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Elija ben Solomon Zalman, ( Rabin Elijahu ben Šlomo Zalman) poznat kao Vilna Gaon ili Elijah od Vilne, ili po njegovom hebrejskom akronimu HaGra ("HaGaon Raben Elijahu": "Mudrac, naš učitelj, Elijah") ili Elijah Ben Solomon (Silec, 23. april 1720Vilnjus 8. oktobar 1797), bio je talmudista, halahista, kabalista, i najviši leader misnagdskih (nehasidskih) Jevreja u proteklih nekoliko vekova. Na hebrejskom ga nazivaju ha-Gaon he-Časid mi-Vilna, "pobožni genije iz Vilnjusa".

Mladost i obrazovanje

Prema legendi on je do 4. godine memorisao celokupni Tanah. U sedmoj godini studirao je Talmud pod nadzorom Mojsija Margalita, rabina iz Kedajnjaja i autora tumačenja Jerusalimskog Talmuda pod nazivom Pnej Moše ("Mojsijevo lice"). Za mladog Elijaha se govorilo da je već napamet znao nekoliko talmudskih traktata. On je poznat po tome što je posedovao eidetsko pamćenje. Do osam godina je u slobodno vreme studirao astronomiju. Od desete godine nastavio je studije bez pomoći učitelja, jer je njegovo znanje već nadmašilo sve njegove nastavnike, a sa jedanaest godina je ceo Talmud znao napamet.

Kada je dosegao zrelije doba, Ilija je odlučio da ode u "egzil" i lutao je različitim delovima Evrope, uključujući Poljsku i Nemačku, kao što je bio običaj među pobožnim tog vremena. U vreme kada je imao dvadeset godina, rabini su mu podnosili svoje najteže halahičke probleme. Učenjaci, jevrejski i nejevrejski, poštovali su njegov uvid u matematiku i astronomiju. On se vratio u rodni grad 1748. godine, do kog vremena je veći bio stekao znatnu reputaciju.

Metode studiranja

Gaon je primenio na Talmud i rabinsku literaturu pravi filološki metod nastojeći da kritički preispita tekst.

On je posvetio mnogo vremena proučavanju Tore i hebrejske gramatike, i bio je dobro upućen u naučna istraživanja tog vremena. On je podsticao svoje učenike i prijatelje da se bave običnim i jednostavnim metodama učenja, i da ne zanemaruju sekularne nauke, tvrdeći da je judaizam mogao samo dobiti njihovim proučavanjem. Gaon je takođe bio privučen proučavanjem Kabale; njegova kontroverza sa hasidskim judaizmom ne proizilazi iz odbacivanja misticizma per se, već iz duboko drugačijeg razumevanja njegovog učenja, posebno u pogledu njegovog odnosa prema halahi i aškenaškom minhagu.

Antagonizam do hasidizma

Kada je hasidski judaizam postao uticajan u Vilnjusu, Vilnjuski Gaon se pridružio rabinima i poglavarima poljskih zajednica, kako bi govorio protiv hasidskog uticaja.

Drugi rad

Osim sukoba sa hasidima, Gaon iz Vilnjusa se retko bavio javnim poslovima i, koliko je poznato, nije predsedavao nijednom školom u Vilnjusu. Bio je zadovoljan držanjem predavanja u svom bet ha-midrašu nekolicini odabranih učenika, koje je uveo u svoje metode. On ih je podučavao hebrejskoj gramatici, hebrejskoj Bibliji i Mišnu, predmetima koje su talmudisti tog vremena uglavnom zanemarivali. Posebno je bio nestrpljiv da ih uvede u proučavanje književnosti midraša i manjih rasprava Talmuda, koje su naučnici njegovog vremena bili vrlo malo poznati.

Specijalan naglasak je stavio na proučavanje jerusalimskog Talmuda, koji je vekovima bio gotovo potpuno zanemaren. Gaon je ohrabrio svog glavnog učenika, rabina Hajma iz Voložina, da osnuje ješivu (rabinsku akademiju) u kojoj bi trebalo da se predaje rabinska književnost. Rabin Hajm Voložin je otvorio Voložinsku ješivu 1803. godine, nekoliko godina nakon Gaonove smrti, i napravio revoluciju u proučavanju Tore, što je rezultiralo uticajem na celokupno pravoslavno jevrejstvo.

Asketizan

Gaon iz Vilnjusa je vodio asketski život, a neki od njegovih savremenika su ga nazivali "hasidom". Ovaj izraz znači "pobožna osoba" i nema veze sa hasidskim pokretom.

Gaon je jednom krenuo na put u zemlju Izrael, ali iz nepoznatih razloga nije stigao dalje od Nemačke. (Početkom devetnaestog veka, tri grupe njegovih učenika, poznatih kao Perušim, pod vođstvom rabina Menahema Mendela iz Šklova, su se probili u tadašnju otomansku Palestinu, nastanivši se prvo u Safedu, a kasnije i u Jerusalimu). Dok je bio u Kenigsbergu, napisao je svojoj porodici poznato pismo koje je objavljeno pod naslovom Alim li-Terufah, Minsk, 1836.

Radovi

Gaon iz Vilnjusa je bio izdašan anotator, stvarajući mnoge marginalne napomene, beleške i kratke komentare, koji su uglavnom diktirani njegovim učenicima. Mnogi tvrde da su njegovi učenici zapisali njegove komentare, ako ne i njegove uredničke beleške. Međutim, ništa od njegovog dela nije objavljeno za njegovog života. "Gra" je bio veoma precizan u formulacijama svojih komentara, jer je tvrdio da ga zakon Tore obavezuje da je samo "Tora šebištav" (pisani zakon) dozvoljena da se zapiše – ostatak "Tora šebal pe" (usmeni zakon) ne može biti, osim ako okolnosti zahtevaju. (Ovo dalje podržava gledište da su njegovi učenici pisali njegove komentare.) Dakle, Vilnjuski Gaon se pridržavao ovog gledišta zakona smanjujući svoja opširna objašnjenja koja su uglavnom nedokučiva bilo kome osim naprednim talmudistima. Beleške na vavilonskom Talmudu i Šalčan Aruk su poznate kao Bajrej ha-Gra ("razrade po Grau"). Njegov tekući komentar na Mišnu nosi naslov Šenot Elijahu ("Elajdžine godine"). Razna kabalistička dela imaju komentare u njegovo ime. Njegovi uvidi u Petoknjižje su naslovljeni Adereth Eliyahu ("Elajdžin sjaj"). Komentari na Poslovice i druge knjige Tanaha napisani su kasnije u njegovom životu.

On je bio dobro upućen u matematička dela Euklida (4. vek pre nove ere) i podstakao je svog učenika rabina Baruha Šika iz Šklova da prevede ova dela na hebrejski. Kaže se da je Gaon napisao sažeto matematičko delo pod nazivom Ayil Meshulash, koje je bilo uvodni tekst u osnovnu matematiku. Prema popularnom mitu/legendi, tvrdi se da je Gaon doprineo savremenoj matematici svog vremena, i da je Kramerovo pravilo nazvano po njemu (pošto je njegovo porodično ime bilo Kremer). Međutim, pravilo je zapravo nazvano po švajcarskom matematičaru Gabrijelu Krameru, i nema dokaza da je Gaon uopšte bio upoznat sa bilo čim izvan osnovne (prednjutnovske/srednjoškolske) matematike, a svakako nema dokaza da je napravio vredne doprinose.

Grobno mesto

Tokom 1950-ih, Sovjetske vlasti su planirale da izgrade stadijum i koncertnu dvoranu na toj lokaciji. Oni su dozvolili da se ostaci Vilna Gaona uklone i ponovo sahrane na novom groblju.

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Reference

Literatura

 Etkes, Immanuel, et al. The Gaon of Vilna: the man and his image (University of California Press, 2002)
 "The Gaon of Vilna and the Haskalah movement", by Emanuel Etkes, reprinted in Dan, Joseph (ed.). Studies in Jewish thought (Praeger, NY, 1989)
 "The mystical experiences of the Gaon of Vilna", in Jacobs, Louis (ed.). Jewish mystical testimonies (Schocken Books, NY, 1977)
 Landau, Betzalel and Rosenblum, Yonason. The Vilna Gaon: the life and teachings of Rabbi Eliyahu, the Gaon of Vilna (Mesorah Pub., Ltd., 1994)
 Shulman, Yaacov Dovid. The Vilna Gaon: The story of Rabbi Eliyahu Kramer ( C.I.S. Publishers, 1994)
 Ackerman, C. D. (trans.) Even Sheleimah: the Vilna Gaon looks at life (Targum Press, 1994)
 Schapiro, Moshe. Journey of the Soul: The Vilna Gaon on Yonah/Johan: an allegorical commentary adapted from the Vilna Gaon's Aderes Eliyahu (Mesorah Pub., Ltd., 1997).
 Freedman, Chaim. Eliyahu's Branches: The Descendants of the Vilna Gaon (Of Blessed and Saintly Memory) and His Family (Avotaynu, 1997)
 Rosenstein, Neil. The Gaon of Vilna and his Cousinhood (Center for Jewish Genealogy, 1997)

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Pedestrian Fatality Awareness Campaign during Bike Month?
Kudos to the The Iowa Department of Public Safety's (DPS) Iowa Governor's Traffic Safety Bureau (GTSB) for promoting such a campaign.
Any public safety announcements related to non-motorized vehicles is a win-win.
Wouldn't it be great to have a "Bicycle Safety Awareness" campaign like this for cyclists? Especially in May?.. especially since May is Bike Month?
The Pedestrian Campaign
This morning, Friday, May 1, 2015, the Iowa Department of Public Safety's (DPS) Iowa Governor's Traffic Safety Bureau (GTSB), in partnership with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NTSA) and the City of Sioux City, launched the first of its kind in Iowa, pedestrian fatality awareness campaign.
Pedestrians are one of the most at-risk groups of roadway users. Pedestrians represent 14-percent of all traffic fatalities. According to NHTSA, 3 in 4 (73%) of pedestrians were killed in urban areas; 2 in 3 (70%) were at non-intersections; 1 in 2 (48%) were killed on the weekends; 1 in 3 (32%) were killed between 8PM – midnight; and 1 in 3 (37%) pedestrians killed were drunk.
The goal of this campaign is to raise awareness about and reduce the number of pedestrian injuries and fatalities in our state. The Iowa GTSB and Sioux City officials have developed a pilot approach of "Three E's" including engineering, education and enforcement.
The Sioux City Police Department will have extra enforcement monitoring foot traffic and providing enforcement during high risk hours. Findings will be turned over to the engineering department to look at traffic patterns and make recommendations for safer flow and determine if additional signage is needed.
The Sioux City Police Department, along with the Iowa GTSB, will also distribute educational posters and signs to establishments in the area to raise awareness and encourage safe behavior.
"The Sioux City Police Department sees this as a significant opportunity to impact pedestrian safety.Evaluating our roadways and educating its users should effect safety for all and reduce the numbers of injuries and fatalities we see. Projects such as this with federal, state and local ownership have proven successful in the past and we look forward to this one," Sioux City Police Chief Douglas Young commented.
Iowa GTSB Bureau Chief Pat Hoye said, "I applaud Sioux City's proactive approach to pedestrian safety and encourage other cities to follow their example."
Make it "cycling" related
Since it is Bike Month, here is a tip. Please re-read the press release above and time you see the the word "pedestrian', replace it with "cyclist".
We scoured the DPS press releases for 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010. There were ZERO press releases released on cycling.
If these state organizations have not recognized 'safe' cycling in the last 5 1/2 years, then why do we think a safe passing law, or stricter penalties will get passed?
There are even press releases telling football fans to be safe at the Iowa vs. Iowa-State games, but unfortunately nothing cycling-related...
We vow to contact DPS, GTSB, the Iowa Bicycle Coalition, and Iowa's State Bike & Ped coordinator to get a state-wide "Bicycle Safety Awareness" campaign created and released for cycling for next year. Who knows... We may get a press release posted yet this month.
We challenge YOU to contact these organizations too.
WE know this is a sensitive topic, and we hope you can sense a little sarcasm in this post, but given Iowa is such a bicycle-friendly state, a "Bicycle Safety Awareness" campaign should be one of the TOP campaigns of all the public safety announcements... just like "buzzed driving is drunk driving" and the "click it or ticket" campaigns.
Source: Iowa Department of Public Safety (DPS)
Modified: May 3, 2015 by bikeiowa
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When the tank house was in use, there was water pumped by a windmill, (later by an electric motorized pump), to an approximately 600 gallon galvanized tank (many were uncovered) at the top of the 3 story building.
The Tank House was moved from Jack Tapp's farm on Conejo (City name is Sierra St.) Avenue, just west of the Kingsburg Industrial Park, to the Historical Park.
The windmill would pump the water into the tank with the tank's elevation providing the pressure to get water into the house. The 2nd story was used for sleeping quarters or storage. The ground floor, in some cases, was lined with brick and plaster or concrete and used as an above ground cellar. The Historical Society uses the building for storage.


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Q: Why the Player is walking through walls floor doors? The MouseLook script:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

/// MouseLook rotates the transform based on the mouse delta.
/// Minimum and Maximum values can be used to constrain the possible rotation

/// To make an FPS style character:
/// - Create a capsule.
/// - Add the MouseLook script to the capsule.
///   -> Set the mouse look to use LookX. (You want to only turn character but not tilt it)
/// - Add FPSInputController script to the capsule
///   -> A CharacterMotor and a CharacterController component will be automatically added.

/// - Create a camera. Make the camera a child of the capsule. Reset it's transform.
/// - Add a MouseLook script to the camera.
///   -> Set the mouse look to use LookY. (You want the camera to tilt up and down like a head. The character already turns.)
[AddComponentMenu("Camera-Control/Mouse Look")]
public class MouseLook : MonoBehaviour {

    public enum RotationAxes { MouseXAndY = 0, MouseX = 1, MouseY = 2 }
    public RotationAxes axes = RotationAxes.MouseXAndY;
    private float sensitivityX = 5f;
    private float sensitivityY = 5f;

    private float minimumX = 0f;
    private float maximumX = 360f;

    private float minimumY = -30f;
    private float maximumY = 45f;

    private float rotationY = 0f;

    void Update ()
    {
        if (axes == RotationAxes.MouseXAndY)
        {
            float rotationX = transform.localEulerAngles.y + Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * sensitivityX;

            rotationY += Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * sensitivityY;
            rotationY = Mathf.Clamp (rotationY, minimumY, maximumY);

            transform.localEulerAngles = new Vector3(-rotationY, rotationX, 0);
        }
        else if (axes == RotationAxes.MouseX)
        {
            transform.Rotate(0, Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * sensitivityX, 0);
        }
        else
        {
            rotationY += Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * sensitivityY;
            rotationY = Mathf.Clamp (rotationY, minimumY, maximumY);

            transform.localEulerAngles = new Vector3(-rotationY, transform.localEulerAngles.y, 0);
        }
    }

    void Start ()
    {
        // Make the rigid body not change rotation
        if (GetComponent<Rigidbody>())
            GetComponent<Rigidbody>().freezeRotation = true;
    }
}

The controller script:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

//[RequireComponent (typeof (Rigidbody))]
//[RequireComponent (typeof (BoxCollider))]

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour {

    private void Update()
    {
        var x = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") * Time.deltaTime * 150.0f;
        var z = Input.GetAxis("Vertical") * Time.deltaTime * 3.0f;

        transform.Rotate(0, x, 0);
        transform.Translate(0, 0, z);
    }
}

When I use the mouse for example to look to the floor and move forward the player it will move through the floor.
I'm using box collider and I also tried to add a mesh collider but it didn't help so far.
The NAVI have a Rigidbody component attached to it.
I also had a Rigidbody attached to the Player and then he didn't walk through the floor but then the Rigidbody did problems with the doors. The doors opened/closed fast and many times with the Rigidbody.

A: To prevent two colliders from going through one another, you will have two options:
1.Use raycast to detect walls then manually adjust the position of the object or stop moving the player.
2.Use Rigidbody to automatically handle the collision then use Rigidbody.MovePosition and Rigidbody.MoveRotation to move and rotate the object instead of the transform.Translate and transform.Rotate used in your current code.

I prefer #2 since it's easier to code and more reliable. Just attach Rigidbody and a collider to the player. Also attach collider to the walls and floors. The code below should move the player and it will not go through the walls.
public bool useWorldSpace;
public Rigidbody rb;
public float speed = 18;

public void Update()
{
    float h = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
    float v = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");

    //Movement
    Vector3 tempVect = new Vector3(0, 0, v);
    tempVect = tempVect.normalized * speed * Time.deltaTime;

    if (useWorldSpace)
        tempVect = transform.position + tempVect;
    else
        tempVect = transform.position + transform.TransformDirection(tempVect);

    rb.MovePosition(tempVect);

    //Rotation
    Vector3 angle = new Vector3(0, 100, 0);
    Quaternion deltaRot = Quaternion.Euler(angle * h * Time.deltaTime);
    rb.MoveRotation(rb.rotation * deltaRot);
}

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Homepage»Science & Space»Space-Time Crystal Computer That Can Outlive Even The Universe Itself
Space-Time Crystal Computer That Can Outlive Even The Universe Itself
It may appear strange to assume one thing can survive even the death of the Universe, but that could truly be feasible as a result of the laws of quantum physics.
Scientists are now suggesting a new blueprint for a device, known as a time crystal, that can theoretically continue to function as a computer even after the universe cools to absolute zero.
Ordinary crystals are three-dimensional objects whose atoms are arranged in normal, repeating patterns related to table salt. They adopt this structure due to the fact it makes use of the lowest amount of energy possible to preserve.
MIT physicist Frank Wilczek says: "First you need to have an ion trap, a device which holds charged particles in location making use of an electric field… Subsequent, you apply a weak static magnetic field, which causes the ions to rotate.
Quantum mechanics means that the rotational energy of the ions ought to be higher than zero, even when the ring is cooled to its lowest energy state."
Commonly, this behavior would violate thermodynamic laws but superconductors let electrons to rotate continuously."
As the Universe accelerates, it cools, ultimately dissipating all its energy till every little thing is cold, dark, and as far as life is concerned, dead.
But if crystals, such as table salt, could be translated into the fourth dimension of time.
Wilczek theorizes that a operating time crystal could be made into a pc, with distinct rotational states standing in for the 0s and 1s of a standard personal computer.
"To make it intriguing you want to have various sorts of ions, maybe a number of rings that influence each other," he says.
"You can commence to believe about machines that run on this principle."
Image credit: crystalsbuy.com
Crucially, they would also have to be in their lowest attainable energy state as they do so, which means that they would naturally continue to rotate even after the universe has succumbed to entropy and cooled to a uniform temperature – a state known as heat-death.
Even though such behavior would usually violate the laws of thermodynamics, nonstop rotation is allowed in the situation of electrons in a superconductor, which flow without having resistance.
Wilczek had originally suggested that a superconductive ring could serve as a time crystal if electrons could be made to flow separately rather than in a continuous stream, ensuring a repeating pattern, but he couldn't figure out how to do so in practice.
Now Tongcang Li at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, have an alternative suggestion that may be feasible to construct.
First you need to have an ion trap, a device which holds charged particles in location making use of an electric field.
This causes the ions to form a ring-shaped crystal, as ions trapped at very low temperatures repel every single.
Subsequent, you apply a weak static magnetic field, which causes the ions to rotate.
In this state, the electric and magnetic fields are no longer required to preserve the shape of the crystal and the spin of its constituent ions. The outcome is a time crystal – or indeed a space-time crystal, due to the fact the ion ring repeats in both space and time.
Even though Wilczek points out that the heat-death of the universe is, in principle, "really user friendly" for this kind of experiment due to the fact it would be cold and dark, there are other troubles to consider.
"We concentrate on a space-time crystal that can be produced in a laboratory," says Li. "So you need to have to figure out a method to make a laboratory that can survive in the heat-death of the universe."
Yes, one has to admit the thought a thing can outlive the Universe is fascinating indeed!
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, " Arthur C. Clarkewhen mentioned. This new invention is close to magic… Scientists have invented a way to make objects levitate and defy gravity. At first glance it can appear like magic, but it is science. As you can see this metal ball is in fact suspended in midair! Behind the project known as ZeroN we find, Jinah Lee and his MIT colleagues.
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• Computer that could outlive the universe a step closer
The heat-death of the universe need not bring an end to the computing age. A strange device known as a time crystal can theoretically continue to work as a computer even after the universe cools. A new blueprint for such a time crystal brings its construction a step closer. Ordinary crystals are three-dimensional objects whose atoms are arranged…
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If you woke up last Friday with no access to your Facebook account and logged out of every device, then this is for you. Facebook has released more information regarding the investigation surrounding last week's incident.
According to the latest announcement, Facebook was quick to trace the vulnerability which left millions of accounts exposed. By resetting the tokens in all accounts affected, the platform claims that it has managed to keep all users' info intact. In total, over 90 million accounts were reset — 50 million that had access tokens stolen and 40 million that were subject to a "View As" look-up in the last year.
Last week's Facebook Login hacking has led to an investigation on the platform's end which so far found no evidence that the attackers accessed any apps using Facebook Login.
Again, resetting the access tokens was paramount in protecting users against bad actors. However, out of an abundance of caution, as some developers may not use Facebook's SDKs or regularly check whether Facebook access tokens are valid, Facebook is building a tool to enable developers to manually identify the users of their apps who may have been affected, so that they can log them out.


This research scholarship program provides funding of up to $2,000 for project-related expenses to undergraduate students working on approved research projects. Students are nominated for the program by departments or programs within the College of Arts and Sciences, and students who receive the award are known as Ruth Meyer Undergraduate Research Scholars for the year of their award. Expand the link below to learn more.
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Technological advances in air traffic control may soon allow airlines to request preferential landing for their aircraft in the UK, based on the number of high-paying customers on board or those who need to make a connecting flight.
Chief executive of National Air Traffic Services (NATS) in the United Kingdom, Richard Deakin, told The Sunday Times that controllers in the tower – who handle some 6,000 flights daily – might use their discretion to give airliners access to the fast lane.
And while authorities try to transform the way controllers manage air traffic, Deakin said that some "premium services" for aircraft with "high-value customers" on board might be offered.
"The commercial applications become obvious – tiered or premium services, giving priority to frequent flyers, loyal customers and high-value customers," Deakin explained.
However, he specified that airlines would not cut ahead of others, but would be able to set priorities for aircraft within their own fleets, changing the "first come, first served" method in air traffic control. So whether it's Virgin Atlantic, British Airways, or Aeroflot, as long as there are two or more planes of the same airline hovering over the UK airport space, one could request a priority landing.
NATS aims to bring in a "four dimensional" system to UK airports that would allow the automation of more precise flight paths, Deakin said. Presently, controllers follow the "choreograph" approach to guiding air traffic.
"Why not have a virtual tower in a regional centre where the controller can see and control everything with remote technology, sensors and infrared cameras?" Deakin said.
The 4D trajectory concept is based on the integration of time into the 3D trajectory of the aircraft, aiming to ensure aircraft fly on unrestricted and optimum routes. The implementation of 4D trajectory management is being researched by Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) in the EU and NextGen in the US, and relies on the combination of an aircraft's navigation and collision avoidance systems, as well as extra satellites to track down the aircraft during a flight.


Even though NASA will try to contact the rover over the next several weeks, repeatedly, the predictions are gloomy. " Over the past seven months we have attempted to contact Opportunity over 600 times ", said Callas. Opportunity and its twin rover, Spirit, were launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2003. It operated until March 22, 2010, when low sun angles prevented its solar panels from powering its batteries and heater before the upcoming winter season.
The US President called for "Global Waming (sic)" to return and combat the cold conditions. As he noted , "Trump's climate-trolling is such obvious outrage bait that you nearly want to ignore it, but it's also self-provided evidence of one of the most significant ignorance crises of his presidency, so I dunno".
Samsung is changing the phone charger design as well. Samsung has announced that it's going to replace plastic packaging for its products with paper and other environmentally sustainable elements. The head of Samsung's Global Customer Satisfaction Center, Gyeong-bin Jeon, said the company is working to minimise waste, while it acknowledges "society's environmental issues such as resource depletion and plastic wastes".
Almost half of Americans, 48 percent, say they find climate science more convincing than they did five years ago, the poll showed. In the Yale study , a similar 62 percent believe that global warming is primarily caused by human activities, and 69 percent are at least somewhat anxious about its effects.
An artist's illustration of the Hadean Earth, when the rock fragment was formed. Scientists may have just found the oldest intact Earth rock-on the moon . It would've had to have formed 30 to 70 kilometres below the surface, in an "unusually oxidising magmatic environment" with oxygen levels much higher than those in the lunar mantle 4 billion years ago.
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX , said that the top section of his company's shiny new prototype of a giant rocket was blown over by powerful gusts of wind overnight. The incident occurred at the company's facility in Boca Chica, Texas , after the vessel, known as the Starship , toppled in the volatile weather.
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It had been 99 years since a total solar eclipse last swept across the contiguous United States . "Turns out, you don't need eclipse glasses to see what's happening", Jayarti Das, chief scientist at the Franklin Institute, told NewsWorks .
He Jiankui of Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen, China, used gene editing tool CRISPR to create " genetically modified " human babies by eliminating CCR5 to make the offspring resistant to HIV, smallpox and cholera. His Experiment has triggered global outrage. He alone has collected the financial resources and the supervision by the University withdrawn. Most recently a Chinese scientist claimed a year ago he had altered the DNA of babies to make them HIV-proof.
Galagadon's teeth are less than a millimetre across, so they could've been easily overlooked. "Some of the teeth bear an uncanny resemblance to the spaceship in the 1980s arcade game 'Galaga , ' which inspired the genus name", said co-author Pete Makovicky, a paleontologist and Field Museum dinosaur curator.
Nasa announced late on Tuesday that astronaut Eric Boe will no longer fly on the mission owing to unspecified "medical reasons". Boe will take Fincke's spot as the assistant to the chief for commercial crew at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas.
The research , published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences , examined the giant northern ice sheet's slim-down from 2003 to 2016 using data collected by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite and by a network of Global Positioning System stations.
The Old Farmer's Almanac describes wolves howling during the January full moon due to hunger, hence the wolf moon . Hence the name for this year's event: a " super blood wolf Moon ". The next total lunar eclipse isn't expected to occur until May 26, 2021. It's just that they are not visible everywhere. Ireland is set to see the most impressive lunar eclipse tomorrow Monday 21 for the next 14 years and astronomers are even advising that people take a day off to see it.
Vincent said the lunar eclipse should expose changes in life that need to happen but have been neglected. The last total lunar eclipse, which occurred in July , was visible only over parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The moniker "wolf moon" was given because it appeared in January, when hungry wolves would howl outside villages in days gone by. Each moon has its own name associated with the full moon.
Hundreds of people came out late on Sunday night or early Monday morning to witness the event, capturing images of the super blood wolf moon and sharing it on Twitter. The Super Blood Wolf Moon lunar eclipse passes over One World Trade Center on January 20, 2019 in New York City. Each moon has its own name associated with the full moon.
While astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have been growing and consuming lettuce in space for a few years now, China has achieved a historic milestone by sprouting cotton seeds on the surface of the Moon. The greatest challenge according to Chinese scientists is the constant weather changes on the moon. This week, China announced yet another historic first that has long-lasting implications for manned space exploration in the future: China is growing plants on the Moon.
The Epsilon-4 is the next-generation solid fuel rocket, which uses the cutting-edge technologies in order to improve the operation performance and to reduce costs. If all goes to plan, a rocket will carry a satellite into space in preparation for the first ever display of man-made shooting stars, above Hiroshima in 2020.
This eclipse has been referred to as a " supermoon ". The best time to catch the maximum eclipse is around 5.12am, when the moon will be completely submerged within the Earth's shadow . Spiritual Adviser Rose Smith says the " Super Blood Wolf Moon " will have a significant impact on all our lives. According to experts, the Moon will be partially eclipsed between 3.35am and 6.51am on Monday, January 21, with the total eclipse from 4.42am until 5.44am.
Funding new nuclear plants has become critical as Hitachi became the second Japanese firm to say its British nuclear power project had hit the buffers over financing. Meanwhile, the use of nuclear power in Japan still faces public opposition nearly eight years after the Fukushima disaster. "While the government has had its head up its proverbial backside over Brexit, vital matters like guaranteeing the country's future energy supply appear to have gone by the wayside".
Research published in the journal, Science Advances , found conservation measures were "inadequate" for wild coffees, including those considered "critical" for long-term global coffee production. The level of risk for coffee is much higher than for plants as a whole, with an estimated 22% of plant species worldwide threatened with extinction .
The researchers identified a reflective feature near Titan's north pole on an image taken on June 7, 2016, by Cassini's near-infrared instrument, the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer. Considering Mimas is 2,000 times smaller than Earth's moon, there certainly isn't a lot of material in Saturn's rings . This is just one piece of evidence about Saturn's rings and gravity, of course.
The bad news? If the skies are clouded over, it doesn't matter. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth is positioned between the sun and the moon , casting the moon completely in the Earth's shadow and giving it an orangish, "bloody" look.
Along with cotton seeds, the experiment included rapeseed, potato, and arabidopsis seeds, as well as fruit fly eggs and yeast to form a simple, tiny biosphere. The ability to grow plants in space is seen as crucial for long-term space missions and establishing human outposts elsewhere in the solar system, such as Mars.
But approximately once a year, as the moon travels along its tilted axis, it ends up directly behind Earth and is thrust into near darkness. There is, however, a legitimately interesting celestial event coming: a total lunar eclipse, which occurs when the sun, moon and Earth line up, with the Earth passing between the sun and the moon.
The team at CERN is looking to the future with a much, much larger collider that is called the Futur Circular Collider (FCC) and has published the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) that shows different options for the future device. The way the Large Hadron Collider works involves a loop of superconducting magnets that shoot streams of protons at each other fast enough for these key particles to emerge from the impact.
Cotton seeds have sprouted in its lunar lander, the Chinese mission said . Cotton seeds carried to the moon by a Chinese probe have sprouted, marking what could be the first plant to ever grow there, according to Chinese government images.
The new analysis , published in the journal Science , shows that trends in ocean heat content match those predicted by leading climate change models, and that overall ocean warming is accelerating. Losada. Climate scientists have mostly focused on the effects of climate change on ocean temperatures, ocean currents, sea level rise and melting sea ice, but new research suggests surface-level wind speeds and wave heights are changing as ocean temperatures increase.
Onboard the Chang'e-4 was a rover, Yutu-2, and Chang'e-4 sent back some video of the little rover exploring the moon's surface, near the lander. China announced earlier this month that it had achieved the first ever landing on the far side of the moon.


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Ecological Anarchy in the World of Quantum Physics
Dragan M. Jonić
A few days ago, more accurately on June 5th, Goran Trivan, Minister of environmental protection, woke up from his weeks-long hibernation to celebrate the World Environmental Day on a celebration in botanical garden "Jevremovac", together with respectable guests, where he stated that "Serbia is catching up with the most progressive ecologies and countries."
In his parallel universe, Minister and his clique of party members, "green" state secretaries, chiefs of the Cabinet, which ride their quads through the Nature Park "Stara planina", probably had their reasons for celebration.
We didn't.
As if we haven't seen Juzna Morava river bed decorated with thousands of plastic bags as terrible signs of our negligence. As if there was no embankment on Sava River where the "elite" of our capital illegally build their vacation houses, illegally take drinking water from Ranney collectors used to supply the entire Belgrade with drinking water and spilling wastewater from their cesspits over one of the main sources of drinking water for Serbian capital. As if we aren't noticing thousands of rivers in Serbia, constrained, trapped inside the pipelines, supplying turbines of small hydro power-plants, leaving only the desert behind, whereby they produce barely 1% of the entire energetic balance according to the Environment Protection Agency. That's less than a statistical error. As if you weren't looking at the orgies of the chainsaws wherever you turn, relentlessly destroying forests of Fruska Gora and cities of Serbia, steered solely by reckless desire for profit and lead by primitive individuals' logic: "it's easier to put concrete here, than to broom fallen leaves every day", and which caused Belgrade to suffer from unremembered floods the other day. Because water finds its way - if there are no trees, if there' no soil which would accept most of the rainfall, water will get to the first rainwater drain which is, in Vesic-Belgrade from other-side reality, clogged and useless.
In our, this-side reality, the homepage of DRSP movement was black and white on that day, because we didn't have a single reason to celebrate. Our flags are at half mast, our members are disappointed and wrathful because of the ongoing ecocide in Serbia and increasing threats by the nervous regime. Although the movement has grown to become the biggest informal environmental association in the Balkans, reaching more than 100 000 members in a relatively short time, repression and obstructions don't stop. More than 60 offence and criminal proceedings have been initiated against our members; regime doesn't stop trying to infiltrate provocateurs; some allegedly similar organizations spend more time dealing with us than with basic questions of their operations, allowing professional protectors of the environment from political parties of pseudo-green orientation, and state organs don't obey either promises they gave, or decisions they have made. This is not a time for celebration. More, for a commemoration of the nature and vegetation of our cities.
From the very beginning, DRSP is characterized by its independence from daily politics in all aspects of our operation, making us uninteresting to majority of the mainstream politicians. Since the founding day, we keep rejecting persistent invites to establish an umbrella organization and keep advocating decentralization and operation on many small fields, because where there is organization, there are hierarchy, forums, secretaries, panels, fights behind the curtains and machinations. That's the reason why nobody is satisfied with us: on one side, they accuse us of collaboration with Aleksandar Vucic's regime because we agreed to have a discussion with him in September 2019, where he promised a lot, but didn't keep any of those promises. Samurais of Computer Mouse and Warriors of the Keyboard, criticizing us on forums, simply can't understand: you have to talk to your opponent as well, to understand his motives and assume his intentions.
On the other side, during the meeting where we didn't hear anything else but the "how can they exist in Norway, and can't in Serbia" story, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic described us as anarchists which tend to destroy the legal system of the state and the state itself. However, in the state characterized by mess and solid dose of anarchy, we can only be some kind of anti-anarchists, positrons standing against the bunch of negative electrons, something like a phenomenon - contradiction to the existing and growing entropy and chaos in Serbia, since we're advocating respecting the regulations enacted by the state, implementing decisions of the judicial authorities of the same state, keeping the promises given by the President and respecting the word of people, whose majority is against building small hydro power-plants wherever "investors" show up.
If organs of the state don't respect their obligations, what else remains than to make them do so using protests and civil actions?
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AIMS: The British National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines recommend to use drug-eluting stents (DES) instead of bare-metal stents (BMS) only in lesions >15 mm in length or in vessels <3 mm in diameter. We analyzed the impact of stent length and stent diameter on in-stent restenosis (ISR) in the BASKET-PROVE study population and evaluated the cost-effectiveness of DES compared to BMS. METHODS/RESULTS: The BASKET-PROVE trial compared DES vs BMS in large coronary arteries (≥3 mm). We calculated incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) and cost-effectiveness acceptability curves with regard to quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) gained and target lesion revascularizations (TLRs) avoided. A total of 2278 patients were included in the analysis. A total of 74 ISR in 63 patients were observed. In-stent restenosis was significantly more frequent in segments treated with a BMS compared to segments treated with a DES (5.4% vs 0.76%; P<.001). The benefit of a DES compared to a BMS regarding ISR was consistent among the subgroups of stent length >15 mm and ≤15 mm, respectively. With the use of DES in short lesions, there was only a minimal gain of 0.005 in QALYs. At a threshold of 10 000 CHF per TLR avoided, DES had a high probability of being cost-effective. CONCLUSION: In the BASKET-PROVE study population, the strongest predictor of ISR is the use of a BMS, even in patients in need of stents ≥3.0 mm and ≤15 mm lesion length and DES were cost-effective. This should prompt the NICE to reevaluate its recommendation to use DES instead of BMS only in vessels <3.0 mm and lesions >15 mm length.


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General: The deer
mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) is a highly adaptable North American species that is more widespread than any other species of mouse in this geographic range. They are often considered pests, inhabiting human dwellings, invading food and grain stores and carrying potentially fatal viruses.
Description: The deer mouse is a small, slender species, reaching a mature weight of 10g to 24g
and a full-grown length of 4.5" to 8.75" (the tail comprising one-third to around one-half the total length of the body.) Physical characteristics vary geographically. For example, populations living in woodlands tend to be larger overall than prairie populations. In general, deer mice have pointed noses, long vibrissae (like whiskers,) prominent, black eyes, and large ears covered in fine fur. Deer mice have forelimbs that are shorter than their hind limbs and hind feet that are approximately .8" in length.
Deer mice have short, fine, dense fur that is gray to red-brown across their bodies, and white or off-white on their undersides. They often have white hair resembling tufts at the bases of their ears. One of the most distinguishing characteristics of the deer mouse is the two-toned tail, which is covered in fine hair, dark on top and lacking any pigment on the bottom. Compared to the tails of other species of North American Mice, the coloration on that of the deer mouse is much more sharply defined. In general, deer mice are furrier than both the White-Footed Mouse and the House Mouse1.
The deer mouse is a nocturnal species that tends to be most active at twilight. It is a predominantly terrestrial species, that uses walking, running and sometimes leaping as its main modes of transportation, although the deer mouse is also a skilled climber2.
Although the deer mouse is generally a solitary animal, basic social units do emerge during breeding seasons or cold months, when ten or more mice may huddle to conserve body heat (during extreme cold, mice may reduce their body temperatures and enter a daily torpor to conserve their energy.) These basic units often consist of mature males and females and some young of varying ages. Deer mice maintain home ranges that vary in size from 2600 square feet to over 32,000 square feet (that of males generally being larger than that of females.) Reproductive females are most territorial of their ranges and rarely overlap ranges with other females, since intruding females are known to commit infanticide. Ranges of males and females may overlap. The majority of activity occurs in close proximity to a mouse's nest and food caches, constructed below ground, in a tree cavity, in a brush pile, stump or log, or within a human dwelling3. The nests are cup-shaped or spherical and made of vegetable matter, fur, or feathers. During the winter, activity becomes especially restricted and occurs mainly below the snow around the nest or within the nest for up to days at a time4.
Deer mice have highly developed senses of hearing, sight, smell and touch. They communicate with a variety of physical (postures, drumming,) chemical (scent marking,) tactile (grooming,) and vocal cues (with sounds including squeaks, trills, shrieks, and buzzing as well as drumming created by using the front paws possibly as a warning5.)
Deer mice can live up to eight years in captivity, but in the wild, do not often live longer than one year6.
Habitat: A highly adaptable species, the deer mouse can be found in every terrestrial habitat across all elevations, although their preference is for cool, moist, forests habitats. Inhabited zones include boreal and alpine forests, deserts, brush lands, prairies, agricultural areas, grasslands, and arid tropical areas.
Deer mice are a dietary staple of many carnivorous mammal and avian species, including snakes, owls, foxes, bobcats, and coyotes, to name a few7.
Location: Deer mice populations stretch across North America, from Alaska and Canada to Mexico. They are absent only in the southeastern United States and certain coastal sections of Mexico. This species is more widespread than any other species of mouse in North America, both geographically and ecologically8.
Diet: Deer mice are omnivorous and consume a diverse diet of insects, snails, earthworms, seeds, fruit, fungi, nuts, and plant matter. They are also known to eat carrion and at times, their own feces. Their sharp incisors are capable of breaking hard seeds and exoskeletons.
Deer mice cache food, especially in cooler climates or during cold months. Caches hold up to two cups of food each, consisting mostly of seeds, and are located in the ground or within cavities in trees. Despite this hoarding, starvation is a major cause of death for deer mice during winter months9.
Reproduction: Deer mice are polygamous and may breed throughout the year, although the majority of breeding takes place during warm months when there is ample food. During favorable breeding months, deer mice breed, on average, every three to four weeks, based on female estrous cycles of approximately five days.
Breeding pairs may inhabit the same nest, but females often drive males away in order to raise the young along. Typically, males offer no post-natal care. Females have a gestation period of 22 to 25.5 days. Females can experience a post-partum estrus and become pregnant shortly after one gestation period ends. The gestation period for a lactating female tends to be longer, lasting from 24 to 30.5 days. Litter size may range from one to eleven young, but contain, on average, five young. Females' first five to six litters tend to increase in size consecutively, at which point they begin to decrease in size. The young are born hairless and blind, weighing 1.5g. Juvenile development is rapid. Hair begins to grow by the second day, the ear canals open by the tenth day, and the eyes open by the fifteenth day of life. The young cling to the mother's nipples as she travels or are held in her mouth (one at a time.) The young are weaned in 25 to 35 days, at which point they may leave the nest and live independently. If the mother becomes pregnant with a second litter, she will eject the first litter from the nest10 (or in some instances, will leave the nest to be used by her mate with the older litter and find a new nest for the second litter11.)
Deer mice reach sexual maturity within 35 to 50 days, and females' first estrus occurs by 49 days old12.
Notes of Interest: Deer mice are known carriers of a strain of Hantavirus, Sin Nombre virus. Humans who contract this virus develop Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a disease that is usually fatal13.
Deer mice that were marked and released by biologists were observed traveling 2 miles over the course of two days to return to their nest14.
1. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Peromyscus_maniculatus/
2. http://www.esf.edu/aec/adks/mammals/deer_mouse.htm
8. http://calmzoo.org/animals/deer-mouse/
10. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Peromyscus_maniculatus/
11. http://www.esf.edu/aec/adks/mammals/deer_mouse.htm
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http://www.esf.edu/aec/adks/mammals/deer_mouse.htm
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Waxahachie junior guard CJ Noland scored a game-high 20 points Tuesday to lead the No. 3 Runnin' Indians over visiting Mansfield. (Fred Phipps/KBEC Sports)
No. 3 Waxahachie Runnin' Indians win in final seconds against Mansfield
Travis M. Smith January 15, 2020 Boys Basketball, Waxahachie High School 1,740 Views
Tuesday should've been a quick and tidy victory for the No. 3 Waxahachie Runnin' Indians at home against the Mansfield Tigers.
At least, that's what the statistics on paper would've suggested.
Instead, neither Waxahachie nor Mansfield led by more than five points during any point in the District 7-6A contest. The potential blowout, instead, quickly evolved into a true to form back-and-forth affair between two hungry teams inside Mike Turner Gymnasium.
And, boy, was it fun — down to the last second and gasp.
Waxahachie (21-3, 4-0 in 7-6a) entered the game as the third-ranked team in the TABC Class 6A poll, which is the highest-ever ranking for the program over its two years in the state's highest classification. The Tribe also walked onto the hardwood as winners of their past nine games.
After a few nail-biting moments, that win streak extended to 10 with a 57-56 home victory in a District 7-6A thriller against Mansfield.
"That was unbelievable," Waxahachie head boys' basketball coach Greg Gober told KBEC Sports after the last-second win. "We haven't been through something like that in a long time. They (Mansfield) challenged us in every way and we answered the bell at the end."
He added, "We put ourselves in some bad situations, but, in the end, we fought through it and made some plays that we had to make."
To save a lot of reading through buckets and man-to-man defense, we will go ahead and skip forward to when Waxahachie entered the fourth quarter down 40-38.
The Tigers quickly built a 43-38 lead against one of the state's 6A powers in that final stanza.
At that point in the contest, the Runnin' Indians had yet to establish any real rhythm on offense. The pace was odd, to say the least.
Junior guard CJ Noland eventually scored his 13th and 14th points to pull Waxahachie within two, 43-41, with 5:40 to play in the fourth quarter.
Noland then found Sammy Kaoud a little later for an easy layup in transition to put Waxahachie up, 45-44, only to have Andrew Iyamah, a 6-foot-5 junior forward, answer right back for a 46-45 Mansfield lead.
Kaoud then responded. His two points in the lane gave the Runnin' Indians a one-point lead, 47-46, with 4:20 to play.
That lead held into a Gober timeout with 3:57 remaining and Waxahachie in possession.
Noland drove the lane out of the timeout and slipped in a runner to extend the Waxahachie lead to three points. He then stole a crosscourt pass on the Mansfield end and quickly ran his total to 20 points for a 51-46 Waxahachie lead.
Mansfield, however, was not ready to fold. A three-pointer from the corner inched the Tigers three points closer as the clock ran under 2:57 to play in the fourth quarter.
Noland added a five-foot floater out of the timeout, only to have Drew Crippen drill a deep triple to cut the Waxahachie lead to one, 53-52.
An empty Runnin' Indian possession led to a Mansfield turnover and then a Waxahachie turnover in the backcourt with 1:18 showing on the fourth-quarter clock.
BJ Francis eventually extended the Runnin' Indian lead when he laid home two points following a steal for a 55-52 advantage with 36 ticks left on the clock.
This game, however, would not be put away easily.
Iyamah promptly ran his point total to 17 points with a quick bucket in the low post. It was, though, just two points and left the Runnin' Indians ahead by one, 55-54, with 20 seconds to play.
Mansfield then stole the inbound and scored to take a one-point lead.
The bucket stunned the standing-room-only crowd in green — but only briefly.
AJ Russ was fouled on a three-point attempt on the ensuing Waxahachie possession with seven seconds to play.
He missed the first foul shot and then drained the second to tie the game at 56-all.
Russ then tickled the twine for the eventual game-winner on his third attempt.
By converting on two-of-his-three attempts at the charity stripe, Russ put the Runnin' Indians up one, 57-56, with 6.4 seconds to play.
Preston Hodge then stepped up almost as big when he deflected the Mansfield inbound pass — off of a Tiger.
Waxahachie followed by unsuccessfully inbounding the ball from its own end of the court — twice. The third inbound toss saw the ball go out of bounds without being touched and gave the Tigers an inbound opportunity with 5.3 seconds to play.
Thankfully, and almost unexplainably, the ensuing inbound resulted in a fumble possession, a half-hazard shot that clanged off of the rim with no chance of going in, and Mansfield turnover as the clock ran to zero.
The Indians exhaled and escaped with the 57-56 home victory.
"We all struggled early. We all struggled early," Gober said after the win. "But late in the game, we had a tremendous effort from a lot of people like Preston Hodge with his tremendous defense, and CJ made some clutch baskets. AJ Russ also made some big-time free throws. We just made enough plays as a team at the end.
"[…] Just like I've said before, anyone can beat anyone, and if you don't come ready to play and give your best effort, then anyone can beat anyone in this district."
Noland led all scorers with a game-high 20 points for the Runnin' Indians, while Francis scored 13, Jalen Lake had eight, and Kaoud and AJ Russ each tallied seven. KB Jackson rounded out the Waxahachie scoring with two points.
Iyamah and Crippen led the Mansfield Tigers, who are 2-2 in 7-6A play, with 17 points, each.
Waxahachie will now face No. 15 Grand Prairie at 7:30 p.m. Friday on the Gophers home court. Grand Prairie will be fresh off of a 45-43 road victory against No. 23 DeSoto.
All photos by Fred Phipps/KBEC Sports
Waxahachie junior guard CJ Noland scored a game-high 20 points Tuesday to lead the No. 3 Runnin' Indians over visiting Mansfield. (Fred Phipps/KBEC Sports)
Fred Phipps/KBEC Sports contributed to this report.
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Exploring the 'bindu' in Raza's works
Invention of a 'bindu' (point) as a creative source of energy was a turning point in the artistic life of veteran painter S H Raza (1922- 2016). The artist's experiments on canvas after drawing inspiration from the 'bindu' eventually contributed great works to the world of art. Those who don't know about this story, here's a chance to see some of Raza's works.
Pak opposition parties plan to join forces to take on Imran
Lucknowites' visit to a park on stage!
Sony launches HT-Z9F soundbar with Dolby Atmos support, priced at Rs 59,990
Sony has expanded its line of premium audio systems in India by launching its HT-Z9F soundbar. It was introduced back in early January this year during CES 2019 conference in the US and has now been launched at Rs 59,990. You can buy it starting July 8 from Sony centres, e-commerce websites and major third-party retailers.
US lawmakers concerned over spike in request for evidences for H-1B visas
US lawmakers and experts have expressed concern over the US immigration agency's increasing demand for "irrelevant" or previously furnished information to adjudicate an H-1B application, causing delay in processing the work visa, popular among the highly-skilled Indian IT professionals.
H-1B visa fee used to fund apprentice programme: US commerce secretary
The US is financing its ambitious apprentice programme to close the skills gap amongst Americans from funds generated by the H-1B visa fee, according to commerce secretary Wilbur Ross. The H-1B visa programme allows employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in the US on a non-immigrant basis in specialty occupations or as fashion models of distinguished merit and ability. The H-1B visas are the most sought-after by Indian IT professionals.
Indians received 67-72% of total H-1B visas in last five years: MEA
Indian nationals have received between 67 and 72 per cent of the total H-1B visas issued by the US in last five years, the external affairs ministry said on Wednesday. The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.
'Economic independence of H-1B spouses will be dented if their right to work is revoked'
A recently released research paper, points out that if the right to work, currently available to dependent spouses of a certain category of H-1B workers (viz: those who are on track for a green card) is revoked, their economic independence will be severely impacted. Spouses of H-1B workers come to US on an H-4 visa.
Plan to rescind H-4 visas yet to get final shape as rule making process not complete: US official
The decision to rescind work authorisation for H-4 visa holders, a large number of whom are spouses of Indian IT professionals, is yet to get a final shape as the process is incomplete, an official said. Under the Obama administration, certain H-4 workers were allowed to get employment authorisation, but Trump had said that he plans to rescind such rule.
Four Indian-Americans arrested in US for H-1B visa fraud
Extreme US scrutiny of H-1B aspirants continues
Analysis shows that requests for evidence (RFEs) were sought in 48% of the H-1B applications (for both initial visa and extensions) that were disposed-off during the first six months of fiscal 2019- up 1% as compared to the corresponding period last year. The approval rate, after obtaining additional information from the sponsoring employers, declined to 60.5% during the first six months of fiscal 2019.
US has no plans to cap H-1B work visa programme: State department
Trump administration has no plans to cap H-1B work visas for nations that force foreign companies to store data locally, the state department said on Thursday. Reuters reported on Wednesday the US had told India it was considering restricting the H-1B visa programmes for countries with data storage requirement. The programme issues US visas to skilled foreign workers.
H-1B cap for India? It's not easy and may need approval by US Congress, say experts
According to a Reuters report, the US is considering caps on H-1B work visas for countries that force foreign companies to store data locally. A cap of 15% of the quota is being considered, for India. According to immigration attorneys that TOI spoke to, such a move, by the US govt, is likely to require Congress approval—US parliament—and cannot be introduced at short notice.
US company pays nearly $59,000 in back wages for H-1B violations
A US company from California has paid $58,815 to two employees after a federal investigation found violations of the H-1B foreign labour certification program.
US bill on H-4 visa workers may provide Indians relief
H-4 visas are issued to the spouses of H-1B visa holders, a significantly large number of whom are high-skilled professionals from India. This week, the Trump administration announced plans to restrict work authorisation of certain H-4 visa holders. Now, two influential US lawmakers have introduced legislation in the House of Representatives against the overturn.
Conveyed expectation for non-discriminatory H-1B visa programme to US: MEA
Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha on action taken by the government to safeguard the interests of Indian Citizens working in the US, Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said India has closely consulted all stakeholders and engaged with the US administration and Congress on issues related to the movement of Indian professionals, including those pertaining to the H-1B programme.
US Congress to vote on bill to remove 7% country-cap on green card, Indians may benefit
US lawmakers will vote on Tuesday on lifting the seven per cent country-cap on issuing the green card, a move which may benefit thousands of highly-skilled Indian IT professionals waiting in the queue for decades.
2 from Andhra Pradesh among 4 PIOs charged with H-1B fraud in US
Four Indian-Amercans, including two from Andhra Pradesh, have been charged with alleged H-1B visa fraud by the US justice department. The accused were identified as Venkataramana Mannam (47) and Ravi Vemuri (52), who are originally from West Godavari, and two other Indians Vijay Mane (39) and Fernando Silva (53).
US mulling 15% cap on H-1B visa for Indians
In a move that could widen the row over tariffs and trade, the United States has told India it is considering caps on H-1B work visas for countries that force foreign companies to store data locally. India, which has upset firms such as Mastercard and irked the US government with stringent new rules on data storage, is the largest recipient of these temporary visas.
US receives 2 lakh H-1B applications, recording 5% rise over previous year
The last two years had shown a slight decline in the number of applications. The rise now reflected, even if minuscule, shows that despite the restrictive policies of the Trump administration, interest in this work visa has not waned, even though large Indian tech companies have over the past few years had ramped up hiring of locals in the US.


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Endometriosis is a very common cause of infertility, we see 35% – 50% of women with infertility impacted. Endometriomas are ovarian cysts that are lined with endometrial tissue and contain menstrual debris. About a third of women with endometriosis will have endometriomas.
The treatment of these endometriomas usually involves surgery via laparoscopy and removal of the cyst and the cyst wall. The problem of the surgical resection of the cyst is that it will also cause the removal of healthy ovarian tissue containing eggs. In patients that have a poor ovarian reserve this can be problematic, because future fertility depends on having healthy viable eggs. Other complications of surgery in general such as the development of scar tissue and accidental injuries are sometimes unavoidable, this ovarian damage does not improve fertility treatment outcome.
What Is Sclerotherapy Treatment Entail?
To prevent damage to the ovarian reserve and other surgical complications a more conservative approach to the management of endometriosis and endometriomas specifically would be ideal.
Sclerotherapy provides such a conservative solution. Endometriomas can be aspirated utilizing a transvaginal ultrasound guided needle. this is an easy technique utilized for egg retrieval in in vitro fertilization. The patient is sedated while the procedure is done in minutes so that risks of surgery and laparoscopy are avoided. The problem with aspiration is that endometriomas tend to reform if the cyst wall is not removed. A clever solution is after aspiration to instill via the needle that is in place a sclerosing agent. The agent would disrupt the lining of the cyst so it does not reform once again.
Once the anesthesiologist sedates the patient, the procedure is initiated by performing a vaginal ultrasound. The needle guide is used to localize the needle as it is inserted in the cyst and the contents are aspirated. Ethanol is injected through the same needle after the contents of the cyst have been emptied. After a few minutes the ethanol is also removed. The patient recovers in the office after the procedure for a short duration prior to leaving.
A systematic review and meta analysis was performed by group of physicians from canada and israel, and is published in the july 2017 issue of the journal Fertility and Sterility the official journal of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine. They included 18 studies in the publication. They concluded that management of ovarian endometrioma with the use of sclerotherapy appears to be a promising alternative to surgery, and that sclerotherapy should be considered for symptomatic women who plan to conceive. The number of oocytes retrieved was higher after endometrioma sclerotherapy compared with laparoscopic cystectomy.
At New York Fertility Institute the procedure of aspirating endometriomas has been performed successfully for more than 25 years. By aspirating the endometrioma we have been avoiding laparoscopic and abdominal procedures to preserve ovarian function and improve fertility. Every patient has a unique case and consultation with one our physicians is strongly encouraged as the first step.


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Q: UIScrollView Using Only Interface Builder I know this question has been answered before, many times, but my use case seems to be just different enough from all of them that I can't quite figure it out.
My Problem
I have a scroll view that is not the same size as its superview. The scroll view has 1 subview that is the same size as it, but it needs to be able to be pinch-zoomed.
Attempted Tutorials:
(1) - Apple's Technical Note - This is done only with code and the examples show only full screen scroll views.
(2) - Natasha The Robot's Article - This was a really well written article but I could not get it to work for me. I think it's due to the fact that her scroll view is full screen.
(3) - Happy Coding Blog Article - Another full screen scroll view
... and lots other tutorials that were very similar to these
My requirements

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*My scroll view needs to be full width

*My scroll view needs to be 40pt from the top and have a 1:1 aspect ratio

*My scroll view needs to have one subview that is the exact same size of it but can be pinch-zoomed (aka content size = scroll view size)

I don't think that the size of the scroll view should impact anything, but it appears to.
What I have tried
As all the tutorials above recommended, I have only a single subview of the scroll view and have aptly named it "Content View".

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*View Controller
|-View
  |-ScrollView
     |-ContentView
        |-ZoomableView

Here is a picture of my constraints:

As you can see, I have an equal width set up from the "Grid" (Zoomable view) to the view controller's view. I've also tried adding an equal width of the content view and the VC's view.
My question
I know I can get this to work with an explicit width and height, but I know I should be able to get it by setting the width equal to the view's width and height equal to the view's width as well (AKA 1:1 aspect ratio). How can I achieve this?

A: I think I ran into the same problem in the past. What I end up doing was adding a "container" view and use it to set up my width and height equality constraints instead of the view controller's view.

This setup will produce what you want I think: a scrollview with 1 subview that can be pinch-zoomed in the view controller's view (grey in the screenshot) but with a top margin of 40pt.


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Q: why angular pattern regex not working in html by work well in typescript Hi, Anyone can explain to me why regex expression in pattern property is not working
  <input type="password" pattern="(?=.*[a-zA-Z])(?=.*[0-9])" minlength="6" [class.is-invalid]="passwordForm.errors && passwordForm.touched" #passwordForm="ngModel" name="password"  required class="form-control" [(ngModel)]="password">

 but i run in typescript it work well
 var mediumRegex = new RegExp("(?=.*[a-zA-Z])(?=.*[0-9])");
    console.log(
      mediumRegex.test("123asA")
  );

--->true
  console.log(
    mediumRegex.test("")
);
--->false
  console.log(
    mediumRegex.test("aaaa")
--->false

); console.log(
  mediumRegex.test("1z")
);
--->true

A: Add a consuming .* at the end because the HTML5 regex must match and consume the whole input string (due to the fact it is wrapped with ^(?: and )$ behind the scenes when compiling the RegExp object):
<input type="password" pattern="(?=.*[a-zA-Z])(?=.*[0-9]).*" minlength="6" [class.is-invalid]="passwordForm.errors && passwordForm.touched" #passwordForm="ngModel" name="password"  required class="form-control" [(ngModel)]="password">

The pattern="(?=.*[a-zA-Z])(?=.*[0-9]).*" pattern can be improved if you replace .* in the lookaheads with reverse character classes:
pattern="(?=[^a-zA-Z]*[a-zA-Z])(?=[^0-9]*[0-9]).*"

See the principle of contrast in password regex validation.


One of my themes coming into 2011 was that "defensive" sectors were undervalued versus "risk on" sectors. We have seen a complete about face and I believe that some "defensive" names are starting to look a bit pricey, while some cyclical sectors like software are starting to look cheap. I will be looking more closely at this in coming weeks. These trends tend to overrun so calling a turn is tricky. Have a good night.
I would agree with this comment.
Too many people are chasing yield and safety and have driven the prices to very risky levels. May not be a horrible year for these stocks, but hard to see any upside.
Take a look at a Met Life (MET) for example with a 5 P/E, forward P/E of 6, P/B of .5, yield of 2.5% and a management committed to returning capital in 2012 versus a Williams Companies (WMB) with a P/E of 19, forward P/E of 18, P/B of 2.4 and a yield of 3.2% in a regulated environment.
A lot of people buying the WMB stocks as they are perceived as safe as they have done so well the last couple of years, but are almost sure to be disappointed going forward.
I dont follow commodity sectors but I have been told companies structured as MLPs trade at more than double the valuation of their non MLP brethren in some cases for very similar businesses.


Peru has a long and rich history. The first inhabitants of Peru were nomadic hunter-gatherers who lived in caves in Peru's coastal regions. The oldest site, Pikimachay cave, dates from 12,000 BC. Crops such as cotton, beans, squash and pepper chillis were planted around 4000 BC; later, advanced cultures such as the Chavín introduced weaving, agriculture and religion to the country. Around 300 BC, the Chavín inexplicably disappeared, but over the centuries several other cultures - including the Salinar, Nazca, Paracas Necropolis and Wari (Huari) - became locally important. By the early 15th century, the Inca empire had control of much of the area, even extending its influence into Colombia and Chile.
The most startling feature of the great Inca empire was its brevity. In 1430, the realm of the Inca consisted of little more than the river valley around Cuzco. Less than a century later, through conquest and a canny policy of incorporating the best features of the societies they subjugated, the Incas controlled a vast territory of almost 1 million square kilometers--a dominion that extended from northwest Argentina to southern Colombia. The Incan capital, at Qosqo, was undoubtedly the richest city in all of the Americas, with temples literally sheathed in heavy gold plate. Although Qosqo's architecture remains only in fragments and foundations, the architectural accomplishment of the Inca's has survived intact at the astounding ceremonial centre of Machu Picchu.
Between 1526-28, the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro explored Peru's coastal regions and, drawn by the riches of the Inca empire, returned to Spain to raise money and recruit men for another expedition to the country. Return he did, marching into Cajamarca, in northern Peru, before capturing, ransoming and executing the Inca emperor Atahualpa in 1533. Pizarro subsequently founded the city of Lima in 1535 but was assassinated six years later. The rebellion of the last Inca leader, Manco Inca, ended ingloriously with his beheading in 1572.
The next 200 years proved peaceful, with Lima becoming the major political, social and commercial center of the Andean nations. However, the exploitation of Indians by their colonial masters led to an uprising in 1780 under the self-styled Inca Tupac Amaru II.
The discontent among people against the Spanish rule in Peru started in the first quarter of the 19th century. An uprising by local European inhabitants against the Spanish colonial rule in 1821 provided an opportunity to Peru to declare its independence from Spain. Spain made several futile attempts to regain its rule in Peru, but finally recognized its independence in 1879. The same year Peru and Bolivia went on a four-year war with Chile over territorial disputes, resulting into defeat of Peru. During the 20th century, Peru settled its boundary disputes with neighbors, like with Chile in 1929, with Colombia in 1932, and with Ecuador in 1942. Today, Peru is a liberal democratic country in South America.
Peru has a rich cultural heritage dating back to thousands of years, was shaped by the relationship between Hispanic and Amerindian cultures.
Peru has passed through various intellectual stages--from colonial Hispanic culture to European Romanticism after independence. The early 20th century brought "indigenismo," expressed in a new awareness of Indian culture. Since World War II, Peruvian writers, artists, and intellectuals have participated in worldwide intellectual and artistic movements, drawing especially on U.S. and European trends.
The main religion in the Peru Republic is Roman Catholicism, though the Indians, while outwardly Catholic, often blend Catholicism with traditional beliefs. Spanish is the main language. In the highlands, most Indians are bilingual, but speak Quechua as their mother tongue. There are about 70 other languages, and in remote parts of the Amazon, Spanish is rarely spoken. English is understood in major hotels and airline offices.


Yann Demange's debut 71, is according to GP's Maria Domellöf-Wik "an intense and suggestive film about the meaninglessness of killing". Belfast in the 70's and the different phalanges of IRA fight each other because they all have different suggestions on how to fight the British army. The young Gary Hook (Jack O'Connell) barely reaches the British army until his unit is sent to Belfast. During a routine assignment, Hook is left behind the enemy lines when the British retire. Without any contacts with his unit, Gary is forced to hide among the locals without knowing who he dares to trust. "In his long-film debut, Yann Demange makes a clever mix of genres; social drama, war movie and a very exciting thriller," writes Michael Tapper in Sydsvenskan.


Every year we participate in several model aircraft-trade fairs.
In addition to our popular model aircraft film ORACOVER, we present also our ORACOLOR-laquers, self-adhesive films and decorative stripes as well as our products for handicraft and creative need.
Here you always find an overview about our next trade fair participations.


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Japanese Antique Arts Shop
10-12 Shimokawabatamachi,
Hakata-ku, Fukuoka-shi
(Next to Hotel Okura Fukuoka)
Imari / Nabeshima
Old-Karatsu
Chinese Antique
Korean Antique
Japanese Antique
Tea Utensils
Painting / Hanging Scroll
Makie / Metal Work
Bottle and Cup
Old-Kutani Small Dish with Design of Phoenix(Early 17th century)
It is the good old-kutani that is fascinated by the bewitching colors. The sharp and neat form that seems to cut when touched shows one of the achievements of this era.
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Bottom Diameter
Paulonia Box
There is a repair at the edge
There is a kiln scratch at the edge
It has soft base, five beautiful colors, and excellent baking. It is a little regrettable that there is a repair at the edge, but it is so elaborate that it cannot be distinguished with the naked eye.
https://tenpyodo.com/en/product/cat/imari-nabeshima/(Handled Items ⇒ Imari / Nabeshima)
Old-Kutani
Old-kutani is a style of imari ware developed in arita, hizen(current saga prefecture), in the early edo period. In the 1640s and 50s, the overglaze enamels technique was introduced to imari ware, which before then was primarily blue and white pottery. Thanks to this dramatic change in technique, early-imari was developed into "Old-Kutani". Overglaze enamels porcelain, which was originally created by imitating chinese ceramics, developed independently in japan, and in addition to the bright dishes designed for dinner parties, there were also a lot of works created for tea ceremonies and kaiseki. Some pieces were made with noticeably higher quality color painting technique, and it is thought that artists of painting may have contributed to making these pieces. The number of works with inscribed name grew dramatically, and a wide variety of inscribed names were used, such as "Kakufuku" or "Homare". Since the dishes being made had become wider, in order to prevent the middle of the plates from sagging during firing, a technique was developed that involved adding cone-shaped supports made out of the same material as porcelain called "Hari". Early-Imari dishes had smaller bases, so there are very few pieces that show signs of the use of these "Hari," other than large plates. Iroe(overglaze enamels)old-kutani have a magnificent, powerful character, and due to their unique design style and thick, oil paint like coloring, for a long time it was commonly believed that they were produced in kaga(current ishikawa prefecture)- this is known as the kaga theory – but after several pieces of overglaze enamel pottery in the old-kutani style were found in the remains of old kilns in arita, the hizen theory, which claims that they were fired in arita, hizen(saga prefecture), became more prevalent, and this is the mainstream view today. Thanks to the strenuous efforts of hizen potters in the middle 17th century, these beautiful vessels still exist today, and rival jingdezhen porcelain, which is said to be the highest quality porcelain in the world.
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These beautiful tiny butterflies are hand drawn onto sheet silver and then sawn out by hand - a very fiddly process indeed! The body of the butterfly is made from copper and the posts and butterfly earring earring backs are silver.
Each butterfly is approximately 1cm in size.
Please note each butterfly is made entirely by hand using traditional jeweller's techniques and is unique so may differ slightly slightly from the photo.


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Church Hill Theatre | Reviews
Review – The Steamie
October 24, 2013 | By Hugh Simpson	| Reply More
✭✭✭✭✩ Extremely funny revival
Wed 23 – Sat 26 October 2013
Review by Hugh Simpson
Edinburgh People's Theatre's revival of The Steamie, which plays at the Church Hill Theatre until Saturday, is thoroughly successful and very, very funny.
Tony Roper's nostalgic play about four women gossiping on a 1950s Old Year's Night, in the last days of the Glasgow wash-houses, has become a bona fide modern classic.
Joan Hunter, Mandy Black, Sheila Somerville, Ronnie Millar and Sarah Howley. Photo: Robert Fuller
Not only do productions seem to spring up everywhere, they now appear as likely as Shakespeare to be attended by groups who are studying the play at school.
This near-ubiquity can make it difficult for a production to stand out; there are also pitfalls in any staging. The play's undoubted humour needs to be achieved through skill and timing; there is also a danger that the play's couthie, pawky dialogue can mutate into mawkish sentimentalism.
There are no such mistakes made in EPT's judicious revival of their successful 2008 production, which is a roaring success. One of the main reasons for this success is a simply magnificent performance by Sheila Somerville as the gossipy, dotty Dolly. Showing superb timing and a brilliantly controlled, joyful physicality, she is as funny as anything you will see this year.
She is well supported by Mandy Black as the downtrodden and sarcastic but still optimistic Magrit. Her comic sense and command of the stage make her the perfect foil. Between them, she and Somerville know exactly how long to milk the laughs, and exactly when to resume the dialogue so that none of it is lost.
John Somerville's assured direction, anchored in the realistic but not a slave to it, means that any temptation to slide into mawkishness is firmly avoided. This is greatly helped by Joan Hunter's performance as Mrs Culfeathers, the ageing, ailing woman forced by circumstances to carry on taking in other people's washing. There is no self-pity in this beautifully lugubrious, deadpan depiction, which makes the payoff to the celebrated 'mince' routine all the funnier.
Nirvana is a Drumchapel council house
Andy, the maintenance man who is the play's token male, can be a problematic role but is here discharged admirably by Ronnie Millar. He also has enviable timing and adds a certain pathos and self-awareness to what can be a somewhat stereotypical 'patter merchant'.
The only newcomer to the cast since the 2008 production is Sarah Howley as Doreen, the younger woman whose idea of nirvana is a Drumchapel council house. She manages to be guileless without a hint of sentimentality, and is perhaps the most affecting singer.
Joan Hunter, Mandy Black, Ronnie Millar, Sheila Somerville and Sarah Howley. Photo: Robert Fuller
The performances of Dave Anderson's songs are less impressive than the comedy acting, but the occasional lack of confidence means that the numbers, backed by musical director Anne Mackenzie's sensitive piano accompaniment, ring true emotionally.
The attention to detail seen in the performances is carried over into every aspect of the production. John Somerville's lighting is extremely accomplished, even if the dramatic way of signalling the songs is a little out of keeping with the staging. The excellent set, by Steve Roberts, is realistic and versatile, while the authenticity of the props can be gauged by the gasps of recognition and whispered (and not so whispered) reactions of large sections of the audience.
The audience's enjoyment of the performance was evident throughout, and the warm, sustained applause was well deserved. As an evening's entertainment, this is unashamedly recommended.
Running time 2 hrs 30 mins
Run ends Saturday 29 October 2013
Evenings Wed – Fri 7.30 pm, Matinee Sat 2.30 pm
Church Hill Theatre, 33a Morningside Road, EH10 4DR
Full details from www.ept.org.uk
Tags: Amateurs, Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh People's Theatre, Joan Hunter, John Somerville, Mandy Black, Review, Ronnie Millar, Sarah Howley, Sheila Somerville, The Steamie, Tony Roper


Aura Photography is a relatively new development in the age of "new age". It provides a visual representation of the energy field (aura) around a person. It gives many people who are not clairvoyant the opportunity to get a peek at their aura. Kirlian photography was the precursor to modern aura photography, giving a view of the energetic corona around a living thing placed on a photoelectric plate.
What kind of aura photography system does AHH use?
My particular system is an InnerActive Aura Video Station. I also use a computer, webcam, and photo printer in conjunction with the InnerActive hand sensor and software.
It includes a hand sensor that connects to a computer, transmitting biofeedback data (such as GSR - Galvonic Skin Response) that the computer interprets and translates into an aura photo. InnerActive has spent years perfecting their software, mapping the biofeedback data to particular aura energy states and colors. They worked with clairvoyant healers to determine the corollary visual aspects of the aura for the biofeedback data collected.
Its options allow for a full body Aura / Chakra image (with a superimposed body), or a head-shot-only view of the client with the energies around their upper body. You can also record the changes going on live in the aura and transfer that video to a CD or DVD. The biofeedback data also populates a number of charts and graphs in the software that are available via analysis reports. These include your masculine/feminine energy balance, emotional relaxation graph, body/mind/spirit balance, and more.


Nanoclockwork is taking the world by storm!
Super fast and super compact. The ultimate in cognitive engineering. A must have item for any Mechtorian undergoing a re-fit, to bring them into the new information age. Ronson Travithick found a way to create super miniaturised clockwork mechanisms and employed them as the perfect system to generate brains. A thousand times more complex, faster and smarter than the previous system of pulleys and levers installed in most Mechtorian heads. Combining this with some patented Teslastein Static Injectors, enhances the process even further! Now the super fast and super compact cognitive engineering can complete your collection with the Kidrobot 8-Inch Cognition Enhancer Dunny by Doktor 8 available this August. Limited to 1000 pieces worldwide!


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2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz Gets a Significant Design Boost
The forthcoming 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz is a mid-size pickup truck with unibody construction. Interestingly, but many people are saying this is not a pickup, due to its compact size. On the other hand, Hyundai says this is a perfect alternative for a larger Honda Ridgeline, also a unibody model. And like Ridgeline, Santa Cruz will offer a crew cab variant with a shorter bed.
Unlike Honda, Hyundai delivers a more distinctive styling with an improved front fascia and bodywork. The interior is not that impressive, in our opinion. The lack of buttons makes it more minimalistic, and the cabin space is not so generous. Still, Santa Cruz delivers a high level of comfort, which is important. The 2022MY comes with significant changes, and the sales will begin this summer.
2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz Redesign
New 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz has been shown with new styling, a few weeks ago. It is a significant refreshment for this small pickup, and we think it looks great. As you know, Hyundai introduced its brand-new design language on the Tucson SUV. Not surprisingly, Santa Cruz will wear the same styling, and both models will use the same architecture.
Santa Cruz is a unibody pickup with a sportier look and sleek exterior design. The front fascia is incredibly attractive, while the rear section wears a prominent "Santa Cruz" name across the tailgate. Some reports are calling it a "Sport Adventure Vehicle" rather than the pickup truck. Still, it is a pickup truck, with a shorter bed, height-adjustable tailgate, tonneau cover, and much more.
Interior Looks Premium
The interior of the 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz looks nice. Clearly, the manufacturer opted to deliver more upright materials to all of its models, including crossovers, SUVs, and pickup trucks. The comfort is great, although we think the cabin is too minimalistic. For a start, Santa Cruz offers a modern design with a fully digital gauge cluster. The traditional shifter sits on the center console, so a rotary knob is not available.
Santa Cruz is only available with the crew-cab four-door setup, but the interior room is not so generous. Tech-wise, this pickup truck comes with a standard 8-inch touchscreen. Optionally, you can get a larger 10-inch unit. Hyundai offers wireless Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, along with the new version of the infotainment system.
2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz Engine Options
Under the hood, the new 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz offers two powertrain options. Everything starts with a standard 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine. This gasoline unit develops up to 190 hp and 180 lb-ft of torque. This 2.5-liter engine is also available with a turbocharger and it generates 275 hp and 310 lb-ft of torque.
Both variants will use the same 8-speed automatic transmission, although the turbocharged unit comes with a dual-clutch setup. An all-wheel-drive system is optional, no matter which engine you choose. The Santa Cruz pickup is very easy to maneuver, and the ride quality is superb. This small pickup truck can tow up to 5,000 pounds, while the standard engine is rated at around 3,500 pounds.
Price, Release Date
The price of the upcoming 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz will start at around $25,000. Hyundai will reveal exact pricing details in the coming weeks. The sales will begin this summer and Santa Cruz will rival models such as Toyota Tacoma, Honda Ridgeline, and Jeep Gladiator.
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