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Nikita Mazepin: Russian Formula 1 driver barred from British Grand Prix after Motorsport UK decision
Anissa March 8, 2022 6 min read
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Russian Formula 1 driver Nikita Mazepin will be unable to compete at the British Grand Prix
Russian Formula 1 driver Nikita Mazepin will be barred from competing at the British Grand Prix, after Motorsport UK announced their response to the situation in Ukraine.
On Tuesday, Haas driver Mazepin looked likely to be allowed to compete in F1 this season after the FIA confirmed Russian and Belarusian drivers could race under a neutral flag.
But chair of Motorsport UK, David Richards CBE, along with the board of the organisation confirmed in a statement on Wednesday Mazepin would not be able to race at Silverstone on July 3 unless the situation changes.
"The entire Motorsport UK community condemns the acts of war by Russia and Belarus in Ukraine and expresses its solidarity and support towards all those affected by the ongoing conflict." Richards said.
Mazepin joined Haas for the 2021 season on a multi-year deal
"We stand united with the people of Ukraine and the motorsport community following the invasion and the unacceptable actions that have unfolded. This is a time for the international motorsport community to act and show support for the people of Ukraine and our colleagues at the Federation Automobile d'Ukraine (FAU)."
FIA president Mohammed bin Sulayem said in a statement on Tuesday: "The FIA is watching the developments in Ukraine with sadness and shock and I hope for a swift and peaceful resolution to the present situation.
"We condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine and our thoughts are with all those suffering as a result of the events in Ukraine."
In the statement, the FIA added: "Russian/Belarusian drivers, individual competitors and officials to participate in international/zone competitions only in their neutral capacity and under the 'FIA flag', subject to specific commitment and adherence to the FIA's principles of peace and political neutrality."
To my fans and followers – it's a difficult time and I am not in control over a lot of what is being said and done. I'm choosing to focus on what I CAN control by working hard and doing my best for my @HaasF1Team . My deepest thanks for your understanding and support. 🙏
— Nikita Mazepin (@nikita_mazepin) February 25, 2022
In response, and in full accordance with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recommendations, Motorsport UK confirmed, whilst "respecting the decisions of the FIA", that no Russian/Belarusian licenced teams are approved to enter motorsport competitions in the UK, no Russian/Belarusian licenced competitors and officials are approved to participate in UK motorsport events, and no Russian/Belarusian national symbols, colours, flags (on uniform, equipment and car) to be displayed at Motorsport UK permitted events.
Haas team principal Guenther Steiner says the team can survive without the sponsorship of Russian fertiliser company Uralkali and says the criticism of driver Nikita Mazepin has been unfair
The Motorsport UK decision was made in full consultation with the UK Government and national sports governing bodies to ensure there is a unilateral response to the crisis.
Richards added: "It is our duty to use whatever influence and leverage we might have to bring this wholly unjustified invasion of Ukraine to a halt. We would encourage the motorsport community and our colleagues around the world to fully embrace the recommendations of the International Olympic Committee and do whatever we can to end this war."
"Motorsport UK stands united with Leonid Kostyuchenko, the President of the FAU, the Ukrainian motorsport community and the Ukrainian people and calls for the violence to end with a peaceful resolution."
Sky F1's Craig Slater…
"The most significant aspect of this is that the British federation Motorsport UK are taking a different stand to the international federation the FIA, who announced this week that they were prepared to allow Russian licensed drivers to compete in their races and Championship so long as they raced under an FIA flag.
"So that means the headline from this is Nikita Mazepin of the Haas F1 team will not be able to compete at Silverstone this year, he is Russian licensed.
"He's also the son of Dmitry Mazepin, who is a close associate of Vladimir Putin. Haas stripped all Uralkali sponsorship from their car. The car also carried the colours of the Russian national flag, those were taken off on the final day of testing.
"Haas have no comment to make at the moment in terms of Mazipan's future or indeed how they are going to proceed with or without Dmitry Mazepin's financial backing which is significant. They are looking at that situation at the moment.
Sky Sports' Craig Slater and Ted Kravitz react to the news that the 2022 Russian Grand Prix has been cancelled following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"But I think this is significant in terms of this Motorsport UK release today, David Richards says 'it is our duty to use whatever influence and leverage we might have to bring this wholly unjustified invasion of Ukraine to a halt, we would encourage the motorsport community and colleagues around the world to fully embrace the recommendations of the International Olympic Committee and do whatever we can to end this war'.
"So they are in effect saying 'we're prepared to do this, other motorsport federations around the world, you might want to listen to us and follow our example'.
"If that were the case I think Nikita Mazepin would find it difficult to put together anything like a Formula 1 season involving a significant number of races.
"Despite what the FIA said this week, I think Motorsport UK's position today could bring about a situation where Mazepin has no real option to compete in Formula 1 this season in any meaningful sense."
On Tuesday, Ex-Formula 1 driver Daniil Kvyat urged sporting federations against the "unfair solution" of banning Russian athletes and teams from sporting competitions in the wake of his country's invasion of Ukraine.
Kvyat, who is from Russia and has 110 F1 starts, was most recently on the grid in 2020 and posted on social media to speak out against the Russia-Ukraine war, but also against the "unfair" banning of Russian athletes.
"I really hope for a peaceful solution to this situation in Ukraine, and that we can all live in peace," said Kvyat.
"Hopefully all parties can find a solution by sitting together and through a respectful dialogue.
"It horrifies me to see two brotherhood nations in a conflict.
"I don't want military actions and wars to influence the future of humanity. I want my daughter and all children to enjoy this beautiful world.
"I also would like to highlight and address all sports federations across the world including IOC that sport should remain outside politics and disallowing Russian athletes and teams from participating in world competitions is an unfair solution and goes against what sport teaches us in its principle – the unity and peace.
"Who else if not us sports people will help to glue nations together in the upcoming times?"
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Data from: Plasticity and habitat choice match color to function in an ambush bug
Julia Boyle & Denon Start
Individuals aim to maximize their fitness by matching their own phenotype to the optimum phenotype in their environment. Individuals can achieve matching through several mechanism including habitat choice and adaptive plasticity. A key trait of interest to biologists is color, with background matching reciprocally camouflaging predators and prey. However, the multiple mechanisms matching an individual's color to their background, and its consequences for function (e.g. species interactions), are rarely explored simultaneously. Here we investigate color...
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Data from: The ecology and evolution of seed predation by Darwin's finches on Tribulus cistoides on the Galápagos Islands
Sofía Carvajal-Endara, Andrew P. Hendry, Nancy C. Emery, Corey P. Neu, Diego Carmona, Kiyoko M. Gotanda, T. Jonathan Davies, Jaime A. Chaves & Marc T. J Johnson
Predator-prey interactions play a key role in the evolution of species traits through antagonistic coevolutionary arms-races. The evolution of beak morphology in the Darwin's finches in response to competition for seed resources is a classic example of evolution by natural selection. The seeds of Tribulus cistoides are an important food source for the largest ground finch species (Geospiza fortis, G. magnirostris, and G. conirostris) in dry months, and the hard spiny morphology of the fruits...
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The role of spines in anthropogenic seed dispersal on the Galápagos islands
Marc Johnson, Mae Johnson, Oscar Johnson & Reagan Johnson
Dispersal has important ecological and evolutionary consequences for populations, but understanding the role of specific traits in dispersal can be difficult and requires careful experimentation. Moreover, understanding how humans alter dispersal is an important question, especially on oceanic islands where anthropogenic disturbance through species introductions can dramatically alter native ecosystems. In this study, we investigated the functional role of spines in seed dispersal of the plant caltrop (Tribulus cistoidesL., Zygophyllaceae) by anthropogenic agents. We also...
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Seizure outcome of pediatric epilepsy surgery: systematic review and meta-analyses
Elysa Widjaja
Objective: This systematic review and meta-analyses assessed seizure outcome following pediatric epilepsy surgery. Methods: MEDLINE, Embase and Cochrane were searched for pediatric epilepsy surgery original research from 1990 to 2017. The outcome was seizure freedom at 12 months or longer follow-up. Using random effects models, the effect sizes for controlled studies, uncontrolled studies on surgery locations (temporal lobe [TL], extra-temporal lobe [ETL] or hemispheric surgery), pathologies, non-lesional epilepsy and incomplete resection were estimated. Meta-regression assessed...
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Species differences in phenology shape coexistence
Christopher Blackford, Rachel Germain & Benjamin Gilbert
Ecological theory produces opposing predictions about whether differences in the timing of life history transitions, or 'phenology', promote or limit coexistence. Phenological separation is predicted to create temporal niche differences, increasing coexistence, yet phenological separation could also competitively favour one species, increasing fitness differences and hindering coexistence. We experimentally manipulated relative germination timing, a critical phenological event, of two annual grass species, Vulpia microstachys and V. octoflora, to test these contrasting predictions. We parameterized a...
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Importance of spatio-temporal connectivity to maintain species experiencing range shifts
Jun-Long Huang, Marco Andrello, Alexandre Martensen, Santiago Saura, Dian-Feng Liu, Jian-Hua He & Marie-Josée Fortin
Climate change can affect the habitat resources available to species by changing habitat quantity, suitability and spatial configuration, which largely determine population persistence in the landscape. In this context, dispersal is a central process for species to track their niche. Assessments of the amount of reachable habitat (ARH) using static snap-shots do not account, however, for the temporal overlap of habitat patches that may enhance stepping-stone effects. Here, we quantified the impacts of climate change...
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Expression atlas of Selaginella moellendorffii provides insights into the evolution of vasculature, secondary metabolism and roots
Camilla Ferrari, Devendra Shivhare, Bjoern Oest Hansen, Asher Pasha, Eddi Esteban, Nicholas J. Provart, Friedrich Kragler, Alisdair Fernie, Takayuki Tohge & Marek Mutwil
Selaginella moellendorffii is a representative of the lycophyte lineage and is studied to understand the evolution of land plant traits such as the vasculature, leaves, stems, roots, and secondary metabolism. However, only few studies investigated about the gene expression and transcriptional coordination of Selaginella genes, precluding us from understanding the evolution of transcriptional programs behind these traits. We present a gene expression atlas comprising all major organs, tissue types, and the diurnal gene expression profiles...
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Relationship of total and calculated free 25-hydroxyvitamin D to biomarkers and metabolic indices in healthy children
Christine Simpson, Jane Zhang, Dirk Vanderschueren, Lei Fu, Teresita Pennestri, Roger Bouillon, David Cole & Thomas Carpenter
ABSTRACT Context: Vitamin D status is usually assessed by serum total 25-hydroxyvitamin D. Whether free 25-hydroxyvitamin D measures better correlate with various clinical outcomes is unclear. Objective: To identify correlations between total 25-hydroxyvitamin D (t25-OHD), calculated and direct measures of free 25-OHD, and to identify associations of these measures with other outcomes in children, across the 6 common GC haplotypes. Design: Healthy urban-dwelling children underwent measurement of relevant variables. Setting: Academic medical center Participants: Healthy,...
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Data from: The landscape genetic signature of pollination by trapliners: evidence from the tropical herb, Heliconia tortuosa
Felipe Torres-Vanegas, Adam S. Hadley, Urs G. Kormann, F. Andrew Jones, Matthew G. Betts & Helene H. Wagner
Animal-mediated pollination is essential for the maintenance of plant reproduction, especially in tropical ecosystems, where pollination networks have been thought to have highly generalized structures. However, accumulating evidence suggests that not all floral visitors provide equally effective pollination services, potentially reducing the number of realized pollinators and increasing the cryptic specialization of pollination networks. Thus, there is a need to understand how different functional groups of pollinators influence pollination success. Here we examined whether patterns...
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Genetic structure and biogeographic history of the Bicknell's Thrush/Gray-cheeked Thrush species complex
Alyssa FitzGerald, Jason Weir, Joel Ralston, Ian Warkentin, Darroch Whitaker & Jeremy Kirchman
We examined species limits, admixture, and genetic structure among populations in the Bicknell's Thrush (Catharus bicknelli) - Gray-cheeked Thrush (C. minimus) species complex to establish the geographic and temporal context of speciation in this group, which is a model system in ecology and a high conservation priority. We obtained mitochondrial ND2 sequences from 186 Bicknell's Thrushes, 77 Gray-cheeked Thrushes, and 55 individuals of their closest relative, the Veery (C. fuscescens), and genotyped a subset of...
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Data from: Integrating over uncertainty in spatial scale of response within multispecies occupancy models yields more accurate assessments of community composition
Luke Frishkoff, D. Mahler & Marie-Josee Fortin
Species abundance and community composition are affected not only by the local environment, but also by broader landscape and regional context. Yet, determining the spatial scales at which landscapes affect species remains a persistent challenge, hindering our ability to understand how environmental gradients shape communities. This problem is amplified by data deficient species and imperfect species detection. Here, we present a Bayesian framework that allows uncertainty surrounding the "true" spatial scale of species' responses (i.e.,...
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Data from: No consistent effects of humans on animal genetic diversity worldwide
Katie Millette, Vincent Fugère, Chloé Debyser, Ariel Greiner, Frédéric Chain & Andrew Gonzalez
Human impacts on genetic diversity are poorly understood yet critical to biodiversity conservation. We used 175,247 COI sequences collected between 1980 and 2016 to assess the global effects of land use and human density on the intraspecific genetic diversity of 17,082 species of birds, fishes, insects, and mammals. Human impacts on mtDNA diversity were taxon and scale-dependent, and were generally weak or non-significant. Spatial analyses identified weak latitudinal diversity gradients as well as negative effects...
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Data from: Using text-mined trait data to test for cooperate-and-radiate co-evolution between ants and plants
Katrina M. Kaur, Pierre-Jean G. Male, Erik Spence, Crisanto Gomez & Megan E. Frederickson
Mutualisms may be "key innovations" that spur lineage diversification by augmenting niche breadth, geographic range, or population size, thereby increasing speciation rates or decreasing extinction rates. Whether mutualism accelerates diversification in both interacting lineages is an open question. Research suggests that plants that attract ant mutualists have higher diversification rates than non-ant associated lineages. We ask whether the reciprocal is true: does the interaction between ants and plants also accelerate diversification in ants, i.e. do...
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Data from: Eulerian videography technology improves classification of sleep architecture in primates
Emilie M. Melvin, David R. Samson & Charles L. Nunn
Sleep is a critically important dimension of primate behavior, ecology, and evolution, yet primate sleep is under-studied because current methods of analyzing sleep are expensive, invasive, and time-consuming. In contrast to electroencephalography (EEG) and actigraphy, videography is a cost-effective and non-invasive method to study sleep architecture in animals. With video data, however, it is challenging to score subtle changes that occur in different sleep states, and technology has lagged behind innovations in EEG and actigraphy....
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FragSAD: A database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments
Jonathan M. Chase, Mario Liebergesell, Alban Sagouis, Felix May, Shane A. Blowes, Åke Berg, Enrico Bernard, Berry J. Brosi, Marc W. Cadotte, Luis Cayuela, Adriano G. Chiarello, Jean-François Cosson, Will Cresswell, Filibus Danjuma Dami, Jens Dauber, Christopher R. Dickman, Raphael K. Didham, David P. Edwards, Fabio Z. Farneda, Yoni Gavish, Thiago Gonçalves-Souza, Demetrio Luis Guadagnin, Mickaël Henry, Adrià López-Baucells, Heike Kappes … & Yaron Ziv
Habitat destruction is the single greatest anthropogenic threat to biodiversity. Decades of research on this issue have led to the accumulation of hundreds of data sets comparing species assemblages in larger, intact, habitats to smaller, more fragmented, habitats. Despite this, little synthesis or consensus has been achieved, primarily because of non‐standardized sampling methodology and analyses of notoriously scale‐dependent response variables (i.e., species richness). To be able to compare and contrast the results of habitat fragmentation...
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Data from: Predator macroevolution drives trophic cascades and ecosystem functioning
Denon Start
Biologists now recognize that ecology can drive evolution, and that evolution in turn produces ecological patterns. I extend this thinking to include longer time-scales, suggesting that macroevolutionary transitions can create phenotypic differences among species, which then have predictable impacts on species interactions, community assembly, and ecosystem functioning. Repeated speciation can exacerbate these patterns by creating communities with similar phenotypes and hence ecological impacts. Here, I use several experiments to test these ideas in dragonfly larvae...
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Data from: Antiherbivore defenses alter natural selection on plant reproductive traits
Kenneth A. Thompson, Marc T. J. Johnson, Ken A. Thompson & Marc T.J. Johnson
While many studies demonstrate that herbivores alter selection on plant reproductive traits, little is known about whether antiherbivore defenses affect selection on these traits. We hypothesized that antiherbivore defenses could alter selection on reproductive traits by altering trait expression through allocation trade-offs, or by altering interactions with mutualists and/or antagonists. To test our hypothesis, we used white clover, Trifolium repens, which has a Mendelian polymorphism for the production of hydrogen cyanide—a potent antiherbivore defense. We...
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Data from: Contemporary evolution of plant growth rate following experimental removal of herbivores
Nash E. Turley, Walter C. Odell, Hanno Schaefer, Georg Everwand, Michael J. Crawley & Marc T. J. Johnson
Herbivores are credited with driving the evolutionary diversification of plant defensive strategies over macroevolutionary time. For this to be true, herbivores must also cause short-term evolution within plant populations, but few studies have experimentally tested this prediction. We addressed this gap using a long-term manipulative field experiment where exclosures protected 22 plant populations from natural rabbit herbivory for <1 to 26 years. We collected seeds of Rumex acetosa L. (Polygonaceae) from our plots and grew...
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Data from: Genomic signature of successful colonization of Eurasia by the allopolyploid shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
Amandine Cornille, Adriana Salcedo, Dmytro Kryvokhyzha, Sylvain Glémin, Kalle Holm, Stephen Wright & Martin Lascoux
Polyploidization is a dominant feature of flowering plant evolution. However, detailed genomic analyses of the inter-population diversification of polyploids following genome duplication are still in their infancy, mainly because of methodological limits, both in terms of sequencing and computational analyses. The shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) is one of the most common weed species in the world. It is highly self-fertilizing, and recent genomic data indicate that it is an allopolyploid, resulting from hybridization between the...
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Data from: High speciation rate at temperate latitudes explains unusual diversity gradients in a clade of ectomycorrhizal fungi
Santiago Sanchez-Ramirez, Rampal S. Etienne & Jean-Marc Moncalvo
Understanding the patterns of biodiversity through time and space is a challenging task. However, phylogeny-based macroevolutionary models allow us to account and measure many of the processes responsible for diversity build-up, namely speciation and extinction. The general latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) is a well-recognized pattern describing a decline in species richness from the equator pole-wards. Recent macroecological studies in ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi have shown that their LDG is shifted, peaking at temperate rather than tropical...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.0cr7d Cite
Data from: Hybridization in headwater regions, and the role of rivers as drivers of speciation in Amazonian birds
Jason T. Weir, Maya S. Faccio, Paola Pulido-Santacruz, Alfredo Barrera-Guzmán & Alexandre Aleixo
Many understory birds and other groups form genetically differentiated subspecies or closely related species on opposite sides of major rivers of Amazonia, but are proposed to come into geographic contact in headwater regions where narrower river widths may present less of a dispersal barrier. Whether such forms hybridize in headwater regions is generally unknown, but has important implications to our understanding of the role of rivers as drivers of speciation. We used a dataset of...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.23s51 Cite
Data from: Investigation of parallel radiofrequency transmission for the reduction of heating in long conductive leads in 3 tesla magnetic resonance imaging
Clare E. McElcheran, Benson Yang, Laleh Golenstani-Rad & Simon J. Graham
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is increasingly used to treat a variety of brain diseases by sending electrical impulses to deep brain nuclei through long, electrically conductive leads. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of patients pre- and post-implantation is desirable to target and position the implant, to evaluate possible side-effects and to examine DBS patients who have other health conditions. Although MRI is the preferred modality for pre-operative planning, MRI post-implantation is limited due to the risk...
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Data from: The gravity of pollination: integrating at-site features into spatial analysis of contemporary pollen movement.
Michelle F. DiLeo, Jenna C. Siu, Matthew K. Rhodes, Adriana López-Villalobos, Angela Redwine, Kelly Ksiazek & Rodney J. Dyer
Pollen-mediated gene flow is a major driver of spatial genetic structure in plant populations. Both individual plant characteristics and site-specific features of the landscape can modify the perceived attractiveness of plants to their pollinators and thus play an important role in shaping spatial genetic variation. Most studies of landscape-level genetic connectivity in plants have focused on the effects of inter-individual distance using spatial and increasingly ecological separation; yet have not incorporated individual plant characteristics or...
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Data from: Understanding the spectacular failure of DNA barcoding in willows (Salix): Does this result from a trans-specific selective sweep?
Diana M. Percy, George W. Argus, Quentin C. Cronk, Aron J. Fazekas, Prasad R. Kesanakurti, Kevin S. Burgess, Brian C. Husband, Steven G. Newmaster, Spencer C. H. Barrett, Sean W. Graham & Spencer C.H. Barrett
Willows (Salix: Salicaceae) form a major ecological component of Holarctic floras, and consequently are an obvious target for a DNA-based identification system. We surveyed two to seven plastid genome regions (~3.8 kb; ~3% of the genome) from 71 Salix species across all five subgenera, to assess their performance as DNA barcode markers. Although Salix has a relatively high level of interspecific hybridization, this may not sufficiently explain the near complete failure of barcoding that we...
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.qf6t5 Cite
Data from: Sexual antagonism for resistance and tolerance to infection in Drosophila melanogaster
Crystal M. Vincent, Nathaniel P. Sharp, N. P. Sharp & C. M. Vincent
A critical task in evolutionary genetics is to explain the persistence of heritable variation in fitness-related traits such as immunity. Ecological factors can maintain genetic variation in immunity, but less is known about the role of other factors, such as antagonistic pleiotropy, on immunity. Sexually dimorphic immunity—with females often being more immune-competent—may maintain variation in immunity in dioecious populations. Most eco-immunological studies assess host resistance to parasites rather than the host's ability to maintain fitness...
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A Venn diagram of people who like NCSE and people who like fossils would have a pretty high degree of overlap. We do a fair number of fossil-related events through NCSE's Science Booster Club Project. One message we try to stress: don't steal fossils. As I wrote in an Answer Monday many moons ago, stealing fossils from parks, even if you really like them, is a gross thing to do that ruins cool places for everybody. Stealing vertebrate fossils is particularly detrimental to future scientific research, because there are so few vertebrate fossils.
Apparently this message got through to someone. Just this week an anonymous scoundrel dropped a big chunk of fossilized wood at my house that he or she had "liberated" from Petrified Forest National Park in the early 2000s. Check it out:
This was a heavy problem to land in my lap. I decided to call the park and see what to do, but as my hand reached for the phone I was seized with fear and trepidation. What if they believed I stole it? What if they sent the Feds to my house? What if, as night fell, adrenaline-pumped cops in riot gear came to bust down my door and toss flashbangs into my crying child's bedroom? Was I being paranoid—or was I not being paranoid enough?!?
But when I did call the people at Petrified Forest National Park they were quite nice. They did not make even the slightest attempt to arrest me. And it turns out they did want the fossil back. Here's where they told me to send it:
1 Park Road
Petrified Forest, AZ 86028
And so that's what I did. Pay attention, guilty parties! Shame! Repent, for the end is nigh Nye!
Mailing back a rock is not going to make a huge difference to the park. But none of the nice people I talked to had ever gotten a request like this before. Never! I think that's pretty interesting. I mean, tons of stolen petrified wood from this park are probably hiding in American homes. I imagine the park would be amused to get any of it back. But hey—the address is right up there. Is a filched rock gracing your home? Do the right thing and send it back.
Emily Schoerning is the former Director of Community Organizing and Research at NCSE.
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Brickfields contra-flow bus & taxi lane to begin operation this weekend, from 3 December 2011
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Update: Read more about the fallout from the Brickfields bus & taxi lane here!
TRANSIT took note of this article that states that the Brickfields contra-flow bus & taxi lane will be introduced this weekend.
The southbound lane, which had been under construction since earlier this year, was supposed to open in August, but protests from area business owners led to the implementation being pushed back to after Deepavali.
Contra-flow system takes effect (Streets – NST)
PARKING bays in Jalan Tun Sambanthan and around shop lots in Little India will no longer be available to motorists from this weekend.
The new contra-flow bus & taxi lane in Brickfields. Image courtesy of the NST.
[TRANSIT: Click here for a larger version of the image above.]City Hall, in a statement, said the removal of the parking bays was to facilitate the implementation of the contra-flow bus and taxi lane system in Jalan Tun Sambanthan.
Under the system, only buses and taxis are allowed to pass through the dedicated lane from the city centre through Jalan Tun Sambanthan and coming to the fountain intersection and exit either at the end of Jalan Tun Sambanthan heading towards Taman Seputeh or turning into Jalan Travers to exit to Bangsar, from 6am to 8pm daily.
With the implementation of the dedicated lane system, which takes effect this Saturday, buses will not be allowed to turn into Jalan Sultan Abdul Samad.
Passengers are to wait for buses at the bus stop next to the Hong Leong Bank.
A taxi stand will be built next to the CIMB bank in Jalan Tun Sambanthan 4.
Forty-one parking bays have been allocated in Jalan Tun Sambanthan's back lanes and 54 are available along the back lanes around SMK La Salle Brickfields.
Business operators will only be allowed to load and unload their goods in the back lanes or dedicated bus and taxi lanes between 8pm and 6am.
Motorists are advised to heed traffic rules at all times, especially when the changes to the traffic system are taking place.
TRANSIT hopes that the implementation of the bus & taxi lane in Brickfields will be a definite step in reducing traffic congestion on Jalan Tun Sambanthan, which causes significant delays for bus services.
At the same time, TRANSIT hopes that more effort will be made to ensure that the bus lanes are not blocked, whether by private vehicles, buses or taxis, and that service is not delayed by slow loading & unloading of buses & taxis.
We also expect that DBKL & SPAD will make a significant effort to ensure that bus services are efficient through this very dense stretch.
However, TRANSIT must also point out that we need more buses to bypass Brickfields and exit KL to the south using Jalan Syed Putra / Lingkaran Syed Putra. And in the future, the Federal Highway – Syed Putra route will be Malaysia's first Bus Rapid Transit line, as proposed by SPAD in the Bus Transformation Plan.
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#include "s2n_test.h"

#include "tls/extensions/s2n_server_max_fragment_length.h"
#include "tls/s2n_tls.h"

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    BEGIN_TEST();
    EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_disable_tls13());

    /* Test should_send */
    {
        struct s2n_config *config;
        EXPECT_NOT_NULL(config = s2n_config_new());

        struct s2n_connection *conn;
        EXPECT_NOT_NULL(conn = s2n_connection_new(S2N_CLIENT));
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_connection_set_config(conn, config));

        /* Should not send by default */
        EXPECT_FALSE(s2n_server_max_fragment_length_extension.should_send(conn));

        /* Should send if mfl code set. It is set by the client version of this extension. */
        conn->negotiated_mfl_code = S2N_TLS_MAX_FRAG_LEN_512;
        EXPECT_TRUE(s2n_server_max_fragment_length_extension.should_send(conn));

        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_connection_free(conn));
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_config_free(config));
    }

    /* Test send */
    {
        struct s2n_config *config;
        EXPECT_NOT_NULL(config = s2n_config_new());
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_config_send_max_fragment_length(config, S2N_TLS_MAX_FRAG_LEN_512));

        struct s2n_connection *conn;
        EXPECT_NOT_NULL(conn = s2n_connection_new(S2N_CLIENT));
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_connection_set_config(conn, config));

        struct s2n_stuffer stuffer;
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_stuffer_growable_alloc(&stuffer, 0));

        conn->negotiated_mfl_code = S2N_TLS_MAX_FRAG_LEN_512;
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_server_max_fragment_length_extension.send(conn, &stuffer));

        /* Should have correct fragment length */
        uint8_t actual_fragment_length;
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_stuffer_read_uint8(&stuffer, &actual_fragment_length));
        EXPECT_EQUAL(actual_fragment_length, S2N_TLS_MAX_FRAG_LEN_512);

        EXPECT_EQUAL(s2n_stuffer_data_available(&stuffer), 0);

        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_stuffer_free(&stuffer));
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_connection_free(conn));
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_config_free(config));
    }

    /* Test receive - does not match requested value
     *
     *= https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6066#section-4
     *= type=test
     *# Similarly, if a client
     *# receives a maximum fragment length negotiation response that differs
     *# from the length it requested, it MUST also abort the handshake with
     *# an "illegal_parameter" alert.
     */
    {
        struct s2n_config *config;
        EXPECT_NOT_NULL(config = s2n_config_new());
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_config_send_max_fragment_length(config, S2N_TLS_MAX_FRAG_LEN_512));

        struct s2n_connection *conn;
        EXPECT_NOT_NULL(conn = s2n_connection_new(S2N_CLIENT));
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_connection_set_config(conn, config));

        struct s2n_stuffer stuffer;
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_stuffer_growable_alloc(&stuffer, 0));

        conn->negotiated_mfl_code = S2N_TLS_MAX_FRAG_LEN_1024;
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_server_max_fragment_length_extension.send(conn, &stuffer));

        EXPECT_FAILURE_WITH_ERRNO(s2n_server_max_fragment_length_extension.recv(conn, &stuffer),
                S2N_ERR_MAX_FRAG_LEN_MISMATCH);

        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_stuffer_free(&stuffer));
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_connection_free(conn));
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_config_free(config));
    }

    /* Test receive */
    {
        struct s2n_config *config;
        EXPECT_NOT_NULL(config = s2n_config_new());
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_config_send_max_fragment_length(config, S2N_TLS_MAX_FRAG_LEN_512));

        struct s2n_connection *conn;
        EXPECT_NOT_NULL(conn = s2n_connection_new(S2N_CLIENT));
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_connection_set_config(conn, config));

        struct s2n_stuffer stuffer;
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_stuffer_growable_alloc(&stuffer, 0));

        conn->negotiated_mfl_code = S2N_TLS_MAX_FRAG_LEN_512;
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_server_max_fragment_length_extension.send(conn, &stuffer));
        EXPECT_NOT_EQUAL(s2n_stuffer_data_available(&stuffer), 0);

        conn->negotiated_mfl_code = 0;
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_server_max_fragment_length_extension.recv(conn, &stuffer));
        EXPECT_EQUAL(s2n_stuffer_data_available(&stuffer), 0);

        EXPECT_EQUAL(conn->negotiated_mfl_code, S2N_TLS_MAX_FRAG_LEN_512);
        EXPECT_EQUAL(conn->max_outgoing_fragment_length, 512);

        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_stuffer_free(&stuffer));
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_connection_free(conn));
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_config_free(config));
    }

    /* Test receive - existing mfl value */
    {
        struct s2n_config *config;
        EXPECT_NOT_NULL(config = s2n_config_new());
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_config_send_max_fragment_length(config, S2N_TLS_MAX_FRAG_LEN_1024));

        struct s2n_connection *conn;
        EXPECT_NOT_NULL(conn = s2n_connection_new(S2N_CLIENT));
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_connection_set_config(conn, config));

        struct s2n_stuffer stuffer;
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_stuffer_growable_alloc(&stuffer, 0));

        /* Existing mfl value lower */
        {
            conn->max_outgoing_fragment_length = mfl_code_to_length[S2N_TLS_MAX_FRAG_LEN_512];
            conn->negotiated_mfl_code = S2N_TLS_MAX_FRAG_LEN_1024;

            EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_server_max_fragment_length_extension.send(conn, &stuffer));
            EXPECT_NOT_EQUAL(s2n_stuffer_data_available(&stuffer), 0);

            conn->negotiated_mfl_code = 0;
            EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_server_max_fragment_length_extension.recv(conn, &stuffer));
            EXPECT_EQUAL(s2n_stuffer_data_available(&stuffer), 0);

            EXPECT_EQUAL(conn->negotiated_mfl_code, S2N_TLS_MAX_FRAG_LEN_1024);
            EXPECT_EQUAL(conn->max_outgoing_fragment_length, mfl_code_to_length[S2N_TLS_MAX_FRAG_LEN_512]);
        }

        /* Existing mfl value higher */
        {
            conn->max_outgoing_fragment_length = mfl_code_to_length[S2N_TLS_MAX_FRAG_LEN_2048];
            conn->negotiated_mfl_code = S2N_TLS_MAX_FRAG_LEN_1024;

            EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_server_max_fragment_length_extension.send(conn, &stuffer));
            EXPECT_NOT_EQUAL(s2n_stuffer_data_available(&stuffer), 0);

            conn->negotiated_mfl_code = 0;
            EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_server_max_fragment_length_extension.recv(conn, &stuffer));
            EXPECT_EQUAL(s2n_stuffer_data_available(&stuffer), 0);

            EXPECT_EQUAL(conn->negotiated_mfl_code, S2N_TLS_MAX_FRAG_LEN_1024);
            EXPECT_EQUAL(conn->max_outgoing_fragment_length, mfl_code_to_length[S2N_TLS_MAX_FRAG_LEN_1024]);
        }

        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_stuffer_free(&stuffer));
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_connection_free(conn));
        EXPECT_SUCCESS(s2n_config_free(config));
    }

    END_TEST();
    return 0;
}

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Home Teaching Tips 3 CRUCIAL Strategies for Getting Students Attention.
Ben Parr, author of Captivology, identifies three types of attention in the modern world: immediate, short, and long. To capture someone's attention, you have to see these three parts, as stages into a person's subconscious. But how does this translate into the classroom?
To gain students attention for the entire school year, you must gain their immediate, short term and long term attention. It's not enough to just to count down from three and expect them to be attentive for the rest of the year. You need to break it down into these three strategies.
Keeping children's attention can be very challenging in a classroom environment. Not all children are wired the same and not all our curriculum objectives are very engaging. 90% of the information available to us was created in the past 2 years which is a mind-blowing fact!
According to Ben, there are three levels of attention you can gain from a human: immediate, short and long.
Whilst Ben puts these into the context of the media and company branding, we can use these stages to grab children's attention and foster a love of learning which will engage them not only in the short term but for life.
But, how do you gain a child's immediate or long-term attention and what might this look like day to day on a cold windy morning in an inner city Year Three class?
The attention you give to a plate smashing in a restaurant or a YouTube video of a monkey sat on a turtle, is immediate attention. It catches your eye, intrigues you for a second before you return back to your own thoughts. Attempts to gain children's immediate attention are made all the time. Not just from teachers but by TV adverts, YouTube video suggestions and those one pound gum ball machines at the front of the supermarket.
Immediate attention is probably the one thing that teachers are best at.
Being able to gather children's attention in three rhythmic claps is an art that only Primary Teachers can appear to master! Immediate attention is not just about gathering students back together it's the stimulus you use to engage children in various activities.
As teachers, we are constantly competing with the media to engage our children and in a world where social media and YouTube play such a major part of our youngsters' lives it can feel rather impossible. However, instead of competing with digital devices and the latest and coolest YouTubers, why not harness these to add extra interest to your lessons.
Apps, Ipads and various digital media, can be used as great learning tools, whilst putting children in the driving seat of their learning on a day to day basis can constantly gain children's immediate attention.
Questions, investigations and visual or practical stimulus is the key to grabbing your class' focus. After all, it is the question of 'What happened over there?' that makes people turn around when a plate smashes in the restaurant kitchen. You can get a similar reaction from your class, when you suddenly announce a surprise timetables test on a Monday morning.
However, when placing immediate attention into the context of achieving long term goals, this makes it slightly trickier. Why do we need to sort these words into nouns and verbs? How will it benefit me as a learner? These questions are just as valuable to the teacher as they are to the children.
When designing your lessons, it is always worth asking yourself, why do I want the children to complete this activity? What will they learn and what will they develop through this five-minute activity. If the answer is nothing, then it probably isn't worth doing.
Each and every stepping stone during a lesson needs to have a purpose and be meaningful in the context of what needs to be achieved. If you get that right, you gain short term attention.
Flossing, dabbing and the new and exciting triangle dance (if this hasn't hit your part of the world yet, it will do in coming months) are all examples of how someone somewhere in the deep depths of the internet has gained children's short-term attention.
The children love it, they want to do it all the time and for us teachers we pull our hair out as to how on earth we can get the children to learn their spellings opposed to flossing their way down the corridor.
As Ben states, short term attention is watching one episode of a TV drama which can be compared to one lesson in your unit of learning. The individual episode needs to be engaging enough to make us want to complete the whole series. Linking to the overarching outcome, we can ask, what skills are going to be developed this lesson that will take us a step closer to our end goal?
Reading texts lets us understand what we need to include in our own persuasive piece of writing. Sentence and grammar work help us develop our writing skills so we can better persuade our reader. Drama and role-play help us verbalise and construct what we want to share with our audience.
By sharing these steps with the children, lessons are given a context and form steps towards a purposeful end. Perhaps it might also be worth throwing in a cliff-hanger, just for good measure.
For older students, the learning journey ahead can also be outlined and then developed by themselves, which gives ownership of learning to the children. Strategies like this also allow children to see the journey that they have, and will, be taking. By letting children know what they will be achieving in the week ahead, they will know where they are going and can focus on completing their task to a high standard.
By looking at the bigger picture and designing your learning from there, learning becomes meaningful.
When learning is meaningful, learning becomes powerful and relevant. This in turn leads to long-term attention of a subject that can all too easily become dry and objective based if there is no end goal or product. No, your children may not grow up to be best-selling authors or world-class mathematicians, but they will grow up with a motivation to develop and grow.
They will learn and aspire to do and be better. This is something we surely want for every child!
For children, the purpose of learning has to be there too. Why do we need to persuade the Head Teacher to give us more break time, if the answer is inevitably going to be no? Too often, children are disengaged with a topic because the learning seems irrelevant.
Long term attention refers to a unit of learning. How can we allow children to become immersed and motivated through an entire persuasive writing unit or an entire topic on Romans? Time and time again, I will refer back to one key word: purpose.
Without purpose, learning becomes meaningless. Purpose is one aspect of learning which appears to fit perfectly with the goal of creating interest. Learning appears to be pointless if there is no end goal. After all, why do we as adults learn anything new?
As teachers, we can easily fall into the trap of forcing children through lessons because the Curriculum said so.
In order to get children on board with a unit of learning, we as 'learning designers' need to piece together a unit which incorporates the curriculum goals but has strong end goals for the learners. What do we want our children to have achieved by the end of this unit?
Once this question is answered, we can then start to piece together the steps the children need to take and the skills that need to be developed in order to reach that long-term motivational goal. Purpose mixed with a dash of personalisation will go a long way to gaining your students' long-term attention.
Novelty is also highlighted in the video at the bottom of this article. It is important that our tasks and goals have a feeling of newness about them. The students will pick up when you are repeating something or have pulled something out last minute.
Originality does not always mean thinking of new activities. Novelty can simply refer to the idea of developing new skills, looking at something in a different way or completing something using a new strategy. When tasks have an element of novelty, motivation and attention are enhanced.
I started my career after graduating from the University of Cumbria – Lancaster Campus where I studied Art and Design with Primary QTS. After graduating, I moved back to my home city of Manchester where I taught in an inner city school across KS2. It was during this time I developed a passion for Teaching and Learning whilst leading PE, inquiry-based learning and Apple device implementation. It was during this time that the website LiteracyWAGOLL.com was created and established. I then moved overseas in Dubai where I worked in a large through school as a class teacher, Head of Teaching and Learning and Head of Upper KS2. I am now Assistant Primary Principal and Head of Teaching and Learning. I am an author and creator of the expanding WAGOLL Teaching blog and vlog on YouTube and continue to develop the LiteracyWAGOLL website with a growing number of resources and example texts. I have also written articles for various Teaching Magazines including TeachPrimary and create my own digital WAGOLL Teaching E-Magazine.


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Fanstereo Studio43 Bluetooth On-Ear Headphones Review
Last Updated: March 8, 2018 By Sean
Bluetooth headphones, in particular with an on-ear build, can be hit or miss in our experience. Finding both an affordable (a lot of the popular models hit nearly the $300-$400 range) and solid pair of on-ear headphones with wireless Bluetooth connectivity that provide a great build and at least decent audio quality can be difficult at times. Today we were given a pair of the Fanstereo Studio43 on-ear headphones to write a fair and honest review, and after opening the box, we were very impressed with what this pair of cans brings to the table in the BT on-ear department, especially at an affordable retail price such as this. But how do they sound? Let's get into the details.
Features of the Fanstereo Studio43 headphones
Wireless Bluetooth 4.1 connection
High-Definition HPA technology
Hands free calling
Sweat proof technology
Intelligent voice commands
Numerous controls on right ear cup
Built-in indicator light
Compatible with all Bluetooth devices
Frequency response: 20 to 20 kHz
Drivers: 40mm
Impedance: 32 ohms
Battery: 250 mAh
Charge time: 1-2 hours
Playing time: About 13 hours
Overall build quality of the Studio43 headphones
When first opening the box, what first caught our eye was the leather made headband as well as ear cups — these feel extremely soft not only when touching, but of course as they rest on our ears right now as we type this. It isn't necessarily a "hard" or "stiff" leather (as we've felt in a few other 'popular' on-ear headphones in the game), but very soft and pillow-like. Since they're 'on-ear', we're always concerned with certain models that don't have enough cushion to keep our ears from hitting the actual headphone loudspeaker (yes, it's happened to be us before). Thankfully we're covered, as the Studio43 earcups have just enough cushion to rest on your ears without part of your cartilage hitting the hard piece under it all. When it comes to pain, we experienced none, and the longest we used these at a time were for about 4 hours.
Since the headband (yes, adjustable) and ear cups are top-notch here with leather, we were already excited about the build, as they're the staple-point of the headphones as a whole. When inspecting the casing of the ear cups, we have a nice and sturdy aluminum with no plastic here. The headband is also stable and can bend significantly, an important part for headbands since yes, we've snapped a few of ours in our day. We attempted to bend it back and were able to essentially make it straight which in our opinion passes the stability and flexibility test. The adjustability of the headband is also quite easy to customize and is very smooth, although it isn't stainless steel and too 'rugged', it still includes a sturdy plastic (aluminum only for ear cups) that isn't flimsy but isn't necessarily military-grade either. Overall, we're very happy with the Studio43's build, especially the leather (we're suckers for leather cups and bands — you can never go wrong).
The Studio43 weigh about 162 grams (5.7 ounces), so they don't feel clunky on our head at all. When swiveling our head back and forth as aggressively as we could, they didn't fall off, but did start to move out-of-place after a while. On-ear headphones in general aren't known for staying put, or at least compared to over-ear headphones since they actually cup around our ears as opposed to resting on top. However, if you plan on moving around with the Studio43 in more non-exercise activities you will be fine. We'd even say you could run with these on, however anything else that involves moving side to side or different directions, such as weight lifting or sports, you should probably stick to in-ears for that.
Using the Fanstereo Studio43
The headphones did not come charged when we first opened up the box, so make sure you're set before leaving the house or plan on using these while work or leisure. We checked the charge time with a Micro USB (yes, comes in the box) hooked up to our PC and it only took about an hour and a half for a full, 100% playing time. When actually using the Studio43, we accumulated about 12 hours of play time (mostly at 70%) before they died. When seeing how the range stood up, Fanstereo states they'll operate at about 35 feet, but we tested it all the way to the other end of the building and were able to listen to 38 feet until we started to experience some disruption.
When pairing, press the larger, multi-function (MF) button and a male voice will say "power on" (hold it for 5 seconds). The headphones will then automatically begin to attempt to connect to a Bluetooth device. Once in your BT section of your device, select "STUDIO43" from the list and a few seconds you should hear that same male voice state, "your device is connected" and your'e done. This was extremely seamless and easy for us, and turning it off and on through out the week, our smart phone automatically paired up when the headphones were turned on.
The controls on the right ear cup may first confuse a few of you, however learning them isn't hard at all. It takes a super "quick" tap to change volume, a double-click will change the track, and pressing both the volume up and down buttons at the same time will mute the mic. To test the built-in mic, we had a colleague call our phone and we used the controls on our right ear cup to answer. Our caller was able to hear us feasibly, and we had no problem conversing for about 10 minutes with the headphones on. We even walked away from our phone and had no problem speaking as long as we stood within the 35-40 foot BT range.
Another big feature of the Studio43 is the voice command function, so we wanted to give it a go and see how it went. All you can do here is either answer or decline a call when you're receiving it — simply say "yes" or "no" it will do as you please — we tested this and it worked well. There are no other 'voice commands' available, such as play, pause or skip track, but we're fine with that since merely placing our hand on the right ear cup is already quite convenient, and sometimes we're not in a setting where we can talk. You can also end a call by pressing the MF button once, or reject a call by holding the MF button for 2 seconds.
Sound quality of the Studio43 Bluetooth headphones
So how do these on-ears sound? When it comes to power, they can get loud. Ultimately at full blast, it was too loud for us and we had to settle back down at 70% (of course, everybody's ears are different when it comes to tolerance, but we of course recommend be safe and never listen to anything at 100%). The volume control on both my smart device and the Studio43 were actually synced, which we really liked because a lot of BT devices can have separate volume levels and you'll have to either adjust both levels or line them up, which can get annoying at times.
In terms of frequency distribution, we listened to quite a few different genres to test how they held up when it came to highs and lows. For some hard-hitting songs, we felt a good blend of the bass with snares entailing very little bass embellishment, and for piano ballads we had a nice, relatively warm sound to it. They aren't necessarily as crisp as some other specialized 'monitoring' headphones (our ears are normalized to this clarity since we've been reviewing a few of them), but for the price and considering these are Bluetooth, we're quite impressed with the tone and feel of the sound quality and we actually think they rival some lower-end studio headphones in the game.
Next we'll analyze sound isolation. For keeping outside ambiance and noise away, a big test for us is to listen to our typing. We can only slightly hear the keys being pressed, and although they aren't as isolating as in-ear headphones, get the job done when it comes to wanting to use these in louder environments to keep to yourself. We also went outside near a gardener blasting a leaf blower and yes, could slightly hear the tool, but it didn't completely take away from the current song playing.
At the same time, we'd like to analyze sound going out, and as expected with most on-ear headphones, isn't necessarily 'the best' from disallowing sound from leaking to the outside world. We had our colleague try the pair on while music playing at 80% and we could in fact hear what was playing, until about 5 feet away in a quiet office. Of course, this expected with this type of headphone build — we wouldn't recommend any on-ear headphones, regardless of price, for complete depletion of sound leakage — they're of course better than open-ears for this, but in this case it isn't as feasible as closed-back, over-ear headphones, especially for recording. With that being said, we still recommend going for over-ear studio headphones in a home studio. These are more geared towards those leisure listening when it comes to music around the house, in the office, traveling, or perhaps watching TVs or shows on your computers, laptops or even TV.
The Fanstereo Studio43 on-ear headphones conclusion
When it comes to cons, there may be a few for some, but to us you can work around them. The leather as well as aluminum casing for the ear cups is great, however the actual interior build of the adjustable headband slider isn't metal, so just be careful when you're tweaking the fit. We tried to bend it to see how it would hold up and it almost snapped, but for this price we're even surprised they included leather and aluminum while remaining so affordable. You start to get into the $300 range for higher-end adjustable sliders.
No, the battery is not detachable so you will not be able to replace it. In fact, none of the parts here are interchangeable or replaceable so if you break it you'll have to grab a new pair; however, with the build quality of this you'll be fine for quite a few years as an investment if you take proper care of them. Also, the lack of "voice commands" aside from "yes" or "no" to end calls may irk some, especially into smart electronics — we're not really on that trend yet especially when it comes to headphones. We don't really see the point of it, unless you're using a home speaker or something like that. The "yes" or "no" commands just adds a nice touch to us, but if you want more you'll have to look elsewhere.
All in all, the combination of the build, sound quality and very easy-to-use control center on this pair of on-ear headphones make these a great buy if you want some BT on-ears in the lower price-range of the category. Anything else priced lower starts to get into some cheaper-made models, and you'll begin to sacrifice some essential functions we feel are necessary to make a pair of wireless headphones worth it. This includes playing time, BT range, ear cup and headband material, overall casing make, and of course, audio clarity and resolution. We feel the Studio43 brings a nice balance of all of this, especially with their HDA technology built inside.
Ultimately, we're very happy with the Fantstereo Studio43 on-ear headphones — we actually included them in our best Bluetooth on-ear headphones guide recently published since we were so satisfied with them. You can also read that guide for some competitors; however, for this price range there aren't many else out there like this (this is actually considered budget-friendly when it comes to price-tag in the Bluetooth on-ear headphones game believe it or not). Great work, Fanstereo.
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Combustion (burning) by-products are gases and small particles. They are created by incompletely burned fuels such as oil, gas, kerosene, wood, coal and propane.
The type and amount of combustion by-product produced depends on the type of fuel and the combustion appliance. How well the appliance is designed, built, installed and maintained affects the by-products it creates. Some appliances receive certification depending on how clean burning they are. The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certify wood stoves and other appliances.
Examples of combustion by-products include: particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, water vapor and hydrocarbons.
Where do combustion by-products come from?
Combustion by-products come from wood heaters and wood stoves, furnaces, gas ranges, gas heaters, generators, fireplaces, vehicle exhaust and unvented kerosene heaters, stoves and other sources. Second-hand tobacco smoke also contains combustion by-products.
What are some health concerns of combustion by-products?
Carbon monoxide (CO) reduces the blood's ability to carry oxygen. Recent exposure may cause tiredness, headaches, nausea, flu-like symptoms, dizziness, impaired vision and confusion. If you have heart disease, it may cause chest pain. Very high levels of carbon monoxide exposure can cause loss of consciousness and death.
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) can irritate your eyes, nose, throat and lungs. You may have shortness of breath. If you have a respiratory illness, you may be at higher risk of experiencing health effects from nitrogen dioxide exposure.
Particulate matter (PM) forms when materials burn. Tiny airborne particles can irritate your eyes, nose and throat. They can also lodge in the lungs, causing irritation or damage to lung tissue. Inflammation due to particulate matter exposure may cause heart problems. Some combustion particles may contain cancer-causing substances.
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Controlling the source, improving ventilation and using carbon monoxide (CO) detectors will help limit health concerns. Using an air cleaner may further improve air quality.
Carbon monoxide detectors are readily available and cheap to install. Like smoke detectors, they need regular testing to make sure they are working properly. You can check with a consumer guide to find a carbon monoxide detector that best meets your needs.
Air cleaners may reduce levels of pollutants in indoor air if used along with source control and improved ventilation. Air cleaners use electrical attraction, mechanical filters or ion generation to remove particles from the air. They vary in their cost and how well they work. No air cleaners will remove all pollutants from indoor air. Some air cleaners may produce harmful levels of ozone. This can cause adverse health effects. Look for air cleaners that are certified to release low amounts of ozone. For more information, see Residential Air Cleaner Use to Improve Indoor Air Quality and Health at www.ncceh.ca/sites/default/files/Air_Cleaners_Oct_2010.pdf (PDF 162 KB).
If you plan to buy an air cleaning system, make sure you get the device that best meets your needs.
The B.C. Lung Association - Air Quality https://bc.lung.ca/protect-your-lungs/air-quality-lung-health or call toll-free 1 800 665-LUNG (5864).


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Q: How to get the user's own location on a Foursquare checkin from the API? I'd like to know if the Foursquare API allows you to get at the user's own location during a checkin, rather than the location of the venue itself. For most venues the difference is negligible, but if someone's checked into, say, Yosemite National Park, their actual location may vary wildly. I'd like to know where they were when they checked in.
The API's Checkin endpoint has two relevant attributes: venue and location. The location information within venue is (obviously) relevant only to that venue (where the venue is located). In most cases, this appears to be the only location information included. The location attribute is only included for venueless checkins, but otherwise includes the user's own location. It seems to me the latter should always be available, even if a venue is specified.
Am I missing something? Is there a (different) way to get at the user's own location via the API for a regular checkin?

A: You cannot retrieve a user's physical lat/lng for a check-in. It's not exposed anywhere in the API.

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Why amnesty is not compassionate
Exclusive: Joseph Farah counters Rubio's use of Bible to argue for immigration bill
By Joseph Farah
Published June 14, 2013 at 7:42pm
"I think the biggest change hasn't been in the pulpit. It's been in the pews. Our faith has always been about compassion and it compels you to do something. If you took compassion or the principle of compassion out of the Bible, it would be in tatters because it's all over the place."
– Sen. Marco Rubio on why amnesty for illegal aliens is morally right
Is Sen. Marco Rubio correct when he says providing a blanket amnesty for illegal aliens is the "compassionate" response for Americans?
Is he correct when he says it's the biblical response to America's problem with immigration laws being broken?
While Rubio is right about the word "compassionate" being found frequently in the Bible, it is not found in the context of excusing lawbreaking, non-enforcement of duly enacted laws or borderless nations.
Quite the contrary.
The Bible clearly and consistently speaks to the opposite agenda.
For the benefit of those deluded into the belief that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a God who doesn't respect borders and the rule of law, I have offered three previous Bible studies on the topic of illegal immigration:
The biblical position on illegal immigration
A Bible study on illegal immigration
Another Bible study on illegal immigration
As Rubio leads another national effort for amnesty, this time wrapped in citations of the Bible, it appears it is necessary to explore this topic for a fourth time.
For starters, I challenge anyone to check an exhaustive online or offline concordance for the word "border" or "borders" to get an appreciation of how many times God's Word references these terms. While not all of them are relevant to our discussion, I count 169 references, most of them making the point that God cares about them. He cares about boundaries between nations. In fact, as I have previously pointed out, it is God Himself who invented nation-states back in Genesis 11.
Why did He do it?
It seems He scattered the world's population and created the diverse languages in an effort to subvert man's efforts to unite in a global kingdom under a false universal religion.
Interestingly, one of the prime motivations of those behind the promotion of borderless societies is this very same notion of regional government and global government and the breakdown of nationalism.
What was wrong at the time of the Tower of Babel remains wrong today. That should be clear to anyone and everyone whose standard of morality is the Bible.
So, where's the confusion?
Some misguided Christian clerics cite a handful of random, out-of-context verses that might, possibly, in some way, maybe, be interpreted, if you use your imagination, to suggest we should just forgive and forget all transgressions and trespasses against our national sovereignty and our laws regarding our nation status.
Countless Bible studies have been conducted in America in recent years using some familiar citations about "strangers" and "aliens" and applying them to our current controversy:
Leviticus 19:33-34: And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Exodus 22:21: Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 23:9: Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:19: Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Some churches have stopped right there after reading that last verse and decided they know all they need to know about their duty as Christians to illegal aliens.
"We're supposed to treat them just like one born among us, according to the Bible," they proclaim. "That means amnesty. It means all the benefits of citizenship."
Not so fast. You can develop some really bad theology – not to mention politics – by reading the Bible out of context, by not fully understanding what is being said to whom and about whom.
Strangers that sojourn with you or live with you does not equate with illegal aliens. In fact, the corollary here, in each and every case, is that the children of Israel were "strangers" in Egypt. That's why they were to treat their own "strangers" well, because they knew what it is like to be "strangers" in a foreign land.
Clearly, then, what it means to be a "stranger" is to be a foreigner. In the case of the children of Israel in Egypt, they were invited and, at first anyway, were honored guests. Later, they would be oppressed by a generation who "knew not Joseph." But they were certainly not trespassers. They were certainly not in Egypt illegally. They were certainly not breaking the laws of the land by being in Egypt. In fact, they were commanded not to offend their hosts in any way (Genesis 46:28-34).
So, we must conclude that "stranger" does not equal "illegal alien." Even when the term "alien" is used in the Bible, it seems to have the exact same meaning as "stranger."
God loves the stranger, we're told. You should, too. They should be treated with respect and dignity. They should not be mistreated. These foreigners should be given food and clothing when they are in need. That's the clear message of the Bible – treat law-abiding foreigners and aliens with love and compassion.
The aliens and strangers of the Bible were expected to obey the Hebrew laws, though they were exempt from some. They were also treated differently than the children of Israel in that they could not own property; they could be bought as slaves and charged interest on loans.
Only if these aliens and strangers were fully converted as Jews – and that included circumcision – could they be landowners, partake of the Passover and be fully integrated into the nation of Israel.
In other words, even though the aliens and strangers of the Bible were not illegal aliens, they were still expected to fully assimilate into the Hebrew religion and culture before they could receive all the blessings and all the responsibility of full citizenship.
Further, keep in mind these godly instructions were meant not just for the governing authorities in Israel – the judges and kings – but, more importantly, for the people. These were personal instructions. And they are clearly good instructions for us all today.
If we want to be compassionate to the strangers and aliens of our world today, those law-abiding foreigners who desperately want to come to America and are patiently awaiting their turn, we need to be certain they don't get squeezed out unfairly by those who broke the law and pushed ahead of them in line.
We shouldn't be mean to those lawbreakers, either. We shouldn't mistreat them. We should even forgive them. But they have to leave.
They haven't been invited. They are not our guests. They are not just strangers; they are trespassers. They need to go back home and get in line like everyone else waiting to enter our country lawfully. They are victimizing others – both citizens and those legally awaiting citizenship opportunities. There's nothing compassionate about enabling that kind of behavior.
Lastly, I want to introduce one more verse I think is very relevant. It is Deuteronomy 27:17: "Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen."
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There are various ways the Controllers have programmed Closed Source systems of architecture into the energetic fields of the earth, in order to manifest an array of Entropic systems, as a strategy for inflicting mind control upon the masses. Once closed source system architecture and Entropy is understood, however, it becomes very clear how to identify the energy signature present, in any kind of operating system, whether biological or structural, when paying attention to the energetic movement and behavior of that system. Energy behavior does not lie, and it can be measured. Energetic behavior will show from where the actual energy is being generated, revealing whether it's a Closed Source parasitic system of architecture or an Open Source self-sustaining architecture.
According to the Guardian system, to break free of the bi-wave structure which forces a closed loop energetic supply and perpetuates reversal current and Dead Light energy, we can alter the anti-particle blueprint layers with our higher consciousness to activate the electrically neutral state, which allows the neutral forces to emit feedback loops of natural living light. This principle applies to the structure of the Soul anatomy in the human Lightbody, as well as the planetary systems in the search for free and renewable energy. The same energy potential is related to the concept of free energy systems that are Open Sourced and self-sustaining, however this has been hidden from humanity to prevent access to it. When we understand how access to self-sustaining source light as open source energy is available to us all, this is essentially activating the higher spiritual knowledge to obey the Law of Polarity. Once the masses can understand this Law and the reasons the Controllers have chosen to violate the laws of nature, to amplify the Gender Splitting and reversals in the forces of polarity, we can finally evolve to a future that opens access to free open source energy for all inhabitants.
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Heel pain is most often caused by plantar fasciitis, a condition that is sometimes also called heel spur syndrome when a spur is present. Heel pain may also be due to other causes, such as a stress fracture, tendonitis, arthritis, nerve irritation, or, rarely, a cyst. Because there are several potential causes, it is important to have heel pain properly diagnosed. A foot and ankle surgeon is able to distinguish between all the possibilities and determine the underlying source of your heel pain.
Stretching exercises.Exercises that stretch out the calf muscles help ease pain and assist with recovery.
Avoid going barefoot.When you walk without shoes, you put undue strain and stress on your plantar fascia.
Ice.Putting an ice pack on your heel for 20 minutes several times a day helps reduce inflammation. Place a thin towel between the ice and your heel; do not apply ice directly to skin.
Medications.Oral nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen, may be recommended to reduce pain and inflammation.
Although most patients with plantar fasciitis respond to non- surgical treatment, a small percentage of patients may require surgery. If, after several months of non-surgical treatment, you continue to have heel pain, surgery will be considered. Your foot and ankle surgeon will discuss the surgical options with you and determine which approach would be most beneficial for you.
Most calcaneal fractures are the result of a traumatic event— most commonly, falling from a height, such as a ladder, or being in an automobile accident where the heel is crushed against the floorboard. Calcaneal fractures can also occur with other types of injuries, such as an ankle sprain. A smaller number of calcaneal fractures are stress fractures, caused by overuse or repetitive stress on the heel bone.
Those caused by trauma, such as avulsion fractures (in which a piece of bone is pulled off of the calcaneus by the Achilles tendon or a ligament) or crush injuries resulting in multiple fracture fragments.
Treatment of calcaneal fractures is dictated by the type of fracture and extent of the injury. The foot and ankle surgeon will discuss with the patient the best treatment— whether surgical or non-surgical— for the fracture.


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Watching the news today and seeing the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey, I thought it would be a good time to talk about some of the basic considerations that are critically important to making sure our homes can withstand the wind forces as intended.
1. Do NOT attach car-ports, awnings, patio covers, and similar items, directly to the manufactured home. All manufacturers clearly state that all accessory structures be free standing and independently supported. Check out this short video from the Today Show: Click Here This video not only illustrates what can happen when a carport is attached to a home, but it also shows how you can still offer your customers these type of features without creating a hazardous situation.
2. Make sure you have properly installed anchor strapping so it can be counted on to hold the home in place.
a. Every place the anchor strap touches the main chassis beam or attaches to a bracket, the strap must be protected so that the sharp edges of the steel doesn't shear off the strap. Strap protectors can be made from left over pieces of strap material or purchased. Just make sure you install them!
b. Strap angle is critical! Buy yourself an inexpensive angle finder and make sure your strap angle is less than 60°! If it is too steep, the home can slide off the piers!
3. While we have recently written two posts on ground anchors (July 3 and July 13), there is still a lot more to discuss.
a. Make sure the anchor is the right length (below frost the line), and installed in the ground by the skirting line! Not in a concrete footing.
b. Don't use rock anchors or other types of anchors that aren't intended to stabilize a manufactured home. Rock anchors are to be used in solid rock!
c. Stabilizing plates are critical to keep the anchor from slicing through the dirt when it is called upon to hold the home in place. Remember that a poorly graded site can undermine a great anchor installation!
Now is the time to re-examine your anchoring techniques. You might want to consider calling on some older homes and see if the residents might be agreeable to upgrading their anchoring system! Give it some thought, it might not seem as crazy as you think!
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The best stapler for insulation needs enough power to consistently drive your staples, plus allow you to work in tight spaces. Here are the five best stapler for insulation models. The list includes a product overview, plus pros and cons for each staple gun. These are all manual models, the best choice for installing insulation.
Securing insulation can be a difficult job. You may need to work in tight spaces. A number of places where you install insulation are also hard to reach. As a result, it can be inconvenient to be dragging an electric cord or an air compressor line behind you. This is why you need a compact tool for this type of jobs like the ones from Arrow, Tacwise, Bostich, Yanda, and Duo Fast.
The first choice on the list of the five best stapler for insulation models is a hammer design. Arrow has a wide-array of staplers, and this is one of four tacker designs. The extended handle leads to enough power to introduce this Arrow product on the list of the best stapler for insulation.
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If you've worked a lot with staples, it means you're acquainted with the frustration of a misfire. Usually, you have to stop everything you're doing and dig for a tool to remove the staple. Yanda realizes that even the best staplers produce mistakes. As a result, they added a handy staple puller as part of this package.
The final choice for the best stapler for insulation option gathered outstanding customer reviews. This Duo Fast tool is a pad design with an extra long handle for hard-to-reach insulation jobs.
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