties of galaxies.
Galaxy formation theories predicted such an effect, but its empirical verification has remained elusive until now. The results of this work were published the 1 April issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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Marine scientists are scrambling to determine the extent and cause of a disease that is killing starfish along the West Coast, including Sonoma County.
The affliction, called sea star wasting disease, has killed up to 95 percent of the stars in some tide pool populations ranging from southeast Alaska to Santa Barbara in a manner similar to scenes from a horror movie.
"They essentially melt in front of you," said Pete Raimondi, chairman of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz's Long Marine Lab.
Stricken starfish develop white lesions that expand and sometimes turn ulcerous, then the stars start losing arms and finally — all in a matter of days or weeks — disintegrate into what some observers have described as "goo."
In September, starfish in an aquarium at the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary visitor center at the San Francisco Presidio turned sickly and perished in water pumped from the ocean.
The aquarium's other occupants — including eels, sculpin and anemones — were unaffected.
The disease has struck localized coastal areas before, most notably in Southern California in 1983-84, but is already far more widespread, and its full extent is unknown.
"We've never seen it at this scale up and down the coast," Raimondi said.
Two scientists from his staff are launching a blitz this week, intent on "sweeping the coast" of California, Oregon and Washington to quantify the outbreak over the next three to five months.
At the same time, UC Santa Cruz is conducting its annual sampling of tide pool conditions at 80 sites along the West Coast.


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I came back from a lovely holiday in sunny Queensland and sent 4 rolls of film off to the lab to be developed. With great expectations I go and pick up my film. 3 rolls more than meet these high hopes, but there was something very wrong with the 4th. The negatives were very dark and splotchy and my photos over exposed and hardly salvageable.
My first suspect: Heat
While I know most of the lomography community is wandering snowy streets and dreaming of a sunny day however down here in Australia we are having the hottest summer ever with temperatures of over 48 degrees Celsius recorded in the past few weeks. I keep all my film in the fridge until it goes in the camera but the end of this roll was unlucky enough to be exposed on a 30+ degree day. All the photos of the horses were taken on this day yet they seem the least affected, which to me seems strange.
My second suspect: The Lab
Living in the inner west of Sydney, I have many options when getting my film developed. theres the super high end, treat your negatives like gold, offered by Foto Reisl, down to the little man and his scanner in Newtown. I am a super poor uni student so when it comes to developing I send my photos to a chain who then sends them to someone else who develops them and sends them back. While it seems like an overly complicated process it only costs me $6 a roll so I’m not complaining. However, if someone in this process has opened my precious undeveloped 35mm cannister to the burny sun then I might think about taking my film elsewhere. to their defense though, all of the other three rolls were clean, unscratched and perfectly developed.
My last suspect: The Camera
I have grown to love my Nikon F80. I bought it in Prague for $100 to use as a light meter for a 1930’s Czechoslovakian TLR. However it became redundant for that purpose when I realised I owned a phone with a free app for that. For a while I considered selling it but then started to realise I really liked the fact i could load it with film, set it how i want it then push a button and the auto focus and light meter handle the rest. Its my lazy camera that I rely on for good photos, so the thought of it leaking light all over the place like my Diana is worrying indeed. But I don’t actually think it is the culprit. The photos above are taken with the same film in the same camera only days before and they are perfectly fine, but I suppose i won’t know until I buy more film and take more photos.
Do you have any ideas?
I’m still only relatively new to lomography and still finding my feet. I pick up cameras everywhere i go and try to get the best photos I can out of them, learning new things every time from how to get 12 pictures from a diana F+, to finding the right sized battery for a Bronica ETRS, to loading film properly in a Flexaret TLR and to figuring out what went wrong with my Nikon negatives. And maybe if I can figure out what went wrong I will be able to take more pictures like these

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April 26, 1986 was the day of the greatest man-made disaster in the history of mankind. On the Day of Remembrance of Chernobyl, we remember the events related to the Soviet “peaceful atom”.
According to the definition of UNSCEAR and WHO, the Chernobyl disaster is classified as a nuclear facility accident of the highest level. For 10 days — from April 26 to May 6 — the release of radioactive substances from the damaged reactor continued at the level of tens of millions of curies per day, after which it decreased thousands of times.
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was subordinated to Moscow. On April 25, 1986, at the Chornobyl NPP, the fourth power unit was supposed to be stopped experimentally in order to study the possibility of using the inertia of the turbogenerator in case of loss of power supply. Despite the fact that the technical circumstances did not correspond to the test plan, it was not canceled. The decision was made in Moscow.
During the experiment, two explosions occurred at the 4th reactor. A cloud of radioactive dust escaped into the Earth’s atmosphere, the reactor was completely destroyed. More than 30 fires broke out. The main ones were put out after an hour, and the fire was completely extinguished by 5 am on April 26.
According to the words Anatoly Demskyi, former head of the sector of the nuclear power plant safety department of the Ukrainian SSR, the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant could not be prevented, it was programmed in the very ideology of the design of the reactor, which was supposed to work with the safety systems disabled.
He named the reasons that led to the accident, including political ones, because the CPSU wanted to sell more electricity abroad, to produce radioactive elements for nuclear weapons. Demsky said this at a briefing at the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center.
Realizing that an environmental disaster of this scale would have negative consequences for the communist regime, the leadership of the USSR chose a course to silence it. All information about the Chernobyl disaster immediately came under the ideological control of the CPSU and the KGB.
On April 27, at 11:00 p.m., the Danish Nuclear Research Laboratory recorded an MPA (Maximum Design Accident) accident at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.
At the same time, a sharp increase in the radiation background was also registered in Sweden. The next day, the Swedish authorities had information about the source of the pollution and turned to Moscow with a demand to provide an explanation. At the same time, the Swedes removed 600 personnel from their nuclear plant, which was located thousands of kilometers from Chernobyl, for the sake of safety! This fact led Ihor Kulyk, Director of the Branch State Archive of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance at a briefing at UKMC.
ACCIDENT AT CHANEL NPP – 500 THOUSAND PEOPLE DIED FROM RADIATION
According to the data of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, based on the estimates of independent experts, 500,000 people died from radiation. 8.5 million residents of Ukraine and neighboring countries received significant doses of radiation in the coming days after the accident.
According to the number of accident victims, Ukraine ranks first among the former republics of the Soviet Union. 2,293 Ukrainian cities and towns with a population of approximately 2.6 million people are contaminated with radioactive nuclides.
THE FIRST INJURED AFTER THE DISASTER AT THE STATION: STORY OF THE MEDICINE
In an interview Lyudmila Julai, a paramedic from Pripyat spoke about the first victims of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
According to the woman, the people were crimson in color – as if they were badly burned on the beach. “Ambulance” brought the first injured people at night. In particular, Volodymyr Shashenka was immediately admitted to intensive care. During the explosion, he received numerous injuries, a broken spine and terrible burns from radioactive steam. The flow of radiation-affected firefighters and station employees was huge.
There were no means of protection. Lyudmila Julai remembers that she received iodine tablets only on the evening of April 26, together with all the residents of Pripyat. Pills were delivered to apartments. Medics collected the irradiated clothes, shoes, underwear, fire helmets and tarpaulin robes of the victims into a pile and carried them to the basement with their bare hands. All these radioactive things are still “sounding” there.
ALMOST 40 ACCIDENTS OCCURRED AT CHERNOBYL NPP
According to Igor Kulik, there were 37 accidents at the stations. The first accidents at the Chernobyl NPP occurred in 1978-1979, right after the first power unit was launched. There were also radiation leaks in 1982, 1983, 1984. The archive of the State Security Committee (KGB) contains documents about the construction of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, its launch in the late 1970s, the accident and the liquidation of its consequences. The documents prove that from the very beginning of the construction of this nuclear power plant, there were many violations and thefts, construction and installation work was performed poorly, technological discipline was violated. All this eventually led to an accident.
Only from 1983 to 1985, there were five accidents and 63 equipment failures at the station. The last such incident before the big accident happened in February 1986.
“In 1986, there were two accidents at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant: the first radiation leak occurred in February, but only the KGB knew about it. Many documents show that there are many violations at the station. As early as December 1976, the Pripyat KGB unit recorded constant facts of violations during construction, theft of materials, that the construction managers deliberately committed violations in order to have time to hand over the object by the next communist deadline. This is typical of totalitarian regimes, where the system is more important than the lives and safety of people,” said Kulyk.
He also emphasized that the Chernobyl disaster was one of the catalysts for the collapse of the USSR. The government’s concealment of the truth about the fact of the disaster and its consequences, the lack of information about safety measures and insufficient assistance to the victims shook the faith in the value of the communist idea even among its most loyal supporters.
UKRAINE OVERCOMED THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE ACCIDENT AT THE CHANEL NPP 37 YEARS AGO
The State Agency of Ukraine for the Management of the Exclusion Zone talked about what was done over the years that separated us from a terrible accident.
At its own expense and with the assistance of international partners, Ukraine overcame the consequences of the nuclear accident for more than three decades and achieved significant success in the implementation of international projects to decommission the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and transform the “Shelter” facility into an environmentally safe system.
During this time, a new safe confinement (“arch” is an extremely complex engineering object) was built and operated there above the “Shelter” facility. Also, the storage facility for spent nuclear fuel of the Chernobyl NPP was put into operation, the construction of the facilities of the industrial complex for solid radioactive waste management was completed and put into operation; a liquid radioactive waste processing plant was put into operation and is in operation. In 2016, the Chernobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve was created.
THE NEW MOSCOW INVASION INTO THE CHERNOBYL ZONE
April 4, 2023 is the anniversary of the de-occupation of the Chernobyl zone. At 5 a.m. on February 24, 2022, the Chernobyl zone shuddered from the aggressor’s volleys at the border and customs checkpoints. By 11 a.m. the territory of the zone was occupied by the occupiers, at 5 p.m. the Russian military occupied the territory of the Ivankiv district of the Kyiv region.
Yevhen Kramarenko, head of the State Agency for Management of the Exclusion Zone (DAZV). said that when they got to the zone after the de-occupation, they saw the destroyed checkpoint “Dityatka”, destroyed bridges, damaged buildings, offices, traces of stolen equipment and destroyed property. The North Forest bus depot was empty, fire equipment for extinguishing forest fires in the area was stolen from it. The administration building of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant remained partially undamaged because the leadership of the occupiers was based there and the Ukrainian personnel who serviced the plant were kept there.
Ukrainian specialists were held hostage for 35 days, because they did not change him. 169 National Guardsmen guarding the station were held captive in a separate room. They were locked in an anti-radiation bunker and were not released from there for 35 days. On the last day, they were taken captive to the Russian Federation. Unfortunately, the fate of most of them is currently unknown.
According to Kramarenko, the Rashists started looting everything around in the last days, when their leadership left, and the soldiers climbed around the premises, pulling out kettles, coffee makers, and office equipment. Everything they could take with them, even samples of radioactive substances from the laboratory.
The head of DAZV says that at that time they were particularly impressed by the excavation of the soil in the place where the point of temporary localization of radioactive waste located in the Red Forest is located. This is a very dangerous place.
“When we saw those trenches, we were amazed at the attitude of the Russian commanders towards the soldiers. After all, during the month that they lived there, the soldiers will definitely die, and most likely – quickly – or slowly. This is the most dangerous exposure that they were able to get in the zone of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant — exposure with dust that entered the body through the respiratory tract,” says Kramarenko.
Fortunately, the main radiation facilities in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant area remained undamaged. Among them are the Centralized Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel and the “Shelter” facility. In April 2022, safety standards for nuclear fuel storage facilities were restored in Chernobyl.
After the de-occupation of the Chernobyl zone, researchers from the capital visited there, who claimed that the forest stinks of the occupiers.


A new Yale-led study offers a new conceptual framework for understanding the biogeochemistry of watersheds. The framework combines hydrologic and biogeochemical theory to test well established concepts in watershed ecology.
The paper, published in the journal Ecology
, suggests that heavy weather events, though infrequent, cause an inordinate amount of organic material to bypass headwater systems, pushing them downstream into larger rivers, coastal waters, and inland basins.
This phenomenon can have profound ecological implications on the quality of water systems worldwide and the chemical processes that occur within them. Dissolved organic matter — a complex mix of compounds that leeches into waterways and gives rivers and streams their color — introduces nutrients and pollutants, influences the escape of carbon dioxide from the water, and can impact the amount of light that penetrates the water. That, in turn, can affect levels of phytoplankton, a major food source for many organisms.


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I was able to get off work a bit early today, so I went to Great Meadows in Concord to look for a Barn Swallow. It was sunny, very gusty, and I spotted a large, swirling mass of swallows over the lower impoundment. By the time I got to the boat ramp area, the cloud of swallows had moved over the upper impoundment. Between 4pm and 5:15 I looked at swallows. Around 4:15 I spotted a rather large, dark swallow and thinking it might be a Rough-Winged, I started following it. Oddly, though, it was uniformly dark underneath. Then it disappeared. Around 4:45, after finally spotting a Barn Swallow (FOY), the big, dark swallow turned up again, flying near the tree line over the upper impoundment trail and within 40 feet, allowing really close views over a five minute period: indigo body, light brown wings, blocky head, wide, fanned, notched tail, and several inches longer than the many nearby Tree Swallows. Quite different flight style. I managed a short video on my iPhone which at least shows its relative size and profile.
Purple Martins are uncommon in Middlesex County, and last year the first bird reported on eBird was May 2; none were reported (as far as I can tell) on eBird in 2011.
While looking at swallows a Wilson's Snipe flew in to the boat ramp area. Nice afternoon.

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Periodic Reporting for period 1 - PhotSol (Towards the Photonic Solar Cell-In-Situ Defect Characterization in Metal-Halide Perovskites)
Reporting period: 2019-07-01 to 2021-06-30
This project focusses on the physics of these solar cells, and in particular on electronic defects that are a source of performance losses. Origins of these defects could be surfaces, crystal defects, grain boundaries, or impurities. The objectives of this projects are to better characterize the role of these defects on the photovoltage of the solar cell. This goal is achieved by combining numerical modelling and experimental data, for instance to better comprehend the transient photovoltage signal. To better understand the role of (unintentional and unwanted) impurities, an approach has been selected to systematically introduce a certain impurity with a controlled concentration.
During this project, it has been found that certain impurities are highly relevant. Furthermore, common characterization methods have been critically evaluated.
A second part of this project is dedicated to a further major drawback of the common high-efficiency perovskite solar cells: They contain the toxic element lead. This project started looking into the defect physics of alternative materials (double perovskites).


Natural Gas Spill Cleanup Continues
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources says Peoples Gas is still working to clean up a natural gas leak in rural Champaign County.
Peoples Gas discovered the natural gas leak at one of its gas storage wells north of Mahomet last December. The company says the gas leaked into well water for five nearby properties.
The company’s initial efforts to repair the damage were unsuccessful. And last month, the Department of Natural Resources sent Peoples Gas a Notice of Violation, giving it 30 days to repair the environmental damage.
The 30 days are up, and the DNR says Peoples Gas is not yet finished, and remains in violation.
Peoples Gas proposes drilling four relief wells to vent the natural gas from the well water of affected property owners. It’s seeking permission from the Illinois EPA and affected homeowners, and does not have a timetable for when the work will be done


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OSIRIS-REx yesterday successfully completed its first dress rehearsal of the maneuver that will allow it in August to touch the surface of the asteroid Bennu and grab a sample.
Four hours after departing its 0.6-mile (1-km) safe-home orbit, the spacecraft performed the Checkpoint maneuver at an approximate altitude of 410 feet (125 meters) above Bennu’s surface. From there, the spacecraft continued to descend for another nine minutes on a trajectory toward – but not reaching – the location of the sampling event’s third maneuver, the “Matchpoint” burn. Upon reaching an altitude of approximately 246 ft (75 m) – the closest the spacecraft has ever been to Bennu – OSIRIS-REx performed a back-away burn to complete the rehearsal.
During the rehearsal, the spacecraft successfully deployed its sampling arm, the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), from its folded, parked position out to the sample collection configuration. Additionally, some of the spacecraft’s instruments collected science and navigation images and made spectrometry observations of the sample site, as will occur during the sample collection event.
They plan one more rehearsal, getting even closer to the asteroid, before the August 25 sample grab.
Now available in hardback and paperback as well as ebook!
From the press release: In this ground-breaking new history of early America, historian Robert Zimmerman not only exposes the lie behind The New York Times 1619 Project that falsely claims slavery is central to the history of the United States, he also provides profound lessons about the nature of human societies, lessons important for Americans today as well as for all future settlers on Mars and elsewhere in space.
Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space
, is a riveting page-turning story that documents how slavery slowly became pervasive in the southern British colonies of North America, colonies founded by a people and culture that not only did not allow slavery but in every way were hostile to the practice.
does more however. In telling the tragic history of the Virginia colony and the rise of slavery there, Zimmerman lays out the proper path for creating healthy societies in places like the Moon and Mars.
“Zimmerman’s ground-breaking history provides every future generation the basic framework for establishing new societies on other worlds. We would be wise to heed what he says.” —Robert Zubrin, founder of founder of the Mars Society.
All editions available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all book vendors. The ebook can be purchased direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit, in which case you don't support the big tech companies and I get a bigger cut much sooner. Note that the price for the ebook, $3.99, goes up to $5.99 on September 1, 2022.
Autographed printed copies are also available at discount directly from me (hardback $24.95; paperback $14.95). Just email me at zimmerman @ nasw dot org.

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Mumbai: Actor Shraddha Kapoor’s in a tight spot after a criminal case has been filed against her and the makers of her upcoming film 'Haseena Parkar' . Dressmakers A.J. Mistry and Thea Minhas say there has been a breach of contract as the actress failed to promote their fashion label.
A member of the Haseena Parkar team says both parties had mutually agreed that the brand’s logo would be prominently featured in the film and there would be ample credit in the opening titles.
“We have done both these things even though nothing was formal or official. So how can they challenge us legally? Yes, there was talk of Shraddha doing a fashion show for them. But it was clearly stated that it would depend on the time factor. If Shraddha had the time, she would have done the show. As simple as that,” says the source, who adds that they had to spend a lot of money on extra clothes.
“What was obtained from these two dressmakers was so inadequate that we had to spend Rs 20 lakh extra on Shraddha’s clothes. These are people trying to gain publicity from our film, just days away from release. If they had a genuine grievance, why did they wait until the last minute to initiate action against us?” asks the source.


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Like all technologies, 5G needs more that just the “glamor” components such as baseband ICs, RFICs, and phased-array antennas. Interconnects can make or break a design, and 5G is no exception. So, besides giving birth to active devices, 5G has also spawned a need for connectors. To that end, TE Connectivity has developed the ERFV series of compressible RF connectors.
Consisting of board-to-board, board-to-filter (screw type), board-to-filter (push-in type), and test adapters, the ERFV series are compressible, meaning that they can, for example, make contact directly with pads on a PCB. No connector is needed on the board where the ERFV makes contact. Frequency range is DC to 10 GHz, providing plenty of rage to cover 5G frequencies in the FR1 low-band and mid-band, up to 6 GHz. In the video below, TE’s Nathan Tracy explains how the ERFV series works.
In addition to the compressible connectors, TE exhibited other products for 5G/RF/wireless. To the right, we see a 2.4 GHz PCB antenna. While certainly within 5G’s FR1 band, this antenna is specifically designed for the Wi-Fi unlicensed 2.4 GHz band.
While 5G is all the rage, LTE will be around for years and engineers are still developing products that connect to it. The terminal and PCB antennas shown at left attest to that. The terminal antenna applications include Bluetooth, CDMA 1900, CDMA 850, DECT EU, GSM, GSM 1800, GSM 900, ISM, LTE, Wi-Fi, and ZigBee.


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Lucian Freud, one of the greatest, most influential British painters of our time has died at the age of 88. Get to know him a little better through text and images.
The realist painter and grandson of Sigmund Freud, became most famous for his unpleasant, often verging on the grotesque, nude portraits.
One of Freud’s most notorious paintings is that of Queen Elizabeth II who posed for Freud fully clothed. The relatively bright portrait was donated to the Queen’s collection and is one of the most controversial depictions of the monarch. Another famous work of Freud’s is ‘Benefits Supervisor Sleeping’, which sold for a record $33.64m, at Christie’s in Manhattan.
Here are a few photographs featuring Freud in various instances of his life:
If you want to find out more about Lucian Freud why not read his obituary on The Guardian


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- 10 Sweet Ways Honey Can Improve Your Life
- 10 Things Your Nurse Will Never Tell You
- How To Be Full Of Winter Spirit: 25 Fun Yet Healthy Things To Do
- Smart Ways To Avoid A Nasty Fall This Winter
- Want To Have Warm Feet Forever? Try This Amazing Trick!
- Top 5 Tips For Better Brain Health And Clearer Thinking Video
- 10 Everyday Mistakes Even Healthy People Make
Ten Mushrooms that Prevent Disease and Stop Cancer
Some of the world’s oldest and greatest natural healing systems have long used the medicinal powers of mushrooms. In both Indian and ancient Chinese medicine, mushrooms were often the prescription healers gave to persons suffering from a wide range of health issues, everything from fatigue to chronic and serious diseases. Europeans love mushrooms for their significant healing compounds, which are often thought to be due to their very dense concentration of essential nutrients.
Ancient Egyptians believed that mushrooms could grant you immortality, and the ancient Romans believed mushrooms were the foods of the gods.
Unfortunately, our toxic drug based medical communities have completely forgotten about the healing elements of many foods and plants that had kept people healthy for centuries before pharmaceutical drugs were invented. Ongoing research shows that some mushrooms are unbelievably powerful disease fighting dynamos.
Keep reading and find out the 10 healing mushrooms that offer you protection for everything from degenerative brain diseases to cancer.
1. White Button Mushrooms
Plain old white button mushrooms have more potassium, protein, selenium, and copper than almost any other mushroom. These mushrooms have powerful protection against inflammation. Inflammation in the body leads to a wide range of chronic diseases including heart disease, diabetes, and certain types of cancer.
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County looks for IT position
VINTON - The Benton County Board of Supervisors approved advertising for a new Information Technology/Geographical Informational System (GIS) position for the county, at their meeting Tuesday, Aug. 23, at the courthouse in Vinton.
Board Chairman Donald Frese pointed out the board has to decide what the pay will be, plus the benefits package. Supervisor Todd Wiley indicated it could be a salary of $60,000 to $62,000 to get the right person.
There is no salary range posted in the proposed advertisement.
Walford update, abatement
Walford Mayor Randy Bauer was at the meeting to discuss tax abatement on a parcel in his community. He also gave an update on the city’s recovery from the July storm. He thanked the landfill for being open that Sunday to allow the city to let them dump things. “We are rebuilding,” Bauer said. One house was totally destroyed. The first floor of that house is done and the second floor is almost done. The other damaged houses are moving right along, Bauer said. “Nobody was hurt, seriously,” Bauer added. “That’s the main thing.”
As for the abatement, it is at 300 Fourth Ave., west of Walford. The city fought it for years as a nuisance. It was an old duplex, Bauer said. There was a fire in 2012. The city worked for years to clean it up, then finally had the court declare it as abandoned. The judge awarded the title to the city last November. The city tore it down and cleaned up the property. They plan to put it up for sale. They will sell it if there is a decent bid. There is a property tax bill of $700. The board agreed to abate the tax. It will go back on the tax rolls when it is sold.
In other action at the board meeting, they approved the hiring of a part-time correctional officer.
The board approved use of the courthouse lawn for Boomfest, which was held Saturday, Aug. 27, for music, vendors and inflatables.
The board discussed the county maintenance shed in Urbana, and maintenance of the street in front of the shed. County Engineer Myron Parizek researched the agreement between Vinton and the county for road maintenance for the shed in Vinton. Supervisor Terry Hertle observed the county should pay its fair share for maintenance on the road. The county agreed to pay 34 percent of the project cost for the road, not to exceed $22,000.
In engineering business, the board approved a utility permit for East Central Iowa REC for work in Section 14 of Harrison Township. This is near the Brandon blacktop, to help with the fiber optic project in the area.
Bids were accepted for a bridge replacement/box culvert project in Polk Township, for a bridge over Blue Creek on 32nd Ave. This is just north of Urbana.
An agreement was approved for bridge replacement on 62nd St. over Opossum Creek.
A final Iowa Department of Transportation contract construction progress voucher with L.L. Pelling Co. Inc. was approved. They have been doing patch work on county roads this summer.


Marvel Cinematic Universe like all of us was affected by the pandemic and due to which there were delays on many projects especially considering they had to kick off Phase 4.
Thankfully, Marvel managed to release few series on Disney+ which were a great start to the phase 4.
But, there are 13 upcoming Marvel movies which are to follow them. Of course there are other TV shows which would be airing on Disney + which include She- Hulk, Moon Knight and Ms. Marvel and they are so important for the future of MCU.
Black Widow is more of a prequel and it came out late as July this year but we will still see as many as three releases of MCU movies.
All these are super exciting and personally I can’t wait to watch them and can’t imagine how many box office records they going to break!
We have to many additions to these MCU now and hope justice is served!
Here are 13 Marvel movies we are waiting for !
1. Shang- Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings – 3rd September 2021
The trailer of Shang- Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has revealed some exciting things from comics and especially the high octane fighting tournament which would be prove Shang – Chi’s destiny as Mandarin’s son and lots of action.
2. Eternals – 5th November 2021
Eternals is nothing but confusion for audiences; where were the Earth’s oldest heroes when we needed them? Why were they hiding away? Looks like our questions will be answered before the year end. And of course we have and amazing star cast affair going on there.
3. Spider – Man: No Way Home – 17th December 2021
Tom Holland is returning as the neighborhood friendly Spider – Man and we can’t wait to know what is going to happen now that everyone knows the real identity of Spider-Man thanks to Mysterio.
And the most interesting question – Are we going to see Holland’s Spider-Man meeting Maguire or Garfield’s versions and its possible to see Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus and Jamie Foxx’s Electro.
4. Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness – 25th March 2022
The movie is directed by Sam Raimi so it is going to be a big hit right there already. We will get to see the more powers of the most power characters of MCU aka Doctor Strange.
And what’s more fun is that we will be witnessing Wanda Vision along with Dr. Strange and as the name suggests, it is going to be madness to the best potential out there.
5. Thor : Love And Thunder – 6th May 2022
Thor: The Dark World was not exactly a hit, and thanks to Ragnarok, Taika Waititi saved Thor’s career and character in the MCU.
Ragnarok has been probably one of the best MCU film and Love and Thunder is promised to push things further.
Jane Foster is returning and as Mighty Thor. It’s going to be crazy for sure!
6. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – 8th July 2022
It would be interesting to see how things turn out in the second set of Black Panther movie turns out. They have had to change the scripts 5 times and sadly the demise of Chadwick Boseman means that T’Challa won’t return.
They aren’t recasting for the character which means that Shuri could take up the mantle.
The crew wants to not only make a great movie but also respect the legacy of Chad Boseman.
7. The Marvels – 11th November 2022
Captain Marvel was introduced in the Phase 3 of Marvel and now the Marvel family is set to expand with Monica Rambeau ( Wanda Vision) and Kamala Khan.
The movie would involve the return of Kree and even link the story to Secret Invasion possibly. There could be a great Skrull action and bit of back story.
We wonder how are they going to introduce Kamala Khan to her idol Captain Marvel.
8. Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania – 17th Feb 2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp : Quantumania would see the return of both Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lily, but the heroes are not the ones the MCU fans are excited for.
We are looking forward to witness Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror.
Kang is all set to make his MCU debut with this fame and he is apparently stronger than Thanos and it took half a decade to the Avengers to defeat him. How are Ant-man And Wasp going to keep up with Kang?
9. Guardians of The Galaxy Vol.3 – 5th May 2023
As of now the story details of the third installment of Guardians of the Galaxy are kept so tight though it has been confirmed that it will take place after events of Thor: Love and Thunder which means that maybe Thor would no longer be involved in the same universe.
The plot could pick up from the end of the Endgame right where Star- Lord was looking for Gamora.
10. Blade (Release Date To Be Confirmed)
This would be a fourth Blade movie on the big screen and we will get to see Mahershala Ali as the Marvel’s most famous vampire.
As per a source, Ali himself called the head of the Marvel Studios and suggested himself of the role of Blade and it lead to prompting the early announcement of Blade at Comic Con.
We hope it’s a horror movie and will be able to see how would MCU bring the balance in its world. It’s going to be a long wait as this will be a part (or a start) of Phase 5.
11. Fantastic Four ( Release Date To Be Confirmed )
Fantastic Four movies are finally coming to Marvel and we can’t wait to see what kind of justice it will serve to the characters. The new remake of the same was really bad but finally the “first family” of Marvel have arrived to the MCU.
12. Deadpool 3 (Release Date To Be Confirmed)
Deadpool 3 could be a concern to MCU as it won’t really be family – friendly franchise Marvel after all , we all know that Deadpool has no self control whatsoever.
And to be honest it is Ryan Reynolds who deserves most of the credit for the success of the films.
Kevin Feige has confirmed that the movie will be R rated and so that means hopefully there will be no censoring Deadpool.
13. Captain America 4 (Release Date To Be Confirmed)
By the impact of pandemic on the release of The Flacon and The Winter Soldier, Captain America 4’s announced came hot on tails on the show’s finale on Disney+ .
The story could possibly showcase more of Contessa Valentina and John Walker and it will be exciting to see the secrets unfold for the MCU fans as the comics fans anyway know a lot comparatively. Will John Walker end up being a hero or just another clueless hero acting on orders of wicked agencies?


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Therefore, Green Geological maintains the most extensive assortment of archival grade Cardboard Microscope Slides in the industry. Our Cardboard Microslides are manufactured utilizing an Acid Free and Lignin free paper. These archival grade preservation slides safely preserve your foram specimens from exposure to the harsh chemicals typically used in paper manufacturing. Most types of foraminifera and flora specimens will quickly deteriorate when exposed to the Acids and Lignin’s found in most paper and cardboard products manufactured today.

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- Introduction: What is the Metaverse
- The Evolution of Gaming
- Play-To-Earn (Web3) Gaming
- Next-Gen Web3 Gaming
- Metaverse Games
Introduction: What is the Metaverse
Billions of people interact in digital spaces daily, whether it’s checking social media, sending a work email, or playing video games. In fact, over 80% of the world’s population (6.5+ billion people) own a smartphone, which pushes access to digital experiences even deeper into our everyday lives. Thus, the “metaverse” is already here to some extent. Indeed, the metaverse can be thought of as an extension of the mobile internet, but its full fruition will result in even more pervasive, and much more immersive, digital experiences than we are used to today.
Many conflate the metaverse with contemporary AR/VR devices (e.g. Occulus), 3D worlds (e.g. Decentraland), or massive-multiplayer-online games (e.g. Fortnite); however, this is like saying the mobile internet is equivalent to the iPhone, or equivalent to a specific application like Instagram. The metaverse should not be thought of as being constrained to a single device, and will be made up of many different digital spaces and games.
As Matthew Ball puts it: “The Metaverse is a massively scaled and interoperable network of real-time rendered 3D virtual worlds which can be experienced synchronously and persistently by an effectively unlimited number of users with an individual sense of presence, and with continuity of data, such as identity, history, entitlements, objects, communications, and payments.” His last point on “continuity” is important.
Problems with Web2 Metaverse
We experience continuity of data to some extent today. When I sign into Instagram I see my friends list and posts. The Google Chrome browser tracks my browsing and search history. Telegram stores my conversations. And the bank keeps record of my account balance, updating it based on incoming and outgoing transactions.
But this continuity is limited. Web2 data streams are siloed from one another. My digital conversations are split between Instagram, Telegram, iMessage, and Gmail (Google). My username and friends lists are spread across multiple social media platforms: Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
The negative implications of this are made especially clear when thinking about in-app purchases. For example, Fortnite skins are locked inside the game. Skins cannot be reused in other games or digital worlds. If Fortnite were to disappear, so would all in-app purchases associated with it. In-game currencies are similar. Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, and Call of Duty all have different currencies that can only be used within their respective game.
Furthermore, centralized companies that provide the services described above – Meta, Apple, Google, Telegram Group, Fidelity, Epic Games – have full control of user application data. At any point they could modify user data, or prevent a user from accessing it. These companies also must be trusted to keep user data secure and private; however, most reserve the right to sell user data to advertisers, which users must comply with lest they are willing to endure high switching costs and loss of the global user networks available on legacy platforms.
Thus, the current metaverse is closed and permissioned in that data is siloed and users authenticate through centralized gatekeepers. Users do not own or control their identity, application data, and digital purchases. Fortunately, the blockchain solves these problems and enables an open metaverse.
Open Metaverse – The Full Web3 Vision
An open metaverse is one that is not owned by any single entity, and where users can own and trade their digital goods. This requires that metaverse content, economy, and payments are built on decentralized Web3 technologies. Cryptocurrencies and NFTs, instantiated on the blockchain, enable users to own scarce digital resources like in-game items and digital money, and permissionlessly trade them with one another.
Outlier Ventures’ “Open Metaverse” thesis argues that such a metaverse requires the following Web3 primitives:
- Programmable internet money (e.g. BTC, ETH, other fungible tokens)
- Scarce digital goods (NFTs)
- Own/custody of digital goods and money (wallets)
- Decentralized web stack for application hosting (i.e. storage, compute, middleware, domains, network)
- User-controlled application data in personal data stores
- Self-sovereign identity and credentials (e.g. DIDs and VCs)
- Decentralized communities and governance (e.g. DAOs)
It makes sense to begin by discussing blockchain-based gaming. To be clear, the metaverse will certainly be much more than just gaming with potential activities ranging from recreation, work, creativity/design, and education; however, such a metaverse will likely start with billions of users playing Web3 games, which implies onboarding to crypto wallets and accumulating in-game NFTs.
The Evolution of Gaming
Gaming has gone through several stages of evolution. Think back to arcade games – each session was paid for with change. Moving into computer and console games, gamers would make a one-time licensing payment instead of paying for every session. This was the “pay-to-play” era of gaming.
Next, smartphones were invented, which ushered in hyper-casual gaming. Mobile games were developed that attracted new players, and expanded the gaming category overall (e.g. Candy Crush with 271 million monthly active users). Also during this time there was a shift into the “free-to-play” (F2P) era of gaming where games were monetized through advertising and in-game purchases. F2P is not limited to just mobile. Some of the most popular F2P games today are cross-platform and include Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite.
Web3 is ushering in a new era of gaming that enables players to earn, and own, valuable in-game assets. This marks the shift into the “play-to-earn” (P2E) era of gaming. Web3 gamers will benefit from:
- Digital property rights – users own their in-game items as NFTs, and even if the game stops operation, the items will still exist in user wallets, and other developers can still honor the utility of
- Open, secondary markets increase liquidity of in-game items
- Provenance of in-game items – gamers will be willing to pay premiums on items owned, and used, but their favorite professional gamers
- On-chain, cross-game reputation
- Web3 native payments for tournaments and prize pools
And Web3 developers benefit as well from:
- More options for monetization (NFT drops, royalties on P2P trading)
- Potential to capture more value and avoid platforms costs through direct monetization with player communities (e.g. avoid Apple’s 30% App Store commission)
- Better funding mechanisms (fund via community) and bootstrap player adoption with crypto incentives
- Game-to-game interoperability and leverage open, user-generated content
Play-To-Earn (Web3) Gaming
Earning happens in one of two ways – either during gameplay through the accumulation of fungible in-game tokens (e.g. GODS, AXS, GHST, MANA, ILV), or by collecting, and potentially leveling up, in-game NFTs that appreciate in value (e.g. Axie creature NFTs).
Axie Infinity is the most popular P2E game to date, is similar to Pokemon with its turn-based gameplay dynamics, and is hosted on the Ronin blockchain, which was purpose-built by parent company Sky Mavis. Axies are cartoonish creatures that are collectible as NFTs and that have attributes (health, morale, skill, speed) that are leveled up through combat.
Players earn Smooth Love Potion (SLP) for winning battles, and new Axies can be bred from existing Axies and sold as NFTs on secondary markets. Axies also belong to a class and exhibit traits of varying levels of rarity. These genetics influence the resulting genetics, and rarity, of offspring.
Axie Infinity became popular in some parts of the developing world because players could earn significant sums of money through gameplay. The Philippines became known for its adoption of Axie Infinity, and spurred the emergence of Web3 gaming guilds (e.g. YGG) that lend Axie NFTs to professional players. Upfront costs can be prohibitively expensive because players need three Axie NFTs to begin playing, and a competitive line-up can cost several hundred dollars.
Card games are also a popular P2E genre. Some popular card games include Gods Unchained (on Immutable), Splinterlands (on Hive and WAX), and Alien Worlds (on WAX and BNB Chain). Often gamers can start playing for free with a starter pack of cards, but often don’t start earning until they purchase more advanced card NFTs, or join ranked tournaments. Cards are collectible as NFTs as you might expect.
Arcade-style games are also popular, especially on mobile, which include Benji Bananas (on Ethereum & Polygon) by Animoca Brands, and Trickshot Blitz (Flow) and Solitaire Blitz (Flow) by Joyride Studios. STEP’N (on Solana) is a mobile game where players purchase sneaker NFTs, and earn by exercising. It’s considered a “move-to-earn” as movement is metered and rewarded based on GPS tracking.
Problems with P2E Games
P2E games are often criticized for their basic turn-based gameplay and for placing too much emphasis on the “earn” component of the game. Some believe P2E games are over-financialized and too much like work.
Also, players are typically required to purchase NFTs in order to start playing as this has been the primary monetization method for blockchain game developers. Needless to say this creates friction when onboarding to P2E games, and has made some P2E games inaccessible to some gamers who either can’t afford the upfront cost, or who are not willing to install a Web3 wallet and purchase crypto.
Some believe the economics of P2E games are not sustainable, and that earning is only feasible when the game is growing and speculators are pushing up the price of the in-game cryptocurrencies.
Finally, sometimes success in P2E games is dictated more by the NFT a player can afford rather than his merit or skill. This has been termed “pay-to-win”, which some argue cheapens the game, and makes it not fun to play.
Next-Gen Web3 Gaming
All of these criticisms are being addressed in real-time. Billions in VC funding is being used to build the next-generation of Web3 gaming infrastructure and content.
AAA Gaming Studios
Major game studios are investing in the next wave of blockchain gaming and are expected to focus on engaging gameplay dynamics and compelling storylines. All of the following are games built with Unreal Engine 5 by AAA game studios. Unreal Engine will bring a whole new level of immersiveness to blockchain games as in-game NFTs will display as beautiful 3D renders.
Off the Grid is a next-gen cyberpunk battle royale game that integrates storyline and character progression. Personalized weapons, outfits, and accessories are in-game items that players can trade, but players will not be required to purchase in-game items in order to play, and the maker, Gunzilla Games, has already said that it will never sell NFTs directly to its player community. Off the Grid will launch on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.
Shrapnel is a first-person shooter built on top of its own Avalanche subnet. Neon Machine, the game maker, has taken a unique approach with its emphasis on user-generated content in Shrapnel. Players create maps that others can use and vanity items that are traded on Shrapnel’s marketplace. This is an incentive for creators to populate Shrapnel and enhance the gaming experience for the entire community, all without involvement from Neon Machine.
Star Atlas is a space adventure and MMO strategy game built on top of Solana to support its “galactic economy”. Players choose between three factions (MUD, ONI, USTUR) and Star Atlas’ marketplace features a variety of ownable in-game assets like ships, access badges, resources, and more. Star Atlas will be released on PC.
Illuvium is an open-world exploration, monster collector and autobattler game built on the Immutable blockchain for PC/Mac. The monsters are called Illuvials and can be discovered and leveled up just like in Pokemon.
Other blockchain games are being built for more casual gamers. Mythical Games says it wants to “invite players to become stakeholders in the game’s economy by giving them ownership of their digital collections”, and “open new doors of revenue for game developers”. The studio’s blockchain game titles include Blankos Block Party (open-world multiplayer party game), Rivals (arcade-style football game where you collect players and level them up), Nitro Nation (race cars for a chance to win your rival’s cars), Magic Fight (sorcery battle card game).
Also, Sorare and Dapper Labs are in the blockchain sports category. Sorare allows players to collect sports cards (soccer, NBA, MBA), build lineups and enter contents, and compete to win prizes. Dapper Labs is best known for Cryptokities and NBA Topshot, and has expanded its sport highlight NFTs into UFC and NFL.
Below is a thorough list of blockchain gaming studios, originally provided in Naavik’s Blockchain Gaming Q3 2022 Report.
Small budget, big ambition developers: Rooniverse, Playmint, First Light Games, Blockstars, Village Studio, Genopets, Galaxy Fight Club, Crypto Raiders, Gallium Studios, Heroes of Mavia, Horizon Blockchain Games, Lucky Kat Studios, etc.
Double A developers: Laguna Games, Xterio, Big Time Studios, Faraway, Azra Games, Metatheory, LavaLabs, Upland, Sipher, Illuvium, Gunzilla Games, Klang Games, Playful Studios, Iskra, Joyride Games, Gameplay Galaxy, etc.
Triple A developers: Mythical Games, Star Atlas, Immutable, Sky Mavis, Sorare, Yuga Labs, Dapper Labs, The Sandbox, Animoca Brands, Limit Break, Neon Machine, etc.
New Business Models (Free-to-Own)
Blockchain game developers are experimenting with new business models. To date, the primary revenue channel for blockchain games has been NFT drops, where an NFT purchase is required to access the game itself. “Free to own” is an emerging blockchain gaming trend, which removes this upfront purchase for players. Game studios absorb the cost of developing valuable game IP (characters, assets, storyline) and give it away to players for free. Gabriel Leydon is pioneering the F2O space with the free mint of 2,022 DigiDaigaku NFTs in a lead up to his much anticipated game, Limit Break.
Game developers can still monetize by up-selling premium NFTs (e.g. vanity rather than utility), configuring royalties on P2P trades, and through advertising. Also, owning in-game NFTs essentially gives players partial ownership of the game, which may be an effective mechanism for bootstrapping user adoption.
This financially aligns game developers and their player communities – both benefit from the game becoming more popular. The price of in-game tokens will increase, which generates capital gains, especially for early-adopters. And also increasing popularity will result in more secondary sales, and more royalty revenue, for game developers. Thus, the player community is incentivized to promote and evangelize the game, creating a free, decentralized marketing network for the game developer.
Web3 Game Infrastructure
Blockchain games are currently difficult to develop – they require blockchain expertise to build, and suffer from hurdles such as the UX of network fees, wallets, and compliance with government regulation.
The next-generation of blockchain games will be enabled by Web3 infrastructure that make blockchain game development more seamless. Web3 game developer platforms make it so that game developers can quickly integrate token economies into games with a few lines of code and without custom blockchain development. This reduces cost and time-to-market for Web3 game development. Also, they improve the Web3 game onboarding experience with native wallet solutions.
Such platforms include Sequence, Stardust, Joyride, Mythical, and Faraway. These platforms provide SDKs for integrating tokens into web dApps, or Unity and Unreal Engine games. Some also provide dashboards for game analytics and to manage a game’s token economy.
First and foremost, Web3 game platforms support the ability to mint, burn, and transfer NFTs (and fungible tokens) using HTTP APIs. Going further, Sequence provides a token indexing API, which allows game developers to query a player’s token balance and transfer history, as well quickly render token metadata (i.e. image and attributes) on the app/game’s frontend.
Next, these platforms help developers standup custom NFT marketplaces that support direct NFT sales to player communities and player-to-player trading of in-game assets. Stardust’s Marketplace (i.e. dashboard and API) allows game developers to set item permissions (e.g. enable/disable P2P trading) and configure royalties.
These platforms also offer wallet solutions with email/social login that provides Web2 users with a familiar sign-up, and recurring authentication, experience. Such solutions prevent users from having to download a third-party wallet application, and manually backup seed phrases. Sequence provides a non-custodial smart contract wallet called Sequence Wallet, Stardust provides a custodial wallet called Stardust Vault, and Joyride also offers a “wallet-as-a-service”.
There are a couple other interesting features related to wallets. Sequence offers a Relayer service that makes it so that players can submit gasless transactions (that are sponsored by the game developers). Thus, players don’t need cryptocurrency in order to play. Also, these wallet solutions were built with compliance in mind (i.e. anti-money laundering and money transfer regulation).
Finally, game development platforms offer dashboards for managing the game and its token economy. These dashboards provide metrics and control over:
- Player inventories and accounts (e.g. which NFTs they own)
- Player metrics (e.g. active player count and new player count)
- Game NFT metrics (e.g. # of NFTs minted, tokens traded)
- Marketplaces (e.g. NFT floor price, floor price, highest price)
Virtual world builders are another popular category in Web3 gaming. Currently, the most popular titles include Decentraland, Sandbox, and Cryptovoxels. Users explore virtual worlds with customizable avatars, and can also purchase, and own, land in these worlds. Land plots are represented as NFTs, and players holding these NFTs can build on their land plots. Such games have creator tools for building on the land, either with pre-designed 3D objects, or by importing custom assets rendered in Blender, for example.
Land plots, and other objects like wearables, are bought and sold in NFT marketplaces. Meanwhile luxury fashion labels (Gucci and Louis Vuitton) have released 3D NFT wearables, and digital fashion marketplaces are appearing like The Dematerialized and UNXD. Indeed, wearables will be important as users are represented by their metaverse avatars and, just like in real life, how the avatar looks, and what the avatar wears will be important for customizing an identity.
Other projects like OnCyber and Microverse are centered around the social aspect of NFTs. OnCyber allows users to customize a virtual art gallery that displays their NFT art. And the microverse was built to provide NFT communities with new virtual experiences. Instead of solely communicating on Discord, the microverse allows community members to interact with each other, using their NFTs as avatars, in token-gated game-like environments. These environments can be customized with NFT minting machines, AI characters, and NFT collectibles/wearables.
You can think of these as the first-wave of metaverse projects; however, more sophisticated metaverses are emerging at this time.
All metaverse projects have some aspect of user-generated content, or community-led development. Virtual worlds are about letting users modify their surroundings, and develop land as they see fit; however, some metaverses go even deeper when it comes to community participation. Everything happens from the ground-up, and the storylines are built out by the collective.
Yuga Labs’ Otherside metaverse is perhaps the best example of a highly anticipated, community-led metaverse project. Yuga Labs started by either generating or acquiring some of the most viral and well-known NFTs in all of Web3. These NFTs include:
- Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC)
- Bored Ape Kennel Club (BAKC)
- Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC)
Think of these NFTs as the company’s intellectual property around which Yuga Labs is building Otherside content. Yuga Labs next released land plot NFTs called Otherdeeds. Finally, Yuga Labs launched ApeCoin, which is a fungible token that is said to power the Otherside metaverse. Holders of NFTs from the top three collections above were airdropped both Otherdeed NFTs and ApeCoin.
Yuga Labs is building a rich narrative around these assets, and the Otherside metaverse as a whole. There are several types of Otherdeeds each containing different resources, and some Otherdeeds are inhabited by rare Kodas, which are dangerous creatures that are central to the Otherside storyline. This storyline and recognizable IP is what differentiates Otherside from the virtual world builders described in the previous section.
And Yuga Labs is just providing the seed. The Otherside metaverse will expand and evolve based on decisions and content contributed by its community. Creators, and the community at large, will be able to manufacture objects (avatars, environments, and games) using Otherside’s Open Data Kits, or ODKs. Also, important decisions such as project selection, funds allocation, setting rules, and electing a 5-member board are being made in decentralized fashion. The ApeCoin DAO votes on these proposals, thus the community of ApeCoin holders collectively decide on the direction and development of the Otherside metaverse.
Loot is another metaverse project that has this same bottom-up, community-led dynamic. Loot NFTs were originally free to mint. They are essentially text files containing the names of adventure game items in a bulleted list format. Game content and storylines are typically dictated from the top down; however, the Lootverse is being built from the bottom-up through open-source contributions from the community. The community has many active projects, and some notable contributions include:
- Adventure Gold (each Loot NFT gets 10,000 AGLD)
- Role (create your character and change traits like strength, gender, etc.)
- Realms (a unique map is generated for each Loot NFT)
- Loot: Explorers (visualize your Loot items on characters, creates PFPs out of Loot NFTs)


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More than forty years after it first started illegally contaminating the environment with radioactivity, the Dounreay nuclear plant has finally admitted guilt.
The Caithness plant's operator, the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), pleaded guilty at Wick Sheriff Court today to four charges of breaching radiation safety legislation. The sentence was deferred until 15th February.
Three of the charges were brought because thousands of radioactive fuel fragments leaked into the sea from Dounreay between 1963 and 1984, polluting local beaches and prompting a ban on fishing. The fourth charge arose because radioactive rubble from the nuclear plant was dumped on a local landfill site between 1963 and 1975.
The UKAEA was convicted under the Radioactive Substances Act for "unauthorised disposals" of radioactive waste to drains and to landfill. It was also found guilty of a "failure to prevent fragments of irradiated nuclear fuel being discharged into the environment".
The UKAEA's director of safety, Dr John Crofts, accepted that mistakes had been made. "UKAEA deeply regrets that some particles were released from the site," he said.
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The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), which initiated the prosecution, welcomed Dounreay's conviction. "This outcome serves as a valuable lesson to UKAEA and others that poor waste management practices will not be tolerated," said the agency's chief executive, Campbell Gemmell.
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Y. Mizuno, S. Hagiwara, N. Matsutani, K. Noda, H. Lee, and K. Nakamura, “Observation of multimodal interference in millimeter-long polymer optical fibers,” IEICE Electron. Express, vol. 16, no. 8, 20190135 (2019).
We observe multimodal interference in single-mode-multimode-single-mode sensors comprising short polymer optical fibers (POFs) with lengths from 100 mm down to 7 mm. Characteristic spectral peaks/dips are observed not in the conventionally used telecom band but around 1000 nm. We find that the dip wavelength depends on temperature but that the sensitivity is much lower than those obtained in the longer wavelength range when longer POFs are used. We discuss the possibility that, even with the reduced sensitivity, our success in observing multimodal interference in millimeter-long optical fibers will be a basis toward the combined use of frequency and intensity information in conventional fiber-optic single-point sensors for discriminative measurement of multiple physical parameters.


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AMARILLO -- Amarillo City Councilors are looking into using Lake Meredith water in the city water supply.
They listened to a presentation in the city council work session this afternoon.
As we reported last week, CRMWA voted to start pumping from the lake again.
They will also continue to pull from area wells.
No action is being taken yet.
They are still gathering information.
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