Trove of new horror species discovered in Australian abyss
What lies hidden deep in the ocean? That was the question that the crew of the research vessel RV investigator tried to answer on a month-long exploration expedition from the East Australian abyssal for the first time.
The National Marine Ship Fund was led by the Victoria Museum, CSIRO and other research organizations, and retired in mid-May from Launceston on the quay in Brisbane, Queensland Friday, June 16
“The Gulf is home to the world’s largest and deepest, covering half of the world’s oceans and a third of Australia’s territory, but it remains the most unexplored environment on Earth,” said Tim O’Hara, Chief curator of the Victoria Museum, at the start of the trip.
At 4000 feet in the ocean, the abyssopelagic area was hard to explore. It is so deep that light can not penetrate, and therefore extremely cold. In addition, the pressure at which the depth is overwhelming. So far, they have taken only a small number of samples from the abyss of Australia – but there is much to learn from them.
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“The data collected on this trip will be crucial to understanding Australia’s ocean habitats, biodiversity and the ecological processes that underpin them. This will help conservation and management and help protect the impacts of climate change, pollution and pollution Other human activities, “O’Hara said.
Using multibeam sonar, the team assigns the floor to the abyss, which sends them to collect clothing such as sled trawl nets without breaking on the rocks. And they brought a treasure of more than 1,000 different species of terrible dice in depth, more than a third is completely new to science.
And being abyssal creatures adapted to survive in the great freezing darkness, they are rather grotesque to our terrestrial human eyes – viscous, dentate and luminescent, and in a very memorable event, rather than a little phallic.
The team also found a worrying amount of pollution.
“We have found significant excess levels at the bottom of the sea,” O’Hara said. “We are 100 kilometers off the coast of Australia and we found PVC pipes, paint cans, bottles, beer cans, wood chips and other waste from the era where the ships steamed our waters. This type of information is the first step in influencing social attitudes towards waste disposal. ”
Now that the crew has landed with its collection of specimens, the science team is processing and photographing them and keeping them for museums around the world. These can be used for research purposes in the coming years.


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Action learning encourages individuals to use reflective processes such as group support and self-directed learning. A staff development programme for nurses in a neurology unit adopted this approach. Action learning groups were used by staff nurses for six months and were evaluated through interviews and questionnaires. Nurses had positive experiences as… (More)

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The SMILE booklets are a collection of stand alone booklets, part of the SMILE mathematics network of numbered workcards.
The collection includes:
*Decimals to Fractions and Back Again
*The Highway Code
*Planning a Kitchen
*Planning a Supermarket
SMILE Card 1783 is a booklet containing twenty two activities designed for students to practice using a calculator correctly and begins with a test to find out whether students' calculator obeys the rules of BODMAS.
There follows a number of activities in which students use their calculator to complete the tasks....
SMILE Card 2324 is a booklet containing six sections; counting activities, place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, number puzzles and types of number.Counting activities gives details of a task explaining how to generate sequences and the game fizz-buzz.Place value has four...
Action Fraction: SMILE card 0598 is a booklet designed to support the teaching and learning of fractions. The booklet begins by using diagrams to explain how to multiply a whole number by a mixed number and is extended to multiplying a mixed number by a mixed number.Action Decimals: SMILE card 0618 is a...
Archimedes’ Spirals: SMILE card 1998 is a booklet of activities beginning by explaining how to draw Archimedes’ spirals using the ‘cotton reel method’. The second activity uses a ruler, protractor, string and tracing paper to work out which of the spirals given is an Archimedes spiral. Polar graph paper is then...

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111 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hoi An, Vietnam
After a very long morning in the very hot sun in the perfectly beautiful surrounds of the My Son Sanctuary, it was finally lunch time. The thing you have to understand about Sib and I is that we love food. Like, really love food. As in, before we went to bed the night before the My Son tour, we spent some time researching the food we could eat the following day.
After a thorough investigation of the #hoian hashtag on Instagram, we had hyped ourselves up for lunch at Mango Rooms.
Sitting on the Hoi An riverside, Mango Rooms is a gorgeous and insanely bright establishment, with one hell of a reputation for incredible food and magnificent cocktails. The chef and grand poobah, Duc Tran, was born in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) and travelled around the world, reaching Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Japan, and America. His food is beautifully presented and brightly coloured, with gorgeous flavour combinations that have been influenced by his travels and the skills he’s learnt on the road.
We (being the good food addicts we are) may have studied the menu a little the night before, so we kinda knew what we were after. Well, for cocktails anyway. Ice cold and full of fresh fruit, these were the best cocktails I have EVER had.
After a few minutes of “can’t we order everything?!” we settled on a plate of fresh mango & prawn rice paper rolls to share to start with, and they were something special. They may be the best we’ve ever had, actually. Fresh mango is a thing of beauty, but add it to fresh herbs and prawns and wrap it up in fresh rice paper is even better. Throw in the tastiest peanut dipping sauce on the side, and you have two VERY happy young ladies.
Next up, we got a few salads. We’d heard they were pretty amazing here, and fresh, cold salads were exactly what we felt like after the hours we’d spent in the hot sun earlier. I went with the Tropical Lush salad – fresh greens, herbs, and mustard sprouts, orange slices, watermelon, topped with seared tuna served with orange ginger soy dressing. It was perfect – cold, fresh fruit, super fresh tuna, and the dressing was remarkable.
Sib went with the Mango Delight – fresh greens, herbs and strips of mango along with vermicelli topped with grilled chicken breast and served with zesty soy-lime sauce. SOO good – the chicken was white and tender and the dressing, again, was flawless.
And of course, dessert. Can’t finish up without it. A plate of the Mango Tango to share, thanks – sweet sticky rice and fresh mango topped with coconut sauce and roasted peanuts. Not really much that needs to be said about this; if you followed my adventures in Thailand earlier this year here and here, you’d know that I am always prepared to eat my weight in coconut sticky rice, particularly when it’s furnished with fresh mango. The addition of peanuts made this quite distinctive from the Thai variety, and absolutely delightful.
It should also be noted that while eating the best food with one of the most magnificent views, we also had some great service too – the staff at Mango Rooms were lovely, friendly and more than happy to help us out. It was a truly wonderful experience – to be able to just sit back with my best friend in this rainbow explosion of a restaurant, watching the river and foot traffic pass by the window we were seated at, eating perfectly balanced plates of beautifully presented food was a pretty awesome way to pass the lunch break 🙂

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AmTrust Financial Services
Work with agent distribution, corporate accounts as well as direct opportunities. Qualified candidates will possess Automobile Dealership, Automotive Finance, or F&I Product Provider experience. The Business Development Manager is responsible for managing and controlling all sales activities within the assigned territory. Emphasis will be on increasing market share. Outside sales experience in the automotive industry is required.Responsibilities
Manage the General sales distribution in the territory and have responsibility for all activities and results including prospecting, relationship development, and increasing market share.
Manage leads and opportunities through the use of company CRM.
Provide written and verbal feedback on new product ideas, and/or suggested modifications to existing Products.
Manage territory sales forecast to target revenue increases.
Meets specific monthly, quarterly, and annual sales goals and revenue objectives.
Ensure current client satisfaction by responding quickly and accurately to problems, concerns or needs.
Trains agents and sales representative on our products
Attends and represents the Company at various industry functions such as trade shows, seminars and conventions throughout the territory as assigned.
- 4-6 years professional direct sales experience
- Automotive and/or Automotive Finance experience
- Adept at business consulting, analysis and reporting
- Strong relationship building skills
- Excellent verbal and presentation skills
- Must be a motivated self-starter and have the desire to succeed
- Ability to work independently from a remote/home office
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and SalesForce
- Frequent travel
AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. was founded in 1998 to provide property and casualty insurance to small businesses. Through acquisitions and organic growth, AmTrust Financial Services has since grown to become a multinational property and casualty insurer specializing in coverage for small to mid-sized businesses. Our financial stability is based upon a philosophy of niche diversity with a focus on low-hazard risk.
Since its inception, AmTrust has crafted a balanced portfolio of insurance products including:
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In November 2006, the company became publicly traded on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol AFSI. With extensive underwriting experience and a prestigious "A" (Excellent) Financial Size "XI" rating from A.M. Best, AmTrust has earned a reputation as an innovative, technology driven provider of insurance products. Our commitment to excellence is the common thread connecting each of our businesses.

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text: When J. Hillis Miller published THE DISAPPEARANCE OF GOD is 1963, Jacques Derrida was just a few short years from ripping the comforting veil of a divine logocentrism from a humanity that had always assumed that no matter how chaotic things became God was always somewhere lurking in the margins of daily existence. Miller could not have divined, of course, that his book would be seen as the ontologogical forerunner of a process called deconstruction that would similarly call for removing the Creator and Upholder of the Universe from the ken of man and woman. Miller hastens to add that he does not mean that God literally vanishes from sight (an interesting paradox in that it is debatable that God was always there anyway) but that God no longer occupies His accustomed throne. For reasons related to an increasing complexity of man's ability to use technology to build a metaphorical tower of Babel that would allow him to sit near that ubiquitous throne, God must have taken umbrage and departed in a divine huff, leaving for places unknown, somewhere "up there." Miller chose five 19th century authors (Browning, De Quincey, Arnold, Hopkins, and Bronte) all of whom are troubled by His unexplained absence. Miller's explanations of this quintet's writings are both commonsensical and persuasive. What I found most striking was Miller's conjecture that the removal of God would isolate mankind in a psychic prison devoid of all reference points outside of man himself. If God vanishes, how can man know for sure what if anything is left to provide a sure footing? A few years later beginning in 1967, Derrida and Foucault have provided an answer: that humanity is doomed to wallow in its collective excrescences as it looks upward for guidance and finding none must look inward for a logos that was never there in the first place. For those readers who wish to learn why deconstuction is so virulently anti-humanist as it is, a good place to start is Miller's THE DISAPPEARANCE OF GOD.

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Today we’re visiting with Cassie Elliott, who is growing vegetables and also a pair of young gardeners!
Cassie has put in a new vegetable garden, full of delicious produce and learning experiences for young gardeners.
The girls are learning to love gardening already! They’ve been part of building the structure, planting, harvesting, and now drying seeds for next year. Here they are checking on a clump of blooming marigolds (Tagetes patula, annual).
Here is the garden as it looked in the early spring stage of construction. Starting with a fence is a great idea in a new garden, since it keeps deer, rabbits, and other hungry visitors from ever getting in the habit of visiting.
Cassie used as many materials from the adjacent woods as possible in building the raised beds and other structures in the garden. Doing this creates a great-looking garden, cuts down on costs, and helps the garden feel like an integrated part of the surrounding landscape.
Ripening cherry tomatoes are ready for harvest.
Abundant harvests of fresh vegetables have come in from the garden. Nothing says summer like fresh tomatoes and peppers.
The girls have just harvested beets. What a fantastic experience for them to learn about gardening and where their food comes from!
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BATON ROUGE, La (BRPROUD) – Terrebonne Parish has suspended the service of certain fire departments due to the intense winds from Hurricane Ida.
The following Fire Departments in the parish have suspended their service:
- Bayou Black Fire Dept.
- Houma Fire Dept.
- Coteau Fire Dept.
- Little Caillou Fire Dept.
- Dularge Fire Dept.
- Grand Caillou Fire Dept.
- Village East Fire Dept.
- Bourg Fire Dept.
- Montegut Fire Dept.
Bayou Cane Fire Department is only responding to fire alarms.
The Acadian Ambulance has also suspended service.
Hurricane Ida rapidly grew in strength early Sunday, becoming a dangerous Category 4 hurricane just hours before making landfall in Louisiana.


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A large city with chronic economic problems is considering legalizing casino gambling. The city council wants to estimate the proportion of all adults in the city who favor legalized casino gambling. What is the most conservative estimate of the sample size that would limit the margin of error to be within .05 of the population proportion for a 95% confidence interval?
Answer to relevant QuestionsRefer to Exercise 8.116. Assume that a preliminary sample has shown that 63% of the adults in this city favor legalized casino gambling. How large should the sample size be so that the 95% confidence interval for the ...When one is attempting to determine the required sample size for estimating a population mean, and the information on the population standard deviation is not available, it may be feasible to take a small preliminary sample ...The standard deviation for a population is σ = 15.3. A sample of 36 observations selected from this population gave a mean equal to 74.8. a. Make a 90% confidence interval for µ. b. Construct a 95% confidence interval for ...For a population data set, σ = 14.50. a. What should the sample size be for a 98% confidence interval for µ to have a margin of error of estimate equal to 5.50? b. What should the sample size be for a 95% confidence ...A bank manager wants to know the mean amount of mortgage paid per month by homeowners in an area. A random sample of 120 homeowners selected from this area showed that they pay an average of $1575 per month for their ...
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Many countries plan to store their spent nuclear fuels (SNFs) in geological repositories. Before permanent storage, it is essential to have systematic measurements using non-destructive techniques in order to assess safety, operational and safeguard parameters. One important safety criterion relates to the decay heat of the SNF. Calorimetric measurements, which directly measure the decay heat, cannot be envisioned for every SNFs due to time constraints. Therefore, decay heat must be experimentally determined using other measurement techniques such as gamma and neutron measurements. This work presents results on the prediction of decay heat using an HPGe detector and the DDSI instrument. This work aims at investigating the performance of a combination for decay heat prediction of such instruments by studying two high-performance systems. In this work, an HPGe detector is used for gamma measurements, and the prototype Differential Die-away Self-Interrogation (DDSI) instrument is used for neutron measurements. Previous works have predicted the decay heat using experimental results of either the HPGe device or the DDSI device. However, combining information from both devices increases the prediction capability as both devices look at different SNF properties.


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Crockett Park is a currently underutilized public space in Crossfield, Alberta. Crossfield Wellness Network (CWN) brainstormed the possibility of creating multi-generational gathering places and identified games tables as something new and usable by all ages and abilities.
In February of 2023, Crossfield town council approved the enhancement of the park with the permanent installation of a concrete ping pong table and the potential addition of a picnic table with chess and checkerboard, as well as a shade shelter.
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Mayor Kim Harris thanks the CWN for their efforts to improve the community!
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The topic of baffle geometry and its influence on the playback quality of loudspeakers has already been discussed in the article "About baffle design, edge diffraction, secondary sound sources, ...“Received in detail. If you still believe in the design of a baffle and the arrangement of the drivers on the same is primarily a question of optics, please read the article (again).
In the process of finding a suitable baffle, I often ended up with the variant "sloping bevels". The question arose again and again how steep these really have to be in order to be effective. So far I have relied on secondary knowledge in this regard ... read in books, forums, magazines. When the question came up again recently, I decided to investigate the matter with measurements.
To accomplish this, a baffle with adjustable, beveled chamfers had to be made. After a lot of headache, how to build this, I finally came to the following conclusion:
A V-groove was milled from behind, slightly less deep than the plate thickness, the whole thing "secured" from the front with adhesive tape and a 2mm thick copper wire stapled from above, which serves as an adjustment mechanism. The "wings" can be set anywhere from 0 ° -55 °.
For the tweeter, I chose one that by itself does not show any disturbances in the directional behavior in the area relevant for edge diffraction, which could falsify the results. The choice was much to the one I really appreciate XT25TG-30 / 04.
In 55 ° steps for chamfer angles of o-5 °, the respective radiation behavior of 0-90 ° in 10 ° steps was measured. Altogether 120 measurements.
The initial situation: Bevel angle 0 °
See also "Worst case" scenario
The left picture shows the radiation behavior in a sonogram normalized to 0 °. The right-hand example shows the angles 0, 30 and 60 °.
The sonogram shows that the loudspeaker is considerably too wide around 3kHz and radiates too narrow below that. Axis and angular frequency responses are unbalanced to one another. Where there is a depression on the axis, there is a superelevation at angles. The loudspeaker changes its character with the listening position. A steady and as evenly narrower course as possible would be desirable.
Sonogram for chamfers with a slope of 0-55 ° in 5 ° steps
0,30 and 60 ° for bevel angles of 0-50 ° in 10 ° steps
The main disturbance (expansion by 3kHz associated with the constriction below) decreases with a larger bevel angle. Chamfers with a slope of <20 ° do not yet produce satisfactory results.
The chamfers themselves form a new edge, which comes to bear with increasing steepness. Recognizable by the arising expansion around 5Khz. This is less pronounced because the tweeter in this area is no longer working as a half-space radiator.
In addition to resolving the "rectangular geometry", this is one of the main tasks of the inclined bevel: bringing the housing edges so close to the tweeter that it no longer "sees" you or only weakly. Shorter distance ⇒ shorter wavelength ≙ higher frequency ⇒ more directivity ⇒ less influence of the edge
The “inclined bevel” concept works particularly well when the tweeter is already clearly bundling in the corresponding frequency band and thus it is practically no longer “seen” at all. Of the Seas DXT 27TBCD / GB be mentioned here by way of example. How well this driver works with oblique chamfers is an example DXT-Mon to see.
- Chamfers <20 ° are not sufficiently effective
- The distance of the chamfers to the place of sound creation must be sufficiently low, otherwise one reaches only one, at least partial, displacement of the problem
- Depending on the situation, the chamfers can also zu steep be!
The concept of the bevel chamfers doesn't really work around the problem to get over. But not unconditionally. The slope and position must be chosen carefully and according to the concept. If you were to ask me for a universal recommendation, I would say:
"Make the bevels 25-35 ° steep and position them as close to the tweeter as possible"
Finally, the measurements in single images, for those who want to take a closer look. The steepness of the chamfer is in the lower left corner of the picture.
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Reports from the UN International Organization on Migration (IOM) “suggest that Government forces are now approaching the town of Maiwut, 25 kilometres north-west of Pagak”.
WASHINGTON D.C., United States of America, July 13, 2017 – Thousands of South Sudanese civilians are fleeing to neighbouring Ethiopia as Government troops advance on a rebel stronghold in the Upper Nile region, a senior United Nations official today said, expressing grave concern about what is already the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis.
Reports from the UN International Organization on Migration (IOM) “suggest that Government forces are now approaching the town of Maiwut, 25 kilometres north-west of Pagak. I’m gravely concerned by this ongoing situation,” the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in South Sudan, David Shearer, told reporters from Juba, the capital.
He added that while it is unclear which side began the fighting, the military advance by the South Sudan forces “is not in the spirit of the unilateral ceasefire” declared by the Government in May.
Mr. Shearer said there has been “active military engagement” over the past week north of Pagak, and at least 25 aid workers have relocated in the area as a result of the insecurity.
The senior UN official, who is also the head of the UN Mission in the country, or UNMISS, also voiced great concern about an orphanage near Torit, south of Juba, surrounded by Government and rebel fighters who are preparing to fight.
“It’s unacceptable that 250 innocent children, and the people who care for them, find themselves in no-man’s land between the warring parties,” Mr. Shearer stressed.
Requests by UNMISS to access the Hope for South Sudan Orphanage have been denied “locally, on the ground.”
The Government forces central command in Juba yesterday gave UNMISS “the go-ahead to send peacekeepers to the orphanage. I’m hopeful that will happen today,” he added.
Mr. Shearer urged both sides to reflect on President Salva Kiir’s Independence Day message of peace and withdraw from the facility.
In addition to accessing the orphanage, a group of Nepalese peacekeepers have been sent to protect civilians and the UN base in Torit.
“The number of patrols we can undertake in the town will increase with the additional peacekeepers. In turn, that should provide more security and boost confidence,” said Mr. Shearer.
He noted that his deputy, Moustapha Soumaré, is travelling to Torit tomorrow and will report back.
To date, Abyei has no police service system in place and there is no functioning joint local administrative structure.
ABYEI, South Sudan, July 12, 2017 – The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) condemns all attacks perpetrated by unknown armed groups in Abyei Area which resulted in deaths and injuries of civilians.
UNISFA expresses its deepest condolences and sympathy to the family of the victims and vows to investigate swiftly the attacks with the Joint Peace Committee, the traditional leaders, as well as Sudan and South Sudan governments, and bring the perpetrators to justice.
UNISFA emphasizes its commitment to implement its mandate to secure Abyei Area and to protect civilians under imminent threat of physical violence, without prejudice to the responsibilities of the relevant authorities.
To date, Abyei has no police service system in place and there is no functioning joint local administrative structure. The absence of these systems has resulted in the increase of criminal cases.
The current influx of population in Abyei has contributed towards increased economic and social activities in the area. The unemployment among the youth is a cause of concern which also leads to manifestation of crime in various forms.
In light of the recent incidents, UNISFA has stepped up its security measures particularly in and around Amiet common market which is a vital economic hub for different tribal groups including Ngok Dinka and Misseriya. Most of the criminal incidents in recent months have taken place in the vicinity of the common market.
The last two months have seen an upsurge in cases of cattle-rustling, carjacking attempts and robbery/shooting incidents. In May, a grenade exploded in Amiet market resulting in injuries to some civilians.
UNISFA reaffirms that criminality in all its forms is a serious threat to the security situation in Abyei Area.
UNISFA urges all communities and groups to support the Mission in its efforts to maintain the degree of peace and stability that Abyei has been experiencing over the last two years. The criminal activities should not deter the significant progress made towards improving relations between the Messiriya and the Ngok Dinka communities.
GENEVA, Switzerland, July 10, 2017 – UNHCR’s Representative in Sudan, Noriko Yoshida, welcomed the contribution of EUR 3.1 million in humanitarian funds from the European Union (EU) for South Sudanese new arrivals in Sudan.
“We are seeing a great increase in the number of refugees coming across the border into Sudan, indicating that things are not getting better in South Sudan despite all our hopes for peace and security there. Support from the EU and others is heartily welcomed”, Yoshida said.
Nearly 160,000 South Sudanese refugees have newly arrived in Sudan in the first half of 2017. Yoshida expressed her gratitude to Sudan for its continued generosity hosting over 400,000 South Sudanese refugees since December 2013, and an estimated 350,000 South Sudanese remaining in Sudan following South Sudan’s secession.
Impressed by the generosity of ordinary Sudanese people who share very limited resources with South Sudanese refugees in dire need, Yoshida said UNHCR and its partners are seeking to scale up their assistance to host communities receiving refugees.
“More funding is needed so that we can meet the existing and growing needs of refugees and host communities. Support from EU and other donors will ensure we have the resources to meet immediate needs and put in place adequate services to improve the quality of the current response”.
EU humanitarian funding covers three states (White Nile, East and South Darfur states) out of five states which have been considerably affected by the influx of South Sudanese refugees. The funding is earmarked to registration activities, reception support and shelter and provision of basic household items.
EU humanitarian aid has previously supported UNHCR in the response and provided EUR 4.4 million in 2016 towards UNHCR’s efforts to respond to critical life-saving needs.
UNHCR and its partners have appealed through a Refugee Response Plan for USD 221 million in 2017 to assist refugees and host communities in Sudan. As of June 2017 less than 20% of the funds have been received.

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If you only have 1 day to see around Kyoto, take a highlight trip.
To get to Fushimi-Inari shrine (伏見稲荷大社), Take the JR Nara line to Inari station or Take the Keihan line to Fushimi-Inari station. The shrine is just east of both of these stations.
Fushimi-inari is an important Shinto shrine in southern Kyoto. The entire complex consists of five shrines. A pathway leads 4km up the mountain and is lined with hundreds of red torii gates and dozens of stone foxes. The fox is considered the messenger of Inari (the god of cereal grains).
Hours : Always Open
Admission : Free
Take the Keihan line from Fushimi-Inari station to Shichijo station (150 yen, 3 stops.) Walk from Shichijo station to Sanjusangendo (500m, 6mins.) Take Ex.2 or Ex.4 and walk east on Shichijo-dori.
The temple’s name refers to the number of intervals between the pillars (Sanjyusangen = 33 bays).
At the back of the hall are 28 guardian statues in a great variety of expressive poses and
1,001 Senju-Kannon statues stand in the 120 meter-long main hall.
Hours : 08:00 to 17:00
Admission : 600 Yen
Walk to Kiyomizudera (2km, 25mins). Keep walking on Shichijo-dori. Head north on Higashioji-dori.
Kiyomizudera is best known for its huge wooden veranda that juts out from its main hall, 13 meters above the hillside below. The steep approach to the temple is lined with shops selling Kyoto handicrafts, local snacks and souvenirs.
Hours : 06:00 to 18:00
Admission : 400 Yen
Walk to Yasaka shrine (1.5km, 18min). Stroll north along the preserved historic streets.
This colourful shrine is considered the guardian shrine of neighbouring Gion.
This shrine is particularly popular with Japanese as a spot for the first shrine visit of the new year.
Hours : Always Open
Admission : Outer buildings free
Walk to Gion, Tatsumi-kyo (650m, 8mins)
Gion is Kyoto’s famous, historical entertainment district. There are still some lovely places left for a stroll.
You can occasionally glimpse geisha or maiko.

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Last week the Little Tots enjoyed playing with our Christmas Tree playdough and decorating playdough Christmas trees over and over again. This festive themed invitation to play has been out all week and I’m sure it will continue into next week.
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I added Wilton green food colouring to our basic playdough recipe as it gives the strongest colour and of course lots of green glitter was thrown in as well (because it’s not Christmas without the glitter).
This Christmas invitation to play was one of our advent calendar activities so the Little Tots immediately set to work once they found out that the activity was “decorating playdough Christmas trees“.
They covered the cones with as much playdough as they could fit on and I eventually had to change to an even stronger cardboard as the first ones couldn’t support the weight of the playdough.
They then decorated their trees over and over again, creating different designs and patterns each time and having fun rearranging the decorations.
After they had decorated their tree they squealed in delight “look at my tree”. They were so proud of their work and made me take a photo each time they had finished. They then picked all the bits off and started again.
Jack had a lot of fun pushing the parts into the playdough and it beginning to become fascinated the marks it leaves.
It wasn’t long before the dinosaurs and Happy Land people invaded the play to open their presents left by Santa.
More Christmas Tree fun:
To further extend this activity some of the things we might do include:
- Bake some Christmas tree biscuits and decorate (try our biscuit recipe).
- Create and explore a Christmas sensory bin like this one from The Imagination Tree.
- Make a Sticky Contact Paper Christmas Tree to decorate
- Get the paints out and try this fun Handprint Christmas Tree.
Areas of Learning:
- Communication & Language: learning new words for christmas decorations
- Physical Development – fine motor skills
- Literacy – early mark making in the playdough
- Personal, social and emotional development – Playing alongside others.
- Understanding the world – talking about special family occasions.
- Expressive arts and design – sensory exploration, noticing effects of mark making, describing tests, using tools for a purpose, constructs with a purpose in mind, pretend one object represents another and paying make-believe.
- Maths – counting objects, comparing sizes, talking about shapes they leave in the playdough.

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Dancers, musicians, hula-hoopers and preschoolers gathered throughout the day Thursday on Sanford Mall as part of a community arts project put on by education and dance classes.
Children drew with sidewalk chalk and participated in mimicking dance games, as a large free-form canvas changed form throughout the day with each new addition from passing participants.
Senior arts education major Mindy Hawes began the event as a celebration of National Arts in Education Week, hoping to bring people together and spread awareness through the collaborative and communal aspect of public art, in response to an assignment in professor Alyssia Ruggiero’s class addressing the arts’ value in education.
“It just blew up into a whole class – and other classes,” Hawes said.
Ruggiero’s class teamed together, along with a dance class and the Lucy Brock children’s education program on campus.
“In class we talk a lot about the value of arts in education, and one of the things we talk about is the communal value and how it brings people together,” Ruggiero said. “It’s the idea of not just one area, but all of the arts.”
The main focus of the day’s activities was the creative problem solving and critical thinking skills that art facilitates in a child’s education in other classrooms.
“It’s a broader scope of what the arts are,” Ruggiero said. “It’s not just making pretty pictures. There’s a lot of problem solving and levels of thinking going on.”
By the end of the day, most of the attendees were students with no connection to the class, who come just to play music and paint.
Sophomore Hunter Hill helped with planning and promotion. She hopes to be an art professor some day and was delighted at the turnout.
“I felt so good because it’s like, ‘This is what I love to do’ and having people share in the experience of what I love to do and what I’m going to do for the rest of my life is so heartwarming,” Hill said.
The class plans to do the event annually now, perhaps with more structured and planned activities for local children to join in on, as part of a continuing effort to spread awareness throughout National Arts in Education Week.
“I hate seeing it’s getting dropped in schools because it’s deemed unimportant,” Hill said. “It’s so important. There are so many things that kids learn that you can’t be tested on, but it has helped me so much throughout my life, mentally and with social issues and stuff like that, and I think we should always teach it.”
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If you haven’t listened to ROLE MODEL yet, you 100% should. Tucker Pillsbury aka ROLE MODEL makes Indie Pop music that’ll make you wanna drive with all the windows or fall in love. With every song, listeners can hear a bit of flair that gives his love songs a bit of edge to them, reaching a broader audience.
ROLE MODEL released his debut album Rx in April, which featured singles like “if Jesus saves, she’s my type” and “neverletyougo”. He has also previously released EPs such as, our little angel (2020), oh, how perfect (2019), and his self-produced EP, ARIZONA IN THE SUMMER (2017).
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ROLE MODEL’s most famous song is “blind”, racking in nearly 84,000,000 streams on Spotify and the music video has over 3,000,000 views on YouTube. Fans believed this song to be about his relationship with YouTuber Emma Chamberlain before the two had confirmed their relationship.
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Did ROLE MODEL Go To College?
ROLE MODEL attended the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he studied Film. There he started to realize his love for music. ROLE MODEL had given himself a time frame for music and if nothing happened then that was that. Fortunately, after he released his song “stolen car”, Mac Miller DM’d him on Instagram and ROLE MODEL went out to meet him; the rest is history.

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Scientists have discovered the most ancient spiral galaxy in the universe that existed almost 11 billion years ago.
The spiral galaxy could provide insights into the early cosmos, believe scientists.
The galaxy, known as A1689B11, existed just 2.6 billion years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only one-fifth of its present age.
Researchers used a powerful technique that combines gravitational lensing with the Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) on the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii to verify the vintage and spiral nature of the galaxy.
Gravitational lenses are nature's largest telescopes, created by massive clusters composed of thousands of galaxies and dark matter.
The cluster bends and magnifies the light of galaxies behind it in a manner similar to an ordinary lens, but on a much larger scale.Spiral Galaxy: Know More
- Spiral galaxies are exceptionally rare in the early universe, and this discovery opens the door to investigating how galaxies transition from highly chaotic, turbulent discs to tranquil, thin discs like those of our own Milky Way galaxy.
- This galaxy is forming stars 20 times faster than galaxies today ? as fast as other young galaxies of similar masses in the early universe.
- However, unlike other galaxies of the same epoch, A1689B11 has a very cool and thin disc, rotating calmly with surprisingly little turbulence.
- This type of spiral galaxy has never been seen before at this early epoch of the universe.


PICKAWAY – Deer Creek dam has opened up reducing ten feet of water raising the outflow stage to 6.4 feet. This will keep the levels downstream high for the next week or so as they reduce these levels. Here’s a statement from Dam Creek Dam.
Currently the dam is 809.4 feet above sea level. Operations will begin releasing excess water downstream, increasing the outflow to roughly 6.9 feet, releasing roughly 2800 cubic feet of water per second. This rate will be maintained until the lake returns to Winter Pool, expected to be March 8th. Fisherman plan ahead!
“We have received numerous calls in the last week regarding lake and downstream levels as well as boat ramp accessibility. Over the weekend we were able to open the outflow and are beginning to lower the lake level. In doing so, this causes the water to rise and become swifter downstream so we urge caution while fishing and enjoying the downstream recreation area. Deer Creek Lake, however, still remains high.
During periods of high inflow, Deer Creek Dam closes its gates, holding back water that would otherwise flood areas downstream, waiting for downstream areas to return to normal before releasing the lake’s extra storage capacity.
Draining the lake down to winter pool every year provides us with additional storage capacity, improving the effectiveness of operations during flood events.
The release will not flood the area, after snow and ice melted Scioto river saw minor flooding at the beginning of the Month, now with waters subsided the Dam is safe to release extra water it held.


More hardware will open up — it’s inevitable. Hardware in the data center is no exception. Hardware in the data center is no exception. As Tim O’Reilly said in his keynote at the Open Compute Summit, innovation in the data center is critical for keeping up with the Internet’s pace of innovation. A first step is opening the hardware so people can hack it and adapt it to the data that flows at an… → Read More
“Open” this, “open” that: It seems like everything is “open” these days. Well hello, people, Bill Gates’ gravy boat has run aground. It’s time to get out the Starship and fly in those open clouds. → Read More
We’re live today at a Facebook event at their headquarters in Palo Alto. They’ve already noted that this event won’t be about a consumer facing product, but instead will be about the underlying technology that powers the service. And to that end, they’ve announced a new iniative, The Open Compute Project.
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How Much Longer Until the Core of the Earth Runs Out of Fuel?
At the Earth's crust, the temperatures remain relatively stable all year round. However, beneath the crust, under our feet is an incredibly hot place — the Earth's core!
From driving plate tectonics to keeping us safe from solar radiation, the Earth's core is not only interesting but also, in part, vital for life on Earth. But, how long can the Earth's core stay hot?
Read on to find out.
How hot is the center of the Earth?
How hot is the core of the Earth?
How did it get so hot in the first place?
One theory is that around 4.5 billion years ago, our Solar System consisted of a cloud of cold dust particles This cloud of gas and dust was somehow disturbed and started to collapse, as gravity pulled everything together, forming a huge spinning disk.
The center of the disk accreted to become the Sun, and the particles in the outer rings turned into large fiery balls of gas and molten-liquid that cooled and condensed to take on solid form.
At the same time, the surface of the newly formed planet was under constant bombardment from large bodies slamming into the planet, producing immense heat in its interior, melting the cosmic dust found there.
When Earth was formed, it was a uniform ball of hot rock. Radioactive decay and leftover heat from the planet's formation caused this ball to become even hotter. Eventually, after about 500 million years, the Earth's temperature reached the melting point of iron—about 1,538° Celsius (2,800° Fahrenheit).
This allowed Earth’s molten, rocky material to move even more rapidly. Relatively buoyant material, such as silicates, water, and even air, stayed close to the planet’s exterior and would become the early mantle and crust. Droplets of iron, nickel, and other heavy metals gravitated to the center of Earth, forming the early core. This process is called planetary differentiation.
Unlike the mineral-rich crust and mantle, the core is thought to be made up almost entirely of metal — specifically, iron and nickel. While the inner core is thought to be a solid ball with a radius of around 760 miles (1,220 km), with a surface temperature of 5,700 K (5,430 °C; 9,800 °F); the outer core is thought to be a fluid layer of about 2,400 km (1,500 miles) thick and reaching temperatures ranging from 3,000 K (2,730 °C; 4,940 °F) to 8,000 K (7,730 °C; 13,940 °F).
The core is thought to be so hot due to the decay of radioactive elements, leftover heat from planetary formation, and heat released as the liquid outer core solidifies near its boundary with the inner core.
So, the core is incredibly hot, but just how much longer can it remain hot?
Scientists at the University of Maryland claim they will be able to answer the question within the next four years.
Driving Earth’s tectonic plate movement and powering its magnetic field requires an immense amount of power. The energy is derived from the center of the Earth, but scientists are certain the core is very, very slowly cooling off.
What makes the center of the Earth hot?
Keeping the center of the Earth hot are two sources of "fuel": primordial energy left over from the formation of the planet and nuclear energy that exists because of natural radioactive decay.
The formation of the Earth came at a time when the solar system was brimming with energy. During its infancy, meteorites constantly bombarded the forming planet, causing excessive amounts of frictional force. At the time, Earth was rife with volcanic activity.
How long will the Earth's core last?
Since the beginning, the planet has cooled significantly. However, residual heat from the formation of Earth remains. Although the primordial heat has largely dissipated, another form of heat continues to warm the mantle and crust of the Earth.
Naturally radioactive materials exist in large quantities deep in the Earth, with some residing around the crust. During the natural decay process of the radioactive material, heat is released.
Scientists know heat flows from Earth's interior into space at a rate of about 44 × 1012 W (TW). What they do not know, however, is how much of the heat is primordial.
The issue is that if the Earth's heat is predominantly primordial, then it will cool off significantly quicker. However, if the heat is created mostly in part due to radioactive decay, then the Earth's heat will likely last much longer.
While that sounds pretty alarming, some estimates for the cooling of Earth's core see it taking tens of billions of years, or as much as 91 billion years. That is a very long time, and in fact, the Sun will likely burn out long before the core — in around 5 billion years.
Why is the Earth's core temperature important?
Earth's core keeps the temperature stable, but more importantly, it keeps the Earth's magnetic field in place. Earth’s magnetic field is created by the motion of the molten metal outer core.
This massive magnetic field extends into space and holds charged particles in place that are mostly collected from the solar winds.
The fields create an impenetrable barrier in space that prevents the fastest, most energetic electrons from reaching Earth. The fields are known as the Van Allen belts, and they are what enables life to thrive on the surface of the Earth. Without the shield of the magnetic field, the solar wind would strip Earth’s atmosphere of the ozone layer that protects life from harmful ultraviolet radiation.
The collection of charged particles deflects and captures the solar wind preventing it from stripping the Earth of its atmosphere. Without it, our planet would be barren and lifeless. It is believed that Mars once had a Van Allen belt that protected it too from the Sun's deadly wind. However, once the core cooled, it lost its shield, and now it remains a desolate wasteland.
How long will the Earth's fuel last?
Currently, many scientific models can estimate how much fuel remains to drive the Earth’s engines. The results, however, greatly differ making a final conclusion difficult to draw. At the moment, it is unknown how much primordial and radioactive energy remains.
“I am one of those scientists who has created a compositional model of the Earth and predicted the amount of fuel inside Earth today,” said one of the study’s authors William McDonough, a professor of geology at the University of Maryland.
“We’re in a field of guesses. At this point in my career, I don’t care if I’m right or wrong, I just want to know the answer.” However, researchers believe with modern technological advancements, a more accurate prediction can be made.
To determine how much nuclear fuel remains in the Earth, the researchers use advanced sensors to detect some of the tiniest subatomic particles known to science—geoneutrinos. Geoneutrino particles are the byproducts generated from nuclear reactions that take place within stars, supernovae, black holes, and human-made nuclear reactors.
Detecting how much fuel is left
Detecting antineutrino particles is an immensely difficult task. Massive detectors the size of a small office building are buried over 0.6 miles (a kilometer) down into the Earth's crust. The depth may seem like overkill; however, it is necessary to create a shield from cosmic rays that can result in false positives.
In operation, the detector can detect antineutrinos when they collide with hydrogen atoms inside the apparatus. After the collision, two bright flashes can be detected, unequivocally announcing the event.
By counting the number of collisions, scientists can determine the number of uranium and thorium atoms that remain inside of our planet.
Unfortunately, the detectors KamLAND in Japan and Borexino in Italy only detect about 16 events per year, making the process painstakingly slow. However, with three new detectors projected to come online in 2020 — the SNO+ detector in Canada and the Jinping and JUNO detectors in China — researchers expect more than 500 more detected events per year.
“Once we collect three years of antineutrino data from all five detectors, we are confident that we will have developed an accurate fuel gauge for the Earth and be able to calculate the amount of remaining fuel inside Earth,” said McDonough.
The Jinping detector in China is over four times bigger than all the detectors to date. Although the detector is big, the JUNO detector will be a staggering 20 times bigger than all existing detectors.
“Knowing exactly how much radioactive power there is in the Earth will tell us about Earth’s consumption rate in the past and its future fuel budget,” explained McDonough.
“By showing how fast the planet has cooled down since its birth, we can estimate how long this fuel will last.”
When JUNO comes online; hopefully in 2021 — the data collected should help scientists like McDonough estimate the time left for the Earth's core to cool. Until then, rest assured, that any estimates made are likely going to run into the hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of years in the future.
So, there is no need to make plans to move to a new planet anytime soon.

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Chris Cornell’s death last year left a huge hole in the contemporary rock landscape. The Soundgarden singer was just 52 when he died, but was one of the genre’s most prolific voices. An upcoming compilation, called simply Chris Cornell, looks to collect classic Cornell tracks with unreleased material as a tribute to his memory. One of those unreleased tracks is a live cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” which Cornell performed in 2015 at SiriusXM. It’s a beautifully arranged, eminently tender track, with support on guitar and cello coming from Keaton Simons and Bryan Gibson. For Father’s Day 2018, Cornell’s daughter Toni shared her own cover of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” along with a heartfelt note. Listen to Chris Cornell’s take on the track below.
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - APRIL 06: Chris Cornell of Soundgarden performs on stage during the 2014 Lollapalooza Brazil at Autodromo de Interlagos on April 6, 2014 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images)


OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei's new company Nothing Ear has launched its first product in India in the form of earbuds, named Nothing Ear 1. The Nothing Ear 1 can be purchased from Flipkart starting August 17. It comes with premium features like Active Noise Cancellation. Apart from this, it also has support for wireless charging.
Price of Nothing Ear 1
The price of Nothing Ear 1 has been kept at Rs 5,999 in the Indian market. Its price in the global market is $ 99 i.e. around Rs 7,400. Nothing Ear 1 competes with earbuds from companies like Oppo, Sony, Samsung, LG, and Anker Soundcore.
Features of Nothing Ear 1
These first earbuds from Nothing have been introduced with a transparent case which means that you can see the earbuds from outside. There is also a charging indicator with the case. There is a USB Type-C port for charging as well as support for wireless charging. Its battery life is claimed to have a backup of 5.7 hours, while the battery life with the charging case is 34 hours.
Nothing Ear 1 also supports fast charging, which is claimed to provide up to 8 hours of backup in just 10 minutes of charging. Active noise cancellation is also provided in these earbuds. It also has two intensity levels. It also has a transparency mode. Touch control is provided with Nothing Ear 1.
Nothing Ear 1 comes with support for the Ear 1 app, which can be used with both iOS and Android. Firmware updates can be done through the app itself. Along with this, there is also in-ear detection i.e. music will stop when the buds are taken out from the ear. It has an 11.6mm dynamic driver and has been designed with the help of Sweden's Teenage Engineering. With this, in addition to Bluetooth 5.2, there is support for SBC and AAC Bluetooth codecs.


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Laugh out Loud funny--yet soooo true. I love the Onion.
...And...no, I don't think the Gulf oil spill is funny.....
Massive Flow Of BS Continues To Gush From BP Headquarters
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LONDON—As the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico entered its eighth week Wednesday, fears continued to grow that the massive flow of bullsh** still gushing from the headquarters of oil giant BP could prove catastrophic if nothing is done to contain it.


This work presents the results of a study carried out to determine the topology of lateral surface and its effect on the process parameters of components manufactured by selective laser sintering (SLS). Using Taguchi’s experimental technique, an orthogonal array of L4 had been developed. Surface roughness was measured along built direction and analysis of variance (ANOVA) technique was used to investigate the effect of process parameters and to identify main process parameter that influences surface roughness on SLS components. It has been found that slice thickness and scan spacing have more significant influence than the laser power. Microstructure of the sintered specimen along the build direction was studied using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). It was observed that variations in slice thickness affect surface topology of SLS components.


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(MENAFN) On Friday, hundreds of flights were canceled at four German airports as security staff went on strike due to an ongoing dispute over pay and work conditions. The ver.di trade union announced that the strike action of security personnel and public employees at Dusseldorf and Cologne/Bonn airports would continue until the early hours of Saturday. Andrea Becker, a regional head of the union, explained that the strike action was necessary as they had received no acceptable offer from the employers in the latest round of negotiations.
The strike affected flights at Dusseldorf and Cologne/Bonn airports, where hundreds of flights were canceled. Dusseldorf airport announced that 264 out of 391 planned flights, including both departures and arrivals, were canceled due to the strike action. Meanwhile, at least 60 departures and 40 planned arrivals were canceled at Cologne/Bonn airport. Passengers were advised to contact their airline or tour operator to find out the current status of their flight before traveling to the airport.
In addition to the strikes at Dusseldorf and Cologne/Bonn airports, the strike in the southern state of Baden-Wurttemberg grounded all flights at Stuttgart airport and caused disruptions and longer waiting times at Karlsruhe's Baden-Baden airport. Stuttgart airport announced that no take-offs or landings were possible all day on Friday, and regular flight operations would resume on Saturday, 18 March.
The strikes have caused significant disruptions for passengers and highlighted the ongoing dispute over pay and work conditions for security staff and public employees. The ver.di trade union has emphasized the need for significantly more money to make a living, as inflation, high energy, and food prices trigger existential fears among employees. The strikes demonstrate the determination of unionized workers to fight for better compensation and working conditions.
Authorities have advised passengers of Ryanair and Wizz Air to check their flight status prior to making their way to the Baden-Baden airport and plan more time for security checks. The ongoing strikes highlight the challenges faced by workers in the aviation industry, many of whom have been hard hit by the pandemic's impact on the sector. It remains to be seen whether negotiations between the union and employers will result in a resolution to the dispute and an end to the strikes.
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A woman’s Right To Choose – A Cruel Deception
It is a monstrous lie that has contributed to pain and suffering, for millions of women throughout the world and to the killing of innocent and defenceless unborn children. Never before in the history of mankind has such a blatant lie promoted by Family Planning and the International Planned Parenthood Federation in its war against women, its promotion of a culture of death, been the cause of such misery and destruction.
The slogan “a woman’s right to choose” was invented in 1969 by Dr Bernard Nathanson, a founder of the National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws. He later had a conversion and actively defended the right to life of the unborn when he saw on an ultra sound screen an unborn child with its mouth open in a silent scream, struggling to stay alive in the midst of an abortion. Dr Nathanson later said that he always knew it was a lie. We knew it was not true, they knew it was not true and now society at large knows that it is not true. It is a monstrous lie.
Every human being supports the right to choose. Each day we choose what we are going to wear, what we will eat and where we shall go. These are morally neutral actions. What then specifically is the pro-death movement trying to hide under the disarming slogan, “a woman’s right to choose”. It is none other than a right to kill another human being, not one who is able to defend itself from attack but the weakest and most defenceless member of the human family, an unborn child who is a unique and unrepeatable miracle of the Creator. The destruction of God’s precious infants will bring down the wrath of God on society. In the biblical book, Deuteronomy it says, “I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life that your children may live.” As a society, we must do all we can to help women choose life for their children.
Family Planning and the pro-death movement are aware that the slogan “a woman’s right to choose” is not resonating with the public, they are now promoting another great lie in the cry for “reproductive Justice”. It is appalling that they claim that the killing of a defenceless child in the womb is necessary to achieve justice. Who will protect women from the lies of Family Planning and its war on women?
A woman has an absolute right not to get pregnant but when she is pregnant she does not have the right to kill her child in the womb. The anti-life movement claims that a pregnant woman has a right to decide whether she wants to be a mother. When a woman is pregnant she is already a mother, her choice then is a live baby or a dead baby. A woman who chooses not to have a child should exercise her right by living a chaste life and confining sexual intercourse to marriage.
The pro-death movement is hypocritical, it is solely concentrated on the perceived right to kill an unborn child. They are strangely silent on a right of women to choose life for their baby with parenting or placing the child for adoption. They attack the pro-life movement calling it the anti-choice movement. This is another great lie, the pro-life movement fully supports a women’s right to choose life for her baby or to place it for adoption and we will never support the killing of the child in an effort to solve a socio -economic problem. The pro-life movement provides compassionate, unconditional love with practical help for women with an unplanned pregnancy. The pro-death movement is not prepared to provide any love or practical help to these women.
Family Planning is at the forefront of promoting a culture of death in New Zealand with its comprehensive sex education in schools. It has seduced our youth into believing that sex is for recreation and that they have a right to be sexually active, when they want to and with whoever they wish to. The result is an appalling rate of teenage pregnancy, abortions and STIs. Families should protect their children by advocating for the defunding of the Family Planning Association that receives more than $12 million each year and by keeping Family Planning out of our schools. The government needs to stop listening to Family Planning and listen to parents.

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Immunohistochemical staining Formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded clear cell renal carcinoma tissue blocks were from the The First Clinical Hospital of Jilin University. Tissue blocks were sectioned and deparaffinized in xylene and rehydrated through a graded ethanol series. Tissue slides were then subjected to antigen retrieval by boiling in 0.01 M sodium citrate buffer (pH 6) in a microwave oven for 10 min. Endogenous peroxidase was blocked by incubation for 10 min in 3% hydrogen peroxide in methanol. Finally, the reactions were detected using the DAB detection kit (Dako). Anti-MYST1 and acetylated H4K16 polyclonal antibodies were used at a 1:500 dilution. MYST1 protein expression
status and the histone H4K16 acetylation levels were estimated #selleck chemicals randurls[1|1|,|CHEM1|]# in a four-step scale (none, weak, moderate, strong). The determination criteria
are shown below: score 0 = none, no staining or nuclear staining <10% of tumor cells; score 1 = weak, partial or weak complete nuclear staining >10% of tumor cells; score 2 = moderate complete nuclear staining >10% of tumor cells; score 3 = strong and complete nuclear staining in >10% of tumor cells . Transient transfection Human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293T cells, renal cell carcinomas 786–0 and OS-RC-2 cells were cultured in 6 well tissue culture plates (~2 × 105 cells/well) in DMEM containing 10% fetal bovine serum and antibiotics. The cells were transiently transfected with 0.25~2 μg of hMOF cDNAs TPX-0005 in vitro using polyethylenimine
(PEI). At 48 hrs post-transfection, cells were harvested and lysed for immunoblot and RT-PCR analysis. Statistical analysis The expression difference of genes and proteins between ccRCC and normal tissues were statistically analyzed. Statistical analysis was completed with SPSS 17.0 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago IL). Statistical comparisons were analyzed using the student’s t-test. Values of P < 0.05 were considered to be statistically significant. Results Downregulation of hMOF mRNA in primary renal cell carcinoma tissues In order to know whether the hMOF is involved in the pathogenesis of primary RCC or not, we first examined the mRNA levels of hMOF and other hypoxia signature genes including CA9, VEGF and HIF1α in 4 random cases of 2-hydroxyphytanoyl-CoA lyase newly diagnosed ccRCC (Figure 1A) by reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR) and quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR). As shown in Figure 1B, the gene expression levels of hMOF were markedly decreased in all ccRCC tissues compared to matched normal tissues (p<0.001). In contrast, CA9 expression levels were significantly increased in all ccRCC tissues (p<0.01). However, no significant difference was observed in VEGF and HIF1α expression. Additional 16 paired clinical ccRCC and matched normal tissues were used to further validate the frequent downregulation of hMOF mRNA expression in primary ccRCC. Analysis of performed mRNA expression of 16 samples revealed significant (>2-fold decreased) downregulation of hMOF mRNA in 87.

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For new development projects in Seattle, green ambitions exist long before architects, planners, and contractors are brought to the table because saying that a new project will offer “green living” is a big assertion—and one that Seattleites will take seriously. After all, the city allows development companies to skirt older building code requirements if a project’s design fosters innovative environmental improvement. With that kind of commitment to green initiatives, it comes as no surprise that Seattle developers are always finding new ways to push the green-building envelope.
AMLI Residential, a leading developer for luxury apartment communities in 11 cities across the country, including Seattle, is no exception. “A number of years ago, AMLI made a commitment to reduce the impact our business has on the environment,” says Scott Koppelman, senior vice president of AMLI Development. “This commitment was driven by our mission to create healthy, comfortable living spaces for residents and to be a responsible steward of our environment.”
AMLI’s two new Seattle developments, AMLI South Lake Union (already LEED Silver certified) and AMLI Mark24 (pending LEED Silver certification), both include all the trappings of luxury living—high-end finishes, fitness and recreation centers, and outdoor sky decks—but their locations were selected as a central component of each project’s green design. “We located our new Seattle developments in close proximity to employment centers, and in walkable neighborhoods offering the services, restaurants, parks and recreation opportunities, and other cultural amenities that make urban living so wonderful,” Koppelman says.
Mark24 is located in Ballard, one of Seattle’s most popular mixed-use neighborhoods, and South Lake Union is located in the up-and-coming South Lake Union district. “The South Lake Union neighborhood has evolved into a significant employment center with the Amazon campus, Gates Foundation, UW Medical Research Campus, and many others,” Koppelman says. “On the heels of that employment growth, the range of housing options, services, and bars and restaurants is constantly evolving, making it a very dynamic living environment.”
South Lake Union and Mark24 have the now common green features—smoke-free environments, low-VOC paints, community recycling programs, sustainable landscaping, and energy-efficient products and appliances—but they also have an unusual green feature: bike storage rooms with self-service repair shops. “Rather than tuck these bike rooms away in the lower levels of the parking garage, we are bringing them up to the ground floor and increasing their size,” Koppelman says. “Our bike rooms have more convenient locations, allowing residents to take the elevator to the ground floor, grab their bike from the bike room, and hit the trails quickly and easily. We are also adding equipment within those rooms such as bike-repair stands and tools, along with workbenches and air pumps to make maintaining your bicycle as convenient as possible.” Combined, the bike rooms’ location and features directly contribute to Seattle’s reduced car-dependency ambitions by making bike transportation more feasible for residents, a goal that’s also central to AMLI’s responsibility mission.
When both Mark24 and South Lake Union open to residents in spring 2014, Seattle dwellers are sure to be pleased with the buildings’ seamless integration of green design features, making living a daily green existence even easier than before. But that doesn’t mean that Koppelman and his AMLI Development team won’t stop improving on their own model; topping their previous designs is inherently part of their mission. “With each new development, we improve upon what we did in prior projects,” he says. “We determine which features achieve their sustainability goals and which ones don’t. We learn from that and adjust our sustainability program on the next project.” In Seattle, residents will be waiting to see what AMLI comes up with next.


Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen which contains one proton and one neutron in its nucleus (called a deuteron), and one electron orbiting the nucleus, whereas the Hydrogen nucleus lacks any neutron particle. Naturally-occurring hydrogen consists of less than 1% of deuterium and deuterium is found in large quantities in water, more than one atom per ten thousand hydrogen atoms has a deuterium nucleus. The isotope is denoted “2H” or “D”, and is normally known as “heavy hydrogen”. In Star Trek, deuterium, along with its antimatter opposite, antideuterium, is the primary fuel used in the matter-antimatter reactions that power a starship's warp engines, and is also used in the fusion reactors that power the sub-light speed impulse engines.
From left to right, the hydrogen atom and the
isotopes deuterium and tritium
real science, Deuterium is already widely used in a number of
conventional nuclear fission reactors in the form of heavy water (D2O)
- water that contains a higher proportion than normal of the deuterium
isotope. Heavy water acts as a neutron moderator to slow down neutrons
so that they can react with the uranium in the reactor. The use of
heavy water essentially increases the efficiency of the nuclear
reaction and heavy water reactors are more efficient at breeding
plutonium (from uranium-238) or uranium-233 (from thorium-232) than a
comparable light-water reactor.
Deuterium also has great potential in the development of nuclear fusion reactors, especially in combination with tritium, because of the large reaction rate and high energy yield of the D-T reaction. Deuterium-tritium is the fuel proposed for the first generation of experimental fusion power plants such as the Joint European Torus (JET) and the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). Research is also being conducted on ultra-dense deuterium - a super-heavy material which is thought to plays a role in the formation of stars and probably present in giant planets such as Jupiter. It is thought that ultra-dense deuterium may be a very efficient fuel in laser driven nuclear fusion. Ultra-dense deuterium is a million times more dense than frozen deuterium, making it relatively easy to create a nuclear fusion reaction using high-power pulses of laser light.


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Showers, some heavy and thundery. Fresh NW.
Occasional showers. Fresh southwest, easing overnight.
Fine spells, shower or two. Southwest breeeze.
Fine with light winds.
Northerly 15 knots, becoming westerly 25 knots this afternoon. Sea becoming rough. Southwest swell 2 metres. Northwest swell 2 metres developing. Poor visibility in showers, turning to rain this morning, heavy and thundery at times.
Outlook following 3 days: Westerly 25 knots, easing Monday evening southwest 15 knots. Becoming late Tuesday variable 10 knots. Moderate southwest swell at times.
Northwest 15 knots, rising to 30 knots this morning. Sea becoming rough. Southwest swell west of Cape Farewell to Hawera, 2 metres. Northwest swell in the west, 2 metres developing. Northwest swell in the east, rising to 2 metres. Poor visibility in showers, turning to rain this morning, heavy and possibly thundery at times.
Outlook following 3 days: Westerly 30 knots, changing late Monday afternoon southwest 15 knots but 25 knots in the west with rough sea. Easing Tuesday southwest 15 knots in the west. Becoming Wednesday variable 10 knots everywhere. Moderate southwest swell in the west at times.