According to new studies recently reported on at conference in Europe by two Belgian anesthesiologists, Fabienne Roelants, MD, and Christine Watremez, MD, the combination of hypnosis and local anesthesia can aid in healing and reduce the amount of drugs used, as well as recuperation time in the hospital, in both breast and thyroid surgeries.
The doctors reported their experience using a combination of medical hypnosis and local anesthesia in certain breast surgeries and video-assisted surgeries to remove the thyroid gland.
The hypnosis was induced in the operating room, and was induced with a respected physician-developed hypnotic technique involving eye fixation and progressive muscle relaxation that is known as the Erickson approach.
The surgeon administered local anesthesia, and in the other groups, general anesthesia.
The physicians found that use of drugs and pain medications was lower, and length of hospital stay shorter, in the group who had the hypnosis/local anesthesia versus the group who had general anesthesia.
In a statement about their findings, Dr. Roelants said: "local anesthesia is feasible but not, on its own, sufficient to ensure patient comfort.In an interview with Medscape News, Dr. Roelants and Dr. Watremez said: "This is not the first study using hypnosis in thyroidectomy patients, but it is the first study using hypnosis for video-assisted thyroidectomy. It takes special training in hypnotic techniques, especially the techniques that reduce anxiety and pain. In our hospital, almost half of our staff will be trained in hypnosis at the end of this year." Their breast surgery research also found lowered levels of drugs needed during and after surgery, reduced time in the recovery room, reduced time in the hospital, and less wound drainage in the group receiving hypnosis and local anesthesia.
Source: Euroanaesthesia 2011: the European Anaesthesiology Congress. Abstracts 8AP5-4 and 8AP5-8. Presented June 12, 2011.


Idris, Kiki, Sarah, and Cody are known as The Stonewood Survivors. After launching a comm-satellite to serve as a beacon for others lost on the Island, they're hailed as heroes.
But heroes' work never ends.
Core to their mission of survival is uncovering information about the founder of the shadowy corporation, Vindertech. This they know: Dr. Vinderman is the mastermind behind a host of wonder weapons that includes Ray the Robot and, more importantly, humanity's last hope for survival, the Storm Shields. What they don't know is whether Dr. Vinderman is working for or against them.
To get to the truth, they must paraglide over herds of ravenous Husks and Mist Monsters, land on the roof of Vindertech Research Labs, save the supercomputer servers housed there, and discover Dr. Vinderman's location.
Nothing happens as planned, and soon they are trapped in a deadly game of hide and seek. Hunted by the maniacal sniper known as Teddy Bear, they enter storm-wracked Plankerton where, if they're not slaughtered by mutant fiends, they just might save the world—assuming they don't kill each other first!
Nathan Meyer is a freelance writer with more than fifteen traditionally published novels in the work-for-hire, media tie-in, and ghostwriting fields. He's worked on various projects with gaming companies Wizards of the Coast, Green Ronin Games, and Privateer Press, as well as publishers such as Alloy Entertainment, Working Partners UK, Relay Publishing, and HarperCollins/Harlequin.


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The 25 Biggest Living Things on Earth (2023)
Biggest Virus - The Pithovirus (1.5 Micrometers Long) Biggest Bacterium - Thiomargarita (0.5 Millimeters Wide) Biggest Amoeba - The Giant Amoeba (3 Millimeters Long) Biggest Insect - The Goliath Beetle (3-4 Ounces) Biggest Spider - The Goliath Birdeater (5 Ounces) Biggest Worm - The African Giant Earthworm (2-3 Pounds) Biggest Amphibian - The Goliath Frog (5 Pounds) Biggest Arthropod - The Japanese Spider Crab (25 Pounds) Biggest Flowering Plant - Rafflesia (25 Pounds) Biggest Sponge - The Giant Barrel Sponge (6 Feet High) Biggest Jellyfish - The Lion's Mane (100 Feet Long) Biggest Flying Bird - The Kori Bustard (40 Pounds) Biggest Protist - The Giant Kelp (100 Feet Long) Biggest Flightless Bird - The Ostrich (300 Pounds) Biggest Snake - The Green Anaconda (500 Pounds) Biggest Bivalve - The Giant Clam (500 Pounds) Biggest Turtle - The Leatherback (1,000 Pounds) Biggest Reptile - The Saltwater Crocodile (2,000 Pounds) Biggest Fish - The Ocean Sunfish (2 Tons) Biggest Terrestrial Mammal - The African Bush Elephant (5 Tons) Biggest Shark - The Whale Shark (10 Tons) Biggest Marine Animal - The Blue Whale (200 Tons) Biggest Fungus - The Honey Fungus (600 Tons) Biggest Individual Tree - The Giant Sequoia (1,000 Tons) Biggest Clonal Colony - "Pando" (6,000 Tons) FAQs Videos
Many people find it difficult to grasp life in all its diversity: not only the birds, reptiles and mammals that everyone knows and love, but also viruses, bacteria, protists, invertebrates, and trees and fungi. On the following images, you'll go on a guided tour of the biggest organisms on Earth, ranging from a giant (by microscopic standards) virus, to a gigantic (by anyone's standards) clonal colony of trees — with all your favorite whales, elephants, and anacondas in between.
Biggest Virus - The Pithovirus (1.5 Micrometers Long)
We can quibble about whether or not viruses are really living organisms — some biologists say yes, some aren't so sure – but there's no question that the Pithovirus is a true giant, 50 percent bigger than the previous record-holder, Pandoravirus, and (at 1.5 millionths of a meter) slightly larger than the smallest identified eukaryotic cell.You might think a pathogen as big as the Pithovirus would make a habit of infecting elephants, hippopotamuses or even human beings, but don't worry: it actually preys on amoebas only a little bit bigger than itself.
Biggest Bacterium - Thiomargarita (0.5 Millimeters Wide)
It sounds like a mixed drink, but thiomargarita is actually Greek for "sulfur pearl," a reference to the granules of sulfur incorporated in this bacterium's cytoplasm (which give it a lustrous appearance) and the fact that the roundish thiomargarita tends to link up in long, pearl-like chains as it divides. Completely harmless to humans and other animals — it's a "lithotroph," meaning it subsists on inert chemicals on the ocean floor — the half-millimeter wide thiomargarita may be the world's only bacterium that's visible to the naked eye.
Biggest Amoeba - The Giant Amoeba (3 Millimeters Long)
You can't beat the genus name attached to the giant amoeba: "Chaos," which presumably refers to this single-celled organism's constant undulations, as well as the fact that it harbors literally hundreds of separate nuclei in its cytoplasm. While falling well short of the monstrous amoebas that populate comic books and science-fiction movies, at up to 3 millimeters long, the giant amoeba is not only visible to the naked eye, but capable of (slowly) engulfing and digesting smaller multicellular organisms in addition to its usual diet of bacteria and protists.
Biggest Insect - The Goliath Beetle (3-4 Ounces)
The appropriately named Goliath beetle, genus name Goliathus, is never seen in the wild outside the tropical forests of Africa — which is a good thing, since this insect weighs as much as a full-grown gerbil. However, there's a big asterisk attached to the Goliath beetle's "world biggest bug" title: this insect is twice as large as a larva than it is as a full-grown adult. If you're feeling adventurous, you can raise your very own Goliath beetle; experts advise (seriously) a diet of packaged dog or cat food, either wet or dry will do just fine.
Biggest Spider - The Goliath Birdeater (5 Ounces)
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Only distantly related to the Goliath beetle, the Goliath birdeater of South America is the world's heaviest arachnid, weighing about a third of a pound fully grown. Amazingly, it takes female Goliaths at least three years to mature, and they have a life span in the wild of up to 25 years, about the same as your average house cat. (Males are less fortunate; even though they're not eaten by females after the act of mating, as in other spider species, they have an attenuated life span of only three to six years.)
Biggest Worm - The African Giant Earthworm (2-3 Pounds)
If you hate worms, you may be dismayed to learn that there are not one, but over half a dozen, species of giant earthworm — the largest of which is the African giant earthworm, Microchaetus rappi, which measures up to 6 feet long from head to tail and weighs as much as an average-sized snake. As big as they are, though, giant earthworms are every bit as harmless as their more petite relatives; they like to burrow deep in the mud, keep their distance from humans (and other animals), and quietly eat rotten leaves and other decaying organic matter.
Biggest Amphibian - The Goliath Frog (5 Pounds)
"Goliath" is a popular name for plus-sized animals; not only do we have the Goliath beetle and the Goliath birdeater, but there's also the Goliath frog of west-central Africa. As big as it is, the Goliath frog is a strict vegetarian, feeding exclusively on an obscure aquatic plant, Dicraeia warmingii, that only grows on the banks of rapids and waterfalls. Impressively, at an average of five pounds, the Goliath frog isn't all that much smaller than the largest frog that ever lived, the 10-pound "devil frog" beelzebufoof late Cretaceous Madagascar.
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Biggest Arthropod - The Japanese Spider Crab (25 Pounds)
Looking a bit like a face-hugger from the "Alien" movies, the Japanese spider crab is a truly enormous, and enormously long-legged, arthropod. The legs of this invertebrate can attain lengths of over 6 feet, dwarfing its foot-long trunk, and its speckled, orange-and-white exoskeleton helps to camouflage it from the larger marine predators that would like to turn it into a nice undersea salad. Like many bizarre creatures, the Japanese spider crab is a prized delicacy in Japan, but has lately migrated from the menus of sushi restaurants as a response to pressure by conservationists.
Biggest Flowering Plant - Rafflesia (25 Pounds)
Not something you want to plant in your backyard garden, rafflesia is known as the "corpse flower" — its huge, three-foot-wide blooms smell like rotting flesh, attracting the insects that help to spread its pollen. And that's not even the creepiest thing about rafflesia: this flower lacks stems, leaves and even roots, and instead grows by parasitizing the vines of another genus of plant, tetrastigma. Fortunately for the rest of us, rafflesia is restricted to Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines; you definitely won't encounterit in the wilds of New Jersey.
Biggest Sponge - The Giant Barrel Sponge (6 Feet High)
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Not only is the giant barrel sponge the largest sponge alive today; it's also one of the longest-lived invertebrate animalson earth, some individuals persisting for up to 1,000 years. Like other sponges, Xestospongia muta is a filter feeder, pumping sea water in through its sides, extracting the tasty microorganisms, and expelling waste out of its capacious top. The red coloration of this giant sponge derives from symbiotic cyanobacteria; like the corals with which it shares its reef habitat, it can be periodically "bleached" by ecological disruptions.
Biggest Jellyfish - The Lion's Mane (100 Feet Long)
With its six-foot-diameter bell (in the largest individuals) and tentacles that can exceed 100 feet, the lion's mane jellyfish is to other jellyfish as the blue whale is to other cetaceans. Considering its size, though, the lion's mane jellyfish isn't all that poisonous (a healthy human can easily survive a sting), and it also serves an important ecological function, as various fish and crustaceans cluster under its huge bell. Fittingly enough, the lion's mane jellyfish is a favorite food source of another plus-sized animal on this list, the leatherback turtle.
Biggest Flying Bird - The Kori Bustard (40 Pounds)
At up to 40 pounds for the biggest males, the kori bustard pushes right against the limits of aerodynamics — this isn't the most graceful bird in the world when it takes off, and it can't flap its wings for more than a few minutes at a time. In fact, while it will briefly take flight when threatened, the kori bustard spends most of its time on the ground of its southern African habitat, squawking loudly and eating pretty much anything that moves. In this respect, the Kori is not dissimilarto the even heavier pterosaurs (flying reptiles) of the Mesozoic Era, such as the truly enormous Quetzalcoatlus.
Biggest Protist - The Giant Kelp (100 Feet Long)
Many people mistakenly believe thatthere are only four categories of life — bacteria, plants, fungi and animals — but let's not forget the protists, primitive eukaryotic organisms that tend to join in extended structures. Somewhat surprisingly, all seaweeds are protists, and the biggest seaweed of them all is the giant kelp, which can grow up to 2 feet per day and attain lengths of more than 100 feet. As you can imagine, kelp forests, which incorporate numerous giant kelp "individuals," are gigantic, tangled affairs that provide safe havens for numerous unrelated marine organisms.
Biggest Flightless Bird - The Ostrich (300 Pounds)
At over 300 pounds for the largest subspecies, you might be forgiven for thinking that the ostrich (Struthio camelus) is about as big as a flightless bird can get. So you might be surprised to learn about the recently extinct Elephant Bird of Madagascar, which could attain weights of half a ton, or the comparably sized Thunder Bird, which vanished off the face of the earth a couple million years ago. Compared to these enormous ratites, the ostrich is a mere chick — albeitone with a much gentler disposition, subsisting on plants rather than small animals.
Biggest Snake - The Green Anaconda (500 Pounds)
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Compared to the other organisms on this list, snakes are notoriously difficult to classify according to size: even trained naturalists have a tendency to overestimate the size of the snakes they observe in the wild, and it's nearly impossible to transport a dead (much less living) giant python to civilization to perform detailed measurements. That said, most authorities agree that the green anaconda of South America is the current title-holder; this snake can attain lengths of more than 15 feet, and well-attested individuals have been known to hit the 500-pound mark.
Biggest Bivalve - The Giant Clam (500 Pounds)
A mainstay of "Spongebob Squarepants," "The Little Mermaid," and just about every animated movie set in the deep blue sea, the giant clam is a truly impressive mollusk. The twin shells of this bivalve can measure over 4 feet in diameter, and as you can imagine, these calcareous components make up most of the giant clam's weight (the soft tissues of a quarter-ton specimen only account for about 40 pounds). Despite its fearsome reputation, the giant clam will only close its shell when threatened, and simply isn't big enough to swallow a full-grown human whole.
Biggest Turtle - The Leatherback (1,000 Pounds)
As testudines (turtles and tortoises) go, the leatherback is a true outlier. This sea turtle lacks a hard shell — rather, its carapace is tough and leathery — and is also incredibly fast, capable of swimming at close to 20 miles per hour. But of course, what really sets the leatherback apart from others of its kind is its half-ton weight, which puts it slightly above the Galapagos tortoise in the world's size rankings.(Even still, neither of these testudines approach the heft of prehistoric turtleslike Archelon and Stupendemys, which tipped the scales at up to 2 tons apiece).
Biggest Reptile - The Saltwater Crocodile (2,000 Pounds)
Remember how things were 65 million years ago, when the biggest reptiles on earth weighed 100 tons? Well, the stock of these vertebrate animals has fallen ever since: today, the largest living reptile is the saltwater crocodile of the Pacific basin, the males of which can attain lengths of close to 20 feet, but weights of only a little more than a ton. The saltwater crocodile isn't even the biggest croc that ever lived; that honor belongs to two truly enormous crocodiles that terrorized the world's rivers tens of millions of years ago, Sarcosuchus and Deinosuchus.
Biggest Fish - The Ocean Sunfish (2 Tons)
Looking a bit like a giant head attached to the comb of a turkey, the ocean sunfish (Mola mola) is one of the ocean's most bizarre denizens. This six-foot-long, two-ton fish feeds exclusively on jellyfish (which have extremely poor nutritional value, so we're talking lots and lots of jellyfish), and the females lay hundreds of millions of eggs at a time, more than any other vertebrate animal. If you've never heard of Mola mola, there's a good reason: this fish is extremely difficult to sustain in aquariums, thriving only in the temperate regions of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Biggest Terrestrial Mammal - The African Bush Elephant (5 Tons)
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How much sustenance does a five-ton pachyderm need? Well, the typical African bush elephant eats about 500 pounds of vegetation every day, and drinks about 50 gallons of water. This elephant also (let's not be overly delicate) poops a lot in the course of the day, dispersing the seeds of many plants that otherwise would not get to visit different parts of Africa. Like other elephants, the African bush elephant isn't quite endangered, but it isn't quite thriving, either, as males succumb to human poachers who then sell their ivory tusks on the black market.
Biggest Shark - The Whale Shark (10 Tons)
In the world's oceans, paradoxically, large sizes tend to go hand-in-hand with microscopic diets. Like the order-of-magnitude bigger blue whale, the whale shark subsists almost exclusively on plankton, with occasional side portions of small squids and fish. Ten tons is a conservative estimate for this shark; one deceased specimen floating off the coast of Pakistan was estimated to weigh 15 tons, and another dredged up near Taiwan was said to weigh 40 tons. Given how fishermen tend to exaggerate the size of their catches, we'll stick with the more conservative estimate!
Biggest Marine Animal - The Blue Whale (200 Tons)
Not only is the blue whale the largest living animal; it may be the largest animal in the history of life on Earth, pending the unlikely discovery of any 200-ton dinosaurs or marine reptiles. Like the whale shark, the blue whale feeds on microscopic plankton, filtering countless gallons of seawater through the tightly meshed baleen plates in its jaws. Granted that it's difficult to persuade this enormous cetacean to step on a scale, naturalists estimate that a full-grown blue whale consumes anywhere from three to four tons of krill every day.
Biggest Fungus - The Honey Fungus (600 Tons)
The last three items on our list aren't animals, but plants and fungi, which raises a difficult technical issue: how can you differentiate the "average" biggest plant and fungus from massive agglomerations, which can be said to constitute a single organism? We'll split the difference and nominate the honey fungus, Armillaria ostoyae, for this list; one Oregon colony encompasses an area of over 2,000 acres and weighs an estimated 600 tons. Botanists estimate that this huge honey fungal mass is at least 2,400 years old!
Biggest Individual Tree - The Giant Sequoia (1,000 Tons)
There aren't many trees you can literally drive a car through (assuming you could bore a hole through the trunk without killing it). The giant sequoia is one of those trees: its trunk measures over 25 feet in diameter, its canopy towers over 300 feet into the sky, and the largest individuals have an estimated weight of up to a thousand tons.Giant sequoias are also some of the oldest organisms on Earth; the ring count of one tree in the Pacific Northwest has yielded an estimated age of 3,500 years, around the same time the Bablylonians were inventing civilization.
Biggest Clonal Colony - "Pando" (6,000 Tons)
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A clonal colony is a group of plants or fungi possessing exactly the same genome; all its members have been "cloned" naturally from a single progenitor, via the process of vegetative reproduction. And the largest clonal colony on Earth is "Pando," a forest of male Quaking Aspens, spread out over 100 acres of land, whose ultimate ancestor took root a whopping 80,000 years ago. Sadly, Pando is currently in bad shape, slowly succumbing to drought, disease, and infestation by insects; botanists are desperately trying to address the situation, so hopefully this colony can prosper for another 80,000 years.
What is the biggest living things on Earth? ›
Blue whales are the biggest animals ever to exist on Earth. They can weigh upwards of 150 tons, which is more than the largest dinosaurs.
What are 20 examples of living things? ›
20 example of living things:
Birds, insects, animals, trees, groups of people,Plants,Mammals,Mosses,Reptiles,Bacteria,cat,dog , Elephant,bees,cow,buffalow.
What are the 50 living things? ›
Ants, Bears, Boars, Cats, Bats, Dogs, Hogs, Elephants, Antelopes, Pheasants, Giraffes, Gazelles, Stoats, Goats, Shoats, Ostriches, Lions, Jackals, Muskrats, Minks, Dingoes, Zebras, Foxes, Octopus, Penguins, People, Warthogs, Yaks, Cuckoos, Sparrows, Walruses, Wildebeests.
What are living things Please answer me? ›
Living things have a variety of characteristics that are displayed to different degrees: they respire, move, respond to stimuli, reproduce and grow, and are dependent on their environment.
What are the 5 types of living things? ›
Living things are divided into five kingdoms: animal, plant, fungi, protist and monera.
What are the 7 living things? ›
There are seven characteristics of living things: movement, breathing or respiration, excretion, growth, sensitivity and reproduction.
What are the 7 things all living things do? ›
Life processes: These are the 7 processes all living things do - movement, reproduction, sensitivity, nutrition, excretion, respiration and growth. Animals: are one of a large group of living things that can move around by themselves to find food.
What are the 8 things of life? ›
These characteristics are reproduction, heredity, cellular organization, growth and development, response to stimuli, adaptation through evolution, homeostasis, and metabolism. Something must have all 8 of these traits to be considered a living thing.
How many living things are there in total? ›
Biodiversity refers to every living thing, including plants, bacteria, animals, and humans. Scientists have estimated that there are around 8.7 million species of plants and animals in existence.
Is tree a living thing? ›
Trees, similar to all living things grow, reproduce, and respond to their environment. Trees, like all plants, manufacture their food through photosynthesis.
What are living things 3 examples? ›
People, plants and animals are all living things. Living things need air, water, food and shelter to survive.
What are 6 things all living things have? ›
Big Ideas: All living things have certain traits in common: Cellular organization, the ability to reproduce, growth & development, energy use, homeostasis, response to their environment, and the ability to adapt. Living things will exhibit all of these traits.
What is in all living things? ›
All living organisms are made up of one or more cells, which are considered the fundamental units of life. Even unicellular organisms are complex! Inside each cell, atoms make up molecules, which make up cell organelles and structures. In multicellular organisms, similar cells form tissues.
What are the 6 living organisms? ›
Plants, Animals, Protists, Fungi, Archaebacteria, Eubacteria.
Is A virus Dead or Alive? ›
So were they ever alive? Most biologists say no. Viruses are not made out of cells, they can't keep themselves in a stable state, they don't grow, and they can't make their own energy. Even though they definitely replicate and adapt to their environment, viruses are more like androids than real living organisms.
Is water a living thing? ›
Some examples of non-living things include rocks, water, weather, climate, and natural events such as rockfalls or earthquakes. Living things are defined by a set of characteristics including the ability to reproduce, grow, move, breathe, adapt or respond to their environment.
What are the seven 7 characteristics of living things? ›
The seven characteristics what makes an organism living are: Environmental responses, cells, change and growth, reproduction, having complex chemistry, and homeostasis and energy processing. Sometimes non-living things can portray some of the above characteristics, but a living being consists of all.
Is clouds a living thing? ›
A cloud is considered as non-living even though it can move and can grow bigger.
What are the six 6 main human life processes? ›
The different life processes in human beings include-nutrition, respiration, digestion, excretion, reproduction, metabolism and transportation.
Is fire a living thing? ›
People sometimes think fire is living because it consumes and uses energy, requires oxygen, and moves through the environment. Fire is actually non-living. A reason why is it cannot eat or breath. Fire can spread quickly and burn.
What are the 8 things that a living thing must have do to be considered living? ›
All living organisms share several key characteristics or functions: order, sensitivity or response to the environment, reproduction, growth and development, regulation, homeostasis, and energy processing.
What are living things class 8? ›
Anything that has life is considered a living being. For example– humans, trees, dogs, etc.
What does the Bible say about all living things? ›
God made this covenant not only with Noah and his descen- dants but also with "every living creature that is with you, the fowl, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth." Indeed, God makes no dis- tinction between people and ani- mals in ...
What 4 things must be true for all living things? ›
All living organisms need energy to carry out life processes, are composed of one or more cells, respond to their environment, grow and reproduce, and maintain a stable internal environment.
Do all living things have DNA? ›
All living things have DNA within their cells. In fact, nearly every cell in a multicellular organism possesses the full set of DNA required for that organism. However, DNA does more than specify the structure and function of living things — it also serves as the primary unit of heredity in organisms of all types.
How many humans have ever lived? ›
No demographic data exist for more than 99% of the span of human existence. Still, with some assumptions about population size throughout human history, we can get a rough idea of this number: About 117 billion members of our species have ever been born on Earth.
How old is the earth? ›
Earth is estimated to be 4.54 billion years old, plus or minus about 50 million years. Scientists have scoured the Earth searching for the oldest rocks to radiometrically date. In northwestern Canada, they discovered rocks about 4.03 billion years old.
What are the top 3 most important characteristics of life? ›
All living things grow and develop. All living things are capable of reproduction, the process by which living things give rise to offspring. All living things are able to maintain a constant internal environment through homeostasis. All living things have complex chemistry.
What are 5/8 Characteristics of life? ›
Those characteristics are cellular organization, reproduction, metabolism, homeostasis, heredity, response to stimuli, growth and development, and adaptation through evolution.
Which is the largest living animal *? ›
The largest land animal on earth currently is the African elephant.
What is the second largest living thing on Earth? ›
Fish Lake, Utah, is home to Pando, the second-largest living organism in the world. A single root system connects about 47,000 aspen trees.
What is the largest living thing seen from space? ›
The Great Barrier Reef is an interlinked system of about 3000 reefs and 900 coral islands, divided by narrow passages, just beneath the surface of the Coral Sea. Spanning more than 2000 km and covering an area of some 350 000 sq km, it is the largest living structure on Earth and the only one visible from space.
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If you have ever tried to "watch your steps", you might just have tripped over your own two feet! Worse, you actually are paying so close attention to your steps, you miss the post in front of you and run smack-dab into it! You probably notice this the most whenever you are trying to watch what you say; for words can be the toughest things to keep a rein on, can't they? At the moment we determine to watch our words, we can almost count on something slipping past our lips, out into the open space between us and the one who will hear them, never to be in our control again! The main issue with US determining we are gong to influence our steps or control our tongue is our total inability to do either! We definitely need some influence outside of our own effort to get this stuff right, don't we?
The very next verse of this psalm points to the dilemma we all face: But as I stood there in silence—not even speaking of good things—the turmoil within me grew worse. (vs. 2 NLT) Yep, he stood his ground, kept his peace, but when surrounded by evil, the toughest thing to do is remain strong in your stand and to hold your peace when everything inside you is just beckoning to share a little of your thought on the matter! Perhaps the toughest struggle comes to us when we are faced with something we don't have the best feelings about and then we try to bring out some good feelings or speak forth some good words in the midst of the turmoil. I think this may just be because we don't want to be in-genuine, or hypocritical.
- OUR steps aren't consistent without the help of the Holy Spirit. He is our enabling force when we just don't know how to take the first step and he is our directing force when we just might be about to change the course of our future stability with the step we are about to take.
- OUR ears and heart have more to do with the stability of our walk than we might actually realize. It is more than action - it is the right action which produces the outcomes we desire. Our ears must be attentive to listen for the still small voice of God - maybe in a word we glean in our time in daily study, maybe in a tiny whisper deep within our inner man that just "checks" us before we go any further. Our heart must be willing to be directed - otherwise the steps we take will be ours - directed by our self-will and independent determination.
- The tongue needs more help than we may actually realize. Scripture bears witness to the fact of the words being spoken often acting as the first thing which plants the seed of thought which will determine our steps. Think about it - Adam and Eve only took the first misstep AFTER the serpent spoke the words which placed a moment of doubt and a little confusion into the minds of the listener!
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Q: pretty formatting of string variable with multiple "\n" I am having some issues formatting string variables with multiple \n (carriage returns) in it.  I have a string variable that has stored in it the following:

"1. Check the connections \n2. Have the firewall settings been checked \n3. Check switch/network connections \n4. Contact admin"

Now, I want to print the line so that it looks like this:
Remedy:                  1.  Check the connections
                         2.  Have the firewall setting been checked
                         3.  Check switch/network connections
                         4.  Contact admin

However, in my program when I run the output line:
fmt.Println("remedy:\t\t\t\t" + alt.Remedy)

It comes up like this:
remedy:                         1. Check the connections
2. Have the firewall settings been checked
3. Check switch/network connections
4. Contact admin

How do I get it so that by issuing that command, all 4 options are listed in the same column?  In this example, I want options 2, 3, and 4 listed under the #1 option.

A:
The Go Programming Language Specification
String literals
A string literal represents a string constant obtained from
  concatenating a sequence of characters. There are two forms: raw
  string literals and interpreted string literals.
Raw string literals are character sequences between back quotes, as in
  foo. Within the quotes, any character may appear except back quote.
  The value of a raw string literal is the string composed of the
  uninterpreted (implicitly UTF-8-encoded) characters between the
  quotes; in particular, backslashes have no special meaning and the
  string may contain newlines. Carriage return characters ('\r') inside
  raw string literals are discarded from the raw string value.

Use a raw string literal. For example,
package main

import (
    "fmt"
)

func main() {
    message := `
Remedy:                  1.  Check the connections
                         2.  Have the firewall setting been checked
                         3.  Check switch/network connections
                         4.  Contact admin
`

    fmt.Print(message[1:])
}

Playground: https://play.golang.org/p/pdgAoYnBIch
Output:
Remedy:                  1.  Check the connections
                         2.  Have the firewall setting been checked
                         3.  Check switch/network connections
                         4.  Contact admin

A: There's nothing in Go to do this for you.
Instead, you can split the string into lines and format them accordingly.
Here is an example:
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    str := "1. Check the connections \n2. Have the firewall settings been checked \n3. Check switch/network connections \n4. Contact admin"
    // Split the string into lines.
    parts := strings.Split(str, "\n")
    // Iterate over the lines.
    for i, s := range parts {
        if i == 0 {
            // First line: start with "Remedy"
            fmt.Printf("Remedy:\t\t\t%s\n", s)
        } else {
            fmt.Printf("       \t\t\t%s\n", s)
        }
    }
}

This outputs:
Remedy:         1. Check the connections
                2. Have the firewall settings been checked
                3. Check switch/network connections
                4. Contact admin

Note: there are probably a few other ways to do this, I just picked this one.

A: Similar to Marc's answer, but I would do it this way. It's simpler, shorter and cleaner:
Replace each newline character in the source string with a newline plus the indentation that non-first lines need. You may use strings.Replace() for this.
The source string to be formatted:
s := "1. Check the connections \n2. Have the firewall settings been checked \n3. Check switch/network connections \n4. Contact admin"
And the formatting is a simple line:
fmt.Println("Remedy:     ", strings.Replace(s, "\n", "\n             ", -1))

Output (try it on the Go Playground):
Remedy:      1. Check the connections
             2. Have the firewall settings been checked
             3. Check switch/network connections
             4. Contact admin

A: Since you are storing the "remedies" together in a string, there isn't much you can do other than include spacing in your string var.
"1. Check the connections\n\t\t\t\t2. Have the firewall settings been checked\n\t\t\t\t3. Check switch/network connections\n\t\t\t\t4. Contact admin"

I would suggest saving them as a slice and iterating to print:
package main

import "fmt"

var remedy = []string{
    "Check the connections",
    "Have the firewall settings been checked",
    "Check switch/network connections",
    "Contact admin",
}

func main() {
    fmt.Print("remedy:")
    for i := range remedy {
        if i == 0 {
            fmt.Printf("%13d. %s\n", i+1, remedy[i])
            continue
        }
        fmt.Printf("%20d. %s\n", i+1, remedy[i])
    }
}

Example on play

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How city will keep memory of 11th Light Horse alive
Members of the 11th Light Horse Darling Downs Kym Flehr (left) and Don Willey look forward to hosting the QMI Cup Challenge this weekend at the Toowoomba Showgrounds, Tuesday, October 11, 2016. Kevin Farmer
by Peter Hardwick
12th Oct 2016 1:21 PM | Updated: 1:21 PM
KEEPING alive the memory and tradition of the Australian Light Horse falls to the 11th Light Horse Darling Downs members.
The Australian Light Horse were mounted troops of both cavalry and mounted infantry who became famous while serving in the Second Boer War and the First World War.
While these days the horses have been replaced by the Australian Light Armoured Vehicle (ASLAV) and Bushman vehicles, members of the 11th Light Horse Darling Downs Association like president Kym Flehr and quartermaster Don Willey believe keeping the tradition alive is important.
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Republican Jewish Coalition Rips Raphael Warnock for 'Hatemongering' and Anti-Israel Beliefs
By Samantha Kamman
As the two runoff elections in Georgia draw nearer, the past remarks of certain Senate candidates are being subjected to intense scrutiny as voters prepare to make their decision about who to elect to the U.S. Senate next month.
The candidates' position on Israel has played a major part in the race between Democratic Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock and Republican Rep. Kelly Loeffler, as both contenders appear to have widely different views on the subject.
During a debate that took place on Dec. 6, Loeffler drew attention to previous statements Warnock had made about Israel once the discussion shifted to the topic of race.
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The Democratic Senate candidate's recent insistence that he will "stand with the Jewish community and Israel in the U.S. Senate" in response to Loeffler's criticism prompted the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) to step in and share Warnock's history of statements about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as his connection to various figures who have questioned the country's right to exist.
Are Warnock's statements about Israel antisemitic?
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"His 2016 comparison of Prime Minister Netanyahu to segregationist George Wallace in front of an African American audience was simple hatemongering."
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"If you do not have a Palestinian state, you will have to have apartheid in Israel that denies other citizens, sisters and brothers citizenship, or you will have a democracy that is not a Jewish state," Warnock had said.
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The RJC also expressed concern over former Women's March Leader Linda Sarsour's endorsement of Warnock's comments about Netanyahu, as well as the support his campaign has received from Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.
Warnock was absolutely correct. https://t.co/lh6dChR5bx
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) December 10, 2020
All three women have faced criticism for several public statements of theirs that many felt were antisemitic.
This is happening in America!
Anti-Semite Linda Sarsour claims "Israel is built on Jewish supremacy."
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Back in 2019, the Washington Examiner highlighted remarks Sarsour made during the 12th Annual Conference for Palestine, where she claimed: "Israel … is built on supremacy; that is built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everybody else."
That same year, The Times of Israel reported that Congresswoman Omar and Tlaib were refused a visit to the Holy Land, as top Israeli officials said they would not permit "those who deny our right to exist in this world to enter Israel. In principle this is a very justified decision."
A few days after the pair were barred from entering Israel, the two members of the "squad" shared an antisemitic drawing of the Israeli Prime Minister by Carlos Latuff, an artist who won second-place in Iran's International Holocaust Cartoon Contest back in 2006.
Both Omar and Tlaib have supported Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) efforts against Israel, a movement that advocates for crippling Israel economically, and Omar has even been criticized by some of her Democratic colleagues for implying Jewish lawmakers have dual loyalties when it comes to Israel and America.
Alongside what the RJC called a "preponderance of anti-Israel statements" made by Warnock himself, the group cited these ties as proof that Warnock will "side with Israel's opponents in the Democratic Party and against Israel at every opportunity."
Based on this, the RJC insisted that "Warnock is the wrong choice for Georgia and for the US Senate" compared to Loeffler, a candidate the group said is "a good friend of Israel and the Jewish community."
The Georgia Senate runoff elections will take place on Jan. 5.
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These features characterize all her books, enriching even the slender, early ones. Saffy's Angel, first published in 2001 and deservedly a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor Book in 2002, is perhaps her most triumphant example. The first in a series (though it stands perfectly well on its own), it is fresh and exuberant in tone, yet told with the confidence of an experienced writer.
It's over fifteen years old now, but I think Saffy's Angel stands the test of time. It has aged well (almost not at all) — the mark of a true classic. The use of modern electronics is sketched in with a light and casual touch: they are there, but incidental to the story. It's not obvious that most phone conversations take place over wires. There is a quaint reference to a hotel having to sort out a phone line to provide an Internet connection, but it's so vague that if you don't remember having to do this, you might not notice the reference. There are paper maps, but as the Cassons clearly aren't equal to paying for a decent cell phone, it's not jarring. And the cost of Rose's sequined velvet-and-taffeta party dress, which she wears to her grandfather's funeral, is still outrageous even today.
Saffy's Angel is not my very favorite of McKay's books (that would be Permanent Rose, whose Arthurian undertones and mystery hidden-in-plain-sight win my heart). But Saffy's Angel is the best one to start with. It's certainly the one I share most constantly, with both grown-ups and children — it's like introducing people to your best friends. Saffy's Angel also happens to contain the most hilarious prose of any book I have ever read, to the point where I actually find myself laughing aloud even when everyone in the story is sobbing and my own eyes are full of tears. The climactic road trip to Wales at the end of the book never fails to drag belly laughs out of me. Anticipating it, this time around, I was worried that it might not; but once again, I laughed so hard I could barely read, from the moment Caddy and Rose and Indigo got into the car — as fiercely determined as if they were setting off to war — armed with their maps and magic markers and blue plastic Sick Bowl.
I also think it is a magical achievement that in this book full of remarkable, personable children there is also a spectrum of remarkable, personable adults. Sarah's father, who epitomizes the patronizing English tourist who doesn't want to have to eat foreign food when abroad, is also tolerant and admiring and eager to get involved with the locals when he's on vacation in Italy. Bill, the Casson children's charismatic and utterly self-centered father, perhaps comes off the worst; but even he is painted with a fond hand, and he does acquire depth as the series goes on. Every one of McKay's characters is likable. And every one is deeply flawed. As are most people.
When I sat down to re-read Saffy's Angel so I could write about it sensibly here, I found myself both laughing out loud and sobbing incoherently before I'd finished the first chapter. It is McKay's ability to mix the sublime with the ridiculous that I adore. Real life is like that. If you ever have the unhappy experience of buying a coffin for a loved one, you will find that undertakers give you the exact same spiel as used-car salesmen. It is terrible and hilarious. But often, in trying to capture that in fiction, you are accused of irreverence or bathos. McKay manages to do it with love and warmth.
Often, she does it through a kind of sleight-of-hand. When Saffy finds out that Eve is not her real mother, she feels stunned and betrayed. Eve wails in her own defense, "You were only three. You looked just like Caddy [Eve's oldest daughter]. You called me Mummy. You were so happy." The brilliance here is in the innocent words, You called me Mummy. Eve and Linda, Saffy's birth mother, were identical twins. At this point in the book, however, the reader doesn't know that yet. The whole sequence of sentences is designed to suggest that the three-year-old whose mother has just been killed in a car accident doesn't know any better, and is young and innocent enough to quickly accept the loving care of a new mother. But if you read between the lines, the implication is that Saffy called Eve "Mummy" because she literally thought Eve was her mother — she thought Eve was her identical twin sister Linda. The toddler Saffy's vanished mother seemed to have reappeared. Of course she was happy.
This, I can assure you, made me sob when I stumbled across its true depth for the first time — on my fifth or so reading of this book. But it doesn't surprise me. This careful weaving of words and meaning so that it appears artless is one of the characteristics of McKay's beautiful writing that I envy and admire.
And it is this complexity in McKay's writing, and in Saffy's Angel in particular, that makes it great. The reader can be so bound up in the present-day adventure — Sarah and Saffy and their daily ice creams and outings in Italy, Sarah's outrageous subterfuge which successfully sneaks Saffy across a national boundary like a spy, Caddy's impending driving test, Rose's edible picture — that you nearly miss the heartbreaking underlying tragedy of Linda's death and how deeply it shatters the entire family, who soldier on in their fierce determination to live life to the fullest, and most especially how Linda's death shatters the children's grandfather.
The theme of crashing into things moves through the text like a leitmotif: Sarah literally crashing into Saffy when she first meets her, running Saffy over on purpose with her wheelchair to get Saffy to notice her; Linda's car crash death; and then Linda's father's car crash when, desperate to make his bereft granddaughter happy, he makes the two-day drive back to Italy to fetch that stone angel from Saffy's lost garden, the beginning of his own ten-year silent journey into death.
Saffy, Linda's daughter, returns from her life-changing voyage to her ancestral home in Italy at the exact same moment that Caddy and Indigo and Rose, Eve's children, return from their life-changing voyage to their ancestral home in Wales. Both houses are literally locked and inaccessible when they reach them — those physical homes exist only in the past. And yet, the children's shared grandfather's final journey which brought Saffy's stone angel from Italy to Wales itself, before the action of the book begins, connects everything the Cassons do in the present, and brings them all home together in the now — physically and spiritually.
Saffy's Angel has always resonated with me, but now it does for different reasons. In my own life of the past two years, I have been dealing with legacy and loss. It shows up in my own recent writing. I forgot, when I chose to write about this book but before I re-read it, that it is about all the same things The Pearl Thief is about: a beloved and lost grandparent whose presence is felt throughout the pages even after his death; the worthless physical legacy he leaves behind contrasted with his rich spiritual legacy; a growing friendship that utterly blows apart class and upbringing; learning to recognize differences in others' abilities and to accept and make allowances for them (or not, as the case may be); and the question of belonging, in one's family and one's home place and one's world.
Somehow, and I do not quite remember how, though Hilary McKay and I have never met, we have become friends and correspondents. Our daughters are the same age, and hers wolfs down my books as quickly as mine wolfs down hers. They are both at university now, which has given us over the years a shared grounding in the horrors of exams, applications, and the terrifying plunge of a sheltered young person into the world alone. In her most recent holiday greeting to me, Hilary McKay remembered Sara individually and sent her a hug. As a devoted reader you don't get much luckier than getting sent hugs from your favorite author.
The other highlighted passage in my copy of Saffy's Angel, also in opaque lavender ink, is on page 34. Indigo, who is afraid of everything, says, "In one of my books it says you should always do the things that frighten you the most, and if you do them enough, they stop being scary." Although I am the one who highlighted it, I feel sure that my own Sara took it to heart when she first read it at the age of ten, and still uses it as inspiration to live by. So should we all.
Read more from The Horn Book by and about Elizabeth Wein, including her two BGHB Honor speeches, for Code Name Verity and Rose Under Fire.
Elizabeth Wein is the author of Code Name Verity, a 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, and Rose Under Fire, a 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book.
What a wonderful review! I'm going to read those books right now. I love "family" books.


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Q: MS Access: No value given for one or more required parameters I'm trying to run the following query to an MS Access database (from an .asp page) :
SELECT firstname, lastname, emp_id FROM employees ORDER BY firstname

However, I get an error saying

No value given for one or more required parameters.

Now, the query runs fine if I exclude the "emp_id" (primary key) field. I have made sure that the field exists and that there are no typos in the query.
If I run the query through the MS Access GUI, there's a pop-up asking me to enter a "parameter value" for the emp_id field. Could this be why it won't work, and why does it happen?
Getting the employees from the db:
Function GetEmployees()

    Dim employeesRS, sqlGetEmployees, employeesList, e

    Set employeesList = CreateObject("System.Collections.ArrayList")

    sqlGetEmployees = "SELECT firstname, lastname, emp_id FROM employees ORDER BY firstname"

    Set employeesRS = db.connTb.execute(sqlGetEmployees) 'Custom class to simplify db-querying

    While Not employeesRS.EOF

        Set e = new Employee

        e.Firstname = employeesRS("firstname")
        e.Lastname = employeesRS("lastname")
        e.Id = employeesRS("emp_id")

        employeesList.Add(e)

        employeesRS.MoveNext
    Wend

    employeesRS.Close

    Set GetEmployees = employeesList

End Function

Screenshot of table structure: (As you probably noticed, I translated the table and code in my post, to make it more readable . The relationship between code/table fields is identical though. )

A: Solved:
The query result view in MS Access showed the field name to be "emp_id", but the actual name was "employee_id".
The program using the database used to be an Access-forms application and therefore had different names on the columns in the query result view than the actual names (for some reason, I don't know why that sounded like a good idea)


I hope you've had the chance to review the June edition of the Ah-Man Newsletter, in which I introduce this month's blog theme: the importance of taking time to be in the Presence.
If I offered you a $1000.00 a day to take 15 minutes in the morning before you start your day to meditate, would you make the time to do it?
Of course you would! You'd be crazy not to. The point is we have the time (or will make the time) if we think it's important enough.
The benefit of daily meditation over a period of time is like receiving $1000.00 a day and more.
No matter what your faith is, taking at least 15 minutes (I think over time, you will want to do 30-45 minutes or more) each morning to go within, to that place where only you can go, and be quiet, pray, chant, or just receive, will help you in every way possible: spiritually; physically; emotionally; and yes, even materially…more than money ever could.
Most of us are blessed to have work today. Yes, it's a blessing! Too many of us are out of work, so regardless if you like your job or not, it's a blessing to have for today.
Imagine seeing the different people who you work with as "children of God." Because, believe it or not, even the ones who might be making your workday a hard one are children of God.
What if each time someone did something negative or something happened that threw you off, instead of just reacting, you were able to stop for a moment and ask: what am I supposed to learn from this situation?
There is a lesson to be found in every life situation. Sometimes it's to stand up for ourselves…sometimes it's to just observe how we are reacting…sometimes it's to see how things can be done differently. There are so many things we can learn if we use our eyes to see and our ears to hear.
Have you slowed down enough to hear what you need to hear…see what you need to see?


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In the week before Christmas 1896 this cardboard notice was displayed in the banking hall of one of our Nottingham branches, publicising the bank's forthcoming Christmas holidays, including Saturday 26 December. Boxing Day was one of four days each year that had been officially designated by the Bank Holidays Act of 1871 as holidays in England, Wales and Ireland. Scotland had its own designated holidays on slightly different days.
These precious days off were named 'Bank Holidays' with the intention of maintaining an air of sobriety; there were fears that calling them 'public holidays' might encourage widespread drunkenness and other wild behaviour. In those early years, however, these holidays were unofficially called 'St Lubbock's Days', after the man who had been responsible for their introduction: the banker, politician and polymath Sir John Lubbock.
Lubbock (1834-1913) was a partner in the London banking firm of Robarts, Lubbock & Co, but he had an enormous range of interests and passions beyond banking. One of them was campaigning to improve the working lives of the least well-off in society. He was acutely aware that the process of industrialisation in Britain in recent decades had broken society's ancient rhythms of work and rest, replacing them with widespread exploitation of workers, long working hours and little or no time off.
In 1870 Lubbock entered parliament in order to champion his political passions. The following year he introduced the Bank Holidays Act which enshrined annual public holidays in law. This Act was to remain the key law governing public holidays in Britain for a century, until it was replaced in the early 1970s.
Lubbock did not stop at bank holidays. Knowing that shop workers worked the longest hours of all, in 1873 he introduced the National Early Closing League's bill to reduce working hours in shops. He went on to champion shop assistants' interests in parliament for three decades.
Lubbock's contribution to public life was by no means limited to political campaigning. A true polymath, he was keenly interested in archaeology, biology, botany and ethnography. He was a friend of Charles Darwin, and wrote an important book about insects. He also published the most influential archaeological text book of the Victorian period and even invented the now familiar terms 'Palaeolithic' and 'Neolithic'. In the year he introduced the Bank Holiday bill, he was also busy buying land at Avebury to protect its prehistoric monuments. Later he championed and introduced the Ancient Monuments Act of 1882, which established the importance of protecting and valuing Britain's unique archaeological inheritance.


Valentine is in the air!
Beautiful big brother naija 2018 star and entrepreneur, Bamike Olawunmi better known as Bambam has taken to her IG to share lovely valentine's day inspired photos, rocking a white crop top and a red three quarter Jumpsuit over a white sneakers.
She tagged the photos; "I.DONT.CONFORM"


There have been rumors about Sage's departure for months as she was noted to be working on other projects while The Orville's second season was still in production. The Orville also added Jessica Szohr as a new series regular in Season 2. Szohr's character, Talla, still hasn't made her first appearance, but photos from The Orville's set suggest that Talla is a Xelayan security officer, just like Alara. This has led to speculation the Szhor's character is meant to replace Alara.
Alara was the chief security officer aboard the Orville. She is incredibly strong in Earth-normal gravity after growing up in the exponentially stronger gravitational pull of her home planet, Xelaya. The episode "Home" revealed that Xelayans who spend a long time away from their homeworld eventually adjust to Earth-normal gravity and lose their strength. For some Xelayans, this happens more quickly and more suddenly. Alara discovered she was one of those Xelayans when she broke her arm in an arm-wrestling match with Isaac.
Alara returned to Xelaya to reacclimate herself to its gravity. This meant spending time with her family. Her parents and sister are all scholars who never understood or appreciated Alara's calling to join the Planetary Union fleet, but after Alara saved the family from vengeful home invaders during the episode, she finally gained the respect of her father.
Dr. Finn devised a treatment that, while painful, would have allowed Alara to return to the Orville and still regain her strength. Alara decided not to go through with the treatment. Instead, she chose to return to Xelaya to reconnect with her family. She left a gift on Capt. Mercer's desk, a large jar of pickles, which is a reference to several jokes between the two characters in the show's first season.
What do you think of Sage's departure as Alara from The Orville? Let us know in the comments!


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Have you ever wanted to take part in a triathlon event? Triathlon Ireland and the Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council are running a seven week long Try-a-Tri programme for women over the age of 16 which will take you all the way from complete beginner to participating in your first race at the Stenaline Triathlon on September 4th.
Training sessions take place twice a week under the guidance of Triathlon Ireland qualified coaches who will provide participants with support, motivation and a tailored training plan.
Participants need to first register as a site user (free) on the Triathlon Ireland website.
Once registered, click on the events tab and then into the race calendar and scroll down to July 18th. Next, follow the prompts to pay for the programme.
The cost is in Euros but this equates to £50 as advertised.
For more information please contact Dean Holmes Tel 028 9034 0065 or Email dean.holmes@antrimandnewtownabbey.gov.uk.


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Holiday Catchup Wire: Chines Olympics Traffic; Webisodes; PerezHilton.com; Zwinky-IAC; ClubPenguin
Rafat Ali Aug 31, 2008 - 11:49 PM CDT
Some stories for this long holiday weekend in U.S.:
— Chinese online traffic exceeds U.S. websites during Olympics: So says WebTrends, citing its own analytics. To be expected, if only because of sheer numbers in China. CCTV.com, the site run by national broadcaster China Central TV, drew more than 100 million unique visitors during the 2008 Olympic Games…In comparison, NBCOlympics.com reported an average of 4.3 million unique users a day. Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) averaged 4.7 million daily.
— Candidates' sites do behavioral targeting: And that is a surprise? It has raised alarms from some privacy advocates, who say no one should unwittingly have their political leanings analyzed as they use the Web, or be tracked for the delivery of political ads.
— For webisodes, only handful of hits: A long NYT story about why webisodes haven;t broken through the mainstream, yet. Usual litany of reason, with usual litany of defenders…
— Blogs to riches: Perez Hilton: A profile of Mario Lavandeira, the blogger behind celeb gossip site PerezHilton.com, and his rise to fame. Ads on his homepage fetch up to $54,000 a day, and his overhead is minimal– his only employee is his sister Barby, who fields emails and corrects typos. Which means he's pulling down millions a year, the Wired story says. The site now averages 198 million pageviews a month, according to Quantcast. Nielsen Online estimates that while visitors to TMZ.com, one of his main competitors, stay only 15 minutes, those on Hilton's site linger for 45 minutes.
— *IAC* goes kids: IAC (NSDQ: IACI), in an attempt to cash in on the big kids virtual worlds audiences, will on Sept. 16 will launch its own virtual world aimed at tweens called ZwinkyCuties.com. It will go head to head with Disney's (NYSE: DIS) Club Penguin and Webkinz, among others. The portal is a spinoff of Zwinky.com, a two-year-old site aimed at teenagers that claims more than 16 million registered users globally and six million unique visitors per month.
— Fans flock to Disney's Club Penguin Times: The Club Penguin Times is more widely read than New York's Daily News, the Chicago Tribune or the Dallas Morning News. And it's not even 3 years old.
— Apollo joins bidders in race for Reed Business: Yes, one more…US private equity group Apollo Management has entered the bidding war for Reed Business Information…Bidders are expected to submit final offers at the end of September.
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Some more facts about Chines Olympics website Traffic :-
CCTV.com offered more than 3,800 hours of live Olympics webcasts and more than 20,000 additional hours of news, replays and video-on-demand programs throughout the Olympics.
* An increase of more than 2.5 minutes in the average time each visitor remained on CCTV.com, to nearly 11.5 minutes during the Olympics.
* The opening ceremonies and other activities on Aug. 8 generated the most traffic on any single day, nearly 8.5 million visits.
* The busiest hour of online traffic was from 11 a.m. to noon on Aug. 18. Nearly 900,000 users were online to watch Xiang's race. The second busiest hour was during the opening ceremonies.


(Central Islip, N.Y., May 24, 2018) – The Long Island Ducks today announced that catcher Wilkin Castillo's contract has been purchased by the New York Yankees organization. He will report to the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders.
Castillo played in 20 games for the Ducks, accruing the second-highest batting average in the Atlantic League among catchers (.314). He added two home runs, 12 RBI, 10 runs, four doubles, one triple and a .400 on-base percentage. His stint was highlighted by an 11-game on-base streak from May 6-19 in which he compiled a .378 batting average and a .465 on-base percentage. Defensively, the Bronx, N.Y., resident committed just one error in his 20 games behind the plate and caught six runners stealing, the second-most in among ALPB catchers.
The 33-year-old rejoins the Yankees organization after splitting the 2017 season between Double-A Trenton and Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. He played in 59 games there last year, totaling three homers, 13 RBI, 18 runs, eight doubles and 11 walks. The Dominican Republic native looks to return to the Major Leagues after spending parts of two seasons with the Cincinnati Reds in 2008 and 2009, hitting .314 with two RBI, six runs and one double over 22 games.
Castillo becomes the fourth Duck to join a Major League organization in 2018. Infielder Giovanny Alfonzo was signed by the New York Mets in March, catcher Alex Burg was signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers in February and catcher Jordan Pacheco was signed by the Minnesota Twins in January. Four Ducks players had their contracts purchased by Major League or foreign professional clubs in 2017, including a franchise-record three that returned to the MLB level (Tim Melville, Twins and Padres; Henderson Alvarez, Phillies; and Quintin Berry, Brewers) in the same season that they played on Long Island.


My dryer is making a loud screeching noise after running for about 1 minute. The noise continues (at various pitch levels) off/on throughout the entire cycle. It is drying the cloths fine, but there's just this loud noise that occurs - goes away - then comes back. Something is definitely kicking on in the dryer which seems to be the catalyst for the loud noise.
Below is a link to a 30 second video of it going from being fine, to the buzzing noise (and then getting louder).
Any help/feedback is very much appreciated!
The noise occurs when the gas turns on and the dryer heater kicks on. Could it be the Solenoids going bad? The dryer still works fine (heat still works)...just the loud noise.


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Returns a multidimensional array constructor customized according to an underlying data type dtype and the number of array dimensions ndims.
codegen: boolean indicating whether to use code generation. Default: true.
By default, the function uses code generation for fast element lookup. To disable code generation, set the codegen option to false.
strides: array strides which are index offsets specifying how to access along corresponding dimensions.
offset: index offset specifying the location of the first indexed element in the data buffer.
order: array order, which is either row-major (C-style) or column-major (Fortran-style).
Static property returning the size (in bytes) of each array element (if known).
Static property returning the underlying data type.
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Size (in bytes) of the array (if known).
If unable to determine the size of the array, the property value is null.
Size (in bytes) of each array element (if known).
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A reference to the underlying data buffer.
ROW_MAJOR_CONTIGUOUS: boolean indicating if an array is row-major contiguous.
COLUMN_MAJOR_CONTIGUOUS: boolean indicating if an array is column-major contiguous.
An array is contiguous if (1) an array is compatible with being stored in a single memory segment and (2) each array element is adjacent to the next array element. Note that an array can be both row-major contiguous and column-major contiguous at the same time (e.g., if an array is a 1-dimensional ndarray with strides = ).
Index offset which specifies the buffer index at which to start iterating over array elements.
Array order. The array order is either row-major (C-style) or column-major (Fortran-style).
Returns a copy of the array shape.
Returns a copy of the array strides which specify how to access data along corresponding array dimensions.
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Sets an array element specified according to provided subscripts. The number of provided subscripts should equal the number of dimensions.
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With a well-placed paw on a keyboard or a pointed stare, Kathleen's two cats, Hercules and Owen, have helped her to solve cases in the past-so she has learned to trust their instincts. But she will need to rely on them more than ever when a twenty-year-old scandal leads to murder . . .
Now it seems the brothers are trying to reconcile, until Kathleen finds Leo dead. The police set their sights on Leo's son and Kathleen's good friend Simon, who doesn't have much of an alibi. To prove her friend innocent, Kathleen will have to dig deep into the town's history-and into her sardine cracker supply, because Owen and Hercules don't work for free . . .


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Today I wandered up to the local elementary school to check out a Christmas Craft Fair. There was a couple of my friends selling their handmade creations. It was also a fundraiser for the school-as is usually the case-so I didn't mind spending some time and money there.
Needless to say, there are some talented people out there. I picked up a few different crafts by some amazing artists while I was there. I know I don't have the skill sets to create some of this work but I can fully appreciate the time and effort it takes to make things. I am also big on supporting my friends and their amazing talents. I do this every chance I get.
Then there is also crap. Garbage thrown together by someone with little to no talent and priced really low in order to hopefully make a quick buck. I hate to be so negative about it but a blind monkey with a glue stick and glitter could do a better job sometimes. Don't think you haven't seen that junk either. It's worse when it's junk and they think that charging outlandish prices will make it more valuable somehow.
Just because someone labels it "folk art" doesn't mean it deserves top dollar either. I'm not saying that taking the time to refurbish or upcycle something from trash isn't a noble cause. But charging someone $40 for a piece of scrap wood with "HO ME" painted on it is a bit overboard. It's also not my style. For some, the idea of handmade means more than actually hand making something.
I'm all for handmade Christmas gifts. We have craft supplies galore in our home. Everything from beads to foamboard, scrapbooks to cardstock, candle making to fabrics. We even encourage our children to make something every year. They have painted ornaments, made cards and created their own art to give away.
This also forces our children to really focus on their extended family. I often discover more about what my children perceive of my inlaws or my family. Some of it is very, very odd indeed.


Okay okay, so we really have very little information about 'Jenna Dewan Tatum & Channing Tatum The TV Show,' save that it will be dance based, reality television and it will live on NBC.
We know that Jenna will likely be the show's host, with Channing making one, two, three (hopefully regular) appearances and that the celebrity couple of dreams will produce it together.
So without any more satisfying details than these, we've no alternative but to imagine all the great things we might expect from a TV date with the Tatums.
Whether he's riding in on a large, plastic horse to meet Beyonce, or he's parading around in a feathered float with a posse of drag queens, Channing Tatum loves to make a grand entrance.
2. Stripping, Is It Wrong To Hope There Will Be Stripping?!
Okay, if it's a dance show for children then we hope there won't be any unecessary stripping, but if it's past the watershed, we wouldn't complain if some velcro trousers accidentally happened to catch on a doorhandle and end up on the floor.
If there's one thing these two reliably deliver, it's sass. So throw in some dancing and an element of competition and we predict oodles of attitude.
4. Welding?! Could There Be Welding?
Okay, it's unlikely that there will be welding, but what with it basically being Channing Tatum's singature now, a girl can only hope.
Having thoroughly studied all instances of Channing and Jenna's public displays of dancing, we've come to the conclusion that no routine is complete without some form of crotch-to-face action.
Failing that, some crotch-to-audience action.
6. And Who Wouldn't Want A Little Bit Of This?