Javier Maciel believes his World title experience will be the key when he takes on Brian Rose in a final eliminator for the WBO Light Middleweight title at the Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield on Saturday (October 26) live on Sky Sports.
Maciel has already boxed for a World title having challenged unbeaten Russian Dmitry Pirog for the Middleweight crown in 2011, and the Argentine says the stakes couldn't be higher as the pair meet in the Steel City this weekend.
"This is one of the most important fights of my career because it would mean another chance to fight for a world title, and this time I'll be better prepared and more experienced," said Maciel.
"I've mainly been sparring with Mike Jones and Carlos De Leon Jr in Las Vegas. I've seen various videos of Rose. He has a good boxing style, he's compact. It's going to be a difficult fight but I'm going to bring it to him to be able to get the win.
"I don't mind where the fight is held because I just have to focus myself on winning by any way possible. I'm feeling pretty calm and ready to bring home a victory for Argentina.
Maciel travelled to Ekaterinburg to face Pirog for the title and lost on points to the hometown hero. The 29 year old admits that he was not in the right place to defeat the Russian that night, but with four stoppage wins inside five rounds in his last four fights he is ready to take the next step.
"Firstly I had an injury in my left hand which didn't allow me to be at 100 per cent," said Maciel. "I just wasn't prepared mentally to be a World champion. My amateur career was pretty short and I hadn't had that many professional fights at the time. I lacked experience and I lacked preparation.
"I take it all as a good experience though, and right now I'm a completely different fighter.
Rose and Maciel clash on a massive night of boxing in Sheffield, where hometown favourite Kell Brook faces Vyacheslav Senchenko in a huge Welterweight showdown.
Rising Liverpool star Callum Smith meets Ruben Acosta for the vacant WBC Super Middleweight International title and Olympic Gold medal hero Anthony Joshua MBE faces Paul Butlin in his second professional fight.


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Nathan Delfouneso: Blackpool face battle to break teams down
Nathan Delfouneso feels Wimbledon may be tougher to break down than Peterborough
Matt Scrafton
Blackpool must find different ways to break teams down in order to continue their winning streak.
READ MORE: No easy way into team warns Blackpool boss Grayson
That's according to Nathan Delfouneso, who scored his first goal since August in the recent FA Cup win against Morecambe.
That came on the back of a thrilling 4-3 victory over Peterborough United in their last League One outing, which saw Pool close the gap to the top six to just one point.
That victory, just Pool's third in 13 league games, came against a Posh team who were wide open and looking to attack at every opportunity, which left plenty of gaps for the Seasiders to exploit.
But Delfouneso is well aware that's not always going to be the case, with this Saturday's opponents AFC Wimbledon likely to be a tougher nut to crack.
Simon Grayson's side have struggled to break down teams that sit deep and defend in numbers.
But if Blackpool can find a way past Wimbledon's defence and notch another win, it will be four straight victories for the men in tangerine.
"I think the confidence is high," Delfouneso told The Gazette. "The belief has always been there but everything seemed to come together against Peterborough the other week.
"There's still a lot to improve on. We all know that but the last league game was a good step forward. Hopefully we can now build on that.
"We always look to go out and attack but every game is different.
Some teams will come here and sit back, and won't leave much space.
"That makes them difficult to break down and means it's down to us to go and break them down.
'The stats are starting to become pretty damning': Matt Scrafton's verdict on Blackpool's defeat at Lincoln and what it means for Simon Grayson's future
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"But it's down to us in each individual game to work out how we need to get success.
"But we always want to attack because we've got some good attacking players here.
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While the win against the free-scoring Posh gave a massive boost to everyone at the club, Delfouneso insists there's still a lot of work to be done.
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"We're feeling good and we're getting our rhythm back. I speak for myself, after being out for a while, and the likes of Sullay (Kaikai) as well.
"We're getting back into our flow and hopefully we can continue to gel as a combination for the good of the team.
"The most important thing is to get that consistency to keep working towards each game.
"We know what we've got to do, which is to focus on our game and our play.
"It doesn't matter who we come up against because when we're on form we know we're a match for anybody."

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The Big Bang Theory: A Critique
Fan favorite and perennial Emmy nominee, The Big Bang Theory, was recently renewed by CBS for an additional three seasons. This is hardly surprising, given the show's ratings, but I do confess I reacted to the news with a degree of regret. Whatever merit the show once had (and that was modest to begin with), it has long since departed and I would prefer to see it gone. If I'm being honest, though, I fail to see what CBS would replace it with that would be substantially better (the sitcom landscape is a dry and desolate wasteland), so whatever. Let it persist.
My issue with The Big Bang Theory is not really related to its portrayal of geek culture. Yes, it's an unfair caricature of nerds and gamers (and often inaccurate for the purpose of deriving plot), but I would honestly challenge you to find anything in sitcom-land that isn't a caricature of somebody. Caricatures are easy to mock and easy to write jokes for, and therefore they populate the television at its lowest echelons with all the same density that phytoplankton populates the oceans. Do I find it occasionally insulting? Yes, of course. Does it actively bother me? No, not for that reason. What bothers me about the show is its overriding cynicism. It is a show that thinks the worst of its characters, its audience, and the world in general.
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Let's begin with the title, shall we? It is a crass pun and little more. It's the kind of joke told by seventh grade boys in damp locker rooms whilst they speculate about female genitalia. Indeed, much of the entire theme of the show is oriented around such sophomoric, insulting puns, often at the expense of the female characters on the show. If anybody should be offended by The Big Bang Theory, it should be women. The basic premise of the show is that a woman can be attractive or she can be smart, but she cannot really be both. Penny, the most attractive, is also consistently displayed as an airhead with a poor memory, a disinterest in learning, and a history of poor life choices. Amy, the least attractive, is the only one able to match intellects with Sheldon Cooper. In the middle is Bernadette, who is not as attractive as Penny, but more attractive than Amy and is, therefore, somewhere between the two in terms of raw IQ. She is displayed as socially awkward and ditsy on the one hand, but also competent and rational on the other. This binary idea of women is beyond insulting; it's a willfully ignorant display meant to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
This demographic, by the way, is no more friendly to 'nerds' than it is to women. Geeks are likewise displayed on a similar binary scale – intellect is also governed in inverse proportion to social grace and physical prowess. Because the nerds are smart, they are also weak. Sheldon, the smartest, is also the weakest. Howard, the one whose intelligence is most often ridiculed, is the only one in the end to actually achieve the presumed goal of all involved: marriage to a beautiful woman (though not as beautiful as Penny, as though the show is saying "let's be realistic, here, nerds"). He also becomes an astronaut.
As if this weren't enough, the show's humor is exclusively hostile to its characters. We are never laughing with these people – we are laughing at them. Sheldon is the constant butt of jokes that demonstrate him as weak, unwise, and improbably clueless about the social world not because Sheldon is in any way realistic, but rather because the audience prefers to see the so-called genius put in his place. We are watching a crew of highly educated, presumably intelligent men involved in important fields get torn down and mocked for the purpose of appeasing an audience that doesn't like eggheads and finds it implausible that attractive women would find scientists interesting or that scientists could at all manage to attract women on their own merits. To this end, characters in this show do not give each other compliments, relying instead on a litany of insults that are typically too juvenile to be funny beyond their simple shock value.
Towards the beginning of the series there was a point where the show was cynical but also novel – I watched it, laughed at some of the jokes, and identified with a couple of the plotlines, etc.. That point, however, has been smothered by the incessant recycling of the same five jokes over and over again. Leonard is ashamed of his geekery, Sheldon is clueless, Raj is awkward, Howard is skeevy, Penny is dumb and, right there, I've covered ~85% of the show's humor. On a basic level, the show isn't substantially different from Chuck Lorre's other cash cow, Two and a Half Men, which is every bit as cynical and miserable. There is no joy in the lives of Charlie and Alan and there certainly isn't any joy to be had amongst Sheldon, Raj, Howard, and Leonard. They are hamsters in wheels, running in their stereotype-dictated tracks, never to escape or to really grow.
The Big Bang Theory is like a poorly run zoo – go a few times and find the lions and the elephants interesting. Go every day, and soon you start to wonder why the lions look so sad and why the elephant never plays with that big rubber ball. You feel like you and the animals are rehearsing some kind of perverse play, wherein you watch and they exist and nothing changes or improves, and yet for some reason everybody still expects you to applaud.
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Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology
International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology
AMAST 1995: Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology pp 133-151 | Cite as
Order-sorted algebraic specifications with higher-order functions
Anne Elisabeth Haxthausen
Refereed Contributions Algebraic and Logical Foundations
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 936)
This paper gives a proposal for how order-sorted algebraic specification languages can be extended with higher-order functions. The approach taken is a generalisation to the order-sorted case of an approach given by Möller, Tarlecki and Wirsing for the many-sorted case. The main idea in the proposal is to only consider reachable extensional algebras. This leads to a very simple theory, where it is possible to relate the higher-order specifications to first order specifications.
The work described in this paper was carried out during a visit at Electrotechnical Laboratory in Tsukuba in Japan and was supported by Japan International Science and Technology Exchange Center. The production of the paper has been supported by the Danish Technical Research Council under the "Codesign" programme.
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Leading women scientists at Kasetsart University's lab in Thailand work on biodiversity and conservation in the Lower Mekong as part of USAID's Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research Science project.
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Promoting gender equality and advancing the status of women and girls is vital to achieving all development objectives of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID's Regional Development Mission for Asia is committed to collaborating with a range of development partners to bridge gender inequity gaps in all programming, with a particular emphasis on the following priorities:
Advancing inclusive growth by strengthening women's economic empowerment;
Ending gender-based violence through programming for the most vulnerable populations, with a focus on violence prevention;
Increasing women and girls' voices in decision-making, leadership, and science, especially through innovative methodologies;
Encouraging traditional and non-traditional development partners to invest more financing and resources in programming to improve gender-based outcomes.
Support the regional economic platforms of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to develop and strengthen national and regional networks of women entrepreneurs.
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Partner with the ASEAN Committees on Women, and Women and Children's Rights to institutionalize and promote declarations on the elimination of violence against women and children.
Empower women as stakeholders in forest management and climate change policy-making across the Asia region.
Award biodiversity conservation research grants to female scientists to enable collaboration and capacity development with U.S. researchers.
Encourage citizen advocacy with transgender women, and men who have sex with men, for better access to quality HIV and AIDS health services.
Support stronger women's business unions and women-led green growth enterprises, and link them to clean energy project financing investors.
Assist seven women-led civil society groups in Thailand to be credible and effective advocates for improved local governance.
Implement an electronic gender sourcebook that serves as a guide on how to integrate gender into climate change adaptation activities.
Support networks for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons and organizations across Asia that decrease stigma and discrimination of LGBT persons.
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Create an interface based on the methods of a class without applying the new interface immediately.
Create an interface and apply it to the source code.
Rename the original class, and it implements the newly created interface. In such case, IntelliJ IDEA changes all usages of the original class to use the interface where possible.
In addition, static final fields, declared in the initial class, can be moved to an interface. As a result, an interface will be created containing the specific methods and fields. Thereby, the specified class methods become implementations of the corresponding interface methods.
Here we have a class, and perform Extract Interface refactoring to create an interface based on the methods of the class.
Another example of the Extract Interface refactoring, when the Rename original class and use interface where possible option is selected.
Source class implements both interfaces.
Select a class in the Project view, Structure view, or place the caret anywhere within a class in the editor.
On the main menu or on the context menu of the selection, choose Refactor | Extract | Interface. The Extract Interface dialog box appears.
To extract a new interface, select the Extract Interface option and specify the name for the new interface.
To rename the original class and make it an implementation of the newly created interface, select the Rename original class and use interface where possible option and specify the new name for the original class. IntelliJ IDEA will alter all original class usages to the usages of the implementing only where it is still necessary.
Specify the package, where the new interface will be located.
Select the class members you want to be listed in the interface in the Members to form interface area. The list shows all the methods of the class, as well as final static fields (constants).
In the JavaDoc area, select the action to be applied on the JavaDoc.
To leave it where it is, select the As is option.
To copy it to the extracted interface, select the Copy option.
To move it to the extracted interface, select the Move option.
Click Refactor when ready. If IntelliJ IDEA shows you a Refactoring Preview in the Find tool window, review the suggested changes. To have the interface extracted and the proposed changes applied, click Do Refactor.
If the class is used within the open project, IntelliJ IDEA proposes to replace the instances of the class with instances of the new interface. Note, that if an instance references a method or field, which are not defined in the interface, it won't be suggested for replacement.


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'Modern Family' star Ariel Winter says she's 'not really a fame person'
Home 2019 July 13 'Modern Family' star Ariel Winter says she's 'not really a fame person'
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Though the beloved sitcom "Modern Family" has arguably propelled Ariel Winter to stardom, the actress — who has long played the character Alex Dunphy on the show — admitted this week that she doesn't consider herself to be a "fame person."
"I'm not really a fame person. That wasn't why — that's not why I do what I do. I like to act. I like to work," Winter, 21, told The Hollywood Reporter this week in a candid interview. The actress spoke on a variety of topics, namely her post-"Modern Family" plans and the online criticism she's dealt with.
'MODERN FAMILY' STAR ARIEL WINTER FIRES BACK AT BODY-SHAMING TROLL OVER PLASTIC SURGERY QUESTION
Winter — who has defended herself against body-shaming trolls in the past — also revealed to the publication she once tried to change herself to please others.
"I don't know what it is about me. I feel like people sometimes think that just because they see us on TV that they're in our lives and they get to comment in such a harsh way. I think that's very confusing," Winter told The Hollywood Reporter of the online criticism she sometimes receives.
"I wanted to try to change the things that they were saying… Maybe I need to lose weight, maybe I should have my hair this color, and I tried doing all of those things. And it didn't change anything. Then it was something else to criticize" she added. "I learned that people will say what they say regardless… So really I spent so much time trying to make other people happy that I didn't make myself happy… But I try now to ignore the mean comments. I have not had a lot of success with ignoring them recently."
'MODERN FAMILY' STAR ARIEL WINTER POSES IN JUST A TOWEL ON INSTAGRAM, STUNNING FANS: 'SO OBSESSED!'
As for her plans following the 11th and final season of "Modern Family," Winter said she wants to audition for more "adult" roles.
"It's strange to think that it's coming to an end. It will be hard to say goodbye. It will be hard to leave that, but I am excited to do new things. I'm excited to play new roles and to do things that challenge me a little more," she said. "Alex is a great character but Alex doesn't change a ton… I was a kid as Alex on the show and now I'm an adult as Alex, so it's a little different than the roles I want to play. I don't want to play kid to adult. I want to just play my age now."
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Saint Francis House (SFH) is an intentional community in New London, CT with a social justice mission focused on southeastern Connecticut. It was our original partner in the Francis Fund and has helped incubate numerous grassroots organizations including the Southeastern Connecticut CLT, our current partner in the renamed Southeastern Connecticut Fund for Land Equity. This loan helps finance deferred maintenance and repairs of the two houses where the members live and work, and which we hope will eventually be added to the CLT. SFH had previously received Equity Trust Fund loans in 1999 and 2002 to acquire those two houses.


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Un xénolithe (du grec ancien xenos et lithos, signifiant "roche étrangère") est une enclave d'une roche incluse dans une roche différente et dont elle n'est pas issue. Cette appellation est spécifique aux roches magmatiques (volcaniques et plutoniques). Par exemple, les basaltes qui contiennent des xénolithes de manteau fait de péridotites.

Les géologues distinguent le xénolithe qui est un type de roche ne provenant pas de la roche hôte, et l'autolithe, qui est une roche emballée dans une autre mais qui a la même origine (enclaves homéogènes ou cogénétiques).

Selon le principe d'inclusion, toute roche incluse dans une autre lui est antérieure.

Principaux types d'enclaves
Les roches magmatiques, et notamment les granites sensu lato (granitoïdes) contiennent trois types principaux d'enclaves :
 des enclaves anguleuses, correspondant à des fragments d'encaissant tombés du toit de la chambre magmatique (phénomène de «  » lorsque la roche magmatique est trop refroidie et trop solidifiée pour assimiler ces fragments, formant ainsi des « brèches magmatiques »), ou arrachés aux parois et entraînés par le magma lors de sa remontée ;
 des enclaves arrondies surmicacées (accumulation autolithique de micas), résidus de fusion partielle, arrachés aux migmatites lors de l'extraction du magma ;
 des enclaves arrondies basiques, à structure de roche magmatique micro-grenue ou grenue. Elles correspondant à un mélange non miscible de magmas dont la différence entraîne un fort contraste de viscosité et un contact par des contours diffus, ou à un magma plus basique que l'encaissant et dont la cristallisation fractionnée produit des blocs à contours nets.

Processus pétrogénétiques
Les enclaves sont les témoins de processus pétrogénétiques affectant les magmas, notamment les phénomènes de contamination-assimilation.

On peut observer des orientations (litage, schistosité) dans les enclaves de bordure d'encaissant alors que d'autres sont des marqueurs des fluidalités de la roche qui les entoure, témoignant du comportement fluide des enclaves lors de la mise en  place du magma.

La présence de roches magmatiques basiques enclavées dans le granite prouve la participation d'un magma d'origine mantellique (intrusion basique) dans la genèse de ce granite : l'apport de matériel basique ou intermédiaire chaud (plus de , à  de profondeur en moyenne) provoque en effet une fusion partielle de la croûte continentale, dont la température de fusion est plus basse (environ ). Le contraste de viscosité entre le magma acide et basique entraîne le développement de poches qui, après refroidissement, forment les enclaves sombres et qui peuvent comporter en inclusion des xénocristaux extraits du magma acide.

Recherche
Plusieurs travaux, tels que la co-solidification d'enclaves dans leur encaissant, la forme des enclaves déformées dans un état suffisamment mou avec l'encaissant, ont fourni des preuves de l'existence de mélange de magma expliquant l'évolution chimique des magmas par différenciation.

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Notes et références

Voir aussi

 Glossaire de géologie
 Restite
 Xénocristal

Pétrologie

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Z Space is a regional theater and performing arts company located in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. Z Space is one of the leading laboratories for developing new voices, new works, and new opportunities in the American theater. In addition to commissioning and producing its own works, Z Space also presents productions created by other organizations.

It was founded in 1993 by David Dower, as the outgrowth of earlier theatrical productions staged by artists known as the Z Collective, and was known for a time as the Z Space Studio. Dower was succeeded in 2007 by Lisa Steindler, who currently serves as Z Space's executive artistic director.

In its first 15 years, Z Space developed and produced artistic works that were staged in a variety of San Francisco Bay Area theaters. Throughout the 90s and early 00s, Z Space worked with such artists as Josh Kornbluth, Anne Galjour, Randall Wong, and Brian Thorstensen. In 2009, Z Space moved into its own full-time facility in San Francisco's Mission district, situated at 450 Florida Street. The 13,000-square-foot facility  originally was constructed in the 1920s as a tooling factory for the American Can Company. During World War II, the building was converted into military use, making airplane parts. The building's interior was transformed into the Project Artaud Theater in 1971. In 2013, Z Space expanded into Z Below (formerly The Traveling Jewish Theater), an 86-seat complement to the 230-seat warehouse above.

Z Space's performances span a variety of disciplines, including theater, dance, visual art, music and performance art. Through its Z Space New Works program, the organization develops unique works from initial concept to on-stage production; it also provides technical residencies in which artists can make use of the entire facility, including the stage, lights and sound system to test and develop their concepts.

Other signature programs at Z Space include Word for Word, an in-house theater company that transforms works of literature verbatim to the stage, and Youth Arts, Z Space's outreach to schools, which promotes literacy and engages students' creativity.

In 2013, Z Space received a three-year grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to sponsor a resident playwright, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. That grant was renewed in 2016, giving Peter a stable artistic home for another three years. Since Peter's residency began, Z Space has produced three of his plays, The Totalitarians in 2014, A House Tour of the Infamous Porter Family Mansion with Tour Guide Weston Ludlow Londonderry in 2016, and The Making of a Great Moment in 2017.

Z Space has presented Bay Area premieres of internationally acclaimed performance ensembles The Wooster Group (2015), Elevator Repair Service (2014), Rude Mechs (2015), and Theatre Mitu (2015). Other notable presentations include works by Joe Goode Performance Group, Killing My Lobster, Big Art Group, Mugwumpin, LEVYdance, The Killbanes, piece by piece productions, and The Paul Dresher Ensemble. In 2014, Z Space presented The Bengson's Hundred Days, which they also commissioned, developed, and produced. In 2015 Composers, Inc. presented the premiere of Allen Shearer's opera Middlemarch in Spring at Z Space.

During the past decade, productions originating at Z Space have won national recognition including the Helen Hayes Award and the Joseph Kesselring Prize.  From 2001 through 2005, 15 productions developed by Z Space earned Critics Circle nominations. In 2005, The People's Temple was awarded the Will Glickman Award for "Best New Play." That work was developed during more than four years at Z Space; it premiered at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. In 2007, American $uicide, by Mark Jackson, was nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association for the annual ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award, honoring new scripts produced outside New York City.

Z Space's 2017 year garnered the organization title of "Best Performance Space" by Best of The Bay (of which they were also awarded for the 2016 year) and "Best Literary Remix" by San Francisco Magazine. Also in 2017, The Town Hall Affair by The Wooster Group presented at Z Space was listed by KQED as part of "The Best Bay Area Theater of 2017."

2018 featured Kat Robichaud's A Very Merry Misfit Cabaret Holiday Special. 2019 has Kat Robichaud's Misfit Cabaret returning to Z space with "Lost in Z Space" a sci-fi musical variety show.

References

External links

 Theatre Bay Area website

Theatres in San Francisco
Theatre companies in San Francisco
Mission District, San Francisco
Regional theatre in the United States
Arts organizations established in 1971
Theatres completed in 1971
1971 establishments in California
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Scientists have unlocked evidence that Jupiter's core has been dissolving, and the implications reach far outside of our solar system. This new data may help to explain a puzzling discovery of a strange planet outside of our solar system. The new planet, CoRoT-20b, was announced in February, and its discoverers searched for a suitable explanation for its unusual density. Using conventional models, the astronomers calculated that the core would have to make up over half of the planet. For comparison, Jupiter's core only represents about between 3-15 percent of the planet's total mass.
"It's a really important piece of the puzzle of trying to figure out what's going on inside giant planets," said Jonathan Fortney, a planetary scientist at the University of California Santa Cruz who was not affiliated with the research.
"People have been working on the assumption that these planets are layered because it's easier to work on this assumption," said Hugh Wilson, a planetary scientist at the University of California Berkeley and a coauthor of the new research appearing in Physical Review Letters. Although scientists had previously toyed with the idea of melting cores in large planets, nobody sat down and did the necessary calculations, said Wilson.
Scientists have to rely on calculations of Jupiter's core environment because the conditions there are far too extreme to recreate on Earth. Wilson and his UC-Berkeley colleague Burkhard Militzer used a computer program to simulate temperatures exceeding 7,000 degrees Celsius and pressures reaching 40 million times the air pressure found on Earth at sea level.
Those conditions are thought to be underestimates of the actual conditions inside Jupiter's core. Nonetheless, the authors found that magnesium oxide — an important compound likely found in Jupiter's core — would liquefy and begin drifting into Jupiter's fluid upper envelope under these relatively tame conditions.
CoRoT-20b's core presented a huge problem for traditional assumptions surrounding planet formation. "It's much easier to explain the composition of this planet under a model where you have a mixed interior," said Wilson.
Even the team that discovered the planet noted that a mixing model could allow for a more palatable planet density. Wilson's simulations not only add credence to the mixing model of giant planets but also suggest that this specific exoplanet's core is probably melting just like Jupiter's.This melting may help explain why the exoplanet's heavy elements are likely stirred up and distributed throughout its volume, said Wilson.
Santa Cruz's Fortney agrees that most of the exoplanet's heavy elements likely reside in the outer envelope. Nonetheless, he expects other factors played a larger role in how the planet's interior became mixed: "It's more of a planet formation issue."
Liquefied parts of a gas giant's core may have trouble reaching the outer envelope due to double diffusive convection — a process commonly found in Earth's oceans. When salty water accumulates at the bottom of the ocean, its density keeps it from mixing thoroughly with the upper layers. In a similar fashion, the heavy elements in Jupiter's core may have trouble gaining enough energy to move upward and outward.
Scientists don't know how much this hindrance will affect potential mixing inside Jupiter, and many other questions remain to be answered about the melting process.
"The next question is, 'How efficient is this process?'" said Fortney.
Researchers will have more tools to answer this question once NASA's Juno probe reaches Jupiter in 2016. With the spacecraft's instruments carefully analyzing Jupiter's composition, Wilson believes that there will be signatures of mixing and core erosion.


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The "Hippity Hoppity Egg Club" is back!
So many people requested that we rerun this club. Your wish is our command!
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Byo launches new arts initiative
12th December 2014 Showbiz, Arts & Culture
A NEW arts initiative through which artists will use public performance spaces to engage and interact with their audience has been launched in Bulawayo with a view to taking the various arts forms to different communities.
Titled "Feet-in City", the project is the brainchild of Voice in Colour, a Bulawayo based arts organisation, in partnership with the Bulawayo City Council, National Gallery in Bulawayo and Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA).
Various activities have been organised, starting with a street parade and a photographic exhibition which took place at Njube suburb on Thursday.
On Saturday, there will be street performances in the city centre by various artists who include Umkhathi Theatre Works, Hudson Simbarashe, Drums of Peace, Impumelelo Shining Stars and Zambian group, Rainbow Blaze Marimba.
Also on offer will be crafts and food stalls dotted around the Central Business District.
Through Feet-in City, Voices in Colour seeks to make the community of Bulawayo more appreciative of different artworks that exist in the city.
"We realised that art, especially visual art, was not reaching out to the people. People only know a limited form of art and we believe one cannot appreciate art without knowing it, thus Feet-in City brings art to the people giving them a platform to interact with artists and artworks," said Fisani Nkomo, the project coordinator.
"Through this process Feet-In City seeks to expose other forms of art little or unknown to the public for instance live installation, performance art just to mention a few. Through this programme we encourage people to embrace the ability to appreciate all art and understand how it relates to our society."
Speaking on the photographic exhibition, Nkomo said they engaged Njube residents who submitted their family portraits some taken as far back as the 1930's. The photographs will be scanned and enlarged and put up at the Njube community hall for free public viewing.
"The Township exhibition is a new initiative, to engage the public, communities and individuals. This is a way of enabling them to celebrate their history, celebrate themselves as a people, celebrate their culture and their space. We initiated this in Njube in August and we hope to spread it to other townships," he said.
Nkomo said the initiative was not just about taking the art to the people but making them participate in its creation and appreciate the different art forms.


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Precedent-setting land deal in palm oil expansion zone in Borneo
A new oil palm plantation being developed in Indonesian Borneo (West Kalimantan) has relinquished community lands to which it had gained a government permit.
The company PT Agro Wiratama, a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and subsidiary of the giant Musim Mas group, agreed to relinquish more than 1,000 hectares of its 9,000 hectare concession back to the community, following interventions by community representatives and NGOs.
In the context of a pattern of development whereby millions of hectares of large-scale oil palm plantations have been established without consent on indigenous peoples' land, this is a breakthrough, said Marcus Colchester, Director of the international human rights group, Forest Peoples Programme. We spotted PT Agro Wiratama's plans to open up this area on the RSPO website and were able to alert our partners in Borneo.
RSPO's 'New Plantings Procedure' requires member companies to publicly announce plans to expand their operations. The aim of the new procedure is to ensure that the social and environmental requirements of RSPO are taken into account before new operations get going. In this case, the local Indonesian NGO Gemawan was able to alert the local people to what was being proposed, open up discussions with the local government, the company and the RSPO and then assist the community in its negotiations.
We are very pleased that our land is secure now, because we've now got a chance to make choices about our lives. We now ask all the other parties involved in this decision to respect our choice, said Kamarudin, one of the community leaders of the Kuayan community.
Laili Khairnur, Executive Director of the NGO Gemawan, noted that it required the assistance of several NGOs to ensure an equitable outcome. It required local level mobilisation, mapping of land use and land claims and a series of meetings with local authorities and company officials to get a result. Laili said:
Grassroots communities cannot be left alone in their struggle, as they lack the information they need about government and company plans. In this case the vigilance and support of civil society organizations was essential to the struggle of the communities. We hope that in other land cases other companies that are members of the RSPO will also respond as promptly when NGOs and communities raise such concerns.
The reduction of the concession area was made official by the local regent (bupati) and the community was informed of the details last week.
Our community has been trying very hard for so long to refuse admittance to palm oil plantation developers in our village. We believe that we already have enough with the rubber, timber and rice paddies that we already own, said Azim Kitung, the Head of Mekar Jaya Village.
According to Salman, Coordinator of KONTAK Rakyat Borneo, another Pontianak based NGO that assisted the community:
Of 19 palm oil plantations operating in Sambas Regency, 17 of them are members of RSPO, they are part of companies of Duta Palma, Gandaerah Hendana, Musim Mas, Wilmar International, Sampoerna Agro, Indofood Agri, Tanjung Rhu. We urge RSPO to apply the same procedures to these companies.
Under the RSPO's standards, companies are required to respect the customary rights of local communities and indigenous peoples and must not take over their lands without their 'free, prior and informed consent'. Unfortunately, Indonesian laws and land administration do not recognise most communities' land rights, so permits are routinely handed out to companies even though they overlap areas basic to peoples' livelihoods and important for biodiversity. According to the National Land Agency's own statistics there are some 3,100 land conflicts in Indonesia between palm oil developers and local communities.
Norman Jiwan, Head of Department for Social and Environmental Risk Mitigation Initiatives, in the national palm oil watchdog NGO, SawitWatch, noted:
Actually, what is needed is a reform of the laws so peoples' land rights are recognised and secured. In the meantime we are relying on voluntary standards to try to get peoples' basic rights respected, but the State should comply with international human rights norms rather than leave every situation to be argued out on a case by case basis. In this case Musim Mas has acted responsibly, once the concerns were raised, but unfortunately not all companies are so inclined.
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Film Review: The LEGO Movie
With its home entertainment release, The LEGO Movie might just be the most fun film of the year. It is certainly a paragon of movies based on toy lines.
Emmet is just an ordinary construction worker. When he is thought to be the prophesied 'Special', Emmet is recruited to a quest to stop an evil tyrant from destroying the LEGO universe…
The LEGO Movie at first did not appear too appealing a proposition. The legacy of films based on toy lines has been less than prestigious. Nevertheless, The LEGO Movie goes some way in turning the tide, with its gregarious fun factor.
Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller choose to focus on Emmet, a character so ordinary that there are plenty of jokes to be made of this. There are a host of amusing supporting characters, but the protagonist is rooted for precisely for his underdog status.
The LEGO Movie is incredibly successful at garnering laughs from its audience. The humour in the film is superb, with visual and verbal gags on both on point. There are a lot of pop culture references in the film, underlined by the presence of some well-known characters (albeit the LEGO versions).
The message at the heart of The LEGO Movie is one that most will applaud. For all the jokes, the film's narrative is one that will have resonance. The pacing in the film is excellent, with action moving along steadily and no real decline in momentum.
Animation in The LEGO Movie is great. Attention to detail in the film is really strong; those that played with LEGO as children will certainly recognise an element or two. The film's main song is wonderful in its simplicity and humorous employment.
The LEGO Movie will be enjoyed by children and adults alike; a genuinely funny and constantly entertaining family film.
The LEGO Movie is out on DVD and Blu-Ray on Monday 21st July 2014.
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Review of the National Disability Agreement
This report was released on 1 February 2019. It has found that a new National Disability Agreement (NDA) between the Australian, State and Territory Governments is needed to facilitate cooperation, enhance accountability and clarify roles and responsibilities.
We have made a number of recommendations for a new NDA that has at its core the wellbeing and needs of all people with disability and their families and carers.
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The current National Disability Agreement (NDA) no longer serves its purpose, has a weak influence on policy, and its performance targets show no progress in improving the wellbeing of people with disability. A new agreement is needed to promote cooperation, enhance accountability and clarify roles and responsibilities of governments.
The disability policy landscape has changed markedly since the NDA was signed in 2008.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) commenced in 2013, focusing on supports for approximately 475 000 people with significant and permanent disability. And the National Disability Strategy (NDS), which covers all people with disability (approximately 4.3 million), was endorsed by all Australian Governments in 2011.
Improving the wellbeing of people with disability and carers across the nation requires a collaborative response from all levels of government, extending well beyond the NDIS to many other service systems, such as housing, transport, health, justice, and education.
There is an important role for a new NDA that has at its core, the wellbeing and needs of all people with disability and their families and carers. The purpose of a new NDA would be to provide an overarching agreement for disability policy, to clarify roles and responsibilities, to promote cooperation and to enhance accountability. The new NDA should:
set out the aspirational objective for disability policy in Australia — people with disability and their carers have an enhanced quality of life and participate as valued members of the community — and acknowledge and reflect the rights committed to by Australia under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
outline the roles and responsibilities of governments in progressing that objective; the outcomes being sought for people with disability; and a nationally consistent performance reporting framework for tracking progress against those outcomes.
The NDS should continue to play the essential role of articulating policy actions, with these actions explicitly linked to the new NDA's outcomes. The agreements governing the NDIS would remain separate to the NDA, but should be referenced throughout so that the NDA is reflective of the whole disability system.
Roles and responsibilities in the NDA need to be updated to reflect contemporary policy settings, to reduce uncertainty and to address gaps in several areas — including in relation to advocacy, carers, and the interface between the NDIS and mainstream service systems.
To facilitate greater clarity in responsibilities, governments should articulate and publish which programs they are rolling into the NDIS and how they will support people with disability who are not covered by the NDIS. They should also (through the COAG Disability Reform Council (DRC)) undertake a comprehensive gap analysis, with the new NDA outlining responsibilities for addressing any gaps. A gap analysis should be undertaken every five years.
NDA performance reporting needs strengthening to improve transparency and accountability.
There should be a single person‑centred national performance reporting arrangement across the NDA and NDS, with performance indicators and targets agreed to by the DRC.
A 'National Disability Report' should be tabled in Parliament biennially, outlining progress against the NDA's outcomes and performance metrics, and including the perspectives of people with disability and findings from policy evaluations undertaken as part of the NDA.
A new NDA should be agreed by the start of 2020. It should be a living document, with updates made to schedules as required, and should be independently reviewed every five years.
Leonora Nicol, Media Director – 0417 665 443 / 02 6240 3239 / media@pc.gov.au
New agreement on disability needed to improve the wellbeing of people with disability
The Productivity Commission has called for a new National Disability Agreement (NDA) between all Australian governments to promote cooperation, enhance accountability and clarify roles and responsibilities. A new agreement would help to improve the wellbeing of people with disability, particularly those not covered by the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), as well as their families and carers.
Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald said, "With so much focus on the NDIS, limited attention has been placed on achieving better outcomes for the many people with disability who are not supported through the NDIS. There's about 3.8 million people with disability in Australia who are not supported by the NDIS. Most people with disabilities are not and never will be covered by the NDIS yet their rights, needs and aspirations matter".
The Productivity Commission identified in a report released today that the disability policy landscape has changed dramatically since the current agreement commenced a decade ago and much of what is in it is now outdated and irrelevant. In particular, the current agreement does not reflect the implementation of the NDIS or the National Disability Strategy.
"There has been very little progress in meeting previously agreed goals such as raising labour force participation rates for people with disability or improving the wellbeing of carers. We have identified key gaps in the areas of advocacy services, support for carers, and supports for people with disabilities arising from mental health conditions, as well as access to community and inclusion programs," Commissioner Fitzgerald said.
The Commission's report concludes that a new, reinvigorated NDA could be a strong positive force to guide future disability policy, to promote better access to mainstream and disability services and to improve outcomes for people with disability.
The Commission recommends that the new NDA clearly set out the responsibilities of governments to provide disability services outside the NDIS, and to affirm the commitment of governments to address service gaps and barriers that people with disability face in accessing mainstream services.
"Improving the wellbeing of all people with disability, their families and carers requires a collaborative response from all levels of government, extending well beyond the NDIS to many other service systems such as housing, transport, health, justice and education," Commissioner Fitzgerald said.
The Commission also recommends that the new NDA set out a single, strengthened national performance reporting framework, with progress towards the outcomes of the new NDA publicly disseminated via a new National Disability Report, to be tabled in Parliament every two years.
The full study report about the National Disability Agreement Review can be accessed from the Commission's website at www.pc.gov.au. This is the first of the Commission's reviews of nationally significant sector-wide agreements between the Australian and State and Territory Governments.
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What is the National Disability Agreement?
An agreement between all governments about enhancing the quality of life for people with disability, their families and carers.
Promotes cooperation
Clarifies roles and responsibilities
Enhances acountability.
Covers 4.3 million people with disability in Australia.
A new agreement is needed
The current National Disability Agreement is outdated and does not reflect the current policy landscape.
There is lack of clarity about who is responsible for:
Community access and inclusion programs
Carer services
Services to people with psychosocial disability.
What are we recommending?
The new National Disability Agreement should...
... be an overarching agreement covering all people with disability, their familities and carers.
[Image] Three Triangles. The largest says: 'All Australians (23 million)'. Nested in the largest triangle is a medium sized triangle saying: 'People with disability (4.3 million)'. And finally, nested atop of the two largest triangles is a small triange saying: 'NDIS participants (475 000)'.
... be about meeting their rights, needs and obligations.
[Flower-like image] with icon of person in centre. Seven petals radiate listing:
Family and carer wellbeing
Rights protection, justice and legislation
Personal and community support
Inclusive and accessible communities.
... unify and guide all aspects of disability policy in Australia and reflect the role of the National Disability Strategy and the NDIS.
[Image] Three cell flowchart. An upper word bubble saying 'National Disability Agreement' linking to two lower word bubbles saying 'NDIS' and 'National Disability Strategy'.
The National Disability Strategy (beyond 2020) should detail the actions governments will take to improve outcomes for people with disability, their families and carers.
What should governments commit to in a new agreement?
Providing accessible and inclusive mainstream and specialised services
Clarifying responsibilities and resolving service gaps
Strengthening performance reporting
Evaluating what policies work
Publishing a National Disability Report every two years.
Find out more at pc.gov.au/nda
Preliminaries: Cover, Copyright and publication detail, Foreword, Terms of reference, Contents and Abbrviations
Chapter 1 About this review
1.1	Background to the study
1.2	About the National Disability Agreement
1.3	The broader disability policy landscape
1.4	The Commission's task and approach to the review
1.5	Consultation during the course of the review
Chapter 2 The purpose of the NDA
2.1	Does the NDA fulfil a relevant purpose?
2.2	What should be the overarching agreement?
2.3	A revised disability policy architecture
2.4	Updating the outcomes of the NDA
Chapter 3 Service gaps and responsibilities of governments
3.1	Reflecting disability policy in the NDA
3.2	Unclear responsibilities contribute to service gaps
3.3	How the new NDA could help address gaps
Chapter 4 Policy commitments
4.1	Where are policy commitments specified?
4.2	Linking outcomes, policies and evaluation
Chapter 5 Progress against the NDA's performance framework
5.1	Why measure performance?
5.2	The NDA's performance reporting framework
5.3	Progress towards the NDA outcomes
5.4	Evaluating the NDA performance reporting architecture
5.5	Developing performance indicators and targets
5.6	A comprehensive data strategy
5.7	More coherent national reporting for disability?
5.8	Raising the profile of performance reporting
Chapter 6 A modern disability agreement
6.1	A person-centred document
6.2	A contemporary document
6.3	Broader issues relating to the IGA FFR framework
Appendix A Public Consultation
Appendix B NDA performance indicators
B.1	Outcome A: economic participation and social inclusion
B.2	Outcome B: choice, wellbeing and independent living
B.3	Outcome C: families and carers are well supported


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Phoenix, AZ, August 09, 2017 –(PR.com)– Meadows Bank, headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada announced today that it posted Net Income After Tax of $5,625,000 in the first half of 2017 which was 41% higher than the $4,003,000 it earned during the same period in 2016. "The increase in our bottom line was due to Net interest income in the first half of 2017 growing by 15% or $2,200,000 over the same period the prior year," said Arvind Menon, President & CEO of the bank.
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Separately, Meadows Bank announced that in the second quarter it opened a new SBA Loan Production Office in Vancouver, Washington. "The Pacific Northwest has a vibrant economy and we hope to participate in this dynamic market by providing SBA 7(a) and 504 loans to the many businesses in the area," said Arvind Menon.
About Meadows Bank: Meadows Bank is a full service community bank headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. It has branches in Pahrump, Henderson and Reno, Nevada and Phoenix, Arizona. It also has loan production offices in Salt Lake City, UT; Phoenix, AZ; Denver, CO; Sacramento, CA; Dallas, TX and Vancouver, WA. For more information on the bank and its products and services please visit our website at www.meadowsbank.bank.
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Churchill Polar Bear Report – November Freeze
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November 9 – The winds died out overnight and the morning temperatures were still cold, just below 0°F. Without the windchill, however, the air felt mild relative to the past several days. Bear watchers reported the highlight of the day was spending the morning with two polar bears along the coast, which were alternating between feeding on kelp and visiting various tundra vehicles. The afternoon was slower for bears, though smaller creatures like American pine marten, ptarmigan and red fox were all spotted. There were more polar bears seen on the sea ice than on land today. The ice bears were viewed from both the tundra vehicles and helicopters. Helicopters reported that more ice had formed in the bay overnight. In just three days, the Hudson Bay has gone from being totally ice-free to having heavy coverage along the coast. The ice now reaches several miles out from the land and is broken up in places by open water.
A polar bear and two coys peruse the ice of the Hudson Bay. Discover Churchill photo.
By mid-afternoon, strong winds kicked up from the northwest, causing temperatures to fall. About that time, folks from town gathered at the Polar Bear Holding Facility to watch the release of a sow and two yearling cubs. These bears were flown by helicopter further north and away from town, where they can't get into any more mischief. With so many locals present, the conversation naturally turned to the quickly changing ice conditions. There were many hopeful comments about how early freeze-ups have occurred in the past during bear season, only to have the ice blown back out by strong winds several days later.
A mom and cub polar bear keep a watchful eye on the tundra. Discover Churchill photo.
November 10- Today was extremely cold with a high of -27°F. Windchill made it feel more like -35°F, and the strong, cold winds persisted throughout the day. Conditions alternated between cloudy and foggy, with periodic whiteouts and blowing snow. The weather made for tough bear viewing. Bear watchers found one bear on the eastern side of the Churchill Wildlife Management Area. It was present all day, resting and rolling around to clean its coat. Many smaller animals were encountered by the tundra vehicles, including Arctic fox, red fox and ptarmigan. A real highlight for some travelers was a sighting of an ermine that had just killed a lemming. It appears from shore that the ice has consolidated more since yesterday. Helicopters were unable to corroborate, however, since they were grounded due to the high winds. Southern winds are expected soon—this often blows the ice out, bringing polar bears back to shore.
A red fox in the wind and cold in Churchill. Discover Churchill photo.
November 11 – Cold temperatures dominated again today, though, at only -16°F, it felt mild compared to previous days due to less windchill. Winds have shifted to come from the west. Helicopters were back in the skies this morning and pilots reported several polar bears on the ice. Polar bear cubs and a seal kill stole the show, along with a moose cow and calf near the shoreline. By early afternoon, helicopters were reporting that the ice had pushed away from the shore, and polar bears were spotted on land in various locations. From the tundra vehicles, a few bears were observed on the ice from Halfway Point early in the morning, best seen with spotting scopes. By late morning, the tundra machines made it out to Gordon Point to find a sub-adult bear. They watched it for hours as it ate kelp and walked among the vehicles. A red fox was seen on the tundra by several groups, a snowy owl was spotted from the Tundra Lodge, and there have been many red and silver fox sightings right in town. Winds are expected to shift to arrive from the south overnight, and local chatter is that this is the best-case scenario for potentially moving ice out of the region and driving more bears back to shore.


Sterling under pressure against the NZD despite investor's on-going concerns over the global trade markets.
Up until last week, Sterling had held its position against the NZD far better than it had against either GBP or the USD. The below report looks into the factors currently impacting the New Zealand economy, which affects the range of exchange rates shown in the table below, showing the importance of timing your currency transfer well to ensure you maximise your return.
GBP/NZD rates were trading north of 1.95 but as per Sterling's recent slide against the other major currencies, it has found it is no longer immune to a similar trend against the Kiwi.
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Up until recently, Sterling was holding firm above 1.95 against the Kiwi, which was struggling to hold its positions due to a slowdown in global growth. As per the EU's concerns over Trumps trade tariffs, New Zealand's economy was under pressure due to the restrictions put on Chinese imports. This was causing a slowdown in Chinese economic growth and due to New Zealand's trade links with Australia (China's largest trade partner) and its own trade relationship with them, New Zealand's economy was also feeling the negative effects.
What factors impact New Zealand's economy?
New Zealand's economy relies heavily on consistent global growth, in order to help drive its export-focused economy. With global market sentiment seeping lower, it has caused investors to shy away from the NZD in recent weeks. Add to this the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) concerns over the current levels of inflation and it seemed unlikely that the NZD would make any significant moves against the Pound, despite the problems currency facing the UK economy.
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Photographer Vincent Brady made a contraption with four cameras, each fitted with fish-eye lenses, which he set up to do 360-degree panoramas. He calls them "Planetary Panoramas" and the results are amazing!
While experimenting with different photography tricks and techniques back in 2012, I was shooting 360 degree panoramas in the daytime and long exposures of the stars streaking in the sky at night. It suddenly became clear that the potential to combine the two techniques could be a trip! Since the Earth is rotating at a steady 1,040 mph I created a custom rig of 4 cameras with fisheye lenses to capture the entire night-sky in motion. Thus the images show the stars rotating around the north star as well as the effect of the southern pole as well and a 360 degree panorama of the scene on Earth. Each camera is doing nonstop long exposures, typically about 1 minute consecutively for the life of the camera battery. Usually about 3 hours. I then made a script to stitch all the thousands of these panoramas into this time-lapse. I created my rig in January of 2013 while in my final semester at Lansing Community College before receiving an associates degree in photography. Given it was winter in Michigan, I didn't get to chase the notorious clear moonless night sky as much as I had hoped as the region has lots of cloud cover that time of year. Though I was ready on the rare night to go experiment. After graduating in May I had built up quite the urge to hit the road. My rig has taken me to firefly parties in Missouri, dark eerie nights at Devils Tower, through Logan Pass at Glacier National Park, up the mountains of British Columbia, and around the amazing arches and sandstone monuments in the Great American Southwest.
These are the images I created on the cold, dark, sleepless nights under awe-spiring skies.
The music is composed and recorded by my very good friend, the acoustic fingerpicking guitar prodigy Brandon McCoy! Brandon who is also from the greater Lansing area in Mid-Michigan is quite the acoustic instrumentalist. The song chosen for this time-lapse is called 'One Letter From Lady.' I moved to Michigan when I was 15 and Brandon was the first friend I made. He was the cool kid playing Pink Floyd licks on a $2 guitar at the time. Soon, after he had spent his cold, dark, sleepless nights perfecting his craft, he started coming up with his very own instrumentals. Some of which are upbeat by mixing picking, slapping, and drumming on the guitar while other compositions of his are calm and soothing and can put you in a meditative trance if you just close your eyes. It has been a great experience watching each other grow as artist for over the past 10 years, and you better believe we will be collaborating on projects like this in the very near future.
First are the weird star trails you see in many of the scenes. I've explained this before, but briefly: When you face north, east is to your right and west to your left, so the stars rise and set in a counterclockwise manner. If you face south, the reverse is true (west on your right, east on your left, and the stars move clockwise). If you look due east, the stars rise straight up, going over you head. Face west, and they move straight down to the horizon.
Normally, since you can only look in one direction at a time, you don't have to deal with all these different movements all at once. But in the video we're seeing the whole sky at the same time, with all those weird motions combined. So near the sky's north pole the stars make little circles one way, and near the south pole (which is below the horizon in Michigan, where these shots were taken) they move the opposite way.
But there's more! Once the images are stitched together, they can be mapped into different shapes. Just like you can take a map of the Earth and turn that into a spherical globe, a flattened Mercator projection, or any number of other types of shapes, you can do that with the sky as well. Brady reshaped the pictures several ways in the video, including using a (more or less) flat horizon facing east (at the 0:15 mark), which makes the stars rise out of the middle of the frame, and the same thing but facing south (at the 1:55 mark) and west (at the 2:19 mark) — all of which make the sky look very odd indeed.
But he also used something called the "Little Planet" effect, which is really weird. This takes the flat horizon and wraps it around into a circle, making the left side of the image touch the right, like rolling a rectangle up into a cylinder (or, more accurately a cone). The technique is pretty simple, and the end result is that it's like you're looking down on a tiny little planet or asteroid with the sky wrapped around it. This also tends to distort taller objects, lengthening them, so the arches (at the 0:30 mark) and hoodoos (at the 1:27 mark) look like they're reaching toward you.
I'll note that this is the opposite of the "all-sky" effect (at the 1:14 mark) where it looks like you're looking up into the entire sky.
What fun! And all of this just from looking in all directions at once, and applying a little math to the result. I have to admit, I found it very disorienting (in a fun way) trying to pick out constellations and familiar landmarks in the sky during the video.
This is really cool and I hope he registers a patent!
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