On September 18, 2006, aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper turned a crank and gave millions of bacteria an impromptu bath. She was holding a carefully sealed device composed of several glass barrels, each containing separate fluids that could be mixed at will. Carefully, she dunked some dormant bacteria into a nutritious broth that allowed them to grow, change and multiply. At the same time, scientists under the supervision of Cheryl Nickerson turned a similar crank in a room at Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, Florida, designed to mimic the Shuttle's temperature and humidity. The scientists synchronised their efforts via real-time radio communication.
The co-ordinated experiment was a groundbreaking one: it demonstrated that bacteria turn into superbugs in the gravity-free environment of space, gathering together, gaining strength and becoming much more effective at causing disease.
Science-fiction stories such as The Andromeda Strain love to play on the potential threat of alien infections, but earthly germs pose a far greater danger to human beings. With infectious powers bolstered by zero gravity, bacteria represent a significant risk to the health of space-faring humans, and it's a problem that an agency such as Nasa will have to crack if it is to send astronauts on longer missions. Nasa has been taking the problem seriously -- the Atlantis experiment was just part of a larger research programme in space bacteria. By observing how bacteria react to the extreme environment of space, its researchers hope to learn more about how they behave in the human body. "It gives us a new handle on how to develop new ways of treating, preventing or diagnosing infectious diseases," says Nickerson, a feisty 49-year-old professor at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute who is at the heart of the research and specialises in infectious bacteria and how they cause diseases. In an animated, south-western lilt, she explains her simple yet ambitious goals. "The bugs are winning the war. We always have to stay a step ahead." She slaps her hand on the desk to stress the importance of every word. "It's unacceptable that infectious diseases are the leading cause of death in young adults and children worldwide. We can do better and will do better."
She wants nothing less than to find the next big weapons against infectious diseases.
Cheryl Nickerson's interest in public health took a cosmological slant thanks to an old friendship. During her time as a PhD student at Louisiana State University, she met another student called Mark Ott. The two struck up a long-lasting alliance. Ott, who had a background in chemical engineering, taught Nickerson how to think mechanically and mathematically, while she taught him about genes and bacteria. From Louisiana, their paths separated. Ott took a position at Nasa's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where he monitors bacterial contamination in the air and water of the Shuttle and the International Space Station (ISS). Nickerson developed an interest in disease-causing bacteria, particularly salmonella, responsible for millions of cases of food poisoning, typhoid and other illnesses every year.
Their paths crossed during a phone conversation in May 1998, when Ott mentioned that space travel weakens astronauts' immune system. To Nickerson, this was only half the equation: no one knew whether infectious bacteria would change in space too. An astronaut's defences may be compromised, but what happens to their attackers?
From ballooning experiments in 1935, to the Sputnik satellites and Gemini spacecraft of the 50s and 60s, and on to the Mir, Apollo and Skylab programmes of the 80s and 90s, both Russia and the US have flown bacteria into space. Aboard these craft, bacteria were found to grow more quickly, become more resistant to antibiotics, and swap genes between one another more readily. But no one had tested their virulence -- the ability to cause disease. Nickerson saw the potential. "I asked Mark one of the more stupid questions I've ever asked," she says. "'Well, when can we fly an experiment in space?
We have to test this! Can we fly right now?' He paused, took a deep breath and said, 'It doesn't quite work that way.'"
Ott began by introducing Nickerson to colleagues at Nasa. They included Duane Pierson, a microbiologist who was starting to consider the effects of space flight on bacteria. "We got Cheryl started on that about 12 years ago," he recalls, speaking from the Johnson Space Center in Houston. "She's our real success story.
Extremely dynamic, energetic and very smart."
Nickerson started building a case for sending bacteria into space, by working out if they become more virulent in microgravity.
On Earth, you cannot very well switch gravity off, but Nickerson and Ott did the next best thing -- they placed salmonella in special vats called rotating-wall vessels (RWVs). The rapidly spinning walls subject cells to conditions akin to freefall. The bacteria changed dramatically, becoming tougher to kill and more virulent. By 2002, Nickerson had the evidence she sought. She proved that there was a need for actual experiments in true microgravity.
So it was that, in September 2006, Stefanshyn-Piper submerged millions of Salmonella typhimurium into a nourishing liquid aboard the Atlantis. A day later, she turned a second handle and flooded the bacteria with a fixative, preserving their cells and genes for the journey home. Back on Earth, Nickerson compared these microbes to counterparts that had been treated the same way in gravity-normal Orlando.
The results were remarkable: the bacteria from the Shuttle had become more virulent. They killed half the infected mice at a third of the dose and in five fewer days than their Earthbound peers did.
When Nickerson peeked at the cells under a microscope, she saw that they had not changed in size or shape. Instead, they had become better at forming biofilms -- the bacterial equivalent of cities.
In these communities, bacteria gather in large numbers, protected by a network of substances that they secrete.
The scale of these changes surprised Nasa experts. Neal Pellis, a senior scientist at Nasa's Space Life Sciences Directorate, says: "It's not something that you'd easily predict. Bacteria live in an environment where gravity has been constant for their entire existence and evolution." Pellis does not want to rule out the possibility that bacteria might have a gravity-sensing structure, but he thinks it is more likely that they are responding to other changes in their environment.
Cells in a flask experience very different forces when they leave the planet's atmosphere. In space, the convection currents that circulate the surrounding fluid vanish and the cells experience far less force from liquid passing over their surface, a quantity known as "fluid shear". Nickerson thinks these conditions mimic the spaces that bacteria are best adapted to: the guts, airways and urinary tract of their hosts. "Many of these conditions are relevant to what bacteria encounter on a daily basis in our bodies here on Earth," Nickerson says. When salmonella moves from the fast-flowing centre of the gut to the sheltered slow lanes of the bowel walls, fluid shear also falls. This changing force provides a signal that tells the bacteria to initiate their virulence programmes. Space travel simply tricks bacteria into responding as if they were in their hosts.
The result is a dramatic molecular makeover. When Nickerson analysed the genomes of her space-faring salmonella, she found that their disease-causing abilities were triggered by changes in the activity of 167 genes. Key to these changes is a protein called Hfq, a master switch that governs the network of active genes.
Genes contain instructions for producing proteins and, when activated, these instructions are first transcribed into a related molecule called RNA. Hfq escorts these transcripts around the cell, influencing which of them will go on to produce proteins. It is both chaperone and overseer.
Nickerson found that Hfq becomes far less active in space-faring salmonella. As a result, some of the genes it controls are switched off while others are switched on, including those involved in forming biofilms and responding to harsh environments.
Nickerson confirmed the importance of Hfq by going back to the RWVs and lacing them with mutant salmonella that lacked this essential protein. Sure enough, the bacteria without Hfq never developed the hardiness and virulence common to normal ones.
Nickerson is very excited about Hfq, for it is not unique to salmonella: it lords over the genes of a wide variety of living things and has changed very little through the course of evolution.
Indeed, Nickerson will soon publish evidence that Hfq controls the virulence of two other infectious microbes in space -- Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common bacterium that causes inflammation and blood poisoning, and Candida albicans, the fungus that causes thrush. "The evolutionarily conserved master switch gives us a target to look at," she says. Drugs or vaccines that hit Hfq could act as weapons against many infectious diseases.
To Nickerson, these benefits are still a long way off -- "We're too early for a pill in a box," she says -- but Hfq is a valuable lead. First, Nickerson has to tease apart the ways in which the master switch controls a bacterium's transformation. In the meantime, Hfq's widespread effects could have immediate implications for astronauts' health: many microbes react to space flight in the same way that space-travelling humans will face souped-up versions of a wide range of infections. To make matters worse, bacteria could hardly have an easier time of finding new hosts than in the confines of a Shuttle or a space station. "The crew is in a closed environment," Nickerson says, "and there's no effective way of quarantining anything if there should be an infectious disease." Everyone is in very close contact. The same air and water circulates through the quarters. Mucus or cough droplets that would normally land can hang in the air indefinitely.
And many missions involve international crews, each bringing native microbes from their corner of the world.
Once bacteria find a new host, they also encounter weaker defences because space flight compromises the human immune system.
Our defence force -- white blood cells -- fails to activate properly against incoming threats. And those that do respond are ineffective shadows of themselves. "If you put that all together, it suggests that the risk is real and should be seriously considered when planning future extended space-flight missions," Nickerson says. Treating a sick astronaut is no easy matter, especially when flights contain neither doctors nor diagnostic equipment. "You've got astronauts up there going 28,000kph," Pierson says. "They call up a physician on the ground and they say, 'My tummy hurts.' You're going by symptoms, there's no laboratory confirmation at all." Antibiotics are the first line of defence, but against space-induced superbugs there is no guarantee they'll work. "Some bacteria exhibit increased antibiotic resistance in flight so extreme that you couldn't treat astronauts with levels of antibiotics that high,"
Nickerson says. "It would be toxic to them."
This increased risk took its toll in many early space missions.
Around half of all Apollo astronauts took ill either during their flight or immediately upon return to Earth. During the fateful Apollo 13 mission, Fred Haise became feverish with a urinary infection triggered by P. aeruginosa, one of the stars of Nickerson's experiments. This bacterium tends to cause problems for people with weak immune systems. Astronauts fit the bill. "He was critically ill," Nickerson says. "Had Apollo 13 not gotten back when it did, even a day later, it could have been a very different outcome."
After the Apollo missions, Nasa created strict screening to prevent astronauts picking up infections. Surfaces are thoroughly cleaned and food checked closely. "We do an excruciating amount of monitoring of the crew environment," says Ott, who leads many of the checks. Despite intense cleaning, Ott found dirty globules of water floating in the Mir space station, harbouring fungi, bacteria, mites and parasites. Food products often contain bacteria such as salmonella and Staphylococcus aureus. "If we find something bad, we pull that lot," says Ott. "You think, 'Great, I've eliminated that possibility,' but you haven't, because you've only done random sampling."
The astronauts themselves have thorough check-ups, spending ten days in quarantine before flying. The procedures prevent fresh infections and spot any major threats, such as MRSA or tuberculosis. Bu they do nothing about the many microbes hidden in our bodies whose cells outnumber our own ten times over. Many of these passengers are benign and even necessary, but some cause disease when our defences falter. Staphylococcus aureus is one such bacterium, and according to Pierson it lurks in around 40 percent of crew members. "There are no sterile humans.
Wherever we go, they go," says Nickerson. She is studying these hitch-hikers to learn if space flight could unleash their darker side. Nor can medical screening pick up dormant infections lurking within our cells. Chickenpox, for example, is caused by Varicella zoster virus. Even after the spots have cleared, the viruses invade nerve cells and sit unnoticed for decades. "Every time they raise their head, the immune system bops 'em. If the immune system is down, there's no gatekeeper -- the virus pops out and causes shingles," says Pierson. Weakened immune systems are a hazard of space flight.
Pierson has led the way on these discoveries. "Varicella is very rare in normal healthy people," he says, "but in astronauts, you'll find it in their saliva, all through the mission. This is an intact, infectious virus." The same applies to other viruses from the herpes family, which have a habit of becoming permanent stowaways. Compared to people on the ground, astronauts will shed ten times as much Epstein-Barr virus, a herpes virus that causes glandular fever, autoimmune diseases and some cancers.
It is no surprise then that, despite many safety measures and the peak physical condition of the crews, some fall sick. Over 106 Shuttle flights, there have been 29 recorded infections, whether viral, bacterial or fungal. Based on those statistics, crew members stand a one-in-25 chance of falling ill. Fortunately, the infections are usually minor and manageable. "As it stands, we don't have a recurrent problem with infections," Pellis says.
Indeed, in an assessment last year, Nasa concluded that flights of up to six months do not pose significant risks to astronauts.
Longer missions are a different story. Nasa still intends to launch trips to the Moon and Mars within the next decade, and that would change things dramatically. "It's a six-month trip to Mars and it's about that long back, too," says Pierson. "If you had an emergency on the way... [he pauses and chuckles]... it's going to be tough to manage, right? Those are our pretty big challenges."
The need for countermeasures is clear, and the search is well and truly on. Pierson says that anything that relieves stress could help, including exercise, decent sleep and even something as simple as chatting to friends and family. Some scientists are trying to reinforce the immune system using dietary supplements, testing everything from nucleotides -- the chemicals that make up DNA -- to compounds sourced from plants and fungi.
Meanwhile, Nickerson is looking for ways of controlling bacteria themselves. Hfq offers one possible route, and she has other promising leads. In March 2008, she sent more salmonella into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, repeating her Atlantis experiment to check that it wasn't a one-off. "We nailed it," she says. "Salmonella again was more virulent -- it was even hotter than the first time we flew it." But this time she managed to prevent that transformation by raising the levels of just five salts in the bacteria's broth. "We altered the ion levels and -- guess what! -- we completely shut down the virulence of salmonella."
Based on follow-up experiments with the RWVs, Nickerson thinks that phosphate is particularly important for keeping salmonella in check. For now, she does not know why, although previous studies have suggested that phosphate ions could affect the activity of Hfq. If phosphate ions are the cause, food supplements could be designed to ward off infections. Nickerson thinks it might be even easier to tweak the content of the astronauts' diets. "If you had a way of pre-treating your food with a different combination of ions, the virulence potential of any salmonella could be inactivated," she says.
Other insights are sure to follow. Her data on P. aeruginosa and C. albicans -- the other stars of her Atlantis experiments - will be published soon. She is developing more 3D facsimiles of human tissues to pit against bacteria for a more realistic look at the infection process. And last April she launched another experiment aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, the first to pit human cells against salmonella in space.
That will be her fifth space experiment. "At the bench, every single day you're doing a new experiment to follow up on an observation you've made the day before. That's just not possible at the moment with space flight. We've been privileged to fly on Shuttle experiments, but there's been a one-to-two-year gap between each one. That makes it hard to advance your hypotheses as much as you would like."
The flights themselves are expensive and the crew have other priorities. On a two-week Shuttle flight, the crew has five minutes available for an experiment. Astronauts on the ISS are less constrained, but their time is still precious. The equipment lags behind standard lab technology, limited as it is in weight, bulk and power supply. Nickerson wants better. She is working with hardware designers to fit out the ISS with a more advanced generation of flight equipment.
She is also stoking interest within the commercial space flight sector to make regular space experiments a reality. In October last year, she presented her research at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Space flight at New Mexico. Her pitch was simple: sending bacteria into space tells us more about how they behave on the ground, which will lead to new patentable strategies for fighting infectious disease. In the US alone, salmonella causes at least 1.4 million infections every year, leading to 15,000 hospitalisations and 580 deaths, soaking up around $3 billion.
That's one infection. "This is going to be bigger than salmonella," says Nickerson, "which is unveiling responses that will help us with other pathogens."
The talk went well. "I spoke to a lot of entrepreneurs who are very excited about using their capabilities to fund and fly research in space on a continuing basis," she says. She has confirmed interest from some big players. "You had people there like Robert Bigelow, Elon Musk, Sir Richard Branson...these are the players who are actually looking to advance this frontier."
But not everyone sees the same potential. "I've been told that the research will produce absolutely no novel insight. I've been told that this is ludicrous, that this is a waste of time," she recalls with weariness but good humour. "If you make discoveries that are on the cutting edge, then you'd better be ready to hear that your work is heresy. I know we're doing darn good research.
Hearing no is just going to make me more determined."
Nickerson points out that many of the biggest discoveries in biology have come from putting living things in extreme environments. Kerry Mullis studied a bacterium that lives in hot undersea vents and found an enzyme that could create pieces of DNA at high temperatures. The enzyme was the basis of the polymerase chain reaction, a technique that revolutionised biology and earned Mullis a Nobel Prize. Barry Marshall showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori could thrive in the extreme acid of the stomach, and that it caused stomach ulcers. He too earned a Nobel Prize for his work. "Every time we push living systems to survive, respond and adapt to extreme environments, we acquire novel insight about these cells. And we've been able to take that knowledge and translate it into new drugs or technologies or products," Nickerson says. "I've had colleagues ask me why I would use the space flight to research infectious diseases. I think, 'Why in the world would you not have thought of doing that?' Space is the next logical extreme environment to look at."


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Q: How to update a remote ms access database? i need to create a webapp to show and allow editing for a set of data.
This data is contained in an Access Database file, used by another application (a desktop application).
I'm evaluating the best way to carry out this job.
Unfortunatly my purpose to migrate to another database solution (rdbms such as MySQL or Postgres) was rejected by the customer.
The issue here is how to keep data integrity and syncronized between the server and the desktop that executes the application that also uses this data.
All I need to do is, read data, store edited or new data, give to authorized users an interface to review this new inserted data -thus validating it-, and import this to the original access database.
I've found the following possible solutions (to update the desktop mdb copy), but each of them has pros and cons:

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*remote access to the windows machine

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*exposes the machine to unauthorized access

*use rsync to keep files syncronized (once a day)

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*if the mdb on the client has been edited with the desktop application there will be data loss

*can be update only when all data has been validated

*there won't be real syncronized data (until rsync will run)

*client-server applications

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*can use secure layers to protect data against attackers

*a 3rd application (on the desktop) is required

*syncronization requires authorized users to use this 3rd application to import data (that will query the remote db and update the local mdb)

Do you know some other way that could help me to get this done?
I'm oriented on the client-server model, also if this would be more expensive, but it's the only way I see to make this work.
Do you see some other pros/cons of the purposed solution?
I didn't choose the PL to develop this, but I was thinking to use either PHP and/or Python.
The remote environment (for the server) can either be Windows or *nix (preferred).
Thanks.

A: The first idea:

exposes the machine to unauthorized access

This is not really a valid argument. Everything you put on the Internet is exposed. An it is not like it cannot be further protected via SSL/TLS. Even RDP can be secured via a SSH tunnel, for example.
To my mind, the easiest way and most elegant way to do is by using web services (SOAP). Write the server code that  does inserts/updates on the Access database with something like a Python or Java. Generate a WSDL from the working code. From the WSDL you can generate a client for PHP/Python. Now all you have to do is to write the web interface that uses the PHP/Python client.
For security using SSL and Basic authentication should be enough (supported by SOAPpy in the case of Python, for example).
You can use pyodbc to connect to the Access database.

A: well you can use 2 db and syncronize changes with a sort of web service between them.
seperating web server Db (which you could use a modern mysql or whatever) and the current access Db
You should build a sort of a Rest Api returning new or changed records against GET method, Deleting against DELETE method etc. using a timestamp in the http method.
and then you could query at each side with a scheduled job for new records at the other side (transferring with json) resulting in keeping the records relatively insync.
You could take care of security with exposing the application db only in a certain port and only to http queries coming from the webapp server ip address. also using http auth, hashes etc..
if this isn't a heavy load, high concurrency app (which I guess it isn't since you use access as a Db) this should work.
you could build this kind of mini-api with any python webframework like turbogears 2.1,django or the mini frameworks like bottle or flask
p.s If you prefer python (and why wouldn't you) don't use pyodbc directly, work with python beautiful orm - sqlalchemy is much better

A: I think how this works really depends on the authentication issue and number of users that need to review the data.
The reason I ask?
You can consider using Access 2010 and office 365. This allows you to have linked tables to the cloud, but in fact the tables are also cached local to your Access desktop. This means that real time replication sync of data is used, and this is automatic for Access 2010 (so you don't' have to write any code).
What this means is while running the Access desktop application, you can pull the plug on the network and it will continue to run. The instant you have a wifi or a connection, then changes local are synced up to office 365. Even better is you can now build web forms in Access.
Data touched or edited (or new records on either side) will come down the pipe to your local computer. So you add reords in Access client, the web users will ALSO see these new reocrds.
So Access 2010 now has web publishing, and this works with the new office 365. The price starts at $6 per month. And if just for a few users, then have them all logon using the same account! This means you can have this all up and running in less time than it took to make this post, and for less then $10 per month!
For those not aware, Access 2010 has web publishing. When you publish the Access forms, then are converted to .net forms (zammel/XAML) forms, and the code is converted to JavaScript. So form code actually runs browser side.
Since the system runs on office 365, then you using some heavy duty iron and you can in theory scale out to millions of users for this setup.  When you publish the Access application to office 365, then on the server side you not using mdb or Access files anymore, but what is called Access Web Services. The tables in fact become the equilivant of SharePoint lists . And new for SP 2010 is those lists now have relational features like cascade delete.
The real beauty of this system is you can write and create and do everything inside of Access without have to learn or touch ANY KIND of server side technology. Here is short video of mine, and at the half way point I run the Access application with nothing more than a web browser.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU4mH0jPntI
There is no activeX or even Silverlight required. In fact my Access applications run fine on a iPad using the safari web browser.
So you could consider to continue using Access, and just publish your application to the web with the new Access 2010 features.

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PUBLISHED: August 8, 2008 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: July 16, 2019 at 12:00 a.m.
LOS ANGELES — In comedy, Hollywood has learned that raunch sells.
Studios prefer their funny flicks in the benign PG-13 mold, a rating that keeps the audience broad to fill as many seats as possible. More and more, however, they are taking chances on R-rated comedies that ratchet up the rawness, allowing the Sex and the City gal pals to strut their stuff, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly to expose body parts in Step Brothers, or Tom Cruise to swear like a sailor.
"He was willing to go for it," Tropic Thunder star and director Ben Stiller said of Cruise, who is almost unrecognizable as a bald studio executive with a colossal talent for cussing. "I think the audience will really enjoy him letting loose like that."
While Hollywood executives usually soft-pedal comedy, figuring the PG-13 rating offers the best return on their investment, racier hits such as Wedding Crashers, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up prove there's a place for R-rated humor.
With $56.8 million over opening weekend in May, Sex and the City had the best debut ever for an R-rated comedy. The movie has racked up a total of $151 million, ranking among the top-50 highest-grossing comedies ever.
Close on that movie's high heels comes a rare late-summer surge of saltier fare, led by Ferrell and Reilly's Step Brothers, which delivered a solid $30.9 million opening weekend, big bucks for an R-rated romp.
Pineapple Express , with Seth Rogen and James Franco as stoners on the run, and Tropic Thunder, about pampered actors caught in real combat with drug-runners while shooting a Vietnam War picture, have great buzz from advance screenings, arriving in theaters over back-to-back weekends with prospects of joining the R-rated hit parade.
Both comedies are loaded with violence, coarse language and outrageous gags that the filmmakers could never have touched in a PG-13 movie.
Hollywood has scored occasional comedy hits with R-rated flicks such as National Lampoon's Animal House and Porky's. But studios became more emboldened to venture into R territory in the last decade with the American Pie comedies and the early Scary Movie spoofs.
"If you look at most of these R-rated movies that found an audience, it's because they were really good," said producer Peter Safran, whose credits include Scary Movie and the upcoming PG-13 comedy Disaster Movie.
"The R rating allows the filmmakers to truly realize their vision. There's just a freedom that comes with it. There's no way Wedding Crashers could have been Wedding Crashers if you inhibit what it was that Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn were able to do in that movie."
PG-13 comedies are not likely to lose their dominance. It's simple numbers-crunching for Hollywood: An R rating means anyone younger than 17 must be accompanied by an adult, while a PG-13 movie is open to anyone, including teens who make up a huge segment of weekend audiences and might balk at having to tag along with their parents to the theater.
Step Brothers director Adam McKay said studio executives offered a precise math lesson on what they would be losing by doing an R-rated movie rather a PG-13 one. The studio accurately forecast an opening weekend in the $30 million range, as opposed to the $40 million it might have brought in as a PG-13 comedy.
R-rated comedies have to be priced accordingly, the studios willing to put up $50 million to $60 million to make the movies instead of the $90 million they might shell out for one with a broader rating, McKay said.
It was a sacrifice McKay and Ferrell were willing to make after doing two PG-13 movies together, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
Step Brothers star Reilly said the R rating gave him, Ferrell and their collaborators the liberty to take their comedy improvisation to extremes.
"Anything's possible, and so more than wanting to make it an R-rated movie, we just wanted the freedom to make it whatever it's going to be," Reilly said.
"Also, comedy's job is to push boundaries. We didn't make the boundaries. We didn't move the last boundary, but here we are. People are expecting something a little crazier than the last thing they saw."


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"White supremacy has no place in Canada," Trudeau posted to social media the other day. We'd certainly agree with that statement. But Trudeau didn't leave it at that.
"It's time for all parties, including Andrew Scheer's Conservative Party, to stand together in denouncing hatred in all its forms," Trudeau continued.
It's part of a larger drive-by smear, an attempt to imply in the lead up to the election that Scheer is somehow supportive of or in allegiance with white supremacists. It's a completely groundless accusation, which is why they're so vague in making it. But their goal is to clearly plant the seed.
Because Housakos was reluctant to believe that our streets have been overrun with violent white supremacists and that Canadians are somehow weak-willed enough to fall prey en masse to such an awful ideology, the Liberals are trying to shamelessly twist it into something it's not. It's pretty weak sauce.
It's interesting timing that they're playing this cynical game, because the Liberals are now being denounced by refugee advocates for changes that make it more difficult to claim asylum if you've crossed into Canada illegally at places like Roxham Road.
Canadians should welcome these changes to the asylum rules. But it sure came at a cost. The Liberals dragged their feet on this file for years and whenever anyone wanted action on this unsustainable situation they called these people racist and other nasty names.
Are the Liberals racist now for clamping down on the border? Of course not.
This should be a lesson for them about how reckless it is to toss around these sorts of terms.


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Desktop Dungeons Review: The Hard Road to Victory
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A great roguelike to become invested in.
Some issues with the port to mobile, cheapen the experience. Notably finnicky U.I. elements.
Requires a good chunk of time to play well. Desktop Dungeons is not an easy game.
I'm always on the hunt for a new, go-to roguelike game to take around with me on my tablet. Lamp and Vamp scratched that itch for just a little bit, but it wasn't until I picked up Desktop Dungeons that I felt I had finally found a keeper.
The thing with roguelikes is that you have to be dedicated to them to be able to get far. Typically, roguelikes are not the sort of game you can blast through the first twenty levels in under an hour. Just like most other roguelikes, Desktop Dungeons requires a good chunk of time committed to learning the intricacies of the game, more time spent pondering each and every move, and even more time spent repeating a level because of a strategic oversight or plain old bad luck.
But that feeling I get, after finally defeating a dungeon boss after 10+ tries, countless profanities, and more brainpower exerted than I should be using the week after final exams…that feeling of victory makes it all worth it. That's the carrot-on-the-stick that drives us gamers who enjoy roguelike games.
And Desktop Dungeons carrot is the tastiest carrot of them all.
But the original Desktop Dungeons debuted on PC a few years ago, and has only now made an appearance on tablets with a port of the game's Enhanced Edition. I regret to say that the port itself isn't without problems. There were leftover user-interface elements from the PC version, and the user-interface itself is very small and often was unresponsive. Granted, I'm playing Desktop Dungeons on an iPad Mini, but the two-inch difference between the regular iPad and the mini should not make that much of a difference.
With the UI as it is, you can see why they opted to cut phones out of the mix and make this a tablet-only release.
When I would finally get a response from whatever info pane I was trying to bring up, the text would appear right under my finger. If I was using a mouse, this wouldn't be a problem since the mouse pointer takes up such little space; another porting oversight discovered.
The issues I encountered were mostly limited to UI, and none of them really got in the way of the gameplay itself. Tapping to move to a new tile, attacking enemies, and using potions and abilities worked without flaw.
Desktop Dungeons has a cool mechanic where as you explore the dungeons and discover new tiles, each new bit of dungeon discovered refills your mana and health by a bit. In a game where health potions are not very common, this refill mechanic is a huge help. It's a neat little mechanic that encourages careful exploration, —you ideally want to save some blank spots to farm for HP and Mana refills later on— which goes towards making the relatively small dungeons, seem much larger.
My experiences with the dungeons in Desktop Dungeons would usually last around ten minutes. While that's not a big chunk of time as far as video games go, it is a much larger commitment than most mobile games require. Desktop Dungeons is not an easy game to play, and without a good amount of focus and strategic planning, players will inevitably fail the dungeons repeatedly. This is a game that requires diligence, and careful strategic experimentation. That makes it a perfect fit for a certain class of gamer (myself included), but if you're not already a fan of the genre, YMMV.
Players looking for a casual game to pick up and play throughout the week should look elsewhere for their bite-sized gaming addiction. But for players looking for a top-quality roguelike game experience for their iPad or Android tablet, Desktop Dungeons is just that.
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What are the immediate causes of the large forest fires that have ravaged the US and Canada over the past several years?
Forest fires seem to be more numerous and larger, and the forest fire season is getting longer. Some of these fires are caused by arson. For example, from USA Today:
The man suspected of igniting the Holy Fire in Southern California was charged on Thursday with three counts of felony arson, among other offenses.
The Carr Fire, another large 2018 fire, was caused accidentally by a spark from a motor vehicle. According to CNN:
... on one road near Redding, California, when a tire failed last month on a trailer and its rim scraped the asphalt, the result was catastrophic for an entire region.
The sparks that shot out July 23 from that minor incident, California fire officials said, ignited what is now the sixth-most destructive wildfire in state history.
Improperly attended campfires have caused major forest fires, although my limited search did not turn up a campfire as the cause of a major forest fire in 2018.
In the past few years, what have been the immediate causes of major forest fires in the US and Canada? Suggested breakout: arson, vehicles, campfires, other human causes, lightning, other natural causes (if any). Canada and the US should probably be listed separately.
"Several years" is intentionally vague; it depends on what data is available. Let's say several years means two to ten. "Major forest fires" is also vague. I suggest Class F and Class G fires, or perhaps just Class G fires, as defined by The National Wildfire Coordinating Group:
◦Class E - 300 acres or more, but less than 1,000 acres;
◦Class F - 1,000 acres or more, but less than 5,000 acres;
◦Class G - 5,000 acres or more**
If someone has a better definition for a major fire, please use it.
Note that I am not asking about what may be the ultimate causes such as climate change or fire management policies.
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One of the significant causes of fires being major or large is fire suppression. The initial cause of the fire is incidental. They are major because the amount of fuel available is high.
Forest fires are natural events, forest evolution grew to depend on them happening at intervals and being allowed to burn without interference.
To partially address the forest service will often have controlled burns, but it is not always sufficient, and larger fires will occur
Wilderness managers need a way to quantify and monitor the effects of suppressing lightning-caused wildfires, which can alter natural fire regimes, vegetation, and habitat. Using computerized models of fire spread, weather, and fuels, it is now possible to quantify many of the hidden consequences of fire suppression. Case study watersheds in Yosemite and Sequoia–Kings Canyon National Parks were used to simulate where fires might have spread if they had not been suppressed, and what effects those fires would have had on fuels. Source
Managing forest fires is a complex task with many variables, if or when to suppress them is outside of the scope of this answer. But if you have a lot of fuel in the forest it will be a bigger fire when it happens.
P.S. I realize this might not be the answer you are looking for "Note that I am not asking about what may be the ultimate causes such as climate change or fire management policies."
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I suggest you ask the followup question that I was going to ask but can't get to this week: Why have forest fires become larger and more destructive in recent years? Then you can give this answer to that question. I will upvote both Q and A. – ab2 MonicaNotForgotten Sep 5 '18 at 12:27
@ab2 if I get time. Been busy as well. – James Jenkins Sep 5 '18 at 12:38
This report from the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America says that in the years between 1992 to 2012 humans were the cause of 84% of wildfires and 44% of the total area burned. Additionally,
Human-started wildfires were dominant (>80% of ignitions) in over 5.1 million km2, the vast majority of the United States, whereas lightning-started fires were dominant in only 0.7 million km2, primarily in sparsely populated areas of the mountainous western United States.
From Natural Resources Canada, humans cause slightly less than half of the wildfires while lightning accounts for nearly 67% of the total land burned. The fires caused by lightning are usually more remote than those caused by humans and are therefore more likely to be left to burn longer.
If one were to want to do a more exhaustive study of recent wildfires and causes this wikipedia web site would be a good starting point.
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Drought.
The BC Wildfire Service has an interactive map that shows every reported fire in BC and it's suspected cause. Most of them are ignited by lightning, but it's the unusually dry season, high temperatures and wind that are the cause for the spread of the wildfire.
Back home on Kootenay Lake we used to sit out on the deck and watch lighting hit the mountains accross the lake. You'd occasionally see a tree flare up, then burn out as the rains came and extinguished it. One of the problems with the past couple fire seasons is that the smoke plumes coming off of the big fires have been generating their own lightning, and there hasn't been enough relative humidity or rain to control the spread of the fire.
I was backcountry camping with my family a couple weeks ago when the Boundary Creek fire in Waterton/Glacier National Park flared up. We were camped in a bay eating our supper when the dark plume of smoke went overhead, it was shortly after we noticed it that park crews swept through the camp and told us we had to evacuate because they had just discovered a new fire 5km away from us. It had grown from 20 - 700 hectares in size in just a few hours. They suspect lightning to be the cause, but it was the winds that caused the fire to spread so quickly that day. Fortunately, we had rain that weekend, and 20mm of rain fell only couple days after the fire flared up, which helped bring the fire under control.
The fires aren't necessarily more numerous in the sense of more fires are being ignited. The problem is that the conditions the past couple years have been favourable for fires, so once one is ignited, it burns out of control instead of flaring up and burning out like they do when there is more humidity and rain.
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Selfie expert, yes the tagline of the F1S, a smartphone introduced by Oppo some time ago. F1s could be the most popular smartphone sold by Oppo, particularly in the smartphone market today.
With the success of the F1S, Oppo series presents a new variant F1S New Edition completes the line of other F1S. F1s before introducing Katy Perry Phone version, which has the value there is the signature of Katy Perry in the back of the cover.
So, what is the value of this new version of F1S? Internal storage capacity and is RAM memory that is on the upgrade by Oppo. With upgrade RAM memory and storage media, saving files and multitasking activity is more easily done with this smartphone.
Let's see what's on offer by Oppo to new variant F1S.
The screen, F1S display panel brings the LCD IPS DISPLAY 16 million colors with a span of roughly 5.5 inches. The resolution is 1280 x 720 carried pixel density of 267 ppi. Part of the screen is already protected with Corning Gorilla Glass 4 with finishing 2.5 D.
The bottom of the smartphone, there is a physical Home button flanked two capacitive buttons. The physical Home button also doubles as a fingerprint scanner.
The bottom of the F1S New Edition, there is a microUSB port, audio jack hole, hole mic, and speakers.
The placement of the power button located on the left side of the smartphone, there is a power button that is adjacent to the SIM card slot. In the SIM card tray, there are two slots for SIM cards and the card slot for external memory.
The back of the smartphone there are writings of Oppo, then there's camera placement on the top corner is adjacent to the LED flash.
5.5-inch screen with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels and panel IPS LCD screen.
Connectivity is network-owned cellular 2 g, 3 g, 4 g. This Smartphone also supports wireless connection WLAN and Bluetooth 4.0 also.
3075 battery capacity mAh Li-Po.
The ability of a camera to take photos of objects are the best of F1S, so too with this New Edition F1S. In the back, reinforced with a camera that has a 13-megapixel resolution with the support of Aperture f/2.0 lens, while the front is reinforced with a more capable camera i.e. 16 Megapixel lens openings with 2.2.
No one indeed if the Oppo uses a Selfie Expert to its line of F1S, this is because of the ability of the front camera which has a high resolution and is also supported by the features of the beauty that can be used to enhance your photos.
Photo files and multimedia storage memory drain seems to be a concern in releasing Oppo F1S New Edition. The memory storage device, with a capacity of 64 GB and still coupled with a microSD slot for expandable up to 256 GB.
Activity for multitasking users also doesn't need to worry, the F1S New Edition already with 4 GB RAM capacity.
For those of you whose hobby selfie, Oppo F1S New Edition may be able to make the choice of smartphones to accompany everyday activities. The latest version of the series has been provided with F1S bigger memory storage 64 GB of memory and 4 GB of RAM.


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No, it's a sign of disdain and arrogance in not listening to the community that contributes to the existence of Pidgin.
rekkanoryo: "We have listened to the whining, ..."
That sums up the depth of maturity and respect nicely.
rekkanoryo: "...we had similar numbers of complaints about our changes to the buddy list and status UIs in the transition from 1.5.0 to 2.0.0. The complaints died down after several weeks."
What sort of half-witted logic is that?  Of course the complaints died down.  People uninstalled Pidgin, gave up on the project or they realised their requests and complaints were being dismissed and ignored - so they stopped complaining.  Duh.
rekkanoryo: "...we claim to make an IM client that meets our own needs..."
Really?  If that's true, a big, fat warning needs posting on the front page to let people know that Pidgin is not developed for the community that contribute to it, but for the arrogant developers who write the code.  I'm sure once that gets out, there'll be a number of Linux distros who won't be so eager to include Pidgin by default.
rekkanoryo: "The Path to Enlightenment is unique for each individual."
So true.  Unfortunately some people who impact the lives of others have a long, long way to go down that path.
As has been said by others, if Pidgin were commercial software there's a good chance some of the developers would be looking for a new job about now.


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SCG 003S – supersamochód klasy wyższej produkowany pod amerykańską marką SCG w latach 2016 – 2017.

Historia i opis modelu

W marcu 2015 roku amerykańskie przedsiębiostwo SCG dotychczas specjalizujące się w braniu udziału w wyścigach 24h Le Mans jako zespół, przedstawiło swój pierwszy samodzielny model samochodu - oprócz wyczynowego SCG 003 przeznaczonego do warunków torowych producent opracował także cywilną odmianę SCG 003S.

Za projekt stylistyczny był odpowiedzialny włoski stylista i założyciel przedsiębiorstwa MAT, dawniej związany z Pininfariną Paolo Garella. Wygląd 003S został podyktowany dostosowaniem do jak najlepszych właściwości aerodynamicznych, umieszczając w jego nadwoziu liczne wloty powietrza wraz z dużym tylnym spojlerem. Drzwi pojazdu typowo dla supersamochodów uchylane są pod kątem do góry.

Jednostkę napędową SCG 004S utworzyło umieszczone z tyłu V8 o pojemności 4,4 litra i mocy maksymalnej 800 KM z podobnym maksymalnym momentem obrotowym. Moc przenoszona jest za pomocą 7-stopniowej, dwusprzęgłowej automatycznej przekładni biegów.

Sprzedaż
Europejska premiera SCG 003S odbyła się podczas targów motoryzacyjnych Geneva Motor Show w marcu 2017 roku i to w tym regionie uruchomiono limitowaną produkcję pojazdu, korzystając ze współpracy z Paolo Garellą. Między 2016 a 2017 rokiem ręcznie zmontowano w zakładach MAT we włoskim Turynie.

Silnik
 V8 4.4l Twin-Turbo BMW S63

Przypisy

003S
Supersamochody
Samochody z lat 2010–2019

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Evil Genius, a new four-part documentary series that chronicles the Pizza Bomber case is available now for streaming on Netflix.
Both Jerry Clark and Ed Palattella were interviewed during the filming of the series, which was produced by Jay and Mark Duplass.
A full trailer for the series can be viewed above.
On August 28, 2003, in the suburbs of Erie, Pennsylvania, a pizza deliveryman named Brian Wells robbed a bank with a time bomb locked around his neck. He said a group of men accosted him and forced him to carry out the heist. After delivering the money, he would receive clues to help him disarm the bomb. It was one of the most diabolical bank-robbery schemes in history, known by the FBI as COLLARBOMB, Major Case #203.
Wells, picked up by police shortly after the robbery, never had time to find the clues he needed. Investigating the crime after his grisly death, the FBI ultimately discovered that Wells was not, in fact, an innocent victim. He was merely the first co-conspirator to fall in a bizarre trail of death following the crime.
Jerry Clark, the lead FBI Special Agent who cracked what became known as the Pizza Bomber case, and Erie Times-News investigative reporter Ed Palattella, who followed it from the beginning, tell the complete story, from the inside, for the first time.


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Emily made the mistake of letting Jimmy go and they've both been paying the price. Jimmy nursed a crush on his big sister's best friend for years. When he finally revealed his feelings, Emily rejected him. He went running to Sandover Island to start a new life as a firefighter and leave the memories of his longtime love behind.
Roslyn's circumstances changed when her father died, and her mother fell ill. She didn't know what would have happened if Asher, the woodcutter, had not helped them, however, the villagers think him dimwitted. When some rogue knights try to harass Roslyn and her mother forbids her to see Asher again, things look even more dire, and her trips through the Dark Woods to see Grandmother become even more dangerous. Her grandmother keeps telling her to trust God, but will that be enough?
Cait can't catch a break. Not only is she renovating an old farmhouse single handedly, her day job as a marketing director for a family farm is also a wreck thanks to the potentially devastating vandalism she happened to witness, setting in motion a chain of events that could cost her her job and her beloved house.
Real estate attorney Greyson just needs this one real estate deal to go through. That will prove to his family that he can do more than just restore old cars. His casual acquaintance with Cait turns into something more as he finds himself drawn into the troubles at the farm and her house. But will his attempts to help her only make things worse?
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Produced soon after three Philadelphia "walkers" ran miles beyond the distance expected by the Delaware Indians, this map by surveyor John Chapman in 1737 shows the layout of the newly claimed territory of the Walking Purchase. Wrightstown, the area where the "walkers" started their day-and-a-half journey northwest, is near the bottom right of this map. The mountain range to the upper left of this map shows the northern boundary that was angled northeast towards the Delaware River, greatly increasing the total acreage of the land for Thomas Penn, John Penn, and James Logan. Drawings of a man walking with a dog, and two other animal drawings, embellish the map.
When the Pennsylvania surveyors of the Walking Purchase recorded the area where the final "walker" stopped, near modern-day Jim Thorpe, they extended the boundary line northeast to the confluence of the Delaware and Lackawaxen Rivers. This action doubled the total acreage of the Walking Purchase and went well beyond the initial territory the Delaware Indians thought they were giving away. The area bounded by the dark-green wedge in this modern map of Pennsylvania shows the total territory that was claimed by Thomas Penn, John Penn, and James Logan through the Walking Purchase. Nutimus, leader of the Delawares, and other representatives of the Delawares thought the Pennsylvania settlers were only going to claim land south of Tohickon Creek (near the Nutimus's Town dot on this map). The extensive border of the Walking Purchase ended up forcing Delawares away from eastern Pennsylvania and farther to the west.
With the Walking Purchase of 1737, Pennsylvania officials defrauded the Delaware Indians out of a vast amount of land, perhaps over one million acres, in the Delaware and Lehigh Valleys. John Penn (1700-46) and Thomas Penn (1702-75), the sons of William Penn (1644-1718), with James Logan (1674-1751), the provincial secretary of Pennsylvania, devised the land grab by using an unsigned draft of a 1686 deed, obtaining support from the Iroquois and using trickery to take much more land than specified in the draft deed. The Walking Purchase represented a shift from earlier land transactions between William Penn's government and the Delawares (also known as the Lenapes and Munsees) and paved the way for tensions that contributed to the Seven Years' War.
After receiving a charter for Pennsylvania in 1681, William Penn sought to purchase the land in southeastern Pennsylvania from the Delawares, obtaining much of the territory before leaving the colony in 1684. His agents negotiated the purchase of land in central Bucks County in 1686, but the deed was unsigned because Penn failed to send enough trade goods to complete the sale. Penn had left the colony in part to address his financial problems and the purchase was never fully consummated.
By the 1730s, the increasing population of Pennsylvania coupled with the growing debt of Penn's heirs led the Penns and Logan to defraud the Delawares. Speculators, including Logan, had already purchased tracts of land in northern Bucks County and the Lehigh Valley, but needed an agreement with the Delawares before allowing settlement. Logan produced the unsigned copy of the 1686 deed, claiming that the Delawares had agreed to sell territory that a man could walk in a day and a half north from the boundary at Wrightstown. While the Delawares believed the new boundary would be Tohickon Creek in central Bucks County, Logan and the Penns aimed to obtain territory well beyond the Lehigh River. Historian Stephen Harper pointed out that the alleged deed lacked any signatures or evidence of payment, which weakened the proprietors' claims to the land. Nevertheless, Logan met with Delaware sachems at Pennsbury and continued to press the proprietors' claims.
Logan worked for a rapid resolution to this situation at a series of meetings with Delaware sachems. Logan and Thomas Penn met with Nutimus, Manawkyhickon, Lapowinzo, and Tishcohan at Stenton, Logan's county seat outside of Philadelphia, in August 1737. Manawkyhickon expressed a willingness to agree to the transaction if the sachems could learn how much land had been ceded to the proprietor in the draft deed. Andrew Hamilton, an agent for the provincial government, produced a map, which misled the sachems into thinking that the purchase involved only territory south of Tohickon Creek. The sachems finally agreed to the transaction after being assured that the Delawares would not be removed from their settlements.
Unbeknownst to the Delawares, colonial agents had already performed a reconnaissance of the territory and cleared a path for the walkers. On September 19, 1737, three colonial walkers set off at a rapid pace; after one and one-half days one man covered over 60 miles. Surveyors acquired even more territory by angling the boundary to the confluence of the Delaware and Lackawaxen Rivers.
When the Delaware Indians protested the amount of land they lost in the Walking Purchase and refused to leave the region north of Tohickon Creek, the Pennsylvania government appealed to the Iroquois to help justify the transaction. Canassatego, an Iroquois spokesman, rebuked the Delawares for not complying with the purchase at a conference in Philadelphia in 1742. Over subsequent years, most Delawares in eastern Pennsylvania moved west to the Ohio River Valley and developed trade relations with the French. With the onset of hostilities in the Seven Years' War, many Delawares sided with the French after General Edward Braddock (1695-1755) rejected their attempt to forge an alliance with the British. Consequently, the Walking Purchase reflected a shift from William Penn's early diplomacy with the Delawares, alienating them from the British colonists by the mid-eighteenth century.
Tim Hayburn received his doctorate in colonial American history from Lehigh University.
Harper, Steven Craig. Promised Land: Penn's Holy Experiment, The Walking Purchase and the Dispossession of Delawares, 1600-1763. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2006.
Jennings, Francis. "The Scandalous Indian Policy of William Penn's Sons: Deeds and Documents of the Walking Purchase." Pennsylvania History 37 (January 1970): 19-39.
Merrell, James H. Into the American Woods: Negotiations on the Pennsylvania Frontier. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000.
Chew Family Papers and Penn Family Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia.
Records of the Department of State, Basic Documents, Indian Deeds, State Archives of Pennsylvania, 350 North Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Sigal Museum, 342 Northampton Street, Easton, Pa.
Walking Purchase Historical Marker, Pa. Route 611 north of Ottsville, Pa.
Walking Purchase Park, Allentown, Pa.


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The Cambridges 6th January 2013
Duke And Duchess Of Cambridge To Receive Country Home From Queen
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It has emerged that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are to receive a special country home from Her Majesty The Queen on the Sandringham Estate, the Queen's country home in Norfolk, England.
Sources say that Anmer Hall, on Her Majesty's estate is set to be the home of choice for the Duke and his pregnant Duchess.
It is said that Prince William frequently visited the house when it was leased by Hugh and Emilie van Cutsem, who are close friends of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, with Prince William taking a particular liking to the Georgian house.
Anmer Hall is currently leased by James Everett, the owner of the kitchen and timber company Norfolk Oak. He declined to comment on whether he wished to extend the lease, which expires in March 2017, when the Duke and Duchess's first child will be three years old.
The house has also had some royal inhabitants too! The Duke and Duchess of Kent used it as their rural retreat in the 1970s. The house has been part of the Sandringham Estate since the 1890s.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are set to finalise their move into Apartment 1A (Princess Margaret's old apartment) early this year in Kensington Palace. The apartment, which has five bedrooms and three reception rooms, has had to have asbestos removed and undergo rewiring and an overhaul of its antiquated heating and plumbing systems.
Currently, Prince William and Catherine rent a cottage in Anglesey, Wales near where Prince William works. If Prince William were to be called back to the Household Cavalry, it might make it easier for him to work from London and have a country home in Norfolk.
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In Depth | Saturn – NASA Solar System Exploration
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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in our solar system. Adorned with a dazzling system of icy rings, Saturn is unique among the planets. It is not the only planet to have rings, but none are as spectacular or as complex as Saturn's. Like fellow gas gian...
Day: 10.7 hours
Year: 29 Earth years
Radius: 36,183.7 miles | 58,232 kilometers
Planet type: Gas giant
Temperature: average temperature of -288 degrees Fahrenheit -178 degrees Celsius
Size and distance
With a radius of 36,183.7 miles (58,232 kilometers), Saturn is 9 times wider than Earth. If Earth were the size of a nickel, Saturn would be about as big as a volleyball.
From an average distance of 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), Saturn is 9.5 astronomical units away from the S...
Orbit and rotation
Saturn has the second shortest day in the solar system. One day on Saturn takes only 10.7 hours (the time it takes for Saturn to rotate or spin around once), and Saturn makes a complete orbit around the Sun (a year in Saturnian time) in about 29.4 Earth years (10,756 Earth days).
Its axis i...
like jupiter, saturn is mostly of hydrogen and helium. At Saturn's center is a dense core of metals like iron and nickel surrounded by rocky material and other compounds solidified by the intense pressure and heat. It is enveloped by liquid metallic hydrogen inside a layer of liquid hydrogen—simi...
Saturn took shape when the rest of the solar system formed about 4.5 billion years ago, when gravity pulled swirling gas and dust in to become this gas giant.
About 4 billion years ago, Saturn settled into its current position in the outer solar system, where it is the sixth planet fr...
As a gas giant, Saturn doesn't have a true surface. The planet is mostly swirling gases and liquids deeper down. While a spacecraft would have nowhere to land on Saturn, it wouldn't be able to fly through unscathed either.
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Saturn is blanketed with clouds that appear as faint stripes, jet streams and storms. The planet is many different shades of yellow, brown and grey.
Winds in the upper atmosphere reach 1,600 feet per second (500 meters per second) in the equatorial region. In contrast, the strongest hurrica...
Saturn's magnetic field is smaller than Jupiter's but still 578 times as powerful as Earth's. Saturn, the rings, and many of the satellites lie totally within Saturn's enormous magnetosphere, the region of space in which the behavior of electrically charged particles is influenced more by Saturn'...
Saturn's rings are thought to be pieces of comets, asteroids or shattered moons that broke up before they reached the planet, torn apart by Saturn's powerful gravity. They are made of billions of small chunks of ice and rock coated with another material such as dust. The ring particles mostly ran...
Saturn is home to a vast array of intriguing and unique worlds. From the haze-shrouded surface of Titan to crater-riddled Phoebe, each of Saturn's moons tells another piece of the story surrounding the Saturn system.
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Potential for life
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Big industry farms are an essential part of sustaining a population more than 7 billion people, yet urban farming has become a rapidly growing trend across the world. There is an increasing curiosity about where our food comes from, how it is produced, and how this can be done in an ethical and sustainable way. Automated vertical farms are emerging as a viable solution to the question of scaled urban farming, but are not accessible to individual growers. This is where faavi steps in.
With its community-based marketplace, faavi allows everyday citizens to produce food at the comfort of their own home and sell it easily to those nearby. The faavi ecosystem uses artificial intelligence to analyze the price of a given crop in real time. This allows the producer to make decisions on whether to grow a crop quickly or slowly. The change in speed alters the change in quality — owners of faavi must make a decision whether to maximize profit or quality or something in between.
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faavi begins with scanning seeds of your choice into the farm interface.
Explore the cost predictions of that crop and adjust speed of growth accordingly.
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Faavi came out of a two week course at CIID titled, Working Intelligence. For this course we were asked to speculate upon the future of an industry while considering the ever growing presence of machine learning and artificial intelligence. My group decided to look into farming, in particular urban farming.
Our process began by going to farms in and around Copenhagen, Denmark to interview farmers working in the industry. We went to a total of five farms and learned a lot about different versions of small scale farming. Through these interviews we struggled to imagine how technology could play a role in urban farming. Big agriculture is riddled with technology but urban farming or small scale organic farming exists in someways to escape this technology, to allow farmers to get their hands dirty.
This struggle lead us to vertical farming which fell somewhere in between. In thinking about vertical farming we wanted to imagine what it could look like if an uber type business model was applied to it. Furthermore, we explored the idea of futures contracts which exist in the farming world already.
This lead us to many questions that we hoped to provoke with faavi. What if futures were placed onto this distributed farming model? Would everyday citizens maximize quality or quantity? Is this marketplace better or worse than current ecosystem? How does the market react to someone lowering quality to maximize profit?
In no way did we answer any of these questions but faavi was helpful to unearth them. We hope faavi helps people think a little more critically about what the future of farming may look like and possibly help avoid potential missteps.
One farm we visited was Ostergro, a beautiful rooftop farm in Copenhagen.
Here we are talking to Farmer Paul, who runs a small farm outside of Copenhagen.
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Under the Same Blue Sky
by Pamela Schoenewaldt
A shopkeeper's daughter, Hazel Renner lives in the shadows of the Pittsburgh steel mills. She dreams of adventure, even as her immigrant parents push her toward a staid career. But in 1914, war seizes Europe and all their ambitions crumble. German-Americans are suddenly the enemy, "the Huns." Hazel herself is an outsider in her own home when she learns the truth of her birth.
Desperate for escape, Hazel takes a teaching job in a seemingly tranquil farming community. But the idyll is cracked when she acquires a mysterious healing power --- a gift that becomes a curse as the locals' relentless demand for "miracles" leads to tragedy.
Hazel, determined to find answers, traces her own history back to a modern-day castle that could hold the truth about her past. There Hazel befriends the exiled, enigmatic German baron and forges a bond with the young gardener, Tom. But as America is shattered by war and Tom returns battered by shell-shock, Hazel's healing talents alone will not be enough to protect those close to her, or to safeguard her dreams of love and belonging. She must reach inside to discover that sometimes the truth is not so far away, that the simplest of things can lead to the extraordinary.
Filled with rich historical details and intriguing, fully realized characters, UNDER THE SAME BLUE SKY is the captivating story of one woman's emergence into adulthood amid the tumult of war.
Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
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Guardiola reiterates Sane stay after Manchester City dismantles Kitchee
24 July 2019, 6:00 pm
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Pep Guardiola has reiterated that he wants winger Leroy Sane to stay with Manchester City after the club beat Kitchee 6-1 in a pre-season friendly earlier today.
Sane has been linked with a move away from the Premier League champions with Bayern Munich tipped the favourites to land the Germany international. Guardiola said he wants to see the 23-year-old to remain with the Citizens while also praising the progress of the new signings Rodri and Angelino.
"He [Leroy Sane] had a good game, especially in the second half. He is a guy who we appreciate, I like him a lot. I think he can be better. Two times, three times I have said that we want him to stay," said Guardiola.
"Both have the ability to play different sides. Angelino will improve, Rodrigo already has the experience. He is so smart. He pays a lot of attention to what we try to do. We don't have any doubts about those players. They will adapt to the way we play," he added.
David Silva opened the scoring before as Sane grabbed a brace with Nabil Touaizi and Iker Pozo each netting a goal.
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