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\section{Introduction}
A Mermin pentagram, first introduced by Mermin in 1993 \cite{mer} to furnish an observable-based proof of quantum contextuality \cite{ks}, is a set of ten observables of a three-qubit system with eigenvalues $\pm 1$ that are arranged into five four-element sets (contexts) that lie along the five edges of a pentagram in such a way that four observables in the same set mutually commute, their product is $+1$ or $-1$, and the number of sets where the latter holds is odd. Some years ago, using computer, it was shown \cite{psh} that the symplectic polar space associated with the three-qubit Pauli group contains as many as 12\,096 such pentagrams, forming three distinct families according as the number of negative contexts is five (108 members), three (4104 members) or one (7884 members). More recently, L\'evay and Szab\'o
\cite{ls} analyzed this symplectic polar space in terms of its magic Veldkamp line and discovered that Mermin pentagrams form naturally aggregates of six pairs, each such double-six `cell' being intricately related to six spreads of the core doily (generalized quadrangle of order two). In this short note we shall reveal further interesting traits in the structure of Mermin pentagrams by taking into account that the elements of the three-qubit Pauli group (three-qubit observables) are of three different kinds and employing an important earlier observation \cite{salev} that each edge of a Mermin pentagram corresponds to a unique Fano plane of the associated symplectic polar space with a fixed/prescribed three-qubit labeling of its points.

\section{3-Qubit Observables and Positive/Negative Fano Planes}
The (generalized) three-qubit Pauli group, ${\cal P}_3$, is generated by three-fold tensor products of the matrices
\begin{eqnarray*}
I = \left(
\begin{array}{rr}
1 & 0 \\
0 & 1 \\
\end{array}
\right),~
X = \left(
\begin{array}{rr}
0 & 1 \\
1 & 0 \\
\end{array}
\right),~
Y = \left(
\begin{array}{rr}
0 & -i \\
i & 0 \\
\end{array}
\right)
~{\rm and}~
Z = \left(
\begin{array}{rr}
1 & 0 \\
0 & -1 \\
\end{array}
\right).
\end{eqnarray*}
Explicitly,
\begin{eqnarray*}
{\cal P}_3 = \{i^{\alpha} G_1 \otimes G_2 \otimes G_3:~ G_j \in \{I, X, Y, Z \},~ j \in \{1, 2, 3\},~\alpha \in \{0, 1, 2, 3\} \}.
\end{eqnarray*}
Here, we will only be dealing with its factored version $\overline{{\cal P}}_3 \equiv {\cal P}_3/{\cal Z}({\cal P}_3)$, where the center ${\cal Z}({\cal P}_3)$ consists of $\pm I \otimes I \otimes I$ and $\pm i I \otimes I \otimes I$,\footnote{In what follows, we shall use a shorthand notation for the tensor product: $G_1 \otimes G_2 \otimes G_3 \equiv G_1 G_2 G_3$.} and whose geometry is that of the symplectic polar space $W(5,2)$ \cite{sp07}. This space is, freely speaking, a collection of all totally isotropic subspaces of the ambient five-dimensional binary projective space, PG$(5,2)$, equipped with a non-degenerate alternating bilinear form.

\begin{figure}[t]
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=9.cm,clip=]{fig1.eps}}
\caption{A representative of the family of negative Fano planes (top) and those of three distinct types of positive Fano planes. Negative lines are shown in bold. An observable of type $A$, $B$ and $C$ is colored red, green and yellow, respectively.}
\end{figure}

The 63 non-trivial elements of the group are in a bijective correspondence with the 63 points of $W(5,2)$ in such a way that two commuting elements correspond to two points joined by a totally isotropic line and a maximum set of mutually commuting elements of the group has its counterpart in a maximal totally isotropic subspace, which is a projective plane of order two, the Fano plane. Let us assume that $W(5,2)$ has its points labeled by the elements of  $\overline{{\cal P}}_3$. A line/plane of such a space is called positive or negative according as the product of the group elements located in it is  $+III$ or $-III$, respectively. Next, let us call an element of $\overline{{\cal P}}_3$ to be of type $A$, $B$ or $C$ in dependence on whether, respectively, it features two $I$'s, one $I$ or no $I$. With this last notion at hand, we will find that there are four different types of three-qubit-labeled Fano planes: one negative type and three positive ones. A negative Fano plane consists of three concurrent negative lines. If a positive Fano plane contains negative lines (type $a$), there are always four of them, forming the Pasch configuration. If a positive Fano plane is devoid of negative lines, then it has either one element of $\overline{{\cal P}}_3$ of type $A$ and three of type $C$  (type $b$), or {\it vice versa} (type $c$). The situation is schematically illustrated in Figure 1.

\begin{figure}[t]
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=12.cm,clip=]{fig2.eps}}
\caption{A Mermin pentagram (drawn in the center) and the associated pentad of labeled Fano planes. The Fano plane at the top corresponds to the horizontal edge of the pentagram; the remaining correspondences follow readily from the rotational symmetry of the figure. Both the negative contexts of the pentagram and the negative lines of three Fano planes are boldfaced. Note that one of the negative contexts corresponds to a positive Fano plane.  The Fano planes are labelled by the three-qubit observables in such a way that the closure line of the affine plane (the `line at infinity') is always represented by a (big) circle.}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[pth!]
\begin{center}
\caption{Refined geometric classification of Mermin pentagrams. Column one ($T$) shows the type, column two ($C^{-}$) the number of negative contexts in a pentagram of the given type, columns three to five ($O_{A}$ to $O_{C}$) indicate the number of observables of corresponding types, column six ($F^{-}$) the number of negative Fano planes and columns seven to eight ($F^{+}_{a}$ to $F^{+}_{c}$) the distribution of types of positive Fano planes. Finally, the last column ($K$) indicates the number of pentagrams of a given type that lie on the `symmetric' Klein quadric. } \vspace*{0.9cm}
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\begin{tabular}{|r|c|ccc|c|ccc|r|}
\hline \hline
$T$        & $C^{-}$ & $O_{A}$ & $O_{B}$ & $O_{C}$  & $F^{-}$  & $F^{+}_{a}$  & $F^{+}_{b}$  & $F^{+}_{c}$  & $K$   \\
\hline
  1        & 5       & 0       & 0       & 10       & 5        & 0            & 0            & 0   & 2 \\
  2        & 5       & 1       & 0       &  9       & 3        & 2            & 0            & 0   & 0 \\
\hline
  3        & 3             & 0       & 5       &  5       & 4              & 0                 & 1                 & 0    & 0 \\
	4        & 3             & 0       & 4       &  6       & 5              & 0                 & 0                 & 0    & 0 \\
  5        & 3             & 0       & 4       &  6       & 3              & 2                 & 0                 & 0    & 6 \\
  6        & 3             & 0       & 4       &  6       & 3              & 1                 & 1                 & 0    & 0 \\
	7        & 3             & 0       & 4       &  6       & 3              & 0                 & 2                 & 0    & 6 \\
  8        & 3             & 1       & 0       &  9       & 3              & 0                 & 2                 & 0    & 0 \\
  9        & 3             & 1       & 4       &  5       & 3              & 2                 & 0                 & 0    & 0 \\
 10        & 3             & 1       & 4       &  5       & 3              & 1                 & 0                 & 1    & 12 \\
 11        & 3             & 1       & 4       &  5       & 3              & 0                 & 2                 & 0    & 0 \\
 12        & 3             & 1       & 4       &  5       & 3              & 0                 & 1                 & 1    & 6 \\
 13        & 3             & 1       & 4       &  5       & 3              & 0                 & 0                 & 2    & 6 \\
 14        & 3             & 1       & 5       &  4       & 2              & 2                 & 1                 & 0    & 0 \\
 15        & 3             & 1       & 5       &  4       & 2              & 1                 & 1                 & 1    & 12 \\
 16        & 3             & 2       & 5       &  3       & 2              & 1                 & 0                 & 2    & 12 \\
 17        & 3             & 2       & 4       &  4       & 1              & 2                 & 2                 & 0    & 0 \\
 18        & 3             & 2       & 4       &  4       & 1              & 2                 & 1                 & 1    & 12 \\
 19        & 3             & 3       & 0       &  7       & 1              & 2                 & 1                 & 1    & 6 \\
 20        & 3             & 3       & 4       &  3       & 1              & 2                 & 0                 & 2    & 6 \\
\hline
 21        & 1             & 0       & 5       &  5       & 4              & 1                 & 0                 & 0    & 0 \\
 22        & 1             & 0       & 5       &  5       & 2              & 2                 & 1                 & 0    & 12 \\
 23        & 1             & 0       & 5       &  5       & 2              & 1                 & 2                 & 0    & 12 \\
 24        & 1             & 0       & 4       &  6       & 3              & 1                 & 1                 & 0    & 12 \\
 25        & 1             & 1       & 4       &  5       & 3              & 0                 & 2                 & 0    & 1 \\
 26        & 1             & 1       & 4       &  5       & 3              & 0                 & 1                 & 1    & 4 \\
 27        & 1             & 1       & 4       &  5       & 3              & 0                 & 0                 & 2    & 7 \\
 28        & 1             & 1       & 4       &  5       & 1              & 2                 & 1                 & 1    & 19 \\
 29        & 1             & 1       & 4       &  5       & 1              & 0                 & 3                 & 1    & 6 \\
 30        & 1             & 1       & 5       &  4       & 2              & 2                 & 0                 & 1    & 12 \\
 31        & 1             & 1       & 5       &  4       & 2              & 1                 & 2                 & 0    & 0 \\
 32        & 1             & 1       & 5       &  4       & 2              & 1                 & 1                 & 1    & 12 \\
 33        & 1             & 1       & 5       &  4       & 2              & 0                 & 2                 & 1    & 11 \\
 34        & 1             & 2       & 5       &  3       & 2              & 1                 & 0                 & 2    & 12 \\
 35        & 1             & 2       & 5       &  3       & 2              & 0                 & 1                 & 2    & 24 \\
 36        & 1             & 2       & 4       &  4       & 1              & 2                 & 1                 & 1    & 11 \\
 37        & 1             & 2       & 4       &  4       & 1              & 1                 & 2                 & 1    & 25 \\
 38        & 1             & 3       & 0       &  7       & 1              & 0                 & 3                 & 1    & 2 \\
 39        & 1             & 3       & 4       &  3       & 1              & 1                 & 1                 & 2    & 12 \\
 40        & 1             & 3       & 4       &  3       & 1              & 0                 & 2                 & 2    & 6 \\
 41        & 1             & 3       & 5       &  2       & 0              & 2                 & 1                 & 2    & 12 \\
 42        & 1             & 3       & 5       &  2       & 0              & 1                 & 2                 & 2    & 12 \\
 43        & 1             & 4       & 4       &  2       & 1              & 1                 & 0                 & 3    & 12 \\
 44        & 1             & 4       & 4       &  2       & 1              & 0                 & 1                 & 3    & 12 \\
 45        & 1             & 6       & 0       &  4       & 1              & 0                 & 0                 & 4    & 2 \\
 \hline \hline
\end{tabular}
}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\section{Fine Structure of Mermin Pentagrams}
Given a Mermin pentagram, the first parameter of our classification is the number of negative contexts. The next three parameters are the character of three-qubit elements located on it.
By a way of example, the pentagram depicted in Figure 2 has three negative contexts and features one observable of type $A$, five of type $B$ and four ones of type $C$. Next, in Ref. \cite{salev} it was shown
that each edge of a pentagram is isomorphic to an affine plane of order two. As each such plane can uniquely be extended to the projective plane of order two, this also means that each edge is associated with the unique positive- or negative-valued Fano plane. The types of the five associated Fano planes will be the last string of parameters of our classification.  Using again the example from Figure 2, we find here two negative and three positive Fano planes, the latter falling into all three types.

In order to fully classify Mermin pentagrams in this manner, we made use of particular sets of them computed by Michel Planat \cite{plan}. One such set comprises all 336 pentagrams located on a particular Klein quadric and another set consists of those pentagrams located (as point-sets) in a particular geometric hyperplane of a copy of the split Cayley hexagon of order two embedded classically into our three-qubit symplectic polar space \cite{psh}. To check for completeness, we randomly picked up pentagrams from the whole set, for each of them we looked for those ten pentagrams each of which shares two edges with the pentagram in question and compared their types with those already found. The results of our analysis are summarized in Table 1; note that our pentagram of Figure 2 belongs to type 15.

Let us highlight some of the most interesting properties of Mermin pentagrams stemming from our analysis.
Obviously, there are only two types where all five Fano planes are negative (types 1 and 4) or positive (types 41 and 42). No pentagram possesses less than two observables of type $C$, or has just eight of them. If a pentagram features observables of type $B$, there are four or five of them; and if an edge of such a pentagram contains one such observable, it must contain one more. Next, if a pentagram contains just three observables of type $A$, they are situated on the same edge; the only exception are types 41 and 42, since they feature no negative Fano plane. There are no pentagrams featuring more than six observables of type $A$. Any pentagram that contains positive Fano planes of type $b$ and $c$, but none of type $a$, is that with a single negative context; the only exception to this rule is type 12. One also sees that a pentagram with no observable of type $A$ is also devoid of positive Fano planes of type $c$. Further, if a pentagram is associated with Fano planes featuring all the three positive types, then this pentagram also exhibits all the three kinds of observables, with a single exception (type 19). It is also worth mentioning that there are three types of pentagrams having positive Fano planes of type $c$ only (types 13, 27 and 45), as well as two types with all positive Fano types being equally represented (types 15 and 32).
From the physical point of view, the most important finding is certainly the existence of two different types of negative contexts of Mermin pentagrams and as many as four distinct kinds of positive ones; the former case involves negative Fano planes and positive Fano planes of type $a$,  whereas the latter one entails all the four types of valued Fano planes. A particularly nice example of these properties is furnished by a pentagram of types 28 or 36, whose single negative context is associated with a positive Fano plane and the remaining four positive contexts are all of different characters.

As a particular task, we also analyzed case by case all 336 pentagrams lying on that hyperbolic quadric (Klein quadric) of $W(5,2)$ that accommodates all 35 symmetric elements of $\overline{{\cal P}}_3$, and found out that they only fall into 34 distinct types; interestingly enough, the eleven missing types are types 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 14, 17, 21 and 31, none of them being associated with a positive Fano plane of type $c$ (see the last column of Table 1).

\section{Concluding Remarks}
We have introduced a remarkable finite-geometric classification of three-qubit Mermin pentagrams that intricately combines the character of three-qubit observables with the properties of positive/negative-valued Fano planes of the associated symplectic polar space and reveals important finer structure of three-qubit (observable-based) quantum contexts, distinguishing between two negative and as many as four  positive ones.
We believe that such classification can be of relevance in any branch of quantum information theory (quantum protocols) where a Mermin pentagram is an essential element; it can also be helpful in revealing finer traits of the so-called black-hole/qubit correspondence (see, e.\,g., \cite{bdl}) in those of its aspects that are linked to the structure of the three-qubit symplectic polar space.

\newpage
\section*{Acknowledgments}
This work was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the contract $\#$ SK-FR-2017-0002 and the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) under the project PHC \v Stef\'anik 2018/40494ZJ. The financial support of both the Slovak VEGA Grant Agency, Project $\#$ 2/0003/16, and the French ``Investissements d'Avenir'' programme, project ISITE-BFC (contract ANR-15-IDEX-03), are gratefully acknowledged as well. We are also indebted to Dr. Petr Pracna for the help with the figures.

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Long-time friends Tim Edmond and Dan Potter decided to leave the corporate world to pursue mutual interests in fermentation. Their dream of starting a farmhouse brewery business using their own farmed ingredients was sidelined when the James River flooded an early planting of barley. However, another door opened when Dan set aside some sweet cider to ferment.
"We reset our vision when Dan came across some heirloom cider apples from Henley's Orchard, just outside of Charlottesville," shared Tim. "We had never been exposed to dry cider made with real cider apples, so after trying the first batch we were hooked and had our sights set on cider. Potter's Cider was born."
Potter's Cider has been a slow and steady process, settling into Free Union and Charlottesville and planting their first orchard a couple of years ago. Virginia is their home, and it's the home of Potter's craft ciders.
Cider was "wide open," said Tim. Cider has a lot of room for growth and experimentation. "Our goal is really to answer, 'What is craft cider?' by making intensely flavorful and aromatic ciders using local apples," explained Tim.
Potter's ciders are "unapologetically dry and brimming with flavor and aromatic intensity," said Tim, so they exist in a relative niche in the commercial cider market. Their apple selection, production methods and slow cold-fermentations are all designed to maximize the flavor and character of their ciders. Tim shared that as the cider industry grows and consumers become more aware of the spectrum of ciders on the market, their ciders definitely stand out and convey a real sense of the Central VA terroir.
Potter's cider brewing process is extremely focused on where the apples are from, where it is being produced and who is doing the producing. In today's market, most six-pack ciders are made using a process called chaptalization, whereby cane or corn sugars are used to boost alcohol content (these sugar sources are cheaper than apples) and laboratory products are used for flavoring and aroma "rebalancing," explained Tim. Craft ciders, on the other hand, use only fresh apples and makers are very selective about which type of apples are used. "In our case, we do not add sugar or water and rely solely on the character of the fruit—because in central Virginia we have amazing fruit!"
Tim and Dan have set up their home to make craft cider in the fabulous old Wildair Farm space. Beautiful and nestled right at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, they have incredible views, soil and climate for the cider they are crafting. The farm is situated in the town of Free Union, a quaint small town founded in 1761 and 10 miles north-northwest of Charlottesville.
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"Another exciting project is our Sapling Series, our small-batch cider program. Some of our new releases include Grapefruit Hibiscus (infused with grapefruit peel and hibiscus petals), O'Tannenbaum (Juniper berries and spruce tips) and Mosaic Hop Cider."
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Tim and Dan host several events per year, including the annual Orchard Wassail, and currently run a guerrilla tasting room operation with pop-up tastings in Greenwood, Va., during the warmer months. "We are located on a working farm, so unfortunately we do not have the ability to set up a tasting room at our cidery, but we are in the process of renovating a 1965 Airstream Trailer, which will become our mobile tasting room. The Airstream is a fantastic way for us to get out and share our ciders with the world. We are in the process of cutting a gull-wing in the side, so we are very excited for that!"
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Transport and Works Minister, Robert Pickersgill has said that the cost to repair damage to the island's road network as a result of the passage of Hurricane Wilma, would likely exceed the billion-dollar mark.
A total 149 roads were damaged due to heavy rains and landslides associated with Hurricane Wilma, with some 22 main roads affected in Clarendon; 12 in Manchester, 22 in Kingston and St. Andrew; and 30 in St. Catherine.
Mr. Pickersgill, who was addressing journalists at Monday's (Oct. 31) post Cabinet press briefing, said that the Ministry had received estimates of the damage and the projected repair costs have been presented to Cabinet for approval.
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He indicated that the estimates also included "bridges, river training work and rehabilitation of retaining walls, and the cost to reopen roads."
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In relation to Mandela Highway in St. Catherine, where the westbound carriage was flooded, Mr. Pickersgill said the NWA had mobilised a team to begin work along the highway, "including the creation of a drain in the median and the excavation of sections of the Duhaney and Ferry Rivers."
The rehabilitative work has resulted in single lane traffic on the westbound carriageway on Mandela Highway.
Meanwhile, three bridges were affected by the torrential downpour associated with Hurricane Wilma, the Transport Minister revealed, and these are the Worthy Park bailey bridge in St. Catherine, the Alley Bridge in Clarendon, and the Bog Walk bailey bridge in St. Catherine.
The Worthy Park bridge was closed to vehicular traffic on Saturday, October 22 due to severe damage to the bridge's support structure. Repair work will include underpinning of the bridge, and the addition of another panel to the structure.
Repair work on Alley Bridge in Clarendon, which toppled under the downpour, will require the driving of piles to reinstate the pier support and superstructure, and Minister Pickersgill has informed that discussions were underway with Tankweld Limited for the works to begin shortly.
As for the Bog Walk bailey bridge, the Minister said "contractor services for the carrying out of the proposed rehabilitation works will be procured under the methodology for dealing with the award of works contracts arising from emergencies."
He added that given the nature of the bridge and river training required, the specialist contract services, and the urgency of some road repair works, the NWA would have to enter into negotiations with nominated contractors, who were duly registered with the National Contracts Commission (NCC).


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A teenage boy tragically died of a stroke yesterday in Mexico City after receiving a hickey that resulted in a blood clot that traveled to his brain. The Independent reports that 17-year-old Julio Macias Gonzalez started having convulsions while having dinner with his family. Emergency services were called, but he had died by the time they arrived, the Mexican outlet Hoy reported.
Gonzalez had been with his girlfriend earlier that day. Doctors on the scene told reporters they believed a hickey to be the cause of the blood clot and stroke that killed him.
As strange as that may sound, this isn't the first time a "love bite" has had such results. In fact, two other cases like this have been documented. In those cases, both of the patients (one was a 35-year-old Dutch woman, and the other was a 44-year-old woman in New Zealand) survived. Each woman experienced weakness on only one side of her body prior to the stroke. This is a very common sign of a stroke, which is why doctors recommend you check for weakness in the face and arms if you think someone is having one.
What does this all mean for your next makeout session? The "minor trauma" caused by hickeys can have serious consequences, though it's extremely rare. As the authors of the report on the woman from New Zealand put it, a diagnosis like this one "requires a high index of suspicion."
These (very unlikely) cases aside, it's still totally possible to have a stroke as a young person. Certain conditions (high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes) associated with older people and harmful habits (smoking and heavy drinking) can put you at greater risk, but stroke can happen to anyone. Common symptoms (in addition to the aforementioned muscle weakness) include slurred speech, difficulty walking, vision problems, and severe headaches. If you experience any or all of these symptoms, call 911 or hit up the emergency room — whether or not you recently got a hickey.
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Captain Sandy Yawn and Malia White from Below Deck Mediterranean shared to social media a reunion of the two at a golf course driving range in Denver.
Captain Sandy Yawn and Malia White from Below Deck Mediterranean shared to social media a reunion of the two at a golf course driving range. Sandy has taken Malia under her wing ever since they both appeared on the series during season 2. The co-workers bonded over their love for the sea and their dedication to the yachting industry. Malia has also looked up to Sandy as a mentor since they have known each other, as Malia hopes to one day become a successful captain like Sandy.
The bosun and the captain were introduced to viewers of the Bravo series when they climbed aboard Sirocco in Croatia during season 2. When Malia joined the crew in Croatia, she was hired as one of the deckhands and worked alongside bosun Wes and deckhands Max and Bobby. Sandy was also new to the team during the second season and would often micromanage her staff. Even though most of the crew didn't like her, Sandy managed to maintain her role on the show. Sandy and Malia reunited for season 5 in Spain; however, fans quickly turned on them as they were the reason for Hannah Ferrier's sudden departure.
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Last weekend, the 30-year-old shared a picture of herself and the 55-year-old at a golf course driving range to Instagram. Sandy was there with her long-time girlfriend Leah Shafer, while Malia was side by side with a mystery man. "Not Driving Boats Driving Range," the bosun captioned the post. The friends met up at the driving range in Denver while they were both on break from the yachting jobs. The day the photo was taken was also the first time Malia got to meet Sandy's long-time love. "So nice to finally meet @leahraeshafer in person!" she added in the caption. Sandy, who claims Hannah wanted to be fired, also had a great time during their outing. "It was so great to catch up and meet your friends!" she wrote in the comments to Malia's post, noting she had "a lot of fun!"
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You are the best community that has been raised up for mankind. Ye enjoin right conduct and forbid indecency; and ye believe in Allah. And if the People of the Scripture had believed, it had been better for them. Some of them are believers; but most of them are evil-doers.
When the thought matured, the seed grew and the plant took root in the land of reality, detached from temporary emotion and unwelcome haste, the Islamic Resistance Movement erupted in order to play its role in the path of its Lord. In so doing, it joined its hands with those of all Jihad fighters for the purpose of liberating Palestine. The souls of its Jihad fighters will encounter those of all Jihad fighters who have sacrificed their lives in the land of Palestine since it was conquered by the Companion of the Prophet, be Allah's prayer and peace upon him, and until this very day. This is the Charter of the Islamic Resistance (Hamas) which will reveal its face, unveil its identity, state its position, clarify its purpose, discuss its hopes, call for support to its cause and reinforcement, and for joining its ranks. For our struggle against the Jews is extremely wide-ranging and grave, so much so that it will need all the loyal efforts we can wield, to be followed by further steps and reinforced by successive battalions from the multifarious Arab and Islamic world, until the enemies are defeated and Allah's victory prevails. Thus we shall perceive them approaching in the horizon, and this will be known before long: "Allah has decreed: Lo! I very shall conquer, I and my messenger, lo! Allah is strong, almighty.:"
"And unto thee have we revealed the Scripture with the truth, confirming whatever scripture was before it, and a watcher over it. So judge between them by that which Allah hath revealed, and follow not their desires away from the truth which has come unto thee. For each we have appointed a divine law and a traced-out way. Had Allah willed, He could have made you one community. But that He may try you by that which he has given you [He has made you as you are]. So vie with one another in good works. Unto Allah, you will all return. He will then inform you of that wherein you differ."
From time to time a clamoring is voiced, to hold an International Conference in search for a solution to the problem. Some accept the idea, others reject it, for one reason or another, demanding the implementation of this or that condition, as a prerequisite for agreeing to convene the Conference or for participating in it. But the Islamic Resistance Movement, which is aware of the [prospective] parties to this conference, and of their past and present positions towards the problems of the Muslims, does not believe that those conferences are capable of responding to demands, or of restoring rights or doing justice to the oppressed. Those conferences are no more than a means to appoint the nonbelievers as arbitrators in the lands of Islam. Since when did the Unbelievers do justice to the Believers?
The problem of the liberation of Palestine relates to three circles: the Palestinian, the Arab and the Islamic. Each one of these circles has a role to play in the struggle against Zionism and it has duties to fulfill. It would be an enormous mistake and an abysmal act of ignorance to disregard anyone of these circles. For Palestine is an Islamic land where the First Qibla and the third holiest site are located. That is also the place whence the Prophet, be Allah's prayer and peace upon him, ascended to heavens.
The 'ulama as well as educators and teachers, publicity and media men as well as the masses of the educated, and especially the youth and the elders of the Islamic Movements, must participate in this raising of consciousness. There is no escape from introducing fundamental changes in educational curricula in order to cleanse them from all vestiges of the ideological invasion which has been brought about by orientalists and missionaries. That invasion had begun overtaking this area following the defeat of the Crusader armies by Salah a-Din el Ayyubi. The Crusaders had understood that they had no way to vanquish the Muslims unless they prepared the grounds for that with an ideological invasion which would confuse the thinking of Muslims, revile their heritage, discredit their ideals, to be followed by a military invasion. That was to be in preparation for the Imperialist invasion, as in fact [General] Allenby acknowledged it upon his entry to Jerusalem: "Now, the Crusades are over." General Gouraud stood on the tomb of Salah a-Din and declared: "We have returned, O Salah-a-Din!" Imperialism has been instrumental in boosting the ideological invasion and deepening its roots, and it is still pursuing this goal. All this had paved the way to the loss of Palestine. We must imprint on the minds of generations of Muslims that the Palestinian problem is a religious one, to be dealt with on this premise. It includes Islamic holy sites such as the Aqsa Mosque, which is inexorably linked to the Holy Mosque as long as the Heaven and earth will exist, to the journey of the Messenger of Allah, be Allah's peace and blessing upon him, to it, and to his ascension from it.
I swear by that who holds in His Hands the Soul of Muhammad! I indeed wish to go to war for the sake of Allah! I will assault and kill, assault and kill, assault and kill (told by Bukhari and Muslim).
This is the Islamic spirit which ought to prevail in any Muslim society. A society which confronts a vicious, Nazi-like enemy, who does not differentiate between man and woman, elder and young ought to be the first to adorn itself with this Islamic spirit. Our enemy pursues the style of collective punishment of usurping people's countries and properties, of pursuing them into their exiles and places of assembly. It has resorted to breaking bones, opening fire on women and children and the old, with or without reason, and to setting up detention camps where thousands upon thousands are interned in inhuman conditions. In addition, it destroys houses, renders children orphans and issues oppressive judgements against thousands of young people who spend the best years of their youth in the darkness of prisons. The Nazism of the Jews does not skip women and children, it scares everyone. They make war against people's livelihood, plunder their moneys and threaten their honor. In their horrible actions they mistreat people like the most horrendous war criminals. Exiling people from their country is another way of killing them. As we face this misconduct, we have no escape from establishing social solidarity among the people, from confronting the enemy as one solid body, so that if one organ is hurt the rest of the body will respond with alertness and fervor.
[Hamas] reciprocated its respect to them, appreciates their condition and the factors surrounding them and influencing them, and supports them firmly as long as they do not owe their loyalty to the Communist East or to the Crusader West. We reiterate to every one who is part of them or sympathizes with them that the Hamas is a movement of Jihad, or morality and consciousness in its concept of life. It moves forward with the others, abhors opportunism, and only wishes well to individuals and groups. It does not aspire to material gains, or to personal fame, nor does it solicit remuneration from the people. It sets out relying on its own material resources, and what is available to it, [as it is said] "afford them the power you can avail yourself of." [All that] in order to carry out its duty, to gain Allah's favor; it has no ambition other than that.
"Muhammad is dead, he left daughters behind."
"Whoever does a speck of good will bear [the consequences] and whoever does a speck of evil will see [the consequences]."
"O Ma'adh, Allah is going to grant you victory over Syria after me, from Al-Arish to the Euphrates, while its men, women, and female slaves will be dwelling there until the Day of Resurrection. Those of you who chose [to dwell in one of the plains of Syria or Palestine will be in a state of Jihad to the Day of Resurrection."
The greedy have coveted Palestine more than once and they raided it with armies in order to fulfill their covetousness. Multitudes of Crusades descended on it, carrying their faith with them and waving their Cross. They were able to defeat the Muslims for a long time, and the Muslims were not able to redeem it until their sought the protection of their religious banner; then, they unified their forces, sang the praise of their God and set out for Jihad under the Command of Saladin al-Ayyubi, for the duration of nearly two decades, and then the obvious conquest took place when the Crusaders were defeated and Palestine was liberated.


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Mike joined The Bond Buyer as a reporter in 1995 and served in multiple positions with the newspaper and its parent, including Editor-in-Chief and Publisher. During the course of his career, he has been responsible for business and product development, including managing the ongoing transition of the group's audiences from print to online delivery platforms. Under his watch, the group launched several innovative products and events, most notably the Rapidata service to quickly disseminate economic news and Municipal Finance Today, a new website serving U.S. government finance officers with news about cash-management, budgeting and accounting practices and HR issues.
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Rappers are always bragging about having the newest this and the freshest that, but when it comes to beef, it seems they're satisfied with warmed-up leftovers. J. Cole and Diggy Simmons recently took their months-old filet mignon (actually, it's more like Grade C ground) out of the freezer and popped it in the microwave, with a brand-new round of potshots on the mic.
Almost half a year after the two XXL Freshmen first clashed, Cole started the new fight when Kendrick Lamar invited him onstage during his recent Music Matters show in Charlotte, N.C. J kicked a freestyle that contained the following line, which some say is aimed at Diggy: "Picture me hating on a young n---a with talent/Album flopped, but it's cool, he caked out on his allowance."
Diggy certainly seemed to think he was the target — he responded with a furious, full-on diss track, "Fall Down," which premiered this morning, Sept. 17, on Power 105's The Breakfast Club morning show. "I guess I rattled you, snaggletooth/You know better/Thought J stood for Jermaine, not Jet Setter / You seen me and shook my hand, coppin' pleas in person / Now you act less than a man, mentioning me in verses / You used to have dreams of my big sister kissing ya / Now it's nightmares of her little brother dissing ya," Diggy raps.
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In another sign Cole vs. Diggy round two is more heated, Tyrese jumped in the fray — taking sides and calling out Cole in a tweet over the weekend. "S--t ain't gonna fly no more ... J Cole ... Diggy is family ... S--t ain't flyin ... Ps .. I'm grown," Tyrese wrote.
Diggy replied to Cole by name back then as well, with the leaked freestyle "What You Say to Me": "The other day I was listening to 'Purple Rain,' couldn't believe all of the things that I heard em say," Diggy spits. "Who dat, who dat, you know who it is, heard you lying on my sis, telling people that you hit/When your album drops I'ma hit you with your bricks, so I'ma bomb first on you since you wanna riff… little n---a named Cole think he live like me, jetsetter trendsetter, yeah you not like me."
J. Cole still has yet to take Diggy on directly, but with the new body blows landed in "Fall Down," that may be about to change. Stay tuned, and stay hungry: We have a feeling there's more from these two on the way.


We're pretty close to 100% right now (88% as I'm typing this) and with 11 days still to go, there's a really good chance that we'll get the book funded. I'm humbled by the support for this project and I'll do everything I can to make sure it's something that we're ALL proud to be involved with.
With that in mind, it seems like a good time to announce the first stretch goal. For those new to Kickstarter, a stretch goal is like a 'power up' that adds a cool bonus to the existing rewards, once the total score (ok, pledge amount!) hits a certain number.
If the total backing for the project hits £12,000, every copy of the book will come with a specially produced CD copy of The British IBM's acclaimed first album!
So, click on the link, check out the sample tracks then get out there and recruit a few more backers so that you can get the whole album, on CD (CD is a pretty retro format for music now, right?!) for FREE!
Thanks again to every one of you for supporting me and making this book a reality. You guys are AMAZING!
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Firstly, thanks for taking the time out to reply to my feedback (and it is just that - feedback :). What you say makes sense and I am glad to see your thoughts are with adding a bonus for everyone who has backed the book and also keep to the estimated delivery - this is important (unlike some projects that add rewards above certain pledges and then take far too long to deliver it).
I do take your point about everyone's musical tastes being very different and the fact that this particular album is something very meaningful to me - it perhaps would have been better if I'd referred to it as just some kind of 'bonus' rather than a stretch goal.
The reality of the financial situation of the project is perhaps somewhat different to what most people would imagine: When I set up the reward levels, I imagined that most people would go for the £40 'book with your name in it' option, which actually has a small amount of residual in it after all the costs are accounted for. This was going to be my contingency fund for unexpected expenses. I hadn't really considered stretch goals as I wasn't sure how the project would fare on Kickstarter and it seemed a little premature to plan for them!
The vast majority of backers have actually chosen the £25 'book only' reward level. That option is very close to break-even when printing, delivery, packaging and shipping to the recipient are taken into account. 90% of copies will be shipped overseas from the UK and the additional £5 doesn't even cover half of the shipping cost; the additional amount comes out of the £25 pledged.
All this means that what, at first glance, looks like an extra £2,000 really isn't.
When I reached out to The British IBM on Twitter to ask if they'd consider supporting the project by letting me include their music with each book, I'd never spoken to them before and it was a really great surprise that they immediately said yes. They're not taking a penny from the project and when I did finally meet up with them on Saturday at Play Expo, they were very excited about the book (they were one of the early backers).
Right now, I'm struggling to come up with stretch goals that are achievable without burying the project financially, raising the shipping/packaging costs to unmanageable levels or creating too much additional work for me (and it really is just me!) and therefore putting the December delivery of the book at in jeopardy.
I hope this explains where the inclusion of the disc came from - I really am sorry that you're disappointed.
I'm a little bit disappointed by this stretch goal to be honest. While I can appreciate you like their music and it's provided inspiration to you as you work away on the project, music tastes vary a lot between people (your backers) meaning a number of people will find it a worthless addition. I'd much rather see the additional funds used to improve/extend the book, or offer bonuses that are arcade related.


The agent of Martin Skrtel has quashed rumours linking the defender with a move to play under former manager Rafael Benitez at Napoli.
Skrtel, 28, endured a frustrating campaign, starting just four Premier League games in 2013 as he lost his place in the Liverpool side to Jamie Carragher.
Napoli's appointment of Benitez as their new coach this week has led to speculation that the Slovakia international could be in line to reunite with the man who first brought him to Anfield.
However, SkrtelÔÇÖs agent, Karol Csonto, has ruled out the possibility of a move for his client to the Stadio San Paolo, insisting that the player will see out his contract with the Reds.
"It's not possible; I consider it a very difficult deal," he told calciomercato.it.


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Q: Mongodb creating copy of object Each time I use node app.js to start the server a new copy of the same object is created in database . In my code below it creates the test blog as many number of times as the node app.js is used to start the server .How can I fix this ?
var express    = require("express"),
    mongoose   = require("mongoose"),
    bodyParser = require("body-parser"),
    app        = express();

mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/blog_app', {useNewUrlParser: true, useUnifiedTopology: true});
app.set("view engine", "ejs");
app.use(express.static("public"));
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: true}));

var blogSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
    title: String,
    image: String,
    body: String,
    date: {
        type: Date,
        default: Date.now
    }
});

var Blog = mongoose.model("Blog", blogSchema);

Blog.create({
    title: "Test Blog",
    image: "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1494256997604-768d1f608cac?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjEyMDd9&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2202&q=80",
    body: "This is a test app."
});

// INDEX route
app.get("/", function(req, res){
        res.redirect("/blogs");
});
app.get("/blogs", function(req, res){
        // res.render("index");
        Blog.find({}, function(err, blogs){
            if(err){
                console.log("ERROR!");
            } else {
                res.render("index", {blogs: blogs});
            }
        })
});

app.listen(3000, function(){
    console.log("SERVER HAS STARTED!");
});

use blog_app
  switched to db blog_app
  db.blogs.find()
  { "_id" : ObjectId("5dc2a990cebaeb07d43653ac"), "title" : "Test Blog", "image" : "https://unsplash.com/photos/-GzyUGKhjBY", "body" : "This is a test
  app.", "date" : ISODate("2019-11-06T11:08:00.162Z"), "__v" : 0 }
  { "_id" : ObjectId("5dc2aad48d1865088eed3881"), "title" : "Test Blog", "image" : "https://unsplash.com/photos/-GzyUGKhjBY", "body" : "This is a test
  app.", "date" : ISODate("2019-11-06T11:13:24.344Z"), "__v" : 0 }
  { "_id" : ObjectId("5dc2ae3f1f12100a748fdbb6"), "title" : "Test Blog", "image" : "https://unsplash.com/photos/-GzyUGKhjBY", "body" : "This is a test
  app.", "date" : ISODate("2019-11-06T11:27:59.182Z"), "__v" : 0 }
  { "_id" : ObjectId("5dc2ced6dbd5e902487e3241"), "title" : "Test Blog", "image" : "https://unsplash.com/photos/-GzyUGKhjBY", "body" : "This is a test
  app.", "date" : ISODate("2019-11-06T13:47:02.818Z"), "__v" : 0 }
  { "_id" : ObjectId("5dc2cf09a3052102541f30a9"), "title" : "Test Blog", "image" : "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1494256997604-768d1f608cac?ixlib=
  rb-1.2.1&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjEyMDd9&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2202&q=80", "body" : "This is a test app.", "date" : ISODate("2019-11-06T13:47:53.972Z"), "
  __v" : 0 }

A: That is because you have these lines in your code, it creates Test Blog on each application run:
Blog.create({
    title: "Test Blog",
    image: "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1494256997604-768d1f608cac?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjEyMDd9&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2202&q=80",
    body: "This is a test app."
});

If you want to create Test Blog record exactly once you better use Model.findOneAndUpdate with options.upsert = true. It will find record and update it, or will create new one if record hasn't been found.
Blog.findOneAndUpdate({name: "Test Blog"}, {
    title: "Test Blog",
    image: "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1494256997604-768d1f608cac?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjEyMDd9&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2202&q=80",
    body: "This is a test app."
}, {upsert: true});


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Hi @enpu I'm just trying to figure this out and can't find anything related in the documentation ... does 'removeAsset' unload the loaded asset, freeing up memory to load more atlases for example? Thanks in advance!


Pete has been a professional solo singer/songwriter and guitarist for over 50 years (ouch!). He is also a physics graduate and Fellow of both the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society. He'll even combine the two with talks that include him playing songs with some (sometimes tenuous!) connection to space and space travel. Be afraid!


Young people who enter New Deal will begin by spending up to four months in the Gateway.
On entering the Gateway the young person will be allocated a personal adviser who will help and support them throughout their time on New Deal. They will discuss their needs, ambitions and options and agree their New Deal Action Plan.
Many young people will already have good employment prospects, having the necessary skills, abilities and motivation. Intensive careers advice and assistance with finding and applying for jobs should help them move quickly and successfully into employment.
Others may need more help. The personal adviser will have access to a range of local counselling and support services tackling immediate barriers to employment, whether over careers advice, basic skills such as reading or numeracy, or broader issues like homelessness or debt problems.


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Staten Island 'Wiped Out' As Storm Relief Trickles In Staten Island is the smallest and least populated of New York's five boroughs. But when Superstorm Sandy struck this week, it suffered more casualties than any other part of the city. Thousands of buildings were damaged or destroyed and 50,000 homes still lack power.
Staten Island 'Wiped Out' As Storm Relief Trickles In
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This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Five days after Superstorm Sandy surged ashore, survivors are beginning to rebuild and services are slowly being restored. The shortage of fuel continues to be a major problem, with people lined up for hours in their cars, often pushing them into the station. President Obama has ordered the U.S. military to send 24 million gallons of gasoline and diesel to the affected areas. But there are real glimmers of hope, too. Power is beginning to be restored in New York, and parts of Manhattan flickered on overnight. But conditions in Staten Island are still bad. The least populated of New York's boroughs was the hardest hit, and suffered the most casualties. Fifty thousand homes still lack power, and thousands of homes and buildings were damaged or destroyed. NPR's Jim Zarroli was in Staten Island yesterday and joins us. Jim, thanks for being with us.
JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE: You're welcome.
SIMON: What's the island look like?
ZARROLI: Well, for comparison purposes, I mean, you know, I remember being in Mississippi after Katrina. I mean, this is nothing like that. That was utter devastation. But it is - you know, there's very, very serious damage. I visited a place where there had been a marina on the eastern side of the island. The water went up and then it came down, and all the boats were just scattered for blocks. They're in parking lots of restaurants, they're in people's yards. You see whole streets filled with houses that have become, you know, inhabitable. I spoke to a Red Cross volunteer named Ellen Abate, and she's been going around the island. And I asked her about the damage that she's seen.
ELLEN ABATE: From houses completely gone to water in the basements, and just depends on the area they're in. A lot of areas that never got water got it this time - all the way up Hyland Boulevard, water that never went up there before. Besides that, they've also been hit with trees coming down on their property, so it's bad.
ZARROLI: And that is a good point. I mean, Staten Island has had storms, but the flooding was always kind of manageable. I think people were thinking this would be like that, the others. And that's why some of them, at least, didn't' evacuate when they were supposed to. But, of course, it turned out to be a lot worse than that.
SIMON: Jim, a lot of Staten Island families are notably, as we say, in the blue. They are police and firefighter families. So some of the same people working in emergency assistance are people with homes that have been at risk. How are they holding up since the storm?
ZARROLI: I think it depends on where they are. You know, it's like Manhattan, in that you drive around and some places have power, some don't. And in places where there is no power, you know, it's very tough. If you go down near the water, there are a lot of houses that were flooded. They had, you know, five, six, more feet of water - very dirty, brackish water. So, even though they're, you know, they're standing, but you can't live in them. Maybe they have mold, maybe they because of the boats, they smell like diesel fuel. I spoke with a guy named Kevin Howell, who rented a house near the water. And this is the kind of very typical story that he told me that you hear all over Staten Island.
KEVIN HOWELL: I'm wiped out also. The water came right over the houses. It wiped out all my furniture. Everything's gone. It's a disaster. There's no heat, no hot water, no electric, no nothing.
SIMON: Jim, are there any signs that FEMA, or for that matter, the Red Cross or other agencies are beginning to make much of a dent in the destruction in Staten Island?
ZARROLI: Well, I talked to a woman who was sort of cleaning the waterlogged furniture out of her house and putting it in her yard, which is something you see a lot of. And she said FEMA had been by to see, you know, to basically to do a body count at her house. Other than that, no one had been by. I did - you know, I saw people from FEMA, people from the police, trying to give some help, but it didn't seem like a lot of people actually knew they were there, which, you know, that you're hard to reach if you don't have computers and TVs and cell phones.
SIMON: What's it feel like there now?
ZARROLI: You know, it feels cut off. I ran the New York Marathon two years ago, I was going to run it again this year. Of course, it's been canceled. It starts in Staten Island. And when I was there yesterday, I mean, I went through a lot of the neighborhoods that you pass through to get to the starting line, and I remember thinking just how different it feels. It's much quieter, kind of abandoned. I was thinking how bizarre it would have been to have all these, you know, pumped-up crowds going through these semi-deserted streets. It would have been, you know, eerie.
SIMON: NPR's Jim Zarroli in New York. Thanks so much for being with us.
ZARROLI: You're welcome.


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David R. Janero
Professor (Adjunct Faculty) and Deputy Director
Center for Drug Discovery, Faculty, School of Pharmacy
Office: 116 Mugar Hall
Email: d.janero@neu.edu
B.A., Biology, Boston University
Ph.D., Cell Biology and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow, Physiological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries
Translational and Entrepreneurial Science
Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Consulting
Metabolism and bioenergetics
Enzyme and receptor biology
Mechanisms of disease and drug action
Biomarker discovery, validation, and application
Integrative and systems biology
Disease modeling
Discovery, profiling, and development of drugs and therapeutic devices
Other Affiliations:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Venture Mentoring Service
Boston University School of Medicine, Research Associate Professor (Adjunct), Biochemistry
Recent Publications:
Deshpande, D., S. Kethireddy, D.R. Janero and M. Amiji. 2016. Therapeutic efficacy of an ω-3-fatty acid-containing estradiol nano-delivery system against experimental atherosclerosis. PLoS One 11:e0147337.
Tyukhtenko, S, I. Karageorgos, G. Rajarshi, N. Zvonok, S. Pavlopoulos, D.R. Janero and A. Makriyannis. 2016. Specific inter-residue interactions as determinants of human monoacylglycerol lipase catalytic competency: a role for global conformational changes. J. Biol. Chem. 291:2556-2565.
Kulkarni P.M., A.R. Kulkarni, A. Korde, R.B. Tichkule, R.B. Laprairie, E.M. Denovan-Wright, H. Zhou, D.R. Janero, N, Zvonok, A. Makriyannis, M.G. Cascio, R.G. Pertwee and G.A. Thakur. 2016. Novel electrophilic and photoaffinity covalent probes for mapping the cannabinoid 1 receptor allosteric site(s). J. Med. Chem. 59:44-60.
Laprairie, R., A. Kulkarni, P. Kulkarni, D. Hurst, D. Lynch, P. Reggio, D.R. Janero, R. Pertwee, L. Stevenson, M. Kelly, E. Denovan-Wright and G. Thakur. 2016. Mapping cannabinoid receptor 1 allosteric site(s): critical molecular-determinant and signaling profile of GAT100, a novel, potent, irreversibly-binding probe. ACS Chem. Neurosci. 7:776-798.
Laprairie, R., P.M. Kulkarni, J.R. Deschamps, M.E.M. Kelley, D.R. Janero, M.G. Cascio. L.A. Stevenson, R.G. Pertwee, T.P Kenakin, E.M. Denovan-Wright and G.A. Thakur. 2017. Enantiospecific allosteric modulation of cannabinoid 1 receptor. ACS Chem. Neurosci. 8:1188-1023.
Zhou, H., Y. Peng, A. Halikhedkar, P. Fan., D.R. Janero, G.A. Thakur, R.W. Mercier, X. Sun, X. Ma and A. Makriyannis. 2017. Human cannabinoid receptor 2 ligandinteraction motif: transmembrane helix 2 cysteine C2.59(89) as determinant of classical cannabinoid agonist activity and binding pose. ACS Chem. Neurosci. 8:1338-1347.
Karageorgos, I., V.I. Silin, N. Zvonok, J. Marino, D.R. Janero and A. Makriyannis. 2017. The role of human monoacylglycerol lipase (hMAGL) binding pocket in breakup of unsaturated phospholipid membranes. Anal. Biochem. 536:90-95.
Szymanski, D., M. Papanastasiou, L. Pandarinathan, N. Zvonok, D.R. Janero, S. Pavlopoulos, P. Vouros and A. Makriyannis. 2018. Aliphatic azides as selective cysteine labeling reagents for integral membrane proteins. J. Med. Chem. 61:11199- 11208.
Wood, J.T., C.J. Lammi-Keefe, D.R. Janero and A. Makriyannis. 2019. Gestational diabetes mellitus alters select lipid-signaling molecules within the endocannabinoid metabolome of human breast milk. Lipids Submitted.
Gari, S., P. Kulkarni, P. Schaffer, L. Leo, A. Brandt, A. Zagzoog, T. Black, X. Lin, D. Hurst, D.R. Janero, M. Abood, A. Straiker, R. Pertwee, M. Kelly, A.-M. Szczesniak, E. Denovan-Wright, K. Mackie, A. Hohmann, P. Reggio, R.B. Laprairie and G.A. Thakur. 2019. Application of fluorine- and nitrogen-walk approaches: Defining the structural and functional diversity of 2-phenylindole class of CB1-receptor positive allosteric modulators. J. Med. Chem. Submitted.


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By applying artificial intelligence to genomes of Asian individuals has enabled scientists to identify an unknown human ancestor - a hominid who cross bred with its ancestors tens of thousands of years ago.
A picture taken on September 1, 2002 shows "Littlefoot", an almost complete hominid skeleton believed to be some 3.3 million years old, in a rock at the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa.
The new research comes from Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG) of the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and the Institute of Genomics at the University of Tartu. In studies researchers have applied deep learning algorithms and statistical methods to establish the footprint of a new hominid.
The application of human DNA computational analysis indicates that the extinct species was a hybrid of Neanderthals and Denisovans. At some stage this hominid cross bred with 'Out of Africa' modern humans within the region of the world that is now Asia. The scientific theory of recent African origin of modern humans is the most widely accepted model of the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens).
This new research helps to explain that the hybrid found in 2018 in the caves of Denisova, which was the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father, was not an isolated case. What took place was a common introgression process (that is, where genetic material from one population infiltrates into another, genetically differentiated population).
This inquiry was possible because human DNA contains fragments of hominids from other species like Neanderthals and the Denisovans. These hominids coexisted with modern humans more than 40,000 years ago in Eurasia and research has shown that modern humans overlapped with Neanderthal and Denisovan populations for a period, and that they had children together (interbred).
The study was also important for showcasing the artificial intelligence technology, and how deep learning was applied for the first ever time to provide detail about human evolution. The success of the study paves the way for the application machine learning to explore facets of biology, genomics and evolution.
The research has been published in the journal Nature Communications, with the research paper titled "Approximate Bayesian computation with deep learning supports a third archaic introgression in Asia and Oceania."
A grammatical error in this article is evidence that the quality of academic writing is being degraded by lazy human carelessness in an environment that pursues the development of artificial intelligence. That is, the concluding sentence, "[t]he success of the study paves the way for the application machine learning [...]" is missing the word "of" between "application" and "machine". Duh.
"DNA computational analysis identifies an unknown human ancestor."
That should read DNA estimate identifies an unknown human ancestor.
For the whole system works on estimates.
Check out the procedure and processes involved.
Possibly the unknown "ancestor" is the original DNA from the Arcturians.


Joined Duncan Bros in 1952 Served in what was then East Pak. Cachar and The Dooars finishing as Manager of Garganda.
Left initially in 1968 and returned to what is now Bangladesh for a short spell in 1970 and returned home for good in 1972.
Have lived in Leeds since returning home.


On the occasion of 'World Environment Day' Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said it is the right time to reaffirm our commitment to protecting our environment and nurturing a better planet.
World Environment Day 2017 will be observed today across the world and the theme of this year is 'Connecting People to Nature'.
According to United Nations, the theme of this year implores people to get outdoors and into nature, to appreciate its beauty and its importance, and to take forward the call to protect the Earth.
Environment Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan said global warming and climate change are adversely affecting the whole world and people should contribute to save the planet.
The state government in Kerala will launch a massive tree planting exercise today on the occasion of world environment day. This is being organised under the ' Haritha Keralam' project an initiative to make the state green.
The government's programme is to plant one crore saplings across the state by involving school students, 'Kudumbashree' (women self-help group) units and civic bodies.
This is Kerala's initiative to tackle climate change. Another major initiative to be launched on June 5 is the felling of trees that cause ecological imbalance.
Involving school children in the project, the government has decided to distribute 40 lakh saplings--each child will get one sapling which they should plant it at home, school compound or public place. Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan has urged the people to support the initiative.


PreCentral.net is running a story today that suggests that the Palm Pre may ship later than some had hoped. You will recall in our debate on 1SRC.com Podcast show 205 that Jeff Kirvin, Rick Cartwright, and I where in disagreement about when in "the first half of 2009" the Pre would ship. Rick and I where leaning toward late May for a target launch of the Pre while Jeff was expecting that the Pre would be on sale in just a few weeks; certainly by April.
"While we knew all along (despite crazy hopes) that the February 15th release date was just a pipe dream, we were hoping the persistent rumors (now circulating on the Ides of March) meant that the "First half of 2009" target would mean something sooner than June. Well, we're a little less hopeful today. First up an anonymous report which we're not putting much stock in (yet) claims that testing is taking longer than expected due to some security issues. More interestingly, in our forums we read that the Pre has two more rounds to testing to come, the first of these not slated to begin until April 1st."


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SpaceX Dragon capsule flies by space station
May 24, 2012 / 11:02 AM / AP
(AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The world's first private supply ship flew tantalizingly close to the International Space Station on Thursday but did not stop, completing a critical test in advance of the actual docking.
The unmanned SpaceX Dragon capsule flew within 1 1/2 miles of the orbiting lab as it performed a practice lap and checkout of its communication and navigation systems.
Officials at NASA and the SpaceX company said the rendezvous went well, although the test results still were being analyzed. The historic linkup is on track for Friday.
It is the first U.S. vessel to visit the space station since NASA's shuttles retired last summer - and the first private spacecraft to ever attempt a delivery. The Dragon is carrying 1,000 pounds of provisions.
The space station astronauts struggled with bad computer monitors and camera trouble as the Dragon zoomed toward them, but the problem did not hold up the operation. Indeed, all of the tests appeared to go well.
The astronauts successfully turned on Dragon's strobe light by remote control, but could not see it because of the sun glare and distance of several miles. The Dragon finally popped into camera view about 10 minutes later, appearing as a bright speck of light against the blackness of space, near the Earth's blue horizon. The two solar wings were clearly visible as the Dragon drew closer.
"Can nicely see the vehicle," Dutch spaceman Andre Kuipers said.
SpaceX's near-term objective is to help stockpile the space station, joining Russia, Europe and Japan in resupply duties. In three or four more years, however, the California-based company run by the billionaire who co-founded PayPal, Elon Musk, hopes to be launching station astronauts.
It is the cornerstone of President Barack Obama's strategy for NASA: turning over orbital flights to private business so the space agency can concentrate on destinations farther afield, like asteroids and Mars.
Obama called Musk on Wednesday, a day after Dragon's flawless launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard the company's Falcon 9 rocket.
"The President just called to say congrats. Caller ID was blocked, so at first I thought it was a telemarketer," Musk said via Twitter early Thursday. He ended his tweet with a smiley emoticon.
Musk monitored Thursday's operation from the SpaceX Mission Control in Hawthorne, Calif., where the company is based.
On Friday, two of the space station's six astronauts, Kuipers and Donald Pettit, will use the space station's robot arm to grab the Dragon and attach it to the complex. The crew will have a week to unload the contents before releasing the spacecraft for re-entry. It is the only supply ship designed to return to Earth with experiments and equipment; the others burn up in the atmosphere.
The space shuttles used to be the primary means of getting things to and from the space station. Discovery is now a museum relic, with Endeavour and Atlantis soon to follow. Aboard the incoming Dragon - 19 feet tall and 12 feet across - is food, clothes, batteries and other space station gear.
The space station and Dragon will be visible to Earthlings in select locations in the pre-dawn hours Friday, while flying tandem just prior to their linkup 250 miles above the planet. Among the many U.S. cities with viewing opportunities if skies are clear: New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago and Jacksonville, Fla.
SpaceX rocket successfully launches 7 photos
First published on May 24, 2012 / 11:02 AM