Coat steak with black pepper evenly. Grill flank steak on grill or grill pan to preferred temperature.
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Slice 1/2 of a lemon into thin slices (set aside for garnish). Cut remaining lemon in 1/2 .
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Meet the Cast of "Sex Education," Netflix's Hilarious New Dramedy All About, Well, Sex
But there's plenty more than just sex in the heartwarming series.
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Coming soon: Netflix's Sex Education. After watching the trailer for the upcoming dramedy, we can hardly wait to see what's in store for Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield) and his friends after they start a sex clinic at their school to answer their classmates's questions about all-things-sex. While Otis himself might not be that sexually experienced himself, he knows quite a bit by being the son of a sex therapist.
Becoming the school's sexpert sounds like quite the undertaking, since he then has to answer queries ranging from rampant pubic hair to being "betrayed" by your own genitalia. But for Otis, it's also a way to get to spend more time with Maeve, a fellow student who has caught his eye. While Otis is in on the operation as a way to get to know Maeve better, she's in it for the money. What could go wrong? (Just a reminder that Sex Education is a television show and we wouldn't necessarily suggest starting your own sex advice business at school).
Before the show drops on Netflix on January 11, we're giving you the rundown on all of Sex Education's key players and the actors behind them. Teen Vogue even has an exclusive video with the show's stars introducing their characters. So study up, because Sex Education is almost here.
Asa Butterfield as Otis Milburn
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You'll definitely recognize Asa Butterfield from the slew of big-picture movies he has starred in. He played the titular character, Hugo, in the movie Hugo, was Ender Wiggin himself in the movie adaptation of Ender's Game, starred alongside Britt Robertson in The Space Between Us, and portrayed Jake in the fantastical Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Asa has had numerous guest spots in television shows, but he stars as high schooler Otis in Sex Education. He's a bit socially awkward and while he might not have had sex himself yet, he sure knows a lot about it — thanks to the fact that his mom is a sex therapist.
Gillian Anderson as Jean Milburn
The iconic Gillian Anderson is arguably best known for her role as Dana Scully on The X-Files, a series so beloved that it came back in 2016 after being canceled in 2002. She has had plenty of other television roles, playing characters on shows such as Crisis, Hannibal, and American Gods. In the upcoming Netflix series, Gillian transforms into Jean Milburn. She's Otis's mom who just so happens to be a sex therapist, and who can't help prying into her son's own business (and his classmates's).
Ncuti Gatwa as Eric Effiong
Newcomer Ncuti Gatwa has had guest spots on Bob Servant and Stonemouth. He shines in Sex Education as Eric, Otis's best friend who can play the french horn, is out of the closet as gay, and who has an excellent wardrobe of windbreakers. At home, he can occasionally be found doing a YouTube makeup tutorial in his room while his religious parents are bopping around somewhere in the house.
Emma Mackey as Maeve Wiley
Emma Mackey is also fairly new to the acting game, only having one credit before Sex Education according to her IMDb page. Her character Maeve is the resident bad girl, whose reputation keeps her an outcast at school. But she's incredibly quick-witted and business savvy; she's the one to come up with the idea of starting a sex clinic at school with classmates paying for Otis's guidance.
Kedar Williams-Stirling as Jackson Marchetti
Kedar Williams-Stirling has had numerous roles over the years, including stints on television shows Wolfblood and Will. He plays Jackson on Sex Education, the most popular guy at school with his sights on one day becoming an Olympic swimming champion. He's also romantically connected to Maeve, but shhh, the rest of the school doesn't know about that.
Aimee-Lou Wood as Aimee
Another newcomer, Sex Education is Aimee-Lou Wood's first role. Her character Aimee is part of the school's popular clique, known as "The Untouchables," but she's often bullied by them. She's actually best friends with Maeve, but they keep their friendship on the down low. Aimee is also dating the school jerk, Adam.
Connor Swindells as Adam Groff
Audiences might recognize Connor Swindells from a couple of minor roles on shows such as Harlots and Jamestown. He plays Adam on Sex Education, the son of the school's headmaster. Adam isn't the nicest dude, often picking on Eric and anyone else that gets in his way.
And hear a bit from the stars themselves about the characters they play:
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Oskar Davičo (Šabac, 18. siječnja 1909. – Beograd, 30. rujna 1989.), srbijanski pjesnik, romanopisac, esejist i scenarist židovskog podrijetla.

Životopis
Rođen je u činovničkoj obitelji. Osnovnu školu pohađao je u Šapcu, gimnaziju u Beogradu (Prva muška), gdje je maturirao 1926. Studirao je romanistiku u Parizu, na Sorbonni (1926-1928) i na Filozofskom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Beogradu, gdje je i diplomirao 1930. Radio je kao srednjoškolski nastavnik u Šibeniku, Beogradu i Bihaću.

U Bihaću je 1932. uhićen kao sekretar mjesnog komiteta KPJ. Sud za zaštitu države osudio ga je na pet godina robije. Po izdržanoj kazni u Mitrovici živio je najprije u Beogradu, gdje je ponovno uhićen 1938., zatim u Zagrebu. Iz KPJ je isključen 1940., po odluci Agitpropa (Đilas, Zogović), zbog suradnje u Krležinu Pečatu (gdje je objavio Hanu i odlomke iz kasnije nestalog romana).

Po izbijanju Drugog svjetskog rata, ilegalno je radio u Splitu, gdje je uhićen 1941. i interniran prvo na Korčulu, zatim u Borgo Val di Taro u Italiji.

Pobjegao iz Lombardije 1943., i preko Monte Gargana stigao do Dalmacije. Stupio u Prvu proletersku diviziju i s tom vojnom jedinicom prešao Bosnu, Crnu Goru, Sandžak, Taru, Durmitor. Odatle je prebačen na Vis, gdje je kraće vrijeme radio u Presbirou. Zatim je s brigadom, preko Valjeva, Aranđelovca, stigao u listopadu 1944. do Beograda, sudjelujući u borbama za njegovo oslobođenje.

Odmah nakon oslobođenja uključen je u grupu koja je osnovala Tanjug, a 1945. prešao je u Borbu, zatim u Glas. Izvješćivao je sa suđenja ratnim zločincima u Nürnbergu, a zatim boravio kod Markosovih partizana u Grčkoj, o čemu je 1947. objavio knjigu Među Markosovim partizanima. Poslije toga prestao je s novinarstvom i živio isključivo od književnog rada.

Bio je jedan od urednika Nove misli (1953. – 1954.), a 1955. jedan od osnivača i zatim dugogodišnji urednik časopisa Delo. Osamdesetih, u Sarajevu, osnovao je i uređivao časopis Dalje.

Djela
Književnim radom počeo se baviti još u gimnaziji. Početkom tridesetih uključio se u nadrealistički pokret.

 1930. - poetski tekstovi Anatomija
 1932. - Položaj nadrealizma u društvenom procesu
 1938. - Pesme (Detinjstvo; Mladost; Brodolom; Ljubav; Nemir)
 1947. - putopis Među Markosovim partizanima
 1949. - poema Zrenjanin
 1950. - zbirka pjesama Višnja za zidom
 1951.(?) - pjesme Hana
 1952. - roman Pesma i esej Poezija i otpori
 1953. - poema Čovekov čovek
 1954. - zbirka pjesama Nastanjene oči
 1955. - zbirka pjesama Flora i roman Beton i svici
 1958. - roman Radni naslov beskraja
 1959. - stihovi Kairos i Tropi
 1960. - eseji Pre podne
 1962. - putopisi Crno na belo i roman Generalbas
 1963. - romani Ćutnje i Gladi, pjesme Snimci
 1964. - roman Tajne
 1966. - roman Bekstva
 1968. - poema Trg Em
 1971. - roman Zavičaji
 1972. - pjesme Pročitani jezik
 1973. - Strip stop (s Predragom Neškovićem)
 1974. - esej Rituali umiranja jezika
 1975. - pjesme Telo telu
 1976. - Veverice-leptiri ili nadopis obojenog žbuna
 1977. - Reči na delu
 1979. - Misterija dana i književno-kritički tekstovi Pod-tekst
 1980. - roman Gospodar zaborava
 1981. - polemički i kritički tekstovi Pod-sećanja
 1982. - pjesme Trema smrti
 1983. - pjesme Gladni Stoliv i polemike Procesi
 1986. - pripovijetke Nežne priče i pjesme Mali oglasi smrti
 1987. - Dvojezična noć i Svetlaci neslični sebi
 1988. - pjesme A diftong se obesio i Ridaji nad sudbinom u magli i romansirana autobiografija Po zanimanju samoubica
 1999. - postumno: pjesme Prva ruka

Scenariji
 1951. - Poslednji dan
 1951. - Dečak Mita

Rukopis druge knjige romansirane autobiografije Po zanimanju izdajnik nestao je u ratnom Sarajevu.

U okviru Sabranih djela Oskara Daviča u dvadeset knjiga (Prosveta, 1969.) sakupljeni su njegovi eseji, članci, polemike i usmena izlaganja nastala do 1967., i to u petoj knjizi (Poezija, otpori i neopori), osamnaestoj (Novine nevino), devetnaestoj (Pristojnosti) i dvadesetoj (Notes).

Nagrade

 Nagrada Ministarstva prosvjete Narodne Republike Srbije, za pjesmu Spomen na tamnovanje Svetozara Markovića (1947.)
 Nagrada Komiteta za kulturu i umjetnost Vlade FNRJ, za knjigu Među Markosovim partizanima (1948.)
 Nagrada Vlade FNRJ, za poemu Zrenjanin (1948.)
 Nagrada Saveza književnika, za roman Pesma (1952.)
 Listopadska nagrada grada Beograda, za roman Radni naslov beskraja (1958.)
 Zmajeva nagrada, za cjelokupno pjesničko djelo (1959.)
 NIN-ova nagrada za najbolji roman godine, trostruki laureat: za roman Beton i svici (1956), za roman Gladi (1963) i za roman Tajne (1963.)
 Sedmosrpanjska nagrada, za životno djelo (1970.)
 Nagrada AVNOJ-a, za pjesnički ubjedljivo i originalno djelo (1970.)
 Nagrada Branko Miljković, za Pročitani jezik (1972.)
 Vjesnikova književna nagrada Ivan Goran Kovačić, za knjigu eseja Rituali umiranja jezika (1976.)
 Nagrada Aleksa Šantić, za zbirku Telo telu (1976.)
 Disova nagrada, za trajni doprinos pjesništvu na srpskom jeziku (1972.)
 Njegoševa nagrada, za knjigu poezije Reči na delu (1978).
 Nagrada željezare Sisak, za zbirku pripovijedaka Nežne priče (1985).
 Goranov vijenac, za zbirku pjesama Svetlaci neslični sebi (1987).
 Plaketa Risto Ratković, za životno djelo (1989).
  Partizanska spomenica 1941.
  Orden zasluga za narod sa zlatnim vijencem (povodom šezdesetogodišnjice života)
  Orden junaka socijalističkog rada (1979.)

Izvori

 Jovan Delić, Dragan Hamović Uredili), Pesnička poetika Oskara Daviča : zbornik radova, Institut za književnost i umetnost : Biblioteka šabačka, Beograd/Šabac, 2013. (473 str.), ISBN 9788670951914 (ćirilica)

Vanjske poveznice
Mrežna mjesta
 Oskar Davičo, Krov oluje, Sarajevske sveske 25-26/2009.
 Oskar Davičo, izbor pjesama
 Davičo, Oskar, Krležijana
 Miklavž Komelj, Smrt protiv smrti, Sarajevske sveske 25-26/2009.
 Mira Otašević, Poternica za sobom, Sarajevske sveske 25-26/2009.
 Milica Nikolić, Jedinstveni Davičo, Sarajevske sveske 25-26/2009.

Davičo, Oskar
Židovi u Srbiji
Nadrealizam

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Recently the GoodFellaz attended the Snoop Dogg x Elliott Wilson "CRWN" interview in NYC, where the two legends spoke on a variety of topics in celebration of the new Snoop album "Coolaid". Held at the Highline Ballroom in Manhattan, the two O.G.'s talked about everything: Snoop's career, his days with Deathrow Records, politics, working with Wiz Khalifa, and the inspiration behind his latest LP (hint hint, Beyonce's "Lemonaid").
Elliott Wilson, the former editor-in-chief of XXL and founder of the popular website RapRadar, held nothing back; delving into personal subject including Snoop's murder case from the late 90's, the last days of Deathrow, the beef with Bad Boy records, his relationship with Suge Knight, and even his opinion on the Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump Presidential elections. However the LBC rapper was as cool as ever, answering each question in-depth and sprinkling each response with his unique sense of humor.
Check out video footage and photos from the interview below, courtesy of the good folks at GoodFellaz TV. You can watch the entire interview on MTV.com here. Enjoy!


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West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin has selected Carte Goodwin (shown) to temporarily fill the senate seat left vacant by the death of Robert Byrd.
Goodwin gets W.Va. Senate nod
By SHIRA TOEPLITZ
Updated 07/18/2010 09:32 PM EDT
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Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin announced Friday that he has selected his former chief counsel, Carte Goodwin, to be the next senator from West Virginia.
Manchin called it a "tremendous signal" to appoint Goodwin, who will be the youngest member of the Senate, to succeed the late Sen. Robert Byrd, the oldest member of the Senate when he passed away last month at 92-years-old.
"We passed this torch to another generation, basically the generation that will have the opportunity to lead West Virginia," Manchin said.
Goodwin, who hails from a family that is well-connected in West Virginia Democratic circles, said he will not run in the special election to fill the remaining two years of Byrd's term—leaving the field free for Manchin, who as expressed his interest in running.
State lawmakers are meeting in special session to determine when the special election will be held. The regularly scheduled election for a full six-year term takes place in November 2012.
Goodwin served as Manchin's top attorney in the governor's office from 2005 until 2009, after which he went into private practice at his family's Charleston-based law firm.
In accepting the appointment, Goodwin said that "no one can even begin to replace" Byrd, but he will "try my best to emulate his work ethic, his commitment to the law, the Constitution."
Goodwin also said that he would "rely heavily on the guidance and mentorship of" the state's senior senator, Jay Rockefeller, who also attended the press conference.
Goodwin's family has strong ties to Rockefeller, who quipped at the press conference that he has an "inside source" in the family: Goodwin's wife serves as the senator's state director, and his uncle served as one of Rockefeller's top aides when he was governor.
Rockefeller said that after Goodwin is sworn in on Tuesday, he will provide the 60th Senate vote on pending unemployment compensation legislation.
"I think it's a remarkable symbol of who Carte is, how important the Senate is and how unimportant the word 'interim' is," Rockefeller said.
Several hours before the announcement, Rockefeller hosted a lunchtime fundraiser for Majority Leader Harry Reid Friday for the Nevada Democrat's re-election campaign.
The event, scheduled prior to Byrd's June 28 death, was slated to end just before Manchin's press conference to announce the appointment.
As a nod to Byrd's staff, the late senator's state director, Ann Barth, also attended the press conference. Barth was on the short list of possible appointees, along with Manchin ally Nick Casey, the former state party chairman who also attended the press conference.
Meanwhile, the state legislature worked Friday to pass legislation to move the special election to later this year, with a possible special primary held on Aug. 28 and a special general election on Nov. 2, the same day as the regularly scheduled 2010 general election.
After Manchin signs off on the final election schedule, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.) — Republicans' best hope to win the special election –is expected to announce next week whether she will run for the Senate seat.
However in a statement released immediately after Manchin's announcement, Moore Capito described the appointment process "a chaotic and confusing period in our state" and called for a special election election "as soon as possible including either a Primary or General Election" on Nov. 2.
"Based on the person chosen from the rumored field of candidates to fill the U.S. Senate vacancy on an interim basis, it is once again evident that political ambition was the key factor in the selection," Moore Capito said. "Governor Manchin followed the same path as Florida Governor Charlie Crist did last August when he appointed his former staffer for the sole purpose of protecting his own desire to run for the U.S. Senate seat."
If Moore Capito declines to run, West Virginia Republican Party Chairman Doug McKinney said another possible candidate is businessman John Raese, who spent $15 million of his own funds when he ran against Byrd in 2006. McKinney said former Secretary of State Betty Ireland, who has also been mentioned as a possible candidate, "has not shown much interest in it."
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Planck sees the Crab
[cross-posted from Planck UK site]
Last week, the Planck satellite observed the Crab Nebula, also known as M1 from Messier's catalogue, and Tau A to radio astronomers. The Crab Nebula is one of the brightest objects in the sky at radio and sub-mm wavelengths, and is used by many astronomers to calibrate their instruments. It is the remnants of a star which underwent a violent and catastrophic explosion at the end of its life, an event known as a supernova. The Crab Nebula is associated with one of the few supernovae which was observed, as it was seen by Chinese and Arab astronomers in 1054.
Hubble Space Telescope image of the Crab Nebula, showing the colourful nebula and filaments. Image credit: NASA/ESA
After the supernova, the outer layers of the star were scattered widely into a huge cloud of gas, which we now see as a nebula, and is frequently observed by amateur and professional astronomers. The core of the star ended up as a pulsar, a rapidly rotating, magnetised neutron star. However, it is the surrounding nebula that Planck is interested in. The nebula is around 13 lightyears across, which is around 10,000 times larger than our solar system (depending on where you define the edge). It is also relatively close in astonomical terms, at about 6 lightyears distance, and so is also relatively large in terms of astronomical objects see from Earth. It is around 7 arcminutes across, which is 7/60th of a degree, or about 1/4 the diameter of the full moon as seen from Earth. The smallest of Planck's beams on the sky is 5 arcminutes and the largest 30 arcminutes, so to the majority of Planck's detectors the Crab Nebula will have appeared as a "point source" – a single blip in the data. However, it is so bright that it would still be very obvious.
SCUBA image of the Crab Nebula at 350GHz. The colour shows the brightness (blue/black=dark, red/white=bright), and the length og the black lines shows the relative amount of polarisation. Image credit: J.S. Greaves, W.S. Holland & T. Jenness (Joint Astronomy Centre)
Because the central pulsar is magnetised, the Crab Nebula is permeated by a magnetic field. This causes any electrons in the nebula, of which there are many, to spiral around the magnetic field lines and emit radiation known as synchrotron radiation. This radiation, which is brightest at radio wavelengths, but still very strong at Planck frequencies, is polarised, which makes the Crab an ideal object for calibrating the polarisation-sensitive detectors on Planck. Many experiments have observed its polarised radiation, including the SCUBA instrument on the JCMT on Hawaii, which observed it at 350GHz (a wavelength of 850 microns). One of the properties of synchrotron radiation is that it varies in a fairly predictable way with frequency, so it is possible to tell from an observation at one frequency what it will look like at another.
The data will take time to analyse, but will be ingested into the Planck database and used to help calibrate its instruments. The Crab Nebula is not the only calibration source, but is the best single source in the sky for calibrating the polarisation angles. Other non-polarised sources include the planets in our own solar system, particularly Jupiter, which are very bright at Planck's frequencies as well as to the naked eye.
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Planck at the Royal Society
The Planck mission will be represented at this year's Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. This prestigious event, hosted every year at the Royal Society, in London, allows around 20 different groups of scientists to present their work, covering all fields of science. This year, scientists from around the UK working on Planck and Herschel will be presenting an exhibit entitled "From the oldest light to the youngest stars: the Herschel and Planck missions".
The exhibition is completely free to members of the public, and is open from Tuesday 30th June until Saturday 4th July. We will have scale models of Planck and Herschel, and will allow visitors to explore both the Universe and the world around them at different wavelengths. A key attraction should be an infrared camera, which will allow people to have their infrared portrait taken. There will also be an interesting way of viewing the sky at a number of wavelengths, and of course freebies to take away. The stars of the show, though, should be the scientists themselves. We will be there to explain what we are doing with these exciting missions, and to answer all the questions you might want to ask.
So if you're in London on a couple of weeks, pop in to the Royal Society and see the exhibition. With 21 exhibits covering a huge range of groundbreaking research areas there should be something for everyone – and there'll almost certainly be something that grabs your attention that you had no idea existed.
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Tracking Planck and Herschel
As well as the official ESA ground stations which are tracking Planck and Herschel, a group of (mainly) Spanish astronomers have been observing them with optical telescopes. They've also identified a few other pieces of the Ariane 5 upper stage travelling along with them, as well as the Sylda adapter which separated them within the rocket fairing.
Optical observations of Planck, Herschel and the Sylda adapter
On their "Images" page, you can see some light curves – which show how the brightness of the objects varies with time – for Herschel, Planck, Sylda, and a few other fragments. The vertical axis, labelled "R", is the brightness in astronomical units of "magnitudes". For comparison, the faintest stars visible with the naked eye are around magnitude 6, and a higher number means fainter – I'm sure this made sense to Ptolemy and Hipparchus. In fact, the scale is logarithmic, so a magnitude of 17 is about 10,000 Ifainter than magnitude 6, putting them at around the same brightness as a small asteroid or a larger Kuiper Belt Object.
It's interesting to see that Herschel brightens by about 2.5 magnitudes (about a factor of 10) at one point. There is one very plausible explanation for this: the timing coincides pretty much with the orbital manoeuvre which Herschel executed on 18th May, which must have oriented the solar panels to a more favourable angle for reflecting sunlight back to Earth. Planck and the other fragments show smooth gradual declines in brightness over time as they get further from Earth.
So here's where I make a prediction, just as any scientist should. I predict that Sylda and the fragments will eventually fall back to Earth and burn up, so they might brighten a little. They're almost certainly in elliptical orbits so may vary slightly as their distance from Earth changes, and also if they're spinning or tumbling at all. [I've been corrected by Bill Gray (see comment), who informs us that Sylda and the fragments will end up in heliocentric orbits – i.e. orbiting the Sun]. Planck's brightness should stabilise when it reaches its final orbit around L2, as its angle realtive to the Earth and Sun should stay pretty much constant. I predict that Herschel, however, will show slight variations in brightness as it slews to point at various objects around the sky – though it has to keep its solar panels pointed somewhere towards the Sun. Whether the variations will be large enough to observe with telescopes on Earth remains to be seen.
If you want to see how far Planck and Herschel are from Earth, then you can use the JPL Horizons catalogue. It's somewhat self explanatory, but the output can look a little technical. Change the "Target Body" and search for "Herschel" or "Planck". You also have to make sure that the time span covers the range you want. For teh table output, I recommend selecting "Obsrv range and rng rate" and "One-Way Light-Time" – though there are many to choose from (though not all applicable). You can set some of the units in the "optional" section. When you hit "Generate ephemeris" you'll get a table showing the numbers you've requested, and even a table explaining what they all mean. There are a few options if you want to export the results to a file your favourite spreadsheet programme can read, so you can make your own plots. You can play with a few other things too, such as setting the observer location to L2 (by putting "@392" in the "Lookup Named Location" box). It's not certain that the orbital parameters used are exactly what Planck and Herschel will actually use, but they're probably not too far off.
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Planck and Herschel as seen from the ground
As they started on their way to L2, the Planck and Herschel satellites were observed from Earth. The ESA "Optical Ground Station" on Tenerife, which is one of the stations that tracks ESA satellites and monitors their progress, observed them a few hours after launch and made this animation. At this time – around 21:30 GMT on 14 May 2009, just over 8 hours after launch – they were 100,000 km from Earth. That's already a quarter of the distance to the Moon, but only around 1/15th of their final distance from Earth – L2 is 1,500,000 km from Earth. They were also seen by the Faulkes Telescope in Australia. In both images, there are 3 moving dots. The two brighter ones are Herschel and Planck while the fainter one, which is quite close to Planck, is the SYLDA 5 fairing which separated the two spacecraft in the rocket.
Soon the spacecraft will be much, much further away, and much more difficult (if not impossible) to see – at a few metres across they're right on the lower limit of the smallest near-Earth objects observed. Their brightness will primarily be due to the reflectivity of the solar panels. Since these are pointed towards the Sun, and therefore almost at Earth, it might work out now and again as Herschel and Planck move in their orbits. I haven't crunched the numbers to work out if this is possible (exercise for the reader?), but it should certainly be a challenge.
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Cross-posted on Andrew Jaffe's Blog and the Planck Mission Blog.
Planck and Herschel are en route to their orbit at L2!
We were about 7.5 km from the launch, at the "Agami" viewing site. Here is my golden ticket:
We all milled around for half an hour, snapping pictures of friends, eminent scientists, and at least one Nobel prize winner, but it all went silent when they announced the last few minutes before launch. The inevitable 10.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1 and ignition was followed by a still, silent seven or so seconds, and then we saw the smoke and flames.
(Apologies for the poor quality; there were many people there with far more powerful zoom lenses than my meagre 2.5x.)
The rocket then pierced the clouds:
Soon after, the booster rockets separated (which those 200x telephoto lenses could capture), and soon all left to see with the naked eye was the rocket's trail:
For the rest, we had to watch the video feed from the control room, and, about half an hour later we finally heard what we were waiting for: first Herschel, and then Planck, had separated from the rocket and were on their own, off to L2. Four or five hours later, Planck's instruments had been turned on, and the ESA team in Darmstadt was monitoring their progress. There's a lot going on now, but we won't have anything like scientific data for two or three months — and then our work is cut out for us.
Huge thanks to the instrument teams for their hard work for more than the last decade. Soon, the hard part for us scientists and data-analysts begins: four or so years of data coming down from the satellite, being cleaned and calibrated, building and rebuilding our (computer) model of the instrument, letting us build and rebuild our models of the Universe.
Thanks also to the HFI Instrument Principle Investigator and co-PI, Jean-Loup Puget and Francois Bouchet (and especially Hélène Blavot) for arranging this extraordinary opportunity for us scientists to see this part of the fruits of our work.
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Launch Blog — Day 2: Rollout
Today we saw the rollout of the gargantuan Planck/Herschel Ariane 5 rocket, when they move it from its assembly building to the launchpad. Spectacular!
There are plenty more pictures, and some movies, which I'll try to edit and post shortly. At the end of the day, I was interviewed and inadvertently kidnapped by Chris Lintott and the BBC Sky at Night team. But I am here to tell the tale (and better fed for it) and ready for the — very — big day tomorrow.
Live coverage of the launch, scheduled for 2:13pm on 14 May, at:
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/herschelplanck/SEM9V3ZVNUF_0.html
http://www.videocorner.tv/videocorner2/live_flv/index.php?langue=en
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Launch blog — day 1
Cross-posted from Andrew Jaffe's Blog and the Planck Mission Blog
Today was spent in Cayenne — the capital of French Guiana, where most of the hotels are located, and Kourou — home of ESA'a Centre Spatial Guianaise. We climbed up a nearby peak for a look over the Spaceport, but mostly we saw hand-sized spiders and a hazy view of what some very large if indistinct structures.
Closer up, we (about a hundred scientists, obviously more than the ESA staff were used to) got a tour of the facilities, starting in the "Jupiter II" control room where the launch will actually be, um, controlled:
We also saw the launch sites for the Vega and Soyuz rockets, and of course for our own Ariane 5:
But better will be tomorrow, when we get to see the rocket — our rocket — rolled the few kilometers from its current building to the pad in preparation for Thursday's (hoped-for) launch.
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Pre-launch blitz
Cross-posted from Andrew Jaffe's Blog:
With less than a week to go before its planned launch, The Planck Surveyor Satellite has been loaded into the fairing of its Ariane 5 rocket along with its sister satellite, Herschel. It is scheduled to be rolled out to the pad on May 13, and the launch window opens on May 14 at 13:12 GMT. Within three months, it will be at the Lagrange 2 (L2) point, from where it can watch the sky with the Sun, Earth and Moon all comfortably shielded from view.
Once there, Planck will scan the sky for at least 14 months. But don't expect to see much out of the mouths (or blogs, or printers) of Planck scientists for a while: we've got a full year thereafter to analyze the data, followed by a year's "proprietary period" during which we'll do our best to extract the most exciting science. But until then — the first rule of Planck is: you do not talk about Planck. The second rule of Planck is: you DO NOT talk about Planck. (Luckily, Herschel expects to release its pictures of the infrared and submillimetre universe much more quickly.)
For now, the European Space Agency, the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council, and of course us Planck scientists ourselves have been gearing up both for the scientific data — and the press.
ESA has a Herschel and Planck launch campaign page with a nifty live countdown (which users of Apple's Safari browser can make a dashboard widget out of). Last week, STFC held a pre-launch press event in London, which got us some coverage in The Independent, The Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Times, as well as BBC Radio and TV news. (And Sky at Night will have coverage from the launch.)
We've also been covered in New Scientist (complete with always-exciting quotes from me).
If this media saturation isn't enough, you can check out the page dedicated to Planck in the UK, Follow Planck on Twitter (and Herschel too), read the Planck Mission Blog (there's one for Herschel, too).
As for me, I'm taking a break from this term's teaching — off to French Guiana next week for the launch (barring further delays). For those of you less lucky, it will be visible on satellite tv and streamed by ESA. I'll do my best to keep up the twittering and blogging, probably cross-posting from here to the Planck Mission Blog. Wish us luck!
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According to New Scientist…
Planck (and Herschel) are 'space science as it used to be: big and bold – and risky. Not for decades has there been so much riding on a rocket launch, literally and metaphorically.'
This makes me feel rather proud for us to be working in such a grand tradition. It's also scary to hear that 'if we lose Herschel and Planck, the heart of ESA's – and arguably the world's – space science programme would be ripped out..'
Read the rest of the article here.
(And thanks to the person who tipped me off to this article!).
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Planck is in the Launch Vehicle!
New pictures from ESA show Planck installed in the Arianne 5 rocket that will send it into space.
Planck being lifted onto the rocket
Planck in the launch vehicle
This will be almost the last time we see Planck before it launches!
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Have metal detector if you lose anything.
That's way cool of you!
I'm pretty sure there will be great service there as well.
It doesn't have to be that difficult. lol Just click on visitor posts on this page. https://www.facebook.com/pg/dumontduneriders/posts/?ref=page_internal They were both iphones. Can't tell if it's new or sparkly. No mustard was turned in.
What up Joey! Long time no see for sure. Good to hear from you. Seems these ATCs are getting harder and harder to find for cheap, but I'll keep my eyes open for ya. BTW, do want me to merge this new account with your old one but keep your new name and password?
Thanks There were 2 reported to our Facebook page on Saturday. I told them to post them here on the Lost/Found section but they didn't. I don't think people understand that nobody sees posts to a page on FB. FB doesn't even let me share those posts to our feed anymore. Just another reason to hate FB.
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As another season comes to a close, volunteers joined forces with the BLM to make Dumont a cleaner place. Friends of Dumont Dunes president, Jason Ardenski, recently injured his knee and was unable to put in his usual hard work and amazing efforts. It was looking like the cleanup event might not even happen this year until a few key people stepped in. FoDD Vice president, Heather N Siders, and Jimmy Lynn of Lynn Construction catered lunch for everyone who came out. The Barstow BLM made sure there was a large dumpster as well as trash bags, gloves, and the usual items needed to clean up. 130 volunteers signed up to help clean up the dunes. While the dunes seemed to be a bit cleaner this year, some of the camps and high traffic areas became much less littered with debris and a good haul of trash was brought in. A huge thank you goes out to everyone involved this year.
We got in on Thursday night. Friday started as a relaxing day in the sun, riding the ATC70's all over the place. Then it was time for a buggy run. We met Theron, Gary, and Greg at the South Pole and left from there. We probably should had gone out earlier. The shadows were short and the dunes were extremely bright! We headed back and played on the 70's some more. haha Once Ben arrived we headed back out. The dunes have already started shifting from the recent spring winds. I chose a line along a ridge that I have taken several times before and came up on quite the surprise. There was a HUGE hole/ trench along the dune. I slammed on the brakes, drove right into it, and kissed the nose of the car on the backside of the hole. We managed to hit it rather softly, but if we came ripping any faster and I didn't hit the brakes, it would have been ugly. I took a couple pics from multiple angles to try and show how big it was. Back at camp... On our earlier ATC ride, dentboy lost his phone. Using his wife's phone to track it, we found it laying in the sand. Watching the hockey game Friday night Saturday...cleanup day. BLM and FoDD got 130 volunteers. Jimmy & Heather did a great job with lunch and the event was successful. Many thanks to everyone who helped volunteer. Some drone pics by Ben The Saturday dune run was great. We had a nice, big group. Anna and I drove out to check out the work on the cell tower. Many cement trucks were coming in. They were running loads of cement up to the top of the hill with loaders. Then @EY3BA11 and I took the two wheelers out. The sand was nice and felt to rip around. Back at camp...lazy time! Then more duning! Then on the way back, @rick10 had an unfortunate accident and rolled. With a little help from everyone in the group, we managed to get him back after the left front wheel broke off. Luckily he wasn't injured and he ended up being in good spirits after the initial shock wore off. Then just as we got back to camp, we got word that ANOTHER one in our group rolled the next dune over. wtf! When we got back to camp, we saw the helicopter fly over and a CHP & ambulance along the finger dune. Apparently a little earlier, a kid came up short while airing it on out on a dirtbike and broke his ankles and femur. Ouch! There were some dune gremlins out that afternoon for sure! We had some dinner and watched Supercross was a super lazy day. We enjoyed the nice warm weather, packed it up for the season and headed home. out Dumont! See ya in October.
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Q: How should I learn maths? I am 17 now and I have several questions to you. To let you better answer my questions I think I should tell more about me. I am pretty good at maths at school(but I often make silly mistakes thats why I am not scoring only 5 <- that's the best mark in my country) I am quite good at school level but I really suck at competitions. My teacher makes me feel like I am not worth her attention and she is spending more time with students that are better than me thus making me feel like I am useless.
  Here are my questions:

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*Is math just really hard work and that's only thing I need to do?

*I want to start solving exercises from school. Should I start from beggining of my book or from the point I am currently on in school? Or maybe I should solve problems from competitions( even if they are way to hard for me)

*Should I consider making silly mistakes a big problem? How can I fight with it because I am really annoyed that I am getting a lot of 4s instead of 5s.

A: 1 - The one things every great mathematicians have in common is their dedications to maths. Surely it takes some sort of genius to be able to be at the top level, but even the more gifted person at maths will never achieve anything if he/she doesn't put full effort into it.
2 - My advice would be to try and solve exercices of your level, and when I say solve, I mean perfectly solve. When I was younger I had intuition for maths, it appearred easy to me so I never really put the effort to be rigourous in my answer. While it might be ok if you're young, sooner or later you'll have to be dead on on your answer or you won't get full points. The sooner you start good habits, the better !
3 - First off, everyone does silly mistake. But there are ways to limit them to a minimum. One great simple technique I use is to recheck everything I write at the end of an exam. Hear me here, you don't only read what you just wrote, you redo the math aside and check if you get the same answer as before. If you find yourself lacking the time to do so, reading what you wrote can help you catch silly mistakes too.
Now for a couple of personal advices :
Maths is a vast, VAST, ocean. People spend their life studying it only to cover a small portion of it. You, got, time. Don't rush it.
Basics, basics, basics. There's a lot of cool stuff in maths and it's easy to find something cool like fractals and whatnot and try to understand it, but if you really want to learn something, you have to know everything that comes before it. If you read a definition and there is a word there that you don't know, just stop and go learn what that word mean, ignoring it is the recipe for disaster.
If you like competition, feel free to do it. But remember, maths is fun and ultimately it is about you understanding it, not how other perform.
It is better to get every single point for half the question, than half points for every questions.
Hope you have fun on your math trip mate =)

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Have fun with it: Try to think up (relatively simple) problems that seems right on the border of what you think you are able to solve... You'll most likely need to learn some new techniques in order to solve the problem, and that's a great way of learning math! A famous mathematician, John Conway, very much has this approach to doing research (much of his most important work comes from him considering games).
The silly mistakes don't matter so much outside of competition math (and competition math doesn't really matter) - real math is about thinking abstractly and creatively; the algebra skills will come with practice, and your mistakes should become rarer.
And as has been said in the comments, don't worry about the scores. It seems like some of your motivation for doing math comes form a desire to be validated (which is perfectly natural, mind you!), but try to instead steer your mindset toward just enjoying math for the crazily beautiful and mysterious subject it is; enjoy the thrill of discovery, enjoy wondering about the deep structures of numbers, algebras, geometric objects, etc., and enjoy bettering yourself. Becoming good at something in life often gives a sense of confidence, which (partly, at least) makes the desire to receive validation and admiration from others less important.
Good luck!

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Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her, so when Xander appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate--until Ky Markham's face appears for an instant before the screen fades to black.


Bethesda has confirmed the production of The Elder Scrolls 6 but since E3, we haven't got much information about the game including its subtitle or the region it is based on.
It's known that the game will not be releasing anytime time soon which made everyone think about how much it has progressed in the terms of development. Thanks to Todd Howard, we now at least know that the region of the game has been decided.
Recently at Spanish conference Gamelab, Todd Howard revealed that the team has decided the region of The Elder Scrolls 6 and it was decided a while ago. He was then asked about whether we can guess the location from its trailer or not which he replied to by saying that we can but we also can't because it has been done intentionally. You can add or exclude some things from it, Howard said.
Todd Howard mentioned that it's the first thing they do when they start working on a game so they know it for a while where it's been set.
Todd Howard also discussed that they are going to do Elder Scrolls 6 but they have other projects in mind which includes Fallout 76, Starfield and Blades which is a mobile game. They wanted to make sure everyone knows what's coming and its order but except the years of release.
As for regions, we can't do more than to speculate or theorize about the region we might be getting in the Elder Scrolls 6. Do check out the potential Elder Scrolls 6 locations here which includes Valenwood, High Rock and more.
Also, there's no multiplayer in Elder Scrolls 6 and it's a complete single player experience unlike the Fallout 76. Elder Scrolls 6 is in production and will release after Starfield which is in early development.
Do you know what this region is? Can you guess it from the trailer? Do share it with us in the comments below.


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By Lydia Thurlow-12 August 2019 10:33am
The marketing sector can be a complicated place as new marketing tools and techniques are launched, almost on a weekly basis. Powered by The Drum Network, this regular column invites The Drum Network's members to demystify the marketing trade and offer expert insight and opinion on what is happening in the marketing industry today that can help your business tomorrow.
Social media marketing has entered an era where customers are increasingly expecting authentic, personalised experiences from the brands they love and trust. This is why it is more important than ever for consumer-focused organisations to concentrate on effective new methods of generating and retaining customer loyalty.
One such method is the 'Top Fans' feature which Facebook has recently developed. If a Facebook page has more than 10,000 likes, users can become eligible for a Top Fan Badge by being one of the most active users of the page. Those who qualify will have a badge next to their name when interacting with the page's content.
It was back in March 2018 that Facebook tested the feature, and it proved to be a success among both creators and fans, so last month they announced they were going to roll it out more broadly.
The feature has now evolved in a way that enables the page's admin to create posts destined exclusively for their 'top fans.'
For community managers, this feature is extremely beneficial for three key reasons: not only does it mean loyal advocates are now much more easily identifiable, it also provides an exciting alternative means of sharing exclusive content. This then has the potential to significantly increase activity and interaction, which in turn could considerably expand organic reach.
Why is it valuable?
Advocacy is born from a customer's enthusiasm for the brand as a whole. Promotional activities, reputation and previous experience all play a part in how the brand is perceived. Getting the combination right has the power to convert passing visitors into loyal advocates. At its most simple level, offering validation in the form of a badge is valuable because it automatically recognises and reinforces fans' continued interaction.
Maximising advocacy
However, while it is valuable for brands to be able to identify their fans, it's not enough to rely on the reward-gratification effect for heightened engagement. Enabling brands to target their most passionate fans essentially provides a golden opportunity to maximise organic engagement in an authentic and personalised way. Done effectively, exclusive content which thanks Top Fans for their loyalty can only encourage further interaction and foster positive association with the brand.
This can be put into motion in a number of ways, whether through direct messages which say thank you with a discount to a product, or even rewarding top fans with free downloads, tickets and merchandise. The important thing is that it is executed with careful thought and intention, in a way that communicates the brand's tone of voice and its core pillars. Along with myriad technological tools that identify and understand the customer's individual needs, it's important not to lose sight of the essential value of relationships at the brand's core. There must be an empathetic consciousness behind the utilisation of these resources.
Enhancing brand community
Ultimately, the aim should be to bolster an emotional bond with the brand and anything to reinforce this will only help in building brand advocacy and boost organic engagement. While this feature assists in identifying loyal fans and encourages their engagement, it also acts as an incentive to those who aren't yet Top Fans, articulating the value of becoming part of an exclusive advocate community.
Since relationships are valued more highly than transactions, building genuine connections must come first. Sprout Social found that 86% of consumers seek authenticity when deciding which brands to support. Authenticity on social can be achieved through proactive listening and attentive monitoring of the social content, which resonates with their target audience, and this can be done even more precisely with the introduction of this feature. At the core of advocacy is a sense of belonging. In its various ways, this feature is important because it allows brands to show that their customers are heard, valued and feel part of an exclusive community of advocates with a shared passion.
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If you don't want to go for store-bought shampoos but rather opt for a homemade shampoo for your darling cat, this CatAppy article will give you easy recipes for exactly that.
Even though homemade cat shampoos list essential oils as one of its key ingredients, it is generally considered harmful for the cat, and the use of the same is discouraged.
All those hours that cats spend taking their tongues to their body for cleaning and preening does most often excuse them from having to take baths... most often. Then of course, there are times when kitty dearest waltzes in with so much muck and grease on her fur that there is no other option but to lead her into the tub. Yes, cats are known to pride themselves in keeping their fur spotlessly clean, but sometimes, just sometimes, they need a little help; and while most pet owners support the fact that bathing cats regularly is a big no-no, and understand the fact that cats absolutely abhor taking baths; sometimes, it's the only option left.
Of course, your bath must have a shampoo meant specially for the cat, and if you've ever read the ingredients on those shampoos, you will notice that most of these are laden with chemicals. Which is what brings us to the important matter at hand―homemade cat shampoo recipes. Knowing that your cat is constantly cleaning itself, leaving all those chemicals sticking to the fur is simply asking the cat to ingest them. The safest and easiest way to deal with this conundrum is to make your own shampoo using homemade products. And that is exactly what this CatAppy article will provide for you―simple and safe cat shampoo recipes that you can prepare at home.
Since we're all too aware of the fact that cats loathe the idea of being anywhere near water, there are other options that can be availed of―using a natural oatmeal shampoo for cats, for example. This is a dry shampoo, which means that the cat will not have to be anywhere near water and you'll get your job done.
Mix all the ingredients together in the container.
Place the container into a microwave and warm the mixture for 10 seconds, keeping the settings on low.
Let the powder stay for about 5-10 minutes.
Use the powder by rubbing it onto your cat's fur and all the way down to the skin.
Finally, using a wide-toothed brush, gently brush out the powder from the fur.
The powder will not only clean all the dirt, dust, and dander stuck to the cat's fur and skin, but will also lend the coat a great shine.
In case the cat's fur is afflicted with grease, or there is dander entangled in the coat, then it is recommended that you bathe your cat. The following shampoo recipes are recommended for itchy skin and to get rid of fleas in cats.
Mix all these ingredients together and blend them well enough.
Store the extra mixture in a bottle.
First, wash the surface dirt and dust by pouring warm water on the cat.
Next, use the shampoo and rub gently and thoroughly into the cat's fur.
Make sure you take it all the way to the skin as well.
Wash off the shampoo using warm water and continue pouring the water till the fur has been thoroughly cleaned.
Pour the water in a container and mix the liquid soap and vinegar in it.
Store the excess mixture in an airtight bottle.
Start off by pouring warm water on the cat to get rid of the surface dirt and dust.
Next, use the shampoo and scrub the cat's fur gently, but thoroughly.
Make sure that you shampoo till the skin.
After you're done shampooing the cat, clean off the shampoo with water.
Make sure that all the shampoo residue has been scrubbed clean off the cat.
Even though the bristles on a cat's tongue act as a natural brush that clean dust, dander, and dirt from the fur and skin, it is sometimes necessary to bathe your cat as well. For times like these, these homemade shampoos made with natural ingredients will definitely come in handy.