2018 Toyota Land Cruiser Redesign, Release, Price, Engine, Specs – The 2018 Toyota Land Cruiser is a specific niche automobile targeted at those that really mean to take trips over the courses much less took a trip. However, the truth for roads as well as freeways is that it's an extra-large SUV with a crave fuel that matches its huge account.
The Land Cruiser has actually constantly been one for off-road expertise, however, it's advanced right into a high-end lorry of kids without ever before shedding its capacity to venture far from the sidewalk. In its past, the Land Cruiser recognized deserts, hills, and also the Serengeti, however, it's currently much better recognized for its expedition with metropolitan forests and also football areas.
To do a fast pointer, the engine concerned is a 5.7-liter turbocharged V8, with the ability to supply 381 horsepower, at 5600 rpm, with an optimum torque outcome of 401 pounds-feet of torque, at 3600 rpm. The engine will certainly showcase variable shutoff timing innovation in order to reduce gas usage as long as feasible. The drive setup will certainly be a 4×4 as well as the engine will certainly be mated to an 8-speed shiftable transmission system.
The engine is, certainly gasoline based, without any diesel alternative whatsoever. Regarding the gas economic situation is worried, the 2018 Toyota Land Cruiser is not the greenest vehicle around, and also never ever was. With its EPA gas economic climate scores of 13 miles each gallon in the city and also 18 miles each gallon on the freeway, it is just one of an awful executing lorries in regards to gas usage available, in spite of the close to 400 horsepower engine. As for the gas mileage is worried, the colony Cruiser has the ability to take a trip 320 miles each solitary gas container in the city and also 443 miles each gas storage tank on the freeway. The gas storage tank capability is 24.6 gallons.
A number of claimed pictures of this design have actually been leaked that portrays some modifications. To begin with, this 2018 Toyota Land Cruiser is simply based off of its precursor as the layout components have actually been maintained the exact same. Exactly what's transformed is the front fascia which enhances a renewed appearance. Its fronts lights and also grille have actually been exiled in the very same area. The grille currently has larger straight chrome slats with a hostile surrounding.
After that, the fronts lights having a durable form sign up with along. The fronts lights likewise have actually brand-new LED strips. Its front bumper likewise holds refined modifications. Relocating along, its side body appears to have actually included brand-new contours. Points appear to have actually altered in its back part as well as the form of taillights has actually been transformed a little bit. New light weight aluminum alloy wheels remain in the alternative. Speculations/rumors hold that a brand-new structure may have been utilized.
Very little has actually been learned about the indoor cabin of this brand-new 2018 Toyota Land Cruiser. Do not anticipate any kind of substantial adjustments as the existing design has actually currently been provided significant adjustments. It has actually been claimed that one of the most vital upgrades will certainly remain in its enjoyment and also security functions. Several of the most significant highlights of the indoor cabin is most likely to be wood and also chrome trims. This future SUV is additionally most likely to obtain a brand-new infomercial display screen with upgrades in the software application as well as applications.
We do not assume that the 2018 Toyota Land Cruiser will certainly ever before winning an honor for the very best looking SUV, however, Toyota is striving to earn it consider the very least midway suitable. Besides, there are lots of various other excellent points going all out, so maybe a little exchange is required.
According to some official site, we expect the vehicle to get into the marketplace at the beginning of 2018. Upon the release of the previous years, we predict the price of 2018 Toyota Land Cruiser starts from $ 85,000. If there are changes we will immediately notify you. so, monitor our blog updates.


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If you were walking down State Street tonight between 7-10, there's no way you could have missed the extremely thought provoking, physical standout performances of Plasticene's ghostLIGHT. As I turned off of Monroe heading southbound I saw this guy posted up a mounted bike peddling away like Lance Armstrong but going nowhere. Further down the street was this hauntingly masked woman in mourning lighting a candle with a silver, alien like wooden dollchild seated in a chair behind her. Every different act was intriguing and I couldn't help but get lost in the Plasticene dream like world. My favorite had to be the gummy bear ninja. I stood and watched this woman for twenty minutes as she had a staring contest with a bowl of gummy bears. Yep, you heard me right. She would stare, stalk and then grab a bear and squeeze it with her chopsticks, all the while throwing in some kung fu poses. Some gummy bear must have done her wrong in the past, maybe she bought a stale pack one day and has ongoing issues from it. I don't know, I have no idea what to think actually. All I was sure of was that I wasn't gonna lay a finger on those gummy bears.


21.03.2019 ♦ NORTHERN LIGHTS PREMIERE !
The Full Moon and Equinox combined are the perfect opportunity to share the news that Krzysztof's album NORTHERN LIGHTS got to worldwide distribution today and is available on all major steaming platforms!
05.02.2019 ♦ ETHERRUM " PREMIERE !
Official PREMIERE of the artistic music video ETHERRUM " story about the 5th element by Jurek Dytkiewicz & Jacek Kedzierski. Krzysztof was responsable for the music, sound design and mix of the clip. Big thanks and congratulations to the entire crew and the amazing percussionst Oskar Podolski!
It's a story about the 5th element seen as something magical, something that can't be easily described. It gives inspiration to artists. Or maybe it is an inspiration itself. All other 4 elements, which can be seen in the movie, refer to the concepts of elements in ancient Greece - earth, water, air, and fire. Greeks believed that this is the essence of which the Gods breathe or what fills up the universe. It's a natural phenomenon. Our short story is an audiovisual impression of the creative process of a drummer's work. It shows the struggle to get the right rhythm, melody, and feeling. It shows his journey through all 5 elements to create something sophisticated, unique and what comes from the bottom of his heart.
30.01.2019 ♦ JACOB PREMIERE !
Official PREMIERE of the film Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking Dogs by Edmunds Jansons, a film Krzysztof had scored rectently. One more time, big thanks to the amazing musicians: Dawid Lubowicz (Violin) Paweł Janas - Buttonhacker (Accordion) Oliwier Andruszczenko (Clarinets & Alto saxophone) Maciek Kopczyński (Guitars & Mandolin) Franek Pospieszalski (Double bass) Krzysztof Piaszczyk (Tuba) Jan Tomaszewski (Percussion Instruments) and wonderful producers: Sabine Andersone (Atom Art), Jakub Karwowski and Piotr Szczepanowicz (Letko).
15.01.2019 ♦ 3 WEEKS LEFT !
Only 3 weeks left till the cinema premiere of the film Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking Dogs directed by Edmunds Jansons !
Stay tuned and follow Krzysztof on Spotify !


Just this week I saw a variation of this slogan on the bumper of a car in front of me in traffic. And I couldn't help but shake me head. Is this really how we want to be known as a country? A nation filled with angry people? A nation that thrives on outrage?
Anger is not always wrong. There is such a thing as righteous anger. If your recall, Jesus unleashed a little anger in the temple (John 2:13-22).
But there is a lot of difference between a moment of righteous anger and being filled with anger.
A few days ago I posted an entry about learning to be compassionate in which I referenced an article about the brain science of meditation. Essentially, scientists have found that we are what we dwell on. Tibetan monks who spend tens of thousands of hours meditating on compassion are extremely compassionate people. Their brains light up in a completely different way from an ordinary person's when they invoke a moment of compassion. Even newcomers to compassion meditation experience changes in the way their brain works.
This is why prayer is so important to Christian believers. Prayer centers us not on the world around us, but on Christ. By focusing our attention on Jesus we focus on his qualities. Our brains begin to change as we meditate on his love, compassion, healing, and sacrifice for us. And we gradually take on the image of Jesus.
The more we dwell on Jesus, the more we become like him. The more our brains shift to reflect the divine love of Christ rather than sinfulness of this world.
So, you can image what image we begin to live into when we fill our brains with constant thoughts of anger and rage.
Jesus' focus was on love, even when his outburst in the temple shook things up. For Jesus, his momentary anger erupted because he loved God and had compassion on the poor. God was being mocked by the money changers, and the poor were being taken advantage of by greedy individuals who identified the visitors to the holy city to be easy targets for a scam. Jesus' anger was fueled by his love of God and God's children, not by hatred.
And when it was over, he was still the compassionate, loving savior we needed. He was still the one who ordered his disciple to put away the sword, warning that "those who live by the sword die by the sword" (remember, we are what we dwell on). He was still the one who went willingly to the cross. And he was still the one crying out for forgiveness… even for the temple money changers he had chased out.
I realize that the "Restore the Anger" bumper stickers are referenceing a political slogan popular among Tea Party supporters. But the danger of this mentality is that it goes beyond being a slogan. And it goes beyond righteous anger. Rather than focusing on the love and compassion of Christ, it focuses only on a base human instinct which knows nothing of rationality and reason.
Anger blinds. Anger creates rage. Anger erupts. Anger is volatile. Anger is destructive. And anger distorts our brains to take on the image of all those things.
You can hold conservative political and theological views and still be filled with love and compassion.
But if the motivating drive behind your view is anger, you are clearly not following the path of Jesus, because the motivating drive behind everything Jesus did was love and compassion.
They will know us by our love! Thanks for this word.
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This specimen is an issue of the Zacatecas mint, which was opened by the royalists in 1810 and operated by them until 1821, when it was taken over by the Iturbide regime. One reales of the "imaginary" bust type were struck there 1813-20 and the "standard" bust bust type was struck there 1820-22. Zacatecas was the most prolific branch mint during the War of Independence due to its proximity to the silver mining districts. The early issues are rare but half, one, two and eight reales of 1818-22 are very common. Zacatecas commenced striking Mexican republican types in 1825 and continued until 1905. Gold issues began in 1858.
Specification: 3.38 g, .903 silver, .098 troy oz ASW.
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Many (but not all) of the homes built from our large house plans are also luxury homes, and they can be of various styles and types. They can also be one or two story homes; with or without a basement level. Many people refer to large houses like these as mansions, and words like chateau and estate are often used to describe them, but the homes in this section of our website have only one thing in common – their size!


A pleasant, well grassed clearing with scattered exotics (an old house site) shaded by cypress pines. Surrounded by a mature pine forest on the lower slopes of Mt Lonarch.
There is limited level parking. Facilities are showing signs of age and limited maintenance.


We do not curently have theatre tickets available for Elvis Lives This could be because we have simply sold out or it could be that this show is no longer running. The information on this page remains purely for historical and informational purposes.
For the first time in the UK - exclusively from Graceland – 'ELVIS LIVES' is an unforgettable multi-media and live musical journey across Elvis' life.
The show will feature a full live band and the hit songs will be performed live by three of the winners and finalists from the Elvis Presley Enterprises' worldwide Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest. Featuring exclusive Graceland footage. Don't miss this phenomenal show. There is a maximum of 4 tickets per cardholder.


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2 years ago by Long Island Lou Tequila on Blanco, Reviews, 2018, blanco- High proof
Elvelo Tequila is yet another brand to add to the list, coming out of La Cofradia distillery- NOM 1137 in the valle region of Jalisco, Mexico. Too many of the tequilas made there taste similar and many are triple distilled, which are not my preference. Thankfully Elvelo is double distilled and is an overproof, but does have that similar profile as others made there. Elvelo tequila may not be a top sipper alone, although I enjoyed sipping it, but is great for a high quality/high proof mixer.... and at a great price. For about 29.99 (1 liter), this tequila was actually designed to be a great mixer. Elvelo Tequila has some highly respected and knowledgeable tequila people behind it, and although they contract it here, along with a million other brands (slight exaggeration), Elvelo was made exactly to the owners' specifications, and I know you will enjoy this in a cocktail. The brand is owned by Altamar, and they partnered with La Cofradia in developing this specific product profile, and for the sourcing of their agaves. Altamar happens to import Ocho Tequila as well, and I was told that the goal with Elvelo, was to create something that was starkly contrasting to Ocho, as they wanted to be sure they were complementary to one another, rather than direct competitors. As such, Elvelo is in no way directly connected to Ocho, and does have a distinct valle profile. The illustration on the bottle represents the eruption of the Volcán de Tequila, nearly 200,000 years ago, which set the groundwork for blue agave to flourish and thrive in the Tequila Valley. The name Elvelo means "Veil", as it correlates to the veil of lava and ash that coated the entire Tequila Valley, thus creating the distinctive and recognizable flavor of this region. The illustration and all of the package design was created by Charlie Burt, a local artist/designer in Kansas City.
Brandon Cummins, the Director of Marketing and Education at Altamar Brands is someone who has worked closely with Carlos Camarena and Tom Estes at La Altana on the high quality 'Ocho Tequila', among other brands. Cummins recently told me "we just launched Elvelo tequila, and we personally worked with Charly (son) & Carlos Hernandez Ramos (father) at La Cofradia, to develop the product profile and specifications on production." Cummins still works with Camarena and Estes on Ocho, but said "this time we went 100% valle, and the goal with Elvelo, was to create something that was very different to Ocho, but still respecting tradition." Ocho is always highland agave, while Elvelo is always Valley, and as Brandon says "the end character is always drastically different, but complimentary from a story of 'Terroir of Jalisco'." When I told Brandon I thought it sipped fine, but thought that Elvelo would really mix well, he said "The whole point is cocktails, as my background was in craft cocktails before coming over to this side of things. We actually tested 13 different proof points, selected the favorite 3, and then tested them in 5 different classic and modern cocktails to determine the final proof and profile." Altamar is still the exclusive importer of Ocho to the United States. Elvelo Tequila is brand new and is currently available in limited markets in the US (NY, CA, IL, TX, FL, CO, MO, KS, MD, and TN), with others coming on soon. Although not distributed for sale in Mexico, it is also sold at the distillery, and it is not yet available in any other countries. They are still in the infancy stages of this brand, and at this time there is only a blanco expression, while the Reposado is resting, for distribution in the near future. For people interested, contact Altamar brands and ask (contact us) HERE-http://www.altamarbrands.com/contact-us/
Not only is Elvelo double distilled in copper lined SS pot stills, it is high proof. They settled on 89 proof, and I like these 'moderate' high proofs, as they are not too hot for people to sip alone, yet add a perfect punch to mixed drinks. They also do something interesting after the cooking. As we started discussing details, Brandon explained the cooking times as well as the resting period in the ovens. Unlike most brands, who open the horno doors to let the agave 'cool' in order to move them along to maceration, Elvelo shuts the steam off on the hornos, but leaves the doors sealed closed. This takes more time, and in essence.... more cost, but as he put it, "it allows for greater concentration of flavors and sugars. It's like resting meat after cooking....it slowly comes down in temperature, which helps retain the juices before crushing." It makes sense to me, and he went on to say that "keeping the doors closed, traps the heat inside, essentially still 'slow roasting' the agaves after the pressurized cook, essentially applying some 'BBQ like slow & low' methodology." This may not seem like a big deal, but it truly can be. According to my respected friend Grover Sanschagrin, of 'TMM' and "Taste Tequila' "leaving the agaves in the oven resting longer is interesting, and long cooking times at a lower temperature is a very good thing, which is essentially what is going on here." We discussed how technically wild fermentation starts (with airborne yeasts) within 1 hour, once agaves are removed from the oven, awaiting maceration. Most brands do this, leaving the agaves to sit for 24 hours, and this no doubt will have an effect on the fermentation, but if the doors are sealed closed, then it would be difficult for the fermentation to start early. Grover explained that lower temperatures for longer times, results in better sugar conversions, more complex aromas, and a deeper caramelization effect.
PRODUCTION- using all single estate valle agaves, Elvelo is horno cooked, then stays in closed airtight ovens to slowly develop further. They are cooked for 32 hours at 98 Ccelsius, with the bitter waters called 'aguas amargas' removed after the first 8 hours. After 32 hours of cooking, the agaves rest in the closed ovens for an additional 16 hours, followed by maceration (crushing) with a screw press. Fermentation takes places in open- air stainless steel tanks with the yeasts cultivated from the Aguas Amargas, which is the water runoff which collects yeast during cooking, from the airborne particles in and around the distillery. As Cummins explained, "my understanding is that there are quite a few natural yeast strains that just exist in the air and on the plants, and the 'bitter waters' are waters that have run off the plants from the cooking time in the ovens, and settle at the bottom of the horno, and as such, these waters have yeast in them." They use this 'yeast water' as the starter, and do not add any other yeast. Elvelo is then double distilled to 89 proof in copper lined stainless steel pot stills. Natural spring water is used, and the tequila is oxygenated. This is a solid production procedure.
Elvelo blanco- double distilled to 89 proof and being sold for about $29.99 (1 liter), is a bold, flavorful tequila and great for mixing. It's sippable for sure, and has aromas of sweet cooked agave, cinnamon, minerals, vegetal, some citrus, a touch of mint, spice and grassy notes. On taste it has some heat at the front and back end, with cinnamon, minerals, grassy and vegetal, with spice and some mint. As with many La Cofradia products it has a musty, earthy, funky and bold, almost nutmeg-like presence as well. The boldness and the extra alcohol punch seems perfect for mixing a high quality cocktail. I simply added OJ and the flavors were popping. This exact abv blend and profile was tested by Altamar on 5 typical cocktails. They were the Tommy's Margarita, a Paloma, a Frozen Mango Margarita, a tiki style cocktail using pineapple juice & cream of coconut, and a Rosita. The 44.5% ABV was the unanimous favorite in ALL of the drinks. I was told that this tequila was produced and inspired by a number of bartenders asking for other options for "non Mixto" and "Non Diffuser" tequilas, and Elvelo hopes that it finds a nice home amidst cocktail centric bartenders.
NOSE- some sweet cooked agave, cinnamon, spice, some mint and a citrus presence. A mineral, earthy and grassy, vegetal aroma, with a slight nutmeg-type aroma.
TASTE- medium oil with some heat up front as well as the backend, cinnamon, minerals, earthy and grassy, with a pinch of mint. A slightly musty boldness.
FINISH- cinnamon, grassy, sweet and earthy with a slight alcohol tingle, fading out in a medium length finish.
I gave Elvelo blanco an 80 rating on Tequila Matchmaker, as it packs a number of flavors, and although it's better as a mixer than a sipper, the value is great. CLICK-http://tequilamatchmaker.com/tequilas/6178-elvelo-tequila-blanco
Elvelo Tequila has many of the distinctive notes from La Cofradia, and was specifically designed for mixing high quality cocktails, as the boldness and flavors go well with mixing. For this price of only 29.99 for a 1 liter bottle, it makes it hard not to have Elvelo on hand for Margaritas, Palomas, Tequila Sunrise and more. It's a great value.
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Pigeon from another GALAXY . 4 Years in a row top 3 of her county. Fantastic pigeon in the hand, very soft ….but most important …very good . I think this never happened before in Belgium. Hopefully this year for the 5th time in a row .


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The Representational & The Abstract
Nov 11, 2017 – Jan 15, 2018
ShanghART / West Bund, Shanghai
Yu Youhan
Yu Youhan's solo exhibition The Representational & The Abstract opened at ShanghART West Bund space last fall. The exhibition focuses on Yu Youhan's latest works after his retrospective exhibition at the Power Station of Art Shanghai in 2016, as well as early works seen for the first time. More than twenty sets of works from past and present are displayed on both floors of the ShanghART gallery space, on view through January 15th, 2018.
Yu Youhan's works are known and distinguished for three main series: abstract, pop art, and landscape. The series not only alternate in different times of his career, but also interpenetrate each other in terms of painting language. For the artist, a characteristic shared between traditional Chinese art and the impressionist Paul Cézanne is a high level of generalization. Generalization is abstraction, a way to extract subjectivity from representational objects. Abstraction has been one of the most important threads that runs through all of his paintings. His representational artworks are distinctly abstract whereas the abstract works are usually integrating figurative elements.
After passing the age of 70, Yu Youhan, who always advocates to break free from narrowness in art-making, further develops his painting style. Various painting languages are mixed together, including the heaviness of historical elements and lightness of dynamic characters blended in abstractive images. Terracotta Army on Yimeng Mountain is a classic case where the ancient terracotta army and contemporary landscape merge across time and space, reflecting Yu Youhan's contemplation of the developmental status of human society.
From a set of paintings inspired by packing boxes to works of "realism" depicting the surface of the moon, the techniques used in his new works continue to capture the temperament of returning to a primal "clumsiness". But an impressive variety is demonstrated in these new works, revealing the humorous psyche of the artist and the way he earnestly practices his philosophy of closely connecting art to life. As he said himself: "Duchamp said his life is his best art. I say my art is my best life."
Yu Youhan: The Representational & The Abstract
November 11, 2017 – January 15, 2018 / ShanghART, West Bund, Shanghai
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Whether creating an acid portrait of Sweden, representing the nightmarish world of business offices, tapping into the desolate uniformity of petrified, petit-bourgeois neighborhoods, Lars Tunbjörk has totally forgotten his black and white beginnings.
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Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker's Nightbreed
By: Karin Crighton
"Midian Unmade" Book Review
Written by Karin Crighton
Published by Tor Books
Edited by Joseph Nassie and Del Howison
Released on July 28th, 2015
It is completely unfair that Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker's Nightbreed is so wonderfully and captivatingly written, only to end like all good books must. The stories contained therein are so intoxicating, so lovingly written, and so all-encompassing that they leave you aching for more when you reach the final page. It's too good, dammit. I need more.
Twenty-three individual short stories make up this anthology, each written by an author who loves Clive Barker's original Cabal novel (and probably the 1990 Nightbreed movie as well). Cabal is the story of lovers Boone and Lori; Boone an unhinged young man with delusions of murder, and Lori, a woman oddly attached to him even after his mysterious death in a deserted town called Midian. After Boone rises from the dead, their detachment from the world around them opens their eyes to their true destiny: finding a safe haven for the monsters the waking world has rejected. Together they must find a new Midian for the Nightbreed.
The respect the writers have for Barker's work is evident; every story is crafted to leave the reader breathless and oddly in love with each character you meet. Most of these creatures are never mentioned in Cabal; they are new and wonderful inventions, but their detail and inner life is so real you'll be sure you know them already. The powers these monsters have are so captivating and fascinating you'll be bored you're human.
But they really aren't monsters, and that's what so wonderful about the book and its authors. Cabal keenly hit on the note of the "other" - Boone's awareness of his otherness to the world around him, and Lori to a somewhat lesser extent. That feeling of not being right for the world he was born into brought him to Midian, and ultimately, its doom.
Midian Unmade isn't about the monsters that live in the darkness; it's about the monsters "others" face in humankind. It's about all of us that don't fit in, that don't want what other people want, but still feel an overwhelming need for community and understanding. The decades that have passed between the fall of Midian and the present age have wreaked havoc on the lives of the Breed, but their belief that they will find home again strikes a deep, deep chord. In the current age of young people doing violence to themselves for fear of being different, and the violence visited upon people of all creeds and colors stemming from fear and hate, Midian Unmade rings an uncomfortably familiar bell.
Kudos are due the editors Joseph Nassise and Del Howison for letting each storyteller weave their individual tale while keeping the overall narrative and theme and even tone of voice similar. The collection complements itself seamlessly without losing the distinction of each chapter.
Not wanting to be too sentimental about our current world, there's some classic monster carnage as well. Delicious manipulation and eyeball-eating are par for the course; it's a horror novel after all. But this violence isn't without reason or remorse. It's a lesson we could take from the monsters.
Read Cabal, then read Midian Unmade. Then cry because it's over. Repeat as necessary.
Author: Karin CrightonWebsite: http://www.karincrighton.com/
Staff Writer | Lunatic
Karin doesn't know anything about movies. Really. How she graduated from Towson University's dramatic arts program with honors is a mystery to everyone involved. But she is really opinionated about many things so we did her a favor and let her rant incoherently here. She lives in New York where she can blend in with the other lunatics who also argue emphatically that you cannot compare Captain Kirk to Captain Picard. She's writing her first novel and may even publish it.
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Marrowbone
Karin Crighton
Joseph Nassise
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Before joining Mr. X, Trey Harrell was a 15-year ad industry veteran. Harrell's forte for balancing the technical with the artistic has garnered numerous ADDY (American Advertising Federation) and New York Art Director's Club Awards for his work as both an Art Director and Creative Director for broadcast, web and print ads. Some of Trey's high-profile clients have included AT&T, Comcast, and Siemens. Harrell joined Mr. X in 2010 to work exclusively as the Lead Lighting TD on Tron: Legacy. Supervising the lighting department for many years, Harrell has been instrumental in re-engineering Mr. X's lighting and rendering pipeline.
Since joining the team at Mr. X, Harrell has won two Canadian Screen Awards for Achievement in Visual Effects, including a 2013 CSA award for Resident Evil: Retribution, and a 2014 CSA Award for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. For his work as a CG Supervisor on Guillermo's Del Toro's television series, The Strain, Harrell received a Visual Effects Society nomination in 2016. Harrell acted as the Digital Effects Supervisor on Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. Harrell was an integral figure in successfully delivering over 1,985 visual effects shots for the project. Harrell has continued to exceed the client's expectations with his work on Guillermo del Toro's upcoming feature The Shape of Water. Most recently, Harrell served as the Mr. X in-house Supervisor on ABC's Marvel superhero series Inhumans.


Vozrozhdeniye Island is a Russian island located in the Aral Sea approximately 1,300 miles to the east of Moscow that was used as a bioweapons test facility for the former Soviet Union. Since being decommissioned in the early 1990s the island has been left virtually unpatrolled. The island has served for decades as the repository of a large quantity of spores of Bacillus anthracis , the bacterial agent of anthrax, and other disease-causing bacteria and viruses. As the surrounding water has receded over the decades, direct access from the mainland to the island, and to the stocks of bioweapons that were disposed of by being buried on the island, will soon be possible. Concern is growing in the international community that the island will become a source of a new generation of bioweapons.
During its operation, the bioweapons facility on Vozrozhdeniye Island was regarded as an important strategy of the former Soviet Union in the tensions between the East and the West during the Cold War of the 1950s. Indeed, the word Vozrozhdeniye translates in Russian as "renaissance."
The island was used for open-air testing of bioweapons. The island was selected for its remote location and harsh conditions. The sparse vegetation and summer temperatures that reached 140 degrees Fahrenheit created inhospitable conditions that lessened the chances of survival for microorganisms that escaped. Records obtained following the island's decommissioning confirm that anthrax weapons were tested. As well, other microorganisms that were tested for their potential in biological warfare include the microbial agents of tularemia, plague, typhoid, and possibly smallpox.
The anthrax buried on the island was designed especially for the lethal use on humans in the time of war. The powder is a freeze-dried form of Bacillus anthracis called a spore. A spore is a form of the some species of Bacillus and Clostridium that protects the organism's genetic material during times when conditions are not favorable for the survival of the actively growing form of the bacterium. Bacterial spores that are capable of resuscitation and growth have been recovered from samples over 100 years old. Resuscitation of the spore requires only suspension in growth media having the appropriate nutrients and incubation of the suspension at a temperature that is hospitable for the bacterial growth.
Following the banning of offensive biological weapons programs in the United States and Russia, the biological warfare agents on Vozrozhdeniye Island were buried on the island in 1988. The island was abandoned in 1991.
Vozrozhdeniye island has remained unguarded since 1991. Then, it was thought that the island's location in the middle of the large and geographically isolated Aral Sea made the island secure from entry. However, in the intervening decades the demands for irrigation water have caused the Aral Sea—the largest freshwater lake in the world—to be used as a source of irrigation water. Water has consistently been withdrawn faster than it can be replenished. As a result, the water level of the Aral Sea has declined drastically, so much so that many scientists now fear that Vozrozhdeniye Island might soon be directly connected to the mainland. If so, and if the island remains unguarded, the buried stockpiled weapons could be vulnerable to theft.
Additionally, some surveys of the island have indicated that migration of some of the buried material towards the surface is occurring. Upon surface exposure, the bacteria and viruses, which may still be capable of infection, could be spread in the wind or transported elsewhere by birds.
Choffnes, E. "Germs on the Loose." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists no. 57 (2001): 57–61.
Monterey Institute of International Studies. "Former Soviet Biological Weapons Facilities in Kazakhstan: Past, Present, and Future." CNS Occasional Papers. 2002. < http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/opapers/opl/opl.htm#island >(28 December 2002).
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "Rebirth Island Joins the Mainland." Earth Observatory. < http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=5 08 >(27 December 2002).
The Aral Sea is not fresh water, it is in fact extremely salty.


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ADA Investors Enjoy a 1,421% Annualized Growth
GB Market Commentary 18/08/2021
by Alex Clark
Despite Bitcoin and Ethereum's excellent performance this year, neither asset is anywhere close to Cardano's return on investment, with Cardano returning 48% compared to Bitcoin's 2% and Ethereum's 1%. To put this into perspective, if you had invested in Cardano at the start of this year, you would have seen 1,421% annualized growth in the investment, whilst Bitcoin has returned only 277% and Ethereum 625% in the last year. Not only that, but Cardano's Alonzo mainnet hard fork, which is scheduled for September 12th and is one of the most anticipated events in the crypto calendar, will help Cardano compete on equal terms with Ethereum and will tackle one of the asset's biggest deficiencies by allowing users to run smart contracts on the network.
Dogecoin is also performing well with on-chain activity, trading volumes, and attention continuing to rise. This is demonstrated by a 16% increase in the supply held by new investors from 9% in July 2020 to 25% in August 2021. Not only that, but it is now possible to purchase a pre-owned Tesla with Dogecoin, which comes after claims by Mark Cuban that dogecoin is the best cryptocurrency as a medium of exchange. This adoption is excellent news for the crypto sector and shows just how far the technology has entered the mainstream, although Doge's price is yet to respond to the news. Further to this, Doge's development efforts are likely to accelerate as the Dogecoin Foundation, which has been inactive for years, has relaunched. Members of the foundation's advisory board include Elon Musk, Vitalik Buterin, Jackson Palmer, Billy Markus, who founded Dogecoin, longtime developer Max Keller, as well as other prominent dogecoin community members such as Jens Wiechers, Gary Lachance, and Timothy Stebbing.
Solana is also accelerating fast. The asset is up 72% this week, hitting an all-time high of $73.88 today, and the Solana network passed $2 billion in total value locked for the first time. The asset's growth is anticipated to have positive effects on Raydium (RAY), which is Solana's version of Uniswap, and Serum (SRM), which is a decentralised exchange built on Solana.
Vitalik Buterin has openly criticised existing coin voting mechanisms, arguing that they may be holding the DeFi sector back from realizing its full potential. At present, the majority of DeFi projects manage their protocol upgrades and reward issuance using a voting system, whereby votes are distributed among token holders according to the size of their holdings, but Buterin argues this is giving disproportionate influence to whales. Instead, he is looking to Proof of Humanity based governance systems, where one vote is allocated per each of a protocol's users, or Proof of Participation, for which voting is limited to the users of a protocol that have contributed work to the benefit of a project or its community.
Kazakhstan has been the chief beneficiary of China's crackdown on mining operations, with the nation witnessing a 610% surge in its global share of crypto mining, from 1.4% to 8.6%, taking the nation to third place, behind China and the US. This trend is likely to continue given the nation has the lowest taxation rate among major crypto-currency mining countries.
Kazakhstan is not the only country moving forward in the crypto space, with India preparing a new cryptocurrency bill which would recognise cryptocurrency as a tradeable asset class. This is yet another example of a country that has previously banned crypto changing their approach as they see adoption grow and is more bullish news for crypto.
Similarly, emerging economies like Vietnam and Indonesia are making significant headway in the space, demonstrated by a recent survey which revealed that 41% of Vietnam's population has purchased cryptocurrency, which is sizable given only 75% of the population have access to the internet.
Lastly, the Poly Network cyberattack saga continues for a second week as the hacker prolongs the return of the stolen funds. Poly Network previously offered $500,000 to the attacker as a reward for returning the money and have stated they have no intention of holding the hacker legally responsible and instead invite him to be their Chief Security Advisor. However, the hacker has declined the reward and refuses to provide the key to its multi-signature wallet which is needed to complete the return.
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My personal solution to that is..
Discord works to i just found out, thanks. This is my doggy btw.
It's cuter than Dreamy's rat.
Not my Rat! My roomies rat.
Once I get a place of my own, there will be no pets. Noooo sir.
After 15+ years of cats (at least 8 at all times) and one dog, I can safely say I've had my fill.
I don't know if this is related but there was a wasp at my work this morning and I killed it but then felt super terrible about it. Like I'm just standing there over its dead body muttering "..ashes to ashes.. *sniff*... dust to dust.."
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I wanna rescue a husky when my life is in a place where I can take care of a dog like that properly. Otherwise my only pet is my exhusband.
Careful killing wasps -- they release a chemical that attracts/pisses off other wasps when they die. Otherwise they're in my KWR (kill without reservation) list which includes large black biting ants and mosquitoes -- NOT spiders. Spiders are friends, not food.
So I found out today whenever I walk into a room, this song plays in the background.
It's a beautiful day today. Gonna put on my bra and run some errands. My bra and only my bra.
I'd be happy to run anyone's errands in a maid dress if I was paid.
Matter of fact, I would insist I do it in a maid dress.
I need to buy one of those.
I'm on fire with my song discovery today. This one is pure gold.
I take it back, my dog is scared of thunder. She was relaxing all sleeping on my pillow and then out of no where thunder strikes and makes a loud as **** noise and in response she jumps up and bolted to me.
Also, I freaking love this song. The feels I get listening to this while on the train/walking.
Ugh! Packing is the WOOORRRSSST! Someone come here and do it for me so I can move faster!
Oh wait, If that happens I lose internet access and am forced semi off grid faster.... Never mind!
Lucky for you me and Patch are up for maid hiring.
Discount if you hire both. But you still have to pay for postage and handling.


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Complementing the hugely popular Denali SoundBomb range, R&G is excited to be adding the new Denali SoundBomb Mini to its extensive range. Capable of producing a massive 113 decibels of sound, the SoundBomb Mini is twice as loud as a standard motorcycle horn.
E (UK) has announced the arrival of a new addition to its Scooter suspension product line-up.
Akito introduced the Tornado Womenswear range to market applying the brands 'adventure' proposition to products specifically targeted at women riders who demand the same level of technical features and protection afforded other models in the Akito clothing range – and they don't come in pink.
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This band is loud. This is Can I Say, an alternative rock trio from Vienna, Austria.
three profiles were found for Canisay.net in social networks. Among other social networks the website is represented in Facebook, Twitter and Myspace.
The web server used by Canisay.net is located near the city of Nürnberg, Germany and is run by Hetzner Online AG. 29 other websites are located on this web server. Most of them are provided in the german language.
The websites of Canisay.net are hosted by a Apache server and were developed in the programming language PHP. The markup language of the website is XHTML 1.0 Transitional. The visitor analysis software Google Analytics is used to analyze the visitors of the websites. The website does not specify details about the inclusion of its content in search engines. For this reason the content will be included by search engines.


The 2-day schedule for for one of our recent large European Joy Days, with students of Sri Chinmoy coming from all over continental Europe.
During a recent Joy Day in Curitiba, Brazil, nine of Sri Chinmoy's students ran the city marathon.
If you are happy, it will help you to a great extent. If you are unhappy, you won't make any progress at all. On the contrary, you will be marching backwards. Real outer happiness is not self-deception. It does not come from wasting time and indulging in pleasure-life. Real outer happiness is something totally different. It comes from inner joy and inner satisfaction.
As well as Joy Days, Sri Chinmoy's students often meet together outside of our regular meditation for more formal occasions, for example to mark our teacher's birthday, or the anniversary of his passing on October 11, 2007.


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Q: Is there a way to implement a passthrough Publisher in Rebus? I am trying to set up a generic rebus publishing service that allows any of our web applications to push out event messages for subcribers. The service's only job is to maintain the subscriptions and republish any messages it receives. I want to avoid having to create specific IHandleMessage implementations in the service, because it shouldn't need to know anything about the incoming message other than its type.
I have tried a number of approaches (IHandleMessages for example) and rebus crashes when it tries to deserialize a message it doesn't have the assembly for.

A: Oh yeah, sure you can do that - but a true pass-through can only be made if you avoid deserializing the message altogether, which you can easily do by using your own serializer.
If you implement ISerializeMessages as, say, PassThroughSerializer, you can configure the publisher like this:

Configure.With(...)
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As you can see, your serializer needs to be able to turn an incoming ReceivedTransportMessage (basically just a dictionary of headers and a byte[]) into a Message, which is the same headers and an object[]
In your case, you would just actually not do any deserialization and just pass the byte[] into the Message, and conversely pass it out again when it's time to create a TransportMessageToSend.
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Jerome R. Miller, 68 of Cedar Springs, died Friday, October 7, 2016 at Faith Hospice – Trillium Woods. Mr. Miller was born March 5, 1948 in Iowa City, Iowa the son of Fred and Velma (McLaughlin) Miller. He retired from Kool Flow of Kent City. He enjoyed flying RC planes, boating, camping, traveling and jigsaw puzzles. He was a member of the Eagles in Sand Lake. Surviving are his wife of 21 years, Nancy Ann; sons, Brett (Michelle) Miller, Ron (Heather) Miller, Travis (Heather) Miller; stepchildren, Deborah Wood, Ronnie Seabolt, April Seabolt; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The family greeted friends Sunday, Oct. 9 at the Bliss-Witters & Pike Funeral Home, Cedar Springs where the service was held Monday 11:00 am. Pastor Bruce Wilson officiating. Interment Solon Township Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Faith Hospice.


No, no, not my hometown hockey team. That bunch of unelected so-and-sos in what we laughingly call the Upper House, now stacked with assorted Tory cronies, bagpersons and hacks.
Without any debate in the Red Chamber, Conservative senators caught their Liberal and unelected counterparts off-guard on Tuesday by calling a snap vote on Bill C-311, the Climate Change Accountability Act introduced by Bruce Hyer, a New Democrat who represents Thunder Bay-Superior North in the House.
The bill had required the federal government set regulations to bring greenhouse gas emissions 25 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, and to set a long-term target to bring emissions 80 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050.
Just another incremental increase in our widening democratic deficit. Proof positive that we need to abolish the Senate, throw out those unelected, tax-sucking parasites, and, if necessary, replace the institution with something democratic and functional.
Readers might wish to speculate upon what the latter might be. At the moment, any such notion seems rather hypothetical, even fanciful. But that's another discussion. For now, the current Red Chamber, that diseased vestige of feudalism, needs to be razed to its foundations, and the ground sown with salt.
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Guntakal CITY GUIDE
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Located in the state of Andhra Pradesh, Guntakal is situated in the district of Anatapur and falls under the region of Rayalseema. The latitude and longitude coordinates of Guntakal are 15.1674° N and 77.3736° E, respectively.
History of Guntakal
The origins of the name Guntakal is very interesting. During the British rule, an old village called Thimmanacherla. The offices and industries surrounding Thimmanacherla were built in the outskirts of the village. People who were working in these offices lived in Thimmanacherla and people staying outside the village used to call these employees 'guntakalla varu' (people with deep eyes). Many people still believe that the people who have deep eyes are very lucky. Later the village gained a reputation for providing excellent employment opportunities and the name was changed to Guntakal later. Overall, Guntakal is made up of 32 panchayats and 49 villages. The smallest and biggest villages are Sangala and Nagasamudram, respectively. Also, this place is located in the border of the Kurnool and Anantapur districts.
Tourism of Guntakal
The most frequently visited tourist destinations located close to Guntakal are Puttaparthi, Hampi, and Kurnool.
There are two places of interest in Kurnool that are frequently visited by tourists. These places are the Kurnool fort and the Belum Caves. The fort was constructed by a person known as the Achyuta Devarayalu who was part of the empire of Vijayanagar. The interesting portions of this fort are the two ancient temples and the prison called the Kondareddy Burz. The Bellum caves are havens for people who love to click a lot of photographs.
There are many places of interest that can be visited in Puttaparthi. The most famous place of interest is the Sathya Sai Ashram. People from all over the world visit this ashram to learn the principles of peace.
Hampi is famously known as the religious hub and contains a number of temples like the Big Shivlinga, Hemakuta Hill, Lakshmi Narasimha, and Virupaksha. UNESCO considers the ruins in Hampi to be a part of the World Heritage site. People who love to climb rocks will love Hampi because of the number of ruins that add a distinct and unique appearance to this place.
Hospitals in Guntakal
There are some well-known hospitals in Guntakal. These hospitals show the seriousness of the medical healthcare that is provided in this village. Some of the well-known hospitals are-
Pulse Clinic
Address - 60 Feet Rd; Tilak Nagar; Guntakal; Andhra Pradesh 515801; India
Phone - 070364 49448
LifeLine Hospital
S.V.Poly Clinic
Address - Tilak Nagar; Guntakal; Andhra Pradesh 515801; India
Municipal Maternity Hospital
Sri Surya Physiotherapy clinic
How to reach Guntakal
The road connectivity to Guntakal from major cities is good. If people like travelling by train, they can take a train directly to the Guntakal junction.
The APSRTC bus stations located very close to Guntakal are Guntakal, Gooty, and Vajra Karur. Since there are many APSRTC buses that run from major cities to these stations, travelling by bus is considered to be a reliable option.
Some of the local bus stops in Guntakal are-
Nagasamudram Bus Stop
Address - Guntakal (M); Andhra Pradesh;
Gooty Bus Stand
Address - near from NH44.; Hosur Rd; Gooty; Andhra Pradesh 515401;
Govt School Bus Station
Address - Kamalapuram; Andhra Pradesh 515774; India phone:
Sreevaram Bus Stop
Address - Muntimadugu; Andhra Pradesh 515731; India phone:
Burnakunta Bus Stop
Address - Anantapuram; Andhra Pradesh 515405; India phone:
Hotels In Guntakal
Since there are few places of interest in and around Guntakal, people can stay in any of the hotels listed below. Travelers recommend that rooms in the hotels in and around Guntakal should be booked in well in advance in order to avoid the last-minute rush. Some of the well-known hotels are-
Sapthagiri Hotel
Address - Subash Nagar, Anantapur - 515001, India
Phone - 08554 - 220914/5/6/8/9
KSTDC Mayura Bhuvaneshwari
Address - Kamalapur Post, Hampi Hampi, 583221
Phone - 08394 241 574
Marchad Residency
Address - In Ambedkar Complex., 102, Ambedkar Complex, 1st Floor, Double Road, Bellary- 583101
Phone - (08392) 277033, (08392) 277044
Rock Regency Hotel
Address - Shankaragudda Layout, Toranagallu Village, Bellary- 583104
Amaravathi Hotel
Address - Vysya Hostel rd; Anantapur; Andhra Pradesh; Pin code- 515001
Restaurants In Guntakal
In Guntakal, one can find the tastiest delicacies that are cooked in Andhra. Tourists can try Andhra Chilly Chicken, Pappu (Andhra-styled Dal), Guntur Chicken and many more. Some of the well-known restaurants in Guntakal are-
Hotel Paradise
Address - 18/20 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Guntakal, Andhra Pradesh 515801
Giri Restaurant
Address - Tilak Nagar, Guntakal, Andhra Pradesh 515801
Raagam & Aslam
Address - 60 Feet Rd, Tilak Nagar, Guntakal, Andhra Pradesh 515801
Hotel Imam Sab
Address - 6/1444, T B Rd, Bhagya Nagar, Shanti Nagar, Guntakal, Andhra Pradesh 515801
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Sharing the joy of Mid-Autumn Festival with communities along the Northern Link
Leading up to the time celebrating the year's bountiful harvest, the Northern Link (NOL) project team visited different communities along the NOL alignment to share and enjoy the festive season. "As the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, we have prepared 'lucky' bags and brought along the 'Northern Link Lantern Riddle Game' for nearby residents to understand more about the project," said Mr Dominic Law, Project Manager – Northern Link of MTR Corporation.
The NOL project team exchanged information and views on the NOL project with Mr Hau Chi-keung, Chairman of Sheung Shui District Rural Committee & District Council Member (1st left), Mr Hau Fuk-tat, 1st Vice-Chairman of Sheung Shui District Rural Committee and District Council Member (2nd left), Mr Tang Lin-sing, Kwu Tung (North) Village Representative (1st right), and Mr Tang Yuen-keung, Kwu Tung (South) Village Representative (2nd right).
The NOL project team fully supported the festive event organised by the San Tin Rural Committee, and celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival together with Mr Man Mei-kwai, Chairman of San Tin Rural Committee and District Council Member (6th right), San Tin volunteers and locals.
The NOL project team fully supported the Mid-Autumn Festival event organised by the Kwu Tung Village Committee Office earlier and gathered together with the residents. In addition, the NOL project team also visited San Tin and showed dedication and support to the festive event held by the San Tin Rural Committee. The project team distributed anti-epidemic service bags and nicely packed 'lucky' bags to the communities to share festive blessings and warmth to the residents.
The NOL project team distributed anti-epidemic service bags and festive foods.
The NOL project team also prepared NOL pamphlets and a prominent informative roll-up banner, proactively introducing the background and latest updates about the project to residents and exchanged ideas with them.
The NOL project team introduced project-related information to the residents.
Cracking the lantern riddle is a kind of must-do activity amidst a Mid-Autumn Festival event! The contents of the NOL lantern riddles are all based on knowledge and fun facts about this new railway project and the communities along the alignment. Taking part in the riddle challenge, residents could understand more about the NOL project and win souvenirs.
The NOL project team invited residents to take part in the riddle game.
The interactive mini-games designed by the NOL project team were also well-received by the residents. By experiencing the fun, participants could better visualise and understand how the commissioning of the NOL will facilitate more connected mobility and community vitality. During the game period, Mr Dominic Law, Project Manager – Northern Link of MTR Corporation chatted with the audience and shared, "NOL will connect the East Rail Line and Tuen Ma Line, enabling the development of areas along the alignment. It's estimated that the journey time between Kwu Tung Station and Kam Sheung Road Station will only be around 12 minutes, providing greater convenience to the communities."
Dominic Law, Project Manager – Northern Link of MTR Corporation and his team played interactive games with residents to enable them to learn more about the alignment of the NOL, the new stations and key benefits.
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Newly discovered exoplanet best place to search for life, astronomers say
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About 40 light-years from Earth, a small but massive rocky world orbits a cool, red star. It's here, researchers say, where we might find the best chance in our search for life.
The planet is LHS 1140b — a "super-Earth" only about 1.4 times the size of our planet, but with about 6.6 times its mass — that circles its star in what astronomers call the habitable zone, a region around a star where water is able to exist on a planet's surface. In this case, the planet orbits about 10 times closer to its star than Earth does around our sun.
While astronomers are continually finding planets that are potentially habitable, such as those in the TRAPPIST-1 system which was announced in February, the scientists say this one is even more promising than any to date.
"This is the one we've been searching for," said David Charbonneau, a Canadian at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and co-author of the research published in Nature.
What makes this planet so promising is its star, LHS 1140, a red dwarf. These types of stars — believed to be the most abundant in our galaxy — are much smaller and cooler than our own star. And like our star, they emit flares, releasing massive amounts of radiation into space which, in turn, can damage the atmospheres of nearby planets (Earth is protected by its magnetic field). If a star emits this radiation often enough, the atmosphere has no time to repair itself.
Young stars, which are spinning rapidly, emit flares fairly often. And just like humans, once they age, they slow down.
LHS 1140 is an elderly red dwarf, about five billion years old, and after more than two years of observations, not one flare was detected.
The scientists also believe LHS 1140b's size could indicate that some time ago, a magma ocean could have existed for millions of years. The resulting lava could have released steam into the atmosphere at a time when the star was more active.
Searching for oxygen
The scientists aren't wasting any time following up with observations: the next transit (where the planet crosses in front of the star) will occur on Oct. 26 and they've booked several telescopes in Chile to search for signatures of oxygen molecules in the planet's atmosphere. Other signs it could be habitable would be nitrogen molecules. Still, even then, astronomers will have to rule out any other potential sources of the gases.
The lead author of the paper, Jason Dittmann, said that this could take time: the researchers are also hoping to use the James Webb Space Telescope, which won't launch until next year. As well, Dittmann said that larger, ground-based telescopes, such as the 30-metre Giant Magellan Telescope, won't be ready until 2023.
Still, he said he's confident that astronomers will find a habitable planet soon, be it LHS 1140b or another.
"With this planet and TRAPPIST-1, our list is growing larger and larger, and when the next telescopes are built it's just going to completely change everything," he said.
Charbonneau said it may take decades to confirm a world is habitable.
"But the key part is for the first time in human history, we're going to have the ability to probe the atmospheres to see molecules in the atmospheres of temperate, rocky worlds orbiting nearby stars," he said.
A helping hand from Down Under
The planet initially discovered by the MEarth Project, which searches for exoplanets, planets orbiting other stars. This is done by measuring the slight dip in the star's light curve as a planet passes in front of it. Followup observations were made by the European Southern Observatory's High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS).
In order to confirm the orbital period of an exoplanet, several observations need to be made. But after the discovery of LHS 1140b, astronomers were clouded out from locations where it should be visible.
But in stepped an amateur astronomer.
Using just a 12-inch telescope — a high-end one you can purchase at astronomy stores or online — Thiam-Guan Tan from Perth, Australia, managed to provide the final confirmation that the researchers had correctly calculated the orbital period of the planet.
"It's just incredible what these amateurs are capable of," said Dittmann.
He is excited about eventually answering the question of whether or not we're alone in the unvierse.
"It's a very human thing to do, to wonder, and people really want to know the answer. And it's just now becoming possible," he said.
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Shark Attack Killed Woman in Maine
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On Monday, July 27, 2020, a woman swimming off the coast of Maine was attacked and killed from a suspected shark attack. Julie Dimperio Holowach, a 63-year-old from New York City lost her life when a great white shark attacked her. According to the statement from the Maine Department of Marine Resources, the attack took place in Casco Bay, near Harpswell, Maine.
The statement described how the victim was brought to shore by a couple of "Kayakers." Emergency Medical "responders were called to the scene where she was pronounced deceased."
Holowach's attacker was confirmed by a tooth that had been left behind. Authorities have raised the alarm and warn pedestrians of sharks in the area. This is the first death from a shark attack ever recorded in Maine. People need to be cautious of areas where sharks maybe swimming. Areas, where there are high amounts of seals and fishes, are perfect feeding grounds for the great white sharks.
Commissioner of the Maine Department of Marine Resources, Patrick Keliher stated that it was Massachusetts' top shark expert who confirmed the identification of the culprit. Keliher stated that Greg Skomal was checking the data on all of the great white sharks that have been tagged in Massachusetts to see if any of them were in Maine's waters.
Keliher stresses this attack "is a highly unusual event." On witness went on record describing the horrific scene he saw. Tom Whyte had been looking out his second-story office window when he saw two swimmers heading out into the water on a hot afternoon.
Whyte said that one of the swimmers was wearing a blue one-piece swimsuit and the other was in a black wet suit. All was fine and dandy until the swimmer in the swimsuit was pulled under, arms flailing. The woman in the blue suit turned back to her friend and immediately swam for the shore screaming for help.
Neighbors came rushing to the woman's aid, who was uninjured, as they all stood helpless against the shark. Whyte said that there was "A million scenarios," running through his head. Never in a million years would he have thought it was this type of attack.
According to the global database of shark attacks (called the International Shark Attack File), there has only been one unprovoked shark attack in the state of Maine. This attack was recorded in 2010. In the 2010 report, it describes how a commercial diver was working in the Bay of Fundy. A porbeagle shark mistook the diver's camera for food and attacked. The shark attack was caught on film.
Boston Globe: Great white shark seen as culprit in deadly Maine attack; victim identified as 63-year-old woman from New York City
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TKR or total knee replacement is a surgical procedure during which the damaged knee joint is replaced by an artificial joint or by the prosthesis. Forgetting a TKR done the primary indication is pain which usually gets followed by limitations of the functionality of the patients. To get a primary TKR, the condition of the knee should be pretty serious as this is the last resort after all the medicine and physiotherapy. Before you get primary TKR done for unbearable knee pain, there are some of the things you need to know about it.
What is the Primary TKR?
Arthritis of the knee is the disease for which primary TKR is done. In this condition, the knee experiences a loss of the articular cartilage of tibia, femur or patella. In the x-ray, it is observed as a gap between 2 of the ends of the bone. People with arthritis often experience stiffness in the knee region as there is a loss of the gliding surface and it might even restrict the movement. Normally walking for a long distance or standing for a long time can make arthritis pain worse. The three types of arthritis that commonly occurs in the knee are osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and post-traumatic arthritis. While there is no specific age, it normally occurs at an age greater than 60 years. Thus, advance to a doctor's chamber, to be precise, orthopaedic when you experience and have difficulty in walking.
Pain – while the pain can begin suddenly it will increase gradually. Some people feel the pain when the seasons change; other people feel the pain even when lying down or sitting.
Inflammation – the knee may swell after it has been inactive for a long time. Tenderness of the knee is also commonly observed in this disease.
Weakness- you may observe weakness in the knee so that your knees lock often and the joint structure becomes unstable. These symptoms might come and go or even stay permanently.
Grinding – do not get scared if you feel a sensation of grinding as you move your knees. Also, nothing to be afraid of the popping and cracking sounds, these happen as you have already lost the smooth cartilage.
Motion – it becomes increasingly difficult for people suffering from arthritis to move their legs as the movements almost become impossible. The motion also gets restricted.
Based on the severity of arthritis and the age of the patient the diagnosis is chosen. However, the most common method of treating it is performing primary TKR.
Primary TKR has evolved over the years, and now there has been a lot of improvement in the surgical techniques and the implants. Thus, it is the most widely used orthopaedic procedure currently. Primary TKR is classified as a major operation and can only be chosen as a last resort. In the process of primary TKR, the damaged knee gets replaced by a prosthesis or an artificial knee joint. TKR involves three major types of replacement prosthesis; they are the non constrained, semi-constrained and the constrained ones.
Some of the risks involved with performing primary TKR are that there might be infection, stiffness, loosening, etc. however, it is effective surgery, and the patients of osteoarthritis that undergo this have faced major improvements in pain reduction and movement. There is substantial evidence of primary TKR effectively reducing the pain experienced by the patients so it should be considered by all the people suffering. Primary TKR makes it possible for the aged people to walk and run again freely, without any constraints.


The Half Moon, Herne Hill's iconic pub, has been closed since the disastrous flood of August 2103.
The current building dates from 1896, but the freehold has been owned by the Dulwich Estate for centuries. After the 2013 flood the licensee surrendered his lease.
The Dulwich Estate wanted to re-open the pub, but as part of a scheme that would see new uses for the upper storeys. There were preliminary discussions with Southwark planners (and a short public consultation) about converting the upper floors into flats.
Southwark were against this idea, since they favour retention of the building as a pub, especially as it is Grade II* listed with a fine original interior. The current position is that Dulwich Estate has agreed in principle to let the building on a 25-year lease to a 'brewery' who will run the pub and convert the upper floor into 'rooms'.
The plans indicate a large restaurant at the back facing the garden and a live music venue in the old stables at the end of the garden.
The potential lessee has discussed its scheme with Historic England and Southwark Council planners. Historic England came back within a few days with minor comments but Southwark have yet to respond. No agreement will be signed until the lessee is aware of the Council's requirements.
The historic interior appears to be in a reasonable condition but the exterior is not. The building requires a new roof and this, together with the proposed alterations to the upper floors, means that the Half Moon is unlikely to re-open before the end of 2016 at the earliest.


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vitriol and invective have often stained American politics, but the falsehoods, half-truths and innuendo now speeding across partisan airwaves and the Internet are drowning out the country's moderate political center.
Countless Internet blogs have taken on the President Barack Obama and his administration, claiming -- falsely -- that the first African-American president isn't an American citizen, is a secret Muslim, is a socialist, wants to establish death panels to deny elderly Americans medical care.
The latest partisan furor blew up when Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Republican national chairman Michael Steele set the tone, declaring that giving the prize to the U.S. commander in chief showed "how meaningless a once honorable and respected award has become."
Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, was not immune, nor was former President Bill Clinton. But today the volume of screeching partisanship is cleaving the American electorate, perhaps as deeply as at any time since the Civil War a century and a half ago.
"It is nasty and getting nastier," agreed Clyde Frazier, a political scientist at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina.
While he believes that American history has seen dirtier political periods, Frazier sees today's climate partly the result of the "media culture."
"Vitriol seems to sell. If you are telling people the end of the world is at hand, they watch," he said.
At the White House briefing room, press secretary Robert Gibbs routinely bemoans what he sees as the negative slant on coverage of Obama by the conservative Fox News cable television outlet.
While Americans once sought news from media outlets that aimed for objectivity, many are now turning to sources that reinforce their political viewpoints, including the conservative Fox News and the liberal MSNBC on cable television.
The heated partisan atmosphere produced a staggering break with decorum last month when a member of the House of Representatives shouted out "You lie!" as Obama spoke to a joint session of Congress on reforming the American health care system.
Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst drew the South Carolina Republican a rebuke from the House, but supporters began donating heavily to his political war chest.
Not long afterward Rep. Alan Grayson, a Florida Democrat, took the House floor to attack minority Republicans on health care, declaring, "The Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick."
Partisan political pundits took both events and ran with them, conservative Republicans praising Wilson's courage as liberals voiced shock over his lack of respect. Grayson took praise and heat from opposite ends of the political spectrum.
"Political animosity has become professionalized," said Frazier, mentioning talk radio's ultraconservative Rush Limbaugh, who openly calls for the failure of the Obama presidency.
The revival of bitter partisanship has built quickly and steadily since the nation united behind Bush in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. It was quickly discovered that his rationale for going to war in Iraq -- claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction -- was untrue and the temporary unity dissolved.
"It's a hard thing to stop and it is escalating" each time Republicans or Democrats cede power in the capital, said Jack Holmes, political science professor at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
"At a certain point the public well demand an end, say 'we want this to stop,"' said Holmes. "The public has to demand it and will start judging political leaders accordingly."
Obama even came under attack from opponents when he planned an Internet address at the start of the school year to encourage students to work hard and stay in school. He was accused, before the very moderate and apolitical address, of wanting to indoctrinate students with his alleged "socialist" ideals. He left the doomsayers with red faces.
Frazier said a return to unity or at least a willingness to compromise can only happen around the president, the country's most visible and powerful symbol.
"I don't think that we are hopelessly stuck in this nasty place," he said. "I don't really think there is anything we can do, but I do think it's possible that the nastiness will run its course."


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Em geometria, o número de osculação é definido como o número máximo de esferas unitárias (de raio 1) não sobrepostas que podem tocar simultaneamente outra esfera unitária dada. Para um empacotamento reticulado, o número de osculação é o mesmo para todas as esferas, mas para um empacotamento de esferas arbitrário, o número de osculação pode variar de uma esfera para outra. Outros nomes usados para número de osculação são número beijante (do inglês, kissing number) número de Newton (em homenagem ao originador do problema), e número de contato.

O problema
O problema do número de osculação busca o número de osculação para um espaço euclidiano n-dimensional como uma função de n.

Em três dimensões o número de osculação é 12, mas foi muito mais difícil estabelecer o valor correto do que em dimensões um e dois.  É fácil arranjar 12 esferas de modo que cada uma toque uma  esfera central, mas sobra bastante espaço, e não é óbvio que não haja nenhuma maneira de empacotar uma 13ª esfera (de fato, há tanto espaço extra que quaisquer duas das 12 esferas de fora podem trocar de lugar através de um movimento contínuo sem que nenhuma das esferas de fora perca contato com a esfera central). Este foi o tópico de uma discórdia famosa entre os matemáticos Isaac Newton e David Gregory. Newton pensou corretamente que o limite era 12; Gregory pensou que cabia uma 13ª. Algumas provas incompletas de que Newton estava correto foram oferecidas no século XIX, mas a primeira prova correta só apareceu em 1953.

Em quatro dimensões, foi conhecido por algum tempo que a resposta era 24 ou 25. É fácil produzir um empacotamento de 24 esferas em torno de uma esfera central. Como no caso tridimensional, sobra bastante espaço — ainda mais, de fato, do que para n = 3 — assim a situação era ainda menos clara. Finalmente, em 2003, Oleg Musin provou que o número de osculação para n = 4 é 24.

O número de osculação em n dimensões é desconhecido para n > 4, exceto para  n = 8 (240), e  n = 24 (196,560).

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Claire Florence Falkin (Ackerman), 89, of Boynton Beach, Fla., died Oct. 26, 2012. A longtime resident of Springfield, she moved to Florida in 2003.
Mrs. Falkin was an active member of Temple Beth Ahm Yisrael in Springfield, where she served as chair of the Torah Fund and adult education committees. She also served as president of B'nai B'rith in Springfield.
She is survived by her husband of 69 years, Arthur; three sons, Gary of Florham Park, Stuart of West Orange, and Richard of Springfield; two brothers, Charles of Florida and Herbert of Massachusetts; seven grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
Services were held Oct. 28 with arrangements by Beth Israel Memorial Chapel, Boynton Beach. Memorial contributions may be made to the Claire Falkin Fund at Temple Beth Ahm Yisrael, 60 Temple Drive, Springfield, NJ 07081.


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Two Rivers inmate was advocate for Native rights
From left to right: Muriel Slickpoo, General Council Secretary Shawna Gavin and Red Lodge Executive Director Trish Jordan participate in smudging during a memorial event for Phyll Mendacino at Two Rivers Correctional Facility.
March 9, 2021 Features, Front page, News
-Phyll Mendacino passed away at age 65 due to COVID-19 complications
By Jill-Marie Gavin for the CUJ
The last time Red Lodge Transition Services (Red Lodge) organized a large event at Two Rivers Correctional Facility (Two Rivers) was in August of 2019.
On August 31, 2019, inmates and visitors gathered for the annual "prison pow wow." Throughout the whole event, laughter rang out across the yard and the big drum thumped in the background. Misting tents cooled off family and guests of inmates while everyone ate, visited and danced with their loved ones.
Red Lodge, a non profit organization that helps Indigenous inmates remain in contact with family, get on their feet once released and hopefully keep from reoffending, organized that pow wow for Two Rivers. Red Lodge travels to all the Oregon prisons annually to support Native American Religious Freedoms. They also held a smaller event in November of 2019 but have not been able to see any of the inmates since then.
The group returned to Two Rivers for the first time in more than a year on February 13, 2021.
February's trip to the prison was a much colder and more somber event than in years past.
In March of 2020, Oregon prisons shut their doors to visitors. This closure, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, also ceased all the Native American Religious Services for inmates.
Red Lodge Executive Director Trish Jordan said she felt it was time to resume services for incarcerated Indigenous people.
After Jordan received news of one of their most dedicated volunteers passing away, due to complications of COVID, she began to pursue a plan to bring prayer to the prisons.
"It was easier than I thought it would be. I approached Chaplain Cardona (Two Rivers) first and said we would like to go to all the prisons and pray for the inmates," Jordan said.
She spoke first to the Chaplain and then was routed through the superintendent's office.
She told the superintendent, "Even though we can't go in I know we can change the energy, because we know that's possible through our prayers."
The superintendent, Jordan said, was very supportive of the plan.
An area was designated for the group to gather and pray for the inmates from afar.
Before the event took place , there was a historic snowstorm that shut down Eastern Oregon. The space planned for the ceremony was no longer an option but volunteers and family members remained dedicated to the service and arrived to pray in the snow.
This particular reopening of ceremony was a priority for Red Lodge because it was planned to say goodbye to one of their longtime inmate volunteers and dear friend.
Phyll Mendacino, known as Phillip Red Woman, had been fighting for Native American Religious Freedom rights since he first entered prison in 1998.
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Mendacino, age 65, passed away January 26 at Trios Health in Kennewick, Wash. due to complications from COVID. He was enrolled Northern Cheyenne.
Outside of the prison fences and across the field from the main prison, volunteers gathered and began their service by smudging one another.
Mendacino's daughter, Pamela Steffy, travelled from Kamiah, ID the day before the event to say goodbye to her father.
Steffy said she was a young girl when her father began his sentence of 25 years after he was convicted of murder.
She said her father and mother separated when she was very young but she remained in contact with Mendacino throughout the entire 23 years he served.
Steffy was shocked when she received news he had passed. She then had to break the news to her children who had also become very close to her father.
After weeks of no news from her father she began to think he had gotten himself in trouble but still waited for his call. She continued to ask her children week after week, "Still no grandpa?"
The family had grown accustomed to his weekly calls. Conversations had shifted over the years as he inched closer to release.
Their previous discussions focused on the past slowly turned towards the future. Steffy said her father always asked about Kamiah and Lame Deer, Montana and how they compared to how he remembered them. After he started getting closer to his grandchildren his questions started focusing on current events and what to expect on the outside.
"It was like they breathed more and more life into him and gave him more of a reason for him to go on," Steffy recalled.
Before the calls ended and as the pandemic worsened his attention and conversations began to revolve around safety.
Mendacino started getting himself in trouble, he told Steffy. As Covid cases began to ravage Two Rivers staff and inmate population, Mendacino expressed his fear of getting it and urged his grandchildren to remain cognizant of their hygiene and to wear masks whenever possible.
To date, Two Rivers Correctional Facility has had the highest number of Covid cases in the state. Mendacino was one of 13 deaths at the Umatilla prison in January.
When her father did pass Steffy didn't receive word from the prison, but rather through Facebook.
Jordan messaged Steffy and let her know that prison was trying to reach her as next of kin.
"It blew me away because he was so scared of getting Covid. He would call and tell me people are getting Covid pardons. He was hoping to get out because he has had so many appeals and fought to get out for so many years," she said.
With the help of Jordan, the family set a date to say goodbye to Mendacino. They prepared to travel to Umatilla for closure.
Steffy and her family weren't the only travelers who braved hundreds of miles to attend the service.
Red Lodge volunteers drove from as far as Klamath Falls. A table was set up with photos of Mendacino and the group lined up across the snowy field that hosted the sunny pow wow less than two years earlier.
The windows were dark and the inmates were not allowed to come out to hear the songs but the group sang on.
Michael Ray Johnson, General Council Vice Chair for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, opened the ceremony with the Washat bell.
Each member of the family shared their words in bidding their relative farewell before Mendacino's obituary was read.
Volunteers all spoke about Mendacino's decades of work to liberate Indigenous inmates and to make a way for true religious freedom.
Chaplain Cardona also became emotional as he talked about the inmate's passion for spirituality.
Steffy said of her father, "His faith was what held him closest to Native culture. He always wanted to share that. He was always proud of their sweats and their pow wows."
Steffy was happy Mendacino was able to share his deep cultural knowledge with her children before he left this earth. She said no matter what cultural background someone had, he always wanted to share the ways of his People because he truly believed they helped heal.
She was thankful for the chance to say goodbye in a way he would have liked.
The group stood out in the mid-20-degree weather to sing and pray, not only for the departed, but for all the inmates who, Jordan said, are on the inside hurting.
Jordan said this won't be the only service of its kind. Unfortunately, Mendacino has not been the only Indigenous inmate in Oregon to pass away due to COVID.
According to the Center for Disease Control, Native Americans die at a rate twice as high as white Americans. The dangers for Indigenous people in terms of COVID mortality, coupled with over representation in prison populations has made the Indigenous inmate mortality rate a concerning development for Jordan.
Native Americans also have an incarceration rate twice that of White Oregonians according to a 2017 study conducted by the Vera Institute of Justice.
These concerns were heightened during the two week blackout at Two Rivers in December. All these circumstances created a sense of urgency for Jordan to get the ball rolling on prayer events outside all of the Oregon prisons.
Though visitation is still not allowed, she said they must show up for the inmates to send good energy "over the walls."
"Our religion isn't written down. We can't just turn the pages in the bible and minister to ourselves. The way that we practice is very different than Christianity and other religions. It's an earth-based religion and it requires community. We need to sit at the drum and sing in one heartbeat of the People. Almost everything we do is in community. To not be able to smudge, to not be able to sweat is huge, because Christian groups can send in a DVD of services and we can't do that," Jordan said.
Mendacino, Jordan said, understood the importance of their work.
"Phil was an OG. There's not alot of people who have ever done that much time and he never gave up. He was always fighting for more cultural programming and religious freedom issues. He was always on them about that. He left a big footprint and he will be missed," Jordan said.
The group of volunteers closed out their service by holding a dinner of First Foods and a small give away in the administrative building.
Mendacino's body has not been released to the family, but Steffy said when it is she plans to take him home.
"He was very proud of the fact that they started implementing the sweat house and he opened it to anyone, not just Native Americans. He had the desire for belief and was one of the first ones, being there so long, that advocated for their Native culture and Native rights. If he could help other Natives in there, he would. He supported them getting in touch with what he knew and could share. He alway talked about the Peyote services and sacred Medicine Hat beliefs handed down from his grandparents. He shared his family's ways from Lame Deer with others. It was a good thing and he may have changed some young person's life. I'd like to take him back home to Lame Deer and bury him alongside all his brothers," Steffy said.
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