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Artificial Sun: Achievements so far
Rusia's Artificial Sun
According to Wikipedia, the name (ITER) was initially an abbreviation for the English International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and presently the name is related to the Latin word iter – path.
Researchers truly consider ITER an artificial sun. In a vacuum chamber, the size of a 10-story building which is 30 meters in height and the equivalent in height is schemed to generate the thermonuclear fusion process on an industrial scale that powers our star.
Russia isn't just one of the primary partners of this aspiring scientific project, but also its oldest member. The general concept of a nuclear reactor, which the entire world is currently attempting to execute without embellishment, has a place with Soviet researchers from the Institute of Atomic Energy.
In concept, thermonuclear fusion is a limitless source of energy. Only a couple of grams of hydrogen fuel is sufficient to provide electricity and heat to many homes, and a pineapple-sized "briquette" can restore 10 tons of coal.
Unlike nuclear power plants or traditional thermal, a nuclear reactor doesn't pollute the atmosphere with greenhouse gas emissions and doesn't leave harmful radioactive waste.
The project members emphasize that ITER is a test reactor. This is certainly not a nuclear power plant, yet a site for an exceptional physical experiment. Nonetheless, if everything goes as per the plan, this experiment will decide the eventual fate of all energy on the planet.
Source: medium.com
Korean Artificial Sun
On Tuesday, November 24, 2020, the KSTAR Research Center at the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) declared that in a joint research with Columbia University of the United States and the Seoul National University (SNU), it succeeded in consecutive operation of plasma for 20 seconds with an ion temperature over 100 million degrees, which is one of the main situations of nuclear fusion in the 2020 KSTAR Plasma Campaign.
It is an accomplishment to extend the 8-second plasma activity duration during the 2019 KSTAR Plasma Campaign on multiple occasions. In its 2018 analysis, the KSTAR arrived at the plasma ion temperature of 100 million degrees for the first time, its retention time being about 1.5 seconds.
To re-make reactions that happen in the sun on Earth, hydrogen isotopes should be put inside a fusion device like KSTAR to make a plasma state where electrons and ions are separated, and ions should be heated and kept up at high temperatures.
Up until now, other fusion devices have momentarily managed plasma at temperatures of 100 million degrees or higher. None of these fusion devices broke the limit of keeping up the operation for 10 seconds or more. It is the operational barrier of a typical conducting device and it was hard to maintain a steady plasma state in the fusion device at such high temperatures for quite a while.
Notwithstanding the accomplishment in high-temperature plasma operation, the KSTAR Research Center conducts examinations of a diversity of subjects, including ITER researches, intended to tackle complex issues in fusion research during the rest of the examination time frame.
The last objective of the KSTAR is to excel in a continuous operation of 300 seconds with an ion temperature of more than 100 million degrees by 2025.
Source: Physics.org
China's Artificial Sun
On Friday, December 4, 2020, China successfully activated its artificial sun which is a nuclear fusion reactor that could fuel its energy desire for quite a long time to come, if they can make it more feasible.
Nuclear fusion is known as a reaction comprising at least two nuclear cores being joined to shape one or more nuclear cores and subatomic particles. The distinction in mass between the products and reactants is absorbed or released in form of energy.
The process doesn't bring about producing a lot of nuclear waste. The opposite process is known as fission in which the molecules split. It is more often utilized by power plants and nuclear weapons. Fission creates nuclear waste however fusion is simpler to achieve.
Source: thesun.co.uk
China's Atomic Energy Authority started its HL-2M Tokamak reactor unexpectedly on Friday, and the brief test is being hailed as a significant scientific accomplishment amid a worldwide effort to create more secure, cleaner forms of nuclear energy.
The reactor creates power by applying strong magnetic fields to a contained loop of hot plasma, which can arrive at temperatures of over 150 million C. That is multiple times hotter than the center of the sun, however, supercooling technology and magnets keep it contained.
In addition, China has been working closely with the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project, an alliance of many nuclear-powered countries.
Importance of Nuclear Fusion Energy
The improvement of nuclear fusion energy would prompt addressing China's energy requirements.
It would likewise provide for the future reasonable improvement of China's energy and national economy boosting.
Fusion is known to be restrictively costly, however, this testing by China would help the scientists as they continued looking for ways to lessen costs.
The Chinese Energy Agency's goal is to build up a valid form of nuclear fusion based on a similar concept.
One advantage of artificial sun is creating new information which would be a lot helpful in studies about the sun and to improvise and develop fusion reactor technology.
China's artificial sun is the most latest of its kind and therefore, it would spark youthful minds who have an interest in the field, if china presents the experimental proof and logical information for its achievement in existence.
The reactor discharges enormous amounts of energy which could be very converted and used for various energy needs. This could decrease the pollution level and result in prospects for sustainable improvement of energy. Additionally, increment in economic growth.
With the use of the artificial sun or artificial sunlight, there is no night or day. The amount of sunlight for indoor growing can be more controlled, compared to dealing with outdoor growing, the natural Sun, and the sometimes interference of seasons, and weather.
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Do any of us know what our human rights are?
Louise Minchin wants to sit on the right - is it her right?
Alexander Chancellor
The BBC Breakfast presenters
Apart from the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, I've never known what my human rights are supposed to be. Presumably they include the right to go about my daily business without being attacked, insulted or otherwise abused. But there are many grey areas. Are sudden loud noises or disgusting smells violations of my human rights? And what about the deafening mirthless laughter that I have to endure in British pubs?
Perhaps my human rights are changing with age. Am I, at 76, entitled to expect an offer of a seat on a crowded Tube train? Is it my right that somebody should help me with my suitcase when I am carrying it upstairs? I don't know. Nor do I care. But some people care very much about the deprivation of rights that they believe to be theirs.
Consider the case of the television presenter Louise Minchin, who has reportedly kicked up a fuss about being made to sit on the left-hand side of her male co-presenter on BBC Breakfast, Dan Walker. The producers tried putting her on his right, but found it 'didn't work'. It didn't work, apparently, because people don't like to see a man sitting on a sofa on a woman's left. It feels wrong, just as it would feel wrong for a man to be seen standing on his bride's left as he takes his wedding vows before an altar.
Nobody seems to have thought much about it before, but that's the way that couples nearly always appear on screen, in photographs, and on public occasions — woman on left, man on right. But why? Is it, as some have said, because being on the right suggests greater authority? And if so, is it not sexist and discriminatory to make the far more experienced Ms Minchin sit on the left of the new male recruit to the programme, thus implying that he is the more authoritative of the two? Is it not an infringement of Ms Minchin's human rights?
I wouldn't have thought so, but then what about Anders Breivik, the Norwegian Nazi who murdered 77 innocent people in a bombing and gun massacre in 2011. His victims were mostly guilty of no more than attending a left-wing holiday camp. As an admirer of Adolf Hitler, and a man still planning to fight to the death for the triumph of national socialism, Breivik has hitherto evinced little enthusiasm for human rights. But after serving five years of his 21-year prison sentence in a Norwegian jail, he has developed a surprising interest in them. He has accused the Norwegian government of breaching a clause in the European Convention on Human Rights that prohibits 'inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment'.
In court he spelt out how. He was given cold coffee and made to eat and drink from plastic cups and plates. He was held in isolation and not allowed to see any of his Nazi friends. He wasn't even allowed to publish books of Nazi propaganda. Worst of all — 'worse than waterboarding', he said — he was made to eat microwaved ready meals. All this, in his view, amounted to torture.
Cold coffee, I agree, is depressing. But I've nothing against plastic cups and plates. And as far as microwaved meals are concerned, I would consider it an infringement of my human rights if I weren't allowed to put chicken tikka masala in my microwave oven. But anyway, we're dealing here with a mass murderer whose treatment, in good old Norway, is kinder than he could expect almost anywhere else in the world. He has three cells to wander among, a television set, a computer, books, newspapers and so on.
A state attorney, winding up for the government, described Breivik as an 'attention-hungry narcissist' who has been found by doctors to be rather happy in jail, although he claims that the state 'has been trying to kill me for five years'. The state's methods, it must be said, are not as good as his when it comes to killing people. They involve letting him watch television programmes that, he says, he enjoys but cause him brain damage. This is a slower way of killing someone than shooting them.
So what do we conclude? One man's meat is another man's poison, one man's human right is another man's torture? Perhaps we should forget about having a bill of rights.
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Christian Man Forced to Attend 'Diversity Training' for Refusing to Print Gay Pride T-Shirts
CP Current Page: U.S. | Friday, October 30, 2015
By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor | Friday, October 30, 2015
A sign reading "This business serves everyone" is placed in the window of Bernadette's Barbershop in downtown Lafayette, Indiana, March 31, 2015. The store is one of several who display a sticker stating "This business serves everyone." Indiana's Republican Governor Mike Pence, responding to national outrage over the state's new Religious Freedom Restoration Act, said on Tuesday he will "fix" it to make clear businesses cannot use the law to deny services to same-sex couples. | (Photo: Reuters/Nate Chute)
LGBT-owned businesses, including BMP T-Shirts, on Thursday expressed support for a Kentucky-based Christian print shop owner who refused to print pro-LGBT T-shirts, even as the local Human Rights Commission has appealed a court ruling that said the printer cannot be forced to violate his religious beliefs or to attend government-mandated "diversity training."
"No one should be forced to do something against what they believe in," said Diane DiGeloromo, one owner of BMP T-shirts, a lesbian-owned business, according to a statement issued by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which, along with scholars and businesses, came to the defense of Blaine Adamson, the owner of a Lexington print shop called Hands on Originals.
"If we were approached by an organization such as the [controversial] Westboro Baptist Church, I highly doubt we would be doing business with them, and we would be very angry if we were forced to print anti-gay T-shirts," DiGeloromo said. "This isn't a gay or straight issue. This is a human issue."
Her business partner, Kathy Trautvertter, added, "You put your blood and your sweat and your tears into [your business]" and "it's very personal. ... When I put myself in [Mr. Adamson's] shoes, I could see it from his side."
BMP T-Shirts is one of the several LGBT-owned businesses that are backing the printer, according to the Becket Fund.
Blaine Adamson. | (Photo: Screengrab/Vimeo)
After Adamson refused to print T-shirts for Lexington's 2012 gay pride festival, he was found to be guilty of discrimination by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission last year, even though doing so would have violated his religious conviction. Additionally, the print shop was ordered to serve future requests from LGBT activists.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, a legal advocacy group that defends the right of Christian expression, came to HOO's aid and filed an appeal of the decision. Fayette Circuit Court Judge James D. Ishmael Jr. reversed the Human Rights Commission's decision in April and stated the commission went above its statutory authority in siding with the LGBT legal group, the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization of Lexington.
The commission, which ordered Adamson to print shirts and attend government-mandated "diversity training," has now appealed to the Kentucky Court of Appeals.
"Americans disagree about sex and religion. That's nothing new. But this case is about whether the government will allow people who disagree to live side-by-side in peace, or whether the government will instead pick one 'correct' moral view and force everyone to conform," said Becket Fund's Deputy General Counsel Luke Goodrich. "Fortunately, the Supreme Court has already resolved this question and held that the government can't force people to promote views they disagree with."
"Both same-sex couples, and religious believers committed to traditional understandings of sexuality, have faced hostile regulation that condemns their most cherished commitments as evil," said Douglas Laycock, professor of law at the University of Virginia. "The American solution to this conflict is to protect the freedom of both sides — not punish the side that dissents."
"Just as a pro-choice printer has a right to decline to print a religious message attacking Planned Parenthood, and a gay photographer has a right to decline to photograph a religious anti-gay rally, a Christian printer has a right to decline to print messages that violate his beliefs," added Goodrich. "The right of free speech protects everyone, and it means that the government doesn't get to force anyone to say things that contradict their deeply held beliefs."
In his opinion, Ishmael said the HRC's ruling back in April, "violates the recognized constitutional rights of HOO and its owners to be free from compelled expression. Hoo and its owners have a constitutional right of freedom of expression from government coercion.
"The commission's order substantially burdens HOO's and its owners' free exercise of religion, wherein the government punished HOO and its owners by its order for their sincerely held religious beliefs. This is contrary to established constitutional law."
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The Mandela Effect refers to a phenomenon whereby groups of people believe something entirely different to what occurred in reality; or believe in something fabricated which never happened at all. This is also known as a collective false memory, with a series of different theories and ideas breathing life into what we thought we understood about the effect.
Elon Musk, meanwhile, is a high profile entrepreneur who has founded and backed a number of prominent businesses and projects to create great game and extreme wealth. To call Elon Musk rich is a vast understatement, with Musk actually being one of the richest men on the planet.
But how are the two linked? In this article we uncover one of the strangest and most controversial Mandela Effect conversations on the internet – and it all has to do with the famed Entrepreneur and how (and when) he got to where he is.
Elon Musk and the Mandela Effect
The title of this piece – Why is Elon Musk rich – gives some indication as to how the entrepreneur fits into the Mandela Effect. There are in fact two branches to the Elon Musk conversation on the Mandela Effect, one which has been raised by multiple communities online and asks about the origin of his wealth and when exactly Elon Musk came into the spotlight, and one which taps into a quote from Musk himself and his own views on humanity and how the Mandela Effect could actually be linked to technology in our world.
Let's look at the former Mandela conversation first. There are a series of forums and outlets online where people have voiced questions over exactly where Elon Musk came from – with many different people from all corners of the world stating that they had never heard of him until a few years ago, despite being very active online and keeping up with the latest technology. As one of the co-Founders of Google and the main brains behind projects like Tesla and SpaceX, it seems as though Elon Musk is someone who should have been shrouded in fame for decades, and yet many people across the world are saying that they had no idea who he was until very recently.
This begs the question – has Elon Musk always been around but stayed out of the spotlight? Or is there an alternate reality that exists where his name is much bigger than it is in our version of reality?
The other Mandela Effect conversation comes from a quote from Musk himself, where he said that people think they're flesh and blood but are in fact "computer generated entities living inside of a more advanced civilisation video game."
Musk's own argument for this concept comes directly from gaming itself, with the entrepreneur leaning on the vast development of realistic gaming which is now so true to life that it could in fact be real life. And who's to say that it isn't, and that we aren't all part of the virtual reality that we keep being promised? After all, with games advancing at the rate that they are, very soon the two will be indistinguishable.
This quote and Musk's own belief that the assumption that we are the base reality underneath billions of gaming realities is literally one in billions, taps into the Mandela Effect idea of us living in a parallel and some alternate universe – where different things happen and different versions of reality come true.
With that, we come onto reality and the question around the changes that we can realistically have, were we to exist in a computer program rather than a physical world. Could the Mandela Effect and all the mass media and real life examples of the effect actually be a result of changing programs and glitches in the way that a computer is being run? Are some Mandela Effect's an example of deliberate changes that are made to the computer system in order to change up reality for the simulated beings in the game (humans)?
It's an interesting theory, and one which many conspiracy theorists and technology fans have brought into with the backing of Elon Musk. But do you buy it?
Elon Musk is an interesting figure, not only because of his incredible wealth and his entrepreneurship which has led to the rise and success of multiple companies, but also because of his beliefs, what he says, and in fact the very way he rose to such prominence.
With so many people not knowing his name or who he was a few years ago, despite his huge presence in the technology world, it does beg the question of whether this is an example of the Mandela Effect in action – and whether Elon Musk holds a different media presence in two different versions of the same world. Or, following his own belief that we live in a computer world, is he just a new character placed in the game to elevate our technology?
Following this, we have Musk's own views on our world and the idea that we are all living in a computer generated system, built deeply into the video game system and existing in such a high level of virtual reality that we don't even know we are games.
As is always the case with these kinds of ideas and theories, everyone has their own interpretation – and we would love to know what you think about Elon Musk and his views on the world as it stands.


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A 16-year-old boy is among those arrested in connection with the Yeovil stabbing incident which is being probed by police.
A spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police has revealed the ages of the five people arrested as 16, 17, 24, 36 and 39-years old today (September 28).
The incident - which took place in the early hours of this morning - is believed to be related to county line drug dealing.
Six men have received treatment and two of which are described as being in a critical condition.
Reports emerged before 8am this morning of a large police presence on High Street and South Street.
Multiple witnesses described seeing "lots of blood" and "blood everywhere" while passing through affected areas on Friday.
However, most nearby businesses and shoppers seemed curious rather than worried, according to Somerset Live reporter Claire Herbeaux.
One passer-by refused to be cowed by the disturbing scenes and told her: "Yeovil life goes on as normal."


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Union and Staff Members Recognize May Day
May 1, 2009 at 2:59 am by Karen Urrutia
In a unified campaign for immigrant laborer rights, local union members have joined forces with student and staff organizations to celebrate the May 1 celebration of International Workers' and Immigrants Rights Day.
Events leading up to the celebration began on April 23, with a forum designed to engage staff, faculty, students and community members in a dialogue about current immigrant rights issues. Created to recognize the efforts of Chicago laborers who led an eight-hour walkout in 1886, International Workers and Immigrants Rights Day was preceded today by a communal hug in front of Davidson Library.
Many campus laborers are utilizing the May Day holiday to discuss their concerns about local labor rights. At noon yesterday, students, faculty and staff gathered about the front entrance of the Davidson Library and engaged in a symbolic "hug." Bill Quirk, director of communications and education and University Council American Federation of Teachers local 2141 UCSB field representative, said 'Hug the Library' was intended as a campuswide event to heighten public knowledge about the effects of budget cuts on the university community.
"The library is a symbol of what we are doing here," Quirk said. "It is a major, central location, both physically and in terms of its delivery of education. It represents learning and the mission of undergraduate education."
Julian Posadas, member, organizer and executive vice president for American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Chapter 3299, said last year's May Day celebration was a great success due to increased student involvement.
According to Edwin Quintanilla, a second-year sociology major and member of the Salvadoran Student Union, the May Day celebration is a worthy tribute to immigrant workers and especially important in today's political atmosphere.
"[The] common ground of immigrant rights is even more relevant after the [U.S. presidential] elections," Quintanilla said.
Quirk said the salaries of UC librarians already trail that of community college and California State University librarians by 15 to 30 percent. With nearly 60 percent of UC undergraduate classes taught by non-tenured lecturers, he said, recent cuts to university funding are hurting the services that most directly benefit students.
According to Paul Desruisseaux, assistant vice chancellor of Public Affairs, these budget concerns are constantly being evaluated by university officials and strategies to benefit the campus may be forthcoming.
"The campus Coordinating Committee on Budget Strategy has been staging a series of meetings with vice chancellors and deans," Desruisseaux said. "They are anticipating the state budget being revisited and passed down. This is all in process right now."
Pete Villarreal, director of the Educational Opportunity Program, said the trickle-down effect of sticky Sacramento budget affairs – which has recently reduced some of EOP's staff – will result in a decrease in the quantity, and, in the long run, the quality of their services.
Today, concerned individuals in the local community will once again meet at noon in the Arbor and form a circle in the crowded breezeway. Speakers will then open the rally and remind onlookers of the past history of May Day and the future actions that must be taken to ensure immigrant's labor rights.
According to Posadas, marchers will then walk to the UCen, proceed to El Centro, then conclude at Cheadle Hall, where a union worker will revisit his struggles and provide a chance for others to speak out.
"May Day has become a day of consciousness. … A lot of issues come forward," Posadas said. "The march on campus brings awareness to labor issues at the university. It brings things out to the public and plugs them in. I think we'll have a good turn out."


AIADMK (Amma) faction leader TTV Dinakaran today sought bail in a special court and said while he was booked for graft charges, no public servant was made an accused in the Election Commission bribery case.
TTV Dinakaran is accused of allegedly arranging money, getting it transferred through illegal channels.
New Delhi: AIADMK (Amma) faction leader TTV Dinakaran today sought bail in a special court and said while he was booked for graft charges, no public servant was made an accused in the Election Commission bribery case.
Special Judge Poonam Chaudhry after hearing the arguments reserved the order on the bail application for May 31.
Mr Dinakaran's close associate Mallikarjuna, who was arrested with him on the night of April 25, also sought bail on the ground that no recovery was made at his instance and he had joined the investigation even though no summons were issued to him by the police.
The court also extended till June 12 judicial custody of Mr Dinakaran, Mallikarjuna, alleged middleman Sukesh Chandrashekar and alleged hawala operator Nathu Singh.
Co-accused Lalit Kumar, who was also alleged to be a hawala operator, is in judicial custody till June 5.
During the two-hour long hearing, senior advocate Aman Lekhi, appearing for Mr Dinakaran, argued that the police was desperate to keep the leader in custody and he cannot be denied bail on the ground that it was a serious case.
Senior advocate Mohit Mathur, appearing for Mallikarjuna, supported Mr Lekhi's argument that for invoking the graft law, there has to be a public servant accused in the case.
He said police arrested Mallikarjuna as he accompanied Mr Dinakaran and was a "convenient person to be arrested".
The counsel also said when the accused were arrested, police said they have to identify the Election Commission officials allegedly involved in the matter and after over a month, they are opposing the bail on the same ground.
Public Prosecutor Balbir Singh opposed Mr Dinakaran's bail plea, saying he was an influential person who could influence witnesses and tamper with the investigation.
Earlier, police had sought the consent of Mr Dinakaran and Mr Chandrashekar for taking voice samples but both had denied.
Mr Dinakaran was arrested here on the night of April 25 after four days of questioning for allegedly attempting to bribe unidentified Election Commission (EC) officials to get the undivided AIADMK's 'two leaves' election symbol.
His faction had hoped to obtain the symbol for the bypoll to the RK Nagar Assembly seat in Tamil Nadu, which was later on cancelled by the EC after the alleged irregularities were reported in the media.
Mr Dinakaran has been accused of allegedly arranging the money from undisclosed sources and getting it transferred from Chennai to Delhi through illegal channels.
Mallikarjuna was arrested for allegedly facilitating a Rs 50-crore deal between Mr Dinakaran and Mr Chandrashekar.


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Borsa, P., Durand, J. D., Shen, K. N., Arlyza, I. S., Solihin, D. D., & Berrebi, P. (2013). Himantura tutul sp nov (Myliobatoidei: Dasyatidae), a new ocellated whipray from the tropical Indo-West Pacific, described from its cytochrome-oxidase I gene sequence. Comptes Rendus Biologies, 336(2), 82–92.
Résumé: It has been previously established that the Leopard Whipray, Himantura leoparda, consists of two genetically isolated, cryptic species, provisionally designated as 'Cluster 1' and 'Cluster 4' (Arlyza et al., Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 65 (2013) [11). Here, we show that the two cryptic species differ by the spotting patterns on the dorsal surface of adults: Cluster-4 individuals tend to have larger-ocellated spots, which also more often have a continuous contour than Cluster-1 individuals. We show that H. leopard a's holotype has the typical larger-ocellated spot pattern, designating Cluster 4 as the actual H. leoparda. The other species (Cluster 1) is described as Himantura tutul sp. nov. on the basis of the nucleotide sequence of a 655-base pair fragment of its cytochrome-oxidase I gene (GENBANK accession No. JX263335). Nucleotide synapomorphies at this locus clearly distinguish H. tutul sp. nov. from all three other valid species in the H. uarnak species complex, namely H. leoparda, H. uarnak, and H. undulata. H. tutul sp. nov. has a wide distribution in the Indo-West Pacific, from the shores of eastern Africa to the Indo-Malay archipelago. H. leoparda under its new definition has a similarly wide Indo-West Pacific distribution. (C) 2013 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
Mots-Clés: Himantura leoparda, New species, Molecular taxonomy, COI, Cytochrome b; myliobatiformes dasyatidae, conservation, fisheries, indonesia, sharks,; rays, elasmobranchs, management, taxonomy, barcode
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Durand, J. D., Shen, K. N., Chen, W. J., Jamandre, B. W., Blel, H., Diop, K., et al. (2012). Systematics of the grey mullets (Teleostei: Mugiliformes: Mugilidae): Molecular phylogenetic evidence challenges two centuries of morphology-based taxonomy. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 64(1), 73–92.
Résumé: The family Mugilidae comprises mainly coastal marine species that a:e widely distributed in all tropical, subtropical and temperate seas. Mugilid species are generally considered to be ecologically important and they are a major food resource for human populations in certain parts of the world. The taxonomy and systematics of the Mugilidae are still much debated and based primarily on morphological characters. In this study, we provide the first comprehensive molecular systematic account of the Mugilidae using phylogenetic analyses of nucleotide sequence variation at three mitochondrial loci (16S rRNA, cytochrome oxidase 1, and cytochrome b) for 257 individuals from 55 currently recognized species. The study covers all 20 mugilid genera currently recognized as being valid. The family comprises seven major lineages that radiated early on from the ancestor to all current forms. All genera that were represented by two species or more, except Cestraeus, turned out to be paraphyletic or polyphyletic. Thus, the present phylogenetic results generally disagree with the current taxonomy at the genus level and imply that the anatomical characters used for the systematics of the Mugilidae may be poorly informative phylogenetically. The present results should provide a sound basis for a taxonomic revision of the mugilid genera. A proportion of the species with large distribution ranges (including Moolgarda seheli, Mugil cephalus and M. curema) appear to consist of cryptic species, thus warranting further taxonomic and genetic work at the infra-generic level. (c) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Mots-Clés: 16S rRNA; Cryptic species; Cytochrome b; Cytochrome oxidase I; Phylogeny; cephalus; divergence; fishes; gray mullets; mitochondrial-dna sequence; mtdna segments; pcr-rflp-analysis; ribosomal-rna genes; species mugilidae; striped mullet
MUTHS, D., TESSIER, E., & BOURJEA, J. (2015). Genetic structure of the reef grouper Epinephelus merra in the West Indian Ocean appears congruent with biogeographic and oceanographic boundaries. Marine Ecology-an Evolutionary Perspective, 36(3), 447–461.
Résumé: The reef fauna connectivity of the West Indian Ocean (WIO) is one of the least studied globally. Here we use genetic analyses of the grouper Epinephelus merra (Bloch 1793) to determine patterns of connectivity and to identify barriers to dispersal in this WIO marine area. Phylogeographic and population-level analyses were conducted on cytochrome b sequences and microsatellites (13 loci) from 557 individuals sampled in 15 localities distributed across the West Indian Ocean. Additional samples from the Pacific Ocean were used to benchmark the WIO population structure. The high level of divergence revealed between Indian and Pacific localities (of about 4.5% in sequences) might be the signature of the major tectonic and climatic changes operating at the Plio-Pleistocene transition, congruently with numerous examples of Indo-Pacific speciation. In comparison, the E. merra sequences from the Indian Ocean constitute a monophyletic clade with a low average genetic distance (d < 0.5%). However both genetic markers indicated some structure within this ocean. The main structure revealed was the isolation of the Maldives from the WIO localities (a different group signature identified by clustering analysis, great values of differentiation). Both marker types reveal further significant structure within the WIO, mainly the isolation of the Mascarene Islands (significant AMOVA and isolation-by-distance patterns) and some patchy structure between the northernmost localities and within the Mozambique Channel. The WIO genetic structure of E. merra appeared congruent with main biogeographic boundaries and oceanographic currents.
Mots-Clés: Cytochrome b; marine connectivity; microsatellite; reef fish; West Indian Ocean
http://www.umr-marbec.fr/r3fbas3/show.php?record=1436
Tran, T. T. V., Phan, L. K., & Durand, J. - D. (2017). Diversity and distribution of cryptic species within the Mugil cephalus species complex in Vietnam. Mitochondrial DNA Part A, 28(4-5), 493–501.
Résumé: Mugil cephalus sensu lato is a globally distributed complex of cryptic species whose distribution range and evolutionary history remains largely unknown. In the North West (NW) Pacific three species have been identified genetically among fish described morphologically as M. cephalus. Their distribution ranges are largely parapatric and has been proposed to mirror different thermal preferences. To date, few samples have been analyzed from South China Sea, which limits inferences on the evolutionary history of the species complex. We sampled fish identified morphologically as M. cephalus along Vietnamese shores and characterized them using the sequence polymorphism of two mitochondrial genes, the cytochrome oxidase I and cytochrome b. This demonstrated that all three species described in the NW Pacific are present in both northern and southern Vietnamese waters. Although the difference in species abundance reflects those observed in the NW Pacific, no phylogeographic pattern was revealed. In addition, no population structure was observed whatever the species or the distribution range considered, which indicates a significant level of gene flow that maintains genetic homogeneity of the three species. It is also conceivable that each species experienced a recent population expansion from a single ancestral population. Finally we suggest that if the cold waters of the NW Pacific present a physiologic challenge leading to the almost parapatric distribution of the three species, then it is likely that the warm surface temperatures of the South China Sea negate this barrier.
Mots-Clés: Cryptic species; cytochrome b; cytochrome oxidase I; divergence; genetic diversity; marginal seas; mitochondrial phylogeny; northwestern pacific; phylogeography; pleistocene isolation; population-growth; striped mullet; teleostei mugilidae


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Q: Make gradle.properties available in Java Question:  How can I make my test configuration information from the gradle.properties file available in java?
#gradle.properties file
#default browser configuration
browserName=chrome
browserVersion=latest

#default selenium configuration
seleniumHubURL=
seleniumPort=

#default environment configuration
envWebURL=
envAPIURL=

I figured I can add every property to the system properties and access it that way, but I figured there should be a more elegant solution.

A: I ended up using this plugin: https://github.com/mfuerstenau/gradle-buildconfig-plugin
I still feel like it's overkill to do something as simple as make build properties available at run time but after an hour of searching it seems like the best solution.

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'use strict'

const mongoose = require('mongoose')
const app = require('./app')
const config = require('./config')

mongoose.Promise = global.Promise;
mongoose.connect(config.db, (err, res) => {
    if (err) {
        return console.log(`[Error connecting to the database]: ${err}`)
    }
    console.log('Connexion to database established')

    app.listen(config.port, () => {
        console.log(`API listenning on port ${config.port}`)
    })
})

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Fraud in the Workplace with guest Tiffany Couch. CLOUSER and guest discuss a problem plagued by many businesses–both small and large businesses. Guest talks about the impact to revenue and other operating costs to a business from the impact of a fraudulent act. Couch discusses the profile of those committing fraud and how owners and management people are surprised when it is the last person they expected. Guest reveals the area where these acts occur. CLOUSER and guest discuss the role of internal controls and how they may or may not help to prevent fraud. Couch clarifies why an audit of financial statements cannot be relied upon to catch such acts. Guest shares some things a company can put in place to help prevent fraud. Couch explains she sometimes has to act as examiner and counselor to business owners and executives. Couch is author of the book The Thief in Your Company.


The space agency is prepping for an experiment involving a full-scale fire aboard an empty vessel.
On March 22, NASA will launch a Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station to send much-needed supplies to the crew in orbit. But after the astronauts move the cargo to the ISS and Cygnus disembarks, the real fun begins.
That's when NASA will conduct the first-ever experiment involving fire in space, which will go down aboard the empty Cygnus vehicle.
Short for Spacecraft Fire Experiment, Saffire-1 involves lighting a large-scale fire in zero-gravity, and observing the simulated disaster using video cameras on board.
"It's a big deal," Dan Tani, former astronaut and the senior director of mission and cargo operations for Orbital ATK (the company that makes and operates the Cygnus spacecraft) told Florida Today.
A fire aboard a spacecraft has never happened before — but it remains a serious concern for NASA and other space agencies around the world. Creating a fire on purpose using an expendable object is a unique opportunity to study how disaster would unfold in zero gravity or microgravity. We have almost no basis in the realm of space fires.
Saffire-1 could give NASA some insight as to how the space agency can limit the spread of a fire onboard a spacecraft and — more importantly — protect astronauts or get them to safety.
In addition, NASA thinks the experiment may also have some practical implications down here on Earth. "Studying fire in small, sealed environments, such as the Cygnus cargo supply vehicle, benefits fire safety and prevention efforts on Earth, including inside mines, airplanes or submarines," NASA said in its summary of the experiment.
We can't wait to see the footage later this month.


The index in the Hodder edition was inadequate. So I have completely redone it for the OUP edition. The pagination is the same, so the index can be used for both.
Website maintained by Sue Blackmore. This page was created on 11 August 2003 and last modified on 30 May 2017 at 13:29.


Roll With It is creating a Reality Show Series about travel aboard their converted BUS!
Thank you all for enjoying and interacting with our videos! We are so happy to have connected with so many awesome people around the country already! Our names are Scott and Kayley from youtube.com/rollwithit.
We have the MOST POPULAR School Bus Conversion-turned-RV series on YouTube and now we make a traveling documentary series (posting every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday) about living inside our self-built SKOOLIE. As we tour the country along with our two dogs we are scouting new communities and locations to settle down and open a coffee shop!
This is a little bit about who we are, why we are doing this, and how we got to this point on the map.
I (Scott Pellegrino) was born and raised on Long Island in New York. Kayley Jaye is from Los Angeles, California.
With us is our 10 year old rescue mutt; O.G. (Oscar the Grouch) and his newly rescued little brother, 6 month old; VOX.
I moved to Los Angeles with a TV production resume, ambition and my Yamaha R1000 motorcycle in the summer of 2009. On July 28th, 2015, I was in a motorcycle wreck that broke my spine, right collar bone, left forearm and 5 ribs. I suffered a major head injury and was in a coma for 11 days. I had multiple surgeries, months of rehab, and continue to deal with the after effects of the injuries I sustained; including the 2 rods now fastened to my spine with the 12 screws that secure them to 6 of my vertebrae (T1-T6 fusion), the scar tissue and hardware used to rebuild the shattered bones in my left forearm, the two plates that put my collar bone back together, and the medical bills to take care of all these repercussions for the rest of my life.
A split second, someone else's illegal left turn, and I almost died. My near death experience has given me clarity, has defined for me that living without happiness is not really living. Life is fleeting. And not in our control. I didn't want to work another 14 hour day with the goal to make another person rich. I wanted joy. I craved adventure. I needed a Tiny House on Wheels to take me & Kayley to locations that are legendary and, more important, to locations that we haven't even heard of yet! Because I'm still here, and the 'why' in that outcome is exciting and deserves to be explored!
I once traveled around California for half a year with a 31' travel trailer but decided a road trip this epic needed something bigger to fit our whole family. We needed a bus! So we did our research and discovered that The Skoolie Community is everywhere, knowledgeable and kind! We bought the bus in Oregon, drove to Los Angles, packed and pointed east to Riverhead, NY. We converted the bus with the help of friends and family on Long Island in NY from May 2017 through December 2017.
When NUMBER 93 was fully converted, we began to roll with it to visit every state in the union. We plan to spend a minimum of 3 days to a maximum of 1 month in each state culminating with a skoolie convoy to Alaska the summer of 2019.
Kayley and I have made a list of specific events and locations we have always wanted to experience and we're hitting them! We just left the Gorge Amphitheater in Central Washington for the Sasquatch Music Festival and it was unforgettable.
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Campus Life
One of the striking aspects of the college is its residential status and for this, the campus houses four dedicated Hostels for the students.
The college has four dedicated dining halls for the students and one for the faculty & staff members. healthy, sustainable meals.
The day's work in the hostels begins with prayer in the shrines. This is repeated in the evening. Though each student has the freedom to follow his own faith.
RKMRC Speak
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The College was established on the Ashrama campus in July 1960. Affiliated to the University of Calcutta, its first batch of students commenced classes in August 1960.
The college publishes a biennial magazine called ABHIH. Students & teachers can find for themselves a suitable medium of self-expression in the pages of this magazine.
Cultural Programmes
The hallmark of the campus life is numerous activities, academic and non-academic, that are organised both at the college and the hostels throughout the year.
Co-curricular activities like participation in game, acting, singing, recitation, debates, music, drama, etc., help in achieving overall functioning of education.
Athletics & Fitness
Regular training is given to the students to develop skills in sports, physical exercises and athletics.
A twelve station Multigym was installed at the Brahmananda Bhavana kitchen complex.
N.C.C. & N.S.S.
The college has active N.C.C. and N.S.S. wings. Every year cadets pass the N.C.C. 'B' and 'C' certificate examinations.
The Ashrama has a well-equipped hospital (Arogya Bhavana) with 27 beds. Qualified doctors are in regular attendance, and some specialists visit every week. Outdoor treatment is offered everyday and when necessary, the boys are admitted to the hospital for indoor care. There is a free charitable dispensary attached to the hospital which looks after the health of local Harijan population.


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Take-Two Boss Gets Big Bonuses If The Company Sells Enough Microtransactions and DLC
Joshua Rivera
Filed to:Take Two
Image: NBA 2K19
On Monday, April 15—tax day in America—Take-Two Interactive Software shared with its investors a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission to register 315,315 new shares of company stock. The filing (Form S-3) is a pretty run-of-the-mill document, used whenever companies go public or, through various circumstances, may have more shares available to put on the market. But in corporate finance, oversight committees require context, so filings refer to several other filings. If you read all the paperwork, you can learn a little bit more about the business of video games. Or, specifically, how one CEO might benefit from a contentious aspect of the industry: microtransactions.
As part of the filing's prospectus—the part of the document included to give the involved parties a complete picture of what's being registered, how, and why—the form breaks down the reason for the filing. Namely, that Take-Two is issuing its management company, ZelnickMedia, 315,315 units of Restricted Stock. In corporate finance, Restricted Stock is stock in a company that, for all intents and purposes, doesn't really count—at least, not until certain conditions are met. Think of it as a sort of IOU for actual stock, cash, or some combination of the two, payable upon the fulfillment of previously agreed-to terms.
According to the filing, those terms are laid out in a 2014 Management Agreement between Take-Two and ZelnickMedia. Part of that agreement details stock incentives, and those incentives are where microtransactions begin to factor into executive bonuses.
Per the Incentive Plan, some Restricted Units are designated to vest (become actual stock, or awarded as cash) as a "Time-Based Award" after several years, as long as certain requirements are met. Others, however, are designated to vest under a "Performance-Based Award." There are several categories of Performance-Based award. One is determined by sales of games and merchandise, another by the company's share price. A third is something called Recurrent Consumer Spending.
Recurrent Consumer Spending is the filing's preferred term for all in-game spending: microtransactions, virtual currency, and add-on content. It designates a range of restricted units that will vest based on how much customers spend on them. There are between 13,986 and 27,972 of these units, by the way, with the lower number being the target amount and the higher one being the maximum number of units that can vest. If spending is stagnant or fallow, these units do not vest and are worthless. If it's an okay-to-good year for in-game spending, the units will vest at 50%, or even 100%. And if in-game spending exceeds expectations, the units vest at 200%.
Here's an example of what that looks like. First, keep in mind that all of these restricted units don't vest for two years and hinge on the company's stock price, so there's no telling what they'd be worth exactly, if anything at all. But let's say these units allocated to Recurrent Consumer Spending vested today, and that Take-Two's games sold enough microtransactions and add-on content to earn ZelnickMedia shares for every restricted unit it was issued. Since Take-Two is trading at $90.41/share at the time that this is written, that means that selling more microtransactions to customers could net ZelnickMedia anywhere from $1,264,614.12 to as much as $2,529,228.24.
Once again, this is not the only kind of performance-based incentive—even at the maximum number of units potentially allocated to Recurrent Consumer Spending (which is 27,972), we're only talking about roughly 9% of the total restricted units issued. Many more restricted units are marked for other kinds of performance-based incentives, like games and merch sales, share growth, and also just plain-old adherence to the management agreement for the next two years. (Another thing to keep in mind: While the firm bears his name, CEO Strauss Zelnick is only entitled to 60% of what Take-Two pays it.)
None of this is new—a 2017 Motley Fool article cited this management agreement between Take-Two and ZelnickMedia as a key reason for the company's consistently good performance on the stock market, and it makes sense. From top to bottom, the entire machine is aligned with the same financial goals, and the execs at the very top get a big payday if they make sure everyone is working towards them.
As the company behind long-running, regularly-supported cash cows like Grand Theft Auto V and the NBA 2K series—both titles that are notorious for raking in real-world dollars in exchange for virtual ones—it makes sense that Take-Two would have an incentive structure that taps right into what's proven to be a very rich vein. It also suggests a reason for the overreach of some games, like NBA 2K19's Virtual Currency nightmare. When asked for more details about its incentive plan and microtransaction strategy, Take-Two declined to comment.
Corporations exist to make money, and microtransactions—a way to make more money off a game after it is sold—make cold, capitalist sense. Why make money off a game once, when you can do it indefinitely? And if that system works, then why not add in incentives for CEOs to make sure that they keep the money train rolling? Maybe companies now have more reasons than ever to try and include microtransactions—because they gave themselves a million or two.
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The Southeast Valley Jaguar girl's basketball team hit the road, on Friday, February 1st. After a hard fought battle, the Jaguars fell to the East Sac Raiders 69-74. The Jags ended the first quarter trailing 10-20. The girls brought the hustle in the second quarter to pump out twenty-one offensive points, closing the gap entering half-time, 31-35. At the end of the third quarter, the Jaguars trailed 48-56. With three minutes left in the fourth quarter the Jags were down 55-68, but rallied to produce fourteen points, (ten of those points in the last minute of the game).
Mady Jaeschke led the Jaguars with a double-double, scoring 14 points and grabbing 11 boards. Emily Jaeschke supported the team effort with 13 points, 4 steals, and 4 assists. Morgan Castenson lit it up from behind the arch, connecting on 4 three-points to add 12 points, and found her teammates to dish out an impressive 8 assists. Jaynie Ferrari brought the hustle to add 12 points and 6 rebounds for the Jaguars. Kenzie Crampton muscled in 11 points to help fuel the Jaguar effort. Cassi Berglund finished with 5 points (including a three-pointer) and dished out 3 assists. Chloe Hicks provided some quality defensive effort to aid the Jaguars and collected 2 points from the charity stripe.


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Interview with Dr Jean-Michel Lecerf: How can low calorie sweeteners be useful in weight management?
ISA travelled to Lille on May 26-28 and in the context of the « Journees d'Etudes » of the AFDN Congress, met with Dr Jean-Michel Lecerf, who gave an interview about low calorie sweeteners.
Dr Lecerf, who is an Associated Professor and Head of the Nutrition Department at Institut Pasteur de Lille, France, was asked about the role and benefits of low calorie sweeteners in weight management but also about obesity and the factors affecting it, weight management tools etc.
Q : Your scientific interest is around the role of nutrition in non-communicable diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. What motivated you to start your research on this area?
DR LECERF : As an endocrinologist, the areas of metabolic diseases and nutrition triggered my interest from the very beginning, because both topics were important from a research and prevention perspective, but also from a medical treatment point of view.
Q : Obesity is one of the most important public health challenges and has been linked to non-communicable diseases like diabetes and CVDs. Which factors are more likely to be the cause of obesity: Genetics, poor diet, physical inactivity and the lack of exercise?
DR LECERF : Energy balance, which is the balance between energy intake and energy expenditure, plays an important role in weight gain. But we are all unique: genetics, epigenetics and microbiota are the cause of this inequality. In terms of public health, social inequality, stress, dietary imbalance, poverty and ignorance are also important factors.
Q : Do you believe that obesity complications like hypertension or insulin resistance can be reversible with weight loss?
DR LECERF : Indeed, hypertension, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia can be partly or completely reversible, depending on the severity or duration of the disease.
Q : Do you think that obese people can be metabolically healthy, or is weight loss indispensable for all overweight and obese people?
DR LECERF : All overweight people do not have the same profile in terms of causes and effects. There are obese people who are metabolically healthy but may encounter consequences of obesity. For a same body weight, body composition and fat distribution also need to be taken into consideration. Similarly, an overweight person who is active, has a healthy diet, and no other risk factors may not need lose weight, but only avoid gaining weight!
Q : What in your scientific experience is more important in weight management? A low calorie diet, regular exercise, or equally both?
DR LECERF : Both factors are equally important. But most important is to adopt balanced, non-restrictive, dietary behaviors and have a positive relationship with food, to feel again our food sensations, integrating food enjoyment in our behavior.
Q : Would you recommend the use of low calorie, low fat, low sugar foods and drinks in a weight loss diet? If so, how could they be helpful?
DR LECERF : Yes, of course, you have to learn to eat less, but without feeling frustrated. It's part of a whole education. Someone can reduce the amount of food and/ or choose foods which contain fewer calories but they must not fall into the cognitive restriction, that is to say turning dietary control into a painful experience.
Q : What would your advice be to people considering using low calorie sweeteners, and foods/ drinks containing them to help manage their weight?
DR LECERF : These people need to couple this with a balanced diet as using low calorie sweeteners or consuming food containing them would not be beneficial if the dietary choices and the level of physical activity are not satisfactory. However using low calorie sweeteners can already be useful in helping people comply better with their diet.
Q : Some observational studies have suggested a link between low calorie sweeteners and obesity, while clinical studies in humans support that low calorie sweeteners can help in weight loss. How would you explain these conflicting results?
DR LECERF : The link between low calorie sweetener consumption and obesity exists, however the relationship between these is not that using low calorie sweeteners leads to obesity, but rather the other way round, ie. being obese encourages to consume low calorie sweeteners (to reduce energy intake).
An observational study has shown that people who gained weight or just lost some tend to consume low calorie sweeteners more frequently.
Q : Would you recommend the use of low calorie sweeteners to other groups of people, like for example to people with diabetes or cardiovascular diseases?
DR LECERF : Low calorie sweeteners are not a necessary requirement in order to lose weight but they are useful. All intervention studies show that they help in weight loss, including abdominal fat loss, which is a risk factor for diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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Big Wine: Good or Evil?
The rise of "big" wine—ripe, rich, with lots of fruit and alcohol—is hugely controversial. Two top experts argue about whether bigger is better.
By Peter Hellman Updated March 31, 2015
Suddenly it seems as if the shelves of wine shops have been simultaneously invaded by a new species. Bred predominantly but not exclusively in places like California and Australia, these bottlings are markedly different from the traditional wines of countries like France and Italy—different not only in taste and texture but in alcohol levels and aging potential. Loved by some, loathed by others, these recent arrivals have come to be called, somewhat inadequately, big wines.
But are big wines too much of a good thing? To debate the relative merits of big versus traditional wines, F&W invited a proponent of each style to share his views. Making the case for big wine was Brian Duncan, the wine director of Chicago's Bin 36 restaurant and the Great Lakes Fish House in Lincolnshire, Illinois. Robert Bohr, wine director of Cru restaurant in New York City, rose to the defense of traditional wines.
Styles Defined
Q: What exactly are big wines?
Duncan: Big wines are about power and pleasure and simple, unabashed hedonism. Made from grapes that are totally ripe, they're wines with big, rich flavors, a generous amount of fruit and relatively high alcohol levels—15 percent and more. They're also precocious; that is, they're ready to drink upon release, although many will benefit from cellaring. A great example of a big, intense wine that has proved to age well is the Pride Mountain Vineyards Cabernet made by the highly regarded Bob Foley.
Q: And how would you define traditional wines?
Bohr: Traditional wines are generally lower in alcohol than big wines and they're also more subtle, less about power and more about finesse. They also age more gracefully. A lot of these big wines are low in acid and therefore won't age well. And most cult Cabs are too new for anyone to know how they'll age. Traditional wines, however, have proved themselves. They are truly wines of terroir—wines that reflect their origin, the specific place they come from. While terroir may be an overused word, it is entirely apt when describing traditional wines. In Burgundy, for instance, there is a difference in the terroirs of Chablis and Chassagne-Montrachet. Although both regions produce Chardonnay, the wines aren't likely to be mistaken for each other. That isn't always true for big wines.
Duncan: I think you're heading into dangerous territory by invoking terroir, Robert. In blind tastings, even French winemakers have mistaken California Chardonnays for their own Chassagne-Montrachets—although some 5,000 miles and a lot of difference in terroir separate the two areas. I'm thinking of wines from California producers like Peter Michael and Mark Aubert.
Q: What grapes do you think have the ability to produce the most outstanding big wines?
Duncan: Grenache, Syrah and Zinfandel have the greatest potential for big flavor. Not every grape varietal is suited to this style. For example, I don't think Pinot Noir is suited to be a big wine. There are California Pinots with 16 percent alcohol that taste more like Syrah. I love big wines, but I have an aversion to wines like that.
Bohr: I agree with you there, Brian. To me, the argument for varietal correctness—for Syrahs that taste like Syrah and Pinots that taste like Pinot—is at the heart of my argument in favor of traditional wines. Pinot Noir needs to taste like itself, which, frankly, it does best when it comes from Burgundy.
Q: Can we start tasting some of the wines you both brought? Robert, tell us about the 2000 Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier Chambolle-Musigny.
Bohr: This red Burgundy is silky and fragrant, with wonderful floral aromas; I think it proves you don't need a wine packed with lots of extra-ripe fruit or excess alcohol to experience pleasure. Because it's from an off vintage, it's a terrific value—around $50 a bottle—though it's admittedly light-bodied even by traditional wine standards.
Duncan: I love it, but a wine novice won't get it. What they will get is this 2000 Henschke Keyneton Estate Euphonium, an Australian Shiraz blend. Here's a wine that's a lesson in how a big wine can have power and richness but not be excessive. It's big, but not brutal. The key is its balance of fruit, acidity, tannins and alcohol.
Bohr: I think this Euphonium's alcohol verges on obtrusive. Still, I'll admit it's not an offensive example in a category full of offensive wines.
Big Wine Origins
Q: When did the current vogue for big wines get its start?
Duncan: I'd point to the late 1990s, when the Turley Zins coming out of California—wines with more than 16 percent alcohol—became a cult phenomenon. Before Turley, not many wine drinkers had experienced wines with such power and layers of flavor. The wines got big scores from the critics and became highly allocated, expensive and, of course, sought-after. I think that's when big wines really took off.
Bohr: Brian's right. Critics, notably Robert M. Parker, Jr., have favored fruitier, more alcoholic wines with high scores. On a table crowded with samples, big wines speak the loudest. And it's not only Zinfandel but other varietals as well. The highest scoring California Cabs have become alcohol monsters.
Q: Was there ever a time when California wines were closer to traditional European wines in style?
Bohr: The great Napa Valley Cabernets from the 1970s were a mere 12 to 13 percent alcohol, just like traditional Bordeaux. And those Cabernets were more ageworthy.
Q: Behrens & Hitchcock's 2004 "Cemetery" Cab blend weighs in at 16.1 percent alcohol. How do wines get to be that high in alcohol?
Duncan: It's not an unnatural development; higher alcohol levels are a natural outcome when grapes are grown in warmer new-world climates. In California, for instance, grapes ripen to sugar levels that winemakers in Bordeaux can only fantasize about. High sugars translate to high alcohol. In the good old days winemakers also used to harvest their grapes according to sugar levels, not according to flavor ripeness. Now winemakers know that the two things are not the same. Today they wait until they get the flavors—phenolics is their term—totally ripe. So yes, you do get more alcohol but you also get more flavor. And not only in the New World but in the Old World as well. Try this Spanish red, the 2004 Vinos Piñol Ludovicus Terra Alta. It's fruity, but also balanced and fresh. It's a great buy at only $10 a bottle.
Bohr: Even at a modest price, it's way too simple. Everyone will love it. It's like Monet. Who doesn't love Monet?
Duncan: There has to be a place for wine neophytes to begin. Just like Monet is for art neophytes, this Ludovicus is for wine neophytes. I say start them on Monet and as they gain perspective, they'll get to Pollock.
Bohr: I don't accept that only fruit monsters can turn people on to wine. Here's a wonderful white that would engage any attentive beginner, the grand cru 2000 Domaine René & Vincent Dauvissat Les Preuses Chablis. It's restrained, yet the flavors fill the mouth. And it doesn't hit you over the head.
Pairing Points
Q: Let's talk about how big and traditional wines pair with food. Isn't it hard to match big wines with food?
Bohr: Absolutely. Most big wines have little natural acidity because they're so ripe. Yet acidity in wine is what enlivens food. If you want to enjoy a plate of oysters, drink a lean, high-acid Chablis. If you want to ruin the experience, choose a low-acid new-world Chardonnay.
Duncan: I'm not saying I would suggest that someone dining at one of my restaurants order a full-bodied wine with lots of oak to accompany something delicate like poached turbot or seared bay scallops. But it is exactly the style of wine I'd propose if the person was having, say, lobster in a cream sauce.
Bohr: But delicate dishes aren't the only foods that are wrong with big wines. There can be problems pairing big wine with hearty dishes, too. At best, some fruit-bomb big wine can only coexist rather than be a partner to a dish like a simple leg of lamb roasted with rosemary and garlic. But a traditional wine like a classic Bordeaux with a bit of tannin and not too much overt fruit is the perfect foil to a dish like that.
Duncan: Well, if you bring that same fancy Bordeaux to a backyard barbecue, it probably won't show well. Nor will it stand up to a leg of venison rubbed with blackened spices. Those are occasions and dishes that are made for a wine with lots of ripe, juicy fruit, whether it's a California Zinfandel, a Grenache from Spain or any Rhône-style wine from the New World.
Bohr: Traditional wines have more to offer than just fruitiness. They have other, more subtle flavors that work even better with food. For example, to bring out the earthiness of a wild mushroom risotto, you can't do better than a mature Barolo, which has equally earthy flavors, not just a bunch of overt fruit.
Duncan: My best food-pairing advice is to match the intensity of the wine to the dish. The wine should never overshoot the food, and vice versa.
Q: Robert, is there ever an occasion where you might drink a big wine?
Bohr: Maybe at the end of a long meal where I've shared 10 bottles of traditional wines, and I feel like I need something to whack me over the head so I'll sleep through the night. Then I'd go for a classic like Penfolds Grange from Australia.
Q: Is there a big wine that both of you could admire?
Duncan: What about this 2001 Tommaso Bussola BG Amarone della Valpolicella Classico from Veneto? It's made from late-harvested, air-dried grapes. It's a full-bodied, high-alcohol wine that's big and traditional. It's hugely fruity, yet wonderfully textured.
Bohr: I'll admit that this Amarone has complex aromatics as well as lots of big flavors. Another thing I like is its typicity—it's an Amarone that tastes like an Amarone. Plus, unlike most big wines, it will age.
Peter Hellman, a regular F&W contributor, writes the Urban Vintage column for the New York Sun.


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First things first – the thought of rubbing black stuff all over my teeth is kind of exciting. Feels so wrong but so so right. Am I Cinderella? Probably not but who's judging.
Second – the need for teeth whitening was paramount. I am a twice-daily coffee drinker and that definitely takes it's toll – amongst other guilty pleasures. I used a kit from the dentist back in the day for my brother's wedding that made my teeth SO sensitive I actually cried, (not even being over the top). So really, before I started I was looking for something that DID NOT HURT.
The whitening gels were not white… they are black. It feels fun because it's counterintuitive. That putting black stuff on your teeth ACTUALLY makes them white. I was already having fun and the main show hadn't even started… it's the little things right?!!
NO! After my first experience with teeth whitening I was scared off using something again but after being reassured this was pain-free I was willing to give it a try! Safe to say, they delivered on the promise and I would not hesitate to use this again on my sensitive tooth pegs.
I am happy to say my teeth are whiter from the kit. My teeth had started to look noticeably more yellow and I had been avoiding teeth whitening kits. I am very pleased that my teeth are now whiter, especially at the base of my teeth where the colour was worst. Would highly recommend trying, especially as the kit is so affordable – which was another noticeable difference to the take-home kit I purchased at the dentist!


Former Observer reporter and current English teacher Heather Walker offered a column this week about something that's been on her mind for a long time.
Sounds good to me. I've been derailed by a pair of grandkids for the past week.
"Did you see that little white ring? It looked like a Life Saver. It looked like a Life Saver up in the sky." Those lucky enough to find themselves in the "path of totality" of Monday's eclipse might have seen that Life Saver in the sky. Morenci residents saw something more like a crescent moon.
The quote comes from Annie Dillard's essay "Total Eclipse," one of my favorite essays to teach. It describes Dillard's surreal experience witnessing a total eclipse in Washington State's Yakima Valley in 1979. To clarify the otherworldliness of the event, Dillard noted that "seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him." It made her temporarily insane.
The Life Saver comment was significant because it was the first thing Dillard heard after the eclipse that made sense. She said she "grabbed that Life Saver and rode it to the surface," apparently back to lucidity.
I can relate. Anyone who has ever had ocular focus issues or "wonky vision" (as I can best describe it), has probably taken a turn with Life Saver Cards. The ingenious, yet simple cards display four pairs of red and green circles (i.e. Life Savers) at increasing distance from one another. The vision therapy calls for you to look at the space between the Life Savers until wonky, binocular madness takes over and you see four circles. The trick is to pull the two center rings together into one focused BROWN one. It takes some practice. A lot of practice. But when the imaginary candies merge perfectly into one—ahhh—it's like releasing a knot of tension in your eyes and brain.
I got pretty good at my Life Saver Cards and after a few months, hardly needed to use them. My optometrist told me this was because my eyes were finally working together. Which was nice.
The weird thing is, a few months later I experienced a nearly identical physical release from a completely different process. It was late in the school year, and my senior honors literature students were digging into some college-level literary analysis. We had read Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," and we were plodding through some fairly difficult analysis—comparing Willie Loman to Adam (of Adam and Eve fame), looking at the entire story through the lens of both the American Dream and the Tragic Hero—I think there may have even been some Freud or Jung somewhere in the mix. I'll admit, it had been a while since I had dug into a master's thesis offering five different, yet simultaneous, approaches to literary analysis. My brain was, well, a little wonky.
And then all at once it became clear. The ideas made sense, the sentences flowed from one complex suggestion to another with ease. The red and green Life Savers fused into amazing brown ones in the center of my brain. And I felt physically relaxed, calm and satisfied.
I believe the experience is related to overcoming what psychologists refer to as the uncomfortable state of "cognitive dissonance," a condition when our thoughts are inconsistent with our beliefs or attitudes, and sometimes even our realities. I tell my students it's when something is so frustrating that it feels like your brain is peeling apart from the center and there's nothing you can do about it.
Being able to "see" both literally and figuratively, being able to have an "aha!" moment that solves a problem or to understand why things are the way they are—or even to come back to reality after a phenomenon as absurd as a total eclipse—these things have a sublime psychological, as well as physical effect on us. Nothing feels better than clarity.
In these uncertain times, I think many of us are feeling desperate levels of cognitive dissonance, or perhaps more subtle, generalized wonkiness that eats away at our nerves.
What would any of us give to find that Life Saver of confidence and ride it back to the surface?


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The First 3D Printing Facility in Space Is Open for Business!
If you're ever zooming around in space and find yourself in need of a 3D printer, just stop by the International Space Station. On March 26, the ISS became equipped with a permanent 3D printer, supplied by privately held Made In Space and partner Lowe's (NYSE:LOW) Innovation Labs, the innovative hub of the home retailer. The 3D printer was among cargo delivered to the orbiting lab as part of Orbital ATK's fifth commercial resupply mission for NASA, and it's available for use by NASA and others for a fee.
The AMF is an extrusion-based 3D printer that has a build envelope of 14 cm (w) x 10 cm (d) x 10 cm (h) — equivalent to about 5.5 x 3.9 x 3.9 inches. In addition to having a larger print volume than its predecessor, it also has expanded materials capabilities. Initially, it will print in more than 30 polymers, including ABS (which is the plastic from which Legos are made), HDPE, and PEI/PC, but it's designed to print with other materials as they become approved for ISS operations. The printer's resolution capabilities are in the 0.1-to-0.44-millimeter range, depending upon material.
The 3D printer can be operated locally and remotely, including from Earth. This remote operability feature opens up the AMF for commercial use, as it allows Made In Space personnel and customers on Earth to upload designs to be 3D-printed. It also provides backup support to those operating the AMF locally.
Popular prices? Nay, of course! But it is so cool to have a 3d printed object from outer space!
NASA and other customers will pay Made In Space to use the AMF. The cost will generally range from $6,000 to $30,000 for one print job, Made In Space's head of product strategy, Spencer Pitman, told Tech Crunch, though there are discounts for education initiatives. Pitman said that the company already has orders from more than 20 customers, including for medical research components, parts for satellites and other spacecraft, and parts for school projects, according to Tech Crunch.
Anyway, NASA's target is clear. Roughly 30% of spare parts on the ISS can be 3d-printed, and NASA spent so far around $1.2 billion to send "traditional" spare parts. Then, NASA is studying also the 3D printing for the Mars project. There, it would be impossible to send spare parts from Earth!
Luca Ruggeri
• May 8, 2016


Research in Motion has announced that the 7Digital online music store will come pre-installed on the Blackberry PlayBook tablet.
7Digital, which was already available as an app on Blackberry smartphones, is an online music store that allows users to browse, preview and purchase music from a catalogue of over 13 million DRM-free music tracks from Warner, Universal, EMI, and Sony.
RIM said the store, which will be on the Blackberry PlayBook when it launches in the US and Canada, will see an international roll-out as well. Users will be able to search for tracks based on albums and artists and preview them before making a purchase.
7Digital's music recommendation technology will let users discover new music, enhancing their in-app experience. RIM also added that the song prices on the PlayBook app will match the pricing on 7Digital.com.
With the 7Digital music store, RIM is hoping to create a product ecosystem similar to the one Apple has created between iTunes and iOS devices.


Professional baseball player J ohnny Damon established The Johnny Damon Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)3, to raise and donate funds to charitable organizations. The Foundation assists local and national programs that provide leadership and growth opportunities for disadvantaged children at risk.
Johnny Damon Foundation has relationships with Dr. David Weinstein's GSD III Program at The University of Florida, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Edgewood Boys Ranch and Arnold Palmer Children's Hospital.
With Johnny's strong ties to the Orlando, Florida community, charitable needs there are given a stronger preference.
The Johnny Damon Foundation is a non-profit 501(c) (3) organization.
Registration number: CH21900 "A copy of the official registration and financial information may be obtained from the Division of Consumer Services by calling toll-free (800-435-7352) within the state." Registration does not imply endorsement, approval, or recommendation by the state.
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Q: MOSFET load switch design help I would like some assistance designing a MOSFET load switch for use in an 12 volt automotive circuit to run a fuel pump controlled by a raspberry pi.
I would like for it to be able to deliver 25 amps continuously no heat sink if possible. I have a P channel MOSFET in mind the ATP304. Problem is I have no Idea if it's a good choice also I have no idea where to start designing a switch.
I have the ULN2803A darlington driver with 4 of it's channels paralleled to drive a solenoid, 2 individual channels of the ULN2803A driving 2 LEDs with the 2 remaining channels of the ULN2803A I was hoping to make use of it by possibly driving the load switch ATP304 MOSFET.
Is it a good idea to use ULN2803A to drive the P channel ATP304 gate?
If it is can someone assist me in designing a load switch with appropriate resistors, filter capacitors etc?
*Expected voltage input: 11 - 16 volts
*there will be electrical noise from alternator
*I expect a 15 amp draw continuous but I would like it to be capable of 25 amps or so just in case later I can reuse the PSU design in a different circuit configuration
*device will be installed in a cooler stop in the engine bay.
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A: Extract from ATP304 data sheet: -

Power dissipation is typically 3.25 watts but assume 4 watts or more as an acceptable extreme.
However, I would drop that device - the data sheet doesn't give the thermal resistance when mounted on a PCB hence, it's impossible to design this device into an application. It's going to be dissipating over 3 watts so, without the thermal data it's guesswork. Choose a different part is my advice.
When you have found a device that suits, get the thermal resistance and back-calculate what the junction temperature will reach with 4 watts of dissipation.

Is it a good idea to use ULN2803A to drive the P channel ATP304 gate?

Well, ignoring the issues about the ATP304 that make it unsuitable yes, using a ULN2803A is fine for driving the gate (10 kohm pull-up required of course). But there's a wider issue in automotive environments to do with excessive voltages due to load dumps and cranking the car producing significant voltages that can fly-along the 12 volt system and wreak havoc with inadequately protected electronics: -

Picture from Self-Protecting MOSFETs Deliver Improved Reliability in the Harsh Environment of Automotive Applications.
There is also the issue that most (if not all) car manufacturers use what is known as high-side switches for these types of applications and frown upon the poor unreliability of an unprotected MOSFET: -

Picture from here in an article entitled Automotive Smart High-Side Switch by Infineon.

I would like some assistance designing a MOSFET load switch for use in
  an 12 volt automotive circuit to run a fuel pump controlled by a
  raspberry pi.

So, if something goes wrong and the MOSFET goes short circuit, it will continue to run the fuel pump until what happens? Most relays (yes, relays) that ran fuel pumps require a pulsing signal to keep them activated thus preventing a software issue keeping them switched on all the time. This was common place in the 1980s although I can't speak for all vehicle types. I can speak for Audi though because I had one and the fuel pump relay failed and it would only activate for ten seconds before cutting out the engine. I swapped the relay with a non-pulsing type (probably for the headlamps) and drove home and fixed the broken relay with a bit of solder and swapped back.
It's up to you what you use but, be warned about power dissipation and using unprotected MOSFETs that can go short circuit when failed.


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A kisváros turisztikailag a búvármerüléseken túl nem sok látnivalót kínál. A környékbeli bányákból származó foszfátásványok exportjának a központja. Évente igazából csak egyszer elevenedik meg, ugyanis itt szállnak hajóra az éves zarándoklatra a Mekkába készülő muszlimok.

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Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer star in this Emmy®- and Golden Globe® Award–winning comedy, one of television's highest-rated and most-beloved shows. With its outstanding writing and signature characters, this smart, sophisticated take on a group of young adult friends offers a hilarious look at the anxieties and absurdities of becoming responsible adults. You'll feel these six friends are your own as you share the laughs and frustrations that come with being young and single in the big city. In season five, in the aftermath of Ross' bungled wedding in which he calls his bride-to-be by Rachel's name, Ross moves in with Chandler and Joey. Monica and Chandler secretly date — but one by one, their friends find out. Plus, Rachel gets a great new job and Phoebe gives birth to triplets. Recurring guest star Michael Rapaport appears as a cop who wants to date Phoebe.
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You just couldn't tell them apart! Little Miss Twin, and Little Miss Twin of course! They live in a country called Twoland where there's two of everything! Two is better than one, surely.
The twins like repeating themselves, two two, sausages sausages, town town!