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With the current world population growth of 1.2%, the earth can expect to house 9-10 billion people by 2050. Food production, too, must increase to accommodate these numbers. Easy growing, high calorie, nutritious foods, such as bananas are the top priority as a solution to this imminent problem.
The first comprehensive compendium on bananas in recent years, Banana Breeding: Progress and Challenges provides in-depth coverage of all aspects of banana breeding and genetics, including biotechnology. A wide-ranging compilation of chapters by various experts, the book begins with a chapter on the general plant morphology of Musa. It continues with chapters such as Evolution and Genetic Relationships in Bananas and Plantains, Genetic Resources for Banana Improvement, Genomes, Cytogenetics, Flow Cytometry of Musa, and Genetics of Important Traits in Musa as well as two chapters that cover the major diseases and pests of banana.
The central focus of the book is encompassed in chapters such as Reproductive Biology, Breeding Techniques, Mutations and Cultivar Development of Banana, Biotechnology in Musa Improvement, and Genotype by Environment Interaction and Musa Improvement. The latter chapter offers tools for selecting both narrowly adapted and broadly adapted cultivars. The chapters on quality improvement of cultivated Musa and postharvest processed products provide researchers and teachers with information to improve quality aspects of banana along with information on how to reduce postharvest losses.
General Plant Morphology of Musa
Deborah Karamura, Eldad Karamura, and Guy Blomme
Evolution and Genetic Relationships in Banana and Plantains
Uma Subbaraya, Marimuthu S. Saraswathi, and Michael Pillay
Genetic Resources for Banana Improvement
Markku Häkkinen and Richard Wallace
Genomes, Cytogenetics, and Flow Cytometry of Musa
Michael Pillay and Abdou Tenkouano
Genetics of Important Traits in Musa
Eli Khayat and Rodomiro Ortiz
Major Diseases of Banana
Guy Blomme, Simon Eden-Green, Mohammed Mustaffa,
Bartholemew Nwauzoma, and Raman Thangavelu
Integrated Pest Management of Banana
Thomas Dubois and Daniel L. Coyne
Jeanie Anne Fortescue and David William Turner
Abdou Tenkouano, Michael Pillay, and Rodomiro Ortiz
Mutations and Cultivar Development of Banana
Shri Mohan Jain, Bradley Till, Prasnna Suprasanna, and Nicolas Roux
Biotechnology in Musa Improvement
Genotype by Environment Interaction and Musa Improvement
Rodomiro Ortiz and Abdou Tenkouano
Quality Improvement of Cultivated Musa
Edson Perito Amorim, Sebastião de Oliveira e Silva,
Vanusia Batista de Oliveira Amorim, and Michael Pillay
Postharvest Processed Products from Banana
Cherukatu Kalathil Narayana and Michael Pillay
Propagation Methods in Musa
Michael Pillay, Christopher A. Cullis, David Talengera, and Leena Tripathi
Hybrid Distribution to Farmers: Adoption and Challenges
Abdou Tenkouano, Michael Pillay, and Ousmane Coulibaly
Molecular Breeding of Other Vegetatively Propagated Crops: Lessons for Banana
Michael Pillay, Abdou Tenkouano, and Rodomiro Ortiz
Rodomiro Ortiz, Michael Pillay, and Abdou Tenkouano
At last, a book that focuses on banana breeding. Not only are Musa breeding techniques, strategies and philosophies detailed in ways not done before, but there are also comparisons made with breeding three other clonally propagated tropical crops and the lessons they can teach banana scientists. In addition, there are chapters by various authors covering such topics as Musa genetic resources, morphology, pests and diseases, fruit quality, propagation and dissemination of hybrid cultivars, as well as the latest developments in biotechnology and genomics. They complement one another and point the way forward to the development of new cultivars with disease and pest resistance, while satisfying consumer expectations.
The chapters reflect the personal and practical experiences of the authors and the editors are to be congratulated on compiling an excellent new resource on bananas and banana breeding. This book provides basic as well as advanced information for those interested in learning more about banana, as well as those pursuing further research in the crop. Excellent bibliographies in many chapters provide a valuable documentation of the diverse research activity that has taken place in the past few decades and should be of use to serious scholars. I recommend this book to all interested in the genetic improvement of tropical crops, particularly those interested in banana breeding and production.
—Mike Smith, Experimental Agriculture, 2011


This is our annual roundup of the British Movie Institute’s largest distribution awards in 2022. The BFI helps cinema releases in two methods. award for supporting a number of titles.
Joachim TrierThe Cannes profitable romcom The worst particular person on this planet (£105,785) topped this 12 months’s particular person awards. The cash went to MUBI, the movie’s UK distributor, “with a large launch and an formidable advertising and marketing marketing campaign designed to succeed in a extra mainstream, youthful feminine viewers (aged 18 to 30) not presently engaged in foreign-language cinema,” the BFI : stated:
The Norwegian movie opened within the UK on March 25 and grossed over £900,000. The second title went to the Austrian movie director Marie Kreutzer Corsage (£75,000), that includes Vicky Cripps. The interval drama additionally debuted at Cannes and was launched within the UK by Picturehouse in December.
Altitude was probably the most supported distributor final 12 months with a corporation prize of £199,064. The subsequent most backed firm was documentary movie distributor Dogwoof, which raised £125,000 to assist “develop a regional and numerous viewers for documentaries”.
You’ll be able to see the complete record of recipients beneath.
The most important particular person movie awards of 2022.
The worst particular person on this planetMUBI (£105,785)
CorsagePicturehouse Leisure (£75,000)
After the solarMUBI (£75,000)
Occurs [UK Distribution Campaign]Picturehouse (£40,000.00)
Little English, [UK Tour]Useful resource Productions CIC (£40,000)
The vacationPicturehouse (£39,000)
Nice freedomMUBI (£30,000)
The Gravedigger’s SpouseAya Movies CIC (£28,920)
TigersStudio Soho Distribution Restricted (£20,000)
Queen of gloryBohemia Media Restricted (£15,802)
The group’s largest awards to distributors.
Altitude Movie Distribution (£199,064)
Dogwoof Ltd (£125,000)
Peccadillo Photos Ltd (£113,500)


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Chairwoman Romanado, Vice-Chairmen Cumming and Lemire and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology today on behalf of SpaceX and our Starlink broadband system. The committee’s hearing on accessibility and affordability of telecommunications services is timely and critically important.
As this committee is well aware, COVID-19 has brought into high relief the urgent need for universal, affordable high-speed broadband access. Even before the pandemic, though, Canada’s connectivity strategy noted that “rural and remote communities have identified challenges accessing affordable, high-speed Internet as the number one issue impeding their economic growth.”
With Starlink recently authorized by ISED to offer services throughout Canada, SpaceX looks forward to helping to close the digital divide in Canada, particularly in remote and rural areas that most suffer from broadband gaps.
By way of background, SpaceX today is the world’s largest launch services provider measured by missions under contract. We design, manufacture and launch our reusable Falcon launch vehicles and spacecraft for missions to earth orbit and ultimately beyond.
In this endeavour, SpaceX has had a long and productive partnership with Canada and Canadian industry. In June of last year, for example, SpaceX successfully lofted into orbit three RCM satellites built by MDA for the Canadian Space Agency’s RADARSAT constellation. In 2018, as Dan noted, SpaceX, over the course of two separate missions, launched Telesat’s Telstar 19 Vantage and 18 Vantage telecommunications satellites.
Perhaps most notably, in March 2019, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques became the first person to enter the Crew Dragon spacecraft while attached to the International Space Station, an important marker on the path to Crew-1, the first operational crew mission to the ISS that SpaceX successfully launched this past Sunday for our partner NASA and last night docked.
Given this history, SpaceX is proud to be embarking on another journey with Canada with Starlink, our next-generation space-based Internet system that will deliver high-speed broadband to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive or completely unavailable. SpaceX wishes to thank Minister Bains, Minister Monsef, the professional staff at ISED’s spectrum planning and engineering office, the CRTC, Global Affairs Canada, Natural Resources Canada and many others, including members of this committee, for working with us throughout the regulatory process.
We are putting our Canadian approvals to good use. Within a week of receiving our licences, SpaceX began shipping Starlink kits into Canada for our early customers, including indigenous communities, and we are starting our public beta rollout for Canadians as we speak.
Canadians are increasingly relying on the Internet. Statistics Canada shows that the share of Canadians age 15 and older using the Internet rose from 83% in 2012 to 91% in 2018. As consumer demands on speed and capacity continue to grow, however, disparities in access and competitive choice persist for many communities. Indeed, 60% of rural Canadian households lack access to broadband, defined as 50 megabits per second down and 10 megabits per second up.
As a result, the Canadian government has established a bold and historic commitment: to connect 98% of Canadians across the country to high-speed Internet within the next six years and all Canadians by 2030.
Importantly, the government focused its initiatives on several key areas, including rapid deployment to address broadband gaps during the pandemic; diversity in technology pathways, recognizing that no single solution will suffice to support all Canadians; scalability, to ensure networks can grow as demand and uses of the Internet change over time; affordability; and, network quality and resiliency, particularly in the rugged environments in the north.
SpaceX strongly supports these goals, and I therefore want to direct the remainder of my statement to discussing how Starlink aligns with them.
As an initial matter, Starlink is a technology ideally suited for Canada. The constellation of Starlink satellites flying close to the earth will reach across Canada’s vast territory, whether small rural communities, rugged mountains or craggy coastlines, where the cost to deploy more traditional solutions often inhibits a return on investment and consequently defers infrastructure build-out.
Even in its current beta phase, Starlink exceeds Canada’s requirements of 50/10 megabits per second per user. Our early beta testing in the United States is demonstrating speeds of over 100 megabits per second to individual households, with latencies of less than 40 milliseconds.
Even in remote locations Canadians will have access to broadband with the performance necessary for remote learning, teleworking, telehealth, video conferencing and even competitive gaming.
With nearly 900 Starlink satellites already in orbit, Starlink is able to provide service to large portions of Canada now, including parts of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Atlantic Canada.
As we continue to launch satellites and with future regulatory approvals in Canada, Starlink will reach even higher latitudes in the other provinces and even in the north. Because Starlink consumer equipment involves a plug-and-play device, deployment speeds become a matter of shipping timelines. Therefore, Starlink certainly is rapidly deployable.
SpaceX is well known for continually iterating and improving our technology. For the Starlink system this means incremental innovation in both our satellites in space and the consumer equipment on the ground. This iterative approach to system design allows us to inject feedback and both improve performance and expand available capacity on an ongoing basis.
The feedback from our early beta testing in the U.S. and Canada will allow us to fine-tune the Starlink service offerings over time, and with the ongoing addition of more satellites, the system can scale as market demand grows and can adjust to the ever-evolving use of the Internet.
Since our first deployment 18 months ago, SpaceX has established a regular cadence of two Starlink launches, totalling 120 satellites per month, and set a record last month alone of deploying 180 Starlink satellites.
Finally, affordability is a key factor for SpaceX since Starlink is fundamentally optimized as a direct consumer service. SpaceX is designing the system from end to end with cost effectiveness and reliability in mind. As our services grow and we transition from low- to high-volume production, we remain focused on further lowering the cost.
Madam Chair and members of the committee, thank you again for the opportunity to participate in this hearing. We're poised to offer reliable high-speed Starlink broadband to Canadians across the country.
I look forward to answering any questions you might have.

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African lions are most likely to hunt prey on moonless nights, and especially on nights following a full, bright moon, the Telegraph reports. A study looked at roughly 500 lion attacks on Tanzanian villagers over the past two decades, and found that a vast majority occurred between dusk and 10pm on nights with waning moonlight. Lions generally can't hunt on bright nights, so a full moon means they're out of luck—and getting hungry.
''People start out at moderate danger during days 0-4, when the moon is only a sliver and sets shortly after sunset," said an expert on lion behavior. As the moon gets bigger, danger of an attack gets relatively smaller. "Then, wham, danger spikes as those hungry lions can now operate in darkness for the rest of the lunar cycle." They also found that rainy seasons that often hide the moon with clouds lead to an increase in attacks. (Read more lion stories.)

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Qatar detected 1,581 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, which brings the total of active cases in the country on Thursday to 24,228, according to the Ministry of Health.
For more coronavirus news, visit our dedicated page.
The new cases were recorded after 4,649 people were tested in the past 24 hours. This brings the total number of people tested in Qatar so far to 241,086, the ministry said.
A total of 210 acute hospital admissions have been made on Thursday, raising the total number of people currently under acute hospital care to 1,646.
Meanwhile, 14 people have been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the last 24 hours. In total, there are 239 people in the ICU.
Currently, the coronavirus death toll in Qatar is 45.
Greece on Tuesday halted all flights to and from Qatar after 12 people on a plane from Doha tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
The individuals were on a flight carrying 91 people from Doha to Athens that landed on Monday. Tests were carried out for the novel coronavirus and the passengers were taken to a quarantine hotel, authorities said.

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Original oil paintings with the process described by the artist. Paintings are for sale, and the process is educational.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Rocks and Water
another beautiful day in Colorado. 6 x 8 inch study on location with Pikes Peak Plein Aire Painters. I travel light with a small paint box and lightweight easel. 3 geese hung out with us while we were painting, and the sound of rushing water was like music. Painting outdoors is the best.

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Injury expert issues Bamford fear after 'significant' Leeds event last night
Patrick Bamford must prove he is unscathed following his return to play last night before he features for the Leeds United first team.
So says injury expert Ben Dinnery, who runs the Premier Injuries site and has a background in medicine and data analysis.
Bamford played 90 minutes as Leeds’ under-23 fell to a 3-2 defeat against Man City’s development side on 29 November.
It was the 28-year-old centre-forward’s first football since he sustained an ankle injury back in mid-September.
Leeds, who have won just twice in Bamford’s absence, face Crystal Palace this evening.
Dinnery predicts the clash will come too soon for Bamford, whose return timeline will depend on how he responds to last night’s exertions.
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“Bamford got injured in game week five so he has been out for a substantial period of time,” he told Football Insider correspondent Adam Williams.
“He is the focal point in that Leeds team and his role requires a high work rate. So Bielsa won’t want to be too hasty in his reintroduction.
“But it’s still early days. It’s a significant event, playing for the under-23s. We’ll have to see if there is any reaction from his involvement.
“If he comes through fully fit and has trained fully, we might see him in the matchday squad soon.
“But Bielsa may want to give him another run-out for the under-23s and then look to get him involved from the bench in game week 16.”
Bamford contributed one goal and three assists in six matches before his ankle setback.
His teammate Luke Ayling, who has missed 10 matches with a knee injury, also featured for the under-23s last night.

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As I’ve mentioned in a couple of earlier posts, my father’s family originated from today’s Western Ukraine from the villages of Pohirtsi and Zadnistryany. These villages are nestled in the Sambir Raion of the L’viv Oblast. Now I found these villages by fluke actually. And here is how…
I was desperate one day in attempting to find out my father’s lineage. I had searched the names I had from another man’s genealogy work. Now, in part of the documents it lists “Holodufka, Rudki, Poland” as my great grandfather’s birth place. However, if you attempt search this in Google or other engines, you don’t get far. At all. But one night, though I had searched many times before, I landed on a website due to the word “Rudky” which is the Ukrainian spelling of it.
Now, this site I stumbled on was a blog about embroidery. My heart stopped. This couldn’t be possible. Prior to finding this site, I had possibilities of villages but nothing too concrete because I couldn’t be sure of this “Rudki” among documents. The only Rudky I could find in Ukraine was a city. And by the way this was presented on documents, Rudki should be more of a county or similar. But there was nothing of the sort I could find…until this blog site. This blog site happened to have a map of Western Ukraine with the raion of “Rudky” marked.
My eyes got huge. My heart stopped. My boyfriend was sitting as his computer and thought something had happened. I then rushed to find a map of the raions by today’s names. Found out it is now called Sambir.
But not only did I find out the current which was a huge help I’ll explain in a later post, but it gave me images of the raion’s embroidery patterns! Now, for those that might now know, I’m a bit of a Slavophile in general. But to find the traditional embroidery patterns and designs of my ancestors’ region just filled me with so much joy. So now, I’m going to share with you some of the images that were presented on that blog post:

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Source: The Sun-Herald
On May 2, 2004 The Sun-Herald reported, "French President Jacques Chirac has vowed to punish vandals who scrawled swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans on 127 graves in a Jewish cemetery near the eastern French town of Colmar. 'Anti-Semitism is contrary to all of our values, all of our principles and to all of the ideals of the Republic,' Mr Chirac said after the defaced headstones were discovered early on Friday by a city worker. The gravestones were marked with swastikas and phrases glorifying Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. On a stone inscribed with a prayer in Hebrew near the cemetery entrance, vandals wrote 'Juden raus' (Jews out). Other stones and monuments were marked with the words 'Adolf' and 'Hitler,' along with the dates 'April 30, 1945' and 'April 30, 2004.' April 30, 1945, is believed to be the day that Hitler committed suicide. Police were searching the cemetery for clues but did not offer any information about who could have been behind the acts of vandalism. Mr. Chirac vowed to punish those responsible for what he called the 'abominable and intolerable acts' committed in the isolated cemetery near the villages of Hattstatt and Herrlisheim, located in the middle of a vineyard."

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November has started well – we saw a rollover on the first EuroMillions drawing a week ago, followed by a big win this Tuesday, and tomorrow’s Friday drawing gives you the chance to win a total jackpot of €15 / £12 million.
When you’re getting used to hearing the massive numbers the EuroMillions jackpot sometimes gets into, €15 / £12 million suddendly doesn’t really sound like a huge win. It is indeed the lowest jackpot you can win on EuroMillions (and is the standard jackpot for all drawings before rollovers). But oh, how tricked we are by the comparisons.
The Size of Friday’s EuroMillions Jackpot
While a €150 / £120 million jackpot is as much as ten times as much (that math was even easy enough for me), a simple jackpot is as much as around 500 times the size of the regular second to largest win in most drawings, when matching five numbers and one star. And if we count what you pay for a regular ticket, then it’s… that’s right, about a million times that. If you purchase a EuroMillions ticket every drawing, that’s around a hundred tickets per year. In other words, the smallest possible jackpot is enough to get you new tickets for many thousands of years. Now, no one would of course spend their win on buying new tickets, but just how amazing is that!
So you haven’t won yet, but you can still buy your tickets for the Friday drawing. Isn’t it the time to go for it?


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With a draft genome-sequence assembly for the chimpanzee available, it is now possible to perform genome-wide analyses to identify, at a submicroscopic level, structural rearrangements that have occurred between chimpanzees and humans. The goal of this study was to investigate chromosomal regions that are inverted between the chimpanzee and human genomes. Using the net alignments for the builds of the human and chimpanzee genome assemblies, we identified a total of 1,576 putative regions of inverted orientation, covering more than 154 mega-bases of DNA. The DNA segments are distributed throughout the genome and range from 23 base pairs to 62 mega-bases in length. For the 66 inversions more than 25 kilobases (kb) in length, 75% were flanked on one or both sides by (often unrelated) segmental duplications. Using PCR and fluorescence in situ hybridization we experimentally validated 23 of 27 (85%) semi-randomly chosen regions; the largest novel inversion confirmed was 4.3 mega-bases at human Chromosome 7p14. Gorilla was used as an out-group to assign ancestral status to the variants. All experimentally validated inversion regions were then assayed against a panel of human samples and three of the 23 (13%) regions were found to be polymorphic in the human genome. These polymorphic inversions include 730 kb (at 7p22), 13 kb (at 7q11), and 1 kb (at 16q24) fragments with a 5%, 30%, and 48% minor allele frequency, respectively. Our results suggest that inversions are an important source of variation in primate genome evolution. The finding of at least three novel inversion polymorphisms in humans indicates this type of structural variation may be a more common feature of our genome than previously realized. © 2005 Feuk et al.
Feuk, L., MacDonald, J. R., Tang, T., Carson, A. R., Li, M., Rao, G., … Scherer, S. W. (2005). Discovery of human inversion polymorphisms by comparative analysis of human and chimpanzee DNA sequence assemblies. PLoS Genetics, 1(4), 0489–0498. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0010056

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There was a time I didn’t like Star Wars. I was in my teens. All my friends, who were nerds, by the way, were into the whole Star Wars universe thing. I didn’t care for it. In fact, I went one step further. I used to tell my friends Battlestar Galactica was better. Boy, did that go over well.
Thankfully, as I’ve grown older, I had kids of my own. My first introduction to the entire Star Wars universe wasn’t until I hit my mid-thirties. Yes, you can call me deprived. Coincidentally, it was also when my kids experienced their first introduction to the sci-fi saga.
For those of you wondering what it was like watching it on TV, and all we had back then were thirty-two inch CRT TVs and a VHS tape that rendered the film in a pan-and-scan format—life couldn’t have been better. You may think this is crazy, but if you didn’t have today’s standards to compare the picture quality, you would have thought the presentation was phenomenal. And back then, it was. The kids loved it.
Once the Star Wars prequel trilogy hit the theaters, I couldn’t help but take my kids to watch it. Somehow, the films were so amazing that other films in the sci-fi genre had trouble keeping up with the visuals, creative motifs and gorgeous backdrops.
And this brings me to the reason why I’m writing this Monday Mayhem post with Star Wars on my mind.
I have found that other than Star Trek, the Star Wars universe is where I would enjoy living. With so much talk about how bad or how wrong this world is right now, isn’t it refreshing to know hope exists in the movies we watch? I don’t know about you, but when I die, I’d like to think the world I’m leaving to my kids would be a world filled with hope. I don’t think I’ve ever thought that until I began watching Star Wars.
And although the Star Wars universe has meddling Sith Lords wanting to bring about the death of all humans, akin to a zombie apocalypse, the Force, which holds everything together, reigns supreme. Even with the Dark Side wanting to corrupt a good heart, the Force, living in every Jedi can overcome evil, and bring about real change to a heart.
Imagine the Force now, living in us, able to help us overcome the pulls to the Dark Side. Wouldn’t that be awesome? I sure wouldn’t think life would be all that bad after all.
Yet, as fictional as Star Wars is, some truth exists within its universe’s tales. Perhaps to see that truth we have to look closer. Or, perhaps, the Force is something real we have yet to experience.
What do you think of Star Wars? What do you like about its universe?


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Has any work been done to create a common software interface to BLE in combo modules that matches the interface in BLE only modules?
This could be a set of AT commands for BLE that's common regardless of the physical format of the BLE module. This could be an EZ-BLE implementation for the Bluetooth portion of a combo module. Ideally it would be a stdio wrapper for any BLE interface.
The use case is to develop a single software interface for a set of products that could be populated with various types of Bluetooth or WiFi/Bluetooth Radio.

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1. What happens on the equinox?
Like the spring equinox in March, the autumnal equinox marks an astronomical turning point of the seasons.
Since the Earth is tilted on its axis of rotation by 23.5 degrees, the Northern and Southern hemispheres receive different amounts of amounts of sunlight throughout the year. On the equinox, however, the orbital plane of the equator becomes geometrically aligned with the center of the sun so that neither hemisphere is tilted away or toward the sun (visualize Earth’s axis going into the screen in the image below):
From our Earthbound perspective, the sun appears directly overhead along the equator, and day and night are roughly equal in length (emphasis added — see No. 4).
2. Where does the sun rise and set on the equinox?
The fall equinox is one of only two days each year when all points on Earth — apart from the polar regions — see the sun rise due east and set due west along the horizon. Until the winter solstice in December, the sun continues to rise and set farther to the south.
As the sun takes a shorter, lower path across the sky, we experience more darkness than daylight, and cooler temperatures as a result.
3. How fast are we losing daylight around the equinox?
Rapidly! Though the days have steadily been getting shorter since the summer solstice, the earlier arrival of dusk becomes especially noticeable by September. That’s because the Northern Hemisphere loses daylight at its fastest pace around the September equinox. The District loses 2 minutes and 30 seconds of daylight each day, while cities across the northern tier lose close to three minutes or more.
The rate of daylight change depends on your latitude, or distance from the equator. In Miami — located just north of the tropics — daylight dwindles by only 90 seconds a day. At the opposite extreme lies Fairbanks, Alaska. Located just 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle, residents there see nearly 7 minutes of daylight loss around the September equinox — not exactly uplifting!
4. Why are there more than 12 hours of daylight on the equinox?
Though equinox means “equal night” in Latin, both of Earth’s hemispheres get slightly more than 12 hours of daylight on the equinox. In the District sunrise on the fall equinox is at 6:56 a.m. and sunset at 7:04 p.m., bringing a total of 12 hours and 8 minutes of daylight.
There are two reasons for this. One is atmospheric refraction. This optical phenomenon bends the sun’s light as it passes through Earth’s atmosphere and causes the sun to appear slightly higher in the sky than it actually is.
The other is how we define sunrise and sunset. The sun appears as a disk, not a single point. Sunrise is defined as the moment the sun’s upper edge appears on the horizon, while sunset doesn’t occur until the sun’s upper edge disappears from the horizon. Together, these factors add about 10 minutes of daylight to the equinox, depending on one’s distance from the equator.
The map below — by Alaska-based meteorologist Brian Brettschneider — shows when we can expect equal daylight and darkness. In most of the lower 48, the exact 12-hour day occurs three or four days after the fall equinox.
5. Why does it get dark so quickly around the equinox?
We observe the sun setting much earlier as September progresses, but what about how quickly it gets dark? If you’re an astute observer, you may have noticed that daytime transitions to night a bit faster than it did a month or two ago. Indeed, the fastest sunsets of the year occur around the two equinoxes.
This happens because the sun crosses the horizon at a slightly steeper angle than it does on the solstices. As a result, we see the sun appear and disappear from the horizon more quickly. The difference is almost imperceptible closer to the equator, but is much more pronounced at higher latitudes, such as the cities across the northern tier, Canada and Alaska:
Notice that at all times of year, twilight lasts longer the greater your distance from the equator (compare Seattle vs. Miami, for example). Yet each location sees faster sunsets — and shorter twilights — around the spring and fall equinox. In March, we usually don’t notice the shorter twilight because the days are already getting longer. In September, on the other hand, we are more likely to observe not just how much earlier it gets dark, but also how quickly nighttime falls.
As we plunge into the darker months of the year, it’s won’t be long before temperatures fall as well. So if you’re ready for crisp mornings, pumpkins and hot cider, the fall equinox is a day to celebrate.


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Background: Spinocerebellar ataxia type 8 (SCA8) is a rare autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease caused by CTA/CTG repeat expansion in the ATXN8/ATXN8OS gene.
Methods: To analyze the frequency and clinical characteristics of SCA8 patients in mainland China, we combined polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and triplet repeat-primed PCR (TRP-PCR) to detect the CTA/CTG expansion. We studied a cohort of 362 ataxia patients in which the other known causative genes had been previously excluded, from among 1294 index patients. Positive samples were validated by southern blotting.
Results: The CTA/CTG expansion was observed in six probands, accounting for approximately 0.46% (6/1294) in all patients, and 1.66% (6/362) in patients without definite molecular diagnosis. Clinically, aside from the typical SCA8 phenotype, some patients carrying the CTA/CTG expansion exhibited the cerebellar form of multisystem atrophy (MSA-C) and ataxia with paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (PKD).
Conclusion: For the first time, we described the PKD phenotype in association with CTA/CTG expansion, suggesting that CTA/CTG expansion might play a role in the pathogenesis of paroxysmal dyskinesia symptoms.
Keywords: ATXN8/ATXN8OS; Cerebellar form of multisystem atrophy (MSA-C); Paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (PKD); Spinocerebellar ataxia type 8 (SCA8); Trinucleotide repeat expansion.


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Ideal Sikkim Darjeeling Family Tour
05 Nights/06 Days
We bring to you this exclusive 5 nights and 6 days Sikkim, Gangtok and Darjeeling family tour package that will let you experience the far eastern natural beauty of India. Ideal for your entire family this affordable Northeast holiday package will make sure you have a complete experience of the Himalayan culture and natural charm of this region.
Detailed Daywise Itinerary
Day 1 : Welcome to the summer capital of the east - Darjeeling
Upon arrival at Bagdogra airport, our agent’s representative will take you to your hotel in Darjeeling in a private cab. As you reach the first stop of your Northeast family tour package, check-in to your hotel and spend a leisurely evening exploring the hill station with your family.
The first day of your 6 days Sikkim, Gangtok & Darjeeling package ends a good night’s sleep at your hotel.
Distance from Bagdogra Airport to Darjeeling: 65 km
Travel Time (Bagdogra Airport to Darjeeling): Approx. 2.5 hours
Day 2 : Darjeeling sightseeing tour
Wake up at dawn to visit Tiger Hill to view the sunrise over Kanchendzonga Peak. On the way back, visit few other tourist attractions of Darjeeling like the Ghoom Monastery, Peace memorial & Batasia Loop. Also, enjoy a cup of hot aromatic Darjeeling tea in the morning.
Return to your hotel for a delightful breakfast and take some rest. Get ready for the next round of sightseeing tour in Darjeeling which will include P.N. Zoological Park, Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Tensing Gumpo Rock, Tibetan Refugee Self Help Center, Tea Estates, Natural History Museum and Peace Pagoda.
Mark an end to the second day of your Darjeeling family tour with a comfortable stay at your hotel.
Day 3 : Transfer from Darjeeling to hills of Gangtok
Your North East family tour gets exciting with a road trip to Gangtok today. Enjoy a delicious breakfast and head out for an adventure packed journey to the capital of Sikkim.
Reach your destination in the afternoon and check in at the hotel. After taking some rest, head out to explore the hill town with your family. There are numerous places to visit in Gangtok for families.
Head to the Mall Road and Directorate of Handicrafts & Handloom for some shopping. Research Institute of Tibetology, Do Drul Chorten (Stupa), Enchey Monastery, White Hall and Flower Show are a delight for the entire family.
Come back to your hotel and spend the night, marking an end to another day on your 6 days Sikkim, Gangtok & Darjeeling package itinerary.
Distance from Darjeeling to Gangtok: 98 km
Travel Time (Darjeeling to Gangtok): Approx. 4 hours
Day 4 : Transfer from Gangtok to Lachung
After a morning breakfast, you’ll be transferred to Lachung. Wonderful tourist attractions like Tashi Viewpoint, Kabi Lungstok, Naga Waterfalls, the confluence of Lachen chu and Lachung Chu at Chungthang, Twin waterfalls and Bhim Nala Waterfall make your family trip to Lachung special.
On reaching Lachung, check in to your hotel. Relish a freshly prepared dinner and mark an end to the fourth day of your Sikkim family holiday package.
Distance from Gangtok to Lachung: 117 km
Travel Time (Gangtok to Lachung): Approx. 6.5 hours
Day 5 : Lachung to Gangtok via Yumthang Valley
Wake up to a beautiful morning and have a hearty breakfast with your family.
Get ready to explore the enchanting Yumthang Valley - the highlight of your Lachung family tour. It is perched at an elevation of 11800 feet. It’s the home of a myriad of Himalayan flowers.
Later in the afternoon after lunch, leave for Gangtok. After an eventful day, sleep comfortably, ending the last night of your 6 days Sikkim & Darjeeling family package.
Distance from Lachung to Gangtok: 117 km
Travel Time (Lachung to Gangtok): Approx. 6.5 hours
Day 6 : Departure from Gangtok
In the morning, after having your breakfast, you’ll be transferred to the airport. Say goodbye to the hills with fond memories of the beautiful Northeast India in your heart.
Inclusions & Exclusions
- Accommodation is on twin sharing basis
- Meals : breakfast at all places
- Transfers from one place to another
- Sightseeing in private cars
- Vehicle will be provided based on the itinerary
- All current taxes such as hotel taxes and transportation taxes
- Entrance fees at the monuments/ temples
- Meals not mentioned in inclusions
- Personal Expenses / Purchase of things
- Any kind of insurance
- Any increase in the govt. taxes and state taxes
- Anything not mentioned in the itinerary.
Booking & Canvellation Policy
Your contract is with Bhutan Packages. A contract exists between us when we have confirmed you on our tour / hotel booking / or any other travel related services of your choice and we have received your booking request and deposits. All correspondence/s in respect of Tours / Travel Service bookings should be addressed to Bhutan Packages.
For the services contracted, 40 % advance payment should be made to hold the booking on a confirmed basis and the balance amount should be paid before commencement of your tour. We hold the right to decide upon the amount to be paid as an advance payment, based on the nature of services and the time left for the commencement of the services.
Payment can be made by Bank Transfer, Cash payment to our office or by Demand Draft / Cheque. All payments should be free and clear of any withholding tax and deduction. Bank charges, if any, for remittance (by remitting bank or by intermediary bank) would be strictly borne by payer.
Rights to amend the itinerary if required
Tour once commenced will strictly go as per the itinerary finalised. In case of events and circumstances beyond our control, we reserve the right to change all or parts of the contents of the itinerary for safety and well being of our esteemed passengers.
Policy Regarding Cancellation / No Show / Early Departure
In case of cancellation of tour/travel services due to any avoidable/unavoidable reason/s we must be informed in writing. Cancellation charges would be effective from the date we receive letter in writing and cancellation charges would be as follows:
- 30 days & prior to arrival – 10% of the tour/service cost.
- 20 days to 18 days prior to arrival – 20% of the tour/service cost.
- 14 days to 16 days prior to arrival – 25% of the tour/service cost.
- 10 days to 08 days prior to arrival – 50% of the tour/service cost.
- 07 days & less, prior to arrival or no show – NO REFUND.
Please note – Irrespective of above mentioned cancellations slabs – in case of cancellation of tour services after the booking is made with us – a minimum 10% service charges would be applicable.
In case you cancel the trip after commencement refund would be restricted to a limited amount that too would depend on the amount that we would be able to recover from the hoteliers we patronize. For unused hotel accommodation, chartered transportation and missed meals etc. we do not bear any responsibility to refund.
In regard to refund of unused / unutilized services (which are paid for and cancelled in advance) the refund amount would be worked out on the basis of cancellation policy as described above and the money would be accordingly refunded to the person who has made the payment to us. Please note that the refund process may take 2 – 4 weeks due to banking procedures. If the refund is made to the credit card account OR to Bank account, the bank charges would be debited from the refund amount.
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At anime convention Saboten Con 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona, we saw tons of gaming cosplay all over the place. This gallery is devoted to all of the gaming cosplay we spotted. There are a variety of costumes from games like Bioshock, Borderlands, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Age, The Evil Within, Final Fantasy, Five Nights At Freddys, Guilty Gear, Hotline Miami, Kingdom Hearts, The Legend of Zelda, Monster Hunter, Pokemon, Resident … [ Read More... ]
For those curious about how horror mastermind Shinji Mikami’s The Evil Within will play, we’ve got some new details. Although it is apparent that the game will be played from a 3rd person perspective offering up a bit of shooting action, including aiming over the shoulder, this is the first bit of detailed information about the gameplay. Furthermore, we learn that the title wil be called “Psychobreak” in … [ Read More... ]
Screenshots for Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami’s The Evil Within were just revealed today via IGN.
Check out The Evil Within screenshots below…
The Evil Within concept art…
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Horror fans rejoice, this looks to be one of the creepiest games to come out in a while. Shinji Mikami, creator of Resident Evil and pretty much the entire survival horror genre, is back with The Evil Within. Previously, this horror game was known as “Project Zwei“. The Evil Within is being developed by Tango Gameworks and published by Bethesda. Consequently, his team are using … [ Read More... ]

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Phil's Review of Passenger 57
The film that turned Snipes from a drama/comedy actor into a fully fledged action hero, at the same time securing his place alongside other action icons in the action man hall of fame.
Man this is so damn cheesy you'd think it was an old early 90's...oh. This is what you might call a thoroughly standard yet thoroughly enjoyably predictable action romp. Its not suppose to be anything overly realistic or overly serious, its pure and utter popcorn trash that spewed out over and over during the 80's and early 90's. A good comparison today would be the new films 'White House Down' and 'Olympus Has Fallen'.
The plot is very bog standard, text book action formula. Master terrorist Charles Rane (Bruce Payne...hey that rhymes!) is being transported in an airliner to LA to stand trial. Along the way his evil henchmen and woman (Elizabeth Hurley folks! yep I forgot about that too) seize control of the plane, free Rane and begin their plan to...actually I'm not sure, escape somewhere I presume. Its now up to Snipes to kickbox his way through all the bad guys and save the day.
Is it REALLY a spoiler if I tell you he manages this? didn't think so. Yep from here on the film takes all the usual routes you would expect, admittedly there is a small surprise when the plane lands and the action spills out into a fairground but that kinda dampens the thrills for me.
In all honestly 'Executive Decision' did this much much better years later in 1996, but that film didn't have the growling face of thunder that is Bruce Payne. This guy steals the show every time, even in B-movie trash he can make turds shine. Not only is his hair a fantastic mullet of epic 80's proportions but he just has that face, that evil devilish smirk and those sly eyes, plus he kinda looks like Matthew McConaughey. Snipes is also solid but doesn't really add much to his character that we haven't see over and over ever since. But he's buff, likeable and for the time a breath of fresh air, plus he could do martial arts which was different to the regular action heroes.
Just from looking at the films poster you know what to expect here straight away. Its classic 'Die Hard' type fluff which is great fun if totally lacking in any real substance. Payne saves the film from drudgery and his character dies in the most predictable and obvious way...you know how, they're all in a plane for gods sake.

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Gas prices down $0.35, diesel down $0.03
Gas prices are to go down by $0.35 effective Thursday, August 9.
The state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, says E-10 87 will sell for $137.16 per litre and a litre of E-10 90 will sell for $139.99.
Automotive diesel oil will go down by $0.03 per litre to sell for $136.50.
The price of Kerosene is to go down by $0.20 with that fuel to sell for $118.89.
In the meantime, propane cooking gas will move up by $0.10 to sell for $54.39, while butane will go down by $1.70 to sell for $60.61 per litre.
Retailers will add their mark-ups to the announced prices.

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Safran is a major partner to the Russian aerospace industry, with several partnerships and industrial teaming arrangements to develop, produce or sell propulsion systems for airplanes and helicopters.
For more than 30 years now, Safran group company Safran Aircraft Engines has been supplying Russian airlines such as Aeroflot, S7 and Transaero with CFM56 engines through CFM International, a company equally-owned with GE. Along with its business success, the engine-maker is also developing long-standing partnerships with Russian industry, in particular PJSC «UEC-Saturn» and PSC VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation.
LONG-TERM PRESENCE IN RUSSIA
Safran has established a long-term presence in Russia. It develops its business by calling on partnerships with Russian industry, based on world-class technologies in aerospace.
Safran has a number of business lines in aviation, including the marketing of CFM56 engines to Russian airlines and MRO (maintenance, repair, overhaul) services for engines in operation.
Safran is currently developing and manufacturing SaM146 engine for Sukhoi's new regional jet, the Superjet 100, together with Russian engine-maker PJSC «UEC-Saturn».
Safran is also working with Russian helicopter manufacturers – one of the leading segments in the Russian aviation industry – to provide engines for their rotorcraft.