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Making the healthy snacking choice might be as simple as flicking a switch: You're more likely to choose healthy foods in a brightly lit room than in a dim one, a new study in the Journal of Marketing Research suggests.
People who ordered in bright rooms were 24% more likely to choose nutritious foods—like salads, vegetables, and grilled fish—than those who ordered in darker establishments. On average, the people in the dim restaurants ordered 39% more calories than those in lighter places.
Bright lighting may nudge you toward healthier foods by keeping your brain alert, says lead study author Dipayan Biswas, PhD, a marketing professor at the University of South Florida.
Of course, you can't change the lighting in a restaurant, but you can put these findings to work in your own kitchen. When you're on the hunt for a snack, make sure the lights in your kitchen are working in your favor: Flip your dimmer switch to the brightest setting and keep your blinds open to let sunlight in.
If you do find yourself in a dimly lit restaurant, start your meal with a cup of tea or coffee first. The researchers say that caffeine may have an effect similar to bright lighting, keeping your brain alert to help you make smarter eating choices.


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"Logic of Empire" is a science fiction novella by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. Part of his Future History series, it originally appeared in Astounding Science Fiction (March 1941), and was collected in The Green Hills of Earth (and subsequently The Past Through Tomorrow).

Plot summary
Two well-off Earth men are arguing about whether there is slavery on Venus, and one of them gets shanghaied there—or so he believes; they later find out that they've bet one another about the topic, gotten drunk, and signed on. Upon his arrival, he finds his contract sold to a farmer. His discovery that it will take him years to work off his debt is compounded by his realization that he cannot get to sleep at night without rhira, an expensive local narcotic, thus increasing his debt every day.

Themes
Ostensibly a tale about a man in the wrong place at the wrong time, and his struggle to free himself from the oppressive circumstances in which he is plunged, this story also attempts to explain how slavery develops in a new colony. Even in the future, the technology available to a new colony is always initially low. If a machine to do a necessary job is too expensive to import (say a wheat harvester, a water pump, or even a washing machine), a human must do it instead. If too many jobs must be done by hand and there is a shortage of labor compared with independent resources that free labor could take up ("land", although this condition is not clear in the story), a market for slavery develops. Decades later, while there is still an abundance of land, this market remains because the colony itself has quotas to meet and debts to repay - they cannot spare the resources to develop local industries to make the machines themselves and free labor does not have to bid its price down enough to outcompete slave labor.

Throughout the story, Heinlein takes the view of the objective narrator when describing Venusian society. "Logic of Empire" places different rationales on the people who participate in slavery.  There are no real villains; everybody's just doing their job, trying to maximize income in a mercantilist system. Even the plantation owner who owns the hero is portrayed as a struggling — and failing — small businessman, whose main motivation is to secure a livelihood for his daughter.

Nehemiah Scudder
There is in the story a casual reference to the rise of the fanatic preacher Nehemiah Scudder, who would eventually be elected president and establish a theocratic dictatorship which would rule the US for several generations. Heinlein considered writing a story focusing on his rise, which would have had the name "The Sound of His Wings" and which would have chronologically followed directly upon "Logic of Empire". He never did, and a great gap was left in the Future History which resumes with the overthrow of the theocracy in "If This Goes On—".

External links

 "Logic of Empire" on the Internet Archive

Short stories by Robert A. Heinlein
Short stories set on Venus
1941 short stories
Works originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact

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NFL Down-The-Stretch Goodies Plus Bowl Talk Too
Submitted by Jim Hurley on Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 12:00 AM
THE NFL REPORT –
A LOOK AHEAD AT THE FINAL THREE
WEEKS OF THE REGULAR SEASON …
COLLEGE FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK:
EARLY BOWL THOUGHTS / OBSERVATIONS
The clock is tickin' down fast on this here-and-now NFL Regular Season and here's a few things you might not have known:
The Philadelphia Eagles – 23-17 non-cover winners in overtime against the 9-point underdog New York Giants in this past Monday Night Football's game – remain in the proverbial driver's seat when it comes to winning the NFC East despite that shabby 6-7 SU (straight-up) mark … to say nothing about Philly's shoddy 4-9 ATS (against the spread) record and the Birds have failed to cover the Las Vegas numbers in all three of their divisional games this year and there's nothing but NFC East opponents on the docket straight ahead: At Washington, home to Dallas and at the NY Giants.
Meanwhile, the Baltimore Ravens are roaring-hot with a nine-game SU winning streak while heading into Week 15 play but don't sleep on those other streaking sides: The Pittsburgh Steelers have won three in a row SU, ditto for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Chicago Bears and the Tampa Bay Bucs. Heck, the Tennessee Titans have won four in a SU and if you want to know who's the streaking sides spreadwise then check out the above-mentioned Chiefs (three in a row), the San Francisco 49ers (four consecutive spread wins), those aforementioned Titans (four in a row) and – get this – the Washington Redskins who've covered their last three games.
And, finally, how about some of these late-season skeds?
The playoff-hopeful Bears (7-6) finish at Green Bay, home to Kansas City and at Minnesota – call it 1,000-to-1 odds that Chicago can sweep; while Seattle is at slumping Carolina, then home to Arizona and San Francisco. A 13-3 year for the Seahawks would get 'em the NFC West crown and possible #1 seed but do keep in mind the 'Hawks have covered just two-of-six home tilts so far.
Jim Hurley's Network of Handicappers and Bloggers will be pounding out lots more Football winners this week beginning with Thursday Night's NFL Week 15 clash between the New York Jets at the Baltimore Ravens – go ahead and get the Side & Totals of that game when you call us at the toll-free telephone # of 1-800-323-4453 or get 'em online right here at www.jimhurley.com. Hey, there's the Army-Navy game straight ahead this Saturday to wrap up the College Football regular season and then the aforementioned College Football Bowl Games will follow (beginning Friday, Dec. 20) plus there's all of NFL Week 15 this Sunday/Monday and lots of College Basketball and NBA winners too, so make sure you're all aboard for the winning selections from Jim Hurley and Company!
COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL REPORT
Don't worry, we'll have plenty to say about Saturday's Army vs. Navy bash plus all the Heisman Trophy and year-ending awards the rest of this week here at Jim Sez but we wanted to spend a few moments revealing some "early" bowl thoughts (that's the bowl games from Dec. 20th-thru-Dec. 27th) :
As per usual, there will be a bevy of teams playing at bowl time without their regular head coaches though not all the sideline updates are in yet but Appalachian State's Eli Drinkwitz is bye-bye (one-and-done and off to Missouri) and ditto for Florida Atlantic's Lane Kiffin (he's headed to Ole Miss). And don't forget that Washington's Chris Petersen called it quits on Dec.2nd following a 31-13 win /cover against rival Washington State in the Apple Cup but Petersen is expected to coach here against his former Boise State squad in the Las Vegas Bowl (Dec.21st)
Appalachian State's a bloated 17-point betting favorite against UAB in the New Orleans Bowl (Dec.21st) while Florida Atlantic is a current 3-point home underdog for its Boca Raton Bowl game against SMU.
And how about North Carolina's venerable head coach Mack Brown making it back into the bowls in Year One of his Second Term at Chapel Hill?
Brown's UNC Tar Heels are 5.5-point betting favs right now against Temple in the Military Bowl (Dec. 27) and note the last time Carolina won and covered in a bowl game was back in 2013 with a 39-17 triumph over Cincinnati in that year's Belk Bowl. P.S., the Heels are making their first bowl appearance since 2016.
Finally, you might have noticed in these "early bowls" that there's betting favorites with road or road-neutral teams:
BYU is a 2-point fav at Hawaii in the Christmas Eve version of the Hawaii Bowl against the host Hawaii Rainbow Warriors (who happen to be an ugly 9-20-1 ATS at home the past five years now) and there's the Miami Hurricanes a TD favorite in the Dec. 26th Independence Bowl versus Louisiana Tech (from nearby Ruston). Note that Miami is 1-7 against the odds in bowl games the past decade while L-Tech is 17-8-1 ATS as dogs under Skip Holtz since 2014.
NOTE: There's NFL Week 15 and Heisman Trophy talk in the next edition of Jim Sez, so don't miss out and make sure you're cashing in big with all the Football/Basketball this holiday season.
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For some illnesses it may be recommended by your doctor that your spleen be removed . Removal of the spleen is most commonly necessary in two different scenarios. The first is where the spleen is traumatised and in these circumstances blood loss can be considerable and difficult to stop without removal of the spleen itself. In these instances the operation is often an emergency one and usually performed through an incision (open surgery) as this provides more rapid access to control the bleeding present. More frequently however the decision to remove the spleen is an elective one with planned surgery and in these circumstances a laparoscopic procedure is often possible. This document is designed to answer any queries you may have about the procedure and its after effects.
The spleen is an organ approximately the size of the fist which sits in the left upper part of the abdomen just under the diapragm. It is attached to the stomach and to the pancreas gland and sits immediately in front of the left kidney. Under normal situations it has two functions both related to its properties as a filter for the high volume of blood passing through it.
The first is to remove dead and dying blood cells which have reached the end of their natural lifespan. This is particularly important for platelets (which are present to speed blood clotting after cuts and grazes) and erythrocytes or red blood cells (which carry oxygen to the tissues). Both of these cell types are normally produced on a regular basis by the bone marrow and when they naturally decay are removed from the circulation by the spleen.
Other organs can perform this function but are generally less efficient than the spleen.
The second function of the spleen is to assist the white cells of the blood in dealing with certain types of infections. Removal of the spleen therefore reduces these two filtering activities and a commonly asked question is 'How will 1 manage without my spleen'. Many, indeed most, people who do not have a spleen (asplenia) live perfectly normal lives without any clinical side effects at all. However the absence of a spleen may occasionally have consequences which merit further consideration.
The effects of losing the spleen on platelet function. Platelets are microscopic blood components which exist in the circulation to initiate the clotting process in the event of cuts and bruises. They are normally produced by the bone marrow and survive for upto two weeks when, if not required, are removed and replaced by fresh platelets from the bone marrow. The spleen is the most important organ in this removal process with some help from the liver (to a variable extent in different people). Loss of the spleen frequently results in a rise in the platelet count in the blood and indeed this effect is the purpose of removing the spleen in people with clotting disorders caused by too few platelets being present. In some people however removing the spleen results in the platelet count rising higher than is thought desirable. Theoretically this may result in the blood having too great a tendency to clot and the worry is that this could predispose to the development of strokes or heart attacks. To reduce this risk therefore it is sometimes necessary to advise people at risk of these complications to take daily aspirin tablets after the spleen has been removed. Your Doctor will discuss this with you to decide whether this applies to you.
The effects of losing the spleen on red cells. This is rarely a clinical problem. Red cells (erythrocytes) are produced by the bone marrow and live approximately four months carrying oxygen from the lungs to the tissues before they decompose and their components are recycled. The spleen aids this process by fragmenting the dying cells as they reach the natural end of their lifecycle but this activity is not critical to the overall process. However if one examines a blood film under a microscope after the spleen has been removed old cells may frequently be seen and these are called Howell Jolly bodies after the doctors who described this phenomenon.
You may be advised to carry a card advising future Doctors that your spleen has been removed.
It should be emphasised that the development of these infections is very uncommon but when they do occur (approximate risk is thought to be a risk of 1 in 100 per decade) they are severe hence the precautions outlined above.
Traditionally splenectomy was performed through an abdominal incision through which the spleen could be separated from the attached structures and removed. Whilst this is still sometimes necessary (usually when the spleen is very large or in an emergency situation) 'key hole' surgery is increasingly appropriate for this operation with its associated benefits. With keyhole surgery you will receive a general anaesthetic (i.e. you will be asleep) a telescopic camera is inserted into the abdomen through a a small incision and the structures viewed on a television monitor. Long slender instruments are then passed into the abdomen and the spleen may be freed and then removed. This has become possible thanks to the vastly improved instruments at our disposal. A total of three to five small incisions are required. Normally two days in hospital are required before discharge home. This may vary a little as appropriate.
Are there any complications or side effects from the operation? All surgical procedures carry a small degree of risk and complications, whilst uncommon, do unfortunately occasionally occur. The most important complication in the hours immediately after surgery is that of bleeding and this may occur in 2% of patients and may require further surgery. Occasionally the wall of the stomach or the tail of the pancreas may be affected by the surgery leading to peritonitis which again may need further surgery but both of these complications are rare. The late side effects from splenectomy relate to its effect on the immune system and these have been detailed above.
Your doctor will be happy to discuss these issues with you and it is important that you discuss with him/her anything with which you are unclear together with specific queries you may have.


Below the fold is a Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image with Curiosity's path indicated. I have marked the balanced rock with an X, and have indicated with the yellow lines the area covered by the panorama above.
They appear to be aiming due south for the narrow gap between the long ridge-like mesas. This will bring Curiosity out into the open and sloping terrain that can be seen in the distance in the last image of my last update. I suspect they want to get a closer look at those parallel grooves, even if it means the journey will be a little rougher.
Robert, you're a cave enthusiast. Do you have any idea if liquid water on (in) Mars could have had enough time to form caves there too? Not just lava tubes, but caves. How old are caves on Earth?
1. It is very difficult to date caves on Earth. In fact, in most cases it is impossible. We can make educated guesses, but generally these are just guesses.
2. On Earth most caves, excluding lava tubes, are formed in limestone, which is created from the shells of sea life. For such sedimentary layers to form on Mars would require significant long term oceans that came and went with a lot of life in them. So far, we have little evidence of this on Mars. There might have been an ocean, but if so it was not there long enough, with enough life (if any) to put down significant calcite layers.
3. It is conceivable however for caves to form in other ways, on an alien planet. Mars has 1/3 Earth's gravity. That changes a lot of things. It also appears in many places to have underground water in the form of ice. It is possible that caves could form on Mars in different ways with different materials. It will require real human exploration to find out.
Does there exist any caves in ice caps or in glaciers on Earth?
I would guess that there are, but that the internal structures of ice masses are quite temporary. Mars does have big seasonal changes. Imagine a cave in CO2 ice. Maybe it would sublimate as you walk through it.
Once again, great work with the pictures.
Yes. many. Do a google search, under images, and I am sure, even without doing it myself, that you will get to see a lot of cool images.
Wow, that's an exotic world I didn't know existed. Under our feet, between the Australians and me. "Needle ice extrusions", that's so weird.


Taiwan bicycle market is the leader of the global; IBDC has become the focus of international attention.
The award ceremony for the IBDC will take place at Taipei International Cycle Show, where all the award-winning designs will be presented. Every year, more than 1000 companies / manufacturers from over 30 countries attend the Taipei International Cycle Show and it attracts over 50000 visitors. This event has established its identity as Asia's largest trade cycle show.
Opportunity to make your dream come true! –IBDC will present the award-winning designs to bicycle manufacturers, with the goal of licensing two or more designs for mass-production.
(3) At the conclusion of the Judging, the International Jury will select the top twenty-one (21) entries for the Winners.
Description: Bicycle ICT innovation products design is to take the cycling as the motive to consider, and develop innovative intelligent products or services etc.; to create friendlier cycling environment!
Description: The bike component material integration and application, designed with renewable and green energy environmental protection innovative design works, the theme can be selected by any lifestyle; also applied to things such as: furniture, lighting, lockers … and so on! We hope through bike component re-use, to create a new Interdisciplinary bike value.
All the graphics (each shall be 1920 width x 1080 height pixels in the JPEG format) upload before March 31, 2018.
Participants could also provide video file link, to offer a clearer understanding for help IBDC judging work.
Participants must submit the works in the prescribed format.
The organizer will reject incomplete, inconsistent or improper documents and designs.
Please provide the entry presentation, also can upload the video(file type: MP4, WMV) or the animation file, the file size would not be over 3MB, it will be promoted in the 2018International Taipei Cycle Show and the IBDC Events.


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namespace Magento\Bundle\Test\Unit\Model;

use \Magento\Bundle\Model\OptionManagement;

class OptionManagementTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    /**
     * @var OptionManagement
     */
    protected $model;

    /**
     * @var \PHPUnit_Framework_MockObject_MockObject
     */
    protected $optionRepositoryMock;

    /**
     * @var \PHPUnit_Framework_MockObject_MockObject
     */
    protected $productRepositoryMock;

    /**
     * @var \PHPUnit_Framework_MockObject_MockObject
     */
    protected $optionMock;

    /**
     * @var \PHPUnit_Framework_MockObject_MockObject
     */
    protected $productMock;

    protected function setUp()
    {
        $this->optionRepositoryMock =
            $this->getMock('Magento\Bundle\Api\ProductOptionRepositoryInterface', [], [], '', false);
        $this->productRepositoryMock =
            $this->getMock('Magento\Catalog\Api\ProductRepositoryInterface', [], [], '', false);
        $this->optionMock = $this->getMock('Magento\Bundle\Api\Data\OptionInterface', [], [], '', false);
        $this->productMock = $this->getMock('Magento\Catalog\Api\Data\ProductInterface', [], [], '', false);

        $this->model = new OptionManagement($this->optionRepositoryMock, $this->productRepositoryMock);
    }

    public function testSave()
    {
        $this->optionMock->expects($this->once())->method('getSku')->willReturn('bundle_product_sku');
        $this->productRepositoryMock->expects($this->once())
            ->method('get')
            ->with('bundle_product_sku')
            ->willReturn($this->productMock);
        $this->productMock->expects($this->once())
            ->method('getTypeId')
            ->willReturn(\Magento\Catalog\Model\Product\Type::TYPE_BUNDLE);
        $this->optionRepositoryMock->expects($this->once())
            ->method('save')
            ->with($this->productMock, $this->optionMock);

        $this->model->save($this->optionMock);
    }

    /**
     * @expectedException \Magento\Framework\Exception\InputException
     * @expectedExceptionMessage Only implemented for bundle product
     */
    public function testSaveWithException()
    {
        $this->optionMock->expects($this->once())->method('getSku')->willReturn('bundle_product_sku');
        $this->productRepositoryMock->expects($this->once())
            ->method('get')
            ->with('bundle_product_sku')
            ->willReturn($this->productMock);
        $this->productMock->expects($this->once())
            ->method('getTypeId')
            ->willReturn(\Magento\Catalog\Model\Product\Type::TYPE_SIMPLE);
        $this->optionRepositoryMock->expects($this->never())->method('save');

        $this->model->save($this->optionMock);
    }
}

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Nicole Garcia is an Acupuncture Physician licensed by the State of Florida and holds a National Certification by the NCCAOM (National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine). She completed her education and training at Acupuncture and Massage College in Miami, FL where she earned a Bachelor of Health Science and a Masters Degree of Oriental Medicine. Her studies included specialized training in Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Moxibustion / Heat Therapy, Cupping Therapy, Asian Body Work, Electro-Acupuncture, Weight Management and Nutritional Therapy. After her three-year internship in the United States, Nicole furthered her education and pursued additional training at the Shu Guang Hospital in Shanghai, China in the departments of Acupuncture, Gynecology, Internal Medicine and Tui Na (Chinese Medical Massage).
"I live to eat AND eat to live." Although I make my choices carefully, I always love to enjoy my food and try new cuisines and cooking techniques. Preparing and cooking food in the kitchen, and especially being able to share it with someone is like creative therapy to me!
I also LOVE being anywhere on or near the ocean...or any body of water really! There's just something about the beach that makes me feel not only happy, but renewed and recharged. I like to camp out, hike, fish...especially if there is something tasty in the waters...boat, swim, and pretty much anything else that puts me in Mother Nature's arms...just makes me happy!
In addition to her private practice, Dr. Nicole Garcia also provides Acupuncture treatment to patients in the Detox and Recovery stages of substance abuse at The Florida House Experience in Deerfield Beach, Florida.


This is a list of potential restrictions and regulations on private ownership of slot machines in the United States on a state by state basis.
Bakuto (博徒) were itinerant gamblers in Japan from the 18th century to the mid-20th century. They were one of the forerunners of the modern Japanese crime gangs known as yakuza.


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FA Cup weekend provides plenty of goals and giant killings
Harry Carter January 25, 2015 0
Wow – just wow. January 24th will be documented as part of an incredible weekend of football, with giant killings and massive scorelines contributing to a momentous day of football.
So, let's get down to reviewing Saturday's major events.
Sunderland 0-0 Fulh-… just kidding!
Chelsea 2-4 Bradford City
This was the shock of all shocks over the weekend and I don't think any one in their wildest dreams could have imagined the above scoreline actually becoming reality. Bradford came in to the game off the back of an impressive 4-0 replay against Championship side Millwall and to their credit, if they were beaten by Chelsea then at least they could claim to have put in a decent shift in this season's competition. The odds were against them have been cruising, but in the FA Cup any league form goes out the window.
Not only did Bradford become the first side to win at Stamford Bridge all season, they grabbed victory having been 2-0 down after 40 minutes against a pretty respectable Chelsea side that featured the likes of Didier Drogba, Petr Cech, Oscar, Ramires and Gary Cahill – it was certainly a team that suggested that Jose Mourinho has plenty of respect for the FA Cup.
The home side pulled ahead when Gary Cahill flicked home a delivery and Ramires capped off a typical, smooth Chelsea build-up, putting the Blues well on the way to an expected victory. If this was a league game, Chelsea would likely be celebrating three points, but the FA Cup's magic stuck around for another season and Bradford hit back – Jon Stead hit a stinging shot in to the top-left corner that Petr Cech managed to get a hand on, but it wasn't enough to prevent the goal; game on.
The second-half could not have arrived quicker with Bradford brimming with hope. Deep in to the second-half, Felipe Morais tapped home to send the travelling Bantams in to raptures. A potential replay – what an excellent result to conclude with. But that wasn't enough for Bradford, however. Eight minutes from time, Andy Halliday curled a superb effort to the right of Cech, putting them ahead. Above and beyond all expectations, Bradford have pulled off the come-back of the season.
Mourinho and his men were shell-shocked and Hazard, Fabregas and Willian were thrown on to try to recover the tie – to no avail. Chelsea had to take a risk and this time, it didn't pay off as Bradford composed themselves in the style of a Champions League side before Mark Yeates completed a beautiful move to confirm the impossible.
Mourinho clearly wasn't impressed with what he had witnessed and said he was 'ashamed' by Chelsea's performance and warned his players before the tie that it would be a disgrace to lose. He pulled no punches in his post-match interview. As well as a mountain of criticism for his side, he was also swift to praise the beauty of the cup, appreciate the surprises that it provides and congratulated Bradford.
The Blues boss stated, "By one side this is the beauty of football, the beauty of the FA Cup. It happens more in the FA Cup than any other country. By another side I feel ashamed and I think the players should feel exactly the same as I feel."
Congratulations to Phil Parkinson and his team!
Manchester City 0-2 Middlesbrough
As we were all trying to take in what was happening at Stamford Bridge, a huge shock was occurring simultaneously further north at the Etihad, as high-flying Middlesbrough claimed a deserved win against a City side who, like Chelsea, fielded a side that strongly went against the suggestion that the FA Cup is a distraction to th bigger clubs. Sergio Aguero, David Silva, Vincent Kompany and Jesus Navas all started in a defeat that added to doubts around Manchester and adds pressure in the build-up to their crunch tie at Chelsea this weekend.
Aside from Middlesbrough's impressive forward play, praise must go to their defence who withstood a side that was far from weakened. City really needed a positive result to restore a high level of confidence going in to their vital clash this weekend and this defeat will do them no favours in a match where the underdogs thoroughly deserved their win. Despite 'Boro resting first-team keeper Dimitrios Konstantopoulos, former Real Madrid shot-stopper Tomas Mejias was the star man as he kept out Stevan Jovetic, James Milner and David Silva, who had City's best chances. Mejias' defence managed to throw themselves in front of anything City asked of them – there was nothing lucky about this clean sheet.
Middlesbrough's defensive perseverance seemed to infect the forwards when on 53 minutes, Patrick Bamford chased down an effort that was closing in on an empty net and, despite Fernando's best efforts to pull-off a goal line clearance, the on-loan Chelsea forward bundled home to give the Championship side a commendable lead. It was a shock wave of a goal and City needed to wake up and pull off a repeat of their third round antics against Sheffield Wednesday – when they were a goal down late in the second period – and the frame of the goal prevented substitute Frank Lampard from gaining an equaliser. Middlesbrough had lady luck on their side and they took advantage in the dying seconds when Spaniard Kike sealed a famous win for 'Boro with a near-post effort.
Watford 7-2 Blackpool
There was a handful of other unlikely results in this weekend's FA Cup, but before we turn our attention to those, it was yet another day to forget for Championship basement club Blackpool, who were embarrassed by inconsistent Watford despite leading 2-0 at the interval. Few people need to guess what Hornets boss Slavisa Jokanovic would have had to say at the break, as the evidence was laid bare on the pitch as seven goals in thirty-five minutes hammered home another nail in Blackpool's coffin.
Blackpool began brightly, following Lee Clark's repeated mention that he wanted far better from his side following their flat performance at Wolves. Andrea Orlandi took advantage of some indecisive Watford defending to smash home and send the lately deflated four-hundred travelling fans delirious. A clean sheet is tough to keep at Vicarage Road, yet one nil to the good set-up a potentially monumental victory – that pipeline win seemed to be solidified when Steven Davies scored a typical poachers goal to put the Seasiders on course for their first away win since April 2014.
However, being a Blackpool fan myself, the thought of the victory being seen out seemed highly unlikely, with some fans referring to Blackpool's 2-2 draw at Fulham in November, when they let a two goal lead slip. Those fears ultimately became reality, and shipping two goals would seem like a victory now, with the score eventually becoming 7-2 to Watford, making it barely possible to salvage a case for Blackpool surviving the trap-door after this.
Watford hit back immediately, just two minutes into the second-half, when Odion Ighalo put away the first of his eventual four goals. Having been denied in the first-half, Troy Deeney made amends by equalising six minutes later. Ighalo got his brace and that was that for Blackpool. Matej Vydra, Gabriele Angella and two more from Nigerian International Ighalo sealed a second thrashing for Lee Clark during his Blackpool tenure and three altogether for him this season – his other at Birmingham against Bournemouth.
Watford rise to sixth and look set to finish in the top ten once again, if not push for a play-off spot. Blackpool remain with just three wins and Saturday's defeat was their sixteenth of the season, as their misery on the pitch matched that off it as a protest has been organised for their home tie against recently in-form Brighton this weekend.
Liverpool 0-0 Bolton Wanderers
Bolton earned themselves a credible draw at Anfield as they held out for a replay against in-form Liverpool, who will rue this missed opportunity. To their credit Liverpool did ask plenty of questions of the Bolton defence, but their opponents stood strong and did the 6000 travelling fans, who supported their team well vocally, proud. Bolton, on the day, didn't trouble the Reds defence too much and it's clear Bolton boss Neil Lennon's game-plan was to contain Liverpool and hit them on the break with a counter-attacking set-up. The home side pressed and asked questions and their Premier League quality showed, but on this occasion they couldn't make it count and will now face a mid-week replay at the Macron – adding to an already large cluster of fixtures between now and April.
The first 15 minutes was an end-to-end display that had both sides showing attacking intent, but the deeper in to the half the game got, the more it became a display of Liverpool's offensive dominance. The Reds created half-chances but Bolton's compact defence forced them to take long-distance efforts, as Liverpool's attempts to walk the ball home found Raheem Sterling outnumbered and his efforts blocked.
Aside from a couple of half-chances and attacking plays from Wanderers, Liverpool heavily dominated the second-half, but again were shut out and forced to distanced efforts. Liverpool didn't make wholesale alterations following their 1-1 draw with Chelsea last Tuesday as Adam Lallana, Glen Johnson, Joe Allen and Javier Manquillo made rare starts. Jordan Henderson, who is due to be made captain following Steven Gerrard's departure this summer, proved his credentials as a leader and kept some composure in Liverpool's play in the midfield. However, this game could be compared to their previous tie at AFC Wimbledon, where they required Gerrard to see them over the line. They generally seemed to be missing that extra piece of experience to round off the game. Leaving Gerrard out of the squad still half-paid-off as Liverpool enter the fifth round draw and have a fully fit Gerrard prepared to face Chelsea in the League Cup semi-final second leg this Tuesday.
Bolton will be elated with their draw and will view the FA Cup as a potentially genuine priority as reaching the Championship play-offs appears a little out of reach, given the quality in the league this season. Relegation isn't a fear for the Trotters and Neil Lennon will be satisfied with his first few months in Lancashire and the much-needed stability that's been brought to the football club. Bolton still have plenty of off-the-field issues to contend, but some quality on the pitch has brought plenty of fans back to the Macron in recent weeks.
Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 Leicester City
Nigel Pearson may have just put any potential sacking or resignation on hold after beating yet more Premier League opposition in the FA Cup, having scraped by Newcastle in the third round and now Tottenham at White Hart Lane in the fourth. Like Chelsea, Spurs took the lead, through another Andros Townsend penalty after the England International saw the North Londoners past Sheffield United thanks to a penalty last Wednesday in the League Cup.
Leicester have had, overall, a poor season, but always possess an attacking potency and Tottenham were unlikely to be safe at a goal up. Spurs were ultimately made to pay for not seeing the game out. £9 million signing Andrej Kramaric had a positive impact on the game and worked well with Leonardo Ulloa up front for Leicester and the Croatian looks set to be a key player in helping the Foxes to avoid an increasingly-possible relegation. Leicester could have easily had a penalty of their own when Michel Vorm looked to have brought down Kramaric, but the latter was cautioned for simulation and Leicester went in to the interval aggrieved.
The away side continued to press and were avidly awarded in the eighty-third minute when Argentinian Ulloa amended for an earlier missed free header by keeping his composure during a corner, turning and slotting home. However, despite drawing level, that wasn't the conclusion as the Foxes snatched victory when Jeffrey Schlupp bundled home Danny Simpson's cross under Michel Vorm, who should have done far better. You could call it 'poetic justice' – if you're a Leicester supporter.
Today's other results:
Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Swansea City
Birmingham City 1-2 West Bromwich Albion
Cardiff City 1-2 Reading
Derby County 2-0 Chesterfield
Preston North End 1-1 Sheffield United
Southampton 2-3 Crystal Palace
Sunderland 0-0 Fulham
Norwich City 1-2 Brentford
Wigan Athletic 0-1 Huddersfield Town
Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-0 Charlton Athletic
Colchester United 2-0 Leyton Orient
Fleetwood Town 1-0 Crawley Town
Gillingham 3-2 Oldham Athletic
MK Dons 2-0 Barnsley
Notts County 1-2 Peterborough United
Port Vale 0-1 Crewe Alexandra
Yeovil Town 0-0 Coventry City
AFC Wimbledon 2-1 Accrington Stanley
Bury 2-1 Carlisle United
Cheltenham Town 1-1 Luton Town
Mansfield Town 0-0 Wycombe Wanderers
Northampton Town 3-0 Newport County
Oxford United 2-2 Exeter City
Plymouth Argyle 1-1 Morecambe
Portsmouth 1-2 Southend United
Shrewsbury Town 3-2 Stevenage
Tranmere Rovers 1-1 Hartlepool United
York City 1-1 Burton Albion
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The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
Marcus, Gary F.
Are we "noble in reason"? Perfect, in God's image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus. In this lucid and revealing book, Marcus argues that the mind is not an elegantly designed organ but rather a "kluge," a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption. He unveils a fundamentally new way of looking at the human mind -- think duct tape, not supercomputer -- that sheds light on some of the most mysterious aspects of human nature.
Taking us on a tour of the fundamental areas of human experience -- memory, belief, decision-making, language, and happiness -- Marcus reveals the myriad ways our minds fall short. He examines why people often vote against their own interests, why money can't buy happiness, why leaders often stick to bad decisions, and why a sentence like "people people left left" ties us in knots even though it's only four words long.
Marcus also offers surprisingly effective ways to outwit our inner kluge, for the betterment of ourselves and society. Throughout, he shows how only evolution -- haphazard and undirected -- could have produced the minds we humans have, while making a brilliant case for the power and usefulness of imperfection.
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
Characteristics: 211 p. ; 22 cm.
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Gary Marcus explores the evolutinary -- trial and error -- and therefore necessarily piecemeal and pragmatically haphazard construction of the human mind as a Kluge: an inelegant solution to a problem. Beauty, of course, is in the eyes of the beholder and, as in theatre and comedy, timing is everything. The 'problem(s)' with some of the characteristics, and characteristic limitations, of the human mind arise with the current (and, in evolutionary terms, relatively very recent ) complexity of human civilization. We have difficulty as individuals, as groups, and certainly in as large a community as a nation, making and following through on long term plans. We (the most recent large neo-cortex development of our brains) have the capacity for conscious deliberation and planning. But the fact of the neo-cortex being a late evolutionary adaptation layered onto prior brain developments/adaptations -- the 'mammalian brain' centred on feeling/emotion, the 'reptilian brain' centred on gut instinct -- mean, and lead to, reactions, and actions, that correspond more closely to responses typical of our old brain functions than of the 'new and improved', seemingly 'higher' and more 'noble' functions of which our neo-cortexes are capable.
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New Orleans I was surprised recently when I saw a note mentioning the 50th anniversary of the March on the Pentagon on October 21, 1967 in Washington, D.C., one of the seminal events of the anti-war protests against the Vietnam War. We're seeing a lot of these golden jubilee events these days. It was only a couple of years ago we were commemorating critical events in the civil rights movement, and now the clock has advanced from there to the Vietnam War, short by the clock of modern wars like our longstanding, never ending engagements in Afghanistan and to some degree, Iraq, but still as bloody as many, body to body.
I finished reading a book recently that I had missed somehow when it was published in 2003, by historian Michael Foley called Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the Vietnam War. I had discovered when some quote popped up as people relived those hard old days, where he either said or was quoting someone else saying that there was an argument that "draft resisters were the freedom riders of the anti-war movement." That notion grabbed my attention and found me scurrying to read the book.
Interestingly, Foley concentrated on the anti-war activities around Boston during those days, especially between 1967-1969 or so, and even more determinedly focused on two groups that defined the efforts there during those days, the Boston Draft Resistance Group and the New England Resistance. As it happens, I living in Massachusetts in college at the time and was a foot soldier at both the Spring Mobilization in March 1967 in New York City and in the March on the Pentagon in 1967 and either later that fall or early in 1968, it's impossible to remember now, went to Boston one weekend to be trained as a draft counselor by the BDRG. Not long afterwards I dropped out of college and headed to New Orleans to try to organize draft counseling there in March 1968.
The book brings back memories of a generation, particularly young men, at a crossroads, not common today, but because of the mandatory draft administered by the Selective Service system, everyone of us was forced to make life-and-death decisions about our futures in the face of the war. Foley's book is excellent on the inequities of the draft as well as the pressure that both anti-war activities and the more limited resistance put on the White House to end the war.
His position in the book on the earlier question of individual and collective action is more nuanced. He poses the proposition as a paradox and a continuing head scratcher, saying that some,
"argue that draft resisters were the antiwar movement's equivalent to the civil rights movement's Freedom Riders and lunch-counter sit-in participants; today, Americans regard those dissenters as heroes while they view draft resisters as selfish, cowardly, and traitorous."
Perhaps, but it is easy to understand the contradiction, and, like so many things in American public life, it is firmly rooted in differences in race and class. Going through several draft physicals while I was was classified as 1-A from 19 to 26 years old in the period before there was a lottery, the draft physical lineup was strikingly lower income and working class, black in New Orleans and black and brown in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Part of what attracted me to the BDRG was not just the skills they offered in understanding the draft system and its byzantine practice in order to competently advise people facing these life choices adequately, but what Foley cites as its philosophical "adherence to community organizing." It's also why I have often described my time in New Orleans during 1968 trying to organize something like a draft counseling operation in the communities as my wake-up call to the difficulties of organizing and the weight of constant and powerful failure that hovers over such valiant work. Where I wanted to work in communities didn't work out well at a time the South was still overwhelmingly supportive of the Vietnam War, yet I was inundated by requests from white college kids trying to figure out a good way out of the draft, more in the manner of an escape hatch than any resistance.
I didn't give up on organizing, but it was a life lesson that taught me that counseling was in high demand, but alone solved nothing unless integrated in a deeper program of organizing for power.
Nonetheless, it is a small comfort to read that the cumulative work of so many, of which I was a small, small part, had value in stopping the war then, partially because of the horror and power of the draft, compared to now when so many ignore that we are even involved in a war, so far away from their lives and the choices they have to make about how to live them.
This entry was posted in Organizing and tagged draft resistance, race and class, South, Vietnam War on November 6, 2017 by Wade.
The Vietnam War Nightmares Continue
Pham Thanh Cong, the director of the My Lai Museum, was eleven at the time of the massacre. His mother and four siblings died. "We forgive, but we do not forget," he said. Credit Photograph by Katie Orlinsky
New Orleans So many wars, so little time. We have come to the point where when someone asks an American "about the war," we have to say, "Which one?" One of the two Iraq wars? Afghanistan and its continuing and unending conflicts? Like I said, which one? For people of a certain age though the answer continues to be Vietnam and its fifty year nightmares that persist for many people.
Reading a piece by Seymour Hersh, one of the great reporters and war correspondents of our time in The New Yorker, called "The Scene of the Crime" brings the horror back quickly. Hersh's piece is both a reflection on his own history in covering the My Lai massacre and a contemporary revisiting and recording of a deeper understanding of the mess and mayhem that marked that horrible war. The body count, like so much about Vietnam, continues to be uncertain but a small platoon of US soldiers killed between 347 and 504.
In 2010, the Organizers' Forum visited with a delegation of US and Canadian organizers both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). We talked to a lot of people. We visited the tunnels outside of Ho Chi Minh City, listened to the gunfire, and the guides' description of the struggle "underground." We visited the Museum of the War of Liberation in Hanoi. There was no way to escape the US role and our historical footprint in the country.
At the same time, reading Hersh about My Lai and its aftermath still shocks, especially when it now seems that such massacres were commonplace rather than unique. How had I managed to suppress the fact that President Nixon had commuted Lieutenant Calley's sentence after 90 days? How had he managed to work for decades at his father-in-law's jewelry store in small town Georgia? There must be novelists out there that could write book after book about how that might have worked out? Richard Ford, what are you working on now? There's a classic waiting to be written about the small town South and its ability to hold and protect its own – no matter what! – that is Faulknerian. The imagination just blows up at the thought of it all!
Hersh interviews Chuck Searcy. The Organizer's Forum had met with Searcy to find out more about the nonprofit he helps coordinate that focuses on mine clearance through the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. Hersh obviously pulled more of his personal story out and the conflict with conscience, family, and the whole burden that so many veteran packed out. We found him a very decent man. He had paid his dues.
With Hilary Clinton announcing for President we will hear the narrative that harkens back to the old culture wars that involved Vietnam, long hair, drugs, liberation, and rock and roll, rather than the new culture wars of new wars, abortion, guns, and the rest of it. Reading Hersh on My Lai and Vietnam again it is hard to avoid the feeling that rather than embracing some kind of resolution and reconciliation like South Africa and other countries have done from their time of troubles, we have simply repressed it all and hoped that no one reminds us.
Perhaps that is why we have also seem to have learned so little and repeated the same mistakes so often.
This entry was posted in International, Organizers Forum and tagged Chuck Searcy, Ho Chi Minh City, My Lai, Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, Vietnam, Vietnam War on April 11, 2015 by Wade.
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Terahertz spectroscopy goes nano
Brown University researchers have improved the resolution of terahertz emission spectroscopy — a technique used to study a wide variety of materials — by 1,000-fold, making the technique useful at the nanoscale.
Going nano: Researchers have improved the resolution of terahertz spectroscopy by 1,000 times, making the technique useful at the nanoscale.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Brown University researchers have demonstrated a way to bring a powerful form of spectroscopy — a technique used to study a wide variety of materials — into the nano-world.
Laser terahertz emission microscopy (LTEM) is a burgeoning means of characterizing the performance of solar cells, integrated circuits and other systems and materials. Laser pulses illuminating a sample material cause the emission of terahertz radiation, which carries important information about the sample's electrical properties.
"This is a well-known tool for studying essentially any material that absorbs light, but it's never been possible to use it at the nanoscale," said Daniel Mittleman, a professor in Brown's School of Engineering and corresponding author of a paper describing the work. "Our work has improved the resolution of the technique so it can be used to characterize individual nanostructures."
Typically, LTEM measurements are performed with resolution of a few tens of microns, but this new technique enables measurements down to a resolution of 20 nanometers, roughly 1,000 times the resolution previously possible using traditional LTEM techniques.
The research, published in the journal ACS Photonics, was led by Pernille Klarskov, a postdoctoral researcher in Mittleman's lab, with Hyewon Kim and Vicki Colvin from Brown's Department of Chemistry.
For their research, the team adapted for terahertz radiation a technique already used to improve the resolution of infrared microscopes. The technique uses a metal pin, tapered down to a sharpened tip only a few tens of nanometers across, that hovers just above a sample to be imaged. When the sample is illuminated, a tiny portion of the light is captured directly beneath the tip, which enables imaging resolution roughly equal to the size of the tip. By moving the tip around, it's possible to create ultra-high resolution images of an entire sample.
Klarskov was able to show that the same technique could be used to increase the resolution of terahertz emission as well. For their study, she and her colleagues were able to image an individual gold nanorod with 20-nanometer resolution using terahertz emission.
The researchers believe their new technique could be broadly useful in characterizing the electrical properties of materials in unprecedented detail.
"Terahertz emission has been used to study lots of different materials — semiconductors, superconductors, wide-band-gap insulators, integrated circuits and others," Mittleman said. "Being able to do this down to the level of individual nanostructures is a big deal."
One example of a research area that could benefit from the technique, Mittleman says, is the characterization of perovskite solar cells, an emerging solar technology studied extensively by Mittleman's colleagues at Brown.
"One of the issues with perovskites is that they're made of multi-crystalline grains, and the grain boundaries are what limits the transport of charge across a cell," Mittleman said. "With the resolution we can achieve, we can map out each grain to see if different arrangements or orientations have an influence on charge mobility, which could help in optimizing the cells."
That's one example of where this could be useful, Mittleman said, but it's certainly not limited to that.
"This could have fairly broad applications," he noted.
The research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Danish Council for Independent Research and by Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies.
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How Apple Builds The Difference Between The MacBook Air And Pro
Ewan Spence
Storyteller exploring digital worlds, mobile, music and podcasting
Apple's MacBook Air has always been as the smaller version of the MacBook Pro. Following the release of the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro laptops, Apple is looking to create a bigger difference between the Air and the Pro in 2022 to suit the two diverging markets.
A 2020 Apple MacBook Air laptop computer, taken on November 16, 2020. (Photo by Phil Barker/Future ... [+] Publishing via Getty Images)
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One key difference will be the lack of support for a fast refreshing screen… the 120 Hz promotion screen found on the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro. This week saw noted Apple tipster DylanDK talk about the upcoming upgrade to miniLED on the MacBook Air, and how it is going to be missing one of the premium features:
"Mini-Led is likely. I can't confirm whether it will have a notch but I can say that there will be no Promotion, no Face ID, no SD Card, no tapered design, and no HDMI. Starting price is expected to increase slightly."
The slight bump in functionality for the Pro laptop (and the premium price tag attached), compared to the "good enough" version for the MacBook Air typifies Apple's potential strategy for its macOS laptops in 2022.
For those of the geekerati that simply must have the biggest number, the MacBook Pro is clearly the laptop to be seen with in fashionable company. Those who know their work needs significant processing power (such as developers and professional media creatives) will naturally turn to the Top Trump of macOS laptops.
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For everyone else, the balance point on purchasing is going to be in the smaller details. Details such as the regular refresh rate on the screen compared to the faster rate offered in the more expensive machines; the utility of having the SD Card slot for the multitude of personal devices the use SD cards in day-to-day life; an excess of thunderbolt ports… all of these have been welcomed by MacBook Pro reviewers, but Apple spent five years declaring that two USB ports was enough for a happy and fulfilling laptop experience.
The new MacBook Pro experience is all about retaining as much capability as possible.
But the other way is to offer the functionality you need, not the functionality you want. It's a pretty controversial option, because you are reliant on the design team getting it 'just about right' for every consumer.
Look at the potential of the M1 Pro and M1 Max system on chips. They offer an attractive package for those needing to squeeze as much power out of their laptop as possible. For everyone else, even the entry-level Apple Silicon M1 found in 2019's MacBook Air has deliver such a step up in power that everyone is easily satisfied with Tim Cook's new wedges.
The new demarcation between the Apple Silicon inside the laptops is a clean illustration that Apple's design team has decided to split the professionalisms and the consumer laptops. While Pro users will - for their extra $1000 - get the extra facilities, Air users will carry on with a leaner laptop life.
Is that enough? Maybe we need one more reason to choose the MacBook Air over the MacBook Pro to seal the deal? Thankfully Tim Cook and his team have the Ace the Air needs.
It's going to be available in seven different colors.
Now read the latest iPhone, iPad, and Mac headlines in Forbes' weekly Apple Loop column...


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La Coppa Italia di pallavolo maschile 2014-2015 si è svolta dal 6 all'11 gennaio 2015: al torneo hanno partecipato otto squadre di club italiane e la vittoria finale è andata per l'undicesima volta al Modena Volley.

Regolamento
Le squadre hanno disputato quarti di finale, semifinali e finale.

Squadre partecipanti

Torneo

Tabellone

Risultati

Quarti di finale

Semifinali

Finale

Collegamenti esterni

Pallavolo nel 2014
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3rd Sinquefield Cup - Round 6 recap
Opening: E99: King's Indian
Player(s): So, Nakamura
GM Ronen Har-Zvi recaps Round 6. It's not something you see so often in super-GMs games, but we had the luck to witness a checkmate on the board today, in the 6th round of the Sinquefield Cup. There were two very interesting games to follow today; all the games are important and entertaining at this level, but So-Nakamura and Aronian-Carlsen were the top two games, for various reasons. Carlsen and Aronian, the two co-leaders, could have given the tournament a serious yank, had one of them won the game. They drew, and quite uneventfully. Nakamura and So are both Americans now and, at least over the board, today's game was to be considered a derby. So is not having his best tournament, but today Nakamura played a great game, taking advantage of any and all the chances his younger rival gave him. And So was a true sport, allowing Nakamura to play his unstoppable attack till the very end, with checkmate on the board at move 39, after an amazing King's hunt. Now Nakamura follows the two leaders by a half point, together with Giri and MVL. Vachier-Lagrave today beat Topalov in 37 moves, confirming his great state of form. Veselin, after an impressive start, has lost two games in a row, and now is a full point from the top. Grischuk beat Caruana, whose performance is probably one of the lowest in recent years. Giri and Anand drew.
Teacher's library (558) E99 So Nakamura recap


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How does the climate crisis affect the Antarctic fur seal?
The Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) is a marine mammal that only lives in the Southern Ocean.
The climate crisis is limiting the availability of krill —small crustaceans that are vital in the marine food chain— during summer in some areas of the Antarctica. This involves a decrease in the food abundance for female Antarctic fur seals in summer and a decrease in their reproductive success. Moreover, the predation of pups by the leopard seal has also increased due to a lower abundance of penguins, the main prey of this voracious Antarctic predator. However, the impact of the climate crisis on the Antarctic fur seal in winter has been ignored to date, when the cold, wind and ice make it harder to study the Antarctic ecosystems.
Thanks to satellite tracking, we know how this marine mammal is distributed over the winter months in the Antarctica, as well as its relationship with krill and the Antarctic icefield during this period, according to an article published in the journal Scientific Reports by the experts Lluís Cardona, Manel Gazo, David March, Massimiliano Drago and Diego Rita, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute of the UB (IRBio), and Mariluz Parga, from the SUBMON association.
How does the Antarctic fur seal adapt to global change?
The Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazelle) —a marine mammal that only lives in the Southern Ocean— was intensively exploited by the fur industry during the first half of the 19th century. After a notable recovery, the populations of these pinnipeds are now regressing since 2003.
This predator feeds mainly from krill —the Antarctic crustacean Euphasia superba— and fish. Most of their breeding colonies are close to the Antarctic Polar Front but the South Shetland Islands —surrounded by the polar icefield in winter— host the most southern population of the species and the only Antarctic one. Now, the study provides answers to many doubts about the importance of environmental factors that regulate the distribution of this population in winter and their link to the ice cycle and krill.
The team conducted the research during the austral summer season of 2019 in the Antarctic research station Gabriel de Castilla, in Deception Island within the archipelago of the Southern Shetland Islands. In the study, the scientific monitoring via satellite tracking focused on juvenile and sub-adult males since they represent more than the 80% of the seals that remain in Antarctic waters during winter, while females leave the Antarctica during this period.
This occurs because during winter, when the breeding season is over, females leave the Southern Shetland Islands and move to warmer areas, near Southern Georgia islands and the South American continent. However, males remain in the Antarctic continent.
Juvenile and sub-adult individuals are those predominating the male populations, as stated in the study. In this species, the relatively late sexual maturity —after seven years— and high mortality in adults caused by the cost of defending a breeding area makes male adults to live few years and therefore the male population is skewed towards younger individuals. Female individuals reach sexual maturity when aged three and they undergo a lower adult mortality, so female adults are the most abundant ones.
"Males spend most of the winter time in the Antarctic Ocean, without going to the main land, and they preferentially select areas of less than 1000 meters deep, located about 200 kilometres from the ice borders and with high levels of chlorophyll and a surface temperature below 2ºC", notes Lluís Cardona, lecturer at the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences and IRBio. "
This coincides with the favourite habitat of the Antarctic krill, the main prey of these otariids. Due to the seasonal dynamics of ice, the krill-friendly habitat moves north during winter and so do the fur seals. As winter progresses, krill migrate deeper into the water and males dive deeper to eat, sometimes up to 180 meters deep", continues Cardona, director of the Antarctic research project Flexseal within the study.
Males and females: an unequal fight for food
These different habitats occupied by males and females during the austral winter could be related to the sexual dimorphism of the species: adult females can reach 20-50 kg and adult males 140 kg. Juvenile and sub-adult males are even bulkier than females. This difference is a major determinant of their thermoregulatory skills and diving performance when adapting a new extreme environment and feed successfully.
"An increased body mass involves more capacity to store oxygen, which allows adult males to dive deeper when searching for food", notes Cardona.
The most important reproductive population of the Antarctic fur seal is in the South Georgia islands, the area that has shown the greatest abundance of krill in the summer during the last two decades. "When this food source decreases, fur seals increase their fish intake but the reproductive success decreases. Therefore, the species can survive without krill but the population of the Antarctic fur seal is less abundant, like in the Kerguelen Islands", says the expert.
Climate change and polar fauna: changes in the horizon
The climate crisis is altering the ecosystems of the Antarctic peninsula and the Southern Ocean. Surviving the global change successfully involves changes in the distribution, abundance and ecology of many species in polar latitudes.
In the context of global change, fur seal males and females are exposed to the environmental changes that affect the Antarctica during the austral summer. However, unlike males, females are also affected by the changes in those areas at latitude 40-50º in subantarctic latitudes.
In some colonies, the climate crisis causes a higher predation of pups by the leopard seal. "To adapt to the external changes, the colonies of the Antarctic fur seal should move south across the Antarctic peninsula, but this is an extremely slow process", notes Cardona.
Regarding the conservation of the Antarctic fur seal, "in the future, we will need to manage properly the krill fishing activities in these areas, and this will require to consider not only the female consumption during summer but also the consumption associated with males of all ages during the four seasons of the year", concludes the researcher.
Photos: Lluís Cardona (UB-IRBio)
Reference article:
March, D.; Drago, M.; Gazo, M.; Parga, M.; Rita, D.; Cardona, L. «Winter distribution of juvenile and sub‑adult male Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) along the western Antarctic Peninsula». Scientific Reports, November 2021. Doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-01700-w
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I was recently interviewed by Pamela Berry for the Photofocus podcast! We covered how I got my start in photography, things I've learned by assisting greats like Joe McNally and Scott Kelby, the gear I use, my plans for the future, and much more! You can check it out on the Photofocus site, download it from iTunes, or just listen above. Thanks for having me on the show!


KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan officials say the Taliban have attacked a government compound in the country's east by first setting off two truck bombs, followed by an attack by gunmen.
Asadullha Ensafi, the deputy police chief in the provincial capital of Ghazni, says at least 52 people — both civilians and security forces — were hurt in Thursday's early morning attack. Most were injured by broken glass from windows shattered in the explosion.
Ensafi says the target appeared to be the local office of domestic intelligence.
Ghazni Governor Musa Khan Akbarzada says that as many as 13 Taliban fighters had launched the attack. He says bodies of eight attackers were found after the gunbattle with the police.
It wasn't immediately clear if any of the security forces or civilians had been killed.


Learning to use conjuctions in Japanese is an important step for beginners. Once you have understood the basic sentence structure of Japanese, you may find yourself wondering how to make your sentences flow. The easiest way to do this is by making use of connecting words (or conjunctions) in Japanese to link two sentences or two clauses together.
Being as Kotobites is in the midst of the Japanese Writing Challenge, I thought this would be a great time to post about the topic of conjunctions, known as 接続詞 in Japanese.
I have shied away from using English where possible here. This is becuase a lot of these conjunctions do not work in exactly the same way as their English counterparts.
Wasabi's articles on important Japanese Conjunctions as well as Reverse Conditionals (which covers conjunctions and grammar points that express a contrast).
For those who are a bit more advanced, check out this page (in Japanese) on a website called Pothos. This post gives an overview of the types of conjunctions you are likely to come across in Japanese. If you click on each word you get a definition and a few example sentences to show how it is used.
I hope you find this post useful – as always if you have any suggestions or feedback please let me know in the comments!
Welcome to the Kotobites November Japanese Writing Challenge. In case you missed it, please take a look my intro post on what this is and why I'm doing it – you can do as little or as much as you can!
What food are you good at making?
What is your occupation/major? Why did you choose that occupation/major?
Where would you rather live, in the city or in the countryside?
Looking to get your writing checked? I recommend Lang-8 (if you already have an account – unfortunately, they are no longer taking new registrations), HiNative or ask a friend/language partner.
Following the sentence structure of the question is the easiest way of constructing the answer. Feel free to expand on the questions as much as possible or adapting the question – whatever suits your stage of learning.
〜ことがあります is a useful phrase for expressing something you have done before (as in 'Have you ever been scuba diving?').
得意 is similar in meaning to 上手(じょうず) meaning 'to be good at (doing something)'.
You may prefer to use a different sentence structure such as 'Xを作るのが得意です'.
Choose occupation or major depending on if you are working or studying.
You might want to use to show contrast between the city and the countryside by using a construction such as 'XよりYのほうがZです'.
In order to answer the question, you could change the sentence structure using the て form, such as 〜て、ストレスを解消します (I relieve stress by doing…).
This article from Fluent in 3 Months explains it better than I can, but the brain is good at spotting at remembering patterns. As we are learning to speak our first language, we hear sentences spoken by others around us and so we build up a bank of sentences for our native language(s) in our brains.
This is why it is very easy for us to spot when something sounds unnatural in our native language(s), even if we are not sure why. With learning a new language, we have to follow the same process of learning what phrases and sentences are natural or not.
Studying sentences alongside grammar rules will help the grammar to stick in your mind more effectively. Once you've understood a grammar point, you can then focus on making sure that you can implement in in your own speaking/writing – which is why I think keeping a journal in Japanese is such a good idea.
Let's say for example that you are studying counters in Japanese, and come across the counter 'hai' which is the counter for glasses.
If you also memorise the sentence [ビールを三杯ください/ ビールをさんばいください/bi-ru wo sanbai kudasai] meaning Please can I have three glasses of beer, you are not only memorising the counter '-杯/はい/hai' but internalising several other Japanese grammar rules at the same time.
(Just like with -はい, the -ほん counter has a sound change to -ぼん when following 三).
… and this is all by changing just one word in the original phrase we learnt!
With Japanese, context is key to understanding grammar and vocabulary, so I believe that studying using sentences is more important coming from English. Adding Japanese audio in the mix is even better for learning to distinguish similar words, especially as Japanese has different pitch accents for similar words.
So how can I implement this into my language study?
With new grammar points, try writing out an example sentence you already know to be correct, then try changing different vocabulary as in the example above. You can always ask on an app like HiNative or a friend to check your new sentences to make sure they still make sense.
When learning across new vocab, look the word up in a dictionary or ask a friend to give you an example of how that word is used in a sentence and write it down for review later.
When making your own flashcards (real or online), make sure to write these sentences together with the vocabulary. If you are using Anki for vocabulary study, you'll notice that a lot of decks introduce sentences at the same time.
I also highly recommend Delvin Language, which offers sentence and listening practice at the same time!
You can learn new vocabulary via sentences taken from real life speech in dramas and documentaries, with all furigana and meanings provided for words and grammar points you may not know yet.
I hope the above post has helped – if you have any questions or suggestions please let me know in the comments!


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Watches & Pencils #46 – Double Barrel Movements
Teun van Heerebeek
I'm not only a fan of the outside of a watch, but the inside and all its moving parts are what makes every watch tick. Fascinated by the countless innovations and improvements for watch movements, I picked out one. The improvement of having more power reserve and the distribution by a double barrel in this case. Double barrel movements feature more than one mainspring and barrel. This way the movement has an increased power reserve and sometimes more efficient distribution. The actual power reserve depends on several things. For example:
The complications of the movement (e.g. chronograph).
Whether the double barrels are linked in parallel or paired serially.
Multiple or a single gear train (more on this, later on).
For older watches, the technical condition of the movement (Has it been serviced or not?)
The age of the watch. Newer watches have technical improvements like high-tech materials to increase the power reserve.
Even More Barrels
While you might think that 2 barrels is the max, you're wrong. Some movements house up to 4 barrels! Blancpain has several movements that feature more than 2 barrels. For example, the Blancpain movement with reference number 1315 has 3 barrels. King of the hill is Vacheron Constantin with its Patrimony Traditionnelle Tourbillon (reference 89000/000R-9655). It features 2 stacks of 2 barrels and has a power reserve of 14 days!
Two barrels per movement and a longer power reserve on the Dual Time Resonance by Armin Strom (ref. ARF17)
Need Or Nice-To-Have?
Watches with a lot of complications need more power. Therefore a double barrel is more like a necessity than a nice-to-have. In these cases, one barrel can serve the time indication, while the other barrel serves the chronograph and/or other complications. Besides this, more power reserve was also useful in times when watches were purely functional. As an example, I take the first Panerai watches. Since they were created for (military) frogmen, it was best to include as much power reserve as possible. This way, the winding interval was stretched and the chance of water coming into the watch was kept to a minimum. Nowadays, most of the watches with double barrels serve our laziness.
Two Barrels on the Meistersinger Caliber MSH01
One BIG Barrel or more than one?
Instead of creating an extra barrel some brands also increase the power reserve by increasing the size of the barrel and mainspring. There are some differences compared to multiple barrels. Besides the accuracy, it also has a lot to do with the available space in the movement. With some movements, you can't just keep increasing the size of the barrel. With two barrels they are more flexible in the placement of the barrels.
Oris Caliber 111 with one massive barrel, good for 10 days of power reserve
Names And Branding
While 'double barrel movement' is the term mostly used, some brands use a unique name to indicate the double barrel concept. To name some:
Jaeger-LeCoultre: Duomètre or 'Dual Wing'
Favre-Leuba: Twin-power calibre 253
Multiple brands: twin barrel
JLC Duomètre Quantième Lunaire (ref. 1701195081)
The double barrel movement might have increased power reserve as primary goal there is another interesting benefit to this concept. For me as a designer, a double barrel also can create more balance in the overall design of a movement. Most of the double barrel movements are more symmetric and therefore look nicer in my opinion.
Barrels are interesting parts of the movement. Together with the mainspring, they provide the essence: energy. What makes them especially interesting is fact that there are many variations. What do you like or dislike about a double barrel movement? Maybe you own a double barrel movement? We'd like to hear from you.
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Daniel T. Müller says:
Personally, I'd like to have a watch with two barrels and a power reserve indicator on the back. Don't like them that much on the dial.Good one, Teun.
benjameshodges says:
If they can be wound in one direction simultaneously, then twin barrels are a helpful addition. But I think the Duomètre has to be wound in two different directions separately, which is inconvenient. With twin barrels you can have a longer power reserve in a smaller sized case than compared to a large single barrel with comparable power reserve. Great ARTicle as always.
TeunVH says:
Thanks Ben!
TheOneInYellow says:
Love the insight and artwork Teun!I adore my Omega Constellation Globemaster Co-Axial Master Chronometer, which has a double barrel complication inside the Calibre 8900.Here the two barrels are used to give a more efficient torque and power delivery system to the rest of the movement, and are designed so that the watch is chronometeric.However the power reserve is 60 hours, ten less than the single barrel in my Tudor North Flag (in-house Tudor calibre MT5621) which is also very accurate too.For the Omega Calibre 8900/Globemaster I would have liked a bit more power reserve, and a power reserve indication on the back of the watch too, but these are minor and insignificant gripes.This is my picture of my own gorgeous Globemaster Calibre 8900:https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Thanks for the compliment and the wonderful sight on the Globemaster
Michael Barker says:
I enjoyed reading this article today, this morning FEDEX arrived with my new Chopard LUC Quattro, (LUC 1.98 movement) 43mm, 4 barrels, 216 hour power reserve with 9 day indicator, only 7.22mm high. It's a classy piece.
Mark Nagy says:
I was wondering if a double barrel arrangement helps the accuracy of the watch. For accuracy, is a double barrel in series more advantageous over one in parallel to help achieve chronometer accuracy?
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